US09922175B2
A novel code signing system, computer readable media, and method are provided. The code signing method includes receiving a code signing request from a requestor in order to gain access to one or more specific application programming interfaces (APIs). A digital signature is provided to the requestor. The digital signature indicates authorization by a code signing authority for code of the requestor to access the one or more specific APIs. In one example, the digital signature is provided by the code signing authority or a delegate thereof. In another example, the code signing request may include one or more of the following: code, an application, a hash of an application, an abridged version of the application, a transformed version of an application, a command, a command argument, and a library.
US09922173B2
A method of DRM protection for an image or a series of images or a succession of video frames, comprises: generating a reversible transform; applying the reversible transform to a source image; compressing the transformed image into a bitstream; and supplying the bitstream to a recipient for consumption. At the recipient the bitstream is decompressed and sent to the image display hardware with the transform still in place. A key is used to generate the inverse transform at the recipient and the inverse transform is then carried out in the image display hardware. An additional transform may be applied to the image following the inverse transform to offset pixels from an average value. Thus the source image itself is never exposed at the recipient although the image can be correctly viewed.
US09922169B1
The digital command prompting device and computer system for dementia patients is an aide to help all people, but especially those who have special needs particularly individuals who have diminished or diminishing function of their brain because of dementia. The device is predominately mobile but can also be stationary and can be programmed by receiving and selecting pre-set commands to operate and assist a user with their daily living standards or needs and interacts with a central data base computer system having administrative and carer internet web page interfaces. The device may be used within the home environment, outdoor environment or a restricted environment, e.g. aged care facility, hospital, preschool or school.
US09922160B2
A method of verifying an integrated circuit stack includes adding a dummy layer to a contact pad of a functional circuit, wherein a location of the dummy layer is determined based on a location of a contact pad of a connecting substrate. The method further includes converting the dummy layer location to the connecting substrate; and determining whether the dummy layer is aligned with the contact pad of the connecting substrate. The method further includes performing an LVS check of the connecting substrate including the dummy layer; and adjusting the dummy layer location in the functional circuit if the dummy layer location is misaligned with the contact pad of the connecting substrate or the connecting substrate fails the LVS check. The method further includes repeating the converting step, the determining step, and the performing the LVS check step based on the adjusted dummy layer location.
US09922159B2
The invention discloses a computer implemented method of fracturing a surface into elementary features wherein the desired pattern has a rectilinear or curvilinear form. Depending upon the desired pattern, a first fracturing will be performed of a non-overlapping or an overlapping type. If the desired pattern is resolution critical, it will be advantageous to perform a second fracturing step using eRIFs. These eRIFs will be positioned either on the edges or on the medial axis or skeleton of the desired pattern. The invention further discloses method steps to define the position and shape of the elementary features used for the first and second fracturing steps.
US09922134B2
Systems and methods for social graph data analytics and node traversal are described herein. A social graph may comprise two or more nodes that each represents an individual, group, or entity, and links may connect the two or more nodes. A distributed graph storage/computation system may be configured to store node and link elements of one or more network communities in a distributed fashion. For example, the distributed graph storage/computation system may include a cluster registry, one or more node storage clusters, and one or more edge storage clusters. The cluster registry, node storage clusters, and edge storage clusters may each provide functions for providing node and link information and for traversing the social graph.
US09922132B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and apparatus for speeding up Web page access, pertaining to the network field. The method includes: acquiring a URL address initiated by a user; judging whether the URL address is stored in a preset cache database, where the cache database stores a plurality of mapping relationships between URL addresses and cache data; and when it is judged that the URL address is stored in the preset cache database, acquiring cache data corresponding to the URL address from the cache database, processing the cache data, and rendering the Web page. According to the embodiments of present invention, logic for implementing the cache database is added at the browser end. In this way, no matter a Web server or a proxy server complies with the HTTP.
US09922125B1
Systems and methods of the disclosure relate to selecting content via a computer network. A search query provided by a user device can be received. An entity of a search query, a corresponding confidence score, and a property can be identified via a data structure having information about entities. A match between a property of an entity of content selection criteria and the property of the entity of the search query can be determined. The content item can be selected as a candidate for display on the user device based on the match and the confidence score.
US09922123B2
Technology for optimizing policy evaluation is disclosed. A policy may include an ordered rule set. When evaluated, the highest priority rule in the order that does not skip may control the outcome of the policy. Rules within a policy may have associated costs and an associated probability of not skipping. The rules of a policy may not need to be executed in a particular order for a system to determine the correct evaluation of the policy and groups of rules, or “batches,” may be run simultaneously. Technology is disclosed to optimize policy evaluation by creating batches and orderings of those batches which have a lower expected cost than other ordered sets of batches. The expected cost for each ordered set of batches may be calculated based on: rule costs, probabilities associated with one or more rules, the organization of the rules into batches, and the ordering of batches within sets.
US09922121B2
A search system includes a terminal apparatus and a server apparatus. The server apparatus includes a response unit configured to respond image information about a web page of a search result corresponding to the search query for a web search transmitted by the terminal apparatus to the terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive the image information about the web page of the search result from the server apparatus, and a display control unit configured to display the image information received by the receiving unit on a display device.
US09922113B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed for indexing and aggregating proxy server data. In accordance with some embodiments, the systems comprise a memory device configured to store a set of instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the set of instructions to receive a plurality of log lines of proxy server data comprising a plurality of data components and index one or more of the plurality of data components for the plurality of log lines. The processors also generate a plurality of log data records, each including the one or more indexed data components, and generate a summarized data record by aggregating one or more log data records having at least one matching indexed data component.
US09922096B2
In one embodiment, a web browser-based scheme for combining structured data, infographic definitions, and visual styling information to render infographics and aggregate collections of infographics, referred to herein as “Vizumes” and “Personas.” In exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, a relational database and/or a file system stores user data, infographic definitions, templates and palettes; combines these elements to produce individual infographic representations or a collection of infographic/visualizations (Vizumes) on a single canvas; allows users to choose different infographic visualizations of the same underlying data; and allows users to change the layout, font style, and color palette to instantly produce different visual presentations from the same data.
US09922085B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for generating a virtual data model of data from one or more source systems, where the exact number of each type of source system is not known. Templates for each source system type may be defined and then explicit views may be generated for each source system based on configuration data provided by a customer.
US09922082B2
A dependency is created between a first search query and a second search query. The first search query defines a first data processing pipeline and the second search query defines a second data processing pipeline that extends the first data processing pipeline. A modification is detected to the first data processing pipeline defined by the first search query. Based on the modification to the first data processing pipeline being detected, the dependency is enforced such that the second data processing pipeline is modified to extend the modified first data processing pipeline. The modification to the first data processing pipeline can include a first set of pipelined commands corresponding to the first search query being modified, and the dependency can be enforced by causing a second set of pipelined commands corresponding to the second search query to be modified to include the modified first set of pipelined commands.
US09922078B2
An information retrieval method, process, and apparatus are provided which includes iterative or parametric data set querying. The result of each query iteration is displayed in an easy to analyze fashion, enabling the user to interactively refine the query with additional iterations. Each field of data in a data set is represented by a filter in a filter tree table.A user may graphically select and de-select filters using the filter tree table. The selections are converted into a filtering query that is run against the data set to produce filtered data.A summary query is then run against the results of the filtering query. The filtered data is displayed, along with the selected filters of the filter tree table. The filter tree table may also include and display other information related to each filter, such as an associated data item count as generated by the summary query. Further user input is accepted, with the user input further selecting or de-selecting data groupings to be displayed.The user input is fed back to generate another filtering iteration. In this manner, when the user makes a single selection or de-selection, all applicable filters are changed, and the user changes are propagated through all appropriate filters.
US09922074B1
A method is provided to verify the computational results of a transaction processing system utilizing cloud resources in a high-availability and scalable fashion. A transaction is allowed to modify an application's state only if the validity of the result of the processing of the transaction is verified across the majority of the participating child nodes in the cloud. Otherwise, the transaction is aborted.
US09922073B2
A method and associated system for generating a service specification of a solution. Each process of at least one process is decomposed into at least one atomic service process. The service specification of the solution to be compatible with both a process model framework that includes the at least one process and a data model framework that includes at least one data element that is indirectly matched to the at least one process. The service specification represents a respective process interface of each atomic service process that performs a respective atomic service in the solution. The customized service specification is stored in a database.
US09922066B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is organized into discrete events with normalized time stamps and the events are indexed by time and keyword. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time indexing mechanism, keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.
US09922062B2
A high-performance gridded database protocol for storing, arranging, and extracting gridded data includes associating values for a single grid cell and storing them together to extract as many useful values as possible from a single read operation. Gridded data is stored in a geographically-indexed cylindrical grid that permits efficient data extraction for a particular location while maximizing efficiency of read operations. Cylinders of values are built by grouping grids that are related to each other so that when data for a location is to be extracted, a minimal number of read operations is needed to retrieve an entire stack of data relevant to the location.
US09922061B2
An index to be backed up in a computing environment is identified. A staged copy of the index to be backed up is created. The staged copy of the index is segmented. The segments are uploaded to a pre-selected location.
US09922058B2
This disclosure is related to further approximating multiple data vectors of a dataset. The multiple data vectors are initially approximated by one or more stored principle components. A processor performs multiple iterations of determining an updated estimate of a further principle component based on the multiple data vectors that are initially approximated by the one or more stored principle components. The processor performs this step such that the updated estimate of the further principal component further approximates the dataset. In each iteration the processor constrains the updated estimate of the further principal component to be orthogonal to each of the one or more stored principal components. The data vectors of the dataset are not manipulated but remain the same data vectors that are approximated by the stored principal components.
US09922056B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for prioritizing database failover. In one embodiment, an order in which to failover databases is determined based on a priority order of databases and the time at which the failover process occurs, which can be used to help reduce possible down time users can experience while waiting for the database most important to them to be failed over.
US09922054B2
To provide a data retrieval tool for analyzing data including inconsistency that is difficult to cope with in a single cube. This data retrieval tool is characterized in that data respectively obtained from a plurality of databases are integrated to prepare a plurality of retrieval results on the basis of different retrieval requests and a plurality of reports obtained from the plurality of retrieval results are automatically associated and manipulated, by integrating a function of a virtual database unit with a function of a business intelligence unit by means of integral software and controlling the integrated result with a single data dictionary capable of managing the associations between the different retrieval requests.
US09922051B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method that facilitate searching and/or browsing of images by clustering, or grouping, the images into a set of image clusters using facets, such as without limitation visual properties or visual characteristics, of the images, and representing each image cluster by a representative image selected for the image cluster. A map-reduce based probabilistic topic model may be used to identify one or more images belonging to each image cluster and update model parameters.
US09922049B2
The present invention is to provide an information processing device, a method of processing information, and a program for processing information to easily identify the location of the monitoring object and to reduce the cost. The information processing device 10 that monitors the monitoring object includes a location information database that associates the vertical and horizontal position of the image data captured by a fixed camera with actual location information corresponding to the position, judges whether or not the monitoring object is imaged in the image data, and outputs actual location information corresponding to the position of the image data to which the monitoring object is imaged, based on the location information database if the monitoring object is judged to be imaged.
US09922044B2
A method for synchronizing file paths associated with computer files based on file path modifications is provided. The method may include detecting a file path modification to a referenced file path associated with a computer file. The method may also include identifying a type of the file path modification. The method may further include identifying a generated file path based on the type of the file path modification. Additionally, the method may include synchronizing the referenced file path to the generated file path. The method may also include modifying the file path information associated with the computer file. The method may further include generating association information in a file properties window associated with the referenced file path and the at least one generated file path. The method may also include validating and extracting the file path information associated with the computer file for use by at least one application.
US09922038B2
The embodiments described may be directed toward a file management system for managing a file folder location, a method for managing one or more data clusters, and a method of recommending a file storage location. The method of recommending a file storage location may also include plotting one or more data points onto one or more vectors. A received data point may be obtained from a file save request. The method may also include creating one or more data clusters from the vector data points using a clustering mechanism.
US09922033B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for efficiently extracting contents of container files may include (1) receiving a container file that includes (a) an additional container file that includes (i) a constituent file and (ii) metadata of the constituent file and (b) metadata of the additional container file, (2) creating, before the constituent file is extracted from the additional container file, a content hierarchy for the container file that includes (a) the metadata of the constituent file, (b) hierarchical metadata that indicates that the container file includes the additional container file, and (c) additional hierarchical metadata that indicates that the additional container file includes the constituent file, (3) querying, after the content hierarchy is created, the content hierarchy to locate the constituent file within the additional container file, (4) extracting the constituent file, and (5) performing an action on the constituent file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09922032B2
A system for building a knowledge base of co-occurring features extracted from a document corpus is disclosed. The method includes a plurality of feature extraction software modules that may extract different features from each document in the corpus. The system may include a knowledge base aggregator module that may keep count of the co-occurrences of features in the different documents of a corpus and determine appropriate co-occurrences to store in a knowledge base.
US09922024B2
Natural language processing ambiguity resolution includes storing an ontological library specifying a set of grammatical rules associated with ontological classes and sub-classes. A dictionary for each class and sub-class is generated by compiling all word instances belonging to the class or sub-class. A phrase is received having at least one ambiguous word that is associated with at least one class and at least two sub-classes. The ambiguous word is annotated with the ontological classes and sub-classes to which the ambiguous word belongs and the grammatical rules associated with the ontological classes and sub-classes to which the ambiguous word belongs are retrieved from the ontological library. One or more ontological classes or sub-classes are eliminated based on the retrieved grammatical rules and a surviving ontological class and sub-class are determined to be an accurate ontological class and sub-class for the ambiguous word to resolve the natural language processing ambiguity.
US09922021B2
Systems and methods for providing content using dynamic action templates are provided. A method for providing content to at least one user, comprises corresponding at least one action to at least one action template, associating the content with the at least one action, and presenting the content to the at least one user, wherein the at least one action template is appended to the content.
US09922018B2
A user interface control is presented for assisting the computer user in viewing cells with a data table. In particular, a vector viewing control is presented which enables the computer user to view cells within a data table. The vector viewing control comprises a plurality of cell elements, each cell element corresponding to one or more cells in the data table. The cell elements correspond to a vector of cells in the data table that is represented by the vector viewing control. Upon user interaction with the vector viewing control, an expanded view is presented showing the contents of the data cell corresponding to the location of the interaction point on the control. The computer user can move the expanded view up and down the vector to view the contents of the data table.
US09922017B2
Aspects of processing misaligned annotations include receiving a tokenized document and offset annotation file at a processor. The tokenized document includes a source document and corresponding tokens resulting from a low-level segmentation process. Annotations from the annotation file are applied, in conjunction with tokenization rules, to the source document, and a misalignment responsive to the applying is determined. If the misalignment is caused by an offset mismatch, an offset number of characters between the position counts in the annotation file and the source document is calculated, and the position count in the annotation file is adjusted to coincide with the position count in the source document. If the misalignment is not caused by an offset mismatch, a current position count in the source document is reset to a position count of a previous location in which a most recent alignment between the annotation file and the source document was ascertained.
US09922006B1
Techniques are described for promoting content items in a page to load in a different order than the order in which they were initially designated to load in the page source. A page may include critical content items designated to load earlier than non-critical content items. In instances where there is a delay due to latency in generating or retrieving the critical content items, one or more non-critical content items may be promoted to load earlier than initially designated. Promotion may include incorporating metadata based priority indicators, such as attributes, into the tags for content items to suggest an order in which the content items may be requested by a user device. By promoting non-critical content items to load during the period in which the loading of the page may otherwise be stalled, overall page load times may be reduced.
US09922001B2
Systems, methods, and devices for providing hour-of-service (“HOS”) calculations via a web based host server instead of on an onboard mobile device. In the various embodiments, an onboard vehicle recording device and driver-carried mobile devices may operate independently. The onboard vehicle recording device and driver-carried mobile device(s) may exchange information independently with a host server rather than exchanging information together onboard the vehicle.
US09921998B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are described that offer improved performance of a sensor bus. A first command is transmitted to devices coupled to a serial bus operated in a first mode in accordance with a first protocol to cause the serial bus to be operated in a second mode. After communicating in accordance with a second protocol while the serial bus is operated in the second mode, a second command is transmitted to the plurality of devices in accordance with the first protocol to terminate the second mode. In the second mode, extra symbols inserted into a sequence of symbols transmitted on the serial bus prevent the occurrence of an unintended signaling state on the serial bus. Pulses transmitted on a wire of the serial bus in the second mode may have their duration limited such that a filter of a second device suppresses the limited-duration pulses.
US09921997B2
A mechanism for PCIe cable topology discovery in a Rack Scale Architecture (RSA) and associated methods, apparatus, and systems. Pooled system drawers installed in rack are interconnected via multiple PCIe cables coupled to PCIe ports on the pooled system drawers. The PCIe ports are associated with host ports connections between server nodes and host ports in respective pooled system drawers are automatically detected, with corresponding PCIe connection information being automatically generated and aggregated to determine the PCIe cable topology for the rack. In one aspect, PCIe devices are emulated for each host port in a pooled storage drawer including pooled PCIe storage devices. Server nodes in a pooled compute drawer send PCIe configuration messages over the PCIe cables, with returned reply messages generated by the emulated PCIe devices identifying the host ports. Information pertaining to the host ports, pooled system drawers, and server nodes is used to determine the PCIe cable topology.
US09921989B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a first component to perform coherent operations; and a coherent fabric logic coupled to the first component via a first component interface. The coherent fabric logic may be configured to perform full coherent fabric functionality for coherent communications between the first component and a second component coupled to the coherent fabric logic. The first component may include a packetization logic to communicate packets with the coherent fabric logic, but not include coherent interconnect interface logic to perform coherent fabric functionality. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09921986B2
Multiple clients may attempt to utilize a coprocessor engine within a coprocessor simultaneously. However, each engine may accomplish the particular function for which it is designed for one client at a time. Therefore, to transition from performing coprocessor engine operations between clients, the coprocessor engine may be suspended from performing operations for a first client so that it may begin performing operations for a second client. Prior to such transition, the coprocessor engine saves metadata about its operation state at the time of the suspend. At a subsequent time, when operations for the first client are to resume, the operating state of the coprocessor engine is determined utilizing the metadata and operations for the first client resume.
US09921985B2
A system has at least one bus, a central processing unit (CPU) coupled with the bus, a memory coupled with the bus, a direct memory access (DMA) controller having a plurality of DMA channels and operating independently from the CPU and being coupled with the bus, wherein for access to the bus the DMA controller is programmable in a first mode to have priority over the CPU and in a second mode in which at least one DMA channel of the DMA controller is suspended from accessing the bus.
US09921976B2
Data security access and management may require a server dedicated to monitoring document access requests and enforcing rules and policies to limit access to those who are not specifically identified as having access to the data. One example of operation may include selecting data to access via a user device, identifying a user profile associated with the user device, retrieving at least one user policy associated with the user profile, determining whether the user policy permits the user device to access the data, matching the user policy to a data policy associated with the data, receiving an encryption key at the user device, applying the encryption key to the data, and unwrapping the data from a wrapped data format to access the data.
US09921960B2
A method for performing a deferred system dump includes storing a preservation list referencing physical memory addresses allocated to pages by an initial operating system executing on a computer system. The method further includes identifying a subset of the pages that are at least partially allocated below a first physical memory address, relocating the subset to new physical memory addresses above the first physical memory address, and updating the preservation list with the new physical memory addresses. The method further includes transferring control of the computer system from the initial operating system to a subsequent operating system. The subsequent operating system accesses the preservation list to identify preserved pages. The method further includes assigning each of the preserved pages to an address segment in an address space of the subsequent operating system, storing a subset of the preserved pages, and freeing the preserved pages.
US09921954B1
A computer readable medium, a system and a method for flash memory device that my store instructions for receiving from a host computer a first command that is a write command of a first data unit to a flash memory device, receiving, from the host computer, a second command that is indicative of a manner in which at least one entity out of (a) memory management metadata, (b) the first data unit and (c) at least one other data unit, should be stored in the flash memory device, and programming the at least one entity in the flash memory device in response to the second command.
US09921950B2
A method captures diagnostic trace information in a computer system having a plurality of software images. Information is received that is associated with a first failure in a first one of the plurality of software images. The received information is distributed to others of the plurality of software images. Further information is captured that is associated with a second failure in another one of the plurality of software images. The information associated with a first failure in a first one of said plurality of software images is combined with the information associated with a second failure in another of said plurality of software images, and the combined information is analyzed in order to determine a cause of the first failure.
US09921949B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a computer program product and a computing device for software test by wherein a computing device, wherein at least one virtual hardware component, each virtual hardware component simulating a behavior of a hardware component associated with a to-be-tested software, and testing the to-be-tested software based on the behavior simulated by the at least one virtual hardware component.
US09921943B2
A method for predicting anomalies in a computer application includes during runtime of the computer application, detecting traffic metrics and incident tickets associated with the computer application, the incident ticket indicating an incident might occur in the computer application; calculating a threshold based on absolute values of second order differences associated with the traffic metrics, wherein the threshold is such that when the absolute value of the second order difference associated with the traffic metrics exceeds the threshold, a recall rate Rrecall that the computer application is recalled is maximized; obtaining predicted metrics of the computer application in a next time period based on the traffic metrics; and in response to an absolute value of a second order difference associated with the predicted metrics exceeding the threshold, predicting potential anomalies of the computer application in the next time period.
US09921939B2
The present invention relates to a virtual machine, and specifically discloses a method and apparatus for creating a software performance testing environment based on a virtual machine, wherein the method comprises: in response to obtaining a hard disk read/write request triggered by a virtual CPU of the virtual machine, notifying a virtual CPU scheduler to record a CPU time quota t1 already consumed by the virtual CPU in a current CPU schedule period; in response to detecting completion of hard disk read/write processing corresponding to the hard disk read/write request, predicting a hard disk read/write latency t corresponding to the hard disk read/write request in a target environment; notifying the virtual CPU scheduler to determine a CPU time quota already consumed by the virtual CPU in the current CPU schedule period based on the recorded CPU time quota t1 and the hard disk read/write latency t; and adjusting a system clock of the virtual machine based on the determined CPU time quota already consumed by the virtual CPU in the current CPU schedule period. The method according to the embodiments of the present invention may obtain, in the created software performance testing environment, a software performance testing result consistent with the result obtained under a highly configured server in the target environment.
US09921932B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for detecting unanticipated consumption of power by a device. A first set of power consumption data is selected, followed by the collection of a second set of power consumption data, which respectively correspond to the consumption of a first and second amount of power by a device when it performs an authorized operation. The first and second sets of power consumption data are then compared to detect whether the second amount of power consumed is greater than the first amount of power consumed. If so, then a notification is generated, stating that the device has consumed an unanticipated greater amount of power as a result of performing the authorized operation.
US09921920B2
An illustrative approach to managing snapshots streamlines how and when snapshots are generated in a storage management system, such that fewer snapshots may be generated without diminishing the scope of data protection. A novel unified-snapshot storage policy may govern snapshots for any number of subclients. A unified-snapshot job based on the unified-snapshot storage policy enables the illustrative storage management system to automatically discover relevant components and generate at most one snapshot per target logical unit number (“LUN”) in a storage array. Each snapshot may comprise the data of any number of subclients and/or clients in the storage management system. Accordingly, one unified-snapshot job may yield a minimum but sufficient number of snapshots comprising data of all subclients associated with the governing unified-snapshot storage policy. An enhanced storage manager may manage the unified-snapshot jobs. One or more enhanced media agents and/or data agents may participate in the unified-snapshot jobs and in subsequent cataloguing of the snapshots.
US09921918B1
Systems and methods are provided to manage a storage object in a data backup storage mechanism, which stores multiple versions of a data file received from a data source. To efficiently manage storage in the storage object, determinations may be made as to whether a number of free data blocks (i.e., data blocks available for re-use) of the storage object exceeds a threshold and whether a data block(s) of the data file corresponding to a valid data block(s) of the storage object has not been modified in at least a number of previous versions of the data file. Responsive to a result of one or both of these determinations, data in the valid data block(s) may be copied to unused data block(s) in another storage object, and the status of the valid data block(s) is updated to free data block(s) such that all blocks in the storage object are free data blocks.
US09921914B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of drives configured as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) and drive array controller logic to: calculate a first partial parity log (PPL) value for a first write operation that targets a first active stripe of the plurality of drives; store the first PPL value in a first pre-allocated portion of the plurality of drives that depends on a first number associated with the first active stripe; calculate a second PPL value for a second write operation that targets a second active stripe of the plurality of drives; and store the second PPL value in a second pre-allocated portion of the plurality of drives that depends on a second number associated with the second active stripe.
US09921907B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module transmitting a set of write commands for storing a set of encoded data slices in storage units of a dispersed storage network (DSN) and determining whether at least a first threshold number of write responses have been received within a response time period. When the at least the first threshold number of the write responses have been received within the response time period, the method continues with the DS processing module determining whether a total number of responses have been received within another response time period. When the total number of responses have not been received within the other response time period, the method continues with the DS processing module issuing a sub-set of write commit commands corresponding to a response number of encoded data slices for which a response was received.
US09921905B2
In response to failure of an application that initiated updates to a group of operational system resources without the updates being successfully committed, for each physically inconsistent operational system resource that was left in a non-fully functional data indexing and access state as a result of the failure of the application, a portion of available pending updates are performed to change the respective physically inconsistent operational system resource to a partially backed out operational system resource with a fully functional data indexing and access state. Remaining available pending updates are ignored for the respective partially backed out operational system resource after the respective fully functional data indexing and access state is achieved to expedite system restart.
US09921902B2
A system and method for providing a watchdog timer to enable collection of crash data is provided. Upon execution of certain operations, a source thread of an application initiates a watchdog thread that periodically sample state of data relating to the application. Should the operation not complete within a watchdog timeout period, the watchdog thread invokes a crash function to collect additional state data. At least a portion of the state data is stored for later analysis and debugging.
US09921896B2
A memory apparatus and methods are provided for preventing read errors on weak pages in a non-volatile memory system. In one example, a method includes identifying a weak page in a non-volatile memory device along a word line, wherein the weak page is partially written with at least some data; buffering data associated with the weak page to a weak page buffer that is coupled in communication with the non-volatile memory device; determining that an amount of data in the weak page buffer has reached a predetermined data level; and writing the data from the weak page buffer into the weak page along the word line in the non-volatile memory device.
US09921894B1
An extensible single point orchestration system receives service requests from applications. In dependence upon the service request a single third party provider service or multiple third party provider services is identified. When the single third party provider service is identified, the system dynamically adapts a core capability service, using a stored configuration entity, so as to set an appropriate message format and transmit a service call message to an external API of the identified single third party provider service. When multiple third party provider services are identified, the system dynamically adapts the core capability service, using another stored configuration entity, so as to set a respective appropriate message format for parallel data transmission of service call messages to each of the respective identified third party provider services and transmits the service call messages to respective external APIs of each of the third party provider services.
US09921888B1
A control system includes a multi-core processor configured to operate plural different applications performing different operations for controlling a controlled system. The applications are associated with different levels of criticality based on the operations performed by the applications. The processor is configured to provide a single hardware platform providing both spatial and temporal isolation between the different applications based on the different levels of criticality associated with the different applications. The processor also is configured to synchronize communications of the applications operating in a real time operating system with scheduled communications of a time sensitive network (TSN).
US09921885B2
A virtualized environment includes a pool of VMs, each VM configured to run one or more virtual containers. Each virtual container runs as an isolated process in userspace on a guest operating system. A virtualization management module performs resource management operations to place containers within the pool of VMs according to performance metrics, and also perform high availability functionality for containers with critical containers.
US09921879B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using queues corresponding to attribute values associated with units of work to select the units of work to process. A plurality of queues for each of a plurality of attribute types of attributes are associated with the units of work to process, wherein there are queues for different possible attribute values for each of the attribute types. A unit of work to process is received. A determination is made for each of the attribute types at least one of the queues corresponding to at least one attribute value for the attribute type associated with the received unit of work. A record for the received unit of work is added to each of the determined queues.
US09921855B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating interactive user interface pages from a data store. At least a portion of metadata is received from a data store, wherein the appearance and functionality of a plurality of interactive user interface pages is based on the metadata. The display and functionality of an interactive maintenance page is generated based on at least a portion of the metadata, wherein the interactive maintenance page is one of the plurality of interactive user interface pages, and wherein the interactive maintenance page maintains the plurality of interactive user interface pages. One or more instructions are received from the interactive maintenance page. The metadata is updated based upon the one or more instructions, and the appearance and functionality of at least one of the interactive user interface pages and/or the interactive maintenance page is modified based on the metadata.
US09921854B1
An application manager provides anonymized user profile information to third party adaptive software applications. As a result, a software developer may produce a single software application that is adapted to run in a first mode providing full-functionality for use by adults and a second mode providing appropriate privacy and content restrictions for use by children. The mode is selected at run-time based on the anonymized user profile information received from the application manager.
US09921853B2
Various features for a computer operating system include mechanisms for operating where a single native application, in the form of a Web browser, exists for an operating system, and all other applications run as Web apps of the browser application. A computer-implemented object tracking method includes instantiating, a first time, an operating system object on a computing device; automatically identifying contextual meta data that defines a state of objects that are open on the computing device, other than the instantiated operating system object, when the operating system object is instantiated; and storing the identifying contextual meta data in correlation with the operating system object, wherein the contextual meta data identifies one or more objects that are active in the operating system when the operating system object is instantiated.
US09921851B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for dynamically loading firmware based on workloads. A workload module determines a workload configured to be executed on a system. A firmware module determines a firmware configuration associated with the workload. A loading module dynamically accesses the firmware configuration associated with the workload from a remote data store, and loads the firmware configuration on the system prior to execution of the workload.
US09921838B2
A method is presented for processing one or more instructions to be executed on multiple threads in a Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) computing system. The method includes the steps of analyzing the instructions to collect divergent threads among a plurality of thread groups of the multiple threads; obtaining a redirection array for thread-operand association adjustment among the divergent threads according to the analysis, where the redirection array is used for exchanging a first operand associated with a first divergent thread in a first thread group with a second operand associated with a second divergent thread in a second thread group; and generating compiled code corresponding to the instructions according to the redirection array.
US09921837B2
A processor is described having an instruction execution pipeline. The instruction execution pipeline includes an instruction fetch stage to fetch an instruction. The instruction identifies an input vector operand whose input elements specify one or the other of two states. The instruction execution pipeline also includes an instruction decoder to decode the instruction. The instruction execution pipeline also includes a functional unit to execute the instruction and provide a resultant output vector. The functional unit includes logic circuitry to produce an element in a specific element position of the resultant output vector by performing an operation on a value derived from a base value using a stride in response to one but not the other of the two states being present in a corresponding element position of the input vector operand.
US09921834B2
Discontiguous storage locations are prefetched by a prefetch instruction. Addresses of the discontiguous storage locations are provided by a list directly or indirectly specified by a parameter of the prefetch instruction, along with metadata and information about the list entries. Fetching of corresponding data blocks to cache lines is initiated. A processor may enter transactional execution mode and memory instructions of a program may be executed using the prefetched data blocks.
US09921824B2
A software program is executed, the software program requiring one or more physical interactions with a user through an input/output (I/O) device, wherein each of the one or more physical interactions includes respective predefined dimensions indicating a proficiency in performing one of the one or more physical interactions. The one or more physical interactions are tracked. A familiarity profile for each of the one or more physical interactions is generated based on the respective predefined dimensions for each of the one or more physical interactions. The software program is customized based on the familiarity profile for each of the one or more physical interactions.
