US09396309B2
A display method displaying simulation results of a three dimensional simulation model of an internal organ by detecting a first element string along a first line that passes through the simulation model from a first element group having physical values according to a simulation model position of a first unit time; extracting first physical values of the first element string from the first element string; setting a second line that passes through the simulation model of a second unit time subsequent to the first unit time; detecting a second element string along the second line and corresponding to the first element string from a second element group having physical values according to a simulation model position of the second unit time; extracting second physical values of the second element string from the second element string; and displaying the first physical values and the second physical values.
US09396303B2
A method and circuit for implementing enhanced performance dynamic evaluation, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The dynamic evaluation circuit includes a combined precharge and keeper device connected to a precharge node. The dynamic evaluation circuit includes control logic providing a control input to the combined precharge and keeper device. The combined precharge and keeper device responsive to the control input holds the precharge node precharged when the precharge node is not discharged early in an evaluate cycle.
US09396296B2
A system and method for computing thermal boundary conditions from an unstructured computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation for a thermal simulation of a structural component are disclosed. The thermal boundary conditions include convective heat transfer coefficient (HTC) and reference temperature (Tref). In one embodiment, prism cells are formed to capture boundary layer substantially next to a wall of the structural component. Further, tetrahedral cells are formed to capture a diffused temperature layer substantially next to the formed last prism cell and in a direction normal to the wall. Furthermore, temperature of each of the prism cells is computed in the direction normal to the wall until a substantially first tetrahedral cell. In addition, the computed temperature of the prism cell that is substantially adjacent to the first tetrahedral cell is declared as the Tref. Also, the HTC is computed using the obtained Tref.
US09396291B2
Computer-implemented method for digitally designing a dental restoration for a rest tooth, wherein the rest tooth is described by data of the rest tooth and wherein a tooth template is described by data of the tooth template, the method comprising automatically deforming the tooth template by means of Laplacian surface deformation such that a prepared part of the rest tooth is covered by a portion of the tooth template, wherein the Laplacian surface deformation comprises automatically generating a line which is going through a point, such as a vertex or a point inside a polygonal of a mesh, on the surface of the rest tooth or the tooth template and which is directed along the normal direction at said point; when the line intersects with the tooth template and with the surface of the rest tooth, automatically choosing the intersection point of the line with the tooth template as handle and the intersection point with the surface of the rest tooth as target; and automatically deforming the tooth template. Further, the invention is related to a computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by a processor, are adapted to perform the method steps of the inventive computer-implemented method.
US09396290B2
A hybrid data management/storage system is provided which includes two or more integrated or connected data management systems. An external application and/or user interacts with the hybrid data management/storage system using a unified interface. Incoming raw data may be directed to be stored in any of a plurality of data management systems based on the incoming data object having one or more of a number of predefined characteristics, including for example size and/or data type. Metadata corresponding to all incoming data objects may be stored in a particular data store, regardless of whether the incoming object's raw data is stored in a different one of the plurality of data stores.
US09396281B2
Various embodiments can enable a webpage publisher to describe structured data on a webpage in a manner that enables a Web browser to intelligently present activities that pertain to user selections relative to the structured data appearing on the webpage. In at least some embodiments, a webpage publisher can provide markup that identifies structured data on a webpage. A service provider can provide a representation that describes the types of structured data in which it is interested, and how to handle the structured data responsive to a user selection. The Web browser can then use the markup in the webpage and the service provider's representation to identify and present activities associated with structured data selected by the user.
US09396280B2
Command driven web site browsing. As a part of command driven web site browsing a user supplied command is accessed that is submitted from a text input box in a web page of a browser and based on the user supplied command a web site is identified and accessed. The web site is automatically navigated to directly locate a predetermined place and/or perform a predetermined function therein which otherwise requires one or more user actions beyond the submission of a command to locate.
US09396276B2
Methods and systems for providing a geo-search engine capability for large point-of-interest record datasets are disclosed. These methods and systems employ a Partition-by-Query index containing key-values pairs corresponding to keys reflecting concept-ordered geo-search phrases and values reflecting ordered lists of point-of-interest record references that are responsive to the concept-ordered geo-search phrase in a corresponding key. A large Partition-by-Query index may be partitioned across multiple servers depending on the size of the index, or the size of the index may be reduced by compressing query-references pairs into clusters. The methods and systems described herein may provide suggestions and spelling corrections to the user, thereby improving the user's geo-search engine experience while meeting user expectations for geo-search quality and responsiveness.
US09396272B2
In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an text query, identifying nodes and edges from a social graph that correspond to character strings from the text query, and then generating recommended queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges.
US09396249B1
Methods and systems of encoding parent-child map tile relationships in a quad tree data structure are provided. A first bit string is generated, wherein the level and position of a node in the tree is transformed into a string containing values of the nodes in a parent-child relationship, in descending order of level, and a second bit string is generated that identifies and disambiguates the specific level in the quad tree of a reference node.
US09396248B1
Techniques are described for using stored function instantiations, together with user queries. In one example, a method includes receiving a query from a user that contains one or more parameters. The method further includes comparing one or more parameters of the query with one or more parameters of one or more stored function instantiations. The method further includes determining a pre-existing function instantiation from the one or more stored function instantiations that have one or more parameters in common with the query. The method further includes identifying one or more parameters that are not in common between the query and the pre-existing function instantiation. The method further includes modifying the pre-existing function instantiation into a repurposed function instantiation that incorporates the one or more parameters from the query that are not in common between the query and the pre-existing function instantiation. The method further includes executing the repurposed function instantiation.
US09396237B1
Novel tools and techniques for monitoring software applications, and in particular software applications available from app stores, for apps that might infringe the intellectual property of others. Merely by way of example, a tool might identify an application in an app store, download that application, and analyze that application for content that might be infringing. Such analysis can include, but is not limited to, decompiling the application. Meta-content about the application (including portions of the content) can be compared with meta-content about other applications, to identify associations between applications. In other cases, the meta-content can be used to identify acts of intellectual property infringement.
US09396229B2
Electronic mail message processing includes: obtaining a set of keywords associated with an electronic mail message; updating, based at least in part on the set of keywords, a set of inverted index records stored in a level 1 cache; determining whether size of the set of inverted index records stored in the level 1 cache exceeds a first preset threshold value; in the event that the first preset threshold value is exceeded, transferring the set of inverted index records in the level 1 cache to a level 2 cache; determining whether size of a level 2 cache file exceeds a second preset threshold value; in the event that the second preset threshold value is exceeded, transferring, according to a path file, inverted index records in the level 2 cache file to a level 3 cache storing a set of inverted index files.
US09396228B2
The invention is a method of optimizing the interaction between (i) a client, being an application such as database software, implemented on a computing device, and (ii) database server software implemented on a computing device. Query data is routed from the client to the database server software through an optimization system implemented on a computing device and then response data provided by the database server software is routed to the optimization system. The optimization system analyzes that (or later) query data and, based on that analysis, applies rules to response data provided by the database server software, in order to generate optimized response data to thereby speed up the interaction between the client and the database server software.
US09396220B2
A pluggable database is transported between a source DBMS and a destination DBMS, in a way that minimizes downtime of the pluggable database. While a copy of the pluggable database is being made at the destination DBMS, transactions continue to execute against the pluggable database at the source DBMS and change the pluggable database. Eventually, the transactions terminate or cease executing. Redo records generated for the transactions are applied to the copy of the pluggable database at the source DBMS. Undo records generated for at least some of the transactions may be stored in a separate undo log and transported to the destination DBMS. The transported pluggable database is synchronized at a destination DBMS in a “pluggable-ready state”, where it may be plugged into the destination container DBMS.
US09396216B2
Techniques are disclosed for implementing repository redundancy in a system which incrementally updates remote clients with events that occurred in a cloud-enabled platform. In one embodiment, a method comprises comparing a local timestamp of an event with a remote timestamp of the event. The event is to be stored in a queue in a repository cluster to be read by a remote client. The method further comprises updating the local timestamp of the event if the comparing indicates that the remote timestamp is more recent than the local timestamp. Among other advantages, embodiments disclosed herein ensure that no event in an action log is missed or skipped by any of remote clients in a distributed action log framework system during a switchover from an active but failed server to a backup server, and require zero or minimal down time during the switchover, thereby providing robustness and serviceability to such system.
US09396206B2
Peer-to-peer redundant file server system and methods include clients that determine a target storage provider to contact for a particular storage transaction based on a pathname provided by the filesystem and a predetermined scheme such as a hash function applied to a portion of the pathname. Servers use the same scheme to determine where to store relevant file information so that the clients can locate the file information. The target storage provider may store the file itself and/or may store metadata that identifies one or more other storage providers where the file is stored. A file may be replicated in multiple storage providers, and the metadata may include a list of storage providers from which the clients can select (e.g., randomly) in order to access the file.
US09396193B2
The present invention relates to a computerized method and systems for managing feeds so that a user's playlists may be automatically updated in accordance with a user's desired media preferences.
US09396192B2
Systems and methods for tagging a media asset are provided. A plurality of communications is received from a plurality of users. Each of the plurality of communications includes words spoken by a respective one of the users while accessing the media asset and is associated with a media asset play position during which the respective words were spoken. A subset of the plurality of communications is selected for which the associated media asset play position is within a range of play positions, the range of play positions being shorter than the duration of the media asset. A word that a threshold number of the selected communications have in common is identified. The word is cross-referenced with an attribute database to retrieve an attribute associated with the word. The retrieved attribute is assigned to the media asset within the range of play positions.
US09396188B2
Assigning tags to content on a page stored within a digital document environment is described. An activity log is received for a document including data indicating search queries resulting in the location of the document by a search engine. One or more keywords are determined from the activity log, and the document is tagged with a tag associated with the keywords.
US09396186B2
Computer-aided translation systems include a processor configured to generate a suggestion pool of possible translations for each sentence in a document that has one or more sentences to be translated; a translation module configured to provide a best suggestion from the suggestion pool to a user for a sentence being translated and to provide an updated best suggestion from the updated suggestion pool to the user for the sentence being translated after the receipt of a user's translation prefix input; and a pool update module configured to update the suggestion pool based on the user's input of a translation prefix.
US09396184B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for translating a document are disclosed. A document in a source language is received and text snippets are extracted from the same. The text snippets are sent to a first set of remote workers for translation and a second set of remote workers for validation. The words in the validated text snippets are assigned a probability score. The words with the highest probability score are combined to generate the translated document.
US09396170B2
A method of presenting hyperlink data. The method comprises identifying when a web browser running on a web browser client retrieves, in response to a web document data request submitted to a target server, a first web document data for displaying a first web document containing a hyperlink having a label for display and a target destination defining an address of a second web document, evaluating a risk from content of the second web document, generating by the web browser to a reference evaluation indication of the risk, and processing the web document data and the reference evaluation indication by the web browser for generating a presentation on the client terminal which combines the first web document data and the reference evaluation indication such that when the reference evaluation indication is presented when the label is presented by the web browser.
US09396163B2
This invention relates to a method, system and computer program product for selecting an optimized solution in a computerised multiple-constraint problem space, comprising: receiving a linear function for optimization; receiving a set of constraints for the linear function; determining a first optimal solution for the linear function and initial constraints using linear programming solver; creating a new set of constrains using the first optimal solution as a constraint in addition to the initial constraints; creating a new quadratic function by adding a quadratic objective of slack variables to the linear function; and determining a solution to the quadratic function and new constraints using a quadratic programming solver.
US09396160B1
Systems and methods are described for testing computing resources. In one embodiment, a request for verification of a computing setting related to a computing environment is received. Computing environment parameters and performance metrics are analyzed to determine an initial test population for testing the computing setting. A computing device in the computing environment is configured in accordance with the initial test population. Testing in accordance with the initial test population is performed and the initial test population is iteratively updated based on results of the testing.
US09396153B2
A data communication interface for an agricultural utility vehicle, particularly an agricultural tractor, having an interface connector that can be connected either to a first data communication network or to a second data communication network by means of an electrically operatable changeover device, wherein the first data communication network is terminated at a line end associated with the interface connector by means of a disconnectable terminating resistor, and having a control unit that connects the interface connector to the first data communication network by means of appropriate operating of the changeover device exclusively when it infers the presence of a control signal that is provided for disconnecting the terminating resistor.
US09396148B2
In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method, which may include sending, by a user equipment, a first predetermined test pattern to a first accessory including a first connector, when the first accessory is in a first mode of operation; determining, by the user equipment, a configuration of the first accessory in the first mode by at least measuring a first time for the first predetermined test pattern to return from the first connector and a data loop at the first accessory; sending, by the user equipment, a second predetermined test pattern via at least the first connector; and determining, by the user equipment, a presence of a data loop extension, by at least measuring a second time for the second predetermined test pattern to return from the first connector and at least one of the data loop at the first accessory or the data loop extension.
US09396146B1
A system-on-chip including an ingress arbiter module to receive a plurality of service requests from a plurality of devices located upstream to access a resource located downstream. Each of the service requests includes a quality of service value and a first timing budget value specified by the respective device to indicate an amount of time in which the respective service request is to be serviced by the resource. The ingress arbiter module selects a first service request based on the quality of service values, the first timing budget values, and a time delay associated with arbitrating the plurality of service requests and outputting the first service request downstream. A timing budget generator module generates a second timing budget value for the first service request based on the first timing budget value associated with the first service request, and the time delay.
US09396139B2
A system and method of connecting a computer to a peripheral of another computer. An example system includes a processor connected to a network and to the one and the other computers through the network. The processor executes web service software which establishes a discovery service for receiving a peripheral connection request from application software of the one computer and peripheral management software which receives information from the other computer through the web service software about the peripherals of the other computer. In addition, the peripheral management software logically associates the peripherals and the other computer with a peripheral station, receives the peripheral connection request from the application software, maps the one computer to a requested peripheral of the peripheral station, and sends information to the application software through the web service software to facilitate connection by the application software to the requested peripheral of the peripheral station through the other computer.
US09396135B2
A physical cache memory that is divided into one or more virtual segments using multiple circuits to decode addresses is provided. An address mapping and an address decoder is selected for each virtual segment. The address mapping comprises two or more address bits as set indexes for the virtual segment and the selected address bits are different for each virtual segment. A cache address decoder is provided for each virtual segment to enhance execution performance of programs or to protect against the side channel attack. Each physical cache address decoder comprises an address mask register to extract the selected address bits to locate objects in the virtual segment. The foregoing can be implemented as a method or apparatus for protecting against a side channel attack.
US09396127B2
In some embodiments, in response to execution of a load-reserve instruction that binds to a load target address held in a store-through upper level cache, a processor core sets a core reservation flag, transmits a load-reserve operation to a store-in lower level cache, and tracks, during a core reservation tracking interval, the reservation requested by the load-reserve operation until the store-in lower level cache signals that the store-in lower level cache has assumed responsibility for tracking the reservation. In response to receipt during the core reservation tracking interval of an invalidation signal indicating presence of a conflicting snooped operation, the processor core cancels the reservation by resetting the core reservation flag and fails a subsequent store-conditional operation. Responsive to not canceling the reservation during the core reservation tracking interval, the processor core determines whether a store-conditional operation succeeds by reference to a pass/fail indication provided by the store-in lower level cache.
US09396123B2
An apparatus including a plurality of cores and a fuse array. The plurality of cores is disposed on a die. The fuse array is disposed on the die and is coupled to each of the plurality of cores, where the fuse array includes a first plurality of semiconductor fuses and a second plurality of semiconductor fuses. The first plurality of semiconductor fuses is programmed with compressed configuration data for the each of the plurality of cores. The second plurality of semiconductor fuses is programmed with core designation data that associates some of the compressed configuration data with one of the plurality of cores, where the one of the plurality of cores accesses and decompresses the some of the compressed configuration data upon power-up/reset, for initialization of elements within the one of the plurality of cores.
US09396114B2
A controller receives a request to perform staging or destaging operations with respect to an area of a cache. A determination is made as to whether more than a threshold number of discard scans are waiting to be performed. The controller avoids satisfying the request to perform the staging or the destaging operations or a read hit with respect to the area of the cache, in response to determining that more than the threshold number of discard scans are waiting to be performed.
US09396112B2
A method, computer program product, and system is described that enforces a release consistency with special accesses sequentially consistent (RCsc) memory model and executes release synchronization instructions such as a StRel event without tracking an outstanding store event through a memory hierarchy, while efficiently using bandwidth resources. What is also described is the decoupling of a store event from an ordering of the store event with respect to a RCsc memory model. The description also includes a set of hierarchical read-only cache and write-only combining buffers that coalesce stores from different parts of the system. In addition, a pool component maintains partial order of received store events and release synchronization events to avoid content addressable memory (CAM) structures, full cache flushes, as well as direct write-throughs to memory. The approach improves the performance of both global and local synchronization events and reduces overhead in maintaining write-only combining buffers.
US09396110B2
Memory units and computer systems are provided. The computer systems include a memory unit. The memory unit includes a stable storage unit, an unstable storage unit, and a controller. The unstable storage unit stores pending write operations for the stable storage unit. The controller is configured to determine the locations in the unstable storage that store the pending write information and to selectively write the pending write operations to the stable storage unit when power to the memory unit is interrupted.
US09396108B2
A data storage device includes a first memory device, a second memory device including a system region and a buffer region and a controller suitable for controlling the first memory device in response to a request from a host device, and allocating the system region and the buffer region according to an attribute of data involved with the request from the host device.
US09396102B2
For cache/data management in a computing storage environment, incoming data segments into a Non Volatile Storage (NVS) device of the computing storage environment are validated against a bitmap to determine if the incoming data segments are currently in use. Those of the incoming data segments determined to be currently in use are designated to the computing storage environment to protect data integrity.
US09396101B2
A computer implemented program product and data processing system for receiving data to a targeted logical partition. A computer locates buffer element in reliance on a connection status bit array. The computer copies control information to the targeted logical partition's local storage. The computer updates a targeted logical partition's local producer cursor based on the control information. The computer copies data to an application receive buffer. The computer determines that an application completes a receive operation. Responsive to a determination that the application completed the receive operation, the computer a targeted logical partition's local consumer cursor to match the targeted logical partition's producer cursor.
US09396097B2
Disclosed are methods, circuits, apparatuses, systems and associated computer executable code for generating a unit test. According to some embodiments, there is provided computerized system including test generation software, which software may include code analyzing logic to identify within a code under test or within an associated Code Statement Segment (CSS): (1) one or more dependencies, and (2) one or more fields read by the CUT or Associated CSS. The may also be include a code statement provider to provide: (1) at least one CSS constructed to resolve at least one identified dependency, and (2) at least one CSS constructed to modify at least one identified field.
US09396085B2
Data characterizing a plurality of data accesses of objects at one or more log points is received by a data access framework. Thereafter, data accesses requiring logging are identified and one or more corresponding pre-specified attributes are then logged. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US09396072B2
The invention relates to a system for data synchronization between two or more computer terminals including, at least one client terminal, a server terminal, a communication network connecting said client and server terminals, a data string being created on said client terminal, said client terminal being configured to send the data string to the server terminal for synchronization between the two terminals, characterized in that upon synchronization failure, reconciliation data with the latest synchronization information including said data string, is configured to be stored in a database on the client terminal and resent later according to a retry counter.
US09396071B1
Techniques for managing virtual machine backup are described herein. According to one embodiment, a virtual machine (VM) management console queries VM backup data stored in backup servers. The VM management console manages VMs running within data processing systems over a network. In response to the request, the VM management console retrieves backup operational data from backup servers, the backup operational data describing the VM backup data backed up from the data processing system. A VM backup report is generated having the backup operational data therein and VM information of VMs that are associated with the VM backup data described by the backup operational data. The VM backup report is presented in the VM management console to allow a user to select one or more of the VMs to be recovered from the backup servers.
US09396061B1
An improved technique involves automatically applying a mapping from anomalous values of a parameter that describes the performance of a component to a defect in the component. As part of operations of a data storage system, a computer collects data related to performance metrics of components of the data storage system. Upon receiving the data, the computer determines sequences of values of the performance metrics that indicate anomalous behavior of the component. The computer than maps these values to a defect of the component, and performs a corrective operation on the component to correct the defect.
US09396053B2
Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate error handling in a network resource generation environment. A request for a network resource is obtained from a client. The network resource is associated with a network site hosted on behalf of a first party by a second party. Resource generation code supplied by the first party is executed by a framework in response to the request. A customized error network resource is sent to the client in response to determining that an error has occurred in the framework that executes the resource generation code.
US09396050B2
A distributed execution system includes an output-side pipe worker that operates on a node same as an output-side worker realized by a first distributed program, and an input-side pipe worker that operates on a node same as an input-side worker realized by a second distributed program, receives output data on the output-side worker from the output-side pipe worker, and transfers it to the input-side worker, in which the output-side pipe worker acquires, from the output-side worker, output data together with a sequence number indicating an order of the output data to be transmitted to the input-side worker, acquires a restore sequence number corresponding to an execution state of the input-side worker, compares the sequence number and the restore sequence number, and does not forward, to the input-side pipe worker, the output data acquired together with the sequence number indicating the order equal to or earlier than the restore sequence number.
US09396049B2
Methods for agricultural data management include automatically monitoring for events associated with receipt of agricultural data through use of a service executing on a computing device, notifying at least one component of a software system executing on the computing device of the receipt of the agricultural data, processing the agricultural data by the at least one component and storing the agricultural data in a data repository, and automatically distributing the agricultural data from the data repository in a predetermined format.
US09396041B2
A method and apparatus for modifying resource usage by a computing system including a first environment and a second environment is disclosed. A status signal is received and applications executed by the first environment and by the second environment are monitored. The status signal may indicate whether the computing system is coupled to an external device. It is determined whether a first application is executed by the first environment and by the second environment. Responsive to determining the first application is executed by the first environment and by the second environment, an amount of resources allocated to the first application by each of the environments is calculated. Based on the first amount of resources allocated by the different environments, execution of the first application by the first environment or by the second environment is halted.
US09396038B2
A private cloud-based processing pipeline apparatus and method for its use is disclosed. A first load balancer directs data packets to one of a plurality of collectors. The collectors authenticate the data packet. Then a second load balancer receives the data packet from the collector and to direct the data packet to one of a plurality of extract transform load (ETL) frontends, where the data packet is converted from a platform dependent form into a platform independent form and loaded into a queue. Handlers then process the converted data packets. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09396035B2
A recursive solution to a bin-packing algorithm provides efficient allocation of computing or communications resources to resource consumers in a computer or network system. The algorithm determines resource requirement vectors for the consumers that specify amounts of multiple resource types required for each consumer, thereby forming a multi-dimensional bin-packing problem. The algorithm assigns the resource consumers to corresponding groups of computing or communication resources by recursively exploring partial solutions that assign the consumers to the groups by extending the partial solutions via recursion until the requirements in the resource requirement vectors are met. The bin-packing algorithm tests resource requirements vectors for remaining unassigned ones of the resource consumers for both assignment and non-assignment to a current individual group of computing or communications resources in a current partial solution until the current partial solution becomes a complete solution that satisfies the requirement vectors for the plurality of resource consumers.
US09396033B2
Provided are a method of executing parallel programming on a manycore cluster system and the manycore cluster system, both of which may make a parallel application targeting on one compute device operate on a heterogeneous manycore cluster system configured of a plurality of compute devices, without modifying source codes. Up to now, programmers have had to manually distribute an appropriate workload amount to the compute devices according to a throughput of each compute device. However, since the method and the manycore cluster system can reduce the complexity of programming and provide an heterogeneous manycore cluster environment that allows programmers to develop easily.
US09396030B2
One embodiment comprises a hierarchical heap allocator system. The system comprises a system-level allocator for monitoring run-time resource usage information for an application having multiple application threads. The system further comprises a process-level allocator for dynamically balancing resources between the application threads based on the run-time resource usage information. The system further comprises multiple thread-level allocators. Each thread-level allocator facilitates resource allocation and resource deallocation for a corresponding application thread.
US09396024B2
Methods, computer programs, and systems for managing thread performance in a computing environment based on cache occupancy are provided. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method assigns a thread performance counter to threads being created to measure the number of cache misses for the threads. The thread performance counter is deduced in one embodiment based on performance counters associated with each core in a processor. The method further calculates a self-thread value as the change in the thread performance counter of a given thread during a predetermined period, and an other-thread value as the sum of all the changes in the thread performance counters for all threads except for the given thread. Further, the method estimates a cache occupancy for the given thread based on a previous occupancy for the given thread, and the calculated shelf-thread and other-thread values. The estimated cache occupancy is used to assign computing environment resources to the given thread. In another embodiment, cache miss-rate curves are constructed for a thread to help analyze performance tradeoffs when changing cache allocations of the threads in the system.
US09396023B1
Methods and systems for performing a shared computing task are provided. The method includes configuring a shared computing task among a plurality of computing nodes each executing an application for performing the shared computing task; generating intermediate data by each of the plurality of computing nodes during a mapping process for performing the shared computing task; capturing the intermediate data for each of the plurality of computing nodes; storing the intermediate data for each of the plurality of computing nodes at a key-value data store at a shared storage device that enables searching for the intermediate data using a key-value pair; and using the key-value pair to obtain the intermediate data when needed for a reduce process of the shared computing task.
US09396020B2
An apparatus is described having multiple cores, each core having: a) an accelerator; and, b) a general purpose CPU coupled to the accelerator. The general purpose CPU has functional unit logic circuitry to execute an instruction that returns an amount of storage space to store context information of the accelerator.
US09396017B2
A set of like tasks to be performed is organized into a first group, and a last used processing group associated with the like tasks is stored. Upon a subsequent dispatch, the last used processing group is compared to other processing groups and the tasks are assigned to a processing group based upon a predetermined threshold.
US09396016B1
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software to handoff virtual machines between hypervisors. In one implementation, a method of transitioning a virtual machine from a first hypervisor to a second hypervisor includes identifying a request to transition the virtual machine from the first hypervisor to the second hypervisor. The method further provides determining security trust requirements for the virtual machine, and exchanging trust information between the first hypervisor and the second hypervisor. The method further provides determining if the second hypervisor can support the virtual machine based on the security trust requirements and the trust information, and transitioning the device to the second hypervisor if the second hypervisor can support the virtual machine.
US09396013B2
A next-generation OS with a virtualization feature is executed as a user program on a first virtual processor by selecting, in response to a cause of a call for a host VMM, one of a guest status area (221) for executing a user program on a second virtual processor and a host status area (222) for executing the guest VMM, and by updating a guest status area (131) of a shadow VMCS for controlling a physical processor. Accordingly, without a decrease in performance of a virtual computer, the next-generation OS incorporating the virtualization feature is executed on a virtual server, and the next-generation OS and an existing OS are integrated on a single physical computer.
US09396012B2
An apparatus includes a processor and a guest operating system. In response to receiving a request to create a task, the guest operating system requests a hypervisor to create a virtual processor to execute the requested task. The virtual processor is schedulable on the processor.
US09396003B2
An information providing system according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of help topics corresponding to a plurality of entry fields to be displayed on a screen from a field/topic storage unit that stores help topics corresponding to entry fields. The display control unit displays the plurality of entry fields in an entry area in the screen displayed on a user terminal and displays the plurality of help topics acquired by the acquisition unit in a help area in the screen. When a field/topic displayed in one of the entry area and the help area is specified, the display control unit makes a display mode of a field/topic in the other area corresponding to the specified field/topic different from a display mode of the other fields/topics in the other area.
US09395998B2
Execution of instructions in a transactional environment is selectively controlled. A TRANSACTION BEGIN instruction initiates a transaction and includes controls that selectively indicate whether certain types of instructions are permitted to execute within the transaction. The controls include one or more of an allow access register modification control and an allow floating point operation control.
US09395990B2
A method of an aspect is performed by a processor. The method includes receiving a partial width load instruction. The partial width load instruction indicates a memory location of a memory as a source operand and indicates a register as a destination operand. The method includes loading data from the indicated memory location to the processor in response to the partial width load instruction. The method includes writing at least a portion of the loaded data to a partial width of the register in response to the partial width load instruction. The method includes finishing writing the register with a set of bits stored in a remaining width of the register that have bit values that depend on a partial width load mode of the processor. The partial width load instruction does not indicate the partial width load mode. Other methods, processors, and systems are also disclosed.
US09395989B2
Aspects relate to executing a run-time-instrumentation EMIT (RIEMIT) instruction. A processor is configured to capture the run-time-instrumentation information of a stream of instructions. The RIEMIT instruction is fetched and executed. It is determined if the current run-time-instrumentation controls are configured to permit capturing and storing of run-time-instrumentation information in a run-time-instrumentation program buffer. If the controls are configured to store run-time-instrumentation instructions, then a RIEMIT instruction specified value is stored as an emit record of a reporting group in the run-time-instrumentation program buffer.
US09395985B2
A processor includes an instruction fetch unit and an instruction decode unit. The instruction fetch unit includes an instruction pre-fetch buffer and is configured to fetch instructions from memory into the instruction pre-fetch buffer. The instruction decode unit is coupled to the instruction pre-fetch buffer and upon decoding a call instruction from the instruction pre-fetch buffer, causes next N instruction words of the instruction pre-fetch buffer to be preserved for execution after completing execution of a software module indicated by the call instruction, and causes the instruction fetch unit to begin fetching instructions of the software module from the memory at an address indicated by the call instruction. Upon completion of execution of the software module, the instruction decode unit begins to decode the preserved N instruction words while the instruction fetch unit concurrently fetches instruction words from beginning at an address after the N instruction words.
US09395972B2
A mechanism for customizing an operating system installer via a web-based interface is disclosed. A method of the invention includes providing a web-based interface that enables an end user to customize a kickstart file to install an operating system (OS) on a computing machine of the end user, identifying a base kickstart file template selected by the end user via the web-based interface, identifying one or more customizations to the base kickstart file template that are selected by the end user via the web-based interface, modifying the base kickstart file template with the one or more customizations selected by the end user to create a modified kickstart file, and providing the modified kickstart file to the end user for use by an OS installer of the computing machine in installing an OS that includes the one or more customizations selected by the end user.
US09395970B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for determining the time for a remote computer to begin executing an application downloaded over a network. A portion of the application to begin execution of the application is determined. The portion is less than the entirety of the application. The time to start the application on a remote computer is calculated and displayed. The time to start can be calculated based on an obtained a speed of the network to the remote computer, a time to transmit the portion of the application to the remote computer based on the portion of the application and the obtained connection speed, and a loading time for the portion of the application to load on the remote computer.
