US09761960B2
An electrical transmission line repair apparatus comprising a first end section, a second end section and a link member. The first and second end sections are spaced apart from each other and each configured to receive and releasably retain a conductor thereacross. The link member is positioned on one side of the first and second end sections, so that the first and second end sections can be coupled to a conductor on either side of a link member, suspension or other device from below, and without decoupling or de-energizing the transmission line. In addition, the installation of the same and the clamping can be achieved from below the conductor upon positioning. That is, the link member or members do not straddle the transmission line, requiring dismantling of the dead end configuration, or the disassembly of the link member from the first and second end section.
US09761959B2
A coaxial connector for interconnection with a coaxial cable with a solid outer conductor by ultrasonic welding is provided with a monolithic connector body with a bore. An annular flare seat is angled radially outward from the bore toward a connector end of the connector; the annular flare seat open to the connector end of the connector. The flare seat may be provided with an annular flare seat corrugation.
US09761958B2
One or more access points in a wireless communication system, wherein at least one of those access points includes a set of more than one antennae capable of concurrent communication, and at least one of those more than one antennae is isolated from a remainder of that set of antennae during concurrent communication. Isolation includes one or more of disposed a first antenna in a null region of a second antenna, disposing a first antenna to communicate polarized and substantially orthogonal to a second antenna, disposing a set of antennae to communicate at two or more carrier frequencies, wherein each first antenna adjacent to a second antenna operate at distinct such carrier frequencies, or disposing a set of antennae to communicate using two or more substantially distinct protocols, wherein substantially each first antenna adjacent to a second antenna operate at substantially distinct such protocols.
US09761951B2
An adjustable monopole antenna apparatus and methods. In one embodiment, the antenna apparatus is intended for mobile terminals. In an exemplary implementation, there is an adjusting point is provided from which a conductor is branched to an adjusting circuit. The adjusting circuit comprises a switch and alternative reactive elements connected to ground, selectable by the switch. When a reactive element is changed, the electric length and resonance frequency of the radiator change, and the corresponding operating band shifts. If the antenna is configured as a dual-band antenna, the above-mentioned operating band is the lower band. One or more higher operating bands are based e.g. on radiating slots implemented by the same radiator conductor. The operating band of the exemplary embodiment of the antenna below the frequency 1 GHz can be shifted in a wider range than in the corresponding known antennas.
US09761944B2
A radiating system of a wireless device transmits and receives electromagnetic wave signals in a frequency region and comprises an external port, a radiating structure, and a radiofrequency system. The radiating structure includes: a ground plane layer with a connection point; a radiation booster with a connection point and being smaller than 1/30 of a free-space wavelength corresponding to a lowest frequency of the frequency region; and an internal port between the radiation booster connection point and the ground plane layer connection point. The radiofrequency system includes: a first port connected to the radiating structure's internal port; and a second port connected to the external port. An input impedance at radiating structure's disconnected internal port has a non-zero imaginary part across the frequency region. The radiofrequency system modifies impedance of the radiating structure to provide impedance matching to the radiating system within the frequency region at the external port.
US09761938B2
An antenna apparatus for base station (BS) having at least one cell, includes: two or more antenna units to form antenna beams based on predetermined tilting angles for each of two or more different frequency bands with respect to the cell; and a tilting angle control unit to control tilting angles designated to the two or more antenna units, respectively, to be different from each other, so as to make coverages of the antenna beams of the two or more different frequency bands formed by the two or more antenna units different from each other with respect to the cell.
US09761937B2
A system, device, and method for a broad-band array antenna are presented. More particularly, the application relates to a broad-band fragmented aperture phased array antenna for the Ka, K, and/or Ku frequency bands. In various exemplary embodiments, the antenna system may support dynamic polarization degradation correction. In one exemplary embodiment a method and system for a broad-band fragmented aperture phased array antenna for the Ka, K, and/or Ku frequency band is presented. In one exemplary embodiment, the fragmented aperture design functions in one or more of the Ku-band, K-band, and/or Ka-band. In another exemplary embodiment, the antenna system may include full electronic polarization agility. In one exemplary embodiment, the antenna system may further comprise a printed circuit board radiating element. The printed circuit board radiating element may be configured to function as an antenna. In one exemplary embodiment, the antenna system may support operation over multiple frequency bands.
US09761933B2
An millimeter wave antenna includes an antenna body adapted to transmit and receive an electromagnetic wave of a millimeter wave band; and a radome that covers a transmitting and receiving surface of the antenna body. The transmitting and receiving surface and the radorm are apart from each other and have a space therebetween. The radome includes a gap adapted to allow the electromagnetic wave of the millimeter wave band to pass through the gap. A radar apparatus for vehicle includes the millimeter wave antenna.
US09761929B1
An antenna is provided. The antenna includes a reflector. The reflector is formed of a metal having a high electrical conductivity. The reflector includes a lower plate and an upper plate. The lower plate includes a curved upper surface having a cross section shape of a parabola. The upper plate is disposed above the lower plate forming a space in between. The lower plate includes a larger diameter than the upper plate. The present invention further includes a first leg electrically connecting the lower plate and the upper plate together. A radio frequency connector is connected to one of the lower plate and the upper plate. A coaxial cable extending from the radio frequency connector is electrically connected to the other of the lower plate and the upper plate.
US09761919B2
An energy storage system includes: multiple cells, each cell having a first end with anode and cathode terminals, and a second end opposite the first end, the cells arranged so that the second ends are aligned; for each of the cells, electrical connections coupled to the anode and cathode terminals at the first end; and a heat pipe having a flat evaporation surface facing the second ends.
US09761918B2
A traction battery assembly is provided. The traction battery assembly may include a battery cell array, a pair of endplates, and a first coolant channel. The battery cell array may define a longitudinal center axis along an upper face of the array. The pair of endplates may be configured to longitudinally retain the array therebetween. The first coolant channel may be in thermal communication with each battery cell along the upper face, span a longitudinal length of the array, and be offset from the longitudinal center axis. The assembly may include a second coolant channel in thermal communication with each battery cell, spanning the longitudinal length of the array, and covering a portion of the upper face of the array and a side face of the array. Each of the endplates may further define a plenum open to the first coolant channel and the second coolant channel.
US09761916B2
A power supply device has a first monitoring portion monitoring one battery property of plural battery cells constituting a battery block, a second monitoring portion monitoring another battery property, a circuit board having a monitoring circuit monitoring states of the battery cells being connected to the first and second monitoring portions and based on battery property information detected in the first and second monitoring portions and having a rectangular shape in the external appearance, a first connector connecting a first harness extended from the first monitoring portion to the circuit board, and a second connector connecting a second harness extended from the second monitoring portion to the circuit board. The first connector is fixed to one side of the circuit board, and the second connector is fixed to another side crossing the one side of the rectangular outer shape at a position thereof crossing the second connector.
US09761912B2
A battery, particularly a lithium-metal battery or a lithium-ion battery, having at least one galvanic cell surrounded by a cell housing. To increase the safety of the battery and to close up again a cell opened by a safety device or by a leakage, the inner chamber of the cell housing of the at least one cell includes a first chemical component, a chamber bordering on at least one section of the outer side of the housing including a second chemical component; a solid reaction product being developable by the chemical reaction of the first and second chemical components. The first component is containable in the electrolyte of the cell and the second component in a cooling and/or tempering arrangement. Also described is a cooling and/or tempering arrangement based on it, and an electrolyte, an electrolytic liquid, a safety system, a method and a mobile or stationary system.
US09761911B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack including a power supply unit including two or more battery cells or battery modules electrically connected to each other, at least one pressure driven switch configured to cause a short circuit in a portion or the entirety of the battery pack upon detecting expansion in volume of the battery cells or the battery modules when the power supply unit malfunctions, a cut-off portion located at at least one series connection region between the battery cells or the battery modules to interrupt electrical connection in the battery pack when the short circuit occurs in the battery pack, and external input and output terminals connected to electrode terminals located at outermost sides of the power supply unit to supply power to an external device.
US09761909B2
An electrolyte composition (A) containing (i) at least one aprotic organic solvent; (ii) at least one conducting salt; (iii) at least one compound of formula (I) wherein X1 and X2 are independently from each other selected from N(R1), P(R1), O, and S, Y1 and Y2 are independently from each other selected from (O), (S), (PR2) and (NR2); and electrochemical cells containing electrolyte composition (A).
US09761906B2
A main object of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a sulfide solid electrolyte that enables a sulfide solid electrolyte whose ion-conducting characteristic is easy to be improved, to be manufactured. The present invention is a method for manufacturing a sulfide solid electrolyte including loading a raw material for manufacturing a sulfide solid electrolyte which is mainly composed of a substance represented by the general formula of (100−x)(0.75Li2S.0.25P2S5).xLiI (here, 0
US09761898B2
There is provided a technique of preventing degradation of an electrolyte membrane included in a fuel cell. A fuel cell includes a membrane electrode assembly. The membrane electrode assembly is provided as a power generation device where electrodes are arranged on both sides of an electrolyte membrane having proton conductivity. Each of the electrodes has a layered structure of stacking a catalyst layer arranged to support a catalyst and a gas diffusion layer arranged to spread a reactive gas over the entire electrode plane. The outer peripheral edge of the gas diffusion layer is located inward of the outer peripheral edge of the catalyst layer.
US09761893B2
A fuel cell case containing a fuel cell stack includes a side face that has an opening for ventilation; a frame body that is located outside of the case along the periphery of the opening; and a louver that is fixed to inside of the frame body. The louver has a plurality of blades arranged to be separated from one another. The fuel cell case also has a projection that is protruded outward of the case in a predetermined range including at least a region located on a gas blow direction side of the louver in an inner peripheral portion of the frame body. This configuration reduces the likelihood that an elongated material such as wire comes into contact with a high-voltage component relevant to the fuel cell inside of the case.
US09761888B2
A fuel cell includes a main body which is formed by stacking a cathode layer, an electrolyte layer, and an anode layer, in which the surface of one of the cathode and anode layers serves as a first main surface, and the surface of the other layer serves as a second main surface; a first current collector in contact with the first main surface; and a second current collector in contact with the second main surface. As viewed in a thickness direction, at least a portion of the boundary of a second region of the second current collector corresponding to the second main surface is located within a first region of the first current collector corresponding to the first main surface, and the remaining portion is located within the first region or on the boundary of the first region.
US09761873B2
A negative electrode active material for nonaqueous secondary batteries is disclosed. The active material contains a silicon solid solution having one or more than one of a group 3 semimetal or metal element, a group 4 semimetal or metal element except silicon, and a group 5 nonmetal or semimetal element incorporated in silicon as a solute element. The solute element is present more on the crystal grain boundaries of the silicon solid solution than inside the grains.
US09761871B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to a negative electrode for a sodium molten salt battery, the negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixture layer arranged on a surface of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode mixture layer including negative electrode active material particles and a film arranged on a surface of each of the negative electrode active material particles, the negative electrode active material particles containing hard carbon, and the film containing a sodium-containing sulfide.
US09761870B2
A lithium ion battery includes at least one cathode electrode, at least one anode electrode, and an electrolyte. The cathode electrode includes at least one first carbon nanotube paper and at least one cathode electrode plate. The cathode electrode plate locates on a surface of the at least one first carbon nanotube paper, and includes a plurality of stacked first carbon nanotube films. A cathode active material is dispersed in the plurality of first carbon nanotube films. An anode electrode includes at least one first second carbon nanotube paper and at least one first anode electrode plate. The anode electrode plate is located on a surface of the at least one first second carbon nanotube paper, and includes a plurality of stacked second carbon nanotube films. An anode active material is dispersed in the plurality of second carbon nanotube films.
US09761862B2
The performance of a lithium ion-cell where the cathode is a layered-layered lithium rich cathode material xLiMO2(1-x)Li2MNO3, M being a transition metal selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, or Mn, is improved by coating the surface of the cathode with a sulfonyl-containing compound, such as poly(1,4-phenylene ether-ether-sulfone), inhibits the reactivity of the electrolyte with the oxidized electrode surface while allowing lithium ion conduction.
US09761860B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery capable of preventing damage to a current interrupt device caused by generation and transmission of vibration, and thereby achieving prevention of malfunction of the current interrupt device, and improvement of quality of the secondary battery. In addition, disclosed is a method of manufacturing the secondary battery. Specifically disclosed is a secondary battery, in which a positive electrode terminal is placed on the upper face of a sealing plate, a holder is placed on the lower face of the sealing plate, and the sealing plate is joined to the positive electrode terminal and the holder by a rivet. The secondary battery includes an adhered portion for adhering the holder to the sealing plate.
US09761847B2
A method for fabricating a solid state battery device. The device can include electrochemically active layers and an overlaying barrier material, with an inter-digitated layer structure configured with a post terminated lead structure. The method can include forming a plurality of battery device cell regions (1-N) formed in a multi-stacked configuration, wherein each of the battery device cell regions comprises a first current collector and a second current collector. The method can also include forming a thickness of a first and second lead material to cause formation of a first and second lead structure to interconnect each of the first and second current collectors associated with each of the plurality of battery device cell regions and to isolate each of the second current collectors extending spatially outside of the battery device cell region within a first and second isolated region, respectively.
US09761844B2
A transfer film is provided which includes a sacrificial template layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the second surface comprises a non-planar structured surface and a thermally stable backfill layer applied to the second surface of the sacrificial template layer, wherein the backfill layer has a structured surface corresponding with and applied to the non-planar structured surface of the sacrificial template layer. The sacrificial template layer comprises oriented dimensionally anisotropic inorganic nanomaterials and is capable of being removed from the backfill layer while leaving the structured surface of the backfill layer and the oriented dimensionally anisotropic inorganic nanomaterials substantially intact.
US09761843B2
An emissive display comprising an OLED, a first birefringent reflective polarizer, a second birefringent reflective polarizer optically between the OLED and the first birefringent reflective polarizer, a first linear absorbing polarizer having a contrast ratio of less than 100:1 optically between the first birefringent reflective polarizer and the second birefringent reflective polarizer, a second linear absorbing polarizer having a contrast ratio of less than 100:1, where the first birefringent reflective polarizer is optically between the second linear absorbing polarizer and the first linear absorbing polarizer, and a structured optical film optically between the OLED and the second birefringent reflective polarizer.
US09761837B2
The present invention relates to a display technology field, in specifically, to a method for manufacturing an OLED. The organic material film and inorganic material film are formed on the upper surface of the OLED devices, the inorganic material film covers over the organic material film to absorb the stress, and a protective layer is formed on the inorganic material film in prior to the cutting procedure to protect the encapsulated film from scratching and crushing, so that the mechanical strength of the whole OLED devices is increased, the quality of the display is improved.
US09761825B2
An organic light-emitting device includes, in order an anode, an organic layer comprising a light-emitting layer, and a cathode. The anode is a laminated structure comprising in order: a first anode layer comprising a metal compound or a conductive oxide; a second anode layer that is a reflective layer; and a third anode layer comprising a metal compound or a conductive oxide. Light generated in the light-emitting layer is extracted through the cathode.
US09761816B2
A flexible organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the flexible organic light-emitting display device are provided. The flexible organic light-emitting display device comprises a lower flexible substrate assembly and an upper flexible substrate assembly that are bonded by a bonding layer. The lower flexible substrate assembly includes a first flexible substrate, a thin film transistor formed on the first flexible substrate, a white organic light-emitting element formed on the thin film transistor, and an encapsulation layer formed on the white organic light-emitting element. The upper flexible substrate assembly comprises a second flexible substrate, an interlayer and a touch sensing unit formed on the interlayer layer. The interlayer may be at least one of a color filter layer, a transparent resin layer, an insulating film layer and a second flexible substrate.
US09761782B2
A detector for detecting single photons of infrared radiation or longer wavelength electromagnetic radiation. In one embodiment a waveguide configured to transmit infrared radiation is arranged to be adjacent a graphene sheet and configured so that evanescent waves from the waveguide overlap the graphene sheet. In other embodiments a transmission line or antenna is coupled to the graphene sheet and guides longer-wavelength photons to the graphene sheet. A photon absorbed by the graphene sheet heats the graphene sheet. Part of the graphene sheet is part of the Josephson junction as the weak link, and a constant bias current is driven through the Josephson junction; an increase in the temperature of the graphene sheet results in a decrease in the critical current of the Josephson junction and a voltage pulse in the voltage across the Josephson junction. The voltage pulse is detected by the pulse detector.
US09761779B2
A thermoelectric conversion material expressed by a chemical formula X3T3-yT′ySb4 (0.025≦y≦0.5), wherein the X includes one or more elements selected from Zr and Hf, the T includes one or more elements selected from Ni, Pd, and Pt, while including at least Ni, and the T′ includes one or more elements selected from Co, Rh, and Ir.
US09761777B2
Disclosed is a thermoelectric conversion material having excellent performance. The thermoelectric material according to the present disclosure includes a matrix including Cu and Se, and Cu-containing particles.
US09761765B2
In one embodiment, a solid cylindrical tablet is pre-formed for a reflective cup containing an LED die, such as a blue LED die. The tablet comprises uniformly-mixed phosphor particles and transparent/translucent particles of a high TC material, such as quartz, in a hardened silicone binder, where the index of refraction of the high TC material is matched to that of the silicone to minimize internal reflection. Tablets can be made virtually identical in composition and size. The bulk of the tablet will be the high TC material. After the tablet is placed in the cup, the LED module is heated, preferably in a vacuum, to melt the silicone so that the mixture flows around the LED die and fills the voids to encapsulate the LED die. The silicone is then cooled to harden.
US09761756B2
An optical device comprising: a photonic crystal structure, comprising: a layer of a first material, the layer comprising a quantum emitter; and a plurality of regions of a second material in the layer of the first material, the regions arranged in a regular lattice having at least one region missing from the lattice so that a defect is formed, wherein the quantum emitter is located in the defect part of the photonic crystal structure; wherein the second material has a different refractive index to the first material; and an electrode which is electrically contacted to only the defect part of the photonic crystal structure.
US09761755B2
A method of producing a semiconductor layer sequence includes providing a growth substrate having a growth surface on a growth side, growing a first nitride semiconductor layer on the growth side, growing a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer, wherein the second nitride semiconductor layer includes at least one opening or at least one opening is produced in the second nitride semiconductor layer or at least one opening is created in the second nitride semiconductor layer during the growing process, removing at least one part of the first nitride semiconductor layer through the openings in the second nitride semiconductor layer, and growing a third nitride semiconductor layer on the second nitride semiconductor layer, wherein the third nitride semiconductor layer covers the openings at least in places.
US09761737B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device which uses an oxide semiconductor and in which a change in the electrical characteristics is suppressed is provided. The semiconductor device includes an island-shaped semiconductor layer over a base insulating layer, a pair of electrodes over the semiconductor layer, a barrier layer in contact with undersurfaces of the electrodes, a gate electrode over the semiconductor layer, and a gate insulating layer between the semiconductor layer and the gate electrode. The semiconductor layer contains an oxide semiconductor. The base insulating layer contains silicon oxide or silicon oxynitride. The electrodes each contain Al, Cr, Cu, Ta, Ti, Mo, or W. The barrier layer contains oxide containing one or more metal elements contained in the oxide semiconductor. Furthermore, the electrodes and the barrier layer extend to the outside of the semiconductor layer when seen from above.
US09761732B2
This disclosure provides thin film transistors (TFTs) including p-n hetero-junction structures. A p-n hetero-junction structure may include a junction between a narrow bandgap material and a wide bandgap material. The narrow bandgap material, which may be an oxide, nitride, selenide, or sulfide, is the active channel material of the TFT and may provide relatively high carrier mobility. The hetero-junction structures facilitate band-to-band tunneling and suppression of TFT off-currents. In various implementations, the TFTs may be formed on flexible substrates and have low temperature processing capabilities.
US09761730B2
An imaging device that does not need a lens is provided. The imaging device includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The second layer is positioned between the first layer and the third layer. The first layer includes a diffraction grating. The second layer includes a photoelectric conversion element. The third layer includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor in an active layer.
US09761727B2
A method of forming a variable spacer in a vertical transistor device includes forming a first source/drain of a first transistor on a substrate; forming a second source/drain of a second transistor on the substrate adjacent to the first source/drain, an isolation region arranged in the substrate between the first source/drain and the second source/drain; depositing a spacer material on the first source/drain; depositing the spacer material on the second source/drain; forming a first channel extending from the first source drain and through the spacer material; forming a second channel extending from the second source/drain and through the spacer material; wherein the spacer material on the first source/drain forms a first spacer and the spacer material on the second source/drain forms a second spacer, the first spacer being different in thickness than the second spacer.
US09761723B2
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a fin channel structure over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a gate stack covering a portion of the fin channel structure. The semiconductor device structure further includes a source/drain structure adjacent to the fin channel structure and a doped region between the semiconductor substrate and the fin channel structure. In addition, the semiconductor device structure includes a blocking layer between the fin channel structure and the doped region.
US09761722B1
A field-effect transistor device and a method of isolating a field-effect transistor device. The method includes forming a layer of silicon germanium (SiGe) over a substrate, and fabricating a dummy gate stack above a silicon layer formed on the layer of SiGe. Etching the silicon layer defines a channel region below the dummy gate stack. The channel is isolated from the substrate by forming a cavity between the channel region and the substrate below the channel region, the cavity extending over a length of the channel region, wherein the length of the channel region extends from a source region to a drain region below the dummy gate stack. The cavity is filled with an oxide and a low K spacer material to isolate the channel region from the substrate.
US09761720B2
After forming an epitaxial semiconductor layer on portions of a semiconductor located on opposite sides of a sacrificial gate structure, dopants from the epitaxial semiconductor layer are diffused into the semiconductor fin to form a dopant-containing semiconductor fin. A sacrificial gate stack is removed to provide a gate cavity that exposes a portion of the dopant-containing semiconductor fin. The exposed portion of the dopant-containing semiconductor fin is removed to provide an opening underneath the gate cavity. A channel which is undoped or less doped than remaining portions of the dopant-containing semiconductor fin is epitaxially grown at least from the sidewalls of the remaining portions of the dopant-containing semiconductor fin. Abrupt junctions are thus formed between the channel region and the remaining portions of the dopant-containing semiconductor fin.
US09761718B2
A semiconductor device includes: a sidewall insulating film; a gate electrode; source and drain regions; a first stress film; and a second stress film.
US09761717B2
A method for forming strained fins includes etching trenches in a bulk substrate to form fins, filling the trenches with a dielectric fill and recessing the dielectric fill into the trenches to form shallow trench isolation regions. The fins are etched above the shallow trench isolation regions to form a staircase fin structure with narrow top portions of the fins. Gate structures are formed over the top portions of the fins. Raised source ad drain regions are epitaxially grown on opposite sides of the gate structure. A pre-morphization implant is performed to generate defects in the substrate to couple strain into the top portions of the fins.
US09761709B2
A vertical trench MOSFET comprising: a N-doped substrate of a III-N material; and an epitaxial layer of the III-N material grown on a top surface of the substrate, a N-doped drift region being formed in said epitaxial layer; a P-doped base layer of said III-N material, formed on top of at least a portion of the drift region; a N-doped source region of said III-N material; formed on at least a portion of the base layer; and a gate trench having at least one vertical wall extending along at least a portion of the source region and at least a portion of the base layer; wherein at least a portion of the P-doped base layer along the gate trench is a layer of said P-doped III-N material that additionally comprises a percentage of aluminum.
US09761708B2
A semiconductor device includes a supporting substrate, an insulating film formed in a first region over the supporting substrate, a first semiconductor layer formed over the insulating film, a first epitaxial layer formed in an opening of the insulating film in a second region over the supporting substrate, an element isolation region formed between the first semiconductor layer and the first epitaxial layer, and a semiconductor element formed over each of the first semiconductor layer in the first region and the first epitaxial layer in the second region. The first semiconductor layer and the first epitaxial layer is spaced apart from each other by 5 μm or more.
US09761706B2
An SiC trench transistor having a first terminal and an epitaxial layer positioned vertically between a gate trench and a second terminal; a compensation layer extending horizontally being provided in the epitaxial layer, the compensation layer having an effective doping of a type opposite to the doping of the epitaxial layer. A method for manufacturing an SiC trench transistor is also provided, an epitaxial layer being provided on a second terminal of the SiC trench transistor; a compensation layer extending horizontally being implanted in the epitaxial layer, the compensation layer having an effective doping of a type opposite to the doping of the epitaxial layer; and a first terminal and a gate trench being provided above the compensation layer.
US09761699B2
A method of forming a finFET transistor device includes forming a crystalline, compressive strained silicon germanium (cSiGe) layer over a substrate; masking a first region of the cSiGe layer so as to expose a second region of the cSiGe layer; subjecting the exposed second region of the cSiGe layer to an implant process so as to amorphize a bottom portion thereof and transform the cSiGe layer in the second region to a relaxed SiGe (rSiGe) layer; performing an annealing process so as to recrystallize the rSiGe layer; epitaxially growing a tensile strained silicon layer on the rSiGe layer; and patterning fin structures in the tensile strained silicon layer and in the first region of the cSiGe layer.
US09761696B2
A trench metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), in accordance with one embodiment, includes a drain region, a plurality of gate regions disposed above the drain region, a plurality of gate insulator regions each disposed about a periphery of a respective one of the plurality of gate regions, a plurality of source regions disposed in recessed mesas between the plurality of gate insulator regions, a plurality of body regions disposed in recessed mesas between the plurality of gate insulator regions and between the plurality of source regions and the drain region. The MOSFET also includes a plurality of body contact regions disposed in the each body region adjacent the plurality of source regions, a plurality of source/body contact spacers disposed between the plurality of gate insulator regions above the recessed mesas, a source/body contact disposed above the source/body contact spacers, and a plurality of source/body contact, plugs disposed between the source/body contact spacers and coupling the source/body contact to the plurality of body contact regions and the plurality of source regions.
US09761685B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device that improves the reliability of the semiconductor device. An opening is formed in an insulating film formed over a semiconductor substrate. At that time, a mask layer for formation of the opening is formed over the insulating film. The insulating film is dry etched and then wet etched. The dry etching step is finished before the semiconductor substrate is exposed at the bottom of the opening, and the wet etching step is finished after the semiconductor substrate is exposed at the bottom of the opening.
US09761681B2
The semiconductor device includes a gate insulation film covering inner surfaces of the first trench and the second trench, and an inner surface of an intersection, and a gate electrode provided in the first trench and the second trench, and facing the semiconductor substrate via the gate insulation film. Further, the semiconductor device includes an emitter region of an n-type provided in the semiconductor substrate, exposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, being in contact with the gate insulation film in the second trench, and not being in contact with the gate insulation film provided on the inner surface of the intersection of the first trench and the second trench.
US09761673B2
A p-type oxide which is amorphous and is represented by the following compositional formula: xAO.yCu2O where x denotes a proportion by mole of AO and y denotes a proportion by mole of Cu2O and x and y satisfy the following expressions: 0≦x<100 and x+y=100, and A is any one of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, or a mixture containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba.
US09761672B1
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a semiconductor component including one or more aluminum silicon nitride layers. The semiconductor component includes a substrate, a group III-V intermediate body situated over the substrate, a group III-V buffer layer situated over the group III-V intermediate body, and a group III-V device fabricated over the group III-V buffer layer. The group III-V intermediate body includes the one or more aluminum silicon nitride layers.
US09761663B2
A semiconductor device that includes a plurality of trench gate structures each having a gate electrode extending in a depth direction of an element, the plurality of trench gate structures including first trench gate structures respectively contributing to control of the element and second trench gate structures respectively not contributing to the control of the element, the semiconductor device including an electrode portion having a potential other than a gate potential, and an electrode pad that is disposed on a front face of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrode pad is used as a terminal to apply a predetermined voltage to gate insulator films, in screening that is executed by applying the predetermined voltage to the gate insulator films respectively in contact with the gate electrode connected to the electrode pad and that is executed before the electrode pad is short-circuited to the electrode portion.
US09761662B1
Methods form structures to include a first pair of complementary transistors (having first and second transistors) and a second pair of complementary transistors (having third and fourth transistors). An active area of the first transistor contacts an active area of the second transistor along a first common edge that is straight, and an active area of the third transistor contacts an active area of the fourth transistor along a second common edge that is straight and parallel to the first common edge. The active area of the second transistor has a third edge, opposite the first common edge, that has a non-linear shape, and the active area of the third transistor has a fourth edge, opposite the second common edge, that has the same non-linear shape. The non-linear shape of the third edge faces and is inverted relative to the non-linear shape of the fourth edge.
US09761652B2
A display apparatus includes a data line extending in a first direction, a main scan line disposed substantially parallel to the data line, a sub scan line extending in a second direction that crosses the main scan line, wherein the sub scan line is electrically connected with the main scan line, a driving voltage line extending in the first direction and disposed between the data line and the main scan line, and a shield layer disposed on a layer that is different from a layer on which the driving voltage line is disposed, the shield layer being electrically connected with the driving voltage line, wherein the shield layer overlaps at least one of the data line and the main scan line.
US09761649B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate is disclosed. In one aspect, the substrate includes a buffer layer formed over a substrate, a storage capacitor formed in the buffer layer and including a first electrode and a second electrode surrounding and insulated from the first electrode and a driving TFT formed over the buffer layer.
US09761646B2
An organic light-emitting diode display is disclosed. The display includes a semiconductor layer formed over a substrate, a scan line formed over the semiconductor layer and configured to provide a scan signal, and a light emission control line formed over the semiconductor layer and configured to provide a light emission control signal. The display includes a data line configured to provide a data voltage and a driving voltage line configured to provide a driving voltage, wherein the driving voltage line crosses the scan line and is electrically insulated from the scan line. A switching transistor is electrically connected to the scan line and the data line and includes a switching drain electrode. A driving transistor includes a driving source electrode electrically connected to the switching drain electrode. Any one of the semiconductor layer and the light emission control line includes an extension at least partially overlapping the data line.
US09761641B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a color filter substrate including: a base plate, and a black matrix layer and a barrier pad layer disposed stackedly in sequence on the base plate, the barrier pad layer including a plurality of barrier pads disposed on the same layer; wherein, an orthographic projection of a pattern of each barrier pad onto the base plate is located within a region where a pattern of the black matrix layer is located; and, a surface of each barrier pad is provided with an auxiliary functional layer for absorption or reflection of a light irradiated on the surface of each barrier pad. Correspondingly, embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for manufacturing a color filter substrate, an OLED display panel and a display apparatus.
US09761634B2
This patent document provides an electronic device capable of improving the characteristics of a variable resistance element. An electronic device in accordance with an implementation of this document includes semiconductor memory, and the semiconductor memory includes a variable resistance element capable of being included in the semiconductor memory, and including a fixed layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a variable layer laminated therein, wherein the variable resistance element is capable of allowing a slope of a graph of a switching current density as a function of an external magnetic field to be proportional to the square of “H/Hk” when the magnetization directions of the fixed layer and the variable layer are switched from a parallel state to an antiparallel state. In accordance with the electronic device of this patent document, the characteristics of the variable resistance element can be improved.
