US09825320B2
A process for manufacturing membrane electrode units (MEU) for fuel cell is disclosed, said MEU have two electrochemically active electrodes which are separated by a polymer electrolyte membrane.
US09825313B2
A fuel cell stack has a plurality of laminated cell units, with each of the cell units including a membrane electrode assembly sandwiched between two separators, and cooling fluid passage channels are formed between each adjacent cell units for flowing cooling fluid. Displacement absorbing members have a plurality of displacement absorbing projections that absorb displacement along a laminated direction of the cell unit and are provided in the cooling fluid passage channels. The displacement absorbing projections of the displacement absorbing members are disposed so as to cancel out any bending moments generated on the cell unit.
US09825309B2
Microbial fuel cells capable of generating energy from an organic-based fuel are described. The microbial fuel cells can include an anode component, a cathode component, and a separator component selected to reduce spacing between the anode and the cathode thereby improving performance of the microbial fuel cell. Cathode components including particular components that improve the lifetime, performance, and production of the cathode component at reduced cost also are described, as well as a method of using the microbial fuel cells.
US09825307B2
A technology is provided that is capable of improving deterioration of a fuel cell due to non-stationary operation (startup/shutdown, fuel depletion).An anode-side catalyst composition comprising a catalyst having catalyst particles carried on electrically conductive material and an ion exchange resin, characterized in that the catalyst particle are formed of an alloy, of which oxygen reduction capability and water electrolysis are both lower than those of platinum, and which has hydrogen oxidation capability.
US09825303B2
A storage battery grid includes: a frame bone that includes a substantially rectangular shape; a lug portion that is connected to a first side portion of the frame bone and projects outwardly from the frame bone; a main bone that extends from the first side portion to a second side portion which is opposed to the first side portion; and a plurality of first sub-bones that extend obliquely toward the second side portion, at least part of the plurality of first sub-bones branching from the main bone toward both sides, wherein at least part of the plurality of first sub-bones is bent.
US09825301B2
The present disclosure refers to a secondary battery comprising a reinforcing material in the fore part of an electrode current collector used in a jelly-roll type electrode assembly, thereby making the jelly-roll type electrode assembly wound in the predetermined position and eventually solving the problem an internal short-circuit due to biased movement.
US09825299B2
Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell in which heat generation is suppressed. The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell according to the invention has a positive electrode including positive electrode active material particles and a negative electrode including negative electrode active material particles. The negative electrode active material particles are carbon-black-adhered carbon-based negative electrode active material particles which are constituted by a carbon material having a graphite structure in at least part thereof and which have carbon black (CB) particles that have adhered to at least part of a surface portion. The positive electrode active material particles are of a hollow structure having a shell and a hollow portion. The average short diameter A of the CB particles in the carbon-black-adhered carbon-based negative electrode active material particles and an average inner diameter B of the hollow portions in the positive electrode active material particles fulfill the relationship: 1.2≦B/A≦260.
US09825291B2
A method of preparing a positive active material for a lithium secondary battery represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 (LiwNixCoyMn1-x-y-zMzO2) includes: (a) preparing a metal salt aqueous solution including a lithium raw material, a manganese raw material, a nickel raw material, and a cobalt raw material; (b) wet-pulverizing the metal salt aqueous solution using beads having a particle diameter of 0.05 to 0.30 mm at 2000 to 6000 rpm for 2 to 12 hours to prepare a slurry; (c) adding a carbon source to the slurry; (d) spray-drying the slurry of the step (c) to prepare a mixed powder; and (e) heat-treating the mixed powder.
US09825290B2
The present invention is a negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte comprising at least a silicon-silicon oxide composite and a carbon coating formed on a surface of the silicon-silicon oxide composite, wherein at least the silicon-silicon oxide composite is doped with lithium, and a ratio I(SiC)/I(Si) of a peak intensity I(SiC) attributable to SiC of 2θ=35.8±0.2° to a peak intensity I(Si) attributable to Si of 2θ=28.4±0.2° satisfies a relation of I(SiC)/I(Si)≦0.03, when x-ray diffraction using Cu-Kα ray. As a result, there is provided a negative electrode material for a secondary battery with a non-aqueous electrolyte that is superior in first efficiency and cycle durability to a conventional negative electrode material.
US09825282B2
A storage element for a solid electrolyte battery is provided, having a main member of a porous ceramic matrix in which particles, that are made of a metal and/or a metal oxide and jointly form a redox couple, are embedded, the particles having a lamellar shape.
US09825279B2
Provided is a powder supply device for a secondary battery which can always supply a fixed amount of powder with high accuracy without being influenced by a state of the powder. In addition, provided is an apparatus for manufacturing an electrode body, which includes the powder supply device and can efficiently manufacture an electrode body. The powder supply device includes a rotor which makes powder fall into an opening, and a mesh body which covers the lower end of the opening. Uneven portions or projecting portions are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the rotor. The rotor is rotatably supported in a storing portion. The gap is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the rotor and the inner surface of the storing portion so that they are spaced apart. The mesh body is arranged away from the outer circumferential surface of the rotor.
US09825275B2
Provided are a bi-cell for a secondary battery having improved stability which may reduce shrinkage of a separator, and a method of preparing the bi-cell. The bi-cell for a secondary battery having improved stability according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that a cathode and an anode are alternatingly disposed in a state in which the cathode has one more layer than the anode or the anode has one more layer than the cathode, separators having a bigger size than the cathode and the anode and insulating the cathode and the anode are disposed between the cathode and the anode, and edges of an upper separator and edges of a lower separator, which face to each other having the cathode and the anode disposed therebetween, are attached to each other to form fused portions.
US09825273B2
A battery module may include a housing, a plurality of battery cells disposed in the housing, a battery terminal extending from the battery module for coupling the battery module with electrical components in the vehicle, and a contactor. A voltage supplied to a relay coil in the contactor may generate a magnetic field to actuate a contactor switch. The battery module may also include a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the housing. The PCB may include a relay control circuit configured to control a current flowing across the relay coil, and the relay control circuit may operate in a pull-in mode to transition the contactor switch into a closed position and in a hold mode to maintain the contactor switch in the closed position.
US09825270B2
A separator for a lithium battery includes a porous coating layer disposed on a surface of a porous base, and a first adhesive layer including a plurality of dots disposed at intervals at a surface of the porous coating layer, the plurality of dots of the first adhesive layer penetrating through the porous coating layer to be on the surface of the porous base.
US09825255B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit on the substrate, and a thin-film encapsulation layer for sealing the display unit, the thin-film encapsulation layer including a first organic film, a first inorganic film covering the first organic film, and an interlayer disposed at a lower surface of the first organic film, the interlayer defining an area where the first organic film is formed, an area of the interlayer being the same as the area of the first organic film.
US09825248B2
An optical device (10) includes a joining structure in which a first conductive film (110) and a second conductive film (130) are joined to each other. The first conductive film (110) that constitutes the joining structure is constituted by a conductive material. The second conductive film (130) that constitutes the joining structure is constituted by a metal material. A part of the second conductive film (130) comes into contact with the first conductive film (110). A plurality of concave portions are provided in a contact surface of the second conductive film (130) which comes into contact with the first conductive film (110). The contact surface has a surface roughness greater than a surface roughness of a non-contact surface of the second conductive film (130) which does not come into contact with the first conductive film (110).
US09825247B2
In various embodiments, an optoelectronic component is provided. The optoelectronic component may include a first electrode having a first electrically conductive substance, a second electrode having a second electrically conductive substance, and at least one active substance. The active substance is formed within a current path of the first electrode and/or the second electrode, and the active substance is set up to convert the first electrically conductive substance and/or the second electrically conductive substance to an electrically nonconductive substance or region.
US09825242B2
Provided are a compound for an organic optoelectric device represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic light emitting diode including the same, and a display device including the organic light emitting diode. The structure of the compound for an organic optoelectric device represented by Chemical Formula 1 is described in the specification. The compound for an organic photoelectric device provides an organic light emitting diode having excellent electrochemical and thermal stability and improved life-span characteristics, and high luminous efficiency at a low driving voltage, and the compound for an organic photoelectric device may be appropriate for a solution process.
US09825233B2
A heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below and an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound are described. In Formula 1, R1 to R4 may be each independently one of a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom, C5-C60 alkyl, C5-C60 aryl and C6-C60 condensed polycyclic; L1 and L2 may be each independently one of a single bond, C5-C60 aryl, C3-C60 heteroaryl and C6-C60 condensed polycyclic; Ar1 and Ar2 may be each independently one of C5-C60 aryl, C3-C60 heteroaryl and C6-C60 condensed polycyclic; A, B, C and D may be each independently one of —CH═ and —N═, excluding that all A, B, C and D are —CH═; and m and n may be each independently an integer of 0 to 3, excluding that all m and n are zero, wherein any of the above alkyl groups, aryl groups, condensed polycyclic groups and heteroaryl groups may be substituted or unsubstituted.
US09825225B2
An ink for forming a functional layer, which is used when any thin film layer among functional layers consisting of a plurality of thin film layers is formed, includes a functional layer forming material and a solvent for dissolving the functional layer forming material, and in which the number of particles of 0.5 μm or more is 7 or less in 10 ml of the ink for forming a functional layer.
US09825216B2
A semiconductor memory device includes free magnetic pattern on a substrate, a reference magnetic pattern on the free magnetic pattern, the reference magnetic pattern including a first pinned pattern, a second pinned pattern, and an exchange coupling pattern between the first and second pinned patterns, a tunnel barrier pattern between the reference magnetic pattern and the free magnetic pattern, a polarization enhancement magnetic pattern between the tunnel barrier pattern and the first pinned pattern, and an intervening pattern between the polarization enhancement magnetic pattern and the first pinned pattern, wherein the first pinned pattern includes first ferromagnetic patterns and anti-ferromagnetic exchange coupling patterns which are alternately stacked.
US09825210B2
A method and structure for an electrical device and a plurality of electrical circuits including a plurality of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The method can include forming a first CNT catalyst layer including a plurality of first CNT catalyst plugs, a plurality of electrical circuits electrically coupled to the first CNT catalyst layer, and a second CNT catalyst layer including a plurality of second CNT catalyst plugs electrically coupled to the second CNT catalyst layer. CNTs may be simultaneously formed on the plurality of first and second CNT catalyst plugs within a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) furnace.
US09825205B2
Quantum dot polymer composites for on-chip light emitting diode applications are described. In an example, a composite for on-chip light emitting diode application includes a polymer matrix, a plurality of quantum dots dispersed in the polymer matrix, and a base dispersed in the polymer matrix.
US09825202B2
A surface mount emissive element is provided with a top surface and a bottom surface. A first electrical contact is formed exclusively on the top surface, and a second electrical contact is formed exclusively on the top surface. A post extends from the bottom surface. An emissive display is also provided made from surface mount emissive elements and an emissions substrate. The emissions substrate has a top surface with a first plurality of wells formed in the emissions substrate top surface. Each well has a bottom surface, sidewalls, a first electrical interface formed on the bottom surface, and a second electrical interface formed on the bottom surface. The emissions substrate also includes a matrix of column and row conductive traces forming a first plurality of column/row intersections, where each column/row intersection is associated with a corresponding well. A first plurality of emissive elements populates the wells.
US09825201B2
Light emitting device having transparent electrode and method of manufacturing light emitting device
Provided are a light emitting device including a transparent electrode having high transmittance with respect to light in a UV wavelength range as well as in a visible wavelength range and good ohmic contact characteristic with respect to a semiconductor layer and and a method of manufacturing the light emitting device. A transparent electrode of a light emitting device is formed by using a resistance change material which has high transmittance with respect to light in a UV wavelength range and of which resistance state is to be changed from a high resistance state into a low resistance state due to conducting filaments, which current can flow through, formed in the material if a voltage exceeding a threshold voltage inherent in a material applied to the material, so that it is possible to obtain high transmittance with respect to light in a UV wavelength range.
US09825200B2
A micro-light-emitting diode (micro-LED) device includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a first bottom surface. The active layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer includes a second bottom surface. A surface of the second semiconductor layer opposite to the active layer is a light-exiting surface of the micro-LED device. The second semiconductor layer has different thicknesses, in which a minimum thickness of the second semiconductor layer is located at an edge or at least one side of the second semiconductor layer. Vertical-projection zones of the first semiconductor layer, the active layer, and the second semiconductor layer on the first bottom surface are substantially the same.
US09825183B2
A semiconductor device according to example embodiments of inventive concepts may include a substrate, source/drain regions extending perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, a plurality of nanosheets on the substrate and separated from each other, and a gate electrode and a gate insulating layer on the substrate. The nanosheets define channel regions that extend in a first direction between the source/drain regions. The gate electrode surrounds the nanosheets and extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The gate insulating layer is between the nanosheets and the gate electrode. A length of the gate electrode in the first direction may be greater than a space between adjacent nanosheets among the nanosheets.
US09825174B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a fin type field effect transistor (FinFET) and methods of fabrication. A punchthrough stopper region is formed on a semiconductor substrate. An insulator layer, such as silicon oxide, is formed on the punchthrough stopper. Fins and gates are formed on the insulator layer. The insulator layer is then removed from under the fins, exposing the punchthrough stopper. An epitaxial semiconductor region is grown from the punchthrough stopper to envelop the fins, while the insulator layer remains under the gate. By growing the fin merge epitaxial region mainly from the punchthrough stopper, which is part of the semiconductor substrate, it provides a higher growth rate then when growing from the fins. The higher growth rate provides better epitaxial quality and dopant distribution.
US09825172B2
The disclosure relates generally to a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) structures and methods of forming the same. The MOSFET structure includes at least one semiconductor body on a substrate; a dielectric cap on a top surface of the at least one semiconductor body, wherein a width of the at least one semiconductor body is less than a width of the dielectric cap; a gate dielectric layer conformally coating the at least one semiconductor body; and at least one electrically conductive gate on the gate dielectric layer.
US09825171B2
A semiconductor device has: a silicon (semiconductor) substrate; a gate insulating film and a gate electrode, which are formed on the silicon substrate in this order; and source/drain material layers formed in recesses (holes) in the silicon substrate, the recesses being located beside the gate electrode. Here, each of side surfaces of the recesses, which are closer to the gate electrode, is constituted of at least one crystal plane of the silicon substrate.
US09825153B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a preliminary fin-type active pattern extending in a first direction, forming a device isolation pattern covering a lower portion of the preliminary fin-type active pattern, forming a gate structure extending in a second direction and crossing over the preliminary fin-type active pattern, forming a fin-type active pattern having a first region and a second region, forming a preliminary impurity-doped pattern on the second region by using a selective epitaxial-growth process, and forming an impurity-doped pattern by injecting impurities using a plasma doping process, wherein the upper surface of the first region is at a first level and the upper surface of the second region is at a second level lower than the first level.
US09825150B2
A method of making a Fin field effect transistor (FinFET) includes forming a fin having a first height above a first surface of a substrate, wherein a portion of the fin has first tapered sidewalls, and the fin has a top surface. The method includes forming an insulation region over a portion of the first surface of the substrate, wherein a top of portion of the insulation region defines a second surface. The method further includes covering the first tapered sidewalls and the top surface with a gate dielectric. The method further includes forming a conductive gate strip traversing over the gate dielectric, wherein the conductive gate strip has second tapered sidewalls along a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the first height, and a space between the second tapered sidewalls in the longitudinal direction is greater at a location nearest to the substrate than at a location farthest from the substrate.
US09825141B2
A three dimensional monolithic LDMOS transistor implements a drain structure vertically disposed above a level of the structure that includes a drain connection of the transistor. Displacing the drain structure vertically, out of the plane or level of the gate and source/drain connections, creates a three dimensional structure for the transistor. One result is that the transistor consumes far less lateral area on the substrate. The reduction in lateral area in turn provides benefits such as allowing transistors to be more densely arranged on the substrate and allowing additional devices of other types to be formed on the substrate.
US09825140B2
A metal oxide thin film transistor (TFT) includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, a metal oxide active layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The gate electrode is formed on a substrate. The gate insulating layer is formed on the substrate and covers the gate electrode. The metal oxide active layer is formed on the gate insulating layer. The drain electrode and the source electrode are formed on two opposite ends of the metal oxide active layer in a spaced-apart manner, in which at least one of the orthographic projection of the source electrode and the orthographic projection of the drain electrode on the substrate does not overlap the gate electrode.
US09825138B2
A method of fabricating a FET includes forming a gate on the surface of a substrate. A trench contact extends between a first region located proximate the surface of the substrate and a second region located below the first region is formed in the surface. The surface of the substrate is coated with a conductive material, wherein the conductive material at least partially covers the gate and lines the trench contact to electrically connect the first region and the second region. A void remains in the trench contact. A dielectric material is applied to the conductive material, wherein the dielectric material at least partially fills the void in the trench contact. At least a portion of the conductive material is etched from the gate.
US09825134B2
A layered semiconductor includes a base layer including a substrate and a buffer layer, and a drift layer which is disposed on the base layer and is made of GaN and whose conductivity type is an n-type. The drift layer has an average n-type impurity concentration of 1.5×1016 cm−3 or less in a radial direction of the substrate, and the difference between the maximum n-type impurity concentration and the minimum n-type impurity concentration is 1.5×1015 cm−3 or less.
US09825130B2
A nanowire device of the present description may include a highly doped underlayer formed between at least one nanowire transistor and the microelectronic substrate on which the nanowire transistors are formed, wherein the highly doped underlayer may reduce or substantially eliminate leakage and high gate capacitance which can occur at a bottom portion of a gate structure of the nanowire transistors. As the formation of the highly doped underlayer may result in gate inducted drain leakage at an interface between source structures and drain structures of the nanowire transistors, a thin layer of undoped or low doped material may be formed between the highly doped underlayer and the nanowire transistors.
US09825126B2
A source region of a MOSFET includes a source contact region connected to a source electrode, a source extension region adjacent to a channel region of a well region, and a source resistance control region provided between the source extension region and the source contact region. The source resistance control region includes a low concentration source resistance control region which has an impurity concentration lower than that of the source contact region or the source extension region and a high concentration source resistance control region which is formed between the well region and the low concentration source resistance control region and has an impurity concentration higher than that of the low concentration source resistance control region.
US09825116B1
A method for fabricating high-resolution features in a deep recess includes etching a cavity in a substrate, fabricating at least one focusing pattern on a bottom of the cavity, wherein fabricating the focusing pattern comprises coating a first photoresist on the bottom of the cavity, patterning the first photoresist to define a focusing etch area using contact lithography, and etching the focusing etch area, coating a second photoresist on the bottom of the cavity, using the focusing pattern to focus a high resolution lithography tool at the bottom of the cavity to pattern the second photoresist to define a microfabrication feature area; and forming a microfabrication feature in the microfabrication feature area.
US09825110B2
An organic light emitting display device including a substrate, a semiconductor device disposed on the substrate, an insulation layer including an inclined structure disposed on the semiconductor device, a first electrode disposed on the insulation layer, a pixel defining layer disposed on the insulation layer and the first electrode, the pixel defining layer having a pixel opening exposing the first electrode positioned on the inclined structure, an organic light emitting layer disposed on the exposed first electrode and the pixel defining layer, and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting layer and the pixel defining layer. Light generated from the organic light emitting layer may be directed in different directions by the inclined structure.
US09825105B2
A method of forming a flexible display apparatus includes: forming a flexible substrate on a support substrate; forming a light-emitting diode on the flexible substrate; forming a first encapsulation layer on the light-emitting diode; forming a second encapsulation layer; bonding the first encapsulation layer to the second encapsulation layer using an adhesive layer between the first encapsulation layer and the second encapsulation layer; separating the support substrate from the flexible substrate and cutting the flexible substrate to form the flexible display apparatus; and forming a polarizing plate on the second encapsulation layer.
US09825103B2
An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
US09825098B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises: a first wiring line extending in a first direction; a second wiring line extending in a second direction, the second direction intersecting the first direction; and a memory cell disposed at an intersection of the first wiring line and the second wiring line, the memory cell including a first film whose resistance changes electrically, a second film having conductivity, and a third film having an insulating property which are stacked sequentially in a third direction that intersects the first and second directions.
US09825093B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming portions of a fin-type field effect transistor (FinFET) device. The method includes forming at least one source region having multiple sides, forming at least one drain region having multiple sides, forming at least one channel region having multiple sides, forming at least one gate region around the multiple sides of the at least one channel region and forming the at least one gate region around the multiple sides of the at least one drain region.
US09825092B2
A switching device includes a first electrode, a switching layer and a second electrode that are disposed over a substrate. The switching layer includes an oxide of a first atom or a nitride of the first atom, and a second atom is doped in the oxide or the nitride. A valence of the first atom and a valence of the second atom are different from each other.
US09825091B2
A memory cell includes a first diode, a second diode, and a random access memory cell element. The first diode and the random access memory cell element are series connected between a bit line and a word line. The second diode and the random access memory cell element are series connected between the word line and a reset line. A set path is formed through the first diode and the random access memory cell element, and a reset path is formed through the random access memory cell element and the second diode. The first diode is configured to performed a read operation and a set operation. The second diode is configured to perform a reset operation. The memory cell has higher forward current, lower leakage current and smaller size comparing with conventional memory cells.
US09825084B2
A mask includes a substrate, an effective pixel formation region and a reference pattern formation region. A pixel pattern for forming a pixel component that constitutes a pixel is arranged in the effective pixel formation region. A reference pattern for indicating a reference position where pixel pattern should be arranged in the effective pixel formation region is arranged in the reference pattern formation region. Pixel pattern is arranged to be displaced from the reference position toward a center side of the effective pixel formation region.
US09825081B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a circuit layer formed on a first surface of the substrate and including a via pad and an interlayer insulating layer covering the via pad, a via structure configured to fully pass through the substrate, partially pass through the interlayer insulating layer and be in contact with the via pad, a via isolation insulating layer configured to pass through the substrate and be spaced apart from outer side surfaces of the via structure in a horizontal direction and a pad structure buried in the substrate and exposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface of the substrate.
US09825074B2
Various embodiments include methods and apparatuses for forming and using pixels for image sensors. In one embodiment, an image sensor having at least two pixel electrodes per color region, and having at least two modes is disclosed. The example image sensor includes a first, unbinned, mode; and a second, binned, mode. In the first, unbinned mode, the at least two pixel electrodes per color region are to be reset to substantially similar levels. In the second, binned mode, a first pixel electrode of the at the least two pixel electrodes is to be reset to a high voltage that results in efficient collection of photocharge, and a second pixel electrode of the at the least two pixel electrodes is to be reset to a low voltage that results in less efficient collection of photocharge. Other methods and apparatuses are disclosed.
US09825071B2
A semiconductor light detection element has a plurality of channels, each of which consists of a photodiode array including a plurality of avalanche photodiodes operating in Geiger mode, quenching resistors connected in series to the respective avalanche photodiodes, and signal lines to which the quenching resistors are connected in parallel. A mounting substrate is configured so that a plurality of electrodes corresponding to the respective channels are arranged on a third principal surface side and so that a signal processing unit for processing output signals from the respective channels is arranged on a fourth principal surface side. In a semiconductor substrate, through-hole electrodes electrically connected to the signal lines are formed for the respective channels. The through-hole electrodes and the electrodes are electrically connected through bump electrodes.
US09825055B2
Single gate and dual gate FinFET devices suitable for use in an SRAM memory array have respective fins, source regions, and drain regions that are formed from portions of a single, contiguous layer on the semiconductor substrate, so that STI is unnecessary. Pairs of FinFETs can be configured as dependent-gate devices wherein adjacent channels are controlled by a common gate, or as independent-gate devices wherein one channel is controlled by two gates. Metal interconnects coupling a plurality of the FinFET devices are made of a same material as the gate electrodes. Such structural and material commonalities help to reduce costs of manufacturing high-density memory arrays.
US09825046B2
A flash memory cell structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a pad dielectric layer, a floating gate, a control gate, and a blocking layer. The pad dielectric layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The floating gate is disposed over the pad dielectric layer, in which the floating gate has a top surface opposite to the pad dielectric layer, and the top surface includes at least one recess formed thereon. The control gate is disposed over the top surface of the floating gate. The blocking layer is disposed between the floating gate and the control gate.
US09825043B2
A method of forming an SRAM cell includes forming a first vertical pull-down transistor, a second vertical pull-down transistor, a first vertical pass-gate transistor, and a second vertical pass-gate transistor over a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a first conductive trace over a top surface of the first vertical pull-down transistor and the first vertical pass-gate transistor, forming a second conductive trace over a top surface of the second vertical pull-down transistor and the second vertical pass-gate transistor, and forming a first vertical pull-up transistor over a first portion of the first conductive trace. The method also includes forming a second vertical pull-up transistor over a first portion of the second conductive trace. The method also includes forming a first via over the first conductive trace and forming a second via over the second conductive trace.
US09825039B1
A semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body, a first doped region, a second doped region, a gate and a dielectric layer. The semiconductor body is disposed on a dielectric substrate and has a protrusion portion, a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the protrusion portion. The first doped region is disposed in a top of the protrusion portion. The second doped region is disposed in an end of the first portion far away from the protrusion portion. The gate is disposed on the first portion and adjacent to the protrusion portion. The dielectric layer is disposed between the gate and the protrusion portion, and between the gate and the first portion.
US09825037B2
A semiconductor device including a nonvolatile memory cell in which a writing transistor which includes an oxide semiconductor, a reading transistor which includes a semiconductor material different from that of the writing transistor, and a capacitor are included is provided. Data is written to the memory cell by turning on the writing transistor and applying a potential to a node where a source electrode (or a drain electrode) of the writing transistor, one electrode of the capacitor, and a gate electrode of the reading transistor are electrically connected, and then turning off the writing transistor, so that the predetermined amount of charge is held in the node. Further, when a p-channel transistor is used as the reading transistor, a reading potential is a positive potential.
US09825031B1
A method includes forming first and second contact openings in a first dielectric layer. At least the first contact opening is at least partially lined with a liner layer. A first conductive feature is formed in the first contact opening and a second conductive feature is formed in the second contact opening. A portion of the liner layer adjacent a top surface of the first dielectric layer is removed to define a recess. A barrier layer is formed above the first dielectric layer and in the recess. The barrier layer has a first dielectric constant greater than a second dielectric constant of the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed above the barrier layer. A third conductive feature is formed embedded in the second dielectric layer and contacting the second conductive feature.
US09825027B1
A semiconductor device has a plurality of transistors, which have first electrodes in first trenches, and includes: two second trenches, which are formed side by side between the first trenches. A second electrode is formed in each of the two second trenches. A first impurity region is formed between the first trench and the second trench; a second impurity region is formed to abut on the first trench; a third impurity region is formed to abut on the second trench; a fourth impurity region, which is formed between two of the second trenches and has a higher impurity concentration than the first impurity region; and a fifth impurity region is formed below the first impurity region and the fourth impurity region. A third electrode is formed to be electrically connected to the first impurity region, the second impurity region, the third impurity region, and the fourth impurity region.
US09825021B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate positioned on the substrate, a drain region and a source region formed at respective two sides of the gate in the substrate, at least a first doped region formed in the drain region, and at least a first well having the first doped region formed therein. The source region and the drain region include a first conductivity type, the first doped region and the first well include a second conductivity type, and the first conductivity type and the second conductivity type are complementary to each other.
US09825016B1
A light emitting device package includes a cell array including a plurality of semiconductor light emitting units, and having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, each of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting units having a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer stacked on each other. The light emitting device package may further include a plurality of wavelength conversion units disposed on the first surface of the cell array to correspond to the plurality of semiconductor light emitting units, respectively, each configured to convert a wavelength of light, emitted by a respective one of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting units, into a different wavelength of light, and a partition structure disposed in a space between the plurality of wavelength conversion units, and a plurality of switching units spaced apart from the plurality of wavelength conversion units within the partition structure, and electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor light emitting units.
US09825008B1
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes the following operations: (i) receiving a precursor package including a precursor substrate and a plurality of semiconductor packages on the precursor substrate, in which a gap is presented between the precursor substrate and each of the semiconductor packages; (ii) forming underfill material filling the gaps; (iii) cutting the precursor substrate along a region between adjacent ones of the semiconductor packages to form a plurality of discrete package-on-package devices; and (iv) applying supplemental underfill material to one of the package-on-package devices.
US09825002B2
A microelectronic assembly includes a stack of semiconductor chips each having a front surface defining a respective plane of a plurality of planes. A chip terminal may extend from a contact at a front surface of each chip in a direction towards the edge surface of the respective chip. The chip stack is mounted to substrate at an angle such that edge surfaces of the chips face a major surface of the substrate that defines a second plane that is transverse to, i.e., not parallel to the plurality of parallel planes. An electrically conductive material electrically connects the chip terminals with corresponding substrate contacts.
US09825001B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: preparing a light-transmissive member including a light reflective sheet that has a through-hole, and a color conversion material layer that is composed of a light-transmissive resin containing a color conversion material and disposed in the through-hole, preparing a light emitting element, fixing the color conversion material layer to the light emitting element, covering a side surface of the light emitting element with a light-reflective member, and cutting the light-reflective member and light-reflective sheet.
US09825000B1
A methodology and medium for regular and predictable cleaning the support hardware such as capillary tube in semiconductor assembly equipment components, while it is still in manual, semi-automated, and automated assembly are disclosed. The cleaning material may include a cleaning pad layer and one or more intermediate layers that have predetermined characteristics.
