US09594148B2
A computer-readable recording medium storing an estimation program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes: executing sound image localization processing for each of pieces of sound data output by a plurality of sound sources; and specifying, on the basis of a change in orientation of a listener caused in accordance with the sound image localization processing, at least one of the plurality of sound sources related to the listener.
US09594145B2
A method acquires RF magnetic field information (B1 magnetic field information) in response to generated radio frequency (RF) pulses in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. An RF excitation pulse sequence is generated, and the generated RF excitation pulse sequence includes a plurality of RF excitation pulses individually having different flip angles. The generated RF excitation pulse sequence is transmitted to a target object. RF echo response signals are received from the target object corresponding to the plurality of RF excitation pulses and B1 information is acquired by processing the received RF echo response signals.
US09594144B2
Systems and method for magnetic resonance imaging are disclosed which utilize sinusoidal gradient waveforms to drive gradient coils in an MRI system. The sinusoidal gradient waveforms may be applied on all two or more (e.g. three) gradient axes to produce a relatively pure acoustic tone. In certain embodiments, gradient directions may be spiraled in three-dimensions to generate a radial pin-cushion k-space trajectory.
US09594142B2
In order to improve contrast in non-orthogonal measurement without sacrificing speed, in imaging which combines a fast imaging sequence for acquiring a plurality of echo signals in one shot with non-orthogonal system measurement, the shape of a blade in which an echo train of each shot is arranged is a fan shape having the radius and the arc of a circle centered on the origin of a k space. At this time, echo signal arrangement is controlled such that an echo signal for desired TE of each fan-shaped blade is arranged in a low spatial frequency region of the k space.
US09594128B2
A two-axes MEMS magnetometer includes, in one plane, a freestanding rectangular frame having inner walls and four torsion springs, wherein opposing inner walls of the frame are contacted by one end of only two torsion springs, each torsion spring being anchored by its other end, towards the center of the frame, to a substrate. In operation, the magnetometer measures the magnetic field in two orthogonal sensing modes using differential capacitance measurements.
US09594127B2
The present invention refers to a Hall sensor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The Hall sensor device includes: two sensor chips each including two pins; a shell, in which four conductive terminals electrically connected with four pins respectively are arranged; three output pins electrically connected to three of the conductive terminals respectively; and a bridge suitable for electrically connecting the rest conductive terminal with the congeneric conductive terminal in the three conductive terminals. The manufacturing method includes: integrally molding the shell and four output pins electrically connected with the four conductive terminals respectively, and cutting off the output pin electrically connected with said rest conductive terminal and providing the bridge. By adopting the present invention, the manufacturing cost of the sensor device is reduced and the production efficiency is improved.
US09594124B2
A circuit includes a first analog to digital converter configured to convert an analog voltage sample of a rechargeable power source into a digital voltage value, a second analog to digital converter configured to convert an analog current sample of the rechargeable power source into a digital current value, a charge state controller configured to determine a charge state of the rechargeable power source based on the digital voltage value and the digital current value, and a communication interface configured to output a computer-readable indication of the charge state. The charge state controller is further configured to receive pregenerated voltage values and pregenerated current values, and determine a simulated charge state of the rechargeable power source based on the pregenerated voltage values and the pregenerated current values. The communication interface is further configured to output a computer-readable indication of the simulated charge state.
US09594111B2
In one embodiment, a method of testing a semiconductor component includes loading a plurality of semiconductor components into a main turret of a turret handler, transporting the plurality of semiconductor components using the main turret to a test area, and splitting the plurality of semiconductor components into a first set and a second set. The method further includes testing a first semiconductor component in the first set at a first test pad using a tester while transporting a second semiconductor component in the second set to a second test pad and testing the second semiconductor component using the tester while transporting the first semiconductor component out of the first test pad. The first set and the second set are merged into the plurality of semiconductor components and the plurality of semiconductor components are transported away from the test area using the main turret.
US09594109B2
A computerized monitoring system and method for detecting electrical equipment failure. The system includes a sensor that detects a sound level representative of ultrasonic emissions radiating from electrical equipment to be monitored. A computer system in communication with the sensor is programmed to determine whether the electrical equipment is experiencing one or more of arcing, tracking, or corona based on the sound level detected by the sensor. In some embodiments, the computer system continuously monitors for these conditions based on the sound level detected by the sensor.
US09594102B2
A device for measuring resistance of a ground tap and a charger for an on-board vehicle including the device. The device includes a current source and an ammeter disposed on a first electrical branch, provided to link a phase of a power supply network with the ground of the installation; a second electrical branch provided to link a neutral wire of the power supply network with the ground of the installation, including a resistor across terminals of which is connected a voltmeter, and a first capacitor in series with the resistor; and a third electrical branch is provided for linking the neutral wire of the network with the ground of the installation, and including, on the third branch, in parallel with the first capacitor and with the first resistor, a second capacitor of higher value than the first capacitor.
US09594093B2
Described is a system which includes: a cable including: a first fiber optic interconnect to provide an input light; and a second fiber optic interconnect to provide an output light; and a first housing coupled to the cable, the first housing including: a first deflection circuit to deflect the input light received from the first fiber optic interconnect in response to a vibration or movement of the first housing; and a second housing coupled to the cable, the second housing including: a light source to generate the input light for transmission to the first deflection circuit via the first fiber optic interconnect; and a photo detector to receive the output light from the first deflection circuit via the second fiber optic interconnect.
US09594083B2
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cardiovascular fibrosis. In particular, the present invention relates to an inhibitor of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) activity or expression for use in a method for treating or preventing cardiovascular fibrosis in a subject in need thereof.
US09594068B2
In an internal combustion engine, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15), NOx storage catalyst (13), particulate filter (14), and electric resistance type sensor (29) are arranged in an engine exhaust passage in this order from an upstream side. The electric resistance type sensor (29) generates an output value corresponding to the amounts of deposition of particulate matter and hydrocarbons which are contained in the exhaust gas and deposited at the sensor part thereof. From the change of the output value of the electric resistance type sensor (29), it is judged if the hydrocarbons have slipped through the NOx storage catalyst (13) and if the particulate matter has slipped through the particulate filter (14).
US09594064B2
Provided is a plate-type column which allows the temperature of its inner passage to be rapidly increased or decreased while ensuring the correctness of an analysis or other operations. A plate-type column 10 includes: a plate-shaped main body 11; projecting portions 12 and 13 protruding from a circumferential edge of the main body 11; and a fluid-flow passage 14 extending in the main body 11 and the projecting portions 12 and 13. An intermediate portion of the passage 14 is provided in the main body 11, while each of the end portions of the passage 14 extends from the main body 11 through the projecting portion 12 or 13, with each of the end portions being open to the outside at the tip of the projecting portion 12 or 13.
US09594061B2
A method for detecting defects in an object of interest comprises applying an ultrasonic signal including a tone burst having a predetermined frequency and number of cycles into an object of interest, receiving a return signal reflected from the object of interest, and processing the return signal to detect defects in at least one inner material. The object may have an outer material and the at least one inner material that have different acoustic impedances. An ultrasonic sensor system includes an ultrasonic sensor configured to generate an ultrasonic signal having a tone burst at a predetermined frequency corresponding to a resonant frequency of an outer material of an object of interest.
US09594046B2
Methods and devices for determining sensing device usability, e.g., for self-monitoring and point of care devices. In one embodiment, the invention is to a method of determining device usability, comprising the steps of providing a device comprising a first electrical pad; a second electrical pad; and a humidity-responsive polymer layer contacting at least a portion of the first and second electrical pads; applying a potential across the first and second electrical pads; measuring an electrical property associated with the humidity-responsive polymer layer; and determining whether the measured electrical property associated with the humidity-responsive polymer layer has exceeded a humidity threshold level associated with the device usability.
US09594045B2
Methods are disclosed for measuring an analyte concentration in a fluidic sample. Such methods further allow one to provide an error code or correct and/or compensate for interferents such as an antioxidant before providing an analyte concentration. The measurement methods utilize information obtained from test sequences having at least one DC block, such as a slow-ramped bi-polar waveform, where a closed circuit condition is maintained during the DC block. The methods use information relating to status of a redox mediator feature during the electrochemical analysis to provide an antioxidant failsafe if the antioxidant is interfering with the analyte concentration. Also disclosed are devices, apparatuses and systems incorporating the various measurement methods.
US09594038B1
The present invention relates to a device and method for measuring supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid throttling coefficient under different viscosities. The device for measuring supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid throttling coefficient under different viscosities comprises a supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid throttling coefficient measurement system and a supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid viscosity adjustment apparatus; the supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid throttling coefficient measurement system determines throttling coefficient of a high temperature and high pressure supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid, and the supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid viscosity adjustment apparatus determines viscosity of the high temperature and high pressure supercritical carbon dioxide fracturing fluid.
US09594035B2
Systems and approaches for silicon germanium thickness and composition determination using combined XPS and XRF technologies are described. In an example, a method for characterizing a silicon germanium film includes generating an X-ray beam. A sample is positioned in a pathway of said X-ray beam. An X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) signal generated by bombarding said sample with said X-ray beam is collected. An X-ray fluorescence (XRF) signal generated by bombarding said sample with said X-ray beam is also collected. Thickness or composition, or both, of the silicon germanium film is determined from the XRF signal or the XPS signal, or both.
US09594030B2
An apparatus and a method to detect a defect or particle on a surface that involves combining an object radiation beam redirected by the surface with a reference radiation beam having a plurality of intensities lower than the object radiation beam, to produce a plurality of patterns detected by a detector in order to detect the defect or particle on the surface from the patterns.
US09594025B2
The present invention relates generally to a novel method using HPLC and fluorescence detection of free PEG-mal in PEGylated proteins and PEG-mal raw materials by adding a fluorescent label to the free PEG-mal.
US09594019B1
An optical tomography system including a light emitting array having one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), a sample holding module and a light sensing array comprising one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs), wherein the light sensing array is configured to sense light emitted from the light emitting array, which has passed through the sample holding module.
US09594017B2
The present invention includes an optical system disposed on an optical path of light that is emitted by a light emitting section, travels to a detection target object, is reflected by the detection target object, and reaches a light receiving section. The optical system, in a sub scanning direction, that is, the direction in which a detection target object is moving, collects light so that the light receiving section has, for light from the light emitting section, a regularly reflected light receiving area and a diffuse-reflected light receiving area that differ from each other in position within a predetermined range. The optical system, in a perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the movement direction, refracts light so that a light receiving area, which covers the regularly reflected light receiving area and the diffuse-reflected light receiving area, is wider in the perpendicular direction than in the sub scanning direction.
US09594002B2
The present invention relates to a method of monitoring a fluid carrying conduit, comprising interrogating an optic fiber positioned along the path of the conduit to provide distributed acoustic sensing, measuring by distributed acoustic sensing the acoustic signal at each of a plurality of discrete longitudinal sensing portions along the length of the optic fiber, to monitor the optic fiber for the presence of a first characteristic signal, the first characteristic signal being indicative of ground heave the vicinity of the optic fiber, and determining that a failure has occurred in the conduit when a first characteristic signal is measured in the distributed acoustic sensing.
US09593988B1
A thermal energy measurement system is disclosed for use as a calorimeter capable of providing sample thermal energy measurements in selectable modes including isothermal and/or adiabatic modes. In some embodiments, the thermal energy system further comprises a closed-loop servo controller. In some embodiments, the thermal energy measurement system is capable of providing thermal energy measurements in semi-adiabatic and/or custom programmed modes. In some embodiments, the servo controller may be implemented as a feedback circuit whose process variable is either heat flow, sample temperature, a combination thereof, or a preprogrammed time dependence of the heat flow and/or sample temperature. The output of the servo controller may be used to drive a temperature control device such as but not limited to a thermoelectric module (TEM). Methods of thermal energy measurement are also disclosed.
US09593984B2
A sensor probe may include an elongated body and a temperature sensor. The elongated body may include at least one first aperture, a first passageway and a second passageway. The first passageway may be in communication with the first aperture and may extend along a longitudinal axis of the elongated body. The second passageway may be in communication with and may extend from the first passageway. The temperature sensor may be disposed within the first passageway and may include a wire extending through a portion of the first passageway and the second passageway. The wire may include a diameter that is less than a diameter of the first passageway such that the first passageway defines a pressure path around the wire.
US09593981B2
Provided are patterned nanoporous gold (“P-NPG”) films that may act as at least one of an effective and stable surface-enhanced Raman scattering (“SERS”) substrate. Methods of fabricating the P-NPG films using a low-cost stamping technique are also provided. The P-NPG films may provide uniform SERS signal intensity and SERS signal intensity enhancement by a factor of at least about 1×107 relative to the SERS signal intensity from a non-enhancing surface.
US09593970B2
A laboratory sample distribution system comprising a calibration device, a calibration device and a method for calibrating magnetic sensors are disclosed. Magnetic sensors used in a laboratory sample distribution system are calibrated in order to optimize driving of sample container carriers and in order to detect long-term variation in detection characteristics of the magnetic sensors.
US09593969B2
An electronic device with a rigid housing includes multiple apertures which each define a portion of a symbol used to identify the device. Conducting inserts may be positioned within the apertures to provide externally-accessible electrical connectors. The electrical connector may be used as a portion of a sensor or a charging circuit.
US09593968B1
A sensing device includes a housing and at least one film extending across the housing. The at least one film divides the housing into a first compartment and a second compartment. At least one mass is disposed within the first compartment. The at least one mass id sized to rupture the at least one film. A fluid having a first color is disposed in the first compartment and a fluid having a second color is disposed in the second compartment.
US09593962B2
Systems and methods for attitude fault detection based on integrated GNSS/inertial hybrid filter residuals are provided. In one embodiment, a fault detection system for aircraft attitude measurement system comprises: a sensor monitor coupled to a first inertial measurement unit, the sensor monitor comprising: a navigation error model for the first inertial measurement unit, the model configured to model a plurality of error states including at least an attitude error state vector, an velocity error state vector, and a position error state vector determined from data generated by the first inertial measurement unit; and a propagator-estimator configured to propagate and update error states based on GNSS data; and a residual evaluator configured to input measurement error residual values generated by the propagator-estimator, wherein the residual evaluator outputs an alert signal when the measurement error residual values exceed a threshold.
US09593957B2
Techniques for providing a trajectory route to multiple geographical locations of interest are described. This disclosure describes receiving global position system (GPS) logs associated with respective individual devices, each of the GPS logs including trajectories connecting a set of geographical locations previously visited by an individual of a respective individual device. A trajectory route service receives a request for a trajectory connecting a set of geographical locations of interest specified by a user. The trajectory route service calculates a proximal similarity between (1) the set of geographical locations of interest specified by the user, and (2) respective sets of geographical locations from the GPS logs. The trajectory route service constructs the requested trajectory with use of at least one of the trajectories from the GPS logs determined at least in part according to the calculated proximal similarities.
US09593955B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for updating navigational map data. A routing request is received for routing data. A version compatibility matrix may be accessed that corresponds to the routing request. An analysis is performed of a cache database, a main database, and the version compatibility matrix. A number of version conflicts between the cache database and main database are identified based on the analysis. Using these version conflicts, one or more routes based on the routing request are generated.
US09593951B2
A method for increasing the reliability of sensor systems for determining the position of flying objects. Since the position determination is very decisive for the execution of planned missions, it is especially important to increase the reliability of such systems. The star sensors of the star systems are preferably structured identically and connected to each other by a bidirectional bus system. Due to the presence of several identical modules in the sensor system, there is an inner redundancy that can be utilized via the bus system. The bus system allows the transmission of signals of different data processing levels, so that the transmission of the data of the data processing levels can be adapted to modules that may have failed.
US09593947B2
The method for the measurement of turbulence by using reciprocating ocean microstructure profiler includes the following procedures: 1) system startup; 2) detection of the profile data of ocean dynamic environment information: a. temperature detection; b. shear detection; c. depth detection; and d. current and temperature & conductivity detection; e. gesture sensing; 3) control of ascending and descending operations of the profiler: a. uprising control; b. redirection operation; and c. sinking control; and 4) sleep mode. The method doesn't consume labor several times and the equipment is capable of providing long-time continuous profile measurement at a fixed area along a steel cable; and the entire system can ascend and descend steadily after hydrodynamic optimized layout, eliminating the measurement errors contributable to water flow fluctuation during detection, thus obtaining accurate ocean microstructure observation in vertical with higher precision.
US09593939B1
A glue thickness inspection system automates a thickness measurement functionality for determining the thickness of both non-transparent and transparent materials including, but not limited to, glue, gel, solder and epoxy. The glue thickness inspection system includes a laser detector, a movable platform for positioning a unit under test, and a controller for controlling movement of the platform, angle of the laser detector, and calculation of the transparent material thickness. The laser detector includes a laser for emitting a laser light onto the unit under test and a sensor for receiving corresponding reflected light. The sensed data is used by the controller to determine the transparent material thickness.
US09593934B2
An optical coherence analysis system comprising: a first swept source that generates a first optical signal that is tuned over a first spectral scan band, a second swept source that generates a second optical signal that is tuned over a second spectral scan band, a combiner for combining the first optical signal and the second optical signal for form a combined optical signal, an interferometer for dividing the combined optical signal between a reference arm leading to a reference reflector and a sample arm leading to a sample, and a detector system for detecting an interference signal generated from the combined optical signal from the reference arm and from the sample arm. In embodiments, the swept sources are tunable lasers that have shared laser cavities.
US09593915B2
Cushioned and conforming body bands, belts, and holsters are provided herein. Some embodiments may include conforming bands that are adapted to surround at least a portion of an individual. The conforming bands may include body portions having an outer surface and an inner surface, the body portion including an integrally formed pouch, the pouch including at least two sidewalls that are spaced apart from one another and joined together along a common bottom edge to define a cavity for receiving a firearm.
US09593912B2
A live-fire simulation system uses a position sensitive detector (PSD) in a weapon-mounted sensor to intercept emitted light from target emitters spatially distributed about a target. Each target emitter is modulated with a unique frequency. The system can thus not only determine the points of interception on the PSD but also determine which emitter caused which interception by using a frequency analysis.
US09593909B2
A device comprised of bubble level embedded into a solid block of material and located above the rifle grip and behind the barrel to facilitate the measurement and compensation of the rifle's cant while lining up the rifle's sights. The device is precision machined to allow the bubble to be aligned with the axis of the barrel to produce a true “zero-cant” condition. Graduation markings are placed on either left or right of the bubble level to allow the user to judge the relative degree of cant. Methods of using the embedded cant indicator for precision shooting are presented.
US09593908B2
A sight aid including a supplementary sight alignment indicator having a projection plane and a projection device adapted to project a supplementary sight alignment indicator and at least one reference point on the projection plane, the supplementary sight alignment indicator is axially-centered with respect to the sight alignment indicator and spaced apart therefrom on the optical axis for forming a composite image with the image of the sight alignment indicator, the target image being viewable together by the user by means of the ocular lens and the projection plane is disposed at a distance from the sight alignment indicator. An adaptor secures the supplementary sight alignment indicator to a portion of the projectile device or the housing.
US09593906B1
An optic sight assembly for installation on a riffle is disclosed, comprising an electro-optical optic sight unit which comprises a controller unit, a remote control receiver, and an electro-optical unit to project a reticle image; and a corresponding remote control unit to control operational parameters of the electro-optical optic sight. The remote control unit comprises a remote control controller to produce control signals for transmitting to the remote control receiver, and a keypad unit to enable entering control commands to the remote control unit, wherein the electro-optical optic sight is adapted to receive control signals from the remote control unit to control operational parameters of the reticle.
US09593899B2
Novel noise suppressors to attach to firearms comprising a unitary longitudinal baffle system that comprises two elongated bodies containing baffle sections that are assembled together with an outer tube and two end caps.
US09593897B2
An AR-style firearm includes a specially designed lower receiver, a specially designed upper receiver mounted to the lower receiver, a hand grip mounted to the lower receiver, a handguard mounted around a barrel, a specially designed magazine well formed in the lower receiver that is configured to receive an AK-47 magazine or similar magazine, and a specially designed, ambidextrous magazine release that holds and selectively releases the magazine from the magazine well.
US09593883B2
Liquid carbon dioxide separated from sour gas is expanded by throttling decompression and is gas-liquid separated at a low temperature so as to be supplied for shipping or the improvement of petroleum recovery. Methane generated from a stranded gas well is allowed to pass as a coolant through liquid carbon dioxide separated and discharged from sour gas generated from the stranded gas well so as to cool liquid carbon dioxide. Disclosed is a module for treating carbon dioxide, and a treatment method thereof for supplying liquid carbon dioxide at a proper temperature and state conditions when there is a need for liquid carbon dioxide of very low temperature for the storage or collection of carbon dioxide, the improvement of petroleum recovery, or the like by cooling carbon dioxide using a material separated from sour gas of a stranded gas well as a coolant.
US09593882B2
A cryogenic turbine expander system which consists essentially of a cryogenic liquid pressure vessel, and the vessel further accommodating a turbine expander, an internal bypass configuration, which are operable in parallel, a three-way valve to direct incoming high pressure liquefied gas flow to the turbine expander, or the internal bypass configuration, which further consists a Joule-Thomson valve, when the turbine expander is not operational.
US09593881B2
Provided is a natural gas processing facility for the liquefaction or regasification of natural gas. The facility includes a primary processing unit, e.g., refrigeration unit, for warming natural gas or chilling natural gas to at least a temperature of liquefaction. The facility also has superconducting electrical components integrated into the facility. The superconducting electrical components incorporate superconducting material so as to improve electrical efficiency of the facility by at least one percent over what would be experienced through the use of conventional electrical components. The superconducting electrical components may be one or more motors, one or more generators, one or more transformers, switch gears, one or more electrical transmission conductors, variable speed drives, or combinations thereof.
US09593874B2
An ice making assembly includes an ice tray extending along a longitudinal axis. The ice tray includes a first section disposed at a longitudinal first end of the ice tray, the first section including a plurality of first cavities projecting into the ice tray. The ice tray further includes a second section disposed at a longitudinal second end of the ice tray that is opposite from the longitudinal first end. The second section includes an elongated second cavity extending in a direction that is substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of the ice tray. The second cavity has a shape that is longer in length than a length of each of the first cavities.
US09593871B2
Systems and methods for operating a thermoelectric module to increase efficiency are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operating a thermoelectric module includes determining a first amount of power that would maximize a coefficient of performance of the thermoelectric module based on one or more system parameters and providing the first amount of power to the thermoelectric module. The method also includes determining that at least one of the one or more system parameters has changed, determining a second amount of power that would maximize the coefficient of performance of the thermoelectric module based on the one or more system parameters, and providing the second amount of power to the thermoelectric module. In some embodiments, adjusting the amount of power provided based on the one or more system parameters increases the efficiency of the thermoelectric module.
US09593866B2
A thermal heat storage system is provided, including a storage tank, a heat injection system and a heat recovery system. The storage tank holds a material for thermal storage. The heat injection system is coupled to an intake on the storage tank. The heat recovery system is coupled to an output on the storage tank and also uses vapor under depressurized conditions for heat transfer.
US09593860B1
A water recycler is designed to recycle waste water from a drip-type humidifying system. A water reservoir is provided with an opening to accept a drain line from the existing humidifier system. Additional fresh water is added into the reservoir to maintain a preset level via a float valve. The system is further provided with an internal pump which is activated by an existing furnace switch. The pump draws water from the reservoir and supplies it to the humidifier for reuse. As water is consumed by the humidifier, it is replenished by the fresh water system to ensure an adequate supply of water at all times.
US09593853B2
A duct arrangement in a can annular gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine has a gas delivery structure for delivering gases from a plurality of combustors to an annular chamber that extends circumferentially and is oriented concentric to a gas turbine engine longitudinal axis for delivering the gas flow to a first row of blades A gas flow path is formed by the duct arrangement between a respective combustor and the annular chamber for conveying gases from each combustor to the first row of turbine blades The duct arrangement includes at least one straight section having a centerline that is misaligned with a centerline of the combustor.
US09593845B2
A monitoring module for connection to a diagnostic device having two or more light emitting sources for indicating operating fault conditions of an apparatus. The monitoring module feeds information signals to a communication link for reception at a remote location. The monitoring module is secured over a series of light emitting diodes of the diagnostic device and reproduces these for local access. The series of LED's indicate fault conditions of the apparatus which in this embodiment is a hot water heater. Accordingly, the operation of the hot water heater at its fault status can be monitored from a remote location and on site.
US09593844B2
A method for operating a waste heat steam generator including an evaporator, an economizer having a number of economizer heating surfaces, and a bypass line connected on the flow medium side in parallel with a number of economizer heating surfaces is provided. The method makes possible higher operational safety and reliability in the control of the waste heat steam generator. For this purpose, a parameter that is characteristic of the thermal energy fed to the waste heat steam generator is used to control or regulate the flow rate of the by-pass line.
US09593842B2
The illumination device generally has at least one light source and an attachment assembly that connects the light source to a computing device. The light source may be one or more LEDs or a light panel using electroluminescent lighting. The illumination device includes a power source coupled to the light source and a light control mechanism to change at least one of an operative state or an intensity of the light source. The illumination device may also be integrally connected to the computing device. A light cover is implemented to cover the light source and diffuse light emanating therefrom.
US09593840B2
A flap mechanism (2) has a housing (10), a flap aperture (21) formed on the housing (10), and a flap element (20) that at least partially closes the flap aperture (21) in a closed position and can be transferred from the closed position to an open position for at least partially freeing the flap aperture. The flap element (20), in the open position, protrudes at least with an end portion (200) from the housing (10). At least one light element (22) is arranged on the flap element (20) and generates a gleam of light on the end portion (200) of the flap element (20) at least in the open position of the flap element (20).
US09593834B2
A head lamp device for wearing on a head and emitting lights outwardly is disclosed and comprises a cover member, a main control member, a sensing member, and at least two lamps. The main control member is mounted on the cover member. A receiving unit and a control unit are embedded in the main control member and electrically connected with each other wirelessly or wiredly. The sensing member is electrically connected with the main control member and installed in the cover member. The sensing member is detecting an inclined angle of the head and generating a signal for being transmitted to the main control member and received by the receiving unit. The lamps are electrically connected with the control unit. The lamps are controlled to turn on/off, adjust brightness, and change light-on/off priority by the control unit. The sensing member detects the change of the angle via moving the head.
US09593832B2
A security lighting system includes a transformer for transforming high voltage current to low voltage current, and a wiring run having electrically conductive wiring for connecting a plurality of security lights to the transformer. Each security light includes a light module having a low voltage LED light, a hat covering the LED light, and a junction box coupled with the light module. The junction box has an interior compartment containing electrical components including a microprocessor connected with the LED light for controlling operation of the LED light, whereby the electrical components within the junction box are electrically connected with the wiring run. A clamping assembly is coupled with the junction box for securing the security light to a fixed element. Each security light includes a light module having the LED light and the hat overlies the LED light to block the escape of direct light from the light module while allowing reflected light to escape from the light module.
US09593831B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of an artificial tree that is lit by LEDs. Individual trunk modules are provided on trunk sections that provide individual control of LED strings disposed on branches on each of the trunk sections. Remote control devices and smart devices connected to the Internet can control the trunk modules. Spring-loaded flat connectors between the trunk sections, and also between the branches in the trunks, provide a solid electrical connection, which has a low susceptibility to failure. Plastic injection molded branches having injected molded sockets are provided for connecting LEDs that can be plugged directly into sockets on the trunk sections. The LEDs can be driven with an AC or DC electrical power supply.
US09593821B2
Optical module of a lighting and/or signaling device of a motor vehicle, comprising a reflector associated with a light source, in particular comprising an LED, in order to reflect the light coming from this light source, this reflector being formed on a part, in particular a monolithic part, namely produced in one piece, provided with a cooling opening for a circulation of cooling air.
US09593819B2
A sunlight restricting member is disposed between a light emitting element and a lens. The sunlight restricting member is configured (i) to allow direct light from the light emitting element to be incident on the lens and (ii) to restrict sunlight from reaching, through the lens, at least one of the light emitting element and a light source support member.
US09593815B2
An LED light has surrounding lighted geometric art patterns shown on the LED light location's wall. The said LED light power by (1)AC or (2)DC power source though circuit and related electric parts & accessories to make built-in LED(s) to turn on and turn off for predetermined light effects including color changing, fade-in & fade-out and other moving LED(s) effects while LED are install within the main housing on different locations or height or multiple height to emit the light to all directions in order to cover certain range of the said housing and incorporate with decorative piece or slide, printed film or character slide, holes, shaped cutouts, windows with design to form the lighted geometric art pattern surround the said LED light.