US09761633B2
A method for fabricating a magnetic film structure is provided. The method comprises forming a magnetic structure on a bottom electrode layer, the magnetic structure comprising at least one pinned bottom magnetic film layer having a fixed magnetic orientation; at least one top magnetic film layer whose magnetic orientation can be manipulated by a current; and a tunneling layer between the bottom magnetic film layer and the top magnetic film layer; forming a metallic hard mask atop the magnetic structure; patterning and etching the metallic hard mask to define exposed areas of the magnetic structure; selectively etching the exposed areas of the magnetic structure by a chemical etch process based on a CO etch chemistry to form discrete magnetic bits.
US09761630B2
The present invention achieves reduction in size and thickness while removing the cause of defective image and the like. According to an image pickup module (1), a solid-state image pickup device (3) and a flexible substrate (2) are connected to each other by flip-chip bonding, and an opening (5) is formed in the flexible substrate 2 by melting the flexible substrate (2) and an anisotropically-conductive film (8) adhered to the flexible substrate (2).
US09761629B2
A system and method for reducing cross-talk between photosensitive diodes is provided. In an embodiment a first color filter is formed over a first photosensitive diode and a second color filter is formed over a second photosensitive diode, and a gap is formed between the first color filter and the second color filter. The gap will serve to reflect light that otherwise would have crossed from the first color filter to the second color filter, thereby reducing cross-talk between the first photosensitive diode and the second photosensitive diode. A reflective grid may also be formed between the first photosensitive diode and the second photosensitive diode in order to assist in the reflection and further reduce the amount of cross-talk.
US09761621B2
A pixel cell with a photosensitive region formed in association with a substrate, a color filter formed over the photosensitive region, the color filter comprising a first material layer and a second material layer formed in association with the first shaping material layer.
US09761617B2
A method for manufacturing an array substrate comprises: forming a pixel electrode and a gate of a thin film transistor on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer; forming an active layer and a source and a drain, which are provided on the active layer, of the thin film transistor by a patterning process; forming a passivation layer; forming a main via penetrating through the gate insulating layer and the passivation layer and a main-via extension portion under a portion of the drain by a patterning process, wherein the main via is connected to the main-via extension portion; removing a portion of the drain which protrudes above the main-via extension portion so as to form a final via; and forming a connection electrode and a common electrode, wherein the connection electrode electrically connects the drain to the pixel electrode through the final via.
US09761616B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. Patterns comprising a gate, a gate insulating layer and a polysilicon active layer are formed on a base substrate by single patterning process. A passivation layer is formed on the substrate surface formed with the patterns, and patterns of a first via and a second via are formed on a surface of the passivation layer by single patterning process. Patterns of a source, a drain and a pixel electrode are formed on the substrate surface formed with the patterns by single patterning process. The source is electrically connected with the polysilicon active layer through the first via, and the drain is electrically connected with the polysilicon active layer through the second via. A pattern of pixel defining layer is formed on the substrate surface formed with the patterns by single patterning process.
US09761614B2
A thin film transistor array panel is provided. A thin film transistor is positioned on a substrate. A first passivation layer is positioned on the thin film transistor. A common electrode is positioned on the first passivation layer. A second passivation layer positioned on the common electrode. A pixel electrode is positioned on the second passivation layer. The pixel electrode is coupled to the thin film transistor through a first contact hole penetrating the first passivation layer, the common electrode, and the second passivation layer. A first part of the first contact hole formed in the common electrode is larger than a second part of the first contact hole formed in the second passivation layer.
US09761608B1
A method comprises forming shallow trenches in an intrinsic base semiconductor layer and forming a first base layer thereon; applying a first mask to the layer; etching the first base layer; forming a second base layer on the intrinsic base semiconductor layer adjacent the first base layer; removing the first mask; applying a second mask to the base layers; simultaneously etching the layers to produce extrinsic bases of reduced cross dimensions; disposing spacers on the extrinsic bases; etching around the bases leaving the intrinsic base semiconductor layer under the bases and spacers; implanting ions into sides of the intrinsic base semiconductor layer under the first extrinsic base to form a first emitter/collector junction and into sides of the intrinsic base semiconductor layer under the second extrinsic base to form a second emitter/collector junction; depositing semiconductor material adjacent to the junctions and the trenches; and removing the applied second mask.
US09761607B2
A method for producing a microelectronic device is provided, including forming on an insulating layer of a semi-conductor on insulator type substrate, a first semi-conductor block covered with a first strain zone configured to induce a compressive strain in the first block and a second semi-conductor block covered with a second strain zone configured to induce a tensile strain in the second block, the first block and the second block each being formed of a lower region based on amorphous semi-conductor material, covered with an upper region of crystalline semi-conductor material in contact with one of the strain zones; and recrystallizing the lower region of the first and second blocks while using the upper region of crystalline material as starting zone for a recrystallization front.
US09761594B2
Approaches for providing a hardmask used during a halo/extension implant of a static random access memory (SRAM) layout for a semiconductor device are disclosed. Specifically, approaches are provided for forming a pull-down (PD) transistor over a substrate; forming a pass-gate (PG) transistor over the substrate; and patterning a hardmask over the device, the hardmask including a first section adjacent the PD transistor and a second section adjacent the PG transistor, wherein a distance between the first section and the PD transistor is shorter than a distance between the second section and the PG transistor. The respective distances between the first section and the PD transistor, and the second section and the PG transistor, are selected to prevent a halo/extension implant from impacting one side of the PD transistor, while allowing the halo/extension implant to impact both sides of the PG transistor.
US09761587B2
A silicon germanium alloy (SiGe) fin having a first germanium content is provided within first and second device regions. Each SiGe fin is located on a sacrificial material stack and an oxide material surrounds each SiGe fin. A germanium layer is formed atop each SiGe fin within one of the device regions, while a SiGe layer having a second germanium content less than the first germanium content is formed atop each SiGe fin within the other device region. An exposed surface of each of the germanium layer and the SiGe layer is then bonded to a base substrate. The sacrificial material stack is removed and thereafter the oxide material is recessed to expose a portion of each SiGe fin in the first and second device regions. Each SiGe fin contacting the germanium layer compressively strained, and each SiGe fin contacting the SiGe layer is tensely strained.
US09761583B2
A method for making connection elements between two different levels of components in a 3D integrated circuit, including: forming a lateral insulating area supported on at least one given conducting area among several interconnection areas on a first level of components, the insulating area extending around a semiconducting layer on a second level in which at least one transistor can be formed; removing a first portion of the lateral insulating area so as to form at least one hole exposing said given conducting area; and depositing a conducting material in the hole so as to form a first electrical connection element between the second component and the given conducting area.
US09761580B1
A method of forming an array comprising pairs of vertically opposed capacitors comprises forming an upwardly-open conductive lining in individual capacitor openings in insulative-comprising material. An elevational mid-portion of individual of the conductive linings is removed to form an upper capacitor electrode lining and a lower capacitor electrode lining that are elevationally separate and spaced from one another in the individual capacitor openings. A capacitor insulator is formed radially inward of the upper and lower capacitor electrode linings in the individual capacitor openings. Conductive material is formed radially inward of the capacitor insulator in the individual capacitor openings and elevationally between the capacitor electrode linings. The conductive material is formed to comprise a shared capacitor electrode that is shared by vertically opposed capacitors in individual of the pairs of vertically opposed capacitors. Additional methods and structure independent of method are disclosed.
US09761576B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip has a first semiconductor layer sequence which comprises a multiplicity of microdiodes, and a second semiconductor layer sequence which comprises an active region. The first semiconductor layer sequence and the second semiconductor layer sequence are based on a nitride compound semiconductor material, the first semiconductor layer sequence is before the first semiconductor layer sequence in the direction of growth, and the microdiodes form an ESD protection for the active region.
US09761566B1
A method includes forming a semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor die surrounded by a molding material, wherein a contact metal of the semiconductor device has an exposed edge, placing the semiconductor device into a tray having an inner wall and an outer wall, wherein the inner wall is underneath the semiconductor device and between an outer edge of the semiconductor device and an outer edge of bumps of the semiconductor device, depositing a metal shielding layer on the semiconductor device and the tray, wherein the metal shielding layer is in direct contact with the exposed edge of the contact metal and separating the semiconductor device from the tray.
US09761564B1
Apparatuses and methods for supplying power to a plurality of dies are described. An example apparatus includes: a substrate; first, second and third memory cell arrays arranged in line in a first direction in the substrate; a first set of through electrodes arranged between the first and second memory cell arrays, each of the first set of through electrodes penetrating through the substrate, the first set of through electrodes including first and second through electrodes; and a second set of through electrodes arranged between the second and third memory cell arrays, each of the second set of through electrodes penetrating through the substrate, the second set of through electrodes including third and fourth through electrodes.
US09761562B2
Semiconductor device packages include a stack of semiconductor memory devices positioned over an interposer substrate, a controller element, and a redistribution substrate positioned laterally adjacent to the controller element. At least a portion of the controller element is positioned directly between the stack and the interposer substrate. The controller element is operatively connected to the semiconductor memory devices of the stack through the redistribution substrate and the interposer substrate. Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device package include positioning a redistribution substrate laterally adjacent to a controller element and attaching the redistribution substrate and the controller element to an interposer substrate. A stack of semiconductor memory devices is positioned over the controller element and the redistribution substrate. The controller element is operatively connected to the semiconductor memory devices of the stack through the redistribution substrate and the interposer substrate.
US09761550B2
A power semiconductor device that includes a stack of a thin metal layer and a thick metal layer over the active region thereof, and a method for the fabrication thereof.
US09761540B2
A semiconductor device that includes a redistribution layer (RDL) is disclosed. A chip is mounted on the RDL within a chip mounting area. The RDL is electrically connected to the chip. A molding compound covers and encapsulates the chip. A first stress-relief feature is embedded in the molding compound within a peripheral area adjacent to the chip mounting area. A second stress-relief feature is embedded in the molding compound within the chip mounting area. The first stress-relief feature is composed of a first material. The second stress-relief feature is composed of a second material that is different from the first material.
US09761537B2
Shielded radio-frequency (RF) module having reduced area. In some embodiments, an RF module can include a packaging substrate configured to receive a plurality of components, and a plurality of shielding wirebonds implemented on the packaging substrate and configured to provide RF shielding functionality for one or more regions on the packaging substrate. The packaging substrate can include a first area associated with implementation of each shielding wirebond. The RF module can further include one or more devices mounted on the packaging substrate. The packaging substrate can further include a second area associated with mounting of each of the one or more devices. Each device can be mounted with respect to a corresponding shielding wirebond such that the second area associated with the device overlaps at least partially with the first area associated with the corresponding shielding wirebond.
US09761526B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include interconnect structures for an integrated circuit (IC) structure and methods of making the same. The interconnect structures include one or more electronic devices formed on a substrate. A first interlevel dielectric (ILD) layer is over the one or more electronic devices. The interconnect structure includes a first trench in the first ILD layer. A tungsten contact fills the first trench and is in electrical contact with the one or more electronic devices. A second ILD layer is over the first ILD layer. The interconnect structure includes a second trench in the second ILD layer. Diffusion barrier liners bound all sides of the second trench except at a surface of the tungsten contact. The interconnect structure includes a copper wire filling the second trench, the copper wire in direct contact with the tungsten contact and with the diffusion barrier liners.
US09761525B1
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to multiple back gate transistor structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a transistor formed over a semiconductor material and an underlying substrate; and multiple isolated contact regions under a body or channel of the transistor, structured to provide a local potential to the body of the transistor at different locations.
US09761524B2
A system for electroless deposition on a substrate is provided, including the following: a chamber; a substrate support configured to receive a substrate having a conductive layer disposed on a top surface of the substrate, the top surface of the substrate having an edge exclusion region and a process region, wherein the substrate support is configured to rotate the substrate; a solution container configured to hold an electroless deposition solution; a dispenser configured to provide a flow of the electroless deposition solution; a controller, the controller configured to direct the flow of the electroless deposition solution toward the edge exclusion region while the substrate is rotated, the flow being directed away from the process region, the electroless deposition solution plates metallic material over the conductive layer at the edge exclusion region, to produce an increased thickness of the metallic material that reduces electrical resistance.
US09761513B2
A method of fabricating a three dimensional integrated circuit comprises forming a redistribution layer on a first side of a packaging component, forming a holding chamber in the redistribution layer, attaching an integrated circuit die on the first side of the packaging component, wherein an interconnect bump of the integrated circuit die is inserted into the holding chamber, applying a reflow process to the integrated circuit die and the packaging component and forming an encapsulation layer on the packaging component.
US09761506B2
Provided is a double-sided cooling structure for a semiconductor device using a low processing temperature and reduced processing time utilizing solid phase diffusion bonding. The fabrication method for this system is provided. The semiconductor device 1 comprising: a mounting substrate 70; a semiconductor chip 10 disposed on the mounting substrate 70 and a semiconductor substrate 26, a source pad electrode SP and a gate pad electrode GP disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate 26, and a drain pad electrode 36 disposed on a back side surface of the semiconductor substrate 26 to be contacted with the mounting substrate 70; and a source connector SC disposed on the source pad electrode SP. The mounting substrate 70 and the drain pad electrode 36 are bonded by using solid phase diffusion bonding.
US09761505B2
A packaged assembly is disclosed, including thermal interface material dispensed on an organic package and methods of manufacturing. The method includes dispensing a thermal interface material (TIM) on an electronic assembly. The method further includes removing volatile species of the TIM, prior to lid placement on the electronic assembly. The method further includes placing the lid on the TIM, over the electronic assembly. The method further includes pressing the lid onto the electronic assembly.
US09761501B2
Improvement in yield of a semiconductor device is obtained. In addition, increase in service life of a socket terminal is obtained. A projecting portion PJ1 and a projecting portion PJ2 are provided in an end portion PU of a socket terminal STE1. Thus, it is possible to enable contact between a lead and the socket terminal STE in which a large current is caused to flow, at two points by a contact using the projecting portion PJ1 and by a contact using the projecting portion PJ2, for example. As a result, the current flowing from the socket terminal STE1 to the lead flows by being dispersed into a path flowing in the projecting portion PJ1 and a path flowing in the projecting portion PJ2. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress increase of temperature of a contact portion between the socket terminal STE1 and the lead even in a case where the large current is caused to flow between the socket terminal STE1 and the lead.
US09761499B2
A FinFET comprises a hybrid substrate having a top wafer of (100) silicon, a handle wafer of (110) silicon, and a buried oxide layer between the top wafer and the handle wafer; a first set of fins disposed in the top wafer and oriented in a <110> direction of the (100) silicon; and a second set of fins disposed in the handle wafer and oriented in a <112> direction of the (110) silicon. The first set of fins and the second set of fins are aligned.
US09761490B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a device structure having a floating gate, control gate, sidewall spacers, and source and drain regions. The device structure includes contact-hole regions and non-contact-hole regions. The method also includes forming a photo resist layer overlying the contact hole regions in the device structure and exposing the non-contact-hole regions, and forming a protective layer overlying the sacrificial layer and the exposed non-contact-hole regions. Next, an interlayer dielectric layer overlying the protective layer, and CMP (chemical mechanical polishing) is used to remove the inter-layer dielectric layer and the protective layer from above the photo resist. The photo resist layer is then removed from the contact-hole regions to expose contact holes.
US09761478B2
A substrate transport apparatus including a frame, an upper arm rotatably mounted to the frame about a shoulder axis, a forearm rotatably mounted to the upper arm about an elbow axis where the forearm includes stacked forearm sections dependent from the upper arm through a common joint, and independent stacked end effectors rotatably mounted to the forearm, the forearm being common to the independent stacked end effectors, wherein at least one end effector is mounted to the stacked forearm sections at a wrist axis, where the forearm is configured such that spacing between the independent stacked end effectors mounted to the stacked forearm sections is decoupled from a height build up between end effectors accommodating pass through instrumentation.
US09761468B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a wafer taping device is provided. The wafer taping device includes a tape delivering along a first direction. The wafer taping device also includes a wafer mount unit disposed below the tape. The wafer mount unit has an upper surface for supporting a wafer and having a notch for allowing a cut mark of the wafer to align with it. The notch is staggered with a second direction in the upper surface, and the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. In addition, the wafer taping device includes a laminating roller disposed above the wafer mount unit and having a long axis elongated in the second direction. The laminating roller is configured to reciprocate along the first direction for pressing the tape to the wafer.
US09761467B2
A method and system for improved planar deprocessing of semiconductor devices using a focused ion beam system. The method comprises defining a target area to be removed, the target area including at least a portion of a mixed copper and dielectric layer of a semiconductor device; directing a precursor gas toward the target area; and directing a focused ion beam toward the target area in the presence of the precursor gas, thereby removing at least a portion of a first mixed copper and dielectric layer and producing a uniformly smooth floor in the milled target area. The precursor gas causes the focused ion beam to mill the copper at substantially the same rate as the dielectric. In a preferred embodiment, the precursor gas comprises methyl nitroacetate. In alternative embodiments, the precursor gas is methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, ethyl nitroacetate, propyl acetate, propyl nitroacetate, nitro ethyl acetate, methyl methoxyacetate, or methoxy acetylchloride.
US09761442B2
A method for forming a water-soluble resin film on a wafer having a plurality of devices thereon. The wafer is supported through an adhesive tape to an annular frame. The method includes removing the resin scattered onto the surface of the frame in forming the film on the wafer held on a spinner table, and this step further includes: rotating the spinner table; positioning a water nozzle above the frame held on the spinner table, supplying water from the nozzle to the frame, positioning an air nozzle adjacent to the water nozzle on the downstream side thereof in the rotational direction of the spinner table, and supplying air from the air nozzle against the flow of the water on the frame, whereby the water is forced to temporarily stay on the surface of the frame by the air supplied and is then expelled outward of the frame.
US09761434B1
A lamp (10) is formed of a lamp capsule (1) sealed with a press seal (2) penetrated by electrical lead-ins (12), the lamp (1) being received in an insulating base (16) that has external electrical pins (18). Power leads (20) interconnect respective capsule lead-ins (12) and base pins (18). Power leads (20) are formed of stranded wire having a plurality of intertwined strands.
US09761432B2
A dwell time calculation table (51a) showing a correspondence relation between a CID gas pressure inside a collision cell (31) and a dwell time for data collection is stored in a processing condition parameter memory (51) of a controller (50). In the table (51a), as the CID gas pressure becomes higher, the dwell time becomes longer. When an instruction to execute an MRM measurement mode is given, the controller (50) determines the dwell time in accordance with the currently set CID gas pressure, and controls a data collector (41) to accumulate detection signals from an ion detector (34) during the determined dwell time and obtain the accumulated value. If the CID gas pressure inside the collision cell (31) is high, a decrease in ion speed becomes remarkable, and the rising of the ion intensity becomes slow. However, if the dwell time becomes long, influences of the slow rising on the accumulated value are relatively reduced, and the accuracy of the accumulated value is enhanced. Accordingly, the quantitative accuracy can be enhanced.
US09761428B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a dual channel Solvent Assisted Inlet Ionization (“SAII”) interface.
US09761425B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed wherein highly charged fragment ions resulting from Electron Transfer Dissociation fragmentation of parent ions are reduced in charge state within a Proton Transfer Reaction cell by reacting the fragment ions with a neutral superbase reagent gas such as Octahydropyrimidolazepine.
US09761421B2
Provided are an indium cylindrical sputtering target capable of providing good film thickness distribution and a method for production thereof. The indium cylindrical target comprises crystal grains whose average size is 1 mm to 20 mm over its surface to be sputtered. The method for manufacturing the indium cylindrical target includes the steps of: casting a semi-finished product of an indium cylindrical target integrated with a backing tube; and subjecting the semi-finished product to plastic working in its radial direction, wherein the plastic working is performed with a total thickness reduction rate of at least 10% over its longitudinal direction.
US09761418B2
A plasma processing apparatus for exciting a processing gas by a microwave, includes a focus ring extending in an annular shape, a first tubular member being wrapped around a central axis to extend along an outer periphery of the lower electrode below the focus ring, an annular member made of a dielectric material provided between the focus ring and the first tubular member a second tubular member extending along an outer periphery of the first tubular member and a choke portion suppressing a microwave propagating through the first tubular member via the focus ring and the annular member. And the choke portion protrudes outward in a diametrical direction of the first tubular from the outer periphery of the first tubular member and extends in an annular shape along the periphery of the first tubular member, the choke portion is covered by the second tubular member.
US09761416B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally provide various apparatus and methods for reducing particles in a semiconductor processing chamber. One embodiment of present disclosure provides a vacuum screen assembly disposed over a vacuum port to prevent particles generated by the vacuum pump from entering substrate processing regions. Another embodiment of the present disclosure provides a perforated chamber liner around a processing region of the substrate. Another embodiment of the present disclosure provides a gas distributing chamber liner for distributing a cleaning gas around the substrate support under the substrate supporting surface.
US09761402B2
A fuse includes a fuse element and a fuse body. A portion of the fuse element is housed in a fuse body. The fuse element includes a first terminal and a second terminal disposed outside of the fuse body. The first terminal and the second terminal electrically connects the fuse element to a circuit to be protected and a power source. A first endbell and a second endbell is coupled to the fuse element. A predetermined amount of arc quenching material is disposed within the fuse body. The arc quenching material contacts at least a portion of the fuse element. The predetermined amount of the arc quenching material is less than a total volume size of the fuse tube. The arc quenching material is compacted. A remaining air gap in the fuse tube is filled with a liquid adhesive and cured to a solid state.
US09761397B1
An electrical relay device includes a housing extending between a closed end and an open end defining a chamber. The closed end of the housing faces and is mounted to a circuit board. A driver is received in the chamber and is electrically connected to a relay power source. The driver includes a coil and coil terminals terminated to the circuit board. A switch member is positioned in the chamber and moves between a first position and a second position. The switch member includes a movable relay contact. A cover is coupled to the housing at the open end. The cover holds the coil with the movable relay contact positioned between the coil and the closed end of the housing facing the circuit board.
US09761390B2
An input device includes a first switch unit, a second switch unit, and a third switch unit that switch a combination of a first fixed contact and a second fixed contact, a combination of the second fixed contact and a third fixed contact, and a combination of the third fixed contact and a fourth fixed contact between a contact state and a separation state using a first movable contact, a second movable contact, and a third movable contact that move integrally.
US09761383B2
A switch interlock device for controlling certain switching operations within a switch panel, the switch interlock device including a bracket and an interlock tripping mechanism. The bracket being configured to be coupled to a housing of the switch panel and comprising a face member coupled with a spanning member extending a depth of the housing, the spanning member operably coupled to a back wall of the housing. The interlock tripping mechanism coupled to the face member of the bracket and positioned between a pair of horizontally adjacent switches housed within the housing of the switch panel, the interlock tripping mechanism configured to: restrict the pair of horizontally adjacent switches from both being in an ON position at the same time; and switch one of the pair of horizontally adjacent switches to an OFF position when the other of the pair of horizontally adjacent switches is switched to the ON position.
US09761377B2
An electrically conductive polymer composition has high electrical conductivity, excellent water resistance, high density, and excellent smoothness. Also disclosed is a solid electrolyte capacitor which is prevented from the reduction in electrical conductivity, has low ESR, and also has excellent reliability. Further disclosed is a method for producing the solid electrolyte capacitor. The electrically conductive polymer composition is produced by removing a dispersion medium from an electrically conductive polymer suspension, wherein the electrically conductive polymer suspension includes: an electrically conductive polymer material including a dopant composed of a polyacid or a salt thereof and an electrically conductive polymer; at least one compound (A) selected from erythritol, xylitol and pentaerythritol; and the dispersion medium.
US09761375B2
A method of assembling a capacitor assembly comprises positioning a plurality of capacitors in respective sockets formed in a non-conductive matrix by vibrating the plurality of capacitors and disposing the array of capacitors and the non-conductive matrix between a positive terminal plate and a negative terminal plate. The capacitors are electrically coupled with the positive terminal plate and the negative terminal plate and mechanically secured between the positive terminal plate and the negative terminal plate. The array of capacitors includes a void cooperating with a first opening in the positive plate and a second opening in the negative plate to form a passage. The void includes a location where at least one capacitor is omitted from the array.
US09761372B2
The invention relates to a wireless power connector and a wireless power connector system including at least one wireless power connector for contactlessly receiving electric power from a second connector and for contactlessly supplying electric power to a third connector. In order to enable the wireless power connector to inductively forward electric power received from the second connector, the invention suggests providing a first and a second mating end respectively connectable to the second and the third connector and a magnetic core extending between the first and the second mating end. A coil is wound around the magnetic core and configured to output, as an alternating current, at least parts of the electric power received from the second connector. The magnetic core interconnects the first and the second mating end such that, in a connected state, the magnetic core inductively forwards electric power to the third connector.
US09761371B2
The present invention relates to a coil type unit for wireless power transmission, a wireless power transmission device, an electronic device, and a manufacturing method of a coil type unit for wireless power transmission. A coil type unit for wireless power transmission according to the present invention includes a coil pattern in the form of a wiring pattern; a magnetic portion having the coil pattern attached to one surface thereof; and an adhesive portion interposed between the magnetic portion and the coil pattern to bond the magnetic portion and the coil pattern, wherein the magnetic portion is formed by laminating one or more conductive sheets with one or more magnetic sheets and integrally firing the laminated sheets, and the magnetic portion has conductive holes in the position, where both ends of the coil pattern are disposed, to electrically connect the both ends of the coil pattern and the conductive sheet.
US09761369B2
A coil has multiple coil sections connected to each other and each coil section includes a body portion and at least one direct or protrusive connecting portion disposed at one end of the body portion. Coil sections form at least one spiral path around the central axis of the coil, and on the projection of the coil along the central axis. The protrusive connecting portions protrude out of the path location of the direct connecting portions. Two connected coil sections form only one overlapped surface at the coupled parts of the direct or protrusive connecting portions. Regarding to the body portions in the same spiral path, a first end of one body portion is indirectly connected and disposed adjacent to a second end of another body portion. The second end has one surface with a virtual extension reaching the first end.
US09761367B2
Multiplexing circuitry is disclosed that includes filtering circuitry, which provides a first transfer function between a common port and a first port and a second transfer function between the common port and a second port. The first transfer function and second transfer function provide a first passband and a second passband, respectively. The first transfer function also has a stopband provided within the second passband of the second transfer function due to the filtering circuitry including a first parallel resonant circuit provided in series in a first filter path being weakly coupled to a second parallel resonant provided in shunt with respect to a second filter path. The weak coupling between the first parallel resonant circuit and the second parallel resonant circuit thus naturally provides a stopband in the first transfer function within the second passband of the second transfer function.
US09761358B2
A method for producing a nanocrystalline rare earth magnet having a grain and a grain boundary phase includes: quenching a melt of a rare earth magnet composition to form a quenched thin ribbon having a nanocrystalline structure; sintering the quenched thin ribbon to obtain a sintered body; heat treating the sintered body at a temperature which is higher than a lowest temperature in a first temperature range where the grain boundary phase diffuses or flows, and which is lower than a lowest temperature in a second temperature range where the grain becomes coarse; and quenching the heat treated sintered body to 200° C. or less at a cooling speed of 50° C./min or more.
US09761357B2
According to one embodiment, a multi-layer magnetic nanoparticle includes a core; a first magnetic layer deposited on a surface of the core; and a second magnetic layer deposited on a surface of the first magnetic layer, where the core, the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer comprise different magnetic anisotropies and/or saturation magnetizations.
US09761356B2
A varistor device includes a main body, a conductive area, a specific-melting-point metallic pin, and an elastic unit. The main body has a first surface, and the conductive area is located at the first surface. The specific-melting-point metallic pin has a first section and a second section. The first section and the second section are one-piece formed. The first section is fixedly disposed on the conductive area. The second section has a specific melting point such that the second section melts when a current flows between the first surface and the second section so as to expose the second section to a temperature greater than the specific melting point. The elastic unit has an end connected to the second section, and the elastic unit provides an elastic force to the second section to break the second section so as to cut off the current when the second section melts.
US09761349B2
The present invention provides an excellent electrically conductive paste which is applicable or printable and stretchable and which ca realize an electrically conductive membrane having high electrical conductivity. An electrically conductive paste wherein a conductive, filler (B) is uniformly dispersed in a resin (A) characterized in that the resin (A) is a rubber (A1) containing sulfur atom and/or a rubber (A2) containing nitrile group, and that the conductive filler (B) is metal powder (B1) having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 μm and a conductive material (B2) having a group selected from mercapto group, amino group and nitrite group on its surface and having an aspect ratio of 10 to 10,000. Instead of having said group on the surface, the conductive filler (B) may be subjected to a surface treatment with a rubber containing sulfide bond and/or nitrite group. Also, the conductive filler (B) may be metal nanowire.
US09761348B2
The present invention is directed to a conductive paste used for solar cell electrodes comprising, (i) 60 wt % to 95 wt % of a conductive powder, based on the total weight of the conductive paste, (ii) 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % of a lead-tellurium-oxide powder, based on the total weight of the conductive paste, comprising 20 wt % to 60 wt % of PbO and 20 wt % to 60 wt % of TeO2, based on the total weight of the lead-tellurium-oxide powder, (iii) 3 wt % to 38 wt % of an organic medium, based on the total weight of the conductive paste, and (iv) 0.01 wt % to 5.0 wt % of lithium oxide powder selected from the group consisting of LiMnO3, Li2WO4, Li2CO3, Li2TiO3, Li4Ti5O12, Li2MoO4 and a mixture thereof, based on the total weight of the conductive paste.
US09761344B2
Disclosed herein are a core-shell nano particle for formation of a transparent conductive film, a manufacturing method of the core-shell nano particle, and a manufacturing method of a transparent conductive film using the core-shell nano particle and, more particularly, a core-shell structured nano particle consisting of a core including indium or indium oxide and a shell including tin, a manufacturing method of the core-shell structured nano particle, and a manufacturing method of a transparent conductive film including (i) dispersing a core-shell structured nano particle into a solvent to manufacture a coating liquid, (ii) applying the coating liquid onto a substrate to form a coating layer, (iii) drying the coating layer, and (iv) performing an annealing process on the coating layer.
US09761328B2
A semiconductor system may include a controller and a semiconductor device. The controller may output command/address signals. The semiconductor device may generate a plurality of control codes from the command/address signals in a test mode according to a combination of the command/address signals. The semiconductor device may output a first output datum generated by serializing the plurality of control codes, and the first output datum, through a single pad.
US09761325B1
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory, a memory interface that performs programming and reading out with respect to the non -volatile memory, a code processor that generates a code word by encoding; and a controller that sets a threshold -voltage read level for determining whether a value of each bit in a received word read out from the non-volatile memory is “0” or “1”. A difference between the number of bits which have value equals “0” and the number of bits which have value equals “1” in the code word depends on a code rate of the encoding. The controller obtains the threshold-voltage read level based on the code rate.
US09761320B1
A memory device and associated techniques for reducing read disturb of memory cells during the last phase of a sensing operation when all voltage signals are ramped down to a steady state voltage. In one aspect, the voltages of the source side word line, WL0, and an adjacent dummy word line, WLDS1, are ramped down after the voltages of remaining word lines are ramped down. This can occur regardless of whether WL0 is the selected word line which is programmed or read. The technique can be applied after the sensing which occurs in a read or program-verify operation. Another option involves elevating the voltage of the selected word line so that all word lines are ramped down from the same level, such as a read pass level. The techniques are particularly useful when the memory device includes an interface in the channel between epitaxial silicon and polysilicon.
