US09929629B2
A rotating electrical machine includes a supporting member, a stator core, a winding set, a shaft, a rotor, a magnetic generator, and a magnetic detector. The stator core has a ring-shaped yoke held inside the supporting member and tooth portions projecting from the yoke in a radial inward direction of the yoke. The winding set is wound on the tooth portions. The shaft extends through the stator core and is rotatably supported by the supporting member. The rotor is located in the stator core and rotates with the shaft. The magnetic generator is located at an end of the shaft. The magnetic detector outputs a signal indicative of a change in magnetic flux density created by the magnetic generator. The number of the tooth portions for every magnetic pole pair in the rotor is even.
US09929628B2
A magnet insertion method into a rotor core is to insert an assembly into a magnet insertion hole provided in the rotor core of an electric motor, the assembly being formed by laminating a plurality of members, including at least a plurality of magnet pieces, in a line. According to this magnet insertion method, the assembly is formed by arranging a front member, having a surface surrounded by a chamfered ridge line, to cause the surface to be a front side end surface upon insertion, by laminating, on its rear side in an insertion direction, other members, without having the chamfered ridge line, in a line along the insertion direction to cause the other members to be hidden inside a projection of the front member when being projected from an insertion hole side, and by temporarily holding the front member and the other members.
US09929627B2
A brushless DC motor is provided. The brushless DC motor comprises a motor housing around an axis, a stator assembly inside the motor housing, a carrier plate fixed relative to the stator assembly, and a Hall effect sensor assembly removably coupled to the carrier plate. A method of making a brushless DC motor is also provided comprising fixing a carrier plate relative to a stator assembly of a brushless DC motor assembly, and fixing a first Hall effect sensor array to the carrier plate.
US09929626B2
A cooling-member-integrated motor includes a housing and a stator including a stator core and a stator coil wound around the stator core. A cooling member surrounds an outer circumferential surface of the stator, and a molding member is disposed in the housing. The stator and the cooling member are integrally embedded in the molding member.
US09929619B2
An end cap assembly for an electric motor has an end cap body and at least two motor terminals. The end cap body has at least two holding structures for respectively holding the at least two motor terminals, each holding structure having at least one holder and a through slot. Each motor terminal has a base portion, a terminal portion and at least one mounting portion. The at least one mounting portion is mounted to the at least one holder of a corresponding holding structure. The terminal portion is inserted in the through slot to electrically connect to a male terminal of an external power supply plug. The terminal portion and the at least one mounting portion integrally extend from the base portion.
US09929614B2
A motor includes a shaft, a rotor magnet, an armature, an upper bracket, a lower bracket, and a fixing member. An insulator includes magnetic pole tooth insulating portions, each of which covers a separate one of magnetic pole teeth, and a core back insulating portion configured to cover at least portions of upper and lower end surfaces of a core back. A stator core includes a fixing member arranging portion. The core back insulating portion includes a core back insulating projecting portion configured to project in an axial direction away from a surface covering the core back, and including a radially inner surface located radially inward of a radially inner end of the fixing member arranging portion. The core back insulating projecting portion includes a cut portion at a position radially opposed to the fixing member.
US09929612B2
A new rotor for a rotating electric machine assuring outstanding durability and reliability against vibration and facilitating equalization of resistances among a plurality of rotor coils, while allowing the leading ends of a plurality of lead wires to be disposed so as to congregate in one area, is provided. A plurality of stator coils 102 wound at a cylindrical stator core 101 each include leader portions led out from one of two ends of a slot along the axial direction and extending astride a plurality of slots. Lead wires 300 each formed at one end of a stator coil 102 are disposed so that their leading ends, oriented in the same direction, congregate in a single area. In a leader portion where a lead wire 300 is located, a turnback portion 400, made to turn back with an angle equal to or greater than 90° from an inclining wire portion 113, which is led out with an inclination along a predetermined direction from the slot, is formed.
US09929609B2
The present invention relates to a stator for a motor including: a stator core having a circular base along which a plurality of first holes is formed vertically and a plurality of teeth formed radially around the outer peripheral surface of the base; and an insulating layer coated on the entire surface of the stator core except the inner peripheral surface of the base and the plurality of first holes of the base.
US09929606B2
An apparatus for determining a position between a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power receiver is provided. The apparatus comprises a first ferrite block having respective portions configured to be disposed in physical contact with each of adjacent second and third ferrite blocks separated by a first gap and with each of adjacent fourth and fifth ferrite blocks separated by a second gap. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of detection loops wrapped around the first ferrite block such that none of the plurality of detection loops physically contact the second, third, fourth or fifth ferrite blocks when the respective portions of the first ferrite block are in physical contact with the second, third, fourth or fifth ferrite blocks. Each of the plurality of detection loops are wrapped around the first ferrite block in mutually perpendicular planes from one another.
US09929605B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of undesirable foreign matter in a region between a wireless power transmission apparatus and a power reception apparatus are described. First and second detection methods, based on different detection schemes, may be used to detect and distinguish the presence of foreign matter from misalignment during power transfer operation method may be used while power is supplied to the load.
US09929598B2
A power supplying device is provided for providing electrical power to a power receiving device, the power supplying device comprising two plates, two electrode structures being arranged to be coupled to an AC power source and at least one power transmitter. Each electrode structure is attached to one of said two plates. The power transmitter is situated in between the two plates and comprises an electrically conductive coil and at least two electrical contacts coupled to the electrically conductive coil. The plates and the power transmitter are arranged such that the power transmitter is movable in a direction parallel to the surfaces of the plates with the electrical contacts in contact with the respective two electrode structures for obtaining power from the AC power source.
US09929597B2
A magnetic saturation apparatus for a wireless inductive power and/or data transfer system which comprises a magnetic field transmitter positioned on a first side of a barrier and a magnetic field receiver positioned on a second side of the barrier. The magnetic saturation apparatus includes a saturation magnet which is positioned on one side of the barrier and which in use generates a saturation flux in an adjacent saturation region of the barrier which is located at least partially between the transmitter and the receiver. The saturation flux effectively lowers the magnetic permeability of the saturation region and thereby inhibits the magnetic flux generated by the transmitter from shorting through the barrier and back into the transmitter. Thus, the saturation region facilitates the flow of magnetic flux from the transmitter into the receiver.
US09929589B2
The invention relates to a device for stabilizing the supply to a consumer from a buffer store, wherein during normal operation the consumer is supplied from an energy store. The device, which includes a DC-to-DC converter, a plurality of controllable switching elements and a control unit, is configured to (i) supply the consumer during normal operation, while bypassing components having power losses, directly from the energy store when the input voltage is greater than a preset first limit voltage, (ii) supply the consumer via the DC-to-DC converter fed from the energy store when the input voltage is below the first preset limit voltage, wherein the DC-to-DC converter converts the input voltage into an operating voltage of the consumer, and (iii) feed the DC-to-DC converter from the buffer store when the input voltage is below a second preset limit voltage until a voltage of the buffer store reaches the second preset limit voltage.
US09929586B2
A battery pack having a power-supply terminal, a ground terminal, and a communication terminal includes: a secondary battery that is connected to the power-supply terminal and the ground terminal; a resistive element that is connected to the communication terminal and the ground terminal; a switch unit that is connected in parallel to the resistive element and that is connected to the communication terminal and the ground terminal; and a controller that performs control of switching an ON state and an OFF state of a switch of the switch unit. The battery pack may further include a non-contact charging unit that performs non-contact charging, the resistive element may be a temperature sensor, and the controller may switch the switch of the switch unit to the ON state when the non-contact charging is started by the non-contact charging unit.
US09929583B2
A non-contact type power charger may include: a power transmitting device including a plurality of power transmitting coils transmitting power in a non-contact manner; and a power receiving device including a plurality of power receiving coils receiving the power in a non-contact manner to charge a plurality of battery cells, respectively connected to the plurality of power receiving coils, with the power, wherein the power transmitted to each of the plurality of power receiving coils is controlled depending on coupling coefficients between the plurality of power transmitting coils and the plurality of power receiving coils.
US09929578B2
Charging methods and electronic devices are provided. According to an embodiment, provided is a charging method for an electronic device having a plurality of operating modes. The method may comprise: detecting an operating mode of the electronic device; utilizing a first charging mode corresponding to a first operating mode to charge the electronic device when the first operating mode is detected; and utilizing a second charging mode corresponding to a second operating mode to charge the electronic device when the second operating mode is detected.
US09929573B2
A battery system includes multiple battery cells having multiple cell voltages, and a balancing module. The battery module coupled to multiple battery cells and configured to specify a first voltage threshold according to an amount of a charging current supplied to the battery cells in constant current charging mode, and to initiate a balance check of the battery cells if the first voltage threshold is not satisfied by a cell voltage of the plurality of cell voltages.
US09929571B1
An integrated battery control system for energy storage incorporates a power control system to reliably provide power to a load and protects lithium ion batteries from over-charging and over-discharging. One or more power sources, such as renewable power sources, such as solar or wind power generators, or a generator, may be coupled with the integrated battery control system to provide power for charging the battery pack and/or for supplying power to said load. A portion of the power from a power source may be used to charge the battery pack and a portion may be provided to a load. A control circuit and one or more microprocessors may control the components of the system to provide power in an efficient manner. Power to and from the battery may run through an inverter and a control system may open and close switches to control flow of power in the system.
US09929567B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques, and apparatuses of datacenter power supply systems are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a datacenter power supply system comprising an AC power bus structured to selectably receive AC power from an AC power grid and a AC generator and structured to provide AC power to one or more AC datacenter loads and an AC/DC converter, a DC power generation system structured to provide DC power to a DC/DC converter, a DC power bus structured to selectably receive power from the AC/DC converter and the DC/DC converter and to provide DC power to a plurality of DC datacenter loads, and an electronic control system structured to selectably control the datacenter power supply system to operate in plurality of modes.
US09929557B2
The present invention provides a protection device which includes a laminar element 16 which is formed of an insulation resin and has at least one throughhole; electrically conductive metal thin layers 22 and 28 which are positioned on each of main surfaces of the laminar element, and a fuse layer 40 which is positioned on a side surface defining said at least one throughhole and electrically connects the electrically conductive metal thin layers. The fuse layer includes a first metal layer 41 consisting of a metal having a higher melting point and a second metal layer 42 consisting of a metal having a lower melting point. The protection device of the present invention allows a larger amount of a current to flow therethrough and can provide a protection from an excessive current.
US09929555B2
A clamp assembly includes a body having a base and first and second jaw guides extending outwardly from the base. A trough has first and second ends formed between the first and second jaw guides. First and second jaws are movably received in the trough for receiving a cable therebetween. The first jaw engages the first jaw guide. The second jaw engages the second jaw guide. The first jaw engages the second jaw such that the first and second jaws move together. A pin is disposed in the body proximal the first end of the trough. A spring has a first end connected to the pin and a second end connected to the second jaw to bias the first and second jaws toward the first end of the trough.
US09929544B1
The spark plug gapping tool comprises a clamp that provides a spark plug holder on a lower arm that is vertically aligned with a threaded shaft and a pressing foot on an upper arm. An inverted spark plug may be installed into the spark plug gapping tool from the bottom side of the lower arm. A mounting clip on the clamp allows a gap gauge to be removably coupled to the clamp and the gap gauge provides a calibrated arm of a specific thickness, which the spark plug gap is to match. A handle on the threaded shaft allows the threaded shaft to be turned, causing the threaded shaft to move up and down within a threaded shaft hole. Downward movement of the pressing foot against an electrode of the spark plug bends the electrode and sets the spark plug gap.
US09929530B2
An optical semiconductor device has a semiconductor laser which emits front-end-surface-side emergent light on the front end surface side and emits rear-end-surface-side emergent light on the rear end surface side, and a mount substrate having the semiconductor laser provided on its front surface. The rear-end-surface-side emergent light is emitted while having an emergence optical axis that extends away from the mount substrate with increase in distance from the rear end surface.
US09929527B2
A method of induction soldering an inner conductor of a coaxial cable to an inner contact of a right angle coaxial connector includes: (a) providing a coaxial connector, the coaxial connector including an outer conductor body and an inner contact, the inner contact defining a mating axis, the inner contact further comprising a blind hole with an open end; (b) providing a coaxial cable, the coaxial cable including an inner conductor, a dielectric circumferentially surrounding the inner conductor, and an outer conductor circumferentially surrounding the dielectric; (c) inserting the coaxial cable into the coaxial connector such that an end of the inner conductor is positioned in the blind hole of the inner contact and perpendicular to the mating axis; and (d) heating the blind hole of the inner conductor to melt solder present in the blind hole to form a solder joint between the inner conductor and the inner contact.
US09929525B2
A terminal connection structure includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a terminal guide. The first terminal includes a held portion. The second terminal includes a plate-shaped base portion, a pair of holding portions projecting from one end of the base portion to hold the held portion from both sides, and a plate-shaped bridge portion projecting from the other end of the base portion in a direction crossing relative to the base portion. The terminal guide includes a guide hole having one end at which the first terminal is disposed, and the other end from which the second terminal is inserted.
US09929522B2
A contact device for transmitting electrical energy from a preferably spatially fixed busbar to a tap-off bar, movable along the busbar, including: at least one connecting housing, the busbar being mechanically connected to the tap-off bar by connecting housing, at least one combi clip, the combi clip brought into engagement with part of the outer periphery of the connecting housing in a mechanically releasable manner and establishing a mechanical connection between the connecting housing and a connecting bracket, at least one power plug housing, the power plug housing positioned mechanically and from the outside on the busbar and/or on the tap-off bar such that a mechanical connection between the connecting housing and the busbar and/or the connecting bar is established by the power plug housing.
US09929512B1
A contact module includes a dielectric body holding signal contacts and a shield coupled to the dielectric body having grounding portions providing electrical shielding for the signal contacts. Each grounding portion includes a base edge generally coplanar with the base edges of the signal contacts and a compliant pin extending below the base edge. Each grounding portion includes a surface tab extending below the base edge to at least partially fill a space between the base edge of the grounding portion and a mounting surface of the circuit board such that the surface tab provides electrical shielding for the compliant pins of the signal contacts in the space between the base edge of the signal contact and the mounting surface of the circuit board.
US09929511B2
An example electronic assembly for securing an electronic card. In some forms, the electronic assembly further includes a printed circuit board. The electronic assembly includes a housing having a first set of electrical contacts and a second set of electrical contacts. The housing is configured to receive the electronic card between the first and second set of electrical contacts. The housing further includes a third set of electrical contacts and a fourth set of electrical contacts. The housing is configured to receive the electronic card between the third and fourth set of electrical contacts. A ground shield is positioned between at least one of the first and third set of electrical contacts and the second and fourth set of electrical contacts. In some forms, the ground shield may be positioned between both the first and third set of electrical contacts and the second and fourth set of electrical contacts.
US09929504B2
The invention relates to an electrical circular plug-in connector having a plug part and a counter-plug part, which can be releasably locked together by means of a push-pull locking mechanism via at least one locking element that extends axially and can be deflected radially, which element is provided with an inwardly protruding detent, to which an outwardly open latching trap is assigned on the counter-plug part. The locking element is integrally molded on a retaining ring, which is immovably mounted on the plug part between the unlocking sleeve and a front hollow cylindrical plug region of the plug part, and which pulls the plug part and the counter-plug part together in a play-free manner by means of a spring force component acting inwardly in a radial direction. According to the invention, a securing sleeve for the locking element is arranged between the retaining ring and the unlocking sleeve, said securing sleeve being axially displaceable with the unlocking sleeve and acting upon the locking element with radially inward force by means of the spring force of a helical pressure spring.
US09929500B1
The invention described herein includes a pluggable transceiver module comprising a release mechanism for decoupling the module from a computer connection port. In one embodiment, the module release mechanism comprises a release structure having integrated flexure and linking members. The integrated flexure and linking members may be configured to facilitate locking the module in a computer connection port to prevent a small unintentional force from unseating the module and disturbing the module's electrical and optical connections. The release structure may be configured to unlock the module from a computer connection port by displacing a latch feature disposed in a cage assembly inside a computer connection port.
US09929485B2
Disclosed aspects include an apparatus having a card edge connector which has first and second positions. The apparatus may include a set of contacts to connect with a set of card edges in the second position. To adjust the set of contacts between the first position and the second position, the apparatus may include a set of electroactive polymers. Disclosed aspects include card edge connector management. It may be detected that a card edge connector is in a first position. A request for the card edge connector to be in a second position can be received. It is determined to adjust the card edge connector. The card edge connector is adjusted using a set of electroactive polymers. In embodiments, such adjustment can include introducing a voltage which causes the set of electroactive polymers to adjust a set of contacts between the first and second positions.
US09929483B2
An electrical connection piece including: a flexible circuit board having: a central section penetrated by contact openings arranged mirror-symmetrically; a first and second arm, each of the first and second arms extending in different directions away from the central section, the end of the first arm having a first end surface, the end of the second arm having a second end surface, the end of the first arm having a third end surface opposing the first end surface and end of the second arm having a fourth end surface opposing the second end surface; first strip conductors extending between the contact openings and first electrical contacting surfaces; and second strip conductors extending between the contact openings and second electrical contacting surfaces; wherein the first electrical contacting surfaces have a contact configuration different from a contact configuration of the second electrical contacting surfaces.
US09929482B2
A system for attaching electrical equipment to a metallic support and including a pin designed to be inserted through a through-housing of the metallic support and a metallic insert of the electrical equipment, and a device for insulating the metallic support, extending between the metallic support and the metallic insert. The system also includes a mechanical retention device designed to apply load to the insulating device so as to keep them in contact with the metallic support and with the metallic insert.
US09929472B2
An antenna element having a vertically stacked structure and a phased array antenna that includes a plurality of antenna elements sharing a common conductive ground plane are described. The phased array antenna also includes a common conductive shell electrically coupled to the common conductive ground plane and extending away there from to encompass the antenna elements. The common conductive shell and the common conductive ground plane together define a common cavity having a common aperture. The phased array antenna also includes a common dielectric superstrate layer disposed over the common cavity at a predetermined distance from the antenna elements and a beam steering system coupled to the antenna elements and configured for steering an energy beam produced by the phased array antenna.
US09929470B2
An antenna assembly for use in a tile architecture antenna system. The antenna assembly comprises: i) a first substrate layer having a first surface; ii) a first antenna disposed in an X-Y plane on the first surface of the first substrate layer; iii) a second substrate layer having a first surface, the second substrate layer displaced in the Z-direction with respect to the X-Y plane on the first surface of the first substrate layer; and iv) a first tuning balun disposed on the first surface of the second substrate layer and coupled to the first antenna by means of a first feed via. The antenna assembly further comprises a first transmission line disposed on the first surface of the second substrate layer. The first transmission line is coupled to the first antenna by means of a second feed via.
US09929468B2
The variable capacitance device includes one or more of directional elements inserted between the third and fourth terminals that allow current to pass only in prescribed directions, such that a diagram formed of current paths from the third terminal to the fourth terminal for the plurality of third-terminal side resistors and the plurality of fourth-terminal side resistors when the third terminal is biased higher than the fourth terminal is line-symmetric to a diagram formed of current paths from the fourth terminal to the third terminal for the plurality of third-terminal side resistors and the plurality of fourth-terminal side resistors when the fourth terminal is biased higher than the third terminal, with respect to the serial chain of variable capacitance elements between the first and second terminals.
US09929466B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products are provided for self-steering antennas. In one aspect, there is a method. The method may include receiving, at a plurality of antennas, phase shifted versions of a signal. The method may further include determining a phase relationship between the phase shifted versions of the signal. Based on the determined phase relationship, the method may include adjusting a phase of a first local oscillator to remove a phase difference between the phase shifted versions of the signal to change the phase shifted versions of the signal to being in-phase versions of the signal. The method may further include combining the in-phase versions of the signal to steer a beam to a transmitter.
US09929460B1
The invention relates to a method for automatically adjusting a plurality of tunable passive antennas and a multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port tuning unit. The invention also relates to an apparatus for radio communication using this method. An apparatus for radio communication of the invention comprises: 4 tunable passive antennas; a multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port tuning unit having 4 input ports and 4 output ports; 4 sensing units; 4 feeders; a transmission and signal processing unit, which applies 4 excitations to the input ports, one and only one of the excitations being applied to each of the input ports, and which delivers one or more antenna adjustment instructions and one or more tuning unit adjustment instructions; and a control unit, which delivers one or more antenna control signals to the tunable passive antennas, and which delivers one or more tuning control signals to the multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port tuning unit.
US09929457B2
Disclosed is a signal splitter that includes a coupled transmission line element coupled between two output ports of the signal splitter. The coupled transmission line element is used to lower the isolation between the two output ports for a particular frequency band. The coupled transmission line element includes a first and a second elongate electrical conductor. The first and the second elongate electrical conductor first ends are coupled to the signal transmission path that connects the two output ports. The first and the second elongate electrical conductor second ends are un-terminated. The first elongate electrical conductor and the second elongate electrical conductor are not shorted together, and the first elongate electrical conductor and the second elongate electrical conductor are electrostatically coupled, such as by twisting them together into a helix.
US09929444B2
A battery pack has a battery, a sensor module, a first power supply module and an indicating module. The sensor module is used to detect a change in an electrical field or magnetic field nearby the battery pack and to activate the indicating module in response to the change being detected.
US09929441B2
A battery pack includes a battery housing and electrochemical cells disposed in the battery housing in a stacked configuration. Elastic members are disposed between adjacent cells of a cell stack. Each elastic member is a bladder that is formed of a pair of contoured plate portions stacked in a mirrored arrangement, whereby the plate portions cooperate to form a bellows-type compression spring. The elastic members provide a predetermined compression force to each cell while accommodating cell growth during use. The elastic members may include surface features such as strategically shaped and/or located protrusions that are configured to permit compliance and can be tuned to address the requirements of a specific application and permit application of varying stiffness characteristics across a surface of a cell.
US09929436B2
A display device comprising a radiation source and a glazing unit is disclosed. The glazing unit comprises a glazing function substrate and a coating that prevents reflection of incident monochromatic laser radiation emitted by the radiation source, which scans a portion of the gazing unit. The coating comprises a stack of two layers, namely, a first layer made of a material based on zinc oxide, tin oxide, silicon nitride, zinc tin oxide or zirconium silicon oxide; and a second layer made of a material based on a silicon oxide, in which the respective geometric thicknesses Ep1 and Ep2 of the layers are substantially equal to: Ep1=26+0.07(θ)−0.007(θ)2 (1) Ep2=83−0.1(θ)+0.01(θ)2 (2), in which θ is the mean angle of orientation of incident monochromatic laser radiation to the normal to the glazing unit in the scanned portion thereof.
US09929432B2
A re-chargeable battery comprising a non-dendrite forming sodium (Na)/potassium (K) liquid metal alloy anode, a sulfur and polyacrylonitrile (PAN) conductive polymer composite cathode, a polyethyleneoxide (PEO) solid electrolyte, a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) formed on the PEO solid electrolyte; and a cell housing, wherein the anode, cathode, and electrolyte are assembled into the cell housing with the PEO solid electrolyte disposed between the cathode and anode.
US09929430B2
A composite active material including composite particles and a sulfide-based solid electrolyte is proposed. The composite particles contain active material particles and an oxide-based solid electrolyte. The active material particles contain at least any one of a cobalt element, a nickel element and a manganese element and further contain a lithium element and an oxygen element. The oxide-based solid electrolyte coats all or part of a surface of each of the active material particles. The sulfide-based solid electrolyte further coats 76.0% or more of a surface of each of the composite particles.
US09929426B2
A fuel cell stack is formed by stacking unit cells and each unit cell is formed by sandwiching a membrane electrode assembly between a pair of separators having depression parts and protrusion parts. A cooling liquid flow space is formed between the unit cells, and a displacement absorption member which absorbs displacement between the unit cells C is disposed in the flow space. The displacement absorption member includes a spring function part having a free end and a fixed end, and an intrusion prevention means which prevents the free end of the spring function part from intruding into the depression part. A displacement absorption function between the unit cells is well maintained, while size reduction of the fuel cell stack is achieved.
US09929425B2
Stable solutions comprising high concentrations of charged coordination complexes, including iron hexacyanides are described, as are methods of preparing and using same in chemical energy storage systems, including flow battery systems. The use of these compositions allows energy storage densities at levels unavailable by other iron hexacyanide systems.
US09929418B2
A system and method for diagnosing the state of a fuel cell stack are provided. The method includes simultaneously applying currents having respective first and second frequencies to a fuel cell stack and computing Fourier transforms of output currents and voltages from the fuel cell stack based on the applied currents. A real part of a first frequency impedance and an imaginary part of a second frequency impedance are calculated using amplitudes and phases of currents and voltages having the first frequency and the second frequency among the computed output currents and voltages. Further, a state of the fuel cell stack is determined by magnitude of the calculated real part of the first frequency impedance and by magnitude of the calculated imaginary part of the second frequency impedance.
US09929413B2
A sub-assembly for an electrochemical stack, such as a PEM fuel cell stack, has a bipolar plate with sealing material extending from its upper face, around the edge of the bipolar plate, and onto its lower face. The bipolar plate is preferably a combination of an anode plate and a cathode plate defining an internal coolant flow field and bonded together by sealing material which also provides a seal around the coolant flow field. All of the sealing material in the sub-assembly may be one contiguous mass. To make the sub-assembly, anode and cathode plates are loaded into a mold. Liquid sealing material is injected into the mold and fills a gap between the edge of the plates, and portions of the outer faces of the plates, and the mold. In a stack, sub-assemblies are separated by MEAs which at least partially overlap the sealing material on their faces.
US09929406B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes: a negative electrode current collector foil; and a negative electrode mixture layer that is arranged on the negative electrode current collector foil. The negative electrode mixture layer contains a plurality of granulated particles. Each of the granulated particles contains a negative electrode active material and a coating film. The coating film is formed on a surface of the negative electrode active material. The coating film includes a first film and a second film. The first film is formed on the surface of the negative electrode active material. The second film is formed on the first film. The first film contains a carboxymethyl cellulose polymer. The second film contains a polyacrylic acid polymer.
US09929402B2
A power storage device including a positive electrode in which a positive electrode active material is formed over a positive electrode current collector and a negative electrode which faces the positive electrode with an electrolyte interposed therebetween is provided. The positive electrode active material includes a first region which includes a compound containing lithium and one or more of manganese, cobalt, and nickel; and a second region which covers the first region and includes a compound containing lithium and iron. Since a superficial portion of the positive electrode active material includes the second region containing iron, an energy barrier when lithium is inserted into and extracted from the surface of the positive electrode active material can be decreased.
US09929399B2
The present invention is a negative electrode active material for a negative electrode active material layer of a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein: the negative electrode active material comprises silicon-based material consisting of SiOx (0.5≤x≤1.6); and the negative electrode active material has two or more peaks in a region of a bond energy ranging from 520 eV to 537 eV in an O 1s peak shape given in an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. As a result, it is possible to provide a negative electrode active material in which a battery capacity can be increased and cycle characteristics and initial charge/discharge characteristics can be improved when used as a negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery.
US09929398B2
A Lithium-ion secondary battery (100A) has a negative electrode current collector (241A) and a negative electrode active material layer (243A) coated on the negative electrode current collector (241A). The negative electrode active material layer (243A) contains negative electrode active material particles (710A). The negative electrode active material particles (710A) include graphite particles each at least partially covered by an amorphous carbon film (750). The weight ratio X of the amorphous carbon film (750) in the negative electrode active material particles (710A) is 0.02≤X≤0.06. The negative electrode active material particles (710A) have a linseed oil absorption number Y (mL/100 g) of 35 (mL/100 g)≤Y≤70 (mL/100 g).
US09929397B2
A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode and a second electrode; a case for accommodating the electrode assembly; a first current collector coupled to the first electrode and including a fuse; and a second current collector coupled to the second electrode. First and second blocking members are positioned on the first current collector at a distance from each other with the fuse 10 interposed inbetween and each blocking member includes a nonconductor.
US09929393B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to the design of a jelly-roll battery comprising an alternating anode and cathode layers coated with intervening separator layers wound into a jelly-roll. The alternating anode and cathode layers are coated with, respectively, an anode active coating and a cathode active coating. A first common notch and a second common notch are formed along at least one side of the jelly-roll. A common cathode tab can be bonded to the cathode tabs within the first common notch, and a common anode tab can be bonded to the anode tabs within the second common notch. The jelly-roll battery also includes a pouch enclosing the jelly-roll. Common anode and cathode tabs can extend through the pouch to provide cathode and anode terminals for the battery cell.
US09929391B2
A bus bar module is located on one end of each battery of a group of batteries that have terminals at their ends. The bus bar module includes a bus bar, which is made of a conductive metal, and electrically connects the terminals of the respective batteries in the battery group, and an insulating laminate portion that is laminated, at least on an inner surface of the bus bar facing the ends of the batteries and an outer surface, which is opposite to the inner surface of the bus bar. The insulating laminate portion has an insulating material that includes thermoplastic elastomer and/or rubber.
US09929384B2
The present invention relates to an energy storage module (10) able to contain a plurality of energy storage elements (14), the module comprising an envelope (16) comprising at least one plurality of lateral walls and two end walls (18A, 18B) dimensioned so as to surround the energy storage elements, at least one member for placing in contact (22) made at least partially from a thermally conducting material, intended to be placed between at least one energy storage element and a lateral wall of the module, termed the reference wall (20A), said member comprising a first contact face (24A) and a second contact face (30A) which are associated respectively with the reference wall (20A) and said energy storage element or elements (14), one at least of said first (24A) and second (30A) contact faces being adapted to abut against one of the reference wall (20A) or of said element or elements (14), and said member being configured so that the distance between the first and second contact faces can vary. The invention also relates to a method of assembling a module.
US09929382B2
A battery having an exterior body defining a housing space which houses a battery element. The housing space is tapered in shape such that the plane area gradually becomes smaller from an opening toward the inside. A dimension of a top surface located innermost from the opening of the housing space is made equal to a smallest dimension among the positive electrode members, negative electrode members, and separators constituting the battery element. A dimension of the opening of the housing space is made equal to a largest dimension among the positive electrode members, negative electrode members, and separators constituting the battery element.
US09929364B2
The present invention relates to an electronic device comprising a dielectric material, which dielectric material comprises a copolymer comprising styrene and maleimic acid and derivatives thereof as structural units, a process for the preparation of the electronic device and to the use of the copolymer as dielectric material, especially as dielectric layer in printed electronic devices such as capacitors and organic field-effect transistors.