US09824994B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element; a joined member that is joined to the semiconductor element and includes a nickel film; and a joining layer that is joined to the joined member and contains 2.0 wt % or higher of copper, in which the joining layer includes a solder portion and a Cu6Sn5 portion, base metal of the solder portion contains at least tin as a constituent element and contains elemental copper, and the Cu6Sn5 portion is in contact with the nickel film.
US09824993B2
A packaging structure includes a first substrate including a first metal terminal and a first protruding resin portion formed at a first surface; a second substrate including a second metal terminal and a second protruding resin portion formed at a second surface, the second metal terminal being made of the same kind of metal as the first metal terminal; and a sealing portion filled between the first surface of the first substrate and the second surface of the second substrate, the first metal terminal and the second metal terminal being directly bonded with each other, the first protruding resin portion and the second protruding resin portion being directly bonded with each other, each of the first protruding resin portion and the second protruding resin portion being made of a resin material that does not include fillers, and the sealing portion being made of a resin material including fillers.
US09824992B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may have a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure arranged over a first substrate. A bump structure is arranged between the first conductive structure and a second substrate. A solder layer is configured to electrically couple the first conductive structure and the bump structure. The bump structure has a recess that is configured to reduce a protrusion of the solder layer in a direction extending from the first conductive structure to the second conductive structure.
US09824987B2
A mechanism of a semiconductor structure with composite barrier layer under redistribution layer is provided. A semiconductor structure includes a substrate comprising a top metal layer on the substrate; a passivation layer over the top metal layer having an opening therein exposing the top metal layer; a composite barrier layer over the passivation layer and the opening, the composite barrier layer includes a center layer, a bottom layer, and an upper layer, wherein the bottom layer and the upper layer sandwich the center layer; and a redistribution layer (RDL) over the composite barrier layer and electrically connecting the underlying top metal layer.
US09824981B2
A semiconductor device provided on a semiconductor substrate includes an element region including an element, a moisture-resistant frame surrounding the element region, an insulating layer provided between the moisture-resistant frame and an outer peripheral edge of the semiconductor device and on the semiconductor substrate, a first metal line extending along the outer peripheral edge and provided in the insulating layer, and a groove provided in the insulating layer.
US09824980B2
Various aspects are directed to apparatuses, systems and related methods involving the mitigation of issues relating to thermal expansion and contraction of lead fingers of an integrated circuit package. Consistent with one or more embodiments, lead fingers on a leadframe substrate each have a locking structure that secures the lead finger in place relative to the substrate. The lead fingers provide a location to attach a bond wire to an integrated circuit, and connect the bond wire to terminals at a perimeter of the leadframe. The locking structure and arrangement of the lead fingers mitigate issues such as cracking or breaking of a solder connection of the bond wire to the leadframe, which can occur due to thermal expansion and contraction.
US09824979B2
An electronic package includes a substrate having opposing first and second surfaces. Conductive areas are on a first surface of the substrate and include at least one edge conductive area. A plurality of conductive bumps are on the second surface of the substrate and coupled to respective ones of the conductive areas. An integrated circuit (IC) is carried by the substrate. Bond wires are coupled between the IC and respective ones of the conductive areas. An encapsulating material is over the IC and adjacent portions of the substrate. A conductive layer is on the encapsulating material, and at least one conductive body is coupled between the at least one edge conductive area and the conductive layer.
US09824975B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor die. An encapsulant is disposed around the first semiconductor die. A first stepped interconnect structure is disposed over a first surface of the encapsulant. An opening is formed in the first stepped interconnect structure. The opening in the first stepped interconnect structure is over the first semiconductor die. A second semiconductor die is disposed in the opening of the first stepped interconnect structure. A second stepped interconnect structure is disposed over the first stepped interconnect structure. A conductive pillar is formed through the encapsulant.
US09824970B1
Disclosed are methods of forming integrated circuit (IC) structures with hybrid metallization interconnects. A dual damascene process is performed to form trenches in an upper portion of a dielectric layer and contact holes that extend from the trenches to a gate electrode and to contact plugs on source/drain regions. A first metal is deposited into the contact holes by electroless deposition and a second metal is then deposited. Alternatively, a single damascene process is performed to form a first contact hole through a dielectric layer to a gate electrode and a first metal is deposited therein by electroless deposition. Next, a dual damascene process is performed to form trenches in an upper portion of the dielectric layer, including a trench that traverses the first contact hole, and to form second contact holes that extend from the trenches to contact plugs on source/drain regions. A second metal is then deposited.
US09824969B1
A semiconductor structure and the method of forming the same are provided. The method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a recess feature in a basal layer, forming a metal layer on the basal layer, exposing the metal layer to a tungsten halide gas to form an oxygen-deficient metal layer, and forming a bulk tungsten layer on the oxygen-deficient metal layer.
US09824963B2
A wiring board includes: a core substrate including: a metal plate having first through holes; a first insulating layer covering an upper surface and a lower surface of the metal plate and inner wall surfaces of the first through holes; through electrodes penetrating the first insulating layer in a thickness direction and each having an upper end surface; a first wiring layer formed on a lower surface of the first insulating layer and connected to the through electrodes; a wiring structure formed on an upper surface of the first insulating layer; and an outermost insulating layer formed on a lower surface of the core substrate. A wiring density of the wiring structure is higher than that of the core substrate. The metal plate is located at a side of the wiring structure with respect to a center of the first insulating layer in a thickness direction thereof.
US09824962B1
Methods of forming microelectronic package structures are described. Those methods/structures may include forming a high density region on a board comprising a first plurality of conductive structures disposed on a dielectric material on the board, wherein the first plurality of conductive structures comprises a first pitch between individual ones of the first plurality of conductive structures. A low density region on the board comprises a second plurality of conductive structures disposed on the dielectric material, wherein the second plurality of conductive structures comprises a second pitch between individual ones of the second plurality of conductive structures, wherein the second pitch is more than about twice the magnitude of the first pitch.
US09824942B2
A method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate including a thin-film transistor having a CuMn alloy film. The method includes controlling a contact resistance of a surface of the CuMn alloy film on the basis of a contact angle of the surface of the CuMn alloy film.
US09824935B2
A method includes forming an initial strain relaxed buffer layer on a semiconductor substrate. A trench is formed within the initial strain relaxed buffer layer. An epitaxial deposition process is performed to form an in situ carbon-doped strain relaxed buffer layer in the trench. A channel semiconductor material is formed on the initial strain relaxed buffer layer and on the in situ carbon-doped strain relaxed buffer layer in the trench. A plurality of fin-formation trenches that extend into the initial strain relaxed buffer layer is formed so as to thereby form an NMOS fin including the channel semiconductor material and the in situ carbon-doped strain relaxed buffer layer and a PMOS fin including the channel semiconductor material and the initial strain relaxed buffer layer. A recessed layer of insulating material and gate structures are formed around the NMOS fin and the PMOS fin.
US09824934B1
A semiconductor device includes structures formed in first and second regions of a semiconductor substrate. The structures in the first region are spaced with a pitch P. The first and second regions are separated by an isolation region with spacing S, wherein S is greater than P. A first insulating layer is deposited and recessed to a target depth in the first region, and to a second depth in the isolation region. The second depth is lower than the target depth. A first etch stop layer is formed over the recessed first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer is formed over the first etch stop layer to increase a level of insulating material in the isolation region to the same target depth in the first device region. The recessed first insulating layer, first etch stop layer, and second insulating layer form a uniform thickness shallow trench isolation layer.
US09824920B2
One method disclosed includes, among other things, forming a first plurality of gate cavities in a first dielectric layer. A work function material layer is formed in the first plurality of gate cavities. A first conductive material is formed in at least a subset of the first plurality of gate cavities above the work function material layer to define a first plurality of gate structures. A first contact recess is formed in the first dielectric layer between two of the first plurality of gate structures. A second conductive material is formed in the first contact recess. The work function material layer is recessed selectively to the first and second conductive materials to define a plurality of cap recesses. A cap layer is formed in the plurality of cap recesses.
US09824912B2
There is provided a method for transforming an electronic device from an initial state, wherein the device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the first and second substrates being joined by means of a bonding interfaced using their respective first faces, wherein the first substrate includes at least one cavity, produced using the first face of the first substrate, the cavity including a bottom bordered by at least one peripheral region and being at least partially filled with a buffer layer, in the bottom of the cavity, and wherein the first face of the second substrate is at least partly opposite the cavity of the first substrate. The method also includes a step of removing the bottom of the cavity of the first substrate from a first face, opposite to the first face of the first substrate.
US09824898B2
To provide a highly reliable semiconductor device using an oxide semiconductor. The semiconductor device includes a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer positioned over the first electrode layer and including a stacked-layer structure of a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer; and an oxide semiconductor film and an insulating film positioned between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer in a thickness direction. The first conductive layer and the insulating film have a first opening portion in a region overlapping with the first electrode layer, The oxide semiconductor film has a second opening portion in a region overlapping with the first opening portion. The second conductive layer is in contact with the first electrode layer exposed in the first opening portion and the second opening portion.
US09824894B2
Described herein are methods for flattening a substrate, such as a semiconductor wafer, to reduce bowing in such substrates. Methods include treating or bombarding a backside surface of a substrate with particles of varying doses, densities, and spatial locations. Particle bombardment and selection is such that the substrate becomes more planar by selectively increasing or decreasing z-height points to reduce overall deflection. One or more tensile or compressive films can be added to the backside surface to be selectively relaxed at specific point locations. Such methods can correct bowing in substrates resulting from various fabrication processes such as thermal annealing.
US09824886B2
A method of forming a REO dielectric layer and a layer of a-Si between a III-N layer and a silicon substrate. The method includes depositing single crystal REO on the substrate. The single crystal REO has a lattice constant adjacent the substrate matching the lattice constant of the substrate and a lattice constant matching a selected III-N material adjacent an upper surface. A uniform layer of a-Si is formed on the REO. A second layer of REO is deposited on the layer of a-Si with the temperature required for epitaxial growth crystallizing the layer of a-Si and the crystallized silicon being transformed to amorphous silicon after transferring the lattice constant of the selected III-N material of the first layer of REO to the second layer of REO, and a single crystal layer of the selected III-N material deposited on the second layer of REO.
US09824880B2
A method of polishing a silicon wafer, including performing a mirror polishing process on the silicon wafer, the mirror polishing process including: performing rough polishing on the silicon wafer; subsequently removing metallic impurities attached on a surface of the silicon wafer by performing both an oxidation process with ozone gas or ozone water and an oxide-film removing process with hydrofluoric acid vapor or hydrofluoric acid solution on the surface of the silicon wafer; and then performing final polishing. The invention provides a method of polishing a silicon wafer and a method of producing an epitaxial wafer that can prevent the occurrence of PID in the silicon wafer due to a mirror-polishing process and the degradation of surface quality of the silicon wafer after the mirror-polishing process and the epitaxial wafer having an epitaxial layer stacked thereon in a subsequent process.
US09824877B2
Ions having a restricted range of mass to charge ratios are transmitted to the acceleration region of a Time of Flight mass analyser. A control system applies a first extraction pulse to an acceleration electrode in order to accelerate a first group of ions into the time of flight region at a first time T1, wherein ions having the lowest mass to charge ratio in the first group of ions have a time of flight ΔT1min through the time of flight region and ions having the highest mass to charge ratio in the first group of ions have a time of flight ΔT1max through the time of flight region. The control system applies a second extraction pulse to the acceleration electrode at a subsequent second time T2, wherein ΔT1max−ΔT1min≦T2−T1<ΔT1max.
US09824876B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to injector inserts and injector assemblies. In some examples, an injector insert that includes an inlet comprising a substantially inert metal is described. In other examples, an injector that includes a major amount of a substantially inert metal in a fluid flow path is disclosed. Devices and systems using the injectors inserts and injectors are also described.
US09824875B2
The present invention is directed to a method and device to generate a chemical signature for a mixture of analytes. The present invention involves using a SPME surface to one or both absorb and adsorb the mixture of analytes. In an embodiment of the invention, the surface is then exposed to different temperature ionizing species chosen with appropriate spatial resolution to desorb a chemical signature for the mixture of analytes.
US09824868B2
A sputtering target which is made of a magnesium oxide sintered body having a purity of not less than 99.99% or not less than 99.995% by mass %, a relative density of not less than 98%, and an average grain size of not more than 8 μm. The average grain size of the sputtering target is preferably not more than 5 μm, more preferably not more than 2 μm. A sputtered film having an excellent insulation resistance and an excellent homogeneity can be obtained by using the sputtering target.
US09824867B2
Provided is a plasma generation apparatus capable of generating uniform plasma over a wide range. The plasma generation apparatus includes two oppositely arranged plasma guns each injecting a discharge gas to be ionized, and having a cathode for emitting electrons, and a converging coil for forming a magnetic flux to guide the emitted electrons, and polarities of the converging coils with respect to the cathodes in the two plasma guns are opposite to each other.
US09824864B2
In a plasma processing of generating plasma of different processing gases within a processing vessel in sequence, a setting of a high frequency power can be changed at an appropriate time point after the processing gas output from a gas supply system is changed. A power level of a second high frequency power is increased at a time point when a first parameter which reflects impedance of plasma exceeds a first threshold value after the processing gas is changed while a first high frequency power is being supplied to a first electrode or a second electrode. Further, a power level of the first high frequency power is increased at a time point when a second parameter which reflects impedance of plasma exceeds a second threshold value after the processing gas is changed while the second high frequency power is being supplied to the second electrode.
US09824860B2
The invention relates to a charged particle beam exposure apparatus configured to expose cut patterns or via patterns on a substrate having a plurality of line patterns 81a arranged on an upper surface of the substrate at a constant pitch by irradiating the substrate with a plurality of charged particle beams B1 to Bn while moving a one-dimensional array beam A1 in an X direction parallel to the line patterns 81a, the one-dimensional array beam A1 being a beam in which the charged particle beams B1 to Bn are arranged in an Y direction orthogonal to the line patterns 81a.
US09824854B2
Provided is a charged particle beam device capable of observing the interior and the surface of a sample in a simple manner. This charged particle beam device operates in a transmitted charged particle image mode and a secondary charged particle image mode. In the transmitted charged particle image mode, a transmitted charged particle image is produced on the basis of a detection signal (512) associated with light emitted from a light-emitting member (500) that emits light upon being irradiated with transmitted charged particles transmitted through the interior of a sample (6). In the secondary charged particle image mode, a secondary charged particle image is produced on the basis of a detection signal (518) caused by reflected charged particles or secondary charged particles (517) from the sample (6).
US09824850B2
A deceleration apparatus capable of decelerating a short spot beam or a tall ribbon beam is disclosed. In either case, effects tending to degrade the shape of the beam profile are controlled. Caps to shield the ion beam from external potentials are provided. Electrodes whose position and potentials are adjustable are provided, on opposite sides of the beam, to ensure that the shape of the decelerating and deflecting electric fields does not significantly deviate from the optimum shape, even in the presence of the significant space-charge of high current low-energy beams of heavy ions.
US09824844B2
A transmission mode photocathode comprises: an optically transparent substrate having an outside face to which light is incident, and an inside face from which the light incident to the outside face side is output; a photoelectric conversion layer disposed on the inside face side of the optically transparent substrate and configured to convert the light output from the inside face into a photoelectron or photoelectrons; and an optically-transparent electroconductive layer comprising graphene, and disposed between the optically transparent substrate and the photoelectric conversion layer.
US09824838B2
A commutating circuit breaker that works by progressively inserting increasing resistance into a circuit. This is done via physical motion of a shuttle that is linked into the circuit by at least one set of sliding electrical contacts on the shuttle (“shuttle electrodes”) that connect the power through the moving shuttle to a sequence of different resistive paths with increasing resistance; the motion of the shuttle can be either linear or rotary. A feature of the commutating circuit breaker is that at no point are the shuttle electrodes separated from the matching stationary stator electrodes so as to generate a powerful arc, which minimizes damage to the electrodes. Instead, the current is commutated from one resistive path to the next with small enough changes in resistance at each step that arcing can be suppressed. The variable resistance can either be within the moving shuttle, or the shuttle can comprise a commutating shuttle that moves the current over a series of stationary resistors. In either case, a “soft” opening of the circuit can be accomplished, with low switching transients, provided that the maximum step change of resistance is limited until the current is nearly extinguished. Commutating circuit breakers work equally well for DC or AC power.
US09824837B2
This service plug (1) has a connection terminal part (49), and the connection terminal part (49) has a pair of terminals (8) and an interlinking part (9) that is tailored to the spacing between the terminals (8) and joins the terminals (8) together. By removing the connection terminal part (49) from a power-supply circuit, the power-supply circuit is interrupted. The interlinking part (9) includes one or more thin interlinking plates (20) that are removably attached to the connection terminal part (49).
US09824832B2
Contact unit for a tap changer including a contact ring having a central axis, a plurality of fixed contacts arranged at a distance from the contact ring in different radial directions, and a moving contact arranged rotatable about the central axis of the contact ring and adapted to electrically connect the fixed contacts one at a time with the contact ring. The moving contact includes two elongated contact elements. Each of the contact elements includes a first contact area for providing electrical contact with the fixed contacts and a second contact area for providing electrical contact with the contact ring. The moving contact is designed so an electric path is formed between the first and second contact area. The first and second contact areas are positioned on opposite sides of a plane orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the moving contact and including the central axis of the contact ring.
US09824822B2
A three-terminal capacitor includes a capacitor element including first through sixth surfaces, first-side and second-side outer electrodes, a center outer electrode between the first-side and second-side outer electrodes, and conductor layers within the capacitor element. A height H2 is greater than a height H3, where the height H2 represents a higher one of a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the fifth surface and a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the sixth surface, and the height H3 represents a height at a center of a portion of the first-side outer electrode on the third surface, wherein the height H2 and the height H3 extend in the thickness direction.
US09824820B2
A multi-layered capacitor device is provided in which the multi-layered capacitor device includes a metal or metal-oxide ground electrode, a capacitor dielectric layer, a metal or metal-oxide top electrode, a hole blocking layer and an electron blocking layer. The hole blocking layer is located at the interface of the metal or metal-oxide ground electrode and the capacitor dielectric layer to increases the effective barrier height at the interface. The electron blocking layer is located at the interface of the metal or metal-oxide top electrode and the capacitor dielectric layer to increases the effective barrier height at the interface.
US09824818B2
In a single phase transformer core and transformer, thin-strip metal is wound into multiple rings of different widths and arranged to define a ring-like structure having a stepped, substantially circular cross-section without any cuts or gaps in the magnetic path, or the core is wound from a tapered strip that is configured to define a substantially circular cross-section when wound, while in a three phase transformer core and transformer two inner frames, each made of one or more wound rings are arranged side-by-side and an outer frame of one or more rings is wound around the two inner frames, the core being covered with epoxy prior to winding coils on it.
US09824817B2
A wireless power transmission system that transmits alternating-current power includes a power-transmitting device including first and second electrodes spaced apart and having a total width of λ/2π or less, i.e., a near field range, and a first inductor between the first and second electrodes and a AC power-generating section, and a power-receiving device including third and fourth electrodes spaced apart and having a total width of λ/2π or less, and a second inductor between the third and fourth electrodes and a load. A coupler including the first and second electrodes and the first inductor forms one resonant circuit and a coupler including the third and fourth electrodes and the second inductor forms another resonant circuit. Resonance frequencies of the couplers are substantially equal. The first and second electrodes and the third and fourth electrodes are spaced apart by λ/2π or less.
US09824813B2
A reactor includes an annular iron core and four coils separately wound around the iron core. The four coils have first electrodes connected to output terminals of four choppers, respectively, and second electrodes each connected to a load. Therefore, the four choppers can be connected in parallel to the load by one reactor.
US09824809B2
A transformer system includes a transformer module and a base module. One or more transformer modules are detachably coupled to the base module. The transformer module includes a housing, a transformer, primary-side and secondary-side wires electrically connected to primary and secondary terminals of the transformer, a conductive tab electrically connected to a neutral terminal of the transformer, and a first coupling mechanism. The base module includes a base enclosure, a neutral connector electrically connected to a power line neutral connection, and a second coupling mechanism. The second coupling mechanism detachably engages the first coupling mechanism of the transformer module, and the conductive tab of the transformer module is electrically connected to the neutral connector of the base module when the first coupling mechanism is engaged with the second coupling mechanism.
US09824808B2
This document describes techniques using, and apparatuses including, switchable magnetic locks. These techniques and apparatuses can enable low or no power consumption and a seamless design for locking and unlocking of devices one to the other, such as computing devices and peripherals.
US09824797B2
A resistor grid system includes a resistor strip including multiple pins. The resistor grid system also includes an insulation board coupled to the resistor strip through the multiple pins and configured to provide a structural support. The insulation board is made of a composite material. The composite material includes a nitrogen-containing aromatic thermosetting polymeric resin and a filler.
US09824796B2
An oxide superconductor includes: a substrate made of a metal; an insulating intermediate layer provided on the substrate; an oxide superconducting layer provided on the intermediate layer; a metal stabilizing layer provided on the oxide superconducting layer; and a plurality of dividing grooves which divide the metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, reach the inside of the intermediate layer through the oxide superconducting layer from the metal stabilizing layer, and do not reach the substrate. The metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer are divided to form a plurality of filament conductors by the plurality of dividing grooves, and in each dividing groove of the plurality of dividing grooves, a width of a groove opening portion of the dividing groove is equal to or greater than a width of a groove bottom portion of the dividing groove.
US09824793B2
A noise reduction cable includes a plurality of insulated wires, each including a conductor and an insulator that covers a periphery of the conductor; and one or more drain wires, each including a conductor, an insulator that covers a periphery of the conductor, and a magnetic-material layer provided on a periphery of the insulator.
US09824791B2
A multilayer electronic component may include a multilayer body including a plurality of magnetic material layers, and an internal electrode disposed in the multilayer body. The internal electrode may contain a conductive metal and glass, and the glass contains a vanadium (V) oxide. Also, a conductive paste composition for an internal electrode includes a conductive metal and glass, wherein the glass contains a vanadium (V) oxide.
US09824785B1
Methods and apparatus for converting kinetic energy of an energetic particle into electrical energy and for accelerating charged particles. A stack of substantially parallel conductors separated by gaps is disposed such that the conductors are substantially parallel to the surface of a cathode, with the conductors mutually electrically uncoupled. An anode is disposed at an end of the stack of conductors distal to the cathode, and a power management system applies a bias voltage between the cathode and the anode and collects charge deposited at the anode in the form of current in an external electrical circuit.
US09824772B2
A method of training chip select for a memory module. The method includes programming a memory controller into a mode wherein a command signal is active for a programmable time period. The method then programs a programmable delay line of the chip select with a delay value and performs initialization of the memory module. A read command is then sent to the memory module to toggle a state of the chip select. A number of data strobe signals sent by the memory module in response to the read command are counted. A determination is made whether the memory module is in a pass state or an error state based on a result of the counting.
US09824767B1
A disclosed example to reduce a threshold voltage drift of a selector device of a memory cell includes providing an applied voltage to the selector device of the memory cell, the applied voltage being less than a threshold voltage of the selector device, and reducing the threshold voltage drift of the memory cell by maintaining the applied voltage at the selector device for a thresholding duration to activate the selector device.
US09824765B2
A method of erasing a non-volatile memory device which includes a plurality of NAND strings is provided as follows. A first voltage is applied to each of word lines for a corresponding effective erasing execution time. An erase operation is performed on memory cells connected to each of the word lines for the corresponding effective erasing execution time. A second voltage is applied to each of at least some word lines among the word lines for a corresponding erasing-prohibited time after the corresponding effective erasing execution time elapses. A sum of the corresponding effective erasing execution time and the corresponding erasing-prohibited time for each of the at least some word lines is substantially equal to an erasure interval during which an erase operation is performed using the first voltage and the second voltage higher than the first voltage. The word lines are stacked on a substrate.
US09824755B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a cell array comprising a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell connected to a word line and a bit line, the cell array divided into a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of word lines, the plurality of blocks including at least a first defective block; a nonvolatile storage circuit configured to store address information of the first defective block, and to output the address information to an external device; and a fuse circuit configured to cut off an activation of word lines of the first defective block.
US09824754B2
Examples are disclosed for determining a logical address of one or more victim rows of a volatile memory based on a logical address of an aggressor row and address translation schemes associated with the volatile memory. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09824751B2
A semiconductor memory includes a cell array including a plurality of resistive memory cells in which a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows are arranged, a read voltage application circuit configured to apply a read voltage to a selected memory cell of the plurality of resistive memory cells, a sensing circuit configured to detect an amount of a current flowing through the selected memory cell and sense data, and an overcurrent prevention circuit configured to reduce voltage levels at both ends of the selected memory cell when an overcurrent flows through the selected memory cell.
US09824749B1
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include precharge circuitry for precharging bitlines to a source voltage level. The integrated circuit may include write assist circuitry having a charge storage element for providing a write assist signal to at least one of the bitlines. The integrated circuit may include read assist circuitry having a switching element for providing charge sharing between the bitlines, the precharge circuitry, and the charge storage element of the write assist circuitry.
US09824744B1
A differential interface circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit, a common-mode feedback circuit and a feedback initialization circuit. The differential amplifier circuit is configured to receive and amplify a differential input signal so as to produce an amplified differential output signal. The common-mode feedback circuit is configured to estimate a common-mode level of the differential output signal, to produce a feedback value in response to the estimated common-mode level, and to adjust the differential amplifier circuit using the feedback value. The feedback initialization circuit is configured, in response to detecting that the differential input signal is in a range predefined as abnormal, to temporarily override the common-mode feedback circuit, and instead set the feedback value applied to the differential amplifier circuit to a predefined initialization value.
US09824738B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first memory area, a first selection circuit for selecting a bit line of the first memory area, a second memory area, a second selection circuit for selecting a bit line of the second memory area, and a third selection circuit arranged between the first selection circuit and the second selection circuit and configured to select either the first selection circuit or the second selection circuit.
US09824737B2
A memory circuit (100), comprises a first set of memory cells (102a; 202a) configured to operate in a direct access mode or in a refresh mode and a second set of memory cells (102b; 202b) configured to operate in the direct access mode and in the refresh mode. The memory circuit (100) further comprises a controller (104) configured to receive a write request and to execute the write request for a set of memory cells being in direct access mode; and to buffer the write request for later execution for a set of memory cells being in refresh mode.
US09824725B2
Apparatuses included a single-ended main input/output line in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: a pair of differential data lines coupled to a sense amplifier; a single-ended data line; a first transistor coupled between the one of the pair of differential data lines and the power line and coupled to the single-ended data line at a control node thereof; a second transistor coupled between the single-ended data line and the power line and coupled to the one of the pair of differential data lines at a control node thereof; and a third transistor coupled between the single-ended data line and the other of the pair of differential data lines.
US09824711B1
A soft underlayer (SUL) and methods for making an SUL are provided, the SUL having characteristics that make it compatible with the high temperature requirements associated with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media growth and writing, e.g., temperatures greater than 500° C. The SUL may have a high crystallization temperature of greater than 450° C. and a high Curie temperature greater than 300° C., for example. Additionally, the SUL can maintain a saturation magnetization value greater than, e.g., 9 kGauss, at such high temperatures, thereby having the ability to remain amorphous at temperatures up to, e.g., 650° C., and exhibiting a relatively flat integrated noise profile from approximately 300° C. to 650° C. Further still, a spacer layer material is chosen such that inter-diffusion does not occur at these high temperatures.
US09824706B2
A rotary actuator for positioning a recording head in a data storage mechanism and that includes first and second cylindrical subassemblies separated by an air gap. One of the subassemblies includes a magnetically conductive core with an electrically conductive coil wrapped thereover to enable first and second current flow directions in the circuit. The other of the subassemblies includes a magnetically conductive core and at least one magnet secured thereto. Transmission of an electric current through the electrically conductive coil induces rotation of one of the subassemblies relative to the other of the subassemblies to rotate the recording head about an axis that is perpendicular to recording media on the recording head. The disclosed rotary actuator facilitates quick and accurate recording head position changes due to low inertia of the rotating subassembly as well as reduced inductance and symmetrical mass distribution of the actuator.
US09824699B1
A lumped-parameter function δ is determined that represents an average power dissipated by a write transducer when writing a signal to a magnetic recording medium. Temperatures of the write transducer are measured while varying the parameters to determine constants of the function δ. The function δ is used to adjust power applied to a clearance control heater when writing to the magnetic recording medium.
US09824694B2
A method for a machine or group of machines to carry watermark data in an encoded audio data frame of an audio signal includes receiving the encoded audio data frame having encoded therein a portion of the audio signal. The encoded audio data frame includes a plurality of data blocks, wherein the plurality of data blocks includes, a synchronization information block, at least one encoded data block, and an error check block. The method further includes receiving modified watermark data as modified based on a masking threshold analysis of the audio signal and transforming the encoded audio data frame into a modified encoded audio data frame.
US09824691B1
A computer-implemented method to populate an electronic record may include generating first transcript data of first audio of a first speaker during a conversation between the first speaker and a second speaker. The method may also include generating second transcript data of second audio of the second speaker during the conversation and identifying one or more words from the first transcript data as being a value for a record field based on the identified words corresponding to the record field and the one or more words being from the first transcript data and not being from the second transcript data. The method may further include providing the identified words to an electronic record database as a value for the record field of a user record of the first speaker.
