US09690804B2
The invention acquires article data (S1), extracts characteristic words from the acquired article data (S2), specifies a characteristic word which is not stored as a local area word in a database 12b which stores a local area word indicating a local area in association with geography information for specifying the local area, from the extracted characteristic words (S3), acquires a result of searching performed in a search device, according to the specified characteristic word (S4 and S5), specifies a local area related to article data based on the search result and finds geography information (S6), and stores the specified characteristic word in the database 12b as the local area word in association with the specified local area (S7).
US09690802B2
Stream locality delta compression is disclosed. A previous stream indicated locale of data segments is selected. A first data segment is then determined to be similar to a data segment in the stream indicated locale.
US09690797B2
A digital information analysis system includes a target selection unit that selects target digital information, a combination storage unit that stores each of a plurality of word combinations related to a predetermined specific item, a search unit that searches whether the plurality of word combinations stored in the combination storage unit are included in the target digital information selected by the target selection unit, a relation determination unit that determines the relation of the target digital information to the predetermined specific item on the basis of a morphological analysis result when the plurality of word combinations stored in the combination storage unit are included in the target digital information, and a determination result setting unit that associates the determination result of the relation determination unit with the target digital information.
US09690794B2
A hash-optimized backup system and method takes data blocks and generates a probabilistically unique digital fingerprint of the content of each data block using a substantially collision-free algorithm. The process compares the generated fingerprint to a database of stored fingerprints and, if the generated fingerprint matches a stored fingerprint, the data block is determined to already have been backed up, and therefore does not need to be backed up again. Only if the generated fingerprint does not match a stored fingerprint is the data block backed up, at which point the generated fingerprint is added to the database of stored fingerprints. Because the algorithm is substantially collision-free, there is no need to compare actual data content if there is a hash-value match. The process can also be used to audit software license compliance, inventory software, and detect computer-file tampering such as viruses and malware.
US09690789B2
Archive systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, an archival information storage configuration method comprises: performing an information accessing process including determining if the information is associated with an archive process; and performing an archive storage boundary determination process including establishing archive storage boundaries based upon characteristics indicating potential sharing of the information and potential impacts on performance of archival storage operations. In one exemplary implementation, the archive storage boundary determination process comprises: performing an information mining process including identifying an indication the information is potentially shared; and performing an archival boundary selection process including selecting an archive storage boundary based in at least part upon results of the information mining process.
US09690786B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for dynamically creating hyperlinks associated with relevant multimedia content in a computer network. A hyperlink generation module receives an electronic text file from a server. The module searches the text file to identify keywords present in the file. Once the keywords have been identified, a database is queried to identify multimedia content that is related to the keywords. Generally, multimedia content is associated with metadata to enable efficient searching of the multimedia content. Typically, the multimedia content is contextually relevant to both the identified keywords and text file. One or more hyperlinks corresponding to the keywords are then generated and inserted into the text file. The hyperlinks provide pointers to the identified multimedia content. After insertion into the text file, the hyperlinks may be clicked by a user or viewer of the file to retrieve and display the identified multimedia content.
US09690784B1
An avatar interaction system that solicits the end user to provide a cultural profile and automatically filters or translates responses through the avatar in a manner compatible with the cultural profile designated. End users may selected from a plurality of gender, race, and ethnically identifiable anthropomorphic forms to self-identify with a cultural profile. Gestures having cultural significance are identified, suppressed, and/or modified according to the currently enabled cultural profile of the end user.
US09690775B2
A lexical annotator that identifies a chunk of a communication and an associated sentiment is created. In real time, while monitoring a communication from a user, the lexical annotator is used to identify the sentiment for the chunk of the communication, and the sentiment for the chunk of the communication is provided.
US09690749B2
A computer-based method for characterizing data dependent on at least one variable is described. The method comprises sampling the data in a smart manner by sampling the data in a finite sequence of sampling points, the finite sequence of sampling points being controlled by a magnifying factor for controlling a spacing between elements of the finite sequence of sampling points and being determined such that function values of functions of a family of functions in said finite sequence of sampling points satisfy a recurrence relation. A corresponding device also is described as well as software-related products.
US09690744B2
An information processing apparatus of the embodiment includes: a data storage unit to store a virtual address in association with first information that includes at least identification information of a slot; and circuitry. And the circuitry is configured to: detect an interrupt that notifies an operating system that a first PCI card was replaced and is output from a second PCI card by which the first PCI card was replaced on a certain slot; extract, from the data storage unit, a virtual address associated with first information that includes identification information of the certain slot, upon detecting the interrupt; and set the second PCI card so as to communicate using the extracted virtual address.
US09690737B2
A computer system for controlling access to a shared data structure includes a shared memory coupled to first and second processing units that stores a multi-lock to control access to a shared data structure. The multi-lock includes a first sub-lock associated with the first processing unit and a second sub-lock associated with the second processing unit The system also includes a data access control engine to receive a request to read from the data structure from the first processing unit and, as a result, determine whether a privately modifiable copy the first sub-lock exists in a first cache dedicated to the first processing unit, acquire a read portion of the first sub-lock and not communicate the acquisition across a coherence bus if a privately modifiable copy of the first sub-lock exists in the first cache, and if a privately modifiable copy of the first sub-lock does not exist in the first cache, load the first sub-lock into the first cache if no copy is in the first cache, shootdown other copies of the first sub-lock, and acquire the read portion of the first sub-lock.
US09690735B2
A switch connected to an external device, the switch including: a plurality of ports connected to the external devices; a storage unit to store a zone database indicating a group in which each of the plurality of ports is included; and a processor to perform power control of the plurality of ports and permit communication between only ports included in the same group, on the basis of the zone database, wherein the processor powers off a port that is not included in any group among the plurality of ports, on the basis of the zone database.
US09690733B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit configured to activate the information processing apparatus in a first activation mode or a second activation mode, a receiving unit configured to receive an operation for activating the information processing apparatus in the first activation mode from a user, a notification unit configured to notify the control unit of information corresponding to the operation of the user received by the receiving unit, and a connection unit configured to connect the control unit and the receiving unit without connecting the notification unit and to notify the control unit that a user has operated on the receiving unit, wherein the control unit activates, in the case where it is not notified via the connection unit that a user has operated on the receiving unit, the information processing apparatus in the second activation mode without waiting for activation of the notification unit.
US09690727B2
Systems, methods, circuits and computer-readable mediums for system internal latency measurements in realtime applications are disclosed. In some implementations, a trigger signal is selected from a plurality of trigger signals for interrupting a processor of an integrated circuit system. The trigger signal includes a pulse having width. The system detects a rising edge of the pulse and starts a counter. The system detects a falling edge of the pulse and stops the counter. The system then compares a count of the counter with first and second values stored in first and second registers, respectively. The first value represents a minimum pulse width and the second value represents a maximum pulse width. The count is stored in the first or second register based on a result of the comparing.
US09690723B2
A semiconductor device may include: a storage unit configured to store program codes provided through control of a processor core; and a control unit configured to perform a control operation on a semiconductor memory device according to the program codes.
