US09874730B2
Composing, in order from an object side: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group having positive refractive power and a fifth lens group; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group, a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group, a distance between the third lens group and the fourth lens group and a distance between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group being varied, and predetermined conditional expression being satisfied, thereby providing a small-size variable magnification optical system having a high zoom ratio and a high optical performance, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system.
US09874717B2
An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
US09874715B1
An imaging lens is disclosed and has an optical axis. The image lens includes a lens barrel having a lens barrel wall arranged around the optical axis and forming an accommodation space; an imaging module including a plurality of near object units and near image units separated from each other and arranged in an order from an object side to an image side in the accommodation space; and a spacing part sandwiched between the near object units and the near image units. The spacing part includes a first reflecting surface facing the near image units and a second reflecting surface connected with the first reflecting surface, the light from the near image units is reflected two times by the first reflecting surface and the second reflecting surface.
US09874714B2
An adjustable stand having a first spindle, a second spindle and a flange for connection to and positioning of an optical observation instrument. Positioning of the instrument relative to the stand is maintained by a torque compensation device respectively arranged with at least one of the spindles to compensate against torque caused by the mass and positioning of the instrument and spindles. Each torque compensation device includes a brake for securing the spindle, a spring, a motor for adjusting the spring tension, and a motor controller which includes a transmission device with a transmission ratio deviating from 1:1 and which is positioned between the spring and the spindle. The motor controller controls the spring tension by selectively rotating the motor based on instructions from a control unit, which receives signals from a spindle-position sensor and a spring-tension sensor and automatically provides counter-torque rotational movement instructions to the motor controller.
US09874710B2
Swing arm assemblies for providing access to wiring enclosures are described that provide convenient one handed operation and the ability to temporarily fix the enclosure at a telescoped height and optionally in a rotated position.
US09874701B2
A system for selectively adiabatically coupling electromagnetic waves from one waveguide to another waveguide is described. It comprises a first waveguide portion and a second waveguide portion having substantially different surface normal cross-sections. Portions thereof are positioned with respect to each other in a coupling region so that under first predetermined environmental conditions coupling of electromagnetic waves between the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion can occur and under second predetermined environmental conditions substantially no coupling of electromagnetic waves between the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion can occur. The system also comprises a fluid positioning means for selectively positioning at least a first fluid simultaneously overlaying both said first waveguide portion and said second waveguide portion in the coupling region thus selectively inducing first predetermined environmental conditions or second predetermined environmental conditions.
US09874694B2
A plurality of Bragg gratings are formed at predetermined locations of a laminate including a mounting substrate, a clad layer provided on the mounting substrate and an optical material layer provided on the clad layer. Optical waveguides are formed each including at least each of the Bragg gratings. Masks are formed each covering a region corresponding to each of the grating elements on the optical material layer. The optical material layer and clad layer are etched to shape an end face of each of the grating elements.
US09874690B2
An integrated waveguide structure with perforated chip edge seal and methods of manufacture are disclosed herein. The structure includes a guard ring structure surrounding an active region of an integrated circuit chip. The structure further includes a gap in the guard ring structure which is located at a predetermined level of the integrated circuit chip. The structure further includes a waveguide structure formed on a substrate of the integrated circuit chip. The structure further includes a fiber optic optically coupled to the waveguide structure through the gap formed in the guard ring structure.
US09874681B2
An illumination device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a light guide plate configured to emit light from inside through one surface of the light guide plate and a light source disposed to face a peripheral surface of the light guide plate. In the display apparatus, during non-light emitting of the light source, for distance s between the light source and the peripheral surface, a distance between a middle part of the light source in a peripheral edge direction of the light guide plate and a portion in the peripheral surface corresponding to the middle part is the longest.
US09874679B2
A backlight module and a fabricating method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module comprises a light emitting unit and a power generating unit for supplying power to the light emitting unit. The backlight module has a light-exiting surface; the power generating unit and the light-exiting surface face each other and are spaced from each other, light rays emitted from the light emitting unit enter between the power generating unit and the light-exiting surface and exit from the backlight module through the light-exiting surface; the power generating unit includes a first electrode, a power generating layer and a second electrode in a direction away from the light-exiting surface, and the first electrode is configured to reflect the light rays from the light emitting unit.
US09874677B2
The present invention provides a light source device which includes a light guide plate configured to emit light entered from a light source of a side face through one surface of the light guide plate, and an optical sheet disposed to face the one surface of the light guide plate, wherein the light source device includes interval holding parts which are provided along side faces of the light guide plate, and are configured so that one end portions thereof are disposed between the optical sheet and the light guide plate to maintain an interval between the optical sheet and the light guide plate, and the one end portions of the interval holding parts have a white color, such that it is possible to prevent shadows of the interval holding parts from being reflected on the display panel provided on a front side of the optical sheet, and a display apparatus including the light source device.
US09874670B2
Disclosed is an optical compensation film including a supporter, and an optical compensation layer disposed on at least one surface of the supporter and including a polymer of cholesteric liquid crystal molecules having a structure in which a plurality of parallel-arranged liquid crystal molecules are helically arranged, wherein the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a helical axis that is bent and tilted to the supporter at an angle represented by the following Equation 1; a method of manufacturing the same; and a liquid crystal device (LCD) including the optical compensation film. H=(θT−θB)*(d′/d)γ+θB [Equation 1] In Equation 1, H is a tilt angle of the helical axis of a layer of the cholesteric liquid crystal molecules; θB is a tilt angle of liquid crystal molecule contact with the supporter; θT is a tilt angle of a liquid crystal molecule disposed at a part of the layer furthest from the supporter; d is a thickness of the layer; d′ is a distance from the supporter along a vertical direction; γ is a degree of variation in tilt angle of helical axis; and γ≧0.01.
US09874661B2
A wavelength conversion member may include a first substrate and a second substrate that overlaps the first substrate. The wavelength conversion member may further include a wavelength conversion layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate in a first direction. The wavelength conversion member may further include a first hydrophobic membrane that overlaps at least one of the first substrate, the second substrate, and the wavelength conversion layer in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US09874658B2
In a low reflection coating glass sheet, a low reflection coating is a porous film including solid fine particles containing silicon oxide as a main component and a binder containing silicon oxide. The fine particles are solid particles. At least 70% of the fine particles aggregate to form secondary particles each having an aspect ratio of 1.8 to 5, a minor axis of 20 to 60 nm, and a major axis of 50 to 150 nm, when the aspect ratio is defined as the ratio of the major axis to the minor axis of the secondary particle. The low reflection coating has a thickness of 50 to 250 nm. This low reflection coating has a structure suitable for increasing the transmittance gain.
US09874647B2
This disclosure is related to the field of streamers. In one embodiment, a streamer may include a group of particle motion sensors. In some embodiments, at least two of the particle motion sensors in the group are movable relative to one another within the streamer, and the two particle motion sensors are configured to measure motion along a particular axis. In some embodiments, the streamer may additionally include a plurality of pressure sensors.
US09874646B2
A method for seismic data processing can include obtaining seismic data acquired based upon trigger times and not based upon positions of triggered source elements. The seismic data can include near-continuously recorded seismic data in split records. The split records can be spliced together into a single near-continuous record to produce a trace with seismic data from a single acquired line. The seismic data can be processed by performing a spatial shift for each of a number of time samples to correct for motion of a number of seismic receivers.
US09874642B2
A coated scintillator particle, a scintillator particle coated with a semiconducting photoactive material, a method for producing such scintillator particles, an x-ray detector, a gamma-ray detector, and a UV detector using such coated scintillator particles, a method for producing such x-ray detector, gamma-ray detector, or UV detector, and the use of the coated scintillator particles for detecting high-energy radiation, e.g., radiation, gamma radiation and/or x-rays, are disclosed.
US09874637B2
An illumination optical system of a 3-dimensional (3D) image acquisition apparatus and a 3D image acquisition apparatus including the illumination optical system. The illumination optical system of a 3D image acquisition apparatus includes a beam shaping element which outputs light having a predetermined cross-sectional shape which is proportional to a field of view of the 3D image acquisition apparatus. The beam shaping element may adjust a shape of illumination light according to its cross-sectional shape. The beam shaping element may uniformly homogenize the illumination light without causing light scattering or absorption.
US09874630B2
A gated time of flight (GT-TOF) range camera that transmits a plurality of light pulses to illuminate features in a scene and gates ON a photosensor in the camera for one multi-exposure gate having a plurality of exposure periods following each of the plurality of light pulses to register amounts of light reflected by features in the scene from the light pulses and uses the registered amounts of light to determine distances to the features.
US09874616B2
Systems, methods and devices are configured for integrated parallel reception, excitation, and shimming (iPRES). Parallel transmit/receive (which can include B?1#191 shimming and/or parallel imaging capabilities) and B1 shimming employ the same set of localized coils or transverse electromagnetic (TEM) coil elements, with each coil or TEM element working in both an RF mode (for transmit/receive and B1 shimming) and a direct current (DC) mode (for B0 shimming) simultaneously. Both an RF and a DC current can flow in the same coil simultaneously but independently with no electromagnetic interference between the two modes. This invention is not only applicable when the same coil array is used for parallel transmit, receive and shim, but also when two separate coil arrays are used. In that case, the B0 shimming capability can be integrated into one of the coil arrays (i.e. a transmit array with B1 shimming capability or a receive array), thereby increasing the flexibility and practical utility of the iPRES technology.
US09874611B2
A battery charger is disclosed that is configured to be connected to an external battery by way of external battery cables. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the battery charger is configured with automatic voltage detection which automatically determines the nominal voltage of the battery connected to its battery charger terminals and charges the battery as a function of the detected nominal voltage irrespective of the nominal voltage selected by a user. Various safeguards are built into the battery charger to avoid overcharging a battery. For battery chargers with user-selectable nominal battery voltage charging modes, battery charger is configured to over-ride a user-selected battery voltage mode if it detects that the battery connected to the battery charger terminals is different than the user-selected charging mode.
US09874610B2
The present invention relates to a battery. The battery includes: a detecting apparatus, located inside the battery and on an anode or cathode end of the battery, and configured to detect an electric potential inside the battery; and a conducting wire, electrically connected to the detecting apparatus and insulated from the anode and cathode of the battery, and configured to export a value of the electric potential measured by the detecting apparatus. The battery according to embodiments of the present invention is provided with a built-in detecting apparatus, which is led out together with the anode and cathode of the battery by using the conducting wire electrically connected to the detecting apparatus. This design achieves accurate and reliable measurement of a potential at a single electrode.
US09874606B2
Built-in self-test techniques for integrated circuits that address the issue of unknown states. Some implementations use a specialized scan chain selector coupled to a time compactor. The presence of the specialized scan chain selector increases the efficiency in masking X states. Also disclosed are: (1) an architecture of a selector that works with multiple scan chains and time compactors, (2) a method for determining and encoding per cycle scan chain selection masks used subsequently to suppress X states, and (3) a method to handle an over-masking phenomenon.
US09874605B2
To electrically connect a device under test mounted on a device holder and a socket of a test apparatus with accuracy. Provided is a device holder that retains a device, the device holder including: an inner unit that mounts the device; and an outer unit that retains the inner unit such that the inner unit is relatively movable, wherein the inner unit switches whether to lock the outer unit relative to the inner unit or to release the lock. Also, the inner unit and the outer unit of the device holder are provided.
US09874604B2
A semiconductor device may include a first node coupled to a first pad to which a first voltage having a first voltage level is inputted; a second node coupled to a second pad to which a second voltage having a second voltage level is inputted; an internal voltage generation unit suitable for shifting a voltage level of the first node to generate an internal voltage having the second voltage level, and outputting the internal voltage to third and fourth nodes; a first internal circuit suitable for operating by employing a voltage of the second node; and a node coupling unit that electrically couples the second node to the third node during a test operation, and electrically separates the second node and the third node during a normal operation.
US09874590B2
The present invention discloses a test platform for high-frequency cable, comprising conductive contacts and clamps for pressing a conductor of the cable on the conductive contact, and comprising a splitter seat, which comprises a top surface and a plurality of varied sides, the conductive contacts are respectively arranged on the sides, the clamps are arranged at a peripheral of the splitter seat and is opposite to the conductive contact, the splitter seat is further provided with a splitter channel, and the splitter channel slantingly connects the top surface to the sides. The present invention adopts a splitter seat with a polyhedral structure, which may shorten the stripped length, and prevent for vertically bending the core, thereby reducing the damage to the cable structure to the greatest extent, and greatly increasing the test frequency.
US09874587B1
A system and method: receive an input signal and output digital samples representing the input signal; store the digital samples for at least one acquisition record of the input signal in an acquisition memory; detect a trigger event in the input signal and calculate a trigger address in the acquisition memory for a digital sample corresponding to the detected trigger event; perform digital signal processing on the digital samples of the acquisition memory to produce processed digital samples; detect an edge, representing a trigger, in the processed digital samples, and determine a measured trigger time; temporarily store the processed digital samples in a buffer memory at least until the edge detector detects the edge in the processed digital samples; determine a trigger correction value in response to the measured trigger time; determine a corrected beginning address of the buffer memory from the calculated trigger address and the trigger correction value; and read the processed digital data out from the buffer memory beginning at the corrected beginning address.
US09874582B2
A probe system including a probe with first and second arms and a probe tip carried by the first and second arms, the probe tip having a height and a tilt angle; an illumination system arranged to deform the probe by illuminating the first arm at a first actuation location and the second arm at a second actuation location each with a respective illumination power; and an actuation controller arranged to independently control the illumination power at each actuation location in order to control the height and tilt angle of the probe tip.
US09874574B2
The present invention relates to: a composition for detecting a marker for detecting the proliferation capacity or treatment capacity of adipose-derived stem cells cultured in a medium containing epidermal growth factor (EGF) or basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF); and a detection method.
US09874570B2
The present invention pertains to a method of detection, by mass spectrometry, of at least one marker of at least one mechanism of resistance to at least one antimicrobial, resistance of at least one microorganism contained in a sample, characterised in that the antimicrobial is a cephalosporin, and said resistance markers are proteins or peptides. Preferably, said proteins or peptides are proteins from said microorganism.
US09874565B2
The present invention provides methods of treating cancer by inhibiting MECP2 and identifying cancers that will respond to therapy using MECP2 as a biomarker.
US09874561B2
An ELISPOT method of in vitro diagnosis of tuberculosis includes enriching or separating liquid blood fraction from its cellular components including visualizing immunocompetent cells by detecting different dyes and using at least two different filter sets, each including one narrowband excitation filter and one narrowband blocking filter, wherein the narrowband excitation filter is transmissive for light provided for luminescent excitation of a respective dye and the narrowband blocking filter is transmissive for light emitted by a respective dye and measuring the number of immunocompetent cells that secrete at least interferon-γ and interleukin-2 as a reaction to an antigen by superimposing at least two two-dimensional images generated during visualization to avoid luminescence of different dyes interfering and strong luminescence being superimposed on weak luminescence.
US09874558B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method of measuring the amount of a compound containing a sugar chain in a biological sample by a sandwich immunoassay method using a labeled lectin, which method is suitable for reduction of noise originating from impurities and determination of the exact amount of a target compound. The present invention provides a method of measuring the amount of a target compound containing a sugar chain in a biological sample by a sandwich immunoassay method using a labeled lectin (including cases where a target compound-capturing substance other than an antibody is used as a ligand), the method containing adding a sugar chain compound which competes (crosses) with impurities contained in the biological sample in binding with the labeled lectin.
US09874557B2
A cartridge and method for conducting a labeled molecular affinity binding test such as antibody/antigen, ligand/receptor, and colorometric reactions, and other chemical reactions for which one or more analytes is present in a liquid sample formate. A progressive compression structure progressively forces a liquid flow out of a conjugate pad toward a reaction region to more thoroughly and rapidly mix the liquid, encouraging specific first affinity binding to the analytes in question. A specially dimensioned constricting passageway surrounding the reaction region including the result zones provides an additional siphoning force to the flow. These combined forces rapidly and more evenly guide the flow of liquid through the reaction region so that the rushed rate of uptake of analytes at the strip lines are more evenly distributed, adhesive attachment of non-specific molecules is largely avoided, vastly improving sensitivity and specificity, and providing quantitative results in some tests.
US09874554B1
A system for modulating a response signal includes aptamer conjugates, e.g., aptamer-particle conjugates, configured to bind with target analytes, a detector configured to detect an analyte response signal transmitted from the body, a modulation source configured to modulate the analyte response signal, and a processor configured to non-invasively detect the one or more target analytes by differentiating the analyte response signal from a background signal, at least in part, based on the modulation. The analyte response signal is related to the binding interaction of the target analytes with the aptamer-particle conjugates. In some examples, the system may also include magnetic particles and a magnetic field source sufficient to distribute the magnetic particles into a spatial arrangement in the body. The analyte response signal may be differentiated from the background signal, at least in part, based on modulation of the signals due, at least in part, to the spatial arrangement of the magnetic particles.
US09874542B2
The invention relates to the use of signal processing methods in order to achieve higher signal to noise ratios, to increase the detection limits of target analytes. These techniques include the monitoring of the output signal at higher harmonic frequencies.
US09874541B2
A sensor is provided with (i) a pair of electrically conducting electrodes on an electrically insulating substrate; (ii) a chemiresistor film in contact with the pair of electrodes, with an impedance that changes in the presence of an ionic analyte; (iii) a gate electrode formed from an electrically conductive material; (iv) a potential generator configured to apply an electrical potential difference between the gate electrode and the chemiresistor film; (v) a controller to selectively control the potential generator to apply an electric potential to the gate electrode relative to the potential of the chemiresistor film; and (vi) a voltage power source adapted to apply a voltage signal between the pair of electrically conducting electrodes to enable measurement of the resistance of the chemiresistor film.
US09874536B2
An electrochemical test sensor for detecting the concentration of an analyte in a fluid sample. The electrochemical test sensor includes a housing that has a first end and a second opposing end. The housing includes an opening at the first end to receive a fluid test sample. An electrode assembly includes a substrate, a working electrode, a counter electrode and a reagent. The substrate has a first surface and an opposing second surface. The working electrode is disposed on the first surface of the substrate, and the counter electrode is disposed on the second surface of the substrate. The electrode assembly is positioned within the housing to define a reaction channel. The electrochemical test sensor may be used with a removable lancet mechanism or integrated within a lancet mechanism to form one integral unit.
US09874534B2
A material removal process referred to as spalling is used to provide flexible and stretchable sensors that can be used for healthcare monitoring, bio-medical devices, wearable electronic devices, artificial skin, large area sensing, etc. The flexible and stretchable sensors of the present application have high sensitivity that is comparable to that of a bulk silicon sensor. The flexible and stretchable sensors comprise single crystalline spring-like structures that couple various resistor structures together.
US09874532B2
A scatter diagram display device includes a principal component analysis section that performs principal component analysis on intensity or concentration map data that represents each element, a priority level setting section that sets a priority level to each element based on the results of the principal component analysis performed by the principal component analysis section, and a display control section that performs a control process that arranges a plurality of scatter diagrams generated by combining each element based on the priority level that has been set to each element by the priority level setting section, and displays the plurality of scatter diagrams on a display section.
US09874526B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor sample. This system comprises an illumination optics subsystem for generating and directing an incident beam towards a defect on a surface of a wafer. The illumination optics subsystem includes a light source for generating the incident beam and one or more polarization components for adjusting a ratio and/or a phase difference for the incident beam's electric field components. The system further includes a collection optics subsystem for collecting scattered light from the defect and/or surface in response to the incident beam, and the collection optics subsystem comprises an adjustable aperture at the pupil plane, followed by a rotatable waveplate for adjusting a phase difference of electric field components of the collected scattered light, followed by a rotatable analyzer. The system also includes a controller that is configured for (i) selecting a polarization of the incident beam, (ii) obtaining a defect scattering map, (iii) obtaining a surface scattering map, and (iv) determining a configuration of the one or more polarization components, aperture mask, and rotatable ¼ waveplate, and analyzer based on analysis of the defect and surface scattering map so as to maximize a defect signal to noise ratio,
US09874514B2
There are provided an atomic absorption spectrophotometer capable of effectively preventing saturation of a signal voltage of a detector at the time of measurement, and a signal voltage optimization method used by the same. Test measurement of a sample is performed in a state where a preset value is taken as a set value of the signal voltage of the detector. The set value of the signal voltage of the detector corresponding to the sample is optimized based on the signal voltage of the detector at the time of the test measurement of the sample. In this manner, by optimizing the set value of the signal voltage of the detector corresponding to the sample through test measurement using the actual sample, saturation of the signal voltage of the detector at the time of measurement may be effectively prevented.
US09874513B2
An isotope ratio of a continuous sample is measured in an isotope ratio spectrometer. At least one sample isotope ratio is measured over a measurement time period tns, (n≧1) and a sample concentration cns is measured over at least a part of the measurement time period tns. A reference gas concentration cnref for the spectrometer is selected for reference to the sample measured during the measurement time period tns, on the basis of the measured sample concentration cnref. An isotope ratio of the reference gas is measured at the selected reference gas concentration cnref in the spectrometer. The at least one isotope ratio of the sample measured during the measurement time period tns is calibrated using the measured isotope ratio of the reference gas at the corresponding reference gas concentration cnref and a plurality of calibrated isotope ratios and a plurality of sample gas concentration measurements are determined, each being for a different time.
US09874512B2
A computer-implemented method for determining an optimized purge gas flow in a semi-conductor inspection metrology or lithography apparatus, comprising receiving a permissible contaminant mole fraction, a contaminant outgassing flow rate associated with a contaminant, a contaminant mass diffusivity, an outgassing surface length, a pressure, a temperature, a channel height, and a molecular weight of a purge gas, calculating a flow factor based on the permissible contaminant mole fraction, the contaminant outgassing flow rate, the channel height, and the outgassing surface length, comparing the flow factor to a predefined maximum flow factor value, calculating a minimum purge gas velocity and a purge gas mass flow rate from the flow factor, the contaminant mass diffusivity, the pressure, the temperature, and the molecular weight of the purge gas, and introducing the purge gas into the semi-conductor inspection metrology or lithography apparatus with the minimum purge gas velocity and the purge gas flow rate.
US09874504B2
A bending fracture limit stress is calculated for each of (bend radius at sheet thickness center of a metal sheet)/(initial sheet thickness of the metal sheet); a fracture limit curve and a fracture limit stress are calculated from work hardening characteristics; a fracture limit curve corresponding to (the metal sheet bend radius at sheet thickness center)/(the initial sheet thickness of the metal sheet) is calculated; a corresponding fracture limit stress is calculated from stress of the element subject to determination and the fracture limit curve; a risk ratio that is a ratio between the stress of the element subject to determination and the fracture limit stress is computed; and performing fracture determination for the element subject to determination based on the risk ratio.
US09874503B2
Systems and methods of use pertaining to a digital testing and communication system for testing the pull-out strength of a fastener member secured within a base material. The system includes a mechanical screw/actuation arrangement configured to act through a load cell to apply an increasing tensile force to the fastener. The system also includes a digital load gauge in communication with the load cell and configured to indicate the tensile force measured by the load cell. The testing and communication system may incorporate a data system, a reporting system, and a transmission system configured compile the force information into a testing report along with location information, date and time information, and/or a pass-fail indication that is transmitted to/provided upon one or more client devices located on-site or at a remote location.
US09874501B2
A device for washing an array plate having an array of liquid droplets adhered thereto is described. The array of liquid droplets is covered with a hydrophobic medium immiscible with the array of liquid droplets. The device includes a mechanism for draining the hydrophobic medium from the array plate; a mechanism for providing an aqueous wash liquid over the array plate; a mechanism for shaking the array plate in a presence of the aqueous wash liquid; and a mechanism for removing the aqueous wash liquid from the array plate. A method for washing an array plate is also described.
US09874497B2
Provided is a trace gas measurement apparatus for electrical equipment that includes at least one sample cell configured to collect an oil sample from the electrical equipment. The sample cell having an oil receiving portion for receiving an oil sample, at least one perforated or porous sheet within a head space thereof for receiving the oil sample from the oil receiving portion, housing the oil sample thereon, and separating a new oil sample received from an existing oil sample within the at least one sample cell. The trace gas measurement apparatus also includes an oil pump for selectively pumping oil into and out of the sample cell, and a control module controlling operation of the oil pump, to adjust an oil level and air pressure within the sample cell, for performing an extraction process of trace gases within the oil sample.
US09874491B2
A cuvette system (1) for use in the optical inspection of ophthalmic lenses comprises at least one receptacle (2) for accommodating an ophthalmic lens. The receptacle (2) has a longitudinal extension and an opening (20) arranged at one longitudinal end thereof. The receptacle (2) is adapted for containing a liquid. The cuvette system further comprises at least one inspection window (3) having an inspection surface (31). The inspection window (3) is arranged stationary and from the receptacle (2). The inspection window (3) is adapted for being joined to the receptacle (2) at the opening (20) of the receptacle (2) such that the inspection surface (31) of the inspection window (3) is immersed in the liquid. The inspection window (3) is further adapted for being removed from the opening (20) of the receptacle (2).
US09874488B2
A method of monitoring an operating event of a combustion engine includes receiving a noise signal sensed by a knock sensor disposed in or proximate to the combustion engine, correlating the noise signal with a fingerprint having at least an ADSR envelope indicative of the operating event, and detecting if the operating event has occurred based on the correlating of the noise signal with the fingerprint.
US09874484B2
A physical quantity detecting device includes a vibrating element and a charge amplifier. The vibrating element includes a first detection electrode, a second detection electrode, a third detection electrode, and a fourth detection electrode. The first and fourth detection electrodes have the same electrical polarity, the second and third detection electrodes have the same electrical polarity, and the first and second detection electrodes have opposite electrical polarities. The first and fourth detection electrodes are connected to the charge amplifier, and the second and third detection electrodes are connected to the charge amplifier.
US09874479B2
To provide a high accuracy temperature detection device, a D/A conversion circuit includes a ladder network, constant current circuits and switch circuits. A temperature sensing circuit such as a diode is kept at a threshold temperature of a protecting operation against overheating and the switch circuits are switched according to a predetermined adjustment data value such that a temperature detection voltage is in a prescribed range. Since each of the switch circuits connects between corresponding one of the constant current circuits and a common terminal while disconnecting between the corresponding one of the constant current circuits and corresponding one of current terminals, an electric current flowing to the temperature sensing circuit is constant regardless of the adjustment data value and a correction resolution of the temperature detection voltage is constant.
US09874474B2
A biometric sensor that measures biometric information and a biometric analysis system including the biometric sensor are provided. The biometric sensor may include: a light source configured to emit light toward a region of interest of an object under examination, the light being diffused at the region of interest; a collimator that includes a though-hole and is configured to collimate the diffused light received from the region of interest; and a spectrometer configure to analyze the diffused light transmitted by the collimator.
US09874468B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for measuring and processing fuel meter measurements, such as rotary gas meter volume measurements, are generally disclosed herein. At least some aspects of the systems, devices, and methods can allow a fuel meter body to perform all processing regarding an amount of fuel dispensed from the fuel meter body and can allow the fuel meter body to provide results of the processing to an accessory configured to display data to a user. At least some aspects of the systems, devices, and methods can allow processing at the fuel meter body to be provided using one or more modules each configured to be removably and replaceably coupled to the fuel meter body.
US09874467B2
The present invention provides a MEMS thermal flow sensor or meter for measuring the flow rate of a fluid without need for calibration of the flow sensor for that particular fluid. A response curve is determined by plotting the sensor output voltage against the volume flow rate divided by fluid thermal diffusivity for a calibration fluid of known thermal diffusivity, and storing response curve data in memory. A conversion factor is employed to provide a measure of correct flow rate of an unknown fluid. This conversion factor is derived from the ratio of the thermal time constant of the calibration fluid to the thermal time constant of the measured fluid, the time constants being measured at zero flow. These time constants are stored in memory. This conversion factor in conjunction with the response curve data is utilized by the processor to produce the correct flow rate. The invention also encompasses a method for measuring fluid flow rate of fluids of differing properties without necessity of a separate flow calibration for each fluid.
US09874466B2
A fluid flow meter estimates the velocity of water or another fluid flowing through pipe by comparing measurements of the water velocity to one or more pre-determined templates. The fluid flow meter may collect measurement signals from one or more flow sensors, estimate the fluid velocity or flow rate by comparing the measurement signals to the template, and either store the comparison results in local memory, transmit the results to a remote memory or server, or both. In some embodiments, the fluid flow meter transmits the results to a server via a wireless interface. The transducers and processing system can be powered by a battery, a power line, or, for manifolds installed outdoors, a solar cell. Example transducers and processing systems may also have a passive wake-up feature for power reduction; that is, they may only draw power when water or another fluid flows through the pipe.
US09874465B2
A pointer to indicate gradations formed in a dial of a vehicle instrument cluster includes: a pointer blade to receive and emit light received from the lower portion of the dial when a blade body formed integrally with a blade arm is rotatably supported above the dial; a pointer weight disposed adjacent to a rear surface of the blade body and having a light through-hole to allow light received from the lower portion of the dial to pass through the pointer weight; a light pin part extending to the rear surface of the blade body from one end of the blade arm and inserted into the light through-hole; and a weight supporter, fit between the pointer blade and the pointer weight and below the light through-hole to receive light from the lower portion of the dial and transfer the light to the pointer blade.
US09874454B2
Systems, devices, features, and methods for community-based collection and use of data for mapping and/or navigation are disclosed. For example, a method is provided for use of community-based data for mapping. A camera image from a mobile device is associated with a geographic location. A processor executes an image recognition algorithm on the camera image. An address or business logo in the camera image is identified with the image recognition algorithm. Address or business logo specific information is determined based on the address or logo and the geographic location. The specific information may be contact information or business operation information.
US09874451B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for providing fresh hybrid routing independent of map version and provider. A set of routing data is received in response to a routing request. The set of routing data includes road segments. An analysis may be performed of a local map and the set of routing data. At least one unmatched road segment between the local map and the set of routing data is identified based on the analysis. A request for update data for the at least one unmatched road segment is made. Using the local map, the set of routing data, and the update data for the at least one unmatched road segment a navigation action is generated.
US09874442B2
A device for measuring an inclination of a green in a golf course. The device includes: a rotation member (200) having a weight member (210) provided eccentrically relative to a central axis of the rotation member such that the rotation member (200) freely rotates around a rotation shaft (220), the rotation member (200) having horizontal and vertical measurement lines; a first casing (110) having an accommodation space (112); and a second casing (120) fitted over the first casing (110), the second casing (120) having first rotation graduations, a horizontal judge line (h) and a vertical judge line (v), wherein the rotation member (200) comes into close contact with both the first casing (110) and the second casing (120), and then is stopped by a pressure generated between the first and second casings or by simultaneously pressing both a flange (224) of the rotation shaft and the first casing (110).
US09874434B2
A position-measuring system includes a plurality of scanning units for the optical scanning of at least one measuring standard, the scanning units being coupled optically to a plurality of light sources and a plurality of detectors. Disposed between the scanning units and the detectors are a plurality of demultiplexers, via which in each case at least two scanning units are coupled to one detector.