US09824689B1
Voice-operable avionic systems and methods supporting utilization of speech recognition to facilitate control of avionic systems are disclosed. Utilizing speech recognition to control avionic systems may help reduce the head-down time of the flight crew. Safety features may also be implemented to ensure safety-critical commands are carried out as intended when commands are received through speech recognition. In addition, voice-operable avionic systems configured in accordance with embodiments of the inventive concepts disclosed herein may be implemented in manners that can help reduce the complexity and cost associated with obtaining certifications from aviation authorities.
US09824686B2
A method and apparatus for improving the performance of voice recognition in a mobile device are provided. The method of recognizing a voice includes: monitoring the usage pattern of a user of a device for inputting a voice; selecting predetermined words from among words stored in the device based on the result of monitoring, and storing the selected words; and recognizing a voice based on an acoustic model and predetermined words. In this way, a voice can be recognized by using prediction of whom the user mainly makes a call to. Also, by automatically modeling the device usage pattern of the user and applying the pattern to vocabulary for voice recognition based on probabilities, the performance of voice recognition, as actually felt by the user, can be enhanced.
US09824685B2
A handsfree device, which is coupled to a data processing device, may be operable to monitor at least one audio stream for occurrence of at least one keyword. Upon recognition of the at least one keyword, the handsfree device may establish a first connection between the handsfree device and the data processing device for launching a voice interface in the data processing device. The handsfree device may send audio data received after the recognition of the at least one keyword to the data processing device, via the first connection for responding to the audio data via the voice interface. During a keyword configuration operation, the handsfree device may send at least one inputted keyword to the data processing device for recording. The handsfree device may receive, via a second connection, the recorded at least one keyword from the data processing device for keyword configuration of the handsfree device.
US09824673B2
Methods and digital circuits providing frequency correction to frequency synthesizers are disclosed. An FLL digital circuit is provided that is configured to handle a reference frequency that is dynamic and ranges over a multi-decade range of frequencies. The FLL circuit includes a digital frequency iteration engine that allows for detection of disappearance of a reference frequency. When the digital frequency iteration engine detects that the reference frequency signal is not available, the oscillator generated frequency is not corrected, and the last value of the oscillator generated frequency is held until the reference frequency signal becomes available again. This FLL circuit is also preceded by a low-pass filter which is dynamically tuned to the frequency to which the FLL locks, eliminating harmonic components in the original signal which might otherwise cause errors in frequency estimation.
US09824670B1
A musical instrument activity monitoring system having a tracking and monitoring assembly including a microcontroller with non-volatile memory, an accelerometer, at least one sensor, and an antenna each in communication with the microcontroller, a power source, and a coupler. In-use parameters of musical instrument activity is tracked and monitored by the tracking and monitoring assembly. The microcontroller with non-volatile memory stores data. The data relates to values and timestamps retrieved from use of the at least one musical instrument and environmental conditions at least one musical instrument is in to analyze performance of the at least one musical instrument.
US09824653B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a display panel including data lines, scan lines and a plurality of pixels connected to the data lines and the scan lines; a scan driver configured to supply scan signals to the scan lines; a data driver configured to supply data voltages to the data lines; and a timing controller configured to control operation timings of the scan driver and the data driver, where the timing controller is configured to output a plurality of scan output enable signals to the scan driver, and the scan driver is configured to supply odd scan signals to odd scan lines based on a first scan output enable signal of the scan output enable signals and to supply even scan signals to even scan lines based on a second scan output enable signal of the scan output enable signals.
US09824647B2
A controlling method of a display apparatus, which includes pixels each including red, green, blue, and white sub-pixels, includes receiving image data in a unit of frame, analyzing the image data to extract pixel data with respect to a first pixel among the pixels and block data with respect to a first block of a backlight unit, which corresponds to the first pixel, normalizing the pixel data and the block data, comparing the normalized pixel data and the normalized block data, and generating white compensation data corresponding to the white sub-pixel on the basis of the compared result.
US09824646B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a display area in which pixels are disposed in a matrix with rows and columns. The display area includes first and second configuration columns. The first configuration column is a column where first pixels are aligned. The first pixels each include a pixel electrode including first and second areas. In the first area, electrodes extending in a first direction inclined to the column direction are disposed. In the second area, electrodes extending in a second direction inclined differently from the first direction are disposed. The second configuration column is a column where second and third pixels are alternately aligned. The second pixels each include a pixel electrode including electrodes extending in a third direction inclined to the column direction. The third pixels each include a pixel electrode including electrodes extending in a fourth direction inclined differently from the third direction.
US09824635B2
An exemplary land mobile radio control head and method are provided. In one embodiment, the control head has the capability to utilize halo light of the control head to implement a multi-function indicator that communicates a state of the land mobile radio. In another embodiment, the control head has the capability to provide buffer images constructed from data received from the land mobile radio into a video stream for rendering on an electroluminescent display. In another embodiment, the control head provides the capability for a user to modify a configuration stored on the land mobile radio that defines one of several display modes to be utilized in generating data for use in forming images to be rendered on an electroluminescent display.
US09824624B2
Provided herein are display systems and units, including those configured for dynamic communication in a physical location, such as in retail settings. Also included herein are methods for dynamically displaying product information in a physical location, such as a retail setting.
US09824621B2
A gate drive circuit and a display device are provided. The present disclosure pertains to the technical field of display technology and solves the technical problem of wide frame of the existing display device. The shifting register is configured to output primary drive signal into a first follower and a second follower in consecutive first scanning period t1 and second scanning period t2. The first follower is configured to output gate drive signal to a first gate line in t1 under the driving of the primary drive signal; and the second follower is configured to output the gate drive signal to a second gate line in t2 under the driving of the primary drive signal. The present disclosure can be applied to display devices, such as liquid crystal display devices and OLED display devices, and the like.
US09824619B2
A display device and modulation scheme for applying image data to an imager is disclosed. The display may use a modulation scheme wherein spacing of row write actions on the rows creates gray scale modulation, wherein one row spacing between sequential row write actions is at a first distance while another row spacing between sequential row write actions is at a distance greater than said first distance. The modulation scheme may create a series of write pointers that create a corresponding series of write planes. In some embodiments, modulation efficiency is increased allowing the use of lower frequency imaging circuits to achieve the same display image.
US09824616B2
The present invention provides a drive method and a drive device of a liquid crystal display, and the drive method comprises: receiving an image to display; implementing high frequency detection to the image pixels of the image to display to determine color differences of the respective image pixels and the adjacent image pixels; implementing the color washout compensation to the image to display according to the high frequency weight; driving the liquid crystal panel to show the image to display after the color washout compensation. With the aforesaid arrangement, the present invention can reduce the color washout under large view angle to promote the display effect of the large view angle.
US09824612B2
The disclosure provides a display panel, a method for driving the display panel and a 3D display device including the display panel, and relates to the technical field of display. The display panel comprises a display unit and at least one timing control units, wherein the display unit comprises a plurality of display regions and the plurality of display regions are simultaneously scanned. With the present invention, wire impedance in the display panel is reduced, charging time for a single row of pixels can be reduced and charging rate of the pixels can be improved.
US09824599B1
A system and method of generating plan information for vehicles in a vehicle traffic or vehicle parking zone, including projecting into space, from a set of grid generators at the vehicle traffic or vehicle parking zone, a set of lines defining a relative navigation grid and encoded with grid data configured to identify predetermined points on the relative navigation grid, and detecting, with a detector module on a vehicle, a location of the vehicle within the grid.
US09824595B1
A multi-layered edge computing method for aircraft monitoring and analysis includes providing an aircraft having a plurality of sensors connected to a flight data acquisition unit (FDAU), and providing a processing device having a processor, a non-transitory computer-readable memory, and a transmitter, wherein the processing device is in communication with the FDAU, wherein sensor data stored within the FDAU is communicated to the processing device, wherein, during flight of the aircraft, the processor analyzes the sensor data from the FDAU to detect an occurrence of at least one emergency event. The processing device ranks the at least one emergency event for transmission priority according to sensor type and severity and provides a signal transmitted to a flight control authority upon ranking of the at least one emergency event, wherein the signal has an alert sequence according to the ranking.
US09824587B2
A method for determining potential collision includes capturing image data of an exterior environment ahead of a subject vehicle via a camera disposed at the subject vehicle. The presence of a leading vehicle ahead of the equipped vehicle is determined via image processing of captured image data. A time to collision to the leading vehicle is determined via image processing of captured image data. A determination, via image processing of captured image data, is made if a brake light of the leading vehicle is illuminated. Based at least in part on the determined time to collision and determination that the brake light of the leading vehicle is illuminated, at least one of (i) a degree of warning to a driver of the subject vehicle is determined and (ii) a braking level of the subject vehicle to mitigate collision with the leading vehicle is determined.
US09824579B2
A method and an electronic device for selecting a home network device (HND) using a controller in a home network is disclosed. The method and the electronic device relate to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The method and the electronic device may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method and the electronic device for selecting and controlling a home network device (HND) in a home network using a controller and a light source are provided. The method includes selecting the HND based on a light signal from a light source, and obtaining identification information of the HND.
US09824564B2
An aspirated smoke detector with an improved optical chamber is provided. The aspirated smoke detector can include a base, an optical block housed within the base, the optical block housing an emitter and a receiver, and a chamber cover disposed over the base and the optical block to form an optical chamber therebetween. The chamber cover can capture light emitted by the emitter and reflect the captured light within the chamber cover while avoiding multiple back reflections of the captured light.
US09824559B2
Optical data transceiver is used to illuminate a secured space with an optical data signal which has been modulated to contain a first data sequence. One or more retroreflected optical data signals are received at the optical data transceiver from reflector elements disposed in the secured space. The retroreflected optical data signals are authenticated and a security event notification is selectively communicated to an enterprise security management controller if a variation occurs in regard to at least one retroreflected optical beam condition. The variation can involve a disruption of the optical beam and/or a displacement of the optical beam.
US09824553B2
A distance detection system in an electronic device includes a vibration prompt circuit and a prompt module. The vibration prompt circuit includes a distance sensor, a processor, and a comparison module. The distance sensor is coupled to the processor. The processor is coupled to the comparison module. The comparison module is coupled to the prompt module. The distance sensor sends a distance value as to the distance between itself and a detected object to the processor. The processor converts the distance value to a current value and the current value is compared with a reference value. The prompt module activates a vibration device if the current value is greater than the reference value. A vibration prompt circuit and a vibration prompt method are also provided.
US09824545B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for providing information to a customer of a Self-Service Terminal (SST) such as an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). The method includes the steps of updating storage data of a Near Field Communication (NFC) device at an SST and reading data associated with the storage data from the NFC device via a mobile terminal of a customer at the SST.
US09824544B2
A method of playing a game that uses the numbers generated by a Keno game is described. The method includes i) receiving a wager from a player, ii) the player selecting to play a matrix-like game displaying through a display medium the player selected variables, with the matrix containing subsets each with a plurality of numbers, the subsets defined by linear contiguous trajectories; vertical, horizontal and diagonal; the subsets including generally equivalent amounts of variables, each subset including a variable that is shared with at least one other subset in the matrix and there are a plurality of subsets that include a variable that are mutually exclusive to another subset within the matrix, and iii) determining the gaming operators variables, displaying the gaming operators variables, determining whether the player wins or loses the game according to predetermined rules.
US09824542B2
Some embodiments include a fantasy sports games or other type of gaming options. A gaming entity may establish a fund of money that is to be exposed to a gaming market in an attempt to win money from risking the fund of money. A gaming operator may use the pool or fund to create liquidity in a gaming market. Various gamers may enter into games with the gaming entity by matching with various portions of the pool or fund.
US09824538B2
A slot machine 1 executes the following processes of: (D1) receiving an input of betting of a game medium, (D2) reading, from a RAM 73, coin reels corresponding to the number of game media having been received in the process (D1) and setting the coin reels to be rearrangeable on the lower image display panel 141, (D3) as a game, randomly determining symbols and a coin 161 which are to be rearranged on the lower image display panel 141, (D4) executing an effect of scrolling the video reels 3 and the coin reels and visually changing the coin 161 during the scroll, and (D5) rearranging the symbols and the coin 161 determined in the process (D3) on the lower image display panel 141 and awarding a benefit or a special bonus based on a combination of the rearranged symbols and coin 161.
US09824533B2
A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system via a network. The plurality of player terminals are located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals are configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.
US09824532B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes: detecting a plurality of wagering game machines in proximity to the mobile phone, and selecting a first of the plurality of wagering game machines with which to establish a connection. The method can also include requesting the connection with the first of the plurality of wagering game machines, and transmitting, from the mobile phone to the first of the plurality of wagering game machines, player account information for configuring a wagering game. The method can also include receiving, from the first of the plurality of wagering game machines, content indicating a result of the wagering game, and presenting, on the mobile phone, the result of the wagering game.
US09824527B2
A gaming system selects and displays one of a plurality of symbol blocks in each of a plurality of block positions, wherein each of the selected blocks includes at least one partial symbol. Each partial symbol has at least one complementary partial symbol which, when arranged in a designated spatial relationship with one another, form a complete matching symbol. If any of the partial symbols on the selected blocks create a complete matching symbol, the gaming system provides at least one award to the player. Each matching block which includes any portion of a complete matching symbol is then removed, creating an empty block position. The gaming system then fills the empty block position by either shifting a displayed block into the empty block position or by selecting a new block. The gaming system repeats this process until no complete matching symbols are formed.
US09824517B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for identifying assets (e.g., mobile assets and/or personnel assets). In one embodiment, a mobile asset can be uniquely identified from RFID tags. In another embodiment, mobile assets and personnel assets can be identified from captured image data. After identification, it can be determined whether the asset (e.g., mobile asset and/or personnel asset) is authorized for one or more activities and a corresponding perceivable indication can be generated.
US09824515B2
Physical access to secure areas is automatically performed based on presence or detection of a wireless device. When a wireless cellular device is detected by a network serving a secure building, a unique identifier of the wireless cellular device is obtained. The identifier of the wireless cellular device may be compared to electronic calendars. If a matching calendar entry is determined, then the wireless cellular device is calendared to meet an employee or tenant inside the building. Physical access may thus be automatically granted, based on possession of a recognized cellular device.
US09824508B2
The present invention is generally related to monitoring and remotely accessing the environmental and operating parameters on a vehicle such as a bus, train, subway, taxi, ride share, airplane, ferry, hyper loop, or other transit vehicle, although applications are not so limited. Embodiments of the present invention including mounting sensors, that communicate data over a network, on the inside and externally to vehicles such that the sensor data can be: monitored and viewed remotely; monitored or viewed by transit patrons using the vehicle; and monitored and viewed by the driver on a driver control unit.
US09824506B2
Various embodiments of an apparatus, system and method for transmitting and indicating a fault in a combination vehicle are disclosed. A first towed vehicle controller comprises a processor with control logic capable of receiving fault messages and status messages on an associated vehicle communications bus; determining the status and faults of the first towed vehicle; and transmitting fault messages and status messages on the associated vehicle communications bus. When the control logic receives a fault message from an associated second towed vehicle controller on the associated vehicle communications bus at a second period in time, the control logic transmits the fault message of the associated second towed vehicle controller to the associated vehicle communications bus at a first period in time, different than the second period in time.
US09824503B2
A system and method for obtaining a composite image by combining multiple sub-images are provided. In some embodiments, the method may include retrieving overlapping images corresponding to sub-images including 3D volume data, generating two-dimensional (2D) projection images and pixel maps based on the overlapping images, performing one or more registrations based on the 2D projection images and the pixel maps, calibrating the sub-images based on the results of the registration(s), and fusing the sub-images to produce a composite image. In some embodiments, the method may include setting a plurality of parameters relating to an X-radiation source or a radiation detector based on a preliminary number of exposures and a preliminary exposure region, controlling, based on at least one of the plurality of parameters, a motion of the X-radiation source or a motion of the radiation detector to capture a plurality of sub-images, and combining the plurality of sub-images.
US09824500B2
Examples are disclosed for controlling virtual object placement and movement in a physical space as viewed on or through a display. An example method includes receiving a count indicating a number of occupancy transitions over time for a plurality of regions in the physical space, displaying a virtual object in an initial location selected based on the counts for each of the plurality of regions in the physical space, and determining an updated location of the virtual object in the physical space as viewed on or through the display based at least on the initial location of the virtual object and the counts for each of the plurality regions in the physical space. The example method further includes displaying the virtual object in the updated location, the virtual object being controlled to move in the physical space based at least on movements of physical objects through the physical space.
US09824485B2
Presenting a view based on a virtual viewpoint in a three dimensional (3D) scene. The 3D scene may be presented by at least one display, which includes displaying at least one stereoscopic image of the 3D scene by the display(s). The 3D scene may be presented according to a first viewpoint. A virtual viewpoint may be determined within the 3D scene that is different than the first viewpoint. The view of the 3D scene may be presented on the display(s) according to the virtual viewpoint and/or the first view point. The presentation of the view of the 3D scene is performed concurrently with presenting the 3D scene.
US09824483B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving first data representing a first physical object that has three dimensions. The first data may be stored, by a computer processor, as a first digital object representing the first physical object. Storing the first data may include storing a representation of the first data in a first plurality of layers. Each layer of the first plurality of layers may include a first plurality of cells. Each cell of the first plurality of cells may have one of: a first value indicating that the first physical object exists in a physical space corresponding to a position of the cell, and a second value indicating that the first physical object does not exist in the physical space corresponding to the position of the cell.
US09824476B2
A method for superposing location information on a collage includes: acquiring a selected image and a collage template identifier corresponding to a selected collage template, and acquiring longitude and latitude information corresponding to the selected image; sending the longitude and latitude information and the collage template identifier to a server; and receiving graphic and textual information returned by the server, and superposing the selected image and the graphic and textual information on the selected collage template.
US09824471B2
A method, system, and computer program product for presentation of data in enterprise applications. The method form commences by identifying a hierarchy of data maintained by an enterprise application (e.g., in a database). A hierarchy processor or other processor reads the hierarchy of data to configure a graphical representation of the hierarchy of data to be displayed on a display device. The graphical representation includes a graphical display indication corresponding to one or more relationships between items in the displayed hierarchy. Additional display indications include a calculated summary value of aggregated data, such as where the aggregated data is calculated using an aggregation function.
US09824460B2
A method, apparatus and system for acquiring headcount are provided. Data frames are acquired from a surveillance video, object models are set in the data frames, and a foreground image is extracted from the data frames, wherein the foreground image includes moving objects extracted from the data frames; the moving objects in the foreground image is matched with the object models, the headcount in corresponding data frames is acquired according to a result of the matching, characteristics of the matched moving objects are extracted, and the corresponding moving objects are tracked based on the characteristics; the actual headcount for a predetermined time segment of the surveillance video is acquired based on a result of the tracking and the acquired headcount for each of the data frames, wherein the result of the tracking includes: an indication of whether some or all of the data frames includes a same moving object.
US09824455B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for determining foreground regions in video frames. A computing device may select from a first frame of a video, a plurality of scene point locations and divide the first frame into a plurality of sections. For a first section of the first frame, the computing device may generate a first vector subspace, basis vectors of the first vector subspace are trajectories of scene point locations in the first section. The computing device may determine that a projection error for a first scene point location in the first section is greater than a projection error threshold and write an indication of the first pixel value to a listing of foreground pixel values.
US09824454B2
An image processing apparatus including a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to calculate a solar spectrum using a time at which an input image is captured, and a position at which the input image is captured, calculate an estimated background calculated to be close to a background included in the input image, using the input image and the solar spectrum, and output the estimated background.
US09824451B2
A system for determining a camera pose relative to an object including a unique feature may include a monocular camera configured to produce an image of the object, and a processing unit in operative communication with the monocular camera. The processing unit may be configured to: identify the unique feature of the object in the image produced by the monocular camera, synthesize at least four points along a contour of the object in the image using the identified unique feature as a starting point, synthesize a same number of points as synthesized in the image along a contour of the object in a reference model, the reference model preprogrammed into a memory of the processing unit, correlate the points from the reference model to the image, and determine a pose of the monocular camera based on the correlated points.
US09824447B2
An image search device includes: a search unit that retrieves an image similar to a search target image from a registration unit where an image and link information are registered in an associated manner; and a transmission unit that transmits, to a terminal device, the link information associated with the retrieved image. An information processing apparatus controls registration of an image and link information in the registration unit. The information processing apparatus extracts a predetermined area from a registration target image to be registered in the registration unit, transmits an image of the predetermined area to the search unit, and determines whether a similar image including an image similar to the predetermined area is registered in the registration unit based on a search result of the search unit. In the case where determination is made that a similar image is registered in the registration unit, such a fact is notified.
US09824445B2
An endoscope system for analyzing, when an endoscope is inserted into a subject, an observed region and an unobserved region of the endoscope using information of a three-dimensional image of the subject obtained in advance, including: one or more processors comprising hardware, for: three-dimensionally changing a display direction for displaying a luminal organ model extracted from a three-dimensional image, and when an identification image provided with identification information is generated on the luminal organ model with the display direction changed, generating the identification image in a direction such that a proportion of the non-angle-of-view region in the identification image is largest.
US09824437B2
A server receives datasets from mobile devices. Each dataset identifies a task selected in an augmented reality application of a corresponding mobile device and an identification of a tool detected at the corresponding mobile device. The server identifies tools present and absent at a dedicated tool board and compares an identification of the tools present and absent at the dedicated tool board with the tools detected at the mobile devices and the tasks identified at the mobile devices to generate a tool inventory and a tool compliance. The server generates an augmented reality content dataset for each mobile device to identify at least one of a missing tool, an incorrect tool, and a valid tool based on the tool compliance.
US09824434B2
A system for object recognition includes an image/spectrum sensing device, to fetch an object image from a real object and sense spectra at sensing regions of the real object. A fetching module obtains a real-object image feature pattern for each ROI of the object image. An analyzing module for object image feature searches for a first candidate object from data bank and analyzes a correlation between the real object and candidate object. A fetching module for object spectrum feature obtains a real-object spectrum pattern for each ROI of the object image. An analyzing module for object spectrum feature is to search for a second candidate object from data bank and to further analyze a match level between the real-object and the second candidate object. A fusion module further analyzes information of image feature and spectrum feature find whether or not having a matched object as an identify object.
US09824418B1
A first code module is loaded into a secure runtime environment that prevents the first code module from accessing a graphics-processor unit (GPU). Rendering commands are generated using the code module based on a scene representation, and transmitted from the first code module within the secure runtime environment to a second code module outside the secure runtime environment. The second code module is configured to communicate with the GPU to provide graphics hardware acceleration, and a rendered image is rendered using the second code module and the GPU based on execution of the rendering commands outside the secure runtime environment.
US09824415B2
An image processing apparatus for processing image data by a plurality of pipeline-connected processing modules is provided. The apparatus includes a first pipeline processing unit configured to include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every first size; and a second pipeline processing unit configured to be branched from the first pipeline processing unit and include a plurality of processing modules including a processing module which processes image data for every second size different from the first size. The second pipeline processing unit includes, at a start, a change unit configured to acquire partial image data of the first size from the first pipeline processing unit and change the partial image data of the first size into partial image data of the second size.
US09824414B2
Techniques to dispatch threads of a graphics kernel for execution to increase the interval between dependent threads and the associated are disclosed. The dispatch interval may be increased by dispatching associated threads, followed by threads without any dependencies, followed by threads dependent on the earlier dispatched associated threads. As such, the interval between dependent threads and their associated threads can be increased, leading to increased parallelism.
US09824407B2
A social networking system generates one or more metrics describing user interactions with objects to describe the popularity of the objects among users. Data describing actions performed by social networking system users on objects stored by the social networking system to identify an action, the user performing the action and the object on which the action was performed. Stored actions performed on a selected object are retrieved and a subset of the actions is generated by sampling the stored actions at a sampling rate. A number of unique users included in the subset is determined and used along with the sampling rate to determine the number of unique users included in the retrieved actions, which is used to derive a metric describing user interaction with the selected object.
US09824400B2
A method, system, and computer program product for enterprise accounting software applications. The computer implemented method commences upon receiving a single user-specified indication of a subject cost item. Then, responsive to the single user-specified indication, the method traverses from the subject cost item to at least one of a successor cost item or a predecessor cost item. Then, still responsive to the single user-specified indication of a subject cost item, the method proceeds to automatically retrieve information from the successor cost item or from the predecessor cost item. Then, still responsive to the single user-specified indication, the method invokes operations for displaying a representation of the subject cost item in a juxtaposition to the automatically traversed-to items. A user can configure traversing from a purchase requisition to a purchase order, and/or traversing from a purchase order to a payable invoice, and/or traversing from a payable invoice to a project expenditure.
US09824391B2
A solution is provided for a method for a user to shop online in a three dimensional (3D) virtual reality (VR) setting by receiving a request at a shopping server to view a shopping location, having at least one store, and displaying the shopping location to the user's computer in a 3D interactive simulation view via a web browser to emulate a real-life shopping experience for the user. The server then obtains a request to enter into one of the stores and displays the store website to the user in the same web browser. The store website has one or more enhanced VR features. The server then receives a request to view at least one product and the product is presented in a 3D interactive simulation view to emulate a real-life viewing of the product.
US09824389B2
A system and method includes a first device having an ordering interactive interface having available content. The first device forms a content selection corresponding to the on-demand content from the interactive interface and communicates the content selection to a content processing system. The content processing system communicates a control word to the user device. A user device receives the content corresponding to the selection in response to the control word. The content processing system or the user device generates an email indicative of a completion of storing the content in the user device.
US09824388B2
A computer system and set of routines with access to a map, a merchandizing plan, and a store catalog performs spatial matching of items to assign locations to the items; when spatial matching cannot be performed, group matching is attempted based on categories associated with the items. If group matching cannot be performed, the location of a department or of a store is assigned to the corresponding item. An error is also determined in relation to the assigned location. The assigned location and error are output, for example, to guide people to the items.
US09824385B2
A method of propagating annotations of content items to a search query is disclosed. A strength of a correspondence between a search query and a title of a listing of an item on a network-based publication system is determined. The strength of the correspondence is based on an analysis of a set of actions by a set of users who submitted the search query. A set of annotations corresponding to the title is generated. The set of annotations is propagated to an additional search query such that the set of annotations and the strength of the correspondence are used by a search engine to enhance search results corresponding to the additional search query.
US09824382B2
Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring user information associated with one or more users for use in generating one or more customized food items that are customized specifically for the one or more users, the user information to be acquired including at least one or more user preferences related to integrity of one or more food ingredients to be included in the one or more customized food items; and directing generation of the one or more customized food items for the one or more users, the one or more customized food items having been customized to show one or more visual indicators that provide customized information that has been customized in accordance, at least in part, with the acquired user information. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09824370B1
A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a social networking game that enables players to scan QR codes (or other identifying markers) and transmit the items scanned to a server that determines the physical location of the player. Players can play a game where they attempt to find and scan as many QR codes as possible. In an embodiment, the QR codes can also be used for crowd control. People in areas that are overly populated can be incentivized to move to lower traffic areas by offering them incentives for reporting to the low traffic area.
US09824367B2
A closed-loop marketing system and method provides the ability to measure the return on investment of marketing programs across channels, both online and offline, including impression, page view and response levels. The present invention provides mechanisms for measuring a marketing department's contribution to the sales pipeline by taking into account the effect of multiple campaigns. A multi-campaign attribution methodology takes into measures the effect of a first touch (a campaign that first brought in an account), a last touch (a campaign that was presented immediately prior to the closing of a deal or creation of a sales-ready opportunity), and any significant re-touch events (campaigns that represent lead-nurturing and/or remarketing efforts).
US09824351B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing access to account information using authentication tokens are presented. In some embodiments, a customer of a financial institution may visit an account information aggregator site and request to add an account maintained by the financial institution to a collection of accounts for which the aggregator may collect account information on behalf of the customer. Rather than providing their username, password, and/or other bank login credentials to the aggregator, the customer may be redirected to a page provided by the financial institution where the customer can enter their credentials and authenticate with the financial institution. After authenticating the customer, the financial institution may generate a token and provide the token to the aggregator. Subsequently, the aggregator may use the token to obtain read-only access to financial account information for one or more financial accounts that are maintained by the financial institution for the customer.
US09824341B2
Object oriented design strategies and patterns are applied to financial data processing systems for processing and modeling of financial products (also referred to as financial instruments) with an emphasis being on derivative products. The system employs valuation independent, well-defined financial components (also referred to as financial events) that can be combined to build new financial structures. A general purpose software model is provided for representing the structure and characteristics of these products. A declarative specification language is provided to describe financial instruments in a consistent manner that lends itself to processing in such an object oriented system. A general traversal process is provided that can be applied to the macro structure of a financial instrument to implement various functions that produce results based on such information, such as the stream of financial events associated with the instrument, or the pricing or valuation of the instrument. Techniques including double dispatch and other mechanisms are further provided to provide flexible means of associating the appropriate processing methods with the diverse range of instrument characteristics that are encountered in a typical financial institution's course of business.
US09824339B2
Techniques for related to retail transaction are disclosed. The techniques involve various uses allowing customers to pay for retail transaction using a mobile device, such as a cell phone. Payments for different goods or service in the transaction may be paid for using different methods of payments stored in a customer account.
US09824329B2
Disclosed are improved methods, systems, and computer program products to manage, access, and inquire into logistics data, such as warehouse data, inventory data, and license plate data, to create an integrated logistics data set for display on a mobile computer.
