US09975185B2
A tip for twist drill, comprising a super-hard structure joined to a substrate at an interface boundary coterminous with an end of the substrate, the super-hard structure comprising sintered polycrystalline material comprising super-hard grains, the super-hard structure defining a super-hard end surface opposite the interface boundary and a plurality of cutting edges configured for boring into a body in use; the super-hard end surface including a center point or chisel edge, and comprising a plurality of surface regions configured such that respective planes tangential to each of the surface regions are disposed at substantially different angles from the axis of rotation of the tip in use. Precursor constructions for use in manufacturing the tips as well as methods for making the precursor constructions and the tips are disclosed.
US09975181B2
This present disclosure relates to a device for rotary entrainment of a workpiece clamped between two tips, which is mounted on a machine table of a machine tool, consisting of a base body with a centrically arranged tip and a plurality of concentrically arranged, axially shiftable driver elements which for the rotary entrainment of the workpiece are pressed against or into an end-face surface, wherein an axial position of the driver elements can be defined by active fixation after a centering operation of the workpiece, and to a receptacle opposite the base body, for example a tip or hollow tip, which serves a guidance of an opposite side of the workpiece.
US09975179B2
A method for fabricating a joint designed to connect tubes for a space frame, where a space frame may be a vehicle chassis, is provided. The method may generate joints with variable geometry and fine features which may reduce production costs, reduce production time, and generate joints configured for highly specific applications. The joint may include centering features which may create a space between a surface of the tube and a surface of the joint through which adhesive may flow.
US09975176B2
A method of forming a component having an internal passage defined therein includes selectively positioning a lattice structure at least partially within a cavity of a mold. The lattice structure is formed from a first material, and a core is positioned in a channel defined through the lattice structure, such that at least a portion of the core extends within the cavity. The method also includes introducing a component material in a molten state into the cavity, such that the component material in the molten state at least partially absorbs the first material from the lattice structure. The method further includes cooling the component material in the cavity to form the component, wherein at least the portion of the core defines the internal passage within the component.
US09975171B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for mechanically reducing an amount of the skull material in a finished, molded part formed from amorphous alloy using an injection molding system. Skull material of molten amorphous alloy can be captured in a trap before molding such material. A cavity can be provided in the injection molding system to trap the skull material. For example, the cavity can be provided in the mold, the tip of the plunger rod, or in the transfer sleeve. Alternatively, mixing of molten amorphous alloy can be induced so that skull material is reduced before molding. A plunger and/or its tip can be used to induce mixing (e.g., systematic movement of plunger rod, or a shape of its tip). By minimizing the amount of skull material in the finished, molded part, the quality of the part is increased.
US09975165B2
A rotatable buffer turret apparatus on which plural pairs of punches and dies to be set on a turret of a turret punch press are set, includes an upper buffer turret on which punch attachment holes in which the punches can be set are arranged circularly, and a lower buffer turret on which die attachment holes that is associated with the punch attachment holes and in which the dies can be set are arranged circularly. The upper and lower buffer turrets are rotatably attached to a single rotary shaft. A diameter of the lower buffer turret is made larger than a diameter of the upper buffer turret. The die attachment holes are formed in a circular die attachment area having a diameter larger than the diameter of the upper buffer turret. According to the apparatus, a tool exchange manually operated by an operator can be done easily and efficiently.
US09975161B2
In a tool storing device handling a tool mounting stocker in which a punch and a die of a press brake are mounted in one stocker with rear surfaces facing each other, each of the stockers is supported on both sides by endless belts having one driving shaft, and the endless belts are circulated so that each of the supported stockers does not protrude to a worker side, whereby a position of a path line of the appropriate one of the stockers can be freely positioned at a position of the path line PL of a tool holder on the press brake side. This enables rapid and easy tool replacement by a bending robot by storing not only the tool made of the punch and the die but also the hand for the robot together.
US09975153B2
The device is for opening up a branch point of a pipe assembly. The device has a tip part arranged to be rotated, in connection with which there is at least one blade, and spring-loaded discs and protrusions which are separate from the tip part and arranged to remain essentially non-rotating as the tip part is rotated.
US09975148B2
A system includes an article supply location, wherein the article supply location includes a plurality of articles to be sorted, first and second transport vehicles, each having a first position in which an article is stowed about the vehicle and a second position in which the article is deposited into a proximal container. And a control system. The control system is configured to receive an order for a plurality of disparate articles, determine one destination container of a plurality of destination containers to direct the transport vehicle to deposit a selected article, direct the first transport vehicle to transport a selected article to the destination container and deposit the article by manipulation of the first transport vehicle from the first position to the second position for deposit of the selected article in the destination container.
US09975138B2
A method for fitting a piping nozzle (1) or a part of a piping nozzle (1) in a piping bag (2) comprises placing the piping nozzle (1) in an initial position (3), which initial position (3) is situated at a substantial distance from a piping position (5) located in the piping bag (2), using a piping nozzle applicator (4), which is movable between the initial position (3) and the piping position (5), to releasably engage with the piping nozzle (1) at the initial position (3), using the piping nozzle applicator (4) to bring the piping nozzle (1) from the initial position (3) substantially to the piping position (5) in the piping bag (2), releasing the piping nozzle (1) from the piping nozzle applicator (4) at the piping position (5), and pulling the piping nozzle applicator (4) back from the piping position (5).
US09975135B1
The invention is directed to a lightweight apparatus for the redirection and capture of paint overspray and airborne particulates at a surface being painted. The apparatus has a top tubing arrangement, and a bottom tubing arrangement, and blowers that provide air to both tubing arrangements. The invention also has an enclosure having a top opening and a bottom opening. The bottom tubing arrangement is positioned at the bottom opening. The bottom tubing arrangement includes a plurality of perforations creating an airflow that provides a pneumatic seal between the apparatus and the surface being painted, preventing the escape of paint overspray. The top tubing arrangement also includes a plurality of perforations that create an airflow that prevents the escape of paint overspray from the enclosure. Entrained paint overspray and airborne particles within the enclosure are captured by a filter within the enclosure.
US09975134B2
A deposition mask comprises a mask frame having an open window defined in a center thereof, a first mask sheet placed on the mask frame and including a plurality of open regions and a separation region which separates the open regions, and a second mask sheet placed on the first mask sheet and including a first aperture portion in a region which contacts the separation region of the first mask sheet.
US09975133B2
In plan view, a magnet plate (10) has a first magnetic domain (11) and a second magnetic domain (12), a magnetic domain boundary line (14) is inclined to an opening side (26) and is bent or curved, and the magnet plate has magnetic fields that are generated in a respective plurality of different directions.
US09975130B2
A trigger sprayer (100) may include a tube retainer (110) fitted in a valve body (120), a piston (140) fitted in the valve body and an integrated trigger (150) and biasing member (154) connected to the piston and the valve body and biased in part by the attachment of a shroud (130) to the trigger sprayer.
US09975128B2
A rotating shower sprayer includes a housing, a cover plate component, and an impeller rotatably disposed in the housing. The top surface of the impeller has a blade. The eccentric position of the bottom surface of the impeller has a rotating shaft. The housing has an incline hole with respect to the blade. The shower sprayer also has a planetary reducing mechanism disposed in the housing. The planetary reducing mechanism comprises a gear sleeved on the rotating shaft and a fixing gear ring disposed on the internal revolution surface of the housing. The upper portion of the gear has a first stage reducing gear ring engaged to the fixing gear ring. The lower portion of the gear has a driving gear ring. The cover plate component is disposed with a second stage reducing gear ring that engages with the driving gear ring.
US09975125B2
A micro well plate is described for capturing and distributing single cells in individual wells is described, wherein at least one individual well is provided with a bottom plate having at least one pore to pass sample liquid, such that if one object or cell of interest is collected on the bottom plate of the well, the sample flow rate through that particular well is significantly reduced, minimizing the possibility that multiple cells or objects of interest entering the same well. The presented invention is particularly suited for obtaining single cells and/or microorganisms suspended in fluid samples for subsequent detailed interrogation.
US09975115B2
Provided are a photocatalyst having higher activity for hydrogen production through water splitting and a photoelectrode comprising the photocatalyst. The photocatalyst for water splitting of the present invention comprises a Ga selenide, an Ag—Ga selenide, or both thereof.
US09975113B2
A process for the preparation of lactic acid and 2-hydroxy-3-butenoic acid or esters thereof from a sugar in the presence of a metallo-silicate material, a metal ion and a solvent, wherein the metal ion is selected from one or more of the group consisting of potassium ions, sodium ions, lithium ions, rubidium ions and caesium ions.
US09975107B2
A multi-scaled oxygen storage material wherein cobalt element is complexed with a size of an atom or hundreds of nanometers or smaller in a ceria-zirconia solid solution and a method for preparing the same as provided.Specifically, the multi-scaled oxygen storage material contains a ceria-zirconia solid solution, a cobalt doping contained in the solid solution in the form of an atom and a cobalt-based nanocluster dispersed in the solid solution as cobalt oxide and exhibits a microstructure distinguished from that of the existing ceria-zirconia (CZO)-based oxygen storage material as well as remarkably improved oxygen storage and release ability, and the method for preparing the same is provided.
US09975105B2
A system for producing an oxygenate, comprising: a desulfurization apparatus for contacting a raw material gas comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide with a desulfurizing agent comprising copper; and a synthesis apparatus for contacting the raw material gas treated by the desulfurizing apparatus with an oxygenate-synthesis catalyst comprising rhodium.
US09975100B2
Techniques for converting a portion of a carbonate to hydroxide include receiving an alkaline carbonate solution that includes between 0.1M (moles per liter of solution) to 4.0M hydroxide and between 0.1M to 4.1M carbonate; reacting, in a slaking process, quicklime (CaO) and a low carbonate content fluid to yield a slurry of primarily slaked lime (Ca(OH)2); and reacting the Ca(OH)2 slurry and the alkaline carbonate solution to grow calcium carbonate (CaCO3) crystal aggregates of 0.0005 mm3 to 5 mm3 in volume in a fluidized-bed reactive crystallizer.
US09975095B2
A disposable container, such as a deformable bag, for a fluid, having one or more inlets and one or more outlets and an impeller assembly within the container to cause mixing, dispersing, homogenizing and/or circulation of one or more ingredients contained or added to the container. The impeller assembly has a protective hood surrounding at least a portion of the moveable blades or vanes of the impeller assembly and being above at least a portion of the blades or vanes. The hood surrounds the blades or vanes and arcs over the height of the blades or vanes. The hood is shaped in a dome shape or semi-spherical shape that is around and above the impeller blades and acts as a protector for the container surface against the impeller assembly both during shipping and storage as well as when in use, particularly at lower liquid levels.
US09975091B2
Systems, methods, and devices related to removing fluids from a patient are provided. In one instance, fluid is removed from the patient and delivered to a canister using reduced pressure. Reduced pressure is supplied to the canister via a reduced-pressure delivery conduit that includes a moisture processing device and a hydrophobic filter. The moisture processing device condenses moisture from the air to prevent condensation from occluding the hydrophobic filter. The moisture processing devices includes an expanded volume and one or more liquid-impermeable, vapor-permeable membranes. The liquid-impermeable, vapor-permeable membrane allows vapor to egress the moisture processing device. Other systems, methods, and devices are presented.
US09975088B2
The present invention relates to a method for purifying a gas comprising: a) feeding the gas (1) to an absorber (5) and bringing into contact said gas (1) with a stream (3) (or alternatively (3′)) to obtain a liquid (4) and a purified gas stream (2); b) feeding the liquid (4) to a conditioning tank (9) and adding a mineral nutrient medium (6) and a suitable amount of base (7) to the liquid (4) to obtain a liquid effluent (8); c) feeding the liquid effluent (8) to an anaerobic bioreactor (14) to obtain a biomethane stream (11) and a liquid stream (12); d) feeding the liquid stream (12) to a degasser (20) to obtain a gas stream (18) and a stream (3′); and e) recirculating the stream (3′) by feeding it to the absorber (5).
US09975083B2
Systems and methods for gas processing are described that utilize two or more cells that are fluidly coupled to one another by a common liquid space. Via the common liquid space, each of the cells can be coupled to a fluid outlet. The cells can each include an absorber and/or other gas processing equipment. A feed gas can be separately fed to each of the cells for processing. The cells can be independently operable, such that not all of the cells must be operated simultaneously.
US09975079B2
A multi-stage process for recovering acid gas from natural gas having high acid gas contents utilizes two or more membrane absorption contactors arranged in series. The first membrane absorption contactor uses a physical solvent to remove a high volume of acid gas transferred across a membrane, and to reduce the acid gas content in the natural gas to a lower level that can be managed using chemical solvents. The second and, if needed, subsequent membrane absorption contactors can use a chemical solvent to remove acid gas transferred across the respective membranes and reduce the acid gas content in the natural gas to very low levels, if needed, depending on product specifications.
US09975074B2
A filtering device, particularly for filtering air contaminated by oily mists, vapors, aerosols and the like, comprising a cylindrical containment enclosure that is provided with a closure element that is provided with an air intake, a filtering assembly being accommodated inside the containment enclosure, the device further comprising a conveyance spiral that is arranged axially inside the containment enclosure and in contact with an inner surface of the enclosure.
US09975071B2
The application generally relates to digital Engine Integrity Protection (EIP) systems for filters for internal combustion engines and methods of using the digital EIP systems. A pre-programmed digital chip is integrated in filtration hardware such that the Engine Control Unit (ECU) or another controller installed on the engine or vehicle can read encrypted digital signal from the chip when electrically connected with the filter hardware. Based on the read information from the chip, the ECU or controller can determine whether the filter associated with the chip is a genuine filter or a non-genuine filter.
US09975069B2
The invention relates to a conveyor belt filter device for mechanically cleaning a liquid which flows through a channel and is polluted with solids, comprising an endless filter belt of interconnected flat filter elements which can be pivoted against one another, and a flexible driving means which is guided over a lower deflection device and at least one upper deflection device and comprising a framework which carries the deflection devices and the filter belt, wherein in the area of the upper deflection device a wiper device is arranged which can be driven to rotate and is arranged on a swinging link which is mounted on the framework, the wiper device being supported against the weight of the wiper device by a support device, and the support device being arranged together with the upper deflection device on a common carrier which is adjustable with respect to the framework.
US09975066B2
Layer by layer (“LBL”) construction of products by tangential flow filtration (TFF), or the like, is described, including computer controlled automation of such procedure for production of a multilayer coated core.
US09975065B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for removing waste materials from the surface of liquid in a liquid treatment system. In one example a surface wasting system comprises a chamber including a sump, an outer conduit coupled by a first seal to an upper wall of the chamber, an inner conduit axially disposed within the outer conduit, the inner conduit in contact with a surface of a liquid in a treatment vessel of the liquid treatment system, an expandable waterproof bellows having a lower end coupled to the outer conduit above the first seal and an upper end coupled to the inner conduit, the waterproof bellows forming a second seal between the outer conduit and the inner conduit, and a float coupled to the inner conduit and configured to vertically displace the inner conduit responsive to a change in a level of liquid in the sump.
US09975062B2
Disclosed is the use of a separation agent including fibril cellulose for phase separation, as well as to a method for the separation of at least one liquid phase from at least one phase selected from a second liquid phase, solid phase and semi-solid phase, where the method includes the steps of incorporating a separation agent including fibril cellulose to a mixture where separation of the phases is desired, followed by formation of phases and removing the phases.
US09975055B2
This double-sided toy car is capable of vertical turning within a sealed track. The double-sided toy car includes a car body, a front wheel, and a rear wheel. The rear wheel includes a pair of upper driving wheels and a pair of lower driving wheels. A maximum distance between an upper end and a lower end of the front wheel is less than or equal to a maximum distance between the upper and lower driving wheels after the rear wheel is maximally elastically contracted. The maximum distance is less than or equal to a height of the sealed track, therefore ensuring that the double-sided car can smoothly pass through a vertical turning segment. However, the maximum distance between the upper and lower driving wheels before the rear wheel is elastically contracted is greater than the height of the sealed track.
US09975054B2
Building units include at least one microporous structure which permits the building units to connect with other building units or to another nonporous structure, such as a window or a wall in order to build a three dimensional structure. In some configurations the building units include a body, at least one surface having a nonporous structure, and at least one surface having an exposed microporous suction structure. Some embodiments also include a computing device such as a computer or television including a display device having a nonporous surface. The computing device generates a user interface to interact with the user. The user interface guides the user in constructing a three dimensional structure for the building units on a nonporous surface of the display device.
US09975052B1
A system and method are disclosed for providing an in-game offer to one or more players of an online game. The offer is provided to players that have newly joined the game and/or to players that have not yet made a purchase. In some implementations, the offer may be meant to incentivize purchase upon entry into the game. The in-game offer may comprise an offer to one or more items and a bonus comprising one or more bonus items provided to the player responsive to the offered items being purchased. The in-game offer may only be made available to a qualifying player for a certain amount of time.
US09975049B2
A game includes player characters in a virtual space. The game is progressed in accordance with game progress information, which is useable for generating a game screen. The game screen is configured to be displayed on a display device. An instruction for registering a player character, which is manipulated in the game by a first player, is received, and the player character of the first player is registered as a copy non-player character. The copy non-player character is configured to be manipulated in the game by a second player. The game progress information is updated, and data of the player character of the first player is updated in accordance with a manipulation of the copy non-player character by the second player during a period in which the first player is in an off-line state.
US09975043B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes identifying a plurality of devices associated with a computing device, identifying status information from each device of the plurality of devices, and identifying presentation features for each device of the plurality of devices. The method further includes receiving presentation information indicating a setting to present first status information from a first device of the plurality of devices via a selected device of the plurality of devices, wherein the first status is presented on the selected device by a selected presentation feature of the selected device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09975038B2
In one embodiment, a neuromorphic robot includes a curved outer housing, and multiple touch sensors provided on the outer housing, wherein the robot is configured to interpret a touch of a user sensed with the touch sensors.
US09975031B2
Public safety and commercial delivery management integrates data collection from video cameras, sensory devices worn by people and/or mounted on aircraft, and locally-mounted data processing components for modeling activity and event data. A vehicle-mounted interface, website, and mobile device application present related content that allows data to be viewed and manipulated data before, during and after the activity or event occurs.
US09975028B2
A therapeutic striking and rehabilitation training system that provides rehabilitation and therapeutic training in a home environment for persons with disabilities from an accident, wounded veterans, from disabilities involving birth defects, or as part of a physical therapy program even for bed-ridden patients. A therapeutic striking and rehabilitation training system also improves conditioning and hand-eye coordination which is attached to a ceiling, or hung in a door opening using a bar, via a tether with a ball attached to the end of said tether. The ball is a given distance from the ceiling as determined by the user. Once the desired distance has been chosen, the user then strikes the ball with enough force for the ball to contact the ceiling and then begin a downward trajectory towards the user to be struck again.
US09975022B2
A golf club head includes a first portion that is rigidly adhered to a second portion to at least partially define an interior club head volume. The first portion is formed from a metallic material and includes a face, and the second portion is formed from a polymeric material and defines a bore that is configured to receive and to selectively retain an elongate weight.
US09975021B1
A ball retrieving receptacle that attaches to the ball-striking area of a bat. The receptacle comprises a tubular sleeve having a diameter sized to fit tightly or securely around a ball-striking surface of a bat. The tubular sleeve includes a top opening and a bottom opening, and a sloping collar connected to the tubular sleeve. A semisphere hood is connected to the outer rim of the sloping collar, and the semisphere hood includes a semicircle rim extending in front of an opening of the semisphere hood and is connected to the outer rim of the sloping collar. The ball retrieving receptacle is attached to a bat having a handle and a ball-striking surface, wherein ball-striking surface of the bat is located tightly against the tubular sleeve of the ball retrieving receptacle.
US09975020B2
A folding golf cart including a chassis, a main rod, a handle, a handle-connected seat body, a front wheel, two rear wheels, and two sets of foldable rear wheel frames. The chassis includes two chassis rods, a front-connected seat body, and a rear-connected seat body. The front ends of the two chassis rods are fixed to the front-connected seat body. The rear ends of the two chassis rods are fixed to the rear-connected seat body. The handle is rotationally connected to the handle-connected seat body. The bottom part of the main rod is hinged to the rear-connected seat body. The two rear wheels are respectively connected to the sides of the rear-connected seat body through the foldable rear wheel frames. The middle part of the front-connected seat body is connected to the front wheel through a front wheel retraction and extension device.
US09975015B2
Provided are a golf club head and a method for producing the golf club head. The golf club head comprises a striking face that in turn comprises a recurrent texture pattern that has a period T and that is defined by a plurality of depressions, each depression having an average depth no greater than 0.10 mm. The striking face also comprises a plurality of scorelines that at least partially intersect the recurrent texture pattern and that have a scoreline pitch Ps such that T/Ps is greater than 1.0, each scoreline having an average depth no less than 0.10 mm.
US09975008B2
In a golf ball having a core and a cover of one or more layers, letting the core diameter be D (mm), the cover thickness be T (mm) and the core and ball deflections when compressed under a final load of 1,275 N (130 kgf) from an initial load state of 98 N (10 kgf) be 5 (mm) and B (mm), the following conditions are satisfied: (1) 30≥D/T≥24, (2) 3.9≥E/T≥3.0, and (3) 1.18≥E/B≥1.09. This golf ball provides an excellent flight performance and a soft feel at impact when used by golfers whose head speed is not very fast, such as senior golfers and women golfers. The ball also has a high durability to cracking on repeated impact.
US09975004B2
A golf ball 2 includes a large number of dimples 10 on a surface thereof. The surface has a northern hemisphere N and a southern hemisphere S. Each of the hemispheres has a high-latitude region 14, a mid-latitude region 18 and a low-latitude region 16. The high-latitude region 14 has a latitude range of 40° or greater but 90° or less. The mid-latitude region 18 has a latitude range of 20° or greater but less than 40°. The low-latitude region 16 has a latitude range of 0° or greater but less than 20°. The number of planes that can divide a dimple pattern of the hemisphere so that divided dimple patterns are mirror symmetry to each other is one. Neither a dimple pattern of the high-latitude region 14 nor a dimple pattern of the low-latitude region 16 is rotationally symmetrical.
US09974993B1
An exercise and flexibility assessing apparatus includes a handle having a flexible member opening and a latch opening formed therein. A shaft support is mounted in the handle. The shaft support has a first wall and a second wall, distal from the first wall. A spool is rotatably mounted between the first wall and the second wall. A flexible member with indicia for assessment has a first end fixedly connected to the spool and a second end extending outwardly from the handle through the flexible member opening. A latch mechanism has an activating portion that extends outwardly of the spool toward the latch opening and a latching portion pivotally engaging the first wall. The latching portion is movable between a first position wherein the spool is rotatable with respect to the handle and a second position wherein the spool is fixed with respect to the handle.
US09974992B2
The present invention relates to a fire-extinguishing composition containing a carboxylic acid derivative. The fire-extinguishing composition releases a great quantity of active fire-extinguishing particles by making use of the heat generated from combustion of a pyrotechnic agent. The fire-extinguishing composition containing a carboxylic acid derivative in the present invention is decomposed at a high temperature to generate free radicals and takes reaction with one or more of O—, OH—, H— free radicals necessary for a chain combustion reaction through the free radicals, so as to cut off the chain combustion reaction and take physical and chemical inhibiting effects to jointly achieve a fire extinguishing effect at the same time. Meanwhile, it takes synergistic interaction effects with the pyrotechnic agent to further raise the fire extinguishing efficiency of the fire extinguishing agent and greatly shorten the effective fire extinguishing time.
US09974985B2
The invention relates to etheramines of formula (I) or formula (II) or a mixture of etheramines of formula (I) and formula (II) based on 1,2-dialcohols, wherein R1 is a linear or branched alkyl group with 2 to 16 carbon atoms, R2 is a hydrogen or an alkyl group with 1 to 16 carbon atoms, x≥1 and y≥1 and the sum of x+y is between 2 and 10, and A1, A2, A3 and A4 are independently selected from the group consisting of linear and/or branched alkylenes having 2 to 18 carbon atoms and wherein Z1-Z4 are independently selected from OH, NH2, NHR′ or NR′R″, wherein at least one of Z1-Z2 and at least one of Z3-Z4 is NH2, NHR′ or NR′R″, wherein R′ and R″ are independently selected from alkylenes having 2 to 6 carbon atoms. The invention further relates to etheramines obtainable by the alkoxylation and amination of 1,2-dialcohols.
US09974984B2
The present invention relates to a composition, especially a cosmetic and/or dermatological composition, containing, in a physiologically acceptable medium, a combination of at least one monosaccharide chosen from mannose, rhamnose and a mixture thereof, and of at least one antioxidant. The present invention also relates to the use of such a composition.
US09974983B2
A device including a focused ultrasound probe, a first balloon, and a second balloon. The first balloon can be located at least partially inside the second balloon. The inner balloon can be configured to act as a fluid interface, a mechanism for cooling, and a mechanism for changing tissue depth of a focal point of the probe. The second balloon can be filed with a thermosensitive hydrogel configured to turn from a fluid at room temperature to a gel at physiologic temperatures. The first and second balloons can be configured to create a fluid interface between the probe and targeted tissue of a patient.
US09974980B2
A radiation therapy medical apparatus is disclosed. The medical apparatus includes a base, a cylindrical gantry peripherally and rotatably supported on the base, a first medical device assembly fixed to a first side of the gantry, a cylinder fixed to a second side of the gantry, the gantry disposed between the first medical device and the cylinder, a drag chain carrier comprising a carrier body surrounding the cylinder and defining an annular track, a drag chain, arranged within the annular track, wherein a first end of the drag chain is fixed to the cylinder and a second end is fixed to the cylindrical carrier body, and a cable supported by the drag chain, wherein a first end of the cable is electrically connected to the first medical device assembly.
US09974979B2
A beam shaping assembly for neutron capture therapy includes a beam inlet, a target having nuclear reaction with an incident proton beam from the beam inlet to produce neutrons forming a neutron beam defining a main axis, a moderator adjoining to the target, a reflector surrounding the moderator, a thermal neutron absorber adjoining to the moderator, a radiation shield arranged inside the beam shaping assembly and a beam outlet. The neutrons are moderated to epithermal neutron energies. An outer surface of the moderator includes at least a first tapered section. The reflector leads the neutrons deviated from the main axis back. The thermal neutron absorber is used for absorbing thermal neutrons so as to avoid overdosing in superficial normal tissue during therapy. The radiation shield is used for shielding leaking neutrons and photons so as to reduce dose of the normal tissue not exposed to irradiation.
US09974975B2
A control circuit identifies (prior to optimizing a radiation-treatment plan) at least one angle (such as one or more gantry angles as correspond to an arc-therapy treatment platform) to provide one or more identified angles. The control circuit then optimizes a radiation-treatment plan with respect to a particular patient target volume by using the identified angle(s) as preferred angles as regards irradiating the patient target volume. Being “preferred,” the radiation-treatment plan is thereby influenced (without being required) towards changing a rate of moving the gantry when traversing the preferred angle(s). For example, the plan can be biased towards slowing down movement of the gantry at such angles to thereby deliver a relatively greater amount of radiation to the patient target volume at the preferred angle.
US09974958B2
A multi-channel neurostimulation system comprises a plurality of electrical terminals configured for being respectively coupled to a plurality of electrodes, stimulation output circuitry including electrical source circuitry of the same polarity configured for generating a plurality of pulsed electrical waveforms in a plurality of timing channels, and control circuitry configured for instructing the stimulation output circuitry to serially couple the electrical source circuitry to different sets of the electrodes when pulses of the respective pulsed electrical waveforms do not temporally overlap each other, and for instructing the stimulation output circuitry to couple the electrical source circuitry to a union of the different electrode sets when pulses of the respective pulsed electrical waveforms temporally overlap each other.
US09974950B2
Implantable medical leads and implantable lead extensions include a shield. The implantable medical lead is coupled to the implantable lead extension. Stimulation electrodes of the implantable medical lead contact stimulation connectors within a housing of the implantable extension to establish a conductive pathway for stimulation signals from filars of the implantable extension to filars of the implantable medical lead. Continuity is established between the shield of the implantable medical lead and the implantable extension by providing a radio frequency conductive pathway within the housing. The radio frequency conductive pathway extends from a shield of the implantable extension to a shield connector that contacts a shield electrode of the implantable medical lead. The radio frequency conductive pathway may have various forms such as a jumper wire or an extension of the shield within the implantable extension.
US09974943B2
Positive displacement using a connector with dual diaphragms is provided. For example, the connector includes a single fluid flow path, an air chamber and a valve. The single fluid flow path is configured for delivering fluid to a person and configured for receiving fluid from a person. The air chamber configured for expelling air from the air chamber when an actuator is inserted into the connector and for receiving air into the chamber when the actuator is removed from the connector. The valve plug comprises two diaphragms that separate the air chamber from the single fluid flow path. The valve plug is configured for creating positive displacement by returning the valve plug to its uncompressed state when the actuator is removed from the connector.
US09974941B2
A system relating to improved medical-connector contamination prevention. More particularly, this invention relates to a reduced-touch contamination system for small-bore fluid connectors, including male and female Luer-type connectors.
US09974928B2
Methods and apparatus for actuating first and second fasteners to secure a medical clamp to a patient. An exemplary fastening device comprises a first rotatable member configured to rotate from an outward position to an inward position to engage the first fastener and a second rotatable member configured to rotate from an outward position to an inward position to engage the second fastener. The first and second rotatable members are mechanically coupled to enable concurrent engagement of the first and second fasteners.
US09974922B2
New medical circuit components and methods for forming such components are disclosed. These components include microstructures for humidification and/or condensate management. The disclosed microstructures can be incorporated into a variety of components, including tubes (e.g., inspiratory breathing tubes and expiratory breathing tubes and other tubing between various elements of a breathing circuit, such as ventilators, humidifiers, filters, water traps, sample lines, connectors, gas analyzers, and the like), Y-connectors, catheter mounts, humidifiers, and patient interfaces (e.g., masks for covering the nose and face, nasal masks, cannulas, nasal pillows, etc.), floats, probes, and sensors in a variety of medical circuits.
US09974919B2
An oxygen delivery device includes an oxygen delivery module configured to deliver a pulse including greater than 100 mL of concentrated oxygen, and a controller configured to control the oxygen delivery module to cause the oxygen delivery module to deliver the pulse including greater than the 100 mL of the concentrated oxygen within approximately first 60% of a patient's inspiratory period. A device includes an oxygen delivery module, a piezoelectric valve coupled to an output of the oxygen delivery module to receive the concentrated oxygen, a driver to electrically actuate the piezoelectric valve, and a controller to control the driver to cause controllable actuation of the piezoelectric valve by the driver to cause controllable opening of the valve to enable oxygen flow to be directed for inhalation by a patient via the piezoelectric valve.