US09929359B2
A composition is provided containing a first phosphorescent compound (DB) having an emission spectrum whose maximum peak wavelength is from 400 nm to less than 480 nm and having a dendron and a second phosphorescent compound (DGR) having an emission spectrum whose maximum peak wavelength is from 480 nm to less than 680 nm and having a dendron.
US09929354B2
The present invention relates to compounds suitable for use in electronic devices, and to electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these compounds.
US09929342B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an ink-jet printing method and a manufacturing method of an OLED display device. The ink-jet printing method includes printing a first ink within a groove defined by a pixel defining layer, such that the first ink forms a first thin film by a drying process, the first thin film covering an inner surface of a lyophilic portion of the pixel defining layer; removing a central portion of the first thin film, the central portion being located at the bottom of the groove; and printing a second ink into the groove covered with the first thin film, such that the second ink forms a second thin film by the drying process.
US09929326B2
According to some embodiments of the invention, a light-emitting device package includes a body including top and bottom surfaces and a cavity in the body, the cavity extending from the top surface towards the bottom surface and having a floor. The light-emitting device package also includes a plurality of LED (light-emitting-diode) dies disposed on the floor of the cavity. A socket is formed over the plurality of LED dies. The socket includes a top surface, a socket sidewall, and a bottom surface, the socket sidewall disposed between the top surface and the bottom surface of the socket. A lens is disposed over the over the socket. The lens includes two or more optical materials with different indices of refraction. The lens includes a cap and a plug. The cap has an upper surface and a lower surface, and the plug has a lower surface and a plug sidewall between the lower surface of the plug and the lower surface of the cap.
US09929322B2
A foldable organic light emitting display (OLED) device comprises a substrate including a display region and a non-display region, the non-display region located at a periphery of the display region; an emitting diode in the display region; and an encapsulation film covering both the emitting diode and an entirety of the display region, and the encapsulation film covering and a part of the non-display region without covering at least another part of the non-display region.
US09929319B2
A process for fabricating a LED lighting apparatus includes disposing a composite coating on a surface of a LED chip. The composite coating comprises a first composite layer having a manganese doped phosphor of formula I and a first binder, and a second composite layer comprising a second phosphor composition and a second binder. The first binder, the second binder or both include a poly(meth)acrylate. Ax[MFy]:Mn4+ (I) wherein A is Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or a combination thereof; M is Si, Ge, Sn, Ti, Zr, Al, Ga, In, Sc, Hf, Y, La, Nb, Ta, Bi, Gd, or a combination thereof; x is the absolute value of the charge of the [MFy] ion; y is 5, 6 or 7.
US09929314B2
Disclosed herein is an LED chip including electrode pads. The LED chip includes a semiconductor stack including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer on the first conductive type semiconductor layer, and an active layer interposed between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer; a first electrode pad located on the second conductive type semiconductor layer opposite to the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a first electrode extension extending from the first electrode pad and connected to the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a second electrode pad electrically connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer; and an insulation layer interposed between the first electrode pad and the second conductive type semiconductor layer. The LED chip includes the first electrode pad on the second conductive type semiconductor layer, thereby increasing a light emitting area.
US09929301B2
A semiconductor stack includes a substrate composed of a III-V group compound semiconductor, a buffer layer that is arranged on the substrate and that is composed of a III-V group compound semiconductor, and an active layer that is arranged on the buffer layer and that includes a layer composed of a III-V group compound semiconductor containing Sb as a group V element. A region of the buffer layer including a main surface of the buffer layer adjacent to the substrate includes a high-concentration region having a high total concentration of Si and C compared with another adjacent region.
US09929294B2
A photoelectric conversion device includes an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer, a collecting electrode formed on the n-type semiconductor layer, and a collecting electrode formed on the p-type semiconductor layer, on a back surface opposite to a light receiving surface of an n-type crystalline silicon substrate, and an n-type semiconductor region on a surface on a light receiving surface side of the n-type crystalline silicon substrate, wherein in the n-type semiconductor region, an n-type semiconductor region that is opposed to the n-type semiconductor layer with the n-type crystalline silicon substrate therebetween and an n-type semiconductor region that is opposed to the p-type semiconductor layer with the n-type crystalline silicon substrate therebetween have different average impurity concentrations.
US09929293B1
In a superlattice (SL) photodetector, each period of the SL includes first and second semiconductor layers having different compositions, at least one of which comprises indium arsenide (InAs). At least one of these two semiconductor layers has a graded composition. In embodiments, the first semiconductor layer comprises InAs and the second semiconductor layer is a graded layer comprising indium arsenide antimonide (InAsSb), wherein the antimony (Sb) concentration is varied. In examples, the Sb concentration in the second layer gradually increases from the top and bottom toward the middle of the layer.
US09929270B2
A method for manufacturing a fin field-effect transistor (FinFET) device, comprises patterning a first layer on a substrate to form at least one fin, patterning a second layer under the first layer to remove a portion of the second layer on sides of the at least one fin, forming a sacrificial gate electrode on the at least one fin, and a spacer on the sacrificial gate electrode, selectively removing the sacrificial gate electrode, depositing an oxide layer on top and side portions of the at least one fin corresponding to a channel region of the at least one fin, performing thermal oxidation to condense the at least one fin in the channel region until a bottom portion of the at least one fin is undercut, and stripping a resultant oxide layer from the thermal oxidation, leaving a gap in the channel region between a bottom portion of the at least one fin and the second layer.
US09929269B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a semiconductor device, a FinFET device, and methods for forming the same. An embodiment is a semiconductor device including a first semiconductor fin extending above a substrate, the first semiconductor fin having a first lattice constant, an isolation region surrounding the first semiconductor fin, and a first source/drain region in the first semiconductor fin, the first source/drain having a second lattice constant different from the first lattice constant. The semiconductor device further includes a first oxide region along a bottom surface of the first source/drain region, the first oxide region extending into the isolation region.
US09929263B2
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same. The device includes a substrate having an AlGaN layer located on one or more GaN layers, for forming a two dimensional electron gas at an interface between the AlGaN layer and the GaN layer. The device also includes a source contact. The device further includes a drain contact. The device also includes a gate contact located between the source contact and the drain contact. The gate contact includes a gate electrode. The gate contact also includes an electrically insulating layer located between the gate electrode and the AlGaN layer. The insulating layer includes at least one aperture for allowing holes generated during an off-state of the device to exit the device through the gate electrode.
US09929257B2
Devices, and methods of forming such devices, having a material that is semimetal when in bulk but is a semiconductor in the devices are described. An example structure includes a substrate, a first source/drain contact region, a channel structure, a gate dielectric, a gate electrode, and a second source/drain contact region. The substrate has an upper surface. The channel structure is connected to and over the first source/drain contact region, and the channel structure is over the upper surface of the substrate. The channel structure has a sidewall that extends above the first source/drain contact region. The channel structure comprises a bismuth-containing semiconductor material. The gate dielectric is along the sidewall of the channel structure. The gate electrode is along the gate dielectric. The second source/drain contact region is connected to and over the channel structure.
US09929255B2
After formation of a gate structure and a lower dielectric spacer laterally surrounding the gate structure, a disposable material layer is deposited and planarized such that the top surface of the disposable material layer is formed below the topmost surface of the lower dielectric spacer. An upper dielectric spacer is formed around the gate structure and over the top surface of the disposable material layer. The disposable material layer is removed selective to the upper and lower dielectric spacers and device components underlying the gate structure. Semiconductor surfaces of the gate structure can be laterally sealed by the stack of the lower and upper dielectric spacers. Formation of any undesirable semiconductor deposition on the gate structure can be avoided by the combination of the lower and upper dielectric spacers during a subsequent selective epitaxy process.
US09929250B1
A semiconductor device is provided with an electrically conductive gate having an enhanced gate profile. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate that extends along a first axis to define a length and a second axis opposite the first axis to define a height. A channel region is interposed between opposing source/drain regions, and a gate stack is atop the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes an electrically conductive gate atop the channel region. The electrically conductive gate includes sidewalls extending between a base and an upper surface to define a gate height. A gate length of the electrically conductive gate continuously increases as the gate height increases from the base to the upper surface.
US09929237B2
A GNR is a ribbon-shaped graphene film which includes: five or more (for example, five, seven, or nine) six-membered rings of carbon atoms which are bonded and arranged in line in a short side direction; and a complete armchair type edge structure along a long side direction. By such a constitution, without using a transfer method, there are materialized a highly reliable graphene film which has an armchair type edge structure with a uniform width at a desired value and which enables an electric current on-off ratio of 105 or more that is practically sufficient for exhibiting a desired band gap.
US09929234B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. First, a substrate is provided, and a gate structure is formed on the substrate. Next, a recess is formed adjacent to two sides of the gate structure, and an epitaxial layer is formed in the recess, in which a top surface of the epitaxial layer is lower than a top surface of the substrate. Next, a cap layer is formed on the epitaxial layer, in which a top surface of the cap layer is higher than a top surface of the substrate.
US09929232B2
An impurity of a second conductivity type is selectively doped in a surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type to form doped regions. A portion of a surface of the doped regions is covered by a heat insulating film. At least a remaining portion of the surface of the doped regions is covered by an absorbing film and the doped regions are heated through the absorbing film, enabling an impurity region of the second conductivity type to be formed having two or more of the doped regions that have a same impurity concentration and differing carrier concentrations.
US09929229B2
Various embodiments includes a stacked open pattern inductor fabricated above a semiconductor substrate. The stacked open pattern inductor includes a plurality of parallel open conducting patterns embedded in a magnetic oxide or in an insulator and a magnetic material. A layer of magnetic material may be located above the inductor and below the inductor to confine electronic noise generated in the stacked open pattern inductor to the area occupied by the inductor. The stacked open pattern inductor may include a magnetic material directly contacts one of the conducting patterns and the substrate. The stacked open pattern inductor may be fabricated using conventional integrated circuit manufacturing processes, and the inductor may be used in connection with computer systems.
US09929219B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus for selectively realizing circular polarization according to external light conditions, including a substrate; an organic light-emitting device on the substrate; a sealing member on the organic light-emitting device; a phase retardation layer on a surface of the substrate, the organic light-emitting device, or the sealing member; and a linear polarization layer on another surface of the substrate, the organic light-emitting device, or the sealing member, wherein the linear polarization layer is located to be closer to a source of external light than the phase retardation layer, and wherein the linear polarization layer comprises a photochromic material.
US09929212B2
According to the embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a first memory cell, a second memory cell, a third conductive layer, a first contact, a intermediate memory cell, a fourth conductive layer, a third memory cell, a fifth conductive layer, and a second contact. The third conductive layer is separated from the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer in a third direction crossing a first direction and crossing a second direction and extends in the second direction. The fifth conductive layer is separated from the second conductive layer in the third direction and extends in the second direction. A first length of the second conductive layer along the second direction is shorter than a second length of the fifth conductive layer along the second direction.
US09929204B2
Unit pixel of image sensor, image sensor including the same and method of manufacturing image sensor
Provided are a unit pixel, an image sensor including the same, a portable electronic device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the same. The method of manufacturing includes: forming a photoelectric conversion region in a substrate; forming, in the substrate, a first floating diffusion region spaced apart from the photoelectric conversion region of the substrate, and a second floating diffusion region spaced apart from the first floating diffusion region; forming a first recess spaced apart from the first floating diffusion region and the second floating diffusion region by removing a portion of the substrate from a first surface of the substrate; filling the first recess to form a dual conversion gain (DCG) gate that extends perpendicularly or substantially perpendicularly from the first surface of the substrate; and forming a conductive layer to fill an inside of the first recess.
US09929198B2
An image sensor includes a substrate, dual-waveband photosensitive devices, at least one infrared photosensitive device, a transparent dielectric layer, at least one infrared band-pass filter, a color filter layer and a micro-lens layer. The dual-waveband photosensitive devices are disposed in the substrate, and each dual-waveband photosensitive device is configured to sense an infrared light and one visible light. The infrared photosensitive device is disposed in the substrate, in which the dual-waveband photosensitive devices and the infrared photosensitive device are arranged in an array. The transparent dielectric layer is disposed over the dual-waveband photosensitive devices and the infrared photosensitive device. The infrared band-pass filter is disposed in the transparent dielectric layer and corresponds to the infrared photosensitive device. The color filter layer is disposed to cover the transparent dielectric layer and the infrared band-pass filter. The micro-lens layer is disposed on the color filter layer.
US09929196B2
A method of manufacturing a detector capable of detecting a wavelength range [λ8; λ14] centered on a wavelength λ10, including: forming said device on a substrate by depositing a sacrificial layer totally embedding said device; forming, on the sacrificial layer, a cap including first, second, and third optical structures transparent in said range [Δ8; λ14], the second and third optical structures having equivalent refraction indexes at wavelength λ10 respectively greater than or equal to 3.4 and smaller than or equal to 2.3; forming a vent of access to the sacrificial layer through a portion of the cap, and then applying, through the vent, an etching to totally remove the sacrificial layer.
US09929194B2
An image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion element including a first impurity region and a second impurity region, wherein the first impurity region contacts a first surface of a substrate, wherein the second impurity region has conductivity complementary to the first impurity region and is formed in the substrate and below the first impurity region; a pillar formed over the photoelectric conversion element; a transfer gate formed over the photoelectric conversion element to surround the pillar; and a channel layer formed between the transfer gate and the pillar and contacting the photoelectric conversion element, wherein the channel layer contacts the first impurity region and has the same conductivity as the second impurity region.
US09929190B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a peeling method that causes no damage to a layer to be peeled and to allow not only a layer to be peeled with a small surface area but also a layer to be peeled with a large surface area to be peeled entirely. Further, it is also an object of the present invention to bond a layer to be peeled to various base materials to provide a lighter semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. Particularly, it is an object to bond various elements typified by a TFT, (a thin film diode, a photoelectric conversion element comprising a PIN junction of silicon, or a silicon resistance element) to a flexible film to provide a lighter semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof.
US09929189B2
A fabrication method of a display panel and a display panel, and a display device are provided. The display panel is divided into a display region and a non-display region and comprises a first substrate, and the non-display region of the first substrate includes an IC attaching region. The fabrication method comprises a thinning process. The thinning process includes: 1) forming a barrier layer insoluble to a thinning fluid in a region of a first surface of the first substrate of the display panel corresponding to the IC attaching region; 2) thinning the display panel by adopting the thinning fluid such that a thickness of the IC attaching region of the first substrate is greater than a thickness of the display region of the first substrate; and 3) removing the barrier layer.
US09929180B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a substrate with a plurality of logic cells, transistors provided in the plurality of logic cells, contact plugs connected to electrodes of the transistors, first via plugs in contact with top surfaces of the contact plugs, and first wires in contact with top surfaces of the first via plugs. The first wires may include a common conductive line connected to the plurality of logic cells through the contact plugs, and all of the first wires may be shaped like a straight line extending parallel to a specific direction.
US09929170B2
Provided herein is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include a substrate, conductive patterns, and a pipe gate. The substrate may have first and second regions arranged in a first direction and a third region arranged between the first and second regions. The conductive patterns may be stacked on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and may extend from the first region to the second region. The pipe gate may be arranged between the conductive patterns and the substrate to overlap the first region. The pipe gate may not be overlapped with the third region.
US09929168B2
A method for forming an embedded flash memory device includes a gate stack, and source and drain regions in the semiconductor substrate is disclosed. The first source and drain regions are on opposite sides of the gate stack. The gate stack includes a bottom dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate, a charge trapping layer over the bottom dielectric layer, a top dielectric layer over the charge trapping layer, a high-k dielectric layer over the top dielectric layer, and a metal gate over the high-k dielectric layer.
US09929167B2
A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory and a logic circuit. The non-volatile memory includes a stacked structure comprising a first insulating layer, a floating gate, a second insulating layer, a control gate and a third insulating layer stacked in this order from a substrate; an erase gate line; and a word line. The logic circuit includes a field effect transistor comprising a gate electrode. The word line includes a protrusion, and a height of the protrusion from the substrate is higher than a height of the erase gate line from the substrate. The word line and the gate electrode are formed of polysilicon.
US09929166B1
The semiconductor device according to the embodiments comprises: a plurality of first conductive layers arranged in a first direction above a substrate, the first direction intersecting an upper surface of the substrate; a semiconductor layer that faces a side surface of the plurality of first conductive layers and extends in the first direction as a longitudinal direction thereof; a wiring portion configured by causing end portions of the first conductive layers to be at different positions, respectively; and a transistor located above the wiring portion. The transistor comprises: a channel portion arranged at a same height as a second conductive layer, the second conductive layer being one of the plurality of the first conductive layers; agate insulating film arranged on an upper surface of the channel portion; and a gate electrode layer arranged on an upper surface of the gate insulating film.
US09929160B1
Disclosed are semiconductor devices including a field effect transistor and methods of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device comprises a device isolation layer in an upper portion of a substrate, first active patterns on a first region of the substrate and second active patterns on a second region of the substrate, gate structures extending in one direction and running across the first and second active patterns, and a blocking layer on a recessed region of the device isolation layer of the first region. Each of the first and second active patterns comprises a plurality of semiconductor patterns that are vertically stacked and spaced apart from each other. The semiconductor patterns of the first active patterns have conductivity different from that of the semiconductor patterns of the second active patterns. The blocking layer is limited on the first region.
US09929149B2
Various implementations described herein may be directed to using inter-tier vias (IVs) in integrated circuits (ICs). In one implementation, a three-dimensional (3D) IC may include a plurality of tiers disposed on a substrate layer, where the tiers may include a first tier having a first active device layer electrically coupled to first interconnect layers, and may also include a second tier having a second active device layer electrically coupled to a second interconnect layer, where the first interconnect layers include an uppermost layer that is least proximate to the first active device layer. The 3D IC may further include IVs to electrically couple the second interconnect layer and the uppermost layer. The uppermost layer may be electrically coupled to a power source at peripheral locations of the first tier, thereby electrically coupling the power source to the first active device layer and to the second active device layer.
US09929148B1
The present disclosure provides semiconductor devices and manufacturing techniques in which a buried capacitive structure may be provided at the level of the buried insulating layer of an SOI device, thereby providing reduced process complexity compared to conventional strategies, while still preserving superior routing capabilities above the buried capacitive structures.
US09929145B1
Integrated chips includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor fin having a channel region and a gate stack formed around the first semiconductor fin that has upper and lower limits that are outside a respective upper and lower limit of the channel region. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor fin having a base region and an extrinsic base formed around the second semiconductor fin that has upper and lower limits that are within a respective upper and lower limit of the base region.
US09929139B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit (IC) may include a circuit block that couples to one or more pins of the IC to communicate and/or receive power on the pins. The circuit block may include a ground connection, which may be electrically insulated/electrically separate from the ground connection of other components of the integrated circuit. In an embodiment, the circuit block may include an ESD protection circuit for the pad coupled to the pin. The IC may include another ESD protection circuit for the pad. The circuit block's ESD protection circuit may be sized for the current that may produced within the circuit block for an ESD event, and the IC's ESD protection circuit may be sized for the current that may be produced from the other components of the IC.
US09929136B1
A process for making and using a semiconductor wafer includes instantiating first and second designs of experiments (DOES), each comprised of at least two fill cells. The fill cells contain structures configured to obtain in-line data via non-contact electrical measurements (“NCEM”). The first DOE contains fill cells configured to enable non-contact (NC) detection of tip-to-side shorts, and the second DOE contains fill cells configured to enable NC detection of chamfer shorts. The process may further include obtaining NC measurements from the first and/or second DOE(s) and using such measurements, at least in part, to selectively perform additional processing, metrology or inspection steps on the wafer, and/or on other wafer(s) currently being manufactured.
US09929130B2
An integrated passive device and power management integrated circuit are directly connected, active surface to active surface, resulting in a pyramid die stack. The die stack is flip-chip attached to a laminate substrate having a cavity drilled therein wherein the smaller die fits into the cavity. The die to die attach is not limited to IPD and PMIC and can be used for other die types as required.
US09929129B2
An array substrate of organic light-emitting diodes and a method for fabricating the same are provided to narrow an edge frame of product device of organic light-emitting diodes, to shorten the package process time, and to improve the substrate utilization and the production efficiency. The array substrate of organic light-emitting diodes includes a plurality of display panels disposed in an array of rows and columns, wherein at least two adjacent display panels are connected through a frame adhesive, and there is no cutting headroom between at least one side of the at least two adjacent display panels.
US09929126B2
A package includes a corner, a device die, a plurality of redistribution lines underlying the device die, and a plurality of metal pads electrically coupled to the plurality of redistribution lines. The plurality of metal pads includes a corner metal pad closest to the corner, wherein the corner metal pad is a center-facing pad having a bird-beak direction substantially pointing to a center of the package. The plurality of metal pads further includes a metal pad farther away from the corner than the corner metal pad, wherein the metal pad is a non-center-facing pad having a bird-beak direction pointing away from the center of the package.
US09929123B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a first die includes an LC resonant circuit including a first capacitive element, such as a capacitor or a varactor, and an inductive element. The LC resonant circuit is configured to generate a signal having a frequency of oscillation. The first die includes bump pads electrically coupled to both ends of the first capacitive element. A second die can be flip chip mounted on the first die. Bumps can electrically connect a second capacitive element of the second die in parallel with the first capacitive element of the first die. This can increase the Q factor of the LC resonant circuit.
US09929113B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a semiconductor device structure (e.g., a sensor device structure), and method for manufacturing thereof, that comprises a three-dimensional package structure free of wire bonds, through silicon vias, and/or flip-chip bonding.
US09929107B1
In an embodiment, a method includes forming an opening in a front surface of a substrate including at least one Group III nitride-based transistor on the first surface, inserting conductive material into the opening, and coupling a source electrode of the Group III nitride-based transistor to a rear surface of the substrate with the conductive material.
US09929100B2
An electronic component package and a method of manufacturing an electronic component package are provided. An electronic component package includes a frame having a cavity, an electronic component disposed in the cavity, a redistribution layer disposed adjacent to the frame and electrically connected to the electronic component, and an encapsulation material encapsulating the electronic component and having an elastic modulus smaller than that of a material constituting the frame.
US09929099B2
A semiconductor device includes an interlayer insulating layer including a first insulating layer on a substrate, and a plurality of interconnections in the first insulating layer. The interlayer insulating layer includes a first region, and a second region including an air gap. The air gap is defined between a pair of the interconnections in the second region. A top surface of the first insulating layer of the first region is lower than a top surface of at least one of the interconnections in the first region.
US09929097B2
In some embodiments, an improved mechanical adhesion of copper metallization to dielectric with partially cured epoxy fillers is presented. In this regard, a substrate build-up film is introduced having epoxy material and a plurality of epoxy microspheres, wherein an interior of the microspheres is not fully cured. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09929091B2
Semiconductor devices and methods are provided in which vertical fuse devices are integrally formed with FINFET (Fin Field Effect Transistor) devices, wherein the vertical fuse devices are formed as part of a process flow for fabricating the FINFET devices. For example, a semiconductor device comprises first and second vertical semiconductor fins, a vertical fuse device, and a FINFET device. The vertical fuse device comprises a metal fuse element formed over a portion of the first vertical semiconductor fin, and the FINFET device comprises a metal gate electrode formed over a portion of the second vertical semiconductor fin. The metal fuse element and the metal gate electrode are concurrently formed as part of a replacement metal gate process flow.
US09929083B2
A semiconductor package includes a flexible film substrate including a chip mounting region and a cut-line interposed between an inner region and an outer region of the flexible film substrate, the cut-line partially surrounding the inner region. The semiconductor package further includes first interconnection lines extending in the inner region from a first side of the chip mounting region towards an edge of the inner region of the flexible film substrate, and second interconnection lines extending in the outer region from a second side of the chip mounting region towards an edge of the outer region of the flexible film substrate. The edge of the inner region and the edge of the outer region are located on the first side of the semiconductor chip.
US09929080B2
Methods of forming a microelectronic structure are described. Those methods comprise forming a stress compensation layer on a substrate, forming at least one opening within the stress compensation layer, and forming an interconnect paste within the at least one opening.
US09929079B2
Leadless electronic packages for GaN-based half bridge power conversion circuits have low inductance internal and external connections, high thermal conductivity and a large separation between external connections for use in high voltage power conversion circuits. Some electronic packages employ “L” shaped power paths and internal low impedance die to die connections. Further embodiments employ an insulative substrate disposed within the electronic package for efficient power path routing and increased packaging density.
US09929072B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor chip having a first surface with metallized terminals and a parallel second surface. A frame of insulating material adheres to at the sidewalls of the chip. The frame has a first surface planar with the first chip surface and a parallel second surface planar with the second chip surface. The first frame surface includes one or more embedded metallic fiducials extending from the first surface to the insulating material. At least one film of sputtered metal extends from the terminals across the surface of the polymeric layer to the fiducials. The film is patterned to form extended contact pads over the frame and rerouting traces between the chip terminals and the extended contact pads. The film adheres to the surfaces.
US09929065B2
The present disclosure provides methods for packaging a chip and packaged chips in which the chip and packaging are co-planar and gap-less. In certain instances, the packaged chip has electrodes or fluidics integrated with the chip.
US09929044B2
To provide a semiconductor device with low parasitic capacitance, a semiconductor device with low power consumption, a semiconductor device having favorable frequency characteristics, or a highly integrated semiconductor device. In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including a semiconductor, a first conductor, a second conductor, a third conductor, and an insulator, the semiconductor includes a first region in contact with the first conductor, a second region in contact with the second conductor, and a third region in contact with the insulator. The third conductor includes a region in which the third conductor and the semiconductor overlap with each other with the insulator interposed therebetween. The first region, the second region, and the third region do not overlap with each other. The first conductor is selectively grown over the first region, and the second conductor is selectively grown over the second region.
US09929021B2
A dry etching method provided to involve the steps of: (a) disposing a substrate within a chamber, the substrate having an amorphous carbon film; (b) preparing a plasma gas by converting a dry etching agent into a plasma, the dry etching agent containing at least oxygen and alkylsilane; and (c) conducting plasma etching on the amorphous carbon film by using the plasma gas and an inorganic film as a mask.
US09929018B2
A semiconductor wafer (12) with a thinned central portion (2) has a first side (3) and a second side (4) and at least one reinforcement structure for increasing the radial bending resistance of the semiconductor wafer (12). The reinforcement structure provides at least one passage (10) for a fluid flow between an inner face (9) of said one reinforcement structure towards an outer face (8) of the reinforcement structure. The passages (10) are manufactured in a z-direction coming from above the semiconductor wafer (12) in a direction which is essentially perpendicular to the surface, e.g. to the first side (3), of the semiconductor wafer (12).
US09929017B2
An etching method according to an embodiment, includes performing etching on a material having tungsten (W) as a main component by using as an etchant a chemical solution having hydrogen peroxide as a main component. The chemical solution contains 12 ppm or more and 100,000 ppm or less of W.
US09929013B2
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The methods may include etching a bulk pattern on a peripheral region to form patterns and then forming a layer on both a cell region and a peripheral region. The methods may include forming line patterns that extend from the cell region onto the peripheral region and then forming a layer on both the cell region and a peripheral region.
US09929010B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film with high crystallinity is provided. A first oxide semiconductor film and a second oxide semiconductor film are stacked over an insulating layer. After forming source and drain electrode layers on the second oxide semiconductor film, a third oxide semiconductor film is provided in contact with the second oxide semiconductor film and top surfaces and the source and drain electrode layers. At least one of the first, second, and third oxide semiconductor films is an oxide semiconductor film having a single crystal region.
US09929006B2
A silicon chalcogenate precursor comprising the chemical formula of Si(XR1)nR24-n, where X is sulfur, selenium, or tellurium, R1 is hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an alkoxide group, a substituted alkoxide group, an amide group, a substituted amide group, an amine group, a substituted amine group, or a halogen group, each R2 is independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, a substituted alkyl group, an alkoxide group, a substituted alkoxide group, an amide group, a substituted amide group, an amine group, a substituted amine group, or a halogen group, and n is 1, 2, 3, or 4. Methods of forming the silicon chalcogenate precursor, methods of forming silicon nitride, and methods of forming a semiconductor structure are also disclosed.
US09928999B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising digitising at least one individual signal or transient, determining in relation to the digitized signal or transient an indication of overlap and/or coalescence of ion arrivals in the digitized signal or transient, or one or more ion arrival envelopes in the digitized signal or transient, and marking or flagging the digitized signal or transient as suffering from overlap or coalescence of ion arrivals based on the indication.
US09928998B2
The present invention provides a means capable of determining the surface state of the target to execute accurate and quick cleaning of necessary part. The means includes: a magnet unit capable of forming a magnetic field on the surface of a target; a rotary system capable of driving the magnet unit to change the magnetic field pattern; and an ammeter configured to measure target current when the magnetic field is formed by the magnet unit and discharge voltage is applied to a target electrode to which the target is attached. The position of the magnet unit is variously changed by the rotary system, and the target current is measured at each position and compared with a reference value. It is then determined whether cleaning is necessary at each position, so that cleaning can be performed only for necessary part.
US09928989B2
The method is for automatic astigmatism correction of a lens system. A first image of a first frequency spectrum in a microscope is provided. The first image of a view is not in focus. The first image is then imaged. A first roundness measure of a distribution and directions of intensities in the first image is determined. The lens is changed to a second stigmator setting to provide a second image of a second frequency spectrum. The second image of the view is not in focus. The second image is the same view as the first image of the view at the first stigmator setting. A second roundness measure of a distribution and directions of intensities in the second image is determined. The first roundness measure is compared with the second roundness measure. The image with the roundness measure indicating the roundest distribution is selected.
US09928986B2
An emitter arrangement contains at least one emitter and at least one vaporizer element spaced apart therefrom. At least one of the emitters contains at least one emission surface made of at least one first electron emission material and lies at a first potential. At least one of the vaporizer elements contains one evaporation surface made of at least one second electron emission material and lies at a second potential. Thus, the emitter arrangement has a compact configuration and a longer lifetime with simultaneously good emission properties.
US09928977B2
A trip cam is for an operating handle assembly of an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a housing and a number of poles. The operating handle assembly has an operating handle partially extending into the housing. The trip cam includes a mounting portion structured to be disposed in the housing, and an operating handle protrusion extending from the mounting portion and being structured to engage the operating handle.