US09395964B2
A system includes a memory to store a linker and one or modules, and a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory. The computer system is configured to recognize a first symbol address initialization sequence in a module. The system determines whether the first symbol address initialization sequence is a candidate for replacement, determines whether to replace the first symbol address initialization sequence with a second symbol address initialization sequence, and replaces the first symbol address initialization sequence with the second symbol address instruction sequence when it is determined to replace the first symbol address initialization sequence with the second symbol address initialization sequence.
US09395960B2
The method includes receiving, by a data plane definition language compiler, a first data plane definition describing customized functionality of a data plane of a first network application, and compiling the data plane definition to generate a first set of customized data processing modules and a program interface that allows a control plane of the network application to access the first set of customized data processing modules. The method also includes loading the first set of customized data processing modules into a data plane container, wherein the network application is executed via a network operating system, and wherein, upon execution of the network application the customized data processing module causes the data plane container of the network application to process packets differently than prior to loading the customized data processing module in the data plane container.
US09395953B2
A plurality of specialized processing blocks in a programmable logic device, including multipliers and circuitry for adding results of those multipliers, can be configured as a larger multiplier by adding to the specialized processing blocks selectable circuitry for shifting multiplier results before adding. In one embodiment, this allows all but the final addition to take place in specialized processing blocks, with the final addition occurring in programmable logic. In another embodiment, additional compression and adding circuitry allows even the final addition to occur in the specialized processing blocks.
US09395952B2
Methods and systems for residue number system based ALUs, processors, and other hardware provide the full range of arithmetic operations while taking advantage of the benefits of the residue numbers in certain operations. In one or more embodiments, an RNS ALU or processor comprises a plurality of digit slices configured to perform modular arithmetic functions. Operation of the digit slices may be controlled by a controller. Residue numbers may be converted to and from fixed or mixed radix number systems for internal use and for use in various computing systems.
US09395944B2
An apparatus receives and analyzes a packet transmitted via a network, and performs network setting according to data included in the packet. Further, if it is determined that the received packet is a packet addressed to the apparatus and is not a setting packet for the network setting, the apparatus is controlled not to analyze the packet.
US09395943B2
In a method for operating a control panel for a production system in particular for printing system, a control system is provided comprising a main computer. The main computer is connected via a data connection with one or more client computers on which a browser is executed. The control panel for the production system is displayed in the respective browser. Via an operation of a user at the control panel, an action request is triggered at a web user interface with which an action is requested at the main computer. Upon every action request, the web user interface checks according to predetermined rules whether this action is allowed, and blocks the action if it is not allowed.
US09395940B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide method comprising receiving a request at a device for a device driver associated with the device, the request for the device driver being received at the device through a network, the device having a network configuration in the network; and transmitting the device driver from the device in response to the request, including transmitting the network configuration of the device.
US09395936B2
A storage system comprises: a storage device; and a controller operable to manage a primary volume in the storage system of a remote copy pair with a secondary volume of another storage system by using a storage area of the storage device, and send a first type copy data to said another storage system according to a remote copy procedure of the remote copy pair, so that said another storage system can update the secondary volume based on the first type copy data. The controller is operable to create a second type copy data by using performance data of the primary volume, and to send the second type copy data to said another storage system according to the remote copy procedure, so that said another storage system can use the performance data of the primary volume for performance data of the secondary volume based on the second type copy data.
US09395931B2
Systems capable of transformation of logical data objects for storage and methods of operating thereof are provided. One method includes identifying among a plurality of requests addressed to the storage device two or more “write” requests addressed to the same logical data object in a distributed network, deriving data chunks corresponding to identified “write” requests and transforming the derived data chunks, grouping the transformed data chunks in accordance with a predefined criteria, generating a grouped “write” request to the storage device, and providing mapping in a manner facilitating one-to-one relationship between the data in the obtained data chunks and the data to be read from the transformed logical object. The method further includes obtaining an acknowledging response from the storage device, multiplying the obtained acknowledging response, and sending respective acknowledgements to each source that initiated each respective “write” request.
US09395930B2
Information processing system, control method of information processing system, and recording medium
An information processing system includes a plurality of information processing apparatuses, a management apparatus that manages the plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a device that is to be coupled with the management apparatus. Each of the plurality of the information processing apparatus includes a plurality of disk device group, each of which includes a plurality of disk devices. The management apparatus assigns a request received from the device to any one of the plurality of disk device groups. Each of the plurality of information processing apparatuses holds data management information including data size of data to be deleted according to the request, and deletes data stored in the plurality of disk devices when a summation of data sizes included in the data management information exceeds a threshold value.
US09395926B2
A storage system according to the present invention includes multiple real storage subsystems, and defines a virtual storage subsystem composed of resources included in one or multiple real storage subsystems. Upon defining a virtual storage subsystem, a virtual logical partition corresponding to a real storage subsystem is provided in the virtual storage subsystem, and a logical partition correlation information which is attribute (limitation) information showing whether various resource management operations extending over virtual logical partitions can be executed or not to each pair within the multiple virtual logical partitions is created and managed. When a management operation instruction regarding the virtual storage subsystem is received, if the resources being the operation target based on the management operation instruction belong to multiple virtual logical partitions, whether resource operation can be executed or not is determined based on the logical partition correlation information, and management operation is limited thereby.
US09395925B2
For performing efficient full-stride copy source-to-target operations in a computing storage environment by a processor device, pursuant to a destage operation, a determination is made whether to destage a full stride or one track of data on a target volume by comparing a counted number of modified tracks for the full stride against a predetermined threshold.
US09395924B2
Management of and region selection for writes to non-volatile memory of an SSD improves performance, reliability, unit cost, and/or development cost of an SSD. A controller receives and determines characteristics of writes (e.g. by analyzing the write data, the write data source, and/or by receiving a hint) and selects a region based on the determined characteristics and properties of regions of non-volatile memory. For example, a controller receives writes determined to be read-only data and selects regions of non-volatile memory containing cells that are likely to have write failures. By placing read-only data in write failure prone regions, the likelihood of an error is reduced, thus improving reliability. As another example, a controller receives writes hinted to be uncompressible and selects regions of non-volatile memory containing uncompressible data.
US09395919B1
In the described embodiments, a computing device executes firmware to perform a startup initialization operation, wherein performing the startup initialization operation comprises setting an operating state of a memory in the computing device to a default low performance memory operating state. After completing the startup initialization operation, the computing device executes an operating system, wherein executing the operating system comprises performing a memory test to determine a high performance memory operating state. The computing device then sets one or more memory configuration values based on the high performance memory operating state, the one or more memory configuration values controlling the operation of the memory.
US09395917B2
An electronic device with a touchscreen display is provided comprising an active touchscreen region and a virtual bezel area, the active touchscreen region functioning to process a first set of touch-based inputs from a user of the electronic device according to a first mode of operation, and the virtual bezel area functioning to process a second set of touch-based inputs from a user of the electronic device according to a second mode of operation.
US09395914B2
A method for providing touch screen-based user interface and a portable terminal adapted to the method are provided. The method includes setting types and display order of icons to be displayed on a touch screen, sensing a touch input to the touch screen, measuring a time that the touch input is retained on the touch screen, and displaying at least one icon, in an order, according to the measured touch input retaining time and the set types and display order of icons. The touch screen-based user interface providing method can allow a user to easily search for and operate a corresponding function, via a relatively small number of touch inputting actions, thereby enhancing the user's experience while the user is using the portable terminal.
US09395913B2
An onscreen function execution method for a mobile terminal having a touchscreen is provided. The method allows for executing functions of an activated application by a tap on a specific area of the touchscreen. An onscreen function execution method of the present invention includes mapping active regions of the touchscreen to functions of at least one application, displaying an application screen in response to an application activation command and executing, if a tap is detected on one of the active regions, a function mapped to the application activation command. The active regions may include a function execution display region and the applications may comprise a camera application, a music player application, an idle mode screen application and the like. The method allows a user to execute functions of an activated application by tap on the touchscreen.
US09395906B2
A graphic user interface, an input/output computing apparatus for intuitive interfacing, and a method of interfacing are disclosed. The input/output computing apparatus for intuitive interfacing with a user, includes an input unit to detect one of a plurality of predetermined motions of the user and generate a signal corresponding to the detected predetermined motion, and a controller to carry out an operation corresponding to the signal and generate a control signal to display the result corresponding to the operation.
US09395899B2
A method and an apparatus for editing a screen of a mobile device having a touch screen. In an idle mode, the mobile device displays an item display region containing at least one item on an idle screen. In an edit mode, the mobile device displays an edit command region containing at least one predetermined edit command on an edit screen. When a first item contained in the item display region is moved to the edit command region, the mobile device executes the predetermined edit command assigned to a moved position of the edit command region.
US09395897B2
A method for generating an on-screen menu comprising menu buttons and other menu items, e.g. help text, is characterized in that one or more groups of menu buttons or menu items are defined, wherein a group comprises one or more menu buttons or menu items and has associated a defined area on the screen. A state is assigned to a button, the state being “enabled” or “disabled”, wherein only an enabled button or item may be displayed, and wherein within a group not more than one button or item may be enabled. The state of a button can be changed by commands associated with other buttons.
US09395896B2
A method for generating an on-screen menu comprising menu buttons and other menu items, e.g. help text, is characterized in that one or more groups of menu buttons or menu items are defined, wherein a group comprises one or more menu buttons or menu items and has associated a defined area on the screen. A state is assigned to a button, the state being “enabled” or “disabled”, wherein only an enabled button or item may be displayed, and wherein within a group not more than one button or item may be enabled. The state of a button can be changed by commands associated with other buttons.
US09395893B1
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for shared folder backed integrated workspaces. In some implementations, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates communications and content management into a single user interface. The user interface can include mechanisms that allow a user to provide input to generate a new workspace. The user interface can provide a mechanism to allow a user to view conversations related to the workspace and/or content items associated with the workspace. The user interface can present representations of content items associated with the workspace and allow the user to provide input to generate, view, edit, and share content items associated with the workspace.
US09395887B2
An image processing apparatus for removing noise from a frame group on a timeline is provided. This image processing apparatus includes a judgment unit, a division unit, and a removal unit. The judgment unit judges whether changing points where there is a large change between adjacent frames included in the frame group appear at roughly the same interval along the timeline. The division unit, in a case where it is judged that the changing points appear at roughly the same interval, divides the frame group into a plurality of groupings along the timeline in accordance with the interval. The removal unit removes noise from the frame group in units of the groupings.
US09395882B2
A tab bar for a selected record includes a first tab and a second tab. The first tab links to a first category. The second tab links to a listing of other categories including a second category. Usage of the first and second categories is monitored and analyzed. If usage of the second category is greater than usage of the first category, the first tab is replaced with a third tab that links to the second category, thereby allowing direct access to what may be the more relevant second category.
US09395877B2
Methods and apparatus to manage zones of a playback system are disclosed. An example method includes displaying a plurality of zone icons, including a first zone icon and a second zone icon, each of the zone icons representing zone player(s) operable to play back multimedia content in a local area network, wherein the first and second zone icons are currently located in a first zone group region, and wherein the zone players associated with the first and second zone icons are members of a first zone group, the first zone group synchronously playing back a first multimedia content; receiving a first drag and drop input to select the second zone icon and drag the second zone icon from inside the first zone group region to outside the first zone region; and, based on the first drag and drop input, causing the zone player(s) associated with the second zone icon to be disassociated with the first zone group.
US09395875B2
The present disclosure provides an exemplary system, method, and computer program product. The exemplary method includes communicating with a provider of digital content to request data regarding a specific item of interest using a mobile device associated with a user. The method further includes receiving the requested data regarding the specific item of interest from the provider of digital content on the mobile device. The method further includes rendering the received data regarding the specific item of interest on a display of the mobile device, the rendering including superimposing the received data on a street view. The method further includes navigating through the street view according to navigation functions of the mobile device to locate a physical commercial location that carries the specific item of interest.
US09395869B2
In some implementations, windows can be displayed based on a global z-order. The global z-order can be maintained for all open windows. The global z-order can include windows that are not currently displayed. The global z-order can define a display order of windows across multiple workspaces. In some implementations, workspaces can be associated with respective levels. The workspace levels can be used to determine how to display windows associated with each workspace when multiple workspaces are displayed simultaneously.
US09395865B2
Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for concurrent display of a reply message and two or more response options are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computer, maintaining the display of a reply message associated with a plurality of response options. Each respective response option in the plurality of response options is independently associated with one or more recipient addresses for the reply message. While maintaining the display of at least a portion of the reply message, at least one recipient address for the reply message is updated in accordance with a selected response option. In some implementations, the maintaining of the display of at least a portion of the reply message includes maintaining the display of at least a portion of a message body of the reply message. In some embodiments, the selected response option is one of: reply, reply to all, and forward.
US09395855B2
A touchscreen of the present invention is covered by wiring patterns of a row-directional line and a column-directional line being upper and lower two layers. A step height that is produced by an upper electrode riding on a lower electrode when a floating electrode is provided at a region adjacent to the row-directional line and the column-directional line is suppressed.
US09395853B2
A processing device performs a first scan of a first plurality of electrodes along a first axis in a capacitive sense array to generate a first plurality of capacitance values corresponding to a mutual capacitance at electrode intersections of the capacitive sense array. The processing device performs a second scan of a second plurality of electrodes along a second axis in the capacitive sense array to generate a second plurality of capacitance values corresponding to the mutual capacitance at the electrode intersections of the capacitive sense array. The processing device determines a first coordinate of a conductive object proximate to the capacitive sense array based on the a first subset of first plurality of signals and a second coordinate of the conductive object based on a second subset of the second plurality of signals.
US09395850B2
A capacitance detection device of a capacitance system includes: a capacitance sensor electrode for detecting a capacitance; a power source for supplying charges to be charged in the capacitance sensor electrode; an electric charge storage capacitor in which an amount of charges to be charged therein changes according to the electric charges charged in the capacitance sensor electrode; and a switch for changing a reference potential of the electric charge storage capacitor. The reference potential of the electric charge storage capacitor is changed in a period of measuring the capacitance.
US09395849B2
Disclosed are an infrared touch screen multipoint recognizing method and an infrared touch screen. The method comprises the following steps: driving infrared transmitting tubes and infrared receiving tubes to scan a touch detection area and saving scan data (601); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes, to determine boundaries of quasi-touch points and obtain a quasi-touch point set (602); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes aligned with a first direction off-axis, to obtain a first calibrated touch point set (603); reading scan data of the infrared transmitting tubes and the infrared receiving tubes aligned with a second direction off-axis, to obtain a second calibrated touch point set (604); and comparing the quasi-touch point set, the first calibrated touch point set and the second calibrated touch point set, to eliminate ghost points and determine real touch points (605). The infrared touch screen multi-point recognizing method and the infrared touch screen can recognize multiple touch points through one time of full-screen scanning by using only one set of detecting elements.
US09395848B2
An optical touch control system is disclosed, includes a display panel, first and second optical sensors, first and second light-emitting devices, and a controller. The first and second optical sensors are respectively disposed at opposite corners of the display panel. The first and second light-emitting devices are disposed on the first and second optical sensors, respectively. The controller turns off the first and second light-emitting devices and turns on the first optical sensor to obtain a first frame, only turns on the second light-emitting device and the first optical sensor to obtain a second frame, turns off the first and second light-emitting devices and turns on the second optical sensor to obtain a third frame, only turns on the first light-emitting device and the second optical sensor to obtain a fourth frame, and determines a gesture according to the first through the fourth frames.
US09395845B2
Touchscreen testing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a piece of conductor (e.g., metal) is positioned as proximal to a touchscreen device and the touchscreen device is tested by simulating a touch of a user. This technique may be utilized to perform a variety of different testing of a touchscreen device, such as to test latency and probabilistic latency. Additional techniques are also described including contact geometry testing techniques.
US09395841B2
Disclosed are a touch screen controller and a method for controlling the same, which includes a touch processor which processes at least two touch operation modes independently and respectively in accordance with an object touched on the touch screen.
US09395833B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling to lock or unlock in the portable terminal having a transparent display that has two display surfaces and is capable of double-sided touch input and double-sided display is provided. The method includes activating the transparent display according to a lock state or an unlock state of the transparent display; displaying a lock or unlock area, which notifies whether a display surface is locked, in a preset area of at least one of display surfaces of the transparent display; and changing the lock state or the unlock state of the at least one of the display surfaces of the transparent display and displaying whether the changed state is the lock state or the unlock state in the lock or unlock area of the at least one display surface, when a touch input is received in the lock or unlock area.
US09395829B2
A process produces a time release pesticide gradient to protect a cellular telephone. The process includes the step of providing a pliable laminate film shaped to cover a selected portion of the face of a cellular telephone. The film comprises outer sealing layers bounding a transparent inner laminate sandwich. The inner laminate sandwich comprising polymers layer bounding a time-pressure release pesticide used to produce a pesticide concentration gradient in the polymer layers bounding the pesticide.
US09395817B2
In an embodiment, a haptic feedback system includes a plurality of actuators to provide tactile feedback associated with an input surface. Each actuator is adapted to be activated independently of the other actuators. The system further includes a controller to activate a first actuator of the plurality of actuators to induce a first vibration at a selected input location of the input surface and to activate one or more additional actuators to induce at least a second vibration to localize the first vibration at the selected input location.
US09395805B2
A data storage device includes a device sleep state pin and device sleep state logic to allow the data storage device to store security keys and necessary device sleep state logic together in a volatile logical data storage element. The volatile logical data storage element may be on-chip or off-chip. Device sleep state logic parameters for powering down PHYs while in a device sleep state determine the power characteristics of the device sleep state.
US09395800B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for enabling instant handwriting input on a mobile computing device. According to one embodiment, while the mobile device is in an inactive state and identity-protected, an activation event associated with a writing tool operated by a user is detected. In response to the activation event, the mobile computing device is switched from the inactive state to a low power state in which the mobile computing device is configured to accept and store handwritten input while remaining identity-protected.
US09395797B2
A microcontroller operable in a high power mode and a low power unit (LPU) run mode includes primary and LPU domains, primary and LPU mode controllers, and primary and LPU clock generator modules. The primary domain includes a first set of circuits and a first set of cores. The LPU domain includes second and third sets of circuits, a second set of cores, and a switching module. In the high power mode, the switching module connects the first and second sets of cores to at least one of the first, second and third sets of circuits, while in the LPU run mode, the switching module isolates the LPU domain from the primary domain and activates a small microcontroller system (SMS) that includes the LPU domain, the LPU mode controller and the LPU clock generator module. The SMS has further low power modes within the LPU run mode.
US09395796B2
Technologies are presented that optimize graphics processing performance. A method of frequency scaling may include beginning a graphics workload with a starting geometry preprocessing frequency of a multiple of a streaming shader engine frequency where the multiple is non-zero; determining a primitive start pitch for a primitive of the graphics workload; comparing the determined primitive start pitch to a predetermined threshold and, if it exceeds the predetermined threshold: reducing the geometry preprocessing frequency, and, at the start of the next primitive, setting the geometry preprocessing frequency back to the starting geometry preprocessing frequency; and repeating the determining and comparing for each remaining primitive until an end of the graphics workload. Performance gain based on primitive start pitch information may also be determined.
US09395794B2
A remote controller includes a case. An operation input unit is disposed on an outer surface of a case, and receives an operation input for controlling a control subject. A control unit transmits a control signal for controlling the control subject. A substrate is disposed within the case, and comes into contact with the operation input unit when the operation input is received. A sensor is disposed on the substrate, detects vibration of the substrate caused by contact with the operation input unit, and outputs a detection signal indicating detection of the vibration. A contact detecting unit identifies whether or not the operation input is performed based on the detection signal. A power supply control unit controls power supplied to the control unit such as to increase the power when identified that the operation input is performed compared to the power when identified that the operation input is not performed.
US09395791B2
A power management method for a health care device is included. The method includes: detecting whether a smart garment is in contact with a user body; operating the health care device in a normal mode when the smart garment is in contact with the user body, or operating the health care device in a low-power mode when the smart garment is not in contact with the user body; and under the low-power mode, detecting whether the health care device is tapped to determine whether to transmit user health data to a user device.
US09395786B2
A method for cross-layer power management in a multi-layer system includes determining whether there is a service level violation for an application running on a hardware platform. Power consumption of the hardware platform is controlled in response to the service level violation.
US09395781B2
An electronic device can communicate with an external device according to a predetermined method. The electronic device includes a power switch operable to receive an operation for switching on and off the electronic device, a detector operable to detect a connection between the electronic device and the external device according to the predetermined method, and a requestor operable to request the external device to supply power. When the detector detects the connection between the electronic device and the external device with the power switch being ON, the requestor does not request the external device to supply the power in an establishing process for establishing the communication with the external device. When the detector detects the connection between the electronic device and the external device and the power switch is switched from ON into OFF, the requestor requests the external device to supply the power in the establishing process.
US09395777B2
A system-on-chip (SoC) which includes a plurality of intellectual properties (IP cores) which communicate data with a memory device operates by monitoring whether a data transaction occurs between at least one of the IP cores and the memory device, determining an operation state of the IP core according to the result of the monitoring, and supplying the IP core with power corresponding to the operation state of the IP core.
US09395757B2
An auxiliary screen support system for a computing device has mounting members arranged to be disposed on opposing lateral sides of a primary screen of the computing device in use. A retaining member extends between the mounting members, and is configured to hold the mounting members relative to the opposing lateral sides of the primary screen. At least one mounting member is configured to bear an auxiliary screen such that the auxiliary screen is hung relative to the primary screen in use. One or both mounting members may be formed as a unitary, rigid body and may be configured to hold an auxiliary screen at a fixed obtuse angle relative to a primary screen of the computing device.
US09395754B2
Systems and methods for optimizing memory for a wearable device are provided. A selection may be received from a user via a user interface of a wearable device. Such user selection may indicate an application. Application data associated with the selected application may be identified as being located at another device selected from a plurality of other devices. The application data may then be retrieved from the selected device over a communication network. A display may be generated and displayed on the user interface of the wearable device. Such display may be based on the retrieved application data and associated with execution of the selected application.
US09395740B2
A temperature coefficient factor circuit is provided which generates a current which varies with temperature according to a programmable temperature coefficient factor. The temperature coefficient factor circuit comprises a first current source providing a first current with a positive temperature coefficient factor, a second current source providing a second current with a negative temperature coefficient factor, a common terminal, a first programmable amplifying current mirror, a second programmable amplifying current mirror and a current output circuit. The first programmable amplifying current mirror provides in dependence of a control signal ctrl an amplified first current to the common terminal. The second programmable amplifying current mirror conducts away in dependence of the control signal ctrl an amplified second current from the common terminal. The current output circuit provides the output current based on a difference current between the amplified first current and the amplified second current.
US09395739B2
A driving circuit includes a common well. The driving circuit further includes a first output buffer having a bulk connected to the common well, the first output buffer having a first terminal configured to receive a first signal, and having a second terminal connected to the common well. The driving circuit further includes a second output buffer having a bulk connected to the common well, the second output buffer having a first terminal configured to receive the first signal, wherein a second terminal of the second output buffer is disconnected from the common well.
US09395735B2
A control unit for an electric machine. The control unit has a processing unit and a power output stage connected to the processing unit. The power output stage is connected to outputs of the control unit for stator coils of a stator of the electric machine. The processing unit is designed to supply current to the power output stage for generating a stator field, in particular a rotating magnetic field. The control unit comprises an electrical energy store, in particular an intermediate circuit capacitor or accumulator, connected to the power output stage. The control unit includes an input for a control signal, for example a temperature signal. The processing unit is preferably designed to actuate the power output stage as a function of the temperature signal such that the energy store can be heated by a current application pattern generated by the power output stage. The current application pattern corresponds to a stator field which cannot generate an effective torque or a rotary motion, such as a full revolution of a rotor of the electric machine.
US09395732B2
A low-dropout regulator (1) comprises a differential amplifier (3) with a reference input (5) for applying a reference voltage (VIN), a feedback input (7) and an amplifier output (9). An output transistor (11) has a control connection (13) connected to the amplifier output (9), and a control section connected between a first supply potential terminal (VDD) and a voltage output (15) of the low-dropout regulator (1). A feedback branch (17) with an RC-parallel connection (19) is coupled between the voltage output (15) and the feedback input (7). A precharge circuit (30) includes a first field effect transistor (31) with a gate (32) coupled to the feedback input (7) and is configured to precharge the RC-parallel connection (19) to a threshold voltage (VTH) of the first field effect transistor (31).
US09395730B2
A method and apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of devices forming a positive feedback loop for driving a regulated output voltage towards a reference voltage. Device ratios of at least two of the plurality of devices are set such that the positive feedback loop is stable.
US09395727B1
A radio detection and ranging (RADAR) system that emits radio signals from a transmit antenna and receives reflected signals with a receive array of antenna elements. The signals received at the receive array are conveyed through a plurality of waveguide couplers. The plurality of waveguide couplers receives signals from each antenna element at a plurality of antenna ports and outputs signals from a plurality of output ports. The waveguide couplers convey signals such that the output ports receive signals from associated sub-array sets of the antenna ports. The waveguide couplers have an overlapping arrangement such that a given sub-array set of antenna ports overlaps with a neighboring sub-array set of antenna ports by including at least half of the antenna ports in the neighboring sub-array set.
US09395726B1
Examples for implementing bound and gallop gaits are described herein. A computing system may receive an input for a robotic device to perform a gallop gait or a bound gait. Responsive to receiving the input, the computing system may determine a state of the robotic device based on sensor data monitoring the robotic legs. A sagittal controller of the robotic device may determine vertical impulses and target locations for controlling the legs during the gallop gait based on a pitch, a height, and a velocity of the robotic device. One or more continuous controllers may determine adjustments for controlling the legs based on a roll, a yaw, and/or lateral motions of the robotic device that may result from the robotic device traveling at the velocity and direction as specified in the input. Further, to perform the gait, the controllers may provide instructions to control the legs.
US09395720B2
A numerical controller controls a multi-axis machining machine having three linear axes and three rotation axes that include one rotation axis for tool phase control. The numerical controller interpolates smoothly a tool center point position and a tool posture (tool direction and tool phase direction) on the basis of a tool center point position instruction and a tool posture instruction; works out an interpolated tool center point position and an interpolated tool posture (interpolated tool direction and interpolated tool phase direction), and, on the basis of the interpolated tool center point position and the interpolated tool posture that have been worked out, calculates each position of the three linear axes and three rotation axes of the multi-axis machining machine, such that the respective axes are driven to the calculated position.
US09395709B2
Provided is a utilization-time changing support device including: a household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit storing records of power consumption for each household electrical appliance used in a living space; a power record writing unit receiving information indicating the power consumption of the household electrical appliance from a measuring device that measures the power consumption, and writing, into the household-electrical-appliance power record storage unit, a record of the information as one of the records of the power consumption; a regular use determining unit determining whether or not the household electrical appliance used during a predetermined period is regularly used, based on the records of the power consumption; and a period change possibility determining unit outputting (i) whether or not a utilization period of the household electrical appliance can be changed and (ii) another utilization period as a result of the determination, based on the records of the power consumption.
US09395708B2
A method for adaptively and automatically adjusting a sampling rate in a feedback control system includes monitoring an error signal for a disturbance event, evaluating the error signal in response to the disturbance event to estimate a time constant of a control process, and determining a sampling rate for use in the feedback control system based on the estimated time constant. The error signal may be based on a difference between a setpoint and a feedback signal and the feedback signal may be received from the control process.
US09395703B2
A multistage control method of a flow rate control valve which is opened or closed when a DC motor rotates. The method includes dividing angular speed limit areas of the DC motor depending on stages based on limit values so that angular speed values of the DC motor are to be scheduled depending on the stages and controlling the DC motor to rotate at a determined angular speed value depending on a corresponding angular speed instruction to the DC motor within one angular speed limit area. When the angular speed value of the DC motor is outside a limit value of the corresponding angular speed limit area, the DC motor rotates at a determined angular speed value until reaching outside a limit value of the corresponding limit area depending on a corresponding angular speed instruction to the DC motor within an angular speed limit area of the next stage.
US09395698B2
A time to digital converter includes a mutual exclusion element and a sampling component. The mutual exclusion element is configured to receive a first clock and a second clock and to generate a first pulse and a second pulse. The mutual exclusion element is configured to drive the first pulse to a first logic state and the second pulse to a second logic state upon the first clock being earlier than the second clock and drive the second pulse to the first logic state and the first pulse to the second logic state upon the second clock being earlier than the first clock. The sampling component is configured to receive the first pulse and the second pulse and to generate a decision signal according to the first pulse and the second pulse.
US09395691B2
Spring (30) for clock mechanism, the spring comprising a body (31) extending between a first end (32) of the spring and a second end (33) of the spring, the spring being intended to be mechanically connected to a housing at each of the first and second ends, the spring comprising, between the first and the second end, at least one member (37) intended to act by contact on an element of the clock mechanism.
US09395686B2
A process cartridge removably installable in an image forming apparatus includes a cartridge body including an image bearer; a cleaning unit removably attached to the cartridge body and including a lubricant supply device to lubricate the image bearer; a first contact terminal disposed in one of the cleaning unit and the cartridge body; and a second contact terminal disposed in the other of the cleaning unit and the cartridge body. The second contact terminal is disposed to contact the first contact terminal to establish electrical continuity between the cartridge body and the cleaning unit, and an end of the first contact terminal includes a sliding contact portion to slidingly contact the second contact terminal in attachment and removal of the cleaning unit to and from the cartridge body.
US09395683B2
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material includes a main assembly, and a cartridge, including an image bearing member, detachably mountable to the main assembly. The main assembly includes an exposure device for exposing a surface of the image bearing member to light, the exposure device including a light emitting surface which emits light toward the surface of the image bearing member, and a fixing device for fixing a toner image transferred on the recording material. The cartridge includes a windbreak portion projecting from the cartridge, and a width of the windbreak portion is wider than a width of the light emitting surface with respect to a longitudinal direction of the exposure device, and wherein the windbreak portion blocks air flow between the fixing device and the exposure device.
US09395673B2
A fixing device includes: an endless belt; a heater; a nip plate; a backup member, a reflective plate, a stay and a heat insulating member, wherein the heat insulating member includes: an upstream support face, which supports the nip plate; and a downstream support face, which is disposed separated downstream in the conveyance direction from the upstream support face and supports the nip plate, and wherein a gap in the conveyance direction between the upstream support face and the downstream support face at a central portion in the longitudinal direction of the heat insulating member is smaller than a gap in the conveyance direction between the upstream support face and the downstream support face at an end portion in the longitudinal direction of the heat insulating member.
US09395669B1
According to an example of an image forming apparatus, the apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier using a toner and fixes the toner image on a recording medium, a count unit configured to count a use amount of a consumption component or an apparatus which are used in the image forming unit according to a image forming condition in the image forming unit, and a count changing unit configured to determine the toner used in the image forming unit and changes a count method of the count unit set according to the image forming condition in response to a determined result.