US09593807B2
A cryogen vessel port arrangement for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system has a port for guiding cryogen into a cryogen vessel. The port has a siphon tube, a siphon cone, which is in flow connection with the siphon tube, and a pipe with an inlet opening and an outlet opening. The inlet opening is configured for connecting it with a coldhead sock and the outlet opening is in flow connection with the port and the siphon cone. The port has a port component that has a flow channel with a first opening configured for connecting it with a service siphon, a second opening in flow connection with the siphon cone, and a third opening in flow connection with the outlet opening of the pipe.
US09593805B2
A liquid distributing valve includes a housing, an oil supply passage, an oil storage valve and a two-position three-way valve. The oil storage valve is separated into an oil storage chamber and an oil pressing chamber by a piston, and the oil storage chamber is in communication with an oil discharge port and has a spring pressing against the piston. The two-position three-way valve includes a valve body cavity having an oil inlet in communication with the oil supply passage, a valve core and a valve seat having a core hole in communication with the oil storage chamber via a bypass oil passage. When the valve core is at one position, the oil inlet is blocked off, and the oil pressing chamber is in communication with the oil storage chamber. When the valve core is at another position, the core hole is blocked off, lubricant enters the oil inlet.
US09593803B1
A hanger system and method consists of a base mount with a connection device conformed to connect with a separate object. The base mount further includes a mounting stud. An outer receiver head is provided with a quick connect female receiver conformed to connect with and disconnect from the mounting stud and when connected with the mounting stud to secure the connection in place and the outer receiver head includes a performance device.
US09593790B2
An appliance for treatment of items may include: a body defining a chamber to hold the items during treatment; a door to close the chamber during treatment; a base having an opening at an edge of the base, the body being supported on the base; a valve located in the opening; and a clip attached to the base at the opening such that the valve is secured in the opening between the clip and the base.
US09593783B2
An aggregate replacement device may be used to replace rock aggregate in underground drainage systems. An aggregate replacement includes a structure having a proximal face, a distal face, a bottom face and two side faces with a plurality of openings. The two side faces and bottom face have a proximal edge, a distal edge and two side edges. The proximal face and distal face are coupled to the proximal edges or distal edges of the two side faces and bottom face to form an obtuse angle. A first of the side edges of the side faces is coupled to the side edges of the bottom face. A coupler and a locking device are coupled to a second of the side edges of the side faces. The coupler and locking device couple the structure to a second structure with the second of the side edges of the side faces abutting.
US09593774B2
A piston for an axial machine includes a piston body having a cavity that is closed in a pressure-tight way. The cavity is divided into a plurality of chambers, arranged one beside the other in cross-section.
US09593765B2
An electronic auto shift lever, and more particularly, a smart touch type electronic auto shift lever configures a shift operating unit of the auto shift lever. The auto shift lever includes a touch screen and provides a predetermined shift pattern to a user to perform a shift operation by an input through the touch screen, in which the user is allowed to arbitrarily change the shift pattern to provide various shift patterns corresponding to a user's taste, in an auto shift lever of an automatic transmission vehicle.
US09593760B2
A reverse idler support article includes a reverse idler support body that has a disk member, a plateau and a hollow cylinder. The disk member is connected to and in facial contact with the plateau that projects from a first disk member surface and the hollow cylinder that projects from a second disk member surface to define an interior space. The disk member and the plateau have an offset hole formed therethrough that is in communication with the interior space. The offset hole is oriented offset from a central axis of the reverse idler support body which extends generally centrally through the disk member and the interior space of the hollow cylinder.
US09593755B2
A hydrokinetic torque coupling device includes an impeller, a casing having a first engagement surface, a turbine-piston hydrodynamically drivable by the impeller, and a biasing device. The turbine-piston is hydrodynamically drivable by the impeller and includes a turbine-piston shell having a second engagement surface facing the first engagement surface. The turbine-piston is axially displaceable relative to the impeller between a hydrodynamic transmission mode and a lockup mode. The biasing device is configured to exert an axial load against the turbine-piston to urge the turbine-piston axially away from the lockup mode and towards the hydrodynamic transmission mode. The axial load exerted by the biasing device decreases as the turbine-piston moves axially towards the lockup mode and increases as the turbine-piston moves axially away from the lockup mode.
US09593746B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission may include: an input shaft; an output gear; a first planetary gear set including first sun gear, first planet carrier, and first ring gear; a second planetary gear set including second sun gear, second planet carrier, and second ring gear; a third planetary gear set including third sun gear, third planet carrier, and third ring gear; a fourth planetary gear set including fourth sun gear, fourth planet carrier, and fourth ring gear; a first rotation shaft including the first sun gear; a second rotation shaft including the first planet carrier, the second ring gear, the third planet carrier, and the fourth ring gear; a third rotation shaft including the first and third ring gears; a fourth rotation shaft including the second sun gear and selectively connected to a transmission housing; a fifth rotation shaft including the second planet carrier, selectively connected to the first rotation shaft and to the third rotation shaft, and directly connected to the input shaft; a sixth rotation shaft including the third sun gear; a seventh rotation shaft including the fourth sun gear, selectively connected to the sixth rotation shaft, and to the transmission housing; and an eighth rotation shaft including the fourth planet carrier, selectively connected to the sixth rotation shaft, and directly connected to the output gear.
US09593738B2
An active vibration isolation device includes: a housing fixed to a vibration isolation target; a movable shaft elastically supported by the housing displaceably in an axial direction; a yoke having an umbrella-shaped part provided consecutively and coaxially with the movable shaft and a circular cylindrical part provided consecutively with an outer circumference of the umbrella-shaped part and coaxially with the movable shaft; a ring-shaped coil fixed between the movable shaft and the cylindrical part; and first and second permanent magnets in a ring shape attached to the yoke. The first permanent magnet is smaller in diameter than the coil and is disposed inside the coil in a radial direction of the coil. The second permanent magnet is larger in diameter than the coil and is disposed outside the coil in the radial direction so that part thereof is made to face an inside of the yoke.
US09593730B2
A compression spring is disclosed, which is configured to be used for various applications, and in particular for operate accessory linkages. Furthermore, a compression spring retention system is disclosed including a compression spring and a housing in which the compression spring is fixable. The compression spring includes a length of coiled wire having substantially a circular cross-sectional area, wherein at least a first end of the compression spring is formed as a retainer device that is configured to be compressed while being mounted into a recessed chamber of the housing and to expand when inserted into the recessed chamber in a way that the compression spring is fixed at the recessed chamber.
US09593725B2
A self-adjusting clutch (10) can include an automatic adjustment mechanism (20) for decreasing an axial dimension within a clutch pack (14). The adjustment can compensate for wear of the facing surfaces of interposed members located within the clutch pack (14), resulting from repeated engaging and disengaging under a clutch apply load within the clutch (10). The adjustment mechanism (20) can include a reaction plate (12) normally biased toward the clutch pack (14) by a plurality of first springs (22). The adjustment mechanism (20) can further include a plurality of pawls (24) supported for rotation by the reaction plate (12) and biased by a plurality of second springs (26) toward a locking position with respect to a ring member (36). The plurality of pawls (24) can lock the reaction plate (12) against axial movement in a direction of the clutch apply load during clutch actuation.
US09593723B2
A disconnect clutch and method of controlling the connection of a parasitic load to an engine disposed on a machine is disclosed. The disconnect clutch may comprise a flywheel assembly, a friction plate and a coupling. The flywheel assembly may include a flywheel having a cavity, a chamber, a piston moveable between a contracted position and an expanded position, a pressure plate, a lever, and a coupling operably connected to the friction plate. The flywheel may include an end plate. The chamber may be defined by the flywheel and the piston. The lever may apply an activation force to the pressure plate when the piston is in the expanded position. The friction plate may be attached to and rotatable with the flywheel assembly when the piston is in the expanded position and generally stationary when the piston is in the contracted position.
US09593721B2
The present teachings provide for a vehicle drive module including a housing, an electric motor, a transmission gear set, a differential assembly, and a pair of output members. The transmission gear set can transmit rotary power between a motor output shaft and an output of the transmission gear set. The differential assembly can include a case, a pair of pinion gears, and a pair of side gears. Each of the side gears can be meshingly engaged with the pair of pinion gears. Each output member can include a driven body and an outer flange. The driven body can have a first end drivingly coupled to one of the side gears. The outer flange can have a first side that is releasably coupled to the second end of the driven body, and a second side that is adapted to be releasably coupled to a constant velocity joint.
US09593718B2
A multipoint contact ball bearing in constructed to prevent damage to rolling surfaces of the balls and to ensure durability while maintaining radial load capacity. An inner raceway has a complex curved surface including a pair of side surface sections having a generating line shape with a radius of curvature larger than 50% of the ball diameter, and an inner raceway bottom section connecting inside end edges in the width direction of the side surface sections. The inner raceway bottom section is a concave curved surface having a generating line shape with a radius of curvature less than 50% of the ball diameter. The edges of both sides in the width direction of the inner raceway bottom section and the inside end edges of the inner raceway side surface sections are smoothly continuous, and finishing is performed on the inner raceway bottom section and the inner raceway side surface sections.
US09593703B2
An expansion anchor, in particular for mineral construction materials, for example, concrete, is disclosed. A generic expansion anchor is equipped with an expansion sleeve for anchoring on a borehole wall and with an anchor bolt, which is disposed through the expansion sleeve, where the anchor bolt has an expansion region for expansion of the expansion sleeve. The anchor bolt has a cutting thread for cutting a thread into the borehole wall. A respective setting tool and setting method are also disclosed.
US09593701B2
A fastening clip assembly is configured to securely connect a first panel to a second panel. The fastening clip assembly may include a collar, a securing support extending from the collar, and deflectable beams connected to the securing support. The deflectable beams are configured to move in first and second directions when the deflectable beams are mated with one or both of the first and second panels. The first direction differs from the second direction.
US09593681B2
A pump device having a vane-type pump has a check valve in a fluid duct which leads from a pressure region to an under-vane region. The check valve blocks in the direction of the pressure region, preventing pressure from escaping from the under-vane region into the pressure region during the start-up of the vane-type pump.
US09593676B2
A portable and relocateable pump attachment interface provides a fixed link between a first line in communication with a fluid reservoir, and a second line in communication with a mobile storage tank via a pump of a pump truck. The interface includes an interface body that supports a fixed conduit entirely above ground. The front end of the conduit is for coupling to the first line, and the back end of the conduit is for coupling to the second line. The interface body has a fitting access space and a spill containment catch basin disposed under the fitting access space, and the second end of the conduit is located within the fitting access space and over the spill containment basin to catch any spillage from the second line when it is coupled to and uncoupled from the conduit. The interface body can be a concrete block, or be molded plastic filled with sand or water and is massive enough to substantially isolate line one from line 2. A metal conduit cover controls access to the front end of the conduit by enclosing the fixture access space.
US09593675B2
A heat driven liquid close-loop automatic circulating system is provided. This system circulates the liquid in a close-loop by the collected heat in the loop. The system may operate without external power for the pump. The heat driven liquid close-loop automatic circulating system may employ a modified self-powered pump for heated liquid. The pump includes an airtight container for containing the heated liquid, a inlet and a outlet of the heated liquid, further more the modified self-powered pump has a breathing channel with a liquid vapor condensing and reflux structure. The heat driven liquid close-loop automatic circulating system may be a solar heated liquid close-loop automatic circulating system with a solar heat collector.
US09593671B2
A system for transmitting signals, including a device for transmitting data between a movable and stationary portion of a windmill, to be installed on either portion, and including: connection elements for connecting at least one wireline to a plurality of groups to receive a plurality of respective data flows, each flow coming from a corresponding apparatus installed on the mobile portion or stationary portion; elements for processing the received streams, configured to assign a priority parameter value to each received stream, and in the event of concomitant reception of multiple streams, to compare the values of the priority parameter that are associated with the received streams and transmit by priority to a module for transceiving the radiofrequency signals, with a view to a radiofrequency transmission to the other of mobile or stationary portion, the stream associated with the value of the priority parameter corresponding to the highest degree of priority.
US09593667B2
A wind turbine generator is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the wind turbine generator comprises an electrical generator 101 configured to generate AC signals, a plurality of power converters 110,112,111 operated by a gating signal with each power converter configured to convert the AC signals from the electrical generator 101 into fixed frequency AC signals. The wind turbine generator further comprises a controller configured to enter a fault mode when a grid voltage falls outside an acceptable threshold, and during the fault mode the controller is configured to provide a reactive current reference dependant on a grid voltage distant from the wind turbine generator. A method of controlling a wind turbine generator is also disclosed.
US09593661B2
A preheater assembly of a glowplug and a hollow sheath extending longitudinally from a bottom external zone to a top external zone, the sheath extending radially from an inside surface defining a cavity towards an outside surface, the glowplug being inserted in the cavity, the tip projecting from the sheath through the bottom external zone, the inside surface of the sheath presenting a second thread meshing with a first thread of the glowplug, the inside surface of the sheath presenting a first conical seat bearing against the first conical bearing surface of the glowplug, the outside surface of the bottom external zone having a third thread screwed into a cylinder head and a second bearing surface that bears against the second seat of a cylinder head.
US09593657B2
In a drive unit of a fuel injection device, an electric current is supplied to the fuel injection device by applying a high voltage to the fuel injection device from a high voltage source whose voltage is boosted to a voltage higher than a battery voltage at the time of opening a valve of the fuel injection device. Thereafter, the electric current supplied to the fuel injection device is lowered to a current value at which a valve element cannot be held in a valve open state by stopping the applying of the high voltage from the high voltage source. Thereafter, in a stage where a supply current is switched to a hold current, another high voltage is applied to the fuel injection device from the high voltage source.
US09593656B2
A fuel injector includes a valve member for selectively preventing and permitting flow of fuel through a valve seat by selectively engaging and disengaging the valve seat, an actuator for selectively applying a force to the valve member in order to unseat the valve member from the valve seat, and a return spring which biases the valve member into contact with the valve seat when the actuator is not applying the force to the valve member. A calibration tube is positioned within the fuel tube and holds the return spring in compression so as to set a force on the return spring to achieve a desired dynamic flow of fuel through the fuel injector. The calibration tube includes at least one protrusion extending outward therefrom such that the protrusion engages the fuel tube, thereby creating a spring fit between the calibration tube and the fuel tube.
US09593655B2
A fuel delivery system for a direct injection internal combustion engine having two fuel rails and a plurality of fuel injectors attached to and fluidly connected with each fuel rail. A first fuel pump has its output connected with the first fuel rail while a second fuel pump has its output connected with the second fuel rail. A crossover pipe fluidly connects the outlets of both the first and second pumps. Both the first pump and the second pump each have an intake stroke and a pumping stroke. Furthermore, the intake stroke of the first pump coincides with the pumping stroke of the second pump and vice versa.
US09593653B2
Systems and methods are provided for operating a direct injection fuel pump. One example system comprises an accumulator positioned within a bore of the direct injection fuel pump in a coaxial manner wherein the accumulator is positioned downstream from a solenoid activated check valve. The accumulator may regulate pressure in a compression chamber of the direct injection fuel pump and a high pressure fuel rail when the direct injection fuel pump is operating in a default pressure mode.
US09593650B2
A fuel supply device is provided with a fuel pump and a filter. The fuel pump supplies fuel from a fuel tank to an engine. The filter is disposed upstream from the fuel pump in a fuel supply channel. The filter includes a first filter portion and a second filter portion. The first filter portion and the second filter portion filter the fuel. The second filter portion is disposed above the first filter portion when the filter is disposed inside the fuel tank. A density of gaps in the second filter portion is larger than a density of gaps in the first filter portion.
US09593647B2
An intercooler for an internal combustion engine has a fin-and-tube block including a plurality of flat heat transfer units having internal fluid passages orientated transversely to the direction of air flow, and arranged parallel to one another to define gaps therebetween. Fin units are disposed in the gaps and contact adjacent heat transfer units. Each fin unit defines a longitudinally-oriented air flow passage, the air flow passages having a first air flow area at an air inlet end and a second air flow area at an air outlet end, the first air flow area greater than the second air flow area. The fins of the fin units converge in the direction of the air flow through the passage so that the pitch of the fins at the air inlet end of is greater than the pitch of the fins at the air outlet end.
US09593641B2
An exemplary piston may include a piston body having radially inner and outer body mating surfaces. The piston may further include a cooling gallery ring cooperating with the piston body to form a continuous upper combustion bowl surface and a cooling gallery. The cooling gallery ring may have radially inner and outer ring mating surfaces abutted along their corresponding radially inner and outer body mating surfaces, such that the cooling gallery is substantially enclosed. The piston body and cooling gallery ring may be joined together along the radially inner and radially outer interface regions to form a generally one-piece piston assembly. The radially outer interface region may be elongated in a direction parallel to the piston axis, e.g., facilitating a laser welding joining process.
US09593639B2
A cylinder liner is disclosed for use with an engine. The cylinder liner may have a hollow generally cylindrical body with a top end and a bottom end, and a flange extending radially outward at the top end of the hollow generally cylindrical body. The cylinder liner may also have a seal end stop formed on an outer annular surface of the hollow generally cylindrical body an axial distance away from the flange, and an annular groove formed within the outer annular surface of the hollow generally cylindrical body at a location between the end stop and the bottom end.
US09593635B2
A control device for an internal combustion engine, equipped with: an exhaust purification catalyst capable of storing oxygen; a downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor arranged downstream in the direction of flow of exhaust from the exhaust purification catalyst; and an air-fuel ratio control device that controls the air-fuel ratio such that air-fuel ratio of the exhaust flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst reaches a target air-fuel ratio. The control device changes the target air-fuel ratio to a lean air-fuel ratio setting when the exhaust air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor reaches a rich air-fuel ratio, and then changes the target air-fuel ratio to a slightly lean air-fuel ratio setting before the exhaust air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor reaches a lean air-fuel ratio, and then changes the target air-fuel ratio to a rich air-fuel ratio setting when the exhaust air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor reaches a lean air-fuel ratio, and then changes the target air-fuel ratio to a slightly rich air-fuel ratio setting before the exhaust air-fuel ratio detected by the downstream-side air-fuel ratio sensor reaches a rich air-fuel ratio.
US09593634B2
In a diesel engine, an inside of a cylinder is divided into intra-cavity and extra-cavity regions. Ideal heat release rate waveform models, each formed of an isosceles triangle in which each oblique line gradient is a reaction rate, an area is a reaction amount and a base length is a reaction period with a reaction start temperature as a base point, are generated respectively for a vaporization reaction, low-temperature oxidation reaction, thermal decomposition reaction and high-temperature oxidation reaction of injected fuel for each region. An ideal heat release rate waveform of the reaction modes is generated by smoothing the ideal heat release rate waveform models through filtering and combining the ideal heat release rate waveforms, and is compared with an actual heat release rate waveform obtained from a detected in-cylinder pressure. A reaction mode having a deviation larger than or equal to a predetermined amount is diagnosed as being abnormal.
US09593631B2
Systems and methods for estimating an engine event location are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a controller is configured to receive a signal from at least one knock sensor coupled to a reciprocating engine, transform the signal, using a multivariate transformation algorithm, into a power spectral density, transform the power spectral density into a plurality of feature vectors using predictive frequency bands, predict the engine event location using at least the plurality of feature vectors and a predictive model, and adjust operation of the reciprocating engine based on the engine event location.
US09593630B2
During an operation, a control device (38) for performing output control of an engine (10) determines whether or not the engine (10) and/or an exhaust gas purifying device (18) has a malfunction. If it is determined that the engine (10) and/or the exhaust gas purifying device (18) has a malfunction, a highest rotational speed of the engine (10) is controlled to a second rotational speed (Nt) higher by a predetermined amount (α) than a first rotational speed (Ns) at which an engine maximum torque (Tm) before the malfunction can be outputted. In this case, a maximum fuel injection quantity of the engine (10) is limited so that a rated torque (Tr) before the malfunction can be outputted at the first rotational speed (Ns).
US09593628B2
A method of managing a gas turbine engine variable area fan nozzle includes the steps of evaluating an icing condition to determine the likelihood of ice presence. A variable area fan nozzle position is altered if ice is likely present or actually present. The gas turbine engine includes a fan nacelle including a flap configured to be moveable between first and second positions. An actuator is operatively coupled to the flap. A controller is configured to evaluate an icing condition to determine the likelihood of ice presence. The controller is configured to alter a variable area fan nozzle position schedule if ice is likely present by providing a command to the actuator to adjust the flap from the first position to the second position.
US09593621B2
Embodiments for a lubrication system for an internal combustion engine are provided. In one example, a lubrication system for an internal combustion engine comprises a lubricant circuit, a radiator for cooling the lubricant, a heat accumulator arranged upstream of the engine for warming up the lubricant, the heat accumulator connected in parallel to the radiator, and a valve for switching over the lubricant circuit between the radiator and the heat accumulator. In this way, the oil may be rapidly heated during cold engine start conditions.
US09593614B2
An exhaust gas purification system includes a previous-stage oxidation catalyst device, an ammonia-based solution feeder, a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) device, a turbine of a turbocharger, and a NOx selective reduction catalyst device in the exhaust system of an internal combustion engine in this order from an exhaust port side. The NH3 production rate is improved, thereby improving the NOx removal rate; the temperature of the DPF device is kept high to increase the time and frequency of continuous regeneration, thus decreasing the frequency of forced regeneration of the DPF device and the amount of discharge of CO2 produced during the forced regeneration; and also corrosion of the turbine of the turbocharger by SOx is suppressed.
US09593611B2
It is possible to decrease the amount of NOx emitted into the air. The amount of ammonia adsorbed on an SCR catalyst is calculated by subtracting the amount of ammonium nitrate produced on the SCR catalyst from the amount of ammonia adsorbed on the SCR catalyst at the time of starting of an internal combustion engine, and the amount of NO2 flowing into the SCR catalyst is decreased when an NOx purification rate estimated from the amount of ammonia adsorbed on the SCR catalyst is less than a threshold value compared to when the NOx purification rate is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
US09593609B2
A method for reducing NOx emissions in the exhaust of a combined cycle gas turbine equipped with a heat recovery boiler and a catalyst effective for NOx reduction, wherein a slip stream of hot flowing exhaust gases is withdrawn from the primary gas flow after the catalyst at a temperature of 500° F. to 900° F. and directed through a fan to a continuous duct into which an aqueous based reagent is injected for decomposition to ammonia gas and the outlet of the continuous duct is connected to an injection grid positioned in the primary exhaust for injection of ammonia gas into the primary exhaust stream at a location upstream of the catalyst.
US09593608B2
Ceramic honeycomb structures and methods to make the same are disclosed. The structures may be comprised of at least two separate smaller ceramic honeycombs that have been coated with a polymer to create a polymeric barrier coating and adhered together with a cement comprised of inorganic fibers and a binding phase which is comprised of amorphous silicate, aluminite or alumino silicate glass and other inorganic particles. The polymer is selected such that it is penetratable into or covering the pores in the honeycomb structure to form a thin barrier layer thereon to mitigate migration of the inorganic fibers, binding phase and water into the pores. The polymer is adapted to be burned off or decomposed at or below cement and honeycomb skin firing temperatures, or at or below honeycomb operating temperatures during application to create a honeycomb structure that, when formed into an exhaust filter, does not have any undesired pressure drop increase due to cement migration.
US09593598B2
A steam conditioning system for discharging bypass steam into a condenser of a steam powered generating plant and other uses. The system includes a steam conditioning device comprising an inner evaporative core and an outer shell. The core may be formed of a tubular piping section disposed at least partially inside the outer shell forming an annular space therebetween. An inlet end of the core receives steam from a piping header fluidly connected to an upstream desuperheating pressure reducing station which injects liquid coolant into the steam stream. Steam discharges through the core outlet end into the outer shell, reverses direction, and flows into the condenser. In one embodiment, the steam conditioning device may be disposed inside the dome of the condenser except for the inlet end. The device intends to increase flow residence time to evaporate entrained carryover coolant droplets in the incoming steam before release to the condenser.
US09593586B2
A vane assembly for a gas turbine engine comprises at least one vane, a first platform and a second platform. The at least one vane has a first end and an opposite second end with the first end of the at least one vane being secured in a corresponding first aperture in the first platform, and the second end of the at least one vane being secured in a corresponding second aperture in the second platform.The at least one vane intersects the first platform at an acute angle, and the at least one vane intersects the second platform at an obtuse angle with the acute angle and the obtuse angle being supplementary to one another.
US09593584B2
The present invention relates to a turbine rotor blade of a gas turbine with a blade tip, said blade tip having at least on its suction side, extending from a stagnation point on the blade leading edge to an intersection point of the suction-side profile line of the blade with a trailing-edge circle, an overhang which is substantially zero at the stagnation point and at the intersection point and which has a maximum value at around 40% of the running length of the suction-side overhang.
US09593582B2
A propulsion device including an unducted upstream propeller and a counter-rotating and coaxial downstream propeller. At least one blade of the upstream propeller is configured to generate a corotating secondary vortex for acting upstream of the downstream propeller to destabilize a blade tip vortex of the same at least one blade.
US09593569B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a system for removably attaching an optical fiber sensor loop onto a tubular member, which includes an optical fiber sensor loop having a continuous optical fiber positioned arranged in a plurality of loops, each of said loops having a first end turn and a second end turn, a first and a second turn guide each including a plurality of turn grooves increasing outwardly in increasing radii, each of said turn grooves configured to receive an end turn portion of the optical fiber, a first and a second supporting wedge each having a planar first surface configured to receive a turn guide and a curved second surface configured to be received on the tubular member, and a connector configured to couple the first mounting wedge to the second mounting wedge.
US09593566B2
A method of facilitating a drilling operation includes: receiving a current set point for a drilling operation, the current set point indicating a value of an operational parameter at which the drilling operation is being performed; receiving a global limit indicating at least one of a maximum and a minimum value of the operational parameter that is permitted to be applied for the drilling operation; defining a local limit for the operational parameter, the local limit indicating at least one of a local maximum value and a local minimum value of the operational parameter; receiving a parameter change value, the parameter change value indicating a proposed change to the operational parameter from the current set point; and selecting a level of automation by which the operational parameter can be adjusted, the level of automation based on a comparison of the parameter change value and the local limit.
US09593563B2
The instant disclosure provides a method of generating steam for the recovery of hydrocarbon from a hydrocarbon producing system including (i) generating supercritical steam from water; (ii) converting the supercritical steam to a subcritical steam; and (iii) injecting the subcritical steam into the system.
US09593562B2
A fuel cell for use in downhole applications stores steam created by the chemical reaction in a desiccant like Zeolite. The fuel cell also uses ambient hydrostatic pressure to increase cell voltage and power-density.
US09593561B2
A hanger assembly for use in a vertical production tree that includes an annular piping spool member having a side opening, and a hanger having an outer surface profiled to selectively land in the piping spool member and a side opening registered with the side opening of the piping spool member. The hanger assembly also includes a vertical penetrator having an end selectively connected to a submersible device and an opposing end inserted into the hanger, and that is in communication with the side openings.
US09593555B2
A system can include at least one check valve which prevents outward flow through a wall of a tubular string in a well, the wall surrounding a longitudinally extending flow passage of the tubular string. The check valve can include a ball or poppet which sealingly engages a seat. Another system can include multiple redundant check valves which prevent outward flow through a wall of a tubular string in a well. A well tool can include multiple redundant check valves which prevent flow in one direction through the wall, and which permit flow in an opposite direction through the wall. Each of the multiple redundant check valves can include a ball or poppet which sealingly engages a seat.
US09593553B2
A sliding sleeve opens with a deployed ball. The sleeve has a seat disposed in the housing, and the seat has segments biased outward from one another with a C-ring or other biasing element. Initially, the seat has an expanded state in the sliding sleeve so that the seats segments expand outward against the housing's bore. When an appropriately sized ball is deployed downhole, the ball engages the expanded seat. Fluid pressure applied against the seated ball moves the seat into the inner sleeve's bore. As this occurs, the seat contracts, which increases the engagement area of the seat with the ball. Eventually, the seat reaches the shoulder in the inner sleeve so that pressure applied against the seated ball now moves the inner sleeve in the housing to open the sliding sleeve's flow port.
US09593551B2
Packers may be inflated within the wellbore to engage and isolate a portion of the wellbore wall. Charges included within the packers may then be fired to perforate the formation. According to certain embodiments, the charges may be located within drains in the packers that can be subsequently employed to sample the surrounding formation.
