US09852173B1
Embodiments are provided for managing shared states of objects associated with a distributed database. According to certain aspects, a reactor machine interfaces with a coordination service that is in communication with the distributed database to coordinate the shared states of the objects. The coordination service notifies the reactor machine when a shared state of an object has changed and, in response, the reactor machine determines a desired state of the object by executing a reactor function. The reactor machine provides the desired state of the object to the coordination service, and the coordination service updates the shared state of the object to reflect the desired state of the object. Accordingly, the logic of the reactor machine is de-coupled from the complexities of the coordination service.
US09852169B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compression of tables based on occurrence of values. In general, a number representing an amount of occurrences of a frequently occurring value in a group of adjacent rows of a column is generated, a vector representing whether the frequently occurring value exists in a row of the column is generated, and the number and the vector are stored to enable searches of the data represented by the number and the vector. The vector may omit a portion representing the group of adjacent rows. The values may be dictionary-based compression values representing business data such as business objects. The compression may be performed in-memory, in parallel, to improve memory utilization, network bandwidth consumption, and processing performance.
US09852168B2
A planning device and method of data storage are disclosed. The planning device includes a format-processing sub-logic and a space-allocation sub-logic. The format-processing sub-logic is for creating a formatting information area, for creating an index area for storing index data, and for creating a data area on a designated physical storage disk, and wherein the formatting information defines the index area and the data area. The space-allocation sub-logic is for allocating at least one data block to an upper-layer application in accordance with a size of a document needed to be stored. By adopting the formatting process, users may create the index area and data area on different physical storage disks so as to separate the index area and the data area. In this way, the users may store the information regarding the index area on different storage disks.
US09852160B1
A data computation rate is calculated for use by components in a computational data system. The data computation rate defines the frequency at which a computation, or other types of processing, is performed on or using certain data, such as a data value in a database. The data computation rate might be calculated based upon a current or historical data consumption rate that defines the frequency at which a consumer requests or has requested data, a data update rate that defines the current or historical frequency at which the data that is utilized to generate the processed data is or has been modified, a consumer-specified tolerance, and/or other information. The computed data consumption rate might then be utilized to specify the frequency at which the data should be processed by components in the computational data system.
US09852157B2
Provided are techniques for selecting an image for comparison with a plurality of images; specifying one or more visual criterion for searching the plurality of images, wherein the visual criteria are based upon a visual similarity between the image and the plurality of images; searching the plurality of images based upon the criteria to identify a subset of the plurality of images that meet a threshold with respect to the visual similarity; and displaying in a graphical user interface the subset of images.
US09852155B2
The present application provides a method and a system for acquiring and distributing location-related information. The method includes: receiving a positioning request initiated by a first application running on a client device, wherein the positioning request includes a network address identifying the client device and a user identifier shared by the first application and a second application running on a mobile terminal; generating a positioning instruction according to the user identifier; pushing the positioning instruction to the second application running on the mobile terminal; receiving, from the mobile terminal, location information obtained when the second application running on the mobile terminal performs positioning according to the positioning instruction; identifying a plurality of search results associated with the location information; and sending the location information and the plurality of search results associated with the location information to the first application running on the client device.
US09852153B2
A computing system for representing information, the computing system including at least one processor configured to process information. The processing includes defining a data structure representing a hierarchy of at least one programming attribute for developing an application. The data structure is stored in a file to allow the data structure to be used by other data structures stored in other files. The processing also includes producing a visual diagram including a graphical representation of the data structure and a graphical representation of the file storing the data structure. The visual diagram also includes a graphical representation of a relationship between the data structure and another data structure and a graphical representation of a relationship between the file storing the data structure and another file storing the other data structure. The computing system also including an output device for presenting the visual diagram that includes the graphical representations of the data structure and file and the graphical representations of the relationship of the data structures and the relationship of the files.
US09852152B2
A system and method for employing a file system and file system services on the industrial controller. The file system allows industrial control programs to implement many functions previously performed within the industrial control program and stored in the same memory as the industrial control program. An execution engine is provided that interprets instructions included in an industrial control program. The instructions utilize services in the file system for including user defined routine files loaded from local or remote locations, to load and unload recipe files from local and remote locations, to log and retrieve measured data and trend data to files at local or remote locations, to select different operating systems and to select a running program from a plurality of running programs utilizing the file system.
US09852151B1
A method of storing a file in a storage system that includes a plurality of memory-storage hosts includes: specifying a unique chunk identifier for a memory chunk included in the file; specifying a hash mapping to identify one or more storage locations for the chunk identifier, each storage location corresponding to a portion of a memory-storage host; providing metadata corresponding to the hash mapping to the memory-storage hosts; and storing the memory chuck at the one or more storage locations identified by the hash mapping by providing the chunk identifier to one or more memory-storage hosts corresponding to the identified one or more storage locations, the one or more memory-storage hosts implementing the hash mapping to store the memory chunk at the identified one or more locations.
US09852149B1
The disclosed embodiments disclose techniques for transferring and caching a cloud file in a cloud controller. Two or more cloud controllers collectively manage distributed filesystem data that is stored in one or more cloud storage systems; the cloud controllers cache and ensure data consistency for the stored data. During operation, a cloud controller receives a client request for a data block of a target file that is stored in the distributed filesystem but not currently cached in the cloud controller. The cloud controller initiates a request to a cloud storage system for a cloud file containing the requested data block. While receiving the cloud file from the cloud storage system, the cloud controller uses a set of block metadata in the portion of the cloud file that has already been received to determine the portions of the cloud file that should be downloaded to and cached in the cloud controller.
US09852147B2
Selective synchronization and distributed content item block cache optimization for multi-premises hosting of digital content items. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises: detecting an attempt to access a placeholder file corresponding to a content item, the placeholder file stored in the local storage of the computing device; determining one or more identifiers of one or more content item blocks of which the content item is composed; determining any content item blocks of the one or more content item blocks that are not stored in the local storage of the computing device; downloading, from one or more other computing devices coupled to a network to which the computing device is coupled, any content item blocks of the one of more content item blocks that are not stored locally in the local storage of the computing device; and filling the placeholder file with the one or more content item blocks.
US09852144B2
A data analysis system is proposed for providing fine-grained low latency access to high volume input data from possibly multiple heterogeneous input data sources. The input data is parsed, optionally transformed, indexed, and stored in a horizontally-scalable key-value data repository where it may be accessed using low latency searches. The input data may be compressed into blocks before being stored to minimize storage requirements. The results of searches present input data in its original form. The input data may include access logs, call data records (CDRs), e-mail messages, etc. The system allows a data analyst to efficiently identify information of interest in a very large dynamic data set up to multiple petabytes in size. Once information of interest has been identified, that subset of the large data set can be imported into a dedicated or specialized data analysis system for an additional in-depth investigation and contextual analysis.
US09852135B1
A user can capture various types of information concurrently using multiple sensors of an electronic device. This “scene” data can be provided to a service for processing, which is able to identify various types of potential matches and aggregate information to be returned to the client device. In at least some embodiments, matching information can be sent with the results such that the electronic device can match an element in the scene the next time that element is encountered, without having to contact the service again. In some embodiments, an attempt can be made to predict elements that the user might attempt to identify, and one or more corpora of data can be sent to the electronic device such that the client device can perform any matching on the device for elements in those corpora.
US09852128B2
A method and/or computer program product validates a translation memory against terminology dictionary of a source and target language. For each source term, occurrences of a particular source term within source segments are identified, where an occurrence is determined according to grammar rules. For each identified source term occurrence in a source segment, a closeness score between a corresponding target term and a corresponding occurrence of the corresponding target term in a target segment is calculated. Each identified occurrence of a source term in a source segment is reported, as well as a closeness score, for each identified occurrence, between each identified occurrence and a corresponding target term in a target segment.
US09852125B2
An approach is provided to discover new portmanteau, such as when ingesting documents into a question answering (QA) system. The approach works by analyzing a words included in electronic documents and identifies words as being possible portmanteaus. To analyze a portmanteau found in a document, the approach identifies morphemes that are included in the identified portmanteau and candidate words that correspond to each of the identified morphemes. A meaning for the new portmanteau is then derived from the meanings of the candidate word meanings.
US09852124B2
An approach is provided to discover new portmanteau, such as when ingesting documents into a question answering (QA) system. The approach works by analyzing a words included in electronic documents and identifies words as being possible portmanteaus. To analyze a portmanteau found in a document, the approach identifies morphemes that are included in the identified portmanteau and candidate words that correspond to each of the identified morphemes. A meaning for the new portmanteau is then derived from the meanings of the candidate word meanings.
US09852122B2
Automated analysis of text documents is used to scan text documents in order to find phrases or text fragments from other documents, or modifying the existing ones. A comparatively fast and universally applicable method finds phrases, sentences or even text fragments from other documents. The method includes: all electronic files containing model documents are converted to a given format; meaningful fragments, called “clauses”, are extracted from them; the converted files containing model documents are stored in the database; each electronic file containing a document to be analyzed is converted to the given format; clauses extracted from analyzed documents are compared with clauses extracted from model documents; fractions of clauses from an analyzed document matching clauses from each model document are calculated; fractions found are then compared with a pre-set threshold value in order to find out whether there are text fragments from a model document in the analyzed one.
US09852120B2
A distributed spreadsheet application executes at a server and a client in a network. The networked spreadsheet application can generally be used without requiring a user to install any specific spreadsheet software prior to using the application. In one implementation, the spreadsheet application may include a client engine that executes within browser programs of a plurality of client computing devices and server logic. The server logic may be configured to distribute the client engines to the plurality of client computing devices of the spreadsheet application when requested through the browser programs of each of the plurality of client computing devices. The server logic synchronizes a single spreadsheet document that is simultaneously open at the plurality of client computing devices.
US09852117B1
Text-fragment based content editing and publishing, in which a text-fragment is created in response to a trigger event by receiving text and storing the received text into the text-fragment. The text-fragment is added to a text file containing multiple text-fragments. The trigger may be received by an editor from a user interface or through an application programming interface to the editor. A publishable output is generated in response to the text-fragments in the text file and a selected theme defining the appearance of one or more Web pages within the publishable output. One or more previews of the publishable output may be displayed together with one or more of the text fragments within the user interface. Metadata in individual text-fragments may include versioning labels and other information. Ordering of the text-fragments in the text file may indicate an order in which content is provided within the publishable output.
US09852116B2
A computer-implemented system and method for processing messages using native data serialization/deserialization without any transformation, in a service-oriented pipeline architecture is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment that includes serializing or deserializing the request/response message directly into the format (specific on-the-wire data format or a java object) the recipient expects (either a service implementation or a service consumer or the framework), without first converting into an intermediate format. This provides an efficient mechanism for the same service implementation to be accessed by exchanging messages using different data formats.
US09852110B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling an IFFT input in a LTE system. The apparatus includes: a first multiplexer configured to select a portion of data applied to a first stage of a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) structure according to a predefined condition from among input data, and assign the selected data to a memory of the first stage; a butterfly operator configured to receive the portion of data selected by the first multiplexer and perform a butterfly operation for the first stage of the FFT structure using the received data; a multiplier configured to output a value obtained by multiplying a result value output from the butterfly operator and a predetermined value together; and a second multiplexer configured to receive a value output via the multiplier, and remaining data not selected by the first multiplexer to output to a second stage of the FFT structure.
US09852107B2
Techniques are disclosed for algorithmic mapping of logical process identifiers in order to provide highly-scalable end-point addressing in multi-node systems capable of performing massively parallel applications. In particular, nodes initiating inter-process communication with a target process may use an initiator-side translation process that performs an algorithmic mapping to translate a logical process identifier (e.g., a rank/processing element) into a target physical node identifier and a target local process identifier. The initiating node may then use hardware fabric of a multi-node network to route the inter-process communication to an appropriate node. A node may receive an inter-process communication and may use a target-side translation process in hardware to translate the target virtual process identifier into a local process identifier for the node. The node may then execute an operation in accordance with the inter-process communication, such as a get or set against a memory associated with the node.
US09852089B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory device, a host, and an interface. The memory device includes various types of memory units configured to be mounted to one slot. The host stores memory characteristic information of the various types of memory units contained in the memory device, processes a signal for the memory units on the basis of the memory characteristic information, and transmits and receives the processed signal to and from the memory units. The interface allows the host to interface with the various types of memory units contained in the memory device.
US09852086B2
Certain embodiments herein relate to pairing an external device and a computer using a random user action. The random user action may be generated based on the type of device. After an external device is connected to the computer, the external device is segregated from one or more resources of the computer. A random user action based on the device type, and to be received from the external device, is generated and requested. If the random user action is received, the external device is paired with the computer and provided access to the one or more resources of the computer.
US09852085B2
Certain aspects of the disclosure relates to a method for operating an electronic device. A control device detects a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface being connected to the electronic device, where the USB interface has a plurality of virtual ports. Then the control device receives one or more descriptors through the USB interface, each descriptor corresponding to a function of the electronic device. Then the control device matches each descriptor corresponding to each function with one driver file corresponding to each function, and after the matching is successful, determines a virtual function device corresponding to execution of each function. In response to receiving an operating command for executing one function, the control device sends the operating command to the corresponding virtual function device to the function to be executed through a corresponding driver interface, such that the corresponding virtual function device is operated on the electronic device.
US09852083B2
A method for executing a program code is suggested, the method comprising: checking a memory access policy resource based on a trigger; and comparing a current program counter with a program counter information provided by the memory access policy resource and, in case the comparison of the current program counter and the program counter information fulfills a predefined condition, conducting a memory access policy check to allow permitted operations.
US09852074B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a system for hashing a value into a cache, the system including a processor for performing a series of instructions; a memory; and the cache including a plurality of slots, each slot including two locations to store values, each location comprising a tag value and an index, the cache in communication with the memory and the processor, the cache configured to calculate a target slot in the cache for an object, determine if a location is available, store a characteristic of the object in the index of the location, and update the tag value of the location.
US09852071B2
A cache coherency management facility to reduce latency in granting exclusive access to a cache in certain situations. A node requests exclusive access to a cache line of the cache. The node is in one region of nodes of a plurality of regions of nodes. The one region of nodes includes the node requesting exclusive access and another node of the computing environment, in which the node and the another node are local to one another as defined by a predetermined criteria. The node requesting exclusive access checks a locality cache coherency state of the another node, the locality cache coherency state being specific to the another node and indicating whether the another node has access to the cache line. Based on the checking indicating that the another node has access to the cache line, a determination is made that the node requesting exclusive access is to be granted exclusive access to the cache line. The determining being independent of transmission of information relating to the cache line from one or more other nodes of the one or more other regions of nodes.
US09852066B2
A method includes determining a first logical block address (LBA) range of a first set of data units of a first candidate block of the memory. The method also includes determining a second LBA range of a second set of data units of a relocation block of the memory. The method also includes determining that the first LBA range matches the second LBA range. The method further includes relocating first valid data of the first candidate block to the relocation block of the memory in response to determining that the first LBA range matches the second LBA range, where the first LBA range corresponds to multiple LBAs.
US09852057B2
Embodiments of a device and method to automatically acquire signal quality metrics in a digital communication system are disclosed. The device may include acquisition means to sample the likelihood of a digital communication signal passing through a grid of time and amplitude regions, and storage means by which such likelihood measurements may be accumulated in a computer memory array for analysis. A state machine may execute a method that controls both the acquisition means and the storage means, requiring minimal intervention from supervisory systems.
US09852051B2
A computer system and computer program captures diagnostic trace information in a computer system having a plurality of software images. Information is received that is associated with a first failure in a first one of the plurality of software images. The received information is distributed to others of the plurality of software images. Further information is captured that is associated with a second failure in another one of the plurality of software images. The information associated with a first failure in a first one of said plurality of software images is combined with the information associated with a second failure in another of said plurality of software images, and the combined information is analyzed in order to determine a cause of the first failure.
US09852049B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for comparing screenshots of an application interface. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving test scenario parameters, wherein the parameters include a first screenshot of an application interface, one or more page objects associated with the first screenshot, generating a second screenshot of an updated application interface, identifying one or more page objects within the second screenshot based on a scope of each of the page objects associated with the first screenshot, comparing a section of the second screenshot to a section of the first screenshot that includes one or more page objects associated with the first screenshot that correspond to one or more page objects included in the section of the second screenshot, and determining whether the section of the second screenshot matches, within a predetermined tolerance level, the section of the first screenshot.
US09852045B2
Embodiments for debugging program code are provided. In response to a debug comparison request, (i) a first set of debugging operations are initiated on a first portion of program code selected from an original version of a program, and (ii) a second set of debugging operations are initiated on a second portion of program code selected from a revised version of the program. The second portion of program code corresponds to the first portion of program code. Execution of the first and second portions of program code is synchronized. The first and second set of debugging operations are stopped in response to determine that at least one of a first and a second stop condition exists based, at least in part, on a comparison of the results from executing one or more lines of corresponding code from the first and second portions of program code.
US09852039B1
Phase locked loop (PLL) timing device evaluation system and method for evaluating PLL timing devices
An evaluation board and a method for evaluating Phase Locked Loop (PLL) timing devices. The evaluation board includes an input and output circuit disposed on a circuit board along with control logic, and a plurality of PLL-timed physical devices that are identical to the physical devices used in the customer's communication system. A first connector receptacle and a second connector receptacle are coupled to the control logic and to one or more of the PLL-timed physical devices, and are configured to receive a PLL card including a PLL timing device. A third connector receptacle is coupled in series between the first connector receptacle and the second connector receptacle and is configured to receive a backplane emulator card having electrical characteristics emulating a backplane of the customer's communication system.
US09852028B2
A system and a computer program product for managing a computing system crash. Memory of the computing system is separated into at least two classifications, referred to herein as a dumpable area and a non-dumpable area. Upon detection of an operating system crash in the computing system, an operating system module prevents a dumping operation of the memory, including preventing access to the dumpable memory area, and divides the non-dumpable area into a new dumpable area and a new non-dumpable area. At such time as the operating system is rebooted, the dumping operation is initiated and completed in the dumpable area, and resumed operations use the non-dumpable area.
US09852025B2
Disclosed are different types of mechanisms for protecting data stored on a solid state drive or device (SSD) without erasing that data and/or without physically destroying the SSD. The different types of mechanisms can be used alone or in combination to prevent data stored on the SSD from being retrieved (accessed and/or read) in a usable or understandable form. The mechanisms include erasing logical-to-physical address mapping information (that is also used for error correction coding and interleaving), erasing compression information, erasing encryption keys, and changing the codec used for error correction coding. Each mechanism can be used online with the SSD installed in a computer system/server.
US09852023B2
A memory system that includes an error check and correct (ECC) circuit is provided. The memory system includes a memory, the ECC circuit, and a processor. The memory includes a user data region and a management region. The management region stores access information of each of blocks in the user data region as a management table. The value of the access information is either a first value indicating that the number of access times is 0 or a second value indicating that the number of access times is greater than or equal to 1. When the value of the access information of the block is the first value, the circuit checks and corrects an error of data read from the block. When the value of the access information of the block is the second value, the circuit does not check and correct an error of data read from the block.
US09852018B2
A method of detecting an error of a multi-time programmable (MTP) operation in which each gamma-offset and each header-bit at predetermined reference gray-levels are written in a MTP memory device while the MTP operation is performed on a pixel circuit, the each header-bit indicating whether or not the each gamma-offset is written in the MTP memory device, and it is detected whether or not the MTP operation is performed on the pixel circuit based on a logical operation between the header-bits at the predetermined reference gray-levels read from the MTP memory device when the MTP operation is finished on the pixel circuit.
US09852017B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module collecting an event record, a record regarding processing of an event request, and a plurality of records regarding processing of a plurality of sub-event requests to produce a collection of records. The event record includes information regarding an event, wherein the event is a user access operation or a system administrative operation initiated by a device affiliated with the DSN. The record regarding processing of the event request includes information regarding a dispersed storage (DS) processing module of the DSN processing the event request to produce the plurality of sub-event requests. The plurality of records regarding processing of the plurality of sub-event requests includes information regarding a plurality of DS units of the DSN processing the plurality of sub-event requests. The method continues with the DS processing module evaluating the collection of records to produce performance information regarding the DSN.
US09851995B2
A method for moving a hypervisor in a data grid. The method can include, receiving, from a system administrator, a request to move a host from a first cluster to a second cluster in a data grid, wherein a hypervisor is registered at the host to manage the host. The method can further include identifying, by the virtualization manager, a first configuration of the first cluster. The method can further include identifying, by the virtualization manager, a second configuration of the second cluster. The method can further include determining, by the virtualization manager, differences between the first configuration and the second configuration. The method can further include identifying current configuration attributes of the hypervisor associated with the first cluster. The method can further include adjusting, by the virtualization manager, configuration attributes of the hypervisor that differ for the configuration of the second cluster.
US09851991B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and computer storage media for concurrently maintaining a spanned virtual hard drive across two or more computer-storage media and a non-spanned virtual hard drive on one of computer-storage media. The method includes storing data of the spanned virtual hard drive across the computer-storage media utilizing volume spanning. While the spanned virtual hard drive is maintained on the computer storage media, the method includes storing data of the non-spanned virtual hard drive on one of the computer-storage media.
US09851979B2
A split level history buffer in a central processing unit is provided. A first instruction and a second instruction are fetched, tagged, and the first instruction is stored an entry of a register file. The first instruction is evicted from the entry and the second instruction is stored in the entry. If the first instruction is evicted, then the first instruction is stored in a first portion of a history buffer. If a result for the first instruction is generated, then the first instruction is moved to a second portion of the history buffer and the result is stored with the first instruction in the second portion of the history buffer. If it is determined that a third instruction evicts the second instruction from the entry, then the second instruction is stored in the first portion of the history buffer.
US09851973B2
A processor includes an execution pipeline having one or more execution units to execute instructions and a branch prediction unit coupled to the execution units. The branch prediction unit includes a branch history table to store prior branch predictions, a branch predictor, in response to a conditional branch instruction, to predict a branch target address of the conditional branch instruction based on the branch history table, and address match logic to compare the predicted branch target address with an address of a next instruction executed immediately following the conditional branch instruction. The address match logic is to cause the execution pipeline to be flushed if the predicted branch target address does not match the address of the next instruction to be executed.
US09851967B2
In various embodiments, methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed that allow developers to allow runtime customizations of documents developed using a desktop integration framework. Workbook metadata is a set of information that describes how a given workbook is integrated with a particular web application. When a workbook is being published, metadata may be written into a local cache in the published workbook as well as a workbook definition file. Metadata management may be handed by a metadata service allowing updates and customization of published workbooks independently of a local cache in the published workbook and the workbook definition file.
US09851965B2
A facility for managing storage of program customization resources on a computing system is described. The computing system has an amount of storage space, some of which is free. Some of the program customization resources are selected for use. The facility determines that the amount of free storage space is inadequate. In response, the facility identifies at least a portion of the plurality of program customization resources stored on the computing system that are not selected for use, and causes the identified program customization resources to be deleted from the computing system.
US09851959B2
Herein disclosed is an optimization for a compiler, the optimization configured to assign numeric values, or semantic fingerprints, to portions of code, and to combine these fingerprints to arrive at fingerprints for larger and larger portions of code. The fingerprints can be provided to various consumers such as code redundancy optimization modules and copyright violation and malware/virus identification modules. The fingerprints can also be used to cluster similar code, and then code within each cluster can be merged. Merger can include creating a single merged portion of code including the same portions of code from the original portions of code plus control flow and new arguments to account for differences between the original portions of code. The original portions of code can be replaced with wrappers that use new arguments to call to the merged portion of code.
US09851952B2
Techniques are disclosed for enabling seamless RESTful API generation and consumption through a single channel. Certain techniques are disclosed that allow for clients to both create an API and then immediately use or consume the API through a single channel of communication with a single component, such as a series of HTTP requests and/or responses sent between an application and an API Generation and Consumption (AGC) module.
US09851950B2
A method facilitates development of instructions in a precise syntax, such as software source code or built-in functions of a computational system, using natural language (NL) input. A user may enter NL input in a workspace. An NL processing system may process the NL input to generate instruction(s) in a precise syntax that corresponds to the NL input. The instruction(s) in the precise syntax then may be included in the workspace.
US09851946B2
A round-for-reround mode (preferably in a BID encoded Decimal format) of a floating point instruction prepares a result for later rounding to a variable number of digits by detecting that the least significant digit may be a 0, and if so changing it to 1 when the trailing digits are not all 0. A subsequent reround instruction is then able to round the result to any number of digits at least 2 fewer than the number of digits of the result. An optional embodiment saves a tag indicating the fact that the low order digit of the result is 0 or 5 if the trailing bits are non-zero in a tag field rather than modify the result. Another optional embodiment also saves a half-way-and-above indicator when the trailing digits represent a decimal with a most significant digit having a value of 5. An optional subsequent reround instruction is able to round the result to any number of digits fewer or equal to the number of digits of the result using the saved tags.
US09851933B2
There is a method and system for capability-based resource allocation in a software-defined environment that performs the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) determining a set of capability characteristics for a plurality of workload resources within a software-defined environment; (ii) determining a set of workload components for a specified workload; and (iii) identifying a set of workload resources from the plurality of workload resources to allocate to the specified workload based, at least in part, on the set of capability characteristics corresponding to each workload within the set of workload resources. A workload component of the set of workload components has a unique set of workload characteristics.
US09851929B2
In a printing system, a print job data generating unit of an information processing device generates print job data that includes job settings data which includes at least one of mechanical initialization information and job registration information to be used in a printing machine and which is described in a format that can be parsed without performing RIP processing, and printing data in PDL format. An RIP preprocessing unit of the printing machine parses the job settings data included in the print job data to obtain at least one of the mechanical initialization information and the job registration information, and performs at least one of mechanical initialization requesting based on the mechanical initialization information and job registration based on the job registration information before an RIP processing unit performs the RIP processing.
US09851926B2
Example apparatus and methods provide a log structured block device for a hard disk drive (HDD). Data that is to be stored on an HDD is serialized and written as a series of data blocks using a sequential write. Information about where individual data blocks were supposed to be written (e.g., actual address, neighboring data blocks), where data blocks were actually written, and how often data blocks are accessed is maintained. During garbage collection, data blocks that are being accessed with similar frequencies may be relocated together, with the most frequently accessed (e.g., hottest) data blocks migrating to the outer cylinders of the disk and the least frequently accessed (e.g., coldest) data blocks migrating to the inner cylinders. Blocks stored in the same temperature regions that were intended to be located together when written may be repositioned to facilitate sequential reads.
US09851915B2
A memory device includes a first group of memory cells, a second group of memory cells, a third group of memory cells, and a fourth group of memory cells. A control circuit performs a first read/write operation during a first time interval by writing a first data value to the first group while concurrently reading a second data value from the second group. The control circuit performs a second read/write operation during a second time interval, which is after the first time interval, by writing a third data value to the third group while concurrently reading a fourth data value from the fourth group. The first and third data values are collectively made up of N-bits and collectively correspond to an N-bit input data word provided onto input pins of the memory device prior to the first time interval.
US09851914B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to generating random numbers using two transistor, two capacitor (2T-2C) ferroelectric memory cells. In accordance with one disclosed embodiment, an n-bit random number can be generated by writing to a uniform data pattern to a set of n 2T-2C ferroelectric memory cells in a 1T-1C mode so that all ferroelectric capacitors of the n 2T-2C cells have a polarization state corresponding to the same data value (e.g., all 0's or all l's). The n 2T-2C cells are then read in a 2T-2C mode, so that a random bit (a 0 or 1) is produced for each cell, resulting in an n-bit random number. The n-bit random number is stored in the n 2T-2C ferroelectric memory cells by a rewrite operation. Such random numbers are useful for many purposes, including security, such as authentication, integrity checking, and encryption, and for identification.
US09851912B2
A memory device is provided as follows. A memory cell region includes a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of NAND strings. A control logic divides the plurality of blocks into a plurality of block regions based on a smaller distance of a first distance with respect to a first edge of the memory cell region and a second distance with respect to a second edge of the memory cell region and controls an operation performed on the memory cell region using a plurality of bias sets of operation parameters for the operation. Each bias set is associated with one of the block regions.
US09851908B2
A method, device and non-transitory computer readable medium that manages read access includes organizing a plurality of requests for objects on one or more storage media, such as tapes or spin-down disks, based on at least a deadline for each of the plurality of requests. One of one or more replicas for each of the objects on the one or more storage media is selected based on one or more factors. An initial schedule for read access is generated based at least on the deadline for each of the plurality of requests, the selected one of the replicas for each of the objects, and availability of one or more drives. The initial schedule for read access on the one or more of the drives for each of the plurality of requests for the objects is provided.
US09851901B2
Herein are data storage devices to transfer a reference of a data object during a storage operation. These data storage devices include a host controller configured to obtain a reference of an object stored in a shared memory system for writing to a storage media controlled by a drive controller. To the drive controller, the host controller transfers the reference of the object in the memory system. The host controller transfers a storage command to the drive controller to write the object to the storage media. The drive controller may be configured to transfer a reference of an object read into the memory system.
US09851900B2
A multiple memory rank selection method and system assigns, based at least in part on decoding an assignment signal in a second command/address signal, a first terminal of a memory device to receive a first command/address signal and a second terminal of the memory device to receive the second command/address signal or assigns the first terminal of the memory device to receive the second command/address signal and the second terminal of the memory device to receive the first command/address signal. The multiple memory selection method and system decodes a selection signal encoded in the first command/address signal and enables the memory device based at least in part on the assignment signal and the selection signal.
US09851899B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a multi-level cell which stores M-bit data at a time and M number of latches for respectively storing M-bit data on a single bit basis. A controller sequentially latches M-bit data of the multi-level cell into the M number of latches, respectively, during a first half read period, and sequentially outputs the latched M-bit data in the M number of latches during a second half read period.
US09851896B2
Methods for navigating to a home screen and providing switching, launching, and notifications from the home screen are provided. An example method may include detecting a swiping gesture originating proximate to a top edge of a touchscreen display of a mobile device and extending away from the top edge. The method may further include, in response to detecting the swiping gesture, displaying at least a portion of a home screen extending from the top edge into an area of the touchscreen display. In addition, the home screen may include a plurality of interface items associated with active applications and applications available for launch. Systems, devices, and computer-readable media are also described.
US09851894B2
The present invention relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a program, enabling realization of various playing display using frame images subjected to compositing processing as a motion transition image.A recording medium has recorded therein, as a series of recording frame image data, each of composited image data generated by sequentially performing image compositing processing for each input of frame image data, each of composited image data being enabled of moving image display in which a moving subject image in each frame image data is sequentially placed so as to be arrayed in a predetermined direction, with each recording frame image data being playable. In accordance with operation of an operation input unit such as a touch panel, a frame position to be played is determined out of the series of recording frame image data, and playing of the recording frame image data at the determined frame position is executed. Thus, a scene which the user desires to view out of the motion transition image can be easily viewed.
US09851891B2
An interactive projection system and a projection method thereof are provided. The interactive projection system includes a projection region, a projection device, a touch device and a host. The touch device is movably disposed on the projection region. The projection device projects a corresponding input interface on a touch sensing surface of the touch device according to a position of the touch device, so as to improve usage convenience of the projection system.