US09395661B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus has a fixing section that transfers a toner image to a recording medium for printing in a printer section and then fixes the toner image, a decoloring section that heats and decolors a decolorable image printed on a recording medium for reuse with a color material of which the color is decolored if heated at a decoloring temperature, and a controller that enables the fixing section and the decoloring section to operate exclusively.
US09395654B2
An image forming apparatus includes a lever configured to move a secondary transfer roller from an endless belt. The lever is arranged between a primary transfer surface of the endless belt, which opposes a plurality of image bearing members between an opposing roller and a stretching roller, and a surface opposing the primary transfer surface. The lever is engaged with the secondary transfer roller to separate the secondary transfer roller from the endless belt. Such a simple contact-separation configuration for the secondary transfer roller achieves reduction in size and space of the image forming apparatus.
US09395650B2
A developer container (30) includes a container body (31) and a movable wall (34). The container body (31) includes an inner surface (31K) defining a cylindrical internal space (31H) extending in a longitudinal direction, and a developer discharge port (319). The developer discharge port (319) is formed in a lower part of the inner surface (31K). The movable wall (34) includes an outer surface (34K) disposed slidably in contact with the inner surface (31K) of the container body (31), and a conveying surface (340S). The conveying surface (340S) defines a storage space (31S) for containing developer in cooperation with the inner surface (31K). The movable wall (34) moves in the longitudinal direction from one end side toward the other end side while conveying the developer in the storage space (31S) to the developer discharge port (319).
US09395641B2
A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and toner particles which are dispersed in the insulating liquid and contain a resin and a coloring agent. The resin contains a first resin which is a resin containing a component derived from a crystalline polyester resin. The coloring agent contains carbon black and nigrosine. The toner particles have a peak at not lower than 30° C. and not higher than 50° C. in a DSC curve in temperature decrease.
US09395637B2
Incorporation of organic amines as neutralization agents in based phase inversion emulsification (PIE) processes to provide emulsification of high molecular amorphous and high molecular branch amorphous polyester resins, which are traditionally difficult to emulsify. The organic amines facilitate emulsification of these resins to achieve desired particle size with a narrow size distribution.
US09395636B2
The invention relates to a lithography system for processing a target, such as a wafer. The lithography system comprises a beam source arranged for providing a patterning beam, a final projection system arranged for projecting a pattern on the target surface, a chuck arranged for supporting the target and a mark position system connected to the final projection system and arranged for detecting a position mark on a surface.
US09395634B2
A pellicle is proposed in which the frame is made of an aluminum alloy and at least the inner wall of the frame is entirely coated with a pure aluminum layer, which preferably has a purity of 99.7% or higher and a thickness of 3 through 50 micrometers; the pellicle frame with the pure aluminum layer may be subjected to anodic oxidation treatment, electric coloring, and void filling, and a resin layer can be formed as the outermost layer.
US09395633B2
Lithographic cluster system, method for calibrating a positioning device of a lithographic apparatus
A method of calibrating a substrate positioning system of a lithographic apparatus, the method including: exposing a pattern with the lithographic apparatus on an exposed layer on the surface of a substrate having a reference layer, wherein the pattern corresponds to a movement of the substrate by the substrate positioning system; measuring overlay data between the exposed layer and the reference layer on a plurality of positions on the substrate; transforming the overlay data from a spatial domain to a frequency domain by a discrete cosine transformation; modifying the overlay data in the frequency domain by selecting a subset of the overlay data; transforming the modified overlay data from the frequency domain back to the spatial domain by an inverse discrete cosine transformation; calibrating the substrate positioning system by using the modified overlay data in the spatial domain.
US09395632B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for mitigating printable native defects in an extreme ultra violet (EUV) mask substrate. In some embodiments, the method is performed by providing an EUV mask substrate having a multi-layer coating disposed over a low thermal expansion material. The sizes of one or more native defects within the EUV mask substrate are measured and printable native defects having a measured size that violates one or more sizing thresholds are identified. A position at which a patterned absorber material is to be formed over the multi-layer coating is determined. The position minimizes a number printable native defects that interact with EUV radiation during an EUV lithography process. By mitigating a number of printable native defects violating the one or more sizing thresholds, the process window of an EUV reticle formed from the EUV mask substrate is improved.
US09395627B2
The present invention relates to a positive photosensitive resin composition and a method for forming a pattern by using the same. The positive photosensitive resin composition includes a novolac resin (A), a polysiloxane (B), an ortho-naphthoquinone diazide sulfonic acid ester (C) and a solvent (D). The novolac resin (A) includes a xylenol-type novolac resin (A-1). The xylenol-type novolac resin (A-1) is synthesized by polycondensing an aldehyde compound with a xylenol compound.
US09395624B2
Provided are a meta-photoresist capable of transferring mask patterns on which fine patterns having a diffraction limit or less are formed, on a substrate, and a lithography method using the same, wherein the meta-photoresist contains a photosensitive resin layer and a metal particle layer which is a layer of metal particles arranged so as to be spaced apart from each other.
US09395611B2
A light source apparatus includes: at least one solid-state light source configured to output light in a predetermined wavelength range; a first optical system including at least one aspherical surface configured to convert a light flux from the solid-state light source into a substantially parallel light flux; an output unit including at least one light emitter that is excited by the light and emits visible light with a wavelength longer than that of the light, the output unit being configured to output light containing the light and the visible light; and a second optical system including at least one concave reflecting surface and being configured to reflect the light on the concave reflecting surface, the light coming from the solid-state light source and being converted into the substantially parallel light flux by the first optical system, to collect the light to the light emitter of the output unit.
US09395597B2
A stereoscopic projection system and method of generating light that include two or three infrared lasers, two optical parametric oscillators, and six or seven second harmonic generators. Six colors of visible light are produced. Three bands of red, green, and blue form an image for the left eye of the viewer, while the other three bands of red, green, and blue form an image for the right eye of the viewer.
US09395595B2
Embodiments of present invention provide an electronic paper display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The electronic paper display device comprises a substrate, a first conducting layer on the substrate and a slanted microbore layer provided on the first conducting layer. The slanted microbore layer comprises a plurality of slanted microbores of a color, electrophoretic display particles are enclosed within the slanted microbores and have different colors from that of the slanted microbores. Each of the slanted microbores comprises an orifice, slanted bore walls and a bore bottom, the angle between the slanted bore walls and the substrate is less than 90°, and the vertical projection of the orifice onto the surface of the substrate is located outside of the bore bottom of the slanted microbore.
US09395594B2
Provided is an electrochromic element having: a pair of electrodes; an electrochromic layer which is provided between the pair of electrodes and has an electrolyte and an electrochromic material; and a spacer which surrounds a periphery of the electrochromic layer, the element having a change mechanism that changes a thickness of the electrochromic layer.
US09395586B2
In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. In the first substrate, gate lines extend in a first direction, and a first source line and a second source line extend in a second direction orthogonally crossing the first direction. A pixel electrode having a first belt-like main electrode is arranged approximately in a central portion between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the second direction. A first belt-like sub-electrode covers the gate line between the first source line and the second source line and extending in the first direction. The second substrate includes a counter electrode having a second main electrode arranged on the first and second source lines and extending in the second direction. A liquid crystal layer is held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US09395572B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a display panel for displaying an image, a heat source arranged at a side surface of at least one side of the display panel, a heat absorbing section for absorbing heat generated by the heat source, a back surface plate arranged at a back surface side of the display panel and made of a metal, a portion of the back surface plate being in close contact with the heat absorbing section, a front surface plate arranged at a front surface side of the display panel and made of a metal, and a middle chassis arranged between the front surface plate and the heat absorbing section.
US09395569B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus in which liquid crystal is injected into a non-display area having a transmitting hole formed in a predetermined portion of a panel corresponding to a camera, wherein the display apparatus comprises a display unit having a panel which is provided with lower and upper substrates sealed under the circumstance that liquid crystal is filled therebetween; and a guide frame which supports the display unit, wherein the guide frame includes: a guide sidewall which guides a lateral side of the panel; and a panel supporter which supports the panel, wherein a camera receiving part with a camera mounted thereon is formed in a first panel support of the panel supporter, a transmitting hole for transmitting light to the camera is formed in a black matrix of a first non-display area to be placed on the first panel supporter of the upper substrate, and a display area of the panel and the first non-display area are filled with liquid crystal.
US09395568B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including first and second substrates and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates; a backlight unit under the liquid crystal panel; a bottom frame including a horizontal surface and first, second, third, and fourth side surfaces, the first side surface corresponding to a first edge of the liquid crystal panel and being opposite to the second side surface, wherein the liquid crystal panel has a size larger than the bottom frame such that a side of the liquid crystal panel protrudes beyond the bottom frame; a main frame including a first guide portion corresponding to the first edge and a second guide portion corresponding a second edge of the liquid crystal panel opposite to the first edge; and an adhesive covering the side of the liquid crystal panel and an outer side of the third and fourth side surfaces.
US09395562B1
A method and apparatus for contactless measurement of the characteristics of patients' eyes and eyewear without using any reference device for scaling measurements. The non-contact system comprises of a measurement device having an array of proximity sensors for contactless distance measurement, which is embracing a mobile device having a digital camera, a processor, gyroscope or 3-axis accelerometer sensors, and wireless transceivers. The wireless transceivers support fast and real-time communication between the mobile device and the measurement device. The mobile device is configured to obtain information of distance between the patient face the measurement device at the same time as the digital camera is capturing images of the patient. Such distances assist the processor of the mobile device to re-construct actual eye and eyewear characteristics from the captured image of the digital camera. The built-in gyroscope sensors may be used to correct errors caused by inadequate orientation of the patient's face and/or the mobile device. The method thus enables fast, accurate and reference less measurement, and reduces the responsibilities of users.
US09395542B2
A display system includes an optical component having a first and second surface, wherein the first surface comprises a diffractive optical element, and a projector system to create a projected image on the optical component. The projector includes an illumination source that emits electromagnetic radiation within a predetermined spectral band, an image generator that ascribes image characteristics to the radiation, and an optically-powered component that directs the radiation at the first surface of the optical component. The diffractive optical element reflects at least a portion of the radiation in a predetermined direction. The optical component has zero optical power for transmitted light. The optical component transmits at least a portion of the ambient scenery within a predetermined spectral band within a field-of-view of the projected image. The projected image maintains substantial boresight alignment with the ambient image.
US09395541B2
A head-up display apparatus includes a projector that projects a laser beam and a screen including a plurality of optical elements that are arranged in a grid pattern. The screen diffuses the laser beam, which has entered into the plurality of optical elements from the projector, toward the projection plane. Each of the plurality of optical elements has a curved surface formed into a convex or a concave shape on an outside surface of the screen. One of the plurality of optical elements has a thickness at a curvature center point that is different from that of the other of the plurality of optical elements immediately adjacent to the one of the plurality of optical elements.
US09395540B2
A display device includes a first projector, a second projector, a first half mirror, a second half mirror and a reflection unit. The first projector is positioned with respect to the first half mirror such that the first rays are transmitted through the first half mirror in a given direction. The second projector is positioned with respect to the first half mirror such that the second rays are reflected by the first half mirror in the given direction. The reflection unit reflects the first rays and the second rays from the first half mirror to the second half mirror. The second half mirror reflects the first rays and the second rays from the reflection unit along the line of sight. The reflection unit further includes a reflector-projector that reflects the first rays and the second rays toward the second half mirror and projects third rays toward the second half mirror.
US09395535B2
System and methods for producing a plurality of Sinc shaped pulses in the time domain include a light source for providing an input light signal having an input frequency, and at least one spectrum shaper for producing the plurality of Sinc shaped pulses from the input light signal. The spectrum shaper may include an amplitude modulator, at least one radio-frequency generator and a bias voltage generator.
US09395531B2
A spatial light modulator (SLM) module and methods of designing, manufacturing and using the same are provided. In one embodiment, the SLM module comprises a diffractive, diffractive SLM formed on a substrate, the SLM including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of electrostatically deflectable actuators, and a driver including a number of drive channels each coupled to one of the plurality of electrostatically deflectable actuators. Each of the drive channels include at least one internal digital-to-analog converter (DAC) integrally formed on the same substrate as the SLM. In one embodiment, the DAC is a multi-slope charge integrating DAC. In other embodiments, the driver includes circuitry to test each of the drive channels, and a spare drive channel that can be switched in to replace a defective drive channel.
US09395530B2
The invention provides a magnifier for a sewing machine that is mounted on a sewing machine main body and magnifies a view of a front end of a needle which is mounted on a needle bar front end that moves vertically and a vicinity of a cloth presser.The magnifier includes: a supporting arm part A, at one end of which a lens holding part 2 having a holding unit 4 that detachably holds a lens is provided, and at the other end of which a mounting part 3 for mounting the magnifier on the sewing machine main body is provided; and a lens main body B that is constituted by connected part 6 which is detachable to the lens holding part 2, and a lens part 5 which is formed continuously to the connected part 6. To the lens holding part 2 of the supporting arm part A as well as the lens main body B, a turning control unit 7 is provided which controls a turning angle of the lens main body B in a predetermined range, and the turning control unit 7 controls a turning angle of the lens main body B that is mounted on the lens holding part 2, in a predetermined range.
US09395529B2
A microscope includes a light source; a condenser lens irradiating a sample with a light from the light source; an objective facing the condenser lens across the sample; a first polarization plate placed between the light source and the condenser lens; a condenser turret placed between the first polarization plate and the condenser lens and having a plurality of optical elements placed inside; a polarization plate placed on the image side with respect to the objective; and a compensator placed between the first polarization plate and the polarization plate. In the microscope, according to the observation method, an optical element to be placed in an optical path among the plurality of optical elements placed inside the condenser turret is switched by rotation of the condenser turret.
US09395528B2
The present invention relates to a photographing control device, microscope and program that can simply confirm whether time lapse photography is being executed normally or not.A number of a display target round, time required for processing of the round, and the operation state of each device of an inverted microscope and a camera in the round, are displayed in a window 431 on a photographed result display screen 421 that displays the photographed result of the time lapse photography. The individual operation time of the each device of the inverted microscope and the camera from the start of the processing of a photographing point selected in a list box 433 to the completion of the photographing of a channel selected in a list box 434, is displayed in a window 435. When an image button is pressed, the image of a photographed sample is displayed. The present invention can be applied to software for controlling time lapse photography using a microscope, for example.
US09395526B1
A quadric reflector can have an approximately conical shape. The shape can tapers from a wide base to an apex. The apex can include an aperture, a mirror, and a set of one or more optical elements. A mirror can be positioned within an overhang enclosure of the device in a plane approximately parallel to a circular cross section of the conical shape. The mirror can reflect environmental light that is reflected by the quadric reflector into the aperture or reflect light emitting from the aperture onto the quadric reflector. The overhang enclosure can have a substantially conical shape which eliminates secondary reflection resulting from the environmental light reaching the aperture twice. Using the overhang enclosure to absorb the secondary reflection eliminates or minimizes banding.
US09395520B2
A single focal length lens system includes in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a front lens unit, and a rear lens unit which includes an aperture stop. The single focal length lens system does not include any other lens unit on the optical axis, and the rear lens unit includes a focusing lens unit having a negative refractive power. The focusing lens unit is disposed on the image side of the aperture stop, and moves along the optical axis at the time of focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a close distance. The front lens unit does not include a lens which moves in an optical axial direction, and the rear lens unit does not include a lens which moves in the optical axial direction except at the time of focusing.
US09395507B1
A fiber optic hardware module includes an enclosure including a planar floor section, outer sidewalls adjoining the floor section and extending from the floor section to top edges, and a detachable top panel that covers an interior volume that is defined by the outer sidewalls and the floor section. Fiber optic cable ports are disposed on a first outer sidewall and feed into the interior volume. First and second mounting tabs are configured to secure the fiber optic hardware module to a planar surface that is flush against the floor section. A third mounting tab is configured to secure the fiber optic hardware module to a planar surface that is flush against the top panel. The third mounting tab is vertically offset from the first and second mounting tabs. The third mounting tab is laterally between the first and second mounting tabs.
US09395501B2
A connection device, capable of visually confirming the connection between a connector pair, including: an optical connector pair that includes a first optical connector and a second optical connector each of which includes a plurality of terminals and corresponding terminals of which are connected to each other by light; a guide light member that guides light to a terminal of one of the first optical connector and the second optical connector; and a visual recognition member that is used to visually recognize the light that passes through from the terminal of the selected optical connector to a terminal of the opposite optical connector.
US09395500B2
Connectorizing an optical fiber cable includes mounting at least part of a connector housing about a ferrule assembly; positioning a crimp sleeve so that a distal section of the crimp sleeve is disposed about a proximal end of the connector housing and a proximal section of the crimp sleeve is disposed about a jacketed portion of the optical fiber cable; applying a first force to the distal section of the crimp sleeve to tighten the distal section of the crimp sleeve against the proximal end of the connector housing; and applying a second force to the proximal section of the crimp sleeve to tighten the proximal section of the crimp sleeve against the jacketed portion of the optical fiber cable. Adhesive may be added to the proximal section of the crimp sleeve through an aperture.
US09395497B2
Disclosed are optical ports and devices using the optical ports. The optical port includes a mounting body having a first pocket and at least one mounting surface for securing the optical port, one or more optical elements, and a first alignment feature disposed in the pocket, wherein the alignment feature includes a piston that is translatable during mating. The one or more optical elements may be an integral portion of the mounting body or a discrete lens. In other embodiments, the mounting body may include a plurality of pockets and one of the pockets may include a magnet for securing a plug to the optical port. The optical port may optionally have a minimalist optical port footprint so that the complimentary mating optical plug engages a portion of the frame during mating.
US09395490B2
A semiconductor structure is provided in which a plurality of waveguide structures are embedded within a semiconductor handle substrate. Each waveguide structure includes, from bottom to top, a bottom oxide portion, a waveguide core material portion and a top oxide portion. An oxide capping layer is present on topmost surfaces of each waveguide structure and a topmost surface of the semiconductor handle substrate. A plurality of semiconductor devices is located above a topmost surface of the oxide capping layer. The structure has thicker buried oxide regions defined by the combined thicknesses of the top oxide portion and the oxide capping layer located in some areas, while thinner buried oxide regions defined only by the thickness of the oxide capping layer are present in other areas of the structure.
US09395484B2
A display device includes a light source which generates light, a light guide plate including a first surface receiving the light, and a second surface emitting the light, an optical sheet disposed on the light guide plate and including a sheet body and a sheet guide unit, a mold frame including a guide mold, and a side-surface mold which is extended upwards from the guide mold and in which a recess groove accommodating the sheet guide unit is defined, and a protrusion body including a first end portion inserted in the mold frame, and a second end portion coupled to the sheet guide unit, where an inserting groove in which the protrusion body is inserted is defined in the side-surface mold, and the protrusion body has a smaller width compared to a width of the inserting groove.
US09395481B2
A sheet light source is described that has a width in a front-to-back “x” direction, a length in a left-to-right “y” direction, and a height in a bottom-to-top “z” direction. The sheet light source includes a bottom conductive surface, a laser diode, a transparent conductive sheet, and an adhesive material portion. The laser diode is mounted on the conductive surface in the “z” direction. The transparent conductive sheet is laminated onto the laser diode and the conductive surface in the “z” direction. The adhesive material portion is located between the conductive sheet and the conductive surface, and binds the transparent conductive sheet to the laser diode and the conductive surface. The adhesive material portion further enables photons, emitted substantially in the “x” direction from the laser diode, to propagate therein to an edge and be output.
US09395475B2
Traditional solar control applications rely on thin metal films to reflect EM radiation with wavelengths longer than that of the visible spectrum. Unfortunately such films also block radiation in cellular, GPS, and radio frequency bands. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a selectively-blocking filter that uses one or more optical filters tuned to a specific range(s) of wavelengths (e.g. for blocking IR radiation), while readily transmitting other wavelengths (e.g. both visible light and cellular/GPS signals). The filters can be manufactured on both flexible and rigid substrates.
US09395473B2
A device such as a filter or reflector includes a conductive layer including a periodic pattern of elements. The elements have shapes and sizes configured such that a transmittance or reflectance spectrum of the conductive layer has a drop at a long-wavelength end. The elements have a period configured such that the spectrum has a dip at a Plasmon mode resonant wavelength. The spectrum further includes a peal—between the dip and the drop.
US09395467B2
A solid solution-based optical material capable of transmitting infrared light, the solid solution-based optical material comprising at least two nano-sized phases intermixed in one another, wherein at least one of the at least two nano-sized phases is a solid solution containing a dissolved dopant, the dissolved dopant present in an amount sufficient to reduce a refractive index difference between the at least two nano-sized phases to about 0.2 or less when infrared light is being transmitted. Various embodiments are directed to related systems and methods. In one embodiment, the infrared light is visible infrared light, short-wave infrared light, eye safe infrared light, medium wave infrared light, long wave infrared red light, or combinations thereof.
US09395464B2
A scintillator detector package includes a housing, with a scintillator in the housing. There is a radioactive reflective material between at least a portion of the scintillator and the housing. The radioactive reflective material may be a naturally occurring material, such as Lu2O3, and may be in powdered form. A photodetector may be optically coupled to the scintillator package, and gain stabilization circuitry may perform gain stabilization based upon detecting scintillations of the scintillator caused by radiation emitted by the radioactive reflective material striking the scintillator.
US09395443B2
An adaptive method for estimating the electron content of the ionosphere comprises: collecting a set of measurements carried out by a plurality of beacons receiving radio frequency signals transmitted by a plurality of transmitting satellites; computing coordinates of the points of intersection between the transmission axis of the signals and a surface surrounding the Earth, and of a vertical total electron content determined at each of these points; computing a vertical total electron content for each of the nodes of an initial mesh of the surface; a statistical dispersion analysis of the vertical total electron content; a computation step making it possible to define a suitable statistical estimator, or a computation step making it possible to generate a suitable mesh of the surface; a statistical error analysis making it possible to select between a validation of the adaptation of the method and a stopping of the method.
US09395442B2
A computer aided dispatch (CAD) center operator can view a displayed location indicator indicative of a last location of a public safety (PS) device on a geographic information system (GIS) map, together with a displayed confidence indicator indicative of the likelihood that the displayed last location of the PS device is accurate, for use in dispatching a PS person to an incident scene, or locating the PS person.
US09395440B2
The present invention describes an optical distance measuring device having a pulsed radiation source that is implemented to transmit, in a temporally contiguous radiation pulse period, a radiation pulse having a pulse duration tp that is shorter than the radiation pulse period, and to transmit no radiation pulse in a temporally contiguous dark period. Further, the optical distance measuring device includes a detector for detecting different amounts of radiation in two overlapping detection periods during the radiation pulse period to capture reflections of the radiation pulse at an object surface and a background radiation and/or in two overlapping detection periods during the dark period to capture background radiation. The optical distance measuring device further includes an evaluator determining a signal depending on a distance of the optical distance measuring device to an object based on the detected amount of radiation. Further, the present invention provides a method for optical distance measurement and for multiple sampling.
US09395439B2
The invention relates to an optical measuring apparatus (1) for a vehicle (6), having at least one optical transmitter, at least one optical receiver (12) and a deflection mirror arrangement having at least one deflection mirror (11), wherein the measuring apparatus (1) has a support (8) on which a first alignment apparatus (17) is formed that can set the position of a reception lens (10) of the measuring apparatus (1), which reception lens is arranged in a received ray path (38), relative to the support (8) and/or a second alignment apparatus (31) is formed that can set the position of a deflection mirror (11), which is arranged in the received ray path (38), relative to the support (8). The invention also relates to a vehicle having such an apparatus (1).
US09395437B2
A moving ground penetrating radar is comprised of multiple transmitters and receivers with multiple, e.g., Horizontal and Vertical, polarizations to detect buried targets with standoff capability. Novel signal and imaging techniques are used to form high quality radar imagery with low artifacts that are due to various sources of self-induced resonances, e.g., transmitter-receiver coupling, calibration errors, and motion errors in the multi transmitter/receiver channels of the radar system. The irradiated target area image is formed via exploiting both the spatial diversity of the physical multi-transmitter and multi-receiver array and synthetic aperture/array that is generated by the motion of the platform that carries the radar system. The images that are formed from the multiple polarizations are combined to remove surface targets/clutter and, thus, enhance signatures of buried targets.
US09395435B2
A signal generating method for a radar system includes generating a first chirp signal and a second chirp signal having a first time delay relative to the first chirp signal; and combining the first chirp signal and the second chirp signal to determine a frequency modulated signal, wherein the first chirp signal and the second chirp signal are N-step linear stepped frequency modulated continuous waves having the same frequency modulation bandwidth, such that the frequency modulated signal includes i steps of the first chirp signal in a first duration, an interleaved combination of N−i steps of the first chirp signal and N−i steps of the second chirp signal in a second duration, and i steps of the second chirp signal in a third duration.
US09395430B2
Disclosed are a magnetic resonance (MR) image generating method and apparatus that perform imaging on an MR image by using a radio frequency (RF) multi-coil which includes a plurality of channel coils. The MR image generating method includes generating a plurality of pieces of K-space completion data which respectively correspond to the plurality of channel coils and converting the plurality of pieces of K-space completion data to a frequency domain in order to generate a plurality of pieces of image data, combining the plurality of pieces of image data in order to acquire an MR image, and acquiring phase information which relates to the MR image based on the plurality of pieces of image data and the plurality of pieces of K-space completion data.
US09395425B2
A magnetic susceptibility tomographic device has sensitive magnetic sensors about a measurement volume and AC bias coils for providing magnetic fields within the volume. Sensing circuitry reads the sensors, and a processor executes magnetic susceptibility tomography (MST) routines from memory to divide the measurement volume into voxels, to determine differences between applied and measured field strengths of magnetic fields at each voxel and thereby determines magnetic susceptibility of each voxel, and to construct tomographic images representative of magnetic susceptibility as MST images. Embodiments with SQUID and fluxgate sensors are described. Applications to direct measurement of tissue magnetic susceptibility, and to locating and quantifying tagged magnetic nanoparticles are disclosed, including antibody-tagged nanoparticles for use in cancer diagnosis and treatments, and the retrieval of taggant identification codes from an object.
US09395419B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for predicting a state-of-health of a battery and a battery management system using same. The method for predicting a state-of-health of a battery includes estimating state-of-health (SOH) estimation values for predicting an aged degree of the battery for each time; aligning the plurality of estimated values to create a history table; extracting candidate values from the history table; and determining a targeted SOH of the battery based on the candidate values.
US09395406B2
An inspection method for a semiconductor light-emitting device includes an image capturing step for irradiating light to the semiconductor light emitting device so as to excite an active layer and capturing an image of photoluminescence released from the active layer, an inspection region extracting step for extracting an inspection region of the captured image, a luminance average determination step for, determining as defective when a luminance average is smaller than a predetermined threshold, a luminance variance determination step for determining as defective when a luminance variance is larger than a predetermined threshold, and a total determination step for totally determining the semiconductor light-emitting device as defective when determined the semiconductor light emitting device as defective in at least one of the two determination results.
US09395405B2
A wafer inspection interface 18 includes a probe card 20 having multiple probes 25 at a surface of the probe card 20 facing a wafer W, the probes 25 being arranged to correspond to electrodes of multiple semiconductor devices formed on the wafer W; a pogo frame 40 that is in contact with a surface of the probe card 20 opposite to the surface of the probe card 20 facing the wafer W and supports the probe card 20; and a sheath heater 44 provided in the pogo frame 40. The sheath heater 44 is provided along respective sides of through holes 43 formed in the pogo frame 40 in a grid pattern.
US09395404B2
A semiconductor chip panel includes a plurality of semiconductor chips embedded in an encapsulation material. At least part of the semiconductor chips comprise a first electrical contact element on a first main face and a second electrical contact element on a second main opposite to the first main face, respectively. One of the plurality of semiconductor chips is tested by establishing an electrical contact between a test contact device and the first electrical contact element and between an electrically conductive holder and the second contact element.
US09395394B2
An average current value that is the average value of current values is found by connecting a detection resistor in parallel to two terminals that are the object of measurement, measuring the current value that flows in the detection resistor, and subjecting the current value to time-quadrature, and further, dividing the current value that follows integration by the integration time. The average current value is converted to a digital signal and sent to an arithmetic means (processor). The arithmetic means calculates the voltage value across the two terminals from the average current value and the resistance value of the detection resistor.
US09395391B2
A magnetic field sensor includes a comparator detector for which a measured threshold value is stored prior to power down and recalled upon power up for use by the comparator detector. A corresponding method is associated with the magnetic field sensor.
US09395386B2
System, apparatus and method for providing corrective sensor outputs, particularly when a sensor is subject to gravitational or acceleration effects. A sensor and accelerometer may be operatively coupled to a processor, wherein the processor receives inputs from both. The processor receives the sensor signals and determines the gravitational or acceleration effects on the sensor from the accelerometer signals. Based on these, the processor determines a correction factor that is applied to the sensor signals to provide improved and more accurate sensor outputs.
US09395382B2
To provide a specimen analyzing apparatus capable of preventing a reduction in analysis accuracy caused by contamination of a measurement sample by a substance attached to a cleaning unit, the present invention provides a blood analyzer 100 which includes a cleaning unit 7 for cleaning an aspirating tube 1 positioned within a through-hole 72, a vertical moving unit 5 for moving the aspirating tube 1 along a through-hole relative to the cleaning unit 7, and a blade 8 for removing a substance attached to the outer side of the cleaning unit 7, wherein an aspirating tube 1 is provided for aspirating a sample, a through-hole 72 is formed to allow the aspirating tube 1 to pass therethrough, and a supply path 73 is formed for supplying a cleaning liquid to the through-hole 72.
US09395379B2
A system for processing sample tubes comprising biological samples is presented. The system comprises two or more work cells for processing samples. In conjugation with at least two of the work cells, the system comprises one of the following units: a pipetting unit for withdrawing a volume of sample from a sample tube to be processed by the work cell and/or dispensing a volume of liquid into the sample tube, and an analytical unit for determining at least one sample parameter of a sample contained in a sample tube. The system further comprises a decapping/recapping device for each of the at least two work cells for removing a closure from a sample tube and for reclosing the sample tube before it is transported to another work cell.
US09395377B2
This disclosure concerns plants, plant materials, and the oil characteristics thereof. In embodiments, compositions and methods for determining the total oil content of plant materials are provided. Such methods and compositions may in some embodiments allow for the characterization and screening of oil traits and sub-traits that are difficult or impossible to distinguish by conventional techniques.