US09690722B2
A memory controller (10) for a plurality of banks of memory (55a-55c) is disclosed. The memory controller (10) includes an interface (20) connectable to a bus (60) to communicate with a processor (70). The memory controller (10) redundantly maps the plurality of banks of memory (55a-55c) to a memory space (50) and includes a plurality of memory operators, each of the plurality of memory operators being executable by the memory controller for performing a different function on data in the memory space (50) and/or one or more of the plurality of banks of memory (55a-55c). In response to receipt at the interface (20) of a request from the processor (70) for one of said memory operators, the memory controller (10) is configured to execute, independently of the processor (70), the respective memory operator on the memory space (50) and/or one or more of the plurality of banks of memory (55a-55c).
US09690715B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes a hash selector that facilitates performing effective hashing operations. In operation, the hash selector creates a transformation matrix that reflects specific optimization criteria. For each hash value, the hash selector generates a potential hash value and then computes the rank of a submatrix included in the transformation matrix. Based on this rank in conjunction with the optimization criteria, the hash selector either re-generates the potential hash value or accepts the potential hash value. Advantageously, the optimization criteria may be tailored to create desired correlations between input patterns and the results of performing hashing operations based on the transformation matrix. Notably, the hash selector may be configured to efficiently and reliably incrementally generate a transformation matrix that, when applied to certain strides of memory addresses, produces a more uniform distribution of accesses across caches lines than previous approaches to memory addressing.
US09690714B1
An example method includes receiving a request to change a page size managed by a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), wherein the TLB is currently managing a first page size, and the request specifies a second page size different than the first page size; in response to the request: determining a number of lower-order bits for addressing memory location within pages of the second page size; and configuring the TLB to perform lookups within the memory subsystem using a number of higher-order bits for addressing pages of the second page size, wherein the number of higher-order bits is dependent on the number of lower-order bits.
US09690705B1
Described herein are systems and methods to process efficiently, according to a certain order, a plurality of data sets arranged in data blocks. In one embodiment, a first compute element receives from another compute element a first set of instructions that determine an order in which a plurality of data sets are to be processed as part of a processing task. Relevant data sets are then streamed into a cache memory associated with the first compute element, but the order of streaming is not by order of storage but rather by the order conveyed in the first set of instructions.
US09690702B2
In at least one embodiment, a data storage system includes a non-volatile memory array including a plurality of blocks of physical memory, each including multiple pages. The data storage system further includes a controller that maintains a data structure identifying blocks of physical memory in the memory array that currently do not store valid data. The controller, responsive to receipt of a write input/output operation (IOP) specifying an address and write data, selects a particular block from among the blocks identified in the data structure prior to a dwell time threshold for the particular block being satisfied, programs a page within the selected block with the write data, and associates the address with the selected block.
US09690700B2
A host receives information related to garbage collection of a storage device, and the host controls selective execution of garbage collection by the storage device according to the received information.
US09690684B2
A component for a network system is provided. The component includes an information notification part capable of notifying of one or more pieces of certain information among energy information, additional information except the energy information, and new information based on one or more the energy information and the additional information and a control unit controlling the information notification part. The information notification part notifies of the certain information when satisfying conditions for notifying of the certain information.
US09690680B1
A computer-implemented method for testing a hybrid architecture instruction set is provided. The method includes defining a first instruction definition table for a first base architecture, and defining a second instruction definition table for a second base architecture, wherein the first base architecture is different than the second base architecture. The method also includes defining a delta table, wherein the delta table defines architecture specific behavior, and generating a hybrid architecture table based on the delta table and at least one of the first instruction definition table or the second instruction definition table. The method includes executing a test based on the hybrid architecture table, wherein the hybrid architecture table is for a hybrid architecture that is compatible between the first base architecture and the second base architecture.
US09690676B2
Techniques and systems for performing a network activity within a network. The technique includes assigning one or a plurality of network devices subnets with network devices for performing network activities. Network devices within the assigned network device subnets can be assigned to act as a primary network device and a backup network device. The primary network device can perform the network activity. The backup network devices can monitor the primary network device and continue performing the network activities if the primary network device fails or is rogue.
US09690670B1
Various systems, methods and apparatuses for intelligently and dynamically allocating proxy backup clients to back up and restore vast amounts of data distributed across a network are presented. One method involves identify distributed data stored in a computer system, requesting the data, and performing a backup or restore operation on the data. Other aspects include intelligently dynamically allocating proxy backup clients to perform backup and restore operations on data distributed across a network, and intelligently and dynamically balancing, or re-balancing or otherwise managing the workload among the proxy backup clients.
US09690669B2
A technique for cloud infrastructure backup in a virtualized environment utilizing shared storage includes obtaining a workload input/output (I/O) profile to the shared storage over a time period. An attempt to locate one or more time windows in the workload I/O profile for which a cloud infrastructure backup can be staged is initiated. In response to determining the cloud infrastructure backup can be staged during at least one of the time windows, staging of the cloud infrastructure backup is scheduled during a selected one of the time windows. In response to determining the cloud infrastructure backup cannot be staged during at least one of the time windows, an interference tolerance approach is employed for accessing the shared storage for active workloads and the cloud infrastructure backup during the staging of the cloud infrastructure backup.
US09690667B2
A method includes determining a time shift for data validity windows corresponding to a user, receiving a request for an incremental data update from the user, the user having cached data, determining that the request for the incremental data update is received within an unexpired data validity window for the cached data, wherein the data validity window is based on the determined time shift and in a case the incremental data update is received within the unexpired data validity window for the user, determining that the user is eligible for the incremental data update.
US09690663B2
A data storage system may be configured to allocate replica-sets in a balanced manner and mark some of these balanced replica-sets as being spares. As one or more drives or machines fail, the data storage system may move all copies of an affected replica-set to a marked spare replica-set and mark the affected replica-set as being inactive or invalid. As the failed drives are replaced, the data storage system may reconfigure those inactive replica-sets and use them as new spares. The data storage system may implement a coordinator module that handles the balancing and allocation of spares within a sub-cluster. The coordinator may also reallocate entire replica-sets across sub-clusters to maintain balance at the cluster level.
US09690653B2
An apparatus may comprise an ECC circuit configured to receive read data from a memory cell array to correct, an error bit contained in a data portion of the read data responsive, at least in part, to a parity portion of the read data, to generate a plurality of first error determination signals and a plurality of second error determination signals. Each of the plurality of first error determination signals provided in common to n data terminals and corresponding to an associated one of burst data of m bits. Each of the plurality of second error determination signals provided in common to the burst data of m bits and corresponding to an associated one of the n data terminals. The error bit of the data portion of the read data is detected based, at least in part, on the first error determination signals and the second error determination signals.
US09690649B2
Classifying memory errors may include accessing data from a location within a memory array of a memory device. The memory array may include at least one bit field to store memory error classification information. One or more memory errors in the data may be determined. One or more memory errors may further be classified. In response to the classifying, memory error classification information may be stored as one or more bit values within the bit field.
US09690642B2
Salvaging event trace information in power loss interruption (PLI) scenarios, for use in solid-state drive (SSD) and hard disk drive (HDD) storage devices. If volatile state information that is salvaged after an inadvertent power loss were to include event trace information, then such information can provide a valuable debug resource. Event trace information from volatile memory is copied to a second memory upon a power on which is in response to a PLI event. A corrupt state of context reconstruction data stored on non-volatile memory is detected, and an indication of the corrupt state is set. The event trace information is passed to the host if requested based on the indication.