US09824327B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for spares management in a data center context. The described system may provide fully integrated dashboards and spares control mechanisms that visually displays the status of all spares activity including the ability to set alarms to monitor items to avoid potential supply disruptions. The system may also automatically monitor and balance the distribution of spares between multiple data centers.
US09824326B2
A system of tracking an airbag, comprising a server, a parts database communicatively coupled to the server, and a number of user devices communicatively coupled to the server in which the server collects data associated with the airbag and in which the system receives and updates status data associated with the airbag. A method of tracking an airbag, comprising collecting data associated with a specific airbag, storing the collected data on a parts database, receiving updated airbag status data, and providing the collected data and status data to a user.
US09824319B2
A system tool that provides dispatchers in power grid control centers with a capability to manage changes. Included is a user interface and a plurality of scheduler engines. Each scheduler engine is configured to look ahead at different time frames to forecast system conditions and alter generation patterns within the different time frames. A comprehensive operating plan holds schedules generated by the plurality of scheduler engines. A relational database is coupled to the comprehensive operating plan. Input data is initially received from the relational database for each scheduling engine, and thereafter the relational database receives data from the scheduling engines relative to forecast system conditions.
US09824310B2
An article of jewelry including a housing that permits passage of a near field communication signal, the housing characterized as having a lower layer joined to an upper layer; a near field communication (NFC) chip housed within the housing; a gemstone covering the upper layer of the housing; and a bezel substantially surrounding the outer perimeter of the housing and on a same plane as the NFC chip, wherein the bezel is formed from a highly electrically conductive material, further wherein the bezel permits near field communication with the NFC chip.
US09824302B2
A method and system for fusion of multi-modal volumetric images is disclosed. A first image acquired using a first imaging modality is received. A second image acquired using a second imaging modality is received. A model and of a target anatomical structure and a transformation are jointly estimated from the first and second images. The model represents a model of the target anatomical structure in the first image and the transformation projects a model of the target anatomical structure in the second image to the model in the first image. The first and second images can be fused based on estimated transformation.
US09824292B2
Apparatus, methods and systems of object recognition are disclosed. Embodiments of the inventive subject matter generates map-altered image data according to an object-specific metric map, derives a metric-based descriptor set by executing an image analysis algorithm on the map-altered image data, and retrieves digital content associated with a target object as a function of the metric-based descriptor set.
US09824288B1
Embodiments of the invention include systems, methods, and computer-program products for generating an overlay of a highlight or mask of a negotiable instrument on a representative's display for keying the instrument. The system overlays and changes the display of a representative's computer screen in real-time for improved keying instruments by generating highlighting or masking of specified portions of the instrument. The invention generates a grid including an X and Y axis on the instrument and identifies the parameter coordinates for the various indicia on the instrument. The invention may contain code for highlighting or masking various indicia on the instrument using the parameter coordinates for mapping. A programmed overlay may be performed on an image of the instrument in real-time as it is queued onto a representative's display. Upon completion of the representative's keying of the instrument, the overlay is removed for storage of the image of the instrument.
US09824287B2
Method and apparatus for processing a biometric measurement signal using a computing device, including receiving biometric measurement records associated with a first biometric measurement generated by contact with a single individual, extracting, for each of the biometric measurement records, feature data including periodic features extracted from the biometric measurement records, determining, pairing data comprising candidate pairs between the feature data and defined profiles associated with a known individual, wherein a candidate pair is associated with one of the periodic features and one of the defined profiles associated with the known individual, determining, for the candidate pair, a similarity value based on the one of the periodic features and the one of the defined profiles associated with the known individual, and determining whether a match exists between the single individual and the known individual based on a combination of the similarity values determined for the candidate pairs.
US09824275B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) detecting method is executed and applied in an UAV. The method can include creating a sample features database for a user, and storing the sample features database in a storage device; shooting a plurality of scene images from every direction around the user; capturing a plurality of features of the object from the scene image; comparing the sample features of user with the features of the object, and storing a new feature of the object different from the sample feature of user in the storage device; determining whether a tagger is around the user, and sending an alarm signal to the user.
US09824273B2
An image processing system includes: an analysis unit configured to obtain information indicating a degree of curvature of a retina from a tomographic image of an eye to be examined; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain a category of the eye to be examined based on an analysis result.
US09824269B2
Technologies are described herein for interpreting character arrangements. An image including an arrangement of characters may be received or captured by a computing device. Techniques described herein generate data representative of the characters. Characteristics and other information interpreted from the image may be processed to determine a data type. The data representative of the characters may be arranged into a data structure based on the data type, an arrangement type and/or other information interpreted from the image. The data type may indicate one or more attributes of the arranged data such as a format, font, date, language, or currency. The data type may also indicate how data is used in a process, equation or calculation. In addition, the data type may identify an anchor that may be used to merge data generated from the image with other data generated from another image.
US09824268B2
The present invention provides a method of validating a media item, the method comprising receiving image data corresponding to a plurality of digital images of a media item to be validated, wherein each image is associated with a respective one of a plurality of different channels of an illumination source for illuminating the media item, selecting image data corresponding to two of the plurality of images, dividing a common parameter of the selected image data associated with corresponding locations of the two selected images to create ratio image data representing a ratio image for two different channels of the illumination source, extracting feature information associated with the ratio image, and classifying the extracted feature information with at least one classifier of a validation template to determine whether or not the media item is valid. A computer program and a Self-Service Terminal for validating a media item, such as a banknote, are also provided.
US09824261B2
A method of face detection to be performed by an apparatus including an image pickup module includes: obtaining a first image including image information of an object that is in focus; obtaining a pseudo distance between the image pickup module and the object when the first image is obtained by the obtaining; determining a first ratio of a plurality of ratios as a scaling value based on the pseudo distance; and performing face detection of the first image by changing the scaling value based on the first ratio.
US09824260B2
Embodiments described herein can be used to detect holes in a subset of pixels of a depth image that has been specified as corresponding to a user, and to fill such detected holes. Additionally, embodiments described herein can be used to produce a low resolution version of a subset of pixels that has been specified as corresponding to a user, so that when an image including a representation of the user is displayed, the image respects the shape of the user, yet is not a mirror image of the user. Further, embodiments described herein can be used to identify pixels, of a subset of pixels specified as corresponding to the user, that likely correspond to a floor supporting the user. This enables the removal of the pixels, identified as likely corresponding to the floor, from the subset of pixels specified as corresponding to the user.
US09824257B2
An all-flat sensor includes a coupling substrate; a sensing chip, which is disposed on the coupling substrate, has first electrodes arranged in an array and a first dielectric layer covering over the first electrodes, and is electrically connected to the coupling substrate; and a second dielectric layer covering over the sensing chip and providing an outlook color. An electronic device using the all-flat sensor is also provided.
US09824255B2
A method for manufacturing a plurality of fingerprint identification modules simultaneously is provided. A first thin film and a second thin film are formed on a first transfer base and a second transfer base respectively. The first thin film and the second thin film are cut respectively to form a plurality of first thin film units and a plurality of second thin film units. The first transfer base and the second transfer base are adhered on opposite surfaces of a substrate. The first thin film units and the second thin film units are cut respectively to form a plurality of the first piezoelectric layers and a plurality of the second piezoelectric layers. A plurality of first slits and a plurality of second slits are formed on opposite surfaces of the substrate for breaking the mother base into the fingerprint identification modules.
US09824244B1
A system, method, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing multifactor authentication with a wearable user authentication factor. A multi-factor authentication module is implemented to use a plurality of authentication factors, including a unique tag identifier associated with an electronic tag embedded within a wearable article, such as a ring or watch, for the authentication of a user. A user of a wearable user authentication factor approaches a multi-factor terminal, which detects the electronic tag and reads its unique identifier. The user is then requested to provide a predetermined biometric feature, such as a fingerprint, to a biometric reader. The biometric feature is processed to generate a unique biometric identifier. The unique identifier of the electronic tag and the unique biometric identifier is then submitted to a multi-factor authentication module, which compares it to authentication information associated with the user. If the submitted unique identifiers match the user's authentication information, then the user is authenticated.
US09824239B2
A system for and method of securely provisioning a module with cryptographic parameters, such as cryptographic keys and key tables, is presented. Such modules may be used to enable encrypted communications between mobile phones to which they are coupled. The system and method prevent a malevolent individual involved in manufacturing the modules from compromising the security of the module. In particular, the modules are provisioned by an entity different from the manufacturer.
US09824234B2
A method protects care information in a care provider terminal. The method includes detecting if there is a network disconnection between the care provider terminal and an authorized access point (AP), operating the care provider terminal in an offline mode until a first predetermined time is over after the network disconnection is detected, activating an alarm operation when the first predetermined time is over, and deleting the care information when a second predetermined time is over after the alarm operation is activated. The method may further include determining whether or not the care provider terminal is connected to an unauthorized AP while counting the first predetermined time or the second predetermined time, and deleting the care information if it is determined that the care provider terminal is connected to the unauthorized AP.
US09824224B2
In order to solve this problem, the first aspect of the present invention is a system for duplicating (cloning) a physical environment in a virtual environment using CMDB, the system comprising: means for setting a level of confidentiality for attributes of configuration items (CI) of CMDB managing the source hardware information and software information, and means for sending CMDB information including CI having the level of confidentiality set to a virtual environment constructing means connected via a network; the virtual environment constructing means having a means for constructing the source environment in a virtual environment based on sent CMDB information; and the sending means having a means for changing the level of confidentiality of CI attributes having the level of confidentiality set in accordance with a default confidentiality policy.
US09824223B2
In a binary patching system for alleviating security vulnerabilities in a binary representation of a software application, a binary code portion determined to be associated with a security vulnerability is replaced with a replacement binary code that can avoid such vulnerability without substantially changing the functionality of the code portion that was replaced. The replacement binary code can be selected based on properties and/or context of the code portion to be replaced.
US09824222B1
In one aspect, the disclosure provides: A method comprising: inviting a distributed plurality of researchers to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects directed to identifying computer vulnerabilities of one or more networks and/or computers that are owned or operated by a third party; assessing reputation and skills of one or more of the researchers, and accepting a subset of the researchers who have a positive reputation and sufficient skills to perform the investigations of the computer vulnerabilities; assigning a particular computer vulnerability research project, relating to a particular network under test, to a particular researcher from among the subset of the researchers; using a computer that is logically interposed between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, monitoring communications between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, wherein the communications relate to attempting to identify a candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test; validating a report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher; determining and providing an award to the particular researcher in response to successfully validating the report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher.
US09824215B2
A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, execution of a portion of internal code of an interface is identified. Further, in response to the execution of the portion of internal code, at least one aspect of an invocation of the interface is monitored and/or analyzed.
US09824208B2
Methods and systems for periodically generating and managing passwords for one or more websites of users are disclosed. The users are provided with the ability to automatically replace their old passwords with new passwords for their one or more website accounts. The users can set a pre-determined frequency at which their passwords are to be updated and replaced with new passwords. The users can further define additional one or more rules based on which their passwords are updated. The methods and systems are further configured to auto log into user's website accounts with the updated passwords.
US09824207B1
Techniques for maintaining and updating authentication information for a plurality of accounts may be provided. In an example a first set of authentication information for the plurality of accounts may be maintained. A second set of authentication information that has been marked as potentially compromised may be received. A third set of authentication information may be generated based on the overlap between the first set of authentication information and the second set of authentication information. The first set of authentication information may be updated based at least in part on one or more security authentication protocols and the third set of authentication information.
US09824204B2
Systems and methods for automatically signing a user on to an integration application when a user signs on to another application and signing a user off when the user signs off of the other application. The integration application automatically non-programmatically collects data from a mapped location of a mapped source reference of the other application. The collected data includes a user identifier value. The integration continuously monitors the collected user identifier value for a difference in the collected user identifier value. If the collected user identifier value is recognized by the integration application, the user is signed into the integration application using the collected user identifier value, and if a difference in the collected user identifier value is detected, the user is signed off of the integration application.
US09824195B2
Methods and systems for determining consecutive matches are provided. According to one embodiment, a class definition and a data stream are received by a network security device. The data stream is partitioned into multiple data blocks each containing N data segments. Each data block is processed in parallel to compute: (i) a value (F) indicating whether every data segment value meets the class definition; (ii) a value (L) indicating a number of consecutive data segment values meeting the class definition starting from the left; (iii) a value (M) indicating a maximum number of consecutive data segment values meeting the class definition; and (iv) a value (R) indicating a number of consecutive data segment values meeting the class definition starting from the right. Corresponding values for each data block are then aggregated to determine a maximum number of consecutive data segment values meeting the class definition for the entire data stream.
US09824193B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for using mobile devices with validated user network identity as physical identity proof. Responsive to successfully authenticating a client device for network access, a system generates a network credential for the client device and transmits the network credential to the client device. Further, the system detects that the client device is within a range of a short range wireless device that is associated with a particular physical action. Consequently, the system validates the network credential that the client device possesses. Based on the network credential, the system determines that the client device has permissions for performing the particular physical action, and causes performance of the particular physical action.
US09824175B1
A method for automatically verifying validity of application of a refinement rule includes calculating a set of values that characterize a hierarchy of elements of the emulation. A currently calculated value for a first element at a first level of the hierarchy is compared with a previously calculated value that characterized the first element at a previous time. If the currently calculated value is the same as the previously calculated value, application of the refinement rule is determined to be valid for unnamed entities of the first element. If the currently calculated value is different from the previously calculated value, each currently calculated value that characterizes a lower level element at a lower level of the hierarchy is compared with a corresponding previously calculated value to identify a change and it is determined whether the change invalidates application of the refinement rule to an unnamed entity of the emulation.
US09824170B1
Message filtering may include, during a first processing phase of a design specified in source code, creating a filter table including message filters and storing the filter table in a memory using a processor. Each message filter may specify a message criterion and an object identifier of the design. During a subsequent processing phase of the design, received messages may be compared with the message filters of the filter table using the processor. Responsive to determining that a selected message matches a message criterion and an object identifier of a selected message filter, the message may be suppressed using the processor.
US09824165B2
A method for designing a circuit element of an integrated circuit (IC) includes receiving one or more desired characteristics of the circuit element from user input and iteratively determining a design solution through one or more simulations and modifications using a rule-set. The one or more desired characteristics are combined with other preset characteristics of the circuit element or the IC. A first model of the circuit element is defined and simulated to calculate performance. The first and subsequent models are modified by drawing on a rule-set of expert knowledge relating to general dependency of at least one design criterion, such as a physical, geometrical or performance characteristic, with another design criterion.
US09824164B2
The invention is a system for predicting emissions of pollutants from a vehicle equipped with an engine using processors (3) to determine emission of pollutants. The processors include a first group of processors (1) for carrying out calculations of chemical kinetics for determining the amounts of chemical compounds present in a chemical reaction in the engine and a second group of processors (2) for carrying out calculations of emission of pollutants simultaneously with the calculation of chemical kinetics, allowing determination of the emission of pollutants from the calculated amounts of chemical compounds. The first group of processors (1) has a global supervisor processor (4) allowing storing data required for the calculations and to distribute the calculations to clusters (5) of processors.
US09824160B2
A computer implemented method of accessing a data set comprising a plurality of records, wherein each record is associated with one or more items of data. The method comprises using the computer to receive a data query on the data set. Each record is assigned to an in-group or to an out-group with respect to the query. Words appearing in records of the in-group are determined and a user interface representative of said words is generated. Words appearing in records of the out-group are determined and a user interface representative of said words is generated.
US09824155B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for collecting information from data sources by receiving a collection request at a collection tool to collect information, where the collection request includes data source information indicating a data source from which to retrieve the information. The data source information in the collection request is associated with one or more electronic data repositories in response to the data source indicated by the data source information being previously unidentified to the collection tool. The information is collected from the one or more associated electronic data repositories.
US09824144B2
A method and system for previewing a media item recommendation queue. A server receives a request from a first device for at least a portion of a media item recommendation queue associated with a second device. The server provides to the first device a plurality of recommendation queue entries from a top portion of the media item recommendation queue associated with the second device. The order of the plurality of recommendation queue entries in the media item recommendation queue is based on a plurality of priority indicators associated with the second device. The server receives a request from the first device to couple the second device to the first device and couples the second device to the first device, wherein media item recommendations generated by the second device are directed to the first device.
US09824139B2
Provided are an integrated multilingual consonant pattern search method and apparatus for extracting original strings, in correspondence with a number that is small compared to that of a conventional technology, as a search result and displaying the search result, by inputting a consonant pattern which is formed of a plurality of consonants, with respect to an original string list that is pre-stored in a database in a language written with a phonogram in which an initial consonant and a final consonant are distinguished from each other. Provided are also a method and apparatus for generating a character input unit for inputting consonant characters to be searched fast with a low typing error rate, by using the integrated multilingual consonant pattern search method.
US09824136B2
Managing application interaction on a device using dynamic containers. A method includes, for a set of applications on a device, based on certain conditions, determining a plurality of container groups. Each container group defines a set of applications and a set of interactions parameters defining boundaries of interactions between the applications for the applications in the container group. The method further includes identifying one or more changes in the certain conditions. As a result of identifying one or more changes in the certain conditions, the method includes changing membership in the container groups.
US09824131B2
A technique includes determining at least one metric associated with a replication operation to replicate at least a portion of a first object stored on one of a client, a first storage appliance and a second storage appliance onto another one of the client, the first storage appliance and the second storage appliance. The technique further includes regulating the replication operation including selectively regulating at least one parameter of the replication operation based on the metric(s).
US09824125B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for storing, suggesting, and/or utilizing lighting settings. A database of relevant lighting settings for recommendation to lighting users may be managed and at least some of the relevant lighting settings may each be associated with a weighting corresponding to an experience level of a user that created the lighting setting. Relevant lighting settings for a lighting system may also be identified and a creator experience level, lighting systems contextual data, and/or reconstructability of the lighting settings may be used in identifying and/or sorting the relevant lighting settings.
US09824122B2
Disclosed herein are a system, non-transitory computer readable medium and method for fulfilling requests for source code. A description is associated with each section of source code text. A section of source code, whose description at least partially matches a source code request, is obtained and displayed.
US09824113B2
Programmable devices selectively allocate file content portions between cloud and secured hardware device storage mediums. A confidential portion of a first file is stored as a second file on a memory device, and a remainder portion of content of the first file that is different from the confidential portion and is not designated as confidential is stored on a cloud storage system. A uniform resource indicator is generated that includes a routing identifier to the memory device, and a section routing identifier to a location of the stored second file on the memory device. A revised version of the first file is stored to the cloud storage system wherein the confidential portion of the first file is replaced with the generated uniform resource indicator within the revised version of the first file at a location of the confidential portion within the content of the first file.
US09824112B1
The disclosure includes a system and method for creating event streams from raw data. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive a first event and a second event associated with a first user from a first user device; receive a third event associated with a second user from a second user device; determine one or more overlapping activities between the first event and the third event; update the first event using the third event to generate a first update event; update the third event using the first event to generate a second update event; generate a first event stream that includes the first update event and the second event for the first user; and generate a second event stream that includes the second update event for the second user.
US09824103B2
Techniques associated with data management and distribution are described, including receiving at a content distribution and management system activity data associated with a user from a client, the client having an interface configured to display commercial content and a player configured to access the content distribution and management system, storing the activity data in a database, displaying the commercial content using the interface, receiving other activity data associated with the user from the client, storing the other activity data in the database, determining other commercial content to display using the activity data and the other activity data, and displaying the other commercial content.
US09824095B1
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that uses overlay metadata in a cloud controller to generate incremental snapshots for a distributed filesystem. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems. More specifically, the cloud controllers cache and ensure data consistency for the data stored in the cloud storage systems, with each cloud controller maintaining a metadata hierarchy that reflects the current state of the distributed filesystem. During operation, a cloud controller receiving new data from a client: (1) stores the new data in the cloud controller; (2) creates a metadata entry for the new data in the locally maintained metadata hierarchy; (3) updates the overlay metadata to point to the metadata entry and the new data stored in the cloud controller; and (4) then uses the overlay metadata to generate an incremental snapshot for the new data.
US09824094B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for downloading data from a cloud system. A plurality of files on the cloud system is identified for downloading to a client system, where the plurality of files is associated with metadata. A respective score for each file in the plurality of files is evaluated by applying a ranking scheme to the metadata, where the ranking scheme is based on at least two features of the metadata. A download process is initiated for at least some files in the plurality of files based on each file's respective score.
US09824092B2
Data storage systems and processes are provided including processes for handling write and read requests to a storage system. A storage system can include data stores, such as a log store, a hash store and a journal store. Data can be written to a log store, a log store can be converted to a hash store, and hash stores can be merged into a journal store. A storage system can use optimizations in writing and storing data, to provide lower latency, lower levels of write amplification and higher throughput.
US09824088B2
An approach is provided for an information handling system to present knowledge-based information. In the approach, a semantic analysis is performed on the document with the analysis resulting in various sets of semantic content. Each of the sets of semantic content corresponds to an area in the document. The areas of the document are visually highlighted using visual indicators that show the availability of the sets of semantic content to a user via a user interface. In response to a user selection, such as a selection using the user interface or a user specified configuration setting, a selected set of semantic content is displayed to the user using the interface.
US09824069B2
A method providing an analytical technique introducing label information into an anomaly detection model. The method includes the steps of: inputting measurement data having an anomalous or normal label and measurement data having no label as samples; determining a similarity matrix indicating the relationship between the samples based on the samples; defining a penalty based on the similarity matrix and calculating parameters in accordance with an updating equation having a term reducing the penalty; and calculating a degree of anomaly based on the calculated parameters. The present invention also provides a program and system for detecting an anomaly based on measurement data.
US09824065B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
US09824060B2
The present tool and method relate to device fault detection, diagnosis and prognosis. More particularly, the present tool and method store in a database a plurality of measured indicators representative of at least one dynamic condition of the device. The present tool and method further binarize by a processor the plurality of measured indicators, and analyze the plurality of binarized measured indicators using a machine learning data tool for extracting at least one pattern from the binarized measured indicators by adding at least one different constraint to each iteration. The at least one extracted pattern is indicative of whether the device has a fault or not.
US09824054B2
A firmware updating method in just a bunch of disks includes the following blocks. A motherboard is coupled to a first primary storage extension chip or to a second primary storage extension chip. The first primary storage extension chip and the second primary storage extension chip are coupled to each other. At least one secondary storage extension chip is coupled to the first primary storage extension chip. At least one secondary storage extension chip is coupled to the second primary storage extension chip. A signal sent to the first primary storage extension chip or to the second primary storage extension chip by the motherboard causes firmware of each storage extension chip to be updated.
US09824051B2
A remote access appliance is disclosed which provides electronic display identification data (EDID) information associated with a monitor which is communicating with the appliance, to any one of a plurality of remote computers in communication with the appliance, without requiring rebooting of a selected one of the remote computers. A plurality of multiplexers is controlled by a controller for interfacing a selected one of the computers to a display data channel (DDC) interface associated with the monitor. Memory devices are accessible by each of the computers and by the controller which store the EDID information. The controller controls the multiplexers so that any selected one of the computers can communicate with the monitor, and can access an associated one of the memory devices to obtain the stored EDID information, or such that the EDID information can be loaded into each of the memory devices.
US09824049B1
Methods and systems are provided routing access requests produced by a function to a physical sharing machine on a computer interconnect fabric. Access requests are routed through a switch that includes an NTB, the NTB using an address-lookup table to ensure that access requests made by multiple physical sharing machines are appropriately isolated from one another.
US09824036B2
Described are memory systems in which a memory controller issues commands and addresses to multiple memory modules that collectively support each read and write transactions. A common set of control signal lines from the controller communicates the same command and address signals to the modules. For write commands, the controller sends subsets of write data to each module over a respective subset of data lines. For read commands, each module responds with a subset of the requested data over the respective subset of data lines. The memory modules can be width configurable so that a single full-width module can connect to both subsets of data lines to convey full-width data, or two half-width modules can connect one each to the subsets of data lines.
US09824033B2
The present application relates to a heap sorting method based on arrangement and apparatus which can improve the heap sorting conducting speed through reducing access (I/O) frequency of the external memory when conducting heap sorting through storing binary data in the basic access unit of the external memory device in reference to the subtree unit.
US09824029B2
A memory device includes: a main block that includes a plurality of first pages that are accessible based on a multi-bit address; and a sub-block that includes a plurality of second pages that are accessible based on a portion of bits of the multi-bit address, and stores a replacement data for replacing entire or a portion of the data of an accessed first page among the plurality of the first pages in a second page that stores the same tags as the other bits of the multi-bit address among the accessed second pages.
US09824026B2
An apparatus and method are described for managing a virtual graphics processor unit (GPU). For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a dynamic addressing module to map portions of an address space required by the virtual machine to matching free address spaces of a host if such matching free address spaces are available, and to select non-matching address spaces for those portions of the address space required by the virtual machine which cannot be matched with free address spaces of the host; and a balloon module to perform address space ballooning (ASB) techniques for those portions of the address space required by the virtual machine which have been mapped to matching address spaces of the host; and address remapping logic to perform address remapping techniques for those portions of the address space required by the virtual machine which have not been mapped to matching address spaces of the host.
US09824022B2
An address translation capability in which information is obtained from an address translation structure to be used to translate a first address to a second address, the first address being of a first address type and the second address being of a second address type. The address translation structure includes a first set of information to translate the first address to one address of the second address type and a second set of information to translate the first address to another address of the second address type. To obtain the information, the first set of information or the second set of information is selected as the information to be used to translate the first address to the second address, based on an attribute of the first address.
US09824021B2
An address translation capability in which information is obtained from an address translation structure to be used to translate a first address to a second address, the first address being of a first address type and the second address being of a second address type. The address translation structure includes a first set of information to translate the first address to one address of the second address type and a second set of information to translate the first address to another address of the second address type. To obtain the information, the first set of information or the second set of information is selected as the information to be used to translate the first address to the second address, based on an attribute of the first address.
US09824018B2
A de-duplication is configured to cache data for access by a plurality of different storage clients, such as virtual machines. A virtual machine may comprise a virtual machine de-duplication module configured to identify data for admission into the de-duplication cache. Data admitted into the de-duplication cache may be accessible by two or more storage clients. Metadata pertaining to the contents of the de-duplication cache may be persisted and/or transferred with respective storage clients such that the storage clients may access the contents of the de-duplication cache after rebooting, being power cycled, and/or being transferred between hosts.
US09824013B2
Systems and methods for allocation of cache lines in a shared partitioned cache of a multi-threaded processor. A memory management unit is configured to determine attributes associated with an address for a cache entry associated with a processing thread to be allocated in the cache. A configuration register is configured to store cache allocation information based on the determined attributes. A partitioning register is configured to store partitioning information for partitioning the cache into two or more portions. The cache entry is allocated into one of the portions of the cache based on the configuration register and the partitioning register.
US09824011B2
A method and an apparatus for processing data and a computer system are provided. The method includes copying a shared virtual memory page to which a first process requests access into off-chip memory of a computing node, and using the shared virtual memory page copied into the off-chip memory as a working page of the first process; and before the first process performs a write operation on the working page, creating, in on-chip memory of the computing node, a backup page of the working page, so as to back up original data of the working page. Before a write operation is performed on a working page, page data is backed up in the on-chip memory, so as to ensure data consistency when multiple processes perform an operation on a shared virtual memory page while accessing off-chip memory as less as possible and improving a speed of a program.
US09824010B2
According to one example of the present disclosure, a system includes a computing element configured to provide requests for memory access operations and a memory module comprising a plurality of memories, a plurality of independent data channels, each of the independent data channels coupled to one of the plurality of memories, a plurality of internal address/control channels, each of the independent address/control channels coupled to one of the plurality of memories, and control logic coupled to the plurality of internal address/control channels and configured to receive and decode address and control information for a memory access operation, the control logic further configured to selectively provide the decoded address and control information to a selected internal address/control channel for a selected independent data channel of the plurality of independent data channels based on the received address and control information for the memory access operation.
US09824007B2
Systems, methods and/or devices are used to enable enhancing data integrity to protect against returning old versions of data. In one aspect, the method includes (1) receiving a write request from a host that specifies write data for a set of logical block addresses in a logical address space of the host, (2) mapping the set of logical block addresses to a set of physical addresses corresponding to physical pages of the storage device, and (3) performing one or more operations for each logical block specified by the set of logical block addresses, including: (a) generating metadata for the logical block, the metadata including a version number for the logical block, (b) storing the metadata, including the version number, in a header of a physical page in which the logical block is stored, and (c) storing the version number in a version data structure.
US09823999B2
In one embodiment, a system for program lifecycle testing includes receiving a request to test a program update at an interface. Using a processor, the system may then execute a validation test associated with the program update, wherein the validation test is conducted in a testing environment comprising a plurality of testing environment systems. The system may then use the processor to capture a current state of the testing environment at a start of the validation test, and confirm that the plurality of testing environment systems are operating according to the validation test. The system may then use the interface to receive testing results from the validation test and compare the testing results to previous test results from a prior program update. The system may then store the validation test results, the current state of the testing environment, and a name of the program update, in a performance database.
US09823998B2
A method (and system) for trace recovery includes retrieving a code listing from a memory and performing a static analysis on the retrieved code listing. Based on the static analysis, profiling instructions are inserted in the code.