US09921819B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a persistent enrollment of a device in a management system. Upon detection of a triggering event, detection of whether an activator application is installed is performed. Then, detection of whether an agent application is installed also performed. The agent application can then complete an enrollment of the device with a management system. Certain components of such a process can be bundled with the device operating system or as a system application.
US09921801B2
Positional information indicative of positions of a plurality of terminals is acquired from the terminals through communication; one or more representative terminals are determined from among the terminals in accordance with a state of distribution of the positions; when the positional information satisfies a predetermined condition, a first command to cause the representative terminals to output a sound at a first sound volume being transmitted to the representative terminals, and a second command to cause general terminals to output a sound at a second sound volume different from the first sound volume being transmitted to the general terminals different from the representative terminals; and when the positional information does not satisfy the predetermined condition, a third command to cause the representative terminals and general terminals to output a sound at a third sound volume being transmitted to the representative terminals and general terminals.
US09921800B2
Methods, systems, and media for controlling audio output are provided. In some implementations, a method for controlling audio output is provided, the method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, audio content to be presented; determining that an output port of the computing device is connected to a corresponding connector; providing the audio content at the output port; recording a first portion of audio using a microphone; determining that the audio content is present in the first portion of audio; continuing to provide the audio content at the output port; recording a second portion of audio using the microphone; determining that the audio content is not present in the second portion of audio; and presenting the audio content using a speaker of the computing device.
US09921797B2
A computer-implemented method includes identifying a document that is operated upon by a real-time collaborative editing system. The document includes a first active region and additional active regions. The method identifies a first node and one or more additional nodes, all accessing the document via the real-time collaborative editing system. The method identifies a second node that is one of the one or more additional nodes. The method identifies a second active region, which is one of the additional active regions. The method identifies a first node view, which displays the first active region via the first node. The method identifies a second node view. The second node view displays the second active region via the second node. The method responds to input from the first node by creating a third node view that is displayed via the second active region and presented via the first node.
US09921791B2
A wearable device is disclosed. In one aspect, the wearable device includes a display device and a control processor. The display device includes at least one display panel including a main display area and at least one sub-display area. The display device further includes a driver integrated circuit (IC) configured to generate a signal to drive the display panel and a memory configured to store identification information of at least one device which is connected to the wearable device. The sub-display area is configured to display the identification information.
US09921782B2
The present invention is directed to a magnetic memory device that emulates DRAM and provides a plug-in or drop-in replacement for DRAM. The memory device includes one or more magnetic memory banks for storing data; a controller configured to issue a dormant write command upon receiving a refresh command for recharging DRAM capacitors; and a memory cache for storing temporary data and configured to save the temporary data to the one or more magnetic memory banks upon receiving the dormant write command from the controller. The memory device may be compliant with at least one version of low power DDR (LPDDR) Specification or at least one version of DDR SDRAM Specification.
US09921780B2
A memory system may include a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each memory block including a plurality of pages, and a controller suitable for storing data in a first memory block of the memory blocks, generating map data for the stored data in the first memory block by sorting map segments of the map data based on logical information of the data, and storing the map data in a second memory block of the memory blocks.
US09921777B2
The present disclosure describes data transfer in a memory device from sensing circuitry to controller. An example apparatus includes a controller coupled to a memory device. The controller is configured to execute a command to transfer data from a latch component to a register file in the controller. The memory device includes an array of memory cells and the latch component is coupled to rows of the array via a plurality of columns of the memory cells. The latch component includes a latch selectably coupled to each of the columns and configured to implement the command to transfer the data. The memory device includes a data line to couple the latch component to the register file to transfer the data. The controller is configured to couple to the data line and the register file to perform a write operation on the transferred data to the register file in the controller.
US09921767B2
To provide enhanced operation of data storage devices and systems, various systems, apparatuses, methods, and software are provided herein. In a first example, a data storage device is presented that performs a write process to store data on a storage medium of the data storage device responsive to one or more write operations received over a host interface. The data storage device monitors a quality of the write process and determines when the quality of the write process falls below a threshold quality. Responsive to the quality of the write process falling below the threshold quality, the data storage device indicates the quality of the write process to a data protection node for determination of data parity information that compensates for the quality of the write process, where the data parity information is provided by the data protection node for storage in a selected parity storage device.
US09921756B2
A storage system includes a first and second control modules (CMs) connected to a client and a storage module over a communication fabric. In response to a data fragment written to the storage module, the first CM is to create a table of contents (TOC) entry in a TOC page maintained in a first storage partition of the storage module, update its FTL map, determine whether the TOC page contains a predetermined number of TOC entries, and in response to determining that the TOC page contains the predetermined number of TOC entries, send a control signal to the second CM via an inter-processor link. In response to the control signal received from the first CM via the inter-processor link, the second CM is to copy the TOC page from the first storage partition to a memory associated with the second CM to allow the second CM to update its FTL map.
US09921748B2
A sensor system as presented here includes a plurality of digital sensor devices, a random access memory (RAM) architecture coupled to the digital sensor devices, and a controller operatively coupled to the RAM architecture. Each digital sensor device is configured to generate digital sensor output data. The controller controls the reading and writing operations of the RAM architecture. During a data recording operation of the sensor system, each of the digital sensor devices is directly connected, electrically and physically, to the RAM architecture to facilitate synchronous writing of the digital sensor output data.
US09921745B2
Particular embodiments receive multiple touch events detected by a touchscreen. Each touch event may be associated with at least one position on a touchscreen, and at least a portion of the touch events may be located along a line. Particular embodiments may determine that the touch events are approaching an edge of the touchscreen, and may determine a first extrapolated position based on the determination that the touch events are approaching the edge of the touchscreen. The first extrapolated position may anticipate that one or more future touch events will turn before reaching the edge of the touchscreen. Particular embodiments may also provide display information based on the touch events and the first extrapolated position.
US09921744B2
A method and an apparatus input test in a touch screen terminal. The method comprises designating a certain region on a keyboard interface picture, not permitting text input through a keyboard when touch drag started from the designated region is sensed and acquiring a path of the touch drag, acquiring a path of following touch drag when at least the one or more following touch drag are sensed, and reading out at least the acquired one or more paths by cursive character recognition, deducing a character, determining the deduced character as an input target, and permitting the text input through the keyboard.
US09921739B2
A system with a processing system, an input device integrated within the processing system and coupled with the processing system, and a sensor arrangement integrated with the processing system and configured to monitor an area above the input device, and a controller coupled with the sensor arrangement to detect predefined input actions, wherein the controller is coupled with the processing system and wherein the predefined input actions are combined with inputs from the input device.
US09921736B2
A bendable display method and device are provided. The bendable display device includes a display unit including a display screen, a sensing unit that senses a user manipulation, and a control unit that modifies a display of the display screen according to the user manipulation sensed by the sensing unit. The display device is bendable under external pressure into a rolled state in which the display screen of the display unit forms an outer wall, and the display unit displays the display on the display screen in the rolled state.
US09921727B2
Providing an alternative human interface for an electronic device when a current human interface is made ineffective by at least an environmental factor is described herein. By ineffective it is meant that the current human interface cannot maintain a minimum level of interactivity between a user and the electronic device in the current or anticipated environment. In addition to maintaining at least a threshold level of interactivity, the configuration of the alternative human interface can take into consideration other factors such as an expected operating state of the electronic device affected by the choice of alternative human interface.
US09921720B2
In some implementations, a system causes a set of main tabs to be displayed at a first portion of a display. The system is configured to receive a user selection of a selected main tab. In response, the system causes a set of secondary tabs to be displayed at a second portion of the display. The system is configured to receive user input to manipulate the secondary tabs causing a rearrangement of the secondary tabs into a new order and/or causing one or more of the secondary tabs to be hidden. Based on the user input, the system causes the manipulated set of secondary tabs to be displayed and stores information defining the manipulated set of secondary tabs. Upon a subsequent access by the user of a database object associated with the selected main tab, the system causes the manipulated set of secondary tabs to be displayed.
US09921715B2
Systems and methods to generate and provide a user interface to display a shape-based icon that visually represents a server in a user interface. An example method may include identifying a media access control (MAC) address associated with a server, the MAC address including a vendor identifier and a server identifier; determining a first color in view of the vendor identifier and a second color in view of the server identifier; determining a first shape in view of the vendor identifier and a second shape in view of the server identifier; generating a shape-based icon comprising the first shape having the first color and the second shape having the second color; and providing the user interface to display the shape-based icon that visually represents the server.
US09921714B1
The present disclosure is directed to a method for managing a graphical interface viewable on a display. The method may include the step of presenting a plurality of layout options, a layout option is at least one of a full window layout or a divided window layout. The method may also include the step of receiving a selection of a layout option from the plurality of layout options. A further step of the method includes presenting a preview of the selected layout option on the display. The method also includes the step of presenting a plurality of icons, each icon corresponding to an application. A further step of the method includes receiving a selection of an icon for display within the selected layout option, the selected icon being compatible for display in the selected layout option.
US09921710B2
A method and an apparatus for converting and displaying execution screens of a plurality of applications included a device in which the plurality of applications are provided. The method includes displaying an execution screen of a first application from among the plurality of applications, receiving an external input corresponding to the first application, generating a list of the plurality of applications according to the external input, selecting a second application from among the plurality of applications by using the list, and displaying an execution screen of the second application.
US09921675B2
A touch device includes a plurality of touch electrodes and a touch circuit. The touch electrodes are respectively connected with a plurality of interfaces on the touch circuit by touch detection lines and a switch is provided on the touch detection line corresponding to each of at least one of the touch electrodes. The switch has a first work state in which the switch is turned on and a second work state in which the switch is turned off.
US09921674B2
The present invention provides a touch-sensing panel including a polarization plate and a patterned sensing electrode layer. The polarization plate has a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface and the second surface are disposed opposite to each other. The first patterned sensing electrode layer is disposed on the first surface, and the first patterned sensing electrode layer is directly attached on the first surface of the polarization plate.
US09921656B2
A system that generates a haptic effect using an Eccentric Rotating Mass (“ERM”) actuator determines a back electromotive force (“EMF”) of the ERM actuator during operation of the device and receives a haptic effect signal including one or more parameters, where one of the parameters is a voltage amplitude level as a function of time. Based on the determined back EMF, the system determines if the ERM actuator is spinning and varies the voltage amplitude level based on the back EMF to generate a varied haptic effect signal, where the varying includes, when the ERM actuator is determined to be spinning, reducing the voltage amplitude level compared to when the ERM actuator is determined to not be spinning. The system then applies the varied haptic effect signal to the ERM actuator.
US09921653B2
A system for authoring one or more haptic effects using a haptic effect authoring tool receives a haptification model that is based on a predetermined haptic effect style. The system receives an input that includes at least one of audio and video and a plurality of events. The system then, using the haptification model, recommends a haptic effect to be associated with a corresponding event from the input.
US09921651B2
A system and method are provided for presenting video content to a user. The method includes displaying video content on a visual display layer of a display device. The method further includes tracking, by a video processor, at least one object of interest in the video content. The method also includes embossing, based on respective positions of the at least one object, the at least one object on a microfluidics panel surface layer of the display device. The method additionally includes magnetizing, based on the respective positions, one or more portions of magnetic material in a magnetic material mesh layer of the display device to create respective temporary magnetics at the one or more portions that emit respective magnetic fields detectable by at least one user-wearable magnetic ring device held proximate to the display device. The respective magnetic fields indicate at least a movement of the at least one object.
US09921647B1
A method for preventing vision damage to a user viewing a screen of a mobile device is presented. The method may include collecting viewing condition data. The method may also include retrieving an eye health profile associated with the user. The method may then include retrieving eye health guidelines. The method may further include determining a maximum reading time based on the collected viewing condition data, the retrieved eye health profile, and the retrieved eye health guidelines. The method may also include determining that the determined maximum reading time exceeds a current reading time. The method may then include performing a preventive action in response to determining that the determined maximum reading time exceeds the current reading time.
US09921645B2
The present disclosure is directed to retinal display projection device comprising a projection component arranged for projecting an image directly onto the retina of a user wearing the device. The projection device further comprises an eye gaze detection module arranged to take an eye image of a user's eyes and to activate the projection component if a pupil of the user is in a predetermined position in said eye image.
US09921640B2
Magnetically enhanced inductors integrated with microelectronic devices at chip-level. In embodiments, magnetically enhanced inductors include a through substrate vias (TSVs) with fill metal to carry an electrical current proximate to a magnetic layer disposed on a substrate through which the TSV passes. In certain magnetically enhanced inductor embodiments, a TSV fill metal is disposed within a magnetic material lining the TSV. In certain magnetically enhanced inductor embodiments, a magnetically enhanced inductor includes a plurality of interconnected TSVs disposed proximate to a magnetic material layer on a side of a substrate. In embodiments, voltage regulation circuitry disposed on a first side of a substrate is integrated with one or more magnetically enhanced inductors utilizing a TSV passing through the substrate. In further embodiments, integrated circuitry on a same substrate as the magnetically enhanced inductor, or on another substrate stacked thereon, completes the VR and/or is powered by the VR circuitry.
US09921637B2
Multi-port power prediction for power management of data storage devices is disclosed. For certain embodiments, a host interface within a port multiplier receives host messages from a host device for a plurality of data storage devices. The port multiplier then uses a plurality of ports to forward device messages to the data storage devices based upon the host messages. A power prediction controller determines target data storage devices for access commands within the host messages and generates power commands to adjust power modes for target data storage devices to place the target data storage devices in active power modes prior to access according to the access commands from the host device. Power up latency is thereby reduced or eliminated for the target data storage devices.
US09921625B1
A chassis structure capable of sensing temperature of a media storage device includes a tray. The tray includes a body, an accommodating space formed in the body, a connector disposed on the body, and a temperature sensor juxtaposed with the connector. The media storage device is electrically coupled to the connector and contacts the temperature sensor. A working temperature is measured by a temperature sensor directly attached to an outer housing of the media storage device, thereby avoiding influences such as air flow and undesired heat conduction of the chassis structure.
US09921616B1
A riser card is used for inserting into a motherboard module including a casing and a motherboard disposed in the casing, and includes a handle bar, a main body and first and second linkage mechanisms pivoted to the main body. A side wall of the casing corresponding to a slot of the motherboard has first and second support pillars. The handle bar moves between non-pressed and pressed positions with swinging of the first and second linkage mechanisms. When the first and second linkage mechanisms are supported by the first and second support pillars and the handle bar is pressed to the pressed position, the handle bar is collinear with the first and second linkage mechanisms, and the first and second linkage mechanisms abut against the first and second support pillars to move and rotate for generating lever torques to insert a card pin of the riser card into the slot.
US09921614B2
A multifunctional adapter or interface unit for a portable electronic device, the adapter unit being stored or stowable within the portable electronic device and being operable as a power adaptor, user input/output device, and/or data transfer unit. The power adaptor includes a plug body with a retractable tray for storing a user input/output device, e.g. a peripheral device such as earphones.
US09921608B2
An electronic device may have a hollow display cover structure. The hollow display cover structure may be formed from a structure having an inner surface. The structure may be an elongated member having a longitudinal axis. A material such as sapphire, other crystalline materials, or other transparent materials may be used in forming the hollow display cover structure. A flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other flexible display structure may be wrapped around the longitudinal axis to cover the interior surface of the hollow display cover structure. The electronic device may have a touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors for gathering input such as user input. The electronic device may use one or more sensors to gather information on rotational motion of the device and can display content on the flexible display layer accordingly.
US09921601B2
Disclosed is a fractional bandgap circuit and method to provide a same reference voltage value in a variety of circumstances of operation, including variations in manufacturing process, temperature, and a supply voltage. The disclosed fractional bandgap circuit and method also allows for low supply voltage operation within a compact layout area.
US09921593B2
The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques for implementing a wideband low dropout voltage regulator with power supply rejection boost. More specifically, some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a voltage regulator comprising a voltage regulator core powered by a supply voltage and providing a regulated voltage output, and a power supply feed forward injection module delivering an injection signal to the voltage regulator core to effect a power supply rejection of the supply voltage variation from the regulated voltage. In one or more embodiments, the injection signal is determined from the supply voltage variation and a gain factor that is based on various design attributes of the output stage of the voltage regulator core. In one or more embodiments, the power supply feed forward injection module comprises a supply voltage sense circuit, a low pass filter, and one or more selectable transconductance amplifiers.
US09921592B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a bandgap core to provide a control signal; and an output stage coupled to the bandgap core, the output stage to receive the control signal and to provide a low impedance output at an output node.
US09921581B2
A vehicle computing device has a data storage medium and a processing device programmed to execute instructions stored on the data storage medium. The instructions include detecting an emergency vehicle near an autonomous host vehicle, receiving operational data from nearby vehicles, and transmitting the operational data to the emergency vehicle. The operational data indicates whether one or more of the nearby vehicles is operating in an autonomous mode.
US09921572B2
Finite element methods for compensating for springback in aircraft parts meet the visual appearance and aerodynamics of complex parts including those made of fabricated sheet metal. The methods can be used to make narrow parts (e.g., leading edge and slats) and double negative curvature parts, and do not need to leave marks on the surface of the sheet so that visual aspects are not adversely affected. The point to point compensation technique uses approach equations with constants adjustable for curves. The constant(s) used depend on geometry and type of forming (e.g., stretch or hydraulic press). Use of mechanical properties of the material is not required.
US09921571B2
This application relates to methods for applying automated precision machining operations to an oversized workpiece with a compact computer numerical control (CNC) machining apparatus. By shifting an oversized workpiece through a working area of the CNC machining apparatus, the CNC machining apparatus can apply machining operations to any portion of the workpiece in an automated manner. To achieve precision results, a position of the workpiece is tracked as the workpiece is shifted through the working area. In some embodiments, a probe can be utilized to track the shifting of the workpiece by determining a location of a machined feature after a particular shift has been completed. In this way, a position of the workpiece can be tracked without having to rely upon tolerances inherent to a workpiece manipulator.
US09921567B2
Improvements in a high speed smooth tool path is presented where the high speed smooth tool path to be used for primarily finishing for finishing any type of walls (negative/positive drafted) for any given bounded region be it 3, 4, 5, . . . n sided shape. The tool path incorporates a combined strategy for finishing the walls while removing any excess material leftover from a previous larger diameter cutter. This tool-motion can be utilized for roughing the regions by approximating the walls by offsetting the regions inwards. The finished boundaries are offset inwards and then cut using these methods. This is optimized as opposed to moving the cutter at a consistent speed in the cutting path. This is performed to eliminate the wasted tool-motion to the maximum extent. This technique is implemented for roughing any closed or open bounded areas regardless of the walls being straight, drafted (negative/positive or both).
US09921563B2
The inventor has recognized that industrial controllers may be updated after they are deployed in the field, while actively controlling an industrial process and without costly downtime, by storing a replacement machine-readable component in an allocated program space, locating and modifying one or more dependent machine-readable components copied in the allocated program space to instead depend on the replacement machine-readable component, re-linking a copy of the control program in the allocated program space, and redirecting execution to the control program in the allocated program space. Replacement machine-readable components could be instructions, libraries, or subroutines of the control program, and are not limited to user logic. The control program in the allocated program space may optimally be tested by verifying an operation before redirecting execution to the control program in the allocated program space.
US09921562B2
The present invention relates to a programmable switching system having N interconnected switching devices (ISDs), each of the ISDs having a unique network address. An ISD includes a switch operating in switching mode and programming mode, a communication interface, a microprocessor, and a memory. The microprocessor controls operation of ISDs when switch is in switching mode and programs ISD when switch is in programming mode. The memory includes a network address storage, and firmware. When the firmware is executed at the microprocessor, firmware is configured to: communicate with all ISDs of programmable switching system through communication interface over a network, receive user's inputs at switches of ISDs, and in response of the received user's inputs, to program ISDs, when switch is in programming mode, and receive user's input at the switch to perform switching functions of the ISD, when the switch is in switching mode.
US09921545B2
A detachable unit has a unit housing and a grip portion thereon. The detachable unit is insertable and removal along an insertion/removal trajectory formed inside the body of an image forming apparatus and forming a depression angle as seen from the removal direction. The grip portion has a pressed face facing the upstream side of the unit housing in its removal direction and substantially perpendicular to the insertion/removal trajectory, a first side extending along the lower-end edge of the pressed face, and a second side extending along the upper-end edge of the pressed face. No face extending on the upstream side of the unit housing in the removal direction connects to the first side, and a finger insertion portion into which a finger can be inserted from the side of the first side along the pressed face is formed in the first side.
US09921540B2
An electrophotographic image forming device includes a replaceable unit that has a housing having an internal reservoir for storing toner. A circuit board retainer is positioned on an exterior surface of the housing. The retainer includes a top having an undersurface having first and second supports extending away from the undersurface of the top toward a bottom of the retainer. A mounting platform is positioned on the undersurface of the top intermediate the first and second supports and spaced apart from the bottom of the retainer. A circuit board is mounted on the mounting platform. The top and the first and second supports form an opening at the front of the retainer sized to receive an electrical connector of the image forming device for mating with the circuit board when the replaceable unit is installed in the image forming device.
US09921539B2
The present disclosure discloses a driving assembly. The driving assembly is configured to be arranged on one end of a developing cartridge, the driving assembly comprises a connector configured to engage with a driving head of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The connector comprises a sleeve, a guide rod, and at least one engaging claw. The sleeve has a protrusion portion at its distal end relative to the developing cartridge, the protrusion portion axially projects outwards and has a limiting groove with an outwards opening; the engaging claw is hinged at the second end of the guide rod; when the driving assembly rotates upon receiving driving forces, a side surface of the limiting groove contacts a side surface of the engaging claw. A developing cartridge comprising the driving assembly is also provided.
US09921532B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a transmission unit, a reception unit, a control unit configured to obtain a time period until the reception unit receives a first ultrasonic wave via a first recording material and an amplitude value thereof at a reference temperature, obtain a time period until the reception unit receives a second ultrasonic wave via a second recording material and an amplitude value thereof at a different temperature, control an image formation condition for forming the image on the first recording material on the basis of the amplitude value of the first ultrasonic wave, obtain a difference time period between reception of the first and second ultrasonic waves, and control an image formation condition for forming the image on the second recording material on the basis of the difference time period and the amplitude value of the second ultrasonic wave.
US09921521B2
A sheet processing apparatus comprises a sheet placing section in which recording media are stacked, a storage section configured to record a total amount of toner on the recording media stacked in the sheet placing section, and a control section configured to determine whether or not the recording media stacked in the sheet placing section is likely to stick when a new recording medium is stacked thereon, based on the total amount of toner on the recording media stacked in the sheet placing section.
US09921512B2
Herein is disclosed an electrostatic ink composition, wherein the composition is formable by combining: chargeable particles comprising a resin comprising a polymer having acidic side groups, and a cyclic anhydride. Also disclosed herein is a method of forming an electrostatic ink composition, and a method of electrostatic printing.
US09921511B2
In an example of a method for making polymer-encapsulated metallic ink pigment particles, a layer of a transparent resin dispersion is disposed on a flexible substrate. The resin dispersion layer is substantially dried, and a base resin layer is formed. A slurry is disposed onto the base resin layer. The slurry includes metallic pigment particles and polymer particles dispersed in a non-aqueous carrier. The slurry is dried to form a metallic pigment-polymer sheet. Another layer of the transparent resin dispersion is disposed on the metallic pigment-polymer sheet and is dried. A coating resin layer is formed. The metallic pigment-polymer sheet and the base and coating transparent resin layers form a tri-layer film having the metallic pigment particles encapsulated between the base and coating transparent resin layers.
US09921510B2
The present invention relates to a magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer comprising spherical magnetic composite particles comprising a phenol resin as a binder and ferromagnetic iron oxide particles bonded to each other through the phenol resin, wherein the spherical magnetic composite particles have a ten-point mean roughness Rz of 0.3 to 2.0 μm. The magnetic carrier for an electrophotographic developer according to the present invention exhibits an excellent durability against peeling-off and abrasion of coating resins formed thereon and a high stability to mechanical stress exerted onto the carrier, is free from occurrence of spent toner, can be stably held over a long period of time without occurrence of fogging and unevenness in density of toner images, and can keep high-quality images with an excellent gradation for a long period of time.
US09921506B2
Electrophotographic image forming method and full color toner set for developing electrostatic image
Provided is a method of forming an electrophotographic image using a plurality of color toners, the method containing: a charging step; an exposing step; a developing step; and a transferring step, wherein the plurality of color toners each respectively contain toner particles including a binder resin, a coloring agent, a releasing agent, and a crystalline resin; the binder resin contains an amorphous vinyl polymer formed with a vinyl monomer; the toner particles contain the amorphous vinyl polymer in the range of 10 to 90 mass %; and a maximum value of an acid value difference of the color toners is in the range of 1 to 10 mg KOH/g.
US09921502B2
A thermosetting powder coating material includes a powder particle containing a thermosetting resin and a thermosetting agent and has a volume particle size distribution index GSDv of less than 1.20 and an average circularity of not less than 0.96.
US09921499B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a substrate and a photosensitive layer containing a phthalocyanine pigment. The crystalline particles of the phthalocyanine pigment have a crystallite correlation length r and a particle size R of 400 nm or less, and a parameter k defined by r/R is in the range of 0.17 to 0.42.
US09921497B2
A substrate handling system includes: a thermal shield for thermally insulating a space through which a substrate passes, from a thermal load originating outside the space, the thermal shield including: a first wall and a second wall with a gap therebetween, the first wall positioned between the space and the second wall; an inlet opening configured to allow a flow of gas from a gas source to enter the gap from outside the space; and an outlet opening configured to allow the flow of gas to exit the gap to outside of the space, wherein the system is configured to direct the flow of gas to enter the gap through the inlet opening, to flow through the gap and out of the gap to outside the space through the outlet opening thereby to reduce thermal fluctuations in the space due to the thermal load originating outside the space.
US09921464B1
Provided is a gimbal for 360-degree video and picture shooting including: a camera mounting unit having a body and a cavity formed in a center of the body, with a plurality of cameras being mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the body to take a 360-degree image or picture; a multi-axis driving unit provided in the cavity of the camera mounting unit and fixed to one side of the camera mounting unit to calibrate shaking of the camera mounting unit; and a support unit to which the other side of the multi-axis driving unit is fixed. Since the multi-axis driving unit is not exposed to the outside when the gimbal takes the 360-degree image and picture, it is possible to minimize the restriction of the area to be filmed when taking the surrounding image and picture.
US09921457B2
A lighting device capable of changing the light irradiation range includes a light emitting portion, and an optical member disposed in front of the light emitting portion. The optical member has a plurality of shapes such that two types of cylindrical concave surface having axial directions substantially perpendicular to each other are crossed each other. The plurality of shapes are formed in a central region of an entry surface through which light from the light emitting portion enters or a central region of an exit surface through which the light entering through the entry surface exits.
US09921451B2
An electrophoretic medium comprises a fluid, a first, light scattering particle (typically white) and second, third and fourth particles having three subtractive primary colors (typically magenta, cyan and yellow); at least two of these colored particles being non-light scattering. The first and second particles bear polymer coatings such that the electric field required to separate an aggregate formed by the third and the fourth particles is greater than that required to separate an aggregate formed from any other two types of particles. Methods for driving the medium to produce white, black, magenta, cyan, yellow, red, green and blue colors are also described.
US09921448B2
A display device capable of significantly reducing variation of a capacitance formed by a pixel electrode and a data line, the display device including: a first gate line; first and second data lines intersecting the first gate line; a pixel electrode adjacent to the second data line; a switching element connected to the first gate line, the first data line, and the pixel electrode; and a first extension portion extending from the pixel electrode and intersecting the second data line.
US09921440B2
In a liquid crystal display device, a common electrode is formed on an organic passivation film, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the common electrode, a pixel electrode with a slit is formed on the interlayer insulating film, and a through hole is formed in the organic passivation film and the interlayer insulating film, so that the pixel electrode is connected to a source electrode of a TFT through the through hole. Further, the taper angle around the upper base of the through hole is smaller than the taper angle around the lower base. Thus, the alignment film material can easily flow into the through hole when the diameter of the through hole is reduced to connect the pixel and source electrodes, preventing display defects such as uneven brightness due to the absence of the alignment film or due to the alignment film irregularity around the through hole.
US09921435B2
In an electro-optical device, a pixel electrode is provided in a first light-transmitting substrate, and a lens, which overlaps the pixel electrode in a plan view, and a common electrode are provided in a second light-transmitting substrate. The pixel electrode includes an ITO film which includes a first electrically conducting layer stacked a first light-transmitting dielectric layer, and the common electrode includes a second electrically conducting layer which includes an ITO film which is stacked a second light-transmitting dielectric layer. Therefore, it is possible to suppress wavelength dispersion in a case in which incident light is modulated and is emitted. The first dielectric layer includes a silicon oxide film and the second dielectric layer includes an aluminum oxide film.
US09921431B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a mount portion, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, an interlayer insulating film which is thinner in a non-display area than in a display area, a plurality of lines, a first end, a second end, wherein at least one of the first and second ends comprises a slit formed therein along a second direction from a display area side thereof to a opposite side of the display area side.
US09921422B2
Various types of edge seals for protecting electro-optic displays against environmental contaminants are described. In one type of seal, the electro-optic layer is sandwiched between a backplane and a protective sheet and a sealing material extends between the backplane and the protective sheet. In other seals, the protective sheet is secured to the backplane or to a second protective sheet adjacent the backplane. The electro-optic layer can also be sealed between two layers of adhesive or between one layer of adhesive and the backplane. Other seals make use of flexible tapes extending around the periphery of the display.
US09921420B2
A pair of eyeglasses includes a lens support structure having an elongated cavity formed therein that defines an air plenum extending transversely across the lens support structure. Air blowers are situated at opposite axial ends of the lens support structure and generate pressurized air into the elongated cavity. A HEPA filter is situated within the elongated cavity. A plurality of orifices formed in a bottom surface of the lens support structure directs pressurized air from the elongated cavity into the space between the eyeglass lens and the eyes of a user to displace allergens. Electronic circuitry, including a battery and switch, is situated within the lens support structure and operates the blowers. A status indicator is situated on the lens support structure to provide a visual indication of the operational state of the blowers and condition of the battery.
US09921413B2
Apparatus (systems) and methods are described for generating and displaying a virtual true 3D image viewable by a single eye of a viewer. A fixed-curve mirror is translated along an optical axis in synchrony with a temporally-modulated 2D image generator to generate a virtual image in multiple virtual image planes, enabling depth perception of the image by a single eye of the viewer.
US09921405B2
An electrostatically actuated oscillating structure includes a first stator subregion, a second stator subregion, a first rotor subregion and a second rotor subregion. Torsional elastic elements mounted to the first and second rotor subregions define an axis of rotation. A mobile element is coupled to the torsional elastic elements. The stator subregions are electrostatically coupled to respective regions of actuation on the mobile element. The stator subregions exhibit an element of structural asymmetry such that the electrostatic coupling surface between the first stator subregion and the first actuation region differs from the electrostatic coupling surface between the second stator subregion and the second actuation region.