US09593549B2
The present disclosure is directed to a locking assembly to attach a quickset casing head of a wellhead assembly to a landing mandrel attached to a surface casing in a drilling operation. A locking ring, comprised of a plurality of arcuate segments, is arranged between the quickset casing head and the landing mandrel. Each of the plurality of arcuate segments is clamped down onto the landing mandrel with a plurality of radially spaced lockdown bolts fastened through the quickset casing head. The clamping enables a seal between the quickset casing head and the landing mandrel without requiring arduous welding.
US09593543B2
A drill head assembly for receiving a drill rod in an operative position. The drill head assembly has a chuck and cradle configured for movement between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the longitudinal axis of the chuck is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of a drill mast. In the second position, the longitudinal axis of the chuck is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the drill mast. From the first position, the cradle is configured for sequential axial and then pivotal movement relative to the transverse axis to reach the second position, with pivotal movement being restricted until axial movement is completed. Drill rod handling systems having such drill head assemblies, and methods of using such drill head assemblies, are also disclosed.
US09593541B2
An elongate drill component for percussive drilling includes a female threaded end having an outer diameter (Dot), a male threaded end, and a central section between the ends having an outer diameter (Doc). The outer diameter of the female threaded end is larger than the outer diameter of the central section. A through-going flushing channel includes a central flushing channel having a diameter (Dic) and thread flushing channels having a diameter (Dit). The ratio of an elastic section modulus of a threaded joint measured when the female threaded end is connected to the male threaded end of an identical component to an elastic section modulus of the central section, St/Sc, is more than 1.5 and in that a ratio of the diameter of the central flushing channel to the outer diameter of the central section, Dic/Doc is between 0.45 and 0.95.
US09593536B2
A casing drilling system includes combination conduit of a casing and a pipe inside the casing. A first adapter has a flow diverter to redirect at least flow of drilling fluid returning from a bottom of a wellbore to either an interior of the pipe or an annular space between the casing and the pipe. A second adapter has a flow diverter to redirect flow of drilling fluid into the conduit through the other one of the interior of the pipe and the annular space. The second adapter has a fluid connection between either the interior of the pipe or the annular space and a rotationally fixed fluid outlet. The system includes a casing chuck having means to support the casing and a slidable conduit operable to expose an uppermost end of the casing and a connection between the second adapter and an uppermost end of the pipe.
US09593533B2
An apparatus including a housing, a shaft rotatably extending through the housing, and a bearing assembly for supporting the shaft within the housing, wherein the bearing assembly includes a focal bearing assembly for accommodating tilting of the shaft within the housing and a thrust bearing assembly for transferring thrust loads between the housing and the shaft, and wherein the thrust bearing assembly includes at least two thrust bearings arranged in a load sharing configuration and complementary oblique thrust surfaces for transferring thrust loads through the thrust bearings.
US09593532B2
A ladder mounting and retaining system for use on building parapets utilizes a parapet support member secured to the parapet of a building, a ladder support member for retaining the sides of the lengths of a ladder, and a connecting member in the form of a threaded rod, interconnecting the parapet support member and the ladder support member for maintaining these members at a given distance from each other. The parapet support member is secured in position by locking nuts threaded around the connecting member and the ladder support member is secured over the outboard edge of the parapet by retention members. Ladder supports are adjustable on the ladder support member to accommodate ladders of different widths.
US09593529B2
The spool assembly comprising a spool, a surface of the spool including one or more recesses in which a line member is adapted to be retained, and a cover portion adapted to be positioned over at least a portion of the spool such that, in use, the line member is prevented from passing between the spool and an inner surface of the cover portion.
US09593521B2
Control system for controlling at least one part of a vehicle includes a plurality of sensor systems mounted at different locations on the vehicle, each sensor system providing a measurement related to a state thereof system or a measurement related to a state of the mounting location. A processor is coupled to the sensor systems and diagnoses the state of the vehicle itself and optionally its dynamic motion based on the measurements of the sensor systems. The processor controls each part based at least in part on the diagnosed state of the vehicle.
US09593520B2
A sliding door module structure for a vehicle may include a module bracket on which a door associated component is mounted, and a door rail formed integrally with the module bracket and coupled with a slider configured to be connected to a vehicle body to be movable.
US09593510B2
Disclosed is a docking station for an electronic device including a first connector block slidably connected to a first side of the docking station, a second connector block opposite the first connector block and slidably connected to a second side of the docking station, a first plug of the first connector block positioned to interface with a first port of the electronic device, a first port on the docking station electrically connected to the first plug, a first dummy plug of the second connector block positioned to interface with a second port of the electronic device, and a security hole for receiving a lock.
US09593497B2
An anti-skid mat utilized in the field of metal roofing and including a skid-resistant material exhibiting flexible properties and having a generally planar configuration with a length, width and thickness. A plurality of hinges or flex lines design into the material and which enable the material to conform to any irregular surface associated with the metal roof. Said material having a magnetic attracting underside such that placement of the material upon the metal roof securely supports the weight of a user standing on the mat without slippage relative to the roof.
US09593494B2
A transition strip for covering a gap between two spaced floor finishes on a subfloor comprising: a strip extending along a longitudinal axis and presenting in cross-section to said longitudinal axis: an upper surface adapted for covering the gap; spaced first and second legs depending from said strip, said first leg longer than said second leg; a first lower surface portion extending outwardly from said first leg said first lower surface portion adapted to cover one edge of the two spaced floor finishes; a second lower surface portion extending outwardly from said second leg, said second lower portion adapted to cover an edge of the other one of the two spaced floor finishes. A method for installing transition strips is also described.
US09593488B2
A roof panel includes a planar body having top and bottom edges, with a downturn edge extending therebetween, and an opposing channel edge. The downturn edge overlays a channel edge of an adjacent panel. The bottom edge overlays a top edge of another adjacent panel. A plurality of courses extends between the channel and downturn edges. Each course includes a nesting ridge to receive the downturn edge of an adjacent panel and to position a top surface of the panel flush with adjacent panels. Surface channels and contoured ridges are defined within each course. A drain aperture of the drip edge aligns with an adjacent channel edge to direct material through the drain aperture and onto adjacent panels. A gable member engages an edge when the panel has one or fewer laterally adjacent panels, wherein the gable member is flush with the adjacent planar body.
US09593486B2
A structural component for use in building construction including a first and second support material member, an insulating material, and a first securing member. The first support material member may have a first length, a first side, and an opposing second side. The second support material member may have a second length, a first side, and an opposing second side. The second support material member may oppose the first support material member. The insulating material may be disposed between the first support material member and the second support material member. The first securing member may be adapted to secure the first support material member to the second support material member.
US09593484B2
A free-standing wall includes an internal frame, a pair of wall panel assemblies supported on each side of the internal frame by cleats and a top plate. The internal frame includes opposing sides that define a thickness. Each of the pair of wall panel assemblies includes a panel having an interior surface and a width. The top plate includes a width that is at least as great as a combined dimension of the thickness of the internal frame and the widths of each panel. The top plate is coupled to a top of the internal frame to secure the pair of wall panel assemblies to the internal frame.
US09593482B2
A bar of a support structure for a false ceiling is described. The bar has an elongated shape along a longitudinal direction and includes at least two sheet metal portions located side by side or overlapped, in contact or adherent, with each other along said longitudinal direction, or short side direction. In the bar a transverse direction, or short-side direction, extending transverse to, or intersecting, said longitudinal direction is defined. At least one of the sheet metal portions has cuts defining partially cut parts, wherein a partially cut part of said at least one of the sheet metal portions protrudes towards the other of said sheet metal portions in a thickness direction so as to determine an interference of parts in the thickness direction. The cuts are arranged, are directed, or extend along said transverse direction and the partially cut parts have, when viewed in perspective, an at least partially curvilinear or concave profile.
US09593469B2
A method for controlling a work vehicle based on a monitored tip condition of the work vehicle may generally include determining, with a computing device, a combined center of gravity for the work vehicle based at least in part on an external load applied to a loader arm of the work vehicle, determining a tip-related state of the work vehicle based on a location of the combined center of gravity relative to a pivot point defined between a tire of the work vehicle and a driving surface for the work vehicle and automatically performing a corrective action to counteract vehicle tipping when it is determined that the work vehicle is in a tipping state.
US09593468B2
A work implement requirement determination unit of a work vehicle determines a work implement required power based on the operation amount of a work implement operating member and the work implement pump pressure. A transmission requirement determination unit determines a transmission required power based on the vehicle speed and the operation amount of the accelerator operating member. When the sum of the work implement required power and the transmission required power is greater than a first distributable power that a predetermined preferential distribution power subtracted from a load upper limit power of the engine leaves, a distribution ratio determination unit allocates the smaller of a transmission compensation power and the transmission required power to a power transmission device and distributes the remainder of the first distributable power to the work implement pump and to a power transmission device.
US09593467B2
An inexpensive engine assist device capable of performing stable energy regeneration from an accumulator and a working machine on which the engine assist device is mounted are provided. A variable capacity type main pump and a variable capacity type assist pump are directly connected to an engine. A return pressure oil flowing out from a fluid pressure actuator is temporarily accumulated by a sub-accumulator and is supplied to an inlet of the assist pump, and the assist pump pressurizes the return fluid pressure oil and supplies the return fluid pressure oil to a main accumulator. A controller calculates and controls an assist pump swash plate angle, and assist starting torque or charge starting torque, and introduces a pressure-accumulated fluid discharged from the main accumulator to the inlet of the assist pump or introduces a pressurized fluid discharged from an outlet of the assist pump into the main accumulator.
US09593456B2
A sheet piling for mandrel-installed engagement with an identical adjacent sheet piling. The mandrel has a guide hook and a rotating toe protector. The sheet piling has a female interlocking feature with a pair of hooks and an engagement hook for releasably engaging the mandrel guide hook. The sheet piling also has a male interlocking feature with a pair of hooks configured to engage the pair of female hooks of an adjacent sheet piling in a multi-piling wall structure.
US09593454B2
A barrier system for alternately shutting and opening the vehicle entrance or pedestrian entrance of two lines or transport paths which cross one another and of which one is at least twice as wide as the other. On the four corners of the lines (15, 16) which cross one another, in each case one barrier system (17) with in each case one barrier boom (1, 18) which can be pivoted horizontally out of the vehicle entrance of one line (15) into the vehicle entrance of the other line (16) is installed. Two of the barrier systems (17) which lie diagonally opposite to one another and have in each case one barrier boom (1) which can be folded lengthwise from an elongate position. The two other barrier systems (17) which lie diagonally opposite to one another have in each case one conventional barrier boom (18) which is rigid over its entire length.
US09593452B2
Fibrous structures that exhibit a Tensile Ratio of less than 1.75 and/or less than 1.49 as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method described herein and a Geometric Mean Modulus (GM Modulus) of less than 1402.4 g/cm at 15 g/cm and/or a Machine Direction Modulus (MD Modulus) of less than 1253.4 g/cm at 15 g/cm and/or a Cross Machine Direction Modulus (CD Modulus) of less than 1569.2 g/cm at 15 g/cm, are provided.
US09593446B2
With a wire rope comprising at least one plastic core (11) and a number of wire strands (15) twisted around the latter a helical groove (20) is respectively produced by machining around the periphery of the plastic core (11) for each wire strand (15). The cross section of these helical grooves (20) is respectively matched to the outside diameter of the wire strands (15). The plastic core (11) is provided with the helical grooves (20) for receiving the wire strands (15) by this machining directly before the wire strands (15) are wound onto said core. By thus forming the wire rope by means of this machining in order to produce helical grooves of the plastic core, optimal guiding of the wire strands in the twisted state is achieved, and so overall there are improvements to the properties of the wire rope.
US09593436B2
A process for producing a tapered multifilament yarn comprising feeding a drawable filament to a drawing apparatus and changing the take-over speed relative to the feed speed of the filament in order to change the thickness of the filament in a longitudinal direction, characterized by making the take-over speed slower than the feed speed under heating in a part of the filament in the longitudinal direction and thereby shrinking and thickening the part of the filament. According to the process, the ratio of the thickness of the thickest part of the tapered multifilament yarn to the thickness of the thinnest part thereof can be easily increased.
US09593434B2
In a rotating disk reactor (1) for growing epitaxial layers on substrate (3), gas directed toward the substrates at different radial distances from the axis of rotation of the disk has substantially the same velocity. The gas directed toward portions of the disk remote from the axis (10a) may include a higher concentration of a reactant gas (4) than the gas directed toward portions of the disk close to the axis (10d), so that portions of the substrate surfaces at different distances from the axis (14) receive substantially the same amount of reactant gas (4) per unit area. A desirable flow pattern is achieved within the reactor while permitting uniform deposition and growth of epitaxial layers on the substrate.
US09593433B2
The present invention is provided with a support on a gripping member, the support being composed of linear springs which elastically support an engaging portion. Thus, the support can be reused, and generation of rupture and dislocation of a single crystal ingot from a gripping part of the engaging portion can be prevented.
US09593430B2
The present invention is to provide a substrate holder which can effect a more complete sealing with a sealing member and makes it possible to take a substrate out of the substrate holder easily and securely, and also a plating apparatus provided with the substrate holder. The substrate holder includes: a fixed holding member and a movable holding member for holding a substrate therebetween; a sealing member mounted to the fixed holding member or the movable holding member; and a suction pad for attracting a back surface of the substrate held between the fixed holding member and the movable holding member.
US09593429B2
Provided are a method of fabricating a photonic crystal having a desired photonic bandgap, and a method of fabricating a color filter, including providing a photonic crystal solution in which a plurality of colloidal particles that are electrically charged are dispersed, mixing a photopolymerizable monomer mixture in the photonic crystal solution to form a photopolymerizable monomer-crystal mixture, applying an electric field to the photopolymerizable monomer-crystal mixture to electrically control intervals between the plurality of colloidal particles, and irradiating ultraviolet light to the photopolymerizable monomer-crystal mixture to photopolymerize the monomer mixture to form the photonic crystal or the color filter.
US09593426B2
A method for electrofilling large, high aspect ratio recessed features with copper without depositing substantial amounts of copper in the field region is provided. The method allows completely filling recessed features having aspect ratios of at least about 5:1 such as at least about 10:1, and widths of at least about 1 μm in a substantially void-free manner without depositing more than 5% of copper in the field region (relative to the thickness deposited in the recessed feature). The method involves contacting the substrate having one or more large, high aspect ratio recessed features (such as a TSVs) with an electrolyte comprising copper ions and an organic dual state inhibitor (DSI) configured for inhibiting copper deposition in the field region, and electrodepositing copper under potential-controlled conditions, where the potential is controlled not exceed the critical potential of the DSI.
US09593422B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including: performing a pre-process to a substrate, on a surface of which a metal film or a GST film is formed, such that a first film is formed on the metal film or the GST film by executing at least one cycle of alternately performing (i) supplying a first processing gas, and (ii) supplying a second processing gas that is not activated by plasma excitation; and performing a formation process to the substrate to which the pre-process has been performed such that a second film is formed on the first film by executing at least one cycle of alternately (i) supplying the first processing gas, and (ii) supplying the second processing gas that is activated by plasma excitation.
US09593416B2
A precursor source vessel comprises a vessel body, a passage within the vessel body, and a valve attached to a surface of the body. An internal chamber is adapted to contain a chemical reactant, and the passage extends from outside the body to the chamber. The valve regulates flow through the passage. The vessel has inlet and outlet valves, and optionally a vent valve for venting internal gas. An external gas panel can include at least one valve fluidly interposed between the outlet valve and a substrate reaction chamber. Gas panel valves can each be positioned along a plane that is generally parallel to, and no more than about 10.0 cm from, a flat surface of the vessel. Filters in a vessel lid or wall filter gas flow through the vessel's valves. A quick-connection assembly allows fast and easy connection of the vessel to a gas panel.
US09593413B2
A process for producing nanocomposite materials for use in batteries includes electroactive materials are incorporated within a nanosheet host material. The process may include treatment at high temperatures and doping to obtain desirable properties.
US09593410B2
Methods and apparatus for processing substrates are provided herein. In some embodiments, a physical vapor deposition chamber includes a first RF power supply having a first base frequency and coupled to one of a target or a substrate support; and a second RF power supply having a second base frequency and coupled to one of the target or the substrate support, wherein the first and second base frequencies are integral multiples of each other, wherein the second base frequency is modified to an offset second base frequency that is not an integral multiple of the first base frequency.
US09593402B1
A system for treating wire includes an elongated vessel that contains a molten fluid. A pump is disposed in the molten fluid in the vessel. The pump includes an elongated discharge conduit extending for at least a portion of the length of the vessel. Conveyance structure enables the wire to be conveyed through the molten fluid. Operation of the pump enables a temperature of the molten fluid in the vessel to be changed. The wire is heat treated as a result of passing through the molten fluid.
US09593397B2
An alloy and an implant having a three-dimensional structure based on such alloy. The alloy comprises a MgZnCa alloy containing nanosized precipitates being less noble than the Mg matrix alloy and having a Zn content ranging 0.1 wt. % Zn to 2 wt. % Zn and a calcium content ranging from 0.2 wt. % to 0.5 wt. %, and having less than 0.04 wt. % of one or more other elements with the remainder being Mg. For these micro-alloys, any second phase generated during the solidification process can be completely dissolved by a solution heat treatment. Finely dispersed nanosized precipitates can then be generated by a subsequent aging heat treatment step. These precipitates are used to “pin” the grain boundaries and to prevent the coarsening of the grain structure during further processing to achieve grain sizes below 5 μm.
US09593395B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is directed to a metastable β titanium alloy comprising, in weight percentages: up to 0.05 nitrogen; up to 0.10 carbon; up to 0.015 hydrogen; up to 0.10 iron; greater than 0.20 oxygen; 14.00 to 16.00 molybdenum; titanium; and incidental impurities. Articles of manufacture including the alloy also are disclosed.
US09593394B2
Disclosed is a process of leaching gold that can be inexpensively and efficiently carried out from a mixture containing sulfur and gold, typically from the material containing sulfur and gold that is an intermediate product recovered by the flotation method in the hydrometallurgical method. Specifically, disclosed is a process of leaching gold from the mixture containing elemental sulfur and gold, the process involving combining the mixture containing elemental sulfur and gold and an aqueous solution of hydroxide of one or more of metals of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, the hydroxides reacting with elemental sulfur to form thiosulfate of alkali and/or alkaline earth metal, and the gold thereby being leached by reaction with the thiosulfate.
US09593383B2
Provided are compositions, kits, and methods for the identification of Listeria. In certain aspects and embodiments, the compositions, kits, and methods may provide improvements in relation to specificity, sensitivity, and speed of detection.
US09593377B2
The present invention provides methods of detecting cancer using biomarkers.
US09593376B2
The present invention relates to a method of assessing a favorable or, on the contrary, an unfavorable prognosis of a cancer in the subject, which method comprises detecting the presence of a mutated Natural Cytotoxicity-triggering Receptor 3 (NCR3) nucleic acid, an abnormal relative amount of at least one particular Natural Killer p30 (NKp30) RNA transcript isoform, and/or an abnormal Natural Killer p30 (NKp30) expression or activity of at least one particular NKp30 protein isoform in a sample from the subject, the presence of mutated NCR3 nucleic acid, abnormal relative amount of at least one particular NKp30 RNA transcript isoform, or abnormal expression or activity of at least one particular NKp30 protein isoform being indicative of the prognosis of cancer in the subject.
US09593375B2
The present invention provides methods for analyzing large nucleic acids including chromosomes and chromosomal fragments. In one aspect, the present invention provides a method of nucleic acid analysis comprising the steps of (a) obtaining a sample of nucleic acid comprising at least one chromosome or fragment greater than about 1000 base pairs in length and containing a target region; (b) creating an emulsion in which each drop of the emulsion contains an average of between about 0-2, 0-1.75, 0-1.5, 0-1.0, 0-0.75, 0-0.5, or fewer chromosomes or fragments of step (a), (c) performing emulsion PCR, (d) quantifying the number of emulsion droplets containing amplified nucleic acid from the target region; (e) calculating the ratio of droplets containing amplified nucleic acid from the target region to total droplets; and (f) comparing the ratio of step (e) to a reference ratio representing a known genotype.
US09593363B2
A screening method for identifying an agent as effective for providing an anti-aging skin benefit is provided. The screening method includes culturing first and second human skin samples from about 3 days to about 19 days, wherein the first and second human skin samples are derived from a human skin surgical waste tissue. The first human skin sample is contacted with at least one test agent. The second human skin sample is contacted with a positive control. Transcriptional profiles are generated from the first and second human skin samples, and the at least one test agent is identified as effective for providing an anti-aging skin benefit when the transcriptional profiles of at least two genes show a similar directional change in comparison to one or more untreated control tissue samples.
US09593358B2
The present invention relates to a method for specific and direct detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli bacteria in a sample using a selective and differential isolation medium for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli bacteria comprising at least one chromogenic agent and tellurite.
US09593357B2
A process for controlling concentration of CO in a bioreactor provides a direct and real time measurement of dissolved CO in a fermentation medium. The process for controlling concentrations of CO in a bioreactor includes contacting an aliquot of fermentation medium with at least one CO binding ligand and at least one microbial inactivator.
US09593355B2
The present invention concerns a production of liquefied lignocellulosic substrate by enzymatic reaction. 10% to 40% by weight dry matter of pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate is contacted, with water and enzymes at 0.1 to 60 mg of enzymes per gram of cellulose for a period of 1 to 24 hours. Over time, at least the value of one of the rheological characteristics of the reaction medium is measured. If a reduction of the value is detected over time, the following step a) is carried out: a) the feeding flow rate of pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate is increased, with or without modification of the flow rate of enzymes and/or water; If an increase of the value is detected over time, a step b) is carried out: b) the feeding flow rate of water and/or enzymes is increased, with or without modification of the flow rate of pre-treated lignocellulosic substrate.
US09593352B2
A method for producing fatty acid alkyl esters, wherein a solution comprising triglyceride and alcohol is contacted with a first lipolytic enzyme having a relatively higher activity on free fatty acids than on triglyceride and a second lipolytic enzyme having a relatively higher activity on triglyceride than on free fatty acids.
US09593348B2
A method for controlling a fermentation process includes injecting a mash into a fermenter and injecting an enzymatic additive into the fermenter on a continuous basis. The enzymatic additive is injected on a continuous basis during at least two time periods: during a batch fill and after the batch fill. The method may be used to control the fermentation processes of one or more fermenters operating in parallel.
US09593347B2
The invention provides modified HSV vectors that exhibit enhanced entry of cells, either through direct infection and/or lateral spread. In one aspect, HSV vectors of the present invention can directly infect cells through interaction with cell proteins other than typical mediators of HSV infection. In another aspect, the invention provides an HSV vector, which exhibits lateral spread in cells typically resistant to HSV lateral spread, such as cells lacking gD receptors. The invention further provides DNA encoding mutant forms of the HSV gB and gH glycoproteins, stocks of the inventive virus, and methods for effecting viral targeting and efficient entry of cells. The invention also pertains to the use of the inventive vectors for treating cancers.
US09593339B1
The present invention uses co-expression of protease inhibitors and protease sensitive therapeutic agents including phage and phagemids delivering peptides, therapeutic antibodies, DNA and RNA-based therapeutics that results in treating inflammation of a variety of disorders including psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and inflammatory bowel disease. The invention also provides bacteria that inhibit the growth of intestinal parasites such as worms, and deliver siRNA or miRNA that have specific anti-parasitic effects that results in the reduction or elimination of the parasite.
US09593336B2
Aptamers and improved aptamers are provided with enhanced efficacy for binding to target molecules in vivo or for treating cancer or other diseases. Such improvements in aptamers are provided that enhance in vivo efficacy such as binding to the target molecule or enhancing anti-cancer activity. Such improvements also include stability to serum nucleases, reduced binding to a soluble form of the target molecule, increased avidity, affinity or specificity to the target molecule on a cell surface, increased lifetime in circulation, or any combination of the foregoing. Improvements are provided by truncation, multimerization, including at least one non-natural nucleic acid, adding a 3′ or 5′ polyethylene glycol, or any combination thereof. Aptamers for treatment of autoimmune diseases are also provided.
US09593334B2
It is disclosed herein that cultured primary placental human trophoblast (PHT) cells are highly resistant to infection by a number of disparate viruses, and confer this resistance to non-placental recipient cells by exosome-mediated delivery of microRNAs (miRs). PHT cells express high levels of unique, primate-specific miRNAs, expressed from the chromosome 19 miRNA cluster (C19MC). It is further disclosed herein that C19MC miRNAs are packaged within PHT-derived exosomes and attenuate viral replication in recipient cells by inducing autophagy. Thus, provided herein are methods of inhibiting, treating or preventing microbial infections by administering one or more miRs of the C19MC. Also provided are methods of inducing autophagy in a cell by contacting the cell with one or more miRs of the C19MC.
US09593333B2
Provided are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of ApoCIII mRNA and protein for treating, preventing, delaying, or ameliorating Fredrickson Type I dyslipidemia/FCS/LPLD, in a patient. Such methods, compounds, and compositions increase HDL levels and/or improving the ratio of TG to HDL and reducing plasma lipids and plasma glucose in the patient, and are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate any one or more of pancreatitis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorder, and associated symptoms.
US09593330B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of Frataxin (FXN), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of Frataxin (FXN). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of FXN.
US09593322B2
Provided are compositions comprising newly identified protein fragments of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, polynucleotides that encode them and complements thereof, related agents, and methods of use thereof in diagnostic, drug discovery, research, and therapeutic applications.
US09593321B2
The present invention relates to the development of an L-arabinose isomerase variant from Thermotoga neapolitana DSM 5068, which is a kind of thermophile, on the basis of protein molecular modeling. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method of producing D-tagatose from D-galactose by using the enzyme or a microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium expressing the enzyme.
US09593314B2
The present invention relates to a binding molecule that specifically binds to two different epitopes of an antigen expressed on tumor cells, wherein the binding molecule comprises: (a) a first binding (poly)peptide that specifically binds to a first epitope of said antigen expressed on tumor cells, wherein said first binding (poly)peptide is a Fyn SH3-derived polypeptide; and (b) a second binding (poly)peptide that specifically binds to a second epitope of said antigen expressed on tumor cells. The present invention further relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding the binding molecule of the invention, a vector comprising said nucleic acid molecule as well as a host cell or a non-human host transformed with said vector. The invention further relates to a method of producing a binding molecule of the invention as well as to pharmaceutical and diagnostic composition. Moreover, the present invention also relates to the binding molecule, the nucleic acid molecule, the vector or the host cell of the invention for use in the treatment of tumors.
US09593307B2
The present invention provides methods to promote the proliferation of undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells in defined media. Specifically, the invention provides a defined cell culture formulation for the culture, maintenance, and expansion of pluripotent stem cells, wherein culturing stem cells in the defined cell culture formulation maintains the pluripotency and karyotypic stability of the cells for at least 10 passages. Further disclosed is a cell population, grown under defined media conditions, that expresses OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, and FOXA2.
US09593306B2
The present invention is directed to methods to differentiate pluripotent stem cells. In particular, the present invention is directed to methods and compositions to differentiate pluripotent stem cells into cells expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm lineage comprising culturing the pluripotent stem cells in medium comprising a sufficient amount of GDF-8 to cause the differentiation of the pluripotent stem cells into cells expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm lineage.
US09593305B2
The present invention is directed to methods to differentiate pluripotent stem cells. In particular, the present invention is directed to methods and compositions to differentiate pluripotent stem cells into cells expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm lineage comprising culturing the pluripotent stem cells in medium comprising a sufficient amount of GDF-8 to cause the differentiation of the pluripotent stem cells into cells expressing markers characteristic of the definitive endoderm lineage.
US09593298B2
A method of preparing a component of a personal care bar, the method comprising: (a) providing a composition comprising an isethionate surfactant at a temperature of at least 20° C.; (b) combining the composition comprising the isethionate surfactant with a synthetic 5 wax and optional further components at a temperature of at least 120° C.; and (c) cooling the mixture obtained in step (b).
US09593289B2
Corrosion inhibiting hydraulic fluid additives, kits, and methods are disclosed. The hydraulic fluid additive may be adapted for use with brake fluid in vehicular brake systems. The kits may include an additive, a hydraulic fluid tester, and/or correlated information on test results and hydraulic fluid service actions.
US09593285B2
The present invention provides an unleaded, piston engine fuel formulation comprising a blend of mesitylene, pseudocumene and isopentane having a MON of at least 94 and an RVP of 38 to 49 kPa at 37.8° C. In certain aspects, the formulation comprises specific weight percentages of each of the mesitylene, pseudocumene and isopentane components, and varying MON ratings. In additional aspects, the formulations comprise a combination of mesitylene, isopentane, and one or more additional components selected from the group consisting of pseudocumene, toluene and xylenes. In certain embodiments, the formulations also include alkylates and or alkanes. The formulations have unusually high MON ratings, and desirable RVP and distillation curve characteristics for formulations not including additional components, particularly octane boosters.