US09761305B2
One embodiment describes a quantum memory system. The system includes an array controller that comprises a plurality of flux pumps configured to provide write currents in a write operation and read currents in a read operation with respect to a plurality of quantum memory cells, the array controller being configured to control timing associated with the write operation and the read operation in response to memory request signals based on application of the write currents and the read currents and based on recharging flux associated with the plurality of flux pumps.
US09761300B1
The present disclosure includes data shift apparatuses and methods. An example apparatus includes a memory device. The example memory device includes an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array via a plurality of sense lines. A first shared input/output (I/O) line is configured to selectably couple a first subset of the plurality of sense lines and a second shared I/O line is configured to selectably couple a second subset of the plurality of sense lines. A shift element is configured to selectably couple the first shared I/O line to the second shared I/O line to enable a data shift operation. A controller is configured to direct selectable coupling of the array, the sensing circuitry, and the shift element to enable a shift of a data value from the first shared I/O line to the second shared I/O line.
US09761299B2
An interface circuit provided in a semiconductor device supplies an operation clock to an external memory device based on a clock signal (CK) and receives a data signal (DQ) and a strobe signal (DQS) from the external memory device. The interface circuit includes a delay circuit delaying the received strobe signal (DQS). The delay circuit includes a first adjustment circuit and a second adjustment circuit connected in series with the first adjustment circuit. The first adjustment circuit is capable of adjusting a delay amount of the strobe signal (DQS) in a plurality of steps in accordance with the set frequency of the clock signal (CK). The second adjustment circuit is capable of adjusting the delay amount of the strobe signal (DQS) with a higher precision than the first adjustment circuit.
US09761295B2
An MTP (Many Times Programmable) memory cell for integrated circuit memory arrays is described. The cell includes an MTP device and a thyristor interconnected so that the MTP device triggers the thyristor to turn on during a Read or Verify operation. The difference in threshold voltages between a data memory cell and a reference memory cell is used to determine the information in the data memory cell. Different memory cell structures may be constructed for different memory array requirements.
US09761291B2
A nonvolatile memory device may include a plurality of cell strings including a plurality of memory cells serially coupled to one another; a plurality of bit lines coupled to a corresponding cell string of the plurality of cell strings; a plurality of page buffers each including a plurality of latches and coupled to a corresponding bit line of the plurality of bit lines; a first control circuit suitable for controlling the plurality of latches to perform an operation corresponding to an activated command signal of a plurality of command signals in an access operation; and a second control circuit suitable for activating one or more of the plurality of command signals, while controlling operations of the plurality of cell strings and the plurality of bit lines in the access operation.
US09761283B2
A memory circuit is provided, including at least one bit cell configured to store data and having a first terminal and a second terminal, one of the terminals being coupled to a bit-line; at least one current switch connected to the bit-line and connected to a current source and being configured to selectively provide at least a read current to the bit cell; and a sense amplifier having at least one input connected to a sensing node on the bit-line, wherein the sensing node is disposed between the bit cell and the at least one current switch.
US09761281B2
To provide a semiconductor device having a novel configuration, in which a malfunction and power consumption are reduced. A data holding circuit which includes a flipflop including first and second latch circuits and a shadow register including a nonvolatile memory portion; and a control signal generation circuit which generates a first control signal supplied to the first latch circuit and a second control signal supplied to the second latch circuit are included. The shadow register is a circuit which controls data saving or data restoring between the first and second latch circuits on the basis of a saving control signal or a restore control signal. The control signal generation circuit is a circuit which generates the first and second control signals at L level in a period during which data is saved or restored, on the basis of a clock signal, the saving control signal, and the restore control signal.
US09761274B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for controlling the playback and recording of television programming containing interactive applications. In one example, a media content item is played for presentation to the user. An interactive application associated with the media content item is available for interaction by a user during the playing of the media content item. During the playing of the media content item, a first indication that the user is interacting with the interactive application is received. In response to the first indication, the playing of the media content item is suspended. During the suspending of the playing of the media content item, a second indication that the user has stopped interacting with the interactive application is received. In response to the second indication, the playing of the media content item is resumed.
US09761272B1
A method according to one embodiment includes instructing a drive to detect a written signal burst on a magnetic tape and stop movement of the tape in response to detecting the written signal burst. A search for a defect is conducted in a location proximate to the written signal burst. An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a plurality of detector structures positioned in an array. Each of the detector structures includes a pair of conductive layers separated by an insulating material. A write transducer is aligned with each of the detector structures. A controller is configured to cause one of the write transducers to write a signal burst in response to the associated detector structure encountering a defect.
US09761270B1
A data storage device may have increased signal-to-noise ratio contact detection by employing a transducing head associated with a data storage medium each connected to a controller. The transducing head can have an alternating current heater excited to a first frequency for a first revolution of the data storage medium and to a different second frequency for a second revolution of the data storage medium. The second frequency may produce lateral transducing head motion as a result of physical contact of the transducing head with the data storage medium. The controller can issue a contact status in response to comparing a first plurality of position error signals logged during the first frequency to a second plurality of position error signals logged during the second frequency.
US09761267B2
According to one embodiment, a system for processing data includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to individually set, for each of one or more range-constrained finite impulse response (FIR) filter taps configured for use in a FIR filter, a predetermined range of values suitable for controlling an equalizer response. The logic is also configured to pass data through the equalizer comprising the FIR filter to obtain equalized data. Each of the one or more range-constrained FIR filter taps are individually adaptive within its predetermined range of values. Also, the data is read from a magnetic storage medium.
US09761262B2
The present invention relates to a device for magnetic recording that includes a storage medium having a media surface. The media surface has a plurality of lands and recesses between the lands. A polymer layer fills the recesses so that the media surface is substantially planar.
US09761260B1
Sliders that include a slider body having an outer side edge, an inner side edge, a trailing edge and a leading edge, and a base; a trailing edge set of features positioned towards the trailing edge of the slider body, the trailing edge set of features having air bearing surfaces, the air bearing surfaces being above the base of the slider body; a leading edge set of features positioned towards the leading edge of the slider body; a gap positioned between the trailing edge set of features and the leading edge set of features, the gap having a gap surface, the gap surface substantially coplanar with the base of the slider body; and a first gap feature and a second gap feature distributed evenly within the gap from the inner side edge to the outer side edge, the first and second gap features each having upper surfaces, the upper surfaces of the first and second gap features being above the base of the slider body but below the air bearing surface of the trailing edge features.
US09761250B1
A record player includes a base, a platter, a tonearm assembly and a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit is secured on the base, and includes a light emitter, an image capturing module and a processing module. The light emitter can emit light toward the platter or an acoustical record disposed on the platter. The image capturing module can receive the light reflected by the platter or the acoustical record, and capture images of the platter or the acoustical record. The processing module can receive the images from the image capturing module, and determine a current rotating speed of the platter or the acoustical record by analyzing and comparing the images captured by the image capturing module at successive time points.
US09761234B2
A method performed in an audio decoder for reconstructing an original audio signal having a lowband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes receiving an encoded audio signal and extracting reconstruction parameters from the encoded audio signal. The method further includes decoding the encoded audio signal with a core audio decoder to obtain a decoded lowband portion and regenerating the highband portion based at least in part on a cross over frequency and the decoded lowband portion to obtain a regenerated highband portion. The method also includes creating a synthetic sinusoid with a level based at least in part on a spectral envelope value for the particular subband and a noise floor value for the particular subband and adding the synthetic sinusoid to the regenerated highband portion in the particular frequency band specified by the location information. Finally, the method includes combining the lowband portion and the regenerated highband portion to obtain a full bandwidth audio signal.
US09761232B2
A multi-decoding method, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of bitstreams, dividing decoding modules for decoding the plurality of bitstreams according to a data amount of an instruction cache, and cross-decoding the plurality of bitstreams using each of the divided decoding modules.
US09761229B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for grouping audio objects into clusters are described.
US09761218B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for intelligent caching of concatenative speech units for use in speech synthesis. A system configured to practice the method can identify, in a local cache of text-to-speech units for a text-to-speech voice an absent text-to-speech unit which is not in the local cache. The system can request from a server the absent text-to-speech unit. The system can then synthesize speech using the text-to-speech units and a received text-to-speech unit from the server.
US09761207B2
A musical instrument carrier includes a shoulder rest member that is abutted on the shoulders of a performer and an abdomen rest member that is provided separately from the shoulder rest member, that includes a portion coupled to the shoulder rest member, and that is abutted on the abdomen of the performer, in which coupling between the shoulder rest member and the abdomen rest member is achieved by plate-like members having a curved portion or a bent portion being overlapped and affixed in a state of making surface contact, and by changing the position at which the curved portions or bent portions overlap, it is possible to change the angle of the abdomen rest member with respect to the shoulder rest member.
US09761202B2
This application relates to performing seamless video transitions at a display panel when a video stream changes resolution and/or scale. The video stream can be provided by a host device to a timing controller (TCON). When a parameter of the video stream is going to change, the host device can cause the TCON to enter a panel self refresh (PSR) mode. During the PSR mode, the TCON can drive the display panel using an image frame stored in a memory of the TCON. Additionally, during the PSR mode, the host device can adjust a scaler and/or resolution associated with the TCON. Once the host device has finished adjusting the TCON, the TCON can exit the PSR mode and the host device can provide a new data stream to the TCON without any apparent display artifacts being output by the display panel.
US09761193B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a gate line, a data line, and a reference voltage line to which a common voltage is applied; a data driver connected to the data line and configured to apply a data voltage to the data line; a gate driver connected to the gate line and configured to apply a gate voltage to the gate line; a reference voltage generator connected to the reference voltage line and configured to apply a reference voltage to the reference voltage line; and a signal controller configured to control the data driver, the gate driver, and the reference voltage generator, and output a signal to the reference voltage generator for changing the reference voltage applied to the pixels, wherein the reference voltage is changed according to a gray-level value of an image data.
US09761175B2
A shift register is proposed, comprising: a first control module connected to an ON voltage access terminal and a first node, for controlling whether to output an ON voltage and a first control signal to the first node; a second control module connected to the ON voltage access terminal, a second node and an output terminal, for controlling whether to output the ON voltage and a voltage of the output terminal to the second node; an output module connected to the first node, the second node, the output terminal, an OFF voltage access terminal, and the ON voltage access terminal, for inputting the ON or OFF voltage to the output terminal according to voltages of the first and second nodes; and an input module connected to an input terminal, for controlling whether to input a signal of the input terminal to the first and second control modules.
US09761173B2
The present invention provides an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit utilizes a 6T2C structure, comprising a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth and a sixth thin film transistors (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6), a first, a second capacitors (C1, C2) and an organic light emitting diode (OLED), and the first thin film transistor (T1) is a drive thin film transistor, and the fifth thin film transistor (T5) is a switch thin film transistor, and the first capacitor (C1) is a coupling capacitor, and the second capacitor (C2) is a storage capacitor; and a first control signal (G1), a second control signal (G2) and a third control signal (G3) are involved, and the three are combined with one another and correspond to a data signal writing stage (1), a whole compensation stage (2), a discharging stage (3) and a light emitting stage (4) one after another. The threshold voltage changes of the drive thin film transistor and the organic light emitting diode can be effectively compensated to make the display brightness of the AMOLED more even and to raise the display quality.
US09761170B2
A method and system of compensating for localized phenomena in a display is disclosed. The display includes an array of pixels and a control system for adjusting content data signals for the array of pixels to compensate for aging of the pixels in the array. The control system measures a parameter of at least one of the pixels in the array via a read input of the at least one of the pixels. The controller determines the effect of the localized phenomena on the pixel using the parameter. A characteristic is measured for at least one of the pixels in the array via the read input of the at least one of the pixels. The measured characteristic is adjusted to reduce the effect of the localized phenomena. An adjusted aging compensation value based on the adjusted measured characteristic is calculated by the controller. The aging compensation value is applied to a data content signal to at least one of the pixels.
US09761163B2
An image display apparatus includes a laser light source unit configured to output a luminous flux, a scanning mirror unit configured to reflect the luminous flux by reciprocating driving in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, a light source driving unit configured to drive the light source unit based on image data, a bit shift processing unit configured to adjust a brightness value of a pixel included in the image date, and a dimming processing unit configured to perform control in such a manner that a brightness value of a pixel included in the image data is not displayed as zero with respect to the image data subjected to dimming processing by the bit shift processing unit according to a predetermined rule.
US09761156B2
A bow label for a beverage container is disclosed herein. The bow label may include a first sheet at least partially attached to the beverage container. The bow label also may include a second sheet at least partially attached to the first sheet. The first sheet and the second sheet may include a first configuration and a second configuration. In addition, the bow label may include a pull cord disposed between and at least partially attached to the first sheet and the second sheet. In this manner, movement of the pull cord may move the first sheet and the second sheet between the first configuration and the second configuration. In some instances, the second configuration may include a bow-like shape.
US09761155B2
A method for simulating an effect of surface temperature of an electronic device on skin of a human being when the electronic device is touched by the human being. The method comprises applying heat to a material within a cavity of a body, the body comprising a first end, a second end, an outer surface, and an inner surface that defines the cavity extending between the first end and the second end. The outer surface and the material have heat and thermal conductivity properties similar to human skin. The method comprises sensing a temperature of the material, and sensing a temperature of at least a portion of the outer surface when the portion of the outer surface contacts the electronic device.
US09761153B2
A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
US09761149B2
A presenter selection support apparatus including: a display unit configured to display one or more opinions input from each of a plurality of terminals; a selection unit configured to select any one of opinions that belongs to a certain group based on a predetermined criterion when the certain group among at least one group formed by being classified from opinions displayed in the display unit is designated; and an instruction unit configured to instruct a terminal, in which an opinion other than the selected opinion is input, to display a screen in which each of a plurality of items related to relevancy to the selected opinion is selectable, wherein the predetermined criterion is a criterion used to specify any one terminal based on the number of times that one item among the plurality of items is selected in the past in each of the plurality of terminals.
US09761148B2
Methods and systems are provided for enhancing the functionality of an airborne separation assurance system (ASAS) by modifying it to cooperate with a required time of arrival (RTA) functionality. The system comprises an autopilot configured to execute a trajectory of an aircraft and a flight management system (FMS) in operable communication with the autopilot. The FMS includes a required time of arrival (RTA) system that is configured to determine an RTA aircraft trajectory of the aircraft based on a required time of arrival of the aircraft at a waypoint along the flight plan. The system also includes an airborne separation assurance system (ASAS) in operable communication with the RTA and is configured to determine a spacing trajectory based on a spacing interval from a first reference aircraft.
US09761146B2
A driving support apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The apparatus causes an alarm unit to issue an alarm based on a lane marking of an own lane in which an own vehicle runs. The apparatus includes a leading vehicle detection section that determines a leading vehicle running in the own lane, a crossing over determination section that determines whether or not the leading vehicle has crossed over the lane marking present at an opposite side of the target, when a target is present at a left side or a right side of the leading vehicle in the own lane, and an alarm inhibition section that inhibits the alarm based on a result of the determination whether or not the leading vehicle has crossed over the lane marking present at the opposite side of the target.
US09761144B2
A mirror reflective element sub-assembly suitable for use for a vehicular exterior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror reflective element, a signal indication module and a mirror back plate attached at the mirror reflective element. The signal indication module attaches to the mirror reflective element via an aperture of the back plate and has a light source that is activatable to emit light. The signal indication module includes a housing that substantially encases the light source. The signal indication module includes an inner surface at an angle relative to the mirror reflective element. The signal indication module includes a baffle disposed at the inner surface and at least partially in front of the light source, the baffle partially but not fully occluding light emitted by the light source to reduce a bright spot at the reflective element when viewed when the light source is activated.
US09761143B2
Collision avoidance systems and methods. In some embodiments the collision avoidance systems may include a magnetic field generator for generating a low frequency oscillating magnetic field, and a magnetic field detector, wherein the system is configured to determine a relative speed between the magnetic field generator and the detector using magnetic speed pings generated by the magnetic field generator. In other embodiments, the methods may include generating a low frequency oscillating magnetic field from a magnetic field generator, detecting the magnetic field from a magnetic field detector, and determining a relative speed between the magnetic field generator and the detector using magnetic speed pings generated by the magnetic field generator.
US09761126B2
One apparatus embodiment includes an electronic assembly, equipped to sense one or more changes in an environmental condition. The assembly includes a logic circuit coupled to: one or more environmental sensors, memory that provides data storage, and a wireless communicator. The logic circuit is configured to perform time measurement, perform environmental measurement with the one or more environmental sensors, store time-stamped environmental data in the memory, and communicate with particular other electronic assemblies, equipped to sense one or more changes in an environmental condition, via the wireless communicator. The logic circuit is also coupled to a power source that provides power to at least one of the logic circuit and the wireless communicator.
US09761117B2
Methods to perform an operation comprising receiving, based on a unique identifier of an identification device in a room, clinical information of a first patient present in the room, receiving a unique identifier from an identification device associated with a garment worn by a health care professional in the room, receiving a history of the garment based on the unique identifier, and upon determining that the history of the garment violates a predefined rule, outputting a notification of the violation.
US09761091B2
In an example embodiment, there is described herein an method comprising a cassette operable to store documents, the cassette having an external surface, an electrophoretic display coupled with the external surface, and a wireless interface coupled with the cassette and operably coupled with the electrophoretic display. In particular embodiments, the electrophoretic display is operable to receive data representative of configuration from a wireless device in data communication with the wireless interface.
US09761088B2
The present invention generally relates to gaming systems for playing ball games where a hall is launched into a gaming area. More particularly, the present invention relates to a multiplayer gaming system comprising a ball game device having a launching mechanism for launching a ball into a gaming area to start a game, the gaming system further comprising a start control means for controlling start of the launching mechanism and a plurality of gaming terminals for a plurality of players, said gaming terminals including an input device for inputting a prediction and/or a bet for the outcome of a game. In accordance with the present invention, the input device of each gaming terminal includes start signal input means for inputting a start signal for starting the launching mechanism, wherein the start control means of the gaming system includes a random signal generator for randomly selecting one of the plurality of gaming terminals for each game to generate the start signal and a display signal generator for generating a display signal indicative of the gaming terminal selected for the generation of the start signal.
US09761083B2
A method for mobile game play includes determining a location of a mobile device from one or more of GPS, NFC, RFID, or Bluetooth. An accuracy value of the location of the mobile device is determined. A region of confidence within which the mobile device is known to be within is determined based on the determined accuracy value. The region of confidence is substantially circular with a center at the determined location and a radius that is proportional in length to the determined accuracy value. An extent to which the region of confidence is within one or more pertinent jurisdictions is determined. Mobile game play is permitted when it is determined that the region of confidence is entirely within the one or more pertinent jurisdictions.
US09761080B2
A pai gow poker game without a house commission is disclosed. After shuffling the cards and determining the order in which players are dealt, the players place wagers on the game outcome. Then, the dealer deals to the player positions and the dealer position. The dealer, either before or after setting the dealer hand, evaluates the dealer cards to determine whether the dealer qualifies. To qualify, the dealer hand must achieve a predetermined rank, such as higher than a king high rank. If the dealer does not qualify, then each player is rewarded at a 1:2 payout rate in relation to his wager. If the dealer does qualify, then the game proceeds according to traditional pai gow play. Payouts to players are made without paying a house commission. Bonus wagers may be placed and rewarded based on bonus events or based on a comparison of the dealt cards to predetermined potential outcomes.
US09761076B2
A turnstile comprising means for dictating a person entering or exiting the lane, a barrier positioned to move between a position blocking a lane and a position where it allows passage through the lane, under control of a motor; means for checking the credentials of a person attempting to pass through the lane and a brake, the turnstile having a mode of operation in which in the event that a user enters an exit side of the lane without presenting a credential, and an authorized person is not detected on the entry side of the lane, the brake is unlocked and the barrier is held in position in a closed mode but is able to be pushed or pulled by the person who has entered from the exit side in order for that person to exit; and the motor assists movement in the pushing or pulling direction by moving the barrier at a controlled speed, less than a speed at which it operates the barrier if the exiting user presents a credential.
US09761072B2
A locking system and method for door and passage un-locking is provided. The system comprises a locking unit adapted to lock and unlock a door, a mounted wireless signal transceiver connected to the locking unit, and a handheld wireless signal transceiver adapted to communicate with the mounted wireless signal transceiver with a patch antenna. The mounted or handheld wireless signal transceiver is adapted to detect the signal strength of the remote wireless signal transceiver, and the locking system further comprises a calculating unit adapted to calculate if the person is on the first or second side of the door based on changes in the detected signal strength. The calculating unit is adapted to determine whether or not to unlock the door on the basis of the detected signal strength and the calculated information related to the person being on the first or second side of the door.
US09761050B2
Provided is an information provision device for a glasses-type terminal, including: a camera; and a controller that is configured to detect a first object from an image that is captured through the camera, to recognize information that is indicated on the detected first object, to recognize a second object associated with the recognized information from the image that is captured through the camera for a predetermined first time starting from a point in time at which the first object is detected, and to store the recognized second object in a storage unit along with the recognized information.
US09761047B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to determining a fit-quality metric for a mask/face combination based upon a calculated dead-space volume between a virtual mask and a virtual face virtually aligned so as to create an integrity seal circumscribing a mouth and nose region. In an illustrative embodiment, an interactive virtual fitting system may receive a three-dimensional (3D) virtual face associated with a person. The system may retrieve 3D models of various respirators selected by user determined criteria. The system may then compute a fit-quality metric for each of the retrieved 3D models. The potential wearer may then be presented with the metrics for review. The potential wearer may select a respirator based upon these computed metrics. A virtual fitting of many respirators may advantageously reduce the time needed for selecting a properly fitting respirator while simultaneously ensuring that the selected respirator may be comfortable and well fitting.
US09761032B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with animating and rendering an avatar are disclosed herein. In embodiments, In embodiments, an apparatus may include an avatar animation engine configured to receive a plurality of facial motion parameters and a plurality of head gestures parameters, respectively associated with a face and a head of a user. The plurality of facial motion parameters may depict facial action movements of the face, and the plurality of head gesture parameters may depict head pose gestures of the head. Further, the avatar animation engine may be configured to drive an avatar model with facial and skeleton animations to animate an avatar, using the facial motion parameters and the head gestures parameters, to replicate a facial expression of the user on the avatar that includes impact of head post rotation of the user. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09761030B2
Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to generate a scene image. In an example, a processor may receive a first rendered object from a first device and may further store the first rendered object in a memory. The first rendered object may be based on object data and may include first attribute data of the object data. The processor may further receive a request from a second device to generate the scene image. The scene image may include an object image of a second rendered object that may be based on the object data and may include second attribute data of the object data. The processor may further compare the second attribute data with the first attribute data to determine a match value. The processor may further determine whether to select the stored first rendered object to generate a scene image based on the match value.
US09761028B2
A method for managing a page, involving: obtaining an electronic document having a main object and multiple parameters defining an effect for the main object; generating a display list for the page having multiple scaled-down graphical primitives corresponding to a scaled-down version of the main object; generating a scaled-down tile having the scaled-down version of the main object by rasterizing the multiple scaled-down graphical primitives; generating an effect tile comprising a scaled-down version of the effect by applying the multiple parameters to the scaled-down tile; rasterizing the effect tile into a framebuffer for the page by up-scaling the effect tile; and outputting the framebuffer for the page.
US09761023B1
The present invention relates to a device (100) for iterative reconstruction of images recorded by at least two imaging methods, the device comprising: an extraction module (10), which is configured to extract a first set of patches from a first image recorded by a first imaging method and to extract a second set of patches from a second image recorded by a second imaging method; a generation module (20), which is configured to generate a set of reference patches based on a merging of a first limited number of atoms for the first set of patches and of a second limited number of atoms for the second set of patches; and a regularization module (30), which is configured to perform a regularization of the first image or the second image by means of the generated set of reference patches.
US09761022B1
A method and corresponding arrangement for reconstructing an image based on spectral image data acquired for at least two different effective energies includes: obtaining a first set of spectral image data related to an object to be imaged and a second set of spectral image data related to a calibration phantom including at least one reference material; performing basis decomposition based on the first set of spectral image data, providing estimated basis images of the object to be imaged with respect to associated basis functions; performing basis decomposition based on the second set of spectral image data, providing calibrated estimates of reference basis coefficients corresponding to the at least one reference material; and determining image values representing the object based on a system model of an imaging system to be emulated, the estimated basis images and their associated basis functions, and the calibrated estimates of reference basis coefficients.
US09761020B2
A nuclear imaging apparatus (8) acquires nuclear imaging data comprising events wherein each event records at least spatial localization information and a timestamp for a nuclear decay event. An event-preserving image reconstruction module (22) reconstructs the nuclear imaging data using an event-preserving reconstruction algorithm to generate an image represented as an event-preserving reconstructed image dataset (ID) comprising for each event the timestamp and at least one spatial voxel assignment. One or more structures are identified in the image and independent motion compensation is performed for each structure. In one approach, an events group is identified corresponding to the structure comprising events assigned to the structure by the event-preserving reconstructed image dataset; a time binning of the events of each events group is optimized based on a motion profile for the structure; time bin images are generated; and the structure is spatially registered in the time bin images.
US09761016B1
A method for automatically generating a three-dimensional (3D) video of a scene by measuring and registering 3D coordinates at a first position and a second position of a 3D measuring device, the 3D video generated by combining two-dimensional images extracted at trajectory points along a trajectory path.
US09761014B2
A method and system for registering pre-operative images and intra-operative images using biomechanical simulations is disclosed. A pre-operative image is initially registered to an intra-operative image by estimating deformations of one or more segmented anatomical structures in the pre-operative image, such as the liver, surrounding tissue, and the abdominal wall, using biomechanical gas insufflation model constrained. The initially registered pre-operative image is then refined using diffeomorphic non-rigid refinement.
US09761009B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for controlling displacement of a location indicator on the display of a controlled computing device in response to movements of a remote controlling object. Various embodiments may further cause the controlled computing device to perform other operations, broadly referred to as command operations, in response to movements of the controlling object. The command operations are distinguishable from the displacement operations. Various embodiments may further distinguish between movement of the controlling object intended to correspond to a displacement operation and movement of the controlling object intended to correspond to a command operation.
US09761003B2
A stereo image depth map generation device that includes a depth calculation module, a first order bilateral filter module and a second order bilateral filter module is provided. The depth calculation module receives a reference image including a plurality of reference pixels and a target image including a plurality of target pixels to generate an initial depth map according to pixel differences of the reference pixels and the target pixels. The first order bilateral filter module receives the initial depth map to perform a first order bilateral filtering calculation according to the initial depth map and the initial depth map itself to generate an averaged depth map. The second order bilateral filter module receives the averaged depth map and the target image to perform a second order bilateral filtering calculation according to the averaged depth map and the target image to generate a refined depth map.
US09760991B2
A system and method for estimating image intensity bias and segmentation tissues is presented. The system and method includes obtaining a first image data set and at least a second image data set, wherein the first and second image data sets are representative of an anatomical region in a subject of interest. Furthermore, the system and method includes generating a baseline bias map by processing the first image data set. The system and method also includes determining a baseline body mask by processing the second image data set. In addition, the system and method includes estimating a bias map corresponding to a sub-region in the anatomical region based on the baseline body mask. Moreover, the system and method includes segmenting one or more tissues in the anatomical region based on the bias map.
US09760987B2
A guiding method includes obtaining data of a first image, detecting with a computer reference image data corresponding to a reference object in the data of the first image, calculating with the computer a first condition based on an appearance of the reference object in the first image, the first condition indicating an operational condition of an imaging apparatus when first image was captured, and for a second image to be captured, outputting guide information that indicates how to adjust the first condition to match a reference condition, the reference condition corresponds to an appearance of the reference object in a reference image captured under the reference condition.
US09760984B2
A control unit for generating a timing signal for an imaging unit in an inspection system in which an image of an inspection target object is captured by the imaging unit while the inspection target object is caused to travel in a predetermined direction includes a traveling distance determination section configured to detect a traveling distance of the inspection target object based on a count value acquired as an integer value from a laser interferometer provided in the inspection system for detecting a traveling distance of the inspection target object, and configured to determine whether the detected traveling distance reaches a threshold, and a timing signal generation section configured to generate a timing signal when it is determined that the detected traveling distance reaches the threshold. The traveling distance determination section executes the determination by using a plurality of values selectively as the threshold.
US09760980B1
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for reducing an amount of moiré pattern exhibited by an image having a halftone pattern. Regions of the image including the halftone pattern may be identified and selectively blurred to reduce the amount of moiré pattern visible to a user. The halftone pattern may be detected using digital wavelets to identify high frequency patterns in the image. The halftone pattern may be blurred using a convolution matrix having a weighted average, and a transition band may be used to reduce an intensity of the blur near the edges of the halftone pattern.
US09760978B1
Missing region prediction techniques are described. In implementations, an image pair is obtained that includes first and second images. The first image is corrupted by removing a region of content, resulting in a corrupted image having a missing region. The corrupted image and the second image of the image pair are then used to generate a training-image pair. Then, based on a plurality of training-image pairs including the generated training-image pair, a model is trained using machine learning. The model can subsequently be used to predict pixel values of pixels within a subsequent missing region of a subsequent image that is not used as part of the training.
US09760973B2
As image source attribution techniques have become significantly sophisticated and are now becoming commonplace, there is a growing need for capabilities to anonymize images and videos. Focusing on the photo response non-uniformity noise pattern based sensor fingerprinting technique, this work evaluates the effectiveness of well-established seam carving method to defend against sensor fingerprint matching. We consider ways in which seam-carving based anonymization can be countered and propose enhancements over conventional seam carving method. Our results show that applying geometrical distortion in addition to seam carving will make counter attack very ineffective both in terms of computational complexity and accuracy.
US09760969B2
A graphic processing system and a method of graphic processing are provided. The graphic processing system has a collector, a plurality of slots, a scheduler, an arbiter and at least an arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The collector is configured to group a plurality of workitems into elementary wavefronts. Each of the elementary wavefronts comprises workitems configured to execute the same kernel code. The scheduler is configured to allocate the elementary wavefronts to the slots. Two or more of the elementary wavefronts exist at one slot to form one of a plurality of macro wavefronts. The arbiter is configured to select one of the macro wavefronts. The ALU is configured to execute workitems of at least an elementary wavefront of the selected macro wavefront and output results of execution of the workitems.
US09760968B2
A method for using a graphics processor by an electronic device for subdividing an input image into multiple sub-regions. For each particular sub-region, a data structure is created that identifies one or more primitives that are visible in each quad of the particular sub-region. Existing coverage of one or more quads is erased based on graphics state (GState) information resulting in surviving coverage for one or more quads.
US09760963B2
Examples of systems and methods for wagering on an artist are disclosed. In one example according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer implemented method for wagering on an artist includes: obtaining, by an electronic exchange of a wagering system server, an initial value for a metric related to the artist from a popularity profiling system server; receiving, by the electronic exchange, a transaction request from a client computer, wherein the transaction request relates to a wager on a future value of the metric related to the artist; generating, by the electronic exchange, a wager metric related to the transaction; and predicting, by a prediction engine of a wagering system server, the future value of the metric related to the artist based on the initial value of the metric and the wager metric.
