US09747989B1
A memory device and a control method of the memory device are provided. The memory device includes a decoding circuit, Q switching circuits and Q blocks. The decoding circuit generates Q select signals. A k-th select signal of the Q select signals has a first select voltage. The other (Q−1) select signals have a second select voltage. The Q switching circuits receive an erase voltage, and generate Q common source line signals according to the Q select signals. A k-th common source line signal of the Q common source line signals generated by a k-th switching circuit of the Q switching circuits has the erase voltage. The Q blocks receive the Q common source line signals, respectively. A k-th block of the Q blocks is erased according to the k-th common source line signal.
US09747975B2
A phase change memory may be formed which is amenable to multilevel programming. The phase change material may be formed with a lateral extent which does not exceed the lateral extent of an underlying heater. As a result, the possibility of current bypassing the amorphous phase change material in the reset state is reduced, reducing the programming current that is necessary to prevent this situation. In addition, a more controllable multilevel phase change memory may be formed in some embodiments.
US09747974B2
A non-volatile memory apparatus includes a non-volatile storage circuit and a controller. The non-volatile storage circuit reads a corresponding data voltage set, and converts the corresponding data voltage set to the corresponding data in accordance with the read-voltage parameter of the controller. The controller decides whether to perform the on-the-fly self-adaptive read-voltage adjustment in accordance with the number of error bits of the corresponding data. The on-the-fly self-adaptive read-voltage adjustment includes: providing a left (or lower) read-voltage parameter to the non-volatile storage circuit for converting the corresponding data voltage set to the left corresponding data; providing a right (or higher) read-voltage parameter to the non-volatile storage circuit for converting the corresponding data voltage set to the right corresponding data; and deciding the adjusting-direction and the adjusting-amount of the read-voltage parameter in accordance with the relationship between the corresponding data, the left corresponding data and the right corresponding data.
US09747965B2
A circuit and method for adaptive trimming of the reference signal for sensing data during a read operation of magnetic memory cells to improve read margin for the magnetic memory cells. The circuit has a trim one-time programmable memory array programmed with offset trim data applied to magnetic memory array sense amplifiers. Sense amplifier trimming circuits receive and decode the trim data to determine offset trim signal magnitude to adjust the reference signal to improve the read margin. The method sets the offset trim level to each increment of the offset trim level. Data is written and read to the magnetic memory array, the number of errors in the array is accumulated for each setting of the offset trim level. The error levels are compared and the appropriate trim level is programmed to the trim memory cells such that a read margin of the sense amplifier is improved.
US09747964B2
Electronic devices have a semiconductor memory unit including a magnetization compensation layer in a contact plug. One implementation of the semiconductor memory unit includes a variable resistance element having a stacked structure of a first magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a second magnetic layer, and a contact plug arranged in at least one side of the variable resistance element and comprising a magnetization compensation layer. Another implementation includes a variable resistance element having a stacked structure of a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization, a tunnel barrier layer, and a second magnetic layer having a pinned magnetization; and a contact plug arranged at one side of and separated from the variable resistance element to include a magnetization compensation layer that produces a magnetic field to reduce an influence of a magnetic field of the second magnetic layer on the first magnetic layer.
US09747954B2
Provided is a video recorder including a case body comprising a space for housing a plurality of electronic parts, the plurality of electronic parts including: an optical disk drive (ODD) holder attached to an ODD; and a hard disk drive (HDD) holder attached to an HDD; a front panel on which a front printed circuit board (PCB) is mounted and which covers a front side of the case body; and a rear panel on which a rear PCB is mounted and which covers a rear side of the case body.
US09747953B1
A base member of a disk drive apparatus includes a window portion, a first groove, and a communicating groove. The window portion passes through a bottom plate portion of the base member in an axial direction. The first groove is defined in an upper surface of the bottom plate portion around the window portion. A connector includes a board portion and an electrode terminal on a lower surface of the board portion. The board portion is on the upper surface of the bottom plate portion to cover the window portion, the first groove, and a portion of the communicating groove. The communicating groove extends from the first groove up to a position outside of an outer circumferential portion of the connector. An adhesive layer is between the upper surface of the bottom plate portion and the lower surface of the board portion.
US09747951B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for presenting a timeline interface in association with video content features. A user interface is rendered on a display, where the user interface includes selectable cast member components and a timeline component. The timeline component corresponds to a video content feature and visually segments it into scenes. A user selection of a particular selectable cast member component is received, and a subset of scenes in which a corresponding cast member performs is determined based at least in part on extrinsic data. The timeline component is updated to visually indicate the subset of scenes.
US09747943B2
A storage device includes a controller that directs incoming data to a storage location based on a capacity of a region or surface of a magnetic disc. According to one implementation, the storage device controller writes new data to data tracks in a first series of data tracks on the magnetic disc until a capacity condition is satisfied. Once the capacity condition is satisfied, the storage device controller writes new data to a second series of data tracks on the storage medium that are interlaced with data tracks of the first series.
US09747938B1
A disc recorder and player apparatus includes a plurality of recorder and player subsystems, a disc motor, and a controller. Each of the recorder and player subsystems includes a pickup and a traverse motor. When one of the recorder and player subsystems writes or reads data on or from a first track on the disc recording medium, the controller prohibits the other of the recorder and player subsystems from writing and reading data on and from a second track on the disc recording medium as well as moving the pickup to the second track, the second track being at a position different from a position of the first track, and the second track being to be accessed at a rotational speed different from a rotational speed for the first track.
US09747933B1
A magneto-resistive effect element (MR element) has an upper shield that is magnetized in a cross track direction, a lower shield that is positioned at an interval relative to the upper shield in a down track direction, and a multilayer film that is positioned between the upper shield and the lower shield and that faces an air bearing surface (ABS). The multilayer film has a free layer where its magnetization direction fluctuates relative to an external magnetic field, a pinned layer where its magnetization direction is pinned against the external magnetic field, a nonmagnetic spacer layer that is positioned between the free layer and the pinned layer, and an insulating layer that is positioned at a back side of the free layer viewed from the ABS. The MR element further has a pair of side shields that are positioned at both sides of the free layer and the insulating layer in a cross track direction. The side shields contact the upper shield on the sides of the free layer and the insulating layer in the cross track direction.
US09747929B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method for forming a HAMR head. The method includes depositing a drop-on-demand mask on a portion of a surface of a slider using a drop-on-demand tool. The surface of the slider includes at least a portion of an NFT. A first protective layer is deposited over a remaining portion of the surface of the slider and over the drop-on-demand mask. The drop-on-demand mask and a portion of the first protective layer disposed on the drop-on-demand mask are removed, exposing at least the portion of the NFT. A second protective layer is deposited on the first protective layer and at least the exposed portion of the NFT. By using the drop-on-demand tool to deposit the drop-on-demand mask, the alignment between the drop-on-demand mask and the portion of the NFT is less stringent, and the drop-on-demand mask can be easily removed using a wiping tool.
US09747928B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a first head actuated over a first disk surface, wherein the first head comprises a laser configured to heat the first disk surface while writing data to the first disk surface. A write power is applied to the laser when executing a first write operation, and the first write operation is paused when a transient increase in the output power of the laser is detected. In another embodiment, a write-verify of the written data is executed when a transient decrease in the output power of the laser is detected.
US09747923B2
An audio rendering device enhances voice audio such that audible voice is not overwhelmed by other aspects of the soundtrack. The device attenuates right and left channels in an audio stream in response to a detected voice component in the audio stream, and boosts the voice component in the audio stream based on the level of attenuation of the right and left channels. Voice components are distinguished from the non-voice components by separating center channel and mono information from the left, right and surround channels. Non-voice components are attenuated down towards a non-voice threshold level based on an attenuation ratio. Voice components are boosted up toward a voice threshold level, so that the spoken voice is more audible to viewers and not overwhelmed or drowned out by the non-voice aspects of the soundtrack.
US09747920B2
An echo cancellation system that performs audio beamforming to separate audio input into multiple directions and determines a target signal and a reference signal from the multiple directions. For example, the system may detect a strong signal associated with a speaker and select the strong signal as a reference signal, selecting another direction as a target signal. The system may determine a speech position and may select the speech position as a target signal and an opposite direction as a reference signal. The system may create pairwise combinations of opposite directions, with an individual direction being selected as a target signal and a reference signal. The system may select a fixed beamformer output for the target signal and an adaptive beamformer output for the reference signal, or vice versa. The system may remove the reference signal (e.g., audio output by the loudspeaker) to isolate speech included in the target signal.
US09747913B2
An apparatus determining a weighting function for line prediction coding coefficients quantization converts a linear prediction coding (LPC) coefficient of an input signal into one of a line spectral frequency (LSF) coefficient and an immitance spectral frequency (ISF) coefficient and determines a weighting function associated with one of an importance of the ISF coefficient and importance of the LSF coefficient using one of the converted ISF coefficient and the converted LSF coefficient.
US09747911B2
In general, techniques are described for indicating reuse of a syntax element indicating a vector quantization codebook used in compressing a vector. A device comprising a processor and a memory may perform the techniques. The processor may be configured to obtain a bitstream comprising a vector in a spherical harmonics domain. The bitstream may further comprise an indicator for whether to reuse, from a previous frame, a syntax element indicative of a vector quantization codebook used when compressing the vector. The memory may be configured to store the bitstream.
US09747910B2
A device comprising a memory and one or more processors may be configured extract, from the bitstream, a type of quantization mode. The one or more processors may also be configured to switch, based on the type of quantization mode, between non-predictive vector dequantization to reconstruct a first set of one or more weights used to approximate the multi-directional V-Vector in the higher order ambisonics domain, and predictive vector dequantization to reconstruct a second set of one or more weights used to approximate the multi-directional V-Vector in the higher order ambisonics domain. The memory may be configured to store the reconstructed first set of one or more weights used to approximate the multi-directional V-Vector in the higher order ambisonics domain, and the reconstructed second set of one or more weights used to approximate the multi-directional V-Vector in the higher order ambisonics domain.
US09747888B2
A reverberator for reverberating an audio signal includes a feedback delay loop processor for delaying at least two frequency subband signals representing the audio signal by different loop delays to obtain reverberated frequency subband signals.
US09747885B2
According to one embodiment, a noise reduction system for reducing noise including impact noise repetitively generated at a time interval includes the following elements. The error signal generator generates an error signal based on the noise being detected. The delay signal generator has a time delay characteristic and delays a signal, which is generated based on the error signal, to generate a delay signal, the time delay characteristic being determined based on an imaging sequence or pre-scanning by the MRI device and corresponding to the time interval. The control filter generates the first control signal from the delay signal. The loudspeaker unit includes at least one pair of a first filter and a control loudspeaker and a transmission unit.
US09747878B1
A music generating system enables a user to generate independent and sequential musical melodies, having reduced latency periods, without playing an electronic percussion instrument. The music generating system includes an electronic percussion instrument, a MIDI controller coupled to the electronic percussion instrument, a unidirectional USB communication link coupled to the MIDI controller, a MIDI converter coupled to the unidirectional USB communication link, a bidirectional USB-MIDI communication link coupled to the MIDI converter, and a rhythm drum machine in communication with the bidirectional USB-MIDI communication link. The MIDI converter is configured to independently and sequentially receive and learn a first audio control signal and a second audio control signal in a non-overlapping pattern, and thereby independently and sequentially generates and transmits to the rhythm drum machine a first musical melody and a second musical melody corresponding to the first audio control signal and the second audio control signal, respectively.
US09747877B2
There is provided a musical instrument support device comprising: first and second elongate pads spaced from each other, where each of the first and second elongate pads include an inner portion and an outer portion surrounding the inner portion; front strings coupled to front ends of the first and second elongate pads respectively; rear strings coupled to rear ends of first and second elongate pads and respectively; and a musical instrument connector coupled to the front strings wherein the musical instrument connector is configured to be removably coupled to the musical instrument.
US09747868B2
A foldable display device and a method of controlling therefor, and more particularly, to a method of configuring illuminance of a display screen according to an illuminance value detected based on a folding angle between a first body and a second body of the foldable display device.
US09747867B2
A display control apparatus includes a viewing condition recognition circuit, a content classification circuit, and a display adjustment circuit. The viewing condition recognition circuit recognizes a viewing condition associated with a display device to generate a viewing condition recognition result. The content classification circuit analyzes an input frame to generate a content classification result of contents included in the input frame. The display adjustment circuit generates an output frame by performing image content adjustment according to the viewing condition recognition result and the content classification result, wherein the image content adjustment comprises at least content-adaptive adjustment applied to at least a portion of pixel positions of the input frame based on the content classification result.
US09747858B2
The present invention provides a source driver and a source drive method of a liquid crystal panel of unequal row drive width. By providing the input signal decoding control unit electrically coupled to the plurality of data signal output channels and encoding the data signal output channel start address signal and the data signal output channel end address signal in the transport packages of the data signal to be transported to the input signal decoding control unit, the input signal decoding control unit controls the amount of activated data signal output channels to adjust the row drive width for each scan according to the received data signal output channel start address signal and the received data signal output channel end address signal. The row drive width of scan for each row can be dynamically adjusted to transport the data signal to the pixels required to display in each row. It is applicable for non rectangular display for reducing the output power of the liquid crystal panel and the source driver of the liquid crystal panel of unequal row drive width is derived from the present drive structure design. The structure is simple.
US09747857B2
A display device includes: data-line pairs arranged side by side along a first direction; gate lines arranged side by side along a second direction; a display section including pixels each disposed at an intersection of a data-line pair and a gate line and connected to one or both of the data-line pair; a data-line drive circuit supplying a positive-phase data signal to one of the data-line pair and a negative-phase data signal to the other, and allowing the data-line pair to stay in a high-impedance state before writing of an image signal to the pixels; and a short circuit putting the data-line pair in a short-circuit state while the data-line pair stays in the high-impedance state, and then releasing the short-circuit state Following the release of the short-circuit state, the positive-phase data signal or/and the negative-phase data signal are written into the pixel as the image signal.
US09747856B2
A display device includes a plurality of gate lines extended in a first direction, a plurality of common electrodes extended in the first direction, a gate scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the gate lines, and a common scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the common electrodes. The common scanning circuit includes a shift register unit, an interconnection connecting unit, and a switch unit. The gate scanning circuit and the common scanning circuit are configured of single channel thin film transistors. The gate scanning circuit is disposed between the shift register unit and the interconnection connecting unit, and the interconnection connecting unit is disposed between the gate scanning circuit and the switch unit in a planar view.
US09747829B2
Variance in luminance deterioration in a display is suppressed. A display device in which a self-illuminating display element is used to display information comprises a display component in which are disposed a plurality of pixels made up of a plurality of colors of sub-pixels, and a controller for controlling the drive of the display component. The controller records an accumulated luminance for each sub-pixel, and calculates a luminance adjustment amount for each sub-pixel based on the difference between the accumulated luminance values. The controller also detects when no one is viewing the display device, produces a corrected image according to the luminance adjustment amount, and displays the corrected image on the display component while no one is viewing the display device.
US09747828B2
The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel comprising: a display area in which a display area in which an array of pixel units is disposed, each of the pixel unit at least comprises a blue sub-pixel; a plurality of scan lines for providing a plurality of scan signals to the pixel units; and a plurality of data lines for providing a plurality of data signals to the pixel units, wherein the blue sub-pixels of the pixel units in every two neighbored columns are coupled to a first data line, and the first data line provides an identical data signal to the blue sub-pixels in a same line of the two neighbored columns. The present invention further discloses a method for driving the liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display comprising the liquid crystal panel in the disclosure.
US09747824B1
A center of gravity adjustable twirling device detachably attaches to a fabric-article at a peripheral attachment point or a central attachment point, and enables rotation of fabric-article, causing the fabric-article to unfurl and twirl at a rate and style dependent on the center of gravity formed from varying attachment points on the fabric-article. A rod forms the central axis of the device. A textured outer sleeve encapsulates the rod and enables secure grasping of the device. A first axis positions in the outer sleeve, fixedly attaching to a first rod end. A fastening mechanism at a sleeve distal end of the sleeve serves to retain the fabric article. The fastening mechanism rotates freely about the first axis while retaining the fabric-article. The rotating fastening mechanism and the stationary first axis form a rotational relationship with low friction coefficient. A second axis pins a strap to the second rod end.
US09747818B1
A sign holder system having a back plate and a front plate. The back plate is mountable to a wall surface, and the front plate is removably secured to the back plate. The front plate has a forward-facing surface for displaying indicia, such as a room number or a person's name. The back plate includes at least one recessed opening for receiving a clip attached to the back of the front plate. The recessed opening also includes a recessed pocket. The clip can be slid into the recessed pocket to secure the front plate to the back plate. The recessed pocket can have a ridge which engages with an elevated portion of the clip having similar or matching geometry. The ridge can have a wall that abuts the clip to lock the clip over the ridge. The back plate can additionally include a keyway for permitting a key to pass therethrough. The key has an end that, when inserted through the keyway, deflects the clip away from the ridge, thereby releasing the clip from the ridge and permitting the front plate to be released from the back plate.
US09747814B2
An approach to notifying a person who is hard of hearing of audible events based on a configurable device. The device has microphones and associated buttons mounted on its surface. The user programs the device by depressing a selected button longer than a preconfigured time to place the device in listen mode. The user generates the desired audible event and the device records the audible event. The selected button is depressed again to instruct the device to associate the audible event with a visual alarm indicator of colored/flashing lights and/or a text projection. The device listens for the audible event and activates the visual alarm indicator when the device detects the audible event.
US09747808B2
An Unmanned Aerial System configured to receive a request from a user and fulfill that request using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The Unmanned Aerial System selects a distribution center that is within range of the user, and deploys a suitable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to fulfill the request from that distribution center. The Unmanned Aerial System is configured to provide real-time information about the flight route to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during its flight, and the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is configured to dynamically update its mission based on information received from the Unmanned Aerial System.
US09747805B2
Methods and arrangements for measuring similarity with respect to moving object trajectories. First and second moving object trajectories are input, each trajectory being defined by at least two spatial dimensions and a temporal dimension. At least one segment is defined with respect to each trajectory, each segment being defined between two defining points. At least one segment from the first trajectory is matched with at least one segment from the second trajectory. A spatial distance and temporal distance are each computed between the at least one segment from the first trajectory and the at least one segment from the second trajectory. The spatial distance and temporal distance are combined to provide a measure of a spatio-temporal distance between the at least one segment from the first trajectory and the at least one segment from the second trajectory. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09747802B2
Described are methods and systems for collision avoidance in an underground mine environment that use one or more of a computer vision component, an asset tracking system, and a motion detection component for the purpose of determining and responding to potential collision threats. Imaging is captured and processed in real time, so that assets of interest can be identified and used in evaluating potential for collision with other assets. Location data from an asset tracking system is likewise evaluated and used to determine proximity of assets in relation to the host. A final input is provided by the motion detection component that intelligently determines movement patterns and direction of travel. Once these components' inputs are collectively evaluated, a proximity or a threat value is generated which determine an audible or visual signal or action to prevent collision and increase safety in unfavorable conditions.
US09747801B2
A method for classifying surroundings of a motor vehicle includes: providing a hypothesis regarding the class to which the surroundings belong; sampling pieces of information from the surroundings of the motor vehicle; determining a criterion which supports or weakens the hypothesis based on the sampled pieces of information; and determining a probability of the hypothesis being correct, using the criterion with the aid of Bayesian filtering.
US09747799B2
A modulating and demodulating section receives, from another radio device, a packet signal including at least position information of another vehicle in which the other radio device is mounted. A position information acquiring section acquires position information of the vehicle in which the radio device is mounted. An estimating section estimates a time taken for the vehicle and the other vehicle to encounter each other on the basis of these two pieces of position information. A deriving section derives a distance between the vehicle and the other vehicle on the basis of these two pieces of position information. A determining section provides notification of an encounter with the other vehicle in a case where the estimated time is equal to or less than a first threshold value or in a case where the derived distance is equal to or less than a second threshold value.
US09747790B1
A device, method, and computer-readable medium for correcting at least one error in readings of electricity meters, the method including receiving first readings of regular meters measuring electric energy delivered in each of a group of cables fed from a same distribution node in an electric grid during a period of time, receiving second readings of check meters measuring electric energy delivered in each of combinations of cables in the group of cables during the period of time, the combinations of cables being formed based on a redundant matrix in a generator matrix of a linear systematic block code, and correcting, in response to determining that at least one error been detected, the at least one error in the first readings of the regular meters and the second readings of the check meters.
US09747787B2
Described are methods, recording media, and devices for configuring a home-automation installation comprising at least one first part of the home-automation installation and one second part of the home-automation installation and one configuration device.The first part of the home-automation installation comprises elements including a remote control unit and equipment controlled by the remote control unit, communicating over a first home-automation network, the first part having a first key, and the second part of the home-automation installation comprises elements including a remote control unit and equipment controlled by the remote control unit, communicating over a second home-automation network, the second part having a second key.
US09747779B2
Devices, systems, and methods for facilitating hand hygiene compliance are provided including a device for dispensing hygiene maintenance material that also monitors a detection zone to determine if an individual is present. A hygiene facilitation system is also provided comprising a retrofittable hygiene facilitation device that can be mounted on, or collocated with, conventional hygiene devices. The devices, systems, and methods hereof provide alerts and, optionally, tracking of use of the dispensing device and the relation of that use compared to a desired use profile.
US09747778B2
In one embodiment, a monitoring method is described. The method includes detecting a set of contextual information by a monitoring device, and retrieving from the monitoring device a particular compliance query that adapts to the detected contextual information from one or more compliance queries.
US09747768B1
Methods and systems receive location identification tokens from transmitters using a portable computerized device. A first location identification token is received from a first location transmitting device, while the portable computerized device is within a predetermined distance from a designated location. A second location identification token is received from a second location transmitting device. A current location signature is calculated using the first and second location identification tokens. A previously stored location signature associated with the first and second location identification tokens is obtained from a computer readable storage medium. The current location signature is compared with the previously stored location signature to determine a similarity measure. The location identification tokens and the current location signature are stored in a memory and transmitted to a server. The presence of the portable computerized device at the designated location is verified based on the location identification tokens and the current location signature.
US09747767B2
An acoustic magnetic tag includes a housing, a resonant sheet, and a biasing magnetic sheet received in the main body. The housing includes a main body having an opening, a first connecting portion connected to one side of the main body, a second connecting portion connected to an other side of the main body opposite to the one side, a partition connected to the first connecting portion, and a cover connected to the second connecting portion. The partition is rotated relative to the main body to be received in the main body by folding the first connecting portion, and the cover is rotated relative to the main body to cover the opening by folding the second connecting portion. The partition is positioned between the resonant sheet and the biasing magnetic sheet.
US09747759B2
The invention relates to a cash register system (10) comprising a scanner (12, 14) for scanning articles and a deposit unit (18) for depositing the scanned articles. Further, the cash register system (10) comprises a sensor unit (22, 30) for detecting a sequence of motions of the user of the cash register system (10). A control unit selects one of several preset cash register functions dependent on the sequence of motions detected by means of the sensor unit (20, 30) and controls the cash register system (10) accordingly.
US09747749B1
A system having a plurality of interconnected controls is provided for playing multiple-wager casino card games using gaming tables found at one or more casinos. Both physical and electronic cards can be utilized, depending on game play outcomes. Information related to game play can be sent by one or more table controls to a central control through one or more casino controls for use in generating additional information. A token detection apparatus, which includes a particular one of the table controls, provides un-modulated light for use in detecting whether or not a token is present as part of game play. The token is used in making a progressive/fixed amount wager.
US09747748B2
A system for pari-mutuel wagering on actual past events includes, in one embodiment, game terminals and a game server, all couplable to a network. The game terminals are configured to receive respective initial pari-mutuel wagers on a historic gaming event from respective players. The game terminals are further configured to receive respective winner selections for the historic gaming event for respective players. The game server is configured to randomly select the historical gaming event from a database and determine respective payouts for the game terminals based on results of the historical gaming event and the respective winner selections. The game server is further configured to admit at least one of the respective players to a bonus game, provide a bonus pool for the bonus game, and determine bonus payouts from the bonus pool to the at least one of the respective players based on bonus game results.
US09747741B2
Presently disclosed embodiments are directed to systems and methods for bundling smaller stacks of bank notes into larger sized bundles that are efficient for transportation. The system may include an in-line bundler disposed along pockets of a currency processor for receiving stacks of bank notes directly from the pocket. That way, the smaller stacks of bank notes do not have to be removed from the currency processor and transported to a separate bundler machine. Instead, the currency processor features a desired number of bundler machines disposed in-line with the corresponding pockets where the bank notes are initially received and stacked. This arrangement may enable efficient stacking and bundling of bank notes sorted via the currency processor.
US09747737B2
A locking device employs improved lock management techniques based on time delay polices that use a random period of time. The locking device receives a first credential of a custodian, validates the first credential and determines a random period of time based upon a time-delay policy when the first credential is validated. The locking device executes a lock release protocol upon expiration of the random period of time.
US09747735B1
A predictive physical access control and security intervention system includes a credential device, indicia sensors, portal actuators; and a data store of historic and predicted travel events, whereby out of norm behaviors trigger elevated security intervention processes. A system detects, identifies, and measures occupancy and transit patterns of identities within and through a spatial volume. A processor performs statistical calculations of dwell time, movement patterns, path vectors, frequency of entry or exit, and transmission of attribute assertions containing trusted information to subscribers. The method transforms radio signals emitted by personal communications and identity devices into metrics of human traffic patterns, behavior conducive to commercial and security interests, and provides identity attributes containing trusted information to identity service subscribers.
US09747734B2
A device receives a first input for authenticating a user and determines the first input fails to authenticate the user. One or more errors are identified in the input which match a tremor pattern for the user and the one or more errors are corrected to generate a corrected input. The user is authenticated using the corrected input.
US09747730B2
A vehicle driver is provided with a display interface a smartphone, tablet, PC, or any telematics or in-vehicle device installed in the vehicle. The display interface presents a real-time target for the driver to follow to maximize fuel economy and safety, achieved by modulating the accelerator pedal appropriately.
US09747720B2
Method and device for processing a geometry image generated from a mesh associated with a 3D scene and comprising a plurality of charts that each represents a part of the 3D scene, the method comprising computing a reference direction from mesh coordinates associated with a current pixel and mesh coordinates associated with a first pixel, the first pixel corresponding to a pixel of the border of the first chart located along a determined direction having as origin the current pixel; comparing the reference direction with a set of candidate directions being each computed from the mesh coordinates associated with the at least one current pixel and indirection mesh coordinates associated with one pixel of the neighbourhood of the first pixel, the indirection mesh coordinates corresponding to mesh coordinates of a pixel of the border a second chart corresponding to the pixel of the neighbourhood of the first pixel; and selecting a pixel of the border of the second chart according to the comparison result.
US09747714B2
A device for superimposing a graphic on an image which comprises: a selection unit configured to select a plurality of specified points on the image which represent areas of background; an image processing unit configured to i) determine a color characteristic of the image at the plurality of specified points; ii) determine a location for graphic insertion; iii) determine the difference in color between at least one of the plurality of specified points and the location for graphic insert; iv) define areas within the location for graphic insert as a foreground region or a background region on the basis of the determined color difference; v) overlay the graphic on the image to form a graphic image; and vi) overlay the foreground regions of the location for composition onto the graphic image, is described.
US09747710B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are provided for creating and laying out a graphic within a drawing application program. The method includes receiving a data model defining a set of data and data relationships to be represented in the graphic, receiving a graphic definition describing the mapping of the data from the data model to a set of algorithms, algorithm parameters, constraints, constraint rules, and shape properties, determining a shape size and position for the layout nodes utilizing the set of algorithms, constraints, and constraint rules from the graphic definition, and creating a list of shapes and shape properties for the graphic, including size and position. The method further includes determining if the graphic fits a given layout into a specific area based on the set of constraint values and if the graphic does not fit the specific area, then modifying the set of constraint values using the constraint rules.
US09747706B2
When a group of (pre-processed) projection data is stored into a projection-data storage unit, a Gaussian-based expansion-data creating unit creates a group of Gaussian-based expansion data that is expanded from each of the group of projection data through linear combination based on a plurality of Gaussian functions that is stored by a Gaussian-function storage unit and has different center points. A reconstruction-image creating unit then creates a reconstruction image by using the Gaussian-based expansion-data created by the Gaussian-based expansion-data creating unit, and stores the created reconstruction image into an image storage unit.
US09747704B2
An X-ray computed tomography apparatus according to embodiments includes image processing circuitry and decomposition circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to perform an image processing on each of a plurality of pieces of monochromatic X-ray image data of different energies, the plurality of pieces of monochromatic X-ray image data being generated from projection data. The decomposition circuitry is configured to decompose, for each of a plurality of basis materials specified in advance, the plurality of pieces of monochromatic X-ray image data after the image processing, to generate basis material image data of each of the plurality of basis materials.
US09747693B1
A system for identifying objects within an image. Disclosed are methods and systems for an image processing system to segment digital images. Generally stated, certain embodiments implement operations for consolidating shapes in a digital image, including: performing a shape identification analysis of pixels within the digital image to identify shapes within the digital image; analyzing each shape to identify attributes of each shape; comparing the identified attributes of each shape to the identified attributes of other shapes to determine if the shapes are sufficiently related to constitute an object; and if the identified attributes are sufficiently related, associating the shapes with each other to form an object.
US09747689B2
An image processing system according to an embodiment includes a first aligning unit, an output unit, a second aligning unit, and a display unit. The first aligning unit aligns first three-dimensional medical image data with second three-dimensional medical image data. The output unit outputs, as output data, data obtained by adding alignment information to the first three-dimensional medical image data and to the second three-dimensional medical image data or synthetic data obtained by aligning and synthesizing the first three-dimensional medical image data with the second three-dimensional medical image data. The second aligning unit receives the output data and aligns the second three-dimensional medical image data with one or a plurality of pieces of X-ray image data. The display unit displays image data obtained by aligning the first three-dimensional medical image data with X-ray image data based on an alignment result.
US09747678B2
A system and method for customs inspection and release are disclosed. In one aspect, a system includes a device layer of devices for inspection and release, at least some of which generate subject detection data. The system also includes an adaptor layer of adaptors corresponding to the devices that receive detection data from its corresponding device and convert it into an event in a formatted message. The system also includes a message service layer including a bus that receives events from the adaptor layer and constructs event messages based on them. The system also includes a processing control layer that receives and processes event messages, generates instructions associated with them, and transmits the instructions to the message service layer, which constructs instruction messages based on the received instructions and transmits them to the adaptor layer. The adaptor layer converts them into device instructions that operate based on them.