US09690637B2
A method is described that involves creating a reliable messaging object that includes a configuration context object. The reliable messaging object is created by reading configuration data from the configuration context object and writing instructions for delivery of the reliable messaging object based on the configuration data. The reliable messaging object is received in a messaging system independent from a web services runtime framework. The reliable messaging object is processed in the messaging system by placing the reliable messaging object into a queue and performing a quality of service check on the reliable messaging object.
US09690623B2
A transaction is detected. The transaction has a begin-transaction indication and an end-transaction indication. If it is determined that the begin-transaction indication is not a no-speculation indication, then the transaction is processed.
US09690611B2
To perform a workload, a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) may be assigned to a plurality of blade servers. To assign the VMs, a computing system uses the characteristics of the workloads that will be executed by the virtual machines such as the number of processors or the amount of memory, storage the workload is estimated to use, and the like. Based on these workload characteristics, the computing system determines an optimal solution for deploying the VMs onto the blade servers. In one embodiment, the computing system determines whether two or more of the blade servers should be stitched together. For example, the computing system compares the workload characteristics of one of the virtual machine to the combined available resources of at least two of the blade servers. If the combined available resources satisfy the workload characteristics, the computing system stitches the blade servers together.
US09690586B2
A method of managing instruction execution for multiple instruction streams using a processor core having multiple parallel instruction execution slices provides instruction processing flexibility. An event is detected indicating that either resource requirement or resource availability for a subsequent instruction of an instruction stream will not be met by the instruction execution slice currently executing the instruction stream. In response to detecting the event, dispatch of at least a portion of the subsequent instruction is made to another instruction execution slice. The event may be a compiler-inserted directive, may be an event detected by logic in the processor core, or may be determined by a thread sequencer. The execution slices may be dynamically reconfigured as between single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) instruction execution, ordinary instruction execution, wide instruction execution. When an execution slice is busy processing a current instruction for one of the streams, another slice can be selected to proceed with execution.
US09690585B2
A method of operation of a processor core having multiple parallel instruction execution slices and coupled to multiple dispatch queues coupled by a dispatch routing network provides flexible and efficient use of internal resources. The dispatch routing network is controlled to dynamically vary the relationship between the slices and instruction streams according to execution requirements for the instruction streams and the availability of resources in the instruction execution slices. The instruction execution slices may be dynamically reconfigured as between single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) instruction execution and ordinary instruction execution on a per-instruction basis. Instructions having an operand width greater than the width of a single instruction execution slice may be processed by multiple instruction execution slices configured to act in concert for the particular instructions. When an instruction execution slice is busy processing a current instruction for one of the streams, another slice can be selected to proceed with execution.
US09690583B2
A pool of available physical registers are provided for architected registers, wherein operations are performed that activate and deactivate selected architected registers, such that the deactivated selected architected registers need not retain values, and physical registers can be deallocated to the pool, wherein deallocation of physical registers is performed after a last-use by a designated last-use instruction, wherein the last-use information is provided either by the last-use instruction or a prefix instruction, wherein reads to deallocated architecture registers return an architected default value.
US09690564B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of software configuration management, and more particularly to validating, detecting, and dynamically handling software configurations and updates. A computing device detects a configuration event in a first computer program. The computing device includes a plurality of executing computer programs, wherein the plurality of executing computer programs includes the first computer program and a second computer program, and wherein the first computer program has a configurational relationship to the second computer program. The computing program determines whether the configuration event affects the second computer program. The computing device generates an action in response to the determination.
US09690563B2
Updating web resources includes extracting web resources from an application to local files in response to an initial start-up of the application, downloading updates to the web resources to the local files from an external server; and running the application using contents from the local files.
US09690557B2
A framework (referred to herein as Application Integration Architecture, or AIA) that formalizes and orchestrates activities in an SOA development lifecycle. In one set of embodiments, AIA can capture development-related information in a shared data store and cause the information to flow in an automated or semi-automated manner from one lifecycle phase to the next as the lifecycle progresses. This information flow can, in turn, facilitate automations at each lifecycle phase for the responsible stakeholders (e.g., solution architects, developers, installation developers, etc.), thereby enforcing SOA best practices, enhancing development productivity, and ensuring the quality of the final SOA deliverables.
US09690552B2
Technologies for generating composable library functions include a first computing device that includes a library compiler configured to compile a composable library and second computing device that includes an application compiler configured to compose library functions of the composable library based on a plurality of abstractions written at different levels of abstractions. For example, the abstractions may include an algorithm abstraction at a high level, a blocked-algorithm abstraction at medium level, and a region-based code abstraction at a low level. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.
US09690550B2
When compiling high level, graphical code (e.g. LabVIEW™ code) representative of a design, parts of the code that do not depend on external input data may be executed during the compilation process. Specific variables and/or value traces of specific variables in the program, e.g. constant values and/or repeating patterns may be recorded then analyzed, and certain transformations may be applied in the compilation process according to the results of the analysis, thereby optimizing the design. In one approach, the graph may be dynamically stepped through one node at a time, and it may be determined whether all inputs to the stepped-through node are known. If those inputs are known, type conversion and the operation corresponding to the stepped-through node may be dynamically performed. In another approach, a subset of the graphical code not depending on external data may be compiled and executed, thereby obtaining the same results as described above.
US09690544B2
A round-for-reround mode (preferably in a BID encoded Decimal format) of a floating point instruction prepares a result for later rounding to a variable number of digits by detecting that the least significant digit may be a 0, and if so changing it to 1 when the trailing digits are not all 0. A subsequent reround instruction is then able to round the result to any number of digits at least 2 fewer than the number of digits of the result. An optional embodiment saves a tag indicating the fact that the low order digit of the result is 0 or 5 if the trailing bits are non-zero in a tag field rather than modify the result. Another optional embodiment also saves a half-way-and-above indicator when the trailing digits represent a decimal with a most significant digit having a value of 5. An optional subsequent reround instruction is able to round the result to any number of digits fewer or equal to the number of digits of the result using the saved tags.
US09690542B2
A method for providing digital personal assistant responses may include receiving, by a digital personal assistant associated with a plurality of reactive agents, a user input initiating a dialog with the digital personal assistant within the computing device. In response to receiving the input, an operation mode of the computing device may be detected from a plurality of available operation modes. One of the plurality of reactive agents can be selected based on the received input. A plurality of response strings associated with the selected reactive agent can be accessed. At least one of the plurality of response strings is selected based at least on the operation mode and at least one hardware characteristic of the computing device. The selected at least one of the plurality of response strings is providing during the dialog, as a response to the user input.
US09690536B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a terminal device, and a screen-sharing display method and system. The screen-sharing display method is used in a device having a touch function, where the method includes: detecting a position of a touch object on a touchscreen; generating, according to the detected position of the touch object on the touchscreen, an icon corresponding to the position of the touch object; superimposing the icon onto display content of the touchscreen to obtain screen-sharing touch and display content; and sending the screen-sharing touch and display content to a screen-sharing display device, so that the screen-sharing display device displays the screen-sharing touch and display content including the icon.