US09760961B2
The present disclosure is directed towards a citation formatting system and a method for operating an online research service for providing legal citations. The exemplary system provides the citation formatting function in a client-server architecture, receiving citations from a user's client access device over a computer network and communicating citation format suggestions back to the client access device for possible insertion into a document on the access device.
US09760950B2
A method of evaluating trading rules. A plurality of trading rules are received. Each trading rule includes at least one respective condition. Each condition includes at least one respective attribute, at least one respective value, and at least one respective operator that describes a relationship between the at least one respective attribute and the at least one respective value. The conditions of the plurality of trading rules are parsed into a collection of conditions so that the collection of conditions does not include duplicate conditions. A mapping is maintained from the collection of conditions to the plurality of trading rules that allows reconstruction of the plurality of trading rules from the collection of conditions. The conditions in the collection of conditions are evaluated. The rules are evaluated by referencing the evaluated conditions and the mapping.
US09760944B2
According to the embodiments described herein, an inventory exchange client can include one or more processors communicatively coupled to client memory, a client communication module, and a display. The memory can store machine readable instructions. The one or more processors can execute the machine readable instructions to store inventory information on the client memory. The inventory information can include a product instance. Updated inventory information can be received via the client communication module. The product instance can be updated according to the updated inventory information. The dynamic web page can be populated with identification objects. The identification objects can be associated with the inventory information. A product order request can be transmitted to an inventory exchange server. The product order request can be encoded to initiate a product transaction via the inventory exchange server.
US09760940B2
The present invention is an applications gateway that offers multiple functions and features for specific geographic venue locations, while providing easy access to advertising, purchasing, and redemption opportunities for that specific geographic venue location. Venue locations can be stadiums, shopping malls, amusement parks, open air spaces where people can congregate, and/or buildings, which most often require the presence of a concentration of people. The venue location may correlate to the location of the hand-held mobile unit or it may be a remote geographic venue location not near the location of the hand-held mobile unit. Access to the gateway application is through a hand-held mobile unit, which can include a mobile phone, smartphone device, or portable computer having a wireless radio transmission connection. (e.g. iPhone, Droid, iPad, Slate, etc.)
US09760937B2
An information providing apparatus receives wish information relevant to a wish item that a user wishes to have and position information of the user. The information providing apparatus transmits the wish information to a provider device used by a provider who provides items. The information providing apparatus receives provision information relevant to provision of the wish item from the provider device. The information providing apparatus determines whether a moving cost, which is required for moving from a position indicated by the position information to a providing place at which the provider provides the wish item, satisfies a predetermined condition. The information providing apparatus notifies a user device of the provision information corresponding to a provider in which the moving cost satisfies the predetermined condition.
US09760936B1
A method of and system for purchasing an item using contributions from multiple people enables multiple users to contribute towards a gift. Typically the gift is one that each user would not purchase individually, but as a group, each user is able to contribute a portion of the total payment. Preferably, a gift host selects the gift, provides desired information and invited contributors are informed of the gift by email. The invited contributors then provide the necessary information to contribute before a deadline is reached. If the contributions are enough to purchase the gift, the gift is purchased and is given to a gift receiver.
US09760929B2
In one example embodiment, a server includes a receiver configured to receive, from a first device, a request to resell an application installed on the first device and an item purchased using the application; a resale manager configured to: issue, to a second device, a resale price of the application and the item, and receive, from the second device, a request to purchase the application and the item; and a rights manager configured to issue, to a user account authenticated on the second device, rights to use the application and the item.
US09760921B2
A half-graphical user interface (Half-GUI) order processing (HGOP) system with single sign on and its method of use is described. A set of web services may be utilized for order processing in an electronic commerce system which allows a merchant to host a product catalog and shopping cart, but post the transaction to an e-commerce system in one simple transaction. In response to a shopping cart request and utilizing single sign on technology, the HGOP system exposes a single checkout form, prepopulated with customer account information to a merchant web site. If no edits are required, the transaction posts and an order confirmation/thank you page is displayed. If edits are required or a new customer account is required, the customer's account is updated or created.
US09760916B1
One aspect of the concepts presented herein is aggregation and presentation of useful actions for digital media in general and photographs in particular, coupled with federated distribution of this collection of media actions such as printing and storing. In one embodiment, code is provided for use on any website such that media content on supported professional websites, amateur blogs, or even the entire Internet, is presented with an expanded and consistent set of options that the viewing user can exercise. With a minor update to the code for a particular website, website owners can offer a full suite of media actions and immediately begin earning revenue generated from the use of these actions. The code is set such that sites that offer media services over the Internet can obtain instant distribution and additional consumers for their services. The code is, in one embodiment, distributed by a service that makes this all possible by allowing for account management, measurement of usage, reporting, and control of the presentation so that the Internet image interface continues to improve in terms of end user benefit thereby increasing revenue for website hosts, content owners, and the service provider (such as printing) company as well.
US09760914B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for determining a proposed cost for use of sensor resources and selecting a method of processing of sensed data are presented. Such a method includes the steps of: predicting a state of an environment, obtaining at least one criterion related to the use of the sensor resources comprising one or more data sensors, determining the proposed cost for use of the sensor resources, acquiring the sensed data from the one or more data sensors, determining a characteristic of the sensed data, and selecting the method of processing the sensed data according to the determined characteristic and the predicted state. The at least one criterion is based upon the predicted state. The determining of the proposed cost is based on the at least one criterion. One or more of steps are implemented on the processor device.
US09760910B1
The AUTOMATED ADVERTISING AGENCY APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“AAA”) provides a platform that, in various embodiments, is configurable to provide advertisement generation and/or placement facilities leveraging real-time or near real-time updating of social media data. The AAA may be configured to automatically direct advertising purchasing, configuration and placement, guide marketing efforts, and implement marketing strategies maximizing target impact. The AAA may further be configurable to forecast financial data, such as revenues, associated with queried products or services, and to direct optimized advertising configuration, purchasing and/or placement.
US09760888B2
The invention provides systems and method for securely inputting user data from a user into a mobile device and also for generating user data to be input by a user into a mobile device. For example, there is provided a mobile device case for securely inputting user data from a user into a mobile device, the case comprising: a microcontroller, a communication module for communicating with the mobile device and a user interface to enable the user to input the user data. The microcontroller is preferably configured to receive the user data which is input by a user via the user interface, process said user data to create processed data and communicate said processed data to said mobile device. Alternatively, the microcontroller is configured to receive a request to generate the user data; generate said user data and display said user data on the user interface.
US09760878B2
An embodiment includes a system comprising a first vending machine (VM), the first VM comprising: an exterior chassis having a top, bottom, backside, front side, and first and second sides that couple the front side to the backside; a wireless short range communications node included in the chassis; and an actuator coupled to a compartment included in the chassis; wherein (a) the actuator provides a vended good to an aperture in the front side upon actuation, and (b) each of the front side and first and second sides includes no physically manipulatable consumer interface with which the consumer can control the first VM via direct physical manipulation of the first VM. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09760875B2
The present invention provides a system and method for automatic billing, managing, scheduling and power consumption controlling of charging process of electronic vehicle. The system is comprised of: street light poles which include: an electronic node, unique communication adapter and electronic socket for vehicles charging, a feeder pillar in the street comprising a concentrator for controlling and scheduling the power consumption of each street light pole in relation to charging process and a operation control center (OCC) for controlling and billing the power consumption of each street pole.
US09760873B1
A payment card information system according to one embodiment of the invention includes a card reader that scans a payment card and a display device that displays account information items. The payment card information system further includes an information terminal in communication with the card reader and the display device. The information terminal is configured to receive verification data from the card reader, verify the payment card using the verification data, receive an action code from the card reader, obtain one or more predetermined account information items corresponding to the action code, and display the one or more predetermined account information items on the display device.
US09760868B2
Annotating a document in a data processing system, wherein the document includes a first content section and a data structure, can include receiving a request to annotate the document, wherein the request comprises an annotation, and an identification of the document to annotate, and creating a second content section comprising the annotation. The data structure can be updated with a reference to the second content section thereby making the second content section available as an annotation in association with the document.
US09760865B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to multi-modal chat logging management in a collaborative environment, and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for generating a unified chat transcript for a multi-modal conversation in an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method of generating a unified chat transcript for a multi-modal conversation in an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include establishing concurrent voice messaging and text messaging sessions between two conversants, receiving both voice messages and text messages between two conversants through the voice messaging and instant messaging sessions, and logging the voice messages and text messages in a single transcript of conversation between the two conversants.
US09760863B2
Aspects of the present invention are directed to a method and system for distributing information from an information distributor in a banking environment. The method may include composing an electronic notification instrument by providing a notification component and providing a payload component, the payload component including a selectable link. The method may additionally include pushing the electronic notification instrument to an information client and allowing a pull from the information distributor through the electronic notification instrument such that the payload component including the selectable link is activated by an authorized information recipient, the authorized information recipient determined by the information client. The method may additionally include determining through a tracer whether the electronic notification instrument has an acceptable disposition and rendering the electronic notification instrument inaccessible if the disposition is not acceptable.
US09760861B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a fraud detection system that stores fraud detection rules and merchant profiles. The fraud detection system allows a user to designate fraud detection rules as core fraud detection rules, and the fraud detection system can automatically populate new merchant profiles with the user's core fraud detection rules.
US09760860B2
A system and method for automating the performance of substitute fulfillment. The system includes a server which receives absentee information representing an absent worker via a telephone communication link or an Internet communication link. In response to receiving the absentee information, the system generates a list of potential substitute workers. The system then contacts potential substitute workers until one is found or until the list is exhausted. The system can also post a list of positions that are available on a website allowing potential substitute workers to search for a position.
US09760859B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for automatically creating printed works. A subset of electronic publications from a collection of electronic publications is periodically selected in at least one computing system. The selecting is directed at least in part by at least one rule predefined by a user. The subset of electronic publications includes at least two distinct electronic publications. A printed work that includes the subset of electronic publications is encoded for printing.
US09760838B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for analyzing data trends are described herein. The present disclosure includes the identification of trending terms in data through the use of an unsupervised algorithm. Trends are identified and counted during a first and second time period. The frequency and co-occurrence of groups of terms is compared to determine a set of trending terms without reference to a library of pre-defined terms. The set of trending terms is displayed to a user.
US09760833B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a particular set of user data; obtaining a predictive model that estimates a likelihood of a user to order a food item, wherein the predictive model is generated using observation data that includes historic user data and user data from other user devices; providing the particular set of user data to the predictive model; obtaining an indication of a likelihood of the user to order a food item; based on the indication of a likelihood of the user to order a food item, determining whether to output a notification on the user device inviting the user to order a food item; and in response to determining to output a notification on the user device inviting the user to order a food item, selectively outputting a notification on the user device inviting the user to order a food item.
US09760829B2
System, method, and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation comprising analyzing a question submitted to a deep question answering system to determine a level of sophistication of the question, and modifying one or more subsequent communications issued by the deep question answering system based on the determined level of sophistication, wherein the modifying attempts to more closely match the determined level of sophistication of the question with a level of sophistication of the one or more subsequent communications.
US09760817B2
An aspect of the disclosure includes a security system and method having a key with nanoscale features. The key includes a body. At least one pattern member disposed on the body, the pattern member formed using a directed self-assembly polymer to define a pattern of random feature structures thereon, the feature structures having a width of less than 100 nanometers.
US09760816B1
A transaction card is provided comprising a card body comprising a metallic material, the card body including a primary surface, a secondary surface, an aperture and a slit, wherein the primary surface and the secondary surface are coated with a diamond like carbon (DLC) coating.
US09760810B2
An electronic card connector, defining an insertion direction, an ejection direction, and a transverse direction perpendicular to the insertion direction, includes an insulative housing and a number of terminals retained in the insulative housing. The terminals include a row of first contacts disposed along the insertion direction. Each first contact has a first affixed portion and a first contacting portion located at a peak therein. Each of the first contacts extends along the transverse direction. The first contacting portions of the neighboring first contacts are located offset along the insertion direction. The first contacting portions and associated first affixed portions of the first contacts are distanced differently in the transverse direction.
US09760805B2
Satellite images from vast historical archives are analyzed to predict severe storms. We extract and summarize important visual storm evidence from satellite image sequences in a way similar to how meteorologists interpret these images. The method extracts and fits local cloud motions from image sequences to model the storm-related cloud patches. Image data of an entire year are adopted to train the model. The historical storm reports since the year 2000 are used as the ground-truth and statistical priors in the modeling process. Experiments demonstrate the usefulness and potential of the algorithm for producing improved storm forecasts. A preferred method applies cloud motion estimation in image sequences. This aspect of the invention is important because it extracts and models certain patterns of cloud motion, in addition to capturing the cloud displacement.
US09760796B2
A room information inferring apparatus that infers information regarding a room has an imaging unit that captures an image of a room that is to be subjected to inferring, a person detector that detects a person in an image captured by the imaging unit, and acquires a position of the person in the room, a presence map generator that generates a presence map indicating a distribution of detection points corresponding to persons detected in a plurality of images captured at different times, and an inferring unit that infers information regarding the room based on the presence map.
US09760783B2
A method, system, and apparatus for vehicle occupancy detection comprises collecting image data of a vehicle, creating a first value according to a plurality of characteristics of a driver position of the vehicle, and then creating at least one other value according to a plurality of characteristics of at least one other candidate occupant position in the vehicle. The characteristics of the driver position of the vehicle and candidate occupant position of the vehicle are compared in order to determine the vehicle occupancy.
US09760771B2
The present invention addresses the problem of acquiring information regarding a component or product and identifying said component or product easily and inexpensively. The present invention has an image-feature storage, an extracting means, an acquiring means, and an identifying means. The image-feature storage stores image features of texture patterns formed on components or products. The extracting means extracts an n-dimensional-symbol image and a texture-pattern image from a taken image containing at least the following: an n-dimensional symbol (n being a natural number) that represents information regarding a component, a product, or a product comprising said component; and a texture pattern formed on said component or product. The acquiring means acquires, from the extracted n-dimensional-symbol image, the aforementioned information regarding the component or product. The identifying means identifies the component, product, or component-comprising product by matching image features of the extracted texture-pattern image against the image features stored by the image-feature storage.
US09760770B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards loading parallel memories (e.g., in one or more FPGAs) with multidimensional data in an interleaved manner such that a multidimensional patch/window may be filled with corresponding data in a single parallel read of the memories. Depending on the position of the patch, the data may be rotated horizontally and/or vertically, for example, so that the data in each patch is consistently arranged in the patch regardless of from which memory each piece of data was read. Also described is leveraging dual ported memory for multiple line reads and/or loading one part of a buffer while reading from another.
US09760766B2
A method for interpreting interpersonal communication includes monitoring a first interaction between two or more individuals using a set of monitoring devices including a camera, a microphone, and the like. A culture and personality type of at least one individual is identified based on the monitored first interaction. First cultural/personality profile information specific to the identified culture and personality type is retrieved from a database of cultural/personality profile information. A second interaction between the two or more individuals is monitored using the set of monitoring devices. A first facial expression, gesture, vocal intonation, or indication of emotional state derived from biometric data of the at least one individual is identified based on the monitored second interaction. The identified first expression is interpreted using the first cultural/personality profile information. The interpretation of the identified first expression is communicated to a user.
US09760760B2
Digital pathology is the concept of capturing digital images from glass microscope slides in order to record, visualize, analyze, manage, report, share and diagnose pathology specimens. The present disclosure is directed to a desktop slide scanner, which enables pathologists to scan slides at a touch of a button. Included is a workflow for reliable imaging, diagnosis, quantification, management, and sharing of a digital pathology library. Also disclosed herein is an analysis framework that provides for pattern recognition of biological samples represented as digital images to automatically quantitatively score normal cell parameters against disease state parameters. The framework provides a pathologist with an opportunity to see what the algorithm is scoring, and simply agree, or edit the result. This framework offers a new tool to enhance the precision of the current standard of care.
US09760754B2
A Printed Circuit Board Assembly (PCBA) forming an enhanced fingerprint module is disclosed. The PCBA includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), an image sensing chip, at least one electrode and a protection layer. An opening in a first insulation layer and a second insulation layer of the PCB together form a sensor portion so that the image sensing chip can be packaged in the opening. Thus, the thickness of the enhanced fingerprint module can be thinner than other fingerprint modules provided by the conventional package methods.
US09760750B1
A sensor and system provide for radio frequency identification (RFID)-enabled information collection. The sensor includes a ring-shaped element and an antenna. The ring-shaped element includes a conductive ring and an RFID integrated circuit. The antenna is spaced apart from the ring-shaped element and defines an electrically-conductive path commensurate in size and shape to at least a portion of the conductive ring. The system may include an interrogator for energizing the ring-shaped element and receiving a data transmission from the RFID integrated circuit that has been energized for further processing by a processor.
US09760747B2
There is provided a communication apparatus comprising an antenna. A communication unit is able to use external power that is generated by receiving a signal from an external apparatus via the antenna, thereby transmitting a response to the signal that is received from the external apparatus to the external apparatus. A deactivation unit deactivates, in a case where the external power is generated by receiving the signal from the external apparatus via the antenna, supply of the external power from the antenna to the communication unit. A control unit performs control so as to interrupt deactivation of supply of the external power from the antenna to the communication unit by the deactivation unit.
US09760741B2
Various embodiments related to a card reader are described. According to an embodiment, the card reader comprises: a card reader body part; a contact card recognition module included in the card reader body part; a circuit board having a contactless card recognition module included in the card reader body part; a card insertion hole which is formed in the card reader body part and allows a contact card and a contactless card to be inserted; and a rotation guide part rotatably provided within the card insertion hole, wherein the rotation guide part may recognize the contact card in the contact card recognition module by passing the contact card through the card insertion hole according to a rotation, and may recognize the contactless card in the contactless card recognition module by limiting a movement according to a contact after inserting the contactless card into the card insertion hole. In addition, various other embodiments are possible.
US09760740B1
Aspects of the technology provide a multi-purpose card reader configured for use with a mobile electronic device (e.g., a mobile host), such as a smart phone or tablet computer. In certain aspects, the card reader is integrated into a case for enclosing the mobile electronic device and configured for reading financial information from a payment card to facilitate a financial transaction between a buyer and a merchant. To facilitate operability of the card reader, the case can include multiple card slots, such as a swipe-slot (e.g., for receiving a magnetic stripe payment card), and a dip-slot (e.g., for use in receiving an IC type payment card).
US09760739B2
A non-secure display area and a secure display area are set on a screen of a display section of a touch panel TP. A non-secure input area and a secure input area are set on a detection surface of a touch input detector of the touch panel TP. In settlement processing, in a display area where the non-secure display area and the secure display area are overlapped, amount information is displayed. A message for urging authentication information input and a PIN pad are displayed in the secure display area. An operator can safely input PIN information to secure the input area through the PIN pad displayed in the secure display area. Even when the secure portion and the non-secure portion are present together, the settlement terminal device can secure the security of input authentication information or the like to suppress the operator's mistake or incorrect operation.
US09760736B2
A cloud deployment system is used for obfuscating CPU operation codes in a set of machines operating in a distributed computing environment. A reprogrammable microcode replaces a hardware instruction set, the microcode layer containing a set of original operation codes. A first transform of the set of original operation codes produces a first set of transformed operation codes. A first transformed microcode is created which incorporates the first set of transformed operation codes instead of the original operation codes. An operating system and an application is compiled using the first set of transformed operation codes to produce a first cross compiled operating system and application. The first transformed microcode, the first cross compiled operating system and application are deployed to a respective first one of the set of machines, the first one of the machines equipped with a softcore processor.
US09760733B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises creating and storing, in a revisioning database, one or more data objects; wherein a first plurality of the data objects is associated with a base realm representing data shared across all users of the database; wherein a second plurality of the data objects is associated with one or more child realms, wherein each of the child realms represents data local to a project, wherein each of the users is associated with one or more of the child realms; wherein the revisioning database associates each data object to a realm identifier value and to a version identifier value for a plurality of versions of the data object, wherein each of the versions represents a change to the data object by any of a plurality of users; receiving a request from a first user to view a third plurality of data objects in the revisioning database; selecting, based on the base realm, the particular realm, the version identifier value for the data objects in the third plurality, and one or more rules associated with the particular realm and the first user, data objects in the third plurality that can be viewed by the first user; creating a particular data view that includes only the selected data objects; and providing a display of the particular data view to the first user.
US09760726B2
The invention proposes a method consisting in: opening, at the request of the UICC, a data channel between the terminal and the server; performing a mutual authentication between the UICC and the server by using the bootstrap credentials; requesting, from the UICC to the server, the delivery of a subscription profile by using the unique serial number; if a subscription profile exists for the UICC, downloading the subscription profile to the UICC.
US09760725B2
Some embodiments provide one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures to control locations where files may be stored. Some such embodiments include receiving a request to perform a file management function affecting a location where a first file is stored and querying a repository of file management rules as a function of at least one of a file type of the first file, a location where the first file is stored, a destination of where the first file is to be stored, and an identity of a user to retrieve a first set of file management rules. These embodiments further include determining if the destination is an authorized location where the first file may be stored as a function of the first set of retrieved file management rules and preventing the file management function when the determining identifies that the destination is not an authorized location.
US09760722B2
A method of addressing an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information at an imaging device, including receiving an indication of the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information; receiving or generating preliminary information about the unauthorized disclosure; and transmitting the indication and the preliminary information to a remote location to initiate an investigation on the unauthorized disclosure. After receiving the indication, the method includes entering a reduced function mode by the imaging device; receiving a clearance key when in the reduced function mode; and after receiving the clearance key, exiting the reduced function mode and entering a normal mode of operation.
US09760708B2
[Object] To reduce the trouble of the authentication process necessary for cooperation between a plurality of devices or network services.[Solving Means] An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The communication unit communicates with a first device, a second device, and a service on a network, the service having a resource on a user of the first device. The controller controls the communication unit so that the communication unit transmits, based on a request for obtaining an access right to the resource from the first device and permission information representing permission by the user with respect to the obtaining of the access right, a request for issuing an access token to the service, the access token representing the access right, and receives, from the service, the access token issued by the service. Moreover, the controller controls the storage unit so that the storage unit stores the received access token safely, and the communication unit so that the communication unit accesses the resource using the stored access token in response to a request from the second device associated with the user.
US09760699B2
A method and system for authenticating a user is provided. The method includes receiving keyboard entries from a user while a cursor of a computer screen is positioned in a password field of the user. The keyboard entries include a series of alphanumeric characters forming part of a password of the user and one or more function keys that either delete one or more of the alphanumeric characters or do not affect the alphanumeric characters as entered into the password field. The key board entries are logged. The logged keyboard entries checked to determine whether they match a stored valid password for the user such that the one or more function keys that either delete one or more of the alphanumeric characters or do not affect the alphanumeric characters are considered part of the submitted password which is compared to the stored valid password for authentication of the user.
US09760690B1
An artificial intelligence agent is machine trained and used to provide physically-based rendering settings. By using deep learning and/or other machine training, settings of multiple rendering parameters may be provided for consistent imaging even in physically-based rendering.
US09760688B2
This document discusses, among other things, brain stimulation models, systems, devices, and methods, such as for deep brain stimulation (DBS) or other electrical stimulation. In an example, volumetric imaging data representing an anatomical volume of a brain of a patient can be obtained and transformed to brain atlas data. A patient-specific brain atlas can be created using the inverse of the transformation to map the brain atlas data onto the volumetric imaging data and a volume of influence can be calculated using the patient-specific brain atlas. In certain examples, the volume of influence can include a predicted volume of tissue affected by an electrical stimulation delivered by an electrode at a corresponding at least one candidate electrode target location.
US09760687B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for image registration from multiple sources. A method for image registration includes rendering a common field of interest that reflects a presence of a plurality of elements, wherein at least one of the elements is a remote element located remotely from another of the elements and updating the common field of interest such that the presence of the at least one of the elements is registered relative to another of the elements.
US09760680B2
A system, method, and computer program product for generating healthcare data keyword files is disclosed. The system may include a reader module on a computer, a mapper module on a computer, and a generator module on a computer. The reader module may be configured to read one or more healthcare data fields associated with a first vendor and read one or more portions of healthcare data associated with the one or more data fields. The mapper module may be configured to allow a first mapping of the one or more data fields to one or more keyword fields. In accordance with the first mapping, the generator module may be configured to generate one or more keywords associated with the one or more portions of healthcare data.
US09760677B2
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for managing, transferring, modifying, converting and/or tracking medical files and/or medical system messages. In certain embodiments, the foregoing may generally be based on requesting medical files at a first medical facility, identifying the requested medical files at a second medical facility, initiating a secure network connection between the first and second medical facility, modifying a header portion of the medical files based on patient identification information created by the first medical facility, and other processing steps.
US09760676B2
A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating an endocrine system condition in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the endocrine system condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the endocrine system condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US09760675B2
An embodiment of a method of analyzing data from processed images of biological probe arrays is described that comprises receiving a plurality of files comprising a plurality of intensity values associated with a probe on a biological probe array; normalizing the intensity values in each of the data files; determining an initial assignment for a plurality of genotypes using one or more of the intensity values from each file for each assignment; estimating a distribution of cluster centers using the plurality of initial assignments; combining the normalized intensity values with the cluster centers to determine a posterior estimate for each cluster center; and assigning a plurality of genotype calls using a distance of the one or more intensity values from the posterior estimate.
US09760674B2
A method for generating an orthotic device is disclosed. The method includes receiving data from a client device of a patient, the data comprising patient information and image data representative of a body part of the patient. The method further includes generating, based on the image data, three-dimensional model data representative of the body part, and generating parametric CAD model data of the orthotic device based on the three-dimensional model data and the patient information. The parametric CAD model data is transmitted to a three-dimensional printer, wherein the three-dimensional printer is to generate the orthotic device based on the parametric CAD model data.
US09760672B1
A critical-path timing sensor detects set-up timing failures from a functional critical path to a path flip-flop. The functional critical path carries test data during test mode, and normal data during normal device operation. The path flip-flop's D input and Q output are compared by an exclusive-OR (XOR) gate and sampled by an early capture flip-flop that is clocked by a delayed clock, sampling D and Q just after the path flip-flop is clocked. When set-up time fails, D and Q differ just after the clock edge and a timing failure is latched. Timing failures activate a controller to increase VDD, while VDD is reduced in the absence of timing failures. Process variations are accounted for, allowing for lower power or faster operation. A margin delay between the functional critical path end and the early capture flip-flop detects timing failures before they occur in the path flip-flop.
US09760671B2
There is provided a computer-implemented method for verification of a layout of an integrated circuit according to a design intent with a selected manufacturing process. The method comprises defining corner points of a first circuit part 1 as seed points 3, projecting a specifically designed polygon shape 4 proximal to a seed point 3 and calculating an overlap area 5 between the projected polygon shape 4 and a second circuit part 2. The layout is rejected when the overlap area does not conform to a threshold overlap area determined by the design intent.
US09760664B2
An approach is provided in which an information handling system executes multiple timing constraint sensitivity tests on a circuit model using a first signal arrival time and generates multiple test results. The information handling system compares the multiple test results with a pre-determined probability threshold and, in response to determining that an amount of test failures included in the multiple test results meets a pre-determined failure probability threshold, the information handling system computes a timing constraint sensitivity of the circuit model based upon the first signal arrival time. The information handling system compares the timing constraint sensitivity against a characterized sensitivity generated by a software modeling system and, when the timing constraint sensitivity does not match the characterized sensitivity, one or more of the software modeling system's modeling parameters are adjusted, causing the software modeling system to generate a changed characterized sensitivity of the circuit model.
US09760660B2
A method of developing a mathematical model of dynamics of a vehicle for use in a computer-controlled simulation, comprising: selecting a coefficient of a state-space model mathematically modelling the dynamics of the vehicle, the selected coefficient having a value for a predetermined state of the vehicle; and varying, a parameter of a physically-based computerized model mathematically modelling the dynamics of the vehicle, the parameter related to at least one of physical characteristics of the vehicle and phenomena influencing the dynamics of the vehicle, to improve the accuracy of the physically-based model via computer-implemented numerical optimization, the computer-implemented numerical optimization targeting the coefficient of the state-space model such that the difference between a value predicted by the physically-based model and the value of the coefficient of the state-space model for the predetermined vehicle state is within a predetermined range.
US09760644B2
A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries or calendar events are disclosed. A web document is obtained. A first parameter of an event is identified, and a parameter complementary to the first parameter is also identified. The complementary parameter is identified, from among a plurality of candidate parameters. Each parameter corresponds to a distinct text portion of the web document. The complementary parameter is identified in accordance with a distance metric between the text portion of the web document corresponding to the first parameter and the text portion of the web document corresponding to the complementary parameter. Then an event creation link is created and embedded in the web document. The event creation link contains event information corresponding to at least the first parameter and the complementary parameter. The web document, including the embedded event creation link, is provided for display.
US09760638B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for automatically generating a display to present different terms. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to identify a first and a second user using applications in a software as a service (SaaS) environment and store, for the first and the second user, a first term associated with the first user and a second term associated with the second user in the SaaS environment. Responsive to identifying the first term associated with the first user and the second term associated with the second user have functionally equivalent definitions, embodiments of the present invention can replace the second term associated with the second user with the first term associated with the first user and generate a display for the first term associated with the first user that replaced the second term associated with the second user.
US09760636B1
A system graphically plots articles. The system executes one or more search queries to search stored articles and receives results of the executed one or more search queries, where the results identify selected articles of the stored articles. The system further designates a graphical marker for each of the selected articles and plots each of the graphical markers on a graphical display.
US09760635B2
A multi-platform industrial search system facilitates indexing and searching of plant-wide data residing on multiple different data platforms. The industrial search system automatically inventories industrial devices and other data sources located throughout a plant, and identifies available data items on each data source. The search system indexes the discovered data items in a federated data model that can subsequently be searched to locate data items or tags of interest. The federated data model records references to data items found on different types of data sources, including but not limited to industrial controller programs, human-machine interface applications, data historians, device documentation stores, inventory tracking systems, and other such data sources. The search system can also initiate automated searches of the federated data model in response to detected performance issues and deliver notifications and contextual information to plant personnel.
US09760633B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide, systems, methods, and computer program products for processing data in an extract, transform, and load system. Embodiments of the present invention provide protective enhancements to be applied to data during extract-transform-load operations, including protections that can prevent unauthorized access and/or modifications to data stored on an intermediate computer system. Embodiments of the present invention can afford users with the ability to modify the protective enhancements and provide users with transformation operations compatible with the protective enhancements during extract-transform-load operations.
US09760627B1
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a natural language content (NLC) disambiguation engine. The NLC disambiguation engine operates to identify, in a corpus of natural language content, a portion of natural language content (NLC) that is determined to be ambiguous with regard to the context of the portion of NLC. The NLC disambiguation engine compares the ambiguous content portion to private content information associated with a source of the ambiguous content portion. The NLC disambiguation engine identifies a domain of the ambiguous content portion based on a domain of a matching portion of the private content information. The NLC disambiguation engine performs a clarifying operation that clarifies the ambiguous content portion based on the identified domain of the matching portion of the private content information to thereby generate a clarified content portion for processing by a cognitive operation of a cognitive system.