US09823993B2
One or more problems may be detected in an executing application by retrieving runtime execution information from the application executing on one or more computers. The runtime information is transformed into a temporal sequence of events. A knowledgebase is searched for a dialog that has nodes in an order that match the temporal sequence of events according to a threshold degree. Responsive to finding the dialog in the knowledgebase, the dialog is launched on a user interface to interact with a user and guide the user through a problem identification and solution. Responsive to not finding the dialog, additional instrumenter is enabled in the application.
US09823991B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for concurrent workload simulation for application performance testing. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for concurrent workload simulation for application performance testing is provided. The method includes loading a list of recorded workloads for different tasks of a computing application under test in a workload simulator executing in memory by at least one processor of a host computer. The method also includes grouping the recorded workloads by common task in a corresponding block. Finally, the method includes generating loads for simulating performance of the computing application under test from the grouped workloads so as to require serial execution of workloads in a common block in order of appearance in the common block, but to allow concurrent execution of workloads in different blocks.
US09823987B1
Implementations disclosed herein provide a method comprising iteratively reading data from a failing media sector prior to a an error minimization operation, analyzing read data at each iteration using an error minimization operation to determine sections of read data as good data, storing the good data in a buffer during each iteration, and using the good data as input for the read data during a subsequent error retry operation. In another implementation, the method further comprises comparing new read data with stored good data in the buffer, and replacing the stored good data with the new read data if the new read data has a higher quality than the stored good data.
US09823982B1
Transactional log data for a distributed database may be archived by a number of computing nodes scalable to a specified concurrency parameter. A log record may be mapped to a computing node for performance of an archiving operation. The log record may be stored with information indicative of a position, in a hierarchy of shards, of the shard from which the log record originated. The log record may be replayed in an order, relative to other records, that is based on the shard's position in the shard hierarchy. The log record may be replayed on a shard identified based on a time-invariant and idempotent hash function.
US09823981B2
Techniques for backup and restore of optimized data streams are described. A chunk store includes each optimized data stream as a plurality of chunks including at least one data chunk and corresponding optimized stream metadata. The chunk store includes data chunks in a deduplicated manner. Optimized data streams stored in the chunk store are identified for backup. At least a portion of the chunk store is stored in backup storage according to an optimized backup technique, an un-optimized backup technique, an item level backup technique, or a data chunk identifier backup technique. Optimized data streams stored in the backup storage may be restored. A file reconstructor includes a callback module that generates calls to a restore application to request optimized stream metadata and any referenced data chunks from the backup storage. The file reconstructor reconstructs the data streams from the referenced data chunks.
US09823974B1
Techniques to back up data are disclosed. In various embodiments, a shadow copy of a source volume is created. An excluded file is deleted from the shadow copy. One or more blocks modified in the shadow copy in connection with deleting the excluded file from the shadow copy are tracked. An incremental backup is performed, the incremental backup includes determining one or more blocks to be backed up in connection with the incremental backup based at least in part on at least one of the tracked one or more blocks modified in the shadow copy and a merged bitmap corresponding to a merger of a first bitmap associated with the shadow copy and a second bitmap associated with the source volume.
US09823969B2
Systems and techniques for managing data storage are disclosed. In some aspects, a front-end node responds to a request to write an object by dividing the object into multiple source data segments. The front-end node generates redundancy data for the multiple source data segments using a rateless erasure encoding. The front-end node associates a respective subset of the redundancy data with each of the multiple source data segments, wherein each subset of redundancy data and associated source data segment form an encoded segment. The rateless erasure encoding further includes defining multiple segment-level fragments within each of the encoded segments. The front-end node transmits each of the encoded segments to a selected one of multiple storage nodes, wherein each of the selected storage nodes are selected based on a determined storage layout of the encoded segments across the multiple storage nodes. For each of the received encoded segments, the storage node generates one or more protection fragments based on redundancy data generated from the segment-level fragments and stores the segment-level fragments and corresponding protection fragments across multiple storage media devices managed by the selected storage node.
US09823964B2
A method for updating a DRAM memory array is disclosed. The method comprises: a) receiving a command from a memory controller to initiate an active cycle for activating a memory row in a DRAM memory array; b) performing an Error Correction Code (ECC) scrub on the memory row prior to reading data from the memory row into sense amplifiers in the DRAM memory array in accordance with the command to activate; c) activating the memory row; and d) writing corrected data following the ECC scrub back into memory from the sense amplifiers during a pre-charge cycle of the DRAM memory array.
US09823960B2
A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) device configured to support parallel calculation of a CRC value for a data frame comprises a plurality of CRC processing units each configured to accept one of a plurality of data segments of the data frame of a variable size that can be unknown to the CRC device beforehand and generate one of plurality of partial CRC values in parallel with rest of the CRC processing units over multiple clock cycles/iterations. The CRC device further comprises an integration component configured to integrate the plurality of partial CRC values from the plurality of CRC processing units into one final CRC value for the data frame, wherein the final CRC value is attached to the data frame for error checking during storage or transmission of the data frame.
US09823956B2
A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may output an external strobe signal and external data. The second semiconductor device may extract error information from the external data in synchronization with the external strobe signal during a write operation and outputs the external data and the error information through input/output (I/O) lines during the write operation. The second semiconductor device may correct errors of internal data with the error information loaded on the I/O lines to output the corrected internal data as the external data during a read operation.
US09823955B2
Failures in a storage system are managed at low cost and with high reliability. A storage system is coupled to a file command issuing apparatus and a block command issuing apparatus, and processes commands from both. The storage system is provided with: a first control portion which is provided extending across a plurality of clusters and which is configured to control block access requests to a disk device; a plurality of second control portions which are configured to process file access requests and provided respectively in the clusters, and operate on virtual machines managed by a virtualization control portion; failure detecting portions which are configured to detect failures within each of the clusters; and a failure information management portion which is provided in the first control portion and which is configured to consolidate and manage failure information relating to failures detected by the failure detecting portions.
US09823954B2
A method for predicting anomalies in a computer application includes during runtime of the computer application, detecting traffic metrics and incident tickets associated with the computer application, the incident ticket indicating an incident might occur in the computer application; calculating a threshold based on absolute values of second order differences associated with the traffic metrics, wherein the threshold is such that when the absolute value of the second order difference associated with the traffic metrics exceeds the threshold, a recall rate Rrecall that the computer application is recalled is maximized; obtaining predicted metrics of the computer application in a next time period based on the traffic metrics; and in response to an absolute value of a second order difference associated with the predicted metrics exceeding the threshold, predicting potential anomalies of the computer application in the next time period.
US09823949B2
Systems and methods are shown for routing task objects to multiple agents that involve analyzing content of each task object in an input buffer to determine a classification relevant to the content of the task object that is added to task object metadata, which is placed in a second buffer. Objects in the second buffer are analyzed and the classification in the object metadata used to search workforce management data representing agent characteristics to identify agents who match the classification. A routing strategy is applied to the object to select an agent and the object is routed to the agent's workbin. Another aspect involves organizing workbin tasks objects by priority, according to recent system conditions excluding objects that cannot presently be processed based on a workflow strategy or status data and presenting remaining objects based on order of priority, or re-arranging objects between workbins based on recent status info.
US09823944B2
A deployment control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a first terminal device, a deployment request for requesting deployment of a virtual machine. The processor is configured to generate, in response to the received deployment request, the virtual machine configured to hold first permission information corresponding to unique information of the first terminal device, and selectively allow an access from a terminal device having permission information identical to the first permission information. The processor is configured to transmit the first permission information to the first terminal device.
US09823939B2
A system for an agnostic runtime architecture. The system includes a close to bare metal JIT conversion layer, a runtime native instruction assembly component included within the conversion layer for receiving instructions from a guest virtual machine, and a runtime native instruction sequence formation component included within the conversion layer for receiving instructions from native code. The system further includes a dynamic sequence block-based instruction mapping component included within the conversion layer for code cache allocation and metadata creation, and is coupled to receive inputs from the runtime native instruction assembly component and the runtime native instruction sequence formation component, and wherein the dynamic sequence block-based instruction mapping component receives resulting processed instructions from the runtime native instruction assembly component and the runtime native instruction sequence formation component and allocates the resulting processed instructions to a processor for execution.
US09823934B2
When providing a user with native access to at least a portion of device hardware, the user can be prevented from modifying firmware and other configuration information by controlling the mechanisms used to update that information. In some embodiments, an asymmetric keying approach can be used to encrypt or sign the firmware. In other cases access can be controlled by enabling firmware updates only through a channel or port that is not exposed to the customer, or by mapping only those portions of the hardware that are to be accessible to the user. In other embodiments, the user can be prevented from modifying firmware by only provisioning the user on a machine after an initial mutability period wherein firmware can be modified, such that the user never has access to a device when firmware can be updated. Combinations and variations of the above also can be used.
US09823932B2
A tagged geometric length (TAGE) branch predictor incorporates multiple prediction tables. Each of these prediction tables has prediction storage lines which store a common stored TAG value and a plurality of branch predictions in respect of different offset positions within a block of program instructions read in parallel. Each of the branch prediction has an associated validity indicator. Update of predictions stored may be made by a partial allocation mechanism in which a TAG match occurs and a branch storage line is partially overwritten or by full allocation in which no already matching TAG victim storage line can be identified and instead a whole prediction storage line is cleared and the new prediction stored therein.
US09823927B2
According to some embodiments, the workgroup divisibility requirement may be dispensed with on a selective or permanent basis, i.e. in all cases, particular cases or at particular times and/or under particular conditions. An application programming interface implementation may be allowed to launch workgroups with non-uniform local sizes. Two different local sizes may be used in a case of a one-dimensional workload.
US09823921B2
An application is modified during execution by a hotpatch controller of a kernel receiving one or more new versions of a selection of one or more functions of multiple functions of an application and at least one selection criteria for applying the one or more new versions to the application during execution of the application to update a selection of one or more existing versions of the one or more functions. The hotpatch controller selectively transfers control from the selection of one or more existing versions of the one or more functions to the one or more new versions for only a selection of one or more processes that call the selection of one or more existing versions of the one or more functions from among multiple processes of the application, the selection of one or more processes each comprising one or more attributes matching the at least one selection criteria.
US09823920B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a firmware and configuration file management system (FCMS) for automatically updating firmware and configuration file of a device manager. In one embodiment, the firmware management system receives one or more inputs associated with configuration data of one or more devices coupled with the device manager. Based on the inputs, a new firmware comprising a Modbus library and new configuration file is generated. The device manager periodically requests the FCMS for availability of update in the firmware and configuration file. If the availability of update is determined, the new firmware and new configuration file is downloaded into the device manager. Thus, the system periodically checks for update and download the updated firmware and configuration file automatically.
US09823917B2
In one embodiment, receiving a notice that a new version of a user interface of an application is available; storing information about the new version of the user interface; requesting permission from the application to update the user interface to the new version; and if the application grants the permission, then replacing an old version of the user interface of the application with the new version.
US09823910B2
Methods and a system are provided. A method includes implementing a function, which a compiler for a first language does not have, using a compiler for a second language. The implementing step includes generating, by the compiler for the first language, a first abstract syntax tree. The implementing step further includes converting, by a converter, the first abstract syntax tree to a second abstract syntax tree of the compiler for the second language using a conversion table from data representation types in the first language to data representation types in the second language. When a compilation error occurs, the implementing step also includes generating a special node for error processing in the second abstract syntax tree and storing an error token in the special node. When unparsing, the implementing step additionally includes outputting the error token, in the form of source code written in the first language.
US09823901B1
A method and apparatus for generating functional application designs is described. The method may include receiving one or more natural language utterances corresponding to natural language design commands for editing an application being designed. The method may also include editing one or more components of the application being designed based on each of the natural language utterances. Furthermore, the method may include generating a functional instance of the application being designed.
US09823899B2
A random number processing device according to an aspect of the present disclosure is a random number processing device generating random number data by using data read from memory cells, the memory cells having a property such that, in a variable state, in response to application of different electrical signals, a resistance value of each of the memory cells reversibly transitions between resistance value ranges and, when the resistance value falls within at least one resistance value range among the resistance value ranges, the resistance value changes as time passes, the random number processing device including a random number processing circuit that, in operation, generates first random number data from a combination of first resistance value information and second resistance value information about the resistance values of first and second memory cells among the memory cells which fall within the at least one resistance value range.
US09823895B2
Matching at least one regular expression pattern in an input stream may be optimized by initializing a search context in a run stack based on (i) partial match results determined from walking segments of a payload of a flow through a first finite automation and (ii) a historical search context associated with the flow. The search context may be modified via push or pop operations to direct at least one processor to walk segments of the payload through the at least one second finite automation. The search context may be maintained in a manner that obviates overflow of the search context and obviating stalling of the push or pop operations to increase match performance.
US09823889B2
A method of estimating a fragment count for the display of at least one three-dimensional (3D) object. The method comprises determining an ellipsoid representative of a set of vertices defined by coordinates of the at least one 3D object, applying a transformation to the ellipsoid, calculating a projection area of the transformed ellipsoid, and estimating the fragment count for the display of the 3D object based at least partly on the calculated projection area of the transformed ellipsoid.
US09823884B2
An inspection system includes an inspection apparatus configured to examine, for each print, whether a defect has occurred on at least one print side of the print based on a read image of the at least one print side and an image that correspond to a read image, and configured to notify a printer of sheet identification information about a sheet on which an original image of a certain page is printed, the original image being out of original images for one or more pages including an original image formed on a print side on which the defect has occurred; and the printer configured to print, based on the notified sheet identification information and sheet identification information about a sheet on which a position notification image that indicates a positional relation with a print on which the original image of the certain page is formed, the position notification image.
US09823881B2
A management server allocates storage for a virtual disk of a virtual machine configured to execute on a first host computer, where the first host computer is associated with a plurality of data storage devices including first and second data storage devices, and where a first portion of storage is allocated to the virtual disk from the first storage device. The management server receives a request to allocate a second portion of storage to the virtual disk of the virtual machine and, responsive to determining that the first data storage device has insufficient free storage space from which to allocate the second portion of storage, selects the second data storage device having sufficient free storage space from which to allocate the second portion of storage. The management server allocates the second portion of storage for the virtual disk of the virtual machine from the second data storage device, wherein the virtual machine accesses the first and second portions of storage as a single virtual disk.
US09823879B2
Managing a networked storage system having a host operable to connect through a network fabric to storage apparatus comprises: a configuration component for inputting a configuration change into the networked storage system responsive to change instructions; a monitoring component operable in communication with the host and the network fabric to monitor I/O activity associated with elements of the networked storage system; an activity data storage component responsive to the monitoring component for storing a record of a monitored I/O activity; an analysis component, responsive to the configuration component for inputting configuration changes, for analyzing the record of a monitored I/O activity for a recent activity; and an alert component, responsive to the analysis component detecting a recent activity, for alerting the configuration component.
US09823864B2
A method may include transmitting, via a processor, a plurality of packets to a receiving component, such that the plurality of packets corresponds to a plurality of data operations configured to access a memory component. The plurality of packets is stored in a buffer of the receiving component upon receipt. The method may also include determining, via the processor, whether an available capacity of the buffer is less than a threshold, decreasing a transmission rate of the plurality of packets when the available capacity is less than the threshold.
US09823855B2
A storage control device controlling a storage system including a first storage device and a second storage device, the first storage device and the second storage device include a plurality of regions for storing data, respectively, a data transmission between the first storage device and the second storage device is executed by the region, the storage control device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to determine a first region of the first storage device as a first transmitting target region, the first region having a first size, transmit, from the first storage device to the second storage device, second data having a second size smaller than the first size, and based on a response performance of the storage system during the transmitting of the second data, transmit first data stored in the first region from the first storage device to the second storage device.
US09823850B2
Methods, articles of manufacture, and apparatus are disclosed to manage workload memory allocation. An example apparatus includes a workload controller to log instances of access to data records in a log, the workload controller to identify, from the log, a first set of the data records to be migrated to a first memory and a second set of the data records to be migrated to a second memory based on frequencies at which the data records were accessed during a runtime, and a memory manager to migrate the first set of data records to the first memory, and migrate the second set of data records to the second memory.
US09823849B2
Provided are a method, system, computer readable storage medium, and switch for configuring a switch to assign partitions in storage devices to compute nodes. A management controller configures the switch to dynamically allocate partitions of at least one of the storage devices to the compute nodes based on a workload at the compute node.
US09823845B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and a processing module operably coupled to the interface and to the memory such that the processing module, when operable within the computing device based on the operational instructions, is configured to perform various operations. When additional unique pillar combinations of at least read threshold number of encoded data slices (EDSs) supported by EDSs may be needed, the computing device dispersed error encodes each data segment in accordance to generate additional pluralities of EDSs and distributedly stores the additional pluralities of EDSs associated respectively with the data object across the plurality of SUs within the DSN to support the additional unique pillar combinations of the at least read threshold number of EDSs.
US09823844B2
A memory management method is provided. The method includes receiving a write command, a first data, and a first instruction information corresponding to the write command, wherein the first instruction information instructs writing the first data into at least one first logical sub-unit of a first logical unit; executing load-align operation to the first data according to the first instruction information; writing an aligned first data obtained through the load-align operation into a first physical programming unit if a predetermined event does not occur during the load-align operation; and stopping the load-align operation and storing the first data and the first instruction information into a first physical erasing unit if the predetermined event occurs during the load-align operation, wherein the first instruction information is stored as a first valid bits information corresponding to the first data in the first physical erasing unit.
US09823837B2
This display control device can effectively reduce power consumption while assuring visibility of a display area. A display control device (400) carries out display control for a display panel with an integrated touch panel and has: a touch operation information acquisition unit (410) that acquires touch operation information from the touch panel; a user operation information estimation unit (420) that estimates a region of interest, which is a region that a user is giving attention to, from the display region on the display panel on the basis of the touch operation information that is acquired; and a display control indication unit (440) that sets the brightness level for regions of non-interest, which is a region other than the region of interest estimated within the display region, lower than the set brightness level.
US09823828B2
The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects. A device, including a display and a rotatable input mechanism, is described in relation to manipulating user interface objects. In some examples, the manipulation of the object is a scroll, zoom, or rotate of the object. In other examples, objects are selected in accordance with simulated magnetic properties.
US09823822B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and data processing systems for presenting dynamic data pertaining to a process. In one aspect, region information identifying a plurality of user-selected regions of the process, switching information identifying criteria for switching among the user-selected regions, and dynamic data pertaining to the process, are used to generate a dynamic visual representation of the process which emphasizes, at any given time, only one of the user-selected regions. The user-selected region emphasized at any given time is automatically determined according to the criteria for switching. In another aspect, region information identifying at least one user-selected region of the process and dynamic data pertaining to the process are used to generate a dynamic visual representation of at least a portion of the process containing the at least one user-selected region. The visual representation emphasizes each user-selected region within the context of the portion of the process.
US09823817B1
Methods, systems, and media for associating scenes depicted in media content with a map of where the media content was produced are provided. In some embodiments, a method for presenting map information with video information is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for a video from a user device; determining if there is location information associated with portions of the video; in response to determining that there is location information associated with the video, causing first map information corresponding to the location information to be presented in a first format during presentation of the video; receiving an indication that the first map information has been selected; in response to receiving the indication, causing second map information corresponding to the portion of the video that was being presented to be presented by the user device, wherein the second map information is presented in a second format.
US09823815B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a line-of-sight position acquisition unit configured to acquire a line-of-sight position of a user, a state control unit configured to perform a transition to an active state in response to a first operation performed by the user, the active state being capable of selecting an object by the user through a line of sight of the user, and a processing unit configured to determine an object corresponding to the acquired line-of-sight position as a selected object in response to a second operation performed by the user subsequent to the first operation.
US09823809B2
Communicating information through a user platform by representing, on a user platform visual display, spatial publishing objects as entities at locations within a three-dimensional spatial publishing object space. Each spatial publishing object associated with information, and each presenting a subset of the associated information. Establishing a user presence at a location within the spatial publishing object space. The user presence, in conjunction with a user point-of-view, being navigable by the user in at least a two-dimensional sub-space of the spatial publishing object space.
US09823804B2
The present invention provides a method, a system, and a computer program product for configuring a Web portal for a computer-based application using one or more menus available in the computer-based application. It comprises classifying the menus available in the application according to the functionalities. The menus classified under each functionality are configured in a hierarchical structure for presenting on the Web portal corresponding to the functionality. A context bar is defined for the Web portal by defining at least one context element. Thereafter, mapping is defined for at least one field of one or more menus presented under the Web portal with one of the at least one context element. The mapping allows auto-filling of fields of an invoked menu with the value of the mapped context element, thereby reducing the manual effort of a user.
US09823791B2
The present invention provides a transmitter, which includes a transmitting module configured to transmit an electrical signal to a touch sensitive device according to at least one transmitter operating status such that the touch sensitive device acknowledges the transmitter operating status by analyzing the electrical signal including one or more first frequencies; a detecting module configured to detect an interference signal coherent to the electrical signal from a received signal external to the transmitter when the transmitting module is not transmitting the electrical signal; and a processing module configured to replace the detected one or more first frequencies with one or more second frequencies in response to the interference signal being detected by the detecting module.
US09823785B2
A touch-sensitive device with stylus includes a touch panel, a touch panel drive unit, a stylus sense unit, and a measurement unit. A touch by a stylus proximate to a touch panel electrode changes a capacitive coupling between the touch panel electrode and a stylus electrode. The amplitude of the response signal is responsive to the capacitive coupling between the touch panel electrode and the stylus electrode, and is measured to provide an indication of the position of the stylus electrode relative to the touch panel.
US09823784B2
A capacitive touch sensor wherein the touch sensitive panel has drive electrodes arranged on the lower side of a substrate and sense electrodes arranged on the upper side. The drive electrodes are shaped and dimensioned to substantially entirely cover the touch sensitive area with individual drive electrodes being separated from each other by small gaps, the gaps being so small as to be practically invisible. The near blanket coverage by the drive electrodes also serves to screen out interference from noise sources below the drive electrode layer, such as drive signals for an underlying display, thereby suppressing noise pick-up by the sense electrodes that are positioned above the drive electrodes.
US09823778B2
The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a touch device, including steps of detecting an enabled instruction for an assistance mode of the touch device; enabling the assistance mode when the enabled instruction for the assistance mode has been detected and displaying a preconfigured assistance mode operation interface on the touch device; and receiving an operational instruction generated when the assistance mode operation interface is operated via a physical button on the touch device and executing an operation response event corresponding to the operational instruction.
US09823772B2
A sensing device includes a comparator, a first switch, a second switch, and a controller. The comparator includes a first input end and a second input end. An end of the first switch is connected to one of a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode that are complementary. An end of the second switch is selectively connected to the second touch electrode. When the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode are touched, the controller controls the first switch to connect the first input end and the first touch electrode, controls the second switch to connect the second input end and the second touch electrode, and calculates a first touch position of the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode.
US09823771B2
According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a display apparatus capable of image scanning and a driving method thereof.According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a display apparatus capable of image scanning, including a plurality of contact sensors, each of them being arranged so as not to overlap a unit color pixel of a color filter layer and including only one sensing transistor generating a leakage current corresponding to the strength of light reflected from an outside object, a scan line applied with a selective signal selecting at least a part of the contact sensors among the plurality of contact sensors, and a readout line receiving an output signal corresponding to the amount of electric charge charged in a parasitic capacitance of the sensing transistor by the leakage current from a contact sensor applied with the selective signal.
US09823761B2
In the use of a touch panel which vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation, discomfort caused by a panel vibration sound is reduced while an operational feeling of a touch operation on the touch panel being maintained. A vibration control device used for an electronic apparatus which includes a touch panel that vibrates in synchronization with a touch operation and a vibrating source that is different from the touch panel, includes a predominant frequency acquirer that acquires a main component of a vibrational frequency of the vibrating source as a predominant frequency of vibrations of the vibrating source; a consonant sound determiner that determines a consonant sound frequency based on the acquired predominant frequency, the consonant sound frequency being a frequency of a sound which is in consonant with a sound having the acquired predominant frequency; and a vibrational frequency setter that sets a vibrational frequency of the touch panel to the determined consonant sound frequency.
US09823753B2
An information handling system including a camera mounted in the side edge surface for detecting gestures by a user on a detected working surface in a gesture detecting zone next to the system and including a gesture detection system for interpreting free space gestures and initializing cursor control commands.
US09823748B2
An aspect provides a method, including: accepting, at an input component of an information handling device, input of a user; identifying, using a processor, the input of the user as controlling input; determining, using a processor, one or more control factors associated with the controlling input; classifying, using a processor, the controlling input as one of a permissible control action and an impermissible control action for an application running on the information handling device based on the one or more control factors; and performing an action selected from the group consisting of: accepting, at the input component, confirming input; and providing feedback to one or more users. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09823746B2
A method of controlling a function of an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining whether a human body of a user is in contact with the electronic device, and performing a corresponding function if the human body of the user is in contact with the electronic device. The determination of whether the human body of the user is in contact with the electronic device is based at least in part on whether an image pattern of the human body of the user, which is detected by the image sensor, a temperature pattern of the electronic device, which is detected by the temperature sensor, and a resistance pattern of the human body of the user, which is detected by the body conductivity sensor, respectively correspond to a reference image pattern, a reference temperature pattern, and a reference resistance pattern.
US09823738B2
Various embodiments facilitate the creation and presentation of a virtual entertainment world. In one embodiment, the virtual entertainment world is created to help a user find and watch content. The virtual entertainment world includes various environments, including a virtual program guide, a virtual viewing environment, and a concession environment. The virtual program guide provides a starting point for users to easily and efficiently find content. The virtual viewing environment provides an immersive environment for users to watch content. The concession environment provides a convenient location where users may make purchases.
US09823732B2
A power control subsystem for controlling the supply of power transmitted to at least one node over communication cabling, the power control subsystem comprising: a plurality of references; a plurality of comparators, each of the comparators being associated with a particular one of the plurality of references; and a current limiter in communication with the plurality of comparators and arranged to limit current of the power transmitted over communication cabling responsive to the plurality of comparators.
US09823730B2
A method and apparatus for power management of cache duplicate tags is disclosed. An IC includes a cache, a coherence circuit, and a duplicate tags memory that may store duplicates of the tags stored in the cache. The cache includes a number of ways that are separately and independently power controllable. The duplicate tags memory may be similarly organized, with portions that are power controllable separately and independently of others. The coherence circuit is also power controllable, and may be placed into a sleep mode when idle. The IC also includes a power management circuit. During operation, the cache may change power states and provide a corresponding indication to the power management circuit. Responsive to the indication, the power management circuit may awaken the coherence circuit if in a sleep state. The coherence circuit may then power manage the duplicate tags in accordance with the change in power state.
US09823717B2
An electronic device includes a first electronic unit having a top surface, a first pivot side and a receiving groove, a second electronic unit having a second pivot side pivoted to the first pivot side, an internal module movably received in the receiving groove, and first and second magnetic units respectively disposed on the second pivot side and the internal module. The second electronic unit is pivotable between covering and opening positions that covers and that is distant from the top surface, respectively. The second magnetic unit is magnetically attracted by the first magnetic unit to move one side of the internal module out of the receiving groove and toward the second pivot side when the second electronic unit is in the opening position.
US09823706B2
A hinge component for an electronic device includes a fixing member, a rotating member and a central shaft. The fixing member includes a side plate and two fixing plates, a curved guiding rail is formed on the side plate. The rotating member includes a rotating portion, a connecting portion and an engaging portion. The fixing member and the rotating member are assembled to the casing and the back plate of the electronic device. The fixing member is disposed inside the casing but not exposed. As a result, the electronic device is made thinner. The hinge component is not easily damaged under an external force, and the lifecycle of the hinge component is improved. The rotating portion rotates around the connection of the back plate and the casing as a virtual rotating axis. At the same time, the central shaft is driven to slide in the curved guiding rail.
US09823703B2
Examples herein include modules and connections for modules to couple to a computing device. An example module includes a housing comprising an end to couple to a computing device, multiple capacitive pads that each include data contacts to enable data transfer, a power contact pad to provide or receive power, and a ground contact pad to couple to ground. The ground contact pad is larger in size than the power contact pad, and the ground contact pad is positioned closer than the power contact pad to the end of the housing configured to couple to the computing device.
US09823698B2
Some embodiments relate to wearable technology. An example embodiment includes a garment that includes a panel, a sensor, a flexible display device, and a communication module. The panel includes an outer surface. The sensor is integrated into the garment and configured to collect data. The flexible display device is integrated into the outer surface of the panel. The flexible display device is configured to receive and display data. The communication module is communicatively coupled to the flexible display device, the sensor, and a programmable device and is configured to receive data from the programmable device and sensed data from the sensor and to communicate the received data and the sensed data to the flexible display device.
US09823692B2
A hard drive includes a base deck and process cover that define a cavity for housing data storage components. The hard drive further includes a final cover that is placed over the process cover and is coupled to the base deck. The final cover and process cover are directly coupled to each other.
US09823687B2
A technique includes using a first oscillator to clock operations of a radio of an integrated circuit (IC). The technique includes intermittently using the first oscillator to frequency tune a second oscillator of the IC.
US09823681B2
An actuation device for bar-end bicycle gearshift comprises a mount adapted to be mounted to the end of handlebars facing forwards in the direction of travel. An actuation part is mounted on the mount in a neutral position with respect to the mount when no gearshifting is commanded. An adjuster is provided for adjusting the neutral position of the actuation part with respect to the mount. A cyclist can adjust the neutral position based on personal physical characteristics and preferences.