US09690528B1
A method and related apparatus for processing print jobs, which automatically edits both the document to be printed and the job ticket based on a state or content of the document itself, without user intervention, to achieve certain printing effects such as inserting tab sheets of slip sheets, removing pages, inserting annotations, changing finishing settings, etc. In one specific example, by checking whether each page includes a specific key phrase or is associated with a specific bookmark, the document and the job ticket are automatically edited so that a tab sheet or slip sheet is inserted at a corresponding position. A program is also provided to emulate the result of the editing the print job and original document.
US09690527B2
In the present invention, in a plug-in of a general-purpose application, a user is only required to specify the size of a printout to be output in order to calculate a paper size that has the same aspect ratio as an output size that is within the maximum paper size of the application and to set the paper size in the printer driver and the application.
US09690526B2
A method for driving a device that enables using a device without using a conventional device driver that is dependent on the operating system of the computer. The method has a binary data conversion step which receives a mark-up language document written in a mark-up language and converts the mark-up language document to binary data composed of commands and data that can be processed by the device. The method also includes a binary data output step in which the converted binary data is output to the device.
US09690525B2
Methods and systems for a client device wirelessly receiving, from a location sensor, an identifier for the location sensor in response to detecting the location sensor. A device corresponding to the identifier for the location sensor may be determined, and resources of the device may be made available to the client device. After making the resources of the device available to the client device, the client device may send data for accessing the resources of the device. The device may comprise a printer, and the resources of the device may comprise printing services. The data for accessing the resources of the device may comprise print job data.
US09690523B2
An information processing apparatus on which a print application is installable, and a method of controlling the same. A search for printers is performed, and if a printer selected by a user from among a plurality of printers found by the search does not correspond to a print application that has performed the search, a determination is made as to whether or not another print application corresponding to the printer selected by the user has been installed to the information processing apparatus. If it is determined that the other print application has not been installed to the information processing apparatus, the user is prompted to install the other print application to the information processing apparatus.
US09690522B2
A system includes storage and control units in a printing apparatus, obtainment and first transmission units in a first computer, and a second transmission unit in a second computer. The storage unit stores print restriction information defining a setting content to permit or restrict printing for each user. The print restriction information of a first computer user is obtained. A first print job including the obtained print restriction information, a first print setting, a second print job including identification information of a second computer user and a second print setting are transmitted. The control unit determines whether to permit or restrict the first print job based on the first print setting and the first print job print restriction information, and determines whether to permit or restrict the second print job based on the second print setting and print restriction information specified by using the second print job user identification information.
US09690518B2
A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory and host interface circuitry. The host interface circuitry is configured, in response to receiving a first command from a host device, to access a table to determine whether to reject the first command based on an operating state of the data storage device. The data storage device also includes a processor coupled to the non-volatile memory and to the host interface circuitry. The processor is configured to program the table.
US09690517B2
A system for error correction code (ECC) management of write-once memory (WOM) codes includes, for example, a controller for selecting between one of a WOM (Write-Only Memory) mode and an ECC (error correction code) mode. A codec is arranged to operate in the selected mode. The codec while operating in the ECC mode is arranged to identify a bit position of at least one bit error in response to ECC parity bits of a first received data word. The codec while operating in the WOM mode is arranged to receive a WOM-encoded word from an addressed location in a WOM device, to receive a second received data word to be encoded and written to the addressed location, and to generate WOM-encoded word for writing to the addressed location in the WOM device. The WOM-encoded word for writing to the addressed location is optionally ECC encoded.
US09690509B2
Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method of accessing a data frame, wherein a first portion of the data frame is in a first memory block, and wherein a second portion of the data frame is in a second memory block. The method includes initiating, by a processor, an access of the data frame. The method further includes accessing, by the processor, the first portion of the data frame. The method further includes, based at least in part on a determination that the processor does not have access to the second memory block, accessing at least one default character as a replacement for accessing the second portion of the data frame.
US09690503B2
A controller maintains exposed and unexposed locations of a first storage device and a second storage device. In response to receiving a request a perform a write operation to write data in locations that span the first storage device and the second storage device, the controller atomically writes an entirety of the data in the unexposed locations of the first storage device.
US09690502B2
A memory device may include a memory component that stores data and a processor. The processor may map one or more banks or one or more virtual banks in the memory component based on one or more properties associated with the memory component and an expected random access rate for the memory component.
US09690495B2
Embodiments disclose techniques for emulating memory mapped I/O (MMIO) for coherent accelerators in an error state. In one embodiment, once an operating system determines that a processor is unable to access a coherent accelerator via a MMIO operation, the operating system deletes one or more page table entries associated with MMIO of one or more hardware contexts of the coherent accelerator. After deleting the page table entries, the operating system can detect a page fault associated with execution of a process by the processor. Upon determining that the page fault was caused by the process attempting to access one of the deleted page table entries while executing a MMIO operation, the operating system emulates the execution of the MMIO operation for the faulting process, giving the process the illusion that its requested MMIO operation was successful.
US09690491B2
A non-volatile memory system may have a group of non-volatile memory cells having a plurality of predetermined portions, where each predetermined portion is associated with an open host write block of a different host data type than each other predetermined portion. A host data router directs received data from a host to an appropriate predetermined portion based on a determined data type. A maintenance data router, based on predetermined minimum capacity overprovisioning targets for each predetermined portion, operates to adjust an amount of overprovisioning of physical capacity among the plurality of predetermined portions to reduce write amplification and increase performance in predetermined portions having data with a higher probability of host update. The method may include selecting a particular predetermined portion and a particular block within the selected predetermined portion on which to perform a maintenance operation to achieve the desired capacity overprovisioning.
US09690490B2
A method for writing data, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes receiving a write command and first data corresponding to the write command, obtaining initial data transmission information of the first data and determining whether the initial data transmission information conforms to a predetermined condition, compressing the first data to second data and writing the second data into a rewritable non-violate memory module if the initial data transmission information conforms to the predetermined condition, and writing the uncompressed first data into the rewritable non-violate memory module if the initial data transmission information does not conform to the predetermined condition.
US09690482B2
A data storage apparatus and method of storing data in a data storage apparatus are provided, where the data storage apparatus comprises multiple banks for storing data. The multiple banks form multiple bank groups, wherein each bank group comprising more than one bank. A first data item of a received data block is stored at a selected storage location in a selected bank and a subsequent data item of the data block is stored to a further storage location in a different bank according to a sequence of banks. The sequence of banks firstly comprises the selected bank followed by all other banks in the bank group of the selected bank. Moreover the sequence of banks respects a hierarchical pattern, wherein a finer granularity of the hierarchical pattern comprises all banks in a given bank group, and a coarser granularity of the hierarchical pattern comprises the given bank group followed by a different bank group to the given bank group. Access to the data storage apparatus is thereby improved.
US09690481B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, software, devices and APIs for defining touch events for application level software. Furthermore, some embodiments are directed to simplifying the recognition of single and multiple touch events for applications running in multi-touch enabled devices. To simplify the recognition of single and multiple touch events, each view within a particular window can be configured as either a multi-touch view or a single touch view. Furthermore, each view can be configured as either an exclusive or a non-exclusive view. Depending on the configuration of a view, touch events in that and other views can be either ignored or recognized. Ignored touches need not be sent to the application. Selectively ignoring touches can allow for simpler software elements that do not take advantage of advanced multi touch features to be executed at the same device and time as more complex software elements.