US09747669B2
A WT unit performs wavelet transformation on original image data to generate first image data. An ROI developing unit, based on ROI information, specifies an ROI corresponding portion corresponding to an ROI and a non-ROI corresponding portion corresponding to a non-ROI to the first image data. A high-frequency cutting unit performs, on the first image data, a high-frequency cutting process that cuts a high-frequency component of the non-ROI corresponding portion. A low-frequency blurring unit performs, on the first image data, a low-frequency blurring process that blurs a low-frequency component of the non-ROI corresponding portion. The IWT unit performs inverse wavelet transformation on second image data (first image data obtained after the high-frequency cutting process and the low-frequency blurring process are performed) to generate third image data.
US09747663B2
An approach is provided for providing instantaneous and efficient mapping of geographic locations on to a schematic map. A map generation platform designates one or more reference locations for creating at least one schematic map associated with at least one schematic coordinate system. The map generation platform also creates at least one triangular mesh based, at least in part, on one or more geographic coordinates of the one or more reference locations, wherein the one or more geographic coordinates of the one or more reference locations represent one or more vertices of the triangular mesh. Further, the one or more geographic coordinates of one or more non-reference locations are mapped to the at least one triangular mesh, and then morphed for placing them on the at least one schematic map.
US09747662B2
A method interactively displays panoramic images of a scene. The method includes measuring 3D coordinates of the scene with a 3D measuring instrument at a first position and a second position. The 3D coordinates are registering into a common frame of reference. Within the scene, a trajectory includes a plurality of trajectory points. Along the trajectory, 2D images are generated from the commonly registered 3D coordinates. A trajectory display mode sequentially displays a collection of 2D images at the trajectory points. A rotational display mode allows a user to select a desired view direction at a given trajectory point. The user selects the trajectory display mode or the rotational display mode and sees the result shown on the display device.
US09747661B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for adjusting vertex positions. One or more viewport dimensions are received and a snap spacing is determined based on the one or more viewport dimensions. The vertex positions are adjusted to a grid according to the snap spacing. The precision of the vertex adjustment may increase as at least one dimension of the viewport decreases. The precision of the vertex adjustment may decrease as at least one dimension of the viewport increases.
US09747625B2
A device and method for allowing the custom mixing of liquid and dry enhancers with pet food kibbles comprising a tumbler into which the kibbles are placed; a means for adding a pre-determined amount of liquid/dry enhancers to the kibbles; a means for mixing the enhancers with the kibbles; and a means for feeding the enhanced kibbles into packages.
US09747622B1
Listing content is transmitted from a wireless mobile device to a server, where it is automatically posted in a listing database and made available on a network, such as the Internet, to third parties. The listing content may include both image data, captured by an integrated camera of the wireless mobile device, and text data, input by a user of the wireless mobile device. The wireless mobile device may provide an interface on its display to facilitate the capture of the listing content in discrete data components. After capture, the discrete data components for a single listing may be automatically associated together such that it is unnecessary for a user to manually associate them. The captured listing content may be automatically transmitted to the server in response to a single user selection received through the interface on the wireless mobile device.
US09747621B1
Various embodiments of a payment service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a merchant can enable customer use of the payment service by adding widget code to a web page, such as a catalog or shopping cart page, of the merchant's site. Thereafter, a user can invoke the payment service and complete a purchase transaction directly from the merchant site, without navigating or being redirected to a separate payment service site. In some embodiments, the user can complete the transaction without having or creating an account with the payment service.
US09747615B2
Systems and methods for implementing point of advertising purchasing include using mass media publications configured for or containing service, product or vendor transmittable signals, such as from radio frequency identification tags. In a preferred arrangement, a consumer perceiving an advertisement of the mass media publication may activate a reader in a portable communications device, such as a smart mobile or cellular phone, to receive information from the radio frequency signal associated with the advertisement to identify a vendor, product or service associated with the radio frequency identification. The smart mobile phone or communications device of the consumer may communicate with a system of a vendor or vendors by way of a commerce data organization system across a network to order a product or product information from a system of the vendor over the network by using the information from the radio frequency identification.
US09747614B2
The loyalty system allows a consumer to accumulate general loyalty points from one or more merchants, and convert any desired subset of general points to loyalty dollars associated with a specific merchant. The system stores, for each consumer, the merchant loyalty dollars (or monetary equivalent) by merchant within a remotely-accessible host database or within a smart card database. Upon conducting a purchase at a particular merchant, the consumer may utilize a code key to facilitate access to the consumer's own loyalty dollars for the particular merchant. The loyalty dollars are then applied to the purchase transaction as a discount or rebate. The consumer may also re-load the merchant loyalty dollar accounts.
US09747612B2
Systems and methods for social sharing and online publishing of advertisement messages concerning products or services. In one embodiment, an advertising message associated with a radio frequency identification based transmission may be published online by a user of a wireless ordering device. The users sharing of such messages may serve as an endorsement of the brand, product or service. A system, such as a commerce data organization system and/or vendor system, may then reward or credit the message sharer (e.g., consumer affiliate) based on variables the vendor or advertiser chooses, such as social influence, audience reach and performance based metrics. In some cases, the technology involves a method for consumers to engage with RFID based advertising to gain rewards. The rewards may be in the form of affiliate points that consumers may gain each time they share a message.
US09747605B2
An online services system provides monitoring of user interaction with third-party content. The monitoring is performed by a script in a web page provided by the online services system, which script provides a timer invoked when the browser leaves the online services system's page for a page comprising third party content. When the online services system serves the page, the browser reads the HTML to render the page, including the script with the timer. When the user leaves the online services system page, the timer begins, and when the browser returns to a page provided by the online services system, the timer ends and duration information from the timer is provided to the online services system. Applications include measurement of the quality of interaction between users and a third party advertisers, in which time spent viewing third party content is a proxy for the quality of the interaction.
US09747598B2
A system and method for fraud prevention is provided. This system and method may comprise a web browser having form filing capabilities. This system may interact with a financial institution to request and receive a dynamic security code to be used in merchant checkout page to complete a transaction.
US09747596B2
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment, a mobile subscriber is registered for authentication. Registering the mobile subscriber, in an embodiment, includes querying the mobile service provider of the mobile subscriber for an international mobile subscriber identifier (IMSI) of the mobile subscriber at the time of registration and creating an authentication database in which a database entry includes at least: a mobile telephone number for the mobile subscriber and the IMSI of the mobile subscriber.
US09747595B1
In one embodiment, the invention involves a method for readying client financial data. The method comprises receiving a proximity distance; identifying a location of a mobile device of a financial professional (FP); identifying a location of a first client of the FP within the proximity distance from the location of the mobile device; downloading, by the mobile device and in response to identifying the first client, a first financial data item corresponding to the first client; and displaying, to the FP by the mobile device, the first financial data item.
US09747594B2
Methods and apparatus to obtain transaction confirmation are described. One example method includes emulating a payment method using a close-proximity communication device of a mobile device, establishing a close-proximity communication link with a close-proximity communications-equipped device using the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device, transferring payment information from the mobile device to the close-proximity communications-equipped device using the close-proximity communication device, subsequent to transferring the payment information, switching the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device to an information receiving communication mode, determining whether the close-proximity communication device is within proximity of the close-proximity communications-equipped device, and receiving a transaction confirmation at the close-proximity communication device of the mobile device from the close-proximity communications-equipped device when the close-proximity communication device is within proximity of the close-proximity communications-equipped device.
US09747589B2
Embodiments are directed to a mobile bank card number generator for digital wallet. Embodiments receive a request from a user to perform an ATM transaction on an account owned by the user; in response to the request to perform an ATM transaction, generate a one-time bank card number associated with the account owned by the user; generate a readable indicia based at least in part on the one-time bank card number; and initiate communication of the readable indicia to an ATM, wherein the ATM receives a user authentication credential from the user, a bank system validates the user authentication credential and in response to validating the user authentication credential, approves the ATM transaction for the user's account.
US09747587B2
A method of transferring money from a sender to a recipient using a third party money transfer service a point of sale device receiving transaction details for a requested money transfer; determining whether the requested transaction is an allowable transaction; and either aborting the transaction; attempting to identify the sender as an existing customer using the transaction details; using the sender's transaction history and the transaction details to determine whether to allow the requested transaction to proceed. If the requested transaction is allowed to proceed, the method includes creating a money transfer record for the requested transaction; associating a money transfer control number to the money transfer record; and using the transaction details to determine whether to monitor the requested transaction.
US09747578B2
A computer-based system that manages the shipment of one or more freight units includes a measuring system for measuring dimensions and weight of a freight unit, wherein the freight unit includes products, a database for storing rules for shipping freight, and a host computer system. The host computer system is for receiving information about the freight unit to be shipped, determining whether the products of the freight unit should be classified as density-based for a shipping rate determination, determining a density-based class of the freight unit, determining whether the linear feet parameter for the freight unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, receiving a selection input for a selected carrier from the one or more carriers displayed on the web site, and upon receipt of the selection input for the selected carrier, creating a bill of lading.
US09747568B1
Example methods and systems for determining when to decommission vehicles from a fleet of autonomous vehicles are described. One method includes receiving information indicating a sequence of coverage requirements for a region over a period of time, and the region is characterized by landmarks and the period of time is divided into time intervals. Landmarks may be defined as a decommissioning site representative of a location at which a given vehicle can be taken out of service, and the method includes determining estimated landmarks that can be reached by one or more vehicles starting from a respective landmark by an end of a respective time interval, and based on the sequence of coverage requirements, determining which vehicles from among the vehicles that can reach the one or more landmarks defined as the decommissioning site to take out of service.
US09747557B2
Ticketing systems and methods, as well as related computer product programs, provide efficient and user-friendly seat selection by incorporating realistic seating charts. An advantageous ticketing system may include data related to a physical layout of a venue. The ticketing system may generate a three-dimensional model of the venue, from which one or more seating charts may in turn be generated. A user may search the ticketing system for seats based on customized user search parameters, which may include searching across multiple performances. In response to the user search, the ticketing system may provide an interactive three-dimensional seating chart depicting a relatively accurate seat layout based on the venue data. The user may manipulate the seating chart to view the venue from various perspectives, and the user may select seats from the seating chart. Other embodiments of the ticketing system are also disclosed herein.
US09747555B2
A computer generates labels for machine learning algorithms by retrieving, from a data storage circuit, multiple label sets that contain labels that each classify data points in a corpus of data. A graph is generated that includes a plurality of edges, each edge between two respective labels from different label sets of the multiple label sets. Weights are determined for the plurality of edges based upon a consistency between data points classified by two labels connected by the edges. An algorithm is applied that groups labels from the multiple label sets based upon the weights for the plurality of edges. Data points are identified from the corpus of data that represent conflicts within the grouped labels. An electronic message is transmitted in order to present the identified data points to entities for further classification. A new label set is generated using the further classification received from the entities.
US09747551B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for detecting and localizing anomalies in large data sets. One of the methods includes identifying a user whose behavior is classified as anomalous during a particular time interval and determining observed community feature values for a community of users of which the user is a member. If observed user feature values are consistent with the observed community feature values, the behavior of the user is classified as not anomalous. If the observed user feature values are not consistent with the observed community feature values, the behavior of the user is classified as anomalous.
US09747549B2
Figures of merit by actual design parameters are tracked over iterations for candidate solutions that include both actual design parameters and actual context parameters. Instead of returning a current iteration figure of merit, a worst observed figure of merit for a set of actual design parameters is returned as the figure of merit for a candidate solution. Since the candidate solution includes both actual design parameters and actual context parameters and the worst observed figures of merit are tracked by actual design parameters, the figure of merit for a set of design parameters will be the worst of the observed worst case scenarios as defined by the actual context parameters over a run of a metaheuristic optimizer.
US09747544B2
Method and system for wastewater treatment based on dissolved oxygen control by fuzzy neural network
A method and system for wastewater treatment based on dissolved oxygen control by a fuzzy neural network, the method for wastewater treatment comprising the following steps: (1) measuring art inlet water flow rate, an ORP value in an anaerobic tank, a DO value in an aerobic tank, an inlet water COD value, and an actual outlet water COD value; (2) collecting the measured sample data and sending them via a computer to a COD fuzzy neural network predictive model, so as to establish an outlet water COD predicted value, (3) comparing the outlet COD predicted value with the outlet water COD set value, so as to obtain an error and an error change rate, and using them as two input variables to adjust a suitable dissolved oxygen concentration. Accordingly, the on-line prediction and real-time control of dissolved oxygen wastewater treatment are achieved. The accurate control of dissolved oxygen concentration by the present method for wastewater treatment can achieve a saving in energy consumption while ensuring stable running of the sewage treatment system, and the outlet water quality meets the national emission standards.
US09747535B2
An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives plural pieces of print data described in plural types of page description languages, plural drawing processors that respectively correspond to the plural types of page description languages, extract specific drawing objects from the plural pieces of print data, and convert the specific drawing objects into print image data, and an output unit that compares the print image data that the drawing processors have converted the specific drawing objects into, and outputs comparison results.
US09747533B2
Replacement processing is executed when the number of times of permission for a pixel corresponding to an ejection defective nozzle in a mask pattern is larger than a smallest number of times of permission, of the numbers of times of permission for pixels corresponding to ejection normal nozzles.
US09747529B2
A sequence program creation device includes a search-key-circuit specification unit specifying a search key circuit; a search-area specification unit specifying a search area for searching for a circuit similar to the search key circuit; a search-index specification unit specifying an index in a process of calculating a similarity to the search key circuit; a similarity calculation unit calculating a similarity to the search key circuit, based on the index, for each circuit included in the search area; a search-target-part determination unit determining whether the similarity is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold for each circuit for which the similarity calculation unit has calculated the similarity; and a search-result display-screen display unit displaying on a search-result display screen a circuit whose similarity is determined to be equal to or more than the predetermined threshold by the search-target-part determination unit.
US09747521B2
Systems and methods for image analysis and recognition are disclosed, in particular the methods for interest point description. An interest point and its surrounding area is broken into subareas, a frequency domain description of each area is created by applying discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Frequency domain features are than coded bitwise by comparing them to predefined thresholds. Subsequently, the present invention provides alternative or improved methods and data structures for interest point description that may reduce memory consumption and allow fast bitwise matching.
US09747516B2
Disclosed embodiments facilitate keypoint selection in part by assigning a similarity score to each candidate keypoint being considered for selection. The similarity score may be based on the maximum measured similarity of an image patch associated with a keypoint in relation to an image patch in a local image section in a region around the image patch. A subset of the candidate keypoints with the lowest similarity scores may be selected and used to detect and/or track objects in subsequent images and/or to determine camera pose.
US09747514B2
An image processing pipeline may perform noise filtering and image sharpening utilizing common spatial support. A noise filter may perform a spatial noise filtering technique to determine a filtered value of a given pixel based on spatial support obtained from line buffers. Sharpening may also be performed to generate a sharpened value of the given pixel based on spatial support obtained from the same line buffers. A filtered and sharpened version of the pixel may be generated by combining the filtered value of the given pixel with the sharpened value of the given pixel. In at least some embodiments, the noise filter performs spatial noise filtering and image sharpening on a luminance value of the given pixel, when the given pixel is received in a luminance-chrominance encoding.
US09747511B2
An image recognition device includes an edge direction evaluation unit configured to evaluate a direction of an edge at each coordinate by assigning points to the coordinate when a deviation amount between a direction of an outline of an abundance ratio higher than a predetermined abundance ratio threshold value among directions of an outline of a character available for the vehicle number plate and the direction of the edge at each coordinate of the image is less than a predetermined deviation amount threshold value and a vehicle number plate region extraction unit configured to extract a region of the vehicle number plate from the image based on a distribution of the points assigned by the edge direction evaluation unit.
US09747510B2
Techniques presented herein describe rotating text content rendered on a mobile device to a preferred orientation based on the mobile device orientation and language of the text content. A display tool executing on the mobile device detects an orientation of the mobile device changing from a first orientation to a second orientation. The mobile device currently displays the characters in the text content according to the first orientation. The display tool determines that the text content is written in a specified language. The display tool re-renders the display of the characters in the text content and any accompanying images according to the second orientation.
US09747496B2
An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute: obtaining a first image and a second image; determining a first direction of a certain first reference point of a first region of a user included in the first image and a second direction of a certain second reference point of a second region of the user included in the second image; extracting a first feature quantity from the first region and a second feature quantity from the second region; generating a third feature quantity from the first feature quantity or a fourth feature quantity from the second feature quantity on the basis of the first direction or the second direction; and authenticating the user on the basis of similarity between the first feature quantity or the third feature quantity.
US09747493B2
A pose rectification method for rectifying a pose in data representing face images, comprising the steps of: A—acquiring a least one test frame including 2D near infrared image data, 2D visible light image data, and a depth map; C—estimating the pose of a face in said test frame by aligning said depth map with a 3D model of a head of known orientation; D—mapping at least one of said 2D image on the depth map, so as to generate textured image data; E—projecting the textured image data in 2D so as to generate data representing a pose-rectified 2D projected image.
US09747491B2
Handwriting verification methods and related computer systems, and handwriting-based user authentication methods and related computer systems are disclosed. A handwriting verification method comprises obtaining a handwriting test sample containing a plurality of available parameters, extracting geometric parameters, deriving geometric features comprising an x-position value and a y-position value for each of a plurality of feature points in the test sample, performing feature matching between geometric features of the test sample and a reference sample, determining a handwriting verification result based at least in part on the feature matching, and outputting the handwriting verification result. The geometric features may further comprise values derived from the geometric parameters, such as direction and curvature values. The handwriting verification result can be further based on a count of unlinked feature points. Handwriting-based user authentication methods can employ such handwriting verification methods, or other handwriting verification methods.
US09747489B2
Provided are an electric field type fingerprint identification apparatus and a state control method and a prosthesis identification method. The electric field type fingerprint identification apparatus includes a signal acquisition module and a signal processing module. In a case that a measuring state signal processing unit is electrically connected to a signal acquisition unit, a to-be-measured state signal processing unit is at least electrically connected to at least one signal acquisition unit peripheral to the signal acquisition unit in a measuring state. Charging and discharging processes of sensing capacitors electrically connected to the measuring state signal processing unit and the to-be-measured state signal processing unit are coordinated to restrain charging and discharging quantities of a parasitic capacitor between the signal acquisition unit in the measuring state and the signal acquisition unit in a to-be-measured state.
US09747475B2
A system and method for displaying a virtual experience based on a presence of a physical object is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes a screen, a target, and a reader. The reader detects a presence of the target within a predetermined proximity and communicates with the screen to display a virtual environment based on the presence of the target.
US09747472B2
A mesh grid protection system is provided. The protection system includes a plurality of grid lines forming a mesh grid proximate to operational logic. The protection system also includes tamper-detection logic coupled to the plurality of grid lines and configured to toggle a polarity of a signal on at least one grid line at each clock cycle and to detect attempts to access the operational logic by comparing a reference signal driving a first end of a grid line to a signal at the opposite end of the grid line.
US09747467B2
A method for generating anonymized data includes: (A) extracting, from plural data blocks, each of which includes a secret attribute value and a numeric attribute value, plural groups of data blocks, wherein each of the plural groups includes data blocks that include a first data block, which has not been grouped, whose frequency distribution of the secret attribute value satisfies a predetermined condition and whose numeric attribute values are within a certain area that has a predetermined size; and (B) replacing the numeric attribute values of the data blocks that belong to each group of the plural groups with a numeric attribute value calculated for the group. And, the certain area is determined without any relation with other certain areas for other groups.
US09747465B2
Systems and methods for secure data exchange and data tampering prevention. A secure data system receives electronic data files from data entities and stores the files in a first storage. Each file includes data values collected by a respective data entity over a predefined time period. A benchmark system determines plural randomized snapshot times corresponding to the predefined time period. A data mapping is created between the first storage and plural second storage, based on the snapshot times and the number of files. Data values samples in each file are selectively transferred from the first storage to the plural second storage according to the data mapping. Each second storage stores samples synthesized from among the data entities associated with a single respective snapshot time. A benchmark data value is determined based on the synthesized samples stored in the plural second storage associated with the snapshot times.
US09747462B2
Systems and methods for detecting potential steganography use to hide content in computer files transmitted via electronic communications are provided. An electronic communication associated with a computer file may be identified. The communication and the computer file may be analyzed to determine whether the computer file potentially includes hidden content. To determine whether the computer file potentially includes hidden content, a set of steganographic criteria may be analyzed. If at least a portion of the steganographic criteria are satisfied, then it may be determined that the computer file potentially includes hidden content. If at least a portion of the steganographic criteria are not satisfied, then it may be determined that the computer file does not potentially include hidden content. If the computer file is determined to potentially include hidden content, an individual may be notified of the communication associated with the computer file.
US09747456B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards secure query processing over encrypted database records without disclosing information to an adversary except for permitted information. In order to adapting semantic security to a database encryption scheme, a security model for all query processing is specified by a client and used to determine which information is permitted to be disclosed and which information is not permitted. Based upon the security model, a trusted, secure query processor transforms each query and an encrypted database into secure query results. Even though the adversary can view the secure query results during communication to the client, the adversary cannot determine any reliable information regarding the secure query results or the encrypted database.
US09747448B2
A security engine may be selected from a plurality of security engines to apply one or more security mechanisms to a section of source code of an application. In some cases, the section of source code may be identified by one or more security mechanism identifiers included in the source code. The security engine may generate machine-readable code that corresponds to the section of source code for which the one or more security mechanisms are to be applied. The machine-readable code may be executed on a plurality of computing devices. In one implementation, applying the security mechanisms to the section of source code may include producing zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge for the section of source code.
US09747441B2
A method, system and program product for preventing phishing attacks, wherein the method comprises: acquiring links in a Web page; classifying the acquired links according link types; and determining whether a phishing attack exists according to the classified links, wherein the links are classified into two types: internal links belonging to the same domain as the address of the Web page, and external links belonging to a different domain from the address of the Web page. By carrying out the method or system according to the above one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, since it is first detected whether a Web page is a fake website of a phishing attack before displaying the reproduced Web page to the user and the user is warned upon detecting a fake website, unnecessary losses due to phishing attacks can be prevented.
US09747436B2
Devices, systems, and methods of detecting user identity, differentiating between users of a computerized service, and detecting a cyber-attacker. An end-user device interacts and communicates with a server of a computerized service, or with a local application or Web-browser running on the end-user device. A usage interference is injected or introduced, or an input/output mismatch or abnormality is created, causing an output displayed on the screen of the end-user device, to be non-matching to the expected or intended output that is typically displayed in response to regular non-interfered user gestures or regular non-interfered user input. The reaction or corrective manual actions of the user are tracked and analyzed, to differentiate among users, or to differentiate between an authorized human user and a human cyber-attacker, or to differentiate between an authorized human user and a computer bot or an automated computerized script.
US09747435B2
An apparatus, a method, and a system are presented in which the apparatus may include a security circuit, a processor, and an interface controller. The security circuit may be configured to generate a keyword. The processor may be configured to determine one or more policies to be applied to usage of the keyword, and to generate a policy value. The policy value may include one or more data bits indicative of the determined one or more policies. The interface controller may be configured to generate a message including the keyword and the policy value. The interface controller may also be configured to send the message.
US09747430B2
Embodiments of the present invention may involve a method, system, and computer program product for controlling privacy in a face recognition application. A computer may receive an input including a face recognition query and a digital image of a face. The computer may identify a target user associated with a facial signature in a first database based at least in part on a statistical correlation between a detected facial signature and one or more facial signatures in the first database. The computer may extract a profile of the target user from a second database. The profile of the target user may include one or more privacy preferences. The computer may generate a customized profile of the target user. The customized profile may omit one or more elements of the profile of the target user based on the one or more privacy preferences and/or a current context.
US09747426B2
Embodiments include a method, a computing device, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a method implemented in a computing environment. The method includes receiving a designation of an individualized digital identifier. The method also includes associating a human-perceptible form of the designated individualized digital identifier with each element of a group of human-perceivable elements displayed by the computing environment.
US09747421B2
A medical imaging decision support system is provided that can conduct, and help medical professionals conduct multi-factor brain analysis. Data for disparate processing modes (for example, EEG, MRI, etc.) can be input to the system, processed in parallel in a cloud environment, and the results can be rendered in a thin client (for example, browser) for a user's rapid multi-modal evaluation of a brain.
US09747417B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing a user's lifestyle and personal care is provided. The design includes a device having a display/mirror and a plurality of connection ports each configured to receive a personal care module configured to facilitate the personal care of a user and a remote device arrangement. The device is configured to provide user personal care communications to and receive user personal care communications from the remote device arrangement, and wherein the device is configured for the user to freely substitute personal care modules.
US09747413B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for adaptive processing for sequence alignment. In one embodiment, among others, a method includes obtaining a query sequence and a plurality of database sequences. A first portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a central processing unit (CPU) and a second portion of the plurality of database sequences is distributed to a graphical processing unit (GPU) based upon a predetermined splitting ratio associated with the plurality of database sequences, where the database sequences of the first portion are shorter than the database sequences of the second portion. A first alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the CPU based upon the first portion of the plurality of database sequences and a second alignment score for the query sequence is determined with the GPU based upon the second portion of the plurality of database sequences.
US09747407B2
A computer-implemented method for validating a design is disclosed. The method includes receiving, with the computer, the design, where the design is printable using a multiple-patterning process when the computer is invoked, and where the design includes a plurality of shapes and at least one conflict preventing decomposition of the design into a plurality of multiple-patterning masks. The method also includes forming a subset of the shapes, the subset including the shapes associated with the at least one conflict, categorizing each of the shapes of the subset into one of a plurality of topology types generating one or more stitch candidate solutions for each of the plurality of topology types, and decomposing the design into a plurality of masks.
US09747406B2
A computer implemented method of routing a net of an electronic circuit is disclosed. The net connects a plurality of pins of the electronic circuit. The method includes selecting, using one or more computer systems, first and second main spine routing tracks for respective first and second groups of pins of the net. The method also includes generating, using one or more computer systems, a first main spine wire on the selected first main spine routing track and a second main spine wire on the selected second main spine routing track. A router configured to perform the method is also disclosed.
US09747404B2
A method for optimizing an integrated circuit layout design includes the following steps. A first integrated circuit layout design including a metal line feature having several metal lines and a second integrated circuit layout design including a hole feature having several holes are obtained. A line-end hole feature of the hole feature is selected by piecing the metal line feature with the hole feature. The line-end hole feature is classified into a single hole feature and a redundant hole feature by spacings between the adjacent holes by a computer system.
US09747403B2
A chip layout can include a top-level portion and a set of blocks. The power-and-ground (PG) network for the chip layout can be specified by a set of chip-level PG constraints that is defined using a PG constraint definition language. The set of chip-level PG constraints can be characterized into new sets of PG constraints that correspond to smaller regions of the chip layout, e.g., a set of top-level PG constraints that corresponds to the top-level portion, and a set of block-level PG constraints for each block in the set of blocks. The new sets of PG constraints can then be provided to one or more instances of a PG compiler that executes on one or more processors to create the PG network for the chip layout.
US09747400B2
A method, executed by one or more processors, for optimizing placement of a logic network, includes partitioning a logic network into a set of logic partitions, launching a set of placement optimization threads that correspond to the logic partitions, and allocating memory that is accessible to the placement optimization threads to provide a globally accessible placement memory for reserving placement locations on the integrated circuit. Each placement optimization thread may be configured to conduct the operations of determining a desired location for a logic element, reserving a set of potential locations for the logic element, determining a best location from the set of potential locations, and placing the logic element to the best location. Each placement optimization thread may also be configured to release each of the potential locations that are not the best location. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
US09747399B2
Described is a machine-readable storage media having one or more machine executable instructions stored there on that when executed cause one or more processors to perform an operation comprising: define properties of a layout grid, wherein the layout grid provides a three dimensional (3D) space for organizing a plurality of objects on the layout grid; and define rules for the plurality of objects, wherein the rules define a relationship between the plurality of objects with reference to the defined properties of the layout grid.
US09747387B2
A method, system and computer program product for progressive enhancement of content in a browser. The method includes receiving a document with content containing a plurality of elements and parsing the received content with at least one processor. The method also includes identifying a subset of the plurality of elements that are marked for enhancement and replacing each of the element in the identified subset with their respective enhancement to obtain the document with the enhanced elements.
US09747386B1
Features are disclosed for enabling servers to initiate the opening of connections with clients, initiate transfers of data to clients, and provide clients with hints regarding which content retrieval, connection establishment, and other network operations will likely improve user-perceived performance on the client. A token may be transmitted from a client to a server, and the server may utilize the token to initiate a network connection with the client and send data to the client. The token may also be passed to a third party for similar use. Hints may be provided to the client, indicating actions that the client may perform in order to improve content processing efficiency and enhance a user experience with the content. The disclosed features may, for example, be incorporated into web browser and server software.
US09747384B1
A social media and social network system matches and personalizes websites and communication to specific users using profile, location, GPS, mobile device, and ecommerce data. Websites may behave in a personalized manner for each individual user and deliver matched content. A user behavior model enables history and decision processes to be stored for future predictive behavior models, algorithms, advertisements, and analysis. A server may enable mathematical and behavioral modeling of one or more social network users as individuals, groups or in the aggregate to establish one or more personalized states for the social network, website, webpage, or subset webpage. Social network data may match a user with search engine results, products, brand products, vendors, users, and services desired by a user on a social network, website, or ecommerce site. Users receive more targeted information. Personalized marketing and ecommerce by a vendor is enabled and unsolicited e-mail and advertisements are minimized.
US09747381B1
A processor-executed access manager with an identity management framework receives a first query from a user of a client device connected to a network for a system. The query seeks information as to identity types supported by the system. The access manager responds to the first query with a list of supported identity types. The supported identity types include at least a hardware device, a role, and a user. The list is retrieved from a global configuration data structure in a global data store. The access manager receives a second query from the user for identities of the hardware devices associated with one of the supported identity types. And the access manager responds to the second query with the identity of a specific hardware device, if the user is permitted to access the specific hardware device according to permissions obtained through the global configuration data structure.
US09747367B2
An audio customization system responsive to one or more audio profiles to define a transformation to apply to audio information. The system allows users to select the profiles that dictate the nature of the customization of the audio delivered to an audio output devise such as a headphones. The system is set up to be able to lessen the influence of undesirable audio and enhance desirable audio. The system may specify aspects of audio to be modified by specification of filtering algorithm, characterization of audio samples, monitored distortion, user selection, location specification or environmental specification and may be used in a social networking system.
US09747360B2
According to some embodiments, information may be received about a non-relational database object, such as an InfoSet, InfoSet query, or Advanced Business Application Programming (“ABAP”) function for an enterprise resource planning system. The non-relational database object may then be mapped into a relational database model, such as a model associated with a business intelligence platform. As a result, Structured Query Language (“SQL”) inputs from a business intelligence platform may be used create reports based on information in an enterprise resource planning system.