US09760626B2
A mechanism is provided for optimizing parsing of grammatical prose in a multi-prose electronic document. A received multi-prose electronic document is partitioned into a set of text segments of homogenous prose. A set of predefined Natural Language (NL) parsers is executed on each text segment in order to discern and measure a quality of parses by each NL parser throughout the multi-prose electronic document. A cross-parse analysis of the multi-prose electronic document and an aggregation of adjacent clauses or sentences of poor quality parses are performed. For each text segment, aggregation patterns yielding a best semantic role match are identified from one of the set of predefined NL parsers. Then, a parsed electronic document is generated using the set of predefined NL parsers such that each text segment is parsed by a NL parser that has the best semantic role match to that text segment.
US09760620B2
Systems and methods are provided for matching snippets of search results to clusters of objects. A system adds a data snippet of a search result to a cluster of objects. The system calculates a confidence score for the add based on the recency, a job title, an email address, and/or a phone number associated with the data snippet. The system stores the add in the customer accessible database if the confidence score is sufficiently high for the add to be stored in the customer accessible database. The system generates a notice for review if the confidence score is not sufficiently high for the add to be stored in the customer accessible database.
US09760611B2
An information processing apparatus includes a text mining section configured to perform text mining on text data acquired from the outside and to output extracted information; an identification section configured to search a development database storing elements constituting a product and the relationship among the elements by using the information extracted by text mining to identify an element related to the information; and a notification section configured to notify the identified element to a user, a program for use in the information processing apparatus.
US09760610B2
A system and method for personalized search user searcher features may include obtaining a search term from a member of a social network at a user device via the network interface. An initial result may be generated based on the search term, including a first group of content items from a social network and stored in a content database, the content items including member profiles of members of the social network. Each of the content items of the first group may be ranked based on information indicative of interactions from an activity database with the content items of the first group, the interactions being by at least a second user of the social network different than the first user. A second group of the content items may be displayed, including at least some of the first group of the content items, based on the rank of the first group of the content items.
US09760608B2
Embodiments are directed to dynamically tuning search result rankings to control how the search results are presented in a user interface and to dynamically updating search result rankings based on tuning inputs. In one scenario, a computer system receives search results with associated search result attributes. The search results are displayed within a user interface according to each search result's determined ranking. The computer system then receives a tuning input at the user interface. The tuning input indicates that a search result ranking model is to be adjusted for various specified search result attributes. Moreover, the search result ranking model determines how each search result is ranked. The computer system then dynamically updates the displayed search results as the search result ranking model is tuned for the specified search result attributes. The dynamic updating includes repositioning, adding and removing search results according to the determined ranking for each search result.
US09760605B2
A system for precise quantile determination derives a maximum relative error value ε that guarantees that an exact result for every quantile can be determined in no more than two passes. The system computes a quantile summary of the datapoints, that specifies lower and upper bounds of the quantile ranks for selected datapoints, and determines for each quantile rank, the lower and upper bounds for values between which the quantile must occur. The system filters out in a second pass those datapoints that are not within the bounds to provide subsets; and computes from the quantile ranks and the subsets, the precise quantiles.
US09760604B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods related to filtering data requests. In some embodiments, a system may determine an execution plan tree. The system may determine a backend-processed target table in the at least one first storage device. The system may traverse at least one first branch and at least one first node in the execution plan tree. The system may traverse at least one second branch and at least one second node from the parent join node. The system may determine that the rowsource is referenced at the rowsource-access node. The system may determine that the rowsource referenced at the rowsource-access node is a filtered-rowsource. The system may extract at least one join column from a join condition associated with the backend-processed target table and the filtered-rowsource. The system may determine at least one storage location of the filtered-rowsource. The system may determine an adaptive processing path based at least in part on the at least one storage location of the filtered-rowsource, the at least one join column determined from the join condition and the at least one direct predicate determined for the filtered-rowsource. The system may generate at least one target filter predicate for the backend-processed target table.
US09760603B2
Systems and methods for defining a composite view and using the definition of the composite view to obtain, aggregate, analyze, and present data from a variety of data sources to a user. These systems and methods may allow for the definition of a visual framework to aggregate and display related data. This visual framework, or composite view, may in turn be composed of a master view and a set of subviews, each of which may display data collected from a particular data source according to a particular format. By interacting with the master view data from a variety of data sources can be displayed.
US09760595B1
Parallel processing of data may include a set of map processes and a set of reduce processes. Each map process may include at least one map thread. Map threads may access distinct input data blocks assigned to the map process, and may apply an application specific map operation to the input data blocks to produce key-value pairs. Each map process may include a multiblock combiner configured to apply a combining operation to values associated with common keys in the key-value pairs to produce combined values, and to output intermediate data including pairs of keys and combined values. Each reduce process may be configured to access the intermediate data output by the multiblock combiners. For each key, an application specific reduce operation may be applied to the combined values associated with the key to produce output data.
US09760592B2
A service engagement map may be generated based on data collected associated with the service transition and delivery processes. The service engagement map may be refined iteratively by discovering additional data associated with the service transition and delivery processes and updating the service engagement map according to the additional data. Engagement metrics may be computed based on the service engagement map and presented. The service engagement map may also be presented visually.
US09760587B2
A tool for assisting the operation of a network of interconnected physical equipment includes a physical infrastructure manager associated with a first data structure in which the equipment items are registered under a resource identifier in relation to a first sequence of dated values of global utilizable functional capacity, and a virtual infrastructure manager associated with a second data structure in which virtual units are registered under a unit identifier in relation to a second sequence of dated values of global utilizable functional capacity, and with a third data structure in which a virtual unit identifier is associated with a group of resource identifiers and hence with the corresponding sequences of dated capacity values. The virtual infrastructure manager dynamically reconfigures a virtual infrastructure object in accordance with the rights and capacities requested by a user.
US09760585B2
Techniques for objectclass versioning in directory server schema are provided. The techniques include migrating from one version of a directory server to another version of the directory server, maintaining one or more versions of an objectclass while migrating from one version of a directory server to another version of the directory server, and selecting one of the one or more versions of an objectclass for normal functioning of an application.
US09760583B2
Native applications inherit transaction contexts when invoked by primary applications running in separate hosting environments, by: receiving, by an interface of a native application server in a first hosting environment, a unique transaction context identifier for an invocation of the native application at the native application server by the primary application at a primary application server in a second hosting environment; receiving a SQL statement from the native application by the interface of the native application server; sending the SQL statement and the unique transaction context identifier to the primary application server for execution by the interface of the native application server; receiving a result of the execution of the SQL statement and the unique transaction context identifier from the primary application server by the interface of the native application server; and sending the result to the native application by the interface of the native application server.
US09760580B2
A system is described that a geospatial coordinate component arranged to identify a set of geospatial coordinates from a geospatial dataset. A temporal coordinate component is arranged to identify a set of temporal coordinates from a temporal dataset. The system includes an article query component that is arranged to determine a set of articles based on the set of geospatial coordinates and the set of temporal coordinates. A presentation component is arranged to present a representation of a member of the set of articles. The geospatial coordinate component can receive a user selected geographical area and intersect the geospatial dataset with the geographical area.
US09760563B2
Monitoring an internet chat in which a text transcript is generated by at least two chat participants, by: (i) performing a simple check on the text transcript for existence of a potential frustration precondition; and (ii) on condition that a frustration precondition is found, performing text analytics type analysis on the text transcript to determine whether potential frustration is evidenced by the text transcript. If it is determined that potential frustration is evidenced by the chat transcript then responsive action is taken to prevent and/or stem the frustration.
US09760561B2
An optimized fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The optimized fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information in an optimized manner and/or provides a status of the information. In some embodiments, the optimized fact checking system generates, aggregates, and/or summarizes content.
US09760547B1
Methods, computer program products and systems are described for computer implemented online-content management. Multiple online content items authored by multiple authors for online publication are received at one or more first computers. For each online content item, a reputation score is determined for the author corresponding to the online content item. The reputation score is based at least in part on one or more reviews of the online content item provided by one or more reviewers other than the author. An online content item from the multiple online content items is published for display on one or more second computers, which includes displaying an advertisement in conjunction with displaying the online content item. A share of revenue for the author of the online content item for displaying the advertisement is determined based at least in part on the reputation score of the author.
US09760545B2
The present invention provides a way of parsing into tagged segments of texts and therefrom accessing multi-tagged literature. Multi-tagged literature comprises multiple narrative threads that may each occur simultaneously within a narrative or historical timeline, thereby allowing the reader to switch back and forth between various aspects of a text and optionally follow separate threads. In certain versions, the invented system includes an editing interface and a reader software. The editing interface allows for the manipulation of both imported text, newly input and/or newly authored text, and enables a user to populate a file with the text in combination with functional software code. The reader software directs the ebook display device to both render the text and allow the user to traverse the text in a variety of ways as directed by input to the ebook display device of commands and selections.
US09760541B2
The present solution provides a variety of delivery techniques for delivering contextualization services to augment content and advertisement to display within content being viewed on a page on a mobile device. The present solution is directed to using any one or more innovative delivery techniques to prompt the user to augmented content and/or advertisements at the point of a user viewing content on a mobile device, such as while a user is scrolling through textual content of a web page on their mobile device. These innovative delivery techniques provide triggering points on the limited screen of mobile devices to deliver contextualized content and/or advertisement on the display of the mobile device.
US09760540B2
A method implemented through an electronic system for processing a sequential data to identify possible peak points is disclosed. The method defines a decayed threshold function and partition the sequential data into a plurality of segments by grouping each data point with surrounding data points into one of the segments. After that, a plurality of weighted segments are derived through weighting the surrounding data points by the decayed threshold function in each of the segments, and the peak points are identified through corresponding weighted segment.
US09760538B2
Speed with which sparse matrices are processed can be increased by using improved compressed representations of the matrices. Structured compressed representations reduce the number of cache misses experienced during matrix processing by decreasing the number of times the cache has to be accessed randomly. Further, representations of the matrix that divide and regroup rows and columns of the matrix based on their number of non-zero entries allows to assign the most appropriate kernel function for processing of these portions of a matrix, overcoming the limitations of the GPU-based hardware. As a result, the speed of processing can be increased without disturbing the original structure of the matrix.
US09760533B2
A weighted sum is a key computation for many neural networks and other machine learning algorithms. Integrated circuit designs that perform a weighted sum are presented. Weights are stored as threshold voltages in an array of flash transistors. By putting the circuits into a well-defined voltage state, the transistors that hold one set of weights will pass current equal to the desired sum. The current flowing through a given transistor is unaffected by operation of remaining transistors in the circuit.
US09760522B2
Methods and apparatus for operating a communication system comprising three or more communication transceivers. In illustrative embodiments, multiple unique start-of-packet delimiters are maintained. A data packet to be transmitted is constructed using a specified one of the plurality of start-of-packet delimiters to demarcate the start of said data packet. The chosen start-of-packet delimiter reflects one or more transceivers that are intended recipients of said data packet. When a data packet is received by a transceiver, the start-of-packet delimiter of the received data packet is compared to one or more valid start-of-packet delimiters for the receiving transceiver. If the start-of-packet delimiter of the received data packet matches a valid start-of-packet delimiter for the receiving transceiver, the data packet is accepted, otherwise it is rejected.
US09760519B2
A universal serial bus device receives a data packet from a host. The universal serial bus device includes a first virtual device, a second virtual device and a data-assigning device. The data-assigning device performs a determination operation, including: transmitting data corresponding to the a first logical address to the first virtual device, when the first logical address is the same as an address of the first virtual device wherein the data corresponding to the first logical address and the first logical address are recorded in the data packet; transmitting data corresponding to the a second logical address to the first virtual device, when the first logical address is the same as an address of the first virtual device wherein the data corresponding to the second logical address and the second logical address are recorded in the data packet.
US09760516B2
A system for communication with a field device, comprising: an apparatus which includes a communication module and an adapter. The communication module includes a connection region and a communication area. The communication area includes at least one communication interface for communication for the field device. A first connecting structure is provided on the connection region, and a second connecting structure provided on an adapter, wherein the second connecting structure is embodied complementary to the first connecting. The adapter includes an interface, and the adapter is embodied passively A display/servicing device, wherein the interface is embodied for connection to the display/servicing device, wherein the display/servicing device is embodied as a portable mobile device, wherein the mobile device is embodied for single-use battery- or rechargeable battery operation, and wherein the first connecting, the second connecting structure and the interface are embodied as plug contacts.
US09760500B2
A method includes determining to move an extent from a source-tier in a storage system to a destination-tier in the storage system, wherein a set of tracks of the extent is presently being accessed. In response to determining that a parameter of the extent exceeds a migration threshold, a destination-tier cache is populated with tracks as they are removed from a read-stack associated with the source-tier and/or a write-stack associated with the source-tier using a predetermined read-to-write ratio.
US09760489B2
A mechanism is provided for memory coherence in a multiple processor system. Responsive to a memory operation from a processing core of the multiple processor system resulting in a cache miss, the mechanism checks a private region table associated with the processing core. The memory operation attempts to access a memory region. Responsive to determining the memory region corresponds to an entry in the private region table, the mechanism performs a remote memory controller snoop of a remote memory controller without snooping the multiple processor system.
US09760486B2
Technologies are generally described herein for accelerating a cache state transfer in a multicore processor. The multicore processor may include first, second, and third tiles. The multicore processor may initiate migration of a thread executing on the first core at the first tile from the first tile to the second tile. The multicore processor may determine block addresses of blocks to be transferred from a first cache at the first tile to a second cache at the second tile, and identify that a directory at the third tile corresponds to the block addresses. The multicore processor may update the directory to reflect that the second cache shares the blocks. The multicore processor may transfer the blocks from the first cache in the first tile to the second cache in the second tile effective to complete the migration of the thread from the first tile to the second tile.
US09760484B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data processing method and an electronic device. The method is applied in an electronic device, the electronic device being configured with a CPU and a UEFI BIOS; the CPU comprising at least two executing cores each capable of executing one thread; the method comprising: obtaining a first instruction for backup/recovery of designated data when the UEFI BIOS is started to run; invoking a second executing core of the CPU based on the first instruction; and executing the backup/recovery of the designated data by the UEFI BIOS and the second executing core, wherein the UEFI BIOS is run by a first executing core of the CPU.
US09760481B2
A data storage device includes a memory that has a three-dimensional (3D) memory configuration, a controller, and a plurality of memory ports. The controller is configured to read mapping data from the memory. The mapping data maps the plurality of memory ports to the plurality of storage elements. The controller is further configured to, in response to receiving a command associated with a logical address, determine a physical address of the memory corresponding to the logical address, the physical address corresponding to a group of storage elements of the plurality of storage elements. The controller is further configured to select a memory port of the plurality of memory ports, where the memory port is mapped to the group of storage elements. The controller is further configured to access the group of storage elements via the memory port to perform first command.
US09760470B2
An application list reading part 220 reads an application list 122. An application collecting part 230 acquires a source code 111 of an installed application indicated by the application list 122. The application collecting part 230 also acquires a source code 111 of an additional application. A program analyzing part 240 performs program analysis concerning a new execution program 123 using the source codes 111. If a bug will not occur in the new execution program 123, a program creating part 250 creates a new execution program 123. Then, a program updating part 260 writes the new execution program 123 to an electronic control device 121 and adds an additional application name to the application list 122.
US09760461B2
An electronic device includes a first nonvolatile memory, a second nonvolatile memory, and a control circuit. The first nonvolatile memory includes an area to store firmware. The firmware includes a first kernel. The second nonvolatile memory includes an area to store an update program, the update program including a second kernel. The control circuit boots the one of the first and the second kernels, and ensures writing data to the first nonvolatile memory by the booted one of the first and the second kernels. When the firmware is incapable of being read, the control circuit reads the update program and performs the boot process to boot the second kernel, and writes updating data of the firmware to the first nonvolatile memory, the first nonvolatile memory being writable of the data by the booted second kernel.
US09760456B2
A memory management method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The memory management method includes: detecting a replacement physical unit number of a rewritable non-volatile memory module; adjusting an available capacity of the rewritable non-volatile memory module from a first available capacity to a second available capacity if the replacement physical unit number meets a default condition. Therefore, a lifespan of the memory storage device may be prolonged by adjusting the available capacity of the rewritable non-volatile memory module.
US09760452B2
A method for providing backup power to power loads. The method includes a computer processor identifying an indication of a power failure to a computing system. The method further includes identifying a first active power load that is imposed on the computing system by one or more computing devices in the computing system. The method further includes responding to the power failure by activating a first IPU that is connected to the first active power load, identifying a power duration threshold for the first active power load, and determining whether a duration of power stored in the first IPU is less than the identified power duration. The method further includes responding to the determination that the duration of power stored in the first IPU is less than the identified power duration threshold of the first active power load by initiating a shutdown protocol for the first active power load.
US09760446B2
A system and method are described for conveying to a user the value it would receive by implementing an integrated system to protect and manage its data. An integrated system can combine archiving, backup, snapshot management, reporting, secure data access, eDiscovery and data analytics, among other functions, thus simplifying data protection and data management for an organization. The system generates a value dashboard, exhibiting value data, including data and graphics portraying the benefits to a user of implementing an integrated data management and protection system. Value may be evaluated with reference to simplification and efficiency, risk reduction, and unlocking data value.
US09760435B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for generating common locator bits to locate a device or column error during error correction operation for a memory subsystem having memory modules, each including a plurality of memory devices. Error detection logic generates common locator bits from device bits in a plurality of memory devices in one of the memory modules. The error detection logic uses the common locator bits to locate a column across at least two of the memory devices having an error when there is a column error and to locate a memory device in the devices having an error when there is a device error. A same of the common locator bits are used to locate both one of the columns and the memory devices having errors. Error correction is performed on the located memory device or column having the error.
US09760427B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at a location related failure identification device, failure data for a plurality of components within a system, mapping at the device, the failure data to location data comprising a location of each of the components within the system, identifying at the device, location related failures based on the mapping, and outputting from the device, information on the location related failures. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US09760415B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the interoperability of components written in different programming languages. In an implementation, a code service receives a request message communicated by an application component via a message interface in an application environment that is at a layer above a target environment. The request message includes a request to invoke a target component available in the target environment and programmed in a language different from that of the application component. In response to the request, the service identifies at least a service component associated with invoking the target component in the target environment. The service component is executed to invoke the target component via a component interface.
US09760414B2
A method, system and computer program product for preserving event data for lazily-loaded macro components. Upon detecting an event published by a publisher, the logical channel of the detected event is identified. If one of the macro components to be lazily-loaded is a primary receiver for that logical channel (determined by performing a table-lookup of a data structure containing a listing of macro components and their associated logical channels for which they are to be the primary receivers), then the indication of the logical channel of the detected event along with the data of the published event are stored as a key/value pair in a data structure. Upon the macro component to be lazily-loaded having been loaded, the data of the published event associated with the logical channel for which the loaded macro component is a primary receiver is retrieved and transmitted to that logical channel.
US09760402B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a target information handling resource for receiving input/output requests from an operating system executing on the processor, and a thermal filter driver comprising a program of instructions embodied in computer-readable media and executable by the processor. The thermal filter driver may be configured to, in response to issuance of one or more input/output requests to the target information handling resource, perform experimentation on an input/output queue comprising the one or more input/output requests and based on the experimentation, determine modifications to be made to the input/output queue in order to provide a minimal impact to performance of input/output requests at the target information handling resource while satisfying thermal constraints of the target information handling resource.
US09760400B1
Method for joining containers. On a plurality of nodes connected into a cluster, where each node hosts at least one container, executing real processes in the containers, where each real process is executed on a single container and other containers execute fake process corresponding to the real process; the fake process includes interfaces identical to interfaces of a corresponding real process; determining the real process on a source container to be migrated; for the target container, replacing the fake process with the real process and replacing the real process with the fake process on the source container; re-launching a process on the same hardware node with settings from another node. Interfaces of real processes are connected to interfaces of fake processes to establish data flow of fake process identical to the data flow outputted by interfaces of a real process. Interfaces of the fake process receive data from conjugated interfaces.
US09760395B2
A method for configuring and maintaining external monitoring of one or more instances of a virtual machine within a virtualized computing environment. The method includes a computer processor monitoring a hypervisor. The method further includes a computer processor identifying a first list, wherein the first list is comprised of one or more monitoring templates respectively associated with one or more virtual machine types, and maintaining a second list comprised plurality of provisioned instances of virtual machines, wherein the second list also includes a first information respectively associated with the plurality of provisioned instances of virtual machines. The method further includes a computer processor compiling a third list and transmitting the third list to the monitoring system. The method further includes a computer processor receiving the third list and in response, a computer processor executing one or more monitoring functions based, at least in part, on the third list.
US09760386B2
A coherent computer system includes a memory shared by a processor and a coherent accelerator device (CAD). The memory includes a work queue directly accessible by the accelerator functional unit (AFU) within the CAD and by the processor utilizing the same effective addresses. The coherent computer system provides accelerator functionality when the accelerator is unavailable by implementing a virtual AFU to carryout accelerator function while the AFU is unavailable. The virtual AFU is a functional logical equivalent of the AFU and is coherent with the processor. When the AFU becomes available, the virtual AFU is disabled and the accelerator is enabled to allow the accelerator to carryout accelerator functionality.
US09760381B2
Systems and methods are provided that render a configurable toolbar. At runtime, a toolbar configuration file is loaded including a toolbar definition and at least one button definition. A rendering module renders a toolbar based on the toolbar configuration file. The toolbar configuration file is editable by an end-user, thus allowing the end-user to configure properties of the toolbar and buttons without knowledge of computer code or recompilation.
US09760377B2
A bootstrap circuit for increasing the voltage swing of a local oscillator waveform signal. The bootstrap circuit comprises a driver stage for driving at an output thereof a local oscillator waveform signal having an increased voltage swing. The driver stage comprises a first supply voltage node and a second supply voltage node. The bootstrap circuit further comprises at least one energy storage component arranged to store energy within an energy storage element when the voltage level at the input node of the driver stage comprises the second voltage state and use the energy stored within the energy storage element to generate an increased voltage level, and to apply the increased voltage level to the first supply voltage node of the driver stage when the voltage level at the input node of the driver stage comprises the first voltage state.
US09760369B2
The technique relates to a system and method for assessing modularity of a program written in an object oriented language. This technique involves receiving information related to modularization of the program written in the object oriented language. Then the modularization of the program is assessed by calculating object encapsulation metrics, partial types metrics, extension method metrics, delegates metrics and static variable usage metrics. Further, an assessment report of the modularization is generated with respect to the said metrics.
US09760365B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for a software build and load process using a compilation and deployment service. A method for a software build and load process using a compilation and deployment service includes receiving, at the service, new software. The method further includes comparing, at the service, the received new software with data in a database, wherein the data comprises active software. The method further includes merging, at the service said new software and active software into one or more load modules based on the comparison. The method further includes deploying the one or more load modules to one or more target processing units.
US09760362B2
In a method for determining a time to deploy and install patches one or more processors receive a request to deploy a patch by a target deployment time and install the patch by a target installation time, for at least one computing device of a plurality of computing devices on a network. The one or more processors determine a time frame to deploy the patch based on the target deployment time and availability of bandwidth on the network. The one or more processors determine a time to install the patch based on the target installation time and usage of the at least one computing device. The one or more processors cause the patch to be deployed within the determined time frame to deploy the patch. The one or more processors send an instruction to install the patch at the determined time to install the patch.
US09760346B2
Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) are generated using the source code of a programming language that include information relating to the structure of the program. The generation of the ASTs may be performed in parallel. The types are split into a number of modules (e.g. configurable) that form an assembly. During the different stages of the compilation process, each module may be compiled in parallel. As the different modules are being compiled (e.g. in parallel), compiler metadata from the different modules may be written to a repository accessible by the different compilation processes. After flowing through the compilation pipeline, each of the enriched ASTs are used for code generation where they are transformed into the target language (e.g. a code stream that can be executed on hardware). The executable code is then stored as part of the assembly. The storage of the code may also be performed in parallel.
US09760339B2
A method and apparatus for processing numeric calculation are provided. The method includes determining a shift bit and an index bit that falls within an index range of a lookup table from among bits representing a divisor scaled up by an offset, obtaining a replacement value corresponding to an index value of the determined index bit by using the lookup table, multiplying a dividend scaled up by the offset by the obtained replacement value, and outputting a value corresponding to a division operation by correcting a scale of a result of the multiplication using a right shift operation.
US09760334B2
Each electronic shelf label terminal includes a display section, a first image storage section in which a first image containing the price of a commodity displayed on the commodity shelf equipped with the electronic shelf label terminal is stored, a second image storage section in which a second image consisting of n parts simultaneously displayed on each display section of n electronic shelf label terminals arranged in one direction is stored, and a control section configured to repeatedly carry out a control to continuously display the second image stored in the second image storage section for a time which is n times greater than the display time of the first image at a predetermined interval after displaying the first image stored in the first image storage section for a time at a predetermined interval on the display section.
US09760331B2
A screen sharing method for an electronic device is provided. A first device communicates with a second device and shares a first screen. At the first device, a specific image is displayed superposed with the first screen, where the specific image is excluded from the first screen shared with the second electronic device. The second screen is thereafter shared with the second device. An intuitive user interface for editing a shared screen and thereafter sharing the edited screen is thus provided.
US09760327B2
In one embodiment, a print job and an identification of a network-connected printer to print the job are received via a network. A printer location is determined for the printer. Associations of rendering computer systems with rendering system attributes are accessed or received. An identified rendering system is determined utilizing the printer location and a system attribute. The print job is sent to the identified rendering system.
US09760326B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to facilitation of printing from a web application. An identifier is used to use a is of printers. Print data for one of the printers of the list is sent to a print client based on the list of printers and the identifier.
US09760322B2
Provided is a communication system including a master device that transmits a signal transmitted from an upstream side to a downstream side, and plural slave devices connected in series to the downstream side of the master device, wherein the slave devices include a communications port that communicates with the upstream side and at least one communications port that communicates with the downstream side, and the master device sequentially sets identification information that identifies the slave device from another slave device from the upstream side to the downstream side by sequentially transmitting a setting information towards all of the plural slave devices.
US09760321B2
There is disclosed an information processing method including: a step of displaying a setting window, which includes customizable items, of a device driver; a step of registering items set using the setting window as customized items; a step of writing the customized items in user interface-related data of the device driver; and a user interface display step of displaying a user interface of the device driver with reference to the user interface-related data upon launching the device driver.
US09760318B2
At least one embodiment of a post-processing apparatus performs post-processing on a product printed by a printing apparatus, and transmits a command for a temporary stop of print processing for a first job and information indicating a period of time during which the temporary stop continues to the printing apparatus. At least one embodiment of the printing apparatus receives the command for the temporary stop of the print processing for the first job and the information indicating the period of time during which the temporary stop continues from the post-processing apparatus, stops the print processing for the first job according to the command for the temporary stop, and controls print processing for a second job based on the period of time during which the temporary stop continues.
US09760313B1
A system and method for performing copy offload operations. When a copy offload operation from a first volume (pointing to a first medium) to a second volume (pointing to a second medium) is requested, the copy offload operation is performed without accessing the data being copied. A third medium is created, and the first medium is recorded as the underlying medium of the third medium. The first volume is re-pointed to the third medium. Also, a fourth medium is created, the second volume is re-pointed to the fourth medium, and the second medium is recorded as the underlying medium of the targeted range of the fourth medium. All other ranges of the fourth medium have the second medium as their underlying medium.
US09760308B2
A nonvolatile memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks. The nonvolatile memory system includes a memory controller, which can control the nonvolatile memory device, and manage start and end reception times of data of each of the memory blocks. The memory controller can cause at least one of the memory blocks to be physically erased based on the managed start and end reception times. A data eliminating unit can physically erase one or more target blocks from among the memory blocks based on a block timetable in response to a data elimination command having a reference time received from a host. An operation method of a nonvolatile memory system can include selecting one or more target blocks for physical erasure in response to the data elimination command, and physically erasing the selected target blocks.
US09760300B2
Memory objects may be allocated and re-allocated within a computer system to consolidate infrequently used memory objects to memory regions that may be operated at lower power. During initial allocation of memory objects, the objects may be placed into high power regions. During subsequent periodic analysis, memory objects in high power regions that are infrequently used may be relocated to lower power regions while memory objects in low power regions that are frequently used may be moved to the high power regions. Various heuristics or logic may be used to handle unmovable objects, shared objects, and other types of objects.
US09760287B2
According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving a write request and determining a first portion of information associated with the write request. The method additionally includes determining a first location on a first disk to write the first portion of information and, based on the determined first location on the first disk, determining a second location on a second disk to write the first portion of information. The method further includes writing the first portion of the information to the first location on the first disk. The first location comprises an outer track of the first disk. The method further includes writing the first portion of the information to the second location on the second disk, the second location comprising an inner track of the second disk.
US09760274B2
An information processing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to generate image data by capturing an image, an identification unit configured to identify a plurality of users based on the image data, a determination unit configured to determine a priority of the plurality of users, and a display unit configured to display a user interface for at least one user among the plurality of users according to the priority.
US09760271B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product visualizes tabular data with dynamically-generated frozen regions. A control and coordination mechanism oversees modification of a visualization of a browser-based main data table. A cloning and sizing process recursively traverses regions of the browser-based main data table to selectively clone and size regions of the browser-based main data table to be frozen, wherein the regions of the browser-based main data table to be frozen are selectable from any area of the browser-based main data table. An element insertion and positioning process positions and makes visible each newly cloned frozen region, wherein each newly cloned frozen region overlays a region of the browser-based main data table. A responsiveness process uses event listeners and polling mechanisms to detect actions and changes in a table viewport of a visible portion of the browser-based main data table to trigger regeneration of each newly cloned frozen region.
US09760262B2
Functionality is described herein for directly interacting with parts of a data visualization. For instance, the functionality allows a user to directly interact with data items to filter them out from the data visualization, and later restore them to the data visualization. The functionality also allows a user to directly interact with an axis to sort the data items in the data visualization. The functionality also allows a user to directly interact with a label of the data visualization to choose a new label, and to reorganize the information represented by the data visualization in response thereto. Further, before finalizing any update to the data visualization, the functionality may provide a preview of the updated data visualization.
US09760253B2
A display data generation method used in a computer including an output module, includes generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module, retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region, and generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.
US09760249B2
Provided are techniques for the modification of social collaborative maps that include processors; a computer-readable storage medium (CRSM); a concept map stored on the CRSM, the concept map comprising a plurality of nodes; a plurality of connections between the plurality of nodes; and a plurality of social network connections, wherein each node of the plurality of nodes is coupled to a corresponding subset of the plurality of social network connections; and logic, stored on the CRSM and executed on the plurality of processors, for providing a user interface to provide a user access to the plurality of nodes and to the plurality of social network connections; collecting data corresponding to navigation of the user of the plurality of nodes and interaction by the user with the plurality of social network connections; analyzing the data and modifying, based upon the analyzing, the concept map to generate a modified concept map.