US09690479B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling an application using key inputs or a combination thereof. The apparatus may be implemented as, for example, a mobile terminal including a touch screen configured to display an icon corresponding to a first application under a display layer of a second application currently displayed on the touch screen, and a controller configured to execute the first application in response to detecting an input to the second application configured to execute the first application.
US09690473B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for changing the state of a user interface (UI) element of a computer program visually marked on a physical object, through a touch action upon the object, among a plurality of objects on the interactive surface, each comprising a capacitance tab and a unique identification code. During runtime execution of the computer program, and in response to a touch action upon an object by an end-user, the interactive surface is configured to detect such touch action upon the object through an embedded capacitance sensor positioned under the object, and direct a sensory accessory to indicate a new state of the UI element marked on an object by exhibiting a new sensory pattern. The present invention offers enhanced interactivity between an end-user and a computer program mediated by physical objects.
US09690470B2
Methods of controlling the display and use of a UI element are disclosed. In an embodiment, the UI element may configured so that it initially maintains a topmost position but eventually allows other applications to assume the topmost position. In an embodiment, the display of the element may be adjusted in response to an input so that the UI element is not visible on the display. In an embodiment, the use of the UI element may allow for seamless dragging of the UI element even if the user inadvertently fails to make consistent contact with the touch-sensitive display while dragging the UI element.
US09690468B2
A method of providing an interactive media presentation may include, by an electronic device, receiving, from a user electronic device, an indication that an interactive portion of a media presentation is about to begin, and causing a graphical representation of a conversation atlas to be displayed. The conversation atlas may include a plurality of selection elements that are each associated with an audio element for a character that is featured in the interactive portion. The method may include receiving a user response comprising conversational information received from a user that is directed to a character of the media presentation, in response to receiving the user response, receiving a selection of at least one of the plurality of selection elements of the conversation atlas, identifying the audio element that corresponds to the selected selection element, and causing the identified audio element to be presented at the user electronic device.
US09690465B2
Embodiments of the invention provide underlying communication functionality to enable companion experiences. A companion experience allows the user to interact with content playing on a primary device through a companion device. An application on the companion device interacts with an application running on a base device (e.g., a game console, PC, or TV) to provide additional interface options on the companion that are related to a title or application playing on the base device.
US09690456B2
A method for controlling a window displayed in a screen area of an electronic device is provided. The method includes executing the window, configuring a reference point of the window according to a predetermined reference, receiving a request for changing a property of the window, in response to receiving the request for changing the property of the window, changing the property of the window on the basis of the reference point, and reconfiguring the reference point of the property-changed window.
US09690455B1
Methods, systems, and media for providing media guidance are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving device data from a mobile device associated with a display device; identifying a media content item being presented on the display device; determining a first indication that the mobile device has been interacted with during the presentation of the media content item; storing a first timestamp corresponding to the first indication; determining a second indication that the interaction with the mobile device has ceased; storing a second timestamp corresponding to the second indication; receiving an indication that the media content item is to be played back; determining, using a hardware processor, a first playback position in the media content item based on the first timestamp; and causing the media content item to be presented from the determined first playback position in response to receiving the indication.
US09690451B1
A dynamic biography module in a user device receives a request for supplemental information corresponding to an electronic media item being consumed by a user. The dynamic biography module determines the user's reading location in the electronic media item and determines a version of the supplemental information corresponding to the reading location. In response, the dynamic biography module provides the corresponding version of the supplemental information to the user.
US09690440B2
A touch screen panel is provided. The touch screen panel includes an Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) sensor glass layer, a window glass layer mounted above the ITO sensor glass layer by means of an Optical Clear Adhesive (OCA), a conductive layer disposed between a surface of the window glass layer and a surface of the ITO sensor glass layer that includes an electrode pattern, and a touch screen control unit mounted on one of the window glass layer surface and the ITO sensor glass layer surface on which the conductive layer is mounted.
US09690432B2
Systems and processes for encoding and decoding touch signals output by a touch sensor are provided. In one example system, switching circuitry can be used to selectively couple each of the sense lines of a touch sensor to a positive terminal or a negative terminal of a sense amplifier based on the values of the elements of a matrix. The touch signals can be amplified and converted into digital form using a single sense amplifier and an ADC before being decoded using decoding circuitry. The decoding circuitry can decode the digital encoded touch signals by multiplying the digital encoded touch signals by each column of an inverse of the matrix used to encode the touch signals. The result of the decoding can be a set of signals that are representative of the touch signals output by the touch sensor.
US09690431B2
In one embodiment, a system comprises a touch sensor and a stylus. The touch sensor comprises drive lines and sense lines arranged such that intersections of the drive lines and sense lines form capacitive nodes. The drive lines transmits a first signal having an identification portion. The stylus comprises a sense unit and a drive unit. The sense unit senses the first signal from the drive lines, compares the identification portion to criteria stored in the stylus, and authorizes the drive unit to transmit a second signal based on the first signal if the identification portion satisfies the criteria stored in the stylus. The drive unit transmits the second signal to the sense lines such that transmission of the second signal changes capacitance of the capacitive nodes.
US09690430B2
A touch detection method executed by a touch detection apparatus projects light that does not include a wavelength component of visible light onto a screen, has a sensitivity in a wavelength component of the light projected by the projecting, takes an image on the screen in a state where light is projected by the projecting, and performs detection pertaining to a touch, based on image data taken by the image-sensing.
US09690424B2
An in-cell multi-touch display panel system includes a multi-touch LCD panel and a touch display control subsystem. The multi-touch LCD panel has a TFT layer, a detection electrode layer, and a common-voltage and touch-driving layer. The detection electrode layer has M first conductor lines for performing touch detection by sampling touch detection from the M first conductor lines. The common-voltage and touch-driving layer has N second conductor lines for receiving common voltage in display and touch-driving signal in touch detection. In the detection electrode layer, there are pluralities of detection electrode areas in the intersections of first conductor lines and second conductor lines. Each detection electrode area is connected to a first conductor line by a touch-control transistor. The M×N touch-control transistors are divided in to N sets corresponding to N second conductor lines, respectively.
US09690419B2
The present disclosure provides a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device, which relates to the field of display technology. The gate driving circuit may comprise a plurality of mutually cascaded shift register units and a pre-charging unit, the gate row drive scanning and touch control scanning of the plurality of mutually cascaded shift register units are performed alternately. By additionally arranging a pre-charging unit connected with the corresponding first stage of shift register unit when the gate row drive scanning is performed again after the touch control scanning is accomplished, the first stage of shift register unit can be pre-charged during the touch control scanning.
US09690418B2
An electrostatic capacitive touch panel having a large surface area includes (i) a driving electrode group (220) and a sensing electrode group (130) which are provided on a substrate (210), and (ii) a touch panel driving circuit (250) provided in a frame region adjacent to a touch panel region where the driving electrode group (220) and the sensing electrode group (130) are provided. The touch panel driving circuit (250) is made up of TFTs made of an oxide semiconductor having a wide band gap so that the touch panel driving circuit (250) has a small surface area. This allows the touch panel to have a narrow frame.