US09747356B2
Techniques are provided for eager replication of uncommitted transactions. A first plurality of change records is received, corresponding to database changes applied to a source database in a first transaction. First transaction dependency data is computed based on the first transaction. At least a portion of the first plurality of change records is applied to the target database before processing a commit record indicating that has been committed on the source database. Target dependency data is updated after processing the first commit record to reflect completion of the first transaction, the target dependency data including dependency data for a plurality of transactions applied or scheduled to be applied on a target database.
US09747355B2
A high-temperature cable and method of making the same is provided. The high-temperature cable includes at least one elongated conductor portion. A fiber-reinforced resin is positioned radially about at least a portion of an exterior surface of the at least one elongated conductor portion. The high-temperature may optionally include a thin metal layer and/or an armor shell.
US09747353B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods to publish database content as service for accessing business data are described herein. In one aspect, a business transaction instantiated by a user is executed on an application server. During the execution, at least one database table of a plurality of database tables and at least one database relationship associated with the at least one database table are identified. In another aspect, a data structure model is automatically generated based on the identified at least one database table and at least one database relationship. In yet another aspect, data from the at least one database table is exposed to be consumed as a service based on the data structure model.
US09747345B2
A graph database system is used to determine relationships between persons. The graph database system manages relationship data records having a compact data structure stored at a relationship database and accessed to find links or common relationships. For determining relationships between two people, the relationship records in the relationship paths for those two people are alternatively accessed and compared it to each other. Relationship records may include an identifier for a person having a relationship to a given individual, a relationship type, and a weight reflecting the confidence level or quality of the relationship.
US09747337B2
A method and system for accurately estimating a result size of a Group-By operation in a relational database. The estimate utilizes the probability of union of the columns involved in the operation, as well as the relative cardinality of each column with respect to the other columns in the operation. In addition, the estimate incorporates the use of table filters when indicated such that table filters are applied prior to determining the size of the tables in the operation, as well as including equivalent columns into the list of columns that are a part of the Group-By operation. Accordingly, the estimate of the result size of the operation includes influencing factors that provide an accurate estimation of system memory requirements.
US09747334B2
Excess capacity available to a database system in a capacity controlled environment can be effectively managed. In particular, excess capacity that is not made available for normal operations of a database system can be used to manage errors, especially situations that may hinder expected performance of the database system. In addition, excess capacity can be used to optimize or further optimize database queries, especially those that meet a criterion (e.g., not fully optimize, not optimized as expected).
US09747328B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a database system that facilitates modifying a row in a database table to include meta-data about operations performed on the row. During operation, the database system receives a definition for an extensible row descriptor, the extensible row descriptor indicating meta-data associated with operations performed on a row in a database table. The system then receives a condition for updating the extensible row descriptor. The system determines that executing a command satisfies the condition for updating the extensible row descriptor, and updates the extensible row descriptor.
US09747325B2
Embodiments are disclosed for identifying duplicate stations in a radio station network. An example method includes identifying stations within a radio station network, determining which of the stations are duplicate stations, and selecting, via automated operated content management devices or user input directed to manually operated content management devices, which of the duplicate stations to show and which of the duplicate stations to suppress from being presented to a user. The example method further includes selectively displaying a selected duplicate station of a group of duplicate stations depending on a radio network's contractual agreements with various partners.
US09747324B2
A first information processing apparatus includes a unit to attach control information to update processing data containing update differential data per storage device and a unit to transfer the update processing data to a second information processing apparatus, and the second information processing apparatus includes a reflecting unit to reflect the update differential data in the transferred update processing data respectively to one or more storage devices, an exclusion setting unit to set exclusion of the storage device given in a list of the storage devices when the first reflecting unit of the reflecting unit reflects the top update differential data in the update processing data, and an exclusion cancelling unit to cancel the exclusion when the second reflecting unit reflects the last update differential data in the update processing data in the storage device.
US09747320B2
A process manages database storage. The process receives a first object comprising one or more content chunks. The first object is identified by a unique object ID and each content chunk has a unique offset within the first object. For each chunk, the process inserts a record into a reference table. The record includes a content hash and the object ID. The process stores each of the chunks in content storage. Later, the process obtains a request to delete a first chunk from storage. The first chunk has a corresponding first content hash. The process determines whether the reference table includes a reference record corresponding to the first content hash. When the reference table does not include any reference records corresponding to the first content hash, the process deletes the first chunk. When the reference table includes a corresponding reference record, the process does not delete the first chunk.
US09747318B2
The invention relates to retrieving data from a storage system. One embodiment of the invention comprises receiving a write operation, establishing a correspondence relationship between a logic block address and a physical block address of the write operation, and determining whether a valid data percentage in a mapping table is greater than a predetermined threshold after the correspondence relationship is added in stored metadata of stored metadata.
US09747317B2
A selective tuple versioning is used on a files system for preserving past states of file system nodes by adding a bitmap to a row for a node within a file system table for preserving the past state of the node in a file system, receiving a request for updating the node along with a node identification (ID) and associated attributes of the node needing to be updated, generating a second time value indicating the time of the updating, and duplicating the row for the node into a new row in the file system table with an end time set equal to the second time value if the bit in the bitmap for the node is set.
US09747314B2
An example system for indexing heterogeneous resources includes a data module that invokes one or more APIs, and responsive to the invoked one or more APIs, receives a first set of attributes of one or more cloud resources of a first subset of the set of cloud resources and a second set of attributes of one or more cloud resources of a second subset of the set of cloud resources. The system also includes a normalization module that for at least one attribute of the first and second sets of attributes, searches a database for a normalized attribute corresponding to the respective one attribute, normalizes based on the uniform schema the respective attribute, and places the normalized attribute in a data structure. The system further includes an indexing module that indexes the normalized attributes in the data structure.
US09747308B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for searching an image, and to a computer-readable recording medium for executing the method. The apparatus for searching an image of the present disclosure obtains features of an input image; and obtains words that correspond to the features respectively and an adjacent word that is adjacent to the words corresponding to the features. When a word is assigned to a first word cell of a plurality of word cells that are included in a visual feature space, an adjacent word is assigned to at least one second word cell that is adjacent to the first word cell, where the plurality of word cells is assigned to different words, and at least one word being within a predetermined distance from a word is designated as the adjacent word. The apparatus is further configured to search for an image that is identical or similar to the input image based on information associated with a first group of images corresponding to the word and information associated with a second group of images corresponding to the adjacent word, the information on the first and second groups of images being stored in a database.
US09747303B1
Media, methods and systems are provided for interfacing a mobile device to an application virtual machine via an application programming interface (API). A first set of file connection properties for one or more internal storage locations and a second set of file connection properties for one or more external storage locations are defined at a mobile device. The first and second sets of file connection properties define the file storage locations for a plurality of media types. Requests are received from the application virtual machine for the first and second sets of file connection properties. The application virtual machine identifies a current default storage area that can be selected from the one or more internal storage locations and the one or more external storage locations, and indicates whether the current default storage location is an internal storage location or an external storage location.
US09747299B2
A heterogeneous storing server and a file storing method thereof are provided. The heterogeneous storing server has a file storing priority table which records different device type groups. The heterogeneous storing server determines the device type group to which a file belongs according to attributes of the file. The heterogeneous storing server stores the file into appropriate storing devices dynamically and adjusts the number of backups of the file in the storing devices dynamically according to a definition of the device type group.
US09747297B2
A method of synchronizing shared folders and files within a remote and local file system includes determining a remote and local file system state. The remote file system state includes remote hash values for remote instances of shared folders, shared sub-folders, shared files, shared sub-level files, and shared shortcuts. The local file system state includes a local hash values for local instances of shared folders, shared sub-folders, shared files, shared sub-level files, and shared shortcuts. The method also includes comparing the remote file system state and the local file system state to determine any differences in the hash values within the remote file system state and the local file system state and synchronizing any shared folder, shared sub-folder, or shared file having a differing value in the remote file system state and the local file system state across the local file system and the remote file system.
US09747295B1
A method of updating fields of records in a dataset mediated by a database management tool (DMT) that does not an API function for updating individual fields of records. The method comprises adding a temporary field to each record in a dataset by the DMT, copying a subset of the records in the dataset by an application that is not the DMT, changing at least one field in each of the copied subset of records by the application, changing the temporary field of the copied subset of records by the application. The method further comprises adding the subset of records to the dataset by the DMT, aggregating, by the DMT, the dataset based on a selection criterion defined with reference to the temporary field, wherein aggregating removes conflicts between records that have the same unique identifier based on the temporary field values of the conflicting records.
US09747293B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for storing and retrieving information are provided. The system receives information. Thereafter, the system organizes the information for optimal storage and retrieval based on qualities of a storage medium. The organizing may include optimizing the information for sequential read and/or write access. The information may be organized in an append-only manner. Once the information has been organized, the apparatus presents and/or stores the organized information.
US09747292B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing a file stored in an enterprise content management (ECM) repository. In response to a check-out request from a client machine for a file stored in the ECM repository, a management application for an ECM system identifies ECM-related metadata associated with the file. The management application stores the ECM-related metadata into the file (or an associated file) prior to sending the file to the client. At check-in for the file, the management application identifies the location of the corresponding file in the ECM repository using the metadata previously stored in the file sent to the client.
US09747291B1
Implementations are provided herein for non-disruptive upgrade including rollback capabilities for a distributed file system within a cluster of nodes. To continue availability of the file system to external clients during the upgrade process, nodes can be upgraded piecemeal, for example, in one implementation, one node at a time. When a node is undergoing certain stages of the upgrade process, external clients can be directed toward the remaining nodes of the file system that are not currently being upgraded, including already upgraded nodes, to perform client activity. During the upgrade process, a first subset of nodes can be running in an upgraded state while a second subset of nodes can be in a non-upgraded state, both providing access to external clients in a seamless manner. In one implementation, a second namespace can be established at the onset of the upgrade process that reflects the new version of the operating system. The second namespace can be maintained in parallel with the original namespace during the pendency of the upgrade and/or downgrade process. A configuration translation layer can also be established on each node of the cluster of nodes. The configuration translation layer can provide the necessary key value pair translations that allow a request made an old version node to be performed by a new version node and vice versa. At the conclusion of an upgrade or a rollback, the cluster can enter a committed state and the namespace data that is no longer needed can be expired.
US09747286B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing hardware components in a cloud computing environment. A mobile device captures an image of a bar code placed on a rack that is associated with an identifier that references an Internet resource of the management software that manages the rack. The mobile device transmits a request to the management software for information regarding a component in the rack, where the request includes a unique identifier (e.g., serial number) associated with the component. The management software uses the unique identifier to identify the component of interest and transmits information regarding the component of interest to the mobile device. In this manner, the client device can conveniently access the management software as well as conveniently acquire information dynamically from the management software about specific hardware components in these racks while the user is on the floor of the data center.
US09747285B1
A computer-implemented method for presenting an entertainment requester with a selection of entertainment events comprises determining a geographic location of the entertainment requester and conducting, with the aid of a processor, a search for at least one entertainment event within a search area encompassing in whole or in part the geographic location of the entertainment requester. A geographic location of one or more entertainment events revealed upon the search is then displayed to the user on a graphical user interface (GUI) of an electronic device of the entertainment requester. The entertainment requester may then check into an entertainment event selected from the one or more entertainment events.
US09747284B2
A method for machine translation, comprising receiving a source string in a source language, an indication of a target language, and user identification information. The method includes using the user identification information to identify at least one memory with user-specific translation data. The method includes tokenizing the source string, using at least one processor, to produce a tokenized source string comprising any unique temporary textual elements associated with corresponding target textual elements during tokenization. The method includes obtaining a translated string from a translator, the translated string being at least a partial translation of the tokenized source string and including all of the unique temporary textual elements. The method includes generating an output string using at least one processor, the generation comprising replacing all of the unique temporary textual elements in the translated string with the associated target textual elements.
US09747283B2
Technology is disclosed for snippet pre-translation and dynamic selection of translation systems. Pre-translation uses snippet attributes such as characteristics of a snippet author, snippet topics, snippet context, expected snippet viewers, etc., to predict how many translation requests for the snippet are likely to be received. An appropriate translator can be dynamically selected to produce a translation of a snippet either as a result of the snippet being selected for pre-translation or from another trigger, such as a user requesting a translation of the snippet. Different translators can generate high quality translations after a period of time or other translators can generate lower quality translations earlier. Dynamic selection of translators involves dynamically selecting machine or human translation, e.g., based on a quality of translation that is desired. Translations can be improved over time by employing better machine or human translators, such as when a snippet is identified as being more popular.
US09747280B1
For language elements that indicate or suggest time, such as adverbs, these also contain date and time information that can be used to quantify time for a single piece of text or for an entire repository. This quantification of time can then be used by many applications, such as a mobile device that needs to know when to execute a command or when an investigator is trying to piece together a chain of events from different documents.
US09747276B2
Embodiments relate to determining a crowd behavior. A method of determining a crowd behavior is provided. The method collects, at one or more recording points in a crowd of individuals, audible expressions that the individuals of the crowd make. The method generates a graph of the audible expressions as the audible expressions are collected from the individuals. The method determines a crowd behavior by performing a graphical text analysis on the graph. The method outputs an indication of the crowd behavior to trigger a crowd control measure.
US09747273B2
A similarity between character strings is assessed by identifying first and second character strings as candidate similar character strings, determining a frequency of occurrence for at least one of the first and second character strings from a collection of character strings, and designating the first and second character strings as similar based on the determined frequency of occurrence.
US09747261B2
A system and method of embedding symbology in alphabetic letters and then linking the letter to a site or sites on the global computer network, i.e., the Internet, are provided. The system and method provide for capturing an image of at least one character fixed in a medium; determining at least one letter of an alphabet corresponding to the at least one character; determining a numerical value for the determined at least one letter; looking up in a database a hyperlink corresponding to the numerical value; and presenting the hyperlink on a display device. The system and method further provide determining at least one marking within the at least one letter; and determining a location for the at least one marking within the at least one letter, wherein the combination of the at least one marking and the location for the at least one marking corresponds to the numerical value.
US09747251B2
A method is disclosed for the decoding and encoding of a block-based video bit-stream such as MPEG2, H.264-AVC, VC1, or VP6 using a system containing one or more high speed sequential processors, a homogenous array of software configurable general purpose parallel processors, and a high speed memory system to transfer data between processors or processor sets. This disclosure includes a method for load balancing between the two sets of processors.
US09747250B2
A system for improving memory management in a hybrid programming environment where a server program receives a request to execute a script. The server program instructs an embedded script engine to execute the script. The server program creates a session manager to manage objects associated with the script. The objects are comprised of host objects that reside in a program memory space, and script objects that reside in an embedded script engine memory space. The session manager creates a session associated with the execution of the script, and associated objects created during the execution of the script. Upon receiving notification of completion and/or termination of the execution of the script, the server program requests invalidation and/or deletion of the objects associated with the session. Deletion of host objects immediately releases memory in the program memory space without waiting for the scheduled garbage collection.
US09747245B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a semiconductor die including but not limited to: at least one core to execute instructions; an agent to perform at least one function; a root complex including a first root port to interface to a first device to be coupled to the apparatus via a first interconnect and a second root port to interface to the agent via a bridge logic; and the bridge logic to interface the second root port to the agent, convert a first transaction from the first root port having a first format to a second format and communicate the first transaction having the second format to the agent. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09747244B2
A virtual GPIO architecture for an integrated circuit is provided that both serializesvirtual GPIO signals and deserializes virtual GPIO signals without the need for an external clock.
US09747238B2
A computer processor including a plurality of functional units that performs operations that produce result operands at different characteristic latencies over multiple cycles. An interconnect network provides data paths for transfer of operand data between functional units. The interconnect network includes first and second crossbar parts. The first crossbar part is configured to route result operands produced with the lowest characteristic latency to any other functional unit. The second crossbar part is configured to route result operands with higher characteristic latency relative to the lowest characteristic latency to the first crossbar part where such result operands are in turn routed to any functional unit. In another aspect, the functional units can be organized as multiple slots where each slot can produce multiple result operands of different characteristic latencies in the same cycle, and wherein each slot employs separate result registers for each characteristic latency present on the slot.
US09747235B2
An information processing method and an electronic device are provided, the information processing method includes: detecting a version parameter of a first USB device connected to an electronic device; detecting a display resolution of the electronic device; determining whether the version parameter and the display resolution meet a predetermined conflict condition; and adjusting the display resolution of the electronic device in a case that the version parameter and the display resolution meet the predetermined conflict condition.
US09747232B2
A data processing device includes: multiple data processing stages including a processing element, a stage memory and an event controller; and a bidirectional slotted bus connecting between the data processing stages, including two write only busses arranged at different data writing directions independently from each other. The processing element and the stage memory in one data processing stage are connected to each other via a read only bus. The processing element and the slotted bus are connected to each other via a write only bus. A process completion event is input from the processing element to the event controller, and an external event is input from an external device to the event controller. The event controller generates a task start event with respect to the processing element, according to each of the process completion event and the external event.
US09747227B1
Method and system for transmitting same data by at least two different ports of a network device coupled to a computing device or to at least two different destinations coupled to a same port of the network device is provided. The computing device sends a single command for sending the same data to the network device. The network device obtains the same data from the computing device via one direct memory access (DMA) operation; and then sends only one notification for transmitting the same data via at least two different ports or to two different destinations via the same port.
US09747218B2
A computer processor includes an instruction processing pipeline that interfaces to a hierarchical memory system employing an address space. The instruction processing pipeline includes execution logic that executes at least one thread in different protection domains over time, wherein the different protection domains are defined by region descriptors each including first data specifying a memory region of the address space employed by the hierarchical memory system and second data specifying permissions for accessing the associated memory region. The address space can be a virtual address space or a physical address space. The protection domains can be associated with different turfs each representing a collection of region descriptors. A given thread can execute in a particular turf, one turf at a time. The particular turf can be selectively configured to change over time.
US09747211B2
A cache memory includes: a tag storage section in which one of a plurality of indexes, each index containing a plurality of tag addresses and one suspension-indicating section, is looked up by a first address portion of an accessed address; a data storage section; a tag control section configured to, when the suspension-indicating section contained in the looked-up index indicates suspension, allow access relevant to the accessed address to wait, and when the suspension-indicating section contained in the looked-up index indicates non-suspension, compare a second address portion different from the first address portion of the accessed address to each of the plurality of tag addresses contained in the looked-up index, and detects a tag address matched with the second address portion; and a data control section.
US09747208B2
A processor includes a memory management unit and a front end including a decoder. The decoder includes logic to receive a flush-on-commit (FoC) instruction to flush dirty data from a volatile cache to a persistent memory upon commitment of a store associated with the FoC instruction. The memory management unit includes logic to, based upon a flush-on-fail (FoF) mode, skip execution of the flush-on-commit instruction and to flush the dirty data from the volatile cache upon a subsequent FoF operation.
US09747206B2
A method for reprogramming data, performed by a processing unit, is disclosed to include at least the following steps. After a page of data has failed to be programmed into a first block of a storage unit, it is determined whether the failed page is an upper page or a first lower page. When the failed page is an upper page, a host page number associated with a second lower page of a wordline including at least the failed page is obtained, a second block is selected, and an access interface is directed to reprogram data from the second lower page to the upper page into the second block.
US09747203B2
A computer system is configured to perform a garbage collection process within a computing environment. The computer system includes a memory having a load-monitored region managed by a runtime environment. A computer processor is configured to perform operations including executing an instruction to load a doubleword, where the instruction includes a destination register. The operations further include loading into the destination register a pointer address of a pointer when the pointer indicated by the instruction points to a first location located in the load-monitored region. The operations further include invoking a garbage collection event-based branch (EBB) in response to reading the pointer address from the destination register. In response to invoking the garbage collection EBB, an object indicated by the pointer address is moved via a handler from the first location in memory to a second location in memory that is located outside of the load-monitored region.
US09747201B2
An electronic device with volatile memory repeatedly compares an amount of free volatile memory to a first predetermined threshold level of free volatile memory. When the device determines that the amount of free volatile memory is less than the first predetermined threshold level, the device deallocates volatile memory by terminating one or more processes based on predetermined priority levels of the one or more processes.
US09747199B2
Data storage using application storage analytics that: (i) runs a set of application(s) that use a thin provision data storage device for data storage; (ii) determines a set of runtime behavior(s) of the set of applications(s) with respect to use of the thin provisioning data storage device for data storage; and (iii) calculates a runtime representation capacity based on a predetermined over-provisioning ratio and the set of runtime behavior(s).
US09747196B2
A lighting system according to various embodiments includes a lighting array having a plurality of luminaires and a plurality of sensors. The lighting system also includes a controller configured to operate in at least one from the group including (i) pre commissioning mode and (ii) a commissioning mode. The pre-commissioning mode matches one of the luminaires with a corresponding one of the sensors to create luminaire-sensor pairs and the commissioning mode determines a location of each of the luminaire-sensor pairs.
US09747194B2
A method and a system to maintain consistency between software specification and code are described. A specification engine converts a specification describing features included in a piece of software into convened specification that describes the historical details of the features organized temporally. A code engine abstracts code corresponding to the specification into a design. An n-trace engine traces a portion of the converted specification that describes a particular feature of the one or more features to a portion of the design that includes the code that, when executed by one or more processors, implements the particular feature and generates a time-graph that sequentially orders events occurring in connection with the portion of the code.
US09747193B1
A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium are provided to automatically detect a root cause for an error that occurred during execution of functionality in a system. When a request is executed, a log associated with the execution of the request may be stored at the storage. The log may include information associated with a component associated with the execution of the request. Logs related to the same type of request may be compared with the executed request. Specifically, information associated with a component of the executed request may be compared with information associated with a component of the identified stored requests. When information associated with a component of the executed request does not match information associated with a component of the identified stored requests, a root cause for an error is associated with the associated component of the executed request.
US09747191B1
Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for evaluating for dynamically testing an application or “app” on multiple computing devices at the same time. Each device participating in a testing session runs a device agent which monitors and records user input directed to the app on that device. When a user input event occurs is directed to the app on one of the devices, the corresponding device agent translates the user input into replication events that can be broadcast to, and then replayed by, the app on the other computing devices participating in the testing session.
US09747186B1
A method of delaying or blocking new bus resets from propagating while a previous bus initialization (bus reset, tree-id or self-id) is in process during the performance of a IEEE-1394 serial bus. The method provides for more robust Beta only bus operation during high frequency bus resets. The bus resets are caused by noise events, power-up and power-down sequences and other bus reset causing events.
US09747184B2
A module health system includes a module health circuit comprising a hardware register that is set to a first value in response to the system starting, an application register that is set to the first value in response to the system starting and a watchdog timer register that is set to the first value in response to the system starting. The system further includes a power on self-test that determines whether the system has passed a plurality of tests and that selectively sets the hardware register to a second value based on the determination, an external software application that determines whether a safety critical system is healthy and selectively sets the application register based on the determination, a watchdog timer application that selectively sets the watchdog timer register, a central processing unit that determines whether to de-assert a module health signal.
US09747178B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for identifying configuration inconsistencies between storage virtual machines across storage clusters. For example, a first storage cluster and a second storage cluster may be configured according to a disaster recovery relationship where user data and configuration data of the first storage cluster are replicated to the second storage cluster so that the second storage cluster can takeover for the first storage cluster in the event a disaster occurs at the first storage cluster. Because replication of configuration data (e.g., a name and size of a volume, a backup policy, etc.) may fail for various reasons, configuration of the first storage cluster is compared to configuration of the second storage cluster to identify a configuration difference (e.g., a new size of the volume at the first storage cluster may have failed to be replicated to a replicated volume at the second storage cluster).
US09747173B2
A data storage device is provided. The data storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of blocks. Each block includes a plurality of pages. when the data storage device is resumed from a power-off event, the controller selects a first block which was written last before the power-off event among the plurality of blocks and writes data of a plurality of first pages of the first block into a plurality of second pages of the first block.
US09747170B2
In one example embodiment of the inventive concepts, an adaptive data backup method performed in a memory system including a non-volatile multi-level cell memory device includes receiving a write command from a host and determining a backup data size which is a size of data to be backed up among data requested to be written in the write command. The adaptive data backup method further includes selecting a backup type among at least two different backup types, based on the backup data size and backing up the data according to the selected backup type.
US09747152B2
Various methods and systems for tracking incomplete purchases in correlation with application performance, such as application errors or crashes, are provided. In this regard, aspects of the invention facilitate monitoring transaction and application error events and analyzing data associated therewith to identify data indicating an impact of incomplete purchases in relation to an error(s) such that application performance can be improved. In various implementations, application data associated with an application installed on a mobile device is received. The application data is used to determine that an error that occurred in association with the application installed on the mobile device correlates with an incomplete monetary transaction initiated via the application. Based on the error correlating with the incomplete monetary transaction, a transaction attribute associated with the error is determined.
US09747149B2
A method of firmware dump collection from a primary dump adapter is provided. The method includes identifying a primary system dump device and a secondary system dump device. An operating system (OS) dump coordinator writes non-disruptive state data to the primary system dump device, and writes disruptive state data to the secondary system dump device. Non-disruptive state data is requested from a hardware device adapter that is connected to the non-primary system dump device. Disruptive state data is requested from the hardware device adapter that is connected to the primary system dump device. The non-disruptive state data is written to the primary system dump device. Disruptive state data is written to the secondary system dump device.
US09747141B2
The described aspects relate to methods and apparatus for widget intercommunication in a wireless communication environment. In particular the described aspects relate to dynamically exchanging content between application graphical user interface widgets executed on a widget runtime model.
US09747138B2
An information processing device comprising a processor that selects, from among a plurality of data processing section that subject data blocks to a predetermined process, a data processing section to which a first data block group with first identification information based on the data blocks is allocated, and divides, when a workload placed on the data processing section exceeds a first threshold, the first data block group allocated to the data processing section into a plurality of second data block groups with second identification information based on the data blocks, and selects, from among the plurality of data processing sections, data processing sections to which the plurality of second data block groups are allocated.
US09747135B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for allocating multiple resources. In one embodiment, a configured resource plan is used to construct a hierarchical tree. The system then identifies a set of unowned resources from the configured resource plan and sends the set of unowned resource to a share pool. The share pool is either a global or local pool and can be accessed by one or more consumers. In response to changes in workload demands, a set of unused resources are lent to a global or local pool.
US09747125B2
A first computer of a plurality of computers in a server computer system may be associated with a first user on an exclusive basis. An administrator of the server computer system may utilize an administrative user interface in order to specify the association. Associating the first computer with the first user on the exclusive basis may prevent users other than the first user from using the first computer. In response to receiving a request from the first user to connect to the server computer system, the system may operate to determine that the first computer is associated with the first user on the exclusive basis and may assign the first computer to the first user. Once the first computer has been assigned to the first user, the first user can begin using the first computer. In some embodiments the first computer may be a physical computer. In other embodiments the first computer may be a virtual machine.
US09747122B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for memory requests by a virtual machine. One of the methods includes generating a plurality of doorbell pages for a plurality of virtual machines executing on a device, providing, to each of the plurality of virtual machines, access to a respective one of the plurality of doorbell pages that identifies a queue that stores requests from the respective virtual machine, receiving, from a particular one of the plurality of doorbell pages, a notification that the respective queue has a request from the respective virtual machine, and in response to receiving the notification that the respective queue has a request from the respective virtual machine, causing a processor to process the respective queue for the respective virtual machine.
US09747121B2
Methods and systems for performance optimization of workloads in virtualized information handling systems may analyze a workload at a virtual machine executing on a hypervisor. A workload policy specifying hardware resources for allocation to the virtual machine may be generated. After allocation of the hardware resources to the virtual machine, the workload may be executed on the virtual machine. The hypervisor may prioritize hardware resources among a plurality of virtual machines.
US09747104B2
In one example, a method includes responsive to receiving, by a processing unit, one or more instructions requesting that a first value be moved from a first general purpose register (GPR) to a third GPR and that a second value be moved from a second GPR to a fourth GPR, copying, by an initial logic unit and during a first clock cycle, the first value to an initial pipeline register, copying, by the initial logic and during a second clock cycle, the second value to the initial pipeline register, copying, by a final logic unit and during a third clock cycle, the first value from a final pipeline register to the third GPR, and copying, by the final logic unit and during a fourth clock cycle, the second value from the final pipeline register to the fourth GPR.
US09747103B2
According to an aspect, management of auxiliary branch prediction in a processing system including a primary branch predictor and an auxiliary branch predictor is provided. A congruence class of the auxiliary branch predictor is located based on receiving a primary branch predictor misprediction indicator corresponding to a mispredicted target address of the primary branch predictor. An entry is identified in the congruence class having an auxiliary usefulness level set to a least useful level with respect to one or more other entries of the congruence class. Auxiliary data corresponding to the mispredicted target address is installed into the entry. The auxiliary usefulness level of the entry is reset to an initial value based on installing the auxiliary data.
US09747094B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for applying a component update using a management engine are disclosed. A computing device may include a management engine to store a bootable image containing an update for a component of the computing device in a secured memory location and configure the computing device to boot from the bootable image. Such configuration may include configuring the computing device for integrated device electronics redirection (IDE-R) to the bootable image. A firmware update server may generate the bootable image containing the update, digitally sign the bootable image, and transmit the bootable image to the computing device for the update to be applied. The firmware update server may sign the bootable image with an original equipment manufacturer key, such as a firmware signing key. The firmware update server may notify all computing devices connected to a network that the update is available. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09747085B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating source code from a compilable annotated source code prototype are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving two or more schemas that each describe attributes of respective source code modules to be generated by a source code generator, receiving a compilable source code prototype comprising annotations associated with the source code generator to generate each of the respective source code modules, detecting the annotations from the source code prototype as part of generating the respective source code modules, determining that one or more of the annotations from the source code prototype correspond with one or more attributes of a schema associated with one of the respective source code modules to be generated, and generating each of the respective source code modules based on the annotations from the source code prototype in view of attributes described in an associated schema.
US09747076B1
Integrated circuits with pseudo random bit sequence (PRBS) generation circuitry are provided. The PRBS generation circuitry may be configured to support parallel output generation in multiple modes, where the parallel bit width in each mode can be different. The PRBS generation circuitry may include a linear feedback shift register that implements a desired polynomial, one or more XOR tree circuits that produces the parallel output bits, a multiplexer for selectively routing a subset of the parallel output bits back to the input of the shift register, and a gearbox for performing an adjustable bit width conversion. Configured in this way, the PRBS generation circuitry can provide parallel PRBS generation with an adjustable bit width.