US09593283B2
A method of controlling a circulating fluidized bed gasifier includes feeding first and second portions of particulate material to be gasified through inlets in a gasifier. Oxygen and steam are fed through a bottom grid into a lower portion of the gasifier to fluidize the bed. Product gas and entrained particles are discharged from an upper portion of the gasifier. Particles are separated from the product gas and a portion of the separated particles is returned to the lower portion. A portion of the returned particles is oxidized to generate heat. Heat and oxidizing products from the lower portion are transferred to the center portion to generate the product gas. A ratio of the first and second portions of particulate material to be gasified is determined on the basis of a measured temperature profile so as to control the vertical temperature distribution in the gasifier.
US09593277B2
A curable silicone composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane represented by the average unit formula: (R13SiO1/2)a(R22SiO2/2)b(R3SiO3/2)c (R1 are alkyl groups, alkenyl groups, aryl groups, or aralkyl groups; R2 are alkyl groups or alkenyl groups; R3 is an alkyl group, aryl group, or an aralkyl group, provided that, in a molecule, at least 0.5 mol % of R1 to R3 are the alkenyl groups, at least one of R3 is the aryl group or the aralkyl group; and a, b, and c are numbers satisfying: 0.01≦a≦0.5, 0.4≦b≦0.8, 0.01≦c≦0.5, and a+b+c=1); (B) an organopolysiloxane that is different from component (A); (C) an organopolysiloxane having at least two silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in a molecule; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. A cured product exhibiting excellent dispersibility of phosphor and having high strength and gas barrier properties is formed.
US09593276B2
The present invention relates to a polymer including at least one monomer comprising a switchable-amphiphilic functional group. Various embodiments provide a methods of treating a subterranean formation with the polymer, compositions including the polymer, and methods of making compositions including the polymer.
US09593273B2
Use of a gaseous mixture, selected from the group consisting of—propylene in a concentration from 90% to 99% by weight and a gas selected from the group consisting of butene, ethylene and ethane or mixtures thereof in a concentration from 1% to 10% by weight; as replacement or alternative refrigerant gas for R404A, R507A and/or R407C, and/or other replacement or alternative refrigerants for R404A, R507A and R407C containing HFC (hydrofluorocarbons), HFO (hydrofluoro olefins) and HFE (hydrofluoro ethers).
US09593267B2
A composition comprising a base oil in an amount from 5 to 95 wt %, an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin, and an ester-soluble tackifying resin; wherein the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin is present in an amount from 5 to 95 wt % based on the total weight of the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer resin and the ester-soluble tackifying resin is provided. Methods for assembling or lubricating turbine engines are also provided.
US09593263B2
Liner for protecting adhesives with respect to permeates originating from the surroundings or included during winding, stacking or other process steps, having at least one non-stick release layer and at least one getter material that is able to absorb at least one substance capable of permeation, the getter material being contained as a dispersed phase in at least one layer of the liner.
US09593259B2
A polishing composition of the present invention contains: a polyvinyl alcohol resin having a 1,2-diol structure in its side chain, the polyvinyl alcohol resin being a copolymer of a monomer represented by Formula (1) below and a vinyl ester monomer; an organic acid; and abrasive grains whose surfaces are chemically modified so as to have a minus zeta potential on the surfaces in a solution with a pH of 2.0 or more and to have no isoelectric point: (where R1 to R6 each independently denote a hydrogen atom or an organic group, X denotes a single bond or a linking group, and R7 and R8 each independently denote a hydrogen atom or R9—CO— (where R9 denotes an alkyl group)).
US09593257B2
Processes for forming functionalized metal-containing particles. The processes employ a reactive precursor material comprising a metal atom, a leaving group attached to the metal atom, and a functional moiety attached to the metal atom. In one embodiment, functionalized metal-containing particles can be formed by grafting reactive precursors with functional groups to particles containing controlled surface hydroxyl concentrations; with the particles produced by a prescribed method. In another embodiment, a process for forming functionalized metal-containing particles comprises (a) providing a first solution comprising water, a surfactant, and a non-polar dispersant; (b) adding a reactive precursor to the first part to form a mixture, the reactive precursor comprising a metal atom comprising a leaving group attached to the metal atom, and an organic functional moiety attached to the metal atom; and (c) adding a catalyst to the mixture of (b) and reacting with heating under reflux to form functionalized metal-containing particles.
US09593255B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to a sacrificial coating composition for an image transfer member in an aqueous ink imaging system. The coating composition is made from ingredients comprising: a latex comprising polymer particles dispersed in a continuous liquid phase; at least one hygroscopic material; at least one oil-in-water emulsion; and at least one surfactant.
US09593254B2
To obtain an aqueous coating liquid which affords, by applying it on a plastic substrate and drying it, a coated film excellent in transparency, gas barrier properties, and adhesiveness to the substrate and excellent in homogeneity.An aqueous coating liquid containing a polyvinyl alcohol resin (A), a polyethyleneimine (B), a nonionic surfactant (C), and an aqueous solvent (D).
US09593239B2
This specification discloses a composition of a melt blend comprising a continuos polyester phase, a cobalt of manganese compound and a first scavenging compound wherein the first scavenging compound comprises at least one allylic group and at least one polar moiety and at least some of the first scavenging compound or the oligomer or the polymer comprising the first scavenging compound is not present in the continuous polyester phase. The partial insolubility is essential for oxygen scavenging and the solubility is essential for reducing haze. The composition is useful in preforms, container walls, and films for packaging.
US09593236B2
Provided are a preparation method of a thermoplastic resin composition and a thermoplastic resin composition prepared therefrom. The preparation method includes: feeding a first thermoplastic resin in a molten state into a first hopper and feeding an impact reinforcing agent including a predetermined content of moisture into a second hopper, followed by kneading and extruding processes, and removing the moisture in a first vent port and a second vent port, wherein the first hopper, the first vent port, the second hopper, a first kneading zone, and the second vent port are sequentially formed in a moving direction of an extruder. The thermoplastic resin composition prepared therefrom can have improved appearance property and improved color property by removing moisture of an impact reinforcing agent added to the thermoplastic resin composition.
US09593235B2
A reaction product and hot melt adhesive compositions that include the reaction product are disclosed. The reaction product includes the reaction product of a first polymer that includes at least one of polypropylene homopolymer and polypropylene-alpha-olefin copolymer, a first wax that includes at least one of polyethylene wax, Fischer Tropsch wax and paraffin wax, and a free radical initiator and has a viscosity of no greater than 12,000 centipoise at 177° C.
US09593232B2
Curing agents for air-drying alkyd-based resins, coatings, such as paint, varnish or wood stain, inks and linoleum floor coverings, based on an iron/manganese complex containing tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate nitrogen donor ligands are disclosed.
US09593228B2
The invention relates to functionalized diene rubbers with trimethylolpropane and fatty acid, to a process for production there of and use thereof for the production of wet-skid-resistant and low-rolling-resistance motor-vehicle tire treads with high abrasion resistance.
US09593223B2
A true tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) copolymer of the fine powder type is provided, wherein the copolymer contains polymerized comonomer units of at least one comonomer other than TFE in concentrations of at least or exceeding 1.0 weight percent, and which can exceed 5.0 weight percent, wherein the copolymer is expandable, that is, the copolymer may be expanded to produce strong, useful, expanded TFE copolymeric articles having a microstructure of nodes interconnected by fibrils. Articles made from the expandable copolymer may include tapes, membranes, films, fibers, and are suitable in a variety of end applications, including medical devices.
US09593222B2
The invention described herein generally pertains to the use of low boiling point, low vapor pressure blowing agents with froth polyurethane or polyisocyanurate foams to fill hollow cavities (particularly window lineals) and which have lowered exotherms, which prevent deformation of the hollow cavity (e.g., window lineal) and additional achieve filling of longer lengths of window lineals by increasing the foaming and gel times of the reaction.
US09593212B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a water absorbent resin particle, in high productivity, not only in a controlled manner of particle size but also enhancing fundamental property (absorption capacity or absorption capacity against pressure) of a water absorbent resin. A method for producing a water absorbent resin particle having the cross-linking polymerization step for an aqueous solution of an unsaturated monomer; the grain refining step for water-swellable, water-containing gel-like cross-linked polymer (a) obtained in the cross-linking polymerization step; the drying step for grain refined gel; and the crushing step for a dried substance, wherein, in the grain refining step for the water-swellable, water-containing gel-like cross-linked polymer (a), water-swellable, water-containing gel-like cross-linked polymer (b), having solid content or centrifuge retention capacity different from solid content or centrifuge retention capacity of the cross-linked polymer (a) by equal to or larger than 1%, is subjected to coexistence.
US09593207B2
Disclosed is a method of fabricating a graphite sheet, including: polymerizing diamines and a dianhydride to form a polyamic acid. The polyamic acid is solvent casted on a substrate and hot baked to form a polyamic acid film or gel film. The polyamic acid film or gel film is biaxially stretched at a high temperature imidization or chemical imidization to form the polyimide film. The polyimide film is then carbonized and graphitized to form a graphite sheet. The diamines include a diamine of Formula 1 and a diamine of Formula 2, and the dianhydride includes a dianhydride of Formulae 3, Formula 4, Formula 5, Formula 6, Formula 7, Formula 8, Formula 9, or combinations thereof.
US09593203B2
The present invention provides novel metal complexes, methods of making, and methods of using the same.
US09593202B2
Provided is a polycarbonate resin composition pellet, which has a light transmittance at a wavelength of 380 nm of 97.0% or more when the light transmittance is measured by using a methylene chloride solution having a concentration of 12 g/dL, the solution being charged into a quartz glass cell having an optical path length of 5 cm, and which has a viscosity-average molecular weight (Mv) of from 11,000 to 22,000.
US09593195B2
Coating compositions can be prepared from an acrylic grafted polyether resin, wherein the smallest difunctional hydroxyl phenyl segment used to form the acrylic grafted polyether resin has a molecular weight greater than about 500, and wherein the smallest difunctional hydroxyl phenyl segment used to form the acrylic grafted polyether resin does not comprise two or more non-impaired hydroxyl groups attached to two or more different five-membered or six-membered carbon atom rings in a segment having a molecular weight less than about 500. The acrylic grafted polyether resin can be prepared by reacting a dihydroxyl compound and/or a diamine compound with a phenol stearic acid compound to produce a diphenol, reacting the diphenol with a diglycidyl ether compound to form a polyether resin, and mixing the polyether resin with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer component in the presence of an initiator to form the acrylic grafted polyether resin.
US09593194B2
A method for producing an olefin block polymer, the method including: polymerizing olefins using a polymerization catalyst (X) and an organometallic compound (C) containing an atom of any of Groups 2, 12, and 13 of the periodic table of the elements, the organometallic compound (C) excluding an activating co-catalyst agent (B), wherein the polymerization catalyst (X) is formed by bringing a transition metal compound (A) into contact with the activating co-catalyst agent (B), the transition metal compound (A) is represented by the following general formula (1), and the activating co-catalyst agent (B) is selected from among an organoaluminumoxy compound (B-1), an organoboron compound (B-2), a zinc co-catalyst component (B-3), and ion-exchange layered silicate (B-4).
US09593183B2
This disclosure relates to a method for preparing a catalyst for synthesis of a polyolefin and a process for synthesis of a polyolefin using the same. More particularly, this disclosure relates to a method for preparing a catalyst for synthesis of a polyolefin including: reacting a magnesium compound with an alkane diol having a carbon number of 3 to 15 unsubstituted or substituted with an alkyl group having a carbon number of 1 to 5, and a benzoyl halide compound to prepare a magnesium compound solution; reacting the magnesium compound solution with a first transition metal compound to prepare a support; and reacting the support with a second transition metal compound to produce a solid catalyst, and a process for synthesis of a polyolefin using the same.
US09593177B2
The present invention relates to a low density polyethylene having a molecular weight distribution Mw/Mn which is greater than 15, a storage modulus G′ (5 kPa) which is above 3000 and a vinylidene content which is at least 15/100 k C, compositions, a process for production of the low density polyethylene, a continuous ethylene polymerization method for introducing vinylidene in a low density polyethylene, a method for an extrusion coating process, an article, e.g. an extrusion article, and use in extrusion coating.
US09593162B2
This invention provides a method that allows selection of antibodies against cells (e.g., tumor cells) in situ using laser capture microdissection. By restricting antibody selection to binders of internalizing epitopes, a panel of phage antibodies was generated that targets clinically represented prostate cancer antigens.
US09593161B2
The present invention relates to an universal antibody acceptor framework and to methods for grafting non-human antibodies, e.g., rabbit antibodies, using a universal antibody acceptor framework. Antibodies generated by the methods of the invention are useful in a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US09593160B2
Described herein are engineered microbe-targeting or microbe-binding molecules, kits comprising the same and uses thereof. Some particular embodiments of the microbe-targeting or microbe-binding molecules comprise a carbohydrate recognition domain of mannose-binding lectin, or a fragment thereof, linked to a portion of a Fc region. In some embodiments, the microbe-targeting molecules or microbe-binding molecules can be conjugated to a substrate, e.g., a magnetic microbead, forming a microbe-targeting substrate (e.g., a microbe-targeting magnetic microbead). Such microbe-targeting molecules and/or substrates and the kits comprising the same can bind and/or capture of a microbe and/or microbial matter thereof, and can thus be used in various applications, e.g., diagnosis and/or treatment of an infection caused by microbes such as sepsis in a subject or any environmental surface. Microbe-targeting molecules and/or substrates can be regenerated after use by washing with a low pH buffer or buffer in which calcium is insoluble.
US09593157B2
Described are polypeptides and their use for screening and drug discovery. More specifically, the disclosure provides chimeric polypeptides comprising a membrane protein, in particular a GPCR, fused to a binding domain, wherein the binding domain is directed against and/or specifically binds to the membrane protein. In particular, the chimeric polypeptides are single proteins wherein, in an intramolecular reaction, the binding domain stabilizes the membrane protein in a conformation of interest. Also provided are nucleic acid sequences encoding such chimeric polypeptides, cells capable of expressing such chimeric polypeptides as well as cellular compositions derived thereof. Also screening methods for compounds using the chimeric polypeptides.
US09593150B2
Provided herein methods of alleviating the symptoms of multiple myeloma in a patient or subject in need thereof, methods of treating multiple myeloma in a patient or subject, and methods of preventing development of multiple myeloma in a patient at risk thereof, such as a patient with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), which methods include administering an agent effective to treat a Mycoplasma infection. The invention also relates to a new class of antigen, MG281 protein {also referenced as Protein M), that binds to various immunoglobulins with high affinity, and their uses in purifying immunoglobulins. The invention additionally relates to using MG281 protein and analog or derivative molecules for treating autoimmune diseases. Further provided are antigens and antibodies for use in the disclosed methods, and the identification of molecules that bind to MG281 protein.
US09593143B2
The present invention provides a method for the purification of complexes comprising a stress protein complexed to a peptide or peptide fragment, from a source mixture, typically a cell lysate. The improved method of the invention provides for protein complexes to be purified using ion exchange based methods, without the need to use chemicals such as chaotropes and ampholytes. The purified complexes can be used as the immunogenic determinant in vaccine compositions for the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases or cancerous conditions.
US09593142B2
The present invention relates to ligation agents and their use in making an amide ligation product. Methods of making the ligation agents are also disclosed.
US09593140B2
The present invention relates to new macrolide derivatives, in particular new tylosin derivatives of the formula (I); a pharmaceutical or veterinary composition comprising the derivatives; a method for preparation thereof; a method for treating and/or preventing bacterial infections in an animal, wherein the method comprises administering the derivatives or the composition; and a use of the derivatives for the manufacture of medicaments for treating and/or preventing bacterial infections in an animal.
US09593139B2
Compositions, kits, and methods for treatment of cancers are generally provided. In some embodiments, the compositions, kits, and methods comprise a platinum (e.g., Pt(II) or Pt(IV)) compound associated with a ligand (e.g., a beta-diketonate ligand) comprising a targeting moiety. Methods of synthesizing platinum (e.g., Pt(II) or Pt(IV)) compounds associated with a ligand comprising a targeting moiety are also provided.
US09593127B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula I, their use as allosteric modulators of mGluR5 receptor activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for the treatment and/or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction, such as schizophrenia or cognitive decline, dementia or cognitive impairment, or other pathologies that can be related directly or indirectly to glutamate dysfunction.
US09593121B2
Disclosed are chemical entities that inhibit Uba6, each of which is a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R*1 is —H or —CH3; and Y is Formula (II) or Formula (III), wherein R2 is —H, —CH3 or C1-4 alkyloxycarbonyl; and RS7.1, RS7.2 and RS8.1 are defined herein; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the chemical entities; and methods of using the chemical entities. These chemical entities are useful for treating disorders, particularly cell proliferation disorders, including cancers.
US09593118B2
The present invention provides xanthine-substituted alkynyl carbamates/reverse carbamates and derivatives thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same that are selective antagonists of A2B adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents.
US09593112B2
Provided is a compound capable of effectively control worst weeds of higher leaf stages that present practical problems. A specific pyrazolylpyrazole derivative of formula (I) is disclosed that is able to solve the above-mentioned problems.
US09593111B2
The present disclosure provides oxidized berbine derivatives, processes for their preparation, and methods of using the oxidized berbine derivatives.
US09593109B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds that act as agonists of, or otherwise modulate the activity of, GPR131 and to their use in the treatment of various diseases. In particular embodiments, the structure of the compounds is given by Formula I: wherein the variables are as described herein. Related compositions, formulations and methods for the preparation of compounds of formula I are also described.
US09593095B2
This invention relates generally to the discovery of a method of inhibiting, preventing or treating bacterial infections. The invention also relates to a method of inhibiting bacterial capsule biogenesis.
US09593090B2
A propylene oxide separation system that comprises a distillation column, a decanter, and water wash system. The distillation column is configured to receive a crude propylene oxide stream, discharge an impurity stream that comprises methanol and water, and discharge a bottoms stream that comprises a majority of the propylene oxide entering in the crude propylene oxide stream. The decanter is configured to receive at least a portion of the impurity stream and a hydrocarbon solvent to provide for formation in the decanter of an organic phase and an aqueous phase. The organic phase comprises propylene oxide and hydrocarbon solvent, and is sent to the distillation column. The aqueous phase comprises a majority weight percent of the methanol and the water entering in the impurity stream. The water wash system is configured to receive and purge the aqueous phase from the propylene oxide separation system.
US09593083B2
The present invention provides process for preparation of Crystalline Erlotinib HCl (I) Form-SE characterized by X-ray powder diffraction pattern comprising at least 5 characteristic 2θ° peaks selected from the XRPD peak set of 5.60, 10.00, 11.40, 13.00, 13.50, 15.20, 18.40, 20.65, 21.86, 23.5, 31.80, 32.13, 32.80, 34.40±0.20 2θ°, DSC isotherm comprising the endothermic peaks ranging between 213 to 217° C. (Peak −1) and 225 to 235° C. (Peak −2) and IR absorption characteristic peaks at approximately 3278 cm−1, 1948 cm−1, 1871 cm−1, 1632 cm−1, 1164 cm−1, 1024 cm−1, 940 cm−1 and 742 cm−1 useful as active pharmaceutical ingredient in pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment cancer.
US09593077B2
What is described is a compound of formula (1) wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different, each a linear or branched alkyl with 1-9 carbons, or an alkenyl or alkynyl with 2 to 11 carbon atoms; L1 and L2 are the same or different, each a linear alkyl having 5 to 18 carbon atoms, or form a heterocycle with N; X1 is a bond, or is —CO—O— whereby L2-CO—O—R2 is formed; X2 is S or O; L3 is a bond or a lower alkyl, or form a heterocycle with N; R3 is a lower alkyl; and R4 and R5 are the same or different, each a lower alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09593072B2
N-Acyl amino acid salt compositions and an improved process for making them from fatty alkyl esters are disclosed. The process comprises reacting a fatty alkyl ester with an amino acid salt in the presence of an alkoxide catalyst at a pressure of at least 5 psig. At least 10 mole percent of catalyst is used based on the amount of fatty alkyl ester used as a reactant. Pressure and a minimum level of alkoxide catalyst are needed to give high fatty alkyl ester conversions and good yields of the desired N-acyl amino acid salt. The resulting N-acyl amino acid salt compositions have low color, an acceptable level of fatty acid soaps, and a small proportion of di-acylated by-products. Single-phase mixtures produced by combining various amino acid salts with glycinates, or by using an excess of either the fatty alkyl ester or amino acid salt, promote high conversions when the mixtures are reacted to give the desired N-acyl amino acid salt.
US09593068B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds, e.g. for use as a medicament. In particular, the present invention relates to novel medicaments, preferably in the treatment and/or prevention of systemic diseases, autoimmune diseases, and/or inflammatory diseases, for example multiple sclerosis and psoriasis.
US09593057B2
The invention generally relates to a hydrocarbon process for reducing condensation in a vapor-liquid amine or caustic acid gas scrubber. A first mixture is provided, the first mixture being superheated and comprising C2+ mono-olefin, acid gases, and diolefin molecules. The first mixture is divided into a first stream and a second stream, the first and second streams having substantially the same composition. The first stream is cooled to produce a gas phase and a liquid phase, the gas phase comprising less C6+, the liquid phase containing more C6+. The gas phase is separated to create a third stream. The third stream and the second stream are combined to form a second substantially superheated mixture. The second mixture is conducted to an acid gas scrubbing tower. The invention also relates to an apparatus for carrying out this process.
US09593053B1
A two-step process, consisting of a photoelectrosynthetic process combined with a thermochemical process, is configured to produce a reduction product (e.g., methane gas, methanol, or carbon monoxide) from carbon dioxide and liquid waste streams. In a first step, photoelectrosynthetically active heterostructures (PAHs) and sunlight are used to drive oxidation/reduction reactions in which one primary product is hydrogen gas. In the second step, hydrogen generated in the first step is thermally catalytically reacted with carbon dioxide to form a reduction product from carbon dioxide (e.g., CO, formaldehyde, methane, or methanol). Synthesis gas (CO and H2) can be further reacted to form alkanes. The methods and systems may employ PAHs known in the art or improved PAHs having lower costs, improved stability, solar energy conversion efficiency, and/or other desired attributes as disclosed herein.
US09593052B2
The present invention provides radioactive arsenic complexes useful in diagnostic and therapeutic applications and methods for forming those arsenic complexes.
US09593049B2
A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite are described herein. The method may include infiltrating a fiber preform with a solution comprising a refractory precursor in solution with a solvent. The refractory precursor may include a compound having at least one refractory metal element. The method may further include removing the solvent from the fiber preform, and reducing the refractory precursor to form a refractory metal that includes the refractory metal element.
US09593047B2
The invention provides a thickener for hydraulic composition comprising (A) a water-soluble cellulose ether, (B) a defoamer, and (C) a gum. The thickener is combined with a hydraulic substance, an aggregate and water to form a hydraulic composition.
US09593046B2
The use of an adhesion-promoting additive combination composed of one or more polyalkylenoxides out of the group comprising polypropylene oxides and ethylene oxide-propylene oxide copolymers, and of one or more starch ether derivatives out of the group comprising carboxyalkyl starch ethers and their alkali salts, and hydroxyalkyl starch ethers, in mortar compositions comprising mineral binders and water-redispersible polymer powders.
US09593044B2
Gypsum panels, panel cores, and methods for the manufacture thereof are provided herein. A gypsum panel core includes gypsum and fiberglass, the fiberglass being present in the core in an amount of from about 1 lb/msf to about 6 lb/msf. The core has a thickness of about ½ inch, a weight of from about 1400 lb/msf to about 1750 lb/msf, and an ASTM E-119 wood stud fire test rating of at least 30 minutes.
US09593041B2
A colorless composite material according to an embodiment includes glass fibers, and inorganic-organic hybrid resin having inorganic bonds and organic bonds, wherein the inorganic bonds are M-O-M bonds and M denotes a metallic element, wherein the metallic element is one of Ti, Zr and Al.
US09593039B2
The present invention relates to novel vitroceramic or lens compositions that are nanostructured and transparent or translucent, including at least 97%, such as 97% to 100%, preferably 99% to 100%, by weight, relative to the total weight of the material, of a composition having the following formula I: (GeO2)x(SiO2)y(B2O3)z(Ga2O3)a(Oxy1)b(Oxy2)k (I) where Oxy1 is an oxide selected from ZnO, MgO, NbO2.5, WO3, NiO, SnO, TiO2, BiO1.5, AgO, CaO, MnO, or a mixture thereof, selected preferably from ZnO, MgO, NbO2.5, WO3, NiO, SnO, AgO, CaO, MnO, or a mixture thereof, selected more preferably from ZnO, MgO, AgO, BiO1.5, NbO2.5, Or a mixture thereof, selected most preferably from ZnO, MgO, AgO, NbO2.5, or a mixture thereof, and Oxy2 is an oxide selected from Na2O, K2O or a mixture thereof, Oxy2 is preferably Na2O, and x, y, z, a, b and k are as defined in claim 1, to the manufacturing method thereof and to the uses thereof in the field of optics.
US09593037B2
A method for carrying out a plasma deposition process including the steps of providing a substrate tube, supplying dopant-containing glass-forming gases to the substrate including a main gas flow and one or more secondary gas flows, inducing a plasma in the substrate tube, moving a reaction zone back and forth in strokes between a reversal point near the supply side and a reversal point near the discharge side, and interrupting the secondary gas flow during a portion of each stroke, each interruption having a start point and an end point within the same stroke.
US09593034B2
A method for producing a blank of iron-doped silica glass with high silicic acid content for use as heat protection glass is provided. The method involves: (a) producing an iron-doped SiO2 soot body which contains iron in a first oxidation state Fe3+ by flame hydrolysis of a silicon-containing and an iron-containing starting substance, (b) drying the soot body to obtain a mean hydroxyl group content of less than 10 ppm by weight, and (c) vitrifying the soot body under a reducing atmosphere that is suitable for at least partially reducing the iron from the first oxidation state Fe3+ to a second, lower oxidation state Fe2+. A blank is obtained having an iron content between 0.1 and 1% by weight which exhibits an internal transmission of at most 40% in the infrared wavelength range and an internal transmission of at least 85% in the visible spectral range.
US09593023B2
A method for treating a purge stream derived from a sodium carbonate, sesquicarbonate, wegsheiderite, or bicarbonate crystallizer,said purge stream comprising sodium carbonate and/or sodium bicarbonate and at least 1% by weight of sodium chloride and/or sodium sulfate,the method comprising: causticizing at least 50 mol. % of the sodium from sodium carbonate and/or sodium bicarbonate into a caustic solution and into a calcium carbonate mud with lime and water, separating the calcium carbonate mud from the caustic solution; concentrating the caustic solution by removing part of the water to obtain a concentrated caustic solution comprising at least 25% NaOH, and a crystallized solid comprising sodium carbonate and sodium chloride and/or sulfate, separating the crystallized solid from the concentrated caustic solution, said crystallized solid to be disposed of or to be further valorized, recycling part of the concentrated caustic solution to the sodium carbonate, sesquicarbonate, wegsheiderite, or bicarbonate crystallizer.
US09593022B2
A colloidal sol and a method of making colloidal sol that is capable of controlling the resulting particle size and more specifically, using a potassium hydroxide process to obtain a colloidal sol having a single peak of average particle sizes.
US09593016B2
A difluorophosphate effective as an additive for a nonaqueous electrolyte for secondary battery is produced by a simple method from inexpensive common materials.The difluorophosphate is produced by reacting lithium hexafluorophosphate with a carbonate in a nonaqueous solvent. The liquid reaction mixture resulting from this reaction is supplied for providing the difluorophosphate in a nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent which contains at least a hexafluorophosphate as an electrolyte lithium salt and further contains a difluorophosphate. Also provided is a nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery employing this nonaqueous electrolyte.
US09593013B2
A mechanical component has: a mount; an adjustable part selectively set at least into a first vibration mode having a first natural frequency and into a second vibration mode having a second natural frequency; a first sensor unit providing a first sensor signal; and a second sensor unit providing a second sensor signal. The first and second sensor units are interconnected in such a way that an overall signal is generated with the aid of at least the first and second sensor signals, the overall signal having an overall ratio of a first maximum absolute value which arises in the event of an excitation of the first vibration mode, and a second maximum absolute value which arises in the event of an excitation of the second vibration mode.