US09851889B2
Apparatus and method for rotating a displayed image by using multi-point touch inputs. In order to rotate an image displayed on a display of a user equipment having a touch input device. A first touch input may be made at a first position of the touch input device. Then, a second touch input may be made at a second position of the touch input device while the first touch input remains at the first position of the touch input device. The second touch input may be advanced from the second position to a third position while the first touch input remains fixed at the first position. After advancing, the displayed image may be rotated based on a change in slope of a virtual line connecting the first touch input and the second touch input as the second touch input advances from the second position to the third position.
US09851879B2
A smart device is provided with a main remote control application that may be configured using information. The main remote control application may present images of original remote controls corresponding to devices which are controllable by the configured main remote control application. In connection with a presented image of an original remote control, the display may present icons that are representative of a subset of the buttons of the original remote control. The user interface also allows a user to select amongst the images of the original remote controls to change which appliances are to be controlled via the user interface. A pop-up remote control widget may also be provided which may be invoked without switching to the main remote control application provisioned on the smart device.
US09851873B2
A family electronic album is created. Representative face images of a family are displayed. The representative face images are dragged and dropped onto corresponding areas among areas that identify family attributes (“father”, “mother”, etc.). Since the family attributes of the representative face images can be ascertained, the family attributes of face images that resemble these face images can be determined. Since images that include all family members and images that include some family members can be determined from among images that include face images the family attributes of which have been determined, these images are laid out in the electronic album.
US09851871B2
Input is received to store information to access content displayed within a browser as a bookmark. A bookmark properties form is generated to include fields in which environments are identified as corresponding to the bookmark. Input is received that includes a first URL corresponding to the label of a first bookmark within a first environment. The bookmark is stored by including in the properties form, a label of the bookmark, the first environment corresponding to the bookmark, and the first URL corresponding to the first environment. A second URL is received that corresponds to the label of the first bookmark, but within a second environment, and includes the second environment in the properties form as corresponding to the label of the bookmark, and includes the second URL in the properties form as corresponding to the second environment, wherein the first URL differs from the second URL.
US09851870B2
A processor implemented method and system are disclosed. The method includes generating, based on geographical data and associated video data, a geo-located path having an interactive segment representative of the associated video data. The width of the interactive segment may be adjusted based on the geographical data and time data. A timeline, based on the geographical data and the time data, is generated. The geo-located path is displayed with the interactive segment. The timeline is displayed in response to a selection of the interactive segment. A representation of the video data is displayed in response to the selection of the interactive segment. The representation of the video data is associated with the selected interactive segment. The representation of the video data and the timeline are selectable for time-based navigation through the representation of the video data.
US09851869B2
A context sensitive slider content area provides a slide out mechanism that is automatically actuated when additional information is needed during a chat session between an agent and a visitor, e.g. where a pre-chat and/or exit form is to be completed. The context sensitive slide out content area also provides problem resolution information to the visitor to help in solving problems, e.g. the top five problems; and also provides a self-service step-by-step wizard. A history section is provided with which the visitor can track back all previous steps carried out within the smart client. A history bar provides an iconic representation of all previous activities. A technique is also disclosed for executing various actions, such as form filling or requests for additional services, in a chat session.
US09851867B2
A portable electronic device capable of more easily selecting a desired text input application, a method of controlling the same, and a program are provided. In a state in which characters or an image is displayed on a display of a portable telephone, an instruction is given such that either the image or at least one of the characters (for example, the characters “a”, “i”, “u”, and “e” on a region) is selected and then the character or the image is moved to an end region (for example, the right side of an end region). Consequently, the portable telephone starts a text input application storing the character associated with the end region (for example, a notepad application) and the selected character or image is input.
US09851862B2
A display apparatus and a displaying method thereof are provided. The displaying method of the display apparatus includes displaying a cursor, changing a manipulation mode of the display apparatus based on an input, and changing the cursor to a highlight or a mode guide icon corresponding to the changed manipulation mode.
US09851861B2
Each interesting location on a screen of a portable unit is marked by a transparent flag or marker. Then, when the user scales up (magnifies the image) the map to view one of the locations, transparent arrows are placed on the screen identified with transparent location markers indicating the direction the user needs to move to arrive at the remaining locations marked earlier by markers. Either the portable unit can be moved while the map remains stationary or the device remains stationary while the map is moved by the touch screen. By following each transparent arrow, which constantly calculates the new direction as the view of the map changes, the user arrives at the desired location, often in a shortest distance, without getting lost. Once this location is viewed, the user can then proceed to follow a second transparent arrow corresponding to a second desired location. This can be done for each marked location without changing the scale or entering new search data terms since all transparent arrows (markers) can be shown on the screen. An option can exist where the user moves to the marked location immediately by issuing a verbal or physical command.
US09851859B2
Disclosed is a touch window including a substrate, and an electrode part provided on the substrate to detect a position. The electrode part includes a base including an electrode.
US09851858B2
A touch window includes a cover substrate, a reflective layer provided on the cover substrate and including a sensing electrode, a wire electrode connected with the sensing electrode, and a printed circuit board electrically connected with the sensing electrode through the wire electrode.
US09851857B2
The present invention provides a tactual sensor using a micro liquid metal droplet simultaneously having high sensitivity and good spatial resolution. A tactual sensor using a micro liquid metal droplet according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first film having a first electrode layer; a second film having a second electrode layer facing toward the first electrode layer; an insulating layer provided on the second film while covering the second electrode layer; and a main body disposed between the first electrode layer and the insulating layer to form a chamber corresponding to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and accommodating a micro liquid metal droplet in the chamber.
US09851856B2
A touch sensitive system includes a touch sensitive area. A plurality of spaced apart first electrodes are disposed in the touch sensitive area and extend continuously along a first direction. A plurality of spaced apart second electrodes are disposed in the touch sensitive area and extend continuously along a different second direction. A plurality of nodes are disposed in the touch sensitive area, each node being defined by corresponding first and second electrodes traversing each other at the node. The touch sensitive system detect a location of a touch applied proximate a node by detecting a change in a coupling capacitance between the corresponding first and second electrodes traversing each other at the node. Each first electrode traverses at least one, but not all, of the second electrodes, and each second electrode traverses at least one, but not all, of the first electrodes.
US09851839B2
Eye-friendly display that can reduce eye strain on a user is achieved. A display system includes a display portion, an input portion, and a control portion. The display portion is configured to display an image. The input portion is configured to sense an input from a user and output a signal to the control portion. The control portion is configured to execute a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode executed by the control portion, an image is displayed on the display portion by an interlace method. In the second mode executed by the control portion, an image is displayed on the display portion by a progressive method. The control portion is configured to switch between the first mode and the second mode in accordance with the signal.
US09851833B2
An integration circuit may include a plurality of switches, at least one operational amplifier, and at least one feedback capacitor, sequentially transfers electrical charges charged in a node capacitor to the feedback capacitor, and integrates the electrical charges. The operational amplifier may be synchronized with a clock signal applied to at least one of the plurality of switches to thereby be operated in one of a normal mode and a low power mode.
US09851829B2
Signal processing for a touch and hover sensing display device is disclosed. A touch and hover sensing display device can include a sensing panel for sensing a touch or hover event, a display for displaying graphical information to select based on the touch or hover event, and a control system for processing a signal indicative of the touch or hover event. The control system can process the signal to determine to which display location a hovering object is pointing according to a profile of the object's shape. In addition or alternatively, the control system can process the signal to differentiate between a close small object and a distant large object so as to subsequently perform intended actions of the device based, at least in part, on the object distance and/or area (or size). The display can be positioned at a desirable distance from the panel so as to reduce interference from the display to the panel and avoid adverse effects on the signal.
US09851827B2
A touch-screen assembly for performing pressure sensing or force sensing is disclosed. The touch-screen assembly includes a cover sheet having touch-sensing capability and a frame having an upper surface portion. Spaced-apart adhesive islands are disposed between the cover sheet and the upper surface portion of the frame. The adhesive islands serve to secure the cover sheet to the frame and have a Young's modulus of greater than 1 MPa so that the energy associated with the touching force is not absorbed by the adhesive island. This makes for more accurate pressure-based or force-based touch sensing.
US09851814B2
A foldable mouse comprises a substrate, a thin-film battery, a touch module, a signal processing module, and a communication module. The substrate is a foldable structure. The thin-film battery is electrically connected to the touch module, the signal processing module, and the communication module; the signal processing module drives the touch module, receives signals from the touch module, and sends the signals to the communication module. The substrate comprises a main body structure sandwiched between a first support plate and a second support plate. The first support plate and the second support plate are symmetrically located at two opposite sides of the main body and foldable connected to the main body structure. The main body structure comprises a first surface and a second surface, and a minidisc is integrated on the second surface.
US09851807B2
A method or apparatus accessing, by a recipient device, media content supplied by a source device. The media content is modified to generate first updated media content, wherein the media content is modified according to a comparison of first information descriptive of a first environment of the source device to second information descriptive of a second environment of the recipient device. Images are obtained of a gesture performed within the second environment. A command is identified from the gesture and the first updated media content is modified to generate second updated media content according to the command. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09851805B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a processor configured to: receive a signal; determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the signal; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The system further includes a haptic output device in communication with the processor and coupled to a holder, wherein the holder is configured to mechanically couple with an electronic device. The haptic output device is configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect.
US09851796B2
Disclosed are tactile keys and methods for their production and use. The tactile key may include a substrate; a conductive layer disposed on at least one region of the substrate; a porous layer disposed on at least a portion of the conductive layer; an insulating layer disposed on regions of the substrate that surround the conductive layer and the porous layer to form a well, the well having sidewalls defined by the insulating layer, and a bottom surface at least partially defined by the porous layer; an electroactive polymer composition disposed in the well; and a flexible layer having a conductive coating on at least a portion of a surface facing the electroactive polymer composition, the flexible layer covering the well and at least a portion of the insulating layer surrounding the well. When the tactile key is depressed, an electric field is activated causing the electroactive polymer composition to move towards the flexible layer to provide a tactile feedback.
US09851786B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for assisting a user, wearing a head mounted display (HMD) that covers a user's field of vision and has a tracker providing information regarding the position and orientation of the HMD, in locating a physical controller located on a physical base station. A processor causes the HMD to display a virtual world, including a virtual representation of the physical base station and physical controller along with a virtual hand that helps guide the user to the physical base station to allow the user to pick up the physical controller. Another embodiment allows an area in the physical world to be defined within which the user should remain, for example to avoid physical obstacles. The processor causes the HMD to display a warning, such as a virtual fence, to alert the user if the user approaches to within a preselected distance of the boundary.
US09851782B2
An operation support device includes a connecting body in which a first support body and a second support body are detachably connected to each other; a first shaft engaging section; a shaft connecting member having a connection engaging section engaged with the first shaft engaging section; and a shaft fixing member. The shaft fixing member is movably installed with respect to a first shaft section or a second shaft section and is configured to selectively form a shaft engagement fixing state in which the connection engaging section is held down to retain an engagement state such that the connection engaging section is engaged with the first shaft engaging section and a second state in which holding down to the connection engaging section is released in accordance with a moved position with a moved position of the shaft fixing member.
US09851780B2
A semiconductor device includes a main processor, a normally-off processor, and at least one oxide semiconductor random access memory (RAM). The normally-off processor includes at least one oxide semiconductor transistor. The main processor is connected to the normally-off processor, and a clock rate of the main processor is higher than a clock rate of the normally-off processor. The oxide semiconductor RAM is connected to the normally-off processor. An operating method of the semiconductor includes backing up data from the main processor to the normally-off processor and/or the oxide semiconductor RAM.
US09851777B2
Power gating decisions can be made based on measures of cache dirtiness. Analyzer logic can selectively power gate a component of a processor system based on a cache dirtiness of one or more caches associated with the component. The analyzer logic may power gate the component when the cache dirtiness exceeds a threshold and may maintains the component in an idle state when the cache dirtiness does not exceed the threshold. Idle time prediction logic may be used to predict a duration of an idle time of the component. The analyzer logic may then selectively power gates the component based on the cache dirtiness and the predicted idle time.
US09851774B2
The disclosure generally relates to dynamic clock and voltage scaling (DCVS) based on program phase. For example, during each program phase, a first hardware counter may count each cycle where a dispatch stall occurs and an oldest instruction in a load queue is a last-level cache miss, a second hardware counter may count total cycles, and a third hardware counter may count committed instructions. Accordingly, a software/firmware mechanism may read the various hardware counters once the committed instruction counter reaches a threshold value and divide a value of the first hardware counter by a value of the second hardware counter to measure a stall fraction during a current program execution phase. The measured stall fraction can then be used to predict a stall fraction in a next program execution phase such that optimal voltage and frequency settings can be applied in the next phase based on the predicted stall fraction.
US09851771B2
Dynamic monitoring of current draw by a memory device or memory subsystem can enable a power management system to adjust a memory access performance parameter based on monitored power usage. The system can generate a power usage characterization for the memory device and/or memory subsystem based on monitoring current draw for a known pattern, and then subsequently use the power usage characterization to determine how to adjust the memory access performance parameter.
US09851770B1
A network apparatus architecture is disclosed that includes one or more isolation circuits to accommodate a predetermined isolation voltage. Each isolation circuit enables an independent DC voltage to be selected along a network signaling path to accommodate different DC voltages of network circuits along the network signaling path. For example, DC isolation may be provided between a physical interface and a network circuit via one or more capacitors, optoelectronic isolators, coupled magnetic devices, or semiconductor devices. A network circuit may be powered by a power supply that is isolated from the rest of the network apparatus. The one or more isolation circuits and network circuits may be included in a system-on-chip, or application-specific integrated circuit.
US09851768B2
A processor power management system and method are disclosed. The system includes a voltage regulator control system that is communicatively coupled to each of a plurality of processors. The voltage regulator control system is to generate a processor voltage that is provided to each of the plurality of processors and to control a magnitude of the processor voltage based on receiving power management request signal s that are provided from each of the plurality of processors.
US09851766B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include devices to cool the walls of a mobile computing device. In one embodiment, a louvered vent is formed within an external wall of a mobile computing device to create an air curtain between the external wall and a heat generating component to cool the external wall. In another embodiment, a nozzle vent is formed within the external wall of a mobile computing device to flow cooling air at a heat generating component to cool the heat generating component.
US09851762B1
A computing system that includes a computing device, the computing device comprising: an enclosure; a printed circuit board (‘PCB’) movably affixed to the enclosure; a force imparting component coupled to the PCB, the force imparting component configured to exert a force on the PCB when the computing device enclosure is inserted into a computing device receptacle.
US09851759B2
The description relates to devices, such as computing devices that have hinged portions. One example can include a first portion and a second portion. This example can also include a flexible multi-pivot hinge cover assembly rotatably securing the first and second portions.
US09851748B2
A display member and a base member. A support member can be attached between the display member and the base member. The support member can extend from the display member. A magnetic latch can magnetically attract an edge of the display member to one of the support member and the base.
US09851743B2
Methods and systems for memory-based computing include combining multiple operations into a single lookup table and combining multiple memory-based operation requests into a single read request. Operation result values are read from a multi-operation lookup table that includes result values for a first operation above a diagonal of the lookup table and includes result values for a second operation below the diagonal. Numerical inputs are used as column and row addresses in the lookup table and the requested operation determines which input corresponds to the column address and which input corresponds to the row address. Multiple operations are combined into a single request by combining respective members from each operation into respective inputs an reading an operation result value from a lookup table to produce a combined result output. The combined result output is separated into a plurality of individual result outputs corresponding to the plurality of requests.
US09851742B2
A photonic quantum memory is provided. The photonic quantum memory includes entanglement basis conversion module configured to receive a first polarization-entangled photon pair and to produce a second entangled photon pair. The second polarization-entangled photon pair can he a time-bin entangled or a propagation direction-entangled photon pair. The photonic quantum memory further includes a photonic storage configured to receive the second entangled photon pair from the basis conversion module and to store the second entangled photon pair.
US09851738B2
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to generation of programmable voltage references.
US09851737B1
A Unified Power Flow Controller described herein comprises a sensor that outputs at least one sensed condition, a processor that receives the at least one sensed condition, a memory that comprises control logic that is executable by the processor; and power electronics that comprise power storage, wherein the processor causes the power electronics to selectively cause the power storage to act as one of a power generator or a load based at least in part upon the at least one sensed condition output by the sensor and the control logic, and wherein at least one operating parameter of the power electronics is designed to facilitate maximal transmittal of electrical power generated at a variable power generation system to a grid system while meeting power constraints set forth by the electrical power grid.
US09851735B2
A wireless load control system for controlling one or more electrical loads comprises a wireless control device (e.g., a gateway device) able to obtain a present time from a server via a network (e.g., the Internet), control the electrical loads according to a timeclock schedule, and disable the timeclock schedule if the present time is not able to be obtained from the server via the network. The wireless control device may also be able to obtain the present time from a digital message received from an external device (e.g., a smart phone or a tablet device) via the network. The wireless control device may be configured to receive a control signal indicating a power outage (e.g., from a battery backup device), and to operate in a low-power mode in response to receiving the control signal indicating the power outage.
US09851733B2
A voltage dropping apparatus may include: a voltage dropping unit receiving an input voltage, outputting the input voltage in a first mode, and dropping a level of the input voltage in a second mode; a voltage output unit connected to the voltage dropping unit, receiving and outputting the input voltage in the first mode, and receiving and outputting the dropped voltage in the second mode; and a control unit receiving a mode signal and controlling a mode change of the voltage dropping unit and the voltage output unit based on a value of the mode signal.
US09851710B2
A computer system may determine a target position of the electronic component. The computer system may also determine a current position of the electronic component. The computer system may compare the current position to the target to position to determine whether the electronic component is in the target position. If the electronic component is not in the target position, the computer system may use an electroactive polymer to adjust the position of the electronic component to move the electronic component into the target position.
US09851690B2
An image forming apparatus includes a casing, a process cartridge, a drawer configured to support the process cartridge and move between an inside position and an outside position. The drawer includes a bottom plate. The bottom plate is configured to support the process cartridge. The bottom plate has a flat surface on one side of the bottom plate and further has a recessed portion recessed relative to the flat surface toward the other side of the bottom plate. The drawer has the flat surface at a portion of the one side. The recessed portion has a support surface configured to support the process cartridge.
US09851678B2
A blowing device is equipped with a blowing portion and a holder. The blowing portion has a cylindrical body that stores a rotating body, and includes: a suction inlet arranged on a side surface perpendicular to the axial direction of the cylindrical body; and an exhaust outlet arranged on a part of the peripheral surface of the cylindrical body. The holder has a wall that faces the peripheral surface of the blowing portion with a gap between the wall and the peripheral surface, and holds the blowing portion inside. The holder includes: a suction portion that communicates with the suction inlet; and an exhaust portion that causes the exhaust outlet to communicate with the outside and the gap.
US09851670B2
When ending image forming, a state is realized where charging by a charging roller is stopped (charging bias off) and also applying DC voltage at a developing device is stopped (developing bias DC off). In this state, AC voltage is applied to the developing device (developing bias AC on), thereby adhering toner to the surface of a photosensitive drum and forming interposing toner. Driving of the photosensitive drum and an intermediate transfer belt is then stopped in the state with the interposing toner interposed between the photosensitive drum and intermediate transfer belt.
US09851665B1
According to an embodiment, a fixation device has a fixation belt, a coil, and a heat-generation auxiliary plate. The coil is opposed to the fixation belt and the heat-generation auxiliary plate and generates magnetic flux. The heat-generation auxiliary plate assists heating of a recording medium by the fixation belt. The heat-generation auxiliary plate has a magnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer formed on the magnetic layer and contacting a base layer of the fixation belt. The non-magnetic layer is harder than the base layer of the fixation belt.
US09851662B2
An image forming system includes a sheet conveyance unit, an image forming unit, a fixing unit and a controller. The sheet conveyance unit conveys continuous paper. The image forming unit forms an image on the continuous paper. The fixing unit fixes the image formed on the continuous paper. The controller controls an image forming operation performed by the sheet conveyance unit, the image forming unit and the fixing unit. In a case where a waste paper reduction mode is selected, the controller controls the sheet conveyance unit to stop conveying the continuous paper so that a bottom end of a last image on the continuous paper be at a second stop position on an upper-stream side of a first stop position after the bottom end of the last image passes the fixing unit when ending the image forming operation.
US09851660B2
An image forming apparatus has an image carrier that carries a toner image; a transfer member that is opposed to the image carrier, a transfer voltage being applied to the transfer member so that the toner image is transferred from the image carrier to a print medium passing between the transfer member and the image carrier; a first voltage application device that applies the transfer voltage to the transfer member; a separation member to which a separation voltage is applied so that the print medium is separated from the image carrier; a second voltage application device that applies the separation voltage to the separation member; a sensing device that senses an image density of the toner image; and a control section that controls a magnitude of the separation voltage based upon the image density of the toner image.
US09851658B2
A developing device includes a developer carrying member and first and second conveyance members. The first conveyance member conveys a developer in a first direction through a first conveyance path to the developer carrying member. The second conveyance member conveys the developer in a second direction through a second conveyance path included in a circulation path along with the first conveyance path. The second conveyance member has a helical second screw around a second shaft. The second conveyance path includes a developer replenishing port and a developer discharge port. The second screw is approximately constant in diameter in a second section being a portion extending a predetermined distance from an end of the discharge port in the second direction when viewed in a top view. The second screw conveys the developer at a lower speed in the second section than on an upstream side with respect to the second section.
US09851655B2
An image forming apparatus, including: a temperature detecting element provided on an opposite side of a first and a second light sources with respect to a deflection unit in an optical box and provided between a first lens and a second lens, which a first and a second light beams emitted from the first and second light sources and deflected by a rotary polygon mirror enter first, respectively, the temperature detecting element being configured to detect an internal temperature of the optical box; and a control unit configured to control lighting-up timings based on image data of the first and second light sources based on a detection result of the temperature detecting element so that misregistration between a first toner image and a second toner image transferred from the first and second photosensitive members onto the sheet is suppressed.
US09851653B2
A charging device includes an electrode, a cleaning member that moves along the electrode and cleans the electrode, a rotating member that is disposed along the electrode, includes a spiral protruding portion on an outer circumferential surface thereof, and circumferentially rotates, and a movable member to which the cleaning member is attached. The movable member includes a first through hole through which the rotating member passes, a first pressed portion that is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the first through hole and pressed by the protruding portion of the rotating member, and a second pressed portion that is disposed at a different position from a position of the first pressed portion in an axial direction of the rotating member and that is disposed such that one or more turns of the protruding portion are positioned between the second pressed portion and the first pressed portion.
US09851652B2
A bearing assembly for supporting a rotatable component of an electrophotographic image forming device according to one example embodiment includes a metal bearing insert molded into an electrically nonconductive plastic shell. The metal bearing includes a bearing surface that defines a cylindrical opening for receiving an axial end of a shaft. The plastic shell covers an entire outer circumferential surface of the metal bearing and an inner axial side of a portion of the metal bearing forming the opening is inset from an inner axial side of the plastic shell such that the plastic shell shields the metal bearing from electrical arcing.
US09851651B2
A method comprises receiving color data and gloss data of an image, converting the color data into a first signal representing a use amount of a dark print material having a relatively high density, generating a second signal in which a use amount corresponding to the gloss data, of the dark print material use amount indicated by the first signal, is replaced with a use amount corresponding to a light print material having a relatively low density, converting the second signal into path separation data corresponding to each printing scan of an apparatus, and performing halftone processing on the path separation data to generate a print signal indicating a print position of an on-dot, for each of the dark print material and the light print material, thereby generating the print signal which causes superposition of on-dots of the light print material in printing scan of the apparatus.
US09851650B2
A toner contains a styrene acrylic resin, a block polymer, and an organosilicon polymer, in which the organosilicon polymer has a specific partial structure, the block polymer has a polyester segment and a vinyl polymer segment, the melting point is 55° C. or more and 90° C. or less, the mass ratio of the polyester segment to the vinyl polymer segment is 40/60 to 80/20, and the polyester segment has a specific unit.
US09851645B2
A method for aligning and bringing a first substrate into contact with a second substrate as well as a corresponding device with at least four detection units wherein: at least two first detection units can move at least in the X-direction and in the Y-direction, and at least two second detection units can move exclusively in the Z-direction.
US09851635B2
A photoresist composition includes an alkali soluble resin, a hardening agent, a photo acid generator, and an organic solvent. The photo acid generator may be represented by Formula 1, in which L11 is selected from a single bond, a C1-C10 alkylene group, a C2-C10 alkenylene group, and a C2-C10 alkynylene group; and R11 is selected from a C6-C15 aryl group, or a C6-C15 aryl group with at least one substitutent group selected from a group comprising deuterium, a hydroxyl group, a C1-C10 alkyl group, a C1-C10 alkoxy group, and a C6-C15 aryl group.
US09851632B2
Disclosed is a phase-shift blankmask, in which a light-shielding film includes a metal compound and having a structure of a multi-layer film or a continuous film, which includes a first light-shielding layer and a second light-shielding layer. The second light-shielding layer has higher optical density at an exposure wavelength per unit thickness (Å) than the first light-shielding layer. The first light-shielding layer occupies 70% to 90% of the whole thickness of the light-shielding film. With this, the blankmask secures a light-shielding effect, has an improved etching speed, and makes a resist film thinner, thereby achieving a fine pattern.
US09851624B2
A support head for video photographic apparatus is provided and includes: a base; an attachment element for the video photographic apparatus; at least one articulated joint formed between a first joint element and a second joint element designed to rotate the attachment element relative to the base about an axis of rotation of the head; an operating lever associated with the second joint element to rotate the second joint element relative to the first joint element; an actuator device including a first gear element, associated with the first joint element; and a second gear element, provided on the operating lever and capable of engaging with the first gear element to cause the first joint element to rotate relative to the second joint element about the axis of rotation as a result of the operation of the lever.
US09851623B2
A camera mounting assembly is disclosed for a plurality of cameras. In an example embodiment, the camera mounting assembly has a substantially cubic configuration. The camera mounting assembly includes a cubic configuration that includes one or more detachable frames. Each frame is attached to one or more other detachable frames via a securing mechanism to form the cube structure. Each frame includes one or more arms connected to a lens opening, the lens opening configured to allow a lens of the camera to have an unobstructed view for capturing images. A camera is secured to each frame by a standoff. A first end of the standoff attaches to a corner of the frame and the second end is attached to the camera. A box structure that houses electronics is located at the center of the cubic configuration and the box structure is secured to one or more frames via standoffs.
US09851620B2
A light structure for an electronic device includes a first portion permitting user access to a button of the device; and a second portion surrounding the first portion, wherein the second portion permits light from a light source to pass through. The light passing through the second portion varies according to a condition of the electronic device.
US09851618B1
Described embodiments include a plasmonic apparatus and method. The plasmonic apparatus includes a substrate having a first negative-permittivity layer comprising a first plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plasmonic nanoparticle having a base with a second negative-permittivity layer comprising a second plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a dielectric-filled gap between the first plasmonic surface and the second plasmonic surface. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plasmonic cavity created by an assembly of the first plasmonic surface, the second plasmonic surface, and the dielectric-filled gap, and having a spectrally separated first fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ1 and second fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ2. The plasmonic apparatus includes a plurality of fluorescent particles located in the dielectric-filled gap. Each fluorescent particle of the plurality of fluorescent particles having an absorption spectrum including the first fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ1 and an emission spectrum including the second fundamental resonant cavity wavelength λ2.
US09851614B2
An electrophoretic device includes a fiber layer, an electrophoretic particle configured to migrate through a gap in the fiber layer, and a partition wall extended in a thickness direction of the fiber layer to separate the fiber layer into a plurality of migration cells. The partition wall includes a cured body of a curable resin, and the cured body includes a constriction part between both end portions of the fiber layer in the thickness direction.
US09851612B2
A liquid crystal display with an identifier such as a watermark, serial number, logo or other graphic design, is disclosed. The identifiers can be read electronically or with the human eye. Methods are described for fabricating identifiers on cholesteric writing tablets in particular, with varying shades of gray and hence different degrees of visibility. The identifiers are permanent and not erased when a liquid crystal image on the display is erased.
US09851611B2
Flexible substrates are drawn from two terminals provided on a TFT substrate, respectively, and IC chips are mounted on both flexible substrates. Both flexible substrates are placed so that positions of the IC chips provided on both flexible substrates overlap with each other.
US09851608B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) including: a first electrode disposed on a first substrate; an insulating layer disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the insulating layer, overlapping the first electrode, and including a plurality of branch electrodes; and a second substrate opposing the second substrate. Liquid crystal molecules of a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates are aligned to have pretilt angles in an alignment direction. The branch electrodes include a main branch portion forming a first angle with the alignment direction and a first center portion forming a second angle with the alignment direction, respectively. The branch electrodes include an outermost branch electrode, and the outermost branch electrode includes the main branch portion forming a first angle with the alignment direction and a second center portion forming a fourth angle with the alignment direction.
US09851607B2
A pixel structure includes a substrate, an opposite substrate, a scan line and a data line, an active device, a pixel electrode, and a passivation layer. The pixel electrode has at least one block-shaped electrode and a plurality of first branch electrodes. The passivation layer has at least one block-shaped protrusion pattern, a plurality of branch protrusion patterns, and a plurality of grooves. The first branch electrodes are located on the block-shaped protrusion patterns. An Edge of the block-shaped electrodes further extends to the block-shaped protrusion patterns. An orthogonal projection gap W1 is between an orthogonal projection edge of the block-shaped electrode and an orthogonal projection edge of the nearest first branch electrode, and 0 μm
US09851604B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display substrate includes a display region and a sealant coating region provided outside the display region, and the sealant coating region is provided with a groove to limit a sealant.
US09851603B2
A compensation film for a liquid crystal film includes a first layer including splayed rod-shaped nematic liquid crystal material and a second layer disposed on a surface of the first layer and including at least one of a biaxial layer and an A-plate.
US09851595B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area; a thin film transistor positioned in the display area of the substrate; a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a roof layer positioned on the first electrode and spaced apart from the first electrode by a microcavity that is interposed between the roof layer and the first electrode; a liquid crystal layer positioned inside the microcavity; an encapsulation layer positioned on the roof layer; a pad portion positioned in the peripheral area of the substrate; and a pillar positioned in the peripheral area of the substrate.
US09851589B2
A meta-structure and a tunable optical device including the same are provided. The meta-structure includes a plurality of metal layers spaced apart from one another, an active layer spaced apart from the plurality of metal layers and having a carrier concentration that is tuned according to an electric signal applied to the active layer and the plurality of metal layers, and a plurality of dielectric layers spaced apart from one another and each having one surface contacting a metal layer among the plurality of metal layers and another surface contacting the active layer.
US09851586B2
Ophthalmic lenses for correcting refractive error of an eye are disclosed. Ophthalmic lenses include an inner optic portion having a scaffold between an anterior portion and a posterior portion. The scaffold is characterized by a substantially uniform thickness formed from a material characterized by a modulus that his higher than the modulus of the peripheral portion. Openings within the scaffold are filled with a low modulus material. When applied to an eye, the lenses are configured to provide one or more lenticular volumes between the posterior surface of the lens and the cornea. The disclosure further relates to methods of correcting refractive errors of an eye such as astigmatism or spherical aberration using the ophthalmic lenses.
