US09650538B2
A micro-structure is manufactured by patterning a sacrificial film, forming an inorganic material film on the pattern, providing the inorganic material film with an aperture, and etching away the sacrificial film pattern through the aperture to define a space having the contour of the pattern. The patterning stage includes the steps of (A) forming a sacrificial film using a composition comprising a cresol novolac resin and a crosslinker, (B) exposing patternwise the film to first high-energy radiation, (C) developing, and (D) exposing the sacrificial film pattern to second high-energy radiation and heat treating for thereby forming crosslinks within the cresol novolac resin.
US09650537B2
Methods and compositions for additive manufacturing that include reactive or thermosetting polymers, such as urethanes and epoxies. The polymers are melted, partially cross-linked prior to the depositing, deposited to form a component object, solidified, and fully cross-linked. These polymers form networks of chemical bonds that span the deposited layers. Application of a directional electromagnetic field can be applied to aromatic polymers after deposition to align the polymers for improved bonding between the deposited layers.
US09650531B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an ink composition for inkjet recording comprises a pigment, a pigment dispersant, water, a water-soluble solvent, a wettability enhancer including 2,5,8,11-tetramethyl-6-dodecyne-5,8-diol, and an aqueous resin emulsion.
US09650529B2
Provided is an ink jet ink for printing including: water; a first dye; and a second dye, in which the first dye is C.I. Acid Orange 33, and the second dye is one or two kinds selected from C.I. Acid Orange 56 and C.I. Acid Orange 94.
US09650522B2
The present invention provides an absorbing-layer-forming composition including a blocked isocyanate such that the amount of the blocked isocyanate is 50% by mass to 100% by mass of the solid content of the absorbing-layer-forming composition and an absorbing substrate, a printed item, and a conductive pattern that are formed using the absorbing-layer-forming composition. The absorbing-layer-forming composition according to the present invention can be used for forming an absorbing layer which is capable of carrying a fluid such as an ink therein and which enables good adhesion between various types of supports and a conductive layer to be achieved. In particular, using a blocked isocyanate having a number-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 5,000 further increases the adhesion between various types of supports and the conductive layer.
US09650520B2
A vanadium dioxide coating for intelligent temperature control is formed by mixing a vanadium dioxide powder slurry, a polymer emulsion, and coating additives, and then coating the mixture onto a substrate. The vanadium dioxide powdery slurry comprises vanadium dioxide composite powders and a dispersion medium, the composite powders comprising vanadium dioxide nanopowders having a chemical composition of V1−xMxO2, and the surface of the vanadium dioxide nanopowders being attached to organic modified long-chain molecules, wherein M is a doped element, and 0≦x≦0.5. Through using the vanadium dioxide powders and the slurry thereof having an organic modified surface, the coating has higher visible light transmittance, can almost completely screen ultraviolet rays, and simultaneously intelligently adjust infrared rays.
US09650516B2
Dyes of formula (1) a process for their production and their use are described.
US09650515B2
The present invention relates to a polyarylene sulfide resin composition having excellent impact resistance in which a polyarylene sulfide resin having a specific end group, an epoxy-containing olefin-based elastomer, and/or an organic or inorganic filler are included, and a preparation method thereof.
US09650508B2
Heat resistant ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer compositions comprising a blend of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, peroxide curable polyacrylate elastomer, and polyamide are described. When crosslinked with a peroxide curative, the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer compositions exhibit enhanced resistance to heat aging compared to conventional ethylene vinyl acetate elastomer compositions.
US09650505B2
Polyolefin compositions suitable for injection molded items e.g. for impact bumpers and car interiors comprising from 30% to 90% by weight of an heterophasic propylene polymer composition (A); and from 10% to 70% by weight of a multimodal ethylene/butene-1 copolymer (B); having density from 0.850 to 0.935 g/cm3, total comonomer content from 6% to 30% by weight, Mw/Mn from 4 to 20; intrinsic viscosity in decalin at 135° C. from 1.0 to 4.0 dL/g, and comprising an HDPE fraction (HDPE % wt) up to 30% wt; further comprising from 0 to 50% by weight of a filler (C) and optionally, in amount up to 10% by weight with respect to the overall composition, an impact modifier masterbatch component D consisting of an ultra-soft heterophasic copolymer component.
US09650500B2
Prepare an article of manufacture by providing a latex of hollow latex particles with a rigid inner shell and adhesive outer shell, providing nanoporous particles and dispersing them into the latex and drying the latex so as to cause the hollow latex particle to bind to one another and form an article of manufacture containing nanoporous particles and hollow latex particles wherein the hollow latex particles are bound directly to one another to form a continuous matrix and the nanoporous particles are dispersed within the continuous matrix of hollow latex particles.
US09650499B2
There is provided an article comprising at least a first surface having a first binder layer selected from at least one of linear resins and resins having low cross link densities, where the first binder layer has a first major surface opposite a second major surface; and a plurality of microspheres at least partially embedded in the first major surface of the first binder layer. For at least a portion of the first major surface, the plurality of micro spheres may cover 30% to 50% of that portion, and the microspheres may be substantially uniformly spaced.
US09650497B2
A group of novel compounds containing one or more amino substituted DOPO (9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-phosphaphenthren-10-oxide) moieties. The compounds were found to have good flame retardant properties and also good thermal stability, which makes them particularly suitable as flame retardant additives for various thermoplastic polymers. In particular, they can be incorporated in a polyurethane foam.
US09650495B2
The invention is related to a manufacturing method for enhancing an ordered structure of block copolymers, and more particularly to a thermal annealing process for block copolymers having conducting polymers and rod segments. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: (A) providing a block copolymer and a small molecule additive, wherein the block copolymer is formed of first monomers containing at least one aromatic ring and second monomers optionally containing at least one aromatic ring; and the small molecule additive is a aliphatic molecule, an aromatic molecule or a combination thereof; (B) blending the block copolymer and the small molecule additive to form a mixture; and (C) treating the mixture with a thermal annealing process to manufacture and facilitate the ordered structure of the block copolymers.
US09650486B2
The present invention provides polyolefin resin particles that are capable of producing expanded polyolefin resin beads having a favorable fine cell structure, expanded polyolefin resin beads that suffer less volume shrinkage under a high temperature environment and are excellent in recovery property on repeated compression, and a method for producing the expanded beads. The polyolefin resin particles of the present invention have a peak temperature (T1) of a melting peak on first heating in a DSC curve obtained by heating the resin particles from 20° C. to 200° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min that is higher by 1.5° C. or more than a peak temperature (T2) of a melting peak on second heating in a DSC curve obtained by, subsequent to the first heating, cooling the resin particles from 200° C. to 20° C. at a cooling rate of 10° C./min, and then heating the resin particles from 20° C. to 200° C. at a heating rate of 10° C./min. The method for producing expanded polyolefin resin beads of the present invention includes: a step of preparing preliminary resin particles containing a polyolefin resin; a step of heat-treating the preliminary resin particles at a temperature that is higher by from 15 to 25° C. than a melting point of the preliminary resin particles, so as to produce resin particles; and a step of expanding the resin particles.
US09650480B2
Curable film-forming compositions are provided. The compositions comprise (a) a curing agent comprising reactive functional groups; (b) a film-forming compound comprising functional groups reactive with the reactive functional groups in (a); and (c) a catalyst component added to the curable film-forming composition as a dispersion of micelles in a continuous phase. The catalyst component (c) comprises a catalyst compound contained within or encapsulated by a carrier, and the catalyst compound and carrier together form the micelles in the continuous phase. The carrier comprises block copolymers that comprise at least one hydrophobic block derived from hydrophobic monomers and at least one hydrophilic block derived from (1) hydrophilic monomers and/or (2) monomers containing groups that may be rendered hydrophilic after polymerization.
US09650479B2
A tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer film having a first endotherm between about 50° C. and about 300° C., a second endotherm between about 320° C. and about 350° C., and a third endotherm between about 350° C. and about 400° C. is provided. In exemplary embodiments, the third endotherm is approximately 380° C. In some embodiments, the second endotherm is between about 320° C. and about 330° C. or between about 330° C. and about 350° C. TFE copolymer films have a methane permeability less than about 20 μg*micron/cm2/min. In addition, the dense articles have a void volume of less than about 20%. Methods for dense articles from core shell tetrafluoroethylene copolymers are also provided. The dense articles exhibit improved physical and mechanical properties such as adhesion and barrier properties.
US09650465B2
The present invention concerns heterophasic propylene copolymers, comprising a propylene homopolymer (PPH) and an ethylene-propylene rubber (EPR), having a very broad molecular weight distribution, a well-defined total ethylene content and a specific intrinsic viscosities of the ethylene-propylene rubber (EPR). The invention further concerns the process to produce such heterophasic propylene copolymers. The heterophasic propylene copolymers of the present invention are particularly suited for pails, pallets, IBCs and crates. In particular, the heterophasic propylene copolymers of the present invention are characterized by an improved resistance to creep.
US09650464B2
Process for the production of asymmetric, star-branched block copolymers which comprise, incorporated into the polymer, from 60 to 95% by weight of vinylaromatic and from 40 to 5% by weight of a conjugated diene having from 4 to 5 C atoms, based on the branched block copolymer, via sequential anionic polymerization and subsequent coupling of the resultant living block-copolymer anions by a coupling agent, and also vinylaromatic-diene block copolymers obtainable via the process and use of these for moldings and for thermoforming foils.
US09650462B2
There is provided a polymerizable composition which contains a cycloolefin monomer; a metathesis polymerization catalyst; a cross-linking agent; and a compound (A) which has a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond and an active hydrogen reactable group or a combination of a compound (B1) which has an active hydrogen reactable group and a compound (B2) which has a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond.
US09650458B2
Propylene terpolymers are prepared by polymerizing propylene, ethylene and an alpha-olefin selected from the group of C4-C8 alpha-olefins in the presence of a catalyst system obtained by contacting a solid catalyst component comprising a magnesium halide, a titanium compound having at least a Ti-halogen bond and at least two electron donor compounds one of which being present in an amount from 40 to 90% by mol with respect to the total amount of donors and selected from succinates and the other selected from 1,3 diethers, an aluminum hydrocarbyl compound, and optionally an external electron donor compound.
US09650454B2
A slurry polymerization process comprising polymerizing monomers in a reactor comprising baffles, a first slurry feed line for returning cooled slurry from a cooler and optionally a second slurry feed line for transferring reactor slurry from a previous reactor of a cascade of polymerization reactors, wherein the baffle top, the first slurry feed line discharge end and the second slurry feed line end are located below the reactor liquid level.
US09650451B2
A fluorine-containing compound represented by the formula 1, where R1 is a methyl group or trifluoromethyl group, each of R2 and R3 is independently a hydrogen atom or a group containing (a) a hydrocarbon group having a straight-chain, branched or ring form and having a carbon atom number of 1-25 or (b) an aromatic hydrocarbon group, the group optionally containing at least one of a fluorine atom, an oxygen atom and a carbonyl bond, l is an integer of from 0 to 2, each of m and n is independently an integer of 1-5 to satisfy an expression of m+n≦6, and when at least one of R1, R2 and R3 is in a plural number, the at least one of R1, R2 and R3 may be identical with or different from each other.
US09650450B2
The invention provides for a process for removing thiocarbonylthio groups from polymer prepared by RAFT polymerization, the process comprising: introducing into a flow reactor a solution comprising the RAFT polymer in solvent; and promoting a reaction within the flow reactor that removes the thiocarbonylthio groups so as to form a solution that flows out of the reactor comprising the RAFT polymer absent the thiocarbonylthio groups.
US09650449B2
Provided herein are telechelic polymers and methods for producing the same. In some embodiments, provided herein are compounds having the formula and methods for producing the same.
US09650441B2
Disclosed herein are anti-CD47 antibody molecules, their manufacture and use in treating disorders associated with CD47 expression, for example, certain hematological cancers and solid tumors.
US09650440B2
This invention relates to novel monoclonal antibodies that specifically bind to the alpha-folate receptor. In some embodiments, the antibodies inhibit a biological activity of folate receptor-α (FR-α). The antibodies are useful in the treatment of certain cancers, particularly cancers that have increased cell surface expression of the alpha-folate receptor (“FR-α”), such as ovarian, breast, renal, colorectal, lung, endometrial, or brain cancer. The invention also relates to cells expressing the monoclonal antibodies, antibody derivatives, such as chimeric and humanized monoclonal antibodies, antibody fragments, and methods of detecting and treating cancer using the antibodies, derivatives, and fragments.
US09650435B2
Isolated monoclonal antibodies that bind to HIV-2 isolate NWK08F are provided. In some embodiments, the antibodies bind a polypeptide comprising the HIV-2NWK08F Env, Pol, or Nef proteins, or fragments thereof, respectively. Antigen-binding fragments and humanized versions of the antibody are also provided.
US09650432B2
The present invention provides synthetic rodent antibody libraries, such as mouse or rat antibody libraries, as well as polypeptides, nucleic acids, vectors, host cells and methods used in conjunction with these libraries. The present invention also provides antibodies isolated from such libraries and variants of such antibodies.
US09650430B2
A novel receptor in the TNF family is provided: BAFF-R. Chimeric molecules and antibodies to BAFF-R and methods of use thereof are also provided.
US09650418B2
Embodiments of this invention include synthetic compounds (NRP analogs) of peptides termed neural regeneration peptides (NRPs). NRP analogs are made by substituting amino acids in the native peptide sequence, modifying amino acids chemically, by replacing amino acids with synthetic moieties, by stabilizing β-turns, acetylation of terminal glycine residues or by cyclization. NRP analogs can be used to treat a variety of conditions involving degeneration of neural cells, and includes treating disorders of the nervous system, including peripheral neuropathy, multiple sclerosis, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, neurotoxin-induced neurodegeneration, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
US09650417B2
The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating lower gastrointestinal disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome and constipation.
US09650416B2
AVβ6 peptide ligands, functional variants thereof and their nucleic acids encoding them are disclosed with their uses in the treatment and imaging of AVβ6 mediated diseases.
US09650399B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds, compositions containing same and methods for inhibiting STAT3 and/or STAT5 activity or for the treatment of a STAT3 or STAT5-dependent cancer using said compounds; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or prodrug thereof.
US09650388B2
There is provided Form 2 crystalline polymorph consisting of N-[1-6-(ethynyl-3-oxo-hexahydro-furo[3,2-b]pyrrole-4-carbonyl)-3-methyl-butyl]-4-[5-fluoro-2-(4-methyl-piperazin-1-yl)thiazol-4-yl]-benzamide monohydrochloride and N-[1-6-(ethynyl-3-oxo-hexahydro-furo[3,2-b]pyrrole-4-carbonyl)-3-methyl-butyl]-4-[5-fluoro-2-(4-methyl-piperazin-1-yl)thiazol-4-yl]benzamide hydrate monohydrochloride, its use as a medicament and methods for its preparation.
US09650386B2
An object to be achieved by the present invention is to provide a novel compound having EGFR inhibitory effects and cell growth inhibitory effects, as well as a medication useful for the prevention and/or treatment of cancer based on the EGFR inhibitory effects.The present invention provides a compound represented by Formula (I) below, or a salt thereof.
US09650384B2
This invention provides substituted pyrimidine compounds having the formula: wherein X is absent, CH2, S, or O, and R is an alkyl group having from one to ten carbon atoms, and optionally salts, hydrates, or solvates thereof, that are useful in treating a patient having a disease or cancer. The compounds of this invention are useful as multi-enzyme antifolates selectively targeting the folate receptor (FR). Further, a method of making 5- and 6-substituted cyclopenta[d]pyrimidine for nonclassical and classical antifolates as TS and DHFR inhibitors is provided.
US09650379B2
The present invention relates to novel azaindole derivatives, and more particularly, to novel azaindole derivatives having histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitory activity, isomers thereof, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, hydrates thereof or solvates thereof, the use thereof for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, a method of treating disease using the pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for preparing the novel azaindole derivatives. The novel azaindole derivatives according to the present invention are selective histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, and may be used as agents for treating malignant tumor diseases, inflammatory diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, and neurodegenerative diseases.
US09650378B2
Substituted pyridoindoles for incorporation in pharmaceutical compositions employed in the treatment of various diseases correspond to formula (I) wherein R1 is H or optionally substituted alkyl; R2, R3, R4 are each independently selected from H, —O-alkyl, —S-alkyl, alkyl, halo, —CF3, and —CN; G is —CR12R13—NR5— or —NR5—CR12R13; R5 is H, optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted heterocycle, —C(═O)—R6, —C(═O)—O—R7, or —C(═O)—NR19R20; R6 and R7 are each optionally substituted alkyl or optionally substituted heterocycle; R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R13, R19 and R20 are each independently selected from H or optionally substituted alkyl; R14 and R15 are each independently H or halogen; L is —CH2—O—, —CH2CH2—, —CH═CH— or a bond; and B is aryl or heteroaryl or cycloalkyl; with the proviso that, when L is a direct bond, B cannot be unsubstituted heteroaryl or heteroaryl monosubstituted with fluorine.
US09650377B2
The invention relates to compound of the formula I or a salt thereof, wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification; to its preparation, to its use as medicament and to medicaments comprising it.
US09650376B2
Compounds represented by formula 1 can be potent and/or partially selective for the Kv7.2/7.3 heteromultimer. They may be useful in treating disorders related to seizures, pain, neurotransmitter release, etc.
US09650373B2
Provided herein are processes useful for the preparation of 2-carboxamide cycloamino urea derivatives of formula (X), and useful intermediates therefore, at internal temperatures such as less than about −5° C. to about −15° C. and using solvents such as tetrahydrofuran, bases such as amines, and the like.
US09650372B2
Molecules having pesticidal utility, and intermediates, compositions, and processes, related thereto
This disclosure relates to the field of molecules having pesticidal utility against pests in Phyla Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Nematoda, processes to produce such molecules, intermediates used in such processes, pesticidal compositions containing such molecules, and processes of using such pesticidal compositions against such pests. These pesticidal compositions may be used, for example, as acaricides, insecticides, miticides, molluscicides, and nematicides. This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”).
US09650369B2
Thiazole analog compounds and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are disclosed, including pharmaceutical compositions comprising the thiazole analog compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, and/or with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Methods of using the thiazole analog compounds, either alone or in combination with at least one additional therapeutic agent, in the prophylaxis or treatment of cellular proliferative diseases, such as cancer, are also disclosed.
US09650357B2
A reagent that enhances acid generation of a photoacid generator and composition containing such reagent is disclosed.
US09650356B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to molecules, including conjugated fused polycyclic molecules, that may receive excited state energy from other molecules (e.g., light-absorbing molecules) or directly from the irradiation sources. According to some embodiments, the disclosure relates to molecules, including conjugated fused polycyclic molecules, that may resolve (e.g., quench, dissipate) excited state energy, normally by way of releasing it as heat. (e.g., as heat). Conjugated fused polycyclic molecules of various structures are disclosed including Formula III: The disclosure further relates to methods of use and/or therapy using molecules of Formulas I, II, and/or III.
US09650349B2
The invention provides a compound of formula I: wherein A1, A2, A3, R1, X, Y, and B have any of the values described herein, as well as salts of such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and therapeutic methods that comprise the administration of such compounds. The compounds are inhibitors of monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) enzyme function and are useful for improving cognitive function and for treating psychiatric disorders in animals.
US09650346B2
Disclosed are solid forms of antiretroviral compounds and anti-oxidative acids, and processes for their preparation. Pharmaceutical compositions using the solid forms are also disclosed.
US09650344B2
Stable crystalline Form II and stable crystalline Form III of ivabradine hydrochloride and processes for their preparation are disclosed.
US09650330B2
The present patent discloses a novel, efficient and transition-metal-free room temperature single step process for synthesis of aryl sulfones and substituted aryl sulfones starting from aryl substrates.
US09650326B2
Disclosed is a process for treating a reaction solution containing a long chain dicarboxylate. The process is characterized by comprising: acidifying a reaction solution so as to convert the long chain dicarboxylate into a long chain dicarboxylic acid, adding an extractant so as to extract the resulting long chain dicarboxylic acid, separating the phase rich in the long chain dicarboxylic acid, and further separating the long chain dicarboxylic acid. The process of the present invention has the following advantages: 1) the processing route is simple, the operation time is short, less equipment is required, and the production efficiency is high; 2) product yield is high; 3) product quality is good, purity in the resulting products is high, and the color is lighter; and 4) no active carbon is consumed and the solvent can be recycled, thereby saving resources and being environmentally friendly.
US09650320B2
Disclosed are processes for a high temperature isomerization reaction converting (E)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene to (Z)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene. In certain aspects of the invention, such a process includes contacting a feed stream with a heated surface, where the feed stream includes (E)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene or mixture of (E)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene with (Z)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene. The resulting product stream includes (Z)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene and (E)-1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene, where the ratio of (Z) isomer to (E) isomer in the product stream is higher than the ratio feed stream. The (E) and (Z) isomers in the product stream may be separated from one another.
US09650317B2
Methods and systems for the dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons include a direct contact condenser to remove compounds from an offgas process stream. The reduction of compounds can decrease duty on the offgas compressor by removing steam and aromatics from the offgas. The dehydrogenation reaction system can be applicable for reactions such as the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to produce styrene, the dehydrogenation of isoamiline to produce isoprene, or the dehydrogenation of n-pentene to produce piperylene.
US09650305B2
Compositions and methods for reducing the impact of hard water on gypsum board foaming are provided. The compositions include adding a foam to water and a calcined slurry. The foam includes water, dispersed air and a surfactant. Surfactants for use include a hydrophobic portion having an alkyl chain length distribution of about 20% to about 60% C8 chains; about 20% to about 60% C10 chains; about 14% to about 36% C12 chains and about 2% to about 20% C14 chains and also having a hydrophilic portion having about 0.2 to 3.0 ethoxy groups.
US09650304B2
The invention provides a tunnel kiln for firing ceramic porous bodies which can fire ceramic porous bodies containing organic binders in a shorter period of time than in conventional methods without producing breaks or requiring nitrogen gas. The tunnel kiln includes a preheating zone 1, a firing zone 2, and a cooling zone 3 and fires the ceramic porous bodies loaded on a carriage 7 by driving it in a furnace. A heat storage regenerative burner 10 is used as means of heating the firing zone 2 so that low-oxygen-concentration exhaust gas discharged from the heat storage regenerative burner 10 may be returned to an exhaust gas return line 14 and supplied into the preheating zone 1. The exhaust gas return line 14 may be provided with a combustion device 17 that reduces the oxygen concentration by consuming oxygen contained in the exhaust gas.
US09650303B2
Ceramic matrix composite materials and processes for making said composite materials are disclosed.
US09650302B2
A method for producing an electrostatic chuck 10 includes the steps of (a) pouring a ceramic slurry containing a ceramic powder, a solvent, a dispersant, and a gelling agent into a first molding die 31 in which an electrostatic electrode precursor 24 is removably attached to an inner surface of the first molding die 31, gelatinizing the ceramic slurry by causing a chemical reaction of the gelling agent, and then removing the first molding die 31 to prepare an embedded-electrode-containing ceramic molded body 41X in which the electrostatic electrode precursor 24 is embedded in a first ceramic molded body 41; (b) preparing a second ceramic molded body 42; and (c) preparing a stacked calcined body 50 using the embedded-electrode-containing ceramic molded body 41X and the second ceramic molded body 42, and conducting hot-press firing of the stacked calcined body 50.
US09650299B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the treatment of subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the method includes obtaining or providing a composition including at least one-ion sequestering compound, sequestering at least one ion from a polymer in the composition with the at least one ion-sequestering compound, and contacting a subterranean material downhole with the composition.
US09650298B2
The invention concerns a process for the for the preparation of a hardening accelerator composition by reaction of a water-soluble calcium compound with a water-soluble silicate compound, the reaction being carried out in the presence of an aqueous solution which contains a plasticizer suitable for hydraulic binders, characterized in that said reaction is being carried out in the presence of apatite and that the molar ratio of calcium to phosphor in the hardening accelerator is from 25/1 to 400/1.
US09650297B2
Disclosed are an additive of a cement composition including a cross-linked polycarboxylic copolymer and a cement composition including the same. More particularly, an additive of a cement composition including a polycarboxylic copolymer and/or a salt thereof, wherein the polycarboxylic copolymer is a copolymer of a monomer mixture including an alkoxy polyalkylene glycol mono(meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer, a (meth)acrylic acid-based monomer, and a cross-linking agent containing 5 to 20 alkylene oxide groups and having two or more acrylate groups or vinyl groups, and a cement composition including the same are disclosed. The additive of the cement composition including the polycarboxylic copolymer according to the present invention controls a cross-linked structure and thereby initial sensitivity and retentivity are improved, and, accordingly, a cement composition having superior long-term workability may be formed.
US09650296B2
A cement slurry composition, containing hydraulic cement, water, and from 1 to less than 4% of an organically modified nanoclay. A method for cementing a high pressure high temperature well by pumping the cement composition of claim 1 between a casing and a formation of a well bore to fill a gap between the casing and the formation, and allowing the cement to harden.
US09650295B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing an Al/TiC nanocomposite material comprising an aluminum matrix in which particles comprising nano-sized TiC are dispersed. It comprises: a) preparing a first powder mixture by contacting a graphite powder with a titanium aluminide powder of the formula Al3Ti, both powders having micro- or higher sized particles; b) preparing a second powder mixture by mechanosynthesis of the first powder mixture, the second powder mixture being formed in all or part by particles comprising both titanium aluminide and graphite; c) compressing the second powder mixture to obtain one or more greens; d) reactively sintering the green(s), thereby the Al/TiC nanocomposite material is obtained.
US09650289B2
Titanium oxide containing borosilicate glasses, which have been produced without the use of arsenic and antimony compounds, are provided. An environmentally friendly refining method for providing titanium oxide containing borosilicate glass is also provided. The method includes using oxygen containing selenium compounds as refining agents to provide glasses with good transmittance values in the infrared range and show no disturbing discolorations. The glasses of the present disclosure are particularly suitable for the production of IR light conductors, cover glasses for photo sensors, and UV filters.
US09650286B2
Beta-quartz glass-ceramics containing in their composition neither arsenic oxide nor antimony oxide and having a controlled transmission curve, articles made using the glass-ceramics, including cooktops, and precursor glasses of such glass-ceramics.
US09650285B2
Provided is a glass which contains, by mass %, the following components: 20 to 35% of SiO2 and B2O3 in total, 50 to 70% of La2O3, Gd2O3, Y2O3 and Yb2O3 in total, 37 to 69% of La2O3, 0 to 3% of Gd2O3, 3 to 30% of Y2O3, 0% or more but less than 2% of Yb2O3, 2 to 15% of ZrO2, 1 to 6% of TiO2, Nb2O5 and Ta2O5 in total, 0 to 4% of ZnO, and 0 to 2% of WO3, wherein a mass ratio ZnO/Nb2O5 is in a range of 0 to 1.0 but Nb2O5 is contained as an essential component, a refractive index nd is in a range of 1.790 to 1.830, and an Abbe's number vd is in a range of 45 to 48.
US09650284B2
An aluminosilicate glass composition comprising: (a) 10-35% by weight of silica; (b) 10-35% by weight of alumina; (c) 3-30% by weight of zinc oxide; (d) 4-30% by weight P205; and (e) 3-25% by weight of fluoride which contains at most 3% by weight of alkaline metals calculated as M20, wherein M is Li, Na, and/or K, and wherein the weight ratio of the sum of zinc oxide and fluoride to P205 of from 0.8 to 3.0.
US09650283B2
A method of manufacturing an optical fiber includes drawing an optical fiber preform and forming a bare optical fiber, disposing a coating layer formed of a resin on an outer circumference of the bare optical fiber, and curing the coating layer and obtaining an optical fiber. A direction of the bare optical fiber is changed by a direction changer in any position from drawing the optical fiber to disposing the coating layer, and the direction changer includes a guide groove which guides the bare optical fiber.
US09650277B2
Methods and systems for de-stabilizing foam produced in submerged combustion melters. A molten mass of glass and bubbles is flowed into an apparatus downstream of a submerged combustion melter. The downstream apparatus includes a floor, a roof and a wall connecting the floor and roof, but is devoid of submerged combustion burners and other components that would increase turbulence of the molten mass. The molten mass has foam on at least a portion of a top surface of the molten mass. Certain methods include imposing a de-stabilizing force directly to the foam or to the molten mass and foam, where the de-stabilizing force may be a vibratory force, an acoustic wave force, a particulate-based force, or a non-particulate-based mechanical force. Systems for carrying out the methods are described.
US09650273B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for treating produced water and other contaminated water that can be customized or adapted to particular characteristics of the water and/or its contaminants or other contents while minimizing costs related to treating the water. In an embodiment, a method of treating produced water comprises degrading solid particles in the produced water using beneficial bacteria; filtering solid particles from the produced water; reducing pathogenic bacteria in the produced water by introducing ozone into the produced water; reducing contaminants in the produced water by passing the produced water through at least one filter; reducing salts in the produced water using a reverse osmosis system; and providing treated produced water.
US09650268B2
The invention relates to a water treatment device comprising a mixing tank comprising an inlet path (12) for an effluent to be treated, an optional inlet path (13) for reagents, a stirring source (14) for generating a turbulent stir in a given volume of said tank, an extraction path (15) for discharging sludge, and an extraction path (16) for treated effluent, and further comprising above and adjacent to the given volume, but below the treated-effluent outlet path, a settling structure (17) comprising a plurality of ducts extending from the bottom to the top and arranged in the form of a baffle so that no particle can flow through said layer along a rectilinear path.
US09650264B2
A fluid conditioning control system for driving one or more coils in a fluid conditioning system with a target load current to generate an alternating magnetic field directed at a fluid, the control system comprising a controller, a switch mode power supply circuit and a push pull AC drive circuit, wherein the controller is arranged to develop a first variable output having a frequency range that sweeps between a minimum frequency and a maximum frequency, and further arranged to develop a second variable output in the form of a duty cycle controlled signal, wherein the switch mode power supply circuit is arranged to develop a variable supply voltage to the AC drive circuit in response to the second variable output and a current sense circuit, and the AC drive circuit is arranged to develop a drive signal for developing a target load current in response to the first variable output and the variable supply voltage, thereby forming a current feedback loop.