US09747069B2
In one aspect, an example method for outputting an alert indicating a functional state of a back-up audio-broadcast system involves: a computing device receiving a first audio-stream that represents first audio-content; the computing device generating a first signature based, at least in part, upon an extent of mute/non-mute transitions included within the first audio-content; the computing device receiving a second audio-stream that represents second audio-content; the computing device generating a second signature based, at least in part, upon an extent of mute/non-mute transitions included within the second audio-content; the computing device making a determination that the generated first-signature and the generated second-signature lack a threshold extent of similarity; and responsive to the determination that the generated first-signature and the generated second-signature lack the threshold extent of similarity, the computing device outputting an alert.
US09747068B2
A method including generating respective audio signals from microphones of an apparatus; determining which camera(s) of a plurality of cameras of the apparatus has been selected for use; and based upon the determined camera(s) selected for use, selecting an audio processing mode for at least one of the respective audio signals to be processed, where the audio processing mode at least partially automatically adjusts the at least one respective audio signals based upon the determined camera(s) selected for use.
US09747065B2
An image forming apparatus of the present invention acquires information of printing setting that can be executed by a printing instruction apparatus, and then determines whether or not printing setting described in the printing setting information is executable in the printing instruction apparatus, on the basis of the acquisition result. Then, when determining that the printing setting is not executable, the image forming apparatus changes the contents of the printing setting in the printing setting information to printing setting suitable for the image forming apparatus.
US09747062B2
Ethernet and Universal Serial Bus (USB) powered printing devices are provided. In particular, Ethernet and USB powered printers and methods of Ethernet powering of printers that support high speed printing and/or data intensive printing. Such high-speed and/or data intensive printing operations are able to be Ethernet or USB powered by providing for a power storage unit within the printer device that is able be charged during non-printing periods and provide for necessary energy bursts to support such higher powered processes. In addition, the present invention provides for devices and methods that allow for printers to operate with main power provided by conventional power mains and for back-up or secondary power to be supplied by Ethernet or USB power. Additionally, the invention provides for Ethernet or USB powering, both primary and back-up, of the data and configuration settings in the printer control and image generating electronics. In the back-up power mode, the Ethernet or USB power insures that data and configurations are not lost during periods of main power outage. The invention also provides a printer and method that can optimize a printing operation, e.g., by adjusting the speed of the printing operation according to the power required for the operation and/or the power available.
US09747054B2
A computer system for low power storage array with metadata access includes sequentially writing data to a currently active disk drive in a storage array and storing metadata relating to the writes in a preallocated portion of the currently active disk drive, determining when the currently active disk drive is nearing full capacity, activating a next disk drive and cloning the stored metadata from the preallocated portion of the currently active disk drive to a preallocated portion of the next disk drive. When the currently active disk drive is full, sequentially writing data to the next disk drive.
US09747052B2
A processor is provided with a first memory protection unit applying a first set of permissions and a second memory protection unit applying a second set of permissions. A memory access will only be permitted if both the first set of permissions and the second set of permissions are satisfied. The processor also includes a memory management unit which serves to translate from virtual addresses VA to physical addresses PA. A selectable one of the first memory protection unit and the memory management unit is active at any given time under control of a selection bit set by a hypervisor program executing at an exception level with higher privilege than the exception level at which the guest operating systems execute.
US09747035B2
A memory request initiates access to a memory location in the memory. The memory location is evaluated to determine whether the memory location is located within a first portion of the memory or within a second portion of the memory. In response to determining that the memory location is located within the first portion and that the memory request is a read request, the memory location located within the first portion is accessed. In response to determining that the memory request is a write request and the memory location is located within the first portion, the memory location located within the first portion and a duplicate of the memory location is accessed. When the memory location is located within the second portion, the memory location located within the second portion using a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) memory mechanism, in response to the memory request being the write request.
US09747033B2
An abstraction for storage class memory is provided that hides the details of the implementation of storage class memory from a program, and provides a standard channel programming interface for performing certain actions, such as controlling movement of data between main storage and storage class memory or managing storage class memory.
US09747027B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product provide a simplified method for unlocking an electronic device that uses soft keys, such as capacitive touch keys, or proximity detection areas and patterns. The keys may be implemented in the form of areas of a sensor, and a processing circuit observes a touch pattern (or proximity pattern, or characteristic pattern such as a capacitance pattern of a user's finger) and compares the same with the registered pattern to determine if there is a likeness. In doing so, the electronic device is operated at a low power state, and in that low power state observes whether a predetermined pattern is observed and when it is, unlocks the electronic device for interaction with a user at a fully operational state. By operating in the low power state while waiting to observe a predetermined pattern before unlocking the user interface, the device does not waste power on false positive detections, and allows for convenient wakeup and accessibility by a user.
US09747022B2
A display control unit executes a first control process if a swipe operation detected by an operation detection unit is a first swipe operation in which a finger is linearly moved, and executes a second control process differing from the first control process if the swipe operation detected by the operation detection unit is a second swipe operation in which the finger is moved along a route differing from the route of the finger in the first swipe operation.
US09747013B2
Predicting what content items a user finds important and sending those items to a cache on the user's device at times when doing so will not drain resources and will not result in expensive data rates. Applying a ranking function that examines recency and other content metadata associated with the user's content items stored in a synchronized content management system. Determining how much of a ranked list of content items to cache and deciding when is a good time to send content items to the local cache.
US09747009B2
A user-friendly graphical user interface is proposed to enable creation of a playlist of data elements of any type. A graphical object is displayed representing a content based logical map arranged in two or three dimensions and defining characteristics at predefined coordinates. A trajectory defined by a mathematical spline function and having a start point, an end point and one or more intermediate points is drawn and can be changed by moving the steering point of at least one of the start point and the end point. The data elements for the playlist are selected by searching in meta-data for characteristics that best match the characteristics of points along the trajectory.
US09747008B2
Embodiments include methods for creating collaborative information threads relating to maintenance or repair, comprising receiving a user selection of an equipment unit; displaying information related to one or more collaborative threads, where each thread corresponds to a task related to the selected unit; receiving user selection of one of the collaborative threads; and displaying at least a portion of the selected collaborative thread, including one or more previous actions and one or more continuation options. Embodiments also include methods for interactive selection and display of maintenance or repair information, comprising displaying a visual representation of an equipment; receiving user selection of a region for which information is desired; displaying a list of elements within the region; receiving a user selection of one of the elements; and displaying information related to the selected element. Embodiments also include user interface devices and computer-readable media embodying one or more of these methods.
US09747006B2
A sharing model enables users to easily and conveniently create and share standard and custom database objects, and applications, among users or groups of users. The sharing model includes systems and methods that allow users to conveniently create and customize tabs and tab sets that define relationships between custom objects and fields, standard objects and fields, and applications. A tab visually represents a user interface into an element of an application or into a database object. Selection of a tab provides a user access to the object or element of the application represented by the tab. A tab set is a group of related tabs that work as a unit to provide application functionality. New tabs and tab sets may be defined and tab set views may be customized so that an end user can easily and conveniently switch between the various objects and application elements represented by the displayed tabs and tab set views.
US09747005B1
A system for determining display information comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive widget information. A processor is configured to determine display information based at least in part on the widget information and display system information. Determining display information comprises determining a first subset of widget information to not display, determining a second subset of widget information to modify, and determining a third subset of widget information to display.
US09746999B2
A method for remote control wherein a first mobile device is remotely controls a second mobile device connected to the first mobile device via an audio/data transmission network. The method includes receiving a request from an user of the first mobile device on the first mobile device, performing audio transmission from the first mobile device to the second mobile device, and transmitting data for a displayed screen from the first device to the second device via the data transmission network. The received data for the displayed screen is displayed on the second mobile device, operation content is received from an user operating the displayed screen on the second device, and the operation content is transmitted from the second device to the first device via the data transmission network, so that a terminal feature on the first device is operable based on the operation content received from the second device.
US09746998B2
Systems and methods for collaborative data based device maintenance are provided. In example embodiments, an indication of a malfunction of a user product of a user is received. In response to receiving the indication of the malfunction, a component of the user product corresponding to the malfunction is identified. User data of another user that includes data associated with the user product is accessed. An item listing associated with the component is identified based, in part, on the user data of another user. User data of the user is accessed . An order parameter for an order corresponding to the item listing is determined based on the user data of the user and the another user. A recommendation to place the order corresponding to the item listing using the determined order parameter is presented.
US09746996B2
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) controller for controlling one or more components of a HVAC system or monitoring a state thereof is provided. The HVAC controller may include a touch screen display configured to receive a parameter setting command input by a user's touch, and a controller connected with the touch screen display to display a screen on the touch screen display. The controller may display a function selection screen to select a type of a limit function when the controller receives a command for selecting limit functions of one or more components of the HVAC system. Further, the controller may display a set-up screen to input a limit parameter on the touch screen display when a specific limit function is selected on the function selection screen, and the set-up screen may include a set-up button to input the limit parameter.
US09746995B2
A launching mechanism for context based menus is provided. A launcher indicator may be provided at a fixed or dynamic location on a user interface enabling a user to activate a context based menu through a variety of touch or gesture actions, as well as keyboard, mouse, or similar device inputs, directly related to the indicator or through inference from an action on the displayed content such as selection of a portion of the content. The launcher indicator may provide contextual information such as a type of available context based menu and appear/disappear in an animated fashion. Location of the indicator may also be dynamically adjusted based on selected content, user action location (i.e., location of a touch), available display area, and so on. Upon activation of the menu, the launcher indicator may disappear or be displayed at a center of the context based menu.
US09746987B2
According to one embodiment, a method for changing a graphical user interface is provided. The method may include identifying one or more devices. The method may include determining product information associated with the one or more devices, whereby the product information includes at least one of a type, a model number, and a brand. The method may include determining one or more applications associated with the one or more devices based on the product information, whereby the one or more applications allow for operation of the one or more devices. The method may include retrieving the one or more applications. The method may include determining that the computer is oriented toward a first device of the one or more devices. The method may include displaying a first graphical user interface corresponding to a first application of the one or more applications that allows for operation of the first device.
US09746985B1
A system and method involves detecting operational social disruptive events on a global scale, assigning disease or non-disease event staging and warnings to express data in more simplistic terms, modeling data in conjunction with linguistics analysis to establish responsive actions, generating visualization and modeling capabilities for communicating information, and modeling disease or non-disease propagation for containment and forecasting purposes.
US09746983B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to a force detection system that detects force exerted on a flexible display based upon changes in resistance and/or capacitance. In one embodiment, a method includes measuring a baseline comprising a baseline resistance or a baseline capacitance or both of a force measurement layer disposed within or overlaid on the display panel. The method further includes detecting a change in the baseline resistance or the baseline capacitance or both and calculating a change location where the change in the baseline resistance or the baseline capacitance or both occurred. The method also includes calculating a magnitude of the change in the baseline resistance or the baseline capacitance or both.
US09746982B2
Disclosed is a method for determining a first common interaction surface (503) of a mobile device (501) with a second interaction surface (502) of a host device (500), the method including the following steps: detecting at least one electrical signal induced by at least one inducing magnetic field in at least one electric circuit of the host device (500) associated with the second surface (502); determining an interaction surface (503) of the mobile device (501) associated with the at least one inducing electromagnetic field; performing a level test (1106) in accordance with the at least one induced electrical signal; and determining the first common interaction surface (503) as being the interaction surface of the mobile device (501) associated with the at least one inducing electromagnetic field, according to a result of the level test (1106).
US09746977B2
To reduce disturbances in display of images due to static electricity without deteriorating optical properties in a display. The display includes a conductive pattern provided on the upper surface of the substrate, a protection layer provided on the upper surface of the substrate to cover the conductive pattern, and a conductive layer provided on the protection layer. The sheet resistance of the conductive pattern is not more than 8Ω/square. A ratio of the total sum of areas of portions of the plurality of sub-pixels that overlap the conductive pattern in a plan view to the total sum of the areas of the plurality of sub-pixels is 1 to 22%. A sheet resistance of the conductive layer is higher than the sheet resistance of the conductive pattern.
US09746970B2
A touch screen system includes a capacitive touch screen (1) including a plurality of row conductors (7-1, 2 . . . n) and a column conductor (5-1). A plurality of contemporaneous orthogonal excitation signals (S1(t), S2 (t) . . . Sn(t)) are simultaneously driven onto the row conductors, respectively. The capacitively coupled signals on the column conductor may be influenced by a touch (10) on the capacitive touch screen. Receiver circuitry (50) includes a sense amplifier (21-1) coupled to generate an amplifier output signal (r1(t)) in response to signals capacitively coupled onto the column conductor. WHT-based circuitry (35) determines amounts of signal contribution capacitively coupled by each of the excitation signals, respectively, to the amplifier output signal.
US09746969B2
A flat panel electronic device is presented. The flat panel electronic device comprises an actuating apparatus, a supporting apparatus and a control apparatus. The actuating apparatus is configured to generate a first actuating signal. The supporting apparatus has an extending position and an initial position, wherein the supporting apparatus is configured to support at least a portion of the flat panel electronic device to a predetermined height when the supporting apparatus is in the extending position. The control apparatus is configured to control the movement of the supporting apparatus in response to the first actuating signal. In addition, the supporting apparatus can also have an additional function for adjusting the angle of the display panel of the flat panel electronic device with respect to the user, so as to improve the comfort level for watching.
US09746953B2
A touch input device has a touch sensor, an operation moving amount detection unit, a pressing force detection unit, and a control unit. The touch sensor has an electrostatic sensor, and a piezoelectric sensor, and outputs an operation position detection signal and a pressing sensing signal. The operation moving amount detection unit detects an operation moving amount from the operation position detection signal. The pressing force detection unit detects a pressing force from the pressing sensing signal. The control unit previously sets threshold value Th of the pressing force, and starts the drag operation when the pressing force is threshold value Th or more. Threshold value Th whose initial value is a maximum value is decreased with time.
US09746940B2
A display device include a display unit that displays a display image on a display surface based on image data, a location detection unit that detects a pointed location with respect to the display image on the display surface, a coordinate calculation unit that calculates first coordinates as coordinates of the pointed location in a displayable area within the display surface, a coordinate conversion unit that converts the first coordinates calculated by the coordinate calculation unit into second coordinates as coordinates in the image data, and an output unit that outputs the second coordinates obtained by the coordinate conversion unit.
US09746924B2
A portable terminal device (10) includes a touch panel display (12) which displays information such as character strings, vibration setting information (16c) which stores character strings and vibration patterns in association with each other, a control unit (15) which recognizes an image displayed on the touch panel display (12) as a character string, and a vibration generating unit (14) which generates vibration in a particular vibration pattern. The control unit (15) determines a character string from among a displayed image, obtains a pattern of vibration corresponding to the determined character string referring to the vibration setting information (16c), and causes the vibration generating unit (14) to generate vibration in the obtained vibration pattern.
US09746921B2
A method for determining positions of fingers of a user is described. The method includes transmitting a power signal from a head mounted display (HMD) to provide power to a plurality of light emitters. The light emitters emit light in a sequence upon receiving the power signal. The method includes using the light emitted by the light emitters to determine a plurality of positions of the light emitters. The positions are used to play a game using the HMD.
US09746920B2
Tracking eye movement during the completion of a form on a mobile computing device to determine possible errors and suggest changes to the form. To improve data quality, eye-tracking data is used to determine input fields on a form that cause issues for a user; based on the eye tracking data, suggestions are made to change a response or to modify the form.
US09746919B2
There is provided an information processing device including an application information acquisition unit which acquires a position of a window on a display screen, and a control unit which terminates an application of a window whose position acquired by the application information acquisition unit satisfies a predetermined condition.
US09746917B2
A graphics presentation apparatus including a display unit, an eye-tracking module, and a data output module. The eye-tracking module registers image data representing at least one eye of a user of the apparatus. Furthermore, the eye-tracking module determines, based on the registered image data, an orientation of the at least one eye relative to the display unit. Finally, in response thereto, the eye-tracking module generates a control signal controlling the data output module to produce visual content with such orientation on the display unit that a misalignment between the orientation of said at least one part and the orientation of the at least one eye of the user is minimized.
US09746916B2
Disclosed is an application interface that takes into account the user's gaze direction relative to who is speaking in an interactive multi-participant environment where audio-based contextual information and/or visual-based semantic information is being presented. Among these various implementations, two different types of microphone array devices (MADs) may be used. The first type of MAD is a steerable microphone array (a.k.a. a steerable array) which is worn by a user in a known orientation with regard to the user's eyes, and wherein multiple users may each wear a steerable array. The second type of MAD is a fixed-location microphone array (a.k.a. a fixed array) which is placed in the same acoustic space as the users (one or more of which are using steerable arrays).
US09746911B2
A method and system for managing power consumption of a pool of computing devices that are logically grouped to provide a common set of functionality is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes determining logically equivalent domains across computer environment silos.
US09746902B2
Provided is a control method of a system-on-chip including a multi-core processor. The control method includes detecting a rate of runnable tasks to be performed in the multi-core processor and a driving voltage or a driving clock of the multi-core processor, determining whether variation of the rate of the runnable tasks sampled from a first time point to a current time and variation of the driving voltage or the driving clock sampled from a second time point to the current time satisfy a hotplug condition, and hotplugging in or out at least one core included in the multi-core processor when the rate of the runnable tasks and the driving voltage or the driving clock each satisfy the hotplug condition.
US09746900B2
Systems and methods for redundant object storage are disclosed. A method may include storing at least two copies of each of a plurality of objects among a plurality of nodes communicatively coupled to one another in order to provide redundancy of each of the plurality of objects in the event of a fault of one of the plurality of nodes. The method may also include monitoring access to each object to determine a frequency of access for each object. The method may additionally include redistributing one or more of the copies of the objects such that at least one particular node of the plurality of nodes includes copies of only objects accessed at a frequency below a predetermined frequency threshold based on the determined frequency of access for each object. The method may further include placing the at least one particular node in a reduced-power mode.
US09746898B2
Systems and methods that may be implemented to decrease power consumption levels of a first processing device (e.g., such as a CPU) based on monitored operating temperature of a second and different processing device (e.g., such as a discrete GPU) in a shared multiple-processor cooling resource environment of an information handling system architecture. The first processing device power consumption levels may be so controlled such that the operating temperature of the second processing device does not reach a temperature at which the second processing device is throttled.
US09746895B2
A computing device may comprise a processor, a volatile memory and a non-volatile storage device. An operating system or firmware of the device may cause one or more pages of the volatile memory to be treated, by applications executing on the computing device, as non-volatile memory pages. A maximum number of pages that may be treated as non-volatile may be determined based on an amount of energy available in a battery and an amount of energy needed to transfer a page of memory to the non-volatile storage device.
US09746892B2
A switching power source apparatus includes: a switching output circuit that generates an output voltage from an input voltage; an error amplifier that generates an error voltage in accordance with a difference between a predetermined reference voltage and the output voltage or a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage; a clock signal generation circuit that generates a clock signal; a slope voltage generation circuit that receives the clock signal to generate a slope voltage; a delay circuit that delays the clock signal to generate an on-signal; a PWM comparator that compares the error voltage and the slope voltage with each other to generate an off-signal; a logic circuit that receives the on-signal and off-signal to generate a pulse width modulation signal; and a switch drive circuit that receives the pulse width modulation signal to generate a drive signal for the switching output circuit.
US09746887B2
An electronic device bracket including a first supporting member, a second supporting member, and at least one pivoting member is provided. The second supporting member is disposed beside the first supporting member. The at least one pivoting member is disposed at a side of the first and the second supporting members, and two ends of the at least one pivoting member are pivoted to the first and the second supporting members. Here the first supporting member is adapted to move between a first position and a second position relative to the second supporting member, so as to adjust a length of the electronic device bracket.
US09746882B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device with a curved display module. A housing has a first surface adjacent to the display module and the first surface is formed to have a curvature corresponding to the curvature of the display module. At least one electronic component is disposed in a second surface of the housing that is opposite to the first surface.
US09746877B2
A method for detecting and correcting an error in a circuit is provided. The circuit is configured to receive an input signal and clock the input signal with a rising and falling timing signal. The method includes detecting late arrival signal transition of the input signal, at an intermediate point of a path, the path being one through which the input signal transits. The method further includes predicting an error in the input signal in response to detecting the late arrival signal transition at the intermediate point of the path. In addition, the method includes correcting the error in the input signal by manipulating the timing signal and/or a supply voltage.
US09746874B2
An industrial symmetric pedal control system is provided which allows for ergonomically favorable operation by paired reciprocal control pedals which mirror an operator's right and left limbs. The reciprocal mirror control pedals allow operation of the same predetermined function within designated machinery by either the left or right foot of an operator, thus reducing fatigue while maintaining proper position at a particular workstation. Also included in the system is an ergonomically designed floor mat to provide the operator with more comfort and less fatigue while operating machinery.
US09746869B2
A circuit includes: a cascode current source comprising: a current mirror transistor; and a cascode transistor; and a bias circuit coupled to the cascode current source, the bias circuit comprising: a current source; a first transistor coupled in series to the current source to form a first current path through the current source and the first transistor; a second transistor coupled in series to the current source; and a third transistor coupled in series to the second transistor and the current source to form a second current path through the current source and the second and third transistors, wherein the third transistor has a channel size greater than a channel size of the second transistor by a multiple determined according to a design factor of the bias circuit.
US09746868B2
A system comprising an ambient energy source, a power supply, and a power storage device. The ambient energy source is coupled to a first terminal end of an inductor. The power supply is also coupled to the first terminal end of the inductor. The power storage device is coupled to a second terminal end of the inductor. The ambient energy source provides power through the inductor in a first direction to the power storage device. The power storage device provides power through the inductor to the power supply in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US09746852B1
An example system includes one or more laser sensors on a robotic device, where the one or more laser sensors are configured to produce laser sensor data indicative of a first area within a first distance in front of the robotic device. The system further includes one or more stereo sensors on the robotic device, where the stereo sensors on the robotic device are configured to produce stereo sensor data indicative of a second area past a second distance in front of the robotic device. The system also includes a controller configured to receive the laser sensor data, receive the stereo sensor data, detect one or more objects in front of the robotic device based on at least one of the laser sensor data and the stereo sensor data, and provide instructions for the robotic device to navigate based on the one or more detected objects.
US09746848B2
The Invention is a system and method for adaptively attaching a work piece, especially an imprecise work piece, to a non-adaptive fixture that can be repeatably attached to one or more CNC machines. The Invention allows a work piece to be set up once for multiple machining operations. The Invention avoids the potential for errors and the cost and complexity inherent in adaptive machining and adaptive fixturing.
US09746843B2
A method of safety monitoring for a robot assembly with at least one robot that is configured with a linking function arrangement with at least one first linking function including a fixed and predetermined number of monitoring functions of a monitoring function arrangement. The monitoring functions are logically linked to one another such that the first linking function has a reaction state whenever all of the monitoring functions indicate the violated and/or error state. The first linking function does not have a reaction state whenever any monitoring function from the plurality of monitoring functions does not indicate the violated and/or error state. The reaction state is executed by the controller when all of the monitoring functions are in the violated and/or error state.
US09746841B2
A system and method for reducing pilot runs of run-to-run control in a manufacturing facility calculates an unbiased estimation of an independent model intercept based on a state space model associated with the manufacturing facility. A determination is made as to whether to perform a pilot run in the manufacturing facility. Upon determining that the run is to be performed, an indication that the pilot run is to be performed is generated. Pilot run data is received in response to the pilot run being performed, and the state space model is updated based on the received data.
US09746840B2
A smart entry system includes an unlocking sensor, a locking sensor, a smart control unit, and a central control unit. The unlocking sensor detects an operator's intention of unlocking a door. The locking sensor detects the operator's intention of locking the door. The smart control unit confirms whether the operator is an authorized user. The central control unit opens or closes a door lock when the unlocking sensor or the locking sensor is operated and the operator is a regular operator. The central control unit opens the door lock when the unlocking sensor and the locking sensor are operated substantially at the same time while the door lock is in a closed state.
US09746839B2
The responsive load control method manages the allocation and adjustment of service triggering grid frequencies across a population of responsive loads. The responsive load control method is particularly suited to responsive loads that have substantially no duty cycle or which have a long duration (>1 hr) duty cycle. With this responsive load control method provision of the responsive load service is shared fairly amongst the population of contributing responsive loads.
US09746833B2
An electronic device and a smart method for controlling an alarm are provided. The smart method includes, controlling a collection device to collect physiological parameters of a user when an alarm device of the electronic device sounds an alarm at a schedules time, obtaining the physiological parameters collected by the collection device, and determining whether the user is asleep or awake according to the obtained physiological parameters. The alarm device is disabled if the user is awake.
US09746829B2
An escapement mechanism including an escape wheel subjected to a rotational torque and a resonator integral with a pivotally mounted regulating wheel set. The escape wheel includes plural actuators regularly spaced on a periphery thereof, each arranged to cooperate directly with at least a first track of the regulating wheel set. Each actuator includes a first magnetically, or respectively electrically charged, or ferromagnetic or respectively electrostatically conductive surface, to cooperate with the first track which is magnetically, or respectively electrically charged, or ferromagnetic or respectively electrostatically conductive, to repel or attract each first surface of the actuator, and each actuator includes a mechanical stop member to cooperate, in an end-of-travel stop arrangement, with at least a first complementary stop surface included in the regulating wheel set to constitute therewith an autonomous escapement mechanism.
US09746828B2
Provided is a sheet discharging apparatus including a discharge unit configured to discharge a sheet on which a toner image has been heated and fixed, a stacking unit configured to stack the sheet discharged by the discharge unit, a suction unit configured to suck air over the stacking unit, and a cooling unit configured to blow air over the stacking unit on a downstream side of an air suction by the suction unit in a sheet discharge direction by the discharge unit.
US09746825B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a feeding tray, a pickup roller, a developing cartridge, a photosensitive member cartridge, and an exposing unit. The photosensitive member cartridge is configured to be mounted and demounted to and from a photosensitive member cartridge mounting position in the main body through a space under the exposing unit and through an opening of the front wall of the main body in a direction orthogonal to the axis of the pickup roller. The developing cartridge is configured to be mounted and demounted to and from a developing cartridge mounting position in the main body through a space under the exposing unit and through the opening in a direction orthogonal to the axis of the pickup roller, in a state the photosensitive member cartridge remains at the photosensitive member cartridge mounting position in the main body.
US09746822B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a main body; a first unit detachably attachable to the main body; a second unit which is arranged adjacent to the first unit and which is detachably attachable to the main body; and a cover which is located on the front side of the second unit relative to the detaching direction of the first and second units while supported by the second unit and which is openable and closable, wherein opening the cover permits detaching of the first unit from the main body and attaching of the first unit to the main body.
US09746818B2
A process of forming an image includes the steps of: developing an electrostatic latent image with a toner, the latent image being formed through charge of the surface of an electrostatic latent image carrier and exposure of the surface to light; and applying a lubricant onto the surface of the electrostatic latent image carrier. The toner includes a toner matrix particle and an external additive nanoparticle. The external additive nanoparticle comprises a silica-polymer composite nanoparticle. A percentage of atomic silicon present on the surface of the silica-polymer composite nanoparticle satisfies Condition A expressed by Expression: 15.0 atm %≦percentage of atomic silicon ({Si/(C+O+Si)}×100)≦30.0 atm %. The percentage of atomic silicon is determined from total amounts of atomic carbon, oxygen, and silicon present on the topmost surface of the silica-polymer composite nanoparticle and within 3 nm inwards from the topmost surface.
US09746816B2
The invention is to provide an image forming apparatus and an electrophotographic cartridge, which are free from problems of cleaning failure, filming, soiling, residual images (ghosts), fogging, density reduction, noise and the like and which can provide high-definition images even when a toner having a small particle size and having a high degree of circularity is used and even when a photoreceptor having a small outer diameter is used. An image forming apparatus comprising: an electrophotographic photoreceptor containing a conductive support and a photosensitive layer on the conductive support, a charging unit for charging the electrophotographic photoreceptor, an imagewise exposing unit for imagewise exposing the charged electrophotographic photoreceptor to form an electrostatic latent image thereon, a developing unit for developing the electrostatic latent image with a toner, and a transferring unit for transferring the toner from the electrophotographic photoreceptor to a receiving unit, wherein the outer diameter of the electrophotographic photoreceptor is 20 mm or less, the photosensitive layer contains a polyarylate resin, and the toner satisfies the specific requirements (1) and (2).
US09746811B2
An image forming apparatus includes a detection unit that detects a user of the image forming apparatus, a power supply control unit that, when a person approaching the image forming apparatus is detected by the detection unit when the image forming apparatus is in a power saving state where power supply to a function unit included in the image forming apparatus is stopped, activates the function unit while maintaining the display unit in a non-display state, and a display control unit that, when the user of the image forming apparatus instructs the display unit to present display after power is supplied to the function unit by the power supply control unit, changes the display unit to a display state.
US09746808B2
An image forming apparatus which is able to stably perform paper feeding without double feeding the printing medium, and is also able to prevent a quality of the printing medium from being damaged is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a pick-up roller configured to pick up the printing medium, and a driving source configured to transmit a driving force to the pick-up roller, wherein the pick-up roller is provided to be raised and then to be returned to its original location when picking up the printing medium.
US09746784B2
Methods for calibrating a photolithographic system are disclosed. A cold lens contour for a reticle design and at least one hot lens contour for the reticle design are generated from which a process window is defined. Aberrations induced by a lens manipulator are characterized in a manipulator model and the process window is optimized using the manipulator model. Aberrations are characterized by identifying variations in critical dimensions caused by lens manipulation for a plurality of manipulator settings and by modeling behavior of the manipulator as a relationship between manipulator settings and aberrations. The process window may be optimized by minimizing a cost function for a set of critical locations.
US09746781B2
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus exposes a substrate with an exposure beam via a liquid immersion area formed on a portion of a surface of the substrate. The apparatus includes a projection system, a first nozzle member having an aperture through which the exposure beam is projected, the first nozzle member having a liquid supply inlet and a liquid recovery outlet, a second nozzle member having a gas supply inlet via which a gas is supplied to a space surrounding the liquid immersion area during the exposure, a driving system which moves the second nozzle member relative to the first nozzle member, and a stage system having a holder which holds the substrate and which is movable relative to and below the projection system, the first nozzle member and the second nozzle member.
US09746780B2
A maskless exposure device includes an exposure head including a digital micro-mirror device and an exposure source, the digital micro-mirror device being configured to reflect a source beam outputted from the exposure source to a substrate and a system controller configured to control the digital micro-mirror device by using a graphic data system file. The graphic data system file includes data regarding patterns to be formed on the substrate. A pattern extending in a direction parallel to a scan direction of the exposure head includes a first pattern portion having a first width that is greater than a target width and a second pattern portion alternately disposed with the first pattern portion and having a second width that is less than the target width.
US09746766B2
A composition for nanoimprinting including a siloxane polymer which includes a polymerizable group polymerized by irradiation with light; a polymerization initiator; and a fluorine-containing polymeric compound in which the fluorine-containing polymeric compound has a constituent unit represented by the following formula (f1-1) in which R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or a halogenated alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, Rf102 and Rf103 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, or a halogenated alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms, Rf102 and Rf103 may be the same as or different from each other, nf1 represents an integer of 1 to 5, and Rf101 represents an organic group including a fluorine atom.