US09928974B1
A terminal barrier assembly for one or more terminals of an electrical switching apparatus, such as an electrical circuit breaker or switch. The terminal barrier includes a first barrier portion including a first opening portion, and a second barrier portion including a second opening portion. The first opening portion and second opening portion interface with one another to form a shielding aperture configured for shielding around one or more line wires extending from the one or more terminals. According to another aspect, an electrical switching apparatus including the terminal barrier assembly and methods of assembly of an electrical switching apparatus are provided, as are other aspects.
US09928973B2
A dielectric insulation medium. The insulation medium is characterized in that it comprises a fluoroketone having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms.
US09928964B1
An improved process for forming a conjugated thiophene precursor is described as in the formation of an improved polymer prepared from the conjugated thiophene and an improved capacitor formed from the improved polymer. The improved process includes forming a thiophene mixture comprising thiophene monomer, unconjugated thiophene oligomer, optionally a solvent and heating the thiophene mixture at a temperature of at least 100° C. to no more than the lower of 250° C. or the boiling point of a component of said thiophene mixture with the lowest boiling point temperature.
US09928962B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body and at least two outer electrodes. The body includes first and second main surfaces, an inner layer portion and first and second outer layer portions. In the inner layer portion, dielectric layers and conductive layers are alternately stacked on each other. The second outer layer portion includes an outer portion and an inner portion. A boundary region adjacent to the inner portion in the outer portion inclines toward the first main surface.
US09928960B2
A monolithic ceramic capacitor that contains a perovskite compound including Ba and Ti and at least one type of element selected from Gd, Tb, and Dy, and contains elements selected from Y, Si, Mn, Mg, and Zr. The content a of at least one element selected from Gd, Tb, and Dy satisfies 0.2≤a≤0.8, the content b of Y satisfies 0.0≤b≤0.5, the content c of Si satisfies 0.0≤c≤2.5, the content d of Mn satisfies 0.0≤d≤0.25, the content e of Mg satisfies 0.0≤e≤1.2, the content f of Zr satisfies 0.0≤f≤0.5, and the molar ratio m of the content of Ba/(f+the content of Ti) satisfies 0.99≤m≤1.01, where the total content of Ti is 100 parts by mole.
US09928949B1
A cable with magnetic mounting assembly has a base assembly, an internal support, a magnet, a friction member, and a cover assembly. The base assembly has an external base face, an exterior lateral face and an internal base face. The exterior lateral face has a base edge, lateral hollow protrusions, and internal lateral protrusions. The internal base face has internal walls and a base channel between them. The internal support has an internal face, a sidewall, and a magnet base. The internal face has slots, and a support channel between them. The friction member has a ring base with elongated protrusions. The cover assembly has a cover edge, a cover lateral wall and a concave face. The base assembly and the cover assembly house the internal support, the magnet, and the friction member. The concave face mounts onto any surface attracted to the magnet.
US09928946B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a cable, including, from the inside to the outside, a central electrical conductor (1), a first semiconductor screen (2), an intermediate electric insulator (3), a second semiconductor screen (4), a metal screen (5) and an outer sheath (6), the method comprising a step of extruding a composition comprising at least one polyolefin for forming at least one layer constituting the first semiconductor screen, the intermediate electric insulator or second semiconductor screen and a step of cross-linking said layer. According to the invention, the method comprises the step of injecting, into the composition, a liquid solution containing at least one peroxide and at least one so-called cross-linking coagent, during the manufacture of said layer. The invention likewise relates to a cable manufactured by means of such a method.
US09928945B2
The present invention provides: a method for producing particles of an element having a standard electrode potential greater than 0V, characterized by using in a protic solvent solution a polysilane having a poor solubility in an aprotic solvent, to produce particles of the element from ions of at least one element having a standard electrode potential greater than 0V; and a composite body of polysilane and the particles of an element having a standard electrode potential greater than 0V, in which the particles of the at least one element having a standard electrode potential greater than 0V (provided that palladium is not included in the element, in the case where the polysilane is a dimethyl polysilane) are adsorbed in the polysilane having poor solubility in an aprotic solvent.
US09928944B2
Conductive cores for use in cables, where the conductive core comprises a filled-polymeric-composite material concentrically surrounded by a conductive layer. The filled-polymeric-composite material comprises a polymeric continuous phase having dispersed therein a filler material. Such conductive cores can be employed in various cable designs and further include one or more outer layers, such as dielectric insulation layers, conductive shield layers, and jackets.
US09928941B2
An electrical cable includes a first wire conductor separated from a second wire conductor and a compensation area proximate to, but separated from, an end portion of the cable and a method of manufacturing such an electrical cable. The first and second wire conductors are each connected to a contact element. The first and second wire conductors are separated by a first distance within the compensation area. The first and second wire conductors are separated by a second distance outside of the compensation area. The first distance is less than the second distance, thereby decreasing an impedance of the cable within the compensation area.
US09928934B2
Provided is a curable composition for an electronic component that can be quickly cured and furthermore can have increased storage stability. The curable composition for an electronic component according to the present invention contains an epoxy compound, an anionic curing agent, a flux, and a basic compound excluding the anionic curing agent.
US09928928B2
Packaging for transporting and/or storing radioactive material, comprising a packaging body which defines therein a cavity for housing radioactive material, and at least one shock absorber which is mounted on the outside of the packaging body, which has an outer surface provided with at least one first outer surface and one second outer surface which are separated by an edge that is covered by the shock absorber. The absorber comprises a metal damping structure comprising a first recess having an imaginary straight line extending therethrough, the line passing through both a center of gravity of the packaging and a point on the edge, a second recess arranged so as to face one of the outer surfaces, and a metal wall for absorbing shocks by plastic deformation. The wall is at least 5 mm thick and defines the first and second recesses on either side thereof.
US09928925B1
A method of healing a plurality of non-volatile semiconductor memory devices on a multi-chip package is disclosed. The multi-chip package can be heated to a temperature range having a temperature range upper limit value and a temperature range lower limit value. The temperature of the multi-chip package can be kept essentially within the temperature range for a predetermined time period by monitoring a thermal sensing element with a sensing circuit outside of the multi-chip package. The thermal sensing element may be located near the components with the lowest failure temperature to ensure the multi-chip package is not damaged during the healing process.
US09928920B2
According to one embodiment, a temperature of a non-volatile memory or an ambient temperature of the non-volatile memory is acquired. A distribution of a threshold voltage, which is corrected according to the acquired temperature, is acquired from the non-volatile memory. Read voltages related to the reading of data are detected from the distribution. Error correction is performed for data read from the non-volatile memory, using the read voltages. The detected read voltages are separately corrected on the basis of the acquired temperature when the error correction has failed.
US09928918B2
A memory device includes core memory such as flash memory for storing data. The memory device includes a first power input to receive a first voltage used to power the flash memory. Additionally, the memory device includes a second power input to receive a second voltage. The memory device includes power management circuitry configured to receive the second voltage and derive one or more internal voltages. The power management circuitry supplies or conveys the internal voltages to the flash memory. The different internal voltages generated by the power management circuitry (e.g., voltage converter circuit) and supplied to the core memory enable operations such as read/program/erase with respect to cells in the core memory.
US09928917B2
A memory device includes a memory cell, a bit line connected to the memory cell, a control voltage generator configured to generate a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and generate an analog control voltage inversely proportional to the PTAT current, and a load current control circuit configured to control a first load current supplied to the bit line based on the analog control voltage.
US09928914B2
A disclosed example determines programmed states of a plurality of memory cells based on a counter reaching a trigger count value, the trigger count value selected from a plurality of different trigger count values based on a characteristic of the memory cells; determines, based on the programmed states, first ones of the memory cells that do not satisfy a target threshold voltage; and performs the programming pass on the first ones of the memory cells.
US09928906B2
A data-write device includes a write driver that causes a current to flow through a current path including an MTJ element or the other current path including the MTJ element in accordance with writing data to be written, thereby writing the write data into the MTJ element, a write completion detector which monitors the voltage at a first connection node or a second connection node in accordance with the write data after the writing of the write data into the MTJ element starts, detects the completion of writing of the write data based on the voltage at either node, and supplies a write completion signal indicating the completion of data write, and a write controller that terminates the writing of the write data into the MTJ element in response to the write completion signal supplied from the write completion detector.
US09928902B2
In a method of operating a storage device including at least one nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller configured to control the at least one nonvolatile memory device, a boundary page of a first memory block among a plurality of memory blocks included in the at least one nonvolatile memory device is searched for, at least one clean page, in which data is not written, of the first memory block is searched for, a dummy program operation is performed on a portion of the boundary page and the at least one clean page, and an erase operation is performed on the first memory block.
US09928892B2
A resistive memory apparatus includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells and a first ground switch. The plurality of memory cells are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each memory cell in a first column of the plurality of memory cells is connected between a first bitline and a first source line. The first ground switch is connected in parallel with the first source line, and the first ground switch is configured to selectively provide a first current path from the first bitline to ground through a selected memory cell in the first column of the plurality of memory cells and the first source line, the current path traversing only a portion of the first source line.
US09928886B2
A memory device comprises a plurality of word lines elongated along a first direction, and at least one memory unit. The at least one memory unit comprises a plurality of memory cells arranged along a second direction different from the first direction; at least one bit line elongated along the second direction, and configured to transmit data of a selected memory cell; and at least one column word line elongated along the second direction; wherein the memory cell comprises a storage cell configured to store data and at least two access transistors; wherein a control terminal of one of the at least two access transistors of the memory cell is coupled to the at least one column word line, and a control terminal of another one of the at least two access transistors of the memory cell is coupled to the corresponding word line.
US09928873B1
An apparatus comprises a slider configured for writing data to and reading data from a magnetic recording medium and for heat-assisted magnetic recording. The slider comprises a heater configured to receive an AC signal and to cause oscillation in a spacing between the slider and the medium, and a contact sensor situated on the slider and configured to produce a DC response signal. A detector is coupled to the slider and configured to measure an amplitude of a spike in the DC response signal, calculate a ratio between the spike amplitude and an amplitude of the DC response signal, and detect contact between the slider and the medium in response to the ratio exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US09928870B1
Systems and methods for providing an output signal based at least in part upon an input signal and a clock signal in a manner in which jitter is avoided or diminished, including for example a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), are disclosed herein. In one example embodiment, such a system includes an output signal generating component, a first component having a first switch and a variable characteristic, and a plurality of second components each having a respective additional switch and a respective fixed characteristic. A value of the variable characteristic is set at least in part based upon input and clock signals so that, when the variable characteristic influences at least indirectly the generating of the output signal by the output signal generating component, the output signal attains a first level that at least indirectly depends upon a phase of the clock signal relative to the input signal.
US09928858B1
A method that includes supplying a predetermined signal to a write head having side shields. The method also includes performing, by the write head, a recording operation on a surface of a data storage medium, when the predetermined signal is supplied to the write head, to provide a recorded magnetization pattern. The method further includes carrying out measurements on a portion of the recorded magnetization pattern influenced by a magnetization of the side shields. The measurements are employed to determine whether a reversed side shield magnetization condition is present in the write head.
US09928855B1
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a module having a tape bearing surface, a first edge, and a second edge. A first tape tenting region extends from the first edge along the tape bearing surface toward the second edge. A transducer is located in a thin film region of the module. A distance from the first edge to the transducer is less than a distance from the second edge to the transducer. The transducer is positioned in the first tape tenting region.
US09928843B2
An apparatus and a method to encode and decode a speech signal using an encoding mode are provided. An encoding apparatus may select an encoding mode of a frame included in an input speech signal, and encode a frame having an unvoiced mode for an unvoiced speech as the selected encoding mode.
US09928840B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving audio data corresponding to an utterance, determining that the audio data corresponds to a hotword, generating a hotword audio fingerprint of the audio data that is determined to correspond to the hotword, comparing the hotword audio fingerprint to one or more stored audio fingerprints of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword, detecting whether the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint of audio data that was previously determined to correspond to the hotword based on whether the comparison indicates a similarity between the hotword audio fingerprint and one of the one or more stored audio fingerprints that satisfies a predetermined threshold, and in response to detecting that the hotword audio fingerprint matches a stored audio fingerprint, disabling access to a computing device into which the utterance was spoken.
US09928835B1
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining when a user likes a piece of content based, at least in part, on analyzing user responses to the content. In one embodiment, the user's response may be monitored by audio and motion detection devices to determine when the user's vocals or movements are emulating the content. When the user's emulation exceeds a threshold amount the content may be designated as “liked.” In certain instances, a similar piece of content may be selected to play when the current content is finished.
US09928831B2
A speech data recognition method, apparatus, and server are for distinguishing regional accent. The speech data recognition method includes: calculating a speech recognition confidence and/or a signal-to-noise ratio of the speech data, and screening a regional speech data from the speech data based on the speech recognition confidence and/or the signal-to-noise ratio of the speech dat; and determining a region to which the regional speech data belongs based on a regional attribute of the regional speech data. The regional speech data are automatically recognized from the mass speech data by calculating the speech recognition confidence, the signal-to-noise ratio of the speech data or the combination thereof, thereby avoiding manual labeling of the speech data and enhancing the efficiency of the speech data processing.
US09928822B2
An audio system includes: a receiver receiving a first broadcast signal corresponding to a frequency selected by a user; a controller comparing a signal strength of the first broadcast signal in a first broadcast band to a signal strength of the first broadcast signal in a second frequency band and determining which frequency band of the first and second frequency bands has a higher signal strength based on the comparison; and a signal processor generating a second broadcast signal by changing a phase of the first broadcast signal in the determined frequency band, and generating a third broadcast signal in the determined frequency band canceled by synthesizing the first and second broadcast signals.
US09928814B2
A percussion mallet and method of producing percussion mallets featuring a plurality of grooves on the grip portion of the mallet which improve grip and prevent discomfort.
US09928813B1
A mute for a brass instrument includes a body and a locking mechanism. The body includes a sheet of rollable material configured to roll into a cone shaped mute. The locking mechanism is configured to lock the rolled sheet of rollable material as the cone shaped mute. The mute may be transported or stored in a flat form of the body. The body has a substantially semi-circle shape when flat that is configured to roll into the cone shaped mute. The substantially semi-circle shape of the body has an outer diameter when flat configured to create an open end of the cone shaped mute when rolled into the cone shaped mute. The open end of the cone shaped mute is sized to match a rim of a bell of the brass instrument.
US09928802B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display panel unit which comprises a first panel region corresponding to an opaque display region, and a second panel region corresponding to a transparent display region, a panel driving unit which drives the first panel region and the second panel region independently, and a controller which controls to display a main image on the opaque display region and display an additional image on the transparent display region.
US09928797B2
There are disclosed a shift register unit (100) and a driving method thereof, a gate driving apparatus and a display apparatus. The shift register unit (100) comprises a scanning direction selection unit (101), a control unit (102), a bootstrap unit (103), a first pull-down maintenance unit (104) and a second pull-down maintenance unit (105), which are used to reduce electric stress of a part of elements in the shift register unit (100), so as to raise stability of operation and prolong service life. Additionally, it is capable of realizing a narrow frame design of a liquid crystal display. The gate driving apparatus can adopt the GOA technique to enhance integrity of the TFT-LCD panel.
US09928796B2
A scanning signal is precisely output to a scanning signal line corresponding to a row range even in a case where a plurality of scanning signals (including a precharge signal) are output at the same time. A display control circuit of the display device sets row selection enable signals at H level so that main charging periods are set in a range from an ith row to an mth row, which corresponds to a moving image region, and precharging periods corresponding to the main charging periods are also set. Accordingly, a precise scanning signal in which a precharging period having a necessary length is set and no unnecessary precharging period is set at all is output to each of scanning signal lines connected to a scanning signal line driving circuit, so that deterioration of display quality is prevented.
US09928792B2
A display device includes pixel electrodes formed in an image display area of a substrate, a common electrode formed in the image display area, inside signal lines formed inside the image display area, and electrically connected to the pixel electrodes, outside signal lines formed outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the inside signal lines, and a common line formed inside and outside the image display area, and electrically connected to the common electrode. An image is displayed under a control of a light using an electric field developed between the pixel electrodes and the common electrode. A coupling capacitance is formed between the inside signal lines and the common electrode. The outside signal lines each include a first portion, and a second portion higher in electric resistance than the first portion and the inside signal lines.
US09928789B2
A display includes: a frame-rate conversion section being configured to be capable of changing a frame-rate conversion ratio having a value of 1 or more, the frame-rate conversion section converting a frame rate of an image signal at the frame-rate conversion ratio being set; and a display section displaying an image having undergone frame rate conversion.
US09928776B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the pixels via a plurality of scan lines, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixels via a plurality of data lines, and a readout circuit connected to the pixels via a plurality of readout lines, the readout circuit including a current-voltage converter configured to convert a current flowing through one of the readout lines into a first voltage, an analog-digital converter configured to convert the first voltage or a second voltage of the one of the readout lines into a digital data, and a switching circuit configured to control a connection among the one of the readout lines, the current-voltage converter, and the analog-digital converter.
US09928772B2
A controller controls the driving frequency and voltages for a display device. If image data corresponds to a moving picture, the controller drives a data driver and a gate driver at a moving picture frequency. If image data corresponds to a still image, drives the data driver and the gate driver at a still image frequency lower frequency than the moving picture frequency. When the still image is to be displayed, the signal controller also controls leakage current of a thin film transistor of a pixel based on a representative value of the image data, such that positive leakage current applied for a positive data voltage is equal to negative leakage current applied for a negative data voltage.
US09928771B2
A distributed pulse-width modulation system includes an array of pulse-width modulation elements, each element including a digital memory for storing a multi-bit digital value and a drive circuit that drives an output device in response to the multi-bit digital value stored in the digital memory. A system controller includes a memory for storing a multi-bit digital value for each element and a communication circuit for communicating each multi-bit digital value to each corresponding pulse-width modulation element.
US09928766B2
A test structure includes a terminal pattern, a first extending part, a second extending part and a measuring part. The terminal pattern includes a first terminal part, a second terminal part, a third terminal part and a fourth terminal part sequentially disposed and spaced apart from each other in a first direction. The first extending part is connected to the first terminal part and the second terminal part. The first extending part extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second extending part is connected to the third terminal part and the fourth terminal part. The second extending part extends in the second direction. The measuring part partially overlaps the first extending part and the second extending part.
US09928764B2
An illuminated support mount for a vehicle flag may include a base, a power input jack disposed outwardly of the base, a mast connected to the base, and a light source disposed within the mast and electrically connected to the power input jack.
US09928760B2
A display module comprises a circuit board including a plurality of light-emitting elements, a frame having a first face coupled with the circuit board and a second face, one or more first securing structures coupled to the second face, and one or more mounting hooks with a first hook portion coupled to and extending generally rearward from the second face and a second hook portion extending generally downward from the first hook portion. The first securing structures are actuable between an engaged configuration wherein the first securing structures mount or secure the display module to a support structure to at least partially support a display module weight, and a disengaged configuration wherein the display module is not secured to the support structure by the first securing structures, and wherein the mounting hooks at least partially support the display module weight when the first securing structures are in the disengaged configuration.
US09928756B2
A sign language message may be derived from user movements detected proximate to an electronic device by comparing the movements to a database that includes data regarding one or more sign languages. A control function may then be identified which the electronic device may be caused to perform. Output related to the user's detected movements may be provided to the user. In some implementations, output specifying identified control functions may be transmitted to a presentation device. Further, in some implementations, if a sign language message and/or a control function cannot be unambiguously derived and/or identified, output promoting the user to provide additional information may be transmitted to a presentation device. Detected movements may be compared to data regarding multiple different sign languages and/or a subset of available multiple different sign languages.
US09928753B2
A system of computers on a wide area network that establishes connections between nodes on the basis of their multidimensional similarity at a particular point in time in a certain setting, such as a social learning network, and that sends relevant information to the nodes is provided. Dimensions in the definition of similarity include a plurality of attributes in time and community space. Examples of such dimensions and attributes may include a position in a learning community's project cycle, titles of readings and projects, the genre or subject matter under consideration, age, grade, or skill level of the participants, and language. Each of the network's nodes is represented as a vector of attributes and is searched efficiently and adaptively through a variety of multidimensional data structures and mechanisms. The system includes synchronization that can transform a participant's time attributes on the network and coordinate the activities and information for each participant.
US09928752B2
A social choice engine is disclosed for eliciting and receiving responses to questions or issues and ranking the responses using the Borda ranking system. The social choice engine provides a user interface to a survey administrator that allows for the defining of the social choice survey. The social choice engine also provides a pick list of possible participants, where the possible participants are members of an online community. To administer the social choice survey, the social choice engine sends electronic notifications to selected participants. The participants respond to the social choice survey through a user interface that includes interactive features. The results of the social choice survey are then displayed to the survey administrator.
US09928745B2
A system for pairing a passenger having a mobile device with a vehicle is provided. The system includes a link manager located remote from the vehicle, wherein the link manager receives information from a fleet of vehicles and a plurality of passengers. The system also includes vehicle location determining means which generate vehicle location information for the vehicle, and a first wireless communication device which communicates vehicle location information to the link manager and mobile location determining means which generates mobile location information for the mobile device, and a second wireless communication device which communicates mobile location information to the link manager. The link manager matches the mobile location information with the closest matching vehicle location information received.
US09928742B2
A method is provided for generating traffic information for at least one vehicle, the information including at least one position. The method includes the following acts: comparing a currently used position table to at least one further position table; determining deviations in entries in the position tables; and, if a deviation is present, using the position of the deviating entry in one of the position tables as a reference point for the traffic information to be generated. A system for generating traffic information is described.
US09928739B2
Methods and systems for determining information relating to the operation of traffic control signals
A method of obtaining data relating to the timing of a transition between phases of a traffic control signal. The method involves obtaining live probe data relating to the travel of vehicles in the region of the traffic control signal, and using the data to determine times at which a given transition of the signal has occurred. This is carried out by consideration of the distance from the traffic signal at which a vehicle waits when stopped at the signal, and a time of passing the signal, as determined using the probe data. Different transition time pairs are analyzed to obtain time differences between the transition times. A cycle time which best fits the time difference data is determined, and used with the transition time data to predict future transition times of the traffic control signal.
US09928737B2
The invention which is mobile number plate recognition and speed detection apparatus (1) placed on the vehicles, i.e., police vehicle, with the aim of security, characterized in comprising camera (1.3) which is placed at two sides of the base—front right and front left—and enables the apparatus to capture image; LED lightings (1.4) which are disposed around the cameras (1.3) and face the direction of vision and provide capturing recognizable image at nights; police lights (1.5) which are placed to the front and rear surfaces of said base (1.2) and flash when necessary; alarm control device (1.8) adjusting the alarm; Ethernet connection (1.9) constituting the network; cooling device (1.10) eliminating the heat inside the apparatus; control card (1.11) controlling the police lights; 3G modem (1.12) providing wireless connection constantly; and upper cover (1.1) covering the entire apparatus by surrounding it.
US09928735B2
The various embodiments herein provide a system for mapping and storing traffic violation citations and alerting a user of traffic violations. The system comprises a location identifier, an accelerometer, a unified database, a data processing module, a forum module, and a display apparatus. The unified database comprises traffic related data for commercial and non-commercial vehicles. The unified database is synchronized with the location identifier about commercial or non-commercial vehicle based on a type of vehicle and vehicle plate. The unified database contains historical and real-time traffic violation citations and other traffic related information resides in a central server. The data processing module is connected to the location identifier and the unified database through a communication medium. The data processing module is further connected to the accelerometer. The display apparatus is connected to the data processing module.
US09928733B2
A vehicle key testing device includes a housing, an antenna, and an electrical input. The housing defines an interior space and is configured to have a vehicle key positioned into the interior space. The antenna is mounted in the interior space. The electrical input is configured to activate at least one wireless aspect of the vehicle key.
US09928727B2
A flame detector includes a UV sensor sensitive to solar UV radiation and a secondary sensor sensitive to non-UV radiation. A controller is operatively connected to the UV sensor and the secondary sensor to: signal an alarm in response to receiving input from the UV sensor indicative of a strong UV source and input from the secondary sensor indicative of a weak non-UV radiation source; and suppress an alarm in response to receiving a signal from the UV sensor indicative of a strong UV source and a signal from the secondary sensor indicative of a strong non-UV radiation source.
US09928722B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve an apparatus, systems, and methods for providing intelligent laundering alerts. Example embodiments involve an intelligent garment tag that may be affixed to garments, and may store and provide information about the garment to which it is affixed. The information stored thereon describes various aspects of the garment including color, fabric, and laundering information. The intelligent garment tags further include an alert component for providing laundering alerts (e.g., a flashing or colored light, a warning noise, or a vibration) based on, for example, laundering device (e.g., washing machine or clothes dryer) compatibility.
US09928716B2
A system for monitoring a lifestyle of a person in a living space includes sensors for detecting a presence of the person and/or an activity of the person, and a processor controlled system, coupled to the sensors for deriving events caused by the person and times when the events occur, for detecting event free periods of first lengths in which no events of a predetermined group occur, and for deriving, an estimate of in-bed time on the basis of the event free period of at least the first length detected in a first observation period beginning before a usual in-bed time, and for determining an estimate of the out-bed time on the basis of the events, and event free periods of at least a second length, detected in a second observation period ending after an usual out-bed time.
US09928712B1
A system and method for remotely monitoring a medical device includes a sensor for monitoring sounds in the proximity of a medical device. The sensor has a microphone for producing an audio supervision signal. There is a memory and processing circuit for storing the audio supervision signal and having a monitoring program that includes device alarm characteristics, and a status flag file, and a communication circuit for communicating with a server. There is a server in communication with the sensor and a remote terminal in communication with the server. The monitoring program is configured to analyze the audio supervision signal and to refresh the status flag file to a value based whether the audio supervision signal contains the device alarm characteristics. The server is configured to query the sensor and to send an alert to a remote terminal if the status flag signal indicates that the audio supervision signal matches the device alarm characteristics.
US09928709B2
A fire detection device includes a gas sensor, a measuring instrument, and a control device. The gas sensor is configured to detect a gaseous substance in a measurement space. The gas sensor is configured to output a first result of the detection. The measuring instrument is configured to measure a diameter of each particle existing in the measurement space and count a number of particles for each of diameter ranges to generate distribution data. The control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine, on basis of the first result acquired from the gas sensor, whether a smoke exists in the measurement space. The processor is configured to start the measuring instrument upon determining that a smoke exists in the measurement space. The processor is configured to determine, on basis of first distribution data acquired from the measuring instrument, whether a fire has occurred.
US09928708B2
A camera and method identify moving objects of interest in a field of view of the camera. The method includes: capturing two or more images successively over a time period, each image being associated with different times during the time period; obtaining binary image from each successive pair of images, the binary image comprising a binary value at each pixel indicating whether a change in pixel values of at least a predetermined magnitude has occurred at that pixel between the time associated with the first image of the success pair of images and time associated with the second image of the successive pair of images; deriving one or more motion boxes each encapsulating one or more nearby pixels in binary image; processing motion boxes of each binary image to obtain refined motion boxes; and classifying refined motion boxes each into categories representative of one moving object of interest.
US09928707B2
A surveillance system (10) for monitoring movement in a region of interest (18) is described. The surveillance system (10) includes: An image capturing system (12) having a field of view (16) including a region of interest (18), and adapted to capture an image of the region of interest (18). An image processing system (78) configured to process a time-sequential series of images of the field of view from the image capturing system such that at least a portion (52, 53, 54) of each processed image (50) is analyzed for detecting movement within the region of interest (18). The image capturing system (12) is configured to capture, in each image, different apparent magnifications of respective zones (20, 22, 24) within the region of interest (18) in the field of view (16) that are at different distances from the image capturing system (12) such that an object (60) in at least one position in at least two of said zones has substantially the same apparent size in the images.
US09928706B2
A home entertainment system includes at least one media signal generating module, a microphone configured to pick up a noise signal of an environment in which the home entertainment system is located, a noise processing module configured to evaluate the noise signal picked up by the microphone, and a power control module configured to control the power provided to the at least one media signal generating module. When the noise processing module detects a predefined noise signal event in the noise signal, the power control module is configured to provide power to the at least one media signal generating module in response to the detected predefined noise signal event, and the at least one media signal generating module emits a presence media signal in response to the detected predefined noise signal event.
US09928698B2
An inventory system employs self-illuminating inventory management containers. A self-illuminating container can include a container body, an illumination element, and a signal receiver for receiving instructions to illuminate the container. The self-illuminating inventory management containers can be illuminated to assist in locating the containers in the system broadly, or locally, and to assist in inventory processing operations.
US09928692B2
A gaming system and method including providing a community or group bonus event to a plurality of players at a plurality of gaming devices. For each of the players determined as eligible to participate in a triggered group bonus event, the gaming system determines that player's relative probability of winning a group bonus event award in the triggered bonus event. In one such embodiment, each player's relative probability of winning the group bonus event award is based on that player's wagering history, such as any amounts wagered by that player, the frequency of placing such wagers and/or frequency of not placing any wagers.
US09928689B2
An apparatus and method allow a value of a credit balance on a gaming device to be determined. If the value is not less than a predetermined threshold, a benefit is provided to the player of the gaming device. In various embodiments, the benefit may be, e.g., an increase in the player's credit balance.
US09928686B2
Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases such as long shot bias and favorite bias. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases relating to the Monty Hall paradox. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may include wagering on hands of cards, e.g., poker wagering games.
US09928674B2
Examples of techniques for automatically operating an electronic lock based on a user profile of a user are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method may include receiving an indication of the user changing a state of the electronic lock. The method may further include storing information associated with the user changing the state of the electronic lock. The method may further include generating, by a processor, the user profile based on the information associated with the user changing the state of the electronic lock. The method may further include determining, by the processor, that the state of the electronic lock should be changed based on the user profile. The method may further include automatically changing the state of the electronic lock when it is determined to change the state of the electronic lock based on the user profile.
US09928666B2
Disclosed embodiments include a method (system and non-transitory computer storage readable medium) for generating 3-dimensional model data of a virtual 3-dimensional model based on a plurality of 2-dimensional cross-sectional images of a 3-dimensional object. The 3-dimensional model of the 3-dimensional object is generated based on a plurality of virtual hexahedron models. The plurality of hexahedron models are generated based on respective pixels in the 2-dimensional cross-sectional images of the object. By generating the 3-dimensional model of the object including the plurality of hexahedron models, objects within another object can be accurately represented. In addition, the 3-dimensional model is guaranteed to have a closed shape, hence 3-dimensional printing of the 3-dimensional model can be performed successfully.