US09760248B2
In a data visualization configuration system, a method of creating one or more modifiable data interface objects that are used to represent data values for visualization in a graphical representation, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an instruction to create a new modifiable data interface object from a list of parent modifiable data interface objects, creating a proxy modifiable data interface object as the new modifiable data interface object for each parent modifiable data interface object associated with the instruction, and enabling the proxy modifiable data interface object to be available for modification, where the proxy modifiable data interface object refers to its associated parent modifiable data interface object.
US09760246B2
Account types that support one or more data classes (e.g., email, contacts, calendar, instant messaging) can be added and configured on a mobile device using a unified settings user interface. The user interface allows the user to easily activate and deactivate one or more data classes for an account type. The user interface can support one or more predefined account types and can allow the user to add and configure new account types. Visual indicators are provided in the user interface to remind the user of the data classes that are active on the mobile device for a particular account. Users can configure settings that effect a particular data class in all accounts on the mobile device. Users can also configure settings that are specific to a particular account.
US09760241B1
Some implementations provide tactile interaction to a user during consumption of content. For instance, when a user accesses a content item on an electronic device having a display, the user may touch the display at a location corresponding to a first feature in a displayed image to generate a first type of tactile output. Moving the user's finger to a location of a second feature of the image may result in a second type of tactile output, different from the first. Additionally, in some implementations, a force of a touch input may be determined, and the tactile output may vary based on the amount of force of the touch input. Further, in some implementations, the tactile output may vary based on a time duration of a touch input.
US09760240B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying and configuring adaptive or static thresholds for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The GUI may include one or more presentation schedules that may display threshold information associated with time policies. Each presentation schedule may include multiple time slots and span a portion of one or more time cycles. Some of the time slots may be associated with a specific time policy and may have a unifying appearance that distinguishes the time slots from timeslots associated with other time policies. The presentation schedules may arrange the time slots in a time grid arrangement (e.g., calendar grid view) or a graph arrangement with depictions (e.g., points, lines) that may illustrate KPI values and threshold markers that may illustrate the threshold values.
US09760238B2
An electronic device and a method are adapted to identify window control commands in a multi-window system. The electronic device displays multiple windows each respectively having a title bar on a touch interface. The electronic device executes the method to identify a window control command according to a touch gesture from a movement of a touch point detected on the title bar of one of the windows. The user can easily touch the title bar to operate a certain window.
US09760236B2
Application mobilization has assumed importance given the proliferation of smartphones amongst the enterprise workforce, and other users. Existing techniques to mobilize applications incur high overheads in terms of time, cost, and effort. Remote computing is a promising basis for application mobilization that has the advantages of zero code rewriting, full functionality applications, and seamless IT manageability. However, it has the major disadvantage of presenting a cumbersome PC application view on the smartphone. In this context the present invention, referred to as *Mobile, is described to perform dynamic transformation of application views for smartphones. Significant performance gains may be achieved by using this system and methodology.
US09760222B2
Embodiments herein include a device, system, and method for periodically capturing sensing signals using one or more detection electrodes to generate data for detecting an object proximate to the detection electrodes. The sensing signals are captured during detection periods within periodic detection cycles where each of the detection cycles define a period of time between consecutive detection periods. In addition, the device, system and method set a duration of the detection cycle to 1/m (where m is appositive integer) of a duration of a display-scan cycle. The value of m is selected based on a periodic noise signal. Thus, the device, system, and method may prevent a periodic noise signal which has a cycle that is longer than the detection period from worsening the accuracy of touch detection.
US09760215B2
Methods for determining a touch-and-hold touch event on a touch sensitive interaction surface of a touch sensing device are provided and comprise the steps of: a) determining a touch location of the touch event based on vibrations, such as bending waves, propagating through the interaction surface and b) determining whether the touch event comprises a hold touch event based on a sensed airborne signal. A device configured to carry out such methods is also provided.
US09760214B2
A method and apparatus for inputting data for an electronic data entry device are provided. In one embodiment, identification of an input object such as the particular fingers of a user that are used to actuate a key region is performed. The symbol associated with the actuated key region and the finger (or other input object) used is determined. In other embodiments, virtual input devices with interfaces such as QWERTY style keyboards, phone keypads, and multi-touch capable touchpads or tablets are provided in input regions. One or more video capturing devices remotely acquire actuation information from the input regions during data entry. User inputted symbols or functions are determined based on the actuations, their locations and identified input object sets that caused the actuations.
US09760209B2
In one embodiment, a touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface includes a display panel and an electrode disposed under the display panel. An electrical characteristic detected at the electrode is changed by the bending of the display panel. A magnitude of the pressure applied to the touch surface is detected according to the change amount of the electrical characteristic. The display panel includes a first area and a second area. A pressure detection sensitivity of the first area is higher than a pressure detection sensitivity of the second area. When the first area and the second are bent to the same degree, a change amount of the electrical characteristic detected when a pressure is applied to the second area is greater than a change amount of the electrical characteristic detected when a pressure is applied to the first area.
US09760204B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal. Specifically to a mobile terminal including a display including a touchscreen, a sensing unit for sensing an object contacting the touchscreen and the object in near-proximity to the touchscreen, and a controller for controlling information appearing on the display according to the object contacting the touchscreen and movement of the object relative to the touchscreen.
US09760184B2
A portable keyboard includes: a polygonal pillar-shaped main body having a battery embedded therein; a key assembly connected to the main body, the key assembly having a plurality of key arrangements; and a connecting member formed to extend down to the bottom of the key assembly while connecting the key assembly and the main body to each other, wherein at least one key arrangement in the key assembly allows information to be entered by a touch, a first element is provided to the main body, a second element is provided to the key assembly, and the first element and the second element are attached to each other by magnetic force such that the key assembly is wound.
US09760183B2
An input apparatus including a deformable sheet-like operational member having a plurality of key areas.
US09760181B2
A method for recognizing a gesture by using a sensor is provided. The method includes recognizing sensor values for an object uninterruptedly in a plurality of sensors having a different operational range, generating a control value by combining the sensor values, and executing a function corresponding to the control value.
US09760178B2
One or more pages are displayed on a display. A page-turning gesture is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page turn that lifts a portion of the page is displayed on the display. One side of the lifted portion of the page is visible through the other side of the lifted portion of the page.
US09760177B1
The amount of power and processing needed to enable more previze gesture input for a computing device can be reduced by utilizing one or more gesture sensors along with a conventional camera. Information associated with an image, such as color information, acquired from the conventional camera can be mapped to one or more gesture sensors (e.g., low resolution, greyscale or monochrome camera sensors) of a computing device. The mapped information between the conventional camera and the gesture sensors can be used for purposes such as gesture- and/or motion-based approaches.
US09760175B2
A system and method are disclosed for a morphable pad and display configured for tactile control. The system comprises a display for displaying a user interface comprising a layout of vehicle control features. The display is configured to highlight a portion of the layout associated with a received highlight input, and to update the layout based on a received selection input. A morphable pad is connected to the display and comprises an array of switches. Each switch is configured to receive highlight input and selection input. The switches are also configured to adjust in tactile feel to match the layout, and to reconfigure in tactile feel responsive to a change in the layout.
US09760172B2
One variation of a dynamic tactile interface includes: a dynamic tactile layer including a deformable region and a first region, the deformable region operable between a retracted setting and an expanded setting, the first region adjacent the deformable region, the deformable region tactilely distinguishable from the first region in the expanded setting; a displacement device including a fluid vessel and an actuator, the actuator displacing fluid from the fluid vessel into the dynamic tactile layer to transition the deformable region from the retracted setting into the expanded setting and displacing fluid from the dynamic tactile layer into the fluid vessel, transitioning the deformable region from the expanded setting into the retracted setting; and a fluid compensation device coupled to the displacement device and adjusting a configuration of the displacement device in response to a change in a volume of fluid contained within the fluid vessel.
US09760171B2
An apparatus, a processor-readable medium, and a method are provided that are configured to cause a haptic effect and an audio effect to be output substantially concurrently. The haptic effect has a frequency and the audio effect has a frequency different from the frequency of the haptic effect. At least one of the frequency of the haptic effect and the frequency of the audio effect is varied while maintaining substantially constant an average energy of the haptic effect. Varying the frequency of the audio effect can cause a perceived frequency of the haptic effect to change.
US09760165B2
Mobile terminal device and method for switching inputs methods. In an embodiment, a mobile terminal device switches between two or more different input methods upon satisfaction of a switching condition, which indicates that input detection via the current input mode is difficult.
US09760151B1
Detecting potential damage to a touch sensitive display of an electronic device as a result of contact with one or more other objects. Different characteristics associated with contact of the display by object(s) can be determined. Based upon one or more of these characteristics, the electronic device can determine if potential damage to the display is occurring. If so, the electronic device can trigger an alert warning of the potential damage. The characteristics can include the number of contacts/time, the frequency of contacts, the duration of each contact, the area of contact, the number of simultaneous contacts, and/or the intensity of the contact(s). Other factors indicating that the electronic device is not in use, such as the light intensity proximate to the electronic device, the orientation, movement, and/or location of the electronic device, can be detected to confirm that the alert should be issued.
US09760150B2
A method of entering a power conservation state comprises selecting and entering one of a plurality of low power states for the computer system in response to a detected system idle event. The plurality of low power states comprise a first low power state and a second low power state for the computer system. A memory of the computer system is self refreshed during the first low power state. A baseband module of the computer system remains powered, and the memory is accessible to the baseband module during the second low power state. The one low power state is selected depending upon baseband module activity. The method also includes exiting from the one of a plurality of low power states when a wake event is detected.
US09760149B2
A low-power state current/power consumption for each volatile memory device in a plurality of volatile memory devices is obtained. Data is copied from a first set of the volatile memory devices to a second set of the volatile memory devices, where the second set of volatile memory devices has a lower current/power consumption than the first set of volatile memory devices. Additionally, a current/power consumption may be obtained for each memory bank within each of the plurality of volatile memory devices. Data is then copied from a first set of memory banks to a second set of memory banks within the same memory device in the second set of memory devices, where the second set of memory banks has lower current/power consumption than the first set of memory banks. The first set of volatile memory devices and/or first set of memory banks are then placed into a power-down state.
US09760145B2
A system for saving the architectural state of a processor is described. The system performs a save state operation, which involves, for each sector in a set of sectors of the architectural state, determining whether the architectural state for the sector has already been saved to a memory, and saving the architectural state for the sector to the memory when the architectural state for the sector has not already been saved to the memory. Each sector in the set of sectors comprises a different and separate portion of the architectural state of the processor. The system determines whether the architectural state for a given sector has already been saved to the memory by checking a needs-rinsing flag for the given sector. The needs-rinsing flag for the given sector is asserted upon modifying the given sector and cleared following the save state operation.
US09760139B2
Methods and systems for power supply unit (PSU) current sharing may include an In-System Power Monitoring and Management (IPMM) module monitoring an output value of a first power supply unit in a multi-power supply system. In an embodiment, the IPMM module may monitor an output value of a second power supply unit in the multi-power supply system. Additionally, the IPMM module may monitor an output performance parameter for the multi-power supply system. Furthermore, the IPMM module may adjust a setting of at least one of the first power supply unit and the second power supply unit for optimization of a current sharing performance parameter of the multi-power supply system. In various embodiments, the setting may include a droop voltage value, a distribution impedance value, or a set voltage increment value of at least one of the first power supply unit and the second power supply unit.
US09760137B2
Methods and apparatus relating to a programmable scalable voltage translator are described. In one embodiment, logic translates an input voltage level into a plurality of output voltage levels during a low power consumption state of a device. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09760131B2
An embodiment is a memory card including a rectangular printed circuit card having a first side and a second side, a first length of between 151.35 and 161.5 millimeters, and first and second ends having a second length smaller than the first length. The memory card also includes a first plurality of pins on the first side extending along a first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card that extends along a length of the card, a second plurality of pins on the second side extending on the first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card, and a positioning key having its center positioned on the first edge of the rectangular printed circuit card and located between 94.0 and 95.5 millimeters from the first end of the rectangular printed circuit card. The memory card also includes a memory module, a hub device and pins for boundary scan signals.
US09760125B2
The present invention relates to a flexible display panel for suppressing a problem in which a crack such as disconnection on an internal circuit layer or the like is generated or a required warpage level is not attainable in a warped area while bending an edge portion thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the layer structure of a signal line portion for electrically connecting elements provided within a display area and a non-active area may be simplified, and a protective member may be formed thereon, thereby obtaining the effect of minimizing the damage of the layer structure due to bending.
US09760122B1
A portable information handling system display integrates a cooling device that provides cooling airflow around the periphery of the display. For example, a piezoelectric device generates a cooling airflow directed through air channels formed in a substrate and bezel that couples an OLED display to the front and rear faces of a portable information handling system housing.
US09760114B1
A computer-implemented method for improving clock synchronization between master and slave devices may include receiving at least one clock-synchronization packet transferred from a master device to a slave device via a network that supports an IP. The method may also include identifying at least one item of IP information added to the clock-synchronization packet during the transfer from the master device to the slave device. The method may further include determining that the clock-synchronization packet experienced a delay that exceeds a predetermined threshold during the transfer based at least in part on the item of IP information. Finally, the method may include discarding the clock-synchronization packet from a set of clock-synchronization packets capable of being used to synchronize the slave device with the master device in response to the determination. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09760111B2
A method for synchronizing a data signal in a bus environment is suggested, the method may include providing multiple clock phases based on a reference oscillator; determining a phase out of the multiple clock phases for a transition of a data signal; and synchronizing the data signal based on the phase determined.
US09760105B1
A regulator includes a driving circuit, an amplifying circuit and an overvoltage protection circuit. The driving circuit is configured to receive an input voltage and provide an output voltage through an output terminal. The amplifying circuit is configured to control the driving circuit according to the output voltage. The overvoltage protection circuit is configured to conduct a first current from the output terminal of the overprotection circuit to a ground terminal. When the overvoltage protection circuit detects that a voltage level of a node coupled to the driving circuit is increased, the overvoltage protection circuit conducts a second current from the output terminal of the overprotection circuit to the ground terminal to lower the output voltage, in which the second current is larger than the first current.
US09760098B1
Techniques for cooling a data center include circulating a first cooling medium to cool a plurality of rack-mounted computers; circulating a second cooling medium to cool the plurality of rack-mounted computers; determining that a first portion of the plurality of rack-mounted computers is operating at a power usage above a threshold power usage; adjusting at least one of a flow rate of the first or second cooling mediums to cool a second portion of the plurality of rack-mounted computers; and rerouting a portion at least one the first or second cooling mediums to cool the first portion of the plurality of rack-mounted computers.
US09760094B2
Described herein is an apparatus for semi-autonomous vehicle control of a vehicle includes a distributed mission module configured to modify a mission element of a group mission based on availability of data. The group mission involves a plurality of vehicles. The apparatus also includes a guidance module configured to compute a path for a local vehicle of the plurality of vehicles based on the modified mission element. The path is configured to achieve the modified mission element. Additionally, the apparatus includes a multi-protocol translator module configured to convert the path into one or more control commands for the local vehicle. The distributed mission module, guidance module, and multi-protocol translator are located on-board the vehicle.
US09760091B2
A jet propulsion watercraft includes a vessel body, an engine, a jet propulsion unit, a weight information obtaining processor, an engine controller, and a target rotational speed determining processor. The engine is accommodated in the vessel body. The jet propulsion unit is driven by the engine and propels the vessel body. The weight information obtaining processor obtains weight information regarding a weight of the vessel body. The engine controller controls an engine rotational speed such that a vessel velocity reaches a predetermined set velocity. The target rotational speed determining processor determines a target engine rotational speed corresponding to the set velocity in accordance with the weight information. The engine controller controls the engine rotational speed such that the vessel velocity reaches the set velocity based on the target engine rotational speed determined in accordance with the weight information.
US09760088B2
A method and cooperative system for deploying a mobile robot of a plurality of mobile robots with a plurality of fixed sensors. The method includes broadcasting a position-request message including a request for a position and a demand for mobile robots, receiving the position-request message, and transmitting a position-demand message. The method also includes receiving position-demand messages from corresponding fixed sensors, determining a distance to the corresponding fixed sensors, storing information for the corresponding fixed sensor in a fixed sensor list when the distance to the corresponding fixed sensor is less than a predetermined distance, determining a closest fixed sensor, transmitting an association request message to the closest fixed sensor, receiving the association request message, and transmitting a confirmation message when the demand of the closest fixed sensor is not equal to zero or a rejection message when the demand of the closest fixed sensor is equal to zero.
US09760082B2
A motor control apparatus includes an error calculation unit which calculates an error between a position of a movable unit and a position of a driven unit, a memory unit which memorizes the error in association with a torque command value as an initial error, and a compensation amountcompensation amount calculation unit which calculates a compensation amountcompensation amount for compensating an elastic deformation amount of an elastic factor between the movable unit and the driven unit. The compensation amountcompensation amount calculation unit calculates the compensation amountcompensation amount based on the initial error held by the memory unit, the torque command value held in association with the initial error, and a torque command value calculated by a torque command calculation unit when a motor rotates reversely.
US09760078B2
A system for assisting in the use by an operator of the operating element of a tool at desired locations at a worksite, includes a stationary control and a position sensor secured to the tool. The stationary control is located at the worksite, and has data stored therein specifying one or more desired locations for operation of the operating element of the tool at the worksite. A position sensor is mounted on the tool. The position sensor determines the position of the operating element of the tool. The position sensor includes a communication device for communicating with said stationary control, a sensor for determining its relative position with respect to said stationary control, and a display for providing indications to the user of the tool of the desired location for the operating element of the tool and of the actual location of the operating element of the tool.
US09760074B2
A visualization system for creating, displaying and animating overview and detail heat map displays for industrial automation. The visualization system connects the heat map displays to an interface component providing manual or automatic input data from an industrial process or an archive of historical industrial process input data. The animated heat map displays providing quality, prognostic or diagnostic information.
US09760070B2
A variable speed device that drives an electric motor includes a first acquiring unit that acquires a first parameter concerning an operation state of the electric motor, a second acquiring unit that acquires a second parameter concerning the operation state of the electric motor, the second parameter being related to the first parameter, a third acquiring unit that acquires a third parameter concerning a setting state of the electric motor, and a display control unit that simultaneously displays, on one display screen, a first display item corresponding to the acquired first parameter, a second display item corresponding to the acquired second parameter, and a third display item corresponding to the acquired third parameter. The display control unit graphically displays the first display item and the second display item in association with each other.
US09760043B1
A fixing device includes a fixing roller that fixes a toner image to a recording medium; a cleaning roller that contacts the fixing roller and rotates, and cleans off toner adhered to a surface of the fixing roller; and a collecting roller that contacts the cleaning roller and rotates, and collects toner adhered to a surface of the cleaning roller, the collecting roller including an air passage section that extends through the collecting roller in an axial direction of the collecting roller and through which air passes.
US09760036B2
A developing cartridge may include: a developing roller rotatable about a first axis extending in a predetermined direction, the developing roller including a developing roller section; a first shaft; and a second shaft including: a first circumferential surface having a first diameter, a second circumferential surface having a second diameter which is smaller than the first diameter, and a third circumferential surface having a third diameter which is smaller than the second diameter, a bearing having a first hole; a developing roller gear having a second hole, the developing roller gear mounted to the second circumferential surface, and the developing roller gear rotatable with the second shaft, wherein an addendum circle is smaller than a diameter of the developing roller section; and a regulating member, having a third hole located on an opposite side of the bearing, and the regulating member regulates a position of the developing roller gear.
US09760029B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a single-layer type photosensitive layer including phthalocyanine or a derivative thereof and an electron transport material. The electron transport material includes at least one first compound represented by formula (1) or (2) shown below and at least one second compound represented by formula (3), (4), or (5) shown below. A total amount of the at least one first compound and the at least one second compound is no less than 60 parts by mass and no greater than 120 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin. An amount of the at least one first compound is no less than 35 parts by mass and no greater than 80 parts by mass. An amount of the at least one second compound is no less than 25 parts by mass and no greater than 40 parts by mass.
US09760021B2
A controller measures positional information of a stage within an XY plane using three encoders which at least include one each of an X encoder and a Y encoder of an encoder system, and the stage is driven in the XY plane, based on measurement results of the positional information and positional information (p1, q1), (p2, q2), and (p3, q3) in a surface parallel to the XY plane of a head (an encoder) used for measurement of the positional information. Accordingly, it becomes possible to control the movement of the stage with good precision, while switching the head (the encoder) used for control during the movement of the stage using the encoder system which includes a plurality of heads.
US09760018B2
Methods and inspection apparatus and computer program products for assessing a quality of reconstruction of a value of a parameter of interest of a structure, which may be applied for example in metrology of microscopic structures. It is important the reconstruction provides a value of a parameter of interest (e.g. a CD) of the structure which is accurate as the reconstructed value is used to monitor and/or control a lithographic process. This is a way of assessing a quality of reconstruction (803) of a value of a parameter of interest of a structure which does not require the use of a scanning electron microscope, by predicting (804) values of the parameter of interest of structures using reconstructed values of parameters of structures, and by comparing (805) the predicted values of the parameter of interest and the reconstructed values of the parameter of interest.
US09760007B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method of the present invention includes a coating step of coating a front surface of a wafer with a material containing a solvent, a volatilization step of volatilizing the solvent by heating the material, and a rinse step of jetting an edge rinse solution for removing the material from a first nozzle to a peripheral portion of the front surface of the wafer while rotating the wafer.
US09760006B2
There is provided a resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography for forming a resist underlayer film capable of being used as a hardmask. A resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography comprising: a hydrolyzable organosilane having a urea group; a hydrolysis product thereof; or a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof. The hydrolyzable organosilane is for example a compound of Formula (1): where at least one of three groups T1, T2, and T3 is a group of Formula (2):
US09760003B2
Provided is a method of forming a pattern and an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition that excels in the limiting resolving power, roughness characteristics, exposure latitude (EL) and bridge defect performance. The method of forming a pattern includes (1) forming an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition into a film, (2) exposing the film to light, and (3) developing the exposed film with a developer containing an organic solvent. The actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition contains (A) a resin containing a repeating unit with a structural moiety that is configured to decompose when exposed to actinic rays or radiation to thereby generate an acid, and (B) a solvent.
US09760002B2
A method of forming a circuit board includes forming a conductive pattern on a substrate; forming a first negative resist on the substrate after formation of the conductive pattern; partially exposing the first negative resist on the surface of the conductive pattern to form a first via exposure portion; forming a second negative resist on the substrate after formation of the first via exposure portion; partially exposing the second negative resist on the first via exposure portion to form a second via exposure portion larger than the first via exposure portion; developing the first negative resist and the second negative resist after formation of the second via exposure portion to form a via opening reaching the conductive pattern; and filling the via opening with a conductive material.
US09759999B2
An imprinting apparatus includes: a coating unit which coats a substrate with ink including a photocurable resin in a diluent; a pressing unit which presses the ink with an imprint stamp including an uneven pattern; and a light source which irradiates light to the ink, which is in a pressed state, and cures the photocurable resin. The coating unit, the pressing unit and the light source move relative to the substrate in a processing direction. The coating unit is located ahead of the pressing unit in the processing direction.
US09759996B2
The present invention is directed to a pellicle frame of a pellicle for use in photolithography, comprising: a coating of a layer containing a para-xylylene-based polymer. The invention can inhibit release of sulfate ions, ammonium ions and so on from the pellicle frame and thereby reduce the occurrence of haze under exposure environment.
US09759994B1
Techniques are described for performing automatic focusing of a projected image on a mobile projection surface. Specific regions of the projected image are identified that are likely to be desired to stay in optimal focus, and attributes of those specific regions, such as sharpness and contrast, can be used to determine the need to refocus the image. Advanced knowledge of the image data being projected can be utilized to determine the specific regions of the projected image that require monitoring for optimal focusing.
US09759992B2
According to one embodiment, a projection apparatus including: a first screen; a projection unit configured to project an image on a projection area including the first screen; a second screen configured to be capable of being disposed at a position within the projection area of projection by the projection unit and away from the first screen; a shifting mechanism configured to shift the second screen; and a screen controller configured to shift the second screen by the shifting mechanism in accordance with an image which is projected by the projection unit.
US09759990B2
A shoulder camera adaptor is provided that inhibits a tripod from falling behind even when a large external battery is mounted to take a video using a tripod. According to the present invention, a shoulder camera adaptor used for application of a handy video camera as a shoulder camera, is provided that includes a base, wherein the base includes a camera holder to hold the handy video camera, and the base is provided with mechanical units to fix the shoulder camera adaptor to a tripod base fixed to a tripod at at least two spots in at least longitudinally different positions in the shoulder camera adaptor.
US09759988B2
An electronic device having a securing member for a camera module is disclosed. The securing member may include several flexible spring elements extending around the camera module to maintain the position of the camera module during an assembly process of the electronic device. The securing member and the housing may be made from an electrically conductive material or materials. In this manner, the securing member may further provide the camera module with an electrical ground to prevent excessive electric charge within the camera module. In some embodiments, an alignment member is positioned on the housing and aligns the camera module and/or securing member with an aperture of the housing.
US09759987B2
A stroboscopic device includes a flash discharge tube, a first element for performing switching operation of flash discharge tube, a second element for performing ON control of the first element by an ON operation, and performing OFF control of the first element by an OFF operation, a third element for performing the OFF control of the first element by an ON operation, and performing the ON control of the first element by an OFF operation, and a first circuit for holding the ON operation of the third element for a predetermined period. The first circuit includes a fourth element for holding the ON control of the third element by the ON operation, and a second circuit capable of setting an operation period of an ON operation of the fourth element. This makes it possible to prevent false operation of the first element due to noise with a simple circuit configuration.
US09759980B2
The present invention provides a realistic solution for a highlight or multicolor display device which can display high quality color states. More specifically, an electrophoretic fluid is provided which comprises four types of particles, having different levels of size, threshold voltage or charge intensity.
US09759971B2
An array substrate includes: first and second gate lines extending along a first direction; a data line extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, and being insulated from the first and second gate lines; a pixel electrode disposed in a pixel area defined by the data line, the first gate line, and the second gate line; a first auxiliary electrode overlapping the first gate line; and a second auxiliary electrode disposed between the pixel electrode and the second gate line, the second auxiliary electrode being spaced apart from the second gate line. The pixel electrode includes: a first subpixel electrode disposed adjacent to the first gate line, and having first direction size greater than a second direction size; and a second subpixel electrode spaced apart from the first subpixel electrode in the second direction, and having a first direction size greater than a second direction size.
US09759968B2
A thin film transistor substrate includes a gate electrode on a base substrate, an active pattern on the gate electrode, a source electrode on a first end of the active pattern, a drain electrode on a second end of the active pattern, an organic insulation layer on the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a transparent electrode contacting the drain electrode through a contact opening in the organic insulation layer. The drain electrode is spaced from the source electrode. The organic insulation layer includes a first thickness portion around the contact opening and a second thickness portion adjacent to the first thickness portion. The second thickness portion has a thickness greater than that of the first thickness portion.
US09759943B2
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device that may include a first substrate; a first electrode on the first substrate, the first electrode including a plurality of first inclined planes; a nanocapsule liquid crystal layer on the first electrode, the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer including a plurality of nano-sized capsules dispersed in a buffer layer, each of the plurality of nano-sized capsules including nematic liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy; and a second electrode on the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer, the second electrode including a plurality of second inclined planes facing the plurality of first inclined planes, wherein the nanocapsule liquid crystal layer is substantially, optically isotropic in a normal state, and is optically anisotropic when a voltage is applied to the first and second electrodes.
US09759941B2
An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes: a substrate; a LTPS TFT disposed above the substrate; a planarization layer covering the LTPS TFT; a via hole formed in the planarization layer, wherein the via hole reveals a drain electrode of the LTPS TFT; multiple common electrodes and receiving electrodes disposed separately on the planarization layer, wherein the multiple common electrode function as a driving electrode in a touch stage, and the multiple common electrodes which are disposed separately are connected with each other; a passivation layer which covers the multiple common electrodes and the multiple receiving electrodes and the planarization layer; and a pixel electrode disposed on the passivation layer, wherein, the pixel electrode is contacted with the drain electrode through the via hole. A manufacturing method for the array substrate is also provided. The present invention can reduce one manufacturing process and decrease production cost.
US09759939B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate spaced apart from the first substrate; and a plurality of liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate includes a transparent substrate, an insulator layer formed on a surface of the transparent substrate and formed with a plurality of grooves, and a pixel electrode formed on a surface of the insulator layer and formed with a plurality of electrode slits.
US09759935B2
An optical modulator is described. This optical modulator may be implemented using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. In particular, a semiconductor layer in an SOI platform may include a photonic crystal having a group velocity of light that is less than that of the semiconductor layer. Moreover, an optical modulator (such as a Mach-Zehnder interferometer) may be implemented in the photonic crystal with a vertical junction in the semiconductor layer. During operation of the optical modulator, an input optical signal may be split into two different optical signals that feed two optical waveguides, and then subsequently combined into an output optical signal. Furthermore, during operation, time-varying bias voltages may be applied across the vertical junction in the optical modulator using contacts defined along a lateral direction of the optical modulator.
US09759927B2
An image blur correction device includes: a lens unit that has at least one lens and is rotatable at least in a first direction, which is an axial rotation direction of a first fulcrum axis orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens, and a second direction which is an axial rotation direction of a second fulcrum axis orthogonal to the first fulcrum axis; a fixing member that rotatably supports the lens unit in the first and second directions; a first actuator that has a first driving portion movable in a predetermined direction so as to rotate the lens unit in the first direction; and a second actuator that has a second driving portion movable in a predetermined direction so as to rotate the lens unit in the second direction.
US09759923B2
Disclosed is a waveguide assembly for a head-mounted display device. The waveguide assembly can comprise a waveguide carrier, a first left waveguide, and a first right waveguide. The waveguide carrier can include a nose bridge portion, and flat left and right mounting surfaces extending from the nose bridge portion, to align with a left eye and a right eye, respectively, of a user of the head-mounted display device. The first left waveguide can be affixed to the left mounting surface of the waveguide carrier only by a first layer of adhesive disposed only around a periphery of a surface of the first left waveguide, while the first right waveguide can be affixed to the right mounting surface of the waveguide carrier only by a second layer of the adhesive disposed only around a periphery of a surface of the first right waveguide.
US09759918B2
Embodiments related to mapping an environment of a machine-vision system are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes acquiring image data resolving one or more reference features of an environment and computing a parameter value based on the image data, wherein the parameter value is responsive to physical deformation of the machine-vision system.
US09759916B2
New optic control systems are provided that manage user or environmental factors impacting viewing experiences. In some aspects of the invention, a variably, directionally shadable screen and actuating system is provided, which prevents and limits problematic glare for an observation point. In other aspects of the invention, a matrix of specialized pixels creates variably-directed light from a plurality of angle-directable, shiftable sources, which aids in creating virtual, 3-D objects of greater realism than conventional 3-D imaging methods and aid in reducing the appearance of distracting interceding objects (e.g., finger blocking a touch screen). In these aspects, existing images and objects viewed through a screen may be enhanced and overlaid with effects, and shifted in perspective, and demonstrative information related to images and objects and an environment. In other aspects of the invention, driving enhancement, and semi-autonomous driving systems and displays are provided.