US09746756B2
A light source system (200), comprises: a light-emitting device (1) for emitting a first light and a second light in sequence; a beam splitting system (2) with which the first light emitted from the light-emitting device (1) is divided into one beam in a first range of wavelength and the other beam in a second range of wavelength, respectively emitted along a first optical path and a second optical path, and also with which at least a part of the second light emitted from the light-emitting device (1) is emitted along the first optical path; a first spatial light modulator (211) for modulating the beam emitted from the beam splitting system (2) along the first optical path; a second spatial light modulator (213) for modulating the beam emitted from the beam splitting system (2) along the second optical path. The light source system (200) has the advantages of high light-emitting efficiency and low cost. A projection system comprising the aforementioned light source system (200) is also provided.
US09746754B2
Projecting type image display apparatus including light source control unit and cooling control unit
An image display apparatus including a light source; a light source control unit configured to control electric power to be supplied to the light source; a light source cooling unit configured to cool the light source; a cooling control unit configured to control the light source cooling unit; an image display device; an illumination optical system configured to introduce light from the light source to the image display device, and a projecting optical system configured to project light modulated by the image display device. When the light source control unit receives a turn-off command, the light source control unit first lowers electric power to be supplied to the light source to a predetermined electric power lower than normal electric power to be supplied when the lamp is on, and then blocks the supply of the electric power to the light source, thereby turning the light source off.
US09746738B1
A liquid crystal display device including: a first substrate including a first base substrate, a first field-generating electrode disposed on the first base substrate, and a second field-generating electrode disposed on the first field-generating electrode; a second substrate facing the first base substrate and disposed spaced apart from the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystals, in which an electric field is formed by the first field-generating electrode and the second field-generating electrode, being disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and contacting the second field-generating electrode; and a plurality of first projections disposed between the second field-generating electrode and the liquid crystal layer.
US09746735B2
An FFS mode LCD device is disclosed which includes: a substrate; gate and data lines arranged to cross each other on the substrate and define white, red, green and blue sub-pixels with asymmetric areas; first through fourth thin film transistors connected to the white, red, green and blue sub-pixels; common electrodes disposed in the white, red, green and blue sub-pixels; and white, red, green and blue pixel electrodes disposed to overlap with the common electrodes within the white, red, green and blue sub-pixels.
US09746733B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel comprising: a display area in which a display area in which an array of pixel units is disposed, each of the pixel unit at least comprises a blue sub-pixel; a plurality of scan lines for providing a plurality of scan signals to the pixel units; and a plurality of data lines for providing a plurality of data signals to the pixel units, wherein the blue sub-pixels of the pixel units in every two separated columns, which are separated by one column, are coupled to a first data line, and the first data line provides an identical data signal to the blue sub-pixels in a same line of the two separated columns. The present invention further provides a method for driving the liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal display comprising the above mentioned liquid crystal panel.
US09746732B2
A display device includes a substrate including an active region, a non-active region disposed outside the active region, and a driving region disposed on one side of the non-active region, gate lines disposed in the active region to extend in a row direction, data lines disposed in the active region to extend in a column direction, pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines, repair wiring disposed in the non-active region, and a gate driving integrated circuit (“IC”) disposed in the driving region, the gate driving IC generating gate driving signals and transmitting the gate driving signals to the gate lines, where the repair wiring includes a first sub-repair line connected to the gate driving IC, and a second sub-repair line disposed in the non-active region to extend in the column direction, to be connected to the first sub-repair line, and to overlap the gate lines.
US09746730B2
An array substrate having a data line self-repairing function and a liquid crystal display device is disclosed. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units, the pixel unit at least comprise a gate layer, a gate insulating layer, a data layer and a pixel electrode layer laminated therein. Every of the pixel unit have a translucent area and opening areas. The gate layer relative to the opening area is retained, and the gate insulating layer does not cover the gate layer, and the data layer relative to the opening area contacts with the gate layer so that a broken data line in the data layer has conductive connection through the gate layer. Through the above solution, the data line has automatic repair function for disconnection and the unqualified rate of the data line during the manufacture processes is reduced.
US09746729B2
According to one embodiment, there is a third column of third color (Blue) pixels and fourth (White) color pixels arranged alternately. The first set of a first (Red), a second (Green) and a third (Blue) color pixels along the first direction, and the second set of a first (Red), a second (Green) and a fourth (White) color pixels along the first direction are each defined as a composite color unit pixel. In the composite color unit pixels located at the first or second one along the first direction from composite color unit pixels to which color pixels of the third columns belongs, a connection pattern is designed that the pixels of the third columns are connected to the odd-numbered gate lines and the even-numbered gate lines, alternately, along the first direction.
US09746724B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel including: a lower display substrate on which a plurality of pixel electrodes are disposed in a matrix and data lines extend in a column direction between adjacent pixel electrodes; an upper display substrate on which a common electrode is disposed; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower display substrate and the upper display substrate and including liquid crystal molecules. The display panel includes a plurality of unit pixels, each unit pixel including pixels having different colors, and each pixel including one of the pixel electrodes. A gap between neighboring unit pixels is larger than a gap between neighboring pixel electrodes within each unit pixel, and a data line positioned between the neighboring unit pixels has a portion having a width larger than that of a data line positioned between the neighboring pixel electrodes within each unit pixel.
US09746716B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to be opposed to each other, the first substrate and the second substrate being bonded by sealant located in peripheral regions of the first substrate and the second substrate to form a box-shaped space, with liquid crystal and a spacer for supporting the box-shaped space filled in the box-shaped space. The spacer is disposed at a position close to the sealant; as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first substrate or the second substrate, a filling regions is enclosed by the sealant and the spacer, and an elastic material is filled in the filling regions between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US09746711B2
A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure includes a substrate and an insulating layer on the substrate. The insulating layer includes a plane region. An electrode pattern is disposed on the insulating layer and located on the plane region. The electrode pattern includes a bottom layer and a plurality of protrusions connected to the bottom layer. The protrusions protrude from the top surface of the bottom layer towards a direction away from the substrate. The bottom layer covers the plane region. A plurality of slits are formed between the protrusions so as to expose portions of the bottom layer. A liquid-crystal display having the pixel structure is also provided.
US09746708B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a first base substrate, a wire grid polarizer disposed on the first base substrate, a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal polarizer disposed on the first base substrate, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate and a liquid crystal layer between the first base substrate and the second base substrate.
US09746688B2
An Electrically Switchable Bragg Grating (ESBG) despeckler device comprising at least one ESBG element recorded in a hPDLC sandwiched between transparent substrates to which transparent conductive coatings have been applied. At least one of said coatings is patterned to provide a two-dimensional array of independently switchable ESBG pixels. Each ESBG pixel has a first unique speckle state under said first applied voltage and a second unique speckle state under said second applied voltage.
US09746687B2
An illumination apparatus is disclosed, which includes a light source configured to generate light for an illumination area to be illuminated, and a diffraction grating element provided between the illumination area and the light source, and including a plurality of diffraction gratings arranged in a two dimensional array. A distribution of grating intervals of the diffraction gratings in the diffraction grating element has a characteristic such that a center region, along a predetermined line in a plane of the two dimensional array, has a greater grating interval than an end region.
US09746685B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel including a plurality of display units displaying a same image, and a microlens array including a plurality of microlens elements disposed on top of a light emitting surface of the display panel. The plurality of microlens elements are one-to-one corresponding to the plurality of display units, and a distance between a center of the microlens element and a center of the corresponding display unit gradually increases from a center of the display panel to an edge of the display panel.
US09746667B2
A zoom lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that is fixed during magnification change, at least three movable lens groups that are moved during magnification change, and a positive end lens group that is disposed at the most image side and is fixed during magnification change. The at least three movable lens groups include, in order from the object side, a positive lens group, a negative lens group, and a negative lens group. The first lens group includes at least two negative lenses, where the most object-side negative lens has a meniscus shape with the convex surface toward the object side, and a first-n lens, which is at least one negative lens of the rest of the negative lenses of the first lens group, satisfies given condition expressions (1) and (2).
US09746650B2
A zoom lens is constituted by, in order from the object side: a positive first lens group; a negative second lens group; a positive third lens group; a negative fourth lens group; and a positive fifth lens group. The distance between the first and second lens groups constantly increases, the distance between the second and third lens groups constantly decreases, the distance between the third and fourth lens groups constantly changes, and the distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups constantly increases when changing magnification from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens group is constituted by three lenses, which are negative, positive, and positive in order from the object side. The second lens group is constituted by five lenses, which are negative, negative, positive, positive, and negative in order from the object side. The fifth lens group is constituted by a single lens component.
US09746649B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side: a positive first lens group; a negative second lens group; a positive third lens group; a negative fourth lens group; and a positive fifth lens group. The distance between the first and second lens groups constantly increases, the distance between the second and third lens groups constantly decreases, the distance between the third and fourth lens groups constantly changes, and the distance between the fourth and fifth lens groups constantly increases when changing magnification from the wide angle to the telephoto end. The first lens group includes three lenses. The second lens group includes four lenses. The third lens group includes six lenses and an aperture stop. The fifth lens group includes a single lens component.
US09746646B2
An imaging lens assembly is provided in the present disclosure. The imaging lens assembly includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power; a fifth lens with positive refractive power; and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens and the sixth lens are arranged in sequence from the object side to the image side, and satisfy conditions provided in the present disclosure.
US09746638B2
An imaging lens is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side: a positive first lens group; a stop; a negative second lens group; and a positive third lens group. Only the second lens group moves in the direction of the optical axis to perform focusing operations. The first lens group is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens group front group and a first lens group rear group. The first lens group front group is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side, one positive lens and one negative lens, the first lens group rear group includes at least two negative lenses and at least three positive lenses. The second lens group is constituted by one or two positive lenses and one negative lens.
US09746620B2
Expanded beam (EB) connector includes a fiber holder having an alignment channel that is configured to receive an optical fiber. The alignment channel has a channel opening and extends from the channel opening to a channel end face. The EB connector also includes an optical substrate having a three-dimensional (3D) waveguide that includes a waveguide core and a cladding. The optical substrate includes the channel end face. The waveguide core extends lengthwise between first and second coupling faces of the waveguide core. The first coupling face is at least a portion of the channel end face. The first coupling face is configured to optically couple to the optical fiber disposed within the alignment channel. The second coupling face defines an exterior of the optical substrate. The waveguide core is shaped to change a mode field diameter and a numerical aperture of light propagating between the first and second coupling faces.
US09746619B2
An optical fiber attachment device has a slide receptacle having a slide space, and a sliding member provided slidably in the slide space. The sliding member has an installation component where the core wire of an optical fiber is held by a fiber holder, a pressure contact part is provided to the slide face of the slide receptacle in the slide space, and a corresponding pressure contact part is provided to the slide face of the sliding member in the slide space, and when the sliding member has slid in the slide space, the pressing force of the pressure contact part propagates through the corresponding pressure contact part to the sliding member side, and part of the sliding member is pressed from the slide receptacle side toward the installation component on the sliding member side.
US09746617B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) comprises an optical switch, a plurality of input edge couplers comprising a first input edge coupler and coupled to the optical switch, a plurality of input surface grating couplers (SGCs) comprising a first input SGC and coupled to the optical switch, a plurality of output edge couplers comprising a first output edge coupler and coupled to the optical switch, and a plurality of output SGCs comprising a first output SGC and coupled to the optical switch. A method of fabricating a PIC comprises patterning and etching a silicon substrate to produce a first optical switch, a first surface grating coupler (SGC) coupled to the first optical switch, and a first edge coupler coupled to the first optical switch.
US09746612B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for implementing a fiber-waveguide evanescent coupling. In one aspect, a device having integrated photonic components includes a substrate, a waveguide formed on the substrate to include a terminal waveguide portion that terminates at one side of the substrate, and a fiber including a fiber core and fiber cladding surrounding the fiber core, in which at least a portion of the fiber cladding is removed at or near a fiber terminal end to enable optical evanescent coupling via a side surface of the fiber core at the or near the fiber terminal end, the fiber core at the or near the fiber terminal end is placed over the one side of the substrate to be above and to overlap with the terminal waveguide portion of the waveguide to enable optical evanescent coupling via side surfaces of the fiber core and the waveguide.
US09746595B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a solid-state image capture element optical filter having excellent visible light transmission characteristics with reduced incidence angle dependence even in the near-ultraviolet wavelength region, in which the defects of conventional optical filters such as near-infrared cut filters are improved; and a device comprising the optical filter. The solid-state image capture element optical filter of the present invention comprises: a transparent resin substrate comprising a compound (X) having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 300 to 420 nm and a compound (Y) having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of 600 to 800 nm; and a near infrared-reflecting film on at least one side of the substrate.
US09746588B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a visibility improvement sheet that comprises light absorbing portions having a substantially rectangular cross-section and can realize a high contrast while maintaining a view angle. The visibility improvement sheet is manufactured by forming light transparent portions juxtaposed to each other at predetermined intervals to form grooves having a substantially rectangular cross section juxtaposed to each other between the light transparent portions, filling the grooves with an ink composition comprising a transparent ionizing radiation curable resin composition and colored fine particles, and curing the ink composition in such a state that fine air bubbles are randomly dispersed in the filled ink composition.
US09746585B2
Calibration apparatus including a pressure cap and a pressure base that define a pressure chamber that is fillable with a liquid. A reference sensor and a sensor under test are exposed to acoustic pressures in the liquid, and responses measured. The sensor under test is secured through one of the pressure cap or base, and responses measured at acoustic frequencies as low as 0.001 Hz and at hydrostatic pressures of at least 5000 psi.
US09746584B2
An optical computing device comprising a plurality of electromagnetic radiation sources, each at a unique angular displacement about an optical train and each at at least one unique electromagnetic radiation wavelength; an integrated computational element (ICE) located in the optical train before or after a sample located in the optical train to generate modified electromagnetic radiation in the optical train; a broadband angle-selective filter (BASF) located in the optical train that is rotatable about an axis to a plurality of unique orientations to transmit the electromagnetic radiation and/or the modified electromagnetic radiation in the optical train at a target incident angle corresponding to one of the plurality of electromagnetic radiation sources to generate angle selected-modified electromagnetic radiation (ASMR); and a detector to receive the ASMR and to generate an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the sample.
US09746571B2
A P-sensor device includes an antenna structure and a P-sensor module. The antenna structure includes a first conductor, a second conductor, a capacitance member, and an inductance member. The capacitance member and inductance member are electrically connected to the second conductor. When the second conductor is in a capacitance electrode mode, a capacitance value between the second conductor and an external object is variable, and the capacitance member is configured to block a detecting signal, which travels in the second conductor. When the second conductor is in a coupling antenna mode, the inductance member is configured to block a RF signal, which travels in the second conductor. The P-sensor module is electrically connected to the inductance member and is electrically connected to the second conductor via the inductance member.
US09746569B2
A seismic data acquisition system is configured to collect seismic data. The system includes a marine source array configured to be attached to a fixed structure floating at the water surface and including vibratory source elements; and a controller configured to control the vibratory source elements so that a beam formed by the source array is steerable.
US09746567B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing seismic data and displaying an output associated with the seismic data. A method includes: separating the seismic data into a fine-scale dataset and a coarse-scale dataset, wherein each dataset includes a non-zero portion of the data; applying a first interpolation to the coarse-scale dataset which results in an interpolated coarse-scale dataset; applying a second interpolation to the fine-scale dataset which results in an interpolated fine-scale dataset, wherein the first and second interpolation are different interpolations; summing together the interpolated coarse-scale dataset and the interpolated fine-scale dataset which results in a summed interpolated dataset; and displaying at least one image based on the summed interpolated dataset.
US09746566B2
The present invention relates to the correction of X-ray image information, e.g. the correction of X-ray image information regarding persistent currents in X-ray detector elements. X-ray detectors may be embodied as photoconductors with ohmic contacts, which output a photo current depending on the energy and amount of photons impinging on a respective photoconductor pixel. Such photoconductors may exhibit a photoconductive gain, i.e. the measured current when irradiated by X-ray is higher than the current, which would result from impinging photons only generating electron-hole pairs. To compensate for photoconductive gain a method (50) for image correction of X-ray image information is provided, comprising receiving (52) readout information of an X-ray detector element (14), wherein the readout information is dependent on impinging X-radiation (20) generating a photo current and compensating (54) the readout information for a photoconductive gain employing compensation information.
US09746562B2
A method and apparatus of generating navigation information for an aircraft. Satellite signals are received at a group of reference receivers at a group of locations. A level of accuracy is identified for the group of reference receivers based on satellite data formed from the satellite signals. It is indicated when the group of locations of the group of reference receivers does not meet a desired level of accuracy. Messages are generated using the navigation information from the satellite data when the group of reference receivers has the desired level of accuracy.
US09746555B2
The planar antenna has a dielectric substrate; an antenna main body portion including first and second antenna elements on first and second sides, respectively, of the dielectric substrate and functioning as a balanced antenna; a signal line portion including first and second feed lines on the first and second sides, respectively, and a coplanar line on the first side and formed by a signal line and the first ground conductors, the signal line connected to the first feed line; a second ground conductor on the second side and connected to the second feed line; and via holes connecting the first ground conductors to the second ground conductor provided at ends of edges of the first ground conductors facing the end of the signal line where the signal line connects to the first feed line, to allow the first and second feed lines to function as balanced transmission lines.
US09746554B2
A radar imaging system and technique is described in which the imaging system generates an image and transforms the image into world coordinates taking into account host position and heading. Once in world coordinates, successive radar images can be summed (integrated, averaged) to produce an integrated image having a resolution which is improved compared with an originally generated image.
US09746553B2
A method for generating an image is provided including taking a first active radar image of an object from a first position with a handheld screening device; taking a second active radar image of the object from a second position with the handheld screening device; and generating a third image based on the first active radar image and the second active radar image. A corresponding handheld screening device is provided as well.
US09746552B2
Provided are methods of using electromagnetic waves for detecting metal and/or dielectric objects. Methods include directing microwave and/or mm wave radiation in a predetermined direction using a transmission apparatus, including a transmission element; receiving radiation from an entity resulting from the transmitted radiation using a detection apparatus; and generating one or more detection signals in the frequency domain using the detection apparatus. Methods may include operating a controller, wherein operating the controller includes causing the transmitted radiation to be swept over a predetermined range of frequencies, performing a transform operation on the detection signal(s) to generate one or more transformed signals in the time domain, and determining, from one or more features of the transformed signal, one or more dimensions of a metallic or dielectric object upon which the transmitted radiation is incident. A system and method for remote detection and/or identification of a metallic threat object using late time response (LTR) signals is also disclosed.
US09746548B2
A multi-beam LIDAR optical system, that in one example includes a plurality of single mode optical fibers configured to transmit and receive light beams, and a plurality of lenses configured to collimate and focus the light beams between the plurality of single mode optical fibers and an entrance pupil of the system, wherein the system is configured to transmit and receive the light beams over an angular field of view of at least 5°.
US09746545B1
Systems and method for detecting and removing an arbitrary phase difference between a sum channel signal and a difference channel signal in a monopulse system. A sum channel signal is received from a sum channel signal source and a difference channel signal is received from a difference channel signal source. The difference channel signal is shifted according to various potential arbitrary phase differences φi and φi+π (where φi is from 0 to π radians, i=0, 1, . . . , n; φi+π going from π to 2π radians) between the sum and difference channel signals to thereby generate difference channel signals each having a different phase. The difference channels having a different phase are combined with the sum channel signal to generate a plurality of sum+difference signals and sum−difference signals. Based on the plurality of sum+difference signals and sum−difference signals, maximum in-phase and out-of-phase correlations are determined from the φi and φi+π pairs. The maximum in-phase and out-of-phase correlation pairs are used in an error estimate calculation.
US09746541B2
A method comprises receiving a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a first beacon in an array of beacons and receiving a second RSSI of a second beacon in an array of beacons, calculating a RSSI of the array (r) as a function of the first RSSI and the second RSSI, retrieving a calibrated RSSI value of the array (r′) from a memory, determining whether r>r′, and outputting a signal to a user device responsive to determining that r>r′.
US09746539B2
At least two gradient echo signals are generated at two different echo times by subjecting a portion of a body (10) in an MR examination region (1) to an imaging sequence of RF pulses and switched magnetic field gradients. The 0th moment of the readout magnetic field gradient essentially vanishes at the time of a first gradient echo while the 1st moment of the readout gradient is non-zero. Both the 0th and 1st moments of the readout magnetic field gradient essentially vanish at a time of a second gradient echo. Gradient echo signals are acquired. Acquiring the gradient echo signals is repeated for a plurality of phase encoding steps. A first MR image is reconstructed from the gradient echo signals of the first gradient echo and a second MR image is reconstructed from the gradient echo signals of the second gradient echo. Ghosting artefacts in the first and/or second MR image are identified by comparing the first and second MR images.
US09746534B2
An adapter includes a control circuit, a control signal interface, a first input signal interface, a second input signal interface, and a first output signal interface. The control signal interface receives a tuning/detuning signal, and the control circuit switches, according to the tuning/detuning signal, the first input signal interface and the second input signal interface to be in conduction with the first output signal interface.
US09746526B2
A battery cell unit includes a battery cell and a monitoring device for monitoring the state of the battery cell. The monitoring device comprises an actuating device configured to activate an impedance spectroscopy mode provided by the battery cell unit, in which impedance spectroscopy mode measurement currents can be applied to the battery cell to perform impedance spectroscopy of the battery cell, said measurement currents flowing through the battery cell and comprising alternating currents at different frequencies. The monitoring device also comprises a sensor device designed to detect the measurement currents and the corresponding measurement voltages, each of which is a battery cell voltage arising as a response to a measurement current, such that a complex impedance of the battery cell can be determined from the measured values of the measurement currents and the measurement voltages as a function of the frequency of the measurement currents within predetermined tolerance limits.
US09746525B2
A battery system monitoring device that monitors a battery system provided with a cell group having a plurality of battery cells connected in series with each other, including: a first control device that monitors and controls states of the plurality of battery cells of the cell group; a second control device that controls the first control device; a temperature detection unit that measures a temperature in the vicinity of the first control device; and a plurality of voltage detection lines, for measuring an inter-terminal voltage of the battery cell, which connect each of a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the battery cell and the first control device. The first control device includes a balancing switch, which performs balancing discharge of the battery cell for each of the battery cells.
US09746520B2
Methods and systems for compensating for temperature variation in the performance of electronic circuits and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems are configured to store compensation parameters determined in calibration, where the compensation parameters are used by the systems to modify performance. In some embodiments, the systems are part of an automatic test equipment (ATE) system.
US09746518B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatus for allowing response data output from the scan outputs of a circuit under test to be formatted and applied as stimulus data input to the scan inputs of the circuit under test. Also the disclosure described a novel method and apparatus for allowing the response data output from the scan outputs of a circuit under test to be formatted and used as expected data to compare against the response data output from the circuit under test. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure.
US09746513B2
A thyristor circuit comprising at least one series circuit in which two or more thyristors are connected in series. Each thyristor is parallel-connected to an RC member. A control device can energize the thyristors individually and independently of each other by a control signal, so that each thyristor can be individually switched into its conducting condition. During a test sequence, the thyristors are switched successively into their conducting condition, wherein, in a series circuit and/or in the thyristor circuit, respectively only one thyristor is in its conducting condition. While a thyristor is conducting, the capacitor of the associate RC member discharges and produces a thyristor current. As a result, the conducting condition is maintained until the thyristor current falls below the holding current. The control device can use the thyristor voltage and/or the thyristor current to evaluate the function or the switching behavior of the thyristor.
US09746511B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to detection of anomalous events and locations on the transmission power system using phasor management unit (PMU) data, which provides information to grid operators for online decision support. From the high-resolution time synchronized PMU data, the transient abnormal events can be monitored and locations can be disclosed to operators for remedy actions. Utilization of PMU information for such decision support compliments operation practices relying on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) measurements at much lower data resolution. Accurate identification of event locations can further advise grid operators the root cause of disturbances and illuminate possible cascading failures. Implementations of the proposed technology may improve the resilience and reliability of the transmission power systems.
US09746501B1
A voltage detector to detect the voltage level of a switched power supply associated with a power gated region of an integrated circuit. The voltage detection circuit, which can be described as a modified Schmitt trigger circuit, comprises PMOS and NMOS transistors, and an added stack of NMOS transistors to set the output to a value of 1 in response to detection of an input voltage at the input greater than an operational voltage of the switched power supply, for example approximately 80% VDD and above. A pull-down circuit actively pulls the circuit output low before the circuit input drops below the low input threshold. Optional additional NMOS transistors provide the capability to adjust the threshold. The voltage detector circuit can be calibrated and used to detect whether or not the switched power supply associated with a power gated design has reached its operational voltage level.
US09746489B2
A functional element includes a driving portion, a first mass portion which is vibrated along the first direction, a first connection portion which is connected to the first mass portion and can perform a first movement in which the first connection portion contracts and extends along the first direction, a second connection portion which is connected to the first connection portion, extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and can perform a second movement in which the second connection portion rotates with the second direction as the axis, and a second mass portion which is connected to the second connection portion.
US09746482B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions and kits for the detection of Parkinson' disease (PD) diagnostic biomarkers, for the diagnosis of PD, for the identification of a subject at risk for developing PD, and for the generation of patient-specific PD diagnostic biomarker profiles.
US09746476B2
The present invention is generally directed to compositions, methods, and systems for performing single-molecule, real-time analysis of a variety of different biological reactions, and for determining various characteristics of the different biological reactions. The ability to analyze such reactions provides an opportunity to study those reactions as well as to potentially identify factors and/or approaches for impacting such reactions, e.g., to stimulate, enhance, or inhibit such reactions.
US09746466B2
Methods, systems, devices and apparatus for use in screening and/or selecting a library of nucleic acid molecules and/or nucleic acid tagged or encoded molecules for binding to or interaction with a target molecule or substance (e.g., for use in new compound or drug discovery) are described. In some embodiments the device comprises: (a) a spatially addressable array, said array comprising a plurality of separate and discrete locations thereon; (b) a plurality of different oligomers operably connected to said spatially addressable array at different ones of said separate and discrete locations; (c) a tag sequence which is complementary to, and is hybridized to, each of said oligomers; and (d) a candidate chemical operably connected to each of said tag sequences, wherein each of said discrete locations is a unique identifier for its corresponding oligomer; and wherein said tag sequence is a unique identifier for its connected candidate chemical.
US09746457B2
Methods of isolating cardiac cells, including cardiac cells capable of regenerating cardiac tissue are provided. Compositions comprising cardiac cells, including cardiac cells capable of regenerating cardiac tissue are also provided. Methods of using cardiac cells, cardiac progenitor cells, including cardiac cells capable of regenerating cardiac tissue, are provided. Methods of identifying the prognosis of patients treated for heart disease and/or methods of predicting the regeneration of cardiac cells in a subject are also provided.
US09746456B2
A system and method of monitoring sobriety using a hand-held breath testing device that, on receipt of a user's breath, generates a breath test signal comprising substance content data and user identification data, and wirelessly transmits the breath test signal to a breath test signal receiving station. The breath test signal includes substance content data and user identification data. The substance content data includes at least one of: a blood alcohol level and a narcotics presence. The user identification data includes compressed image data. The signal receiving station is monitored by a supervisor who is able to intervene should the substance level be greater than a predetermined threshold, or should the user identification data no match with a reference user identification data.
US09746455B2
A portable electronic device and related methods are described using an integrated chemical sensor linked to a chemical sensor processing unit and being sensitive to the concentration of a component in a sample of air and further including an operating system providing instructions for the control of the portable device, wherein the chemical processing unit uses under operating conditions a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions stored within the portable device, wherein the first set of instructions is part of the operating system level of instructions and the second set of instructions is part of a user of instructions with the second set of instructions being linked to the operating system via a plugin interface and wherein the second set of instructions is communicated to the portable device from a remote computing system based on access to measurements and/or operating conditions of the chemical sensor.
US09746451B2
An aspect provides a method of determining a concentration of free chlorine in an aqueous sample, including adding a reagent to the sample, the reagent being reactive with the free chlorine at a first kinetic rate and reactive with at least one chloramine at a second kinetic rate, the first kinetic rate being different from the second kinetic rate; measuring an absorbance response over time resulting from reaction of the free chlorine and the at least one chloramine with the reagent over time; and determining the concentration of the free chlorine in the sample based on a determined rate of change of the absorbance response over time. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09746450B2
An online gas chromatograph is provided. The online gas chromatograph includes a sample inlet and at least one chromatographic column operably coupled to the sample inlet. At least one valve is interposed between the sample inlet and the at least one chromatographic column. A detector is fluidically coupled to the at least one chromatographic column. A controller is coupled to the detector and to the at least one valve, the controller is configured to control flow from the sample inlet through the chromatograph using the at least one valve. The controller is configured to generate a plurality of sequential calibration cycles, where each calibration cycle has a calibration gas purge operation. The first calibration gas purge operation lasts longer than the second calibration gas purge operation.
US09746433B2
An X-ray fluorescence spectrometer includes: an X-ray source (3) to irradiate, with primary X-rays (6), a sample (1) that is multiple nanoparticles placed on a substrate (10); an irradiation angle adjustment unit (5) to adjust an irradiation angle at which a surface (10a) of the substrate is irradiated; a detection unit (8) to measure an intensity of fluorescent X-rays (7) from the sample (1); a peak position calculation unit (11) to generate a sample profile representing change of the intensity of the fluorescent X-rays (7) against change of the irradiation angle, and to calculate a peak irradiation angle position; a particle diameter calibration curve generation unit (21) to generate a calibration curve; and a particle diameter calculation unit (22) to calculate a particle diameter of nanoparticles of an unknown sample (1) by applying the peak irradiation angle position of the unknown sample (1) to the calibration curve.
US09746431B2
A method and a system are provided to prepare a plurality of cuttings or other rock fragments or other porous media, such as cuttings from a drilling interval or multiple intervals, for computer tomographic scanning at the same time. A method and system also are provided to allow organization of mass quantities of cuttings or other rock fragments obtained from intervals of a well to more accurately categorize the cuttings to assist selections thereof for more detailed digital rock analysis, such as using SEM and FIB-SEM systems, are provided. A method and system also are provided to allow characterization of facies occurrence frequency of a depth interval using drill cuttings or other rock fragments. Computerized systems, computer readable media, and programs for performing the methods are also provided.