US09921403B2
An optical filter includes: a first substrate; a second substrate opposed to the first substrate; a first reflecting film provided to the first substrate; a second reflecting film provided to the second substrate and opposed to the first reflecting film; a first electrode provided to the first substrate in a peripheral area of the first reflecting film; a second electrode provided to the first substrate in a peripheral area of the first electrode; a third electrode provided to the second substrate and opposed to the first electrode; and a fourth electrode provided to the second substrate and opposed to the second electrode.
US09921389B2
A camera module is provided, the camera module including a mover mounted with a lens, a stator movably supporting the mover to an optical axis direction of the lens, and a ball interposed between the mover and the stator, wherein a first rail is provided on the mover to allow a relative movement of the ball to the mover to the optical axis direction, and a second rail is provided on the stator opposite to the first rail to allow a relative movement of the ball to the stator to the optical axis direction, and wherein the ball linearly travels along the optical axis direction when the mover and the stator relatively move.
US09921376B2
An optical fiber with a connector includes a first connector and a plurality of optical fibers attached to the first connector. The first connector includes: at least one fiber-shaped member; and a ferrule including a first end surface and a second end surface arranged in a first direction, and a holding portion holding the optical fibers and the fiber-shaped member. In the holding portion, a plurality of fiber insertion holes extending from the first end surface in the first direction is formed such that the optical fibers and the fiber-shaped member are insertable thereinto. One end of the optical fiber and one end of the fiber-shaped member are held by the holding portion in a state of being inserted into the fiber insertion hole. The optical fiber extends to the outside of the ferrule. The other end of the fiber-shaped member is located inside the ferrule.
US09921374B2
An optical connector may include a vibrational element and a pair of traces to power the element. A corresponding connector receptacle includes a pair of pins to provide power to the vibrational element via the traces.
US09921370B2
A waveguide for the extraction of light at low levels of reflection arranged to guide light from an electro-optical component on a chip to a facet on the chip for extraction includes a first part and a second part. The first part (4) is extended, the second part (5) includes a surface (JK) through which the light exits from the waveguide (1). A non-adiabatic longitudinal section (GHLM) is located after the first part (4) but before the surface (JK) in the direction of propagation of the light, and the surface (JK) forms in the plane of the chip a first angle (V1) with the optical axis (A) of the first part (4) that lies between 5 and 80 degrees.
US09921366B2
This display includes a light source portion, a first heat radiation member for radiating heat generated by the light source portion, a rear housing covering the first heat radiation member in a state in contact with the first heat radiation member, and a cover member covering a rear surface of the rear housing so that the rear surface of the rear housing is partially exposed outward. The first heat radiation member is arranged on a region corresponding to a region of the rear housing exposed outward from the cover member as viewed from the side of the rear surface.
US09921362B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight source and a display apparatus. The backlight source comprises: a light guide plate and an adhesive frame. The light guide plate comprises: a light incidence face, a light exit face connected to the light incidence face, a bottom face opposed to the light exit face, and at least one lateral faces configured to connect the light exit face to the bottom face and to be inclined with respect to the bottom face, a projection of the at least one lateral faces with respect to the bottom face falling within the bottom face. The adhesive frame is located at a periphery of the light guide plate, wherein faces of the adhesive frame which face towards the respective lateral faces are matched with the respective lateral faces.
US09921359B2
A light source module includes a light guide plate, a reflecting film, and a plurality of edge-type light emitting diode (LED) units. Grooves are defined in a lower surface of the light guide plate. The reflecting film is below the lower surface and covers the entire lower surface and the grooves. An air gap is defined between the reflecting film and the lower surface. The edge-type LED units are located in the grooves. Each edge-type LED unit includes an LED chip, a wavelength converting layer, and a light reflecting layer. Light emitted is converted by the wavelength converting layer, reflected towards sidewalls of the wavelength converting layer, and transmitted to the lower surface. The reflecting film reflects light that enters the air gap towards an upper surface of the light guide plate, enabling uniform emission of light from the upper surface.
US09921357B2
A backlight unit includes a lightguide, a light source that emits light to the lightguide, and a barrier layer positioned over the lightguide in a light emitting direction relative to the lightguide. The barrier layer defines a bezel area of the backlight unit, and an active area of the backlight unit from which light is emitted from the lightguide is an area adjacent to a boundary of the bezel area. A prism structure is positioned in the bezel area, wherein stray light emitted from the light source uncoupled to the lightguide is at least partially coupled into the lightguide by the prism structure or directed to a greater degree along the lightguide. The prism structure may be configured as a plurality of lenticular triangular prisms, and may be mounted to a mounting frame, back reflector, or flat panel connector of the backlight unit.
US09921347B2
An alignment film capable of reducing occurrence of alignment disorder in a simple manner, a method of manufacturing the alignment film, a retardation film, a method of manufacturing the retardation film, and a display are provided. An alignment film is configured of an anchor layer and an alignment layer stacked in this order on a base. The alignment layer includes a groove region having a plurality of fine grooves on a surface thereof, and a groove region having a plurality of fine grooves on a surface thereof. The anchor layer provided between the base and the alignment layer is provided with an antistatic function in addition to a function of bringing the alignment layer into close contact with the base.
US09921344B2
A plasmonic lens is presented comprising a surface for interaction with an input electromagnetic field, wherein this surface has a pattern comprising an arrangement of a plurality of elongated spaced-apart features of a predetermined geometry arranged in a spaced-apart relationship along at least one segment of a spiral curve, each of the pattern features defining an elongated interface for creation of surface waves in response to the interaction with the incident electromagnetic field, such that the pattern provides linear-polarization-independent plasmonic focusing and large area, high contrast, circular polarization dichroic plasmonic focusing.
US09921334B2
A method is provided for evaluating a geological formation which integrates well data and high resolution computed tomography of rock samples thereof. Relationships are determined for a formation between a formation property, such as an elastic property, and at least one of photoelectric effect index (PEF), effective atomic number (Zeff), and bulk density (RHOB), using well data, and tomographic imaging is used to determine at least one of the latter mentioned properties (PEF, Zeff, RHOB) at higher resolution, which can be used in the relationship to determine a corresponding formation property. This affords an opportunity to develop formation property data for more challenging formations to evaluate, such as thinly laminated formations or others. Computerized systems, computer program products on non-transitory computer usable storage media, and programs for performing the methods are also provided.
US09921329B2
A method for selecting core points in subsurface formations includes selecting a zone from at least one subsurface formation. At least one statistical measure of at least one petrophysical measurement with respect to position along the selected zone is calculated. A predetermined number of core points at randomly selected positions along the selected zone is selected The at least one statistical measure is calculated for the randomly selected positions. Using a Monte Carlo iteration, the positions along the selected zone are randomly reselected and the at least one statistical measure is recalculated for the randomly reselected points until the at least one statistical measure for the randomly selected points is a maximum for a user selected statistical criterion applied to the at least one statistical measure of at least one petrophysical measurement with respect to position along the selected zone.
US09921328B2
Method, source array and seismic vibro-acoustic source element for seismic data acquisition. The method includes storing in a controller a library of beam form factor sets associated with a source array and corresponding regions to be surveyed; towing the source array along survey lines over the regions to be surveyed; selecting a beam form factor set from the library to be applied to the source array for each region; and actuating the source array based on the selected set of beam form factors and a position of the source array relative to the regions. Each set of beam form factors maps to a corresponding region of an area to be surveyed.
US09921319B2
An information processing apparatus connected to an external connection unit of a radiation imaging apparatus including a storage unit and a control unit configured to access to the storage unit, comprises a determination unit that determines that an abnormality has occurred in the radiation imaging apparatus; a processing unit that, if determined that the abnormality has occurred, and the control unit has access authority to the storage unit, performs processing of revoking the access authority; another control unit that obtains the access authority in accordance with the processing of the processing unit and accesses the storage unit; and an output unit that outputs, to an external apparatus, any one of radiation image data captured by the radiation imaging apparatus and log data of the apparatus which are obtained from the storage unit via the other control unit.
US09921317B2
A device for detecting radiation particles comprising at least one sensor for sensing radiation particles, capable of supplying an electrical pulse when it is traversed by at least one radiation particle, and at least one detection circuit comprising a voltage-controlled oscillator to which said electrical pulse originating from the sensor is supplied as the control voltage. The voltage-controlled oscillator is a ring oscillator.
US09921315B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor radiation detector for detecting X-ray and/or gamma-ray radiation. The detector comprises a converter element for converting incident X-ray and gamma-ray photons into electron-hole pairs, at least one cathode, a plurality of detector electrodes arranged with a pitch (P) along a first axis, a plurality of drift electrodes, a readout circuitry being configured to read out signals from the plurality of detector electrodes; and a processing unit connected to the readout circuitry and being configured to detect an event in the converter element. The readout circuitry is further configured to read out signals from the plurality of drift electrodes, and the processing unit is further configured to estimate a location of the event along the first axis by processing signals obtained from both the detector electrodes and the drift electrodes, the location of the event along said first axis is estimated with a precision being greater than the pitch (P).
US09921310B2
A proximity sensor and a proximity sensing method using an event-based vision sensor are provided. The proximity sensor may include a point identification (ID) unit which identifies a point at which an output light output from a focused light source is reflected from an object in an image taken by the proximity sensor; and a distance determination unit which determines a distance between the object and the proximity sensor based on a position of the point.
US09921304B2
In an apparatus for detecting and determining identicality of at least one object present within a region around a subject vehicle to be monitored, having a first detector adapted to detect the at least one object, a second detector adapted to detect the at least one object, and an identicality determiner adapted to determine whether the at least one object detected by the first and second detectors are identical, it is configured that the identicality determiner determines that, when the first detector detects the objects in a plural number in a first direction and the second detector detects the object in a single number in a second direction that is same as the first direction, one among the objects ahead and nearest to the subject vehicle detected by the first detector and the object detected by the second detector are identical.
US09921303B2
Provided are an object detection apparatus and method. The object detection apparatus includes an amplifier configured to amplify a reflected ultrasonic wave signal with a variable gain, a gain controller configured to set the variable gain such that the reflected ultrasonic wave signal received in at least one predetermined time zone is amplified with a high gain, compared to in other time zones, a comparator configured to compare a signal on an envelope corresponding to the signal amplified by the amplifier with a predetermined threshold and output the signal on the envelope when the signal is greater than the threshold, a calculator configured to calculate an absolute value of a first-order differential value of the signal on the envelope, and a time at which a maximum of the absolute value of the first-order differential value is calculated, and a detector configured to detect an object using a third time, the third time being a time at which the maximum is calculated, before a second time, the second time being a time at which the signal greater than the threshold is output.
US09921301B2
An acoustic wave measuring apparatus includes: a probe having a plurality of transducers that are capable of converting an acoustic wave into an electric signal and vice versa; a transmitting and receiving unit that includes a plurality of channels connected to the probe, generates an acoustic wave from the probe, and obtains a reception signal of the probe; a plurality of switches that switch connections between the transducers and the channels; and an image generating unit that generates an image from the reception signal. The transducers include a central element row and an end portion element row, and the plurality of channels are respectively connected to the transducers on the central element row and the transducers on the end portion element row alternately via the switches.
US09921300B2
A time-of-flight (TOF) sensor device is provided that is capable of accurately recovering waveforms of reflected light pulses incident on the sensor's photo-receiver array using a low sampling rate. A number of samples for a received light pulse incident on a given photo-receiver are obtained by emitting a light pulse to the viewing field, integrating the electrical output generated by the photo receiver over an integration period, and adding the integral values for respective integration cycles to yield an accumulation value. This process is repeated for multiple accumulation cycles; however, for each consecutive accumulation cycle the start of the integration period is delayed relative the start time of the integration period for the previous cycle by a delay period. Sampled values for the waveform are obtained by determining the difference values between consecutive accumulation values for the respective accumulation cycles.
US09921297B2
A system includes a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device. The system further includes a LIDAR target. The LIDAR device is configured to direct a light beam at the LIDAR target. The system also includes a retro-reflective material in contact with the LIDAR target.
US09921293B2
A device and method for providing location estimations. The device may be configured to estimate its location by transmitting and/or receiving signals of respective transmission ranges. The device may also be configured to transition from a client device operational mode to a location beacon operational mode once an accurate location estimation has been obtained.
US09921285B2
Exemplary method, system and computer-accessible medium can be provided which facilitates an acquisition of radial data, which can be continuous, with an exemplary golden-angle procedure and reconstruction with arbitrary temporal resolution at arbitrary time points. According to such exemplary embodiment, such procedure can be performed with a combination of compressed sensing and parallel imaging to offer a significant improvement, for example in the reconstruction of highly undersampled data. It is also possible to provide an exemplary procedure for highly-accelerated dynamic magnetic resonance imaging using Golden-Angle radial sampling and multicoil compressed sensing reconstruction, called Golden-angle Radial Sparse Parallel MRI (GRASP).
US09921274B2
Provided are a sensing apparatus using a plurality of Hall sensors and an apparatus using the sensing apparatus. The sensing apparatus is configured to measure an intensity of a magnetic field with respect to a magnetic element by using a plurality of Hall sensors and to identify a body that includes the magnetic element.
US09921270B2
A battery system with at least one module includes a plurality of battery cells. A cell voltage detecting circuit is associated with each battery cell of the plurality of battery cells. The cell voltage detecting circuits of the at least one module are connected to a multiplexer. An output of the multiplexer is connected to a communication bus via an analog-digital converter. The communication bus is connected to an evaluating unit. The multiplexer is additionally connected to at least one auxiliary voltage source that is known to the evaluating unit. In a method for monitoring a battery system with at least one module including a plurality of battery cells, a voltage of each of the battery cells is detected and fed to an evaluating unit via a cell voltage detecting unit. An output signal of the cell voltage detecting unit is tested for plausibility.
US09921266B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a modular load board or “frame” that contains a number of moveable connectors. The moveable connectors can be selectively displaced within the frame, as needed, to mate with test head pogo-pins and can be fixed in place on the frame using screws. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide multiple moveable sockets that can be positioned as needed within the frame so that a quick prototype modular load board can be designed and readily modified, if need be, without requiring hard wired traces within the PCB to connect the DUT socket to the test head interface regions. Using ribbon cables, embodiments of the present disclosure eliminate the need to have any hard wired traces within a PCB load board between the DUT socket and pogo pin interface blocks.
US09921263B2
The present document describes a connector for use with a harness under test by an automated test equipment (ATE). The harness is electrically connected to a reference. The connector comprises connection points having a layout, namely a connector layout, electronic identifiers and a switch. Each one of the electronic identifiers is connected to a respective one of the connection points. The switch is either for connecting the ATE to the reference via the electronic identifiers, either for connecting the ATE to the reference while bypassing the electronic identifiers.
US09921255B2
A sensing structure includes an integrated circuit substrate, and a first sensor formed on or above the integrated circuit substrate adapted to detect a first part of an electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. A sensing structure includes a dielectric substrate and a first sensor formed on or above the dielectric substrate adapted to detect a first part of an electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. A sensing structure includes an integrated circuit substrate and a multitude of sensors formed on or above the integrated circuit substrate adapted to detect a multitude of parts of an electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate. A method for sensing a first part of an electromagnetic field includes providing an integrated circuit substrate, forming a first sensor on or above the integrated circuit substrate, and detecting the first part of the electromagnetic field in the integrated circuit substrate.
US09921250B2
A structure of mounting a current sensor to a battery cable includes a battery cable, a thermal fusion bonding tape wound around an outer circumference of the battery cable, and a current sensor. The current sensor includes a housing including a current detecting part configured to detect a current flowing through the battery cable, and a holder configured to hold and compress a thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion in cooperation with the housing to deform a cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion into an elliptical shape. The thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is a portion where the thermal fusion bonding tape is wound around the battery cable. Upon a compression between the housing and the holder being released, the elliptical shape of the cross-sectional shape of the thermal fusion bonding tape mounting portion is maintained.
US09921249B2
A multi voltage sensor system includes one or more charge pumps, a sensor bridge and readout circuitry. The one or more charge pumps are configured to provide a high voltage. The sensor bridge is biased by the high voltage and is configured to provide sensor values. The readout circuitry includes only low voltage components. The readout circuitry is configured to receive the sensor values.
US09921244B1
Embodiments of the present utilize a specialized modular load board in combination with previously-tested daughter boards to yield a final design for generating a new printed circuit board (PCB) for testing. Since the electrical characteristics of the daughter board are already known by the client and well established during previous testing procedures, similar test programs can be used for production-level testing that were used in client prototyping processes that involved the use of the previously-tested daughter board. Thus, embodiments of the present disclosure can use the features of the specialized modular load board and a client's tested daughter board to develop more reliable, production-ready circuits.
US09921242B2
Improvements for rapidly calibrating and automatically operating a scanning probe microscope are disclosed. A central component of the SPM is the force transducer, typically a consumable cantilever element. By automatically calibrating transducer characteristics along with other instrumental parameters, scanning parameters can be rapidly and easily optimized, resulting in high-throughput, repeatable and accurate measurements. In contrast to dynamic optimization schemes, this can be accomplished before the surface is contacted, avoiding tip or sample damage from the beginning of the measurement process.
US09921229B2
A membrane-based assay device, methods and kits for determining the presence or quantity of an analyte in a test sample are provided. The immunochromatographic device comprises a membrane having a capture antibody bound thereto at a test zone, wherein the capture antibody is capable of binding with an analyte, in particular a Z-AAT protein present in a sample from a PiZ gene carrier.
US09921225B2
Novel phenyl-glyoxal based anti-citrulline probes and methods of synthesis are provided. Methods of use, such as, the development of methods for monitoring substrate citrullination over time; for identifying citrullinated proteins from cells are described.
US09921222B2
The present invention provides methods for the treatment of lung cancer patients, especially NSCLC with SCC or PLC using a drug against EGFR, such as an anti-EGFR antibody treatment, e.g., cetuximab. In addition, the present invention provides methods for identification or selection of lung cancer patients for the treatment with a drug against EGFR, such as an anti-EGFR antibody treatment, e.g., cetuximab based on histological determinations.
US09921220B2
Disclosed is a cell wall C-polysaccharide antigen of Streptococcus pneumoniae which contains not more than 10% by weight of protein, and preferably less which has been purified with 0.1N Na OH prior to deproteinizing. Also disclosed are polyvalent antibodies raised against Streptococcus pneumoniae which have been affinity purified by passing them over a chromatographic affinity matrix to which is coupled the purified and at least partially deproteinized antigen to render them antigen-specific.
US09921210B2
Methods and compositions related to high mannose glycans are described.
US09921196B2
A method in which a sample of a gas mixture to be analyzed via gas chromatography is conducted through a chromatographic separating device via a carrier gas, separated components of the gas mixture are subsequently quantitatively determined in an absorption spectrometer having a wavelength-adaptable light source, and in order to increase the speed of analysis and to be able to also determine components that cannot be measured via absorption spectroscopy, the wavelength of the light source can be adapted to an absorption line of the carrier gas, where the individual components of the gas mixture are determined indirectly via a concentration reduction of the carrier gas.
US09921195B2
This invention improves the sensitivity of a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry device by reducing the number of neutral particles that are not ionized during ionization and the number of low-molecular ions from a solvent used in the liquid chromatography. Said liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry device is provided with ion sources, a mass spectrometry unit, a detector, and three electrodes laid out so as to be parallel to each other. The first electrode and the second electrode have openings that allow ions to pass therethrough. The trajectories of said ions are deflected between the second electrode and the third electrode, thereby directing ions generated by the ion sources towards the mass spectrometry unit.
US09921193B2
A container assembly for use with a high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) instrument is disclosed, in which the container assembly, when coupled to a source of pressurized gas, provides fluid medium to the HPLC instrument at positive pressure. The container assembly has an external exterior container shell, an internal fluid container for holding fluid medium, an interstitial volume between the external exterior container shell and the internal fluid container, a port for fluidly connecting the volume to a pressurized gas source, and a port for fluidly connecting the internal fluid container to the HPLC instrument. As a pressurized gas in the interstitial volume increases, fluid medium flows out of the port connected to the internal fluid bag and container assembly at a positive pressure. A system incorporating the container assembly, and method of use of the same, are also disclosed.
US09921190B2
Methods and apparatus for providing real time measurement of capacitance for a plurality of transducing elements in an acoustic probe during repair are disclosed. An example method includes determining, at a second time, a capacitance of a transducing element of the plurality of transducing elements; when the capacitance of the transducing element is (A) outside an acceptable range and (B) different than an initial capacitance of the transducing element, triggering an alert, the initial capacitance determined at a first time prior to the second time and continuing to determine the capacitance of the transducing element; and when the capacitance of the transducing element is within the acceptable range, continuing to determine the capacitance of the transducing element.
US09921188B2
According to an embodiment, a detection system includes a plurality of sensor nodes and a sensor module. The plurality of sensor nodes detects sound waves generated from a prestressed concrete and converts the detected sound waves into detection signals. The sensor module is connected to the plurality of sensor nodes and receives the detection signals. The plurality of sensor nodes includes the sensor nodes in an operating state and the sensor nodes in a dormant state in which power consumption is held down as compared to the operating state. When magnitude of the detection signals is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, the sensor module switches the sensor node in the dormant state to the operating state.
US09921182B2
Embodiments provide mercury detection systems and methods for detecting the presence of mercury ions in one or more samples. In a detection method, a sample and TPET2 molecules are introduced into a channel. A first potential difference is applied across the length of the channel in a first direction, and a first electrical property value is detected. Subsequently, a second potential difference is applied across the length of the channel in a second opposite direction, and a second electrical property value is detected. Presence or absence of mercury ions in the channel is determined based on a comparison between the first and second electrical property values.
US09921180B2
A gas sensor system (1) includes a gas sensor (2) having a cell (14) electrically communicating with a first terminal T1 and a second terminal T2, and a cell (24) electrically communicating with T2 and a third terminal T3; and a sensor control section (40) including detection circuits (41, 43) for detecting the terminal potentials V1, V3. The sensor control section includes circuit (44) for bringing T2 to an examination potential Vex; constant current circuits (47, 48) for supplying examination currents Ipoc, Icp; terminal potential detection means S5 for detecting V1, V3 before the gas sensor detects the gas concentration in an activated state, and in a state in which T2 is brought to examination potential Vex and Ipoc, Icp are supplied to the cells (14, 24); and wire breakage determination means S6, S10 for determining a wire breakage anomaly and its location based on the V1, V3.
US09921177B2
Monitoring of conductivity within a steam generating system may proceed in real time and without interruption of the steam generating system by use of a boron doped diamond based electrochemical band sensor placed within the steam generating system. The boron doped diamond based electrochemical band sensor has a diamond body and a plurality of boron doped diamond band electrodes disposed within the diamond body. At least a portion of each of the plurality of boron doped diamond band electrodes is doped with boron to provide metallic conduction.
US09921171B2
An X-ray computer-tomography (CT) apparatus includes an X-ray detector, a reading unit, and a read control unit. The X-ray detector has a first region and a second region at least a part of which is aligned with the first region along a channel direction, the first region in which a plurality of first detection devices that detect X-rays are arranged, the second region in which a plurality of second detection devices having a width smaller in a slice direction than that of the first detection device are arranged. The reading unit reads a signal of the X-rays detected. The read control unit adjusts timing of reading signals from the first detection device and the second detection device according to difference between the size of the first and the second detection device in such a manner that time difference in the reading signals in the slice direction decreases.
US09921170B2
Examples herein include apparatus and techniques that can be used to perform rotational spectroscopy on gas-phase samples. Such techniques can include using a spectrometer providing frequency synthesis and pulse modulation to provide excitation (e.g., pump or probe pulses) of a gas-phase sample at mm-wave frequencies. Synthesis of such mm-wave frequencies can include use of a frequency multiplier, such as an active multiplier chain (AMC). A free induction decay (FID) elicited by the excitation or other time-domain information can be obtained from the sample, such as down-converted and digitized. A frequency domain representation of the digitized information, such as a Fourier transformed representation, can be used to provide a rotational spectrum.
US09921152B2
Methods and systems for performing simultaneous spectroscopic measurements of semiconductor structures at ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths are presented herein. In another aspect, wavelength errors are reduced by orienting the direction of wavelength dispersion on the detector surface perpendicular to the projection of the plane of incidence onto the detector surface. In another aspect, a broad range of infrared wavelengths are detected by a detector that includes multiple photosensitive areas having different sensitivity characteristics. Collected light is linearly dispersed across the surface of the detector according to wavelength. Each different photosensitive area is arranged on the detector to sense a different range of incident wavelengths. In this manner, a broad range of infrared wavelengths are detected with high signal to noise ratio by a single detector. These features enable high throughput measurements of high aspect ratio structures with high throughput, precision, and accuracy.
US09921146B2
The present invention provides a pipeline management supporting server capable of unifying management of attribute data of a pipe component and location information on a pipe network, efficiently detecting an abnormality of a pipeline remotely, and diagnosing the degradation state of the pipeline. The pipeline management supporting server (1) of the present invention includes: a private data processing unit (11) and a statistical calculation processing unit (12). The private data processing unit (11) includes an event data acquisition section (114) that acquires event data of a pipeline measured by a sensor(s), a measured event data storage section (112) that stores the event data of the pipeline, a pipeline database data storage section (111) that stores pipeline database data, a possible abnormality detection section (113), and an information output section (115). The possible abnormality detection section (113) identifies a pipeline and a location pertaining to the acquired event data of the pipeline with reference to the pipeline database data stored in the pipeline database data storage section (111) and generates possible abnormality detection information on the acquired event data of the pipeline. The statistical calculation processing unit (12) includes a data analysis section (122) and a statistical calculation data storage section (121) that stores statistical calculation data. The data analysis section (122) prepares, from event data of plural pipelines each having the same attribute as the pipeline pertaining to the event data acquired by the private data processing unit (11), an aging characteristic graph of the plural pipelines. The statistical calculation data storage section (121) stores the aging characteristic graph prepared by the data analysis section (122). The data analysis section (122) further generates degradation state diagnostic information on the pipeline by checking the pipeline pertaining to the event data acquired by the private data processing unit (11) against the aging characteristic graph. The information output section (115) of the private processing unit (11) outputs the degradation state diagnostic information and abnormality determination result detection information that is generated by examining the possible abnormality detection information and the degradation state diagnostic information in comparison.
US09921133B2
An tread depth measuring system includes a tread measuring apparatus, a processor, a supporter, and a warning apparatus. The tread measuring apparatus is positioned on the ground and configured to measure a tread depth. The processor is coupled to the tread measuring apparatus and configured to compare the tread depth measured by the tread measuring apparatus with a preset critical depth. The supporter stands on the ground. The warning apparatus is supported by the supporter and coupled to the processor. When the tread depth measured by the tread measuring apparatus is less than the preset critical depth, the processor sends a control signal to actuate the warning apparatus.
US09921131B2
Methods are provided for estimating the NOx content of exhaust gas produced by an internal combustion engine. The method includes determining one or more operating parameters. The method further includes applying the determined operating parameter(s) to a global NOx model. The global NOx model may be derived using a plurality of steady state data points relating to local NOx emission models. The steady state data points may be derived using a plurality of set and variable operating parameters. The global NOx model allows for prediction of the engine-out NOx content of exhaust gas in real time and without a NOx sensor, even if engine operating parameters change.
US09921130B2
A fatigue testing device 1 comprises a fixing member 4 constituted by a lower jig 2 and an upper jig 3. The lower jig 2 and the upper jig 3 are fixed with a bolt 5, and a sheet or plate-shaped metal plate 6 is fixed in a cantilever state such that it is interposed between the lower jig 2 and the upper jig 3. The lower jig 2 has a fixing surface 2a to which the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed, and the fixing surface 2a has a curved shape such that the space between the fixing surface 2a and the metal sheet or plate 6 increases with increasing distance from the location where the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed to the fixing surface 2a. The upper jig 3 also has a fixing surface 3a to which the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed, and the fixing surface 3a has a curved shape such that the space between the fixing surface 3a and the metal sheet or plate 6 increases with increasing distance from the location where the metal sheet or plate 6 is fixed to the fixing surface 3a.
US09921127B2
An assembly and method of testing the integrity of a sealing ring of a flexible pipe are disclosed. The method includes locating a first sealing ring adjacent a first collar member and a layer of flexible pipe body; energizing the first sealing ring by urging the sealing ring towards a primary pressure-retaining end fitting component, or by urging the pressure-retaining component towards the sealing ring; locating a second sealing ring adjacent the first collar member and a second collar member; energizing the second sealing ring by urging the sealing ring towards the pressure-retaining component, or by urging the pressure-retaining component towards the sealing ring; and pressurizing the region between the first sealing ring and the second sealing ring through a port extending towards the region to a predetermined pressure of 5 MPa or greater.
US09921126B2
A system for detecting leaks is provided comprising an accumulator, a flow controller in communication with the accumulator, and a flow meter/sensor in communication with the accumulator, the flow controller and a UUT. The flow meter is structured to supply gas from the accumulator to the UUT and measure a flow rate of the supplied gas, the flow meter providing feedback to the flow controller representing the flow rate, and the flow controller responding to the feedback by supplying flow compensation gas to the accumulator to maintain a desired pressure in the accumulator. Methods are also provided for detecting small leaks, especially with large units under test (“UUTs”).
US09921121B2
A pressure measuring instrument having a sensor carrier, a casing, a plug connector, evaluation electronics, and a pressure sensor. The sensor carrier supports the pressure sensor adapted to output a pressure-proportional, electrically detectable pressure signal. The sensor carrier has a base body, a pressure terminal formed together with the base body to be connected to the source of the pressure to be detected, and a seat having several different circle geometries, each having an annular surface adapted for mounting a pressure sensor. The pressure terminal has a connecting channel opening inside the seat, and the annular surfaces of the individual circle geometries are axially staggered with respect to the port of the connecting channel, wherein the annular surface having the smallest diameter is closest to the connecting channel port.
US09921119B2
Method for checking a device for a vehicle for detecting an impact, in particular an impact with a pedestrian, by means of at least one impact-sensing means which is based on at least a first volume, in particular by means of an impact-sensing means which is based on at least one hose, a device having means for carrying out such a method and a corresponding system, in which at least one first variable is acquired, wherein the at least one first variable represents a pressure and/or a volume and/or a change in pressure and/or a change in volume in the first volume, and a result of the checking of the device is determined as a function of a profile of the at least one first variable.
US09921111B2
A method for performing optical wavefront sensing includes providing an amplitude transmission mask having a light input side, a light output side, and an optical transmission axis passing from the light input side to the light output side. The amplitude transmission mask is characterized by a checkerboard pattern having a square unit cell of size Λ. The method also includes directing an incident light field having a wavelength λ to be incident on the light input side and propagating the incident light field through the amplitude transmission mask. The method further includes producing a plurality of diffracted light fields on the light output side and detecting, at a detector disposed a distance L from the amplitude transmission mask, an interferogram associated with the plurality of diffracted light fields. The relation 0 < L < 1 8 Λ 2 λ or 1 4 Λ 2 λ ( 2 n - 1 ) < L < 1 4 Λ 2 λ ( 2 n + 1 ) is satisfied, where n is an integer greater than zero.