US09874423B1
A medical kit carrier (1) that is integrated or attachable to a body armor vest (9). Straps (15) of the body armor vest may be attached to hook and loop fastener (12) located on a front surface (13) of the medical kit carrier. A pouch (16) located in the medical kit carrier used for storing supplies, such as medical supplies, may be easily removed from the medical kit carrier using a pull strap (17) that is looped around a bottom edge (18) of the pouch. When a tab (19) on the pull strap is pulled, the pull strap lifts the pouch out of the medical kit carrier.
US09874422B2
A stationary test device for a missile includes a retaining device for an avionics testpiece of the missile, where the retaining device enables a movement of the avionics testpiece in three rotational degrees of freedom, and a display device configured to display information on the missile surroundings, where the display device is configured to be moved inside a virtual plane by a translational carriage system. The display device can be detected by the avionics testpiece if the avionics testpiece is disposed on the retaining device. A mobile test device for the missile includes a flight platform, a carrier device mounted on the flight platform, for an avionics testpiece of the missile, wherein the carrier device enables a movement of the avionics testpiece in three rotational degrees of freedom, and a control module, where the control module is configured to control the flight platform for taking off on a specified reference trajectory, control the carrier device for orientation of the avionics testpiece, and store navigation data generated by the avionics testpiece. Finally, a test system for the missile includes the stationary test device and the mobile test device.
US09874415B2
An airflow sensor for a heat sink has a first portion having a first electrical point of contact, a second portion have a second electrical point of contact, and a deformable portion made of an electroactive material electrically coupled to the first and second portions. The deformable portion has first electrical properties measured between the first and second electrical points of contact when there is no airflow and the deformable portion is in a first position, and has second electrical properties different than the first electrical properties when a source of airflow blows air against the deformable portion, thereby causing the deformable portion to extend to a second position farther away from the source of airflow than the first position. The airflow sensor can be incorporated into a heat sink for an electronic component.
US09874413B2
Methods of preventing overheating of computer equipment in a cabinet when a supply coolant to a cooler in the cabinet fails. An example embodiment is a data center that includes a plurality of cabinets and at least two main coolant supply lines. The cabinets are configured to house computer equipment and the main coolant supply lines provide coolant to the plurality of cabinets. Moreover, each cabinet includes a cooler and each of these coolers includes at least two radiators which receive coolant from different main coolant supply lines.
US09874410B2
A heat exchanger for indirect heat exchange between a first fluid and a second fluid, with a shell surrounding a shell space for receiving the first fluid, a tube bundle having a plurality of tubes arranged in the shell space for receiving the second fluid, the tubes arranged in a number of tube layers, and a jacket arranged in the shell space and enclosing an outermost tube layer in the radial direction of the tube bundle. An intermediate space is formed between the tube bundle and the jacket surrounds the tube bundle. At least one elastic element is arranged with a first region between neighboring tube portions in the outermost tube layer and a second region that protrudes out of the outermost tube layer and abuts an inner side of the jacket (3) that is facing the tube bundle or connects the elastic element to the jacket.
US09874403B2
A refrigerator is provided with an evaporator assembly located in a compartment. The evaporator assembly includes a pipe, a fan assembly, a plurality of fins, a first and second bracket. The pipe is configured to transport a refrigerant that exchanges heat with an air stream from the compartment. The plurality of fins is inserted on the pipe. The brackets each include apertures to receive bent end portions of the pipe. The brackets are configured to hold the pipe and the fins in a specific position, to mount the evaporator assembly within the compartment, and restrict the air stream exiting the evaporator assembly from mixing with the air stream entering the evaporator assembly. The fins include end fins that are placed in direct contact with the first end bracket and are configured to further restrict the air stream from flowing through the plurality of apertures of the brackets.
US09874398B1
A hands-free dryer allows for drying of a target while permitting the hands of a user to not be controlling the operation of the hands-free dryer. The hands-free dryer includes a blower for providing air flow, an orientation system allowing the blower to be adjustably oriented at an angle. There is a semi-rigid flexible hose connected to the blower that retains its configuration without the user having to maintain the configuration. Also, there is a support system that provides support for the hands-free dryer while worn by the user.
US09874397B1
Kiln design that uses a series of at least two subsections with airflow in constant but alternating directions instead of using bi-directional fans that periodically reverse directions. The uninterrupted alternating air flow may be used in continuous drying kilns (CDK) with two sets of carriages carrying spaced stacks of lumber travel in opposite directions through a sequence of chambers. The uninterrupted alternating air flow may be used with a set of at least one pathway for carriages carrying lumber to be dried where all carriages move from a first end of the kiln to a second end of the kiln.
US09874396B2
The present disclosure provides a method for separating a feed stream in a distillation tower which includes separating a feed stream in a stripper section into an enriched contaminant bottom liquid stream and a freezing zone vapor stream; contacting the freezing zone vapor stream in the controlled freeze zone section with a freezing zone liquid stream at a temperature and pressure at which a solid and a hydrocarbon-enriched vapor stream form; directly applying heat to a controlled freeze zone wall of the controlled freeze zone section with a heating mechanism coupled to at least one of a controlled freeze zone internal surface of the controlled freeze zone wall and a controlled freeze zone external surface of the controlled freeze zone wall; and at least one of destabilizing and preventing adhesion of the solid to the controlled freeze zone wall with the heating mechanism.
US09874377B1
An active temperature controlled container is configured to be portable so as to safely transport temperature sensitive and perishable goods (such as biological material): within a vessel that is thermally coupled to a thermoelectric assembly disposed within the container, where the thermoelectric assembly is powered by a battery. The battery is secured within a compartment in an outer portion of the housing of the container in a way that the battery may be removed to be recharged, inspected, swapped out for another battery or power source, or the like.
US09874365B2
In the present invention, liquid absorbent is cooled or heated during off-peak hours of electricity demand to prevent the margin between electricity supply and demand from being tightened. A humidity control apparatus switches an absorbent circuit between a regenerated position in which a regeneration circuit is formed, and a humidity-controlled position in which a humidity control circuit is formed. In the regeneration circuit, during a period during which humidity control operation is stopped, outlet and inlet ends of a regeneration passage communicate with each other, and liquid absorbent circulates within the regeneration passage. In the humidity control circuit, during the humidity control operation, a humidity control passage and the regeneration passage communicate with each other, and liquid absorbent circulates between the humidity control passage and the regeneration passage.
US09874362B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for ventilating a building using a rooftop heating ventilating and air conditioning system that in one instance involve determining a first outdoor airflow into the system through a barometric relief damper; subtracting the first outdoor airflow from a minimum required outdoor airflow rate to arrive at second outdoor airflow; and setting an outdoor damper to provide an outdoor airflow through the outdoor damper that is greater than or substantially equal to the second outdoor airflow. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
US09874361B2
A cooling system for a building including a lower space and an upper space with a ceiling positioned therebetween. The lower space has a window and an opening in the ceiling is spaced from the window so that the lower space is in air communication with the upper space. The window is covered by water absorbent, porous material having a water source in communication therewith. An opening from the upper space to the outdoors is positioned the length of the upper space from the opening in the ceiling. A fan system is positioned in the upper space to draw air form the lower space and directs the air out the opening to the outdoors. Whereby air is drawn through the water absorbent, porous material, through the opening in the ceiling, and travels the length of the upper space before exiting through the opening from the upper space to the outdoors.
US09874352B2
A hood for directing smoke from a wood burning fireplace through a filter or catalytic converter enables a substantial reduction in pollutants released to the environment. In an exemplary embodiment, a hood includes a housing, in which an exhaust cleaner support unit supports an exhaust cleaner for reducing pollutants as smoke is directed from an intake opening of the housing to an exhaust opening of the housing. A rear surface of the housing and side surfaces of the housing abut three walls of the fireplace, reducing air paths behind or beside the hood to capture a substantial amount of the smoke from the fire. The front of the hood is tapered to direct the smoke toward the exhaust cleaner. Due to a mild suction effect from heating of the exhaust cleaner, the front surface of the hood need not extend all the way to the front of the fireplace, and air flow in front of the hood into the flue is not impeded.
US09874345B2
A candelabrum includes a frame assembly, a pair of anchor beams, and at least one candle support. The frame assembly includes a first frame member, a second frame member, and at least one cross member. The first frame member is rigidly coupled to the second frame member via the at least one cross member. The pair of anchor beams is coupled to the frame assembly. The at least one candle support is pivotally coupled to the pair of anchor beams. The at least one candle support is configured to receive a candle therein.
US09874344B2
A demountable Wall system that includes a base trim that receives an accent lighting assembly. The lower trim of the demountable wall system includes one or more lighting base trim sections that receive an accent lighting assembly. The accent lighting assembly includes an extruded diffuser formed from a transparent plastic material. The diffuser receives a light strip having a series of spaced LED lights each positioned to project light through a curved, projection wall of the diffuser. When the accent lighting assembly is mounted to the lighting base trim member, the accent lighting assembly projects light downward toward the floor and onto an angled face wall of the lighting base trim member. The lighting base trim member can selectively replace decorative base trim members of the demountable wall system.
US09874331B2
An automotive headlamp module thatreduces manufacturing cost and increases availability for low-cost vehicles is provided. The automotive headlamp provides a rotational force to a shield via a DC motor and improves safety during operation by implementing a beam pattern in a low-beam mode when performing a fail-safe function due to breakdown in a high-beam mode or an ADB mode. In particular, the automotive headlamp includes a drum type shield rotatably disposed with respect to a shield housing and has a high-beam protrusion, a low-beam protrusion, and an adaptive driving-beam (ADB) protrusion on an exterior side and a shield disc coupled to the shield that rotates. A housing disc guide is movable in a longitudinal direction of the shield by the shield housing and has an end in contact with the shield disc and a return spring and presses a housing disc to the shield disc with accumulated elastic force.
US09874330B2
Disclosed herein a light projection device and a head lamp for vehicle capable of highly increasing and decreasing the illuminance of a plurality of specific regions in a light distribution designed in advance with high degree of freedom. The light projection device includes: a first optical system that forms a second light radiation region; a dynamic light deflection unit configured to deflect a light beam involved in forming the second light radiation region; a second optical system configured to project the deflected light beam to form a third light radiation region; and a deflection pattern generation unit configured to deflect and output each ray of the light beam such that a direction of deflection to be imparted is dependent on a position at which each ray is incident on the light incident portion.
US09874319B2
A light source includes a plurality of laser diodes or other light emitters. Beams of light from the light emitters are steered to provide n array of parallel beams that illuminate a target area with an array of patches of light. In some embodiments the parallel beams are de-magnified to form the array of patches of light. Such a light source has application in illuminating dynamically-addressable focusing elements such as phase modulators, deformable mirrors and dynamically addressable lenses. Light projectors for a wide variety of applications may combine a light source as described herein with a dynamically-addressable focusing element to project defined patterns of light.
US09874317B2
An SSL lighting device (1) comprising a housing (2), which has a reflective inner surface (3), and an elongated light guide (6) which includes a wavelength converting material (10) for converting light in a first wavelength range to light in a second wavelength range. The elongated light guide (6) comprises two ends (7a, 7b), a portion for receiving light (18) and a portion for emitting light (19). The portion for receiving light (18) is arranged inside the housing (2) and the portion for emitting light (19) is arranged outside the housing (2) and at least one of the two ends (7a, 7b) forms the portion (19) for emitting light. The SSL lighting device (1) also comprises a plurality of SSL light sources (4) arranged inside the housing (2) at a distance from the elongated light guide (6). A part of the light emitted from the plurality of SSL light sources (4) into the housing (2) enters the light guide (6) via the portion for receiving light (18) and is absorbed and converted by the wavelength converting material (10). By enclosing the light sources (4) and a portion of the light guide (6) inside a housing (2) with a reflective inner surface (3) and by having a wavelength conversion process occurring inside the light guide (6), this construction enables light from several light sources (4) to be used for providing a single high-intensity and high-power light source.
US09874314B2
A socket is provided (100, 400) for electrically connecting an OLED blade (300), the socket (100, 400) comprising a first part (110, 410) and a second part (120, 420) with a slot (170, 470) between the first part (110, 410) and the second part (120, 420) for receiving the OLED blade (300), at least parts of the first part (110, 410) or the second part (120, 420) being transparent such that primary light emitted by the OLED blade (300) when inserted in the slot can pass the first part (110, 410) or the second part (120, 420), the socket (100, 400) further comprising first electrical contacts (150) for electrically contacting the OLED blade (300) and a first mechanical fixture (140) to attach the OLED blade (300) in a removable way between the first part (110, 410) and the second part (120, 420), the socket (100, 400) further comprising an electrical connector (130, 430) for supplying electrical power to the first electrical contacts (150). The socket (100, 400) enables a flexible light source by providing an adapter between conventional electrical connectors like screw bases or power outlets and OLEDs (290). Furthermore, single side emitting and double side emitting OLEDs can be used in combination with the socket (100, 400).
US09874301B2
A t-junction for use in a pipe manifold of a pumping system for supplying a fracturing fluid to well head.
US09874294B2
The invention relates to a valve (2) for controlling a passage of particles from a first region (6) to a second region (7), wherein the valve (2) comprises a valve material (4) having a modifiable degree of penetrability and a valve region (16) comprising the valve material (4), wherein the valve region (16) and the valve material (4) are adapted such that the particles have to penetrate the valve material (4) if the particles pass the valve (2) for being transferred from the first region (6) to the second region (7). The degree of opening of the valve (2) can easily be controlled by modifying the degree of penetrability of the valve material (4), for example, by modifying the temperature of the valve material (4). Moreover, by penetrating the valve material (4) the particles can be separated from other elements like a fluid containing the particles.
US09874293B2
A fluid transfer system includes a transfer device coupled to a dry break coupler. The transfer device includes a valve assembly moveable between an open and a closed position. The valve assembly includes a main valve and a pilot valve. An actuator controls both the main valve and the pilot valve. A cam plate interconnects the actuator and the valve assembly. The cam plate provides a quick acting shutoff to quickly move the valve assembly to the closed position. A pivotal and rotatable connector couples the transfer device to the dry break coupler. A lock is integrated with the actuator to lock the valve assembly in the closed position.
US09874292B2
Diaphragm actuators having adjustable actuation force are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a spring seat coupled to a diaphragm of an actuator. The spring seat is to contact a spring and is to be coupled to a stem. The diaphragm is to displace the stem based on a force provided to the diaphragm, and the stem is to control a fluid valve. The example apparatus also includes an adjuster to adjust an amount of force provided to the spring seat by the spring.
US09874284B2
The application relates to a valve device, including a valve housing which has at least three connection openings, each of which open into a chamber of the valve device, including two sealing disc units arranged at a distance from each other, each of which lies between two adjacent chambers and has a fixed sealing disc and at least one rotatable sealing disc, wherein each of the rotatable sealing discs and the fixed sealing discs of each sealing disc unit has at least one throughflow opening in order, in at least one overlapping position of the throughflow openings, to release a throughflow cross-section between the adjacent chambers, and including an actuating shaft, which is connected to the rotatable sealing discs for conjoint rotation.
US09874282B2
A slide valve is described, in particular, for an automatic transmission for motor vehicles. The slide valve includes a valve slide displaceable in a sliding channel and at least two adjacent connecting channels. The sliding channel and the valve slide are configured so that the valve slide in an opened slide position establishes a fluid connection between the two adjacent connecting channels, and the valve slide in the opened slide position is guided in a section of the sliding channel between the adjacent connecting channels.
US09874264B2
A powertrain mount is connectable between a vehicle's powertrain component and body structure. The powertrain mount includes a moveable core and a housing for the moveable core. The housing supports the moveable core for movement relative to the housing, in one or more open degrees of freedom, to one or more floating poses where the moveable core is rigidly mechanically decoupled from the housing in the open degrees of freedom. A magnetic field generation system includes one or more housing-side magnetic devices at the housing and one or more moveable-core-side magnetic devices at the moveable core. The housing-side magnetic devices and the moveable-core-side magnetic devices are configured to collectively generate mutually balanced magnetic fields between the housing and the moveable core in the open degrees of freedom that retentively locate the moveable core in one or more floating poses.
US09874260B2
This disclosure relates generally to stands and enclosures for an electronic device. The apparatus can include an enclosure or a housing for receiving an electronic device and protect the device from damage resulting from impact or exposure to liquids. The stand may include one or more bi-stable springs connected to the rear surface of the housing by an attachment feature, such as slides or an anchor. The bi-stable spring portion of the stand has a straight or inactive configuration and a curled activated configuration. When a user places pressure on a straightened bi-stable spring, the bi-stable spring curls outward away from the enclosure and can act as a stand for the electronic device. The stand may be removably or permanently affixed to the enclosure.
US09874258B2
An electromechanical brake integrates a function of a parking brake by adding a simple structure to an existing electromechanical brake. In particular, the electromechanical brake includes a parking braking releasing structure configured to automatically release parking braking after a parking brake operates. In addition, the electromechanical brake is implemented to perform and release parking braking by using a drive unit which may operate in a single direction instead of using a drive unit which may operate in two directions.
US09874253B2
A bicycle brake caliper apparatus comprises a caliper housing and a plug. The caliper housing includes a fluid chamber and an opening for receiving the plug therein, wherein the opening extends to an outside of the housing at a first location. The housing also includes a fluid passage in fluid communication with the fluid chamber, wherein the fluid passage is in fluid communication with an outside of the housing at a second location offset from the first location. The fluid passage is closed when the plug is in a first position. The fluid passage is open when the plug is in a second position so that fluid is allowed to flow from the fluid chamber, through the fluid passage and to the outside of the housing at the second location.
US09874252B2
An electronic, high-efficiency vehicular transmission, an overrunning, non-friction coupling and control assembly and switchable linear actuator device for use in the assembly and the transmission are provided. The device controls the operating mode of at least one non-friction coupling assembly. The device has a plurality of magnetic sources which produce corresponding magnetic fields to create a net translational force. The net translational force comprises a first translational force caused by energization of at least one electromagnetic source and a magnetic latching force based upon linear position of a permanent magnet source along an axis.
US09874242B2
The invention relates to a bearing arrangement including a backup bearing (2), which is provided as a safety device in addition to a main bearing. A joint (12) is formed between an outer ring (3) of the backup bearing (2) and a housing (4) surrounding same.
US09874241B2
A rolling bearing including an outer ring, an inner ring and two annular, cage-guided rolling body rows, the two rolling body rows being axially pre-stressed by at least one spring element which is disposed therebetween, the two rolling body rows each being pre-stressed against a rim at the end of the outer ring, while the inner ring is axially movable against the restoring force of the spring element.
US09874234B2
A flow conditioner for a circular pipe having an axis. The flow conditioner includes a plate having a face to be disposed in the circular pipe with the face of the plate perpendicular to the axis of the pipe. The plate has a central circular passage area through which fluid flows surrounded by two or more concentric arrays of segmented annular passages for fluid flow defined by separating and subdividing ligaments, with at least one subdividing ligament having a width different than a width of a second subdividing ligament. Alternatively, or in addition, there is at least one array of annular passages having a radial width different than a radial width of a second array of annular passages and at least one subdividing ligament having a width different than a width of a second subdividing ligament. A method of producing an optimized geometry of flow conditioner for a circular pipe having an axis.
US09874220B2
A device to limit pre-rotation of fluid across turbomachinery regions where significant pressure differentials exist between rotating and non-rotating components. In one form, the present invention is particularly applicable to centrifugal-based turbomachinery. Of particular concern is that the highly-energized fluid exiting an impeller or related rotating member can impart significant swirl velocity and related rotordynamic forces which in turn may impact rotor stability. The potential for such instability is particularly high when flow coming from an impeller discharge permeates a seal, bushing or related component that is used to fluidly separate the impeller from an upstage partition. The present invention replaces traditional bushing seal designs at swirl-prone regions with a vaned anti-swirl bushing that fits within the housing without increasing the axial or radial dimensions of the housing.
US09874205B2
The invention relates to a pump. The pump has a pump housing comprising a first and second housing part (1, 2). The first housing part (1) has a first fluid port (10) and a first face side (8). The second housing part (2) has a second fluid port (27) and a second face side (9). The second housing part is axially connectable with the first housing part (1). Further, the pump has a pump motor in the first housing part (1) and a fluid mover in the second housing part (2). The fluid mover is drivable by the pump motor. Further, the pump has a housing part connecting device (3) for axially connecting the first housing part (1) and the second housing part (2) with each other. The housing part connecting device (3) is adjustable between a connecting and a release position. In the connecting position, the first housing part (1) and the second housing part (2) are fixed in an axial and rotary manner with each other. In the release position, the first housing part (1) and the second housing part (2) are pivotable relative to each other and are fixed in an axial manner with each other.
US09874203B2
A device for use in compressing or expanding a working fluid, such as a gas, includes a container, a piston, working fluid, ferrofluid, and at least one magnetic component. The piston includes a piston face. The piston face and the container define an interior cavity having a volume that varies in response to movement of the piston relative to the container. The working fluid and the ferrofluid are contained in the interior cavity. The at least one magnetic component has a magnetic field that exerts magnetic forces on the ferrofluid that stabilize the ferrofluid in a subset of the interior cavity. This displaces the working fluid within the interior cavity.
US09874200B2
Embodiments described herein may include at least one pole including a plurality of projections disposed at incremental heights along the pole, an object, a first pulley positioned on a first side of the object, and a second pulley positioned on the second side of the object.
US09874199B2
A frame of a rotating electric machine of a wind turbine extends about an axis of rotation, and has a tubular structure having a cylindrical face and configured to support a plurality of active segments along the cylindrical face; an annular flange configured to connect the rotating electric machine to a main frame of a wind turbine; and a ring having an annular seat for a bearing; and wherein the tubular structure, the annular flange, and the ring are formed in one piece.
US09874190B2
Methods and systems for exercising a genset are disclosed herein. The method includes detecting whether the genset is in a first mode or a second mode, and activating a plurality of exercise cycles of the genset. Activating the plurality of exercise cycles comprises, in response to detecting the genset is in the first mode, ignite fuel to activate the genset during each of the plurality of exercise cycles of the genset; and in response to detecting the genset is in the second mode, cranking the genset without igniting fuel during at least a first subset of the plurality of exercise cycles.
US09874186B2
The invention relates to a cylinder head blank (9) for a high-pressure pump (1), which is in particular configured as a radial or in-line piston pump for fuel injection systems of air-compressing, auto-ignition internal combustion engines, comprising a base (10) having a high-pressure outlet (16) and a plurality of low-pressure connecting points (13-15). Here, the plurality of low-pressure connecting points (13-15) are closed in a raw state, wherein a low-pressure connection (11) can be fitted to each of the low-pressure connecting points (11). The invention further relates to a cylinder head for a high-pressure pump (1) and to a high-pressure pump (1).
US09874185B2
Methods are provided for controlling a solenoid spill valve of a direct injection fuel pump, wherein the solenoid spill valve is energized and de-energized according to certain conditions. A control strategy is needed to operate the direct injection fuel pump when small fractional trapping volumes are commanded, wherein a small amount of fuel is compressed and sent to the direct injection fuel rail. To maintain reliable and repeatable solenoid spill valve behavior for small fractional trapping volumes, methods are proposed that involve energizing the solenoid spill valve for a minimum angular duration below a trapping volume fraction threshold.
US09874183B2
Support bracket and projection which project from curved lower surface of intake manifold are provided. Both parts are arranged in an opposed relation to each other with respect to a center of gravity of the intake manifold when viewed from a longitudinal direction in which a plurality of branches are arranged in parallel to one another. Intake manifold can be stably placed on a flat surface of a floor or the like in such a state that intake manifold is directed downwardly using support bracket and projection as legs. Support bracket also serves as a boss portion for a fixing bolt that fastens an engine body and intake manifold.
US09874179B2
The invention pertains to a three-way valve (1), particularly one intended to be used in an air intake circuit of a motor vehicle, comprising: a body (200) delimiting a first (2), a second (3), and a third (4) conduit, said conduits opening into a shared inner space (201), a first flap (21) capable of being moved to obstruct the first conduit, a second flap (20) capable of being moved to selectively obstruct either the second or the third conduit, a single actuator being arranged to selectively move at least one of the first and second flaps.
US09874176B2
Methods and apparatus to vary reverse thrust of turbofans are disclosed. An example cascade apparatus disclosed herein includes a fixed frame having a plurality of fixed vanes coupled to the frame, where each of the fixed vanes defines a plurality of slots. A plurality of movable vanes intersects the fixed vanes to form a reverse thrust flow path and slidably coupled to the fixed vanes via the slots. The movable vanes slide relative to the fixed vanes between a first position to provide a first reverse thrust and a second position to provide a second reverse thrust different from the first reverse thrust.
US09874163B1
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting engine operation based on estimated vaporized and condensed portions of water injected during a water injection event. In one example, a method may include injecting an amount of water into the intake manifold in response to engine conditions and inferring vaporized and condensed portions of the injected water based on the injected amount and a change in manifold temperature following the injection. Further, the method may include adjusting water injection and engine operating parameters in response the evaporated and/or condensed portion of water.
US09874161B2
A method for operating a boosted internal combustion engine is provided. The engine includes a first cylinder in a first cylinder group and a second cylinder in a second cylinder group, each of the first and second cylinders having two activatable outlet openings adjoined by an exhaust line, one of the outlet openings of each of the first and second cylinders coupled to a first turbocharger including a first turbine and one of the outlet openings of each of the cylinders coupled to a second turbocharger including a second turbine, the method comprising: if engine load is less than a threshold load value implementing a first operating mode that includes deactivating the second cylinder, deactivating one of the activatable outlet openings in the first cylinder, and activating one of the activatable outlet opening in the first cylinder.
US09874151B2
A method for automatically operating a cam-driven pump is disclosed. The pump is monitored to determine whether a specified detachment condition or potential detachment of an actuator of the pump from a driving cam is occurring. The pump is operated in a minimal pressure holding mode to provide a minimal pressure within a working chamber of the pump so as to bias the actuator towards the cam if it is determined that the detachment condition is occurring.
US09874149B2
The invention relates to a method for starting an aircraft turboshaft engine, said turboshaft engine comprising a combustion chamber, a compressor shaft on which a compressor wheel is mounted to feed compressed air to said combustion chamber, at least one starter connected to said shaft so as to provide it with a specified starting torque for driving it in rotation. The method comprises accelerating the compressor shaft during a first start-up phase, then stabilizing the rotational speed of the compressor shaft during a second start-up phase. During acceleration of the compressor shaft, the rotational speed of the shaft is regulated such that the acceleration of the shaft remains substantially constant.
US09874146B2
Support strut assembly for supporting a casing of a functional unit of gas turbine is provided having a strut body for supporting the casing to ground, a ball pivot element mounted to the strut body and a rocker lever mounted to the ball pivot element. The rocker lever inserts into a bearing bore of a support body as part of the casing or ground, the rocker lever inserts into the bearing bore via clearance fit so a pivotal point is generated at a first contact area between the rocker lever and an inner surface of the bearing bore, the rocker lever pivots within the bearing bore around the pivotal point. An elastomeric springing damping element is mounted to the rocker lever between the rocker lever and the a support body providing centering force and damping pivoting of the rocker lever with respect to the support body around the pivotal point.
US09874144B2
An engine inlet for efficient operation in both subsonic and supersonic flight wherein the inlet has a caret configuration is rotatable about an off-body axis for compression ramp angle and capture area variation and a diffuser is engaged to the inlet in a scrubbing relationship to maintain a seal upon rotation of the inlet.
US09874141B2
An internal combustion engine comprising at least one pair of opposed, reciprocating pistons forming a combustion chamber therebetween a crankshaft driven by the pistons via respective drive linkages. The outer piston furthest from the crankshaft comprises a skirt extending from its perimeter towards the crankshaft to form a cylinder within which the other, inner piston reciprocates.
US09874139B2
An assembly can include a wastegate with a wastegate arm and a plug portion positionable in a closed operational state and in open operational states and a turbine housing component that includes a wall extending axially away from a wastegate seat to establish a relationship for exhaust flow from a wastegate opening to an exhaust chamber with respect to the open operational states of the wastegate. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09874135B2
Generally, embodiments of a pre-chamber unit having a pre-combustion chamber including one or more induction ports in a configuration which achieves flow fields and flow field forces inside the pre-combustion chamber which act to direct flame growth away quenching surface of the pre-combustion chamber.
US09874130B2
A vehicle internal combustion engine arrangement includes an internal combustion reciprocating piston engine, and an exhaust line capable of collecting exhaust gases from the engine, a waste heat recovery system carrying a working fluid in a loop, in which the working fluid is successively compressed, heated in a heat exchanger by at least one engine fluid, and expanded in a first expander, a first compressor located in the exhaust line and mechanically connected to the first expander of the waste heat recovery system.
US09874128B2
A fluid injector includes a valve assembly constructed and arranged to control flow of fluid from an inlet to an outlet of the injector. A metal housing surrounds at least a portion of the valve assembly. A plastic body is molded over at least a portion of the housing. A distal end of the body defines an integral stepped portion extending from the body. A carrier surrounds at least the distal end of the body. A seal member is in contact with at least the stepped portion and a surface of the carrier to prevent liquid from entering a space between the housing and the body.
US09874123B2
An engine compression brake device is disclosed. The brake device has at least one camshaft which has at least one cam group with at least one firing cam and at least one brake cam, and has at least one cam follower which is functionally assigned to the firing cam and which is provided for actuating at least one gas exchange valve in a firing mode, and has a cam follower which is functionally assigned to the brake cam and which is provided for actuating at least one gas exchange valve in a braking mode. The brake device further has a switchover device which is provided for the switchover between the firing mode and the braking mode, where the switchover device is provided for converting a torque of the camshaft into a force for the switchover between the firing mode and the braking mode.
US09874105B2
The present disclosure includes active clearance control systems including improved cooling manifolds. Such improved manifolds may utilize multiple cooling zones to provide varied levels of cooling to an engine case.
US09874102B2
A cooling system (10) positioned within a turbine airfoil (12) and having film cooling channels (16) positioned within inner and outer endwalls (18, 20) of the turbine airfoil (12), with cooling fluids supplied to the cooling channels (16) other than from an aft cooling chamber (22) to prevent blockages from developing within the film cooling channels (16) from debris that typically collects with the aft cooling chamber (22) during steady state operation of the turbine engine is disclosed. The cooling system (10) may include one or more midchord cooling channels (24) extending from a midchord cooling chamber (26) and including an outlet (28) positioned closer to a downstream edge (30) of the inner endwall (18) than an upstream wall (32) forming the aft cooling chamber (22). The midchord cooling channel, thus, may cool aspects of the inner endwall (18) radially outward of the aft cooling chamber (22) without receiving cooling fluid from aft cooling chamber (22), thereby eliminating the possibility of blockages from debris in the aft cooling chamber (22).
US09874095B2
A cutting bit for a bit assembly secured to a cutter head includes a cutting end, a shank extending along a bit axis, and a shoulder positioned between the cutting end and the shank. The shoulder includes an outer edge defining a perimeter, a shoulder end surface defining a shoulder plane, a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The first inclined surface is positioned between the outer edge and the shoulder end surface. The first inclined surface extends along the perimeter and is oriented at a first acute angle relative to the shoulder plane. The second inclined surface is positioned between the shoulder end surface and the first inclined surface. The second inclined surface is oriented at a second acute angle relative to the shoulder plane, and the second acute angle is smaller than the first acute angle.