US09851583B2
A single focus lens including: a first lens group having a negative refractive power; a second lens group having a positive refractive power, the second lens group being arranged to move in a direction that is transverse to an optical axis of the single focus lens; a third lens group having a negative refractive power that is arranged to perform a focusing function; and a rear lens group disposed between the third lens group and an image side of the single focus lens, wherein the first lens group, the second lens group, the third lens group, and the rear lens group are ordered sequentially from an object side of the single focus lens to the image side of the single focus lens.
US09851576B2
Polarizing beam splitter plates and systems incorporating such beam splitter plates are described. The polarizing beam splitter plate includes a first substrate and a multilayer optical film reflective polarizer that is disposed on the first substrate. The polarizing beam splitter plate includes a first outermost major surface and an opposing second outermost major surface that makes an angle of less than about 20 degrees with the first outermost major surface. The polarizing beam splitter plate is adapted to reflect an imaged light received from an imager towards a viewer or screen with the reflected imaged light having an effective pixel resolution of less than 12 microns.
US09851574B2
Technologies are generally described herein for a mirror array display system. In some examples, a controller can be configured to execute various methods for displaying content using a mirror array display having a mirror array including a number of mirrors and a light source. The controller can obtain content for display. The controller can also determine at least one aiming parameter associated with the number of mirrors and the light source. The controller can also emit light using the light source and aim the light emitted by the light source to a convergence point to generate a three-dimensional representation of the content, wherein the light is aimed in accordance with the at least one aiming parameter.
US09851572B2
A beam combining device for combining light from a first light source and light from a second light source of a light-source device for a medical apparatus includes a body made of a transparent material, a face which reflects in at least either a dichroic or polarization-dependent manner and is situated in or on the body, which face is transparent to light having a first spectrum or a first polarization and reflects light having a second spectrum or a second polarization, and a light-entrance face on the body, which light-entrance face is provided and arranged so that light enters the beam combining device through the light-entrance face. At least either the light-entrance face or the face reflecting in a dichroic or polarization-dependent manner is curved.
US09851558B2
A light deflector and an image forming apparatus including the light deflector are provided. The light deflector includes a polygon mirror made of plastic and a motor including a rotor. The rotor supports the polygon mirror and includes a base and a first protrusion protruding from the base toward the polygon mirror in an axial direction. The polygon mirror includes a main body having a plurality of reflecting surfaces, and a second protrusion protruding from the main body toward the base. The second protrusion has an end face and an inner face. The end face is in contact with the base in the axial direction, and the inner face is in contact with the first protrusion in a radial direction.
US09851555B2
An optical component includes at least one micro-opto-electro-mechanical system (MOEMS) with a front side and a rear side. The optical component also includes at least one printed circuit board arranged on the rear side of the at least one MOEMS. The at least one printed circuit board has lateral contacts. The at least one printed circuit board may be equipped with electronic parts and cooling elements. The at least one MOEMS projects laterally beyond the at least one printed circuit board.
US09851541B2
An infrared optical system having a spectral range for achieving a fog penetration distance of at least 2.75 Runway Visibility Range (RVR) is provided herein. The optical system may include a single set of optical elements designed to have a wavelength range extending beyond 1.2 μm toward shorter wavelengths and comprising a short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) range and at least one of: a middle-wavelength infrared (MWIR) range and a long-wavelength infrared (LWIR) range, to enhance a detection range of the infrared optical system, wherein the single set of optical elements is laid such that the both the SWIR range and the at least one of the MWIR range and the LWIR range of infrared radiation pass through all of the optical elements.
US09851537B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof can be aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US09851516B2
A system, optical assembly, and optical communication system are disclosed. The optical assembly is disclosed as including an optoelectronic component having a predetermined shape and an optical module that permits light emitted by the optoelectronic component or travelling to the optoelectronic component to pass therethough. The optical module is further disclosed as including a first surface and an opposing second surface, the first surface of the optical module including a first mating feature to receive the optoelectronic component, and the second surface of the optical module including a receptacle to receive and align an optical fiber with the optoelectronic component.
US09851514B2
An apparatus for coupling a laser and an optical fiber and an optical signal transmission system and transmission method where the coupling apparatus is disposed between a laser and an optical fiber, where the coupling apparatus includes an optical signal transmission part whose inner refractive index changes gradually, where a refractive index becomes higher at a position closer to a principal axis of the optical signal transmission part; and the optical signal transmission part may be configured to shape an optical signal incident from the laser (including optical signal convergence or divergence), so that a mode field radius of the adjusted optical signal matches a core radius of the optical fiber, and the adjusted optical signal can be coupled into the optical fiber in high efficiency.
US09851506B2
An integrated optical device fabricated in the back end of line process located within the vertical span of the metal stack and having one or more advantages over a corresponding integrated optical device fabricated in the silicon on insulator layer.
US09851503B2
A compact, low-loss and wavelength insensitive Y-junction for submicron silicon waveguides. The design was performed using FDTD and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The device was fabricated in a 248 nm CMOS line. Measured average insertion loss is 0.28±0.02 dB across an 8-inch wafer. The device footprint is less than 1.2 μm×2 μm, orders of magnitude smaller than MMI and directional couplers.
US09851498B2
Provided is a light source device which includes a light guide plate for emitting light entered through one side surface from a front surface thereof, a light source disposed opposing the one side surface of the light guide plate, a rear housing body for housing the light guide plate and the light source, and a heat spreader.
US09851492B2
Disclosed is a display device with a minimum bezel, the display device comprising a display panel for displaying an image; a guide frame connected to the display panel to support the display panel; and a rear cover for supporting the guide frame, wherein the guide frame covers an edge portion of the rear cover and exposes the front surface of the display panel to the outside of the display device.
US09851487B2
A backlight device includes a light guide plate including a first incident surface, and one or more second incident surfaces that are connected to the first incident surface and inclined with respect to the first incident surface in a top plan view; at least one green illuminant arranged to face one of (i) the first incident surface and (ii) the one or more second incident surfaces; and at least one red illuminant arranged to face the other of (i) the first incident surface and (ii) the one or more second incident surfaces. At least one of (i) the green light emitted from the green illuminant, and (ii) the red light emitted from the red illuminant, contains a blue component whose emission peak wavelength is 420 nm to 500 nm.
US09851484B2
A retarder film provides a first light retardation and can be heat processed in one or more selected areas to provide a second light retardation in the selected area(s). The retarder film may have an absorption characteristic such that the heat processing can be carried out by selectively exposing the film to a suitable radiant beam. The retarder film is composed of a stack of contiguous ultrathin layers configured to provide an effective optical medium for visible light. Visible light propagates through the stack as an effective medium having effective refractive indices along principal x-, y-, and z-axes. At least some of the ultrathin layers possess intrinsic birefringence, and the effective indices of the stack are functions of the intrinsic refractive indices of the constituent ultrathin layers. The heat processing is carried out so that the ultrathin layer stack structural integrity is not substantially altered in the processed area(s).
US09851483B2
A stereoscopic imaging method where a pixel matrix is divided into groups such that parallax information is received by one pixel group and original information is received by another pixel group. The parallax information may, specifically, be based on polarized information received by subgroups of the one pixel, group and by processing all of the information received multiple images are rendered by the method.
US09851462B2
A data set comprises data obtained by seismic imaging of a region of interest during an observation period. An intrinsic geological variability of a region is determined from the comparison of reception signals for neighbor bins as a function of a difference in signal geometry for the neighbor bins.
US09851452B2
A converter unit configured to convert incident photons into electrons comprises multiple blind holes forming respective ionization chambers. In additional embodiments, the converter unit is arranged in a detector, such as an X-ray detector or absolute radiation dose measurement detector, additionally comprising an electron amplification device and/or a readout device.
US09851448B2
The cellular device accesses a GPS/GNSS chipset embedded within the cellular device. The GPS/GNSS chipset calculates pseudorange information for use by the GPS/GNSS chipset. The cellular device extracts the pseudorange information from the GPS/GNSS chipset for use elsewhere in the cellular device outside of the GPS/GNSS chipset.
US09851445B2
A real-time locating system (RTLS) for localization using satellite navigation signals in a Distributed Antenna System includes Off-Air Access Units (OAAUs), each being operable to receive an individual satellite navigation signal from a satellite and to route signals optically to a digital access unit (DAU). Remote digital remote units (DRUs) are located at Remote locations and are operable to receive signals the DAUs. Each individual satellite navigation signal can be appropriately delayed (in a manner that accounts for a DRU's location). For each antenna, a separation distance between a mobile station and a DRU can be estimated based on a signal receipt time at the station. In combination, these distances can be used to estimate the mobile station's precise indoor position.
US09851437B2
In one embodiment, a method for tracking multiple objects with a probabilistic hypothesis density filter is provided. The method includes comparing second track IDs corresponding to newly obtained measurements to one or more first track IDs corresponding to a Tk+1 predicted intensity having a predicted weight. If all of the one or more first track IDs match any of the second track IDs, the predicted weight is multiplied by a first value. If less than all of the one or more first track IDs match any of the second track IDs, the predicted weight is multiplied by a second value, wherein the second value is greater than the first value. The method then determines whether to prune the Tk+1 predicted intensity based on the predicted weight after multiplying with either the first value or the second value.
US09851433B2
In one general aspect, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed cause one or more processors to perform a process. The process can include producing emitted electromagnetic radiation based on a frequency pattern and receiving reflected electromagnetic radiation reflected from an object. The process can include defining combined frequency data based on a frequency of the emitted electromagnetic radiation and a frequency of the reflected electromagnetic radiation. The process can also include defining a set of spectral bins, based on a Fourier transform, in a frequency domain based on the combined frequency data, and can include identifying a subset of the set of spectral bins.
US09851423B2
The embodiments relate to methods and to magnetic resonance tomography systems having a shim system, where the shim system includes at least one global shim coil in an area surrounding the bore of the magnetic resonance tomography system, and where the shim system includes a local shim coil in a local coil of the magnetic resonance tomography system with a shim controller, where the shim controller embodied to define shim currents for the global shim coil and for the local shim coil.
US09851414B2
Energy storage cell impedance testing devices, circuits, and related methods are disclosed. An energy storage cell impedance measuring device includes a sum of sinusoids (SOS) current excitation circuit including differential current sources configured to isolate a ground terminal of the differential current sources from a positive terminal and a negative terminal of an energy storage cell. A method includes applying an SOS signal comprising a sum of sinusoidal current signals to the energy storage cell with the SOS current excitation circuit, each of the sinusoidal current signals oscillating at a different one of a plurality of different frequencies. The method also includes measuring an electrical signal at a positive terminal and a negative terminal of the energy storage cell, and computing an impedance of the energy storage cell at each of the plurality of different frequencies using the measured electrical signal.
US09851413B2
A method and apparatus for estimating current is disclosed. The current estimation apparatus may receive a voltage value of a battery pack and voltage values of cells included in the battery pack, and may estimate a current of the battery pack based on the voltage value of the battery pack, the voltage values of the cells included in the battery pack, and resistance components within the battery pack.
US09851402B2
Methods and systems for compensating for temperature variation in the performance of electronic circuits and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems are configured to store compensation parameters determined in calibration, where the compensation parameters are used by the systems to modify performance. In some embodiments, the systems are part of an automatic test equipment (ATE) system.
US09851394B2
The present invention provides a partial-discharge measurement method in which a partial-discharge defect signal and noise are separated, a partial-discharge defect position is detected, and the risk of a detected partial discharge defect is diagnosed. Further, this method provides a highly reliable high-voltage device. An electromagnetic wave generated by a sample is simultaneously measured by a plurality of sensors. A partial discharge and noise are separated through the comparison of the spatial intensity distribution of measured signals and a spatial signal intensity distribution measured beforehand at the time of the occurrence of a partial discharge, and a defect position is detected using a peak position. Further, the risk of a defective site is diagnosed on the basis of a simultaneously measured charge amount signal.
US09851390B2
A method for detecting and locating faulty line on the distribution network circuit based on full waveform information, which uses the current data on the fault occurrence and whole-process operation of the compensation device to effectively solve such common problems as low fault current, poor reliability and low sensitivity in case of single-phase grounding fault to the low-current system through precise GPS synchronization. It improves the sensitivity and reliability of the grounding fault detection, which does not interfere with the system and is applicable to high-resistance grounding.
US09851385B2
A method for determining the presence of an electrical charge on a surface of an ophthalmic lens mold including the steps of exposing a sensor crystal of a sensor element to a surface of an ophthalmic lens mold on which an electrical charge generating an electrical field may be present, converting a light beam emitted from a laser light source into a linearly polarized measurement light beam by passing the light beam through the sensor element, processing the linearly polarized measurement light beam exiting the sensor element in a measurement unit, wherein the sensor crystal is selected from a non-centrosymmetrical crystallographic point group 43 m.
US09851382B2
According to one aspect, embodiments of the invention provide a power meter comprising a voltage sensor, at least one current and phase sensor circuit, and a central metering unit, wherein the voltage sensor is further configured to measure a voltage on an input line and transmit a signal related to the voltage to the central metering unit, wherein the at least one current and phase sensor circuit is further configured to measure a current and a voltage phase shift of a feeder line, and to transmit a signal related to at least one of the current of the feeder line and the voltage phase shift of the feeder line to the central metering unit, and wherein the central metering unit is configured to calculate power provided to a load via the feeder line based on the signal transmitted from the at least one current and phase sensor circuit.
US09851375B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extraction section which extracts, out of pieces of detection information each including position information and motion detection data acquired by terminal devices of respective users, detection information of a user on a specific train, based on the position information, and an estimation section which estimates distribution of people on the train based on the motion detection data included in the detection information extracted by the extraction section.
US09851366B2
The present invention relates to novel lateral flow devices using two dimensional features, preferably, uniform two dimensional test and control features, and the methods for detecting an analyte using the lateral flow devices, and processes for making the lateral flow devices.
US09851362B2
This invention pertains to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular conditions. More specifically, the invention relates to isolated molecules that can be used to diagnose and/or treat cardiovascular conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and heart failure.
US09851358B2
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for preventing or reducing metastatic dissemination (i.e. reducing motility of cancer cells). In particular, the present invention relates to a method for preventing or reducing metastatic dissemination (i.e. reducing motility of cancer cells) in a subject suffering from a cancer comprising the steps consisting of i) determining the expression level of at least one biomarker selected from the group consisting of soluble CD95L and EMT promoting factors in a sample obtained from the subject, ii) comparing the expression level determined at step i) with a predetermined reference value and iii) administering the subject with a therapeutically effective amount of C16-ceramide or derivatives such as C16-sphingomyelin and C16-glycosphingolipids when the expression level determined at step i) is higher than the predetermined reference value.
US09851352B2
The invention provides methods, kits, compositions, and devices useful for detection of antibodies that bind to Ehrlichia antigens and/or for differentiation of certain Ehrlichia species from others. In particular, the invention provides methods and kits useful for identifying species of Ehrlichia using populations of isolated peptides.
US09851348B2
A lateral flow immunoassay system is provided that includes a housing having a base portion forming a first chamber therein and a body portion formed with three openings in fluid communication with the first chamber, a vial containing a buffer agent, and a sample collector for introducing a sample fluid into the first chamber via the second opening. The vial is mounted to the housing such that a dispensing side extends into the first opening for dispensing the buffer agent therefrom into the first chamber. The housing allows the buffer agent and sample fluid to be mixed within a reaction well formed within the first chamber to form a test sample mixture. The body portion is configured to receive a receiving end of an elongated holder in the third opening and allow a test strip secured in the holder to be brought into communication with the text sample mixture.
US09851339B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to methods and apparatuses for determining a minimum miscibility pressure of a fluid with and oil composition. In various embodiments, the method can include placing a fluid into a pressure chamber at a first pressure. The pressure chamber can include at least one capillary tube having one end disposed in an oil composition in the pressure chamber. The fluid can include at least one of a gas, a liquid, and a supercritical fluid. The method can include measuring a height of the oil composition in at least one of the capillary tubes. The method can include repeating the measuring for at least one cycle using a second pressure different than the first pressure. The method can include determining the minimum miscibility pressure of the oil composition with the fluid by extrapolating the pressure at a height of the oil in the at least one capillary tube of zero from the two or more measurements of the height of the oil composition in the at least one capillary tube.
US09851337B2
The present invention is directed to a water condition monitoring device and related methods of use that significantly reduce the cost of the water condition monitoring devices by replacing the expensive and bulky multiple sensor electrodes of currently available devices with a single set of two or three metal electrodes to detect and/or measure such water quality parameters as pH, electric conductivity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen content. A microcontroller activates each sensor one at a time in a continuous loop, processing the sensor signals into near real time water condition data, which may be stored, displayed, or sent to a remote location for storage or display.
US09851333B2
A nebulizer for a charged aerosol detection (CAD) system is disclosed. The nebulizer is provided with a spray emitter for generating a spray of droplets within a central region of a spray chamber. The central region is separated from an upper region by a horizontally projecting rib, which defines a passageway between the central and upper regions. The major direction of droplet travel within the upper region is substantially reversed with respect to the major direction of droplet travel within the central region. Larger droplets are unable to negotiate the turn from the central to upper regions and impinge on a rear surface of the spray chamber. Removal of larger droplets has the advantageous effect of enabling the detector to sense a smaller range of particle sizes, which establishes a relatively steady electrical current at the detector.
US09851331B2
Disclosed is a structure analyzing device and a structure analyzing method which can analyze a state change of a structure, which is caused before the structure is destroyed, such as a state change of degradation of the structure or the like. A structure analyzing device (10) includes a vibration detecting unit (11) which detects a vibration of a structure, and an analysis unit (12) which analyzes an output signal of the vibration detecting unit (11). The analysis unit (12) analyzes a state change of the structure by comparing a value of resonant sharpness Q, which is measured by use of the following formula (1) in a state existing when carrying out analysis, with a value of resonant sharpness Q which is measured by use of the following formula (1) in a standard state.
US09851327B2
A micro electrochemical cell, a micro electrochemical gas sensor, and a method for fabrication of the micro electrochemical cell are described that include a photopatternable glass substrate, two or more embedded electrodes integrated with through-glass vias, and a gas-permeable membrane lid. In an implementation, a micro electrochemical cell includes a photopatternable glass substrate; at least one recess formed in the photopatternable glass substrate; a plurality of through-glass vias formed in the photopatternable glass substrate, at least one electrolyte disposed in the at least one recess; a wicking layer disposed over the at least one electrolyte; and a lid assembly.
US09851314B2
Provided are novel ligand, a chiral metal complex including the same, and a use of the chiral metal complex for analyzing the chirality of a charged compound by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The chiral metal complex of the present invention may be used as the chiral solvating agent to conveniently analyze the optical purity of charged compounds such as various amine derivatives, carboxylic acid derivatives, cyanohydrin derivatives and charged metal complexes by 1H NMR spectroscopy.
US09851310B2
A three-dimensional porous photonic structure, whose internal pore surfaces can be provided with desired surface properties in a spatially selective manner with arbitrary patterns, and methods for making the same are described. When exposed to a fluid (e.g., via immersion or wicking), the fluid can selectively penetrate the regions of the structure with compatible surface properties. Broad applications, for example in security, encryption and document authentication, as well as in areas such as simple microfluidics and diagnostics, are anticipated.
US09851309B2
Provided is a ultra-high-sensitivity assay in which the assay can be made on a commonly used assay apparatus such as an absorptiometer and a plate reader or with naked eyes. The high-sensitivity assay in which the assay can be made on a commonly used assay apparatus or with naked eyes can be provided by combining an enzyme cycling method using thio-NAD(P) as a coenzyme, a labeling enzyme and a substrate for the labeling enzyme optimally, and by amplifying thio-NAD(P)H, which is a signaling substance, exponentially and then quantifying the thio-NAD(P)H colorimetrically.
US09851304B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a cryopreserved biological sample (1), comprising the steps of providing the biological sample (1) in a cryopreserved state, measuring at least one Raman spectroscopic sample characteristic by means of a Raman spectroscopic measuring apparatus (10, 20), comparing the at least one sample characteristic with a reference characteristic by means of an evaluating apparatus (30), and providing a state characteristic that depends on the result of the comparison and that is characteristic of a storage state of the biological sample (1). The invention further relates to a monitoring device for cryopreserved samples, in particular for performing said method.
US09851301B2
A method for automated identification of a state of a sample such as, for example, for identifying whether or not the sample was centrifuged is presented. A device for analyzing samples and a laboratory automation system are also presented in which the method is applied.
US09851287B2
An aerosol distribution determining system and method are provided. The system includes a set of light emitters for emitting electromagnetic radiation. The system further includes a hyperspectral imaging camera for capturing hyperspectral images of the electromagnetic radiation in an absence of and in a presence of an aerosol distribution. The system also includes a data processing system for determining at least one of a size, a vertical density distribution, and a shape of particles in the aerosol distribution based on a spectral response, an angular distribution, and a polarization of the aerosol distribution derived using the hyperspectral images.
US09851284B2
A bi-directional flow scoop system and/or tandem system is mountable to a pipeline operable for receiving and returning a fluid flow from the pipeline. A first tubular is mounted so that the first tubular extends into the pipeline. The scoop end comprises a bend leading to a first face with a first opening for communication with the fluid flow. A second tubular is mounted with a second opening for communication with the fluid flow. The bi-directional scoop is configurable to provide fluid flow in two directions when mounted to the pipeline. In one embodiment, the bi-directional flow scoop system and/or tandem system a flange is provided for separately mounting the first and second tubulars and in another embodiment the second tubular is mounted within the first tubular.
US09851283B2
A retractable sample scoop is shown that is mountable to a pipeline for taking samples from the pipeline. A retractable mounting mechanism mounts to the pipeline wall. A tubular is extendable into the opening of pipeline and retractable from the pipeline. A first seal creates sealing around the tubular portion with respect to said pipeline while permitting insertion, retraction and rotation of said first tubular portion with respect to said pipeline. A second seal comprises a tubular without threads to pipe connector with threads.
US09851281B2
An in-vial microextraction (IVME) device is a vial with at least a portion of the inner surface having a sol-gel coating that absorbs at least one target analyte. The sol-gel coating is a metal oxide comprising coating that is formed from a tri- and/or tetra-functional metal comprising precursor that condenses to form a gel network. The IVME device can be used to prepare a sample by the contacting of the IVME device with a solution or suspension. An analytical method is enabled where the absorbed analyte from the IVME device is subsequently desorbed with a solvent or solution or thermally desorbed and analyzed using GC-MS or LC-MS or other analytical instrument for separation and detection.
US09851280B2
A diagnosis control method of an air conditioner is provided to clearly inform a user of an air conditioner installation error. The diagnosis control method includes receiving a test run command or a self-diagnosis command for diagnosis of the air conditioner, performing a first test run to diagnose an assembly state of the air conditioner, performing a second test run to diagnose pipe connection of the air conditioner and an amount of refrigerant in the air conditioner, performing a determination including diagnosing a state of the air conditioner based on operation results of the first test run and the second test run, and displaying the diagnosis result through a display device provided at an indoor unit of the air conditioner.
US09851278B2
A bearing monitoring apparatus including at least one interface for receiving strain signals detected by at least one strain sensor mounted on a bearing and at least one data processing unit configured to monitor the bearing by detecting bearing defects based on the strain signals is provided. The data processing unit is configured to subject the strain signal to a high pass filtering. A limit frequency of the high pass filter is set higher than a typical ball pass frequency of the bearing to be monitored, to calculate a quantity representative of the amplitude of the envelope signal of the high-pass filtered strain signal, to compare the peak hold of the envelope signal with an envelope threshold value, to classify the bearing using the result of the envelope comparison and to issue at least one warning signal if the bearing is classified as defective.
US09851265B2
An apparatus for measuring material properties of an object of ferromagnetic material, the apparatus including a probe, the probe including an electromagnet core defining two spaced-apart poles for inducing a magnetic field in the object, and a drive coil wound around the electromagnet core, and means to supply an alternating electric current to the drive coil to generate an alternating magnetic field in the electromagnet core and consequently in the object, wherein the probe also includes two sensing coils arranged in the vicinity of each of the poles, for sensing the magnetic flux density that links the core and the object, such sensing coils are significantly more sensitive to changes in material properties than are sensing coils overwound onto the drive coil.
US09851221B2
A Hall sensor includes a first Hall element pair configured to provide a first measurement signal, a second Hall element pair configured to provide a second measurement signal, and a third Hall element pair configured to provide a third measurement signal. Each element in the third Hall element pair is arranged between Hall elements of the first Hall element pair and Hall elements of the second Hall element pair. The Hall element pairs are configured to be actuated such that the first, second, and third measurement signals can be combined into one aggregate measurement signal which corrects an error in an angle of rotation determination caused by an external magnetic field.
US09851217B2
Disclosed is a navigation device which extracts an entrance and exit section which exists ahead of a vehicle and in which a vehicle is permitted to make a lane change between an HOV lane and a normal lane on the basis of information about the position of the vehicle and map data in which the HOV lane and the normal lane are defined by a single link, extracts a branch point on the HOV lane existing ahead of the vehicle on the basis of the map data and the position information, determines a guidance time for the extracted entrance and exit section, and another guidance time for the branch point, and provides guidance notifying that the vehicle can exit the HOV lane or guidance notifying that the vehicle can enter the HOV lane at the guidance time, or provides guidance on the branch at the other guidance time.
US09851214B1
A system for determining a road frustration index value includes a vehicle and a user computing device within the vehicle and a remote computing system, where a telematics system associated with the vehicle senses a speed of the vehicle. The computing device calculates, in near real-time and based on vehicle speed information and the road class of one or more route segments of a travel route, a first frustration level value associated with the driver of the vehicle and identify, based on whether the first frustration level value meets a criterion, an alternate route segment having second frustration level value predicted to be less than the first frustration level value. The remote computing system receives information associated with the first route segment and the alternate route segment and calculates insurance cost based on the road frustration index values associated with a route traveled in the vehicle.
US09851208B2
An apparatus of providing guidance information provides guidance information about the result of recognizing a crosswalk around a vehicle as information for inducing safe driving. The guidance information about a crosswalk is differently provided in accordance with a surrounding situation concerned with forward traveling of the vehicle.
US09851207B2
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a navigational context for representing a user; determining a participant identification based on the navigational context for representing a participant, the participant identification including a familiarity rating; and generating a communication channel with a control unit during a navigation session based on the navigational context for communicating a message between the user and the participant independent of the familiarity rating.
US09851204B2
Visual codes are scanned to assist navigation. The visual code may be a Quick Response (QR) code that contains information useful to calibrating a variety of navigation-based sensors such as gyroscopes, e-compasses, and barometric pressure sensors. Embodiments describe methods for magnetometer calibration and computing sensor orientation relative to users' local frame of reference. The embodiments use an initial yaw estimate, accelerometer, and gyroscope measurements along with other readily available information (the earth's magnetic field intensity, inclination angle, and declination angle).
US09851203B2
An apparatus and methodology for measuring strike and dip of a plane, trend and plunge of a line, directional bearing in the horizontal plane, and angle of inclination in the vertical plane. More specifically, the present invention relates to a compass adapted to measure geological features using single compass configurations for each type of measurement. The compass includes a base, a hinge assembly rotatably interconnected to the base, and a lid rotatably interconnected to the hinge assembly. The lid is operable to rotate around both a major axis and a minor axis of the compass. A sight tube is positioned in a hollow bore of the hinge assembly and is operable to sight directional bearings.
US09851196B2
A sensor comprising a light component in support of a light source operable to direct a beam of light onto an imaging device having an image sensor, such as a CCD or CMOS or N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS or Live MOS) sensor. The sensor can also comprise an imaging device positioned proximate to the light component and operable to receive the beam of light, and to convert this into an electric signal, wherein the light component and the imaging device are movable relative to one another, and wherein relative movement of the light component and the imaging device is determinable in multiple degrees of freedom. The sensor can also comprise a light deflecting module designed to deflect light from a light component onto the imaging device. The light sources and the resulting beams of light therefrom can comprise a number of different types, orientations, configurations to facilitate different measurable and determinable degrees of freedom by the sensor.
US09851194B2
A measuring apparatus includes a first angle measuring member, a second angle measuring member, and a display module. The first angle measuring member includes a first connecting shaft, a first needle rotatably connected to the first connecting shaft, and a first angle measuring instrument. The second angle measuring member includes a second connecting shaft, a second needle rotatably connected to the second connecting shaft, and a second angle measuring instrument. The first angle measuring instrument is configured to measure a first angle between the first needle and the first connecting shaft, and the second angle measuring instrument is configured to measure a second angle between the second needle and the second connecting shaft. The display module is configured to calculate a size of the object based on the first angle, the second angle, and lengths of the first connecting shaft and the second connecting shaft.
US09851192B2
A transportable explosion chamber and method of operation for containing, controlling and suppressing explosive detonations, including the explosion surface hardening of impact-hardenable rail components. The apparatus comprises an elongate cylindrical steel containment vessel having an access door for introducing workpieces and a vent door for discharging explosion products. Both doors extend convexly into the vessel to facilitate the dissipation of explosion shock waves. Orificed vent pipes penetrate the vessel walls to controllably release explosion products into one or more exhaust manifolds. The vessel is surrounded and enclosed by steel skins supported by spaced octagonal steel support ribs fabricated by welding from interlocking elements. The hollows formed between the containment vessel and steel skins are filled with granular shock-damping silica sand which is introduced through filler openings at the top of the apparatus. To lighten the apparatus for transport, the shock-damping material may be drained through dump valves beneath the apparatus.
US09851185B2
Target for helice target shooting comprising a helical body and a center piece that are snap-coupled together; the helical body comprising a cylindrical annular portion that extends according to a central axis (A) and is provided, peripherally, of at least one pair of mushroom-shaped projections so configured as to couple with the center piece in correspondence of respective peripheral seats; the annular portion having crack nucleation means suitable to facilitate the fracture, in use, by at least one shot.
US09851183B2
A cassette designed for accommodating a payload. The cassette is exposed to an air flow when dispensed from a vehicle in motion. The cassette includes a base portion and a peripheral supporting portion connected to each other. The base portion and the peripheral supporting portion form a space for the accommodation of the payload. An opening is arranged in the cassette opposite the base portion. Through the opening the pay load can exit. The base portion includes at least one orifice through which the air flow will flow pressing against and separating the payload from the cassette when dispensed from the vehicle.
US09851181B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a personal tactical system configured to be worn by an individual for protection against threats. In one implementation, the personal tactical system includes one or more internal components disposed in an interior formed by an outer layer and an inner layer. The internal components include a flexible body armor, a ballistic plate, a ballistic frame, and/or a ballistic plate cover.
US09851174B1
A firearm includes a trigger and a handle. The handle is configured to be gripped by the hand of a user of the firearm. The handle includes a front portion located under the trigger and facing the firing direction, a back portion located on a rear side of the handle facing a direction opposite of the firing direction, and primary and secondary side portions located between the front portion and the back portion. The primary side portion is configured to receive the shooting hand of the user and the secondary side portion is configured to receive the support hand of the user. The secondary side portion includes an elongated ridge protruding away from a surface of the secondary side portion. The ridge is configured to engage a heel of the support hand thereby allowing the support hand to absorb a portion of a recoil force when the firearm is fired.
