US09792408B2
The presence or absence of objects tagged with transponders may be determined in an environment in which medical procedures are performed via an interrogation and detection system which includes a controller and a plurality of antennas positioned along a patient support structure. The antennas may be positioned along an operating table, bed, mattress or pad, sheet, or may be positioned on a drape, or shade. Respective antennas may successively be activated to transmit interrogation signals. Multiple antennas may be monitored for responses from transponders to the interrogation signals. For example, all antennas other than the antenna that transmitted the most recent interrogation signal may be monitored. Antennas may be responsive to force, a signal indicative of such force being produced. A wireless physiological condition monitor may detect patient physiological conditions and wirelessly transmit signals indicative of such.
US09792405B2
A system, method and apparatus for executing a bioinformatics analysis on genetic sequence data includes an integrated circuit formed of a set of hardwired digital logic circuits that are interconnected by physical electrical interconnects. One of the physical electrical interconnects forms an input to the integrated circuit that may be connected with an electronic data source for receiving reads of genomic data. The hardwired digital logic circuits may be arranged as a set of processing engines, each processing engine being formed of a subset of the hardwired digital logic circuits to perform one or more steps in the bioinformatics analysis on the reads of genomic data. Each subset of the hardwired digital logic circuits may be formed in a wired configuration to perform the one or more steps in the bioinformatics analysis.
US09792404B2
Methods and systems for knowledge pattern search and analysis for selecting microorganisms based on desired metabolic properties or biological behaviors are disclosed in various embodiments of the invention. In one embodiment of the invention, a computer-implemented method for selecting a purpose-specific microorganism first compiles microorganisms' profiles by linking each microorganism's methanogenic, hydrogenic, electrogenic, another metabolic property, and/or another biological behavior to genetic and chemical fingerprints of metabolic and energy-generating biological pathways. Then, based on the compiled profiles of the microorganisms, the computer-implemented method groups the microorganisms into pathway characteristics using machine-learning and pattern recognition performed on a computer system, and subsequently generates a prediction called “discovered characteristics” for a desired metabolic property or a desired biological behavior of at least one microorganism. Furthermore, a profile match score may be calculated to indicate usefulness of one or more microorganisms for renewable energy generation from biological waste materials or wastewater.
US09792402B1
A method for debugging a system on chip (SoC) under test, the method may include executing a test code on the SoC, the test code designed to invoke a plurality of actions; recording output data from the SoC resulting from the executed test code; linking between actions detected in the recorded output data and actions of the plurality of actions of the test code by identifying a start and an end times of each of the detected actions in the recorded output data, and associating the identified start and end times with a start and an end times of actions of the plurality of actions of the test code; and causing display, via a graphical user interface, of a waveform representation of the detected actions over time, a representation of the test code and a representation of the output log.
US09792400B2
System and method of determining flip-flop counts of interconnects of a physical layout during integrated circuit (IC) design. The outputs of each logic block are defined as primary inputs, and the inputs of each logic block are defined as primary outputs. Each interconnect is traversed from a primary input a primary output to identify the flip-flops and determine the flip-flop count. If an interconnect has a greater flip-flop count than an RTL estimated count, measures are taken to reduce the need for flip-flops with the current routing design. If the interconnect has a smaller flip-flop count than an RTL estimated count, additional flip-flops are inserted.
US09792385B2
Systems and methods are provided for improving web-based document retrieval and object manipulation. In an implementation, objects within web documents (e.g., a web page) are manipulated when the objects are visible through a viewport of a user's web browser. According to a method, an object selected from a web document is manipulated when that selected object is displayed within the viewport of the user's browser. The manipulation may include downloading content associated with the stored object and additionally, or alternatively, executing a script associated with the stored object. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for blocking the download of an object in a retrieved web document until that object is displayed or visible in the user's browser viewport.
US09792368B1
Advantages of both conventional and digital maps can be obtained by utilizing a physical map as a type of input to any of various processing devices. In various embodiments, a user can capture an image of a physical map that includes at least one location of interest. The captured image can be matched with stored map information to obtain location information corresponding to the captured image. The location information can be used to provide any of a variety of types of functionality to the user, such as providing navigation directions to that location, displaying information about attractions around that location or statistics about that location, etc. The user in some embodiments can annotate the map to provide additional input, such as areas of interest, exclusion regions, and/or proposed driving routes.
US09792367B2
Approaches for translating a transliterated search query are provided. An approach includes receiving a search query containing a transliterated word. The approach also includes determining a source language corresponding to the transliterated word. The approach further includes converting the transliterated word to a word in the source language. The approach additionally includes translating the word in the source language to a word in a target language. The approach also includes performing a search using the word in the target language.
US09792352B1
A plurality of data sets is identified. A data model is generated representing the data sets. The data model represents the data sets and variations of the data sets as entities, relationships between the data sets as associations, and values associated with the entities as properties. The data model identifies states corresponding to the data sets wherein each state has associated therewith one or more of the entities, the associations and the properties. A state-aware attribute is maintained for each entity and for each association indicating to which one or more of the states the entity and the association respectively belong.
US09792350B2
For real-time classification of data into data compression domains, a decision is made for which of the data compression domains write operations should be forwarded by reading randomly selected data of the write operations for computing a set of classifying heuristics thereby creating a fingerprint for each of the write operations. The write operations having a similar fingerprint are compressed together in a similar compression stream.
US09792349B2
A method and apparatus for an in-database sharded queue that supports JMS session ordering is provided. Messages from a plurality of enqueuers are stored in a plurality of shards of a particular queue. For each enqueuer, all messages are stored in only one of the shards. Each shard includes one or more subshards, each subshard having one or more partitions of a queue table maintained by a relational database system. All messages from a first enqueuer are stored in partitions of the queue table that are assigned to a first shard of the plurality of shards. All messages from a second enqueuer are stored in partitions of the queue table that are assigned to a second shard of the plurality of shards. Subscribers of the particular queue are caused to dequeue messages from the plurality of shards.
US09792347B2
A system for knowledge capture and discovery comprises a knowledge repository in which all input data is stored as objects and relationships between objects, and which input data may be stored according to more than one storage format. At least two hierarchical user interfaces provide input mechanisms to obtain the input data, object information concerning the input data and relationship information concerning the input data, thereby permitting end user applications to be developed. A controller receives the input data, object information and relationship information from the at least two hierarchical user interfaces and causes the input data to be stored in the knowledge repository as an object based on the object information and the relationship information.
US09792346B2
Disclosed in some examples is a method of database replication, the method including at a Relational Database Management System (RDMS), determining a first replication mode; identifying a triggering event; determining that the triggering event indicates a change in the first replication mode; responsive to determining that the triggering event indicates a change in the first replication mode, determining a second replication mode, the second replication mode being a different replication mode than the first replication mode; identifying a database change made by one or more database tasks; and replicating the database change to an external replication component according to the second replication mode.
US09792326B1
Dynamically switching between a plurality of execution paths to execute a function, such as a user-defined function. The plurality of execution paths include an execution path that uses caching and another execution path that uses inlining. A user-defined function is executed at least once using a first execution path. Then, for a later execution of the function, the execution path is automatically switched to a second execution path.
US09792323B2
Methods, devices, and systems may be used for semantics publishing and discovery. In an embodiment, a method for publishing semantics related resource identifiers may include adding a key word to an identifier of a semantics related resource and publishing the identifier to at least one of a sibling node and a child node. In another embodiment, a method may include using a Bloom filter to publish a semantics related resource. In another embodiment, a method may include publishing, by a semantics node, an identifier of a semantics related resource to a sibling node, while publishing a digest of the semantics node to a child node.
US09792318B2
A database upon opening each of at least one cursor for a transaction, assigns each statement forming part of a transaction a statement sequence number (SSN) involving at least one row of the database. Thereafter, temporary timestamps are assigned to the at least one row using a transaction identifier and the corresponding SSN. Further, active cursors are monitored such that a final timestamp is prevented from being associated with each row until it has no remaining cursors. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US09792317B2
A method includes receiving a notification from a first device that a data record has been changed on the first device, and receiving a notification from a second device of an intent to change the data record on the second device. The method also includes instructing the second device to wait before changing the data record on the second device, and instructing the first device to synchronize the changed data record.
US09792316B1
A system, method, and medium for detecting expired data in a data deduplicated storage system are disclosed. The system receives a request to insert a file into the deduplicated storage system. In response, the system determines a unique identifier for the file and stores the unique identifier in a list of unique identifiers associated with a data object that stores the file content. The system determines that the data object is not expired based at least in part on the identifier being present in the list of unique identifiers.
US09792313B2
In some examples, a method is described. The method may include parting a data item into multiple data units based on update frequencies of the data units. The method may also include identifying a low update frequency data unit from amongst the data units. The method may also include determining a regional sensitive group for the low update frequency data unit based on a historical access pattern of the low update frequency data unit. The regional sensitive group may include a first host. The method may also include replicating the low update frequency data unit. The method may also include pushing the replicated low update frequency data unit to the first host.
US09792310B2
A database can receive a query from a remote computing system. The database can include (i) a linear run length encoded compressed column, based on an original column of time series data partitioned into runs containing consecutive values and generated by run length encoding, (ii) a run index comprising at least one run index value having a run index position, the at least one run index value identifying runs in the original column, and (iii) an offsets column identifying the run index positions corresponding to the runs that contain a desired value. Using the run index, data responsive to the query can be identified. The identified data responsive to the query can be transmitted by the database to the remote computing system.
US09792306B1
Various systems and methods for migrating data between deduplication systems. For example, one method involves receiving a fingerprint, where the fingerprint is received from a source computing device at a destination computing device, and the fingerprint is associated with a data segment stored at the source computing device. The method also involves identifying a fingerprint type associated with the fingerprint. The method also involves performing a migration operation from the source computing device to the destination computing device. The migration operation involves determining whether the fingerprint is stored in a fingerprint sub-index. The migration operation also involves determining whether a second fingerprint that corresponds to the data segment is stored in a second sub-index, where the second fingerprint is of a second fingerprint type.
US09792304B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing queries made up of images. In one aspect, a method includes indexing images by image descriptors. The method further includes associating descriptive n-grams with the images. In another aspect, a method includes receiving a query, identifying text describing the query, and performing a search according to the text identified for the query.
US09792300B2
Systems and methods for presenting location related information after a user arrives at a place. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, information presentation begins. In another aspect, when a user shakes a standby device and then gazes at it, a presentation starts. Location related info may be sorted and presented by the pointing direction of a device.
US09792297B2
Disclosed are a method and a system for transmitting a file folder from the sending end to the receiving end. The system uses a file folder transmission unit at the sending end side to generate a directory structure file of the file folder. The directory structure file may have properties such as the size of the file folder, paths and path lengths of the files in the file folder. The sending end then sends the directory structure file to the receiving end through the file folder transmission unit to allow the system to determine which files in the file folder need to be transmitted. The needed files in the file folder are then transmitted to the receiving end according to the determination. The sending end and the receiving end may communicate using an instant messaging tool. The disclosed method and system allow a faster and more convenient file folder network transmission.
US09792295B1
A distributed storage system maintains multiple logically independent file systems. Each file system includes a data set stored by a storage device of the distributed storage system. During operation, access pattern levels for the multiple logically independent file systems are determined. Thereafter, the data sets included in the multiple logically independent file systems are redistributed across multiple storage devices of the distributed storage. Redistribution of a particular data set is based at least in part on the particular file system including the particular data set and on the determined access pattern levels for the multiple logically independent file systems. In addition, each disk of a plurality of disks in the distributed storage includes a physically separated partition dedicated to storing the data of the file system that is most frequently accessed. The distribution of data is based at least in part on the presence of the physically separated partition.
US09792294B2
The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for using byte-range locks to manage multiple concurrent accesses to a file in a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in the cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers ensure data consistency for the stored data, and each cloud controller caches portions of the distributed filesystem. During operation, a cloud controller receives from a first client a request to access a portion of the file. The cloud controller contacts the owning cloud controller for the portion of the file to request a byte-range lock for that portion of the file. The owning cloud controller returns a byte-range lock to the requesting cloud controller if no other clients of the distributed filesystem are currently locking the requested portion of the file with conflicting accesses.
US09792291B2
A method for hardware master/slave compression of a file, including resetting a counter; loading a first data portion of the file in a first buffer; loading a second data portion of the file in a second buffer; acquiring a first search string from the second buffer; performing a plurality of parallel searches for the acquired first search string in the first buffer; processing a plurality of results from the plurality of parallel searches; outputting a literal or a length-distance entity based on the plurality of results of the plurality of parallel searches for the acquired first search string; shifting the first buffer and the second buffer by a number of characters in a row; and acquiring a second search string from the second buffer of the file. In other aspects, a system for a hardware master/slave compression engine and a computing system for master/slave compression of a file are provided.
US09792288B2
At least one subsystem among the plurality of subsystems includes a managing section operable to manage individual route information for routes in a management target region of the at least one subsystem among the plurality of regions and adjacent route information for routes positioned in a partial range from a boundary of the management target region among routes in an adjacent region that is adjacent to the management target region, and an identifying section operable to identify the route on which the moving object is positioned based on the observation position, by using the individual route information and the adjacent route information managed by the at least one subsystem. Also provided is a method and computer program product.
US09792285B2
Personalized content is generated from different media items using a content index. The content index is generated or updated by identifying segments of media items that are of particular interest to users. User interactions with the media items are analyzed and metadata of segments of media items that are determined to be of particular interest to the users is recorded. The parameters associated with a request for personalized content for a user are matched with the recorded metadata to identify relevant media items or segments of media items which are transmitted to the user as the personalized content.
US09792283B2
A computer-implemented method for presenting statistical analysis in a natural language textual output comprising: receiving data to be analyzed by the processor; processing the data according to at least one of a plurality of pre-established statistical analysis types, thereby providing processed data; interpreting the processed data by analyzing the processed data to provide a pre-determined natural language text, thereby providing interpreted data; and generating a natural language textual output for the interpreted data according to at least one pre-established rule for converting the interpreted data to a natural language textual output.
US09792282B1
A portion of a software product is analyzed to determine a language and a subject-matter domain of the portion. A string is extracted from the portion, where the string has been translated into the language from an original string in an original language in a version of the software product. A corpus including a set of stored strings in the first language is selected. A subset of stored strings is selected from a content that is related to the subject-matter domain of the software product. When the string matches a stored string in the corpus, the string is selected into a shortlist and when a second string extracted from the portion fails to match any stored string in the corpus, the second string is excluded from the shortlist. The shortlist is output, causing a review of an accuracy of a machine translation process to be performed.
US09792278B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for identifying verifiable statements in a corpus of text. A training corpus of text containing manually annotated instances of verifiable and non-verifiable statements is processed to parse the text into segmented statements, which are in turn processed to extract features. The extracted features and the annotated statements are then processed with a machine learning algorithm to generate a verifiable statement classification model. In turn, the verifiable statement classification model is referenced by a verifiable statement classification system to distinguish verifiable and non-verifiable statements contained within an input corpus of text.
US09792264B2
Rules, such as condition-action rules, are configured at different levels of a hierarchy. Rules created at a higher hierarchical level are automatically inherited by lower hierarchical levels in the same branch of the hierarchy. The source of the inherited rule is indicated with its display such that the hierarchical level of creation can readily be determined. The inherited rule(s) may be toggled on/off at the lower hierarchical levels but edits to inherited rule(s) are restricted. Instead, a copy of any inherited rule may be made to create a local copy of the rule that is editable. Rules may be ordered and when a lower hierarchical level inherits the rules, the ordering is preserved. While the ordering of any rules remains constant when inherited at the lower levels, the lower level may toggle on/off the execution of each rule within the ordering.
US09792262B2
To facilitate client access to web services, a server may be configured to package or bundle a function call for a web service with associated information. The resulting function call package may be distributed to multiple clients. Such a package may include parameters for the function call and/or software code that can facilitate a client web site to make the function call. The package may also include branding information associated with the web service. Results of the function call can be presented through the client web site with the branding information associated with the web service, allowing a third party to retain branding for their web service provided through the client web site.
US09792257B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a data processing method, including: twiddling input data, so as to obtain twiddled data; pre-rotating the twiddled data by using a symmetric rotate factor, where the rotate factor is a·W4L2p+1, p=0, . . . , L/2−1, and a is a constant; performing a Fast Fourier (Fast Fourier Transform, FFT) transform of L/2 point on the pre-rotated data, where L is the length of the input data; post-rotating the data that has undergone the FFT transform by using a symmetric rotate factor, where the rotate factor is b·W4L2q+1, q=0, . . . , L/2−1, and b is a constant; and obtaining output data.
US09792255B2
A method of calculating an electronic state of a material by using a calculation device, wherein the calculation device sets a set containing, as elements, a plurality of operation models, where each of operation models provides an approximate solution to the electronic state of the material, determines an optimized operation model that are close in distance in a space formed by the set while defining a direction in which the calculated self-consistent solutions of the effective Hamiltonian of an electron system continuously change, evaluates a variational energy of the electron system by the self-consistent solution, updates the operation model so that the evaluated variational energy approaches an energy of an exact solution to be calculated and further, so that the variational energy forms a monotonically decreasing convex function, and calculates the exact solution of the electronic state from one or a plurality of variational energy series.
US09792252B2
Functional units disposed in one or more processor cores are communicatively coupled using both a shared bypass network and a switched network. The shared bypass network enables the functional units to be operated conventionally for general processing while the switched network enables specialized processing in which the functional units are configured as a spatial array. In the spatial array configuration, operands produced by one functional unit can only be sent to a subset of functional units to which dependent instructions have been mapped a priori. The functional units may be dynamically reconfigured at runtime to toggle between operating in the general configuration and operating as the spatial array. Information to control the toggling between operating configurations may be provided in instructions received by the functional units.
US09792245B2
Embodiments herein provide for efficient memory mapping in a PCIe device when a host changes memory allocations in the device. One PCIe device comprises a plurality of Base Address Registers (BARs) defined by the host. The device also includes a processor with an address space. The processor maps addresses of the address space to the BARs for routing PCIe packets from the host. The processor can determine that the host is reconfiguring the BARs, and, based on the determination, mark packets existing in the computer memory as old, change the BARs in the computer memory as directed by the host, mark packets received after the BAR change as new, process the old packets from the computer memory based on their addresses of the address space until a new packet is reached, and to remap the BARs to the addresses of the address space after the new packet is reached.
US09792241B2
A device includes a first interface to receive a signal from a first communication link, wherein the receive signal includes out-of-band (OOB) information. A detector coupled to the first interface detects the OOB information. An encoder coupled to the detector encodes the OOB information into one or more symbols (e.g., control characters). A second interface is coupled to the encoder and a second communication link (e.g., a serial transport path). The second interface transmits the symbols on the second communication link. The device also includes mechanisms for preventing false presence detection of terminating devices.
US09792237B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a communication control module and a peripheral device control module. The communication control module transmits property information including connection destination information to an external apparatus via a communication interface for establishing communication with the external apparatus and receives an operation request from the external apparatus for which the communication has been established via the communication interface. The peripheral device control module causes the peripheral device connected to an input/output interface to operate in response to the operation request received from the external apparatus.
US09792234B2
Examples are disclosed for establishing a secure destination address range responsive to initiation of a direct memory access (DMA) operation. The examples also include allowing decrypted content obtained as encrypted content from a source memory to be placed at a destination memory based on whether destination memory addresses for the destination memory fall within the secure destination address range.
US09792223B2
A processor including an extended page table (EPT) translation mechanism that is enabled for virtualization, and a load EPT instruction. When executed by the processor, the load EPT instruction directly invokes the EPT translation mechanism to directly convert a provided guest physical address into a corresponding true physical address. The EPT translation mechanism may include an EPT paging structure and an EPT tablewalk engine. The EPT paging structure is generated and stored in an external system memory when the EPT translation mechanism is enabled. The EPT tablewalk engine is configured to access the EPT paging structure for the physical address conversion. The EPT tablewalk engine may perform relevant checks to trigger EPT misconfigurations and EPT violations during execution of the load EPT instruction.
US09792221B2
System and method for improving performance of read/write operations from a persistent memory device
A memory unit and method are disclosed. The memory unit comprises: at least one controller interfaced with at least one corresponding persistent memory device operable to store files in accordance with a file system; and a file mapping unit operable, in response to a virtual file access request from a memory management unit of a processor, the virtual file access request having a virtual address within a virtual address space associated with one of the files identifying data to be accessed, to map the virtual address to a physical address of the data within the one of the files using pre-stored mapping information and to issue a physical access request having the physical address to access the data within the one of the files.
US09792216B1
A system and method for determining memory ownership on a cache line basis for detecting self-modifying code with instructions that overlap cache line boundaries. An ownership index and a cache line address are entered into the ownership queue for each cache line. The cache lines are translated into instructions, and a straddle bit is set for each instruction that was derived from cache line data that overlapped two cache lines. A stale bit is set for any entry of the ownership queue that collides with a store instruction. Each instruction issued for execution is marked with a first exception when the stale bit of the corresponding ownership queue entry is set, or when the straddle bit of the issued instruction and a stale bit of a next sequential entry are both set. A first exception is performed for each instruction ready to retire that is marked with the first exception.
US09792215B2
Methods and systems for pre-fetching address translations in a memory management unit (MMU) of a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the MMU receives a pre-fetch command from an upstream component of the device, the pre-fetch command including an address of an instruction, pre-fetches a translation of the instruction from a translation table in a memory of the device, and stores the translation of the instruction in a translation cache associated with the MMU.
US09792209B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed that enable the allocation of a cache portion of a memory buffer to be utilized by an on-cache function controller (OFC) to execute processing functions on “main line” data. A particular method may include receiving, at a memory buffer, a request from a memory controller for allocation of a cache portion of the memory buffer. The method may also include acquiring, by an on-cache function controller (OFC) of the memory buffer, the requested cache portion of the memory buffer. The method may further include executing, by the OFC, a processing function on data stored at the cache portion of the memory buffer.
US09792201B2
A test support device which can test all configurations of a system including a specific system component, comprehensively and quickly, is provided. A test support device (100) includes a storage unit (102) and an extraction processing unit (101). A configuration of a system is defined with a plurality of functionalities to be maintained by the system and a set of programs implementing the functionalities respectively. The storage unit (102) stores component-relation information (201) which indicates an identifier of each of one or more systems, an identifier of each of a plurality of functionalities to be maintained by each of the systems, and an identifier of each of one or more programs being capable of implementing each of the functionalities. The extraction processing unit (101) extracts, when a functionality or a program is specified, a configuration of a system including the specified functionality or the specified program on the basis of the component-relation information (201), and outputs the extracted configuration of a system.
US09792198B2
Methods and apparatus for debuggers supporting method restart are described. A method comprises implementing a user interface (UI) enabling a user to submit a request, via a single interaction within a debugging session, to restart execution of an invocable operation of a program. The method further comprises, in response to a request to restart an invocable operation, designating, as the source code line whose corresponding executable code is to be executed next, the first line of source code of the particular invocable operation that corresponds to an executable operation. The method includes indicating that execution of the program is to be resumed at the first line, and resuming execution of the program at the first line.
US09792189B2
In a server system, a hardware configuration comparison is made with respect to each combination of a current server and a backup server, and, by referring to hardware configuration matching policy information, the presence or absence of hardware configuration concealment and the possibility of a take-over are determined with respect to each combination of the current server and the backup server. In addition, with respect to each combination of the current server and the backup server, a configuration matching rate indicating the ratio of hardware configuration matching is calculated. Based on information about the presence or absence of hardware configuration concealment, information about the possibility of a take-over, and information about the configuration matching rate with respect to each combination of the current server and the backup server, the backup server as a take-over destination of the current server is allocated.
US09792188B2
The system monitors a wireless device, detects when the device has failed or is not operating properly, and is able to remotely reset the device. The device may be reset remotely without a technician required to physically attend to the device. This out of band management allows for quicker, cheaper and more efficient handling of undesired states of a device, such as failure to operate. For a modem, the system may detect that the modem is not broadcasting a signal or is not communicating with the Internet or other network. The reset may be implemented through an access point in communication with the malfunctioning modem. For an access point, the system may detect that the access point is not communicating with a modem or another access point. The reset may be implemented by a neighboring access point or modem.
US09792170B2
Techniques are provided for correcting the operational state of a multi-process system without disrupting any running processes. A library providing error correction and logging functionality is statically linked to modules in the system. A script in the library loads a package file having a patch for returning an error state to a normal state. The script issues commands to invoke functions in the patch. Once the error state has returned to a normal state, the script issues commands to remove the package file from the system.
US09792169B2
Systems and techniques for managing alert profiles, including creating the alert profiles and deactivating the alert profiles, are described. Auditing software executing on a central server may receive an event log from a software agent. The event log may identify activities associated with a network element in a computer system. The auditing software may include a classifier trained using machine learning. The auditing software may determine that the event log is indicative of an interesting activity, such as malicious activity. The auditing software may create an alert profile. The auditing software may assign a severity to the alert profile. The auditing software may determine whether the alert profile is relevant. The auditing software may deactivate the alert profile based on determining that the alert profile is not relevant.
US09792166B2
In order to optimize efficiency of serialization, a serialization cache is maintained at an object server. The serialization cache is maintained in conjunction with an object cache and stores serialized forms of objects cached within the object cache. When an object is to be sent from the server to the client, a serialization module determines if a serialized form of the object is stored in the serialization cache. If the object is already serialized within the serialization cache, the serialized form is retrieved and provided to the client. Otherwise, the object is serialized, the object is cached in the object cache and the serialized form of the object is cached in the serialization cache.
US09792159B2
A disclosed program determining apparatus includes a log recording unit configured to record, in response to at least one of a use request for use of a predetermined function of the image forming apparatus from a program for use in the image forming apparatus and consumption of a predetermined resource of the image forming apparatus by the program, content of said at least one of use request and consumption as log information; and a determining unit configured to determine whether said at least one of use of the predetermined function requested by the program and consumption of the predetermined resource by the program satisfies a predetermined restriction.
US09792148B2
Controlling access to at least one memory location by a transaction is provided in a multi-processor transactional execution environment. Included is: tracking execution progress of a transaction, the execution progress being a metric of work performed for the transaction which includes at least one of instructions processed or cycles elapsed; based on encountering a conflict with another process for a memory location, comparing execution process of the transaction and execution progress of the other process; and deciding whether to continue the transaction based on the comparing. For instance, based on the execution progress of the transaction being greater than the execution progress of the other process, the transaction is continued, and based on the execution progress of the transaction being less that the execution progress of the other process, then the transaction is aborted.
US09792139B2
The method including, receiving, from a management interface, an external services request, wherein the external services request comprises external service criteria for a virtual machine. The method further including identifying, by an external services scheduler, a hypervisor with external services that meet the external service criteria of the virtual machine. The method further including causing the virtual machine to be connected to the identified hypervisor.
US09792133B2
A web server uses selection criteria for identifying an electronic consumer device to identify a codeset likely to be appropriate for communicating with the electronic consumer device and data indicative of at least one code of the identified codeset is provided to a remote control device whereupon the data indicative of the at least one code of the identified codeset is automatically activated by the remote control device.
US09792128B2
Systems and methods for providing accelerated loading of operating system and application programs upon system boot or application launch are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for providing accelerated loading of an operating system comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of boot data used for booting a computer system; preloading the boot data upon initialization of the computer system; and servicing requests for boot data from the computer system using the preloaded boot data. In another aspect, a method for providing accelerated launching of an application program comprises the steps of: maintaining a list of application data associated with an application program; preloading the application data upon launching the application program; and servicing requests for application data from a computer system using the preloaded application data.
US09792127B2
An information processing system includes an operating unit that receives an input in response to a user operation and that runs under a first operating system; and a main body that runs under a second operating system and operates in response to the input received by the operating unit. The main body includes a generation unit that generates a command to direct rendering of a screen corresponding to an application being executed, and a command transmission control unit that provides control to transmit the command to the operating unit. The operating unit includes a receiving unit that receives the command from the main body, a screen rendering unit that renders the screen in accordance with the command received by the receiving unit, a display unit that displays the screen rendered by the screen rendering unit, and a reboot unit that reboots the operating unit in asynchronization with the main body.
US09792121B2
A microprocessor includes an instruction translation unit that extracts condition information from the IT instruction and fuses the IT instruction with the first IT block instruction. For each instruction of the IT block, the instruction translation unit: determines a respective condition for the IT block instruction using the condition information extracted from the IT instruction and translates the IT block instruction into a microinstruction. The microinstruction includes the respective condition. Execution units conditionally execute the microinstruction based on the respective condition. For each IT block instruction, the instruction translation unit determines a respective state value using the extracted condition information. The state value comprises the lower eight bits of the IT instruction having the lower five bits left-shifted by N-1 bits, where N indicates a position of the IT block instruction in the IT block.
US09792120B2
Embodiments relate to prefetching data on a chip having a scout core and a parent core coupled to the scout core. The method includes determining that a program executed by the parent core requires content stored in a location remote from the parent core. The method includes sending a fetch table address determined by the parent core to the scout core. The method includes accessing a fetch table that is indicated by the fetch table address by the scout core. The fetch table indicates how many of pieces of content are to be fetched by the scout core and a location of the pieces of content. The method includes based on the fetch table indicating, fetching the pieces of content by the scout core. The method includes returning the fetched pieces of content to the parent core.
US09792111B2
A method includes a service processor of an information handling system downloading code, including device drivers, and transferring the code to an operating system of the information handling system without rebooting the operating system. In some embodiments, a daemon of the operating system may request device drivers for newly-inserted devices and the service processor may make the device drivers available to the operating system in response to the requests. In some embodiments, the service processor may download updated device drivers and may inform the daemon. The updated device drivers may be automatically provided to the operating system or made available upon a request of a user. The service processor may make code available to the operating system by exposing a portion of its non-volatile memory to the operating system as a virtual device.
US09792088B2
A processor or other device, such as a programmable and/or massively parallel processor or other device, includes processing elements designed to perform arithmetic operations (possibly but not necessarily including, for example, one or more of addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division) on numerical values of low precision but high dynamic range (“LPHDR arithmetic”). Such a processor or other device may, for example, be implemented on a single chip. Whether or not implemented on a single chip, the number of LPHDR arithmetic elements in the processor or other device in certain embodiments of the present invention significantly exceeds (e.g., by at least 20 more than three times) the number of arithmetic elements, if any, in the processor or other device which are designed to perform high dynamic range arithmetic of traditional precision (such as 32 bit or 64 bit floating point arithmetic).
US09792081B2
In accordance with the present invention, in a display device having a plurality of displays arranged therein and causing a whole of said plurality of displays to display a single display screen, a plurality of typical small-size displays can be cascaded even on a portion where their shapes and the number of displays are arbitrary, and the whole of the displays can be caused to produce a single screen display while synchronization is achieved among the display timings.