US09874092B2
A fluid pressure pulse generator for a downhole telemetry tool comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a stator body and a plurality of radially extending stator projections spaced around the stator body, whereby adjacently spaced stator projections define stator flow channels extending therebetween. The rotor comprises a rotor body and a plurality of radially extending rotor projections spaced around the rotor body. The rotor projections are axially adjacent to the stator projections and the rotor is rotatable relative to the stator such that the rotor projections move in and out of fluid communication with the stator flow channels to create fluid pressure pulses in fluid flowing through the stator flow channels. The rotor projections may be positioned downhole of the stator projections and include a self-correction mechanism to move the rotor to an open flow position where the rotor projections are out of fluid communication with the stator flow channels if the telemetry tool fails. The stator body may be configured to fixedly attach to a pulser assembly of the downhole telemetry tool and the rotor may be configured to fixedly attach to a driveshaft of the pulser assembly with the driveshaft and/or the rotor body received within the bore of the stator body such that the stator projections are positioned between the pulser assembly and the rotor projections.
US09874089B2
A bridge concentric direct-reading testing and adjusting instrument, comprising a cable head connected to a pressure sensor; a supporting mechanism having a pair of supporting arms; a sliding power mechanism including a power motor, a spring, an impact hammer and a one-way clutch assembly, the impact hammer slidably connected to the power motor to be rotated along with rotation of the power motor, a lower end of the impact hammer detachably connected to the one-way clutch assembly, and the one-way clutch assembly connecting the supporting arms via a transmission assembly to control opening and closing of the supporting arms; a flowmeter; and an adjusting actuator including an adjusting motor, an adjusting connector and an adjusting arm, the adjusting arm used for adjusting a waterflooding flow rate through rotation of the adjusting arm.
US09874083B2
Disclosed are downhole probes in which electrical interconnections between different modules are achieved without wiring harnesses. Modules may be coupled to one another and/or to bulkheads in the probe my couplings that provide substantially rigid couplings. The couplings may be configured to connect together only in one orientation. Electrical connectors may be fixed relative to components of the couplings so that the electrical connectors are automatically aligned for connection by the couplings.
US09874079B2
The present disclosure provides methods of using a nonionic surfactant for enhanced oil recovery, where the nonionic surfactant is prepared with a double metal cyanide catalyst. The present disclosure also provides for an emulsion that includes carbon dioxide, a diluent and the nonionic surfactant.
US09874071B2
A disintegrating plug uses a setting tool to push a swage into the plug body that has external ribs that contact the wall of the surrounding tubular. The ribs retain the body to the surrounding tubular wall with frictional contact. Some leakage may ensue but in fracturing some leakage does not matter if enough volume under the right pressure reaches the formation. The sheared member during the setting comes out with the mandrel that is part of the setting tool. In an alternative embodiment one or more o-rings are used to seal while anchoring is assisted by the hardened insert(s) that can be snap fitted in using rib flexing or that can be a c-ring that is expanded and snapped in. The o-ring(s) are axially spaced from the insert(s).
US09874069B2
A seal assembly and an apparatus including the same are provided. The seal assembly may include a seal member with axially opposing sides and one or two back-up rings for substantially supporting at least one side of the seal member. The seal member may be made of elastomer and have an axially extending base with one or two flange portions and a protrusion extending perpendicularly from the base. The back-up ring may be made of a plastic material and a portion of the back-up ring may abut a radially outer surface of the flange portion of the seal member.
US09874064B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes an accumulator. The accumulator includes a first cylinder configured to receive a fluid within an internal volume of the first cylinder. The accumulator also includes a piston configured to move axially within the first cylinder. Axial movement of the piston within the first cylinder adjusts the internal volume of the first cylinder. The accumulator further includes a plurality of shape memory alloy wires configured to cause the axial movement of the piston within the first cylinder.
US09874051B2
A safe that is unopenable and uses solar energy to dispense via a infrared remote signal a single or double, 1.5 oz shot of hard alcohol every night between the hours of 10 pm and 12 am. Featuring a oneway pump which intakes alcohol into the glass lined reservoir and a tamper proof z shaped nozzle composed of titanium to dispense. Also requires a breathalyzer and identity check of the user. The breathalyzer will use near infrared spectroscopy and also have additional optical filters which check for the organic compounds nitrogen and carbon dioxide present in human breath. The identity check may be done by iris scan or facial recognition scan and may require to have face aligned with both the camera and breathalyzer holes. May also feature a refrigeration system on the bottom of the safe using a Stirling heat engine to power the compressor.
US09874049B1
Disclosed is a self-closing, soft-close compact hinge comprising of a hinge cup pivotally connected to a hinge body via a hinge arm. A coil spring wrapped around the hinge cup provides the self-closing functionality and biases the hinge to a closed position. A damper is contained within the hinge cup in the path of the swinging hinge arm and guided by a damper cover fixedly attached to the hinge cup. The hinge body is comprised of three separate plates adjustably connected to each other with cam screws. The position of the hinge body with respect to the hinge arm is adjustable in three directions without the need for removal or loosening of mounting hardware used to attach the hinge body to a furniture piece.
US09874046B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle lock for a motor vehicle door arrangement, wherein a catch and a pawl are provided. The catch can be brought into an opening position and into a closed position. The catch may be brought into holding engagement with a lock striker. The pawl may be brought into an engagement position. The pawl may be deflected into a release position. A pawl actuation lever is provided for deflecting the pawl. An engagement arrangement is provided. The engagement arrangement comprises a deflection lever on the side of the pawl actuation lever and a counter contour on the side of the pawl. The deflection lever is configured to engage the counter contour. An actuation movement of the pawl actuation lever can deflect the pawl into the release. An inertial characteristic of the deflection lever causes a deflection movement along a free-wheeling path.
US09874045B2
A door locking system includes a door movably mounted on a rail. The door includes rollers rollably coupling the door to the rail. An opener is coupled to the door. The opener positions the door in an open position and a closed position. A lock is coupled to the rail. The lock is in communication with the opener. The lock is automatically positioned in a locked position after the opener positions the door in a closed position. Thus, the door is retained in the closed position.
US09874041B1
An emergency access tool is designed to unfold into unique geometrical shapes that allow for the tool to act as a Class 1 lever to access a locked privacy partition stall door from the outside area thereof. The tool provides a handle to impart input force, a shaft rotatable out of a collapsed position of storage within the handle into alternative fixed operating positions with respect to the handle, a proximal portion of the shaft having a reduced diameter intermediate section, the intermediate section providing a fulcrum point where leverage is achieved while the tool is inserted within the door seam of the partition, and a distal end section which maintains a substantially perpendicular orientation with respect to the shaft during use of the tool. The end section of the tool is sized and adapted to make contact with the interior door lock of the partition and impart the output force necessary to unlock the lock latch and allow entry into the privacy partition stall.
US09874032B1
A tile leveling structure includes a fixture and a leveling member mounted on the fixture. The fixture includes a base, an adjusting plate extending upward from the base, and a oneway toothed rack mounted on the adjusting plate. The base and the adjusting plate have a connection formed with a breaking point. The leveling member is provided with a passage through which the adjusting plate passes. The leveling member has a bottom provided with a pressing face is provided with a first locking portion and a second locking portion. The leveling member is provided with a first wing and a second wing. The first wing is provided with a first hook which is provided with a first abutting face. The second wing is provided with a second hook which is provided with a second abutting face.
US09874026B2
A system for mounting wall panels to an existing wall, includes fastening extrusions, each including an extrusion base section adapted to be secured to the existing wall, at least one retaining wall extending at an angle from the base section, and a holding member on each retaining wall; and intermediary supports for supporting the wall panels at a position between side edges of the wall panels, each intermediary support including an intermediary support base plate adapted to be secured to the existing wall, and a sliding member adapted to be slidably connected with the base plate, such that one wall panel is adapted to be secured on the sliding member for sliding movement relative to the intermediary support base plate with the sliding member in order to slide a side edge of the wall panel into one fastening extrusion between the extrusion base section and the holding member.
US09874018B1
A skylight assembly, having framing members that define an interior space and rafters that span the interior space between framing members, for supporting panes of glass, each pane having at least one structural glass panel and a thermal panel. The framing members have an upper support surface and a main gutter. A structural thermal break connected to each framing member provides a lower support surface. The structural glass panels are fully supported by the upper support surface. The thermal panel is supported by the lower support surface, and is sealed to the upper support surface by a spacer, forming an insulating glass unit therewith. The full support of the structural glass, independent of the support of the thermal panel, allows the skylight to be thermally insulated and walkable. Support blocks extending on each rafter have drainage channels that lead to the main gutters in the framing members.
US09874012B2
A module for mounting within a ceiling panel assembly. The module includes an upper mounting frame that includes a main body portion that defines a central opening, a lower mounting frame that is at least partially received in the central opening of the upper mounting frame, and a latch assembly. The main body portion of the upper mounting frame includes a flange extending outwardly therefrom. The lower mounting frame is pivotable with respect to the upper mounting frame between a first position and a second position. The latch assembly is associated with a first end of the upper mounting frame and the lower mounting frame. When the latch assembly is released the lower mounting frame pivots from the first position to the second position.
US09874010B2
Implementations of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for connecting panels, wall modules, modular walls, partitions, and combinations thereof. Particularly, one or more implementations described herein may facilitate making quick and easy connections between panels, wall modules, modular walls, partitions, and combinations thereof. Furthermore, at least one implementation may allow an installer to interconnect panels, wall modules, modular walls, partitions, while providing a pleasing aesthetic in a final structure.
US09874008B2
A non-metallic joist hanger including a substantially U-shaped receiving channel defined by a pair of spaced apart side wall flanges and a base wall to receive a portion of a joist, an attachment flange extending transversely from each of the spaced apart side walls to attach to a transverse beam, and an arcuate bracing structure extending between each side wall and the adjacent attachment flange.
US09874000B2
A subsurface mining vehicle and a method are used for collecting mineral deposits from a sea bed at great depths and transporting the deposits to a floating vessel. The vehicle has a load-bearing structure having an arrangement for advancing the vehicle on the sea bed, and a pick-up unit for the deposits. A lifting frame is also provided and at one end equipped with a connector to connect to a suspension cable provided between the floating vessel and the vehicle. The lifting frame is at another end connected to the load-bearing structure by a hinged connection, that is actuated by an actuator such that the angular position of the load-bearing structure can be fixed in a number of different angular positions relative to the lifting frame while the vehicle is suspended. The lifting frame allows to launch and position the submarine vehicle in a controlled manner.
US09873989B2
A filament for use in an artificial grass field, wherein the filament has a front and a back surface and at least one of the front surface and back surface includes a plurality of adjacent concave indentations extending generally from a first end to a second end.
US09873988B2
A rail arrangement for rail vehicles furnished with flanged wheels. To reduce the risk of accident existing in connection with grooved rails, particularly for cyclists and pedestrians, a rail arrangement is provided including a. a rail (2) having a rail head (3), a rail web (4) and a rail base (5), the rail head (3) having a drive rail (6), a guide rail (7) and a rail groove (8) lying therebetween; and b. a filler profile (9) arranged in the rail groove (8).
US09873986B2
A paper-making aid composition comprising dialdehyde-modified polyacrylamide-type strengthening agent, polyacrylamide-type strengthening agent and water and having a pH value of 6 or more is provided. A method of paper-making by using the paper-making aid composition is also provided.
US09873981B2
A papermaking machine includes a Yankee dryer, a doctor, and a doctor blade loading control system. The doctor blade loading control system includes a first doctor loading cylinder coupled to the doctor and configured to selectively apply a loading force to the doctor, a second doctor loading cylinder coupled to the doctor and configured to selectively apply a loading force to the doctor, a first air line in communication with the first doctor loading cylinder, a second air line in communication with the second doctor loading cylinder, a first electronic pressure controller configured to control a loading pressure of the first doctor loading cylinder on the doctor based on a first loading pressure setpoint, and a second electronic pressure controller configured to control a loading pressure of the second doctor loading cylinder on the doctor based on a second loading pressure setpoint.
US09873977B2
A sock tie is used when laundering socks, in order to keep a pair together. Formed of a comparatively high temperature polymer, the elastomeric loop may be drawn around a pair of socks one or more times to bind them together. The tension in the loop need not be excessively high. The nearer to the center of the length of a pair of socks the loop is placed, the less tension is required, inasmuch as the socks themselves by their random motion will resist self removal of the band or loop. Logos, labels, text, instructions, images, colors and the like may be formed into tabs attached at one or more points about the circumference of a sock tie loop. The tab provides an ease of removal while also providing space for advertising, logos, instructions, or the like.
US09873976B2
This device is used to decrease, roll, and wash hand wraps that boxers and martial artists use, the domes and their covers decrease the wraps, the axle rolls them inside the bag, and the mesh structure allows a thorough washing of the hand wraps inside the bag by placing it in a washing machine.
US09873974B2
A machine adapted to carry out at least one laundry drying cycle. Such machine comprises a frame wherein a tub is mounted; a drum wherein laundry is placed, said drum being rotatably mounted within the tub and having at least one load opening; a door movable between a closed position and an open position; a drying system comprising: an intake channel for removing humid air from the tub; a delivery channel for supplying dry air into the drum; a drying apparatus interposed between the intake channel and the delivery channel for separating at least partially the air from the water contained therein obtaining dry air. The delivery channel is at least partially provided on the door.
US09873964B2
The present invention relates to a dispersible nonwoven fabric comprising pulp and solvent spun cellulosic fibers, characterized in that the solvent spun cellulosic fibers are fibrillated. Furthermore the invention concerns the use of the fabric in dry wipes and wet wipes.
US09873959B2
With a method for controlling a piecing process for piecing up a yarn at a textile machine, in particular a spinning machine, by means of a piecing device, a multiple number of work steps as preparation for the actual piecing operation are carried out successively in a chronological sequence. In each case, a predetermined time period is allocated to the work steps. For at least one of the work steps, the predetermined time period can be varied, whereas the current time period of the work step is determined as a function of a yarn characteristic of the currently produced yarn and/or as a function of a utilization of the piecing device. A control unit is designed to operate the textile machine according to this method.
US09873956B2
This invention provides novel compositions and processes for analyte detection, quantification and amplification. Nucleic acid arrays and libraries of analytes are usefully incorporated into such compositions and processes. Universal detection elements, signaling entities and the like are employed to detect and if necessary or desirable, to quantify analytes. Amplification of target analytes are also provided by the compositions and processes of this invention.
US09873954B2
Provided are an epitaxial wafer and a method of fabricating the same. The method includes a pre-growth step of injecting a reaction source for epitaxial growth on a semiconductor wafer prepared in a chamber and growing an epitaxial layer by a predetermined first thickness at a predetermined first growth rate and at a predetermined first growth temperature, a heat treatment step of performing heat treatment on the epitaxial layer grown by the pre-growth step during a predetermined time, and a subsequent growth step of injecting the reaction source on the heat-treated semiconductor wafer and growing the epitaxial layer to a target thickness at a predetermined second growth rate and at a predetermined second growth temperature. The first growth rate is smaller than the second growth rate.
US09873953B2
A method for removing rare earth impurities from a nickel-electroplating solution by adding a rare earth compound to the nickel-electroplating solution containing rare earth impurities, keeping the electroplating solution at 60° C. or higher for a certain period of time, and then removing precipitate generated by the heating from the nickel-electroplating solution together with the added rare earth compound by sedimentation and/or filtration.
US09873942B2
Methods of vapor deposition include multiple vapor sources. A vapor deposition method includes delivering pulses of a vapor containing a first source chemical to a reaction space from at least two separate source vessels simultaneously. The pulses can contain a substantially consistent concentration of the first source chemical. The method can include purging the reaction space of an excess of the first source chemical after the delivering, and delivering pulses of a vapor containing a second source chemical to the reaction space from at least two separate source vessels simultaneously after the purging.
US09873932B2
An austenitic stainless steel composition including relatively low nickel and molybdenum levels, and exhibiting corrosion resistance, resistance to elevated temperature deformation, and formability properties comparable to certain alloys including higher nickel and molybdenum levels. Embodiments of the austenitic stainless steel include, in weight %, up to 0.20 C, 2.0 to 9.0 Mn, up to 2.0 Si, 16.0 to 23.0 Cr, 1.0 to 7.0 Ni, up to 3.0 Mo, up to 3.0 Cu, 0.05 to 0.35 N, up to 4.0 W, (7.5(C))≦(Nb+Ti+V+Ta+Zr)≦1.5, up to 0.01 B, up to 1.0 Co, iron and impurities. Additionally, embodiments of the steel may include 0.5≦(Mo+W/2)≦5.0 and/or 1.0≦(Ni+Co)≦8.0.
US09873929B2
A method of manufacturing tailor welded blanks may be capable of improving a quality of a welded portion and shortening a manufacturing time when a tailor welded blank is manufactured using a coated steel plate. The method of manufacturing tailor welded blanks includes welding one or more pairs of different coated steel plates having different thicknesses or strengths with laser using a filler wire.
US09873923B2
A method of operating a blast furnace by blowing a pulverized coal at an amount of not less than 150 kg/t−p from tuyeres through a lance into a blast furnace, wherein when the operation is performed under a condition that lump coke charged from a furnace top has a strength defined in JIS K2151 (DI15015) of not more than 87%, the pulverized coal blown through the tuyere contains not more than 60 mass % as a weight ratio of coal having a particle size of not more than 74 μm and has an average volatile matter of not more than 25 mass %, and a blast temperature blown through the tuyere is not higher than 1100° C., oxygen is simultaneously blown into the furnace with the blowing of the pulverized coals through the lance and a gas having an oxygen concentration of 60 vol %-97 vol % is used as a carrier gas for the blowing of the pulverized coal.
US09873919B2
The present application relates to a nucleic acid molecule having a nucleotide sequence encoding a bifunctional polypeptide comprising the DNA-binding domain of a protein belonging to the family of Methyl-CpG binding proteins (MBDs) and the Fc portion of an antibody. In addition, vectors and host cells which comprise said nucleic acid molecule and polypeptides which are encoded by said nucleic acid molecule as well as processes for producing said polypeptide are disclosed. Moreover, the present application provides an antibody specifically binding said polypeptide and compositions, in particular diagnostic compositions comprising the nucleic acid molecule(s), vector(s), host cell(s), polypeptide(s) or antibodie(s) of the present application. Furthermore, methods and uses employing the polypeptides of the present invention for detecting methylated DNA, in particular in tumorous tissue or tumor cells are provided.
US09873914B2
The invention relates to methods of analyzing a sample from a subject having or suspected of having Crohn's disease for the abundance of the subject's nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) in the sample. The invention also relates to methods for measuring abundance of nucleic acid (e.g., DNA) in stool from a human subject having or suspected of having Crohn's Disease (CD). In various embodiments, an in vitro method includes analyzing the relative abundance of the host (human) DNA in said sample of stool or nucleic acid extracted or isolated from a stool sample from the host (human); determining the relative abundance of the host (human's) DNA in the sample; and associating the abundance of the host (human) DNA with the host (human) providing the stool sample, or the host (human) providing the stool sample from which the nucleic acid was extracted.
US09873906B2
The present invention provides methods and kits for repair of degraded DNA which may then be used as a template for efficient amplification by a number of different amplification reactions. The method relies upon a series of enzymatic activities provided by DNA repair enzymes.
US09873904B2
The disclosure provides culture devices and methods useful for detecting acid-producing bacteria in a sample. The devices include a nutrient medium and a pH indicator to detect and differentiate acid-producing microorganisms, such as lactic acid bacteria. Methods of use include detecting or enumerating acid-producing microorganisms. The methods further provide for the detection of gas-producing acid-producing bacteria.
US09873902B2
The invention relates to a method of and apparatus for determining concentration of an analyte, such as glucose, in a fluid sample, such as body fluid or control solution, using a mediated redox reaction. In particular, the method relates to mitigation of the effects of haematocrit on the response of sensor device used in such a method or apparatus. The invention describes a method of determining concentration of an analyte in a fluid sample deposited on a sensor device having a working electrode and a counter electrode, in which the electrodes are provided with an enzyme and a mediator for carrying out a mediated redox reaction, the method comprising: applying a first oxidizing potential between the working and counter electrodes during a first time period; applying a second reducing potential between the working and counter electrodes during a second time period; determining a reaction parameter, the reaction parameter being indicative of the concentration of reduced mediator at the counter electrode after commencement of the second time period; using the reaction parameter to determine the concentration of analyte.
US09873895B2
The present invention relates to a method for generating 1,3-diene compounds through a biological process. More specifically, the invention relates to a method for producing 1,3-diene compounds (for example butadiene or isoprene) from molecules of the 3-hydroxyalk-4-enoate type or from 3-phosphonoxyalk-4-enoates.
US09873893B2
Expression vectors and therapeutic methods of using such vectors in the treatment of diseases of the eye resulting from failure to produce a specific protein in the eye, or the production of a non-functional protein in the eye.
US09873891B2
A process for the production of a target polypeptide is provided. The process comprises expression of an expression vector for expressing a target polypeptide in a host cell, preferably a mammalian cell, the expression vector comprising an expression cassette comprising a polynucleotide encoding a recombinant polypeptide operably linked to a fibronectin secretion leader sequence; and recovering the target polypeptide.
US09873885B2
A potato transformation vector, pSIM1278 is disclosed. The invention relates to the potato transformation vector for silencing endogenous aspargine synthetase-1, polyphenol oxidase-5, phosphorylase-L, and dikinase R1 genes.
US09873882B2
Methods and means are provided to enhance the selective expression of transgenes under control of a fiber-selective promoter, in fiber cells, particularly cotton fiber cells by including target sites for naturally occurring microRNAs with a specific expression profile, particularly with a differential expression profile between cells leading to fibers and other cells of the fiber producing plant, into the transcribed region of genes of interest.
US09873865B2
The disclosure relates to acyl-ACP reductase (AAR) enzyme variants that result in improved fatty aldehyde and fatty alcohol production when expressed in recombinant host cells. The disclosure further relates to methods of making and using such AAR variants for the production of fatty alcohol compositions having particular characteristics.
US09873857B2
Provided is a cleaning composition, including, from about 0.01 weight % to about 10.0 weight % of a chelating agent, from about 0.01 weight to about 3.0 weight % of an organic acid containing a carboxyl group, from about 0.01 weight % to about 2.0 weight % of an inorganic acid, from about 1.0 weight % to about 15.0 weight % of an amine and water in an amount sufficient to bring the total weight of the cleaning composition to 100 weight %.
US09873852B2
Method and System of lubricating at least one moving part with a medium. The medium includes a dissolved mixture of lubricant and compressed gas. The amount of lubricant and compressed gas may be controlled in forming the dissolved mixture in response to input conditions. A user and/or external factors may be used to determine the input conditions. In response to the input conditions the amount of lubricant and compressed gas is delivered to the moving part that is housed in a pressurized chamber. The properties of the dissolved mixture can be adjusted, whereby the properties may include, but are not limited to, the following: viscosity, temperature, and thermal conductivity. This adjustment to the gas may be accomplished, for example, by releasing gas from the pressurized chamber in an amount to adjust the properties. In a further approach, lubricant may be scavenged from the pressurized chamber by returning surplus lubricant to its original source or other designated location.
US09873848B2
Methods for improving the injector performance, unsticking fuel injectors, and reducing an amount of alkali metal carboxylate deposits on internal components of fuel injectors. The method includes operating the diesel engine on a fuel composition comprising a major amount of diesel fuel and from about 45 to about 550 ppm by weight based on a total weight of fuel composition of a fuel additive consisting essentially of a compound of the formula wherein R is an alkyl or alkenyl group containing from 20 to 170 carbon atoms. The additive has a total acid number (TAN) ranging from about 50 to about 290 mg KOH/g. Fuel injectors of the fuel injected diesel engine have an average injector hole diameter of less than 160 μm and an average smallest clearance between injector needle and injector barrel/casing of less than about 10 μm.
US09873828B2
An electrophilic acid gas-reactive fracturing fluid, proppant, and process are detailed. The fluid expands in volume to provide rapid and controlled increases in pressure that enhances fracturing in subterranean bedrock for recovery of energy-producing materials. The proppant stabilizes fracture openings in the bedrock to enhance recovery of energy-producing materials.
US09873824B2
A polishing material including polishing abrasive grains, the polishing abrasive grain having a core material that includes a metal oxide, and a cover layer that is provided on a surface of the core material and includes an oxide of a metal, that is different from the core material, or an oxide of a semimetal. When the polishing abrasive grains are observed with a scanning electron microscope after boiling a slurry including the polishing abrasive grains for 5 hours, a ratio of a longitudinal axis to a lateral axis of the polishing abrasive grain is 1.0 or greater and less than 1.5. The polishing abrasive grain preferably has a mass ratio of the cover layer to the core material, cover layer/core material, of from 0.3 mass % to 30 mass % inclusive. The cover layer preferably has a thickness of from 0.2 nm to 500 nm inclusive.
US09873819B2
A curable composition having excellent storage stability and capable of forming a cured product having excellent scratch resistance.The composition comprises a silsesquioxane monomer having a radically polymerizable group in the molecule and a content of a component having a molecular weight measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) of not less than 10,000 of less than 9 mass % and a bifunctional polymerizable monomer represented by the following formula (1). (wherein B and B′ are each an linear or branched alkylene group having 2 to 15 carbon atoms, “c” is an average value of 1 to 20, when a plurality of B's are existent, B's may be the same or different, and R5 and R6 are each a hydrogen atom or methyl group).
US09873816B2
A recycled crumb rubber coating with a hydrophobic surface and a method for making the same. The coating with a hydrophobic surface includes a recycled crumb rubber coating layer comprising about 24-50 wt % of a crumb rubber, and about 25-75 wt % of an epoxy comprising a liquid epoxy resin and an epoxy hardener, and a first silane film comprising at least one silane and disposed on a surface of the recycled crumb rubber coating layer to form the hydrophobic surface. The method includes (a) mixing a crumb rubber with a liquid epoxy resin to form a first mixture, (b) mixing the first mixture with an epoxy hardener to form a recycled crumb rubber coating layer, and (c) depositing a first silane film comprising at least one silane on a surface of the recycled crumb rubber coating layer to form the hydrophobic surface of the recycled crumb rubber coating.
US09873815B2
A polymer includes a first moiety represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a second moiety including a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C60 cyclic group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C60 hetero cyclic group, or a combination thereof: In Chemical Formula 1, X is phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), boron (B), or P═O, Y1 and Y2 are independently hydrogen or a moiety including at least one substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, provided that at least one of Y1 and Y2 is the moiety including at least one substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, Y3 is another moiety including at least one substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, and * is a linking point.
US09873813B2
Methods are provided for rapid and efficient removal and separation of leaves and bark from harvested plant material for use in extraction and purification of plant products, and in particular, the removal of leaves and bark from Guayule for the extraction of latex for use in latex and rubber products.
US09873810B2
To provide an ink-jet white ink of active energy ray-curable type, wherein the white ink has high printing stability and good hiding property, and is particularly suitable for printing on the single-pass ink-jet printing system. An ink-jet white ink of active energy ray-curable type, comprising titanium oxide, a pigment dispersant, and a polymerizable compound, wherein the content of the titanium oxide is from 15 to 30% by weight with reference to the total weight of the ink, and wherein the weight average particle diameter of the titanium oxide is 180 to 250 nm. In an embodiment of the ink, the titanium oxide is titanium oxide that surface is treated with silica and the pigment dispersant comprises a basic dispersant.
US09873809B2
Ink includes a coloring material, an organic solvent, and water, wherein the ink satisfies the following requisites: I. the organic solvent includes an organic solvent X having a solubility parameter (SP value) of 8.9-12.0, II. the organic solvent includes glycol ether compound (compound Z) having a vapor pressure of 50 mmHg or greater at 100 degrees C., and III. a mass ratio of the organic solvent X to the glycol ether compound is 1:1-8:1.
US09873805B2
A solvent-soluble flexographic retort ink particularly suitable for use in laminating packaging applications. The inks maintain lamination bond strength after being subjected to retort conditions.
US09873796B2
Provided are a green pigment composition for a color filter having high brightness and wide color reproduction range in a liquid crystal display, and a color filter formed including the same. A halogenated zinc phthalocyanine containing an average of 10 to 14 halogen atoms per molecule in which an average of 8 to 12 are bromine atoms and an average of 2 to 5 are chlorine atoms is used. As a result, film thickness is less than when using Pigment Green 7 and, thus, a color filter with high brightness and wide color reproduction range can be provided.
US09873791B1
A long carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin composition for foam injection and a molded article manufactured using the same are provided. More particularly, the thermoplastic resin composition and the manufactured molded article may be capable of improving component assembly and stability by minimizing deformation after foam injection molding. Such composition and molded article can be utilized as a component for a vehicle structure such as a panoramic sunroof frame. Also provided herein is a low-density polyamide-6 polymer comprising a long carbon fiber reinforcing agent, a thermoplastic elastomer, a silane-based coupling agent and a sodium phosphate nucleating. The polymer is suitable for foam injection. The thermoplastic resin composition and molded article made of said composition are light weight and economic feasibility as well as having high stiffness, durability, dimensional stability, and a desirable injection appearance.
US09873790B1
Novel absorbable, semi-crystalline, polymer blend compositions are disclosed exhibiting enhanced crystallization and nucleation rates. Also disclosed are medical device constructs, such as fibers made from such blends. The blends have a first absorbable polymeric component having a first molecular weight distribution and a second absorbable polymeric component which has an ultrahigh molecular weight distribution. The first and second polymeric components may be the same polymer.
US09873786B2
A composition for forming a polymeric cell culture surface includes (i) a pre-polymer comprising a polymer backbone, a cationic moiety conjugated to the backbone, and a cross-linker moiety conjugated to the backbone; and (ii) a peptide-polymer comprising a polymer backbone and cell adhesive peptide conjugated to the backbone. Cross-linked coatings for cell culture that have a suitable amount of cell adhesive peptide and cationic moiety may be formed from the pre-polymer and peptide-polymer.
US09873785B2
Described is a process for producing water-absorbing polymers wherein a base polymer A is contacted and mixed with an aqueous additive solution B in a mixing device, wherein the base polymer A is formed from monomers bearing at least 30% neutralized acid groups and the aqueous additive solution B is dosed into the mixing device without nozzle via a pipe.
US09873776B2
The present invention relates to a polyolefin composition with increased resistance to degradation caused by ClO2-containing water and to a pipe or a fitting made of such a polyolefin composition. The polyolefin composition comprises a polyolefin base resin (A), an antioxidant (B) having a chroman-6-ol structure, and an antioxidant (C) having a phenolic structure and the molecule comprises at least one ester group. The present invention further relates to the use of the polyolefin composition for the production of a pipe or a fitting and to the use of the polyolefin composition for increasing the lifetime of a pipe or a fitting providing the polyolefin composition with resistance against degradation caused by contact with ClO2-containing water.
US09873767B2
A polyimide resin containing a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (1) and a repeating structural unit represented by the following formula (2), a content ratio of the repeating structural unit of formula (1) with respect to the total of the repeating structural unit of formula (1) and the repeating structural unit of formula (2) being 20 mol % or more and less than 40 mol %, and the polyimide resin satisfying predetermined conditions:wherein R1 represents a divalent group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms containing at least one alicyclic hydrocarbon structure; R2 represents a divalent chain aliphatic group having from 5 to 16 carbon atoms; and X1 and X2 each independently represent a tetravalent group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms containing at least one aromatic ring.