US09928663B2
A novel and useful mechanism for the skinning of 3D meshes with reference to a skeleton utilizing statistical weight optimization techniques. The mechanism of the present invention comprises (1) an efficient high quality linear blend skinning (LBS) technique based on a set of skeleton deformations sampled from the manipulation space; (2) a joint placement algorithm to optimize the input skeleton; and (3) a set of tools for a user to interactively control the skinning process. Statistical skinning weight maps are computed using an as-rigid-as-possible (ARAP) optimization. The method operates with a coarsely placed initial skeleton and optimizes joint placements to improve the skeleton's alignment. Bones may also be parameterized incorporating twists, bends, stretches and spines. Several easy to use tools add additional constraints to resolve ambiguous situations when needed and interactive feedback is provided to aid users. Quality weight maps are generated for challenging deformations and various data types (e.g., triangle, tetrahedral meshes), including noisy, complex and topologically challenging examples (e.g., missing triangles, open boundaries, self-intersections, or wire edges).
US09928661B1
Systems and methods for simulating user interaction with virtual objects in an augmented reality environment are provided. Three-dimensional point cloud information from a three-dimensional volumetric imaging sensor may be obtained. An object position of a virtual object may be determined. Individual potential force vectors for potential forces exerted on the virtual object may be determined. An individual potential force vector may be defined by one or more of a magnitude, a direction, and/or other information. An aggregate scalar magnitude of the individual potential force vectors may be determined. An aggregate potential force vector may be determined by aggregating the magnitudes and directions of the individual potential force vectors. It may be determined whether the potential forces exerted on the virtual object are conflicting.
US09928657B2
A museum augmented reality platform that interacts between computer devices and a server via a communication network. The augmented reality platform includes a multimedia recognition application located on the computer device, which receives live, real-time content and converts it into coordinates, and a client application located on the computer devices that transmit raw data packets including the coordinates. A server application provided on the server receives the data packets from the client application, recognizes content, and sends the content or other information to the computer devices in accordance with the source.
US09928653B2
Embodiments are disclosed for adjusting a presentation on a head-mounted display (HMD). In one or more example embodiments, a method of dynamically orienting a presentation of a HMD includes gathering HMD sensor data via at least one HMD sensor that is installed on an HMD worn by a driver of the vehicle and gathering vehicle sensor data via at least one vehicle mounted sensor mounted to the vehicle. The example method further includes performing an analysis of the HMD sensor data and of the vehicle sensor data to identify a difference between the HMD sensor data and the vehicle sensor data, and calculating, based on the difference, an orientation of the HMD device in relation to the vehicle. The method further includes adjusting a presentation of data on a display of the HMD device based on the orientation.
US09928650B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing instructions for directing a line of sight by causing a computer that is connected to a head-mounted display to identify a position of a target object in a three-dimensional virtual space. The computer is further caused to determine a field of view that is based on the line of sight from a virtual camera, in relation to movement of the HMD. The computer is further caused to place a guiding object, which follows the line of sight, in the three-dimensional virtual space at a point in the field of view that is determined based on a position of the virtual camera, a direction of the line of sight, and the position of the target object. The computer is further configured to generate instructions for displaying a field-of-view image of the three-dimensional virtual space including the guiding object.
US09928649B2
A flight path of a physical aircraft vehicle is planned. A virtual three-dimensional model of a physical environment is provided. A placement indicator is tracked within the virtual three-dimensional model of the physical environment. Tracking the placement indicator includes tracking a location and an orientation of the placement indicator within the virtual three-dimensional model. A viewfinder display window that displays a simulated image captured from a simulated camera of a simulated vehicle located at the location of the placement indicator and oriented at a direction of the orientation of the placement indicator is provided. For the physical aircraft vehicle, at least a flight path and a camera image capture are planned using the placement indicator and the viewfinder display window within the virtual three-dimensional model.
US09928645B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing raster-based mesh decimation. Generally described, input data defining a model is processed to render the model as a depth map from a multitude of perspectives. By capturing depth map data from a multitude of perspectives, components of the model that are visible from the multitude of perspectives are captured in the depth map data and components that are blocked by the visible components are not captured in the depth map data. Point cloud data is generated by merging the depth map data captured from the multitude of perspectives. Output mesh data is generated by applying a surface reconstruction to the point cloud data. One or more mesh decimation algorithms may be applied to the mesh data. Image data may also be captured from the input data and applied to the output mesh data.
US09928639B2
A system and method for facilitating increased graphics processing without deadlock. Embodiments of the present invention provide storage for execution unit pipeline results (e.g., texture pipeline results). The storage allows increased processing of multiple threads as a texture unit may be used to store information while corresponding locations of the register file are available for reallocation to other threads. Embodiments further provide for preventing deadlock by limiting the number of requests and ensuring that a set of requests is not issued unless there are resources available to complete each request of the set of requests. Embodiments of the present invention thus provide for deadlock free increased performance.
US09928636B2
An embodiment provides a mobile application that animates change information in a way that specifically indicates a change in workflow information for various users. This animation of change information permits users, which are often busy healthcare professionals, to be quickly apprised of relevant changes to workflow status. The mobile application also allows users to communicate change information, e.g., for updating the status of a workflow item, which may then be propagated throughout a network, including mobile devices.
US09928629B2
Apparatus, including a retaining structure (54), positioned near a subject's eye that has a pupil with a diameter, an optical combiner (52A) mounted on the structure before the eye, and a pixelated screen (60A) having an array of variably transparent pixels coating the combiner. There is an image capturing device (68A) mounted on the structure to capture an image of a scene viewed by the eye, and a projector (64A) is mounted on the structure to project at least one of a portion of the captured image and a stored image onto a section of the screen at a selected location thereof. A processor (26) renders the screen section at least partially opaque, selects the section location in response to a region of interest in the scene identified by analysis of the captured image, and determines a dimension of the section in response to the pupil diameter.
US09928626B2
An apparatus including an image processor configured to receive a video including an object, determine a positional relationship between the apparatus and the object, and change a positional relationship between an image superimposed on the video and the object when the positional relationship between the apparatus and the object changes.
US09928621B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to render a line having line stylization/linetype pattern via texture mapping of a graphics processing unit (GPU). Linetype information for a pattern of a linetype for the line is acquired. The pattern is stored in a texture by encoding a type of element of the pattern and a texel center location. The GPU renders the line by computing a distance between a pixel of the line and the texel center location, determining if the distance exceeds a threshold, and rendering the pixel if the distance is within the threshold.
US09928620B2
A method for mapping infrastructure layout between non-corresponding datasets including accessing from a memory a set of long links with points that trace the curvature of a set of linestrings, accessing from the memory a set of short links that are short enough for analytical purposes wherein each short link represents a straight line, and from the set of long links and the set of short links, using a processor to create a set of hybrid links for storage in the memory, each hybrid link corresponding to one short link for analytic purposes, a plurality of the hybrid links including at least one of the points for tracing the curvature of the set of linestrings.
US09928605B2
Various systems and methods for real-time cascaded object recognition are described herein. A system for real-time cascaded object recognition comprises a processor; and a memory, including instructions, which when executed on the processor, cause the processor to perform the operations comprising: accessing image data at the system, the image data of an environment around the system, the image data is captured by a camera system; determining a set of regions in the image data, the set of regions including candidate objects; transmitting a subset of the image data corresponding to the set of regions to a remote server, the remote server to analyze the subset of the image data and detect an object in the subset of the image data; and receiving at the system from the remote server, an indication of the object detected in the subset of the image data.
US09928601B2
Based on a multi-step process, an automatic hair segmentation method and system are disclosed. By extracting various information components from an image, including background color, face position, hair color, skin color, and skin mask, a heuristic-based method is created for the detection and segmentation of hair that can detect hair with an accuracy of approximately 75% and with a false hair overestimation error of 34%. Furthermore, it is shown that down sampling the image down to a face width of 25 px results in a 73% reduction in computation time with insignificant change in detection accuracy.
US09928598B2
A depth measurement apparatus that calculates depth information of an object based on a first color image and a second color image. A depth calculator calculates depth information of a target pixel in a color plane, using the two color images. An evaluator calculates, for each color plane, an evaluation value to indicate a confidence coefficient of the depth information in the target pixel. The depth calculator (i) determines, based on the evaluation value, a color plane from which the depth information of the target pixel is calculated, (ii) calculates a correlation value in one color plane between the two color images, to calculate the depth information from the correlation value using a conversion table or a conversion formula that is different for each color plane, and (iii) calculates the depth information of the target pixel using a color plane of which a correlation value is a threshold or less.
US09928595B2
A system includes cameras; a rotating stage, which has an axis of rotation; one or more computer-readable media; and one or more processors that are coupled to the one or more computer-readable media, the rotating state, and the cameras. Also, the one or more processors are configured to cause the system to control the cameras to capture respective images of a calibration target in a first pose, wherein the calibration target is mounted on the rotating stage; control the rotating stage to rotate through a predetermined angular increment to a second pose; control the cameras to capture respective images of the calibration target in the second pose; and calculate a transformation between two of the cameras based on the respective images of the calibration target in the first pose, on the respective images of the calibration target in the second pose, and on the predetermined angular increment.
US09928592B2
A method of image-based quantification for allergen skin reaction includes imaging an area of skin that has been subject to a skin-prick test to produce one or more images of the area. The method includes identifying regions of wheal and/or flare in the one or more images of the area and quantifying weal and/or flare indicators based on the regions identified. The method also includes outputting results of the quantified wheal and/or flare indicators indicative of quantified allergen skin reaction.
US09928589B2
An apparatus and a method for supporting acquisition of a multi-parametric image are provided. An apparatus for supporting acquisition of a multi-parametric image includes: a disease selector configured to select a suspected disease of a patient based on patient information; and an image selector configured to determine a set of imaging conditions of a multi-parametric magnetic resonance image corresponding to the suspected disease based on a multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging model.
US09928585B2
A method includes analyzing a spectral projection image of a portion of a subject, generating a value quantifying an amount of a target specific contrast material in a region of interest of the spectral projection image, and generating a signal indicative of a presence of the target in response to the value satisfying a predetermined threshold level.
US09928583B2
A scalable rank filter and method that performs rank filtering based on input data samples are disclosed. In one embodiment, the rank filter comprises a pipeline that receives input data samples and generates an output based on the input data samples as a result of completing execution of the pipeline. The rank filter includes output logic to determine the output prior completing execution of the pipeline and outputs an indication of a median.
US09928575B2
A method for processing a multi-channel image includes modification of adjusted pixel values of one or more pixels in a region of the multi-channel image, in accordance with a pre-specified signal pattern based on one or more parameters. A score is determined based on a ratio of a pixel difference value and a maximum pixel step value. The maximum pixel step value corresponds to modified pixel values of the one or more pixels in the region when the maximum pixel step value exceeds a threshold noise level for the region. False color is suppressed in a selected region of the multi-channel image based on the determined score when the false color is identified in the region.
US09928572B1
A computing device can identify, for a placement of a label, a first and second character of the label that have a shortest distance from one another. The placement for the label can define a position at which the label is to be placed in an interactive geographic map and a formatting for that label. The computing device can determine that the first and second identified characters do not overlap. In response to determining that the first and second characters do not overlap, the computing device can select the placement of the label for display in the interactive geographic map.
US09928571B2
A stretchable display device including a display unit configured to be stretched in at least one direction; a sensing unit configured to sense information on a stretching force applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to stretch the display unit an amount corresponding to the stretching force applied to the display unit, stretch an entire area of the display unit in response to the stretching force being applied to the display unit without an area designation input for designating a partial area of the display unit to be stretched, and stretch the partial area of the display unit in response to the stretching force being applied to the display unit with the area designation input being applied to the display unit.
US09928550B2
An automated trading exchange having integrated quote risk monitoring and quote modification services. An apparatus is implemented using at least one computer, having memory, and a processor. The computer is configured to receive orders and quotes, wherein specified ones of the quotes are contained in a quote group, and have associated trading parameters such as a risk threshold. Not all received quotes are required to have trading parameters as described herein. Preferably, the quote group contains all the quotes, or a subset of quotes, belonging to an individual market-maker for a given class of options contracts, or possibly the quotes of two or more market-makers that have identified themselves as belonging to a group for the purposes of risk monitoring and quote modification. The computer typically generates a trade by matching the received orders and quotes to previously received orders and quotes, and otherwise stores each of the received orders and quotes if a trade is not generated. The computer then determines whether a quote within the quote group has been filled as a result of the generated trade, and if so, determines a risk level and an aggregate risk level associated with said trade. The computer then compares the aggregate risk level with the market-maker's risk threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, automatically modifies at least one of the remaining quotes in the quote group. The computer may also automatically regenerate quotes that have been filled.
US09928538B2
A computer-implemented method for processing user information provided in online ordering, includes receiving an instruction to perform an anonymous process on user information selected from the provided user information; performing, in response to the instruction, an anonymous process on the selected user information, to obtain anonymous information corresponding to the selected user information; and generating an order containing the anonymous information.
US09928537B2
Managing user bookmark information includes receiving a bookmark-related action request and determining a type of action associated with the bookmark-related action request and user information associated with the bookmark-related action request. In the event that the type of action corresponds to an add bookmark action, managing user bookmark information further includes generating a bookmark data record, the bookmark data record comprising the user information and information to be bookmarked; determining, using the user information, bookmark database information associated with a bookmark database to which the bookmark data record is to be stored, the bookmark database being one of a plurality of bookmark databases; generating index information based on the user information and the bookmark database information; storing the index information in an index database that is separate from the plurality of bookmark databases; and storing the bookmark data record in the bookmark database.
US09928535B2
An electronic shopping system, such as an ecommerce retail website, is constructed and programmed to provide online shoppers with the ability to create and manage multiple configurable item orders contemporaneously within a single customer account. Each item in an item order is associated with a “purchase status” which can, in addition to other discrete adjustments, be toggled between “active” and “inactive” states at or before checkout. Each item order is itself configurable in respect of delivery address, payment source, frequency, and schedule. Orders and settings are saved within the customer's account to be recalled, reviewed, refined (if desired), and executed at checkout.
US09928531B2
Systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory processor readable media of the various embodiments enable in store voice picking systems. In various embodiments, an end-to-end voice ordering and fulfillment system for a retail store may enable a customer to place an order over the phone, a personal shopper to be directed to fill the order via voice commands, and the order to be made available for pickup at the retail store by the customer or delivered to the customer from the retail store.
US09928522B2
Performance based delivery of content to an audience member. A network of audience member information collection domains provide information about audience members. A profiled audience member may belong to a network segment. Delivery of an advertisement to the profiled audience member is accommodated based upon membership in the network segment and performance criteria. The performance criteria may be configured to benefit a publisher, such as by maximizing revenue. Allocating revenue based upon the collection of data used to target audience members is also provided.
US09928519B2
A method implemented by computer-networks comprises the following steps: creating a mutual aid group capable of accommodating a plurality of small businesses using programming codes by assigning values to its attributes including the attribute on the shares which the prize offered by the mutual aid group is divided into; and storing the created mutual aid group in a mutual aid group storage area in a database; and recruiting at least one business into the mutual aid group by the businesses subscribing for the share of the mutual aid group for jointly running a prize promotion; and running the collective promotional campaign through the mutual aid group for all the members having joined the mutual aid group to produce winners; and controlling the running process of the mutual aid group including the process of grouping the businesses, the process of running the collective campaign, and the transformation of these processes. A system based on the computer-networks supports the implement of the above method.
US09928517B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing interaction reconstruction in a service-oriented system are disclosed. Routes are stored for a first set of service interactions between individual services in a service-oriented system. The routes comprise data indicative of call paths for node identifiers in the first set of service interactions. A sparse trace is generated for a second set of service interactions between individual ones of the services. The sparse trace comprises a plurality of node identifiers in the second set of service interactions. Based on the node identifiers in the sparse trace and the node identifiers in the plurality of routes, the sparse trace is matched to one or more of the routes.
US09928515B2
A product assortment system includes a crawler obtaining product information from one or more domains and storing the product information in a database. A user interface determines one or more product categories associated with one or more products of a customer. A keyword module determines criteria for associating one or more products of one or more competitors with the product categories. The user interface generates a display indicating overlap of the one or more products of the customer with the one or more products of the competitors.
US09928513B2
A dynamic object tag for a product and systems and methods relating thereto is disclosed. The dynamic object tag comprises a hardware security module, including an electronic storage module, and a communication module for communicating with an interrogation device. The hardware security module is adapted to establish a secure communication channel with the interrogation device, to exchange dynamic authentication parameters with the interrogation device, and to communicate product information stored on the electronic storage module to the interrogation device over the secure communication channel.
US09928509B2
A virtual payment system for paying for goods, services and content ordered over an internetwork comprising a commerce gateway component and a credit processing server component (53) is disclosed. Buyers and sellers becomes registered participants by applying for virtual payment buyer and seller accounts. Once an account is established, a digital certificate is stored on the registered participant's computer. A buyer can then order a product, i.e., goods, services or content from a seller and charge it to the virtual payment account. When the product is shipped, the seller notifies the commerce gateway component, which in turn notifies the credit processing server, which applies the charges to the buyer's virtual payment account. The buyer can settle the charges using a prepaid account, a credit account, or by using reward points earned through use of the virtual payment card. A buyer may create sub-accounts.
US09928502B2
Use of a mobile device for facilitating cashless wagering in a gaming system. An electronic gaming machine (EGM) receives account information of a user from the mobile device associated with the user. The mobile device wirelessly communicates the account information to the EGM. One or more financial transactions may be initialized between the mobile device and the EGM such that the initializing enables the mobile device to perform cashless wagering in the EGM for funding a bet associated with the account information.
US09928499B2
Processing payment through a mobile device includes: receiving a command; generating a payment request based on the command and send the payment request to be processed by a lower layer payment program; and monitoring the payment request sent from the localhost address of the mobile device via the predetermined port; in response to the payment request, providing an input interface for payment information in and receive the input payment information; using the lower layer payment program to connect with a payment server and pass the payment information over a network to the payment server; using the lower layer payment program to transfer a payment processing result received from the payment server, to the upper layer application program; and after the upper layer application program has been unblocked, presenting to a user an indication of whether the payment has been successfully processed.
US09928476B2
A product database describing products and attributes associated with the products is identified. Some attributes have values including words. A dictionary including the words is identified. The dictionary is partitioned into synonym classes of words. A representative word from the dictionary is selected. Replacement rules are identified, each of which replace a target word with the target word's corresponding representative. For each product in the database, the replacement rules are applied to produce a standardized product database.
US09928475B2
A shipper and carrier interaction optimization platform can include an internet based web page, application for a handheld device, a dedicated device with a graphical user interface, or any combination thereof for one or more shipper to enter shipment requirements and/or bids for use of a carrier's equipment. One or more carriers can enter equipment specifications, such as equipment type, availability, and minimum payment amount accepted, as well as bids for employment to ship goods via the shipper and carrier interaction optimization platform. The platform can automate matching shippers and carriers for each shipment, provide information regarding shipment status, and help carriers to maximize the amount of time their vehicles carry cargo. Systems may include a shipper interface, a carrier interface, one or more handheld devices running the interaction optimization platform, and positioning software and/or hardware to indicate the location of the one or more handheld devices used by shipment carriers.
US09928473B1
A collection of incidents is received where each incident has an associated location where the incident occurred and a date and a time when the incident occurred. A mean distance between locations associated with successive incidents in the collection of incidents is determined and a risk area is identified around each location based on the mean distance. A count for a set of at-risk locations is generated with each count being the number of risk areas where an at-risk location is positioned. For each at-risk location in the set of at-risk locations, a distance between the at-risk location and a last incident location is determined. Resources are allocated to select at-risk locations based on risk factors that are a function of the count and the distances between the at-risk locations and the last location.
US09928466B1
A computing device can generate a collection of phrases using both authoritative data and behavioral data, for example, using previously submitted search queries. The collection of phrases can be used, in part, to determine the best segmentation of search queries. Each segmentation of a search query splits the terms in search query using different permutations or n-grams to identify one or more phrases. Each segmentation is scored based on various criteria. The segmentation having the highest score is included in training data for training a predictive model that predicts segmentations for new search queries. The predicted segmentation can be used to annotate that query to identify the one or more phrases that were created by the segmentation of the query. The annotated query can be processed, for example, by a search engine, to obtain resources that are responsive to the one or more phrases that were identified by the segmentation.
US09928456B1
Laminated cards with user interfaces are provided. The user interfaces can have enhanced tactile feel. In one embodiment, a card may be constructed to have a dual-layer user interface. In another embodiment, a card may be constructed to include a support structure. In yet another embodiment, a card may include a relatively soft material that covers at least a portion of the user interface. In yet another embodiment, a card may include a user interface that is fluidically coupled to a bladder. In a further embodiment, a card can include any combination of a user interface, which may be a dual-layer user interface, a support structure, a soft material that at least partially covers a user interface, and a bladder.
US09928451B2
An information processing apparatus includes an information recognition unit, an acquiring unit, and a recording unit. The information recognition unit recognizes a description written in each of one or more description areas. The acquiring unit acquires attribute information of the description area in which the description is written. The recording unit records the description written in the description area or a recognition result obtained through the recognition performed by the information recognition unit in accordance with the attribute information acquired by the acquiring unit.
US09928446B2
A method for managing defects for an augmented automatic defect classification (ADC) process is disclosed. The method includes receiving a defect record based on an inspection of a target specimen; extracting, from a design database, relevant design data associated with a patch surrounding a location of a defect from the defect record; performing, by a processor, lithographic simulation on the relevant design data associated with the patch to determine a context patch; comparing, by the processor, the context patch with an image of the defect from the defect record to determine whether there exists a match between the context patch and the image of the defect; and defining the defect as a systematic defect based on a determination that there exists a match between the context patch and the image of the defect.
US09928445B2
A computer detects one or more images, wherein detecting the one or more images further includes identifying one or more characteristics of at least a portion of the one or more images. The computer detects one or more user communications. The computer determines one or more appropriate images of the one or more images to be associated with the one or more user communications based on comparing information associated with the one or more user communications with the identified one or more characteristics of at least a portion of the one or more images.
US09928442B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising assigning each of a plurality of images in a blog post and each of a plurality of images in a collection of images to a respective node in a graph, computing an adjacency matrix for the graph, wherein the adjacency matrix defines relationships between images in the blog post and images in the collections of images, and determining a first subset of the images in the collection of images that summarize the images in the image collection, wherein the subset is determined based on the adjacency matrix, wherein the adjacency matrix is computed based on the subset of the images in the collection of images.
US09928437B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and system for generating crystal lookup table (CLT) based on a flood histogram. The method may include receiving a flood histogram of a subject; determining a crystal central position map based on the flood histogram, the crystal central position map including a plurality of crystal central positions, forming rows and columns of the plurality of crystal central positions to generate a labelled crystal lookup table, forming a template based on the rows and the columns in the labelled crystal central position map, and correcting the labelled crystal central position map based on the template and the flood histogram to obtain a corrected crystal central position map. A crystal lookup table may be formed.
US09928436B2
Methods and systems recognize alphanumeric characters in an image by computing individual representations of every character of an alphabet at every character position within a certain word transcription length. These methods and systems embed the individual representations of each alphabet character in a common vectorial subspace (using a matrix) and embed a received image of an alphanumeric word into the common vectorial subspace (using the matrix). Such methods and systems compute the utility value of the embedded alphabet characters at every one of the character positions with respect to the embedded alphanumeric character image; and compute the best transcription alphabet character of every one of the image characters based on the utility value of each embedded alphabet character at each character position. Such methods and systems then assign the best transcription alphabet character for each of the character positions to produce a recognized alphanumeric word within the received image.
US09928431B2
A vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode may engage in a reverse-parallax analysis that includes a vehicle system detecting an object, capturing via a camera located at a first location a first image of the detected object, retrieving location data specifying (i) a location of a target object, (ii) the first location, and (iii) a direction of the camera, and based on the location data and the position of the detected object in the first image, predicting where in a second image captured from a second location the detected object would appear if the detected object is the target object.
US09928425B2
The present invention is a multi-threat detection method and system for high-traffic areas, such as airports, other mass-transit hubs, malls, symposiums, and the like. The detection methodology comprises a set of detection blocks, each performing different functions, and taking the information resulting from each block and entering it into one or more detection algorithms. The blocks comprise microwave detectors, co-polarization versus cross-polarization processors, magnetometers, and cameras (optional). The values calculated by the blocks are entered into machine learning algorithms which detect a threat if a threshold value is met. The detection occurs at a distance and the alarm may be silent, such that authorities are able to address threats without the target being aware. The alarm is also able to differentiate among varying threats based on the values calculated. No shadowing problems exist, and thus several targets may be monitored simultaneously without slowing down the speed of processing.
US09928423B2
Local models learned from anomaly detection are used to rank detected anomalies. The local model patterns are defined from image feature values extracted from an image field of video image data with respect to different predefined spatial and temporal local units, wherein anomaly results are determined by fitting extracted image features to the local model patterns. Image features values extracted from the image field local units associated with anomaly results are normalized, and image feature values extracted from the image field local units are clustered. Weights for anomaly results are learned as a function of the relations of the normalized extracted image feature values to the clustered image feature values. The normalized values are multiplied by the learned weights to generate ranking values to rank the anomalies.
US09928421B2
The invention concerns a method for helping determine the vision parameters of a subject (100), comprising the following steps: —taking (120) two images (11, 12) from two different angles of the face of the subject by means of a camera (10), the subject (S) being in a natural distant vision position, —determining (130) the inclination of the camera (10) relative to the ground at the time when the images are taken, —deducing therefrom (140) the inclination and the direction of the face of the subject (S), characterized in that the camera is arranged outside a foveal area of the subject when the images (11, 12) are taken (120).
US09928418B2
A method for cropping photos images captured by a user from an image of a page of a photo album is described. Corners in the page image are detected using corner detection algorithm or by detecting intersections of line-segments (and their extensions) in the image using edge, corner, or line detection techniques. Pairs of the detected corners are used to define all potential quads, which are then are qualified according to various criteria. A correlation matrix is generated for each potential pair of the qualified quads, and candidate quads are selected based on the Eigenvector of the correlation matrix. The content of the selected quads is checked using a salience map that may be based on a trained neuron network, and the resulting photos images are extracted as individual files for further handling or manipulation by the user.
US09928417B2
A first image data, binarized with a first threshold, represent a first image corresponding to a first portion of a specific image. A second image data, binarized with a second threshold different from the first threshold, represent a second image corresponding to a second portion of the specific image. A first area, which is extracted from the first image, includes pixels with a first color. The first color corresponding to a color of an outline of a hole image in the specific image. A second area, which is extracted from the second image, includes pixels with the first color. The first area and the second area are determined as a specific area corresponding to the hole image.
US09928416B2
A method for determining the stock of notes of value in a device (12) for receiving notes of value includes determining the orientation of a note of value before it is fed to the device (12) and storing the order in which the notes of value are received in the device (12). For at least a part of the received notes of value their respective orientation is stored such that it is unambiguously assigned to the note of value. For determining the stock, the respective orientation of a predetermined number of successively removed notes of value is determined. These determined orientations are compared with the stored orientations and dependent on the result of the comparison the stock of notes of value in the device (12) is determined.
US09928413B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for detecting one or more inputs on a back side of a housing an determining a pattern based on the detected one or more inputs on the back side of the housing. Once a pattern is determined, a pattern characteristic based on the pattern may be determined and a user may be authenticated based on a comparison of the pattern characteristic and stored data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09928405B2
The present invention relates to a system for detecting and tracking facial features in images and can be used in conjunction with a camera. Given a camera, the system will detect facial landmarks in images. The present invention includes software for real time, accurate facial feature detection and tracking in unconstrained images and videos. The present invention is better, more robust and faster than existing approaches and can be implemented very efficiently allowing real-time processing, even on low-power devices, such as mobile phones.
US09928403B2
A system and method for analyzing multi-dimensional images includes a high content imaging system that includes an image capture device. An image acquisition module receives a series of images of a biological sample captured by the image capture device, and the series of images includes a sequence of image planes. A human interface module receives from a user computer specifications of a first image analysis step and a second image analysis step. The first image analysis step specifies a first image processing operation that processes an image plane of a series of images in accordance with at least another image plane of the series of images and the second image analysis step specifies a second image processing operation that processes each image plane of a series of images independently of the other image planes of the series. An image analysis module having a plurality of processors operating in parallel processes the first series of images in accordance with the first image processing step to generate a first output series of images, and processes the first series of images in accordance with second image processing step to generate a second output series of images. The human interface module displays at least one image plane of the first output series of images and at least one image plane of the second output series of images on a display associated with the user computer.
US09928398B2
Always-on or nearly always-on sensing of human touch at a device is provided. The sensing is split into a low-power detection stage and a full-power analysis stage, where the detection stage is implemented continually or nearly continually and causes system circuitry to perform analysis of the human touch after the low-power detection stage has confirmed the human touch. The sensing permits avoiding the reliance on physical actuation of a trigger prior to analysis of human touch.
US09928397B2
A method for identifying a target object in a video file is implemented using an identification system. In the method, the identification system is programmed to: obtain a video file and an image; obtain a target object in the image; construct an image model based on a feature of the target object; extract key frames from the video file sequentially; perform a comparing procedure for each key frame to determine whether the key frame includes a similar object corresponding to the image model; and for each key frame, extract from the key frame, when the determination is affirmative, a part of the key frame that contains the similar object to obtain a target image, presence of the target image indicating that the target object is identified in the video file.
US09928391B1
An apparatus comprising a power providing arrangement for a field powered device having a coil antenna for receiving a wireless signal, the power providing arrangement comprising: a first capacitor configured to be coupled to the coil antenna, the first capacitor configured to store energy obtained from the wireless signal received by the coil antenna, up to a first stored energy level, and configured to provide said energy to power the field powered device; a second capacitor arranged in parallel with the first capacitor via a switch; the switch providing at least a connected state in which the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel and configured to both store the energy obtained from the wireless signal up to a second stored energy level, greater than the first stored energy level, and configured to provide said energy to power the field powered device and a disconnected state in which the second capacitor is disconnected from the first capacitor; the switch configured to transition from the disconnected state to the connected state based on particular signalling received from a remote device.