US09851165B2
A firing pin assembly for a firearm having an engagement surface that has a channel in an engagement surface with a trigger bar to reduce frictional engagement with a trigger assembly. The firing pin assembly also includes chamfers to reduce weight and an elongated firing pin end piece.
US09851160B2
A multi-row heat exchanger coil includes a first row of coil, a second row of coil positioned generally parallel to the first row of coil, a bent portion fluidly communicating the first and second rows of coil, an interior space formed between the first and second rows of coil, and a mounting assembly. The mounting assembly includes at least one connection member configured to connect the first and second rows, thereby securing the first and second rows of coil to each other, a mounting member configured to prevent airflow from exiting from the interior space at a side of the multi-row heat exchanger coil, and fastening mechanism configured to attach the mounting member to the connection member.
US09851156B2
A body of heat transfer fluid circulates in a first loop through an indirect screw-type thermal processor, a rundown tank, a pump, a heater and a fill tank, continuously heating the processor. With the pump operating, a first vertical distance between the fill tank bottom and the processor under the influence of gravity sets a minimum fluid pressure at the processor; a stem pipe opening in the fill tank at a second vertical distance above the processor sets a maximum pressure. With the pump inactive, the entire body of fluid passively drains to the rundown tank. Supplying the fluid may entail melting a salt, hydrating a salt, or both; such may be done in the rundown tank before circulation through the processor begins. A hydrated salt may be circulated, then heated and dehydrated, to gradually warm the processor. A dehydrated salt may be rehydrated and then stored; this may be done in the rundown tank after ceasing circulation through the processor. Also described: misting hydration and variable-speed-pump pressure regulation.
US09851154B2
A condenser for a vehicle includes an integrally formed receiver-drier and a plurality of stacked plates. The condenser may be used in an air conditioning having an expansion valve expanding liquid refrigerant, an evaporator evaporating the refrigerant expanded at the expansion valve through heat-exchange with air, and a compressor receiving from the evaporator and compressing gaseous refrigerant, may be provided between the compressor and the expansion valve, and may circulate coolant supplied from a radiator so as to condense the refrigerant supplied from the compressor through heat-exchange with the coolant and the refrigerant.
US09851153B2
Configurations and related processing schemes of direct or indirect inter-plants (or both) heating systems synthesized for grassroots medium grade crude oil semi-conversion refineries to increase energy efficiency from specific portions of low grade waste heat sources are described. Configurations and related processing schemes of direct or indirect inter-plants (or both) heating systems synthesized for integrated medium grade crude oil semi-conversion refineries and aromatics complex for increasing energy efficiency from specific portions of low grade waste sources are also described.
US09851151B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling the heating of the base within a chemical vapour deposition chamber, which apparatus is applicable to an MOCVD reaction chamber. The apparatus comprises a heater located within a chamber; a tray located near the heater within the chamber and spaced apart from the heater and used for carrying the base; a first temperature control unit coupled with a surface of the tray for carrying the base and used for measuring the temperature of the tray surface and outputting a first control signal as a function of a set temperature and the temperature of the tray surface; and a second temperature control unit connected to the first temperature control unit and used for measuring the temperature of the middle of the area between the tray and the heater, and also for outputting a second control signal as a function of the first control signal and the temperature of the middle, with the heater being coupled with the second temperature control unit to heat according to the second control signal. Further provided is a method for controlling the heating of the base within a chemical vapour deposition chamber. A steady base temperature can be obtained via the apparatus.
US09851150B2
The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for feeding fine-grained matter to a concentrate burner (1) or a matte burner of a suspension smelting furnace (2). The invention relates also to a controlling means for controlling feeding of fine-grained matter to a concentrate burner (1) or a matte burner of a suspension smelting furnace (2) in an arrangement for feeding fine-grained matter to a concentrate burner (1) or a matte burner of a suspension smelting furnace (2). The invention relates also to controlling means for controlling feeding of fine-grained matter to a concentrate burner (1) or a matte burner of a suspension smelting furnace (2) in an arrangement for feeding fine-grained matter to a concentrate burner (1) or a matte burner of a suspension smelting furnace (2) and to a computer program product.
US09851149B2
Disclosed is a magnetic annealing apparatus including a processing container that performs a magnetic annealing processing on a plurality of substrates accommodated therein in a magnetic field; a substrate holder that holds the plurality of substrates substantially horizontally in the processing container; a division heater including a plurality of sub-division heaters and covering a substantially entire circumferential surface of an outer periphery of a predetermined region of the processing container along a longitudinal direction; a magnet installed to cover an outside of the division heater; and a controller configured to feedback-control a temperature of a predetermined control target heater among the plurality of sub-division heaters, and to control temperatures of the plurality of sub-division heaters other than the predetermined control target heater based on a control output obtained by multiplying a control output of the predetermined control target heater and a predetermined ratio.
US09851147B2
Herein is disclosed a spin flash dryer further comprising a waste outlet arranged in a chamber bottom of the spin flash dryer for removal of a residual organic waste material from a spin flash dryer during spin flash operation and a method of operating a such spin flash dryer to remove residual organic waste material from said spin flash dryer during operation.
US09851144B2
A method for drying a fluid film, which is applied to a surface of a substrate and includes a vaporizable liquid, includes following steps: transporting the substrate on a transport surface of a transport device along a transport direction through a drying device; vaporizing the liquid by way of a heat source having a heating surface, wherein the heating surface is disposed at a distance of 0.1 mm to 5.0 mm opposite to a surface of the substrate; and removing a vaporized liquid in a direction of the heat source.
US09851136B2
In this container refrigerator, the permissible equivalent negative-phase-sequence current of a generator to be connected is calculated in Step S3 based on its capacitance. Next, in Step S4, the power consumption of an inverter device to generate the equivalent negative-phase-sequence current is calculated. Then, in Step S6, the equivalent negative-phase-sequence current generated by the container refrigerator is calculated based on the power consumption of this inverter device. Thereafter, in Step S9, It is compared to Itg. If It>Itg is satisfied, It is restricted until It≦Itg is met by lowering the output frequency of the inverter device repeatedly in multiple stages. Consequently, even if the generator connected has small capacitance, the operation may be continued at a number of rotations appropriate for that small capacitance without causing the generator to overheat or be burned out.
US09851128B2
A heat pump system is provided that uses MCM to provide for heating or cooling. The heat pump is constructed from a continuously rotating regenerator where MCM is cycled in and out of a magnetic field in a continuous manner. A heat transfer fluid is circulated therethrough to provide for heat transfer in a cyclic manner. The MCM may include stages having different Curie temperature ranges. A field of varying magnetic flux may be used. The rotating regenerator can be equipped with one or more gaskets to improve fluid seals between the rotating regenerator and stationary parts. An appliance using such a heat pump system is also provided. The heat pump may also be used in other applications for heating, cooling, or both.
US09851117B2
A need identifying device is provided with a need storing portion that receives, from an informant, a need pertaining to the surrounding environment, an environment state variable controlling portion that calculates an environment state variable for indicating the state of the surrounding environment of the informant based on an environment element measured value collected from a space occupied by the informant, and calculates, from the environment state variable, a dissatisfaction level for the surrounding environment of the informant, and an identification processing portion that identifies, based on the dissatisfaction level, a need from the informant as a temporary need or as a persistent need.
US09851116B2
A displacement ventilation system includes a vertical duct located inside an enclosed space and extending between a floor and a ceiling of the enclosed space, an air inlet coupled with the vertical duct for drawing air into the displacement ventilation system, and an elongated diffuser extending adjacent the floor for diffusing at least some of the outside air over the floor of the enclosed spaced. The displacement ventilation system desirably includes a return air duct extending adjacent the ceiling and being coupled with the vertical duct for removing return air from the enclosed space and advancing the return air toward the vertical duct, a heat exchanger for transferring thermal energy between the return air and the outside air, and a heat pump for changing a temperature level of the outside air or the return air passing through the heat pump.
US09851102B2
A plurality of independently flow rate-controlled flows of oxidant may be preheated at a heat exchanger (or both oxidant and fuel at separate heat exchangers) by heat exchange with a hot shell-side (heat transfer) fluid. The separate flows of hot oxidant are directed to associated separate burners where they combust with flows of fuel to produce hot combustion gases. The hot combustion gases are used to preheat the hot shell-side fluid at a recuperator or regenerator.
US09851097B2
A steam water separator includes: —a vessel having a vessel wall delimiting an interior of the vessel, where the vessel is configured to contain steam in a steam zone and water in a water zone in the interior of the vessel, —at least one inlet for introducing steam and/or water in the vessel, —at least one steam outlet for taking steam out of the vessel, —at least one water outlet for taking water out of the vessel, and a wetting device configured to wet in the steam zone an inner surface of the vessel wall.
US09851094B2
The invention relates to a set (1) of panels forming a lighting system, the set comprising a light-emitting panel (2) and a light-reflecting panel (3), each panel having two opposing first sides (4), two opposing second sides (5) and two opposing main surfaces (6). Each panel is suspended from a ceiling (7) with a first side (4) thereof facing the ceiling. The light-emitting panel (2) comprises a light source (11) arranged on a second side (5) thereof. The second side (5) of the light-emitting panel (2) faces a main surface (6) of the light-reflecting panel (3) such that the light source (11) is arranged to illuminate the main surface (6) of the light-reflecting panel (3). The invention also relates to a lighting system including such set of panels and an acoustic panel as such.
US09851087B2
A light emitting device includes: a substrate; one or more LED (light emitting diode) elements mounted on a substrate; and a radiator unit made of metal paste and arranged on a rear surface opposite to a principal surface on which the one or more LED elements are mounted. The height Ta of the radiator unit from a rear surface is less than thickness Tb of substrate.
US09851086B2
According to aspects of the embodiments, a lighting fixture is designed to help prevent the accumulation of snow or ice on the light emitting face {e.g., lens) of the lighting fixture. The lighting fixture harvests both the light and heat generated by at least one light source, such as but not limited to at least one LED light source. The lighting fixture adopts a flip-mount light source mounting design in which one side of a passive heat exchanger is mounted or secured closely adjacent or proximate to the lens, and the light source is mounted or secured to another side of the passive heat exchanger. The heat generated by the light source is conducted by the passive heat exchanger to heat the lens. Additionally, the light emitted from the light source is redirected back through the passive heat exchanger and to the lens using a bundle of light fiber cables.
US09851081B2
A heat sink for a directional recessed lighting fixture, comprises a wedge-shaped rotatable inner heat sink 110 configured to fit within a hollow interior of an outer heat sink 130. The inner heat sink has an opening 120, for transmission of light from a light source 125 it houses. The inner heat sink includes a gimbal shaft 115 pivotally mounted to an inside wall 132 of the outer heat sink. The inner heat sink has a vertical surface 112 formed on one side, which is close to inside wall 132, when rotated in one direction (FIG. 1A) to direct light in a first direction. The inner heat sink has an angularly offset surface 114 formed on an opposite side, which is close to the inside wall, when rotated in an opposite direction (FIG. 1B) to direct light in a second direction.
US09851073B2
An LED tube light, including LED light sources, end cap, a light tube, a diffusion film layer and a reflective film layer is provided herein. Diffusion film layer is disposed above LED light sources so that light emitted from LED light sources are transmitted through diffusion film layer and light tube. Diffusion film layer can also be optical diffusion coating coated on wall of light tube, and coated to an outer surface of rear end region of light tube, a hot melt adhesive is bonded to outer surface of optical diffusion coating to generate increased frictional resistance between end cap and the light tube. Reflective film layer is disposed on inner circumferential surface of light tube, and occupying a portion of inner circumferential surface of light tube along circumferential direction thereof. LED light sources are disposed above or adjacently to one side of reflective film layer.
US09851064B2
A vehicle lamp including a lens component made of a resin, an insertion portion disposed on the lens component, and a lamp body made of a resin and defining a groove for receiving the insertion portion, and the lens component is fixed to the lamp body by a moisture curing type adhesive injected into a gap in the groove. The gap has a constant thickness ranging from 0.1 mm to 1.0 mm.
US09851059B2
A light-emitting module including a circuit board, a light-emitting device disposed on the circuit board, and a lens disposed on the circuit board and configured to distribute light emitted from the light emitting device. The lens includes a concave portion having an incidence surface configured to receive incident light emitted from the light-emitting device, and the light emitting device is disposed within the concave portion of the lens.
US09851052B2
A liquefied gas treatment system includes: a liquefied gas supply line connected from a liquefied gas storing tank to a source of demand, a pump provided on the liquefied gas supply line, and configured to pressurize liquefied gas discharged from the liquefied gas storing tank, a heat exchanger provided on the liquefied gas supply line between the source of demand and the pump, and configured to heat exchange the liquefied gas supplied from the pump with heat transfer media, a media heater configured to heat the heat transfer media, a media circulation line connected from the media heater to the heat exchanger, and a controller configured to change a flow rate of the heat transfer media flowing into the media heater or calories supplied to the heat transfer media by the media heater on the basis of a flow rate of the liquefied gas supplied to the heat exchanger
US09851047B1
A system for mounting a flat panel television or display to a surface such as a wall. A base plate is configured to operatively connect to a surface, while an adapter plate is configured to operatively connect to a display device. A plurality of connecting arms are used to operatively connect the base plate to the adapter plate. Each of the plurality of connecting arms includes a base plate engagement portion slidably engageable with slots in the base plate and an adapter plate engagement portion operatively connected to the adapter plate. Movement of the base plate engagement portions within the base plate's slots results in a translational movement of the adapter plate relative to the base plate.
US09851045B2
A mechanism geometrically constituted with twelve axes can be manipulated for spherical coordinate kinematics. Concerning the major improvement of the invention, one of the two geometric tetrahedron frames which were ever specified by our two pre-inventions (U.S. Pat. No. 8,579,714 B2/US20120083347A1 and US20150082934A1) is decoupled and reconstructed as two separated terminal frames which are constituted by two individual geometric arcs. The other one of the two geometric tetrahedron frames without changing its original geometric definition is inherited in the invention and renamed as a base frame. Comparing to the original single geometric tetrahedron, the mechanism newly developed by two individual geometric arcs is suffering fewer constraints and gaining more work space. If a terminal saddle is equipped onto a terminal frame, the newly developed mechanism can be increased extra payload capability. Therefore, this improvement is substantially extending the utility of twelve axes mechanism for spherical coordinate kinematics.
US09851041B2
Tubing everting apparatus, assemblies, and methods are disclosed herein. The tubing everting apparatus include a pressure chamber that defines an internal volume, a liner inlet port that is configured to receive a flexible tube liner into the internal volume, an inlet sealing structure that is configured to resist fluid flow therepast from the pressure chamber, and a liner outlet port that is configured to permit the flexible tube liner to extend from the internal volume. In some embodiments, the apparatus include a lubricator that is configured to apply a lubricant to the flexible tube liner. In some embodiments, the apparatus include a non-deflation valve that is configured to selectively transition between open and closed states. The assemblies include the apparatus and a cart that includes a lubricant reservoir. The methods include methods of operating the apparatus.
US09851032B2
A conduit fitting of the type having first and second threaded fitting components and at least one conduit gripping device, further includes a stroke limiting member that allows the fitting to be pulled up by applying a predetermined torque. In one embodiment, the stroke limiting member may be a non-integral torque collar and in another embodiment the stroke limiting member may be two engaging surfaces integrally formed with the fitting components. Alternatively, the fitting may also be pulled up by turns. In still another embodiment, a stroke limiting member is provided that may be used to enable a fitting that is designed to be pulled up by turns to also be pulled up by torque. The stroke limiting member facilitates many remakes of the fitting, including remakes by torque.
US09851021B2
Method for removing from a terrain a buried pipe and a cutting machine used for actuating the method
A method for removing from a terrain (T) a buried longitudinal portion (P) of a substantially cylindrical pipe made of a ductile material and of a type suitable for use in oil pipelines, water pipelines, gas pipelines or the like, which method comprises steps of: digging at least an excavation (S1, S2) in the terrain (T), at a longitudinal end (P1, P2) of the buried portion (P) to be removed, such as to make the end accessible; making at least a through-cut in the wall of the portion (P) of pipe to be removed, so as to obtain at least a strip having two opposite longitudinal edges which define a width of the strip that is smaller than a circumference of a wall of the portion (P) of pipe; taking the strip and removing it from the terrain, passing it through the excavation (S1, S2); and obstructing the underground volume that has housed the portion (P) of the pipe (P) and the excavation (S1, S2) with filler material. The invention also relates to a cutting machine comprising: a cutting part (11), entirely insertable in said portion of pipe (P), comprising cutting means (41) for making at least a through-cut in the wall of the portion of pipe; and a support part (12), for supporting the cutting part (11), also entirely insertable in the portion of pipe (P), and comprising abutting means (31, 32, 33) for contemporaneously abutting, at a plurality of points, an internal surface of the portion of pipe so as to engage the machine (1) to the portion of pipe (P) to be cut.
US09851013B2
A flow control valve includes an inlet, an outlet, and defines a fluid flow path. A valve seat is disposed within a valve body, and a valve plug in the valve body is surrounded by a cage. An exterior surface of the valve plug includes a plurality of notch sets, each notch set spaced apart from an adjacent notch set along the longitudinal axis, and the cage is disposed within the valve body and arranged to retain the valve seat, with an interior of the cage including a plurality of annular recesses. The annular recesses are spaced apart along the longitudinal axis, and the cage includes a plurality of apertures forming a portion of the fluid flow path. The notch sets and the recesses are arranged to form a plurality of turns in the fluid flow path when the valve plug is shifted toward the open position.
US09851011B2
The invention provides a snorkel valve (2) for controlling a flow of fluid into a deployable submarine mast, the snorkel valve comprising: a valve body (30) having: a tubular wall having an outer surface and an inner surface on the reverse side of the outer surface, the inner surface defining an inner bore (32); a valve inlet (38) extending through the tubular wall to fluidly connect the outer surface and the inner bore; and a valve outlet (40) in fluid communication with the inner bore, and a sleeve (42) slidable within the said inner bore between a closed position in which it covers the said valve inlet to thereby inhibit water from flowing into the inner bore through the valve inlet, and an open position in which at least a portion of the said valve inlet is uncovered by the sleeve to thereby allow air to flow into the said inner bore through the said valve inlet.
US09851010B2
A seal with, on the one hand, a support body in the form of a carrier ring with an axial leg and, on the other hand, a sealing washer which is placed or arranged on the carrier ring and which surrounds the axial leg on the outer periphery, said carrier ring being made of a metallic material, wherein the carrier ring is made of a sheet of the HYS type.
US09851006B2
To provide a wire for a taper-faced compression ring, which can be provided with a running-in surface (contact surface) uniformly and rapidly in the production process of the taper-faced compression ring, a surface of the wire corresponding to an outer peripheral surface of the ring is provided with adjacent outward inclined first and second tapered portions, the inclination angle θ2 of the second tapered portion being larger than the inclination angle θ1 of the first tapered portion, and an outer end of the second tapered portion being located radially outward than an outer end of the first tapered portion by 0.005-0.05 mm. A long-life taper-faced compression ring with reduced friction and improved fuel efficiency is formed by the above wire, the second tapered portion having a lapped surface located radially outward than an outer end of the first tapered portion by 0.001-0.048 mm.
US09850997B2
A filtering pulley for an accessory drive of an internal combustion engine, having a hub suitable for connection to an engine accessory, an annular crown provided with a profile configured to cooperate with a drive belt, a coil spring able to transmit torque between the crown and the hub, a first carrier constrained to a first end of the spring and a second carrier constrained to a second end of the spring. The annular crown is externally coaxial to the hub and supported in a rotationally free manner on the hub, and each of the carriers is rotationally coupled to both the hub and the crown with a limited possibility of relative rotation with respect to each of them.
US09850995B2
The invention relates to a hydrokinetic torque coupling device for a motor vehicle, comprising a torque input element (11) intended to be coupled to a crankshaft (1), an impeller wheel (3) rotationally coupled to the torque input element (11) and able to hydrokinetically drive a turbine wheel (4) through a reactor (5), a torque output element (8) intended to be coupled to a transmission input shaft (2), clutch means (10) able to rotationally couple the torque input element (11) and the torque output element (8) in an engaged position, through damping means (21, 25) and able to rotationally uncouple the torque input element (11) and the torque output element (8) in a disengaged position.
US09850993B2
An infinitely variable transmission (IVT) having a rotatable input shaft arranged along a longitudinal axis of the transmission. In one embodiment, the input shaft is adapted to supply a lubricant to the interior of the transmission. In some embodiments, a stator assembly is coupled to, and coaxial with, the input shaft. The IVT has a plurality of planets operably coupled to the stator assembly. The planets are arranged angularly about the longitudinal axis of the transmission. In one embodiment, a traction ring is operably coupled to the planets. The IVT is provided with a housing that is operably coupled to the traction ring. The housing is substantially fixed from rotating with the input shaft. The traction ring is substantially fixed from rotating with the input shaft. In some embodiments, the IVT is provided with a lubricant manifold that is configured to supply a lubricant to the input shaft.
US09850991B2
Assembly tools or aides assist the installation of chains and sprockets for a power take off in a motor vehicle automatic transmission. A first tool is an assembly clip having a semi-circular channel that engages the periphery of a chain disposed about a socket. The clip facilitates installation of the chain and a first sprocket through a slot or other opening in the side of a transmission housing while a second sprocket is being secured to a transmission shaft and the chain is engaged thereabout. The clip also facilitates positioning of the first sprocket in a desired location, typically on a driven shaft while retaining the chain thereabout. A second tool includes a pair of elongate, parallel pins which cooperate with the clip and the first sprocket to hold it in place during assembly of certain components of the transmission such as a power take off shaft or bulkhead.
US09850990B2
There is provided a belt tension adjusting device for an engine having a chain cover; a mount attaching portion; and a driving belt. An arm is swingably supported about a hinge pin fixed to the engine. A tensioner pulley is supported by the arm to be in contact with the driving belt. An auto tensioner is connected to the arm and configured to press the arm. The auto tensioner is arranged in a space, which is overlapped with the chain cover as viewed from a front side of the engine and located between the mount attaching portion and a crank pulley.
US09850985B2
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 of the engine, 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, and six friction elements selectively connecting the rotation elements, or selectively connecting at least one rotation element and a transmission housing.
US09850983B2
A transmission for a vehicle may include a first input shaft continuously receiving torque from a power source and having a first input transfer gear thereon, a second input shaft selectively receiving torque from the power source through a clutch and having a second input transfer gear thereon, a coupling member allowing or restricting rotation of the first input transfer gear relative to the first input shaft, a first countershaft and a second countershaft each having an output transfer gear to be engaged with the first input transfer gear and the second input transfer gear, and coupling devices selectively coupling the output transfer gears to corresponding countershafts and allowing torque from the power source to be transmitted to a desired shift gear by coupling output transfer gears connected to the desired shift gear in the output transfer gears to a corresponding countershaft in advance or after synchronization in shifting.
US09850976B2
A shock absorber having a shock absorber tube (10) is disclosed and has an external module tube (11) which is connected to the shock absorber tube (10) via a flange (12), wherein the flange (12) has one or more fluid ducts (13, 14) which fluidically couple the module tube (11) to the shock absorber tube (10). The flange (12) has at least one metallic support cage (15) which forms a retentive connection between the shock absorber tube (10) and the module tube (11), and the flange (12) has a plastics body (16) in which the fluid duct (13, 14) for the fluidic coupling of the module tube (11) to the shock absorber tube (10) is formed.
US09850973B2
A tractor, including: a link mechanism fixation-member which regulates rotation of the HST trunnion shaft by abutting the link mechanism; a link mechanism fixation-member operation lever which makes the link mechanism fixation-member about the link mechanism, or makes the link mechanism fixation-member move in a direction so as to get apart from the link mechanism; a brake pedal which is provided at the other side of the left-and-right sides of the step floor; and a link mechanism joining-cancellation mechanism which makes, in a case where the link mechanism fixation-member is abutting the link mechanism, the link mechanism fixation-member move in a direction so as to get apart from the link mechanism when stepping-on of the brake pedal is performed.
US09850970B2
A motor vehicle brake, in particular a motor vehicle brake which can be activated in a combined fashion both hydraulically and electromechanically, having an actuator assembly comprising a housing, an actuator element which can be moved relative to the housing in order to move a brake lining hydraulically or electromechanically, a motor-operated drive, a movement mechanism arranged between the motor-operated drive and the movable actuator element, a gear arrangement assigned to the movement mechanism, and a separate self-locking device which is designed to block the movement mechanism when necessary and is integrated into the motor-operated drive.
US09850963B2
A coil housing has an inner ring, which is shaped into an annular form and is placed on an inner side of an electromagnetic coil in a radial direction of a rotational axis. A thermal fuse is placed on an inner side of a coil inner peripheral end of the electromagnetic coil in the radial direction, so that the thermal fuse can be placed in such a manner that the thermal fuse does not limit a length of the electromagnetic coil in a direction of the rotational axis by using a radial thickness of the inner ring that is indispensable as a part of a structure of a magnetic circuit. Thus, it is possible to sufficiently limit occurrence of limiting of a size of the electromagnetic coil that is caused by the placement of the thermal fuse.
US09850961B2
The clutch pedal system for a vehicle, such as a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The clutch pedal system includes a pedal carrier having a fastening region configured to be associated with an aperture in a bulkhead and/or a dashboard carrier of the vehicle. A clutch pedal is pivotably mounted on the pedal carrier. A master cylinder is supported on an adapter region of the pedal carrier and is connected to the clutch pedal. The master cylinder is positioned such that at least a portion of the master cylinder extends through the aperture, wherein the pedal carrier is configured to position the master cylinder in a predetermined position relative to the bulkhead and/or of the dashboard carrier.
US09850959B2
A propeller shaft has a first yoke having a fixing portion, a pair of first bifurcated yoke portions extending from one end portion of the fixing portion in an axial direction, and a first bearing hole formed at each first yoke portion and securing therein a first bearing that holds a cruciform shaft; a second yoke coupled to the first yoke through the cruciform shaft and secured to a predetermined member, and having a mounting flange, and a bolt insertion hole which is formed at the mounting flange and into which a bolt to secure the second yoke to the predetermined member is inserted; and a securing member securing the mounting flange of the second yoke to the predetermined member through the bolt by a fastening tool. Each first yoke portion is provided with a first concave portion that slides thereon an outer circumferential surface of the fastening tool.
US09850956B2
The invention relates to a bearing assembly providing a bearing having a first ring with a hole, two front edges and an outer cylindrical surface, and a second ring having a hole, two front edges and an outer cylindrical surface, the first and second rings being relatively in relative rotation about a central axis. At least one row of rolling elements is housed in a bearing chamber formed between an outer cylindrical surface and a hole of the rings. The assembly is configured to be mounted in a housing. The assembly also includes at least one envelope mounted on one of the rings of the bearing, such that a dimensional difference between the housing and the bearing is compensated by the envelope.
US09850950B2
A bearing component part, a bearing component and a process for manufacturing the bearing component. The bearing component part comprises at least one circumferential peripheral surface, wherein the circumferential peripheral surface presents at least one groove extending along at least a part of the circumference of the peripheral surface, wherein the groove is arranged to receive a second material, the peripheral surface further presenting a first and a second portion located on opposite sides of the at least one groove along the circumference of the peripheral surface, wherein the bearing component part comprises a weldable metallic material.
US09850945B2
A position detection device of active magnetic bearings (AMB's) maintaining the position of a rotating shaft and comprising two sensing inductance coils, the position detection device comprising a programmable digital component for generating a 25 KHz square waveform signal, a current amplifier receiving the 25 KHz square waveform signal and injecting two identical control currents in the two sensing inductance coils, a differential amplifier for amplifying a voltage difference between the resulting voltages in the two sensing inductance coils and, depending on the displacement of the rotating shaft, an analog to digital (A/D) converter for delivering a position value from the voltage difference.
US09850939B2
A method for producing by pultrusion a hollow main body of a rotary movement transmission shaft made of a composite material, the method including: impregnating a reinforcement; arranging a reinforcing fabric around a pultrusion chuck to wrap the pultrusion chuck, the fabric including circumferential fibers arranged in planes orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the chuck; and then depositing the impregnated reinforcement around the reinforcing fabric.
US09850933B2
A clip includes a grommet having a projecting portion and a plurality of leg portions extending from the projecting portion, and a shaft member including a head portion, and a shaft portion extending from the head portion, and inserted into an inside of the leg portions to laterally expand the leg portions. The clip is switchable between a lock position to expand the leg portions laterally, and an unlock position where the shaft member is further pushed to return the leg portions to an original condition. Each leg portion includes a leg-side convex portion, a convex-portion wall face, and a guide portion. The shaft portion includes a shaft-side convex portion engaging the leg-side convex portion, a concave portion provided between the shaft-side convex portion and the head portion, and engaging the leg-side convex portion to return the leg portion to the original condition, an abutment portion, and a release portion.
US09850928B2
A fastener is provided for securing a first panel to a second panel. The fastener includes a stud insertable through apertures in the first and second panels. A handle pivotally connected to a stud head and pivotal between an upright position and a folded. A biasing assembly is connected to the stud head and the handle that biases the handle outward relative to the stud head. A fastener is also provided for securing together the first and second panels, including a grommet, a receptacle and an insert in threaded engagement with an interior of the receptacle. The receptacle may be a rivet nut.
US09850927B2
Systems and methods provide for the installation of fasteners in a composite panel with a fastener insert. A fastener insert for a composite panel includes a body and a at least three arms extending from the body. The body has a top face and a central hub extending rearward from the top face. The top face has an outer dimension between opposing edges. The arms extend from the central hub on a rear side of the body. In a retracted configuration, the arms are folded inward toward the central hub so that the arms do not extend beyond the outer dimension of the top face. In an extended configuration, the arms extend outward from the central hub beyond the outer dimension of the top face.
US09850923B2
A hydraulic jack including a load cylinder, a pump, a release valve and a flow regulator. The pump is configured to provide pressurized fluid to the load cylinder. The release valve is in fluid communication with the pressurized fluid. The flow regulator is configured to alter a flow path of the fluid therethrough as an inverse function of a pressure drop of the fluid across the flow regulator. The fluid regulator being in fluid communication with the release valve.
US09850919B2
Novel Counterbalance valves, more particularly, to counterbalance valves that provide hold, capture, and motion control benefits of prior art CB valves while improving upon one or more performance characteristics of current CB valves are herein disclosed. The novel counterbalance valves are useful, inter alia, for providing good system stability across a range of load pressures and/or reducing power consumption (improving energy efficiencies) as compared with prior art devices.
US09850918B2
A hydraulic system includes a first and a second rotating hydraulic machine, the first and second hydraulic machine being arranged to provide a torque via a common output shaft; a first valve arrangement for providing a differential hydraulic pressure level over the first hydraulic machine by using two sources of hydraulic fluid having different hydraulic pressure levels, a second valve arrangement for providing a differential hydraulic pressure level over the second hydraulic machine by using two sources of hydraulic fluid having different hydraulic pressure levels; and a control unit configured to control the first valve arrangement and the second valve arrangement such that different discrete levels of torque are provided via the output shaft of the hydraulic system. A hydraulic system for providing different discrete levels of torque using one hydraulic machine and a plurality of differential pressure levels, and a method for controlling a hydraulic system, are also provided.