US09690411B2
A touch display includes a display panel and a touch layer. The display panel has pixel areas, and one of the pixel areas has a pixel pitch in a first direction. The display panel includes a substrate, and a display medium layer disposed over the substrate. The touch layer is disposed over the substrate, and includes slits and an electrode. The slits include a first slit and a second slit adjacent to the first slit. The electrode is disposed between the first slit and the second slit. The electrode includes first linear sections and second linear sections alternately arranged in a second direction.
US09690408B1
An integrated touch sensing and force sensing device is included in an electronic device. The integrated touch sensing and force sensing device includes a force-sensitive layer operably attached to an input surface, a first electrode layer attached to a first surface of the force-sensitive layer, and a second electrode layer attached to a second surface of the force-sensitive layer. An analog front end processing channel is operable to process a touch signal that is based on a change in an electrical property between the first and second electrode layers and operable to process a force signal that is based on an electrical property generated by the force-sensitive layer based on a force applied to the input surface.
US09690398B2
A capacitive pointer is disclosed. The capacitive pointer comprises a conductive refill, a refill cover, an elastomer, a pressure sensor, a sensor board, a control circuit board, a pointer tip, a first frame and a second frame. The conductive refill penetrates and combines with the refill cover. The pressure sensor is mounted on the sensor board. The conductive refill applies a tip pressure against on the pressure sensor through the refill cover pushing the elastomer to sense the tip pressure of the capacitive pointer. The sensor board electrically connects the control circuit board to calculate a tip pressure value of the capacitive pointer. The pointer tip electrically connects the control circuit board. The first frame and the second frame are located between the conductive refill and the refill cover and combine to secure the control circuit board.
US09690392B2
An operating device includes: right and left hold sections to be held by a user, the right and left hold sections provided with first operating members; and a central section interconnecting the right and left hold sections. The operating device has a second operating member forming an upper surface of the central section. The second operating member includes a touch sensor located between the first operating members of the right and left hold sections, and is so supported as to be capable of vertical movement in response to a user s pressing-down operation. The second operating member is plate-like in shape, so that user s fingers can easily reach the second operating member in a condition where the user is holding the hold sections. As a result, operability of the operating device can be enhanced.
US09690391B2
A method at an electronic device including a touch-sensitive display for receiving touch input and a keyboard comprising a plurality of buttons, the method comprising: detecting actuation of a button on at least one of the plurality of buttons; detecting a touch input at the touch-sensitive display while the button is actuated; responding to the touch input, wherein response to the touch input while the button is actuated is different to response to touch input detected while the button is not actuated.
US09690390B2
User interface devices (UIDs) for sensing position or motion of an actuator assembly in multiple degrees of freedom are disclosed. In one embodiment a UID includes a frame having a top and bottom assembly, an actuator assembly disposed within a volume between the top and bottom of the frame having magnets disposed therein, a sensor array for sensing magnetic fields from the magnets in multiple axes, and a processing element for receiving the sensed magnet fields and generating a UID output signal corresponding to a position, translation, rotation, deformation, or other action of the actuator assembly.
US09690388B2
A computing device for identifying a gesture performed by a tracked object in an image stream, said computing device comprising a memory and a controller, wherein said controller is configured to: determine a movement vector for the tracked object, compare the movement vector against a reference library of gestures, and thereby identify a gesture matching the movement vector, wherein said movement vector comprises at least one partial movement having a direction being identified by a relative angle and wherein said comparison is based on said relative angle.
US09690386B2
A method and apparatus for performing motion recognition using motion sensor fusion and an associated computer program product are provided, where the method is applied to an electronic device. The method includes the steps of: utilizing a plurality of motion sensors of the electronic device to obtain sensor data respectively corresponding to the plurality of motion sensors, the sensor data measured at a device coordinate system of the electronic device, wherein the plurality of motion sensors includes inertial motion sensors; and performing sensor fusion according to the sensor data by converting at least one portion of the sensor data and derivatives of the sensor data into converted data based on a global coordinate system of a user of the electronic device, to perform motion recognition based on the global coordinate system, in order to recognize the user's motion.
US09690385B2
A handheld communication device includes a screen to receive input from and provide graphical output to a user, a processor to execute machine readable instructions and control operation of the device, a computer readable medium to store the machine readable instructions, an energy storage device to power the screen, processor, and computer readable medium, and a substantially planar electrically conductive member positioned between the screen, processor, and computer readable medium on one hand and the energy storage device on the other. The conductive member engages a first side of the energy storage device and comprises a flexible tab extending from the first side of the energy storage device, around a side of the energy storage device, and to a second terminal on an opposing second side of the energy storage device.
US09690376B2
An apparatus and method for light and optical depth mapping, 3D imaging, modeling, networking, and interfacing on an autonomous, intelligent, wearable wireless wrist computing, display and control system for onboard and remote device and graphic user interface control. Embodiments of the invention enable augmentation of people, objects, devices and spaces into a virtual environment and augmentation of virtual objects and interfaces into the physical world through its wireless multimedia streaming and multi-interface display and projection systems.
US09690370B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a display configured to receive a display signal and output an image, and an image capture device configured to capture an area image and transmit an image signal. The illustrative system also includes a processor in communication with the image capture device and the display, the processor configured to: receive the image signal; determine a virtual object based in part on the image signal; determine the display signal based in part on the image signal, wherein the display signal includes data associated with the virtual object; determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the virtual object; and transmit a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect. The illustrative system further includes a haptic output device configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect.
US09690365B2
A processing device performs dual-rail power equalization for its memory cell array and logic circuitry. The memory cell array is coupled to a first power rail through a first switch to receive a first voltage level. The logic circuitry is coupled to a second power rail through a second switch to receive a second voltage level that is different from the first voltage level. The processing device also includes a power switch coupled to at least the second power rail and operative to be enabled to equalize voltage supplied to the memory cell array and the logic circuitry.
US09690354B1
The Control Layer IO System (“CLIOS”) software is an energy management system taking into account the performance requirements of the target software and the properties and limitations of the target hardware to optimize energy use of a programmable electronic device. CLIOS is generated in a one-time process and once generated is loaded onto the target. CLIOS is complementing or replacing the power management infrastructure of the main operating system. CLIOS comprises three main components: the CLIOS daemon that operates in the user space; the CLIOS driver that operates in the kernel of the main operating system; and the CLIOS kernel, which can run on an auxiliary core if present in the system. CLIOS can be structured to take advantage of various architectural features of a system, ranging from simple single-core designs to heterogeneous, multi-core systems comprising one or more low power auxiliary cores.
US09690349B2
An information handling system may include at least one information handling resource and a power supply unit having a bulk capacitor for storing charge. The power supply unit may be configured to convert an alternating current waveform received at an input of the power supply unit from an input source into a direct current voltage for delivering electrical energy to a power bus for providing electrical energy to the at least one information handling resource. Responsive to a loss of the input source, the power supply unit may charge the bulk capacitor from electrical energy present on the power bus and generated by at least one other power supply unit coupled to the power bus. Responsive to an indication of a failure of the at least one other power supply unit, the power supply unit may discharge the bulk capacitor to the power bus.