US09928389B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for reading magnetic information by a mobile device are presented. In example embodiments, the mobile device comprises a housing having an integrated surface for swiping a magnetic swipe card and a magnetometer positioned within the housing to produce digital magnetometer output signals. The digital magnetometer output signals represent magnetic information derived from the magnetic swipe card and from the Earth's magnetic fields (or other sources).
US09928386B1
A storage device of a data center may protect data stored on a storage medium of the storage device using a data security mechanism. The data security mechanism may include a signal generator configured to generate a proximity signal and one or more storage devices including a storage medium, a proximity detection component and a destruction device. The proximity detection component may be configured to detect the proximity signal and to determine whether the storage device has been removed from an assigned location. The storage destruction mechanism may be configured to destroy at least a portion of the data stored on the storage device in response to the proximity detection component detecting that the storage device has been removed from the assigned location.
US09928381B2
A system and a method for managing privacy of data are provided. The method includes causing generation of a trigger notification notifying an access to one or more fields of a user-profile in a first application. The trigger notification generated is by a second application integrated with the first application. The first application includes a plurality of fields comprising sensitive data associated with the user-profile. The method further includes enforcing one or more access preferences corresponding to the one or more fields by the second application on the generation of the trigger notification. The one or more access preferences are based at least on one of a plurality of preconfigured rules and contextual information associated with the trigger notification. Enforcing the one or more access preferences facilitates in managing data privacy.
US09928378B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for protecting sensitive data. Aspects include accessing computer readable program instructions having one or more output commands. Aspects also include locating the one or more output commands in the computer readable program instructions. Aspects also include identifying target output variables and output constants in the one or more output commands. Aspects also include modifying the computer readable program instructions to append one or more obfuscate commands to the target output variables.
US09928376B2
Techniques for remotely viewing a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, a host device executing a presentation application makes a presentation available over a network. In one embodiment, a remote device receives presentation data corresponding to a currently displayed slide of the presentation. The remote device may then display a representation of the currently displayed slide at the remote location.
US09928369B2
Presented herein are vulnerability assessment techniques for highlighting an organization's information technology (IT) infrastructure security vulnerabilities. For example, a vulnerability assessment system obtains application metadata for each of a plurality of executable applications observed at one or more devices forming part of an organization's IT infrastructure. The application metadata includes unique software identifiers for each of the plurality of executable applications. The vulnerability assessment system obtains global security risk metadata for executable applications observed at the one or more devices. The vulnerability assessment system maps one or more unique software identifiers in the application metadata to global security risk metadata that corresponds to applications identified by the one or more unique software identifiers, thereby generating a vulnerable application dataset.
US09928366B2
A data recorder stores endpoint activity on an ongoing basis as sequences of events that causally relate computer objects such as processes and files, and patterns within this event graph can be used to detect the presence of malware on the endpoint. The underlying recording process may be dynamically adjusted in order to vary the amount and location of recording as the security state of the endpoint changes over time.
US09928359B1
Described are architectures, systems, processes and methods for security that, at their core, are adaptive and changing at determined intervals so as to present a different environment, a portion of which is a varied attack surface, to the communications world exterior to the system. In one aspect is described improved security architecture, system and methods based upon multiple processors, operating systems and communication channels, in which at least some processors each perform as an input system connectable to a network, and are dissimilar in some manner, the manner of dissimilarity being controlled by a control system that is not connected to the network. Additionally in this aspect, an execution system is included which performs execution based upon received inputs to the input system, which are passed to the execution system once validated as being safe and not compromised.
US09928349B2
A secure object manager obtains, from an authorized person, a specification for disposition of at least one object, and creates first instructions, pertaining to the disposition, for a remote secure-object agent on a remote system. A copy of the object and the first instructions are sent to a remote secure-object agent on a remote system, which controls the copy based on the first instructions.
US09928347B2
A computer aided diagnostic system and automated method to classify a kidney. Image data for a medical scan that includes image data of a kidney may be received. The kidney image data may be segmented from other image data of the medical scan. One or more iso-contours may be registered for the kidney image data, and renal cortex image data may be segmented from the kidney image data based on the one or more registered iso-contours. The kidney may be classified by analyzing one or more features determined from the segmented renal cortex image data using a learned model associated with the one or more features.
US09928344B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods of diagnosing eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), or remission therefrom in a subject, wherein the methods include applying a sample from the subject to a diagnostic panel that contains selected markers for EoE, analyzing to obtain relatedness information relative to an EoE cohort and making a determination as to the EoE status of the subject, wherein an analysis indicating grouping with an EoE cohort or a quantitative score similar to that of an EoE cohort are indicative of EoE in the subject. Embodiments of the invention are also directed to methods of monitoring the pathological development or medical prognosis of EoE in a subject.
US09928333B2
A method of designing a semiconductor device includes preparing a standard cell layout including a layout out a preliminary pin pattern in at least one interconnection layout, performing a routing step to connect the preliminary pin pattern to a high-level interconnection layout, and generating a pin pattern in the interconnection layout, based on hitting information obtained at the completion of the routing step. The pin pattern is smaller than the preliminary pin pattern.
US09928330B2
In a method of decomposing a layout of a semiconductor device, a polygon, which includes a plurality of intersections at each of which at least two lines are crossed, among polygons included in the layout of the semiconductor device may be determined as a complex polygon. A first stitch may be inserted between the plurality of intersections on the complex polygon. A plurality of decomposed patterns may be generated by performing a pattern dividing operation on the layout.
US09928329B2
Generating a layout of an integrated circuit chip area from a description of an integrated circuit (IC). The description includes a register-transfer-level (RTL) design. The RTL design is partitioned in large blocks for synthesis of large block synthesis (LBS) blocks. The description of the IC further includes a floorplan for the IC, wherein each LBS block to be synthesized is assigned to a respective rectilinear shape in the floorplan and the rectilinear shapes do not overlap each other.
US09928321B2
A method for verification of a design of an electronic circuit is provided. The method includes executing test runs of the design. The method further includes increasing a fail counter if the executing of a test run of the test runs failed. The method further includes increasing a pass counter if the executing of the test run of the test runs passed. The method further includes halting the executing of the test runs of the design if the current ratio of the fail counter versus the pass counter exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US09928311B2
In one example embodiment, a method is illustrated as retrieving a plurality of search queries and defining relationships between search queries in the plurality of search queries based on semantic data associated with the search queries. A visual representation of the of the plurality of search queries may be generated and the visual representation may be partitioned into a plurality of tiles, each title representing a predefined portion of the visual representation.
US09928303B2
Merging analysis paths is provided. A first analysis path and a second analysis path are identified, wherein each analysis path identifies one or more data resources of an information space. A match is determined between a first data resource of the one or more data resources identified by the first analysis path and a second data resource of the one or more data resources identified by the second analysis path. A third analysis path that is based, at least in part, on the first analysis path and the second analysis path is generated.
US09928299B2
A search system and method for searching for electronic documents, and providing a search result in response to a search query. In one embodiment, the search system includes a processor, a user interface module adapted to receive a search query from a user that includes a search query term, a search engine that electronically searches for electronic documents that satisfy the search query term, and a query processing module that identifies at least one alternative term for the search query term, and provides the alternative term to the user interface module for display to the user, and also provides the alternative term to the search engine to search for electronic documents that satisfy the alternative term.
US09928297B2
A device generates, in a container box of a file for storage of video contents, a SampleGroupDescription box that provides a sample group description for a sample grouping. The SampleGroupDescription box includes a grouping type syntax element having a particular value. Additionally, the SampleGroupDescription box includes one or more sample group entries. The device generates, in the same container box, a plurality of SampleToGroup boxes. Each respective SampleToGroup box of the plurality of SampleToGroup boxes includes a respective grouping type syntax element having the particular value, includes a respective sample count syntax element indicating a number of samples in a respective sample grouping, and includes a respective group description index syntax element indicating an index of an entry in the SampleGroupDescription box which describes samples of the respective sample grouping. Each sample of the respective sample grouping comprises a respective picture of the video contents.
US09928294B2
This disclosure relates generally to automatic classification of incident ticket, and more particularly to a system and method for improving the incident ticket classification. An incident ticket classification system to update an incident ticket classification, the system comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory storing processor executable instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising: identifying one or more user-defined classes from one or more classes assigned to one or more incident tickets; determining, divergence of the one or more user-defined classes from one or more pre-defined classes associated with the incident ticket classification; and updating, the incident ticket classification based on the divergence.
US09928291B2
Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
US09928290B2
Techniques are described for determining and employing trust metrics for entities interacting with a super-platform. An end-user may interact with multiple individual platforms of different types. The individual platforms may generate data based on the interactions with end-user(s). The data from the various individual platforms may be received, ingested, stored, analyzed, aggregated, and/or otherwise processed by a super-platform. The super-platform may provide the data, aggregate data, and/or data analysis results to data consumer(s) through a marketplace associated with the super-platform. In some implementations, entities such as data providers, data manipulators, and/or data consumers may rate one another and, based on the rating(s), a trust metric may be determined that indicates a trust level of an entity.
US09928287B2
A method of processing a query to a graph database using a plurality of processors. The method comprises providing a plurality of threads to be executed on a plurality of processors, each the thread is associated with one of a plurality of unique thread identifiers, providing a graph database having a plurality of graph database nodes and a plurality of graph database edges, each the graph database edge represents a relationship between two of the plurality of graph database nodes, receiving a query tree that defines a tree comprising plurality of query nodes connected by a plurality of query tree edges, and searching at least part of the graph database for a match with the query tree, wherein the searching is executed by the plurality of the processors, and wherein each the processor searches one of a plurality of sub-graphs of the graph database, each the sub-graph is defined by one of the plurality of thread identifiers.
US09928286B2
Techniques for transforming character delimited values are presented herein. An input module is configured to read a set of character delimited values. A generation module is configured to generate a synchronization block for the set of values that includes a value selected from a byte size of the associated value and may be a flag representing a predetermined value. An output module is configured to output the synchronization block and the set of values to a binary data output stream for output in a device dependent byte order according to the respective byte sizes of the values in the set of values.
US09928284B2
In various embodiments, a system and method for recognizing and integrating datasets disclosed. The system comprises a processor and a memory unit. A training dataset is developed that forms the basis to measure similarities between and among the datasets. Incoming datasets are examined for features and a measurement is made to determine similarity with datasets in the training dataset. An estimate can be made of the probability that an incoming dataset contains specified attributes. The incoming dataset can be assigned an attribute based on the probability estimate.
US09928276B2
A scalable analysis system is described herein that performs common data analysis operations such as distinct counts and data grouping in a more scalable and efficient manner. The system allows distinct counts and data grouping to be applied to large datasets with predictable growth in the cost of the operation. The system dynamically partitions data based on the actual data distribution, which provides both scalability and uncompromised performance. The system sets a budget of available memory or other resources to use for the operation. As the operation progresses, the system determines whether the budget of memory is nearing exhaustion. Upon detecting that the memory used is near the limit, the system dynamically partitions the data. If the system still detects memory pressure, then the system partitions again, until a partition level is identified that fits within the memory budget.
US09928273B2
In a method for searching a computer database, a processor receives a set of data containing at least a first character. A processor creates a converted set of data by converting the first character in the received set of data into a second character, wherein the second character represents the first character and one or more additional characters based upon a predetermined equivalency. A processor searches the computer database for a previously stored data entry using the converted set of data. A processor returns a retrieved result of the searching.
US09928271B2
Sequences of hierarchical records are aggregated and summarized. A capture log that includes a plurality of operations of a workload is received. A first data structure that models transaction types as sequences of nodes is created. The nodes identify operations in the workload. A present operation and a transaction identifier are read from the capture log. The transaction identifier is dissociated from a first node that identifies a prior operation. The transaction identifier is associated with a second node that identifies the present operation. In a second data structure that associates nodes with transaction identifiers, the first node is dissociated from the transaction identifier and the second node is associated with the transaction identifier. A summary of the workload is generated based, at least in part, on the first and second data structures. The summary includes signatures of transaction types and counts of instances of the transaction types.
US09928262B2
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 stored as discrete events time stamps. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time stamp, a keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.
US09928261B2
An information processing system, computer readable storage medium, and method for accelerated radix sort processing of data elements in an array in memory. The information processing system stores an array of data elements in a buffer memory in an application specific integrated circuit radix sort accelerator. The array has a head end and a tail end. The system radix sort processing, with a head processor, data elements starting at the head end of the array and progressively advancing radix sort processing data elements toward the tail end of the array. The system radix sort processing, with a tail processor, data elements starting at the tail end of the array and progressively advancing radix sort processing data elements toward the head end of the array, the tail processor radix sort processing data elements in the array contemporaneously with the head processor radix sort processing data elements in the array.
US09928255B2
A method for bi-directional data replication between a Web Service application and a relational database are provided. In an electronic communications network, a computer implemented method is provided for generating indexes of relationship fields by accessing the metadata of a remote web service. A plurality of records may be downloaded from the remote web service to a computer. The plurality of records may include metadata related to the identity of data fields involved in parent-child record relationships. An index may be built at least partially on the data fields involved in parent-child relationships.
US09928253B2
A method of generating search information enables efficient navigation of content and an image apparatus therefore. The method of generating search information includes extracting and storing a portion of a plurality of searched screens, and generating search information using the stored screens. Accordingly, search information regarding digital content can be generated in a more convenient manner. In addition, since searched screens are generated as search information, search information which enables more efficient navigation can be provided to the user.
US09928231B2
Topics are determined for short text messages using an unsupervised topic model. In a training corpus created from a number of short text messages, a vocabulary of words is identified, and for each word a distributed vector representation is obtained by processing windows of the corpus having a fixed length. The corpus is modeled as a Gaussian mixture model in which Gaussian components represent topics. To determine a topic of a sample short text message, a posterior distribution over the corpus topics is obtained using the Gaussian mixture model.
US09928220B2
Approaches are presented for temporary highlighting of selected fields of a document. For example, a user can select which fields of a document or class of documents he wishes to have highlighted. The user can also select (a) when he wishes the selected fields to be highlighted, for example, if a field exceeds a threshold and/or (b) how he wishes the selected fields to be highlighted, e.g., overlay the field with a contrasting color. When the user performs a specified action, for example, opens a document, the selected field is selectively highlighted according to the rules for when and how to highlight the selected field. This can help a user quickly recognize important fields in the context of the document.
US09928207B1
Provided are systems and methods for generating transactions with a configurable port. In some implementations, a peripheral device is provided. The peripheral device comprises a configurable port. In some implementations, the configurable port may be configured to receive a first transaction. In these implementations, the first transactions may include an address. The address may include a transaction attribute. In some implementations, the configurable port may extract the transaction attribute and a transaction address from the address. The configurable port may further generate a second transaction that includes the transaction attribute and the transaction address. The configurable port may also transmit the second transaction.
US09928205B2
A semiconductor apparatus may include a master chip, first to nth slave chips, first to nth slave chip ID generating units, and a master chip ID generating unit. The first to nth slave chip ID generating units are disposed respectively in the first to nth slave chips and connected in series to each other. Each of the first to nth slave chip ID generating units is configured to add a predetermined code value to an mth operation code to generate an (m+1)th operation code. The master chip ID generating unit is disposed in the master chip to generate a variable first operation code in response to a select signal. Here, ‘n’ is an integer that is equal to or greater than 2, and ‘m’ is an integer that is equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or smaller than ‘n’.
US09928203B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring object storage in a data storage system. A storage device tray assembly includes a plurality of data storage bays configured to receive data storage devices, a plurality of data storage devices mounted in the plurality of data storage bays, and an interface expander device communicatively coupled to each of the data storage devices over a first communication interface. The interface expander device may include non-volatile memory storing object storage monitor code and operating system code, and one or more processors configured to perform port or switch initialization for communications to the plurality of data storage devices and execute the operating system code and the object storage monitor code to provide object storage monitor functionality for the plurality of data storage devices.
US09928199B2
A communication apparatus comprising a plurality of signal processing units configured to perform a set of pre-determined signal processing functions according to a set of parameters, a plurality of programmable crossbars coupled to the plurality of signal processing units, and a plurality of control processors coupled to the plurality of programmable crossbars and configured to adjust the plurality of programmable crossbars to interconnect the signal processing units to implement a selected communication protocol, wherein at least one of the programmable crossbars routes data from a first of the plurality of signal processing units to a second of the plurality of signal processing units forming a data path without interception from the plurality of control processors.
US09928187B2
What is disclosed is a system and method for increasing throughput in the image processing path of a digital document reproduction device. A digital image to be processed is received. Memory is allocated into two buffers, B[0] and B[1]. Each buffer has size S B ≤ M 2 , where M is a size of the allocation. The digital image is divided into N number of tiles. Then, for tiles Ti, where i=1 to N: (A) the image data of tile Ti is decompressed into buffer B[((i% 2)=0], and (B) the image data of buffer B[(i% 2)≠0] is decompressed into the image path pipeline. Send a signal indicating that processing of the digital image has completed.
US09928183B2
Proving for a framework for propagating priorities to a memory subsystem in a computing system environment is disclosed herein. By way of example, a memory access handler is provided for managing memory access requests and determining associated priorities. The memory access handler includes logic configured for propagating memory requests and the associated priorities to lower levels of a computer hierarchy. A memory subsystem receives the memory access requests and the priorities.
US09928182B2
A memory system comprises an SRAM array and a NVM array. The SRAM array and NVM array are both organized in rows and columns. The NVM array is directly coupled to the SRAM array. The memory system may also be coupled to a system bus of a data processing system. The number of columns of the NVM array is an integer multiple of the number of columns of the SRAM array, where the integer multiple is greater than one. Column logic is coupled to the SRAM array and to the NVM array. The column logic controls accesses to the SRAM and to the NVM array, and the column logic controls direct data transfers between the SRAM array and the NVM array.
US09928179B2
Cache replacement policy. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus comprises a queue memory structure configured to queue cache requests that miss a second cache after missing a first cache. The apparatus comprises additional memory associated with the queue memory structure is configured to record an evict way of the cache requests for the cache. The apparatus may be further configured to lock the evict way recorded in the additional memory, for example, to prevent reuse of the evict way. The apparatus may be further configured to unlock the evict way responsive to a fill from the second cache to the cache. The additional memory may be a component of a higher level cache.
US09928169B2
A method and system for improving swap performance are provided. In one embodiment, a computing device is provided with a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory, wherein the non-volatile memory has a first swap area with multi-level cell (MLC) memory and a second swap area with single-level cell (SLC) memory. One of the characteristics of SLC memory is that data is written more quickly in the SLC memory than the MLC memory. A determination is made whether the computing device is operating in normal mode or burst mode. If it is determined that the computing device is operating in normal mode, data is moved from the volatile memory to the first swap area during a swap operation. If it is determined that the computing device is operating in burst mode, data is moved from the volatile memory to the second swap area during a swap operation.
US09928168B2
Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing non-volatile system memory with volatile memory program caching. One such method comprises storing an executable program in a non-volatile random access memory. In response to an initial launch of the executable program, the executable program is loaded from the non-volatile random access memory into a volatile memory cache for execution. In response to an initial suspension of the executable program, cache pages corresponding to the executable program are flushed into the non-volatile random access memory.
US09928165B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array, a row decoder, a page buffer, and control logic. The memory cell array includes memory cells connected to word lines and bit lines, the memory cell array being configured to store data. The row decoder is configured to selectively activate a string selection line, a ground selection line, and the word lines of the memory cell array. The page buffer is configured to temporarily store external data and to apply a predetermined voltage to the bit lines according to the stored data during a program operation, and to sense data stored in selected memory cells using the bit lines during a read operation or a verification operation. The control logic is configured to control the row decoder and the page buffer. During execution of commands, when a request to suspend the execution of the commands is retrieved, chip information is backed up to a storage space separate from the control logic.
US09928150B2
A method of operating a test device for a logic-based processing device includes the steps of providing an original set of test instructions, generating one or more Quick Error Detection (QED) test programs, and causing the one or more QED test programs to be executed on the logic-based processing device. Each one of the QED test programs includes the original test program with additional instructions inserted at strategic locations within the original set, wherein the additional instructions and the strategic locations vary between each of the QED test programs.
US09928135B2
A method for delocalizing an error checking on a data in a pipelined processor from the data checked. A first check-data is generated at a first location on a first data. A second location receives the first data and the first check-data. A second check-data is generated on the first data and the first check-data is compared with the second check-data at the second location. A second data is generated from the first data and a third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location. A third check-data is generated on the second data at the second location and the second data is transferred to a third location. The third check-data is transferred to a fourth location. A fourth check-data is generated on the second data and is transferred to the fourth location. The fourth check-data and the third check-data are compared at the fourth location.
US09928134B2
A method for repairing a dynamic link library (DLL) file includes: reading an import section in an executable file; determining, according to DLL file information recorded in the import section and a pre-established correspondence between a DLL file and a save path, that a DLL file is lost; and notifying, when an instruction for running the executable file is received, that the DLL file is lost, and calling an installation package of the DLL file to repair the DLL file. The apparatus includes: a reading module, a determining module and a repairing module.
US09928129B2
An operation apparatus module includes a plurality of operation apparatuses disposed in a preset pattern. Each of the plurality of operation apparatuses includes a storage block suitable for storing self-identification information for identifying a corresponding operation apparatus and peer identification information for identifying one or more peer operation apparatuses of the corresponding operation apparatus; and an identification block suitable for managing the preset pattern by comparing the self-identification information stored in the storage block with the peer identification information transmitted from the peer operation apparatuses.
US09928117B2
A computer system includes a hardware synchronization component (HSC). Multiple concurrent threads of execution issue instructions to update the state of the HSC. Multiple threads may update the state in the same clock cycle and a thread does not need to receive control of the HSC prior to updating its states. Instructions referencing the state received during the same clock cycle are aggregated and the state is updated according to the number of the instructions. The state is evaluated with respect to a threshold condition. If it is met, then the HSC outputs an event to a processor. The processor then identifies a thread impacted by the event and takes a predetermined action based on the event (e.g. blocking, branching, unblocking of the thread).
US09928116B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for program migration, the method comprising: receiving a target host and an application to be migrated to a target host; estimating a target load of the application to be migrated; generating a synthetic application which simulates a simulated load, the simulated load being smaller than the target load; loading the synthetic application to the target host; monitoring behavior of the target host, the synthetic application, or a second application executed thereon; subject to the behavior being satisfactory: if the simulated load is smaller than the target load, then repeating said generating, said loading and said monitoring, wherein said loading is repeated with increased load; and otherwise migrating the application to the target.
US09928115B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit may include one or more processors. Each processor may include multiple processor cores, and each core has a different design/implementation and performance level. The processor may support multiple processor states (PStates). Each PState may specify an operating point (e.g. a combination of supply voltage magnitude and clock frequency), and each PState may be mapped to one of the processor cores. During operation, one of the cores is active: the core to which the current PState is mapped. If a new PState is selected and is mapped to a different core, the processor may automatically context switch the processor state to the newly-selected core and may begin execution on that core. The context switch may be performed using a special purpose register (SPR) interconnect. Each processor core in a given processor may be coupled to the SPR interconnect to permit access to the external SPRs.
US09928114B2
A method for job management in an HPC environment includes determining an unallocated subset from a plurality of HPC nodes, with each of the unallocated HPC nodes comprising an integrated fabric. An HPC job is selected from a job queue and executed using at least a portion of the unallocated subset of nodes.
US09928109B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for enforcing cross stream dependencies in a parallel processing subsystem such as a graphics processing unit. The technique involves queuing waiting events to create cross stream dependencies and signaling events to indicated completion to the waiting events. A scheduler kernel examines a task status data structure from a corresponding stream and updates dependency counts for tasks and events within the stream. When each task dependency for a waiting event is satisfied, an associated task may execute.
US09928107B1
Technologies are described herein for migrating network addresses between host computers in a hybrid network environment. Before migrating a network address between a source host computer in a first network and a target host computer in a second network, potentially affected host computers in the networks are notified of the upcoming migration. This may cause an address translation module of an affected host computer to enter a fast polling mode. The networking infrastructures of the first and second networks are then reconfigured to effect transfer of the network address. This may include updating overlay IP mappings for the network address being migrated to point to the target host computer. Finally, the affected host computers are notified that migration of the network address is complete, causing the address translation module of the affected host computer to stop fast polling and return to normal operation with update mappings.
US09928102B2
Described herein is a method and apparatus to randomize instruction sets, memory registers, and pointers to increase computer security by increasing resource commitment requirements for malicious software, malicious computer users, or reverse engineers to understand the meaning of the new instruction sets, memory registers, and pointers.
US09928100B2
Migration of virtual machines within a computing environment is facilitated. A processor obtains a current virtual machine to host mapping in the computing environment, as well as a plurality of future virtual machine to host mappings. A current migration plan to migrate from a current state of the computing environment to another state of the computing environment is also obtained. Based on the current virtual machine to host mapping and one or more future virtual machine to host mappings of the plurality of future virtual machine to host mappings a determination is made that one or more potential alert conditions exist in the current migration plan. The current migration plan and/or one or more future virtual machine to host mappings are displayed. The current migration plan is adjusted to address at least one potential alert condition of the one or more potential alert conditions to improve processing within the computing environment.
US09928093B2
An example method of establishing one or more connections between a target host machine and a remote endpoint connected to a virtual machine (VM) running on a source host machine includes receiving, by a target hypervisor executable on a target host machine, a list of one or more remote endpoints to which a VM executable on a source host machine is connected. The source and target host machines are coupled to a network. The method further includes initiating, by a host communication manager executable on the target host machine, a connection to one or more of the remote endpoints specified in the list before the VM has completed migration from the source host machine to the target host machine.
US09928092B1
Managing resources in a VM cluster; allocation of resources among competing VMs. Assigning VMs to real devices, responsive to needs for resources: processor usage, disk I/O, network I/O, memory space, disk space. Assigning VMs responsive to needs for cluster activity: network response latency, QoS. Using predictive models of resource usage by VMs. Transferring VMs, improving utilization. Failing-soft onto alternative VM resources. Providing a resource buffer for collective VM resource demand. Transferring VMs to a cloud service that charges for resources.
US09928090B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for processing a dynamic language application in an electronic device. A first machine code is generated using a first processor and a second machine code is generated using a second processor, for the dynamic language application. The dynamic language application is processed by executing the first machine code. The first machine code is replaced with the second machine code. Processing of the dynamic language application is continued by executing the second machine code.
US09928085B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates use of an application. During operation, the system obtains a language stack containing an ordered set of preferred languages for a user of the application. Next, for each user-interface component from a set of user-interface components in the application, the system obtains content for the user-interface component based on an order of languages in the language stack. The system then includes the content in the user-interface component during use of the application on an electronic device by the user.
US09928084B2
An electronic device is provided with an activation unit for activating an application wherein character input to a character input area is possible, a memory for storing a predetermined character string corresponding to the application, an operation unit for inputting a first character string and a second character string, a display unit for displaying the first character string and the second character string input from the operation unit, a determination unit for determining whether or not the second character string matches the predetermined character string, and a control unit which, when the determination unit determines that the second character string matches the predetermined character string, functions to control an activation unit to activate an application corresponding to the predetermined character string and functions to input the first character string in the character input area of the application.
US09928079B2
The use of a sleep, or halt, instruction enables a processor to halt execution when read from a non-volatile memory. The opcode for the sleep instruction is the same value as the constant bit value of an un-programmed, nonvolatile memory. When the opcode is read by the processor, execution is halted and the processor enters a wait or sleep mode. During the sleep mode, firmware is programmed into memory with another means such as an external host processor. When a valid trigger event occurs, for instance, external or internal interrupts or reset activation, the processor then exits the sleep mode and starts instruction etching at the PC_INIT address.
US09928071B1
A system includes a processor configured to: initiate atomic execution of a plurality of instruction units in a thread, starting with a beginning instruction unit in the plurality of instruction units, wherein the plurality of instruction units in the thread are not programmatically specified to be executed atomically; detect an atomicity terminating event during atomic execution of the plurality of instruction units, wherein the atomicity terminating event is triggered by a memory access by another processor; and commit at least some of the one or more memory modification instructions. The system further includes a memory coupled to the processor, configured to provide the processor with the plurality of instruction units.
US09928068B2
A system may include a memory to store an enhancer to identify a branch instruction, having a miss-prediction rate above a threshold, in an executing thread. The system may additionally include an instruction update unit to modify an operation code (opcode) of the branch instruction, where a modified opcode of a branch instruction indicates an instruction fetch priority for an executing thread. The system may further include a processor, having an instruction decode unit to set a modified instruction fetch priority of the first executing thread based on the modified opcode of the branch instruction, and an instruction fetch unit to retrieve instructions for the first executing thread from the instruction cache at a first rate, the first rate indicated by the modified instruction fetch priority of the first executing thread.
US09928067B2
Systems and methods are provided in example embodiments for performing binary translation. A binary translation system converts, by a translator module, source instructions to target instructions. The binary translation system identifies a condition code block in the source instructions, where the condition code block includes a plurality of condition bits. In response to identifying the condition code block, the binary translation system provides an optimizer module to convert the condition code block. Then, the binary translation system performs a pre-execution on the condition code block to resolve the plurality of condition bits in the condition code block.
US09928065B2
A method and apparatus provide means for compressing instruction code size. An Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) encodes instructions compact, usual or extended bit lengths. Commonly used instructions are encoded having both compact and usual bit lengths, with compact or usual bit length instructions chosen based on power, performance or code size requirements. Instructions of the ISA can be used in both privileged and non-privileged operating modes of a microprocessor. The instruction encodings can be used interchangeably in software applications. Instructions from the ISA may be executed on any programmable device enabled for the ISA, including a single instruction set architecture processor or a multi-instruction set architecture processor.
US09928064B2
Execution of a set of instructions within a transaction is prevented. A processor identifies a first set of instructions in an instruction stream of a transaction. The first set of instructions incurs a first memory access that is not visible to the transaction and will cause the transaction to abort. The processor generates a second set of instructions that incurs a second memory access that is visible to the transaction. The second set of instructions is generated based on the first memory access and first set of instructions. The processor executes, within the transaction, the second set of instructions instead of the first set of instructions.
US09928061B2
The method includes adjusting, by one or more computer processors, a Javascript object notation structure to comprise a tag on at least one object and a tag on at least one array. The method further includes receiving, by one or more computer processors, data indicating a first set of at least one change to the Javascript object notation structure. The method further includes adjusting, by one or more computer processors, the tags in the Javascript object notation structure to include the first set of the at least one change in the Javascript object notation structure. The method further includes receiving, by one or more computer processor, data indicating the first set of the at least one change to the Javascript object notation structure is complete. The method further includes displaying the first set of the at least one change to the Javascript object notation structure based upon the adjusted tags.