US09650262B2
A filter structure capable of efficiently separating water and oil using wettability is provided. The filter structure includes a first filter layer including a plurality of openings and a second filter layer including a plurality of openings and positioned so as to be overlapped with the first filter layer at a distance from each other. The first filter layer and the second filter layer include surfaces each having a dual-scale protrusion and depression structure as a combination of a micro-scale structure and a nano-scale structure, and thus have superhydrophilicity and selectively allow water from a water and oil mixture to pass therethrough.
US09650259B2
The present invention relates to a photocatalytic nanocomposite material, wherein the realization of the optimal wavelength for optical activation is controlled and accordingly is designed to work together with a LED operating at the wavelength for yielding the maximum efficiency.
US09650258B2
A mineral composition comprising mineral particles, said mineral particles, when in a densely compacted bed form, having a volume defined median pore diameter from 0.01 to 0.04 micrometre, and having an intruded total specific void volume of 0.1-0.3 cm3/g. A specific advantage of this composition is that it as a component in a coating, allows the passage of ink solvent into the base paper while retaining the ink molecules on the surface.
US09650254B2
A method of production of active carbon by pyrolysis of organic materials, includes pyrolysis unit, reforming unit, drying unit, purification unit, gas storage unit and high temperature regenerative combustion unit. Organic materials are subjected to pyrolysis reaction in pyrolysis unit to produce combustible gas, tar and char. Combustible gas is reformed through reforming unit then enters into the drying unit for drying organic materials. One part of the purified combustible gas is combusted in the direction of combustion channel in the high temperature regenerative combustion unit, and the combustion heat is produced. At the same time, another part of combustible gas exchanges heat in the direction of heat exchanger channel in the regenerative combustion unit. Then it is used as pyrolysis activation medium entering into the pyrolysis unit in process of pyrolysis and activation reaction. The char is activated by the combustible gas in the pyrolysis unit then forms activated carbon. The sensible heat of the combustible pyrolysis gas is fully released through drying unit. A part of the combustible gas is combusted to produce heat as the required energy source of pyrolysis process. The combustible gas is used as pyrolysis medium and activator in the generation process of active carbon.
US09650245B2
An organic EL device that has good yields and high reliability as well as high current efficiency is provided by introducing the new concept to the conventional organic EL device structure. An EL device comprising a first electrode 101, a second electrode 102, an electroluminescent layer 103, conductive particles 104, wherein conductive particles 104 are dispersed in the EL layer 103, is used. Current efficiency will be increased since conductive particles serve as the conventional charge generation layer. In addition, fabricating processes will become simplified and fabricating costs will be reduced because the conductive particles and the EL layer can be formed simultaneously.
US09650244B2
Disclosed are drug delivery systems and methods for extravascular administration of drug, vaccine, and/or diagnostic agents, for use in research and medical applications.
US09650235B2
An apparatus and method for distinguishing the correct type of fuel to be disposed in a vehicle (4) is provided. The apparatus includes an RFID tag (40) disposed on one of a vehicle (4) or a fuel providing means (2), and a radio receiving means (42) disposed on the other of the vehicle (4) or fuel providing means (2). A signal, indicative of a type of fuel, is emitted by the RFID tag (40) and compared with a predetermined radio signal stored in a storage means (41), and a warning is generated on the basis of a determination of correspondence between the detected radio signal and predetermined radio signal. The present invention therefore provides a safe and reliable system that removes or reduces human decision from a refuelling process, and ensures the correct fuel is provided to the vehicle (4).
US09650233B2
An industrial vehicle has a controller connected to a plurality of sensors for accumulating information related to operation of the vehicle. The controller employs that information in governing further vehicle operation to reduce the likelihood of damage to the vehicle or a load being transported. The information also is analyzed to determine how efficiently the industrial vehicle and its operator are performing in relation to performance benchmarks for the vehicle and in comparison to other industrial vehicles. Performance of the industrial vehicle can be limited to conserve battery power and restrict recharging the battery to off-peak hours of an electrical utility. When the sensors detect a malfunction of the industrial vehicle, a fault code is produced. A service technician can use that fault code to automatically access service manuals stored in the computer system of the vehicle and obtain information for diagnosing and correcting the malfunction.
US09650228B2
A roller guide according to the present invention includes a frame mount surface portion and a roller mount surface portion to be mounted to a car, which are formed by plastically deforming a single steel plate. Thus, the number of components is reduced to significantly shorten assembly time. In addition, processing costs are also significantly lowered.
US09650223B2
A carrying apparatus carries a battery electrode member (an electrode material film web or an electrode film). The carrying apparatus includes a carrier for holding while curving, and then carrying the electrode member. The carrier is configured to hold the electrode member at a position that doesn't cause a contact with components for another process at a downstream along a carrying direction. Since the electrode member is curved, its stiffness along the carrying direction is strengthened and thereby sagging down is prevented. In addition, the holding position by the carrier is the position that doesn't cause a contact with components for another process at a downstream along a carrying direction. Therefore, according to the carrying apparatus, it is possible to carry the electrode member (an end of an electrode material web or an electrode) to a target position reliably.
US09650218B1
A conveyor system for moving a wheeled structure through a service line, the conveyor system including at least one endless belt mounted longitudinally through the service line. The belt has an upper transport portion for moving the vehicle through the service line, and a lower return portion with a support deck below the upper transport portion to support the belt. A debris deflector is mounted between the upper transport portion and the lower return portion to protect the lower return portion from debris falling through the support deck. A heater is mounted between the debris deflector and the support deck along at least a portion of the length of the service line. The debris deflector and the support deck define a region of higher heat concentration relative to an area below the debris deflector.
US09650217B1
The disclosure describes an apparatus including a bin sweep arm, a floor support in contact with a floor surface, and a vertical adjustment assembly positioned between floor support and the bin sweep arm and connected to the floor support and the bin sweep arm, wherein the vertical adjustment assembly automatically raises the bin sweep arm off the floor surface and automatically lowers the bin sweep arm to the floor surface in response to changes in weight disposed on the bin sweep arm.
US09650215B2
A robotic carton unloader is configured for automatic unloading of cartons from a carton pile. In various embodiments, the robotic carton unloader may include a mobile body, a movable robotic arm attached to the mobile body and comprising an end effector, a conveyor system having a front portion, and a lift attached to the mobile body and the front portion of the conveyor system to move the front portion. In some embodiments, the conveyor system may comprise a front-end shelf conveyor configured to be moved (e.g., raised, lowered, laterally moved, tilted, etc.) relative to the body of the unloader. The front-end shelf conveyor may be moved separately for positioning below the robotic arm in order to receive cartons from a small distance. The front-end shelf conveyor may be moved via various mechanisms (e.g., scissor lifts, pedestal lifts, etc.).
US09650210B2
A container-handling installation includes an exchangeable format part for guiding containers, and a catch closure for connecting the format part in a releasable manner to a locking device. The catch closure has a catch on an upper format plane. The catch rotates between a first, in which it releases the format part, and a second position, in which it locks it. The catch closure fixes and braces the format part and locking device, which is oriented around the catch closure, has a vertical web with a locking tab corresponding to the catch. A connecting device arranged on a side of the locking device opposite the locking tab fixes the locking device to a body of the container-handling installation.
US09650205B2
A chelating system for inclusion in a composition at least stored in a polymer lined metal passivated steel container which provides for stability of both the composition and the container. The composition preferably is a cleaning composition including a color-changing dye or indicator. The chelating system provides for stable storage of the composition through preventing degradation of the dye/indicator over an extended storage time. The chelating system included in the composition has a low affinity for the passivation metal on the steel container which provides for stability of the polymer liner present over the passivation layer and, thus, provides for the stability of the container. A preferred combination is a cleaning composition including (a) tetrasodium iminodisuccinate as the chelant and (b) a pH sensitive color-changing dye/indicator, in combination with a PET-lined chromium passivated tin-free steel container.
US09650189B1
Disclosed are lid assemblies for use on a vessel holding a base liquid. They include an agent chamber for holding a liquid agent and a pivotable spout. The spout includes a base liquid inlet port and a liquid agent inlet port, respective passageways connected to those ports and terminating at a mixing space. The agent chamber includes plural different sized metering orifices, orifice configured to be brought into communication with the liquid agent port of the spout when the spout is pivoted to any one of plural angular positions to provide a metered amount of the liquid agent into the spout for mixing with the base liquid in the mixing space when the user sucks on the spout. The base liquid is drawn into the spout from the interior of the vessel via a base liquid metering port that is brought into communication with the base liquid inlet port when the spout is in any one of those plural angular positions.
US09650187B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for receiving or dispensing a fluid (39), preferably containing a pharmaceutical, comprising a container that can be collapsed at least in some regions and a closure piece (2). The closure piece (2) comprises a dispensing channel (18) that fluidically connects a dispensing opening (2.1) to a removal opening (21), wherein a dispensing section (18.1) of the dispensing channel (18) communicates with the dispensing opening (2.1) and a removal section (18.2) of the dispensing channel (18) communicates with the removal opening (21). The dispensing channel (18) comprises a valve device (23) having two valve openings (22, 25), which are arranged next to one another on a valve surface (6.1). A first valve opening (25) of said valve device communicates with the dispensing opening (2.1) via the dispensing section (18.1) of the dispensing channel (18) and a second valve opening (22) communicates with the removal opening (21) via the removal section (18.2) of the dispensing channel (18), wherein a continuous flexible diaphragm (27) is provided, which in a closed position of the valve device (23) is seated against of the valve surface (6.1) and can be lifted in some regions and thus seals the valve openings (22, 25) with respect to one another in a fluid-tight manner.
US09650181B2
A substantially moisture tight container and lid assembly for storing and packaging moisture-sensitive items comprising an assembly with a container and a lid, the lid is attached by a hinge to an upper housing portion of the container, the lid includes a lip seal member that depends downwardly from the lid, the lip seal member is configured to abut at least a portion of the interior side of the container when the lid is in the closed position resulting in a substantially moisture tight seal between the lid and the lid, and the container assembly further comprising a base portion and an upper housing portion, the upper housing portion is capable of being snap-fit into the base portion by employing a lip seal mechanism to form a substantially moisture-tight seal.
US09650175B2
A container includes a body, at least one partitioning plug, a stopper and a driving rod. The body has an opening on one end thereof, as well as a closed end on an other end thereof. The at least one partitioning plug is disposed in the body to divide the body into at least two chambers, wherein each of the at least one partitioning plug has a through-hole. The stopper is disposed at the opening of the body and has a through-hole. The driving rod is equipped with at least one blocking portion movably engaged in the through-hole or through-holes of the at least one partitioning plug, wherein one end of the driving rod protrudes from the opening of the body.
US09650173B2
A product dispensing system and a method of queuing usage of products. In one form, a plurality of layers of products, each having multiple items in separate packages, is provided, each layer having a carrier with the separate packages being secured to and extending from the carrier. The layers are assembled in a stacked orientation behind a front layer with layers behind the front layer being at least partially concealed and inaccessible. Products are used one layer at a time, and when the separate packages from the front layer are removed, the packages of the next-succeeding layer are exposed for use. In another form of the invention, the packages for each layer are secured to and extend in series from the carrier for each layer, with a first package secured to the carrier for the layer, and each succeeding package being secured to the next preceding package. The carrier and packages of each layer are secured to one another with successive package connections of increasing strength with increasing distance from a package most distant from the carrier.
US09650172B2
In a panel (400), a protrusion (nipple) (420) is formed, which is flattened when a tab is secured to the panel (400) and functions as a rivet. The protrusion (420) is provided at a section of the panel (400) which is surrounded by a first score line (430) and which is located on a top part (433A) side relative to one end (431) or the other end (432) of the first score line (430). A second score line (450) connected to a curved part (433) of the first score line (430) is provided in the panel (400). Consequently, a decrease in the outflow performance of the drink is suppressed and a decrease in operability of the tab is suppressed, even if the tab or the opening is increased in size or the panel is reduced in size.
US09650164B2
The invention relates to a packaging machine including a sealing device, said sealing device comprising at least a first and an individually controllable second sealing tool for producing a first and a second seal uniting a lower web with a top web.
US09650160B2
A telecommunication satellite with geostationary orbit comprises an upper module, a lower module, and a lateral module, disposed in a storage configuration between the upper module and the lower module, and deployed to an operational configuration of the satellite in the orbit by a rotation in relation to an axis Z oriented towards the earth in the operational configuration. The lateral module comprises two substantially plane and mutually parallel main surfaces, termed dissipative surfaces, able to dissipate by radiation a quantity of heat generated by facilities of the satellite; the dissipative surfaces being, in the operational configuration, held in a manner substantially parallel to the plane of the orbit, making it possible to limit the solar flux received by the dissipative surfaces and to optimize the quantity of heat dissipated by the lateral module.
US09650155B2
An aircraft control apparatus, control system, and control method are disclosed. A control apparatus includes: a first control rod configured to have a movement in a first movement direction controlling a motion of an aircraft in a first motion direction, wherein after an external force on the first control rod in the first movement direction is removed, the first control rod automatically returns to a preset position in the first movement direction; wherein the preset position which the first control rod automatically returns to corresponds to the aircraft in the first motion direction maintaining a state of flight; wherein the maintaining state of flight depends on control signals received by the aircraft generated resulting from changes in the external force applied to the control rod in the first movement direction and state signals measured by state measurement sensors carried by the aircraft.
US09650152B2
Systems and methods to protect the flight envelope in both manual flight and flight by a commercial autopilot are provided. A system can comprise: an inertial measurement unit (IMU); a computing device in data communication with the IMU; an application executable by the computing device comprising: logic that estimates an angle of attack; a slip angle; and a speed of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based at least in part on data received from the UAV. A method can comprise estimating, via a computing device, flight data of a UAV based at least in part on data received from an IMU; comparing the estimated flight data with measured flight data; and triggering an error indication in response to a determination that the measured flight data exceeds a predefined deviation of the estimated flight data. The estimated speed can comprise an estimated airspeed, vertical speed and/or ground velocity.
US09650150B2
The present disclosure provides methods and articles useful in sealing fasteners, including seal caps and in particular translucent or transparent seals or seal caps. In some embodiments, a seal cap which is optically translucent and optionally visibly transparent contains an uncured sealant, which is optionally optically translucent or visibly transparent, and is applied to a fastener. In some embodiments, the sealant is cured by application of actinic radiation to the sealant through the seal cap. In another aspect, a protected fastener construction is provided comprising: q) a fastener; r) a seal cap; and s) a cured sealant; wherein the sealant is optically translucent and optionally visibly transparent.
US09650128B2
In some embodiments, an aircraft may include a retractable or extendable landing gear. The landing gear may include a wheel connected to an axle, a strut configured to resist longitudinal compression, and a linear actuator that is partially disposed within an opening of the strut.
US09650123B2
A lift assembly for use during inflation of a balloon envelope is provided. The lift assembly includes a plate structure that has a set of cavities. Each cavity includes one or more openings passing through the plate. One or more pistons are coupled to the plate through at least one of the openings of each cavity in the set of cavities. Each piston has a hollow tube portion projecting lengthwise from the at least one opening, a flange attached to the hollow tube portion and a grabber portion in communication with the flange. The grabber portion includes a plurality of bearings for grabbing a stud attached to an apex of the balloon envelope. A handle portion is coupled to the plate. The handle is arranged to lift the balloon envelope when the bearings have grabbed a given stud.
US09650119B2
In a moving center estimation method, a provisional moving center is set at a predetermined position in a neighborhood of an actual moving center of a hull. A sample thrust having a predetermined magnitude and direction is applied to the provisional moving center by driving the outboard motor, and a magnitude and direction of an angular acceleration generated in the hull by application of the sample thrust is detected. The magnitude of the angular acceleration is compared with a predetermined threshold value, and a position of the provisional moving center is changed and set so that the angular acceleration may converge in the threshold value, when the angular acceleration is larger than the threshold value.
US09650118B2
This invention relates to deep-water underwater transportation in mining operations, and can be used for the placement of geological survey and mining equipment. The present underwater transport module comprises a body (1), ballast tanks (2) with adjustable buoyancy, and a system (3) for pumping a working medium in and out, said working medium being water from outside the transport module. According to the invention, the body (1) has a streamlined shape and is made of syntactic foam (a composite based on hollow glass microspheres), the ballast tanks (2) are configured in the form of a multi-tiered ballast system comprised of a plurality of spherical vessels (4), each of which consists of two interconnected hemispheres (5), the cavities (6) of the spherical vessels (4) being connected to one another and to the system (3) for pumping a working medium in and out, and the underwater transport module further comprises hydraulic propellers (7) for cruising and maneuvering, said propellers being connected to the system (3) for pumping a working medium in and out. The invention provides for the reliable and environmentally friendly use of a transport module at great depths as a result of enhanced durability, buoyancy and maneuverability.
US09650115B2
An adjustable carry bag has two end sections for releasable connection together at connecting ends thereof to form an interior space for accommodating therein at least one sport board. Each end section has a first access opening providing access into the interior space and a closed perimeter portion at the connecting end defining a second access opening providing access into the interior space different from the first access opening. In an open state, the first access opening provide access into the interior space for accommodating therein a sport board. In a closed state of the first access opening when the end sections are connected together, the bag completely encloses and securely holds therein the sport board. A coupling structure extends from the closed perimeter portion of each end section for releasably coupling the end sections together so that the closed perimeter portions and the coupling structures of the end sections encircle a preselected region of the interior space of the bag in both the open and closed states of the first access opening.
US09650114B1
A modular floatation board may have predetermined flexibility or rigidity characteristics where the longitudinal bending moment of the assembled board is generally transmitted in a distributed manner from a nose module to a tail module through an intermediate module. The modules may be coupled together by an interface connection established between the intermediate module and the nose and tail modules. A tensioning member may compress the modules in longitudinal alignment and prevent the modules of the assembled board from separating.
US09650107B2
A bicycle chainring includes a plurality of teeth extending from a periphery of the chainring wherein roots of the plurality of teeth are disposed adjacent the periphery of the chainring. The plurality of teeth including a first group of teeth and a second group of teeth, each of the first group of teeth wider than each of the second group of teeth. At least some of the second group of teeth are arranged alternatingly and adjacently between the first group of teeth, each of the plurality of teeth includes an outboard side and an inboard side opposite the outboard side and one of the inboard and outboard sides of each of the second group of teeth includes a link-receiving recess formed in the chainring.
US09650090B2
A guide rail configured to be mounted in a track system used to support and drive an endless track comprises at least one resilient deformable portion which is rigid enough to guide the track during normal operation of the track system but which is flexible enough to temporarily deform under the impact of hard or immovable obstacles. The at least one resilient deformable portion of the guide rail can be made thinner than the remaining of the guide rail, can be made of a material more flexible than the material of the remaining of the guide rail, or both. During operation of the vehicle on which the track system is mounted, the at least one resilient deformable portion of the guide rail will allow the track system to absorb at least some shocks and vibrations without transmitting them to the vehicle and its operator.
US09650082B2
The vehicle floor assembly comprises a floor and at least one attachment device for attachment of a vehicle safety component to the floor, the attachment device comprising a anchoring part for anchoring the attachment device to the floor and an attachment part for attaching a safety component to the attachment device.The anchoring part is received and sandwiched between two opposed walls of a box structure of the floor, the attachment part being accessible through an opening provided in one of the two walls.
US09650075B2
A vehicle front section structure includes a front side member including an inner wall and an outer wall facing each other in a vehicle width direction; a load receiving section that is provided or formed at a vehicle front-rear direction front end portion of the front side member, and that receives load; and a weakened portion that is formed at least in the inner wall and the outer wall, at a location that is rear side in a vehicle front-rear direction of the front side member than the load receiving section, and that has lower rigidity than the rigidity of other locations in the front side member.
US09650070B2
A riding lawn care vehicle may include a frame and a steering assembly. Wheels of the riding lawn care vehicle may be attachable to the frame. The steering assembly may include a steering wheel operably coupled to rear wheels of the riding lawn care vehicle via a cable system. The cable system may include a first cable portion, a second cable portion and a pulley assembly. The first and second cable portions may each contact a steering column pulley at respective first ends of the first and second cable portions. The steering column pulley may be configured to pull a corresponding one of the first cable portion or the second cable portion based on a direction of rotation of the steering wheel. The first and second cable portions may each be in operable communication with a steering disc at respective second ends of the first and second cable portions. The steering disc may provide translation of movement of the first cable portion and the second cable portion into corresponding movement of the rear wheels. The pulley assembly may be configured such that each pulley of the pulley assembly handles both the first cable portion and the second cable portion as the first cable portion and the second cable portion are conveyed from the steering column pulley to the steering disc to translate motion of the steering column pulley to the steering disc.
US09650066B2
An electric power steering apparatus having a function for detecting a steering speed, includes a time stamp attaching section that attaches a time stamp (ATi) to a detection signal (Ai) and attaches a time stamp (BTj) to a detection signal (Bj); a storing section that stores the detection signal (Bj) to which the time stamp (BTj) is attached; a synchronous signal searching section that searches the detection signal (Bj) most synchronized with the detection signal (Ai) based on the time stamps (ATi and BTj); a vernier calculating section that performs a calculation of an angle difference between synchronous signals searched by the synchronous signal searching section and a vernier calculation and outputs an absolute steering angle of a sensor reference; an initial steering angle calculating section that calculates an initial steering angle value from the absolute steering angle; and a steering angle output section that obtains a steering angle.
US09650060B2
In general, the present invention provides a platform truck. More specifically, the present invention provides a platform truck comprised of a base member, a handle, a pair of swivel caster wheels depending from the bottom surface back end of the base member, a pair of swivel-lock caster wheels depending from the bottom surface front end of the base member, and a user-activated actuator assembly carried on the bottom surface of the base allowing the front swivel-lock casters to be switched between a unidirectional position and swivelable position to more easily negotiate tight turns and doorways is disclosed. Also included is a handle that is stowable within the base portion of the platform truck so that the platform truck may include one or two handles, whereby a handle may be included on one or both ends of the platform truck.
US09650055B2
A drive assist system that includes circuitry that obtains information including at least one of acceleration/deceleration information and direction-of-travel information from a database that stores at least one of the acceleration/deceleration information provided in relation to each of a plurality of sections of a road and the direction-of-travel information provided in relation to each of the plurality of sections of the road; obtains current location information of a vehicle; and performs at least one of a acceleration/deceleration drive assist with regard to acceleration and/or deceleration of the vehicle based on the current location information and the acceleration/deceleration information, and a direction drive assist with regard to a direction of travel of the vehicle based on the current location information and the direction-of-travel information.
US09650054B1
A method and apparatus are provided for determining the location of a vehicle. According to one aspect the method and apparatus the movements of motor rotors in a vehicle are monitored and used to determine speed, travel distance and/or travel path of a vehicle may be determined. Using various navigation techniques, the distance and travel path may then be used to determine the vehicle's location. Furthermore, movements of the motor rotors may also be used to report the positions of the steering and drive systems for the purpose of informing the vehicle controller as a method of feedback.
US09650053B2
An optimal tire slip ratio estimation system and method affixes a tire-identification device to a vehicle tire to provide a tire-specific identification and one or more sensors affixed to the tire for measuring one or more tire-specific parameters. A model-based optimal slip ratio estimator generates a model-derived optimal tire slip ratio estimation based upon an assessment of sensor-derived tire-specific parameter information based on the tire-specific identification.
US09650049B2
The present disclosure provides a method for an intelligent quick bed-in of an automatic transmission comprising the steps of operating the vehicle according to a predetermined protocol so that the powertrain controller can learn about powertrain variations and adapt operation of the transmission; obtaining feedback information regarding operator performance of the method and vehicle performance during the method; determining whether the bed-in method was successful by the level of run-up or tie-up, by whether the powertrain controller was allowed to adapt, or by the level of powertrain controller adaptation; and completing the bedding-in process. The method being capable of reducing the time required for a bedding-in process, while improving the reliability of the bedding-in process.
US09650043B2
An anticipatory speed-control system and method for generating a speed profile in real time by iteratively calculating proposed reduced speeds associated with an electronically identified target curve until the proposed speed is compliant with a lateral-acceleration-based comfort metric and a steering-angle-based safety metric and implementing the speed profile in accordance with a longitudinal comfort metric and providing a user with override options.
US09650041B2
A system and method are disclosed for preventing accidents in a vehicle. The system comprises an eye gaze detector for receiving an eye gaze vector from a driver. The system additionally comprises a proximity sensor for detecting locations of nearby objects and their velocities. A vehicle accident risk is determined based on the nearby object location and velocity. Additionally, the driver's knowledge of vehicle circumstances is determined based on the nearby object location and velocity as well as the eye gaze location. Responsive to the driver's knowledge and the vehicle accident risk, a vehicle alert is activated.
US09650040B2
A collision mitigation apparatus includes an object detecting section for detecting a collision object present in front of an own vehicle on which the collision mitigation apparatus is mounted, a drive assisting section that performs drive assist for avoiding a collision between the collision object detected by the object detecting section and the own vehicle or mitigates damage to the own vehicle due to the collision, an operation state detecting section for detecting an operation state of the own vehicle, and a timing setting section for setting start timing to start the drive assist by the drive assisting section in accordance with the operation state detected by the operation state detecting section.
US09650039B2
A controller may maintain a last-known vehicle location, and, when satellite-positioning data is unavailable from a satellite-based positioning-system module, utilize compass data and stability control data to estimate a current vehicle location from the last-known vehicle location. The controller may avoid use of the compass data to estimate the current vehicle location when the vehicle is accelerating or decelerating in East or West headings.
US09650038B2
A vehicle control system which can ensure high reliability, real-time processing, and expandability with a simplified ECU configuration and a low cost by backing up an error through coordination in the entire system without increasing a degree of redundancy of individual controllers beyond the least necessary level. The vehicle control system comprises a sensor controller for taking in sensor signals indicating a status variable of a vehicle and an operation amount applied from a driver, a command controller for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller, and an actuator controller for receiving the control target value from the command controller and operating an actuator to control the vehicle, those three controller being interconnected via a network. The actuator controller includes a control target value generating unit for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller and received by the actuator controller via the network when the control target value generated by the command controller is abnormal, and controls the actuator in accordance with the control target value generated by the control target value generating unit.
US09650035B2
A control apparatus is applied to a hybrid vehicle. The hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a second MG as driving sources, and a power split mechanism which is capable of changing and transmitting to an output portion transmitting torque to drive wheel, a rotating speed of the internal combustion engine. And, the hybrid vehicle is capable of switching a gear ratio mode of the power split mechanism between a variable gear ratio mode and a fixed gear ratio mode.The control apparatus determines whether or not a switching of the gear ratio modes is prohibited based on a vehicle speed and a gradient of a road. And, when it is determined that the switching is prohibited, the control apparatus maintains the gear ratio mode in the variable gear ratio mode or the fixed gear ratio mode.
US09650030B2
When a brake of a tractor is released, a control unit having a computer built therein monitors the pressure of working fluid output from a trailer control valve that controls a brake of the trailer in conjunction with the brake of the tractor. When time required for a pressure of the working fluid to decrease to a predetermined pressure is a predetermined time or longer, the control unit determines that the trailer is coupled with the tractor. When the time is less than the predetermined time, the control unit determines that the trailer is not coupled with the tractor.
US09650029B2
A compressed air supply system for a utility vehicle includes an air dryer unit provided with a filter unit, an electrically controllable valve unit and a pneumatically controllable discharge valve unit, a compressor with a coupling, which supplies compressed air to the air dryer unit via a delivery pipe, a multi-circuit safety valve unit which removes the compressed air from the air dryer unit, and an electrically controllable compressor coupling switch valve unit. An electronic control unit controls or regulates the functions of the air dryer unit and the compressor coupling switch valve unit.
US09650025B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting an object and causing a vehicle to brake based on the detection. In one implementation, an object detecting and braking system for a vehicle includes at least one image capture device configured to acquire a plurality of images of an area including an object in front of the vehicle. The system includes at least one processing device programmed to perform a first image analysis to determine a first estimated time-to-collision of the vehicle with the object, and to perform a second image analysis to determine a second estimated time-to-collision of the vehicle with the object. The processing device is also programmed to calculate a difference between the first estimated time-to-collision and the second estimated time-to-collision, to determine that the difference does not exceed a predetermined threshold, and to cause the vehicle to brake based on the determination that the difference does not exceed the predetermined threshold.
US09650024B2
A control system for a vehicle having a drive system, the drive system having a forward drive mode, a reverse drive mode, and a neutral mode. The control system may include an operator control operable by the vehicle user to control whether the vehicle is in a drive mode or a neutral mode. The control system may be configured, based on whether the vehicle operator is actively controlling the operator control, to automatically engage/disengage a vehicle brake, detect operator presence or absence and provide neutral lockout for preventing starting of the vehicle engine.
US09650021B1
A device for use in dispensing tire chemical onto a cylindrical car tire brush, comprising, an elongated shield having a concave inside surface having a curvature generally matching the outside curvature of the cylindrical brush, a port entering into the inside surface of the shield for receiving a chemical, and at least one distribution groove formed into the inside surface, which distribution groove communicates with the port and is inclined downwardly at an angle so as to distribute the chemical longitudinally along the said inside surface.
US09650005B2
A vehicle shield is provided according to the invention. The vehicle shield is constructed to avoid excessive hood flutter. The shield includes a vehicle shield region and an attachment region. The vehicle shield region is constructed for extending across at least a portion of a vehicle hood for protecting the vehicle hood. The attachment region is constructed for attaching the vehicle shield region to a vehicle. Also provided is a method of installing the shield to a motor vehicle.
US09649997B2
An apparatus for the location-dependent configuration of a device is coupled to the apparatus. The apparatus has first and second power supply terminals, a locating terminal for locating the apparatus on the basis of a voltage applied to the locating terminal, and a configuration device for configuring the device on the basis of the voltage that is applied to the locating terminal. The first power supply terminal and the locating terminal are formed by the same terminal.