US09759915B2
A short-distance optical amplification module and a near-eye display optical module using the same in the present invention relates to an optical amplification module applicable for short distance and an optical module using the same for near-eye display. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an optical amplification module for large-multiple amplification within a short distance (less than 5 cm) and a near-eye display optical module using the same to achieve super large field of view within a short distance (less than 3 cm). The short-distance optical amplification module in the present invention comprises a first 45 degree phase delay sheet (2), a partial-transmission and partial-reflection curved lens (4), a second 45 degree phase delay sheet (5) and a reflective polarizing sheet (6) which are sequentially arranged. The near-eye display optical module in the present invention comprises a display screen (1) disposed on the side of the first 45 degree phase delay sheet (2) away from the partial-transmission and partial-reflection curved lens (4).
US09759912B2
An apparatus for contaminant control, having: a first optical assembly including: a first light homogenizer tunnel with: a first end connected to an extreme ultra-violet light source, a second end in communication with a destination chamber, a first enclosed space, and, a first gas input arranged to introduce a first gas such that the first gas flows in a first direction toward the first end and in a second direction toward the second end. The apparatus alternately having: a second optical assembly including: a second light homogenizer tunnel with: a third end connected to an extreme ultra-violet light source, a fourth end in communication with a destination chamber, a second enclosed space, a diffusion barrier tube including: a fifth end facing the fourth end and a sixth end in communication with a destination chamber, and a second gas input between the second light homogenizer tunnel and the diffusion tube.
US09759909B1
Scanning platforms for use in scanning laser devices are described herein. These scanning platforms are particularly applicable to scanning laser devices that use microelectromechanical system (MEMS) structures to facilitate mirror motion. The scanning platforms include a centrally located stationary mount portion and a movable portion that surrounds the stationary portion. The movable portion is configured to be coupled to a mirror and to facilitate motion of that mirror. Such a scanning platform can facilitate reduced size in scanning mirror assembly, and thus can facilitate a more compact scanning laser device.
US09759908B2
An optical scanner includes: a movable plate which includes a light reflection unit which reflects light; a first torsion bar spring which oscillatably supports the movable plate around a first axis; a displacement member which is connected to the first torsion bar spring; a second torsion bar spring which oscillatably supports the displacement member around a second axis intersecting with the first axis; a coil provided on the displacement member; and a magnet which is provided spaced apart from the displacement member, and generates a magnetic field to be inclined with respect to the first axis and the second axis and to act on the coil, wherein the displacement member includes a frame surrounding the movable plate, and a damper which has a smaller thickness than that of the frame and extends in a direction intersecting with a direction in which the second torsion bar spring extends from the frame.
US09759901B2
The invention relates to a microscope arrangement provided with: a microscope (10) having at least two optical outputs (12, 14) for outputting a fluorescence signal and a switching arrangement (16) for switching the output of the fluorescence signal between the optical outputs; a beam splitter arrangement (18); optical elements (28, 30) for generating a separate partial beam path (24, 26) associated with each output in such a way that the respective fluorescence signal of each of the outputs is superimposed at the beam splitter arrangement after passing through the respective partial beam path; and also at least two optical detectors (20, 22), wherein for each of the partial beam paths, one of the detectors is located behind the beam splitter, seen from the microscope, in reflection and another of the detectors is located behind the beam splitter arrangement, seen from the microscope, in transmission.
US09759892B2
An imaging optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave. The second lens element has an object-side surface being concave and an image-side surface being convex. The third lens element has an object-side surface being concave and an image-side surface being convex. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave.
US09759875B2
A bi-directional optical module that provides an Rx unit and a Tx unit, where optical axes are perpendicular to each other, is disclosed. The optical module provides a housing that installs a WDM filter therein and assembles the coupling unit in a surface through the front alignment unit, the Tx unit in another surface opposite to the former surface, and the Rx unit in still another surface connecting the former two surfaces through the rear alignment unit. The axes of the Tx unit and the coupling unit are in parallel to each other, but the axis of the Rx unit is in perpendicular to the former two axes. The Rx unit installs a photodiode (PD) with an optically sensitive surface leveled with the surface of the rear alignment unit to which the Rx unit is attached.
US09759874B2
A communications connection system includes an SC fiber optic connector including a storage device having memory configured to store physical layer information. The storage device also includes at least one contact member that is electrically connected to the memory. The communications connection system also includes a fiber optic adapter module having one or more media reading interfaces. Each media reading interface is configured to read physical layer information stored on one of the fiber optic connectors received at the adapter module. Certain types of media reading interfaces extend between an internal passage of the adapter module and an external surface of the adapter module.
US09759867B2
An optical apparatus includes a first beam combining device arranged to receive a first optical beam having a first wavelength at a first location and a second optical beam output having a second wavelength at a second location. The second optical beam has a polarization that is substantially orthogonal to a polarization of the first optical beam. The first beam combining device configured to output a first combined beam that comprises a combination of the first optical beam and the second optical beam. An optical element is arranged to receive the first combined beam and a second combined beam and to transmit an output beam that includes a combination of the first combined beam and the second combined beam.
US09759860B2
An apparatus includes a multi-mode optical fiber having a selected plurality of optical propagating modes. The selected plurality may include only a proper subset of or may include all of the optical propagating modes of the multi-mode optical fiber. Each optical propagating mode of the selected plurality has a group velocity that varies over a corresponding range for light in, at least, one of the optical telecommunications C-band, the optical telecommunications L-band, and the optical telecommunications S-band. The ranges corresponding to different ones of the modes of the selected plurality are non-overlapping. The ranges of a group velocity-adjacent pair of the ranges are separated by a nonzero gap of less than about 10,000 meters per second.
US09759855B2
Hybrid nanoparticles and transparent light guides using the hybrid nanoparticles are disclosed. In some examples, a hybrid nanoparticle may include an organic blue-light emitting material, and an inorganic material bonded to the organic blue-light emitting material.
US09759853B2
A light guide plate receives light and guides the light to a display panel. The light guide plate includes a body and protruding portions. The body includes a first side surface disposed adjacent to the light source, a second side surface facing the first side surface, and an upper surface. Protruding portions are protruded from the upper surface. Each of the protruding portions includes first and second protruding portions sequentially arranged from the first side surface to the second side surface. A width of the first protruding portion in a direction substantially parallel to the first side surface becomes smaller as a distance from the first side surface becomes larger, and a width of the second protruding portion in the direction substantially parallel to the first side surface becomes larger as the distance from the first side surface becomes larger.
US09759851B2
An electronic device includes a display frame, a light guide plate disposed within the display frame, and a light source disposed along an edge of the light guide plate. The light source is secured to the display frame. The electronic device further includes an enclosure in which the display frame and the light guide plate are disposed. The enclosure is configured to allow thermal expansion of the display frame and of the light guide plate. The light guide plate and the display frame have substantially similar coefficients of thermal expansion.
US09759835B2
The present invention discloses an infrared image-spectrum associated intelligent detection method and apparatus, including: first searching for targets in a field of view (FOV), and performing image-spectrum associated intelligent identification sequentially on the searched targets, that is, first performing infrared image target identification on each target, and if a detection identification rate is greater than a set threshold, outputting an identification result and storing target image data; otherwise, acquiring an infrared spectrum of the target, and performing target identification based on infrared spectrum features. The present invention further discloses an apparatus for performing target detection using the above method, and the apparatus mainly includes a two-dimensional scanning mirror, a multiband infrared optical module, a long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging unit, a broadband infrared spectrum measuring unit, and a processing and control unit. The method and apparatus of the present invention are improvements and enhancements of the conventional infrared target detection method and device, and may be used for infrared image detection, infrared image-spectrum associated detection of the target and infrared spectrum collection of the target. Compared with the conventional infrared detection device, the present invention has a higher performance cost ratio, and can significantly improve the detection identification rate of the target.
US09759833B2
A method on a server for logging and recalling data gathered from a buried asset location procedure is disclosed. The method includes receiving a group of buried asset data points corresponding to a particular buried asset, receiving at a different time a portable transmitter hookup definition associated with the group of buried asset data points, searching for buried asset data points that match, within predefined parameters, the portable transmitter hookup definition, storing the portable transmitter hookup definition in association with the matching points, creating a buffer zone around the portable transmitter hookup, and transmitting to a mobile device the buffer zone for the portable transmitter hookup.
US09759830B2
A formation fluid sample is analyzed using NMR spectroscopy to obtain a NMR spectrum. The NMR spectrum is then analyzed to find evidence of the amount of olefins present in the sample. The amount of olefins present in the sample can then be correlated to the level of contamination of the sample. In one embodiment, a 1H chemical shift of between substantially 4.5 and 6 ppm is used to identify olefins present in the sample. In another embodiment, a 1H chemical shift of substantially 1.9 to 2.1 ppm is used to identify olefins present in the sample. The NMR spectral equipment can be located uphole or downhole.
US09759825B2
An apparatus includes particle motion sensors and a streamer that contains the particle motion sensors. The streamer is towed in connection with a seismic survey, and the towing of the streamer produces a turbulent flow. The streamer includes an inner cable and a fluid containing layer. The inner cable includes a material to circumscribe and extend along a longitudinal axis of the streamer and circumscribe at least one of the particle motion sensors. The fluid containing layer surrounds the inner cable to reduce noise that is otherwise sensed by the particle motion sensors due to the turbulent flow.
US09759823B1
Directional radiation detectors and systems, methods, and computer-readable media for using directional radiation detectors to locate a radiation source are provided herein. A directional radiation detector includes a radiation sensor. A radiation attenuator partially surrounds the radiation sensor and defines an aperture through which incident radiation is received by the radiation sensor. The aperture is positioned such that when incident radiation is received directly through the aperture and by the radiation sensor, a source of the incident radiation is located within a solid angle defined by the aperture. The radiation sensor senses at least one of alpha particles, beta particles, gamma particles, or neutrons.
US09759817B2
Improved methods and systems for position acquisition and/or monitoring are disclosed. The position acquisition and/or monitoring can be performed with improved intelligence so that data acquisition, transmission and/or processing is reduced. As a result, the position acquisition and/or monitoring is able to be performed in a power efficient manner.
US09759814B2
A method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) image of a target object includes acquiring ultrasound data of the target object; and generating the 3D image of the target object by using the ultrasound data so that a part of the target object having attribute information different than attribute information of other parts of the target object is shown on the 3D image differently than the other parts.
US09759796B2
A method and an apparatus for eliminating noise in magnetic resonance images are disclosed. An aspect of the invention provides a method for eliminating noise in a magnetic resonance image that includes: obtaining a multiple number of magnetic resonance images sequentially within a preset time range for the same part; calculating probability information, which relates to the probability of a first pixel and a second pixel of the multiple magnetic resonance images belonging to the same tissue, by using decay information, which relates to a decay in signal intensity values for the first pixel and the second pixel according to time; and determining a new signal intensity value for the first pixel and the second pixel based on a weighted average of signal intensity values of the first pixel and the second pixel according to the probability information.
US09759794B2
Techniques, apparatus and systems are described for using parameters including chain length, number of double bonds and number of double-double bonds of a complex, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-generated fat spectrum to determine the composition and properties of fat and to perform various diagnostic functions. In one aspect, a method using MRI to characterize fat includes acquiring a magnetic resonance (MR) image that includes MR data from a target, determining fat characterization parameters based on the acquired MR data, and using the determined fat characterization parameters to produce a relationship between regions of fat and/or water in the MR image.
US09759761B2
A three-phase alternating current mains has capacitor bushings that each have a conductor connected with one of the mains lines of the alternating current mains and an electrically conductive lining surrounding the conductor. These bushings are monitored by first determining an upper capacitance and a lower capacitance for each bushing and then detecting a measured voltage between the respective lining and a ground potential at each capacitor bushing. An actual capacitance for each capacitor bushing is calculated that depends on the respective measured voltage and the respective lower capacitance as well as on the measured voltage, the lower capacitance, and the upper capacitance of one of the other capacitor bushings. For each capacitor bushing the respective upper capacitance is compared with the respective actual capacitance and a monitoring signal is generated that is dependent on the results of the capacitance comparison.
US09759749B2
Embodiments relate to coreless magnetic field current sensors, systems and methods, such as magnetoresistive sensors, systems and methods, to sense current flow in a conductor via a related magnetic field. In an embodiment, a current sensor system for sensing a current in a conductor from a magnetic field induced thereby, comprising a plurality N of magnetoresistive (MR) sensors arranged on a circle concentric to a center of the conductor and spaced apart from one another by 360 degrees/N, wherein each MR sensor has a sensitivity plane and is responsive to a projection of the magnetic field into the sensitivity plane, the sensitivity planes of the plurality of MR sensors being parallel, and wherein the plurality of MR sensors are arranged relative to the conductor such that the magnetic field has a non-vanishing component parallel to the sensitivity plane; at least one magnetic element arranged to provide a bias magnetic field on the plurality of MR sensors; and circuitry coupled to the plurality of MR sensors to determine the current in the conductor by combining signals from each of the plurality of MR sensors.
US09759731B2
A Disease Severity Index (DSI) is provided for assessment of chronic liver disease in a patient using non-invasive liver function test results. A DSI was derived from non-invasive liver function test results based on hepatic blood flow. The DSI is used in methods for prediction of clinical outcomes, prediction of response to antiviral treatment, and assessment of progression of chronic liver diseases. Non-invasive methods to diagnose three distinct categories of patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC) are provided. The methods can be used to diagnose PSC patients as Slow Progressors, Moderate Progressors and Rapid Progressors.
US09759729B2
Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) biomarkers, NEC biomarker panels, and methods for obtaining a NEC signature for a sample are provided. Also provided are methods, compositions, and kits for making a Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) assessment of an individual, e.g. for diagnosing NEC in a patient, prognosing NEC in a patient, treating an NEC patient, etc. These methods find use in a number of applications, such as diagnosing and treating infants who are suspected of having NEC, intestinal perforation (IP), or sepsis.
US09759728B2
The present invention relates generally to the fields of reproductive medicine. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods and kits for determining the human sperm quality.
US09759714B2
Methods and apparatus for normalizing path length in an optical system for non-invasive glucose concentration. A method arrangement includes providing an optical energy source spaced from a first photo-detector by a sensing area; transmitting energy from the optical energy source onto the first photo-detector; storing a first reading corresponding to the light intensity observed by the first photo-detector; subsequently, introducing a container of solution including an optically active substance into the sampling area; transmitting energy from the optical energy source through the container in the sampling area and onto the first photo-detector; storing a second reading corresponding to the light intensity observed by the first photo-detector; determining a ratio of the first reading to the second reading; and determining a path length L by computing L=ln(ratio)/μ where μ is an absorption constant of the optical energy in the solution and container. Additional arrangements are disclosed.
US09759713B2
A hand-held test meter for use with an electrochemical-based analytical test strip in the determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample includes a housing, a micro-controller disposed in the housing, a test strip simulation passive circuit block disposed in the housing, and a strip port connector (“SPC”) configured to operationally receive an electrochemical-based analytical test. The test strip simulation passive circuit block is in electrical communication with the SPC and the SPC is configured in electrical communication with the micro-controller. In addition, the test strip simulation passive circuit block is configured to simulate insertion of an electrochemical-based analytical test strip into the SPC and also to simulate application of a bodily fluid sample to an electrochemical-based analytical test strip inserted into the SPC by presenting one or both of (i) an alternating current (AC) load to SPC; and (ii) a direct current (DC) load to the SPC.
US09759712B2
A glucometer is provided, comprising a reader configured to analyze a blood sample, a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit data, encoded within an audio signal, regarding results of the analysis, and a controller configured to facilitate the encoding.
US09759710B2
The present specification discloses a dialysis system having a reservoir module with a reservoir housing defining an internal space, a surface located within the internal space for supporting a container that contains dialysate, and a conductivity sensor located within the internal space, where the conductivity sensor has a coil, a capacitor in electrical communication with the coil, and an energy source in electrical communication with the circuit.
US09759709B1
The subject invention provides materials and methods for detecting the presence and progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in the presence of a substance of abuse and/or at least one therapeutic agent. Preferred embodiments provide that the detection of HIV infection is accomplished by applying electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to an apparatus comprising cultured cells of the central nervous system (CNS) such as, for example, human astrocytes (HA), and/or of the peripheral nervous system (PNS) in contact with at least one sensing electrode. In some embodiments, the detection apparatus can be integrated with electronic components such as, for example, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), and miniaturized potentiostats. Advantageously, technology provided herein enables rapid (e.g., less than 20 minute) assessment of HIV infections suitable for point-of-care (POC) disease monitoring and treatment.
US09759703B2
Systems and methods for measuring gas flux are disclosed. One method for calculating gas flux includes: receiving a master clock signal from a global positioning system (GPS) module; transmitting a clock synchronization signal that is based on the master clock signal to a measurement subsystem configured to measure environmental data, wherein the measurement subsystem comprises at least two clocks; receiving the environmental data from the measurement subsystem, wherein the environmental data is associated with the at least two clocks; and calculating gas flux based on the environmental data received from the measurement subsystem.
US09759701B2
Systems and methods for detecting presence of a thing, the thing treated with a descenter, one method including in an area in which it is possible that a thing treated with a descenter is present, using a detector to detect a descenter level in the area, producing a detected descenter level, comparing the detected descenter level to a normal descenter level for the area, determining that the detected descenter level is different from the normal descenter level, said determining indicating the possible presence of a thing treated with a descenter; and using a trained service animal to facilitate such a method.
US09759691B2
A method for characterizing a spot weld, including acquiring a sequence of A-scans from an ultrasonic phased array, wherein the A-scans describe individual portions of a field of view of the phased array; manually applying an interface gate and a flaw gate to each individual A-scan within the sequence of A-scans; calculating a gate ratio between a maximum amplitude under the interface gate and a maximum amplitude under the flaw gate for each individual A-scan; plotting the gate ratio for each individual A-scan as a function of location within the phased array field of view to generate a weld fusion map; using a predetermined threshold to differentiate fused locations from unfused locations on the weld fusion map; and calculating predetermined weld metrics, wherein the predetermined weld metrics include area, diameter, width, length, percent fused, or combinations thereof.
US09759684B2
A gas analyzing device including at least one ion mobility spectrometer is provided. The gas analyzing device also includes an energy supply device interacting with a reaction chamber of the ion mobility spectrometer which is designed to manipulate the density of free reactant ions in the reaction chamber by supplying energy. A method for analyzing gas by means of a gas analyzing device according to the ion mobility spectrometry is also provided.
US09759681B2
The present invention is intended to provide a method and a device for detecting a biomolecule with high sensitivity and high throughput over a wide dynamic range without requiring concentration adjustments of a sample in advance. The present invention specifically binds charge carriers to a detection target biomolecule, and detects the detection target biomolecule one by one by measuring a current change that occurs as the conjugate of the biomolecule and the charge carriers passes through a micropore. High-throughput detection of a biomolecule sample is possible with an array of detectors.
US09759678B2
A sensor system includes a sensor and a sensor electronics device. The sensor includes a plurality of electrodes. The sensor electronics device includes a connection detection device, a power source, and a delay circuit. The connection detection device determines if the sensor electronics device is connected to the sensor and transmits a connection signal. The delay circuit receives the connection signal, waits a preset hydration time, and couples the regulated voltage from the power source to an electrode in the sensor after the preset hydration time has elapsed. Alternatively, the sensor electronics device may include an electrical detection circuit and a microcontroller. The electrical detection circuit determines if the plurality of electrodes are hydrated and generates an interrupt if the electrodes are hydrated. A microcontroller receives the interrupt and transmits a signal representative of a voltage to an electrode of the plurality of electrodes.
US09759670B2
A bore imaging system comprises a photodetector configuration and a first bore surface imaging arrangement configured to transmit image light arising from a first image zone on a bore surface to the photodetector. The photodetector configuration comprises a first curved photodetector arrangement which is curved in a plane that is oriented transverse to an axial direction of the bore. The first curved photodetector arrangement comprises a first imaging array that receives image light along a direction transverse to the axial direction.
US09759663B2
The disclosure provides microstructured articles and methods useful for detecting an analyte in a sample. The articles include microwell arrays. The articles can be used with an optical system component in methods to detect or characterize an analyte.
US09759652B2
A gas detection device comprising a light emitting source including a first plurality of quantum dots of substantially discrete size and made of a semiconductor material a gas cell to contain the gas to be detected and a light detector.
US09759647B2
A wear-proof tester to evaluate an anti-frictional performance of surface treatment carried on a needle cage. The needle cage is subjected to flex under the centrifugal force of composite revolution and rotation. Wear-proof test of surface treatment is carried by sliding contact between the outside circular surface of the retainer and the inside circular surface of the outside wheel. The retainer with no roller is fastened on a rotary shaft with leaving a clearance between them. A radial load is applied to retainer through a test outside wheel to get the retainer flexed to make sliding contact over a predetermined area between the outside circular surface of the retainer and the inside circular surface of the outside wheel. This wear-proof tester is applicable to the wear-proof tests of various materials other than the wear-proof test of the retainer made of various materials.
US09759641B2
A sub-micron scale property testing apparatus including a test subject holder and heating assembly. The assembly includes a holder base configured to couple with a sub-micron mechanical testing instrument and electro-mechanical transducer assembly. The assembly further includes a test subject stage coupled with the holder base. The test subject stage is thermally isolated from the holder base. The test subject stage includes a stage subject surface configured to receive a test subject, and a stage plate bracing the stage subject surface. The stage plate is under the stage subject surface. The test subject stage further includes a heating element adjacent to the stage subject surface, the heating element is configured to generate heat at the stage subject surface.
US09759637B1
A trailer mounted soil sampler including one or more soil sampling assemblies mounted thereon. Each of the soil sampler assemblies being selectively pivotally movable between horizontally disposed and vertically disposed positions. Each of the soil sampling assemblies includes an elongated hollow soil probe which is driven into the ground to collect a soil sample therein. The soil sampler includes a soil cleaning and oiler mechanism. The soil sampler also includes a trash cleaner for cleaning trash from the area where the soil probe is to be driven into the ground. Further, the soil sampler includes a soil sample collection apparatus for collecting the soil samples in bags.
US09759635B2
A carriage structure for a vehicle test may include a power train substitution part provided in a front wheel carriage frame and including weight plates mounted at a connection part at which an upper member and a center beam are connected to each other, door substitution parts provided at both sides of the front wheel carriage frame, connected to the power train substitution part, and including an upper beam and an lower beam formed in the horizontal direction while having a predetermined interval therebetween and coupled to a rear stand formed in the vertical direction; and a rear wheel carriage substitution part provided at the rear of the front wheel carriage frame, connected to the door substitution parts, and including a floor member forming a lower portion thereof, a truss part connecting the floor member and the front wheel carriage frame to each other, and a weight member.
US09759634B2
The exemplary systems, apparatus, structures, and methods may include an assembly including substrate, an optical waveguide, and an optical access associated with the optical waveguide. Light from the optical access may be measured along the optical waveguide. The coupling loss of the optical waveguide may be determined based on at least the light measurements from the optical access.
US09759631B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring and determining fuel vapor recovery performance is disclosed. The dispensing of liquid fuel into a tank by a conventional gas pump nozzle naturally displaces a mixture of air and fuel ullage vapor in the tank. These displaced vapors may be recovered at the dispensing point nozzle by a vapor recovery system. A properly functioning vapor recovery system recovers approximately one unit volume of vapor for every unit volume of dispensed liquid fuel. The ratio of recovered vapor to dispensed fuel is termed the A/L ratio, which should ideally be approximately equal to one (1). The A/L ratio, and thus the proper functioning of the vapor recovery system, may be determined by measuring liquid fuel flow and return vapor flow (using a vapor flow sensor) on a nozzle-by-nozzle basis. The disclosed methods and apparatus provide for the determination of A/L ratios for individual nozzles using a reduced number of vapor flow sensors. The disclosed methods and apparatus also provide for the determination of fuel dispensing system vapor containment integrity, and the differentiation of true vapor recovery failures as opposed to false failures resulting from the refueling of vehicles provided with onboard vapor recovery systems.
US09759630B2
A system for detecting a gas leak in a generator includes a source of carbon dioxide gas, and a subsystem for introducing the carbon dioxide gas into the generator. An infrared imaging device is adapted to communicate with a notification device to display an image of at least a portion of the generator and the carbon dioxide gas. The infrared imaging device is a cooled detector and a filter with a spectral response between about 3 μm and about 5 μm. At least one of the detector and the filter is cooled to between about −80° C. and about −200° C. The gas leak will be indicated on the notification device.
US09759629B2
A leak detection device is provided which comprises: in order to suppress effects of extraneous vibration and improve accuracy of leak detection, a first detection unit (6) which detects vibration in a first direction and output a first signal S1 representing a magnitude of the vibration in the first direction, the first detection unit (6) being installed to a pipe (2) in which fluid (5) flows; a second detection unit (7) which detects vibration in a second direction different from the first direction and output a second signal S2 representing a magnitude of the vibration in the second direction, the second detection unit (7) being installed to the pipe (2); and a signal processing unit (10) which performs an arithmetic operation processing using the first signal S1 and the second signal S2.
US09759628B2
A solution for monitoring an area for the presence of a flame and/or a leak, such as from a pressurized fluid, is provided. An imaging device can be used that acquires image data based on electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths only corresponding to at least one region of the electromagnetic spectrum in which electromagnetic radiation from an ambient light source is less than the electromagnetic radiation emitted by at least one type of flame for which the presence within the area is being monitored. An acoustic device can be used that is configured to acquire acoustic data for the area and enhance acoustic signals in a range of frequencies corresponding to a leak of a pressurized fluid present in the area.
US09759623B2
A pressure measuring cell includes an elastic measuring membrane which is contactable with a first pressure on a first side and with a second pressure on a second side facing away from the first side. The measuring membrane is deflectable as a function of a difference between the first pressure and the second pressure, wherein the measuring membrane pressure-tightly isolates a first volume, which is facing the first side of the measuring membrane, from a second volume, which is facing the second side of the measuring membrane. The pressure measuring cell further includes a transducer for transducing the pressure dependent deflection of the measuring membrane into an electrical or optical signal. The measuring membrane has in the equilibrium state of the measuring membrane compressive stresses at least at the surface of the measuring membrane at least in a radial edge region, in which in the deflected state of the measuring membrane under pressure loading tensile stress maxima occur.
US09759622B2
The present invention, in one embodiment, provides a method of measuring pressure or temperature using a sensor including a sensor element composed of a plurality of carbon nanotubes. In one example, the resistance of the plurality of carbon nanotubes is measured in response to the application of temperature or pressure. The changes in resistance are then recorded and correlated to temperature or pressure. In one embodiment, the present invention provides for independent measurement of pressure or temperature using the sensors disclosed herein.
US09759615B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide an RTP system for processing a substrate. An RTP chamber has a radiation source configured to deliver radiation to a substrate disposed within a processing volume. One or more pyrometers are coupled to the chamber body opposite the radiation source. In one example, the radiation source is disposed below the substrate and the pyrometers are disposed above the substrate. In another example, the radiation source is disposed above the substrate and the pyrometers are disposed below the substrate. The substrate may be supported in varying manners configured to reduce physical contact between the substrate support and the substrate. An edge ring and shield are disposed within the processing volume and are configured to reduce or eliminate background radiation from interfering with the pyrometers. Additionally, an absorbing surface may be coupled to the chamber body to further reduce background radiation interference.
US09759613B2
Disclosed are a temperature sensor device using a thermopile, the total number n of thermocouples thereon can be increased without greatly increasing the internal resistance of the thermopile r, providing high output level and high S/N ratio, a highly sensitive radiation thermometer using the device, and production method of the device using organic material for thin films to form the thermopile. These provide a standardized inexpensive multi-layered thin film thermopile, a radiation thermometer with high sensitivity, and production method of these devices. The temperature sensor device is a device wherein a thermopile which is formed on a thin film thermally isolated from a substrate is place in a temperature sensing part, and the thin film is formed as a multi-layered thin film, a layered thermopile is formed on each layered thin film, the substrate functioning as a heat sink which is one junction of the reference temperature of the thermopile.
US09759610B2
A method for dissolved gas analysis is presented. The method includes the steps of irradiating a fluid with electromagnetic radiation; and determining a concentration of a gas as a function of a temperature change of the fluid in response to the irradiation. A device for such an analysis of dissolved gases in a fluid, and a system having such device are also described.
US09759607B2
An optical wavelength identifying system comprises an optical wavelength detecting device, a memory, a modulator, a comparison module, and an instruction module. The optical wavelength detecting device comprises a polarizer, a detecting element, a measuring device and a data processor. The polarizer is configured to transform an incident light into a polarized light. The detecting element is configured to form a temperature difference or a potential difference, wherein the detecting element comprises a carbon nanotube structure comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes oriented along the same direction. The measuring device is electrically connected to the detecting element and configured to measure the temperature difference or the potential difference. The data processor is electrically connected to the measuring device and configured to obtain the optical wavelength by calculating and analyzing the temperature difference or the potential difference.
US09759604B2
A spectrometer comprises a package having a stem and a cap, an optical unit arranged on the stem, and a lead pin penetrating through the stem. The optical unit has a dispersive part for dispersing and reflecting light entering from a light entrance part of the cap, a light detection element for detecting the light dispersed and reflected by the dispersive part, a support for supporting the light detection element such as to form a space between the dispersive part and the light detection element, a projection projecting from the support, and a wiring electrically connected to the light detection element. The projection is arranged at such a position as to be separated from the stem. The lead pin is electrically connected to the second terminal part while being disposed to the projection.
US09759601B2
A device that may include a narrowband filter that is arranged to pass radiation within a main signal waveband in which a muzzle flash is expected to include energy above a first energy threshold; a first single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arranged to detect photons of the main signal waveband during different points in time and to output first digital detection signals representative of the photons of the main signal waveband; and a signal processor that is arranged to receive the first digital detection signals and to detect, in response to at least the first digital detection signals, the muzzle flash.
US09759591B2
An undershot gate system controls flow of liquid through an open channel or pipe. The system includes a gate leaf adapted to be raised and lowered by a control to allow flow of liquid along the open channel or pipe. The gate leaf has a flow diverter at an end of the gate leaf to guide liquid under the gate leaf and through an opening when the gate leaf is in an open position.
US09759589B2
A method and an apparatus for determining leakage volume of fluid in transportation pipelines are provided. The method comprises: obtaining the negative pressure wave signals detected by at least two pressure sensors arranged on the pipeline; determining the pressure signal at the leakage location based on the negative pressure wave signals; determining the leakage rate during a leakage period based on the pressure signal at the leakage location according to a leakage model; and determining the leakage volume of the fluid in the pipeline based on the leakage rate and the leakage period. The apparatus provided corresponds to the method described above. By using the method and apparatus described above, the leakage volume of the transportation pipelines can be obtained to help understand the leakage profile of the pipelines and thus reduce losses.