US09746429B2
The invention relates to an inspection and repair module for an internal side wall of a vertically erected structure, with the module including a carrier for supporting at least one data recording mechanism and being securable to a hoist, and for an inspection and repair module for an internal wall of a conduit with the module including propulsion means comprising a set of driven tracked wheels controllable by a controller carried by the carrier and configured to provide, within a conduit, longitudinal forward and reverse motion.
US09746422B2
A computer-implemented system is provided and includes a processor and a memory accessible by the processor, with the system being configured to measure light performance properties of a gemstone and generate an objective grade for the gemstone.
US09746416B2
A photoacoustic imaging apparatus includes a light source portion and a signal processing portion. The signal processing portion is configured to perform imaging processing on the basis of either a first acoustic wave signal or a second acoustic wave signal by performing processing for disabling either the first acoustic wave signal corresponding to a rising edge of a pulse signal of pulsed light or the second acoustic wave signal corresponding to a falling edge of the pulse signal of the pulsed light.
US09746408B2
A dust sensor includes a multi-wavelength light source, a receiver, and a controller. The light source emits light of different wavelengths. The receiver generates one or more acoustic wave measurement values based on acoustic waves irradiated from the light source to air particles. The controller controls at least one flickering cycle of the light source, determines the type particles based on the acoustic wave measurement values, and calculates the concentration of particles. The controller calculates the concentration of particles in proportion to an intensity of the acoustic wave measurement values, and determine the type of particles based on the acoustic wave measurement values. The acoustic waves are generated differently based on wavelengths of light emitted from the multi-wavelength light source.
US09746399B2
A device and method for headspace sampling is disclosed herein. The headspace sampling device comprises a sample holding device configured to be sealed in a vial. The sample holding device has a pair of electrodes gap spaced from one another and a basket extending between the electrodes configured to hold a sample. The basket is configured to heat a sample held therewith and volatize at least a portion of the sample upon an electrical current being passed through the electrodes and the basket.
US09746395B2
Exhaust ducting for a gas turbine engine includes a lower plenum, an upper plenum, an exhaust fume isolator, and an inner duct seal positioned between the upper plenum and the exhaust fume isolator. The lower plenum is in flow communication with an exhaust collector of the gas turbine engine. The upper plenum is adjacent and in flow communication with the lower plenum. The exhaust fume isolator includes an isolation chamber and mixed exhaust ducting. The isolation chamber is adjacent the upper plenum and in flow communication with the enclosure. The mixed exhaust ducting is in flow communication with the isolation chamber and extends from the isolation chamber to the enclosure exhaust.
US09746387B2
A machine arrangement, including at least one bearing ring, wherein a glass fiber is connected with the machine arrangement. To allow a proper measurement of stresses, even at curved surfaces of the machine arrangement as it is typical in the case of bearing rings, the connection between the glass fiber and the machine arrangement is established by a glass material. The glass material is connected by material bonding with the machine arrangement as well as with the glass fiber.
US09746384B2
A heat flux sensor comprising at least one support, where at least one membrane is suspended relative to the support by at least four nanowires, where the membrane is made from at least one current-conducting material, and where the nanowires are made from a current-conducting material, with two nanowires connected to a current source to polarize the membrane between two terminals and a heater for heating the membrane, and where two nanowires are connected to a voltmeter to form measure the voltage at the terminals of the membrane.
US09746376B2
An apparatus and corresponding method for line-scan imaging includes a 2D array of light-sensitive detector elements divided into a plurality of sub-arrays. An electrical circuit can be configured to determine a correction for parallax based on detector element values from at least two rows of parallax detecting elements to enable images captured by the sub-arrays to be co-aligned with each other. The 2D array and parallax detecting elements can be located on the same substrate chip. Image data from sub-arrays can be co-aligned with each other based on parallax data from the parallax detecting elements and used to produce hyperspectral images corrected for parallax.
US09746371B1
A method and a lighting control system for automatically determining a calibration curve for use in daylight harvesting applications. The lighting control system comprises a light sensor configured for recording light levels and a load controller configured for provide a dimmed output to a lighting load. The calibration curve comprises a calibration slope (SC) defined by a calibration coordinate (CC) and a night coordinate (CN). The calibration coordinate (CC) comprises a calibration dimming level (DC) set by a user and a calibration light level (LC) recorded by the light sensor when the lighting load is set to the calibration dimming level (DC). The night coordinate (CN) comprises a night scene dimming level (DN) and a night scene light level (LN), wherein the night scene light level (LN) comprises a difference between a sunlight plus night scene light level (LNS) recorded by the light sensor when the lighting load is set to the night scene dimming level (DN) and a sunlight level (LS) recorded by the light sensor when the lighting load is turned off.
US09746350B2
A manual manipulation apparatus including a frame assembly, at least one handle associated with frame assembly, a mounting structure configured for mounting of a computer device relative to the frame assembly and an optional glide base connected to the frame assembly, the glide base defining an area of reduced friction. The handle can be configured as a grip handle which allows a gripping force to be applied and indicated.
US09746349B2
An opto-electronic sensor module (e.g., an optical proximity sensor module) includes a substrate, a light emitter mounted on a first surface of the substrate, the light emitter being operable to emit light at a first wavelength, and a light detector mounted on the first surface of the substrate, the light detector being operable to detect light at the first wavelength. The module includes an optics member disposed substantially parallel to the substrate, and a separation member disposed between the substrate and the optics member. The separation member may surround the light emitter and the light detector, and may include a wall portion that extends from the substrate to the optics member and that separates the light emitter and the light detector from one another. The separation member may be composed, for example, a thermosetting polymer material, a UV-curing polymer material or a visible light-curing polymer material, wherein the separation member further includes one or more inorganic fillers and/or dyes that make the separation member substantially non-transparent to light detectable by the light detector and/or emitted by the light emitter.
US09746348B2
An encoder head includes one or more components arranged to: i) direct a first incident beam to the diffractive encoder scale at a first incident angle with respect to the encoder scale; ii) receive a first return beam from the encoder scale at a first return angle, the first return angle being different from the first incident angle; iii) redirect the first return beam to the encoder scale as a second incident beam at a second incident angle; and iv) receive a second return beam back from the encoder scale at a second return angle, the second return angle being different from the second incident angle, in which a difference between the first incident angle and second incident angle is less than a difference between the first incident angle and the first return angle and less than a difference between the second incident angle and the second return angle.
US09746346B2
Embodiments relate to a position sensor comprising a magnetic target. The magnetic target includes a magnetic multipole configured to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic field has three mutually-perpendicular components at a first region. Sensor elements can be configured to measure these field components at the first region. In embodiments, comparing the amplitudes of the components can be used to determine a global position, and the instantaneous values of these components can be used to determine a local position.
US09746334B1
A device may determine a lead vehicle identifier and a follow vehicle identifier associated with navigating to a destination. The device may determine a plurality of device identifiers associated with the lead vehicle identifier or the follow vehicle identifier, identifying a plurality of devices. The device may determine navigation information. The device may provide the navigation information to a navigation device associated with a vehicle identifier. The device may receive a request to modify the navigation information. The device may determine a modification option. The device may provide the modification option to the plurality of devices for voting. The device may receive one or more voting responses. The device may determine a result of the voting based on the one or more voting responses. The device may provide, to the navigation device, an instruction associated with navigating to the destination based on the result of the voting.
US09746331B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide an apparatus for determining a matched position of a mobile device in a map. The apparatus can have a map matching system that can include a link selector that is configured to select candidate links in the map based on a previous matched position and a path length threshold, and a matching processor that is configured to determine a matched link in the candidate links based on an equivalent distance from an estimated position to a link in the candidate links and determine a current matched position on the matched link. In an embodiment, the map matching system can further include an initializer that is configured to determine a matched position based on an equivalent distance from a first estimated position to an initial candidate link in the map.
US09746325B2
An electronic device may have electrical components mounted in alignment with an electronic device housing. A compass in the electronic device housing may potentially be misaligned with respect to the electrical components and the electronic device housing. Reference devices having compasses may be used to gather compass data while one or more electrical components in the reference devices are controlled to generate magnetic fields that are detected by the compasses. An electronic device may be calibrated in a factory or in the field using calibration data produced by comparing compass readings gathered from the compass in the device while controlling electrical components in the device to compass data from the reference devices. Calibration data may be applied to compass readings in real time to correct for misalignment between the compass and the electronic device housing.
US09746318B2
An imaging apparatus includes: a light source section (2, 40) including a light source having a wavelength of a plurality of bands; an imaging section (15) configured to convert measurement light source light images of the plurality of bands from the light source section into a plurality of electrical measurement imaging signals, the measurement light source light images being reflected from a surface and an inside of the subject; a calculation section (13, 16, 19) configured to measure a shape of the surface and a shape of the inside in the subject based on the plurality of electrical measurement imaging signals obtained through the conversion in the imaging section; and a composition processing section (19) configured to composition-process the shape of the surface and the shape of the inside measured by the calculation section to create two-dimensional image data or three-dimensional image data about the subject.
US09746315B1
Side illumination is combined with scanning interferometry to provide a means for measuring with a single data-acquisition scan surfaces that contain sections suitable for interferometric processing as well as sections that are not suitable because of lack of fringes produced by the measurement. In the sections where no fringes are produced, the irradiance detected during the scan is processed using a depth-from-focus mapping method to yield a corresponding measurement. The result is a complete profilometric measurement of the sample surface with a single scan. In addition, by increasing sample irradiance through side illumination, the structural features of the sample become markedly more visible than when illuminated only by the object beam of the interferometer, which greatly facilitates finding focus and identifying regions of interest for the measurement.
US09746314B2
A laser target sphere is used in conjunction with a laser scanner. The target sphere has an ideal lambertian reflectance appropriate for laser scanning systems facilitating the laser scanner finding the center of the target sphere. The target sphere includes an internal kinematic mount configured to concentrically mount the target sphere to a Spherical Mounted Retroreflector (SMR) providing a same center location of the two spheres. By adapting the target sphere to mount concentrically on the SMR, the laser scanner and target sphere system can use the same points defined for the SMR.
US09746311B2
A method for optically scanning and measuring a scene by a laser scanner includes generating multiple scans; tracking scanner positions with a position-tracking device for the multiple scans and providing tracked scanner positions in response; registering sequentially scans selected from the multiple scans into clusters using registration points or targets and confirming registration of the scans into the clusters according to specified quality criteria being fulfilled; selecting scans from the clusters and forming pairs of scans; forming an intersection of the selected pairs and comparing a size of the intersection with a threshold value obtained based at least in part on the tracked scanner positions; and attempting to register the pairs of scans if the size of the intersection exceeds the threshold value and accepting the registered pairs of scans if the registration is successful.
US09746297B2
This invention relates to a non-lethal projectile to be fired using a paintball gun, and more particularly, but not exclusively, to an aerodynamic non-lethal projectile which is used for marking, inhibiting or administering medicinal or other chemical substances to live targets. According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a projectile comprising a body shaped to receive a capsule containing a substance, the body having a stabilizing member connected thereto for stabilizing the projectile in flight when the projectile is discharged from a weapon, and an annular member connected to the stabilising member at a rear end of the projectile for positioning the projectile relative to the weapon and relative to other projectiles to be discharged by the weapon.
US09746279B2
A paintball marker has an inline cylinder that includes a gas governor that reduces gas flow from a compressed gas source to a valve area when the bolt is in a firing position; this increases efficiency in the marker because only the required air is used to fire the paintball. This bolt operates independent of the valve pin, which increases cycle speed and enables the governor to open and close at an optimum time in the firing cycle. Further, when the bolt/piston is recocking, the gap between the valve pin and governor valve pin enables low pressure gas driving the piston to start pressurizing the cylinder and driving the piston rearwards without resistance from the high pressure gas. The marker also allows a user to remove the inline cylinder without tools, and provides a convenient carrying handle for holding the paintball marker, which is commonly called a “snatch grip.”
US09746274B1
An apparatus for firing projectiles including a feeding mechanism adapted to feed projectiles into rotating arms rotating around an axis within a guide wall. The wall includes an opening through which the projectile are expelled due to the rotation of the arms. Strikers attached to each arm are so positioned so that they strike the projectile that has been expelled through the guide accelerating the projectile.
US09746270B1
An unmanned turret having a turret ring gear and first and second electrical force-producing devices with the unmanned turret being rotatably mounted to a vehicle chassis, the turret drive mechanism including at least one ring gear independent of the turret ring gear, at least one manually-operable input component rotatably coupled to the at least one ring gear, the at least one input component accessible within the vehicle chassis, and at least one output component mechanically coupled to at least one of the first and second electrical force-producing devices of the unmanned turret to cause rotation of the at least one of the first and second electrical force-producing device. Another turret drive mechanism and an unmanned turret are also disclosed.
US09746267B2
A modular noise suppressor for a firearm may have rearward and forward sections, and a front end cap. The rearward section may contain one or more baffles and can be configured to connect to the barrel of the firearm. The forward section can contain one or more baffles and may be connected to the rearward section. The front end cap can be connected to the forward section and provide a force to the baffles of the forward section. The connection between the rearward and forward sections can be in axial tension at least in response to the front end cap providing the force to the baffles of the forward section such that any loosening of the connection between the rearward and forward sections can be at least partially restricted in response to the axial tension.
US09746265B2
A gun locking and unlocking device, which may be configured to be disposed adjacent the trigger of a gun to alternatively prevent or enable firing, includes a data receiver, a data memory and a logic device for determining whether data received by the receiver is the same, or substantially the same, as data stored in the data memory. One or more separate electronic gun keys are provided to transmit gun lock/unlock data to the data receiver of the gun lock device. The logic device responds to a gun control signal transmitted by one of the gun key devices with priority over a gun control signal transmitted by another gun key device. The logic device automatically locks the gun when it is located in a proscribed area, such as within a school zone or outside a prescribed protected area. The logic device also locks the gun when the gun user is intoxicated or acting in an irrational manner. Once locked, the user must set a timer which allows the gun to be unlocked only after a specified “wait” time. In case of emergency, when the gun must be available for immediate use, the user can override the safety features and unlock the gun by speaking a “secret word” or phrase.
US09746263B2
A Picatinny mounted, left side charging handle system adapted for mounting on AR-15, M-4, or M-16 and similar rifles. The charging handle mounts on the foremost Picatinny mount of the upper receiver and replaces OEM charging handles provided with the rifle. Side mounting overcomes the problem of a shooter's finger being moved from the trigger and/or the shooter's cheek moving from the stock weld so that the shooter's eyes may remain on the intended target. The novel charging handle mounts on the upper receiver and readily accommodates mounting virtually any optical device in addition to the charging handle. The novel charging handle may be mounted to the rifle with no rifle modification required. Rifles may alternately be charged by pulling back a protruding rear portion of the charging handle. The apparatus may readily be transferred between rifles. The rifle equipped with novel charging handle remains fully field strippable without tools.
US09746254B2
A thermal energy transfer device attached to an object to dissipate thermal energy from the object is described. In one aspect, the device includes a non-metal base plate and first and second non-metal plate structures. The base plate includes at least one groove on one of its primary surfaces. An edge of the first plate structure is received in a first groove of the at least one groove of the base plate. An edge of the second plate structure is received in a second groove of the at least one groove of the base plate. At least the first groove or the second groove is a V-notch groove such that the edge of the first plate structure or the edge of the second plate structure that is received in the first groove or the second groove is interlockingly received in the V-notch groove.
US09746246B2
The disclosure relates to a plate heat exchanger in a sealed design, with a stacked arrangement comprising a front-side and a rear-side end plate, wherein at least one end plate is constituted as a connection plate, heat exchanger plates which are arranged and stacked between the front-side and the rear-side end plate, in such a way that cavities for accommodating a plurality of heat exchanger media are formed between the heat exchanger plates, and sealing elements which are disposed to seal the cavities, and a clamping device, configured to exert an external clamping pressure on the stacked arrangement for the tensioning, wherein the clamping device is formed to encompass the stacked arrangement in a form-fit manner at least in sections, namely at least in a corner region of the stacked arrangement.
US09746244B2
A heat exchanger comprises a first header, a second header, a plurality of tubes, and a flow reducer. The first header is connected to a hot fluid inlet and to a cold fluid outlet, so that the first header comprises a hot region and a cold region, separated by a wall. Each of the plurality of tubes provides fluid communication between the first and second headers, including one tube located next to the wall in the hot region of the first header, being called “hot end tube” , and one tube located next to the wall in the cold region of the first header, being called “cold end tube” . The flow reducer reduces the fluid flow in the hot end tube compared to the fluid flow in other tubes located in the hot region.
US09746242B2
The invention relates to a burner pipe for a rotary kiln for producing activated carbon and to a rotary kiln comprising said burner pipe. The invention further relates to the use of the burner pipe or rotary kiln for producing activated carbon.
US09746239B2
The invention relates to a device for drying wood, comprising: a container (1) for accommodating the wood (2) and a plate (4, 4′, 4″) forming a wall (3) of the container (1, 1′, 1″, 1″), wherein the plate (4) can be heated and wood (2) at least partially lies against the plate (4).
US09746222B2
A computing device calculates an evaporating temperature Te* and a dew-point temperature Tdew* from a quality X, a temperature glide ΔT determined by a difference between a boiling temperature and a dew-point temperature at a predetermined pressure, and a refrigerant temperature detected by second temperature detection device.
US09746216B2
A heat pump device includes: a compressor that compresses a refrigerant; a motor that drives the compressor; a wiring switching unit that switches a wiring structure of the motor; an inverter that applies a desired voltage to the motor; and an inverter control unit that generates a PWM signal for driving the inverter, that includes, as an operation mode, a heating operation mode in which a heating operation is performed on the compressor and a normal operation mode in which a refrigerant is compressed by performing a normal operation on the compressor, and that controls a switching operation of the wiring switching unit in accordance with an operation mode.
US09746215B2
A thermodynamic system for powering a reciprocating device includes a refrigerant passing in a closed loop between a refrigerant compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, and an evaporator. The system includes a heat source for heating the refrigerant, and an engine for receiving the heated refrigerant. The engine includes a housing, a shaft axially movable within the housing, a piston attached to the shaft, a shifter for reversing piston direction, and porting for passing the refrigerant into and out of the engine housing.
US09746213B2
For more efficient operation of an air cooled chiller, a refrigerant pump and bypass valve connected in parallel feed refrigerant from the condenser to a receiver. The pump is activated in response to pressure in the condenser; the bypass is used otherwise. Further efficiency is provided by controlling the condenser fan based on power consumption by the air cooled chiller and/or resetting a set point of the evaporator to meet load conditions. An expansion valve for the evaporator is controlled based on chilled water temperature, such as Delta T, or information from an air handling unit. Feedback of valve setting or position, air temperature, valve size, and/or importance of an air handling unit may be used to control the flow of chilled water. In addition to or an alternative to control of the chilled water flow, the refrigerant temperature may be controlled based on information from the air handling unit.
US09746211B2
An active gas regenerative refrigerator includes a plurality of compressor-expander units, each having a hermetic cylinder with a drive piston configured to be driven reciprocally therein, and a quantity of working fluid in each end of the cylinder. A piston seal in a central portion of the cylinder prevents passage of the working fluid between ends of the cylinder. Movement of the piston to a first extreme results in radial compression of one of the quantities of working fluid in a cylindrical gap formed between one end of the piston and an inner surface of the cylinder, while the other quantity is expanded in the opposite end of the cylinder. The piston includes a plurality of magnets arranged in pairs, with magnets of each pair positioned with like-poles facing each other. A piston drive is configured to couple with transverse magnetic flux regions formed by the magnets.
US09746205B2
A solar liquid-heating-and-cooling system (20) includes: 1. a hot-liquid storage-tank (22); 2. a hot-liquid manifold-tank (26); 3. a coaxial heating-and-cooling-tube (24) that connects downward from the hot-liquid storage-tank (22) to the hot-liquid manifold-tank (26); 4. a double layer heating-and-cooling collector-array-panel (32) located beneath the hot-liquid manifold-tank (26), the panel (32) including, connected to the hot-liquid manifold-tank (26): a. an upper layer of glazed heating-tubes (36); and b. a lower layer of unglazed cooling-tubes (56); 5. parabolic-trough mirror reflectors (64) that are located between the upper and lower layers of tubes (36, 56); 6. cold-liquid manifold-tank (92) located below the panel (32) connected to lower ends both of the glazed heating-tubes (36) and of the unglazed cooling-tubes (56); 7. a cold liquid storage tank (98); and 8. a coaxial heating-and-cooling-tube (96) that connects downward from the cold-liquid manifold-tank (92) to the cold liquid storage tank (98).
US09746202B2
A dryer includes a centrifugal impeller, a motor configured to rotate the impeller about a rotation axis which crosses a plane including a blowing axis, and a heater. The impeller is accommodated in a portion including a pair of side surfaces, each of which crosses the rotation axis, and an air inlet defined in at least one of the side surfaces. The impeller includes blades that are annular with the rotation axis as a center. The heater is supported on plate-shaped portions extending in a plurality of directions from the blowing axis in a cross-section perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the blowing axis. A rear edge of each of the plate-shaped portions with respect to the blowing axis extends in a direction which crosses radially outer edges of the blades with respect to the rotation axis when viewed along the blowing axis.
US09746192B2
An air conditioner capable of efficiently collecting foreign substances in the air is disclosed. The air conditioner includes a cabinet, an air blower disposed in the cabinet to cause air to flow, a dust collector case forming a channel for the air caused to flow by the air blower, at least one electrode provided in the dust collector case and formed of carbon fibers to generate ions, and a charged dust collecting filter to collect foreign substances charged by ions generated by the electrode.
US09746190B2
A combined heating system comprising a first heating subsystem including a first fluid conductor, a first heating unit adapted to heat a first fluid and output the first fluid at the outlet of the first fluid conductor, and a fluid mover adapted to move the first fluid through the first heating unit, a second heating subsystem including a second fluid conductor adapted to receive a second fluid, a third fluid conductor, a second heating unit adapted to heat the second fluid and output the heated second fluid in the third fluid conductor, a fluid mover adapted to move the second fluid from the outlet of the third fluid conductor to the inlet of the second fluid conductor, at least one heat exchanger operably connected to a downstream location of the first heating unit and a fourth fluid conductor connecting the second fluid conductor and the third fluid conductor.
US09746185B2
An annular fluid distribution device (20) for distributing fluid into a gaseous flow (14), that includes: a first fluid distribution manifold (30) having a first fluid inlet and first fluid outlets (24), wherein the first fluid outlets inject a first fluid into the gaseous flow; and a second fluid distribution manifold (32), having a second fluid inlet and second fluid outlets (26), wherein the second fluid outlets inject a second fluid into the gaseous flow. The second fluid manifold is isolated from the first fluid distribution manifold, and the first fluid outlets and the second fluid outlets are disposed on a common fluid outlet plane (43).
US09746182B2
A home cooking appliance having an electrode chamber for a burner assembly is provided. The home cooking appliance includes a burner rail, maintop surface, burner assembly including a burner electrode, igniter box below the burner rail and maintop surface, and an electrode chamber on the burner rail. The electrode chamber includes a body having a cavity and a first opening at a first end of the body, wherein a portion of the burner electrode is disposed in the cavity, an electrical contact surface in the cavity that engages and electrically connects the electrical contact surface to the portion of the burner electrode, and an electrical connector at a second end of the body, the electrical connector being electrically connected to the electrical contact surface and to the igniter box, thereby electrically connecting the igniter box to the portion of the burner electrode.
US09746181B2
A flame detecting system capable of easily performing a deterioration diagnosis of a flame sensor without being provided with a shutter mechanism. The flame detecting system comprising a flame sensor to detect light, a calculating device, and a reference light source, in which the calculating device, by operations of a central processing unit CPU, is configured to execute a first mode at which the discharge probability in the flame sensor is measured when the reference light source is turned off and a second mode at which the discharge probability in the flame sensor is measured when the reference light source is turned on, and calculate a current discharge probability of the flame sensor from data obtained at the first mode and the second mode.
US09746178B2
A self-regenerative combustion system comprising a single burner, capable of operating both during the combustion step and the waste gas aspiration step, and a valve with four ways and three positions, capable of switching the regeneration and the on/off control (oxydizing agent end and waste gas end). The system is provided for obtaining the maximum efficiency, flexibility, minimum fuel consumption and minimum environmental impact with reduced NOx emissions.
US09746176B2
A modulating burner apparatus includes a burner and a blower placed upstream of the burner. A venturi is placed upstream of the blower. A damper valve is placed upstream of the venturi. The damper valve has an open position and a restricted position. A smaller gas valve and a larger gas valve are communicated with the venturi. A controller is operably associated with the system to select a position of the damper valve and to select the appropriate one of the gas valves so as to provide a low output operation mode and a high output operation mode, which in combination provide an overall turndown ratio of at least 25:1.
US09746155B2
A backlight assembly capable of reducing light loss is presented. The backlight assembly includes a plurality of substrate units and a plurality of reflective members on the substrate units arranged to form an adjacent area where two reflective members are closest to each other. The adjacent area is on one of the substrate units. A display device incorporating the backlight assembly is also presented.
US09746153B2
The present invention relates to lighting module, wherein a light exit window (12) of the lighting module is engraved such that the output color temperature of said lighting module is tuned. The present invention also relates to a method for tuning an output color temperature of a lighting module, said method comprising providing said lighting module comprising a light exit window (12), and a light source arranged to provide light having an optical path through said light exit window (12), said lighting module having a first output color temperature; and engraving a surface of said light exit window (12) such that the output color temperature of said lighting module is tuned to a second output color temperature.
US09746150B2
The invention relates to a lamp unit (1) for a headlight, in particular a motor vehicle headlight, the lamp unit (1) comprising multiple light sources (2), a light guide unit (3), and a downstream projector lens (4), the light guide unit (3) having multiple light guides (30), each light guide (30) having one light decoupling surface (30a) and one light coupling surface (30b), and each light source (2) coupling light exactly into a light guide (30) assigned to it through a light coupling surface (30b). The invention provides that the light sources (2) and the light coupling surfaces (30b) of the light guides (30) have light conducting rods (10) arranged between them, which are joined into at least one light conducting rod bundle (100), each light source (2) coupling light essentially exclusively into the light conducting rod coupling areas (10a) of the light conducting rods (10) assigned to the respective light source (2), the light of an assigned light source (2) that exits from the light conducting rod decoupling areas (10b) being coupled essentially exclusively into the light coupling surface (30b) of the light guide (30) assigned to the respective light source (2).
US09746149B2
A vehicle lighting unit with a bulb fixation structure is configured such that a metal supporter spring is attached to an opening end face of a holder projected from a peripheral edge of a bulb attachment hole opened in a reflector, engagement claws provided to the bulb pass through respective claw escape holes formed in the supporter spring so that the bulb is incorporated within the holder, and then the bulb is rotated. Thereby, the bulb is fixed to the main body with a type of a bayonet scheme in which the engagement claws of the bulb are interposed in between and held by the engagement spring of the supporter spring and an opening end face of the bulb attachment hole. The supporter spring is attached to the opening end face of the holder by countersunk screws at at least three locations in a circumferential direction of the supporter spring.
US09746140B2
An LED lighting device of embodiment comprising an LED light source which generates an ultraviolet light or a visible light, an axisymmetric transparent member which is provided over the light source and which is transparent to visible light, and an axisymmetric light scattering member disposed in the transparent member apart from the light source. A distance of closest approach L2 between the light source and the light scattering member, and an area C of a light emitting surface of the light source satisfy the settled relation. A length L1 of the light scattering member, and an absorption coefficient μ (1/mm) of the light scattering member satisfy the settled relation. A diameter d1 of the bottom surface of the light scattering member, the distance of closest approach L2, and a refractive index n of the transparent member satisfy the settled relation.
US09746138B1
A modular lighting and ancillary component apparatus and system utilizes standard USB protocol and connections between modules so that different modules can be selected, installed, and changed by a user. The USB-C protocol is preferably used, which may permit bidirectional functionality between connected modules in an apparatus and potentially between separate apparatuses. The USB-PD protocol may also be employed so that a greater range of items can be powered. The apparatus includes a base module, and may include one or more ancillary modules and/or a light-emitting module.
US09746136B2
An illumination device is provided with an arrangement for reducing color unevenness. A plurality of light-emitting devices are provided, each of which includes a transparent enclosure sealing a light-emitting element and further including a phosphor excited by light emitted from the light-emitting element. A substrate is provided upon which the plurality of light-emitting devices are mounted. The light-emitting devices are provided with predetermined color temperatures that vary in accordance with their position along the substrate to reduce color unevenness, for example increasing in a phased manner from the center of the substrate toward the outer circumference thereof.
US09746127B2
An apparatus is disclosed for rotating equipment, like solar panels, about an axis. Tension and compression members, in a rigid structure, are employed in the apparatus to minimize weight and to maximize stiffness. The rotating equipment is attached to the upper end of a rotatable elongated compression member, rotatably supported at its lower end by a tri-pod base comprising three additional compression members. Six tension members extending up from the tripod base hold a flange through which passes the rotatable elongated compression member. Lateral forces on the rotatable equipment are transmitted to the tripod base through the six tension members. The apparatus is configured such that wind forces and torques on the rotated equipment are transmitted by the apparatus to ground supports. Solar panels supported by the apparatus may be held at a fixed tilt angle, or an additional mechanism may be provided for rotational about a second orthogonal axis.
US09746126B2
A hinge mechanism rotatably joins a post and a hinge in a manner that allows for rapid assembly and disassembly. A first stop, second stop, and third stop are used to create a gravity-assisted rotation system for the hinge mechanism, with the hinge rotating between a horizontal locked position, raised unlocked position, and rotated collapsed position. A pin is placed through corresponding pin receptacles of the post and the hinge in order to secure the two together. The pin is locked within the post by a locking member, which secures the pin in a manner that facilitates easy pin insertion and removal. The hinge mechanism can be integrated into a variety of apparatuses, such as a table with rotating top; the top can be rotated to the collapsed configuration in order to serve as a seat back or left in the locked configuration to be used as a table top.
US09746109B2
Fabrication of formed hoses is provided which include an innermost elastomer layer, a first fiber-reinforcement region, and multiple second fiber-reinforcement regions. The first fiber-reinforcement region has a first fiber-reinforcement density, and is disposed, at least in part, at a bend region of the formed hose, and the multiple second fiber-reinforcement regions have a second fiber-reinforcement density, and are disposed at least at the first and second end regions of the formed hose. The second fiber-reinforcement density is greater than the first fiber-reinforcement density, and results in the first and second ends of the formed hose being less radially-deformable than the bend region of the hose. This facilitates providing a mechanical fluid-tight connection with a hose barb fitting when the formed hose is slid over the hose barb fitting, absent any clamp over the formed hose and hose barb fitting connection.