US09649996B1
A RV holding tank disposal system for disposing of waste more quickly, cleaner and more sanitarily. The RV holding tank disposal system includes a duct assembly including a first pipe with inlet and outlet ends and a bore extending therethrough, a second pipe with an open first end, a second end, and a bore extending therethrough with the second pipe in operable communication with the first pipe, and a flexible hose with open first and second ends and a bore extending therethrough with the flexible hose fastened at the inlet end of the first pipe; a holding tank connector assembly connected to the duct assembly and adapted to be removably connected to a RV sewage holding tank; and a sewer adapter attachable to the duct assembly and adapted to be removably disposed in a sewer inlet.
US09649990B2
A device for optically recording the underbody of a vehicle using at least one camera, includes at least two mirrors which are disposed and oriented in such a way that images of several areas of the underbody of the vehicle are able to be recorded simultaneously by the camera.
US09649986B2
A bicycle carrier that allows for carrying at least one bicycle on a motor vehicle by holding the bicycle(s) at its wheels only, without touching the frame of the bicycle(s).
US09649982B1
A wrecker includes a frame, a cab forwardly-mounted on the frame, recovery equipment rearwardly mounted on the frame, and a catwalk assembly located therebetween. The catwalk assembly includes a platform extending between, and accessible for foot access from, both sides of the wrecker.
US09649968B2
Disclosed is a control system that may include a tab pivotally connected to a structure, a coupling member pivotally connected to the structure, and a device operatively connected to the tab via the coupling member, wherein the device is configured to control an external system. Disclosed also is a vehicle that may include a first device and a control system. The control system may include a tab pivotally connected to a structure, a coupling member pivotally connected to the structure, a frangible member connecting the tab and the coupling member to the structure, and a second device operatively connected to the tab via the coupling member, wherein the second device is configured to control the first device.
US09649967B2
A vehicle lowering system is provided having a movable arm that is connected to a vehicle through an upper link and a lower link. The upper and lower links pivot with respect to the vehicle on pivot points on one end and pivot with respect to the arm on pivot points at the opposite end. The spacing of the pivot points and the length of the upper and lower arm create an instant center, about which the movable arm pivots. An actuator is connected to the vehicle on one end and the movable part of the suspension on the opposite end. The actuator is movable between an extended and a retracted position. When the actuator moves between the extended and retracted position, the movable arm moves the vehicle between a raised and a lowered position.
US09649965B1
In accordance with the present invention, a novel, simple, inexpensive, user friendly and portable, truck bed assist handle quickly attachable without tools to a truck tailgate striker and tailgate hinge is presented. The assist handle provides for easy access into a truck bed. The handle includes an elongated body having a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion being a tailgate hinge connector configured for removably engaging with the tailgate hinge. The second end portion being a hand grip. Positioned thereinbetween the first end portion and the second end portion, the body has one of at least one first tailgate striker connector integrated therewithin the body and a structure attached thereon the body. The structure has at least one second tailgate striker connector integrated thereon. Both at least one tailgate striker connectors being configured for removably engaging with the tailgate striker.
US09649961B2
A composite component (110) for a vehicle seat (1), in particular for a motor vehicle seat, includes a plurality of fabric layers (116) of a fibrous material, a matrix material (118) securing the fabric layers (116), and an insert part (140), disposed between at least two of the fabric layers (116), for locally reinforcing the composite component. An insert strand (150) is disposed at least in sections along an edge or an edge surface (141.1) of the insert part (140). A vehicle seat (1) includes the composite component, in particular with a back structure (110) designed as a composite component.
US09649951B2
An automotive vehicle drive unit, comprising a fuel cell whose control input is a setpoint of the electrical power to be delivered by the fuel cell. There is a reversible electrical energy storage system and an electric motor to propel the wheels of a vehicle. An electrical connection element selectively connects the fuel cell and/or the energy storage system to the electric motor. A control circuit stores a model of the consumption of dihydrogen as a function of the power delivered by this fuel cell, in the form of a second-degree polynomial and is configured to compute a coefficient of power distribution λ1 between the fuel cell and the electrical energy storage system pursuant to a defined equation. The control circuit controls the electrical connection element to recharge the energy storage system when the value of the power setpoint Pfc* is greater than the power demanded by the electric motor.
US09649942B2
An electrical drive machine for a vehicle includes a brake apparatus and a gear-selection apparatus, such that the electrical machine is designed as a current-powered synchronous machine. The vehicle includes a control unit which is associated with the current-powered synchronous machine, wherein the control unit sets a field current of the rotor based on a gear-selection position set at the gear-selection apparatus and based on a position of a brake pedal of the brake apparatus.
US09649936B2
An in-vehicle device includes: a drive assist unit configured to perform drive assist processing; a display unit configured to display an image in a display area with the image overlapped on a scene in a real space ahead of a vehicle; and a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display, in a normal state while the drive assist processing is performed, an image of a first marker at a vehicle-corresponding position as a position in the display area corresponding to a position where the vehicle is estimated to be positioned in the real space in a predetermined time. The first marker has a first color, the first marker has a first shape that has a smooth outline and fluctuates, and a display position of the first marker varies periodically from the vehicle-corresponding position.
US09649934B2
A driving safety controlling method is provided. The controlling method is running on a wearable device, a smart key and a vehicle. The control controlling method comprises steps: obtaining sensing data stored in a first storage unit of the wearable device; obtaining a unique identifier stored in a second storage unit of the smart key and controlling a first wireless communication unit of the smart key to transmit a high-frequency signal containing the unique identifier and the sensing data to the vehicle; obtaining a predefined identifier and a range from a third storage unit of the vehicle, comparing the unique identifier with the predefined identifier, and comparing the sensing data with the range; and controlling a prompt unit to generate a prompting when the unique identifier is determined to match with the predefined identifier and the sensing data is within the range.
US09649928B2
An all-terrain vehicle (“ATV”) includes a plurality of ground engaging members and a frame supported above a ground surface by the plurality of ground engaging members. The frame extends along a longitudinal centerline of the ATV. The ATV further includes an operator seat supported by the frame, an engine supported by the frame, and a continuously variable transmission (“CVT”) supported by the frame and operably coupled to the engine. Additionally, the ATV includes a CVT cooling air inlet fluidly coupled to the CVT and positioned forward of a forward end of the operator seat, and a CVT cooling air outlet fluidly coupled to the CVT and positioned forward of the forward end of the operator seat.
US09649918B2
A sunshade assembly comprises a flexible sunscreen having opposed longitudinal edges and opposed transversal edges, a rotatable winding shaft and an operating beam and two opposed longitudinal guides each defining a guide channel for receiving therein and guiding inwardly through an entrance opening folded parts of corresponding ones of said longitudinal edges of the sunscreen. The operating beam at opposite ends includes positioning members around which inwardly folded wings of the longitudinal edges of the sunscreen are positioned. The positioning members extend into corresponding ones of said longitudinal guides longitudinally in a direction towards the winding shaft such that the positioning members only at a leading end thereof facing away from the winding shaft are connected to the operating beam and are movable with the operating beam. Each positioning member is positioned entirely within the respective guide channel without extending through the entrance opening.
US09649911B2
The embodiments described herein allow a user device to communicate with one or more components within a TRS via a single point communication scheme. That is, a single point access coordinator of a TRS can be configured to receive a message from a user device via a commercial grade communication link, process the message (e.g., determine which TRS component the message is intended for, determine whether the message is a proper message, unpack the message from a commercial grade communication protocol, repack the message into a rugged industrial grade communication protocol, etc.) and relay that message to one or more components of the TRS via a rugged industrial grade communication link within the TRS.
US09649909B2
A first heat transfer medium circuit includes a first path and a second heat transfer medium circuit includes a second path are formed independently from each other by operating a first switching valve and a second switching valve in conjunction with each other to make each of multiple flow passages of a first flow passage group communicate with either the first path or the second path. The first and second heat transfer medium circuits in which the first path and the second path are connected to each other in series is formed by operating the first switching valve and the second switching valve in conjunction with each other to make each of the multiple flow passages of the first flow passage group communicate with both the first path and the second path.
US09649893B2
A rotary feedthrough for a compressed air supply system is provided between a stator and a rotor rotating relative to this stator. A compressed air channel disposed in the stator is connected to a compressed air line and leads into an annular chamber formed in the rotor, from which at least one working channel leading to a consumer proceeds. The stator is connected in the region of the rotary feedthrough to a control line. A moment of friction occurring in the region of the rotary feedthrough resulting in premature wear is reduced by providing a switchable non-return valve in the annular chamber. Blocking elements which extend within the annular chamber concentrically to the rotational axis of the rotor are moveable into an open position by an actuating element, which is displaced from the stator in the direction of the blocking elements.
US09649892B2
A wheel for a vehicle includes an additional air chamber member (10) having: a main body (13) which is fitted between a first vertical wall surface (16a) and a second vertical wall surface (16b); a first edge portion (14a) which extends from the main body (13) toward the first vertical wall surface (16a); a second edge portion (14b) which extends from the main body (13) toward the second vertical wall surface (16b); and a protruding portion (26) which protrudes from the first edge portion (14a) in the radial direction (Z) of the wheel so as to be fixedly engaged with the first vertical wall surface (16a).
US09649876B2
A wheel for a vehicle is disclosed. The wheel comprises a central portion attachable to a vehicle hub and a rim arranged radially outside the central portion for supporting a wheel tire. The central portion has a series of cavities configured to receive a corresponding adapter. A cavity of the series of cavities has a through hole. The through hole is aligned in an alignment direction for alignment with a through hole of a corresponding adapter for traversal by a mounting element to attach the central portion to the vehicle hub. The cavity is configured to receive the corresponding adapter in a unique rotational position with respect to the alignment direction. The cavity includes first and second cylindrically shaped and axially aligned volumes. The first volume is bounded by a first receiving wall portion that extends substantially parallel to a front side surface of the central portion. The second volume extends from the first volume towards a back side surface of the central portion. The second volume is located radially within a radial outer periphery of the first volume.
US09649867B2
The present invention is provided with an image-forming unit for forming an image on a recording medium, and a control unit for controlling the formation by the image-forming unit of a test image used for adjustment of the image-forming unit in a blank space portion in which an image is not formed on the recording medium, the control unit specifying the size of the blank space portion, and forming a test image corresponding to the size of the blank space portion in the blank space portion. The test image is thus formed adequately utilizing the blank space of the recording medium.
US09649846B2
An ink tank 25A includes an ink containing portion 120, an ink injection portion 113, an ink supply portion 117, and a pair of electrode pins 140a and 140b. The ink containing portion 120 has a visual check portion 114 that enables the position of the liquid surface of ink contained in the ink containing portion 120 to be visually checked from the outside in a reference posture, which is a posture at the time when the ink is supplied from the ink tank 25 to the print head portion 32. The ink supply portion 117 is connected to a lower portion 122A located below a lower end of the visual check portion 114 in the reference posture. Leading end portions 143a and 143b of the electrode pins 140a and 140b are arranged in the lower portion 122A.
US09649842B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a plurality of head units, in each of which a plurality of recording heads are disposed so as to be aligned in a main scanning direction in a holding member as a frame body, and a plurality of nozzle openings for discharging ink being disposed in a sub scanning direction in each recording head. The head units are aligned such that center lines thereof in the main scanning direction differ from each other in the main scanning direction. M (M is a natural number) liquid ejecting heads are attachable to each holding member in the main scanning direction. N (M>N (N is a natural number)) liquid ejecting heads, which discharge liquid, among the M liquid ejecting heads are arranged so as to be close to a center side of an entire width of the head units in the main scanning direction.
US09649834B1
This disclosure is directed to a material composition that may be usable as a surface component in a plate design for use in variable data digital lithographic image forming devices. The disclosed material composition incorporates infra-red (IR) absorbing filler materials, including carbon black filler material particles in a fluorosilicone polymer or elastomer. The inclusion of the disclosed carbon black material compositions promotes precise heating in a patterning step for a layer of dampening fluid while minimizing harmful byproduct emissions including emissions of trifluoropropionaldehyde (TFPA) resulting from localized heating of a principally fluorosilicone imaging layer. The disclosed homogeneously-dispersed carbon black particles are particularly usable for improving operational characteristics of fluorosilocone-based reimageable surface layers of imaging members employed in the variable data digital lithographic image forming devices.
US09649831B2
An acoustic tile used for a modular wall system includes a substrate layer having a plurality of holes that extend at least partially through the substrate layer, and a veneer layer having a plurality of microholes extending at least partially therethrough. The two layers are attached together and configured for attachment to a frame of a modular wall system such that they provide desired acoustic properties to the modular wall system.
US09649819B2
A covered cord is formed by covering a cord with a resin material, and a covered bead is formed by welding or adhering together the resin material of the covered cord whilst shaping into a bead shape, such that resin material fills between the cord. The covered bead is placed in contact with a jig disposed inside a cavity of a tire mold for molding a tire frame member, the covered bead is fixed inside the mold, and the tire frame member is molded containing the covered bead in a tire bead portion by pouring molten resin material into the cavity.
US09649816B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of a multi-layered material having anisotropic pores. It further relates to a multi-layered material which can be produced by the process according to the invention, and to the use of a multi-layered material as a chondral support matrix, a meniscus support matrix or an intervertebral disc support matrix.
US09649803B2
A sheath flow system having a channel with at least one fluid transporting structure located in the top and bottom surfaces situated so as to transport the sheath fluid laterally across the channel to provide sheath fluid fully surrounding the core solution. At the point of introduction into the channel, the sheath fluid and core solutions flow side by side within the channel or the core solution may be bounded on either side by the sheath fluid. The system is functional over a broad channel size range and with liquids of high or low viscosity. The design can be readily incorporated into microfluidic chips without the need for special manufacturing protocols. Uses include extruding materials and/or fabricating structures.
US09649802B2
An apparatus and method for the pelletization of waxes, wax-like and other materials having a sharp melt point include a vessel for forming the wax into a hot molten material. A heat exchanger then cools the molten wax to a temperature just above its melt temperature. The cooled liquid wax is fed to an extruder which further reduces the temperature and mixes the liquid wax into a thoroughly mixed extrudable solid wax. The solid wax is then extruded through die orifices of a die plate into a cutting chamber, and a rotary cutter cooperating with the die face of the die plate cuts the extruded solid wax strands into pellets. The die plate, cutting chamber and rotary cutter can have the same structure as an underwater pelletizer, but operating without water or liquid as a dry face pelletizer. The thus formed wax pellets drop out of the cutting chamber by gravity through an opening in the bottom thereof.
US09649801B2
An injection molding machine that uses a mold and a native controller to operate according to an original mold cycle to mold plastic objects is retrofitted with a retrofit controller; the retrofitted machine uses the mold and the retrofit controller to operate according to a retrofit mold cycle to mold plastic objects.
US09649794B2
A method of reducing the number or size of voids in a polyurethane comprises reacting the formulation components in a container having an inner surface, or having a liner that has an inner surface, that has been modified to reduce the shear forces that normally accompany introduction of such components into a container. This is done by modifying the inner container's or container liner's surface by profiling and/or engraving it, or by including as a liner a mesh. The profiling and/or engraving or mesh serves to alter the formulation's flow dynamics such that the polyurethane has fewer and/or smaller voids, i.e., has a more uniform density, than polyurethanes formed without the modification.
US09649793B2
Processes for producing near net-shape panels and panels formed thereby. The processes include forming a preform to comprise a stack of multiple plies that contain an uncured expandable foam material. The preform has regions that differ from each other by the number and/or volume of the plies therein. The preform and its plies are then cured within a restricted volume to produce a near net-shape panel. The curing step causes the expandable foam material to expand, and the restricted volume is sized so that the number and volume of the plies within the regions of the preform cause zones within the panel to have different densities and/or thicknesses.
US09649790B2
To provide a method for manufacturing a double-sided adhesive material suitable for the size and shape of various articles using a simple process without reducing the yield of the adhesive material that is used, and to provide an article with a double-sided adhesive material that uses the double-sided adhesive material obtained by this manufacturing method. [Resolution means] Liquid photo curing adhesive 12 is applied by direct drawing onto a specific region corresponding to the size and shape of an article to be used, on the surface of a first plate 10, using a robot. A sheet shaped second plate 20 is placed on the first plate 10 where the adhesive 12 was applied, such that the adhesive 12 is interposed between both plates. Light for curing the adhesive is then irradiated from both sides of the adhesive 12 so that the light will pass through both the first plate 10 and the second plate 20 and reach the adhesive 12.
US09649788B2
The present invention relates to a method of fabricating an array of optical lens elements, comprising: providing a first mold having a plurality of recesses; applying a first polymer liquid in said plurality of recesses; providing a first contact shaping substrate; contacting said first contact shaping substrate with said first polymer liquid in said plurality of recesses, wherein said contact between said first contact shaping substrate and said first polymer liquid results in a deformation of the contour configuration of said first polymer liquid facing away from said plurality of recesses; curing said first polymer liquid to form an array of optical lens elements.
US09649777B2
A log splitter where splitting force is generated by storing kinetic energy in a rotating flywheel. Rotational energy is converted to splitting force by means of a rack and pinion, which is coupled to the flywheels through a belt-driven clutch system. A belt rests around a driven sheave and a drive sheave. An idler pulley tensions the belt, causing the driven pulley to rotate. The idler pulley is attached to an actuation handle causing the idler to lock, by means of a latch, until the operator disengages the pulley, or until a component mounted to the rack forces the latch to disengage. The rack remains engaged to the pinion by a bearing mounting system. A spring bumper may be placed at the end of travel so that at the end of the stroke, the ram mechanism compresses the spring, and uses stored energy to reverse the ram, pinion and sheave.
US09649776B2
A portable saw table apparatus for cutting oversized substrates at a work site which provides a centrally pivoted cutting table, the cutting surface of which is not interrupted by a central pivot element; and further comprises a saw support which is also not centrally mounted on the pivoting table. Also provided is a method for cutting oversized substrates such as commercial-sized trim or other construction materials onsite at a construction site.
US09649770B1
A magnetic holding device includes a receptacle having a chamber formed by an upper fence and a bottom portion, an attracting device supported in the receptacle and spaced from the bottom portion of the receptacle for forming a space between the bottom portion of the receptacle and the attracting device, and a shielding device includes a non-shielding element and a magnetic shielding member, the attracting device is capable of attracting a work piece when the non-shielding element is located below the attracting device, and the attracting device is shielded and prevented from attracting the work piece when the magnetic shielding member is located below the attracting device.
US09649764B1
In one embodiment, a system and method for planning a robot grasp involve measuring interaction forces imposed on an object by an environment while a task is demonstrated using the object to obtain a disturbance distribution dataset, modeling a task requirement based upon the disturbance distribution dataset, identifying robot grasp types that can be used to satisfy the task requirement, calculating a grasp wrench space for each identified robot grasp, and calculating a grasp quality of each grasp.
US09649763B2
The present invention relates to modular system for micro-nano manipulation of samples. The modular system of the present invention comprises changeable tool tips which may be provided in an array, and a tool body. Each changeable tool tip comprises an end effector connected to a base having mating structures. The tool body includes an arm having slits having dimensions and being disposed on the arm so as to detachably couple with the mating structures of the tool tip. The slits may include an opening with rounded corners for receiving the mating structures, and tapered side walls for frictionally fitting the mating structures. The present invention relates also to a connection system for connecting a micro-dimensional tool body to a changeable micro-dimensional tool tip and to a manipulation tool for use with changeable tool tips of the present invention.
US09649762B2
A tool holder has a sleeve member with a generally cylindrical sidewall, an open end and a closed end. The sleeve member is adapted to receive the non-working end of a tool inserted along a central longitudinal axis into the open end. A connector is coupled to the closed end of the sleeve member. The sleeve member has at least one tab extending axially away from an open end of the sidewall and/or at least one suction cup on an inside surface of the sidewall.
US09649761B2
A bike repair stand includes a stand column, a leg mechanism including a slider, two first links, and two second links. The slider is able to slide on the stand column. Each of the two first links is pivotally joined to the slider and has an end adapted to abut the ground. Each of the two second links is pivotally joined to the stand column and one of the first links. A head seat is located on the stand column. A support mechanism includes a pole and two support levers. The pole is able to slide on the head seat. The two support levers are respectively fixed to two ends of an axle. The two support levers are pivotal with respect to the pole about the axle.
US09649754B1
A pipe coupling tool used for inserting and removing a plastic pipe coupling from one end of a plastic pipe or from opposite ends of a plastic pipe. The tool includes a handle with fork arms. A pair of link arms are attached to the fork arms and to a plunger. The plunger is received inside a plunger cylinder. A cylinder block is mounted on the plunger cylinder. The block includes a first “U” shaped pipe arm and a base plate. The first “U” shaped pipe arm adapted for engaging a first clamp grip when compressing or releasing the pipe coupling in the plastic pipe. A second “U” shaped pipe arm is attached to the plunger and adapted for engaging a second clamp grip when compressing or releasing the pipe coupling in the plastic pipe.
US09649751B2
A reversible ratchet wrench includes a driving member received in a receiving space of a body, rotatable about a rotational axis relative to the body, and having an annular toothed portion. First and second pawls are aligned with each other along an axis parallel to the rotational axis and are alternatively disposed. The first and second pawls are received in a compartment in the body. One of the first and second pawls selectively meshes with the driving member. Each of the first and second pawls includes a ratcheting portion. The ratcheting portions selectively mesh with the annular toothed portion. A control member is pivotably received in the compartment. An end of the control member presses against the first and second pawls when the reversible ratchet wrench is switched between first and second positions. The control member can be actuated to move the first and second pawls.
US09649749B2
A manual sharpener includes at least one pre-sharpening stage having interdigitating comb-like abrasive sharpening structure. The sharpener also includes a finishing stage having a pair of abrasive surfaced truncated conical disks as its sharpening structure. The disks are mounted on a rotatable shaft with the small ends of the disks in contact with each other.
US09649744B2
A waterjet system in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a pressurizing device configured to pressurize a fluid, a cutting head downstream from the pressurizing device, and a catcher positioned to collect a jet from the cutting head. The system can further include a treatment assembly configured to treat a feed fluid to the pressurizing device and/or a byproduct fluid from the catcher, such as by removing submicron colloidal particles from the feed fluid and/or from the byproduct fluid. For example, the treatment assembly can include a coagulation unit, such as a chemical coagulation unit or an electrocoagulation unit, configured to coagulate the submicron colloidal particles. The pressurizing device, the cutting head, and the treatment assembly can be at different respective portions of a fluid-recycling loop.
US09649738B2
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for grinding spherical products (12), such as e.g. bowling balls, in particular. Such an arrangement comprises at least one grinding machine (1) having a spherically oscillating grinding movement. A fastening plate (6) fitted on the grinding machine has a spherically shaped bearing surface (7) and a grinding product (9) fitted on this, which through its slits (13) adopts a position with accuracy of shape on the spherically shaped surface. The grinding product (9) will form a contact surface (17) in the interface, in which the grinding product cooperates with the spherical product. This contact surface then adopts a radius of curvature arranged to substantially correspond to the radius (r) of the spherical product (12). The grinding is performed with a spherically oscillating grinding movement, which is adapted to the radius of the spherical product and simultaneously coincides with the radius of curvature of the contact surface.
US09649736B2
An apparatus and associated method contemplating handling a workpiece on a surface. A mounting block is selectively movable in a first direction toward the surface. A finger is coupled to the mounting block so that the finger is retractable in a second nonparallel direction opposed to the first direction. The finger supports an engagement member operably contacting the workpiece and subject to a reaction force from the workpiece that retracts the finger during movement of the mounting block in the first direction. The engagement member traverses the surface as a result of simultaneous movement of the mounting block in the first direction and retraction of the finger in the second direction.
US09649734B2
A tool-main-spindle, whose cutting angle can be changed, is translated by an X-axis moving mechanism portion on an X-axis provided in a plane perpendicular to an axis of a work, and is translated on a Y-axis by a Y-axis moving mechanism portion. Cutting of the work is performed by setting the cutting angle of the tool-main-spindle to an angle of the cutting tool at which the work has large dynamic rigidity, and causing an axis of a cutting tool to cross the work axis, and cutting the work with the cutting tool toward the axis of the work by cooperatively operating the X-axis moving mechanism portion and the Y-axis moving mechanism portion.
US09649731B2
A pipe fabrication apparatus includes a fabrication module having a guide adapted to support a cylindrical component, at or adjacent a first end of the component, at two discrete and space apart locations on an exterior surface of the component, and a bed for supporting the cylindrical component at a position distal the first end such that a longitudinal axis of the component is aligned with a central axis of the fabrication module in order to allow additional cylindrical parts to be quickly and easily coaxially aligned with the component for the purposes of tack welding the two items together prior to full seam welding.
US09649729B2
Presented is a method for forming at least one structure on a substrate. Utilizing a low-temperature plasma jet, powder, of which the structure shall be constructed, is applied to a surface of the substrate. Using at least one laser beam, heat is input into the substrate and/or the powder within a laser incidence region on the substrate. The heat input delays solidification of the powder particles, which are partly or fully melted in the plasma jet, on the substrate and thereby enables the formation of good adhesion between the applied powder, and thus the structure constructed out of the powder, and the substrate. The invention further relates to an apparatus for performing the method.
US09649717B2
A welding assembly may include a current generator, a first electrode electrically coupled to the current generator, the first electrode including a first engagement surface, a second electrode electrically coupled to the current generator, the second electrode including a second engagement surface and a width-determining fixture positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode to define a welding volume.
US09649714B2
A modular welding system which can switch between right-handed and left-handed wire feeders by use of the modular design and without having a duplicative dual feed system is disclosed. This aspect is applicable to robotic welding as well as boom-mounted welding operations.
US09649707B2
Generating cutting processes for producing bevel gears and employing a single rotary disc cutter (36) wherein a portion of the generating cutting process effectively includes a reduction (38) of the workpiece roll angle (40) during generating thereby reducing or eliminating cutting action on the clearance side (42) of the rotary disc cutter.
US09649702B2
A 360° rotatable drill shear attachment has a housing with forward extending shear blades and a rearward extending drive bit connectable to a chuck of a portable hand drill. A cowling is fixed to a mounting flange and rearward of the shear housing protectively covering the drive bit and drill chuck. A circular clamp is rotatable and securable to the mounting flange. Left and right rails slide-ably adjust lengthwise and pivotally extend from the clamp along the left and right sides of the drill body to a point beyond the rear of the drill body to a drill rear end. A connector adjustably is fastened to the rear ends of the rails to adjustably draw the ends together for securing the shear attachment to the drill body. The clamp may be loosened to rotate the mounting flange of shear attachment, and shear blades, within the clamp for shear blade orientation anywhere along a 360° axial arc. After which, the clamp is tightened for safe, one-handed operation of the drill with the shear attachment and shear blades oriented in the desired direction.
US09649693B2
A cutting insert has a bottom supporting surface, a center cutting edge, two secondary cutting edges, realized on both sides of the center cutting edge and offset in relation to the center cutting edge, and two transition edges connecting the center cutting edge to the secondary cutting edge adjacent in each case. The two secondary cutting edges are realized in each case vertically offset and, where applicable, also offset in depth with respect to the center cutting edge and are laterally spaced from the center cutting edge. The transition edges, in each case in a non-edge-overlapping region, have at least over a portion an inclination n where 2°≦n≦20° in relation to a height direction which extends at right angles with respect to a main extension plane of the supporting surface.
US09649692B2
A tool includes, at least on its edge, a sintered cBN compact which includes cBN particles and a bonding phase, a plurality of flutes is formed on a rake face, each of the flutes having a starting end on the edge ridgeline and causing the edge ridgeline to be wavy, and the terminal end of the flute is disposed inwardly of the edge ridgeline. It is preferable that the flute width of the flute decreases with distance from the edge ridgeline, the flute depth of the flute decreases with distance from the edge ridgeline, and the rake face has a positive rake angle.
US09649685B2
Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for forming bulk metallic glass (BMG) articles using a mold having a stationary mold part and a movable mold part paired to form a mold cavity. A molten material can be injected to fill the mold cavity. The molten material can then be cooled into a BMG article at a desired cooling rate. While injecting and/or cooling the molten material, the movement of the movable mold part can be controlled, such that a thermal contact between the molten material and the mold can be maintained. BMG articles can be formed without forming an underfilled part. Additional structural features can be imparted in the BMG article during formation. At least a portion of the formed BMG article can have an aspect ratio (first dimension/second dimension) of at least 10 or less than 0.1.
US09649682B2
A method of forming a fastener may include inserting a blank precursor into a bore of a forming die having an enlarged bore portion. The method may further include applying a first axial compression force to the blank precursor, and forming a cold-worked head section and an enlarged shank portion on the blank precursor corresponding to the enlarged bore portion. The enlarged shank portion may have a nominal shank portion extending therefrom. The method may additionally include inserting the nominal shank portion into a bore of a final reduction die, applying a second axial compression force to the enlarged shank portion, and urging the enlarged shank portion into the bore of the final reduction die. The method may also include reducing a cross-sectional area of the enlarged shank portion by approximately 2 to 5 percent to form a cold-worked shank section.
US09649679B2
A water-blocking apparatus for cooling water for a hot-rolled steel sheet according to the present invention, which blocks cooling water sprayed onto a hot-rolled steel sheet at a sprayed water density of higher than 4 m3/m2/min and equal to or less than 10 m3/m2/min when the hot-rolled steel sheet is cooled after finish rolling of a hot-rolling process, includes: a plurality of water-blocking nozzles which spray water-blocking water onto the hot-rolled steel sheet. Impact areas of the water-blocking water respectively sprayed from the water-blocking nozzles are continuously lined up in a straight line in a width direction of the hot-rolled steel sheet on a surface of the hot-rolled steel sheet and the adjacent impact areas partially overlap.
US09649674B2
The present invention relates to a system and method of remediating heavy metal-contaminated soil using dry disintegration in a particle size-selective manner. The system for remediating contaminated soil comprises: a pretreatment unit for pretreating the contaminated soil to control the water content and the size of the soil; a disintegration unit for disintegrating the pretreated soil into individual particles; a particle separation unit for separating the disintegrated particles a standard particle size; a heavy metal removal unit for peeling off the surface of the separated soil particles larger than the standard particle size using a surface friction force and an impact force to remove heavy metals in dry condition; and a separation and collection unit for separating and collecting the peeled-off surface from the soil particles.