US09823680B2
A data center energy management (DCEM) server configures a power supply in the data center. The DCEM server sums input alternating current (AC) power of the power supply to a total AC power of the data center, wherein the total AC power of the data center is a sum of AC power of a plurality of power supplies. The DCEM server sums output direct current (DC) power of the power supply to a total DC power of the data center and reports a ratio of total AC power to total DC power as data center power conversion efficiency. The DCEM server sets a preset power supply efficiency threshold. The DCEM server determines that a real-time power efficiency level is below the power supply efficiency threshold. The DCEM server, responsive to a determination that real-time power efficiency level is below the power supply efficiency threshold, may remedy the power supply.
US09823673B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for energy efficiency aware thermal management in a portable computing device that contains a heterogeneous, multi-processor system on a chip (“SoC”) are disclosed. Because individual processing components in a heterogeneous, multi-processor SoC may exhibit different processing efficiencies at a given temperature, energy efficiency aware thermal management techniques that compare performance data of the individual processing components at their measured operating temperatures can be leveraged to optimize quality of service (“QoS”) by adjusting the power supplies to, reallocating workloads away from, or transitioning the power mode of, the least energy efficient processing components. In these ways, embodiments of the solution optimize the average amount of power consumed across the SoC to process a MIPS of workload.
US09823672B2
A wireless device used to communicate with and control one or more components of an HVAC system from a remote location is provided. The wireless device is configured to display two or more icons on the display of the device, wherein each icon executes a function that aids the user in controlling one or more components of the HVAC system. The wireless device dynamically orders the two or more icons on the display of the device, each according to a dynamic ranking algorithm. The dynamic ranking algorithm is based on a number of factors such as, for example, a relative frequency of selection of each of the two or more icons by a user, the current time of day, the current time of year, the current temperature, and/or the current location of the wireless device.
US09823668B2
A pressure regulator for a hydrogen storage system, wherein the pressure regulator is adapted to operate at temperatures below −50° C., while minimizing the need for separate sealing elements and O-rings. The pressure regulator includes a main body including an inner cavity bounded by an interior wall, a piston disposed in the inner cavity, the piston including a first channel disposed adjacent a first portion, wherein the first portion is adapted to cooperate with the interior wall to form a seal between the piston and the interior wall, a first biasing device disposed in the first channel, wherein the first biasing device is adapted to exert a force on the first portion of the piston to form a seal between the first portion and the interior wall, and an end cap coupled to the main body thereby enclosing the piston to form an outlet pressure chamber.
US09823662B2
The invention concerns a transport vehicle and a method for the trouble-free transport of load shelves in workshops with partially autonomous operation, having the following features: (a) a vehicle body with a carrier plate for receiving and transporting a load shelf with cargo, with two separately driven drive wheels, at least one support wheel being provided at the front and at the rear of the vehicle body in each case; (b) a transverse link which connects the drive wheels which are each pivotable via an angled lever about the rotational axis, such that the drive wheels can carry out vertical movements independently of each other; (c) a centrally disposed adjusting element which, via a lifting-turning lever and a thrust rod connected thereto, can move two front lifting rods and two rear lifting rods in order to raise or lower the carrier plate; (d) a system for supplying energy to the vehicle body; and (e) at least one 3D scanner and at least one light field sensor in the front region of the vehicle body.
US09823650B2
A method for interacting master and slave information in real time, comprising: collecting, by N slave control MCUs, sensor signals of sensors respectively connected thereto; feeding back, by the N slave control MCUs, the sensor signals to a master control MCU via a signal transfer panel; and when the sensor signals satisfy a pre-set condition, giving, by the master control MCU, a control instruction to a corresponding slave control MCU according to the pre-set condition, wherein both the sensor signals and the control instruction are transmitted between the master control MCU and the slave control MCUs via the signal transfer panel in an SP signal manner. Also disclosed is a system for interacting master and slave information in real time. The method for interacting master and slave information in real time can reduce the redundant information interaction and improve the communication efficiency.
US09823645B2
An automated computer-implemented method for generating commands for controlling a computer numerically controlled machine to fabricate an object from a workpiece, the method including the steps of selecting a maximum permitted engagement angle between a rotating cutting tool and the workpiece, selecting a minimum permitted engagement angle between the rotating cutting tool and the workpiece, and configuring a tool path for the tool relative to the workpiece in which the engagement angle gradually varies between the maximum permitted engagement angle and the minimum permitted engagement angle.
US09823644B2
A numerical control device includes: a switching unit switching between a first processing mode in which a position command for an amplifier is generated by performing interpolation process and acceleration/deceleration process on a program command in a machining program, and a second processing mode in which a position command every intra-amplifier control cycle for the amplifier is generated by performing acceleration/deceleration process on a command generated every intra-amplifier control cycle, which is a control cycle in the amplifier; a normal analysis unit extracting movement data on a machine tool by analyzing the program command when operating in the first processing mode; an interpolation processing unit obtaining first interpolated data by performing the interpolation process on the movement data when operating in the first processing mode; and a fast analysis unit extracting interpolated movement data as second interpolated data by analyzing the program command when operating in the second processing mode.
US09823641B2
The PLC communication system associated with the invention is characterized in that the system comprises a programmable logic controller (PLC), a plurality of processing devices, at least three communication processing nodes provided at the PLC and at the plurality of processing devices respectively to establish communication of the PLC and each of the processing devices and an interconnecting device and a plurality of communication lines for connecting the communication processing nodes with one another to establish data communication among the communication processing nodes. The PLC detects a state of communication failure and a display device displays an abnormal portion in a communication route based on the number of occurrences of the state of communication failure in respective interconnecting device and plurality of communication lines.
US09823636B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a first feedback controller, a second feedback controller, and logic. The first feedback controller may be configured to calculate a first intermediate air mover speed based on a measured temperature. The second feedback controller may be configured to calculate a second intermediate air mover speed based on the measured temperature. The logic may be configured to select a maximum of the first intermediate air mover speed and the second intermediate air mover speed as a selected air mover speed and generate a control signal indicative of the selected air mover speed.
US09823632B2
A compressor is provided and includes a shell, a compression mechanism, a motor, a data module, and a compressor controller. The data module includes a data module processor and a data module memory. The compressor controller includes a controller processor and a controller memory distinct from the data module processor and the data module memory. The data module receives sensed data, stores the sensed data in the data module memory, determines a first diagnosis of the compressor based on the sensed data, and communicates the sensed data and the first diagnosis to the compressor controller. The compressor controller determines a second diagnosis of the compressor based on the sensed data and verifies the first diagnosis by comparing the first diagnosis to the second diagnosis.
US09823630B2
Provided is a vibration type driving device enabling multidirectional driving of a moving body while considering a difference in transfer characteristics of the synthesized driving force of a plurality of motors between at least two mutually crossing directions.
US09823627B2
A control system for an operable system such as a flow control system or temperature control system. The system operates in a control loop to regularly update a model with respect at least one optimizable input variable based on the detected variables. The model provides prediction of use of the input variables in all possible operation points or paths of the system variables which achieve an output setpoint. In some example embodiments, the control loop is performed during initial setup and subsequent operation of the one or more operable elements in the operable system. The control system is self-learning in that at least some of the initial and subsequent parameters of the system are determined automatically during runtime.
US09823625B2
An electronic device includes a dial, a module and a solar panel. The module is arranged under the dial and including a circular polarization antenna which includes a power feed point and a radiating electrode. The solar panel is arranged between the dial and the module and has an area corresponding to an area of the dial in a face direction thereof. The solar panel is constituted by a plurality of solar cells including a solar cell that has a light receiving surface arranged at a position corresponding to the radiating electrode.
US09823620B2
An image forming apparatus with a detachable fixing device that is capable of printing with high quality without printing wastefully. A storage unit stores identification information about a fixing device in association with an attribute of a sheet that is printable with the fixing device concerned. A control unit executes printing when the storage unit does not store an attribute of a sheet corresponding to a fixing device that is currently attached to the image forming apparatus. The control unit determines whether to execute printing according to an attribute of a sheet used in printing and an attribute of a sheet stored in the storage unit when the storage unit stores the attribute of the sheet corresponding to the fixing device that is currently attached to the image forming apparatus.
US09823616B2
An image heating unit detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus includes a pair of rotatable members configured to form a nip for heating a toner image formed on a recording material; an outermost wall positioned outside the rotatable members; and an electrical substrate including a storing element. The electrical substrate is mounted on an outer surface of the outermost wall so that the storing element faces the outer surface of the outermost wall with a predetermined gap therebetween.
US09823607B2
Disclosed is a cylindrical rotary member including a conductive layer; a coil disposed inside the rotary member, the coil including a helical portion having a helical axis that is substantially parallel to a generatrix direction of the rotary member, the coil forming an alternating magnetic field to generate heat in the conductive layer by electromagnetic induction; a core disposed inside the helical portion, the core inducing a line of magnetic force of the alternating magnetic field; a roller coming in contact with an outer surface of the rotary member to form a fixing nip portion; and a metal stay disposed inside the rotary member, in which an image on a recording material is fixed to the recording material by being heated at the fixing nip portion and the stay is disposed outside the coil and has a shape that does not form an electrical loop around the coil.
US09823598B2
A conductive member includes a substrate, an elastic layer on the substrate, and a surface layer on the elastic layer. The surface layer contains a resin and insulating particles. The insulating particles account for 50% or more and 70% or less of an area of a cross-section of the surface layer taken in a thickness direction.
US09823579B2
A method for improving imaging properties of an optical system and an optical system of this type having improved imaging properties are described. The optical system can have a plurality of optical elements. In some embodiments, an optical element is positioned and/or deformed by mechanical force action and by thermal action. In certain embodiments, one optical element is positioned and/or deformed by mechanical force action and another optical element is deformed by thermal action.
US09823573B2
An image correction application relating to the ability to apply maskless lithography patterns to a substrate in a manufacturing process is disclosed. The embodiments described herein relate to a software application platform which maintains the ability to correct non-uniform image patterns using time-shifted exposures of the substrate. The application exposes subsequent portions of a substrate to electromagnetic radiation at variable and alternating pulse frequencies using a time delay in order to correct interference patterns and increase exposure uniformity.
US09823560B2
Systems and methods may provide for projection of a plurality of structured light patterns. In one example, the method may include generating a low-resolution pattern image utilizing a returned image, wherein the low-resolution pattern image is an approximation of an image that would have been generated utilizing a low-resolution pattern and generating a high-resolution pattern image utilizing a preprocessed returned image and a preprocessed low-resolution pattern image, wherein high-resolution pattern image is an approximation of an image that would have been generated utilizing a high-resolution pattern.
US09823559B2
A light source device includes: a light source for emitting excitation light; a first optical system for condensing excitation light emitted from the light source into a rectangular shape; a fluorescent wheel having a plurality of light emitting portions emitting different color light in response to irradiation of the excitation light formed in such a manner in which each of the multiple light emitting portions is irradiated with the excitation light condensed in a rectangular shape by the first optical system; a second optical system for condensing color light emitted from each of the multiple light emitting portions in response to irradiation of the rectangularly condensed excitation light; and a rotating prism that is rotatably arranged on the optical path of the light condensed by the second light source and that shifts the optical axis of the light condensed by the second optical system as the prism turns.
US09823558B2
A light source device includes: a first semiconductor laser; a second semiconductor laser; a first collimator lens corresponding to the first semiconductor laser; a second collimator lens corresponding to the second semiconductor laser; and a deflection prism provided on the light exiting side of the first collimator lens so that an angle formed by a principal ray of first light emitted from the first semiconductor laser and a principal ray of second light emitted from the second semiconductor laser is smaller on the light exiting side of the deflection prism than on the light incident side thereof.
US09823554B2
A projector includes a base and a cover configured to be attached on the base. The base is equipped with a cooling fan, a light module and a cooling member. An air inlet and an air outlet are located on the two sides of the light module. The cooling member is aligned with the air outlet and close to the cooling fan. The cooling member guides the airflow to flow to the cooling fan. The air inlet, the air outlet, the cooling member, and the cooling fan define an air path, and the airflow is guided out of the projector under an action of the cooling fan.
US09823549B1
The levered mount adapter couples with a camera system to stabilize and enable the camera system to capture high quality images. The levered mount adapter includes a fingered base component, a first lever, and a second lever, which altogether, are designed to couple with extensions of the camera system. A user may decouple the camera system from the levered mount adapter by providing a force input on input structures located on the levered mount adapter. In doing so, the applied force rotates the lever components of the levered mount adapter, thereby eliminating their coupling with extensions of the camera system and enabling the convenient removal of the camera system.
US09823545B2
An eyepiece optical system includes a focal-plane plate, having a positive refractive power on one side and a diffusion surface on the other side thereof; a reflector which reflects light rays of an object image, formed on the diffusion surface, a predetermined number of times; an optical lens group, by which the object image is observed, in that order along an optical path from the object side to the viewing side; and a condenser lens element, having a positive refractive power, provided between the focal-plane plate and the reflector, the condenser lens element having an aspherical surface formed on at least one side thereof. At least one of the aspherical surface of the condenser lens element has a profile, when viewed macroscopically, such that the positive refractive power thereof increasingly weakens with respect to a direction away from the optical axis.
US09823539B2
Optical modulators, one or more components of various optical modulators, and methods of forming optical modulators and/or one or more components are disclosed. A substrate may be provided and a precursor material may be applied to the substrate with a micro-contact printing stamp. The precursor material may be cured on the substrate and the waveguide may be formed into a micro-ring resonator. The micro-contact printing stamp may be configured to create a waveguide on the substrate.
US09823537B2
A reflective display device includes an electrophoretic display module, an adhesive layer, and a color filter layer. The adhesive layer is located on the electrophoretic display module. The color filter layer is located on the adhesive layer, and the adhesive layer is between the electrophoretic display module and the color filter layer. The color filter layer includes at least one color resist. The color resist has at least one opening, such that light can pass through the opening.
US09823535B2
A method of manufacturing a thin film is provided. The method includes providing a plurality of crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide particles, size-reducing the crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide particles by grinding to produce crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide nanostructures, and coating the crystalline hexagonal tungsten trioxide nanostructures onto a substrate to produce a thin film. An electrochromic multi-layer stack is also provided.
US09823530B2
An electro-optical apparatus includes a semiconductor layer which is provided on a first substrate, a gate electrode which is provided on the semiconductor layer, a first light-shielding member which is provided between the semiconductor layer and the first substrate, a second light-shielding member which is provided in an extension direction of the first substrate in the semiconductor layer, and a third light-shielding member which is provided on an opposite side to the first substrate in the semiconductor layer, in which the second light-shielding member is embedded within a groove which is formed between the first light-shielding member and the third light-shielding member, and the third light-shielding member is electrically connected to the gate electrode and the first light-shielding member via the second light-shielding member.
US09823528B2
An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a first storage capacitor and a second storage capacitor for increased capacitance. The first storage capacitor is formed by a first common electrode and a pixel electrode. The second storage capacitor is formed by a second common electrode and the pixel electrode.
US09823524B2
In a method of manufacturing a display substrate and a method of manufacturing a display panel, the display substrate includes a color filter layer disposed on a base substrate within a pixel area, a first organic insulating pattern disposed on a first boundary area between adjacent pixel areas, a pixel electrode disposed on the color filter layer, and a first blocking pattern disposed on the first organic insulating pattern. Accordingly, an organic insulating layer corresponding to the pixel area is removed so that deterioration of the display quality by impurities generated from the organic insulating layer may be minimized. In addition, a stepped portion of a blocking pattern disposed between a pixel area and a boundary area of a plurality of the pixel areas is reduced so that motion blurring of a liquid crystal may be prevented.
US09823512B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate on which a pixel electrode is formed, a second substrate on which a common electrode is formed and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first plate electrode, a first slit pattern which is a hole formed in the first plate electrode and includes a cross-shaped stem slit and a plurality of branch slits extending in both directions from the stem slit, and a plurality of branch electrodes which protrude from outer side portions of the first plate electrode. The common electrode includes a second plate electrode and a second slit pattern formed in the second plate electrode and including a plurality of holes arranged in a rhombus form.
US09823508B2
A display device including a bottom chassis including a bent portion, a light module including a light source on the bent portion, a curved surface display panel on the bottom chassis and on the light module, and a reflector between the curved surface display panel and the bottom chassis, wherein a height between end portions of the bent portion and bottom chassis is greater than a height between central portions of the bent portion and bottom chassis.
US09823501B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first insulative substrate extending over a first area and a second area, a common electrode and a pixel electrode which are formed in the first area, and a pad of ground potential which is formed in the second area, a second substrate including a second insulative substrate, a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate, a cover glass extending over the first area and the second area, a transparent, electrically conductive layer formed on an inner surface of the cover glass over the first area and the second area, and a connection member configured to electrically connect the electrically conductive layer and the pad in the second area.
US09823500B2
An optical assembly maintains 90° polarization rotation. In one aspect, an optical assembly includes a polarization beam splitter a rotational element and a path exchange mirror. The temperature, wavelength and manufacturing dependencies of polarization rotation of this optical assembly are minimal to nonexistent compared to conventional Faraday rotation assemblies as the optical fiber accepts only the desired rotation. As such these optical assemblies have no temperature and wavelength dependencies of the polarization rotation angle over broad temperature and wavelength ranges with minimal additional losses. In another aspect, the polarization dependence of reflection from the path exchange mirror is managed so as to minimize the polarization effect associated with oblique incidence.
US09823497B1
An electroabsorption modulator incorporates waveguiding regions along the length of the modulator that include quantum wells where at least two of the regions have quantum wells with different bandgaps. In one embodiment of the invention, the regions are arranged such that the quantum wells have bandgaps with decreasing bandgap energy along the length of the modulator from the modulator's input to its output. The bandgap energy of the quantum wells may be decreased in discrete steps or continuously. Advantageously, such an arrangement better distributes the optical absorption as well as the carrier density along the length of the modulator. Further advantageously, the modulator may handle increased optical power as compared with prior art modulators of similar dimensions, which allows for improved link gain when the optical modulator is used in an analog optical communication link.
US09823492B2
This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert into an ophthalmic lens. A liquid crystal layer may be used to provide a variable optic function and in some examples, an alignment layer for the liquid crystal layer may be patterned in a cycloidally dependent manner. The patterning may allow for a polarization dependent lens in some examples. An energy source is capable of powering the variable optic insert included within the ophthalmic lens. In some examples, an ophthalmic lens is cast-molded from a silicone hydrogel. The various ophthalmic lens entities may include electroactive liquid crystal layers to electrically control optical characteristics.
US09823490B2
This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing a variable optic insert into an ophthalmic lens. A liquid crystal layer may be used to provide a variable optic function and in some examples, an alignment layer for the liquid crystal layer may be patterned in a cycloidally dependent manner. The patterning may allow for a polarization dependent lens in some examples. An energy source is capable of powering the variable optic insert included within the ophthalmic lens. In some examples, an ophthalmic lens is cast-molded from a silicone hydrogel. The various ophthalmic lens entities may include electroactive liquid crystal layers to electrically control optical characteristics.
US09823470B2
In a vehicle head-up display device that reflects a display light transmitted through a dust-proof cover on a windshield or a combiner, and viewably displays display information as a virtual image from a driver's seat of a vehicle, the dust-proof cover has a light transmissive property produced by being rolled, when a line between a first point a first end side of the display in a longitudinal direction of the display and a second point being at the same height as the first point in a second end side opposite to the first end side is a longitudinal axis, and a luminance of a virtual image is adjusted by adjusting an angle between a rolling direction of a resin sheet used for the dust-proof cover and a virtual image longitudinal axis, which corresponds to the longitudinal axis, of a virtual image of the display reflected by the reflector. As a result, a polarization state of the display light is changed to enable the luminance of the virtual image to be adjusted without any increase in the number of parts and a body size.
US09823466B2
The optical path changing device of the present disclosure includes an optical member having a parallel plate face for changing an optical path, and first, second, and third actuators. The first, the second, and the third actuators are connected with the optical member at first, second, and third vertices of a triangle imaginarily drawn on a plane parallel to the parallel plate face of the optical member. The first, the second, and the third actuators drive the optical member forward and backward in a normal direction of the parallel plate face at the first, the second, and the third vertices serving as points of load. The optical member has a center of gravity within the triangle when seen from the normal direction.
US09823464B2
An optical module includes a mirror unit including a mirror holder and a mirror on the mirror holder, the mirror holding including a first plate; a center guide supporting the mirror unit; and an actuator configured to rotate the mirror unit about a rotation axis. The actuator includes a first actuator at the first plate and second and third actuators at second and third plates, respectively, and spaced from each other in a direction parallel to the rotation axis, and the first actuator is configured to be acted upon by the second and third actuators to rotate the mirror unit about the rotation axis.
US09823458B2
An optical microscope system for 3D surface deformation and morphology measurement that can serve as a powerful tool in quality engineering and control, as well as in biological and materials research is described. The system was developed in part by combining the DAIC technique with optical microscopy. Decoding algorithms were derived for calculating the 3D displacement or profile of a micro-sized test sample from the in-plane displacement components of it first-order diffracted views.
US09823455B2
The invention relates to a microscope in which a layer of the sample is illuminated by a plurality of thin strips of light (11) passed through a grid (34) and the sample is viewed (5) perpendicular to the plane of the strips of light. To record the image, the object (4) is displaced through the strips of light (11). At least three different images of the objects (4) are made at different phase angles. The images can be combined to form a single combined image.
US09823448B2
A camera lens module in which an optical system is configured to include five sheets of lenses is provided. In the camera lens module, first, second, third, fourth and fifth lenses are sequentially arranged from an object side, and the first lens performs a zooming operation while moving along an optical axis. Accordingly, the optical system is configured to include five sheets of lenses for performance of a zooming operation and to allow only the first lens to perform the zooming operation, so that it is possible to manufacture a high-resolution optical system in a compact size and to perform the zooming operation at a high speed.
US09823446B2
A photographing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element, the third lens element and the fourth lens element have refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one of the surfaces thereof has at least one inflection point thereon. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one of the surfaces thereof has at least one inflection point.
US09823445B2
An imaging optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has negative refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The imaging optical lens assembly has a total of six lens elements.
US09823443B2
An imaging lens is provided. The imaging lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image plane side, a first lens having an object side surface that is convex and having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive or negative refractive power, a third lens having a positive or negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, and a fifth lens having a positive or negative refractive power, wherein an image side surface of the fifth lens has a concave center portion and has at least one inflection point, and the imaging lens satisfies a condition that −0.25≦(Y−yp)/yp≦−0.05, where Y denotes an image height of a real chief ray, and yp denotes an image height of a paraxial chief ray.
US09823436B2
A lens barrel includes: a first barrel; a second barrel that, with respect to the first barrel, is capable of relative movement in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis; an adjustment member for adjusting an amount of the relative movement; two adjustment member housing portions that are provided in a diametral space between the first barrel and the second barrel, are formed so as to be separate from each other in a circumferential direction and are capable of housing the adjustment member; a plurality of screws; a plurality of fastening portions for threadedly engaging and fastening the first barrel and the second barrel in parallel with the optical axis by means of the plurality of screws; and one washer member that is held in an integral manner between the plurality of screws and the plurality of fastening portions.
US09823434B2
A waterproof housing for a digital device includes a lens mount system having a threaded aperture provided on the housing, a lens arrangement including an optical lens coupled to a threaded collar, and a positioning assembly for fixedly locating the lens arrangement to the housing at a predetermined rotational engagement position of the threaded collar to the threaded aperture. The positioning assembly includes a releasable locking pin that is located in the housing adjacent to the threaded aperture, and a recess in a mounting surface of the lens arrangement for receiving a locking end of the pin when the lens arrangement and the housing are positioned at the predetermined engagement position. At this position, an optical feature of the lens arrangement is located at a predetermined desired distance from an optical plane of a camera of a digital device positioned within the housing.
US09823431B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a cable that includes an outer housing, a plurality of optical fibers within the outer housing and arranged side-by-side along the width of the cable; and a removably attached access layer within the outer housing.
US09823429B1
A pluggable connector with anti-electromagnetic interference capability is disclosed in this invention, which includes a socket housing, multiple terminal assemblies and a shielding case. The socket housing includes an insulating base, a first anti-EMI block independently mounted on the insulating base and a second anti-EMI block independently mounted on the insulating base. The first anti-EMI block and an upper bracket can be combined together to form an upper circuit board slot, and the second anti-EMI block and a lower bracket can be combined together to form a lower circuit board slot. The pluggable connector of the present invention has a good anti-electromagnetic interference capability by the first and second anti-EMI blocks.
US09823427B2
A fiber optic drop terminal assembly includes a housing, a spool and a fiber optic distribution cable. The housing has a first exterior surface and an oppositely disposed second exterior surface. A plurality of ruggedized adapters is mounted on the first exterior surface of the housing. The ruggedized adapters include a first port accessible from outside the housing and a second port accessible from inside the housing. The spool is engaged with the second exterior surface and includes a drum portion. The fiber distribution cable is coiled around the drum portion. The distribution cable includes a first end and an oppositely disposed second end. The second end is disposed inside the housing.
US09823422B2
An optical delivery waveguide for a material laser processing system includes a small lens at an output end of the delivery waveguide, transforming laser beam divergence inside the waveguide into a spot size after the lens. By varying the input convergence angle and/or launch angle of the laser beam launched into the waveguide, the output spot size can be continuously varied, thus enabling a continuous and real-time laser spot size adjustment on the workpiece, without having to replace the delivery waveguide or a process head. A divergence of the laser beam can also be adjusted dynamically and in concert with the spot size.
US09823413B2
In an optical fiber, a plurality of individual cores extend through a common cladding. Each individual core supports at least one local transverse spatial mode. The individual cores and surrounding cladding are structured to support propagation of plurality of desired signal-carrying modes, while suppressing undesired modes, thereby supporting the propagation of one or more spatially multiplexed signals. The core-to-core spacing of the fiber is configured to maintain an acceptably low level of mode-coupling between cores.
US09823409B2
A photoluminescent layered composite includes: a light conversion layer including a first polymer matrix and a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals dispersed in the first polymer matrix; and a metal oxide layer, wherein the metal oxide layer includes a plurality of conductive metal oxide particles, and wherein the metal oxide layer is disposed on at least one surface of the light conversion layer. Also a backlight unit and a display device include the same.
US09823404B2
An optical system includes a light source emitting light, a collimating structure to substantially collimate the light, and a converter unit to receive the substantially collimated light having an area illuminating a first aspect ratio and outputting light having an area illuminating a second aspect ratio, the second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio by at least a factor of four, and a backlight light guide to receive the light from the converter unit.
US09823394B2
The present disclosure relates to prismatic retroreflective articles that includes a security mark and to methods of making such articles.
US09823392B2
An optical substrate according to one embodiment includes a support substrate, and a projection-depression structure layer on a surface of which shapes of projections and depressions are formed, the projection-depression structure layer being laminated on the support substrate. The extending directions of projection portions contained in the projection-depression structure layer are irregularly distributed seen in planar view. An outline seen in planar view of a projection portion contained in a region per unit area of the projection-depression structure layer includes more straight line sections than curved line sections.
US09823380B2
An example method includes positioning a first conformable sensor proximate to a downhole element. The first conformable sensor may include a flexible material, with first and second transmitters and first and second receivers coupled to the flexible material. A first signal may be generated using the first transmitter and a second signal using the second transmitter. A first response of the downhole element to the first signal and a second response of the downhole element to the second signal may be measured at the first receiver. A third response of the downhole element to the first signal and a fourth response of the downhole element to the second signal may be measured at the second receiver. At least the first, second, third, and fourth responses may be combined into a compensated response of the downhole element. The compensated response may be processed to determine a parameter of the downhole element.
US09823377B1
The present invention comprises a multi-modal security checkpoint. The security checkpoint can simultaneously scan for and simultaneously identify hidden metallics (e.g., weapons, shrapnel) and non-metallics (e.g., explosives, dielectrics). The security checkpoint performs scanning and identifying at a rate of 15 or more frames per second for all targets within the inspection area. The security checkpoint comprises blocks for sending and receiving radiation signals, the blocks comprising transmitters and/or receivers, the blocks being configured to share information to compare cross- and co-polarizations of signals emitted. The security checkpoint combines many threat detection technologies into one checkpoint that allows it to be robust and detect a large variety of threats in mass transit hubs requiring high throughput processing capabilities.
US09823374B2
A wellbore tool string includes a combination of acoustic inspection tool(s) and electro-mechanical inspection tool(s). The tool string is configured to combine acoustic with electro-mechanic wellbore inspection to circumvent limitations that both technologies may be subject to in wellbore environments. Anomalous data from one or more acoustic tools can be correlated with data acquired by an electro-mechanical tool incorporated into the same tool string to determine wellbore conditions that may have adversely affected the operation of the acoustic tool(s).
US09823369B2
Disclosed is a system and method for predicting internal multiples generators to correct near surface statics, by estimating a first timing or position associated with reflectors using internal multiple generators identified based on predictive deconvolution operators, estimating a second timing or position associated with the reflectors using the acquired seismic surface data, comparing the first timing or position with the second timing or position for each of the reflectors to determine a travel time delay associated with the reflectors, and correcting the acquired seismic surface data using the travel time delay.
US09823365B2
A portable radiographic image capturing apparatus includes a radiation conversion panel configured to output image information on the basis of applied radiation, a casing housing the radiation conversion panel therein, and a plurality of support members on which the radiation conversion panel is supported in the casing. The support members have slot structures housing wires therein.