US09792077B2
An example information processing apparatus which performs non-contact communication with a data storage medium having a non-contact communication function and performs predetermined information processing, acquires first data stored in a first data storage medium and second data stored in a second data storage medium by using the non-contact communication. Next, the example information processing apparatus performs information processing based on the first data and/or the second data. Then, the example information processing apparatus writes the first data into the second data storage medium or writes the second data into the first data storage medium.
US09792076B2
A method of transparently inserting a virtual storage layer into a Fibre channel based storage area network (SAN) while maintaining continuous I/O operations is provided. A device is inserted between a host entity and a first storage device. The device identifies a plurality of first paths between the host entity and the first storage device, and defines a plurality of second paths by defining, for each first path among the plurality of first paths, a corresponding second path between the host entity and a second storage device. The device determines, for each of the plurality of first paths, a respective first state. The device establishes, for each of the second paths among the plurality of second paths, a second state based on the first state of the corresponding first path. The device redirects, to the second storage device, communications directed from the host entity to the first storage device, via the plurality of second paths.
US09792074B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for interfacing one or more storage devices with a plurality of bridge chips. One or more storage devices are provided. Additionally, a plurality of bridge chips are provided. Furthermore, at least one multiplexing device is provided for interfacing the one or more storage devices with the plurality of bridge chips.
US09792067B2
A device may comprise a plurality of non-volatile memory devices configured to store a plurality of physical pages and a controller coupled thereto, configured to program and read data to and from the plurality of non-volatile memory devices. The data may be stored in a plurality of logical pages (L-Pages) of non-zero length at starting addresses within the plurality of physical pages. The controller may be configured to execute first and second commands to indicate that first and second physical locations within the plurality of non-volatile memory devices no longer contain valid data and are now free space. This may be done by carrying out first and second virtual write operations of first and second L-Pages of a predetermined length at first and second unique addresses within a virtual address range that does not correspond to any of the physical pages, and accounting for an amount of free space gained as a result of executing the commands.
US09792056B1
A technique for managing system drive integrity in data storage systems is disclosed. A plurality of storage drive data structures configured to store data associated with a system drive is created, wherein each storage drive data structure includes a data structure initialization string, a unique storage system identifier, a plurality of unique system drive identifiers associated with respective system drives, and a board replacement flag. Respective data structures are stored on each of the plurality of corresponding system drives. The contents of one or more of the data structures stored on one or more of the plurality of systems drives are read via an instruction initiated by a data store system. A drive type for one or more system drives is determined based on the contents.
US09792053B2
According to one embodiment, a controller for a nonvolatile semiconductor memory that stores data expressed using n levels (n is a natural number not less than 3) page by page includes an extraction unit and a conversion unit. The extraction unit extracts a second data stream shorter than a first data stream from the first data stream that includes a plurality of data written to the nonvolatile semiconductor memory. The conversion unit converts the second data stream into a third data stream longer than the second data stream, when a difference between threshold voltages of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory corresponding to adjacent two data included in the second data stream is a first level difference. The third data stream has a second level difference smaller than the first level difference.
US09792047B2
A method of writing to one or more solid state disks (SSDs) employed by a storage processor includes receiving a command, creating sub-commands from the command based on a granularity, and assigning the sub-commands to the SSDs independently of the command thereby causing striping across the SSDs.
US09792042B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for matching a test data block to a data block set. A computing device may receive the test data block. The computing device may determine that a first filter describing a first data block subset of the data block set indicates that the test data block is not in the first data block subset and determine that a second filter describing a second data block subset of the data block set indicates that the test data block is in the second data block subset. An average reference frequency of the second data block subset may be less than an average reference frequency of the first data block subset. The computing device may verify that the test data block is in the second data block subset and return an indication that the test data block is in the data block set.
US09792038B2
Feedback via an input device associated with an interaction with a point of interest (POI) and scribble recognition is provided. When using an input device to navigate a GUI, various POIs may be determined as elements beneficial for a user to notice, pay attention to, or avoid. When an input is received that may be associated with a POI, feedback may be provided. Feedback may include haptic, visual, or audible feedback. Scribble recognition may also be provided. When using an input device (e.g., digital pen), a user may “scribble” in a margin to test pen attributes. Upon recognizing a scribble, alternative pen attributes may be presented in a contextual menu. In addition, the scribble may be automatically erased upon selection of a pen attribute or upon receiving input in another area of the UI or alternatively, feedback may be provided prior to erasure of the scribble input.
US09792037B2
A mobile terminal with a touch screen includes a browsing and searching system that reproduces the sensation of leafing through a work on paper and a read mode that does not alter the structure or layout of the original page. The main benefit of this solution is that it can be used to read a digital publication in the same manner as the equivalent paper version, both in terms of leafing and reading, while taking account of the technical specifications of the read terminal.
US09792033B2
A method of changing a user interface (UI), which is used for diagnosis of a target object via a medical device, based on user motion information. The method including obtaining motion information regarding a user; changing the UI based on the obtained motion information regarding the user; and displaying the changed UI.
US09792032B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an input operating unit configured to receive an input operation from a user, the input operation allowing content to be scrolled, and a setting control unit configured to change a setting of a scrolling direction for the content on the basis of a situation in which the input operation has been performed.
US09792030B1
A function for configuring a screen reflecting user preference is implemented when formlets are displayed to indicate function items of a mobile communication terminal. The size, position and shape of a formlet on which an indicator is positioned are changed by user settings in a state in which multiple formlets are displayed, thereby increasing accessibility to a formlet of high preference to a user and also increasing display visibility.
US09792027B2
A computing device may provide a control interface that enables the user to manage the synchronized output of companion content (e.g., textual content and corresponding audio content). For example, the computing device may display a visual cue to identify a current location in textual content corresponding to a current output position of companion audio content. As the audio content is presented, the visual cue may be advanced to maintain synchronization between the output position within the audio content and a corresponding position in the textual content. The user may control the synchronized output by dragging her finger across the textual content displayed on the touch screen. Accordingly, the control interface may provide a highlight or other visual indication of the distance between the advancing position in the textual content and the location of a pointer to the textual content indicated by the current position of the user's finger.
US09792023B2
An electronic device is disclosed for use with a touch-sensitive display. The electronic device includes a processor that displays indicia on the touch-sensitive display that can be touch selected by a user, and defines a size and location of a plurality of selection zones on the touch-sensitive display that are each associated with different ones of the indicia. The processor identifies a first one of the selection zones that has been selected by the user on the touch-sensitive display, and outputs a first one of the indicia that is associated with the first selection zone. The processor changes the size of a second one of the selection zones in response to it being associated with a second one of the indicia that is more likely to be selected next following selection of the first selection zone associated with the first indicia than at least another one of the selection zones. Related methods of operating an electronic device are disclosed.
US09792021B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products for transitioning an interface to a related image are provided. A method for transitioning an interface to a related image may include receiving information describing a homography between a first image and a second image, and adjusting the interface to present the second image at one or more transition intervals in a transition period until the second image is fully displayed and the first image is no longer visible. The interface may be adjusted by determining, based on the homography, a region of the second image to overlay onto a corresponding area of the first image, blending the determined region with the corresponding area to reduce visible seams occurring between the first image and the second image, and updating the interface by gradually decreasing visual intensity of the first image while gradually and proportionally increasing visual intensity of the second image.
US09792012B2
The present invention is related to a method for selecting an image comprises forming a group of digital image representations, displaying a first digital image representation of the group of digital image representations on a touch sensitive display, generating a position signal in response to a detection of a pointing device on the touch sensitive display, said position signal indicating a touch position, identifying a selected position within the displayed first digital image representation based on the position signal, generating a zoom-in signal in response to a detection of the pointing device sliding away from the touch position on the touch display, said zoom signal indicating a sliding distance from the touch position, displaying an enlarged representation of the first digital image representation in response to the zoom-in signal, generating a shift signal in response to a detection of a second sliding motion of the fingertip on the touch sensitive display, and displaying a second digital image representation and an enlarged representation of the second digital image representation in response to the shift signal, the enlargement of the subarea being based on the zoom signal generated during displaying of the first digital image representation.
US09792007B2
Embodiments are described for handling focus when a gesture is input in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, a first image displayed on a first touch sensitive display of a first screen may be currently in focus. In embodiments, the gesture is a tap on a second touch sensitive display of the device. In response to the gesture, an application is launched, which displays a second image on a second display of a second screen. Focus is then changed from the first image on the first touch sensitive display to the second image on the second touch sensitive display.
US09792001B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The computer-implemented method includes displaying a multiweek calendar on the touch screen display, detecting a contact on an individual day in the multiweek calendar, and in response to detecting the contact on the individual day, displaying at least a portion of a list of events on the contacted individual day while continuing to display the multiweek calendar, wherein the list of events on the contacted individual day includes an invitation to an event.
US09791989B2
A stretchable display includes: a stretchable substrate including first areas and second areas; main pixels disposed on the first areas of the stretchable substrate, the main pixels configured to display different colors; and at least one sub-pixel disposed on the second areas of the stretchable substrate, the at least one sub-pixel being configured to display one color that is the same as any one of the main pixels.
US09791966B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided in which gate pulses are generated high-voltage using at least two gate clocks having a specific slew rate. The liquid crystal display device can include a liquid crystal display panel including gate and date lines as well as first and second touch electrodes; a touch sensing unit to supply a common voltage to the first and second touch electrodes during an image display period, and to sense a touch contact or operation during a touch sensing period; a controller to generate at least two gate clocks having a specific slew rate; a gate driver to generate gate pulses with the gate clocks, and to sequentially output the gate pulses to the gate lines during the image display period; and a data driver to supply data voltages to the data lines in response to a data control signal during the image display period.
US09791964B2
A touch screen panel includes a thin film substrate having sensing patterns formed thereon that is implemented as an isotropic film, and a polarizing plate is disposed on the sensing patterns so that it is possible to minimize or reduce degradation of image quality. The touch screen panel includes a thin film substrate, sensing patterns, and sensing lines. The thin film substrate is divided into an active area and a non-active area. The sensing patterns are formed in the active area of the thin film substrate. The sensing lines are formed in the non-active area of the thin film substrate so as to be connected to the sensing patterns. In the touch screen panel, the thin film substrate is implemented as an isotropic film.
US09791961B2
A touch sensitive detecting method, applicable to a touch panel or screen, comprises: setting a sensing electrode to floating; after the sensing electrode is set to floating, setting at least one non-measuring sensing electrode to a sensing high voltage; measuring the voltage of the sensing electrode; setting the sensing electrode to a ground voltage and stopping measurement; and determining whether an externally conducted object is approximating or touching the touch panel or screen nearby the sensing electrode by comparing a difference between a threshold voltage and the measured voltage of the sensing electrode.
US09791948B2
According to the present disclosure, there is provided a control device including a detection unit configured to detect, as a manipulation region, at least a part of a substantial object present at a position at which a user is estimated to be able to perform a manipulation, a function setting unit configured to perform setting in a manner that a predetermined function matches the manipulation region detected by the detection unit, and a control unit configured to perform the function matched with the manipulation region based on a positional relation between the manipulation region and a manipulator.
US09791937B2
A method for controlling a wearable device including a display, the method including changing a content currently displayed on an external device from a first content to a second content different from the first content; determining, via a controller, whether the changing the content is performed by a wearer of the wearable device; and displaying the first content on the display of the wearable device to be viewed by the wearer if it is determined that the changing the content is performed by a person other than the wearer of the wearable device, further during the displaying the first content on the display, the first content is displayed only on the display of the wearable device.
US09791930B1
User input is accepted by a force sensing resistor (“FSR”) assembly, a force sensing capacitor (“FSC”) assembly, or both. The FSR or FSC assemblies may be located within an input device, such as behind a device exterior, display, and so forth. A force applied to the device exterior proximate to the assembly may result in a signal indicative of the force to the assembly. The signal may be processed to determine a particular touch zone was activated. A particular action associated with the touch zone may be performed. The particular action may be based at least in part on which touch zone which was activated, a magnitude of the force, or both. For example, the particular action may include a haptic output to provide feedback to a user.
US09791928B2
An apparatus, method, computer program and apparatus provide a user input device which is intended to be easier for a user to use. A tactile feedback which differentiates a user selectable part from other user selectable parts is provided. The tactile feedback may only be provided when a specific function is available and the tactile feedback may be indicative of a characteristic of the function. For example, the tactile feedback may indicate that the function cannot be reversed and so the user knows to take extra care and avoid unintentionally actuating the selectable part.
US09791925B2
Provided is an information acquisition method in an information acquisition system including an information device possessed by a user. A detecting step detects a specific action performed by the user while driving a motor vehicle. A first saving step acquires and saves, in a storage unit, motor vehicle position information indicating a position of the motor vehicle if the specific action is detected by the detecting step. A deleting step deletes the motor vehicle position information from the storage unit in a case in which the specific action is an action other than an action of speaking a voice phrase, and when a designated time elapses in a case in which the user does not perform an action of speaking a voice phrase from a time at which the specific action was detected and before the designated time elapses.
US09791912B2
A personal computer system comprises a visual display, an imaging device adapted to provide eye-tracking data by imaging at least one eye of a viewer of the visual display, and identifying means for recognizing the viewer with reference to one of a plurality of predefined personal profiles. The personal computer system further comprises an eye-tracking processor for processing the eye-tracking data. According to the invention, the eye-tracking processor is selectively operable in one of a plurality of personalized active sub-modes associated with said personal profiles. The sub-modes may differ with regard to eye-tracking related or power-management related settings. Further, the identifying means may sense an identified viewer's actual viewing condition (e.g., use of viewing aids or wearing of garments), wherein the imaging device is further operable in a sub profile mode associated with the determined actual viewing condition.
US09791904B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores and a plurality of temperature sensors, where each core is proximate to at least one temperature sensor. The processor also includes a power control unit (PCU) including temperature logic to receive temperature data that includes a corresponding temperature value from each of the temperature sensors. Responsive to an indication that a highest temperature value of the temperature data exceeds a threshold, the temperature logic is to adjust a plurality of domain frequencies according to a determined policy that is based on instruction execution characteristics of at least two of the plurality of cores. Each domain frequency is associated with a corresponding domain that includes at least one of the plurality of cores and each domain frequency is independently adjustable. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09791898B2
A USB data card includes a main body and a USB protection cover which is used for protecting a USB plug. The main body is provided with a decorative part which is detachably connected with the USB protection cover. The utility model can prevent the USB protection cover from loss, so that the time for the USB protection cover to protect the USB plug is prolonged, and then the service life of the USB data card is prolonged.
US09791897B2
Departing from one-way linear cinema played on a single rectangular screen, this multi-channel virtual environment involves a cinematic paradigm that undoes habitual ways of framing things, employing architectural concepts in a polylinear video/sound construction to create a type of experience that allows the world to reveal itself and permits discovery on the part of participants. Techniques are disclosed for peripatetic navigation through virtual space with a handheld computing device, leveraging human spatial memory to form a proprioceptive sense of location, allowing a participant to easily navigate amongst a plurality of simultaneously playing videos and to center in front of individual video panes in said space, making it comfortable for a participant to rest in a fixed posture and orientation while selectively viewing any one of the video streams, and providing spatialized 3D audio cues that invite awareness of other content unfolding simultaneously in the virtual environment.
US09791896B2
A device and method performs a predefined functionality. The method includes generating a first view including selectable elements corresponding to a predefined functionality with first position data and first orientation data shown on a display device. The method includes determining a movement of the display device relative to a user. The method includes generating a second view including at least one of the selectable elements with second position data and second orientation data based on the first image data and the movement data, the second position and orientation data being the same as the first position and orientation data, respectively, relative to the user. The method includes selecting one of the at least one of the selectable elements of the second view as a function of the second position data and the second orientation data and executing the predefined functionality corresponding to the selected one of the selectable elements.
US09791890B2
A secure housing for a portable computer, which has a screen, operating keys and at least one connector, can be transferred from an open state to a closed state. In order to protect the computer and the data stored thereon, the secure housing can be locked in the closed state and conceals at least one operating key of the computer while the screen is exposed.
US09791889B2
A device includes: a main unit that has a width smaller than a width of a display unit including a touch panel that detects a touch operation, the main unit being structured so that the display unit is provided on the main unit in a state in which the display unit includes a portion that does not overlap the main unit; a bottom portion coupled to the main unit, the bottom portion being placed on a mounting surface so as to be in contact with the mounting surface when the device is mounted on the mounting surface; and a support portion that supports the main unit, the support portion has one end of the support portion coupled to the main unit and another end of the support portion disposed in a direction away from the main unit with a space left between the another end and the main unit.
US09791885B2
A position holding device for a rotating lever includes a rotating lever and a torsion spring. The rotating lever is elastically held at two positions, that is, a first position and a second position. The torsion spring includes a coiled part, and a first arm part and a second arm part each extending from the coiled part. The first arm part has a mountain portion formed thereon, and the second arm part has a reversely urging portion formed thereon. An urging force of the reversely urging portion is applied to the rotating lever as a braking force against an urging force of the mountain portion. Further, a regulating member is formed on a base member so as to abut against the first arm part when the rotating lever rotates toward the first position through a neutral position.
US09791874B1
One example discloses a voltage regulator, comprising: a power supply input; a regulated voltage output; an output transistor configured to provide a first current from the power supply input to the regulated voltage output based on a control voltage; and a current amplifier configured to provide a second current from the power supply input to the regulated voltage output based on the control voltage; wherein the output transistor and the current amplifier are coupled in parallel between the power supply input and the regulated voltage output.
US09791871B1
A thermostat may include first and second solid-state switching elements coupled to a call relay wire connector and a power return wire connector. The switching elements may be configured to operate in a first state to make a connection between the call relay wire connector and the power return wire connector, and a second state in which the connection is interrupted. The thermostat may also include power monitoring circuitry configured to cause the switching elements to operate in the first state to actuate an environmental control function, receive an indication that the switching elements should transition to the second state, at a first time after receiving the indication, turn off whichever of the first switching element and the second switching element receives AC current from the environmental control system at the first time; and at a second time after the first time, turn off the other of the switching elements.
US09791865B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of a multi-scale fiducial. A multi-scale fiducial may have three or more scales, where the child fiducials are nested or otherwise linked by a relative position to the parent fiducials. Multi-scale fiducials may facilitate target identification and tracking at varying distances, potentially without the aid of a scale-invariant recognition algorithm. One application of multi-scale fiducials may involve target identification for autonomously controlled aerial vehicles.
US09791858B2
A self-propelled device includes a drive system, a wireless communication port, a memory and a processor. The memory stores a first set of instructions for mapping individual inputs from a first set of recognizable inputs to a corresponding command that controls movement of the self-propelled device. The processor (or processors) receive one or more inputs from the controller device over the wireless communication port, map each of the one or more inputs to a command based on the set of instructions, and control the drive system using the command determined for each of the one or more inputs. While the drive system is controlled, the processor processes one or more instructions to after the set of recognizable inputs and/or the corresponding command that is mapped to the individual inputs in the set of recognizable inputs.
US09791856B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring operating machinery to identify fault frequency sets for consumable components used in the machinery. Data associated with characteristic behavior of the machinery being monitored is acquired and analyzed, comparing known vendor information regarding fault frequencies for specified components to vibration frequencies observed in the machine in service. The systems and methods described herein enable an operator to identify and confirm critical information such as the location of and/or vendor identity for components exhibiting fault vibration behavior.
US09791851B2
The present invention provides a quick processing system and method for SMT equipment, that is: firstly read PCB design files and BOM files inputted, and generate core data including text data and graphic data of all components to be assembled; then search the component data matched with each component to be assembled in the local database on basis of the core data, and link the found component information with the corresponding component to be assembled, and mark the component information as an available component, and create component information on basis of the core data of the component to be assembled, and stored to the local database, then mark the component information as an available component, and recover the component information on basis of the graphic data in the core data as an error is checked out; finally output the validated component information to the SMT equipment system.
US09791846B2
To include an analysis processing unit that obtains a movement command for moving on a movement path in a machining program, and vibration conditions for vibrating along the movement path, a command-movement-amount calculation unit that calculates a command-movement amount per unit time, a vibrational-movement-amount calculation unit that uses the vibration conditions to calculate a vibrational-movement amount per unit time at a time corresponding to the movement command, and a movement-amount combining unit that combines the command-movement amount with the vibrational-movement amount to calculate a combined movement amount, and that acquires a movement amount within the unit time such that a position, which has moved from a reference position for calculating the combined movement amount by the combined movement amount, is located on the movement path.
US09791843B1
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for unlocking a wireless communication device into an operating mode based on RFID element information. In a particular embodiment, a method provides locking a user interface on the wireless communication device. The method further provides receiving a wireless signal from a first Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) element and responsively determining if the wireless signal comprises a valid unlock instruction. If the first signal comprises the valid unlock instruction, then the method provides selecting one of the operating modes for the wireless communication device, unlocking the user interface on the wireless communication device, and operating the wireless communication device in the selected operating mode.
US09791838B2
A method of using an online system includes transmitting user information to a server through an external terminal to log in to the server. The server specifies a home appliance for a remote service based on the user information received from the external terminal and determines whether remote service activation of the specified home appliance is set, upon determining that the remote service activation of the home appliance is set. The server transmits operation information of the home appliance to the external terminal. The external terminal transmits a command signal to the server such that the home appliance is operated based on the received operation information. The server receives the command signal, and the server transmits the command signal to the home appliance such that the home appliance is operated.
US09791835B2
A system to interrupt the line or supply side power or charged system of any building, appliance, process, and the like, so as to render the system without charge or current output outside of the junction box/enclosure or equipment load supply connection so that emergency first responders or solar/any technician, authorized personnel in any field, system maintenance crew may avoid electrocution, chemical or machine/appliance hazard in the presence of fire, explosion, structural failure/compromise, moisture, flammables, caustics, hazmat, water stream, mist, fogging, physical damage or servicing of the system. The system can be engaged for any anticipated disaster such as fire, hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, and the like.
US09791834B1
A system includes a digital-to-time converter (DTC) to generate output signals with phase offsets set by a plurality of DTC input values and a time-to-digital converter (TDC) operatively coupled to the DTC, wherein the TDC has a lower resolution than the DTC. The system also includes a processing component operatively coupled to the DTC and the TDC. The processing device, for each of a plurality of TDC thresholds, determines a DTC input value corresponding to a respective TDC threshold. The processing device may then generate a calibration function based on the determined DTC input values and corresponding TDC thresholds.
US09791829B2
An air cleaner having a filter, causing air to pass through the filter and discharging the filtered air. The air cleaner includes: an air duct having an inlet via which air is received and an outlet facing a first part of a main surface of the filter and via which the received air is output towards the first part of the main surface; a fan causing air to be received by the air duct via the inlet, to be output from the air duct via the outlet, and to pass through the filter; and a flow distributer disposed between the outlet and the filter. The flow distributer changes a direction of flow of air output from the air duct from towards the first part of the main surface to towards a second part of the main surface of the filter that does not facing the outlet.
US09791827B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body and a cartridge attached to the main body. The cartridge includes: a casing extending in a longitudinal direction; a photosensitive drum extending in the longitudinal direction; and a separating member that is detachably attached to the casing. The photosensitive drum has a peripheral surface and is positioned in confrontation with the endless belt as a result of attachment of the cartridge to the main body. The separating member is attached to the casing and separates the photosensitive drum from the endless belt when the main body is packaged while the cartridge is attached to the main body. The separating member includes first and second end portions disposed on both end portions of the casing, and a connecting portion connecting the first and second end portions and is configured to cover the peripheral surface.
US09791823B2
A cartridge including a carrier storing an authenticity verification code readable by a scan device other than a host device and an auto-destruct feature to render the authenticity verification code unreadable at installation.
US09791821B2
A document conveyance apparatus includes a document conveyance section, a cover, an opening and closing detection sensor, a document detection sensor, and a control section. The control section detects opening and closing of the cover on the basis of an output value of the opening and closing detection sensor and detects whether or not there is a document in a predetermined detection position on the basis of the output value of the document detection sensor. If, when the output value of the document detection sensor has changed from a value indicating an opened state of the cover to a value indicating a closed state thereof, the output value of the document detection sensor is a value indicating that there is the document, the control section detects a half-closed state where the cover is not completely closed.
US09791805B2
A developing device includes a developer container for storing developer containing carrier and toner, the developer container including a first compartment and a second compartment in which the developer is stirred and fed, a developing roller, and a sensor including a coil. A pair of communication portion is disposed on both ends in a longitudinal direction of the compartments. In addition, a gap is formed between the first compartment and the second compartment, and a part of the first compartment adjacent to the gap is a cylindrical portion through which the developer passes. A flat cable as a coil passes through the gap and is wound around the cylindrical portion so as to form a winding by overlapping both end portions of the flat cable in a state where terminals of wires are shifted by one pitch.
US09791800B2
A charging device includes: an electrode; a cleaning member that cleans the electrode; a moving body that moves along the electrode, the cleaning member that is attached to the moving body; and a rotation member that is disposed along the electrode and that includes a spiral protrusion on an outer circumferential surface thereof to move the moving body, the rotation member that is rotated in a circumferential direction. A plurality of kinds of pitch intervals of the protrusion are provided on at least a central portion of the rotation member in a longitudinal direction.
US09791799B2
An image forming apparatus includes a charging roller and a developing voltage application portion. The charging roller is in contact with a rotating image carrier to charge the image carrier. The developing voltage application portion applies a developing bias voltage including an AC component to a developing roller in a developing portion, when the image carrier is in a rotation state with no image. The rotation state with no image indicates a state in which the charged image carrier rotates with no electrostatic latent image being formed thereon. The developing portion supplies toner containing an external additive to the image carrier.
US09791780B2
An exposure apparatus may include a laser light source capable of varying a wavelength of a laser beam that is emitted from the laser light source, a mask on which a pattern is formed, the pattern being configured to generate diffracted light by being irradiated with the laser beam, and a controller configured to control, in accordance with a distance between the mask and a substrate, the wavelength of the laser beam that is emitted from the laser light source, wherein the mask is irradiated with the laser beam emitted from the laser light source to perform proximity exposure on a surface of the substrate.
US09791773B2
The present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition for black matrix, as well as a color filter and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device formed by the composition. The aforementioned photosensitive resin composition comprises an alkali-soluble resin (A), a compound containing vinyl unsaturated group(s) (B), a photo initiator (C), quinonediazide sulfonic acid ester (D), a solvent (E) and black pigment (F). The alkali-soluble resin (A) includes epoxy resin having unsaturated group(s) (A-1), which is obtained by reacting an epoxy resin (i) having at least two epoxy groups with a compound (ii) having at least one vinyl unsaturated group and carboxyl group. The aforementioned photo initiator (C) includes an O-acyloxime compound (C-1).
US09791764B2
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of performing suitable automatic irradiation direction control in a case where the automatic irradiation direction control for a lighting device is operated by a plurality of operation members. The lighting device that changes an irradiation direction of a light emitting section is mounted or is attachable to the image pickup apparatus. A first operation member starts automatic irradiation direction control that drives the light emitting section to direct in a determined irradiation direction, and starts photographing preparation. A second operation member starts the automatic irradiation direction control. A control unit continuously performs the automatic irradiation direction control in operation without stopping when the second operation member is operated during the automatic irradiation direction control owing to the operation of the first operation member.
US09791759B2
A multiple glazing with variable scattering by liquid crystals includes first and second flat float glass sheets sealed on the edge of their internal faces by a sealing joint, in particular made of a given sealing material, in particular essentially organic, first and second electrodes, and a layer of liquid crystals with an average thickness E between 15 and 60 μm inclusive of these values and incorporating spacers. The thickness A of each of the first and second glass sheets is less than or equal to 5.5 mm, and each of the internal faces coated with the first and second electrodes has a dioptric defect score, expressed in millidioptres, of less than 12E/15 where the thickness E of the liquid crystals is in μm.
US09791755B2
The present disclosure provides a COA substrate, a display device and a method for manufacturing the COA substrate. The COA substrate includes: a passivation layer pattern arranged on a first conductive layer pattern including a data line, and a source electrode and a drain electrode of a TFT, and including a first via-hole at a position corresponding to the drain electrode; a second conductive layer pattern arranged on the passivation layer pattern and including a conductive connection pattern arranged at a region defined by a gate line, the data line and the TFT, and connected to the drain electrode of the TFT through the via-hole; and a color filter layer pattern arranged on the second conductive layer pattern and including a second via-hole at a position corresponding to the conductive connection pattern.
US09791747B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a blocking structure, and a seal layer. The first substrate has a display region. The blocking structure is disposed on the first substrate and located outside the display region, wherein the blocking structure includes a plurality of first blocking walls, and a distance between two adjacent first blocking walls is 7-50 μm. The seal layer is disposed on the first substrate and surrounds the first blocking walls, wherein each of the first blocking walls has a top surface, and the seal layer is in direct contact with at least one of the top surfaces.
US09791744B2
An electrode layer of a display panel includes a first trunk electrode extended along a first direction and a plurality of first and second branch electrodes disposed on two sides of the first trunk electrode. The first branch electrodes are separated by a distance (T). The first branch electrode has a first curved side, and the second branch electrode has a second curved side. The first curved side and second curved side have a first shortest distance (A) therebetween along a second direction. A first vertex is the highest point or lowest point of the first curved side along the first direction, and a second vertex is the highest point or lowest point of the second curved side along the first direction. The first vertex and second vertex have a second shortest distance (B) therebetween along the second direction. The equation of 0.5T≦(B−A)≦T is satisfied.
US09791738B2
The present invention relates to a method and a backlight module that achieve high color saturation of an LCD device. The backlight module that achieves high color saturation of the LCD device includes a notch filter. Light of backlighting of the backlight module is subjected to light filtering by the notch filter and then enters a liquid crystal cell of the LCD device. The notch filter has a cut-off central wavelength of 500-640 nanometers. The half peak width of the cut-off wave band is 10-120 nanometers. The notch filter has a thickness of 0.3-15 millimeters. The present invention also provides a method for achieving high color saturation of an LCD device. The present invention proposes a novel high color saturation technique that allows the color saturation to be increased at different extents in different backlighting and that may have NTSC reach 100% when used with an RG LED.
US09791737B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a light source configured to supply light to the display panel; a mold frame on which the display panel is disposed; and a bottom chassis on which the light source is disposed, and which is coupled to the mold frame. The mold frame includes: a base unit disposed between the display panel and the light source, and having a panel form; and a side wall portion which is bent and which extends from the base unit.
US09791717B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a contact lens assembly comprising a contact lens having an outer edge, a flash ring disposed around the outer edge of the contact lens and a connecting portion connecting the flash ring to the contact lens, wherein the thickness of the connecting portion is less than the thickness of the outer edge of the contact lens. There is also provided a contact lens assembly comprising a contact lens having an outer edge, a flash ring disposed around the outer edge of the contact lens, and a connecting portion connecting the flash ring to the contact lens wherein the mass of the flash ring is at least forty times greater than the mass of the contact lens, suitably at least sixty times greater than the mass of the contact lens. There is also provided a contact lens injection molding apparatus comprising first and second molding parts moveable relative to each other between a compressed and an uncompressed position, wherein in the compressed position, an outer edge of the first molding part is disposed 1 to 50 μm from an outer edge of the second molding part.