US09974912B2
The invention relates to an artificial airway device (1) to facilitate lung ventilation of a patient, comprising an airway tube (2) and a mask (3) carried at one end of the airway tube, the mask (3) having a distal end (4) and a proximal end (5) and a peripheral formation (6) capable of forming a seal around the circumference of the laryngeal inlet, the peripheral formation (6) surrounding a hollow interior space or lumen (7) of the (mask (3) and the bore of the airway tube (2) opening into the lumen (7) of the mask, the airway tube including support means (44) such that the cross sectional area of the bore is substantially maintained upon application of pressure by the patient's teeth, while allowing local deformation of the tube at the point of tooth contact.
US09974908B2
There is provided a fall detector for detecting falls of a user or an object to which the fall detector is attached, characterized in that the fall detector comprises an air flow sensor for providing measurements indicative of vertical velocity and/or changes in altitude of the fall detector.
US09974905B2
The present invention relates to a dose setting mechanism for a drug delivery device and a method of using same. The mechanism comprises a housing, a mechanism member movable in a first axial direction relative to the housing during dose setting and movable in a second, opposite axial direction relative to the housing during injection, wherein the mechanism member is designed and arranged such that the mechanism member is able to change its condition between a first condition preventing movement in the second axial direction and a second condition allowing movement in the second axial direction, and a switching member forcing the mechanism member to change from its second condition into its first condition at a predefined position of the movement in the first axial direction during dose setting.
US09974903B1
Systems and methods are disclosed that provide smart alerts to users, e.g., alerts to users about diabetic states that are only provided when it makes sense to do so, e.g., when the system can predict or estimate that the user is not already cognitively aware of their current condition, e.g., particularly where the current condition is a diabetic state warranting attention. In this way, the alert or alarm is personalized and made particularly effective for that user. Such systems and methods still alert the user when action is necessary, e.g., a bolus or temporary basal rate change, or provide a response to a missed bolus or a need for correction, but do not alert when action is unnecessary, e.g., if the user is already estimated or predicted to be cognitively aware of the diabetic state warranting attention, or if corrective action was already taken.
US09974901B2
An actuator for an infusion drive mechanism comprises a piston defining a first axis and being movable within a passageway of the infusion drive mechanism to convey at least one infusion medium. The passageway defines a longitudinal axis. An armature is connected to the piston and defines at least one cavity configured for disposal of a biasing member engageable with a surface of the infusion drive mechanism to orient the first axis transverse relative to the longitudinal axis. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
US09974897B2
The invention relates to an arrangement having a blood pump and a gas exchanger for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. According to the invention, the blood pump is designed as a pulsatile blood pump and is arranged with the gas exchanger in the same housing. The pulsatile blood pump and the gas exchanger are preferably connected to the same gas source so that the blood pump can be pneumatically driven. The novel ECMO system has a simple design, is flexible, and in particular can be used directly on the patient.
US09974891B2
A reduced pressure treatment apparatus includes a charging chamber storing a first pressure less than an ambient pressure and a regulated chamber storing a second pressure less than the ambient pressure. The first pressure is less than the second pressure. A conduit provides fluid communication between the regulated chamber and the charging chamber. A regulator member is operably associated with the conduit to prevent fluid communication through the conduit when the second pressure is less than or equal to a desired therapy pressure and to allow fluid communication through the conduit when the second pressure exceeds the desired therapy pressure.
US09974890B2
A portable system for subatmospheric pressure therapy in connection with healing a surgical wound, including a wound dressing dimensioned for positioning relative to a wound bed of a subject and a subatmospheric pressure mechanism dimensioned to be carried or worn by the subject. The subatmospheric pressure mechanism includes a housing having a control unit adapted to draw a vacuum and a canister associated with the housing. The canister has a collection bag disposed therein, which is in fluid communication with the wound dressing to receive exudates from the wound bed. The collection bag is adapted to expand upon receipt of the fluids and has means to release gas from within the collection bag in connection with operation of the control unit. With this arrangement, the canister is attitude independent, i.e., the canister may be positioned on edge, on its side or on its end etc. while still maintaining operation of the control unit. The collection bag may include a hydrophobic vent or material for releasing the gases. In another embodiment, the collection bag comprises a gas permeable material. The collection bag may include one of pleats or bellows.
US09974884B2
Provided is a bone regeneration agent comprising an inactivated cell construct derived from stem cells as a source material, the inactivated cell construct at least containing a mineral and an extracellular matrix. The bone regeneration agent has osteoconductive and osteoinductive abilities, and is inexpensively producible and size-controllable. Also provided is a method comprising the steps of:(1) inducing differentiation of stem cells into mineral-producing cells in agitated culture under the condition of 0.01 to 1.00 Hz to give a cell aggregate at least containing a mineral and an extracellular matrix, or(1′) inducing differentiation of stem cells genetically engineered to overexpress a protein associated with bone formation into mineral-producing cells in agitated or static culture, to give a cell aggregate at least containing a mineral and an extracellular matrix, and (2) inactivating the cell aggregate obtained in the preceding step. The method enables easy production of the above-mentioned bone regeneration agent.
US09974873B2
A germicidal system for use in disinfecting a human interface device includes at least one human interface device. One or more ultra-violet (UV) light sources are used in proximity to the at least one human interface device for disinfecting a touch surface of the human interface device below a surgical grade sterilization. A memory for storing usage data of the at least one UV light source. At least one server is used for providing a central storage location for usage data supplied from the memory and a computer is used in communication with the at least one server for controlling the operational parameters of the at least one UV light source.
US09974871B1
According to one implementation an assembly is provided that includes an optical fiber having a length and an infusion shaft having a lumen in which at least a first portion of the length of the optical fiber resides. A hub that is connected to the infusion shaft has a channel that houses at least a second portion of the length of the optical fiber. T second portion of the length of the optical fiber is not held taut along at least a portion of the length of the channel.
US09974870B2
The present invention encompasses compositions comprising two spectrally distinct radionuclides separated by a site susceptible to cleavage. Compositions of the invention may be used to detect enzyme activity and/or image diseases associated with said enzyme activity.
US09974861B2
The present invention relates to formulation precursors (pre-formulations) for the in situ generation of compositions for the controlled release of the salts of peptide active agents, including somatostatin analogues. The invention also relates to pre-formulations of amphiphilic components and at least one salt of a peptide active agent (e.g., somatostatin analogue) for parenteral application.
US09974860B2
An aqueous solution formulation containing Compound (I) can be manufactured by performing a first step of preparing a dissolution liquid obtained by dissolving a compound represented by Formula (I) below or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof and a compound represented by any of General Formulas (II) to (IV) below in an organic solvent, a second step of removing the organic solvent from the dissolution liquid, and a third step of adding a solution to residual substances obtained through the second step to dissolve the residual substances.
US09974855B2
The present disclosure relates to anti-CD40 antibodies, such as humanized anti-CD40 antibodies, that may be used in various therapeutic, prophylactic and diagnostic methods. The antibodies generally block the ability of CD40 to bind CD154 and do so without activating the cell expressing CD40 (e.g., a B cell). The present antibodies or fragments thereof may be used to reduce complications associated with organ or tissue transplantation.
US09974838B2
Intestinal absorption is enhanced in short bowel syndrome patients presenting with colon-in-continuity by treatment with a GLP-2 receptor agonist, such as teduglutide.
US09974826B2
The present disclosure is directed to gender, age, and dose effects of desmopressin on reducing nocturnal voids, increasing an initial period of undisturbed sleep, and/or reducing nocturnal urine volume.
US09974814B2
A method to provide an inflated decellularized extracellular matrix of a mammalian organ or a vascularized portion thereof, or a mammalian vascularized tissue or a vascularized portion thereof, an inflated decellularized extracellular matrix of a mammalian organ or a vascularized portion thereof, or a mammalian vascularized tissue or a vascularized portion thereof, and uses thereof, are provided.
US09974813B1
A therapeutic serum suitable for inclusion in a cosmetic preparation may be produced by stressing a co-culture including proliferative cells. The co-culture of cells may be obtained by first establishing a monolayer of cells on a surface. After a monolayer of first culture is established, a second culture comprising more resilient and/or aggressive cells may be over-seeded on the monolayer and established. Additional cultures comprising increasingly dominant cells may then be over-seeded and established until a monolayer having the desired population of cells is obtained. The monolayer is then stressed to obtain a serum by conditioning a collection medium. The obtained serum may be combined with a suitable cosmetic base to provide a cosmetic preparation.
US09974811B2
The invention provides isolated stem cells of non-embryonic origin that can be maintained in culture in the undifferentiated state or differentiated to form cells of multiple tissue types. Also provided are methods of isolation and culture, as well as therapeutic uses for the isolated cells.
US09974807B2
Methods and compositions are provided for combined transplantation of a solid organ and hematopoietic cells to a recipient, where tolerance to the graft is established through development of a persistent mixed chimerism. An individual with persistent mixed chimerism, usually for a period of at least six months, is able to withdraw from the use of immunosuppressive drugs after a period of time sufficient to establish tolerance.
US09974805B2
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition in the form of pourable granules or a chewable tablet containing at least one phosphate binding substance and at least one effervescent agent. The composition may be taken orally without adding water.
US09974799B2
This invention provides compositions, methods and process of producing extracts from Xanthoceras sorbifolia. The extract comprises alkaloids, coumarins, saccharides, proteins, polysaccharides, glycosides, saponins, tannins, acid, flavonoids and others. The composition can be used for treating cancer, arthritis, rheumatism, poor circulation, arteriosclerosis, Raynaud's syndrome, angina pectoris, cardiac disorder, coronary heart disease, headache, dizziness, kidney disorder, impotence and premature ejaculation; for preventing cerebral aging; for improving memory, cerebral functions; or for curing enuresis, frequent micturition, urinary incontinence, dementia, weak intelligence and Alzheimer's disease, autism, brain trauma, Parkinson's disease or other diseases caused by cerebral dysfunctions, and treating arthritis, rheumatism, poor circulation, arteriosclerosis, Raynaud's syndrome, angina pectoris, cardiac disorder, coronary heart disease, headache, dizziness, kidney disorder. This invention provides compounds comprising at least one sugar, a triterpene, such as Sapogenin, and at least one side chains at Carbon 21 and 22, such as Angeloyl groups. The compounds of the present have various pharmaceutical and therapeutic applications.
US09974798B2
In one embodiment, the present application discloses methods of treating diseases and disorders with sulfasalazine and pharmaceutical formulations of sulfasalazine where the bioavailability of the sulfasalazine is increased. In another embodiment, the present application also provides dosing regimens for treating neurodegenerative diseases and disorders with compositions comprising sulfasalazine.
US09974796B2
Disclosed are inhibitors of the plasmodial surface anion channel (PSAC) inhibitors and the use thereof in treating or preventing malaria in an animal such as a human, comprising administering an effective amount of an inhibitor or a combination of inhibitors. An example of such an inhibitor is a compound of formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 to R7 are as described herein.
US09974791B2
The present invention is related to pyrazolo pyridine derivatives of Formula (I), pharmaceutical composition thereof and to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of disorders or conditions related to Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (NADPH Oxidase).
US09974789B2
Substituted pyrazolopyrimidines and dihydropyrazolopyrimidines and related compounds, their methods of manufacture, compositions containing these compounds, and methods of use of these compounds in treating lysosomal storage disorders such as Gaucher disease are described herein. The compounds are of general Formula (I) in which variables R1-R7 and X are described in the application.
US09974785B2
Provided herein are aromatic heterocyclic derivatives or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, an N-oxide, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof used for treating Alzheimer's disease. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and use of such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions thereof for managing or treating 5-HT6 receptor-mediated diseases, especially in the manufacture of a medicament for managing or treating Alzheimer's disease.
US09974782B2
The invention provides for compounds that are phosphodiesterase inhibitors. The invention further provides for a method for screening compounds that bind to and modulate a phosphosdiesterase protein. The invention also provides methods for treating conditions associated with accumulated amyloid-beta peptide deposit accumulations by administering a phosphodiesterase-binding compound to a subject.
US09974779B2
The present disclosure is directed to antiviral compounds directed against the papilloma virus, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to their preparation method and synthesis intermediates, as well as to their use for treating or preventing an infection by the papilloma virus. The present method thus provides an efficient way of treating patients that have lesions associated with an infection by the papilloma virus.
US09974777B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a drug having the inhibitory activity on ENPP2 which is a different target from that of the existing drug, as a medicament useful in a urinary excretion disorder patient for whom the existing drug has the insufficient effect.The present invention provides a compound represented by the general formula (I): (wherein definition of each group is as defined in the description) having the ENPP2 inhibitory activity, a salt thereof or a solvate thereof or a prodrug thereof, and an agent for preventing or treating urinary excretion disorder and/or improving symptoms thereof, containing them as an active ingredient.
US09974767B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for treating neuromuscular diseases including, but not limited to muscular dystrophies. It is demonstrated herein that statin drugs are therapeutic for neuromuscular disease, including, but not limited to muscular dystrophies.
US09974751B2
A pharmaceutical composition may include a granulate which may include at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient susceptible to abuse by an individual mixed with at least two materials, a first material that is substantially water insoluble and at least partially alcohol soluble and a second material that is substantially alcohol insoluble and at least partially water soluble, wherein the active pharmaceutical ingredient and the two materials are granulated in the presence of water and alcohol. The composition may also include a coating on the granulate exhibiting crush resistance which may have a material that is deposited on the granulate using an alcohol based solvent. The composition further comprises a second particle comprising a fat/wax. The present invention also includes a coated granulate, various dosage forms of the composition, as well as methods of production and tableting.
US09974750B1
Synthesis of ifflaionic acid nanoparticles includes dissolving a powder of ifflaionic acid in an alcohol solution to form a first solution, adding the first solution to an aqueous solution under ultrasonic conditions to produce a sonicated solution, stirring the sonicated solution for a duration of time to produce a mixture, and freeze-drying the mixture to provide the ifflaionic acid nanoparticles.
US09974743B2
The disclosure relates to an improved method of enhancing nicotine concentrations in a gaseous carrier. The methods are adaptable to the delivery of nicotine for therapeutic effect in various diseases, in particular nicotine for tobacco product use cessation, substitution and/or harm reduction. The disclosure further relates various devices and device design principles for practicing these methods.
US09974736B2
The invention relates to an oily composition of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAIA) for parenteral administration with at least one micronized NSAIA, having an acid function and a biocompatible oily vehicle, such that said NSAIA is in the form of a free acid and said composition does not contain any added liquid agent that can solubilize said NSAIA. The invention also relates to the veterinary use thereof.
US09974731B2
A method for producing a functional lubricant includes mixing particulate sodium polyacrylate alone with water, adding a particulate carbonate which is any one or more of sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, and calcium carbonate and a particulate carboxylic acid which is any one or more of citric acid, lactic acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, succinic acid, fumaric acid, and maleic acid to the water containing the sodium polyacrylate to produce carbon dioxide, and allowing the sodium polyacrylate to disperse without stirring the water to produce a functional lubricant containing the sodium polyacrylate serving as a sole lubricant base. The weight ratio of the sodium polyacrylate to the carbonate and to the carboxylic acid is from 5:1:1 to 8:1:1.
US09974729B2
The present invention relates generally to methods and compositions useful for application to skin and hair comprising saccharide isomerate, hydrolyzed algin, zinc sulfate, and a dermatologically acceptable vehicle, wherein the composition is capable of moisturizing and/or improving the appearance and/or condition of skin and/or hair.
US09974722B2
Provided are oral care compositions comprising one or more polyol solvents having a total Hansen Solubility Parameter (HSP) of from about 23 to 28, one or more non-anionic bioactive agents, and an aqueous phase, wherein the oral care composition is essentially free of alkyl sulfate surfactants, as well as method of using such compositions in the oral cavity.
US09974715B2
A shield for a pacifier, teether, feeding device, sippy cup or the like. The shield carries a structure that is adapted to be inserted into the mouth of a young child. There is a body defining an opening at which the structure is carried and an inner surface surrounding this opening and encompassing the perioral areas surrounding the lips. The body defines a superior portion superior to the opening and an inferior portion inferior to the opening, and defines a lateral axis passing laterally through the opening. The superior portion is generally concave laterally on both sides of the vertical midline, to define an inner surface that closely conforms to the upper lip and perioral areas. At least the part of the inferior portion close to and on either side of the vertical midline is offset outward away from the face compared to the inner surface of the superior portion that is close to and on either side of the vertical midline, to allow the mandible to move anteriorly without being inhibited by the shield.
US09974710B2
The present invention relates to a method for increasing leakage resistance in a closed, pressurized system. The method involves providing a closed system including a container sealed with a septum having a top surface with an exposed section, which is maintained under a positive pressure of at least about 5 psig. A contact surface of a hard component is fixedly placed adjacent to or in contact with at least a portion of a border section or a central section of the exposed section of the septum, or both, to reduce the size of any bulge or deformation formed in the exposed section of the septum. The present invention also relates to a kit for increasing leakage resistance in a closed, pressurized system, which includes the hard component.
US09974701B1
An emergency drag stretcher is disclosed that combines a base panel formed of a flexible sheet material and a harness including an inflatable bladder. The harness securely restrains an individual, allowing for drag or vertical lift rescue.
US09974699B2
Absorbent cores for disposable absorbent articles are provided. The absorbent cores each comprise at least two absorbent structures comprising a substrate layer and an absorbent layer, of which one absorbent structure comprises channels and one is free of channels.
US09974691B2
A laser apparatus is controlled by a control program that operates to use laser radiation to generate an incision figure in the cornea of an eye, the incision figure including an incision that bounds a corneal tissue volume. The control program operates to move the radiation focus in a radiation propagation direction successively in a plurality of superposed planes such that the radiation focus is moved without motion control in the propagation direction. The control program provides, for each plane, for a meandering scan path of the radiation focus that extends outside the tissue volume. The control program operates to allow through to the eye, in each plane, at least such radiation pulses that generate the first incision and to blank, in at least a fraction of the planes, at least a fraction of radiation pulses assigned to regions of the path that are at a distance from the incision.
US09974683B2
An implant for treating obstructive sleep apnea includes a first chamber containing an incompressible fluid, a second chamber containing a compressible fluid, and a flexible diaphragm separating the first and second chambers. The incompressible fluid is in communication with the compressible fluid via the flexible diaphragm. The first chamber has a first volume that remains constant in response to an external force applied upon the implant and the second chamber has a second volume that is changeable when the external force is applied upon the implant. The flexible diaphragm is extendible into the second chamber for reducing the second volume of the second chamber and compressing the compressible fluid within the second chamber. The compressible fluid within the second chamber provides less resistance to flexing during initial flexing of the implant and more resistance to flexing during further flexing of the implant.
US09974681B2
There are provided orthopedic devices suitable for the treatment of degenerative joint disease of the metatarsal phalangeal joints, in particular for the treatment of capsulitis. These orthopedic devices have a base portion designed to be placed under the foot only in the metatarsal area. A digit loop surrounding a toe is used to hold the base portion in the proper location. In one embodiment the digit loop is molded to or is an actual part of the base. The loop is preferably made of a gel material and provides cushioning in the toe because the gel dissipates the pressure. In another embodiment the digit loop is a detachable, adjustable loop. The device includes a raised cushioning pad of appropriate height and size affixed to the upper side of the base and resting against the foot when in use. The orthopedic device is preferably made entirely from a low-profile, viscoelastic gel.
US09974679B2
Stent delivery systems and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. An example stent delivery system may include an inner member having a proximal end. A sleeve may be coupled to the inner member adjacent to the proximal end. A deployment sheath may be disposed about the inner member. A gear rack assembly may be coupled to the deployment sheath. A stent may be disposed between the inner member and the deployment sheath. A handle may be coupled to the inner member and to the deployment sheath. The handle may include an actuation member. The actuation member may be coupled to the gear rack assembly so that actuation of the actuation to member shifts the longitudinal position of the gear rack assembly and the deployment sheath. An engagement mechanism may be coupled to the gear rack assembly. The engagement mechanism may be configured to engage the sleeve of the inner member so that proximal retraction of the gear rack assembly results in proximal retraction of the inner shaft.
US09974678B2
A stent delivery system includes a wire collection device which is constructed with a thumbwheel coupled to a collection spindle that is rotatable to collect a retraction wire about a varying collection diameter of the collection spindle. A proximal end of an outer stent-constraining sheath is coupled to the collection spindle by the retraction wire and a distal end of the outer sheath retractably surrounds a distally-disposed self-expanding stent. The collection spindle includes a substantially constant outer diameter greater than the varying collection diameter, and the varying collection diameter increases from a first end of the spindle towards a second end of the spindle along a spiral groove formed between the varying collection diameter and the substantially constant outer diameter in a manner that provides substantially constant rotating force on the thumbwheel, thereby accommodating changing resistance as the outer sheath is retracted and releases binding force of the stent.
US09974676B2
A stent delivery system includes a wire collection device which is constructed with a thumbwheel coupled to a collection spindle that is rotatable to collect a retraction wire about the collection spindle. A proximal end of an outer stent-constraining sheath is coupled to the collection spindle by the retraction wire and a distal end of the outer sheath retractably surrounds a distally-disposed self-expanding stent. The wire collection device includes a first set of gears at a higher gear ratio and a second set of gears at a lower gear ratio. Stent deployment speed may be controlled or varied by switching or alternating between engaging the first of gears and the second set of gears, thereby accommodating changing resistance as the outer sheath is retracted and releases binding force of the stent.
US09974670B2
A tack device for holding plaque against blood vessel walls in treating atherosclerotic occlusive disease can be formed as a thin, annular band of durable, flexible material. The tack device may also have a plurality of barbs or anchoring points on its outer annular periphery. The annular band can have a length in the axial direction of the blood vessel walls that is about equal to or less than its diameter as installed in the blood vessel. A preferred method is to perform angioplasty with a drug eluting balloon as a first step, and if there is any dissection to the blood vessel caused by the balloon angioplasty, one or more tack devices may be installed to tack down the dissected area of the blood vessel surface, in order to avoid the need to install a stent and thereby maintain a ‘stent-free’ environment.
US09974665B2
A bone fusion device provides stability to bones during a bone fusion period. The bones include, for example, the vertebrae of a spinal column. The bone fusion device comprises one or more extendable tabs attached to the bone fusion device by associated rotating means. The bone fusion device is preferably inserted by using an arthroscopic surgical procedure. During arthroscopic insertion of the device, the tabs are pre-configured for compactness. In this compact configuration, the tabs are preferably deposed along and/or within an exterior surface of the bone fusion device. After the bone fusion device has been positioned between the bones, one or more tab(s) are extended. In the preferred embodiment, the position of each tab is related to a positioning element and extending blocks. Typically, the tabs advantageously position and brace the bone fusion device in the confined space between the bones until the bones have fused.
US09974663B2
A spinal implant has a first member defining a longitudinal axis. A second member includes an axial cavity configured for disposal of the first member. A third member is rotatable relative to the first member and defines a transverse cavity. A locking element is disposable in the transverse cavity and engageable with the first member to fix the third member relative to the first member. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
US09974659B2
The present invention relates to an expandable prosthetic implant device for engagement between vertebrae generally comprising an inner member, outer member, and gear member positioned coaxial with respect to each other such that the inner and outer members are moveable relative to each other along an axis. The gear member is axially fixed to the outer member and freely rotatable with respect to the outer member and the gear member threadedly engages a threaded portion of the inner member to translate inner member along the axis. The implant is configured to engage the vertebrae in a predetermined alignment and the gear member includes gear teeth exposed to the exterior and configured to be accessible by a tool member at a plurality of angular positions around the perimeter of the implant device.
US09974655B1
Embodiments of the invention include a disc or vertebral defect packing tape for use in disc fusion, disc regeneration or for the creation of artificial disks. The tape comprises a tape body and one or more support members. Each of the support members is contained within the tape body and/or adhered to an external surface of the tape or tape body. The tape body is configured as a packing material and each of the support members is configured to hold the tape body together.
US09974646B2
A keratoprosthesis and system and method of using same for corneal repair. The keratoprosthesis comprises a biocompatible support and an optic member disposed through a channel within the support. The support includes metal, preferably titanium, and treated, such as by sandblasting and/or acid etching, to create textured surfaces that promote soft tissue adhesion. A locking member interconnects the optic member and support. An outer surface of the locking member a collar extending from the support and disposed around the optic member is also metal, preferably titanium, and is similarly treated to promote soft tissue adhesion. A locking member interconnects the optic member and support. The system includes the keratoprosthesis positioned within an isolated soft tissue segment of a non-ocular tissue, such as buccal mucosa, placed on the anterior cornea. The method includes removing corneal epithelium, isolating and transplanting a segment of soft tissue to the de-epithelialized cornea, creating a receiving area in the soft tissue, positioning a keratoprosthesis relative to the receiving area anterior to the cornea, and securing the keratoprosthesis.
US09974644B2
A method is disclosed for preparing a soft tissue site, and augmenting the soft tissue site, such as the breast(s), scar, depression, or other defect, of a subject through use of devices that exert a distractive force on the breast(s) and grafting of autologous fat tissue such as domes with sealing rims for surrounding each of the soft tissue site and a regulated pump. The method for preparing the soft tissue site, and enhancing fat graft results, entails application of the distracting force to the targeted soft tissue site at least intermittently for some period of time and preferably several weeks prior to the graft procedure. A related aspect of the invention includes following the preparation steps by transfer of fat from other areas of the subject to the subject's soft tissue site, and then reapplication of the distractive force to the soft tissue site that received the autologous fat graft. Alternatively, fat from genetically related sources may be used, and the fat may be further processed prior to injection. Substantial soft tissue augmentation, high rates of graft survival and negligible graft necrosis (data demonstrating 80% survival and only 20% necrosis is presented) or calcification result from the practice of these methods.
US09974643B2
A device having one or more adjustable loops or coils associated with an implant body for use in soft tissue reconstructions is provided. One exemplary embodiment of a device includes a body and a suture filament, with the filament being used to form a self-locking sliding knot disposed on a top side of the body and a plurality of adjustable coils that are substantially disposed on the body's bottom side. Terminal ends of the filament located above the body's top side can be passed through an opening of a Lark's Head knot from opposite sides, thus forming a self-locking sliding knot, and then the terminal ends can be tensioned to adjust a circumference of the coils. Changing a coil's circumference changes a location of a ligament graft disposed on the coil. Other configurations of devices and systems, as well as methods for performing ACL repairs, are also provided.
US09974640B2
A unitary or homogeneous patterned implant is provided. The implant is constructed of patterned cells formed by way of a molding, die casting, laser etching, laser cutting, extruding, and the like. Portions of the implant can be formed into sinusoid or other waveform strut members. One or more undulating anchor arms or rods extend out from the implant for tissue fixation, with the one or more undulating anchor arms including one or more arcuate bends.
US09974636B2
Described are pelvic implants and methods of surgically placing pelvic implants, the implants optionally including the ability to engage a spreader tool for spreading the implant within the patient, also optionally including a stiffening frame (306), exemplary implants being capable of being used to treat pelvic floor disorders, for example by supporting of levator tissue.
US09974635B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for intra-vaginal bowel control.
US09974624B2
A prophylactic kit apparatus configured to be used with only a single patient includes a plurality of sealed modules and a housing configured to contain those sealed modules such that only one of the plurality of sealed modules can be removed from the housing at a time. This kit may include a physically-discrete informational patient aid disposed within the housing and having information disposed thereon. By one approach these physically-discrete informational patient aids can have a bookmark form factor. So configured, a medical services provider can readily provide the physically-discrete informational patient aid to a patient to thereby facilitate the patient becoming informed regarding the corresponding prophylactic service with little or no burden on the service provider.
US09974623B2
A method for mounting a sheath onto the distal end of a surgical shaft instrument, in particular the tool tip of a dilation instrument. The method makes handling easy and allows the sheath to be fastened on the instrument in a rapid manner sparing of material, characterized by these steps: a) fastening the sheath on an apparatus for mounting a sheath onto the distal end of a surgical shaft instrument; b) radially widening at least the proximal end of the sheath and inserting the distal end of the surgical shaft instrument into the widened sheath c) transferring the sheath from the apparatus to the distal end of the surgical shaft instrument; and d) removing the distal end of the surgical shaft instrument from the apparatus. The invention also relates to an apparatus to perform this method.
US09974621B2
The object of the invention is to automatically adjust the angle of an end effector to improve on the operability of medical treatment tools.The medical system of the invention comprises a slave medical treatment tool to be controlled and including a moving joint for adjusting the angle of a first end effector relative to a first shaft; a master medical instrument serving as a master control instrument and including a second end effector located at a distal end of a second shaft; a sensor that produces a sensor signal including at least an angle of the second end effector; and a controller that enables follow-up processing for driving a driver such that the angle of the first end effector follows a follow-up criterion set on the basis of a sensor signal produced out of the sensor.
US09974618B2
The present invention pertains to a method for image-assisted navigation, wherein an imaging specification for imaging a point in a three-dimensional system of coordinates in a point in a two-dimensional system of coordinates is determined, wherein a location of the imaging device is detected, and wherein the location of the imaging device is displayed in the two-dimensional reference image (RB).
US09974607B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for treating diseased tissue by gentle heating. The method induces vasodilation on tissue disposed about an lumen having both healthy tissue and diseased tissue. The method includes coupling a probe surface to the luminal tissue at a target location and transmitting desired quantities of tissue remodeling energy from the coupled probe into each of a plurality of discrete remodeling zones in the luminal tissue so that the tissue remodeling energy heats the plurality of remodeling zones, the remodeling energy being configured to avoid muscular contraction and inhibit both acute and long-term occlusion of the lumen.
US09974602B2
An assembly tool for facilitating assembly of a surgical instrument includes a handle, a neck extending from the handle, and a portion of or an entire pivot pin engaged with the neck via a frangible connection. The pivot pin is engagable with the surgical instrument. The frangible connection is configured to break upon application of stress thereto above a threshold, thereby separating the pivot pin (or portion thereof) from the neck. A method of assembling using such an assembly tool includes positioning a component of a surgical instrument for receipt of a pivot pin, manipulating the assembly tool to operably engage the pivot pin with the component, and manipulating the assembly tool to apply stress to the frangible connection to break-off the pivot pin (or portion thereof) from the assembly tool along the frangible connection.
US09974601B2
The present disclosure is directed to a forceps having an end effector assembly including first and second jaw members. At least one of the jaw members is movable relative to the other between a spaced-apart position and an approximated position for grasping tissue therebetween. Each jaw member includes an electrically-conductive tissue-contacting surface adapted to connect to a source of energy to treat tissue grasped between the jaw members. A suction system is disposed proximate the first and second jaw members and is configured to apply suction to a surgical site upon activation thereof.