US09592998B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of an apparatus for raising, suspending, transporting, and lowering appliance units for installation and removal. Two support frame assemblies, each having telescopic legs attached to wheels and upper support brackets from which the appliance unit is suspended, are connected by a removable frame connector. The apparatus may then be rolled across a rooftop to move and place the appliance unit. The frame connector may be replaced with a retention connector and supplemented with a lower retention connector for efficient storage and transport of the apparatus.
US09592994B2
Elevator system passengers are transported in one or more of a plurality of elevator cars. The elevator cars can require different amounts of energy to operate. Passenger trips can be allocated to one car or another car based on the expected energy consumption for the trips in one or the other car.
US09592992B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion forming an image on a sheet, a first sheet conveyance path guiding the sheet to the image forming portion, a second sheet conveyance path guiding the sheet on which an image has been formed by the image forming portion, and a re-conveyance path connecting the second sheet conveyance path and the first sheet conveyance path. The image forming apparatus further includes a connecting path connecting a point on the way of the second sheet conveyance path with a point on the way of the re-conveyance path and is configured to convey a sheet to the re-conveyance path through the connecting path.
US09592977B2
A first actuator is detected at a first detection position by a detecting unit when no sheet is held on a feed tray, and is not detected at a first non-detection position by the detecting unit when the first actuator is in contact with a sheet held on the feed tray. A second actuator is detected at a second detection position by the detecting unit when the second actuator is in contact, at a predetermined position downstream of the first actuator in a conveying direction, with a sheet conveyed, and is not detected at a second non-detection position by the detecting unit when the second actuator is out of contact, at the predetermined position, with the sheet conveyed. A restricting member restricts the first actuator from moving from the first non-detection position to the first detection position when the second actuator is at the second detection position.
US09592971B2
A method and apparatus for transferring formed adhesive elements from a reservoir (30) containing plural formed adhesive elements (12) to a bonding part attachable to a glass surface or other substrate through the use of adhesives. Transfer of the formed adhesive element to the bonding part (14) is accomplished by use of a vacuum tool (10) having a vacuum outlet, an internal plenum, and a series of vacuum lines formed in an adhesive element holding face. The vacuum tool is positioned over a reservoir of formed adhesive elements. Once the formed adhesive elements have been captured by the vacuum tool (10) the tool is used to place them into contact with the heated bonding part (14) directly or indirectly by intermediate placement onto a matrix (60) having a plurality of ejector pins (72) movably fitted therein. The ejector pins move the formed adhesive elements into position against the bonding part.
US09592969B2
A system and method for tracking/controlling access to transported articles, includes a computing module in signal communication with sending and receiving stations. A first input device at the sending station receives identifying information identifying a carrier (“carrier ID”) and an item (“item ID”) placed within the locked carrier. The carrier ID and the item ID are transmitted to the computing module. A second input device at the receiving station receives the carrier ID for a carrier received at the receiving station and identifying information for an individual (“user ID”) at the receiving station provided access to the locked carrier. The carrier ID and the user ID are transmitted to the computing module, which unlocks the carrier and allows access to the item inside, and records the user ID of the individual provided access and the associated carrier ID and/or item ID to provide chain of custody information for the item.
US09592966B2
In a conveyor system, a conveyor having a conveyor surface transports items. An optional lubricant dispensing device dispenses a lubricant composition on the conveyor surface. A friction coefficient measuring device measures a quantity proportional to the friction coefficient of the conveyor surface and provides a signal indicative for the measured quantity proportional to the friction coefficient. A control receives the signal indicative for the measured quantity. In one embodiment, the control provides a further signal when the measured quantity exceeds a threshold value or for regulating the lubricant amount to be dispensed based on the measured quantity in order to maintain the measured quantity proportional to the friction coefficient within a predetermined range.
US09592951B2
A combination of a container and a plurality of food items nested within the container may include base and a first cavity in the base. A first food item may be nested in the first cavity. The first food item may include a decorated section. The first food item may include a disposable wrapper having an exposed upper wrapper edge. The container may include a lid moveable between a closed position and an open position. A first retainer may be on the lid. When the lid is in the closed position the first retainer may overlie a first portion of the upper wrapper edge. When the container is inverted with the lid in the closed position relative axial movement between the first food item and the first cavity may be limited by contact between the first retainer and the upper wrapper edge.
US09592950B2
A bottle container includes: a tubular inner container 2 including a cap at an upper portion thereof; and an outer container 3 mounted so as to extend along a trunk 5 and a bottom 6 of the inner container 2, the inner container 2 includes a shoulder 8 at the upper portion which is not covered with the outer container 3, an outer peripheral portion 13b of a bottom 13 of the outer container 3 is made thicker than a side wall 14 of the outer container 3, a center portion 13a of the bottom 13 of the outer container 3 is made thinner than the outer peripheral portion 13b to form a space 13c, and the outer container 3 mounted to the inner container 2 and the shoulder 8 of the inner container 2 are covered with a heat-shrinkable film 4.
US09592949B2
A fluid dispenser device comprising: a fluid dispenser orifice (31); an air duct (32, 51, 52) for air under pressure, said air duct including an upstream end and a downstream end that opens out in the proximity of the orifice (31); an air expeller (4) that is suitable for being subjected to elastic squeezing and relaxation stages, the air expeller (4) being connected to the air duct (32, 51, 52) so that, during elastic squeezing stages, it delivers a flow of air through the air duct until it reaches the orifice (31); and a fluid channel (25, 33) that is connected to the air duct (32, 51, 52), the fluid in the channel (25, 33) being sucked up by the flow of air under pressure by the Venturi effect; the device being characterized in that the air expeller (4) has only a single opening (43) that is provided with a connection sleeve (5) that includes an incoming-air passage (53) that is provided with an air-inlet valve (56; 56b; 56c; 56d) that is suitable for allowing outside air to enter into the air expeller during elastic relaxation stages.
US09592943B2
Disclosed is an advertising package that consists of two trays that are hingedly attached along a longitudinal and transverse axis. One tray includes two compartments formed from substantially rectangular shapes to allow inclusion of items that are not distinctive in shape such as a coin, key or the like. The compartments are depressions which eliminates the need for upstanding side walls and the need for a circumscribing channel or coupling passageways. Printed material can be placed on the entirety of the first tray which provides a background to the compartments and allows viewing through the package sidewalls. The package is constructed and arranged to be sent as non-machinable flat through the United States Postal Service (USPS).
US09592940B2
The present application provides an ingredient release spout with an ingredient therein for use on a container. The ingredient release spout may include a cap with the ingredient therein and a nozzle. The cap may include a diaphragm with a capsule insert extending therefrom. The nozzle may include a cutting device therein such that rotating the cap pulls the diaphragm and the capsule insert towards the cutting device.
US09592938B2
To provide a novel rotation mechanism having a smaller number of components or parts.A double-sided tape applicator in which a rotation mechanism is incorporated includes a case and a closure 200 rotated relative to the case. A spiral sloped surface 212 is formed on a side of the closure 200. The case has an abutted member 131 provided at an end of a push member 130. When a user pushes the push member 130 to abut or compress the abutted member 131 against the sloped surface 212, the closure 200 is rotated.
US09592935B1
A screw-type closure system comprising a container and closure. The closure comprises a screw-threaded inner cap, a customized wand that depends from the inner cap and supports an applicator surface, an overcap that is enabled to translate axially relative to the inner cap, and one or more magnetic elements. The container comprises a specialized shoulder, a neck having a specialized screw thread profile, a customized wiper that engages the customized wand, an overshell that houses one or more magnetic elements that tend to attract the one or more magnetic elements of the closure.The closure is screwed onto the container until the inner cap comes to a hard stop, at which point the magnetic elements of the closure are aligned with the magnetic elements of the container. At that point, the overcap (15) of the closure (11) is drawn toward the overshell (4) of the container until they make contact, so that there is no unsightly gap. Also, the contact produces a satisfying, reassuring metallic “click” sound, accompanied by a luxurious tactile sensation.
US09592928B2
The reclosing mechanism for containers, particularly beverage containers, has the latch (3) fitted slidingly in the opening (5). Formed on the top side of the latch (3) there is an attachment (14) shorter than the opening (5) and narrower than the latch (3), where the attachment (14) is fitted with a pull tab (4) longer than the attachment (14) and fixed to the attachment (14) with a hinge (6) and a connector (7) which serves as the seal before the first opening. Formed on the opposite longitudinal sides of the attachment (14) there are catches (8) fitted slidingly on the guides (13) formed on the longer side walls of the opening (5). On the top surface of the element in which the opening (5) is made there are protrusions (10) formed on the side of the pull tab (4) front, on which the pull tab (4) rests and blocks the sliding of the latch (3) in the closed position.
US09592924B2
An aseptic filling machine of envelope-type bags provided with a filling mouth closed by a removable cap, comprising an empty bag supply device, a discharge device configured to discharge full bags, a carousel device on which at least two filling stations are located; each filling station comprising a sterile chamber; a raising device configured to raise the mouth of the empty bag internally of the sterile chamber; an overpressure device configured to place the chamber in slight overpressure; a removal device configured to remove the cap and positioning it by a side of the mouth; and a dispenser-batcher device that is vertically slidable and configured to engage with the mouth.
US09592923B1
A low-density article comprising a flexible substrate and a pyrolizable material impregnated therein, methods of preparing, and devices using the article are disclosed. The pyrolizable material pyrolizes above 350 C and does not flow at temperatures below the pyrolysis temperature. The low-density article remains flexible after impregnation and continues to remain flexible when the pyrolizable material is fully pyrolized.
US09592919B2
One example of an aircraft fuel line assembly clamp member includes a c-shaped outer shell and a plurality of spokes. The c-shaped outer shell is sized to be positioned within an outer tube of an aircraft fuel line assembly. The plurality of spokes is arranged on an inner surface of the outer shell. The plurality of spokes protrudes from the inner surface towards a center of the outer shell to define a shape to receive an inner tube of the aircraft fuel line assembly. The plurality of spokes is also spaced apart on the inner surface.
US09592917B2
An assembly having an articulation spindle mounted in a first sleeve inserted into a first arm of a clevis and in a second sleeve inserted into a second arm of said clevis. The assembly comprises a blocking device which comprises a cylindrical stop housed in an extension of the second sleeve and comprising a front face against which a second end of the articulation spindle can come to bear, and a bolt-and-nut able to adopt a locked state, in which it passes through the stop and the extension so as to immobilize the stop in the extension, and an unlocked state, in which it does not pass through the stop and allows the stop to be removed from the extension.
US09592914B2
A seat for an aircraft is provided that includes a seat pan, having a seat pan front edge and a seat pan rear edge, a backrest, having a backrest top edge and a backrest bottom edge, where the backrest bottom edge is articulately disposed adjacent to the seat pan rear edge, a headrest, having a headrest top edge and a headrest bottom edge, where the headrest bottom edge is articulately disposed adjacent to the backrest top edge, a tracking device disposed beneath the seat pan and being attachable to a floor of the aircraft, the tracking device permitting the seat pan to translate in at least one of a lateral direction and a longitudinal direction, and a swivel connected between the tracking device and the seat pan, permitting the seat pan to rotate with respect to the tracking device.
US09592912B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ground control point assignment and determination. One of the methods includes receiving information describing a flight plan for the UAV to implement, the flight plan identifying one or more waypoints associated with geographic locations assigned as ground control points. A first waypoint identified in the flight plan is traveled to, and an action to designate a surface at the associated geographic location is designated as a ground control point. Location information associated with the designated surface is stored. The stored location information is provided to an outside system for storage.
US09592910B1
An aerial vehicle may be equipped with propellers having reconfigurable geometries. Such propellers may have blade tips or other features that may be adjusted or reconfigured while the aerial vehicle is operating, on any basis. Propellers having reconfigurable blade tips joined to blade roots may cause the blade tips to be aligned with the blade roots, or substantially perpendicular to the blade roots, e.g., in order to counter adverse effects of tip vortices, or at any intervening angle. The propellers may be reconfigured at predetermined times during operation of an aerial vehicle, or upon sensing one or more operational characteristics or environmental conditions, as may be desired or required.
US09592904B2
A drive mechanism for deforming a skin of a deformable structural component of a fluid-dynamic flow body to provide a space-saving drive concept for large deformations under great loads. The drive mechanism comprises a linearly movably driven linear movement unit, and a transmission element configured to translate linear movement of the linear movement unit into rotary movement of a rotatably mounted load introduction device of the structural component to introduce a deformation force onto the skin.
US09592903B2
A seat rail cover for a seat rail includes a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section. The first longitudinal section includes a first cover element and a first support element. The first support element extends in a longitudinal direction of the seat rail cover and protrudes from the first cover element transversely to the longitudinal direction. The second longitudinal section includes a second cover element and a second support element. The second support element extends in longitudinal direction and protrudes from the second cover element transversely to the longitudinal direction. The first longitudinal section is movable in longitudinal direction of the seat rail cover with respect to the second longitudinal direction from a non extended state to an extended state. Such a seat rail cover provides a variable length and may improve the dispersion of loads applied to the cover elements of the seat rail cover.
US09592900B2
A method for producing a connecting element for at least two components of an aircraft structure. A hollow initial profile is formed comprising a wall following a closed path in the initial profile cross-section. The wall has a first, second and third section. Material is removed from the wall in one region of the initial profile, to obtain one opening in the one region, the opening extending at least partially within the first section. A portion of the second section and a portion of the third section form part of the connecting element and are each formed so as to be adapted to at least partially abut against the structure. The one opening is formed such that material initially forming part of the wall in the first section and remaining after the formation of the opening forms a stabilizing section connecting the portions of the second and third sections.
US09592899B2
A rotary wing aircraft comprising a fuselage, a cabin volume enclosed by the fuselage, a main rotor arranged above the fuselage, a tail rotor mounted on a tail, the tail being attached to a rear part of the fuselage supporting the tail at its rear end, whereas the tail includes two beam boom elements, one element extending at the port side and the other element extending at the starboard side of the rotary wing aircraft, the front root end of each element being hinged to the corresponding lateral side of the fuselage, and both elements being canted with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rotary wing aircraft so as to be interconnected to each other at the rear portion of the tail.
US09592898B1
An aircraft fuselage panel system for an aircraft of the type having a tubular fuselage frame includes a plurality of generally U-shaped frame members are each adapted to receive a portion of the tubular fuselage frame therein. Each frame member includes a plurality of apertures therethrough. A plurality of metal tabs are fixed to the tubular fuselage frame and include at least one aperture therethrough axially aligned with one of the apertures of one of the frame members. A rigid panel is adapted for fixing between each metal tab and the frame members. Each panel has a plurality of apertures therethrough each axially aligned with one of the apertures of the metal tabs and the frame members. A plurality of mechanical fasteners are adapted for fixing the panel between each metal tab and one of the frame members. The panel and frame member are fixed to the fuselage frame thereby.
US09592896B1
A waterproof floatation case is provided for an outboard motor which is suitable for use during deployment for covert operations with an inflatable motor craft. The encased propulsion unit can be mounted without the need for removing the case and the two panels of the case butterflied between the motor and watercraft to permit full operation of the motor. A 2-way valve permits suction to be drawn down on the case evacuating excess air and corrosive fluids from the encased motor.
US09592893B2
This invention is directed to a watercraft launch and storage assembly including: a mounting assembly; a first step; a watercraft cage pivotally carried by the mounting assembly having a launch position and a storage position; a continuous loop included in the watercraft cage for receiving and surrounding at least a portion of a watercraft; and, a watercraft cage plane defined through the watercraft cage that is generally perpendicular to the waterline when the watercraft cage is in the storage position so that when a watercraft is received by the watercraft cage and in the storage position an angle defined between a plane running through the width of the watercraft and the watercraft cage plane is greater than 90° reducing the amount of water and debris that can enter the watercraft in the storage position.
US09592888B1
A lifting device to retrieve a marine vehicle comprises a lifting arms portion pivotally connected with a vehicle capture portion. The lifting arms portion and the vehicle capture portion rotate independently of each other. The vehicle capture portion comprises a capture connector having a probe for insertion into a latch opening in the vehicle to thereby attach the vehicle to the lifting device. The lifting arras portion further comprises two lifting arms and two vehicle pads for engaging the vehicle when it is captured. As the vehicle rolls during recovery operations, springs disposed between the vehicle capture portion and lifting arms portion dampen rotational motion. Lift line connections are provided on distal ends of the vehicle capture portion, and the lifting arms.
US09592884B2
A motorcycle has an engine and an exhaust gas pipe which is connected thereto, as well as a motorcycle rear wheel swingarm. The motorcycle rear wheel swingarm has a closed cavity which is in fluid connection with the exhaust gas pipe by way of a connecting element.
US09592871B2
A protective case for a handheld electronic device is provided. The protective case can include a removable mounting system comprised of an interlocking member and a plurality of mounting bases. The protective case may further include a non-slip member to prevent the device from slipping on a surface and a magnet for attaching the device to a magnetic surface.
US09592868B2
The present disclosure is directed to a modular bicycle rack that includes at least a first hoop structure, a second hoop structure, a first connector plate, and a second connector plate. The first hoop structure is attached to the second hoop structure by each of the first and second connector plates. A bicycle rack that is capable of providing parking and locking surfaces for at least four bicycles may be provided using only two connected hoop structures. However, additional parking and locking surfaces may be provided simply by the further connection of additional hoop structures. Embodiments of the present disclosure are also directed to a set of components that is configured to be easily shipped, such as by a parcel carrier, and assembled to provide a bicycle rack.
US09592867B2
A motor vehicle body structure is provided. The motor vehicle body structure includes an outer side wall, a lateral floor reinforcement for absorbing forces in the event of an impact event, an inner side wall with a lateral sill region and a wheel housing region, which at least partially forms a wheel housing of the vehicle. A body reinforcement element is connected to the wheel housing region of the inner side wall and to the lateral floor reinforcement in a positively joined, non-positively joined and/or materially joined manner.
US09592857B2
A closing plug for an opening in a body structure of an automobile, wherein the closing plug closes the opening against a passage of fluid and/or gas up to a limit pressure which acts on the closing plug, and allows a passage of fluid and/or gas above the limit pressure, characterized in that the closing plug comprises a base body consisting of a first plastic material, which has a holding section with holding means for holding the closing plug in the opening and a plate-shaped head section provided on one end of the holding section with at least one opening and that the closing plug comprises a sealing body of a second plastic material molded onto the base body in a plastic injection molding process.
US09592853B2
Provided is a load-carrying or non-load carrying structural component for a vehicle having improved impact resistance, such as a gas tank protection shield, an underbody shield, a structural panel, an interior floor, a floor pan, a roof, an exterior surface, a storage area, a glove box, a console box, a trunk, a trunk floor, a truck bed, and combinations thereof. The component has a support structure with ridges, each spaced apart from one another at predetermined intervals, to form a corrugated surface capable of load-carrying. The ridges are longitudinally extending, raised ridges and define top and side walls. A plurality of strategically thickened areas is on at least one of the top wall and side walls.
US09592848B1
An electric power steering controller adjustably generates a target steer torque dynamically by weighting (i) a load based target steer torque that is determined based on an estimated load and (ii) a steer angle based target steer torque with a weighting ratio. The weighting ratio varies depending on a condition of a road surface on which a subject vehicle is traveling, a steering state of the driver and the like, which enables an adjustment of the target steer torque to suitably accommodate the condition of the road surface and to provide a road surface conscious steering feel while achieving robustness over an influence of a friction of the mechanical components in a steering system.
US09592845B2
A staging cart for moving multiple packaged mattresses generally includes a base frame having a length and a width dimension; a handle frame extending upwardly from a rear end of the cart; a pair of rear wheels and a pair of forward wheels mounted to a bottom surface of the base frame at the rear and forward ends of the base frame, respectively; a platform portion coupled to the base frame spanning a length of the base frame and having a planar surface, wherein the platform portion has a width dimension less than the width dimension of the base frame and is medially located within the base frame; and at least one roller coupled to the base frame spanning the length dimension and adjacent to at least one side of the platform portion, wherein the at least one roller has an axis of rotation parallel to the longitudinal axis of the platform portion.
US09592836B2
A travelling vehicle system that allows a travelling vehicle to smoothly pass through a switching region where a state of a track is switched. The system includes a switching device which switches a state of a track in the switching region, and a host controller which manages a travelling vehicle. The switching device includes a detector which detects the state of the track in the switching region, and a report device which is arranged along the track from the switching region toward the upstream side of the track and reports switching information showing the state of the track. The host controller includes a permission issuing part which issues to the travelling vehicle controller a passage permission, and the travelling vehicle controller includes a travelling control part which determines whether or not to stop before the switching region based on the passage permission and the switching information.
US09592832B2
A method for controlling regenerative braking in a hybrid electric powertrain includes using an e-pump to supply fluid to a transmission provided an indication that a torque converter clutch disengagement will occur under current powertrain operating conditions is present, and discontinuing use of the e-pump and using a mechanical pump to supply fluid to the transmission provided the indication that a torque converter clutch disengagement will occur under current powertrain operating conditions is absent.
US09592825B2
A vehicle control system is provided with a first driving force control means that controls a turning performance of a vehicle by controlling a driving force delivered from a prime mover to driving wheels so as to adjust the turning condition of the vehicle to an intended turning condition. The first driving force control means is configured to calculate a correction amount of the driving force required to adjust an actual turning condition of the vehicle to the intended turning condition, and to restrict the correction amount to zero or smaller so as not to increase the driving force if the correction amount is positive value.
US09592821B2
A drive system and a method of driving a vehicle (1). The drive system includes (1) a combustion engine (2), a gear box (3), an electric machine (9), and a planetary gear. A control unit (18) has access to information concerning the moment (Tel) of the electric machine (9) for driving the vehicle (1) and to calculate the moment (T1c) of the combustion engine (2) for driving the vehicle (1) at at least a first operation occasion (D1) when there is a known relation between the moment (Tel) of the electric machine and the moment (T1c) of the combustion engine.
US09592807B2
A brake chamber includes a rod member that makes reciprocating motion within a cylinder through a pressure of compressed air or an urging force of a spring, thereby causing a pushrod for activating a brake device of a vehicle to proceed into the brake device. The brake chamber further includes a diaphragm that deforms in response to supply of the compressed air to push the rod member, and a housing that forms an accommodation space for the diaphragm. The housing is connected to the cylinder with a first end of the cylinder being inserted in the housing. The brake chamber further includes a boot member connected to the cylinder and the rod member. The boot member includes a sealing portion to prevent entry of foreign matter into a connection portion between the housing and the cylinder by contacting an inner circumferential surface of the housing.
US09592794B2
A recovery system and method with repeating communication functionality includes a station configured to send a first message and at least a first remote transmitting unit responsive to the central station and configured to transmit a second message to a locating unit. At least a second remote transmitting unit includes a receiver which receives the second message, a controller configured to process the second message, and a transmitter for transmitting a third message to the locating unit.
US09592791B2
A vehicle seatbelt apparatus includes a seatbelt web wrapped in a reel around a motor-rotated shaft. A latch is selectively engageable with the reel to lock a seatbelt retractor from movement in one direction while allowing movement of the retractor under motor rotation of the shaft in response to pre-crash vehicle braking deceleration, a vehicle downhill angle or a vehicle lateral “g” force exceeding a threshold. When a retractor locked position is detected, the motor is activated to retract the seatbelt web for a predetermined time period to urge the passenger toward a center upright position in a vehicle seat.
US09592774B2
The wire harness according to the present invention comprises electric wires each including a conductor. The electric wire is configured of a low-current electric wire used for a power source circuit, a high-current/ground electric wire used for a high-current power source circuit or a ground circuit and allowing a larger current than that of the low-current electric wire to flow, and a signal electric wire used for a signal circuit. The low-current electric wire and the high-current/ground electric wire are formed of an aluminum electric wire in which the conductor is made of aluminum or an aluminum alloy. The signal electric wire is formed of a copper electric wire in which the conductor is made of copper or a copper alloy.
US09592758B2
In a seat (1) for a driver of a construction machine, in particular for a road roller, featuring a seat surface (2), a seat backrest (4) which feature a vertical central plane (26) in longitudinal direction, and featuring no less than one armrest (10) attached in an adjustable basic position by means of an armrest support (8), where the armrest (10) extends from the seat backrest (4) next to the seat surface (2) towards the front, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: a seat console (6) carries, as a minimum, the seat surface (2) and the seat backrest (4), and the armrest support (8) features no less than one each first adjustable connection unit (12) to the armrest (10) and one each second adjustable connection unit (14) to the seat console (6).
US09592757B2
An armrest that includes a mounting plate, a block member, and a link member. The link member has a first end and a second end that opposes the first end. The link member is engaged with the mounting plate at a first pivot toward the first end to pivot the link member at the first pivot and laterally move the second end. The link member is engaged with the block member at a second pivot toward the second end to pivot the block member at the second pivot and laterally move an end of the block member that faces the first end.
US09592756B1
Seat assemblies for vehicles are disclosed. A seat assembly for a vehicle includes a back portion, a seat portion pivotably connected to the back portion, a first release assembly connected to the back portion and the seat portion, a second release assembly connected to the seat portion, and a handle mechanically coupled to the first release assembly and the second release assembly. The first release assembly is configured to transition between a locked configuration and an unlocked configuration. The second release assembly is configured to transition between an engaged configuration and a disengaged configuration. When the handle is rotated from a first position to a second position, the first release assembly transitions between the locked configuration and the unlocked configuration such that the back portion pivots relative to the seat portion, and the second release assembly transitions between the engaged configuration and the disengaged configuration.
US09592746B2
A power net system of a fuel cell hybrid vehicle includes a fuel cell and an electric vehicle battery (EV battery) connected with each other through a main bus terminal in parallel, and an insulated gate bipolar mode transistor (IGBT) connected to the EV battery and the main bus terminal. The power net system further includes an inverter connected to the main bus terminal and a driving motor connected to the inverter.
US09592744B2
The disclosure provides a battery which can include a power supply and power supply circuit, the power supply circuit connected to the power supply. The power supply can discharge through the power supply circuit. An electronic switch can control the power-on or off of the power supply, thereby avoiding the generation of sparks during the power on process and allowing for the normal use of the battery and the safety of the aircraft. The disclosure also provides an aircraft having the battery.
US09592731B2
A fuel management module for use with a CNG fuel system for a vehicle includes a housing configured to be connected to the vehicle and a number of connections, receptacles, and controls associated with the module. A defueling receptacle may be positioned on the front panel of the housing, for defueling a fuel tank of the vehicle. A defueling control valve may be positioned on the front panel of the housing for controlling operation of the defueling receptacle, allowing for selective defueling. One or more high pressure connections may be accessible on the housing and configured for connection to one or more separate fuel tanks in a plug and play configuration. A plurality of filling connections may be accessible on the housing for filling the fuel tank(s). A low pressure fuel output connection may be positioned on the back panel of the housing to provide fuel output from the high pressure connections to the engine.
US09592728B1
A bushing mount for an in-vehicle component disposed on a vehicle body includes a support and an insertion portion. The support includes a support body defining a pin hole therein, and the insertion portion is connected to the support. The support body includes a contact surface that abuts the vehicle body when the insertion portion is inserted into an attachment hole formed in the vehicle body. The support supports, when a pin of the in-vehicle component is inserted into the pin hole, the in-vehicle component while being interposed between the vehicle body and the in-vehicle component. The support includes a removal portion that allows the pin to be removed out of the pin hole in a direction angled from a center axis of the pin hole.
US09592719B2
A light filter assembly for an automotive vehicle that includes a central plate or a sleeve with at least one filter attached to by a fastener. The filter has a substantially triangular shape with at least one curved edge, and can rotate about the fastener in a plane parallel to the central plate or sleeve.
US09592706B2
A shoulder land portion is constructed by block rows. Shoulder lateral grooves sectionalize the block rows. The shoulder lateral grooves extend along the tire width direction in such a manner as to cut across ground contact ends. A plurality of projections is provided on a wall surface of the shoulder lateral groove. The projections protrude out of the wall surface of the shoulder lateral groove without reaching a center of a groove width of the shoulder lateral groove and are lined up in a length direction of the shoulder lateral groove in an outside area in the tire width direction from the ground contact end. The projection is formed into a triangular shape or a trapezoidal shape in its plan view and is formed into a triangular shape or a trapezoidal shape in its front elevational view.
US09592704B2
A method of producing rubber tire compounds, including a first mixing step in which at least one cross-linkable, unsaturated-chain polymer base, silica, and a silane bonding agent in the alkoxymercaptoalkyl-silane class are mixed together; and a final mixing step in which a curing system having at least sulphur and accelerants is added to and mixed with the mix. A nucleophile compound and zinc oxide are mixed with the polymer base at the first mixing step. And the method includes a second mixing step between the first mixing step and the final mixing step, and in which a silane bonding agent in the polysulphide organosilane class is added to and mixed with the mix from the first mixing step.