US09850916B2
A fail-safe actuation system comprising an actuator having first and second chambers, a working circuit with a motor/pump device configured to actuate the actuator in an operative state, and a safety circuit configured to move the actuator into the safety position in a failure state, the safety circuit having a tank that holds pressurized fluid and that, in the failure state, is automatically connected to the first chamber via a switching valve, and having a drain valve that, in the failure state, is moved into a through-flow position in order to drain fluid out of the second chamber, the safety circuit configured such that, in the operative state, an inflow into the actuator—in a manner that is decoupled from the tank—is established by the working circuit, and, in the failure state, an inflow from the tank into the first chamber—in a manner that is completely decoupled from the working circuit—is created by the safety circuit, whereby a short-circuit fluid connection is provided between the first and second chambers that, in the failure state, is through-connected in order to generate a short-circuit flow between the first and second chambers.
US09850913B2
An object is to position a plurality of guide vanes for generating swirl flow at a housing inner circumferential side in front of an impeller wheel to improve a surge margin and to restrict the decrease in a choke flow rate, thereby increasing an operation range of a compressor. A compressor 19 includes a compressor housing 15, an impeller wheel 7 which compresses intake gas flowing in from an intake-air inlet 23, a swirl-flow generating part including a plurality of guide vanes 55 disposed circumferentially along an inner circumferential wall of the intake-air channel 21 between the intake-air inlet 23 and the impeller wheel 7 and which swirls the intake gas from the intake-air inlet 23 around the rotational axis, and a central intake-air flow path 59 formed inside the guide vanes 55 to allow intake gas to flow to the impeller wheel 7 without passing through the guide vanes 55.
US09850912B2
A bearing housing (1) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger 2, having an oil guide to at least one bearing point (5) in the bearing housing (1). The oil guide is formed by at least one of bores and cutouts in the bearing housing (1). There is formed in the oil guide a siphon (10) which is integrated into the bearing housing (1).
US09850904B2
A scroll compressor includes a compression mechanism having a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, a drive shaft engaging with the orbiting scroll, and a casing housing the compression mechanism and the drive shaft. An orbiting scroll thrust sliding surface is pressed against and in sliding contact with a fixed scroll thrust sliding surface. One of the thrust sliding surfaces is provided with an oil groove. A bearing oil supply passage provided inside the drive shaft does not communicate with the oil groove and is used to supply the lubricating oil in an oil reservoir in the casing to a bearing of the drive shaft. A sliding surface oil supply passage is used to supply the lubricating oil in the oil reservoir to the oil groove. The sliding surface oil supply passage has a sliding surface main passage provided inside the drive shaft.
US09850896B2
Screw compressor with a compression chamber that is formed by a compression housing, in which a pair of meshed helical compressor rotors in the form of a screw are rotatably mounted and with a drive motor that is provided with a motor chamber formed by a motor housing, in which a motor shaft is rotatably mounted, and this motor shaft drives at least one of the aforementioned two compressor rotors, whereby the compression housing and the motor housing are connected directly together to form a compressor housing, whereby the motor chamber and the compression chamber are not sealed off from one another and whereby the rotor shafts of the compressor rotors, as well as the motor shaft, extend along axial directions that are oblique or transverse to the horizontal plane.
US09850893B2
A reciprocating compressor is provided that may include a shell including a vibration absorbing member formed to be wound around an outer circumferential surface or an inner circumferential surface or stacked thereon, so that compressor vibration may be attenuated by frictional contact between the shell and the vibration absorbing member or between layers of the vibration absorbing member. Also a noise insulating layer may be formed between the shell and the vibration absorbing member or between the layers of the vibration absorbing member, so that a magnitude of noise may be reduced as vibration noise passes through the noise insulating layer, whereby vibration noise of the compressor, such as noise of a high frequency band, may be further attenuated by fine vibration.
US09850892B2
A valve seat has an inner passage and outer passages. A suction valve member has first passages and a first projection portion that guides, to the first passages, the fuel that flows from a pressure chamber at the time of valve opening. Therefore, an action force by the dynamic pressure applied to the suction valve member in the valve closing direction is reduced. An action force by the pressure of fuel that flows into pressure equalization grooves counterbalances the action force by the dynamic pressure of the suction valve member. Therefore, self-closing by the dynamic pressure can be inhibited, and the maximum output of an electromagnetic driving unit can be reduced. Fuel flow through a passage radially outside the suction valve member and the firs passages. A fluid passage area is securable even when a lift amount of the suction valve member is small.
US09850887B2
A swash plate type variable displacement compressor includes a housing having therein a suction chamber, a discharge chamber a swash plate chamber and a cylinder bore. The compressor further includes a drive shaft, a swash plate and a link mechanism provided between the drive shaft and the swash plate. The compressor further includes a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator and a control mechanism. The actuator includes a partitioning member and a moving member, and a pressure control chamber formed therebetween. A support member is fitted on the drive shaft, and the contact of the support member with the moving member determines maximum inclination angle of the swash plate. A thrust bearing supports a thrust force. The support member includes a cylindrical portion that projects beyond the one end of the drive shaft. The position of the cylindrical portion is adjustable in the direction of the drive shaft.
US09850879B2
The invention relates to a method for moving a wind turbine component, such as a wind turbine hub, from a transportation position to a wind turbine assembly position. The method comprises the steps of: attaching a handling unit to a structural part of the wind turbine component, operatively connecting the handling unit to a wire of a crane system, lifting the wind turbine component with the crane system to an assembly position of the wind turbine, the handling unit and the wind turbine component being suspended from a wire of the crane system, and rotating the wind turbine component with the handling unit during the lifting of the wind turbine component in order to orientate the wind turbine component for assembly. The invention also relates to a handling unit and a wind turbine hub and use hereof.
US09850871B2
A valve assembly for a fluid injection valve has a longitudinal axis and includes a valve seat and a valve disc. The valve seat has an orifice that is laterally offset from the longitudinal axis. The valve disc has a fluid passage which, in a first angular position of the valve disc, is positioned in such fashion that it overlaps the orifice at an interface of the valve disc and the valve seat to establish a fluid path through the valve disc and the valve seat for dispensing fluid from the valve assembly. The valve disc is rotatable around the longitudinal axis with respect to the valve seat from the first angular position to a second angular position, wherein the valve seat and the valve disc mechanically interact to seal the orifice in the second angular position.
US09850868B2
An injection nozzle for use in injecting lubricating oil into cylinders in large engines is provided. The nozzle is adapted for fastening in a cylinder wall with a nozzle rod extending through the cylinder wall and with a nozzle outlet at the inner end of the nozzle rod. The nozzle rod includes a cylindrical valve seat boring with a displaceable valve body having a cylindrical sealing face which interacts with the cylindrical valve seat boring of the nozzle rod, the valve body biased by a spring for effective closing of the valve. The valve body is formed by a cylindrical rod having a turned recess in the cylindrical sealing face of the valve body. The turned recess is arranged at the inner end of the valve body with parts of the cylindrical sealing face of the valve body at each side of the turned recess.
US09850867B2
In a control system that includes a pressure accumulating portion that supplies CNG to a fuel injection valve and a regulator that adjusts a pressure in the pressure accumulating portion to a set pressure and of which a valve element opens when CNG is supplied to the pressure accumulating portion and closes when supply of CNG to the pressure accumulating portion is shut off, a control parameter relating to a combustion state in an internal combustion engine is controlled on the basis of a length of a period during which an opening degree of the valve element reduces from a first predetermined opening degree to a second predetermined opening degree when the pressure in the pressure accumulating portion is adjusted to the set pressure by the regulator.
US09850862B2
The air intake system includes a first piece, an intermediate piece constituting a surge tank and joined to the first piece, and a second piece including an air intake passage upstream portion in communication with the surge tank, the second piece being joined to the intermediate piece. The first piece and the intermediate piece constitute an air intake passage downstream portion in communication with the air intake passage upstream portion. The second piece further includes a flange portion that connects the air intake passage downstream portion and an air intake port of an internal combustion engine.
US09850859B2
An engine includes a breather conduit, an intake conduit, and an air filter assembly. The assembly includes a filter element having a top wall, a bottom wall, a first aperture through the bottom wall, a second aperture through the bottom wall, and filter media extending between the top and bottom walls, wherein the first and second apertures are the same shape, the same size, and are equally spaced apart from the center of the bottom wall. The filter assembly also includes a case. The filter element is configured to be received in the case such that the breather conduit and the intake conduit are directed to and from the interior chamber of the filter element, respectively, whereby air filtered by the filter media mixes with unfiltered gases from the breather conduit in the interior chamber of the filter element prior to entering the intake conduit.
US09850856B1
A power system including a variable volume combustion chamber for a two-stroke engine having a controlled exhaust port, a fuel injector to the combustion chamber and an oxygen injector to the combustion chamber. The oxygen injector provides repeated oxygen injection pulses to complete a charge. The controlled exhaust port includes an oscillating rotatably mounted valve. A source of pressurized concentrated oxygen to the oxygen injector is in a closed case having a ceramic fiber membrane. An air inlet and a waste outlet are in communication with a first side of the ceramic fiber membrane. An oxygen outlet is in communication with a second side of the ceramic fiber Ionic transport membrane. The case has a heat transfer surface in communication with the controlled exhaust port from the combustion chamber.
US09850836B2
An automatic control apparatus for an engine detects an operation position of a mechanical shift lever for shifting gears of a transmission, automatically stops the engine when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the case where the operation position is at a first specific range, and automatically restarts the engine in the case where, after the operation position is switched from the first specific range to a second specific range while the engine is stopped, the second specific range is maintained for a predetermined time. When the operation position is switched from the first specific range to the second specific range while the engine is stopped, it is determined whether or not the driver has an intention to start the vehicle, and if YES, the predetermined time is set to be shorter than when it is determined that there is no intention to start the vehicle.
US09850828B2
A control device for a compression ignition engine includes a controller configured to operate an engine body by compression ignition combustion when the engine body operates in a compression ignition range. When the engine body operates in a low load range with a load lower than a predetermined load in the compression ignition range, the controller sets a time of fuel injection with the fuel injection valve in a first half of a compression stroke or earlier, and allows the ozonator to introduce the ozone into the cylinder. When the engine body operates in the low load range, the controller controls an ozone concentration to be lower at a higher speed than at a low speed.
US09850826B2
An asymmetry cylinder de-activation (CDA) engine provided with a first, a second, a third and a fourth cylinder of which CDA apparatuses are mounted thereto respectively may include a crankshaft connected with pistons of each cylinder through a first, a second, a third and a fourth cranking journal respectively, and a controller configured to control operations of the CDA apparatuses, in which phase differences between cranking journals according to firing order may include 90±10 degrees and 270±10 degrees.
US09850823B2
A control system and method for a gas turbine engine are provided A controller (40) is responsive to at least one parameter to control an air-to-fuel ratio. The parameter may be a measured engine exhaust temperature from a temperature sensor (42). During a transient, such as a ramping condition of the engine, a measured value of such parameter may have a time lag affecting one or more control settings during the transient condition. The controller is programmed to predictively determine a bias for the measured value of the parameter to correct such control settings and avoid combustion instabilities and high emissions during such transient conditions.
US09850821B2
A gas turbine engine includes a shaft, a speed reduction device driven by the shaft, and a fan including a fan rotor driven by the speed reduction device. A compressor section has a plurality of compressor stages driven by the shaft. At least one inducer stage is positioned aft of the fan and coupled for rotation with the fan rotor. The at least one inducer stage is positioned upstream of the compressor section.
US09850815B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that provide power generation using predominantly CO2 as a working fluid. In particular, the present disclosure provides for the use of a portion of the heat of compression from a CO2 compressor as the additive heating necessary to increase the overall efficiency of a power production system and method.
US09850808B2
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an air intake coupled to the internal combustion engine and configured to intake air and supply the air to the engine, a temperature controller coupled to the air intake and to the internal combustion engine, and a control system coupled to the air intake, the internal combustion engine, and to the temperature controller. The control system being configured to receive engine operating data and control a temperature of the air via operation of the temperature controller to control an operating condition of the engine.
US09850806B2
In certain embodiments with large size prechambers and/or with prechambers that have large spark-gap electrode assemblies, a poor scavenge of the crevice volume may cause deterioration of the preignition margin, which then may limit the power rating of the engine, may cause the flow velocity field of the fuel-air mixture to be excessively uneven and may result in the deterioration of the misfire limit. One or more auxiliary scavenging ports may allow admission of fuel rich mixture to the crevice volume, thereby cooling the residual gases and preventing occurrence of preignition. More organized and powerful flow velocity fields may be obtained in the spark-gap electrode assembly region. This condition may result in a significant extension of the flammability limit and may significantly improve the combustion efficiency of the prechamber. Passive prechambers using the active scavenge concept may increase the engine power output and reduce the emission of pollutants from engine combustion.
US09850804B2
A coolant circuit for an internal combustion engine includes: a coolant pump; at least one coolant line; a radiator; and a coolant cavity delimited in the internal combustion engine. The coolant pump, the coolant line, the radiator and the coolant cavity are filled with a coolant. One or more sensors, configured to monitor the coolant concentration, are fixedly and permanently arranged in and/or on the coolant circuit.
US09850799B2
Disclosed herein is a method and an insert device for an internal combustion engine including: a central exhaust passage; a first expansion chamber in an upstream portion of the exhaust system and in fluidic communication with the central exhaust passage; a second expansion chamber in a downstream portion of the exhaust system and in fluidic communication with the central exhaust passage and the first expansion chamber, forming a continuous expansion chamber throughout a length of the insert device.
US09850793B2
An automatic regeneration controller for a particular filter comprises an engine controller, a unit controller, and a load application cancellation switch. With filter regeneration being started by determination of particulate accumulation and with an idling or light-load operation being conducted, load request to a work unit is outputted from the engine controller to the unit controller. Then, when load application is not possible or the load application cancellation switch is on and, in addition, exhaust temperature is not maintainable with no load application, a regeneration stop signal is outputted from the unit controller to the engine controller and a regeneration stop signal reception process is conducted in the engine controller, and with no forced load application to a hydraulic unit, fuel addition is stopped to stop automatic regeneration control.
US09850780B2
An assembly includes a gas turbine engine component and a plate. The plate is spaced from a surface of the component and generally conforms to the shape of the surface. The plate and component form a passageway that allows for passage of a secondary gas flow between the component and the plate.
US09850779B2
A gas turbine engine includes a lubrication system for distributing lubricant throughout the engine. The lubrication system includes a breather assembly that receives air and lubricant from various other components of the lubrication system. The breather assembly includes a baffle that redirects air and lubricant received by the breather assembly.
US09850777B2
Embodiments of the present invention may include a turbocharger having a turbine, a turbine housing, a variable valve, a first plate, a second plate and a heat shield member. The turbine housing accommodates the turbine and has a flow path. The variable valve rotates about each pivot member provided thereon, thereby adjusting the flow velocity of fluid guided from the flow path to the turbine. The first plate supports one end of each pivot member, and defines the flow path. The second plate supports the other end of each pivot member or the variable valves, and defines the flow path. The heat shield member covers a wall surface of the turbine housing, and defines the flow path.
US09850768B2
In a turbine wheel, each of seal plates is formed from an elastic plate member whose radially intermediate portion is curved projecting toward one axial end surfaces of turbine blades and a turbine disk. The seal plate includes: an assembly recessed portion recessed in a direction getting closer to the one axial end surfaces, near a radially outer end of the plate; and a disassembly protrusion projecting in a direction getting away from the one axial end surfaces, near a radially inner end of the plate. When the recessed portion is pressed for attaching the plate, a tip end of the recessed portion comes into contact with the one axial end surface of each turbine blade or the disk. The plate is accordingly inhibited from being excessively deformed. Thus, the plate is blocked from being plastically deformed, and is precluded from coming off the wheel.
US09850764B2
There is provided a blade tip for a rotary blade. The blade tip is formed of a metal foam and comprises at least one vortex generator. The vortex generator may comprise at least one passageway and/or cavity in the blade tip. In use, a vortex is created between the blade tip and a fan casing adjacent the blade tip.
US09850761B2
An airfoil assembly for a gas turbine engine is disclosed and includes a platform portion defining a portion of a gas flow path and a root portion for attachment of the turbine airfoil, the root portion including a bottom surface including a bottom area and a plurality of inlets that define a total inlet area as a ratio of the inlet area to the bottom area. An airfoil extends from the platform and including a plurality of cooling air passages in communication with the plurality of inlets.
US09850749B2
The invention relates to the use of distributed optical fiber sensors for distributed acoustic sensing, and in particular, modal analysis of distributed acoustic data obtained in-well to monitoring well integrity. By determining one or more acoustic modes corresponding to distributed speed of sound measurements within the wellbore, and analyzing variations in the distributed speed of sound measurement it is possible to derive information relating to a formation and/or fluid in the wellbore.
US09850746B2
The disclosed device provides a high-accuracy plunger arrival detection system comprising a low-power magnetometer with high sensitivity and which is capable of sampling low or high intensity magnetic fields. The device processes gathered data from sensors, stores at least some processed data in memory, executes a trending algorithm which compares the magnetic field of the plunger to the ambient magnetic field or a predetermined set of initialization values, and generates an output which is relayed to a well controller. An output signal may be via hard wire, RF, wireless or other known means. In addition, the implementation of two sensing devices mounted in series and in spaced relation to each other, can provide for an actual plunger average velocity. An actual plunger average velocity, as opposed to approximate average velocity, can be used to better optimize well control and improve safety of the overall well production system.
US09850740B2
A valve seal assembly can be energized by external pressure, such as by hydraulic pressure introduced via injection ports, so as to press the seal assembly against a gate with enough force to block paths where sand and chemicals would otherwise enter the valve body cavity or void. The external pressure makes the parts of the seal assembly move like a piston, forcing the seat of the seal assembly to press against the gate, eliminating the machined tolerances or gaps required for the gate to be opened or closed. A separate valve seal assembly can be provided for each face of the gate, and both assemblies can be activated when the gate is in an open position (fluid is flowing through the valve), and an upstream valve seal assembly can be activated alone when the gate is in a closed position.
US09850736B2
A settable down hole tool is of increased drillability and/or of increased expansibility. The improvement in drillability can be caused by fracturing cast iron slips into a large number of small pieces that can be circulated out of a well without further reduction in size. The improvement in expansibility can be partially caused by providing an expander cone of increased hardness thereby allowing an increased angle on the expander cone and slips. The improvement in expansibility can be partially caused by increasing the thickness of the slips.
US09850734B2
A plug for installation in a well, comprising a housing (2) that carries at least two discs (3, 4) of a brittle material that can be fractured by mechanical forces and with a core between the discs (3, 4). The core comprises particulate material in compact form.
US09850732B2
A sealing assembly for a downhole device has first (12) and second sealing (22) components which are urged together to make up the assembly such that a first sealing surface (34) on the first component radially presses a lip member (44) on the second component to change the angle of a second sealing surface (45) in the connected assembly. The components are urged together by a driving member (60) which can have screw threads that cooperate with the first component. The lip may be annular and may be formed by an undercut or recess (42) radially inwardly or outwardly of the lip member, allowing the lip member to bend radially inwards into the recess, during insertion of the second sealing component into the first.
US09850728B2
A wireline drilling system for the hydrocarbon exploration and production industry incorporating a drilling cuttings removal system which acts to remove and store cuttings displaced by a drill bit during drilling operations. The cuttings removal system may employ a screw member having a tapered lower portion and a narrow upper portion to transport drilling cuttings to a cuttings basket and distribute the cuttings therein. Embodiments of the invention include an integral tractor to progress the wireline drilling system and provide weight-on-bit, as well as assist in retrieval of the wireline drilling system if the tool should become stuck.
US09850720B2
Systems including wellbore tubing having an anchor assembly, an upper control line connector coupled to the anchor assembly, a first housing, and a first connector. The first connector provides a first angular mating face that faces tangentially with respect to the first housing, an upper control line operatively coupled to the first housing, and first communication media that extend through the first housing to the first angular mating face. A completion assembly within a wellbore has a completion receptacle to receive the anchor assembly, a lower control line connector coupled to the completion receptacle and a second housing and a second connector. The second connector provides a second angular mating face that faces tangentially with respect to the second housing, and a lower control line operatively coupled to the second housing and one or more second communication media that extend through the second housing to the second angular mating face.
US09850715B2
A modular compaction boring device. The boring device comprises a compaction boring head which creates a borehole through a subsurface by operation of a thruster and a rear and forward anchor. Extension of the thruster while the rear anchors are engaged move the boring head forward. Retraction of the thruster while the forward anchors are engaged brings the rear anchors forward for an addition stroke. A steering geometry in the boring head and rotation of the boring head allow steering of the boring device. Steering, thrust, and anchors may be controlled remotely through an umbilical cable pulled through the borehole by the boring device.
US09850713B2
A drilling system for use in rotary coiled tubing drilling of deviated wellbores is provided. The drilling system includes a base, a derrick mounted on the base, a top drive system mounted on the derrick; and a coiled tubing module. The coiled tubing module is adapted to move the coiled tubing in and out of the deviated wellbore and coupled to the top drive system on the derrick. The coiled tubing module is carried and rotated by the top drive system to transfer torque to the coiled tubing moving in and out of the deviated wellbore to perform rotary coiled tubing drilling.
US09850711B2
An autonomous laser-powered vehicle designed to autonomously penetrate through ice caps of substantial (e.g., kilometers) thickness by melting a path ahead of the vehicle as it descends. A high powered laser beam is transmitted to the vehicle via an onboard bare fiber spooler. After the beam enters through the dispersion optics, the beam expands into a cavity. A radiation shield limits backscatter radiation from heating the optics. The expanded beam enters the heat exchanger and is reflected by a dispersion mirror. Forward-facing beveled circular grooves absorb the reflected radiant energy preventing the energy from being reflected back towards the optics. Microchannels along the inner circumference of the beam dump heat exchanger maximize heat transfer. Sufficient amount of fiber is wound on the fiber spooler to permit not only a descent but also to permit a sample return mission by inverting the vehicle and melting its way back to the surface.
US09850707B2
Joint element for joining the side profiles of a first and a second cable ladder end-to-end with each other, preferably the side profiles being of the so-called hexagonal type, which joint element comprises on one hand a longitudinal gripping edge, which is connectable over the first longitudinal edges of the side profiles, and on the other hand a locking edge, which connects to the second, oppositely situated longitudinal edges of the side profiles, the locking edge of the joint element being provided with locking means for the fixation of the joint element against the side profile, wherein the locking means is formed as a locking tab that is formed with a free end and integrated with the locking edge. The invention also concerns a method for joining the side profiles of a first and a second cable ladder end-to-end with each other using such a joint element.
US09850706B2
A ladder system includes a ladder having a ladder top, the ladder top having at least a first slot. A container having at least a first protrusion that engages with the first slot to hold the container to the top. A method for working from a ladder. The method includes the steps of filling a container with objects and engaging a first protrusion of the container with a first slot of a top of the ladder to hold a container to the top.
US09850696B2
In a conventional fine particle detection device that vaporizes fine particles attached to the object of examination by heating, processing capability decreases as the processing time elapses due to the influence of deposition of fine particles other than the object of examination, dirt/dust, a residue of the fine particles as the object of examination, or residual matter. A fine particle detection device according to the present invention includes: a vaporization device that vaporizes the fine particles trapped by a trap device by vaporization or decomposition; a first flow passageway in which a mixture of a component vaporized by the vaporization device and another component flows; a second flow passageway branching from the first flow passageway in a direction of inertial force acting on the other component; a third flow passageway branching from the first flow passageway in a direction different from the direction of the inertial force; and an analysis device that analyzes a component introduced into the third flow passageway.
US09850678B1
A temporary shelter for an aircraft maintenance worker includes a base pad having a central opening for surrounding and exposing a repair site on an aircraft. A frame anchored within pockets on the base pad supports a canopy to create a protective enclosure for the worker. A junction box securable to the pad includes a plurality of electrical receptacles and quick-connect, compressed-air fittings on an upper surface for powering various work tools. When the pad is anchored to the aircraft with a pair of retaining straps, the erected canopy provides a temporary shelter that protects a worker from sunlight and inclement weather while providing convenient, uninhibited access to a maintenance site.
US09850676B2
A removable tool for leveling a vertical structure in a vertically level orientation is also disclosed, the tool including a flat substantially non-bendable material, wherein the tool has a central hole formed in the center thereof that does not extend to or open out to the periphery of the tool, and four slots extending radially away from the hole and spaced from each other evenly about the tool. Contemplated systems and methods for utilizing the removable tool are also disclosed herein.
US09850668B2
The invention relates to a composite tile for an installation system, more particularly for the production of a floor covering or wall covering, comprising a tile of a floor covering or wall covering and a backing disposed on the lay-on face of the tile. The invention also relates to a connecting element for the connection of two composite tiles and to an installation system composed of composite tiles and also to a method for the fabrication of a composite tile. The backing consists of a fiber composite material, more particularly fiber cement.
US09850658B2
The present invention relates to a modular construction system with molding formwork or permanent formwork for concrete or reinforced concrete industry aimed at building construction. It Incorporates a number of key elements: structural-elements for forming flat walls, corner-elements, -elements connectors between the flat elements, auxiliary-elements of rectangular cross section which are located adjacent to the panels. Each cell has at least one of their edges a longitudinal rail and at the opposite end has at least one counter-rail so that they can connect adjacent elements. Along the inner surface of the flat structural elements exists at least one longitudinal rail in order to couple connectors between each pair of elements and stabilize the position. Once the final structure concrete is poured into the hollow interior of this cavity and flows through the perforations in the structure generating a textured finish that can also receive other materials for creating different types of coating.
US09850657B2
An office partition system including a partition frame having front and rear sides. Front and rear transparent sheet material is disposed on the front and rear sides of the partition frame, respectively. Horizontally and vertically extending dividers are disposed between the front and rear transparent sheet material to define a plurality of vertically juxtaposed interior chambers. The front transparent sheet material comprises a plurality of first sheets, each first sheet having horizontally-extending upper and lower edges. The upper and lower edges of adjacent first sheets are vertically spaced apart to define horizontally elongated gaps therebetween. The horizontally elongated gaps are fluidly connected to interior chambers disposed above and below the horizontal dividers to define Helmholtz resonators whereby sound that is incident on the front side of the partition frame is absorbed to the Helmholtz resonance.
US09850650B2
A device for installation, maintenance, and/or removal of a catch basin hood and/or a catch basin trap; the device comprising a shank connecting a handle on one end and jaw-like arms on an opposite end, wherein the handle end of the shank further comprises a lever capable of actuating a snap-action installation of a catch basin trap.
US09850648B1
An arch-shaped corrugated chamber having corrugation peaks and valleys, with reinforcing ribs provided on the corrugation peaks. The ribs extend upwardly from a chamber base to a rib upper end, and have an arch-shaped cross-section with an outer surface extending outwardly from a corrugation peak and a fin extending inwardly from the corrugation peak, and optionally, a rib line provided on the rib outer surface centered on the rib arch-shaped cross-section. A channel formed by the inner surface of the rib is sized to receive a corresponding rib of a second chamber so that multiple similar chambers with ribs may be stacked together.
US09850645B2
The invention relates to free floating automated toilet bowl cleaning devices that dispense a volatile composition (e.g., a fragrance) into air surrounding the toilet and dispense a cleaning composition (e.g., hypohalite bleach) into toilet tank water on which the device freely floats. The device includes a first compartment for housing the volatile composition. The first compartment is permeable to air, with the permeable portion of the first compartment positioned above a water line when the device is floated. The device includes a second compartment for housing the cleaning composition. The second compartment includes one or more inlets through the device body to allow fluid communication with the liquid on which the device floats during use. A floatation member is positioned above the second compartment (e.g., between the first and second compartments).
US09850640B2
A working machine comprising a ground engaging structure and an undercarriage connected to the ground engaging structure. A superstructure is rotatably mounted to the undercarriage so as to be rotatable relative to the undercarriage about a first generally upright axis, an operator's cab is rotatably mounted on the superstructure so as to be rotatable relative to the superstructure about a second generally upright axis, and a working arm is rotatably mounted to the superstructure so as to be moveable up and down about a generally horizontal axis. A drive arrangement is provided for driving the ground engaging structure to propel the working machine. The drive arrangement includes an engine and transmission that are housed within the undercarriage, and a majority of the engine is positioned below a level coincident with a lower extent of the superstructure.
US09850634B1
Cooperating protection units having both convex and concave walls are disclosed that have the potential to create lengthy protections structures that may be used in the protection of coastal areas. Certain versions of those protective units are configured to have semi-cylindrical wall faces that may cooperate with one another in a lengthy structure and certain other protective units have semi-spherical wall faces that may cooperate with one another in a lengthy structure. Soil and vegetation may accumulate in central cavities of the units.
US09850625B2
A composite pavement structure comprises a wearing course layer and a base course layer disposed below the wearing course layer. The wearing course layer comprises aggregate, e.g. glass and rock, and an elastomeric composition. The elastomeric composition comprises the reaction product of an isocyanate component and an isocyanate-reactive component. The isocyanate component comprises a polymeric isocyanate, and optionally, an isocyanate-prepolymer. The isocyanate-reactive component comprises a hydrophobic polyol and a chain extender having at least two hydroxyl groups and a molecular weight of from about 62 to about 220. The chain extender is present in the isocyanate-reactive component in an amount of from about 1 to about 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the isocyanate-reactive component. The base course layer comprises aggregate which is the same or different than the aggregate of the wearing course layer. Methods of forming the composite pavement structure are also disclosed.
US09850612B2
A laundry treating apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treating apparatus includes a first cabinet having a first receiving space to receive laundry, a second cabinet having a second receiving space to receive laundry, the second cabinet being separated from the first cabinet, a partition wall located at an upper part of the second receiving space to divide an interior of the second cabinet, a supply unit to selectively supply air to the first receiving space and the second receiving space, a discharge unit including an exhaust duct to discharge air in the first receiving space out of the first cabinet and a suction fan provided in the partition wall such that the suction fan is located in the second cabinet to suction air from the second receiving space such that the air from the second receiving space moves to the exhaust duct.
US09850598B2
A multi-layer ballistic woven fabric, including an upper woven layer having upper warp yarns and upper weft yarns that are interwoven together to form the upper woven layer. The multi-layer ballistic woven fabric also includes a lower woven layer having lower warp yarns and lower weft yarns that are interwoven together, and a plurality of securing yarns, each securing yarn interwoven with at least some of the upper yarns and some of the lower yarns so as to secure the upper and lower woven layers together. At least one of the securing yarns is woven underneath a first lower weft yarn, then above a second upper weft yarn adjacent the first lower weft yarn, then underneath a third lower weft yarn adjacent the second upper weft yarn and then above a fourth upper weft yarn adjacent the third lower weft yarn. The multi-layer ballistic woven fabric is formed by interweaving the securing yarns with the warp yarns and weft yarns as the upper woven layer and lower woven layer are made.