US09921109B2
Methods for characterizing a beam parameter associated with an electromagnetic beam of a light source. The light source exposes a phase-shifted target through a set of focal distances relative to a focal plane of a substrate. At each focal distance of the set, registration values are measured and used to determine one or more registration slopes as a function of focal distance. The registration slopes are compared with baseline registration slopes to characterize the current relative state of the beam parameter in question. Beam parameters that may be characterized in this manner include degree of polarization and polarization rotation relative to an initial polarization direction. Phase shift test patterns advantageously used for beam characterization are described.
US09921105B2
The present invention discloses a spectrometer apparatus comprising a mobile device including an integrated camera, having a camera lens and an image sensor. The camera lens is located within a body of the mobile device that comprises a detachable housing coupled to the body of the mobile device. The detachable housing includes a first end and a second end opposed to the first end. The first end includes an optical input and the second end includes an opening that is substantially aligned with the camera lens. An optical spectrometer device is located within the housing and optically coupled to both the optical input at the first end of the housing and the camera lens at the second end of the housing. The optical spectrometer device receives a target image from the optical input and generates a spectral image that is received by the image sensor via the camera lens.
US09921102B2
A moving platform borne infrared image-spectrum associated detection system includes an optical hood, a broadband optical system, a two-dimensional servo system, an infrared optical fiber, a Fourier interference spectrum module, an image-spectrum associated detection processing module, a power supply module, and a display module. Incident light enters from the optical hood to the broadband optical system, and is split by a spectroscope. Transmitted light is focused by a long-wave imaging lens group on an infrared detector for imaging. Reflected light is focused by a broadband spectrum lens group to an optical fiber coupler, enters the Fourier interference spectrum module through the infrared optical fiber to form an interference pattern, and undergoes Fourier transform to obtain spectral data.
US09921099B1
The present invention relates to a space-based instrument which provides continuous coronal electron temperature and velocity images, for a predetermined period of time, thereby improving the understanding of coronal evolution and how the solar wind and Coronal Mass Ejection transients evolve from the low solar atmosphere through the heliosphere for an entire solar rotation. Specifically, the present invention relates to using a 6U spherical occulter coronagraph CubeSat, and a relative navigational system (RNS) that controls the position of the spacecraft relative to the occulting sphere. The present invention innovatively deploys a free-flying spherical occulter, and after deployment, the actively controlled CubeSat will provide an inertial formation flying with the spherical occulter and Sun.
US09921086B2
A position measurement system includes a material measure and a sampling device, arranged movably with respect to one another relative to a measurement direction. The material measure includes a multiplicity of markings arranged in a row relative to the measurement direction. The sampling device includes a transmitter winding arrangement and a plurality of receiver coils. The receiver coils are arranged in a row relative to the measurement direction such that inductive coupling between the transmitter winding arrangement and the receiver coils is dependent on a position of the sampling device relative to the material measure. The sampling device further includes an operational amplifier having a first and a second output terminal. The receiver coils are connected via a switching device to the operational amplifier such that a single coil or a pair of receiver coils is configured for selective connection on an input side to the operational amplifier.
US09921081B2
In a method for monitoring a rotation of a compressor wheel of an exhaust-gas turbocharger, which compressor wheel has on the peripheral side a number n of blades, an inductive sensor is provided for detecting the speed or rotational frequency, which sensor produces at least one output signal as a function of eddy currents generated as the blades pass by, and the rotational speed of the compressor wheel is inferred from a fundamental frequency of the output signal. In addition, information about a fault of the compressor wheel is derived from at least one modulation of the output signal, e.g., amplitude modulation, and an imbalance of the compressor wheel is detected.
US09921076B2
Provided is a display control device allowing the direction of a map information shown on a display to be correctly recognized. A display control unit displays on a display of a mobile terminal map information reproducing a scenery, thus making it possible to display on top of the map information a coordinate position display section corresponding to the current location of the mobile terminal. Here, there are provided a map information display determination section for displaying on the display the map information in a fixed orientation; and an angular difference display determination section for displaying on the display an angular difference between an angle of direction in which the mobile terminal is pointed and an angle of direction of the map information shown on the display.
US09921071B2
Aspects generate customized routes that select between human-powered and motorized transport option segments to maximize well-being objective in navigating a traveler to a destination. Amounts of human-powered transport options that a traveler is willing, able or recommended to perform via the traveler's own physical exertions in reaching a destination are determined as a function of well-being or cost objectives and performance limits. Recommended routes to the destination having human-powered and/or motorized transport option segments are generated that meet well-being objectives without exceeding amounts that the traveler is currently able to perform, and excluding segments that require efforts that do not meet the well-being objective or exceed the amounts that the traveler is currently able to perform.
US09921069B2
The invention is intended to be able to generate map data even if a location not suited for identification of a matching position exists. A map data creation device creates map data, the map data being used for autonomous movement by a vehicle (1a), a vehicle (1b) and/or other vehicles (1), based on a relative position of the vehicle (1b) which exists around the vehicle (1a), relative to the vehicle (1a), the relative position being measured by the vehicle (1a), and object shape data of an object which exists around the vehicle (1b), the object shape being measured by the vehicle (1b). Moreover, the relative position of the vehicle (1b) relative to the vehicle (1a) is calculated based on the object shape data measured by the vehicle (1a).
US09921062B2
The invention provides a surveying instrument, which comprises a horizontal rotating unit, a measuring unit installed on the horizontal rotating unit, a coupler for mechanically coupling the horizontal rotating unit with the measuring unit, and a connector for electrically connecting the horizontal rotating unit with the measuring unit, wherein the coupler couples the horizontal rotating unit with the measuring unit and can separate from each other, the connector can electrically connect the horizontal rotating unit with the measuring unit and can separate from each other, wherein the horizontal rotating unit comprises a driving unit for rotating the measuring unit, a horizontal angle detector for detecting a horizontal angle, and a horizontal angle control unit for calculating horizontal angle data based on a signal from the horizontal angle detector and for controlling the driving unit, wherein the measuring unit comprises a distance measuring unit for performing a distance measurement, a vertical angle detector for detecting a vertical angle at a time of distance measurement, a vertical angle control unit for calculating vertical angle data based on detection results from the vertical angle detector, a coordinate calculating unit, and a main control unit, wherein the horizontal angle control unit transmits the horizontal angle data at the time of distance measurement to the coordinate calculating unit via the connector based on a control signal from the main control unit and distance measurement data by the distance measuring unit and the vertical angle data from the vertical angle control unit are inputted to the coordinate calculating unit, and the coordinate calculating unit is constituted so as to calculate three-dimensional data based on the horizontal angle data, the distance measurement data and the vertical angle data.
US09921058B2
Methods and systems for dynamic tracking of on-stage objects using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) presented herein do not require illumination to track a randomly moving object and are easily configurable for various stage sizes and for stages movable relative to the ground. In some instances, a tracking method includes determining an initial state of an MEMS motion tracker carried on a dynamic object, such as a performer. Acceleration and orientation information gathered by the motion tracker is monitored. A change of state in response to the monitored acceleration and orientation information is then determined. An instant state is calculated using the change of state and the initial state. Actuation signals based on the calculated instant state are generated for actuating a gimbal. The gimbal faces a device supported thereby toward the dynamic object.
US09921056B2
Devices and methods are described that provide for scanning surfaces and generating 3-dimensional point clouds that describe the depth of the measured surface at each point. In general, the devices and methods utilize scanning mirror(s) that reflect a laser beam into a pattern of scan lines. When the raster pattern of scan lines is directed at a surface, reflections of the laser beam from the surface are received and used to the generate 3-dimensional point clouds that describe the measured surface depth at each point. The motion of the scanning mirror(s) can be dynamically adjusted to modify the characteristics of the resulting 3-dimensional point cloud of the surface. For example, the adjustment of the scanning mirror motion can modify the resolution or data density of the resulting 3-dimensional point cloud that describes the measured depths of the surface.
US09921052B2
An information processing device includes an image acquirer that acquires a shot image of an object having a marker, a marker detector that detects an image of the marker from the shot image, and an information processing section that executes information processing based on a detection result by the marker detector. The marker detector identifies the image of the marker among color regions that are extracted from the shot image and have predetermined colors based on the positional relationship between a region that is assumed when one color region of the color regions extracted is a marker and is covered by an image of an object having the marker and another color region extracted.
US09921050B2
The disclosure is directed to a system and method of controlling spectral attributes of illumination. According to various embodiments, a portion of illumination including an excluded selection of illumination spectra is blocked, while another portion of the illumination including a transmitted selection of illumination spectra is directed along an illumination path. In some embodiments, optical metrology is performed utilizing the spectrally controlled illumination to enhance measurement capability. For instance, the spectral attributes of illumination utilized to analyze different portions of a sample, such as different semiconductor layers, may be selected according to certain measurement characteristics associated with the analyzed portions of the sample.
US09921046B2
A system is provided for communicating between a 3D metrology instrument and a portable computing device via near field communications. In one embodiment, the metrology device is an articulated coordinate measurement machine (AACMM), a laser tracker, a laser scanner or a triangulation scanner, and the portable communications device is a cellular phone or a tablet. The portable device may use the NFC to determine the configuration of and to configure the metrology instrument.
US09921045B2
An apparatus for detecting a presence of an object can include a plurality of electrically conductive loops arranged in an array. The apparatus includes a sensor circuit configured to determine a characteristic associated with each of the plurality of loops. The apparatus includes a hardware processor configured to, for each loop of the plurality of loops, determine a parameter based on the characteristic associated with the loop and the characteristic associated with at least one adjacent loop. The hardware processor may be further configured to determine the presence of the object based on the parameter. The parameter may comprise a sum of a difference between the characteristic associated with the loop and a reference value for the characteristic, and a difference between the characteristic associated with each of the at least one adjacent loop and the reference value.
US09921044B2
A surface property measuring apparatus includes a control unit, configured to control operations of a roughness measuring instrument and a relative moving mechanism, including: a measuring force command module configured to output a measuring command; and a measuring force control module configured to control the direction and magnitude of the measuring force, wherein the measuring force control module instructs a measuring force application unit of the roughness measuring instrument to generate therein the measuring force whose magnitude and direction are designated by the measuring force command when a displacement speed of a measuring arm is equal to or slower than a predetermined threshold, and the measuring force control module instructs the measuring force application unit to generate therein a force in a direction in which the distal end of the measuring arm is raised upwards when the displacement speed of the measuring arm exceeds the predetermined threshold.
US09921038B2
The shaped composites of the present disclosure have metal powder bonded with glass powder. This feature provides the advantages of metal, metal powder, or glass composite materials, without suffering from the disadvantages. The composite is prepared with simple sintering methods, and can easily be formed into any number of desired shapes with dimensional characteristics and ingredients suited to a particular application.
US09921029B2
An accessory mounting interface and method are disclosed. The interface has an upper portion having a firearm accessory and at least one through hole extending from a first surface to a second surface of the upper portion, the upper portion having a first post portion with a first side surface and a first flange. A first elongated fastener is arranged through the through hole and has a first end extending below the second surface of the upper portion. The interface also has a second post portion that is movable between a first configuration defining a first transverse distance between the first and second side surfaces and a second configuration defining a second transverse distance between the first and second side surfaces, the first transverse distance greater than the second transverse distance. The first flange substantially opposes the second flange when the second post portion is in the first configuration.
US09921027B2
A firearm handgrip assembly with laser gunsight system has a first grip frame element adapted for mounting to a first portion of the firearm frame, the first grip frame element including at least one of an illuminator, a battery, a switch, and a controller, a cover portion of the grip defining an interior channel adapted to closely receive at least a major portion of the first portion of the firearm frame and the first grip frame element, the cover portion having a contoured exterior surface adapted for gripping by a user's hand, and a fastener operably engaging the cover portion to the firearm frame. The firearm frame may be a curved butt frame of a revolver. The interior channel of the cover portion may be curved. The fastener may include a threaded element connected to a lower end of the firearm frame.
US09921025B2
The invention relates to an archery system that launches an arrow from a position that is perpendicular to a direction of flight for the arrow. After release, the arrow rotates to a position that is parallel to the direction of flight to the target.
US09921024B2
Among other things, there is disclosed a cylindrical device which is used to remove broken paintballs and other unwanted material from the barrel of a paintball marker or from other paintball equipment. Cylindrical cleaning devices currently known in the art are prone to separation and failure after use. The present disclosure includes structure such as barbs and/or openings, a snap-fit sleeve element, and/or one or more spacers to limit or prevent such failure. Structure for cleaning, including squeegee elements movable between an insertion configuration and a cleaning configuration, and other materials and configurations, are also disclosed.
US09921023B2
There are disclosed embodiments for a paintball swab. For example, embodiments can include a rod with at least one tab extending radially and a hollow tube connected to a cleaning element. The tube can include an internal ring to fit over or beyond the tab.
US09921015B1
A magazine charging apparatus facilities the storage, transport and transfer of cartridges to a magazine. The apparatus having an interior compartment with channels having prongs that flexible support the cartridges. The end of the apparatus has a tool to facilitate the transfer by pushing the follower of a magazine down and a seating plate that provides a surface to push against the tip of a cartridge forcing it in the magazine. The apparatus could be disposable, recyclable or reusable necessitating various materials in its fabrication.
US09921006B2
The present application relates to apparatus and methods of reducing the cost of microchannel array production and operation. In a representative embodiment, a microchannel array can comprise a first lamina having one or more flanges and a plurality of elongated bosses. The one or more flanges can extend along a perimeter of the first lamina, the plurality of elongated bosses can at least partially define a plurality of first flow paths, and the first lamina can define at least one opening. The microchannel array can also comprise a second lamina having a plurality of second flow paths, and can define at least one opening. The second lamina can be disposed above the first lamina such that the second lamina encloses the first flow paths of the first lamina and the at least one opening of the first lamina is coaxial with the at least one opening of the second lamina.
US09921002B2
A radiator includes: a tube through which a coolant flows; and a single tank including: a supplying chamber communicating with an end of the tube, for supplying the tube with the coolant; and a collecting chamber communicating with the other end of the tube, partitioned to the supplying chamber, and for collecting the coolant discharged from the tube.
US09921000B2
Plate assemblies configured for use in heat exchangers are provided. The plate assemblies may include one or more plates defining an inlet end, an outlet end, and flow channels configured to receive a flow of fluid from the inlet end and direct the fluid to the outlet end. The flow channels may be defined by protrusions, grooves, and/or orifices defined in flow plates, and spacer plates may separate the plate assemblies from one another. The flow channels may be interconnected such that for each of a plurality of intermediate positions along the flow channels, a plurality of flow paths are defined. Thus, in an instance in which a blockage occurs in one of the flow channels, flow may be prevented through only a portion of the flow channel.
US09920997B2
Cooling apparatuses and a system including the same may be provided. The cooling apparatus including a freezer, a first cooling unit configured to cool a first cooling water supplied to the freezer in open air, and a second cooling unit configured to cool a second cooling water supplied to the first cooling unit may be provided. According to a temperature difference between the open air and the first cooling water, the second cooling unit may circulate the second cooling water separately with respect to the first cooling water or mix the second cooling water into the first cooling water.
US09920993B2
A photodetector element for receiving radiated light from a surface of a semiconductor wafer loses a detection function because the intensity of the received light exceeds a detection limit while a flash lamp emits light. Measurement is not performed during the above-mentioned period, and the intensity of the radiated light from the surface of the semiconductor wafer is measured after the flash lamp stops emitting light and the photodetector element restores the detection function. Then, the temperature of the surface of the semiconductor wafer heated by irradiation with a flash of light is calculated based on the measured intensity of the radiated light. Accordingly, even in a case where intense irradiation is performed in an extremely short period of time, such as flash irradiation, the flash of light does not act as ambient light, which enables to obtain the surface temperature of the semiconductor wafer.
US09920986B2
Variable N2 content in feed gas ranging from 3 mol % to 50 mol % can be rejected from the process using a feed exchanger that is fluidly coupled with a cold separator and a single fractionation column to produce a nitrogen vent stream and streams that are suitable to be further processed for NGL recovery and LNG production.
US09920983B1
A beverage chiller comprising a first cylinder and a second cylinder sized and arranged with the second cylinder disposed within the first cylinder to define a first reservoir between the first cylinder and the second cylinder for receiving a beverage to be chilled. The second cylinder defines an internal chamber for receiving a chilling medium. A cup fabricated from an insulative material receives the cylinders therein with the first cylinder and cup defining a second reservoir for receiving a chilling medium. The first and second cylinders are fabricated from a material having substantial thermal conductivity.
US09920982B2
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment formed in a cabinet of the refrigerator by a fixed insulation wall, the storage compartment being provided with an access opening. The refrigerator also includes a door rotatably provided to the cabinet to open and close the access opening, a drawer provided in the storage compartment, a camera fixed to a ceiling of the storage compartment to photograph both a first region for storing of food arranged in an external space of the drawer and a second region for storing of food arranged in an internal space of the drawer, and a controller configured to separate, through a capturing time of a picture containing both the first region and the second region, a first region picture and a second region picture from the picture to individually divide and store the first region picture and the second region picture.
US09920979B2
A refrigerator and a control method for the same are disclosed. A refrigerator includes a storage compartment, a drawer movably provided in the storage compartment and provided with a marker, a camera that photographs inside the drawer from outside the drawer, and a controller that senses a position of the marker in photographs taken through the camera at time intervals, and that determines state information about the drawer based on a change in position of the marker in the photographs. A method includes recognizing closing of the drawer by sensing a start of opening of the drawer; acquiring an image of the drawer interior using the camera; processing the image to recognize the marker from the image; tracing a movement of the marker; acquiring a final image of the drawer interior using the camera when closing of the drawer begins; and displaying the final image.
US09920973B2
An air conditioning system includes an air conditioning portion configured to condition a volume of air flowing there-through and an exhaust portion configured to exchange heat with the air conditioning portion through a working fluid. A portion of the volume of air exiting the air conditioning portion is mechanically diverted into the exhaust portion.
US09920970B2
The invention relates to a cryogenic container for storing and/or transporting a medium, in particular a biochemical and/or medical product. The cryogenic container comprises at least one primary container, which has at least one flexible film bag. The flexible film bag is designed to receive the medium. The cryogenic container furthermore comprises at least one secondary container, which at least partially surrounds the primary container and is preferably at least partially flexible. The secondary container has at least one opening for insertion of the primary container. The secondary container furthermore has at least one preferably at least partially flexible outer sleeve. The secondary container furthermore has at least one heat exchanger space, which is arranged between the outer sleeve and the flexible film bag and receives at least one fluid heat exchange medium.
US09920968B2
A control system, which may be a Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control system, controls a component by adjusting the control input and the execution of the control output whenever a change in a state of a component exceeds a certain value. A method is also described.
US09920964B2
The invention relates to contactors suitable for use, for example, in manufacturing and chemical refinement processes. In an aspect is a hybrid indirect/direct contactor for thermal management of counter-current processes, the contactor comprising a vertical reactor column, an array of interconnected heat transfer tubes within the reactor column, and a plurality of stream path diverters, wherein the tubes and diverters are configured to block all straight-line paths from the top to bottom ends of the reactor column.
US09920951B2
An apparatus comprises a subcooler, such as a vented tube/plate or tube on tube heat exchanger, and a pre-cooler and/or post-heater, which may be a vented tube/plate or tube on tube heat exchanger. The subcooler and pre-cooler and/or post-heater are connected in fluid communication with each other (in series) and with a refrigerant output and input of a condenser. For example, the refrigerant output goes into the subcooler, and the refrigerant input comes out of the precooler and/or post-heater. A working fluid (e.g. coolant), such as water or glycol or other working fluid, is forced, such as by pumping, first through the subcooler and then through the precooler and/or post-heater. Flow rate of the working fluid through the apparatus may be regulated such that the refrigerant is first subcooled to an incoming fluid's temperature and then to pre-cool the refrigerant to approximately its saturated-vapor state, when the system is operating to provide a refrigeration effect. Heat absorbed by the working fluid using the method may heat a potable hot water system or as a secondary heat source.
US09920948B2
An asynchronous reporting mechanism for a remote device in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning environment. Using gateway information, such as a device address, report information may be sent to the user account, or using another approach, the information may be sent directly to the user. An asynchronous message may be sent without user intervention or request.
US09920946B2
A system including a thermostat user interface for a network-connected thermostat is described. The system includes a thermostat including a frustum-shaped shell body having a circular cross-section and a circular rotatable ring, which is user rotatable for adjusting a setting of the thermostat. The system further includes a client application that is operable on a touch-screen device separate from the thermostat, that displays a graphical representation of a circular dial, that detects a user-input motion proximate the graphical representation, that determines a user-selected setpoint temperature value based on the user-input motion, that displays a numerical representation of the user-selected setpoint temperature value, and that wirelessly transmits to the thermostat data representative of the user-selected setpoint temperature.
US09920942B2
A humidity regulating system comprises: a plurality of humidity adjusting devices to adsorb or vaporize the mist and water of the humidity adjusting rooms, a water regulating device to regulate the water supply to the humidity adjusting devices, a main controlling device to control the humidity regulating system, a communication connecting device to connect the plurality of humidity adjusting devices with the water regulating device and the main controlling device, and a remote controlling device which includes a remote controlling means to communicate with the main controlling device so as to regulate the plurality of humidity adjusting devices to adjust the humidity of the rooms.
US09920939B2
The dehumidifier uses an all-plastic air-to-air heat exchanger together with an integral chiller to cool the incoming air to remove water vapor, and then exchange heat with incoming air to cool the incoming air and re-heat the outgoing air. The degree of dehumidification and the temperature of the outgoing air can be controlled by varying the speed of a variable speed fan so as to provide varying degrees of cooling as well as dehumidification. A programmable controller can be used to operate the dehumidifier automatically, either together with a humidistat and thermostat, or in accordance with a predetermined time profile for the conditioned space.
US09920933B2
The invention relates to an off-grid propane gas range appliance incorporating a waist-high broiler, the gas range operating without electricity in off-grid applications. The off-grid propane gas range appliance comprises an oven compartment having a first heating element or baking burner arranged at the bottom of the oven compartment and a second heating element or a broiling burner arranged at the top of the oven compartment eliminating the need for a separate broiler drawer. The first and second heating elements are arranged and connected to the main gas manifold of the gas range so that only one of the heating elements is operable at a single time.
US09920931B2
A device has a canister for attaching to a fuel container with a wick holder passing through the canister for holding a wick in a position to draw fuel from the reservoir for combustion proximate the top cap. A snuffer in the canister has a sleeve extendible from a first retracted position to a second extended position, the second extended position extending the sleeve partially beyond the wick holder. When the canister is upright the snuffer remains in the first lowered position and when the canister is tilted beyond a predetermined angle the spring moves the sleeve to the second extended position.
US09920919B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate with a circuit incorporated in the substrate, an interposer having a circuit connected to the circuit of the substrate, a light emitting element disposed on the interposer, a transmissive component disposed positioned to the light emitting element, and a frame body having an opening in which the transmissive component is disposed. The light emitting device further includes a ring-shaped body that encompasses the frame body on the substrate, and a sealant making the substrate and the ring-shaped body tightly contact one another. The frame body is disposed so as to encompass the light emitting element on the substrate. This provides the light emitting device with waterproof function.
US09920915B2
Disclosed is a lighting device (100) comprising a carrier (10) having a main body (12) and first and second protrusions (14, 16) extending in parallel from said main body, the first protrusion comprising a first main surface (142) and an opposite second main surface (144), the second protrusion comprising a third main surface (162) and an opposite fourth main surface (164), wherein the first main surface and the third main surface are on the same side of the carrier, said carrier carrying at least one solid state lighting element (20) on at least one of the first main surface and the fourth main surface; and a heat dissipating member (30) having a first portion (32) thermally coupled to the second main surface and having a second portion (33) thermally coupled to the third main surface. A luminaire including such a lighting device is also disclosed.
US09920914B2
The present invention relates to a moving head light fixture comprising: a base; a yoke rotatable connected to the base; a head rotatable connected to the yoke. The head comprises at least one light source generating light. An actuator is adapted to rotate the yoke or the head. Magnetic means is attached to the axel of the actuator and generated a magnetic field, which is perpendicular to the actuator axel. A magnetic encoder is fixed in relation to the axel and provides at an axel position signal based the magnetic field is indicative of the angular position of the axel in relation to the magnetic encoder. Indication means provides an indication signal when the yoke or head is positioned at a number of predetermined angular positions in relation. Processing means are adapted to control the moving head light fixture based on the actuator axel position signal and the indication signal.
US09920908B2
A lighting device (400) with an off-state white appearance is provided. The lighting device comprises a light source (403), having a white appearance in an on-state and a colored appearance in an off-state, and a switchable optical element (404) downstream from the light source. The colored appearance of the light source is caused by a photoluminescent material in the light source. The switchable optical element has at least a transmissive state and a state being reflective in the wavelength region in which the light source absorbs light, resulting in a white appearance when the light source is in its off-state and the switchable optical element is in its reflective state. According to an embodiment of the invention, the lighting device (400) is arranged as a luminaire further comprising an optical cavity (401) and a window (402) covering the optical cavity. The light source (403) is arranged inside the optical cavity and the window is provided with the switchable optical element (404).
US09920904B2
A critical angle lens reflector includes a solid, lens shaped object that is fabricated from a visibly transparent material such as glass, plastic, silicone or epoxy. A surface of the reflector has a geometric profile with a two-dimensional cross section curve in which coordinate points (x,y) on the curve have values defined by the mathematical equation dy/dx=(y−x tan(90−φ))/(y tan(90−φ)+x), in which φ is a predetermined incident angle that is chosen to have a magnitude such that light output, from the light source housed within an illumination device, will undergo total internal reflection upon reflection off the interior surface of the lens reflector.
US09920890B2
An exemplary embodiment provides for a source of white light having at least one white light emitting device composed of a transparent glass/quartz chamber, a vacuum chamber including an optically active element, a spacer, a focusing lens, an IR laser diode, where the optically active element arranged in the vacuum chamber is a thin-layer oxide matrix doped with rare earth ions selected from the group of Nd, Yb, the concentration of dopant ions being in the range of 0.0001 to 100 at %.
US09920883B2
A composite fuel tank, formed by winding filaments or strips around a plastic liner and binding the material with a curable binder. Embedded within the wrapped material at predetermined depths from the surface which provides a color indication of the level of damage due to tears, gashes, cuts and the like. The color indicator is part of a visual inspection method to determine tank damage and the extent of repair necessary.
US09920877B2
Apparatuses for magnetically suspending an object within a space are provided with associated methods and systems. One example apparatus includes a carrier including a chamber and a focusing member coupled to the carrier. The apparatus may further include a magnet disposed in contact with the focusing member such that an attraction surface of the magnet is exposed by the chamber to permit direct contact between the magnet and the item. The focusing member may be formed to focus a magnetic field of the magnet towards the attraction surface. Additional example apparatuses, as well as systems and methods are also provided.
US09920876B2
An accessory mount is disclosed and may include a base, a foot, an accessory receiver, and at least two elastic bindings. The accessory receiver may rotatably couple an accessory to the base, and may include an accessory adapter and a base connector. The base may include a plurality of attachment points distributed at different locations around the base. The foot may include a non-slip surface on a first side, and a plurality of projections on a second side that mate with a corresponding plurality of recesses in a bottom surface of the base.
US09920870B2
A restraint system for use in securing temporary flow lines that include multiple pipe sections, each pair of pipe sections connected together with a fitting or coupling such as a hammer joint coupling. The system includes multiple pluralities of endless loop slings connected end to end with a cow hitch or girth hitch knot. Disconnectable fittings (e.g., shackles) are placed every three or more slings so that easy disassembly is afforded in case of leakage or other failure.
US09920868B2
The disclosure teaches an adjustable/extendable piping system/module for associating fluid access products (such as fire hydrants) to a buried fluid source. The piping system defines an adjustable configuration that allows for the overall length of the piping system to be modified to compensate for different bury depths. The disclosure further teaches a flex module configured for associating a fluid product with a piping system connected to a fluid source. The flex module is configured to flex a predefined amount to prevent damage to the system from low energy impacts.
US09920867B1
A coupling assembly for securing rigid conduits together end-to-end, or to a junction box, includes a coupling body, one or two compressible gland rings, and one or two compression nuts. The coupling body includes a first segment extending from a second segment, with an optional midsection therebetween. The compression nut threadably engages about externally-threaded coupling first and/or second segments, compressing a gland ring as it is tightened. A bend in the compression nut, and complementarily chamfers formed in the coupling body and the gland ring, may help to squeeze and compress the gland ring. The compressible gland ring is internally-threaded, and, when compressed, it bites down or grips unthreaded conduits, and its threads interlock with threads of threaded conduits. Two conduits may be secured together by rotating the coupling body and/or the compression nut of the coupling assembly without needing to rotate conduits, which can be heavy and cumbersome.
US09920863B2
The present invention provides a flexible pipe having excellent blister resistance in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment even though including a thick resin pipe. The flexible pipe includes a resin pipe having a thickness of greater than 5 mm. The resin pipe is formed from a resin having a CO2 permeability coefficient P(CO2) of 20×10−9 cm3·cm/cm2·s·cmHg or lower at 150° C., a CH4 permeability coefficient P(CH4) of 10×10−9 cm3·cm/cm2·s·cmHg or lower at 150° C., a ratio D(CO2)/S(CO2) between a CO2 diffusion coefficient D(CO2) and a CO2 solubility coefficient S(CO2) of 3×10−5 Pa·m2/s or higher at 150° C., and a ratio D(CH4)/S(CH4) between a CH4 diffusion coefficient D(CH4) and a CH4 solubility coefficient S(CH4) of higher than 15×10−5 Pa·m2/s at 150° C.
US09920852B2
A subsea electric actuator includes a housing configured to be filled with dielectric oil, an electric motor, a brake, a clutch, and a spring. The clutch and the brake are configured to maintain the spring in a compressed position. In certain embodiments, the actuator further includes a planetary gear and a multi-turn gear assembly, such that the planetary gear and the multi-turn gear assembly are configured to multiply the torque provided by the electric motor. The actuator can further include a ball screw and a nut screw configured to convert the torque provided by the motor into linear thrust to compress the spring.
US09920849B2
An air valve may include a sheet on a panel that serves as a portion of one wall of an air-cooled enclosure. The panel has a first aperture, having a first radius. The sheet may be deformable and resilient, and have a conductive film on one surface and a second aperture. A plurality of leaves lie in a plane parallel to the panel and extend inwardly a particular distance from a perimeter define the second aperture. The perimeter has a second radius equal to the first radius. The particular distance is less than the second radius. The leaves may deform in response to airflow. The second aperture has a first diameter and first depth in an un-deformed state, and a second diameter and second depth in a deformed state. The second diameter and second depth are greater than the first diameter and first depth.
US09920848B2
An improved membrane valve and method for manufacturing such membrane valve. The improved membrane valve can be used for transferring fluids or gases in hermetic or semi-hermetic compressors, including a method and system for manufacturing a membrane valve and a membrane valve with applications for use in several motors, particularly in hermetic or semi-hermetic compressors which use, as a refrigeration fluid, an appropriate type of gas thus promoting the refrigeration physical affect. A body and a membrane of the membrane valve are produced from substantially thin metallic plates separately in accordance to an available process and can be subjected to rounding in order to eliminate live corners, and then juxtaposed thus composing the valve, with the above mentioned membrane on one side, fitted to the body which is fixed through a connection process and, on the other side, left free to oscillate.