US09873764B2
The present disclosure relates to microparticles or nanoparticles comprising a polyesteramide (PEA) having a chemical formula described by structural formula (IV), wherein m+p varies from 0.9-0.1 and q varies from 0.1 to 0.9; m+p+q=1 whereby m or p could be 0; n is about 5 to about 300; (pref. 50-200); R1 is independently selected from the group consisting of (C2-C20) alkylene, (C2-C20) alkenylene, —(R9—CO—O—R10—O—CO—R9)—, —CHR11—O—CO—R12—COOCR11— and combinations thereof; R3 and R4 in a single backbone unit m or p, respectively, are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, (C1-C6)alkyl, (C2-C6)alkenyl, (C2-C6)alkynyl, (C6-C10)aryl, (C1-C6)alkyl, —(CH2)SH, —(CH2)2S(CH3), —CH2OH, —CH(OH)CH3, —(CH2)4NH3+, —(CH2)3NHC(═NH2+)NH2, —CH2COOH, —(CH2)COOH, —CH2—CO—NH2, —CH2CH2—CO—NH2, —CH2CH2COOH, CH3—CH2—CH(CH3)—, (CH3)2—CH—CH2—, H2N—(CH2)4—, Ph-CH2—, CH═C—CH2—, HO-p-Ph-CH2—, (CH3)2—CH—, Ph-NH—, NH—(CH2)3—C—, NH—CH═N—CH═C—CH2—; R5 is selected from the group consisting of (C2-C20)alkylene, (C2-C20)alkenylene, alkyloxy or oligoethyleneglycol; R6 is selected from bicyclic-fragments of 1,4:3,6-dianhydrohexitols of structural formula (III); R7 is (C6-C10)aryl (C1-C6)alkyl; R8 is —(CH2)4—; R9 or R10 are independently selected from C2-C12 alkylene or C2-C12 alkenylene; and R11 or R12 are independently selected from H, methyl, C2-C12 alkylene or C2-C12 alkenylene; whereby a is at least 0.05 and b is at least 0.05 and a+b=1.
US09873759B2
Composite resins produced from chemical reactions among a polyglycol epoxide liquid epoxy resin, an aminosilane, tri- and/or tetra-alkoxysilanes and an isocyanate. The hybrid compositions are prepared by an in situ sol-gel process where components of the composition are mixed together sequentially. The composite resins are formed by a coupling reaction between the epoxide groups of the epoxy resin and the amino groups of the aminosilane. The silanes are hydrolyzed to form silanol groups which then undergo polycondensation to form an inorganic polymeric network of an intermediate. Finally, urethane moieties are introduced to the composite resins when unreacted hydroxyl groups from the intermediate react with the isocyanate. These composite resins are evaluated as protective coatings of mild steel substrates, including mechanical strength, anticorrosiveness in a saline medium, and adhesiveness to the mild steel substrates.
US09873758B2
A polyurethane reaction system includes an isocyanate component having at least one polyisocyanate and an isocyanate-reactive component having a storage stable polyol component that is a single phase liquid mixture at 23° C. including a first polyether polyol and a second polyether polyol. The first polyether polyol is included in an amount from 20 wt % to 90 wt %, based on total weight of the polyol component, is a glycol based polyoxypropylene-polyoxyethylene polyether polyol having number average molecular weight from 1500 g/mol to 1975 g/mol, and has a polyoxyethylene content from 26 wt % and 34 wt % based on a total weight of the first polyether polyol. The second polyether polyol is included in an amount from 10 wt % to 80 wt %, based on total weight of the polyol component, has a number average molecular weight from 750 g/mol to 4000 g/mol, and has a melting point higher than 23° C.
US09873754B2
A process for the gas-phase polymerization of ethylene or a mixture of ethylene and one or more 1 olefins in the presence of a polymerization catalyst system comprising the steps a) feeding a solid catalyst component, which was obtained by contacting at least a magnesium compound and a titanium compound, to a continuously operated apparatus and contacting the solid catalyst component with an aluminum alkyl compound at a temperature of from 0° C. to 70° C. in a way that the mean residence time of the solid catalyst component in contact with the aluminum alkyl compound is from 5 to 300 minutes; b) transferring the catalyst component formed in step a) into another continuously operated apparatus and prepolymerizing it with ethylene or a mixture of ethylene and one or more 1 olefins in suspension at a temperature of from 10° C. to 80° forming polymer in an amount of from 0.2 to 25 g polymer/g of solid catalyst component in a way that the mean residence time of the solid catalyst component in the apparatus is from 5 minutes to 3 hours; and c) transferring the prepolymerized catalyst component formed in step b) into a gas-phase polymerization reactor and polymerizing ethylene or a mixture of ethylene and one or more 1 olefins in the presence of the prepolymerized catalyst component at temperatures of from 40° C. to 120° C. and pressures of from 0.1 to 10 MPa.
US09873743B2
The present invention provides antibodies that bind to the IL-3 receptor alpha subunit alpha (Il3Rα) chain, and compositions comprising such antibodies. The present invention provides methods for inhibiting or reducing an IL3Rα-expressing cell population, the methods comprising contacting a population of IL3Rα-expressing cells (e.g., cancer cells and/or cancer stem cells) with an antibody that binds to IL3Rα. The present invention also provides antibody conjugates comprising an antibody that binds to an IL3Rα chain linked to a cytotoxic agent or anticellular agent and compositions comprising such conjugates. The present invention also provides methods for preventing, treating and/or managing a disorder associated with IL3Rα-expressing cells (e.g., a hematological cancer), the methods comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an antibody that binds to IL3Rα.
US09873739B2
The disclosure relates to compositions and methods of mitigating tissue damage and fibrosis in a patient by modulating latent transforming growth factor beta binding protein (LTBP4)-induced proteolysis of a Transforming Growth Factor-beta (TGFβ) superfamily protein.
US09873734B2
The present invention relates to antagonist antibodies that specifically bind to Notch 3 and inhibit its activation. The present invention includes antibodies binding to a conformational epitope comprising the first Lin12 domain and the second dimerization domain. The present invention also includes uses of these antibodies to treat or prevent Notch 3 related diseases or disorders.
US09873729B2
The present disclosure relates to a class of engineered polypeptides having a binding affinity for the neonatal Fc receptor (in the following referred to as FcRn), and provides an FcRn binding polypeptide comprising the sequence EX2X3X4AX6X7 EIRWLPNL X16X17X18QRX21 AFIX25X26LX28X29 (SEQ ID NO: 1075). The present disclosure also relates to the use of such an FcRn binding polypeptide as an agent for modifying pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties and as a therapeutic agent.
US09873726B2
The invention relates to novel polypeptides and cells comprising the polypeptides. The polypeptides and cells are used in methods to identify and/or isolate cells producing a protein with specific biological functions. In particular, the methods may be used for identifying, selecting, and isolating cells producing antigen-specific monoclonal antibodies.
US09873724B2
Short bioactive sequences derived from the 2nd loop of the 7-transmembranal receptor of endothelial differentiation gene 3 (EDG3) useful in stimulation of angiogenesis, and peptide conjugates comprising a permeability enhancing moiety, are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the peptides and methods of use in conditions were insufficient blood-supply occurs, or which are associated with endothelia dysfunction such as peripheral vascular diseases, coronary artery diseases, cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes and delayed wound healing, pulmonary disease, eye diseases and pathological condition related to severe infection.
US09873718B2
This invention relates, e.g., to an inhibitory peptide or CPP inhibitor which specifically binds to p53 having an aberrant conformation (e.g., is aggregated or misfolded) and inhibits p53 amyloidogenic aggregation or restores proper folding of the misfolded protein. Methods of using the inhibitory peptide or CPP inhibitor (e.g. to treat subjects having tumors that comprise aggregated p53) are described.
US09873712B2
A method for the purification of idraparinux sodium includes: passing a solution including a crude idraparinux sodium through a column including a sodium ion exchange resin to obtain a first mixture; passing a solution including the first mixture through a gel chromatogaphy column to obtain a second mixture; and precipitating a purified idraparinux sodium from a solution including the second mixture.
US09873709B2
Compounds of Formula 0, Formula I and Formula II and methods of use as Janus kinase inhibitors are described herein.
US09873692B2
The invention provides novel quinolinone-carboxamide 5-HT4 receptor agonist compounds. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat diseases associated with 5-HT4 receptor activity, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
US09873686B2
The present invention relates to the compound (2R,2′R)-bis(((((tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)oxy)carbonyl)oxy)methyl) 1,1′-adipoylbis(pyrrolidine-2-carboxylate), pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and the use of the same for treatment of diseases or disorders wherein depletion of serum amyloid P component (SAP) would be beneficial, including amyloidosis, Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes mellitus and osteoarthritis.
US09873682B2
The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I): The compound has apoptosis signal-regulating kinase (“ASK1”) inhibitory activity, and is thus useful in the treatment of diseases such as kidney disease, diabetic nephropathy and kidney fibrosis.
US09873674B2
Compounds having a c-Rel inhibiting property according to the formula: (1) wherein R1 and R2 are each independently selected from hydrogen atom and hydrocarbon groups having at least one and up to thirty carbon atoms and optionally substituted with one or more heteroatoms selected from halogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur; R3 is selected from hydrocarbon groups having at least one and up to thirty carbon atoms and optionally substituted with one or more heteroatoms selected from halogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur; and X1, X2, and X3 are each independently selected from oxygen and sulfur atoms. Methods for treating diseases and conditions associated with c-Rel overexpression by administering compounds of Formula (1) or a pharmaceutical composition thereof to a subject afflicted with such a disease or condition are also described.
US09873660B2
A compound represented by Chemical Formula 1: wherein in Chemical Formula 1, R1 and R2 are the same or different, and are each independently an electron-withdrawing group, R3 to R6 are the same or different, and are each independently selected from a hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 alkyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C20 aryl group, and n11 and n12 are the same or different, and are each independently an integer from 1 to 4.
US09873656B2
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, wherein b) the molar ratio of reactant vinyl ester to reactant carboxylic acid is 1:3 to 3:1, and c) the transvinylation reaction is conducted, 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.
US09873648B2
Provided herein in is a method of removing phosphorus from a liquid hydrocarbon that includes the steps of (a) contacting the liquid hydrocarbon with an aqueous solution that comprises an oxidizing agent to form a reaction mixture that comprises an aqueous component and a hydrocarbon component, wherein the liquid hydrocarbon comprises at least an alkene(C4-30), and a phosphine(C≦30); (b) reacting the oxidizing agent with the phosphine(C≦30) to form the corresponding phosphine oxide(C≦30); and (c) separating the aqueous component from the hydrocarbon component, thereby removing the phosphine oxide(C≦30) from the liquid hydrocarbon.
US09873647B2
This invention relates to a process for converting acyclic C5 hydrocarbons to cyclopentadiene including: providing to the at least one adiabatic reaction zone a feedstock comprising acyclic C5 hydrocarbons at a temperature, T1, wherein the at least one adiabatic reaction zone comprises a first particulate material comprising catalyst material; contacting the feedstock and the first particulate material in the at least one adiabatic reaction zone under reaction conditions to convert at least a portion of the acyclic C5 hydrocarbons to a first effluent comprising cyclopentadiene intermediates, unconverted acyclic C5 hydrocarbons, and, optionally, cyclopentadiene; heating the first effluent to a temperature, T2; providing the first effluent to the at least one diabatic reaction zone; and contacting the first effluent and a second particulate material comprising catalyst material in the at least one diabatic reaction zone under reaction conditions to convert at least a portion of the cyclopentadiene intermediates and the unconverted acyclic C5 hydrocarbons to a second effluent comprising cyclopentadiene.
US09873646B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing cyclohexane from methylcyclopentane (MCP) and benzene. In the context of the present invention, MCP and benzene are constituents of a hydrocarbon mixture (HM1) additionally comprising dimethylpentanes (DMP), possibly cyclohexane and possibly at least one compound (low boiler) selected from acyclic C5-C6-alkanes and cyclopentane. First of all, benzene is converted in a hydrogenation step to cyclohexane (that present in the hydrocarbon mixture (HM2)), while MCP is isomerized in the presence of a catalyst, preferably of an acidic ionic liquid, to cyclohexane. After the hydrogenation but prior to the isomerization the dimethylpentanes (DMP) are removed, with initial removal of the cyclohexane present in the hydrocarbon mixture (HM2) together with DMP. This cyclohexane already present prior to the isomerization can be separated again from DMP in a downstream rectification step and isolated and/or recycled into the process for cyclohexane preparation. Between the DMP removal and MCP isomerization—if low boilers are present in the hydrocarbon mixture (HM1)—low boilers are, optionally removed. After the isomerization, the cyclohexane is isolated, optionally with return of unisomerized MCP and optionally of low boilers. Preferably, cyclohexane and/or low boilers are present in the hydrocarbon mixture (HM1), and so a low boiler removal is preferably conducted between the DMP removal from isomerization. It is additionally preferable that the removal of the cyclohexane from DMP is additionally conducted, meaning that the cyclohexane component which arises in the benzene hydrogenation and may be present in the starting mixture (HM1) is isolated and hence recovered.
US09873644B2
The present invention provides methods, reactor systems, and catalysts for increasing the yield of aromatic hydrocarbons produced while converting carboxylic acids to aromatic hydrocarbons. The invention includes methods of using catalysts to increase the yield of benzene, toluene, and mixed xylenes in the hydrocarbon product.
US09873642B2
A system or method for producing gasoline from natural gas via methanol can effectively use the heat of reaction generated during the synthesis of gasoline and is capable of readily cooling the gasoline synthesis column in the production of gasoline from natural gas via methanol. A steam reformer 10 steam-reforms natural gas to generate reformed gas, methanol is synthesized by a methanol synthesis column 20 from the reformed gas, and in synthesizing gasoline from methanol by using a gasoline synthesis column 30, combustion air 41 to be supplied to the steam reformer 10 is preheated with the heat of reaction generated in the gasoline synthesis column 30, and then the preheated combustion air 41 is supplied to the steam reformer 10.
US09873636B2
A system and method for treating cement kiln dust is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving cement kiln dust (CKD) from a kiln; heating the collected CKD; forming a gas stream of vaporized metal and CKD by sufficient heating to separate at least one heavy metal from the collected CKD stream to create a cleaned CKD stream and a metal stream; providing a water soluble alkaline-earth metal polysulfide; combining the heavy metal stream with the water soluble alkaline-earth metal sulfide to create a combined stream; and removing at least a portion of one heavy metal from the combined stream.
US09873635B2
In a device for baking of clinker, heat generated in a furnace can be used in a particularly efficient and versatile manner if the heat generated in the furnace is transferred, by means of at least one first heat exchanger, to a heat carrier fluid, the heated heat carrier fluid is transported to at least one second heat exchanger, and the heat is then discharged to a heat sink, for example, in order to heat a flow of flue gas to a temperature required for denitrification thereof.
US09873627B1
A lightweight, portable, on-contact and on-demand, straw-style, high flow rate water purifying apparatus, tested and proven by an accredited and certified laboratory to meet or exceed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and NSF/ANSI P231 and 53 standards for a microbiological water purifier. The apparatus includes a shell and a hollow, elongated chamber that accommodates cleanable and replaceable water filtration and water purification media cartridges.
US09873616B2
A method and system is provided to separate calcium carbonate inorganic eggshell from the inner lining of organic protein-based membrane in eggshell by-product. The method involves three phases: mechanical agitation/separation, functional chemical digestion and refining chemical digestion. In the mechanical stage, agitation and sieving are used to remove large pieces, and the majority of, membrane material. In the functional chemical digestion stage, the by-product is processed through at least one basic solution to remove additional organic membrane and impurities. In the refining chemical digestion stage, the remaining organic membrane and impurities are removed. The purified calcium carbonate is then rinsed and dried, in preparation for further refinement and processing to finished goods specifications.
US09873610B2
A MEMS device is described. The device includes a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) substrate including a first bonding layer, a semiconductor substrate including a second bonding layer, and a cap including a third bonding layer, the cap coupled to the semiconductor substrate by bonding the second bonding layer to the third bonding layer. The first bonding layer includes silicon, the semiconductor substrate is electrically coupled to the MEMS substrate by bonding the first bonding layer to the second bonding layer, and the MEMS substrate is hermetically sealed between the cap and the semiconductor substrate.
US09873606B2
A post-mix beverage dispenser utilizing a liquid concentrate in a self-pressurized container is provided. The beverage dispenser includes a connector and flow control valve to regulate the pressure of the liquid concentrate in the system. The liquid concentrate and diluent are mixed at the nozzle of the post-mix beverage dispense.
US09873605B2
A beverage dispensing assembly which has one or more urns to which a manual, post-mix valve is engaged, on front walls thereof. The urn or urns do not contain fluid, rather, at least, a pair of fluid lines carrying pressurized fluid to the post-mix valve, which may be a “T” valve. The two fluid lines carry fluid from a first and a second fluid source, typically pressurized, which sources are remote from the urn or urns. If the assembly is comprised of more than one urn, it may include a base, designed to hold the urns in side-by-side alignment.
US09873598B2
A davit comprising a column which is mountable for rotation about a generally upright axis and a jib, the jib being attached to the column, characterised in that the column is provided, on a first side thereof, with ribs defining a first channel.
US09873591B2
A brake controller, an elevator system and a method for performing an emergency stop are provided. The brake controller includes an input for connecting the brake controller to the DC intermediate circuit of the frequency converter driving the hoisting machine of the elevator, an output for connecting the brake controller to the electromagnet of the brake, a switch for supplying electric power from the DC intermediate circuit of the frequency converter driving the hoisting machine of the elevator via the output to the electromagnet of a brake, and also a processor with which the operation of the brake controller is controlled by producing control pulses in the control pole of the switch of the brake controller.
US09873590B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus. In the method a target area is divided to a plurality of cells. A plurality of movement paths of mobile nodes are determined, each movement path comprising an origin cell and a target cell, the origin cell and the target cell being determined using a magnetic map of the target area. The durations of the plurality of movement paths are determined for an elevator user. A route topology data structure is formed using the plurality of movement paths and the durations of the plurality of movement paths, the data structure comprising for a plurality of cells an estimated time to reach an elevator location. An elevator call in a request cell is determined by a requesting mobile node. The time to reach the elevator location is determined using the data structure and information on the request cell, and an elevator car is selected to serve the elevator call based on the time to reach the elevator location, current positions of at least two elevator cars, and current directions of at the least two elevator cars.
US09873587B2
The subject embodiments are directed to a system to allow an uninterrupted flow of a coil welding wire from one container to another container, the coil of welding wire including a coil top and a coil bottom. Each container includes at least one vertically extending side wall, a closed bottom, a top opening for removing the welding wire and a wire coil receiving cavity within the outer packaging for receiving the wire coil, the feeding end and the trailing end being positionable near the top opening. A wire retaining ring is disposed on the coil top in the container and another said container, the wire retaining ring includes a slot that extends radially from a center of the coil to allow the trailing end of the coil to be drawn at a location away from the center of the coil.
US09873584B2
A medium stacking device includes side guides that are respectively disposed in a width direction parallel to a sheet face of the medium and orthogonal to a direction of progress at positions on both sides of a portion of a stage on which a medium is stacked, and that respectively guide the medium discharged from a discharge section in the width direction using a stacking guide face. Each side guide includes a discharge guide face that guides toward a central side in the width direction on progression from the discharge section along the direction of progress, a support guide face that supports the medium from a side of the stage, and a guiding valley portion that is an adjoining portion between the discharge guide face and the support guide face, that causes a vertex or edge of the medium to slide with progression of the medium, and that causes a leading edge portion of the medium in the direction of progress to pass further to a stacking direction side than the stage arm.
US09873578B2
A recording medium conveying device includes a guide, a shaft, and a positioner. The guide guides a recording medium along a conveyance path to a predetermined direction. The shaft is disposed near the conveyance path. The guide is disposed between the conveyance path and the shaft. The positioner positions the guide in an axial direction of the shaft. The guide is fixed by both the positioner and the shaft. The positioner is fixed separately from the shaft.
US09873575B2
An image forming apparatus which prevents degradation of sheets stacked in a stacking unit. A sheet feeding unit has a first stacking unit and a second stacking unit. When sheets stacked in the first stacking unit have run out, sheets stacked in the second stacking unit are moved to the first stacking unit. A remaining amount of sheets in the sheet feeding unit is indicated on a display unit. When sheets are stacked in the second stacking unit, the display unit provides an indication that a remaining amount of sheets in the sheet feeding unit is the largest.
US09873574B2
Electronic component conveyance device and method of manufacturing taping electronic component array
As an electronic component conveyance device that aligns a stack direction of internal electrodes in an electronic component in a highly reliable manner. An interval between a first sidewall and a second sidewall in a midstream part is larger than an interval P3 between the first sidewall and the second sidewall in a downstream part. A first magnetic force generation unit is provided lateral to the first sidewall in the midstream part. The height of a center of the first magnetic force generation unit with respect to a bottom surface is larger than P3/2.
US09873573B2
Sorting device for piece goods, with several sorting trolleys which are moved to run around a first track, and which are each equipped with a controlled load-receiving element for accepting and delivering piece goods, with at least one infeed station situated adjacent to the first track, at which station piece goods can be supplied to a load-receiving element of a sorting trolley located in the area of the infeed station, and with several uptake trolleys that are moved on a second track, wherein one part of the second track within a handover area for the handover of a piece goods item from a sorting trolley to an uptake trolley is arranged adjacent to a part of the first track, and with a central control unit which receives the positional information for the sorting trolleys on the first track and the uptake trolleys on the second track, and through which a load-receiving element of a selected moving sorting trolley can be controlled for the handover of a piece goods item located on it to a selected moving uptake trolley, at a point in time at which the selected sorting trolley is located within the handover area adjacent to the selected uptake trolley, and a method for sorting using the device.
US09873572B2
A lower portion is formed in a vicinity of an end portion of a bottom member of a storage container. A lift member configured to lift parts kept on standby on the lower portion is arranged in a state of being movable up and down along an inner wall of the storage container. A transport unit configured to transport the part, which is lifted and transferred thereto by the lift member, to a target position is arranged, and a position at which the parts are to be transferred to the transport unit is set in a vicinity of an upper position of the lift member.
US09873562B2
The present invention relates to a system to facilitate the moving of a water tank by two persons while also containing leaks and more particularly to a waterproof flexible drain pan held inside a pair of crossed adjustable harnesses and lifting straps. The drain pan has an integrated hose connector.
US09873560B2
A container includes an enclosure housing an interior compartment for containing waste and further defining slots on sides of the enclosure for receiving lifting forks, a lockable rear lid pivotally connected to the enclosure, and an automatic unlocking mechanism actuated by lifting forks inserted into the slots for unlocking the rear lid to enable waste to be dumped from the container. The container may also be automatically re-locked when the forks are withdrawn from the slots.
US09873552B2
A fabric bulk bag and a method for constructing the same, the bag including a continuous sidewall, a top portion, and a bottom, all defining a bulk storage space therein; the bottom further comprising eight sides which define an octagonal shape having an enlarged footprint so that the bag wall is sewn to the bottom in less time than a round shaped bag, yet when filled stands more upright with less tendency to lean than the current square shaped bags thereby providing a safer more dependable stacking bulk bag. In the method of producing the fabric bulk bag, the bag is constructed in less time than the prior art round bottom bags, uses less wall fabric than prior art square bottomed bags and when constructed and filled, supports itself more stable on a floor or pallet because it provides substantially more base for the product to rest on. In other embodiments, the bag would be multi-sided with greater than four sides.
US09873551B2
A method for producing a partly transparent body with a color gradient, include: providing a transparent first casing having a first joint surface on a protrusion and including an encased object; providing a second casing which is not completely transparent and which has a second joint surface in a recess. The shape of the protrusion and the shape of the recess correspond to each other; and combining the first casing and the second casing by inserting the protrusion into the recess and melting the first joint surface of the first casing with the second joint surface of the second casing. A pressure force and a temperature are applied to the first joint surface and the second joint surface such that the first joint surface of the first casing transitions into the second joint surface of the second casing in a visually seamless manner, followed by a removal of material.
US09873535B2
The present invention concerns a composition and method of using non-molybdate corrosion inhibitors in sterilizing and pasteurizing applications. The composition is a blend of one or more components including corrosion inhibitors, surfactants, hydrotropes, polymer dispersants, pH adjusting agents and water. The composition may include two or more of a) alkyl-dicarboxylic acid; b) phosphono-carboxylic acid; c) tri(amino-carboxylic acid); d) anionic polymer dispersant; e) non-ionic surfactant; f) inorganic phosphate; g) phosphonotricarboxylic acid; and h) hydrotrope. Specifically, the composition may comprise sebacic acid, hydroxyphosphonoacetic acid, and 6,6′,6″-(1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triyltriimino)tris-hexanoic acid. Optionally, the composition can further comprise a co-polymer of acrylic acid and allyl-2-hydroxy-propyl-sulfonate ether (AA/AHPSE), 2-phosphono-1,2,4-butane-tricarboxylic acid, sodium phosphate monobasic or phosphoric acid, α-decyl-ω-hydroxy-poly(oxy-1,2ethanediyl), and sodium cumenesulfonate. These components are not necessary, and in some embodiments, the composition is utilized without these components. The disclosed composition exhibits comparable or better corrosion protection performance than conventional molybdate containing sterilizing products.
US09873533B2
An adjustable pouch machine comprises a vertical sealer module forms transverse seals between two plies of a pouch web to partially define a plurality of pouches. Rollers selectively tension and relax the web on the vertically oriented wheel, allowing them to drop away from heated lands on emergency and cycle stops. A filler wheel has a plurality of adjustable gripper units mounted directly thereon for transporting independent separate pouches cut from the pouch web. An adjustable knife is selectively provided with changeable knife hub sets to handle a variety of pouch sizes where a filler wheel alternately first fills and seals pouches in a train. Gear linkage accommodates variation in distance between hubs of different sets. Various embodiments, apparatus and methods are described.
US09873532B2
A method for filling bags with metered quantities of bulk products includes providing a first container and a second container having an assigned total volume. Each container is divided into two respective half-volumes, each half-volume being designed to feed product to a first station or a second station for filling bags, so that each container has a half-volume connected to the first station and a half-volume connected to the second station of the two stations. A first predefined metered quantity of product is provided inside the first container by dividing-up the metered quantity of product into two quantities equal to approximately half the metered quantity, each fed to a respective half-volume of the first container. A bag is conveyed to the first filling station. The bag is filled with the quantity of product of the first half volume of the first container.
US09873526B2
An unmanned aerial launch vehicle (UAV) launch apparatus is disclosed that includes a UAV (400) having an exterior surface, an aerial vehicle (AV) tab (510) extending from the exterior surface, a tube (440) containing the UAV (400), the tube (440) including a tab stop (515) configured to controllably hinder travel of the AV tab (510) past the tab stop (515), and a pair of opposing tab guides (700, 705) configured to position the AV tab (510) for travel over the tab stop (515).
US09873521B2
An aircraft interface apparatus for providing communication between an aircraft system and a device for use on an aircraft comprises a first communication means for providing communication with the aircraft system, and a second communication means for providing communication with the device, wherein the aircraft system uses a first data format and the device uses a second data format, and the apparatus further comprises: an interface processing resource that is configured to receive data in a first format from the device and, in response, to output data in the second format to the aircraft system and/or to receive data in the second format from the device and, in response, to output data in the first format to the aircraft system.
US09873498B2
A stand-up type personal watercraft comprises: a body including a hull and a deck; a standing deck provided in a rear portion of the deck; an engine hood attached to the deck and located in front of the standing deck; a pole storage section formed as a recess on an outer upper surface of the engine hood and extending in a forward and rearward direction; a handle pole which is rotatably attached at a front end portion thereof to the deck, and is pivotable between a stowed position at which the handle pole is stowed in the pole storage section, and an up position at which a rear end portion of the handle pole is placed above and away from the pole storage section; and a storage provided in the engine hood by depressing a portion of an upper surface of the pole storage section.
US09873492B2
A floating construction comprising a water space within the floating construction, which water space has transparent walls and/or walls containing transparent sections, and at least one open opening allowing water surrounding the floating construction to enter into the water space, and the floating construction comprising space next to the water space for spectators observing the activities taking place inside the water space, wherein the floating construction comprises a draft control system for changing water surface level inside the water space.
US09873467B2
The fairing assembly uses inflatable wall panels that automatically deploy and retract at certain speeds to provide sturdy, light-weight aerodynamic fairings, which cover and enclose the space between the tractor truck and connected trailers to improve the aerodynamics of the tractor-trailers. The fairing assembly uses a module design and includes two or more panel units, a blower/vacuum and an electronic controller. Each panel unit includes a panel housing and an inflatable wall panel, which inflates and deflates to deploy and retract from its housing. The controller actuates the blower/vacuum to provide a continuous flow of air to the inflatable wall panels during deployment and to draw an air flow from the inflatable wall panels when retracting the panels back into the panel housings.
US09873464B2
A vehicle body includes a first body component made of fiber-reinforced plastic and a second body component made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The body components are adhesively bonded to each other by an adhesive layer and are subjected to shearing load and/or tensile stress in a main stress plane, wherein the adhesive layer is shaped by way of an adhesive flange, on which the adhesive layer is oriented obliquely to the main loading plane at an angle between 30° and 60°.
US09873463B1
An assembly for a vehicle is provided that includes a first member having an attachment surface and a locking bracket made of a composite material. The locking bracket has a shape of a panel having predetermined thickness and area and is connected at a lower surface thereof to the first member by being bonded to the attachment surface of the first member, and is open at an upper surface thereof. Additionally, the locking bracket has a honeycomb structure by using a plurality of intersecting partition walls, with a plurality of upward-open combination spaces being formed in the locking bracket. Further, the assembly includes a locking device disposed on a second member of the vehicle and configured to lock the first member and the second member to each other.
US09873462B2
There is provided a vehicle floor portion structure having: a floor panel; a tunnel portion that projects-out toward a vehicle upper side at a vehicle transverse direction central portion of the floor panel; a cross member that is bridged, along a vehicle transverse direction, between the tunnel portion and a rocker that is at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of the floor panel; a bracket that is disposed so as to be apart from the cross member in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and whose bottom portion is fixed to the floor panel, and whose side portion is fixed to a side wall portion of the tunnel portion or the rocker, and a seat is fixed to the bracket; and a reinforcement that is provided at an upper portion of the tunnel portion or the rocker, and to which an upper portion of the bracket is joined.
US09873455B2
A crossmember, in particular the rear crossmember of a motor vehicle, for a multi-link suspension of the wheel, has a respective receiving arrangement for the drive of each of the wheels. The crossmember includes two side members that are connected with one another by way of at least one transverse member.
US09873454B2
A ball-screw assembly isolator is provided and includes a housing, a ball-screw, a ball-screw nut, a bearing assembly, a retaining member, a second retaining member, a first compressible member and a second compressible member. The bearing assembly is located between the housing and the ball-screw. The bearing assembly includes an inner race and an outer race. The retaining member is secured by the housing. The second retaining member is secured to the ball-screw nut. The first compressible member positioned between the housing and the outer race. The second compressible member is positioned between the outer race and the retaining member. The retaining member is configured to be preloaded to exert an axial force upon the first compressible member and the second compressible member.