US09928050B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable web applications to be identified, and that enable the identified web applications to be published to remote servers. Objects are accessed in storage for a developed web application. A feed is received that includes a plurality of signatures that correspond to a plurality of webapp development applications. A webapp development application used to develop the web application is identified by comparing the signatures to the objects. A web deployment package is downloaded for the identified webapp development application. The downloaded web deployment package is applied to enable the web application to be published to a server, such as by modifying settings and/or applying transformations to the objects that defined by the downloaded web deployment package.
US09928045B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory configured to store a first code; and a processor configured to compile a source file to generate the first code, wherein the processor: generates a second code, which is executable by the processor, based on a result of analysis of the source program; and divides the second code into blocks of a size equal to or smaller than a given size including a reservation region to generate the first code.
US09928044B2
Embodiments of a system and method are described for generating and distributing programming to mobile devices over a network. Devices are provided with Players specific to each device and Applications that are device independent. Embodiments include a full-featured WYSIWYG authoring environment, including the ability to bind web components to objects.
US09928037B2
Hardware logic arranged to perform modulo calculation with respect to a constant value b is described. The modulo calculation is based on a finite polynomial ring with polynomial coefficients in GF(2). This ring is generated using a generator polynomial which has a repeat period (or cycle length) which is a multiple of b. The hardware logic comprises an encoding block which maps an input number into a plurality of encoded values within the ring and a decoding block which maps an output number back from the ring into binary. A multiplication block which comprises a tree of multipliers (e.g. a binary tree) takes the encoded values and multiplies groups (e.g. pairs) of them together within the ring to generate intermediate values. Groups (e.g. pairs) of these intermediate values are then iteratively multiplied together within the ring until there is only one intermediate value generated which is the output number.
US09928032B2
Embodiments relate to a hardware circuit that is operable as a fixed point adder and a checksum adder. An aspect includes a driving of a multifunction compression tree disposed on a circuit path based on a control bit to execute one of first and second schemes of vector input addition and a driving of a multifunction adder disposed on the circuit path based on the control bit to perform the one of the first and second schemes of vector input addition.
US09928030B2
A voice search apparatus includes a web page display controller, a voice recognizer, a matching unit, and a URL creator. The web page display controller controls a web page which is to be displayed on a display. The voice recognizer recognizes a voice that is input, converts the voice into character string information, and outputs the character string information. The matching unit refers to a URL list in which a character string representing part of a URL is registered for each search category, performs matching processing between a URL of the web page displayed on the display and the character string in the URL list, and specifies the character string in the URL list corresponding to the URL. The URL creator creates a URL based on the character string specified by the matching unit and the character string information.
US09928027B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic sound enhancement for a mobile platform. The system comprises a memory for storing a plurality of unique sound profiles, and a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. The processor receives an identification (ID) for the mobile platform, a driving mode, and references the memory using the ID and driving mode to select a sound profile. The processor also receives sail status data and engine status data for the engine, which indicates whether the engine is in sail mode or not, and the progression of the mobile platform within sail mode. Responsive to the sail status and engine status data, and in accordance with the selected sound profile, the processor generates commands for an audio system coupled to the mobile platform.
US09928013B2
An output system includes a user terminal including a first processor; an information processing system including one or more second processors; and one or more output apparatuses each including a third processor, wherein the first processor is configured to receive an output request from a user, an output request designating an output target data and an output destination selected from among the one or more output apparatuses, and send, in response to receiving the output request, the output target data to the information processing system and an acquisition request of outputting to the designated output apparatus and wherein the third processor is configured to execute, in response to receiving the acquisition request from the user terminal, an acquisition process to acquire the designated output target data from the information processing system.
US09928009B1
An enclosure-based tape drive server, comprises an enclosure, a controller, a memory linked to the controller, a plurality of at least eight tape drives, a host bus adapter and a network controller. The controller is positioned within the enclosure. The at least eight tape drives are positioned within the enclosure, and each of the tape drives is accessible from a front side of the enclosure. The host bus adapter couples the plurality of tape drives to the controller. The network controller is connectible to a network to couple the server to the network.
US09928005B2
Disclosed methods and systems leverage resources in a storage management system to partially synchronize primary data files based on synchronizing selected portions thereof without regard to changes that may be occurring in other non-synchronized portions. Accordingly, a number of primary data files may be partially synchronized by synchronizing designated portions thereof via auto-restore operations from backup data. This approach relies on storage management resources to designate portions of source data that is to be kept synchronized across any number of targets; detect changes to the designated portions; back up changes to secondary storage; and distribute the changes from secondary storage to the associated targets, with minimal impact to the primary data environment. The approach may be mutually applied, so that changes in any one of an associated group of source data files may be likewise detected, backed up, and distributed to the other members of the group.
US09928001B2
Systems and methods enable a virtual machine, including applications executing thereon, to quickly start executing and servicing users based on pre-staged data blocks supplied from a backup copy in secondary storage. Substantially concurrently with the ongoing execution of the virtual machine, a virtual-machine-file-relocation operation moves data blocks from backup to a primary storage destination that becomes the virtual machine's primary data store after relocation completes. An enhanced data agent, operating in conjunction with an enhanced media agent in a storage management system, coordinates restoring the virtual machine and launching the relocation operation. The enhanced media agent pre-stages certain backed up data blocks based on predictive analysis pertaining to the virtual machine's operational profile. The enhanced media agent also pre-stages backed up data blocks for the relocation operation, based on the operation's relocation scheme. The media agent tracks read requests and maintains the contents of an associated read cache.
US09927997B2
The subject matter described herein relates to methods, systems, and computer readable media for automatically and selectively enabling burst mode operation in a storage device. One method includes monitoring data written by a host device to a storage device. The method further includes determining whether the data is of a type for which burst mode operation of the storage device is indicated. The method further includes, in response to determining that the data is of a type for which burst mode operation is indicated, automatically enabling burst mode operation of the storage device.
US09927988B2
Examples disclosed herein provide moving a block of data between a source address and a target address. The examples disclose initiating a data move engine to move the block of data from the source address to the target address. Additionally, the examples disclose moving the block of data from the source address to the target address in a manner which allows a processor to concurrently access the block of data during the move.
US09927986B2
A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory, a temperature sensor, and temperature calibration circuitry coupled to the temperature sensor. The temperature calibration circuitry is configured to cause memory operations to be performed on storage elements of the non-volatile memory, to determine a temperature metric based on temperature readings from the temperature sensor in response to initiation of the memory operations, and to modify a temperature threshold based on the temperature metric.
US09927981B2
Apparatus and method for managing data in a hybrid data storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device has a hard disc drive (HDD) controller circuit coupled to non-volatile rotatable storage media and a solid state drive (SSD) controller circuit coupled to non-volatile solid state memory. A local volatile memory has separate HDD and SSD partitions respectively accessible by the HDD and SSD controller circuits. A top level controller circuit performs a cleaning operation to transfer a data set from the non-volatile solid state memory to the rotatable storage media by issuing a read command to the HDD controller circuit to retrieve the data set to the HDD partition, transferring the data set from the HDD partition to the SSD partition, and issuing a write command to the SSD controller circuit to write the data set from the SSD partition to the non-volatile solid state memory.
US09927980B1
Systems and techniques are provided for incremental Continuous Data Protection (iCDP) as a process to secure frequent, and space efficient, versions of consistent point-in-time images of a group of volumes using snapshot technology. The system provides for automation to create and manage frequent snapshots of defined groups of volumes. The incremental approach of the system described herein provides a convenient way to roll back to prior point-in-time versions to investigate data damage due to processing errors or other forms of corruption. Log space in log devices may be reclaimed in connection with managing recovery and roll back capabilities of the system to desired data versions for purposes of data protection. Point in time versions of a source device may be accessed through the source device. The particular point in time version accessed in servicing an I/O may be determined in accordance with one or more criteria.
US09927977B2
A method includes generating a plurality of segment allocation tables (SATs) for pluralities of sets of encoded data slices. For a first SAT, the method further includes dispersed storage error encoding the first SAT to produce a first set of encoded SAT slices. The method further includes generating a first source name for the first plurality of sets of encoded data slices and the first SAT based on an object identifier associated with the data object. The method further includes generating, based on the first source name, a first plurality of sets of slices names for the first plurality of sets of encoded data slices and the first set of encoded SAT slices. The method further includes outputting, based on the first plurality of sets of slices names, the first plurality of sets of encoded data slices and the first set of encoded SAT slices to storage units.
US09927974B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for adjusting a size of one or more keys of a soft keyboard presented on a display of a computing device. A dimension of a finger feature of a finger of a user of the computing device may be calculated from an image of the finger of the user in an image frame of a camera of the computing device based on parameters of the camera of the computing device. A size of the finger of the user may be determined based on the finger feature dimension. The size of one or more keys of the soft keyboard may be adjusted based on the determined size of the finger of the user.
US09927973B2
Methods and systems of controlling an electronic device that executes at least one application include receiving a multipoint input; detecting input points of the multipoint input; and generating a layer for executing the at least one application based on the detected input points of the multipoint input.
US09927964B2
A hand-held electronic device has a processor that is operably coupled to the visual display and touch interface. The hand held electronic device includes instructions executable by the processor configured to present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; perform a tessellation that divides the image into one or more regions that fill the display, each region corresponds to a different active element, a size of each region depends on a corresponding probability of use of the corresponding active element within a given time frame; correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to a corresponding one or more of the regions; and activate a particular active element in response to a touch on a corresponding active portion.
US09927963B2
Techniques are disclosed for creating digital flash cards that include links to content from one or more digital content sources, referred to herein as a flash card mode. The mode allows a user to create a digital flash card by selecting a portion of a digital content source and performing a create command. The created flash card includes at least two virtual sides and a first side of the flash card identifies the location of the selected portion of digital content. The location may be identified, for example, by a canonical fragment identifier (CFI). Text can then be entered for a second side of the flash card. Flash cards can be shared with other users, and because the flash cards only identify locations of content within digital content sources, the mode is well-suited to handle sources including digital rights management (DRM) protection, for example.
US09927956B2
A system and methodology which provides a content management functionality that presents content to a viewing user in a manner which is compelling, logically organized and in a fashion which is intended to display the content of most interest to a user more prominently. According to various embodiments of the present invention, presentation to a viewing user may be in the form of a newsfeed which presents content as a list of content entries which are classified by subject matter and ranked for prioritization in viewing prominence according to various criteria.
US09927954B2
Dynamic interface to present customized information contextually in relation to access to a property
A wireless mobile device in data communication with a platform may present on a display of the wireless mobile device graphic images and/or icons that may represent different information as a function of time, location, type of activity, type of event, anonymized trend data, push notifications and electronic messages. The graphic images and/or icons may be selectably visible on the display based on context-relevance of the information being displayed relative to an event, such as a rental of property by a traveler, for example. The graphic images and/or icons displayed may be determined by a data file that includes information configured to cause a visual characteristic of the graphic images and/or icons to dynamically change during different periods associated with an event, such as a pre-event, during-event, and post-event periods. Image/icon color, shape, size, opacity, position, transparency, intensity, invisibility, or other visual characteristics may be changed among images/icons being displayed.
US09927948B2
Provided is an image display apparatus, including: a display unit configured to allow a real space to be transparently viewed and configured to display a three-dimensional image; and a display control unit configured to display a plurality of the three-dimensional images on the display unit in a manner that the plurality of the three-dimensional images are arranged in a plurality of lines that are different from each other in position in a depth direction on a near side with respect to the real space.
US09927947B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating interactions with a user interface are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a set of mutation events specifying changes to the structure of a user interface that occurred during the user session, and generating user interface states specifying different structures of the user interface throughout the given user session. Based at least in part on the user interface states, playback data that present visual changes of the user interface corresponding to the set of mutation events that occurred during the user session are generated. Session activity data describing user interactions that occurred during the user session are also generated. At least a portion of the playback data and the session activity data are output to a requesting device.
US09927944B1
According to an embodiment, a designer may utilize an authoring tool to create or edit an interactive media pack (“IMP”). The authoring tool may facilitate creation of multiple versions of an IMP or IMP part. These versions may each be specific to a particular delivery-channel. For example, in an embodiment, a first version may be specific to an IMP presentation made via a graphical user-interface of an application on a mobile device, and a second version may be specific to an IMP presentation made via an interactive voice response system. In some instances, versions for a particular IMP or IMP part may be understood to be linked. That is, progress of an IMP presentation may be tracked so that a user may switch between a first version and second version while losing little, if any, progress in the presentation.
US09927940B2
A method of displaying information includes presenting representations of information in a manner accounting for independent cognitive capacities corresponding to a subject's left and right halves of visual space. Weightings of importance may be assigned to the information and used to display the representations in the left half or the right half of the visual space with zero or few other representations. Presenting the representations can also include inspecting content of the information and determining a position on a display to present the content as a function of the information previously, currently, or in the future displayed on the display. In a display system, a presentation unit is configured to present, e.g. generate, representations of information in a manner accounting for the independent cognitive capacities, and a display unit is configured to display the representations. Displaying information can include arranging physical objects in locations of a subject's expected visual space.
US09927927B2
In one embodiment, a method includes applying a drive signal to an electrode of a touch sensor of a device. The touch sensor extends across an area of a surface of the device, and the drive signal is configured to generate an electric field that extends outward from the area of the surface that the touch sensor extends across and reaches a pre-determined location on the device that is outside the area of the surface that the touch sensor extends across. The method includes receiving a sense signal from the touch sensor produced at least in part by the electric field. The sense signal indicates whether an object has come within a pre-determined proximity of the pre-determined location.
US09927920B2
A device implements a method of tracking objects on a touch surface of an FTIR based touch-sensitive apparatus. An interaction map is generated that indicates local changes in interaction on the touch surface. The interaction map is processed for identification of positive and negative peaks that represent a locally increased and decreased interaction in the interaction map, respectively. To suppress the impact of interferences, a dedicated first heuristic and/or second heuristic is applied to identify potentially false peaks among the positive peaks. The first heuristic designates a positive peak as a potentially false peak when the positive peak is deemed to be associated with one or more of the negative peaks. The second heuristic designates a positive peak as a potentially false peak when the positive peak is deemed to be located along one of the movement trajectories. Movement trajectories of all objects deemed to exist on the touch surface at a preceding time point are then updated while taking the potentially false peaks into account.
US09927917B2
An electronic device includes a display including a touch sensor, a contextual sensor configured to provide data indicative of an operating condition of the electronic device, one or more memories in which touch input instructions, touch event mapping instructions, and a touch event mapping model are stored, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured through execution of the touch input instructions to obtain data indicative of an initial assessment of touch event position via the touch sensor. The touch event mapping model maps the initial assessment of touch event position to an adjusted touch event position as a function of the data indicative of the operating condition of the electronic device. The processor is further configured through execution of the touch event mapping instructions to determine the adjusted touch event position based on the touch event mapping model, the data indicative of the initial assessment of touch event position, and the data indicative of the operating condition.
US09927909B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus relate to capacitive touch sensors with a fine-pointed, active stylus. The active stylus is configured to receive a signal from the capacitive touch sensor for synchronizing a time base of the stylus with the capacitive touch sensor. The active stylus is configured to receive a signal from a matrix of the capacitive touch sensor to measure a first position along one axis, and transmit a signal from the single electrode of the stylus to the matrix to indicate a second position of the stylus along another axis of the matrix. The stylus can transmit the received signal to report the first position of the stylus.
US09927908B2
The present disclosure provides an in-cell touch panel and a display device, wherein each self-capacitance electrode is provided with a transversal slit within a region of the self-capacitance electrode corresponding to a gap between two adjacent pixel units in a column direction, and/or each self-capacitance electrode is provided with a longitudinal slit within a region of the self-capacitance electrode corresponding to a gap between two adjacent pixel units in a row direction, so that it can ensure that the slits in the self-capacitance electrodes and the gaps between the self-capacitance electrodes are uniformly arranged in the whole in-cell touch panel, thereby overcoming the defects such as bright lines, dark lines or the like in the in-cell touch panel.
US09927907B2
A method and apparatus for operating a touch input device and a lighting device coupled with a circuit, includes generating, in a signal combiner, an operational signal configured to identify a touch input device state for the touch input device, interpreting, in a touch core module, the identified touch input device state for the touch input device, in response to the interpreting of the touch input device state, generating, in a light core module, a lighting device state for the lighting device, providing the operational signal and the lighting device state, and controlling the touch input device and the lighting device via the operational signal and the lighting device state.
US09927901B2
An apparatus includes a force sensor circuit and a controller. The force sensor circuit includes first, second, third, and fourth electrodes disposed on a substrate. The first and second electrodes extend through first and second cells of a row of cells. The third and fourth electrodes extend through third and fourth cells of a column of cells. The first electrode occupies more area in the first cell than in the second cell. The second electrode occupies more area in the second cell than in the first cell. The third electrode occupies more area in the third cell than in the fourth cell. The fourth electrode occupies more area in the fourth cell than in the third cell. The controller detects a force and a position of the force based on signals communicated by the force sensor circuit.
US09927900B2
The presence or absence of touch is detected according to a difference of a capacitance caused by the presence or absence of a material that blocks the electric field formed between the detection electrode and the common electrode. The common electrode includes a plurality of divided electrode portions that is extended in a lateral direction and aligned with each other in a longitudinal direction. Each of the plurality of common lines is electrically connected to at least one of the divided electrode portions. The plurality of common lines is arranged in an area next to the common electrode in the lateral direction of the common electrode, arranged next to each other in a width direction orthogonal to a length thereof, is different in width from each other, and the width of the common lines is wider as the length is longer.
US09927899B2
A high-accuracy flat touch display panel structure includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate, a liquid crystal layer configured between the upper and lower substrates, a thin film transistor and wiring layer, and a sensing electrode layer. The thin film transistor and wiring layer is disposed at one side of the lower substrate facing the liquid crystal layer, and includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of source lines, and a plurality of wirings. The sensing electrode layer is disposed at one side of the thin film transistor and wiring layer facing the liquid crystal layer, and has a plurality of sensing conductor lines. The plurality of sensing conductor lines are disposed corresponding to positions of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of source lines.
US09927898B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a light-emitting region and a reflection region, a plurality of sensing patterns disposed in the light-emitting region and the reflection region, and including a material having a first reflectivity, and a reflection pattern disposed in the reflection region, and including a material having a second reflectivity, and overlapping the plurality of sensing patterns.
US09927897B2
A display device includes a substrate, gate lines disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction, data lines insulated from the gate lines and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, pixels electrically connected to the gate lines and the data lines, wherein at least one line of the gate lines and the data lines comprises a ring pattern, wherein the ring pattern comprises rings and adjacent rings are electrically connected to each other in at least one position.
US09927883B1
A computer-implemented method for estimating mouse resolution includes receiving a mouse movement event for a mouse at an operating system of a computing device. In response to receiving the mouse movement event, an average speed of the mouse movement event is measured. Multiple average speed measurements for the mouse are aggregated based on multiple mouse movement events. The aggregated average speed measurements for the mouse are reported to a server. An estimated resolution for the mouse is received from the server based on the aggregated average speed measurements for the mouse.
US09927880B2
Methods and systems for processing input from an image-capture device for gesture-recognition. The method further includes computationally interpreting user gestures in accordance with a first mode of operation; analyzing the path of movement of an object to determine an intent of a user to change modes of operation; and, upon determining an intent of the user to change modes of operation, subsequently interpreting user gestures in accordance with the second mode of operation.
US09927877B2
Methods and systems of manipulating data on an electronic device and a remote terminal are disclosed. The system includes at least one controller in an electronic device and a remote terminal, configured to initialize the electronic device and the remote terminal, detect a first input signal associated with a desired action, capture at least a portion of an external environment, detect a second input signal associated with the desired action, and perform the desired action on the electronic device and the remote terminal according to the first input signal and the second input signal. The system also includes at least one signal detection system in the electronic device and the remote terminal controlled by the at least one controller, at least one imaging and display system in the electronic device and the remote terminal generating an image output data in real-time.
US09927873B2
Systems and methods for using textures in graphical user interface widgets are disclosed. For example, one disclosed system includes: a system including: an actuator configured to receive a haptic signal and output a haptic effect based at least in part on the haptic signal, the haptic effect configured to simulate a texture; a touch-sensitive interface configured to detect a user interaction and output a interface signal; and a processor in communication with the actuator and the touch-sensitive interface, the processor configured to: receive the interface signal; receive a display signal including a plurality of pixels defining a display area; determine a first texture associated with a first group of pixels defining a first section of the display area; determine a second texture associated with a second group of pixels defining a second section of the display area; and transmit a haptic signal configured to cause the actuator to: output a first haptic effect configured to simulate the first texture if the user interaction is associated with the first section of the display area, and output a second haptic effect configured to simulate the second texture if the user interaction is associated with the second section of the display area.
US09927872B2
A wireless BCI input system for mobile intelligent devices is described. The system may include an SSVEP keyboard for stimulating SSVEP signals and an EEG headband for acquiring EEG signals. The SSVEP keyboard may include sixteen virtual buttons and a mask that can be replaced to change functions of the virtual buttons. The EEG headband may include an EEG acquisition module, an EEG analysis module, and a Bluetooth communication module, which are used for acquiring EEG signals, determining the user's input intentions, and sending characters or controlling commands to a matched mobile intelligent device via Bluetooth connection.
US09927864B2
A multiple link power allocation system includes a powered IHS coupled to a powering IHS by a plurality of networking cables that transmit data and power to provide a plurality of data/power links. The powering IHS may detect that the data/power links are connected to the powered IHS, determine a total power amount needed by the powered IHS, and provide the total power amount to the powered IHS using the data/power links. The powered IHS may detect the connection of an initial data/power link, enable a first powered IHS function mode and, in response, draw a first power amount through the initial data/power link. The powered IHS may also detect the connection of subsequent data/power link(s), enable a second powered IHS function mode and, in response, draw a second power amount through the initial data/power link and the subsequent data/power link(s) that is greater than the first power amount.
US09927862B2
A digital signal processor includes a variable precision hardware pipeline that provides a maximum level of precision using a first plurality of bits for a mathematical representation. The pipeline stages include data registers to store the first plurality of bits. A precision select module selects a level of precision for processing a block of instructions and sets a precision control register. Logic circuitry utilizes the precision control register to gate the clock signal for one or more of the first plurality of bits to reduce the precision of the hardware pipeline. The logic circuitry disables the clock signal for the data latches in the pipeline corresponding to bits to be disabled to reduce the precision. By disabling the clock signal for the data registers, the amount of power consumed by the pipeline can be reduced.
US09927860B2
A method for reducing power consumption of a memory system and a memory controller are provided. The method for reducing power consumption of a memory system includes: determining whether a dynamic random access memory DRAM memory module with a low access frequency exists in a memory system; when a DRAM memory module with a low access frequency exists, transfer, according to a size of a working set in the memory system, page data that does not belong to the working set to a non-volatile memory NVM memory module, where the page data that does not belong to the working set is page data that does not need to be accessed when a process runs within preset time.
US09927856B2
Component power consumption is collected from each of a plurality of controllers of a node having a plurality of components. The component power consumption is provided to each of the plurality of controllers. A power differential is determined as a difference between a power cap for an apparatus and a total power consumption for the apparatus based, at least in part, on the component power consumption. A proportion of the total power consumption corresponding to the at least one component associated with the at least one component controller is determined. A local power budget is computed for the at least one component based, at least in part, on the power differential and the proportion of the total power consumption corresponding to the at least one component. A failure associated with the at least one component controller or the at least one component is determined.
US09927852B2
In one embodiment, a slot-filler blanking tray includes a vented blanking panel including a vented front panel, the vented blanking panel for fitting over an entrance to one slot of a computer equipment rack including support rails, and a panel arrangement including partition panels to form a slot partition for reversibly inserting into the one slot, supported by the support rails, the slot partition being formed either by unfolding the partition panels or fitting the partition panels together, wherein (a) the vented blanking panel and at least one partition panel of the partition panels are mechanically connected together, or (b) the vented blanking panel includes a first connecting element and the at least one partition panel includes a second connecting element to mechanically connect the vented blanking panel and the at least one partition panel together. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US09927844B2
Examples disclosed herein provide a hinge assembly for a computing device. One example hinge assembly includes a first hinge attached along a back side of a base member of the computing device, and a second hinge attached along a back surface of a display member of the computing device. The hinge assembly includes a first support including a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first support is attached to the first hinge at the first end and attached to the second hinge at the second end. The support is disposed along the back surface of the display member outside a perimeter of a display surface of the display member.
US09927842B2
Examples disclosed herein provide a computing device. One example computing device includes a base member, a support member rotatably connected to the base member at a first end of the support member, and a display member rotatably connected at a second end of the support member opposite the first end of the support member. The computing device includes a kickstand rotatably connected to a back surface of the display member at a first end of the kickstand, and magnetic members to magnetically couple the support member with a second end of the kickstand opposite the first end of the kickstand. When the device is to change from a first operation mode to a second operation mode, the kickstand is to move along the support member via the magnetic coupling.
US09927838B2
Disclosed is a sensor system for a docking station including a receiving portion, a topside of the receiving portion for receiving an electronic device, a bottom side of the receiving portion, a first magnetic sensor on the bottom side of the receiving portion for detecting the presence of the electronic device. The sensor system can further include a second magnetic sensor on the bottom side of the receiving portion for detecting the presence of the electronic device. The first sensor can be positioned to correspond to the position of the first speaker when the electronic device is seated in the topside of the receiving portion and the second sensor can be positioned to correspond to the position of the second speaker when the electronic device is seated in the topside of the receiving portion. Sensor system can detect the presence and proper position of an electronic device in a docking station by having magnetic sensors to detect a magnetic field emitted by the speakers of the electronic device.
US09927834B2
Example implementations relate to a retention assembly. One example retention assembly includes a support member extending from a printed circuit board. The support member includes a body region having a slot and a first flange extending from the body region. The retention assembly also includes a locking member slidably coupled to the support member via the slot. The locking member includes a second flange. The second flange includes a protruded region, and wherein the protruded region and the first flange are to secure a proximal end of expansion module.
US09927829B2
A load control device may control the amount of power provided to an electrical load utilizing a phase control signal that operates in a reverse phase control mode, a center phase control mode, and a forward phase control mode. A load control device may be configured to determine that the electrical load should be operated via a phase control signal operating in a forward phase-control mode. After determining to operate the electrical load via the phase control signal in the forward phase-control mode, the load control device may provide the phase control signal in a reverse phase-control mode for a predetermined period of time to the electrical load, for example, to charge a bus capacitor of the electrical load. Subsequently, the load control device may be configured to switch the phase control signal to the forward phase-control mode and provide the phase control signal in the forward phase-control mode to the electrical load.
US09927825B2
A frequency stabilizing apparatus includes a power detecting method control amount calculator, a frequency detecting method control amount calculator, and a command value calculator. The power detecting method control amount calculator generates a first command value based on demand and supply imbalance of power in an isolated island system. The frequency detecting method control amount calculator generates a second command value based on a change in a frequency of the power in the isolated island system. The command value calculator generates a command value to be given to a first storage battery based on the first command value and the second command value.
US09927815B2
Example systems and methods may provide for a heterogeneous fleet of robotic devices for collaborative object processing in an environment, such as a warehouse. An example system includes a plurality of mobile robotic devices configured to transport one or more objects within an environment, a fixed robotic manipulator positioned within the environment that is configured to manipulate one or more objects within an area of reach of the fixed robotic manipulator, and a control system. The control system may be configured to cause one or more of the plurality of mobile robotic devices to deliver at least one object to at least one location within the area of reach of the fixed robotic manipulator, and to cause the fixed robotic manipulator to distribute the at least one object to a different one or more of the plurality of mobile robotic devices for delivery to one or more other locations within the environment.
US09927811B1
A system for controlling a traffic warning triangle to avoid obstacles when moving towards a placement location includes a depth calculating module, a determining module, and a control module. The traffic warning triangle includes a binocular camera to capture real-time images of a path or road in front of the triangle. The depth calculating module compares and analyzes first and second images, captured at the same time, to calculate depth information between the binocular camera and an obstacle. The determining module determines whether the depth information is less than a threshold value. The control module adjusts a moving direction of the mobile warning triangle to avoid the obstacle in response to the depth information being less than the threshold value, according to a process. An obstacle avoidance method of the mobile warning triangle is also provided.
US09927805B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for manufacturing a radiation intensity bolus. The method comprises the steps of: (a) calculating, by a radiotherapy treatment planning unit, a received 3D radiation dose distribution, planning a bolus to be manufactured, and outputting radiation intensity modulation information; (b) receiving, by a bolus design unit, the radiation intensity modulation information, generating a conversion file for manufacturing bolus, and outputting information about a 3D structure of the bolus to be manufactured; (c) receiving, by a bolus manufacturing unit, the conversion file for manufacturing bolus, verifying a type, location, and size of the bolus to be manufactured, sending the verified data to a 3D printer, and manufacturing the bolus; and (d) obtaining, by an accuracy verification unit, information about a 3D structure of the manufactured bolus and evaluating manufacturing accuracy by comparing the information about the 3D structure of the manufactured bolus with the information about the planned bolus.
US09927787B2
Method and a system for managing distributing computing suitable for implementation in an automation system are provided, wherein in a first step, a set of program instructions is partitioned into a plurality of unit blocks, where each unit block comprises at least one program instruction and, in a second set, at least one complementary block corresponding to at least one unit block are identified from the remainder of the plurality of unit blocks, where the complementary blocks are identified based on a comparison between read-write access of global variables in the unit block and corresponding complementary blocks and, in another step, the plurality of unit blocks are executed on a set of multiple processors within the automation system such that at least one complementary block is executed in parallel with a corresponding unit block.
US09927785B2
The present disclosure provides a device control method, which comprises capturing, by a portable device, a first image of a specific area containing a number of electronic devices connected to a communication network; transmitting a connection signal to a selected electronic device on a device list containing all the electronic devices connected to a communication network; determining whether the selected electronic device is in the first image captured based on whether a response has been received from the selected electronic device; identifying the selected electronic device on the device list and the relative position of the selected electronic device on the first image captured upon determined that the selected electronic device is in the first image; and continuing the device identification process until all the connected electronic devices on the device list has been verified, to identify the relative positions of all electronic devices contained in the first image.