US09649673B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise a system for strengthening a sloped structure such as a berm, basin, levee, or embankment. The comprises first and second opposing sides, the second side being adjacent the sloped structure; a bottom side adjoining bottom edges of the first and second sides, thereby forming a cavity within the first, second, and bottom sides; fill material disposed within the cavity; an impermeable membrane encapsulating at least a portion of the fill material; and a plurality of reinforcing members disposed within the fill material.
US09649666B2
The method and systems efficiently extract recyclable materials from a mixed solid waste stream. The methods and systems use sizing, density and dimensional separation to produce intermediate waste streams that are enriched in particular recyclable materials. The recyclable materials can then be efficiently sorted from the individual intermediate streams using mechanized sorting equipment.
US09649657B2
The invention provides: a method for applying a liquid to the rim of a container by transfer from a roller whose surface is composed of a tubular warp or weft knit of 2×1 rib construction; a glass jar or equivalent container whose rim has a coating of varnish, adhesion promoter or heat-sealing primer formed by an application method; a jar or equivalent container comprising a seal heat-sealed to the rim.
US09649655B2
Disclosed is a coating apparatus configured to properly detect a liquid surface of a coating liquid stored within a slit nozzle. The disclosed coating apparatus includes a slit nozzle, a moving mechanism, a storage portion illumination unit, and an imaging unit. The slit nozzle includes an elongated main body, a storage portion configured to store a coating liquid within the main body, and a slit-shaped ejecting port configured to eject the coating liquid fed from the storage portion through a slit-shaped flow path, wherein at least a part of each of a first wall and a second wall which face each other in the main body is formed of a transparent member. The moving mechanism is configured to move the slit nozzle with respect to a substrate. The storage portion illumination unit is configured to illuminate an inside of the storage portion through the transparent member of the first wall. The imaging unit is configured to image the inside of the storage portion through the transparent member of the second wall.
US09649644B2
The present invention provides an attachment for emitting water from an elevated water source. The attachment comprises an inlet section, a transitional section connected to the inlet section an outlet section connected to the transitional section opposite from the inlet section, and a rib member attached to the outlet section to support the shape of the outlet section.
US09649635B2
System, including methods, apparatus, and kits, for forming and concentrating emulsions. An exemplary system may comprise a device including a sample well configured to receive sample-containing fluid, a continuous-phase well configured to receive continuous-phase fluid, a droplet well, and a channel network interconnecting the wells. The system also may comprise an instrument configured to operatively receive the device and to create (i) a first pressure differential to produce an emulsion collected in the droplet well and (ii) a second pressure differential to decrease a volume fraction of continuous-phase fluid in the emulsion, after the emulsion has been collected in the droplet well, by selectively driving continuous-phase fluid, relative to sample-containing droplets, from the droplet well.
US09649632B2
The present disclosure sets forth incorporating microfluidic chips interfaces for use with digital microfluidic processes. Methods and devices according to the present disclosure utilize compact, integrated platforms that interface with a chip upstream and downstream of the reaction, as well as between intermediate reaction steps if needed. In some embodiments these interfaces are automated, including automation of a multiple reagent process. Various reagent delivery systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09649631B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a microfluidic chip. The microfluidic chip includes a first domain configured for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of DNA fragments, and a second domain for electrophoretic separation. The first domain includes at least a first reaction reservoir designated for PCR amplification based on a first sample, and a second reaction reservoir designated for PCR amplification based on a second sample. The second domain includes at least a first separation unit coupled to the first reaction reservoir to received first amplified DNA fragments based on the first sample, and a second separation unit coupled to the second reaction reservoir to received second amplified DNA fragments based on the second sample. The first separation unit is configured to perform electrophoretic separation for the first amplified DNA fragments, and the second separation unit is configured to perform electrophoretic separation for the second amplified DNA fragments.
US09649618B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a solid amine gas adsorption material. The method synthesizes a porous solid amine gas adsorption material that loads organic amine evenly. In the method, a certain amount of acidic gas is introduced while organic amine molecules are introduced into a silicate solution as template agents, which not only makes sizes of SiO2 pore channels homogeneous, but also makes organic amine molecules highly evenly distributed on a surface of SiO2. In addition, the acidic gas protects —NH2 groups of organic amine, and avoids —NH2 adhesion inactivation due to hydrogen bonding during the synthesis process of the material. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing a solid amine gas adsorption material after obtaining a silicate solution from fly ash. The solid amine gas adsorption material prepared has more stable and effective gas adsorption performance.
US09649617B2
A continuous solid-state polymerization device according to the present invention comprises: a feeder for injecting a prepolymer continuously; a transverse reactor connected to the feeder via a first connector to receive the prepolymer from the feeder and to perform solid-state polymerization, the reactor itself rotating; and a chamber connected to the transverse reactor via a second connector to receive a polymer, which has been discharged from the transverse reactor, and solid-state polymerization of which has been completed, and to discharge the polymer, wherein the transverse reactor has a demolding coating film formed on the inner wall thereof, and the feeder, the transverse reactor and the chamber are in a vacuum state. The continuous solid-state polymerization device can prevent formation of an interval, in which the prepolymer stagnates, and can perform solid-state polymerization continuously in a vacuum state without using inert gas.
US09649616B2
The continuous solid-state polymerization device of the present invention comprises: a feeder for continuously introducing a prepolymer; a horizontal reactor which is connected via a first connecting part to the feeder and receives the prepolymer from the feeder so as to subject same to solid-state polymerization, wherein the reactor itself is rotated; a stirring device which comprises a stirring shaft rotating inside the horizontal reactor, in the direction opposite to that of the rotational axis of the horizontal reactor, and comprises stirring blades joined vertically to the stirring shaft; and a chamber which is connected via a second connecting part to the horizontal reactor and, once the solid-state polymerization has been completed, receives the resulting polymer discharged from the horizontal reactor, and, here, the feeder, the horizontal reactor and the chamber are in a vacuum state. The continuous solid-state polymerization device prevents the formation of prepolymer stagnation zones, and allows solid-state polymerization to take place continuously in the vacuum state without any inert gas.
US09649615B2
The present invention relates to a reactor and to a process for synthesis of hydrogen sulphide from elemental sulphur and hydrogen at elevated pressure and elevated temperature. The invention further relates to the use of the reactor for preparation of hydrogen sulphide in high yield and with a low H2Sx content.
US09649601B2
This invention presents a metal-doped zeolite membrane-based apparatus containing molecular sieving zeolite thin film on the seeded porous substrate. The metal-doped zeolite membrane exhibits high selectivity to olefin over paraffins. The membrane is synthesized by seed coating and secondary growth method, followed by metal doping and post treatment processes.
US09649596B2
An ammonia slip control catalyst having a layer containing perovskite and a separate layer containing an SCR catalyst is described. The ammonia slip catalyst can have two stacked layers, with the top overlayer containing an SCR catalyst, and the bottom layer containing a perovskite. The ammonia slip catalyst can alternatively be arranged in sequential layers, with the SCR catalyst being upstream in the flow of exhaust gas relative to the perovskite. A system comprising the ammonia slip catalyst upstream of a PGM-containing ammonia oxidation catalyst and methods of using the system are described. The system allows for high ammonia oxidation with good nitrogen selectivity. Methods of making and using the ammonia slip catalyst to reduce ammonia slip and selectively convert ammonia to N2 are described.
US09649589B2
A oxygen concentrating system comprising an adsorption column having a first end and a second end, a shell enclosing the column and defining a product gas storage space between the column and the shell, a product conduit connecting the product gas storage space to a product output point, a first conduit comprising at least one first valve having at least a first and second configuration, in the first configuration, compressed air flows from the feed point to the first end, and, in the second configuration, waste gas flows from the first end to the waste point, and a second conduit comprising at least one second valve having at least a first and second configuration, in the first configuration, the product gas flows from the product gas storage space to the second end, and, in the second configuration, the product gas flows from the second end to the storage space.
US09649578B2
In a settling tank of the invention, treated water has good quality and whose operation is stable over a long period. A settling tank includes a tank body having a circular-cylindrical shape whose axial direction corresponds to the vertical direction, a distributor provided in a lower part (near the bottom) of the tank body, an outlet provided in a middle part or a part slightly above the middle part of a side face of the tank body, a receiving tank communicating with the tank body via the outlet, a stirring device provided in the tank body, a trough for extracting treated water provided in an upper part of the tank body, a sludge discharge port through which concentrated sludge is extracted from a lower part of the receiving tank, and so forth. A stirring member is provided below the distributor.
US09649567B2
A method that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a request from a mobile communication device to configure a computing environment for executing a software application, identifying a deficiency in an availability of a resource of the computing environment responsive to receiving the request, adjusting an operation of the computing environment to change the availability of the resource responsive to identifying the resource deficiency, and providing an action of a plurality of associable actions to the computer environment for use in the software application, where the action replaces a received stimulation of a user input that is associated with the executing of the software application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09649565B2
A video game system comprising a console (such as a game console, computer, mobile device or web site), a peripheral for a gaming platform, and a toy. The gaming platform is capable of identifying the toy and a character corresponding to the toy is depicted in the video game. The video game character corresponding to the toy has certain characteristics and/or attributes. The data for these characteristics and attributes is stored on a server accessible to each compatible gaming platform. As the user uses the character to play the video game, thereby altering the character's characteristics and attributes, the updated attributes are stored by the game system to the server connected to the game system. Updated character data is thereafter available to the user for subsequent game play via any gaming platform connected to the server.
US09649559B2
System, methods and apparatus for presenting media in a wagering game machine are described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an internal media request from a component of the wagering game machine and receiving an external data signal from outside the wagering game machine. In the embodiment, the method also includes preparing media based on the internal media request and the external data signal and presenting the media on media presentation devices.
US09649557B2
A method for controlling game data communication between portable electronic devices includes receiving one or more performance parameters from multiple portable electronic devices as slave devices. The method also includes determining whether the portable electronic device satisfies performance criteria with respect to the multiple portable electronic devices. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the portable electronic device does not satisfy the performance criteria with respect to the multiple portable electronic devices: selecting one of the multiple portable electronic devices as a new master device; and transferring a master device status to the selected portable electronic device. The method includes, subsequent to transferring a master device status to the selected portable electronic device, communicating, as a slave device, with the selected portable electronic device.
US09649553B2
The present invention provides a gaming machine where players can play without giving them a sense of unfairness or suspicion and it is possible to identify die spots with a comparatively simple and uncomplicated structure. A gaming machine involving the present invention is characterized as a gaming machine comprising a die, a die container and a means of turning, the body of the die having transparency and the spot display panels formed on each face of the die having light shielding properties, the die container comprising a die shaker and a die slide where the die shaker is connected to the die slide in order to enable the die to move between the die shaker and the die slide, the die shaker has transparency, part of the die slide has light shielding properties, the die slide can slide without the die rolling, the means of turning turns the die container and comprises a motor and a plurality of gears connected to the motor. A means of reading comprising a light sensor is disposed on the bottom surface of the die slide, a means of illumination is disposed on the upper surface of the die slide, the die shaken in the die shaker is designed to stop in the prescribed position of the die slide that has light shielding properties, the means of illumination is disposed on the No. 1 face equating to the spots on the die stopped in the prescribed position and the means of reading is disposed on the No. 2 face opposite the No. 1 side, and the spots on the die are identified based on information obtained by the means of reading.
US09649539B2
A golf ball comprising a core and a cover, wherein the core consists of: a solid inner core layer formed from a transparent or plasticized polyamide composition and having a diameter of 1.10 inch or less and a center Shore C hardness (Hcenter) of 50 or less, one or more optional intermediate core layers, and an outer core layer formed from at least one of a thermoset rubber composition and a thermoplastic composition and having a thickness of 0.200 inches or greater and an outer surface Shore C hardness (Houter surface) of 70 or greater, wherein Houter surface>Hcenter, and Houter surface−Hcenter≧40. In another embodiment, the center Shore C hardness (Hcenter) is 40 or less, the outer surface Shore C hardness (Houter surface) is 85 or greater, and Houter surface−Hcenter≧45. In one embodiment, an intermediate layer is disposed between the outer core layer and the cover.
US09649537B2
The invention provides a solid golf ball which has a core of at least one layer and a cover of at least one layer. At least one layer of the core is formed primarily of polybutadiene and includes at least 0.05 part by weight of a polyurethane resin powder having an average particle size of not more than 2 mm per 100 parts by weight of rubber component. At least one layer of the cover is formed primarily of polyurethane.
US09649534B2
A composite dive fin assembly for a user swimming in a body of water having primary, secondary, and lateral portions which each define corresponding oppositely disposed propulsion surfaces. The primary, secondary, and lateral portions also each having a corresponding propulsion edge. The primary, secondary, and lateral propulsion surfaces cooperatively oriented to displace an amount of water over a corresponding one of the primary, secondary, and lateral propulsion edges when the composite dive fin assembly is moved in the body of water in which the user is swimming. The primary, secondary, and lateral propulsion surfaces are cooperatively configured to displace a greater amount of water over corresponding propulsion edges relative to previously known dive fins while reducing the resistive forces while displacing water, allowing a user to swim further and/or faster with the less effort.
US09649529B1
An elliptical exercise device has a frame and guide link pivotally attached thereto. A foot support link is pivotally connected to a lower attachment point of each guide link so that when the guide links pivot relative to the frame, foot receiving areas of the foot support links move in a path of travel having a horizontal component of motion. Vertical control tracks are pivotally connected to the frame and support the foot support links. A vertical drive is coupled to the forward portion of the frame and vertical control elements connect the vertical drive to the vertical control tracks. A horizontal drive and horizontal control links control pivoting of the guide links.
US09649528B2
A treadboard and a treadmill includes two first elastic strips of same structure arranged abreast with the lengths disposed along the moving direction of the belt of the treadmill and a plurality of solid support strips; the first elastic strips are arc structural, the center of the arc structure is higher than two ends of the arc structure; either end of each first elastic strip is once formed with buffer portion that is flexible along the length direction, so that the buffer portions buffer the arc structure of the first elastic strip after fixedly connected to the base of the treadmill; the solid support strips is of straight strip structure respectively connected vertically between the two first elastic strips, two ends of each solid support strip are respectively connected to the corresponding upper sides of the two first elastic strips.
US09649524B2
A gymnastic machine having a frame defining a support area for the back of a user and a platform for the support of the feet, where the support area and the platform are inclined on opposite sides with respect to the vertical and are mutually convergent downwards. A work unit is associated with the frame and has a loading unit for the execution of a gymnastic exercise and movement means for moving the loading unit. The work unit has a bearing element associated with the frame and the movement means has a grip element which can be gripped by the user, the shift of the grip element causing the loading unit to shift. The movement means has at least a pulley placed between the grip element and the loading unit and connected in a kinematic manner to the latter by means of at least a flexible element.
US09649522B2
An exercise apparatus includes an upper assembly and a lower assembly for coupling with the upper assembly. A plurality of engaging channels are provided at an inner surface of the lower assembly at a variety of orientations. A plurality of resistance media are provided with the exercise apparatus in configurations enabling selective coupling with the engaging channels. In a method of using the exercise apparatus, a user couples one or more of the plurality of exercise media with the engaging channels, performs at least one first exercise by pulling the coupled exercise media from a contracted position to a stretched position and changes the orientation of the exercise media to perform at least one second exercise.
US09649520B2
According to one aspect, a fire extinguisher actuator assembly for a fire extinguisher is provided. The fire extinguisher includes a fire extinguisher reservoir and a burst disc that forms a discharge barrier between the fire extinguisher reservoir and a discharge head to retain a pressurized fire extinguishing agent within the fire extinguisher reservoir. The fire extinguisher actuator assembly includes a cutter shuttle assembly having a cutter coupled to a shuttle body. The cutter shuttle assembly is detained within the fire extinguisher proximate the burst disc and biased to form a pressure equalization region between the shuttle body and the burst disc. The fire extinguisher actuator assembly also includes an activation device having a piercing member operable to pierce the burst disc and release pressure from the pressure equalization region, thereby driving the cutter through the burst disc to release the pressurized fire extinguishing agent through the discharge head.
US09649519B2
A control system for a fire fighting component includes a detector for detecting a position of at least a portion of a fire fighting component relative to an axis, which generates an output position signal indicative of the position of the at least a portion of the fire fighting component, and a controller in communication with the detector and receiving the output position signal. The controller generates a display output signal based on the output position signal. The system further includes a display that is in communication with the controller and receives the display output signal. The display generates an icon that is a graphical representation of the fire fighting device, and configures the icon based on the output display signal wherein the configuration of the icon indicates the position of the at least a portion of the fire fighting device.
US09649515B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a dorsal wear-pad having an external, low-friction, high-wear-resistance surface, the dorsal wear-pad configured to be releasably coupled to a D-ring connection region of a fall-protection safety harness. In various embodiments, the dorsal wear-pad may project out and away from a wearer so as to prevent the D-ring from contacting a wall surface. For example, the dorsal wear-pad may have a D-ring aperture through which the D-ring may project. In some embodiments, the dorsal wear-pad may have a back shield to prevent a snap-hook connected to the D-ring from contacting a wearer's back. An exemplary embodiment may have two prominences, one on either side of the D-ring. Some exemplary dorsal wear-pads may advantageously protect both a wearer and the wearer's harness during sliding or leaning engagements with vertical surfaces.
US09649507B2
Methods and systems are provided for delivering visible or infrared biostimulatory energy to bone marrow to subjects having or developing Alzheimer's disease. The radiation is delivered to sites remote from the brain at a dose sufficient to cause stimulated mesenchymal stem cells to appear in the brain and degrade β-amyloid. The energy may be coherent light and can be administered transcutaneously, subcutaneously, or via an intramedullary probe.
US09649500B2
A method for manufacturing a medical device housing includes deforming an inner surface of a shield member to produce a seam area along the inner surface. The shield member has an inner surface and an outer surface spaced apart by a shield thickness. A seam seals the inner surface seam area of the shield member to a second shield member. The shield member inner surface has a bend extending to an interior edge of the seam.
US09649499B2
A method for passivating a biomaterial surface includes modifying proteinaceous material disposed at the biomaterial surface. The passivation may be effectuated by exposing the biomaterial surface to therapeutic electrical energy in the presence of blood or plasma.
US09649498B2
Various techniques are disclosed for quickly and efficiently determining cardiac pacing vectors that minimize phrenic nerve stimulation.
US09649487B2
Apparatus and methods are described including a mechanical support element that is placed inside a first vein of a subject. At least one electrode disposed on the mechanical support element is placed inside the first vein, in a vicinity of a site upstream of a bifurcation with a second vein of the subject. A control unit enhances downstream blood flow from the first vein by driving the at least one electrode to divert blood downstream into the second vein by constricting the first vein at the upstream site, by driving the at least one electrode to apply a current to the vicinity of the site. The mechanical support element prevents the first vein from collapsing by providing mechanical support to the vein. Other embodiments are also described.
US09649485B2
A system and method for treatment of skin including a treatment surface having numerous small energy emitting points for fractional skin treatment as well as negative pressure outlets. During a treatment, negative pressure from the outlets may exert a pulling force on an opposing tissue surface to bring the tissue into contact with the energy points.
US09649481B2
A shunt including an implantable housing having a proximal end and a distal end. A pressure sensitive valve is contained within the housing at a position between the proximal end and the distal end, and the pressure sensitive valve is capable of controlling a flow of fluid between the fluid inlet port and the fluid outlet port. The shunt further including a sensor assembly fluidly coupled to the pressure sensitive valve, wherein the sensor assembly is mechanically actuated and capable of detecting the flow of fluid through the pressure sensitive valve. A condition of the shunt can be detected by detecting a flow of fluid through the shunt and generating a signal indicative of a period of fluid flow through the implantable shunt based on the detecting. The signal can be output to an external device capable of determining, from the signal, whether the shunt is malfunctioning.
US09649468B2
A gas humidifier can have a gas channel comprising an inlet and an outlet. A portion of the gas channel can have a region having a reduction in cross-sectional area relative to the portions of the gas channel outside of the region. A water conduit can extend from the region to a water reservoir. A heating element can heat water entering the region from the water conduit. Water vaporized using the heating element can join the flow of gases passing through the gas channel in use.
US09649467B2
A reaction and distribution system may include a distributor securable near or in a path correspond to a breathing passage such as the nostrils or the mouth of a user for delivering nitric oxide therapy thereto. The distributor may contain an internal reactor for creating the nitric oxide from reactants. Alternative embodiments may include an inhaler for delivering nitric oxide into the mouth of a user. The inhaler may contain a reaction chamber monolithic or contiguous with the inhaler for creating the nitric oxide from reactants.
US09649466B2
Systems and methods for delivery of gas mixtures to humans inside an MRI scanner, including while monitoring and recording physiological parameters.
US09649457B2
A process for operating a respirator and/or an anesthesia device with measurement of a set percent Peak Expiratory Flow (% PEF) (15) or percent Peak Inspiratory Flow (% PIF) and regulation of the measured % PEF (15) or % PIF to the set % PEF (15) or % PIF. Furthermore, a suitable respirator and/or anesthesia device are provided.
US09649453B2
According to the invention, a safety device for a pre-filled syringe comprises a hollow support body for retaining the pre-filled syringe therein, a hollow needle shield and a spring means made from a resilient plastics material. The needle shield is telescoped with the support body and the spring means biases the needle shield in a distal direction.
US09649447B2
An assembly is presented having a reservoir holder, a dose setting mechanism, and flexible fastener configured to fasten the reservoir holder to the dose setting mechanism, wherein the flexible fastener is provided at one of the reservoir holder and the dose setting mechanism. The flexible fastener is configured to releasably fasten the reservoir holder and the dose setting mechanism to each other. Moreover, said flexible fastener is arranged on a retention ring provided at the one of the reservoir holder and the dose setting mechanism. Furthermore, a drug delivery device with such an assembly is disclosed.
US09649445B2
A maximum settable dose feature is disclosed that is set by a user or health care professional one time that prevents future injections from exceeding the desired maximum dose. The feature includes a locking band (5) initially in an unlocked configuration, which transforms to a locked configuration when activated after setting a desired maximum dose. The feature can include a trigger mechanism (6,11) to transform the locking band (5) to the locked configuration.
US09649444B2
A stopper adapted for attachment with a plunger rod for use within a syringe barrel is disclosed. The stopper includes a main body defining an open rearward end and a closed front end. The open rearward end is adapted to receive a front forward end attachment portion of the plunger rod. The stopper also includes a core member integrally formed with said main body adjacent the closed front end. The core member includes a nose portion having a profile adapted to create a positive seal with an outlet opening of such syringe barrel.
US09649442B2
The present invention is directed to an automatic reconstitution drug delivery device. The inventive device effects simple and automatic reconstitution of a dry drug. To effect reconstitution, a user displaces a release button which causes first and second chambers of a drug cartridge to communicate, resulting in automatic mixing of a diluent and dry drug to effect reconstitution of the dry drug. The user then simply sets the dose volume using a dose-setting mechanism, and administers the injection in a manner typical of self-injection drug delivery devices. Whole or partial automatic priming can be also achieved by the device.
US09649441B2
An injection device 110 is described having a housing 112 and a housing closure means 130. The injection device 110 houses a syringe 114 having a needle 118 which is sealed by a boot 117. The housing closure means 130 is arranged so that the boot 117 can be connected to the housing closure means 130 simply, but cannot be removed from the housing closure means 130. The housing 112 and housing closure means 130 are arranged so that upon rotation of the housing closure means 130, the housing closure means 130 member first rotates relative to the housing and then moves away from the housing. The injection device is simple to use and manufacture.
US09649440B2
A syringe device for skin treatment is provided, which includes a syringe for injecting a drug into a skin through a needled at an end, a syringe seat connected with a cylinder of the syringe receiving the drug therein to allow a reciprocation of the cylinder within a limited range according to a direction of injecting the drug, a mount formed on the syringe seat and to which the cylinder of the syringe is fixed, an injector mounted on one side of the syringe seat to be rotated by a driving force to move in association with movement of the syringe seat to move a rod of the cylinder toward a needle, and a controller mounted on one sides of the syringe seat and the injector to operate the injector when the needle is in contact with the skin and the syringe seat is moved to one end within a limited range, and stop the injector when the needle is apart from the skin and the syringe seat is moved to opposite end within the limited range. Accordingly, waste of drug can be avoided, because the syringe seat to allow reciprocation of the syringe cylinder and the controller ensure that the rod of the cylinder for injecting drug is moved by an appropriate distance.
US09649434B2
A patient controlled liquid drug administration device providing either or both of a continuous flow of a liquid drug, as well as successive boluses thereof, to be self-administered by a patient while allowing delivery of only full bolus volumes. The device includes a reciprocating pump defining a closed internal reservoir having a fixed first wall, and a second, flexible wall that is axially movable in relation to the fixed wall between reservoir-full and reservoir-empty positions. A lock is connected to a push button that activates a plunger of the pump. The lock has a first position preventing the push button from being depressed when the push button is in an extended position and the plunger is in a reservoir-empty position and a second position permitting the push button to be depressed when the push button is in an extended position and the plunger is in a reservoir-full position.
US09649424B2
The present invention relates to a separation system and a separation material for easily and rapidly separating a red blood cell-rich fraction, a white blood cell-rich fraction, and/or a platelet-rich fraction from a biological fluid containing these blood cell components without the necessity of performing centrifugation. The separation of a red blood cell-rich fraction, a white blood cell-rich fraction, and/or a platelet-rich fraction from a biological fluid can be accomplished by capturing white blood cells and platelets on a blood cell separation material by contacting the biological fluid with the blood cell separation material, thereby providing a red blood cell-rich fraction; and recovering a white blood cell-rich fraction by separating white blood cells captured from the resulting blood cell separation material using a separation solution.
US09649409B2
Cells are employed in conjunction with unique biologically-compatible scaffold structures to generate differentiated tissues and structures, both in vitro and in vivo. The presently disclosed subject matter further relates to methods of forming and using improved tissue engineered scaffolds that can be used as substrates to facilitate the growth and differentiation of cells.
US09649407B2
Body made of a ceramic material, the body having as an integral part thereof a surface region reaching from the surface of the body down to a predetermined depth. According to the invention, the surface region is enriched with a calcium component thereby forming a hydrophilic surface area.
US09649396B2
A portion of a treatment device for treating bacteria may be coupled with the bacteria through direct or indirect contact. Mechanical stress energy and electromagnetic energy are generated with the treatment device, and are transmitted from the treatment device to the bacteria during the coupling. The bacteria are treated with both the mechanical stress energy and the electromagnetic energy to produce a killing effect on the bacteria. A treatment device may include a mechanical stress energy emitting portion, an electromagnetic energy emitting portion, and a contacting portion for coupling into direct or indirect contact with the bacteria and transmitting mechanical stress energy to the bacteria during the coupling. The mechanical stress energy emitting portion and the electromagnetic energy emitting portion are operable to treat the bacteria with a combination of mechanical stress energy and electromagnetic energy to produce a killing effect on the bacteria.
US09649389B2
The invention provides a family of fluorescent compounds. The compounds are substituted silaxanthenium compounds that can be chemically linked to one or more biomolecules, such as a protein, nucleic acid, and therapeutic small molecule. The compounds can be used for imaging in a variety of medical, biological and diagnostic applications. The dyes are particularly useful for in vitro, in vivo and ex vivo imaging applications.
US09649388B2
Provided are a SAMiRNA-magnetic nanoparticle complex capable of effectively delivering a double-stranded oligo RNA and magnetic nanoparticles into a cell and a composition capable of simultaneously performing diagnosis and therapy of diseases such as cancer, and the like, containing the same. More specifically, provided is the SAMiRNA-magnetic nanoparticle complex consisting of double-stranded oligo RNA-polymer structures in which a hydrophilic material and a second hydrophobic material are bound to the double-stranded oligo RNA by a simple covalent bond or a linker-mediated covalent bond, and the magnetic nanoparticles in which a first hydrophobic material is bound onto a surface of the magnetic material, as a core.The SAMiRNA-magnetic nanoparticle complex may have a homogeneous size by a hydrophobic interaction between the first hydrophobic material of the present invention and the second hydrophobic material of the double-stranded oligo RNA structure.In addition, the hydrophilic material and the second hydrophobic material bound to the double-stranded oligo RNA structure may improve in vivo stability of the double-stranded oligo RNA, an additionally bound ligand may deliver the SAMiRNA-magnetic nanoparticle complex into a target cell even at a relative low concentration of dosage, and the magnetic materials of the magnetic nanoparticles may be used as an imaging agent for diagnosis.
US09649383B2
The invention provides stable liquid formulations for a recombinant biopharmaceutical protein comprising a soluble form of the human p75 TNF receptor fused to an Fe domain of a human immunoglobulin protein (TNFR:Fc). Typically, biopharmaceutical proteins such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and immunoglobulin fusion proteins (e.g., immunoadhesion proteins) are produced by recombinant DNA technology in mammalian cell expression systems. In order to guarantee the reproducible clinical performance of a biopharmaceutical product, manufacturers have to deliver a product of consistent and reproducible quality.
US09649382B2
The present invention relates to topical bioadhesive formulations comprising low viscosity, non-liquid crystalline, mixtures of:a) at least one neutral diacyl lipid and/or at least one tocopherol;b) at least one phospholipid;c) at least one biocompatible, oxygen containing, low viscosity organic solvent;wherein at least one bioactive agent is dissolved or dispersed in the low viscosity mixture and wherein the pre-formulation forms, or is capable of forming, at least one liquid crystalline phase structure upon contact with an aqueous fluid. The invention additionally relates to a method of delivery of an active agent comprising administration of a preformulation of the invention, a method of treatment comprising administration of a preformulation of the invention and the use of a preformulation of the invention in a method for the manufacture of a medicament.
US09649381B2
A tripartite nanodevice comprising a targeting portion, a carrier portion, and at least one molecule to be delivered is provided. In particular, a gold nanoparticle linked to a targeting protein and capable of delivering a stimulant for the treatment of respiratory or disease is described. A method of making and a method of using a device of this nature are also described.