US09920845B2
A control valve includes a first conduit having a first inlet and a first outlet and defining a first passage; a second conduit having a second inlet and a second outlet and defining a second passage, the second conduit extending into the first passage such that the second inlet is located within the first passage; and a valve plate disposed pivotably within the first passage, the valve plate defining a valve plate surface. Pivoting of the valve plate within the first passage varies flow from the first inlet to the first outlet and the valve plate is pivotal between a first position and a second position such that in the first position the valve plate substantially prevents fluid communication between the first passage and the second passage and such that in the second position the valve plate permits fluid communication between the first passage and the second passage.
US09920832B2
An instantaneous revolution speed Nm of an input shaft is calculated from an input period of a pulse signal from a revolution sensor, a revolution speed Nf is calculated by filter processing the instantaneous revolution speed Nm, a determination is made that a belt slip occurs when, during a stop of a vehicle, a state in which the revolution speed Nf is equal to or higher than a slip determination speed NSL is continued for a time equal to or longer than slip determination time TSL, and an immediately prior revolution speed Nf is held until a time of a pulse signal no input exceeds a road wheel lock corresponding time TWL which is longer than a slip determination time TSL.
US09920826B2
A hollow rack bar and a method of manufacturing the hollow rack bar are provided. The hollow rack bar includes a hollow blank pipe portion having a uniform wall thickness, and a rack toothed portion. The rack toothed portion includes teeth, a flat portion having a flat surface and arranged side by side with the teeth in a direction along a center axis of the blank pipe portion, and a slanted portion provided at an end of the flat portion with respect to a direction perpendicular to the center axis and arranged to be lower than the flat portion. A length of the slanted portion projected on a straight line perpendicular to the center axis and parallel to the surface of the flat portion is longer than zero and equal to or shorter than the wall thickness of the blank pipe portion.
US09920824B1
A power transmission apparatus may include an first shifting member receiving the torque of the engine from the second input shaft, changing the torque of the engine into first and second preliminarily shifted torques, and outputting the first and second preliminarily shifted torques; a second shifting member receiving the torque of the engine from the third input shaft, changing the torque of the engine into third and fourth preliminarily shifted torques, and outputting the third and fourth preliminarily shifted torques; and a third shifting member changing the torque of the engine selectively transmitted from the first input shaft and the first preliminarily shifted torque to the fourth preliminarily shifted torque selectively transmitted from the first shifting member or the second shifting member into eleven forward speed stages and one reverse speed stage, and outputting the eleven forward speed stages and the one reverse speed stage.
US09920813B2
A dynamic damper assembly may include a plurality of bodies arranged at predetermined intervals on an outer peripheral surface of a drive shaft, and an elastic body formed to surround each of the bodies and fixing each body to the drive shaft.
US09920811B1
An isolating assembly, a modular isolating system including the assembly and a method of using the same. The system includes a plurality of individual isolating assemblies, each isolating assembly being engageable with an article; and wherein each isolating assembly includes a lower isolator that rests upon a flat surface; an upper isolator that is engageable with the article; and a connector having first and second ends. The first end of the connector engages the lower isolator and the second end of the connector engages the upper isolator. The upper isolator is positioned above the lower isolator and is movable relative to the lower isolator when vibration from the article is transferred to the upper isolator. The connector may be a polarizing connector that restricts the movement of the upper isolator in a first direction but permits movement thereof in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction.
US09920806B2
[OBJECT]The present invention provides a friction material used for a disc brake pad, which is manufactured by forming a non-asbestos-organic (NAO) friction material composition, which is able to suppress an occurrence of noise just before a vehicle stops, while satisfying laws and regulations relating to the required amount of the content of the copper component.[MEANS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM]The friction material for the disc brake pad is manufactured by forming the NAO friction material composition that is free of the copper component, the friction material composition practically does not include an iron component but includes 15-22 weight % of a non-whisker-like titanate, relative to the total amount of the friction material composition, as a titanate, 15-25 weight % of zirconium oxide with the average particle diameter of 1.0-4.0 μm, relative to the total amount of the friction material composition, as the inorganic friction modifier, and 4-6 weight % of cleavable mineral particles, relative to the total amount of the friction material composition, as the inorganic friction modifier.
US09920800B2
A brake assembly having a brake carrier, a housing, and a bridge. The brake carrier may support at least one brake pad assembly. The housing may be disposed on the brake carrier. The bridge may be fixedly disposed on the housing. The bridge may extend over the brake pad assembly.
US09920793B1
A variable stiffness structure configured to support a variable load, the variable stiffness structure including a shaft coupled to the variable load, a negative stiffness element, a clutch coupled to the negative stiffness element and configured to disengage and to engage the shaft, in response to a change in the variable load, while the structure supports the variable load.
US09920786B2
A hybrid shaft is provided, particularly a hybrid shaft for a vehicle, for transmitting a torque. The hybrid shaft includes a hollow shaft made of metal, wherein the hollow shaft has at least one reinforcement layer made of fiber-reinforced plastic on an outer surface of the hollow shaft in at least one reinforcement section. The hollow shaft has an external diameter varying in a longitudinal direction of the hollow shaft inside the at least one reinforcement section.
US09920774B2
A system includes a hydraulic energy transfer system configured to exchange pressures between a first fluid and a second fluid. The system also includes a motor system configured to power the hydraulic energy transfer system and a shaft coupling the motor system and the hydraulic energy transfer system. Additionally, the system includes a shaft seal disposed about the shaft. Further, the system includes a pressure compensator configured to reduce a pressure differential across the shaft seal.
US09920773B2
An electrical submersible pump assembly has pump, motor and pressure equalizer modules. A first adapter, which secures to the first module, has an external set of first adapter threads. A second adapter, which secures to the second module, has an external set of second adapter threads. A collar has an internal set of collar first threads that engage the first adapter threads, and an internal set of collar second threads that engage the second adapter threads. The collar first and second threads differ from each other, such that rotation of the collar relative to the first and second modules pulls the first and second modules toward each other. The pitches of the collar first and second threads may differ. Or, the collar first and second threads may turn in opposite directions.
US09920767B2
Provided is a well pump system that includes a pressure pipe, a rotatable shaft surrounded by a plurality of bearings, a pumping mechanism mounted to the pressure pipe and having a plurality of pump impellers mounted to a second end of the shaft, a rotating mechanism mounted to a first end of the shaft and configured for rotating it within the bearings, thereby causing the pump impellers to move the fluid in the pressure pipe, and at least one non-return valve configured for assuming at least two states including a first, opened state, in which the second pipe chamber is in fluid communication with the first pipe chamber, and a second, closed state, in which the non-return valve obstructs the fluid communication between the first and the second pipe chambers, thereby lubricating them.
US09920764B2
The disclosure provides pumps that include improvements in construction, which involve bearing surfaces, recirculation paths, mounting footprints, impeller vane starting diameters, canister assemblies, and rotor assembly bushing configurations.
US09920763B2
A compressor having a compressor wall that has an interior surface that defines a compression chamber, in which a rotor or pair of rotors operates to compress a fluid. To do so, the rotors are in operative communication with the interior surface. The compressor also includes an injection port in the compressor wall and opening into the compression chamber, the injection port being in fluidic communication with a second fluid. The compressor can also include an insert in operative communication with the injection port, wherein the insert and the injection port define therebetween a gap through which the second fluid enters the compression chamber.
US09920759B2
A scroll compressor is provided that may include a casing; a discharge cover fixed to an inner space of the casing, that divides the inner space of the case into a suction space and a discharge space; a main frame in the casing, and spaced from the discharge cover; an orbital scroll that performs an orbital motion on the main frame; a non-orbital scroll coupled to the main frame so as to be movable up and down with respect to the orbital scroll, that forms a suction chamber, an intermediate pressure chamber, and a discharge chamber together with the orbital scroll; and a back pressure plate provided between the discharge cover and the non-orbital scroll, that forms a back pressure chamber that communicates with the intermediate pressure chamber. With such a configuration, a bypass valve may be easily installed, and application of an overload minimized.
US09920757B2
A variable displacement lubricant pump for providing a pressurized lubricant for an internal combustion engine includes a shiftable control ring, a hydraulic control chamber which directly actuates the control ring, a pump rotor comprising a plurality of slidable vanes which rotate in the control ring, a control chamber wall, a temperature control opening arranged in the control chamber wall, and a temperature control valve which connects or disconnects the temperature control opening to an atmospheric pressure. The temperature control valve comprises a valve plunger which is axially shiftable so as to block or leave open a lubricant passage, and a first bimetal actuator sheet which directly actuates the valve plunger. The first bimetal actuator sheet comprises a first switching temperature. The valve plunger is in an open position if a lubricant temperature exceeds the first switching temperature.
US09920753B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to nutating a piston drive linkage oriented around a longitudinal axis in response to the rotation of a drive shaft about a drive axis of rotation, said longitudinal axis being offset and canted with respect to said drive axis of rotation. In an illustrative example, the piston drive linkage may be formed as an umbrella shape with multiple arm members extending radially from the longitudinal axis. The distal ends of each of the radial arm members may attach to a stationary piston crank. The nutating motion of the piston drive linkage may impart a substantially linear motion profile substantially parallel to the drive axis of rotation. A shaft extending along the longitudinal axis from the piston linkage may advantageously freely insert into and rotate within a receptacle of a spinner body being rotated around the drive axis of rotation.
US09920748B2
Tooling and a method of using the tooling for aligning flanges of a wind turbine tower segment of a tower section to correct deformities that might otherwise prevent fasteners from passing through apertures of adjacent flanges to gather the segments into tower sections.
US09920747B2
A method of controlling power provided by a generator to an end system in which power is diverted from the output of said generator to an auxiliary system during periods of excessive power output from the generator. The diverted power is stored in an energy store and, during periods of lower power output from the generator, is returned to the end system by discharging the energy store. The diversion and return of power is controlled to maintain the power delivered to the end system at a desired mean power level. Diversion of power from the generator also has the effect of preventing the generator from producing excessive voltage levels.
US09920740B2
A wind turbine rotor blade element includes a first portion and a second portion connected to each other is described. The first portion includes a rear surface for facing a surface of a wind turbine rotor blade and the second portion includes a top surface which includes an angle between 90° and 180° with the rear surface of the first portion.
US09920739B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for securing a lightning protection cable (e.g. a conductor) of a lightning protection system within a wind turbine rotor blade. The lightning protection system includes a plurality of lightning receptors configured along either or both of the pressure or suction sides of the rotor blade. The lightning receptors are connected via the conductor so as to form a conductive circuit. Further, a cover assembly defining a passageway therethrough is configured to receive at least a portion of the conductor along a length thereof. Thus, the cover assembly can be secured to an inner surface of the internal cavity so as to maintain a location of the conductor. Accordingly, the conductor is free to move within the cover assembly since the wire is not directly attached to the rotor blade.
US09920728B2
A mounting is provided for fuel injection systems, the mounting connecting a fuel injection valve to a fuel-conducting component, and having a connecting body and a connecting piece that are connected to one another. Inside the connecting body and the connecting piece there is configured a receptacle space in which a fuel connector of the fuel injection valve is at least partly situated. An inner collar is configured on the connecting piece. In addition, an elastically deformable element is provided. The elastically deformable element is supported at least indirectly on the inner collar of the connecting piece. In addition, the fuel connector is supported at least indirectly on the elastically deformable element. In addition, a fuel injection system having such a mounting is described.
US09920727B2
To reduce collision noise created by the operation of an electromagnetic suction valve provided on a high pressure fuel supply pump. In the present invention, in order to achieve the above object, the mass of a member which collides by magnetic attractive force is reduced to reduce the noise to be generated. The thus configured present invention provides the following advantageous effects. The noise generated when a core and an anchor collide with each other by magnetic attractive force depends on the magnitude of the kinetic energy of a moving element. The kinetic energy to be consumed in the collision is only the kinetic energy of the anchor. The kinetic energy of a rod, being absorbed by a spring, does not contribute to the noise; thus, the energy when the anchor and the core collide with each other can be reduced, whereby the noise to be created can be reduced.
US09920719B2
A filter device is provided with a filter housing and a housing cover closing off the filter housing. A filter element is disposed in the filter housing. The filter element comprises a first form-fit part projecting past an outer wall surface of the filter element. The housing cover is provided with a second form-fit part correlated with the first form-fit part. The first and second form-fit parts engage each other in a mounted state of the filter element on the housing cover. The first form-fit part is a laterally projecting hook.
US09920718B2
An air flow control system of a vehicle may include an engine mixing air and fuel and generating a rotation force by combusting the mixture of the air and the fuel in a combustion chamber, main ducts provided in a front side of the vehicle to transmit air to the combustion chamber of the engine, heat dissipation members provided adjacent to the main ducts to cool a fluid flowing inside thereof through heat exchange with external air, assistant ducts branched from the main ducts to transmit air flowing in the main ducts to the heat dissipation members, and control valves provided in the assistant ducts to control air supplied to the heat dissipation members.
US09920714B2
An internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes an engine block having at least one cylinder. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head engaged with the engine block. The internal combustion engine includes a pre-chamber assembly associated with the cylinder head. The pre-chamber assembly includes a pre-chamber in fluid communication with a main combustion chamber. The pre-chamber assembly includes a fuel supply unit in fluid communication with the pre-chamber to selectively supply fuel to the pre-chamber. The pre-chamber assembly includes an auxiliary unit configured to produce oxygen and hydrogen. The auxiliary unit is in fluid communication with the pre-chamber to supply oxygen to the pre-chamber and in fluid communication with the main combustion chamber to supply hydrogen to the main combustion chamber. The pre-chamber assembly includes an ignition unit associated with the pre-chamber to selectively ignite a mixture of fuel and oxygen in the pre-chamber.
US09920713B2
A reciprocating piston cryogenic pump has been suspended from stroking when process fluid discharge temperature from a vaporizer dropped below a threshold to prevent freezing of a heat exchange fluid circulating through the vaporizer and damage to downstream components. Suspension of the pump results in a decrease of process fluid pressure downstream of the vaporizer, which is undesirable. In the present technique, a temperature is monitored correlating to process fluid temperature downstream of the vaporizer. The amount of process fluid discharged from the pump in each cycle is adjusted as a function of the temperature such that the average residence time of the process fluid in the vaporizer is increased as the discharge amount decreases, increasing process fluid discharge temperature. The average mass flow rate of the process fluid through the vaporizer is unchanged regardless of pump discharge amount such that process fluid pressure downstream of the vaporizer is maintained.
US09920704B2
At least after off of an injection pulse of partial lift injection, a difference between a first filtered voltage being a negative terminal voltage of a fuel injection valve filtered by a first low-pass filter and a second filtered voltage being the terminal voltage filtered by a second low-pass filter is calculated, and time from a predetermined reference timing to a timing when the difference between the filtered voltages has an inflection point is calculated as voltage inflection time. Subsequently, an injection quantity corresponding to current voltage inflection time is estimated for each of injection pulse widths with a relationship between the voltage inflection time and the injection quantity, the relationship being beforehand stored for each of the injection pulse widths. A map defining the relationship between the injection pulse width and the injection quantity is created based on a result of such estimation, and a required injection pulse width corresponding to a required injection quantity is calculated using the map.
US09920701B2
It is determined whether the execution conditions for the injection quantity variation correction are met, based on whether all of following conditions are satisfied: the engine operation is the stationary operation, the injection quantity of a fuel injection valve falls within the predetermined range, and the fuel pressure falls within the predetermined range. When the execution conditions are met, the fuel pressure decrease caused by the fuel injection of the fuel injection valve for each cylinder is calculated based on the output of a fuel pressure sensor, and the injection quantity variation correction to correct the injection quantity variation of the fuel injection valve for each cylinder is performed based on the fuel pressure decrease caused by the fuel injection of each cylinder. Thus, the fuel pressure decrease can be accurately calculated, the injection quantity variation of each cylinder is precisely corrected.
US09920697B2
An engine control method includes: generating a torque request for an engine based on a driver input; and based on the torque request, controlling: opening of a wastegate of a turbocharger; opening of a throttle valve based on the torque request; and an intake valve phaser and an exhaust valve phaser. The engine control method also includes selectively determining an expected future increase in the torque request. The engine control method also includes, based on the expected future increase and before the torque request increases based on the expected future increase: decreasing the opening of the wastegate; and at least one of: decreasing the opening of the throttle valve; and adjusting at least one of the intake valve phaser and the exhaust valve phaser to decrease a volumetric efficiency of the engine.
US09920696B2
A method for operating a gas turbine (11) having a compressor (12), a turbine (14) and a combustor (13) with a pilot burner group (15a), a rich premix burner group (15b) and a lean premix burner group (15c), under changing composition of the incoming fuel gas (16), includes the steps of: continuously measuring, in real time, the composition of the fuel gas (16); and controlling the operation of the gas turbine (11) and the combustion of the burners (15a-c) by using the real time fuel gas composition measurements.
US09920694B2
A fireshield fastener hood and method of bonding a cover to a substrate therefor.
US09920692B2
Provided are systems and methods for cooling to increase efficiency in power-generation facilities, to cool various other apparatus including buildings, and/or to generate water, including, but not limited to, systems for increasing the efficiency of power-generating turbines via inlet-cooling, optionally by expanding a portion of a pressurized fuel source that also feeds the turbine.
US09920691B2
A manifold for a gas turbine engine includes oppositely facing first and second walls that extend from an annular wall. An undulating wall oppositely faces the annular wall and couples the first wall to the second wall. The walls collectively form a plurality of first chambers in fluid communication with a plurality of second chambers so that each of the second chambers intersperse adjacent first chambers. Each first chamber has a first volume that is greater that a second volume of each second chamber.
US09920690B2
An air supply device for an aircraft engine turbine, in which device the air is conveyed to at least one aircraft engine turbine after being conveyed through at least one connecting sleeve from a low pressure distributor to a space defined by at least one upstream side and one downstream side, the upstream side having at least one opening and each pierced opening receiving one end of one of the connecting sleeves, wherein the upstream side and the downstream side are secured by at least one fastener. A retaining plate is used for each fastener in order to position a securing element of the fastener, the retaining plate having a supporting surface that blocks each connecting sleeve axially in one direction.
US09920681B2
A cooling apparatus for an engine includes a main circuit, a warm-up circuit, a coolant passage, a coolant pump, a pre-branching passage, a coolant temperature sensor and an agitator. The warm-up circuit allows a coolant to bypass the main circuit. The coolant passage is provided inside an engine body. The coolant pump is configured to cause the coolant to flow through the coolant passage. The pre-branching passage is communicated with an outlet side of the coolant passage, and communicated with the main circuit and the warm-up circuit. The coolant temperature sensor is configured to detect a coolant temperature inside the pre-branching passage. The agitator is disposed downstream of the coolant temperature sensor in a direction of coolant flow when the coolant pump is operating. The agitator is disposed at a boundary between the pre-branching passage and the main circuit or in a vicinity of the boundary.
US09920680B1
A cooling system for a marine engine has a cooling jacket disposed in thermal communication with a heat-emitting portion of the marine engine. The cooling jacket has a water inlet, and a water outlet on an upper portion of the cooling jacket. A pump is connected in fluid communication with the water inlet and/or the water outlet that causes water to flow through the cooling jacket in order to cool the heat-emitting portion, wherein a flow velocity of water in the cooling jacket is low such that debris sinks to a lower portion of the cooling jacket. A debris outlet is in the lower portion of the cooling jacket that expels the debris from the cooling jacket.
US09920677B2
A method for producing a delivery module having an electric PTC heater, for installation into a tank for storing a liquid additive, includes: a) fixing a maximum electrical power that is made available to the delivery module; b) determining a thermal conductivity of the delivery module from a location of the electric PTC heater into the tank; c) calculating a switching temperature of the PTC heater based on the maximum electrical power and the thermal conductivity; and d) mounting a PTC material with a corresponding switching temperature for the PTC heater at the location.
US09920675B2
The present disclosure relates to an exhaust purification apparatus and a method of controlling the apparatus. The exhaust purification apparatus includes: an injector for injecting urea solution into an exhaust pipe; a driving unit to provide driving force for adjusting an injection angle of the injector; and a control unit to determine the injection angle of the injector based on values of a spatial velocity, flow rate, pressure and temperature of exhaust gas and to drive the driving unit so as to control the injection angle of the injector. In particular, the injection angle of the injector is adjusted by pivotal movement of the injector.
US09920671B2
An exhaust treatment apparatus (ATA) for reducing one or more components of the airstream directed through the ATA. The ATA includes an airstream inlet, an airstream outlet, and an airstream path directed through the ATA from the airstream inlet to the airstream outlet, and at least one corona/NTP generating region for altering a composition of an airstream. The ATA includes an outer enclosure forming one electrode surface and a second electrode surface positioned within and electrically insulated from the outer enclosure electrode surface, where an area between the outer enclosure electrode surface and the second electrode surface forms at least a part of the airstream path directed through the ATA. The second electrode surface includes a series of ridges directed towards the outer enclosure that encourage corona generation. A method is provided for using the ATA for treating an airstream, including an exhaust airstream from a combustion engine, as well as an exhaust airstream from a compression-ignition (diesel) engine.
US09920666B2
A vane fluid pump for a vehicle component is provided with an inner rotor supported within a cam. The inner rotor has an outer wall extending between first and second end faces, the outer wall defining a series of slots spaced apart about the outer wall to provide a series of outer wall sections. One of the wall sections defines a groove. Another of the wall sections is independent of grooves or is ungrooved. The pump has vanes positioned within respective slots of the inner rotor and extending outwardly to contact the continuous inner wall of the cam. The groove on the inner rotor is configured fluidly couple with a notch on the housing to provide fluid flow to the discharge port from an upstream pumping chamber to disrupt harmonics during operation to reduce pressure ripples and associated tonal noise.
US09920664B2
An actuator for an electrohydraulic gas exchange valve train of a combustion engine is provided. The actuator has an actuator housing which can be mounted on the combustion engine with a borehole, a hydraulic piston, which is mounted therein such that it can carry out a reciprocating movement, for actuating the gas exchange valve and an axial stop which, when the actuator housing is in the unmounted state relative to the combustion engine, limits the piston stroke out of the borehole to a mounting stroke (T). This mounting stroke is smaller than a maximum operating stroke (L) with which the hydraulic piston actuates the gas exchange valve, the piston stroke being only temporarily limited to the mounting stroke by the axial stop and no longer being limited to the mounting stroke once the actuator is in operation.
US09920661B2
A camshaft phaser, including: a drive sprocket; a phaser section including a rotor with a first radially aligned channels, first axially aligned channels connected to the first radially aligned channels, and chambers formed by the rotor and a stator; and a rotor nose separately formed from the phaser section and non-rotatably connected to the phaser section, extending past a front side of the phaser section in an axial direction, and including second radially aligned channels and second axially aligned channels connected to the second radially aligned channels and the first axially aligned channels. The second radially aligned channels are arranged to receive fluid for the plurality of chambers to phase the phaser. The first radially aligned channels and the first and second axially aligned channels form respective flow paths for the fluid from the second radially aligned channels to the plurality of chambers.
US09920649B2
A system and method for controlling the acoustic signature of a turbomachine having a plurality of valves wherein an operating load is identified and an arc of admission across a plurality of nozzles is associated therewith. A valve sequencing scheme is selected and implemented to activate the arc of admission for a particular operating load so as to minimize valve noise by adjusting valves simultaneously rather than consecutively.
US09920641B2
A gas turbine engine includes a core flow path that extends axially about an engine axis. A turbine section is arranged in the core flow path. A mid-turbine frame includes multiple circumferentially spaced vanes that extend radially between and interconnect inner and outer flow path surfaces that define a portion of the core flow path. The vanes and inner and outer flow path surfaces are provided by a unitary, one-piece cast structure. The inner flow path surface provides inlet and exit inner diameters relative to the engine axis. The outer flow path surface provides inlet and exit outer diameters relative to the engine axis. The inner flow path surface extends an axial length from the inlet inner diameter to the exit inner diameter. A ratio of the exit outer diameter to the axial length is greater than 3.0 to 1.
US09920640B2
An extruded profile for manufacturing a blade of an outlet guide vane of a turbine engine. A cross-sectional area has an axial length LAX and a thickness D/LAX relative to the axial length LAX. A cross-sectional area has an at least nearly axisymmetric leading edge region, a first transition region having a varying relative thickness D/LAX. A first constant region has a relative thickness D/LAX at least substantially constant and, relative to a leading edge of the extruded profile, begins at the closest at 10% LAX and ends at the furthest at 50% LAX. A second transition region has a varying relative thickness D/LAX and, relative to the leading edge of the extruded profile, begins at the closest at 30% LAX and ends at the furthest at 90% LAX. A second constant region has a relative thickness D/LAX at least substantially constant and an axial length X of 40% LAX at most; and an at least nearly axisymmetric trailing edge region.
US09920636B2
The invention relates to a turbine blade, including a blade having a front edge and a rear edge, which blade transitions by means of a shaft into a blade root designed for fastening the turbine blade, and including a platform, which is arranged at the lower end of the blade in order to bound a flow channel. The platform is designed as a separate component and can be connected to the blade in a form-fit manner. Flexible application is achieved in that the platform is composed of several individual platform elements, which enclose the blade in the assembled state.
US09920632B2
A moving blade of a low pressure turbine includes a foot and a vane having an upper surface and a lower surface, the foot having a stilt linking the vane to the foot, wherein the stilt is formed such that the transverse section of the stilt has: a first straight portion, a second curved portion and a third straight portion, the curved portion having an outer face matching the profile of the upper surface of the vane and an inner face matching the profile of the lower surface of the vane.
US09920631B2
A method of disassembling reinforcement from a part, the method including: fastening at least one metal stud on one side wall of the reinforcement and at least one other metal stud on the other side wall of the reinforcement, the studs extending substantially perpendicularly to the side walls on which they are fastened; moving the studs apart from each other to space apart the side walls of reinforcement and disengage snap-fastener mechanisms thereof from complementary mechanisms of the part; and removing the reinforcement from the part.
US09920627B2
An assembly for a gas turbine that engine includes a fan section. A turbine section is configured to drive the fan section. The turbine section includes a rotor hub with a rotor lug. A heat shield engages the rotor lug. The heat shield and the rotor lug define a cooling passage.
US09920623B1
A system for automated collection of cutting samples produced during the drilling of a well includes an automated valve system for periodically collecting samples including fluid and cuttings from a flow line from a drilling rig and a packaging system for packaging each sample collected from the flow line. The packaging system deposits each sample received from the valve system at a corresponding point along a moving elongated strip of base material, covers the elongated strip of base material and samples deposited on the base material with a strip of cover material, and advances the covered elongated strip of base material and covered samples onto a reel.
US09920614B2
The disclosure, in one aspect, provides a method of drilling a wellbore that includes features of drilling the wellbore using a drilling assembly that includes a drill bit that further includes a weight sensor and a torque sensor, determining weight-on-bit using measurements from the weight sensor and torque-on-bit using measurement from the torque sensor during drilling of the wellbore, obtaining measurements for rotational speed of the drill bit and rate of penetration of the drill bit during drilling of the wellbore, determining mechanical specific energy of the bottomhole assembly using the determined weight-on-bit, torque-on-bit and obtained rotational speed of the drill bit and the obtained rate of penetration of the drill bit, and altering a drilling a parameter in response to the determined mechanical specific energy.
US09920612B2
The invention provides a control system and method for limiting vibrations in a tool string system, comprising a relatively heavy rotatable device, such as a pump system or a bottom hole assembly, connected to a long rotatable tool string driven by a drive system. The control system comprises feedback of both torque and rotational speed signals to correct the set rotational speed. An objective is to maintain the drive speed over torque ratio equal to the connected tool string impedance. A secondary objective, for lower frequencies, is to approach and maintain a setpoint speed as drive rotation speed. The system may include a rotational speed sensor and a torque sensor, with the latter optionally replaced by a motor torque signal already available from a variable frequency drive (VFD) for an AC motor and the current safeguarding signal for a DC motor.
US09920594B2
A method of hanging a cable within a coiled tubing string includes the steps of determining a length of coiled tubing required within a well having a wellhead; determining a length of a cable required within the coiled tubing, the cable having a structural component along the length of the cable sufficient to support the weight of the cable; cutting the tubing string and installing a hanger sub in the coiled tubing string toward, the wellhead attachment section relative to the downhole end, the hanger sub comprising an inner shoulder that extends radially into the hanger sub and defines an opening; and attaching an outer shoulder to the cable and inserting the cable into the coiled tubing string until the outer shoulder of the cable engages the inner shoulder of the hanger sub such that the inner shoulder positions the cable below the outer shoulder.
US09920591B2
A toe circulation sub for a wellbore liner, the toe circulation sub comprising: a body including a connection for connecting the body to a wellbore liner to define an inner facing portion open to an inner diameter of the liner and an outer facing portion open to an outer surface of the liner; a bore through the body from the inner facing portion to the outer facing portion; and, a ball seat in the bore formed to stop and seal with a ball to plug flow through the bore to close the toe circulation sub. The toe circulation sub is useful for methods and may be installed in a wellbore liner.
US09920589B2
A system for use with a well can include a perforating assembly with at least one perforator, the perforating assembly conveyed through a wellbore with fluid flow through the wellbore, and plugging devices spaced apart from the perforating assembly in the wellbore, the plugging devices conveyed through the wellbore with the fluid flow. A method of deploying plugging devices in a wellbore can include conveying a perforating assembly including a dispensing tool through the wellbore, the dispensing tool including a container, and then releasing the plugging devices from the container into the wellbore at a downhole location. Another method of deploying plugging devices in a wellbore can include conveying the plugging devices through the wellbore with fluid flow through the wellbore, and conveying a perforating assembly through the wellbore while the plugging devices are being conveyed through the wellbore.
US09920587B2
Certain aspects are directed to a testable isolation packer that sets and provides the ability to test upper and lower packer elements. In one aspect, the testable isolation packer includes at least two packer elements, a packer element setting system, a bypass system, and a testing subassembly. The testing subassembly generally includes a moveable element with an outer port and a sealing element, an inner mandrel with an inner port, and a shear mechanism to cause travel of the moveable element close the bypass system and to open the testing subassembly.
US09920577B2
Polycrystalline compacts include non-catalytic nanoparticles in interstitial spaces between interbonded grains of hard material in a polycrystalline hard material. Cutting elements and earth-boring tools include such polycrystalline compacts. Methods of forming polycrystalline compacts include sintering hard particles and non-catalytic nanoparticles to form a polycrystalline material. Methods of forming cutting elements include infiltrating interstitial spaces between interbonded grains of hard material in a polycrystalline material with a plurality of non-catalytic nanoparticles.
US09920576B2
A cutting element for an earth-boring tool includes a substrate and a volume of superabrasive material disposed on a substrate. The volume of superabrasive material has an exposed outer surface with a non-planar geometry. The cutting element is configured to be located and oriented on an earth-boring tool so as to remove subterranean earth formation material by compressing and fracturing or plastically deforming the formation material with at least a portion of the exposed outer surface of the volume of superabrasive material during use of the earth-boring tool in an earth-boring operation. The exposed outer surface of the volume of superabrasive material includes a first area having a first average surface finish roughness and a second area having a second average surface finish roughness greater than the first average surface finish roughness. Earth-boring tools carrying such cutting elements and methods of forming such earth-boring tools are also disclosed.