US09927784B2
Ubiquitous computing methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example method includes determining a first setting to control an actuator; setting a first record in a record list, the first record including the first setting, a first immediacy of the first setting, and a first priority of the first setting; determining a second setting; setting a second record in the record list, the second record including the second setting, a second immediacy of the second setting, and a second priority of the second setting, the second priority being lower than the first priority; selecting the first record from the record list based on the first priority being higher than the second priority; deleting the second record from the record list based on the second immediacy; and outputting the first setting to control the actuator when a current setting of the actuator is different than the first setting.
US09927770B2
A pressure sensitive holographic recording composition is described wherein the composition comprises diacetone acrylamide, glycerol and citric acid. The composition is capable of recording high diffraction efficiency reflection holograms.
US09927767B2
A developing cartridge includes: a casing, a developing roller, a coupling, a coupling gear, a detection gear, an agitator, a first gear cover, a second gear cover, and a lock rib. The casing accommodates developing agent. The developing roller is rotatable about a first axis. The coupling and the coupling gear are rotatable about a second axis. The detection gear is rotatable about a third axis. The agitator agitates developing agent in the casing and performs power transmission from the coupling gear to the detection gear. The first gear cover covers at least the coupling gear. The second gear cover covers at least a portion of the detection gear. The lock rib is positioned at the other end of the casing. The lock rib is configured to be locked to a portion of a drum cartridge in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum cartridge.
US09927764B2
An image forming apparatus includes a movable unit movable between a contact position and a spaced position, a driving member displaceable between a contact phase and a spaced phase, an openable member, and a pressing member for pressing and moving the movable unit by being moved in interrelation with an opening operation of the openable member. When the openable member is opened in a state in which the driving member is in the contact phase, the pressing member presses and moves the movable unit by a first movement amount from the contact position to the spaced position. When the openable member is opened in a state in which the driving member is in the spaced phase, the pressing member does not move the movable unit or moves the movable unit by a second movement amount smaller than the first movement amount.
US09927759B2
A first rectification circuit includes a bypass element connected to both ends of a rectification element. The bypass element is smaller in voltage drop amount than the rectification element. A power supply device is configured to perform switching between a first mode and a second mode based on at least one of information showing a magnitude of electric power that is being supplied to a load and information showing a magnitude of electric power that is to be supplied to the load. In the first mode, an AC voltage is rectified in a path including the rectification element. In the second mode, the AC voltage is rectified in a path including the bypass element.
US09927750B2
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus, including: a fixing device including a heater and a presser; a discharge-roller unit including a first frame and a discharge roller pair; and an arm supporting the heater or the presser, wherein, when the first frame is located at a first position, a nip position of the discharge roller pair is located at a first nip position and the arm supports the heater or the presser at a first press-contact position such that the heater and the presser are held in pressing contact at a predetermined pressure, and wherein, when the first frame is located at a second position, the nip position is located at a second nip position shifted from the first nip position and the arm supports the heater or the presser at a second press-contact position such that the heater and the presser are held in pressing contact at a lower pressure.
US09927740B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable bottle which is detachably attached to an apparatus main body and which stores toner, the rotatable bottle having a discharge port from which the stored toner is discharged, a shutter which is disposed on the bottle, and which opens and closes the discharge port, and an engaging member, which is movably disposed on the apparatus main body, and which is able to engage the shutter. The image forming apparatus further includes a driving portion which transfers a driving force to the rotatable bottle, and an opening mechanism which is configured to open the shutter by the driving force from the driving portion.
US09927732B2
Provided is a light scanning apparatus, including: a light source; a rotary polygon mirror; an optical member guiding a light beam; an optical box on which the light source is mounted and which contains the rotary polygon mirror and the optical member; a cover covering an opening of the optical box; a fixation unit fixing the cover on the optical box; the cover having a dust-proof member which is sandwiched between the cover and a side wall of the optical box; and the dust-proof member including an abutment portion against which the side wall is brought into abutment, and non-abutment portions provided on both sides of the abutment portion and separated from the side wall, and the dust-proof member including a groove in one of the non-abutment portions which is located on a side opposite to another one located on a side where the fixation unit is provided.
US09927714B2
A microlithography projection exposure apparatus includes a projection lens at least one manipulator to change an optical effect of at least one optical element of the projection lens, and a travel establishing device for generating a travel command for the at least one manipulator.
US09927708B2
A negative pattern is formed by applying a resist composition onto a substrate, exposing the resist film, and developing the exposed resist film in an organic solvent developer. The process further involves coating the negative pattern with a shrink agent solution of a first polymer comprising recurring units capable of forming carboxyl, hydroxyl or lactone ring and a second polymer comprising recurring units capable of forming amino and fluorinated recurring units in an ester and/or ketone solvent, baking the coating, and removing the excessive shrink agent for thereby shrinking the size of spaces in the pattern.
US09927704B2
The invention relates to a method for forming a liquid radiation curable resin capable of curing into a solid upon irradiation comprising at least one thermally sensitive visual effect initiator. The liquid radiation curable resin is capable of curing into three-dimensional articles having selective visual effects. The resulting three-dimensional articles possess excellent color and/or transparency stability and excellent mechanical properties.
US09927701B2
The present invention provides a detection apparatus for detecting a plurality of marks, comprising a plurality of detection units each including a mirror and a scope configured to detect light from the marks via the mirror, wherein the plurality of detection units include a first detection unit, a second detection unit, and a third detection unit, and in a surface direction parallel to a surface on which the plurality of marks are arranged, a direction of an optical axis between the mirror and the scope in the third detection unit is different from at least one of a direction of an optical axis between the mirror and the scope in the first detection unit and a direction of an optical axis between the mirror and the scope in the second detection unit.
US09927700B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus for molding an imprint material on a target region on a substrate using a mold to form a pattern on the target region, the apparatus comprising a heater configured to deform the target region by heating the substrate, a measurement device configured to measure an overlay state between the target region and the mold, and a controller configured to control the heater such that the overlay state falls within a tolerance.
US09927696B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an exposure pattern alteration software application which manipulates exposure polygons having lines with angles substantially close to angles of symmetry of a hex close pack arrangement, which suffer from long jogs. Long jogs present themselves as high edge placement error regions. As such, the exposure pattern alteration software application provides for line wave reduction by serrating polygon edges at affected angles to reduce edge placement errors during maskless lithography patterning in a manufacturing process.
US09927693B2
A reflective mask blank, which includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer film for reflecting exposure light, and an absorber layer for absorbing the exposure light in this order; the reflective multilayer film having at least three fiducial marks formed in a concave shape in an area outside an exposure area for patterning the reflective multilayer film on a front side thereof, each of the fiducial marks including a concave portion having an inclination angle α, the absorber layer having a film thickness of from 40 to 90 nm; the absorber layer having transferred marks formed in a concave shape on a front side thereof, the transferred marks being transferred from the at least three fiducial marks, each of the transferred marks including a concave portion having an inclination angle of from 35 to 80°; and a difference between the inclination angle β and the inclination angle α (inclination angle β−inclination angle α) being at least 10°.
US09927692B2
A reflective photomask includes: a substrate; a multilayer reflection film formed on the substrate and reflecting exposure light including light with a wavelength of about 5 nm to 15 nm for lithography; an absorption film formed on the multilayer reflection film and absorbing the exposure light, and formed therein with a circuit pattern or a circuit pattern forming region where the circuit pattern is formed; a shading region formed by removing part of the multilayer reflection film and the absorption film on the substrate, on an outer peripheral side of the circuit pattern or the circuit pattern forming region to shade part of the exposure light reflected by the multilayer reflection film; and a plurality of projections formed at a pitch of about 3000 nm or less on part of a surface of the substrate exposed in the shading region, and suppressing reflection of out-of-band light with a wavelength of about 140 nm to 800 nm included in the exposure light and incident on the shading region.
US09927660B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device in which even in the case of using a photo-alignment technique, excellent afterimage characteristics can be stably obtained.Provided is a liquid crystal display device including a TFT substrate having an alignment film, an opposed substrate which is arranged to face the TFT substrate and on which an alignment film is formed, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the alignment films, wherein the alignment films are materials that can provide a liquid crystal alignment restraining force by irradiating polarized light, and the ratio of oxygen atoms on the surface of the alignment film is higher than that in the alignment film.
US09927659B2
A liquid crystal display includes a plurality of pixels, a lower substrate and an upper substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the lower substrate and including a plurality of sub-regions which differently controls an inclination direction of liquid crystal molecules included in the liquid crystal layer for a pixel of the plurality of pixels, and a gate line disposed on the lower substrate and including a portion which overlaps a boundary between adjacent sub-regions of the plurality of sub-regions of the pixel electrode.
US09927644B2
There is provided a high-definition liquid crystal display device that can prevent flicker due to a reduction in the pixel potential in a low-frequency drive of about 10 Hz to reduce power consumption. The pixel has a TFT formed of Poly-Si as a switching element. In the pixel, a capacitance insulating film is formed on a planar first electrode on which a comb-shaped second electrode is fanned. When the film thickness of the insulating film is d and the dielectric constant at 10 Hz frequency is ∈, it is given that ∈d≥5×10−6 m at 10 Hz frequency. The capacitance insulating film does not have a hysteresis characteristic. The refractive index of the capacitance insulating film with respect to a light of a wavelength of 632.8 nm is 1.7 to 2.0.
US09927643B2
A narrow bezel-type liquid crystal display device is provided which is made as narrow as possible on the outer area. The narrow bezel-type liquid crystal display device according to an embodiment includes a guide panel with a light leak prevention function. This narrow bezel-type liquid crystal display device can reduce light leakage in a non-display area because the guide panel corresponding to a non-display area of the liquid crystal panel is made in black by double injection molding.
US09927640B2
The present disclosure provides a display device and a display method, relates to a field of display technology, and improves user's poor experiences in the existing anti-peeping display device. A display device includes: a display panel; a visual angle adjustment panel provided on an exit side of the display panel, the panel including at least one first region in strip shape and at least one second region in strip shape, the first region and the second region being alternately arranged relative to each other; and a control device connected to the panel, wherein the control device is configured to control the panel such that the first region and the second region are transmissive upon receipt of a first instruction and to control the panel such that the first region is opaque and the second region is transmissive upon receipt of a second instruction.
US09927638B2
A Pockels cell driver circuit has a first circuit node that can be connected to a first terminal of a Pockels cell and a second circuit node that can be connected to a second terminal of the Pockels cell. The first circuit node is connected via a first switch to a positive potential and the second circuit node is connected via a second switch to a negative potential. The first circuit node is connected to the second circuit node via a short-circuit switch which is controlled for discharge of a linked Pockels cell.
US09927636B2
Transducers and methods of making the same include a substrate having a cavity with a diameter that supports whispering gallery modes at a frequency of an input signal. A focusing structure in the cavity focuses the electric field of the input signal. A resonator directly under the focusing structure has a crystalline structure that generates an electro-optic effect when exposed to electrical fields. An electric field of the input signal modulates an output signal in the resonator via the electro-optic effect.
US09927633B2
A contact lens incorporating one or more surface modified zones on the anterior surface of the lens may be utilized to generate a friction driven rotational force when the upper and/or lower eyelids pass over the one or more regions during blinking. A small difference in the coefficient of friction between the modified and unmodified regions of the lens may result in an equivalent rotational force to that of a thickness gradient lens. This small difference in the coefficient of friction produces a means to orient and stabilize the contact lens on eye.
US09927628B2
An image display apparatus includes a reflector and a plurality of projectors. The reflector is provided to cover a field. A plurality of viewing regions are set in an auditorium to be arranged in a circumferential direction of the field. The plurality of projectors are provided to respectively correspond to the plurality of these viewing regions. Each projector emits a light ray group including a plurality of light rays towards the reflector. The reflector includes a plurality of retroreflective elements, and reflects and diffuses the light ray group emitted from each projector towards a corresponding viewing region.
US09927626B2
A method of forming a lenticle on a substrate includes operating a plurality of inkjets to eject a plurality of ink drops of an optically transparent ink onto a surface of a substrate between a first printed line of an optically opaque ink and a second printed line of the optically opaque ink to form a lenticle from the optically transparent ink, the first printed line being formed substantially parallel to the second printed line with a separation between the first printed line and the second printed line corresponding to a predetermined width of a lenticle to be formed on the substrate.
US09927619B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure related to a head mounted display (HMD) that enable adjustment of lenses for a particular consumer. In some example embodiments, the HMD enables up to three-degrees of freedom of lens alignment with a consumer's pupils. For example, the HMD includes an actuation device or rotatable disc, both of which are in slidable engagement with at least one elongated members. Ends of the elongated members are coupled to a mirror/lens such that actuation of the actuation device or rotation of the disc translates the elongated member along an axis, which is in general alignment with a pupillary distance (PD) of the consumer. Additionally, the elongated members include mirror/lens interfaces to which the lenses are coupled. The mirror/lens interfaces are slidably and rotatably coupled to the elongated members thereby providing additional degrees of freedom for movement of the lenses.
US09927614B2
A near-eye optical display system that may be utilized in augmented reality applications and devices includes a diffractive waveguide having diffractive optical elements (DOEs) configured for in-coupling, exit pupil expansion, and out-coupling. An electrically-modulated tunable liquid crystal (LC) lens is located between the diffractive grating and the eyes of the user. A polarizing filter is located on the other side of the diffractive grating so that light from the real world enters the system with a particular polarization state, for example, TM-polarized. The tunable LC lens is configured to impart variable focus on light that has an opposite polarization state, for example TE-polarized. The optical display system is arranged to be polarization-sensitive so that virtual images from an imager are out-coupled from the diffractive waveguide with TE-polarization. The tunable LC lens may thus impart variable focus to the virtual images due to the lens' sensitivity to TE-polarization.
US09927599B1
The present disclosure relates to the field of optical lens, and discloses an optical camera lens, which includes: an aperture, a first lens having positive refraction power, a second lens having negative refraction power, a third lens having negative refraction power, a fourth lens having positive refraction power and a fifth lens having negative refraction power, which satisfy following relational expressions: 17
US09927596B2
A lens module includes first to seventh lenses each having refractive power and sequentially disposed in numerical order from the first lens to the seventh lens starting from an object side of the lens module, wherein each of the first and second lenses has a meniscus shape and an image-side surface that is convex, and the seventh lens has one or more inflection points on an image-side surface thereof.
US09927595B2
A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The first lens is with positive refractive power. The second lens is with negative refractive power. The third lens is with positive refractive power. The fourth lens is a meniscus lens and includes a concave surface facing the object side and a convex surface facing the image side. The fifth lens includes a concave surface facing the image side. The first lens and the third lens are made of the same material and an Abbe number of the first lens is the same as an Abbe number of the third lens. An Abbe number of the first lens, an Abbe number of the third lens and an Abbe number of the fifth lens are greater than an Abbe number of the second lens.
US09927594B2
The present invention provides an imaging module manufacturing method capable of performing positioning of an imaging element unit and a lens unit with high accuracy and provides an imaging module manufacturing device. In a manufacturing device (200), in a state where a top surface (11a) of a housing (11) of a lens unit (10) is adsorbed to an adsorption surface (75d) of an adsorption head (75a) so as to hold the lens unit (10) on a Z axis and an imaging element unit (20) is held on the Z axis, a Z axis direction position of the imaging element unit (20) with respect to the lens unit (10) is changed, a measurement chart (89) is imaged by the imaging element (27), and a position and an inclination of the imaging element unit (20) with respect to the lens unit (10) are adjusted based on imaging signals obtained by the imaging.
US09927593B2
A method for connecting a number of users with at least one signal bearing optical fiber contained in an optical cable. The method includes: a) interrupting the signal bearing optical fiber at a first branch point, obtaining a first optical fiber segment upstream of the branch point and a second optical fiber segment downstream of the branch point; b) providing an optical splitter at the branch point, the optical splitter including an input and two outputs; c) coupling the first optical fiber segment with the input of the optical splitter; d) coupling a first output of the optical splitter with a first user; e) coupling a second output of the optical splitter with a downstream optical fiber segment of an interrupted optical fiber contained in the optical cable; and f) coupling the downstream optical fiber segment with at least one further user at a further branch point downstream the first branch point.
US09927589B2
The specification relates to a fiber optic cable assembly. The fiber optic cable assembly includes a non-interlocking armor, the non-interlocking armor is a spiral tube having a minimum bend radius of approximately 5 mm, the non-interlocking armor being formed from a single, continuous metallic strip; an inner jacket, the inner jacket having an outside diameter slightly less than an inner diameter of the non-interlocking armor; and at least one fiber optic fiber.
US09927583B2
An optical connector comprises a housing, a regulating portion which is protrudes toward an inner surface of the housing, a ferrule which is secured to an optical fiber and which is accommodated inside the housing so as to be movable. The ferrule includes a base portion and a thinned portion that has a thickness smaller than that of the base portion. If the ferrule moves forward in the butt-connection direction, the regulating portion and the base portion approach each other, so that the regulating portion regulates the movement of the ferrule in the thickness direction. If the ferrule moves backward in the butt-connection direction, the ferrule reaches a position where the thinned portion faces the regulating portion, so that the movement of the ferrule in the thickness direction is not regulated by the regulating portion.
US09927580B2
The present disclosure relates to a hardened power and optical connection system for use with hybrid cables. The hardened power and optical connection system includes electrical pin and socket contacts for providing power connections, and ferrules for providing optical connections. The hardened power and optical connection system has an integrated fiber alignment provided through a mating relationship between a plug and a socket.
US09927578B2
A fiber optic rotary connector providing communication between a first fiber optical bundle and a second fiber optical bundle rotating relative to said first bundle. The fiber optic rotary connector includes a K-mirror comprised of at least three mirror components and a set of gears adapted to rotate said K-mirror at a rotation rate equal to one half of the second bundle rotation rate. In a preferred embodiment the set of gears is a set of magnetic gears. And in another preferred embodiment the set of gears is a set of mechanical gears. Normally the first fiber optic bundle is stationary, but it may be rotating at a slower rate than the second bundle. In preferred embodiments the K mirror is comprised of three flat mirrors and two of the flat mirrors are positioned at about 30 degrees relative to the third flat mirror.
US09927573B2
An SOI substrate includes a base substrate, a polycrystalline silicon layer formed on the base substrate, an insulating layer formed on the polycrystalline silicon layer, and a semiconductor layer formed on the insulating layer, and optical waveguides are formed in the semiconductor layer of the SOI substrate. Thus, by arranging the polycrystalline silicon layer under the insulating layer, the insulating layer can be made thin. Since the polycrystalline silicon layer includes a plurality of grains (a mass of grains made of a single crystal Si), even when leakage of light is generated beyond the insulating layer, reflection (diffusion) of light can be suppressed. In addition, by arranging the polycrystalline silicon layer under the insulating layer, the insulating layer can be made thin, so that distortion of a substrate can be suppressed.
US09927561B2
A display panel is provided by the present disclosure. The display panel includes a plurality of repeatedly arranged display units each having an array of sub-pixels displaying a plurality of colors. In the display panel, a plurality of sub-pixels b displaying a first color are arranged in a first spatial isotropic configuration in the display panel, and a plurality of sub-pixels d displaying a second color are arranged in a second spatial isotropic configuration in the display panel. At least one of the first color and the second color contributes most to display resolution among the plurality of colors.
US09927557B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to an eyeglass lens comprising a lens substrate and a vapor-deposited film either directly or indirectly on the lens substrate, wherein the vapor-deposited film is an oxide film of metal selected from the group consisting of zirconium and tantalum, with a proportion accounted for by regions observed in a streaky shape, in a columnar shape, or in a lump shape in a cross-sectional image of the vapor-deposited film obtained by a transmission electron microscope of equal to or less than 20%.
US09927556B2
In one aspect, structures are provided that comprise (a) a one-dimensional periodic plurality of layers, wherein at least two of the layers have a refractive index differential sufficient to provide effective contrast; and (b) one or more light-emitting nanostructure materials effectively positioned with respect to the refractive index differential interface, wherein the structure provides a polarized output emission.
US09927551B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may operate to obtain a plurality of measurements of a formation parameter, each measurement obtained in response to energy propagated into the formation at a plurality of frequencies of propagated energy; to process the measurements over each of the plurality of frequencies to obtain estimated values of the formation parameter; to select an estimated value from the obtained estimated values for each logging depth as a true measurement value for the logging depth based on one or more of the plurality of frequencies and a resistivity range; to generate a combination log that combines a plurality of the true measurement values for each logging depth; and to control a drilling operation based on the combination log. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09927534B2
A detector arrangement for detecting at least one of rays, ions and particles includes a plurality of detectors. Each detector has a respective anode output and the detectors are arranged with the respective anode outputs being in an electrical series. The arrangement includes a plurality of resistive elements interspersed in the electrical series. The arrangement includes a first measurement point at a first end of the electrical series and a second measurement point at a second end of the electrical series. The arrangement includes electrical circuitry, electrically connected to the first and second measurement points for receiving electrical signals/pulses from the first and second measurement points, and for using the electrical signals/pulses from the first and second measurement points to determine which of the plurality of detectors made the detection utilizing a division of charge that exists between the first and second measurement points.
US09927508B2
Provided is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus. The MRI apparatus includes: a data acquisition unit configured to acquire a first k-space including a first missing line by undersampling an MR signal received from an object at a first time point, acquire a second k-space including a first acquired line corresponding to the first missing line by undersampling an MR signal received from the object at a second time point, and acquire a third k-space including a second acquired line corresponding to the first missing line by undersampling an MR signal received from the object at a third time point; and an image processor configured to interpolate data in the first missing line based on data in the first and second acquired lines.
US09927490B2
An integrated circuit senses attempts to access security-related data stored in registers connectable into a scan chain when the attempt includes locally and selectively asserting a scan-enable signal at a corresponding branch of the scan-enable tree when the integrated circuit is in a secure functional mode. When such an attempt is detected, the integrated circuit (i) generates a security warning that causes a reset of the security-related data and/or (ii) engages a bypass switch to disconnect the scan chain from the respective output terminal to preclude the security-related data from being shifted out of the IC via the scan chain.
US09927485B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide enhanced methods of calibrating arbitrary waveform generators using s-parameters, and arbitrary waveform generators calibrated according to those methods. Methods are provided for calibrating a single, non-interleaved channel of an arbitrary waveform generator, calibrating multiple interleaved channels, and calibrating pairs of channels, both interleaved and non-interleaved, to generate differential signals.
US09927481B2
A method for modeling cable loss is described. The method includes receiving a measurement of reverse power and forward power at a radio frequency (RF) generator. The method further includes computing theoretical power delivered to a matching network as a difference between the forward power and the reverse power and calculating a ratio of the reverse power to the forward power to generate an RF power reflection ratio. The method further includes identifying a cable power attenuation fraction based on a frequency of the RF generator and calculating a cable power loss as a function of the RF power reflection ratio, the cable power attenuation fraction, and the theoretical power. The method includes calculating actual power to be delivered to the impedance matching network based on the theoretical power and the cable power loss and sending the calculated actual power to the RF generator to generate an RF signal.
US09927480B2
A multi-function probe wire de-icing apparatus is described. The multi-function probe wire de-icing apparatus may include a multi-function probe wire, a main heater wire collocated with the multi-function probe wire, and a sacrificial wire deposed adjacent to the main heater wire. The sacrificial wire is configured to fail prior to the main heater wire failing.
US09927471B2
Techniques for controlling an energy storage device to reduce peak power demand at a site are provided. In one embodiment, instantaneous power usage at the site can be monitored, where the instantaneous power usage corresponds to power that is instantaneously imported or exported at a point of common coupling (PCC) between the site and a utility-managed energy grid. A historical power usage value for the site can then be calculated based on the monitored instantaneous power usage, and the historical power usage value can be compared with a target peak value plus a buffer value. If the historical power usage value exceeds the target peak value plus the buffer value, the target peak value can be set to the historical power usage value.
US09927469B2
A power detector constituted of: a transconductance element arranged to output a rectified detection current, the magnitude thereof arranged to increase exponentially responsive to a linear increase in the amplitude of an input signal; and at least one p-n junction based device, a function of the rectified detection current arranged to flow there through. The output of the power detector is a function of the voltage across the at least one p-n junction based device.
US09927468B2
A power theft inspection apparatus is provided with: a controlling device configured to open a third switch unit between a power reception unit and a power reception control circuit of a power receiving apparatus at the start of a power theft inspection, then open a first switch unit between a power transmission unit and a power supply unit of a power transmitting apparatus after the opening of the third switch unit, and then close a second switch unit configured to short-circuit the power transmission unit of the power transmitting apparatus after the opening of the first switch unit; and a determining device configured to determine whether or not there is power theft according to a current detected by a first current detecting device configured to detect a current in the power transmission unit of the power transmitting apparatus upon the power theft inspection.
US09927460B2
A method and system for calibrating a rotational accelerometer. The method includes attaching a rotational accelerometer to be tested to a plate fitted with and second linear accelerometers and vibrating the plate. Angular acceleration measurements from the rotational accelerometer and linear acceleration measurements from the first and second linear accelerometers are obtained during the vibrating. The linear acceleration measurements are converted into angular acceleration values, and data representing, or usable for, a comparison of the angular acceleration measurements from the rotational accelerometer and the converted angular acceleration values is generated.
US09927459B2
An accelerometer has a movable mass suspended above a substrate, and a variable acceleration capacitor supported by the substrate. The movable mass has a mass anchor securing the mass to the substrate, while the acceleration capacitor has both a stationary finger extending from the substrate, and a movable finger extending from the movable mass. The accelerometer also has a variable stress capacitor, which also includes the stress finger, for determining movement of the mass anchor relative to the substrate.
US09927455B2
A MEMS chip for wind speed measurements is provided. The chip integrates one or multiple embedded channels and a pressure sensor. The pressure sensor consists of a sensing membrane with a cavity beneath it. Each channel has one end connects to the cavity while the other end opens on the edge of the chip. To measure the wind speed, the membrane faces the wind and the air stagnates onto it while the channel connects the cavity to the static pressure. And the membrane deforms according to the wind pressure. The wind speed is then derived from the measured wind pressure.
US09927450B2
Systems and methods for use in an in vitro diagnostics setting may include an automation track, a plurality of carriers configured to carry a plurality of sample vessels along the automation track, and a characterization station including a plurality of optical devices. A processor, in communication with the characterization station, can be configured to analyze images to automatically characterize physical attributes related to each carrier and/or sample vessel. A method may include receiving a plurality of images from a plurality of optical devices of a characterization station, wherein the plurality of images comprise images from a plurality of perspectives of a sample vessel being transported by a carrier, automatically analyzing the plurality of images, using a processor, to determine certain characteristics of the sample vessel, and automatically associating the characteristics of the sample vessel with the carrier in a database.
US09927447B2
The present invention provides a method for the rapid monitoring of biological analytes in a point-of-care setting by providing a smart phone; providing a sample chamber; providing a sample; providing a dark box with a smartphone holder attached to the dark box top with the camera opening positioned about the aperture, adding a biological specimen suspected of containing a biological analyte in the sample chamber; adding a bis(2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) oxalate, an imidazole and a fluorophore to the sample chamber to react with the biological analyte; placing the sample chamber into the dark box; generating an emission from the fluorophore in response to the reaction with the biological analyte; and recording a set of time-lapse images of the emission with the smartphone.
US09927440B2
Methods of optimizing mRNA sequences for expression in host cells are provided. Methods of determining the stability of a protein are also provided. Methods of determining the affinity of a ligand for a protein are also provided.
US09927437B2
As described herein, lactosylceramide (LacCer) levels are up-regulated in the CNS during chronic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an experimental model of multiple sclerosis (MS). LacCer acts in an autocrine manner to trigger transcriptional programs that promote the recruitment and activation of CNS infiltrating monocytes and microglia, and neurodegeneration. In addition, increased B4GALT6 expression and LacCer levels were detected in CNS MS lesions in human patients. Finally, the inhibition of LacCer synthesis suppressed local CNS innate immunity and neurodegeneration in EAE, and interfered with the activation of human astrocytes in vitro. Thus, B4GALT6 is a therapeutic target for MS and other neuroinflammatory disorders.
US09927427B2
A method of isolating exosomes includes conducting at least one purification step in the presence of an organic zwitterion having a molecular weight of less than about 350 Daltons, a buffering pK of a negatively charged portion of the organic zwitterion is at least one full pH unit below an operating pH at which the at least one purification step is conducted, and a buffering pK of the positively charged portion of the organic zwitterion is at least one full pH unit above the operating pH.
US09927426B2
Existence of human trophoblast stem (hTS) cells has been suspected but unproved. The isolation of hTS cells is reported in the early stage of chorionic villi by expressions of FGF4, FGFR-2, Oct4, Thy-1, and stage-specific embryonic antigens distributed in different compartments of the cell. hTS cells are able to derive into specific cell phenotypes of the three primitive embryonic layers, produce chimeric reactions in mice, and retain a normal karyotype and telomere length. In hTS cells, Oct4 and fgfr-2 expressions can be knockdown by bFGF. These facts suggest that differentiation of the hTS cells play an important role in implantation and placentation. hTS cells could apply to human cell differentiation and for gene and cell-based therapies. Disclosed herein are methods for treating diseases, including neurodegenerative diseases, with neural stem cells differentiated from the hTS cells such as those expressing Oct4, SSEA-1, SSEA-3, and SSEA-4.
US09927425B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for testing a multi-function and a drug response of platelet based on a centrifugal microfluidics. The testing apparatus according to the present invention may include: a rotatable disk; a sample chamber arranged at the center of the disk such that a blood sample is accommodated therein; stirring chambers respectively connected to the sample chamber in multiple radial directions so as to introduce a shear flow in the blood sample; microchannels connected to the stirring chambers such that adhesion and cohesion of platelets occur during the movement of the blood sample; and a waste sample chamber in which the blood sample is accommodated after passing through the microchannels. According to the present invention, multiple drug tests can be performed on a single blood sample at one time in multiple channels such that multiple tests is possible with respect to complex platelet functions, and thus testing time is reduced and testing costs can be saved.