US09592703B1
A height adjustable support comprising a three-sided support channel, a cylindrical support post positioned within the support channel and at least one saddle brace positioned within the support channel and to partially surround the cylindrical support post. In the present invention, the downward force resulting from the weight of the equipment results in static friction between the saddle brace and the cylindrical support post that is sufficient to hold the equipment surface at a desired height. The height adjustable support may be implemented into hygienically designed food processing equipment to eliminate undesirable bacteria harboring surfaces and to improve height adjustability of the equipment.
US09592700B2
A visual display assembly adapted for use as an anti-counterfeiting device on paper currency, product labels, and other objects. The assembly includes a film of transparent material including a first surface including an array of lenses and a second surface opposite the first surface. The assembly also includes a printed image proximate to the second surface. The printed image includes pixels of frames of one or more images interlaced relative to two orthogonal axes. The lenses of the array are nested in a plurality of parallel rows, and adjacent ones of the lenses in columns of the array are aligned to be in a single one of the rows with no offset of lenses in adjacent columns/rows. The lenses may be round-based lenses or are square-based lenses, and the lenses may be provided at 200 lenses per inch (LPI) or a higher LPI in both directions.
US09592676B2
An ink cartridge chip includes an interface unit, a control unit, and a storage unit, wherein the interface unit is configured to receive a light control command sent from an imaging device, and the light control command includes ink cartridge identification information; the storage unit is configured to store autogenic identification information and a state flag, and the state flag includes an executable state or a non-executable state; the control unit is configured to execute the light control command; and the control unit is is configured to, when the interface unit receives the light control command, control the light-emitting unit to execute the light control command based on the type of the light control command and the state flag in the storage unit to re-determined the state flag.
US09592670B2
There are provided a liquid accommodating container that has a sufficient volume for reserving waste ink and can accommodate therein a sufficient amount of ink used in printing with space-saving, a liquid ejecting device provided therewith and a liquid introducing method. Therefore non-print ink is discharged and reserved in a portion, in which unused ink for printing was reserved, in an ink tank for replacement of the unused ink.
US09592664B2
An integrated circuit including a first EPROM, a second EPROM, and a circuit. The first EPROM is configured to provide a first state and a second state. The second EPROM is configured to provide a third state and a fourth state. The circuit is configured to select the first EPROM and the second EPROM individually and in parallel with each other.
US09592662B2
In a method to damp an oscillation of a roller driven via a drive in a printing system, a printing substrate web is directed across the roller, the roller and the printing substrate web forming a system capable of vibrating. With the drive the roller is driven with a predetermined nominal moment. With a sensor, a real value is determined of a variable representative of a velocity with which the printing substrate web is transported by the roller. In aid of a predetermined calculation rule, a correction moment is calculated from the determined real value such that a damping of the vibration-capable system results like a mechanical viscous damper. The correction moment is added to the predetermined nominal moment upon activation of the drive.
US09592659B2
A device body comprises: a winding roller that is provided so as to contact with a flooring material sheet bonded to a floor and on which is wound the sheet that is stripped from the floor starting from a contact portion with the sheet; a driving means that, by rotationally driving the winding roller, winds the sheet onto the winding roller and strips the same from the floor, and that advances the device body by the winding roller being pushed toward the floor by the reactive force of the removal and rolling on the sheet; and a guiding means that discharges the sheet being stripped from the floor in front of or to the side of the direction of advancement of the device body.
US09592647B2
A modular corrugated container integrates product cushioning with a product support surface formed from corrugated paper and having features that absorb transverse accelerations. The support surface has scored tabs that bend perpendicular to an interior support portion, forming feet that elevate the interior portion relative to a container bottom. The interior portion has perforations that absorb accelerations, such as a perforations formed around the outside perimeter of the location at which a product rests, perforations extending from corners of the support surface towards a central location of the support surface, and perforations at the scoring of the tabs. Voids formed along the tabs remove portions of the feet from contact with the container bottom to encourage constant dissemination of accelerations across the support surface.
US09592644B2
A method of, and apparatus for, inscribing a grating in an optical waveguide so as to reduce transverse inscription variations, are provided. The waveguide is exposed to multiple beams or interference patterns of actinic radiation from multiple azimuthal directions. The beams of actinic radiation are preferably split into a plurality of beams that have wave vectors with different longitudinal components, e.g., via gratings such as phase masks. The periods and phases of the interference patterns of the beams of actinic radiation are preferably matched. A control beam may be provided that does not hit the waveguide. A control loop optionally controls at least one of the position or orientation of at least one of the beams of actinic radiation. The gratings are, for example, Bragg gratings.
US09592627B2
This invention relates to methods for forming a polymer, including continuously depositing a polymer extrudate that is above its glass transition temperature onto a lower molding surface of a first mold in a manner that reduces shear stress in the polymer extrudate, heating the lower molding surface to maintain the polymer extrudate above the glass transition temperature, applying an upper molding surface of a second mold to at least the exposed upper surface of the polymer, allowing the polymer to transition to below the glass transition temperature while within or between the upper and lower molding surfaces, and providing heat sinks spaced relative to each other through the pressure forming zone, wherein a heat sink more advanced through the pressure forming zone is controlled to a lower temperature to progressively reduce the temperature of the polymer as it advances through the pressure forming zone.
US09592618B2
A grate for use in forming potato stick products having a wavy cross-sectional shape is provided. The grate includes a plurality of alternating convex segments and concave segments extending in a repeating pattern along a length of the grate. A plurality of spaced apart teeth extends from the plurality of convex segments and the plurality of concave segments. A distance between the spaced apart teeth defines a width of the potato stick products.
US09592616B2
A knife for relieving pressure on the index finger metacarpophalangeal joint of one using the knife by pressing down with the index finger on a top portion of the knife, comprising a handle having a top and bottom portion and two opposing sides and a proximal and distal end, a blade having a top portion and bottom, cutting edge portion and two opposing sides and a proximal and distal end and configured so the handle and blade overlap and the blade proximal end is connected to the handle distal end, a finger rest having a top and front portion and is connected to the blade at a point proximate the proximal end of the blade, and wherein the finger rest, handle and blade are configured to minimize pressure on the index finger metacarpophalangeal joint of one using the knife by pressing down with the index finger on the finger rest.
US09592611B2
A workpiece mounting system mounts a sunroof member to an inner panel of a body. The workpiece mounting system is provided with a first robot, a second robot, and a control device for controlling the first and second robots. The control device performs a step of calculating as positional information the position of the sunroof member and the position of the inner panel by a CCD camera of the first robot, a step of holding and conveying the sunroof member by the first robot on the basis of the positional information and positioning the sunroof member relative to the inner panel, a step of temporarily fixing the sunroof member to the inner panel by the first robot, and a step of finally fixing the sunroof member to the inner panel by the second robot on the basis of the already calculated positional information.
US09592609B2
An intelligent mobile robot having a robot base controller and an onboard navigation system that, in response to receiving a job assignment specifying a job location that is associated with one or more job operations, activates the onboard navigation system to automatically determine a path the mobile robot should use to drive to the job location, automatically determines that using an initially-selected path could cause the mobile robot to run into stationary or non-stationary obstacles, such as people or other mobile robots, in the physical environment, automatically determines a new path to avoid the stationary and non-stationary obstacles, and automatically drives the mobile robot to the job location using the new path, thereby avoiding contact or collisions with those obstacles. After the mobile robot arrives at the job location, it automatically performs said one or more job operations associated with that job location.
US09592608B1
Example implementations may relate to a robotic system that provides feedback. The robotic system is configured to receive information related to a path in an environment of the robotic system. The robotic system is also configured to initiate a recording process for storing data related to motion of a component in the environment. The robotic system is additionally configured to detect, during the recording process, movement of the component along the path in the environment, where the movement results from application of an external force to the robotic system. The robotic system is further configured to determine, during the recording process, deviation of the movement away from the path by at least a threshold amount and responsively provide feedback including one or more of (i) resisting the deviation of the movement away from the path and (ii) guiding the at least one component back towards the path.
US09592598B2
An impact system for a hydraulic hammer is disclosed. The impact system may include a piston, a sleeve disposed co-axial with the piston, and an accumulator membrane disposed external to the sleeve. A first seal may be located at an end of the sleeve, and configured to connect the sleeve to the piston. The accumulator membrane may have an extension configured to engage a recess in the sleeve.
US09592597B2
A flat clinch assembly fits upon or within a base of a stapling device. The assembly preferably includes a slot with extended resiliently biased arms or toggles, where a rest position has the arms at or near a level of a working surface. An ejecting staple deflects and energizes the arms to cause the arms to rotate and create a clearance recess whereby points of the staple legs slide inward along the anvil. A restorative bias acting on the arms causes the arms to rebound to a rest position and to bend the legs upward. The legs thereby are normally pressed flat against the back sheet of a paper stack at the working surface. The arms or toggles are lightweight whereby the inertia of a fast moving staple moves the arms or toggles.
US09592591B2
Illustrative embodiments of impact tools with speed controllers and methods of controlling such impact tools are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, an impact tool may comprise a ball-and-cam impact mechanism including a hammer and an anvil. The hammer may be configured to rotate about a first axis and to translate along the first axis to impact the anvil to cause rotation of the anvil about the first axis. The impact tool may further comprise a motor and a speed controller. The motor may include a rotor configured to rotate when a flow of compressed fluid is supplied to the rotor to drive rotation of the hammer of the ball-and-cam impact mechanism. The speed controller may be coupled to the rotor and may be configured to throttle the flow of compressed fluid supplied to the rotor based on a rotational speed of the rotor.
US09592588B2
A pipe alignment tool for aligning abutted ends of first and second pipe sections to be joined includes a clamp member adapted to be clamped circumferentially about the first pipe section and one or more pipe engaging members mounted on the clamp member adapted to extend across a seam between the abutted ends of the first and second pipe sections to overlap the second pipe section. A bearing member is rotatably supported on each pipe engaging member for rolling contact with the second pipe section to assist in positioning the second pipe section relative to the first pipe section. The clamp member may be formed of modular sections connected circumferentially in series in which each modular section defines a mounting location upon which a pipe engaging member can be removably attached.
US09592585B2
System and method for CMP station cleanliness. An embodiment comprises a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) station comprising a housing unit covering the various components of the CMP station. The CMP station further comprising various surfaces of a slurry arm shield, a slurry spray nozzle, a pad conditioning arm shield, a platen shield, a carrier head; and the interior, vertical surfaces of the housing unit. A cleaning liquid delivery system configured to dose a cleaning liquid on the various surfaces of the CMP station at set intervals.
US09592583B2
A polishing brush includes: a brush body that includes a cylindrical base section and linear abrasive materials extending from a bottom surface of one side of the base section along a direction of a center of an axis of the base section, and removes burrs and performs polishing on a surface of a workpiece metal by relatively moving the abrasive materials and the workpiece metal while tips of the abrasive materials come into contact with a surface of the workpiece metal; a brush guide that is coaxial with the center of the axis and is disposed on the outside of the brush body in a radial direction so that the tips of the abrasive materials protrude from an end portion; and a displacement mechanism that changes protruding lengths of the abrasive materials from the end portion.
US09592581B2
The end mill grinding device of the present invention includes a tool spindle assembly and a motor tower which enables multi-axis positioning of a sharpening wheel in relation to an end mill cutting tool being sharpened, for sharpening the end mill tool. The present invention combines linear sharpening and radial tool end grinding capability in the same device.
US09592578B2
A method of manufacturing an assembly to couple an optical fiber to an opto-electronic component includes providing the optical fiber having an end section with a front face to couple light in and out of the optical fiber, providing a housing to encase the end section of the optical fiber. The housing is formed with an opening to receive the optical fiber. The method further includes inserting the optical fiber in the opening such that the end section of the optical fiber is disposed inside the housing, attaching the optical fiber to a surface of the housing arranged to form a boundary of the opening, and aligning the front face of the optical fiber to the opto-electronic component.
US09592575B2
The weld metal of the present invention is formed by gas shield arc welding using a flux-cored wire, has a predetermined chemical component composition, and contains 20% or more of Ti. The amount of Ti-containing oxide particles having a circle-equivalent diameter of 0.15-1.0 μm is at least 5000 per square mm, the amount of V per total mass of weld metal present as a compound within the weld metal is 0.002% or more, and the average circle equivalent diameter of V-containing carbide present in the weld metal is 15 nm or less.
US09592572B2
An element manufacturing method in which a section of a substrate that is irradiated with laser light can be covered efficiently. A plurality of protrusions of an intermediate product are lined up in a first direction on a substrate, and a sealing mechanism includes one pair of rollers that rotate around a rotational axis extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The paired rollers are lined up spacedly in the first direction. In a sealing step using the sealing mechanism, a section of a lid member that is being tensioned between the paired rollers is in close contact with a part of the intermediate product. In an irradiation step, light passes through the section of the lid member that is being tensioned between the paired rollers, and reaches the intermediate product.
US09592554B2
A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional shaped object, comprising: (i) forming a powder layer on a base plate by a sliding movement of a squeegee blade, followed by forming a solidified layer by irradiating a predetermined portion of the powder layer with a light beam, thereby allowing sintering of the powder of the predetermined portion or melting and subsequent solidification thereof; and (ii) forming another solidified layer by newly forming a powder layer on the resulting solidified layer, and then irradiating another predetermined portion of the new powder layer with the light beam, steps (i) and (ii) being repeatedly performed, wherein machining is performed at least once on an outer surface of a shaped object precursor obtained during manufacturing, and after machining, at least one solidified layer is formed, and followed by upper face machining to remove a raised solidified portion generated at a peripheral edge of the solidified layer.
US09592547B2
A method of manufacturing an annular material includes: a forging process of making a discoid forged material by forging an alloy material; and a ring rolling process of making an annular material by performing ring rolling on an annular intermediate made by forming a through-hole in the forged material. In the forging process, hot forging which achieves an absolute value εθ1 of a strain in a circumferential direction of the forged material that is greater than or equal to 0.3, an absolute value εh of a strain in a height direction of the forged material that is greater than or equal to 0.3, and a ratio εh/εθ1 between the absolute values of the strains that is in a range of 0.4 to 2.5 is performed at least two or more times.
US09592541B2
A method of removing a ceramic thermal barrier coating system (18). Laser energy (20) is applied to the thermal barrier coating system in the presence of a flux material (22) in order to form a melt (26). Upon removal of the energy, the melt solidifies to from a layer of slag (28) which is more loosely adhered to the underlying metallic substrate (12) than the original thermal barrier coating system. The slag is then broken and released from the substrate with a mechanical process such as grit blasting (30). Sufficient energy may be applied to melt an entire depth of the coating system along with a thin layer (34) of the substrate, thereby forming a refreshed surface (36) on the substrate upon resolidification.
US09592539B2
An automated support cleaning system comprising a tank disposed within a housing and configured to circulate an aqueous cleaning solution to remove a support structure from a three-dimensional model.
US09592525B2
A garden fountain having a lower bowl, a middle bowl and an upper bowl. A water pump positioned in the lower bowl pumps water up into the middle bowl. The upper bowl rests in the middle bowl. Using a combination of the water level in the middle bowl and the spacing of the bottom of the upper bowl with respect to the water level in the middle bowl, the user can accurately control the water flow to the upper bowl. A rechargeable battery for the pump is provided in a battery compartment of the base of the fountain, thus providing easy user access to the same.
US09592520B2
A high volume low pressure (HVLP) coating application system employing a rotary vane pump and manifold assembly that provides an improved source of air for increased spray gun atomization of high solid coatings and faster applications of more even coated surfaces with continuous HVLP pressures of 10 PSI at the spray gun output and the ability to power multiple spray guns and breathing apparatus from a single manifold system.
US09592519B2
A charge ring and fluid restriction arrangement for a paint spray tool. The paint spray tool has a charge ring that is moveable along the axis of the tool body. The paint spray tool also has interchangeable pre-orifices within the tool body.
US09592515B1
Systems and methods for separating materials and recovery of valuable materials such as from end-of-life vehicles and appliances are disclosed. Vehicles are shredded and resulting pieces are dropped into a fluidic separator that separates the shredded vehicle scrap into heavier pieces and lighter pieces. The fluidic separator separates the bulk of the more valuable metals of the non-metals. The fluidic separator, which may be used for separating many kinds of mixtures of pieces of varying specific gravity, comprises a fluid-filled container in which the pieces and the fluid are stirred so that pieces of specific gravity greater than that of the fluid tend to sink and pieces of specific gravity less than that of the fluid tend to float.
US09592510B2
The present invention relates to methods for amplifying nucleic acids in micro-channels. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for performing a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in a continuous-flow microfluidic system and to methods for monitoring real-time PCR in such systems.
US09592492B2
An oxide catalyst is formed by vaporizing a quantity of at least one precursor material or catalyst material thereby forming a vapor cloud. The vapor cloud is quenched forming precipitate nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are impregnated onto supports. The supports are able to be used in existing heterogeneous catalysis systems. A system for forming oxide catalysts comprises means for vaporizing a quantity of at least one precursor material or at least one catalyst material, quenching the resulting vapor cloud and forming precipitate nanoparticles. The system further comprises means for supports with the nanoparticles.
US09592467B2
Fouling rate inhibition for a hydrogenation reactor. A hydrocarbon hydrogenation method comprises passing a liquid feedstream through a magnetic field to separate magnetically susceptible particles, and introducing the magnetically lean stream into a fixed catalyst bed under hydrogenation conditions to saturate carbon-carbon double bonds in the hydrocarbon. Also, a hydrogenation reactor system comprises a magnetic conditioning zone, an inlet flow path to introduce a magnetically lean stream from the magnetic conditioning zone into a fixed catalyst bed and an outlet flow path from an outlet end of the catalyst bed to withdraw reactor effluent.
US09592461B2
The invention concerns a filter element (1), in particular of a fuel filter for motor vehicles. The filter element (1) is received in a filter housing (2) and comprises a filter body (3) with a filter material (5) that is arranged in folds (4). Between two folds (4) a heater installation space is provided and configured to receive a heating element (6) for the fuel.
US09592459B2
An oil filter includes a casing (2) having a cylinder portion formed with an opening in one end thereof and a threaded portion formed on an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder portion, and a cap (6) threadably engaging with the threaded portion to contain a filter element between the casing (2) and the cap (6). The cap (6) includes a flange abutted on an open end surface of the cylinder portion of the casing (2) and allowing the cap (6) to be positioned by the casing (2), and a recess fittably receiving a sealing member for obstructing oil flow between the cap (6) and the casing (2). The cap (6) is formed with a facilitating portion that allows at least a part of the sealing member to move onto a radial end surface of the flange when the sealing member is mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the cap (6) at a place between the flange and the recess and the cap (6) is positioned by the casing (2).
US09592454B2
An interactive amusement attraction capable of sensing ride vehicle or user interaction or position. The attraction can track user performance and/or location, through use of a ride vehicle or without, and can include a slide for supporting water and a sensor connected with the slide for sensing an interactive element. The tags or interactive element may be passive (e.g., sensed by the sensor merely when within a predetermined proximity) or may require user manipulation (e.g., a button to be pressed when within a predetermined proximity of the sensor). Various lighting elements may be connected or embedded in the slide and may be controlled to illuminate with various colors. These lighting elements, such as LED light strips, can be used to indicate the presence of a sensor and/or that a sensor has been successfully or unsuccessfully interacted with.
US09592444B2
A method, implemented as computer code being executed by one or more processors, in which computer game graphics for a casual, social game are shown on a display of a computing device, where the casual, social game is downloaded as an app to a smartphone and/or tablet computer and can be accessed or played using a social network application or environment; and in which one or more of the processors are programmed such that: a notification is automatically generated if a player is stuck at a level for more than a defined time or after more than a defined number of attempts to pass that level, the notification alerting friends of the player so that they can assist him or her.
US09592436B2
An integrated golf club and analysis system that measures and analyze the performance characteristics of both: 1) a free golf swing without impact with a golf ball and 2) a golf swing with ball impact analysis. Free swing analysis provides critical information needed to analyze swing style so that dynamics swing characteristics optimization can be evaluated throughout the entire swing without ball impact, while impact analysis provides critical information on ball impact location on the club face, however, they cannot be measured simultaneously since ball impact eliminates the ability to identify the swing metric peaks such as velocity if it were to occur after ball impact. To achieve both, an integrated electronics golf club head comprises multiple types of sensors for measuring club head motion, impact and spatial location information with a weight and balance of a regulation golf club head.
US09592433B2
Nozzle orifice shapes and configurations associated with regulating and directing a flowing body of water over a water attraction riding surface for performing board-riding maneuvers is described. The nozzle orifice shapes and configurations according to the present invention includes shapes and configurations allowing for a flow of water over a ride surface which may include complex shapes which do not lend themselves to use with existing nozzle technologies. The present invention also includes nozzle arrays which may be made up of two or more nozzles arranged substantially adjacent or within close proximity to one another to create beneficial flow characteristics for performing board riding maneuvers on a complexly shaped riding surface.
US09592420B2
An exercise bench is provided that facilitates exercises performed with a resistance band. The exercise bench includes a supporting frame and a back support member and a seat support member attached to the frame. The back support member is selectively movable to different angles relative to the seat support member. At least one resistance band securing device attaches to one or both of the supporting frame and the back support member. The resistance band securing device selectively securing the resistance band to the exercise bench. At least one resistance band orienting member adjusts an angle of the resistance band relative to the resistance band securing device.
US09592418B2
A dynamic stretching, strengthening and stabilization device is provided for postural correction and retraining. The device has a pair of closed loop resistance tubes and a central harness member which positions the closed loop resistance tubes roughly in the form of a FIG. 8. Each loop of the resistance tube is sized to accommodate the arm and shoulder of the user. The device may be used in a stabilization mode or stretching/strengthening mode, and transitions easily between these modes to correct and retrain the user's posture.
US09592413B2
This invention relates to azeotrope-like compositions, methods and systems having utility in numerous applications, and in particular, uses for azeotrope-like compositions comprising effective amounts of the compound cis-1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene (Z-HFO-1336mzzm), which has the following structure: and another material selected from the group consisting of water, fluoroketones, alcohols, hydrochlorofluoroolefins, and combinations of two or more thereof. These compositions may be used in a wide variety of applications such as, blowing agents, refrigerants, heating agents, power cycle agents, cleaning agents, aerosol propellants, sterilization agents, lubricants, flavor and fragrance extractants, flammability reducing agents, and flame suppression agents.
US09592411B2
A low profile explosion proof by containment enclosure includes a base wall having first and second edge sections that are joined with third and fourth edge sections to define a substantially planar surface. First and second side walls extend from the first and second edge sections, and third and fourth side walls extending from the third and fourth edge sections and are joined with the first and second side walls. The base wall, first and second, and third and fourth side walls define an interior zone. A cover is coupled to the first and second, and third and fourth side walls to enclose the interior zone and provide containment to any flammable events. At least one of the first and second side walls, third and fourth side walls, base wall, and cover includes one or more unobstructed openings that provide fluid drainage while also providing containment to any flammable events.
US09592404B2
An ophthalmic phototherapy device and associated phototherapy treatment method for promoting healing of damaged or diseased eye tissue. The ophthalmic phototherapy device includes a light emitting mechanism for transmitting light of at least one preselected wavelength to the eye tissue. The ophthalmic phototherapy method includes directing light of at least one wavelength for a selected period of time to a portion of damaged or diseased eye tissue, whereby the light transmitted to the damaged or diseased eye tissue stimulates cellular activity in the eye tissue to promote healing.
US09592403B2
In embodiments, a WCD system includes one or more transducers that may sense patient parameters from different parts of the patient's body, and thus render physiological inputs from those parameters. Individual analysis scores may be determined from the physiological inputs, and an aggregate analysis score may be determined from the individual analysis scores. A shock/no shock determination may be made depending on whether or not the aggregate analysis score meets an aggregate shock criterion. Accordingly, multiple inputs are considered in making the shock/no shock determination.
US09592394B2
The invention relates to a device incorporating an endocardial acceleration (EA) sensor. A capture test circuit of the device collects a sampled EA signal and extracts a limited series of EA measurements during a duration of a predetermined temporal window opened after delivery of a pacing pulse. An indicator value based on an average of absolute values of successive EA measurements of the series of EA measurements is calculated at an end of the temporal window. The indicator value is compared to a predetermined discrimination threshold to determine the presence or absence of a capture according to whether the indicator value lies above or below the predetermined discrimination threshold. The indicator value is very robust to noise and particularly efficient in terms of computing, which reduces, in large proportions, consumption of the digital processor and thus of the capsule.
US09592393B2
A leadless cardiac pacing system includes first and second leadless pacing seeds configured to deliver pacing therapy to a first and second location in a patient, respectively. The second seed includes an electrode, a therapy circuit configured to provide electrostimulation energy to the electrode, a communications component, and a power source. The second seed also includes a power manager configured to detect an end-of-life condition associated with the seed and, in response to detecting the end-of-life condition, to communicate a signal that causes the first seed to change from a first operational state to a second operational state, in which the first seed implements one or more operational parameters configured to adapt to a change in an output from the second seed resulting from the second seed entering the end-of-life condition.
US09592391B2
Systems and methods for coordinating detection and/or treatment of abnormal heart activity using multiple implanted devices within a patient. In one example, cardiac activity may be sensed by two or more medical device, including a leadless cardiac pacemaker. Cardiac activity sensed by one of the implanted devices may be communicated to another one of the implanted devices. Abnormal heart activity may then be determined based on the cardiac activity of both of the medical device.
US09592389B2
A system and method for graphically identifying candidate electrodes of a leadwire for stimulation of a patient anatomy includes a processor obtaining data corresponding to an anatomic region, identifying a spatial relationship between electrodes of the leadwire to the anatomic region, based on the identifying, selecting a subset of the electrodes of the leadwire, generating, based on the obtained data and the selected subset, a graphical output arrangement that includes a model of the leadwire including graphical representations of at least some of the electrodes and a graphical selection marking identifying the selected subset of the electrodes.
US09592382B2
An exemplary system includes 1) a fitting facility configured to maintain data representative of a library of one or more sounds and data representative of a library of one or more environments, and 2) a detection facility configured to detect a selection by a user of a sound included in the library of one or more sounds an environment included in the library of one or more environments. The fitting facility is further configured to generate, based on the selected sound and the selected environment, an audio signal representative of an acoustic scene and use the audio signal to fit a cochlear implant system to a patient. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09592376B2
A holding apparatus for holding at least one tube clamp on a medical tube, the tube clamp including at least one, usually two, clamping section(s) for altering a luminal cross-section of a medical tube during use, includes at least one receiving structure for detachably receiving at least one section of the tube clamp. A medical tube with at least one holding apparatus as well as a method for sterilizing a medical tube are also described.
US09592366B2
An integrated vascular delivery system having a frame configured to receive a catheter insertable in a patient to deliver fluid at an insertion site. The frame includes a first hub, a second hub, and a pair of flexible lateral members extending between the hubs and including a tubular lateral member. The system also includes a fluidic channel that fluidically communicates with the catheter, wherein the fluidic channel passes through the tubular lateral member and at least one of the hubs, and includes a fixed turnabout portion in which fluid flows in a direction different from that within the catheter. The first and second hubs provide anchoring points on the patient distributed around the insertion site and on opposite ends of the catheter, thereby anchoring the frame to the patient and stabilizing the catheter. A method is provided for using an integrated vascular delivery system.
US09592360B2
A portable oxygen concentrator designed for medical use where the sieve beds, adsorbers, are designed to be replaced by a patient. The concentrator is designed so that the beds are at least partially exposed to the outside of the system and can be easily released by a simple user-friendly mechanism. Replacement beds may be installed easily by patients, and all gas seals will function properly after installation.
US09592355B2
A medicated inhalant dispenser has a plastics material body having a mouthpiece. A pressurized, inhalant source has a canister and a sprout which his moved towards the canister for release of a dose from the canister. The sprout is accommodated in a junction member, which is movable by a cam connected to a pivotal cover for the mouthpiece. Opening of the cover sets a breath actuable kink valve, having a nozzle through which the inhalant is released and a breath flap actuation. Opening also causes the junction member to be lifted for dose dispensing into the kink valve. Breathing in releases the dose for inhalation. A closed sleeve is provided for abutment of the end of the canister as the junction member is moved towards the canister. Between the canister end and an end of the closed sleeve, an adjustable abutment is provided.