US09974597B2
A medical device including an elongate member having a proximal end configured to be electrically coupled to an energy source, and a distal member disposed at a distal end of the elongate member. The distal member may include a plurality of contact elements configured to deliver stimulating energy to innervated tissue, detect a response from the innervated tissue to the stimulating energy, and deliver therapeutic energy to the innervated tissue based on the response from the innervated tissue.
US09974586B2
Radiolucent composite implants. Some embodiments include reconfiguration indicators. Some embodiments include radio-opaque markers, especially along contours. Some embodiments are provided in kit form with accessories such as radiolucent drill guides and/or drives. Some embodiments have fiber reinforcement adapted for various usage scenarios. Some embodiments include metal components, for example, to increase strength. Also described are manufacturing methods.
US09974584B2
A bone plate for fixation to a phalanx includes a head extending from a first end to a second end and having first and second fixation element holes extending therethrough, a connection portion extending from the second end of the head to a third end along the central longitudinal axis, the connection portion including an oblong hole elongated in a direction parallel to the central longitudinal axis, and a shaft extending from the third end of the connection portion to a fourth end along the central longitudinal axis. The shaft includes third and fourth fixation element holes extending along the central longitudinal axis. The shaft includes a plurality of first projections and a plurality of second projections. The first and second projections include corresponding projection fixation element holes extending therethrough and being connected to the shaft. The first and second projections are alternatingly provided on the shaft.
US09974580B2
An intramedullary fixation device used in bone fixation and stabilization on a patient includes a longitudinally extending rigid body and a distal head disposed at a distal end of the body. The distal head includes a central core portion and a plurality of extending distal wings radially projecting from the central core portion, wherein the radially projecting distal wings are spaced asymmetrically about the central core portion. A proximal head at a proximal end of the body and sized for insertion into an intramedullary canal of a phalanx of the patient. The proximal head includes a central core portion and a plurality of proximal wings extending radially outwardly from the central core portion.
US09974579B2
An intramedullary distraction device is provided. The device includes a first taper stem, a second taper stem, a first coupler and a second coupler. The first coupler includes a top end and a bottom end. The first taper stem is secured to the top end of the first coupler. The bottom end of the first coupler forms an inner sidewall. The second coupler includes a bottom end and a top end. The second taper stem is secured to the bottom end of the second coupler. The top end of the second coupler includes an inner sidewall that mates with the inner sidewall of the first coupler. A connector releasably connects the first coupler to the second coupler.
US09974574B2
Disclosed is a cervical plate having a polyester staple fiber laminated within a polycarbonate urethane. The polyurethane provides a flexible, high resilience structure with a Dacron® material providing a flexible skeleton. The result is a cervical plate that is flexible but provides the necessary rigidity. An inflatable balloon can be used to mimic the properties of the natural disc by maintaining the intervertebral disc space through a full range of natural motion.
US09974573B2
The present disclosure presents novel methods, procedures associated steps, and apparatuses to accomplish SI joint fusion in a minimally invasive manner. The preferred embodiment of the invention incorporates improved methods, procedures and apparatuses to facilitate a SI joint fusion providing a generally safer, more minimally invasive SI joint stabilization. In the method associated with the preferred embodiment of the invention, in one aspect, a path or a plurality of paths through an ilium to the sacrum is established, wherein a stabilizer device allows the securement of the sacrum to the ilium. In another aspect, a path or a plurality of paths to the SI joint is established, where bone fusion material allows fusion of the articular surface of the ilium and the articular surface of the sacrum of an SI joint.
US09974570B2
A transverse connector system having a first and a second locking element. The present invention also provides transverse rod having opposing first and second ends, the first end being retained within a portion of the first locking element and the second end being retained within a portion of the second locking element. The first locking element is configured with a connector body for engaging and capturing an elongated rod and a transverse rod simultaneously.
US09974568B2
Articulated device (1) for the wrist comprising: a proximal connector (2) for housing a proximal attachment system for pins; —a distal connector (3) for housing a distal attachment system for pins; an articulator joint (4) to provide a controlled movement between the proximal connector (2) and the distal connector (3), characterized in that said articulator joint (3) comprises an arched element (5) that is rotatably mounted on a support element (6) in order to enable rotation around an axis of rotation (X) corresponding to the axis of rotation by flexion and extension of the wrist, said arched element (5) being directly connected to the distal connector (3), blocking means (51) to block the rotation of the arched element (5) and rotation-limiting means (53) to limit the rotation of the arched element (5) for a pre-established portion of a circumferential arc are both directly mounted on said support element (6), and in that said support element (6) is mounted by means of a simple cardan joint (40) on the proximal connector (2), said simple cardan joint (40) presenting a first axis of rotation (Z) that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation (X) of the arched element and a second axis of rotation (Y) that is perpendicular to the first axis of rotation (Z) and movable with respect to the axis of rotation (X) of the arched element along a circumferential arc whose center is located on the first axis of rotation (Z).
US09974567B2
A general uterine manipulator 10 incorporates an elongated hollow tube 12 defining an internal passage 14. Tube 12 has opposite first and second ends 16 and 18, formed with internal threads T1 and T2; and a smooth continuous outer surface 20 of constant outer diameter. A first fitting comprising a tail screw 22 is screwed into thread T1 and a second fitting cervical screw 24 is screwed in thread T2. An inner manipulator rod 26 extends through the first fitting 22, tube 12, and second fitting 24. A range of alternate first and second fitting is provided. A forceps holder 70 is attachable to the tube 12 between ends 16 and 18. The manipulator 10 may also support a cervical funnel 90 and a plug 92.
US09974558B2
A surgical cutting instrument comprises an outer tubular member having a proximal section, an intermediate section and a central lumen. An inner tubular member is rotatably received within the central lumen and includes a distal end forming a cutting member extending distally beyond, and exposed relative to, the distal section of the outer tubular member. A bearing assembly is coupled to the outer tubular member and the inner tubular member.
US09974555B2
A surgical instrument includes a pair of jaw members moveable between a spaced-apart and an approximated position. A drive bar is translatable between a distal and a proximal position for moving the jaw members between the spaced-apart and approximated positions. A lever is moveable between an initial position and an actuated position for translating the drive bar between the distal and proximal positions. A sleeve disposed about the drive bar includes an annular track having a substantially radial segment(s) and a substantially longitudinal segment(s). A collar interdisposed between the sleeve and the drive bar includes a stop member(s) extending radially outwardly therefrom. The stop member(s) is engaged within the track and is translatable from a first position, wherein the stop member is positioned within the longitudinal segment, to a second position, wherein the stop member is engaged within the radial segment, to lock the lever in the actuated position.
US09974553B2
A medical device including an energy generator, a proximal end, and a distal end. The proximal end may include a handle and one or more connectors coupled to the energy generator. The distal end may include a number of movable branch members connected to one or more movable filaments at the distal end to form at least one expandable snare. At least one of the one or more movable filaments may be coupled to the one or more connectors to transfer energy to the at least one of the one or more movable filaments. A portion of the at least one of the one or more movable filaments forming the at least one expandable snare may be insulated.
US09974549B2
One embodiment disclosed provides a guide instrument for controlling the depth and trajectory of a surgical access device into a bone.
US09974547B2
Disclosed is a femoral resection guide for measuring and guiding resection of anterior portion and posterior portion of a femur and method thereof. The femoral resection guide comprises a front block, a rear block, a reference gauge means and a locking means. A main scale marked portion is provided corresponding to the front scale member and the rear scale member in order to obtain a size of a patient's femur. The front block and the rear block are respectively provided with a resection guide surface for guiding a cutting tool to cut the femur. Moreover, the positions of the front resection guide surface and the rear resection guide surface in relation to the distal section of the femur can be adjusted, so that the problem of over or insufficient resection can be avoided, and the purchase cost and the storage space of the femoral resection instruments can be significantly reduced.
US09974544B2
An occluding device for occlusion of fluid flow through a lumen of a body vessel manufactured by wedging fibers between adjacent coil windings of a primary coil so that the fibers extend generally radially across the primary coil body between the primary coil windings and outward therefrom. An elongated adhesive is inserted applicator into the primary coil lumen and subsequently proximally withdrawn while simultaneously depositing along the primary coil windings. The fibers and the adhesive are placed in overlapping locations so that the fibers extend through the adhesive. The fibers are thus blocked from slipping along their length relative to the coil body by the adhesive adhering to the fibers inside the primary coil lumen. The adhesive extends radially outward from the coil lumen no farther than the outer primary coil radius. The adhesive adheres to the fibers and may or may not adhere with the primary coil windings.
US09974542B2
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a housing, an end effector, fasteners, and one or more surgical buttresses. The end effector is secured to the housing and has first and second jaw assemblies. The first jaw assembly defines slots and the second jaw assembly defines pockets. One or both of the first and second jaw assemblies define recesses. The fasteners are disposed in the slots of the first jaw assembly and are formed by the pockets of the second jaw assembly. The one or more surgical buttresses have a body that includes plugs that are integrally formed with the body for insertion into the recesses to secure the surgical buttress(es) to one or both of the first and second jaw assemblies. The body substantially overlies at least some of the slots of the first jaw assembly and/or at least some of the pockets of the second jaw assembly.
US09974538B2
A staple cartridge that comprises a cartridge body, wherein a plurality of staple cavities are defined in the cartridge body is disclosed. The staple cartridge further comprises a plurality of staples removably positioned in the staple cavities and a compressible layer releasably positioned adjacent to the cartridge body. The compressible layer comprises a plurality of compression springs.
US09974537B2
Surgical repair systems and techniques for plantar plate repairs. The surgical repair systems and methods reconstruct the plantar plate through a dorsal incision. The surgical repair system embodies a variety of instruments that provide visualization and access to the plantar plate using suture to complete the repair. The repair system may include some or all of the following instruments: a metatarsal head pusher employed in open surgical space, to move the “capital fragment” in a controlled manner; a suture retriever instrument and a suture retriever funnel (sleeve); a suture passer such as a Mini Scorpion DX and accompanying needle, or a variety of shaped Micro Suture Lassos; a measuring guide; and a small joint distractor.
US09974536B2
An anvil assembly suitable for trans-oral delivery includes an anvil head configured to receive a suture that secures the anvil head in a delivery position and is separable from the anvil head following delivery of the anvil assembly. An anvil delivery assembly includes the anvil assembly, a delivery assembly secured to the anvil assembly, and a suture selectively secured to the anvil assembly for securing the anvil assembly in a delivery position and retrieving the anvil assembly.
US09974521B2
The system and method of the invention pertains to an MR-guided breast biopsy procedure, specifically as to quickly identifying the biopsy location. More particularly, the system utilizes a diagnostic imaging modality such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to locate one or more lesions in a human breast. Non-rigid registration between uncompressed screening images (where the lesion has been previously identified) and the compressed biopsy images enables easier identification of the biopsy site, hence shortening the biopsy procedure.
US09974517B2
An ultrasound endoscope includes: an insertion portion configured to be inserted into a subject; a distal end portion provided at a distal end of the insertion portion and including at least one fitting groove; an ultrasound transducer unit configured to be attachable to and detachable from the distal end portion and including at least one projecting portion configured to be freely fitted into the fitting groove and projecting outside in a diameter direction K of the distal end portion; and a gap for removal of the ultrasound transducer unit, the gap being formed between the projecting portion fitted in the fitting groove and the fitting groove.
US09974513B2
A method and a device are for determining the rotation angle of a rotor-stator device. The rotor-stator device has a slip ring arrangement for transferring data between rotor and stator. In an embodiment, the device includes a signal conductor, essentially ring-shaped or ring-segment-shaped, fixed to a ring-shaped support structure; a transmitter for injecting a data signal into the signal conductor; and a receiver for reading the data signal out from the signal conductor. The transmitter and receiver move in opposite directions synchronously with the rotation between rotor and stator. According to an embodiment of the method, a signal is injected into the signal conductor. The signal is used to generate a metrologically detectable characteristic from which the rotation angle is ascertained.
US09974502B2
A mobile base designed to receive an X-ray machine is provided. An X-ray machine capable of being mounted on the mobile base is also provided. The X-ray machine of the invention is configured to move using a motor-driven system associated with a navigation system. The navigation system of the invention enables the X-ray machine to be moved automatically and with precision from one position to another within an examination, hybrid or operation room. The X-ray machine is also configured for the automatic positioning of the moving parts around the patient, while at the same time keeping the region to be subjected to radiography within an X-ray beam.
US09974493B2
Apparatus and method for obtaining computed tomography are disclosed. The computed tomography apparatus includes: an X-ray sensor and an X-ray generator disposed on both sides of a subject and facing each other; a first driving unit configured to move at least one of the X-ray sensor and the X-ray generator reciprocally in an angle range; and a second driving unit moving configured to move at least one of the X-ray sensor and the X-ray generator in a vertical direction of the object, simultaneously or alternately with the first driving unit. The computed tomography method includes a first driving step to move reciprocally at least one of an X-ray sensor and an X-ray generator, disposed on both sides of a subject and facing each other, in a range of an angle; and a second driving step to move at least one of the X-ray sensor and the X-ray generator, simultaneously or alternately with the first driving step, to control the at least one of the X-ray sensor and the X-ray generator to move in a vertical direction of the subject.
US09974491B2
A method of detecting an indication of a potential intradialytic morbid event (IME) by monitoring a patient's condition during excess fluid removal by ultrafiltration during a hemodialysis treatment includes determining the patient's relative blood volume (RBV), and removing a portion of the volume of excess fluid from blood of the patient at an initial ultrafiltration rate while periodically monitoring a second derivative over time of the relative blood volume (SDRBV). The method then includes continuing to remove excess fluid from blood of the patient at the same ultrafilration rate, or, optionally, incrementally increasing the ultrafiltration rate. The method further includes triggering an alarm for an IME for the patient if the SDRBV is in a range of between a low SDRBV alarm level and a high SDRBV alarm level, and, alternatively or additionally monitoring the patient's normalized blood pressure ratio, and taking a remedial action if the alarm is triggered.
US09974489B2
Described is an infant monitoring and alerting system capable of determining an absence of movement by an infant. When an absence of movement is detected the monitor attempts to stimulate movement using stimuli that may include a vibration, an audible alert, or a visual alert. If no movement is detected in response to the stimuli, the monitor may provide another instance of stimuli which may include stimuli at an elevated intensity or additional and/or different stimuli. The additional instance of stimuli may further attempt to stimulate movement by the infant and may also function as an alert to the caregiver that their attention may be required.
US09974484B2
An integrated adhesive sensor array includes an adhesive a patch, a sensor hub, and a detachable sensor pod packaged as a unit. The patch may include a docking area for the detachable sensor pod. The detachable sensor pod may include at least one sensor and may be configured to be detached from the patch and applied to various locations on a body. The detachable sensor pod may send sensor data to the sensor hub via a wired link when on the patch and via a wireless link when detached from the patch. The sensor hub receives sensor data from the various sensors, and relays the data to a receiver. The sensor hub and detachable sensor pod may include indicators for communicating information. The sensor hub may include a power source for powering the sensor hub and a detachable sensor pod attached to the main sensor unit or patch.
US09974483B2
Provided is a non-invasive blood measuring device comprising: a fixture which in part or in whole is buried in bone tissue of a patient; an abutment provided in a space inside the fixture; a sensing unit including biosensors for measuring a substance in the blood; a filter through which the substance in the blood to be measured is passed through; and an outcall unit.
US09974479B2
Provided according to embodiments of the invention are methods of monitoring air obstruction in an individual that include obtaining at least one calibration photoplethysmography (PPG) signal stream from the individual while the individual spontaneously breathes through at least one resistor having a known resistance; using a processing device to determine changes in the at least one calibration PPG signal stream in response to an increase in resistance to the individual's breathing; obtaining a monitoring PPG signal stream from the individual during spontaneous breathing; and using the monitored PPG signal stream to determine a calibrated resistance value, and using the calibrated resistance value to determine a level of obstruction of the individual's breathing. Related devices are also provided herein.
US09974475B2
An embodiment of the present invention includes a method for discriminating between benign and malignant tissue lesions. The method includes the steps of using a plurality of maps of physiology and morphology parameters generated from reflectance measurements and morphology parameters generated from reflectance measurements. The method also includes calculating entropies and cross entropies of the plurality of maps, and calculating a plurality of morphology parameters. Further, the method includes assigning a weight to each entropy and a weight to a logarithm of each entropy, a weight to each cross entropy and a weight to a logarithm of each cross entropy, and a weight to each morphology parameter and a weight to a logarithm of each morphology parameter. The method further includes computing a diagnostic index, defining a cost function, defining a proper threshold value for a diagnostic index and solving an optimization problem to determine a set of weights from the assigned weights to maximize specificity for 100% sensitivity. Further, the method uses calculations, the cost function and the diagnostic index to determine whether the tissue lesion is benign or malignant.
US09974472B2
Methods, devices and systems related providing accurate glucose levels in view of temperatures that may adversely affect glucose value.
US09974464B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive an input of information designating an observation target; extract, from each of magnetic resonance (MR) images included in an MR image group collected by applying a tagging pulse to a region where a fluid flows, a group of regions of the fluid; analyze, by an analyzing method associated with the observation target, the group of regions of the fluid extracted from each of the MR images, thereby deriving an index indicating a dynamic state of the fluid; and cause the index to be displayed on a display.
US09974460B2
This disclosure is directed to a catheter having a basket-shaped electrode assembly with a high electrode density. The basket-shaped electrode assembly may have a plurality of spines, such as up to twelve, each with a plurality of electrodes, such as up to sixteen. The distal ends of the plurality of spines are joined at a distal hub, all of which are fashioned from a single piece of superelastic material.
US09974459B2
Devices, systems, and methods for the localization of body lumen junctions and other intraluminal structure are disclosed. Various embodiments permit clinicians to identify the locations of intraluminal structures and medical devices during non-surgical medical techniques, such as cardiac ablation, by determining the intralumen conductance and/or cross-sectional area at a plurality of locations within the body lumen.
US09974457B2
Techniques for evaluating cardiac electrical dyssynchrony are described. In some examples, an activation time is determined for each of a plurality of torso-surface potential signals. The dispersion or sequence of these activation times may be analyzed or presented to provide variety of indications of the electrical dyssynchrony of the heart of the patient. In some examples, the locations of the electrodes of the set of electrodes, and thus the locations at which the torso-surface potential signals were sensed, may be projected on the surface of a model torso that includes a model heart. The inverse problem of electrocardiography may be solved to determine electrical activation times for regions of the model heart based on the torso-surface potential signals sensed from the patient.
US09974453B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining individual-specific blood flow characteristics. One method includes acquiring, for each of a plurality of individuals, individual-specific anatomic data and blood flow characteristics of at least part of the individual's vascular system; executing a machine learning algorithm on the individual-specific anatomic data and blood flow characteristics for each of the plurality of individuals; relating, based on the executed machine learning algorithm, each individual's individual-specific anatomic data to functional estimates of blood flow characteristics; acquiring, for an individual and individual-specific anatomic data of at least part of the individual's vascular system; and for at least one point in the individual's individual-specific anatomic data, determining a blood flow characteristic of the individual, using relations from the step of relating individual-specific anatomic data to functional estimates of blood flow characteristics.
US09974446B2
Intravascular devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, the intravascular devices include at least one mounting structure within a distal portion of the device. In that regard, one or more electronic, optical, and/or electro-optical component is coupled to the mounting structure. In some instances, the mounting structure is formed of a plurality of material layers. In some embodiments, the material layers have substantially constant thicknesses. Methods of making and/or assembling such intravascular devices/systems are also provided.
US09974442B2
An apparatus for processing volumetric image data to identify vessel regions having a predetermined condition, comprises a measurement unit for measuring at least one vessel parameter, a reference identification unit for obtaining data representing a branch-free vessel and identifying at least one reference section of the branch-free vessel, a calculation unit for calculating an expected value of the parameter in a further section of the branch-free vessel based on at least one measured value of the parameter in the at least one reference section, and a region identification unit for identifying a region of the vessel having the predetermined condition in dependence on both the expected value of the parameter in the further section and a measured value of the parameter in the further section.
US09974426B2
There is provided a master-slave system including: a slave unit including an observation optical system imaging a subject A; a treatment part projecting from a surface on which the observation optical system is provided and at least part of the treatment tools is imaged along with the subject A by the observation optical system; a master apparatus including an operating unit held and operated by an operator; a control unit associating operation of the operating unit of the master apparatus with motion of the slave unit and motion of the treatment part; and a monitor screen displaying an image acquired by the observation optical system, wherein the operating unit includes a command input unit into which a motion command for a slave unit is inputted while the operating unit is held by the operator without changing a pose of the operating unit.
US09974421B2
A cleaning appliance includes separating apparatus for separating dirt from a dirt-bearing fluid flow, a floor engaging rolling assembly housing a motor driven fan unit for drawing the fluid flow through the separating apparatus, a chassis connected to the rolling assembly, and a duct for conveying the fluid flow to the separating apparatus. To improve the stability of the appliance, the duct has an inlet section which is connected to the chassis for pivoting movement relative to the chassis as the appliance is maneuvered over a floor surface. An outlet section for coupling the inlet section to the separating apparatus is releasably connected to the rolling assembly to facilitate the removal of any blockages within the duct.
US09974414B2
An oven tray rack for insertion into a food rack assembly is provided having upwardly and inwardly extending food holders and downwardly and inwardly extending grease deflectors for diverting grease to a center area of the tray rack and preventing grease from dripping onto food on lower tray racks.
US09974413B2
A machine for preparing beverages, particularly for preparing espresso coffee, comprising a base (2) and a head (3) for dispensing the beverage that is provided with an extraction chamber adapted to accommodate a portion of at least one ingredient of the beverage, and in particular a dose of roasted and ground coffee, and connected to a water reservoir (4) by means of a pump (5). The machine comprises a support (6) for a container (6a) of the beverage dispensed by the dispensing head (3). The support (6) of the container of the beverage is interposed axially between the dispensing head (3) and the reservoir (4), so that the dispensing head (3), the support (6) and the reservoir (4) are crossed by an axis (A) that is substantially perpendicular to the base (2).
US09974412B2
A device for preparing a liquid comestible is disclosed. The device may include a beverage preparation means for supply of a beverage and/or a brewing unit designed for receiving an ingredient-containing capsule and preparing the beverage from the ingredients by means of injection of hot pressurized liquid into the capsule. The device may further include a receptacle support means designed to support and to selectively connect to a receptacle for receiving the resulting beverage, beverage delivery means adapted to collect and/or guide the resulting beverage from the beverage preparation means/brewing unit to the receptacle support means, and/or injection means adapted to selectively open a portion of an outer wall of the receptacle connected to the receptacle support means and to establish a fluid communication between the beverage delivery means and the receptacle.
US09974404B1
The drink coaster that collects condensation is configured for use with a fluid container. The containment vessel holds a liquid that is intended for consumption by a person. The drink coaster that collects condensation is a pedestal that forms an intermediate structure between a supporting surface and the fluid container. The drink coaster that collects condensation attaches to the inferior end of the fluid container. The drink coaster that collects condensation captures and stores condensation in a well that is formed by the drink coaster that collects condensation. The drink coaster that collects condensation comprises a suction cup and a rim. The rim is formed on the perimeter of the suction cup. The suction cup attaches the drink coaster that collects condensation to the inferior end of the fluid container. The rim is a semi-rigid structure that is used to form the well.
US09974402B2
A liquid receptacle has an inner vessel for holding a liquid, an insulated outer shell spaced from the inner vessel, and a chamber defined between the inner vessel and the outer shell. A phase change material is disposed in the chamber for absorbing thermal energy from the liquid and then releasing the thermal energy back to the liquid to maintain the temperature of the liquid.
US09974388B1
The folding chair comprises a group of foot pipes, a group of seat frame pipes, a group of rotating connection pipes, a group of locking pipes and fabric. The group of foot pipes comprises a left and a right foot pipes. Armrest fixing pieces are fixedly installed on the upper ends of the foot pipes. A limiting piece is fixed in the middle of the foot pipes. A sliding piece is sleeved below the limiting piece. The upper ends of the four rotating pipes are rotatably connected with the seat frame pipes through a seat frame rotating piece; the other end of the four rotating pipes is rotatably connected with another linkage pipe of the four rotating pipes through a rotating piece fixed thereto; the rotating pipes are symmetrically arranged.
US09974378B2
A stylist utility stand that includes means for vertically elevating a stylist, such as a hair stylist, and means for supporting stylist items proximate the stylist while elevated on the means for vertically elevating the stylist. In addition, the disclosed stylist stand may include means for inhibiting the stylist from inadvertently stepping off the stylist utility stand.
US09974374B2
An applicator for applying a liquid medium, in particular a liquid decorative medium in the cosmetic field, includes at least one first section having an applicator head, at least one second section adapted to receive at least one reservoir container for the liquid medium. The reservoir container includes at least one piston and at least one third section having at least one advancing mechanism for emptying the reservoir container by moving the piston. The at least one advancing mechanism can be driven by at least one electrical gear motor. The at least one electrical gear motor is arranged together with the advancing mechanism in the at least one third section of the applicator.
US09974373B2
The invention relates to an epilator (10) comprising an epilation head (18) having at least one rotatable disc-shaped member (20), a massaging member (34) arranged next to the epilation head, and a drive structure for driving the massaging member (34). According to the invention, the drive structure comprises a cylinder (26) for contacting a circumference of said at least one disc-shaped member (20) for the purpose of being rotated by said at least one disc-shaped member (20) about a rotational axis (30), wherein the cylinder (26) has a contact surface which is symmetrical about the rotational axis (30). The drive structure may further comprise an eccentric tappet (32) arranged for being rotated by the cylinder (26).
US09974360B2
A method of manufacturing an article comprises etching an etched feature on a surface of a first polymeric sheet, and forming a fluid-filled bladder element from the first polymeric sheet, with the fluid-filled bladder element having a sealable internal cavity that retains fluid. The method includes assembling the bladder element in the article so that a first portion of the bladder element having the etched feature is exposed to view, and a second portion of the bladder element is blocked from view by the article. An article includes the bladder element with the etched feature.
US09974357B2
An article of footwear may have a sole including an outer member having an outer surface and an inner surface disposed closer to a wearer's foot than the outer surface. The outer member may include at least a first flex groove formed as an elongate recess in a first flex groove region, causing both the inner surface and the outer surface of the outer member to curve upward. The sole may include a reinforcing member disposed closer to the wearer's foot than the outer member, and may be relatively more rigid than the outer member. The reinforcing member may include a first bridge portion disposed in the first flex groove region and joining the first portion and the second portion together. The lateral width of the first bridge portion may be less than the lateral width of the first portion, and less than the lateral width of the second portion.
US09974354B1
A toe engaging apparatus or shoe insert includes one or more layers. Each layer is removably held to a neighboring planar layer. Each of the layers have a thickness, a longitudinal length, and a height; the height being such that the layers fits against a front wall of a target shoe. The layers are sized and shaped such that when affixed to the front wall area of the target shoe, the layers reduce the internal length of the target shoe, thereby effectively decreasing the size of the target shoe. The toe engaging apparatus optionally includes a mechanism for holding the plurality of layers against the front wall of the target shoe.
US09974351B2
Provided is a shoe including a sole and an upper, where the upper includes an inner upper and an outer upper. The inner upper includes 90% or more of a wool fiber and the outer upper includes a combination of 50 to 80% by weight of the wool fiber and 20 to 50% by weight of a synthetic fiber based on the total weight of the outer upper.
US09974347B2
The application relates to a flame blocking venting trap (FBVT) adapted to vent a garment, the FBVT comprising a proximal layer; a central venting layer superposed to the proximal layer; and a distal layer superposed to the central venting layer. The the proximal layer is forming a first fold with the central venting layer and the central venting layer is forming a second fold with the distal layer to act as a flow restricting apparatus configured to prevent air and flames to get through the FBVT from the outside of the garment and allow air to get through the FBVT from the inside of the garment. A garment including one or many FBVT is encompassed by the present application.
US09974342B1
A highly effective firearm recoil absorbing combination is obtained by providing a shoulder mountable assembly containing a viscoelastomeric thermoset polymerizate pad possessing excellent cushioning and rebounding characteristics along with sufficient surface tack to cohesively steady a firing firearm against the pad. The assembly may securely affixed to the shoulder region of a garment or detachably mountable thereto.
US09974341B2
A convenient smoking device is disclosed with a main body having a battery unit and a pipe that are parallel to each other. A first end of the main body includes a battery cap and a first seal ring, and may be detachably fixed to the first end of the main body by a nut. A fixing cap can also be provided on the main body, as well as a second seal ring for connecting the pipe with an atomizer. Both of the second seal ring and the fixing cap are fixed to the second end of the main body by a upper cap.
US09974339B2
An electronic vaporizer device is provided for vaporizing or atomizing inhalants. The device comprises a separable and selectively connectable device having at least a first portion and a second portion. A novel threaded connection arrangement is provided with a male connector and a female connector. The male connector comprises a thread arrangement that is compatible with various devices. The female connector is adapted to receive only the male connectors of the disclosure.
US09974338B2
Aspects of the instant disclosure relate to electronic cigarettes. More particularly, to electronic cigarettes including a circumferential light guide that distributes light transmitted by a light source, and controller circuitry that variably illuminates the circumferential light guide of the electronic cigarette based on a user's draw strength.
US09974337B2
An electronic cigarette includes a housing having a wall defining an inner space, and an inlet and an outlet providing access to the inner space, a vaporizer to produce a vapour and being located in the inner space of the housing, an electrical power device to provide electrical power to the vaporizer and being located in the inner space of the housing. The electrical power device includes a first electrical contact member being electrically connected to one of an anode and a cathode of the electrical power device, and a second electrical contact member being electrically connected to the other of the anode and the cathode of the electrical power device. The vaporizer includes a vaporizer outer surface, a third electrical contact member located on the vaporizer outer surface, and a fourth electrical contact member located on the vaporizer outer surface.
US09974333B1
A simple vaporizing device with four concentric tubes and a wire mesh wick for volatizing, by vaporization, and inhaling one or more constituents of various vaporizable substances. The device is operated using the flame from a standard butane cigarette lighter or other flame producing devises as the sole heat source, and the user's inhalation process for air flow. Concentric tubes, an inner tube with two open ends to provide a direct pathway for the flow of air and vapor; and outer tubes with open ends, one moveable, are arranged to provide for the application, vaporization, and delivery of the vaporizable substance as a single dose.
US09974322B2
A device includes a loosening room into which cooked rice is fed, an air blowing port which is configured to blow high-speed air toward the cooked rice in the loosening room; and a collecting room provided adjacent to the loosening room with a wall therebetween, the high-speed air is blown from the blowing port and is blown to the cooked rice in the loosening room such that the cooked rice is scatted and floated by blowing the air, and the cooked rice floating and moving over the wall is collected by the collecting room.