US09823364B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for 3D imaging of in vivo and ex vivo tissues. The disclosed systems and methods employ an autoradiographic approach where particles emitted by a radioactive composition within the tissue are detected. Once detected, a 3D representation of the source of particles within the tissue is reconstructed for viewing and analysis.
US09823358B2
A low-power wireless ionizing radiation measurement system is provided that is intended to be used in a wearable dosimeter for occupational radiation monitoring.
US09823356B2
A GPS receiving apparatus according to the present invention includes: a GPS radio wave receiving unit that receives GPS radio waves; a walking state determination unit that determines a walking state of a wearer continuously for a predetermined interval; a storage unit that stores walking information determined by way of the walking state determination unit; a determination unit that determines whether being a state in which GPS radio waves can be received, based on a series of the walking states stored in the storage unit; and a control unit that causes reception of GPS radio waves to be carried out by way of the GPS radio wave receiving unit, in a case of being determined by way of the determination unit as being a state in which GPS radio waves can be received.
US09823352B2
A time-of-flight (TOF) sensor device is provided with features for correcting distance measurement offset errors caused by such factors as temperature, dynamic reflectivity ranges of objects in the viewing space, or other factors. In various embodiments, the TOF sensor device generates corrected distance values based on comparison of two different distance values measured for an object by two different measurement techniques, including but not limited to phase shift measurement, pulsed TOF measurement, distance measurement based on the focal length of the TOF sensor's lens, and comparison of distance variations with light intensity variations. In addition, some embodiments of the TOF sensor device perform self-calibration using internal waveguides or parasitic reflections as distance references.
US09823343B2
An antenna system, such as a radar antenna system, includes an array of antenna elements and a controller. The controller outputs an in-path indicator in response to an angle of arrival for a target being less than a threshold angle for a given range to the target. The angle of arrival is based on a differential phase angle derived from data defining first and second composite signal returns from the target associated with first and second apertures respectively, and a phase center offset between the apertures. The first and second apertures are formed from first and second subsets of the antenna elements respectively.
US09823337B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling an alignment of a vehicle radar capable of automatically detecting a vertical angle of a target to perform an alignment in a vertical direction. The apparatus includes: a substrate; a transmitting antenna unit configured to be disposed at one side of the substrate; a receiving antenna unit configured to be disposed at the other side of the substrate; and a vertical angle detection unit configured to detect a vertical angle of a target based on a signal received from the receiving antenna unit, wherein the receiving antenna unit includes: a plurality of first antennas configured to be arranged in a row direction to a surface of the substrate; and a plurality of second antennas configured to be arranged in a column direction to the surface of the substrate.
US09823334B2
Embodiments described herein provide for a method for obtaining location information regarding a wireless unit in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The method includes identifying a first time of arrival of a wireless signal in a time and frequency unit at a first active antenna unit (AAU). A second time of arrival of the wireless signal in the time and frequency unit at a second AAU is also identified. A location of a wireless unit transmitting the wireless signal is estimated based on a location of the first AAU, a location of the second AAU, and a difference between the first time of arrival and the second time of arrival. The location of the wireless unit and an indication that the location corresponds to the time and frequency unit is sent to a baseband unit or serving mobile location center (SMLC).
US09823330B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a plurality of antennas, a receiver in communication with said plurality of antennas for receiving one or more packets in a block based modulation environment, a switch interposed between a portion of the antennas and the receiver for switching between the antennas, and a processor for calculating angle of arrival for use in identifying a location of a mobile device transmitting the one or more packets.
US09823320B2
A circuit arrangement is provided for the current supply of a magnetic resonance imaging installation with a radio-frequency shielding cabin and at least one basic field magnet. The arrangement includes a first circuit arranged outside the radio-frequency shielding cabin and configured to generate a DC link voltage from a grid voltage, and a second circuit arranged within the radio-frequency shielding cabin and configured to generate a magnetization current for the basic field magnet from the DC link voltage. This architecture makes it possible to realize a cost-effective solution for an integrated (fixedly installed) modular magnetization current supply.
US09823308B2
A method for discovering demagnetisation faults of a permanent magnet synchronous generator, such as a wind power generator. The method is performed during operation of the synchronous generator and includes measuring the vibration of the stator, performing a frequency analysis of the vibration, and deducing whether the generator suffers from demagnetization of a permanent magnet, from the vibration analysis. Moreover, geometric eccentricity faults and electric short circuit faults may also be detected from the vibration.
US09823307B2
A node energy diagnosis method for a fault of a switched reluctance motor double-switch power converter. By detecting a transient value of a phase current of a switched reluctance motor double-switch power converter, a node energy standard deviation σ is calculated to be used as a fault characteristic quantity, and a main switch lower-tube short-circuit fault of the switched reluctance motor double-switch power converter is diagnosed by adopting a node energy standard deviation σ curve of the phase current of the switched reluctance motor double-switch power converter in the whole rotation speed range. It also can be applied in fault diagnosis when a main switch lower-tube short-circuit fault occurs in two phases or more than two phases of a switched reluctance motor double-switch power converter. It is applicable to switched reluctance motor power converters with various phase numbers and a double-switch structure, is durable, reliable in fault diagnosis and good in effect, and has good practicability, and wide application prospect.
US09823300B2
An electrical check executed on wafer tests for the correct positioning or alignment of the probes of a probe card on the pads or bumps of the electronic devices integrated on the wafer. A signal is applied to cause a current to circulate in at least part of a seal ring of at least one of the electronic devices. In a case where the current flows between and through multiple electronic devices, the seal rings of those electronic devices are suitably interconnected to each other by electronic structures that extend through the scribe line between electronic devices.
US09823290B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a method for testing a plurality of electronic components is provided, including subdividing the plurality of electronic components into a plurality of first groups and subdividing the plurality of electronic components into a plurality of second groups. The method may further include measuring, for each first group, an electrical parameter of an interconnection of the components of the first group; measuring, for each second group, an electrical parameter of an interconnection of the components of the second group, and determining which electronic components of the plurality of electronic components have a predefined property, on the basis of the result of the measurement of the electrical parameter for the first groups and on the basis of the result of the measurement of the electrical parameter for the second groups.
US09823285B2
An apparatus comprises a comparator that includes a first input, a second input and an output. The comparator is configured for measuring a difference in voltage between a source coupled to the first input and another source coupled to the second input, and providing information associated with the measured difference at the output. The apparatus also comprises a controllable current source coupled to the first input of the comparator and configured for supplying or drawing current. The apparatus also comprises a digital logic circuit that is configured for controlling an amount of current supplied or drawn by the controllable current source. The apparatus is configured for measuring a charge associated with an external source that is coupled to the first input of the comparator.
US09823279B2
A current sense resistor integrated with an integrated circuit die where the integrated circuit die is housed in a flip-chip semiconductor package includes a metal layer formed over a passivation layer of the integrated circuit die where the metal layer having an array of metal pillars extending therefrom. The metal pillars are electrically connected to a first leadframe portion and a second leadframe portion of the semiconductor package where the first leadframe portion and the second leadframe portion are electrically isolated from each other and physically separated by a separation of a first distance. The current sense resistor is formed in a portion of the metal layer spanning the separation between the first and second leadframe portions, the first and second leadframe portions forming terminals of the current sense resistor.
US09823278B2
A fault detecting apparatus, to use an output current from a drive circuit as a current value detected by a current sensor, calculates a duty ratio of a control signal to be supplied to the drive circuit to define the duty ratio as a theoretical value of the duty ratio of the control signal. The fault detecting apparatus compares a duty ratio of a control signal actually supplied to the drive circuit with the theoretical value of the duty ratio of the control signal to determine whether the current sensor (fails on the basis of a comparison result.
US09823277B1
A fiber optic sensor for measuring electromagnetic phenomena, including electrical and magnetic fields, voltage, and current is disclosed. The sensor includes an optical fiber probe containing a transmitting fiber and at least one receiving fiber, and a reflective surface or body. The reflective surface or body may be part of or attached to a material exhibiting a physical displacement from a force exerted upon the material due to electromagnetic phenomena, such as an electrical field, a magnetic field, voltage, and current. The reflective surface may be spaced apart from the ends of the fibers in the probe, and positioned so that light transmitted through the transmitting fiber is reflected by that surface into at least one receiving fiber. A light sensing means is coupled to the at least one receiving fiber, so light from a light reflected by the reflector body back into the receiving fibers is detected.
US09823273B2
Probe tip formation is described for die sort and test. In one example, the tips of wires of a test probe head are prepared for use as test probes. The wires are attached to a test probe head substrate. The end opposite the substrate has a tip. The tips of the wires are polished when attached to the test probe head to form a sharpened point.
US09823264B2
Material transfer/interrogation devices (e.g. liquid handling workstations) have been designed in the past for transferring material from a source to a destination location or for interrogating a material at a location, where the locations remain fixed. The invention provides methods and apparatuses for transferring or interrogating materials by one or more carrier devices to one or more receiving devices, where the carrier and receiving devices move independently and simultaneously on multiple axes. In some embodiments, one or more of the carrier and receiving devices can move along an X, Z, Y, and Theta axis, which allows the source and destination locations to rotate and translate relative to each other. Due to this rotation and translation, containers can be positioned to minimize the distance traveled between a pick location from the source and a place location on the destination, greatly increasing the speed at which material transfer can occur.
US09823258B2
Method of diagnosis and prognosis of contrast media induced nephropathy (CIN) including the steps of i) taking a urine sample from a patient exposed to the application of contrast media, notably patients subjected to coronary angiography; ii) assessing the level of vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) in the urine sample obtained in step (i); iii) relating the urinary vitamin D binding protein level determined in step (ii) to a pre-selected threshold level. A urinary vitamin D binding protein level higher than the pre-selected threshold level indicates that the patient is at risk of renal failure and in need of a dialysis treatment.
US09823253B2
Disclosed herein are diagnostic assays using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-active particles, including liquid-based assays; magnetic capture assays; microparticle-nanoparticle satellite structures for signal amplification in an assay; composite SERS-active particles useful for enhanced detection of targets; and sample tubes and processes for using the same.
US09823247B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods that use aqueous two phase systems and lateral flow assays to detect target analytes in a sample. These devices and methods may be used to diagnose a disease or condition in a biological sample, such as blood or serum. In addition, these devices and methods may be used to detect allergens in a food samples or contaminants, such as environmental toxins, in water samples. Device and kit components may be conveniently assembled in a portable container and are amenable to actuation in most settings. The devices are simple to use, requiring a non-trained operator to simply add the sample to the device. Conveniently, the time it takes to detect the target analyte is very short. Thus, the devices and methods disclosed herein provide novel and useful means for point-of-care.
US09823245B2
The present invention describes the novel molecular entities, nanodisc clathrates, the method of preparation, and the use of these molecular entities for solution phase analysis or crystallization.
US09823244B1
A progressive compression test cartridge that is adapted with driven flow technology that can be coupled with a digital electronic device to make the test reading result more reliable quantitatively than visual interpretation. The test cartridge can provide test results typically in one minute or less. The test cartridge can accept a sample via a droplet or a stream sampling method. In the stream sampling method, the open end of the test cartridge allows the sample pad of the test strip to be exposed to the stream of fluid. A refracting pad on the base of the test cartridge can refract the original stream vector partially along the sample pad then continue flowing to elute and release the nanoparticles from the conjugate pad onto the membrane which is pre-coated with reactant(s). Collimated compression bars can prevent flooding sample by restricting the top and bottom surface of the conjugated pad.
US09823238B2
The disclosed invention includes methods and kits for the removal of white blood cells from samples of immunomagnetically enriched rare cells by treating the sample with a leukocyte marker conjugated to a hapten which adheres to the white blood cells and treating the resulting product with a second medium that adheres to the hapten of the white blood cells that are labeled with the leukocyte marker conjugated to hapten and removing the labeled white blood cells.
US09823229B2
A hydrogen sensor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The hydrogen sensor includes a metal oxide layer formed over a substrate, and a catalytic pattern that is formed over the metal oxide layer. Further, a protective layer is formed over the catalytic pattern.
US09823227B2
Provided are methods for determining the amount of lacosamide in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing lacosamide in a sample and detecting and quantifying the amount of the ion to determine the amount of lacosamide in the sample.
US09823224B2
A system for inspecting a weld on a component where the weld has a plurality of cross-sections includes a camera disposed above the weld that optically senses a weld position. A projector disposed above the weld projects on to the component along a length of the weld position a primary scan path with a primary scan path start point and a primary scan path end point. An imaging probe scans the weld as the imaging probe moves from the primary scan path start point to the primary scan path end point to generate a plurality of 2D cross-sectional images of the weld corresponding to the cross-sections of the weld, the imaging probe having a position and skew angle that vary as the imaging probe moves. Each 2D cross-sectional image of the weld is optically encoded with a respective imaging probe position and a respective imaging probe skew angle.
US09823218B2
Integrated circuit (100) comprising a semiconductor substrate (110); an insulating layer (120) over said substrate; an first transistor (140) on said insulating layer, said first transistor comprising an exposed channel region (146) in between a source region (142a, 142b) and a drain region (144); and a voltage waveform generator (150) conductively coupled to the semiconductor substrate for providing the first transistor with a bias voltage during a signal acquisition period, wherein the voltage waveform generator is arranged to generate an alternating bias voltage waveform (300) comprising a periodically increasing amplitude. A sensing apparatus including such an integrated circuit and a sensing method using such an integrated circuit are also disclosed.
US09823217B2
In one implementation, a chemical device is described. The sensor includes a chemically-sensitive field effect transistor including a floating gate structure having a plurality of floating gate conductors electrically coupled to one another. A conductive element overlies and is in communication with an uppermost floating gate conductor in the plurality of floating gate conductors. The conductive element is wider and thinner than the uppermost floating gate conductor. A dielectric material defines an opening extending to an upper surface of the conductive element.
US09823215B2
This invention relates to an electrochemical sensor (1), comprising a base element (3), which is made of electrically insulating material and has a planar surface (9), and a pair of conductors (5), which are attached to said planar surface (9) of the base element (3), wherein the two conductors (5) of the pair are connected by at least one wire-shaped electrochemical working electrode (7). The invention further related to a sensor array (21), which has several previously described sensors (1), and to a method for coating a working electrode (7) of the previously described sensor (1).
US09823211B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a gas sensor system and methods of analyzing data therefrom. In embodiments, a gas sensor system includes one or more gas preconcentrator modules and one or more gas sensor modules. Each gas preconcentrator module includes a substrate that has a top surface having a gas adsorbent material attached to the top surface and has an electrical heater element for heating each preconcentrator module to release adsorb gases to the sensor. The gas sensor modules and the gas preconcentrator modules are in fluid communication with each other. The gas sensor modules responses are readout in parallel multiple times as the preconcentrators are heated yielding a 2-dimensional gas spectrum. The gas sensor output data is analyzed and compared to a library of known data to analyze the gas composition.
US09823210B2
A method for manufacturing a biosensor includes forming an electrode layer on a flexible foil. An adhesive layer is positioned on the foil layer, and a first photo-definable hydrogel membrane is positioned over the electrode layer and the adhesive layer. A second photo-definable hydrogel membrane with an immobilized bio-recognition element is positioned over the first hydrogel membrane in contact with the electrode layer through an opening in the first hydrogel membrane.
US09823203B2
Systems for x-ray diffraction/scattering measurements having greater x-ray flux and x-ray flux density are disclosed. These are useful for applications such as material structural analysis and crystallography. The higher flux is achieved by using designs for x-ray targets comprising a number of microstructures of one or more selected x-ray generating materials fabricated in close thermal contact with a substrate having high thermal conductivity. This allows for bombardment of the targets with higher electron density or higher energy electrons, which leads to greater x-ray flux. The high brightness/high flux source may then be coupled to an x-ray reflecting optical system, which can focus the high flux x-rays to a spots that can be as small as one micron, leading to high flux density, and used to illuminate materials for the analysis based on their scattering/diffractive effects.
US09823191B2
A disposable micro-prism test chip for surface plasmon resonance measurement comprises a micro-tray and a micro-prism mounted on the micro-tray. The micro-tray and the micro-prism form at least one cell for providing a fluid dielectric medium for measurement. The disposable micro-prism test chip also comprises a thin metal layer coated on the surface of the micro-prism in the formed cell between the fluid dielectric medium and the micro-prism. The micro-tray may have at least one through window for forming the at least one cell. The micro-tray may also have a half-through cavity facing the micro-prism. The disposable micro-prism test chip is disposed after at least one use. The micro-prism may be fabricated by pulling a heated preform, where the preform has the same cross-section as that of the pulled micro-prism.
US09823186B2
A method for detecting the presence or absence of an ophthalmic lens (10), in particular of a contact lens, within a receptacle (1), including the steps of: detecting infrared radiation coming from at least a portion (3) of the receptacle (1) where the ophthalmic lens (10) is supposedly accommodated, analyzing the detected infrared radiation in a spectral portion in which absorbance (AL) of a material the ophthalmic lens is made of is significantly different from absorbance (AR) of a material the receptacle is made of, and from the analysis of the spectral portion detecting the presence or absence of the ophthalmic lens (10) within the receptacle.
US09823185B1
For determining concentration of a targeted molecule M in a liquid sample admixed with interfering molecules MJ which overlap its absorption band, a NDIR reflection sampling technique is used. Besides the signal source, a reference and an interference source are added. M is calculated by electronics which use Rave(t) from a pulsed signal and reference channel output and a calibration curve which is validated by use of RJava(t2) from a pulsed interference and reference channel output. Signal, interference and reference sources are pulsed at a frequency which is sufficiently fast so that a given molecule of M or MJ will not pass in and out of the liquid sampling matrix within the pulsing frequency.
US09823182B2
An elastic wave receiving apparatus includes: a probe that receives an elastic wave generated from a subject; a plate-like compression plate that supports the subject and whose surface is scanned by the probe; a motor for driving the probe; a controller that supplies a drive signal to the motor so that the probe moves to a predetermined target position on the compression plate; and a load estimating unit that preliminarily acquires and stores a physical value corresponding to a load generated at the time of scanning the compression plate by the probe. The controller corrects the drive signal so that the probe moves to the target position regardless of the load by using the physical value stored in the load estimating unit.
US09823175B2
An apparatus determines soiling of an object and includes a rinsing zone for rinsing off dirt particles built up on an object with a fluid. A collecting arrangement includes a retaining device for capturing the dirt particles rinsed off from the object and a measuring device measures a physical parameter of the captured dirt particles. A transport system moves the dirt particles captured with the retaining device to the measuring device to permit measuring the physical parameter of the captured dirt particles.
US09823169B1
A dust sampling system including a dust sampler and a vehicle on which the dust sampler is placed. The dust sampler has a suction unit, a cyclone, a dust collection container, and an air intake conduit. The suction unit draws in air containing dust particles. The cyclone centrifugally separates the dust particles from the drawn-in air. The cyclone has an air input port, a particle discharge end, and an air output port connected to the suction unit. A dust collection container is positioned underneath the cyclone to receive the separated dust particles from the cyclone. The air intake conduit has an air inlet and an air outlet connected to the air input port of the cyclone. The suction unit draws in the air containing the dust particles into the air inlet of the air intake conduit while the vehicle moves to collect samples of fugitive dust from a road.
US09823168B2
Embodiments relate to tire localization systems and methods for tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS). In embodiments, a tire pressure management system comprises a wheel speed sensor (WSS), a tire pressure sensor (TPS) that can comprise circuitry and/or sensors configured to measure or record tire pressure data and TPS phase data, and an electronic control unit (ECU) that can comprise circuitry and/or sensors configured to process the speed sensor data and TPS data. TPMS systems and methods utilize a reference position index transmitted by the TPS to determine a constant value pattern of WSS data representative of a specific tire in order to localize the set of tires.
US09823158B2
A system for ultrasonic leak detection employs a number of ultrasonic signal generators, each of which include an ultrasonic transducer generating an ultrasonic signal and an audio transducer generating an audio signal in the frequency range of human hearing that is a replica of the ultrasonic waveform. The ultrasonic signal generators are activated and placed at selected locations within the enclosure to be tested. The operator can listen for the audio signal to verify operation and the output waveform type of the ultrasonic signal generators. A mobile ultrasonic leak detector can then be employed outside the enclosure to detect any leakage of the ultrasonic signal through the enclosure wall to identify any leak paths.
US09823152B2
A method of manufacturing a differential pressure sensor is provided. The method includes providing a housing of a differential pressure sensor and a cover. The cover is mounted to the housing so as to form a pressure chamber. The differential pressure sensor is configured such that in operation, a pressure to be measured is transmitted into the pressure chamber. The method further includes heating a sleeve, placing the heated sleeve around the cover and the housing and allowing the sleeve to cool.
US09823140B2
A sensor abnormality determining apparatus is applied to an inverter that includes: a power element; a cooling water circulation path for cooling the power element; a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the power element; and a water temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the cooling water circulating in the cooling water circulation path. The sensor abnormality determining apparatus includes: an abnormality determining section and a determination temperature setting section. The abnormality determining section determines the temperature sensor is abnormal when a temperature difference between the detected power element temperature and the detected water temperature is larger than a prescribed determination temperature difference. The determination temperature setting section sets the prescribed determination temperature difference to a lower value when the detected power element temperature is lower than the detected water temperature as compared to when the detected power element temperature is higher than the detected water temperature.
US09823122B2
A computing device and a method detect a lightness of a lighting device. The computing device captures an image of the lighting device and parses the image to obtain a pixel gray value of each lighting dot of the lighting device. The computing device obtains detection information of the lighting device according to the pixel gray value of each lighting dot of the lighting device. The computing device generates a detection report of the lighting device according to the detection information of the lighting device.
US09823116B2
Geometric calibration of an imaging system is performed by recording visible control points in a calibration image whose geometric properties are known and calibration coefficients can be derived utilizing an image processing system for transforming the recorded image into a geometric distortion-free image. Described are methods and systems for vicarious geometric calibration of a remote sensor that include a processor configured to receive image data collected at a remote sensor, the image data including a plurality of image elements each associated with a respective reflective mirror from a plurality of reflective mirrors located at respective know positions, determine, for each of the plurality of reflective mirrors, an image location in the image data and determine one or more figures of merit based on the image locations and the known positions for each of the plurality of reflective mirrors.
US09823110B2
A radar liquid level measuring apparatus (10) includes a first oscillation module (102), a second oscillation module (104), a frequency comparator (106) and a control module (107). The first oscillation module (102) has a first oscillation frequency. The first oscillation module (102) generates a first pulse signal (10202). The second oscillation module (104) has a second oscillation frequency. The second oscillation module (104) generates a second pulse signal (10402). The frequency comparator (106) converts the first pulse signal (10202) and the second pulse signal (10402) into an adjusted signal (10602). The control module (107) compares the adjusted signal (10602) with an expectation value (10818) to obtain a comparative result signal. According to the comparative result signal, the control module (107) adjusts the second oscillation frequency, so that the second oscillation frequency and the first oscillation frequency have a constant frequency difference.
US09823107B2
Embodiments described herein include a system for insulating a flow meter that includes a thermal tube sensor housing. The thermal tube sensor housing may include a housing cavity that holds a sensor tube, a temperature sensor, and a heater for determining a flow rate of a fluid. In some embodiments, the heater imparts thermal energy onto the sensor tube. In some embodiments, the housing cavity additionally holds an insulator for reducing leakage of the heat from the housing cavity. In still some embodiments, the insulator includes a plurality of beads and a binder material.
US09823106B2
A collar is provided for use with a fluid flow sensor to reduce condensation of a moist gas flowing through the fluid flow sensor. The collar comprises a body defining an interior that defines an airspace between the collar and the housing of the fluid flow sensor when the collar is positioned on the fluid flow sensor. The collar also includes a heat source secured to the body and adapted to heat air contained within the airspace to consequently heat the housing of the fluid flow sensor and the interior surfaces of the sensor to reduce condensation of the moist gas.
US09823088B2
An image of a vehicle user is captured. The image is compared to a corresponding account image in a preset profile. It is determined whether the image matches the corresponding account image. A destination is selected based on the user profile. A traffic report is generated based on the destination.
US09823085B2
A navigation system determines one or more routes for a user from one location to another. The navigation system uses model data or information about weather, date, or time to determine an optimal route for a user. The navigation system may consider user preferences and dangerous or awkward conditions or criteria, and may perform a cost value analysis in determining the optimal route for a user.
US09823081B2
At least one first model represents a person. A request to pick up a passenger includes a first location and a personal identifier for the passenger. A vehicle is caused to navigate to the first location. The passenger is identified by comparing a second model generated from vehicle sensor data with the first model.
US09823080B2
A map of a facility is provided. Dispatch instructions for dispatching a mobile device from a starting location to the facility at a destination within a geographical area are received, and a current location of the mobile device is detected as the mobile device moves from the starting location towards the destination. The map of the facility is received based on the dispatch instructions and the current location of the mobile device, and the map of the facility is provided.
US09823073B2
A rotation-rate sensor having a substrate with main extension plane, for detecting a rotation rate, extending in a direction parallel/orthogonal to the main plane; the sensor including a primary/secondary pair of seismic masses; the primary pair having first/second primary masses; the secondary pair having first/second secondary masses; the first/second primary masses being movable relative to the substrate along a primary deflection direction extending parallel to the main plane; the first/second secondary masses being movable relative to the substrate along a secondary deflection direction extending parallel to the main plane; the first/second primary masses and the first/second primary masses being movable antiparallel or parallel to one another corresponding to the deflection direction, essentially extending orthogonally to the secondary deflection direction; and the primary pair and/or secondary pair being drivable so that, based on sensor rotation, the Coriolis force leads to deflection of the first/second primary masses and/or the first/second secondary masses.
US09823067B2
A method of calculating, using a depth sensor, a distance excluding an ambiguity distance including outputting a modulated light signal output from a light source to an object, receiving the modulated light signal reflected by the object, calculating a distance between the light source and the object using the reflected modulated light signal input to photo gates in conjunction with demodulation signals supplied to the photo gates, the calculating including calculating, using the modulated light signal, at least one distance farther than a maximum measurable distance, and setting the at least one distance to be equal to the maximum measurable distance may be provided. A range of the distance farther than the maximum measurable distance can be determined according to a duty ratio of the modulated light signal.
US09823066B2
A method includes receiving, into a measurement tool, a substrate having a material feature, wherein the material feature is formed on the substrate according to a design feature. The method further includes applying a source signal on the material feature by using a source in the measurement tool having a tool setting parameter, collecting a response signal from the material feature by using a detector in the measurement tool to obtain measurement data, and with a computer connected to the measurement tool, calculating a simulated response signal from the design feature using the tool setting parameter. The method further includes, with the computer, in response to determining that a difference between the collected response signal and the simulated response signal exceeds a predetermined value, causing the measurement tool to re-measure the material feature.
US09823049B2
An article is provided and includes a first ballistic particle impenetrable material, which is formable into a pack and a second material, which is formable into an enclosure for the pack, the enclosure having an interior facing surface in abutment with a substantial entirety of an exterior of the pack.
US09823042B2
The present invention provides a sporterized firearms stock ensemble configured to be coupled to variety of long firearms having a pistol grip interface. In some embodiments, the firearm stock ensemble includes a stock-to-receiver adapter and a sporterized gunstock assembly. The gunstock assembly includes a grip portion, a butt-plate and a stock support section configured to couple the grip portion to the butt-plate. An adjustable and/or detachable cheek-rest may be attached to the stock support section of the gunstock assembly.
US09823036B2
The disclosure features firearm cleaning tools that include a planar tool body having a length and width that exceed a thickness of the tool body and comprising a first end, a second end, and a middle portion extending within a plane defined by the tool body along a first direction between the first and second ends. The first end features two arms forming a U-shaped portion and defining a recess in the tool body and an angled projection extending in the plane, and the second end features a tab extending from the second end in the first direction and having a width measured in the plane and in a direction orthogonal to the first direction that is less than a width of the middle portion measured in the plane and in the direction orthogonal to the first direction.
US09823031B2
A modular automatic or semiautomatic rifle. The rifle has a lower receiver assembly having a fire control assembly for firing the rifle. An upper receiver assembly is provided with a frame and a bolt carrier assembly configured for firing bullets of a predetermined caliber. The lower receiver has a mating interface configured for operably joining the lower receiver assembly to the upper receiver assembly, and for operably joining the lower receiver assembly to another upper receiver assembly different from the upper receiver assembly configured for firing bullets of the predetermined caliber. The other upper receiver assembly has a different frame and different bolt carrier assembly configured for firing bullets of a different predetermined caliber.
US09823023B2
A heat exchanger unit that enables a quick interchanging of function, form and size of the different heat exchanger modules. The interchanging may be possible in regard to the sequence of the individual heat exchanger modules. The heat exchanger unit in includes inserts configured such that appropriately configured cassettes can be inserted, and an inner shape of the cassettes is configured so that different heat exchanger modules can be accommodated therein. The cassettes are thus designed specific to the heat exchanger, while the outer shape of all cassettes conforms to the shape of the uniformly configured inserts.
US09823021B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for cooling particulates are provided. A method can include introducing particulates and water to a first vessel to provide a fluidized bed of particulates and cooling the fluidized bed of particulates in the first vessel to obtain first cooled particulates. The method can also include recovering the first cooled particulates from the first vessel and introducing the first cooled particulates to a heat exchanger comprising a plurality of tubulars. The method can also include introducing a coolant to the plurality of tubulars, flowing the first cooled particulates through a shell side of the heat exchanger and contacting at least a portion of the first cooled particulates with the plurality of tubulars, recovering a heated coolant from the plurality of tubulars, and recovering second cooled particulates from a particulate outlet.