US09791710B2
A display device is described and includes a first display screen including a mask pattern of a pixel. The display device includes a second display screen including the mask pattern, wherein the second display screen is located further from a front of the display device than the first display screen, wherein the front of the display device is closest to a viewer. The display device includes a diffraction element configured to copy the mask pattern of the second display screen into one or more viewable copies in order to minimize moiré interference with the mask pattern of the first display screen.
US09791696B2
An apparatus for use in replicating an image associated with an input-pupil to an output-pupil includes a planar optical waveguide including a bulk-substrate, and also including an input-coupler, an intermediate-component and an output-coupler. The input-coupler couples light corresponding to the image into the bulk-substrate and towards the intermediate-component. The intermediate-component performs horizontal or vertical pupil expansion and directs the light corresponding to the image towards the output-coupler. The output-coupler performs the other one of horizontal or vertical pupil expansion and couples light corresponding to the image, which travels from the input-coupler to the output-coupler, out of the waveguide. In certain embodiments, one or more of the input-coupler, the intermediate-component or the output-coupler comprises a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) based surface relief grating (SRG) or a double-side diffractive optical element (DOE), each of which can be used to improve an intensity distribution of light output by the output-coupler.
US09791694B1
A transparent flexible display film is applied to a vehicle windshield, either as a film applied to the surface of the windshield or as a layer in the laminated glass comprising the windshield. A connected computer renders a synthesized view of the external environment around the vehicle, including visual representations of information received from an on-board data sensor or from an external source. No special glasses or helmets are required for the operators and if the system fails, the display film is transparent and will not impede the operators view.
US09791686B2
In a microscope for high resolution scanning microscopy of a sample, said microscope comprising—an illumination device for illuminating the sample, —an imaging device for scanning at least one point spot or line spot across the sample and for imaging the point spot or line spot into a diffraction-limited, stationary single image with magnification into a detection plane, —a detector device for detecting the single image in the detection plane for different scanning positions with a spatial resolution, which, taking into consideration the magnification, is at least twice as high as a full width at half maximum of the diffraction-limited single image, —an evaluation device for evaluating a diffraction pattern of the single image for the scanning positions from data of the detector device and for generating an image of the sample, said image having a resolution that is increased beyond the diffraction limit, provision is made for—the detector device to have a detector array, which has pixels and is larger than the single image, and—a non-imaging redistribution element, which is disposed upstream of the detector array and distributes the radiation from the detection plane in a non-imaging manner among the pixels of the detector array.
US09791681B2
An optical element is configured by connecting a plurality of tiles each constituted by a plurality of reflective optical elements, and is formed in a shape having a plane surface. The tiles configuring the optical element are formed such that outer shapes on the plane surface of the tiles have at least two different triangular shapes, while an end surface of each tile is provided with a light shielding part.
US09791675B2
There is provided super wide angle lens module, including: a first lens having negative refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having positive refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having positive refractive power and having a meniscus shape convex toward an image side, wherein the third lens satisfies Equation 1, Nd3>1.7 Equation 1 where Nd3 represents a refractive index of the third lens.
US09791673B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09791666B2
An imaging optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof; a second lens element having negative refractive power; a third lens element having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof being aspheric; and a fourth lens element with negative refractive power having an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof being aspheric. There are a total of four lens elements in the imaging optical system, and an air gap is arranged between every two adjacent lens elements.
US09791665B2
An imaging lens is substantially constituted by: a negative first lens group; a positive second lens group; an aperture stop; a positive third lens group; and a negative fourth lens group; provided in this order from an object side. The first lens group is constituted only by two or more negative lenses. The second lens group has a positive lens at the most object side thereof. The third lens group has a negative lens having a concave surface toward the object side at the most object side thereof. The fourth lens group is constituted by a single negative lens. The fourth lens group moves from the object side to an image side when changing focus from an object at infinity to an object at an extremely close distance. Only the fourth lens group moves during focusing operations.
US09791659B2
The present invention provides an imaging module capable of performing positioning of an imaging element unit, and a lens unit at a low cost and with high precision and an electronic device including the imaging module. An imaging module 100 includes a lens unit 10 including VCMs 16A, 16C, and 16E which move a lens group 12 in an x direction, a y direction, and a z direction, respectively, terminals 14A and 14B which are connected to the VCM 16A, terminals 14C and 14D which are connected to the VCM 16C, and terminals 14E and 14F which are connected to the VCM 16E, and an imaging element unit 20 including terminals 24A to 24F which are connected to the terminals 14A to 14F. Exposed areas of the terminals 14A and 14B are larger than exposed areas of the terminals 14C to 14F.
US09791656B2
Apparatus for inserting optical fibers into furcation tubes comprises a plurality duct-like channels each configured to receive one of the furcation tubes in such a way that the furcation tube is insertable from a first side of the apparatus into the duct-like channel so that a long tube section of the furcation tube can be left protruding on the first side and a short tube section of the furcation tube can protrude on an opposite second side of the apparatus. Each duct-like channel is further configured so that a portion of the long tube section becomes spread apart along a longitudinal slot of the furcation tube, thereby allowing an optical fiber to be inserted into the short tube section and extended through the furcation tube before protruding from the longitudinal slot in the long tube section.
US09791654B2
An network interface device (NID) cabinet has removably mounted or fixedly mounted cable spools. The NID cabinet is a small enclosure, typically made of plastic, which sits on the outside wall of an end user's building, such as a home or office. Pre-terminated cables are spooled around each cable spool, and the cable connector at one end of each cable is connected to a network interconnection junction within the NID cabinet. A series of interlocking mounting features are formed on both the cable spool and the mating NID cabinet back wall. Two different types of mounting features enable the cable spool to be removably or fixedly mounted within the NID cabinet. When fixedly mounted, the cable spool can still be removed from the NID cabinet, but only if the spooled cabled is completed un-spooled and removed from the cable spool.
US09791653B2
A closure includes a cover and seal block. A feeder cable pathway and rear cover is provided for separation of feeder cables from drop cables. The organizer in the closure includes an end cap and rear cable storage. Cable fixation clips, linear or bendable, can be used individually or daisy chained together. Cable fixation chambers are positioned on top of the gel block housing. The organizer is a click together organizer. Dual heights on cable guides on sides of the groove plate facilitate cable installation. Tray supports with rounded ends prevent looseness of the tray mounts. Other organizers include cable routing features for compact storage.
US09791647B2
An optoelectronic module is disclosed. The optoelectronic module comprises an optical connector, a contact, an opto-electric assembly, and a casing. The opto-electric assembly has a carrier optically connected to the optical connector by a flexible optical fiber and electrically connected to the contact by a flexible cable. The casing at least partially encloses the opto-electric assembly, the optical connector, and the contact. An inner surface of a wall of the casing is attached to the carrier in a thermally conductive manner.
US09791643B2
A method for fabricating an optical transmitting apparatus includes steps of: preparing a temporary assembly including a stub device having an optical fiber, a magnetic guide member with a hole, and a holder, an optical connector, and an magnetic alignment member extending in a direction of an axis; applying a magnetic force to the alignment member of the temporary assembly with a magnet device of an electromagnet or a permanent magnet; carrying out optical alignment of the stub device with an optical device by active alignment, the stub device being optically coupled to the optical connector, and; separating the optical connector and the alignment member apart from the stub device. The alignment member is disposed in the hole of the stub device and a guide hole of the optical connector in the temporary assembly such that the alignment member aligns the stub device with the optical connector.
US09791634B2
Circuits, apparatus, and methods that provide a connector system that can supply both power and data to a mobile computing or other type of device using a single connection. Further examples also provide a power and data adapter that can provide power and data to a mobile computing device using a single cable. Further examples provide an easy disengagement when a cable connected to the connector is pulled. One such example provides a magnetic connector that uncouples without binding when its cord is pulled. Another example prevents power from being provided at a connector insert until the connector insert is placed in a connector receptacle.
US09791633B2
An optical path system includes a first block that further includes multiple first fiber optic guides, arranged in a first configuration to receive multiple first optical fibers, with one fiber in each guide. The optical path system further includes a second block comprising multiple second fiber optic guides, arranged in a second configuration to receive multiple second optical fibers, with one fiber in each guide, wherein a first face of the second block abuts a first face of the first block and wherein the first block is movable relative to the second block. The optical path system also includes micro-position adjusting mechanisms configured to move the first block relative to the second block to align the multiple first optical fibers with the multiple second optical fibers.
US09791630B2
An apparatus for discriminating bacteria types using optical scattering patterns is disclosed. The apparatus includes an optical fiber for transferring light emitted from a light source, a lens for controlling a width of the light received from the optical fiber, a linear polarizer for transmitting the light passing through the lens and a bacterial colony, and a capturing unit for capturing an optical scattering pattern of the light transmitted through the linear polarizer.
US09791629B2
Devices and systems to perform optical alignment by using one or more liquid crystal layers to actively steer a light beam from an optical fiber to an optical waveguide integrated on a chip. An on-chip feedback mechanism can steer the beam between the fiber and a grating based waveguide to minimize the insertion loss of the system.
US09791628B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an optical branching assembly, a passive optical network, and an optical transmission method, which relate to the field of communications and are used to implement a functional diversity of the optical branching assembly. The optical branching assembly includes: a substrate and an optical power distribution area disposed on a surface of the substrate, where the optical power distribution area is coupled to a first optical waveguide, multiple second optical waveguides, and at least one third optical waveguide, and is used to distribute optical power of an optical signal, transmitted through the first optical waveguide, to each of the second optical waveguides and the at least one third optical waveguide; and the third optical waveguide is coupled to the first optical waveguide, where a reflective material is disposed on the third optical waveguide.
US09791621B2
A method for fabricating an integrated semiconductor photonics device is disclosed. The method may include providing a first substrate having on its top surface a monocrystalline semiconductor layer suitable for supporting an optical mode and forming a homogenous and conformal first dielectric layer on a planar surface of the monocrystalline semiconductor layer. The method may further include providing a dielectric waveguide core on the first dielectric layer, the dielectric waveguide core optically coupled to a first region of the monocrystalline semiconductor layer through the first dielectric layer. The method may further include depositing a second dielectric layer on the dielectric waveguide core, thereby covering the dielectric waveguide core, and annealing the substrate to drive hydrogen out of the dielectric waveguide core.
US09791614B2
Problem: To provide a vehicle lamp fitting in which regularity of the strength or weakness of the emitted light is maintained and deterioration of appearance is suppressed. Solution: A vehicle lamp fitting 10 comprises a light guide 11 which guides light from an LED light source 12 and an LED light source 13, the light guide 11 having entrance surfaces 110, 111, emission surfaces R1 to R3, and an internally reflecting surface 17 which causes light that has entered through the entrance surfaces 110, 111 to be reflected, and the internally reflecting surface 17 comprises a reflecting surface 141 which is provided in a first region 14 and which emits light from the LED light source 12 in a forward direction, a reflecting surface 151 which is provided in a second region 15 and which emits light from the LED light source 13 in the forward direction, and a reflecting surface 161 which is formed in a third region 16 between the first region 14 and the second region 15 and which limits the light intensity with which light from the LED light sources 12, 13 is emitted in the forward direction from the emission surface R3.
US09791611B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a backlight module, a liquid crystal panel and a display device. The backlight module comprises: a light guide plate (5), a plurality of polarization-maintaining optical fibers (3) and a plurality of monochrome laser light sources (1) provided at a lateral portion of the light guide plate (5). The polarization-maintaining optical fibers (3) receive the monochromatic light emitted from the monochrome laser light sources (1) respectively, and transmit the monochromatic light into the light guide plate (5).
US09791609B2
A polarization film, including: a hydrophobic polymer resin and a dichroic dye represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein in Chemical Formula 1, wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, Ar1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C15 arylene group, Ar2 is a C6 to C15 arylene group substituted with at least one of a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkoxy group, a halogen atom and a halogen-containing group, Ar3 is a C6 to C15 arylene group substituted with an amide group, R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkoxy group, R2 and R3 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group, or R2 and R3 are linked to each other to form a ring, and n is 1 or 2.
US09791608B2
The present invention relates to a polarizing plate and a liquid crystal display device. In the present invention, the polarizing plate is lightweight and has a small thickness and excellent properties including durability, water resistance, workability, pressure-sensitive adhesion and light leakage prevention ability; and the liquid crystal display device including the same are provided.
US09791600B2
Provided is a micro-lens capable of changing a focal length. The micro-lens includes a plurality of electrodes, and an electrowetting liquid layer that is separable from the electrodes and that has a focal length that is controlled by a voltage applied to the electrodes.
US09791597B2
The present invention relates to a curable composition, providing, upon curing, an abrasion-resistant, transparent, antistatic coating, comprising carbon nanotubes and a binder comprising at least one epoxysilane compound, preferably an epoxyalkoxysilane, and optionally fillers such as nanoparticles of non electrically conductive oxides and/or additional binder components such as tetraethoxysilane. The invention further relates to optical articles comprising a substrate, and, starting from the substrate, an abrasion- and/or scratch-resistant coating, and an antistatic coating formed by depositing directly onto said abrasion- and/or scratch-resistant coating the above referred curable composition. The obtained optical articles exhibit antistatic properties, high optical transparency with about 91-92% of transmittance, low haze and improved abrasion resistance.
US09791583B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for deploying and retrieving a plurality of autonomous seismic nodes from the back deck of a marine vessel using an overboard node deployment and retrieval system are presented. The overboard system may comprise one or more overboard wheels that are actively powered to move in response to changes in movement of the deployed cable. The overboard system may comprise a first overboard wheel with a plurality of rollers and a second overboard wheel configured to detect movement and/or changes in a position of the deployment line. The overboard system may be configured to move the first overboard wheel in response to movement of the second overboard wheel. In addition, the first overboard wheel may comprise at least one opening or pocket configured to hold a node while the node passes across the wheel. Other seismic devices may also pass through the overboard system, such as transponders and weights attached to the deployment cable.
US09791582B2
A segmented-foil divertor for marine towed application, such as marine seismic exploration, having a plurality of longitudinally stackable foil segments with an internal conduit extending along the span of each segment to receive a cable passing therethrough.
US09791573B2
An approach for an intelligent GPS service is provided. The approach monitors a plurality of routes, wherein the plurality of routes are routes traveled by a user in a plurality of successive journeys. The approach determines one or more common sub-routes within the plurality of routes, the one or more common sub-routes having a plurality of points in common with each other. The approach determines whether the one or more common sub-routes exceed a pre-determined threshold. The approach flags each of the one or more common sub-routes exceeding a pre-determined threshold. The approach identifies one or more flagged common-sub-routes within a calculated route.
US09791570B2
Disclosed is a laser radar apparatus. The laser radar apparatus includes: a light transmission unit configured to output a laser pulse by using a light source; a light reception unit configured to receive a reflected laser pulse in connection with the laser pulse; and a controller configured to adjust a repetition rate of the laser pulse of the light source, in which the controller adjusts the repetition rate of the laser pulse based on at least one of reception power, a target distance, a movement speed, a vertical angle, and a radiation angle.
US09791568B2
A sensing device is for sensing an outer surface of a roll of material. An infrared (IR) laser source is configured to direct IR laser radiation to the outer surface of the roll of material. A single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector is configured to receive reflected IR laser radiation from the outer surface of the roll of material. A controller is coupled to the IR laser source and the SPAD detector to determine a distance to the outer surface of the roll of material based upon a time-of-flight of the IR laser radiation.
US09791567B2
A method and apparatus for authenticating a radar return signal include: generating an outgoing radar beam; generating a pair of entangled photons comprising a signal photon and an idler photon; combining the signal photon with the outgoing radar beam to generate a combined beam; sending the combined beam towards a target; receiving a return beam; detecting the signal photon from the return beam by a quantum illumination receiver; and making a joint detection with the idler signal.
US09791565B2
An imaging system (300) includes a transducer array (308) with a transducer element (310) with at least two faces (402, 904). Each face faces a different direction. The transducer element includes at least two sub-elements (404, 902). Each sub-element is part of a different face. The at least two sub-elements transmit respective beams at each location along a scan path (806).
US09791553B2
Data is received characterizing a plurality of measurements for a scene received by a plurality of sensor elements forming a sensor array. A plurality of scene sub-domains is mapped to the plurality of sensor elements. A plurality of voxels associated with one of the plurality of scene sub-domains is mapped to a plurality of measurement sub-domains. One or more scattering coefficients of the scene is determined by applying the mapping to the received data. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US09791552B1
The present invention is directed to an antenna system and a method that is configured to compute calibration element voltage gain patterns as functions of a digital antenna model and a plurality of complex beamformer voltages, determine calibration through path transfer functions from the plurality of complex voltages, and remove the calibration element voltage gain patterns from the calibration through path transfer functions to determine a beamforming network transfer function. The beamforming network transfer function and the far-field element voltage gain patterns are combined to obtain a system transfer function used to revise a calibration table.
US09791551B1
A digital FMCW radar is described that simultaneously transmits and receives digitally frequency modulated signals using multiple transmitters and multiple receivers and associated antennas. Several sources of nearby spillover from transmitters to receivers that would otherwise degrade receiver performance are subtracted by a cancellation system in the analog radio frequency domain that adaptively synthesizes an analog subtraction signal based on residual spillover measured by a correlator operating in the receivers' digital signal processing domains and based on knowledge of the transmitted waveforms. The first adaptive cancellation system achieves a sufficient reduction of transmit-receive spillover to avoid receiver saturation or other non-linear effects, but is then added back in to the signal path in the digital domain after analog-to-digital conversion so that spillover cancellation can also operate in the digital signal processing domain to remove deleterious spillover components.
US09791550B2
Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed synchronizing clocks of FMCW radar units by transmitting a first signal of a first FMCW radar unit, a frequency of the first signal varying over a first frequency range around a first baseband frequency, receiving a second signal at the first FMCW radar unit, a frequency of the second signal varying over a second frequency range around a second baseband frequency, determining values of a plurality of parameters including a first timing offset of the first FMCW radar unit based on a digital difference signal between the first and second signals, receiving a second timing offset of a second FMCW radar unit, determining a clock offset based on the first and second timing offsets, and synchronizing a clock of the first FMCW radar unit with a clock of the second FMCW radar unit based on the clock offset.
US09791548B2
A pulse compression radar for performing pre-distortion is provided, which has a configuration simplified in circuit structure. A radar apparatus (pulse compression radar) includes an antenna configured to externally transmit a transmission signal transmitted by a power amplifier and receive a reflection signal caused thereby as a reception signal. The radar apparatus includes a reception circuit configured to propagate this reception signal to a radar image creating module. The radar apparatus corrects beforehand, by utilizing the transmission signal (feedback signal) transmitted from the power amplifier, a transmission signal to be inputted into the power amplifier so as to cancel distortion of the transmission signal caused by amplification effect of the power amplifier. Further, a circuit where the reception signal passes and a circuit where the feedback signal passes share a part of each other.
US09791546B2
An ultrasonic locationing system using a dual phase pulse includes an emitter emitting two consecutive frequency bursts, each having a different phase, within one ultrasonic pulse. A receiver microphone receives the ultrasonic pulse, and a processor runs an amplitude-based detection algorithm on the pulse for a band of frequencies of interest and detects a first burst of the pulse within the proper frequency band and having an amplitude exceeding a threshold. Whereupon, the processor determines a relative phase difference between the first burst and a second burst of the pulse and determines whether the relative phase difference is within a predetermined acceptance window, indicating that the pulse is valid for use in locationing the emitter and associated mobile device.
US09791544B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, devices, apparatus, computer-/processor-readable media, and other implementations, including a method, at a processor-based mobile device, that includes determining a first set of candidate positions of the mobile device corresponding to a first time instance based, at least in part, on position data including a first set of identifiers decoded from signals including respective first one or more light-based communications received by the mobile device from a first one or more light devices, with the mobile device being located at a first location at the first time instance. The method further includes selecting at least one candidate position from the first set of candidate positions, in response to a determination that the first set of candidate positions includes more than one candidate position, in order to resolve positional ambiguity, based, at least partly, on further position data from further signals from one or more devices.
US09791529B2
The present invention provides a method for indicating differentiation between tissues. For each tissue amongst multiple tissues, a magnetization vector corresponding to each tissue is generated on the basis of a random scan sequence; on the basis of the magnetization vector corresponding to each of the multiple tissues, a differentiation-indicating value between each pair of the multiple tissues is calculated. Thus, a physician can select a suitable random scan sequence, according to the method provided in the present invention, and generate a magnetic resonance image comprising multiple brightness curves corresponding to multiple tissues, such that the trends of the brightness curves corresponding to the multiple tissues in the magnetic resonance image differ significantly. The present invention also provides a device for indicating differentiation between tissues.
US09791520B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for managing and monitoring a plurality of emergency power supply systems (EPSS's) at a facility via an emergency power management system (EPMS). The EPMS generally comprises EPSS equipment, a management computer system for managing, monitoring, and testing the operational characteristics of the EPSS equipment, and a plurality of interface modules for providing unified communication capabilities between the management computer system and the EPSS equipment. Additional aspects relate to methods for easily and efficiently creating and installing an EPMS at a facility. Further aspects are directed to providing predictive analyzes related to the EPSS equipment. Also, aspects of the present disclosure relate to normalizing EPSS equipment information across varying vendors, makes, and models of equipment so as to provide a unified view of all equipment across a given facility.
US09791518B2
An impedance measuring device outputs an alternating current of a prescribed frequency to each of a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal of a laminated type battery and detects an alternating-current potential difference between the positive electrode terminal and an intermediate-point terminal and an alternating-current potential difference between the negative electrode terminal and the intermediate-point terminal. The impedance measuring device adjusts an amplitude of the alternating current such that the alternating-current potential difference between the positive electrode terminal and the intermediate-point terminal and the alternating-current potential difference between the negative electrode terminal and the intermediate-point terminal coincide, and computes an impedance on the basis of the adjusted alternating current and alternating-current potential differences. Then, the impedance measuring device corrects a phase difference of the alternating currents output to the positive electrode terminal and the negative electrode terminal on the basis of a phase difference between an alternating-current potential generated at the positive electrode terminal and an alternating-current potential generated at the negative electrode terminal.
US09791517B2
State based full and empty control for rechargeable batteries that will assure a uniform battery empty condition, even in the presence of a load on the battery. A fuel gauge provides a prediction of the open circuit voltage of the battery, and when the predicted open circuit voltage of the battery reaches the predetermined open circuit voltage of an empty battery, the load is terminated, after which the battery will relax back to the predetermined open circuit voltage of an empty battery. A similar technique is disclosed for battery charging, allowing faster battery charging without overcharging. Preferably an RC battery model is used as the fuel gauge to provide the prediction, but as an alternative, a coulomb counter may be used to provide the prediction, with error correction between successive charge discharge cycles.
US09791514B2
A recycled battery supply forecast unit 201 of a battery management server 20 receives, from a plurality of vehicles 40, performance information of a secondary battery 403 mounted on each of the vehicles 40 and state information of the vehicle for determining a life of the vehicle 40, makes a forecast of an end of life of the vehicle 40 by using history of the state information of that vehicle, and makes a forecast of performance of the secondary battery 403 at the end of life of that vehicle 40 by using history of the performance information of the secondary battery 403. In addition, a forecast is made of a supply quantity of recyclable secondary batteries at a certain point in time in the future based on a forecast result of the performance of the secondary battery 203 at the end of life of each vehicle 40.
US09791513B2
The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to techniques and/or circuitry to adjust, correct and/or compensate a state of charge of the battery using the data which is representative of the relaxation time (e.g., full relaxation time) of the battery. The techniques and/or circuitry may determine the data which is representative of a relaxation time based on or using: (i) the rate of decay of the voltage at the terminals of the battery after terminating application of the charge current to the battery, (ii) a voltage which is constant or substantially constant after termination of the charge current and/or (iii) an amount of time associated with the decay of the voltage at the terminals of the battery to at least a measured or predetermined voltage. Notably, the charge signal or current may include a plurality of pulses.
US09791506B1
In one example case, a cross-platform system includes a first automated test platform having a first test instrument and a first glue layer interface that exposes test functions to direct testing by the first test instrument. The system further includes a second automated test platform having a second test instrument and a second glue layer interface that exposes the same test functions to direct testing by the second test instrument. In the system, the glue layers abstract the respective and different control commands used by the different, first and second test instruments. Using the glue layers, the same higher-level test code can be executed by the control computers of both the first and second automated test platforms.
US09791499B2
A test structure and method to detect open circuits due to electromigration or burn-out in test wires and inter-level vias. Electromigration occurs when current flows through circuit wires leading to a circuit interruption within the wire. The test structure is a passive test wire arranged in one of several configurations within the circuit of a computer chip. The dimensions and resistances of test wires can vary according to the test structure configuration. Each test wire is measured for an electrical discontinuity after the computer chip is powered-on. If a wiring interruption is detected, it is concluded that the chip had been powered-on before.
US09791498B2
An integrated circuit integrated on a semiconductor material die and adapted to be at least partly tested wirelessly, wherein circuitry for setting a selected radio communication frequencies to be used for the wireless test of the integrated circuit are integrated on the semiconductor material die.
US09791495B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of fault location in DC power distribution systems are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a DC power distribution system comprising at least one DC power distribution network and at least two protective devices operatively coupled to the DC power distribution network. Each protective device is structured to sense one or more electrical characteristics associated with the DC power distribution network and to controllably interrupt current through the DC power distribution line. A control system is structured to determine the location of a high impedance fault between two of the protective devices using one or more electrical characteristics sensed by the two protective devices to calculate the inductance and resistance of the portion of the DC power distribution line between one of the protective devices and the high impedance fault.
US09791491B2
A micropositioning device for a piezoelectric actuator includes a means for controlling an electric field applied to the piezoelectric actuator so as to deform the piezoelectric material, and means for simultaneous measurement of a variation of electric charge accumulated on the piezoelectric actuator resulting from the deformation; and means for acquiring measurements of the variation of electric charge, for processing these acquisitions and for estimating a displacement (x, y, z) of the piezoelectric actuator and/or an applied force.
US09791490B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. Control circuitry may be used to adjust transmit power levels for wireless signals, may be used to tune antennas, and may be used to adjust other settings for the wireless circuitry. The electronic device may have a coupler interposed between an antenna and wireless transceiver circuitry. The coupler and a receiver within the transceiver circuitry may be used to make measurements on tapped antenna signals such as transmitted signals and signals reflected from the antenna. By analyzing the tapped antenna signals, S-parameter phase and magnitude information may be gathered that provides insight into whether the electronic device is operating properly and whether an external object is adjacent to the antenna. If an external object is present, the electronic device may limit wireless transmit power and may adjust tunable components in the antenna to compensate for detuning from the external object.
US09791487B2
Sinusoidal drive is used, and a coefficient table for a plurality of predetermined phases is established, wherein each predetermined phase is designated with a coefficient. A sinusoidal wave is measured at the plurality of predetermined phases of each half cycle to produce measured signals, and each of the measured signals is multiplied with the coefficient corresponding to the phase at which the signal is measured to produce a weighted measured signal. Then, the weighted measured signals are summed to produce a complete measured signal.
US09791479B2
A current measuring device having a probe body with an elongated portion extending outward from a rearward main body portion to a hook-shaped forward end, the hook-shaped end useful for isolating a conductor under test, a slide closure member adapted to slide longitudinally forward from a rearward open position to a forward closed position, the closed position useful to capture the conductor under test within a space encircled by the combination of the hook-shaped end, the closed slide closure member, and the rearward main body, with the space encircled including a current sensing zone, and circuitry adapted for detecting a magnetic flux generated by an electric current passing through the conductor under test positioned within the current sensing zone. A release button for moving the slide closure member serves as a switch to turn on the meter/tester/device when the jaw/slide closure member is opened.
US09791471B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device comprising such a display panel. At least one sensor is integrated into the display panel through a semiconductor process that is at least partially synchronously performed with processes of forming the array substrate and/or color filter substrate of the display panel, such that an integration level of the sensor on the display panel is increased and the process is simplified.
US09791470B2
Magnet placement is described for integrated circuit packages. In one example, a terminal is applied to a magnet. The magnet is then placed on a top layer of a substrate with solder between the terminal and the top layer, and the solder is reflowed to attach the magnet to the substrate.
US09791467B2
A robotic picker with a pick head unit for a robotic tube handler that provides for automated transport and sampling of laboratory tubes, the picker having a prong picker with a multiple of depending pick prongs optimized for an orthogonal arrangement of tubes, typically in a tube rack, wherein the pick head unit has a mechanism for shifting the radial orientation of the pick head unit to accommodate both orthogonal and diagonal arrangements of laboratory tubes.
US09791463B2
Provided herein are methods for selectively detecting an alkyne-presenting molecule in a sample and related detection reagents, compositions, methods and systems. The methods include contacting a detection reagent with the sample for a time and under a condition to allow binding of the detection reagent to the one or more alkyne-presenting molecules possibly present in the matrix to the detection reagent. The detection reagent includes an organic label moiety presenting an azide group. The binding of the azide group to the alkyne-presenting molecules results in emission of a signal from the organic label moiety.
US09791461B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel examination method for a cardiovascular disease. As means for achieving the object, provided is an examination method for a cardiovascular disease, the method including the steps of: measuring a concentration of cyclophilin A protein in a human blood sample; and determining a probability of development of a cardiovascular disease based on the measured concentration of cyclophilin A protein.
US09791460B2
Identification of urokinase-type plasminogen, matrix metalloproteinase 9, and β-2-microglobulin as novel biomarkers associated with liver fibrosis and uses thereof in diagnosing liver fibrosis.
US09791458B2
Methods and kits for diagnosing arthritis are provided. The methods may involve detection of 14-3-3 eta or gamma proteins in a sera or synovial fluid sample.
US09791452B2
This disclosure relates to methods of diagnosing and predicting renal disease, using one, two, or more biomarkers, including sTNFR1, sTNFR2, sFAS, TNF, and IL-6.
US09791446B2
The present invention provides methods of detecting infection using biomarkers. The methods disclosed herein include measuring the expression level of one or more polypeptide determinants in which the alteration of the expression level indicates infection of the patient. The methods provided herein are for distinguishing between bacterial infection, mixed infection, and/or viral infection. The methods disclosed herein may also further comprise measuring one or more non-polypeptide determinants. The present disclosure also provides methods for selection of a treatment regimen for the subject based on whether the subject is identified as having a bacterial or mixed infection, or a viral infection.