US09873443B2
A simulation system, device, and method for testing a train management system on a road-rail vehicle is provided. The simulation system includes: a brake pressure simulation device adapted to be connected to a first input of the train management computer, the brake pressure simulation device including at least one circuit configured to output signals representative of at least one brake pipe pressure; and a speed simulation device adapted to be connected to a second input of the train management computer, the speed simulation device configured to detect a speed of the road-rail vehicle and output signals representative of the speed. Also disclosed is a simulation system wherein the at least one circuit of the brake pressure simulation device is configured to have variable resistances.
US09873439B2
A cable car system for transporting people includes at least one vehicle to be coupled along a line to a transport cable, to be moved by the cable in stations and to be moved past at least one embarkation or disembarkation area in which passengers board or leave the vehicle. A conveyor is provided in the embarkation or disembarkation area. A screen is provided for the passengers between the motion path of the vehicle and the embarkation and disembarkation area, to protect the passengers against climatic and acoustic conditions prevailing outside the station building. The screen has at least one opening through which the passengers move to the at least one vehicle or to the disembarkation area. The conveyor is located within the opening and extends only over a part of the length of the opening in the motion direction of the vehicle.
US09873435B2
Methods and systems are provided for integrating a bi-fuel engine with a CVT transmission. Responsive to a driver demand, a controller may determine whether to maintain usage of a current fuel or transition to an alternate fuel based on the cost efficiency of the transition and further based on any engine limitations that may be incurred at the engine speed-load following the transition. To improve the net fuel economy benefit while addressing the engine limitation, a fuel transition may be combined with a CVT adjusted engine speed-load regime, while maintaining engine power output.
US09873434B2
A vehicle control system is provided to improve energy efficiency of a vehicle that can be operated not only manually but also autonomously. The vehicle control system is configured to deliver oil to an oil requiring site in a first feeding amount under the manual mode, and to deliver oil to the oil requiring site in a second feeding amount that is smaller than the first feeding amount during propulsion under the autonomous mode in line with a travel plan. When a required amount of oil delivered to the oil requiring site is expected to be increased based on the travel plan under the autonomous mode, the controller increases an oil feeding amount to the oil requiring site from the second feeding amount.
US09873431B2
A transmission launch system includes a control system and a transmission having a plurality of clutches, where actuation of combinations of a predetermined number of clutches provides powerflow for different transmission drive gears. The control system is configured to initiate a performance launch of the vehicle where the transmission is commanded to engage a combination of the predetermined number of clutches corresponding to a forward drive gear. The transmission is then commanded to engage an additional clutch to lock its output shaft such that engine torque is prevented from being transferred to vehicle drive wheels. The engine generates drive torque greater than a capacity of a vehicle brake system and the control system then commands release of the additional clutch thereby unlocking the output shaft and allowing powerflow in the forward drive gear such that the generated engine drive torque is transferred to the drive wheels to propel the vehicle.
US09873426B2
A vehicle includes friction brakes, an axle, and a controller. The axle has an electronic limited-slip differential that includes a variable torque capacity lockup clutch. The controller is programmed to, in response to a difference between desired and actual yaw rates exceeding a first threshold, increase the torque of the lockup clutch to decrease the difference between the desired and actual yaw rates. The controller is further programmed to, in response the difference between desired and actual yaw rates exceeding a second threshold that is greater than the first threshold, increase the torque of the friction brakes to decrease the difference between the desired and actual yaw rates.
US09873422B2
A vehicle includes a motor positioned between an engine and a driveline connected to a vehicle wheel, and a controller. The controller controls engine torque and maintains motor torque during wheel torque and driveline component torque reversals to limit a vehicle output torque rate of change through a lash region associated with a range of driveline torque ratios. A method of controlling a hybrid vehicle includes controlling engine torque to a specified profile and maintaining motor torque at a generally constant value during at least one of wheel torque and driveline component torque reversals to limit a vehicle output torque rate of change through a lash region associated with a range of driveline torque ratios.
US09873415B2
A system for controlling a brake of a unit hauled by a work vehicle may generally include a valve assembly. When a speed of the work vehicle exceeds a predetermined speed threshold, the valve assembly may be configured to allow the brake to be actuated when first and second brake pedals of the work vehicle are depressed, either individually or simultaneously. However, when the speed of the work vehicle is less than the predetermined speed threshold, the valve assembly may only be configured to allow the brake to be actuated when both of the first and second brake pedals are depressed simultaneously.
US09873414B2
A parking brake system for a vehicle, in particular for a motor vehicle, includes two control units, by means of which two actuators, which are designed to actuate respective wheel brakes, can be controlled. The control units are connected to a power source via separate lines, wherein exclusively one of the control units is connected to an operating device which is designed to transmit signals to the control unit for actuation of the wheel brakes. The control unit is designed to control at least one of the actuators, dependent on the signals for actuation of the wheel brakes.
US09873404B2
A support structure for supporting panel components of a vehicle includes a deformable member with fastening points for connecting the support structure to the panel components, and one or more support members that are connected to the deformable member each with a free end. The support members can be fastened to one or more cross members of a body of the vehicle. The support structure can be used with a panel arrangement including one or more panel components for covering a portion of the vehicle. An intermediate member may be arranged between the panel components and the support structure, which during the shifting of the panel components in the direction of the support structure, interacts with the panel components and the support structure and thereby deforms the support structure.
US09873400B2
The invention provides a method of protecting a vehicle occupant (14) during a side impact which includes a side airbag (10) comprising an inflatable thorax section (16) and an inflatable arm lift section (18). Inflation of the arm lift section (18) results in lifting of the arm (24) of the occupant (14). Furthermore an airbag (10) comprising an inflatable thorax section (16) and an inflatable arm lift section (18) is described.
US09873396B2
A system includes a processor configured to determine the location of a wirelessly-identified device within a vehicle. The processor is also configured to determine a locking schema associated with the device for locking child-lockable vehicle systems and apply the locking schema to corresponding systems in a defined proximity to the determined device location.
US09873394B2
Provided is an electrical junction box having a novel structure capable of preventing vehicle fire after the infiltration of water without depending on a waterproofing structure of the electrical junction box. An electrical junction box includes a bus bar circuit unit obtained by arranging a plurality of bus bars including a power source-side bus bar to be connected to a power source line and a ground-side bus bar to be connected to a ground line on insulated boards. In the electrical junction box, the power source-side bus bar and the ground-side bus bar are arranged adjacent to each other, and an oxide deposition inhibiting structure is provided in exposed portions of the insulated board exposed through a gap between the power source-side bus bar and the ground-side bus bar.
US09873386B2
A holder to fasten a component to a glass pane is disclosed. The holder includes a supporting body with a lower side, where the supporting body is adhereable to the glass pane by the lower side, and an upper side, where a holding element is included on the upper side and where the component is fastenable to the supporting body with the holding element. A first section of the supporting body which includes the holding element is separated from a remaining portion of the supporting body along a first slot and a second slot, where both the first slot and the second slot each begin at an outer edge of the supporting body and each end at a connection region at a distance from the outer edge, and where the first section of the supporting body is connected to the remaining portion of the supporting body by the connection region.
US09873382B1
A support structure that supports a console housing of a console assembly is provided. The support structure is secured to a floor of a vehicle. The support structure includes a pair of side walls and a platform wall. Each side wall has an upper edge, an opposite lower edge, an interior surface, and an opposite exterior surface. The platform wall traverses the interior surfaces of the pair of side walls between the upper edge and the lower edge of each of the pair of side walls. The console housing is mounted to the platform wall between and below the upper edges of the pair of side walls.
US09873380B2
An interior side mirror with multiple legs supporting device for side blind spot of a car. Which comprises a side mirror; a multiple legs supporting means, which is constructed by a connecting seat for fixing the side mirror with the multiple legs supporting means; a neck section made by half-solid metal wire; legs made by half-solid metal wire, ends of legs are connected with the neck section; adhesive components for fixing the legs on a place of interior surface of a car; the half-solid metal wire means the metal wire is flexible and is able to keep a bended shape after bending. This interior side mirror with a multiple legs supporting device can be used for any vehicle conveniently and get well side blind spot.
US09873379B2
In a composite image generation apparatus that is mounted in an own vehicle, each of captured images, which have been captured by a plurality of imaging units, are acquired. A disturbance level for each of the plurality of captured images that have been acquired is determined. The disturbance level indicates: whether or not a disturbance is present in the captured image; or an extent of the disturbance. In an overlapping area in which imaging areas of the plurality of captured images overlap, one or more captured images is selected from the plurality of captured images so that the area occupied by a captured image having a higher disturbance level among the plurality captured images is smaller. A composite image is generated based on the plurality of captured images. In the overlapping area, the composite image is generated by using the captured image selected based on the disturbance level.
US09873372B2
An ADB headlamp distributes light having more partial pattern segments than light sources form a dark zone in a segment where a preceding or oncoming vehicle is located is provided. The adaptive driving beam (ADB) headlamp for a vehicle includes first lamp and second lamps having a plurality of light sources. The plurality of partial patterns irradiated from adjacent light sources included in the first and second lamps respectively, partially overlap other to form a first and a second light distribution patterns. The first and second light distribution patterns formed by the first and second lamps partially overlap each other to form a light distribution pattern. The light distribution pattern is divided into a plurality of partial pattern segments that correspond to the location of a sensed vehicle ahead selected from the partial pattern segments. A dark zone is formed by the partial pattern segments by reducing a light source.
US09873369B2
An illumination device for vehicles, having a housing and having a plurality of holder devices for attaching the housing to a housing support and for aligning the housing with respect to a longitudinal dimension of the vehicle, a transverse dimension of the vehicle, and also a vertical dimension of the vehicle, wherein each holder device has an fastening clip connected to the housing, a hollow bolt which is functionally connected to the fastening clip when the holder device is installed, and a fastening screw for fixing the hollow bolt on the housing support, wherein at least one holder device is designed as a stabilizing device and comprises guiding means in such a manner that the housing is fixed by means of the stabilizing device in a maximum of two out of three spatial dimensions of the stabilizing device.
US09873362B2
A vehicle seat suspension system includes first and second side supports that define a seatback frame. A front trim piece is coupled between the first and second side supports. A suspension component is coupled with a central area of the front trim piece and has flexible members protruding forward and outward therefrom. A passenger support panel has a periphery coupled to distal ends of the flexible members and suspended away from the seatback frame.
US09873359B2
A child safety seat includes a base having a shell body, a seat shell assembled with the base, the seat shell being adjustable between a plurality of recline positions relative to the base, and a lock mechanism operable to lock the seat shell with the base at any of the recline positions. The lock mechanism includes two latches assembled with the shell body and movable to engage with and disengage from the seat shell, and two release buttons respectively disposed at a left and a right side of the base and respectively coupled with the two latches, each of the two release buttons being independently operable to drive concurrent unlocking displacements of the two latches.
US09873358B2
A locking device for a baby car seat for cooperating with a locking rod on a car seat to connect the baby car seat to the car seat is disclosed, the locking device including: an installation rack, a locking member rotatably connected to the installation rack via a first shaft, the installation rack being provided with a locking groove for receiving the locking rod, and the locking member being provided with a locking hook for hooking the locking rod and locking the locking rod in the locking groove. The locking device further includes a button and a stopping block movably provided on the installation rack along a length direction of the installation rack, the button including a driving pin, the locking member provided with a driving groove in which the driving pin is movably inserted, the locking member being driven to rotate about the first shaft when the button moves.
US09873355B2
An automatic adjuster, when carrying out an AR superimposed display using a head-up display in a vehicle like a car, is able to perform eye position adjustment for the AR superimposition automatically without increasing a burden to a driver by controlling, according to the eye position information acquired from an eye position detector, in such a manner as to shift the driver's eye position in accordance with the reference position of the superimposed display, which serves as a position where the AR superimposition is performed appropriately, and by controlling a movable part of the driver's power seat the driver of the vehicle takes.
US09873351B2
A fuel cell system to be installed on a vehicle includes a fuel cell, a secondary battery, an SOC detector that detects a temperature and a state of charge of the secondary battery, an accelerator position detector that detects an accelerator depressed amount, and a controller that controls power to be generated by the fuel cell. The controller includes: a required generation power calculator that calculates required generation power based on the accelerator depressed amount and the temperature and the state of charge of the secondary battery; and a maximum required power calculator that calculates maximum required power based on the accelerator depressed amount and the temperature and the state of charge of the secondary battery. The maximum required power includes allowable charging power correlated with a maximum value of charging power. If determining that a condition for rapid reduction in consumption power of a motor is satisfied, the controller sets the allowable charging power to zero and calculates the maximum required power. If the required generation power exceeds the maximum required power, the controller makes the fuel cell generate power responsive to the maximum required power.
US09873350B2
A includes a battery, an electric machine, an electrically powered cooling system, and a controller. The electric machine is configured to charge the battery with current generated from regenerative braking. The electrically powered cooling system is configured to cool the battery. The controller is programmed to, in response to a temperature of the battery being greater than a threshold, direct at least a portion of the current generated from regenerative braking to the cooling system.
US09873344B2
In a non-contact power supplied electric vehicle or a non-contact power supplying method, when a request for starting non-contact supply of power is made, if it is determined that interference occurs between a charging frequency or a higher harmonic component thereof and a radio frequency, the charging frequency is changed to a frequency that is capable of avoiding the interference. Non-contact supply of power is allowed to be started under a condition in which the charging frequency has been changed to a frequency that is capable of avoiding the interference.
US09873333B2
A paved structure capable of feeding power to a traveling body in a noncontact manner. The paved structure feeding power to a power receiver provided in a traveling body through an electromagnetic wave, includes: a depression extending in the direction in which the traveling body runs; a magnetic member laid in the depression; a power feeding body laid on the upper surface of the magnetic member to feed power to the power receiver through an electromagnetic wave; and a power feeding body protector laid in the depression to cover the power feeding body.
US09873323B2
A pressure vessel is provided for a motor vehicle. The pressure vessel has a fastening apparatus. The fastening apparatus is designed to connect the pressure vessel to a body of the motor vehicle. The fastening apparatus has at least one connecting pin, which is displaceable relative to the body or relative to the pressure vessel, and at least one fixing mechanism. The fixing mechanism is designed to at least temporarily fixedly clamp the connecting pin.
US09873321B2
A valve assembly, that may be used on and/or retrofitted to various float valves, comprising: a relief valve configured to be movable between a closed position and an open position allowing pressure from a container to be relieved through at least one relief hole; a breather float configured to be movable between an open position allowing gas to pass through at least one breather hole and a closed position that substantially prevents liquid from passing through the at least one breather hole; and at least one of: a check valve that is movable between a closed position and an open position allowing gas to be relieved from the container when the container is being filled with liquid; and a breather check valve that is movable between a closed position and an open position allowing filter gas to enter the container when liquid is being removed from the container.
US09873318B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for storing energy in a mining machine. One embodiment provides a haulage vehicle including a bi-directional electrical bus, a power source coupled to the bi-directional electrical bus, a motor coupled to the bi-directional electrical bus and operating a drive mechanism included in the haulage vehicle, a kinetic energy storage system coupled to the bi-directional electrical bus, and a controller configured to communicate with the kinetic energy storage system and the power source. The kinetic energy storage system includes a flywheel and a switched reluctance motor. The controller is configured to operate the kinetic energy storage system as a primary power source for the bi-directional electrical bus and to operate the power source as a secondary power source for the bi-directional electrical bus when the kinetic energy storage system cannot satisfy an energy demand on the bi-directional electrical bus.
US09873316B2
An ATV is disclosed having a frame and a plurality of wheels. A power train is defined by an engine, transmission and front and rear final drives. The engine is mounted to the frame skid plate by way of die cast legs. The transmission may include a CVT, which includes a cooling system to cool the interior of the CVT. The cooling system include a fan positioned on the driven clutch causing a reverse suction air flow, back through the drive clutch, with the air exhausting at the front of the engine.
US09873314B1
A system to reduce wind noise and turbulent airflow from entering into a sunroof opening of a vehicle, including a sunroof panel slideably connected to the sunroof opening; a rail on a side of the sunroof opening; and a holder fixed in the rail; a deflector assembly including an upper panel pivotally connected to holder and a lower panel connected to the rail. The sunroof panel covers and compresses the deflector assembly in a closed position and covers the sunroof opening, and the deflector assembly rotates and extends when the sunroof panel retracts to an at least a partially open position.
US09873308B2
The invention relates to a heating system for heating a living being, for instance, a person (2) within a vehicle (1) being preferentially a hybrid car or an electric car. The heating system comprises an infrared laser system (5, 6) for illuminating the living being with infrared laser light, thereby heating the living being. Thus, heating radiation is used, which has a high collimation and which can be focused relatively easily. The heating can therefore be confined to a certain region, in which the living being is located. The heating can even be confined to the living being or to parts of the living being only. This more focused heating allows for a reduction of the energy consumption.
US09873307B2
A vehicular air conditioner includes a dehumidifying and cooling mode, in which a heating capability of a radiator can be acquired without increasing a flow rate of a refrigerant into a heat absorber. The dehumidifying and cooling mode lets the refrigerant discharged from a compressor (2) radiate heat in a radiator (4) and an outdoor heat exchanger (7), decompress the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated, and then let the refrigerant absorb heat in a heat absorber (9). The vehicular air conditioner includes an injection circuit (40) which distributes a part of the refrigerant flowing out from the radiator (4) to return the part of the refrigerant to the compressor (2). In the dehumidifying and cooling mode, the injection circuit (40) is operated to return the refrigerant to the compressor (2) when there is a predetermined radiator capability shortage condition and/or predetermined low outdoor air temperature startup condition.
US09873302B2
A shock absorber provided with a suspension spring, the shock absorber includes a tube whose lower end portion is joined to a vehicle axle side portion provided with a tire, and a lower spring bearing that is provided on an outer circumference of the tube and supports a lower end of the suspension spring. An increased diameter part is provided on the outer circumference of the tube above the lower spring bearing, the increased diameter part having an outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the tube.
US09873288B2
A hub arrangement for twin wheels comprises a stationary carrier; an intermediate hub which is rotatable about an axis of rotation and which can be driven by a drive shaft; a differential gear having an input which is connected to the intermediate hub; a first wheel hub which is connected to a first output of the differential gear; and a second wheel hub which is connected to a second output of the differential gear. The hub arrangement furthermore comprises a first braking apparatus which is effective between the stationary carrier and the intermediate hub and a second braking apparatus which is effective between the stationary carrier and the second wheel hub or between the intermediate hub and the second wheel hub. In this respect, the first braking apparatus and the second braking apparatus can be actuated separately from one another.
US09873260B2
A self-weight pressure control valve includes a hollow case main body with an opening, a partitioning wall dividing the case main body into first and second pressure chambers in communication with the opening, a communication opening in the partitioning wall and communicating the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to each other, a valve rod including a rod portion inserted through the communication opening to pass the partitioning wall, and a valve portion located in the first pressure chamber, and a pressure sensitive film covering the opening of the case main body, coupled with a tip of the rod portion of the valve rod, and flexibly deformable toward the rod portion. When the pressure sensitive film is not flexibly deformed toward the rod portion, the communication opening is maintained in a closed state by the valve portion by use of a self-weight of the valve rod.
US09873257B2
A printing apparatus includes: a platen having a supporting surface configured to support a recording medium; a liquid droplet jetting head having a nozzle surface on which nozzles are open; a head moving unit configured to move the liquid droplet jetting head in a head movement area including a first area and a second area which is adjacent to the first area; a maintenance mechanism including a cap member configured to be movable in a cap movement area which includes a retracted position and a capping position and to cover the nozzles; a cap moving mechanism configured to move the cap member by utilizing movement of the liquid droplet jetting head form the first area to the second area; and a cap guiding mechanism configured to guide movement of the cap member in the cap movement area in an inclined direction.
US09873255B2
A liquid ejection head includes a substrate having an energy generating element arranged therein and an ejection port forming member laid as superposed above the substrate. At least one ejection port is formed so as to run through the ejection port forming member. The ejection port forming member has a concave portion including the ejection port formed therein on the surface thereof opposite to the surface thereof facing the substrate, and has a convex portion on the surface of the ejection port forming member facing the substrate so as to correspond to the concave portion.
US09873251B2
A method of manufacturing a flow path member which forms a flow path such that a concave portion provided on a first surface of a first member is covered with a second surface of a second member, the method includes introducing a part of a fused director to an inner side of the concave portion when viewed from a direction in which the first member and the second member are laminated; and fixing the first member and the second member by curing the fused director in a state where the concave portion is covered with the second surface to form a flow path.
US09873249B2
A liquid ejecting head comprises a unit head bonded to a communication substrate. Liquid chamber forming portions are formed in the unit case, along a first direction at positions that are separated by a partition wall. Empty liquid chamber portions and supply-side communication paths are formed in the communication substrate. The supply-side communication paths include a common communication path formed in an opposite side with a thin thickness portion left in the surface side of the communication substrate, and individual communication paths. With a surface of the partition wall and a surface of the thin thickness portion bonded together, the empty liquid chamber forming portions and the empty liquid chamber portions communicate with each other so as to define common liquid chambers.
US09873246B2
When a processor of a print device determines that an elapsed time since a circulation operation of a liquid is not less than a fixed time and does not determine that the elapsed time is not less than a first time, the processor performs a first circulation operation that circulates the liquid in a state in which a supply flow path and a circulation flow path are not open to the atmosphere. When the processor determines that the elapsed time is not less than the fixed time, is not less than the first time, and is less than a second time, the processor performs a second circulation operation that agitates the liquid more than the first circulation operation does. Therefore, the print device is able to agitate the liquid in accordance with the time that has elapsed since the circulation operation was last performed.
US09873239B2
A process for the production of a polymeric article directed to (a) forming a ply having successive layers, namely, (i) a first layer made up of strands of an oriented polymer material; (ii) a second layer of a polymeric material; (iii) a third layer made up of strands of an oriented polymeric material, wherein the second layer has a lower peak melting temperature that of the first and third layers; (b) subjecting the ply to conditions of time, temperature, and pressure sufficient to melt a proportion of the firsts layer to melt the second layer entirely, and to melt a proportion of the third layer, and to compact the ply; and (c) cooling the compacted ply. The resultant articles have good mechanical properties yet may be made at a lower compaction temperature than articles not employing the second layer, leading to a more controllable manufacturing process.
US09873232B2
An apparatus (10) for the introduction of pressurized air and/or sealant into a tire comprising a source of pressurized air having an outlet (26), a container (14) containing the sealant which can be secured relative to a housing (12) of the source of pressurized air and which can be connected to the outlet of the source of pressurized air via an inlet (22), a hose (16) which is connected at a first end to an outlet of the container that is facing in an outlet direction and which has a second end that can be connected to the tire, wherein the housing of the source of pressurized air comprises a first vertical wall (30), with respect to which at least the outlet of the container is arranged laterally in a secured position and further comprises a second vertical wall (34) having means for guiding the hose and which is adjacent at least substantially at a right angle to the first housing wall, wherein, in its position in which the container is secured at the housing, the outlet direction of the container extends in parallel to the first vertical wall and, in a storage state, the hose is guided in parallel to the first housing wall at least for a certain distance starting from the outlet of the container and in the direction toward the second vertical housing wall and then along the second vertical housing wall.
US09873231B2
A method and apparatus for fabricating a short length carbon fiber preform with a through thickness reinforcement is disclosed herein. The starting media for fabricating a net shape (e.g., annular disc) may meet specific requirements including a sufficient fiber volume and a binding mechanism compatible with the needle-punching process.
US09873216B2
An injection molding apparatus comprising an injection molding machine, a manifold, a closure valve pin, a first actuator having a linear or axial driver, a second actuator comprising a rotor interconnected to either the closure valve pin or to a second valve pin such that either the closure valve pin or the second valve pin is rotatably driven in unison with the rotor around the rotation axis, the closure pin or second pin being disposed and rotatable within the flow of injection fluid flowing through a flow channel leading to a mold cavity.
US09873209B2
A mixer vehicle provided with a mixer drum mounted on a vehicle, the mixer drum being adapted to load uncured concrete includes a driving device for rotating the mixer drum and a loaded state detector for detecting whether the uncured concrete is loaded on the mixer drum or not. Rotation of the mixer drum by the driving device is stopped if the vehicle is in the stop state and the loaded state detector detects that the uncured concrete is not loaded on the mixer drum.
US09873201B2
A force detection device includes a charge output element that outputs charge in accordance with a received external force, a conversion and output circuit, having a first switching element and a first capacitor, which converts the charge into a voltage and outputs the voltage, a compensation signal output circuit, having a second switching element and a second capacitor, which outputs a compensation signal, and an external force detection circuit that detects an external force on the basis of the voltage which is output from the conversion and output circuit and the compensation signal which is output from the compensation signal output circuit. The capacitance of the second capacitor is smaller than the capacitance of the first capacitor.
US09873191B2
The invention relates to a power drill, having a tool-clamping device that is coupled to a drive motor via a drive shaft and a torque clutch equipped with a transmission element. The torque clutch has a clutch-adjusting ring that cooperates at least indirectly with at least one clamping element that exerts a prestressing force on the transmission element. An end of the drive shaft oriented toward the tool-clamping device is guided in a bearing that axially fixes the drive shaft in a drilling or screwdriving position and axially releases the drive shaft in an impact drilling position. The bearing cooperates with a bearing holder, which moves the bearing axially via a user-actuatable actuating element. According to the invention, the actuating element is coupled to an adjusting element that axially fixes the transmission element and axially releases the bearing in the impact drilling position and axially releases the transmission element and axially fixes the bearing in the drilling or screwdriving position.
US09873188B1
A pliers for a loop clamp is provided, including a grip assembly, a displacement mechanism and a clamping assembly. The grip assembly has two handle members which are pivotally assembled with each other. The displacement mechanism is movably connected to the grip assembly, and the displacement mechanism can be actuated by the grip assembly. The clamping assembly has two clamping portions for clamping two ends of a loop clamp, the two clamping portions are connected with the grip assembly, and at least one of the two clamping portions is movably connected to the grip assembly and can be actuated by the displacement mechanism to change a distance between the two clamping portions.
US09873182B2
A grinding tool includes a body having a first layer. The first layer can include bond material that is at least about 20 vol % of a total volume of the first layer. Additionally, the first layer can include abrasive particles contained within the bond material. In an embodiment, the abrasive particles include a first type of abrasive particle including black alumina with at least about 10 vol % of a total volume of the abrasive particles including black alumina. In some instances, the grinding tool can include a second layer that includes black alumina.
US09873172B2
An automated pallet checker system for checking the structural integrity of a pallet includes a conveyor arrangement mounted on a framework and operable to convey the pallet to be checked through an in-feed station and a lift station connected to the in-feed station. The in-feed station is configured to check the pallet for a presence or absence of pallet bottom cross boards as the pallet is carried on the conveyor arrangement. The lift station is also configured to check for obstructions depending from the pallet bottom cross boards, and missing material in leading and trailing edges of the pallet top cross boards during a lifting movement of the pallet in the lift station. A controller is operatively connected to the conveyor arrangement, the in-feed station and the lift station, and is responsive to signals generated in the in-feed station and the lift station to determine whether the pallet being checked in the in-feed station and the lift station is acceptable or unacceptable.
US09873164B2
Electric resistance welded steel pipes or steel tubes with a tensile property TS of not less than 434 MPa which have electric resistance welded parts exhibiting both excellent HIC resistance and excellent low-temperature toughness, and methods for manufacturing such steel pipes or steel tubes.
US09873157B2
A sawing apparatus for sawing workpieces of wood or plastic material has an adjustable frame part and a drive motor. A circular saw blade is operatively connected to the drive motor and drivable in rotation by the drive motor about an axis of rotation of the circular saw blade. The circular saw blade is adjustable from a ready position into a working position. The ready position is selected as a function of a position of the adjustable frame part such that the circular saw blade carries out a minimized angular travel as working travel during sawing. The adjustable frame part is adjustable at least in a vertical direction and/or in a horizontal direction transverse to the axis of rotation of the circular saw blade as a function of a cross-section of a workpiece to be sawed.
US09873148B2
A frame for a self-piercing rivet system that can provide bearing capacity for joining a rivet to a plate by using an anvil die and a punch unit is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a frame for a self-piercing rivet system provided with a punch unit on an upper portion thereof and an anvil unit on a lower portion thereof corresponding to the punch unit, that may include: an outer frame portion formed by connecting an inner semicircular body and an outer semicircular body which has a different radius and a central position from the inner semicircular body by a plurality of ribs; an inner frame portion formed by connecting both ends of a bending body to both ends of the inner semicircular body at the inside of the outer frame portion; an upper inner extender extended from an upper end of the inner frame portion; an upper outer extender extended from an upper end of the outer frame portion; a lower inner extender extended from a lower end of the inner frame portion; a lower outer extender extended from a lower end of the outer frame portion; a punch mounting end integrally formed at a front end of the upper inner extender and the upper outer extender; and an anvil mounting end integrally formed at a front end of the lower inner extender and the lower outer extender.
US09873144B2
A reel for winding metal strip, in particular rolled hot strip, having a mandrel shaft (2), which has a first shaft end piece (18), which is rotably mounted by means of at least one bearing (4) provided in the machine frame (3) of the reel, a clamping device (5) arranged between the at least one bearing (4) and the mandrel shaft (2), such that, in a clamped operating state, a frictional connection can be produced between the at least one bearing (4) and the mandrel shaft (2).
US09873136B2
An ultrasonic transducer and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The ultrasonic transducer includes a substrate, a first insulation layer, and a first thin film layer; a plurality of support members formed on the first thin film layer; a second thin film layer supported by the plurality of support members; a cavity between the first thin film layer and the second thin film layer; and a common ground electrode on the second thin film layer.
US09873127B2
An air cleaner, which allows air to flow smoothly, has increased strength, and reduces noise generated when a blower fan rotates. The air cleaner includes a main body including an inlet and an outlet, a blower fan provided inside of the main body, and configured to induce air from outside of the main body to be suctioned into the inlet and to be discharged to the outlet, a motor configured to drive the blower fan, and a fan guard to which the motor is fixed, and configured to guide air suctioned into the inlet to the blower fan, where the fan guard is provided to include a plurality of bent cross sections arranged in a radial direction at different distances from the motor.
US09873125B1
A cigar cutter and smokable substance grinder has a lid section having grinding surface features. A bottom section is connected to the lid section and has grinding surface features and a blade. A passageway penetrates the entire cutter and grinder and is aligned with both sections such that the sections can be rotated around the passageway without obstructing it. The lid section and bottom section combine to form an interior cavity within the cutter and grinder, for grinding a smokable substance.
US09873122B2
The invention relates to methods and devices for control of an integrated thin-film device with a plurality of microfluidic channels. In one embodiment, a microfluidic device is provided that includes a microfluidic chip having a plurality of microfluidic channels and a plurality of multiplexed heater electrodes, wherein the heater electrodes are part of a multiplex circuit including a common lead connecting the heater electrodes to a power supply, each of the heater electrodes being associated with one of the microfluidic channels. The microfluidic device also includes a control system configured to regulate power applied to each heater electrode by varying a duty cycle, the control system being further configured to determine the temperature of each heater electrode by determining the resistance of each heater electrode.