US09850597B2
An apparatus for forming a leno selvage, in particular for a loom, includes a fixed-position housing, a support having the shape of a circular ring or of a circular disk and rotatably supported in the housing by a bearing and having two diagonally oppositely disposed thread eyelets for guiding leno threads in the region of the inner race of the bearing. At least two ring gears of magnetizable material extending in parallel with one another are arranged on the outer periphery of the support. A plurality of magnets are arranged on the outer periphery of the support in the region of the ring gears. A stator sheet package of circular ring shape having a plurality of coils arranged thereat has segments each having a toothed arrangement associated with the toothed arrangement of the ring gears in the region of the coils.
US09850595B2
A method for a heat treatment of a silicon single crystal wafer in an oxidizing ambient, including: performing the heat treatment based on a condition determined by a tripartite correlation between a heat treatment temperature during the heat treatment, an oxygen concentration in the silicon single crystal wafer before the heat treatment, and a growth condition of a silicon single crystal from which the silicon single crystal wafer is cut out. This provides a method for a heat treatment of a silicon single crystal wafer which can annihilate void defects or micro oxide precipitate nuclei in a silicon single crystal wafer with low cost, efficiently, and securely by a heat treatment in an oxidizing ambient.
US09850594B2
Boron-doped diamond and methods for making it are provided. The doped diamond is made using an ultra-thin film of heavily boron-doped silicon as a dopant carrying material in a low temperature thermal diffusion doping process.
US09850589B2
A system and methods are provided for electrochemical grinding a workpiece. In one embodiment, a method includes controlling potentials to grinding tool and the workpiece, controlling applying electrolyte, and controlling grinding of the workpiece by the grinding tool. The method may also include determining screen replacement when there is sufficient metal plated.
US09850575B1
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) type processes for producing metal containing thin films comprise feeding into a reaction space vapor phase pulses of metal containing cyclopentadienyl precursors as a metal source material. In preferred embodiments the metal containing cyclopentadienyl reactant comprises a metal atom that is not directly bonded to an oxygen or halide atom. In other embodiments the metal atom is bonded to a cyclopentadienyl compound and separately bonded to at least one ligand via a nitrogen atom. In still other embodiments the metal containing cyclopentadienyl compound comprises a nitrogen-bridged ligand.
US09850570B2
The use of non-mass analyzed ion implanter is advantageous in such application as it generates ion implanting at different depth depending on the ions energy and mass. This allows for gaining advantage from lubricity offered as a result of the very light deposition on the surface, and at the same time the hardness provided by the intercalated ions implanted below it, providing benefits for cover glass, low E enhancement, and other similar materials. In further aspects, ion implantation is used to create other desirable film properties such anti-microbial and corrosion resistance.
US09850550B2
A saccharide recovering method for recovering saccharides from a saccharified slurry obtained after subjecting a slurry of cellulosic biomass to a hot water treatment and to provide a washing device for washing a saccharified slurry residue suited for conducting such a saccharide recovery method is provided. Saccharified slurry of cellulosic biomass is fed on a conveyor having a net conveyor belt, the saccharified slurry is dehydrated, washing water is sprayed to dissolve saccharides remaining in the residue into the washing liquid. The residue is washed by a plurality of washing water spraying units disposed in series in such a manner that the moving direction of the residue and the moving direction of the washing water are opposite to each other. The washing water having washed the residue is used as washing water for washing water spraying unit in the direction opposite to the moving direction of the conveyor.
US09850548B2
A system, device, and method for rapid detection of analytes that includes a living, engineered biosensor cell that is typically a component of the mammalian immune system; a reporter protein that is engineered into and expressed by the living, engineered biosensor cell, wherein the reporter protein emits a detectable signal in response to certain predetermined changes in the cytosol of the living, engineered cell; a signal transduction pathway expressed by the living, engineered biosensor cell, wherein the signal transduction pathway controls a biological process within the cytosol of the living, engineered biosensor cell, and wherein the biochemical process, when it occurs, causes the reporter protein to emit a detectable signal; at least one type of detector molecule that is adapted to bind to a specific analyte; at least one analyte that binds to the detector molecule that is specific to that analyte; a plurality of non-antibody signal transducing elements that are either expressed by the living, engineered biosensor cell or that actively bind to a receptor or a receptor component expressed by the living, engineered biosensor cell, wherein each signal transducing element is adapted to receive a detector molecule.
US09850538B2
Methods and kits for diagnosing and treating type I diabetes based upon the expression of macrophage-specific Chymotrypsin-Like Elastase Family, Member 3B, either alone or in combination with sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectin-1, are provided.
US09850533B2
The reaction-medicated amplification methods and applications include a new type of ligase. The general amplification and detection of the downstream with the ligase reaction includes 3 linking probes. It achieves the effect of eliminating nonspecific signal interference by respectively filling the detection tag sequence, upstream primer tag sequence, and downstream primer combination tag sequence into 3 different linking probes. Wherein the linking probe containing detection tag sequence forms a cystic structure and the specific hybridization sequences on both sides of the cystic structure form a “hybridization community” when being hybrid to the target sequences. Being hybrid closely at the adjacent positions to the target sequences, 3 linking probes finally form a complete probe chain containing 3 “tag” sequences with the effect of ligase. This technique achieves the goals of reducing reaction background, enhancing signal-noise-ration and avoiding false positive.
US09850530B2
The present invention relates to an automatic real-time quantitative amplification system which can perform analysis of various biological samples, and more particularly to an automatic real-time quantitative amplification system in which a plurality of decks for respectively accommodating biological samples are put in a deck storing/transferring device, whereby it is possible to automatically analyze an amount or existence of a target substance containing a target nucleic acid in the biologic sample, such as a particular gene, a particular, a particular pathogenic bacterium and a particular protein, by amplifying the target nucleic acid purified by some processes of purification, purification after culture, or purification after reaction of the target substance contained in the biological sample and then checking an amount of the amplified target nucleic acid.
US09850527B2
There is provided a method for detecting a target RNA molecule in a sample comprising reverse transcription, amplification of the reverse transcription product, and detection of the amplification product, involving the use of (i) an RT oligonucleotide comprising a stem-loop portion containing one or more nucleotides modified or modifiable to block DNA polymerase extension and a target annealing portion that is complementary to a downstream portion of the target RNA, the target annealing portion located 3′ to the stem-loop portion, (ii) a first amplification primer that anneals to a downstream portion of a 3′ extended region of the reverse transcription product and (ii) a second amplification primer that anneals to an interface portion of a DNA strand complementary to the reverse transcription product, the interface portion comprising a region that is complementary to a 3′ portion of the RT oligonucleotide and a 5′ portion of the 3′ extended region in the reverse transcription product.
US09850523B1
The present disclosure provides a method for enriching for multiple genomic regions using a first bait set that selectively hybridizes to a first set of genomic regions of a nucleic acid sample and a second bait set that selectively hybridizes to a second set of genomic regions of the nucleic acid sample. These bait set panels can selectively enrich for one or more nucleosome-associated regions of a genome, said nucleosome-associated regions comprising genomic regions having one or more genomic base positions with differential nucleosomal occupancy, wherein the differential nucleosomal occupancy is characteristic of a cell or tissue type of origin or disease state.
US09850515B2
The present invention provides methods of detecting a target molecule in a sample comprising incubating the sample with two or more detectably labeled probes, partitioning the sample into multiple partitions, and detecting the presence of the two or more probes in the same partition.
US09850501B2
The invention relates to a method for the simultaneous integration of two or more copies of a polynucleotide of interest into the chromosome of a fungal host cell comprising at least two pairs of recognition sequences of a site-specific recombinase, each pair flanking a resident negative selection marker; transformation of the cell with a construct carrying a gene of interest also flanked by the recognition sequences to ensure double-crossover events after transient expression of the recombinase, followed by selection for excision of all negative selection markers from the cell.
US09850489B2
The present invention is directed to the identification of a novel repressor located between ˜1.2 kb to ˜1.6 kb from the translation start site of the IFN-λ1 promoter. The present invention provides a method of using siRNAs against ZEB1 (binds to the repressor region) and BLIMP-1 (binds outside the repressor region) and increases the promoter activity of IFN-λ1 (i.e., increases the production of IFN-λ1 protein). siRNAs against ZEB1 mRNA or BLIMP-1 mRNA increase IFN-λ1 gene activity. There is provided a therapeutic application of siRNAs against ZEB1 and BLIMP-1 mRNAs in treating a mammal (including a human) by increasing the production of IFN-λ1 protein that promotes an anti-viral response as well as treats asthma diseases and colon diseases.
US09850486B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for reducing CKAP5 target RNA and protein levels via use of dsRNAs, e.g., Dicer substrate siRNA (DsiRNA) agents.
US09850475B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for delivering a bioactive moiety comprising at least one non-natural component into a cell cytosol of a eukaryotic cell. The bioactive moiety is linked to an A component of a bacterial toxin, a functional wild-type or modified fragment thereof, or an A component surrogate or mimetic. For delivery, the cell is contacted with the linked bioactive moiety and a corresponding B component of the bacterial toxin or a functional fragment thereof.
US09850468B2
The invention relates to the discovery of an HEV strain from a chronically infected patient. The virus grow unusually well in numerous cell cultures. Thus, the invention provides cell cultures, vectors, and vaccine compositions based on the virus.
US09850467B2
We disclose the use of a strain of bacteriophages in the manufacturing of a preparation for improving the state of health of patients infected with adenoviruses, wherein preferably the preparation produced is used for the treatment or prevention of adenoviral infections, particularly those caused by HAdV, preferably HAdV-5.
US09850462B2
Genetically modified mice are provided that express human λ variable (hVλ) sequences, including mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse λ light chain locus, mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse κ light chain locus, and mice that express hVλ sequences from a transgene or an episome wherein the hVλ sequence is linked to a mouse constant sequence. Mice are provided that are a source of somatically mutated human λ variable sequences useful for making antigen-binding proteins. Compositions and methods for making antigen-binding proteins that comprise human λ variable sequences, including human antibodies, are provided.
US09850455B2
The invention provides a method for the cleaning of a soiled substrate, the method comprising treating the substrate with a solid particulate cleaning material and wash water, the treatment being carried out in an apparatus comprising a drum comprising perforated side walls and having a capacity of between 5 and 50 liters for each kg of fabric in the washload, wherein said solid particulate cleaning material comprises a multiplicity of polymeric particles at a particle to fabric addition level of 0.1:1-10:1 by mass, each particle being substantially cylindrical or spherical in shape and having an average density in the range of 0.5-2.5 g/cm3 and an average volume in the range of 5-275 mm3, and wherein said drum comprising perforated side walls is rotated at a speed which generates G forces in the range of from 0.05 to 900 G. The polymeric particles may comprise foamed or unfoamed polymeric materials which may comprise either linear or crosslinked polymers. Preferably, at least one detergent is employed in the cleaning process. The invention provides optimum cleaning performance as a result of improved mechanical interaction between substrate and cleaning media and is preferably used for the cleaning of textile fabrics. The method allows for significant reductions in the consumption of detergents, water and energy when compared with the conventional wet cleaning of textile fabrics, and also facilitates reduced washing-related textile fabric damage. The invention also envisages a cleaning composition comprising a solid particulate cleaning composition and at least one additional cleaning agent. In particular embodiments of the invention, the solid particulate cleaning material is separated and recovered and then re-used in subsequent cleaning processes. Typically, the solid particulate cleaning material is itself cleaned intermittently in order to maintain its efficacy.
US09850445B2
Provided are a sliding elastic body capable of imparting excellent sliding properties and resistance to protein adsorption and, at the same time, maintaining sealing properties; and a syringe gasket, a catheter, and a tire which include the sliding elastic body. The present invention relates to a sliding elastic body including an elastic body whose surface is fully or partially laminated with a fluororesin film, the laminated elastic body being treated with a fluorinated oil.
US09850443B2
A water-soluble working fluid of the invention is used for cutting a brittle material using a wire saw. The water-soluble working fluid is provided by blending water, alkylene oxide adduct of acethylene glycol, and glycols. The water-soluble working fluid of the invention is capable of providing favorable cutting accuracy when the brittle material is cut using a wire, and thus is suitable for cutting out a large-diameter wafer. The water-soluble working fluid of the invention is especially suitably applicable to an abrasive-grain-fixed wire saw.
US09850436B2
Method for maximizing the reaction volume in a slurry phase reactor by determining the ratio (f) between the height of the foams (Hf) and the height of the reactor (HR) through an algorithm defining the gas hold-up in three zones, a first lower zone in which a bubble regime is established, a second intermediate zone where there can be the presence of foams, a third zone situated in the upper hemispherical part in which the multiphase mixture is accelerated until it reaches outlet conditions, the average gas hold-up being given by the weighted average of each of the three gas hold-ups of the three zones, characterized in that it uses nuclear densimeters positioned inside the reactor at different heights and comprises: measuring, for each nuclear densimeter used, gas density values, relating to different gas and/or slurry velocities, which correspond through said algorithm to calculated gas hold-up values, revealing, with a calculated gas hold-up of less than 40%, the absence of foams at least up to the height at which the densimeter is positioned, whose density measured corresponds to said gas hold-up, with a calculated gas hold-up higher than 70%, the presence of foams starting at least from the height of the reactor in which the densimeter is positioned, whose density measured corresponds to said gas hold-up, finally, determining through said algorithm, the ratio f and the extension in height of the possible presence of foams, calculating the consequent height Hf.
US09850434B2
A method of predicting the tendency of a heavy oil feed to generate coke deposits in the FCC riser under a given set of operating parameters in the unit; thus, by utilizing operating parameters appropriate to the feed, the formation of coke deposits in the riser may be minimized. The margin between the theoretical dew point of the hydrocarbon feed established from unit operating parameters and the theoretical mix zone temperature in the feed injection zone of the unit is developed by applying a regression-derived linear model from multiple rigorous model runs. The mix zone of the unit is then operated at a temperature which reduces the level of riser coking predicted from this ascertainable margin or, at least, maintains it within levels which are predictable and acceptable.
US09850432B2
A reactor has an inner surface accessible to the hydrocarbon and comprising a sintered product of at least one of cerium oxide, zinc oxide, tin oxide, zirconium oxide, boehmite and silicon dioxide, and a perovskite material of formula AaBbCcDdO3-δ. 0
US09850429B2
The invention relates to a firestop material consisting of a polymer foam, notably a polyurethane foam, containing flame-retardant means. This firestop material is characterized in that the flame-retardant means consist of means designed to form a charred layer on the foam surface, under the effect of a rise in the temperature of the material resulting from a fire, and are supplemented by at least one inorganic type flame retardant. The invention furthermore relates to a chemical composition intended, after expansion and drying, to form such a firestop material, and to a use of such a firestop material.
US09850427B2
In order to suppress the chromaticity shift and corrosion associated with the deterioration of a sulfide phosphor particle, this phosphor sheet is produced using a phosphor particle-containing resin composition which comprises: covered phosphor particles; polymerizable compound; and a polymerization initiator. The covered phosphor particles are obtained by covering phosphor particles with silicon dioxide films, wherein among the phosphor particles, at least sulfide phosphor particles are covered with silicon dioxide films that contain a metal oxide powder. Thus, the phosphor sheet can be inhibited from emitting a sulfur-based gas, and exhibits a minimized chromaticity shift, even when the phosphor sheet is present in such a manner that the edge of the phosphor layer of the sheet is in an exposed state.
US09850424B2
Methods including providing a silane composition selected from the group consisting of a dipodal silane, a long-chain silane, and any combination thereof, wherein the dipodal silane includes at least two carbon chains having between about 2 and about 36 carbon atoms, and wherein the long-chain silane includes at least one carbon chain having between about 2 and about 36 carbon atoms; coating proppant particulates with the silane composition, thereby forming silane composition coated proppant particulates; and introducing the silane composition coated proppant particulates into at least one fracture in a subterranean formation, thereby stabilizing loose particulates therein.
US09850421B2
The present disclosure includes a nonionic surfactant and a method of providing the nonionic surfactant, where the nonionic surfactant is soluble in carbon dioxide and is used as part of a dispersion for enhanced crude oil recovery. The nonionic surfactant can be part of an emulsion that includes carbon dioxide and a diluent.
US09850407B2
This invention provides flexible adhesive compositions which can be used instead of joint reinforcement tape for securing a joint seam between abutting panels. Methods using the compositions are provided as well.
US09850394B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a filler-containing resin film in which shedding of inorganic materials or the like is suppressed, a resin composition that can be used in production of the filler-containing resin film, and a method for producing the filler-containing resin film. The filler-containing resin film of the present invention is a filler-containing resin film comprising: a vinylidene fluoride copolymer obtained by copolymerizing vinylidene fluoride and a compound represented by formula (1) (in formula (1), R1, R2, and R3 are each independently hydrogen atoms, chlorine atoms, or alkyl groups having from 1 to 5 carbons; and X′ is an atomic group having a molecular weight of 472 or less and having a main chain configured from 1 to 19 atoms); and an insulating inorganic filler. The resin film is produced by applying onto a substrate and then drying a resin composition containing the vinylidene fluoride copolymer, the insulating inorganic filler, and an organic solvent.
US09850391B2
Provided is an ink including: copolymer including at least one of structural unit of formula (1) and structural unit of formula (2); pigment having acid value of ≦15 μmol/g and represented by formula (3); water; and water-soluble organic solvent. In formula (1), R1 represents hydrogen or methyl group. L1 represents alkylene group including 2-18 carbon atoms. In formula (2), R1 represents hydrogen or methyl group. L2 represents single bond or —(CH2)n-O— of which oxygen is bound with biphenyl. n represents integer of 2 through 18. In formula (3), R1 represents any one of hydrogen, halogen, alkyl group including 1-4 carbon atoms, alkoxy group including 1-4 carbon atoms, hydroxy, nitro, and alkyl substituted or unsubstituted amino group including 1-4 carbon atoms. n represents integer of 1 through 5. When n is a plural number, R1 may be identical or different. R2, R3, and R4 represent alkyl group including 1-4 carbon atoms.
US09850390B2
An epoxy resin composition for encapsulation of a semiconductor device and a semiconductor device encapsulated with the epoxy resin composition, the composition including an epoxy resin; a curing agent; an inorganic filler; a curing catalyst; and a compound containing at least one hydroxyl group, wherein the curing catalyst includes a phosphonium compound represented by Formula 4:
US09850378B2
A monomer composition containing an unsaturated polyalkylene glycol ether-based monomer is provided having excellent stability. The monomer composition contains an unsaturated polyalkylene glycol ether-based monomer represented by the following chemical formula (1): YO(R1O)nR2 (1) [in the formula, Y represents an alkenyl group having 2 to 7 carbon atoms; R1O represents one or two or more types of oxyalkylene groups having 2 to 18 carbon atoms; n represents an average addition mole number of oxyalkylene groups and is a number of 5 to 500; and R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms], an organic acid, and water, and having a pH of 4 to 13.
US09850376B2
A resin composition for producing a film or sheet having high tear strength that is excellent in processability, mechanical properties, and biodegradability. The resin composition is a biodegradable polyester resin composition containing: (i) an aliphatic polyester (P3HA) having a repeating unit of formula (1): [—CHR—CH2—CO—O—] (1), wherein R is an alkyl group represented by CnH2n+1, where n is an integer of 1 or more and 15 or less; (ii) polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT); and hydrophilic silica (A), wherein a weight ratio of the aliphatic polyester (P3HA) to the polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) is 90/10 to 10/90, and an amount of the hydrophilic silica (A) is 2 to 30 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of a total amount of the aliphatic polyester (P3HA) and the polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) combined.
US09850363B2
Hardenable inorganic systems such as cements, plasters, ceramics or liquid silicates, usable for example in the building trade, construction industry or oil drilling industry. The insertion of carbonaceous nanofillers, such as carbon nanotubes, for reinforcing mechanical properties and improving such systems. A method for producing a master mixture including at least one superplasticizer and carbonaceous nanofillers at a mass ratio of between 0.1% and 25%, preferably between 0.2% and 20%, in relation to the total weight of the master mixture, and also to said master mixture thus obtained and to the use thereof in a hardenable inorganic system with a view to producing materials with improved properties. The disclosure applies to the construction industry, the building trade and the oil drilling industry.
US09850348B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a semi-aromatic polyamide from diamine and dicarboxylic acid, comprising steps of •(i) dosing a liquid diamine to an agitated powder comprising an aromatic dicarboxylic acid thereby forming a powder comprising a diamine/dicarboxylic acid salt (DD-salt), and •(ii) solid-state polymerizing the DD-salt to obtain the polyamide.
US09850345B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure encompasses polymerization systems for the copolymerization of CO2 and epoxides comprising 1) a catalyst including a metal coordination compound having a permanent ligand set and at least one ligand that is a polymerization initiator, and 2) a chain transfer agent having one or more sites capable of initiating copolymerization of epoxides and CO2, wherein the chain transfer agent contains one or more masked hydroxyl groups. In a second aspect, the present disclosure encompasses methods for the synthesis of polycarbonate polyols using the inventive polymerization systems. In a third aspect, the present disclosure encompasses polycarbonate polyol compositions characterized in that the polymer chains have a high percentage of —OH end groups, a high percentage of carbonate linkages, and substantially all polycarbonate chains having hydroxyl end groups have no embedded chain transfer agent.
US09850342B2
The present invention provides a polyester resin which is excellent in long-term thermal stability and moldability, comprises a dicarboxylic acid component and a glycol component, wherein 10 mol % or more of a furandicarhoxylic acid is contained as the dicarboxylic acid component and the polyester resin satisfies following requirements (1) to (3); (1) a total metal element content is 150 ppm or less relative to the mass of the polyester resin; (2) a phosphorus element content is 100 ppm or less relative to the mass of the polyester resin; and (3) TODΔ reduced viscosity represented by the following formula is 0.030 dl/g or less; (TODΔ reduced viscosity)=(reduced viscosity before thermal oxidation test)−(reduced viscosity after thermal oxidation test).
US09850339B2
A liquid crystalline polyurethane elastomer is produced by reacting an isocyanate component, a high-molecular-weight polyol component and a mesogenic diol represented by formula (1), and having a crosslinking site that is introduced by a tri-functional or higher isocyanate in the isocyanate component and/or a high-molecular-weight polyol having a number average molecular weight of 400 or more and less than 7000 and having three or more hydroxy groups, in the high-molecular-weight polyol component, wherein the melting point of a mesogenic unit does not exist in a temperature range lying between the glass transition temperature (Tg) and the (liquid crystal phase)-to-(isotropic phase) transition temperature (Ti) of the polyurethane elastomer, and a liquid crystal is developed at a temperature between the Tg and the Ti. (In the formula, X represents an alkylene group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms; and Y represents a single bond, —N═N—, —CO—, —CO—O— or —CH═N—).
US09850338B2
The Invention relates to a process for modifying isocyanates, in which at least one monomeric organic isocyanate having an NCO functionality>1 is oligomerized in the presence of at least one spirocyclic ammonium salt having a cation of the formula I as catalysts for the isocyanate modification, where substituents X and Y in the N positions are identical or different, substituted or unsubstituted C2-C20-alkylene chains optionally interrupted by heteroatoms (O, N, S) and by aromatic rings. The invention further relates to the use of such a catalyst.
US09850335B2
A copolymer includes a structure unit represented by Chemical Formula I; and a structure unit represented by Chemical Formula II, where R1 and R2 each, independently represent hydrogen atoms or methyl groups, X represents a hydrogen atom or a cation, and L represents an alkylene group having 2 to 18 carbon atoms.
US09850333B2
A copolymer capable of realizing a synergistic effect of matting characteristics and heat resistance properties includes two or more types of compounds including at least two unsaturated reactive groups. A thermoplastic resin composition including the copolymer is also provided.
US09850330B2
Processes of forming polyolefins are described herein. One or more specific embodiments of the processes generally include introducing olefin monomer selected from C2-C3 olefins into a first reaction zone under first polymerization conditions to form a first polyolefin; withdrawing a transfer effluent from the first reaction zone, the transfer effluent including first polyolefin and unreacted olefin monomer; introducing the transfer effluent, a comonomer selected from C4-C8 olefins, and additional olefin monomer to a second reaction zone under second polymerization conditions to form a second reactor product; maintaining an essentially constant comonomer:olefin monomer ratio in the second reaction zone; and withdrawing at least a portion of the second reactor product, wherein the second reactor product includes a bimodal polyolefin.
US09850325B2
A method for producing a hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer includes subjecting a cyclic olefin to ring-opening metathesis polymerization in the presence of a polymerization catalyst to produce a ring-opening metathesis polymer, and hydrogenating at least some of carbon-carbon double bonds of the ring-opening metathesis polymer, at least one ruthenium compound selected from a group made of a ruthenium compound represented by a formula (I), (II), (III), and (IV) being used as the polymerization catalyst; and a resin composition having a hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer produced by this method. It is possible to industrially advantageously produce a hydrogenated ring-opening metathesis polymer that exhibits especially excellent light transmittance.
US09850321B2
This invention provides compositions and methods to treat a condition or disease without the use of exogenous targeting sequences or chemical compositions. The present invention relates to single-domain antibodies (sdAbs), proteins and polypeptides comprising the sdAbs that are directed against intracellular components that cause a condition or disease. The invention also includes nucleic acids encoding the sdAbs, proteins and polypeptides, and compositions comprising the sdAbs. The invention includes the use of the compositions, sdAbs, and nucleic acids encoding the sdAbs for prophylactic, therapeutic or diagnostic purposes.
US09850315B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for the purification of a human IgG-CH1 domain comprising molecule using an antigen-binding protein that is capable of binding to an epitope that is comprised in the CH1 domain of each of human IgG1, human IgG2, human IgG3 and human IgG4. The disclosure further relates to the antigen-binding proteins that can be used in the method of the disclosure. The frame-work regions of the antigen-binding proteins of the invention preferably correspond to those of antibodies that naturally are devoid of light chains as may e.g. be found in camelids. The disclosure further relates to nucleic acids that encode such antigen-binding proteins, to immunoadsorbent materials that comprise such proteins, and to the uses of such immunoadsorbent materials for the purification of IgG-CH1 domain containing molecules from a variety of species.
US09850298B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for treating or preventing ulcers in subjects having low red blood cell levels and/or hemoglobin levels (e.g, anemia). In some embodiments, the compositions of the disclosure may be used to treat or prevent ulcers associated with anemia.
US09850293B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer in a patient, the method comprising identifying a patient who is resistant to treatment with an anti-HER2 therapy; and administering to the patient a drug delivery molecule, comprising a polypeptide molecule adapted to target and/or penetrate a type of cell; a nucleic acid molecule bound to the polypeptide sequence via electrostatic interactions; and a chemical agent non-covalently linked to the nucleic acid sequence. Also disclosed are methods of inducing apoptosis in an anti-HER2 therapy resistant HER2+ breast cancer cell, the method comprising contacting the anti-HER2 therapy resistant HER2+ breast cancer cell with the drug delivery molecule. Further disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer in a patient, the method comprising identifying a patient who is resistant to anti-HER2 therapy; and administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a drug delivery molecule, comprising a polypeptide molecule adapted to target and/or penetrate a type of cell; and a sulfonated corrole molecule bound to the polypeptide sequence. Finally disclosed herein are methods of inducing apoptosis in an anti-HER2 therapy resistant HER2+ breast cancer cell, the method comprising contacting the anti-HER2 therapy resistant HER2+ breast cancer cell with a drug delivery molecule, comprising a polypeptide molecule adapted to target and/or penetrate a type of cell; and a sulfonated corrole molecule bound to the polypeptide sequence.
US09850288B2
Method of purifying authentic trimeric HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins comprising a long linker and tag
An approach of producing recombinant trimers that mimic native HIV-1 envelope trimers is developed. A recombinant protein forming the recombinant trimers encompasses a recombinant HIV-1 gp140 fused to a tag through a linker at C-terminus of the recombinant HIV-1 gp140. The linker is sufficiently long so that the tag is accessible for binding by a binding molecule bound on a solid matrix. After expressed in a cell, the recombinant protein is secreted into the culture medium and assembles into recombinant trimers therein. The recombinant trimers may be directly purified from the culture medium. Cleaved and uncleaved trimers from different clade viruses are produced.
US09850286B2
A novel cytokine, U83A, is described, as are variant forms of the cytokine, having a wide range of agonistic and antagonistic activity against chemokine receptors. Uses of the chemokine in treatment of a range of diseases, including cancers and HIV/AIDS, are described.
US09850282B2
Stable pentadecapeptide salts of formula (I): (I) SEQ ID NO 1 Gly Glu Pro Pro Pro Gly Lys Pro Ala Asp Asp Ala 1 5 10 Gly Leu Val · n BAA 15 wherein n means 1, 2 or 3, and BAA means basic amino acid, a process for the preparation thereof, a process for the use thereof for the manufacture of pharmaceutical formulations in liquid and solid form and a use thereof for prevention, protection in treatment of diseases and disease conditions and for the preparation of formulations for use as food supplements are described.
US09850277B2
Provided are methods of treating a cancer characterized by the presence of a mutant allele of IDH1/2 comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a compound described here.
US09850262B2
The present invention is directed to compounds having the Formula (I), (II), (III), (IV), and (V), compositions thereof, and methods for the treatment of a condition associated with a dysfunction in proteostasis.
US09850246B2
The invention encompasses a novel process for making piperidinone carboxamide indane and azainane derivatives, which are CGRP receptor antagonists useful for the treatment of migraine.
US09850245B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are inhibitors of the ROMK (Kir1.1) channel. The compounds may be used as diuretic and/or natriuretic agents and for the therapy and prophylaxis of medical conditions including cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, heart failure and chronic kidney disease and conditions associated with excessive salt and water retention.
US09850237B2
The disclosures herein relate to novel compounds of formula wherein W, X and Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 are defined herein, and their use in treating, preventing, ameliorating, controlling or reducing the risk of neurological or psychiatric disorders associated with orexin receptors.
US09850236B2
The present invention comprises compounds of Formula I. wherein: X, A1, A2, A3, A4, R1, R2, and R3 are defined in the specification. The invention also comprises a method of treating or ameliorating a syndrome, disorder or disease, wherein said syndrome, disorder or disease is rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis. The invention also comprises a method of modulating RORγt activity in a mammal by administration of a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound of claim 1.
US09850226B2
Disclosed herein are a novel crown ether with bulky and rigid groups and a method for preparing the same. Also provided are a lithium adsorbent comprising the novel crown ether immobilized onto a nanofiber, and a method for preparing the same. The lithium-selective crown ether is synthesized through intermolecular cyclization between a bulky epoxide and a rigid aromatic compound such as 1,2-dihydroxybenzene, and can effectively recover lithium ions. For use as a lithium adsorbent, the novel crown ether with both bulky and rigid subunits is immobilized onto a polymer nanofiber. The crown ether-immobilized polymer nanofibers may be formed into a recyclable membrane.
US09850224B2
Process for increasingly producing D-Lactide and meso lactide by depolymerizing by back biting polylactide (PLA) said process which comprises: (i) Depolymerizing polylactide into its corresponding dimeric cyclic esters by heating the polylactide in the presence of a catalyst system comprising a catalyst and a co-catalyst in a reaction zone at temperature and pressure at which the polylactide is molten; (ii) Forming a vapor product stream from the reaction zone; (iii) Removing the vapor product stream and optionally condense it; (iv) Recovering, either together or separately meso-lactide, D-lactide and L-lactide.