US09791439B2
A component or device is provided for the detection or the measurement in parallel of one or more specific types of biological or chemical target products. This component includes a group of nanotubes selected and/or functionalized to interact with the target product, around an optical waveguide. Thus, an optical coupling is produced between the optical waveguide and one or more optical characteristics of these nanotubes, the modifications of which are evaluated in the presence of the target product. In addition, a method is provided for manufacturing and preparing such a component or device, and a detection method using them, as well as a post-manufacture preparation method comprising a specific functionalization for different target products starting from the same type of pluripotent generic component. Also provided is a family of PFO-based functionalization polymers.
US09791438B2
This invention provides: —an aptamer-based electrochemical sensor, wherein said aptamer is covalently bonded to or chemisorbed on an electrode, said aptamer forming a complex with a target molecule and is encapsulated by a gelatin B matrix; —a method of manufacturing said aptamer-based electrochemical sensor; —the use of the aptamer-based electrochemical sensor for the electrochemical determination of a concentration of a target molecule; and —a composite electrode combining a polymeric material and electrically conducting particles for selective analyte detection, wherein said electrode is coated with gelatin type B.
US09791433B2
The present invention is directed to a multi-organ-chip device comprising a base layer; an organ layer arranged on the base layer; an antra layer arranged on the organ layer; and an actuator layer; wherein the base layer is configured to provide a solid support for the further layers; the organ layer is configured to comprise a multiplicity of individual organ equivalents, each organ equivalent comprising one or more organ growth sections, each of the organ growth sections being configured to comprise an organoid cavity for housing at least one organoid of an organ and to comprise a micro-inlet and a micro-outlet for fluid communication between the organoid cavity of the organ growth section and a self-contained circulation system, wherein the organ layer comprises at least one organ equivalent configured to represent the organs lung, small intestine, spleen, pancreas, liver, kidney and bone marrow, respectively, and a self-contained circulation system configured to be in direct fluid communication with the organ growth sections of the organ layer via the micro inlets and outlets of the organ growth sections; the antra layer is configured to comprise a multiplicity of cavities and tubes arranged to be in fluid communication with selected organ equivalents or organ growth sections in order to allow for exchange of fluids between cavities and organ growth sections; and the actuator layer is configured to comprise a multiplicity of actuators arranged and configured to regulate a pressure force applied on a selected organ equivalent, the self-contained circulation system and/or part thereof.
US09791431B2
Methods and systems for cuttings-based well logging, including a method that includes converting measurements of cuttings samples from one or more depth intervals of a wellbore to a concentration percent of one or more elements, determining a one or more minerals of the cuttings samples from the concentration percent and building a mineralogy model for the cuttings sample based at least in part on a gravimetric conversion of the concentration percent of at least some of the one or more elements to a concentration percent of the one or more minerals. The method further includes normalizing the concentration percent of the one or more minerals, computing a photo-electric absorption factor (PEF) of the cuttings samples for each of the one or more depth intervals, and presenting to a user a log of the computed PEF as a function of wellbore depth.
US09791413B2
There are provided an analyte sensor and an analyte sensing method which provide measurements in a wide phase range, a reduction in size, and lowering of current consumption. That is, in an analyte sensor and an analyte sensing method, a detection element which outputs a detection signal in accordance with a change in mass in a detection portion and a reference element which outputs a reference signal in accordance with a change in mass in a reference portion are provided, a phase change value is determined from the detection signal and the reference signal by heterodyne system, and an amount of detection of a target is calculated.
US09791411B2
A processing apparatus including a chuck table for holding a workpiece, a processing unit for processing the workpiece held on the chuck table, and a feeding mechanism for relatively moving the chuck table and the processing unit in an X direction as a feeding direction. The processing apparatus further includes a three-dimensional imaging mechanism for imaging the workpiece held on the chuck table in three dimensions composed of the X direction, a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction, and a Z direction perpendicular to both the X direction and the Y direction and then outputting an image signal obtained above, a control unit for generating a three-dimensional image according to the image signal output from the three-dimensional imaging mechanism, and an output unit for outputting the three-dimensional image generated by the control unit.
US09791409B2
The invention provides methods and compositions, including, without limitation, algorithms, computer readable media, computer programs, apparatus, and systems for determining the identity of nucleic acids in nucleotide sequences using, for example, data obtained from sequencing by synthesis methods. A plurality of smaller flow cells is employed, each with a relatively small area to be imaged, in order to provide greater flexibility and efficiency.
US09791405B2
A sensor for detecting the oxygen content in the intake tract of an internal combustion engine includes: a sensor element having a measurement electrode; a metal cap that surrounds the sensor element; a heat dissipation element that connects the sensor element and the metal cap; and a bracket for the sensor element. The bracket is in the form of a plastic housing configured to accommodate evaluation electronics for the sensor element.
US09791399B2
Chemical modification of the surface of elemental carbon comprises a first stage of attaching a compound with an azo group to the elemental carbon and then a second stage of decomposing the azo group in the presence of one or more compounds with an olefinic group so that decomposition of the azo group forms radicals attached to the carbon surface and a said radical forms a covalent bond to a said olefinic group. The second stage may proceed as a polymerization of a vinyl monomer with a redox active group such as ferrocene, anthracene or anthraquinone. The resulting polymer-modified carbon may be used in an electrochemical sensor.
US09791396B2
A capacitance system having a capacitance sensor provides a high resolution Spatial-Adaptive Reconstruction Technique (SART) for use with Adaptive Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography (AECVT). The system is adapted to analyze information provided by an image reconstruction of a first spatial region of an imaging domain of the sensor; provide control signals to the sensor to increase the resolution at a second spatial region of the imaging domain of the sensor based on the prior image reconstruction of the first spatial region; obtain image reconstruction information for the second spatial region of the imaging domain; and combine the image reconstruction information for the first spatial region and the second spatial region to obtain a combined image of the imaging domain.
US09791394B2
Provided in one embodiment is a method of identifying a stable phase of an ordering binary alloy system comprising a solute element and a solvent element, the method comprising: determining at least three thermodynamic parameters associated with grain boundary segregation, phase separation, and intermetallic compound formation of the ordering binary alloy system; and identifying the stable phase of the ordering binary alloy system based on the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter by comparing the first thermodynamic parameter, the second thermodynamic parameter and the third thermodynamic parameter with a predetermined set of respective thermodynamic parameters to identify the stable phase; wherein the stable phase is one of a stable nanocrystalline phase, a metastable nanocrystalline phase, and a non-nanocrystalline phase.
US09791378B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to the automatic measuring of such qualities of a printed sheet as reflectance excluding specular reflectance, reflectance including specular reflectance, e.g. gloss, transmittance, half-tone coverage, and the like.
US09791357B2
An overload indicator for a hoist includes first and second blocks that connect to the lifting medium (a chain for a chain hoist) at spaced locations. The first and second blocks are held at a spacing by indicator bands so that the lifting medium is slack between the blocks. The indicator bands have weakened portions to deform, stretch or break when subject to a load over a threshold, such as over a lifting capacity of the hoist. Covers are provided over the indicator bands that are closely spaced to define an indicator gap. If the indicator bands stretch, the indicator gap increases to indicate an overload condition.
US09791354B2
An apparatus which includes an aspirated smoke detector, and a pre-filter coupled to an inflow port of the detector wherein the pre-filter carries a removable filter element. The filter element is configured such that when it is removed, fluid flow through the filter is blocked. When the filter element is present in the pre-filter, fluid flow through the filter is permitted.
US09791348B2
A spherical bearing comprising: a race; a ball; a wear lining; and a capacitive sensor positioned within or behind the wear lining to gauge wear of said wear lining.
US09791347B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for measuring optical power that require neither alterations to the optical fiber nor physical contact with the optical fiber, the system including an optical fiber configured to propagate an optical signal, wherein the optical fiber includes a core and at least a first cladding layer, wherein a portion of the optical signal scatters out of the optical fiber along a length of the optical fiber to form scattered fiber light; a detector system configured to receive the scattered fiber light along the length of the optical fiber and to output a detection signal based on the received scattered fiber light; and a processor configured to receive the detection signal and to determine a power value of the optical signal based on the received detection signal.
US09791344B2
Calibration method for multi-component force detector provided in rolling resistance testing machine
The calibration method for a multi-component force detector is a calibration method for a multi-component force detector provided in a rolling resistance testing machine comprising a spindle to which a tire is mounted, and a traveling drum having a simulated traveling road surface against which the tire is pressed, wherein when processing for calculating force acting on the tire from the measurement value of the multi-component force detector using a crosstalk correction factor for correcting the influence of crosstalk occurring in the multi-component force detector is performed, a test is conducted using at least one or more reference tire the rolling resistance value of which is already known, and the crosstalk correction factor is calibrated using “rolling test data” composed of force measured by the multi-component force detector during the test using the reference tire, and the rolling resistance value of the reference tire used for the measurement.
US09791338B2
Disclosed is to a pressure sensor including: a metal diaphragm configured to have a pressure sensing part disposed thereover; a first support configured to be coupled with the metal diaphragm; a first printed circuit board configured to be disposed over the pressure sensing part while being supported to the first support and electrically connected to the pressure sensing part; a connector configured to have a lower portion press-fitted with the first printed circuit board; a second printed circuit board configured to be electrically connected to the first printed circuit board through the connector while being press-fitted with an upper portion of the connector and supported by the connector; a second support configured to be disposed over the second printed circuit board; and a spring electrode configured to have an upper end protruding upward of the second support and have a lower end connected to the second printed circuit board.
US09791337B2
A method for creating a composite cable having at least one advanced termination on at least one end. An advanced termination is added to an end of a short synthetic tensile strength member. The strength of the tensile strength member and termination is then tested. Once tested satisfactorily, the short cable is spiced onto a long cable of the same type using prior art splicing techniques. The union of the short cable and the long cable creates a “composite” cable having a advanced termination on at least one end. In most applications it is preferable to set the length of the short cable so that the interwoven splice will exist at a desired location.
US09791327B2
A temperature voltage generator includes a control voltage generation circuit configured to receive a reference voltage and to output a control voltage that changes according to temperature, a temperature voltage generation circuit configured to amplify the control voltage and to output a temperature voltage that changes according to temperature, and a linear compensation circuit connected to the control voltage generation circuit and configured to improve the linearity of the temperature voltage.
US09791326B2
A protective cover for an insertion probe of a medical instrument. The cover contains a flexible tubular body that compliments the probe geometry and a radially disposed flange that surrounds the proximal end of the body. A series of snap-on fasteners removably connect the cover to the instrument. A camming surface is located on the outer face of the flange which coacts with a cam follower that is movably mounted upon the instrument to flex the cover sufficiently to open the fastener and release the cover from the instrument and move the cover axially toward the distal end of the tip.
US09791320B2
A mounting system for night vision tubes includes a multi-part sleeve that opens in the manner of a clamshell to receive the tube. The sleeve includes a longitudinal seam or a partial longitudinal seam and opens around compliant hinge regions. The night vision tube engages a ramp section of the sleeve, urging the sleeve to open and then abuts against a front shoulder, causing the sleeve to clamp shut around the night vision tube. The tube is constrained between the front shoulder and a retaining shoulder. An indexing pin engages the night vision tube and the sleeve to maintain mutual rotational alignment. The sleeve and the tube are inserted into a housing of a night vision system.
US09791313B2
A spectrometer is provided. In one implementation, for example, a spectrometer comprises an excitation source, a focusing lens, a movable mirror, and an actuator assembly. The focusing lens is adapted to focus an incident beam from the excitation source. The actuator assembly is adapted to control the movable mirror to move a focused incident beam across a surface of the sample.
US09791308B2
A brine tank salt level detection apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing secured to a lid of a brine tank, where the housing supports an infrared emitter and an infrared sensor. The apparatus is configured to emit an infrared signal, receive an infrared signal, and determine whether a salt level in the brine tank is below a predetermined level using, at least in part, the receipt of the infrared signal. A method for determining a salt level in a brine tank is also disclosed. The method can include emitting an outgoing infrared signal, receiving an incoming infrared signal, determining whether the salt level is below a predetermined level based at least in part on the receipt of the incoming infrared signal, and when the salt level is below a predetermined level, alerting a user of the low salt level in the brine tank.
US09791299B2
A diagnostic device capable of accurately diagnosing the soundness of a resolver circuit is provided. A shifter receives excitation signal and excitation signal; shifts the level of excitation signal, excitation signal, or both; and performs level shifting such that a period of time that starts with one of two times in which, in the vicinity of the peak value of excitation signal, excitation signal and excitation signal are at the same value and ends with the other of the two times is less than a prescribed threshold. A trigger generation circuit generates a trigger during said period of time. A control unit determines whether there is an abnormality in the resolver circuit on the basis of the trigger.
US09791289B2
Predefined route data for a driving route situated in front of the vehicle in the driving direction are provided. Further, at least one predefined predictive operating variable for the vehicle is provided. A three-dimensional model for a predefined environment of the vehicle is determined as a function of the route data. A graphic element is determined as a function of the three-dimensional model and of the at least one predictive operating variable. A head-up display of the vehicle has a predefined display field. The graphic element is displayed in the predefined display field. The graphic element is determined and displayed such that the graphic element is perceived by a viewer of the display field from a predefined viewing position with direct reference to the real environment of the vehicle.
US09791288B2
A method and a system for displaying at least one navigation instruction of a navigation system in a vehicle, a section of the vehicle's surroundings being recorded by a camera and displayed as an image sequence of the surroundings by a display unit, the navigation instruction being likewise displayed by the display unit, and, when the vehicle is moving, the position of the at least one navigation instruction within the image sequence of the surroundings being changed as a function of the movement of the surroundings occurring relative to the vehicle.
US09791285B2
A navigation configured to be installed in a motor vehicle, and a corresponding method. According to an embodiment, there is a method that includes: a) reproducing video information corresponding to a straight section included in the route information at a speed faster than a typical reproduction speed; and b) reproducing video information corresponding to a curved section included in the route information at a speed slower than the typical reproduction speed.
US09791280B2
A method, system and apparatus for determining a route between start and finish locations by searching journey tracks shared by users and using tracks identified in the search to determine the route between the start and finish locations.
US09791276B2
A circuit for a physical quantity detection device includes a drive unit that generates a drive signal that causes an vibrator to vibrate, a detection unit that detects a detection signal outputted from the vibrator based on the drive signal, a passive filter which has a filter characteristic in which a cutoff frequency is lower than a detuning frequency and a cutoff frequency band contains a frequency band higher than the cutoff frequency and to which a signal from the detection unit is inputted, and an amplification unit that amplifies a signal from the passive filter.
US09791271B2
A window for a laser line projector has a front window, a left window, and a right window positioned on the same plane. A projection of the front window, left window and right window has a shape of an isosceles trapezoid. The projection of the front window is an upper base of the isosceles trapezoid. The projections of the left window and right window are opposite legs of the isosceles trapezoid.
US09791269B2
The present invention comprises a surface to maximize the viewing of an impression in a vehicle body. This may comprise a fabric which has at least one dark colored stripe parallel to at least one light colored stripe; a compressible frame across which the said fabric is affixed, where when the frame is uncompressed the fabric is stretched taut across the frame and where the frame is compressed the fabric is slack across the frame; and a handle on the frame where a user can hold the frame and not interfere with the fabric affixed to said frame. When a user is holding the handle of the frame at an angle between 0° and 180°, the user can reflect radiant energy through said fabric onto the vehicle body and create a whorl reflection pattern on the impression to maximize viewing of said impression by the user.
US09791267B2
Embodiments of a shape measurement system and related methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system places a two-dimensional initial pattern, which can be implemented as a standalone molding or can be attached to a light source or printed on an outfit, onto a surface of a three-dimensional object. The system captures a transformed version of the initial pattern in two dimensions that is distorted due to the varying depth of the surface. The system then analyzes the transformed pattern and derives three-dimensional information regarding the target object. The analysis, which can incorporate a calibration process, can rely on the projection nature of the light source, the isomorphism/non-isomorphism of the initial pattern, and other factors.
US09791258B2
A programmable photonic integrated circuit implements arbitrary linear optics transformations in the spatial mode basis with high fidelity. Under a realistic fabrication model, we analyze programmed implementations of the CNOT gate, CPHASE gate, iterative phase estimation algorithm, state preparation, and quantum random walks. We find that programmability dramatically improves device tolerance to fabrication imperfections and enables a single device to implement a broad range of both quantum and classical linear optics experiments. Our results suggest that existing fabrication processes are sufficient to build such a device in the silicon photonics platform.
US09791255B1
A gutter marking template set includes a right-handed gutter marking template and a left-handed gutter marking template, each including a template frame having a first template frame surface and a second template frame surface. The template frame may include a main frame member having a first main frame member end and a second main frame member end. A first frame member may be carried by the main frame member and may have a first frame member surface extending between and at a cut angle with respect to the first template frame surface and the second template frame surface. A second frame member may be carried by the main frame member in spaced-apart relationship to the first frame member. The second frame member may have a second frame member surface extending between and at the cut angle with respect to the first template frame surface and the second template frame surface and parallel to the first frame member surface. A first frame notch may be provided at the first main frame member end of the main frame member. A second frame notch may be provided at the second main frame member end of the main frame member. A spanning frame member may extend between the first frame member and the second frame member and in spaced-apart relationship to the main frame member.
US09791254B2
A scale fixating device includes a fixing block unmovably fixating a first end of a scale to an object, and a pulling block fixating a second end of the scale to the object while pulling the second end of the scale to the second end side. The pulling block includes a fixated base fixated to an object, a slide holding the second end of the scale and installed slidably with respect to the fixated base, and a pulling mechanism having a first end engaged to the slide and a second end engaged to the fixated base, the pulling mechanism pulling the slide toward the second end relatively with respect to the fixated base. The scale fixating device either prevents a friction force from changing between the slide and the fixated base or generates an extremely large friction force between the slide and the fixated base.
US09791247B2
A shock-tube firing device has an enclosure and at least two primer-ignition devices translatably carried within the enclosure. A threaded bore for each primer-ignition device is adjacent a forward end of the associated primer-ignition device and configured to receive a threaded shock-tube adapter. A trigger assembly is carried by the enclosure and comprises an actuation portion and a carrier portion, the actuation portion causing rearward motion of the carrier portion. A biasing element for each primer-ignition device causes forward motion of the associated primer-ignition device. A sear for each primer-ignition device causes compression of the associated biasing element during movement of the actuation portion, thereby compressing the biasing elements for causing forward motion of the primer-ignition devices.
US09791246B2
A stimulant target unit including: a housing, at least one stimulation source configured to provide a stimulus to stimulate a user, a contact sensor configured to detect an impact to the stimulant target unit and triggered by an impact that is within a selected range of impact forces, a feedback system configured to inform the user the stimulant target unit has been actuated in response to the stimulus, a controller programmed to register triggering of the contact sensor, a protective cover configured to retain the stimulant target unit and a mounting structure configured to connect the stimulant target unit to a support structure. The mounting structure includes a vibration isolator configured to, over the selected range of impact forces, inhibit transmission of force from an impact within the selected range of impact forces on the support structure to the contact sensor sufficiently to prevent the triggering of the contact sensor.
US09791243B2
A weapon effect simulation system including a fire simulation system and at least one hit simulation system. The fire simulation system includes a transmitter for transmitting electromagnetic waves to simulate real ammunition from a weapon and elements for including information in the electromagnetic waves. The hit simulation system includes both a receiver for receiving the transmitted electromagnetic waves and a processor for determining, based on received electromagnetic waves, whether a target has been hit. The fire simulation system further includes a calculator for calculating the imagined trajectory of the simulated ammunition and a processor for determining the geographical position of the weapon, and wherein the elements for including information in the electromagnetic waves are arranged so as to include information related to coordinates in the three-dimensional space for the calculated ammunition trajectory.
US09791241B2
An improved barrel clamp assembly for a multi-barreled minigun includes a barrel clamp tube having a front end, a rear end, and a plurality of longitudinal openings extending between the front end and the rear end. An impeller is mounted in the barrel clamp tube between the tube front end and the tube rear end. The impeller includes a plurality of impeller blades that are spaced around a periphery of the impeller and that project forward from a rear flange portion of the impeller and the impeller blades define a plurality of air channels. A barrel assembly includes the barrel clamp tube, a flash suppressor mounted to the front end of the barrel clamp tube, and a barrel clamp co liar mounted to the rear end of the barrel clamp tube. The impeller is mounted to the barrel clamp tube between the flash suppressor and the barrel clamp collar.
US09791237B1
A sling attachment device has a body having a strap facility adapted for attachment of a sling strap, a flexible elongated tether having a first end attached to the body, the tether having a free end opposite the first end, and the body defining a receptacle operable to receive the free end of the tether, such that the tether may be threaded through an aperture on a rifle and received by the receptacle to secure the strap to the rifle. The tether may have a selected first width along at least a portion of its length, and the free end may have a second width greater than the first width. A ball may be attached to the free end. The body may define a channel having a width larger than the first width and smaller than the second width. There may be an aperture adjacent to the channel.
US09791235B2
A bow string vibration and noise damper includes an aperture and a body portion. The string vibration and noise damper is configured to be mounted on the bowstring. In this way, a closed loop is created by inserting at least a portion of the body portion through the aperture. The closed loop encircles a portion of the bowstring thereby attaching the string vibration and noise damper to the bowstring.
US09791230B2
A magnetic shield for a locking device such as a gunlock having a first portion and a second portion configured for controlled movement with respect to the other portion and for being held in a fixed and locked position vis-à-vis each other. At least one of the first and second portions includes an electromechanical locking mechanism including a solenoid and solenoid activated spring loaded pin configured, in a first position, for preventing the first and second portions from moving with respect one another and in a second position for allowing the first and second portions to move vis-à-vis one another. A magnetically conducive shield is disposed on or in at least one of the first and second portion that includes the solenoid locking mechanism, for preventing an unauthorized magnetic field from causing the solenoid to retract the spring loaded pin thereby allowing the locking device to be opened.
US09791217B2
An arrangement for storing thermal energy has at least two tunnels (1a, 1b) for holding a fluid. The tunnels (1a, 1b) are connected to each other by at least one channel (2), such that fluid communication is allowed between the tunnels (1a, 1b). Each of the inner tunnel (1a) and the outer tunnel (1b) is configured as a helix, the inner tunnel (1a) forming an inner helix and the outer tunnel (1b) forming an outer helix.
US09791214B2
An exhaust gas heat exchanger, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, having at least one first flow channel that conducts a first fluid, which first flow channel is accommodated in respective tube sheets at end areas of the first flow channel. A housing surrounds the first flow channel and forms a second flow channel for a second fluid that flows through the housing and flows around the first flow channel. Pipe sheets are inserted into the housing such that the first flow channel is sealed off from the second flow channel. A first diffuser conducts the first fluid into the first flow channel and a second diffuser conducts the first fluid out of the first flow channel. A first shielding element has a first passage and a first spacing element is placed onto a tube sheet from the side facing away from the first flow channel.
US09791210B2
Systems and methods are provided for recovering helium from a feed comprising helium, carbon dioxide, and at least one intermediate component having a volatility between those of helium and carbon dioxide. In particular, processes of the present invention comprise separating the carbon dioxide and the components of intermediate volatility from the helium at a temperature greater than −82.7° C. to form a helium-rich product stream, wherein the concentration of at least one of the intermediate components in the helium-rich product stream is lower than its concentration in the feed stream, and wherein at least part of the separation is effected by contacting a vapor with a liquid.
US09791208B2
An air-conditioning setting screen has a coordinate space defined by a Y-axis along which temperature items are indicated in increments of one degree and an X-axis along which time-point items are indicated in increments of one hour. Operation points PT corresponding to the time-point items are arranged in the coordinate space. The air-conditioning setting screen displays time-series changes in a previous day's body-movement values such that the density of a background color is higher for times at which the body-movement value is larger and the density of a background color is lower for times at which the body-movement value is smaller.
US09791206B1
An apparatus includes microwave oven and refrigerator functions. The microwave oven is connected to a source of electrical power and has at least one control circuit for controlling the operation of the microwave oven. A first power supply outlet is provided on the microwave oven. A refrigerator is connected to the source of power by connection to the first power supply outlet. The at least one control circuit is configured to disable the refrigerator compressor, when the microwave oven demands cooking power, and enable the refrigerator compressor when the microwave oven is not drawing cooking power. A safety sensor is provided in the microwave oven and is configured to cause the microwave oven to cease cooking operation upon the safety sensor sensing a dangerous condition.
US09791181B2
A module for warming and, alternately, for cooling, this module comprising an electrocaloric capacitor, an electrical energy storage device and a controllable circuit for transferring electrical energy between the electrocaloric capacitor and the energy storage device. The controllable circuit comprising an inductor connected between the electrocaloric capacitor and the storage device and at least one controllable switch. There is further included a unit programmed to control the switch so as to cause the transfer circuit to toggle successively into the following states and in the following order: an energy recovery state, a disabled state in which it electrically isolates the electrocaloric capacitor and the energy storage device, an energy release state and the disabled state, and each time to maintain the transfer circuit in the disabled state for a duration greater than a predetermined threshold.
US09791170B2
In the field of oil sands processing, a process for heating an oil sands slurry stream such as bitumen froth containing bitumen and water and having variable heating requirements includes injecting steam directly into the froth at a steam pressure through a plurality of nozzles to achieve sonic steam flow; operating the plurality of the nozzles to vary steam injection by varying a number of the nozzles through which the injecting of the steam occurs in response to the variable heating requirements; and subjecting the oil sands slurry stream to backpressure sufficient to enable sub-cooling relative to the boiling point of water. A corresponding system is also provided.
US09791167B2
A heat pump inspection facilitating stand device supports a heat pump housing in an elevated position to inhibit debris from collecting on the housing wherein inspection of the housing and heat pump machine is facilitated. The device includes a stiff planar base ring wherein the base ring is configured to support a heat pump thereon. Each of a plurality of legs is coupled to and extends downwardly from a bottom surface of the base ring such that the base ring is supported in an elevated position. Each of a plurality of feet is coupled to and extends from a respective bottom end of an associated one of the legs and is structured to define an aperture extending through the foot for receiving an anchor therethrough for anchoring each foot to a footing.
US09791162B2
A household electric appliance and a household electric system are provided which are capable of quickly responding to the electric power demand in which the peak cut of the power consumption is requested. The household electric appliance comprises: a receiving unit that receives a request for a peak cut of power consumption at a predetermined rate from a remote controller and a mobile terminal; a drive unit that drives a power-consuming object to be driven; and a control unit that controls an action of the drive unit. The control unit, in the case of reception of the peak cut request from the remote controller or the mobile terminal, controls the action of the drive unit so as to cut a maximum value of the power consumption within the appliance based on the requested rate.
US09791147B2
The present document describes a multistages combustion furnace system for thermal expansion of mineral particles which comprises: a furnace having an expansion chamber for receiving the mineral particles; a burner head to be connected at a distance for an atmospheric coupling of the furnace and for operating the multistages combustion furnace system; a furnace device to be connected at a distance for an atmospheric coupling of the burner head to offset the quenching effect of ambient air normally drawn in the furnace; and a tuyere for thermal expansion of mineral particles to be connected between the expansion chamber and the furnace device; wherein the multistage combustion furnace system is to be connected with an inlet of preheated air.
US09791136B2
A counterweight arm mechanism having an adjustable dragline tension system capable of adjusting tension; the system comprising a dragline, an extension spring, and a dragline adjustment mechanism; the dragline adjustment mechanism adjusted the overall length of the dragline as a function of the rotation angle of a counterweight arm; the dragline length adjustment mechanism being implemented according to the two legs of a right-angled ΔABC and the property of a+b=2√2R sin(A+π/4); when the counterweight arm rotates, the mechanical structure can be used to drive the vertex of the right angle of the right-angled ΔABC to rotate along with the counterweight arm, and synchronously move in line with the circumcircle of the right-angled ΔABC, thus the tension on the counterweight arm from the adjustable dragline tension system changes with the rotation angle of the counterweight arm.
US09791127B2
The present invention is directed to an apparatus for providing a light reflector, light fixture, light fixture retrofit apparatus, lamp reflector, lamp retrofit apparatus or luminaire reflector retrofit. According to an example embodiment of the disclosed invention, a light reflector is provided that includes annular segments nested as cone-shaped layers configured for reflecting light from a light source placed in proximity to the inner cone portion. The two or more nested cone-shaped annular segments include a reflective surface. The cone-shaped annular segments are configured such that the segment layer having the smallest aperture is located farthest from the light source.
US09791118B2
The present invention is directed to a mobile light tower that utilizes multiple sources of energy to provide a highly energy efficient source of illumination. The lights of the light tower draw power from the energy stored in the batteries. During the day, solar energy can captured and stored in batteries. In times of cloud cover, or at night, wind energy can be captured and stored in the batteries. Additional alternative energy sources can also be incorporated. In the event that neither of these sources are sufficient, a fuel powered generator can be utilized to generate energy to be stored in the batteries.
US09791114B2
The invention relates to a safety torch. The torch comprises a housing; a light source arranged in a head of the housing, wherein an end of the housing opposite the head forms a handle in which at least one battery system is arranged; and an at least partly translucent light source cover for at least partly covering the light source. The cover is adjustable between a retracted position in which said cover is at least partly retracted in the head of the housing, to emit in use a beam of light, and a protruding position in which the cover is protruding from the housing, at least protruding further from said housing than in said retracted position. The cover is adjustable between said positions by means of an adjusting mechanism comprising two substantially parallel guides arranged in the longitudinal direction of the housing, for adjusting the cover along the guides.
US09791113B2
A light source assembly includes a housing assembly, a plurality of disparate light sources that are coupled to the housing assembly, a power source, a control system and a selector assembly. Each of the light sources generates an output beam that is directed away from the housing assembly, wherein each of the output beams has a center wavelength that is in a different wavelength range than each of the other output beams. The power source provides electrical power to each of the light sources. The control system selectively controls the electrical power that is provided by the power source to the light sources. The selector assembly is electrically connected to the control system, and is selectively controllable to selectively direct current to each of the light sources to generate the desired output beams.
US09791112B2
A linear lighting module includes a first string of series-connected LED dies and a second string of series-connected LED dies. The first string of LED dies is coupled in parallel with the second string of LED dies. All of the LED dies of the first and second strings are aligned with respect to one another. The LED dies of the first string and the second string form a combined string of interleaved LED dies such that an LED die of the second string is disposed between every successive pair of LED dies of the first string. The LED dies of the combined string are mounted on a flexible substrate. Each LED die of the combined string is electrically connected to two conductors. Except for the two end LED dies of the combined string, each successive LED die must be accessed by both conductors from alternating sides of the combined string.
US09791103B2
A servo controller includes: a sinusoidal wave disturbance input unit for supplying a sinusoidal wave disturbance to a speed control loop including a speed command generator, a torque command generator and a speed detector; a frequency response calculator for estimating the gain and phase from the output of the speed control loop; a resonance frequency detector for detecting resonance frequencies at which the gain becomes maximum; a resonance mode characteristics analyzer for estimating resonance characteristics from the frequency response; and, a reference modal damping ratio retainer for retaining a reference modal damping ratio as a resonance characteristic corresponding to the reference lubricating condition, and the resonance mode characteristics analyzer calculates lubrication characteristics on the basis of the reference modal damping ratio and the measured modal damping ratio at the resonance frequency corresponding to the reference modal damping ratio.