US09690348B2
Method and system for turning on an IoT device directly in a contactless manner using a mobile phone with a camera light source and an app is disclosed. A photo sensor unit is provided on top of the IoT device for converting the incident light from mobile phone into authorized and authenticated power-on switching command to the IoT device. The photo sensor unit can be a first photosensitive circuit, a second photosensitive circuit, or a third photosensitive circuit, which includes a photodiode, a photo resistor, and an amorphous silicon solar cell, respectively. The photo sensor unit is coupled to a power-on circuit of the IoT device, and used for detecting an intensity of incident light and assessing whether a voltage difference produced by the incident light exceeds a power-up voltage difference threshold value, and if so, awaking the IoT device to be power-on, otherwise, maintaining the IoT device to stay powered off.
US09690347B2
A HDD backboard includes a power detecting circuit and a first working circuit. The power detecting circuit is configured to determine whether a plurality of voltage rails of the HDD backboard are normal, so as to output a power detecting signal. The first working circuit is coupled with the power detecting circuit and configured to receive the power detecting signal and output an HDD backboard determining signal. The motherboard includes a second working circuit and a CPLD. The CPLD is configured to receive the HDD backboard determining signal The CPLD is configured to determine whether the HDD backboard is absent when the electronic device operates in a standby mode and determine whether the voltage rails are failed when the electronic device operates in a working mode.
US09690346B1
Methods and apparatuses for sharing power load across multiple input supplies in a peripheral device. Current utilized by the peripheral device from a first voltage supply is monitored and if the current exceeds a first threshold, a voltage converter is utilized to supplement the current from the first voltage supply with current from a second voltage supply up to a maximum total current threshold for the second voltage supply.
US09690340B2
A system and method for adaptive thermal and performance management in electronic devices are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: providing a processor with a plurality of selectable performance levels and a sensor in an electronic device; receiving sensor information from the sensor, the sensor information including information for determining if the electronic device is positioned proximately to an active airflow; determining a device context from the sensor information; and dynamically modifying the performance level of the processor by implementing one of a plurality of selectable performance levels of the processor based on the device context.
US09690339B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a user interface communicatively coupled to the processor, and a thermal management application. The thermal management application may include a program of instructions embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media, and may be configured to, when executed by the processor receive measurements associated with a plurality of parameters of a thermal system of the information handling system, calculate a calculated thermal resistance based on the measurements, and report information regarding the calculated thermal resistance via the user interface.
US09690337B1
A data center can include at least one computing room, and at least one rack system disposed in the computing room. The rack system includes a rack housing and a plurality of computing devices mounted to the rack housing. The data center can further include a cooling system that includes at least one surface that is wetted with a liquid, and delivers source air across the at least one surface such that heat is transferred from the source air to the liquid so as to produce cold air. The cold air then flows into a cold air aisle and is received in the computing devices so as to cool the computing devices.
US09690332B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a first part, a second part, a third part, and a combining portion. The second part is connected with the first part and configured to move between a first position and a second position. The combining portion is configured to combine the third part with the second part when the second part is positioned within a combining interval defined within an interval between the first position and the second position, and to separate the third part from the second part when the second part is position at a third position defined at the second position or defined at a position between the combining interval and the second position.
US09690331B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and a method for producing a housing, which relate to a technical field of electronics. The electronic apparatus comprises: a housing comprising a side wall forming an accommodating space and having an outer surface which is divided into K appearance layers, where K is a positive integer greater than or equal to 3, and wherein borderlines between adjacent layers in the K appearance layers are parallel to each other.
US09690329B2
A display module includes a window member, a display panel, and a protective member. The window member includes a front surface, a rear surface facing the front surface in a thickness direction, and a connection surface coupling the front surface to the rear surface. The display panel includes a display part disposed to be spaced apart from the rear surface of the window member and to display an image toward the window member, and an edge part bent from the display part toward the window member. The protective frame accommodates the display panel and is coupled to at least one of the rear surface of the window member and the connection surface.
US09690326B2
A wearable display device includes a display unit configured to transmit an image, a first housing having a first end connected to the display unit, a second housing having a first end disposed opposite to the first end of the first housing, and a sliding unit configured to slidably connect the first housing and the second housing to each other.
US09690320B2
A control module includes a fixed control apparatus which is provided with a touch-sensitive surface so as to provide a control signal representative of the position or of the movement of a finger on the sensitive surface. The sensitive surface of the control apparatus includes a toroidal portion arranged about a main axis. The control module includes a control unit which is designed to detect an axial component and a circumferential component of a tactile movement on the sensitive surface so as to produce a processed control signal which is a function of these two components.
US09690313B2
A power transfer system provides power factor conditioning of the generated power. Power is received from a local power source, converted to usable AC power, and the power factor is conditioned to a desired value. The desired value may be a power factor at or near unity, or the desired power factor may be in response to conditions of the power grid, a tariff established, and/or determinations made remotely to the local power source. Many sources and power transfer systems can be put together and controlled as a power source farm to deliver power to the grid having a specific power factor characteristic. The farm may be a grouping of multiple local customer premises. AC power can also be conditioned prior to use by an AC to DC power supply for more efficient DC power conversion.
US09690307B2
A monitoring system is disclosed for a heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system of a residential or commercial building. The monitoring system includes an evaporator unit device including a first current sensor that measures current supplied to a circulator blower. The measured current from the first current sensor is used to diagnose a problem with the circulator blower. The monitoring system includes a first temperature sensor that measures refrigerant temperature between a condenser and an expansion valve. The monitoring system includes a second temperature sensor that measures refrigerant temperature between an evaporator and a compressor. The monitoring system includes a condenser unit device that communicates with the evaporator unit device. The condenser unit device includes a second current sensor that measures current supplied to the compressor. The evaporator unit device transmits sensor data to a remote monitoring service over a data network.
US09690302B2
In order to be able to stably manufacture a fluid resistance device having the same resistance characteristics while preventing fluid such as gas from leaking, a fluid resistance device is provided with a fluid resistance element having a resistance flow passage, a base member and a fixing member for holding the fluid resistance element to be fixed between the base member and the fixing member, and a thin plate-shaped seal member interposed between the fixing member and the fluid resistance element.
US09690279B2
An automation interface is provided for interacting with industrial controllers. The automation interface provides for programming, editing, monitoring and maintenance of industrial controllers programmatically from a local or remote location. The automation interface component is adapted to communicate with industrial controllers by integrating a computer process interface library into the automation interface component. The computer process interface library exposes the automation interface component to client application processes, so that the client application processes can communicate with the at least one industrial controller programmatically. The automation interface is provided with functionality for downloading, uploading and programming of control programs to the processors of the industrial controllers.
US09690278B1
A method of configuring a programmable integrated circuit device to implement control flow at a current basic block. A branch selector node within the current basic block is configured to receive at least one control signal, where each of the at least one control signal is associated with a respective previous basic block. The branch selector node is further configured to select one of the at least one control signal based on one or more intended destinations for the at least one control signal, and provide the selected control signal to a data selector node within the current basic block. The data selector node is configured to select a data signal based on the selected control signal, where the selected data signal is from the respective previous basic block that is associated with the selected control signal.