US09649375B2
Immunogenic influenza hemagglutinin-derived peptide conjugates described herein induce a specific therapeutic antibody response against influenza virus. The immunogenic peptide conjugates comprise a segment from the fusion initiation region (FIR) domain of an influenza hemagglutinin protein conjugated to an immunogenic carrier protein, such as keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), bovine serum albumin (BSA), an influenza hemagglutinin (HA) protein (i.e., full length HA), and the like. The immunogenic peptide conjugates described herein can be utilized to treat or prevent influenza infection and to prepare influenza-specific therapeutic antibodies that interfere with influenza virus-host cell membrane fusion. The peptide conjugates can be formulated in pharmaceutical compositions useful for broad spectrum treatment or prevention of influenza infections.
US09649361B2
The present invention includes compositions and methods for treating arthritic joints found in patients with autoinflammation, e.g., systemic onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis, by administering at the site of inflammation a therapeutically effective amount of at least one agent that reduces or blocks the bioavailability of interleukin-1β.
US09649345B2
Species of human-derived bacteria belonging to the Clostridia class have been shown to induce accumulation of regulatory T cells (Treg cells) in the colon and suppress immune functions. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these bacteria can be used to prevent and treat immune-mediated diseases such as autoimmune diseases.
US09649344B2
Embodiments of the invention stimulate three levels of beta cell physiology: (i) glucose metabolism, (ii) membrane receptor function, and (iii) transcriptional factors that result in the in vivo formation of beta cells in the pancreas for the purpose of treating diabetes. In certain aspects, the methods include the integration of three levels of cellular physiology: metabolism, membrane receptor function, and gene transcription. The integration of multiple levels of cellular physiology produces a synergistic effect on beta cell formation.
US09649343B2
The present invention provides compositions that include an extract of human feces, and methods for using such compositions, including methods for replacing or supplementing or modifying a subject's colon microbiota, and methods for treating a disease, pathological condition, and/or iatrogenic condition of the colon.
US09649339B2
LAT (Linker for Activation of T-cells) is a protein involved in signaling through the T-cell receptor (TCR). The invention provides a LAT protein including mutations at ubiquitylation sites that result in an increase in stability of LAT in stimulated and unstimulated cells, and enhanced signaling through the TCR. The invention further provides use for a LAT protein including mutations at ubiquitylation sites for therapeutic and laboratory methods.
US09649333B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for resuscitation of an infant which maintains healthy blood oxygen saturation values in the infant by titration of supplemental oxygen concentrations.
US09649331B2
A formulation for generating an adhesion barrier that includes a plurality of particles or a dry powder that is made of a polymer combination of at least one biodegradable polymer and at least one water soluble polymer is disclosed. Methods of making and delivering the formulation are further disclosed. The formulation of particles is deposited on a surface of internal body tissue and the deposited formulation absorbs moisture from the tissue and forms a film over the surface. The film acts as an adhesion barrier by reducing or preventing adhesion of the surface to other body tissue.
US09649329B2
Administration of low molecular weight (10,000-20,000 Daltons, or lower) pectins, particularly modified citrus pectins (MCP), like PectaSol-C reduces galectins-3 levels in vivo. Reduction of galectin-3 levels by MCP inhibits inflammation, inhibits fibrosis formation in organs and tissues, and inhibits cancer formation, progression, transformation and metastases. The reduction in circulating, serum and cellular galectin-3, inherently resulting from the administration of MCP, provides benefit over a spectrum of biological conditions, as evidenced by in vivo trials.
US09649323B2
The invention provides a method for treating target in need of such a treatments in a subject, comprising (a) administering a liposome containing a photosensitizer and a drug to a subject and (b) irradiating targets at least one time at appropriate time(s). In particular, the irradiation is performed at least two times.
US09649322B2
A solid supplement comprising the following components (A) and (B): (A) sphingomyelin in an amount of from 0.15 to 7% by mass; and (B) phosphatidyl inositol or a salt thereof, wherein the mass ratio of the content of phosphatidyl inositol or the salt thereof (B) in terms of phosphatidyl inositol content to the content of sphingomyelin (A) in the solid supplement, i.e., [(B)/(A)], is from 0.05 to 3.
US09649315B2
Compounds and compositions for treating disorders related to TRPA1 are described herein.
US09649313B2
This invention relates generally to the use of ITK (IL-2 inducible T-cell kinase) inhibitors for the treatment of patients who have melanoma or other solid tumors. Applicants demonstrate that ITK lentiviral small hairpin RNA knockdowns and a small molecule inhibitor can each decrease the proliferation and migration of melanoma cell lines and a small molecule inhibitor can be used to inhibit the growth of melanomas in vivo.
US09649312B2
This invention generally relates to compositions and methods for cancer treatment and, in particular, to compositions able to interact (e.g., bind to) with MUC1 growth factor receptor or its ligands, and methods for treating the same. The invention also relates to assays or use of such compositions for the treatment of patients susceptible to or exhibiting symptoms characteristic of cancer or tumorigenesis. Other compositions of the present invention useful for the treatment or prevention of cancer or tumorigenesis include homologs, analogs, derivatives, enantiomers or functional equivalents. The present compositions can also be packaged in kits in some cases.
US09649305B2
A novel compound, (E)-1-(pyridyn-4-yl)-3-(7-(trifluoromethyl)quinolin-2-yl)-prop-2-en-1-one, is provided herein. (E)-1-(pyridyn-4-yl)-3-(7-(trifluoromethyl)quinolin-2-yl)-prop-2-en-1-one is an inhibitor of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-biphosphatase 3 (PFKFB3) with surprisingly superior efficacy and pharmacodynamic properties in vitro and in vivo. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the compound and methods of use of the compound in treating cancer and tumors in vivo, as well as inhibiting glycolytic flux and PFKFB3 enzymatic activity in cells.
US09649301B2
Provided are bis-quaternary ammonium cyclophane compounds which are modulators of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Also provided are methods of using the compounds for modulating the function of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, and for the prevention and/or treatment of central nervous system disorders, substance use and/or abuse, and or gastrointestinal tract disorders.
US09649294B2
Glucagon receptor antagonist compounds are disclosed which are of long duration of action. The compounds are useful for treating type 2 diabetes and related conditions. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are also included.
US09649286B2
The invention relates to the use of specifically designed lipid component with optimal fatty acid profile, an enhanced portion of the palmitic acid residues in the sn-2 position and present as lipid globules with a phospholipid coating for an early in life diet for improving the development of a healthy body composition, in particular prevention of obesity, later in life.
US09649281B2
A transdermal absorption sheet and a manufacturing method for the transdermal absorption sheet includes a laminating step of forming a multilayer film with a viscosity difference by forming, on a support, a lower layer containing a first transdermal absorption material and an upper layer containing a drug and a second transdermal absorption material and having a lower viscosity than the lower layer, a filling step of filling needle-like recessed portions corresponding to inverted needle-like protruding portions with a solution of the transdermal absorption material by pressing a mold in which the needle-like recessed portions are arranged in a two-dimensional array, against a surface of the multilayer film supported by the support to allow the multilayer film to flow, a solidifying step of solidifying the multilayer film with the mold pressed against the surface of the multilayer film, and a peeling-off step of peeling the solidified multilayer film from the mold.
US09649270B2
Compositions containing at least one dispersion of acrylic polymer particles, at least one volatile oil, at least one coloring agent, at least one thickening agent, and at least about 15% by weight with respect to the weight of the composition of at least one plasticizing agent are provided.
US09649269B2
Disclosed is the use of glycosaminoglycan esters, whose alcohol groups are partly esterified with lipoic acid or with lipoic acid and formic acid, in hair care treatments.
US09649264B2
The invention relates to a fluid cosmetic skin makeup composition comprising, in a physiologically acceptable medium: (i) at least one continuous oil phase, (ii) at least one sebum-pump filler and pulverulent dyestuffs, (iii) at least one hydrophobic film-forming polymer, and (iv) at least one lipophilic gelling agent which is preferably particulate, the said particulate gelling agent also possibly being a sebum pump, characterized in that the composition comprises a solids content of greater than or equal to 15% and in particular greater than or equal to 20%. The composition according to the invention is comfortable on application and has improved color remanence, especially in the presence of sebum and/or sweat.
US09649254B2
A crown, for a medical vial opening, has a top portion and a skirt surrounding the top portion. The skirt terminates at a lower edge defined in a first horizontal plane. An opener assembly is mounted to a portion of the top. A first scoring line extends from the portion of the top to which the opener assembly is mounted to the lower edge of the skirt in a continuous radial direction, and a second scoring line provides an upper radial segment extending from the opener assembly to the skirt along a radial axis, and a lower annular segment that extends circumferentially along the skirt in an annular direction and extending from a terminus of the upper radial segment. The lower annular segment is defined in a second horizontal plane equidistant to the first horizontal plane associated with the lower edge of the skirt.
US09649244B1
A method for achieving myofascial release has the steps of: engaging an epidermis of the patient with firm gliding pressure; stretching the epidermis to a stretched position at which the movement is restricted by the restriction; holding the epidermis in the stretched position for less than 10 seconds; and then performing a series of rapid glides around the stretched position, with firm gliding pressure, to release the restriction.
US09649237B2
An electric motor furniture drive for a piece of furniture having at least one furniture part. The electric motor furniture drive includes a control unit, at least one adjustment drive, and at least one operating unit configured as a multifunction operating part connected via an adapter device to the control unit.
US09649231B1
A multiple-layer undergarment to aid toilet training that provides a child with a sensation of wetness, but protects the child's outer garments from being saturated. The undergarment has an inner fabric layer that retains wetness to produce the uncomfortable sensation for the child after urinating in the undergarment. The undergarment has an absorbent layer sandwiched between two fabric layers that absorbs the excess wetness, the absorbent layer selectively having a barrier layer preventing urine from soaking through to the child's outer garments. In one embodiment, the undergarment has a channel extending from a front waistband, through a crotch to a back waistband for inserting an absorbent panel. In another embodiment, the undergarment has an absorbent insert attached by a plurality of adhesive strips between two fabric underwear. In one embodiment, the undergarment has a channel for inserting an absorbent panel attached by at least one adhesive strip.
US09649230B1
A system for monitoring patient incontinence. A sensor module is positioned next to an impermeable layer of absorbent pad used for urinary or other incontinence. A wired embodiment has the sensor module wired to an external controller. In the wireless embodiment, a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag includes an antenna, moisture sensor, and radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC). A rewritable memory is included in the RFIC to record identifying information associated with the patient. The identifying information is programmed in the RFID tag when it is in the range of an RFID writer. A controller-transceiver in this intelligent underpad monitor system provides excitation energy to operate the RFID tag. The controller-transceiver constantly interrogates the RFID tag to detect any incontinence alarm signal. When incontinence happens, the alarm signal is sent to the controller-transceiver along with user information in the RFID tag memory. In both wired and wired embodiments, the controller, which is a microprocessor, will process and screen the information as needed to communicate with the hospital information system.
US09649223B2
An inserter is provided for inserting a tubular medical implant device into tissue. The inserter includes a rigid rod extending along a longitudinal axis. The rod has a distal portion that defines an open slot. The open slot extends diametrically through the rod along the longitudinal axis to a base. The open slot is configured to receive and release the tubular medical implant device.
US09649211B2
A stent includes a first section and a second section. The second section is aligned with the first section along a longitudinal axis of the stent. Each section includes a plurality of expandable modules and a plurality of bridging modules. Each expandable module includes a plurality of strut elements that join together at a plurality of apices. Each bridging module includes bridging elements that connect an apex of a first module with an apex of a second module. The plurality of expandable modules or the plurality of bridging modules in the first section are more radially stiff than the plurality of expandable modules or the plurality of bridging modules in the second section such that at least a portion of the first section is configured to be placed in a region of a vein subjected to physiologic compression.
US09649210B2
A stent is formed by encasing or encapsulating metallic rings in an inner polymeric layer and an outer polymeric layer. At least one polymer link connects adjacent metallic rings. The stent is drug loaded with one or more therapeutic agent or drug, for example, to reduce the likelihood of the development of restenosis in the coronary arteries. The inner and outer polymeric materials can be of the same polymer or different polymer to achieve different results, such as enhancing flexibility and providing a stent that is visible under MRI, computer tomography and x-ray fluoroscopy.
US09649202B2
A system and method for improving an actual installed rotation of a prosthesis, particularly prostheses having a preferred rotation with respect to a frame of reference of a patient.
US09649198B2
A spinal interbody implant has a bone screw retention mechanism that prohibits bone screws from backing out after the bone screws are installed. A bone screw retention plate is received in a plate retention area of the implant to provide a barrier that keeps the installed bone screws from backing out of their bone screw pocket. The bone screw retention mechanism consists of a retention plate and a configured plate retention area in a face of the implant body. Retention plate fasteners may be used to retain the configured plate. In one form, the bone screw retention mechanism consists of a retention plate, a configured plate retention area in a face of the implant body, and a retention plate bolt. In another form, the bone screw retention mechanism consists of a retention plate, a configured plate retention area in a face of the implant body, and a retention plate bolt.
US09649197B2
Ceramic implants, such as spinal implants, may comprise a dense shell and a porous core. In some implementations, methods for manufacturing the implants may comprise one or more stages at which the core material abuts the shell so as to form a mechanical attachment therewith while both the core and the shell are in a green state. The core and the shell may be fired together, and the resultant implant may, in some embodiments, comprise a unitary piece of ceramic material. Some embodiments may comprise silicon nitride ceramic materials.
US09649192B2
A method for heart valve surgery may include providing a cardiac valve ring and suture loops connected to the cardiac valve ring, accessing a valve annulus of the heart of the patient, stapling at least one of the sutures loop to the valve annulus, and parachuting the cardiac valve ring down the suture to the valve annulus after the stapling. The cardiac valve ring may be an annuloplasty ring, a replacement heart valve, or other medical device.
US09649190B2
This invention relates to a method for repair of a ligament and/or tendon in a patient comprising applying a patch to said ligament or tendon, wherein the patch is flexible, and bio-compatible and comprises a support layer and a matrix layer.
US09649179B2
A dental block for producing a dental prosthesis comprises a green body including zirconia and having a chemical composition including increasing amounts of yttria through a thickness of the green body. The green body is substantially white with a substantially consistent optical characteristic of chroma across the thickness, and is subsequently millable and sinterable to form the dental prosthesis with an optical characteristic of decreasing chroma through a thickness of the dental prosthesis.
US09649176B2
Orthodontic devices for segmental distalization in a patient are provided. The orthodontic device includes an elongated central arm; a distal part comprising a distal base surface adapted for attachment to a lingual surface of a molar, wherein the distal part is located at a distal end of the central arm. The device also includes a mesial part comprising a mesial base surface adapted for attachment to a lingual surface of a premolar, wherein the mesial part is located at a mesial end of the central arm. The mesial part and/or distal part comprising a first retention element for retention of a first end of an elastic element. The central arm is shaped to substantially follow a lingual side of a set of teeth. The present disclosure further relates to orthodontic kits and to methods for mounting orthodontic devices and to methods for treatment of malocclusions.
US09649171B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's vasculature; creating an anatomic model representing at least a portion of a location of disease in the patient's vasculature based on the received patient-specific data; identifying one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model based on a modeled progression or regression of disease at the location; calculating one or more values of a blood flow characteristic within the patient's vasculature using a computational model based on the identified one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model; and generating an electronic graphical display of a relationship between the one or more values of the calculated blood flow characteristic and the identified one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model.
US09649168B2
A system and a method of performing a frameless image-guided biopsy uses imaging, a six-dimensional robotic couch system, a laser guidance system, an optical distance indicator, and a needle control apparatus. A planning CT scan is made of the patient with stereotactic fiduciary markers to localize and produce digitally reconstructed radiographs. Two stereoscopic images are generated using an imaging device to visualize and identify a target tumor. The images are fused with the digitally reconstructed radiographs of the planning CT scan to process tumor location. The tumor location data are communicated to the movable robotic couch to position the target tumor of the patient at a known isocenter location. A biopsy needle is guided with a laser alignment mechanism towards the isocenter at the determined depth using a needle positioning apparatus and an Optical Distance Indicator, and a biopsy sample of the target tumor is obtained.
US09649154B2
A system and method can be used to denervate at least a portion of a bronchial tree. An energy emitter of an instrument is percutaneously delivered to a treatment site and outputs energy to damage nerve tissue of the bronchial tree. The denervation procedure can be performed without damaging non-targeted tissue. Minimally invasive methods can be used to open airways to improve lung function in subjects with COPD, asthma, or the like. Different sections of the bronchial tree can be denervated while leaving airways intact to reduce recovery times.
US09649153B2
Systems, delivery devices, and methods to treat to ablate, damage, or otherwise affect tissue. The treatment systems are capable of delivering a coolable ablation assembly that ablates targeted tissue without damaging non-targeted tissue. The coolable ablation assembly damages nerve tissue to temporarily or permanently decrease nervous system input.
US09649150B2
A surgical instrument comprises a body, a transmission assembly, and a switch. The body comprises a control unit and an integral power source. The power source is operable to selectively deliver power to the control unit. The transmission assembly extends distally from the body. The transmission assembly also includes an end effector driven by the control unit. The switch is in communication with the control unit and the power source. The transmission assembly is operable to actuate the switch to enable delivery of power from the power source to the control unit.
US09649144B2
The present disclosure includes an electrosurgical apparatus for treating tissue at a target site. The apparatus has a shaft with a proximal end and a distal portion, the distal portion comprising a return electrode and electrode support. There is also at least one active electrode on the shaft distal portion, which has a proximal portion and a distal portion and a plurality of aspiration apertures disposed therebetween. These apertures are fluidly connected to a fluid aspiration cavity that is located within the electrode support, and the cavity is connected with a fluid aspiration element that is located along the shaft. The plurality of apertures vary in size and are generally arranged so that the larger sized apertures are disposed towards the electrode proximal portion and the smaller sized apertures are generally located towards the electrode distal portion.
US09649142B2
A low profile orthopedic device is used to fix and stabilize bones to correct anomalies in skeletal structure occurring naturally or by trauma. Bone screws are screwed into bones by application of torque. Connectors are attached to the anchored bone screws. Each connector includes a clamp and a compression ring. A connecting rod connects several connectors together. The clamps are tightened to hold the rod to the bone screws in a pre-selected position by linear movement of the compression ring.
US09649137B2
The present invention is directed to a spinal implant system that incorporates unique snap, or spring loaded, features to assist the surgeon in the placement of screws, rods, hooks and transverse connectors. The poly-axial movement also uses a more direct loading lower saddle into the bone screw to improve locking of the construct.
US09649132B1
A bone distractor to create separation between bone segments by means of a pair of mounts respectively secured to the bone segments and interconnected by means of a drive spring which is secured to one of the mounts and threadedly interconnected to the other mount such that rotation of the drive spring creates sufficient separation of the bone segments to allow for osteogenesis to occur.
US09649128B2
An adjustable, disposable dermal curette is structured to allow a user-practitioner to ergonomically grip a handle and manipulate an adjustable slider with a digit of their hand in order to change the diameter size of the flexible blade formed in an adjustable loop to the useful range of diameter sizes required. The user-practitioner can lock and unlock the slider in place quickly without the need to interrupt their procedure. The adjustable curette solves the problem of requiring multiple curette loop sizes for a procedure and results in improved quality of care and a savings of time and healthcare dollars.
US09649124B2
The present invention provides an improved curved blade shaver for abriding tissue associated with a surgical site, the curved blade assembly including a curved outer shaft in receipt of an substantially linear inner instrument having a flexible region adapted for rotation and reciprocal receipt within the curved outer shaft and presenting a shaving means for debriding the tissue. The curved outer shaft also includes a portal for reciprocal receipt of a substantially rigid instrument when desired.
US09649117B2
A surgical device includes an elongate body extending from a proximal end to a distal end. The distal end of the elongate body defines a notch sized and configured to receive a reamer. A coupling assembly is supported by the elongate body and includes a reamer guide body disposed at the distal end of the elongate body. The reamer guide body configured to move between a first position and a second position in which the reaming guide body extends at least partially across the notch. A locking assembly is supported by the elongate body and is configured to releasably engage the coupling assembly to maintain the reamer guide body in the second position.
US09649113B2
A monitoring system is disclosed for in vivo monitoring of preselected physiological parameters associated with acute and/or chronic tissue compromise or failure in one or multiple tissue/organ sites in real time. In one method, a body portion of a surgical stapling device is positioned adjacent a first tissue section, an anvil assembly adapted to engage the body portion is positioned adjacent a second tissue section, and a monitoring device is positioned adjacent the first and/or second tissue sections. The monitoring device includes a sensor adapted to measure a preselected physiological parameter and a transmitter for transmitting signal to an extracorporeal receiving unit. The surgical stapling device is fired to mechanically secure the first and second tissue sections with at least one staple and the preselected physiological parameter is monitored via the information transmitted from the monitoring device to the receiving unit.
US09649111B2
A surgical device for clipping tissue can include a replaceable cartridge comprising a stack of clips contained therein and a firing drive configured to reciprocatingly eject, or deploy, the clips from the cartridge. The cartridge and/or the surgical device can include a firing chamber wherein the clips can be sequentially pushed into the firing chamber along a supply axis. The firing drive can include a firing member which is moved along a firing axis to deploy a clip positioned in the firing chamber wherein the supply axis can be transverse to the firing axis.
US09649094B2
An ultrasound imaging system with pixel oriented processing is provided in which an acoustic signal is generated, echoes from the acoustic signal are received at a plurality of receiving elements to obtain echo signals that are then stored, a given pixel is mapped into a region of the stored signals, the mapped region of the stored echo signals is organized into array for the given pixel after which the array is processed to generate a signal response for the given pixel to obtain acoustic information for the given pixel. The system can be implemented entirely on plug-in cards for a commercial PC motherboard. The system and method can be implemented for pixel-oriented or voxel-oriented image processing and display, eliminating intermediate data computations and enabling extensive use of software processing methods. Advantages include improved acquisition of signal dynamic range, flexible acquisition modes for high frame rate 2D, 3D, and Doppler blood flow imaging.
US09649092B2
There are disclosed embodiments of devices and methods for imaging the inside of a body part, particularly a blood vessel. In particular embodiments, a catheter has a tip chamber, within which is an ultrasound transducer mounted on a pivot mechanism, a motor for turning the transducer, and an implement for pivoting the transducer. Examples of such an implement are a linear motor, a shaft or filament, and the pivot mechanism may be biased to return to a base position when the implement is not pivoting the transducer. In other embodiments, a mirror reflecting ultrasound signals from the transducer may be rotated and/or pivoted, using similar mechanisms.
US09649088B2
After an ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus is temporally placed on the receptacle of a docking cart to relieve a weight load, the portable ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus is placed at a predetermined position by sliding the apparatus while guiding it along the shapes of the edges of the receptacle. After the portable ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus is slid on the receptacle and rear foot portions come into contact with the stoppers of the receptacle, the front side of the portable ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus is placed on the receptacle. With this operation, front foot portions are fitted in fitting portions, and the portable ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus is placed at an accurate position on the receptacle. In addition, when an operator places the portable ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus on the receptacle or lifts the portable ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus from the receptacle, the fingers which grasp the apparatus are placed in the recessed portions of the receptacle.
US09649086B2
A radiation image capture device includes plural radiation detection panels that each detect incident radiation that has passed through an imaging subject, that each generate a radiation image, and that are disposed in a row in a direction orthogonal to the radiation incident direction. The radiation image capture device designates a display target image from out of plural radiation images respectively generated by the plural radiation detection panels, and transmits the designated display target image to a console. At least a radiation image other than the display target image is stored in an image memory. The console displays on a display section the received display target image and, in response to data indicating a display request for a radiation image other than the display target image, also displays on the display section the radiation image other than the display target image read from the image memory.
US09649079B1
A system and method to illustrate a radiation dose applied to different organs of an exposed subject with diagnostic image acquisition by an imaging scanner is provided. From a scout image, a computer processor can calculate a contour of an extremity of the exposed subject from the two-dimensional scout image; calculate a contour of a first organ dependent on a greyscale intensity of the plurality of pixels that comprise the two-dimensional scout image; calculate a contour of at least one anatomical stage dependent on a predefined geometric orientation relative the contour of the first organ; and apply a predefined auxology criteria to calculate a contour of a second organ dependent on a predefined geometric orientation relative to the contour of the at least one anatomical stage; and create a display illustrative of the a measurement of dose applied at the area defined by the contour of the anatomical stage.
US09649070B2
Various embodiments relate to a method, apparatus, system, and a computer program product for suppressing an oscillatory signal Sosc. In the method a composite signal S comprising said Sosc and a modulating signal Smod are provided and the S is high pass filtered to produce estimates of the Sosc and the Smod, wherein the estimate of the Sosc comprises first oscillations during a first state of the modulating signal and second oscillations during a second state of the modulating signal. A first bin associated with said first state and a second bin associated with said second state are defined and assigned for said first oscillation and the second bin for said second oscillation according to a state defined from the estimate of the Smod. A first average waveform for said first oscillations and a second average waveform for said second oscillations are formed and used to suppress the Sosc signal from the composite signal S.
US09649063B2
A method and system for monitoring a patient under anesthesia involves determining a drug sensitivity index for the patient. Patient demographic information and amount of anesthetic information is obtained, wherein the amount of anesthetic information includes each drug administered to the patient and the dose amount thereof. An effect site concentration, which represents a total anesthetic concentration in a patient's brain, is then estimated based on the anesthetic information. An expected response is determined based on the demographic information and the effect site concentration. Physiological data is recorded from sensors mounted to a patient, and a depth of anesthesia is determined based on physiological data. An actual response of the patient is then determined based on the depth of anesthesia and the effect site concentration. Finally, a drug sensitivity index is determined for the patient by comparing the expected response to the actual response.
US09649057B2
Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed.
US09649055B2
Embodiments of devices, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for monitoring a subject are presented. The monitoring device includes at least one sensor configured to monitor one or more physiological parameters of a subject and a processing unit operatively coupled to the sensor. The sensor comprises a plurality of radiation sources and detectors disposed on a flexible substrate in a designated physical arrangement. The processing unit is configured to dynamically configure an operational geometry of the sensor by controlling the intensity of one or more of the radiation sources and the gain of one or more of the detectors so as to satisfy at least one quality metric associated with one or more physiological parameters of the subject.
US09649054B2
A blood pressure measurement system that non-invasively determines an individual's blood pressure can include a noninvasive blood pressure sensor having an optical sensor and a motion sensor. The optical sensor can provide a photoplethysmograph signal obtained from a patient to a processor. The motion sensor can provide a motion signal to the processor responsive to motion of the patient. In one embodiment, the processor calculates or estimates the blood pressure of the patient based on the photoplethysmograph signal and the motion signal. Advantageously, the system can obtain this blood pressure measurement without an occlusive cuff, thereby reducing patient discomfort. In other implementations, the processor calculates a blood pressure-related parameter from the photoplethysmograph and motion signal. The processor can occasionally trigger an occlusive cuff measurement as this parameter changes, thereby reducing the frequency of occlusive cuff measurements.
US09649051B2
A method for analyzing the respiratory activity of a patient includes steps for acquiring at least one respiratory activity signal including at least one elementary signal corresponding to a respiratory cycle, the general form of which may be expressed by x(t)=x0+x1 cos(Φ(t)), wherein Φ(t) is the phase of the elementary signal, and for analyzing the respiratory activity signal. The analysis includes steps for extracting, from the respiratory activity signal, the elementary signal, for determining an expression of a phase equation F ( Φ ) = ⅆ Φ ⅆ t of the elementary signal and for determining an expression of the phase Φ(t) of the elementary signal as a function of parameters measuring the anharmonicity of the elementary signal and its morphology, from p cosn and p sinn functions defined by: p cos n ( t , r ) = ∑ k = 1 ∞ cos ( kt ) r k k n and p sin n ( t , r ) = ∑ k = 1 ∞ sin ( kt ) r r k k n .
US09649040B2
Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example system for mapping the electrical activity of the heart includes a catheter shaft. The catheter shaft includes a plurality of electrodes including a first electrode and a second electrode. The system also includes a processor. The processor is capable of collecting a first signal corresponding to the first electrode and a second signal corresponding to the second electrode. Collecting the first and second signals occurs over a time period. The processor is also capable of generating a first time-frequency distribution corresponding to the first signal, identifying a first dominant frequency value occurring at a first dominant frequency and a first time point, generating a second time-frequency distribution corresponding to the second signal, identifying a second dominant frequency value occurring at a second dominant frequency and a second time point and determining an attraction point.
US09649039B1
A mobile plethysmographic device for detecting a Peripheral Artery Disease (“PAD”) event or other arrhythmia event is disclosed herein. The mobile plethysmographic device generates a pleth waveform, which is automatically screened by algorithms that measure the waveform to correlate, detect and store aberrations related to heart anomalies. A peripheral artery disease event for a patient is determined based on a quantative measure of blood flow in the extremities based on the differential in amplitude in the pleth signal between the arm and the two lower extremities. The changes in amplitude from the arm and one or both lower extremities can indicate PAD.
US09649037B2
Combined blood flow and blood pressure measurements are used for the calculation of central vascular blood flow parameters. Blood flow measurements may be made simultaneously with arterial pressure measured either centrally or peripherally and central venous pressure for the monitoring of human subjects. A combined blood flow and blood pressure measurement device for hemodynamic monitoring may include a Doppler ultrasound probe utilizing a continuous wave or pulse wave ultrasound beam for the measurement of blood flow in the aorta, combined with arterial pressure measurement, or signal input from a suitable pressure transducer system from one of either the radial, brachial, dorsalis pedis or femoral artery. The ultrasound probe may comprise either an esophageal or suprasternal ultrasound probe, while the blood pressure measurement may be either an electronic transducer blood pressure sphygmomanometer on the arm, or a finger cot infrared light optical pulse detector.
US09649028B2
An ophthalmological device calculates a cornea surface shape of an eye to be examined. The ophthalmological device includes a ring image photographic optical system configured to radiate a plurality of concentric ring light to the cornea surface of the eye and take reflected images of the plurality of ring light reflected from the cornea surface of the eye, an interference optical system configured to radiate measurement light to the eye and detect interfering light composed of reflected light of the measurement light reflected from the eye and predetermined reference light. The shape of the cornea anterior surface of the eye is calculated form the reflected images of the plurality of ring light, the thicknesses of the cornea of the eye at the plurality of incident positions is calculated from the interfering light, and the posterior surface shape of the cornea of the eye is calculated based on these two results.