US09791101B1
A type of positioning fixture with a connecting rod, consisting of a fixed clamping seat, a movable collet, a bolt and a connecting rod; the fixed clamping seat consists of a bolt seat, a fixed collet and a stroke plate; the bolt is engaged by threading it with the bolt seat; the end of the bolt is positioned with the movable collet. The connecting rod is movably riveted to the movable collet by a rivet and is provided with a dowel pin at the end; the stroke plate on the fixed clamping seat is provided with a wavy slot; the dowel pin on the connecting rod is inserted into the wavy slot to form the two-point positioning of the connecting rod.
US09791096B2
An assembly includes a mounting component having a first surface and a second surface with a hole extending between the first surface and the second surface. The assembly includes a flange extending generally perpendicularly in a first direction from a first end of the mounting component, and a first tab and a second tab extending generally perpendicularly in a second direction from a second end of the mounting component, wherein the first tab and the second tab are spaced apart from each other. The assembly includes a boss extending from a base plate, a fastener extending through the hole of the mounting component and into the boss, and an anti-rotation projection fixed to the boss and positioned between the first tab and the second tab.
US09791094B1
Various embodiments of a prosthetics stand having a base with a post that extends upwardly from the base and a holder component coupled to the post and having a pair of holders configured to secure and store one or more lower-extremity prosthetics are disclosed. The pair of holders each defines a circular portion that forms an opening slot configured to allow a lower-extremity prosthetic pass through and be retained within the confines of each respective holder. The prosthetic stand includes a plurality of wheels that allow the prosthetic stand to be mobile and a securing means operable to allow the prosthetics stand to be attached to a structural element, such as a bed or bathtub, to prevent inadvertent movement of the holder component. In some embodiments, the base may have an angled portion that allows the lower-extremity prosthetic to be attached and reattached to an individual in a more natural and convenient manner.
US09791088B2
A lining element for the rehabilitation of a pipeline, the lining element having a substrate layer including a resin-absorbing material and a coating system, the coating system including a fluid-tight barrier layer system formed from several layers.
US09791085B2
An apparatus and method for joining pipes includes a plate for melting mating surfaces of the pipes to be joined. Additionally, the apparatus utilizes a vacuum in order to push the first and second pipes together in lieu of hand or mechanical pressure which may be inconsistent. Additionally, the vacuum allows the pipes to be joined to settle on each other in order to create a pressure about a periphery of the end of the pipe being joined to the other pipe. The consistent pressure creates a very strong joint between the first and second pipes.
US09791080B2
A microfluidic interconnect system and method for assembly thereof is described. The microfluidic interconnect has a port and a seal, with the port having a reverse taper. The port has a first port end, a second port end, and an inner port surface with a tapered portion. Each port end has an opening with a diameter, and in certain embodiments, the diameter of the first port end is smaller than the diameter of the second port end. The seal has a first end and a second end, and each seal end has a rim and an opening with an inner diameter and an outer diameter. The seal also has an inner surface and an outer surface, where in certain embodiments, each surface has a tapered portion. In certain embodiments, the inner diameter of the first seal end is equal to or larger than the inner diameter of the second seal end, the outer diameter of the first seal end is equal to or smaller than the outer diameter of the second seal end, and the outer diameter of the second seal end is larger than the outer diameter of each port end. In certain embodiments, a tube is slidably coupled to the inner surface of the seal, and the tube has an outer diameter that is equal to or larger than the inner diameter of the second seal end.
US09791078B2
Provided are connector assemblies for connecting pipes. For example, a connector assembly can include a connector formed with a hollow into which a pipe is inserted. A large diameter portion on at least one side of both end portions of the hollow where the large diameter portion is formed has a relatively large inner diameter and a housing space inside. The connector assembly also includes a ring-shaped sealing member provided in the hosing space and a grip member provided adjacent to the sealing member in the housing space. Further, the grip member has a body portion formed to contact an inner circumferential surface of the large diameter portion and a pair of sharp portions formed to be bent from both sides of the body portion and to partially bite into the outer circumferential surface of the pipe by crimping the outer circumferential surface of the large diameter portion.
US09791073B2
A pipe clamp for mounting a pipe on a stud mounting bracket includes a main body having a central pipe engaging portion and opposed first and second transition portions. The main body has a horizontal axis extending through a center of the main body and a vertical axis extending through the center of the main body. The first and second transition portions are positioned on opposed sides of the horizontal axis and on opposed sides of the vertical axis. First and second arms extend from the respective transition portions in a direction away from the vertical axis. First and second fingers extend from the respective arms in a direction toward the horizontal axis. First and second hooks extend from the respective fingers in a direction toward the vertical axis.
US09791072B2
A conduit guide apparatus, system, and method for using the conduit guide to fixedly couple a conduit to a support member is described. The conduit guide apparatus includes a first partial cylindrical surface, a second partial cylindrical surface, a first neck segment, a second neck segment, a first arcuate shoulder and a second arcuate shoulder. The first partial cylindrical surface surrounds a first conduit void and a first conduit void axis. The second partial cylindrical surface is adjacent to the first partial cylindrical surface and the second partial cylindrical surface surround a second conduit void. Also, the first partial cylindrical surface and the second partial cylindrical surface include a first end and a second end adjacent to the first end. The first neck segment is adjacent to the first end and surrounds a first channel along a channel axis that is orthogonal to the conduit void axis.
US09791068B2
The present disclosure relates to method, system for microfluidic control. One or more embodiments of the disclosure relate to pneumatically actuated “lifting gate” microvalves and pumps. In some embodiments, a microfluidic control module is provided, which comprises a plurality of pneumatic channels and a plurality of lifting gate valves configured to be detachably affixed to a substrate. The plurality of lifting gate valves are aligned with at least one fluidic channel on the substrate when affixed to the substrate. Each of the valves comprises: a pneumatic layer, a fluidic layer, and a pneumatic displacement chamber between the pneumatic layer and the fluidic layer. The fluidic layer has a first side facing the pneumatic layer and a second side facing away from the pneumatic layer, wherein the second side has a protruding gate configured to obstruct a flow of the fluidic channel when the fluidic layer is at a resting state.
US09791067B2
A pressure relief valve includes a valve seat at the outlet, a valve body, and an air dashpot damper. In some embodiments, the valve body is configured to engage the valve seat and move along a central axis relative to the valve seat in response to a pressure at the outlet to regulate a flow of combustible gas through the outlet. In some embodiments, the air dashpot damper includes a tubular member having a closed distal end and an open proximal end, and a piston member received within the tubular member. In some embodiments, the tubular member or the piston member is attached to the valve body, and the piston moves relative to the tubular member along an axis of the tubular member in response to movement of the valve body relative to the valve seat. In some embodiments, the pressure relief valve includes a plurality of the air dashpot dampers.
US09791046B2
A rotary machine has a housing that houses a fluid in a supercritical state, a rotary shaft that penetrates the housing, rotation rings that rotate integrally with the rotary shaft, and stationary rings that contact the rotation rings when the rotary shaft is stopped, the stationary rings being positioned in a state in which sealing gaps are defined between the rotation rings and the stationary rings when the rotary shaft rotates, a circulating pipe path that supplies a portion of the fluid to inlet portions of the sealing gaps, a temperature-adjusting device that adjusts a temperature of the fluid in the circulating pipe path, and a control unit that controls operation of the temperature-adjusting device so as to heat the inlet portions of the sealing gaps to a predetermined temperature before the rotary shaft is driven.
US09791037B2
A speed control mechanism for controlling selective engagement of the self-propelled transmission assembly for a walk-behind lawn mower is provided. The speed control mechanism is also configured to control the relative output speed of the transmission assembly. The speed control mechanism includes a speed engagement assembly and a speed adjustment assembly, wherein the speed engagement assembly includes a pair of rotatable levers for causing the transmission assembly to actuate between a disengaged position and an engaged position and the speed adjustment assembly includes a rotatable knob for causing the relative output speed of the transmission assembly to the wheels of the lawn mower to increase or decrease.
US09791032B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement bulk metallic glass-based strain wave gears and strain wave gear components. In one embodiment, a method of fabricating a strain wave gear includes: shaping a BMG-based material using a mold in conjunction with one of a thermoplastic forming technique and a casting technique; where the BMG-based material is shaped into one of: a wave generator plug, an inner race, an outer race, a rolling element, a flexspline, a flexspline without a set of gear teeth, a circular spline, a circular spline without a set of gear teeth, a set of gear teeth to be incorporated within a flexspline, and a set of gear teeth to be incorporated within a circular spline.
US09791018B2
A vibration isolation apparatus includes a support unit that elastically supports an object to a mounting surface, a measurement sensor that measures a displacement of the object relative to the mounting surface, a drive unit that drives the object, and a storage unit. The storage unit stores data indicating a relationship between the displacement of the object and information that indicates a non-linear force produced by an elastic element including a support unit and that corresponds to the displacement. The drive unit drives the object in accordance with the displacement of the object and the data.
US09791009B2
A method for monitoring brake torque of an elevator having a motor is provided. The method may engage an elevator brake for a predefined duration, determine a displacement of an output shaft of the motor during the predefined duration, and generate an alert if the displacement exceeds a predefined threshold.
US09791006B2
A brake rotor assembly, and method for forming a brake rotor assembly, that includes an integrally formed first disc member coupled to an integrally formed second disc member, wherein a first portion of the outer surface of the first disc member and the second disc member is formed from a metal matrix composite and the remainder of the first disc member and second disc member is formed from the support element used in the first portion.
US09791000B2
A wedge clutch, including: first and second hubs; an outer ring; a first wedge plate radially disposed between the first hub and the outer ring; a second wedge plate radially disposed between the second hub and the outer ring; and a wedge pin including an actuation ramp axially disposed between the first and second hubs. To transition to a connect mode, in which the first and second hubs are non-rotatably connected to the outer ring, the wedge pin is arranged to rotate in a first rotational direction and the actuation ramp is arranged to displace the first and second hubs away from each other. To transition to a disconnect mode, in which the first and second hubs are rotatable with respect to the outer ring, the wedge pin is arranged to rotate in a second opposite rotational direction to reduce an axial distance between the first and second hubs.
US09790996B2
A vehicle joint has a drive sleeve, a pinion shaft and a drive nut. The sleeve has a vent hole, a first set of splines and a first set of venting grooves. The pinion shaft has a second set of splines engaged with the first set of splines. A fluid gap radially outboard of the engaged spines extends the length of the engaged splines. A second set of venting grooves is engaged with the first set of venting grooves. The pinion shaft also has a first set of threads. The drive nut has a second set of threads engaged with the first set of threads. The drive nut also has a radial aperture extending through the drive nut. The first vent hole is in fluid connection with the radial aperture through some of the features described above.
US09790993B1
A cage for a thrust bearing, comprising: a first plurality of circumferentially aligned pockets arranged to accept a first plurality of roller elements; a second plurality of circumferentially aligned pockets located radially inward of the first plurality of pockets and arranged to accept a second plurality of roller elements; a plurality of pairs of circumferentially extending protrusions; and a plurality of openings. Each opening in the plurality of openings: passes through material forming the cage and wholly surrounded by the material forming the cage; and is located between a respective pair of protrusions in a first circumferential direction.
US09790990B2
Provided herein, is an apparatus that includes a fluid dynamic bearing defined in a gap between a stationary component and a rotatable component. The fluid dynamic bearing includes a first portion of the gap at an axial end of the fluid dynamic bearing, and a second portion of the gap. The first portion of the gap is narrower than the second portion of the gap. A groove in the fluid dynamic bearing on the stationary component or the rotatable component includes a portion of a predetermined width or a predetermined depth. The portion of the predetermined width or predetermined depth is selected based on the first gap or the second gap.
US09790982B2
A device including a ball, cage housing the ball and a centering lug, wherein the centering lug has a generally annular form with a radially outer annular periphery and a radially inner annular periphery, the outer annular periphery is integral with the cage and the inner annular periphery is inserted in a groove in the outer periphery of the ball, and the centering lug is elastic and arranged to hold the ball along a predefined axis in a rest position.
US09790981B2
The present disclosure describes a connection insert, in particular a threaded insert, which is embeddable into a formed plastic component. This connection insert comprises a cylindrical main body having a radially outer side, a radially inner side as well as a first and a second axial end, at least one circumferential collar arranged at the radially outer side of the main body which has the largest outer diameter compared to the remaining main body and which is arranged spaced with respect to the first and the second axial end of the main body, and a radially protruding structure arranged at the radially outer side of the main body.
US09790978B2
A recessed head screw includes a shank, a head, a drilling portion and threads. The head includes a top face where a socket portion is formed. The socket portion has a driving recess and a driving socket formed between the driving recess and the top face. The driving socket communicates with the driving recess. A diameter value of the driving socket is a maximum circumscribed circle diameter value of the driving recess plus a value within 20% of the maximum circumscribed circle diameter value. When a driving tool engages the socket portion, the driving socket can be in close-fitting engagement with the driving tool to increase the engagement between the driving tool and the head and prevent the screw from falling off the tool easily during the driving action of the tool, thereby delivering a full driving force to the head to improve the working efficiency and smoothness.
US09790973B2
A fastener member (10) including: a base portion (11) having a surface (15); and a plurality of locking members (12) vertically provided on the surface, the locking members locking with a subject to be coupled so as to mechanically couple to the subject to be coupled; wherein the locking member includes a shaft portion (20), projecting from the base portion, having a pair of side faces (22A, 22B) that are opposite each other in a first direction (x) and, as viewed from the surface, diverge in a second direction (y) orthogonal to the first direction, and a barbed portion (21) provided on each of the pair of side faces; and, as viewed from the surface, the barbed portion provided on at least one of the side faces of the pair of side faces extends in a direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction.
US09790972B2
Example apparatus for regulator heat transfer are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a regulator including a body, a stem disposed therein, a first inlet and a first outlet. The regulator regulates a pressure of a fluid flowing from the first inlet to the first outlet. The example apparatus comprises a vortex generator disposed within the body to convey heat to a valve of the regulator. The stem controls the regulator and the vortex generator.
US09790966B2
A shuttle valve connects a second flowpath and a drain flowpath when the hydraulic pressure in a first flowpath is greater than the hydraulic pressure in the second flowpath. The shuttle valve connects the first flowpath and the drain flowpath when the hydraulic pressure in a second flowpath is greater than the hydraulic pressure in the first flowpath. The ratio between the pressure receiving area of a first pressure section and the pressure receiving area of a second pressure section is the same as the ratio between the pressure receiving area of a first chamber side and the pressure receiving area of a second chamber side of a cylinder rod.
US09790960B2
The present invention relates to centrifugal pumps, and more specifically to a centrifugal pump device with a governor actuated cartridge seal and a method of attaching a centrifugal pump device with a governor actuated cartridge seal. The centrifugal pump comprises a sealing system that prevents undesirable fluid leaking or air ingestion when in operation while allowing ease of installation and maintenance. The governor actuated cartridge seal automatically increases sealing capabilities by urging a movable seal as a function of impeller or engine drive shaft rotational speed. The governors actuate radially so as to present a minimal profile and therefore not introduce a safety hazard. Scalable weights attached to the governors allow predictable calibration and initialization of the pump under varying hydraulic pressures and rotational speeds.
US09790959B2
A generator system that includes an engine and an alternator which is driven by the engine to generate electrical power. A radiator is connected to the engine and an axial fan directs air toward the radiator to cool the radiator. A plurality of static vanes is located between the axial fan and the radiator. Each static vane includes an inner end and an outer end, the inner ends of the static vanes being joined together. The static vanes are curved in a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis in order to direct the air towards the axis, thereby counterbalancing the centrifugal forces. The static vanes may be twisted, the pitch angle increasing from 0 degree at hub to circa 45 degrees at tip. Additionally, each static vane is attached to the shroud via a third member that extends axially, thereby allowing an axial offset between shroud and static vanes.
US09790945B2
A radial compressor for a compressor arrangement comprising the radial compressor and an axial compressor includes an inlet flow channel bounded by a radially inner hub contour and a radially outer housing contour, in which inlet guide blades are arranged. Via the inlet flow channel a medium to be compressed is supplied to an impeller having moving blades. The inlet flow channel runs diagonally to an axis of rotation of the impeller.
US09790944B2
A motor-driven compressor includes an electric motor driven by a motor driver, which includes a switching element that converts DC voltage from a battery to AC voltage. A temperature detector detects the temperature of the switching element. A voltage detector detects DC voltage applied to the switching element from the battery. A control unit suspends the switching operation of the switching element when the detected temperature rises to a temperature threshold. The control unit reduces counter electromotive force generated by the electric motor. The controller changes the temperature threshold such that the temperature threshold gradually increases from when the detected DC voltage is the highest voltage in the applicable voltage range of the battery to when the detected DC voltage is the lowest voltage in the applicable voltage range.
US09790934B2
A pulsation control device coupling a reciprocating pump with either suction or discharge piping and having a generally spherical or cylindrical interior chamber includes a curved baffle with a pressure drop device (e.g., a choke) separating the interior chamber into two volumes and forcing fluid flow through the pressure drop device. The effective fluid passage provided by the pressure drop device is smaller than the fluid passage for one or both of the inlet to and/or the outlet from the interior chamber. Fluid entering the pulsation control device reacts with fluid contained within the volume thereof on both sides of the baffle. The baffle attenuates pressure pulses within fluid passing through the interior chamber in response to operation of the reciprocating pump. The pressure drop device dampens high frequency pulsation magnitudes of pressure pulses within fluid passing through the interior chamber in response to operation of the reciprocating pump.
US09790931B1
A drive device incorporating a hydraulic pump having a swash plate. At least two structural ribs and skirting ribs are located on and extend along the length of the swash plate. A plurality of thrust ribs may be formed on an inner housing surface and adjacent to respective contact surfaces on the swash plate, the thrust ribs being located so that at least one, but fewer than all, of the ribs can be in contact with its respective contact surface on the swash plate at a time, permitting rotation while limiting axial movement of the swash plate. A trunnion shaft includes a free end disposed so as to be accessible from outside the housing through a bore formed therein, and a control arm having a shaft portion extends into and supports the distal free end of the trunnion shaft within the bore.
US09790920B2
A rotation driving mechanism for windmill (1) includes an annular track part (2), a rotation driving part (11), and a plurality of swinging parts (15). The annular track part (2) is disposed on one of a base-side structure and a rotation-side structure, and has a track wall part (3) and first teeth (7). The rotation driving part (11) is fixed on the other of the base-side structure and the rotation-side structure. Each swinging part (15) has a swinging part body (16a) and second teeth (16b). When a rotating shaft (13) of the rotation driving part (11) is rotated so that the swinging parts (15) are swung with maintaining a predetermined phase difference thereamong, the swinging parts (15) are relatively moved with respect to the annular track part (2).
US09790919B2
The present disclosure is directed to a rotor blade assembly and/or a joint assembly for a wind turbine blade. In one embodiment, the rotor blade assembly includes at least first and second blade segments connected together at a chord-wise extending joint, one or more shear-loaded pins configured through the chord-wise extending joint, and an anti-rotation locking feature. As such, the rotor blade assembly includes a maintenance-free bolted joint. The first blade segment has a body shell defining a generally aerodynamic profile. The body shell includes a suction side surface and a pressure side surface. The shear-loaded pin may extend in a generally flap-wise direction (i.e. from the suction side surface to the pressure side surface of the body shell) or in a generally chord-wise direction (i.e. from the pressure side to the suction side of the body shell).
US09790918B2
It comprises bushings in at least a first circumferential row in a blade portion and suitable for receiving studs in a hub portion. Bushings comprise an elongated body with lateral faces, lateral faces inclined to each other and major and minor faces into which the lateral faces converge. The connector assembly allows an efficient releasable connection of blade root and hub in a wind turbine rotor.
US09790909B2
An apparatus and a method for pre-heating an engine of a mild hybrid vehicle are provided, and the apparatus includes: a pre-heating plug pre-heating the engine; a pre-heating controller recognizing the mild hybrid vehicle based on vehicle driving information, determining whether the mild hybrid vehicle enters a coasting driving mode based on the vehicle driving information, and generating a duty control signal according to a coasting driving time when the mild hybrid vehicle is driven in the coasting driving mode; and a driver supplying electrical energy of the low-voltage battery to the pre-heating plug according to the generated duty control signal.
US09790905B2
A fuel injection control device which is provided with an input terminal to which a first pulse signal for driving a liquid fuel injection valve is input and an output terminal from which the first pulse signal is output, and converts the first pulse signal which is input from the input terminal to a second pulse signal for driving a gaseous fuel injection valve, includes: a P-channel field-effect transistor interposed in a wiring which connects the input terminal and the output terminal; a switching control section which performs switching control between an ON state and an OFF state of the field-effect transistor; and a gate drive circuit which maintains the field-effect transistor in the ON state in a case where power supply to the switching control section is not performed.
US09790894B2
A ram air fan assembly includes a motor/bearing housing that extends along a horizontal length of the ram air fan assembly. An inner housing assembly is in fluid communication with the motor/bearing housing to define a joint. The inner housing assembly includes first and second ellipse-shaped slots. The first slot is positioned at a first angle with respect to a radial axis of the inner housing assembly that is perpendicular to the horizontal length, and the second slot is positioned at a second angle with respect to the radial axis, the second angle being different from the first angle, and each slot extending along a first direction parallel to the horizontal length to define an axial width and extending along a radial axis to define a radial width being greater than the axial width.
US09790885B2
Methods and systems are provided for using a crankcase vent tube pressure or flow sensor for diagnosing a location and nature of crankcase system integrity breach. The same sensor can also be used for diagnosing air filter plugging and PCV valve degradation. Use of an existing sensor to diagnose multiple engine components provides cost reduction and sensor compaction benefits.
US09790883B2
A system for sensing and controlling a fuel gas composition may include a plurality of micro-sensors mounted in a single chamber, with each of the micro-sensors being configured to sense a characteristic of a mixture of gaseous fuel introduced into the chamber. The system may also include a plurality of heating elements, with each of the heating elements being associated with one of the plurality of micro-sensors, and the plurality of heating elements being configured to implement a different temperature level at each of the micro-sensors. The system may also include a microprocessor configured to determine a thermodynamic property of the mixture of gaseous fuel at the different temperature levels at each of the micro-sensors as a function of the characteristic sensed by each micro-sensor, correlate the thermodynamic property to a fuel gas composition of the mixture of gaseous fuel, and control an amount of at least one constituent in the mixture of gaseous fuel as a function of the fuel gas composition determined by the correlation.
US09790880B2
An internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle includes an exhaust passage provided with a catalyst. A controller for the internal combustion engine includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform an auto-stopping process on the engine when the engine is idling, perform an auto-restarting process on the engine when the engine is automatically stopped, correct an amount of fuel injected into the engine so that the fuel injection amount of the engine is increased by a correction amount after the auto-restarting process is started, and change the correction amount in accordance with an amount of oxygen stored in the catalyst at a point of time when the auto-stopping process is started.
US09790878B2
A method comprising adjusting a fuel injection amount based on a fractional oxidation state of a catalyst, the fractional oxidation state based on reaction rates of grouped oxidant and reductant exhaust gas species throughout a catalyst and a low-dimensional physics-based model derived from a detailed two-dimensional model to obtain a one-dimensional model averaged over time and space that accounts for diffusion limitations in the washcoat and accurately predicts emissions during cold start.
US09790874B2
Methods and systems are provided for the mitigation of wet-fouling of the spark plugs of an engine. In one example, a method may include, after spark plug fouling has been detected prior to an engine start, drawing fresh air through the EVAP system of an engine, heating it, and flowing the heated gas through one or more cylinders of an engine while the engine is not rotating.
US09790867B2
Methods and arrangements for transitioning an engine between a deceleration cylinder cutoff (DCCO) state and an operational state are described. In one aspect, transitions from DCCO begin with reactivating cylinders to pump air to reduce the pressure in the intake manifold prior to firing any cylinders. In another aspect, transitions from DCCO, involve the use of an air pumping skip fire operational mode. After the manifold pressure has been reduced, the engine may transition to either a cylinder deactivation skip fire operational mode or other appropriate operational mode. In yet another aspect a method of transitioning into DCCO using a skip fire approach is described. In this aspect, the fraction of the working cycles that are fired is gradually reduced to a threshold firing fraction. All of the working chambers are then deactivated after reaching the threshold firing fraction.
US09790860B2
A mid-turbine frame includes an inner frame case including a fluid passage. At least one hollow spoke is attached to the inner frame case. At least one hollow spoke includes an inlet passage. A transfer tube includes a first end that forms a first connection with at least one hollow spoke and a second end forms a second connection with the inner frame case.
US09790857B2
An arrangement of concentric, independently rotating shafts for a rotating gear train system is disclosed. The arrangement may include an inner shaft, the inner shaft operatively couplet to a rotating element, and an outer shaft, the outer shaft concentric with the inner shaft and arranged radially outward from the inner shaft. The arrangement may further include a first bearing stack, the first bearing stack arranged radially outward from the inner shaft and including at least one preloaded ball bearing and a second bearing stack, the second bearing stack arranged radially outward from the outer shaft and comprising at least one ball bearing. The arrangement may include a bearing stack retainer, the bearing stack retainer mating with the first and second bearing stacks to hold the first and second bearing stacks in position with respect to the inner and outer shafts and the bearing stack retainer coupled with and rotating with the outer shaft.
US09790850B2
A turbocharger system for simultaneously improving a fuel efficiency and obtaining a satisfactory hill start performance due to a downsized engine. The system includes an electric assist turbocharger which includes a turbine disposed in an exhaust passage of an engine and driven by exhaust gas, a compressor disposed in an intake passage and driven by a rotational torque of the turbine, and an electric motor assisting a driving force of the compressor and an electric motor control unit which drives the electric motor when detecting a start operation at a sloping road.
US09790847B2
A turbocharged internal combustion engine system includes at least one high pressure turbocharger system mounted on-engine and at least one low pressure turbocharger system mounted off-engine. An intercooler can further be mounted off-engine with the low pressure turbocharger and an aftercooler can be mounted on-engine with the high pressure turbocharger.
US09790843B2
A uniflow scavenging 2-cycle engine includes a cylinder inside which a combustion chamber is formed; a piston which slides within the cylinder; a scavenge port which is provided on one end side in a stroke direction of the piston in the cylinder to suck an active gas into the combustion chamber in accordance with the sliding movement of the piston; and a fuel injection unit which has an injection port located on the outside of the cylinder, and injects the fuel gas into the active gas sucked into the scavenge port.
US09790834B2
A method of monitoring for combustion anomalies in a gas turbomachine includes sensing an exhaust gas temperature at each of a plurality of temperature sensors arranged in an exhaust system of the gas turbomachine, comparing the exhaust gas temperature at each of the plurality of temperature sensors with a mean exhaust gas temperature, determining whether the exhaust gas temperature at one or more of the plurality of temperature sensors deviates from the mean exhaust temperature by a predetermined threshold value, and identifying an instantaneous combustion anomaly at one or more of the temperature sensors sensing a temperature deviating from the mean exhaust temperature by more than the predetermined threshold value.
US09790826B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for monitoring lubricant of an engine. The system for monitoring lubricant of an engine comprises: a lubricant sensor, which measures lubricant quantity of the engine; a data acquisition unit, which collects the lubricant quantity of the engine from the lubricant sensor at a fixed time interval; and a message generation unit, which generates lubricant quantity monitoring messages according to the lubricant quantity of the engine collected by the data acquisition unit.
US09790825B2
A lubricant assembly that is configured as part of a lubricating system that flings, or slings, fluid lubricants about the interior of compressors. In one embodiment, the lubricant assembly includes a lubricant guide member with a body member that has a pair of peripheral side members with angled surfaces. The construction is amenable to more consistent fabrication constraints (e.g., tolerances), as well as to offer features that can improve operation of the lubricating system, e.g., as operative in the compressors. In use, the lubricant guide member is disposed transverse to a longitudinal axis of a shaft that is configured to rotate a slinger member to fling the lubricant. This configuration captures lubricant that falls downwardly from other parts of the compressors. The angled surfaces of the side members direct this captured lubricant toward the shaft, and other rotating components, of the lubricating system.
US09790820B2
A switching oil gallery de-aeration arrangement for a switchable valve arrangement is provided, including a switching control valve that activates or deactivates the switchable valve arrangement. The switching control valve is movable from a first position, in which pressurized hydraulic fluid from a hydraulic lash adjuster fluid gallery flows to a passage on the hydraulic lash adjuster and through a switching hydraulic fluid gallery to a check valve such that pressurized hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic lash adjuster fluid gallery pressurizes the switching hydraulic fluid gallery and is released through the check valve, and a second position, in which pressurized hydraulic fluid having a higher pressure sufficient for carrying out a switching function of the switchable valve arrangement is delivered by the switching hydraulic fluid gallery via the second intersection to the second port.
US09790818B2
A mechanical system that forms a cam follower or a rocker arm. The mechanical system includes a support element, a pin extending between two opposite ends along a first axis, and a roller mounted on the pin, movable in rotation relative to the pin around the first axis and adapted to roll on a cam. The support element further comprises an insert having holding members supporting the pin ends, provided with cut-outs having a shape complementary to the shape of the pin-ends, for assembling pin with insert by quarter-turn around the first axis. The pin ends each have a flat surface and an external surface. A first dimension of each pin end, measured perpendicularly to the flat surface, between the flat surface and the external surface of the pin end, is higher than half the outer diameter of the pin ends.
US09790813B2
A twist prevention system for turbomachinery is disclosed. The twist prevention system has a first ring segment pair with a first radially inner ring segment and a first radially outer ring segment and a second ring segment pair having a second radially inner ring segment and a second radially outer ring segment. The ring segment pairs have mutually facing faces. A portion of the face of the first radially inner ring segment overlaps a portion of the face of the second radially outer ring segment in the radial direction.
US09790798B2
A method is provided of processing one or more blades of a row of blades which forms part of a rotor for a gas turbine engine. The method includes: providing a rotor disc having a slot for mounting one or more blades; applying tape at one or both sides of the slot such that when the blades are loaded in the slot the tape reduces a range of tilt angles which can be adopted by the blades; loading the blades in the slot; and performing a processing operation on the loaded blades.
US09790787B2
A logging while drilling tool for measuring a geological formation surrounding a wellbore includes a tool body having one or more sensor pads. Each sensor pad is coupled to the tool body by an extendable coupling that is operable to adjust the radial position of the sensor pad by extending away from or retracting toward the tool body. One or more sensors are mounted to each sensor pads and the sensors are operable to obtain a measurement a property of the formation. The tool also includes a downhole control unit having a transmitter and receiver. The downhole control unit is operable to receive the measurement and transmit the measurement to a surface controller, wherein the transmitted measurement indicates a measurement resolution.