US09823010B2
A refrigerator is provided that includes a low energy defrost system and method for melting frost formed on an evaporator of a cooling system for the refrigerator. The low energy defrost system includes using air from the refrigerator compartment or external air adjacent the refrigerator to be directed to the evaporator and passed adjacent the evaporator coils to melt any frost formed thereon. As the air is above freezing temperature, it will melt any frost formed on the coils without the need of use an electrical heater. Re-cooled air from the melted frost may then be directed back into the refrigerator compartment to be used to aid in cooling the refrigerator compartment or keeping the refrigerator compartment at the programmed or predetermined temperature.
US09823007B2
A vessel for chilling wine with ice or ice-water mixture has an inner support chamber for standing up wine bottle and separating them from liquid water to avoid over chilling. The inner support as a plurality of perforations in an upper portion of the vessel to facilitate heat exchange. As ice outside the support melts, the water formed will remain below the perforations.
US09823004B2
A refrigerator and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A refrigerator includes a timer for measuring an interval of one hour after power is supplied to the refrigerator, a door opening/closing sensor for sensing opening and closing of a door, a storage unit for storing information whether door is opened in a sector defined as one hour by the timer and at least 7 sector units each having 24 consecutive sectors, and a control unit for predicting a refrigerator use pattern in 24 sectors by overlapping 7 sector units, performing a normal operation mode to maintain a storage compartment at a first desired temperature in a sector in which door opening is predicted, and performing a power-saving operation mode to maintain the storage compartment at a second desired temperature higher than the first desired temperature in a sector in which door opening is not predicted.
US09822974B2
A vacuum pump includes a vacuum pump having a discharge port to which an abatement part for treating an exhaust gas discharged from the vacuum pump to make the exhaust gas harmless is attached. The vacuum pump includes a cylindrical member having an exhaust gas introduction port for introducing the exhaust gas to be treated and a gas outlet port for discharging gases which have been treated, a plurality of fuel nozzles provided at a circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting a fuel, and a plurality of air nozzles provided at the circumferential wall of the cylindrical member for ejecting air so as to form a swirling flow of air along an inner circumferential surface of the circumferential wall. The air nozzles are disposed at a plurality of stages spaced in an axial direction of the cylindrical member.
US09822953B2
A display apparatus including an illumination unit having a first illumination unit including a first light source module, a second illumination unit including a second light source module, and a bracket located between the first and second illumination units to connect the illumination units to each other. The bracket includes a first body portion on which the first light source module is placed, a second body portion on which the second light source module is placed, and a connecting portion located between the first and second body portions to connect the body portions to each other. The connecting portion has a first distance from a first end of the first or second body portion and a second distance from a second end of the first or second body portion, and the second distance is greater than the first distance.
US09822950B2
A lighting system comprises a light source having an exit window and an electrically controllable light processing arrangement, in the form of a grid of cells lying in a plane parallel to the exit window. Each cell has a cell wall formed as electrically switchable element which is switchable between at least two processing modes. The cell wall surrounds an opening, such that light emitted in a normal direction from the light source exit window is not processed, and light passing at an angle to the normal direction greater than a threshold angle is processed by the cell wall for color and/or intensity control.
US09822944B2
A vehicle light assembly is provided that exhibits a colored appearance when in an unlit state. The vehicle light assembly comprises: a housing; one or more light sources mounted in the housing; and a light guide configured to receive light from the one or more light sources and project the light outwardly from the light guide. The light guide includes a first segment proximate to the one or more light sources and a second segment distal from the one or more light source, such that the light from the one or more light sources passes through the first segment of the light guide before passing through the second segment of the light guide. Of note, the first segment is comprised of a colorless material; whereas, at least a portion of the second segment is comprised of a colored material.
US09822943B2
A light deflecting device selectively reflects an incident light to a projection optical system. An irradiation optical system irradiates light to a reflective part of the light deflecting device. The light deflecting device has at least some region in the reflective part, a position of which is switchable between a first reflection position where the light irradiated by the irradiation optical system is reflected toward the projection optical system so as to be effectively used as a portion of a desired light distribution pattern, and a second reflection position where the light irradiated by the irradiation optical system is reflected so as not to be effectively used. The irradiation optical system is disposed at a position shifted to a side which a front face of the reflective part in the first reflection position faces, with reference to a vertical plane including an optical axis of the projection optical system.
US09822941B2
An upright lamp having length adjustable lamp-post includes a lamp-post, a plug mounted on the lamp-post, and a fastener configured for connecting the lamp-post and the plug. The lamp-post has a jack opened therein. The plug is inserted into the jack. The plug has a uniform cross section area and cross section shape with that of the jack. A hole is opened in the plug along axial direction thereof and is configured for receiving the fastener. The hole is intersected with a side wall of the plug. When the fastener is threaded into the volume formed by the plug and the lamp-post, the interference fit joint between the fastener and the volume is realized as the volume is less than that of the fastener. And then, the mounting base module and the fastener are assembled onto the lamp-post.
US09822940B2
A lighting system comprising a track having a first and a second rail, mutually extending equidistantly. Said first and second rail comprise a first respectively a second electrically conductive strip, mutually electrically isolated. A lighting module comprising a first and second electrical contact, which lighting module in mounted position rests by gravitational force on the first and second rail. When mounted the first and second electrical contact are in electrical contact with a respective one of the first and second electrically conductive strip. The lighting module is dismountable from the track by a single displacement of the lighting module in a direction against the direction of the gravitational force.
US09822923B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for a space-saving suspension system. In various embodiments, the apparatus may comprise a fine suspension device, a coarse suspension device, and a mechanical assembly. In various embodiments, the fine suspension device is arranged at an angle greater than zero degrees from the z-axis. In various embodiments, the mechanical assembly is coupled to the fine suspension device and a payload, such that when a force is exerted on the mechanical assembly by the payload, an applied force is transmitted to the fine suspension device.
US09822922B2
A medical stand apparatus includes a cylindrical lower arm that accommodates an upper arm divided into sections, so that only the lower arm is visible from the outside and so that a drape can tightly be fastened to the lower arm. The upper arm sections are connected to each other through a shaft that is guided along an arc groove of a bracket. This configuration is beneficial to reduce a diameter of the lower arm when the upper and lower arms are curved.
US09822921B2
Disclosed is a supporting stand for a display device, which includes: a base; an upright connected to the base; a holding unit connected to the upright and including a bracket, wherein the bracket has an anode conductive portion and a cathode conductive portion to provide electrical contacts for the display device; an electrical function unit disposed within the base; and an electrical connection unit electrically connecting the electrical function unit to the anode and cathode conductive portions of the bracket. Accordingly, the display device can be disposed in contact with the anode and cathode conductive portions of the bracket when being mounted on the bracket, and be electrically connected to the electrical function unit at the base by the electrical connection unit.
US09822914B2
A pipe connecting connector adapted to connect a pipe to a connecting object, includes a connector main body adapted to insert or remove the pipe, and including a locking opening formed on a side portion thereof; a lock member including an annular portion and a pipe locking portion extending from the annular portion and including a locking claw extending inside the connector main body through the locking opening for locking the pipe, the lock member being movably held relative to the connector main body between a locking position wherein the pipe locking portion locks the pipe, and an unlocking position releasing the locking, and an urging device urging the lock member to a locking position side. The pipe locking portion is urged in a locking direction of the pipe by an urging force of the urging device when the lock member is in the locking position.
US09822912B2
Embodiments of an integrated piping conduit include a device having a center body with an interior surface having a tube stop extending radially inwardly thereof, one or more head connectors, and a packing arrangement comprising at least one sealing ring, a spacer gland and a grip ring maintained within a radial housing compartment of the one or more head connectors. The packing arrangement can further include a retainer ring. In various embodiments, each head connector is secured to the center body through gluing or ultrasonic welding.
US09822898B2
A circuit may include a source input for receiving an input voltage, a load output for generating an output voltage, a load switch coupled at its source to the source input and coupled at its drain to the load output which is configured to pass the input voltage to the load output when the load switch is activated, an enable input for receiving an enable voltage which is indicative of whether the load switch is to be activated or deactivated, and a leakage reduction circuit coupled between the enable input and a gate of the load switch, wherein the leakage reduction circuit is configured to electrically couple the gate of the load switch to the source of the load switch such that a source-to-gate voltage is maintained below a threshold voltage for activating the load switch when the enable voltage indicates that the load switch is to be deactivated.
US09822895B2
Upper and/or lower seal plates of a sub plate mounted, pilot actuated spool valve are reinforced with one or more metal rings. In a number of preferred embodiments, the metal ring is comprised of steel. Portions of the seal plates may comprise an engineering thermoplastic such as polyoxymethylene (POM) sold by E. I. DuPont de Nemours under the DELRIN® trademark. The plastic material may be molded to the metal ring. In other embodiments, the plastic material and metal ring(s) are mechanically connected together.
US09822892B2
A two-stage switch valve includes a valve body slidable in a flow passage of a fluid, and a spring urging the valve body upstream. The valve body includes a valve element slidable in the flow passage, an upstream guide having a ring shape and being slidable in the flow passage, and legs connecting the valve element and the upstream guide. The upstream guide is located upstream of the valve element. The legs are inclined from an axial direction of the upstream guide and extend from the upstream guide toward a center of the valve element.
US09822884B2
A valve device includes: a poppet that is formed in a hollow shaft shape except for a leading end, has a tapered closure part at the leading end and a side hole passing through a wall of the hollow shaft-shaped part, and rotates around a shaft center thereof during opening and closing actions; and a valve seat having a sloped seat surface with which the closure part of the poppet comes into contact when closing the valve device. The closure part of the poppet or the seat surface of the valve seat, whichever has a higher hardness, has a cut mark of the opposite direction from a direction of rotation of the poppet around the shaft center that occurs during the valve closing action.
US09822880B2
A seal for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system for a motor vehicle. The seal includes a first sealing portion, a second sealing portion, and a hinge disposed intermediate the first sealing portion and the second sealing portion. The seal is configurable in an unfolded position, wherein the first sealing portion, second sealing portion, and hinge are substantially aligned, and a folded position, wherein the second sealing portion overlaps the first sealing portion.
US09822879B2
A metallic flat gasket with a solid bead has at least one metallic layer (2), wherein the metallic gasket comprises at least one solid bead (6), which is formed in at least one layer (2) of the metallic gasket, wherein the solid bead (6) comprises two flanks (8, 10) lying opposite one another. The gasket comprises, between the two flanks (8, 10) in the circumferential direction of the solid bead (6), at least one row (12, 14, 16) of adjacent depressions or bead sections (18, 20, 22), which in each case form an integral contour with the solid bead (6) and are orientated in the opposite direction with respect to the solid bead (6).
US09822877B2
A piston may be provided which includes a first piston body portion having an end wall extending radially about a central axis along which the piston reciprocates. The piston may also include a second piston body portion having an end wall extending radially about a central axis along which the piston reciprocates. The first piston body portion and the second piston body portion are axially opposed. The piston may further include a first piston rod bore disposed in the first piston body portion extending along the central axis and a second piston rod bore disposed in the second piston body portion extending along the central axis. The piston may also include a circumferential opening disposed between the mating of the first piston body portion with the second piston body portion.
US09822849B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include: an input shaft receiving torque of an engine; an output shaft outputting changed torque; a first planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements; a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements; a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements; a fourth planetary gear set including tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements. The planetary gear train improves power delivery performance and fuel economy by achieving at least ten forward speed stages and one reverse speed stage, and widens gear ratio span and secures linearity of step ratios.
US09822844B2
A shifting device for a transmission unit of a vehicle, in particular a vehicle that is driven by muscle force. The transmission unit has a first shaft, which is formed as a hollow shaft, on which a plurality of free gears is mounted. The free gears are in engagement with a corresponding plurality of gearwheels, which are mounted on a second shaft, wherein the free gears are connectable to the first shaft by means of selecting devices. The selecting devices can be actuated by means of a camshaft arranged coaxially in the first shaft, wherein the camshaft is connected to a driving device in order to be rotated relative to the first shaft to actuate the selecting devices.
US09822843B2
A planetary gear box assembly includes a plastic gear box housing and a first and a second monolithic housing part. The first-stage and second-stage housing parts each have an end face on one axial end of the housing part, and a surrounding wall. A first-stage ring gear is formed inside the surrounding wall of the first-stage housing part, and a second-stage ring gear is formed inside the surrounding wall of the second-stage housing part. The planetary gear box assembly has a planetary gear carrier with a generally cylindrical carrier body with a cylinder wall and a window extending through the cylinder wall. The window is axially adjoined by a first and a first radial pocket. The first and first radial pockets are radial indentations in a radially outer surface of the cylinder wall and accommodate planetary shaft ends of planetary gears.
US09822842B2
In order to allow a friction drive belt to have an effect of reducing slip noise produced between the belt and pulleys for a long period even when the belt gets wet with water or suffers from wearing out, a V-ribbed belt B as the friction drive belt includes a belt body 10 made of a rubber composition and configured to be wrapped around the pulleys to transmit power. The surfaces of V-shaped ribs 15 serving as a pulley contact-side surface of the belt body 10 are covered with a fabric layer 16 which is integrated with the surfaces of V-shaped ribs 15, and the fabric layer 16 retains powder 17 embedded between fibers of the fabric layer 16 and integrally stuck.
US09822840B2
A converter unit having a damping system and having a torque transfer unit for connecting an input shaft separably to an output shaft, wherein the torque transfer unit has a co-rotating housing and the damping system can be installed centered and detachably on the housing is provided. With the converter unit proposed here standard components can be used, which are compact and easily installable.
US09822839B2
A hydraulically damping rubber bearing has a substantially hollow-cylindrical inner portion and an outer portion disposed with a predetermined spacing relative to the inner portion. A resilient connection portion is disposed between the inner portion and the outer portion and connects the outer portion to the inner portion. The resilient connection portion has a first hydraulic damping circuit with at least two first fluid chambers which are in fluid communication with each other by means of a first flow connection. The first hydraulic damping circuit has a damping action in a predetermined direction. A second hydraulic damping circuit provides a damping action in the same predetermined direction as the first hydraulic damping circuit.
US09822835B1
In at least one embodiment, a rotational spring is provided with adjustable stiffness and includes at least one beam arranged about an axis between an input tuning port and an output port, wherein the input tuning port is configured to change an effective bending length of at least one beam so as to change a shear stiffness with respect to the input tuning port and the output port.
US09822834B2
A system and method for ceramic doping of carbon fiber materials is disclosed. A carbon fiber preform may be made of carbonized oxidized PAN fibers and may be placed in contact with a nanoparticle suspension having nanoparticles and a dispersion medium. The nanoparticles may impregnate the carbon fiber preform, causing it to become a doped carbon fiber preform. The doped carbon fiber preform may be densified. The doped carbon fiber preform may be densified by conventional CVI processing techniques. The doped carbon fiber preform may be densified by thermal gradient CVI.
US09822832B2
A disc brake device includes flat springs assembled in a support body and holding the brake pad back plates. The flat springs have a C-shaped part provided with: a connection surface part comprising a pad-receiving surface part; an outer circumferential surface part extending along the rotor circumferential direction from the end region of the connection surface part in the rotor radially outward direction; and an inner circumferential surface part extending along the rotor circumferential direction from the end region of the connection surface part in the rotor radially inward direction. Each flat spring also has a tongue-shaped part that: extends towards the connection surface part from the tip region of the inner circumferential surface part in the rotor circumferential direction; elastically engages an inner circumferential wall of a recess at a tip region of the tongue-shaped part; and biases the pad-receiving surface part towards a base wall of the recess.
US09822831B2
A method for learning a touch point of a clutch in a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicle includes a synchronization determination step, a drive shaft slip inducement step in which the controller induces a clutch of the drive shaft to slip, a non-drive shaft torque application step in which the controller applies torque to a clutch of the non-drive shaft, and a touch point learning step in which, while the speed of the non-drive input shaft follows the engine speed in the non-drive shaft torque application step, the controller searches for a certain point at which the speed of the non-drive input shaft changes and differs from the speed of the drive input shaft, and learns the point as the touch point of the clutch of the non-drive shaft.
US09822817B2
A bearing assembly includes an outer race, a cage, a plurality of internal rotating members, and an inner race. Lubricant flows through the bearing assembly to withdraw heat generated during operation of the bearing assembly.
US09822800B2
The present disclosure relates to a support frame for a ventilation device for cooling a fluid which passes through a cooling circuit of a motor vehicle. The support frame comprises an opening, which is designed to receive a propeller, and a central support, which is positioned in a center of the opening. The central support is formed to receive a motor which activates the propeller, so as to generate a ventilation flow. The central support is attached through the opening to the support frame by retention arms. The retention arms extend according to a curved form, between the central support and a periphery of the opening.
US09822794B2
A fan cover (10), on which a fan motor (11) is mounted, includes: a fan cover flat portion in which an opening portion (12) is formed; a protruding portion (13) extending from the fan cover flat portion around the opening portion; and a supporting portion (14), which is arranged on the protruding portion, for supporting the fan motor, wherein a distance between the fan cover flat portion and the supporting portion of the protruding portion is smaller than the thickness of the fan motor.
US09822790B2
Methods and systems for controlling infiltration of ambient air into, and exfiltration of process gas out of, an organic Rankine system. A system comprises a first sealing mechanism configured to seal at least one shaft against exfiltration of a process gas when the turbomachine is operating. The system further comprises a second sealing mechanism configured to seal the at least one shaft against infiltration of ambient air when the system is in a standstill mode. The system further comprises one or more pressure sensors configured to detect a pressure of gas within the system to monitor whether infiltration of ambient air has occurred and a system purge is needed.
US09822785B2
Recirculation systems for engine intake air are disclosed having a turbocharger compressor with an inlet and an outlet, a recirculation pathway connecting fluid flow from the outlet of the turbocharger compressor to fluid flow into the inlet of the turbocharger compressor, and a recirculation valve assembly controlling fluid flow through the recirculation pathway. The recirculation valve assembly includes an actuator operating a valve coupled to an aspirator assembly that produces vacuum when the fluid flows through the recirculation pathway from the inlet to the outlet and when fluid flows through the recirculation pathway from the outlet to the inlet. Fluid flows through the recirculation pathway from the outlet to the inlet when the turbocharger generates boost. The vacuum generated by the aspirator assembly is in fluid communication with the actuator to move the valve between two or more positions.
US09822783B2
A vacuum pump comprises a cylindrical rotor; a cylindrical stator which discharges gas in cooperation with the rotor; a base housing at least a part of the stator and having a through hole formed at a position facing an outer periphery of the stator; a heating member passing through the through hole from an atmosphere side to a vacuum side to have thermal contact with an outer peripheral surface of the stator to heat the stator; and an axial seal member which vacuum-seals a gap between the through hole and the heating member.
US09822780B2
A scroll pump has a tip seal between an axial end of the scroll blade of one of stationary and orbiting plate scrolls of the pump and the plate of the other of the stationary plate and orbiting plate scrolls. The scroll pump may have a ballast gas supply system and use the operation of the ballast gas supply system to assess the condition of the tip seal. Alternatively, the scroll pump may have two pressure sensors that sense pressure at two locations spaced along a compression mechanism of the pump to assess the condition of the tip seal.
US09822774B2
A micropump in the form of a stack comprising, in succession, a flexible diaphragm, a pumping chamber and a closing-off plate, said pumping chamber communicating with the outside, for example via the flexible diaphragm; said diaphragm being furthermore secured to an actuator arranged outside the micropump, characterized in that said diaphragm is secured to the actuator by way of at least one element in the form of a strip, which is rigid along its main axis and flexible in the direction perpendicular to its main axis.
US09822773B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to nutating a piston drive linkage oriented around a longitudinal axis in response to the rotation of a drive shaft about a drive axis, said longitudinal axis being offset and canted with respect to said drive axis. In an illustrative example, the piston drive linkage may be formed as a wobble plate extending radially from the longitudinal axis. Near a periphery, the wobble plate may attach to a plurality of stationary piston cranks. The nutating motion of the piston drive linkage may impart a substantially linear motion profile substantially parallel to the drive axis of rotation. A bearing oriented around the longitudinal axis may advantageously be freely inserted into and removed from an aperture in the wobble plate. An inner race of the bearing may freely rotate about the longitudinal axis in response to rotation about the drive axis.
US09822771B2
An air driven reciprocating piston hydraulic pump having a main changeover valve with a main valve body having an annular valve body portion which includes first and second annular valve faces that approach closely or contact first and second annular valve seats on valve cases which are formed on the upper and the lower ends of the annular valve body portion. An air intake chamber is defined by a piston reception hole and a drive piston portion, and an auxiliary changeover valve changes over the main changeover valve between its air supply position and its air discharge position by supplying compressed air to the air intake chamber or discharging air therefrom via a first and second valve members and a small diameter portion of a valve rod. A center side portion of the main valve body is made as a separate auxiliary valve body for facilitating up and down motion thereof.
US09822761B2
A method of manufacturing is presented. The method includes providing a plurality of structural layers comprising a plurality of composite rods, wherein at least one structural layer from the plurality of structural layers is attached to a separation layer. The method further includes stacking the plurality of structural layers, detaching the separation layer from the at least one structural layer, and curing the plurality of structural layers to form a structural component of a wind turbine blade.
US09822755B2
Disclosed is a glow plug diagnosis method of being able to diagnose the aging or fault of a glow plug without being affected by cooling associated with air intake/exhaust or fuel injection, the method including: a step (S102) of energizing a glow plug 1 in a predetermined manner when a key switch 11 of a vehicle is turned on; and a step (S106) of measuring the resistance value of the glow plug 1 when the energization of the glow plug 1 is started, and the resistance value of the glow plug when the energization of the glow plug 1 is started and then a change in the resistance value is saturated, and of calculating a change in the resistance value over time as a resistance value gradient, in which it is determined that the glow plug 1 is normal when the resistance value gradient exceeds a predetermined first gradient reference value a, and it is determined that the glow plug 1 is faulty, and a warning lamp or the like is lighted when the resistance value gradient is less than a predetermined second gradient reference value b (S112 and S118).
US09822747B2
Method to control an electromagnetic actuator of an internal combustion engine, in particular for a fuel pump of a direct-injection system; wherein the electromagnetic actuator is controlled by an electric current pulse of the Peak&Hold type, i.e. subdivided into a peak phase and a hold phase; the method includes acquiring the initial duration of the peak phase, during which a peak control current is to be supplied to the electromagnetic actuator to control the movement of a component of the electromagnetic actuator moving towards a position defined by a limit stop; and determining the duration of the peak phase by progressively decreasing the initial duration of the peak phase by a first change.
US09822741B2
Air induction systems are for an internal combustion engine. The air induction systems comprise an air intake plenum that conducts intake airflow to an air cleaner for cleaning prior to combustion in the internal combustion engine. The air intake plenum is movable with respect to the air cleaner between an open position separated from the air cleaner and a closed position connected to the air cleaner. A bellows connects the air intake plenum to the air cleaner when the air intake plenum is in the closed position. The bellows has an upstream first end that seals with the air intake plenum and a downstream second end that seals with the air cleaner.
US09822734B2
One embodiment includes a pivot thrust reverser. The pivot thrust reverser includes a first tandem pivot door subassembly comprising an inner panel and an outer panel. The inner panel and the outer panel are connected so as to rotate simultaneously about respective pivot axes that are each positionally fixed axes relative to the gas turbine engine assembly. A second tandem pivot door subassembly is included, spaced from the first tandem pivot door subassembly and comprising an inner panel and an outer panel. The inner panel and the outer panel are connected so as to rotate simultaneously about respective pivot axes that are each positionally fixed axes relative to the gas turbine engine assembly.
US09822729B2
A piston is disclosed. The piston may have a piston crown having a top surface. The piston may also have a first land disposed in the piston crown adjacent the top surface. The first land may have a side surface disposed generally orthogonal to the top surface. Further the piston may have a second land axially separated from the first land. In addition, the piston may have a groove disposed between the first land and the second land. The piston may also have a notch extending between the side surface and the top surface. The notch may have a generally concave shape and may extend circumferentially around the top surface.
US09822725B2
A control device of an engine includes an adjustment mechanism and a controller. The adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust an intake air amount. The controller is configured to save a first learning value in a volatile storage medium, the first learning value being obtained by learning an operation amount of the adjustment mechanism when the engine is idle. The controller is configured to control the adjustment mechanism according to the first learning value. The controller is configured to save a second learning value in a non-volatile storage medium, the second learning value being equal to the first learning value. The controller is configured to correct the first learning value using the second learning value after the first learning value is cleared.
US09822723B2
A fuel level sensor detects the level of fuel in a fuel tank. A level signal detected by a float does not change in a full dead zone and an empty dead zone. During normal fuel consumption, the level signal changes according to the consumption amount. Thus when an electronic control unit, or ECU, detects that the fuel level sensor is operating normally, the ECU resets a fuel consumption amount. However, when a small quantity of fuel is supplied, the fuel consumption amount is not reset, and a measurement error may occur during failure detection. Accordingly, the ECU corrects a failure threshold value to avoid misdiagnosing a failure.
US09822710B2
It is described a combustion device control unit and a combustion device, e.g. a gas turbine, which determine on the basis of at least one operating parameter whether the combustion device is in a predefined operating stage. In response hereto, there is generated a control signal configured for setting a ratio of at least two different input fuel flows to a predetermined value (psc1, psc3) for a predetermined time (dt) in case the combustion device is in the predefined operating stage.
US09822706B2
The present invention relates to a subassembly for a gas turbine, in particular a gas turbine aircraft engine, having a turbine casing (11); a midframe (14), which is adjacent downstream to the turbine casing and has a number of support ribs (15) spaced apart in the peripheral direction. The turbine casing and the midframe define a flow duct (33) for a working gas exiting a combustion chamber of the gas turbine, and a cavity, in particular a cooling air duct (19), with an opening on the flow duct side is formed between the turbine casing and the midframe. An edge contour (40) of the opening on the turbine casing side varies along the periphery radially and/or axially.
US09822689B2
Methods and systems are provided for addressing engine cold-start emissions while an exhaust catalyst is activated. In one example, a method for improving exhaust emissions may include flowing ionized air into an engine exhaust, downstream of an exhaust catalyst, to oxidize exhaust emissions left untreated by the catalyst. The approach reduces the PM load of the exhaust as well as of a downstream particulate matter filter.
US09822683B2
An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine is provided with a filter including a selective catalytic reduction NOx catalyst carried thereon. Further, a post-catalyst is provided for an exhaust gas passage disposed on a downstream side from the filter. The post-catalyst has an oxidizing function, and the post-catalyst has such a function that the production of N2 based on the oxidation of ammonia is facilitated in a predetermined first temperature area. A filter regeneration process execution unit is programmed to control the temperature of the post-catalyst to be in the first temperature area while adjusting the temperature of the filter to be in a predetermined second temperature area lower than a filter regeneration temperature during a certain period of time.
US09822676B2
A structure for attaching an oil jet valve includes a bracket secured to an internal combustion engine with a seal member, an attachment concavity extending through the interior of the bracket, an insertion hole extending through the interior of the internal combustion engine, an oil jet valve, a first stepped part formed in the oil jet valve, a second stepped part formed in the attachment concavity, and an interlocking member. The width of a wide part of the first stepped part is less than the width of a narrow part of the second stepped part. The width of the wide part of the first stepped part is less than the width of a portion, of the inner surface of the attachment concavity, that faces the wide part of the first stepped part.
US09822668B2
A spring clip for a blade outer air seal (BOAS) includes a clip body defining a first end configured to operatively engage with a BOAS retaining structure on a BOAS and a second end configured to engage with at least one of a mounting hook of a BOAS and a BOAS mount.
US09822664B1
A gas turbine includes an exhaust cylinder comprising an inner circumferential slot, a diffuser shell disposed at least substantially concentrically within the exhaust cylinder and one or more baffle plates extending between the exhaust cylinder and the diffuser shell, a proximal end of each of the one or more baffle plates being fixed to the diffuser shell by one or more holding rings and a distal end of each of the one or more baffle plates being slidingly received within the inner circumferential slot of the exhaust cylinder. The one or more holding rings are secured to the diffuser shell, at one or more holding segments disposed along an inner diameter of the diffuser shell, via a plurality of radially inserted fastening members.
US09822658B2
A seal arrangement for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a component including a body having a cold side surface adjacent to a mate face, and a seal member including a leading edge region and a trailing edge region spaced by sidewalls. The seal member defines one or more grooves. The one or more grooves abut the cold side surface to define one or more cooling passages, with at least one of the one or more cooling passages having a flared inlet defined by a corresponding one of the one or more grooves.
US09822654B2
A cooled wall segment in the hot gas path of a gas turbine. The wall segment includes a first surface, exposed to a medium of relatively high temperature, a second surface, exposed to a medium of relatively low temperature, and side surfaces connecting the first and second surface and defining a height of the wall segment. At least one cooling channel for a flow-through of a fluid cooling medium extends through the wall segment. Each cooling channel is provided with an inlet and an outlet for the cooling medium. The at least one cooling channel includes at least two heat transfer sections, a first heat transfer section extending essentially parallel to the first surface at a first distance from the first surface and a second heat transfer section extending essentially parallel to the first surface at a second distance, whereby the second distance is less than the first distance.