US09746105B2
A conduit clamp for securing a conduit component to channel framing includes first and second jaws each having opposite first and second end portions. The first end portions of the first and second jaws are configured for securement to one another, such that first and second jaws generally oppose one another and the second end portions of the first and second jaws are free from attachment to one another, to define a conduit receiving space between the first and second jaws. Each of the first and second jaws includes a coupling component at the second end portion thereof having a generally dovetail shape configured for reception in an external fitting groove of the channel framing to attach the conduit clamp to the channel framing.
US09746093B2
A flow meter includes an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor is configured to capture an image of a drip chamber. The processor is configured to determine whether the captured image of the drip chamber contains a match to a template, and to apply a blurring function to the image captured by the image sensor of the drip chamber such that the processor can determine if the captured image contains a match to the template.
US09746092B2
A valve assembly includes an inlet and an outlet, which open into a working chamber of the valve assembly, and an actuator. In a non-actuated state of the actuator, a flow passage between the inlet and the outlet is blocked. The actuator is optionally a shape-memory actuator that can be actuated one time or comprises a shape-memory actuator, which suddenly changes its external shape upon reaching a conversion temperature, which is dependent on the alloy composition thereof, and which can be generated by a controllable electrical heating device of the valve assembly. The actuator irreversibly destroys a pipe element separating the inlet from the outlet in the working chamber upon actuation, whereby the inlet and the outlet are connected to one another with respect to flow via the working chamber.
US09746071B2
A pressure control valve, in particular for an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle, including a housing and including a control piston situated in the housing, the control piston being actuatable by an armature situated in a magnet chamber of a pole tube, the magnet chamber being hydraulically connected to a compensating chamber provided in the housing, which is delimited, in particular by a lateral surface of a solenoid coil and the housing.
US09746066B2
A cylindrical double helix gear having an axis and a unitary gear arrangement extending about the axis, wherein the gear arrangement has two axially spaced gear portions with each gear portion comprising a plurality of gear teeth extending about a radial outer surface of the gear arrangement, wherein the gear portions are connected by a flexible spacer portion configured to allow relative movement between the gear portions.
US09746064B2
A vehicle driveline component having a dual friction clutch differential assembly and a hydraulic circuit for operating the friction clutches. The hydraulic circuit includes a pair of normally open, solenoid operated valves that are selectively closed to control the fluid pressure that acts on the friction clutches. The hydraulic circuit provides a simplified and cost-effective means for providing disconnecting and/or torque vectoring capabilities to the vehicle driveline component.
US09746062B2
A lockup device (63) includes a lockup clutch (64) for establishing connection between a rotating body (44) of a torque converter (41) and a transmission shaft (55), a lockup control valve (70) that controls supply/discharge of pressurized oil from a hydraulic pump (69) to/from the lockup clutch (64), and a lockup oil passage (75) that introduces pressurized oil from the lockup control valve (70) to the lockup clutch (64). The lockup control valve (70) is arranged on an outer side face (18B) of an intermediate casing (18) in a position of radially overlapping the transmission shaft (55) in a radial direction of the transmission shaft (55). Further, a casing side oil passage (76) constituting the lockup oil passage (75) is formed as a linear oil passage that linearly extends in the radial direction of the transmission shaft (55) between the lockup control valve (70) and the transmission shaft side oil passage (77).
US09746061B2
A drive assembly for a torque converter is provided. The drive assembly includes a turbine shell and a damper assembly fixed to the turbine shell by at least one rectangular rivet. A method of forming a drive assembly for a torque converter is also provided. The method includes fixing a turbine shell and a damper assembly together by a plurality of rectangular rivets.
US09746056B2
A continuously variable transmission is obtained by winding, around a drive sheave and a driven sheave, a continuously variable transmission belt in which a plurality of metal elements are stacked and supported on an endless ring. In at least one of the metal elements, flange parts are formed on a head part positioned at an outer peripheral side of the endless ring and a trunk part positioned at an inner peripheral side of the endless ring. The continuously variable transmission is provided with a fluid supply device which, during movement of the continuously variable transmission belt from the driven sheave to the drive sheave, sprayed lubricating oil in a movement direction of the continuously variable transmission belt, towards the flange parts.
US09746055B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a chain tensioner which enables operations on an elastic ring member during assembly and maintenance work to be readily performed and which is capable of eliminating protrusion of an operating portion of the elastic ring member in a direction opposite to a mounting surface, with a simple configuration. A ring holding portion 112 provided on an open side of a plunger housing hole 111 includes a pressing projection 113 and a restricting portion 114 which restrict rotation of the elastic ring member 130 and which oppose both outer sides of a pair of operating portions 132 of the elastic ring member 130 in a circumferential direction, and the pressing projection 113 is arranged at a position closer to a mounting surface 115 than the restricting portion 114.
US09746053B2
A transmission (G) is provided having four planetary gear sets (P1, P2, P3, P4), several shafts (W1-W8) and a first, second, third, fourth and fifth shift element (B1, B2, K1, K2, K3), the selective meshing of which brings about different transmission ratio relationships between a transmission input shaft (GW1) and a transmission output shaft (GW2). The transmission (G) includes a sixth shift element (K4), through which the fifth shaft (W5) is connectable to the sun gear (So-P4) of the fourth planetary gear set (P4).
US09746045B2
Provided are a fastened composite and a method of fastening an adherend, which includes a friction material, to a coating object, comprising; forming on at least a part of a surface of the coating object a coated film with a curable resin-containing paint; and fastening the adherend to the surface of the coating object, by subjecting heating and/or irradiation of an active energy ray to the coated film, while making the adherend closely contact the coated film to press it by a predetermined pressure, to cure the coated film.
US09746040B2
A roller clutch including an outer race, an inner race, a first engagement member situated between the outer race and the inner race, and a second engagement member situated between the outer race and the inner race. The first engagement member is configured to engage the outer race and the inner race to transmit torque between the outer race and the inner race only in response to the inner race turning in a positive direction and applying negative torque to the first engagement member. The second engagement member is configured to engage the outer race and the inner race to transmit torque between the outer race and the inner race in response to the inner race applying positive torque to the second engagement member while the outer race applies negative torque to the second engagement member.
US09746033B2
A bearing assembly includes a sleeve and a bearing located within a bore of the sleeve. The sleeve extends between an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface at least partially defines the bore, which extends through the sleeve. The inner surface is configured eccentric to the outer surface. The bearing includes a plurality of rolling elements arranged between an inner ring and an outer ring. The outer ring is mounted to the sleeve.
US09746031B2
A cage assembly for a bearing including a main body having a plurality of pockets arranged therein, the pockets operatively arranged to hold a plurality of rolling elements, a plurality of first lubrication elements retained within the main body and operatively arranged to contact the rolling elements, a plurality of second lubrication elements substantially similar to the first lubrication elements, arranged diametrically opposite from the first lubrication elements within the main body to contact the rolling elements and a plurality of pre-load members arranged within the main body to compress the first and second pluralities of lubrication elements against the rolling elements.
US09746029B1
A bearing includes a bearing pad for supporting a rotary component and a housing attached to or formed integrally with the bearing pad. The housing defines a first fluid damper cavity positioned adjacent to the bearing pad and a second fluid damper cavity spaced from the first fluid damper cavity. The first and the second fluid damper cavities are in restrictive flow communication. The housing is configured to transfer a fluid from the first fluid damper cavity to the second fluid damper cavity in response to a force acting on the bearing pad to dampen a movement of the bearing pad.
US09746028B2
One embodiment describes a rotary machine system, which includes a stator with a first tooth, a second tooth, a third tooth, and a fourth tooth; a first electromagnet that includes a first electromagnet wire wrapped around the second tooth and the third tooth and that generates a first magnetic field to attract a drive shaft; a first integrated position sensor, which includes a first sensor wire that carries a first current wrapped around the first tooth and the second tooth; a second integrated sensor, which includes a second sensor wire that carries a second current wrapped around the third tooth and the fourth tooth; and a controller that determines current position of the drive shaft based at least on change of inductance of the first sensor wire and the second sensor wire, and that instructs the first electromagnet to adjust magnitude of the first magnetic field based at least in part on the current position.
US09746017B2
A fastener having threads includes a main body including a head portion and a thread portion having the threads, a sensor mounted on the main body and configured to detect orientation of the fastener, and a wireless module mounted on the main body and configured to transmit data indicating the detected orientation through a wireless signal.
US09746011B2
A beam clamp, including a clamp body having a rectangular shape symmetrically bent and butt-jointed by a plate material is described. On one side of the body housing a butt seam is a butt-joint face, and clamping jaws are protruded on the two sides of the body at the two sides of the butt-joint face. A clamping plate face is convexly disposed on one side of the body opposite the butt-joint face, and a screw hole corresponding to the clamping jaw is bored on the plate face. The screw hole is tapped and a bolt is disposed therein. The bolt and jaws form three-point clamping, providing high fastening performance. Corresponding threaded rod holes are bored on the plate face and butt-joint face and tapped. The resulting clamp has high processing precision, efficiency, and adaptability; the structure strength is high; load performance is good; and the size is small.
US09746003B2
A motor suspension for fans has an air grille with radially extending braces and grille rings that are positioned coaxially to each other and are connected to each other by the radially extending braces. For adapting the motor suspension to a vibration behavior of a fan, at least one of a feature selected from a number of the braces and a diameter of the braces is varied to effect a reduction of acoustic noises and/or natural resonances of the motor suspension. The number of the braces that are preferably made of metal is preferably unequal to the number of vanes of the fan.
US09745999B2
An aspect includes a compressor diffuser and shroud for a motor driven compressor assembly. The motor driven compressor assembly includes a first stage compressor and a second stage compressor. The compressor diffuser and shroud of the second stage compressor includes a diffuser portion and a shroud portion. The diffuser portion includes a diffuser portion outer lip having a first sealing lip outer diameter to provide a first sealing interface to a second stage compressor housing. The shroud portion includes a curvature between the diffuser portion outer lip and a compressor inlet to align with a second stage compressor rotor, where a ratio of the first sealing lip outer diameter to an innermost diameter of the compressor diffuser and shroud is between 2.698 and 2.711.
US09745995B2
A retainer plate is provided for retaining a dovetail root of a fan blade of a gas turbine engine in a corresponding axially-extending slot in the rim of a fan disc. In use, the plate locates in a cavity formed at an end of the slot such that a first side of the plate is arranged for contact with an axial end face of the dovetail root and an opposite second side of the plate is arranged for contact with an abutment surface of the cavity to limit axial movement of the root along the slot. The retainer plate is formed from fiber-reinforced composite material, at least a portion of the composite material being reinforced by 3D-woven fiber tows.
US09745993B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for an immersible pump. The apparatus can include a shaft for communicating with a motor. The shaft includes a first region having a first diameter, a second region having a second diameter that is less than the first diameter, and a tapering region between the two regions. A sleeve can be provided to receive the shaft. A sealing device includes a receiving area in which the tapering region is at least partially positionable to form a seal, and an abutment that is configured to form a seal with the sleeve and that is responsive to a force directed from the sleeve to enhance the seal with the tapering region. In some embodiments, the sealing device is provided with a circumferential outer wall for centering the sleeve about the shaft and/or for aligning the force with the abutment.
US09745982B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a water pumping system. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a solar electric powered, siphon-capable water pumping systems specifically configured for use in rooftop and other applications having similar need and conditions. Advantageously, a water pumping system configured in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is configured to prevent pooling of water in low-lying areas of a roof and thereby limits the potential for damage to the roof and underlying structure that could otherwise result from such pooling of the water.
US09745961B2
Method for operating an offshore wind farm with at least one wind turbine system and a navigation device, which is operated in a normal mode, wherein a hazard signal is received by a receiving device, the received hazard signal is supplied to a control device that switches the navigation device from the normal mode to a an emergency lighting mode.
US09745957B2
The present subject matter is directed to a method for initializing a startup sequence of a wind turbine. The method includes a step of defining a plurality of operating conditions of the wind turbine. As such, upon satisfaction of the plurality of operating conditions, a run-ready signal may be generated, wherein the run-ready signal indicates a readiness of a power converter of the wind turbine to generate power. The method may also include defining a subset of the plurality of operating conditions, wherein the subset of operating conditions are independent of speed conditions of the wind turbine. Another step of the method includes generating a spin-ready signal for the wind turbine upon satisfaction of the subset of operating conditions. The method may also include controlling a rotor of the wind turbine based at least in part on the spin-ready signal.
US09745954B2
A wind turbine rotor blade joint assembly and method of manufacturing same is disclosed. The rotor blade includes an upper shell member having a spar cap configured on an internal face thereof and a lower shell member having a spar cap configured on an internal face thereof. A shear web extends between the spar caps along a longitudinal length of the blade. The shear web includes first and second longitudinally aligned components that extend from and are integral with respective spar caps. A joint assembly is configured between facing transverse ends of the first and second components of the shear web. The joint assembly includes a connecting structure configured to receive the transverse ends of the first and second components. The connecting structure is infused and integral with the first component of the shear web and bonded with the second component of the shear web.
US09745950B2
The invention relates to a submersible power plant. The power plant comprises a structure and a vehicle. The vehicle is arranged to be secured to the structure by means of at least one tether. The vehicle is arranged to move in a predetermined trajectory by means of a fluid stream passing the vehicle. The vehicle comprises a first wing and a second wing, where the first wing is arranged at a first distance D1 from the second wing in a longitudinal direction, and the first wing is arranged at a second distance D2 from the second wing in a lateral direction.
US09745941B2
A passive two-terminal circuit element may include a resistor including a carbon-metal composite resistive element. The resistive element is configured to maintain a resistivity that fluctuates less than one tenth of an ohm per ten degree temperature change up to 400 degrees Celsius.
US09745934B2
A mechanical system that forms one of a cam follower or a rocker arm. The mechanical system comprises a support element including a first body portion and a second body portion, a pin extending between two opposite ends along a first axis and supported by the first body portion of the support element, and a roller mounted on pin, movable in rotation relative to the pin around the first axis and adapted to roll on a cam. The mechanical system further comprises a spacing element comprising a first body portion connected to the second body part of the support element and a second body portion adapted to be supported by a movable support.
US09745932B2
Systems and designs are provided for a flexible connector to be used in fuel and hydraulic lines that can withstand a high level of internal and external stress. In one example, the connector consists of three separate components, an upper, a lower and a middle portion. Spherical bearings and compression springs are used o couple the three portions together. Spherical bearings provide the ability of the connector to rotate about an axis, while the compression springs hold together the system.
US09745922B2
A system for supplying fuel to an engine of a ship. The system includes a high pressure pump pressurizing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) and supplying the pressurized LNG to the engine, a hydraulic motor driving the high pressure pump and a chamber carrying the high pressure pump and the hydraulic motor. The chamber is substantially free of electric sparks.
US09745914B2
An object is to improve the combustion condition in an internal combustion engine equipped with a supercharger and performing diesel combustion using fuel having a relatively high self-ignition temperature in an operation state in which the engine load is increased or decreased. A control apparatus performs first injection during the compression stroke, causes spray guide combustion to occur, and starts to perform second injection at such a second injection time that combustion of injected fuel is started by flame generated by the spray guide combustion, thereby causing self-ignition and diffusion combustion of fuel to occur. During a response delay period in changing the boost pressure when changing the engine load of the internal combustion engine to a target engine load, the ratio of the quantity of fuel injected by the first injection to the total fuel injection quantity in one combustion cycle is made higher than the ratio of the quantity of fuel injected in the first injection to the total fuel injection quantity in one combustion cycle during the time when the engine load is equal to the target engine load and the actual boost pressure is equal to a target boost pressure corresponding to the target engine load.
US09745910B2
An air feed ratio controlling apparatus can include a predictor for predicting an air fuel ratio on the downstream side of a catalyst calculates a predicted air fuel ratio at least based on an actual air fuel ratio from an oxygen sensor and a history of a first correction coefficient. The air fuel ratio controlling apparatus can also include an adaptive model corrector which determines the deviation between the actual air fuel ratio and the predicted air fuel ratio as a prediction error ERPRE, and superposes a second correction coefficient on the first correction coefficient so that the prediction error may be reduced to zero.
US09745903B2
A dual fuel system for a combustion engine includes an air and fuel mixer configured to mix air and fuel provided to the combustion engine, a first fuel path for a first fuel, and a second fuel path for a second fuel. The first and second fuels have different physical and chemical properties. The dual fuel system also includes a common fuel path coupled to the air and fuel mixer and both the first and second fuel paths, wherein the common fuel path includes an electronically controlled valve configured to regulate the air to fuel ratio of an air/fuel mixture provided to the combustion engine in response to control signals from a controller, and both the first and second fuel paths are coupled to the common fuel path at a location upstream of the electronically controlled valve.
US09745898B2
A planetary gear system for a turbomachine includes a forward planetary gear assembly including a plurality of forward planet gears meshed to a forward sun gear disposed on a power shaft and a forward ring gear meshed to the forward planet gears and an aft planetary gear assembly aft of the forward planetary assembly including a plurality of aft planet gears meshed to an aft sun gear disposed on the power shaft and an aft ring gear meshed to the aft planet gears. The system also includes a gear housing disposed between the forward planetary gear assembly and the aft planetary gear assembly. The gear housing includes a stationary carrier, wherein the forward and aft planet gears are rotatably mounted to the stationary carrier, and a mount extending radially from the stationary carrier that is connectable to a stationary portion of the turbomachine.
US09745884B2
An exhaust muffler to be attached to an engine body includes a casing that includes: a rear member facing the engine body and a front member opposing to the rear member while maintaining a gap between the front member and the rear member, the gap forming a path in which exhaust gas discharged from the engine body flows; at least one guiding member that is disposed in the gap of the casing, extends from the rear member to the front member, and has a through-hole into which a fastening member that fastens the casing to the engine body is inserted; and a catalyst holding member that holds a catalyst that purifies the exhaust gas and is accommodated in the gap of the casing while being supported by the at least one guiding member.
US09745876B2
Various methods and systems are provided for an oil filter system for a vehicle system. In one example, an oil filter system comprises a housing within which a plurality of oil filter elements are disposed and a frame supporting the housing, the frame including one or more mountings configured to support one or more vehicle sub-assemblies.
US09745847B2
In one aspect, an apparatus for use in a wellbore is disclosed, including an occlusion retaining mechanism; an integrated controller configured to compare a plurality of downhole conditions to a plurality of predetermined release conditions and release an occlusion from the occlusion retaining mechanism in response to the plurality of downhole conditions satisfying the plurality of predetermined release conditions. In another aspect, a method for isolating a portion of a wellbore is disclosed, including deploying a frac plug in the wellbore; setting the frac plug in the wellbore; deploying a frac ball release tool in the wellbore; selectively retaining a frac ball within the frac ball release tool; releasing the frac ball in response to a plurality of downhole conditions satisfying a plurality of predetermined release conditions.
US09745838B2
A tubular assembly is disclosed for use in a wellbore (5) of an oil, gas or water well, typically for landing a downhole device in the wellbore. The assembly has a sleeve (1) adapted to receive the body of the downhole device. The sleeve is deployed into a conduit in the wellbore and expanded, so that the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve is radially expanded against the inner surface of the conduit. The sleeve has a bore with an inner circumferential surface comprising an inwardly facing formation adapted to engage with an outwardly facing formation on the body of the downhole device when the body of the downhole device is disposed in the bore of the sleeve. The sleeve is typically deployed in the wellbore at the desired location and is radially expanded by an expander device (2) that is deployed within the bore of the sleeve. The expanded sleeve plastically deforms and retains its expanded configuration after the radial expansion force is removed from the sleeve. The sleeve provides a modular anchoring or landing point in the wellbore that can be retrospectively set in the conduit at different locations, and various downhole devices can then be deployed into the sleeves at predictable depths and a reliable connection can be made with the sleeve. The assembly can typically pass through a smaller diameter before being morphed to seal and anchor in a larger diameter.
US09745834B2
A completion system includes, a tool string having, a plurality of packers configured to isolate a plurality of zones along a borehole that the tool string is positioned within. A plurality of ports along the tool string are configured to be selectively opened and a plurality of screens in operable communication with the plurality of ports are configured to filter fluid flowing between the zones and an inside of the tool string through the plurality of ports. The tool string is also configured to be run into the borehole, the plurality of packers set, the plurality of ports selectively opened, and fluid to flow between the plurality of zones and an inside of the tool string without intervention.
US09745819B2
An annular barrier system for expanding an annular barrier in an annulus between a well tubular structure and an inside wall of a borehole downhole includes an annular barrier having a tubular part for mounting as part of the well tubular structure, the annular barrier further comprising an expandable sleeve surrounding the tubular part, at least one end of the expandable sleeve being fastened in a fastener of a connection part in the tubular part. The annular barrier system also comprises a tool for expanding the expandable sleeve by letting a pressurized fluid through a passage in the tubular part into a space between the expandable sleeve and the tubular part.
US09745818B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus for use in a wellbore gravel pack operation. The method comprises providing an apparatus in a downhole annulus. The apparatus comprises a mandrel and a swellable element formed from a material selected to increase in volume when exposed to a downhole stimulus. The method comprises placing a gravel pack below the apparatus via the downhole annulus in which the apparatus is located, and placing a gravel pack above the apparatus. Subsequent to placing the gravel packs, the swellable element is increased in volume to create an annular barrier in the wellbore. The invention allows isolation of multiple intervals of a well in a single gravel pack operation using swellable elastomers, and does not rely on the use of shunt tube alternate path systems.
US09745812B2
A methodology and apparatus for cutting shape(s) or profile(s) through well tubular(s), or for completely circumferentially severing through multiple tubulars, including all tubing, pipe, casing, liners, cement, other material encountered in tubular annuli. This rigless apparatus utilizes a computer controlled, downhole robotic three-axis rotary mill to effectively generate a shape(s) or profile(s) through, or to completely sever in a 360 degree horizontal plane wells with multiple, nested strings of tubulars whether the tubulars are concentrically aligned or eccentrically aligned. This is useful for well abandonment and decommissioning where complete severance is necessitated and explosives are prohibited, or in situations requiring a precise window or other shape to be cut through a single tubular or plurality of tubulars.
US09745809B2
A liner hanger top packer comprising a body and, an adjusting sleeve, a retaining apparatus, a base-sealing apparatus, a base-hanging apparatus and a locking mechanism sleeved sequentially from top to bottom on the body. The locking mechanism is arranged between the base-sealing apparatus and the base-hanging apparatus. The locking mechanism comprises a locking ball sleeve, a ball socket, and a steel ball. As the lower part of the liner hanger top packer is met with friction, the arrangement of the steel ball restricts relative axial movements between an upper gauge ring of the base-sealing apparatus, the locking ball sleeve, and an upper conical body of the base-hanging apparatus, the friction transmitted to the upper conical body is not transmitted to a lower gauge ring of the base-sealing apparatus, is transmitted to the upper gauge ring via the steel ball, and is transmitted to the adjusting ring via the retaining apparatus.
US09745806B2
A drill rod gripping apparatus to grip and impart rotational motion to a drill rod including a sled axially mounted at a frame and having first and second jaws moveably mounted at the sled to allow a substantially linear lateral movement across the sled to and from one another. A plurality of rod engagers are mounted at each jaw with at least one of the engagers including an abrasive surface formed from a coating to increase the frictional force between the drill rod and the gripping apparatus.
US09745803B2
A centralizer, method, and centralizer assembly. For example, the centralizer assembly includes a first stop collar fixed in place on a tubular, and a first end collar that is sized to slide axially over the first stop collar. The centralizer assembly also includes a first retainer coupled with the first end collar. The first retainer prevents the first stop collar from sliding past the first stop collar in at least one axial direction. The assembly also includes a plurality of ribs coupled with the first end collar and configured to engage a surrounding tubular in which the tubular is disposed.
US09745800B2
Expandable reamers for enlarging a borehole in a subterranean formation include a tubular body, at least one curved blade track carried by the tubular body, and at least one blade engaged with the at least one blade track and configured to slide along the curved blade track along a curved path between a first retracted blade position and a second expanded blade position. To form such an expandable reamer, a tubular body having at least one curved blade track carried by the tubular body may be formed, and at least one blade may be engaged with the blade track. The blade and blade track may be configured such that the blade slides along the blade track along a curved path between a retracted position and an expanded position. Such expandable reamers may be used to enlarge boreholes in subterranean formations.
US09745799B2
A longer-lasting, lower cost, more powerful, all metal, mud motor than the presently available progressing cavity type mud motors for drilling boreholes into the earth. A mud motor apparatus possessing one single drive shaft that turns a rotary drill bit, which apparatus is attached to a drill pipe which provides high pressure mud to the mud motor, wherein the drive shaft receives at least a first portion of its rotational torque from any high pressure mud flowing through a first hydraulic chamber within the apparatus, and receives at least a second portion of its rotational torque from any high pressure mud flowing through a second hydraulic chamber within the apparatus. The mud motor apparatus possesses two hydraulic chambers, each having its own power stroke, and return stroke, and acting together in a controlled fashion, provide continuous power to a rotary drill bit.
US09745777B2
In one embodiment, an electronically controlled hatch system for safe ingress, egress, hazard detection, and methods thereof are provided to reduce or eliminate hazards to personnel, including protection of people above and below a scuttle hatch, access port, skylight or elevated deck. Said hatch system reduces the risk of falls while ascending or descending a ladder through an access port. In certain embodiments, severe weather, hazard, security, and other safety information are detected and transmitted to a central control unit for processing and regulating the opening and closing of a hatch covering the access port and/or raising and lowering a safety railing system based on said information and/or user input. Said hatch system may include an actuator and guides for automatically locking/unlocking and opening/closing a hatch, an actuator and guides for automatically raising/lowering a railing system, safety monitoring detectors/apparatuses, and a centralized controller.
US09745769B2
A method for on-site assembly of a shelter for an above-ground structure to protect the structure from blast, wind, fire or other physical hazards. A pyramidal shelter with triangular or rectangular base is formed by joining side panels to each other. Each side panel includes a triangular frame covered, except at access hatch, observation port and door openings, with either steel plate or diamond steel mesh to which blast-resistant, fire-resistant or other kinds of coatings or panels are applied. A corner anchor assembly to support each corner of a shelter has a lower plate, an overlying split plate, and a pair of upstanding, anchor rods attached to the split plates for insertion into hollow, lower portions of side beams of adjacent side panels. The corner anchor assemblies facilitate expansion of an assembled shelter by addition of more modular components.
US09745765B2
A pool cover includes a flexible, water impervious sheet of material having a centrally located float disposed on an upper surface of the material. In an embodiment the float member comprises a closed cell polymeric foam member. In an embodiment the polymeric foam float member is disposed within a pocket formed by a cover sheet attached to the water impervious sheet of the pool cover.
US09745757B2
The present invention describes a floor decoration kit comprising two elements, on the one hand a removable surface covering (2) and on the other an anchoring sublayer (3) while the composition of said anchoring sublayer (3) is PVC-based and comprises at least 60% by weight of a plasticizer.
US09745752B2
A spacer for spacing the reinforcing cage from the forms used in making concrete products. The spacer of the invention is made from plastic in the shape of a wheel with spokes that join an outer ring with an inner ring that engages a horizontal wire on the wire cage. The rings have gaps to provide for installation of the spacer on a cage wire. The gap in the outer ring is closed by a latch that when properly engaged, will lock the spacer in place on the wire, thus positively holding the spacer on the wire once it is locked in place.
US09745749B2
The invention comprises a product. The product comprises a foam insulating panel, the panel having a first primary surface and an opposite second primary surface, wherein the foam insulating panel defines at least one recessed channel in the first primary surface, the at least one recessed channel being sized and shaped to provide a mold for a structural reinforcing member. The product also comprises a concrete panel formed on the first primary surface and filling the at least one recessed channel so as to provide a structural reinforcing member for the concrete panel. The product further comprises an elongate anchor member in the foam insulating panel and extending from the first primary surface of the foam insulating panel into the concrete panel. A method of making a composite reinforced insulated concrete structure is also disclosed.
US09745743B2
A free-standing wall includes concrete base blocks adjacent to each other forming a base course; a first set of concrete wall blocks stacked on the base course and on each other to form a first wall face; and a second set of concrete wall blocks stacked on the base course and on each other to form a second wall face that faces the opposite direction from the first wall face and that has the same number of courses as the first plurality of wall blocks. Methods of constructing the wall arrangement include laying the base blocks next to each other end to end; stacking individual blocks of a first set of blocks on the base course and then on each other to form a first wall face; stacking individual blocks of the second set of blocks on the base course and then on each other to form a second wall face that faces a direction opposite of the first wall face.
US09745736B2
A method for producing three-dimensional space frames or truss structures from simpler components and space frames or truss structures produced by the associated method. The various components, which may be made from virtually any material, are shaped in such a way so that they may be fitted together to create a space frame or truss structure. The components may be held together by any available attachment means, or by the interaction of the components themselves. The method and associated components allows for the assembly of three-dimensional space frames or truss structures from planar materials, significantly reducing cost and manufacturing time. These space frames or trusses can then be used as structural members, as the interior load-bearing portions of sandwich panels, or in any situation where high-strength and light weight are desirable.
US09745735B2
An intake nozzle fits onto the suction hose of a vacuum pumper truck. The nozzle comprises a tubular housing and the rotor within the housing near the intake end. The rotor includes a hollow cylindrical canister and spiral vanes on its exterior. Ambient air enters an air tube, penetrates the side of the housing and supplies ambient air to the interior of the canister. The air exits through outlet ports into the liquid waste as it moves past under vacuum. The injected air reduces the density of the liquid waste, speeding up the pumping process and reducing the incidence of blockages.
US09745734B2
A weir grate (10, 100) comprises a base tray (12, 112) having an outlet (14, 114), and an infill tray (16, 116) positionable in the base tray. The base tray comprises a plurality of discretely positioned posts (22, 122) projecting upwardly therefrom in use. The infill tray comprises a plurality of correspondingly positioned locators (40, 140) projecting downwardly therefrom in use. Each locator is arranged for engaged with a respective post when the infill tray is positioned in the base tray.
US09745726B2
A posture calculation device of working machinery includes: a measuring device configured to detect an angle speed and acceleration; a posture angle calculation unit configured to obtain a posture angle of the working machinery from the detected angle speed and the detected acceleration; a first complementary filter to which a first cutoff frequency is set and configured to decrease a noise included in the obtained posture angle to output a first posture angle; a second complementary filter to which a second cutoff frequency different from the first cutoff frequency is set and configured to decrease a noise included in the obtained posture angle to output a second posture angle; and a switching unit configured to switch between the first posture angle and the second posture angle to output the first posture angle or the second posture angle according to a state of the measuring device.