US09790782B2
A downhole well fluid sensing device is disclosed for determining thermal conductivity of a formation fluid produced by a sampled subterranean well, the sensor package having an annulus shaped, elongate body defining a cylindrical fluid sampling space, the elongate body and the sampling space having a common longitudinal center axis. The elongate body has a fluid entrance port that provides well fluid ingress into the fluid sampling space and a fluid exit port that provides well fluid egress out of the fluid sampling space. A heat source is coupled to the elongate body and located along a portion of the fluid path, and the heat source inputs heat into sampled well fluid. Finally, temperature sensing devices located between the fluid entrance port and fluid exit port measure heat conducted to the sampled well fluid, wherein each of the temperature sensing devices is radially spaced from the heat source.
US09790778B2
There is described subsea apparatus and a method for processing fluid from a well. In an embodiment, a pipeline may be arranged to carry the multiphase fluid containing liquid and gas from the well. An outlet extending through a wall of the pipeline may let gas out of the pipeline from said region and through the outlet to separate said gas and liquid. A compressor may be connected to the outlet to compress the separated gas. Separated liquid may be conveyed along a sloping portion of the pipe to a low point in the seabed terrain, and may be conveyed to a pump for boosting the flow of liquid. The pump may be located in an excavated hole or glory hole below the seabed.
US09790777B2
A low-polymer-load fracturing fluid may include an aqueous carrier fluid, proppant, and polymer-treated degradable fibers. The polymer-treated degradable fibers may include degradable fibers that have been at least partially treated with a crosslinkable, hydratable polymer. In some instances, a method may involve placing a low-polymer-load fracturing fluid having an initial viscosity into a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore at a rate to generate pressure above fracture gradient to form or enhance at least one fracture in the formation matrix surrounding a designated portion of the wellbore; placing the low-polymer-load fracturing fluid into the fracture and allowing the polymer to crosslink and increase the initial viscosity to a gelled viscosity; and allowing the polymer-treated degradable fibers to degrade and reduce the gelled viscosity to a broken viscosity.
US09790771B2
A gravel packing assembly has first and second joints each including a sand control screen assembly having a filter medium positioned exteriorly of a base pipe and a slurry delivery subassembly rotatably mounted exteriorly on the sand control screen assembly. The slurry delivery subassembly includes at least one transport tube extending longitudinally along at least a portion of the sand control screen assembly. At least one jumper tube is coupled to and extends between the at least one transport tube of the first joint and the at least one transport tube of the second joint. The at least one transport tube of the first joint is axially aligned with the at least one transport tube of the second joint by rotating the slurry delivery subassembly of the first joint relative to the sand control screen of the first joint after the two joints are coupled together.
US09790768B2
An apparatus and method for activating a downhole tool of a production system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first component, a first magnetic member coupled to the first component, a second component of movable with respect to the first component, and a second magnetic member attached to the second component. The first component is generally stationary with respect a work string of the production system. An electric current activates at least one of the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member to create a magnetic force between the first magnetic member and the second magnetic member, thereby moving the movable component with respect to the stationary component to perform the action downhole. The produced motion of the movable component activates the downhole tool.
US09790763B2
Downhole tools including a body, wherein at least a portion of the body is degradable when exposed to a wellbore environment; and at least one degradable sealing element comprising a cast degradable elastomer, wherein at least a portion of the cast degradable sealing element degrades when exposed to the wellbore environment.
US09790759B2
A multi-component tubular coupling is provided for wellhead assemblies. In one embodiment, the multi-component tubular coupling may include a first tubular member, a landing ring, and a second tubular member. The second tubular member may include internal threads, lock screws, or any combination thereof to couple to a wellhead component. In another embodiment, the multi-component tubular coupling may only include the first tubular member and the landing ring. In such an embodiment, a wellhead component may be secured to the coupling via lock screws.
US09790756B2
A jar assembly for use downhole includes a housing, a piston assembly slidable within and selectively coupled to the housing, a mandrel assembly coupled on a lower end of the piston assembly, and an anvil coupled to an end of the mandrel assembly opposite the piston assembly. The jar assembly is deployed in a wellbore by a conveyance means that couples with the housing. A hydraulic circuit in the piston assembly activates a latch for decoupling the piston assembly from the housing; when decoupled, the housing slides downward and impacts the anvil to generate a jarring force. The jar assembly is re-cocked by raising it with the conveyance means.
US09790752B2
A handling device for handling drill string components with respect to a rock drill rig including a rotator device supported on a feed beam and arranged to rotate and drive a drill string component. A gripper grips drill string components. The gripper is swingably supported around a first swing axis between: a first position aligned with the active drill string position, and a second position aligned with a delivering position for drill string components. A swing arm includes a support configured to support a drill string component and is swingable around a second swing axis. A guiding beam is fastenable at end regions in connection with respective regions of the first and second swing axis. The guiding beam forms mechanical stops for the gripper in the second position and for the swing arm in the delivering position. Also, a rock drill rig and a method.
US09790743B2
A natural gas hydrate drilling simulation device, includes a hydrate rock core simulation system, a drilling system, a drilling fluid injection system and a drilling fluid treatment system. The hydrate rock core simulation system includes a hydrate formation simulation wellbore, an artificial rock core, a water bath jacket and low temperature water bath. The drilling system includes a bracket, a high pressure rotary connecting device, a hydraulic device and a drilling device. The drilling fluid injection system includes a mud tank, a drilling fluid flowmeter, mud pumps and an overflow valve. The drilling fluid treatment system includes a high pressure sand remover, a back pressure and overflow control system, a gas-liquid separator, a dyer, a gas flowmeter, a liquid flowmeter and a mud treatment tank. This natural gas hydrate drilling simulation device performs simulation experiments under a variety of downhole working condition environments.
US09790739B2
Example architectural opening coverings powered by rotary motors are described. An example architectural opening covering apparatus includes a rotatable member, a covering mounted to the rotatable member, a motor having a drive shaft which is capable of rotating the rotatable member in a first direction to raise the covering and in a second direction opposite the first direction to lower the covering, and a drive shaft coupling substantially preventing the motor from applying torque in the second direction.
US09790736B2
A position sensing system and method for detecting the displacement of a door from a reference position, such as, for example, from a closed position. The system includes a magnetometer that may be operably connected to the door, and which measures positional location relative to a reference magnetic field, such as, for example, a magnetic field provided by a magnet of a lock device. The system may also include an accelerometer that detects acceleration of the door, and thereby provides an indication of when location is to be measured by the magnetometer. Measurement information from the magnetometer is used to derive a position indicator that is compared to a reference indicator, the reference indicator being associated with the reference position. Differences between the position and reference indicators may provide an indication that the door has been moved from the reference position.
US09790730B2
Container comprising a first element 2 and at least a second element 3 movable relative to the first element 2 between a closed position and an open position, and a drive device 5 for moving the second element 3, wherein at least one deformation measuring unit 6 is provided with a deformation sensor 11 on at least one of the elements 2, 3 for detecting a force exerted on one of the elements 2, 3 and wherein a control unit 12 is provided for receiving and evaluating a deformation signal transmitted by the deformation measuring unit 6 and is provided for actuating the drive device 5.
US09790724B2
A door damper (100) is made preferably of heat-resistant plastic material and comprises a damper element (150) as well as a pestle (110) that is securely guided in the housing (120) of the door damper. As an integrated structure, it can be mounted at any suitable location at a household appliance (160) that is cool and the pestle (110) can directly contact the front door (220, 300). Beneficially, it comprises an orifice (140) at the housing (120) to fix it at a sidewall of a household appliance (161) or at the front door (220, 300). Beneficially, the door damper also comprises a switch (145) that allows switching a door alarm, a light or influencing cooking functions.
US09790723B2
A door operator includes a housing and at least one linearly guided piston in the housing. A roller carrier is disposed in the piston and includes a rotatably movable supported pressure roller. The piston is formed as a deep drawn structural component and includes a bottom and a circumferential walling. The support and the axial guiding of the roller carrier with a pressure roller within the piston can be realized in a simple and cost effective manner. Furthermore, an aperture is provided in the bottom of the piston, through which the pressure roller protrudes to the outside beyond the bottom of the piston.
US09790718B2
A door hinge comprises a body part for attaching to a door jamb and a door part for attaching to a door. A pivot coupling pivotally connects the door part to the body part about a displaceable pivot axis.
US09790706B2
A tent stake that may be easily driven into and removed from various types of ground surfaces. The tent stake generally includes a shaft having a lower end portion and an upper end portion opposite of the lower end portion, a first connector attached to the upper end portion of the shaft and a second connector attached to the upper end portion of the shaft. The shaft is constructed of a rigid angle iron material to prevent bending or breakage during installation and removal.
US09790705B2
An internal collapsible frame for use with an outdoor living structure is provided. The internal collapsible frame can include a center tube assembly including a center tube including a top end portion and a bottom end portion. A slidable hub can be slidably arranged on the center tube. The internal collapsible frame can include a plurality of roof tube assemblies each including a first proximal end and a second distal end, each first proximal end being pivotably attached to the top hub. The internal collapsible frame can include a plurality of ceiling tube assemblies each including a first proximal end and a second distal end, each first proximal end being pivotably attached to the sliding hub and each second distal end being attached to an outer corner connection assembly. The internal collapsible frame can include a plurality of hinged strut assemblies each including a first end and a second end and being capable of folding about a hinge, each of the first and second ends of the hinged strut assemblies being attached to a ceiling tube end cap of a respective outer corner connection assembly and being capable of pivoting and rotating with respect to the ceiling tube end cap.
US09790703B1
A process of fabricating a static structure including an interior volume that includes the steps of mixing coal combustible residual (CCR) with structural reinforcing materials to form a construction material and utilizing the construction material to fabricate exterior enclosure-forming components of the static structure. The enclosure-forming components are sufficiently reinforced, enhanced and/or thick to provide protection against exterior forces directed against the structure.
US09790702B2
A three part foundation system for supporting a building is described. Three part foundation systems can include a containment vessel, which constrains a buffer medium to an area above the containment vessel, and a construction platform. A building can be built on the construction platform. In a particular embodiment, during operation, the construction platform and structures built on the construction platform can float on the buffer medium. In an earthquake, a construction platform floating on a buffer medium may experience greatly reduced shear forces. In a flood, a construction platform floating on a buffer medium can be configured to rise as water levels rise to limit flood damage.
US09790700B2
An underwater station may include a filter manipulator that is arranged to input a filter into a pool cleaning robot that is located in a filter replacement position and to assist in positioning the filter at a filtering position in which the filter is at least partially disposed within a fluid path formed between a first fluid opening and a second fluid opening of the housing thereby allowing the filter to apply a filtering operation on fluid that passes through the fluid path.
US09790694B2
A versatile handrail and toeboard safety system that provides flexible solutions for the implementation of improved construction site safety barriers using a specialized bracket to mount standard wooden members. The bracket of the handrail and toeboard safety system is formed of multiple parallel plates in various arrangements creating spaces to receive and secure wooden construction members as a handrail for personnel safety in addition to a toeboard for equipment and materiel safety. Multiple embodiments of the bracket provide for expeditious setup and removal of system for setup and removal of personnel and equipment safety barriers from most construction sites.
US09790693B2
A screed guide drain adaptor includes a circular disk with a recessed circular center portion defined therein. The recessed circular center portion creates a transition between an outer ring portion and the recessed circular center portion. The screed guide drain adaptor includes a drain aperture defined within the recessed circular center portion. The screed guide is made of a rigid material.
US09790690B2
A peripheral stabilizing system for elevated flooring surfaces that is configured to resist uplift forces acting against the elevated flooring surface thereby reducing the likelihood of dislodged surface tiles and the like. Broadly, the disclosed system includes a support structure disposed over a fixed surface (e.g., roof deck or the like), a plurality of surface tiles appropriately laid over the support structure, and one or more restraint apparatuses (e.g., support ledgers) that are positionable adjacent the outer periphery of the flooring surface. Each restraint apparatus includes a mounting portion that is securable to a wall (e.g., parapet) and a restraint portion positionable over a portion of the elevated flooring surface adjacent the outer periphery for restricting movement of the flooring surface in a direction away from the fixed surface.
US09790682B2
A pre-fabricated construction panel for use on an external surface and/or as part of a budding or construction is provided. The panel comprises at least a first layer which is at least partially provided from thermally insulating material having a first surface, the panel comprising at least a second layer, the at least second layer being provided from fiber cement board, the second layer having a second surface facing the first surface. The first surface is profiled having recessed surface zones and heightened surface zones, the first and second layers being connected one to the other at least along the heightened surface zones of the first, the recessed surface zones provides at least one interspace between the first and second surface. This at least one inter-space has at least two openings to the external of the panel for enabling air to flow into and out of the interspace towards the external of the panel. Less than 25% of the total surface of the first surface is connected to, e.g. adheres to, the second surface.
US09790677B2
A remote control device for remotely controlling a toilet device is provided. The remote control device includes a casing, a power generation device, buttons, and a link mechanism. The casing forms a contour of the remote control device. The power generation device is housed in the casing and is capable of generating a power by being pressed. The buttons is provided on a surface of the casing and each is configured to activate a function of the toilet device. The link mechanism is configured to move so as to press the power generation device when one of the buttons is pressed. The buttons is supported on the casing by an elastic member so that, when one of the buttons is pressed to cause motion of the link mechanism, one other of the buttons not pressed is not affected by the motion of the link mechanism.
US09790675B2
A double flow control mechanism of a soft touch drain valve and a double flow control method, includes a base, a float component and a starting component. The base is assembled with a valve body. The float component is has a flowing passage and can move relative to the base to open and close the drainage opening. The flowing passage connects the inside and the outside of the float chamber of the float component. The starting component controls the size of the flowing passage. The first starting switch can open a smaller flowing passage of the float component; the resultant force drains a first drainage volume of water. The second starting switch can open a larger flowing passage of the float component; the resultant force drains a second drainage volume of water.
US09790667B2
A tub spout with a diverter mechanism includes a housing having an external surface and an internal cavity that includes a spout outlet. A water supply conduit is located within the internal cavity and provides a fluid path that is in fluid communication with the spout outlet. A push button extends outwardly of the external surface of the housing and is movable relative to the housing between a non-diverting position where water exits the spout outlet and a diverting position where water is prevented from exiting the spout outlet. A diverter gate is positioned within the internal cavity to selectively block the fluid path and is coupled for movement with the push button. A resilient member biases the push button to the non-diverting position.
US09790665B2
A hydraulic control device that reduces the loss of the power of a pump in combined operation of boom lowering and arm pushing. A controller performs single control of increasing capacity of a first pump in accordance with increase in an operation amount of a boom operation member, in a single operation of the boom lowering. On the other hand, the controller restricts the capacity of the first pump compared to capacity in the single control, during a restriction control period when the combined operation of boom lowering and arm pushing is detected, and the operation amount of the boom operation member is a prescribed operation amount or more.
US09790663B2
A work vehicle is equipped with an engine, a hydraulic pump, a work implement, a work implement operating member, a work implement control valve, a capacity control device, a travel device, an accelerator operating member, and a control unit. The hydraulic pump is driven by the engine. The work implement is driven by hydraulic fluid discharged from the hydraulic pump. The work implement control valve controls the hydraulic pressure supplied to the work implement. The capacity control device controls a differential pressure between a discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump and an outlet hydraulic pressure of the work implement control valve. The travel device is driven by the engine. The accelerator operating member changes the engine rotation speed. The control unit causes the speed of the work implement to increase by causing the engine rotation speed to increase when an operation amount of the work implement operating member is increased.
US09790658B2
A bucket for a loader with integrated hydraulic cylinder is disclosed. The hydraulic cylinder is mounted at the bottom of the bucket and extends the width of the bucket in a pocket between the bottom side and rear wall of the bucket. This allows the hydraulic cylinder to be used to manipulate materials at an exterior of the bucket. The bucket allows the user to use the bucket to both move and manipulate materials without having to use multiple attachments.
US09790654B2
An elongated and adjustable pet waste collection apparatus having an integrated vacuum or suction pump which suctions waste matter off the ground and into a pre-loaded disposable waste bag. Aspects of embodiments of the disclosure contemplate a sanitizing solution dispenser along with a heat sealer for sealing the ends of the waste bag after waste collection. The disclosure is intended to provide consumers with a simple sanitary tool for the collection and discarding of pet waste.
US09790642B2
A sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a screening unit having first openings for screening a defibrated material that is defibrating-processed; a refining unit that has second openings having sizes equal to or greater than sizes of the first openings and refines the defibrated material passing through the screening unit by causing the defibrated material to pass through the second openings; and a deposition unit on which the defibrated material passing through the refining unit is deposited.
US09790636B2
A laundry washing machine includes an outer casing and, inside the casing, a washing tub arranged inside said casing directly facing a laundry loading/unloading opening realized in a front wall of the casing, a rotatable drum arranged in an axially rotating manner inside the washing tub and structured for receiving the laundry to be washed, a detergent dispenser which is structured for supplying detergent into the washing tub, and a water softening device which is structured for reducing the hardness degree of the fresh water supplied to the washing tub. The water softening device includes a water-softening agent container filled with a water softening agent able to reduce the hardness degree of the fresh water supplied to the washing tub, and a regeneration-agent reservoir which is fluidly connected to the water-softening agent container and is structured to receive a salt or other regeneration agent for performing a regeneration of the water softening function of the water softening agents. The detergent dispenser includes a detergent container which is fillable with a given quantity of detergent, and a detergent flush circuit which is structured for selectively spilling/pouring water into said detergent container. The regeneration-agent reservoir includes a regeneration-agent container which is fillable with a given quantity of regeneration agents. The water softening device also includes a water supply circuit which is structured for selectively spilling/pouring a given amount of fresh water into the regeneration-agent container and a water piping assembly which is structured for channeling water through the water-softening agent container. The detergent dispenser includes a water delivery member which incorporates at least part of the detergent flush circuit, and at least part of the water supply circuit and/or of the water piping assembly.
US09790634B2
A washing machine tub insert system is provided that prevents the wash tub from impacting the washing machine cabinet during shipping and handling. The tub insert system may be made from a bottom panel and an insert that lock together. The insert outwardly biases locking members against the cabinet rim and against the tub to minimize relative movement of the tub and cabinet, thereby reducing or eliminating the possibility of the wash tub damaging the washing machine cabinet.
US09790632B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a casing; an outer tub; a supporting member coupling the outer tub to the casing; and at least one horizontal vibration buffering device connecting the supporting member with a side surface of the casing. The horizontal vibration buffering device includes a casing connecting part coupled to the casing; a supporting member connecting part coupled to the supporting member, and a damper. The supporting member connecting part has a displacement relative the casing connecting part as the outer tub vibrates. The damper provides an attenuation force corresponding to the displacement of the supporting member connecting part relative the casing connecting part.
US09790628B2
Disclosed is a device for spreading at least one yarn on a conveyor structure, the device including a rotating structure operated by a motor and having at least one point for supplying yarn in the region of the axis of rotation of the rotating structure. The device also includes a channel directed inside the rotating structure, radially in relation to the axis of rotation of the rotating structure, and opening out in the region of an orifice for outputting the yarn which is radially offset in relation to the axis of rotation of the rotating structure. The device further includes a spreader plate which is axially mounted on the rotating structure and comprises the orifice for outputting yarn and is intended to be positioned in the plane and against the surface of the conveyor structure.
US09790627B2
A method of applying stitching to an interior component is provided herein. The interior component having only a single layer of a substrate layer. The method including the steps of: a) penetrating substrate layer with an awl to form a piercing therethrough; b) retracting the awl from the substrate layer; c) inserting a needle of a sewing head through the piercing through the substrate layer to grasp a thread positioned on a show surface of the outer skin layer; d) pulling the thread through the substrate layer; e) looping the thread with a previous stitch passed through the substrate layer; f) advancing the sewing head to another position with respect to the interior component, wherein a backside of the substrate layer is free of obstructions; and g) repeating steps a-f until a predetermined amount of stitches are applied to the interior component.
US09790612B2
In an anodizing method of aluminum, a tubular object made of aluminum or aluminum alloy is located between a pair of cathodes in an electrolysis solution, and a subsidiary cathode is inserted into the tubular object. The tubular object is anodized in the electrolysis solution to form an anodic oxide coating on an inner surface of the tubular object and on an outer surface of the tubular object. Accordingly, the anodic oxide coating can be formed easily not only on the outer surface of the tubular object but also on the inner surface of the tubular object. Therefore, a thickness difference of the anodic oxide coating between on the outer surface of the tubular object and on the inner surface of the tubular object can be reduced.
US09790611B2
An apparatus and a method are disclosed that form an anodic oxide coating on part of the outer surface of a profile having an irregular cross-sectional shape. A partial anodizing apparatus that is used to partially anodize a profile having an irregular cross-sectional shape includes an electrolytic bath that is divided into two or more partial baths. The profile is held using the two or more partial baths so that part of the profile is situated outside the electrolytic bath to form a sealed electrolysis chamber.
US09790599B2
A composite material can include a carrier material that is coated, at least over part of the surface, with a corrosion protection layer made of an aluminum alloy. The composite material can provide a defined, effective, durable corrosion protection and simultaneously have a high recycling potential. The aluminum alloy of the corrosion protection layer can have the following composition in % by weight: 0.8 ≦ Mn ≦ 1.8 Zn ≦ 0.05 Cu ≦ 0.05 Si ≦ 1.0 Cr ≦ 0.25 Zr ≦ 0.25 Mg ≦ 0.10 remainder aluminum and unavoidable impurities, individually a maximum of 0.05% by weight, in total a maximum of 0.15% by weight.
US09790592B2
Provided is a decorative article including a black hard coating film which is excellently inhibited from suffering a deterioration of appearance quality such as a scratch due to use thereof, and which has excellent decorativeness. The decorative article according to the present invention is a decorative article including: a base; and a black hard coating film which is formed on the base, and which includes diamond-like carbon, wherein the hydrogen content of a surface, reverse to a surface closer to the base, of the black hard coating film is more than the hydrogen content of the surface, closer to the base, of the black hard coating film; and the hydrogen content of the surface, reverse to the surface closer to the base, of the black hard coating film is 30.0 to 75.0 atm %.
US09790588B2
The present invention provides a heating device for evaporation of an OLED material, which includes a crucible (1) for receiving and containing therein an OLED material (10), a lower heating coil (2) surrounding outside an outer circumference of the body section (11) of the crucible (1), an upper heating coil (3) surrounding outside an outer circumference of the top cover section (13) of the crucible (1), a lower thermally conductive temperature homogenizing sleeve (4) arranged between the body section (11) and the lower heating coil (2), an upper thermally conductive temperature homogenizing sleeve (5) arranged between the top cover section (13) and the upper heating coil (3), and a thermal insulation ring (6) arranged between the upper and lower thermally conductive temperature homogenizing sleeves (5, 4). The upper and lower heating coils (3, 2) are each connected to a power supply for individually controlling a heating temperature of each of the top cover section (13) and the body section (11). The heating device prevents gaseous molecules of the OLED material (10) from getting condensed and solidified at a gas release hole (131) of the crucible (1) so as to prevent jamming and blocking of the gas release hole (131).
US09790587B2
An article including a substrate and a plurality of coatings disposed on the substrate is presented. The plurality of coatings includes a thermal barrier coating disposed on the substrate; and a protective coating including a calcium-magnesium-aluminum-silicon-oxide (CMAS)-reactive material disposed on the thermal barrier coating. The CMAS-reactive material has an orthorhombic weberite crystal structure. The CMAS-reactive material is present in the plurality of coatings in an effective amount to react with a CMAS composition at an operating temperature of the thermal barrier coating, thereby forming a reaction product having one or both of melting temperature and viscosity greater than that of the CMAS composition. A method of making the article and a related turbine engine component are also presented.
US09790582B2
In accordance with this disclosure, there are provided several inventions, including a substrate processing apparatus with multi-layer surfaces configured to face the plasma and resist against corrosion. These multi-layer surfaces may in one example include a base layer of aluminum, anodized aluminum, or quartz, a second layer of stabilized zirconia, and a second layer of a yttrium-aluminum composite such as yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG).
US09790580B1
Methods and systems for preparing metallic alloys comprising volatile materials such as phosphorus suitable for bulk metallic glasses are described. The methods variously involve carrying out alloying at temperatures and pressures that minimize or counteract sublimation of the volatile species.
US09790578B2
A steel for a tracked undercarriage component is used as a material constituting a track link (9), for example, and contains: not less than 0.39% by mass and not more than 0.45% by mass of carbon, not less than 0.2% by mass and not more than 1.0% by mass of silicon, not less than 0.10% by mass and not more than 0.90% by mass of manganese, not less than 0.002% by mass and not more than 0.005% by mass of sulfur, not less than 0.1% by mass and not more than 3.0% by mass of nickel, not less than 0.70% by mass and not more than 1.50% by mass of chromium, and not less than 0.10% by mass and not more than 0.60% by mass of molybdenum, with the balance made of iron and unavoidable impurities.
US09790564B2
A heat treatment apparatus for hot stamping includes a frame, and heating units provided to be vertically movable at both upper and lower sides of the frame and configured to heat a cold formed steel plate by electrifying the steel plate. Cooling units are provided to be vertically movable at centers of the upper and lower sides of the frame and are configured to cool the heated steel plate while pressurizing the steel plate from upper and lower sides.
US09790548B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices for amplifying nucleic acid, and, in particular, amplifying so as to generate products on a surface without the use of emulsions. In a preferred embodiment, a plurality of groups of amplified product are generated on the surface, each group positioned in different (typically predetermined) locations on said surface so as to create an array.
US09790545B2
This invention is in the field of medical molecular diagnostics. It provides methods and means for the in vitro detection of the neurodevelopmental toxicity of a compound by determining the gene expression of a limited number of genes. More in particular, it relates to a method for determining the likelihood that a compound is neurodevelopmental toxic, comprising the steps of: providing embryonic stem cells, allowing the stem cells to form embryoid bodies, allowing the embryoid bodies to differentiate into neural cells, in the presence of said compound, thereby creating a neural differentiation culture, extracting total RNA from the cells in said neural differentiation culture, determining the expression levels of genes Hoxb6, Nrk, 1700011H14Rik and Tph1, comparing the expression levels with a predetermined reference value and determining the increase or decrease of the expression level relative to the reference value, wherein a relative increase or decrease in expression value of more than 20% indicates that a compound is neurodevelopmental toxic.
US09790542B2
Some embodiments provide for a device that collects vesicles and vesicle-like materials from biological fluids. Such devices include at least one sample loading region; at least one corresponding vesicle-capture material, wherein said vesicle-capture material includes glass-like materials; and at least one corresponding sample receiving region, wherein passage of the biological fluid from the sample loading region through the vesicle-capture material and into the sample receiving region results in the capture of vesicles. Additional embodiments provide for a method of isolating vesicles and vesicle-like materials from biological fluids.
US09790541B2
The present invention relates to methods for the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the methods include a [3+2] cycloaddition between a nucleotide analogue incorporated into a nucleic acid polymer and a reagent attached to a label. Such methods do not require fixation and denaturation and therefore can be applied to the labeling of nucleic acid polymers in living cells and in organisms. Also provided are methods for measuring cellular proliferation. In these methods, the amount of label incorporated into the DNA is measured as an indication of cellular proliferation. The methods of the invention can be used in a wide variety of applications including clinical diagnosis of diseases and disorders in which cellular proliferation is involved, toxicity assays, and as a tool for the study of chromosomes' ultrastructures.
US09790537B2
Provided are labeling reagents and methods of using the reagents for cell uptake measurements. The labeling reagents can be quinone-masked probes including fluorophores and/or luminophores.
US09790534B2
The present invention is directed to a method for separating, characterizing and/or identifying microorganisms in a test sample. The method of the invention comprises an optional lysis step for lysing non-microorganism cells that may be present in a test sample, followed by a subsequent separation step. The method may be useful for the separation, characterization and/or identification of microorganisms from complex samples such as blood-containing culture media. The invention further provides for spectroscopic interrogation of the separated microorganism sample to produce measurements of the microorganism and characterizing and/or identifying the microorganism in the sample using said spectroscopic measurements.
US09790532B2
The present invention relates to methods of producing a polypeptide, comprising: (a) cultivating a mutant of a parent Fusarium venenatum strain in a medium for the production of the polypeptide, wherein the mutant strain comprises a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide and one or more (several) genes selected from the group consisting of pyrG, amyA, and alpA, wherein the one or more (several) genes are modified rendering the mutant strain deficient in the production of one or more (several) enzymes selected from the group consisting of orotidine-5′-monophosphate decarboxylase, alpha-amylase, and alkaline protease, respectively, compared to the parent Fusarium venenatum strain when cultivated under identical conditions; and (b) recovering the polypeptide from the cultivation medium. The present invention also relates to enzyme-deficient mutants of Fusarium venenatum strains and methods for producing such mutants.
US09790531B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for the design, evolution, preparation, and/or manufacture of enzymes for use with polynucleotides, primary transcripts and mmRNA molecules.
US09790527B2
The present disclosure provides engineered proline hydroxylase polypeptides for the production of hydroxylated compounds, polynucleotides encoding the engineered proline hydroxylases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered proline hydroxylases, and methods of using the engineered proline hydroxylases to prepare compounds useful in the production of active pharmaceutical agents. The present disclosure provides engineered proline hydroxylase biocatalysts, polynucleotides encoding the biocatalysts, methods of their preparation, and processes for preparing hydroxylated compounds using these engineered biocatalysts.
US09790526B2
Disclosed herein are primers for amplifying enone oxidoreductase, having a sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID Nos. 1 to 13, from mango. Also disclosed herein is a nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID No. 14 encoding enone oxidoreductase, for enzyme production in an artificial system thus generating the desired flavor in food products.
US09790524B2
The present invention is to provide a preparation of variant recombinant whole cell biocatalysts, referred herein as “designer cells” having significantly enhanced carbonyl reductase activity for use in the efficient production of variant industrially important enantiomerically enriched alcohols. More specifically, the alcohol is optically pure ethyl (S)-4-chloro-3-hydroxybutyrate, which is useful as chiral building block and an intermediate for the production of hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors.
US09790510B2
Lactococcus lactis strains with improved preservation characteristics, and improved acid and bile salt tolerance are disclosed. More specifically, a L. lactis strain having a heterologous trehalose-6-phosphate synthase gene and/or a trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase gene, results in an accumulation of trehalose in the cytoplasm and/or in the cytoplasmic membrane. A L. lactis strain, having an internal trehalose concentration of at least 10 mg per gram cells (w/w) is disclosed.
US09790498B2
The present invention is based, at least in part, upon discovery of a process for identifying phase changing peptides. Such phase changing peptides are capable of enhancing in vitro and in vivo delivery of oligonucleotides (e.g., dsRNAs) in lipidic, vesicular, micellar and/or naked oligonucleotide formulations.