US09395375B2
A method for identifying modulators of Interleukin 24 (IL-24) mediated apoptosis is disclosed. For IL-24 apoptosis to be effective, the cells should express Sigma 1 Receptor (S1R). Additionally apoptosis modulators can be identified by exposing biological cells to test compounds and monitoring for signs of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress protein expression; calcium mobilization; or reactive oxygen species (ROS) production.
US09395370B2
Methods and compositions for efficiently purifying monoclonal antibodies and identifying pairs of antibodies compatible in sandwich immunoassays are provided.
US09395356B2
The invention is directed to immunogenic compositions and methods for inducing an immune response against Piscine reoviruses in an animal. In another aspect, the invention relates to antibodies that bind Piscine reovirus poplypeptides. In yet another aspect, the invention relates to methods for preventing, or reducing PRV infection in an animal.
US09395348B2
A system and methodology enables improved quantification of an organic material, e.g. oil, in a sample. The technique comprises adding a substance to a two-phase sample containing the organic material and water. The substance is mixed through the sample until the constituents of the sample are solubilized to create an optically clear mixture. An optical technique is employed with respect to the optically clear mixture to quantitatively analyze the organic material in the sample.
US09395338B2
A self-contained monitor array for measuring at least one type of electromagnetic emission and at least one type of mechanical wave emission from a marine-based and/or terrestrial human activity or installation such as alternate energy sources. A multi-modal monitor system includes at least two such arrays, at least one clock, and at least one data storage unit.
US09395331B2
A method and apparatus for microfluidic processing by programmably manipulating a packet. A material is introduced onto a reaction surface and compartmentalized to form a packet. A position of the packet is sensed with a position sensor. A programmable manipulation force is applied to the packet at the position. The programmable manipulation force is adjustable according to packet position by a controller. The packet is programmably moved according to the programmable manipulation force along arbitrarily chosen paths.
US09395325B2
A gas sensor including a detection element (6), wherein a detection electrode (63D) and a reference electrode (62B) are provided on an outer circumferential surface (61A) and an inner circumferential surface, respectively, of a closed-bottomed tubular solid electrolyte body (61). A heater inserted into the tubular hole of the detection element (6) is in contact with the reference electrode at point Q. The detection electrode (63D) is partially formed in the vicinity of a position which faces the point Q with the solid electrolyte body (61) intervening therebetween, and the surface area of the detection electrode (63D) is 8% to 20% of the surface area of a detection portion (64).
US09395319B2
A portable analytical test meter is designed for use with an associated analytical test strip. A test-strip-receiving module receives the analytical test strip and is electrically connected to a dummy load calibration circuit block. That block is configured to provide a dummy magnitude correction and a dummy phase correction; and a memory block is configured to store the dummy magnitude correction and the dummy phase correction. A method for calibrating a portable analytical test meter for use with an analytical test strip includes determining a dummy magnitude correction and a dummy phase correction of the portable analytical test meter using a dummy load calibration circuit block of the portable analytical test meter. The dummy magnitude correction and the dummy phase correction are stored in a memory block of the portable analytical test meter. Using the stored dummy magnitude correction and stored dummy phase correction, an analyte is determined.
US09395317B2
A system and method for providing electromagnetic imaging through electroquasistatic sensing contains an electromagnetic sensor for imaging a sample. The electromagnetic sensor contains drive/sense electronics and a pixelated sensor array having an array of capacitive sensor electrodes that source electric fields that interact with the sample, and wherein the electrodes are individually drivable by the drive/sense electronics in a coordinated manner to establish a desired temporal and spatial pattern in which electrical properties of the electrodes are used to generate an image. Other components of the system include a precision motion controller, sensor head and associated electronics, and a computer for performing data acquisition and signal inversion.
US09395314B2
A method of evaluating the neutron scattering length density, capable of accurately determining the neutron scattering length density is provided. The method evaluates the neutron scattering length density of scatterers in a material, including determining the neutron scattering length density based on a scattering intensity curve obtained by neutron scattering measurement, with use of a scattering intensity curve obtained by X-ray scattering measurement.
US09395293B1
An imaging system includes a light source configured to illuminate a target and a camera configured to image light responsively emitted from the target and reflected from a spatial light modulator (SLM). The imaging system is configured to generate high-resolution, hyperspectral images of the target. The SLM includes a refractive layer that is chromatically dispersive and that has a refractive index that is controllable. The refractive index of the refractive layer can be controlled to vary according to a gradient such that light reflected from the SLM is chromatically dispersed and spectrographic information about the target can be captured using the camera. Such a system could be operated confocally, e.g., by incorporating a micromirror device configured to control a spatial pattern of illumination of the target and to modulate the transmission of light from the target to the camera via the SLM according to a corresponding spatial pattern.
US09395292B2
An apparatus for assisting in measuring a color of a target includes an enclosed housing having a first aperture formed in a first end and a second aperture formed in an opposite second end and aligned concentrically with the first aperture, an array of light emitting diodes positioned inside the housing, between the first aperture and the second aperture, and an array of reference colors having known reflectance spectra, the array of reference colors being removably positioned inside the housing, between the array of light emitting diodes and the second aperture.
US09395288B2
An apparatus and method of testing are provided to test the durability and resilience of crib mattresses and other child development surfaces. The testing apparatus is configured to provided a movable fixture for imparting repeated force to a mattress. The fixture can include a pair of feet formed thereon to mimic the pressure profile provided by a toddler standing or jumping on a crib mattress. The method provides for the cycling of the apparatus over a predetermined time period and the determination of the deflection of the surface after the time period.
US09395285B2
The embodiments herein provide a tissue processing and slide staining equipment with a three degree freedom robotic arm that simultaneously performs tissue processing and slide staining for several sample baskets with similar or different processing methods. The equipment comprises two dimensional array of cylindrical containers with lids to hold sample baskets in position. The arm moves freely in X, Y, and Z axis using rails and stepper motors. The arm is not connected to lids and baskets and accepts new baskets of samples while processing previous samples. The arm grips the basket containing samples and leaves the basket in proximity to the reagent. The equipment comprises a user friendly interface having appropriate callouts to guide a user during process programming/running. The interface allows the user to freely design and modify each step of the processing method. The equipment comprises an intelligent rule database that automatically handles human-induced errors.
US09395275B2
A method for controlling the manufacturing of tires for wheels of vehicles includes: extracting a cured tire from a curing station, in which the cured tire has accumulated heat during a curing process; and verifying the presence of possible defects or imperfections in that cured tire. The verification includes detecting first electromagnetic radiations representative of a heat emission from different portions of the cured tire while the cured tire frees the accumulated heat; providing at least one output signal representative of the first electromagnetic radiations detected to allow an analysis of the cured tire and to verify the presence of the possible defects or imperfections. A plant for the manufacturing of tires for wheels of vehicles is also described.
US09395273B2
A particulate detection system (1) includes detection section (10), compressed air source (300) which includes compressor (301) for producing compressed air AK, compressor drive circuit (320) and control means (100). The detection section includes a gas jetting source (11). A drive condition for jetting air AR from jetting hole (31N) at a first flow rate Q1 is defined as a first drive condition JK1, and a drive condition for jetting the air AR at a second flow rate Q2 smaller than the first flow rate Q1 is defined as a second drive condition JK2. The control means includes first instruction means S5 for driving the compressor under the first drive condition JK1 when the quantity of the particulates S is detected, and second instruction means S6 for driving the compressor under the second drive condition JK2 when the quantity of the particulates S is not detected.
US09395272B2
A method of detecting nitrogen compound emissions in exhaust gases treated with selective catalytic reduction achieved by injecting a reducing agent into the gases and by passing these gases through a catalyst include sending the signal collected by a gas detector arranged in the exhaust gas downstream from the catalyst and representative of the amount of NOx (NOxsonde) at the catalyst outlet to a computing unit, decomposing this signal into a value representative of the effective NOx amount (NOxréel) at the outlet of catalyst established by the SCR catalyst model, into a detector perturbation coefficient (k) and into a value representative of the ammonia amount (NH3réel) via an integrated model so as to obtain NOxsonde=NOxréel+k.NH3réel, evaluating coefficient (k) from this decomposition, and determining the presence of nitrogen compounds downstream from the catalyst when coefficient (k) is greater than or equal to 1.
US09395269B2
A device includes a holder, a cover, a socket, a number of first pins, and a number of second pins. The holder defines a holding groove in its upper surface for holding a voice coil motor. The holder also defines a pin groove in its right sidewall communicating with the holding groove. The voice coil motor has electrodes facing the pin groove. The cover covers the upper surface to fix the voice coil motor in the holder. The socket is attached to the right sidewall. The first pins are fixed in the socket to connect with the electrodes. The second pins are connected with the first pins. The second pins connect with a number of third pins of a testing fixture for testing the voice coil motor when the device is assembled into the testing fixture.
US09395262B1
Technical solutions are described for detecting leaks in a pipeline network that are not detectable by a SCADA system over an extended period of time. An example method includes identifying a subsystem in the pipeline network that includes a first station and accessing historical temporal sensor measurements of the stations in the subsystem. The method also includes selecting a subset of temporal sensor measurements corresponding to timestamps without leak events and determining a benchmark value for the sensor measurements for the first station based on the subset. The method also includes detecting a leak computing a difference between a sensor measurement and the benchmark value, adding the difference to a cumulative sum of differences computed over a predetermined duration of time, and triggering a leak detection indication if the cumulative sum of differences being larger than a first predetermined threshold or smaller than a second predetermined threshold.
US09395259B2
In a MEMS PRT having a diaphragm that is located offset from the center of the die, thermally-induced thermal noise in the output of a Wheatstone bridge circuit is reduced by locating the Wheatstone bridge circuit away from the largest area of the die and supporting pedestal.
US09395258B2
At a pressure sensor region, a pressure sensor including a fixed electrode, a vacuum chamber and a movable electrode is formed at a pressure sensor region, whereas a memory cell transistor and a field effect transistor are formed at a MOS region. An etching hole communicating with the vacuum chamber is sealed by a first sealing film and the like. The vacuum chamber is formed by removing a portion of a film identical to the film of a gate electrode of the memory cell transistor.
US09395254B2
A transmission torque estimation unit estimates a torque transmittable between an outer rotary member and an inner rotary member with respect to a control signal based on: a first model obtained by modeling an equation of motion of the outer rotary member in a rotation direction; a second model obtained by modeling an equation of motion, in the rotation direction, of a support cam member and an inner pilot clutch disc as one unit; a third model obtained by modeling an equation of motion of the outer main clutch discs in the rotation direction; a fourth model obtained by modeling an equation of motion of the inner rotary member in the rotation direction; and a fifth model containing a viscoelastic model and obtained by modeling an equation of motion, in an axial direction, of the inner main clutch disc and the movable cam member as one unit.
US09395250B2
A remote, noncontact temperature determination method and apparatus is provided, which is operable to determine the temperature of a conducting member in operative thermal communication with an object of interest. The method comprises the steps of first inducing a closed vortex eddy current in a conducting member by subjecting the member to a magnetic field, such that the corresponding eddy current magnitude changes exponentially over time. A characteristic time constant of the exponential current magnitude changes is then determined, and this is used to calculate the temperature of the object. The apparatus includes a field transmitting coil coupled with a waveform generator for inducing the eddy current, and a field receiving coil assembly which detects the corresponding induced magnetic. Temperature determinations can be made which are substantially independent of the relative distance and/or angular orientation between the conducting member and the field receiving coil assembly.
US09395246B2
A gas analyzer and a corresponding method is provided to measure the concentration of formaldehyde within enclosed environments such as within buildings comprising an ultraviolet light source, a sample chamber, a detector. The detector measures the intensity of light received by photosensors within a measurement range of wavelengths, and at least one reference range of wavelengths. Advantageously, the concentration of formaldehyde is determined taking into account fluctuations in the intensity of light emitted by the light source, and in the presence of any interferents such as nitrogen dioxide.
US09395242B2
A broadband fiber optic sensor array is formed along a length of single mode optical fiber, with the individual sensing elements formed by introducing local perturbations (e.g., changes in diameter) along the length of the optical fiber. The sensor array requires only a single light source input and a single (conventional) optical spectrum analyzer output and is capable of providing individual measurements (such as local temperature or pressure) for each sensing element disposed along the length of fiber. The individual transmission spectra of the sensing elements forming the array are smooth and strongly overlap, and a method has been developed for determining the characteristics of the individual elements from the variations in the total (combined) transmission spectrum.
US09395192B1
Methods and systems for road boundary and lane tracing are described herein. In an example implementation, a computing system of a vehicle may receive boundary data associated with a road and may determine edge data representative of edges of the boundaries. A given edge may indicate a discontinuity between a boundary and a characteristic of the road. The computing system may modify the edge data based on a position and orientation of respective edges to combine edges positioned substantially in parallel and within a threshold distance to each other. The computing system may adjust boundary data based on the modified edge data so as to extend a given boundary that includes a combined edge and may determine whether extended boundary data substantially matches road data indicated by a map. In addition, the computing system may provide an estimation of projections of boundaries ahead of the vehicle on the road.
US09395190B1
A location and mapping service is described that creates a global database of indoor navigation maps through crowd-sourcing and data fusion technologies. The navigation maps consist of a database of geo-referenced, uniquely described features in the multi-dimensional sensor space (e.g., including structural, RF, magnetic, image, acoustic, or other data) that are collected automatically as a tracked mobile device is moved through a building (e.g. a person with a mobile phone or a robot). The feature information can be used to create building models as one or more tracked devices traverse a building.
US09395183B2
A gyroscope is disclosed. The gyroscope comprises a substrate; and a guided mass system. The guided mass system comprises proof-mass and guiding arm. The proof-mass and the guiding arm are disposed in a plane parallel to the substrate. The proof-mass is coupled to the guiding arm. The guiding arm is also coupled to the substrate through a spring. The guiding arm allows motion of the proof-mass to a first direction in the plane. The guiding arm and the proof-mass rotate about a first sense axis. The first sense axis is in the plane and parallel to the first direction. The gyroscope includes an actuator for vibrating the proof-mass in the first direction. The gyroscope also includes a transducer for sensing motion of the proof-mass-normal to the plane in response to angular velocity about a first input axis that is in the plane and orthogonal to the first direction.
US09395175B2
A device for determining the position of a first mechanical element relative to a second mechanical element, having a first measurement unit for attachment to the first mechanical element, a second measurement unit for attachment to the second mechanical element, and an evaluation unit. The first measurement unit emits spectrally differing first and second light beams in essentially the same direction and a position-sensitive optical detector. The second measurement unit has a reflector arrangement facing the first measurement unit, in order to reflect the first and second light beams onto the detector. Surfaces facing the first measurement unit being color splitters having different reflectivity/transmissibility for the first light beam and the second light beam. The evaluation unit determines the location of the first and second mechanical elements relative to one another from the incidence positions of the reflected first and second light beams on the detector.
US09395157B2
A target marking system includes a light source emitting a thermal beam having a predetermined temporal modulation, and an optics assembly directing the thermal beam to impact a target, the target directing radiation to the optics assembly in response to the impact. A portion of the radiation having the predetermined temporal modulation. The target marking system further includes a detector configured to distinguish the portion of the radiation having the predetermined temporal modulation from a remainder of the radiation, the portion of the radiation passing to the director through the optics assembly. The system also includes a readout integrated circuit, the detector directing an input signal to the readout integrated circuit, and the readout integrated circuit producing a digitally enhanced output signal in response to receipt of the input signal.
US09395155B1
An electromechanical system translates an “aiming error” signal from a target tracking system into dynamic “pointing corrections” for handheld devices to drastically reduce pointing errors due to man-machine wobble without specific direction by the user. The active stabilization targeting correction system works by separating the “support” features of the handheld device from the “projectile launching” features, and controlling their respective motion by electromechanical mechanisms. When a target is visually acquired, the angular deflection (both horizontal windage and vertical elevation) and aiming errors due to man-machine wobble (both vertical and horizontal) from the target's location to the current point-of-aim can be quickly measured by the ballistic computer located internal to a target tracking device. These values are transmitted to calibrated encoded electromechanical actuators that position the isolated components to rapidly correct angular deflection to match the previous aiming error.
US09395151B2
A fore-end grip is provided for a firearm. The firearm has a barrel, and the fore-end grip is configured to at least partially surround the barrel. The fore-end grip includes at least one finger channel and at least one thumb channel. The finger channel and the thumb channel are configured to receive at least one finger and the thumb, respectively, of a shooter's forward hand when the shooter holds the firearm.
US09395150B2
The present invention relates to a bendable firearm having an off-axis shoulder rest and a sight, which enables stable aiming and firing since a shoulder rest is bent in an off-axis shape and provides a new structure having excellent stability by minimizing exposure of the body. The bendable firearm having the off-axis shoulder rest and the sight, according to the present invention, comprising a firearm body (100) having a gun barrel (110) and a trigger unit (120) for firing a bullet through the gun barrel (110); a shoulder rest (200) provided at a rear end of the firearm body (100); and a sight (300) which is coupled with the firearm body (100), wherein the shoulder rest (200) is coupled so as to be bendable from the firearm (100) by an additional shoulder rest adapter (400).
US09395145B2
An automatic line release mechanism for a bow is provided that includes an actuator that moves relative to a riser of the bow when a string of the bow is drawn. When the string of the bow is drawn the actuator actuates a push button of a reel to cause line of the reel to be released.
US09395140B2
An offset riser for an archery bow has an upper end and a lower end each having limb attachment points, wherein a central plane laterally divides the bow through the upper and lower limb attachment points. The riser has a handle portion positioned between the upper end and the lower end and a front strut extending from the upper end to the handle portion, wherein the front strut has a front sight window portion that is offset from the central plane. A rear strut extends from the upper end to the handle portion as well, and it has a rear sight window portion that is offset from the central plane. In this riser, the front sight window portion has a different vertical location of transition lateral to the central plane than the rear sight window portion. This may produce increased stiffness, better visibility, less vibration, and other desirable characteristics.
US09395138B2
A rail cover for use on a handcover having a rail. The rail cover includes a body having opposing side edges, a top surface and a bottom surface. Parallel sidewalls depend from the bottom surface to define a socket therebetween for slidably engaging the rail of the handguard. A snap clip is carried by the body and is movable between a raised position for allowing sliding engagement with a rail of a handguard and a lowered position wherein a portion thereof is received within a slot of the handguard and prevents sliding engagement thereof.
US09395134B2
A magnetically actuated sear for simulated firearm training is disclosed. The magnetically actuated sear includes a magnet and a magnet catch. The magnetically actuated sear facilitates a crisp trigger break thereby replicating the actual sear release of a firearm. The application of a suitable external trigger force causes the magnet catch to travel along the fulcrum away from the magnet. The greater the difference between the holding force when the magnet is in direct contact with the magnet catch and the attraction force between the magnet and the magnet catch, the crisper the magnetically actuated sear will feel. The magnetically actuated sear can be designed so that slack or trigger creep of the magnetically actuated sear can be matched to the actual firearm's slack or trigger creep.
US09395126B2
Superalloy components, such as steam and gas turbine blades or vanes, are cooled during welding fabrication or repair, so as to reduce likelihood of weld metal and weld heat affected zone cracking during weld solidification and during post weld heat treatment. More particularly the invention relates to cooling superalloy steam and gas turbine components, such as turbine blades or vanes during weld repair. A heat sink apparatus includes a heat sink having a first surface adapted for abutting orientation with a turbine component second surface; and a non-gaseous, conformable, heat conductive material adapted for conforming contact with both surfaces. The heat conductive material fills gaps between the heat sink and turbine component abutting surfaces, and facilitates enhanced conductive heat transfer, in order to minimize negative heat effects from welding. The apparatus may be incorporated in a cooling system that varies heat sink cooling capacity in response to sensed component temperature.
US09395116B1
An insulated dual-temperature container for use in transporting multiple payloads that require different temperature environments is provided.
US09395113B2
The present invention is an improved nucleator for generating ice crystals for seeding water droplets in snow-making systems. Atomized water droplets can more easily be converted to snow at higher temperatures by using a nucleator. Embodiments of a snow-making gun including the novel nucleator are also described.
US09395111B2
A method for cooling a compressor motor (170) and a cooling circuit utilizing refrigerant that originates in the condenser (30) to cool a motor (170) and electromagnetic bearings (196, 206). The motor drives a compressor (20), while the electromagnetic bearings support the motor rotor (178) during operation of the compressor. Liquid refrigerant from the condenser is expanded into a two-phase mixture, passed over the stator, expanded a second time, passed over the bearings and between the stator and rotor, before being returned to an evaporator (50).
US09395109B2
A system for chilling a pumping system includes a Peltier cooling element, and first and second heat exchangers. The Peltier element is arranged near a pump head of a pump such that the Peltier element and the pump head are in thermal contact, where the Peltier element chills the pump head and a mobile phase flowstream prior to fluid from the mobile phase flowstream entering the pump. The first heat exchanger is attached to the Peltier element, and removes heat from the Peltier element using a circulating fluid. The second heat exchanger cools the circulating fluid, where the Peltier element and the pump head are arranged in an area that is isolated from the second heat exchanger.
US09395105B2
In a refrigeration cycle device, a design volume ratio, obtained by dividing a stroke volume of a sub-compressor by a stroke volume of an expander, is set to be smaller than (DE/DC)×(hE−hF)/(hB−hA). With an operating efficiency being the maximum in an operating range allowed to be set of the refrigeration cycle device, DE is a density of a refrigerant, which has flowed out from a radiator, DC is a density of the refrigerant, which has flowed out from an evaporator, hE is a specific enthalpy of the refrigerant flowing into the expander, hF is a specific enthalpy of the refrigerant, which has flowed out from the expander, hA is a specific enthalpy of the refrigerant sucked by a main compressor, and hB is a specific enthalpy of the refrigerant at an intermediate position of a compression process of the main compressor.
US09395094B2
Apparatus for dehumidification of a gas flow, with an outer box and inlet port for the damp air and outlet port for dehumidified air, a first pre-cooling heat exchanger, and second heat exchanger downstream of the first exchanger and passes by a refrigerating fluid, a dampness collection chamber arranged downstream of the second exchanger; providing: a second chamber downstream of the collection chamber and connected to the outside box by the emission mouth; a third chamber not communicating to the second chamber but connected, on one side, to the conduits of the first exchanger, and on the other side connected to the outside box by a respective inlet mouth. Defining a return path from the second to the first exchanger, including a first leg passes through the collection chamber, a second leg passes through the second chamber and respective emission mouth, and a third leg passes through the third chamber.
US09395093B2
Disclosed is a range that includes a main body, an oven provided in the main body, a cooktop provided over the oven, a rear panel provided over the main body adjacent the cooktop and configured to slidably extend relative to the main body, and a button to control a movement of the rear panel relative to the main body. The rear panel includes a first body provided a prescribed height over the main body and a second body that extends from the first body into the main body.
US09395076B2
A remote control for an inflatable product includes a top cover, a bottom cover correspondingly fitted to the top cover, an air pump switch mounted on the top cover to control on/off of the air pump and a lighting module.
US09395073B2
Disclosed are a cooling unit including a blowing device and a heat sink, and an illuminating apparatus including the cooling unit, in which the assembling workability is improved. The blowing device has a frame configured to rotatably support a blower. The heat sink has an accommodating portion. The blowing device is displaceable between a first position at which the blower is disposed outside the accommodating portion, and a second position at which the blower is accommodated in the accommodating portion by the frame pivotably supported outside the accommodating portion.
US09395072B2
An illumination device includes an OLED panel, an electrode structure, and a control module. The OLED panel includes a light-emitting layer configured to emit a light beam. The electrode structure is overlaid on the OLED panel. The electrode structure includes a first touch electrode including at least two conductive portions, and the conductive portions of the first touch electrode are electrically connected to the other conductive portions. The control module is electrically connected to the OLED panel and the first touch electrode. The light-emitting layer further includes a light-emitting material, and a width of the light-emitting material is greater than half of a width of the first touch electrode.
US09395069B2
A lamp is provided. The lamp has one of a first connection portion and a second connection portion. Another one of the first connection portion and the second connection portion belongs to another lamp. The first connection portion has a first electrode set, the second connection portion has a second electrode set, and the first electrode set and the second electrode set contact each other when the lamp and the another lamp are stacked each other.
US09395054B2
In a first aspect of the present inventive subject matter, a light source includes a substrate that includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and light-emitting elements arranged in an area and divided into groups each including a same number N of light-emitting elements that are electrically connected to one another in series in each group of the groups and that are electrically connected in series to the first electrode and to the second electrode of the substrate, and the light-emitting elements include a first light-emitting element that is configured to start emitting light when a voltage applied to the light-emitting elements exceeds a first voltage value, and the light-emitting elements except the first light-emitting element are configured to start emitting light when the voltage exceeds a second voltage value that is higher than the first voltage value. Also, a lighting device including the light source is disclosed.
US09395052B1
A light assembly contains a first component containing at least one light emitting diode electronically communicating with a second component containing at least one light emitting diode. The first and second components may each respectively contain a male connector and a female connector. The first and second components may be configured to be in linear or non-linear orientation to each other, or in orthogonal orientation with each other. Additional components each having at least one light emitting diode may be connected to said first and second components by using at least one conductive junction member to physically and electronically connect said first, second, and additional components.
US09395050B2
In one embodiment, a microfluidic system includes a fluidic channel coupled at each end to a reservoir. A fluid actuator is located asymmetrically within the channel to create a long side and a short side of the channel and to generate a wave propagating toward each end of the channel, producing a unidirectional net fluid flow. A controller is to selectively activate the fluid actuator to control the unidirectional net fluid flow through the channel.
US09395045B2
An underwater carbon dioxide storage facility including a carbon dioxide deposit stored underwater as a clathrate includes a flexible barrier disposed at least partially over the carbon dioxide deposit. The carbon dioxide deposit may be stored in or at the bottom of a body of water.
US09395042B2
In general, implementations of the present invention include devices, systems, and components for mounting and/or displaying panels and panel structures with one or more post modules. The post modules, according to the present invention, can include a post, which can secure one or more panels, and covers that can conceal the post from view. Additionally, the post modules can have hollow channels between the covers and the post, which can house wires, cords, lighting elements, and other components.
US09395035B2
A collapsible stand including plurality of side members, each having one or more fastener elements operable to removably engage one another to assemble a base capable of supporting a supportable object. The collapsible stand can further include a stabilizer, a support member guide, and a support member.
US09395028B2
A tubular threaded element including a dry protective coating. The coating includes a solid matrix adhering to the substrate in which there are dispersed particles of at least one solid lubricant belonging to one and the same class. The solid matrix is lubricating and has a rheological behavior of plastic or viscoplastic type. The coating protects the threadings of the threaded elements, used for example in hydrocarbon wells, from corrosion and galling.
US09395027B2
A protector for protecting the internal bore of a pipeline bend from a line being pulled through the pipeline bend during servicing operations including a first liner section which will travel along the pipeline to the pipeline bend but which will not pass through the pipeline bend, a one or more of second liner sections which will pass through the bend but are connected to the first liner section, releasably connecting the liner sections to a service pig, pulling the liner sections into the pipeline with the service pig until the first liner section encounters the bend and stops, continuing travel with the service pig and releasing the service pig from the liner sections, and constraining a line connected to the service pig to be positioned within the liner sections rather than contacting the pipeline bend.
US09395023B2
Apparatus and method of manufacturing a flexible pipe body are disclosed. The method may include providing a fluid retaining layer; wrapping a plurality of tensile armour elements around the fluid retaining layer; and wrapping a crush resistant elongate body that houses at least one fibre element around the fluid retaining layer and radially between two of the plurality of tensile armour elements. Matrix material provided in the elongate body may be cured subsequent to fitting the pipe body to an end fitting.
US09395019B2
Embodiments of a seal element for use in a trim assembly that allow valves and, in particular, balance control valves to meet high-temperature and shut-off requirements. These embodiments can engage and disengage a cage element and a plug element of the trim assembly, thereby creating a seal that prevents leaks of working fluid that can compromise operation of the valve. In one embodiment, the seal element comprises an annular ring that circumscribes the outer periphery of the plug element. The annular ring can deflect in response movement of one part of the plug element relative to another part of the plug element. This deflection can cause the seal element to contact the cage element and the plug element in seal regions that are proximate to one another, and to the outer periphery of the plug element.
US09395017B2
A fluid valve assembly includes a housing that may be positioned on a support surface. An inlet is coupled to the housing. The inlet may be coupled to a fluid source. A valve is coupled to the housing. The valve is coupled to the inlet. The valve may selectively allow and restrict a flow of fluid from the inlet. A pedal is movably coupled to the housing. The pedal may be stepped on. A switch is coupled to the pedal. The switch engages the valve when the pedal is stepped on. The switch opens the valve. An outlet is coupled to the housing. The outlet is coupled between the valve and a hose. A fluid is delivered to the hose when the pedal is stepped on.
US09395010B2
A solenoid operated modular valve includes a solenoid body having a coil and a pole piece positioned in the solenoid body. A valve body cartridge is connected to the solenoid body. A polymeric snap-in seat assembly includes first and second deflectable claw arms each having a barb engaging the valve body cartridge retaining the snap-in seat assembly in direct contact with the valve body cartridge. A seat engagement face when contacted by a valve seal member defines a valve closed position, and is displaced away from the seat engagement face in a valve open position when the coil is energized. A valve body cartridge body end portion includes a barb engagement face having pitched contact edges each having a continuous pitch directly contacted by the barb of the first and second deflectable claw arms to rotatably and frictionally lock the snap-in seat assembly to the valve body cartridge.
US09395007B2
Disclosed is an inflation valve enabling a user to quickly inflate and deflate an inflatable object. The inflation valve can include an inflation chamber that is an adequate size to capture a breath of air blown by a user from a distance away from an outside opening of the inflation chamber. This allows surrounding air into the area of low pressure created by the moving air, thereby greatly increasing the amount of air entering the inflatable object. To prevent air from escaping the inflatable object, the inflation valve can include a non-invertible one-way valve and/or an invertible one-way valve. Each valve can prevent air from escaping the inflation chamber until adequate pressure is applied from the outside opening of the inflation chamber, for example, as a result of a user blowing air into the inflation chamber. The invertible one-way valve can be inverted to reverse the properties of the valve.
US09395001B2
A nozzle assembly comprises a hollow nozzle body having a central bore and a plurality of ports extending through the body from the central bore; and a switching valve cartridge disposed in the central bore that directs fluid flow to ports upon application of fluid flow above a predetermined threshold to the inlet and direct fluid flow to different ports upon fluid flow having subsequently dropped below the predetermined threshold and then exceeding the predetermined threshold. The cartridge comprises a cylindrical cartridge case having a front portion and a cup shaped rear portion, a cylindrical poppet slidably disposed within the cup shaped rear portion of the cartridge case, and a biasing member within the cartridge case between the front portion of the case and the poppet urging the poppet away from the front portion of the cartridge case.