US09974321B2
Disclosed are a fish protein oligopeptide with low allergenicity and slight fishiness, and industrial preparation method and application thereof. The method comprises the following steps: 1) washing fresh fish flesh and/or fish wastes, crushing, and adding water to obtain a mixture; 2) performing thermal denaturation on the mixture to obtain a denaturized protein solution; 3) centrifuging the denaturized protein solution to obtain a precipitate, and adding water into the precipitate and grinding, to obtain a slurry; 4) adjusting the slurry to pH 6-9, and sequentially adding a neutral protease, a papain and an alkaline protease to conduct enzymolysis, and after enzyme inactivation, to obtain an enzymatic hydrolysate; 5) centrifuging the enzymatic hydrolysate, and performing membrane filtration on centrifuged supernatant, to obtain the fish protein oligopeptide with low allergenicity and slight fishiness. The method completely eliminates the allergenicity and fishiness of fish proteins, and prevents release of bitter components.
US09974319B2
A powder acid-sanding composition for confectionery products having partially neutralized polycarboxylic acid selected from malic acid, citric acid, fumaric acid, adipic acid, and mixtures thereof, and at least one of a sugar and sweetener. The partially neutralized polycarboxylic acid improves the stability in terms of acid migration into the candy and moisture uptake from the environment. Also, a method for acid-sanding of confectionery products using the powder acid-sanding composition, and the products obtained thereby. The obtained acid-sanded confectionery products have an improved shelf life and an immediately felt sour taste being of a constant strength at bringing it in the mouth and digesting it.
US09974314B2
An apparatus is provided for assembling a pizza, including a pizza sauce spreading station, a cheese spreading station and a pepperoni applying station. A robot including a stationary base and an articulating arm having a gripper attached to the end is operable to grip a pizza pan having pizza dough therein to allow said robot to move the pan throughout the pizza sauce spreading station, and to a rotary dial system including the cheese spreading station and the pepperoni applying station. The robot arm manipulates the pizza pan in the sauce spreading station and the rotary dial system manipulates the pizza pan in the cheese station and the pepperoni applying station to properly distribute the cheese and pepperoni on the pizza.
US09974311B2
A product capable of controlling odors arising from organic matter, and a method of making the product. The product comprises an admixture of a moldable thermoplastic and a benign dormant bacteria in a sporulated form, which admixture is formed by mixing the benign dormant bacteria into the moldable thermoplastic when the moldable thermoplastic is melted, and molding the admixture into a molded product. The benign dormant bacteria are embedded throughout the molded product, including being buried within a body of the molded product and being presented on a surface of the molded product. The benign dormant bacteria presented on the surface of the molded product are activatable upon exposure of the surface of the molded product to the organic matter, and the benign activated bacteria digest the organic matter to control production of offensive odors. Abrasive wear of the surface of the molded product exposes fresh benign dormant bacteria buried in the body to the surface for additional odor control.
US09974307B2
The present invention provides a composition for controlling pests having an excellent control efficacy on pests.A composition for controlling pests comprising a compound represented by the formula (1): wherein each of symbols are the same as defined in the Description, or N-oxide thereof; and one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a group of azole-type compound, a group of strobilurin-type compound, a group of phenylamido-type compound, a group of a compound for controlling rice blast, a group of a compound for controlling sheath blight of rice, and a group of fungicidal compound selected from fludioxonil, ethaboxam, tolclofos-methyl, and captan; shows an excellent controlling efficacy on pests.
US09974296B2
The application is generally directed towards an airfoil for a fluid delivery tube. The airfoil includes a securing member operably connecting the airfoil to the tube, a fin extending downward and outward from the securing member and terminating in a tip, a shield extending inward and downward from the tip of the fin, and an air guide extending from a first end of the shield.
US09974293B2
A fishing bobber may include an elongate shaft having a first end, an opposing second end, and a longitudinal axis extending therebetween, a line retainer disposed at the first end, a counterweight float disposed proximate the second end, and an axially movable primary float disposed on the elongate shaft between the first end and the second end.
US09974286B2
The invention relates to a tray for containing a number of eggs in an incubation chamber, the tray comprising a number of egg accommodation spaces in which space an egg is able to be hatched, and at least one passage for a chicken through which passage a chicken hatched from said egg may pass through the tray and enter a chicken accommodation space located below the tray.
US09974285B2
Self-dispensing poultry and small animal feeder dispenses feed from a hopper into a catch dish on demand by action of the bird pecking at the feed in the catch dish or small animal feeding at the catch dish. Interchangeable regulating disks have respective different size center apertures, and a groove seating a cross-bar of a trigger rod on which the catch dish is supported. A spade or paddle at the upper end of the trigger rod moves when the trigger rod wiggles or shifts, and this causes feed to fall through the regulator disk center aperture to replenish the feed in the catch dish.
US09974281B1
A starch-based flying pet treat comprising, compositionally, a starch-based edible material. The treat has an overall circular shape formed by a center ring providing a first surface area and at least one wing integrally extending from the center ring and providing a second surface. Apertures are positioned in the surface areas to provide a high glide ratio such that the treat is configured to fly through the air when thrown. The treat is throwable for exercising a pet such that the pet chases or retrieves the flying pet treat and is rewarded with an edible pet treat for chewing and consumption.
US09974277B2
Novel lettuce, such as lettuce designated PYTHON is disclosed. In some embodiments, the invention relates to the seeds of lettuce PYTHON, to the plants and plant parts of lettuce PYTHON, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce PYTHON with itself or another lettuce plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other lettuce plants derived from the lettuce PYTHON.
US09974272B1
A novel maize variety designated X00K404 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X00K404 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00K404 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X00K404, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00K404. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00K404.
US09974263B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH615495. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH615495, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH615495 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH615495.
US09974253B1
A shell with a controllable indoor climate. The shell may house plants, such as produce, for farming purposes. The shell may be made of scalable structurally insulated panels. Within the shell may be trays for facilitating the growth of the plants. Lighting, climate, and nutrients may be controlled for the proper growth of the plants.
US09974247B2
A pumping device for liquids is described which comprises a tank for liquids, from which a feeding pipe of a pump with a solar panel draws. The tank consists of a supporting frame with tubular uprights and upper and lower horizontal connection lengths, which supports and surrounds a flexible bag for containing liquids and has an upper connection crossbar of the upper horizontal lengths of the supporting frame, on which the pump with solar panel is mounted. The bag has a lower filling hole or mouth, in which the feeding pipe can be inserted and an overflow hole made in the upper of part of its side wall in position lower than said mouth.
US09974237B2
A non-row sensitive corn threshing header comprising a forwardly disposed cutting apparatus for severing standing corn crop from the ground and a rearwardly disposed threshing apparatus for separating kernels from the plant, collecting the kernels, and discarding the remaining plant. The threshing apparatus includes a plurality of screw auger conveyors arranged in upper and lower planes that receive the crop and urge the crop into diminishing space between adjacent auger conveyors, the space defined by the auger flighting and the expandingly tapered auger shanks. Kernels are separated from the cob as the ears are urged rearwardly in the threshing apparatus. The header may include screens and the like for cleaning the grain of chaff prior to transferring to on-board storage or chaff removal may occur after the grain is off-loaded from the harvester.
US09974232B2
A spreader system for discharging residue from an agricultural combine to a ground surface. The spreader system including a direction detector and a spreader operatively connected to a rear end of the agricultural combine. The direction detector is configured to detect direction changes of the agricultural combine and to produce a signal representative of the direction change. The spreader includes one or more impellers and a housing, with the impellers being operatively connected to the housing for rotating therein. The housing having an inlet for receiving a flow of residue, an outlet coupled to the housing for discharging the flow of residue, and one or more residue flow directors. The residue flow directors are configured to alter the flow of residue from the agricultural combine, the system being configured to alter the flow of residue dependent upon the signal.
US09974224B2
An agricultural tillage implement includes a main section including a hitch extending in a travel direction, a plurality of foldable wing sections coupled with the main section, at least one auxiliary implement assembly coupled to each of the wing sections and a control system. Each auxiliary implement assembly includes at least one support member, at least one pivotal arm pivotally coupled to the support member, at least one actuator coupled to both the support member and the pivotal arm and a ground contacting implement coupled to the pivotal arm. The control system is configured to actuate the actuators to control a position of each ground contacting implement in each of the sections when the agricultural implement is transitioning to a transport mode.
US09974222B2
This machine includes a tool (30) actuated by an actuating module (32); a dual-frequency satellite positioning module (40) able to take into account corrections relative to the disruptions affecting the propagation of radio navigation signals emitted by each of the visible radio navigation satellites and that are caused by the ionosphere, so as to determine an absolute position of the machine, and consequently of the tool, which is precise to within a centimeter; and a computer (50) able to compare the instantaneous absolute position of the tool and an absolute position of a current revisiting point, selected from among the revisiting points of a revisiting plan, the computer then being able to command the actuation module.
US09980412B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods associated with flexible heat spreader design are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an electronic device may include a component, a heat dissipation member, and a flexible member. The heat dissipation member may be coupled to the component via a flexible portion of the electronic device, the component located on a first side of the flexible portion and the heat dissipation member located on a second side of the flexible portion. The flexible member may be thermally coupled to the component and the heat dissipation member, wherein the flexible member extends along the flexible portion from the first side to the second side and is to transfer heat from the component to the heat dissipation member. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09980411B2
A connector assembly is provided and includes a circuit board, an elastic connector, a cage, and a heat exchanger. The circuit board includes a heat exchanger opening passing there through. The elastic connector is positioned about the heat exchanger opening. The cage includes a bottom cage with a cage opening facing a first surface of the circuit board. The heat exchanger is positioned on the bottom cage, such that one side of the heat exchanger passes through the cage opening to protrude inside the cage and an opposite side of the heat exchanger passes through the heat exchanger opening to protrude from a second surface of the circuit board opposite to the first surface.
US09980408B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of first brackets adhered to the rear panel. A first bracket has a recess on a first surface where an adhesive is applied, and a first protrusion extending from a second surface and a second protrusion extending from the first protrusion. A connection bracket has a side wall and a plurality of first tab portions. The tab portion is provided into an opening of the first protrusion. A second bracket is provided adjacent to the plurality of the first brackets and attached to the connection bracket. A frame is mounted to the at least one second bracket. A light source is provided between the frame and the second bracket.
US09980403B2
A case with connector includes a connector; a case body that has a cylindrical side wall portion and an end wall portion closing one end side of the side wall portion and forming an accommodation portion along with the side wall portion, the case body being formed by insert molding and integrated with the connector at the side wall portion; and an electrical wire that has an end connected to the connector and the other end projecting to the accommodation portion.
US09980399B2
A display device is disclosed. A back cover supports a back surface of a display panel. A bending member is bent at a predetermined curvature and attached to the back surface of the back cover. A curvature-changing unit is coupled to the back surface of the back cover to rotate the bending member and change the curvature of either the display panel or the back cover.
US09980389B2
The display device includes: a flexible display panel including a display portion in which scanning lines and signal lines cross each other; a supporting portion for supporting an end portion of the flexible display panel; a signal line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the signal line, which is provided for the supporting portion; and a scanning line driver circuit for outputting a signal to the scanning line, which is provided for a flexible surface of the display panel in a direction which is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the supporting portion.
US09980387B2
A display device including a display panel including a substrate having one side on which a first conductive pattern is arranged, a flexible printed circuit board having one side on which a second conductive pattern that is connected to the first conductive pattern is arranged, and a dam pad positioned between the substrate and the flexible printed circuit board to be spaced apart from an area to which the second conductive pattern is connected.
US09980383B2
Sheets are laminated on each other and pressure bonded with fixtures from upper and lower directions of a lamination direction while being heated to produce a laminated circuit substrate including therein a capacitor and a coil. The capacitor is defined by a first conductor pattern and a second conductor pattern that face each other across thermoplastic resin layers. In the laminated circuit substrate, the first conductor pattern includes a first principal surface, the second conductor pattern includes a second principal surface, the first principal surface faces the second conductor pattern, the second principal surface faces the first conductor pattern, and the first principal surface and the second principal surface are subject to a roughening process.
US09980378B1
A circuit board includes first and second lines of surface mount pads, and a trace. The surface mount pads within the first line extend from a first edge of the circuit board toward a second edge of the circuit board. The surface mount pads within the second line extend from the first edge of the circuit board toward the second edge of the circuit board, and the surface mount pads within the second line are further from a third edge of the circuit board as compared to the surface mount pads within the first line. The trace is located on a top surface of the circuit board, and extends from the third edge to a fourth edge of the circuit board. The spacing between first adjacent surface mount pads within the first line enables the trace to be routed between the first adjacent surface mount pads with less crosstalk between signals on the trace and signals on the surface mount pads within the first line.
US09980377B2
An electronic circuit device and a heat sink structure for the electronic circuit device capable of simultaneously achieving improved space efficiency and safeness are provided. The electronic circuit device includes: a substrate with circuit wiring formed thereon; an electronic component requiring heat dissipation, which is mounted on the substrate; and a heat sink structure configured to dissipate heat radiated by the electronic component requiring heat dissipation. The heat sink structure includes: a contact part to be in direct or indirect contact with the electronic component requiring heat dissipation; a generally tabular heat-dissipating part disposed substantially parallel to the substrate; and a connection part configured to connect between the contact part and the heat-dissipating part.
US09980376B1
A durable flexible circuit board for a transparent display board is connected between a driver board provided with at least one of a power supply and a controller and a transparent plate provided with a plurality of light emitting elements. The flexible circuit board includes an electrode bonding portion provided with a plurality of signal connection terminals for transferring control signals, at least one power connection terminal for transferring electric power, and at least one dummy terminal disposed outside the signal connection terminal or the power connection terminal disposed at the outermost side. The dummy terminal resists vibration and pressure applied to the signal connection terminal or the power connection terminal disposed at the outermost side. The signal connection terminal and the power connection terminal are integrated in the flexible circuit board.
US09980373B2
A foldable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the foldable display includes a bendable display panel and a housing positioned at a rear side of the display panel and configuration to be folded and unfolded. The foldable display also includes a sliding unit installed between the display panel and the housing and configured to slide the display panel along the housing so as to alter a bending region of the display panel that is folded when the foldable display is folded.
US09980368B2
A shielding device mounted upon a printed circuit board comprises a shielding shell including a top wall, a sidewall and at least a clamping means extending downwardly therefrom respectively, which surrounds a receiving cavity defined by the shielding shell; at least a bracket removably clamped within said clamping means and fixed upon said printed circuit board; wherein the clamping means includes a first clamping part and a second clamping part respectively abutting elastically against two opposite sides of said bracket.
US09980357B1
An X-ray generating device includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray tube drive circuit, an electron acceleration voltage generation circuit, and a control unit communicating with the drive circuit and the voltage generation circuit, the X-ray tube, the drive circuit, and the voltage generation circuit are arranged inside a storage container filled with an insulating oil, a path connecting the drive circuit and the control unit includes an optical fiber cable arranged inside the storage container, the optical fiber cable has a coating that suppresses fluctuation due to a convective flow of the insulating oil, the coating is cured by, from a resin material containing a plasticizer, a part of the plasticizer being leaching out, and the control unit is configured to facilitate leaching of the plasticizer by driving the voltage generation circuit to apply a voltage to the optical fiber cable in a state of no X-ray being generated.
US09980356B2
a lighting fixture includes a power input configured to be coupled to a power source, a power output configured to be coupled to an external load and a lighting device, such as a light emitting diode (LED) device, coupled to the power input and configured to provide illumination. The lighting fixture further includes a protection circuit coupled between the power input and the power output and configured to detect a condition of a power source coupled to the power input and to control power transmission between the power input and the power output responsive to the detected condition. The power output may be configured to support daisy-chain connection of the lighting fixture to at least one other lighting fixture, and the protection circuit may be configured to control power transmission to the at least one other lighting fixture responsive to the detected condition.
US09980347B2
The invention relates to a lighting system for lighting a space (R) which lighting system has means (4) for producing space illumination over a large area, and means (5) for producing concentrated local lighting. Furthermore the lighting system has a presence detector (6) for detecting the presence of at least one person (P) in the space (R) and a control device (8) for controlling the means (4) for producing the space illumination and the means (5) for producing the local lighting. To this end the control device (8) is configured to control the space illumination over a large area automatically as a function of the daylight or as a function of the daytime and to control the local lighting automatically as a function of the presence of at least one person (P) in the space (R). Because the space illumination is controlled automatically as a function of the daylight or of the daytime, the illumination can be prevented from being reduced so much that a lighting mood is produced which has a negative effect. Nevertheless the lighting system can be controlled advantageously n energy terms, in particular since the local lighting can be controlled as a function of the presence of persons in the space.
US09980344B2
A luminaire includes a light source, a terminal that receives a dimming signal indicating a dimming rate and a parameter signal including a predetermined coefficient, a storage that stores the predetermined coefficient included in the parameter signal received by the terminal, a controller that generates a control value by multiplying information based on the dimming signal received by the terminal by the predetermined coefficient stored in the storage, and a lighting circuit that causes the light source to output light at a brightness in accordance with the control value provided by the controller.
US09980342B1
A lighting device, including a voltage source; a light engine including one or more lighting elements between a first power line and a second power line; a current detector between the voltage source and the light engine; a switch box between the voltage source and the light engine, connected to the electrical power, to ground, to the first power line, and to the second power line, and configured to switch the light engine between a first configuration in which the first power line is connected to the electrical power and the second power line is connected to ground, and a second configuration in which the second power line is connected to the electrical power and the first power line is connected to ground; a lighting controller configured to generate the switch control signal based on the detected current passing between the voltage source and the light engine.
US09980333B2
A driving apparatus configured to drive a light emitting device includes a driving current source module operable to supply current to the light emitting device via a node during operation. A protection module coupled to the node and the driving current source module selectively injects current to the node during operation. The driving current source module is controlled based on a detection result of a voltage on the node.
US09980326B2
There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US09980325B2
A method for controlling a microwave heating system is provided. The method may be used with a system having a liquid-filled microwave heating chamber and includes measuring the value of one or more microwave system parameters. Suitable parameters can include, for example, net microwave power discharged, the temperature of the liquid in the microwave chamber, the flow rate of liquid through the microwave chamber, and the speed of the conveyance system disposed within the microwave chamber. The measured value of the selected parameter is then compared to a target value for that parameter in order to determine a difference. Based on the difference, one or more actions can be taken in order to start, stop, or alter the operation of the microwave heating system.
US09980323B2
A high-frequency heating cooker of the invention includes a high-frequency generating device that generates a high-frequency wave to be supplied to a heating chamber, a cooling device that blows air to cool the high-frequency generating device, an air intake opening that takes the air blown from the cooling device disposed on a first side plate of the heating chamber to cool the high-frequency generating device into the heating chamber, an exhaust opening disposed on a second side plate of the heating chamber to discharge the air taken into the heating chamber from the air intake opening out of the heating chamber, an exhaust guide plate disposed between the second side plate and a side plate of a housing, and an excessive temperature rise preventing device disposed on the exhaust guide plate, the exhaust guide plate having an eaves structure above the excessive temperature rise preventing device.
US09980322B1
A multi-zone food holding bin has a continuous food supporting surface with multiple food holding zones. Each food holding zone is independently controllable so that different food temperatures may be maintained in adjacent food holding zones.
US09980307B2
A method and apparatus for pairing devices is provided herein. During operation, an initial orientation of the two devices is determined. If the initial orientation of the two devices match a predetermined orientation offset from each other, then after a period of time, the orientation of the devices is again determined. If a final orientation of the two devices match a second predetermined orientation offset (e.g., devices are aligned), and both devices have rotated, then the two devices are paired.
US09980302B2
Systems and methods for reusing generic tokens using a Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacon. The systems and methods include a user device including a wireless transceiver, a memory for storing a generic token, and one or more processors coupled to the memory and the wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is configured to communicate with a beacon using a BLE communications protocol, receive a beacon identifier from the beacon, send a check in request to the beacon, and receive token differences from the beacon. The processors are configured to recreate a custom token based on the stored generic token and the received token differences. The beacon is configured to forward the check in request to a server. The server is configured to verify the user device and create the custom token and the token differences between the custom and generic tokens for return to the user device via the beacon.
US09980298B2
A method for integration of a portable electronic device (PED) with a flight deck display in some embodiments includes providing an onboard network coupled to a flight-deck-installed, multi-function display and coupling the PED to the onboard network. The method may also include receiving information from a PED hosted application in the PED, routing information through a gateway and/or a plurality of firewalls, and displaying information on the flight-deck-installed, multi-function display. In some embodiments, a pilot control interface is coupled to the PED through the onboard network, and a plurality of functions on the PED is controlled via the pilot control interface. An airplane in some embodiments includes a fuselage portion, a wing portion, and a system that carries out the method, possibly through use of computer readable storage medium with stored instructions.
US09980287B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for accessing to a medium by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a predetermined frame including a time stamp; identifying a restricted access window (RAW) assignment field included in the predetermined frame; and performing access in a slot determined on the basis of a subfield of the RAW assignment field when the STA belongs to a RAW related to the RAW allocation field, wherein whether the STA belongs to the RAW is determined by whether an association identifier (AID) of the STA is included in a AID range and the RAW assignment field includes a subfield indicating whether the AID range is determined by a TIM bitmap.
US09980285B2
Attachment data collected by a set of femto access points (FAPs) is utilized to localize, predict, and/or weight potential wireless communication traffic within and between areas. Moreover, the attachment data can be indicative of user equipment (UE) density/traffic within coverage areas of respective femtocells. The attachment data can be consolidated and analyzed to identify location and motion of a UE “swarm”. Moreover an automatic cell planning (ACP) component can be employed to utilize the attachment data for determining an optimal macro site and optimal antenna setting(s) that facilitate steering/tuning the macro antenna beam to focus upon the swarm area. In addition, the ACP component can facilitate reconfiguration of the macro antenna beam as reported swarm concentrations shift between the FAPs.
US09980281B2
The present specification comprises the steps of: acquiring a resource pool to be used for D2D communication in a wireless communication system, the resource pool including a scheduling assignment (SA) resource pool indicating an SA transmission resource region and/or a data resource pool indicating a D2D data transmission resource region; transmitting an SA including information related to D2D data transmission to a second user equipment through the SA resource pool; and transmitting D2D data to the second user equipment, wherein the resource pool is received from a base station through a D2D grant, and the D2D grant includes first control information related to a transmission power control of the SA.
US09980278B2
A base station schedules one or more user equipment of a plurality of user equipment for wireless communication in a transmission time interval (TTI) based on a plurality of weights associated with the plurality of user equipment. In response to scheduling the one or more user equipment in the TTI, the base station modifies the plurality of weights associated with the plurality of user equipment based on a plurality of elapsed times since the plurality of user equipment were last scheduled.
US09980264B2
In a transmitting device, each of the plurality of mapping candidates that make up the search space is configured from the same number of control channel elements as an aggregation level value, the control channel elements are obtained by dividing each physical resource block into a predetermined number, and the quantity of resource elements contained in each of the predetermined number of control channel elements in each physical resource block adopts at least two types of values. A search space setting unit sets a search space of which the aggregation level value is 2 or more so that, between a plurality of mapping candidates, variation in the total quantity of resource elements contained in the control channel elements that make up the mapping candidates is as small as possible.
US09980263B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for interlace determination. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a system bandwidth including multiple interlaces. Each interlace of the multiple interlaces includes a set of physical resource blocks (“PRBs”) that are uniformly spaced in frequency. The processor also determines a first set of interlaces of the multiple interlaces for a first device. The first set of interlaces includes one or more interlaces. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits a first signal to the first device. The first signal indicates the first set of interlaces, and a number of bits of the first signal is less than a number of interlaces of the multiple interlaces.
US09980261B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for detecting and sending downlink control information and devices. The method for detecting downlink control information includes: acquiring a pilot port determining parameter that corresponds to downlink control information needing to be detected; determining, according to the pilot port determining parameter, a first-type pilot port that corresponds to the downlink control information; and detecting the downlink control information according to the first-type pilot port. In the embodiments of the present invention, user equipment can correctly detect downlink control information.
US09980258B2
The invention is related to a wireless communication by user equipment (UE) based on capability of the UE. According to this application, signals are received on a downlink channel including a downlink control channel and a downlink data channel, a parameter is configured for the wireless communication based on the capability of the UE and information in the downlink control channel, and signals are transmitted on a uplink channel based on the configured parameter, wherein the signals are transmitted to at least two cells.
US09980256B2
A method for PUCCH resource mapping is provided, which includes in a traffic adaptive TDD system, classifying downlink sub-frames within a binding window into sub-frames of a first category and sub-frames of a second category, when feeding back HARQ-ACK (Hybrid Automatic Repeat request- Acknowledgement) for a downlink sub-frame, performing PUCCH (Physical Uplink Control Channel) resource mapping for a sub-frame of the first category in accordance with LTE/LTE-A, and performing PUCCH resource mapping for a sub-frame of the second category according to a specified order of sub-frames.
US09980254B2
Control channel transmission method, transmission processing method, communication node and terminal
The present document provides a method for transmitting control channels, method for processing transmission, communication node and terminal. The method for transmitting control channels includes: determining resources for transmitting the control channels according to predefined information and transmitting repeatedly the control channels multiple times on the determined resources for transmitting the control channels, the predefined information including at least one of following information: the number of repetitions of the control channels, control channel type, traffic channel type and traffic channel starting position.
US09980249B2
A method that allocates uplink shared channel resources includes acquiring the volume of data-to-be-transmitted and an uplink channel quality indication. The method further includes, based on the volume of data-to-be-transmitted acquired, determining a set of resource profiles of the uplink channel quality indication and a resource number. The method further includes judging whether or not the uplink channel quality indication comprised within the set of resource profiles is identical to the uplink channel quality indication acquired. If they are identical, using a corresponding set of resource profiles as a final resource profile; and if they are different, combining an uplink transmission power with the corresponding set of resource profile to determine the final resource profile. Under the premise of ensuring QoS, the method allows for minimization of transmission power of each terminal, thus reducing inter-system interference, allowing system performance to be further improved.
US09980246B2
Acquiring three-dimensional location information, and using acquired three-dimension location information to locate users and enhance their experience in relation to location-based services.
US09980224B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for power management in wireless devices. Power saving for a device of a wireless network may be improved by appropriately setting an inactivity timeout (ITO), and thus the amount of time, after a last transmission or reception of data traffic, that the device remains in an awake mode listening for more data traffic before the device enters a sleep mode. Distributed coordinated function (DCF) information may be used for determining the ITO. For example, the DCF information may be used to determine a channel congestion metric, which may be used to set the ITO for the device.
US09980223B2
Systems and methods for processing, transmitting and displaying data received from an analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor, are provided. The data can be displayed on a hand-held display device having a display such as a key fob device including a user interface, such as an LCD and one or more buttons allows a user to view data, and a physical connector, such as USB port.
US09980220B2
According to one embodiment, a beacon device is configured to provide power in the beacon device in response to a signal from a clock to enter a wake state from a sleep state. The beacon device is further configured to receive configuration parameters over the wireless network interfaces from a network device, monitor one or more of a beacon sensor or a user device over the wireless network interfaces according to the configuration parameters, transmit data over the network interfaces to the network device according to the configuration parameters, and monitor the clock for a signal to enter a sleep state. The beacon device is further configured to disrupt the power in the beacon device in response to the signal to enter the sleep state from the clock.
US09980209B2
Efficient frequency assignment for mobile terminals in coexisting wireless communication systems is described herein. The coexisting wireless communication systems comprise a macro communication system and a localized communication system. Two prioritized lists are defined, a first list comprising a first entry relating to the macro communication system and the second entry relating to the localized communication system, the first and second entries each listing at least one common frequency. Based on the first list, a mobile terminal uses communication protocols associated with the localized communication system.
US09980203B2
In order to better and more easily identify candidate APs and/or channels, an AP can transmit frames announcing its capabilities in a channel where it is not serving. For example, if an AP is operating in channel 1 and has created a Basic Service Set ID (BSSID) in that channel, it is permitted to transmit frames announcing its capabilities in another channel, for example channel 3, where another AP may or may not be operating.
US09980201B2
The present disclosure relates to a base-station-to-base-station (BS-BS) gateway in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular communication network and methods of operation thereof. In one embodiment, the BS-BS gateway receives information from a first base station which includes a hostname and a network address of the first base station. The BS-BS gateway then stores a mapping between the hostname and the network address. Thereafter, in one embodiment, the BS-BS gateway enables a second base station to address messages to the first base station using the hostname of the first base station. In this manner, changes in the network address of the first base station will not affect the ability of the second base station to address messages to the first base station. In some embodiments, the first base station is a low-power base station (LP-BS) and the second base station is a high-power base station (HP-BS).
US09980198B2
A mobile application gateway configured to interconnect mobile communication devices on a cellular network with an enterprise network is provided. The mobile application gateway includes a voice and data signaling gateway configured to provide routing functionalities, service functionalities and admission control. A gateway GPRS support node (GGSN) is configured to establish a secure data session between one or more of the mobile communication devices and the enterprise network by establishing a GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel between a carrier-hosted serving GPRS support node (SGSN) and the GGSN.
US09980189B2
A first device having a transceiver and an antenna operatively connected to the transceiver and a second device having a transceiver and an antenna operatively connected to the transceiver, the first device in operative communication with the second device through a communications linkage separate from the transceiver of the first device and the transceiver of the second device. The first device is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a remote device through the transceiver of the first device. The second device is adapted to wirelessly communicate with the remote device through the transceiver of the second device. The system is configured to evaluate the wireless connection between the first device and the remote device and to evaluate the wireless communication between the second device and the remote device and determine whether the first device or the second device has a better connection.
US09980188B2
In a wireless network including a first cell and a second cell, it is determined whether a measure of mobility of a user device meets a mobility criterion, and it is determined whether a size of the second cell meets a cell size criterion. When it is determined that (i) the measure of mobility of the user device meets the mobility criterion and (ii) the size of the second cell meets the cell size criterion, the user device is prevented from being switched from the first cell to the second cell, or at least one of (i) a handover parameter or (ii) a cell reselection parameter is adjusted in order to change a probability that the user device will switch from the first cell to the second cell.
US09980179B2
The present disclosure describes approaches for managing computational resources in a network environment. A computational resource may include any resource consumable over a network and available in finite supply. One example is a method comprising receiving a request associated with initiating a communication session in a network. The request may identify a source endpoint and a destination endpoint of the communication session and a value of a computational resource associated with the communication session. A measure of the computational resource may be determined for at least one network element in a path from the source endpoint to the destination endpoint. At least one rule may be applied to determine whether to allow the communication session to be initiated at the value. The at least one rule may identify alternative values for the computational resource. An instruction to initiate the communication session is generated based on the at least one rule.