US09790485B2
Method and apparatus for controlling acoustic treatment of a sample including a liquid. A processing volume in which the sample is acoustically treated may be controlled, e.g., by positioning a suitable element so as to reduce and/or eliminate a headspace size at a sample/gas interface. An interaction between the acoustic energy and the sample may be controlled, e.g., by using a headspace control element positioned at least partially in the sample that helps to reduce splashing or other sample ejection that would otherwise occur.
US09790480B2
A thermostable cellobiohydrolase, having a cellobiohydrolase catalytic domain including: (A) a polypeptide including the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, (B) a polypeptide including an amino acid sequence in which at least one amino acid has been deleted, substituted, or added in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, and having hydrolysis activity against a substrate of phosphoric acid swollen Avicel at least under conditions of 75° C. and pH 5, or (C) a polypeptide including an amino acid sequence having 60% or greater sequence identity with the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, and having hydrolysis activity against a substrate of phosphoric acid swollen Avicel at least under conditions of 75° C. and pH 5.
US09790472B2
Adeno-associated virus rh.10 sequences, vectors containing same, and methods of use are provided.
US09790470B2
This invention relates to the in vitro differentiation of pluripotent cells into pancreatic progenitors by i) culturing pluripotent cells in a definitive endoderm (DE) medium comprising a TGFp ligand, fibroblast growth factor (FGF), bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), a PI3K inhibitor and optionally a GSK3 β inhibitor to produce a population of definitive endoderm cells, ii) culturing the definitive endoderm cells in a first pancreatic medium comprising an activin antagonist; FGF; retinoic acid; and a BMP inhibitor to produce a population of dorsal foregut cells; iii) culturing the dorsal foregut cells in a second pancreatic medium comprising FGF, retinoic acid, a BMP inhibitor, and a hedgehog signalling inhibitor, and; iv) culturing the endoderm cells in a third pancreatic medium comprising FGF. The progenitor cells thus produced may be further differentiated into pancreatic endocrine cells. These methods may be useful, for example, in producing pancreatic cells for therapy or disease modelling.
US09790467B2
The invention features a complex that binds to, stimulates, and expands a desired T cell population and facilitates separation of the target population from a sample. The complex can be gently dissociated from the binding unit after separating the desired T cell population, representing a safe and efficient approach for processing T cells for clinical use. Invention also provides methods of using such complexes as part of adoptive T cell therapy systems.
US09790464B2
The present invention relates to a cell culture medium for culturing human cells comprising an anti-coagulated total blood material wherein the hemoglobin level is from about 8 to about 16 g/dl. More particularly, the invention provides a cell culture medium in which cells present in the blood are disrupted and the insoluble remnants of the lysated cells are removed. Further, the invention provides a method for the preparation of a cell culture medium for culturing human cells, according to the invention.
US09790461B2
A culture method for microalgae that cultures unicellular green microalgae belonging to the genus Coccomyxa and groups of organisms closely related thereto, or the Watanabea clade, in an open outdoor culture system using broth having a pH of 4 or lower. A culture method for microalgae that cultures microalgae of the genus Coccomyxa and groups of organisms closely related thereto, or Pseudococcomyxa, in an open outdoor culture system using broth having a pH of 4 or lower containing ammonia nitrogen.
US09790457B2
The present invention relates, in part, to cleaning methods and solvent cleaning compositions including at least one hydrofluoro-olefin or hydrochlorofluoro-olefin solvent for use in connection with cleaning of metal parts, and in certain preferred embodiments cleaning metal parts to be used in an aircraft.
US09790453B2
The present invention relates to polymeric shading dye and their use in laundry applications. The polymers are alkoxylated polyethylene imines and the dyes are reactive dyes.
US09790442B2
The present subject matter relates generally to methods for selectively saturating the unsaturated C2-C4. More specifically, the present subject matter relates to methods for saturating butadiene and butenes from a hydrocarbon stream before it is combined with a fresh feed and enters a reaction zone. Removing the unsaturates from the hydrocarbon stream before the hydrocarbon stream enters the reaction zone prevents the reactor internals from coking.
US09790439B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing mixture of fuel components, which process comprises providing a feed of biological origin; subjecting said feed of biological origin and a hydrogen gas feed to a single step of hydroprocessing in the presence of a catalyst system comprising dewaxing catalyst to form a mixture of fuel components. The present invention relates also to an apparatus for producing a mixture of fuel components from a feed of biological origin. The invention relates also to the use of the fuel components.
US09790432B2
Digestion of cellulosic biomass solids may be complicated by release of lignin therefrom. Methods and systems for processing a reaction product containing lignin-derived products, such as phenolics, can comprise hydrotreating the reaction product to convert the lignin-derived products to desired higher molecular weight compounds. The methods and systems can further include separating the higher molecular weight compounds from unconverted products, such as unconverted phenolics, and recycling the unconverted phenolics for use as at least a portion of the digestion solvent and for further conversion to desired higher molecular weight compounds with additional hydrotreatment. The methods and systems can further include a further hydrotreatment step configured for additional lignin conversion and/or a further hydrotreatment step configured for generating hydrogen.
US09790416B2
A method comprising drilling a wellbore into a subterranean formation; providing a drilling fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a property control package, the property control package comprising: a stabilizing agent; a filtration control agent; and a suspension enhancer; introducing the drilling fluid into the wellbore in the subterranean formation; and continuously circulating the drilling fluid during the drilling of the wellbore.
US09790410B2
A method includes: providing a mold having a plurality of mold cavities, wherein each mold cavity is bounded by a plurality of faces joined along common edges; filling at least some of the mold cavities with a sol-gel composition that includes a release agent dispersed therein; at least partially drying the sol-gel composition thereby forming shaped ceramic precursor particles; calcining at least a portion of the shaped ceramic precursor particles to provide calcined shaped ceramic precursor particles; and sintering at least a portion of the calcined shaped ceramic precursor particles to provide ceramic shaped abrasive particles. A sol-gel composition, shaped ceramic precursor particles, and ceramic shaped abrasive particles associated with practice of the method are also disclosed.
US09790406B2
An impact-resistant film comprises at least one layer of an elastomeric polymer material and an adhesive layer.
US09790400B2
An organic-inorganic complex-forming composition that includes: a) an organic silicon compound represented by RnSiX4-n wherein R represents an organic group having a carbon atom directly bonded to Si, and X represents a hydroxyl group or a hydrolyzable group; and n represents 1 or 2, wherein when n is 2, each R is the same or different, and when (4−n) is 2 or more, each X is the same or different and having a solubility parameter (SP1) of R obtained by Fedors' estimation method smaller than a solubility parameter (SP2) of a thermosetting compound obtained by Fedors' estimation method, and a difference between the SP1 and the SP2 is 1.6 or more (Si1), and/or a condensate thereof; and b) a thermosetting compound (excluding an olefin polymer).
US09790394B2
The present invention provides an aqueous floor coating composition comprising: (A) water; (B) at least one supramolecular polymer; and (C) optionally, one or more additional ingredients. The supramolecular polymer (B) comprises polymerized units derived from: (1) one or more 4H monomers which comprise a polymerizable group and a quadruple hydrogen bonding (4H) moiety; (2) at least one monomer having acid functional groups; and (3) one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers. In a preferred embodiment, the supramolecular polymer comprises 4H monomers derived from reaction of an isopropenyl alpha,alpha-dimethylbenzyl isocyanate (TMI) and 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-methylpyrimidine (MIC), as well as acid functional monomers selected from (meth)acrylic acid, and ethylenically unsaturated monomers comprising butyl acrylate, methyl methacrylate, and styrene.
US09790390B2
A document which may be a security document has a thermochromic coating which may be a thermochromic ink on the substrate of the document. The ink may include several thermochromic materials which transition from various different colors to substantially clear in appearance as the ink is warmed to various temperatures. The combination of the colors of the thermochromic materials can give the document a different color at a number of different temperatures, until the coating is warmed to the highest color change point. When at or above the highest color change temperature, the coating becomes substantially transparent and the printed area assumes the color of the underlying substrate. The coating may also include non-reactive materials of yet another color that mixes with the colors of the thermochromic materials. The document may additionally include printed indicia on the substrate that are masked by the thermochromic materials at certain temperatures, and not masked by the thermochromic materials at other temperatures.
US09790386B2
The present invention is directed to an ultraviolet curing ink jet ink composition which contains at least a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and is free from an aqueous solvent. The polymerizable compound comprises at least a urethane oligomer, and the photopolymerization initiator comprises an acylphosphineoxide and α-hydroxyketone. The polymerizable compound further comprises an allyl compound and/or an N-vinyl compound.
US09790383B2
A marking system comprises a substrate having a surface coated with a color-triggering developer and a deactivating ink composition; and a marking composition comprising at least one color precursor. At least one “non-color developing portion” of the surface is coated with both the color-triggering developer and the deactivating ink composition, and at least one “color-developing portion” of the surface is coated with the color-triggering developer and is not coated with the deactivating ink composition. Color development occurs at the color-developing portion(s) and does not occur at the non-color developing portion(s) upon application of the marking composition to the surface of the substrate.
US09790379B2
An opacifying cluster which may be added to a coating composition to provide a coating composition with low gloss and a high level of opacity. The opacifying cluster can include a polymeric latex binder coalescing cluster components into a generally homogeneous particle. The cluster components may include discrete polymeric particles each defining a closed void volume therein, a plurality of inorganic pigment particles, and a plurality of extender pigment particles. The clusters may also include a porosity of the polymeric latex binder thereof defining a binder void volume. Also provided is a paint product including such a pigment cluster.
US09790376B2
Provided is a process for forming an antimicrobial polymer composition comprising: contacting together at least one initiator, at least one promoter, at least one reductant, and at least one monomer, under emulsion polymerization conditions to form a base polymer; and mixing with the base polymer an antimicrobial complex; wherein the at least one initiator is a peroxidic compound and the at least one reductant is an ascorbic compound.
US09790371B2
This invention relates to a method for preparing an organic film at the surface of a solid support, with a step of contacting said surface with a liquid solution including (i) at least one protic solvent, (ii) at least one adhesion primer, and (iii) at least one monomer different from the adhesion primer and radically polymerisable, under non-electrochemical conditions, and allowing the formation of radical entities based on the adhesion primer. This invention also relates to a non-electrically-conductive solid support on which an organic film according to said method is grafted, and a kit for preparing an essentially polymeric organic film at the surface of a solid support.
US09790362B2
A thermoplastic resin composition comprises (A) a polycarbonate resin; (B) a rubber-modified aromatic vinyl copolymer; (C) a branched copolymer that includes a silicon compound having two or more unsaturated radicals; and (D) metal particles. A molded product can be prepared using the composition.
US09790356B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing a thermoplastic resin. In accordance with the present invention, provided is a thermoplastic resin having superior antibiosis and melt-kneadability prepared through preparation of a graft copolymer latex and coagulation of the graft copolymer latex with a specific antimicrobial agent, and a method of preparing the thermoplastic resin to prepare a thermoplastic resin composition including the thermoplastic resin.
US09790354B2
The present invention is directed to plant fiber-reinforced thermoplastic compositions and a method for reinforcing thermoplastic resins. The present invention provides a use for the cellulose portion of a plant material, which is the portion left over after processing the selected plant materials to separate the hemi-cellulose and lignin from the cellulose.
US09790353B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition capable of producing a pneumatic tire with both excellent low rolling resistance and wet grip performance, and a pneumatic tire comprising the rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises: a diene-based rubber containing 10 mass % or greater of a modified diene polymer; and an aromatic modified terpene resin; wherein the modified diene polymer is a modified polymer obtained by modifying an unmodified diene polymer (A) with a nitrone compound (B) having a carboxy group; and a content of the aromatic modified terpene resin is from 0.1 to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene-based rubber.
US09790352B2
The present invention relates to a silica-containing rubber mixture produced from at least one rubber, one sulphur-containing alkoxysilane, one crosslinking agent, one filler, and optionally further rubber auxiliary products and from 0.1 to 15 phr of a polysulphide additive of the formula (I) A-S—(S)x—S—Y—S—(S)x—S-A (I) where x is 0, 1 or 2, Y is an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic or aromatic group that is optionally substituted or else comprises heteroatoms and A is an optionally substituted hydroxyethyl, carboxyaryl, hydroxyaryl, carboxyalkyl or thionamide moiety, and comprises from 0.1 to 15 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of rubber used, of 1,6-bis(N,N-dibenzylthiocarbamoyldithio)hexane (CAS No.: 151900-44-6).
US09790349B2
A wood plastic composite comprises a thermoplastic resin, a lignocellulosic filler, a flame retardant material in an amount of between 10 to 20 percent by weight, based on the total weight of the composite, and optionally other additives, wherein the flame retardant material comprises one or more compounds selected from the group of a cyclic organophosphorous compound and mixtures of the cyclic organophosphorous compound together with a nitrogen-containing organic compound, and optionally a minor amount of an inorganic flame retardant.
US09790346B2
Method for recovering carbon fibers from carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites is provided. The recovered carbon fibers can be separable and can be substantially free of thermosetting resins. Compositions comprising said recovered carbon fibers are also provided.
US09790343B2
A method for making a composite and/or structured material includes: forming a lattice construction from a plurality of solid particles, the construction being formed so as to have one or more gaps between the particles; invading the lattice construction with a fluid material such that the fluid material at least partially penetrates the gaps; and, solidifying the material which invaded the lattice construction to form a composite material. In one suitable embodiment, the method further includes removing at least a portion of the lattice construction from the composite material thereby forming at the location of the removed portion one or more pores in the solidified material that invaded the construction.
US09790342B2
Disclosed are foam compositions and processes to form closed-cell tannin-based foams. The foams comprises a continuous polymeric phase defining a plurality of cells, wherein the continuous polymeric phase comprises a tannin-based resin derived from a tannin and a monomer, wherein the monomer comprises furfural, glyoxal, acetaldehyde, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural, acrolein, levulinate esters, sugars, 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid, 2,5-furandicarboxylic aldehyde, urea, difurfural (DFF), furfuryl alcohol, glycerol, sorbitol, lignin, or mixtures thereof, and wherein the plurality of cells comprises a plurality of open-cells and a plurality of closed-cells with an open-cell content measured according to ASTM D6226-5, of less than 50%. The foam composition also comprises a discontinuous phase disposed in at least a portion of the plurality of closed-cells, the discontinuous phase comprising one or more blowing agents.
US09790334B2
Provided herein is technology relating to polymer-graphene nanocomposites and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods for producing polymer-graphene nanocomposites using master batches comprising graphene and a polymer or polymer precursor. The resulting polymer-graphene nanocomposites comprise a high degree of exfoliation and dispersion of graphene nanoplatelets within the polymer matrix.
US09790333B2
A method for producing a rubber composition containing a rubber wet master batch has a masticating process. The masticating process comprises step 1 of charging the rubber wet master batch into an enclosed kneading chamber that has a stirring rotor showing a rotation speed controllable automatically through a control unit and that is capable of detecting and outputting an internal temperature, step 2 of setting a first control time and a first target temperature in the control unit, and step 3 of stirring the inside of the kneading chamber while making a PID control for adjusting an actually measured temperature in the kneading chamber to the first target temperature through the control unit on the basis of information on the actually measured temperature and the first target temperature, thereby automatically controlling the rotation speed, until the first control time elapses after the completion of the two steps.
US09790325B2
Metallopolymers of formula (I) where R1 and R1′; and R2 and R2′ are independently of each other, a C2-C10 alkyl group; X is CR3R3′ or NR4; R3 and R3′ are, independently of each other, as is R4, a C2-C10 alkyl group; L is a C4-C10 alkylene group; Ln1 and Ln2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the lanthanide cations; L1 and L2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the α-diketonate ligands; T is a neutral bidentate Lewis base including two coordinating nitrogen atoms; → represents a coordination of group T via the two nitrogen atoms of T to Ln1 and Ln2 respectively; Ln1 and Ln2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the lanthanide cations; L1 and L2 are, independently of each other, chosen from the β-diketonate, picolinate or dipicolinate monoanionic ligands; 0.01
US09790322B2
A fluoropolyether-containing polymer-modified silane has general formula (1) wherein Rf is a monovalent fluorooxyalkyl or divalent fluorooxyalkylene-containing polymer residue, Y is a divalent to hexavalent hydrocarbon group which may have a silicon atom and/or a siloxane bond, W is a divalent to hexavalent hydrocarbon group which may have a silicon atom and/or a siloxane bond, R is independently an alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms or phenyl, X is independently hydroxyl or a hydrolyzable group, the letters n, a and m are respectively integers from 1 to 3, 1 to 5 and 1 to 5, and α is 1 or 2. A surface treating agent containing this silane and/or a partial (hydrolytic) condensate thereof, when applied to an article, forms a coat of excellent water/oil repellency and abrasion resistance.
US09790319B2
The present invention relates to curing agents for epoxy resins, containing at least one adduct of trimethylhexamethylenediamine and cresyl glycidyl ether. The curing agent has a low viscosity and cures quickly together with epoxy resins even in moist, cold conditions and without blushing to form films with a high hardness and surface quality, which scarcely undergo yellowing upon exposure to light. It is particularly suited for low-emission room temperature-curing coatings.
US09790317B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous polyurethane dispersion obtainable by the reaction of at least: (A) one polyisocyanate with two or more isocyanate groups, (B) one polyester component comprising (B1) a polyesterpolyol with a mean molecular weight of 300 to 900 g/Mol, having structural units derived from terephthalic acid, (C) one ionic group introducing compound with at least one sulphonate and/or carboxylate group and at least one isocyanate reactive group, (D) one diol with a mean molecular weight of 62 to 400 g/Mol, (E) one polyol with a mean molecular weight of 62 to 400 g/Mol, having three or more hydroxyl groups, (F) one amino functional and/or aminohydroxyl functional compound, its use to coat a substrate and a coating obtained by using the dispersion.
US09790316B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous two-component primer composition comprising (1) a paint base component comprising (A) at least one polyurethane resin having an OH number of 5 to 60 mg KOH/g, (B) zinc phosphate, (C) at least one pigment, and (2) a curing component comprising (D1) at least one polyisocyanate which is an isocyanurate based on hexamethylene diisocyanate, (D2) at least one polyisocyanate which is a polyether-modified isocyanurate based on isophorone diisocyanate, where the stoichiometric ratio of isocyanate groups in the curing component to the complementary hydroxyl groups in the paint base component is greater than 2. The present invention further relates to a method for producing a coating on a metallic substrate, by applying the primer composition of the invention directly to a substrate. Moreover, the present invention relates to a substrate coated by the stated method.
US09790314B2
The present invention discloses a viscoelastic sound-absorbing polyurethane foam and a method for preparing the same, the foam being prepared by reacting a polyisocyanate composition and an isocyanate reactive component. The isocyanate reactive component comprises, based on the weight of mixed polyethers, 30-80 wt % of (bii) a copolyol of epoxypropane-epoxyethane, or a conjugate thereof, wherein the content of oxy-ethylidene unit is 5-35 wt %; 2-20 wt % of (biii) a copolyol of epoxypropane-epoxyethane, or a conjugate thereof, wherein the content of oxy-ethylidene unit is 70-100 wt %; and 20-70 wt % of (biv) a copolyol of epoxypropane-epoxyethane, or a conjugate thereof, wherein the content of oxy-ethylidene unit is 0-20 wt %. The sound-absorbing foam of the present invention has a ball rebound rate of 15-30% and good sound absorption performance.
US09790311B2
The present invention provides an organic-inorganic composite resin, which is derived from: (A) an inorganic portion comprising (a1) one or more siloxane monomers of formula (R1)nSi(OR2)4-n, wherein R1, R2 and n are as defined in the specification; (a2) an acidic catalyst, (a3) silica, and (a4) a siloxane oligomer; and (B) an organic portion comprising (b1) one ore more acrylic monomers; wherein the weight ratio of the inorganic portion to the organic portion ranges from 2:8 to 8:2. The present invention also provides a coating composition comprising the aforementioned organic-inorganic composite resin and a hardener. The present invention further provides a reinforced substrate coated with the aforementioned coating composition.
US09790305B2
The present invention is directed towards a protein-polymer composition having a protein with a site-specifically incorporated unnatural amino acid initiator and a covalently attached polymer.
US09790300B2
Propylene copolymer having a comonomer content in the range of 2.0 to 11.0 mol.-% and a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) in the range of 25.0 to 100 g/10 min, wherein said propylene copolymer is featured by good toughness.
US09790299B2
The present disclosure provides a ziegler-natta pro-catalyst composition for the polymerization of propylene to produce polypropylene with reduced polymer-fines.
US09790279B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of malignant tumors. Particularly those tumors that express EGFR and GM3 N-glycolyl ganglioside targets to enhance the therapeutic effect produced by separated therapies against these targets. The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include antibodies and/or vaccines against each of the targets. Additionally the present invention relates to methods for applying the compositions of the invention.
US09790267B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases, disorders or conditions associated with dysregulated expression of GPC3. The invention provides novel antibodies that specifically bind to glypican-3 (GPC3). The invention also relates to a fully human chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) wherein the CAR is able to target GPC3.
US09790264B2
Methods and compositions are described for management of the pharmacokinetic properties of active agents, e.g., therapeutic moieties, by conjugating, fusing, or non-direct linkage of the active agent to one or more wild-type or modified heparin-binding peptides (HB). Compounds may be administered to tissues including skin. Contemplated uses include treatment of disease, allergen immunotherapy, and immunization. Other aspects relate to compositions, methods and kits comprising heparin-binding peptides (HB) fused or conjugated to the therapeutic agents.
US09790262B2
This invention relates to novel compositions comprising analogs of glucagon, wherein the analog comprises an α-amino acid and at least one β-amino acid. Administration of the compositions may be used for effecting treatment or prevention of a plurality of disease states caused by dysfunctional biochemical or biological pathways, including diabetes and other metabolic disorders. The compositions and methods of this invention are particularly useful to identify novel therapeutic modulators of in-vivo receptor activity with extended half-lives and relevant bioactivity as compared to the naturally translated polypeptides upon which the analogs are derived.
US09790253B2
Provided are a number of compounds structurally related to OSW-1, a natural compound that binds OSBPs. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the OSW-1 analogs, as well as methods for use of these OSW-1 analogs, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, enantiomers, or stereoisomers thereof in the treatment of atherosclerosis. Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, including p21-deficient cancer. Conjugates of OSW-1 analogs with monoclonal antibodies, including monoclonal antibodies targeted to cancer cells, are also provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the conjugates, as well as methods for use of these conjugates, in the treatment of cancer, including p21-deficient cancer.
US09790249B2
Solid base catalysts and their use for the base-catalyzed depolymerization (BCD) of lignin to compounds such as aromatics are presented herein. Exemplary catalysts include layered double hydroxides (LDHs) as recyclable, heterogeneous catalysts for BCD of lignin.
US09790248B2
Methods for converting waste streams from the wood pulping industry to high-value surfactants are described. For example, isolated lignin and lignosulfonate or waste streams containing lignin and lignosulfonate can be directly converted to surfactants, or they can be first converted to methylol derivatives and treated with further reagents to produce surfactants.
US09790241B2
A reagent that enhances acid generation of a photoacid generator and composition containing such reagent is disclosed.
US09790233B2
Compounds and methods of modulating 15-PGDH activity, modulating tissue prostaglandin levels, treating disease, diseases disorders, or conditions in which it is desired to modulate 15-PGDH activity and/or prostaglandin levels include 15-PGDH inhibitors and 15-PGDH activators described herein.
US09790229B2
The present invention provides compounds useful as inhibitors of Btk, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US09790228B2
Provided herein are compounds of formula (I-A), (I-B), (I-C), or (I-D), pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of use thereof. The compounds provided herein modulate kinase activity, including PI3 kinase activity, and are useful for treating diseases and conditions associated with kinase activity, including diseases and conditions associated with PI3 kinase activity.
US09790216B2
Compounds of the formula I in which R, W, R1, R4, X1, X2, X3, X4 and q have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are inhibitors of fatty acid synthase, and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular diseases, central nervous system injury and different forms of inflammation.
US09790215B2
The invention relates to a compound of Formula I and methods of treating cystic fibrosis comprising the step of administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I to a patient in need thereof:
US09790197B2
The present invention relates to a novel compound, to a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or optical isomer thereof, to a method for preparing same, and to a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of viral diseases containing same as an active ingredient. The novel compound according to the present invention not only has low cytotoxicity but also has excellent antiviral activity against picornavirus such as coxsackievirus, enterovirus, echovirus, poliovirus and rhinovirus, and thus can be effectively used as a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of viral diseases such as infantile paralysis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, viral meningitis, hand-foot-and-mouth disease, vesicular disease, hepatitis A, myitis, myocarditis, pancreatitis, diabetes, epidemic myalgia, encephalitis, cold, herpangina, foot-and-mouth disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, sinus infection, or otitis media.
US09790195B2
Disclosed herein are new compounds and compositions and their application as pharmaceuticals for the treatment of diseases. Methods of inhibition of KDMIA, methods of increasing gamma globin gene expression, and methods to induce differentiation of cancer cells in a human or animal subject are also provided for the treatment of diseases such as acute myelogenous leukemia.
US09790194B2
A process for continuous preparation of oligomeric or polymeric isocyanates by catalytic modification of monomeric di- and/or triisocyanates, characterized in that at least one isocyanate component A and at least one catalyst component B are combined continuously in a reaction apparatus and conducted through the reaction apparatus as a reaction mixture, the residence time distribution being characterized according to the dispersion model by Bo (Bodenstein number) above 40, preferably above 60 and most preferably above 80.
US09790188B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The present invention also provides methods and kits using the inventive compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with protein aggregation, such as amyloidoses (e.g., Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease), treating and/or preventing neurodegenerative diseases, treating and/or preventing diseases associated with Tar DNA binding protein 43 kDa, reducing or preventing protein aggregation, and/or modulating E3 ubiquitin ligase in a subject in need thereof.
US09790182B2
The present invention describes a novel process for preparing piperidine-4-carbothioamide.
US09790176B2
The present invention relates to compounds for the treatment of mTOR (mammalian Target Of Rapamycin) pathway related diseases. Specifically, the present invention relates to the use of aminoactonitrile derivatives (AADs) in the treatment of mTOR pathway related diseases.
US09790172B2
Sulfated oligohydroxycarboxylic acid esters have the general formula (I): wherein at least one of the radicals A is —SO3B. Cosmetic and pharmaceutical agents contain said esters. These esters are effective as anionic surfactants.
US09790168B2
A method of synthesising an amino acid from an unsaturated fatty compound I that includes at least the following steps: cross-metathesis with a short unsaturated compound II, one of compounds I or II comprising a nitrile function and the other of these compounds II or I an ester function, so as to obtain and recover at least one monounsaturated nitrile ester NEU; hydrolysis of the NEU in unsaturated acid nitrile NAU; hydrogenation of the NAU to saturated amino acid AA; and then purification of the AA, if applicable, in particular by crystallisation. Also, a polymer obtained by polymerisation using the amino acid synthesised according to the method.
US09790165B2
The present invention relates to a production process of a 4-hydroxy-benzoic acid long chain ester, that includes a step of reacting a 4-hydroxy-benzoic acid short chain ester with an aliphatic alcohol in the presence of a metal catalyst. The present invention also relates to a purification process of a 4-hydroxy-benzoic acid long chain ester, that includes a step of adding an acid aqueous solution to a crude composition including the 4-hydroxy-benzoic acid long chain ester, separating the crude composition to an organic phase and a water phase and extracting the organic phase.
US09790162B2
The present invention provides a chromatographic separation process for recovering a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) product, from a feed mixture, which process comprises introducing the feed mixture to a simulated or actual moving bed chromatography apparatus having a plurality of linked chromatography columns containing, as eluent, an aqueous alcohol, wherein the apparatus has a plurality of zones comprising at least a first zone and a second zone, each zone having an extract stream and a raffinate stream from which liquid can be collected from said plurality of linked chromatography columns, and wherein (a) a raffinate stream containing the PUFA product together with more polar components is collected from a column in the first zone and introduced to a nonadjacent column in the second zone, and/or (b) an extract stream containing the PUFA product together with less polar components is collected from a column in the second zone and introduced to a nonadjacent column in the first zone, said PUFA product being separated from different components of the feed mixture in each zone.
US09790152B2
A process for removing one or more undesired (hydro)halocarbon compounds containing a ═CF2 moiety from a (hydro)fluoroalkene that does not contain a ═CF2 moiety, the process comprising contacting a composition comprising the (hydro)fluoroalkene and one or more undesired (hydro)halocarbon compounds with an aluminum-containing absorbent, activated carbon, or a mixture thereof, wherein the or each undesired (hydro)halocarbon compound is present in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 1000 ppm, based on the weight of the composition comprising the R-1234yf and one or more undesired (hydro)halocarbon compounds.
US09790149B2
A process for preparing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (CF3CF═CH2). 3,3,3-trifluoro-2-chloropropene (CF3CCl═CH2) is fluorinated with HF in the vapour phase in the presence of a chromia-containing catalyst to produce an intermediate composition 1,1,1,2,2-pentafluoropropane (CF3CF2CH3), which is dehydrofluorinated to produce CF3CF═CH2.
US09790143B2
Provided is a method of alkylating an aromatic compound comprising contacting an aromatic compound and an alkylating agent in the presence of UCB-3 as a catalyst under reaction conditions suitable for aromatic alkylation. The aromatic compound preferably comprises benzene or toluene and the alkylation agent preferably comprises an olefin or alcohol. Lower temperature ranges can be used for the reaction, for example in the range of from 100 to 300° C.
US09790137B1
A method of manufacturing a CL-20/HMX cocrystalline explosive which is coated in a polymeric binder, so as to be useful as an explosive molding powder. The cocrystalline material having a desirable average crystal size of from about 300 nm to about 1000 nm, which crystals are intimately coated with a polymeric binder and are produced as granular agglomerates that are less than on average 5 microns in size, and which crystals are relatively easy and safe to handle, transport, store and use. The method involving spray drying a CL-20 and HMX solvent solution containing a polymeric binder to form an intermediary amorphous material—which intermediary is then heated to cocrystallize the CL-20/HMX into the desired size cocrystals and aggregates thereof—which are coated in said polymeric binder.
US09790122B2
The present invention relates to a glass composition which is resistant to alkalis and to acids, in particular for the preparation of reinforcing glass strands, which comprises the following constituents within the limits defined below, as percentages by weight: SiO2≧58%, preferably ≦65% ZrO215-20% R2O (R = Na, K or Li)≧14% K2O≦0.1%, preferably ≦0.05%, RO (R = Mg, Ca or Sr)2.5-6% MgO≦4% TiO2>1 and ≦4% the composition additionally being devoid of F, comprising less than 1% of impurities (Al2O3, Fe2O3 and Cr2O3) and satisfying the following relationships: ZrO2+TiO2≧17% ZrO2/TiO2≧6 It also relates to the use of the glass strands obtained in the reinforcing of inorganic materials, for example cementitious materials, or organic materials, for example plastics, and to the composites including such strands.