US09927424B2
The present invention is based on applicants' discovery, disclosed herein, of agonists for the TAS2R receptors TAS2R1, TAS2R4, TAS2R9, TAS2R13, TAS2R14, TAS2R16, TAS2R38, TAS2R39, TAS2R44, TAS2R46, and TAS2R60. The assignment of agonists to these receptors makes assays for identifying compounds that modulate bitter taste possible. For example, the present invention provides methods of identifying compounds that inhibit the bitter taste due to these agonists. The present invention also provides methods of identifying compounds that selectively inhibit the bitter taste due to these agonists. The present invention further provides methods of identifying compounds that mimic the bitter taste due these agonists. The present invention also provides methods of identifying compounds that enhance the bitter taste due to these agonists.
US09927419B2
A test apparatus (12) and a method of testing a sample (30) are disclosed. The method comprises receiving a test sample (30) within a test chamber (14), the test chamber (14) containing two or more iron saturation elements (2) separated by a spacer (16); and filling the test chamber (14) with a test solution, the iron saturation elements (2) being arranged to saturate the test solution with iron. Each iron saturation element (2) is shaped such that it has a predetermined surface area such that the ratio of the volume of the test solution to the surface area of the iron saturation elements (2) and the test sample (30) exposed to the test solution can be calculated.
US09927416B2
The present application relates to a method for controlling a disinfection status of a heater and/or cooler for human body temperature control during extracorporeal circulation. The temperature control is conducted by use of a heat exchanger and a temperature control liquid circulating through the heat exchanger and the heater and/or cooler. The inventive method comprises using a long term disinfectant in the temperature control liquid, measuring and preferably recording the concentration of the disinfectant in the temperature control liquid and deducing a disinfectant status of the temperature control liquid from the measured concentration of the disinfectant in the temperature control liquid.
US09927415B2
An oil quality sensor to determine the quality of deep-frying oil by measuring the capacitance of the deep-frying oil in a deep fryer includes a housing and a hollow space in the housing through which the deep-frying oil is guided. An inlet opening introduces deep-frying oil to the hollow space, and a drain opening guides the deep-frying oil out of the hollow space. A first bent electrode extends along the hollow space, and a second bent electrode extends along the hollow space and is arranged opposite the first electrode, in which case the two electrodes form a capacitor and deep-frying oil is guided through the space formed between these two electrodes to measure its capacitance. A first temperature sensor measures the temperature of the oil used for deep frying that needs to be measured. An evaluation unit records the measured capacitance of the capacitor and the measured temperature, digitalizes these measured values, and calculates the polar fractions in the deep-frying oil, in which case these polar fractions are a criterion for the quality of the deep-frying oil.
US09927414B2
The amount of dietary fiber in a sample can be quantified by dissoluting the sample to produce a dietary fiber solution and then centrifuging the dietary fiber solution to produce a pellet and a supernatant liquid. After separating the supernatant liquid from the pellet, the pellet can be analyzed to determine a content of non-dietary fiber components in the pellet. The dietary fiber content in the pellet can be determined from the content of the non-dietary fiber components in the pellet. By using centrifugation to help isolate the dietary fiber in the sample, fiber loss may be minimized, leading to a more accurate determination of the content of dietary fiber in the sample.
US09927412B2
The invention relates to a sensor structure and a method. The sensor structure includes a first sensor having a sensing element sensitive to humidity of the environment. In accordance with the invention the sensor structure also includes s second sensor having a sensing element sensitive to humidity, the second sensor comprising a catalytic permeable layer positioned on the second sensor such that it is between the sensing element of the second sensor and the environment.
US09927410B2
A method of detecting urine and/or feces is disclosed, which includes detecting the concentration of at least one gas component indicative of urine and the concentration of at least one gas component indicative of feces. The method also includes registering, for each gas component, a characteristic corresponding to the variation over time of the concentration of each gas component; comparing the registered characteristic with a predetermined characteristic for the corresponding gas component; indicating a presence of urine if the registered characteristic of at least one gas component indicative of urine generally conforms with the predetermined characteristic of the same gas component; and indicating a presence of feces if the registered characteristic of at least one gas component indicative of feces generally conforms to the predetermined characteristic of the same gas component. A system for detecting urine and/or feces is also disclosed.
US09927408B2
Methods for increasing sensitivity of detection and/or quantification of negatively charged analytes
The present technology provides methods for increasing sensitivity of detection and/or quantification of a negatively charged analyte, e.g., an oligonucleotide, using an analytical system that comprises liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry. The methods comprise passing an acidic solution through the analytical system, i.e., through a fluidic path from the mobile phase reservoir to the detector to remove or displace, at least in part, metal ions adsorbed to charged sites in the fluidic path.
US09927407B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to inserts and ion sources. In some examples, an insert can comprise a positioning guide configured to provide for visual positioning of a chromatography column under the positioning guide. In other examples, an ion source configured with an aperture to couple to a carrier tube to render the ion source non-removable from an instrument housing when the carrier tube is coupled to the ion source is described.
US09927403B1
A resonance inspection tool is disclosed that may be configured to assign a part to a first classification (accepted part) or a second classification (rejected part) using a cluster combination array. Such a cluster combination array may be defined from a first cluster array having a plurality of first clusters (each being of the first classification), and from a second cluster array having a plurality of second clusters (each being of the second classification). One cluster combination array presents all possible combinations of the same first cluster from the first cluster array and each second cluster from the second cluster array, where each such cluster combination includes a corresponding sort. Another cluster combination array presents all possible combinations of the same second cluster from the second cluster array and each first cluster from the first cluster array, where each such cluster combination includes a corresponding sort.
US09927401B2
A gravimetric detector including a nanoelectronic structure including: a fixed part, at least one part suspended from the fixed part, an excitation device to vibrate the suspended part relative to the fixed part, a detector to detect variations in vibration of the suspended part, and a porous functionalization layer at least partially covering the suspended part, porosity of the functionalization layer being between 3% and 50%.
US09927396B2
Aspects of the innovations presented herein relate to improved systems that in some embodiments perform capillary electrophoresis (CE) and CE in conjunction with electrospray ionization (ESI) as an input to a mass spectrometry system (MS). Some embodiments use a high voltage isolated CE power supply that is configured to float on the high voltage output of an ESI-MS power supply, with a protective resistance in the ESI-MS path, as well as DC/DC converter isolation and communication system isolation for the isolated CE power supply. Some embodiments additionally use a cartridge assembly integrating separation and conductive fluid capillaries with fluid cooling and protective retractable housings for the capillary end portions and for the ESI output. The protective housing may further be used with an adapter for interfacing with different MS systems.
US09927392B2
Embodiments of sensing devices include one or more integrated circuit (IC) die, a housing, and a fluid barrier material. Each IC die includes an electrode-bearing surface and a contact surface. One of the die includes an SFET with a sensing electrode proximate to the electrode-bearing surface. The same or a different die includes a reference electrode proximate to the electrode-bearing surface. The die(s) also include IC contacts at the contact surface(s), and conductive structures coupled between the SFET, the reference electrode, and the IC contacts. The housing includes a mounting surface, and housing contacts formed at the mounting surface. The IC contacts are coupled to the housing contacts. The fluid barrier material is positioned between the mounting surface and the IC die. The fluid barrier material provides a fluid barrier between the IC and housing contacts and a space that encompasses the sensing electrode and the reference electrode.
US09927391B2
A device includes an upper metallic layer, a lower layer, and a nano sensor array positioned between the upper and lower layers to detect a presence of a gas, a chemical, or a biological object, wherein each sensor's electrical characteristic changes when encountering the gas, chemical or biological object.
US09927381B2
A sensing device includes a pair of contactless electrodes for placement on a coating on a surface of a structure or within or between one or more coatings on or over the surface of the structure. The electrodes function as sensors when activated to generate a current flow through the electrodes at multiple different frequencies. The sensing device also includes contactless control circuitry co-located with or separate from the electrodes that transmits impedance data generated from the activated electrodes. The impedance data is associated with corrosion condition information of the structure and/or the one or more coatings. A data collection system and display system useable with the sensing device are also described.
US09927380B2
There is provided a detection device including: a detection electrode that is arranged at a position on an arrangement plane near a tubular body; a drive electrode that is arranged on the arrangement plane; and a controller configured to generate lines of electric force between the detection electrode and the drive electrode and to detect a state of the tubular body by detecting lines of electric force entering the detection electrode.
US09927379B2
A thermoanalytical sensor has a substrate, a measurement position, a temperature sensor unit, and an electrical contact pad. The temperature sensor unit senses the temperature at the measurement position. It is connected via the electrical contact pad to a metallic wire and thereby tied into an electronic circuit. The substrate is prepared with at least one measurement position, at least one temperature sensor unit and at least one electrical contact pad on a top side of the substrate. A passage in the substrate allows connection to the electrical contact pad. A metallic wire is inserted into the passage from the bottom side of the substrate and melted into a small ball on the upper end of the wire. A materially integral connection as a bonded joint between the upper end of the metallic wire and the electrical contact pad is made by applying pressure and heat to the metal ball.
US09927377B2
A sizing apparatus has input and output ends and a sampling window therebetween. Sizing means determines the size of each item passing through the sampling window. Singulating means arranges the items in a line and delivers them sequentially at the input end of the sizing apparatus. A lower conveyor belt extends through the sizing apparatus from the input end through the sampling window to the output end. The lower conveyor belt is translated at a speed sufficient to receive, transport, and maintain the items in sequential fashion. A flexible upper stabilizer belt is arranged above and generally in alignment with the lower conveyor belt, and is driven to match the speed of the lower conveyor belt. The upper stabilizer belt is suspended so as to engage the items incoming from said singulating means and to maintain loose contact with them until the items have passed through the sampling window.
US09927376B2
A template defect inspection method using an optical system includes emitting linearly polarized light to a template having a metal film formed on at least part of a concave-convex structure that is formed on a substrate and that has a line-and-space pattern, acquiring information on a polarization-rotated component, which is different from linearly polarized light incident on the template, of light reflected by the template in accordance with the emission thereto, converting the acquired information on the polarization-rotated component into an electrical signal, and processing the electrical signal.
US09927362B2
System and method for optical tomographic imaging optimizing analysis of time-domain data as a result of combination of lifetime multiplexing of low-cross-talk asymptotic photons with highly spatially resolved early photons. The tomographic data reconstruction employs a decay amplitude-based asymptotic approach and a matrix equation with a weight matrix that includes two different portions respectively representing time domain sensitivity functions and continuous-tomography weight matrices. System may employ a lifetime fluorescent tomography imaging system.
US09927359B1
The instant disclosure provides a gas detection device including a chamber module, a light emitting module and an optical sensing module. The chamber module comprises a light condensing chamber, a receiving chamber and a sampling chamber connected between the light condensing chamber and the receiving chamber. The light emitting module is disposed on the light condensing chamber for generating a light. The optical sensing module is disposed in the receiving chamber. The sampling chamber comprises a first open end, a second open end corresponding to the first open end, a first surface, and a second surface corresponding to the first surface, the first and second open ends are connected to the light condensing chamber and the receiving chamber respectively, the first surface and the second surface are disposed between the first open end and the second open end, and the first surface is not parallel to the second surface.
US09927358B2
Calibration device for calibrating an operation wavelength characteristic of a refractometer for determining an information which is indicative for a refractive index of the sample, wherein the calibration device comprises an itself traceably calibratable determination unit, which is preferably at least partially external of the refractometer, which is adapted for determining an information which is indicative for a discrepancy between a pre-givable set-point-operation wavelength characteristic and an actual-operation wavelength characteristic of the refractometer, on whose basis the refractometer is calibratable.
US09927352B2
Methods are described herein and termed Microbial Community Screening and Profiling (MCSP) for multi-dimensional analysis and non-destructive and label-free detection and analysis, which allow for complementary analytical techniques to be performed on the same sample for such multidimensional analysis.
US09927341B2
A vibrating member (412) adapted for use in a vibrating densitometer (400) includes a base (407) and a vibrating tube portion (405) affixed to the base (407). The vibrating tube portion (405) includes a first arcuate portion (430a), a second arcuate portion (430b), a first non-arcuate portion (432a), and a second non-arcuate portion (432b). The first and second non-arcuate portions (432a, 432b) are located between the first and second arcuate portions (430a, 430b). The vibrating tube portion (405) is formed with an oblong cross-sectional shape having a major axis dimension that is greater than a minor axis dimension. The oblong cross-sectional shape increases a frequency separation between vibration modes in the vibrating tube portion (405).
US09927338B2
A method includes exciting a work piece, measuring a dynamic response of the work piece with an optical imaging system and calculating a damping factor and a Q factor from said dynamic response. The method links two processes: an optical imaging system to output dynamic motion response data, and using the data to obtain a damping factor and a Q factor.
US09927335B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to sample holders that can be used to retain a sample support effective for use in direct sample analysis. In some embodiments, the sample support can include a first and a second plate with apertures to permit a sample to be analyzed using direct sample analysis.
US09927333B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a sample for chromatographic separation processes, in which a sample vessel (1) is partially filled with a substance to be examined and is closed, the substance to be examined is subjected to a thermo-chemical reaction in which at least one sample component is converted into another substance, and in which by means of a removing device samples are removed from the sample vessel (1) for analytical examination, characterized in that the sample vessel (1) forms a cavity, into which the substance to be examined is introduced as a core and a heating section for indirect heat transfer is applied along the filling of substance to be examined.
US09927329B2
A device (201) is provided for collecting signatures from an ambient fluid. The device includes a housing (205) equipped with an (207) inlet and an outlet (209) which are in fluidic communication with each other, and a signature collector (203) which has a plurality of spaced-apart layers (213). The signature collector is disposed in a fluidic flow path between the inlet and the outlet such that a flow of fluid passes through adjacent layers of the signature collector. Each of the layers includes a substrate (217) having a sorbent or adherent (219) disposed thereon, and a plurality of embossments (215) which maintains the layers in the spaced-apart configuration.
US09927319B2
A method which determines aircraft Center of Gravity independent of measuring the aircraft weight. The method is used in monitoring, measuring and computing the Center of Gravity of an aircraft utilizing pressurized, telescopic landing gear struts with axles. Pressure sensors are mounted in relation to each of the landing gear struts to monitor, measure and record aircraft landing gear strut loads by way of pressure. Axle deflection sensors are mounted in relation to each of the landing gear axles to monitor, measure and record aircraft landing gear axle loads by way of deflection. Nose landing gear strut pressure and corresponding values from axle deflection sensors may be adjusted in correlation to the reduced size of the nose landing gear, as compared to the size of the main landing gear, allowing aircraft Center of Gravity to be determined from the combined measured main landing gear pressures in relation to a nose landing gear strut pressure measurements, or combined main landing gear axle deflection sensor in relation to a nose landing gear axle deflection sensor; without any determination of the aircraft weight.
US09927316B2
A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chip for measuring a pressure in a pressure space includes a MEMS substrate having a measuring region, a contact-making region connected to the measuring region via lines and having contacts, and a bushing region disposed between the measuring region and the contact-making region. The MEMS substrate defines a cavity formed as a blind hole that defines an opening through one side of the MEMS substrate, the bottom of the blind hole forming a membrane. A measuring bridge includes piezoresistive elements disposed on that side of the membrane which faces away from the cavity's opening. A carrier substrate is disposed over the cavity's opening and bonded to the MEMS substrate in a two-dimensional manner to form a rod, with the result that the carrier substrate forms a bottom wall of the cavity spaced apart from the membrane.
US09927313B2
A pressure sensing device is disclosed in the present disclosure. The pressure sensing device includes a bottom plate, a flexible shell and a MEMS pressure sensor. The flexible shell covers the bottom plate for forming a hermetical cavity, and the MEMS pressure sensor is accommodated in the hermetical cavity. Air in the hermetical cavity is compressed when the flexible shell is pressed, the MEMS pressure sensor is configured for detecting variation of an air pressure within the hermetical cavity when the flexible shell is pressed, and convert the variation of the air pressure into an electric signal.
US09927311B2
A high-sensitivity sensor containing cracks is provided. The high-sensitivity sensor is obtained by forming microcracks on a conductive thin film, which is formed on top of a support, wherein the microcracks form a micro joining structure in which the microcracks are electrically changed, short-circuited or open, thereby converting external stimuli into electric signals by generating a change in a resistance value. The high-sensitivity sensor can be useful in a displacement sensor, a pressure sensor, a vibration sensor, artificial skin, a voice recognition system, and the like.
US09927309B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a semiconductor device including a temperature detection circuit and a test circuit. The temperature detection circuit is configured to detect a temperature by comparing potential of a reference block and reference potential. The test circuit is configured to test, in a test mode, an operation of the temperature detection circuit by serially switching a value of the reference potential to a value selected from a plurality of values, which is different from each other, while a temperature of the semiconductor device is kept at a first temperature.
US09927307B2
A temperature and pressure probe (40) comprising an elongate outer tube (42) and elongate inner tube (56). Each tube having a peripheral wall (44, 58), a first open end (46, 60) and a second closed end (48, 62); the outer tube thereby defining an outer cavity (52) and the inner tube defining an inner cavity (66). The inner tube is located wholly within the outer cavity and is spaced from the outer peripheral wall (44) and second end (48). A temperature sensor (70) is located in the inner cavity. A pressure sensor (68) is located in the outer cavity. A vent pipe (76) is coupled between the inner peripheral wall and the outer peripheral wall, the vent pipe having a first end open to the inner cavity (66) and a second end open to vent outside the probe (40).
US09927304B2
The invention proposes a method of determining core temperature of food in a closed container, the method including the steps of: adjusting heating power supplied to the container to allow internal temperature of the container to change within a predetermined duration; obtaining information related to the change of internal temperature of the container; and determining the core temperature of the food based on the information related to the change of internal temperature and predetermined relationships between information related to change of internal temperature of the container and core temperatures of the food. The invention also proposes an apparatus for determining core temperature of food and a food processing device.
US09927303B2
In order to solve a technical problem of a temperature sensor for high temperature, in which platinum lead wires may be broken when used at a high temperature, an inner frame (8) made of ceramic is provided inside an outer frame (7) made of metal, the inner frame (8) is fixed, only at the upper end portion thereof, to the outer frame (7), and an insulating filler (9) made of a ceramic adhesive or a ceramic powder tightly filled at a high density is filled inside the inner frame (8) and a portion inside the outer frame (7) where the inner frame (8) is not present. According to this configuration, the occurrence of a break in platinum lead wires (6) can be significantly lowered compared with that of conventional examples.
US09927301B2
A motion sensor housing includes a base and a lens holder that is supported on the base. The motion sensor is disposed in the housing between the base and the lens holder so as to face the lens holder, and a frameless lens is supported on an outer surface of the lens holder in such a way that the lens provides the outermost surface of the housing. In addition, when the motion sensor housing is viewed facing the lens, the lens holder is not visible, and the outward-facing surface of the lens is free of edges, borders and/or discontinuities.
US09927297B2
An optical microscope capable of performing measurement with a high resolution and a spectrometry method are provided. A spectrometry device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a Y-scanning unit that scans a spot position of the light beam on the sample, a beam splitter that separates, among the light beam incident on the sample, outgoing light, the outgoing light being emitted with a different wavelength, a spectroscope that spatially disperses the outgoing light separated by the beam splitter according to the wavelength, a detector that detects the outgoing light dispersed by the spectroscope, and a pinhole array 30 disposed on an incoming side of the spectroscope, a plurality of pinholes being arranged in the pinhole array, the plurality of pinholes being adapted to allow outgoing light to pass therethrough to the spectroscope side.
US09927296B2
An adjustable mount for an optical device in a laser spectroscopy system is provided. The adjustable mount includes body configured to mount to a process and a reflector mount having a feature configured to mount an optical device. An interface between the body and the reflector mount allows relative motion between the reflector mount and the body. At least one alignment device is configured to engage the reflector mount and the body to fix a position of the reflector mount relative to the body. An optical device is removably mounted to the reflector mount independent of the alignment device and is sealed to the reflector mount.
US09927293B2
A sensor device for a motor vehicle includes a light source, a detection device and a control and evaluation device. The control and evaluation device activates the light source to emit pulses, activates the detection device for detecting light reflected back by the environment, and evaluates the signals from the detection device. The control and evaluation device, the detection device and the light source are designed as a Time-of-Flight structure for detection in a first spatial direction such that spatially assignable distance data are detected. The light source and the detection device are disposed in a receiving space arranged along a bearing surface of a vehicle. The light source is disposed inside the receiving space in a tilted manner such than an angle of at least 5 degrees is formed between a normal to the bearing surface and an optical axis of the light source.
US09927291B2
The following steps are performed in connection with a photodiode circuit: a) resetting the photodiode circuit; b) determining when a photodiode voltage changes in response to illumination to reach a threshold; and c) updating a counter in response to the determination in step b). The steps a) to c) are repeated until an end of a measurement period is reached. The value of the counter at the end of the measurement period is then output to indicate an intensity of the illumination.
US09927283B2
A digital filter for a digital weigher reduces a calculation time in an adapted filter while maintaining weighing accuracy, a digital weigher includes the filter for the weigher, and a wave filtering process method uses the digital filter for the digital weigher. A fixation section of a FIR filter removes an oscillating component in a predetermined frequency range, from a digital weighing signal. A determination device determines whether an amplitude of an oscillating component contained in a digital weighing signal derived by performing a wave filtering process falls within a predetermined damping range. A control device changes a frequency range of an oscillating component to be removed by an adaptive section of the filter based on a result of the determination. The adaptive section of the filter performs the wave filtering process with respect to the oscillating component in the frequency range changed by the control device.
US09927282B2
A liquid level detector includes a casing, a float, a magnet body, and a switch mechanism. The casing includes a tube section. The float is displaced upward or downward along a gravity direction. The magnet body is held by the float. The switch mechanism is accommodated in the tube section and is switched between an on-state and an off-state. The casing includes a first casing part and a second casing part. The first casing part includes the tube section, a first locking section that is formed radially outward of the tube section, and a first guide section that is formed at a tip of the tube section in an extending direction. The second casing part includes a second locking section and a second guide section.
US09927269B2
Provided is a pressure detection device including: a pressure detection unit; and a flow channel unit provided with a flow channel and a pressure receiving portion. The pressure detection unit includes a pressure sensor including a diaphragm, and a pressure transmission portion which is disposed in a state where one end of the pressure transmission portion is in contact with the diaphragm and the other end thereof is in contact with the diaphragm, and transmits a pressure of a fluid received by the diaphragm to the diaphragm. The pressure transmission portion is disposed in a state where the diaphragm is displaced toward the flow channel and an urging force directed from the diaphragm to the diaphragm is received.
US09927265B2
A system includes an encoder to monitor a machine and generate an encoder output signal indicative of at least one of the motion or position of the machine. A combiner can be configured to receive the encoder output signal from the encoder and to receive machine diagnostic data from at least one other sensor. The combiner can combine the machine diagnostic data with the encoder output signal to provide a combined signal that includes the machine diagnostic data synchronized with the at least one of the motion or position of the machine. An output stage can provide the combined signal to a remote system.
US09927263B2
An intrusion detection system includes a suspended optical fiber having a neutral buoyancy and an optical time-domain reflectometer connected to the suspended optical fiber at an origin location. The suspended optical fiber is connected to a mooring at a first end of the suspended optical fiber and further includes at least one terminal end. The optical time-domain reflectometer includes a light source operable to emit an optical pulse of light into the suspended optical fiber from the origin location toward the terminal end, and a processor operable to receive an optical return signal from the terminal end of the suspended optical fiber or from a deformation created by a disturbance to the suspended optical fiber and to determine a location and a type of the disturbance based on an analysis of at least a time to receive the optical return signal and a magnitude of the optical return signal.
US09927261B1
An inductive sensor device includes a scale unit (24) containing field elements (26) that cooperate with a transmit circuit (32) to create a field pattern (S(x)) in measuring direction (M). A sensor unit (25) contains at least one receive circuit (34) with at least one receive coil (35), respectively. The sensor unit (25) and the scale unit (24) can move relatively in measuring direction (M). The coil loops (37) of the at least one receive coil (35) and/or the scale loops (28) of the scale elements (26) are separated into a loop front (56) and a loop back (57), each containing a sectional portion that runs alternately with regard to the height direction. The alternating run can be obtained by combining linear and/or curved portions so that a meandering, zigzag, sinusoidal, or another arbitrary alternating run can be obtained.
US09927240B2
A method for testing the functionality of a rotation rate sensor, the rotation rate sensor including a substrate and a micromechanical structure oscillatory with respect to the substrate having a first drive element, a second drive element and at least one Coriolis element, the Coriolis element being excitable to at least one oscillation mode by the first drive element and/or by the second drive element, a detection signal being detected as a function of a force action to be detected on the Coriolis element, the rotation rate sensor being operable optionally in a normal mode or in a self-test mode, the first drive element and the second drive element being driven in the normal mode, characterized in that in the self-test mode, the first drive element or the second drive element is driven optionally exclusively.
US09927237B2
To be capable of realizing a technique which enables a measurement error of a magnetic sensor to be obtained with higher accuracy, there is provided an information processing apparatus including: a fluctuation measuring unit configured to measure temporal fluctuation of a magnetic value measured by a magnetic sensor during movement of at least the magnetic sensor or information obtained based on the magnetic value, and a measurement error acquiring unit configured to obtain a measurement error of the magnetic sensor based on the fluctuation.
US09927225B2
Disclosed are methods of measuring dynamic displacement of an object. The methods include capturing a plurality of images of a dynamically moving object. The object may include one or two color-patterned target(s) that include two rows and two columns of two contrasting colors (e.g., colors with a difference in hue values of approximately 180). The methods include identifying a reference point of the object (e.g., a center of a color-patterned target or a midpoint between the centers of two color-patterned targets) and measuring the dynamic movement (displacement) of the reference point over time. The images may be captured by a smartphone camera and the smartphone may identify and measure the dynamic movement of the reference point. In view of the constraints of smartphone hardware capabilities, the images may be cropped and/or not displayed to enable the smartphone to process the images and measure the dynamic displacement in real time.
US09927224B2
A thickness measuring apparatus and a thickness measuring method. The thickness measuring apparatus includes a light source outputting an extended monochromatic light with coherence; a collimating lens converting output light of the light source into incident beam of parallel ray; a beam splitter reflecting and providing the incident beam to a measurement target and transmitting first reflection light reflected on a top surface of the measurement target and second reflection light reflected on a bottom surface of the measurement target; an imaging lens disposed between the measurement target and the beam splitter with a predetermined focal distance to receive and provide the incident beam to a measurement position of the measurement target disposed on the focal distance; a camera photographing an interference fringe formed by the first and second reflection lights and outputting an interference fringe image; and a processing part.
US09927222B2
A position/orientation measurement apparatus inputs the two-dimensional image of a measurement object captured by an image capturing apparatus, obtains the distance data of the measurement object measured by a distance sensor, detects an image feature of the measurement object from the two-dimensional image, determines the state of the measurement object, sets, based on the determined state, a usage mode regarding the image feature and the distance data when measuring the position/orientation, and measures the position/orientation of the measurement object in accordance with the set usage mode.
US09927209B2
A light for mounting on an implement is provided. In particular, a light configured to be releasably attached to a firearm is provided. The light includes first and second light elements. A selector switch is operable to select which of the two light elements is energized when a primary switch is actuated.
US09927201B2
The invention relates to the firearm hardware, namely to barrel coupling for firearm. Due to the new muzzle adapter construction, clamping mechanism, which consists of a separator with cams and a clamping sleeve, it makes it possible to mount muzzle accessories to the barrels without any special preparation. The separator is manufactured as a casing with a plurality of cam sockets and a plurality of elongated L-shaped cams insertable into the said sockets with the longer part of the cam shaped to match the socket. The new barrel coupling is more reliable and more durable, it is comfortable and easy to install and remove.
US09927192B1
Disclosed herein is a buffer tube locking plate assembly facilitating secure attachment of a buffer tube to a receiver portion of a firearm.
US09927187B2
An assembly useable with a cooling system is provided herein. The assembly includes a support member, a channel, and a fluid control mechanism. The support member includes a receiving member formed therein to receive a thermal member. The channel is formed within the support member to carry a fluid therethrough. The fluid control mechanism is along the channel to control the flow of the fluid.
US09927186B2
To provide a plate heat exchanger free from degradation of gaskets which form a flow path through which a high-temperature fluid flows. In the plate heat exchanger, a plurality of heat transfer plates 20 each provided with passage holes 21, 22, 23, and 24 in corners are stacked; a flow-path forming gasket 31 is interposed between peripheries of each adjacent ones of the heat transfer plates 20; communicating-path forming gaskets 32 are installed, surrounding the passage holes 21 in each adjacent ones of the heat transfer plates 20 alternately; and thereby a first flow path 1 adapted to pass a high-temperature fluid H, a second flow path adapted to pass a low-temperature fluid C, and communicating paths 3 adapted to cause the high-temperature fluid H and the low-temperature fluid C, respectively, to flow in and out of the first flow path 1 and the second flow path 2 are formed alternately on opposite sides of each of the heat transfer plates 20. The flow-path forming gasket 31 is made up of an inner gasket member 31a and an outer gasket member 31b arranged in two parallel lines.
US09927185B1
A system for cooling down a boiling vessel, such as a pot, including at least a first length of tubing encircling an outer wall of the pipe, and having a fluid flow bore through its length, supported by opposing handles of the pot; a connector for engaging an end of a water line to the first length of tubing; a source of water introduced into the first length of tubing, under pressure, so that the water travels through the entire first length of tubing; a plurality of flow openings spaced along the walls of the first length of tubing, so that water is sprayed from the openings against the outer wall of the pot from both the first length of tubing, to cool the pot along its entire outer wall. There may be further provided additional lengths of tubing spraying water against the pot wall and a collection pan positioned below the pot to collect water flowing off of the wall of the pot, so that the water can flow from the pan into a hose to direct the water to a point away from the boiling pot.
US09927180B2
A heat exchanger is provided that includes a housing and an exchanger region which is arranged in the housing and has tubes and at least one base, wherein the tubes are connected to the at least one base, wherein the housing is manufactured from a plastic and has a housing inner surface, wherein the housing inner surface is covered at least in regions or in sections by at least one metallic element for protecting the housing from a thermal load. The invention further relates to a method for producing a heat exchanger.
US09927174B2
A pellet stove, having a pellet hopper, a combustion chamber, a heat exchanger and a pellet movement assembly, adapted to move the pellets from the hopper into the combustion chamber. The pellet movement assembly is located and configured so as to be heated by exhaust gases from the combustion chamber and the pellets spend a sufficient amount of time in the pellet movement assembly, where oxygen is prevented from freely flowing in, so that the pellets are torrefied during transit to the combustion chamber.