US09394999B2
The invention relates to a sealing system for sealing between a first component and a second component wherein at least one or either the first component or the second component is a rotating component. The first component has a circumferential groove in which a sealing segment has first and fifth end portions adjacent the groove and second, third and fourth portions that form a U shape that mirrors the shape of and extends into the circumferential groove.
US09394992B2
A sheave positioning device is provided. A valve element is arranged on a flow path to close the flow path when pushed in a direction against a pressure from hydraulic chambers, and a valve closing mechanism is also arranged on the flow path to generate a thrust force for pushing the valve element in the direction against a pressure from the hydraulic chambers. The valve closing mechanism is adapted to generate the thrust force, which is larger than a load to be applied to the valve element to push the valve element in a direction to open the valve element in case a predetermined speed change ratio is being set, but smaller than a load to be applied to the valve element to push the valve element in a direction to open the valve element in case the pressure in the hydraulic chambers is raised to the maximum pressure.
US09394985B2
A strain wave gearing (1) has a flexible externally toothed gear (3) with a boss (7). A boss-side fastening surface (16) formed on the boss is coaxially superposed with a member-side fastening surface (15) of an output member (11), and the boss (7) and the output member are fastened by fastening bolts (13). The bolt tension of the fastening bolts (13) causes the engaging protuberances (20) of the boss-side fastening surface (16) to dig into the member-side fastening surface (15) by a predetermined dig-in depth. A large frictional force is produced in the fastening portions between the flexible externally toothed gear (3) and the output member (11). It is thereby possible to transmit the necessary torque by the bolt tension alone without using pins or a friction sheet together with the fastening bolts.
US09394981B2
A torque converter, including: a cover; an impeller including an impeller blade, and an impeller shell with a first surface extending beyond the impeller blade in a radial direction and at an acute angle with respect to a first line in the radial direction; a turbine including a turbine blade, and a turbine shell with a second surface axially aligned with the first surface and at the acute angle with respect to the first line; a turbine clutch including the first and second surfaces and friction material disposed between the first and second surfaces; a torus at least partially enclosed by the impeller and turbine shells; and a pressure chamber at least partially formed by the turbine shell and the cover. For torque converter mode, the turbine and the impeller are independently rotatably with respect to each other. For lock-up mode, the first and second surfaces are non-rotatably connected.
US09394978B2
A method for producing a tensioning or guide rail with a base body, and a vibration absorber arranged on the base body is provided, comprising the steps of: providing a base body, at least partially embedding the base body into plastic material that is in a flowable state, and hardening the plastic material to obtain a vibration absorber that is captively arranged on the base body. The method also relates to a respective rail and to a continuous drive for a combustion engine.
US09394970B2
A gear reducer comprising a worm and a worm gear assembly, in turn comprising a worm gear, which is connected/disconnected to/from a drive shaft by means of a torque limiter mounted on this latter. The gear reducer is characterized in that the drive shaft and the torque limiter are comprised in a cartridge which can be extracted/inserted from/in a cavity obtained in the worm gear assembly according to an axial direction and in accordance with two opposite senses, without the need to disassemble the worm.
US09394968B2
Poly-V belt comprising a body made of elastomeric material, preferably EPDM, a plurality of threadlike resistant inserts longitudinally embedded in the body, and a coupling portion integrally connected to the body and comprising a plurality of V-shaped ribs arranged side by side and alternated with V-shaped grooves. According to the present invention the belt comprises a layer of a thermoplastic material which covers the ribs at least partially, and a layer of elastomeric material in which a knitted fabric is embedded. The layer of elastomeric material is above and in contact with the thermoplastic material.
US09394960B2
A hydropneumatic piston/cylinder arrangement, in particular for use as a spring element and/or shock absorber element, includes a cylinder (1) and a piston (15) axially movable in the cylinder chamber (5) of the cylinder. The cylinder chamber is filled with hydraulic fluid. The piston (15) is connected to a piston rod (13) extending outwardly in a sealed manner from one end of the cylinder (1). The base of the piston remote from the piston rod (13) can be operatively connected to a pneumatic spring mechanism (7) to convey fluid. A piston accumulator (7) has an accumulator piston (19) directly adjoining the hydraulic fluid in the cylinder chamber provided as the spring mechanism.
US09394958B2
A vibration damping device including a first mounting member and a second mounting member elastically connected by a main rubber elastic body, and a separate stopper member positioned in a housing recess that is formed by a cylindrical portion of the second mounting member and that opens in an axial direction. An elastic tapered portion equipped with a contact surface that inclines gradually to an inner circumferential side toward an open side of the housing recess is provided at an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion which constitutes a peripheral wall of the housing recess, and a stopper protrusion projecting outward in an axis-perpendicular direction is provided to the stopper member. The stopper protrusion is positioned further inside the housing recess than the elastic tapered portion and the stopper protrusion overlaps the elastic tapered portion when viewed in axial direction projection.
US09394955B2
A gray cast iron brake disk has a thermally applied wear-reducing surface coating containing chromium and/or tungsten carbides. The surface coating has a roughness reduced to about 0.5 to 1 μm to shorten a wearing-in period.
US09394954B2
A disc brake assembly having a guide pin disposed in a bore of an anchor bracket such that a guide pin axis is offset relative to a bore axis whereby there is provided at least one defined point of contact between only a portion of the guide pin and a portion of an inner surface of the bore. The guide pin includes a groove formed therein, the groove defines a groove axis which is offset relative to the guide pin axis, and a resilient member is disposed in the groove which is operative to bias the guide pin in the bore such that the guide pin axis is offset relative to bore axis to provide the at least one defined point of contact between only a portion of the guide pin and a portion of the inner surface of the bore.
US09394943B2
A bearing cage for retaining rolling elements of a rolling element bearing, the bearing cage having at least one first ring structure to which at least one first cage bar is connected. The at least one first cage bar comprises a side surface that is arranged to extend along an outer surface of a rolling element when the bearing cage is in use, whereby the side surface comprises a radially outer edge and a radially inner edge. The distance between the radially outer edges of two adjacent cage bars between which a rolling element is located when the bearing cage is in use is greater than the distance between two adjacent radially inner edges of the two adjacent cage bars.
US09394941B2
This invention provides a turbocharger bearing assembly having foil bearing assemblies (21, 22, 23, 24, 30, 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52) supporting conical rotor elements (3, 4, 10, 11, 16, 17, 31, 32).
US09394928B2
A system can include one or more valve arrangements with a working chamber to receive a working fluid at a first pressure, and a control chamber to receive fluid at a second pressure. A dynamic seal can be disposed on a land of a valve element. A supply passage can be in communication between the control chamber and a tank and can include a check valve. A relief valve can be disposed between the check valve and the control chamber. A pilot pump and another relief valve may be disposed upstream of the check valve. The relief valve downstream of the check valve can have a higher pressure limit than the downstream one. A pressure sensor may be disposed between the check valve and the control chamber and used to warn the operator of a high pressure in the control chamber.
US09394927B2
A hydraulic oil cylinder has a buffer sleeve (4), a rodless cavity sealing end face (1-2) and at least one throttle oil channel (3-1). The buffer sleeve (4) is sleeved on an additional section (3a) of a piston rod in the rodless cavity (2-2) and axially slidable along the additional section (3a) of the piston rod. The rodless cavity sealing end face (1-2) is provided in an oil cylinder cavity between a rodless cavity oil passing hole (1-1) and the termination of the rodless cavity end face of the piston for the retraction process of the piston rod (3), and enables to block the buffer sleeve (4) and attach to the first end surface (4-1) of the buffer sleeve thereby forming a sealing surface.
US09394926B1
The torque converter includes an elongate housing having a main section and a collar section. A piston assembly is reciprocable inside the main section. A plurality of elongate helical bolts with outer helix extends axially from one side of a piston. The opposite side of the piston is entirely exposed to hydraulic forces to maximize potential work thereon. The helical bolts are mated with a rotator in a helical rotation assembly, converting linear motion into rotation, each mated pair generating a given torque. A torque accumulator combines the given torque to generate total output torque greater than the given torque. One or more output endcaps can be provided on the ends of the housing to produce work from the greater output torque.
US09394918B2
A fan structure includes at least one installation standoff, a fan and a fixing frame. An end of the at least one installation standoff is installed on a substrate, and a positioning slot is formed on the other end of the at least one installation standoff. The fixing frame is installed on the fan and includes at least one positioning hook for engaging with the positioning slot of the at least one installation standoff, so as to fix the fixing frame on the substrate. A guiding slot is formed on at least one side of the fixing frame for guiding the at least one installation standoff to move on the fixing frame. The fixing frame further includes at least one resilient portion connected to the at least one positioning hook for driving the at least one positioning hook to separate from the at least one positioning slot.
US09394904B2
A compressor is provided that may include a cylinder including an outer cylinder portion and an inner cylinder portion, and a vane portion connected between the outer cylinder portion and inner cylinder portion, which is fixed to a casing. A rolling piston may be slidably coupled to the vane portion to form an outer compression space and an inner compression space while making a turning movement between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion. Through this, a weight of a rotating body may be reduced to obtain low power loss with respect to a same cooling power and a small bearing area, thereby reducing refrigerant leakage as well as easily changing a capacity of a cylinder in an expanded manner. Moreover, refrigerant may be discharged in opposite directions in each compression space, thereby reducing vibration noise of the compressor. In addition, a back pressure groove may be formed on an upper surface of a drive transmission portion of the rolling piston, thereby reducing a friction area between the rolling piston and the upper bearing, as well as reducing a friction loss between the rolling piston and the upper bearing due to oil filled into the back pressure groove.
US09394901B2
A modular symmetrical asphalt pumping system providing a series of field-configurable gear pumps and meters usable to safely and efficiently pump viscous molten fluids, such as, asphalt and similar bituminous materials. The system utilizes highly symmetrical physical geometries and modular components to allow for the development of multiple pump configurations using a reduced quantity of parts. Preferred arrangements of the system reduce pump pulsing and cavitation.
US09394899B2
A method for fault detection includes selecting a measured parameter from a subsurface electrical device and obtaining a plurality of samples for the measured parameter. The method also includes removing at least one invalid sample from the plurality of samples to generate a remaining number of samples. The method further includes computing a diagnostic parameter based on the remaining number of samples, if the remaining number of samples is greater than a predefined threshold number and terminating the method otherwise. The method also includes obtaining a rule from a plurality of rules stored in a database, based on the diagnostic parameter. The rule is indicative of a standard operating condition of the subsurface electrical device. The method further includes evaluating whether the determined diagnostic parameter satisfies the obtained rule, to generate an output and determining a measured operating condition of the subsurface electrical device based on the output.
US09394891B2
A lubricant pump for pumping a pressurized lubricant to an engine includes a shiftable control ring, a pump rotor, a pump outlet port, a pressure control system and a preload control arrangement. The pressure control system comprises a first pressure control chamber, a first pressure conduit connecting the pump outlet port with the first pressure control chamber, and a pressure control valve. The pressure control valve comprises an outlet port, a control valve cylinder wall comprising a control port connected with the outlet port, a control plunger which opens and closes the control port, an input pressure plunger connected with the control plunger, and a control spring preloading the control plunger into a closed position. The preload control arrangement comprises a preload cylinder, a preload plunger in the preload cylinder supporting a basis of the control spring, a preload cylinder inlet, and a preload control valve controlling a lubricant pressure.
US09394886B2
A method and system for re-indexing a pitch bearing of a wind turbine includes: installing a plurality of first mounts to the fixed outer race of the pitch bearing; positioning the rotor blade to a downwardly-oriented; installing a hydraulic system; pressurizing the hydraulic system so as to support the weight of the rotor blade with the hydraulic system; detaching the rotor blade from the pitch bearing; lowering the rotor blade a predetermined vertical distance from the hub; installing a plurality of second mounts to the rotor blade; attaching a plurality of supports between the first mounts and the second mounts; transferring the weight of the rotor blade from the hydraulic system to the plurality of supports; disengaging the hydraulic system; and re-indexing the pitch bearing so as to engage a new set of pitch bearing teeth.
US09394881B2
A wind turbine blade (162) and a method of forming a wind turbine blade. The method includes: forming an inner segment (10) of an airfoil, leaving a portion (16) of an inner weave (12) extending from the inner segment; forming an outer segment (18) of the airfoil, leaving a portion (24) of an outer weave (20) extending from the outer segment; overlapping the extending portion of the inner weave with the extending portion of the outer weave; infusing the overlapped extending portions with additional resin; and curing the additional resin to form a monolithic airfoil (160).
US09394878B2
A power generation apparatus (1, 1a) using wave energy conversion by gravity includes a sealed body (10, 10a), a rotor (20, 20a), a gear box (30,30a), a power generation motor (40, 40a), and a pontoon (50, 50a). The rotor (20, 20a), disposed in the sealed body (10, 10a), includes an eccentric disk (21, 21a), a plurality of rollers (22, 22a) and a rotating shaft (23, 23a) penetrating through the eccentric disk (21, 21a). A center of gravity of the eccentric disk (21, 21a) is disposed with an offset to that of the sealed body (10, 10a). The gear box (31) is driven by the rotating shaft (23, 23a). The power generation motor (40, 40a) is driven by the gear box (31) to rotate and generate electric power.
US09394874B2
The accuracy in controlling the heating temperature of a glow plug and the reliability of the control operation are improved.An electronic control unit 101 is configured such that a standard applied voltage for glow plugs 50-1 to 50-n is set according to the engine speed and the load conditions of the engine. In addition, a correction coefficient set in advance according to the temperature classification of the mounted glow plugs 50-1 to 50-n is readably stored in the electronic control unit 101 as a correction coefficient map. By multiplying the standard applied voltage by a correction coefficient K read from the correction coefficient map and applying a voltage of the multiplication result to the glow plugs 50-1 to 50-n as a driving voltage through the power circuit 102 to perform driving control, stable and reliable heating temperature control can be realized regardless of variations in the heating temperature characteristics.
US09394873B2
There is provided a vehicle starting apparatus that reduces vibration of an engine caused when the engine starts so that vibration of the vehicle can be decreased. A vehicle starting apparatus according to the present invention is provided with an engine starting apparatus that starts an engine mounted in a vehicle, wherein before the engine is ignited, the engine starting apparatus makes a cranking rotation speed of the engine lower than a rotation speed corresponding to the resonance frequency of the engine, and after the engine has been ignited, the engine starting apparatus increases the rotation speed of the engine up to a rotation speed that is the same as or higher than said rotation speed corresponding to the resonance frequency.
US09394869B2
A fuel injector, particularly for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber, is provided as including a housing having at least one spray orifice, an armature assembly that is movable linearly in the housing, along a longitudinal axis, a magnetic coil acting magnetically on the armature assembly, a valve element that is movable linearly with respect to the armature assembly and with respect to the housing, for opening and closing the spray orifice, and a pin for limiting the movement of the valve element with respect to the armature assembly.
US09394867B2
A fuel injection valve for injecting fuel includes: a coil, an internal pole, a valve sleeve, and a magnetic separating element, where the valve sleeve and the magnetic separating element are embodied in one piece as a powder injection-molded component, and the valve sleeve forms a magnetic region and the magnetic separating element forms a non-magnetic region, which are intermaterially joined to one another.
US09394855B2
A supercharged internal combustion engine, comprising a high-pressure turbine connected to a channel of a low-pressure turbine and a bypass line, branching from upstream the high-pressure turbine, connectable to the channels of the low-pressure turbine via a control element positioned within the bypass line, is provided. Adjusting the control element fluidly connects each of the channels of the low-pressure turbine to the bypass line responsive to the exhaust-gas flow rate to optimize the performance of the engine.
US09394848B2
Fuel is injected by energizing a solenoid of a fuel injector for an on-time that terminates at a first end-of-current timing. An end-of-current trim is determined at least in part by estimating a duration between an induced current event in a circuit of the solenoid and a valve/armature interaction event. An induced current event occurs when an armature abruptly stops, and a valve/armature interaction event occurs when the armature couples with or de-couples from the valve member. Fuel is injected in a subsequent injection event by adjusting the end-of-current timing by the end-of-current trim.
US09394840B2
A fuel injection pressure at a timing at which an NOx concentration (combustion temperature) indicates a maximum value under the condition that a fuel injection timing is fixed to a first injection timing is recorded as a first NOx peak injection pressure. Similarly, a second NOx peak injection pressure is recorded under the condition that the fuel injection timing is fixed to a second injection timing. A cetane number and distillation property of fuel are determined on the basis of these NOx peak injection pressures.
US09394837B2
An engine system and method for operating an engine that includes a particulate filter is described. In one example, spark delivery to one or more engine cylinders is ceased while fuel is continued to be injected to the one or more cylinders to improve particulate filter regeneration. The system and method may be particularly beneficial for direct injection turbocharged engines.
US09394830B2
An igniter tube assembly includes an igniter, an igniter tower with a radially extending portion, a ferrule with a radially extending portion, and a retainer with a radially extending portion. The ferrule and retainer capture the radially extending portion of the igniter tower and sealing surface provides an area for the ferrule to interface with the igniter tower. The igniter moves relative to the casing in which it is secured while a fluid seal between the igniter and ferrule controls air flow.
US09394824B2
An internal combustion engine's cooling system of which a cooling water regulator is situated in a cooling circuit, said regulator being driven by an engine control in a manner to temporarily wholly interrupt the flow of cooling water, said regulator being shunted by a subsidiary branch containing a blocking element which is associated with a lock driven by the engine control, and the blocking element being designed to be moved by the cooling water pressure in the subsidiary branch into an open position.
US09394821B2
Device for improving the purifying liquid evaporation in an axially symmetric dosing module for an SCR device. The dosing module is able to dose a urea-based reducing agent into a gas exhaust stream generated by a combustion engine. The dosing module comprises a housing developing symmetrically along a development axis; a nozzle for dosing the urea-based reducing agent, arranged along said development axis; and an inlet opening for conveying the gas exhaust stream into the dosing housing, arranged annularly with respect to the nozzle. The device further includes a splitting wall, arranged within the inlet opening for defining at least two separate annular gas stream paths, one annular and coaxial with respect to another, one of them shaped for inducing a different axial speed into a respective gas stream with respect to another.
US09394818B2
A delivery unit for a liquid additive includes a first pump with a first suction port and a first pressure port, a second pump with a second suction port and a second pressure port, and a feed device. The feed device is connected to the first pressure port through a first line system and the first suction port is connected to a tank for the liquid additive through a second line system. The second pressure port is connected to the tank through a third line system and the second line system and the third line system are separated from one another. A method for operating a delivery unit and a motor vehicle having a delivery unit are also provided.
US09394812B2
Techniques involve attenuating noise from engine exhaust from an engine. For example, an apparatus includes a first tube having an input end which receives the engine exhaust from the engine, and an output end which outputs the engine exhaust. The apparatus further includes a second tube which encircles the output end of the first tube. The second tube has an exhaust end through which the engine exhaust outputted by the output end of the first tube is allowed to escape, and a resonator end which is opposite the exhaust end. The apparatus further includes a reverse resonator disposed at the resonator end of the second tube. The reverse resonator defines a reverse resonator chamber and a reverse resonator chamber diameter which is larger than a second tube diameter defined by the second tube.
US09394808B2
Disclosed is a method for operating a gas turbine (11) comprising a compressor (14), which is equipped with variable inlet guide vanes (13) and receives at its inlet an inlet air flow, which has passed a temperature-affecting air inlet system (12a), a combustor (15, 15′) and a turbine (16, 16′). In a closed loop control scheme, a control variable indicative of the turbine outlet temperature (TAT2) is generated, and the air inlet system (12a) and/or the variable inlet guide vanes (13) are controlled in accordance with said control variable such that the turbine outlet temperature (TAT2) is kept at or above a desired setting value (TAT2min).
US09394803B2
An engine comprises a fan configured to produce propulsive thrust from a fan discharge air stream. A bypass duct is located between a cowl and an engine core, the bypass duct is fluidly coupled to the fan. The bypass duct contains the air stream created by the fan. A pump system provides the air to an environmental control system. The pump system comprises an impeller having an inlet for receiving the air from the duct and an outlet for discharging the air to the environmental control system. An intake manifold is configured to receive the air from the bypass duct and to deliver the air to the inlet. A single discharge manifold is configured to deliver the air from the outlet to the environmental control system.
US09394785B2
An apparatus and method may operate to mount one or more communication assemblies relative to the exterior of a casing being placed in a borehole. Two communication assemblies can be placed in longitudinally spaced relation to one another along the casing, wherein each communication assembly is configured to obtain data from RFID tags in one or more azimuthally oriented regions of the annulus surrounding the casing, and to interrogate RFID tags in a first fluid in the borehole. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09394776B2
A method of inducing fracture in at least a portion of a geologic structure includes inducing acoustic waves into a fluid medium present in a borehole extending at least partially into the structure. Embodiments may include preheating or pressurizing the fluid medium prior to inducing the acoustic wave therein. A device for fracturing at least a portion of a geologic structure includes electrodes for producing a spark to generate ordinary acoustic waves in the fluid medium. Embodiments may include structures for preheating or pressurizing the fluid medium prior to inducing the acoustic wave therein.
US09394773B2
A device comprising multiple sliding sleeves actuated using same-sized balls has a resettable seat in an upper sliding sleeve and a non-resettable seat in a lower sliding sleeve. A dropped ball seats on the resettable seat forming a seal. Pressure applied from the surface shifts the resettable seat and an insert. Upon being shifted, the resettable seat releases the ball, which then moves downward to the lower sliding sleeve where the ball lands on the non-resettable seat and shifts the insert. After the first ball is released from the upper sliding sleeve, a biasing device shifts the insert whereby the seat is reset to catch the next ball. A second same-sized ball may then be dropped and land on the now reset first seat to further shift the first insert.
US09394769B2
An inflow control valve has a valve body having a threaded portion for connecting the valve body to a production tubing, a through bore for connecting the valve body to an inside bore of the production tubing and an outside surface; at least one inlet passageway extending through the valve body between the outside surface and the through bore and an inlet opening on the at least one inlet passageway formed on the outside surface of the valve body; a closure member for opening and closing the inlet opening, the closure member being located between the inlet opening and the annulus; and a member to bias the closure member to an open position when the inlet opening is submerged in a liquid to be recovered from the reservoir and to bias the closure member to a closed position in the absence of the liquid at the inlet opening.
US09394767B2
A method and apparatus is described for modifying downhole wellbore pressure at the instant that an explosive event occurs. By a significant temporary reduction in wellbore pressure, for example, an explosive cutter will be able to cut through thicker pipe in a deep well with high hydrostatic pressure. A favorable transient wellbore pressure is achieved by the selective timing of implosion and explosion devices, to improve the performance of certain explosive tools when subsequently initiated, such as shaped charge explosive cutters, severing tools, setting tools and perforating guns. As part of the system, each implosion or explosion device is initiated by a detonator having a preprogrammed control unit with a preselected timing delay to take advantage of the temporarily lowered wellbore pressure.
US09394761B2
A device for controlling fluid flow from a subsurface fluid reservoir into a production tubing siring includes a tubular member defining a central bore. At least one nozzle extends through a side wall of the tubular member. A popper is moveable between an open position where fluids can flow into the central bore through the nozzle, and a closed position where the nozzle is fluidly sealed. A circumferential external bead profile is located on the stem and a circumferential groove is located in the nozzle for mating with the head profile of the stem and maintaining the popper in a closed position. The device can also have a shear member disposed between the stem of the popper and an inner surface of the nozzle for supporting the popper in an open position before the popper is moved to the closed position.
US09394759B2
A method of propagating pressure pulses in a well can include flowing a fluid composition through a variable flow resistance system which includes a vortex chamber having at least one inlet and an outlet, a vortex being created when the fluid composition spirals about the outlet, and a resistance to flow of the fluid composition alternately increasing and decreasing. The vortex can be alternately created and dissipated in response to flowing the fluid composition through the system. A well system can include a variable flow resistance system which propagates pressure pulses into a formation in response to flow of a fluid composition from the formation.
US09394758B2
A valve, system and method for controlling flow of fluid about a wellsite component of a wellsite are provided. The wellsite component has a flowline to pass the fluid therethrough. The valve includes a valve housing, a cage having holes therethrough positionable in selective fluid communication with the flowline, a valve plate operatively connectable between the valve housing and the cage (the valve plate having a sealing surface thereon), and a spool assembly comprising a spool slidably positionable in the cage. The spool assembly is selectively positionable in sealing engagement with the sealing surface of the valve plate to define a sealing interface therebetween, and is movable between an inlet position defining a fluid intake path and an outlet position defining a fluid outtake path whereby the fluid is selectively diverted through the wellsite component.
US09394739B2
The invention improves detection accuracy of interposition at a vehicle window. An interposition detector determines that a window at a passenger's seat has interposition if motor current for opening and closing the window at the passenger's seat does not decrease to be less than a predetermined threshold but increases to be not less than a second threshold, or if the motor current does not decreases to be less than the predetermined threshold but increases at a predetermined or more increase rate. The interposition detector determines that the window at the passenger's seat does not have interposition if the motor current is less than the predetermine threshold. The invention is applicable to an automatic window system and the like.
US09394733B2
Glue-free hinge assemblies including press-fit pins are disclosed. A press-fit pin of one material can mechanically attach to a workpiece of another material during a press fit operation. The press-fit pin can include a pin shaft having a chamfered first end, a notched portion, a grooved portion having axial grooves, a clinching feature, and a sealing feature. The chamfered first end can guide the press-fit pin into a counter-bored receiving hole in the workpiece. The axial grooves can etch the workpiece material to rotationally lock the press fit-pin into the receiving hole. The clinching feature can plastically deform workpiece material into the notched portion to axially lock the press-fit pin into receiving hole without causing substantial axial expansion of the workpiece. The sealing feature can form a stepped fit between an outer diameter of the press-fit pin and an outer diameter of the counter-bored receiving hole.
US09394729B2
A handle assembly for preventing inadvertent opening of a motor vehicle door during a crash event. The handle assembly includes an activation mechanism coupled to an electrically-activated leg. When the activation mechanism is activated, then the electrically-activated leg is moved to an engaged position to engage an actuation pawl to prevent rotation of the actuation pawl so that, upon actuation of a handle strap, the actuation pawl engages and actuates the door latch release. However, if the activation mechanism is not activated, then the leg does not engage the pawl, and a movement of the handle strap does not actuate the door latch release as the pawl is permitted to rotate.
US09394728B2
The latch includes a ratchet and pawl operable to move between an engaged position to hold a striker and a released position to permit the striker from exiting the latch. In addition, a release lever and a lock lever are pivotally mounted to the opposite surface of the latch housing. A lock link lever connects the release lever to the lock lever, having a first end pivotally mounted to the lock lever and a second end slidably located in a slot on the release lever. Actuating the release lever while the second end of the lock link lever is in its locked position pivots the lock link lever in a first arc and actuating the release lever while the lock link lever is in its unlocked position pivots the lock link lever in a second arc to actuate the pawl into its released position.
US09394726B1
A gate apparatus that includes a gate, an elongate member or gate base for the ends of the gate, and a stairway post adapter such that a wooden stairway post can serve as a base for a gate without harming the wood of the stairway post. The stairway post adapter includes a vertical or longitudinally running channel for receiving the gate base, a horizontally or laterally extending channel for receiving a strap, and a recess or receptor or face for confronting a section of a stairway post. The gate base includes an upper and lower eyelet. Each of the ends of the gate includes upper and lower pins for engaging the upper and lower eyelets of the gate bases. On the hinge side of the gate, the pins are relatively long and remain in the eyelets as the gate is lifted and swung. On the latch side of the gate, the pins are relatively short such that that latch side of the gate can be lifted and disengaged from the eyelets and then swung open. The gate is extendable and retractable in length, and is reversible.
US09394722B2
Mechanisms are provided to thwart an overtorquing attack on a cylindrical lockset. The cylindrical lockset comprises a lock cage, a split retractor assembly, and a torque-attack-activated spring-loaded blocker assembly coupled to the lock cage. The blocker assembly is set to a default non-blocking configuration. An overtorquing attack triggers the blocking assembly into a blocking setting. When in the blocking setting, the blocking assembly blocks movement of at least an outside door portion of a retractor assembly from translating into a latch-retracting position, but does not block the inside door handle from retracting the latch. A new split retractor assembly is also provided.
US09394721B2
A portable shelter is provided for sheltering materials or human occupants at a remote location. The shelter includes, among other things, a flexible cover and a supporting frame. In operation, hinged members that are part of the frame are used to support a first portion and then a second portion of the shelter. Before the frame is raised up, the people who are constructing it can easily reach the top parts of the shelter without a stepladder or the like. By avoiding the need for a stepladder, the overall size and weight of the assembled components that have to be transported to the remote location can be reduced, and the shelter can be constructed more quickly and easily. Hinges, purlin connections, and corner closure systems for the shelter are also disclosed.
US09394719B2
A folding bar table for removably supporting a canopy include a plurality of tabletop assemblies with each two adjacent tabletop assemblies rotatably connected to each other, a plurality of table leg assemblies for supporting the tabletop assemblies, and fastening components disposed at two ends of the rotatably connected tabletop assemblies for holding supporting poles of the canopy. A table leg assembly includes a standing pole and a movable pole, and one end of the movable pole is rotatably connected to the standing pole. For two adjacent tabletop assemblies, one tabletop assembly is rotatably connected to a corresponding standing pole, and the other tabletop assembly is rotatably connected to a corresponding movable pole. All rotational axes are substantially parallel to each other. The rotatably connected tabletop assemblies present a straight layout when unfolded.
US09394718B1
A portable ice fishing and camping shelter which may be secured to either the front of a vehicle or the back of the vehicle. The shelter includes a horizontally disposed base frame which is secured to the hitch receiver of the vehicle so as to be elevated above the ground. One or more seats are positioned on the base frame. A shelter assembly is pivotally secured to the base frame and is movable between collapsed and shelter positions. A flexible cover is mounted on the shelter assembly. A front rest is mounted on the base frame which includes stabilizers thereon. A cargo transport bracket may be secured to the base frame, when the shelter assembly is in the collapsed position, for transporting cargo above the collapsed shelter assembly.
US09394714B1
Embodiments of the present technology provides universal panels and structures made from the same. The panels are formed using specific ratios for width and length of the panels, which are related to ratios of aperture spacings for the panels. These ratios are used to ensure that panels can be used in a universal manner to form walls, roofs, and doors. Additionally, the universality of the panels reduces the likelihood that installation errors will occur when building structures with these panels. Installation errors can deleteriously affect the structural integrity of the resulting structure.