US09920571B2
An integrated controller for an operator unit for powering an overhead garage roller door or roller shutter is described. The operator unit comprises a motor, an output drive assembly, a timing assembly unit, and a clutch assembly for providing selective engagement between motor powered operation and manual operation (provided by a chain rotating a chain wheel). The motor is arranged to drive a shaft which, in turn, provides drive to the roller door or shutter assembly (not shown), which includes an axle around which the roller door or shutter is wound. The integrated controller comprises an inverter for receiving a single phase power supply and supplying three phase power to drive the motor; and a drive controller in operable association with the inverter for providing active management of the operation of the motor.
US09920569B2
A closure member of a preferred configuration and the method of making the same. The closure member has a board with a major axis and two panels to sandwich a hollow interior that is partitioned by a plurality of ribs positioned at intervals within the hollow interior, the hollow interior is delimited in a first direction by a pair of opposite end walls. The hollow interior is accessible in a second direction which is substantially traverse to the first direction, and at least one of the two panels is textured during the formation of the board to form a textured outer surface of the closure member, or the hollow interior is filled with a preferred reinforcement means.
US09920566B1
An encapsulated glass assembly includes a glass panel and a plastic frame coupled to the glass panel and an encapsulant for securing the frame to the panel. The frame includes at least three sides, wherein at least two and less than all of the at least three sides of the frame have a C-shaped channel extending within an outer frame surface and wherein another one side of the at least three sides does not have a C-shaped channel. The panel is introduced onto the inner surface of the lower wall portion of the another one side and then slid within each one of the C-shaped channels on the at least two sides. An encapsulant is bonded onto the panel and frame to secure the frame to the panel. The encapsulant has a Shore hardness less than the Shore hardness of the frame.
US09920558B1
An easily assembled and disassembled connecting assembly includes a first connecting plate provided with a first edge and a second edge in opposite to the first edge; a second connecting plate removable and pivotally combined with the first edge for allowing the second connecting plate and the first connecting plate to open and close; and a fastening structure disposed between the first connecting plate and the second connecting plate for fastening and fixing the first connecting plate and the second connecting plate when the two connecting plates are arranged in a close status. Therefore, the two connecting plates are able to be easily assembled and disassembled.
US09920550B2
A system for monitoring a lockout condition of a component includes a lockout device, a lock unit, and a reader. The lockout device is moveable between a lockout condition blocking operation of the component and an access condition permitting operation of the component. The lock unit is configured to be secured to a lockout interface of the lockout device to secure the lockout device in the lockout condition. One of the lockout device and the lock unit includes a communication module configured to communicate a data signal including an identification code identifying the one of the lockout device and the lock unit. The reader is remote from the one of the lockout device and the lock unit, and is configured to receive the data signal at least when the lockout device is assembled with the component and the lock unit is secured to the lockout interface of the lockout device.
US09920543B2
The present relates generally to a roof safety rail for use on a building for fall prevention. In particular the inventions relates to a roof safety rail system for use on the outer perimeter of a roof that provides an improved safety rail system where permanent installation is accomplished without penetrating the roof membrane or the exterior roofing material that covers the anchoring points of safety rail whereby eliminating the possibility of weather elements entering the building through the rail fasteners.
US09920542B1
A truss setting bracket and a method relating to setting a truss using the truss setting bracket are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the truss setting bracket includes an elongated body member having a first cradle, a second cradle, an elongated catch guide, and a locking arm. In other embodiments, the truss setting bracket includes an elongated body member having a first cradle, a bracket, an elongated catch guide, and a locking arm. In yet other embodiments, the method of setting the truss may include sliding the truss setting bracket over a member of a first truss, lifting the first truss towards a second truss, and removably locking the truss setting bracket to a member of the second truss.
US09920533B2
The present invention is to provide a system and a method for effectively preventing that gases/heat from an outlet are ascending from a gully and form ice, in addition to effectively drain liquids through a gully. The present invention is obtained by arranging a float so that said float and a portion of the gully define a closable opening for through flow, further arranged such that the float is preventing gases/heat from the outlet to ascend up from the gully and form ice and/or so that the float prevents that gas is drawn into the gully.
US09920532B1
A skylight assembly, having framing members that define an interior space and rafters that span the interior space between framing members, the framing members having an upper support surface for supporting panes of glass, each pane having at least one structural glass panel and a thermal panel. 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.
US09920530B2
Light-weight, heat-managing structures feature open-cell lattice, honeycomb, and/or corrugated (prismatic) arrangements in their substructures, combined with heat pipe/heat plate arrangements for managing heat to which the structures are subjected. The structures are well suited to aerospace applications and may be employed in the leading edge of wings or other airfoil-shaped components; gas turbine engine components; rocket nozzles; and other high-heat, high-stress environments.
US09920529B2
Building or structural panels may be joined, such as to form walls or floors. The panels may be connected in various orientations via one or more connectors. The connectors may mount to anchors associated with the panels. The panels may have outer skins located over an expanded core comprising a matrix of supporting elongate members and voids or openings, with the anchors located at edges of the panels.
US09920524B2
In combination, extruded aluminum trim strips joined end-to-end and a splice plate, the trim strips together, the trim strip cross-sections including a web and a pair of opposed angles, the angles and web forming a track for receiving a mid-section of the splice plate with a close sliding fit, the splice plate having lever tabs at opposite ends, notches at sides of the plate, the plate being disposed in the tracks of both lengths of trim strips, the lever tabs and associated edges of the lever tabs formed by the notches being outside of the tracks, the associated edge being arranged in a locking manner with outer surfaces of the angles as a result of the lever tabs being bent in place towards the web.
US09920512B1
An extendable two story building is packaged within the standard dimensions of an intermodal container. An upper floor is supported above a lower floor. A five-sided lid is raised and locked to provide a second story. The lid is lowered and locked on a base in a down position. The lowered lid is fully enclosed so that no door is accessible and the interior of the building is secure during storage and transportation.
US09920511B2
A blocked sewer unit includes a substantially impermeable barrier having a first side exposed to the interior of a sewage network and a second side, the barrier movable in the direction of the second side in response to fluid pressure on the first side. The blocked sewer alert unit includes a transducer separated by the barrier from the sewage network, the transducer configured to generate an electrical signal when the barrier moves into the dry section. The blocked sewer alert unit includes an alarm circuit configured to convert the electrical signal into a user alert.
US09920506B2
A faucet with a faucet housing, a tubular fastening device that is fastenable in a tap hole of a faucet carrier, and one or more flexible connection lines extending through the tubular fastening device to the faucet housing. The tubular fastening device has a tube section that is insertable into the tap hole, a flange that is placeable upon the faucet carrier, as well as an annular collar projecting beyond the flange, on which the faucet housing is fastened. At least two pivotal, longitudinally adjustable fastening clamps are arranged laterally at the tube section, which are adjustable via clamping screws operated from the faucet side against the bottom of the faucet carrier. The fastening clamps are received in the assembled stated in recesses of the fastening device, and pivot therefrom into a fastening position upon operation of clamping screws. The faucet housing has at the fastening side a receiving socket for a form-fitting, torque-proof reception of an annular collar of the tubular fastening device. The faucet is mountable in the pre-assembled state, by the faucet housing with the connection lines, connected thereto and guided through the tubular fastening device, being lifted off the tubular fastening device, inserted in the tap hole, to such an extent that the clamping screws are accessible.
US09920504B2
A method and apparatus for installing and removing shrouds from the lips of an earth moving bucket. The lips have forwardly converging upper and lower surfaces which are engaged by correspondingly rearwardly diverging legs of the shrouds that overly and are in contact with the lip surfaces. A hole is provided in the lip and an oblong hole in one of the legs that is aligned with the hole and has axially extending, spaced-apart flat walls which define engagement ledges that face and overlap the bore. A connector for securing the shroud to the lip is placed in the bore and the hole and has shaped exterior surfaces for positioning between the walls so that the connector is axially movable along the walls and past the engagement ledges while relative rotations between the connector and the hole in the leg are prevented.
US09920495B1
An animal waste removal and collection system may include a waste removal apparatus with a handle, a blade connected proximate to an end of the handle, and a comb connected proximate to the end of the handle opposite the blade. The waste removal apparatus is configured to be supported on a support surface at a first contact point of the blade with the support surface and at multiple second contact points of the comb with the support surface. The animal waste removal and collection system may also include a waste collection apparatus with another handle and a pan connected proximate to an end of the second handle. The pan includes a base and walls extending upwardly from the base, where one of the walls includes a slot to interface with the blade and another one of the walls includes a second comb to interface with the first comb.
US09920487B2
In an aspect, a track maintenance vehicle includes a body, a work head, and a controller. The work head performs track maintenance and is coupled to the body. The controller is configured to operate the vehicle in an autonomous mode. In another aspect, an anchor adjustor includes first and second jaws and an actuator. The jaws pivot about a single axis. The actuator causes the jaws to rotate about the axis. In another aspect, an anchor adjustor assembly includes a first pair of jaws, a second pair of jaws and an actuator. The first and second pairs of jaws open and close about a rail in a track. The actuator causes the closed first pair of jaws to translate towards the closed second pair of jaws along a longitudinal direction of the rail.
US09920480B2
A process of forming a papermaking fabric. A value of at least one characteristic of a first papermaking fabric is determined. The at least one characteristic is related to one of (i) knuckles in the first papermaking fabric, (ii) pockets in the first papermaking fabric, and (iii) both knuckles and pockets in the first papermaking fabric. A second papermaking fabric is formed. The second papermaking fabric is configured such that a value of the at least one characteristic in the second papermaking fabric is different from the value of the characteristic in the first papermaking fabric.
US09920469B2
A dryer appliance is provided. The dryer appliance includes a filter assembly with a filter medium. A first portion of the filter medium is disposed within an exhaust conduit when the filter medium is in a first position. A second portion of the filter medium is disposed within the exhaust conduit when the filter medium is in a second position. A method for operating a dryer appliance is also provided.
US09920468B2
A household cleaning appliance having a treating chamber and a non-bulk dispensing system coupled with the treating chamber and having a portion of material configured to be removable wherein the non-bulk dispensing system is configured to receive a removable cartridge containing a treating chemistry when such material is removed.
US09920467B2
A washing machine includes a cabinet, a fixed tub disposed in the cabinet to store washing water, a rotating tub rotatably disposed in the fixed tub, and a detergent supply unit configured to supply detergent into the rotating tub. The detergent supply unit includes a main body configured to form an exterior, a detergent storage portion provided in the main body, and a leakage prevention passage provided to enclose at least part of the detergent storage portion and configured to guide the washing water overflowing from the detergent storage portion into the cabinet. By such configuration, it is possible to prevent the leakage of washing water and enhance washing water feed efficiency.
US09920466B2
A panel for appliances includes an inner shell and an outer shell that engage one another to define a hollow interior region. An interior divider or intermediate close-out is disposed between the inner and outer shells, and has at least an outwardly-extending portion that extends into the hollow interior region. A foam core is bonded to interior surfaces of the shells and to the divider or close-out. The foam core may be formed or established by injecting an uncured or partially-cured liquid into the hollow interior region. Optionally, the panel is a movable door attached to an appliance, and may include a window portion in a central region thereof.
US09920462B2
A braiding machine including several rings for passing spools. The braiding machine may include an inner ring and an outer ring which may be comprised of rotor metals, and an intermediate ring that may be comprised of horn gears. Spools may pass along the inner and outer rings, and the horn gears in the intermediate ring may allow spools to be passed back and forth between the inner ring and the outer ring.
US09920460B2
A down-proof woven fabric includes a cloth composed of synthetic fibers with a yarn fineness of 33 decitex or less and having a weight per unit area of 50 g/m2 or less and a cover factor of 1,400 to 1,800, wherein the cloth is coated at least on one surface thereof with a resin by an amount of 0.1 g/m2 to 5 g/m2 as a solid component.
US09920456B2
A carbon-fiber-precursor acryl fiber bundle, including a polyacrylonitrile-based copolymer that contains from 95 to 99 mol % of an acrylonitrile unit and from 1 to 5 mol % of a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate unit, where the fiber bundle has a single-fiber fineness of from 1.5 dtex to 5.0 dtex and a roundness of from 0.75 to 0.9 in a cross-section shape perpendicular to a fiber axis of the single fiber; the roundness being determined with equation (1): roundness=4πS/L2, where S is a cross-sectional area of the single fiber and L is a circumferential length of the single fiber, and S and L are obtained by observing, under an SEM, the cross-section of the single fiber perpendicular to the fiber axis of the single fiber and analyzing the obtained image.
US09920444B2
A system, method, and apparatus for a co-bonded electroformed abrasion strip are disclosed. A disclosed method for making a unitary abrasion strip for a fluid dynamic surface includes manufacturing or identifying a first metallic section having an overlap region on a first end of the first metallic section. The method further includes manufacturing or identifying an overlap region disposed on the first end of the first metallic section by preparing the first end of the first metallic section. Also, the method includes creating a second metallic section onto the overlap region on the first end of the first metallic section by performing a first electro-deposition process on the first end of the first metallic section; where the first metallic section, the overlap region, and the second metallic section together form a unitary, inseparable abrasion strip for a fluid dynamic surface.
US09920442B2
Systems and methods for reducing the capital and operating costs of a smelting process system and improving the environmental impact of the smelting process using an IGT system to remove and filter environmentally hazardous gases and particulates from each electrolytic cell in the smelting process system.
US09920440B2
The invention relates to an electrochemical device intended for the production of products through electrochemical reaction of reactants, said electrochemical device comprising a stack of electrochemical cells (10), each cell (10) comprising a structure (16), two bipolar plates (18a, 18b) shared with adjacent cells (10), a membrane/electrode assembly (20) and two intermediate elements (21, 22) arranged to carry a current and the reactants/products to/from the membrane/electrode assembly (20).According to the invention, said structure (16) of the cell (10) comprises a single frame (23) made in one piece, said frame (23) having upper and lower faces respectively arranged to form a plane contact with the bipolar plates (18a, 18b) disposed on either side of said frame (23), and a central opening (26) arranged to receive the membrane/electrode assembly (20) and the two intermediate elements (21, 22), said frame (23) comprising all the orifices (38, 40, 42, 44) necessary for feeding reactants and evacuating products, and housings (34, 54a, 58a, 60a) arranged to receive sealing means (36, 56a, 56b; 62a, 62b, 64a, 64b) ensuring the sealing of each reactant and product.
US09920432B2
A method is provided for metallization of substrates providing a high adhesion of the deposited metal to the substrate material and thereby forming a durable bond. The method applies novel adhesion promoting agents comprising nanometer-sized particles prior to metallization. The particles have at least one attachment group bearing a functional chemical group suitable for binding to the substrate.
US09920427B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a reaction chamber in which a semiconductor substrate is capable of being accommodated when a deposited film is to be formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate. A first supplier supplies a source gas to a first area in the reaction chamber. A second supplier supplies an oxidation gas to a second area in the reaction chamber. A third supplier supplies a hydrogen gas to a third area between the first area and the second area in the reaction chamber. A stage moves the semiconductor substrate to any one of the first to third areas.
US09920422B2
Provided is a method of forming a silicon nitride film on a surface to be processed of a target object, which includes: repeating a first process a first predetermined number of times, the process including supplying a silicon source gas containing silicon toward the surface to be processed and supplying a decomposition accelerating gas containing a material for accelerating decomposition of the silicon source gas toward the surface to be processed; performing a second process of supplying a nitriding gas containing nitrogen toward the surface to be processed a second predetermine number of times; and performing one cycle a third predetermined number of times, the one cycle being a sequence including the repetition of the first process and the performance of the second process to form the silicon nitride film on the surface to be processed.
US09920419B2
A drum sputtering device that can uniformly deposit target atoms on all over particles is provided. The drum sputtering device includes a vacuum container 2 that contains particles, a tubular drum 10 that is arranged inside the vacuum container 2 and at least one end face 10c of which is open, and a sputtering target 16 that is arranged inside the drum 10. With a supporting arm 11, a drive motor 12 for rotation, a drive motor 13 for swing, a first gear member 14, and a second gear member 15, the drum can be rotated around the axis of the drum 10 and the drum 10 can be swung so that one end portion 10e and the other end portion 10f in the axial direction of the drum 10 are relatively vertically switched.
US09920415B2
A method of mitigating tin whisker formation on electronic assemblies includes exposing tin metal in the electronic assembly to a mitigating agent that interacts with the tin metal to produce a product that is resistant to forming tin whiskers.
US09920412B2
A composition, method for depositing the composition on a downhole component, and a downhole tool. The composition includes about 0.25 wt % to about 1.25 wt % of carbon, about 1.0 wt % to about 3.5 wt % of manganese, about 0.1 wt % to about 1.4 wt % of silicon, about 1.0 wt % to about 3.0 wt % of nickel, about 0.0 to about 2.0 wt % of molybdenum, about 0.7 wt % to about 2.5 wt % of aluminum, about 1.0 wt % to about 2.7 wt % of vanadium, about 1.5 wt % to about 3.0 wt % of titanium, about 0.0 wt % to about 6.0 wt % of niobium, about 3.5 wt % to about 5.5 wt % of boron, about 0.0 wt % to about 10.0 wt % tungsten, and a balance of iron.
US09920411B2
A method and device for partially masking a component or assembly during a coating process, the device including at least one masking plate for separating a region to be coated from a region to be masked, the masking plate having at least a portion of at least one opening which conforms closely to the contour of the component and is adapted to allow passage of the component therethrough is provided. In masked region, a gap is present along opening, at least one sealing element being disposed at the gap on the side of the masked region.
US09920396B2
The present invention relates to a method and an arrangement for pressure and temperature let down of autoclave discharge slurry, in particular in pressure oxidation or high pressure acid leach of metal containing ore. The method of the invention comprises a step of providing autoclave vent gas obtained from the autoclave to the top-entry flash vessel for inducing overpressure to the top-entry flash vessel and preventing boiling of the slurry during the transfer to next top-entry flash vessel. The invention further relates to an autoclave and pressure let-down arrangement adapted for providing autoclave vent gas to one or more top-entry flash vessels.
US09920394B2
A bake-hardening galvanized steel sheet having a base steel sheet and a coating layer formed on the base steel sheet, the base steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a metallographic structure including a ferrite phase and a cementite phase, in which an average ferrite grain diameter is controlled to be 10 μm or more and 30 μm or less, and in which the surface area of the interface between ferrite and cementite per unit volume is controlled to be 1.0/mm or more and 10.0/mm or less, a hydrogen concentration in steel of the base steel sheet is controlled to be less than 0.1 ppm, and a zinc coating weight per unit surface area of the steel sheet is controlled to be 40 g/m2 or more and 100 g/m2 or less.
US09920389B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for the hydrolysis of mixed biomass. The methods include forming a mixture of at least two modified biomass feedstocks to achieve various benefits, such as maximizing sugar yields and minimizing the formation of degradation products.
US09920387B2
A strain of marine oil degrading bacteria, compounds obtained by fermentation and their uses are published. The name is Alcanivorax dieselolei T6-6, with preservation Number: CGMCC NO: 9033. It belongs to γ-proteobacteria, oceanospirillales, alkane degrading bacteria branch, alcanivorax category and diesel alcanivorax species. The said bacteria can be used to degrade and remove petroleum hydrocarbon, control environmental pollution, produce surfactants, reduce surface tension of water, and for other purposes; a compound can be isolated from secondary metabolites after fermentation, one of which is dieselolei T6-6, 2-amino-6-(N-2-carbonyl-4-tridecyl-cyclobutane) hexanoic acid, and it is a kind of lysine ester. The compound has emulsifying activity on different organics, antibacterial effects against Gram-positive bacteria and fungus, and a better cytotoxic activity.
US09920380B2
The invention provides a diverse population of uniquely labeled probes, containing about thirty or more target specific nucleic acid probes each attached to a unique label bound to a nucleic acid. Also provided is a method of producing a population of uniquely labeled nucleic acid probes. Also provided is a method of detecting a nucleic acid analyte. The method consists of (a) contacting a mixture of nucleic acid analytes under conditions sufficient for hybridization with a plurality of target specific nucleic acid probes each having a different specifier; (b) contacting the mixture under conditions sufficient for hybridization with a corresponding plurality of anti-genedigits each having a unique label, the plurality of anti-genedigits having a diversity sufficient to uniquely hybridize to genedigits within the specifiers, and (c) uniquely detecting a hybridized complex between one or more analytes in the mixture, a target specific probe, and an anti-genedigit.
US09920364B2
The invention relates to a process for parallel high throughput sequencing of nucleic acid molecules, in particular in the single molecule format.
US09920363B2
The present invention provides a method for constructing a high-throughput sequencing library, which comprises: fragmenting genomic DNA; end-repairing the DNA fragments; adding a base A to the 3′ end of the end-repaired DNA fragments; connecting the DNA fragments having cohesive end A with a methylated adapter; carrying out hybrid capture on the connection products by using specific probes to obtain object fragments; treating the object fragments with bisulfite, to convert non-methylated cytosines to uracils; PCR amplifying the converted object fragments; and separating and purifying the amplification products, wherein the amplification products constitute the high-throughput sequencing library. The present invention also provides a method and an apparatus for identifying methylation information in specified genome regions of a sample.
US09920361B2
Technology provided herein relates in part to methods, processes, compositions and apparatuses for analyzing nucleic acid.
US09920360B2
Methods, compositions and kits for capturing, detecting and quantifying mature small RNAs are provided herein. Embodiments of the methods comprise ligating 5′ and 3′ ligation adaptors to the 5′ and 3′ ends of the mature small RNAs, respectively, in the presence of 5′ and 3′ semi-degenerate ligation splints to generate a ligation product. Other embodiments comprise reverse transcribing polyadenylated mature small RNA with a universal reverse transcription primer and ligating an adaptor to the 3′ end of the cDNA in the presence of a semi-degenerate ligation splint to generate a cDNA ligation product.
US09920359B2
Provided herein are methods and kits for isothermal nucleic acid amplifications that use an oligocation-oligonucleotide conjugate primer for amplifying a target nucleic acid to generate amplicons. Isothermal DNA amplification methods that employ a strand displacing DNA polymerase and polyamine-oligonucleotide conjugate primer are also provided.
US09920355B2
Providing herein, among other things, is a method for preparing a nucleic acid for sequencing. In some embodiments, the method comprises a) amplifying a nucleic acid template using a dNTP mix that contains 5-methyl dCTP, thereby producing product nucleic acid molecules that contains methylcytosines; b) digesting the product nucleic acid molecules with a methylation-dependent restriction endonuclease, thereby cleaving the product nucleic acid molecules at sites that are adjacent to at least some of the methylcytosine and producing fragments of the product nucleic acid molecules; and c) ligating double-stranded adaptors onto the ends of the fragments to produce adaptor-ligated products.
US09920351B2
A testing method is disclosed. The testing method includes: providing a mixture solution of a gelling agent and a microbe to a gelling device; solidifying the mixture solution to form a solid thin film in which the microbe is immobilized; supplying a bioactive agent to the solid thin film and allowing the bioactive agent to diffuse into the solid thin film; and imaging the individual responses of the single microbial cells to the bioactive agent, and determining the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the bioactive agent based on the analysis of the images to obtain AST results.
US09920347B2
Methods for producing virus particles and viral antigens with simplified glycosylation profiles, such as mono-glycosylated forms of HIV, HCV, Dengue virus, West Nile virus and influenza virus. When used as targets for vaccine production, the conserved nature of such sites generate vaccines that are less sensitive to viral mutations. Such methods may include the use of glycosylation inhibitors for production of viruses or viral antigens with simplified glycosylation profiles.
US09920338B2
Provided are a recombinant Ralstonia eutropha capable of producing polylactate or a hydroxyalkanoate-lactate copolymer, and a method of preparing polylactate or a hydroxyalkanoate-lactate copolymer using the same. The recombinant Ralstonia eutropha, which is prepared by introducing a gene of an enzyme converting lactate into lactyl-CoA and a gene of a polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) synthase using lactyl-CoA as a substrate thereto, may be cultured, thereby efficiently preparing a lactate polymer and a lactate copolymer.
US09920335B2
Carbon-containing materials, such as biomass (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) or coal are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels, carboxylic acids and equivalents thereof (e.g., esters and salts). For example, systems are described that can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials and/or starchy materials, to produce ethanol, butanol or organic acids (e.g., acetic or lactic acid), salts of organic acids or mixtures thereof. If desired, organic acids can be converted into alcohols, such as by first converting the acid, salt or mixtures of the acid and its salt to an ester, and then hydrogenating the formed ester. Acetogens or homoacetogens which are capable of utilizing a syngas from a thermochemical conversion of coal or biomass can be utilized to produce the desired product.
US09920330B2
Provided are isolated polynucleotides comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 422, 362-421, 423-601, 2429-4085 and 4086, such as a polynucleotide which is at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 260, 1-259, 261-361, 602-2427 and 2428, nucleic acid constructs comprising same, plant cells comprising same, transgenic plants expressing same, and methods of generating thereof for increasing the yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, nitrogen use efficiency and/or abiotic stress tolerance of a plant.
US09920327B2
The present disclosure relates to mutations in licheninase genes encoding polypeptides with decreased licheninase activity, which when expressed in plants results in elevated levels of glucan in the plants. In particular, the disclosure relates to licheninase nucleic acids and polypeptides related to glucan accumulation in plants, plants with reduced expression of a licheninase nucleic acid, and methods related to the generation of plants with increased glucan content in the cell walls of leaf tissue.
US09920326B1
The present invention provides novel compositions for use to enhance crop performance. Specifically, the present invention provides for increased invertase activity, increased sugar content and/or delayed senescence plants. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that increase invertase activity, increase sugar content and/or delay senescence in plants.
US09920316B2
Methods and compositions are provided which employ a silencing element that, when ingested by a pest, such as a Coleopteran plant pest or a Diabrotica plant pest, decrease the expression of a target sequence in the pest. In specific embodiments, the decrease in expression of the target sequence controls the pest and thereby the methods and compositions are capable of limiting damage to a plant. The present invention provides various target polynucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: disclosed herein, (but not including the forward and reverse primers.) or active variants and fragments thereof, or complements thereof, wherein a decrease in expression of one or more of the sequences in the target pest controls the pest (i.e., has insecticidal activity). Further provided are silencing elements which when ingested by the pest decrease the level of the target polypeptide and thereby control the pest. In specific embodiments, the pest is D. virgifera virgifera, D. barberi, D. virgifera zeae, D. speciosa, D. speciosa, or D. undecimpunctata howardi. Plants, plant parts, bacteria and other host cells comprising the silencing elements or an active variant or fragment thereof of the invention are also provided.
US09920315B2
Provided herein are devices and methods for the micro-isolation of biological cellular material. A micro-isolation device described can comprise a photomask that protects regions of interest against DNA-destroying illumination. The micro-isolation device can further comprise photosensitive material defining access wells following illumination and subsequent developing of the photosensitive material. The micro-isolation device can further comprise a chambered microfluidic device comprising channels providing access to wells defined in photosensitive material. The micro-isolation device can comprise a chambered microfluidic device without access wells defined in photosensitive material where valves control the flow of gases or liquids through the channels of the microfluidic device. Also included are methods for selectively isolating cellular material using the devices described herein, as are methods for biochemical analysis of individual regions of interest of cellular material using the devices described herein. Further included are methods of making masking arrays useful for the methods described herein. The micro-isolation devices can comprise a unique combination of barcodes in each microfluidics well, allowing two-dimensional mapping of genetic information.
US09920312B2
There is provided an engineered host cells comprising (a) one or more mutations in one or more endogenous genes encoding a protein associated with iron metabolism; and (b) at least one gene encoding a polypeptide having xylose isomerase activity, and methods of their use thereof.
US09920310B2
The present invention provides an engineered clostridial toxin comprising at least one amino acid modification, wherein said at least one amino acid modification increases the isoelectric point (pI) of the engineered clostridial toxin to a value that is at least 0.2 pI units higher than the pI of an otherwise identical clostridial toxin lacking said at least one amino acid modification. Also provided are corresponding uses of the engineered clostridial toxin in therapy.
US09920298B2
The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated PX4433-25WRF, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety PX4433-25WRF, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety PX4433-25WRF with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety PX4433-25WRF with another cotton variety or plan, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX4433-25WRF, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety PX4433-25WRF, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US09920294B2
This invention relates to devices and methods for purifying, detecting and using biological cells. A variety of cell types including viable tumor, stem, immune and sperm cells can be purified from a complex biological sample using a column, including a pipette tip column. Methods of the invention can aid research, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Purified viable cells can be detected on the column or eluted from the column and detected. Cells on a column can be used as a stationary phase for liquid chromatography. Cells may be removed, recovered and analyzed.
US09920288B2
A tablet including a dishwashing detergent composition and a crosslinked acrylic acid polymer having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at least 500,000.
US09920283B2
A dishwasher detergent composition, preferably pH neutral, and comprising a strong biodegradable builder and optionally a bleach, and optionally a sulfonated polymer.
US09920279B2
A liquid laundry detergent composition comprising; an anionic surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant comprises linear alkylbenzene sulphonate; an ethoxylated alcohol non-ionic surfactant; greater than 5.5% by weight of the composition of water; wherein the weight ratio of total anionic surfactant:non-ionic surfactant is between 11:1 and 23:1; and wherein the weight ratio of linear alkylbenzene sulphonate:non-ionic surfactant is between 11:1 and 15:1; and wherein the weight ratio of total surfactant to water is between 3:1 to 20:1.
US09920276B2
The invention provides lubricating composition comprising: (1) a reaction product selected from the group consisting of: (a) a polyalkanoic or polyalkenoic acid derived from hydroxyfatty acids and a block copolymer selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene and a reverse block copolymer of polyoxypropylene-polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene; (b) the reaction product of (a) with a maleic acid or anhydride; and (c) the reaction product of (a) with maleated soybean oil; and (2) at least one base oil selected from the group consisting of alkyl benzene, normal paraffin, isoparaffin, mineral oil and α-olefin.
US09920268B2
A solids circulation system receives a gas stream containing char or other reacting solids from a first reactor. The solids circulation system includes a cyclone configured to receive the gas stream from the first reactor, a dipleg from the cyclone to a second reactor, and a riser from the second reactor which merges with the gas stream received by the cyclone. The second reactor has a dense fluid bed and converts the received materials to gaseous products. A conveying fluid transports a portion of the bed media from the second reactor through the riser to mix with the gas stream prior to cyclone entry. The bed media helps manipulate the solids that is received by the cyclone to facilitate flow of solids down the dipleg into the second reactor. The second reactor provides additional residence time, mixing and gas-solid contact for efficient conversion of char or reacting solids.
US09920267B2
A solids circulation system receives a gas stream containing char or other reacting solids from a first reactor. The solids circulation system includes a cyclone configured to receive the gas stream from the first reactor, a dipleg from the cyclone to a second reactor, and a riser from the second reactor which merges with the gas stream received by the cyclone. The second reactor has a dense fluid bed and converts the received materials to gaseous products. A conveying fluid transports a portion of the bed media from the second reactor through the riser to mix with the gas stream prior to cyclone entry. The bed media helps manipulate the solids that is received by the cyclone to facilitate flow of solids down the dipleg into the second reactor. The second reactor provides additional residence time, mixing and gas-solid contact for efficient conversion of char or reacting solids.