US09592348B2
An assembly for a drug delivery device, and a drug delivery device, are proposed with a housing having proximal and distal ends. A dose member is displaceable proximally with respect to the housing for setting of a dose of a drug. A clutch member is displaceable proximally with respect to the housing when setting the dose. A stop member is configured to define a clutch stop position for the proximal displacement of the clutch member with respect to the housing, the clutch member, when in the clutch stop position, is prevented from further displacement proximally with respect to the housing, and the clutch member and the dose member are configured to mechanically cooperate with one another when the clutch member is in the clutch stop position, thereby preventing further displacement of the dose member proximally with respect to the housing during setting of the dose.
US09592345B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for determining a position (x) of a stopper relative to a container in a drug delivery device, comprising an acoustic source configured to emit an acoustic signal and an acoustic sensor configured to detect an acoustic signal, a processing unit for controlling the acoustic source and processing the detected acoustic signal for determining characteristics of the acoustic signal correlated with the position (x) of the stopper. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for determining a position (x) of a stopper relative to a container in a drug delivery device, the method comprising the steps of emitting an acoustic signal from an acoustic source, detecting an acoustic signal caused by the emitted acoustic signal by means of an acoustic sensor, and processing the detected acoustic signal for determining characteristics of the acoustic signal correlated with the position (x) of the stopper by means of a processing unit.
US09592342B2
An injection system for co-delivery of two medicaments (1, 2) having a drug delivery device (7) containing a primary reservoir (11) containing a first medicament (1) and having a secondary reservoir (5, 17, 30) containing a second medicament (2) where the drug delivery device (7) has only one dose setter (12) for the primary reservoir (11) and that automatically determines the dose of the second medicament (2). Both medicaments (1, 2) are delivered through a single dispense interface (3, 16, 21, 31).
US09592341B2
The present invention relates to an arrangement for use in a drug delivery device comprising a cartridge holder, the cartridge holder comprising an opening at its distal end, a needle holder and one or more intermediate elements, wherein when the needle holder is mounted to the cartridge holder and the one or more intermediate elements are arranged in the opening of the cartridge holder whereby the size of the free space within the opening is reduced. Furthermore, it relates to a drug delivery device which is comprising such an arrangement and to a method for stabilizing a septum located at the distal end of a medicament cartridge.
US09592338B2
A device for inserting an infusion cannula, or sensor, into a patient is presented. The device comprises an insertion needle removable within the infusion cannula, a handle connected to the insertion needle, and a needle cover. The needle cover pivotably mounted on the handle is rotatably movable between a first position, i.e., the front of the insertion needle is in the needle cover, and a second position, i.e., the front is exposed. An infusion site interface comprises a body mounted on a pad attached to the patient; an infusion cannula for inserting into the patient that is connected to the body; a cavity within the body fluidly connected to the cannula; and a septum that seals closed the cavity. The septum is penetrable by an insertion needle in the infusion cannula and by a hollow needle of an infusion tubing connector coupled to the infusion site interface.
US09592329B2
The present invention relates to a system for the carrying out of a blood treatment, in particular a dialysis treatment, wherein the system has at least one blood treatment device, in particular a dialyzer, and at least one tank from which treatment fluid, in particular dialysis fluid, is removed during the carrying out of the blood treatment and/or into which consumed treatment fluid, in particular consumed dialysis fluid, is filled during the carrying out of the blood treatment, wherein the tank is an element of at least one mobile apparatus which can be connected to the blood treatment device such that at least one fluid connection can be established between the tank and the blood treatment device.
US09592325B2
Absorbable stents and absorbable stent coatings have been developed with improved properties. These devices preferably comprise biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate, and optionally poly-L-lactic acid and other absorbable polymers and additives. Compositions of these materials can be used to make absorbable stents that provide advantageous radial strengths, resistance to recoil and creep, can be plastically expanded on a balloon catheter, and can be deployed rapidly in vivo. Stent coatings derived from these materials provide biocompatible, uniform coatings that are ductile, and can be expanded without the coating cracking and/or delaminating and can be used as a coating matrix for drug incorporation.
US09592323B2
The present invention provides a coating comprising a reservoir layer comprising a semi-crystalline polymer and a primer layer comprising an amorphous polymer on an implantable device and methods of making and using the same.
US09592317B2
A medical system and method can used to treat a bone. The system and method can include the preparation of bone cement to be used in the treatment. A non-liquid component and a liquid component can be combined to form a bone cement. A vacuum system can be used to saturate the non-liquid component with the liquid component. The bone cement and/or components can be heated and/or cooled.
US09592316B2
A disposable wearing article adapted to prevent indicators from being transferred to a liquid-absorbent structure and to make the indicators develop the color reaction quickly in response to a discharge of body exudates. A disposable diaper has a topsheet, a backsheet and a liquid-absorbent structure interposed between these top- and backsheets. A surface of a first backsheet facing the liquid-absorbent structure is formed with indicators. The indicators contain a hot-melt polymer, an indicator agent adapted to develop a color reaction and a plasticizing oil. The liquid-absorbent structure has a liquid-absorbent core, a liquid-diffusive wrapping sheet adapted to wrap the core. A hydrophilic bottom sheet is interposed between a bottom surface of the core and a bottom surface region of the wrapping sheet. A dimension in the transverse direction of the bottom sheet is larger than a dimension of a region in which the indicators are formed and smaller than a dimension in the transverse direction of the core.
US09592315B2
Disclosed herein is a plasma reactor insert assembly having in one example an outer casing comprising; a fluid inlet; a fluid outlet; an electric power input; and electric power connector; a transformer bracket coupled to the outer casing; at least one step-up transformer attached to the transformer bracket. The insert in electric communication with the electric power connector; a plurality of substantially parallel dielectric tubes in electric communication with the transformer; at least one grounded plate positioned between each dielectric tube with a fluid gap there between, and; wherein there is no fluid path between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet except by passing between one of the dielectric tubes and one of the grounded plate. In one form, each grounded plate is v-shaped or arcuate v-shaped in cross-section. A method for disinfecting or sanitizing using the plasma reactor is also described.
US09592312B2
UV hard-surface disinfection system that is able to disinfect the hard surfaces in a room, while minimizing missed areas due to shadows by providing multiple UV light towers that can be placed in several areas of a room such that shadowed areas are eliminated and that can be transported by a cart that is low to the ground such that the towers may be loaded and unloaded easily by a single operator. The system is able to be controlled remotely, such that during activation of the system, no operator is present, and to automatically cut power to all towers in the event that a person enters the room.
US09592309B2
The invention disclosed herein discloses selected ribose isomers that are useful as PET probes (e.g. [18F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-arabinose). These PET probes are useful, for example, in methods designed to monitor physiological processes including ribose metabolism and/or to selectively observe certain tissue/organs in vivo. The invention disclosed herein further provides methods for making and using such probes.
US09592308B2
This invention relates to methods, which provide access to [F-18]fluoropegylated (aryl/heteroaryl vinyl)-phenyl methyl amine derivatives.
US09592294B2
The present invention relates to the use of polyalkoxylated alcohols of the formula R—O-(AO)—H, wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, aralkyl or heterocyclic group having 7 to 25 carbon atoms, (AO) is a polyoxyalkylene moiety of the composition (BO)m(EO)n(DO)r with random or blockwise arrangement of the constituting oxyalkylene units, wherein m, n and r represent the average number of oxybutylene (BO) units, oxyethylene (EO) units and oxyalkylene units derived from at least one epoxide selected from styrene oxide and alkylene oxides having from 5 to 10 carbon atoms (DO) per molecule of the polyalkoxylated alcohol, respectively, m being a number greater than or equal to 1, n being a number greater than or equal to 1 and r being a number in the range from 0 to 50 under the proviso that (m+n+r) is less than or equal to 200 and the ratio n/(m+r) is in the range of 1 to 20, as excipients in pharmaceutical compositions. Said polyalkoxylated alcohols enable very effective solubilization of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients in aqueous media. Solid or semi-solid pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such polyalkoxylated alcohol combined with at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient are further long term stable under typical storage conditions and can be readily provided in various dosage forms such as tablets and filled capsules.
US09592288B2
The present invention provides methods of inducing differentiation of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells to a mature myelinating cell fate with a neurotransmitter receptor modulating agent. The present invention also provides methods of stimulating increased myelination in a subject in need thereof by administering said neurotransmitter receptor modulating agent. Methods of treating a subject having a demyelinating disease using a neurotransmitter receptor modulating agent are also provided.
US09592285B2
An aspect of the present invention is directed towards DNA plasmid vaccines capable of generating in a mammal an immune response against a plurality of influenza virus subtypes, comprising a DNA plasmid and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. The DNA plasmid is capable of expressing a consensus influenza antigen in a cell of the mammal in a quantity effective to elicit an immune response in the mammal, wherein the consensus influenza antigen comprises consensus hemagglutinin (HA), neuraminidase (NA), matrix protein, nucleoprotein, M2 ectodomain-nucleo-protein (M2e-NP), or a combination thereof. Preferably the consensus influenza antigen comprises HA, NA, M2e-NP, or a combination thereof. The DNA plasmid comprises a promoter operably linked to a coding sequence that encodes the consensus influenza antigen. Additionally, an aspect of the present invention includes methods of eliciting an immune response against a plurality of influenza virus subtypes in a mammal using the DNA plasmid vaccines provided.
US09592280B2
A debridement enzyme for necrotic tissue is described that is not dependent upon proteolytic enzymatic activity but instead utilizes the amylase family of enzymes. The amylases (α-, β-, γ-amylase) are noted for the cleavage of the α-glycosidic bonds of polysaccharides, yielding lower molecular weight carbohydrate/sugar fragments. It has now been found that α-amylase is effective in the debridement of devitalized tissue.
US09592278B2
Devices and methods for treating defects in connective tissue are provided along with methods for making such devices. The devices can include enzyme-activated acellular tissue matrices that facilitate regrowth of the damaged tissue.
US09592275B2
A medicament for therapeutic treatment and/or improvement of sepsis in a patient with severe sepsis accompanied with one or more organ dysfunctions, wherein a value of International Normalized Ratio (INR) of a plasma specimen obtained from said patient is more than 1.4, which comprises thrombomodulin as an active ingredient.
US09592269B2
A pharmaceutical composition includes a synthetic peptide consisting of about 10 to about 50 amino acids and having an amino acid sequence substantially homologous to consecutive amino acids of a portion of the cytoplasmic domain of at least one of αvβ3 integrin or VEGFR2 that includes a tyrosine residue, the amino acid sequence of the peptide including a phosphorylated tyrosine residue or a γ-carboxyglutamic acid residue that is substituted for a corresponding tyrosine residue of the portion of the cytoplasmic domain of αvβ3 integrin or VEGFR2.
US09592265B2
Method for modulating oxidative stress, inflammation, and impaired insulin sensitivity in a subject by using a grape seed extract, the method being useful in modulating post-prandial oxidative stress, inflammation, and impaired insulin sensitivity in patients suffering from Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). The method comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a grape seed extract and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. The grape seed extract is a polyphenolic extract comprising proanthocyanidins and anthocyanidins.
US09592263B2
A method for preparing purified extract containing more abundant active ingredients such as catalpol derivatives from the extract of Pseudolysimachion rotundum var subintegrum than that prepared by the conventional preparation method disclosed in the prior art and the therapeutics or functional health food comprising the purified extract for treating and preventing inflammatory, allergic or asthmatic disease. The purified extract showed more potent anti-inflammatory, anti-allergy and anti-asthma activity than that prepared by the conventional preparation method disclosed in the prior art through various in vivo tests such as inhibition test on the reproduction of eosinophil, the release of immunoglobulin and inflammatory chemokines in plasma and bronchoalveolar fluid as well as the suppression of airway hyperresponsiveness and goblet cell hyperplasia in a OVA-sensitized/challenged mouse model.
US09592261B2
The invention relates to a plant extract combination of ginkgo and ginseng which is effective especially in a (synergistic) over-additive manner and optionally comprises whitethorn extract. Ginseng is used in the form of an ethanol/ethanol/water extract while ginkgo is used in the form of an acetone/acetone-water extract, for example, and the active extracts are prepared at specific quantitative ratios, particularly <1.1:1, thus unexpectedly boosting the prevention or also the treatment of a decline in the mental capacity related to age or also other disorders. This results from an over-additive tandem effect by protecting neural cells and improving blood circulation while increasing energy supply and activating cerebral metabolism, not only in the cognitive-therapeutic field, an effect being obtained against harmful oxidative influences caused especially by decomposition products of effective substances, whereby in particular antioxidative protection extends in a complementary manner to several cell compartments.
US09592259B2
The invention relates to transgene expression constructs—particularly self inactivating lentiviral vectors—comprising a dendritic cell specific promoter controlling the expression of autoantigen proteins, namely myelin basic protein, proteolipid protein and myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein, for use in the therapy of multiple sclerosis.
US09592257B2
Systems and methods can support generation of a full-thickness, human skin organ from tissue culture expanded cells. Human dermal and epidermal progenitor cells can be isolated from human tissues. Isolated cells may be cultured as epidermal cells while other isolated cells may be separately cultured as dermal cells. The cultured epidermal cells and dermal cells may be combined for co-culturing. The co-cultured cells may be suspended within a slurry. The co-cultured cells may be implanted onto a recipient organism for generation of a full-thickness skin organ comprising fully cycling hair follicles, adipose tissue, and other skin organ structures.
US09592255B2
The invention relates to scaffold-free three dimensional nerve fibroblast constructs and method of generating the nerve fibroblast constructs. The invention also relates to methods or repairing nerve transection and replacing damaged nerve tissue using the nerve fibroblast constructs of the invention.
US09592251B2
A multi-vinylsulfone containing molecule is described herein. The multi-vinylsulfone containing molecule can be formed by dissolving a water soluble polymer containing a hydroxyl group in an aqueous solution to form a polymer solution; adding a molecule containing two vinylsulfone groups to the polymer solution; and forming a modified polymer by controlling a number of the vinylsulfone groups that are added to the polymer. A hydrogel is also described herein that can include the multi-vinylsulfone containing molecule and a multi-thiol containing molecule. The hydrogel can be formed from an aqueous solution that includes the multi-vinylsulfone containing molecule and the multi-thiol containing molecule by undergoing gelatation upon delivery to a site in the body. Also described is a drug delivery system that employs the hydrogel.
US09592248B2
The invention provides methods and pharmaceutical compositions for treating symptoms associated with lactose intolerance and for overall improvement in gastrointestinal health. Described herein are methods and pharmaceutical compositions for improving overall gastrointestinal health or for decreasing symptoms of lactose intolerance by administering to subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising a prebiotic, optionally in combination with effective amount of a probiotic microbe or microbes.
US09592247B2
The present invention relates, in general, to a method of treating patients undergoing enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) or other therapy involving the administration of a proteinaceous therapeutic agent as well gene replacement therapy with non-viral or viral vectors, or other therapeutic modality or modalities, used alone or in combination, which involve the administration of exogenous substances for potential therapeutic benefit, including, but not limited to DNA vaccines, siRNA, splice-site switching oligomers (SSOs) as well as RNA-based nanoparticles (RNPs) and nanovaccines. The invention further relates to compounds and compositions suitable for use in such methods.
US09592239B2
This invention provides a method for treating anxiety-related disorder or impulse control disorder, regulating food intake, attenuating food cravings, or treating anger and/or violence and disorders associated therewith in a patient, comprising administering to the patient in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of ibogaine, ibogaine derivative, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or solvate thereof.
US09592232B2
The present invention relates to compounds useful as inhibitors of DNA-PK. The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disease, conditions, or disorders.
US09592230B2
This invention is directed to phenylimidazole derivatives having the formula I: wherein HET is an optionally substituted heteroaromatic group; -L- is selected from the group consisting of —CH2—CH2—, —S—CH2—, —CH2—S— and —CH═CH—, R1 is selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkyl; C1-C6 alkyl(C3-C8)cycloalkyl; C1-C6 hydroxyalkyl, CH2CN, CH2C(O)NH2, C1-C6 arylalkyl, and C1-C6 alkyl-heterocycloalkyl, and R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are selected individually from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkoxy and halogen, or pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof, which are PDE10A enzyme inhibitors useful in the treatment of psychiatric disorders and drug addiction.
US09592229B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for the induction of cell death, for example, cancer cell death. Combinations of compounds and related methods the use are disclosed, including the use of compounds in therapy for the treatment of cancer and selective induction of apoptosis in cells. The disclosed drug combinations can have lower neurotoxicity effects than other compounds and combinations of compounds.
US09592227B2
Delivery systems and compositions comprised of a biodegradable polyorthoester polymer, an aprotic solvent, and a drug are described. The solvent is selected to modulate release of drug from the composition, where, in some embodiments, the solvent is rapidly released after administration and provides a corresponding rapid rate of drug release. Alternatively, in other embodiments, the solvent is slowly released from the composition after its administration, and provides a correspondingly slow rate of drug release.
US09592219B2
A new self-magnetic metal-salen complex compound and its derivatives are provided. The present invention is a metal-salen complex compound including any one of the following compounds.
US09592218B2
The present invention relates to reverse micelle system based on sterols, acylglycerols, phospholipids or sphingolipids and metal ions. Reverse micelle system of the invention is able to cross mucosa and cellular membranes. It thus allows vectorization of metal ions to target sites. It is advantageously useful in the pharmaceutical and dietetic fields.
US09592213B2
Disclosed is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for dysmenorrhea and/or associated symptoms thereof. Specifically disclosed is a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for dysmenorrhea and/or associated symptoms thereof, which comprises tranilast as an active ingredient thereof.
US09592212B2
The present invention provides a therapeutic treatment for a neurodegenerative disease with a pan-PPAR agonist, such as bezafibrate. In particular, the present invention provides that pan-PPAR agonists enhance PPAR related responses in both the central nervous system and peripheral tissues in Huntington's Disease (HD) and tauopathy. Therapeutic compositions comprising one or more pan-PPAR agonist(s), and kit thereof, for treating a neurodegenerative disease or disorder are also provided.
US09592209B2
A method of supplementing a diet and ameliorating oxidative stress in a mammal includes administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of an active compound having the chemical structure: where n=1-4 and X is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, lithium sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium and francium.
US09592206B2
A method for controlling generation of biologically desirable voids in a composition placed in proximity to bone or other tissue in a patient by selecting at least one water-soluble inorganic material having a desired particle size and solubility, and mixing the water-soluble inorganic material with at least one poorly-water-soluble or biodegradable matrix material. The matrix material, after it is mixed with the water-soluble inorganic material, is placed into the patient in proximity to tissue so that the water-soluble inorganic material dissolves at a predetermined rate to generate biologically desirable voids in the matrix material into which bone or other tissue can then grow.
US09592203B2
Controlled release and taste masking compositions containing one or more active principles inglobated in a three-component matrix structure, i.e. a structure formed by successive amphiphilic, lipophilic or inert matrices and finally inglobated or dispersed in hydrophilic matrices. The use of a plurality of systems for the control of the dissolution of the active ingredient modulates the dissolution rate of the active ingredient in aqueous and/or biological fluids, thereby controlling the release kinetics in the gastrointestinal tract.
US09592202B2
The present invention provides for compositions comprising glucosamine wherein the glucosamine has improved and/or enhanced stability. Additionally, the present invention provides for methods of stabilizing compositions for use in preparing an oral dosage form comprising glucosamine.
US09592201B2
A micro encapsulation material for use with storage unstable, therapeutic and nutritional agents which release the therapeutic and nutritional agents in predetermined locations in the gastro intestinal tract in which the microencapsulation material is formed by combining a food grade treated carbohydrate with a water soluble food grade protein. The therapeutic and nutritional agents form an oil phase which is emulsified with the water dispersed or dissolved encapsulant to encapsulate the therapeutic and nutritional agents. These agents may be oils or oil soluble or oil dispersible. The agents that may be encapsulated include lipids (oils including oxygen sensitive oils, fatty acids, triglycerides) and oil soluble and oil dispersible ingredients (including pharmaceuticals, probiotics, protein therapeutics and bioactives). The protein used may include any film forming water soluble protein or hydrolyzed protein and includes milk proteins such as casein and its derivatives or whey proteins. The carbohydrate component may be those containing reducing sugar groups, oligosaccharides and starches (raw, modified, resistant, acetylated, proprionylated and butylated starches).
US09592199B2
This cellulose powder has: an average degree of polymerization of 100 to 350; a weight average particle size of over 30 μm, but less than 250 μm; an apparent specific volume of 2 to less than 15 cm3/g; and a particle size distribution sharpness of 1.5 to 2.9.
US09592197B2
A pharmaceutical dosage form which comprises diphenhydramine and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and at least one second drug. The dosage form provides a plasma concentration within the therapeutic range of the at least one second drug over a period which is coextensive with a substantial part of the period over which the dosage form provides a plasma concentration within the therapeutic range of diphenhydramine or salt thereof. This Abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US09592195B2
A stable effervescent tablet, granule or powder composition free from excipients that may react with an effervescing organic acid component, comprising, an effective amount of a bisphosphonate bone resorption inhibitor, an effervescing organic acid component, an effervescing base component; wherein said composition is free of polyol binders and tableting lubricants; has a loss on drying of 0.25% (m/m) or less; has a complete disintegration time of no more than 180 seconds when placed in 3 to 8 fluid ounces of water at between 5-20° C.; and said bisphosphonate is incorporated as a micronized particle or by spray drying and is completely solubdised in water within 2 minutes without stirring.
US09592187B2
The present disclosure relates to polymeric siloxane coated zinc oxide powders having a mean particle size number distribution (D50) ranging from about 300 nm to about 600 nm and their use in sunscreen compositions. The relatively high surface area (in relation to particles of <100 nm) avoids agglomeration resulting in ease of formulation and high dispersal of the particles which tends toward less light scatter and hence better transparency in formulations. Furthermore, the combination of the particular particle size number distribution (D50) of zinc oxide ranging as above with bis(resorcinyl)triazine UV absorbers shows unexpected increased UV-A absorbance (320 to 400 nm) in comparison to the zinc oxide and bis resorcinyl triazine UV absorbers on their own at the same concentration.
US09592182B2
A liquid cleansing composition comprising water in a sufficient amount to form a fluid composition; fatty acid soap; a divalent metal salt in an amount to provide a viscosity to entrain gas; and entrained gas to provide a specific gravity of not greater than 1.05 g/cm3. Optionally, a surfactant can also be included. The cleansing composition has a whipped texture. Also, a method of making the liquid cleansing composition.
US09592163B2
Disposable pull-on diapers of the present disclosure may have optimized waist circumferential length and leg opening length.
US09592160B2
A wound healing system and a wound care bandage are provided. The wound care bandage has an electronics housing that houses a battery and wound care microcontroller. A bandage layer is provided and it defines a pad recess in which a pad is disposed. The pad has channels to allow for airflow. The wound care bandage at least first and second snap button electrodes, but there may be more snap button electrodes in other preferred embodiments. There are also electrically conductive adhesive strips with one being in contact with each of the first and second snap button electrodes. When current is controllably supplied to the first and second snap button electrodes a plurality of electric current flow paths are generated and that extend across the wound and stimulate the healing of the wound. The wound care bandage can be monitored and controlled wirelessly.
US09592147B2
The present invention discloses an ostomy device comprising an adhesive wafer, wherein said adhesive wafer comprises means for preventing deformation and tearing when the adhesive wafer is removed from the skin. In particular, the present invention relates to adhesive wafers formed of soft adhesives.
US09592143B2
The present disclosure describes treatment of the vasculature of a patient with an expandable implant. The implant is constrained to a reduced delivery profile for delivery within the vasculature by at least one sleeve. The implant may be constrained to other diameters, such as an intermediate configuration having a diameter larger than the delivery profile and smaller than the deployment diameter. The sleeves may be expanded, allowing for expansion of the diameter of the expandable implant, by disengaging a coupling member from the sleeve or sleeves from outside of the body of the patient. The expandable implant may comprise a number of side branch fenestrations or fenestratable portions.
US09592141B2
Bioresorbable scaffolds for treatment of bifurcation lesion are described herein. Generally, an expandable scaffold may be fabricated from a high molecular weight isotropic PLLA material, wherein the scaffold incorporates one or more strain relief features which are configured to allow side branch treatment.
US09592139B2
Stents can become twisted during deployment within tortuous vessels such that proper expansion against the vessel wall is inhibited. Stents can be twisted prior to deployment in a direction opposite the direction of twisting during deployment to facilitate full expansion of the stent against the vessel wall along the stent's entire length.
US09592137B2
A flexible stent structure includes a plurality of axially spaced strut portions defining generally tubular axial segments of the stent and constructed to be radially expandable. A helical portion is interposed axially between two strut portions and has a plurality of helical elements connected between circumferentially spaced locations on the two strut portions. The helical elements extend helically between those locations and the length of a helical element is sufficient so that, when the stent is in a radially expanded state, it can simultaneously withstand repeated axial compression or expansion and bending.
US09592136B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including identifying a subject as suffering from hypertension. In response to the identifying (a) a radius of curvature of a first set of at least three regions of an arterial wall of the subject is increased at a given longitudinal location, while (b) allowing the first set of regions of the arterial wall to pulsate. A device is implanted inside the artery at the longitudinal location such that the device applies pressure to the arterial wall at a second set of at least three regions of the artery, but does not contact the first set of regions, the first set of regions and the second set of regions alternating with each other. Other embodiments are also described.
US09592134B2
A prosthetic or robot part, comprising a base, a proximal and a distal. The proximal is mounted on the base so as to be rotatable thereabout in a given sense. The distal is mounted on the proximal so as to be rotatable thereabout in the same sense to effect a gripping action of the prosthetic or robot part. The proximal and the distal are rotatable in the opposite sense to release the grip. One part of a drive of the part is pivoted to the base about a base pivot axis. Another part of the drive is pivoted to the distal about a distal pivot axis. The distal is also pivoted to the proximal about the said distal pivot axis. Thus the proximal, the distal and the said another part of the drive are all pivotable relative to one another about the said distal pivot axis.
US09592132B2
A spinal fusion system method and apparatus can include: providing segments including a first segment and a second segment; and coupling the first segment to the second segment with a flexible member, the flexible member configured to have a deformable state based upon a temperature of the flexible member being below a transition temperature range or based upon a stress being applied to the flexible member, and the flexible member configured to enter a shape-set state from the deformable state based on the temperature of the flexible member rising above the transition temperature range, or based upon the stress being removed from the flexible member and the temperature of the flexible member being above the transition temperature range.
US09592124B2
A method and apparatus for preventing brain compression subsequent to removal of a portion of a patient's cranium comprises custom forming a protective external cranial plate. The protective external cranial plate is shaped to approximate the removed portion of the patient's cranium, and to extend peripherally beyond the removed portion. The protective external cranial plate is affixed in airtight and fluid tight engagement to the scalp of the patient.
US09592123B2
Described herein are methods of treating a patient to prevent or correct cardiac remodeling following myocardial infarction. In general these methods may include inserting or implanting a device in a heart chamber to support the affected region within 72 hours after myocardial infarction. The device may be a support device (e.g., a resilient frame) and/or a partitioning device.
US09592122B2
Apparatus is provided that includes an annuloplasty system for use on a subject. The system includes an annuloplasty ring, which includes a sleeve having a lumen, and at least one anchor, shaped so as to define a coupling head and a tissue coupling element, which tissue coupling element is shaped so as to define a longitudinal axis, and is configured to penetrate cardiac tissue of the subject in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The system further includes an anchor deployment manipulator, configured to be removably positioned within the lumen of the sleeve, and, while so positioned, to deploy the tissue coupling element from a distal end of the deployment manipulator through a wall of the sleeve into the cardiac tissue in the direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tissue coupling element and parallel to a central longitudinal axis through the distal end of the deployment manipulator.
US09592121B1
The invention relates to a device for use in the transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, specifically a coaptation assistance element for implantation across the valve; a system including the coaptation assistance element and anchors for implantation; a system including the coaptation assistance element and delivery catheter; and a method for transcatheter implantation of a coaptation element across a heart valve.
US09592115B2
Various methods and devices are provided for a graft fixation device for fixing a graft member within a bone tunnel. In one embodiment, a graft fixation device is provided having a radially expandable sheath adapted to be disposed within a bone tunnel, and a sheath expander adapted to be received within the radially expandable sheath to expand the sheath and thereby anchor a graft between the sheath and the bone tunnel. In an exemplary embodiment, the graft fixation device is particularly useful to affix a graft within a femoral tunnel.
US09592104B2
A dental implant system can include an upper implant body coupled to a lower body with a cavity between the upper and lower implant bodies. The system can further include an anchor at least partially disposed within the cavity. The system can also include an abutment that couples to the anchor and serves as a mounting area for a crown. The anchor can be rotatable and swivelable, allowing the lower implant body to be implanted at an angle in bone while permitting the crown to be positioned in a natural tooth orientation.