US09873112B2
Process for the co-production of acetic acid and dimethyl ether by contacting methyl acetate and methanol in the presence of a catalyst containing a crystalline zeolite having a FER framework type. The zeolite has crystallites having a dimension of about 500 nm or less in the c-axis.
US09873110B2
A method for promoting the supported catalysts using noble metal nanoparticles. Different noble metal precursors are preferentially deposited onto the supported metal catalysts through Chemical vapor deposition (CVD), and compositions so produced. Further, the promoted catalyst is used for CO and CO2 hydrogenation reactions, increasing the reaction conversion, C5+ compounds selectivity and chain growth probability. The active phase of catalyst can be either cobalt oxide, nickel oxide or their reduced format (Co0 or Ni0), and the noble metal is preferably Ruthenium.
US09873098B2
A three-component mixing apparatus and a three-component mixing adhesive kit, which allow anyone to easily and uniformly mix three kinds of drugs in mixing a three-component adhesive used in, e.g., surgical procedure (or treatment) or dental procedure (or treatment), includes a syringe filled with a first drug; a plunger; and an infusion-needle connector having a connecting part for a second drug container and a connecting part for a third drug container and a confluent path formed on a base end part. The first drug, the second drug and the third drug are mixed in the syringe by removably attaching the infusion-needle connector to a discharge opening of the syringe, the second drug container to its connecting part and the third drug container to its connecting part and then pulling the plunger inserted into the syringe to introduce the second drug and the third drug into the syringe.
US09873095B2
A copolymer having amphiphilic blocks includes at least one first hydrophilic block, obtainable from n-butyl acrylate and hydroxyethyl methacrylate monomers, and a second hydrophobic block likely to be obtained from a methyl methacrylate monomer. The copolymer is found to be particularly advantageous for use as an additive for manufacturing a polymer filtration membrane, particularly a PVDF membrane, particularly via a phase inversion method.
US09873094B2
A membrane useful in gas separation, the membrane comprising a cross-linked polysiloxane structure having a cross-link density of about 0.1×10−5 mol/cm3 to about 6×10−5 mol/cm3, where, in particular embodiments, the cross-linked polysiloxane structure has the following general structure: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are independently selected from hydrocarbon groups having at least 1 and up to 6 carbon atoms; A1 and A2 are independently selected from cyclic hydrocarbon groups; L1 and L2 are linking groups or covalent bonds; n is an integer of at least 1; r and s are independently selected from integers of at least 1; and p is an integer of at least 10. The invention also includes methods for making and using the above-described membranes for gas separation.
US09873077B2
Methods and apparatus for reducing the content of controlled acidic pollutants in clinker kiln emissions are disclosed. The methods and apparatus include introducing bypass dust produced during production of clinker into one or more locations between the preheater exhaust and the inlet to a dust filter including into a gas conditioning tower. Total bypass dust separated from the kiln exhaust gas may be used. The bypass dust can be separated into a fine and coarse portions. Fine or total bypass dust can be mixed with water to form a bypass dust slurry that can be introduced into the gas conditioning tower. Bypass dust can be used to reduce the content of acidic pollutants such as hydrogen chloride HCl and sulfur oxides SOx from clinker kiln emissions.
US09873074B2
A cleaning system and method of cleaning filters that removes the ash in the plugged regions is disclosed. The filter is subjected to vibrations, which serve to loosen trapped and packed retentate from the filter. The loosened retentate is then captured by a collection bin. The cleaning system can be integral with the intended application, such as within an automobile. In another embodiment, the cleaning system is a separate cleaning station, where the filter is removing from its intended application, cleaned, and then reinstalled.
US09873072B2
There is provided a frame assembly 200 adapted for installation in a filter housing of an air handling system. The frame assembly is arranged having a frame 210 which is adapted to receive a filter unit of a predetermined size. The frame assembly further comprises a clamping mechanism 230 arrange for clamping the filter unit. An actuator 231 of the clamping mechanism is arranged at a front member 211 of the frame and is operable between an open and a closed position while activating the clamping mechanism to clamp the filter unit. An actuator element 232 facing a back member 212 of the frame is arranged such that a free distance between the actuator element and the back member during operation of the actuator corresponds to the predetermined filter unit size, thereby enabling operation of the actuator only if an inserted filter unit abuts the back member of the frame.
US09873071B2
The honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb structure part having porous partition walls, and porous plugged portions, and when there is drawn a straight line as an inner boundary line which is positioned at a distance of 30% of a distance between an outer end surface and an inner end surface, from the inner end surface, and there is drawn a straight line as an outer boundary line which is positioned at a distance of 70% of the distance between the outer end surface and the inner end surface, from the inner end surface, each of the plugged portions has an outer region, and an inner region which is the region between the inner end surface and the inner boundary line and whose porosity is larger than a porosity of the outer region.
US09873068B2
A cover arrangement is provided for a launder channel of a clarifier tank. The clarifier tank has an arcuate outer circumferential wall and a weir wall, with the launder channel disposed between the walls. The cover arrangement has a single mounting section configured to be coupled to the arcuate outer circumferential wall and a plurality of cover sections, each of which are coupled to the same single mounting section at different locations. The cover sections are configured to extend from the arcuate outer circumferential wall inwards towards the center of the clarifier tank covering the launder channel.
US09873053B2
Methods and systems for content processing are described. In one embodiment, gaming data is received from a gaming source server. The gaming data associated with a game. A content signal is received from a signal source during presentation of programming content. The programming content is associated with the content signal and the game. A determination of whether the content signal includes the trigger is made. The device content is presented using the gaming data. The device content is in synchronization with the presentation of the programming content based on a determination that the content signal includes a trigger. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
US09873048B2
A method of adjusting a field of view of a user for a head mounted display (HMD) includes defining a virtual camera for specifying an image of the field of view in a virtual space. In response to updating an image of the field of view by changing a position of the virtual camera without synchronization with the movement of the HMD, the position of the virtual camera is moved in a movement direction of a player object to move the player object into a predetermined range of the field of view. The field of view is sectioned into a non-tracking region defined by the predetermined range, a near tracking region, and a far tracking region. A relief region is between the non-tracking region and the far tracking region. Movement of the player object is based on a location of the player object within the field-of view region.
US09873042B2
Remote gaming and/or projection are provided. A first device includes a gaming system or presentations associated with its display. The features of the gaming system are accessed over a network and images associated with accessed features and/or associated with presentations of a host's display are then projected onto a client's display. The client and the client's display are remote from the host, the gaming system, and the host's display.
US09873025B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball showing improved durability by improving adhesion to a constituent member comprising a polyurethane in the golf ball. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a center and n envelope layers (n is a natural number of 1 or more) covering the center, wherein at least one envelope layer is a polyurethane envelope layer comprising a polyurethane as a principal component, and the polyurethane envelope layer and a constituent member adjacent to the polyurethane envelope layer are adhered with an adhesive resin composition, and wherein the adhesive resin composition comprises a base material including a urethane polyol and an epoxy resin, and a curing agent including a polyamine compound, and a content of the urethane polyol in the base material is 5 mass % or more and less than 40 mass %.
US09873011B2
This disclosure relates to a health machine including: a main body constructed with a bench frame, leg frame and hammer frame; a bench installed on the bench frame; a leg extension weight training part and an arm curl weight training part installed on the leg frame; a hammer bench weight training part installed on the hammer frame; an intensity adjustment rod connected to the bench frame; an intensity adjustment band movably fixed to the intensity adjustment rod; a hydraulic cylinder connected to the bench frame and to the intensity adjustment band; a leg bar connected to the intensity adjustment rod and to the leg extension weight training part; an elastic member fixed to the bench frame and to the leg extension weight training part; an intensity adjustment band movably fixed to the intensity adjustment rod; and a hydraulic cylinder connected to the hammer frame and to the intensity adjustment band.
US09873005B1
A length of strap having a handle along one end and a hookup loop extending from the handle to attach to a load. A release knot disposed about the free end of the strap having a bridge to the handle. The handle is disposed to bear the weight of a load alternatively on the strap or the handle when a worker lifts the handle. The knot holds fast when it is bearing the weight, and is slidably disposed when the weight is born by the handle.
US09873004B2
Systems and methods are provided for efficiently performing daily maintenance or quality assurance on proton therapy systems. Specifically, a system is provided which includes a solid-state phantom, a plurality of ionization chambers disposed within the solid-state phantom, and a measuring device coupled to the plurality of ionization chambers and operable to perform radiation measurements of proton beams received within the plurality of ionization chambers. Measurements of proton beams received in the ionization chambers may be used to derive the dose at the ionization chambers and be subsequently compared to pre-generated target data (e.g., data corresponding to proper treatment according to a radiation therapy treatment plan). If the data obtained through the maintenance procedure does not conform to the target data, the proton beam generator may be further calibrated.
US09872997B2
A wireless charger system for inductively charging a rechargeable battery of an implantable pulse generator (IPG) implanted in a human body is provided. A charging coil in the charger is wirelessly coupled to a receiving coil of the IPG to charge the rechargeable battery. An end-of-charge (EOC) circuit continuously monitors the reflected impedance from a reflected impedance sensor and determines the end of charge when a predetermined pattern of the reflected impedance corresponding to an EOC signal from the IPG is received. Advantageously, receiving the EOC signal through the charging coil eliminates the need to provide a separate communication circuit in the IPG that communicates with the charger.
US09872996B2
A method and device is described, which provides electrical stimulation to the brain of a person, where the device comprises an external portion and at least one implantable portion. The external portion provides the energy source for stimulation to the implantable portions. The implantable portions provide at least two conductive paths through the skull and use the skull's high impedance to generate a current loop with the focus of stimulation lying in the current path.
US09872992B2
A method and external control device for performing a medical procedure on a patient in which at least one stimulation lead is implanted. An electrical signal is conveyed from the stimulation lead into tissue of the patient. An electrical parameter indicative of tissue impedance is measured in response to the conveyance of the electrical signal. One of a plurality of different anatomical regions in which the stimulation lead is implanted is selected and/or a depth in which the stimulation is implanted is determined based on the measured electrical parameter. A stimulation parameter is defined based on the selected one anatomical region and/or implantation depth. Electrical stimulation energy from the stimulation lead is conveyed into the one determined anatomical region in accordance with the defined stimulation parameter.
US09872988B2
Systems, methods, and devices for evaluating lead placement based on patient physiological responses
A pulse generator is programmed to generate electrical stimulation to target a sacral nerve or a pudendal nerve of the patient. The electrical stimulation being delivered at least in part via a lead. The electrical stimulation is applied by ramping up a stimulation parameter over time. A first, a second, and a third physiological response are detected from the patient as a result of the electrical stimulation. A first value, a second value, and a third value of the stimulation parameter associated with the first, second, and third physiological response are measured, respectively. A placement of the lead inside the patient is evaluated based on at least one of: a chronological sequence in which the first, second, and third physiological responses occurred, a comparison of the first value with a predetermined threshold, or respective deviations of the second value or the third value from the first value.
US09872981B2
Electrical sensing/stimulation apparatuses for positioning at least one electrode within body tissue are provided. An electrical sensing/stimulation apparatus may comprise an elongate lead body having at least one internal lumen, at least one sensing/stimulation electrode, a deployable/retractable displacement member that moves or biases at least one electrode towards a prescribed direction by the user, a tissue attachment mechanism for affixing the distal segment of the device to body tissue, and an atraumatic distal lead body termination. In a retracted configuration, the attachment mechanism is positioned substantially within the distal segment of the lead body, and in the deployed configuration, the attachment mechanism extends from the axis of the lead body to engage body tissue.
US09872979B2
A circumferential headset for use in delivering electrical stimulation to the skin surface of the head.
US09872977B2
A piston for a needleless valve system comprising a head portion configured to be disposed in the needleless valve system and controlling fluid flow through the needleless valve system. The head portion comprising a continuous top surface, and an opening disposed proximate the continuous top surface, wherein the continuous top surface is non-planar when the opening is in an open position.
US09872974B2
Pump cassettes, wound-treatment apparatuses and methods. In some embodiments, a pump cassette comprises: a pump body having a pump chamber, an inlet valve in fluid communication with the pump chamber, and an outlet valve in fluid communication with the pump chamber; a diaphragm coupled to the pump body such that the diaphragm is movable to vary a volume in the pump chamber; and an identifier configured to store one or more properties of the pump cassette such that the identifier is readable by an automated reader to determine the one or more properties. In some embodiments, the pump cassette is configured to be removably coupled to a wound-treatment apparatus having an actuator such that the actuator can be activated to move the diaphragm.
US09872968B2
Biofeedback virtual reality sleep assistant technologies monitor one or more physiological parameters while presenting an immersive environment. The presentation of the immersive environment changes over time in response to changes in the values of the physiological parameters. The changes in the presentation of the immersive environment are configured using biofeedback technology and are designed to promote sleep.
US09872957B2
Some embodiments of a medical infusion pump system include a pump device having a cap device that mates with a pump housing to retain a medicine cartridge therein. In addition to retaining the medicine cartridge in the pump housing, the cap device may perform a number of preparatory functions or safety functions. In addition or in the alternative, some embodiments of the pump device may include a drive system that advances a piston rod to dispense medicine to the patient in a safe and energy efficient manner.
US09872956B2
A method includes receiving data regarding a catheter being used with the infusion device. The catheter has a lumen operably coupled to a reservoir of the infusion device and is configured to deliver fluid from the infusion device to a target location of a patient. The method further includes infusing fluid from the reservoir into the lumen of the catheter at a first rate and monitoring pressure via a pressure sensor in communication with the lumen of the catheter. Monitoring the pressure includes acquiring pressure data from the pressure sensor at a first frequency. The method also includes (i) determining whether the monitored pressure exceeds a first threshold, wherein the first threshold is based on the data regarding the catheter; and (ii) decreasing the rate at which the fluid is delivered from the reservoir into the catheter if the monitored pressure is determined to exceed the threshold.
US09872955B2
The present invention concerns a medical pump comprising: a. A hard housing comprising a top (24) and bottom (1) hard shells, within which a rigid wall (3) and a movable membrane (2) create three distinct chambers; wherein i. said movable membrane tightly separates said second (29) and third (22) chambers ii. said first and third chambers have a watertight interface iii. said second chamber (29) is designed to contain a fluid iv. said first chamber (23) comprises a first venting mean (20) which is arranged to provide a fluidic communication between said first chamber (23) and the external environment; v. said third chamber (22) comprises a second venting mean which is arranged to provide a fluidic communication between said third chamber (22) and the external environment b. A pumping element (4) located in the first chamber (23) c. A least one pressure sensor which measure the pressure gradient between the first chamber (23) and the second chamber (29) d. A fluid pathway which permits: i. a first fluid connection (27) between said second chamber (29) and said pumping element ii. a second fluid connection (28) between said pumping element and a patient line (30).
US09872945B2
A blood treatment filter including: a filter container that introduces blood from an inlet into an internal space, and discharges treated blood from an outlet; a filter material that is housed in the filter container to partition the internal space into an inlet side space and an outlet side space, and filters the passing blood to remove a specific component; an inlet port that forms an inlet channel through which the blood flowing from the inlet to the internal space passes; an outlet port that forms an outlet channel through which the blood flowing from the internal space to the outlet passes, wherein the outlet channel has a tapered outlet passage with an inner diameter increasing from the internal space side toward the outlet side.
US09872943B1
A pistol grip suction device comprises a hollow body member having first leg joining second leg at elbow, the legs being generally tubular and disposed approximately 90 degrees apart; a push rod extending through push rod aperture at elbow, the push rod extending into hollow second leg, the push rod having a button on proximal end outside the body, and valve on distal end inside the body; a valve seat disposed within second leg around push rod; valve mounted on the push rod through the valve seat, the suction port having a diameter at least two times the diameter of push rod through suction port; a spring biasing push rod into extended position with respect to second leg such that valve bears against valve seat and closes suction port, wherein a force against button greater than biasing force of spring displaces valve from valve seat and opens suction port.
US09872931B2
A removable sterilization rack for supporting objects to be sterilized inside a sterilization apparatus is disclosed. The sterilization rack includes a support structure for supporting the objections; at least one opening for directing a flow of a fluid towards the objects when the objects are supported by the support structure; a docking port for docking with a fluid supply port in the sterilization apparatus and for receiving the fluid from the fluid supply port of the sterilization apparatus; and a conduit arranged and configured to bring the docking port in fluid connection with the at least one opening. The sterilization rack further includes a marker configured to provide a contactless positioning indication to the sterilization apparatus when the docking port is in a position to receive the fluid from the fluid supply port of the sterilization apparatus.
US09872930B2
An aqueous disinfectant solution comprising peroxyacetic acid and a surfactant such as a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether phosphate, (polyethylene glycol p-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)-phenyl ether) or cocoamidopropylamino oxide. The solution is preferably adjusted to provide a pH in the range 5-8 by a pH adjusting agent such as a phosphate buffer; hydroxide; carbonate; bicarbonate; a combination of carbonate and hydroxide; or a combination of carbonate and bi carbonate.
US09872907B2
A hydrogel-forming material, a premix, and a method for forming a hydrogel through a simple process at room temperature. The material including: a disperse phase (A) including a lipid peptide-based gelator including at least one of a compound of Formula (1) or pharmaceutically usable salt thereof, water, and a fatty acid salt; and a phase (B) that includes a water-soluble acidic polymer: (where R1 is a C9-23 aliphatic group, R2 is a hydrogen atom or a C1-4 alkyl group that optionally has a C1-2 branched chain, R3 is a —(CH2)n—X group, n is a number of 1 to 4, X is an amino group, a guanidino group, a —CONH2 group, a 5-membered ring optionally containing 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s), a 6-membered ring optionally containing 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s), or a condensed heterocycle that contains a 5-membered ring and a 6-membered ring optionally containing 1 to 3 nitrogen atom(s)).
US09872903B2
A targeting thymidine kinase photosensitizer and pharmaceutical composition and use for cancer treatment thereof is provided, which improves the selectivity of photosensitizers to tumor cells, has better tolerance, can reach maximum blood concentration in 24 hours, has a bigger conjugated system, a longer absorption wavelength and an advantage in treating depth tumors; the wavelength area does not need to consume much energy of a light-output device and even LEDs can be used, which render PDT more practical and economical. The targeting thymidine kinase photosensitizer can be used for diagnosis and for treating prostatic carcinoma via the guidance of fluorescence imaging. The pharmaceutical composition uses a combination of a chemotherapeutic agent and the targeting thymidine kinase photosensitizer, which further improves the therapeutic effect of the PDT method, expands the application range for tumors and has good effects on metastatic tumors as well.
US09872900B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use ribonucleic acid vaccines (NAVs) comprising polynucleotide molecules encoding one or more antigens.
US09872896B2
The present invention relates to immortalized porcine alveolar macrophages (PAMs), to cell cultures comprising such PAMs, to methods for the immortalization of PAMs, to methods of replicating PRRS virus on immortalized PAMs and to methods for the preparation of vaccines comprising PRRSV.
US09872894B2
Disclosed are immunogenic compositions that include one or more polypeptides that, when administered to a subject with adjuvant, elicit an immune response against medullary thyroid cancer. Disclosed are methods of eliciting an immune response and/or treating cancer, such as medullary thyroid carcinoma or other thyroid carcinomas.
US09872892B2
The present invention relates to methods of controlling the growth of microorganisms in animals and animal feed. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of controlling the growth of microorganisms in animals with an antimicrobial composition, the treatment of animal feed with an antimicrobial additive and antimicrobial compositions.
US09872878B2
An Atractylodes Lancea extract feed additive and a preparation method thereof are provided. The Atractylodes Lancea extract feed additive takes an Atractylodes Lancea extract and a carrier as raw materials. The Atractylodes Lancea extract is prepared by the ultrasonic auxiliary water extraction. The preparation method of the present invention has less raw material waste, high activity component content in the extract and acquisition rate of the extractum, which facilitates improving the effect efficiency and reducing production cost. The Atractylodes Lancea extract feed additive as a natural plant feed additive is capable of reducing malaria incidence, restoring consciousness and relieving uneasiness, and diuretically swelling.
US09872877B2
Cells present in adipose tissue are used to promote wound healing in a patient. Methods of treating patients include processing adipose tissue to deliver a concentrated amount of regenerative cells obtained from the adipose tissue to a patient. The methods may be practiced in a closed system so that the regenerative cells are not exposed to an external environment prior to being administered to a patient. Accordingly, in a preferred method, cells present in adipose tissue are placed directly into a recipient along with such additives necessary to promote, engender or support a therapeutic benefit.
US09872869B2
A food or supplement for pregnant women comprising water soluble, non-digestible saccharides is described. The composition is used to improve the flora and/or immune system of the pregnant women, to improve the immune system of the infant and to improve the intestinal flora of the infant after birth.
US09872848B2
The present disclosure generally relates to lyophilized pharmaceutical compositions comprising polymeric nanoparticles which, upon reconstitution, have low levels of greater than 10 micron size particles. Other aspects of the invention include methods of making such nanoparticles.
US09872843B2
An aqueous composition with a higher-than-neutral pH includes a significant amount of one or more surfactants and large amounts of osmotically active solutes. This composition, as well as an acidic counterpart and solid materials, can be used in a variety of applications such as wound care, oral care, medical equipment reprocessing, healthcare acquired infection and implant treatment.
US09872836B2
Disclosed in certain embodiments is a controlled release oral dosage form comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a drug susceptible to abuse together with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients; the dosage form further including a gelling agent in an effective amount to impart a viscosity unsuitable for administration selected from the group consisting of parenteral and nasal administration to a solubilized mixture formed when the dosage form is crushed and mixed with from about 0.5 to about 10 ml of an aqueous liquid; the dosage form providing a therapeutic effect for at least about 12 hours when orally administered to a human patient.
US09872833B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a drug delivery system capable of sustainedly releasing a drug noninvasively at any given point in time. The present invention relates to a liposome complex comprising a liposome membrane-constituting substance bonded to a light-absorbing compound having an absorption wavelength in the near-infrared region, selected from the group consisting of indocyanine green dyes, phthalocyanine dyes, squarylium dyes, croconium dyes, and diimmonium dyes.
US09872826B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a fluid gel, the method comprising adding metal cations to the gellant dispersion while retaining the pH at no greater than 3; and adding a pH modifying agent to the gellant dispersion to increase the pH of the gellant dispersion to greater than 3.
US09872823B2
Described herein is a method of treating the hair. The method includes applying to the hair a hair treatment composition including one or more fluorescent compounds and rinsing the hair with water. The one or more fluorescent compounds each include a fluorophore, one or two permanent cations, and one to four incipient cations. The incipient cations are pendant to the core structure and are neutral. The one or more fluorescent compounds enter the hair shaft after the hair treatment composition is applied to the hair. The hair treatment composition has a pH of from about 7 to about 11. The pH of the hair after rinsing is from about 3.5 to about 6. The rinsing of the hair causes one or more of the one to four incipient cations to change from neutral to positively charged inside of the hair shaft.
US09872822B2
The present invention relates to a process for dyeing human keratin fibres, in which use is made of one or more metal catalysts and a composition (A) comprising: (a) at least 10% by weight of one or more fatty substances, (b) one or more oxidation bases of formula (I) or (II), the addition salts thereof, solvates thereof and mixtures thereof: Formula (I), Formula (II) (c) one or more chemical oxidizing agents other than atmospheric oxygen. The invention also relates to a multi-compartment device and to a composition comprising all of the above-mentioned ingredients.
US09872821B1
Methods, formulations, and kits for curling and/or preventing damage in the curling of hair are disclosed herein. Treatment with one or more hydroxide-containing agents in combination with one or more active agents can reshape hair, without the need for sulfur-containing reducing agents. To impart curl to hair, the active agent(s) and the hydroxide-containing agent(s) are applied either as a combined formulation or as separate formulations which are applied simultaneously. Use of the active agent along with a hydroxide-containing agent allows the level of curl imparted to hair to be controlled, as compared to the natural amount of curl, if any, in the untreated hair.
US09872820B2
Described are personal care, preferably skin care compositions, comprising polyolefin blends comprising at least one metallocene catalyzed polyolefin with a density above 0.90 g/cm3, at least one metallocene catalyzed polyolefin with a density equal to or below 0.90 g/cm3, provided that the average melt index for the polyolefin blend is greater than 7; and a cosmetically acceptable hydrocarbon oil, provided that the composition does not contain ethylene acrylic copolymer.
US09872816B2
A beauty care product is provided. The beauty care product has a multi-layered barrier patch with a non-foamed first layer and a foamed second layer. The non-foamed first layer has a non-foamed polymer film with a first surface and a thickness from 5 microns to 250 microns. The foamed second layer has a foamed polymer film comprising a Mean Void Volume Percentage from 45% to 80% and a thickness of from 10 microns to 250 microns. The beauty care product also has a cosmetic composition with an effective amount of a skin active agent and a pressure sensitive adhesive.
US09872815B2
A rack (10) to stock round (26) or semi-round medication containers. The rack (10) has a generally rectangular box shape and includes two side members (16). Both of the two side members (16) include one row of a plurality of generally “C” shaped slots (24) forming a plurality of windows (28). A label (34) with indicia (23) and medication-related information (22) is provided on a face panel (17) of each side member (16). In operation, medication containers (26), including a label (32) with indicia (31) and medication-related information (30), are pegged into the slots (24) of the rack (10) so that the medication-related information (30) of the labels (32) of the medication containers (26) show through windows (28) and align with the corresponding medication-related information (22) of the face panels (17) of rack (10).
US09872812B2
A method of controlling a compression device controls a vent phase of a compression device having an inflatable bladder capable of being pressurized for applying compression to a part of a subject's body. The method includes delivering pressurized fluid from a source of pressurized fluid to a first inflatable bladder disposed about a portion of the subject's body and venting the pressurized fluid from the first inflatable bladder by opening a first valve. The method further includes monitoring fluid pressure in the first inflatable bladder during the venting of the first inflatable bladder. Based at least in part on the monitored fluid pressure, the first valve is selectively closed and selectively reopened to control fluid pressure in the first inflatable bladder to remain within a desired residual pressure range.
US09872804B2
A wheelchair includes a frame, a chair, a pair of drive wheels, a pair of rear wheels, and a pair of front wheels. Each front wheel is part of a front arm assembly that is rigidly coupled to a drive via a mounting plate. The mounting plate is connected to the wheelchair frame by a pivot. The drives are transversely mounted. The batteries are disposed rearward of the drives. The wheelchair seat can be moved forward to provide access to the batteries without fully removing the wheelchair from the frame.
US09872802B2
A wrapper that opens relatively quietly and wraps a sheetlike hygiene product provided on one side with an adhesive, said wrapper being based on a packaging material in web form and composed of a polymeric film comprising a) at least one heat-sealable layer based on a mixture of at least one C2 or C3 olefin homopolymer or copolymer and not more than 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the layer a), of polybutylene and b) optionally a layer of polyethylene having a density of 0.88-0.94 g/cm3; the layer a), at least in those sections which face the regions of the hygiene product that are provided with the adhesive, has a release coating, and otherwise, at least in the sub-regions which are joined to form edge closures in the form of stripes or lines, has no release coating.
US09872798B2
A system and method for treating ophthalmic target tissue, including a light source for generating a beam of light, a beam delivery system that includes a scanner for generating patterns, and a controller for controlling the light source and delivery system to create a dosimetry pattern of the light beam on the ophthalmic target tissue. One or more dosage parameters of the light beam vary within the dosimetry pattern, to create varying exposures on the target tissue. A visualization device observes lesions formed on the ophthalmic target tissue by the dosimetry pattern. The controller selects dosage parameters for the treatment beam based upon the lesions resulting from the dosimetry pattern, either automatically or in response to user input, so that a desired clinical effect is achieved by selecting the character of the lesions as determined by the dosimetry pattern lesions.
US09872797B2
A laser-assisted method for fully or partially separating tissue such as collagen containing tissue is provided. In one embodiment, the method pertains to a capsulorhexis whereby the laser-assisted method is applied to the lens capsule. A light-absorbing agent is added into or onto the tissue. A light beam with a wavelength capable of being absorbed by the light absorbing agent is then directed at the tissue to cause a thermal effect at the tissue following a predetermined closed curve with the goal to avoid irregularity or potential tears in the resulting rim of the tissue.
US09872795B2
A thermoformable medical member and heater and method for manufacturing same. A thermoplastic material is converted from a relatively rigid state to a formable state over a narrow temperature range, and, which reverts back to a clinically rigid state within a relatively short period of time, and, which remains in that state even at elevated ambient temperatures.
US09872793B2
An abductor device includes a pair of cuffs for interfacing to respective legs of a user. There is a mechanism for removably holding each cuff of the pair of cuffs to a respective leg of the user and a mechanism for maintaining a range of separation between each cuff of the pair of cuffs. This range of separation ranges from a minimum distance between each cuff of the pair of cuffs to a maximum distance between each cuff of the pair of cuffs.
US09872788B2
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a device, preferably a disposable device, for reducing pain, bleeding and/or distension of hemorrhoids during defecation comprising an anchor portion being anchorable against tissue of a rectum and being attached to a tubular portion sized and configured for outwardly biasing internal hemorrhoids (i.e. pushing them against rectal/anal wall tissue) and optionally external hemorrhoids when the anchor portion is preferably anchored against the rectum wall.
US09872773B2
This invention is directed to orthopedic implants and systems. The invention also relates to methods of implant design, manufacture, modeling and implantation as well as to surgical tools and kits used therewith. The implants are designed by analyzing the articular surface to be corrected and creating a device with an anatomic or near anatomic fit; or selecting a pre-designed implant having characteristics that give the implant the best fit to the existing defect.
US09872767B2
Removable cardiac implants, applicators for inserting, repositioning and/or removing them, and methods of using them are described. In particular, removable or repositionable ventricular partitioning devices are described. Systems including removable implants and applicators for inserting and/or removing them are also described.
US09872764B2
Described herein is a prosthetic valve device having an optimized valve component for durability and functionality of the collapsible leaflets. Specially designed commissures contribute to the optimization along with identified parameters. In other embodiments, the invention is a frame formed from a unique cutting pattern.
US09872752B2
According to an aspect, a medical assembly includes a ring shaped member configured to surround a vaginal wall and an arm member. The arm member is coupled to the ring shaped member and configured to extend from the ring shaped member to a bodily location. The arm member is configured to be coupled to the bodily location and provide a support to a vagina of a patient. The ring shaped member is configured to hold the arm member during implantation of the arm member within the body. The ring shaped member is further configured to be cut after implantation so that the ring shaped member is transformed into a non-circular shape.
US09872751B2
In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a mesh having an edge, a loop coupled to the edge of the mesh, and a suture coupled to at least one of the loop or the edge of the mesh, the suture having a barb. The loop can have an inner diameter smaller than a combined width of the suture and at least a portion of an outer portion of the barb.
US09872744B2
The orthodontic bracket includes a base and a bracket body extending from the base. The bracket body includes a lower labial surface on which a first indicia is displayed and a plurality of tie-wings extending from corner portions of the base on which a second indicia is displayed. The labial surfaces face the patients lips, once positioned on the patient's tooth. The first indicia can be a number corresponding to a specific tooth in a patient's mouth to which the bracket is designed to attach. The second indicia can be a dot positioned on a tie-wing associated with a specific quadrant of the patient's mouth.