US09920266B2
Method and apparatus for mixing and atomizing a hydrocarbon stream using a diluent/dispersion stream
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for mixing and atomizing a hydrocarbon stream using a diluent/dispersion stream. The apparatus includes an inner conduit having an inlet for receiving the diluent/dispersion stream; an outer conduit having an inlet for receiving the hydrocarbon stream and an outlet for dispensing a mixture including the hydrocarbon and the dispersion/diluent streams; the outer conduit concentric to the inner conduit to define at least a first annular space and a second annular space; the first annular space being located downstream of the inlet of the outer conduit, the first annular space enabling formation of a thin film of the hydrocarbon stream between an outer surface of the inner conduit and an inner surface of the outer conduit; the second annular space being located downstream of the first annular space, the second annular space having a width greater than a width of the first annular space; and the inner conduit located at about the second annular space includes a first set orifices disposed on a periphery thereof for dispensing a first portion of the dispersion/diluent stream into the thin film of hydrocarbon stream to cross-shear the thin film and form the mixture including the hydrocarbon and the dispersion/diluent streams.
US09920263B2
Systems and methods for refining conventional crude and heavy, corrosive, contaminant-laden carbonaceous crude (Opportunity Crude) in partially or totally separated streams or trains.
US09920243B2
The present invention aims at providing a scintillator for high temperature environments which has satisfactory light emission characteristics under high temperature environments; and a method for measuring radiation under high temperature environments. The scintillator for high temperature environments comprises a colquiriite-type crystal represented by the chemical formula LiM1M2X6 (where M1 is at least one alkaline earth metal element selected from Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, M2 is at least one metal element selected from Al, Ga and Sc, and X is at least one halogen element selected from F, Cl, Br and I), for example, typified by LiCaAlF6, and the crystal optionally containing a lanthanoid element such as Ce or Eu. The method for measuring radiation under high temperature environments uses the scintillator.
US09920236B2
A method and system remove hydrogen sulfide from a sour liquid. In an embodiment, the method for removing hydrogen sulfide from a hydrocarbon containing fluid includes contacting a methylmorpholine-N-oxide solution with the sour liquid. The method also includes allowing the methylmorpholine-N-oxide to react with the hydrogen sulfide to remove the hydrogen sulfide.
US09920234B2
A method and a sealing fluid for setting a packer in an annulus between a well bore and a well tubular is provided, which by adjusting i.a. the density, viscosity and setting time of the sealing fluid is able to provide among other things a full radial seal with an acceptable axial dispersion, in particular in highly deviated wells and/or in wells having eccentric annuli.
US09920233B2
There is described a drilling fluid for wellbore strengthening having nanoparticles and granular particles. In one aspect described herein, the drilling fluid is an invert emulsion based fluid. In a further aspect, the nanoparticles are iron hydroxide or calcium carbonate, and in a further aspect from about 1 to 30 nm in size. In one aspect described herein, the granular particles are graphite or calcium carbonate and in a further aspect, up to 250 μm in size. The nanoparticles and granular particles plug fractures in the wellbore to strengthen the wellbore.
US09920225B2
Adhesive compositions are described which are useful for damping vibration associated with hard disk drives. The adhesive compositions include a combination of at least two partially immiscible acrylic copolymers such that the compositions exhibit at least two distinct glass transition temperatures. Also described are label assemblies utilizing such adhesives and related methods of use.
US09920218B2
A process for preparing PPE microspore dispersion includes steps of: dissolving a high-molecular polyphenylene ether in a first solvent at 45-110° C. to form a dissolution liquid; adding processing aids and well mixing the dissolution liquid into a dispersed phase; cooling the dissolution liquid to 42-80° C., and adding a second solvent to generate PPE microspores via PPE to wrap around the processing aids; cooling the dissolution liquid to 0-40° C. to obtain PPE microspore dispersions for use in application for impregnation processes performed below 40° C., thereby high-temperature impregnation equipment are no longer needed, and copper clad laminates made of using the PPE microspore dispersion enjoy excellent physical properties including high Tg, low Dk, low Df and high copper foil's peel strength.
US09920211B2
An inkjet ink includes a) an aqueous medium; and b) capsules composed of a polymeric shell surrounding a core; wherein the capsules are dispersed in the aqueous medium using a dispersing group covalently bonded to the polymeric shell; the dispersing group is selected from the group consisting of a carboxylic acid or salt thereof, a sulfonic acid or salt thereof, a phosphoric acid ester or salt thereof, a phosphonic acid or salt thereof, an ammonium group, a sulfonium group, and a phosphonium group; the core contains one or more chemical reactants capable of forming a reaction product upon application of heat and/or light; and the capsules have an average particle size of no more than 4 μm as determined by dynamic laser diffraction.
US09920209B2
Disclosed herein are aqueous inkjet ink compositions and coating compositions comprising: at least one pigment; at least one polymer; and at least one water-soluble compound having a hydroxyl number of at least 40, wherein the at least one water-soluble compound is selected from ethoxylated C3-C20 polyols, C4-C20 polyols having three or more hydroxyl groups, and polyether polyols, and wherein the at least one water-soluble compound is present in an amount ranging from 1% to by 60% weight, relative to the total weight of the composition, wherein the composition comprises a total amount of water-soluble organic components ranging from 25% to 60% by weight, relative to the total weight of the composition.
US09920206B2
Soft feel coating compositions, particularly for plastic substrates, having improved chemical resistance and methods of improving the chemical resistance of soft-feel coatings are provided.
US09920203B2
This invention relates to a pearlescent pigment, which is composed of flaky alumina substrate particles produced by a hydrothermal process and coat layers formed on the flaky substrate particles and composed of at least one metal oxide including at least a titanium oxide. The metal oxide has an average particle size of from 1 to 500 nm. According to this invention, it is possible to provide a pearlescent pigment, which has wholly uniform photoluminescence and an elegant and silky feel in combination and can fully satisfy artistry as desired.
US09920198B2
A polycarbonate (PC) and poly(lactic acid) (PLA) blend comprising (a) Bisphenol A PC, (b) PLA, (c) a chain extender, and (d) a glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) functionalized polyolefin copolymer/terpolymer and method of manufacturing the PC and PLA blend, including blending (i) Bisphenol A PC, (ii) PLA, (iii) a chain extender, and (iv) a glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) functionalized polyolefin copolymer/terpolymer at an elevated temperature, wherein the elevated temperature is between about 250 and 300° C.
US09920196B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent an occurrence of flow-mark molding defects to improve an appearance of molded articles, and as a means for achieving the object, a propylene-based block copolymer is used as an appearance improver, the copolymer comprising 80 to 60% by weight of crystalline propylene polymer portion which has an intrinsic viscosity [η]p of 0.90 dL/g or less and 20 to 40% by weight of propylene/ethylene random copolymer portion which has an ethylene content of 35 to 50% by weight and an intrinsic viscosity [η]c of 7.0 dL/g or higher ([η]c/[η]p being 7.5 to 30), in which the propylene-based block copolymer has a MFR of 10 to 50 g/10 min.
US09920191B2
A surface property-improving agent for molded bodies made of polyolefin resins contains 50.0 parts to 90.0 parts by mass of a non-polar wax with a melting point of 50° C. to 100° C. and 10.0 parts to 50.0 parts by mass of a vinyl copolymer obtained by copolymerizing two types of monomers (b1) and (b2). The sum of the non-polar wax and the vinyl copolymer is 100.0 parts by mass. The monomer (b1) is styrene and/or acrylonitrile. The vinyl copolymer contains 0.1 parts to 49.9 parts by mass of the monomer (b1) and 0.1 parts to 9.9 parts by mass of the monomer (b2) wherein the sum of the monomer (b1) and the monomer (b2) is 10.0 parts to 50.0 parts by mass. To 100.0 parts by mass of a polyolefin resin, 0.5 parts to 10.0 parts by mass of the agent is added. The monomer (b2) is a methacryloxypropyl polyorganosiloxane.
US09920178B2
A compressible, thermally-conductive, removable nanocomposite gasket includes: a nanocomposite foam; and a nanoparticle filler, wherein the nanocomposite foam has a filler loading of less than approximately 20%. A compressible, thermally-conductive, removable nanocomposite gasket includes: a nanocomposite foam; a nanoparticle filler; and a metallic mesh embedded in the foam wherein the nanocomposite foam has a filler loading of less than approximately 20%.
US09920173B2
Rubber compounds comprising one or more rubber with polar functionality and one or more polar filler are prepared by a method comprising the steps: (i) adding a polar volatile liquid to the polar filler; (ii) mixing the one or more rubber with polar functionality with the polar volatile liquid and polar filler to produce a dispersion of the polar filler in the one or more rubber; and (iii) removing the polar volatile liquid from the dispersion. The invention Improves the consistency and uniformity of mixing of rubber compounds based on elastomers having polar functionality, such as epoxidized natural rubber, containing polar reinforcing fillers, such as precipitated silica, The compounds, when vulcanized, have improved mechanical properties. The method is particularly useful in the manufacture of vehicle tires.
US09920172B2
A method can include consecutively batch processing at least two different polyethylene grades in pellet form in a pellet handling unit. A ratio of a melt flow index (MI) of a first polyethylene in pellet form (MIf) to a MI of a later processed polyethylene in pellet form (MIl) can be smaller than 0.30. The method can include processing an intermediate polyethylene grade in pellet form. An amount of intermediate polyethylene grade processed can be at most 1/100th of a handling capacity of the pellet handling unit. The intermediate polyethylene grade can have the same MI as the later processed polyethylene in pellet form.
US09920166B2
The present invention relates to flame retardant thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) compositions, and more particularly to flame retardant thermoplastic polyurethane compositions comprising non-halogen flame retardants. The TPU compositions are useful for applications where high flame performance, and optionally low smoke properties, as well as high tensile strength are desirable, such as wire and cable applications, film applications, molding applications, and the like. This invention also relates to processes to produce the non-halogen flame retardant TPU compositions and processes to produce wire and cable jacketing from such compositions.
US09920164B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of monohydroxypolyalkylene oxides (MPAO) which are substantially free of diols, comprising the reaction of at least one monoalcohol as a starter with at least one alkylene oxide in the presence of at least one basic catalyst, the catalyst being used as a solution in water or alcohol or in solvent mixtures which comprise water and/or alcohol.
US09920159B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a polyurethane, comprising at least the following steps (A) bringing at least one polymer polyol into contact with an amount of from 0.1 to 20 mol %, based on the entire amount of polyisocyanate, of at least one first polyisocyanate, in order to obtain a prepolymer which in essence has terminal hydroxy groups, and (B) bringing the prepolymer from step (A) into contact with at least one second polyisocyanate and optionally with further additives, in order to obtain the polyurethane, to a polyurethane obtainable via said process, and also to the use of this polyurethane as cladding in automobiles, coatings, cables, plug connectors, solar modules, foils, moldings, shoe soles and shoe components, balls and ball components, rollers, fibers, profiles, laminates and wiper blades, hoses, cable plugs, bellows, drag cables, cable sheathing, gaskets, nonwoven fabrics, drive belts, or damping elements.
US09920148B2
A vehicle part cover including a methacrylic-based resin (I) having a weight average molecular weight measured by gel permeation chromatography (GPC) of 65,000 to 300,000, the methacrylic-based resin (I) comprising: 50 to 97% by mass of a methacrylate monomer unit (A); 3 to 30% by mass of a structural unit (B) having a ring structure in its main chain, and being at least one selected from the group consisting of a maleimide-based structural unit, a glutaric anhydride structural unit, a glutarimide-based structural unit, and a lactone ring structural unit; and 0 to 20% by mass of another vinyl monomer unit (C) that is copolymerizable with a methacrylate monomer.
US09920147B2
The present technology relates to a polymeric material including a plurality of polymer subunits and an active cross-linker, wherein the active cross-linker is covalently linked to the plurality of polymer subunits. The active cross-linker offers a key building block for constructing novel molecular architecture in chemomechanical soft materials and illustrates a new approach to tailor material properties.
US09920144B2
The present disclosure relates to a porous solid adduct comprising magnesium chloride and ethanol, characterized by a relationship between the content of alcohol, average pore radius and amount of porosity deriving from pores with radii of 100-1000 nm, and catalyst components produced therefrom that are capable of producing polyolefins with increased porosity.
US09920141B2
A process for manufacturing a dispersions of a vinylidene fluoride (VDF) thermoplastic polymer [polymer (F)], said process comprising polymerizing VDF in an aqueous phase comprising: at least one surfactant selected from the group consisting of non-fluorinated surfactants [surfactant (HS)] and fluorinated surfactants having a molecular weight of less than 400 [surfactant (FS)]; and at least one functional (per)fluoropolyether (functional PFPE) comprising at least one (per)fluoropolyoxyalkylene chain [chain (R′F)] and at least one functional group, said functional PFPE having a number average molecular weight of at least 1000 and a solubility in water of less than 1% by weight at 25° C., wherein said functional PFPE is present in the aqueous phase in an amount of 0.001 to 0.3 g/l.
US09920139B2
Provided is a suspension comprising liquid droplets dispersed in an aqueous medium, wherein said droplets comprise (a) one or more water-insoluble compounds, and (b) a vinyl polyelectrolyte (PED) having a polarity, and wherein said aqueous medium comprises a polyelectrolyte (PEW) having a polarity that is opposite to the polarity of said polyelectrolyte (PED). Also provided are a method of making such a suspension and a method using such a suspension in a process of suspension polymerization.
US09920130B2
A recombinant human monoclonal pentameric IgM antibody comprising the capability of oligospecific binding to purified ganglioside epitopes GD3, GM3, GD2 and GM1 and the capability of specific binding to malignant cancer cells selected from the group consisting of melanoma cells, small cell lung cancer cells, glioblastoma cells, and estrogen receptor-negative metastatic breast cancer cells; a cell line producing the IgM antibody; and the use of the IgM antibody as a diagnostic tool and/or as a therapeutic agent.
US09920102B2
Fluorescent and non-fluorescent fusion tags derived from green fluorescent protein (GFP). The fusion tags harbor substitutions with respect to GFP that increase expression of target proteins to which the fusion tags are fused; increase solubility; prevent dimerization and oligomerization, particularly in oxidizing environments such as the endoplasmic reticulum (ER); and, in some cases, enhance fluorescence of the fusion tag itself. The substitutions include various combinations of substitutions at select cysteine residues in GFP, substitutions in or near the GFP chromophore, and/or other substitutions. The fusion tags can be used for increasing expression of target proteins for mass production thereof or as a fluorescent tag.
US09920101B2
The present invention relates to (isolated) recombinant proteins, also referred to as improved MAT (iMAT) molecules, comprising at least one translocation module, at least one targeting module and at least one antigen module, wherein at least one cysteine residue is substituted with a different amino acid residue. Such iMAT molecules are useful specifically as vaccines, e.g., for therapy and/or prevention of allergies and/or infectious diseases and/or prevention of transmission of infectious diseases in equines. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids encoding such iMAT molecules, corresponding vectors and primary cells or cell lines.
US09920097B2
Disclosed are capsid-modified rAAV expression vectors, as well as infectious virions, compositions, and pharmaceutical formulations that include them. Also disclosed are methods of preparing and using novel capsid-protein-mutated rAAV vector constructs in a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic applications including, inter alia, as delivery agents for diagnosis, treatment, or amelioration of one or more symptoms of disease or abnormal conditions via in situ and/or ex vivo mammalian gene therapy methods. Also disclosed are large-scale production methods for capsid-modified rAAV expression vectors, viral particles, and infectious virions having improved transduction efficiencies over those of the corresponding, un-modified, rAAV vectors, as well as use of the disclosed compositions in the manufacture of medicaments for a variety of in vitro and/or in vivo applications.
US09920094B2
Affinity peptide ligands of mouse polyomavirus capsomers and a designed screening method thereof. The affinity peptide ligands can be used for separation and purification of the capsomers.
US09920092B1
Provided are a composition having anti-oxidant, anti-aging, and autophagy activities to thereby be useful for preventing, alleviating, or treating age-related metabolic diseases including neurodegenerative diseases or type 2 diabetes, and uses thereof.
US09920091B2
A method and system for the treatment of a biomass stream to separate organic extracts/biomolecules (such as proteins, lipids and/or carotenoids) from the biomass stream, wherein the water content of the biomass stream is decreased by bringing the biomass stream into contact with a compressed liquefied gas solvent, to create a low-water content biomass stream and introducing the low-water content biomass stream to an extraction apparatus that recovers one or more organic products with little or no measurable solvent residue.
US09920086B2
The present invention relates to novel Ruthenium-based complex compounds which represent viable catalysts, in particular for all sorts of metathesis reactions. Such complex compounds can be prepared by a novel, very favorable and cost efficient method which includes the introduction of an alkylidene ligand into the complex by using vinyl sulfides or vinyl ethers.
US09920085B2
Oligonucleotide analogs comprising boronic acid and/or boronic ester moieties are provided. The disclosed compounds are useful for the treatment of diseases where inhibition of protein expression or correction of aberrant mRNA splice products produces beneficial therapeutic effects.
US09920080B2
Provided is an alkoxysilyl-vinylene group-containing silicon compound represented by the following general formula (1): wherein each of R1 and R2 independently represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having an organic functional group(s) and 1 to 30 carbon atoms; and n represents an integer of 1 to 3. The alkoxy groups in the novel organic silicon compound of the invention have a dramatically improved hydrolyzability. Further, a high adhesion or adhesiveness; and a fast adhesiveness can be exhibited by adding the novel organic silicon compound to a room temperature curable organopolysiloxane.
US09920078B2
Compounds and method of preparation of Si—X and Ge—X compounds (X═N, P, As and Sb) via dehydrogenative coupling between the corresponding unsubstituted silanes and amines (including ammonia) or phosphines catalyzed by metallic catalysts is described. This new approach is based on the catalytic dehydrogenative coupling of a Si—H and a X—H moiety to form a Si—X containing compound and hydrogen gas (X═N, P, As and Sb). The process can be catalyzed by transition metal heterogenous catalysts such as Ru(0) on carbon, Pd(0) on MgO) as well as transition metal organometallic complexes that act as homogeneous catalysts. The —Si—X products produced by dehydrogenative coupling are inherently halogen free. Said compounds can be useful for the deposition of thin films by chemical vapor deposition or atomic layer deposition of Si-containing films.
US09920076B2
Metal organic framework compositions can have a face centered cubic structure.
US09920074B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compounds, compositions and methods, especially as they are related to compositions and methods for the treatment and/or prevention of a proliferation disorder, a cancer, a tumor, an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, psoriasis, dry eye or an immunologically related disease, and in some embodiments diseases or disorders related to the dysregulation of kinase such as, but not limited to, EGFR (including HER), Alk, PDGFR, BLK, BMX/ETK, FLT3(D835Y), ITK, TEC, TXK, BTK, or JAK, and the respective pathways.
US09920071B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for producing a compound, a salt thereof, or a hydrate of the compound or the salt, which is an FXa inhibitor. The object can be attained by a production method in which a production method via a compound represented by formula (1-1), etc., from a compound represented by the following formula (1-x), etc., is used for a method for producing a compound represented by the following formula (X), etc. [wherein X represents a halogen atom or the like, and R1 represents an optionally substituted phenyl group].
US09920068B2
The present invention relates to a compound or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof having excellent tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase inhibitory activity. The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, or the like, R2 and R3 are the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, or the like, R4 and R5 are the same or different and each represent a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-6 alkyl group, or the like, R6 represents a hydrogen atom or the like, each R7 may be the same or different and may each represent an optionally substituted C1-6 alkoxy group or the like, X represents —CH═, —C(—R7)═, or —N═, and m represents 1 to 4, or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof.
US09920066B2
Compounds of formula (I) are A2B receptor antagonists: Wherein R1 is optionally substituted aryl or an optionally substituted 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring; R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl-(C1-C6)-alkyl, aryl-(C1-C6)-alkyl optionally substituted in the ring part thereof, a 5- or 6-membered monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally linked via a C1-C6 alkylene chain and optionally substituted in the ring part thereof, benzimidazol-2-yl-methyl, pyrid-3-yl-carbonyl, or (1-methyl-piperidin-4-yl)-carbonyl-methyl; or R2 and R3 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form an optionally substituted 5- or 6-membered ring; R4 is C1-C3 alkyl, C2-C3 alkenyl, —N(—R5)—R6, or optionally substituted heteroarylmethylamino; and R5 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen or C1-C3 alkyl; or R5 and R6 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form an optionally substituted 4- to 6-membered saturated ring.
US09920058B2
7-(substituted) derivatives of 7H-pyrrolo[3,2-f]-quinazoline-1,3-diamines, derivative thereof, and methods of using them are provided. The pharmaceutical formulations prepared from the compounds can be used to treat a variety of conditions, which include, but are not limited to bacterial and fungal infections. The compounds can also be used as a sterilizing or disinfecting agent.
US09920055B2
Provided are certain fused tricyclic urea compounds and salts thereof, compositions thereof, and methods of use therefor.
US09920053B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I): compositions comprising such compounds; the use of such compounds in therapy (for example in the treatment or prevention of a disease, disorder or condition ameliorated by inhibition of a dopamine transporter); and methods of treating patients with such compounds; wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R9a, R9b, R9c, R9d, R9e, R9f, m, n, A, L and B are as defined herein.
US09920048B2
The present invention provides methods of inhibiting Raf kinase activity in a patient, the method comprising administering to the patient a compound having formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Rx, Ry, R1, L1, L2, Cy1, and Cy2 are as defined as set forth in the specification.
US09920046B2
To provide a novel pesticide, especially a fungicide and a nematocide.An oxime-substituted amide compound represented by the formula (I) or its salt, and a pesticide containing it: wherein G1 is a structure represented by G1-1 or the like, G2 is a structure represented by G2-2 or the like: W is an oxygen atom or the like, X1 is a halogen atom, methyl, trifluoromethyl or the like, each of X2, X3, X4 and X5 is independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, each of Y1 and Y3 is independently a halogen atom, cyano, methyl, trifluoromethyl, C2-C6 alkynyl or the like, each of Y2 and Y4 is independently a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or the like, R1 is C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C4 haloalkyl, (C1-C4)alkyl substituted with R18, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, C3-C6 alkenyl or the like, each of R2 and R3 is independently a hydrogen atom, methyl or the like, R4 is a hydrogen atom or the like, R18 is C3-C6 cycloalkyl, phenyl, phenyl substituted with (Z)m or the like, Z is a halogen atom or the like, and m is an integer of 1, 2 or 3.
US09920042B2
The present invention concerns compounds of general formula (I): in which Y and Z are chosen from CH and N; T is chosen from CO or SO2; n is 1 to 3; R1 represents a group chosen, for example, from C1-C3 alkyl chains unsubstituted or substituted by fluorine, the unsubstituted or substituted cyclic, cyano, azido, alkoxy and phenyl groups; and R is chosen from the azido, cyano, alkinyl and 2-benzothiazolyl groups and an optionally substituted aromatic heterocycle with five vertices; and the use thereof in the treatment of bacterial and mycobacterial infections such as, for example, tuberculosis, leprosy and atypical mycobacterial infections. The present invention also concerns pharmaceutical compositions comprising, as the active ingredient, at least one of the abovementioned compounds and optionally an antibiotic activatable via the EthA pathway.
US09920033B2
The present invention relates to a crystalline form of N-(3-fluoro-4-((7-(2-hydroxy-2-methylpropoxy)quinolin-4-yl)oxy)phenyl)-1,5-dimethyl-3-oxo-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide p-toluenesulfonate, the process for preparing the crystalline form thereof, and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline form thereof. This invention also relates to a method of using such a crystalline form and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline form thereof in the treatment of hyperproliferative diseases in mammals, especially in humans.
US09920007B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 1-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexylyalkan-3-ols, in particular 1-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexyl)-hexan-3-ol. The invention further relates to 5-alkoxy-1-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexenyl)-1-alken-3-ones and the use of these as a fragrance or as flavor, to a fragrance containing composition and/or a fragranced product containing 5-alkoxy-1-(2,6,6-trimethylcyclohexenyl)-1-alken-3-ones and to a method for imparting or modifying a scent or a flavor to a composition by including said alkoxyalkenones into such composition.
US09920004B2
Provided is a method for producing a compound represented by formula (2-b), which is useful as an intermediate for producing agricultural chemicals. The method includes a step for obtaining a compound represented by formula (2-a) by oxidizing the compound represented by formula (1) with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of sulfuric acid and/or a C1-6 alkanesulfonic acid that may be halogen-substituted and in the presence of a C2-12 aliphatic carboxylic acid and/or sulfolane. The method also includes a step for obtaining a compound represented by formula (2-b) by nitrating a compound represented by formula (2-a) in the presence of sulfuric acid and/or a C1-6 alkanesulfonic acid that may be halogen-substituted.
US09920001B2
The present invention is directed to a method for enhancing the rate of formation of the reaction products of a carboxylic acid and a urea having the formula: where R1, R2, R3 and R4 are the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, substituted and unsubstituted alkyl, allyl, vinyl and alkoxyl groups having from 1-6 carbon atoms, substituted and unsubstituted phenyl groups and the halides. The rate of formation is enhanced by adding acid to a solution including the carboxylic acid and the urea. Preferably, the reaction product of the present invention is N,N′-diformylurea or N,N′-diacetylurea. These reaction products, e.g., diformylurea, have been found to produce significantly improved growth in a variety of agricultural products when applied to the seed, to the surrounding soil or to the foliage of the emerging plant.
US09920000B2
The invention relates to synthesis of methyl carbamate (MC) and dimethyl carabonate (DMC) in presence of stripping inert gas or superheated methanol vapors using packed column reactor and bubble column reactor.
US09919998B2
The invention provides compounds having activity as bacterial RNA polymerase inhibitors and antibacterial agents, as well as compositions comprising the compounds and methods for their use. Specifically, phenylalanineamide and tyrosinamide compounds are disclosed that have inhibitory activity toward mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA polymerase. Use of these compounds in the treatment or prevention of M. tuberculosis infections in a mammal, is disclosed.
US09919994B2
A method for the preparation of a sex pheromone of Obscure Mealy bug (OMB), (±)(2,3,4,4-tetramethycyclopentyl) methyl acetate includes a step of subjecting alpha-halotetramethylcyclohexanone to a Favorskii rearrangement to obtain a 2,3,4,4-tetramethylcyclopentane compound (2), a step of subjecting the compound (2) to reduction to obtain (2,3,4,4-tetramethylcyclopentyl)methanol compound (3) and a step of subjection the compound (3) to acylation to obtain a (2,3,4,4-tetramethylcyclopentyl)methyl carboxylate compound (4).
US09919992B2
A polyether diol compound represented by the following formula (3): where R5, R6, R7 and R8, which may be the same as or different from each other, each represent a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms.
US09919987B1
A process is disclosed for opening naphthenic rings of naphthenic ring-containing compounds. Naphthene ring opening is achieved using a self-supported mixed metal sulfide catalyst comprising nickel sulfide, molybdenum sulfide, tungsten sulfide and an organic complexing agent. The catalyst is characterized as having a composition of metal components, in terms of molar ratios; as follows: 0.25≤Ni/(Ni+Mo+W)≤0.80; 0
US09919977B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to pelletized synthetic gypsum and methods and systems for producing pelletized synthetic gypsum. Synthetic gypsum is combined with a binder composition and pelletized to a desired size. The binder composition may include lignosulfonate. Additives may be included in the pellets such as various plant nutrients and micro-nutrients. An additive may include elemental sulfur. The resulting pellets may have a mean pellet size guide number (SGN) from approximately 150 to approximately 300 and a crush strength from approximately 2 lbf to approximately 12 lbf.
US09919973B1
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for forming high temperature ceramic powders. A method of producing high temperature ceramic powders according to an embodiment of the present invention can include preparing a solution, atomizing the solution, providing a gas and carrying the atomized solution into a furnace via the gas, evaporating the solvent, precipitating and drying the solutes, performing a thermolysis (or pyrolysis) reaction, and performing a carbothermal reduction reaction (CTR) in situ, and collecting product particles after they exit from the furnace.
US09919972B2
Organosilicon chemistry, polymer derived ceramic materials, and methods. Such materials and methods for making polysilocarb (SiOC) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) materials having 3-nines, 4-nines, 6-nines and greater purity. Processes and articles utilizing such high purity SiOC and SiC.
US09919970B2
Dielectric layers are prepared using a dielectric material that contains a ceramic powder having Ba, Ti, and additive element X which is solid-solubilized and is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Mo, Ta, Nb, and W, wherein the standard deviation of the ratio of the peak intensity of the additive element X (XKα) measured by STEM-EDX, and the sum of the peak intensity of the Ti and peak intensity of the Ba (BaLα+TiKα) measured by STEM-EDX, is less than 10.5% of the average ratio as measured at a total of five points including the three points that divide the maximum diameter of one grain of the ceramic powder into four equal parts, and two excluding the center point of the three points that divide the diameter crossing at right angles with the maximum diameter at its center point, into four equal parts.
US09919966B2
Method of using phthalic and terephthalic acids and derivatives thereof in well treatment operations
The flow of a fluid may be diverted from a high permeability zone to a low permeability portion of a subterranean formation by use of a diverter having the structural formula (I): wherein: R1 is —COO—(R5O)y—R4; R2 and R3 are selected from the group consisting of —H and —COO—(R5O)y—R4; provided that at least one of R2 or R3 is —COO—(R5O)y—R4 and further provided that both R2 and R3 are not —COO—(R5O)y—R4; R4 is —H or a C1-C6 alkyl group; R5 is a C1-C6 alkylene group; and each y is 0 to 5. Anhydrides of formula (I) are also acceptable as the diverter.
US09919964B2
A method of processing an optical fiber of the invention includes: a determination step of determining at least an ambient temperature of conditions of a diffusion treatment that causing an optical fiber to be subjected to an non-oxygen bridging atmosphere; an exposure step of exposing the optical fiber to a gas including an oxygen bridging element that is capable of processing the Non-Bridging Oxygen Hole Centers by being bonded to a non-bridging oxygen in the optical fiber, and causing the oxygen bridging element to infiltrate into the optical fiber; and a diffusion step of subsequently causing the optical fiber to be subjected to the non-oxygen bridging atmosphere in the exposure ambient temperature which is determined by the determination step and at which the optical fiber is subjected to the non-oxygen bridging atmosphere, and thereby diffusing the oxygen bridging element into the optical fiber.
US09919957B2
An inorganic fiber containing silica and magnesia as the major fiber components and which further includes an intended chromium oxide additive to improve the dimensional stability of the fiber. The inorganic fiber exhibits good thermal insulation performance at 1400° C. and greater, retains mechanical integrity after exposure to the use temperature, and which remains soluble in physiological fluids. Also provided are thermal insulation product forms that are made from a plurality of the inorganic fibers, methods of preparing the inorganic fiber, and methods of thermally insulating articles using thermal insulation prepared from a plurality of the inorganic fibers.
US09919956B2
The present disclosure provides optical fiber preforms formed from core canes having large core-clad ratio, intermediate core-cladding assemblies, and methods for making the preforms and core cladding assemblies. The preforms are made from core canes having a contoured end surface. The contoured end surface(s) include a depression that acts to reduce the stress that develops at the junction of the end surface of the core cane with a soot cladding monolith arising from differences in the coefficient of thermal expansions of the core can and soot cladding monolith. The contoured end surface(s) leads to preforms having low defect concentration and low probability of failure during fiber draw.