US09394701B2
A method of installing flooring with an adhesive system that comprises a layer of adhesive without any adhesive carrier layer or screen or the like, covered on a first release surface and covered on the opposite side by a second release surface.
US09394694B2
A gutter cover system (5) for a gutter comprises a bracket (10) and a cover section. The bracket (10) comprises an anchoring plate (11) and a receptacle (12) comprising a barb slot. The cover section (50) comprises a top portion (60) that extends forwardly from a rear edge (70) of the cover section, a front wall (80) extending downwardly from the top portion, and a ledge (90) extending generally horizontally in front of the front wall. The receptacle (12) is configured to receive the rear edge (70) of the cover section. The rear edge (70) of the cover section (50) comprises the barb connector. The gutter cover system (5) may be installed by attaching the anchoring plate (11) of the bracket (10) to the fascia board of a house or the rear wall of a gutter, followed by inserting the barb connector (71) of the cover section (50) into the receptacle (12).
US09394688B2
Example embodiments relate to improvements to composed stave flooring, methods for the production thereof and the corrective maintenance of same. The improvements allow corrective maintenance to be performed without negatively affecting the physical aesthetic and functional properties thereof. The flooring comprises a sight substrate and a base substrate, with the sight substrate having a minimum practical thickness of 4 mm and the base substrate having a minimum practical thickness of 12 mm, the two substrates being assembled using adhesive and securing means that distribute the adhesive uniformly between both substrates, thereby rendering the flooring more durable and stable.
US09394687B2
An illuminating partition includes lower and upper mounting profiled members, at least the lower profiled member including a carrier element arranged in the internal volume of the profiled member and including a platen, parallel to and at a distance from the central section of the profiled member and disposed between the diodes and the glazing unit, and serving as a support for the edge of the glazing unit, one of the lateral sections of the profiled member being mobile or removable so as to have access to the diodes which are associated with the profiled member in a removable manner.
US09394686B2
An article of flexible furniture having a core formed from a plurality of laminar panels of a flaccid material and each panel having a pair of oppositely directed major faces, adjacent faces of said panels being inter-connected to provide a cellular structure upon movement of abutting faces away from each other, a pair of supports at opposite ends of said core and connected to respective ones of said faces, said supports being self-supporting to provide rigidity to said core whereby said supports may be moved apart to expand said cellular and extend the length of said partition.
US09394676B2
A overflow containment assembly for containing an overflowed fluid from a toilet includes the toilet structured to have a bowl. A fitting is coupled to the bowl on the toilet. The fitting is positioned proximate a maximum fill level of the bowl. A bag is coupled to the fitting. The bag may receive a fluid from the fitting if the bowl on the toilet becomes overfilled.
US09394672B2
An apparatus for separating a liquid from a mixed gas stream can include a wall, a mixed gas stream passageway, and a liquid collection assembly. The wall can include a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of capillary condensation pores. The capillary condensation pores extend through the wall, and have a first opening on the first surface of the wall, and a second opening on the second surface of the wall. The pore size of the pores can be between about 2 nm to about 100 nm. The mixed gas stream passageway can be in fluid communication with the first opening. The liquid collection assembly can collect liquid from the plurality of pores.
US09394671B2
A control device is configured to sufficiently reduce the drive loss of a hydraulic pump. The control device is provided with a controller configured to control a regeneration valve to switch to a regeneration state, and to control the flow rate of a second hydraulic pump to reduce the ejection flow rate of the second hydraulic pump in accordance with regeneration of hydraulic oil through the regeneration valve when a combined operation of lowering a boom and pressing an arm is performed. The controller outputs a command for setting the number of rotations of an engine to be smaller than the rotation number designated by a rotation number designating unit when the ejection flow rate of the second hydraulic pump is not larger than a predetermined flow rate during the combined operation.
US09394669B2
A work vehicle includes a motor associated with selectable movement of a frame by a first operator control. The frame structurally carries a cab structure and a manipulating structure associated with an implement for performing work. The manipulating structure is selectably movable by a second operator control located in the cab structure. All control functions associated with positioning the implement with respect to three different rotational axes are manipulable using the second operator control.
US09394668B2
A first exhaust treatment device, a second exhaust treatment device, and a relay connection pipe are disposed in front of an engine of a bulldozer. A relay connection pipe connects the first and second exhaust treatment devices. An injector assembly is attached to the relay connection pipe. The first exhaust treatment device, the relay connection pipe, and the second exhaust treatment device are arranged in sequence such that longitudinal directions thereof extend along the vehicle lateral direction. An attachment surface for the injector on the relay connection pipe is provided on an offset portion of the relay connection pipe at a connection portion between the first exhaust treatment device and the relay connection pipe. The distance between the injector assembly and a first side surface of the engine cover closest to the injector assembly is substantially equal to the distance between the first side surface and the first exhaust treatment device.
US09394667B2
A stabilization apparatus (1) for lifts, handlers and air platforms, comprising: a main body (2), suitable for being mounted onto a vehicle and provided with at least two side branches (21), relative to which respective first arms (11) are rotoidally coupled; and second arms (12), each of which being rotoidally coupled to a respective first arm (11), thereby defining, together with the branches (21), corresponding articulated stabilizers (10). The stabilizers (10) are movable between a retracted position in which they are folded onto themselves, and an extended position in which they are unfolded, thus defining a configuration of stabilization.
US09394662B2
A suction caisson system comprising a caisson body comprising an upper rim, a lower rim, and a weakened section positioned between the upper rim and the lower rim. The system further comprises a caisson cover constructed and arranged to detachably connect to the upper rim of the caisson body as well as a pump constructed and arranged to provide fluid to and from the interior of the caisson body. In the event the caisson body is impacted by an advancing ice keel, or other foreign object, the caisson body will be sheared at the weakened cross-section, thus protecting any subsea equipment positioned within the caisson body below the weakened section.
US09394659B2
A snow blower comprises a frame, an auger, a fan, a hydraulic system, a rotating drum, a securing mechanism and a disengagement mechanism. The auger is rotationally mounted to the frame, and is adapted for collecting snow. The fan is mounted upon the frame, behind the auger, and evacuates the collected snow in the rotating drum. The hydraulic system rotates the rotating drum with respect to the frame. The rotating drum defines a pair of teeth about a circumference thereof. The securing mechanism is affixed to the frame, and includes on one extremity a pair of complementary circular cams, and on a second extremity a pressure mechanism for applying pressure on the pair of complementary circular cams to keep the pair of complementary circular cams engaged. Upon pressure applied by the hydraulic system to rotate the rotating drum, the disengagement mechanism cooperates with the pair of teeth to counteract the pressure applied by the pressure mechanism and disengages the disengagement mechanism from the pair of teeth.
US09394656B2
A passive method for protecting taut cables from vibrations comprising the perpendicularly attachment of a device comprising a unilateral spring or a shape memory alloy wire to a taut cable at an attachment position wherein the device (especially the unilateral spring of the shape memory alloy wire of the device) acts on the taut cable only when the vibrating taut cable exceeds a switch position (SP); a device for protecting a taut cable from vibrations, as well as the use of such a device in a construction.
US09394652B2
The present invention provides a functionally dry warm mix asphalt binder composition modified with lubricating agents or additives that can be mixed with aggregate and compacted at temperatures substantially below asphalt binder compositions that do not contain the disclosed lubricating additives.
US09394639B2
Motorized thread tensioner for a sewing machine. In one example embodiment, a motorized thread tensioner for a sewing machine may include a first disk, a second disk, a spring, a shaft having threads on a distal end, a nut threaded onto the threads of the shaft, and an electric motor. The shaft may be through the first disk, the second disk, and the spring. The electric motor may be coupled to the nut and configured to rotate the nut in a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction that is opposite to the first rotational direction. The rotation of the nut in the first rotational direction may cause the shaft to travel toward the electric motor. The rotation of the nut in the second rotational direction may cause the shaft to travel away from the electric motor.
US09394637B2
A method to prepare nonwoven webs which have good MD and CD strength, and are water disposable is provided. The method includes hydroentangling an airlaid web of no less than 50% by weight of natural cellulose fibers having a fiber length of no more than 3.5 mm and no more than 50% by weight staple fibers having a fiber length of no less than 8.0 mm. The airlaid web is not laid on a precursor web and no adhesive, binder or thermal bonding fibers are utilized. The airlayering and hydroentangling are conducted in a continuous operation. Products may be obtained according to the method of this invention that meet municipal guidelines for flushability.
US09394636B2
A braided protective sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve has a wall extending along a longitudinal axis of the sleeve. The wall includes a plurality of braided yarns forming inner and outer surfaces of the sleeve. The inner surface bounds an internal cavity and the outer surface is exposed to the surrounding environment. The yarns are braided with one another in a X/Y braid pattern with X and Y being different numerical values from one another. The numerical values of X and Y can be selected as desired to provide the sleeve with the enhanced physical performance characteristics desired. A plurality of yarns extending substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis can be interlaced with the braided yarns. The interlaced yarns can be exposed to the internal cavity and concealed from the environment; exposed to the environment and concealed from the internal cavity, or both.
US09394632B2
Methods and apparatus for producing chemical nanostructures having multiple elements, such as boron and nitride, e.g. boron nitride nanotubes, are disclosed. The method comprises creating a plasma jet, or plume, such as by an arc discharge. The plasma plume is elongated and has a temperature gradient along its length. It extends along its length into a port connector area having ports for introduction of feed materials. The feed materials include the multiple elements, which are introduced separately as fluids or powders at multiple ports along the length of the plasma plume, said ports entering the plasma plume at different temperatures. The method further comprises modifying a temperature at a distal portion of or immediately downstream of said plasma plume; and collecting said chemical nanostructures after said modifying.
US09394629B2
A method for forming a biodegradable aliphatic-aromatic copolyester suitable for use in fibers is provided. In one embodiment, for example, an aliphatic-aromatic copolyester is melt blended with an alcohol to initiate an alcoholysis reaction that results in a copolyester having one or more hydroxyalkyl or alkyl terminal groups. By selectively controlling the alcoholysis conditions (e.g., alcohol and copolymer concentrations, catalysts, temperature, etc.), a modified aliphatic-aromatic copolyester may be achieved that has a molecular weight lower than the starting aliphatic-aromatic polymer. Such lower molecular weight polymers also have the combination of a higher melt flow index and lower apparent viscosity, which is useful in a wide variety of fiber forming applications, such as in the meltblowing of nonwoven webs.
US09394623B2
The present invention relates to fabrication and application of compositions, devices, methods and systems for utilizing radiation more efficiently as compared to known systems. A synthesis method provides deposition of titania on a substrate without the use of an electrochemical reaction. An integrated architecture formed by the method of the present invention is comprised of vertically-oriented, one-dimensional, monocrystalline, n-type anatase nanowires in communication with a common transparent conductive substrate, and which are intercalated with a consortia of p-type quantum dots tuned for absorption of infrared and other radiation.
US09394617B2
Disclosed are quaternary ammonium carbonates, bicarbonates, and mixtures thereof as anti-corrosive agents. The invention relates to a method for inhibiting the corrosion of metal surfaces by applying a composition containing one or more quaternary ammonium carbonate or bicarbonate. The disclosure is also directed to anti-corrosive coating for metal substrates containing these compounds, to metal substrates having these anticorrosive coatings, and to aqueous cleaning solutions containing these compounds.
US09394610B2
A source for feeding one or more gaseous precursors onto a surface of a substrate and an arrangement for processing the substrate by way of subjecting the surface of the substrate to alternately repetitive surface reactions of the precursors, the source including a gas feed member for feeding at least one or more precursors onto the surface of the substrate. The gas feed member is adapted rotatable about a rotation axis, the rotation axis being arranged to extend substantially parallel to the surface of the substrate.
US09394605B1
A deposition system includes a system housing having a housing interior, a fixture transfer assembly having a generally sloped fixture transfer rail extending through the housing interior, a plurality of processing chambers connected by the fixture transfer rail, a controller interfacing with the processing chambers and at least one fixture carrier assembly carried by the fixture transfer rail and adapted to contain at least one substrate. The fixture carrier assembly travels along the fixture transfer rail under influence of gravity. A deposition method is also disclosed.
US09394604B2
A method and an apparatus for producing metal and ceramic coatings on a fluidized bed of particles or fibers are described. The method utilizes a unique apparatus to transfer vibratory motion through a wall of a deposition chamber in order to produce a fluidized bed of particle or fluidized bed of fibers inside the chamber. The method and apparatus are versatile, allowing particles of different shapes, sizes, materials and masses to be fluidized and coated. The fluidization process allows uniform and conformal coatings on particles and fibers. Coatings of pure metals, alloys, or ceramic materials can be produced.
US09394596B2
Aluminum-magnesium alloys are ideal for ship construction; however, these alloys can become sensitized and susceptible to intergranular corrosion when exposed to moderately elevated temperatures. A stabilization treatment has been developed to reverse sensitization and restore corrosion resistance, such that in-service plate can be refurbished rather than replaced. This treatment involves a short exposure to a specific elevated temperature range and can be implemented with portable units onboard a ship.
US09394595B2
A high carbon steel sheet having a chemical composition containing C: 0.20% to 0.50%, Si: 1.0% or less, Mn: 2.0% or less, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.02% or less, sol. Al: 0.08% or less, N: 0.02% or less, and the remainder composed of Fe and incidental impurities, on a percent by mass basis, and a microstructure composed of ferrite and cementite, wherein the fraction of pro-eutectoid ferrite, among the ferrite, in the whole steel microstructure is 20% or more and less than 50%, the average grain size dc of the cementite in the region from the position at one-quarter of the sheet thickness of the steel sheet to the sheet thickness center is 0.50 to 1.5 μm, and the average grain size ds of the cementite in the region from the surface of the steel sheet to the position at one-quarter of the sheet thickness satisfies ds/dc≦0.8.
US09394594B2
A steel contains, by weight: C: 0.3% to 0.5%, Si: 0.1% to 0.5%, Mn: 0.1% to 1%, P: 0.03% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Cr: 0.3% to 1.5%, Mo: 1.0% to 1.5%, Al: 0.01% to 0.1%, V: 0.03% to 0.06%, Nb: 0.04% to 0.15%, Ti: 0 to 0.015%, N: 0.01% or less, the remainder of the chemical composition of the steel being constituted by Fe and impurities or residuals resulting from or necessary to steel production and casting processes. The steel enables to produce seamless tubes with a yield strength after heat treatment of 862 MPa or more which are particularly SSC-resistant.
US09394590B2
Disclosed is tin characterized in that a sample of the tin after melting and casting has an α dose of less than 0.0005 cph/cm2. Since recent semiconductor devices are highly densified and of high capacity, there is an increasing risk of soft errors caused by the influence of α rays emitted from materials in the vicinity of semiconductor chips. In particular, there are strong demands for high purification of solder materials and tin for use in the vicinity of semiconductor devices, and demands for materials with lower α rays. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to clarify the phenomenon of the generation of α rays in tin and tin alloys, and to obtain high-purity tin, in which the α dose has been reduced, suitable for the required materials, as well as a method for producing the same.
US09394585B2
Method of recovering active material from waste battery materials comprises: (1) an electrode material mixture recovery step of separating an electrode from the waste battery material to recover an electrode material mixture including the active material, a conductive material, and a binder from the electrode; (2) an activation agent mixing step of mixing an activation agent including one or more alkali metal compounds with the recovered electrode material mixture; (3) an activation step of heating the obtained mixture to a retention temperature not less than a melting start temperature of the activation agent to activate the active material included in the mixture; and (4) an active material recovery step of recovering the activated active material from a mixture obtained as a result of cooling after the activation step.
US09394584B2
A process for recovery of silver from silver-containing photographic emulsion-coated films, particularly films with paper or polymeric substrates. The process includes immersing photographic silver emulsion coated substrates, particularly paper, in a water-based solution of sodium hydroxide and sodium borohydride, with sufficient presence of an alkali metal hydroxide to maintain the solution at a pH of 11.0 to 12.0. Silver-containing emulsion layers are stripped from the substrate, while gelatin and other adhesive layers are dissolved. Silver present in a silver halide form is reduced to form metallic silver. The silver-laden emulsion is then treated using a polyamine coagulant and flocculant to induce precipitation of solids, particularly metallic silver, out of the solution. The exposure time of the paper to the wash bath is carefully controlled to permit recovery of the paper substrate.
US09394579B2
The present invention provides steel containing manganese and nickel that is used as a structural material for a cryogenic storage container for liquefied natural gas (LNG) or the like, and a manufacturing method thereof; and more particularly, to steel having good cryogenic temperature toughness and also high strength by adding low-cost Mn instead of relatively expensive Ni at an optimized ratio, refining a microstructure through controlled rolling and cooling, and precipitating retained austenite through tempering, and a manufacturing method of the steel. To achieve the object, the technical feature of the present invention is a method of manufacturing high-strength steel with cryogenic temperature toughness. In the method, a steel slab is heated to a temperature within a range of 1,000 to 1,250° C., wherein the steel slab includes, by weight: 0.01-0.06% of carbon (C), 2.0-8.0% of manganese (Mn), 0.01-6.0% of nickel (Ni), 0.02-0.6% of molybdenum (Mo), 0.03-0.5% of silicon (Si), 0.003-0.05% of aluminum (Al), 0.0015-0.01% of nitrogen (N), 0.02% or less of phosphorous (P), 0.01% or less of sulfur (S), with a remainder of iron (Fe) and other unavoidable impurities. Then, the heated slab is finish-rolled at a temperature of 950° C. or less at a rolling reduction rate of 40% or more. The rolled steel is cooled to a temperature of 400° C. or less at a cooling rate of 2° C./s or more. Thereafter, the steel is tempered for 0.5-4 hours to a temperature within a range of 550 to 650° C. after the cooling.
US09394571B2
The present invention provides an array for rapidly identifying a host cell population capable of producing a heterologous protein with improved yield and/or quality. The array comprises one or more host cell populations that have been genetically modified to increase the expression of one or more target genes involved in protein production, decrease the expression of one or more target genes involved in protein degradation, or both. One or more of the strains in the array may express the heterologous protein of interest in a periplasm compartment or may secrete the heterologous protein extracellularly through an outer cell wall. The strain arrays are useful for screening for improved expression of any protein of interest including therapeutic proteins, hormones, growth factors, extracellular receptors or ligands, proteases, kinases, blood proteins, chemokines, cytokines, antibodies and the like.
US09394567B2
The invention is directed to methods for detecting and quantifying nucleic acid contamination in a tissue sample of an individual containing T cells and/or B cells, which is used for generating a sequence-based clonotype profile. In one aspect, the invention is implemented by measuring the presence and/or level of an endogenous or exogenous nucleic acid tag by which nucleic acid from an intended individual can be distinguished from that of unintended individuals. Endogenous tags include genetic identity markers, such as short tandem repeats, rare clonotypes or the like, and exogenous tags include sequence tags employed to determine clonotype sequences from sequence reads.
US09394564B2
The present invention provides a method for amplifying a pool of polynucleotide molecules in a sample, characterized by the steps of a) obtaining a sample or RNA and reverse transcription of entire RNA molecules thus creating full length cDNA or obtaining a sample of full length cDNA, b) tailing the 3′ end of the transcribed cDNA with a polynucleotide tail after the 3′ end, c) amplification of the cDNA using a pair of primers, wherein a first 3′ primer is specific for the 5′ end of the cDNA and a second 5′ primer is specific for the a upstream portion of the polynucleotide tail and the next 1 to 10 nucleotides upstream of the 3′polynucleotide tail of the cDNA.
US09394563B2
An electrode system for measuring the concentration of an analyte under in-vivo conditions comprises a counter-electrode having an electrical conductor, a working electrode having an electrical conductor on which an enzyme layer containing immobilized enzyme molecules for catalytic conversion of the analyte is arranged, and a diffusion barrier that slows the diffusion of the analyte from body fluid surrounding the electrode system to enzyme molecules. The enzyme layer is in the form of multiple fields that are arranged on the conductor of the working electrode at a distance from each other.
US09394559B2
Described is an enzyme derived from Candida bombicola that is capable of lactonizing or polymerizing carbohydrate-containing compounds, lipids, fatty acids, hydroxylated fatty acids, alcohols, dicarboxylic acids or mixtures thereof. Hence, host cells comprising the enzyme can be used, via the formation of intra- or inter-molecular ester-bounds, to produce, for example, lactonized sophorolipids or polymers of acidic sophorolipids. Also described is that host cells having lost their capability to produce a functional enzyme disclosed herein can be used to produce 100% acidic sophorolipids.
US09394554B2
What is aimed at is provision of an inexpensive and efficient saccharification method for lignocellulose using a thermostable xylanase and provision of a mutant xylanase that has a substitute amino acid residue, and that exhibits stable activity even under severe conditions in which enzymes easily inactivate, and that provides an initial rate of reaction not significantly reduced as compared to a wild-type xylanase corresponding to the mutant xylanase. Provided is a method of producing a saccharified product of lignocellulose, including contacting a lignocellulosic raw material with a thermostable xylanase, and a mutant xylanase that provides an initial rate of reaction that is at least 70% of that provided by a wild-type xylanase corresponding thereto, that has a xylanase activity after heat treatment at 50° C. for 24 hours that is at least 50% of its xylanase activity before the heat treatment, and that has a substitute amino acid residue.
US09394552B2
The present disclosure provides engineered ketoreductase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type ketoreductase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered ketoreductase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered ketoreductase enzymes to synthesize chiral compounds.
US09394547B2
The present invention is concerned with a system and method for introducing a substance into cells. The system has an assembly including a plurality of elongate non-hollow nanoneedles forming a nanoneedle array or patch for delivering the substance into the cells, at least some of the nanoneedles have a non-uniform diameter with a wider upper end, a narrower lower end for penetration into the cells and a length from substantially 200 nm to 100 um. The lower end has a diameter from substantially 20-436 nm. Adjacent nanoneedles are spaced apart by substantially 5-50 um. The nanoneedles are made from a material selected from the group consisting of diamond, cubic boron nitride, carbon nitride, boron nitride, boron carbon nitride, metal borides and essentially boron materials, allowing the nanoneedles to maintain sufficient thinness and yet adequate rigidity during penetration. The nanoneedles are applied onto the cells grown on substrates at a preferred rate from 1 to 5 m/s. Alternatively, the nanoneedles are applied onto the cells grown on substrates by centrifugation force from 0.5 to 10 nN. Yet alternatively, the cells suspended in a fluid are applied to the nanoneedle array at a rate of 1 to 10 m/s.
US09394545B2
Nucleases and methods of using these nucleases for expressing a transgene from a safe harbor locus in a secretory tissue, and clones and animals derived therefrom.
US09394543B2
Described herein is the discovery that miR-21 targets and down-regulates the core mismatch repair (MMR) recognition protein complex hMSH2 and hMSH6. Anti-sense miR-21 is therefore proven as therapeutic herein. Therefore, compositions, kits, therapies and other methods, including methods of treatment/amelioration of symptoms, are disclosed herein.
US09394537B2
The invention provides systems, methods, reagents, apparatuses, vectors, and host cells for the continuous evolution of nucleic acids. For example, a lagoon is provided in which a population of viral vectors comprising a gene of interest replicates in a stream of host cells, wherein the viral vectors lack a gene encoding a protein required for the generation of infectious viral particles, and wherein that gene is expressed in the host cells under the control of a conditional promoter, the activity of which depends on a function of the gene of interest to be evolved. Some aspects of this invention provide evolved products obtained from continuous evolution procedures described herein. Kits containing materials for continuous evolution are also provided.
US09394534B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides comprising a enzymatically non-active cell wall binding domain of an endolysin or another cell wall lysing enzyme, and a sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 or derivatives thereof, wherein the polypeptide besides the cell wall binding domain comprises no further domains of an endolysin, as well as means for their preparation. The present invention further relates to methods for binding, enriching, removing from a sample, capturing and/or detecting bacteria, particularly gram positive bacteria.
US09394530B2
The present invention relates to lipase variants and methods of obtaining them. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US09394524B2
The present invention provides for identification and use of small molecules to induce pluripotency in mammalian cells as well as other methods of inducing pluripotency.
US09394517B2
The present invention relates to CD4+ T cells, more specifically cytolytic or cytotoxic CD4+ T-cells and methods of obtaining and identifying them.
US09394514B2
Disclosed is a culture sheet which enables technology in which three-dimensional tissues with uniform diameter are formed without applying chemicals to the surface of a culture substrate. A plurality of holes are formed on the culture sheet of the substrate, and nanopillars capable of controlling the adhesiveness or migration of a cell are formed on a culture surface that serves as the bottom surface of each of the holes. The culture surface of each of the holes having a structure in which a partition wall is provided, wherein, by forming the internal nanopillars in the vicinity of the center of each of the holes, the interaction of the disseminated cells can be limited to uniform the size of the three-dimensional structures of the cells to be formed.
US09394503B2
Process for recovery and separation of sugars and oil from plants where the stems and leaves of such plants have substantial levels of both sugars and oils.
US09394502B2
A slurry composition for use as a lubricant and/or a stable suspension medium to suspend inert organic or inorganic particles which is an aqueous or polar solvent carrier containing gel particles as a lubricating and suspending agent for inert organic or inorganic particles. The composition can contain inorganic salts to provide additional electrostatic repulsion.
US09394499B2
A method of removing deposits from a diesel engine, the method comprising combusting in the engine a diesel fuel composition comprising an engine cleaning additive, wherein the engine cleaning additive is the product of a Mannich reaction between: (a) an aldehyde; (b) ammonia, hydrazine or an amine; and (c) an optionally substituted phenol; wherein the or each substituent of the phenol component (c) has an average molecular weight of less than 400.
US09394489B2
Methods for recovering organic heteroatom compounds from a hydrocarbon feedstock include feeding into a contactor a hydrocarbon feedstock and an aqueous solvent to form an extraction mixture of the aqueous solvent with the hydrocarbon feedstock. The hydrocarbon feedstock includes a hydrocarbon and an organic heteroatom compound. The aqueous solvent includes an ionic liquid formed from pressurized carbon dioxide and water. A pressure and temperature of the extraction mixture may be established that together tune the aqueous solvent to selectively form a solvent complex with the at least one organic heteroatom compound. Then, the solvent complex is extracted to a recovery vessel from the extraction mixture in the contactor. By adjustment of a recovery temperature of the recovery vessel, a recovery pressure of the recovery vessel, or both, the solvent complex decomposes into carbon dioxide and the organic heteroatom compound. The organic heteroatom compound is then recovered from the recovery vessel.
US09394488B2
A method of improving the uniformity of the contacting of a heavy oil feed with FCC cracking catalyst in the feed zone of an FCC cracking riser in which the heavy oil feed is injected into the catalyst in the riser by means of feed injectors located around the riser, the method comprising minimizing the differences in the temperature profile in the oil/catalyst mixture across the feed zone by varying the oil feed rate to the injectors.
US09394487B2
A multi-stage process and system for converting solid particulate biomass in a riser reactor having at least two different reaction zones. A lower reaction zone is configured to optimize pyrolysis of the biomass into pyrolysis products, while an upper reaction zone is configured to efficiently crack the pyrolysis products. The relative residence times and/or temperatures of the upper and lower reaction zones can be controlled to optimize product quality and yield.
US09394486B2
A selective removal of metal and its anion species that are detrimental to subsequent hydrothermal hydrocatalytic conversion from the biomass feed prior to carrying out catalytic hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis/hydrodeoxygenation of the biomass in a manner that does not reduce the effectiveness of the hydrothermal hydrocatalytic treatment while minimizing the amount of water used in the process is provided.
US09394484B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for pyrolysis of waste feed material. Some systems include a main retort and a secondary retort. Syngas is produced by pyrolysis in the main retort, and is then mixed with combustion air and ignited, in some cases to produce energy. Carbon char travels to the secondary retort and is exhausted from the system through an airlock.
US09394472B2
The invention relates to a selectively hydrogenated isoprene-styrene diblock copolymer having a polystyrene content of at least 40 wt. %, which when added to an oil-based mud composition, substantially reduces fluid loss. The polystyrene in the diblock has a true molecular weight greater than 60 kg/mole and the total apparent molecular weight of the diblock copolymer is at least 160 kg/mole. The drilling mud that contains about 0.5 pounds per barrel to about 10 pounds per barrel of a selectively hydrogenated isoprene-styrene diblock copolymer and a weighting agent, resulting in a drilling fluid composition exhibiting good suspension of the weighting agent and improved fluid loss performance.
US09394470B2
Provided is a silicone composition exhibiting a favorable adhesiveness even when containing a large amount of a thermal conductive filler. The silicone composition contains specific amounts of (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon groups in one molecule and exhibiting a kinetic viscosity of 60 to 100,000 mm2/s at 25° C.; (B) a silicone resin having at least one aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbon group in one molecule; (C) a filler including an aluminum powder and a zinc oxide powder; (D) a organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (1); (E) a organohydrogenpolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (2); (F) a hydrolyzable organopolysiloxane represented by the following general formula (3); (G) a platinum group metal catalyst: effective amount; and (H) a reaction control agent.
US09394469B2
The present invention relates, in part, to heat transfer compositions, and associated systems and methods, which include a first composition selected from the group consisting of HFO-1233zd, HFC-245fa, and combinations of these; and optionally, a second composition selected from the group consisting of HFO-1234ze, HFC-134a, and combinations of these.
US09394465B2
Provided is a novel transparent adhesive sheet with which the cut edge is not sticky over time when a laminated body that has been bonded via the adhesive sheet is cut, which can be adhered without generating residual air bubbles, even when the surface of an adherend is uneven, and which can be adhered without foaming, even when the adherend is a material such as plastic that can generate outgas. Suggested is an adhesive sheet that has one or more layers of a first adhesive layer and one or more layer of a second adhesive layer that exhibit different viscoelastic behaviors, and has an integrated structure whereby these layers are laminated, with a dynamic shear storage modulus G′ of 2×104 to 5×105 Pa for G′(20° C.) and 1×104 to 1×105 Pa for G′(150° C.) when measured with a 1 Hz frequency temperature dispersion.
US09394458B2
A coating composition including an uncured binder component and a particle component. The particle component can include a plurality of first particles and/or a plurality of second particles. The first particles are non-spherical and have an average particle size in the range of from about 0.5 to about 20 μm and have a Mohs hardness in the range from about 4 to about 7. The first particles are made of material comprising inorganic, amorphous, glass material. The second particles are at least substantially spherical and have an average particle size in the range of from about 0.5 to about 70 μm. The second particles are made of material comprising organic material.