US09872743B2
Provided are a clear aligner set and an orthodontic treatment method considering resilience of a human body. The clear aligner set may include at least one first clear aligner, having a first restoring force to apply a first pressing force to teeth during a first period, and primarily wearable by an orthodontic patient, at least one second clear aligner, having a second restoring force greater than the first restoring force to apply a second pressing force greater than the first pressing force to the teeth during a second period, and secondarily wearable by the orthodontic patient, and at least one third clear aligner, having a third restoring force greater than the second restoring force to apply a third pressing force greater than the second pressing force to the teeth during a third period, and tertiarily wearable by the orthodontic patient.
US09872741B2
An orthodontic bracket is disclosed having three archwire retention channels in the mesial-distal directions, a central channel and two side channels. The two side channels each include a pair of spaced apart inverted archwire retaining regions having a recess that opens generally towards the bracket base. Each such recess is for grasping or holding an archwire therein. Other aspects are directed to a self ligating orthodontic bracket system that includes a rotatable member for securing an archwire within a slot of a bracket; embodiments that include an orthodontic appliance and method of producing and using the same, and preferably employed in a lingual orthodontic system, that includes friction reducing features between an interior of an archwire slot portion of the appliance and an archwire placed within the archwire slot.
US09872740B2
The present invention provides a system for the endodontic treatment of a root canal that includes (i) an endodontic instrument; (ii) an endodontic handpiece having a drive motor for rotating the endodontic instrument releasably attached to the handpiece; (iii) a control unit for controlling the rotation of the endodontic instrument according to one or more predetermined rotational sequences.
US09872730B2
A coaptive surgical sealing tool may be similar to an ordinary hemostat with long (50, 60, 70 or 80 mm) thin jaws for sliding into the liver parenchyma, without tearing the larger blood vessels. The jaws are spring loaded and are designed for uniform compression, and to avoid closing too quickly. The jaws are capable of sealing a 50, 60, 70 or 80 mm sealing length, in a single bite, although it can also seal shorter lengths as well. The tool can be used with existing ablative therapy microwave generators. The tool may be provided with irrigation and/or suction.
US09872723B2
A surgical system and method is provided generally including a portable surgical instrument, a battery assembly, and a battery charger. The battery assembly is removably coupled to the portable surgical instrument and is configured to wirelessly transfer electrical power to the portable surgical instrument. The battery assembly is also removably couplable to the battery charger and is configured to wirelessly transfer electrical power to the battery charger and wirelessly receive electrical power from the battery charger. The portable surgical instrument and the battery charger are configured for simultaneous bi-directional communication of data with the battery assembly via the transferred or received electrical power.
US09872720B2
Disclosed herein is a controller for controlling ablation of a target tissue of a patient with an ablation device comprising at least one electrode and at least one sensor. The controller typically comprises a storage medium and one or more computing devices operably coupled with the storage medium. The storage medium can comprise patient image data and the one or more computing devices are configured to direct power to the at least one electrode.
US09872715B2
A system and method for bending a surgical rod using an automated bending system includes receiving an indication of a plurality of line segments defined on the rod and an indication of an angle measurement to be formed between at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of line segments. Bending parameters to perform on the rod to form the angle measurement between the at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of line segments are determined and operation of the automated bending system is controlled using the bending parameters to create an angle having the angle measurement between the at least two adjacent ones of the plurality of line segments.
US09872707B2
External fixator assemblies, systems, and methods thereof. An external fixator system may include a plurality of fixator assemblies configured to connect a plurality of pins, for example, positioned on opposite sides of a fractured bone, with one more rods. The fixator assemblies may include a plurality of clamp assemblies positioned along a shaft and which are configured to rotate relative to one another when the fixator assembly is in an unlocked position.
US09872705B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including apparatus for treating a cavity in a human body, the apparatus including a delivery tube. A barrier device has a collapsed and an expanded configuration, the barrier device moving from the collapsed to the expanded configuration upon being deployed from the delivery tube. A pushing element, slidably disposed within a lumen of the delivery tube, deploys the barrier device from the delivery tube by pushing the barrier device. One or more barrier-deployment elements are coupled to the barrier device and to the pushing element, the barrier-deployment elements being configured to conformingly contact the barrier device with tissue surrounding the cavity. The barrier device is configured to isolate the cavity from surrounding body fluid that is between the barrier device and the pushing element, following deployment of the barrier device from the delivery tube. Other applications are also described.
US09872700B2
A tissue removal tool for use with an endoscope. The tool includes a loop formed by a piece of wire. The loop is movable between an open position and a closed position. The shape of the loop is defined in the open position by a proximal portion and a distal portion. The piece of wire may have a cross-sectional height in the proximal portion unequal to a cross-sectional height in the distal portion.
US09872697B2
An ultrasonic medical treatment probe has a head with a distal-most circular rim extending along an endless uninterrupted perimeter around a broad recess and formed with a series of serrations or teeth. The rim is thin in comparison to the width of the recess. The serrations or teeth preferably extend continuously along an entire circumference or length of the rim. The probe head is provided along the rim with a plurality of notches or openings communicating with the recess.
US09872695B2
Device for treatments of endoscopic resection/removal of tissues including: a handpiece; an outer tubular element extending along a longitudinal axis including a proximal end, a distal end and a cutting opening at the distal end; an inner tubular element rotatably accommodated in the outer tubular element; the inner tubular element extending along a longitudinal axis and including a proximal end, a distal end and a cutting tip at its distal end; a guide for rotating/oscillating the inner/outer tubular elements with respect to one another; the guide including an electric motor and power-supply; a first clutch keyed on the inner tubular element substantially at the proximal end of the inner tubular element; a second clutch keyed on the distal end of the motor output shaft to axially slide on the motor output shaft; and at least one elastic element to push the second clutch to couple with the first clutch.
US09872694B2
A tissue removal system includes an inner tubular member configured to rotate and oscillate axially relative to an outer tubular member, and a reversible motor comprising a rotatable output shaft operatively coupled to the inner tubular member. A proximal end of the inner tubular member is disposed within, and configured to rotate and oscillate axially relative to, a housing. A first control switch disposed within the housing is actuated when the inner tubular member is in a distal position relative to the housing, and a second control switch disposed external to the housing is actuated by a user. The system further includes motor control circuitry configured such that when the second control switch is actuated, actuation of the first control switch causes the motor output shaft to change direction, and when the second control switch is not actuated, actuation of the first control switch causes the motor to turn off.
US09872688B2
The present disclosure relates to an instrument and method of manipulating soft tissue during a soft tissue repair procedure. The instrument and related method may include use of a handle and a shaft coupled to the handle, the shaft including a proximal portion and a distal portion, wherein the distal portion of the shaft comprises a tip including at least two prongs and a channel located between the prongs.
US09872680B2
A tissue fixation system including a delivery tube and an elongated fastener with a loop at a proximal end and a distal end. A proximal end of an elongated curved needle is attached to the delivery tube. A distal end of the needle is configured to penetrate tissue. The needle includes an open channel sized to receive the elongated fastener with the loop located near the proximal end of the elongated curved needle and the distal end of the elongated fastener located near the distal end of the elongated curved needle. A capture needle is slidably positioned in the delivery tube to slide through the loop in the proximal end of the elongated fastener. The capture needle is configured to grasp the distal end of the elongated fastener and pull the distal end of the elongated fastener through the loop to cinch the elongated fastener.
US09872674B2
Entrapment and collection systems and method of entrapping and collecting biologic material produced on a patient are disclosed. The systems include a collection bag which formed of a flexible sheet material having a hollow interior, a first mouth and a second mouth. The first mouth is openable to enable the biological structure to be disposed in the hollow interior and to enable a removal instrument, e.g., a morcellator, to be introduced therethrough to engage the biologic structure to effect a procedure on it. The second mouth enables a viewing instrument to be extended through it for visualizing the procedure and is closeable by a drawstring to entrap biologic material produced by the procedure after the removal instrument and viewing instrument have been removed, whereupon the collection bag may be withdrawn from the body of the patient.
US09872673B2
A surgical instrument includes an outer housing shell defining a cavity, the outer housing shell defining an upper outer housing half and a lower outer housing half, wherein the upper outer housing half defines a longitudinal axis and an instrument module selectively insertable into the cavity of the outer housing shell. The instrument module includes an inner housing shell, at least one motor disposed within the inner housing shell, a control board being in electrical communication with the at least one motor and an energy source being in electrical communication with the at least one motor and the control board. The instrument module is inserted into the cavity of the outer housing shell in such a manner that the operative axis of the at least one motor is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the upper outer housing half.
US09872666B2
Disclosed are embodiments of devices and methods for providing enhanced echogenicity to medical devices. An echogenic feature is formed in the shape of a pyramidal reuleaux triangle. A lobe is constructed at a rim of an echogenic feature to create a pocket between the lobe and a bottom surface of the feature. A test fixture is disclosed which provides a method for obtaining quantifiable echogenicity data of medical devices.
US09872660B2
A medical diagnostic imaging system includes an X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus and an image processing apparatus to reconstruct one or more moire images produced in the X-ray Talbot imaging apparatus into a plurality of types of medical diagnostic images. The image processing apparatus classifies the medical diagnostic images generated based on the same moire image(s) into a group and outputs the group of medical diagnostic images as a unit to the outside.
US09872655B2
A method of guiding a catheter during an embolization operation includes receiving volume data of a patient volume, the patient volume including a lesion and a feeding vessel for the lesion, detecting the feeding vessel in the volume data, define a vessel connection path for the feeding vessel, the vessel connection path connecting first and second points in the volume data, the second point being disposed along the feeding vessel, receiving fluoroscopic projection data of the patient volume, and rendering the fluoroscopic projection data with an overlay during the embolization operation, the overlay including the vessel connection path for the feeding vessel.
US09872645B2
The present invention is directed to the parenteral procurement of bodily-fluid samples. The present invention is also directed to systems and methods for parenterally procuring bodily-fluid samples with reduced contamination from dermally-residing microbes. In some embodiments, a bodily-fluid withdrawing system is used to withdraw bodily fluid from a patient for incubation in culture media in one or more sample vessels. Prior to withdrawing bodily fluid into the one or more sample vessels for incubation, an initial volume of withdrawn bodily fluid is placed in one or more pre-sample reservoirs and is not used for the incubation in culture media.
US09872643B2
A non-intrusive physiological data measurement system and method, as well as an optically induced treatment system, are described. The measurement system includes a monitoring mechanism that includes light emitter modules capable of emitting light at at least two wavelengths. The light emitted from the light emitter modules is transmitted through a subject and to a light receiving mechanism, such as an optical sensor. Physiological data is taken from the received light. The system also can ascertain movement of the subject by obtaining an initial outline of the subject and comparing that outline with a subsequently obtained outline. A therapeutic optic system includes a non-adhering light emitting mechanism for providing light at therapeutic wavelengths.
US09872637B2
A medical evaluation system includes an I/O module, a processing module, and an analysis module. The I/O module receives sensory data obtained by a motion sensor disposed in a mobile device carried by a patient at least when the patient is in a non-clinical environment. The processing module extracts medically relevant data from the sensory data received from the sensor in the mobile device. The relevant data includes one or more features of interest in the sensory data. The analysis module derives one or more surrogate biomarkers from the relevant data. The surrogate biomarkers represent at least one of a state or a progression of a medical condition of the patient. The mobile device may be a mobile phone carried by the patient and the sensor may include at least one of an accelerometer or a gyroscope that generates the sensory data to represent movements of the patient.
US09872632B2
An electric impedance tomography device with chest electrodes, a display and a control and analyzing unit to determine a time series of a global ventilation curve from the sequence of reconstructed matrices as a time series of the mean impedance change or of a measured respiration volume, to divide an inspiration or expiration phase into a number of steps of equal volume change, to determine the times corresponding to these steps, to determine the change in local impedance between these times for each image element, the ratio of this local change in impedance to the global ventilation curve to form a local sequence of relative impedance changes of the image element as a function of the steps of equal volume change, to determine a scalar indicator characteristic as a function of the steps of equal volume change and to display each image element based on the respective scalar indicator.
US09872625B2
An airbag for a blood pressure measuring device for fixing a cuff, including: a main sheet member which spreads in two layers forming a bag body, wherein a constricted portion is formed on the bag body, the constricted portion narrowing the air chamber with respect to the width direction, a pair of sub sheet members are disposed so as to correspond to the respective layers of the main sheet member, the sub sheet member occupying a region including at least a portion corresponding to the constricted portion, and the pair are respectively welded to the layers of the main sheet member at the constricted portion, the pair being welded to the corresponding layers of the main sheet member at a center near portion away from the constricted portion toward a center side with respect to the width direction.
US09872623B2
An arm mountable portable patient monitoring device configured for both on patient monitoring of parameter measurements using one or more sensors operatively connected to the portable patient monitoring device and wireless transmission of parameter measurements. The arm mountable portable patient monitoring device includes a pulse oximetry sensor configured to be wrapped around a digit of a patient, a housing having a size and shape configured for mounting to a lower arm of the patient, and a strap mountable to the back side of the housing and configured to secure the housing to the lower arm of the patient. The housing includes a display, a first sensor port positioned on the housing to face toward a hand of the patient, second and third sensor ports, a battery, signal processing arrangements to cause display of parameter measurements, and a transmitter to transmit information indicative of the measurements.
US09872622B2
A magnetic resonance scanner (12) is configured for thermographic imaging. One or more processors (28) receive (56) thermal image data from the magnetic resonance scanner and reconstruct at least one thermal image in which each voxel includes a measure of temperature change. The one or more processors identify (58) thermally abnormal voxels. A display (44) displays at least one reconstructed image with the identified abnormal thermal locations.
US09872621B2
An embodiment includes a functional near infrared (fNIR) system comprising: first, second, and third light emitting diodes (LED) and a photo detector; and at least one storage medium having instructions stored thereon for causing the system to: (a) emit photo energy at first, second, and third wavelengths from the first, second, and third LEDs during first and second time periods, (b) determine first, second, and third optical density changes and changes in first and second chromophore concentrations based on the emitted photo energy; and (c) determine and fit first, second, and third absorption values to a first absorption spectra curve based on the determined changes in first and second chromophore concentrations. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09872620B2
In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
US09872608B2
A bending device includes a bending section, a wire, a wire receiver, a cover, a fixed section against which a distal end of the cover is buttable when the cover advances and retracts, and a coil sheath against which a proximal end of the cover is buttable when the cover advances and retracts.
US09872603B2
A connector functioning as an endoscope connector includes an outer cylinder member, an inner cylinder member, and an urging member. The outer cylinder member includes a channel, an inner circumferential section provided in an inner circumference of the channel, and an inner circumferential section provided further on the outflow port side than the inner circumferential section. The inner cylinder member includes an advancing/retracting section disposed to be capable of advancing and retracting along the channel and having an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the inner circumferential section, an O-shaped ring disposed in an outer circumference of the advancing/retracting section and configured to fill a gap between the advancing/retracting section and the inner circumferential section when the advancing/retracting section is disposed in the inner circumferential section, and a through-path that pierces through the advancing/retracting section along the channel.
US09872601B2
An endoscope system includes: an electronic endoscope having an imaging device and a first processing unit which judges whether a first error has occurred that is an error in image data taken by the imaging device and resets the imaging device if a variable for judgment of occurrence of a first error is larger than or equal to a first threshold value; a light source unit which supplies illumination light to the electronic endoscope, and a second processing unit which judges whether a second error has occurred that is an error in image data transmitted from the electronic endoscope and initializes supply of power to the electronic endoscope if a variable for judgment of occurrence of a second error is larger than or equal to a second threshold value that is larger than or equal to the first threshold value; and a processor as defined herein.
US09872595B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing with an on-board hydrogen peroxide generator which produces a hydrogen peroxide solution in situ from fluid stored within an on-board supply tank of the surface cleaning apparatus, and further delivers the generated hydrogen peroxide solution to a cleaning pad attached to the housing of the surface cleaning apparatus.
US09872593B2
A tipping method for a tipping arrangement which includes a first element (1) and a second element (2), arranged between a moveable base unit (4) and a rotatable container (3). The container (3) is rotated by moving the second element (2) along a first track (7) on the first element (1). The second element (2) is moved along the track (7) by rotating the second element (2) relative to the first element (1). A number of engaging parts (9, 10) may be arranged on the tracks (7, 8) of the elements (1, 2), respectively. An interlocking arrangement may be arranged between the first element (1) and the second element (2) to secure the second element (2) in a starting position. A movable unit includes the tipping arrangement and a section unit, with the container (3) locked in a vertical position by a locking arrangement.
US09872589B2
The device for dispensing pre-cut rolled wiping material comprising a housing receiving a roll of wiping material, said housing comprising a back wall, and two lateral walls, said walls forming external walls of the housing, said housing receiving a flap hinged with respect to the housing, ensuring the guiding and the unwinding of the roll of material, and a cover hinged with respect to the housing, defining after closing a space between said flap and said cover to enable the strip of material to come out, said flap and said cover defining a space between them to ensure the guiding and the letting out of the strip of material and the separation of a format of material, said device being remarkable in that it has an external wall for supporting the roll of material having a profile comprising a horizontal central portion and, on either side, two raised front and back oblique portions enabling to receive, to center, and to hold in a stabilized way the roll of material, and in that the front oblique portion is, by its lower portion, jointed to the horizontal support portion, and recessed with respect to the front end of the housing to define a volumetric space with the flap, allowing the user to engage and to position his fingers to grab the unwound strip of material coming from the roll for the distribution of a cut format of material.
US09872587B1
The dual-chamber carafe is a beverage container that is formed with two separated storage chambers capable of separately storing two different beverages such as regular coffee and decaffeinated coffee. The dual-chamber carafe is an insulated container. Beverages are introduced separately into each separate storage chamber through an opening in the dual-chamber carafe. The opening is closed with a lid. The lid has a valve arrangement that allows the user to select which of the separated storage chambers liquids will be drawn from. The dual-chamber carafe comprises a carafe and a lid.
US09872585B2
A grilling belt includes a flexible support having first and second major surfaces, an extruded fluoropolymer layer overlying the first major surface, and a cast or skived fluoropolymer layer overlying the extruded fluoropolymer layer. Another grilling belt can include a support having first and second major surfaces, and a first fluoropolymer film overlying the first major surface. The support can include a first fabric having a first bias angle, and a second fabric laminated to the first fabric and having a second bias angle different from the first bias angle by between 20° and 160°.
US09872582B2
An electric pressure cooker is provided, including a cooker body (1); a cooker cover (2) having a closing state and an opening state, wherein the cooker cover (2) is rotatable with respect to the cooker body (1) between a sealing position and an unsealing position in the closing state; a micro-switch assembly (3) disposed on the cooker body (1) and adapted to switch between an OFF state in which the micro-switch assembly (3) electrically disconnects the electric pressure cooker from an external power source and an ON state in which the micro-switch assembly (3) electrically connects the electric pressure cooker with the external power source, wherein the micro-switch assembly (3) is in the ON state when the cooker cover (2) is in the opening state or at the sealing position.
US09872575B2
The present disclosure is directed to a bed covering. In some embodiments, a bed covering according to the present disclosure can include a fitted base configured to at least partially enclose a mattress, a comforter portion including an end connected to the fitted base and sides removably connectable to sides of the fitted base, and extendable side flaps connected to the sides of the comforter portion. Additional and alternative embodiments of the bed covering are disclosed herein and/or will be evident from the principles described herein.
US09872571B2
A bedhead and a collapsible bed frame with the bedhead are provided. The bedhead includes at least two unitary frames. Each unitary frame has at least one storage room at a back thereof. After the collapsible bed frame is disassembled, it can be accommodated in the storage room of the bedhead. For transportation, the parts of the bed frame are accommodated in the storage room of the bedhead, and the unitary frames of the bedhead are folded to form a box. The volume of the bed frame and the bedhead after folded is reduced greatly to be transported and stored conveniently.
US09872565B2
A chair assembly includes a back support arrangement that includes a back frame member and a forwardly-facing surface configured to support a user, a four-bar linkage assembly including a first linkage member, a second linkage member, a third linkage member and a fourth linkage member each pivotably coupled to one another such that the four-bar linkage assembly includes an upper end that is adjustable between raised and lowered positions, and an arm rest assembly supported on the upper end of the four-bar linkage assembly, wherein a lower end of the four-bar linkage assembly is pivotably supported from an arm support structure for pivotable movement such that the upper end of the four-bar linkage assembly is movable between a first position and second position located laterally outward from the first position, and wherein the fifth pivot point is located forwardly of the back frame member.
US09872564B2
Providing an overturn preventing device which can successfully prevent overturn of an article. The overturn preventing device includes a damper mounted between a piece of furniture and a ceiling and a setting member connected to both ends of the damper. The setting member has a first setting part body and a second setting part body. The first and second setting part bodies and of the setting member are spread when the overturn preventing device is mounted between the furniture and the ceiling. The setting member assumes such a shape as to extend in one direction when the first and second setting part bodies and are unspread.
US09872558B2
An oral care implement comprising tooth cleaning elements and a tissue cleanser. In one aspect, the invention can be an oral care implement comprising: a head and a handle, the head having a first face, a second face, and at least one port extending through the head from the first face to the second face; a plurality of tufts of bristles extending from the first face of the head; a soft tissue cleanser positioned on the second face of the head, the soft tissue cleanser comprising a pad formed of an elastomeric material and a plurality of tissue engaging elements extending from the pad; and an elastomeric tooth cleaning element extending from the first face of the head, the elastomeric tooth cleaning element integrally formed with the pad and extending through the port in the head.
US09872557B2
A delivery tip for flowable materials with bristles or fibers extending therefrom. The tip is a cannula with a tapered outlet and features a bristle or fiber bundle with a binding restriction member that interfaces with the cannula at some point within the cannula but has a smaller cross-sectional area for flow passage than the cannula at that point. The bristle or fiber bundle extends out of the tapered outlet. The delivery tip may connect to a material reservoir with flowable material. When positive pressure is applied to the reservoir, material then will flow through the cannula, around the restriction member, into the bristles or fibers and out the outlet for distribution to a desired surface.
US09872555B2
A magnetic belt assembly is provided. The assembly includes a first belt portion having a first coupling member and a second belt portion having a second coupling member. Each of the first coupling member and the second coupling member includes a plurality of magnets that is structurally flexible such that each magnet of the plurality of magnets is angularly positionable relative to each other magnet of the plurality of magnets to form a non-planar surface.
US09872551B2
A packaged antiperspirant product is provided. The packaged antiperspirant product includes an anhydrous antiperspirant composition having an antiperspirant active and a package having a container body with an interior chamber storing the anhydrous antiperspirant composition. A dome closes one end of the container body and has a plurality of apertures extending through the thickness of the dome. A movable elevator is disposed within the container body. The anhydrous antiperspirant composition is expellable through the plurality of apertures when the elevator is advanced toward the dome. The dome is formed at least in part from a thermally conductive material and wherein one of the dome or the thermally conductive material have a thermal conductivity greater than about 5 W/m·K.
US09872549B2
A hair styling device comprising two hinged arms able to move relative to each other for the receiving and shaping of a strand of hair. Each arm carries a shaping plate on its side facing the other arm. These shaping surfaces making contact with the hair strand being styled. The hair being styled is pulled past these shaping surfaces. One of the two arms has a hair support on its side carrying the shaping plate. The hair support is arranged at a spacing from the shaping surface of the other arm, so that the other arm can be introduced into an arm support between the hair support and the shaping surface of the shaping plate of the arm carrying the hair support. The shaping plates of the two arms which cooperate with each other for the hair styling can move relative to each other in the manner of scissors.
US09872548B2
The present invention discloses, inter alia, a bag apparatus having a main body with different portions. Aspects of embodiments of the invention contemplate the apparatus having side portions and curved ends that enable the apparatus to hug the contours of a user and efficiently distribute the weight of the apparatus and contents thereby relieving pressures and stresses normally encountered with contemporary bags. Additional aspects contemplate straps to enable the apparatus to be carried by a user in a number of ways.
US09872542B2
A method of making a sheet-form loop-engageable fastener product includes placing a layer of staple fibers on a first side of a substrate, needling fibers of the layer through the substrate to form loops extending from a second side of the substrate, removing end regions from at least some of the loops to form stems, and forming loop-engageable heads at free ends of at least some of the stems.
US09872526B2
Tension members anchored to a wearer's body to resist femoral acetabular impingement (FAI)-causing movements. A first tension member is anchored to the body of a subject, and produces a force on the subject's body to primarily limit the ability of the subject's thigh to internally rotate and the ability of the subject's knee to adduct. Thus, this first tension member resists the tendency of the subject's leg to twist inward or deflect inward, each of which may contribute to FAI. A second tension member is anchored to the subject's body, and provides a force to the subject's body to primarily limit the ability of the subject's hip joint to move in flexion. Thus, the second tension member resists the tendency of the subject's leg to raise too high, which may also contribute to FAI.
US09872514B2
The present invention provides edible compositions comprising a compound of the present invention, food products comprising such edible compositions and methods of preparing such food products. The present invention also provides methods of reducing the amount of NaCl in a food product, methods of reducing the sodium intake in a diet, and methods of reducing bitter taste in a food product.
US09872513B2
A process for preparing fresh coconut meat based compositions and films, including its improvements and modifications, includes mainly of coconut meat wherein other fruit and vegetables are added as flavorings and enhancers. These coconut meat based compositions and films can be used as crepes, rolls, and or wraps, which are usually employed in wrapping any food such as fresh fruits, vegetables, salads, or cooked meat/fish, and any combination, after which are rolled, folded and eaten directly during meals or as snacks.
US09872500B2
The additive of the present invention is intended for transferring, to a final coating, biocidal, UV protection, and flame retardant properties and in general the selected properties intrinsic to the metals and compounds of Ag, Au, Cu, Mg, Zn, Bi, Sb, said additive includes the use of solvents, surfactants, dispersants and resins that make it compatible with the final coating. Said coating treated with additive ensures perfect distribution and dispersion of the nanoparticles throughout it, without the need to be subjected to an inorganic substrate.
US09872496B2
Microbicidal preparations containing a) at least one 1,2-benzisothiazolin-3-one or its derivatives; b) at least one 2-mercaptopyridine N-oxide, or its salts and derivatives; c) at least one aromatic alcohol; and d) at least one alkalinizing agent, or a preparation prepared by mixing components a) to d), and having a pH of at least 11, are provided. The microbicidal preparations are clear and storage-stable, and are suitable for use as preservatives.
US09872487B2
A composition in compacted form for use for termite monitoring and control comprises a cellulose material which may be purified cellulose or micro-crystalline cellulose as a base bait, the composition being compacted to an optimum density of not less than approximately 1.033 g/cc. Also disclosed is a method for monitoring and controlling termite infestations which comprises the steps of a) preparing such a composition; b) placing the composition in a bait station; c) monitoring the station at periodic time intervals for termites; and d) upon observing termite infestation in the bait station, replacing the above composition with a bait composition containing a termite killing agent.
US09872480B2
A disposable diaper for pets, in which a fixed section in an attachment section overlaps with an expanding/contracting elastic member for the waist, said disposable diaper for pets having: a rear-side waist area; a stomach-side waist area; a crotch area; both end sections in the diaper longitudinal direction; both end sections in the diaper longitude-intersecting direction; a tail insertion opening; an absorbent core; an area not having the absorbent core arranged therein; a flap section provided in the stomach-side waist area and having an end section in the rear-side direction; an attachment section having the fixed section arranged in the flap section and a free section extending from the flap section; the expanding/contracting elastic member for the waist; and an attachment area that receives the attachment section.
US09872479B2
An improved animal feeder with an insertable feed restrictor. An example embodiment includes: a barrel into which animal feed may be deposited, the barrel including a first locking mechanism, the barrel being generally cylindrical; and a feed restrictor configured for removable insertion into the opening of the barrel, the feed restrictor being generally cylindrical with an open upper end and a round side surface, the feed restrictor including a second locking mechanism, the diameter of the feed restrictor being slightly less than the diameter of the barrel, the round side surface being configured to slide adjacent to an inner round surface of the barrel, the feed restrictor being configured to prevent feed extraction between the inner round surface of the barrel and the round side surface of the feed restrictor, the height of the feed restrictor being sufficient to prevent inversion of the feed restrictor while inserted in the barrel, the feed restrictor including a plurality of feed access holes arranged on a lower surface of the feed restrictor, the feed restrictor being configured to float on top of the animal feed deposited in the barrel, the feed restrictor being further configured to freely spin laterally and freely slide longitudinally in the barrel, the feed restrictor being further configured to lock into the barrel when the second locking mechanism is not properly configured relative to the first locking mechanism.
US09872474B1
A novel maize variety designated X08K251 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08K251 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08K251 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08K251, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08K251. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08K251.
US09872473B1
A novel maize variety designated X08K238 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08K238 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08K238 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08K238, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08K238. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08K238.
US09872472B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2TVH and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2TVH with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2TVH through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2TVH or a locus conversion of PH2TVH with another maize variety.
US09872467B2
A novel maize variety designated X80H134 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X80H134 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X80H134 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X80H134, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X80H134. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X80H134.
US09872464B1
A novel maize variety designated X13H891 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13H891 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13H891 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X13H891, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13H891. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13H891.
US09872450B1
A novel watermelon hybrid plant, designated CHEETAH is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of watermelon hybrid CHEETAH, to the plants and plant parts of watermelon hybrid CHEETAH, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant by crossing the watermelon hybrid CHEETAH with itself or another watermelon plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a watermelon plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other watermelon plants derived from the watermelon hybrid plant CHEETAH.
US09872448B2
An apparatus is used for growing plants or tissues under aseptic conditions. The apparatus includes a lid and a base compartment. A linking mechanism is provided for connecting the lid and the base compartment. The linking mechanism is provided with a locking mechanism, which is movable from a locked position to an un-locked position and vice-versa. In the locked position, the locking mechanism holds the lid in an abutting closed relation with respect to the base compartment. In the un-locked position, the linking mechanism is provided with means for automatically lifting the lid to an elevated-suspended position with respect to the base compartment thereby providing an access route to reach the base compartment and perform desired operations.
US09872442B2
Shielding for the protection of plants and seedlings from ground pests is provided. Shields can be comprised of materials including biodegradable materials that have the advantage of being formed into plant protection shields with various features, such as by an injection molding process, but that can be buried within the soil along with a plant's roots. Plant shields are provided for being partially buried in soil to surround a plant and for providing above-ground protection from ground travelling pests. Such shields can comprise a walled structure surrounding and creating an open-ended enclosure with the shield comprising an above the ground portion and a below the ground portion. The shield may comprises a Biodegradable Plastic that includes plant nutrients within the Biodegradable Plastic. The above the ground portion and the below the ground portion can be divided from one another by a divider that extends along an external surface of the walled structure in a similar direction as the walled structure surrounds the enclosure, the divider element comprising a ground engagement surface for limiting insertion of the shield into the soil.