US09790116B2
The present invention refers to a method for producing a glass body with high silicic-acid content by drawing a softened glass mass from an elongated, substantially cylindrical crucible in that SiO2 granules are supplied from above into the crucible, the SiO2 granules are heated to a softening temperature, so that the softened glass mass which comprises a melt surface is formed, the softened glass mass is drawn off via a bottom opening of the crucible so as to form a glass strand, and the glass strand is cut to length to obtain the glass body, wherein due to the supply of the SiO2 granules a bulk heap is formed that covers the melt surface in part while leaving a melt edge, and wherein the melt surface is optically detected. To improve the fusion behavior of the granules and to suppress or altogether prevent the formation of a sinter crust, it is suggested according to the invention that during the optical detection of the melt surface the width of at least a sub-section of the melt edge is determined consecutively and is set to a value within a target width range through the supply rate of the SiO2 granules.
US09790114B2
The invention relates to a method of remi-neralization and correction of pH for water produced by a fuel cell (P) on board an aircraft, noteworthy in that it consists in diverting part of the water (E1) produced by the cell to at least one treatment tank (200) containing a saturation reagent and in mixing the flow of treated water (E2) issuing from the treatment tank (200) with the undiverted flow of water (E3) so as to obtain water (E5) with the desired mineralization and/or pH. The invention also relates to devices making it possible to implement said method.
US09790099B2
Nickel hydroxide obtained by neutralizing an aqueous nickel sulfate solution with an alkali is heat-treated in a non-reducing atmosphere at a temperature higher than 850° C. but lower than 1050° C. to form nickel oxide particles, and a sintered compact of nickel oxide particles that may be formed during the heat treatment is pulverized by preferably allowing the nickel oxide particles to collide with one another. The thus obtained nickel oxide fine powder has a sulfur content of 400 mass ppm or less, a chlorine content of 50 mass ppm or less, a sodium content of 100 mass ppm or less, and a specific surface area of 3 m2/g or more but less than 6 m2/g.
US09790094B2
Provided is a porous graphene preparation method, comprising: under the function of a catalyst, conducting catalytic treatment on a biomass carbon source to obtain a first intermediate product, the catalyst comprising one or more of chlorides of manganese, iron compounds, cobalt compounds and nickel compounds; under protective gas condition, heating the first intermediate product from a first temperature to a second temperature and holding to obtain a second intermediate product; heating the second intermediate product from the second temperature to a third temperature and holding to obtain a third intermediate product; heating the third intermediate product from the third temperature to a fourth temperature and holding to obtain a fourth intermediate product; and cooling the fourth intermediate product from the fourth temperature to a fifth temperature and holding to obtain porous graphene. The porous graphene prepared via the method of the present invention has better electrical conductivity.
US09790080B1
A distribution station includes a mobile trailer, a pump on the mobile trailer, a manifold on the mobile trailer and connected with the pump, a plurality of hoses in communication with the manifold, and a plurality of valves on the mobile trailer. Each of the valves is situated between the manifold and a respective different one of the hoses. Each of a plurality of fluid level sensors is associated with a respective different one of the hoses. The fluid level sensors are operable to detect respective different fluid levels. A controller is configured to operate the valves responsive to signals from the fluid level sensors, activate and deactivate the pump, identify whether there is a risk condition based upon at least one variable operating parameter, and deactivate the pump responsive to the risk condition.
US09790071B2
A device for extracting a cork from a bottle. The device leverages an axial and rotational pulling force, and pressurized gas in the interior of the bottle to displace a cork from a bottle. The device provides a helical-shaped lever that axially and rotatably penetrates through the cork to forcibly extract the cork from the bottle neck. The helical-shaped lever has a hollow passageway that is in communication with the interior volume of the bottle. The device further includes a gas cartridge operated by a pressure release button that discharges pressurized gas through the hollow passageway of the helical-shaped lever, and into the bottle. The moment at which helical-shaped lever fully penetrates the cork, tension is removed from helical-shaped lever, releasing a compressed spring to expand. Expansion of spring presses spring against pressure release button; thereby forming tactile feedback and indicating optimal moment to discharge pressurized gas.
US09790060B2
The invention relates to a crane, in particular an overhead crane or gantry crane, having at least one crane girder that extends horizontally in a longitudinal direction. The crane is designed as a trussed girder and comprises struts which connect an upper run and a lower run together. The upper run and lower run of the trussed girder are designed in a laminar manner, on which a crane trolley having a lifting gear can be moved. The at least one crane girder is advantageously improved by virtue of the fact that the struts are designed in a laminar manner, each strut has a main surface that extends transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the crane girder. The first or second strut end of each strut has at least one aperture on the main surface that lies against the lower run or the upper run.
US09790051B2
A conductor spool with a frame is provided with a plurality of first fingers, the first fingers and the frame defining a first spool surface. The frame is provided with an entry slot and an exit slot, a retainer gasket coupled to the frame proximate each of the entry slot and the exit slot. A cover is seated upon the frame, the cover enclosing the first spool surface. The conductor spool may be included in a wire harness and conductor spool assembly, the conductor spool seated upon a conductor lead furcated from a composite cable including at least one optical and at least one electrical conductor.
US09790047B2
A textile feed for a stepped operation digital textile printer, comprises a textile feeding mechanism, and a tension storage mechanism. The textile feeding mechanism feeds the textile in a forward direction onto the printer, but is at the same time mechanically connected to a tension storage mechanism which is tensioned by the forward feeding. At the end of the feed step, the tension storage mechanism releases respectively stored tension to cause the feed mechanism to briefly reverse feed, thereby to pull the textile taut and take up any slack caused by the feeding step. The textile is thus kept taut, to allow effective digital printing by the printer.
US09790041B2
A paper feed roller 1 is used in a paper feeding unit in an electrophotographic image forming device. The paper feed roller 1 includes a non-foamed elastic body 2 having an embossed surface 21 including crest-like parts 211 and valley-like parts 212. The embossed surface 21 has many dimple parts 213 recessed inward on bottom surfaces of the valley-like parts 212 or on the bottom surfaces and lateral surfaces of the valley-like parts 212, and does not have the many dimple parts 213 on top parts of the crest-like parts 211. A diameter of the dimple parts 213 can be set to be 1 to 100 μm and an arithmetic average height Ra of the embossed surface 21to be 3 to 50 μm.
US09790039B2
The invention relates to a shipment loading system for loading shipments into an unit load device, comprising a conveyer, a platform and a cargo space for placing the unit load device on a static rack, whereby the conveyer is provided on a ground floor and tiltable across its longitudinal axis, the conveyer comprises an extendo extending the conveyer along the longitudinal extension of the conveyer, the extendo is movable between a retracted position and an extracted position, in the extracted position the extendo faces the cargo space, the platform is movable between a first position and a second position along the longitudinal extension of the conveyer, in the first position the platform faces the cargo space and at least in one of the first and second positions the platform is arranged between the ground floor and the conveyer.
US09790038B2
Bumpers for use at loading docks include a housing defining a lip-engaging surface to engage a lip of a deck when the lip is in a retracted position, and a RIG-engaging surface positioned adjacent the lip-engaging surface. The RIG-engaging surface is movable relative to the lip-engaging surface. The RIG-engaging surface is to move relative to the lip-engaging surface when a RIG of a vehicle imparts a force to the RIG-engaging surface when the vehicle is at a loading dock.
US09790037B2
A machine for packing tetrahedral products is disclosed which includes a conveyor belt driven in a first direction (F1) along a longitudinal direction (L), as well as a first handler suitable for grasping tetrahedral products carried the conveyor belt. The first handler has a handling head suitable for grasping a plurality of tetrahedral products arranged on the conveyor belt, in which one or more accumulators suitable for accumulating the tetrahedral products in a row are arranged along the conveyor belt. A rotating device is arranged along the conveyor belt before the accumulators for rotating a tetrahedral product with an orientation substantially opposite with respect to the preceding tetrahedral product on the same conveyor belt. The present invention also relates to a process which can be carried out by the machine, as well as a container and/or a packaging filled by means of such machine and/or process.
US09790035B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for providing a desired gap between articles within a continuously flowing train of articles. Various embodiment methods may include operating a material handling system including a plurality of conveying units, by generating motion profiles for a plurality of articles to provide a pre-determined gap between the articles, and controlling the plurality of conveying units to move each article in accordance with its motion profile as the plurality of articles move through the material handling system.
US09790023B2
To provide a preferable container-connecting fitting with which it is possible to anchor a container using a cable, a connecting fitting is, at a part thereof, fitted into non-circular hole in the container and is connected to the cable. The fitting has a shaft part to be inserted into the hole in the container. One end side of the shaft part is provided with a first flange which can pass through the hole only when positioned at a specific angle about the center line of the shaft part, and the other side of the shaft part is provided with a second flange that is too large to pass through the hole. Further, a cable connecting part is mounted on an opposite side where the first flange is present, the second flange being interposed therebetween, so as to be able to rotate, about the center line of the shaft part.
US09790021B2
Detachable container for strawberries which allows the transport, storage, presentation and consumption of the fruit in optimum conditions and with minimum handling from harvesting until consumption, formed by the joining through fitting by pressure between triangular cross-sectional-shaped cavities and protuberances of a base and a lid respectively, the base having cells to house the individual pieces of fruit. The number and the size of cells depend on the characteristics of the strawberries that they must contain. The container may be separated into up to four sub-units by simple pulling along diagonal tear lines, and it has retracting handles on its sides to facilitate its transport, as well as a central orifice to thread the containers on a vertical rod in the point-of-sale and obtain a more attractive presentation.
US09790019B2
A novel foam dispenser is described, which comprises a dispensing container, a valve with a downstream foaming chamber and a pressure control device for maintaining a constant pressure in the container, such that uniform and compact foam will be created.
US09790017B2
A tablet feeder comprises a device body, a plurality of tablet cassettes disposed on one face of the device body 1 in a vertical direction, each tablet cassette accommodating a plurality of tablets by kind, and a plurality of chutes disposed on one face of the device body 1 in a vertical direction and shifted in a horizontal direction, the chutes temporarily storing the tablets dispensed from the tablet cassette and having the dispensing portion at the downward portion thereof, the dispensing portion being capable of dispensing the tablets to a bottomed cylindrical tablet container.
US09790011B2
The present invention relates to a tamper resistant lid for a container. The lid exhibits a center axis (X) and includes an outer and an inner member. The outer and inner members are further adapted to be substantially prevented from displacement along the center axis (X) with respect to each other. At least a part of the inner member includes threads enabling a threaded connection to the container by means of rotating the outer member in a first direction. The lid further includes at least one stop member preventing the inner member from rotation with respect to the outer member. The at least one stop member is adapted to be controllably disabled with a designated force after said inner member has been connected to the container, so that the outer member can be freely rotated with respect to the inner member to thereby prevent removal of the lid from the container. The present invention enables the sealing of a container, while substantially preventing the container from being reopened.
US09790008B2
A plug formed with a cylindrical body having at its bottom side a horizontal partition with a diametrical slit connecting two different surface holes located at the ends of the mentioned horizontal partition, and a mechanism for fixation to the container. The top of the plug has a pouring area formed by a circular section with an outwardly projected rim. The plug is suitable for use by blind people.
US09789996B2
A container assembly includes a container body having a side wall encircling an axis, and a metal end for attachment to an upper edge of the side wall via heat-sealing. The outer peripheral region is shaped prior to application to the container body such that an annular channel is defined between an inner chuck wall and an outer chuck wall of the metal end. The metal end is pushed straight onto the side wall such that the upper edge of the side wall is received into the channel. The surfaces of the side wall and the opposing surfaces of the chuck walls have heat-sealable material thereon. The metal end is heated to melt and fuse the heat-sealable layers, thereby sealing the metal end onto the side wall. The metal end is shaped such that the free edge of the outer chuck wall is not exposed.
US09789983B2
For the automatic insertion of packs (11) into a large-volume carton (10), two work tools are used, namely, a pack robot (33) with carton holder (30) for holding the cartons (10) ready and a pack robot (33) with head (37) for inserting the individual packs (11) one after another into the carton (10) in the region of a packing station (33). Through relative movement of carton (10) and pack (11), different pack formations are created within the carton (10).
US09789978B2
A system for following the handling of an aircraft engine includes a cradle which supports the engine and stands which are spread out under the cradle. Each stand includes a seating configured to secure the stand on the ground, an actuating cylinder secured to the seating and having a translationally mobile piston, a fixing structure secured to the exterior end of the piston and configured to be fixed to the cradle, and a fluid source which causes the piston to be raised or lowered. Each stand also includes a detector designed to detect an inappropriate movement of the piston and a blocking which blocks the piston from moving when the detector detects an inappropriate movement of the piston. Thus, when an inappropriate movement of the piston is detected, the blocking blocks the movement of the cradle and prevents it from tipping.
US09789976B2
A carrier configured to carry an imaging device. The carrier may include a frame assembly comprising at least two frames, a combined rotation about the at least two frames controlling an orientation of the imaging device, or compensating the movement or vibration to stabilize the imaging device. The carrier may also include a motor assembly comprising at least two motors, each motor configured to drive a corresponding frame to rotate, wherein at least one angle formed by two frames among the at least two frames is a non-right angle.
US09789975B2
An exterior aircraft light unit includes a mounting structure, an LED arranged on the mounting structure, and an optical system, arranged on the mounting structure for creating an output light emission distribution of the exterior aircraft light unit. The optical system has, in a first cross-sectional plane extending through the LED, a first concave reflector and a second concave reflector, each of the first and second concave reflectors having a proximate end positioned adjacent to the mounting structure and a distal end positioned removed from the mounting structure, with the first and second concave reflectors being arranged on opposite sides of the LED in the first cross-sectional plane, and a refractive optical element arranged between the first and second concave reflectors in the first cross-sectional plane. The distal ends of both the first and second concave reflectors that curve towards each other and have back-tapered shapes.
US09789974B2
In accordance with various embodiments, disclosed is a brake monitoring system for monitoring the health status of the brakes of an aircraft, the aircraft comprising a plurality of brakes, the brake monitoring system comprising conducting a statistical comparison of a brake temperature against a temperature data centrality value based on the temperature values of the plurality of brakes.
US09789969B2
An impact protection apparatus is provided, comprising a gas container configured to hold a compressed gas and an inflatable member configured to be inflated by the gas and function as an airbag of a movable object, such as an aerial vehicle. A valve controls flow of gas from the container to the inflatable member in response to a signal from a valve controller. The valve and valve controller are powered by an independent power source than one or more other systems of the movable object. A safety mechanism may also be provided that, unless deactivated, prevents inflation of the inflatable member.
US09789967B2
A method of controlling an outlet temperature of a heat exchanger of an aircraft includes operating an air cycle machine at a first operating speed. The air cycle machine is operatively coupled to an air cycle machine bypass valve at a first position. The air cycle machine is fluidly connected to a first heat exchanger disposed adjacent to a second heat exchanger. In response to a second heat exchanger outlet temperature less than a second heat exchanger outlet temperature threshold while the aircraft is operating at an altitude less than an altitude threshold, the method moves the air cycle bypass valve from the first position toward a second position.
US09789955B1
A high-lift device includes a flap body which is provided at a rear portion of a main wing which generates a lift for the air vehicle such that the flap body is deployed with respect to the main wing and stowed in the main wing and extends along a wingspan direction of the main wing; and a gap increasing section provided at an end portion of the flap body in an extending direction of the flap body, to increase a gap between the rear portion of the main wing and a front portion of the flap body in a state in which the flap body is deployed.
US09789947B2
An aerostat system with an extended flight envelope in which the aerostat system can safely operate is provided. The aerostat system includes an aerostat, multiple tether groups and a base station. Spatially distinct tether groups allow for improved stability and controllability over a wide range of wind conditions. Independent actuation of the tether groups allows for control of the aerostat pitch and roll angle. A rotating platform including rails to rest the aerostat allows docking without auxiliary tethers, minimizing or eliminating the ground crew required to dock traditional aerostat systems. An optional controller allows remote or autonomous operation of the aerostat system.
US09789946B2
A boat having an electric motor coupled with an electrical store is disclosed. The electrical store includes a storage element, and positive and negative poles in current-conducting connection with the storage element. An isolating circuit element is operatively connected to a user activatable emergency stop switch. The isolating circuit element is configured to, upon activation of the emergency stop switch, isolate the current-conducting connection between the storage element and at least one of the poles.
US09789944B2
A float (1) suitable for use as a buoy or as a component for a wave-powered vehicle. The float (1) includes an upper member (12) whose height can be changed and/or which remained substantially vertical even when the float is in wave-bearing water. A low drag cable (2) suitable for use as a tether in a wave-powered vehicle has a streamlined cross-section and includes a tensile member (21) near the front of the cross-section, at least one non-load-bearing member (22) behind the tensile member, and a polymeric jacket (23). Wave-powered vehicles having a float (1), a submerged swimmer (3) and a tether (2) connecting the float and the swimmer, include a means for determining whether the tether is twisted; or a means (91) for untwisting the tether; or a pressure-sensitive connection (71, 72, 73) which can disconnect the tether when the vehicle is dragged downwards by entanglement with a whale; or a 2-axis universal joint securing the tether to the float or to the swimmer; or elastic elements which absorb snap loads created by the tether; or two or more of these.
US09789942B2
In a watercraft storage system a “wishbone” or U-shaped cradle liftable and rotatable by an overhead crane comprises adjustable air filled hull supports to either side of a boat hull and a keel support toward the stern of the watercraft. The cradle central opening clears a cantilever storage rack support beam assembly allowing the watercraft to be lowered onto or raised from the cantilever storage rack support beam assembly by an overhead traveling crane. To substantially reduce any longitudinal swaying of the cradle and watercraft during raising and lowering, a system or diagonal anti-sway bracing cables that automatically retract and extend is employed. In the preferred embodiment, the cradle is lowered into a water-filled channel within the storage structure to re-float the watercraft. A watercraft to be stored can be brought into the channel which contains alignment means to accurately position the watercraft over the cradle. The cradle can thereby be lifted properly, moved to a storage rack location and accurately stored on the cantilever storage rack support beam assembly.
US09789936B2
Inflatable fender having an inflatable first, internal, casing provided at least at one end in the continuation of the chamber with an inflatable tubular appendage (3) equipped with a stoppered end stub (2), this assembly being housed inside an external second casing (5) that hugs the first casing and the appendage (3) and being equipped, at the neck hugging the appendage, with at least one pair of fixings (9) of the D-ring type.
US09789925B2
A bicycle frame assembly that includes an upper frame member and a lower frame member that each extend between a head tube and a dropout. A seat tube extends between the upper frame member and the lower frame member. The seat tube is preferably connected to a bottom bracket of the lower frame member and is connected by a pivot to the upper frame member so that the seat tube can deflect from a rest position without altering an orientation of a top tube to a bottom tube of the upper and lower frame members, respectively.
US09789919B1
An example implementation involves receiving measurements from an inertial sensor coupled to the robot and detecting an occurrence of a foot of the legged robot making contact with a surface. The implementation also involves reducing a gain value of an amplifier from a nominal value to a reduced value upon detecting the occurrence. The amplifier receives the measurements from the inertial sensor and provides a modulated output based on the gain value. The implementation further involves increasing the gain value from the reduced value to the nominal value over a predetermined duration of time after detecting the occurrence. The gain value is increased according to a profile indicative of a manner in which to increase the gain value of the predetermined duration of time. The implementation also involves controlling at least one actuator of the legged robot based on the modulated output during the predetermined duration of time.
US09789918B2
A tensioning system of traction tracks of a machinery by means of a hydraulic cylinder applying a tensioning force on at least one of the wheels on which the track is wound according to a closed chain configuration in which the hydraulic cylinder is fed with different pressures according to the traction direction, in a first traction direction the feeding pressure of the tensioning hydraulic cylinder being a first pressure approximately corresponding to the pressure which is generated by a pump which is present on a closed circuit feeding the traction devices, in a second traction direction the feeding pressure of the tensioning hydraulic cylinder being a second pressure corresponding to the pressure of the closed circuit up to a predetermined upper limit value.
US09789912B1
A vehicle tailgate includes an upper panel, lower panel, internal panel, external panel and brace. The upper and lower panels are spaced apart relative to each other. The internal and external panels are each secured to the upper and lower panels. A cavity is defined between the upper, lower, internal, and external panels. The brace is disposed within the cavity. The brace includes first and second flanges extending outward from a central plate. The first and second flanges are secured to the internal panel while the central plate is secured to the external panel.
US09789911B2
A roof frame for a motor vehicle is disclosed. At least one partial element of the roof frame is massive-formed, preferably forged, from a light metal blank.
US09789895B2
A decoration article having a clear layer includes a rod-shaped core material, a cylindrical decorative cover having a shape retaining property, configured to cover the core material over an entire circumference in a sectional circumferential direction of the core material, including a plurality of split members split along the sectional circumferential direction of the core material and having a base part and a decoration layer provided on a surface of the base part, and a transparent clear layer formed by a mold forming so as to cover an outer surface of the decoration layer over an entire circumference in a sectional circumferential direction of the decoration cover covering the core material.
US09789893B2
A ride-on vehicle is providing having a frame, a plurality of wheels connected to the frame, a receiver extending from the frame and a seat rotatedly connected in the receiver via a seat post. The receiver extends from the frame at a first acute angle greater than 0° with respect to a vertical axis, and the seat post extends from a bottom of the seat at a second acute angle greater than 0° with respect to the vertical axis. As such, when the seat is positioned in the rear facing orientation the seat is positioned at an acute angle greater than 0° with respect to a horizontal axis.
US09789892B1
Implementations of a wheelbarrow are provided. In some implementations, the wheelbarrow comprises a receptacle, a front wheel having an axle extending therethrough, a frame, handles, and a self balancer operatively connected to the frame. In some implementations, the front end, back end, first side, second side, and bottom of the receptacle are curved. In some implementations, the frame includes a first tube and second tube. In some implementations, each of the first tube and the second has a first portion that is concave and extends along the bottom and back end of the receptacle, a second portion that extends from the first portion towards the wheel and is convex, and a third portion that extends from the second portion toward the axle and is straight. In some implementations, the distal end of the third portion of the first tube and the second is operatively connected to the axle. In some implementations, the self balancer is configured so that the receptacle does not make contact with a surface when the wheel and the self balancer are in contact with the surface.
US09789889B2
A slack adjuster for narrow gauge rail cars including a housing having a body with a first clevis joint, a coupling secured to the body, and a guide tube secured to the body coupling. A lever is pivotally coupled to the housing for moving an actuator coupled to a clutch. The clutch is engaged with the external threads of a rod and moveable between a first captured position, a second position where the clutch is free to rotate, and a second captured position to selectively control movement of the rod. Movement of the lever withdraws the actuator so that the clutch releases and can spin, allowing the threaded rod to translate from the retracted to extended positions. Opposing forces applied to a ram causes the clutch to move to the second captured position, thereby preventing rotation of the clutch and preventing the threaded rod from retracting further into the housing.
US09789881B2
A railway vehicle comprises a traction system including an asynchronous electric motor or a synchronous electric DC motor operable by an inverter electronic drive system. The vehicle further comprises an electronic control unit coupled to the traction system and configured to receive signals/data/commands indicative of operating conditions of the vehicle and of the traction system and to determine, based on the received signals/data/commands, the occurrence of a coasting condition of the vehicle and the occurrence of an exit condition from the coasting condition of the vehicle. If a coasting condition of the vehicle occurs, the electronic drive system is controlled to cause the electric motor to undergo magnetic flux changes. If an exit condition from the coasting condition occurs, and depending whether the electronic drive system is on or off, the electronic drive system is controlled to increase torque of the electric motor or to reduce magnetic flux reduction.
US09789878B2
Methods and systems for monitoring a driver of a vehicle using a driver state monitoring (DSM) system. The DSM system includes a sensing unit that senses biological information of a user of a vehicle. The DSM system also includes a controller that determines a drowsy state of the user based on the sensed biological information. The controller also determines a current condition of traffic and outputs information recommending rest for the user based on the determined drowsy state of the user and the determined current condition of traffic. The controller monitors the traffic and determines a rest state of the user, and outputs an alarm based on monitoring the traffic and the determined rest state of the user.
US09789874B2
A running control device has an engine coupling running mode enabling an engine brake running mode performed by coupling an engine and wheels with an engine brake applied by driven rotation of the engine, and an inertia running mode performed with an engine brake force lower than that of the engine brake running mode. The running control device includes a steering wheel steering angle as a condition of terminating the inertia running mode. The running control device performs a first inertia running mode with the rotation of the engine stopped and a second inertia running mode with the engine rotating. The first inertia running mode is terminated when the steering angle becomes equal to or greater than a predefined first determination value. The second inertia running mode is terminated when the steering angle becomes equal to or greater than a predefined second determination value larger than the first determination value.
US09789865B2
The hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a rotary electric machine, an electrical storage device and a controller. The controller is configured to execute output control. An opening degree of the throttle valve is controlled in the output control such that, when a temperature of the electrical storage device is lower than a predetermined temperature, the output of the internal combustion engine is reduced below a predetermined output. The controller is further configured to control the variable valve actuating device such that at least one of a valve lift or valve operating angle of the intake valve at the time when the output control is executed is larger than the corresponding at least one of the valve lift or valve operating angle of the intake valve at the time when the output control is not executed.
US09789864B2
A hybrid manager control unit for a drive train of a vehicle, wherein the hybrid manager control unit has a total target torque dividing device for optimizing an efficiency by dividing a total target torque specification into a first axle torque specification for a first axle of the vehicle and a second axle torque specification for a second axle of the vehicle. The hybrid manager control unit has a redistributing device for producing a first and a second redistributed axle torque specification by partially or completely redistributing the first or the second axle torque specification to the second redistributed axle torque specification or to the first redistributed axle torque specification while taking into account at least one driving dynamics parameter. A vehicle includes a hybrid manager control unit for a drive train of a motor vehicle and a method for distributing a total target torque specification for a vehicle.
US09789862B2
A braking system, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a braking force device having a brake booster for boosting a braking force and a brake pressure supply device for providing brake pressure with the aid of a brake medium, a braking device which may be acted on by pressure by the brake medium with the aid of the brake pressure supply device, and at least one sensor which is designed to detect a distance differential of a displacement means for the displacement of a volume of the brake medium of the braking force device. The braking force device is designed to ascertain the volume of brake medium to be displaced on the basis of the detected distance differential.
US09789856B2
A parking lock-releasing device for a vehicle, which is capable of improving workability in manually releasing a parking lock while ensuring sealing performance of an outer casing, and easily holding the locking released state. The locking release operation section includes a base having a hollow cylindrical guide portion and concentrically continuous with a front end of the outer casing, with a female screw formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof, and an operating section body which is screwed via a male screw formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof into the female screw of the guide portion, closes the guide portion, holds a front end of the inner cable, and when releasing the locking, is rotatingly operated in a predetermined direction relative to the base, to thereby cause the inner cable to slide to be pulled in the direction away from the parking mechanism.
US09789855B2
An improved vehicle washing apparatus includes a plurality of upright tower sections. Each of the upright tower sections has a plurality of elongated tubular members. A horizontal section having a plurality of elongated tubular members connects the upright tower sections. At least two of the elongated tubular members of the upright tower sections and the horizontal section are configured to be conduits of liquid to supply liquid to a plurality of nozzles disposed on at least two of the elongated tubular members of each of the upright tower sections and the horizontal section. An undercarriage apparatus may apply liquid to the underside of the agricultural vehicle. A chemical fill station may be provided along with a loading pad on which to position the agricultural vehicle during a cleaning process and a chemical fill process.
US09789853B2
Cargo anti-theft systems, apparatus, and related methods. Anti-theft controllers of embodiments are configured to sense the openings of cargo switches and to electronically operate locks responsive thereto. Moreover, the switches are mechanically coupled to the access points in manners such that the access points cannot be opened without opening the switches. Some controllers are configured to output signals indicative of openings of the switches while some are configured to unlock the locks only in pre-selected geo-zones. The pre-selected voltages, moreover, can differ from 12 VDC and can be user-selected. Furthermore, controllers can be configured to sense (modifiable) PINs associated with openings of the cargo switches. The controllers can include a coupler which securely couples it to the vehicle. It can also be configured to sense a position of the lock. Such controllers, furthermore, can be configured to lock the lock responsive to the lock position and/or can comprise a battery.
US09789846B2
A novel actuator contains a housing having a first end, a second end, and an inner wall. A piston rod assembly is contained within the housing, wherein the assembly contains a piston rod, a first end cap fixed at one end of the piston rod, and a second end cap fixed at an opposing end of the piston rod. An energy management device is constrained about an outer diameter of the first end cap, wherein upon actuation of the actuator, the energy management device may under predetermined conditions be deformed upon movement of said piston rod.
US09789845B2
The invention relates to a combustion chamber (10) comprising an opening device for a compressed gas tank (21) of a hybrid inflator (20), wherein the combustion chamber (30) comprises a sleeve-type combustion chamber sidewall (34) confining a combustion chamber interior (31) and a combustion chamber bottom (10), wherein the opening device is arranged on a surface (11) of the combustion chamber bottom (10) facing away from the combustion chamber interior (31) and faces away from the combustion chamber interior (31). In accordance with the invention, the combustion chamber bottom (10) is tightly connected to the combustion chamber sidewall (34) so that in the case of operation the combustion chamber bottom (10) is bendable.
US09789836B2
A number of variations may include a method to verify engagement between a passenger airbag module and an instrument panel chute comprising: providing a passenger airbag module with a plurality of snap-locks and an instrument panel chute with a plurality of chute tabs; pressing the passenger airbag onto the instrument panel chute so that the plurality of snap-locks engage with the plurality of chute tabs; placing a ring bracket around the plurality of snap-locks and the plurality of chute tabs and attaching the ring bracket to the passenger airbag using a first screw and a second screw to verify whether the plurality of snap-locks are engaged with the chute tabs.
US09789829B2
A device for installing cable trunking on a motor vehicle body pillar includes cable staples provided on the pillar, which enable cables to be maintained in guidance and a trunking to be snap fitted. Complementary clips engaging with the staples are provided on the trunking. The trunking also includes a transverse bearing raised portion that, at the time of snap fitting, bears against a transverse bearing surface formed by the top of one of the cable staples to lock the trunking in a longitudinal direction when the trunking is snap fitted.
US09789820B2
An object detection apparatus that detects an object in a vicinity of a vehicle includes: (a) an image processing circuit configured to: (i) derive vectors representing movement of feature points in captured images acquired periodically by a camera that captures images of the vicinity of the vehicle; and (ii) detect the object based on the vectors; and (b) a controller configured to (i) acquire a velocity of the vehicle; and (ii) set a parameter that affects a number of the feature points based on the velocity of the vehicle.