US09980177B2
Detection of an unbalanced network load and redistribution of network traffic to balance the network load is provided herein. Load balancing across different radios in the same sector of a cell site can be facilitated through detection of the unbalance network load and changes to one or more parameters can be made to rebalance the network load. After radios within a sector are more evenly balanced, network load balancing across sectors can be facilitated. The balancing can be performed to improve system performance, reduce a dropped call rate, as well as to achieve other benefits that can provide an improved user experience as compared to systems that do not attempt to balance the network load.
US09980176B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data offloading method and a base station. The method includes: sending, by a master base station, a first request message to a mobility management control node, where the first request message includes an address of a local gateway of a secondary base station, and the first request message is used to request to perform data offloading at the local gateway of the secondary base station; receiving, by the master base station, a first response message that is sent by the mobility management control node according to the first request message, where the first response message includes a first related identifier ID of the local gateway of the secondary base station, and the first related ID is used to indicate a first bearer according to which data offloading is performed at the local gateway of the secondary base station.
US09980174B2
The present disclosure discloses a network device and method for advertising channel load. The disclosed network device aggregates a number of clients that are associated with the network device on a specific wireless communication channel, and advertises the aggregated number to a client on the specific wireless communication channel. Further, the network device can receive aggregated load information on the specific wireless communication channel from another management network device, and further aggregates the load information across multiple wireless networks operating on the same wireless communication channel and coupled to different management network devices.
US09980163B2
An Admission Control Node and a method performed thereby for enabling a measurement between a first and a second device in a communication network, and a first device and a method performed thereby for performing the measurement between the first device and the second device in a communication network are provided. The method in the Admission Control Node comprises receiving, from the first device, a request for performing the measurement between the first and the second device and, determining segments comprised in a path between the first and the second device. The method also comprises determining a current measurement situation for the segments, and deciding to allow or reject the request for performing the measurement based on the current measurement situation for the segments. The method further comprises informing the first device about the decision of allowing or rejecting the request for performing the measurement.
US09980155B2
A method, system, and logic for upgrading mesh points of a wireless mesh network. One method includes maintaining a mesh topology data structure containing information on the tree topology of a wireless mesh network. The method further includes using a tree-walking method to send an upgrade message to the root access point and to each other mesh point in the wireless mesh network until each mesh point has received the upgrade message. Receiving the upgrade message enables the receiving mesh point to upgrade according to the contents of the upgrade message without necessarily disrupting the mesh network.
US09980151B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for transmission on unlicensed spectrum in a UE and a base station. In view of the problem of DFS constraints and PHICH resource waste that is caused by communication of an uplink synchronous HARQ on unlicensed spectrum, in the present disclosure, logical information is configured so that PUSCHs transmitted through different sub-frames on different physical carriers form one logical carrier, and PHICH resources are reserved for the logical carrier. As an embodiment, downlink signaling is sent in a sub-frame for sending a PHICH so as to indicate transmission bandwidth for data retransmission. The solution provided in the present disclosure saves PHICH resources and eliminates the constraints on the DFS by the synchronous HARQ. Besides, the present disclosure reuses the CA scheme in the existing LTE as much as possible, and has high compatibility.
US09980150B2
A node device using a TV white space (TVWS) includes a decision unit for comparing energy levels of a first sub-channel and at least one second sub-channel adjacent to the first sub-channel among a plurality of sub-channels with respect to a digital TV (DTV) channel including the plurality of sub-channels and deciding whether the DTV channel is an available channel, and a discovery unit for, if the DTV channel is decided as the available channel, discovering a beacon by scanning the first sub-channel in the DTV channel.
US09980144B1
A wireless relay serves User Equipment (UE) with hardware-trusted wireless data communications over Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 links and Long Term Evolution (LTE) links. The wireless relay maintains hardware-trusted wireless backhaul links to a data network. The wireless relay broadcasts an IEEE 802.11 Service Set Identifier (SSID) and a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Network Identifier (NID). The UE wirelessly transfers a hardware-trusted attachment request using the 802.11 SSID or the LTE NID. The wireless relay validates hardware-trust of the UE, and in response, establishes a hardware-trusted attachment of the UE. The wireless relay exchanges user data with the UE using hardware-trusted circuitry. The wireless relay exchanges the user data over hardware-trusted wireless backhaul links.
US09980143B2
A communication system including: a terminal, and a base station configured to wirelessly couple to the terminal using a first frequency band, wherein a second frequency band is used for wirelessly coupling the base station to the terminal instead of the first frequency band only when a specified application program executed in the terminal communicates only with a specified network via the base station, the second frequency band being used for communication between the specified application program and the specified application program.
US09980138B2
Mobile operation is extended to a device. An extension interface comprises a client component within a mobile that is linked to a client component within the device. Extension of mobile operation is secured via delivery of credentials associated with the mobile to the device. Delivery of credentials is temporary and typically spans the period during which mobile operation is extended to the device. Application(s) and content(s) can be conveyed to the device for utilization therein. An emulation component that can reside at least in part on the client component within the device can emulate mobile operation. Client component within the mobile can include at least in part (i) a component that downloads drivers for communication with, and utilization of, the device to which mobile operation is extended, and (ii) a component that can scan for wireless-capable devices to extend mobile service thereto.
US09980130B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus to initiate a session with a packet gateway for a connecting device configured to authenticate with a subscribing wireless device's authentication information. In some embodiments, an access node is configured to receive identification information uniquely identifying the connecting device, and based on the identification information received, provide a service to the connecting device and/or send a session request message to the packet gateway to establish a session for the connecting device, the session request message including information distinguishing the connecting device from another wireless device configured to authenticate with the authentication information associated with the subscribing wireless device.
US09980116B2
A system and method for improving upon limitations of conventional infrastructure communications systems. A sensor architecture may include a multiple protocol communications paradigm to enhance whole building sensor management. A system may have one or more innovations that include anticipatory alarms, nuisance alarm reduction, and big data building profiling.
US09980107B2
A vehicle messaging transmission method, a vehicle messaging transmitter, a vehicle messaging reception method, a vehicle messaging receiver, an infrastructure node method, and infrastructure node and computer program products are disclosed. The vehicle messaging transmission method, comprises: detecting a vehicle event; and transmitting both a vehicle-to-vehicle message over a vehicle-to-vehicle radio link, the vehicle-to-vehicle message identifying the vehicle event and a vehicle-to-infrastructure message over a vehicle-to-infrastructure radio link, the vehicle-to-infrastructure message identifying the vehicle event. In this way, rather than periodically transmitting location messages, instead messages are only transmitted when a particular event occurs. This helps to reduce the volume of messages since the messages are only transmitted when an event occurs. Also transmitting a vehicle-to-vehicle message enables messages to be transmitted quickly, with reduced latency. Furthermore, because the messages are only sent when an event occurs, privacy and security concerns are reduced. As will be explained in more detail below, transmitting a vehicle-to-vehicle message enables other vehicles which receive the message to receive that message quickly and to respond rapidly to the event, while the vehicle-to-infrastructure message can be used to authenticate the validity of the vehicle-to-vehicle message and provide additional assurance to the receiving vehicle that the message is genuine.
US09980099B2
One embodiment provides a method for location detection using an indoor ceiling pattern within a building, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: capturing, using an image capture device, an image of the indoor ceiling pattern; identifying, within the image, at least one object; generating, based on the at least one object, a key matrix; determining if the key matrix matches a subset of a known key matrix; and responsive to the determining, identifying, based on the known key matrix, a location of the image capture device within the building. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09980093B1
A mobile terminal device includes a display unit, an operation unit, a position detection unit, a communication unit, and a controller. The operation unit is operated by a user. The position detection unit detects a position of the mobile terminal device. The communication unit makes communication with another mobile terminal device. The controller decides whether the another mobile terminal device is approaching the mobile terminal device on a basis of a position of the another mobile terminal device received by the communication unit, and the position of the mobile terminal device detected by the position detection unit, and darkens a part or whole of a screen of the display unit, upon deciding that the another mobile terminal device is approaching.
US09980092B1
Each of a plurality of transmitters, which are distributed at fixed locations of a site, regularly transmits radio signals. A mesh node performs measurements on radio signals transmitted by at least one transmitter and transmits messages including results of the measurements. The mesh node belongs to a plurality of mesh nodes, each configured to monitor at least one environmental parameter at the site. A gateway node receives messages transmitted by the mesh node directly and/or via at least one other mesh node of the plurality of mesh nodes, wherein each of the plurality of mesh nodes is configured to receive messages from other mesh nodes of the plurality of mesh nodes and to forward received messages. The gateway node transmits received messages to a server that is configured to monitor mesh nodes at the site based on results of measurements.
US09980082B2
Systems, components, and methods for tracking, monitoring, and optionally reminding for use with hospitals, businesses, and office buildings. The components of the systems can include wearable advertising devices (WAD) that emit BLE signals, repeaters and/or gateways for receiving and relaying the BLE signals over a BLE Mesh network to a remote server. IR codes can be included to detect the presence of a WAD before the WAD is energized to emit a BLE signal.
US09980066B2
An external component for a bone conduction hearing implant is described. An external housing contains an electromagnetic drive coil, a coil core, and at least one spacer container located adjacent to one of the longitudinal ends of the coil core and configured to hold an optional removable spacer piece. The coil core and any pole pieces and side pieces are configured to magnetically interact with an implant magnet in the bone conduction transducer in the absence of electrical current in the drive coil to hold the external housing in the fixed attachment on the skin of the hearing implant patient over the bone conduction transducer. And electrical current in the drive coil magnetically interacts with the coil core and any pole pieces and side pieces to generate the implant communication signals to the implant magnet to create a mechanical vibration signal in the bone conduction transducer for perception by the patient as sound.
US09980062B2
A hearing aid includes a hearing aid housing and an antenna device constructed to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic waves having a predetermined wavelength lambda. The antenna device has a frame incorporated in the hearing aid housing for holding assemblies of the hearing aid and the frame has an electrically conductive structure being an integral part of the frame. A method for producing a hearing aid includes patterning a surface of the frame, applying an electrically conductive layer to the surface of the frame and incorporating the frame into the hearing aid housing.
US09980048B2
Methods and apparatuses for headbands and headphones are disclosed. In one example, a headband includes an outer band and an inner band. The inner band includes an inner band left arm, an inner band right arm, and an elastic material coupled between the inner band left arm and the inner band right arm.
US09980032B2
An earphone device includes first and second earphone bodies into which respective electro-acoustic transducers are built; first and second cables, one end of each of which is connected to the respective earphone body and within each of which a switch member to be turned on by one-way press is disposed over a predetermined range along the length direction of the cable so that the cable has switch functions; wherein a switch is shunted into two switches by the first and second cables, portions of the first and second cables having switch functions are arranged one on top of the other, and an overlapped portion is unidirectionally pressed to simultaneously turn on the respective switches. In addition, a sound-reproducing system is configured by combining a mobile terminal which operates in conjunction with this earphone device.
US09980023B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for recording high output power levels of sound at low sound pressure levels. For example, an apparatus comprises an enclosure, a speaker disposed within the enclosure, a microphone disposed within the enclosure, and an evacuation port. The evacuation port is configured to connect to a system that reduces a pressure level within the enclosure to a level that is less than an ambient air pressure level outside the enclosure. The enclosure is sealed or otherwise configured to provide a sealed enclosure, to maintain the reduced air pressure within the enclosure. The speaker can be driven by an amplifier at high output power levels to generate a distorted sound of an amplified electric musical instrument for recording purposes, while the reduced pressure level within the enclosure serves to attenuate the sound pressure level and perceived loudness which emanates from the speaker.
US09980018B2
A communication device including a system circuit board and an antenna element is presented. A radiation metal strip of the antenna element does not lie on the same surface as the system circuit board. The radiation metal strip and a ground plane are separated by a clearance region. The radiation metal strip comprises a first metal strip, a second metal strip, and a coupling metal strip. A first end is located in the first metal strip and connected to the ground plane by a first inductive element. A second end is located in the second metal strip and connected to the ground plane by a second inductive element. A first gap is located between the coupling metal strip and the first metal strip. A second gap is located between the coupling metal strip and the second metal strip. The coupling metal strip is connected to a signal source.
US09980008B2
Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
US09979992B2
A system for securely providing adaptive bit rate streaming media content on-demand may include a security server of a program distributor that selects, based on a received authorized request, which of a differently encrypted stored versions of a “special segment” of the requested program to deliver to the receiving device during the transmission of the requested program. The selection may be based on a pseudo-random selection process per request for the program based on an identifier of the request associated with the remote control device. The selection of which of the differently encrypted stored versions of the “special segment” of the ordered program to deliver may be=based on the current session. The secure remote then sends to the receiving device the correct decryption key for the receiving device to decrypt the particular encrypted version selected of the “special segment” to be sent to the receiving device.
US09979985B2
The technology is directed to appropriately executing banding suppression processing on a receiving side. A container having a predetermined format and including a video stream including encoded image data is transmitted. In the video stream, information related to banding suppression processing for the image data is inserted. The information includes, for example, information indicating whether the banding suppression processing has been applied to the image data, and information indicating whether banding suppression processing should be applied to the image data. On the receiving side, the banding suppression processing can be controlled based on the information related to banding suppression processing transmitted from the transmitting side, and the banding suppression processing can be appropriately executed.
US09979980B2
A video encoding apparatus is a video encoding apparatus for subjecting a video image to motion compensated prediction coding, comprising an acquisition module to acquire available blocks of blocks having motion vectors from encoded blocks adjacent to a to-be-encoded block and number of the available blocks, an acquisition/selection module to select one selection block from the encoded available blocks, a selection information encoder to encode selection information specifying the selection block using a code table corresponding to the number of available blocks, and an image encoder to subject the to-be-encoded block to motion compensated prediction coding using a motion vector of the selection block.
US09979946B2
Provided are an I/O device, an I/O program, and an I/O method that enable visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if a target object that is a real image were in contact with a stereoscopic image that is a virtual image. The I/O device according to the present invention includes: a display device that can generate a stereoscopic image; and a depth level sensor that measures a distance to a target object. A stereoscopic region of the stereoscopic image generated by the display device and a depth level detection region of the depth level sensor overlap with each other to thereby have a common region therebetween. As a result, the visual recognition with such a sense of distance as if the target object that is a real image were in contact with the stereoscopic image that is a virtual image is possible.
US09979932B2
A method of controlling a surveillance system having a visible imaging camera for obtaining a visible image of an object and a display apparatus, includes providing a color visible image, from the visible imaging camera, to the display apparatus and generating a color background image by extracting a background area from the color visible image when a current ambient illuminance belongs to a daytime illuminance range, and replacing a background area of a black and white visible image, from the visible imaging camera, with the color background image and providing a mixed image as a result of the replacement to the display apparatus when the current illuminance belongs to the nighttime illuminance range.
US09979930B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a head-wearable apparatus, a 3D video call system and a method for implementing 3D video call. The present disclosure relates to virtual reality technologies and is invented to relatively completely shoot video images of the scenario where the user locates, achieve real-time 3D video call between users of both parties, and mutually share scenes viewed by themselves. The head-wearable apparatus comprises at least two cameras which are spaced apart from each other and arranged on the head fixing means and/or the video output unit, and field of vision of the at least two cameras superimposes and covers all positions in a horizontal direction. In a preferred embodiment, the head-wearable apparatus further comprises a video collecting unit which consists of two neighboring cameras, and the two neighboring cameras synchronously shoot the same scenario according to a distance between two pupils of human eyes to obtain left and right eye image data at different angles to synthesize a stereo image with a 3D effect.
US09979928B2
The present disclosure provides an internet interface circuit, which includes an ethernet interface, a first isolating transformer, a second isolating transformer, a network signal processing chip and a first interference defending circuit; the ethernet interface is used for receiving and sending a network signal; the first isolating transformer is used for separating a receiving data end of the ethernet interface from the network signal receiving chip; the second isolating transformer is used for separating a sending data end of the ethernet interface from the network signal receiving chip; the first interference defending circuit is used for defending common-mode interference and differential-mode interference of the receiving data end of the ethernet interface; the network signal processing chip is used for processing the network signal. The present disclosure also provides a television. The internet interface protecting circuit of the present disclosure can defend the common-mode interference and differential-mode interference.
US09979919B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel signal-processing unit which includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, wherein the pixel signal-processing unit outputs an total pixel signal while outputting a reduced pixel signal; a difference calculation unit which outputs a digital value obtained by calculating a difference between a digital value indicating a magnitude of the total pixel signal and a digital value indicating a magnitude of the reduced pixel signal; and a bit number reduction unit which reduces the number of bits of either the digital value obtained by calculating the difference, or the digital value indicating the magnitude of the total pixel signal, and outputs a digital value whose number of bits is reduced, wherein the solid-state imaging device outputs the digital value corresponding to the total pixel signal and the digital value indicating the magnitude of the reduced pixel signal.
US09979918B2
The present invention provides an image sensor comprising a pixel array module composed of pixel groups, multiple switch control modules, a PFA, a pipelined ADC and a decode module. Each pixel group comprises multiple unit pixels which form at least one unit pixel. Each switch control module corresponds to a row of the pixel array module and includes a first transmission circuit and a second transmission circuit. The PGA process the data outputted by the first and second transmission circuits and the pipelined ADC performs A/D conversion to the data outputted by the PGA. The decode module controls the first and second transmission circuits of each row to alternately read and transmit the unit pixel data, and controls all the first and second transmission circuits to successively output the data of the unit pixels readout thereby to the PGA.
US09979917B2
An example information processing apparatus including an infrared light emitter capable of emitting infrared light and a camera capable of at least taking an infrared light image is provided. In the information processing apparatus, first, an image taken by use of the camera is obtained. A face detection process based on the image is repeatedly executed. Then, based on a result of the face detection process, emission of the infrared light is stopped and emission of the infrared light is resumed after a lapse of a predetermined time period.
US09979914B2
An imaging device includes first and second pixel cells. The first and second pixel cells each include: a photoelectric converter that generates charge; a first charge transfer channel that has a first end electrically connected to the photoelectric converter, and a second end, the charge transfer channel transferring the charge in a direction from the first end toward the second end; a second charge transfer channel that branches from a position of the charge transfer channel, the second charge transfer channel transferring at least a part of the charge; and a charge accumulator that accumulates charge transferred via the second charge transfer channel. Distances from the first end to the position in the direction of the first and second pixel cells are different from each other.
US09979913B2
A driving method of an imaging device, and a driving method of an imaging system set the number of unit cells based on signals output from a plurality of unit cells in a phase difference detection area within an imaging area to a number larger than the number of unit cells based on signals output from a plurality of unit cells in a range other than the phase difference detection area within the imaging area.
US09979910B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises a pixel region in which unit pixels are disposed, a floating diffusion portion which converts signal charges into voltage signals, an output line on which a signal based on a voltage at the floating diffusion portion is output, and a switching unit that switches between a first readout mode, in which all of the signal charges from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are transferred to the floating diffusion portion and read out from the output line, and a second readout mode, in which the signal charges from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are transferred at least one at a time to the floating diffusion portion and read out from the output line independently, wherein the switching unit switches the readout mode based on a dark current amount.
US09979908B2
According to various embodiments, an image processing device may be provided. The image processing device may include: an input circuit configured to receive input image data including pixels related to varying exposure times; an interpolation circuit configured to determine an output image based on an interpolation based on the input image data; and an output circuit configured to output the output image.
US09979907B2
An image sensor including: a plurality of sensing elements, each sensing element including a plurality of layers of varying sensitivities, wherein the plurality of layers is configured to record impinging photons, and wherein each layer of each sensing element is configured to attenuate flow of the photons into the next layer. Key words include a multi-layered sensor and high-dynamic range.
US09979890B2
An electronic device has multiple cameras and displays a digital viewfinder user interface for previewing visual information provided by the cameras. The multiple cameras may have different properties such as focal lengths. When a single digital viewfinder is provided, the user interface allows zooming over a zoom range that includes the respective zoom ranges of both cameras. The zoom setting to determine which camera provides visual information to the viewfinder and which camera is used to capture visual information. The user interface also allows the simultaneous display of content provided by different cameras at the same time. When two digital viewfinders are provided, the user interface allows zooming, freezing, and panning of one digital viewfinder independently of the other. The device allows storing of a composite images and/or videos using both digital viewfinders and corresponding cameras.
US09979870B2
A camera module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a housing which comprises a supporting part and in which the inside space therein is divided by the supporting part into a first space and a second space; an image sensor housed in the first space; a lens unit arranged on the image sensor; a light-outputting unit arranged between the lens unit and the housing; and a light source unit arranged in the second space so as to correspond to the light-outputting unit, wherein the light-outputting unit outputs light incident from the light source unit to the outside.
US09979865B2
A vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus includes: a camera that captures images of an outside of the vehicle; a storage chamber in which the camera is stored; a lid that opens and closes an aperture extending between an inside of the storage chamber and an outside of the storage chamber. Moreover, the vehicle-mounted electronic apparatus further includes an opening switch that is actuated in response to pressure applied to the lid and that sends a signal for opening a door of a luggage compartment of the vehicle when the opening switch is actuated. Thus, the opening switch and the camera can be disposed in a same position of the vehicle.
US09979864B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquirer configured to acquire an input image generated by an image pickup apparatus that controls exposure of an image sensor with a light flux from an image pickup optical system using a shutter, and a processor configured to perform image restoration processing for the input image using an image restoration filter generated based on an optical transmission function from the image pickup optical system to the image sensor in the exposure. When one of a front curtain and a back curtain in the shutter is an electronic curtain and the other is a mechanical curtain, the processor uses, for the image restoration filter, a first image restoration filter generated based on the optical transmission function in a state where the mechanical curtain partially shields the light flux from the image pickup optical system to the image sensor.
US09979858B2
To specify a contour to be detected even when there are a plurality of candidates of the contour on the periphery of a photographing target, an image processing apparatus comprises: a determining unit which detects a plurality of candidate points being the candidates of the contour of a subject based on distance image information of the subject in an image, and determines an inspection-target area in the image based on the detected candidate points; and a specifying unit which detects line segments existing in the inspection-target area determined by the determining unit, based on luminance information of the inspection-target area, and specifies the line segment being the contour of the subject based on the candidate point from the detected line segments.
US09979857B2
In an image reader, a controller acquires a set of first black data for each pixel in a line by reading one line worth of image via a light receiver with a light source being turned off when a detector detects that a cover is in an open state. Subsequently, the controller acquires a set of white data for the each pixel in the line by reading a white reference member via the light receiver with the light source emitting light when the detector detects that the cover is in the open state. The controller calculates a set of correction data for the each pixel in the line by subtracting the set of first black data of the each pixel from the set of first white data of the each pixel. The set of correction data is used in a shading correction.
US09979855B2
An image processing system includes: an image processing apparatus; an instruction server configured to transmit instruction information to the image processing apparatus via a router having a firewall function; and a session server configured to set up a session between the image processing apparatus and the instruction server. The image processing apparatus is configured to switch, in a case where the state of the image processing apparatus is a power saving state when a time specified by a transmission interval elapses from transmission of a connection confirmation packet for the session with the instruction server, to a state in which at least the connection confirmation packet can be transmitted.
US09979853B2
Information is encoded in an image signal by exploiting spectral differences between colors that appear the same when rendered. These spectral differences are detected using image sensing that discerns the spectral differences. Spectral difference detection methods include using sensor-synchronized spectrally-structured-light imaging, 3D sensors, imaging spectrophotometers, and higher resolution Bayer pattern capture relative to resolution of patches used to convey a spectral difference signal.
US09979852B2
An image reading apparatus includes: three or more light sources configured to each emit light; a light receiving unit including a common light receiving surface configured to detect each light emitted; and an image generation unit configured to cause the three or more light sources to be switched over in a predetermined order and emit the corresponding light, and generate an image read from a document, wherein at least one of the three or more light sources includes a white light source and an optical filter, and the optical filter is configured such that a half-value width of a wavelength with respect to a maximum intensity of a spectral characteristic of the emitted light after transmission is wider than a half-value width of a wavelength with respect to a maximum intensity of the spectral characteristic of the light emitted from at least one of the other light sources.
US09979851B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device and a communication device configured to perform data communication with at least one external image forming apparatus. A first mode is a mode in which a speed of image forming is a first speed, and the second mode is a mode in which the speed of the image forming is a second speed less than the first speed. When image forming is to be performed in a second mode, the image forming apparatus determines an image forming apparatus to be used to perform first image forming to at least one first external image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus transmits image data relating to the first image forming to the at least one first external image forming apparatus and controls the image forming device to form an image relating to second image forming.
US09979850B2
To reliably read settings information PD (network settings PD1, printer settings PD2) from memory and correctly set the settings information PD in a printer, a wireless tag 62 storing the settings information PD is disposed to a cover member 40b that is removably installable to a network-connectable printing unit 40a, a reading device 60 that reads the settings information PD from the wireless tag 62 is disposed to the printing unit 40a, and a configurator 50b configures settings based on the read settings information PD.
US09979847B2
A flow application receives an event generated by an MFP. If a type of data relating to the event is an expansion program including a definition file, and if an event type is installation, the flow application registers an object associated with the definition file included in the expansion program according to installation of the expansion program.
US09979845B2
A controller of an image reading apparatus is configured to cause the reading device to read an image on an original with moving a reading location from a first position to a second position, after reading the image on the original with moving the reading location from a third position to the first position, the third position being a position between the first position and the second position and spaced from the first position by a particular distance and determining a width of the original in the main scanning direction. The controller is configured to further move the reading location from the second position to the first position, and detect an instruction to continue reading a subsequent original during a period before the reading location reaches the third position. When the instruction is detected, the controller stops moving the reading location when it reaches the third position.
US09979839B2
An information interchange unit, a storage unit, and a display controller are configured such that, after a image selection unit selects a first image and a second image, the information interchange unit interchanges, automatically, first image information of the first image with second image information of the second image, or interchanges, automatically, first position information of the first image with second position information of the second image, the storage unit stores and correlates the first image information and the second position information, and stores and correlates the second image information and the first position information, and the display controller controls, automatically, a display to display the one image based on the first image information and the second position information, and the another image based on the second image information and the first position information.
US09979835B1
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium to provide a user interface that allows a user to configure a traffic control service, the traffic control service including at least one of a content-based service, an application-based service, a time-based service, a location-based service, or a quality-of-service-based service; receive, via the user interface, selections of parameters that govern the traffic control service, and a unique identifier of an end user to which the traffic control service pertains; configure the traffic control service in a line card of a network device included in the data path, wherein the configuration includes the rules data and the unique identifier in the line card, and the traffic control service that includes an in-line quota enforcement service and a charging record service.
US09979834B2
The disclosure provides a system and method for metering on a prepaid wireless access point the amount of data transferred between a wireless device and the Internet and inhibiting further data transmission when the amount of prepaid data available reaches or drops below a pre-determined threshold. Specifically, the wireless access point includes a metering client to track one of data usage or an amount of prepaid data available. When the metering client indicates that the amount of data available has dropped below a pre-determined threshold, the wireless access point inhibits further data transmission.
US09979829B2
Embodiments are described for a soundfield system that receives a transmitting soundfield, wherein the transmitting soundfield includes a sound source at a location in the transmitting soundfield. The system determines a rotation angle for rotating the transmitting soundfield based on a desired location for the sound source. The transmitting soundfield is rotated by the determined angle and the system obtains a listener's soundfield based on the rotated transmitting soundfield. The listener's soundfield is transmitted for rendering to a listener.
US09979825B2
A system and method for establishing contact between a customer contact center agent and a customer based on customer availability information. A plurality of communication channels that may be used to communicate with the customer is monitored by the contact center. The availability of the customer is identified for each of the plurality of communication channels and user availability data is dynamically adjusted for each of the plurality of communication channels. The user availability data is provided to a contact center agent handling, for example, an offline task involving the customer. The contact center agent may use the availability data to establish contact with the customer to better handle the offline task.
US09979824B2
A method mediated by a Service for automatically connecting callers to agents at a call center environment using a communication network. The method comprises receiving at the Service a first call from a Caller to a Destination and placing a call from the Service to the Destination. The method further comprises determining that an Agent at the Destination has answered or is about to answer the placed call, notifying the Caller that an Agent has answered or is about to answer the placed call, receiving at the Service a second call from the Caller, and connecting the Caller to the Agent. The method may advantageously be used in combination with an App for a smartphone. A system is adapted to perform the method for automatic connection.
US09979813B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for analyzing an incoming telephonic event (e.g., call, message, and/or notification) to a mobile device during operation of a vehicle in relation to a combination of factors to determine if the incoming telephonic event is to be allowed to be received during vehicle operation. The mobile device associated with a driver of the vehicle may receive the incoming telephonic event during operation of the vehicle. An incoming telephonic event analysis application operating on the mobile device may apply a soft block preventing the incoming telephonic event from being displayed on the mobile device. Based on the incoming telephonic event data, vehicle operational data, user preferences, hands-free device activation, and driver and road ratings, the incoming telephonic event analysis application may determine whether or not to maintain the soft block or allow the incoming telephonic event to be displayed on the mobile device during operation of the vehicle.
US09979806B2
A system and method for connecting a user to business services monitors all attempts by the user to place outgoing telephone calls. When a user is attempting to place a call to a business, the system checks to see if the business has created a voice application that could be performed for the user. If so, the business' voice application is performed for the user on the user's local device, instead of connecting the user to the business' customer service line. If no voice application is available for the user, then the system connects the user to the business' customer service line, either through a telephone network, or through a data network connection.
US09979798B2
Present disclosure relates to a desktop cloud manager configured to manage thin client computers. The desktop cloud manager includes: XMS server processor, XMS communication interface for communicating between desktop cloud manager and thin client computers, thin client computer database for storing thin client computers and peripherals information; and non-volatile memory storing an XMS server operating system, and firmware having thin client management software. When executed by XMS server processor, thin client management software firmware performs one or more of following operations: (a) connecting to thin client computers through a cloud, (b) discovering thin client computers using UPnP protocol, (c) registering thin client computers at thin client computer database, (d) detecting management modes of thin client computers, (e) provisioning functionalities of thin client computers according to management modes, (f) configuring device settings of the peripherals attached to thin client computers, and (g) managing and controlling thin client computers connected through cloud.
US09979794B2
Methods and apparatus for sharing entropy between an entropy broker and various devices wherein the entropy broker receives a communication from a client. Responsive to determining that the client provided entropy, the entropy broker tests the provided entropy for randomness and stores provided entropy that passes verification and responsive to determining that the client requested entropy, the entropy broker adds the client to an entropy queue.