US09850196B2
The present invention relates to a reverse wavelength dispersion compound, a reverse wavelength dispersion composition including the same, and an optically anisotropic body including the same. The reverse wavelength dispersion composition according to the present invention can provide a stronger and more stable reverse wavelength dispersion property, and makes it possible to provide an optically anisotropic body having excellent optical properties.
US09850195B2
The present invention provides novel aspirin derivatives useful for preventing and/or treating cancer. The novel compounds of this invention may be particularly useful for the prevention and/or treatment of cancers affecting the gastrointestinal system, such as colorectal cancer.
US09850194B2
The invention relates to a process for doubly carbonylating allyl alcohols to the corresponding diesters, wherein a linear or branched allyl alcohol is reacted with a linear or branched alkanol (alcohol) with supply of CO and in the presence of a catalytic system composed of a palladium complex and at least one organic phosphorus ligand and in the presence of a hydrogen halide selected from HCl, HBr and HI.
US09850193B2
A process for selective transvinylation of a reactant carboxylic acid with a reactant vinyl ester to give a product vinyl ester and the corresponding acid of the reactant vinyl ester in the presence of one or more ruthenium catalysts, wherein a) the reactant vinyl ester, the reactant carboxylic acid and the ruthenium catalyst are supplied to a reactor, and b) the transvinylation reaction is conducted, wherein c) the transvinylation reaction is conducted at a conversion of more than 50%, d) on completion of the transvinylation reaction, the reactant vinyl ester and the corresponding acid are separated from the reaction mixture by distillation, e) the product vinyl ester is separated by distillation from the bottom product of the distillation, and f) the remaining reaction mixture is recycled into the reactor.
US09850188B2
The present invention relates, at least in part, to a process for making chlorotrifluoroethylene (CFO-1113) from 1,2-dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane (HCFC-123a). In certain aspects, the process includes dehydrochlorinating 1,2-dichloro-1,1,2-trifluoroethane (HCFC-123a) in the presence of a catalyst selected from the group consisting of (i) one or more metal halides; (ii) one or more halogenated metal oxides; (iii) one or more zero-valent metals or metal alloys; (iv) combinations thereof.
US09850187B2
A process is described for producing cumene comprising contacting benzene and a C3 alkylating agent under alkylation conditions with an alkylation catalyst in an alkylation zone to produce an alkylation effluent comprising cumene and alkylaromatic compounds heavier than cumene. Cumene is recovered from the alkylation effluent to leave a byproduct stream containing the alkylaromatic compounds heavier than cumene, which is separated into a polyisopropylbenzene-containing stream, an aromatic overhead stream, and a bottoms product. At least part of the aromatic overhead stream is recycled to the alkylation zone to reduce raw material consumption and improve cumene yield.
US09850184B2
Disclosed is a reactor system that contains multiple millireactors, each including a millitube, a first feed line, a second feed line, and a third feed line. Each of the first and second feed lines has a hydraulic damper disposed therein. Also disclosed is a process for conducting in a millitube a triphasic flow reaction that requires a liquid reactant, a gas reactant, and a catalyst.
US09850178B2
An organic fertilization method is provided using a betaine based organic fertilizer product. The betaine based organic fertilizer product is created by optionally heating, optionally filtering, and optionally cooling betaine. The betaine based organic fertilizer product is applied to agricultural vegetation in one of multiple forms and by one of multiple methods.
US09850176B2
Methods for increasing the hardness of aggregate include applying a hardener to the aggregate. The hardener may react with a material of the aggregate and/or a material on a surface of the aggregate. For example, an alkali metal silicate, such as lithium polysilicate, or a colloidal silica may chemically react with calcium oxide and/or calcium hydroxide of an aggregate or on an aggregate to create cementitious material, which may at least partially fill pores in the surface of the aggregate, harden an existing microtexture of the aggregate and/or enhance the microtexture of the aggregate. These characteristics may enhance frictional characteristics, the wear characteristics and the durability of the aggregate, and of any structures formed from composite materials that include the aggregate.
US09850169B2
Hydraulic mortar with glass, mainly formed by: Cullet to which is added pure white or gray Portland clinker, gypsum and optionally alumina; extra-fine glass subsequently added to the milled product; and natural crushed stone and natural calcareous or siliceous soil, or a mixture of both, or milled glass as a substitute for the natural, calcareous or siliceous stone fines.
US09850157B2
A glass, glass-ceramic, or ceramic bead is described, with an internal porous scaffold microstructure that is surrounded by an amorphous shield. The shield serves to protect the internal porous microstructure of the shield while increasing the overall strength of the porous microstructure and improve the flowability of the beads either by themselves or in devices such as biologically degradable putty that would be used in bone or soft tissue augmentation or regeneration. The open porosity present inside the bead will allow for enhanced degradability in-vivo as compared to solid particles or spheres and also promote the growth of tissues including but not limited to all types of bone, soft tissue, blood vessels, and nerves.
US09850155B2
The invention relates to a method for treating organic waste, in particular to a method for treating sludge from wastewater treatment plants, in order to produce power and/or hygienized organic matter, including a first step of mesophilic or thermophilic digestion (13) of at least one fraction of a stream of organic waste, and comprising the following steps: dehydrating (15) all of the digested and non-digested waste; aerated thermal hydrolysis (16) of the dehydrated waste, including an injection of an oxidizing agent in a quantity lower than the stoichiometric quantity for oxidizing organic matter, and setting to the required temperature by a heating means; and a second mesophilic or thermophilic digestion (17) of the stream of hydrolyzed waste.
US09850136B2
A process for the purification of CO2 from chlorinated hydrocarbons and non-chlorinated hydrocarbons, comprising: contacting a CO2 stream with a chromium oxide catalyst, wherein the stream comprises the CO2, and impurities, wherein the impurities comprise the non-chlorinated hydrocarbons and the chlorinated hydrocarbons; forming a purified CO2 stream by interacting the impurities with the chromium oxide catalyst to form additional CO2 and chromium chloride; and regenerating the chromium oxide catalyst by contacting the chromium chloride with an oxygen containing gas stream.
US09850133B2
The green synthesis of reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles using Nigella sativa seed extract comprises the steps of mixing a quantity of soot or other carbon source in an acid solution while stirring to obtain a solution; adding a first oxidant gradually into the solution to oxidize the soot and obtain a suspension; stirring the suspension while maintaining the temperature of the suspension at about 35° C.; adding Nigella sativa seed extract to the suspension while raising the temperature of the suspension to about 60° C.; adding hydrogen peroxide to the suspension; and isolating the reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles by centrifugation.
US09850131B2
Provided is a method for producing a phosphor, using a nitride raw material, that gives a high-reliability (Sr,Ca)AlSiN3-based nitride phosphor at a productivity higher than before. The method comprises a mixing step of mixing raw materials and a calcining step of calcining the mixture obtained in the mixing step and, in producing the phosphor having a crystalline structure substantially identical with that of (Sr,Ca)AlSiN3 crystal as the host crystal, a strontium nitride containing SrN, Sr2N, or the mixture thereof as the main crystalline phase, as determined by crystalline phase analysis by powder X-ray diffractometry, and having a nitrogen content of 5 to 12 mass % is used as part of the raw materials.
US09850129B2
A solvent extraction process for recovering bromide from a sulfate-containing aqueous stream, the process comprises an extraction step wherein said aqueous stream is mixed with an extraction medium comprising a tertiary amine extractant dissolved in one or more water-immiscible organic solvents, wherein said mixing is carried out in a strongly acidic environment, thereby forming bromide-containing extract and a raffinate with a reduced bromide level, wherein the bromide-containing extract is optionally treated to further minimize the presence of sulfate and is subsequently combined with an aqueous calcium source to form calcium bromide.
US09850128B2
Methods for forming a multi-layered nanoscale structure by forming a stack of individual polymeric layers on a substrate are provided. Each individual polymeric layer comprises a cured polymeric material immobilizing a pattern of magnetic nanoparticles. The pattern of magnetic nanoparticles can be different within each individual polymeric layer due to their nature of formation.
US09850127B1
In some embodiments, a microelectromechanical system may include a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of wiring layers, and a stop. The plurality of wiring layers may be coupled to a first surface of the semiconductor substrate. The stop may be coupled to the plurality of wiring layers. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the plurality of wiring layers between the stop and the first surface of the substrate comprises an insulating material. In some embodiments, at least the portion excludes wiring within. In some embodiments, a volume of the portion may be determined by a use of the microelectromechanical system. In some embodiments, the portion may inhibit, during use, electrical failures adjacent to the stop.
US09850126B2
Integrated circuit packages and methods of forming same are provided. A method includes attaching a first die and a second die to a carrier, the first die having a first contact pad, the second die having a second contact pad, the first contact pad and the second contact pad having different structures. A release layer is formed over the first die and the second die. An encapsulant is injected between the carrier and the release layer. One or more redistribution layers (RDLs) are formed over the first die, the second die and the encapsulant, the first contact pad and the second contact pad being in electrical contact with the one or more RDLs.
US09850124B2
A semiconductor device package includes a carrier, a sensor element disposed on or within the carrier, a cover and a filter. The cover includes a base substrate and a periphery barrier. The base substrate includes an inner sidewall. The inner sidewall of the base substrate defines a penetrating hole extending from a top surface of the base substrate to a bottom surface of the base substrate; at least a portion of the inner sidewall of the base substrate is tilted. The periphery barrier is coupled to the bottom surface of the base substrate and contacts a top surface of the carrier. The filter is disposed on the top surface of the base substrate and covers the penetrating hole.
US09850121B2
An integrated circuit device that comprises a single semiconductor substrate, a device layer formed on a frontside of the single semiconductor substrate, a redistribution layer formed on a backside of the single semiconductor substrate, a through silicon via (TSV) formed within the single semiconductor substrate that is electrically coupled to the device layer and to the redistribution layer, a logic-memory interface (LMI) formed on a backside of the single semiconductor substrate that is electrically coupled to the redistribution layer, and a MEMS device formed on the backside of the single semiconductor substrate that is electrically coupled to the redistribution layer.
US09850120B2
Measures are described with the aid of which not only a rupture, but also cracks may be detected in the diaphragm structure of a micromechanical component with the aid of circuit means integrated into the diaphragm structure. At least some circuit elements are integrated for this purpose into the bottom side of the diaphragm, i.e., into a diaphragm area directly adjoining the cavern below the diaphragm.
US09850119B2
An automatic truck tank fill system includes a conduit in fluid communication with a fluid supply source. An electrically controlled valve is in fluid communication with the conduit. A fill spout is in fluid communication with the conduit, the fill spout including an outer chamber. A controller is in electrical communication with the valve. A first signal opens the valve from a closed position permitting fluid flow through the conduit, and a second signal causes the valve to close, preventing fluid to flow through the conduit. A tubing is in fluid communication with the fill spout. A pressure transducer is in fluid communication with the tubing, and the controller is in electrical communication with the pressure transducer. When a pressure in the tube reaches or exceeds an activation pressure (P1), the controller sends a signal to close the valve in the conduit.
US09850108B2
A movement device is moved along an X axis and a Y axis by providing a sensor configured to measure angle of rotation of at least one of a first and a second kinematic link about a respective axis of rotation. A force is imparted on the first and second kinematic links such that an angular displacement of the first and second kinematic links about the respective axis of rotation is achieved. The angular displacement of the first and second kinematic links about the respective axis of rotation is determined. The movement device is moved along the X axis and/or the Y axis in response to the determination of the angle of rotation of the first and second kinematic links about the respective axis of rotation until first and second kinematic links are vertical.
US09850103B2
A hoist hook assembly having a cable overload detection system may include a plate, a hook mechanically coupled to the plate, and a switch mechanically coupled to the plate. The switch may be configured to translate into a triggered position in response to a load on the hook indicative of an overload condition.
US09850102B2
Devices and methods for handling uncured radius fillers are disclosed. The devices, i.e., radius filler transport tools, generally are configured to load a radius filler from above, to index the radius filler to a desired location (e.g., a cavity), and to downwardly unload (e.g., drop) the radius filler at the desired location. Radius filler transport tools comprise at least two trough portions, coupled together to form a trough to carry the radius filler, and a plurality of hanger assemblies configured to transversely span the trough. The radius filler transport tool may have a transport state, where the trough and the hanger assemblies are in closed states, a load state, where the trough is in the closed state and at least one hanger assembly is in an open state, and an unload state, where the trough is in an open state and the hanger assemblies are in closed states.
US09850101B2
The present invention relates to a safe operation-stop method for an escalator for safely operating and stopping an escalator that senses an abnormal speed of the escalator so as to prevent passengers from falling. A safe operation-stop method for an escalator is provided, the method including sensing an abnormal speed of the escalator and stopping the escalator before it is reversely rotated, and being capable of reliable braking when an abnormal speed of the escalator occurs, thereby preventing passengers from falling by adjusting the inertial stopping distance when braking.
US09850097B2
A monitoring device for passenger transport systems, which systems are designed as elevators, escalators or moving walkways, includes at least one detecting device used to detect an external actuation of an equipment of the passenger transport system, a control device and at least one energy store for storing electrical energy. The energy store is kept in a charged state. The energy store is put into a discharged state when the detecting device detects the external activation of the equipment.
US09850096B2
The present disclosure is related to a travelling cable clamp assembly fixing an elevator travelling cable to a fixing base, such as to a first movable support structure in the hoistway for supporting said at least one elevator unit movable in the hoistway, including at least an elevator car.
US09850089B2
An apparatus (1) for controlling the unwinding of a web (2) wound on a core is disclosed. The apparatus (1) includes a turnbar (10), an actuator (20), a sensor (30), and a controller (70). The turnbar (10) includes a target location to receive the web (2). The actuator (20) is coupled to the turnbar (10) and includes an axis of movement (29). The sensor (30) measures transverse placement of the web (2) relative to the target location and transmits an input signal to the controller (70) when transverse placement of the web (2) differs from the target location. The controller (70) provides an output signal to the actuator (20 to move the turnbar (10) along the axis of movement (29) such that the web (2) maintains substantial alignment with the target location.
US09850087B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a pair of belts, a water supplying unit, a curving unit and a controller. The pair of belts defines a conveying path for holding and conveying a paper sheet. The water supplying unit supplies water to outer surfaces of the belts. The curving unit curves the conveying path defined by the belts. The controller makes the water supplying unit supply water to the outer surfaces of the belts, and makes the belts convey the sheet between the belts in a state where the conveying path is curved by the curving unit to correct the curling of the sheet.
US09850085B2
There is described a sheet numbering process involving feeding of individual sheets (S) in succession, which individual sheets (S) each carry a plurality of imprints (P) that are arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and providing unique serial numbers to multiple ones of the plurality of imprints (P) carried by the individual sheets (S). The sheet numbering process comprises numbering of at least some of the individual sheets (S), wherein numbering of the individual sheets (S) is selectively commutable between a first numbering scheme (N1) and at least a second numbering scheme (N2; N2′; N*), different from the first numbering scheme (N1), without interruption of the numbering process. The first numbering scheme (N1) involves providing all imprints (P) of a first subset (S0) of individual sheets (S) with a unique serial number (SN1) of the first numbering scheme (N1). The second numbering scheme (N2; N2′; N*) involves providing all or part of the imprints (P) of a second subset (S′; S*) of individual sheets (S) with a unique serial number (SN2; SN2′; SN*) of the second numbering scheme (N2; N2′; N*). The first subset (S0) of individual sheets (S) and the second subset (S′; S*) of individual sheets are sorted after numbering in dependence of the numbering scheme (N1; N2; N2′; N*). Also described is a sheet-processing machine for carrying out the aforementioned sheet numbering process.
US09850082B2
The provided containers (100, 200) and methods provide for gravitational alignment of a plurality of stacked articles (120), in which at least two edges (140, 142) of each article align along inner walls (108, 114, 208, 214) of a respective container. The aligning walls of the container are provided with low-friction surfaces to facilitate sliding and alignment of the articles. By aligning the stack of articles along two edges, the articles can be registered relative to not only each other but the container itself, thereby facilitating loading, unloading, and conversion of articles in the stack. Optionally, a compressible layer (147) opposing one or both of the aligning walls conforms and distributes stress along the non-aligning edges, thereby preserving registration of the articles relative to each other when the container is transported.
US09850081B1
An automatic tire loader/unloader for stacking/unstacking tires in a trailer is disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile base structure provides a support framework for a drive subassembly, conveyance subassembly, an industrial robot, a distance measurement subassembly, and a control subassembly. Under the operation of the control subassembly, tires advance through a powered transportation path to an industrial robot which places the tires within the trailer in a vertical stacking pattern or a rick-stacking pattern, for example. The control subassembly coordinates the selective articulated movement of the industrial robot and the activation of the drive subassembly based upon the distance measurement subassembly detecting objects, including tires, within a detection space, dimensions of the trailer provided to the control subassembly, and dimensions of the tires provided to the control subassembly.
US09850079B2
An autonomous transport vehicle includes a frame forming a payload section configured to hold one or more pickfaces, a transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, a drive section connected to the frame, and a controller connected to the drive section, the controller being configured to effect an on-the-fly sortation of pickfaces carried by the autonomous transport vehicle according to a predetermined case out order sequence where the controller commands the drive section so that two or more pickfaces are picked from one or more first case unit holding locations and placed at one or more different second case unit holding locations according to the predetermined case out order sequence.
US09850056B2
An ovenable package comprises an ovenable receptacle configured to hold a food product. The receptacle has an open face surrounded by a rim. An ovenable laminated film lid is attached to the rim of the receptacle by a welded seal between a lower face of the laminated film lid and the rim of the receptacle. The laminated film lid comprises a first layer, a second layer above the first layer and a resealable adhesive between the first and second layers. An unopened package is openable by separating the second layer from the first layer in a peripheral region. The opened package can be reclosed to a ventable state by reattaching the second layer to the peripheral region of the first layer by the resealable adhesive. The ventable state permits venting of gas from an interior of the receptacle between the second layer and the peripheral region of the first layer.
US09850054B2
The invention discloses a manifold arrangement for bulk handling of fluid material having an inner bag for holding fluid material, which includes a manifold member adapted to be located within the inner bag, the inner bag having a product inlet through which fluid material can be introduced into the inner bag and a product outlet through which the fluid material can flow from the inner bag, and being adapted to assist in forcing fluid material out of the inner bag through the product outlet and thereby reducing residue in the inner bag.
US09850049B2
A twist tie assembly has a flexible wire tie with an end cap component configured to retain the flexible wire tie in the base. Various embodiments of the end cap component provide means for releasably securing the flexible wire tie to a base or support structure.
US09850047B2
An airtight container, comprises a container body, a lid member covering the container body, a sieve disposed on the container body and facing the lid member, and a seal control member movable disposed in a channel of the lid member, operable sealing an opening on the channel of the lid member. Wherein the opening is uncovered when pressing the control member, and covering the lid member on the container body such that forming the negative air pressure in the container after releasing the button.
US09850043B2
A lid and tray assembly includes at least two lift tabs and/or indentations at separated but not directly opposing locations about the lid periphery that can be actuated simultaneously or sequentially to provide two distinct locations from which initial disengagements can extend and merge to enable easy removal of the entire lid. Embodiments further include locations that can be pressed while corresponding tabs are lifted. Some embodiments include a peripheral skirt that is short enough to allow a user's fingers to pass beneath and support the tray sidewalls when lifting the tray-lid assembly from a horizontal surface, avoiding any need for the lid engagement to bear the weight of the tray and its contents. Lid-tray engagement can be by means of inserting a lid peripheral rim into a tray lip groove, or by engaging a lid rim undercut with a tray lip undercut.
US09850027B2
A device for securing goods (1) to be transported onto a load carrier (2), in particular a pallet (2), having a rod-shaped fastening element (3), which can be fastened to the load carrier (2), and a retaining element (4) for engaging with the goods (1) to be transported, said retaining element cooperating with the fastening element (3), is designed and developed, with regard to secure fastening of goods to be transported with universal usability and ease of handling, in such a way that a thread (5) for fastening to the load carrier (2) is formed at an end of the fastening element (3).
US09850018B2
A labelling machine comprises a supply spool support for supporting a supply spool comprising label stock; a take-up spool support adapted to take up a portion of the label stock; a movable element which defines a portion of a web path between the supply spool and the take-up spool support; a sensor configured to produce a sensor signal indicative of the position of the movable element; a controller configured to receive the sensor signal and output a brake assembly control signal based upon the sensor signal; and a brake assembly configured to apply a braking force to one of said spool supports based upon the brake assembly control signal, the braking force resisting rotation of said one of said spool supports. The controller is configured to control the brake assembly based upon the sensor signal so as to cause the moveable element to move towards a desired position.
US09850014B2
The invention relates to a device for sterilization of the interior surface of packaging containers with electron beam, comprising an emitter provided with an electron exit window. The emitter is adapted to emit charge carriers, such as electrons, through the electron exit window, said electrons forming an electron cloud. The device comprises at least one outlet for conditioning at least a sterilized volume in the packaging container. The outlet is adapted to provide a flow of a sterile gaseous medium, thereby generating a first condition at least inside the sterilized volume of the packaging container. The first condition is adapted to prevent any flow of medium from outside the sterilized volume from coming into the sterilized volume without first being sterilized by the electron cloud. The invention also relates to a method.
US09850011B2
A stretch wrap applicator includes one or more cutting members arranged, for instance, in parallel and designed to engage the stretch wrap to cut it into strips as it is dispensed from the roll. The strips are then gathered and stretched into strings that are wrapped around the object. The strings formed from the stretch wrap can stretch to an extended length while maintaining excellent tensile strength to secure heavy loads. In a further approach, an applicator can selectively gathers or not gather the stretch film in such a way as to create a solid string or a film during continuous application to an object so that the user can rotate from film to string and then back to film. Such approaches save on the volume of stretch wrap used to secure a load without significantly compromising strength.
US09850000B2
An equipment dry bay is provided. The equipment dry bay includes at least one partition that subdivides the equipment dry bay into a plurality of compartments, wherein the at least one partition includes a plate, and at least one flame arrestor positioned within the plate and providing vapor and fluid communication between a first compartment and a second compartment of the plurality of compartments, the at least one flame arrestor configured to vent combustion gases in the first compartment into the second compartment.
US09849998B2
A process method utilizing customized, specifically-shaped pieces of reticulated polyurethane foam (RPF) to fill an aircraft fuel tank or tank compartment to provide ignition mitigation and prevent explosion in the tank. The process involves inserting the shaped pieces of RPF through existing access ports into a fuel tank in order to fill the tank, excepting minimal planned void spaces. This process effects ignition mitigation by acting as an ignition blocker, mechanically interfering with the compression wave that precedes the flame front in an explosion, and changing the vaporous mixture above the fuel level (ullage) in the tank. The foam pieces are assembled and fitted together throughout the tank in a pattern that replicates the shape of the tank. After the foam insertion is complete, the fuel tank is filled with purging fluid, drained through a filter until no debris is found, and the new maximum fuel quantity is recalibrated.
US09849984B2
A lighting apparatus includes a plurality of LEDs arranged in a row on an elongated wiring board; and a lens covering all the LEDs and controlling distribution of light emitted from each LED. An optical axis of the light emitted from each LED is orthogonal to the wiring board. The lens has a light emitting surface that controls distribution of the light emitted from each LED. When the light emitting surface is divided into at least three regions, the lens performs light distribution such that light radiated from a region is distributed in a direction tilted with respect to the optical axis of the light emitted from the LED. Thus, asymmetric distribution of light is achieved when the optical axis of the light from the LED is the axis of symmetry, and further, the luminous flux in the direction tilted with respect to the optical axis is increased most.
US09849976B2
A tracking wedge, a rotor and a method for modifying a movement of air over a tracking wedge. According to aspects of the disclosure, a tracking wedge used to correct the tracking of a helicopter rotor blade may include one or more acoustic management mechanisms. The acoustic management mechanisms may change the manner in which air moves over the surface of the tracking wedge. In some examples, changing the manner in which air moves over the surface of the tracking wedge may reduce noise generated by the use of the tracking wedge.
US09849969B2
A propeller blade assembly includes a spar extending along a propeller blade axis and an outer sleeve surrounding the spar portion at a root end of the rotor blade assembly. The spar is adhesively bonded to the outer sleeve at an interface portion. A spar maximum diameter along the interface portion is larger than an outer sleeve minimum diameter along the interface portion. A method of assembling a propeller blade includes installing an outer sleeve over a spar at a root end of the spar, the spar a not fully cured composite component, and urging the spar into compressive conformance with the outer sleeve at an interface portion of the propeller blade assembly. A spar maximum diameter along the interface portion is larger than an outer sleeve minimum diameter along the interface portion. The spar is cured thereby adhesively bonding the spar to the outer sleeve at the interface portion.
US09849968B2
A propeller includes a hub coaxially surrounding a longitudinal axis. A ring shroud coaxially surrounds the longitudinal axis and is spaced radially from the hub. At least one propeller blade is fixedly attached to both the hub and ring shroud and extends radially therebetween for mutual rotation therewith. At least one stub blade has a first stub end radially spaced from a second stub end. The first stub end is fixedly attached to a selected one of the hub and ring shroud. The second stub end is cantilevered from the first stub end and is radially interposed between the first stub end and the selected one of the hub and ring shroud.
US09849966B2
An aircraft includes a fuselage with structural interfaces for connection to any one or more of a variety of vertical tails, horizontal tails and canards. Vertical tails, horizontal tails and/or canards of different sizes, shapes, sweep angles, box chords, and/or root chords may connect to the fuselage without changing the structural layout or configuration of the fuselage structural interfaces.
US09849954B1
A deep-sea exploration multi-joint underwater robot system and a spherical glass pressure housing including a titanium band are provided. The system includes a multi-joint underwater robot having a multiple of first and second pressure housings withstanding deep-sea pressure and shielding built-in equipment from seawater and performing close precision seabed exploration obtaining marine research data to transmit underwater status data, a mothership receiving and storing marine research and underwater status data and monitoring and controlling moving directions of multi-joint underwater robot, and a depressor having third pressure housing, linked with mothership by primary cable and multi-joint underwater robot by secondary cable, and preventing transmission of primary cable water resistance to multi-joint underwater robot, wherein first spherical pressure housings are mounted on robot body frame, second cylindrical pressure housings are mounted between left and right legs, and the third cylindrical pressure housing is mounted inside the depressor platform.
US09849953B2
An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for recording seismic signals during a marine seismic survey. The AUV includes a body extending along an axis X and having a head portion, a middle portion, and a tail portion, wherein the middle portion is sandwiched between the head portion and the tail portion along the X axis; a cross-section of the middle portion, substantially perpendicular on the X axis, having a triangular-like shape; the head portion including a base portion having the triangular-like shape and configured to match the middle portion; the head portion having a tip that, when projected along the X axis on the base portion, substantially coincides with a centroid of the base portion having the triangular-like shape; and a seismic payload located within the body and configured to record seismic signals.
US09849952B2
A snorkel upper discharging head has a waterproof device. The snorkel upper discharging head comprises a snorkel upper discharging head body and a floating drum, an air inlet hole is arranged at the front end of the snorkel upper discharging head body and is sleeved with a sealing ring, the snorkel upper discharging head body is internally provided with an air duct communicated with the air inlet hole, circular arc sliding slots are arranged at the left and right inner sides of the snorkel upper discharging head body, the floating drum is clamped in the circular arc sliding slots, and a water seal face jointed with the sealing ring is arranged in the middle of the floating drum; the snorkel upper discharging head having the waterproof device not only has simple and compact structure and excellent waterproof effect, but is also eye-pleasing and fashionable in appearance.
US09849950B2
A floatation device is configured to provide floatation without interfering with a user's upper body movement. The floatation device has a first set of four straps adapted to encircle the user's hips. A right thigh floatation pad and a right back hip floatation pad are joined to the first four straps. A first elastic band is joined to the first four straps and a waist floatation pad. A second set of four straps are adapted to encircle the user's hips. A left thigh floatation pad and a left back hip floatation pad are joined to the first four straps. A second elastic band is joined to the second four straps and a second waist floatation pad. Three elastic bands are joined to four floatation pads and the second elastic band. Three straps with buckles are attached to the elastic bands.
US09849948B2
A personal flotation assembly is provided that includes flotation device and a protective shell extending therefrom. The flotation device is a buoyant structure that includes an open interior, such as a ring or similar shape. Along the lower end of the flotation device is a protective shell. The shell includes a spiral expansion spring therein and a resilient construction, whereby the shell is adapted to compress against the flotation device when stored and expand outward when deployed. When deployed, the shell forms a rounded sidewall, an enclosed lower, and an interior volume sized to receive the floating user. The shell is made of a resilient material and is water permeable. Therefore, the flotation assembly supports a floating user and protects the user when adrift for long periods. Additional locating elements may be secured to the floatation device, including strobes or signal generators.
US09849946B1
A wake tower assembly for use with a watercraft, including an arch portion extending across a width of the watercraft, first and second pivoting structures coupled to first and second ends of the arch portion, the first and second pivoting structures configured to attach to port and starboard portions of the watercraft to facilitate rotational movement of the arch portion between a lowered position and an upright position, and a first locking mechanism provided to the first pivoting structure including a biased pin member configured to engage an opening of the first end such that when the arch portion is rotated from the lowered position to the upright position, a biasing force of the biased pin member causes the biased pin member to engage the opening to mechanically lock the arch portion in the upright position.
US09849942B2
A boat ramp designed to collapse so the amphibious vehicle may be towed at highway speeds. The ramp fabricated of a central isosceles triangle hinged to the vehicle at its base flanks a pair of right triangles hinged along their hypotenuses such that the ramp can be folded over the vehicle during travel. The hinged portion is reinforced with removable steel channel during use.
US09849941B2
A mobile, wave motion-isolated, waterborne device having a platform with a plurality of support members extending beneath the platform configured to receive an articulated joint. The device further includes a plurality of corresponding clusters of spar buoys, wherein each spar buoy has an articulated joint at a first end of the spar buoy and a ballast operably configured at the second end. The articulated joint of each spar buoy within the cluster corresponds to a swivel footing configured to receive an articulated joint. The swivel footing itself includes an articulating joint. Each articulated joint of the swivel footing corresponds to one of the support members of the platform. The cluster of spar buoys can optionally move between a vertical orientation and a horizontal orientation. An optional movable ballast may be used in place of a stationary ballast. The invention also includes optional thrust/propulsion, steering, and damping features.
US09849932B2
A bicycle component operating apparatus includes a first operating device and a second operating device. The first operating device includes a base member and an operating member movably arranged with respect to the base member, and the first operating device being configured to perform an operation of at least one of a bicycle transmission component and a bicycle brake component, the base member having an attachment area. The second operating device is detachably attached to the attachment area of the base member, the second operating device being configured to perform an operation of a bicycle height adjustable seat post.
US09849931B2
A method for forming a bicycle frame assembly having a number of elongate tubes is disclosed. A two part mold can be used to form a hollow finish part as part of the assembly. The assembly includes a passage that is defined by the elongate member, a partition, and a bridge. The partition isolates the passage from an interior volume of the elongate tube. The bridge extends in a direction normal to an elongate direction of the passage and defines an inlet and an outlet of the passage. The inlet, outlet, and bridge are generally flush with an exterior surface of the elongate tube and provide a passage that cooperates with a flexible connector, such as a cable tie, for securing supplemental structures, such as brake and shift control cables, to the elongate tube of the bicycle frame assembly.