US09649021B1
Resolution enhancement of OCT images during ophthalmic surgery may be performed with an OCT scanning controller that interfaces to an OCT scanner used with a surgical microscope. Real-time OCT images may be acquired by the OCT scanner, while previously acquired high resolution OCT images are accessed by the OCT scanning controller. The high resolution OCT images may be morphed based on the real-time OCT images to match a deformation of the eye. The morphed high resolution OCT images may be displayed during surgery.
US09649017B2
An endoscope includes an insertion portion, a first bending portion, a second bending portion, a bending operation wire, a first coil sheath, a switching mechanism, a guide, a first region of the guide, a second region of the guide, and a central part formed between the first region and the second region on an inner surface of the guide, protruding inside more than the first region and the second region and formed to be longer than a coil elemental wire making up the first coil sheath.
US09649016B2
Provided is an endoscopic camera capable of expanding its visual field up to an oblique back side. An endoscopic camera includes: a rigid case having a cylindrical shape with a top end portion being obliquely cut off; a camera head provided at the top end portion of the rigid case; a semispherical cover mounted on the top end portion of the rigid case to cover at least a part of the camera head; and a tilt motor adapted to rotate the camera head around a tilt shaft.
US09649012B2
A rotary self-advancing endoscope system which produces propulsion by rotating, with a motor, a rotating cylindrical body provided on an outer periphery side of an insertion portion main body and causes the insertion portion main body to move forward into an examinee's body, wherein the system is configured to periodically repeating a combination of a state in which the rotating cylindrical body forward-rotates at a predetermined RPM and a state in which the rotating cylindrical body is stopped from rotating and releases accumulated elastic energy and, when a drive current to the motor has reached a predetermined threshold value, reverse-rotate the motor.
US09649009B2
A method and device for controlling a domestic appliance connected to an electric grid so as to allow smart metering, wherein electric power consumed according to different consumption tariffs is measured and the domestic appliance receives information about the availability of a currently applicable consumption tariff or a switch-off condition for preventing peak loads in the grid. The domestic appliance is operated as follows: a) when an inexpensive consumption tariff is available, the appliance is put into operation as intended, and the history of the cleaning process is continuously recorded; b) when an inexpensive consumption tariff is not available or the switch-off condition is met, the appliance is not put into operation or a previously started operation is interrupted; and c) when information about an inexpensive consumption tariff is available, the domestic appliance resumes operation, and a component of a detergent is added based on the recorded history.
US09649007B2
A dishwasher with a tub at least partially defining a washing chamber, a liquid spraying system, a liquid recirculation circuit, and a liquid filtering system where the liquid filtering system includes a rotating filter and where a granular agent contacts the rotating filter to clean the filter. Methods of cleaning a rotating filter provided within a liquid flow by scouring the filter with a granular agent.
US09649000B2
A cyclone dust separator arrangement having a first dust separating cyclone and a second dust separating cyclone. Respective air inlets of the first and second dust separating cyclones are connected in parallel to a common air supply channel. The common air supply channel includes an inertia particle separator implemented upstream of the air inlets.
US09648996B2
Floating, Insulated, Waterless Toilet System with Fece-Urine Separation, Slippery Coating, Urine Bag, Dehumidifying Structure, Fecal Disinfection-Deodorization by Microbes, and Urine Disinfection-Deodorization by Hydrogen Peroxide includes a system of components. The Toilet Pedestal is made of a water-proof, structural foam that both floats in water and thermally insulates the Fece Bag. The feces and urine are kept separate by a ridge between the urine bowl and the fece chute. The Toilet Lid forms a temporary seal with the Toilet Platform when the lid is closed. The Toilet Lid is thermally insulated so that it stays warm and dry inside the toilet. The Toilet has a thermally conductive structure that condenses humidity inside the Toilet. The urine and condensation are collected in a Urine Bag. The surfaces of the Toilet are covered by a slippery coating to prevent feces attachment. The feces are disinfected and/or deodorized by special microbes. The urine is disinfected and/or deodorized by Hydrogen Peroxide added to the Urine Bag or at a later step in processing.
US09648991B2
A system and control method for an electronic liquid dispenser utilizes a motor to drive a pump mechanism from a home position in a dispense cycle for dispensing a metered dose of liquid from a reservoir. Upon initiation of the dispense cycle, the motor is started to operate the pump mechanism. Motor work performed by the motor during the dispense cycle is calculated as a function of motor current, motor voltage, and run time of the motor. Upon the calculated motor work exceeding a set point value during the dispense cycle, the motor is stopped and reversed to return the pump mechanism to the home position.
US09648984B2
Solutions for leveling the surface of cookware are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least one detachable adjustable leg makes contact with the stove surface to tilt the cooking surface to make it level. The pressure on the stove surface can be increased or decreased, thereby increasing the tilt until the cooking surface is level. In another embodiment, at least one detachable adjustable leg is weighted at one end and the weighted end extends outward to make the cooking surface level. In yet another embodiment, the cookware comes with at least one adjustable leg permanently attached. In all cases, multiple adjustable legs can be used to increase the stability and accuracy. In another embodiment, adjustable legs protrude from the top or bottom surface of a grate that typically covers a flame on gas stove surface.
US09648979B1
Enables a coffee making apparatus with a froth spoon and at least one impeller configured to enable users to make a cup of coffee, agitate the coffee grounds with the at least one impeller, for example before or after as the plunger is pushed to the bottom of the carafe. Embodiments thus enable a user to make additional froth, pour out the coffee into a cup, and after the cup is filled to the desired level, spoon out froth over the coffee with the froth spoon without pouring excess coffee into the cup.
US09648978B2
A coffee dispensing device is provided with a transport device that couples various components for the processing of unroasted coffee beans together. For example a roaster may be coupled to a grinding and brewing device to enable the transfer of roasted coffee beans between the roaster and grinder/brewer. Also, the transport device may transfer the roasted coffee beans from a roaster to an output port so that roasted coffee beans may be obtained. An automated coffee transaction device (ACTD) is also provided to automate aspects of the purchasing of coffee. A service delay projection calculator is also provided to estimate the expected wait time of a customer entering a queue.
US09648977B2
An apparatus is provided for accurately dispensing a powder such as powdered infant formula into a container, and pasteurizing and reconstituting the powdered formula while completely mixing the formula in the container. The apparatus includes a hopper assembly for storing powder, a dosing assembly for measuring and dispensing powder from a receptacle into the container, a dilution assembly and a mixing assembly for obtaining accurately and completely mixed formula from the dispensed powder. The hopper is shaped to promote powder bridging, and the resulting powder bridge is used in combination with the dosing assembly to provide a predetermined amount of powder using a single mechanical valve that is isolated from the powder. The mixing assembly mixes the contents of the container while holding the bottle at a fixed angle relative to the vertical. A method of providing pasteurized infant formula from an infant formula powder is also disclosed.
US09648967B2
A frame assembly comprising an outer frame and a divider that divides a display opening of the outer frame into at least a first display window and a second display window. In one embodiment, the divider is molded while components of the outer frame are extruded. In another embodiment, the divider is coupled to the outer frame by sandwiching a portion of the divider between a glazing and the outer frame, and wherein relative movement between the divider and the outer frame is prohibited by interference between retaining features of one or both of the divider and the outer frame. The divider can be removed from the outer frame by simply removing the glazing and taking the divider out of the rabbet without damaging the outer frame. The same outer frame can be used without the divider.
US09648956B2
According to the present invention a back for a seating unit is provided. The back comprises a plurality of flexible finger elements. Each of the plurality of flexible finger elements has a distal end. The back further comprises a retainer connecting at least two of the flexible finger elements proximate their distal ends. When a load is applied to a flexible finger element, the retainer distributes at least a portion of the load to at least one adjacent flexible finger element.
US09648944B2
The invention discloses a paint brush comprising a hollow body having a first end opposing a second end and an inside and an outside. The invention also includes a handle having an inside and an outside, wherein the first end of the body is connected to the handle, and wherein the outside of the second end of the body is adapted for receiving a plurality of bristles. A plurality of bristles is attached to the outside of the second end of the body and a cavity is defined by the inside of the body and handle. The cavity is connected to the outside of the second end of the body by at least one channel. The invention also includes a removable cap covering an opening at a terminating end of the handle.
US09648937B1
A manual split-end tool is configured to capture hair over a wedge and within a slot to expose split-ends for removal. The split-end tool has a wedge arm having a wedge that is configured to extend through the slot in a slotted arm. The split-end tool pivots open and closed and in one embodiment has an opening feature to force the slotted arm away from the wedge arm when the tool is in a closed configuration. Hair is captured over the wedge and captured between a first and second slot side. The tool can be slid down along a person's hair, thereby enabling quick removal of split-ends along the length of a person's hair. The wedge may have a smooth rounded extended end, a scalloped edge or a plurality of teeth.
US09648936B2
The present disclosure relates to hair styling apparatuses and related methods. The hair styling apparatus includes a heated barrel defining a stationary hair styling surface, and a rotating member configured to rotate around the stationary hair styling surface. The rotating member includes a tab fixedly extending along a longitudinal length of the stationary hair styling surface over less than an entire longitudinal length of the hair styling surface to gather and wind a user's hair around the stationary hair styling surface without clamping onto the wound hair.
US09648932B2
A handbag includes a body forming an interior compartment and an opening for accessing the interior compartment, a first hanger within the interior compartment, a second hanger within the interior compartment, a first pocket assembly removably secured to the first hanger so that the first pocket assembly hangs from the first hanger within the interior compartment and is accessible through the opening, and a second pocket assembly removably secured to the second hanger so that the second pocket assembly hangs from the second hanger within the interior compartment and is accessible through the opening. The first and second pocket assemblies are interchangeable with other pocket assemblies to easily configure the interior compartment in any desired manner for storage and they are also interchangeable with other handbags so that items stored in the pockets assemblies can be easily transferred to other handbags.
US09648931B2
A non-folding wallet has a front wall, a rear wall and four side edges. Three of the side edges are closed and the fourth is open to provide access to a compartment defined between the front and rear walls. The rear wall defines a rear wall opening. A securing strap is attached at a top edge and a bottom edge to the front wall.
US09648928B2
An expandable band includes one or more expandable links and one or more expansion mechanisms. The expandable link is movable between expanded and contracted positions. The expandable link is biased toward the contracted position. The expansion mechanism can be manipulated to transition the expandable link between the expanded and contracted positions, thus expanding and/or contracting the expandable band. The expandable links may be X links, pantographs, and/or other linkages. The expansion mechanism may include one or more restrictors operable to restrict expansion of the expandable band. The expansion mechanism may also include one or more lock mechanisms operable to prevent and/or resist contracting of the expandable band.
US09648914B2
An airbag deployment system includes a helmet, a torso protection assembly, and an airbag assembly. The airbag assembly is coupled to one of the helmet and the torso protection assembly and includes an airbag, an inflation device configured to inflate the airbag, and a first coupling device. The first coupling device is configured to couple to a second coupling device provided on the other of the helmet and the torso protection assembly upon inflation of the airbag. The coupling resists relative movement between the helmet and the torso protection assembly.
US09648912B2
The present inventive concept relates to a sealing device (1) for garments to sealingly connect an annular layer (3) and a wearable layer (5) to the sealing device (1). The sealing device (1) comprises an annular base (10) having an inner annular wall portion (12) and an outer annular wall portion (14), a recess (30) at least partly defined by the inner annular wall portion (12) and the outer annular wall portion (14), and an annular sealing surface (40) for circumferentially and sealingly connecting the annular layer (3) to the annular base (10). The sealing device (1) further comprises an annular sealing body (60) adapted to be locked into the recess (30) to circumferentially and sealingly connect the wearable layer (5) between the annular base (10) and the annular sealing body (60). At least one of the inner annular wall portion (12) and the outer annular wall portion (14) is provided with a plurality of sections (50, 52) in the circumferential direction, each section having a stiffness different from a stiffness of a neighboring section.
US09648907B2
A virtual or augmented reality smoking system is provided herein. A smoker using the system can experience a virtual reality of smoking by puffing on a cigarette shaped article and experiencing the taste or aroma from the article while simultaneously viewing a generated image of a burning cigarette and exhaled and sidestream smoke. Additionally, the room environment may be simulated to give the experience of smoking in a setting of the smoker's choice (virtual reality) or the image of a burning cigarette and smoke may be superimposed on a live or natural image of the smoker's environment (augmented reality).
US09648904B2
An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include at least one polymer spray head adapted to create at least one flow of polymeric fibers to produce at least one polymer enrobing zone and a conveyor system adapted to move at least one product portion from at least one position below at least one polymer enrobing zone and to at least one position above at least one polymer enrobing zone to drop each product portion through one or more polymer enrobing zones a plurality times at different orientations to enrobe each product portion with polymeric fibers.
US09648900B2
A frozen, microwaveable, coated food product comprising: a core of cooked edible material having a weight equal to 15-95 wt. % of the food product; a fried coating that envelops the core of edible material and has a weight equal to 5-85 wt. % of the total weight of the food product, said coating comprising at least three coating layers, including an inner crumb layer, an outer crumb layer and a batter layer that separates the inner crumb layer from the outer crumb layer; wherein both the inner crumb layer and the outer crumb layer comprise a milled farinaceous dough extrudate containing 0.05-5 wt. % of added hydrocolloid.
US09648898B2
A process for metering the disposition of a food product into cavities forming a pellet. The cavities are defined in a conveyor as individual cavities. Each cavity defines a specific volume. The process includes supplying a quantity of food product in a supply chamber which includes a plurality of nozzles aligned above the conveyor. The nozzles are aligned with a predetermined portion of the cavities. A predefined supply of food product is dispensed and metered through each nozzle. The food product is dispensed through the nozzles into the cavities without exceeding the specific volume of the cavity. The food product is frozen into an individual quick frozen pellet starting immediately upon disposition in one of the cavities. The step of metering the predefined amount of food product includes metering a predetermined weight of the food product.
US09648891B2
The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing fermented dairy products, in particular stirred milk products. The invention concerns a process for the manufacture of a fermented dairy product without any cooling step for stopping fermentation due to the use of a weakly post-acidifying lactic bacterium culture as a starter.
US09648890B2
The present invention discloses composition and methods for reducing the weight loss and/or preserving the natural gloss of post-harvest edible plant matter. In particular, the methods comprising applying to the surface of the plant matter a composition comprising an edible wax having a melting temperature below 70° C.; a hydrocolloid; a fatty acid; an emulsifier; and water, wherein said edible wax is present in a weight percent ranging from about 10% to about 25% of the total weight of the composition.
US09648883B2
A method of producing bakery products, more particularly sandwich loaves or the like. The method consists essentially in preparing a dough, optionally, in fermenting said dough, in placing the dough in a mold, in performing at least one step of baking the dough present in the mold by means of microwaves, optionally, in performing another step of baking by other baking means, in detaching the resulting baked product from the walls of the mold, optionally, in cooling the baked product and/or the mold, and in demolding the baked product. The method is an effective, high-performance method of producing breadmaking products, notably crustless batch breads, by microwave baking, which is reliable, simple, inexpensive and give satisfaction in terms of industrial production and organoleptic quality.
US09648882B2
An apparatus for liquid dough goods preparation is provided. The device has a base formed of a vertical post and a horizontal beam attached to a top side of the post. A plurality of nipples are arranged along the post for dough dispensing. The nipples are directed at a baking surface for dispensing dough thereon. A dough leveling device is mounted on the horizontal beam. The leveling device has a blower with an outlet directed through the dough leveling device. In operation, as the dough is dispensed, air from the leveling device aids in a spreading and leveling of the dough on the baking surface.
US09648881B2
At present, various herbicidal compositions have been developed and use, but there are a variety of types of weeds to be controlled, and their development lasts for a long period of time. Thus, a herbicidal composition having a broad herbicidal spectrum, having high activity and having a long-lasting effect has been desired.The present invention relates to a herbicidal composition comprising (a) nicosulfuron or its salt and (b) S-metolachlor or its salt. According to the present invention, a herbicidal composition having a broad herbicidal spectrum, having high activity and having a long-lasting effect can be provided.
US09648877B2
The present invention provides a method for increasing tolerance to abiotic stress and/or reducing the consequence of abiotic stress in a plant or part thereof comprising contacting a plant or part thereof with a composition comprising an effective amount of dicarboxylic acid or derivative thereof.
US09648876B2
Xanthochymol and garcinol, isoprenylated benzophenones purified from Garcinia xanthochymus fruits, showed multiple activities against fungal biofilms. Both compounds effectively prevented emergence of fungal germ tubes and were also cytostatic, with MICs of 1 to 3 ΞM. The compounds therefore inhibited development of hyphae and subsequent biofilm maturation. Xanthochymol treatment of developing and mature biofilms induced cell death. In early biofilm development, killing had the characteristics of apoptosis. These activities resulted in failure of biofilm maturation and hyphal death in mature biofilms. In mature biofilms, xanthochymol and garcinol caused the death of biofilm hyphae, with 50% effective concentrations (EC50s) of 30 to 50 μM. Additionally, xanthochymol-mediated killing was complementary with fluconazole against mature biofilms, reducing the fluconazole EC50 from greater than 1,024 μg per ml to 13 μg per ml.
US09648875B2
Formulations and wipes for imparting a sporicide to a surface are disclosed herein. To achieve the sporicidal efficacy of the product, a synergistic amount of an amine oxide surfactant and a mixture of oxidants is incorporated into the formulation. The operative sporicidal formulation contains a solvent, an amine oxide surfactant, a water soluble oxidant and a water insoluble oxidant. Typically, the formulation can contain about 0.05 to about 3.7 percent (by weight of the formulation) of an amine oxide surfactant, about 0.5 to about 4 percent (by weight of the formulation) of a water soluble oxidant, and about 0.1 to about 6 percent (by weight of the formulation) of a water insoluble oxidant.
US09648872B2
A water dispersible granular composition comprising: i. microcapsules comprising of: a. at least one agrochemical active ingredient encapsulated within a polymeric shell wall; and, wherein the agrochemical active ingredient has a water solubility of less than 100 mg/liter; and, b. polyvinyl alcohol with a molecular weight of from 15,000 to 21,000, a degree of hydrolysis of from 87% to 89% and a viscosity of from 3.5 cps to 4.5 cps; ii. a filler base comprising of: a. at least one water insoluble filler; and b. at least one water soluble suspension adjuvant; and, iii. at least one agrochemical excipient.
US09648868B1
A decoy motion device for removably supporting and moving a decoy back and forth about a longitudinal axis of the device. The decoy motion device includes a stand; a motion actuating assembly removably mounted upon the stand; and a pivotable elongate support member in operable communication with the motion actuating assembly and adapted to support and pivot a decoy.
US09648865B2
Described is a chondrichthyan repelling system comprising at least one fin comprising at least one electrically conductive electrode for connection to an electrical signal generator. In use, the electrical signal generator generates electrical signals to the at least one electrode to thereby radiate an electrical field which repels chondrichthyans. Also disclosed are various fin designs incorporating one or more electrodes, and a watercraft having one or more fins as described. Various means of connecting the electrodes to the electrical signal generator are also described.
US09648862B1
The telescoping spider web removal brush is a device that eliminates spider webs and spiders. Specifically, as the webs are brushed away a pesticide is applied to the area to eradicate the spiders associated with the web. The telescoping spider web removal brush is comprised of a brush, a pesticide application system and a telescopic wand.
US09648860B2
An apparatus for holding and viewing a fishing lure is provided. The apparatus includes a flexible, elongated rod having a first end and a second end. A light assembly is attached to the first end of the elongated rod. The light assembly includes a light source, a battery, and a switch, wherein the light source is electrically coupled to the battery through the switch. A fastener is attached to the second end of the elongated rod and is adapted to hold a fishing lure or bait. Alternatively, a magnet may be attached to the second end of the elongated rod. The elongated rod is a flexible wire adapted to wrap around a fishing rod, thereby providing visibility during low light and night time conditions.
US09648852B2
A system (100) and method (900) of training or modifying the behavior of pets and, in particular, dogs is disclosed and could include using scratch-resistant protector (104, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800) having adhesive (202, 402, 602, 802), additive (302, 404, 502, 604, 702, 704, 804, 806), or both to protect the integrity of door (102). Adhesive (202, 402, 602, 802) could generally provide a securing or coupling relationship between door (102) and protector (104, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800), while additive (302, 404, 502, 604, 702, 704, 804, 806) could provide a material that canines find unpleasant to smell, taste, touch, or scratch. In one embodiment, additive (302, 404, 502, 604, 702, 704, 804, 806) could include an additive that may be reapplied if it wears off or otherwise diminishes in strength, quantity, quality, or overall effectiveness.
US09648851B2
A pet grooming assembly includes a brush that has a handle portion and a bristle portion. The bristle portion has a chamber within the bristle portion. The handle portion has a reservoir within the handle portion wherein the reservoir may contain a liquid medication. The chamber and the reservoir are in fluid communication with each other. A valve is movably attached to the brush and the valve selectively inhibits a flow of the liquid medication from the reservoir to the chamber. A plurality of first bristles is attached to the bristle portion wherein each of the first bristles may brush an animal. A plurality of second bristles is attached to the bristle portion. Each of the second bristles is substantially hollow such that each of the second bristles is in fluid communication with the chamber. Thus, each of the second bristles may release the liquid medication onto the animal.
US09648847B2
An electric fence for zone breaks is disclosed. An example electric fence for zone breaks includes a first support member having at least one attachment, and a second support member having at least one corresponding attachment. At least one wire is connected to the at least one attachment and the at least one corresponding attachment. The at least one wire extends between the first support member and the second support member to cover a zone break. An electrical connection provides electrical current to the at least one wire to protect non-electrified portions of an electric security fence.
US09648846B2
A durable pet having a flat polyurethane foam core, a first polyurethane layer bonded to the top surface of the core, and a second polyurethane layer bonded to the sides of the core, and a method for making such a bed. The first polyurethane layer has a thickness of about 0.05 to 0.25 inches and a hardness of about 20 to 70 durometers. The second polyurethane layer has a thickness of about 0.05 to 0.3 inches and a hardness of about 50 to 100 durometers. The pet bed may have a third polyurethane layer bonded to the bottom of the core, the third layer having a thickness of about 0.05 to 0.25 inches and a hardness of about 20 to 100 durometers. The first, second and third layers typically completely encase the core.
US09648840B2
A milking robot comprises a robotic arm, a camera coupled to the robotic arm, a camera-facing nozzle coupled to the robotic arm, and a controller. The robotic arm extends in a longitudinal direction between the hind legs and from the rear of a dairy livestock located in a milking stall. The camera-facing nozzle sprays a protective layer of the camera with a cleanser. The controller communicates a signal instructing the camera-facing nozzle to spray the camera with cleanser.
US09648837B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2FV2 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2FV2 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2FV2 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2FV2 or a locus conversion of PH2FV2 with another maize variety.
US09648836B1
A soybean cultivar designated 50262411 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 50262411, to the plants of soybean cultivar 50262411, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 50262411, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 50262411. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 50262411. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 50262411, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 50262411 with another soybean cultivar.
US09648834B1
A soybean cultivar designated 51201110 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 51201110, to the plants of soybean cultivar 51201110, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 51201110, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 51201110. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 51201110. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 51201110, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 51201110 with another soybean cultivar.
US09648833B1
A novel garden bean variety, designated PV-813, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of garden bean variety PV-813, to the plants of garden bean line PV-813 and to methods for producing a bean plant by crossing the variety PV-813 with itself or another bean line. The invention further relates to methods for producing a bean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other garden bean lines derived from the variety PV-813.
US09648829B2
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated BZ903-472. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar BZ903-472. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar BZ903-472 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar BZ903-472 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US09648825B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01052098. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01052098. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01052098 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01052098 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09648823B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH085645. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH085645, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH085645 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH085645.
US09648819B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XR57F14RX. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XR57F14RX. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XR57F14RX and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XR57F14RX with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09648814B2
The present invention discloses and claims methods and devices for the rapid mechanical isolation of monocot plant tissues suitable for transformation or tissue culture. The invention includes mechanical devices for substantially isolating target plant tissues for use as transformable explants, and propagation of transgenic plants and plant tissues.
US09648812B2
A culture comprising at least one set of the chromosomes of the Agaricus bisporus line J10102-s69, the culture of the line J10102-s69 having been deposited under the NRRL Accession Number 50893, wherein said chromosomes comprise all of the alleles of the line J10102-s69 at the sequence-characterized marker loci listed in Table I. Methods are provided for introducing a desired trait into a culture of Agaricus bisporus line J10102-s69, as well as methods and processes for producing hybrid mushroom cultures. A method of mushroom strain development is further provided.
US09648809B2
A pull-type mower conditioner includes a crop cutting assembly that severs crop material from the ground and a lift mechanism configured to raise and lower the crop cutting assembly to a desired height having at least one lift cylinder and a hydraulic lift circuit supplying hydraulic fluid to the at least one lift cylinder. The mower conditioner also includes a conditioning mechanism receiving the severed crop material from the crop cutting assembly. The conditioning mechanism includes a pair of counter-rotating conditioning rolls to condition the crop material and a tensioning assembly that urges the conditioning rolls relatively toward one another and resists their separation. The tensioning assembly includes a pair of hydraulic tension cylinders and a hydraulic conditioner circuit configured to supply hydraulic fluid to the tension cylinders. The hydraulic tension circuit has a supply line leading to a supply valve, wherein the supply line connects to the lift circuit.
US09648808B2
A mobile platform biomass harvester has a header, a biomass processor, a storage container, a guidance system, an engine, an electric generator, and a guidance system. The header harvests biomass. The biomass processor includes a shredder, a press, a dryer, and a densifier. The densifier compacts the biomass into a multitude of compressed biomass pieces. The storage container receives compressed biomass pieces from the biomass processor. The guidance system guides the mobile platform at a speed determined by the operating capacity of the mobile platform. The engine generates shaft power. The electrical generator converts the shaft power to electricity to power the guidance system.
US09648806B2
A brush cutter includes a center deck that is pivotally coupled to a first wing deck and a second wing deck. Each deck has a hydraulic cutting assembly. A mounting portion can be attached to a front carrier portion of a drive vehicle. The brush cutter has a hydraulic manifold operably coupled to each cutting assembly and configured to be operably coupled to a hydraulic system of the drive vehicle. The manifold includes valves that control the flow of drive fluid to the hydraulic cutting assemblies. Sensing arrangements signal the valves to shut off the drive fluid to the wing decks if the wing decks pivot upward from a lowered position to a first angular position. The sensing arrangements can optionally signal the drive vehicle's hydraulic system to reduce the flow of drive fluid to the hydraulic manifold for each wing deck that pivots upward to the angular position.
US09648802B2
A system is provided for planting multiple types of seed and automatically switching between the varieties during planting in a single planting pass of a planting session of row-crop planting an agricultural field. The system may include a selector assembly arranged between a multi-compartment on-row hopper and a seed meter at each row unit of a planter. A control system controls selector valves of the selector assembly to switch from releasing of seeds of a first type from the on-row hopper the seed meter to releasing of seeds of a second type from the on-row hopper to the seed meter for providing a switchover of seeds being planted from the seed meter, from the first to the second type when the seed meter cross a boundary between different zones of the agricultural field.
US09648801B2
In a method of operating a seed cart, a compartment is provided defining a volume for receiving a commodity. A distribution manifold is provided including two sets of passages, the distribution manifold being associated with the compartment to selectively receive a commodity in one or both of the two sets of passages. A fan is operated to create an air stream. The air stream from the fan is divided into a plurality of primary tubes. An inlet divider plenum is provided having two outlets in communication with each one of the primary tubes. The flow of air from each of the plurality of primary tubes is divided amongst the two corresponding outlets with a corresponding movable vane within the inlet divider plenum such that an airflow ratio between the two sets of passages is controlled in response to the position of the vane.
US09648799B2
A tillage implement has a main frame provided with ground-engaging wheels that support the main frame at a selected height above the ground. Tillage shanks may be provided on the main frame and, if so, have their depth of penetration into the ground determined by the selected height of the main frame. Gangs of freely rotatable circular blades are carried on the main frame for both fore-and-aft angle adjustment relative to the main frame about respective upright pivot axes and up-and-down depth adjustment relative to the main frame about respective horizontal pivot axes. Such angle and/or depth adjustments can be carried out on-the-go from the tractor seat and without raising or lowering the main frame such that if tillage shanks are provided on the main frame, the working depth of the tillage shanks can remain unchanged as the gangs are adjusted.
US09655295B2
A feeder installing attachment includes: a main body portion including attachment side fitting parts provided on a lower surface thereof and having an installing compatibility with first feeder side fitting parts provided on a lower surface of a first tape feeder; and second feeder installing slots formed on an upper surface of the main body portion and engaging with second feeder side fitting parts provided on a lower surface of a second tape feeder having a standard width smaller than that of the first tape feeder. In a state where the attachment is mounted, an array pitch of the second feeder installing slots is smaller than an array pitch of the base side installing slots, and becomes an array pitch corresponding to the standard width of the second tape feeder.
US09655289B2
A system and method for mounting an electronic display is disclosed herein. A rear cover mounting bracket may contain a rear plate and a sidewall which surrounds a perimeter of the plate. A plurality of mounting holes may be placed within the plate to allow fastening the rear plate to a vertical surface. An electronic display assembly module may contain a thermal plate where the attachment of the rear cover mounting bracket to the module creates a plenum which can house one or more electronic components. In a preferred embodiment, the rear plate contains a pair of hooks and the module contains a pair of corresponding cylinders which can be engaged with the hooks so that the module can hang from the hooks.
US09655288B2
An electronic device includes a heat-dissipating base, a first printed wiring board assembly, and a second printed wiring board assembly. The first printed wiring board assembly is disposed on the heat-dissipating base. The first printed wiring board assembly includes a first printed wiring board and at least one first electronic component. The first electronic component is disposed on the first printed wiring board, such that the first printed wiring board assembly has a raised portion and a concave portion relative to the raised portion. The second printed wiring board assembly is at least partially disposed in the concave portion.