US09979793B2
A method and system for choosing at least one network interface among a plurality of network interfaces to send and receive information data by determining performance data for a plurality of network interface groups. A network interface group comprises one or more network interfaces of a network device. Performance data of a network interface group is determined by sending testing data through at least one network interface comprised in the network interface group. Performance data may be based on a report received from a test server to which the testing data was sent. Performance data is determined according to one or more performance metrics such as a CPU usage metric, a memory usage metric, a response time metric, a packet delay metric, a packet latency metric, a bandwidth metric, a throughput metric, packet loss, packet drop, a power consumption metric, or a signal to noise ratio (SNR) metric. When performance data is determined according to more than one performance metric, weights are assigned to the more than one performance metrics. A network interface group with best performance, according to the performance data, is selected. Information data is sent and received through one or more network interfaces comprised in the network interface group selected.
US09979786B2
A system comprises a storage device, a piece of medical equipment, a portable computing device, and a hub portal. The piece of medical equipment has at least one electrically powered feature and comprises either a medical examination table or a storage cabinet. The storage device is operable to store data and is remotely located relative to the first piece of medical equipment and relative to the portable computing device. The hub portal is operable to provide communication of one or both of data or commands between the storage device, the piece of medical equipment, and the portable computing device. A method includes enablement or activation of an electrically powered feature of medical equipment upon entry of a portable computing device into a medical examination room. The method also includes disablement or further activation of the electrically powered feature upon exit of the portable computing device from the medical examination room.
US09979785B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method for restoring data from opaque data backup streams may include (1) initiating a virtual restore of an opaque data backup stream that is designed to be parsed exclusively by a data backup application that created the stream, (2) determining, for each block of data, an original header and tail of the block based on a restored version of the block on the client, (3) sending the original header and tail of the block to a server, (4) creating, at the server, a mapping between a location of the block of data in the stream on the server and the original header and tail of the block, and (5) restoring, without using the data backup application, data in the stream by using the mapping to restore the original headers and tails of the blocks. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09979784B2
A method for backing cloud data up and a method for recovering cloud data are provided. A cloud server and a client device are connected to a cloud network. The method for backing cloud data up includes: using the client device to obtain an installed application list and to show the installed application list; using the client device to choose a application in the application list; using the client device to obtain a access path where the backup of the application data file in the client device is and to transmit the access path and a backup of the application data file to the cloud server; and using the cloud server to save the access path and the corresponding backup of the application data file. By using the present inventive method, any user's chosen data can be shared among the cloud server and the client device.
US09979779B2
A method for scheduling a deployment in a first server and a second server identifies a succeeding task out of tasks deployed in the first server. The succeeding task is a task required to wait for an end of a preceding task. The preceding task is one of tasks deployed in the second server. The method sets a wait task in a process of the deployment in the first server. The wait task is a task to wait for an execution timing of the succeeding task. The method decides an execution timing of the wait task on a basis of an overlapping time of a first download task and a second download task. The first download task is one of the tasks deployed in the first server. The second download task is one of the tasks deployed in the second server.
US09979778B2
A cloud data management method, an electronic apparatus and a cloud server are proposed. The method includes: executing an application launcher installed on the electronic apparatus to send a connection establishing request to the cloud server installed with an application; receiving a finishing command from the cloud server through a connection; and loading the application into a sandbox in the electronic apparatus through the application launcher in response to the finishing command, wherein the application is not installed on the electronic apparatus.
US09979777B1
A system and method for generating a stream of content includes a content stream module that generates a model based on user input and/or prior activities using heterogeneous data sources. The heterogeneous data sources include search, entertainment, social activity and activity on third-party sites. The content stream module retrieves candidate content items that have interests that are similar to the user. The candidate content items are compared to the model and scored based upon interestingness of the content item to the user. The content stream module generates the stream of content from the candidate content items.
US09979776B2
Methods and systems are presented for remotely commanding a mobile device. In one aspect, a method includes receiving input identifying a mobile device, presenting to a user one or more remote commands corresponding to the mobile device, receiving user input selecting a remote command from the one or more presented remote commands, generating a remote command message instructing the mobile device to execute the selected remote command, and transmitting the remote command message to a server for publication in a message topic. Further, a selectable list of mobile devices associated with a remote management account can be presented to the user, the selectable list including information uniquely identifying each mobile device. Additionally, the selectable list of mobile devices can include an indication of whether an included mobile device is online.
US09979756B2
A user device registers with a proxy-call session control function device (P-CSCF) associated with an Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS). The user device forwards a request to the P-CSCF requesting a session via the IMS for an IMS call. If a response to the request is not received from the P-CSCF during a time period after forwarding the request, the user device attempts to newly register with the P-CSCF. If the new registration is successful, the user device re-forwards the request to the P-CSCF. Otherwise, if the new registration with the P-CSCF is unsuccessful, the user device registers with a different P-CSCF and forwards the request to the second P-CSCF.
US09979751B2
Embodiments of an application gateway architecture may include an application gateway server computer communicatively connected to backend systems and client devices operating on different platforms. The application gateway server computer may include application programming interfaces and services configured for communicating with the backend systems and managed containers operating on the client devices. The application gateway server computer may provide applications that can be centrally managed and may extend the capabilities of the client devices, including the ability to authenticate across backend systems. A managed container may include a managed cache and may provide a secure shell for applications received from the application gateway server computer. The managed container may store the applications in the managed cache and control access to the managed cache according to rules propagated from at least one of the backend systems via the application gateway server computer.
US09979749B2
A method and apparatus for network security elements using endpoint resources. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a request for access to a network at an endpoint server. The method further includes detecting that the request for access to the network includes a request that is unauthorized. The request for access to the network is directed to a network security element.
US09979746B2
According to an example, a web page is loaded and description information of the web page and layout information of the web page are generated, the description information of the web page is compared with the layout information of the web page, whether all tag nodes comprised in the description information of the web page are comprised in the layout information of the web page is determined, and it is determined at least one tag node, which being comprised in the description information of the web page and not contained in the layout information of the web page, as hidden content.
US09979743B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining a network path between computer assets. One of the methods includes receiving an asset topology that includes an identifier for each computer-related asset that may be an entry point for an attack simulation, receiving threat data that identifies vulnerabilities of computer-related assets, determining a first computer-related asset that may be an entry point for an attack simulation, identifying one or more first vulnerabilities of the first computer-related asset, determining a path from the first computer-related asset to a second computer-related asset, determining one or more second vulnerabilities of the second computer-related asset, determining a probability that the second computer-related asset will be compromised by an adversary, and determining a change to the asset topology to reduce the probability that the second computer-related asset will be compromised by an adversary.
US09979741B2
A method for detecting malware beaconing in a network, the method includes capturing network traffic over a network connection at a network connected device, representing the network traffic over the network connection as a set of tuples wherein each of the tuples defines an OSI layer 4 communications session and includes at least a source Internet Protocol address, a destination Internet Protocol address, and a destination port, associating timestamps with each of the set of tuples, and analyzing the tuples using the timestamps based on frequency of connections to determine malware beaconing on the network, wherein the analyzing is performed by a computing device.
US09979740B2
Data surveillance techniques are presented for the detection of security issues, especially of the kind where privileged data may be stolen by steganographic, data manipulation or any form of exfiltration attempts. Such attempts may be made by rogue users or admins from the inside of a network, or from outside hackers who are able to intrude into the network and impersonate themselves as legitimate users. The system and methods use a triangulation process whereby analytical results pertaining to data protocol, user-behavior and packet content are combined to establish a baseline for the data. Subsequent incoming data is then scored and compared against the baseline to detect any security anomalies. The techniques are also applicable for detecting performance issues indicative of a system malfunction or deterioration.
US09979739B2
A method for computer system forensics includes receiving an identification of at least one host computer (26) that has exhibited an anomalous behavior, in a computer network (24) comprising multiple host computers. Respective images (68) of the host computers in the network are assembled using image information collected with regard to the host computers. A comparison is made between at least one positive image of the at least one host computer, assembled using the image information collected following occurrence of the anomalous behavior, and one or more negative images assembled using the image information collected with respect to one or more of the host computers not exhibiting the anomalous behavior. Based on the comparison, a forensic indicator of the anomalous behavior is extracted from the positive and negative images.
US09979737B2
A method, using trust software executing from a machine-readable medium on a computerized appliance operating as a trust authority, to assign to a person, a file, or an enterprise an indication of trustworthiness, includes steps of (a) assembling information concerning the person, file, or enterprise; (b) applying trust logic to the information assembled for individual ones of the persons, files or enterprises to assign a trust score; and (c) storing the score associated with at least an identity of the person, file or enterprise.
US09979733B2
An identity management system is augmented to provide for automated provisioning of user accounts in an IAM system. A user account is autoprovisioned based on detected attribute patterns. Responsive to a user request from a requesting user for access to a first target, it is determined that access will require a creation of a new account on the first target. A set of existing account information is retrieved. The retrieved set of existing account information is analyzed to discover attribute patterns in the existing account information. Next, an account template is generated according to the discovered attribute patterns. Using the generated account template, a new account on the first target is created giving the user access to the target.
US09979718B2
A means for managing security and access to resources associated with blocks/sub-components of a distributed validating network, such as a blockchain network. Tags are created that can be applied to blocks so that a designated entity/user can locate the block though presentation of keywords associated with the tag. Additionally, a security token is generated that is assigned or otherwise provided to the designated entity/user which is configured to grant the designated entity access to resources in the block. Further, logic may be defined and applied to either the tag, the block and/or the security token that provides control over the access granted to the designated entities/users. The logic may define the period of time for which a designated entity/user is granted access to the block and/or the block's resources or the logic may define an amount of access granted to the designated entity/user.
US09979716B2
A protocol for issuing and controlling digital certificates is described in which an identity management system is used to identify a user requesting a digital certificate and is also used to issue the digital certificate itself. Accordingly, an IDM-based PKI system is provided.
US09979714B2
A social networking system provides access to personas comprising information, for example, web pages describing users or entities. The information may be suggested by the social networking system or requested by the user, for example, via search. The social networking system authenticates the personas so that only authentic personas are suggested to users or returned when a user is searching for information. The authenticity of a persona is determined based on the connections and/or likes coming from other personas, user accounts, or other entities represented within the social networking system that have been previously authenticated. The authenticity of the person is also determined based on external links to the persona, for example, external websites referring to the persona or the rate at which external systems such as search engines direct web traffic to the persona.
US09979705B2
A method, digital telephone and computer-readable medium for providing a user identity-based secure channel between the digital telephone and a service provider. At the service provider, an encrypted voice transmission from a digital telephone is decrypted. The voice transmission was encrypted at the digital telephone by using a user voice encryption key that was created in the digital telephone. The user voice encryption key was created at the digital telephone by inputting a telephone identifier and a called telephone number into a public encryption key algorithm that is supplied by the service provider. By decrypting the encrypted voice transmission, the service provider is able to extract the voice transmission, the telephone identifier, and the called telephone number, thus allowing the service provider to route the voice transmission to an appropriate answering party at the service provider.
US09979702B2
A method of enabling media recording compatibility between client devices, comprising provisioning a first client device associated with a subscriber identifier with a household key also associated with the subscriber identifier, receiving a media content stream at the first client device, the media content stream having been encrypted by a content provider, decrypting the media content stream at the first client device, creating a recording with the first client device by digitally recording a portion of the media content stream, encrypting the recording with the household key at the first client device, saving the recording to a memory device, and loading the recording onto a second client device that has also been provisioned with the household key, the second client device also being associated with the subscriber identifier, such that the second client device uses the household key to decrypt and play back the recording.
US09979700B2
A security system comprising: a first gateway device; a second gateway device; and a duplex communication line, wherein a first proxy part of the first gateway device is configured, if an inbound data is of a specific protocol, to receive a communication information of the specific protocol transmitted by the inbound data and to send the communication information of the specific protocol to the second gateway device, and, if the inbound data is not of the specific protocol, not to send the inbound data to the second gateway device, and wherein the second proxy part is configured, when the second gateway device receives the communication information of the specific protocol from the first proxy part, to acquire a destination address for communication in an internal network from the communication information of the specific protocol and to send the communication information of the specific protocol to the destination address.
US09979695B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring a security network interface unit (23), for example a firewall, which receives a stream of data packets via a first interface (21), checks said data stream with respect to filtering rules, and outputs said data stream to a second interface (22). The method has the steps of duplicating and outputting the data stream to the second interface (22), checking the output data stream for inadmissible data traffic, transmitting a warning message to the security network interface unit if inadmissible data traffic is detected in the data stream, and restricting the data stream by means of the security network interface unit if the warning message is received in the security network interface unit (23). The device or the system according to the invention comprises units which are designed to carry out the aforementioned method.
US09979694B2
Systems and method are provided for using proxy addresses to manage communications sent between virtual machine networks hosted by a substrate network. In some embodiments, the substrate network may identify a communication addressed from an instantiated component of a first hosted virtual network to a first proxy component of the first hosted virtual network. The substrate network may cause the communication to be received by a second instantiated component of a second host virtual network. Specifically, the substrate network may alter a destination address of the communication from a proxy address of the first proxy component to a network address of the second instantiated component. The substrate network may also alter a source address of the communication from a network address of the first instantiated component to a proxy address of a second proxy component.
US09979692B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for enabling the recall of messages. As an example, the method comprises receiving a message, where the message is created by a sender and configured to be sent to a recipient. The method further comprises identifying a first identifier for the message. The first identifier is configured to verify the sender of the message and enable a recall operation for the message. The recall operation results in the recall of the message, and the recall of the message involves cancelling the transmission of the message to the recipient or deleting the message.
US09979682B2
Providing series level updates for a series. A method includes identifying a master message. The master message is a series level message that includes a plurality of default properties for an ordered series. An ordered series of instance messages related to the series level message is identified. For each instance message in the ordered series of instance messages, one or more properties are identified that are not yet defined with default property values from the master message and that have not been defined as valid exceptions to the default properties from the master message. A default property value from a corresponding property of the master message is propagated to each of the identified properties. The ordered series is propagated to one or more legacy clients that are unable to consume certain series level messages by propagating the ordered series of instance messages with the updated property values.
US09979678B2
In a networked multi computer environment with redundant links, network interface cards (NICs) are commonly duplicated and teamed to provide a recovery mechanism when network components fail. Embodiments of the present inventions avoid teaming of pairs of NICs and provide a computing host with redundant network connections for the computing host through a switch that is transparent to the computing host. The computing host itself; that is, its hardware and software, is relieved of the duty of network access redundancy and returned to the simple, simplex networking operating mode. The switch replaces a potentially large number of NICs and the need for computing host network access redundancy management which leads to hardware and software cost reductions and increases the robustness and reliability of the system through redundant network access.
US09979675B2
Historical telemetry data can be used to generate predictions for various classes of data at various aggregates of a system that implements an online service. An anomaly detection process can then be utilized to detect anomalies for a class of data at a selected aggregate. An example anomaly detection process includes receiving telemetry data originating from a plurality of client devices, selecting a class of data from the telemetry data, converting the class of data to a set of metrics, aggregating the set of metrics according to a component of interest to obtain values of aggregated metrics over time for the component of interest, determining a prediction error by comparing the values of the aggregated metrics to a prediction, detecting an anomaly based at least in part on the prediction error, and transmitting an alert message of the anomaly to a receiving entity.
US09979672B2
The present invention provides a system, method and computer-readable media for generating virtual private clusters out of a group of compute resources. Typically, the group of compute resources involves a group of clusters independently administered. The method provides for aggregating the group of compute resources, partitioning the aggregated group of compute resources and presenting to each user in an organization a partition representation the organization's virtual private cluster. The users transparently view their cluster and have control over its operation. The partitions may be static or dynamic.
US09979666B2
A network and a communication method are described. The network comprises: source nodes, receiver nodes, and coding nodes. The coding nodes are connected with input links for communication of input signals to the coding nodes and output links for communication of output signals from the coding nodes. The output signals are a linear combination of the input signals. The coefficients of the linear combination are deterministically chosen based on local information available locally at the coding node.
US09979646B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide a multicast virtual private network (MVPN) are disclosed. An example method to transmit multicast data over a communication network includes receiving, at a first machine, a multicast data packet from an ingress provider edge router of the communication network, the multicast data packet associated with a multicast route, and transmitting a first replication of the multicast data packet from the first machine to a second machine via a first unicast path. The first replication of the multicast data packet includes a first label provided by the second machine to identify the multicast route in the second machine. Example methods further include receiving the first replication of the multicast data packet at the second machine via the first unicast path, and replicating the multicast data packet from the second machine to an egress provider edge router of the communication network.
US09979645B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a self-contained service function network layer between a chain (e.g., a logical chain or service function chain) and a substrate network. Embodiments of the present disclosure further provide techniques for constructing logical chains for service function networks using chain tables, organizing chain tables using application program interfaces (APIs), deploying service function networks to substrate networks, routing packets through a service function network and a substrate network, and inserting, deleting, re-routing, moving and substituting service functions in logical chains.
US09979643B2
A communication apparatus includes a first storage unit, a second storage, and a first registrator. The first storage stores at least a destination address representing an IPv6 address that is a destination of a packet and a next hop address representing an IPv6 address of a next hop representing the next destination to which the packet is transferred in association with each other. The second storage stores an IPv6 address of a default router to which the packet is transferred when it is not possible to determine the next hop address by using the first storage. When a second RA packet representing an RA packet other than first RA packets representing a RA packet for 6LowPAN is received, the first registrator registers an IPv6 address from which the second RA packet has been transmitted as an IPv6 address of the default router.
US09979637B2
A network flow management system includes controllers that are each coupled to a subset of switch devices, and a flow management server system that is coupled to each of the controllers. The flow management server system collects first-level flow information for the switch devices from the controllers, and filters and structures the first-level flow information to generate second-level flow information. The flow management server system then analyzes the second-level flow information based on current flow operation policies that are configured to cause the switch devices to perform first flow operations and, in response, determines flow operation policy changes. The flow management server system then distributes updated flow operation policies that includes the flow operation policy changes to each of the controllers, where the updated flow operation policies cause the switch devices to perform second flow operation that are different than the first flow operations.
US09979626B2
Embodiments of the present invention solve problems experienced by mesh networks concerning loop formation where two nodes are connected by both a wired and wireless link. The present invention prevents or ‘breaks’ a loop that that would otherwise result in continually repeating and delayed network data transmission.
US09979621B2
A method to provide a cyber attack resistant and fault tolerant precision clocking scheme for wide area critical infrastructure networks through what is called Distributed Time Source Validation, DTSV, is provided, which is a distributed algorithm and signaling mechanism for a network to detect a compromised time source or sources in a multiple master clock system. The method includes providing a local clock signal, receiving in a node R1 an external clock signal from an external source, C or S1, estimating based on the local clock signal and the external clock signal timing parameters associated with the first node and the external source, comparing the timing parameters to detect any Mutual Clock Discrepancy (MCD) between the first node and the external source, and distributing any detected MCD in the network.
US09979618B2
Computerized techniques are described for detecting performance degradation during features ramp up. A first version of web content is sent to first client devices. The first version of the web content lacks a particular feature. First performance data that indicates performance of each first client device with respect to processing the web content is received. A second version of the web content is sent to second client devices. The second version of the web content has the particular feature. Second performance data that indicates performance of each second client device with respect to processing the web content is received. The first performance data is compared with the second performance data to determine a difference between a processing metric associated with the first version of the web content and a processing metric associated with the second version of the web content.
US09979617B1
Current methods for providing automated scaling of network resources require tracking a specific metric and based on that metric exceeding a specified limit, provisioning additional resources. By providing additional control functionality for enabling customers to select parameters to use for automated resource scaling, customer systems can automatically and dynamically receive additional resources based on the selected parameters.
US09979616B2
Time-based groupings of network traffic flow data for virtualized computing resources are stored. Notifications that the time-based groupings are stored are sent, and in response to the notifications, the groupings are processed in accordance with the notifications. Network traffic flow data that is associated with users who have requested publication is published for associated virtualized computing resources.
US09979608B2
As a network increases in size and complexity, it becomes increasingly difficult to monitor and record relationships between components in the network. The lack of knowledge regarding component relationships can make it difficult to adequately and timely perform analysis of network issues or conditions. As a result, automated generation of a context graph that displays relationships among both hardware and software components in a network can help keep pace with a growing network and improve network analysis. The context graph may be generated based, for example, on event data (alternately referred to as event indications) generated by network components and/or event monitoring agents and network topology information. Additionally, the context graph may be augmented to display inter-component relationships based on multi-event correlations. The context graph can be used to assist in troubleshooting network issues or performing root cause analysis.
US09979602B1
An example method for instantiating a network using a network function virtualization infrastructure (NVFI) pod in a network environment is provided and includes receiving a request to instantiate a logical network topology in the NFVI pod that includes a pre-selected set of interconnected pre-configured hardware resources, the abstract network topology including a virtual network function (VNF) forwarding graph (FG), distilling the VNF FG into various interconnected VNFs, deploying various VNFs of the VNF FG to a plurality of virtual machines, and instantiating the network topology on appropriate hardware resources in the NFVI pod. In specific embodiments, the pre-selected set of interconnected pre-configured hardware resources includes a plurality of compute servers, a plurality of controller servers, a set of network resources, and a plurality of storage resources. It may also include a high performance virtual switch operating in a user space of respective memory elements of a plurality of servers.
US09979595B2
Subscriber management and network service integration for an access network is described in which a centralized controller provides seamless end-to-end service from a network to access nodes. For example, a method includes dynamically establishing a control channel between the centralized controller and an access node, and establishing a transport label switched path (LSP) transport network packets between the access node and the network node. The access node sends, via the control channel, an endpoint indication message that indicates that an endpoint that has joined the network at the access node. The access node receives a pseudo wire request message via the control channel to install forwarding state for creating a pseudo wire for providing one or more network services to the endpoint. The access node receives a direct switch message via the control channel to configure the access node to map traffic received from the endpoint to the pseudo wire.
US09979593B2
A method for learning a MAC address of an end machine that is logically connected to a logical network is described. The method receives configuration data for implementing a distributed logical router having different logical ports each of which is associated with a logical port of a logical switch. The method receives a packet through a first logical port of the logical router that has a destination IP address associated with a particular logical switch that is associated with a second logical port of the logical router. In order to learn the MAC address of the end machine, the method sends a first broadcast packet with a first source MAC address to a first set of forwarding elements that implements the particular logical switch, and sends a second broadcast packet with a second source MAC address to a second set of forwarding elements that also implements the particular logical switch.
US09979591B2
A server includes a network communication device, memory hardware, and data processing hardware. The data processing hardware receives sensor data and application data from a client computing device. The sensor data includes sensor measurement values from sensors. The application data indicates application states applications. The data processing hardware receives a request to provide event notifications to a first application from the plurality of applications upon an occurrence of an event. The request includes an event description. The data processing hardware identifies an event trigger that indicates the occurrence of the event. The event trigger includes an application state of a second application and a sensor measurement value for at least one of the sensors. The data processing hardware detects the occurrence of the event by comparing the event trigger with the sensor data and the application data, and transmits an event notification to the first application upon detecting the event.
US09979590B2
A digital video system including one or more video cameras and a video server connected to the one or more video cameras is disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, the video server includes a computer having a central processing unit (CPU) for executing machine instructions and a memory for storing machine instructions that are to be executed by the CPU. The machine instructions when executed by the CPU implement a number of functions including identifying a failure mode of one or more cameras from one or more failure modes and executing a contingency function from one or more contingency functions based on the identification of the failure mode. The failure mode may be selected from a first, second and third failure mode. The contingency function may be selected from a first and second contingency function.
US09979576B2
This document describes techniques for decoding a convolutionally coded signal using a trellis decoder in a drift robust manner. A convolutionally coded and differentially modulated signal may be received. The signal may be decoded using a trellis. A noise prediction loop may be used to reduce noise characteristics of the signal. A frequency offset estimation loop may be used to reduce a frequency offset drift of the signal. The noise prediction loop and the frequency offset estimation loop may be applied at each branch of the trellis.
US09979569B1
Systems and techniques relating to repeated signal detection are described. A described technique includes receiving a signal including first and second portions, the first portion includes first and second symbols; performing a determination, based on a first decision metric component and a second decision metric component, of whether the second symbol is a repeated version of the first symbol, the first decision metric component contributing to the determination that the second symbol is the repeated version of the first symbol, and the second decision metric component contributing to the determination that the second symbol is not the repeated version of the first symbol; and decoding the second portion of the signal in accordance with a first format or a second format. The first format is used if the first symbol is not repeated. The second format is used if the first symbol is repeated.
US09979568B2
A system and apparatus are disclosed for a method and apparatus for equalizing signals. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an equalizer having a channel estimation calculator for calculating a time domain channel estimation from a baseband signal, a Fast Fourier Transform processor for translating the time domain channel estimation to a frequency domain channel estimation, a tap weight calculator for calculating a frequency domain tap weight according to the frequency domain channel estimation, an inverse Fast Fourier Transform processor for translating the frequency domain tap weight calculation to a time domain tap weight calculation, and a filter for equalizing the baseband signal according to the time domain tap weight calculation.
US09979564B2
Aggregate functionality associated with multiple network communication layers may be decomposed and respective functionality associated with different network communication layers may be implemented on different devices. One or more aspects of respective functionality associated with a particular network communication layer may be virtualized based on the decomposition of the aggregate functionality. Virtual customer networks may be established for providing network-based services to a subscriber of an access network.
US09979555B2
A communication monitoring device includes, a first voltage application circuit 5, mounted on a first connector portion 2b arranged at one end of a communication cable 2 having at least two signal lines 2a, or a first repeater 3 or a first communication device, connecting the first connector portion 2b, wherein the first voltage application circuit 5 applies an alternating current voltage at a predetermined frequency to between any signal lines 2a in the communication cable 2, and a second display portion 6, mounted on a second connector portion 2c arranged at an other end of the communication cable 2, or a second repeater 4 or a second communication device, connecting the second connector portion 2c, wherein the second display portion 6 detects and displays the alternating current voltage at the predetermined frequency applied to between the any signal lines 2a in the communication cable 2.
US09979539B2
A method and system of authenticating a network device includes providing identification information of a first network device to a second network device and a third network device. The identification information includes location information of the first network device and a timestamp. The method includes verifying the location information of the first network device by a hyperbolic verification scheme. The verification is performed by the second network device and the third network device. The method includes authenticating the first network device based on the verification.
US09979538B2
A processor includes a decode unit to decode an SM3 two round state word update instruction. The instruction is to indicate one or more source packed data operands. The source packed data operand(s) are to have eight 32-bit state words Aj, Bj, Cj, Dj, Ej, Fj, Gj, and Hj that are to correspond to a round (j) of an SM3 hash algorithm. The source packed data operand(s) are also to have a set of messages sufficient to evaluate two rounds of the SM3 hash algorithm. An execution unit coupled with the decode unit is operable, in response to the instruction, to store one or more result packed data operands, in one or more destination storage locations. The result packed data operand(s) are to have at least four two-round updated 32-bit state words Aj+2, Bj+2, Ej+2, and Fj+2, which are to correspond to a round (j+2) of the SM3 hash algorithm.
US09979534B2
A transmit (TX) signal path circuit in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver responsive to a digital front end (DFE) for generating receive (RX) path phase alignment signals is disclosed. A digital up-conversion block uses a first numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) for generating digital intermediate frequency (IF) signals for ordinary TX signal generation, and a different, second NCO for generating digital IF signals for RX phase alignment signal generation. An RF up-conversion block uses a TX local oscillator (LO) for generating analog RF signals for ordinary TX signal generation, and a different feedback (FB) LO for generating analog RF signals for RX phase alignment signal generation. Thus, phase alignment of the circuitry used for ordinary TX signal generation is left undisturbed by RX phase alignment signal generation.
US09979531B2
In one example, a wireless communication device adapted for multi-band operation includes a first antenna, a first diplexer configured to pass signals within first and second sets of frequency bands, first and second signal paths, wherein each signal path includes a set of notch filters tunable to attenuate a different frequency. The wireless communication device includes a second antenna, a second diplexer configured to pass the first and second frequency bands, third and fourth signal paths, wherein each of the third and fourth signal paths includes one or more notch filters tunable to attenuate a different frequency, and a transceiver coupled to each signal path.
US09979528B2
Provided is a data communication method performed at a transmission node, the method including collecting a node list including nodes communicable with the transmission node, exchanging the node list with each of the communicable nodes, determining an allowance of a space recycling transmission to a reception node by determining that the transmission node is a corresponding node as an exposed node in response to an occurrence of a clear-to-send (CTS) timeout, and transmitting data to the reception node based on a result of determining the allowance of the space recycling transmission.
US09979521B2
The present document discloses a method, apparatus and system for indicating downlink resources of a coordinated multi-point network in an LTE system. The method includes: determining a control station/cell and a service station/cell of a User Equipment (UE); and indicating through signaling that a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) of the UE occupies radio resources of the service station/cell in a control region, whereby a start position of the PDSCH allocated for the UE by the service station/cell is the first symbol of a subframe, and when a resource mapping in the control region is performed, the PDSCH does not occupy Resource Elements (REs) occupied by a Cell Reference Signal (CRS), a Physical Control Format Indicator Channel (PCFICH), a Physical Hybrid-ARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) of a station/cell where the PDSCH is located, and a Physical Downlink Control Channel PDCCH of the UE.
US09979517B2
Disclosed is a dedicated control channel for a WLAN network. A number of access points are networked together and communicate data necessary to propagate the WLAN over a backhaul channel, however a dedicated radio on each access point is used to communicate control information between the access points. The control information is communicated over a control channel that is different from the client facing channels or bands, and the backhaul channel. In some embodiments, the control channel is sub 1 GHz.
US09979513B2
A method is provided for performing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) by a user equipment (UE). An uplink (UL) grant for a first subframe of a second serving cell is received through a first serving cell. UL data in the first subframe of the second serving cell is transmitted according to the UL grant. When a not-acknowledgement (NACK) for the UL data is received through a physical HARQ indicator channel (PHICH) in a subframe i of the first serving cell, the UE performs a non-adaptive retransmission for the UL data in a second subframe of the second serving cell. When a PHICH resource corresponding to the UL data is not present in the subframe i, the UE does not perform the non-adaptive retransmission in the second subframe of the second serving cell.
US09979503B2
In radio transmission between a mobile communication network and a user equipment, signals are received in a subframe comprising a first group of one or more resource elements and a second group of one or more resource elements. The first group is subject to a first level of interference from at least one further radio channel while the second group is subject to a second level of interference from the at least one further radio channel. A first measurement and a second measurement are performed. Based on the first and second measurements the interference from the at least one further radio channel is estimated and interference mitigation is performed.