US09759587B2
An electrical process control sensor assembly 10 for sensing a process or machine parameter, the assembly 10 including a sensor body 12 and a head 14, the body 12 defining a body interior 20. The assembly includes a sensing device 22 at least partially located in the body interior 20. The head 14 defines a head interior 24 which communicates with the body interior 20. The assembly 10 includes a connector arrangement 26 located in the head interior 24. The assembly 10 includes internal communicating members 28 extending between the sensing device 22 and the connector arrangement 26, the connector arrangement 26 connecting, in an installed condition, the internal communicating members 28 to external communicating members 30 to permit electrical communication therebetween. The head 14 defines a port 34 through which the external connecting members 30 are located in the installed condition. The assembly 10 includes a mounting 48 for mounting the head 14 to the body 12 which is arranged to permit adjustment of the orientation of the head 14 relative to the body 12.
US09759581B2
The electronic measurement circuit comprises a measurement sensor with two differential mounted capacitors each comprising a fixed electrode, and a common electrode arranged to move relative to the fixed capacitor electrode to alter the capacitive value when the physical parameter is measured. The circuit further comprises a first integrator unit connected to the common electrode for integrating charge received from the sensor, and comprising two integrators arranged to be connected alternately to the common electrode, a first comparator for comparing analogue output values from the first integrator unit, a second integrator unit for integrating charge received from the first integrator unit, a second comparator for comparing analogue output values from the second integrator unit, a switch circuit for switching different voltage values across the capacitors, and a feedback circuit for feeding a digital output signal from the first comparator to the switch circuit for controlling its operation, and an incremental calculation unit receiving digital output signals from the comparators and supplying a final digital output signal.
US09759572B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of predicting whether a vehicle can reach a desired facility or point by traveling on a retrieved route to the destination. A navigation apparatus includes an information storage that stores map information, a current position detector that detects a current position of the vehicle, an instruction receiver that receives a setting of a destination, and a vehicle information receiver that receives information on a remaining amount of the electricity charged. The navigation apparatus further includes a processing circuitry that retrieves a route to the destination from the map information and calculates a first travelable range in which the vehicle is allowed to travel from the current position through at least a part of the route to cause the first travelable range to be displayed.
US09759566B2
A first device is operated to obtain a navigation track between a first location and a second location by establishing a peer-to-peer communication connection with a second device and receiving a message that contains information associated with the first location and/or the second location from the second device. The information is associated with a navigation module on the first device. The information associated with the at least one of the first location and the second location is processed using the navigation module to obtain the navigation track between the first location and the second location.
US09759559B2
A trip hazard measurement gauge is, except for a measurement module and display, constructed primarily of aluminum. A cylindrical tube has an upper straight section and a lower straight section that are interconnected by a curved section. The upper straight section and the lower straight section form an obtuse angle. A cylindrical aluminum housing is connected to the tube via a conical connecter piece. A non-movable foot is rigidly connected to the cylindrical housing. A measurement module is installed within the cylindrical housing. A slidable rule, to which a movable foot is attached to a lower end thereof, extends from the measurement module. A return spring ensures that the movable foot returns to its lowermost position. After turning ON the display, selecting the measurement system and zeroing the gauge, it is ready to measure differences in elevation between adjacent sidewalk slabs.
US09759557B2
The invention relates to a method for locating the position of wheels (5-8) of a vehicle (V) comprising, mounted on each wheel, an electronic unit (1-4) incorporating measurement means (9) for measuring a predetermined operating parameter for said wheel, referred to as a location parameter and, assigned to each wheel position and mounted on the vehicle (V), fixed means (13-16) for measuring the location parameter for said wheel. This location method consists, firstly, for each electronic unit (1-4), in comparing the values measured by the mobile measurement means (9) incorporated into said electronic unit with those measured by each of the fixed measurement means (13-16), secondly, for each wheel position, comparing the values measured by the fixed measurement means (13-16) assigned to said wheel position with those measured by each of the mobile measurement means (9), then assigning a wheel position to an electronic unit (1-4) when these correspond with one another.
US09759556B2
Apparatus is provided comprising a signal processor that receives signaling containing information about an acoustic signal swept and sensed over a frequency range in relation to a pipe; and determines information about the structure of the pipe based at least partly on two or more sub-frequency ranges that form part of the frequency range in the signaling received. The signal processor also receives the acoustic signal being transmitted to the pipe and corresponding signaling in the two or more sub-frequency ranges containing information about reflections of the acoustic signal back from the pipe; and determines information about the structure of the pipe based at least partly on a coherent mixing of the acoustic signal and the corresponding signaling in the two or more sub-frequency ranges using a coherent acoustic tomography technique. Alternatively, the signal processor also receives associated signaling in the two or more sub-frequency ranges containing information about associated resonance in a liner of a wall of the pipe and determines information about the liner of the wall of the pipe, based at least partly on the two or more sub-frequency ranges.
US09759554B2
A projector panel includes pixel display, a display controller, and a pattern generator. The pattern generator is operative to output pixel data indicative of at least one application specific predetermined pattern. In a particular embodiment, the projector panel is a liquid-crystal-on-silicon panel. In another particular embodiment, the projector panel is adapted for selective use in either structured light projection systems or conventional video projection systems.
US09759552B2
A method and system described for sensing a displacement by receiving and propagating a laser light signal with an etched waveguide that is configured to enable an evanescent optical field above the waveguide surface. A movable perturber can be positioned so the perturber interacts with the evanescent optical field above the waveguide surface. An optical phase shift can be induced in the waveguide when the movable perturber is displaced in the evanescent optical field, and the optical phase shift can be measured with an optical readout circuit.
US09759537B1
The present disclosure generally relates to an improved penetrator design and associated arming generator relocator adaptor. In some embodiments, the arming generator relocator adaptor is positioned external to the penetrator, thereby removing the need to mount the FZU inside the warhead or include traditional internal plumbing. The arming generator relocator adaptor allows the FZU to be rotated to an optimal position to arm the penetrator. While the improved penetrator design and arming generator relocator adaptor can be used independently of each other, in the preferred embodiment, they are utilized together.
US09759522B2
Techniques are disclosed for automatically bore-sighting a laser-based optical device to a weapon or other apparatus to which the optical device may be mounted (or otherwise coupled). According to certain embodiments of the invention, a reflective element such as a retro-reflector can be located on a target, and the apparatus is sighted (or otherwise oriented) to the target. While the apparatus is thus sighted, a processing unit (or other control unit) of the laser-based optical device can manipulate a laser-steering assembly to scan the field of view of a camera of the laser-based optical device with a laser to determine where, in the field of view, the reflective element is located and how the laser-steering assembly is oriented. Hill-climbing and/or other peak-detection techniques can be used to make either or both of these determinations.
US09759517B2
An apparatus for dispensing incendiary spheres comprising a hopper operable to store discrete unitary unprimed spheres; a feed mechanism cooperating with the hopper to extract unprimed spheres from the hopper; a rotary sphere delivery mechanism rotating in a first direction and having at least one pocket defined therein, the at least one pocket being adapted to capture a sphere, wherein the feed mechanism cooperates with the rotary sphere delivery mechanism to load an unprimed sphere into the at least one pocket; a rotary injector mechanism rotating in an opposing second direction and having at least one injector needle, wherein the rotary injector mechanism and the rotary sphere delivery mechanism are synchronized such that the at least one injector needle pierces an unprimed sphere within the at least one pocket as the at least one pocket and the at least one injector needle rotate past each other; a source of reactant in fluid communication with the at least one injector needle, wherein the rotary injector mechanism delivers an amount of reactant to the at least one injector upon the at least one injector piercing the sphere to start a delayed exothermic reaction within the sphere thereby priming the sphere; and a motor to drive the rotary sphere delivery mechanism and the rotary injector mechanism.
US09759514B2
The present invention is related to a breech thread protector for cleaning bore of a firearm from breech area of the barrel to the muzzle of the barrel. The breech thread protector includes an elongated tubular member having a proximal open end and a distal open end. The invention is also related to an assembly including the breech thread protector, a kit for cleaning the bore of the barrel, and a method for cleaning bore of the barrel.
US09759507B2
In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a rotatable member configured for rotation about a first rotatable member axis. A cable anchor is attached to the rotatable member and rotatable with respect to the rotatable member about an anchor axis. The anchor axis is offset from the rotatable member axis. The bow can further comprise a power cable anchored to said cable anchor.
US09759503B2
A cartridge loading mechanism of a toy revolver includes a magazine, a cylinder, a cartridge drum and a driving element. When loading bullets, the cartridge loading mechanism may be removed to load the bullets. When firing a bullet, the cylinder may be rotated to provide a high simulation. When a bullet is fired, the cylinder and the cartridge drum are rotated together, and the magazine disposed in the cylinder and an inner magazine tube remain still and will not rotate with the cylinder, so that the inner magazine tube is aligned precisely with the barrel to improve the shooting accuracy.
US09759502B2
A magazine well for a firearm having an angled spine receiving portion. A charging handle for a firearm having latch that extends below a bottom surface of a crossbar. A bolt carrier for a firearm having a pair of vent holes disposed in the indented portion and at least one additional vent hole on indented portion adjacent to the pair of vent holes. A bolt catch for a firearm having a receiving portion curved to match the contours of a human thumb. A scope assembly for a firearm having markers on a scope and amount that correspond to the same radial positions. A bolt for a firearm having a plurality of ribs disposed on a main body and extending from a front end toward a tail portion of the bolt.
US09759501B2
A breech assembly for an automatic weapon having a barrel extension aligned with and extending outwardly from the rifle bore. The barrel extension has a throughbore aligned with the rifle bore and a non-circular locking recess at a rear end of fee barrel extension. The barrel extension also includes an internal thread in the throughbore. An elongated bolt includes an external thread complementary to the infernal thread hi the barrel extension. The bolt is mounted to a bolt carrier that is longitudinally slidably mounted to the gun body. Longitudinal movement of the bolt carrier simultaneously longitudinally and rotatably drives the bolt so that the bolt thread is threaded into the barrel extension.
US09759499B2
A launcher system includes a launcher having a sealed breech and a barrel adapted to receive a projectile with a charge of propellant and a mechanism to vary the launch velocity by selectively controlling the propellant gases vented out of the projectile and into the barrel. A collar can be repositioned through rotation or sliding movement to selectively allow propellant gases to vent out of the barrel or stop propellant gases from venting out of the barrel. When the collar is in a closed or non-venting configuration, propellant gasses build-up pressure behind the projectile, resulting in a relatively high launch velocity and, when the collar is in the open or venting configuration, a relatively low launch velocity is produced. A sliding breech face and energy-absorbing plug can also be provided to further decrease launch velocity.
US09759492B2
A heat exchanger, particularly for a heating or air conditioning system for motor vehicles, includes at least one inlet channel and at least one outlet channel and at least one collector, which has at least two metal sheets or plates abutting each other, and a flow device through which a first medium can flow, while a second medium can flow around the flow device. The first medium is distributed by an inlet channel to the collector and to the flow device and can be conducted to an outlet channel, and at least one further channel for distributing the coolant is provided, which is connected in a communicating manner via at least one opening to the inlet channel.
US09759485B2
A technology for protecting a valve seat inside a collection tank from the adherence of frozen particles in a vacuum freeze-drying apparatus and a frozen particle manufacturing method. The inside of a vacuum tank and a collection tank are vacuum evacuated; a raw material liquid is injected into the vacuum tank to produce frozen particles; and the frozen particles are piled up on a surface of a heating/cooling shelf. When the frozen particles on the heating/cooling shelf are transferred into the collection tank through the inside of an auxiliary pipe, the frozen particles do not adhere to a valve seat which surrounds an opening of a main pipe inside the collection tank.
US09759484B2
A centrifugal moisture removal device includes a rotating mechanism and a fixing mechanism. The rotating mechanism includes a rotating bracket and a rotary driving member. The rotating bracket includes two sleeving portions. The fixing mechanism includes two positioning members, two clamping members, and two line driving members. Each clamping member includes a moving staff, an elastic member, and a sensing member. A first end portion of the moving staff passes through a sleeving portion and is mounted on a positioning member. The elastic member is sleeved on the moving staff. A first end portion of the elastic member resists the sleeving portion. A second end portion of the elastic member resists a second end portion of the moving staff. Each line driving member is set above the second end portion of a moving staff. The sensing member senses when the workpiece arrives at the positioning member.
US09759473B2
A refrigerator includes a first storage chamber, a second storage chamber spatially-separated from the first storage chamber, a first refrigeration cycle system to cool the first storage chamber using a first refrigeration cycle, and a second refrigeration cycle system installed to be separated from the first refrigeration cycle system to cool the second storage chamber using a second refrigeration cycle in an independent manner from the first refrigeration cycle. The first and second storage chambers maintain first and second target temperatures, respectively. The first and second refrigeration cycle systems circulate different kinds of refrigerants to cool the first and second storage chambers, respectively.
US09759467B2
A compressor controller includes: a control amount calculation unit configured to calculate at least two control amounts including a first control amount for controlling a first control object that relates to a gas amount for cooling a cryogenic apparatus, and a second control amount for controlling a second control object that relates to the refrigerant gas amount and that is different from the first control object, the second control amount being common with the first control amount; and a selection unit configured to select a control object to be controlled from at least two control objects including the first control object and the second control object on the basis of a comparison between the at least two common control amounts.
US09759462B2
A system has a compressor, a heat rejection heat exchanger, first and second ejectors, first and second heat absorption heat exchangers, and a separator. The ejectors each have a primary inlet coupled to the heat rejection exchanger to receive refrigerant. A second heat absorption heat exchanger is coupled to the outlet of the second ejector to receive refrigerant. The separator has an inlet coupled to the outlet of the first ejector to receive refrigerant from the first ejector. The separator has a gas outlet coupled to the secondary inlet of the second ejector to deliver refrigerant to the second ejector. The separator has a liquid outlet coupled to the secondary inlet of the first ejector via the first heat absorption heat exchanger to deliver refrigerant to the first ejector.
US09759458B2
A drive circuit of a temperature adjustment apparatus drives a Peltier element at a desired output amount. A state detector detects an electrical state of the Peltier element. A control circuit calculates a desired output amount based at least on the electrical state of the Peltier element, determines a control quantity for driving the Peltier element at the desired output amount, and controls the drive circuit at the control quantity.
US09759453B1
Methods, systems, and devices for a triangular heliostat structure comprising a heliostat drive mounted on a post at each corner of the structure. Embodiments include determining an installation position of a heliostat structure based on the position of an adjacent heliostat structure when a pivotable spacing bar is detachably attached to at least two posts of the heliostat structures and may be based on the heliostat structures comprising three posts in a triangular configuration.
US09759452B2
A support structure (10) for carrying a plurality of heliostats (12) is provided. The support structure (10) includes a frame (20) formed from a number of girders (22). The frame has a triangular outer perimeter and a plurality of mountings (26) for carrying the heliostats (12) are provided along the perimeter. At least one mounting (26) is provided at or near each vertex (16) of the triangular outer perimeter of the frame (20), and at least one additional mounting (26) is provided part-way along each side (17) of the triangular outer perimeter of the frame (20).
US09759440B2
An air conditioning system includes a multiple effect evaporative condenser, at least one compressor, at least one heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and at least one multiple-effect evaporative condensers. The multiple effect evaporative condenser and the heat exchanger utilize a highly efficient heat exchanging pipe for performing heat exchange between water and refrigerant.
US09759429B2
An automated self-contained pellet grill includes a base housing that defines a heat distribution chamber with a cooking grid supported in an opening at the top of the base for supporting food to be cooked. A pellet burning mechanism, located within the housing, includes a pellet feeder driven by an electrical motor. Electrical power is provided for the motor by a thermoelectric generator having a hot side that is heated by burning pellets and a cold side that is cooled by flowing ambient air.
US09759428B2
An outdoor wood-burning boiler is provided that includes a wood-burning enclosure, a wood support structure, and an air supply system configured for supplying air to wood that is supported by the wood support structure. The air supply system includes conduits for carrying a flow of air. At least one conduit can extend through a sidewall of the enclosure such that an end of the conduit is located outside of the enclosure. The end can include a re-closable closure. The re-closable closure can be configured to be opened from outside of the enclosure and provide access to the interior of the conduit so the conduit can be cleaned. The end and the re-closable closure can instead be located inside the enclosure and accessible through an access panel. An air supply conduit system is also provided that can be installed after-market or as original equipment.
US09759424B2
A method for providing thermo-acoustic coupling of a gas turbine engine augmentor includes determining acoustic resonances and heat release phase relationships associated with the augmentor. A fuel injector of the augmentor is positioned at an axial position relative to a flame holder of the augmentor in response to the determined acoustic resonances and heat release phase relationships associated with the augmentor. Heat release and acoustic pressure oscillation cycles associated with the augmentor are out of phase by at least approximately 100 degrees.
US09759422B2
An evaporator burner for a mobile heating device is provided having a combustion chamber, an evaporator accommodation, and an evaporator element for evaporation of liquid fuel. The evaporator element is accommodated in the evaporator accommodation at the side facing the combustion chamber. At the side of the evaporator accommodation facing away from the combustion chamber, the evaporator burner comprises at least one combustion air guide element which is arranged such that a combustion air flow path extending at least along a portion of a base wall of the evaporator accommodation is formed between the combustion air guide element and the base wall of the evaporator accommodation.
US09759420B1
A flexible display includes surfaces that can be folded, bent, or curved into a workstation, kiosk, or other configuration. The surfaces in the flexible display can be bent or folded to provide viewing surfaces in various planes. A controller can configure the display to provide selected functions on the various defined surfaces. A number of display stands for mounting the displays are also disclosed.
US09759418B2
A light fixture includes one or more of light emitting diode (LED) modules. Each of the LED modules may include a substrate holding a plurality of LEDs, and a printed circuit board connected to the plurality of LEDs. Each of the LED modules may also include a flexible lens cover including a plurality of lenses, each positioned to be located over one of the LEDs. The flexible lens cover may include a side sealing structure configured to interface with the substrate and seal the lens cover to the substrate.
US09759411B2
An LED lamp includes: a lamp housing configured to have LEDs for emitting light embedded therein, have the front thereof opened so that the light of the LEDs is radiated, have an angle adjustment groove formed laterally and lengthily, and having outside concave-convex parts formed in a convex and arc shape on both sides of the angle adjustment groove; a guide block inserted into the angle adjustment groove of the lamp housing and fixed movably along the angle adjustment groove; a fixing block configured to have an inside concavo-convex part formed in a concave and arc shape under one side of the fixing block so that the inside concavo-convex part corresponds to the outside concave-convex parts of the lamp housing; a first fastening member configured to penetrate the inside concavo-convex part of the fixing block and fastened to the guide block inserted into the angle adjustment groove.
US09759410B2
A holder to be placed on a base portion together with a light-emitting module having a board-like shape includes: a body portion; and a claw portion that is provided in the body portion, and locks onto at least a portion of a base portion-side face of the light-emitting module to temporarily hold the light-emitting module when the light-emitting module is to be placed on the base portion. In a state prior to when the holder is placed on the base portion, at least a portion of the claw portion is located closer to the base portion than a base portion-side face of the holder is. The claw portion has a shape that releases the temporary holding of the light-emitting module as a result of the claw portion abutting the base portion when the holder is placed on the base portion in a state where the light-emitting module is temporarily held.
US09759394B2
A generator having a coupling adapted to couple at least two fluid conduits together; an axial flow channel defined by the hose coupling and having an axis; a conductive coil in the hose coupling enveloping the axial flow channel; a rotor rotatable relative to the conductive coil and encircled by the conductive coil; a plurality of vanes coupled to the rotor and projecting radially toward the axis, but not intersecting the axis.
US09759390B2
A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a lamp housing formed of a pair of housing members connected to each other in a horizontal direction. A printed circuit board (PCB) is detachably connected to an inside of the lamp housing, and includes at least one LED mounted to one surface of the PCB. A power supply unit (PSU) is electrically connected with the PCB in the lamp housing to supply power to the PCB.
US09759381B2
A method for filling a tank (1) with liquefied gas, in particular a tank with cryogenic liquid, from a liquefied gas container (2), in particular a cryogenic liquid container (2), which container (2) is in fluid communication with the tank (1) via a filling pipe (3), wherein the method uses a pressure differential generation member (4) for transferring liquid from the container (2) to the tank (1) at a predetermined pressure, characterized in that, at or following the switching on time (M) of the pressure differential generation member (4), the method comprises a step of determining the pressure (PT4) in the tank (1) via a measurement of a first pressure in the filling pipe (3), and, following the determination of the pressure (PT4) in the tank, a step of limiting the first instantaneous pressure (PT3) to a level below a maximum pressure threshold (PT3sup), said maximum pressure threshold being defined on the basis of the determined value of the pressure (PT4) in the tank (1) and exceeding said determined value of the pressure (PT4) in the tank by two to twenty bars and preferably by two to nine bars.
US09759376B2
A flat panel TV bracket includes a bracket body and a display hanging plate assembly. The bracket body includes a wall mounting plate, a first rocker arm and a second rocker arm. The display hanging plate assembly includes a hanging plate and a connector. The connector rotatably includes a support plate and a rotating plate. The support plate pivotally connects with a connecting block. The rotating plate fixedly connects with the hanging plate, the lower end of the rotating plate pivotally connects with the lower end of the support plate, and the upper end of the rotating plate slidably connects with the upper end of the support plate. The second rocker arm includes a rotating block; upper and lower arms; and upper and lower arm housings; and an air spring. The air spring rotatably connects with the lower arm on the rotating block and pivotally connects with the connecting block.
US09759367B2
A base mounting assembly and a display device are provided. The base mounting assembly includes a main support on a side of a first device, a base including a pedestal part below the first device and a support post connected with the pedestal part and opposite to the main support, the support post including a first end away from the pedestal part and a second end connecting with the pedestal part, and a cushion block movably provided between the support post and the main support. A distance between the support post and the main support is gradually reduced from the first end to the second end so that when the cushion block is moved between the first end and the second end, a position of the support post relative to the main support is changed, causing a change of a position of the pedestal part relative to the first device.
US09759362B2
A coupler assembly kit and methods of use are described. Embodiments of the coupler assembly kit can be implemented to couple a corrugated pipe to a concrete section. Generally, the assembly kit can be implemented to couple a spigot end of the corrugated pipe to a bell end of the concrete section. In one embodiment, the coupler assembly kit can include a circumferential cable, a plurality of second cables having a threaded rod on end and an eye bolt on the other end, a plurality of linkage crosses, and a gasket. The coupler assembly kit can be assembled and implemented on location to connect a high-density polyethylene corrugated pipe to a reinforced-concrete flared end section.
US09759360B2
The present invention provides an openable corrugated hose for accommodating lines, comprising: a first corrugated hose shell, a second corrugated hose shell, a joint section, at which the first corrugated hose shell and the second corrugated hose shell are each connected to one another pivotably in a first end section, and a lip section, which is provided on a second end section of at least one of the corrugated hose shells, wherein the lip section is manufactured from a different material than the corrugated hose shells.
US09759343B2
A flow meter includes a coupler, a support member, an image sensor, and one or more processors. The coupler is adapted to couple to a drip chamber. The support member is coupled to the coupler. The image sensor has a field of view and is operatively coupled to the support member. The image sensor is positioned to view the drip chamber within the field of view. The processor is operatively coupled to the image sensor to receive image data from the image sensor and is configured to: capture an image of a drip chamber using an image sensor; compare the image of a drip chamber with a dynamic background image; and adjust a flow rate of fluid flowing through the fluid line in accordance with the comparison between the image of the drip chamber and the dynamic background image.
US09759335B2
A flow restrictor for use on a pilot operated relief valve (PORV) assembly with a pilot valve that regulates operation of a main valve to reduce pressure in a system or vessel. In one embodiment, the flow restrictor is configured with a plurality of flow modifying regions, namely, a first region and a second region that is spaced apart from the first region. These regions are configured to generate flow at the outlet of the flow restrictor that induces operation of the pilot valve that is favorable for operation of the main valve. In one example, the first region and the second region define, respectively, a first flow area and a second flow area for the flow pathway, wherein each are configured to assign a ratio of the second flow area to the first flow area with a value of less than 10.
US09759334B2
A gate valve for use in oil field applications and including a stem seal assembly and a seat seal assembly. Each of the stem and seat seal assemblies accommodate independent primary, secondary, and tertiary seals for sealing the space between the stem and the bonnet, or the seat ring and the valve body, respectively. The provision of multiple seals in each assembly provides redundancy that allows for maintenance of the seal between the components even if one or two of the individual seals fail.
US09759318B2
A transmission includes an electro-hydraulic controller that includes redundancy in the hydraulic circuit that permits single fault failures to be compensated for by changing the flow path of hydraulic fluid to bypass the single fault failure. The redundancy results in the ability of the transmission to maintain full operation in all modes.
US09759301B2
A clamping apparatus includes a main shaft, at least two pushing members, a follow member movably sleeved on the main shaft, a coupling member fixedly sleeved on the main shaft, at least two first linkages respectively pivoted to the follow member, at least two second linkages, and a nut. Each of the at least two second linkage is pivoted to the corresponding first linkage, the coupling member, and the corresponding pushing member. The nut is movably sleeved on the main shaft and positioned at a side of the follow member away from the coupling member. The nut is configured to move the follow member towards the coupling member, to enable the at least two pushing members to move away from the main shaft.
US09759300B2
A transmission for a walk-behind wheeled vehicle, the transmission being of the type including at least one casing (2) housing a driver member (3), equipped with rotary drive motor means (4), a rotary driven member (5), two wheel drive shafts (6A, 6B) in alignment, two clutch mechanisms (8) each of which is disposed between the driven member (5) and a wheel drive shaft (6A; 6B), each clutch mechanism (8) being activated by the driven member (5) being driven in rotation forwards, and deactivatable by the wheel drive shaft (6A; 6B) with which it co-operates being driven in rotation forwards, when the speed of rotation of the wheel drive shaft (6A, 6B) is greater than the speed of rotation of the driven member (5). The rotary drive motor means (4) for driving the driver member (3) in rotation are motor means that can be controlled to rotate in two directions of rotation, and each clutch mechanism (8) is of the type that is deactivatable merely by the driven member (5) being driven in rotation in the backwards direction.
US09759294B2
The present disclosure relates to a chain guide structure including a guide supporter integrally formed with a chain case and provided with at least a plurality of assembly holes, and a guide body having at least a plurality of assembly protrusions which correspond to the assembly holes for being coupled with the guide supporter, wherein the guide body is provided with a guide wall that is inserted into a space between the guide supporter and a chain. As a result, It is possible to reduce the constituent elements such as bolts, save manufacturing cost, simplify the chain guide structure, and reduce weight or size of the chain guide structure.
US09759293B2
In an aspect, a tensioner is provided for tensioning a belt and includes first and second tensioner arms having first and second pulleys respectively. The first and second pulleys are configured for engagement with first and second belt spans, and are biased in first and second free arm directions respectively. A second tensioner arm stop is positioned to limit the movement of the second tensioner arm in a direction opposite the second free arm direction. The second tensioner arm stop is positioned such that, in use, the second pulley is engaged with the endless drive member while the second tensioner arm is engaged with the second tensioner arm stop throughout a first selected range of operating conditions.
US09759281B1
An attachment method an assembly for an induction sensing tone ring is provided comprising a rotating part, the rotating part having a circular pocket. A spring is provided that is received in the rotating part circular pocket. A tone ring is received in the tone ring circular pocket on top of the spring. The rotating part has a plurality of retaining ledges, with each retaining ledge extending radially inward into the rotating part circular pocket from a wall of the rotating part forming the pocket. Each retaining ledge forms a retaining groove. The tone ring has a plurality of locating tab assemblies, each locating tab assembly being received in one of the retaining grooves of the brake rotor circular pocket.
US09759279B2
The floating brake drum and hat assembly includes a brake drum (12) having a braking surface (14) and an attachment flange (16), a hat (18) having an outer diameter (20) and a brake drum mounting flange (22) for mounting to the attachment flange (16) of the brake drum, and means for coupling (24) the attachment flange of the brake drum to the brake drum mounting flange of the hat, the means for coupling structured and arranged to allow radial thermal expansion and contraction of at least a portion of the attachment flange of the brake drum and/or at least a portion of the brake drum mounting flange of the hat.
US09759273B2
The present disclosure is directed to clutches and pistons used therein. A multi-plate clutch includes a shaft configured to provide rotational movement about a central axis of the clutch, a drum, wherein the drum comprises an inner surface with a plurality of splines formed therein and an opening about the central axis configured to receive the shaft, a plurality of ring-shaped discs configured to engage with the splines and a piston, wherein the piston comprises a plurality of protrusions on an outer circumferential surface of the piston configured to engage with the splines and an opening about the central axis configured to receive the shaft.
US09759264B1
Durability-enhanced bearing assemblies, apparatuses, and motor assemblies using the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a bearing assembly may include a plurality of superhard bearing elements distributed circumferentially about an axis. Each of the superhard bearing elements includes a bearing surface. The bearing assembly may further include a support ring structure that carries the plurality of superhard bearing elements. The support ring structure may have a first portion that exhibits a first yield strength and a second portion that exhibits a second yield strength. The first yield strength of the first portion may be greater than the second yield strength of the second portion.
US09759262B2
A rolling bearing apparatus includes a bearing portion and a lubrication unit. The lubrication unit is provided adjacently to an annular space in an axial direction. The annular space is formed between an inner ring and an outer ring, and the lubrication unit has a tank storing lubricant that is supplied to the annular space. The tank has an outer wall on a radially outer side, and a space formed on a radially inner side of the outer wall is a storage portion for storing the lubricant. An oil supply hole that is used to refill the storage portion with the lubricant is provided passing through the outer wall. The oil supply hole is open to the radially outer side.
US09759258B2
A sliding member includes: a lining layer formed from an alloy having a predetermined shape; and an overlay layer formed on an inner circumferential surface of the lining layer, the overlay layer being formed of a resin, the overlay layer sliding with a shaft, the overlay layer including a raised portion a height of which in a predetermined area including each of an edge in an axial direction of the shaft is greater than a height of another area of the overlay layer.
US09759257B2
A bearing pad and bearing are provided which can inhibit the bearing pad from being deformed without increasing the costs. In a bearing pad (2), a conduit that extends from a first opening (3a) formed in a high temperature zone (2H) on a sliding surface (2a) opposing to a supported surface (1a) towards the direction apart from the supported surface (1a) and that finally reaches a second opening (3d) is formed.
US09759246B2
A fastener adapted to be installed in a hole of a composite structure includes a sleeve, a pin member, and a locking member. The sleeve has an outer surface having an outer diameter. The outer surface of the sleeve is textured. The outer diameter of the tubular portion is less than an inner diameter of the hole of the structure. The pin member has a shank portion. The sleeve is adapted to expand radially over the shank portion of the pin member to form an interference fit between the outer surface of the sleeve and the hole of the structure so as to provide an installed position of the fastener. When the fastener is in the installed position, the texture of the outer surface of the tubular portion deforms to engage with voids of the composite material present on the inner surface of the hole.
US09759245B2
In one aspect, a circlip includes a circlip body defining (i) a first end surface, (ii) a second end surface spaced circumferentially from the first end surface so as to define a gap between the first and second end surfaces, and (iii) an outer curved surface defining an outer perimeter of the circlip body. The outer curved surface extends from the first end surface to the second end surface. Further, the circlip includes at least one row of teeth defined at the outer curved surface, and extending from at least one of the first and second end surfaces circumferentially along a direction away from the gap. When installed in a circlip groove, the teeth engage the circlip groove to limit rotation of the circlip within the groove.