US09655286B2
Apparatuses are provided to facilitate sensing fluid within a fluid system, such as a coolant-based cooling apparatus for removing heat generated by one or more electronic components. The apparatus includes a plug configured to couple to a wall of the fluid system at an opening in the wall and to form a fluid-tight seal about the opening. The plug includes a fluid a fluid-sensor-receiving space configured to receive a fluid sensor, and when the plug is coupled to the wall at the opening, to position the fluid sensor at the opening in a manner to facilitate sensing of fluid within the system. The fluid sensor is removable from the plug without requiring uncoupling of the plug from the wall. In one implementation, the fluid sensor is a proximity sensor, and the plug is fabricated of a non-conductive material, and the wall a conductive material.
US09655284B2
A modular fan assembly for use in a multi-device storage enclosure. In some embodiments, the fan assembly has a rigid open frame with opposing first and second ends. A first fan is connected to the first end and a second fan is connected to the second end. The first and second fans are configured to establish a fluidic airflow through the frame. An airflow diverter positioned in an intermediate portion of the frame between the first and second ends divert at least a portion of the fluidic airflow through a first aperture of the frame to cool an active element outside the frame.
US09655276B2
A rack control module including a pair of mounting braces for mounting the RCM on a handle of a power supply unit (PSU). The PSU may be mounted on a server rack. The RCM also includes a latch disposed in proximity to the pair of mounting brace. Upon mounting the RCM on the handle of the PSU, the latch locks the RCM in an engaged position with the handle of the PSU.
US09655271B2
A motor drive comprises a power sub-assembly and a control sub-assembly. The control sub-assembly includes components that may be accessed within the sub-assembly housing during installation and maintenance of the drive. A main circuit board is configured to define a high voltage region and a low voltage region. The high voltage region is isolated by an interior barrier of the housing so that the components can be conveniently accessed. An operator interface is provided in the control sub-assembly. An interface circuit board is also isolated by the barrier. Desired spacing between the interface circuit board and a surface of the interface is provided by integrally molded spring structures and plungers that interface with underlying switches.
US09655269B2
Apparatus for guiding insertion and locking of a printed board assembly (PBA) in an electronic unit may include a housing, a first wedge segment having a sloped planar contact surface and a second wedge segment adjacent the first wedge segment and having a sloped planar contact surface. The first and second wedge segments may be devoid of holes in their respective sloped planar contact surfaces. The wedge segments may be supported in the housing so that the sloped contact surface of the first wedge segment is adjacent the sloped contact surface of the second wedge segment.
US09655266B2
To improve a seating property of a mounting member with respect to a supporting member and enhance the positional accuracy of the mounting member. The mounting member has a protruding portion that protrudes from a support face of a frame body, and a shaft body that is thinner than the protruding portion. At a base portion of the shaft body, a relief recess is formed over the entire circumference of a boundary region with the protruding portion, and a supported face of the protruding portion is configured so as to contact with a support face of the frame body in a state in which the mounting member is supported by the frame body. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the mounting member is used as a guide pin of a floating plate that accommodates an IC socket.
US09655258B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate, a guide panel positioned at an edge of a back surface of the display panel, a frame positioned in the rear of the display panel and connected to the guide panel, and a back cover positioned in the rear of the frame and inserted into the frame in a sliding manner.
US09655250B2
A method of forming an insulating layer and a touchscreen including the insulating layer formed using the same are provided. The method of forming an insulating layer insulating a conductive pattern of a touchscreen from a bridge electrode thereof includes heating a substrate provided with the conductive pattern formed on the substrate, sequentially forming a first pattern and a second pattern on the heated substrate using an insulating composition, and curing the first pattern and the second pattern. The first pattern includes a groove portion to prevent adjacent patterns from overlapping each other and the second pattern is formed in the groove portion of the first pattern.
US09655238B2
A wiring board includes a heat dissipation plate, a heat-conductive adhesive layer, an insulating layer, a thermal via, a heat dissipation metal terminal, and electrodes. The heat-conductive adhesive layer is disposed on the heat dissipation plate. The insulating layer is disposed on the heat-conductive adhesive layer. The insulating layer is formed with an opening portion. The thermal via is disposed in the opening portion of the insulating layer. The heat dissipation metal terminal is disposed on the thermal via and electrically connected to the heat dissipation plate. The electrodes are disposed on the insulating layer. The electrodes are to be connected to an electronic component.
US09655229B2
A circuit board includes a first thermally conductive structure comprising a cavity or a recess portion. At least a portion of the first thermally conductive structure is inserted into an insulating part. An electronic device comprising a portion thereof inserted in the cavity or the recess portion.
US09655218B1
An intelligent electronic decoration system includes a smart modular power cable (MPC) having a flexible body extending between opposed proximal and distal ends and having a plurality of spaced apart electronic ports along and perpendicular to the body, the MPC configured for powering and communicating data relative to respective ports. The system includes embedded electronics operatively coupled to the proximal end of the MPC and having a rechargeable component for energizing electronics devices electrically coupled to respective ports, a microcontroller unit, and a memory collectively positioned within the housing, the embedded electronics being configured for data interfacing with wired or wireless communication components of external electronic devices. Electronic devices that may be coupled to the ports of the MPC and embedded electronics include Smart LED Electronics modules, LED replaceable covers, Monitor Touch Screen plug-in for smart LED Electronics Module, Smart Multi-Port Auxiliary Base Unit, and automated robotic puppet module.
US09655212B2
A lighting device includes: a communication unit that communicates with a wearable device with at least one camera and receives at least one image captured by the camera; a light emitting unit including one or more light emitting elements; and a controller that detects a readable medium containing a plurality of characters or visual content containing at least one color from the image and controls the light emitting unit based on the readable medium or the visual content.
US09655211B2
Enhancements to ornamental or holiday lighting are disclosed including remote control ornamental illumination with color pallet control whereby a user can vary the color/intensity/appearance of an individual bulb or entire light string by selecting the electronic address of the bulb and selecting its attribute. Further disclosures include: motion responsive lights which respond to sensed movement, gesture controlled lights, adjustable white color/white led sets, connectable multi-function lights, controller to sequence lights to music or other input source, rotating projection led light/tree top/table top unit, and remote controlled sequencing icicle lights and ornament lighting system.
US09655208B1
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for optimizing operations of the exterior lights for a site of a plurality of distributed sites. The operations of the exterior lights are optimized by the lighting control system, which receive data associated with lights from at least one site of the plurality of distributed sites, wherein the data is one of exterior light data or combination of exterior and interior light data. Further, the data received from at least one site is processed in a pre-defined format to identify the current logic and the optimum logic of operation of the exterior lights. The method further identifies one or more deviations and the causes of the deviations in the operation of exterior lights to optimize the operation of the exterior lights.
US09655207B2
The invention provides a light control system for a lighting network, including a plurality of light units wherein at least one light unit includes at least one sensor type, a distributed/centralized controller/central management system in communication with one or more of the light units, said controller/central management system sends control commands to one or more of said light units, in response to received light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said light units and/or status information from a connected device, and implements a lighting strategy relating to the characteristics of the plurality of light units, wherein the one or more neighboring light units' sensor type's detection threshold are adjusted using a predetermined strategy based on the new lighting strategy of the at least one light unit or the status information from the connected device.
US09655204B2
An adapter includes a detection unit configured to detect an operating state of an illumination fixture, a communication unit configured to communicate with an analysis device, and a control unit configured to cause the communication unit to transmit a detection result of the detection unit to the analysis device. A lighting system includes a plurality of illumination devices. A life support system includes the plurality of illumination devices, and the analysis device configured to analyze behavior of a person. The plurality of illumination devices each include the adapter.
US09655201B2
A pixel arrangement structure for an organic light-emitting diode display panel includes a plurality of first subpixel rows and a plurality of second subpixel rows alternating with the first subpixel rows. Each first subpixel row includes first subpixels and second subpixels alternating with the first subpixels. Each second subpixel row includes alternately disposed first, second, and third subpixels. The number of the third subpixels in each second subpixel row is two times the number of the first or second subpixels in the second subpixel row. The subpixels of the same type in each of the first and second subpixel rows are not adjacent to each other. RGB pixels are formed by combinations of the subpixels in the first subpixel rows and the subpixels in the second subpixels. The color mixing effect is improved, and the resolution is increased.
US09655192B2
A carrier module is provided for supporting at least one data storage device. The carrier module is electrically connected to a power supply module. The carrier module includes a main body, a first socket, a second socket, a connecting port, and a detection unit. The first socket, the second socket, and the connecting port are disposed on the main body. The connecting port and the detection unit are electrically connected to the first and second sockets. The data storage device is detachably connected to the connecting port. The detection unit detects whether the power supply module is electrically connected to the first socket or the second socket.
US09655185B2
A linear LED driver comprises a transistor having an input terminal coupled to a LED. When the transistor is turned on, the LED is lighted. The linear LED driver further includes a protection circuit for judging whether an instant high voltage variation occurs or not according to at least one of the voltages of a control terminal and an output terminal of the transistor so as to achieve a protection function.
US09655184B2
An arrangement and a method for controlling a plurality of light emitting diodes which are connected in series to attain uniform distribution of a total current to several series connections, LED chains, connected in parallel to each other wherein circuitry-related expenditure and power losses occurring during the control process are minimized, include a first reference voltage generating unit and a second reference voltage generating unit, wherein a outlet of the first reference voltage generating unit is connected to a first and a second control circuit, and an outlet of the second reference voltage generating unit is connected to the second and the first control circuit, and an outlet of the first control circuit is connected to a control inlet of the first controllable semiconductor switch, and an outlet of the second control circuit is connected to a control inlet of the second controllable semiconductor switch.
US09655174B2
The present invention discloses a current-source-output light-emitting-diode (LED) driver based on LCLC circuit to provide a constant output current regardless of variations in LED parameters. In the LCLC circuit, the number of additional capacitors is scalable with the number of LED strings for current balancing. Moreover, the input impedance of the improved LCLC circuit is designed to be resistive at the operating frequency to minimize reactive power. The conventional duty cycle control can easily incorporate zero-voltage-switching (ZVS).
US09655173B2
A microwave oven that includes a power supply and a heating bar connected to the power supply is described. The heating bar is configured to receive an electric current from the power supply, and to apply the current to food. The electric current applied from the heating bar passes through the food thereby heating up the food.
US09655170B2
A ceramic heater wherein in at least one cross section of the ceramic heater orthogonal to the axial direction, a first resistor cross section has no protrusion on a first inner portion of the contour of a first resistor cross section, and has two or more protrusions on a first outer portion of the contour of the first resistor cross section and a method of manufacturing the ceramic heater.
US09655164B2
A method for discontinuous reception operation for carrier aggregation comprising: receiving a first set of discontinuous reception parameters for a first carrier and a different set of discontinuous reception parameters for a second carrier; and configuring discontinuous reception parameters on the first carrier and second carrier.
US09655158B2
A method of providing information responsive to a request from a wireless communication device involves receiving an information request from a mobile device and generating responsive information for the information request, transmitting a first portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a first communication session, and transmitting a second portion of the responsive information to the mobile device in a second, overloaded communication session.
US09655156B2
The present invention provides a bearer establishment method, a base station, a packet data gateway, and a computer system, where the bearer establishment method includes: receiving a D2D mode indication requested by an AF entity or a proximity service server for a source UE, where the D2D mode indication includes a first D2D connection establishment mode or a second D2D connection establishment mode; and according to the D2D mode indication, when a D2D connection can be established successfully, establishing the D2D connection for the source UE; or when a D2D connection cannot be established successfully, establishing a common connection if the D2D mode indication is the first D2D connection establishment mode, and feeding back a connection establishment failure response to the AF entity or the proximity service server if the D2D mode indication is the second D2D connection establishment mode.
US09655151B2
A wireless mesh access point (AP) determines a candidate set of Basic Service Set Identifiers (BSSIDs) or other unique identifiers by monitoring for detection of a set of wireless communications, each bearing a unique identifier. The AP selects a candidate unique identifier from the candidate set. The AP establishes a wireless communication link with a controller of a wireless mesh network associated with the candidate unique identifier. The AP transmits a request to the controller to join the wireless mesh network associated with the candidate unique identifier. The AP receives a response from the controller indicating either acceptance or rejection of the request. If the response indicates rejection, the AP rejects one or more unique identifiers in the candidate set in response to reason information included in the rejection.
US09655147B2
A method and service network element are provided that control a distribution of multiple uplink bearers among multiple user devices participating in a group call. In response to receiving a trigger to reevaluate the multiple uplink bearers, one or more user devices of the multiple user devices are identified as candidates for de-allocation of uplink bearers based on a profile associated with each of the multiple user devices. Further, based on the profiles associated with each of the multiple user devices, one or more of the multiple user devices are identified as candidates for establishment of an uplink bearer. An uplink bearer, of the multiple uplink bearers, then is released from one or more of the user devices identified as candidates for de-allocation of uplink bearers, and an uplink bearer is established for one or more user devices identified as candidates for establishment of uplink bearers.
US09655146B2
A radio base station PhNB managing a phantom cell is enabled to uniquely identify a mobile station UE in communication in the phantom cell. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes starting, by the radio base station PhNB#10, a “Non-contention based RA procedure” or a “Contention based RA procedure” with a mobile station UE#1 in communication in a cell #10 under control of the radio base station PhNB#10; and notifying, by the mobile station UE#1, the radio base station PhNB#10 of a C-RNTImacro which is allocated in a cell #1 other than the cell #10.
US09655139B2
In a distributed Mac protocol having a slotted superframe (102) comprising at least one slotted beacon period (104) followed by a data transfer period (103), a system and method is provided for creating and maintaining several beacon periods (104) at different positions in the superframe (102). When joining the network (300) a device (301) either joins an existing beacon period (104) or creates a new beacon period (104) at a position in the superframe (102) that does not overlap with existing beacon periods (104) or reservation periods. Beacon periods (104) mutually protect each other by devices (301) announcing the neighboring beacon periods in their beacons.
US09655137B2
A method is provided for receiving a signal by a user equipment (UE) using time division duplex (TDD) in a wireless communication system. The UE receives uplink (UL) grant information on a first cell, the UL grant information scheduling a UL transmission on a second cell. The UE transmits UL data in a UL subframe on the second cell via a physical UL shared channel based on the UL grant information. The UE receives hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information in a downlink (DL) subframe on the first cell. The first cell and the second cell have different TDD UL-DL configurations. The DL subframe on the first cell is determined based on a TDD UL-DL configuration of the second cell.
US09655131B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting an indication in a wireless communication is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) interest indication indicating a long-term evolution (LTE) frequency, and if an in-device coexistence (IDC) interference is detected on the LTE frequency, the UE transmits updated MBMS interest indication excluding the LTE frequency.
US09655124B2
A mechanism for use by a subscription control node, one or more NAT64 nodes and/or DNS64 nodes to interact in a communications network with multiple user equipments (UEs) to control the UE usage of the NAT64 and/or DNS64 communications resources. The subscription control node includes subscription information for one or more of the UE(s), the subscription information for each UE including translation state usage information associated with one or more of the NAT64 nodes servicing the UE. The subscription control node collects translation state usage information from each NAT64 node, and identifies a set of one or more UE(s) exceeding a maximum translation state usage allocated to each of the multiple UEs based on the corresponding subscription information and the collected translation state usage information. The subscription information for the identified UEs is adjusted so the identified set of UE(s) meet the maximum translation state usage for each UE.
US09655120B2
The present disclosure discloses a network device and/or method for computing coverage set and resource allocations in wireless networks. The disclosed network device selects a radio frequency subdomain in a wireless network, and further determines a coverage set for the selected radio frequency subdomain. The coverage set includes a subset of access nodes in the selected radio frequency domain. Moreover, a respective access node in the radio frequency subdomain satisfies one of (a) the respective access node is a member of the coverage set, and (b) the respective access node is covered by at least one member of the coverage set with a signal strength stronger than a predetermined threshold.
US09655107B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine readable mediums which reduce the amount of bandwidth consumed by the reference signals. In some examples, this is achieved by finding the optimal subspace containing all the active UEs in the cell and transmitting reference signals to that subspace. In some examples, second order statistics may be utilized to calculate a projected channel to the optimal subspace at the UE and then feeding this back to the eNodeB. The projected channel to optimal subspace may be utilized at the UE and the eNodeB to transform the codebook and align the codewords with the channel direction.
US09655105B2
A method of mapping a physical resource to a logical resource in a wireless communication system is described. The method includes dividing a physical frequency band into at least one frequency partition. Each frequency partition is divided into a localized region and a distributed region in a frequency domain. The method further includes mapping the at least one frequency partition into at least one logical resource unit. The localized region is directly mapped into the logical resource unit and the distributed region is mapped into the logical resource unit after rearranging subcarriers within the distributed region.
US09655098B2
The present invention is designed to reduce interference from a macro base station to a small transmission power node. The present invention is characterized in providing a micro base station which forms, in a macro cell where a macro base station transmits a signal to a macro terminal, a micro cell where the micro base station transmits a signal to a micro terminal under control with low power, and this micro base station generates a PDCCH which includes downlink or uplink resource allocation information, and, in a non-transmission period in which the macro base station stops transmitting signals while leaving minimal quality measurement signals, shifts the transmission starting symbol of the PDCCH to a position where the PDCCH does not overlap the quality measurement signals.
US09655097B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for controlling reference signal (RS) transmission between a user equipment (UE) and a base station in a wireless communication system. A method includes transmitting, to the UE, downlink control information (DCI) including RS request information. The RS request information includes one or two binary elements based on a DCI format. If an RS transmission triggered by the RS request information is to occur in a same subframe as another RS transmission previously configured to the UE from the base station, the UE transmits the RS triggered by the RS request information.
US09655093B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for configuring resources, a device and a system. The method includes: generating resource configuration information (S201); carrying the resource configuration information in a media access control protocol data unit (MAC PDU) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signaling and sending to a user equipment, to enable the user equipment to perform uplink transmission according to the resource configuration information (S202). The method for configuring resources, the device and the system provided in the embodiments of the present invention can achieve fast physical layer radio resource configuration with a short delay.
US09655091B2
Methods and apparatus are described for User Equipment (UE) to concurrently transmit Uplink Control Information (UCI) and data information to a Node B. The Node B can configure the UE to transmit UCI together with data information in a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) or separate from data information in a Physical Uplink Control CHannel (PUCCH). The UE may also determine whether to transmit UCI together with data information in the PUSCH or separate from data information in the PUCCH based on criteria involving a ratio of PUSCH resources for UCI transmission over the total PUSCH resources, a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) for the data information, an absolute power difference between PUCCH and PUSCH transmissions, whether the PUSCH transmission uses frequency hopping, and/or whether spatial multiplexing is used for the data transmission.
US09655086B2
Technology for physical resource block (PRB) bundling an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is disclosed. One method can include a wireless device receiving from a node the ePDCCH in an ePDCCH PRB contiguous in frequency with a PDSCH PRB carrying the PDSCH. The wireless device can PRB bundle the ePDCCH PRB with the PDSCH PRB.
US09655083B2
According to the present invention, there are provided a base station device, a terminal device, a communication method, and an integrated circuit capable of performing communication more efficiently when the terminal device transmits an uplink signal based on scheduling by the base station device. The terminal device includes a setting unit that sets a first uplink-downlink configuration, a second uplink-downlink configuration, and a third uplink-downlink configuration, a reception unit that monitors a physical downlink control channel accompanied with a downlink control information format which is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel in a downlink subframe based on the third uplink-downlink configuration and includes information making a request for transmitting a sounding reference signal, and a transmission unit that transmits the sounding reference signal based on the information making the request to transmitting the sounding reference signal.
US09655082B2
To effectively and efficiently provide control information, a broadcast pointer channel (BPCH) may be used to identify the type and perhaps relative location of control information that is being provided in a given frame structure, such as a sub-frame, frame, or superframe. A sub-frame (or like framing entity, such a frame or superframe) may have a BPCH and a corresponding system control information segment in which control information may reside. The system control information segment may have any number of control information blocks, wherein each control information block that is present may correspond to a particular type of control information. The BPCH is used to identify the type of control information that is present in a corresponding system control information segment, and if needed or desired, the relative locations of the various control information.
US09655080B2
Provided is a wireless communication device which includes a notification information transmitting unit for transmitting, via a wireless communication network, notification information of the wireless communication device, a notification information receiving unit for receiving notification information transmitted from another device, a frequency switching unit for successively switching, at random cycles, a frequency at which the notification information is transmitted or a frequency at which the notification information is received, and a transmission processing unit for performing a data transmission process after transmitting or receiving an acknowledgement to the notification information to/from such other device.
US09655073B2
Embodiments are provided for communicating with electronic devices traveling on an aircraft. According to certain aspects, a data center can examine registration data to identify a set of electronic devices that are traveling on a particular flight, and can retrieve relevant travel information associated with the set of electronic devices. In particular, the travel information may be general to the flight or may be related to a specific itinerary for one of the passengers. The data center may generate one or more text messages that are intended for one of more of the set of electronic devices. The data center may also transmit the text message(s) to an on-board network for delivery to the electronic device(s).
US09655072B2
Methods and apparatus for synchronizing a global time reference for access points over the air are provided. In one aspect, a method for synchronizing a global time of an access point comprises receiving a message comprising a global time indication from a second access point. The method further includes updating the global time of the access point to the global time indication from the second access point by updating a timer of the access point by an increment not to exceed a predetermined value selected small enough to ensure a maintenance of synchronization between the access point and at least one associated wireless station. The global time of the access point is updated to the global time indication from the second access point when the global time indication from the second access point indicated a later global time than the global time of the access point.
US09655068B2
A user equipment and a method performed by the user equipment. The user equipment includes a transceiver configured to enable the user equipment to establish a connection with a first network and a second network, the first network configured to provide signals to control a transmit power of the transceiver and a processor configured to control the transmit power of the transceiver. The processor controls the transmit power by determining at least one network operation of the user equipment, the network operation associated with a configuration of the connection with the LTE network, receiving a signal from the LTE network indicating an increase in the transmit power to be used and performing a power operation that adjusts the transmit power of the transceiver less than the increase indicated in the signal.
US09655064B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission power in a wireless communication system. A wireless device is connected to a first serving cell utilizing a licensed band and a second serving cell utilizing a non-licensed band. The transmission power from the second serving cell is determined by considering the clear channel assessment (CCA) coverage of the wireless device or the second serving cell.
US09655053B2
A notification signal, intended to be received by a wireless communication device, is repetitively broadcast by a portable activity-monitoring device that generates user-activity data corresponding to activity of an individual bearing the portable activity-monitoring device. The notification signal conveys information that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates whether or not the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of a wireless communication link to enable transmission of the user-activity data to the wireless communication device.
US09655051B2
A method and a wireless apparatus for power saving in a wireless local area network are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes receiving a frame including a signal field from a transmitting device. The signal field includes a number indicator and a power saving indicator. The number indicator indicates a number of spatial streams for a corresponding recipient, and the power saving indicator indicates that the transmitting device allows the wireless device to enter a doze state during a transmission opportunity (TXOP). The method further includes entering the doze state until the end of the TXOP if the power saving indicator indicates an allowance of entering the doze state during the TXOP, and the number of spatial streams to be received by the wireless device is equal to zero.
US09655043B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for reducing power consumption by early decoding. It is determined whether a predetermined decoding condition is satisfied upon expiration of a time unit in a transmission time interval. Decoding is performed on a signal that has been received through the time unit in the transmission time interval, when the predetermined decoding condition is satisfied. A controller outputs an instruction signal to a RF processor to set to a low-power mode during a remaining time period of the transmission time interval after the time unit in the transmission time interval, when the decoding is successful. Decoding is performed on the signal that has been received through the RF processor upon expiration of a last time unit of the transmission time interval regardless of the predetermined decoding condition, when the time unit is the last time unit in the transmission time interval.
US09655039B2
The disclosure generally relates to dynamic cell reselection to improve device-to-device (D2D) communications where two or more D2D peers are camped onto different cells and one or more D2D peers are located in an overlap region between the cells. For example, in various embodiments, the D2D peers may exchange one or more communication parameters over the (inter-cell) D2D connection and detect that the D2D peers are camped on different base stations (i.e., attached to different cells) based on the exchanged communication parameters. The D2D peer(s) located in the cell overlap region may then obtain measurements on the neighbor cell and a forced cell reselection may be triggered at the appropriate D2D peer(s) located in the cell overlap region such that the D2D peers are camped on the same base station, thereby converting the inter-cell D2D connection into an intra-cell D2D connection that can be more easily maintained.
US09655037B2
The present disclosure presents a method and apparatus for identifying an access point (AP) for selection by an access terminal (AT). For example, the method may include receiving a probe request by one or more APs from an AT, wherein the probe request is broadcasted by the AT to the one or more APs, generating load information and Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) values of the probe request at the one or more APs, identifying an AP of the one or more APs for selection by the AT, wherein the AP for selection by the AT is identified by the one or more APs based at least on the load information and RSSI values generated at the one or more APs, and transmitting information of an AP identified by the one or more APs to the AT. As such, an improved mechanism for selecting an access point may be achieved.
US09655034B2
Transaction sensitive access network discovery and selection function (TSANDSF) features are disclosed. TSANDSF features can include access network resource (ANR) selection based on vendor ANR information and UE information. TSANDSF features can further include facilitating access, via a UE, to vendor value added products or service, vendor selected information, or vendor advertisements as a result of establishing a communication link with a vendor ANR. In contrast to conventional ANDSF, TSANDSF can facilitate improved ANR ranking and selection based on rules that correlate UE information with determined vendor ANR features.
US09655024B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a handover in a cognitive radio system are used to control a cell handover process of a user equipment, and can hand over the user equipment to an appropriate target cell as far as possible. The method includes: a source base station receiving a measurement report send by a user equipment; the source base station controlling a handover of the user equipment according to the measurement report, radio resource management information, and reconfiguration related information. The apparatus is located in the source base station and includes a receiving module and a handover controlling module.
US09655021B2
An apparatus is configured to perform a method for user equipment (UE) offloading. The method includes receiving, at a network controller, a measurement report from a UE, the measurement report radio link measurement quantities of a serving cell and one or more candidate serving cells, the measurement quantities measured after interference cancellation or suppression. The method also includes, based in part on the measurement report from the UE, determining whether to offload the UE to a second cell among the one or more candidate serving cells.
US09655020B2
A method includes (a) detecting based on reporting information from UEs, HO problems which have occurred within a predefined time interval, (b) classifying the detected HO problems into three categories, (c) determining information being related to at least one of the detected HO problems, wherein the information represents a refinement of one or more of the three categories or wherein the information represents a further category, (d) counting a the numbers of HO problems which have been classified into the various categories, (e) reporting a key performance indicator message indicative for the numbers of the various categories and for the determined information, and (f) adapting, based on the reported key performance indicator message, the value a mobility related network configuration parameter of the mobile radio communication network such that the mobility robustness of the communication network is optimized.
US09655019B2
A method for switching a call by a User Equipment (UE) supporting a Voice Call Continuity (VCC) scheme in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes detecting that there is a need for switching a voice call from a first access network to a second access network that is different from the first access network while the UE supporting the VCC scheme transmits/receives data in the first access network through an old bearer which is set up with the other party UE, performing a new bearer set up operation with the second access network, and transmitting/receiving voice data with the other party UE through the old bearer in the first access network and transmitting/receiving voice data with the other party UE through the new bearer in the second access network until a point in time.
US09655015B2
A method at a user equipment (UE) includes measuring a signal quality of each cell detected from a plurality of frequencies included in a connection release message from a radio access technology (RAT) . The measuring may occur during a long-period SIB collection for a previously determined target cell. The method also includes determining a new target cell in place of a previously determined target cell based at least in part on a signal quality of each cell measured during the long-period SIB collection for the previously determined target cell.
US09654996B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for monitoring a radio link. In the method, a user terminal monitors a cell specific reference signal (CRS) and a channel state indication reference signal (CSI-RS), and judges whether to initiate radio resource control (RRC) connection re-establishment according to the CRS and the CSI-RS. The device provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a monitoring unit and a judging unit. By applying the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, monitoring of the radio link can be more accurate, and RRC connection re-establishment can be performed in time, to reduce occurrence of misjudgments, thereby improving the experience on the user terminal.
US09654986B2
A system and method for testing wireless transceivers in a virtual wireless environment including emulating an RF environment, creating virtual spectrum users having selectable transmission parameters and physical characteristics and evaluating the operation of the wireless transceiver in the virtual wireless environment.
US09654984B2
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based installation method for equipment on cell towers includes flying the UAV with the equipment attached thereto upwards to a desired location on the cell tower, wherein the desired location comprises one or more horizontal support structures; positioning the equipment to the desired location on the cell tower; connecting the equipment to the desired location; and disconnecting the equipment from the UAV.
US09654983B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for a tunable filter employing feedforward cancellation are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a tunable transmissive filter that includes a splitter for splitting an input signal into a first signal and a second signal, a first modifier circuit for modifying a characteristic of the first signal to produce a modified first signal, a second modifier circuit for using feedforward cancellation to modify a characteristic of the second signal to produce a modified second signal, the second modifier circuit including an N-path filter, N being an integer greater than 0; and a combiner for combining the modified first signal and the modified second signal to produce a filtered output signal having a bandpass response.
US09654975B2
A method for authenticating a mobile device includes: probing by the mobile device a fading channel which connects the mobile device to a first radio base station; determining a secret held in common with the first radio base station as a function of a physical property of the fading channel; storing the in-common secret; receiving a first request for the in-common secret from a second radio base station; and, in response to the first request, sending a proof of knowledge of the in-common secret to the second radio base station.
US09654967B2
A discovery method for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is provided. A terminal transmits a discovery service request message for D2D communication including one of application information and group information for a Proximity based Service (ProSe) to a server. The terminal receives, from the server, a discovery service key delivery message including a discovery service key corresponding to the one of the application information and the group information for a ProSe. The terminal acquires the discovery service key by decrypting the discovery service key delivery message, and performs discovery by encrypting a discovery code with the acquired discovery service key.