US09592102B2
A dental hand tool including a main body having a main body proximate end, a main body distal end, at least one dental utility conduit associated with the main body proximate end, and a dental disinfection system associated with the main body that disinfects dental fluid at a point of use. The dental disinfection system includes a disinfection reactor associated with the main body, a collimated germicidal UV light source end, a disinfection reactor distal end, disinfection reactor walls, a disinfection reactor fluid inlet that receives the dental fluid from a dental fluid source, a disinfection reactor dental fluid outlet that delivers the dental fluid to the point of use, and a disinfection reactor inner chamber. The collimated germicidal UV light source end directs collimated germicidal UV light toward the disinfection reactor distal end along a collimated germicidal UV light path that is substantially perpendicular to the disinfection reactor distal end, and substantially parallel to the disinfection reactor walls, such that germicidal UV light substantially fills the disinfection reactor inner chamber.
US09592094B2
A surgical device (2) having a distal end and a proximal end, and comprising a delivery portion (12) extending from the proximal end and comprising first and second instrument delivery channels, an active portion (4,8) at a distal portion of the device and a plug (10) having a proximal end and a distal end, and engageable with the delivery portion at its proximal end, and with the active portion at its distal end, the plug comprising first and second plug channels (82) each defining a curved path, such that the plug channels diverge from one another towards the distal end of the plug wherein when the plug is engaged with the delivery portion the first plug channel and the first instrument delivery channel form a first instrument channel and the second plug channel and the second instrument delivery channel form a second instrument channel.
US09592092B2
According to some embodiments, a medical instrument (for example, an ablation device) comprises an elongate body having a proximal end and a distal end, an energy delivery member positioned at the distal end of the elongate body, a first plurality of temperature-measurement devices carried by or positioned within the energy delivery member, the first plurality of temperature-measurement devices being thermally insulated from the energy delivery member, and a second plurality of temperature-measurement devices positioned proximal to a proximal end of the energy delivery member, the second plurality of temperature-measurement devices being thermally insulated from the energy delivery member.
US09592088B2
A shaft (14) is provided for a flexible endoscopic instrument, the shaft including at least one flexible section (20) along the length of the shaft, a distal section (19) located distally of the flexible section, and a proximal section (18) located proximally of the flexible section (20). The distal section (19) includes a connection to a shaft electrode, while the proximal section (18) includes at least one connection for connecting the shaft (14) to an electrosurgical generator (1). The shaft also includes a bypass lead (26) in electrical connection with both the distal section (19) and the proximal section (18). The bypass lead (26) ensures that the distal section (19) and the proximal section (18) remain at the same potential even if the electrical pathway via the flexible section (20) becomes degraded by wear or damage thereto.
US09592087B2
A guard for use with a surgical cutting system. The guard includes a housing and wiring. The housing defines a longitudinal passageway, and is configured for releasable attachment to an instrument handpiece. The wiring is coupled to the housing and includes an electrically conductive wire and an insulative material. The wire defines opposing, first and second ends, with the first end being positioned within the passageway. The insulative material covers the wire apart from the first end such that the first end of the wire is exposed within the passageway. The first end of the wire establishes an electrical connection with a cutting tool shank upon placement within the passageway.
US09592085B2
A probe for ablating tissue comprises an electrosurgical working end configured to provide a first plasma about a first surface location and a second plasma about a second surface location, the first plasma having first ablation parameters and the second plasma having second ablation parameters. The probe has a working end with a thickness below 3 mm and produces a low temperature plasma.
US09592079B1
A device for assisting in the removal of items endovascularly includes a catheter, a cutting head, and a pull wire. The pull wire has a proximal portion protruding from a proximal end of the catheter and a distal end connected to the cutting head. The pull wire is movable within the catheter to selectively extend and retract the cutting head from the distal end of the catheter. The cutting head is arranged to hold and/or cut an item to be removed.
US09592072B2
In an ultrasonic probe, an insulation layer portion is formed on an outer surface of a probe main body portion. A first electrode portion provided on an outer surface of the insulation layer portion so that at least part of the first electrode portion is exposed to an outside in a treatment section, and at least part of a second electrode portion is exposed to the outside in the treatment section. The second electrode portion is electrically insulated from the first electrode portion by the insulation layer portion. The probe main body portion vibrates integrally with the insulation layer portion, the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion.
US09592063B2
A method of trialing an intervertebral disc space, including the steps of creating the disc space, inserting a trial into the disc space, wherein the trial has i) a distal head having an upper surface and a lower surface connected by a pair of side walls, the side walls defining planes, and ii) a proximal rod, so that the head and rod form an obtuse angle and the rod extends through at least one of the planes defined by the side walls of the head.
US09592062B2
Methods and apparatus for treating disc herniation provide a conformable device which assumes a first shape associated with insertion and a second shape or expanded shape to occlude the defect which typically follows partial discectomy. The device may take different forms according to the invention, including patches size to cover the defect or plugs adapted to fill the defect. In a preferred embodiment, however, the device is a gel or other liquid or semi-liquid which solidifies to occlude the defect from within the body of the disc itself. In another preferred embodiment, a mesh screen is collapsed into an elongated form for the purposes of insertion, thereby minimizing the size of the requisite incision while avoiding delicate surrounding nerves. Such a configuration also permits the use of instrumentation to install the device, including, for example, a hollow tube or sheath adapted to hold the collapsed screen, and a push rod to expel the collapsed device out of the sheath for use in occluding the disc defect. A device according to the invention may further include one or more anchors to assist in permanently affixing the device with respect to the defect.
US09592059B2
The present invention relates generally to an emergency tourniquet for rapidly and easily reducing or stopping blood flow to an injured limb. The tourniquet utilizes a closed loop system that is formed by passing a portion of a twistable strap, which comprises the loop, through a side opening in a buckle and cinching the strap tightly above an injury and thereafter twisting the strap. Otherwise, a loop may be formed and the injured limb passed through the loop prior to tightening it about the injured limb. The buckle includes an elongated opening that accepts an end or edge of the twistable strap. A free end of the twistable strap passes into a J-hook opening and is secured therein. The strap is then twisted and a notch in the buckle is hooked on an edge of the twistable strap. Bulbous regions are provided on either end of the buckle. A base plate may also be included for further securing the buckle in place to maintain the tourniquet in place until it can be removed by a competent medical professional.
US09592053B2
A staple cartridge includes a plurality of staples, wherein each said staple comprises a base and a deformable leg extending from said base. The staple cartridge further includes a first region comprising a first density, a second region, and a third region comprising a density greater than said first density, wherein said third region is separable into a plurality of pieces.
US09592050B2
A fastener cartridge can comprise a cartridge body comprising fastener cavities, fasteners at least partially stored within the cartridge body, and a layer positioned over the cartridge body. The cartridge body can include a proximal end and a distal end. Similarly, the layer can include a proximal end and a distal end. The distal end of the layer can extend distally with respect to the distal end of the cartridge body. Furthermore, the layer can include a distal portion which extends distally with respect to the fastener cavities defined in the cartridge body. This distal portion can be positioned against the tissue being fastened and can flexibly support the tissue after the layer has been implanted against the tissue. The layer may include a proximal portion which extends proximally with respect to the fastener cavities which can flexibly support the tissue after the layer has been implanted.
US09592037B2
Methods, devices and systems are described for treating venous insufficiency in which the vein is compressed at least partially along a treatment zone. A system can be provided including an injection device, such as a glue gun, that is operably connected to a delivery catheter that can be advanced across a treatment zone in the vein. The delivery catheter can be used to deliver one, two, or more boluses of media (e.g., cyanoacrylate) to occlude the vein along different spaced-apart sections of the treatment zone. External compression can also be applied to the vein by a compression element, such as a hand or multifunctional ultrasound transducer, to occlude portions of the vein along the treatment zone prior to or during the introduction of the boluses of media.
US09592032B2
To implement a single-chip ultrasonic imaging solution, on-chip signal processing may be employed in the receive signal path to reduce data bandwidth and an output data module may be used to move data for all received channels off-chip as a digital data stream. The digitization of received signals on-chip allows advanced digital signal processing to be performed on-chip, and thus permits the full integration of an entire ultrasonic imaging system on a single semiconductor substrate. The on-chip digitization of received signals also enables the on-chip integration of ultrasound processing and/or pre-processing to reduce the burden on off-chip computing. Data compression architectures are disclosed to facilitate the transfer of data off-chip as a digital data stream in accordance with the bandwidth requirements of standard commercially-available output interfaces.
US09592031B2
An ultrasonic transducer device includes a base, a first electrode film, a piezoelectric film, a second electrode film and a first conductive film. The base has a plurality of vibrating film portions arranged in an array pattern. The first electrode film is disposed on each of the vibrating film portions. The piezoelectric film is disposed on the first electrode film. The second electrode film is disposed on the piezoelectric film. The first conductive film is connected to the first electrode film. The first conductive film has a film thickness larger than a film thickness of the first electrode film.
US09592030B2
Ultrasound devices and methods are described, including a repeatable ultrasound transducer probe having ultrasonic transducers and corresponding circuitry. The repeatable ultrasound transducer probe may be used individually or coupled with other instances of the repeatable ultrasound transducer probe to create a desired ultrasound device. The ultrasound devices may optionally be connected to various types of external devices to provide additional processing and image rendering functionality.
US09592027B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for characterizing adventitial tissue. In one aspect, a system and method is disclosed that characterizes tissue types within the adventitial tissue including nerve bundles and blood vessels. In a further aspect, the adventitia is imaged and characterized to provide guidance for crossing lesions within an occluded vessel.
US09592018B2
Apparatus and methods for performing glandular reduction are described. In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a needle-like probe containing a scintillation detector for converting gamma and x-rays emitted from a radio-labeled gland into photons that are then carried from the probe through a fiberoptic cable to a photodetector, and a therapy element for causing selective tissue destruction by directing energy toward the radio-labeled gland.
US09592012B2
In embodiments, an external medical device is intended to care for a patient. If it receives an input that signifies that ventilation artifact is present in a signal of the patient, it transmits a corrective signal responsive to the received input. In further embodiments, a patient signal is received, which is generated from a patient while the patient is or was receiving chest compressions at a frequency Fc, and also receiving ventilations at frequency Fv. At least one filter mechanism may be applied to the patient signal to substantially remove artifacts at a) frequency Fc, b) a higher harmonic of frequency Fc, and c) a third frequency substantially equaling frequency Fc plus or minus frequency Fv, while substantially passing other frequencies between them. As a result, the patient signal can be cleaner, for diagnosing the patient's state more accurately.
US09592010B2
A dual-mode closed-loop measurement system (100) for capturing a transit time, phase, or frequency of energy waves propagating through a medium (122) is disclosed. A first device comprises an inductor drive circuit (102), an inductor (104), a transducer (106), and a filter (110). A second circuit comprises an inductor (114) and a transducer (116). A parameter to be measured is applied to the medium (122). The medium (122) is coupled between the first device and the second device. The first device initiates the transmit inductor (104) to query via inductive coupling to a receive inductor (114) on the second device via a first path. The inductor (114) triggers a transducer (116) on the second device to emit an energy wave that is propagated in the medium (122) and detected by the first device. The transit time of energy waves is affected by the parameter by known relationship.
US09592009B2
The present invention relates to an extracorporeale interface unit (8), for an intravascular measurement system for measuring at least one physiological, or other, variable in a living body, adapted to generate a sensor signal in response of the variable. The interface unit (8) comprises a sensor interface circuitry (6) adapted to interface a sensor wire configured to be inserted into the living body and provided with one or many sensor element(s) at its distal region. The sensor interface circuitry (6) comprises a measurement unit (9) adapted to generate the measured data of the variable as a sensor signal. The interface unit (8) further comprises a control unit (1) adapted to control and supervise the different functions of the interface unit (8), wherein the different functions are performed by predefined tasks (T1, T2 . . . TN) during consecutive control periods CP having the same time duration.
US09591996B2
A system and method are described herein for detecting a user's transition between sitting and standing postures. Transitions between sitting and standing states are reliably detected using an accelerometer attached to the user. By modeling error introduced by the accelerometer, and correcting for this error, transitions between sitting and standing states are reliably detected. A microprocessor coupled to the accelerometer converts the captured accelerometer data to approximate vertical acceleration. Vertical velocity, which includes accelerometer error, is determined from the approximate vertical acceleration. The vertical velocity is corrected, and the corrected vertical velocity used to determine vertical displacement. Transitions between sitting and standing states are determined from the vertical displacement.
US09591994B2
Systems and methods to obtain a myocardial mass index indicative of an at-risk myocardial region. In at least one embodiment, a method for diagnosing a risk of cardiac disease is provided, the method comprising the steps of identifying a luminal cross-sectional area of a side branch vessel, identifying a luminal cross-sectional area of a main artery most proximal to the side branch vessel, determining a myocardial region at risk for infarct from side branch occlusion relative to a mass perfused by the most proximal artery, wherein such region is based on a relationship between the cross-sectional areas of the side branch and the most proximal main artery, and diagnosing a risk of cardiac disease based on a diameter of the side branch and the size of the myocardial region at risk for infarct perfused by the side branch.
US09591986B2
An apparatus may include a sensing circuit and an arrhythmia detection circuit. The sensing circuit is configured to generate a sensed physiological signal representative of cardiac activity of a subject. The arrhythmia detection circuit is configured to monitor ventricular depolarization (V-V) intervals using the sensed physiological signal, detect when at least a portion of the V-V intervals satisfies an arrhythmia detection threshold interval, calculate a value of variability of the V-V intervals and calculate a value of variability of a systolic portion of the V-V intervals in response to the detection, and generate an indication of atrial fibrillation (AF) according to a comparison including the value of variability of the V-V intervals and the value of variability of the systolic portion of the V-V intervals and provide the indication to at least one of a user or process.
US09591977B2
A method of analyzing electrocardiograph (ECG) data includes receiving a first representative ECG of a patient and isolating a first principal component, a second principal component, and a third principal component of the first representative ECG. The principal components are isolated by selecting a portion of the first representative ECG relating to depolarization, calculating a covariance matrix based on the portion of the first representative ECG, conducting a principal component analysis of the covariance matrix, and selecting a first component of the principal component analysis as the first principal component, the second component of the principal component analysis as the second principal component, and the third component of the principal component analysis as the third principal component. A depolarization subspace is then formed based on the first principal component, second principal component, and the third principal component of the first representative ECG.
US09591976B2
Method for measuring a blood volume is provided. At least two types of respiratory variation data; for instance, data pertinent to respiratory variations in stroke volume (SVV) data, data pertinent to respiratory variations in an amplitude of a pulse wave (PAV), a pulse wave transit time (PWTT) in a respiratory cycle, and a heart rate (HR) in a predetermined time, are measured, and patient's inherent coefficients α, β, and K are calculated, whereby a cardiac output can be determined by an equation CO=K (α*PWTT+β)*HR.
US09591975B2
A noninvasive physiological sensor for measuring one or more physiological parameters of a medical patient can include a bump interposed between a light source and a photodetector. The bump can be placed in contact with body tissue of a patient and thereby reduce a thickness of the body tissue. As a result, an optical pathlength between the light source and the photodetector can be reduced. In addition, the sensor can include a heat sink that can direct heat away from the light source. Moreover, the sensor can include shielding in the optical path between the light source and the photodetector. The shielding can reduce noise received by the photodetector.
US09591968B2
In one implementation, an apparatus estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point is described, estimates temperature from a digital infrared sensor and determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer, or determines vital signs from a solid-state image transducer and estimates body core temperature from an infrared measurement of an external source point using a cubic relationship between the body core temperature and the measurement of an external source point; after which the estimated and/or determined information is transmitted to an external database.
US09591967B2
An optical tomographic imaging device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a tissue of an object, includes: a dividing device configured to divide a light beam emitted from a light source into measurement light and reference light; a combining device configured to combine the measurement light, which is separated by the dividing device and is reflected from the tissue, with the reference light so as to generate interference light for acquiring the tomographic image; a plurality of irradiation devices, each of the plurality of irradiation devices being configured to guide the measurement light and irradiate the tissue with the measurement light: and a switching device configured to switch the plurality of irradiation devices from one to another and select one of the plurality of irradiation devices to cause the selected irradiation device to irradiate the measurement light output from the dividing device with tissue.
US09591958B2
A hand carriable surface cleaning apparatus, such as a cyclonic hand vacuum cleaner, is provided wherein the cyclone chamber has two dirt outlets.
US09591957B2
An autonomous vacuum cleaner comprising a main body comprising a dirty air inlet, a clean air outlet, an airflow path extending between the dirty air inlet and the clean air outlet, a separating apparatus arranged in the airflow path between the dirty air inlet and the clean air outlet, and an airflow generator for generating an airflow along the airflow path from the dirty air inlet to the clean air outlet. The airflow generator has a discharge portion which discharges airflow into a chamber formed in the main body, the chamber including an opening that is closable by a removable panel, wherein a power source is receivable within the chamber formed in the main body and is removable from the chamber through the opening.
US09591954B1
A switch assembly for a wet/dry vacuum cleaner is disclosed. The switch assembly includes a switch movable by a user between an ON position and an OFF position. An automatic shutoff assembly is operable in conjunction with the switch assembly to turn the switch to the OFF position in the event that a level of liquid within a tank of the wet/dry vacuum cleaner rises above a predetermined level. When triggered, the automatic shutoff assembly exerts a biasing force urging the switch toward the OFF position. A user can manually override the automatic shutoff assembly by providing a force sufficient to overcome the biasing force.
US09591951B2
A vacuum cleaner includes a suction source, an air inlet, and an airflow path extending from the air inlet to the suction source. A valve is movable between an open position in which the suction source and the air inlet are in fluid communication and a closed position in which the valve inhibits fluid communication between the air inlet and the suction source. The vacuum cleaner also includes a link coupled to the valve such that movement of the link in a first direction when the valve is in the closed position opens the valve, and movement of the link in a second direction when the valve is in the open position closes the valve. The link has a deformable portion resiliently deformable to permit additional movement of the link in the second direction when the valve is in the closed position.
US09591909B2
An applicator for a cosmetic product, in particular mascara, comprises a twisted core and fibers which extend from the core and are held by the core, the core having a main longitudinal direction of extension, known as the main axis (X), and the core being rectilinear along the main axis (X). The fibers form an envelope (E) with their free ends, the envelope (E) comprising faces (F1-F4) which alternate about the main axis (X), the faces (F1-F4) being curved, a cross section made transversely to the main axis (X), known as the cross section, having a substantially polygonal shape so as to form edges between the curved faces (F1-F4).
US09591905B2
A protective case for accommodating a number of variable sized electronic devices is provided. The case comprises internal features including rigid support members and biasing members for securing an electronic device and allowing the selective orientation and positioning of the electrical device for optimizing viewing.
US09591900B2
A jewelry item has a closure that uses shape memory to provide two stable positions. For example, an earring has a setting and a pin, and the closure closes the pin over the ear. The closure consists of a leaf spring extending outwardly in a first loop part from a first location on the setting and looping back in a second loop part to a second location adjacent the first location on the setting. The loop parts each have shape memory and are set with different remembered shapes. The two different remembered shapes work against each other to flip the closure between two stable positions, a first position in which the closure connects to the pin to close the earring and a second position in which the closure is spaced away from the pin to open the earring. The design is particularly suitable for a huggie style earring.
US09591898B2
A reusable zipper system for allowing a zipper to be installed and removed onto different objects interchangeably. The reusable zipper system generally includes an inner member and an outer member. The inner member is removably secured to an object via adhesive around an opening to be fitted with the present invention. The outer member is removably secured over the inner member. After cutting a slit through the inner member, a zipper assembly which includes zipper tracks and a zipper head may be used to selectively open or close the flaps. When desired, the inner and outer members may be removed from the object to be used elsewhere.
US09591890B2
A securing device for preventing removal of a shoe comprising a web selectively attachable to an outer surface of a shoe and configured to at least partially cover the shoe. The web includes a bottom portion having a center section securable to a front region of the shoe and a leg support section securable to a user's leg. The web further includes a top portion removably couplable to the bottom portion. The top portion includes a coupled position at least partially covering a lace of the shoe and an uncoupled position leaving the lace of the shoe exposed to an ambient environment.
US09591887B2
A method of making a skate boot upper, including integrally molding a boot portion from a first material, the boot portion including at least an instep portion and at least part of a tendon guard, manufacturing two quarters of a second material more rigid than the first material, and assembling the upper by attaching edges of the quarters to the boot portion with the quarter overlapping the boot portion only along said edges. Also, a method of making a skate boot upper, including manufacturing a boot portion from a first material, the boot portion including at least an instep portion and at least part of a tendon guard, manufacturing two quarters of a second material more rigid than the first material, and assembling the upper by attaching edges of the quarters to the boot portion through stitching, adhesive or lamination.
US09591886B2
Systems and methods of manufacturing a shoe outsole are provided wherein at least a portion of the resulting shoe outsole includes embedded particles. An example method includes applying adhesive to at least one region of the shoe outsole, depositing selected particles onto the adhesive to provide the shoe outsole with a first coat of particles, and at least partially curing the adhesive. The method continues by applying additional adhesive over the first coat of particles, depositing additional particles onto the adhesive to provide the shoe outsole with a second coat of particles, and at least partially curing the subsequent application of adhesive.
US09591879B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for protecting the external ear from the elements, heat, cold, wind, rain and/or snow. In some embodiments, an ear protector comprises a conforming anchor with an opening through which the external ear may be passed. The ear protector further comprises an insulating outer covering that, in combination with the anchor, forms the ear protector with a chamber positioned between the outer covering and the anchor. During use, the chamber is configured to receive the external ear, with the anchor's opening conformably positioned in proximity to at least a portion of the ear's root. The perimeter of the conforming anchor's opening resiliently deforms during passage of the external ear through the opening and into the chamber, and then conforms to the geometry of at least a portion of the ear root in order to securely and comfortably maintain the ear protector in position over the external ear without additional external support. The conforming anchor preferably is fabricated from a closed cell foamed elastomer.
US09591878B2
A nursing brassiere comprising an outer fabric layer affixed to a lower fabric layer along edge seams with a single attachment point within the center of the brassiere making it usable for both nursing and hands-free pumping.
US09591868B2
The present invention involves methods for improving the quality of the hair of a non-human animal and for increasing the 18-methyleicosanoic acid content of the hair of a non-human animal comprising feeding to the animal an edible composition comprising an effective amount of an amino acid selected from the group comprising isoleucine, threonine, and mixtures thereof.
US09591866B2
The present invention relates to stable frozen aerated products manufactured by low-temperature extrusion. In particular, the invention is concerned with a stabilizer system comprising native starch which can be used to impart stability on low-temperature extruded frozen products. A method of producing such frozen aerated confectionery product and the products obtainable from said method are also part of the present invention.
US09591864B2
A system for creating an aerated food product, whereby a decreased electrical and thermal load may be obtained is disclosed. Furthermore, a method of producing an aerated food product comprising the steps of separately preparing a first food product portion and a second food product portion, transferring the first food product portion to a first aseptic surge tank, transferring the second food product portion to a second aseptic surge tank, mixing a combination of the first food product portion and the second food product portion to create a mixed food product, aerating the mixed food product to create the aerated food product, and dispensing the aerated food product from a filling apparatus into a container is also disclosed. An aerated food product is also disclosed.
US09591843B2
Some embodiments provide an illumination system with an outer housing including a base, a central housing pivotably coupled to the base including a fluid inlet, and an upper housing including a fluid outlet. The inner housing defines a chamber and is coupled to the base, and includes a fluid aperture adjacent to the base, and a fluid aperture adjacent to the upper housing and a viewing aperture. The chamber houses an evaporator system not visible through the outer housing, and an illumination device. Some embodiments include a repellent system with a base including a fluid inlet pivotably coupled to a main housing enclosing an inner region, and including an upper portion with at least one fluid outlet. In some embodiments, an evaporator system within the inner region is not visible through the main housing. Some embodiments include an evaporator assembly that includes a lockable evaporator support to render the system non-refillable.
US09591837B2
A dual-bearing reel includes a reel unit, a spool and a handle. The reel unit includes a frame having an opening portion and a first side cover capable of being disposed in the opening portion. The spool is rotatably attached to the frame. The handle is configured to rotate the spool. The first side cover includes a cover body having an aperture and a blocking member blocking intrusion of a foreign object through the aperture. The blocking member is configured to be attached to the cover body on a side of the cover body facing the interior of the frame by elastic deformation. Further, the blocking member is retained on the cover body by a resilient force of the blocking member.
US09591833B1
A storage apparatus for a chicken feeder includes a body section, a coupling member and a feeder contacting section. The coupling member is positioned on a first end of the body section for securing the body section to a chicken feed tube. The feeder contacting section is positioned on a second end of the body section and includes angled arms to support a feeder above the feed tube.
US09591832B2
A pet amusement device formed in two halves, with a scratching pad removably attached to one half and an interior space accessible through openings in the second half. A ball with a bell may be contained in the interior space, allowing a pet to reach through the openings to play with the ball. A continuous track may surround the device, and a ball may be contained within the track, allowing the pet to bat the ball around the track.
US09591830B2
Single or multiple jointed bit (1) with at least two mouthpieces (10), characterized by the fact that at least one mouthpiece (10) comprises at least one channel (100) which extends longitudinally with or without slope through this mouthpiece from one end to the other end, to enable the sending of a viscous and/or liquid substance (72) directly into the middle of the mouth of an animal (2) without changing the feeling in the animal's mouth or on its tongue (2).
US09591825B1
A wheat variety designated W050216N2, the plants and seeds of wheat variety W050216N2, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety W050216N2 with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety W050216N2 with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by mutagenesis or transformation of variety W050216N2. This invention also relates to methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety W050216N2 and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods.
US09591822B1
The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated 245721. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety 245721, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety 245721 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety 245721.
US09591818B2
Provided are sunflowers, parts thereof, cultures of, and seeds that are capable of producing sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat and, optionally, high in linoleic acid as well as associated methods.
US09591815B2
A plant cultivation device includes a plurality of boxes, a connection unit, and an end section unit. Each box is provided in an inner space thereof with a cultivation chamber and a light source housing chamber. The plurality of boxes are arranged in a line. The connection unit mutually connects two adjacent boxes. The end section unit is mounted to an end section of a box which is arranged in an end of the line. The end section of the box is unconnected to the connection unit. Each box includes a ventilation opening for ventilating the cultivation chamber, and a ventilation port for air cooling the light source housing chamber. Each of the connection unit and the end section unit includes a first ventilation passage through which air flows into the ventilation opening, and a second ventilation passage through which air flows into the ventilation port.
US09591814B2
A light-weight, modular, adjustable vertical hydroponic growing system and method of Native American design for cultivation plants and beneficial soil organisms (BSO's) in symbiotic combination. Forest-like arrays of fully rotatable and demountable grow tubes are suspended within climate-moderating greenhouses, optionally from conveyor tracks. The tubes are filled with light-weight, porous 100% in-organic grow media predominately comprised of expanded volcanic or recycled glass granules. The grow tube arrays are provided with an insulated, overhead-mounted fertigation distribution system delivering metered intermittent flows from insulated mixing and holding tanks. The flows are recycled via an insulated return piping system to maintain cool fertigation temperatures near those of natural ground water. Fertigation supply mains provided with vortex flow induction devices impart rotational momentum to flows for delivery of uniform aerated fertigation to plants and BSO's via a combination of open-tube emitters and gravity flows within grow tubes.
US09591812B2
An apparatus, such as for tree trimming, includes a mobile carriage having a frame and a pedestal supported by the frame. The apparatus further includes a boom, such as a telescoping boom that is secured to the pedestal through a boom support. The pedestal is pivotable with respect to the carriage frame so that the boom may be selectively operated in a variety of orientations. The mobile carriage of the apparatus is sufficiently compact to fit though tight openings, while also being capable of stably supporting boom extension for operation of a distal end of the boom at elevated heights.
US09591809B2
An extendable hedge trimmer includes a housing having a handle end and a tool end. The handle end includes a battery and an electrical connector. The tool end includes a hedge trimming implement, a motor, and an electrical connector. The electrical connector of the tool end is electrically connected with the motor. Wiring is included within the handle end for electrically connecting the battery and the electrical connector of the handle end. The trimmer also includes a pole which is releasably connectable between the tool end and the handle end. The pole is configured for electrically connecting the handle end with the tool end. The trimmer also includes a latch mechanism for releasably attaching the pole between tool end and handle end. The trimmer also includes an input for receiving AC line power via a power cord, the trimmer configured for being power by AC line power and/or battery power.