US09394457B2
A photocurable resin composition which hardly causes leakage and is easily formed into a desired shape and an image display device using this photocurable resin composition are provided. Namely, a photocurable resin composition comprises a compound (A) having a photopolymerizable functional group and an oil gelling agent (B), is provided. Also, an image display device having a laminate structure including an image display unit having an image display part, a transparent protective plate, and a resin layer existent between the image display unit and the transparent protective plate, wherein the resin layer is a cured material of the above-described photocurable resin composition, is provided.
US09394447B2
Provided are an insulated ultrafine powder obtained by adding liquid metal alkoxide to a methanol-containing organic solvent in which a conductive ultrafine powder comprising a carbon material is dispersed and further adding water thereto and a method for producing the same. Also, provided are an insulated ultrafine powder obtained by adding liquid metal alkoxide to a methanol-containing organic solvent in which a conductive ultrafine powder comprising a carbon material is dispersed, further adding a coupling agent having an alkoxide group and then adding water thereto and a method for producing the same. Further, provided is a high dielectric constant resin composite material obtained by blending the insulated ultrafine powder of the present invention with a resin in a volume ratio (insulated ultrafine powder/resin) falling in a range of 5/95 to 50/50.
US09394445B2
Disclosed is a method for continuously preparing a water-soluble azo dye by coupling a nebulizer with a pipeline. According to the method, the nebulizer is coupled with a pipeline with an interception tower plate, atomized and mixed reaction liquid flow flows through the pipeline with the interception tower plate, and mixing and reacting are further enhanced through turbulent mixing on the tower plate, so that instant separation of reaction heat generated in an atomizing contact reaction from a reactant is achieved, and normal-temperature rapid continuous production of the water-soluble azo dye is achieved. Fog drops which are atomized by using the nebulizer have small particle diameter and large specific surface area, so that a diazo salt and a coupling component are sprayed separately, move face to face and can be fully contacted, and mixing and reacting speeds are increased. The preparation method is simple, and compared with preparation of a dye of the same kind with a batch reactor, in the reparation process of the water-soluble azo dye, a cold source is not required to be added additionally for cooling, thereby reducing energy consumption and improving production quality and efficiency.
US09394441B2
In one aspect, build materials operable for use in 3D printing systems are described herein. In some embodiments, a build material comprises an oligomeric curable material, a reactive component that is solid at 25° C., and at least one diluent, wherein the reactive component comprises at least one chemical moiety that is polymerizable with a chemical moiety contained in the oligomeric curable material and/or the at least one diluent.
US09394439B2
A resin composition has high flame retardancy and excellent heat resistance, peel strength with copper foil, thermal expansion coefficient, heat resistance property upon moisture absorption, and electrical properties, a prepreg and single-layer or laminated sheet, a metal foil-clad laminate using the prepreg, and the like. The resin composition has polyphenylene ether (A) having a number average molecular weight of 500 to 5000, a phosphorus-containing cyanate ester compound (B) represented by formula (13), a cyclophosphazene compound (C), a halogen-free epoxy resin (D), a cyanate ester compound (E) other than the phosphorus-containing cyanate ester compound (B), an oligomer (F) of styrene and/or substituted styrene, and a filler (G), wherein a content of the phosphorus-containing cyanate ester compound (B) is 1 to 10 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a total of the (A) to (F) components. wherein m represents an integer of 1 to 3.
US09394437B2
A polymer composition containing a polymer component containing styrenic polymer, a brominated vinyl aromatic/butadiene copolymer and a polyethylene wax, concentration of the polyethylene wax is 0.02 to 1.0 weight percent based on weight of the polymer component, the polyethylene wax has average molecular weight of 10,000 g/mol or less than 10,000 g/mol. The polymer composition can be a polymeric foam.
US09394430B2
A continuous fiber composite is described and methods for forming the continuous fiber composite. The continuous fiber composite includes a plurality of unidirectionally aligned continuous fibers embedded within a polyarylene sulfide polymer. The continuous fiber composite includes a very high loading of continuous fibers, for instance greater than about 40% by weight of the continuous fiber composite. The continuous fiber composite is formed by reacting a starting polyarylene sulfide with a reactively functionalized disulfide compound in a melt processing unit. Reaction between the starting polyarylene sulfide and the reactively functionalized disulfide compound leads to formation of a reactively functionalized polyarylene sulfide. Upon embedding of the continuous fibers into the reactively functionalized polyarylene sulfide, the reactivity of the polyarylene sulfide can enhance adhesion between the polyarylene sulfide polymer and the fibers.
US09394429B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to silane coupling agents that may be used, for example, to covalently couple a polymer to a filler. In some examples, devices that include the polymer-silane coupling agent-filler compositions are also described.
US09394425B2
Plasticizers having an acetylated polyol hydroxystearate and plasticized polymeric compositions containing such plasticizers. Such plasticized polymeric compositions can be employed in forming various articles of manufacture, such as coated conductors.
US09394416B2
A functional film includes a substrate, at least two organic layers including a first organic layer directly formed on the substrate and a second organic layer being an uppermost layer farthest from the substrate, and at least one inorganic layer. The reminder of the least two organic layers except the second organic layer and the at least one inorganic layer are laminated on the substrate in such a way that one of the at least one inorganic layer is formed on each of the reminder of the least two organic layers. The first organic layer is thickest in the at least two organic layers, and the second organic layer is thinnest in the at least two organic layers and thicker than a thickest inorganic layer in the at least one inorganic layer.
US09394415B2
A long obliquely-stretched film wound into a roll shape includes a thermoplastic resin and has an orientation angle oriented in a direction inclined with respect to a widthwise direction thereof. In a longitudinal direction of the long obliquely-stretched film, an angle defined between the orientation angle and the widthwise direction has a longitudinal cycle length of 10 mm to less than 1500 mm. An amplitude of the angle is in the range of 0.2° to 1.0° in the longitudinal cycle length.
US09394414B2
The present disclosure relates to films such as membranes and coatings and to coated articles. The films comprise a combination of at least one elastomeric styrenic block copolymer which is optionally functionalized with functional groups different from sulfonic acid or sulfonate ester functional groups, and at least one sulfonated block copolymer. Films comprising the optionally functionalized block copolymer(s) and the additional sulfonated block copolymer(s) are elastic and are moisture-vapor permeable, and thus useful as coatings in breathable clothing and footwear, industrial workwear including cleanroom coveralls, in medical applications such as wound dressings and protective clothing, for bed sheets and mattress or seat covers, and other non-apparel applications.
US09394405B2
Compositions useful in aerospace sealant applications comprise sulfur-containing polymers such as polythioethers and polysulfides and are cured using Michael addition reactions. Compositions employing Michael addition curing chemistries include sulfur-containing adducts comprising terminal Michael acceptor groups. In particular, the sulfur-containing adducts include terminal 1-(ethylenesulfonyl)-n-(vinylsulfonyl)alkanol groups.
US09394402B2
A polymer comprises reaction product of (a) one or more diacid, diester thereof, or glycolide, and (b) one or more polyol, wherein component (a) comprises glycolide or combinations thereof, and component (b) consists essentially of isosorbide. A film or sheet having one or more layers, wherein at least one layer comprising a polymer comprises reaction product of (a) one or more diacid, diester thereof, or glycolide, and (b) one or more polyol, wherein component (a) comprises glycolide or combinations thereof, and component (b) consists essentially of isosorbide.
US09394384B2
The invention provides fabricated tough hydrogels, hydrogel-containing compositions, and methods of making the same. The invention also provides methods of implanting or administering the tough hydrogels, or the hydrogel-containing compositions to treat a subject in need. Methods of cross-linking pre-solidified or pre-gelled hydrogel particles and making crosslinked tough hydrogels, and crosslinked tough hydrogel-containing compositions also are disclosed herein.
US09394380B2
The present invention relates to a modified polymer obtained by grafting of a compound comprising at least one group Q and at least one group A, bonded together by at least, and preferably, one “spacer” group Sp in which: Q comprises a dipole containing at least, and preferably, one nitrogen atom, capable of being grafted onto the polymer chain by [1,3]-dipolar cycloaddition, A comprises an associative group comprising at least one nitrogen atom, Sp is an atom or a group of atoms forming a bond between Q and A.
US09394376B2
Cellulose ethers are described herein which are useful in capsules or in coatings for dosage forms. In these cellulose ethers the ether substituents are methyl groups, hydroxyalkyl groups, and optionally alkyl groups being different from methyl, the cellulose ether has an MS (hydroxyalkyl) of 0.05 to 1.00, and hydroxy groups of anhydroglucose units are substituted with methyl groups such that [s23/s26−0.2*MS(hydroxyalkyl)] is 0.35 or less, wherein s23 is the molar fraction of anhydroglucose units wherein only the two hydroxy groups in the 2- and 3-positions of the anhydroglucose unit are substituted with methyl groups and wherein s26 is the molar fraction of anhydroglucose units wherein only the two hydroxy groups in the 2- and 6-positions of the anhydroglucose unit are substituted with methyl groups.
US09394366B2
The present invention relates to immunoglobulins that bind FcγRIIb+ cells and coengage the antigen on the cell's surface and an FcγRIIb on the cell's surface, methods for their generation, and methods for using the immunoglobulins.
US09394362B2
The invention relates to engineered, humanized antibodies that have high binding affinity for and neutralize human IL-21, methods of using the antibodies to treat conditions in which antagonism or neutralization of the effects of IL-21 is warranted, such as autoimmune conditions, compositions and methods for recombinantly producing the antibodies, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies.
US09394360B2
The subject invention relates to monoclonal antibodies that may be used in the treatment and diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. In particular, the present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies referred to as 10F4 and 3C5 and to other monoclonal antibodies (e.g., murine, human or humanized) having similar properties thereto.
US09394358B2
Disclosed herein is a driver gene signature for predicting survival in patients with solid tumors, such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and breast cancer. The gene signature includes ten tumor-associated genes, SH2D4A, CCDC25, ELP3, DLC1, PROSC, SORBS3, HNRPD, PAQR3, PHF17 and DCK. A decrease in DNA copy number or mRNA expression of SH2D4A, CCDC25, ELP3, DLC1, PROSC and SORBS3 in solid tumors is associated with a poor prognosis, while a decrease in DNA copy number or mRNA expression of HNRPD, PAQR3, PHF17 and DCK in solid tumors is associated with a good prognosis. Methods of predicting the prognosis of a patient diagnosed with HCC or breast cancer by detecting expression of one of more tumor-associated genes, and methods of treating a patient diagnosed with HCC or breast cancer by administering an agent that alters expression or activity of one or more of the disclosed tumor-associated genes, are described.
US09394357B2
A method of obtaining at least one recombinant antibody with improved affinity for a selected antigen from a family of antibodies which bind the selected antigen comprising: a) obtaining a family of two or more antibodies which bind the same antigen in which the VH CDR3 amino acid sequence of each antibody in the family is the same length and greater than 60% identical at the amino acid level; b) re-pairing the VH region of an antibody obtained in step (a) with the VL region from a different antibody obtained in step (a) to produce a new recombinant antibody; and c) screening the recombinant antibody produced in step (b) and selecting said antibody if it has improved affinity for the selected antigen compared to any one of the antibodies obtained in step (a).
US09394356B2
A nutritional supplement, a method for increasing the bacterial mass in the rumen of a ruminant and a nutritional preparation and corresponding uses. A nutritional supplement including proteins with a degree of hydrolysis above 28% and/or which have more than 23 mg α-amino nitrogen per gram of protein and/or have more than 10% of free amino acids. The hydrolyzed proteins are animal proteins, preferably hemoglobin. The supplement is supplied orally, included in a nutritional preparation, in liquid, concentrated or dehydrated form. The supplement is the basis for a method of increasing the bacterial mass in the rumen of a ruminant in which there is added to the ruminant's diet a supplement with these hydrolyzed proteins
US09394353B2
The present invention relates to a method for increasing the stability of a Factor VIII molecule after purification, lyophilization and reconstitution, comprising preventing proteolytic cleavage of the Factor VIII molecule into a first fragment comprising essentially the A1 domain and the A2 domain and a second fragment comprising essentially the A3 domain, the C1 domain and the C2 domain throughout manufacturing of the Factor VIII molecule. The invention further pertains to a method for improving the bioavailability of Factor VIII after intravenous and non-intravenous injection.
US09394346B2
The present invention describes a bacterium which has an ability to produce an amino acid and in which the rhtC gene encoding a protein having an enhanced activity of imparting L-threonine resistance to a bacterium expressing the protein. Preferably, the bacterium further includes an rhtB gene encoding for a protein having an enhanced activity of imparting to a bacterium L-homoserine resistance expressing the protein. The present invention also describes a method of cultivating the bacterium in a culture medium to produce and accumulate amino acids in the medium, and the amino acid is recovered from the medium.
US09394344B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for displaying proteins and polypeptides on the surface of cells and cellular vesicles. Methods and compositions for drug and vaccine delivery using cell surface display systems of the present invention are also disclosed.
US09394336B2
The present invention relates to purified peptidomimetic macrocycles. The invention additionally provides methods of preparing and using such macrocycles, for example in therapeutic applications.
US09394334B2
It is described of a process for the preparation of drospirenone, the compound of formula 1 shown below, a synthetic steroid with progestogenic, antimineralocorticoid and antiandrogenic activity, useful for preparing pharmaceutical compositions having contraceptive action, starting from 17α-(3-hydroxypropyl)-6β,7β;15β,16β-dimethylene-5β-androstane-3β,5,17β-triol.
US09394315B2
The invention provides tetrahydro[1,8]naphthyridine and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of promoting RORγ activity, increasing the amount of IL-17 in a subject, and treating cancer, bacterial infections, and fungal infections using such tetrahydro[1,8]naphthyridine and related compounds.
US09394310B2
The present invention relates to carbocycle-substituted purine and 7-deazapurine compounds of Formula (I). The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating disorders in which DOT1-mediated protein methylation plays a part, such as cancer and neurological disorders, by administering these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to subjects in need thereof.
US09394305B2
The present application relates to a series of substituted imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutically acceptable solvates or stereoisomers thereof, their use as tropomyosin receptor kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, method of making and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds.
US09394304B2
The invention is concerned with a compound of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R2′, R3, R3′ are as defined in the description and in the claims. The compound of formula (I) can be used as a medicament.
US09394303B2
This invention is in the field of medicinal chemistry. In particular, the invention relates to a new class of small-molecules having pyrazolopyridine structure which function as inhibitors of Mcl-1 protein, and their use as therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
US09394299B2
The present application discloses Rilyazine analogs, methods for their preparation, and the treatment of cancer by the administration of an effective amount of the Rilyazine analogs to a patient in need thereof.
US09394293B2
The disclosure relates to Compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof wherein Ar1, Ar2, L1, L2, X, R3, R22, and m are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Compound of Formula (I), and methods for treating or preventing a condition such as pain, UI, an ulcer, IBD and IBS, comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a Compound of Formula (I).
US09394291B2
Disclosed are certain derivatives of benzoxazinone amides of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that act as mineralocorticoid (MR) receptor modulators that may reduce oxidative stress in endothelium and hence improve vascular function, to methods for their potential therapeutic use, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to processes for preparing such compounds.
US09394289B2
The invention is directed to compounds of Formula I: wherein Z, X, J, R2 and W are set forth in the specification, as well as solvates, hydrates, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that inhibit protein tyrosine kinases, especially c-fms kinase. Methods of treating autoimmune diseases; and diseases with an inflammatory component; treating metastasis from ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, hairy cell leukemia; and treating pain, including skeletal pain caused by tumor metastasis or osteoarthritis, or visceral, inflammatory, and neurogenic pain; as well as osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and other diseases in which bone resorption mediates morbidity including rheumatoid arthritis, and other forms of inflammatory arthritis, osteoarthritis, prosthesis failure, osteolytic sarcoma, myeloma, and tumor metastasis to bone with the compounds of Formula I, are also provided.
US09394278B2
The present invention relates to substituted triazoles of formula (I), uses thereof, processes for the preparation thereof and compositions containing said compounds. These inhibitors have utility in a variety of therapeutic areas including sexual dysfunction.
US09394273B2
Described herein are compounds which can be used in topical liquids, creams, or other dosage forms such as solids, for reducing intraocular pressure, treating glaucoma, growing hair, treating wounds, or other medical and/or cosmetic uses.
US09394272B2
A liquid-crystal compound satisfying at least one physical property such as a high clearing point, large dielectric anisotropy and excellent compatibility with other liquid-crystal compounds is described; a liquid-crystal composition containing the compound; and a liquid-crystal display device.The compound is represented by formula (1): wherein, R1 and R2 are independently alkyl having 1 to 15 carbons, and in the alkyl, at least one —CH2— may be replaced by —O—, —CH═CH— or the like; ring A1, ring A2 and ring A3 are independently 1,4-cyclohexylene, 1,4-phenylene or the like, and at least one ring A1, ring A2 or ring A3 is represented by formula (A): wherein, X1 and X2 are independently hydrogen or halogen; and Z1, Z2 and Z3 are independently a single bond, —(CH2)2— or the like; and a, b and c are independently 0 or 1, and a sum of a, b and c is 1, 2 or 3.
US09394269B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing a urolithin, or an intermediate or analog thereof, having a dibenzo[b,d]pyran-6-one core. The method is especially advantageous for the large-scale preparation of urolithins or intermediates or analogs thereof. The method may optionally include the preparation of a urolithin, or an intermediate or analog thereof, as a pharmaceutically acceptable salt.
US09394267B2
Heterocyclic compounds which modulate cannabinoid receptors are presented. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, methods of using these compounds as modulators of cannabinoid receptors and processes for synthesizing these compounds are also described herein.
US09394257B2
Compounds having activity as PKM2 activators are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): including stereoisomers, tautomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, are also disclosed.
US09394251B2
Disclosed are a silodosin intermediate and a preparation method thereof. The silodosin intermediate has the structure shown by the formula (A). X is hydrogen or bromide and R1 is hydrogen. The formyl group may be a group having the structure shown by the formula I. R7 is a protecting group of carboxyl, and R2 is 3-hydroxypropyl or a group having the structure shown by the formula II. W is a protecting group of hydroxyl. A compound of the formula (A) according to the present invention may further be used for preparing a compound having the structure shown by the formula (D). By means of the intermediate and the preparation method therefor provided by the present invention, high-purity optically pure silodosin can be obtained, and the optical purity is above 99%.
US09394243B2
The invention relates to (per)fluoropolyether block copolymers comprising: A) a fluoropolyoxyalkylene segment (chain Ra) comprising one or more units of formula (CHXCF2CF2O)— in which X is hydrogen or fluorine; B) a (per)fluoropolyoxyalkylene segment (chain Rf), that is to say a segment comprising recurring units having at least one catenary ether bond and at least one fluorocarbon moiety, said (per)fluoropolyoxyalkylene segment being different from chain Ra and having a molecular weight higher than 400 g/mol. These copolymers are endowed with improves lubricant properties or with improved water and oil-repellence properties.
US09394238B2
The invention relates to a method for the production of L-carnitine, wherein a β-lactone, which is a 4-(halomethyl)oxetane-2-one, is converted into carnitine with trimethylamine (TMA), wherein the β-lactone is not subjected to a basic hydrolysis step before being contacted with the trimethylamine. The invention also relates to a carnitine having a unique impurity profile.
US09394233B2
Provided are compounds according to the following Formula I: The Formula I compounds are activated in the presence of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and are therefore selective anti-cancer therapeutics for cancers associated with elevated ROS. Also provided are methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancers associated with increased ROS.
US09394229B2
The method relates to the field of asymmetric allylic amination and comprises preparing a chiral N-substituted allylic amine compound from the corresponding allylic substrates and substituted hydroxylamines, in the presence of a catalyst, said catalyst comprising copper compounds and a chiral ligand. Examples of chiral amine compounds which can be made using the method include Vigabatrin, Ezetimibe Terbinafine, Naftifine 3-methylmorphine, Sertraline, Cinacalcet, Mefloquine hydrochloride, and Rivastigmine. There are over 20,000 known bioactive molecules with chiral N-substituted allylic amine substructure. The method may also be used to produce non-natural chiral β-aminoacid esters, a sub-class of chiral N-substituted allylic amine compounds. Examples of β-aminoacid ester which can be produced by the disclosed method, include, but are not limited to, N-(2-methylpent-1-en-3-yl)benzenamine and Ethyl 2-methylene-3-(phenylamino)butanoate. Further, the products of the method described herein can be used to produce chiral heterocycles and bioactive molecules or materials.
US09394224B2
A transesterification process produces a (meth)acrylate ester product from a mixture comprising an alkyl(meth)acrylate reactant, an alcohol reactant, a catalyst, and a polymerization inhibitor, wherein the water content in the reaction zone at the start of the transesterification step is from 0.2 to 1.1 weight percent, based on the weight of the materials in the reaction zone. The mixture is subjected to reaction conditions sufficient to produce a product (meth)acrylate and a product alcohol, which are different than the reactants.
US09394219B2
Method for producing synthesis gas for methanol production The present invention relates to a method for producing synthesis gas from a hydrocarbon containing feed, which synthesis gas is particularly suitable for subsequent use in methanol production. In this method, a hydrocarbon containing feed, particularly natural gas (100), is subjected to catalytic partial oxidation (CPO) (2), followed by the water gas shift (WGS) (4) reaction of a part of the reformed feed. At least part of the shifted feed is then subjected to hydrogen purification, preferably by pressure swing adsorption (PSA) (5) to obtain pure hydrogen (108), which hydrogen is subsequently combined with the remaining parts of the feeds to yield synthesis gas particularly suitable for methanol synthesis. The recombined stream preferably has an R ratio, being the molar ratio (H2−CO2)/(CO+CO2), in the range 1.9-2.2 and preferably about 2. The invention further relates to a method for producing methanol from a hydrocarbon containing feed, wherein first synthesis gas is obtained according to the method of the invention, which synthesis gas is further used to produce methanol.
US09394217B2
The invention relates to a process to produce 244bb from 1233xf in multiple reaction zones whereby the 1233xf starting material is at least 95% converted to 244bb and by-product such as 245cb forms in amounts less than about 2%.
US09394216B2
Disclosed are adsorption complexes that include 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) and a metal coordination polymer network (MCPN), wherein the MCPN is a porous material, and the 1-MCP is adsorbed into the MCPN. Also disclosed are kits for containing 1-MCP that include the adsorption complex in a 1-MCP-impermeable package. Also disclosed are methods of releasing 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) from the kit that include the application of aqueous fluids, heat, and/or pressure.
US09394215B2
Processes for making CX to CY olefins are provided. The processes include reacting a feedstock comprising C5 and C6 olefins under dimerization or oligomerization conditions to provide a dimerization or oligomerization product. The product is separated into a stream comprising unreacted C5 and C6 paraffins, a stream comprising C10 to CX-1 olefins, and a stream comprising CX to CY olefins, wherein X is at least 14 and Y is greater than X and less than or equal to 36.
US09394212B2
In a process for the cooligomerization of olefins, an olefin starting material comprising olefins having n carbon atoms and olefins having 2n carbon atoms is reacted over an olefin oligomerization catalyst to give a reaction product. The process is carried out under such conditions that the conversion of olefins having 2n carbon atoms is less than 10%. Both the cooligomer having 3n carbon atoms and the olefin having 2n carbon atoms which has been separated off from the reaction product have a high hydroformylatability.
US09394208B2
Methods to convert the light and powdery mealworm castings into a suitable fertilizer product are disclosed. The methods can include saturating the mealworm castings using an infusion process with a liquid such as water until an elevated temperature is reached. The mealworm castings can be replenished and the infusion process can be repeated until the targeted N-P-K rating is achieved. The saturated mealworm castings or mealworm cake can be dried and formed into fertilizer pellets or into a granular soil-like product. In some examples, a binding agent such as dried mashed potato extract can be added to the saturated mealworm castings. In some examples, the fertilizer excludes artificially produced chemicals, hormones, antibiotics, and steroids. In some examples, the fertilizer has an N-P-K rating of 4-3-2. In some examples, the mealworm castings are produced by mealworms fed wheat bran and raw carrots.
US09394200B2
Pozzolanic cement compositions and method manufacturing the same are described. These cement compositions may include a pozzolanic material and an activator based on a salt of glycolic acid, glyceric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, malonic acid, glutaric acid, maleic acid, formic acid, acetic acid, propionic acid, or butyric acid, a retarder based on hepto-gluconates, sulfate salts, sugars, sugar acids, lignins, and/or an accelerator based on amines. The cement compositions may have less than 10% by weight Portland cement. The pozzolanic cement compositions including these activators, accelerators, and retarders can have improved properties such as longer setting time, better slump retention, and improved strength.
US09394191B2
A device (1) for subjecting a liquid to a purifying process comprises an assembly of a first container (10) and a second container (20) for receiving and containing a liquid, wherein means (11) for performing a purifying action on the liquid are arranged in the first container (10), wherein the second container (20) is arranged for receiving an overflow from the first container (10), and wherein a liquid passage (15) is present between the first container (10) and the second container (20). Furthermore, the device (1) comprises means (16) which are associated with the liquid passage (15) between the first container (10) and the second container (20), and which are adapted to assume various states, including a state for blocking the liquid passage (15), and a state for deblocking the liquid passage (15), wherein the device (1) may also be equipped with means (17) for controlling the blocking/deblocking means (16).
US09394172B2
A process for the preparation of a bis(sulphonato)imide salt of formula: (III) (SO3−)—N−—(SO3−)3C+ where C+ represents a monovalent cation, comprising the reaction of amidosulphuric acid of formula: (I) (OH)—SO2—NH2 with a halosulphonic acid of formula: (II) (OH)—SO2—X where X represents a halogen atom, and comprising a reaction with a base which is a salt formed with the cation C+. Also, a process for the preparation of bis(fluorosulphonyl)imide acid of formula: (V) F—(SO2)—NH—(SO2)—F and to a process for the preparation of lithium bis(fluorosulphonyl)imide salt of formula: (VII) F—(SO2)—N−—(SO2)—F Li+.
US09394170B2
A reactor containing a heat exchanger is disclosed, which can be operated with co-current or counter-current flow. Also disclosed is a system that includes a reactor having a reformer and a vaporizer, a fuel supply, and a water supply. The reactor includes a source of combustion gas, a reformer operative to receive reformate, and a vaporizer operative to receive water. The reformer and vaporizer each include a stack assembly formed by a combination of separator shims and channel shims. The separator shims and channel shims are stacked in a regular pattern to form two sets of channels within the stack assembly. One set of channels will have vertical passageways at either end and a horizontal flowpath between them, while the other set of channels has only a horizontal flowpath.
US09394167B2
There is disclosed an electrode array architecture employing continuous and discontinuous circumferential electrodes. There is further disclosed a process for the neutralization of acid generated at anode(s) by base generated at cathode(s) circumferentially located to each other so as to confine a region of pH change. The cathodes can be displayed as concentric rings (continuous) or as counter electrodes in a cross pattern (discontinuous). In this way reagents, such as acid, generated in a center electrode are countered (neutralized) by reagents, such as base, generated at the corners or at the outer ring.
US09394165B2
Material compositions are provided that may comprise, for example, a vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) array, a conductive layer, and a carbon interlayer coupling the VACNT array to the conductive layer. Methods of manufacturing are provided. Such methods may comprise, for example, providing a VACNT array, providing a conductive layer, and bonding the VACNT array to the conductive layer via a carbon interlayer.
US09394154B2
An example system for installing a beverage ingredient into a beverage dispenser includes: a container for insertion of a carton containing a beverage ingredient into a beverage dispenser, the container including a base surface, and a front surface, a back surface, and two side surfaces extending from the base surface and defining a cavity sized to receive the carton; wherein the two side surfaces extend from the front surface at an angle and form a horizontal landing portion that extends to the back surface; and a carton positioned within the container and containing the beverage ingredient, the carton comprising a fitment extending from a carton surface, the fitment sized to allow fluid communication between the carton and the beverage dispenser, and the carton defining a tear away portion defining an angled surface extending from a front surface of the carton to a side surface of the carton.
US09394153B2
A filling line for filling a number of containers. The filling line may include a continuous conveyor, one or more micro-ingredient dosers positioned about the continuous conveyor, and one or more macro-ingredient stations positioned along the continuous conveyor.
US09394149B2
A side lift spreader for handling empty containers, and method for adjusting a main frame of an inverted side lift spreader. The inverted side lift spreader comprises a main carriage connectable to a lifting device, movable along a front side of a mast of the lifting device, the main frame being carried by and sideways movable with respect to the main carriage, and main frame guiding means for guiding movement of the main frame with respect to the main carriage. The main frame guiding means comprises at least two links, one first portion of each link connected to the main frame and one second portion of each link connected to the main carriage. The second portions of the links are arranged at the main carriage at respective points of attachment which are located, in use of the spreader, at an opposite side of the mast compared to the front side.
US09394148B2
A collapsible and mobile lifting apparatus. The apparatus includes a mobile base, a lifting mechanism mounted to the mobile base, suspension members extending from the lifting mechanism for operatively engaging an object to be lifted, and a counterweight system that is automatically moveable relative to the mobile base. Helical band actuators provide the lifting force. A lower counterweight at the base is moveable to variable positions in response to the load of an object on the suspension members. An upper counterweight is mounted proximate to the upper end of the lifting mechanism to resist the load on the suspension members as well. A tension cable extending from the base proximate to the upper end of the lifting mechanism provides additional force to balance the load of the object.
US09394147B2
An improved vehicle lift system is provided for lifting and supporting a vehicle. The vehicle lift system includes a portable front lift for lifting and supporting a front end of the vehicle, a portable rear lift for lifting and supporting a rear end of the vehicle, and a portable control station for remotely controlling the front lift and the rear lift from a safe and convenient location. The vehicle lift system may include hydraulics, pneumatics, electronics, and/or mechanical linkages for distributing and providing lifting power to the front lift and the rear lift.
US09394128B2
This invention provides a transfer method of transferring, from a carrier including a placing portion on which a substrate is placed, and a cover that is superposed on the upper surface of the placing portion in close contact, the substrate held between the placing portion and the cover. The transfer method includes a holding step of holding the substrate and the cover on the placing portion by a holding apparatus, and a moving step of moving the holding apparatus to move the substrate and the cover from the placing portion to a transfer destination. In the holding step, the cover is held by the cover holding unit of the holding apparatus, and the substrate is held by the substrate holding unit of the holding apparatus in parallel postures of the cover and substrate.
US09394126B2
Provided is a paper feeding device including a transporting unit that feeds one sheet away from sheets, a detaching member that detaches the one sheet away from the sheets together with the transporting unit, a supporting member that supports the detaching member, and that includes a shaft longer than the detaching member in a direction perpendicular to a sheet feeding direction, and a holding member that holds the shaft not to move to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction, and that releases the shaft from holding when the shaft moves in a direction other than the sheet feeding direction.