US09872428B2
An agricultural implement for applying an ingredient to a geographic area, the agricultural implement includes a chassis, weight bearing conveyance devices, a component and a weight distribution system. The weight bearing conveyance devices including a fore conveyance device and an aft conveyance device. The fore and aft conveyance devices are connected to and carry the chassis respectively in a fore and an aft position. The component is carried by and coupled to the chassis. The weight distribution system is configured to allow an adjustment of a position of the component relative to the chassis.
US09872426B2
A digging assembly for a plough. The digging assembly has a digging blade assembly that is moved through the soil to form a slot, and a closing tool assembly that forms a seed bed by partly closing the slot formed by the digging blade assembly. Following the closing tool assembly is a seed boot that delivers seed to the seed bed formed by the closing tool assembly.
US09877420B2
An electrically conductive gasket for use with an electrical component, including an electrically conductive base defining a central opening therein for receiving a portion of an electrical component, a first row of spaced apart resilient conductive tabs arranged around the central opening, and a second row of spaced apart resilient conductive tabs arranged around the central opening, the first row being located inside the second row. The conductive tabs in the first and second rows of the spaced apart resilient conductive tabs extend outwardly from the conductive base and are configured to resiliently deflect when the gasket is compressed. The conductive tabs in the first and second rows of the spaced apart resilient conductive tabs are staggered relative to each other, such that in an edge view of the gasket, at least one conductive tab in one row partially overlaps at least one conductive tab in the other row.
US09877419B2
An object of the present invention is to improve the cooling performance of a capacitor module used in a power conversion apparatus. The power conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes a power semiconductor module, a capacitor module, a flow path forming body that forms a flow path through which a cooling refrigerant flows. The flow path forming body includes a first flow path forming body that forms a first flow path part for cooling the power semiconductor module, and a second flow path forming body that forms a second flow path part for cooling the capacitor module. The first flow path forming body is provided on a side portion of the second follow path forming body and is integrally formed with the second flow path forming body. The second flow path forming body forms a housing space for housing the capacitor module above the second flow path part. The first flow path part is formed at a position facing the side wall that forms the housing space. The power semiconductor module is inserted into the first flow path part.
US09877418B2
In a motor drive device of the present invention, a motor control unit is disposed on a first surface of an attaching unit, and a heat sink is disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface. A first duct connects the second surface and the heat sink with each other. A second duct is disposed on the first surface, and a fan motor is disposed in the second duct. A space inside the first duct in communication with only a second opening of the attaching unit, and a space inside the second duct is in communication with both a first opening and the second opening of the attaching unit.
US09877417B2
An electronic device with a cooling function includes a cap nut, a case, a semiconductor unit, a second bus bar for external output, and a connecting bolt. The case includes a side wall and a bottom surface. The bottom surface of the case has a coolant passage and a recessed portion to receive the cap nut. The coolant passage is open to above and is generally U-shaped. The recessed portion is positioned in a position surrounded by the coolant passage and the side wall of the case, and the cap nut is received in the recessed portion. The semiconductor unit includes a first bus bar that extends from the semiconductor unit. The semiconductor unit is fixed to the case in a posture and position that closes off the coolant passage from above. The second bus bar passes through the side wall of the case. Inside the case, the connecting bolt passes through the first bus bar and the second bus bar and screws into the cap nut, and the cap nut and a head portion of the connecting bolt bring the first bus bar and the second bus bar into close contact.
US09877399B2
[Problem] Even if heat cycles are applied, degradation of joint strength is restrained.[Solution to problem] Lead solder joint structure, in which a first member is joined to a second member using lead solder, the structure comprising: a first solder layer that includes the first member as a core; a second solder layer that exists between the first solder layer and the second member and joins the first solder layer and the second member together; and a third solder layer that exists between the second solder layer and the second member.
US09877384B2
A display device including: a flexible display panel; a first housing having an outer peripheral surface around which the flexible display panel is rolled; a jig in the first housing and connected to a first end of the flexible display panel, wherein the flexible display panel is configured to be rolled around the jig; and a second housing accommodating the first housing, wherein the jig and the first housing are configured to be rotated in different directions.
US09877382B2
Provided is a display device including: a display panel; a chip on film (COF) coupled to the display panel; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) coupled to the chip on film, the flexible printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of insulating layers, the insulating layers being interposed between the conductive layers or being located at opposite sides of the flexible printed circuit board; and a protecting sheet at one side of the display panel and including a conductive region. One of the insulating layers at one side of the flexible printed circuit board is an opening region of the one of the insulating layers and exposes a corresponding one of the conductive layers to at least partially contact the conductive region.
US09877380B2
An arrangement for electromagnetic shielding of an electronic component attached to a substrate is described. The arrangement comprises an electrically conductive frame which is attached to the substrate in such a way that the frame frames the component. The arrangement further comprises an electrically conductive covering which is attached at least to a portion of a top side of the component, and which is electrically conductively attached at least to a portion of the frame. Furthermore, a method for electromagnetic shielding of the electronic component attached to the substrate and also a computer program product for carrying out the method are described.
US09877373B2
System and method include luminaires, control switches, occupancy detectors, and photocells connected to central control module for setting up, testing, commissioning and maintaining the system. Memory card interface and associated memory card provided for loading, saving and/or transferring configuration, update firmware, and log system operation data, which can be automatically recognized to perform appropriate actions. System and method provide switching between different mutually exclusive lighting modes where lighting of each mode is sequenced such that second lighting mode is initiated before first mode is terminated, resulting in continuity of lighting in controlled area. Other features include daylight harvesting control with multiple zone dimming and switching, programmable attack and decay dimming rates, ability to return system to previous dimming level after lights have been turned off, and ability to start controlled lights at full light level then dim down to previous level to ensure lighting ballasts have sufficient start up voltage.
US09877363B2
A device for providing regulated current to an electrical load comprising a current controller operable at predetermined intervals (clock cycles) to receive:—i. a desired input reference voltage; and ii. a feedback voltage obtained from an electronic switch; wherein the current controller is operable to compare the feedback voltage with the desired input reference voltage and provide regulated current to the electrical load based on calculation of the switch off time of the electronic switch at each clock cycle; the calculation of the switch off time operable to achieve a continuous-conduction-mode (CCM) for the device under normal operating conditions, is disclosed.
US09877358B2
A heating pad includes a heating element, a number of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The heating element includes a flexible substrate and a carbon nanotube layer fixed on the flexible substrate. The heating element has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end is cut into a number of first strip structures. The second end is cut into a number of second strip structures. Each of the first electrodes clamps one of the first strip structures and is electrically connected with the first strip structure. Each of the second electrodes clamps one of the second strip structures and is electrically connected with the second strip structure.
US09877353B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An electronic device for and a method of performing wireless communication are provided. The electronic device includes a first module configured to transmit signals to another electronic device via a first type of link; a second module configured to transmit signals to the another electronic device via a second type of link; and a controller configured to establish the first type of link and release from the second type of link if a predetermined event occurs.
US09877347B2
A vehicular communication apparatus includes a connector establishing connection with an external instrument, a wireless communicator performing wireless communication when a contract enabling the wireless communication is established, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is capable of operating a failsafe function executing a reset when detecting an unestablished connection between the external instrument and the connector after startup and capable of operating a reset guard function when detecting that the vehicular communication apparatus starts while the contract enabling the wireless communication is unestablished. The electronic control unit determines whether the vehicular communication apparatus is under a pre-factory-shipment state that is before being shipped from a factory, when detecting that the vehicular communication apparatus starts while the contract enabling the wireless communication is unestablished, and prohibits operation of the reset guard function while determining that the vehicular communication apparatus is under the pre-factory-shipment.
US09877327B2
A method of beam misalignment detection for wireless communication system with beamforming is proposed. To identify a misaligned beam, a relative beam quality degradation is applied by comparing a dedicated beam quality with a reference beam quality. The reference beam favors similar transmission path as the dedicated beam, and has better mobility robustness. In one embodiment, the reference beam is an associated control beam of the dedicated beam. To detect beam misalignment, a first dedicated beam SINR is compared with a second associated control beam SINR.
US09877326B2
A measuring device serves to determine an active channel from a plurality of channels of known frequencies. In this context, it comprises a processor (11) which, in turn, comprises a transform unit (20). This transform unit (20) is embodied to transform the signal which contains the active channel or a signal (30) derived from this signal into a signal in the frequency domain (31). The processor (11) further contains a detection unit (28), which is embodied to detect the active channel in the signal in the frequency domain (31).
US09877325B2
A system and method for joint scheduling in a dual-carrier fixed wireless backhaul network is disclosed, wherein the primary carrier is a licensed band, and the secondary carrier is a lower cost shared band or an unlicensed band. The network comprises a plurality of Hub modules, each serving a cluster of one or more Remote backhaul modules (RBMs). A special frame structure and a control channel on the primary carrier carries control signalling messages for RBMs assigned to either the primary or secondary carrier. RBMs with a performance metric, such a spectral efficiency, above a threshold are assigned to the primary carrier. Other RBMs are assigned the secondary carrier, and a channel assignment is then performed. A transmission mode is determined based on instantaneous channel conditions, to optimize overall system performance across a network neighborhood and meet RBM quality of service requirements. A centralized server/processing unit co-ordinates dual carrier joint scheduling functions.
US09877324B2
A method and a device for transmitting data in a wireless local area network are provided. The device transmits a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes a first part and a second part over an operating bandwidth. The first part is phase-rotated in frequency domain so that the first part has a different phase than the second part.
US09877319B2
A method of acquiring information on a resource region for transmitting PHICH and a method of receiving PDCCH using the same are disclosed. The resource region for transmitting the PHICH can be specified by first information corresponding to the per-subframe PHICH number and second information corresponding to a duration of the PHICH within the subframe. The first information can be specified into a form resulting from multiplying a predetermined basic number by a specific constant. And, the specific constant can be transmitted via PBCH. Moreover, the second information can be acquired from the PBCH as well.
US09877307B2
In a method for implementing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) protocol function a macro base station configures control information required by a user equipment for accessing a micro cell node. The control information is sent to the micro cell node for combining the control information and control information that is preset by the micro cell node and forwarding the combined control information to a user equipment, or directly forwarding the control information to a user equipment, so as to implement all RRC protocol functions of the micro cell node.
US09877304B2
The present invention provides a broadcast message transmission method, a base station and user equipment. The method includes: determining a resource position of a broadcast channel, wherein the broadcast channel occupies M physical resource blocks (PRBs) among m PRBs of a frequency band center of a carrier, m and M are positive integers, M is not greater than m, and m is not greater than the number of the PRBs corresponding to the system bandwidth; mapping the broadcast channel on the resource position; and sending a broadcast message through the broadcast channel. In the embodiments of the present invention, since the broadcast channel occupies M PRBs among m PRBs of a frequency band center of a carrier, by mapping the broadcast channel on the resource position and sending a broadcast message through the broadcast channel, the resource utilization rate of the carrier may be improved.
US09877302B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for dynamic location-based message notification. In one embodiment, a method for providing alerts to a computing device includes identifying, via a set of location-specific computing resources, a current location of the computing device and sending at least one alert to the computing device, based on the current location.
US09877301B2
Users are experiencing an increasing number of alerts and notifications on their mobile devices. When it is inconvenient or not possible to view the network-connected device, an accessory can be used to save time and avoid missing notifications. A system comprising a network-connected device and an accessory are provided to address these problems. The accessory is capable of notifying the user of alerts from the network-connected device, allowing the user to quickly be advised of alerts without needing to first interact with the network-connected device. The system includes a method to selectively filter alerts so as to avoid unnecessarily interrupting the user in cases where the network device is inaccessible. The system is also capable of pushing new interface designs and themes from the network device to the accessory to alter the appearance and configuration of its display.
US09877299B2
Method, systems and devices for performing trilateration for a fixed infrastructure node (FIN) using enhanced location based information may include receiving a plurality of inputs (e.g., waypoints) from a plurality of devices, using the received plurality of inputs to generate an initial positional fix, and setting a current waypoint of the FIN based the initial positional fix. The FIN may receive additional inputs, and use the plurality of inputs to generate updated (more accurate) location information for the FIN. The FIN may update its current waypoint based on the generated updated location information. The FIN trilateration operation may also include applying three or four of the received inputs (e.g., waypoints) kalman filter, and reporting/using the output of the kalman filter as the device's current waypoint or location.
US09877294B2
Various embodiments include multi-subscription multi-standby (MSMS) communication devices and methods for managing a tune-away by a radio frequency (RF) resource supporting a first subscription to support a second subscription. A device processor may monitor a data loss during a first burst of a segment of a broadcast data stream received using the first subscription by the MSMS communication device. The device processor may calculate a permitted data loss of the segment of a broadcast data stream. The device processor may reserve one or more subframes in a second burst of the segment based on the permitted data loss, and the device processor may prevent a tune-away of the RF resource from the first subscription to the second subscription during the reserved one or more subframes of the second burst.
US09877290B2
A communication system in which a base station apparatus and a user equipment communicate on multiple component carriers comprising primary component carrier and non-primary component carrier, the base station apparatus, transmits, to the user equipment, four indices for physical uplink control channel resource using higher layer signaling, transmits, to the user equipment, an index indicator using transmission power control command for physical uplink control channel field, the user equipment, determines an index among the four indices according to the index indicator, transmits, to the base station apparatus, HARQ-ACK/NACK using physical uplink control channel resource the index, wherein the transmission power control command for physical uplink control channel field is included in a downlink control information format, which is used to schedule a physical downlink shared channel on the non-primary component carrier.
US09877287B2
A method and network node for controlling power of uplink transmissions from a user node when switching between a first operating mode and a second operating mode. The network node signals to the user node a first value of a maximum allowed transmit power to be applied when operating in the first operating mode and a second value of the maximum allowed transmit power to be applied when operating in the second operating mode. The user node then uses a transmit power not exceeding the first value when transmitting radio signals in the first operating mode, and uses a transmit power not exceeding the second value when transmitting radio signals in the second operating mode. The user node itself thereby regulates the transmit power depending on opera mode without requiring further signalling from the network node.
US09877280B2
Provided are power saving methods and devices for a multimode terminal. The method includes that: state values CLK1_EN/CLK2_EN of PWRCTRL1/PWRCTRL2 are controlled and output by using a sleep mode and a wake up mode of a Digital Baseband (DBB) of the multimode terminal; outputs CLK1_OUT/CLK2_OUT of a radio frequency transceiver (RF TRX) are controlled by using CLK1/CLK2 and the CLK1_EN/CLK2_EN; and the CLK1_OUT/CLK2_OUT are sent to a System On chip (SOC)/BUS/Peripheral and a MODEM of the DBB, wherein the CLK1_OUT/CLK2_OUT serve as a high-speed clock source of the multimode terminal in a standby state and a working state. By the solution, the multimode terminal is enabled to shorten wake up time of the MODEM subsystem and prolong sleep time within a Discontinuous Reception (DRX) period, and the effect of reducing standby power consumption is further achieved.
US09877279B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting control information to a User Equipment (UE) by an evolved Node B (eNB) for interference measurement in a wireless communication system are provided. The eNB determines whether the UE can perform interference management for receiving a data signal transmitted from the eNB based on information of an interference signal. When it is determined that the UE can perform the interference management, the eNB transmits to the UE configuration information for receiving the data signal by applying the interference management by the UE, and then transmits to the UE downlink control information including transmission power control information indicating whether a transmission power of a DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS) corresponding to the interference signal is different from a transmission power of the interference signal.
US09877278B2
The disclosure relates to technology for a base station to signal user equipment to monitor a narrowband control channel in a wideband system. The base station sends a configuration signaling to configure the user equipment including a designation of subframe(s). The base station then determines whether to signal the user equipment to monitor the subframe(s) using one of a narrowband bandwidth and a system bandwidth. In response to the base station signaling the user equipment to monitor the narrowband bandwidth, the base station communicates with the user equipment using the narrowband bandwidth. In response to the base station signaling the user equipment to monitor the system bandwidth, the base station sends a probe message within the narrowband bandwidth to the user equipment, where the probe message signals to the user equipment to begin monitoring the system bandwidth and to communicate with the user equipment using the system bandwidth.
US09877267B2
A method for terminal clustering in a wireless communication system supporting D2D (Device-to-Device) communication and an apparatus supporting the method are disclosed. More specifically, a method for a user equipment (UE) to perform UE clustering in a wireless communication system supporting D2D communication comprises determining an initial preference value, determining an initial preference triplet by performing an AP (Affinity Propagation) method by increasing or decreasing the preference value, updating a preference triplet through a GSS (Golden Section Search) method based on the initial preference triplet, determining a final preference value for minimizing energy consumption of the entire UEs from the updated preference triplet; and determining a head UE and member UEs belonging to the head UE by performing the AP method by using the final preference value.
US09877261B2
A communication system (1) is disclosed in which a core network node (11) generates configuration data including a first parameter for controlling data throughput (such as an aggregate maximum bit rate value) for a relaying user device (3-2) in dependence on whether or not the relaying user device (3-2) has a relaying connection with another user communication device (3-1, 3-3). The core network node (11) transmits the generated configuration data to another network node (5, 14) for managing communications with the relaying user device (3-2).
US09877260B2
A system and method are disclosed for forwarding data in hybrid wireless mesh networks. The method includes configuring a number of mesh network nodes as potential relay nodes (PRNs) in an overlay network associated with a hybrid wireless mesh network, streaming data packets from a source node to a destination node using a native data forwarding algorithm of the hybrid wireless mesh network, dynamically identifying relay nodes (RNs) among PRNs in the overlay network, creating secondary paths for sending data packets towards selected RNs in the overlay network, and relaying data packets from RNs to the destination node using the overlay network.
US09877258B2
A method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a traffic detection function (TDF) of a mobile communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a policy server, a policy that includes address information of packet data network (PDN) gateways (PGWs) respectively corresponding to one or more PDNs; receiving a message that includes a data packet from one PDN among the one or more PDNs; and transmitting the received packet to the address of the corresponding PGW on the basis of the policy information. According to one embodiment of the present specification, it is possible to provide a device and a method capable of providing a charging capability of an application level by providing a method and a device for transferring classified traffic in an implicit selective manner.
US09877250B2
A continual learning process is applied to a class of risk estimate-based algorithms and associated risk thresholds used for deciding when to initiate a handoff between different types of network connections that are available to a mobile device having telephony functionality. The process is implemented as a virtuous loop providing ongoing tuning and adjustment to improve call handoff algorithms and risk thresholds so that handoffs can be performed with the goals of minimizing dropped calls and unacceptable degradation in call quality as well as avoiding premature handoffs. Device characteristics, environmental context, connection measurements, and outcomes of call handoff decisions are crowd-sourced from a population of mobile devices into a cloud-based handoff decision enabling service. The service evaluates potentially usable handoff decision algorithms and risk thresholds against archived crowd-sourced data to determine how they would have performed in real world situations and delivers improved algorithms and risk thresholds to the mobile devices.
US09877242B2
Method and apparatus for providing inbound mobility to closed subscriber group (CSG) and hybrid cells are described. A wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive, from a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), information indicating that a physical cell identity (PCI) of a neighbor closed subscriber group (CSG) cell corresponds to a predefined CSG cell range, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WTRU in response to receiving the information indicating that the PCI of the neighbor CSG cell corresponds to the predefined CSG cell range, an indication to report system information of the neighbor CSG cell. In response to receiving the system information of the neighbor CSG cell, the wireless communication device may initiate a handover of the WTRU to the neighbor CSG cell.
US09877221B2
A wireless LAN system in which data communication between a wireless station whose connection method as a method for wireless connection can be set to one of a plurality of connection methods and a wireless access point whose connection method has been preset to one of the connection methods is made possible by setting the connection method of the wireless station to a method identical with the connection method of the wireless access point.
US09877219B2
Wireless network site survey systems and methods are described herein. One system includes a plurality of wireless nodes placed at a number of locations and a computing device configured to: receive communication metrics, wherein the communication metrics include metrics of communication between the plurality of wireless nodes and between the computing device and each of the plurality of wireless nodes, and generate a node coverage map based on the received communication metrics.
US09877217B2
There are provided a wireless communication method of configuring a measurement resource and a wireless communication device therefor. The method comprises determining a measurement resource to be disregarded when the number of measurement resources configured in one subframe exceeds the maximum number of measurement resources that a user equipment is able to measure in one subframe, wherein the measurement resource with lower priority is determined to be disregarded, and the measurement resource is not disregarded A times within the duration of N subframes, where A is an integer larger than 1, N corresponds to one plus B*periodicity of the measurement resource, and B is an integer equal to or larger than 1.
US09877207B2
A calibration method for a channel simulator is applied to a large-capacity channel simulator having the interfaces of P base stations and Q terminals so that path loss calibration for P×Q paths is more rapidly and easily performed.
US09877198B1
A manner of managing UE (user equipment) access to a core network via an access network. The access network may be a trusted or un-trusted network according to 3GPP protocols, and the core network may be or include an EPC. When a UE attempts access, a gateway node determines whether the UE will be authorized and responds accordingly. At least when the UE access request is rejected, a response is sent containing a backoff timer value. The backoff timer value may be based on, for example, the cause of the rejection or the number of attempts made by that UE or both. When the UE receives the response, the UE sets a backoff timer accordingly and preferably does not reattempt access until the backoff timer has expired. In some instances, the UE may be permitted to reattempt access immediately; in others, the UE may be directed not to reattempt access at all.
US09877188B1
A system and method for providing access credentials for a wireless network is provided. The system and method comprises sending a request for access credentials for a wireless network never previously accessed from a requesting client device to a connection helper service hosted by a server. The connection helper service determines a subset of user accounts that have the access credentials for the wireless network stored in an associated remote database. The connection helper service then searches social media to determine whether any of the subset of user accounts are connected with a user account associated with the requesting client device. If there is a connection, then the connection helper service facilitates requesting permission to acquire the access credentials from a remote database associated with a user account for the connection with the access credentials. In this manner, access to the wireless network is provided without manually entering access credentials.
US09877178B2
A method and system for providing a Commercial Mobile Alert System paging notification, such as a text based emergency alert message, to a fixed wireless terminal system is provided. The fixed wireless terminal provides an interface between cellular wireless networks and a residential phone system comprising the fixed wireless network and one or more receivers configured to operate over a traditional Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS). The fixed wireless terminal receives the text based alert message and converts the alert message into an audio file that can be provided to the one or more residential phone receivers over the POTS network.
US09877171B2
Systems and methods are provided to guide an emergency dispatcher in responding to emergency communications. The systems and methods may allow the dispatcher to use one or more of a plurality of different communication methods to communicate with a person needing assistance, such as by sending graphical multimedia messages with instructions for treatment. The systems and methods can include an emergency police, emergency fire, and/or emergency medical dispatch protocol configured to facilitate rapid, uniform, and consistent handling of communications. The emergency dispatch protocol presents a pre-scripted interrogation, including preprogrammed inquiries for a dispatcher to ask the person needing assistance. The dispatch protocol may facilitate quick deployment of responders. The emergency dispatcher may be able to manually or automatically send pre-dispatch or post-dispatch instructions in pictorial or video format to the person needing assistance for more effective guidance and/or instruction of treatment methods.
US09877170B2
A cross-account notification method and an electronic device using the same are provided. The method includes: tagging multiple application programs of multiple accounts of the electronic device; receiving a first notification of the tagged first application program of the first account; determining whether the first notification needs to be transmitted to a second account according to a notification setting; transmitting the first notification to the second account according to the notification setting.
US09877166B2
The invention relates to methods and base stations for supporting a broadcast service within a cell of a base station not transmitting the broadcast service. A method in a base station controlling a cell serving a user equipment supports a broadcast service from a neighboring cell. The method comprises the steps: receiving an indication that the serving base station shall not transmit the broadcast service in the cell serving the user equipment; receiving control information required by the user equipment for receiving the broadcast service from the neighboring cell; and transmitting the control information to the user equipment via the cell serving the user equipment.
US09877161B2
Embodiments improve User Equipment (UE) positioning accuracy in a mobile communication system by providing for a UE configured to listen for Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) transmissions within an operating bandwidth around Direct Current (DC) sub-carrier and at least one non-PRS transmission including, for example, a CRS or PSS/SSS; receiving, at the UE, PRS and non-PRS(s) transmissions transmitted from base stations within the operating bandwidth; performing, at the UE, Time of Arrival (TOA) measurements for each of the plurality of base stations, wherein the TOA measurements are determined based on the at least one non-PRS transmission; obtaining Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) measurements by subtracting TOA for the plurality of base stations from a TOA for a reference base station, and transmitting, from the UE to a Location Server (LS), the OTDOA measurements, wherein the LS performs a positioning estimation of the UE based on the OTDOA measurements.
US09877160B2
A method and apparatus are configured to recognize mobile terminals positioned within a coverage area for short range communication with a user-specific device, wherein each mobile terminal comprises identification information for the user-specific device. The method and the apparatus provide a customized service corresponding to at least one of the mobile terminals.
US09877158B2
Embodiments of a mobile station and method for Wi-Fi scan scheduling and power adaption for low-power indoor location are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the mobile station may identify channels, beacon timing and rough signal strength levels of nearby access points (APs) from at least one of a previous full-channel scan or a Wi-Fi fingerprint database and may configure receiver sensitivity based on the rough signal strength levels for receipt of subsequent beacons. The mobile station may wake-up from a low-power state to receive beacons for the nearby access points on the identified channels at times based on the identified beacon timing. The received signal strength indicators (RSSIs) levels of the received beacons may be used for location determination.
US09877152B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a system includes a line locator and a device configured to communicate through an internet with a server also coupled to the internet. Furthermore, a plurality of line locate transmitters are distributed geographically and configured to communicate through the internet with the server. The server operates to activate one of the plurality of line locate transmitters based on a geographic location of the device.
US09877150B2
A subscriber of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) receiving an EAS alert message can obtain additional multimedia information in based upon the location of the subscriber. The additional multimedia information can include information pertaining to available shelter, medical facilities, the location of emergency supplies, a plume map, evacuation routes, or the like. In an example embodiment, the Global Positioning System or other device location systems is utilized to determine the location of the subscriber. The location information along with EAS alert information is used to query a database to obtain the additional information.
US09877148B1
Location data that corresponds to one or more user devices each associated with a user may be obtained. Based on the location data, the particular location of a user may be determined. Similarities between various users may be identified when it is determined that those users have visited the same locations. Upon at least two users visiting a threshold amount of the same locations, one or more recommendations may be provided to the users, whereby the recommendations relate to places that those users have yet to visit. In addition, the users may have the opportunity to reveal information about themselves to other users, while maintaining their anonymity. As a result, the users may meet people and learn about new places that are likely to be of interest to those users.
US09877147B2
A computer configured to serve data services in a one-way cable plant having telco-return for upstream data resources to requesting computers in a networked environment is disclosed. The computer includes a subscriber edge services manager server and a radius proxy server, the radius proxy configured to classify received radius requests into a plurality of types and handle requests classified as a first type from requests classified as non-first types. The computer also includes an access point, the access point providing communication connection to at least one computing device. The subscriber edge services manager server and radius proxy server are configured to communicate with the access point to acquire information from the access point, and user location information is configured on the access point in a vendor-specific attribute.
US09877146B2
A wireless-communication device includes a user interface configured to receive audio signals; a cryptographic module configured to encrypt the audio signals into a binary data sequence; a generator module configured to: receive a bit pattern representative of the binary data sequence; and generate a byte sequence representative of the bit pattern by generating a byte that is greater than the preceding byte when the current bit is of a first value and that is lesser than the preceding byte when the current bit is of a second value; an audio codec configured to generate transmission bits by generating a transmission bit having the first value when the current byte is greater than the preceding byte and having the second value when the current byte is lesser than the preceding byte; and a transceiver configured to convey the transmission bits to a receiver.
US09877131B2
An apparatus and a method for enhancing a spatial perception of an audio signal are provided creating increased interaural-level differences. To obtain this effect, two dipoles are used: one for producing a left audio signal and one for producing a right audio signal.
US09877117B2
A hearing assistance device may be a hearing aid worn on a person or a mobile device. The hearing assistance device may perform a hearing assistance algorithm based on signal processing parameters. A set of audiological values for a population may be identified. The set of audiological values has a first number of dimensions. The set of audiological values is converted to a reduced data set. The reduced data has set has a second number of dimensions less than the first number of dimensions. A processor calculates a trajectory for the reduced data set. The trajectory provides signal processing parameters for the hearing assistance device.
US09877113B2
A condenser microphone unit that has a capacitor element with a large effective area and a high signal-noise ratio but does not have frequency-dependence occurring with sound waves beyond the audio frequency range. A solid cylindrical fixed electrode pole is used as a fixed electrode. A diaphragm includes a rectangular synthetic resin film having a length smaller than or equal to the axis length of the fixed electrode pole, and a width equal to a circumferential length of the fixed electrode pole, the synthetic resin film including an electrode film on one face and ribs on the other face and entirely partitioned by the ribs into a plurality of diaphragm regions. The synthetic resin film is attached to an entire outer periphery of the fixed electrode pole such that the ribs are in contact with the outer periphery.
US09877110B2
A ribbon microphone having a housing made of wood, a wood laminate, or another suitable composite material having a characteristic impedance and density and a ribbon transducer assembly with metal support chassis having a higher characteristic impedance and density. By engineering a body housing and the ribbon support chassis having a similar or equal total weight but differing greatly in density, a rapid attenuation of internal harmonics is achieved, particularly reducing the undesirable metallic resonance of the metal bodies of conventional microphones. The improved tonal quality is achieved, not by uncoupling the acoustic mass of the housing, but rather, by tightly coupling the wood housing to a slender chassis on rails that support the ribbon. Advantageously, this cooperative effect also acts to dampen unwanted rumble and external shock outputs, and in a preferred embodiment, magnetic pole pieces are eliminated by designing air gaps between the chassis and the magnets. The chassis is a conductor and electrically connects the ribbon to a transformer, eliminating the need for solder connections. Thus the ribbon support system of the invention achieves a synergy of function by eliminating unneeded parts, simplifying assembly, and improving the tonal quality of the microphone.
US09877109B2
A diaphragm for loudspeaker contains resin and single-crystal diamond powder dispersed in the resin.
US09877104B2
An audio switch circuit includes negative feedback paths and a transistor that serves as a switching component. The negative feedback paths are turned ON to couple a source voltage and a drain voltage of the transistor to the gate of the transistor when the audio switch circuit is turned ON. The negative feedback paths reduce the slew rate of the gate-to-source voltage of the transistor, thereby slowing the turn-ON of the audio switch circuit to prevent or minimize unwanted audible noise. The negative feedback paths can be turned OFF after a period of time after the audio switch circuit is turned ON for improved total harmonic distortion.
US09877101B2
A headphone and earbud device for receiving an audio signal may include a headphone including a speaker acoustic device to amplify the audio signal and to define a speaker chamber to cooperate with an aperture and an earbud to be detachably connected to the speaker chamber to transmit the audio signal to the speaker chamber.
US09877100B1
A method includes identifying an active state of a headset interface of a device. A signal generated by a microphone of the device is monitored to identify an alert trigger not initiated by a user of the device. Operation of the headset interface is interrupted responsive to identifying the alert trigger. A device includes a microphone, a headset interface, and a processor coupled to the microphone and the headset interface. The processor is to identify an active state of the headset interface, monitor a signal generated by the microphone to identify an alert trigger not initiated by a user of the device, and interrupt operation of the headset interface responsive to identifying the alert trigger.