US09654965B2
A wireless device may be subject to regulations based on the location (e.g. country). Accordingly, the wireless device may need to identify regulations for its current location. A lookup table or database that includes regulations for different locations may be used for identifying the regulations for the current location of the wireless device. The lookup table may be stored locally on the wireless device or retrieved over a network. The identified regulations may be used to modify certain operating parameters of the wireless device to comply with the local regulations and determine whether or not to associate with an incorrectly configured Access Point.
US09654960B2
A method includes receiving, at a network node, a device-to-device D2D discovery request from a first device and sending a D2D discovery response from the network node to the first device. The D2D discovery response includes information associated with a second device that is available to establish a D2D connection with the first device. The network node may perform inquiries regarding D2D connection permission from both devices. If D2D connection is permitted by both devices, the network node may facilitate the D2D scanning by sending each device's scanning information to the other device via a non-D2D link. In parallel to D2D scanning, the network node may speed up D2D link setup by distributing, via non-D2D links, link setup information to each device, where the link setup information may include device credential(s), IP address allocation(s), and/or group owner assignment.
US09654957B1
A system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions for receiving information about an event from at least one mobile device, the information comprising location information and event type information and identifying the event based on the information, the event being identified by associating the event type information with a specific event and associating the location information with a particular location associated with the specific event.
US09654954B2
A communication network comprises a packet switched domain associated with a packet switched capable radio access network and supports an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem voice session via the packet switched capable radio access network. The terminal supports an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem voice session via the packet switched capable radio access network and an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem emergency voice session via the packet switched capable radio access network. A method is executed by a control node of the packet switched domain and comprises sending instruction information to the terminal. The instruction information instructs the terminal to execute an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem voice session via the packet switched capable radio access network without regard to whether the communication network has indicated support of an emergency session related data transmission via the packet switched capable radio access network and the packet switched domain.
US09654948B1
A mobile device comprising a long-range radio transceiver, a first short-range radio transceiver, a processor, a memory, and an application stored in the memory. The application, when executed by the processor, detects an event and in response to detecting the event, selects a reference to a second communication device stored in the memory based on a current location of the mobile communication device, wherein the second communication device comprises a second short-range radio transceiver configured for communication with the first short-range radio transceiver. The application further transmits a redirect message via the long-range radio transceiver to a redirect server application executing on a computer system, wherein the redirect message comprises the reference to the second communication device, whereby voice calls directed to the long-range radio transceiver are redirected to the first short-range radio transceiver via the second short-range radio transceiver of the second communication device.
US09654943B1
Unstructured message escalation may include, responsive to detecting an unanswered message from a sending mobile device of a sender to a receiving mobile device of a recipient, determining a sender-recipient relationship and a last known location of the receiving mobile device, determining a first contact of the recipient from a contact data storage device according to the sender-recipient relationship, a relationship between the recipient and the first contact, proximity, and an escalation plan for the recipient, and sending a first escalation message to the first contact. Responsive to determining that the message is unanswered subsequent to sending the first escalation message, selecting a second contact of the recipient according to the sender-recipient relationship, a relationship between the second contact and the recipient, proximity, and the escalation plan and sending a second escalation message to the second contact.
US09654941B2
Methods and apparatus for managing interruptions in a multiple communication mode environment are provided herein. For example, a method may include receiving at least first instance of communication data associated with a first communication mode; obtaining first attribute data related to the first instance of communication data; classifying the first instance of communication data into first category based on the first attribute data using the interruption management device; and determining whether to interrupt a user by delivering the first instance of communication data based on the first category. The first category may be selected from a plurality of predetermined categories using a classification algorithm.
US09654938B2
A method and apparatus for collaboration among two-way radio devices allows a portable two-way radio device and a mobile two-way radio device to each enter into a collaboration mode while the are paired with each other over a short range wireless radio network. While in the collaboration mode, when the user keys the portable two-way radio device audio is routed from the portable two-way radio device to the mobile two-way radio device over the short range wireless network and the mobile two-way radio device transmits the audio on behalf of the portable two-way radio device.
US09654930B2
A method of determining a location of a mobile device includes: detecting, at the mobile device, at least one Radio Frequency transmitter; receiving information associated with a number of Radio Frequency transmitters located within a geographical area, the number of Radio Frequency transmitters being a subset of all Radio Frequency transmitters located within the geographical area, the information being decodable to provide global locations and identifiers of the number of Radio Frequency transmitters; comparing an identifier associated with the at least one detected Radio Frequency transmitter with the global locations and identifiers of the number of Radio Frequency transmitters; and determining the location of the mobile device within the geographical area; wherein the information is received in a reduced format.
US09654928B2
An association connection is established between a first Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device operating in central mode and attached to an asset to track, and a second BLE device operating in peripheral mode and associated with a physical location within the asset management environment. An association connection is established between the second BLE device and a third BLE device operating in central mode and coupled to one or more computer processors, and the association information stored in the second BLE device to the third BLE via one or more broadcasting frames is periodically transmitted. Based on current association information between the first BLE device and the second BLE device, an identity of the asset to which the first BLE device is attached, and the physical location of the second BLE device within the asset management environment is identified.
US09654927B2
An example of the invention provides a motion detection method for a portable device. The method includes steps of: generating a first cell location data at a first time point according to signals transmitted by a plurality of base stations; generating a second cell location data at a second time point according to signals transmitted by a plurality of base stations, wherein the first time point and the second time point are two successive time points, and the first cell location data and the second cell location data includes names or identification data of base stations detected by the portable device; determining whether the portable device is moved according to the first cell location data and the second cell location data.
US09654919B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to data delivery. More specifically, some embodiments of the present technology relate to systems and methods for using spatial and temporal analysis to associate data sources with mobile devices. The delivery of data to support a wide variety of services for and about mobile devices that are based on data stored in corporate, commercial, and government databases which is not currently linked to individual mobile devices. Some embodiments allow advertisers to better target their ads to relevant target audience with greater accuracy.
US09654915B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for transmitting and receiving audio and video data. A method may include determining, by a device including one or more processors and a plurality of antennas, that the device is in an active state. The method may also include determining, via the plurality of antennas in response to a location request, location information associated with the device. Furthermore, the method may include receiving, from at least one sensor component included in the device, sensor information associated with the device. Additionally, the method may include determining, based at least in part on the location information and the sensor information, a scan rate adjustment event. The method may further include adjusting a current scan rate of the first antenna to a second scan rate.
US09654892B2
A condenser microphone utilizes a PLL circuit which includes a phase shift oscillator having an RC network that uses an electrostatic capacitance of the condenser microphone unit varying upon reception of a sound pressure and a resistance value of a variable resistance element; a phase detection unit that compares phases of a fixed frequency signal from a reference signal oscillator and an oscillation output signal from the phase shift oscillator and outputs a phase difference signal corresponding to a phase difference; a loop filter that extracts a control signal when receiving the phase difference signal from the phase detection unit; and a driver circuit that changes a resistance value of the variable resistance element provided in the phase shift oscillator based on the control signal obtained from the loop filter. The control signal obtained from the loop filter of the PLL circuit is used as an audio output signal.
US09654889B2
Example methods disclosed herein to monitor media presented by a media device include adjusting, with a circuit, an inbound audio signal input to the media device based on (i) a level of an outbound audio signal generated by the media device and (ii) a level of the inbound audio signal to produce an adjusted inbound audio signal. Such disclosed example methods also include combining, with the circuit, the adjusted inbound audio signal with a sampled version of the outbound audio signal to determine a return signal. Such disclosed example methods further include processing the return signal to determine first identification information to identify first presented media having an audio portion corresponding to the outbound audio signal generated by the media device.
US09654888B2
A universal personal hearing device is described. The universal personal hearing device includes a first microphone, an amplification circuit electrically connected to the first microphone, a speaker electrically connected to the amplification circuit for amplifying ambient sound detected by the first microphone, and a housing having at least one arcuate outer edge. The arcuate outer edge is slidably engageable with the concha wall to provide a universal fit across a variety of ears having different sizes and/or shapes. Other embodiments are described.
US09654887B2
A hearing aid comprising a microphone, a receiver, hearing aid electronics coupled to the microphone and the receiver, and conductive traces overlaying an insulator, the conductive traces configured to interconnect the hearing aid electronics and to follow non-planar contours of the insulator. Examples are provided wherein the insulator includes a hearing aid housing.
US09654885B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are methods and apparatus for allocating feedback cancellation resources for improved acoustic feedback cancellation for hearing assistance devices. In various embodiments, a hearing assistance device includes a microphone and a processor configured to receive signals from the microphone and process them according to a plurality of processing blocks. The processor is adapted to include an event detector that can provide detection of an event and an output to adjust one or more processing blocks of the overall process to more efficiently use resources of the processor for the event detected, in various embodiments.
US09654880B2
A sound generator 30 includes a piezoelectric element 1, a vibrating body 3a, a reflection member 81, a reflection member 82, an opening 21, and an opening 22. The vibrating body 3a vibrates due to vibration of the piezoelectric element 1 and generates a sound. The reflection member 81 is disposed in a first direction from the vibrating body 3a so as to be inclined with respect to the vibrating body 3a. The reflection member 82 is disposed in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, from the vibrating body 3a so as to face the reflection member 81 with the vibrating body 3a therebetween and so as to be inclined with respect to the vibrating body 3a. The opening 21 faces in a third direction. The opening 22 faces in a fourth direction, which is different from the third direction.
US09654869B2
A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for mixing a plurality of audio signals within an audio mixing system are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of audio signals, extracting at least one audio feature from each of the plurality of audio signals, determining, for each of the audio signals, an associated processing control function in accordance with a plurality of the extracted audio features, processing each audio signal in accordance with each associated processing control function, and outputting the plurality of processed audio signals.
US09654862B2
A combined fan and loudspeaker element, comprising a motor driven rotor provided with wings or blades, wherein the wings or blades are adjustable in pitch resulting together with a rotation of the rotor in an air transport flow, said wings or blades having superimposed thereon a sound-pitch modulation corresponding to a desired sound-pitch with the rotation of the rotor.
US09654861B1
Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. A personal audio system includes a class table storing processing parameters respectively associated with a plurality of annoyance noise classes, a controller, and a processor. The controller identifies an annoyance noise class of an annoyance noise included in an ambient audio stream and retrieves, from the class table, one or more processing parameters associated with the identified annoyance noise class. The processor to processes the ambient audio stream according to the one or more retrieved processing parameters class to provide a personal audio stream. The processor includes a pitch tracker to identify a fundamental frequency of the annoyance noise and a filter bank including a band reject filter tuned to the fundamental frequency.
US09654849B2
A method includes receiving a first packet payload, and where the first packet payload originates from a first top-of-rack switch (TOR) and receiving a second packet payload, where the second packet payload originates from a second TOR. The method also includes placing the first packet payload in a transport container and placing the second packet payload in the transport container. Additionally, the method includes transmitting the transport container to a photonic switch.
US09654847B2
A method of monitoring an absorption state of an absorbent article includes providing a logger unit, acquiring the absorption state of the absorbent article, and recording data indicating the acquired absorption state of the absorbent article in the logger unit. Acquiring the absorption state of the absorbent article and recording the data indicating the acquired absorption state of the absorbent article in the logger unit are each continuously performed during a monitoring period of the absorbent article. Also disclosed is a logger unit for performing this method; and a method of processing data indicating an absorption state of an absorbent article, which includes receiving sets of data indicating the absorption state of the absorbent article. Each of the sets of data indicates the absorption state of the absorbent article over a portion of a continuous period of time, and collating and/or displaying the data in continuous form. Also disclosed are data processing units for performing these data processing methods.
US09654846B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for a signal transmission for an apparatus, such as a mobile or wearable device, based on sensor fail-safety. In one instance, the apparatus may comprise a transmitter to transmit a communication signal of the apparatus at a first power level, a sensor to monitor a process that is external to the apparatus and to provide an output signal indicating a change in a state of the process, and a control module communicatively coupled with the sensor and transmitter, to determine whether the output signal provided by the sensor has indicated a change in the external process over a threshold time period, and, based on a result of this determination, cause the transmitter to switch the transmission from the first power level to a second power level that is lower than the first power level. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09654842B2
An automatic content recognition (ACR)-enabled connected TV device may be operable to identify, utilizing ACR, viewer interaction and/or viewer information. The ACR-enabled connected TV device may present, utilizing the ACR, a variant of an advertisement in a next ad pod during presentation of content, based on the identified viewer interaction and/or the identified viewer information. The viewer information may comprise customized preferences profile, default preferences setting, viewing habits, time of day and/or location. The viewer information may also comprise objects and/or events captured by an associated camera. When an identified stored episode of a show is presented via DVR playback, the ACR-enabled connected TV device may present, in a next ad pod, a new version of an advertisement, where the new version of the advertisement may be associated with a new episode of the show and presentation of the new version may result in a C3 rating credit.
US09654837B2
Provided are a method and device for providing a video of an Internet Protocol TV or Interactive Personal TV (IPTV) service. The method includes: detecting whether an IPTV service system is accessible for a Set Top Box (STB) or not; and when the IPTV system is detected to be inaccessible for the STB, providing a video for the STB through a Content Delivery Network (CDN) subsystem. By the technical solution, the technical problems that the user cannot enjoy services such as the video service in case of upgrading, server failure or network failure in the related technology are solved, and live video service can still be provided for the user even though the service of the IPTV service system is inaccessible due to upgrading, server failure or network failure.
US09654830B2
A method for facilitating the generation of recommendations of audiovisual content for a first user. The method comprises receiving data from a plurality of second users, the received data indicating audiovisual content of interest to the second users. The method further comprises processing the received data to automatically identify a plurality of relationships between interests of one or more of the second users in respective items of audiovisual content in the audiovisual content represented by the received data and generate a recommendation engine. The recommendation engine is adapted to take as input indications of audiovisual content of interest to the first user and to generate recommendations of further audiovisual content of interest to the first user based upon a subset of the plurality of relationships.
US09654801B2
An advanced video coding and decoding chip and a method with a hardware design that calculates direct current coefficients in discrete-cosine-transformed residual blocks corresponding to sixteen sub-blocks within a macroblock and alternating current coefficients in the discrete-cosine-transformed residual blocks corresponding to the sixteen sub-blocks within the macroblock separately and in parallel.
US09654799B2
A video encoding method is provided. The method includes: encoding a current region of a video by performing a transformation on the current region by using transformation units in a variable tree-structure which are determined from among transformation units that are hierarchically split from a base transformation unit with respect to the current region and which are generated based on a maximum split level of a transformation unit. The method further includes outputting encoded data of the current region, information about an encoding mode, and transformation-unit hierarchical-structure information comprising maximum size information and minimum size information of the transformation unit with respect to the video.
US09654797B2
A method for decoding an image, the method including extracting an intra prediction mode of a current block, determining a number of neighboring pixels located on a left side of the current block or an upper side of the current block, and determining a location of one or more neighboring pixels, the intra prediction mode indicating a particular direction among a plurality of directions, the particular direction being indicated by using one of a dx number in a horizontal direction and a fixed number in a vertical direction, and the location of the one or more neighboring pixels being determined based on a shift operation.
US09654793B2
Video encoding/decoding methods, corresponding computer programs and video encoding/decoding devices
A method for encoding an interlaced video comprising a sequence of alternating TOP and BOT fields is disclosed. The method for encoding comprises: producing a sequence of frames, each frame being determined from at least two consecutive fields, each field forming a rectangular region of the frame, encoding each frame of the sequence to produce an encoded video of the sequence of frames.
US09654791B1
In one example, a sequence of pictures may be transformed at a given spatial resolution to a plurality of output spatial resolutions and/or an additional spatial resolution that is lower than the plurality of output spatial resolutions. The sequence of pictures and a picture type may be received for each of the pictures at respective output spatial resolutions. Estimating a set of combinations of encoding parameters for coding tree blocks (CTBs) in each of the pictures at a lowest output spatial resolution or mapping combinations of encoding parameters for each CTB in each of the pictures at an immediate coarser spatial resolution to corresponding blocks at the respective output spatial resolution is performed. A set of combinations of encoding parameters may be determined for each CTB and best combinations of encoding parameters from the determined set of combinations may be identified for encoding the sequence of pictures.
US09654790B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video and a method and apparatus for decoding a video. The encoding method includes: splitting a picture of the video into one or more maximum coding units that are coding units having a maximum size; encoding the picture based on coding units according to depths which are obtained by hierarchically splitting each of the one or more maximum coding units according to depths in each of the one or more maximum coding units, determining coding units according to coded depths with respect to each of the coding units according to depths, and thus determining coding units having a tree structure; and outputting data that is encoded based on the coding units having the tree structure, information about the coded depths and an encoding mode, and coding unit structure information indicating a size and a variable depth of a coding unit.
US09654775B2
A weighted prediction module includes a weighted prediction parameter generation module configured to generate a plurality of initial weighted prediction parameters, to analyze the plurality of initial weighted prediction parameters, and to generate a refinement flag that indicates one of: enable parameter refinement and disable parameter refinement. A weighted prediction parameter refinement module is configured to generate a plurality of refined weighted prediction parameters by refining the plurality of initial weighted prediction parameters, when the refinement flag indicates that the parameter refinement is enabled. A weighted prediction flag generation module is configured to generate a weighted prediction flag that indicates one of: enable weighted prediction and disable weighted prediction, based on the refinement flag.
US09654774B2
In an example, a method of decoding video data includes decoding, by a video decoder, a first picture of multi-layer video data, where the first picture has a first picture type. The method also includes, based on the first picture having the first picture type, decoding, by the video decoder, data representative of picture order count (POC) most significant bits (MSB) value for the first picture.
US09654770B2
In a method for evaluating media quality, media reference quality and rebuffering event distortion quality are obtained, final media quality are determined according to the obtained media reference quality and rebuffering event distortion quality, where a parameter of the rebuffering event distortion quality includes at least one of the following: the number of rebuffering events, a duration of the rebuffering event, a multiple rebuffering event interaction impact parameter, initial media quality, and a factor describing media content complexity. When media quality is calculated, impact of the multiple rebuffering event interaction impact parameter, the initial media quality, and the factor describing media content complexity on the media quality is considered, thereby making a media quality evaluation result more accurate.
US09654769B2
Three dimensional (3-D) program content viewing system in a media environment with different media presentation devices detects a first synchronization signal transmitted from a first synchronization signal source, wherein the first synchronization signal is associated with first 3-D program content and includes a first signal identifier. The system detects a second synchronization signal transmitted from a second synchronization signal source, wherein the second synchronization signal is associated with second 3-D program content and includes a second signal identifier. The system then receives a selection of one of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal and discriminates between the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal based upon the first signal identifier and the second signal identifier. The system then controls a left lens and a right lens of 3-D shutter glasses in accordance with the selected one of the first synchronization signal and the second synchronization signal.
US09654767B2
Applications are provided that contain code of a programming language enabling simultaneous display on a screen of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional content. Furthermore, development systems and program libraries supporting the same are provided. A first command is generated by first program code of an application. The first command directs a first configuration of a first region of the screen to support the three-dimensional content. A second command is generated by second program code of the application. The second command directs a second configuration of a second region of the screen to support the two-dimensional content. The display of the three-dimensional content is caused within the first region of the screen, and the display of the two-dimensional content is caused within the second region of the screen.
US09654758B2
The subject disclosure is generally directed towards synchronizing live streaming videos with additional sources of contextually-related data. In one or more aspects, contextually-related data is marked with a timestamp, with a reference to each piece of data maintained in a manifest. The manifest is accessed to locate the contextually relevant information (e.g., on a companion device or the video playing device) in synchronization with the streaming video, such that a user is able to pause/stop/rewind/fast forward while maintaining the timeline synchronization between video and the data.
US09654756B1
Panchromatic pixels and chromatic pixels are interpolated into color channels per pixel of an output image. First, panchromatic pixels and chromatic pixels are used to generate an intermediate image with panchromatic channel, and color channels per pixel. At least three color channels of a first color space can be converted to a first panchromatic light intensity channel in a second color space and at least two first chrominance channels in the second color space based on a detected correlated color temperature. A ratio per pixel between the first panchromatic light intensity channel in the second color space and a second panchromatic light intensity channel in the second color space can be calculated, where the second panchromatic light intensity channel can be based on a panchromatic value per pixel. The ratio can be applied to the at least two first chrominance channels per pixel to determine pixel values in at least two second chrominance channels of the second color space. Channels per pixel can be converted from the second color space including the at least two second chrominance channels and the second panchromatic light intensity channel to a color space.
US09654744B2
The present invention is directed towards a frequency modulated (FM) burst mode optical system that allows optical signals having a common wavelength provided by a plurality of FM burst mode optical transmitters to be passively combined onto a single optical fiber. A single FM optical receiver receives the combined signals and processes them accordingly. Each FM burst mode optical transmitter includes an FM modulator, a carrier detect circuit and a laser. The FM modulator modulates a carrier signal, such as a 1.21 GHz signal, with received reverse electrical signals. When a subcarrier signal is detected by the carrier detect circuit, the laser is turned and the frequency modulated carrier signal is used to intensity modulate a laser to provide an optical signal. Due to the burst-mode transmission of optical signals, the optical signals can be passively combined and transmitted to a single optical receiver.
US09654739B1
A system and method for controlling and selecting sources in a room on a network. The system allows a remote viewer to create a virtual presence within the room by providing the available displays, corresponding to the sources, to the remote viewer. The system includes a standardizing technique for improving the communication and overall switching of data for streaming on a network. The system can include a recording server for performing dual recording of the video files in each of a local database and a remote database. A graphical user interface (GUI) display is provided to guide a local user through a medical procedure in the standardized system.
US09654725B2
A video processing method, a video displaying method, and a video processing device are provided. The video processing device performs the video processing method and the video displaying method. The video processing method includes the following steps. First, receive a full frame according to a global frame rate. Then, according to a first local frame rate different from the global frame rate, determine whether to capture a first local frame from the global frame. Finally, combine the first local frame and the global frame to generate a synthesized frame. The video processing method, the video displaying method and the video processing device produce better quality and smaller file size of image data.
US09654719B2
In a method for identifying a user in a network of broadcast communication receivers, a physical characteristic of a user is analyzed in association with the user accessing a first of the receivers. First biometric information based on the characteristic as analyzed in association with the user accessing the first receiver is generated. Data associated with use of the first receiver by the user is also generated and associated with the first biometric information. The physical characteristic of the user is then analyzed in association with the user accessing a second receiver. Second biometric information based on the physical characteristic as analyzed in association with the user accessing the second receiver is generated. The first and second biometric information are then compared. If the first and second biometric information indicate the physical characteristic of the same user, the data is employed in conjunction with the user accessing the second receiver.
US09654711B2
A system and method for scaling an image includes receiving raw image data comprising input pixel values which correspond to pixels of an image sensor, filtering pixels in a spatial domain, and filtering pixels in a frequency domain according to an oversampling ratio. The system and method may also include outputting scaled image data as output pixel values, which correspond to subgroups of the input pixel values. The filtering may be done according to a Bayer-consistent ruleset which includes a set of filter weights and a series of scaling rules. The oversampling ratio is set to minimize an error after the filtering in the spatial domain and the filtering in the frequency domain.
US09654709B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a second image sensor having an organic photoelectric conversion film transmitting a specific light, and a first image sensor which is stacked in layers on a same semiconductor substrate as that of the second image sensor and which receives the specific light having transmitted the second image sensor, in which a pixel for focus detection is provided in the second image sensor or the first image sensor. Therefore, an AF method can be realized independently of a pixel for imaging.
US09654707B2
The image processing apparatus performs an image process on a first image produced by image capturing. The apparatus includes: a memory storing coefficient data containing coefficients to be used in an approximation function to approximate a PSF of an image capturing optical system, and a processor performs the image process. The processor produces an approximated point spread function by using the coefficient of the coefficient data corresponding to an optical state of the optical system in the image capturing and two of a pixel pitch of an image sensor, a kernel size of a filter to be used for a sharpening process on the first image and number of taps of the filter; produce the filter by using the approximated PSF; and produce a second image that is a sharpened image by applying the filter to the first image.
US09654701B2
A plurality of input images in an input video signal of a wide dynamic range is received. A specific setting of global light modulation is determined based on a specific input image in the plurality of input images. The specific setting of global light modulation produces a specific dynamic range window. A plurality of input code values in the specific input image is converted to a plurality of output code values in a specific output image corresponding to the specific input image. The plurality of output code values produces the same or substantially the same luminance levels as represented by the plurality of input code values. Any other pixels in the specific input image are converted to different luminance levels in the specific output image through display management.
US09654694B2
A camera with a pair of lens/sensor combinations, the two lenses having different focal lengths, so that the image from one of the combinations has a field of view approximately two to three times greater than the image from the other combination. As a user of the camera requests a given amount of zoom, the zoomed image provided will come from the lens/sensor combination having the field of view that is next larger than the requested field of view. Thus, if the requested field of view is less than the smaller field of view combination, the zoomed image will be created from the image captured by that combination, using cropping and interpolation if necessary. Similarly, if the requested field of view is greater than the smaller field of view combination, the zoomed image will be created from the image captured by the other combination, using cropping and interpolation if necessary.
US09654689B2
A sequence of digital images are produced using an imaging sensor circuit, wherein each of the digital images was a result of light capture by the imaging sensor circuit during a respective pixel integration phase followed by analog to digital conversion during a respective readout phase. A camera actuator is driven while producing the sequence of images, wherein during a part of every respective readout phase for the sequence of digital images the actuator is driven using a linear drive circuit, and wherein during a part of every respective pixel integration phase the actuator is driven using a switch mode drive circuit. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09654688B2
Provided is an image processing device which includes: an event detector configured to detect a first event occurring at the AP by analyzing a response signal which the AP transmits to a transceiver of a camera in response to a query signal transmitted from the transceiver to the AP; and a power controller configured to place a sensor, the transceiver and a plurality of other elements constituting the camera in an activated state, in response to the event detector detecting the first event, wherein the power controller places the other elements in a deactivated state while at least one of the sensor and the transceiver is in the activated place, unless the first event is detected by the event detector, a second event is detected by the sensor, or a predetermined setting is provided.
US09654685B2
A camera apparatus and method enabling a user to conveniently control an operation of the camera apparatus according to a gesture of a subject for photography input through a lens of a camera, and a method of controlling the camera apparatus are provided. The method includes generating a current frame by receiving an image input through a camera; comparing the current frame and one or more previous frames stored before the current frame and detecting a gesture of a subject for photography included in the current frame and the one or more previous frames; determining whether the gesture is a gesture UI; and when the gesture is the gesture UI, executing an operation corresponding to the gesture UI.
US09654682B2
An imaging apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a focus lens, a motor for driving the focus lens, an origin detection unit for detecting an arrival of the focus lens at a reference position, a drive amount detection unit for detecting an amount of drive of the focus lens driven by the motor, and a controller for recognizing a position of the focus lens based on an output from the drive amount detection unit and for controlling the position of the focus lens. The controller receives a detection signal from the origin detection unit during driving the focus lens, and determines an occurrence of step-out of the motor based on both the received detection signal and the position of the focus lens recognized by the controller.
US09654671B2
An imaging device including a light source; a two-dimensional image sensor that receives reflected light from a subject containing specular light of the light source and outputs an image of the subject; a light transmission member disposed in an optical path of light emitted from the light source to the subject; and a light shielding unit that, when a position on the subject at which light from the light source is regularly reflected and enters the two-dimensional image sensor is defined as a first specular position, whereas a position on the light transmission member at which light from the light source is regularly reflected and enters the two-dimensional image sensor is defined as a second specular position, shields the light directed from the light source toward the second specular position without shielding the light directed from the light source toward the first specular position.
US09654670B2
A color conversion table creation device includes an image reading unit, a first color conversion unit color-converting read image data using a first color conversion table indicating a correspondence relationship between signal values obtained by the image reading unit and chromaticity values, a second color conversion unit color-converting document image data into print image data using an input and output color conversion tables, an image association unit performing an association process for a positional relationship between each piece of read image data of a printed matter obtained according to print image data and a target printed matter or each piece of read chromaticity value image data converted into chromaticity values and the document image data, and a color conversion table creation unit creating a color conversion table to be used in the second color conversion table based on differences between chromaticity values of the target printed matter and printed matter.
US09654665B2
An image forming apparatus including: a conveying unit that conveys a transfer medium; an image forming unit that prints an image on the transfer medium based on an image for printing; and a control unit that receives a detection result of an image detection unit that detects the image printed on the transfer medium, wherein the control unit has a determination function used when an image for which image detection is possible and an image for which image detection is not possible are added to a document image to form the image for printing, the determination function being adapted to exclude an area of the image for which image detection is possible and to determine a state of the printed image based on comparison of information of the detected image and information of the image for printing.
US09654664B2
Disclosed is a non-transitory storage medium storing a communication program for causing a processor to execute a method including steps of receiving an input of facsimile data; determining whether an identification image is added to the received facsimile data; a step of retrieving, when the identification image is added, information indicating an association with different facsimile data from the identification image that is added to the facsimile data; storing the received facsimile data in a predetermined memory, wherein the received facsimile data is associated with the different facsimile data based on the retrieved information; generating, when the identification image is not added, the information indicating the association with the different facsimile data; and adding, to the facsimile data, the identification image that is generated based on the information indicating the association with the different facsimile data.
US09654655B2
An image reading device includes an image scanning portion, a page classification portion, a preview output portion, a page classification correction portion, and a file replacement portion. The preview output portion generates a primary image data file including: a plurality of pieces of page image data; and page classification information that allows the non-blank page and the blank page to be separated from each other, and displays, on a display portion, an image of the non-blank page and an image of the blank page so as to be separated from each other. The page classification correction portion corrects the page classification information according to correction operation. The file replacement portion replaces the primary image data file with a secondary image data file that does not include the data of the blank page.
US09654647B2
A system and method that includes receiving a communication request of an account, the communication request including communication properties; identifying at least two routing options of a route priority list, the routing options capable of completing the communication request and identified according to a priority heuristic; generating a communication cost from the communication properties; and upon receipt of the routing response and the communication cost response, executing a communication with a routing option of the routing priority list and committing a cost of the communication to the account.