US09394123B2
An apparatus for rotary dumping of rail cars, including a material receiving pit. A rotary rail car dumper includes a rotational frame supporting at least one baffle. The rotational frame is configured to dump a load from a rail car during rotational motion of the rotational frame between an upright position wherein the entire load is in the rail car and a dumping position wherein the load can exit the rail car. A backside airflow diverter is located beneath the rotational frame and includes a curved upper surface. A lower margin of the at least one baffle contacts the curved upper surface during at least part of the rotational motion of the rotational frame. A backside hood is located beneath the backside airflow diverter on the back side of the pit.
US09394117B2
A gripping element for a transfer arrangement of an accumulator table, including a pair of opposing transfer devices for engaging a product at a gripping location on an infeed conveyor for the transfer devices and for releasing the product, the transfer devices having a driven, endless carrier including gripping elements, driven such that when the drive system is activated the gripping elements are moved by the endless carrier along an endless trajectory, the transfer devices configured for simultaneously moving all gripping elements, and the product engaged thereby, in a transfer direction along a transfer trajectory from the gripping location to a release location, includes a flexible fin for engaging the product, during use substantially extending in a plane aligned with the transfer direction, the fin having such a shape that, when at that gripping location, the transfer direction is substantially parallel to a product support surface of the infeed conveyor.
US09394112B2
A transport chain for transporting articles includes a sequence of links. Each link defines a substantially flat support surface for the articles to be transported, and wherein each link is hingedly coupled with a previous link in the sequence. Each link includes a respective first link element defining a first portion of the support surface of the link and a respective second link element defining a second portion of the support surface of the link. The first link element and the second link element are hingedly coupled with each other through mechanical coupling allowing the first link element to rotate with respect to the second link element, and vice versa, about a rotation axis perpendicular to the support surface of the link. The mechanical coupling is spaced from the rotation axis.
US09394111B2
A belt conveyor apparatus includes a conveyor frame with a belt support, a belt, a belt drive, and corner containment sidewalls releasably attached to the conveyor frame at a concave corner defined by the conveyor. The corner containment sidewalls each include a disk-shaped recess on an outboard surface at their lower/rearward edges, and corner rollers are rotatably mounted in the recesses, with an edge of each roller extending beyond the recess to engage and hold down the conveyor belt as the belt traverses the concave corner. The corner rollers greatly reduce sliding friction of the belt across the concave corner, and yet do not include lubricant, nor separate fasteners, nor create nib points. Thus, the rollers greatly facilitate maintenance, and reduce maintenance and component cost.
US09394103B2
A loading apparatus assists in loading particulate bulk material into a transport container, for example a railcar having a loading opening in a top side thereof. The loading apparatus is used with a main loading spout extending in a longitudinal direction and having a discharge opening at a bottom end for discharging particulate bulk material therethrough. The loading apparatus has a pair of secondary spouts operatively connected with the main loading spout such that: i) a primary flow of the particulate material is discharged into the transport container downwardly through the discharge opening in the longitudinal direction of the main loading spout; and ii) a secondary flow of the particulate material is discharged into the transport container through said at least one secondary spout in a respective lateral direction transversely to the longitudinal direction of the main loading spout.
US09394102B2
A proppant discharge system has a container with an outlet positioned in a bottom thereof and a gate affixed adjacent the outlet so as to be movable between a first position covering the outlet to a second position opening the outlet, and a support structure having an actuator thereon. The container is removably positioned on the top surface of the support structure. The actuator is engageable with gate so as to move the gate from the first position to the second position. A conveyor underlies the container so as to receive proppant as discharged from the container through the outlet. The container can be a ten foot ISO container.
US09394100B2
A pallet container for holding vehicle windshields for storage, transportation or otherwise, the pallet container comprising a frame structure defining a base, and a periphery, wherein one or more side restraints are provided to be mounted on-board the pallet to inhibit movement of windshields internally of the pallet container, wherein a said side restraint comprises a flexible fluid containing device. In an alternative realization the pallet container is expandable in height and length and/or collapsible by means of opposed pivoted side frames and a connecting frame.
US09394097B2
An apparatus for dispensing flowable substances, having a nozzle having an exit opening for dispensing the substances from the nozzle in the region of a free nozzle end, and a closure part that can be moved by means of a control element, disposed outside of the nozzle. The closure part releases the exit opening in an open position and closes the exit opening in a closed position. The control element has a frame, a transfer medium that brings about shape fit and has wheels, the transfer medium generates angle synchronicity of wheels mounted in the frame so as to pivot, a drive for the transfer medium, for pivoting the respective wheel in two opposite pivot directions, a bearing element for the closure part, mounted in wheels so as to pivot. The bearing element is mounted about pivot axles in the wheels, so as to pivot. The pivot axles are disposed in the frame parallel to the pivot axles of these wheels. The closure part is mounted in the bearing element.
US09394089B2
A pouring dispenser for pouring liquid from a bottle comprises a sleeve adapted to be removably attached with the neck of the bottle and extend from the neck of the bottle. The sleeve comprises a cork portion to be inserted into the neck of the bottle. A pouring nozzle with the sleeve is formed with the cork portion as an integral component, such that the pouring nozzle is in fluid communication with the interior of the bottle. There is a removable breather tube that fits in the cork portion.
US09394086B2
A lid apparatus for a multi-chambered container. The lid apparatus has a top-lid that is hingedly attached to a bottom-cap. The top-lid includes one or more openings for fluid filling multiple passages that extend from the bottom-cap. A lower bottom-cap includes welding features for welding to the multi-chambered container.
US09394081B2
A system, method and apparatus for transferring bulk material for transport, the method includes placing a first quantity of bulk material in a soft-sided bulk material container, extending a first hold-in across the container from a first side of the container to a second location, the second location being substantially toward a second side of the container, wherein the first hold-in is secured to the first side of the container, securing the first hold-in to the second location and placing a second quantity of bulk material in the container, the second quantity covering the first hold-in and securing the first hold-in to the second location with a weight of the second quantity of bulk material.
US09394080B2
An adjustable pouch having a front portion, rear portion, first side portion, and a second side portion that are connected to a bottom portion and collectively defines an interior space that may be configured to receive different sizes of ammunition magazines is disclosed. The front and rear portions include a plurality of straps that extend lengthwise and the first and second side portions include a plurality of channels. The plurality of straps and the plurality of channels are configured to receive an elastic member having free ends that are tied together. In operation, an individual can pull on the tied free ends of the elastic member in order to adjust the volume of the interior space to accommodate ammunition magazines of different sizes.
US09394072B2
A plastic container including an upper portion, a base, a plurality of surface features, and a substantially cylindrical portion. The upper portion has a mouth defining an opening into the container. The base is movable to accommodate vacuum forces generated within the container thereby decreasing the volume of the container. The plurality of surface features are included with the base and are configured to accommodate vacuum forces. The substantially cylindrical portion extends between the upper portion and the base.
US09394066B2
A box with a sliding opening has an integral liner to keep pourable contents fresh and dry. The box has a slide that is moveable by a user's thumb across the opening to open and close the box and the liner during the same operation to avoid risking tearing the box or liner. The user can open the box and the liner to pour out the contents in one motion and easily close and seal the box and the liner so the contents do not spill out. Advantageously, the box is formed from a single blank piece of cardboard or similar stock, and a single planar sheet of moisture impervious material adhered onto the blank which folds with the blank to form a sealed liner or bag, such that the slide ends up inside the box for easy assembly with a resulting sealed bag inside.
US09394062B2
The invention relates to a mounting device in an aircraft. In one aspect of the invention, a method is disclosed for assembling a metal securement member of the mounting device. In another aspect of the invention, a mounting device is disclosed. In another aspect of the invention, a method is disclosed for installing and using a mounting device in an aircraft.
US09394057B2
A rear suspension for attaching an aeroengine (20) of longitudinal axis X to a carrier structure or mast (12) of an aircraft, the suspension including at least two clevis-forming vertical uprights (26A, 26B; 28A, 28B) supporting a respective horizontal slideway (30A, 30B) having a roller (32) freely mounted thereon that is suitable for moving in a slot (34A, 34B) in a lug (20A) arranged in a YZ plane of transverse axis Y and of vertical axis Z, in such a manner as to enable the aeroengine to move only in translation along the longitudinal axis X and in pivoting about said longitudinal axis X.
US09394050B2
A micro aerial vehicle capable of controlled transitory or sustained gliding flight. The vehicle includes a fuselage. A pair of articulated wings are forward of a center of gravity of the vehicle, the wings being articulated and having trailing edge flaps, and having actuators for controlling the dihedral angles of the wings and the flaps for effective yaw control across the flight envelope. The dihedral angles can be varied symmetrically on both wings to control the aircraft speed independently of the angle of attack and flight-path angle, while an asymmetric dihedral setting can be used to control yaw and the actuators control the dihedral settings of each wing independently. The aircraft lacks a vertical tail or other vertical stabilizer.
US09394033B2
Embodiments described herein provide rope termination devices with flexible members for accommodating fleet angle in the rope without undue frictional wear on the rope. A metal connector is fastened to a tail with a flexure in a direction perpendicular to a plane through an axial centerline of the rope termination device. The rope wraps around the tail and the metal connector, lying in a passage formed around an exterior of the components, and may be secured by an overbraid jacket applied around the tail portion of the rope termination device.
US09394030B2
An embodiment of the invention provides an electromechanical rear derailleur for a bicycle including a base member that is configured to be coupled to a frame member of a bicycle. The derailleur includes a movable member and a link mechanism that movably couples the movable member to the base member. A motor is positioned at the movable member to move the movable member.
US09394029B2
The present invention provides a bicycle disc brake apparatus comprising a U-shape elastic plate having two ends connected to two ring portions; the ring portions comprising through holes; the U-shape elastic plate comprising two brake pads abutting the ring portions; two compression discs outside the U-shape elastic plate and adjacent to the ring portions, comprising protrusions penetrating the through holes to act on the brake pads, compression disc rotating slots away from the protrusions and first guiding tread surface in a first direction; two roller seats adjacent to the compression discs and comprising roller rotating slots adjacent to the compression disc rotating slots; rollers provided between the rotating slots; the roller rotating slots having second guiding tread surface in a second direction opposite to the first direction with protruding columns; two bearings mounted on the protruding columns; and two sealing gaskets sealed onto the bearings away from the roller seats.
US09394027B2
The preferred embodiments provide a frame for a one person three-wheeled human powered vehicle, the rear portion of which resembles an upright bicycle frame capable of supporting a fixed rear drive wheel substantially in alignment with the frame centerline. The frame has a left-side lateral extension and a right-side lateral extension, each of which includes a head tube at or near its outer end where front forks or steering posts can be secured. Each front fork or steering post can then hold one of two front steerable wheels. The frame is compatible with shock-absorbing suspension technology, which can be employed if desired.
US09394024B2
A storage structure for a saddle-ride type vehicle to enable an item to be easily stored in or retrieved from a storage portion to improve handleability of the storage portion. The storage portion includes an opening provided at a position shifted to one or each side of a front cover in a left-right direction with a recess portion being concave downwardly from the opening to form a storage space. A lid is provided for covering the opening of the recess portion openably and closably. The lid is attached to an upper wall portion defining the recess portion, openably and closably via a hinge.
US09394015B2
Continuously tracked vehicles such as tippers and bulldozers endure stresses and strains and it is desirable to reduce these stresses to extend their efficiency and life. A continuous track system is provided, comprising: a support structure supporting at least one jockey wheel and at least two tensioner wheels for supporting a track; two tensioners, one end of each tensioner being pivotably connected to the support structure, the two tensioner wheels being rotatably connected to an opposite end, for inducing tension in the track, wherein an axle of each tensioner wheel is pivotably connected by a link member to an axle of an adjacent jockey wheel; a controller for controlling the tensioners, wherein the controller maintains tension in the track by controlling the tensioners; a drive sprocket for rotation of the track; and a slew ring for attaching the support structure to a chassis of the vehicle.
US09394008B2
A product including a section stabilizer which may be inserted into a hollow section of a vehicle body and rotated into place which may add reinforcement to the area.
US09394001B2
A diagonal strut device (1) for reinforcing arrangement on an undercarriage of a motor vehicle. A plurality of struts (2) made from a fiber-reinforced plastic composite material extend away from a central joint element (3). Each strut (2) can be connected to the undercarriage via this from the end facing away from the central joint element (3). For this, a connecting joint element (4) is arranged on the end of each strut (2) facing away from the central joint element (3), wherein the central joint element (3) and the connecting joint elements (4) are formed from a light metal material. The central joint element (3) and the connecting joint elements (4) are then connected to the struts (2) by an at least positive connection. The central joint element (3) and the connecting joint elements (4) are each formed from several individual elements joined together.
US09393996B2
A controller and control method assists a driver with backing up of a vehicle with an attached trailer. The vehicle has a front axle with steerable front wheels controlled by the driver and a rear axle with non-steerable rear wheels. The trailer has a front axle with non-steerable front wheels and a rear axle with steerable rear wheels controlled by a trailer steering controller. The controller receives an operator-controlled vehicle steering angle and a measured hitch angle. The controller determines a trailer steering angle based on the operator-controller vehicle steering angle and the measured hitch angle. The controller continuously controls the trailer (e.g., via a steering angle of the rear wheels) to maintain a trajectory with substantially no lateral slippage.
US09393976B2
After latest door opening-side information is received from an operational management server on a ground after a train starts an operation, train-information managing apparatuses output the door opening-side information to display control apparatuses as guidance data, the display control apparatuses create video data indicating an opening side of doors for all stops at least between a next stop and a terminal station of the train using the door opening-side information, and displays perform display using the video data.
US09393973B2
A dual-structure storage box is used in a railcar and stores device units. The dual-structure storage box includes a device receiver case and a storage case. The device receiver case is fixed to a floor of the railcar, and the device units are attached to the device receiver case. The storage case is configured separately from the device receiver case, covers the device receiver case from an outer side of the device receiver case, and stores the device units.
US09393965B2
A method for operating a drive train of a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine, automatic transmission and at least one drive axle, is disclosed wherein in order to save fuel during the driving mode when the accelerator pedal is not activated a clutch device which is associated with the automatic transmission is opened and subsequently the internal combustion engine is shut down. When the accelerator pedal is activated again the internal combustion engine is started and in the automatic transmission the highest possible gear speed for the reconnection is firstly selected and so that the revving up time of the engine rotational speed is as short as possible, with the result that the necessary drive torque which is generated by the internal combustion engine can be made available at the drive axle as quickly as possible.
US09393964B2
In response to a transmission upshift command and a transmission element speed being greater than a threshold, a controller may reduce a rate of engine air intake prior to initial engagement of an oncoming shift element, at least until a target speed ratio is achieved. This reduction may reduce a transmission input torque such that upshift driveline disturbances are reduced.
US09393963B2
An on-board vehicle computer system for a vehicle includes at least one processing unit and a memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to cause the on-board vehicle computer system to implement various aspects of a predictive cruise control (PCC) system. In one aspect, the computer system provides a plurality of available speed control bands in a PCC system, and the available speed control bands are selectable by an operator of the vehicle. In another aspect, the computer system provides an upper speed margin and a lower speed margin for a PCC system, and the upper and lower speed margins are adjustable by an operator of the vehicle. Related notifications may be presented via an operator interface (e.g., a touchscreen display provided in a vehicle dashboard or other easily accessible area).
US09393956B2
A parking support apparatus includes: a host vehicle positional information acquisition unit acquiring host vehicle positional information indicating a current position of a vehicle; an obliqueness calculation unit calculating obliqueness between a vehicle length direction and a longitudinal direction of the parking space, based on the host vehicle positional information; an obliqueness correction path calculation unit calculating an obliqueness correction path along which a position of the vehicle reaches a front end of the parking space, based on the obliqueness when the vehicle travels forward from a stop position at a steering angle; and a centering path calculation unit calculating a centering path which has a width at a central portion of the parking space in a width direction and along which the vehicle travels forward toward a central region set in the longitudinal direction, after a position of the vehicle reaches the front end of the parking space.
US09393942B2
A cup shaped spring retainer is slidably disposed within a cup shaped piston, encapsulating a spring therebetween. The side wall of the spring retainer presents a plurality of recesses and a plurality of slots defining a plurality of fingers. A tang, projects radially outward at the distal end of each of the fingers to engage a retaining ring within the piston in a latch position. The combination of the spring retainer and the piston provide an arrangement whereby all of the fingers may be compressed with the spring retainer outside of the piston to an insert position with the tangs disposed in gripping engagement with the spring. After inserting the compressed spring retainer into the piston, the radial compression the of the fingers may be released to allow the fingers to expand from the insert position to the latch position at which point the deflection of the fingers is discontinued.
US09393922B2
A vehicle is provided that includes a frame and a mount to couple a first end of an apparatus to the frame. The apparatus comprises a central region that includes a first energy-absorbing material. A first side of the central region is included in the first end of the apparatus coupled to the frame. The apparatus comprises a side region that includes a second energy-absorbing material. The side region is positioned along a second side of the upper region. The side region is configured to be positioned above a wheel of the vehicle.
US09393921B1
Set forth herein are methods and systems for determining a rechargeable (i.e., secondary) battery's capability in real time, including how much power and energy can be discharged or charged, by compensating for the limitations of the standard battery model for cathode electron and ion transport restrictions in a solid-state battery. Set forth herein is also an equivalent circuit for each layer of a layered cathode (i.e., positive electrode) which is created using resistive, capacitive, and storage elements, including a state-of-charge (SOC) state variable and an SOC-dependent voltage source. In some embodiments, each layer is connected to adjoining layers using resistive elements to model ion and electron transport. In some embodiments, bulk ohmic resistance and ion exchange external to the electrode is represented using a Randles cell equivalent circuit.
US09393920B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting low vehicle battery charge and responding appropriately to prevent complete vehicle battery drainage. One method includes: monitoring the charge of the vehicle battery; determining, by a telematics unit, that the charge of the vehicle battery has reached a low battery charge threshold while the vehicle engine is off; and providing, by the telematics unit, a notification to a telematics subscriber that the vehicle battery has low charge. Another method includes: monitoring the charge of the vehicle battery; determining, by a telematics unit, that the charge of the vehicle battery has reached a low battery charge threshold while the vehicle engine is off; and in response to determining that the low battery charge threshold has been reached, disabling at least one load draining the vehicle battery.
US09393919B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a relay able to reduce a receiving space in a fitting direction between a terminal and a terminal fitting. A relay includes: a relay main body of which outer shape is in a rectangular parallelepiped shape; and four plate-shaped terminals projected from the relay main body and configured to be fitted with terminal fittings 4. The relay main body includes: an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other; two side surfaces opposite to each other; and two side surfaces opposite to each other. Four terminals are projected from the upper surface and bent at right angle two times so that tips of these terminals are opposite to the side surfaces. The tips of the two terminals are opposite to one side surface, and the tips of the remaining two terminals are opposite to the other side surface.
US09393918B2
Vehicles, computer-implemented methods, systems and apparatus are disclosed for providing application generated information for presentation at an automotive head unit (AHU) of a vehicle. For example, a vehicle is provided that is configured to communicate with an application server. The application server hosts and executes an application to generate information. The application server provides a first part of a MirrorLink server since the application hosted at the application server is normally hosted at and designed to be executed by a consumer electronics device to generate the information, and the information is normally presented at the consumer electronics device. The vehicle includes a network access device (NAD) integrated within the vehicle and an AHU that communicatively coupled to the NAD. The AHU includes a human-machine-interface (HMI). The NAD includes a wireless communication interface that serves as a second part of the MirrorLink server. For example, the wireless communication interface can receive the information over a wireless communication link and provide the information to the HMI where the information can then be presented on the HMI.
US09393914B2
One disclosed aspect of the embodiments is an apparatus to hold a mobile device in a vehicle. A sleeve is stretchable to fit longitudinally along a sun visor of a vehicle and having front and back surfaces. The front surface has a vent structure. A first strap is transversely attached on the front surface at a first side of the vent structure to hold a first end of a first device. A second strap is transversely attached on the front surface at a second side of the vent structure to adjustably hold a second end of the first device. The second side is opposite to the first side across the vent structure.
US09393912B2
A bicycle-carrier device includes a brace for connection to the frame of a vehicle, and bearing supporting elements to support one or more bicycles oriented transversely relative to the vehicle. The brace consists of a transverse bar, and the bicycles are supported by at least first and second supporting elements affixed to the bar, in positions that can be adjusted along the bar, so as to receive and support from below the two wheels of a bicycle. Mounted on the bar in an articulated manner is an arm that can be shifted between a raised operating position and a lowered non-operating position. Secured to the bar in an adjustable manner is at least one third supporting element that receives and supports from below an element of a bicycle frame. Each of the supporting elements is provided with means for locking in place the part that is received.
US09393904B2
An illumination apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The illumination apparatus comprises at least one photoluminescent portion disposed on at least one feature of an engine compartment. A lighting controller is in communication with a vehicle controller and a lighting device located proximate a hood of the vehicle. The light source is configured to emit a first emission to excite the at least one photoluminescent portion to illuminate a region of interest corresponding to the at least one feature.
US09393901B2
Methods and systems are provided pertaining to a turn signal. AUTO CANCEL of a turn signal may be performed electrically, eliminating cancelling pawls and undesirable noise emanating from such pawls as they click against conventional structure in predominantly mechanical turn signal systems. An electromagnetic brake may dampen or prevent turn signal stalk movement if an object is in a blind spot of a vehicle. Such brake may be released or canceled electronically and quietly.
US09393899B2
An illumination system for motor vehicles, which contains both parking/daytime running lights of one color and turn signal lights of another color. The invention detects whether parking lights are being displayed and, if so, flashes a parking light alternately with its adjacent turn signal light, rather than constantly illuminating the parking light while flashing the adjacent turn signal light.
US09393881B2
A track set includes a memory assembly that is operable to an engaged state to set a user-selected position. When the memory assembly is in an engaged state and in the user-selected position, the memory assembly resists movement of a first rail relative to a second rail in an aft direction. When the memory assembly is in the engaged state and in the user-selected position and the second rail moves in a fore direction relative to the first rail, the memory assembly is displaced in the aft direction relative to the second rail to a first position.
US09393876B2
There is provided a generation control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle including a rechargeable battery and a generation unit having an internal combustion engine and a generator which generates electric power by operation of the internal combustion engine, the generation control apparatus activating the generation unit with a high load state in which an electric power that is consumed in the hybrid vehicle over a predetermined period of time becomes larger than a maximum output electric power of the generation unit and thereafter continuing to drive the generation unit until a state of charge of the battery reaches a target state of charge of the battery which is set at the high load state when the electric power that is consumed in the hybrid vehicle over the predetermined period of time becomes smaller than the maximum output electric power of the generation unit.
US09393871B2
A propulsion control device is connected to each converter as a load. A carrier phase table, in which, when load states of propulsion control devices capable of being determined to be equivalent to each other are grouped in a same group, setting values of phase angles in the same group are given for each group, is provided in a phase-angle determination unit providing a desired phase angle between signal wave and carrier wave. The phase-angle determination unit refers to the carrier phase table based on a load state signal indicating a load state of each propulsion control device and an own-vehicle ID signal, determines a phase angle provided to each converter, and outputs it to a PWM control unit. The PWM control unit changes a phase angle of the carrier wave based on the phase angle determined by the phase-angle determination unit.
US09393866B2
Systems and methods for assembling a fuel filler system for use in a vehicle are provided. A locking bracket is coupled within an end of a fuel filler tube. At least one passage is defined in the locking bracket for facilitating insertion of a closure device into the fuel filler tube end. At least one anti-removal structure on the closure device passes through the at least one passage during insertion of the closure device. The at least one anti-removal structure precludes removal of the closure device after insertion of the closure device, and rotation of the closure device from a first rotational position relative to the locking bracket to a second rotational position. First and second anti-rotation structures extending from the closure device engage first and second ends of the locking bracket to prevent further rotation of the closure device.
US09393857B1
A vehicle and method of operating a vehicle are provided. The method includes providing a vehicle and at least one drive element in operable communication with the vehicle for providing movement to the vehicle. A plurality of power sources are also provided for providing power to the drive element along with at least one power source securing member for releasably securing a desired number of power sources to the vehicle. The method further includes connecting a desired number of power sources to the vehicle via the securing member to provide power to the drive element, each power source being readily removable from the vehicle so that only the desired number of power sources are used for a particular vehicle use to minimize the weight and therefore power consumption of the vehicle.
US09393848B2
A torsion spring system for a wheel suspension of a motor vehicle includes an actuator that is provided on the vehicle body and variably maintains the torsion spring system under tension, and which acts, via a torsion bar and an output lever, with a biasing force on a wheel suspension element of the wheel suspension. The torsion bar is configured in two parts between the actuator and the output lever and has a first bar part and a second bar part coupled thereto with a spring element connected in between the first and second bar parts.
US09393843B2
A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, and a protrusion. The protrusion includes a plurality of longitudinal ribs and a low height part. Each rib has a protruding height of 0.5 to 7.0 mm from the normal outer surface of the sidewall. Each low height part has a protruding height from the normal outer surface of the sidewall that is lower than that of the longitudinal ribs. The sidewall portion with the protrusion has a ratio between a total area of the protrusion projected onto the normal outer surface of the sidewall portion and an area between an outer circumferential line on the sidewall portion passing through a radially outmost point of the protrusion and an inner circumferential line on the sidewall portion passing through a radially innermost point of the protrusion in a range of from 50 to 80%.
US09393840B2
A pneumatic tire with good fuel efficiency, drainage performance and uneven wear resistance is provided. A pneumatic tire has a tread surface provided with circumferential main grooves to define a center region and two side regions. The center region is provided with a first circumferential narrow groove and second circumferential narrow grooves located between the first circumferential narrow groove and the circumferential main grooves; and center rib-like land portions including first center rib-like land portions defined by the first circumferential narrow groove and the second circumferential narrow grooves, and second center rib-like land portions defined by the second circumferential narrow grooves and the circumferential main grooves. The center rib-like land portions located next to each other with the center circumferential narrow grooves being therebetween are adapted to supportingly contact with each other. The second circumferential narrow groove has a width larger than that of the first circumferential narrow groove.
US09393836B2
A bearing device for a wheel has a bearing including an outer race having double-row outer raceway surfaces formed on an inner circumference thereof, a hub wheel and an inner race having double-row inner raceway surfaces formed on an outer circumference thereof so as to be opposed to the outer raceway surfaces, and double-row rolling elements interposed between the inner and outer raceway surfaces. The bearing has a constant velocity universal joint coupled thereto with a screw fastening structure by fitting a stem section of an outer joint member to a shaft hole of the hub wheel, in which the shaft hole of the hub wheel is formed by penetrating the hub wheel into a cylindrical shape over an axial direction of the hub wheel.
US09393831B1
A cover guard for a rim of a paint can, includes a cover for covering a rim of a paint can to prevent entry of paint into the rim, the cover being at least part annular to surround an opening, and having an inverted U-shaped cross-section for receiving the rim therein, a brush wiper plate connected with the cover and extending within the opening, against which a paintbrush can be wiped for removing excess paint from the paintbrush which has been dipped into paint in the paint can, such that any excess paint falls back into the paint can, and a wet paintbrush cup connected to the cover for holding a web paintbrush therein.
US09393826B2
An inkjet recording medium includes a substrate having two opposed surfaces, an ink receiving layer disposed on at least one of the two substrate surfaces, and a porous protective layer disposed on the ink receiving layer. The ink receiving layer receives an ink when printed thereon. The protective layer includes: reactive polymer particles that cross-link upon exposure to microwave radiation; non-reactive polymer particles that coalesce upon exposure to microwave radiation; or a combination of the reactive polymer particles and the non-reactive polymer particles, to form a substantially non-porous protective film that covers the printed ink.
US09393821B2
A carriage 11 carrying a printhead 7 moves on a transverse axis X by a carriage moving mechanism 15, and is detected by a first sensor 18 at a standby position 11B at one end of the range of movement. When the carriage 11 is at the opposing position 11A, the printhead 7 and head frame 12 are moved vertically by the head moving mechanism 17, and are detected at the up position 12A by the second sensor 19. When the position of the printhead 7 and carriage 11 are unknown, the control unit 1a of the printer 1 executes a recovery process that moves the carriage 11 to the opposing position 11A side, detects when the carriage 11 becomes locked at the opposing position 11A, and determines the position of the carriage 11.
US09393820B2
A liquid ejecting head including a head which discharges ink from a nozzle surface on which a nozzle is included based on data, a signal line which sends data to the head via a connector, a carriage on which the head is mounted, and a first concave section and second concave section which accommodate the signal line and are included toward the outside of the carriage, in which the signal line is connected to the connector lined up with a terminal in the Y direction, and a position of a folded portion of the signal line which is accommodated in the first concave section and the second concave section overlaps with a fourth portion to a fifth portion which are a section of the carriage, and overlaps with a first portion to a second portion which are a section of the head in the X direction.
US09393813B2
An image forming apparatus includes a housing and a belt assembly. The belt assembly includes a plurality of rollers, a belt, a belt first support, and a belt second support. The belt assembly is detachably attachable relative to the housing. The plurality of rollers includes a rotary shaft. The belt is entrained around the plurality of rollers and rotated in a certain direction. The belt first support supports the rotary shaft of the plurality of rollers at a first end in a width direction thereof and is movable in a direction of twist and fixedly supported by the housing. The belt second support is fixedly supported by the housing and supports the rotary shaft of the plurality of rollers at a second end opposite the first end in the width direction.
US09393809B2
An inkjet printing method for printing on a non-porous media includes pre-coating a smooth non-porous media with toner resin particles in a half-tone pattern to create a patterned toner coated media; applying inkjet ink to said half-tone patterned toner coated media to provide an image on said half-tone patterned toner coated media; wherein a tone value of the half-tone pattern is a pre-determined function of an image-wise lay-down of the inkjet image generated by a data processing system; and fusing said image on said toner coated media.
US09393807B2
A recording section that performs recording on a recording medium, a static eliminator that eliminates static electricity from the recording medium, and a moving section that moves the static eliminator with respect to the recording section are provided.
US09393802B2
A liquid storage container comprises a first liquid chamber provided with a filler port, a second liquid chamber partitioned from the first liquid chamber, and communicates with the first liquid chamber via communication opening, and a float member provided in the second liquid chamber.
US09393792B2
A liquid discharge recording apparatus includes: a liquid containing first glycol ether; a liquid discharge head which discharges the liquid; an absorber which absorbs the liquid discharged from the liquid discharge head; and second glycol ether which is contained in the absorber and of which vapor pressure is lower than that of the first glycol ether.