US09979501B2
Frequency independent isolation of duplexed ports in distributed antenna systems (DASs) is disclosed. Instead of providing a duplexer in a DAS that provides frequency dependent separation between downlink and uplink communications signals, an isolation circuit is provided. The isolation circuit is coupled to a duplexed port that provides downlink communications signals to the DAS and receives uplink communications signals from the DAS. To isolate uplink communications signals from the downlink communications path, the isolation circuit includes a directional coupler. The directional coupler provides frequency independent isolation between uplink communications signals and a downlink communications path in the DAS. Further, to isolate downlink communications signals from the uplink communications path, the isolation circuit includes at least one circulator isolator. The circulator(s) acts as a one-direction device, allowing uplink communications signals to flow to the directional coupler with minimal attenuation while significantly attenuating downlink communications signals flowing from the directional coupler.
US09979491B2
Messages on controller area network (CAN) buses are communicated over subsea links to subsea devices that also require electrical power to function. These subsea devices may be disposed kilometers away from the signal source where electrical signal and power transmission is impractical. The present invention provides a subsea power-over-fiber CAN bus converter for converting CAN bus electrical input and electrical power input into optical signals for transmission over a fiber optic cable for conversion into CAN bus electrical output and electrical power output for use by a subsea sensor or other subsea device. The subsea power-over-fiber CAN bus converter of the present invention is may comprise a flying lead harness that has a first connector end, a second connector end, a first optical converter module, a second optical converter module, and a fiber optic cable disposed between the first and second optical converter modules.
US09979470B2
A device for measuring optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) of a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical signal including multiple wavelength channels may include a tunable optical filter to select an optical wavelength channel of the plurality of optical wavelength channels. The device may also include a polarization controller to adjust a polarization state of the selected optical wavelength channel, and a control unit to compute the OSNR of the selected wavelength channel based on a target control point.
US09979469B2
Disclosed are interposer including an interposer coupling assemblies for communicating optical signals to an integrated circuit and other interposer structures having an optical interface for optical connections. In one embodiment, the interposer coupling assembly includes a connector attachment saddle having an optical alignment structure, an optical pathway that includes a GRIN lens, and an optical signal turning element adjacent to the GRIN lens. The interposer coupling assembly may be optically attached to an integrated circuit or a base that is attached to an integrated circuit to form an interposer structure that allows high-speed data transfer. Also disclosed are complimentary optical assemblies that may be optically connected to the interposer coupling assembly.
US09979466B2
A communication system uses resources (including a first signal path and a second signal path) in a first roundtrip direction for a first set of gateways and subscriber terminals while concurrently using the same resources (including the first signal path and the second signal path) in a second roundtrip direction for a second set of gateways and subscriber terminals.
US09979465B2
Described herein is a space based subsystem of a satellite, and methods for use therewith, for producing and transmitting an optical ISL beam to another satellite. The subsystem can include, inter alia, receiver optics, optical amplifiers, a WDM demultiplexer, beam splitters, a WDM multiplexer, and transmitter optics. The transmitter optics may be configured to receive an amplified wavelength division multiplexed optical signal and, in dependence thereon, transmit an optical ISL beam to another satellite. In certain embodiments, because RF frequencies of a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal produced by the WDM multiplexer are within a same specified RF frequency range within which the other satellite is configured to transmit RF service downlink beams, there is an elimination of any need for the other satellite to perform any frequency conversions when producing the RF service downlink beams in dependence on the optical ISL beam.
US09979461B2
In a mobile communication service system, repeaters can be installed to cover shadow areas where it may otherwise be difficult to transmit and/or receive mobile signals. A radio frequency (RF) repeater that may select between an interference cancellation device and a software-defined radio (SDR) device is provided. The RF repeater can select use of the interference cancellation device in environments or situations that are relatively less complex, and can switch to use of the SDR device instead for environments or situations where more complex frequency processing may be needed and where such frequency processing may be prioritized over interference cancellation to provide better or more effective signal transmissions.
US09979450B2
A transmitter may initiate multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications with a receiver in which a number of codewords used in MIMO transmissions may be selected to provide enhanced communications for a particular service that is associated with the MIMO transmission. In cases where a lower-latency service is identified, a MIMO transmission may be configured with one codeword transmitted over multiple spatial layers, which may provide lower processing latency at a receiver relative to processing of multiple codewords. In cases where a mobile broadband service is identified, a MIMO transmission configured with two (or more) codewords may be transmitted over multiple spatial layers, which may provide increased data throughput relative to a single codeword MIMO transmission. A codeblock size for a transmission also may be selected based at least in part on a service associated with the transmission.
US09979447B2
A RF distribution network for split beam antennas is disclosed. The split beam antennas may include four-column cross-polarized user specific tilt antennas implemented in a 4T4R or 4T8R system. A RF distribution network may provide transmit signals from transmitters to antennas while also providing receive signals from the antennas. A RF distribution network may include 180° 6.9 dB combiners coupled to the antennas and also coupled 90° hybrids. A 180° 6.9 dB combiner may include a transmission network with transmission lines in a 4T4R system. Alternatively, a 180° 6.9 dB combiner may include a transmission network with transmit and receive filters in a 4T8R system. The transmission network couples the transmit filter and two filters by at least three λ/4 transmission lines. A transmission network provides isolation between two receive signal paths and, at the same time, provides power splitting of transmitter power to two duplexed transmit signal paths.
US09979443B2
A distributed antenna system, comprising: master unit configured to: receive MIMO channel signals at MIMO frequency from signal source, MIMO channel signals including first and second MIMO channel signals; generate LO signal; frequency convert first and/or second MIMO channel signal from MIMO frequency to different frequency close to first legacy service frequency band using the LO signal; combine first MIMO channel signal, second MIMO channel signal, and LO signal for transmission; optical link operably coupled with master unit; unit communicatively coupled with master unit via optical link for transceiving first second MIMO channel signal, unit including band processing circuitry configured to process first and second MIMO channel signal; conversion circuitry configured to receive converted MIMO channel signal and to frequency convert converted MIMO channel signal from frequency close to first legacy service frequency band back to MIMO frequency for transmission over antenna.
US09979442B2
This disclosure relates generally to improving wireless data rates, and more particularly to methods and systems for dynamic CoMP-link maintenance. In one embodiment, a system may detect a trigger for coordinated multi-point link maintenance. Disclosed embodiments may also identify one or more potential changes to one or more coordinated multi-point links. Further, disclosed embodiments may estimate a coordinated multi-point link throughput based on the one or more potential changes to the one or more coordinated multi-point links. Additionally, disclosed embodiments may calculate one or more resource utilization metrics based on the one or more potential changes to the one or more coordinated multi-point links. Disclosed embodiments may determine whether to implement the one or more potential changes to the one or more coordinated multi-point links based on the estimated coordinated multi-point link throughput and the one or more resource utilization metrics.
US09979440B1
A system for wireless power transmission is provided. The system comprises a plurality of tiles configured to operate as one functional unit. At least one of the tiles comprises an antenna and a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) coupled to the antenna and the RFIC is configured to engage the antenna such that the antenna emits a plurality of wireless power waves defining a pocket of energy.
US09979433B2
This disclosure relates generally to radio frequency (RF) front-end circuitry for routing RF signals to and/or from one or more antennas. Exemplary RF front-end circuitry includes a multiple throw solid-state transistor switch (MTSTS) and a multiple throw microelectromechanical switch (MTMEMS). The MTSTS may be configured to selectively couple a first pole port to any one of a first set of throw ports. The MTMEMS is configured to selectively couple a second pole port to any one of a second set of throw ports. The second pole port of the MTMEMS is coupled to a first throw port in the first set of throw ports of the MTSTS. The MTSTS helps prevent hot switching in the MTMEMS since the first throw port of the MTSTS may be decoupled from the second pole port of the MTMEMS before decoupling the second pole port from a selectively coupled throw port of the MTMEMS.
US09979427B2
Some embodiments include a privacy/security apparatus for a portable communication device that includes a housing assembly configured to at least partially attenuate at least one of sound energy, acoustic energy, and electromagnetic energy including light, optical, and IR energy and RF radiation from passing through the housing assembly. The housing assembly includes a Faraday cage with two or more portions, and at least one protective shell coupled to or forming at least one aperture. The at least one aperture is configured and arranged to at least partially enclose the portable communication device so that at least a portion of the portable communication device is positioned within at least one portion of the Faraday cage, and the at least one seal coupled or integrated with the protective shell. The housing assembly can be an articulating assembly, a sliding assembly, and can include an active acoustic jamming or passive acoustic attenuation element.
US09979418B2
A method includes digital/analog conversion of a digital signal modulated by information to provide a modulated initial analog signal having a crest factor greater than one, and amplification of the initial analog signal to provide an amplified modulated signal. A modulated channel analog signal derived from the modulated amplified analog signal is transmitted over a communications channel, with impedance of the communications channel varying during the transmission. The method further includes at least one determination during the transmission of a peak-clipping rate of the amplified analog signal over at least one time interval, and an adjustment of a level of the initial analog signal as a function of the determined peak-clipping rate.
US09979404B1
A technique that reduces or eliminates trading-off power amplifier efficiency and costly external filtering in amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signal generation uses multi-phase outphasing and a multi-phase switching mode power amplifier to generate the amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signals. The technique combines multiple clock phases with sinusoidally weighted circuits of the switching mode power amplifier to improve amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signal generation.
US09979402B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to magnetic devices and more particularly to spin torque majority gate devices, and to methods of operating such devices. In one aspect, a majority gate device comprises a free ferromagnetic layer comprising 3N input zones and an output zone. The output zone has a polygon shape having 3N sides, where each input zone adjoins the output zone. The input zones are arranged around the output zone according to a 3N-fold rotational symmetry, where N is a positive integer greater than 0. The input zones are spaced apart from one another by the output zone. The majority gate device additionally comprises a plurality of input controls, where each of the input zones is magnetically coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of input controls, where each of the input controls is configured to control the magnetization state of the corresponding input zone. The majority gate device further comprises an output sensor magnetically coupled to the output zone, where the output sensor is adapted for sensing the magnetization state of the output zone. Each input zones adjoins the output zone at one of the 3N sides.
US09979400B1
In a general aspect, control of a quantum superconducting circuit is analyzed. In some implementation, a parameter set for a control signal for a superconducting quantum circuit is received. The parameters set can include initial voltage amplitudes for respective time segments of the control signal. A first subset of time segments is selected for improving a quality measure of a quantum logic operation produced by delivery of the control signal in the superconducting quantum circuit. New voltage amplitudes are calculated for one or more segments in the first subset, such that the new voltage amplitudes improve the quality measure. The parameter set is updated to include the new voltage amplitudes for the first subset while preserving the initial voltage amplitudes for a second subset of the time segments.
US09979394B2
The apparatus may include a first latch configured to store a first state or a second state. The first latch may have a first latch input, one of a set input or a reset input, a first pulse clock input, and a first latch output. The first latch input may be coupled to a fixed logic value. The one of the set input or the reset input may be coupled to a clock signal or an inverted clock signal, respectively. The apparatus may include an AND gate having a first AND gate input, a second AND gate input, and a first AND gate output. The clock signal may be coupled to the first AND gate input. The first latch output may be coupled to the second AND gate input. The AND gate output may be configured to output a pulsed clock. The pulsed clock may be coupled to the first pulse clock input.
US09979390B2
A grip sensor includes: a plurality of capacitive detectors which are disposed in a grip of a steering wheel of a vehicle, and output values which vary according to whether a human body is in contact; and a controller which determines, at a preset timing, a reference value to be subtracted from the values output from the plurality of capacitive detectors, to determine whether the human body is in contact, wherein the controller identifies, from among values output from the plurality of capacitive detectors at the preset timing, one or more values each having an absolute value smaller than a first threshold, and determines, as the reference value, one of the one or more values identified or an average of the one or more values identified.
US09979387B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for biasing a high speed and high voltage driver using only low voltage transistors are described. The apparatus and method are adapted to control biasing voltages to the low voltage transistors such as not to exceed operating voltages of the low voltage transistors while allowing for DC to high speed operation of the driver at high voltage. A stackable and modular architecture of the driver and biasing stages is provided which can grow with a higher voltage requirement of the driver. Capacitive voltage division is used for high speed bias voltage regulation during transient phases of the driver, and resistive voltage division is used to provide bias voltage at steady state. A simpler open-drain configuration is also presented which can be used in pull-up or pull-down modes.
US09979386B2
A semiconductor device that suppresses operation delay due to stop and restart of the supply of a power supply potential is provided. A potential corresponding to data held while power supply potential is continuously supplied is backed up in a node connected to a capacitor while the supply of the power supply potential is stopped. Then, by utilizing change in resistance of a channel in a transistor whose gate is the node, the data is restored with restart of the supply of the power supply potential. Note that by supplying a high potential to the node before the data back up, high-speed and accurate data back up is possible.
US09979376B2
A tunable impedance network includes at least one variable impedance bank comprising a plurality of digitally controlled unit cells each connected from at least a first end to a routing wire. The tunable impedance network is provided with selection means arranged for selecting, based on a desired impedance, a corresponding predetermined digital control signal to be supplied to the variable impedance bank to switch-on a corresponding combination of the unit cells. Between each pair of unit cells in the variable impedance bank, a routing wire section is provided having a respective routing impedance. Each of the predetermined digital control signals is provided for switching-on a combination of unit cells in such a way that the routing impedance of the routing wire section is exploited to fine-tune the actual impedance generated by the variable impedance bank.
US09979375B2
A communication matching network for multi-harmonic suppression includes a communication circuit configured to provide a signal. The communication matching network further includes a matching circuit configured to receive the signal from the communication circuit and suppress one or more harmonics of the received signal to generate a filtered signal, wherein the matching circuit includes a transformer comprising a first winding and a second winding, wherein the first winding includes a first inductance and the second winding includes a second inductance and wherein the matching network includes a harmonic trap including a third inductance such that the third inductance is located inside or within a physical layout of the first winding and/or the second winding. The communication matching network further includes a receiver circuit configured to receive the filtered signal from the matching circuit for further processing.
US09979374B2
An analog time delay filter circuit including a first delay circuit block arranged in a modular layout, having a first time delay filter, a first input, a first output, and first and second pass-throughs; a second delay circuit block arranged in the same modular layout, having a second time delay filter, a second input, a second output, and third and fourth pass-throughs; and an interposer circuit block that electrically couples the second input to the first pass-through and the second output to the second pass-through.
US09979372B2
Illustrative embodiments of reconfigurable microwave filters, as well as associated systems and methods, are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a reconfigurable microwave filter may comprise a plurality of cavity resonators on a common substrate and a plurality of control circuits each configured to control a resonant frequency of one of the plurality of cavity resonators. The reconfigurable microwave filter may also comprise a plurality of feedback circuits each configured to generate a feedback signal that is indicative of the resonant frequency of one of the plurality of cavity resonators and to transmit the feedback signal to one of the plurality of control circuits.
US09979357B2
A power amplifier module includes an amplifier that amplifies an input signal and outputs an amplified signal, a matching circuit disposed between an output terminal of the amplifier and a subsequent circuit, a choke inductor having a first end to which a power supply voltage is applied and a second end from which power supply is provided to the amplifier through the output terminal of the amplifier, and a first attenuation circuit disposed between the output terminal of the amplifier and the second end of the choke inductor and configured to attenuate a harmonic component of the amplified signal.
US09979351B2
Provided is a differential amplifier circuit having a low current consumption and a small circuit area. The differential amplifier circuit is formed as a drain grounding circuit (source follower circuit), which includes two stages of output transistors that are connected to two stages of amplifier circuits in series, and is configured to control one of the two output transistors by output from the amplifier circuit in the first stage, and to control another of the two output transistors by output from the amplifier circuit in the second stage.
US09979349B2
Multi-band device having multiple miniaturized single-band power amplifiers. In some embodiments, a power amplifier die can include a semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of power amplifiers (PAs) implemented on the semiconductor substrate. Each PA can be configured to drive approximately a characteristic load impedance of a downstream component along an individual frequency band signal path, such that each PA is sized smaller than a wide band PA configured to drive more than one of the frequency bands associated with the plurality of PAs. The downstream component can include an output filter.
US09979346B2
The present invention relates to a tracking-type photovoltaic generator. More particularly, the present invention relates to a tracking-type photovoltaic generator in which multiple solar modules are aligned into one or more rows so as to form a group, and the solar modules of the group aligned in the same row may rotate according to the location of the sun by means of the operation of a linear actuator.
US09979334B2
A ripple current sensing type motor controlling apparatus includes: an H bridge circuit switched depending on at least one control; a first resistor of which one end is connected to one end of the motor through the H bridge circuit and the other end is connected to a ground; a second resistor of which one end is connected to the other end of the motor through the H bridge circuit and the other end is connected to one end of the first resistor and is connected to one end of the motor through the H bridge circuit; and a controller calculating a RPM of the motor using a voltage across the first resistor in the case in which the driving power is applied to the motor and calculating the RPM of the motor using a voltage across the second resistor in the case in which the driving power is blocked.
US09979332B2
A chiller system includes a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant between an evaporator and a condenser in a closed refrigerant loop and a synchronous motor configured to drive the compressor. The motor includes a stator winding and a rotor. The chiller system includes a controller configured to estimate a flux linkage of the rotor and generate a control signal for the motor based on the estimated flux linkage. Estimating the flux linkage includes applying a voltage of the stator winding to a transfer function having an error correction variable, using a first value of the error correction variable in the transfer function to obtain convergence of the flux linkage over an initial motor starting interval, and using a second value of the error correction variable after the initial motor starting interval to reduce an error in estimating the flux linkage.
US09979331B2
A method for controlling a motor includes detecting output signals output from three phases of a hall sensor, determining a failure of the hall sensor depending on the output signals, diagnosing which of the three phases of the hall sensor is out of order based on the output signals if it is determined that the hall sensor detections deviate from a predicted order, and outputting a virtual signal for the phase which is determined as a failure among the three phases of the hall sensor to a motor controller.
US09979330B2
A three-phase motor control apparatus includes a monitor unit, a three-phase synthesis unit, and a feedback unit. The monitor unit generates monitor voltages derived from output voltages of output transistors having terminals electrically connected to drive coils of respective phases of a three-phase motor. The three-phase synthesis unit converts the monitor voltages into currents and generates a combined current therefrom. The feedback unit generates a feedback signal based on the combined current and feeds the feedback signal back to an output controller that generate control signals for the output transistors based on the feedback signal.
US09979328B1
A dual-drive electric motor control system configured to drive a first electric motor and a second electric motor is provided. The system includes a shared front-end motor drive circuit for converting AC input voltage from an AC voltage source to a DC-link voltage. A first control system has a first inverter coupled to the shared front-end motor drive circuit, and a first switch device configured to couple the AC voltage source directly to the first electric motor. The system further includes a second control system having a second inverter coupled to the shared front-end motor drive circuit, and a second switch device configured to couple the AC voltage source directly to the second electric motor.
US09979323B1
A variable speed drive for an electrostatic motor provides feedback control by conversion of measured current phases provided to the motor into a vector in a rotating rotor framework. This vector is used for evaluating corrective voltages and then reconverted to a non-rotating framework for application to the motor electrodes. Current-source drive circuits provide current stabilized outputs making such sophisticated control tractable.
US09979314B2
A power semiconductor module capable of reducing variation of inductance between upper/lower arms and reducing variation of current caused by the variation of inductance. The power semiconductor module includes circuit blocks (upper/lower arms) each of which is configured by connecting self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements in series; a positive electrode terminal, a negative electrode terminal, and an AC terminal that are connected to each of the circuit blocks; and wiring patterns that connect the self-arc-extinguishing type semiconductor elements of the circuit blocks to the positive electrode terminal, the negative electrode terminal, and the AC terminal, wherein the circuit block is plural in number; the positive electrode terminal, the negative electrode terminal, and the AC terminal are each disposed to be plural in number corresponding to the circuit blocks; and the positive electrode terminals and the negative electrode terminals are closely disposed.
US09979289B2
A switching converter includes a first electronic switch and a second electronic switch and respective drive circuits for switching on and switching off alternatively the first and second electronic switches. The drive circuits have a supply line for supplying to them a supply voltage. At least one of the drive circuits has, coupled to it, a capacitor for storing the supply voltage. An electronic-switching circuit is provided for selectively disconnecting the drive circuit from the supply line when the electronic switch driven thereby is switched off. In this mode, the drive circuit is supplied by the voltage stored on the capacitor.
US09979288B2
Switching mode power supply (SMPS) having a switch circuit and a controller. The switch circuit has an output inductor and a switch with a minimum on time. A control signal is generated by the controller to control the switching operation of the switch based on a clock signal with a switching frequency and an off signal. When the required on time of the switch is smaller than the minimum on time, the SMPS reduces the switching frequency adaptively and the actual on time of the switch is controlled to be the minimum on time.
US09979285B1
Systems and methods for providing peak current mode control (PCMC) for power converters using discrete analog components. Peak current mode control functionality for latching, set, reset, clocking and slope compensation is provided via available analog components that provide improved performance, design flexibility, reliability, and radiation tolerance. Discrete analog components may include analog comparators, resistors, capacitors, diodes, etc.
US09979276B2
A control circuit for stopping a booster circuit and an electronic apparatus using the control circuit are described. The electronic apparatus includes a control circuit, a booster circuit and an electronic device. The control circuit is electrically coupled to the booster circuit and the battery. The booster circuit is electrically coupled to the battery and the electronic device. The booster circuit is used to boost the battery voltage, to generate an output voltage for operation of the electronic device and the control circuit. The control circuit may stop the operation of the booster circuit when the battery voltage is not higher than the first voltage, and when a number of occurrences in which the battery voltage falls below the first voltage reaches a predetermined number, or the output voltage does not reach a second voltage within a predetermined time interval.
US09979273B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses for a ZVT ZCT resonant converter with a variable resonant tank are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a system comprising a bidirectional resonant converter comprising an input/output terminal, a switching device coupled with the input/output terminal, a resonant circuit coupled with the switching device and including a variable inductor, an output/input terminal coupled with the resonant circuit, and a DC biasing circuit operatively coupled with the variable inductor. The variable inductor comprises a toroidal core, a first winding wound around the toroidal core and coupled with the switching device and the output/input terminal, a second core structured to overlap a portion of the toroidal core, and a second winding wound around the second core and coupled with the DC biasing circuit. The DC biasing circuit is controllable to vary the inductance of the variable inductor by saturating a portion of the toroidal core.
US09979272B2
In a semiconductor device, a high-side potential determination circuit outputs an event signal when a high-side reference potential detected by a high-side potential detection circuit rises. If at that time an input logic signal for controlling a high side is at a low (L) level, a pulse generation circuit regenerates a reset signal for a high-side drive circuit. When the input logic signal for controlling the high side is at the L level and the event signal is inputted, an overcurrent detection determination circuit makes an overcurrent detection signal from an overcurrent detection circuit invalid. When the event signal is not inputted, the overcurrent detection determination circuit makes the overcurrent detection signal valid.
US09979266B2
An electrical rotating machine comprises a stator including armature pole coils 14 capable of generating magnetic flux when energized, an inner rotor driven to rotate when the magnetic flux passes therethough, and an outer rotor driven to rotate in a magnetic path of the magnetic flux that passes through the first rotor, the outer rotor having portions of different materials, in permeability, which are situated along the periphery of the outer rotor, the inner rotor having a plurality of salient poles situated along the periphery of the inner rotor and wound by wound coils 34 which induce induced current when linked by the magnetic flux generated by the armature pole coils, the stator including a plurality of wound coils 51, 52, 53 winding around each of poles to constitute the armature pole coil for each of the plurality of salient poles.
US09979258B2
A vibration motor, comprising a base part which expands perpendicular to a vertical center axis; a shaft which protrudes upward along the center axis, a lower end of the shaft being coupled to the base part; a circuit board disposed on the base part; coil parts which are attached onto the circuit board, and face each other in a radial direction across the shaft and a gap; a bearing part which is rotatably attached to the shaft at an upper side than the coil parts; a rotor holder which is attached to the bearing part; a magnet part which is attached to the rotor holder; an eccentric weight which is attached to the rotor holder; a spacer which is attached to the shaft at a portion between the bearing part and the coil part, a top surface of the spacer being in contact with a bottom surface of the bearing part; and a cover part which covers at least a portion of the upper and lateral sides of the rotor holder and the eccentric weight, and is fixed to an upper end portion of the shaft and an edge portion of the base part, wherein a bottom surface of the spacer vertically faces a top surface of the coil part.
US09979255B2
In a rotary electric machine, wound wires are connected to a first terminal and a second terminal. Circuit terminals that are configured from a conductive metal other than aluminum, and the first terminal and the second terminal that are configured from a metal with a principal component of aluminum are joined together inside a circuit chamber that has high water resistant properties. Corrosion is accordingly suppressed at join sites of the circuit terminals with the first terminal and the second terminal. There is therefore no need to coat the join sites with for example a sealing material in order to suppress corrosion at the join sites. Good electrical continuity is accordingly enabled between the circuit terminals and the wound wires while suppressing an increase in costs, even when the wound wire is configured from a metal with a principal component of aluminum.
US09979244B2
The present invention concerns a rotating electrical machine, comprising: a magnetic mass (2), in particular a rotor, comprising first housings (3), a plurality of permanent magnets (11) inserted into the first housings (3), and shims (20), preferably deformable, inserted into the first housings (3) and/or into second housings (12) provided in the magnetic mass (2), the shims (20) being configured to wedge the magnets (11) in the first housings by plastic and/or elastic deformation.
US09979242B2
An electric machine including a rotor and a stator and having a first winding. The stator slots define a plurality of layer positions wherein each of the layer positions is at a different radial distance from the axis. There is an odd number of select stator slots wherein for two slot segments disposed in different layer positions, a pair of end loops connect each of the slot segments with another slot segment in a different slot that is in the same layer position. In some embodiments, at least 60 percent of the end loops connect slot segments that are disposed in different layer positions. For some embodiments, only a single select stator slot is provided with the end loops being positioned to reduce spatial conflicts.
US09979230B2
Method and system for wireless power transmission are disclosed. In one aspect, the system includes a charging base positioned on a desktop component and configured to be positioned on a desktop. The system also includes a transmitter located in the charging base and including a transmit coil wound about a plane, the transmitter being configured to wirelessly transfer power, via a wireless field, from the transmit coil to a first receiver. The system further includes a power relay configured to be positioned on the desktop and configured to relay power received from the transmitter to at least one peripheral device different from the first receiver when the peripheral device is positioned on the desktop.
US09979226B2
A solar battery controller includes: a solar battery module including a plurality of solar battery clusters and a bypass portion, the plurality of solar battery clusters being arranged side by side in a direction that intersects with a traveling direction of a moving object, the plurality of solar battery clusters being connected in series, the bypass portion being configured to bypass the solar battery cluster to which a light intensity applied has decreased; a light intensity detecting unit configured to detect a light intensity that is applied to a corresponding one of the solar battery clusters, the light intensity detecting unit being arranged ahead of the corresponding one of the solar battery clusters in the traveling direction of the moving object; and a control unit configured to determine a maximum power point of the solar battery module.
US09979220B2
An electronic device of the present disclosure includes a battery cell configured to be electrically connected between a first node and a second node; an over current protection circuit configured to include a first terminal, a second terminal, and a switching element responsive to an occurrence of over current, and the first terminal is electrically connected to the first node; a power management integrated circuit configured to be electrically connected to the second terminal of the over current protection circuit; and a first protection circuit configured to be electrically connected between the first node and the power management integrated circuit, and to include at least one first passive element, wherein the power management integrated circuit monitors a voltage of the battery cell, based on at least a portion of a voltage or a current which is transmitted through the first protection circuit.
US09979219B2
A battery with simultaneous active compensation of the interference signals occurring during the charging is provided. In order to charge the battery, at least two converters are used, which can control connected loads during the working operation. During the charging operation, one converter controls the charging process while the other converter performs an active compensation of the interference signals that occur.
US09979202B2
A control, protection and power management system for an energy storage system, comprises an interface configured to communicate and provide energy exchange with a host power system, a local load, and the energy storage system, and processing structure configured to receive signals from the host power system and the energy storage system, to determine a mode of operation of the energy storage system and to provide control, protection and power management to the energy storage system.
US09979200B2
A solar power generation system includes a storage battery, a solar power generation device that is provided on the side of the storage battery and outputs solar generated power, and a power control device. The power control device includes a variation component extraction unit that extracts a shade variation component from a generated power signal measured by the solar power generation device, and a smoothing unit that smoothens the shade variation component obtained by the variation component extraction unit. The power control device obtains a charge/discharge target value of the storage battery on the basis of an output signal from the smoothing unit.
US09979199B2
A multiple input single output (MISO) hybrid power system includes an electronics system that maximizes output from multiple input sources of different types. In certain embodiments, the electronics system takes in variable power from a plurality of the input sources and outputs a precisely controlled voltage that may simultaneously power a load and charge batteries. The electronics system includes an intelligent controller that monitors input from the power sources and desired output of the system substantially constantly to control maximum power output from each power source. The controller runs through a decision making algorithm to obtain maximum power from the power sources and output a single constant load.
US09979198B2
Systems and methods for coordinating selective activation of a multiplicity of emergency power generation equipment over a predetermined geographic area for distribution and/or storage to supply a microgrid of electrical power for a substantially similar geographic area.
US09979192B2
An electrical power system includes an electrical power distribution network and a control device configured to regulate at least one attribute of said electrical power system. The electrical power system further includes a processor coupled to the control device configured to identify an out-of-bound condition on said electrical power distribution network at a first time. The out-of-bound condition is associated with the at least one attribute. The processor is also configured to determine a trend for the at least one attribute at a second time that is later than the first time after a predetermined delay time elapses. The trend indicates a direction away from at least one of a predetermined range and a predetermined value. The processor is also configured to transmit a control action to said control device based at least in part on the trend.
US09979188B2
An interface for inter-chip communication, comprises a transmitter part (TX) for transmitting a differential signal and a receiver part (RX) for receiving the differential signal, the transmitter part (TX) being provided in a first integrated circuit chip (CHIP A) and the receiver part (RX) being provided in a second integrated circuit chip (CHIP B). The transmitter part (TX) comprises a first transistor (Tx1) and a second transistor (Tx2) arranged in a common source configuration, and the receiver part (RX) comprises a third transistor (TR1) and a fourth transistor (TR2) arranged in a common gate configuration. Current flowing in the receiver part (RX) also flows through the transmitter part (TX).
US09979187B2
An example power device includes a semiconductor chip and an arrester element configurable to, in response to a voltage across the arrester element being greater than a threshold voltage, create a current path around an isolation layer configured to electrically isolate the semiconductor chip from a heat sink configured to dissipate heat generated by the semiconductor chip. In this example power device, the threshold voltage is less than a breakdown voltage of the isolation layer.
US09979185B2
An electrostatic protection circuit includes a first transistor connected to an external terminal, a second transistor that is connected in series to the first transistor and that is in a normally OFF state. The electrostatic protection circuit includes a third transistor that is connected between a power source line and a gate of the first transistor, and a fourth transistor that is connected between the power source line and the gate of the first transistor in the opposite direction to the third transistor.