US09849928B2
A method of mounting a roof panel assembly to a vehicle having a roof opening in its fixed roof includes: mounting a frame of the roof panel assembly to the fixed roof from below with an operating mechanism and a ring frame in a position corresponding to a closed position of the movable panel, providing an amount of paste-like adhering material onto the ring frame distributed around the circumference thereof, positioning the movable panel onto the ring frame from above with the adhering material interpositioned and compressing the adhering material until a correct position with respect to the vehicle roof is reached, and keeping the movable panel in this position until the adhering material is sufficiently hardened to maintain the panel in its position.
US09849926B2
A robotic device may traverse a path in a direction of locomotion. Sensor data indicative of one or more physical features of the environment in the direction of locomotion may be received. The implementation may further involve determining that traversing the path involves traversing the one or more physical features of the environment. Based on the sensor data indicative of the one or more physical features of the environment in the direction of locomotion, a hydraulic pressure to supply to the one or more hydraulic actuators to traverse the one or more physical features of the environment may be predicted. Before traversing the one or more physical features of the environment, the hydraulic drive system may adjust pressure of supplied hydraulic fluid from the first pressure to the predicted hydraulic pressure.
US09849925B2
A robotic vehicle chassis is provided. The robotic vehicle chassis includes a first chassis section, a second chassis section, and a hinge joint connecting the first and second chassis sections such that the first and second chassis sections are capable of rotation with respect to each other in at least a first direction. The vehicle includes a drive wheel mounted to one of the first and second chassis sections and an omni-wheel mounted to the other of the first and second chassis sections. The omni-wheel is mounted at an angle orthogonal with respect to the drive wheel. The hinge joint rotates in response to the curvature of a surface the vehicle is traversing.
US09849923B2
A dual-strake assembly can be coupled to the underbody of the vehicle in order to maximize the downforce-to-drag ratio, thereby enhancing the vehicle aerodynamic efficiency. The dual-strake assembly includes a first strake and a second strake having different curvatures. The second strake has a chord length. Each of the first and second strakes has a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. The first edges of the first and second strakes are spaced apart from each other so as to define a gap, which has a gap distance measured from the first edge of the first strake to the first edge of the second strake. The gap distance is equal to or less than twenty-five percent of the chord length. The camber of the first strake is less than the camber of the second strake.
US09849917B2
This cowl top cover has a cover body section and a vertical wall section which extends vertically from the front end of the cover body section. The vertical wall section is provided with a vertical wall body, an opening which is formed in the vertical wall body, and a cover section has a cover-side bending promotion section which extends in the width direction of the vehicle and which promotes the bending and deformation of the cover section to one side of the length direction of the vehicle. As a result of this configuration, the cowl top cover can consistently exhibit a sufficient impact absorption function when subjected to an impact.
US09849913B2
A vehicle front section structure including: a front side member that includes an inside sidewall portion; a first wall portion that configures part of a power unit support section, and that is joined to the inside sidewall portion by a first join portion; a second wall portion that configures part of the power unit support section, and that is joined to the inside sidewall portion by a second join portion; and a low rigidity portion of the inside sidewall portion that is disposed at another side in a vehicle front-rear direction, and the vehicle lower side, of the first join portion, that is disposed further toward one side in the vehicle front-rear direction than the second join portion, and that has lower rigidity than a portion of the inside sidewall portion further toward the one side in the vehicle front-rear direction than the first join portion.
US09849908B2
An assist command value calculation circuit includes a torque shift control circuit, a phase lag compensation control circuit, a basic assist control circuit, and a phase lead compensation control circuit. A determination circuit determines whether a motor has been continuously under high load or not based on a current command value and a current limit value. The determination circuit determines whether the motor has been continuously under high load or not by comparing the current command value with the current limit value and comparing a basic assist controlled variable with the current limit value, and outputs a phase compensation restriction flag. The phase lag compensation control circuit and the phase lead compensation control circuit restrict phase restriction when the phase compensation restriction flag is ON, and continues phase compensation when the phase compensation restriction flag is OFF.
US09849903B1
An assembling structure of double stroller comprises a first assembling part, a second assembling part and a third assembling part. The first assembling part comprises a first seat, two first frames, a handle, and a first accommodation region allowed for the first seat to be disposed. The second assembling part comprises a second seat, two second frames, and a plurality of wheels, as well as a second accommodation region allowed for the second seat to be disposed. The third assembling part comprises first connecting parts, each being connected to each of the first frames at one end far away from the handle, and second connecting parts, each being connected to each of the second frames at one end far away from the second seat. Moreover, each of the first frames is inclined with respect to each of the second frames to form an L-shaped installation.
US09849890B2
A transport system includes a main cable, a track assembly, and a conveyance assembly, wherein the track assembly is suspended from the main cable to allow unimpeded translational movement of the conveyance assembly along the track assembly. In another aspect according to the present invention, the track assembly has a track changing assembly that includes a track changing section rotatably coupled to a primary track section for selective alignment of the track changing section to any one of a plurality of exit track sections. A method of conveyance along a suspended track includes suspending a main cable between natural or artificial support structures, suspending a track assembly from the main cable, and mounting a conveyance assembly on the suspended track assembly to provide unimpeded translational movement of the conveyance assembly along the track assembly.
US09849887B2
A database of high risk locations is formed and high risk causal factors for the high risk locations determined. Driver behavior is monitored at the sites in the database using data collection devices such as electronic logging devices or mobile phones to see if the drivers exhibit the same specific behaviors that are considered contributing factors to specific accident types at risk of occurrence at those sites. Warnings are provided to drivers approaching the specific sites to prompt behavioral changes which may further be monitored by the data collection devices.
US09849885B2
In engaging (connecting) a dog clutch by operating a synchromesh mechanism, when there occurs an uplock at the time when a first pressing force is caused to act on a hub sleeve, tooth tips of spline teeth of the hub sleeve contact with tooth tips of spline teeth of a synchronizer ring, and these spline teeth cannot be engaged. However, when a second pressing force is caused to act on the hub sleeve, the uplock is easy to be released. In addition, when torque from an engine is caused to act on the hub sleeve, a displacement is caused to occur in a rotation direction between the mutually contacting spline teeth. Thus, the uplock is reliably released.
US09849879B2
A vehicle speed control system that carries out a method of: automatically causing application of positive and negative torque to one or more wheels of a vehicle to cause a vehicle to travel in accordance with a target speed value v_target; controlling a rate of change of speed of the vehicle by application of positive and negative torque to one or more wheels; and receiving information relating to a terrain response mode in which the vehicle is configured or an amount of drag imposed on a vehicle. The system is configured to control the rate of change of speed in dependence at least in part on the terrain response mode, the amount of drag imposed on the vehicle, or both.
US09849874B2
A control system of a hybrid vehicle, in which a driving power source for travel includes an engine that is started by cranking, a motor that can control a torque, and a clutch that is coupled with the motor and in which a transmission torque capacity continuously changes depending on a change of a control amount is configured to estimate a torque of the clutch based on the torque that the motor outputs, and change rates of the rotational speed of the motor and the clutch caused by changing the control amount, when the torque that the motor outputs is transmitted by the clutch that is in a slip state by changing the control amount.
US09849871B2
A vehicle includes an engine arranged to output torque and an electric machine arranged to apply a reaction torque against engine output torque to generate power for charging a traction battery. The vehicle also includes a controller programmed to issue a command to adjust the engine output torque and an output speed corresponding to a predetermined optimal brake specific fuel consumption while providing power to charge the fraction battery, satisfy an accessory power demand, and propel the vehicle.
US09849869B2
Systems and/or methods for controlling dual motor-dual clutch powertrains for HEV and PHEV vehicles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising: determining the state of charge (SOC) of said batteries; determining the speed of the vehicle; if the SOC is greater than a given first threshold, selecting a charge-depleting operational mode of said vehicle; during operation of said vehicle, if the SOC is less than a given second threshold, selecting a charge-sustaining operating mode of said vehicle. In another embodiment, a system having a controller that operates the powertrain according to various embodiments is disclosed.
US09849861B2
A wiper blade having a lever assembly and a spoiler integrated in the lever assembly. The wiper blade has a wiper rubber and the lever assembly holding the wiper rubber and being coupled to a wiper arm. The lever assembly has a plurality of levers, adjacent levers of which are hinge-jointed to each other. The lever of the lever assembly includes a spoiler portion forming a section of a spoiler integrated in the lever.
US09849856B1
A vehicle seating assembly that includes a seat back having a passenger support attached to a trim carrier with a suspension assembly connecting a support structure. The support structure includes a first trim piece, a seat frame, and a rear panel portion. The rear panel portion includes one or more upper inverted hooks, an energy transfer bracket, one or more lower 2-stage attachment clips, one or more outer wall detents, and one or more breaking members. An airbag deployment system is positioned proximate the first trim piece and a second trim piece and configured to deploy an airbag between the first and second trim pieces. The deployment energy is dissipated through the rear panel portion's one or more upper inverted hooks, the energy transfer bracket, the one or more lower 2-stage attachment clips, the one or more outer wall detents, and the one or more breaking members of the rear panel portion.
US09849854B2
A work vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a protection frame extending upwards from the vehicle body frame, the protection frame including left and right strut members and an arch member extending between and detachable from the left and right strut members, a support frame provided in the vehicle body frame and configured to support the protection frame to the vehicle body frame, the support frame including a pair of left and right pipe-like supporting portions, each supporting portion being provided under a laterally outward tilted orientation with an upper portion of the supporting member being positioned on more laterally outer side of a vehicle body and being configured to removably support the strut member, and a connection tool configured to non-removably connect the left and right strut members to the left and right supporting portions.
US09849852B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to deploying safety mechanisms in an autonomous vehicle. As an example, the situational information identifying a potential impact target corresponding to an object with which the autonomous vehicle is predicted to have a collision within a predetermined period of time may be received. This situational information may also include an estimated time when the second computing device will receive an update for the potential impact target from the first computing device. The estimated time may be used to determine when to deploy a set of active safety mechanisms for the potential impact target. Each active safety mechanism may be configured to reduce a likelihood of damage to an object external to the autonomous vehicle caused by a collision. A signal is then sent to activate the set of active safety mechanisms prior to an impact with the object corresponding to the identified potential impact target.
US09849838B1
A stackable transportable apparatus and method for storing or transporting at least one cylinder, having first and second lateral sides, a front side, a rear side, a bottom side and an opening in the top. The opening in the top and the bottom side are in a plane that is orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. Adjacent sides of each container are operably coupled to form a wall of the container. The wall includes front and rear proximal edges, and front and rear distal, edges. The front and rear proximal edges are closer to the center of a vehicle, by which the container is transported, than the front and rear distal edges. A top portion of the front side of the wall of the container, and the front proximal and distal edges have a plurality of open slot grooves.
US09849837B2
Disclosed herein are a vehicle capable of determining a driving lane by comparing reference lane line information corresponding to the type of a driving road with estimated lane line information estimated by using surrounding information, and a control method of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a storage configured to store a map including a type of road; a surrounding information acquisition unit configured to acquire surrounding information; and a controller configured to determine a driving lane by comparing reference lane line information corresponding to the type of the driving road verified based on the map with estimated lane line information estimated based on the surrounding information.
US09849836B2
A roof mounted module for a vehicle includes an imager housing in secure engagement with a roof of the vehicle. The imager housing defines a lateral aperture and a vertical aperture. An imager is disposed in the imager housing and is in communication with the lateral aperture. An antenna housing is removably coupled to the imager housing and is in communication with the vehicle via a data connection that extends through the vertical aperture.
US09849833B2
When finding the driver distracted from driving (such as looking aside), this system first alerts him or her to the fact to prompt him or her to focus on driving. However, if the driver is still distracted from driving even when alerted, driving assistance are provided for him or her to enhance his or her motivation to drive by encouraging him or her to drive actively and thereby increase his or her internal focus on driving. Examples of specific driving assistance include giving exemplary driving instructions to the driver, providing him or her with navigation to a road with features that would entertain him or her through driving, and improving sensitivity to any change in the vehicle's state responsive to driving operations.
US09849832B2
A system for presenting information to an occupant of a vehicle mounted with an autonomous driving system, includes: a display unit configured to display the information; a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display information in any one of display modes among a setting status display mode in which setting information is displayed, an operation status display mode in which travel information is displayed, and a recognition status display mode in which recognition result information of the autonomous driving system is displayed; and an acquisition unit configured to acquire an occupant's display mode switching instruction for switching the display mode, wherein the display control unit configured to switch the display mode of the display unit when the acquisition unit acquires the occupant's display mode switching instruction.
US09849830B1
A vehicle tailgate includes a substrate operable between open and closed positions and defining an inboard surface, an outboard surface and a top surface. A light assembly is positioned on the substrate. A first lens is positioned over the inboard surface and the top surface. A second lens is positioned over the top surface and the outboard surface. A plurality of light sources is positioned between the substrate and the first and second lenses.
US09849826B2
Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for automotive lamp illumination control are provided. One example apparatus includes a first communication port, a controller device, and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the controller device, cause the controller device to detect a user input command entered by way of one or more user input devices, determine whether the user input command corresponds to an action among a plurality of predetermined actions including at least one of commencing an illumination pattern, terminating the illumination pattern, or switching the illumination pattern, and, in a case where it is determined that the user input command corresponds to the action among the plurality of predetermined actions, cause the action to be executed.
US09849815B2
Active vibration isolation (AVI) systems are becoming more available in various markets, one such market being vehicle operator seating. Unfamiliarity with the performance of such systems may cause users initial perceptions of system performance to be unfavorable. AVI systems can include a demonstration system capable of providing simulations too users of various types of vibration isolation systems under various input conditions, so that users can be introduced to the system benefits over other systems before using an AVI equipped product in its intended application.
US09849805B2
A switch is to switch a connection mode between a serial mode and a parallel mode. In the serial mode, a fuel cell and a power storage device are connected in series and connected to a travelling apparatus in parallel. In the parallel mode, the fuel cell is connected to the travelling apparatus in parallel. A converter is to be turned on to boost a voltage generated by the fuel cell to be applied to the travelling apparatus and to be turned off when the parallel mode is selected. A controller is to control the switch to switch a connection mode to the parallel mode when power to be consumed by the travelling apparatus is lower than a first power threshold, and to switch the connection mode to the serial mode when the power to be consumed by the travelling apparatus is higher than the first power threshold.
US09849802B2
A method of analyzing data related to a driving range estimation of a vehicle includes collecting attribute data related to the driving range estimation of the vehicle, analyzing a correlation between the attribute data and a driving range of the vehicle, generating a vehicle driving range estimation model based on the analyzed correlation, and analyzing a sensitivity between the vehicle driving range estimation model and the attribute data.
US09849800B1
Methods, systems and devices are provided for transferring energy between a mobile unit and another discrete unit. One such method involves a mobile unit configured as a vehicle. During this method, energy is stored with an energy storage configured with the vehicle. At least some of the stored energy is transferred from the energy storage to an energy receiver using an energy transmitter, where the vehicle is discrete from the energy receiver.
US09849799B2
An adjustable device positioner is configured for storage and access of a variety of devices, each having a back, a first end, a second end, and a length. The device positioner includes a bin, a tray, and an end rest. The tray is disposed inside the bin and has a back rest surface. The tray is positioned such that the back rest surface supports the backs of the devices. The end rest is operatively connected to one of the bin and the tray. The end rest has an end rest surface configured to support the first ends of the devices. The end rest is movable to and lockable in a selected position to accommodate the lengths of the devices such that the second ends of the devices protrude from both the tray and the bin for easy hand access when the devices are stored in the adjustable device positioner.
US09849795B2
A vehicle connector that is connected through a cable to a vehicle-mounted power switchboard is attached to an attachment bracket secured to a vehicle body. The attachment bracket includes a first bracket having an attachment portion to which the vehicle connector is attached and a second bracket secured to the vehicle body so as to be positioned further to an inside of the vehicle body than the first bracket. The first bracket and the second bracket form a closed cross section. Thus, the attachment bracket having the closed cross section supports a load that is applied when a connector to be mated with the vehicle connector is inserted into or removed from the vehicle connector.
US09849773B2
A hybrid vehicle includes a battery, a generating unit having an internal combustion engine and a generator which generates electric power by operating the internal combustion engine to supply the generated electric power to a motor or the battery, and the motor which is driven by the electric power supplied from at least one of the battery and the generating unit. A generation control apparatus for the hybrid vehicle evaluates the driving condition of the vehicle from viewpoints of the energy consumption at the motor, the NV performance of the vehicle and the generation efficiency of the generating unit and determines whether or not the operation of the generating unit is necessary based on an evaluation parameter of any one or more viewpoints.
US09849771B2
A transmission unit includes: input shafts; output shafts configured to transmit with a corresponding input shaft via gears; a reverse output gear fitted over one output shaft; a reverse synchronizer; a reverse shaft configured to rotate together with a input shaft and a reverse output gear; a motor power shaft; a first and a second motor gears fitted over the motor power shaft; the second motor gear configured to rotate together with a shift driven gear; and a motor synchronizer. A power transmission system including the transmission unit and a vehicle including the power transmission system are also provided.
US09849769B2
A structure for mounting a battery and a spare tire may include a battery bracket fixing the battery to an accommodating compartment recessed in a rear floor of a vehicle, and a tire mounting bracket fastened to the spare tire, disposed at an upper side of the battery, through a tire bolt, and fixing the spare tire to the rear floor, in which the battery bracket and the tire mounting bracket are separated so that a load applied to the spare tire is not transmitted to the battery.
US09849766B1
An air deflector system for a sunroof of a vehicle including an air deflector with holes along the length of the air deflector and having an input port, an air pump connected to the input port, an airspeed sensor, and an air controller configured to control a speed of the air pump based on the airspeed sensor to enable discharge of an air stream through the holes of the air deflector.
US09849763B1
Systems for a truck box cover and more particularly to a truck box cover system configured to transform to suit multiple load types and still protect the load from outside elements. The truck box cover system has a plurality of electrically controlled telescoping columns and sides made of compliant material for raising and lowering the cover and maintaining a closed configuration.
US09849761B2
A sunroof panel for a vehicle includes a panel, a reinforcement member including a pair of side frames, a front frame, and a rear frame, and a joint portion joining first distal ends of the side frames to distal ends of the front frame, respectively, the joint portion joining second distal ends of the side frames to distal ends of the rear frame, respectively. At least one of the pair of the side frames, the front frame and the rear frame is made from a material that includes a specific gravity less than a specific gravity of the others of the pair of the side frames, the front frame and the rear frame.
US09849757B2
A connecting device for coupling first and second members includes a body having a first leg and a second leg integrally connected to the first leg. The first leg and the second leg are oriented at an angle with respect to each other. A rigid material core extends through both the first leg and the second leg, the core including a first core member integrally connected to a second core member. The first core member is angularly oriented with respect to the second core member such that the core defines a geometric shape. A resilient material sleeve commonly covers the core of both the first leg and the second leg. The first leg is frictionally received in a first member and the second leg is frictionally received in a second member to couple the first member to the second member.
US09849755B2
An air flow direction adjusting device is provided with a first rear fin and a second rear fin which are adjacent to each other. At a rear fin main body of the first rear fin of these two rear fins that are adjacent to each other, a protrusion portion is provided in a thickness direction. At a rear fin main body of the second rear fin of the above two rear fins that are adjacent to each other, a recessed portion configured to close a gap between the first rear fin and the second rear fin that are adjacent to each other by the recessed portion coming into contact with the protrusion portion is provided in proximity to a rear turning shaft portion.
US09849746B2
A strut assembly including a spring to help absorb impacts and a shock absorber to help control motion of the spring is disclosed. The shock absorber includes a base assembly and is mounted between a top mount assembly and a knuckle. The top mount assembly mounts to the body of the vehicle and helps support the spring. An upper spring seat is adjacent the top mount assembly and receives one end of the spring. A lower spring seat formed of a composite material is supported by the base assembly and is adapted to support another end of the spring. The lower spring seat includes at least one reinforcing element having a plurality of reinforcing cords disposed between an upper surface and a lower surface for improving impact resistance thereof.
US09849741B2
In the case of a trailer coupling for motor vehicles, including a cross member, which is connectable to a motor vehicle body, and a bearing unit, which carries a ball neck that at a first end is connected to the bearing unit and at a second end carries a coupling ball, and a holding base, which carries the bearing unit and is connected to the cross member, it is proposed according to the invention that the holding base should have a flange unit, for receiving the bearing unit, and two holding elements that project from the flange unit and in so doing run at a spacing from one another and act on the cross member.
US09849734B2
A pneumatic tire includes an axis of rotation, a carcass having at least one reinforced ply and a reinforcing structure providing a buffer for absorbing shear strain, a tread disposed radially outward of the carcass, and a belt structure disposed radially between the carcass and the tread. The reinforcing structure includes at least one layer of a three dimensional fabric including a frame structure of fabric and open cells defined by the frame structure.
US09849733B2
A heavy duty pneumatic tire includes a pair of beads, a carcass and a pair of bead fillers laminated outward with respect to the beads in the axial direction, respectively. Each bead includes a core and an apex, the carcass includes a carcass ply folded back around the core and having a main portion and a folding-back portion, each bead filler has an outer edge, an inner edge and a fitting portion to fit to a rim, the fitting portion includes a bottom surface to make contact with a seat surface of the rim and an outer-side contact surface to make contact with a flange of the rim, and the outer-side contact surface has inner-side, outer-side and middle portions such that when not mounted to the rim, the middle portion is recessed inward with respect to imaginary straight line L1 passing through outer edges of the inner-side and outer-side portions.
US09849731B2
A vehicle tire including a tread intended for a rolling contact against a foundation, the tread having a tread pattern which includes circumferential and transverse grooves for removing water from a contact patch between the foundation and the tire, and anti-skid studs mounted in the tread and including a stud body and a hard metal pin secured thereto. An end of the metal pin, intended against a foundation, is formed as an inclined surface, whereby the metal pin has its end provided with the inclined surface acting on the foundation in an axial direction of the metal pin to a varying depth and the inclined surface being placed relative to a rotating direction of the tire in such an orientation that, as the tire is rolling freely forward, a leading edge of the hard metal pin to impinge first on the foundation is lower than a trailing edge.
US09849729B2
A tire having a crown reinforcement (5), comprising at least one crown layer (51), and a carcass reinforcement (6), comprising at least one turned-up carcass layer (61), the turned-up carcass layer (61) comprising mutually parallel reinforcers turned up, within each bead, from the inside towards the outside of the tire around a bead wire (7), to form a turn-up (8) comprising a free end (E). The turned-up carcass layer (61) comprises a crown portion (611) and a lateral portion (612), the crown portion (611) extending axially between a first and a second end (E1, E′1) which is symmetric about the equatorial plane (P), the lateral portion (612) extending radially inwards, from a first end (E2) as far as a second end (E3). The reinforcers of the lateral portion (612) and the reinforcers of the turn-up (8) form, with the circumferential direction (X), specified angles.
US09849728B2
A car seat occupancy alert system includes an occupancy sensor imbedded in or positioned atop the seat portion of an infant car seat in a vehicle. The alert system includes an engine sensor configured to detect when a vehicle engine has been turned off. The occupancy sensor may be electrically connected to a controller (e.g. a control circuit or process). When the engine is deactivated, the controller determines if the car seat is still occupied after a predetermined time and, at first, energizes a dash light as a gentle reminder for the driver to retrieve the child and, later, actuates more aggressive audio and visual alarms to alert the driver and public to a child left in the vehicle. The alert system also provides an interrupt so that a user can add additional time before an alarm is actuated.
US09849724B2
Device to avoid the aquaplaning problem on a vehicle (10), the device being applicable at least on the drive wheels (28) of the vehicle and including a tank (12) of fluid under pressure that is connected to a plurality of fluid ejectors (26) associated with the respective wheels and suitable to shoot jets of pressurized fluid onto the road surface, and sensors (18) suitable to detect the conditions of the road surface to actuate the fluid ejectors. The fluid ejectors (26) are injector nozzles controlled by a central processing unit (CPU), which receives the signals from the sensors (18), and are operated in a manner coordinated with the physical position of the respective wheel so as to be continually oriented in the direction of travel of the same wheel.
US09849723B2
Disclosed is a cyclic mechanism for engaging or disengaging a switch with the stage of the cycle being determined by a height to which a first object is lifted relative to a second object. The mechanism has few moving parts, is inexpensive to manufacture, is reliable, can be incorporated into a wide range of devices or structures, and operates as an incident to raising or lowering a first object relative to a second.
US09849721B2
A structurally supported tire includes a ground contacting annular tread portion, an annular hoop structure for supporting a load on the tire, a means for attachment to a vehicle rim, and a ply structure secured to a first axial limit and extending radially outward and between the hoop structure and the tread portion and further extending radially inward from between the hoop structure and tread portion to a second axial limit. The ply structure is secured to both the first axial limit and the second axial limit. The tread portion is secured to a radially outer surface of the ply structure. The hoop structure is secured to a radially inner surface of the ply structure.
US09849719B1
Container liquid catch rings which can be placed on a liquid container to catch and collect residual liquid from the container may include a ring body configured for placement on the liquid container in surrounding and substantially liquid-sealing relationship thereto. A ring opening may be formed by the ring body. The ring opening may be substantially sized and configured to accommodate the liquid container. A catch channel may be provided in the ring body in exterior concentric relationship to the ring opening. Liquid container and container liquid catch ring combinations are also disclosed.
US09849718B1
The Beading Design Tool is a tool for creating bead designs utilizing the actual beads intended for the design. The beads are arranged on the Beading Design Tool, either in straight stitch or offset stitch configuration. The Beading Design Tool can accommodate various sized beads. The beader can easily alter a design, or correct an error, by simply removing those beads no longer wanted in the design and replacing them with other beads. Manipulating the design is easy and fast. Upon completion of the creation, the beader may transpose the beads on the Beading Design Tool to the loom, or free hand composition, thereby minimizing the possible error of adding, deleting a bead or selection of an incorrect color. The beader may also elect to keep the design on the Beading Design Tool as a guide and create the finished piece using a second set of beads.
US09849715B2
According to various embodiments, a document storage tray includes a tray body and a document panel defining a document storage region. The tray further includes two internal alignment rails disposed in the interior of the tray body. The internal alignment rails are configured to facilitate an alignment of documents that are stored in the document tray via a plurality of alignment rods coupled to the rails and a plurality of document storage sleeves, configured to receive and house documents. A document stored in the document tray may be viewed, read, or accessed without requiring removal from the document storage tray. In this way, the embodiments may save the user time and allow the user to store and organize documents in a manner that will preserve the organization when the document is viewed or read.
US09849710B2
A two-sided hinged note comprises a generally planar sheet, an adhesive, and a hinge. The sheet has opposing front and back sides, both of which are suitable to be written upon at least in part. The adhesive, which may be pressure-sensitive and re-adherable, is on an adhesive area of the back side of the note and is capable of adhering to a surface of an item such that the sheet is flat against the surface thereby presenting the front side of the sheet facing outward from the surface. The hinge is proximate the adhesive area, wherein the hinge is operable to pivot approximately 180° to thereby present the back side of the sheet facing outward from the surface as a the sheet is approximately flat against the surface of the item.
US09849708B1
Microwave dryer of a print system with modulation of the microwave source using FSK. In one embodiment, a microwave dryer includes a microwave source coupled with a waveguide. The waveguide transports electromagnetic energy to dry wet colorant applied by a printer to print media. The microwave source provides the electromagnetic energy at an operating frequency. The microwave dryer also includes a processor coupled with an FSK modulator that modulates the operating frequency of the microwave source. The processor determines a modulating signal with a modulating frequency based on a period of time for the print media to traverse the waveguide, and applies binary values that represent the number of frequencies to an input of the FSK modulator to cause the FSK modulator to output the series of discrete frequencies over the period of time to vary intensity positions of the electromagnetic energy across the width of the print media.
US09849706B2
A device 300 for printing a succession of sheets, includes a platen press 310 for depositing colored or metalized film on each sheet by stamping between a stationary platen 320 and a movable platen 330. A heating element 340 brings a stamping tool integral with the stationary platen 320 to a given temperature for a stamping operation. The heating element 340 is displaced between an operating position between the stationary platen 320 and each stamping tool associated with that platen 320, and a maintenance position in which the heating element is outside the platen press 310.
US09849702B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: an apparatus main body; a plurality of liquid ejecting heads that have a nozzle-formed surface; a unit base to which the plurality of liquid ejecting heads are fixed; a lifter that is fixed to the apparatus main body and causes a position of the nozzle-formed surface to move with respect to the apparatus main body; and a non-contact sensor unit that is provided in the apparatus main body and the unit base and identifies a position of the nozzle-formed surface with respect to the apparatus main body.
US09849701B2
A fluid application system and method having a support structure for guiding a plurality of pallets along a path of travel through the system. The plurality of pallets for arranging a medium that receives fluid during operation. The system further includes an application assembly for applying fluid and energy to a medium arranged on the plurality of pallets and a conveyance arrangement comprising first and second conveyors for transferring the one or more pallets through the fluid application system. The first and second conveyors have a dedicated trolley selectively coupled to one of the plurality of pallets during movement along a first direction of the path of travel and selectively decoupled from the one of the plurality of pallets during movement along a second direction of the path of travel.
US09849698B2
A separation unit (10) of a label printer includes a metal nip roller shaft (11), a resin nip roller (12) disposed at a center part of the nip roller shaft and is supported so as to be rotatable around the nip roller shaft, and resin supporters (13) that support both ends of the nip roller shaft. The separation unit (10) is attached to the body case (2) to be relatively movable between the normal ejection position and the separation ejection position. Each of the pair of supporters has a part protruding toward the nip roller, and this part is a roller holder (13d) to insert an end of the nip roller shaft. The roller holder and the supporter are integrally formed for enhanced strength of the supporter.
US09849697B2
According to one example of the present invention there is provided a method of printing, with a printer, an image on a substrate, the printer comprising a substrate support. The method comprises obtaining an image to be printed, determining an offset position of a substrate positioned on the substrate support relative to a predetermined reference printing position, and controlling the printer to print the image to be printed at the determined offset position.
US09849688B2
A density determination method includes a first process, a second process, and a third process. In the first process, ink is discharged onto a medium to print a plurality of colorimetric patches having mutually different densities on the medium so as to allow each of the colorimetric patches to include a base portion serving as a background of the each of the colorimetric patches and a low density portion forming a symbol and having a density lower than a density of the base portion. In the second process, images each associated with a corresponding one of the colorimetric patches are acquired. In the third process, a maximum printing density value for the medium is determined on the basis of a result of recognizing the symbol through each of the images, having been acquired in the second process.
US09849684B2
The present invention relates to an ink cartridge for an inkjet printer, the ink cartridge comprising a head chip of a print head to be surface-mounted on an FPCB by means of BGA so as to have each contact terminal, which is formed on the FPCB and the head chip, to be formed over a relatively wide area and therefore not require a high level of integration technology. Therefore, the ink cartridge enables easy manufacturing of the FPCB and the head chip and lowering of manufacturing cost. Also, since relatively low precision needs to be maintained during the mounting of the head chip on the FPCB such that each contact terminal comes into contact, the ink cartridge enables more convenient and faster manufacturing of the print head.