US09745725B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for improving excavating operation characteristic and grading operation characteristic of an excavator. The apparatus includes a solenoid valve group and a hydraulically controlled selector valve. An oil controlling output A1 of the solenoid valve group is configured in series with oil controlling input a1 of the hydraulic control valve. An oil controlling output A2 of the solenoid valve group is configured in series with a pilot control end XBa2 of a multi-port valve group. An oil return port T1 of the solenoid valve group is connected to the hydraulic oil tank. An oil controlling output b1 of the hydraulically controlled selector valve is connected to a pilot control end XAb2 of the multiplexer valve group, and an oil return port T2 of the hydraulically controlled selector valve is connected with the hydraulic oil tank. The apparatus improves operational efficiency and control comfortability.
US09745724B2
A pressure compensation valve comprises a valve body, a valve sleeve fixedly mounted on the valve body, and a spool disposed in a valve hole of the valve body and capable of moving. The pressure compensation valve can change the pressure compensation characteristic, that is, the pressure compensation valve can change the difficult degree of the pressurized oil liquid flowing by changing an effective pressure acting surface of the pressure compensation valve The structure is simple, requires low cost, and increases the utilization rate of a product.
US09745711B2
A system for installing prefabricated wall panels in a building includes a lower sill plate adapted to be fastened to a foundation, an upper sill plate fastened to a bottom of the prefabricated wall panel and adapted to be inserted within the lower sill plate, and a plurality of openings in the upper sill plate. The openings are adapted to allow grout to be inserted between the upper sill plate and the lower sill plate after the upper sill plate is inserted within the lower sill plate.
US09745705B2
A runner segment for an edge guard includes an insertion projection that can be inserted into an insertion receptacle of the edge guard.
US09745701B2
Methods are generally disclosed for forming and using a casting paper. In one embodiment, the casting paper can be made by coating a first surface of a base sheet with a release coating such that the release coating covers the entire first surface of the base sheet. A printed release coating is then applied on a portion of the first release coating, and is dried or cured as needed to form the casting paper having a textured surface defined by elevated areas corresponding to the printed release coating and valley areas corresponding to exposed areas of the printed release coating. In another embodiment, the casting paper can be made by first printing a base sheet with a patterned, structured coating, then coating over the patterned, structured coating with a release coating such that the release coating covers at least the unprinted areas of the base sheet. The casting paper can be used to form a texturized surface in a substrate.
US09745699B2
Copolymers comprising cellulose and starch connected by at least one cross-linker, methods of producing the copolymers, and formed articles comprising the copolymers are described herein. The copolymers may be biodegradable and may have improved physical properties when compared to the homopolymers and other biodegradable polymers. In some embodiments, the copolymer may be more flexible than unmodified cellulose may have better structural integrity than unmodified starch.
US09745697B2
An apparatus including a caliper measuring sensor arrangement, a mass measuring sensor arrangement, and a stabilizing arrangement. The caliper measuring sensor arrangement measures caliper of the web. The mass measuring sensor arrangement measures at least one of the following: a basis weight of the web, a moisture content, a water weight, dry weight of the web. The stabilizing arrangement stabilizes the web. The stabilizing arrangement including at least a part of the mass measuring sensor arrangement.
US09745692B2
A wardrobe may be provided. The wardrobe may include a receiving element located in a housing that may be configured to receive and dispense clothing items. Each clothing item may include a unique RFID tag and a number of RFID readers may be connected to a computer configured to obtain information held in each RFID tag. The wardrobe may further include a linear actuator proximate a top surface of the housing; the linear actuator may be controlled by the computer. The linear actuator may be coupled to a gripper assembly on one end. Additionally, the wardrobe may include a number of hangers that may be disposed on one or more inner surfaces of the housing, each hanger may be configured to store one or more of the clothing items. A display screen may be embedded on the outer surface of the housing.
US09745688B2
The invention relates to a laundry treating appliance and method for controlling the operation of the laundry treating appliance by determining the surface area of the laundry based on image data of the laundry.
US09745673B2
A spunbond method for producing nonwoven fabrics with hygroscopic metastatic feature. Firstly, fuse prepared bio-polyamide 6,10 into a melt via spunbond method, next extrude and spun and draw the melt to form filaments, then bond and lay the filaments on a conveyer to form a substrate fibrous web of bio-polyamide 6,10. Secondly, blend and dissolve prepared pulp by putting N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO) dissolving solvent, then dehydrate it to form dope, then extrude the dope out by an extruder with external compressed quenching air for converting it into cellulose filaments, then draw, bond and overlay the cellulose filaments to become uniform natural cellulose filaments on existing substrate fibrous web previously to form an overlaid fibrous web in the conveyer. Finally, coagulate, regenerate and convert the fibrous composite of the bio-polyamide 6,10 and natural cellulose into nonwoven fabric with hygroscopic metastatic feature by orderly applying hydro-entangled needle punching, drying, winding-up processes.
US09745672B2
A bale opener for stripping fiber flocks from fiber bales, including a stripping tower arranged on a running gear or a bogie and having a stripping arm. The stripping arm is mounted in a height-adjustable mount in a guide on the stripping tower. A lifting gear is provided for the height adjustment of the stripping arm, wherein the lifting gear is mounted on the stripping arm and on the stripping tower, and the lifting gear has at least one load cell.
US09745671B2
A carbonization method of carbonizing precursor fibers that are being conveyed includes carbonization performed using a plurality of carbonization furnaces for heating fibers arranged in the direction in which the fibers are conveyed. The plurality of carbonization furnaces include at least one carbonization furnace that heats the fibers using plasma when the fibers are passing through the inside of the at least one carbonization furnace. A carbon fiber production method includes a carbonization process of carbonizing precursor fibers that are being conveyed. The carbonization process is performed with the above carbonization method.
US09745663B2
A plasma reactor has an overhead multiple coil inductive plasma source with symmetric RF feeds and a symmetrical chamber exhaust with plural struts through the exhaust region providing access to a confined workpiece support. A grid may be included for masking spatial effects of the struts from the processing region.
US09745656B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: alternately performing (i) a first step of alternately supplying a first raw material containing a first metal element and a halogen element and a second raw material containing a second metal element and carbon to a substrate by a first predetermined number of times, and (ii) a second step of supplying a nitridation raw material to the substrate, by a second predetermined number of times, wherein alternating the first and second steps forms a metal carbonitride film containing the first metal element having a predetermined thickness on the substrate.
US09745653B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for the continuous hot-dip coating of metal strip, preferably steel strip, comprising a melting bath vessel, a snout, which opens in the melting bath vessel, for introducing a metal strip, which is heated in a continuous furnace, into the melting bath in protective gas, and a deflecting roller, which is arranged in the melting bath vessel, for deflecting the metal strip, which is entering the melting bath, in a direction pointing out of the melting bath, wherein that end of the snout which is dipped into the melting bath has at least one runoff chamber which is bounded inward by an overflow wall, downward by a floor and outward by the wall of the snout, wherein the overflow edge of the overflow wall lies at least in sections below the melting bath surface, and wherein a suction line with a pump is connected to the runoff chamber, characterized in that the runoff chamber is provided with at least one through opening through which liquid molten metal can flow out of the melting bath into the runoff chamber, wherein the at least one through opening is arranged lower than the overflow edge.
US09745651B2
Bulk solidifying amorphous alloys exhibiting improved processing and mechanical properties and methods of forming these alloys are provided. The bulk solidifying amorphous alloys are composed to have high Poisson's ratio values. Exemplary Pt-based bulk solidifying amorphous alloys having such high Poisson's ratio values are also described. The Pt-based alloys are based on Pt—Ni—Co—Cu—P alloys, and the mechanical properties of one exemplary alloy having a composition of substantially Pt57.5Cu14.7Ni5.3P22.5 are also described.
US09745649B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a heat-resistant steel for exhaust valves, having relatively small Ni content, high mechanical characteristics (for example, tensile strength, fatigue strength, wear resistance and hardness) at high temperature, and excellent oxidation resistance. The present invention provides a heat-resistant steel for exhaust valves, which includes: 0.45≦C<0.60 mass %, 0.30
US09745637B2
The invention relates to methods and compositions for identifying soybean plants that are tolerant, have improved tolerance or are susceptible to Fusarium solani infection (the causative agent of sudden death syndrome or SDS). The methods use molecular genetic markers to identify, select and/or construct disease-tolerant plants or identify and counter-select disease-susceptible plants. Soybean plants that display tolerance or improved tolerance to Fusarium solani infection that are generated by the methods of the invention are also a feature of the invention.
US09745634B2
This invention identifies and provides a recurrent translocation t(4;8) (p16.2; p23.1) associated with certain cancers and other abnormal cell growth disorders and diagnostic methods using the translocation by FISH hybridization or PCR based assays.
US09745631B2
Methods for diagnosing and treating cancer associated with an oncogenic Kras mutation in a subject are provided.
US09745623B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for analysis of melting temperatures, and particularly to analysis of duplex nucleic acids.
US09745620B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for real-time measurements of PCR with multiplexing capability. Certain embodiments relate to methods and systems that use fluorescently encoded superparamagnetic microspheres for the immobilization of amplification products during the PCR process, and an imaging chamber of a measurement device that is also capable of controllable thermal cycling for assisting the PCR process.
US09745617B2
The invention generally relates to droplet based digital PCR and methods for analyzing a target nucleic acid using the same. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve forming sample droplets containing, on average, a single target nucleic acid, amplifying the target in the droplets, excluding droplets containing amplicon from the target and amplicon from a variant of the target, and analyzing target amplicons.
US09745614B2
Described herein are methods, compositions and kits for the generation of bisulfite-converted libraries useful for conducting reduced representation bisulfite sequencing (RRBS). The methods described herein can be employed to generate RRBS libraries in a manner that is easier and more cost-efficient than conventional RRBS methods, and can be efficiently sequenced with next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques without the need for genomic, higher diversity sequencing controls such as PhiX spike-ins.
US09745612B2
The present invention relates to a method of sampling biological material on a reference surface, such as the surface of an agar medium, with the aid of a sampling tool, said method making it possible to steer the displacement of the sampling tool towards the reference surface, from a first position towards a second position, and/or of the reference surface towards the sampling tool, from a first position towards a second position, said second position being a contact position in which the sampling tool and the reference surface are in contact, said method comprising the following steps: a) illuminating the sampling tool in said first position in order to make the sampling tool visible and to project an image of the sampling tool onto the reference surface, b) acquiring an image of both the sampling tool and its image projected onto the reference surface, c) processing the image obtained in step b) in order to determine if, on the processed image, the gap between the sampling tool and its projected image is equal to zero, d) if the gap between the sampling tool and its projected image is not equal to zero.
US09745609B2
Biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, microbial, and municipal waste biomass) is processed to produce useful products, such as food products and amino acids.
US09745606B2
Provided herein are microalgae of a Thraustochytrid and a method for preparing bio-oil using the same, and more particularly, Aurantiochytrium sp. LA3 (KCTC12685BP) having bio-oil producibility, and a method of preparing bio-oil, particularly bio-oil having a content of omega-3 unsaturated fatty acids of 30% by weight or more based on total fatty acids, characterized by culturing the microalgae. The microalgae Aurantiochytrium sp. LA3 (KCTC12685BP) described herein has a rapid sugar consumption rate when being cultured using glucose as a carbon source, has a high oil content, allows cells to be cultured at a high concentration, and allows oil to be obtained in high productivity and a high yield, and thus, may produce bio-oil more economically and environmentally friendly.
US09745597B2
The present invention provides a fungicidal composition comprising a strain of Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and one of several compounds in a synergistically effective amount. Also provided are methods of controlling fungal harmful organisms and/or bacterial harmful organisms in a plant, the method comprising applying an effective amount of a fungicidal composition to the plant, to a part of the plant and/or to a locus on which the plant or plant part grows.
US09745595B2
Provided are methods of increasing yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 908 or 71; or an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 176.
US09745585B2
RNA interference is provided for inhibition of histamine receptor H1 mRNA expression, in particular, for treating patients having an HRH1-related condition or at risk of developing an HRH1-related condition such as allergic conjunctivitis, ocular inflammation, dermatitis, rhinitis, asthma, or allergy.
US09745584B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of PAR4, in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of PAR4. The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of PAR4.
US09745582B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of RNase H1, in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of RNase H1. The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of RNASE H1.
US09745579B2
The present invention provides short activating RNA molecules which up-regulate albumin production. The present invention also provides methods of up-regulating albumin production, such methods involving the use of short activating RNA molecules capable of increasing the expression of albumin. The present invention also provides the use of the short activating RNA molecules in therapy, such as treating or preventing a hyperproliferative disorder and/or a disorder characterised by hypoalbuminemia.
US09745574B2
The present invention relates to RNAi constructs and their use in gene silencing. RNAi constructs associated with the invention contain a double stranded region connected to a single stranded region of phosphorothioate modified nucleotides.
US09745566B2
The present provides selection markers, methods, nucleic acids, and vectors of use in the preparation of recombinant Clostridium spp.
US09745565B2
Provided herein are compositions, foods comprising nepenthesin or a derivative thereof and methods of using nepenthesin or a derivative thereof for modulating gluten intolerance and related conditions, such as celiac disease.
US09745562B2
The present disclosure provides engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids and compositions thereof. Nucleic acid sequences encoding the engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids, as well as expression cassettes, vectors and cells comprising such nucleic acid sequences, are described. Also, methods are disclosed for making and using the engineered cross-type-nucleic-acid targeting nucleic acids and compositions thereof.
US09745561B2
The genetic basis for severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) in pigs is described. In addition, tests for detecting pigs that are carriers for SCID or pigs with SCID are also described. Further, methods for producing pigs or herds of pigs with SCID are also described. Further, methods and compositions for treating, ameilioraing, inhibiting or correcting SCID are provided.
US09745554B2
The invention relates to the discovery that the proliferation and survival of pancreatic progenitor cells can be enhanced by contacting the cells with, (1) a caspase inhibitor sufficient to reduce apoptosis in the pancreatic endocrine cells; and, (2) a growth factor in an amount sufficient to increase the level of activated Akt in the pancreatic endocrine cells.
US09745548B2
Methods are disclosed for separating beads and cells from a host fluid. The method includes flowing a mixture containing the host fluid, the beads, and the cells through an acoustophoretic device having an ultrasonic transducer including a piezoelectric material driven by a drive signal to create a multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave. A drive signal is sent to drive the at least one ultrasonic transducer to create the multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave. A recirculating fluid stream having a tangential flow path is located substantially tangential to the standing wave and separated therefrom by an interface region. A portion of the cells pass through the standing wave, and the beads are held back from the standing wave in the recirculating fluid stream at the interface region. Also disclosed is an acoustophoretic device having a coolant inlet adapted to permit the ingress of a cooling fluid into the device for cooling the transducer.
US09745546B2
The invention provides a device for growing cells—referred to as a cassette. The cell culturing device includes a housing that contains a lid having an optically clear window; a fluid distribution channel; a sample injection port fluidically connected to the fluid distribution channel; a base housing a porous media pad; and a media injection port fluidically connected to the media pad. The lid mates to the base to form a sterile seal; the fluid distribution channel is disposed over the media pad, which is viewable through the optical window; and sample fluid introduced into the fluid distribution channel is distributed evenly to the media pad, e.g., via a plurality of channels. The invention also provides kits that include cassettes of the invention and a tube set.
US09745537B2
A process for the extraction of lipids from algal biomass comprising: —producing an aqueous suspension of algal biomass; —adding to said aqueous suspension of algal biomass at least one organic solvent immiscible or substantially immiscible with water obtaining an organic-aqueous mixture; —subjecting said organic-aqueous mixture to evaporation of water and lipid extraction, operating at a temperature such to obtain the substantial complete removal of the water from said organic-aqueous mixture, obtaining: (i) an organic phase comprising lipids and said organic solvent; (ii) a semi-solid phase comprising a residue of said algal biomass.
US09745533B2
The present invention is directed towards an aqueous lubricant composition comprising hyaluronic acid, organic acid, salts and water, and has a pH of between 5.5 and 7.0 and an osmolality between about 150 and 1,500 mOsm/kg. The lubricant surprisingly has long-lasting lubricity and low osmolality as compared to conventional lubricants on the market.
US09745527B2
A process for the intense conversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feed, comprising a) ebullated bed hydroconversion of the feed; b) separating at least a portion of hydroconverted liquid effluent obtained from a); c)i) either hydrotreatment of at least a portion of the gas oil fraction and of the vacuum gas oil fraction obtained from b), ii) or hydrocracking at least a portion of gas oil fraction and vacuum gas oil fraction obtained from b); d) fractionation of at least a portion of the effluent obtained from c)i) or c)ii); e) recycling at least a portion of unconverted vacuum gas oil fraction obtained from the fractionation d) to said first hydroconversion a); f) hydrocracking at least a portion of gas oil fraction obtained from fractionation d); g) recycling all or a portion of effluent obtained from f) to the fractionation d).
US09745522B2
A method of obtaining paraffinic hydrocarbons from fat, by an exemplary method, whereby the method is performed in two stages, in a coupled flow-type system, under atmospheric pressure conditions, in the presence of heterogeneous catalysts, after their thermal activation, so that in Stage I the fat and/or waste fat is heated at a temperature range of 100-500° C., in the presence of an inert gas, in the presence of a catalyst in the form of a metal oxide on an oxide support or in the form of a mixture of at least two metal oxides on an oxide support. The product obtained in Stage I is treated, in the presence of an inert gas, at a temperature range of 100-500° C., in the presence of a metallic catalyst on an oxide support, with hydrogen gas or with a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, obtained in the selective decomposition of methanol.
US09745509B2
The present invention relates to a process to treat a subterranean formation by introducing a composition containing between 1 and 40 wt % on total weight of the composition of a chelating agent selected from the group of glutamic acid N,N-diacetic acid or a salt thereof (GLDA), aspartic acid N,N-diacetic acid or a salt thereof (ASDA), and methylglycine N,N-diacetic acid or a salt thereof (MGDA) into the formation, wherein the process comprises a soaking step.
US09745508B2
A method of hydraulic fracturing in a subterranean formation includes injecting a fluid including a proppant into the subterranean formation, wherein the proppant includes a material adapted to sequester at least one target species, and exposing or contacting at least one of the proppant or the material to/with the at least one target species either prior to injecting the proppant or subsequent to injecting the proppant.
US09745498B2
A heat storage composition (20) of the present invention includes a matrix resin (21) and heat storage inorganic particles (22). The heat storage inorganic particles (22) are composed of a material that undergoes an electronic phase transition and has a latent heat of 1 J/cc or more for the electronic phase transition. The amount of the heat storage inorganic particles is 10 to 2000 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the matrix resin. The heat conductivity of the heat storage composition is 0.3 W/m·K or more. The heat storage composition may further include heat conductive particles (23, 24). The heat storage inorganic particles are preferably metal oxide particles containing vanadium as the main metal component. The heat storage composition has high heat storage properties and high heat conduction properties, and is used as a heat storage silicone material provided between a heat generating component and a case. Since heat from the heat generating component is temporarily stored in the heat storage composition so that the heat conduction is delayed, the heat is diffused during the delay to eliminate partial heating, thereby resulting in uniform heat dissipation.
US09745496B2
Disclosed herein is a method for producing heating in a high temperature heat pump comprising condensing a vapor working fluid comprising Z-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene, in a condenser, thereby producing a liquid working fluid. Also disclosed herein is a method of raising the maximum feasible condenser operating temperature in a high temperature heat pump apparatus comprising charging the high temperature heat pump with a working fluid comprising Z-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene. Also disclosed herein is a composition comprising: (a) Z-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene; (b) 2-chloropropane; and (c) at least one lubricant suitable for use at a temperature of at least about 150° C.; is wherein the 2-chloropropane is present in an amount effective to form an azeotrope or azeotrope-like combination with the Z-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene. Also disclosed herein is a high temperature heat pump apparatus containing a working fluid comprising Z-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene.
US09745489B2
A curable aqueous composition is disclosed comprising a carbohydrate, a crosslinking agent, and an amine base, wherein the curable aqueous composition has a pH adjusted by the amine base. Further disclosed is a method of forming a curable aqueous solution.
US09745481B2
The present invention is a dielectric ink and means for printing using said ink. Approximately 10-20% of the ink is a custom organic vehicle made of a polar solvent and a binder. Approximately 30-70% of the ink is a dielectric powder having an average particle diameter of approximately 10-750 nm. Approximately 5-15% of the ink is a dielectric constant glass. Approximately 10-35% of the ink is an additional amount of solvent. The ink is deposited on a printing substrate to form at least one printed product, which is then dried and cured to remove the solvent and binder, respectively. The printed product then undergoes sintering in an inert gas atmosphere.
US09745478B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising an aqueous dispersion of an associative thickener having a hydrophobic portion with a calculated log P in the range of from 2.7 to 5.0; and composite particles comprising phosphorus acid functionalized polymer particles adsorbed to the surfaces of TiO2 particles; wherein the phosphorus acid functionalized polymer particles have a core-shell morphology wherein the core protuberates from the shell. The composition of the present invention provides formulators with flexibility in their use of low and mid shear rate thickeners to balance paint performance properties.
US09745476B2
The present invention provides a novel intumescent coating composition having excellent intumescent-properties comprising an organic polymer, a spumific and a specific additive, the additive comprising a combination of two different sources of metal/metalloid atoms. Also provided are substrates coated with the intumescent coating composition, a method of preparing an intumescent coating, and a method of protecting structures from heat/fire.
US09745473B2
A modified bitumen consisting of a polyurethane wherein the polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate-dominated polyurethane prepolymer (or prepolymers) is first reacted with the bitumen to take advantage of the bitumen's hydroxyl and amine functionality and form an isocyanate-bitumen adduct to form a weatherproofing product.
US09745461B2
A heterogeneous vulcanized polymer blend comprising a continuous phase comprising a thermoplastic polypropylene having a crystallinity of at least 30% and a dispersed phase comprising particles of an elastomeric copolymer dispersed in the continuous phase and having an average particle size of less than 5 micron. The elastomeric copolymer has a crystallinity of less than 20% and is at least partially cross-linked such that no more than about 80 wt % of the elastomeric copolymer is extractable in cyclohexane at 23° C.
US09745460B2
The present invention relates to a silicone acrylamide copolymer of high acrylamide monomer content which has transparency and low modulus, employing the following configuration. The copolymer is suitably used for various kinds of medical devices, particularly ophthalmic lenses such as a contact lens, an intraocular lens, an artificial cornea, and is especially suitable for a contact lens. A copolymer comprising (A) a multi-functional (meth)acrylamide monomer having at least one siloxane bond and at least two (meth)acrylamide groups within a molecule and (B) a mono-functional linear silicone (meth)acrylamide monomer.
US09745459B2
The present invention relates to a water redispersible polymer powder (RDP) which comprises a co-dried admixture of a water-insoluble film forming polymer, a colloidal stabilizer and rubber particles. The presence of rubber within the RDP does not significantly affect redispersibility and may, when incorporated into hydraulically-binding compositions, provide an improvement in the physical properties of the resultant hydraulically bound composition.
US09745441B2
There are provided a graphene composition and a graphene molded article that exert the properties, such as the strength, due to graphene mixed therein, even with a small amount of the graphene. The graphene composition contains a compound, graphene, and a dispersant, the graphene is contained in an amount of from 0.01 to 5% by weight and contains first flakes having a longer edge of less than 1 μm and second flakes having a longer edge of 1 μm or more and less than 5 μm, a number of the first flakes is 5% or more of the entire flakes in the graphene, and a total number of the first flakes and the second flakes is 90% or more of the entire flakes in the graphene.
US09745427B2
Shape memory polymers (SMP) based on poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) in the presence of 2-carboxyethyl acrylate oligomers (CEA), multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and cross linked by ionizing radiation were investigated. Chemical crosslinking by glutaraldehyde for PVA in the presence of CEA and MWCNTs was also studied. Radiation cross linked SMP exhibits good temperature responsive shape memory behavior as demonstrated by thermal properties of radiation investigated by dynamic mechanical analysis. Transition temperature at Tan δ of radiation cross linked SMP decreased significantly by 6 and 13° C. due to addition of MWCNTs. The developed SMP exhibited promising shape memory behavior of radiation cross linked SMP for biomedical applications between temperatures range of Tan δ. Results on the gel fraction revealed significant reduction in swelling and increase in gelation due to chemical cross linking with glutaraldehyde. The radiation cross linked SMP reached 100% gelation at an irradiation dose of 50 kGy.
US09745425B2
A polymeric polyphosphite and copolymeric polyphosphite is described which contains a cycloaliphatic moiety, preferably cyclohexane dimethanol, in the polyphosphite backbone chain. Incorporation of the polymeric polyphosphite into synthetic polymers reduces the yellowness index of any polymer into which the polymeric polyphosphite additive has been added, as well as increased hydrolytic stability as well as increased resistance to migration in food packaging.
US09745407B2
A urethane polymer obtained by a reaction of: a monohydroxy compound (A), a polyethylene glycol (B), a monoglyceryl ether compound (C), and an isocyanate compound (D). This urethane polymer can be used as a urethane viscosity modifier excellent in long-term storage stability, similarly to alkali thickening-type viscosity modifiers, while having characteristics similar to those of existing urethane viscosity modifiers.
US09745404B2
Provided is a resin molded article for an automobile interior material, the resin molded article achieving both resin strength permitting formation of a thin film, and crease resistance. This molded article is to be used in an automobile interior material, the resin molded article being obtained by slush-molding a powdered thermoplastic urethane urea resin composition (P) that satisfies (1)-(5) below, said resin composition (P) containing an additive and a thermoplastic urethane urea resin (U) obtained by reacting a high-molecular diol (a), a linear alkane diol (b), a monool (c), a diamine (d), and an organic diisocyanate (e): (1) (a) contains a specific polyester diol; (2) the weight of (b) is within a specific range relative to the total weight of (a)-(e); (3) the tensile strength of a film comprising (P) is 8.0 MPa or higher; (4) the storage modulus of (P) at 130° C. is 0.1-5.0 MPa; (5) the ratio of the storage modulus of (P) at 50° C. to the storage modulus at 23° C. by a specific measurement method is 50% or higher.
US09745398B2
A method of preparing a fluoroelastomer capable of being vulcanized by using peroxide, the method comprising: in the presence of an initiator and a chain transfer agent, conducting emulsion polymerization reaction on comonomers to obtain a fluoroelastomer. The preparation method utilizes alkyl iodide RIx as the chain transfer agent, and introduces the atom I into the molecular structure of the polymer during the reaction, the atom I acting as a crosslinking point during peroxide vulcanization. The fluoroelastomer obtained via the preparation method greatly improves the performance after being vulcanized; in addition, due to the low cost and extensive sources of alkyl iodide, the preparation method also simplifies the manufacturing process, reduces cost, and has wide application prospects.
US09745395B2
A propylene-based impact copolymer (ICP) and composition including the ICP, the ICP comprising a polypropylene homopolymer and within the range of from 10 wt % to 45 wt % of propylene copolymer based on the weight of the ICP, wherein the copolymer comprises from 20 wt % to 44 wt % ethylene, 1-butene, 1-hexene and/or 1-octene derived units and from 80 to 60 wt % propylene-derived units based on the weight of the propylene copolymer, the propylene-based impact copolymer having a Melt Flow Rate (230° C./2.16 kg) within the range of from 10 g/10 mm to 50 g/10 mm and an Elongation at Break of greater than 70%.
US09745393B2
Disclosed are an anionic polymerization initiator, which is a reaction product of an organometallic compound and a compound including an etheric oxygen atom-containing alkyl group represented by specific Chemical Formula, and a method of preparing a conjugated diene-based copolymer using the same.
US09745392B2
Provided is a method for producing water-absorbent resin particles suitable for use in absorbent article and the like, the water-absorbent resin particles having better water-absorbent performance, a suitable particle size, and a narrow particle-size distribution. A method for producing water-absorbent resin particles by reversed-phase suspension polymerization of a water-soluble ethylenic unsaturated monomer in a carrier fluid, wherein the method for producing water-absorbent resin particles comprises conducting the reversed-phase suspension polymerization reaction in the presence of an organic acid monoglyceride.
US09745391B2
A compound has at least three functionalities, including a first functionality (a) that is a sulfonate group or a sulfate group of the formula —(O)d—SO3M with d=0 or 1 and with M=hydrogen or a monovalent metal cation or a corresponding portion of a multivalent metal cation; a second functionality (b) that is a (meth)acryl residue; and a third functionality (c) that is a carboxylic acid function and/or a thioether group. When the compound is free of silicon, the sulfonate or sulfate group and the (meth)acryl residue are separated from each other by a hydrocarbon-containing residue having a carbon chain. The carbon chain is interrupted by S or NH, or the carbon chain contains a linking group, selected from C(O)NH, NHC(O), NR8C(O), NHC(O)O, NR8C(O)O, NHC(O)NH, C(O)NHC(O) and —C(O)S—, wherein R8 is alkyl or alkenyl or a (meth)acryl group.
US09745389B2
Polymerization unit for producing polymer powder having at least one polymerization reactor for the polymerization of light (co)monomer(s) having less than 7 carbon atoms, and heavy comonomer(s) having at least 7 carbon atoms, and a degassing section including two (and optionally a third) cylindrical degassing vessels in series. Light (co)monomer(s) are degassed in the first degassing vessel (V1) and recovered, and heavy comonomers are degassed in the second degassing vessel (V2) and recovered. The active polymer powder is optionally polished and/or optionally deactivated in the optional third degassing vessel (V3). The cross-sectional area (S2) of the second degassing vessel is greater than 1.5 times the cross-sectional area (S1) of the first degassing vessel [S2>1.5×S1], and vessels V1 and V2 are equipped with a vent recovery unit (VR) for respectively recovering the light (co-)monomer(s) (VR1) and the heavy comonomer(s) (VR2) from the gases exiting the vessels.
US09745386B2
The present invention provides an antibody that can react with chondroitin sulfate E at a high specificity and that can be used for, for example, the detection, isolation, and so forth, of specific sulfated polysaccharides. The present invention relates to a novel anti-chondroitin sulfate E antibody that reacts with chondroitin sulfate E and does not react with chondroitin sulfate A, does not react with chondroitin sulfate B, and does not react with chondroitin sulfate D.
US09745385B2
An anthropogenic insect-resistant gene having a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO.1, and a Cry1C toxin idiotype single-chain antibody encoded by said anthropogenic insect-resistant gene and having an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO.2; the antibody is a β-type and has insecticidal activity, and after expression by the prokaryotic system, the primary culture thereof has binding activity to Cnaphalocrocis medinalis midgut peritrophic membrane specific receptor BBMV; the β-type Cry1C toxin idiotype single-chain antibody of the present invention is obtained without animal immunization, has a short preparation period and small amino acid sequence, and is suitable for large-scale in vitro production. The present invention is an entirely new insect-resistant gene resource, and has significant implications for decreasing the various safety risks associated with the widescale use of existing Bt toxins, substituting Bt toxins in the biocontrol of agricultural pests, and reducing the use of pesticides.