US09979174B2
A travelling wave motion is formed in a power line wire, which wave motion loosens material, like snow or ice, on the surface of the wire. A first support point and a second support point are arranged on the wire course, the distance of which support points being substantially smaller than the distance between the adjacent support posts of the power line, and the course of the wire is changed on the part between the support points. Then the wire is suddenly returned into its original course, which evokes a longitudinal and/or transverse wave motion in the wire. The course of the wire can be changed by applying a force on the wire between the first and second support points, in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the wire. Thus the wire is returned into its original course by suddenly removing the force applied into the wire. In implementing of the method can a device hung on a wire be used, which device comprises a flame, a first support roll, a second support roll and a transfer roll movable in relation to the support rolls.
US09979164B2
An electrical distribution apparatus is provided. The electrical distribution apparatus includes a stacked bus bar assembly including a plurality of bus bars. Each bus bar includes a first plate, a second plate spaced from the first plate in a first direction, and an intermediate member disposed between and interconnecting the first plate and the second plate. At least one of the first plate and said second plate is constructed of an electrically conductive material.
US09979162B2
A plasma jet plug includes a rod-shaped central electrode, an insulator having an axial hole, a metal shell disposed around the insulator, an orifice electrode electrically connected to the metal shell and located at a distal end side of the insulator, and a gasket that contacts an outer surface of the insulator and an inner surface of the metal shell. The insulator includes a first member, a second member and an inorganic seal layer. The first member has the axial hole and includes a large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion. The second member has a through hole into which the small-diameter portion is inserted. The second member has an outer surface that contacts the gasket. The inorganic seal layer seals a gap between the first member and the second member. In a section including the axis, the sum of seal lengths is greater than or equal to 3 mm.
US09979160B2
An optical circulator is a device that routes optical pulses from port to port in a predetermined manner, e.g. in a 3-port optical circulator, optical pulses entering port 1 are routed out of port 2, while optical pulses entering port 2 exit out of port 3 and optical pulses fed into port 3 exit out of port 3. Currently such an optical circulator is made of discrete components such as magnetooptic garnets, rare-earth magnets and optical polarizers that are packaged together with fiber optic elements. Disclosed herein is a different kind of optical circulator that is monolithically integrated on a single semiconductor substrate and that is applicable for the routing of optical pulses. The embodied invention will enable photonic integrated circuits to incorporate on-chip optical circulator functionality thereby allowing much more complex optical designs to be implemented monolithically.
US09979159B2
In a semiconductor laser, a block layer is provided on both sides of a mesa-type semiconductor part having an n-type cladding layer, an active layer, and a p-type cladding layer. The block layer has: a p-type block layer formed on the side surface of the mesa-type semiconductor part and over a p-type semiconductor substrate; a high-resistance layer formed over the p-type block layer; and an n-type block layer formed over the high-resistance layer, which has a higher resistance than that of the p-type block layer. By providing the high-resistance layer between the p-type block layer and the n-type block layer, the thickness of the p-type block layer can be controlled and a leakage current (flow of a hole) can be reduced. Further, the distance between the n-type cladding layer and the n-type block layer can be secured, and hence a leakage current (flow of an electron) can be prevented.
US09979157B2
An external resonator type light-emitting device includes a light source oscillating a semiconductor laser light and a grating element configuring an external resonator together with the light source. The light source includes an active layer oscillating said semiconductor laser light. The grating element includes an optical waveguide and a plurality of Bragg gratings formed in the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide includes an incident face to which the semiconductor laser light is incident and an emitting face from which an emitting light having a desired wavelength is emitted. A half value reflectance R50 is larger than a reflectance R2 at an emitting end of the light source. A half value reflectance R50 is 3% or larger. A combined reflectance is not less than the half value reflectance R50 in a wavelength region Δλ50. The wavelength region Δλ50 is continuous over 10 nm or more and 30 nm or less, provided that a half value reflectance is defined as 50 percent of a maximum value Rmax of the combined reflectance of the Bragg gratings.
US09979141B2
A plug connector is provided in a plug housing and has a conductive braided wire that connects ends of a plurality of plug terminals opposite to contact points with receptacle terminals such that each plug terminal can move relatively to each other. A service plug has a plug connector and a receptacle connector.
US09979135B2
A connector having an improved shield performance and EMI shield structure are provided. The connector includes a conductive terminal, a fixed body configured to accommodate the conductive terminal therein, and a shield housing having an open lower portion through which a lower end portion of the conductive terminal is connected to a printed circuit board and formed in a body to accommodate the conductive terminal and the fixed body.
US09979133B2
A telecommunications connector (100) includes a connector body (104) and a shield (102) attached to the connector body, the shield including a main body portion configured for attachment to the connector body and a barrel portion (110) for crimping against a cable to be terminated to the connector. The barrel portion of the shield includes a corrugated side wall made up of a series of bends extending along a direction from the rear end of the barrel toward the front end of the barrel along at least a portion of a length of the barrel, wherein the bends defining the corrugated side wall are provided on the shield at a pre-crimped stage.
US09979130B2
A charging inlet 10 described in this specification includes a cable lock mount portion 30 for mounting a cable lock 50. The cable lock mount portion 30 includes: locking walls 31 including locking holes 31A, 31B for insertion of a cable lock pin 40; a pin lock 35 to be locked on the cable lock pin 40 for retaining the cable lock pin 40; and a displacement restricting portion (support walls 36) for restricting displacement of the cable lock pin when the cable lock pin 40 is displaced in a direction toward the pin lock 35. The displacement restricting portion restricts the displacement of the cable lock pin 40 by abutting on the cable lock pin 40 in a position at which the cable lock pin 40 does not contact the pin lock 35.
US09979127B2
An electrical connector includes a housing, a lock mechanism, a trigger, and a strap. The lock mechanism is mounted on the housing and has a locking member. The lock mechanism is movable between a locking position in which the locking member locks the electrical connector to a mating electrical connector and an unlocking position in which the locking member is disengaged from the mating electrical connector. The trigger is pivotally mounted on the housing and is movable between a deactivated position and an activated position. The trigger moves the lock mechanism from the locking position to the unlocking position as the trigger moves between the deactivated position and the activated position. The strap is connected to the trigger and moves the trigger from the deactivated position to the activated position upon applying an activation force to the strap.
US09979112B2
A connector includes a first connector and a second connector mounted on an external device. The first connector includes a contact including a contact portion electrically connected to a connection terminal of the second connector by pressing the connection terminal in a predetermined direction; a flexible conductor connected to the contact; a protection member that protects the contact portion by covering a periphery of the contact; a base body that accommodates the contact, the flexible conductor, and the protection member; and an elastic member that is formed separately from the contact and presses the contact and the protection member in a direction opposite to the predetermined direction.
US09979104B2
A clamp for a male terminal having features for preventing incorrect clamping, which comprises a main body having a ring and two jaws, that are movable toward each other for the ring to hold the terminal. An engagement element is movable in the vertical direction and to act upon the jaws to move them toward each other. A clamping member, operable to move the engagement element comprises a stem and a nut. The stem is fixed to a base body, which is pivotable relative to the main body between a first position, in which the stem is inclined with respect to the vertical and a second position, in which the stem extends in the vertical direction. In the first position, the engagement element prevents the nut from engaging a threaded portion of the stem. In the second position, the threaded portion is adapted to be engaged by the nut.
US09979103B2
A connector arrangement, comprising a connector comprising an outer connector, an inner connector, and attaching means for attaching the connector to a first object, the connector being movable in relation to the first object; a second connector comprising a second outer connector, a second inner connector, and second attaching means for attaching the second connector to a second object and a bullet connector comprising a bullet outer connector and bullet inner connector. The bullet outer connector is configured to make a contact with the first and the second connector to form first and second conductive signal paths from the first connector to the second connector.
US09979100B2
It is aimed to provide a ground terminal fitting suitably connectable to each of various wires. A ground terminal fitting includes a bolt fastening portion (10) to be bolted to a ground part and a wire connecting portion (20) to be connected to an end part of a wire (30). The bolt fastening portion (10) and the wire connecting portion (20) are coupled after being separately formed. According to this configuration, since the wire connecting portion (20) can be formed of an optimal material into an optimal shape, the wire connecting portion can be suitably connected to each of various wires (30).
US09979099B2
A crimp terminal has a crimp portion that is formed by bending a plate material into a hollow shape and that has at one end thereof an opening capable of accommodating and crimping a conductor portion of a coated wire. The crimp terminal includes a first weld portion obtained by bringing two edge portions of the crimp portion in close proximity to each other and joining by laser welding, and a second weld portion obtained by forming a lapped portion by overlapping of a transition portion formed at an opposite end of the crimp portion to the opening, and closing the lapped portion by laser welding. A welding trajectory in the second weld portion is constituted by a curve, a plurality of straight lines, or a discontinuously formed line.
US09979095B2
According to certain inventive techniques, a system includes a plurality of shelves in an interior chamber of a cold-storage apparatus, an RFID antenna assembly in the cold-storage apparatus, and a controller. Each of the shelves can support items that are connected a corresponding RFID tag. The RFID antenna assembly includes a plurality of RFID antenna elements that direct a transmission of radio frequenc(ies) towards the plurality of shelves. The controller is in communication with the RFID antenna assembly and can individually and separately control each of the RFID antenna elements.
US09979085B2
The ferrite-loaded circular waveguide antenna for 3D scanning includes the design and optimization of an axially magnetized ferrite loaded circular waveguide antenna with three-dimensional (3D) scan characteristics. The ferrite cylinder is concentrically placed within the circular waveguide and magnetized using solenoid coils wound around the waveguide. The waveguide antenna is excited using an optimally positioned coaxial connector. By changing the magnetic biasing of the ferrite cylinder, individual modes within the multi-mode wave guide are affected separately. This generates tapered Ey-field distribution in the radiating edge of the waveguide, which leads to beam scan. Professional software is used to optimize the dimension and magnetizing requirement of the antenna to realize up to ±30° of beam scan in the azimuth and elevation planes. The magnetizing fields (H0) required for the 3D scan are tabulated. A prototype of the high power antenna is fabricated to experimentally verify the simulated scan characteristics.
US09979075B2
An antenna device housed in a metallic case body of an electronic timepiece includes: a first substrate which is provided on the side of a back over of the metallic case body and on which a ground pattern and an wireless communication unit as a power feeding circuit are formed; a second substrate which is arranged on the opposite side of the movement and on which a chip antenna is formed; and a conductive electrode which is arranged inside the movement and has one end connected to the wireless communication unit and the other end connected to the chip antenna.
US09979071B2
An electronic device including a metal element and an antenna element is provided. The antenna element is disposed on a substrate and includes a radiation portion and a connection portion. A first end of the radiation portion has a feeding point for receiving a feeding signal, and a second end of the radiation portion is an open end. A first end of the connection portion is electrically connected to the first end of the radiation portion. A second end of the connecting portion has a first ground point to be electrically connected the metal element. An orthogonal projection of the metal element on the substrate and an orthogonal projection of the antenna element on the substrate are overlapped with each other. The radiation portion is electrically connected the metal element through a second ground point.
US09979070B2
A resonator, a filter, a duplexer, a multiplexer, and a communications device that use the resonator, where the resonator includes a resonant cavity body that has a resonant cavity and an open end, a cover that covers the open end and that is connected to the resonant cavity body, and a resonant tube that is located inside the resonant cavity, a medium material is padded in a capacitor area in the resonant cavity and whose dielectric constant is greater than 1, the resonant tube includes a resonant tube body and an elastic structure that is combined with the resonant tube body, and the elastic structure provides elastic pressure in an axial direction of the resonant tube where the resonator may reduce a conductor loss and improve a power capacity, and has relatively low costs.
US09979067B2
A microwave radial power divider/combiner device in which ridged waveguides structures are provided to provide adjacent-port isolation, large bandwidth, consistent cross-port phase matching, low insertion loss, and high peak and average power handling characteristics. The device includes a single rectangular input/output waveguide coupled to a bi-conical waveguide, which in turn is coupled to multiple ridged waveguides. These ridged radial waveguides are coupled to waveguide end-launches and impedance transformers located around the circumference of the device.
US09979066B2
A feed line in the form of a trip late line that runs from a waveguide/triplate-line converter coupled to a radio to a plurality of patch antennas in a cluster pattern. The width and length of a section of said feed line between the waveguide/triplate-line converter and the branch point nearest thereto are set such that the impedance of said section directly matches the parallel combination of the impedances of branches beyond said branch point and the loss in said section is kept to or below a predetermined upper limit.
US09979063B2
A rod-switched tunable resonator includes a housing defining a cavity, a first rod disposed within the cavity, a second rod disposed within the cavity, and a switch connected to the first rod and to the second rod to tune the resonator to one of a plurality of frequencies by connecting or disconnecting one or both of the first and second rods to the housing. A tunable filter may be fabricated using two or more such resonators. The rod-switched tunable resonator may be a combline resonator, coaxial resonator, waveguide resonator, or dielectric resonator.
US09979062B2
Dielectric-filled surface-mounted waveguide devices and methods for coupling microwave energy. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency (RF) waveguide can include a dielectric block having a first edge that joins a mounting surface and a first adjacent surface. The RF waveguide can further include a conductive coating that substantially covers the dielectric block. The conductive coating can define a wrap-around opening that exposes the dielectric block along the first edge. The wrap-around opening can include a strip on the first adjacent surface along the first edge and a strip on the mounting surface along the first edge.
US09979061B1
A device is provided that includes a first waveguide configured to guide propagation of RF waves inside the first waveguide. A first side of the first waveguide is configured to emit an evanescent field associated with the propagation of the RF waves inside the first waveguide. The device also includes a second waveguide having a second side positioned within a predetermined distance to the first side of the first waveguide. The second waveguide is configured to guide propagation, inside the second waveguide, of induced RF waves associated with the evanescent field from the first waveguide. The device also includes a first probe coupled to the first waveguide and configured to emit the RF waves for propagation inside the first waveguide. The device also includes a second probe coupled to the second waveguide and configured to receive induced RF waves propagating inside the second waveguide.
US09979058B2
An exemplary battery thermal transfer assembly includes a thermal interface material having a first side with a plurality of protrusions compressed against a plurality of battery cells, and an opposing, second side interfacing with a thermal exchange plate. Another exemplary battery thermal transfer assembly includes a thermal interface material sheet having a first side with a plurality of protrusions compressed against a plurality of battery cells, and an opposing, second side interfacing with a thermal exchange plate.
US09979056B2
An exemplary fan assembly of a flow control system includes a first fan that communicates flow through a first section of a battery pack enclosure under a first system operating condition, and communicates flow through a second section of the battery pack enclosure under a second system operating condition. A second fan communicates flow through the second section under the first system operating condition.
US09979055B2
A sensor apparatus for a battery cell of an electrical energy reservoir is provided, which battery cell has a housing. The sensor apparatus has: a sensing device for sensing sensor data with regard to the battery cell, which sensing device is located inside the housing of the battery cell and has a coupling element for inductive emission of the sensor data and for inductive reception of electrical power; an evaluation device for evaluating the sensor data, which evaluation device is located inside or outside the housing of the battery cell and has a transfer element for inductive transfer of electrical power to the sensing apparatus and for inductive reception of the sensor data from the sensing apparatus.
US09979054B2
In at least select embodiments, the instant disclosure is directed to new or improved battery separators, components, materials, additives, surfactants, lead acid batteries, systems, vehicles, and/or related methods of production and/or use. In at least certain embodiments, the instant disclosure is directed to surfactants or other additives for use with a battery separator for use in a lead acid battery, to battery separators with a surfactant or other additive, and/or to batteries including such separators. In at least certain select embodiments, the instant disclosure relates to new or improved lead acid battery separators and/or systems including improved water loss technology and/or methods of manufacture and/or use thereof. In at least select embodiments, the instant disclosure is directed toward a new or improved lead acid battery separator or system with one or more surfactants and/or additives, and/or methods for constructing lead acid battery separators and batteries with such surfactants and/or additives for improving and/or reducing water loss from the battery.
US09979053B2
A rechargeable, hybrid battery system incorporates a high power battery component and a high energy density battery component. The voltage of the high energy density battery varies as a function of its state of charge, but remains greater than the voltage of the high power battery throughout the operating range of the battery system.
US09979037B2
According to this invention, a process for producing fluorine containing polymer to obtain composite polymer electrolyte composition having excellent ion transport number, that is, ion transfer coefficient, for example, excellent transport number of lithium ion, is provided.A process for producing fluorine containing polymer comprising graft-polymerizing a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and a quaternary ammonium salt structure having a quaternary ammonium cation and anion, with a polymer having the following unit; —(CR1R2—CFX)— X means halogen atom except fluorine atom, R1 and R2 mean hydrogen or fluorine atom, each is same or different atom.
US09979028B2
A coated substrate for forming fuel cell catalyst layers includes a plurality of substrate particles, an adhesion layer disposed over the substrate particles, and a precious metal layer disposed over the adhesion layer. The substrate particles may be carbon powders, carbon nanorods, carbon nanotubes and combinations thereof; with a preferred aspect ratio from 10:1 to 25:1. The adhesion layer includes a tungsten metal layer and may be formed into a heterogeneous layer comprising a lattice-interrupting layer interposed between two tungsten metal layers. The lattice-interrupting layer reduces mechanical stress to the adhesion layer with extended thickness that may develop when it experiences changing environments, and can be any layer other than the metal layer, for example, Al2O3, Al, or WOx, where x is 1.5 to 3.0. Characteristically, the coated substrate is used in fuel cell applications such as providing the catalyst particles used in the cathode and/or anode catalyst layers.
US09979025B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a carbon black capable of efficiently covering the surface of an electrode active material and enhancing the electric current collection effect as an electroconductive agent of a secondary cell. A carbon black comprising carbon black aggregates (2) in which the ratio PPA/d of the number of primary particles (1) (PPA) and the diameter d (nm) of the primary particles (1) is 8 or higher.
US09979021B2
A lithium metal oxide powder for use as a cathode material in a rechargeable battery, consisting of a core material and a surface layer, the core having a layered crystal structure consisting of the elements Li, a metal M and oxygen, wherein the Li content is stoichiometrically controlled, wherein the metal M has the formula M=Co1-aM′a, with 0≤a≤0.05, wherein M′ is either one or more metals of the group consisting of Al, Ga and B; and the surface layer consisting of a mixture of the elements of the core material and inorganic N-based oxides, wherein N is either one or more metals of the group consisting of Mg, Ti, Fe, Cu, Ca, Ba, Y, Sn, Sb, Na, Zn, Zr and Si.
US09979017B2
A novel hybrid lithium-ion anode material based on coaxially coated Si shells on vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (CNF) arrays. The unique cup-stacking graphitic microstructure makes the bare vertically aligned CNF array an effective Li+ intercalation medium. Highly reversible Li+ intercalation and extraction were observed at high power rates. More importantly, the highly conductive and mechanically stable CNF core optionally supports a coaxially coated amorphous Si shell which has much higher theoretical specific capacity by forming fully lithiated alloy. Addition of surface effect dominant sites in close proximity to the intercalation medium results in a hybrid device that includes advantages of both batteries and capacitors.
US09979013B2
An electrode material includes Fe-containing olivine-structured LixAyDzPO4 (wherein A represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Cr; D represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ti, Zn, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sc, Y, and rare earth elements; 0
US09979011B2
A method of preparing a homogeneously dispersed chlorine-modified lithium manganese-based AB2O4 spinel cathode material is provided. Furthermore, a homogeneously dispersed chlorine-modified lithium manganese-based AB2O4 spinel cathode material is provided. In addition, a lithium or lithium ion rechargeable electrochemical cell is provided incorporating a homogeneously dispersed chlorine-modified lithium manganese-based AB2O4 spinel cathode material in a positive electrode.
US09979005B2
A rechargeable battery has a short circuit member that improves safety. The rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode and a second electrode; a case having an opening and housing the electrode assembly; a first terminal electrically connected to the first electrode; a second terminal electrically connected to the second electrode; a cap plate coupled to the case at the opening, the cap plate having a short circuit opening and being electrically connected to the first electrode; a short circuit member inserted into the short circuit opening and electrically connecting the cap plate to the second terminal when the short circuit member is modified due to a change in pressure; an upper cover covering the short circuit opening and having an air opening; and a plug inserted into the air opening and being movable by the short circuit member.
US09979002B2
Disclosed are a separator for an electrochemical device substantially comprising inorganic particles to provide an excellent mechanical strength, an electrochemical device comprising the same, and a method of manufacturing the separator using a high internal phase emulsion (HIPE).
US09978996B2
In various exemplary embodiments, a method for producing an optoelectronic component is provided. In this case, a high temperature solid is provided which is stable at least up to a predefined first temperature. A liquid glass solder having a second temperature, which is lower than the first temperature, is applied to the high temperature solid in a structured fashion. The glass solder is solidified, as a result of which a glass solid is formed. An optoelectronic layer structure is formed above the glass solid. The glass solid and the optoelectronic layer structure form the optoelectronic component. The optoelectronic component is removed from the high temperature solid.
US09978978B2
The disclosure relates to the field of OLED display technology, more particularly, to an OLED display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, during the manufacturing process of the OLED display panel, by forming a low gray color shift adjustment layer between the anode and the OLED device layer, and/or between the OLED device layer and the cathode, so as to solve the color shift problem under low gray-scale by adjusting thickness or doping concentration of the low gray color shift adjustment layer, and improve the accuracy of emitting color of the OLED panel.
US09978976B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate, a method for producing the same and a display apparatus. The array substrate includes a base substrate; and first to fourth light emitting units provided on the base substrate and arranged periodically thereon. Each light emitting unit of the first to fourth light emitting units includes a first electrode, a second electrode and an organic material function layer, and the organic material function layer comprises a light emitting portion. The light emitting portion includes a first light emitting layer within the second and third light emitting units, a second light emitting layer within the first and second light emitting units, and a third light emitting layer within the third and fourth light emitting units. The first light emitting layer is configured to emit light within at least one of the second and third light emitting units.
US09978975B2
An organic electroluminescence device including: an anode; one or more organic thin film layers including an emitting layer; a donor-containing layer; an acceptor-containing layer; and a light-transmissive cathode in this order, wherein the donor-containing layer comprises a compound represented by the following formula (I) or (II):
US09978973B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a pixel electrode on the substrate; an opposite electrode on the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode transmitting light; an organic light emitting layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer emitting a first light toward the opposite electrode; a light emitting layer on the opposite electrode, the light emitting layer absorbing a portion of the first light and emitting a second light; and a sealing layer on the light emitting layer, the sealing layer sealing the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer.
US09978970B2
An organic light emitting device including an organic light emitting element having a low driving voltage and a high luminous efficiency is provided. The organic light emitting device includes two or more stack emission units, and a charge generating layer including an N-type charge generating layer and a P-type charge generating layer is disposed between the stack emission units. Herein, the P-type charge generating layer is formed of a material having an LUMO energy level similar to an HOMO energy level of a hole transporting layer injected with holes from the P-type charge generating layer. Accordingly, even if the P-type charge generating layer is not additionally doped with a P-type dopant, it is possible to readily inject holes into a stack emission unit adjacent to the P-type charge generating layer.
US09978961B2
A compound comprising a ligand LA of Formula I: as well as, devices and formulations containing the compound of Formula 1 are disclosed. In the compounds, having a ligand La of Formula I: wherein R1 represents mono, or di-substitution, or no substitution; wherein R2 represents mono, di, tri, or tetra-substitution, or no substitution; wherein R is selected from hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, and combinations thereof; wherein R1 and R2 are each independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, and combinations thereof; wherein any adjacent substituents of R2 are optionally joined to form a fused ring; wherein the ligand LA is coordinated to a metal M; and wherein the ligand LA is optionally linked with other ligands to comprise a tridentate, tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate ligand.
US09978959B2
An organometallic compound, an organic light-emitting device including the same, and a method of manufacturing organic light-emitting device, the organometallic compound being represented by Formula 1, below:
US09978958B2
Phosphorescent materials are provided, where the materials comprise a coordination compound having at least one ligand L3 having Formula (I): wherein A and B are each independently a 5-membered or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; wherein RA, RB, RC, and RD each represent mono, di, tri, tetra substitutions, or no substitution; wherein Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5, Z6, Z7, and Z8 are each selected from N or C; wherein at least one of Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5, Z6, Z7, and Z8 is N; wherein one of Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4 is C that is bonded to N of A; wherein Z is selected from the group consisting of BR, NR, PR, O, S, Se, C═O, S═O, SO2, CRR′, SiRR′, and GeRR′; wherein R, R′, RA, RB, RC, and RD are described herein; wherein L3 is coordinated to a metal M1; and wherein L3 may be linked with other ligands to comprise a tridentate, tetradentate, pentadentate, or hexadentate ligand. Devices, such as organic light emitting devices, comprising such compounds are also provided.
US09978950B2
The present application relates to a compound of a formula (I) which contains a spirobifluorene basic structure condensed onto a benzofuran unit. The application furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of the compound of the formula (I), and to the use of the compound of the formula (I) in an electronic device.
US09978940B2
A device is disclosed which comprises a first electrode (101), a second electrode (104) spaced from the first electrode, a switching region (102) positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an intermediate region (103) positioned between the switching region and the second electrode, wherein the intermediate region is in electrical contact with the switching region and the second electrode. Preferably, the intermediate region comprises metal nanowires (105) in a polymer matrix, and the device is a memristor or a memcapacitor. In the latter case, the switching region comprises a conductive material (106) and an insulating material (107).
US09978936B2
The concentration of a constituent within a chalcogenide film used to form a chalcogenide containing semiconductor may be adjusted post deposition by reacting the chalcogenide film with a material in contact with the chalcogenide film. For example, a chalcogenide film containing tellurium may be coated with a titanium layer. Upon the application of heat, the titanium may react with the tellurium to a controlled extent to reduce the concentration of tellurium in the chalcogenide film.
US09978932B2
Provided are semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device may include lower wires, upper wires crossing the lower wires, select elements provided at intersections between the lower and upper wires, and memory elements provided between the select elements and the upper wires. Each of the memory elements may include a lower electrode having a top width greater than a bottom width, and a data storage layer including a plurality of magnetic layers stacked on a top surface of the lower electrode and having a rounded edge.
US09978917B1
The present invention provides a light-emitting diode (LED) package structure and the method for manufacturing the same. First, a ceramic substrate is provided. Then, an ultraviolet (UV) LED chip, a light-guiding layer, and a metal reflective layer are disposed on the substrate sequentially. By means of the metal reflective layer, the emission light of the UV LED from the light-emitting side is reflected laterally and thus making the UV LED package structure output a plane light source.
US09978910B2
According to the present invention, a light-emitting diode with improved light extraction efficiency comprises: a semiconductor laminated structure including an N-layer, a light-emitting layer, and a P-layer formed on a substrate; an N-type electrode formed on the N-layer; and a P-type electrode formed on the P-layer, wherein the N-type electrode and the P-type electrode include a pad electrode and a dispersion electrode, and the N-type electrode and/or the P-type electrode includes a reflective electrode layer for reflecting light onto the dispersion electrode. Thus, the light-emitting diode has a reflective electrode layer on the electrode so as to improve light extraction efficiency. Further, a reflective layer is patterned beneath a pad unit, thus forming roughness and improving adhesion.
US09978909B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes generating a wafer by generating an N-type semiconductor layer and an active region on the N-type semiconductor layer. The N-type semiconductor layer is located on a first side of the active layer. One or more oxidizing layers are generated along with a P-type semiconductor layer generated on a second, opposite side of the active layer. The wafer is etched to expose a surface of each oxidizing layer. Oxidation of a first region of each oxidizing layer is allowed, where a second region of each oxidizing layer remains non-oxidized.
US09978908B2
A non-polar blue light LED epitaxial wafer based on an LAO substrate comprises the LAO substrate, and a buffer layer, a first non-doped layer, a first doped layer, a quantum well layer, an electron barrier layer and a second doped layer that are sequentially arranged on the LAO substrate. A preparation method of the non-polar blue light LED epitaxial wafer includes: a) adopting the LAO substrate, selecting a crystal orientation, and cleaning a surface of the LAO substrate; b) annealing the LAO substrate, and forming an AlN seed crystal layer on the surface of the LAO substrate; and c) sequentially forming a non-polar m face GaN buffer layer, a non-polar non-doped u-GaN layer, a non-polar n-type doped GaN film, a non-polar InGaN/GaN quantum well, a non-polar m face AlGaN electron barrier layer and a non-polar p-type doped GaN film on the LAO substrate by adopting metal organic chemical vapor deposition.
US09978903B2
A light-emitting element includes a sapphire substrate including: a principal surface that is in a c-plane of the sapphire substrate, and a plurality of projections on the principal surface, wherein each of the plurality of projections has a shape of pseudo-hexagonal pyramid including six lateral surfaces, each of the six lateral surfaces including an inwardly curved surface portion, and wherein, in a top view of the sapphire substrate, each of the plurality of projections has a shape of a pseudo-hexagon that includes first curved lines and second curved lines that are alternately connected to one another, the first curved lines being curved toward a center of a corresponding hexagon and disposed between respective adjacent pairs of six vertices of the hexagon, and the second curved lines passing through respective vertices of the hexagon; and a semiconductor layered body comprising a nitride semiconductor on the principal surface side of the sapphire substrate, the semiconductor layered body including an active layer.
US09978888B2
A method for manufacturing a solar cell, the method including: preparing a semiconductor substrate; ion-implanting a pre-amorphization element to form an amorphous layer at at least a part of one surface of the semiconductor substrate; ion-implanting a first conductive type dopant to the one surface of the semiconductor substrate to form a first dopant layer; and forming a first electrode electrically connected to the first dopant layer, wherein a concentration of the pre-amorphization element in one portion of the first dopant layer is different from a concentration of the pre-amorphization element in another portion of the first dopant layer.
US09978882B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention, a ring-shaped electrode plate 18 with an opening having a diameter smaller than a diameter of a semiconductor wafer W is disposed between a first electrode plate 14 and a second electrode plate 16, the semiconductor wafer W is arranged between the ring-shaped electrode plate 18 and the second electrode plate 16, and a glass film is formed on a glass film forming scheduled surface in a state where a potential lower than a potential V2 of the second electrode plate 16 is applied to the ring-shaped electrode plate 18. According to the method of manufacturing a semiconductor device of the present invention, even when the glass film forming step is performed using the semiconductor wafer where the base insulating film is formed on the glass film forming scheduled surface as the semiconductor wafer, lowering of deposition efficiency of fine glass particles on the outer peripheral portion of the semiconductor wafer can be suppressed and hence, highly reliable semiconductor devices can be manufactured with high productivity.