US09919951B2
Substantially alkali free glasses are disclosed with can be used to produce substrates for flat panel display devices, e.g., active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs). The glasses have high annealing temperatures and etch rates. Methods for producing substantially alkali free glasses using a downdraw process (e.g., a fusion process) are also disclosed.
US09919944B2
A method and apparatus for manufacturing glass are provided. The apparatus is configured to draw a glass ribbon and includes an evaporator unit having a liquid reservoir configured to receive a working liquid. The apparatus further includes a heat transfer element configured to be placed in thermal contact with the working liquid received in the liquid reservoir. The heat transfer element is configured to cool the glass ribbon being drawn from the glass manufacturing apparatus by receiving radiant heat from the glass ribbon and transferring the heat to the working liquid received in the liquid reservoir, thereby transforming an amount of the working liquid to a vapor. The method includes drawing the glass ribbon, cooling the glass ribbon by radiating heat from the glass ribbon to the heat transfer element, and then transferring heat from the heat transfer element to the working liquid.
US09919933B2
The water purification system for flow-coupled installation with a tap water inflow for producing a relatively purified water outflow includes a purification unit having a tap water inlet port for receiving tap water inflow and a purified water outlet port for dispensing purified water outflow from said purification unit. A particulate catalyst retained within the purification unit is in flow through relation relative to said the water inflow and purified water outflow and catalyzes contaminants as the tap water inflow travels through the purification unit. A particulate agitator associated translates vibration to the particulate catalyst for substantially preventing channeling therein during relatively slow tap water inflow through the purification unit.
US09919929B2
Techniques described herein generally relate to etching graphene. The techniques can include disposing graphene on a patterned substrate, applying a resist to the graphene on the patterned substrate, curing the resist, and etching exposed portions of the graphene. Graphene composites including patterned substrates, graphene disposed on the patterned substrate, and a resist disposed on the graphene, are disclosed. Systems configured to perform the methods and/or make the graphene composites are also disclosed.
US09919928B2
Embodiments of the present invention encompass methods of forming graphene from graphene oxide and/or graphite oxide using tomato juice.
US09919922B2
The present invention is directed to a nucleic acid detection device and method that incorporates bio-nanosensor technology to detect duplex DNA. The device is particularly applicable in detecting the presence or absence of duplex DNA and its correlation to the diagnosis of infectious diseases. In one embodiment, the infectious disease is Lyme disease or a bacterial or viral infection. The device comprises a bio-nanosensor element comprising ssDNA primed nanotubes, either single walled or multi-walled. The method comprises contacting the bio-nanosensor element with a test solution potentially containing DNA of interest. DNA of interest that hybridizes to the ssDNA results in a measurable change in the electrical properties of the bio-nanosensor. Correlations between the results provided by the device and the presence of disease states can result in rapid diagnosis of diseases such as Lyme disease or foodborne infections such as salmonellosis.
US09919914B2
An embodiment is MEMS device including a first MEMS die having a first cavity at a first pressure, a second MEMS die having a second cavity at a second pressure, the second pressure being different from the first pressure, and a molding material surrounding the first MEMS die and the second MEMS die, the molding material having a first surface over the first and the second MEMS dies. The device further includes a first set of electrical connectors in the molding material, each of the first set of electrical connectors coupling at least one of the first and the second MEMS dies to the first surface of the molding material, and a second set of electrical connectors over the first surface of the molding material, each of the second set of electrical connectors being coupled to at least one of the first set of electrical connectors.
US09919904B2
The invention relates to a balancer (1) for raising, holding and lowering a load, comprising a cable drum (7) which can be rotated in a manner actuated by pressure medium and has a cable for bearing the load, which cable can be unwound from and wound onto said cable drum (7), and has a device for emergency braking of the cable drum (7) if a defined rotational speed is exceeded, which device for emergency braking comprises at least one locking element (16) which is fastened to the cable drum (7), is held in a freewheeling position in a spring-loaded manner and can be moved into a deployed locking position in a manner which is actuated by centrifugal force, in which locking position the rotation of the cable drum (7) is blocked by virtue of the fact that the locking element (16) is in engagement with a stop which is stationary relative to the cable drum (7). The balancer (1) according to the invention is distinguished by the fact that, after its triggering, the locking element (16) is held in a deployed position when said locking element (16) and the stop which interacts with it move out of engagement.
US09919902B2
A heave compensator for heavy lifts with adjustable dampening characteristics is able to operate above and below the water line in environmental pressures ranging from the atmospheric up to several hundred atmospheres pressure. A method for automatic regulation of the available stroke length of the heave compensator during the lifting operation, based on the realization that heave compensating devices utilising a slideable piston as a volume expanding mechanism to reduce the tension forces upon relative movements between crane and load, may obtain a simple compact construction able to execute a range of different compensation functionalities by registering the pressure and temperature in the gas filled chambers of the device, and employing this information to regulate the amount of gas in the single gas filled chambers.
US09919897B2
A governor includes a housing, a pulley, a belt, a first flyweight, and second flyweight. The housing defines a housing cavity. The pulley is disposed at least partially within the housing cavity. The belt is in contact with the pulley. The belt is operable to rotate the pulley at a rotational speed. The first and second flyweights are pivotably connected to the pulley, and are biased towards one another. At least a portion of the first and second flyweights are operable to move away from the pulley when the rotational speed of the pulley is increasing toward a predetermined threshold rotational speed. The first and second flyweights are operable to contact the housing, and thereby transmit rotational energy to the housing, when the rotational speed of the pulley is equal to at least the predetermined threshold rotational speed.
US09919891B2
A recording apparatus includes: a mount base having a mount surface on which a sheet discharged through a medium discharge outlet is mounted, the mount surface facing the recording surface of the sheet; a projection rib that is provided in the mount base, is projectable from the mount surface, and extends along a discharge direction of the sheet discharged through the medium discharge outlet, through a center of the sheet in a width direction crossing the discharge direction of the sheet; and a projection mechanism that causes the projection rib to project from the mount surface to a rib height according to a dimension of the sheet in the width direction discharged through the medium discharge outlet.
US09919887B2
A web unwind stand for obtaining, loading, splicing, and unwinding a web material from a plurality of convolutely wound rolls and forwarding the web material unwound from each of the convolutely wound rolls uninterruptedly to a downstream apparatus is disclosed. The unwind stand has a frame, a positionable roll grasping apparatus having a mandrel connectively engaged thereto and, splicing means. The positionable roll grasping apparatus is capable of obtaining and disposing the convolutely wound rolls proximate to the splicing means relative to the frame.
US09919884B2
A sheet conveying device includes a conveyor for conveying a sheet along a predetermined conveyance path and a feeder unit for supporting the sheet to be fed to the conveyor. The conveyor includes a first guide part for guiding the sheet toward a downstream side in the conveying direction in a direction inclined at a downward gradient, a second guide part for guiding the sheet from the first guide part toward a further downstream side in a direction inclined at an upward gradient, a suction roller arranged at the first guide part for conveying the sheet supported by the feeder unit toward the downstream side, and a first conveyance roller arranged at the second guide part and for conveying the sheet conveyed by the suction roller toward the downstream side one at a time.
US09919877B2
An end of travel arrangement for shutting down an assembly line conveyor when an ergo assist arm at a conveyor station moves beyond an end of travel limit point, the end of travel arrangement including a trolley rail mounted alongside one of a pair of runway rails for supporting an ergo assist arm carriage with the trolley movable along the trolley rail. One or more proximity switches are mounted aligned with a home position on the trolley and detect when the trolley is displaced from the home position by contact of a feature on the carriage with the trolley and generate signals immediately initiating shutting down of the assembly line conveyor.
US09919876B2
A conveyor system includes successive modules forming a conveyor segment, each module includes a control device associated with, and controlling, at least one zone. Each control device includes a communication device for communicating with the control devices included in the adjacent modules. The control devices execute a mechanism for propagation and enrichment of quantitative segment information, from the two end zones of the conveyor segment, thereby providing for each zone: a first quantitative segment information item (propagated and enriched from upstream to downstream and relating to all of the zones in an upstream sub-segment located upstream from the zone) and/or a second quantitative segment information item (propagated and enriched from downstream to upstream and relating to all of the zones in a downstream sub-segment located downstream from the zone). Each control device dynamically adapts the behavior of each zone it controls, according to the available quantitative segment information.
US09919870B2
There is provided a vertical lift storage system (101), comprising a storage rack (105) configured to store load units and a lift system with an upwardly and downwardly movable carrier structure (108), where the carrier structure (108) is configured to carry multiple load units at respective sections and with first transportation means configured to insert and withdraw respective load units into and from the storage rack. The system is characterized in that the carrier structure is configured with second transportation means to shift load units sideways on the carrier structure between its sections. In some embodiments the first transportation means comprises telescopic arms and the second transportation means comprises rollers. There is also provided a method of operating such a carrier structure in a vertical lift storage system.
US09919866B2
Containment systems and methods for assembling containment systems include a plurality of posts supporting panels, the posts having top and bottom connectors to connect posts to panels. The tank may be assembled without tools using tabs on the connectors and slots in the panels, with at least one connector having a tab that is bent down after insertion into a slot to secure a panel to a post.
US09919863B2
An alignment system for aligning the cover and base of an inner pod of a reticle carrier. The cover and base can each be provided with hard planar surface seal zones on the bottom surface and the top surface, respectively. The cover of the inner pod may be provided with a through hole or a blind hole into which an alignment pin is disposed. The base is provided with a guide recess to receive the distal end of the alignment pin. The alignment pin operates to limit contact surface area between the cover and the base during that is in sliding contact, thus inhibiting particulate generation. Low particulate-generating materials, such as stainless steel or polyamide-imide, can also be utilized to further reduce particulate generation. Furthermore, the cover and base can each be unitary without need for fastening components thereto, thereby eliminating clamped surfaces that can entrap and subsequently shed particulates.
US09919858B2
A buffering member is interposed between an outer corner of a packaged article and an inner corner of a packaging box. The buffering member includes a base sheet and a plurality pairs of blocks. The base sheet is foldable along a folding line. The plurality of pairs of blocks are arranged along the folding line at predetermined intervals. Each block of the pair of blocks is bonded on one face and the other face of the base sheet on both side of the folding line. The pair of blocks is combined via a combined face so as to meet the outer corner when the base sheet is folded along the folding line. At least one of the combined faces is provided on the one face of the base sheet and another combined face is provided on the other face of the base sheet.
US09919850B2
An insert assembly for a fitment used with a pouch containing a liquid product producing an off-gas is provided. The assembly includes a vented insert for use with the vented fitment allowing the off-gas to pass there through. A carrier is configured to be attached to the vented insert and includes a liquid impermeable membrane attach to the carrier and fluid coupled to the fitment and insert to allow gas from the product to pass there through. The membrane, which can comprise an EPTFE material allows the gas to pass through, while preventing the liquid product from passing through a wall of the pouch. The insert assembly can be selectively opened and closed to allow or prevent the off-gas produced by the product to pass through the assembly as needed to reduce the pressure within the pouch or container.
US09919843B2
A detachable handle for attaching to a container. In one embodiment, the handle includes a grip member for grasping by a person, an upper clip member that extends from the grip member and includes one or more grooves for coupling to a top rim of the container, and a base member that extends from the grip member. The base member has a bottom surface that is substantially flat for resting on a flat surface, and a top surface that includes a circular recess for holding a bottom of the container.
US09919835B2
A monolithic interlocking tile, manufacturing method, and covering are disclosed. A closed-cell foam material is injected into a mold to form a monolithic structure having a first surface, a second surface offset and opposite the first surface, the first surface including a first lip located at two adjacent sides of the structure with a plurality of shaped protrusions, and the second surface including a second lip located at two other adjacent sides of the structure and forming a plurality of shaped apertures matching in number and shape with the plurality of protrusions; and a recess formed in the second lip and forming a hole for receiving a fastener to secure the monolithic structure to a supporting structure. Multiple monolithic interlocking tiles are interlocked together to form the covering for a floor, wall, ceiling, or roof.
US09919834B2
An assembly and associated method for constructing a three dimensional article, such as a pallet, including a first station for feeding a sheet material in blank form, a second a second station for receiving and incising the blank, a third station for receiving the incised blank and which successively creases and folds the blank into an assembled article, and a fourth operator station for controlling each of said first, second and third stations. Also disclosed is a conveyor for removing the assembled article from the third station and transferring to a plastic coating operation.
US09919831B2
A package closure (10) comprising a neck (18) provided with an opening, and a cap (19) for closing the opening, wherein the neck (18) comprises a connecting portion (20) for connection to a package (32), and a sealing portion (21) projecting radially inwards from the connecting portion (20) to interact with the cap (19) to form a seal between them. Before opening thereof the cap (19) is connected to the sealing portion (21) through a notch (23), wherein the cap (19) is removable from at least a part of the sealing portion (21) by tearing along the notch (23). The cap (19) is provided with a sealing part (24) projecting from an interior side of the cap (19) to interact with the sealing portion (21) of the neck (18), so that the package closure (10) is resealable. The invention also relates to a device and a method for producing a package closure.
US09919827B2
A thermoplastic bottle has a crimped valve cup and a method of manufacturing a thermoplastic bottle includes crimping a valve cup to such a bottle. The thermoplastic bottle and valve cup may be used in a system to dispense aerosol products. At least one protrusion extends from a flange of the bottle to which the valve cup is crimped. Prior to being crimped to the bottle, the valve cup is set to the bottle with an interference fit between a crimping portion of the valve cup and the protrusion. The interference fit prevents shifting of the valve cup from its set position on the bottle prior before the valve cup is crimped.
US09919826B2
A device for transferring fluids includes a piercing member having a distal end and a proximal end and defines a longitudinal fluid channel. An opening is positioned at the distal end of the piercing member with the opening in fluid communication with the longitudinal fluid channel. Further, a sleeve having a proximal end and a distal end includes an extended position where the sleeve surrounds the piercing member and a retracted position where the sleeve is retracted from the distal end of the piercing member. The sleeve defines an opening at the distal end of the sleeve with a gap defined between the retractable sleeve and the piercing member.
US09919822B2
A method and apparatus for charging the gas compartment portion of a bag (1) in which incisions (9) are formed in gas introduction section (6a) of the gas compartment portion (6). A pair of gas injection nozzles (23, 24) are disposed so as to be on the opposite sides of the bag and reciprocate between its standby and advanced positions, so that in the advanced position, the discharge outlets (23a, 24a) of the gas injection nozzles are aligned with the gas introduction section on both sides, and compressed gas is injected into the gas introduction section through the incisions. A small gap (L) is provided between the discharge outlets of the gas injection nozzles when they are in the advanced position. As the gas is injected, film sheets of the expanded gas introduction section closely adhere to the discharge outlets, so that the gas injection state becomes stable.
US09919818B2
A method for closing a fillable collecting tank, in particular a fillable collecting tank of a heat exchanger for storing a fluid, having walls forming the collecting tank, wherein one of the walls is formed as a baseplate having openings for receiving pipes, wherein a filling opening for adding the fluid is provided in one of the walls, wherein the filling opening can be closed by the provision of a closure element that can be inserted into the filling opening or can be placed onto the filling opening after the fluid has been added to the collecting tank. A heat exchanger is also provided.
US09919811B2
A processing station for registering a piece of passenger's luggage for a trip, wherein the processing station comprises: an injector for receiving the piece of luggage associated with the passenger; at least one sensor associated with the injector, the at least one sensor, in combination with at least the floor of the injector, creating a zone around the piece of luggage; and a controller associated with the sensor being adapted to: monitor, via the at least one sensor, intrusions through the zone to determine one or more of whether a predetermined limit on dimensions of the piece of luggage has been exceeded or whether a foreign object has intruded the zone from outside, and allow further processing of the piece of luggage only if no intrusion of the zone is detected; and wherein the controller adjusts the area of the zone to accommodate different sizes of luggage.
US09919806B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling an auxiliary engine (8) comprising a gas generator and a free turbine suitable for being able to be connected mechanically to the rotor (12) of a helicopter in order to supply it with thrust power, characterised in that said control device comprises a proportional-integral controller (30) having a proportional gain (Kp) and an integral gain (Ki), which are dependent on the rotation speed of said gas generator, said controller (30) being configured to receive an error signal representing a speed error of said free turbine, and to generate a signal (Sc) for correcting the drive speed of said gas generator obtained by adding a signal proportional to said error signal in accordance with said proportional gain (Kp), and an integrated signal (Si) resulting from the addition of a signal proportional to said error signal in accordance with said integral gain (Ki) and a memory signal (Sm), supplied by a feedback loop (31) of said integrated signal (Si), said memory signal (Sm) being dependent on a measurement representing the rotation speed of said free turbine.
US09919804B2
A propulsion assembly includes a turbojet incorporating a fan casing and a central casing around a longitudinal axis, a mounting pylon having a rigid structure, a forward engine attachment interposed between a forward extremity of the rigid structure and an upper part of the fan casing, the upper part being in a vertical median plane (P) passing through the longitudinal axis, an aft engine attachment interposed between a median zone of the rigid structure and an upper aft part of the central casing, and a device for absorbing the thrust forces generated by the turbojet, including two links placed either side of the median plane (P) and hinged, on one hand, forward, on a forward part of the central casing, and on the other, aft, directly on the rigid structure. Such an arrangement enables a reduction of the stresses, and the possibility of designing a simplified rigid structure.
US09919803B2
In a preferred embodiment, an aircraft passenger seat base frame can include spaced left and right spreaders supporting a seat pan and a seatback. Additionally, a front transverse structural member and a rear transverse structural member can each interconnect with the left and right spreaders. An in-flight entertainment component compartment defined in the seat pan at least in part by placement of the front transverse structural member and the rear transverse structural member can enclose an in-flight entertainment component, wherein the front transverse structural member is positioned for aligning in a vertical plane with at least a portion of the in-flight entertainment component, and the rear transverse structural member is positioned for aligning in a horizontal plane with at least a portion of the in-flight entertainment component.
US09919797B2
A reconfigurable unmanned aircraft system is disclosed. A system and method for configuring a reconfigurable unmanned aircraft and system and method for operation and management of a reconfigurable unmanned aircraft in an airspace are also disclosed. The aircraft is selectively reconfigurable to modify flight characteristics. The aircraft comprises a set of rotors. The position of at least one rotor relative to the base can be modified by at least one of translation of the rotor relative to the boom, pivoting of the boom relative to the base, and translation of the boom relative to the base; so that flight characteristics can be modified by configuration of position of at least one rotor relative to the base. A method of configuring an aircraft having a set of rotors on a mission to carry a payload comprises the steps of determining properties of the payload including at least mass properties, determining the manner in which the payload will be coupled to the aircraft, determining configuration for each of the rotors in the set of rotors at least partially in consideration of the properties of the payload, and positioning the set of rotors in the configuration for the aircraft to perform the mission.
US09919795B2
The present disclosure provides a skid control system that includes a brake control device configured to convert a current command value to create a braking pressure, wherein the braking pressure is applied to a hydraulically actuated brake and/or an electrically actuated brake. A deceleration control unit receives a filtered wheel speed value and/or a filtered wheel acceleration value from the wheel assembly. A brake control algorithm unit retrieves a noise threshold value corresponding with the at least one of the filtered wheel speed value or the filtered wheel acceleration value. A pressure control unit receives a feedback pressure from the hydraulically actuated brake and/or an electrically actuated brake, wherein the pressure control unit either increases or decreases the current command value in response to a difference between the pressure command value and a feedback pressure being either less than or greater than the noise threshold value.
US09919793B2
An aircraft landing gear assembly having a main strut and an axle on which wheel and brake assemblies are mounted. An adaptor member is mounted on a mounting pin and arranged to define a brake rod anchor point. The adaptor member is coupled to a part of the landing gear assembly so as to react brake torque and can be formed from a different material than a portion of the main strut.
US09919779B2
A lightweight transport vessel transports compressed natural gas underwater without needing to liquefy the gas for transport.
US09919777B2
A towable recreational craft having a body member for accommodating one or more riders in a prone position is disclosed. One or more stabilizing members are movably coupled to and extend away from an aft portion of the body member. Each stabilizing member includes a foot-accommodating portion spaced apart from the body member, wherein the stabilizing member is movable between a position extending away from the aft portion of the body member and a position adjacent a lateral portion thereof to provide greater stability as the craft is towed.
US09919761B2
A kick-scooter having an electric-motorized drive, a footboard, a rear wheel arranged on the footboard, a steering assembly, and a front wheel connected to the steering assembly to pivot in unison with the steering assembly about an inclined steering assembly axis.
US09919758B2
A vehicle includes a left front wheel and a right front wheel that tilt together with a body frame, and a rear wheel that tilts together with the body frame, wherein, while a large capacity of a fuel tank is ensured, a variation in the center-of-gravity position while driving is small. When the body frame is in an upright position, the fuel tank is disposed between extensions of the upper axis and lower axis of a linkage mechanism such that the fuel tank is disposed between the center of the area between the center of the area between a right front wheel ground contact portion where the right front wheel comes into contact with the ground, a left front wheel ground contact portion where the left front wheel comes into contact with the ground, and a rear wheel ground contact portion where the rear wheel comes into contact with the ground, and the right and left front wheel ground contact portions; and the center of the area between the center of the area between right front wheel ground contact portion, the left front wheel ground contact portion, and the rear wheel ground contact portion, and the rear wheel ground contact portion.
US09919749B2
A side skirt system for reducing drag on a trailer or other ground vehicle includes plurality of wall panels each configured to be coupled to one side of the trailer to extend generally below a storage container of the trailer at least partially along a length of the trailer. The wall panels are horizontally spaced-apart from each other.
US09919747B2
A vehicle side impact sensing assembly includes a side impact sensor installed on a center tunnel and a bracket, for mounting the sensor, arranged on an upper end portion of the tunnel. The sensor senses a side impact load acting sideways on a body. The bracket has a substantially M-shaped section, is a member put on the upper end portion of the tunnel and includes left and right vertical-plate-like legs and a horizontal-plate-like middle portion. T legs are overlaid on and joined to left and right side surfaces or an upper surface of the tunnel. The middle portion is lower than upper ends of the legs, and overlaid on and joined to the upper surface of the tunnel. Left and right mounting portions for mounting the side impact sensor are formed between the middle portion and the upper ends of the legs.
US09919746B2
A motor vehicle floor assembly includes an articulating floor body having a first panel and a second panel supported by a linkage. The linkage includes a first link connected to the first panel, a second link connected to the second panel and a first pivot connecting the first link to the second link and defining an articulation joint for the articulating floor body.
US09919743B2
A motor vehicle front end crash-load carrying structure has at least one side rail on each side of the vehicle extending in the vehicle longitudinal direction, an A-pillar extending upward from the side rail, and a reinforcement extending between the A-pillar and the side rail. The reinforcement is made up of a longitudinally-extending rear element fixed to the A-pillar and extending forward therefrom outboard of the side rail, and a transversely-extending forward element fixed to and extending inboard from a forward end of the rear element, an inboard end of the forward element abutting an outboard surface of the side rail. The rear element extends substantially parallel with a vehicle longitudinal axis and defines a concave-downward wheel arch. The rear element may include an engineered bending site adjacent to a joint between the rear element and the forward element. The reinforcement may be supported on a suspension mount.
US09919738B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a control system for a motor vehicle comprising: means for detecting a side-slope condition in which a vehicle is traversing a side-slope; and means for controlling an amount of torque applied to one or more wheels to induce a turning moment on a vehicle, the system being configured to cause a turning moment to be induced in a direction opposing side-slip of a trailing axle in a down-slope direction relative to a leading axle.
US09919735B2
A control system for a vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to acquire first information indicating a situation of the vehicle at the time when the vehicle is traveling, and set a path for guiding the vehicle to a target position on the basis of the first information such that a variation in an inertial force in a lateral direction perpendicular to a traveling direction of the vehicle is smaller than or equal to a first threshold.
US09919734B2
To provide an electric power steering apparatus capable of suppressing a vibration of an assist torque while keeping a steering feeling. A current command value is calculated by adding a torque differential compensation value depending on a differential value of a steering torque to a basic assist current command value calculated based on the steering torque and vehicle speed. In this situation, the torque differential compensation value is calculated to be smaller when the steering speed of a steering wheel falls within a specific steering speed region in which a resonance phenomenon easily occurs due to a disturbance vibration of a steering assist torque, in comparison with when the steering speed falls outside the specific steering speed region.
US09919732B2
A steer-by-wire assembly for a steering system in a vehicle is described. The system includes a shaft rotatable in response to a steering input, a clutch that includes a brake member rotatable with the shaft and a reaction member, and an electromagnetic actuator that is selectively actuated to selectively provide a force to selectively engage the brake and reaction members. When the actuator is not actuated, the force between the brake and reaction members limits or prevents rotation of the brake member relative to the reaction member. And when the actuator is actuated, the force between the brake and reaction members is reduced or removed to permit rotation of the brake member relative to the reaction member.
US09919727B2
A shaft for a steering system of a motor vehicle may comprise an outer tube and an inner tube that can be telescoped relative to the outer tube. The inner tube may be guided fixedly in the outer tube so as to rotate with the outer tube in order to transmit torque. An inner end of the inner tube may be received in the outer tube. The shaft may further include a pull-out protection mechanism for impeding the inner tube from being pulled out of the outer tube. The pull-out protection mechanism may be disposed at the inner end of the inner tube and may include at least one sprung blocking element for impeding the pulling of the inner tube out of the outer tube in a positively locking manner.
US09919726B2
An adjustable handlebar riser assembly has an outer member, an inner member, a pin, a retainer member and a locking member. The inner member and the outer member have mating flat-bottom V-shaped faces. The inner member slides at least in part within the outer member. Each of the outer and inner members has at least one aperture through their flat-bottom V-shaped faces. The pin is inserted in an aperture of the outer member and in an aperture of the inner member. The retaining member is connected to the pin at one end while the locking member is connected to an opposed end of the pin. The locking member can exert a tension on the pin, pressing the outer member onto the inner member for locking these members at a selected position relative to one another.
US09919711B2
Described is a technology by which ambient data related to a vehicle is sensed and processed, for use in determining a state change related to external traffic awareness. Based upon the state change, an allowed level of interactivity with a user interface may be changed, and/or a notification may be output. Images and/or depth data may be sensed as part of determining whether a user who is interacting with a device in a stopped vehicle is to be made aware of the changed condition with respect to other vehicles, pedestrians and/or the like.
US09919706B2
Disclosed herein are methods for automatically adjusting a speed of a vehicle capable of allowing the vehicle to arrive at a destination within a time desired by a driver in consideration of a desired arrival time to the destination, a distance to the destination, a current traffic volume, or the like. A method for adjusting a speed of a vehicle in a system for adjusting a speed of a vehicle may include a driver of the vehicle setting a destination, and the system for adjusting a speed of a vehicle searching a path to the destination and calculating a distance to the destination and a current traffic volume to calculate an arrival time to the destination. The method may further include the driver setting a desired arrival time to the destination, and the system for adjusting a speed of a vehicle deciding whether or not the vehicle arrives at the destination within the desired arrival time.
US09919701B2
The present invention provides a hybrid vehicle driving system in which quick response and improvement in fuel economy are compatible. A hybrid vehicle driving system 1 of the invention includes a cylinder deactivated operation necessity determination unit for determining the necessity of a cylinder deactivated operation of an engine 6 when a required driving force required on a vehicle is smaller than a driving force of the engine 6 that runs in the cylinder deactivated operation. When the cylinder deactivated operation is determined to be unnecessary by the cylinder deactivated operation necessity determination unit, the vehicle can be driven in an EV driving by disengaging a first clutch 41 and a second clutch 42, whereas when the cylinder deactivated operation is determined to be necessary by the cylinder deactivated operation necessity determination unit, the engine 6 runs in the cylinder deactivated operation and at least one of the first clutch 42 and the second clutch 42 is engaged.
US09919686B2
A disc brake for a motor vehicle, wherein it is possible to displace the actuating piston in the housing both by hydraulic pressure activation of a hydraulic chamber formed in the housing and via a mechanical actuator, wherein the sealing ring is accommodated in an annular groove formed in the housing. Provision is made here for the annular groove to have a groove floor, which runs substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the piston, and two groove walls, which adjoin the groove floor, wherein—as seen in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the piston—a first groove wall is directed away from the hydraulic chamber and a second groove wall is directed towards the hydraulic chamber, wherein the first groove wall merges into the groove floor via a rounded or bevelled transition region at a varying distance from the longitudinal axis of the piston.
US09919684B2
The windscreen wiper device includes a longitudinally extending wiper element which is made of an elastic rubber or rubber-like material. A carrier supports the wiper element and is curved in a longitudinal direction to bias the wiper element into a curved shape. A connecting device is engaged with the carrier for connection with a wiper arm. End caps are disposed at opposite longitudinal ends of the carrier and are spaced longitudinally from the connecting device. A pair of subspoilers are disposed on opposite longitudinal sides of the connecting device. Each of the subspoilers includes a bottom, front and back walls which bound an open interior and two reinforcing members which extend through the open interior and divide the open interior into at least two chambers for reinforcing the front and back walls. The front, back and bottom walls and the reinforcing members are all formed as one integral piece.
US09919682B2
A remote function control system is for a vehicle including a data communications bus extending throughout the vehicle and coupled to a plurality of vehicle devices, and a wired vehicle electrical power system. The system may include a remote function device coupled to the data communications bus and including an interior wireless device to wirelessly communicate within the vehicle, an exterior wireless device to wirelessly communicate with a remote control device away from the vehicle, and a controller coupled to the interior and exterior wireless devices to permit communication between the remote control device and at least one vehicle device coupled to the vehicle data communications bus. The system may further include a wireless security sensor positioned within the vehicle and coupled to the wired vehicle electrical power system, with the wireless security sensor being configured to wirelessly communicate within the vehicle to the interior wireless device.
US09919679B2
In an electronic key system, at least one of an electronic key and a vehicle side device includes a communication device, a storage unit, and a discrimination unit. The storage unit acquires a location information from a location information terminal through the communication device, and stores information on an unlocking permissible range based on the location information when a vehicle door is locked. The discrimination unit acquires the location information from the location information terminal through the communication device, and discriminates whether the acquired location information falls within the unlocking permissible range, or not, when the wireless communication is performed between the electronic key and the vehicle side device because the vehicle door is unlocked. When the discrimination unit discriminates that the position of the electronic key does not fall within the unlocking permissible range, the vehicle door is not unlocked.
US09919677B2
A transponder is disclosed. The transponder includes a resonant circuit serving as an antenna, a load modulation module coupled to the resonant circuit, a current source coupled to the resonant circuit and a command interpreter configured to interpret a received initialization command. The command interpreter is configured to monitor input communication for a stop command signal and a charge & talk bit and if the charge & talk bit is not received within a predetermined time interval after receiving the stop command signal, the load modulation module is activated to provide a signal for transmission by modifying an incoming carrier wave through the load modulation module. If the charge & talk bit is received within the predetermined time after receiving the stop command signal, the current source is activated to provide a signal for transmission by generating pulses of current.
US09919669B2
A front section of a motor vehicle includes a bumper shell, a bumper cross member and a shock sensor arranged at various locations inside a central intermediate space between the bumper shell and the bumper cross member. The bumper shell extends beyond the ends of the bumper cross member in the direction transverse to the vehicle. Extensions are attached to the ends of the bumper cross member, and the shock sensor is also distributed in various locations in peripheral intermediate spaces between the extensions and the bumper shell.