US09690267B2
A power plant controller (36) is described. The power plant controller (36) controls a power generation system (10) having one or more power generators (12) and an energy storage system (22), and provides a utility grid or transmission system operator with the capability to select the droop response provided by the power generation system. Accordingly, an operator can request a specific generator droop response in order to provide appropriate frequency and grid control services. The power plant controller (36) operates in real time determining one or more power characteristics of the power generation system (10). Based on these characteristics and an indication of a future predicted power output for the power generation system, the power plant controller can take the necessary steps to ensure that the power generation system is capable of responding with the selected droop response, or can advise the operator that a different droop is preferred.
US09690264B2
Co-occurrence data representing e.g. preferences and facts observed in a plurality of situations may be stored in a matrix as combinations of high-dimensional sparse vectors. The matrix may be called e.g. as an experience matrix. The data stored in the experience matrix may be subsequently utilized e.g. for predicting a preference of a user in a new situation. A prediction may be determined by a method comprising providing a query comprising one or more query words, accessing the experience matrix containing co-occurrence data stored as vectors of the experience matrix, determining a first auxiliary vector by identifying a vector of the experience matrix associated with a first query word, forming a query vector by using the first auxiliary vector, and determining the prediction by comparing the query vector with the vectors of the experience matrix.
US09690246B2
An image forming apparatus includes a belt-shaped image bearer, a transferer, a guide unit, and a plurality of contact members. The belt-shaped image bearer has an image bearing surface to bear an image thereon. The transferer forms a transfer section between the transferer and the image bearer, to transfer the image onto a recording medium. The guide unit is disposed upstream from the transfer section in a delivery direction of the recording medium, to guide the recording medium toward the transfer section. The plurality of contact members are disposed side by side at positions opposing the guide unit and in contact with a non image bearing surface of the image bearer opposite to the image bearing surface.
US09690245B2
A recording medium binding apparatus include a cutting unit that is capable of cutting a first end and a second end of each of recording media; a transport unit that transports the recording media; a stacking unit on which the recording media are stacked; a recording medium aligning unit that aligns the recording media by pressing each recording medium by coming into contact with the first end and the second end of the recording medium every time the recording medium is stacked on the stacking unit, the recording medium aligning unit changing an operation of coming into contact with and separating from the recording medium when pressing the recording medium according to whether the recording medium has been cut or the recording medium has not been cut; and a binding unit that binds a recording medium stack formed by stacking the recording media aligned by the recording medium aligning unit.
US09690244B2
A toner image is formed on a sheet based on image data by an image forming portion, and a plurality of sheets on which the toner image is formed is bound together by a stapleless binding unit including a pair of tooth-like members, each having a concave and convex portion. Then, the image data is corrected by a correction portion so that a ratio of toner within a part of the sheet to be subjected to binding processing by the stapleless binding unit is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
US09690234B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis having an opening, a cover, photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary-transfer member, a secondary-transfer roller, a cleaner device, an external-sheet inlet, a waste toner container, a connector, and a conveying roller, which is arranged within the feeding path to feed the recording sheet inserted through the external-sheet inlet in the feeding path. The conveying roller is mounted on the waste toner container and removable from the chassis along with the waste toner container.
US09690232B2
A toner container that is detachably attached to a main body of an image forming apparatus such that a longitudinal direction of the toner container is parallel to a horizontal direction includes: a cylindrical container body that has an opening on one end thereof in the longitudinal direction, and is configured to convey toner contained therein toward the opening; a cap portion into which the opening of the container body is inserted, and which includes a toner outlet at a bottom portion thereof for discharging toner discharged from the opening of the container body to the outside of the toner container in a vertically downward direction; and a shutter member that is held on the bottom portion of the cap portion, and moves along an outer periphery of the cap portion to thereby open and close the toner outlet, wherein the cap portion is formed by integral molding.
US09690229B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotator, a driving control portion, and a layer thickness control portion. The rotator conveys toner to contact position to an image carrying member, and supplies toner to the image carrying member at the contact position. The driving control portion controls rotation of the rotator so as to rotate the rotator during a developing period, and stop the rotation of the rotator after a set time has elapsed since an end of the developing period. The layer thickness control portion causes the rotator to carry toner by controlling a potential difference between a potential of the rotator and a predetermined potential so that toner on the rotator at the contact position has a first layer thickness during the developing period and has a second layer thickness while the rotation of the rotator is stopped, the second layer thickness being thicker than the first layer thickness.
US09690225B2
An image forming apparatus includes the following elements. Plural developing units supply charged developers to electrostatic latent images formed on plural associated image carriers disposed along a direction in which an intermediate transfer body is transported. Plural first transfer units transfer the associated developers onto the intermediate transfer body when the intermediate transfer body passes the associated image carriers while being transported so as to superpose the developers on each other. A second transfer unit transfers the superposed developers transferred onto the intermediate transfer body by the plural first transfer units onto a recording medium. A charge-amount adjusting unit decreases an amount of electric charge of a developer which forms a lower layer developer among the superposed developers transferred onto the intermediate transfer body. A brightness level of the lower layer developer is lower than that of a developer which forms an upper layer developer among the superposed developers.
US09690224B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains a plurality of toner particles. Each of the toner particles contains, in a surface portion thereof, at least one hydrophobic salt in a state where a cation derived from a first surfactant is ionically bonded to an anion derived from a second surfactant. A ratio of a total mass of the at least one hydrophobic salt to a mass of the toner is 1 ppm or more and 5,000 ppm or less.
US09690223B2
A toner includes a plurality of toner particles each including a core and a shell layer residing on a surface of the core. The shell layer has a plurality of cavities each exposing the core. Each of the toner particles has a distribution of surface hardness, as measured by a scanning probe microscope in a state where no external additive adheres to the toner particle, satisfying that the surface hardness is at least 1.10 times a surface hardness Ss in at least 75% and no greater than 95% by area ratio of a surface of the toner particle, where Ss denotes the surface hardness at a location where the core is exposed through any of the cavities.
US09690211B2
The present invention provides an exposure system including a light source and a carrier which are arranged opposite to each other. The carrier is used for placing a to-be-exposed film, and the to-be-exposed film is to be exposed to light emitted from the light source. The exposure system further includes a thickness measurement unit and a light intensity adjustment unit which are electrically connected to each other. The thickness measurement unit is used for measuring thicknesses of different regions of the to-be-exposed film, and the light intensity adjustment unit is used for adjusting exposure-light intensities of different regions of the to-be-exposed film according to the thicknesses of corresponding regions of the to-be-exposed film measured by the thickness measurement unit.
US09690204B2
A maskless exposure device includes an exposure head including a digital micro-mirror device, the digital micro-mirror device being configured to scan an exposure beam to a substrate by reflecting a source beam from an exposure source; and a system control part configured to control the digital micro-mirror device by utilizing a graphic data system file. The graphic data system file includes data for a source electrode, a drain electrode and a channel portion between the source electrode and the drain electrode in a plan view. The channel portion includes a first portion extending in a direction perpendicular to a scan direction of the exposure head. A width of the first portion of the channel portion is defined to be a multiple of a pulse event generation of the exposure beam.
US09690200B2
An optical apparatus and a manufacturing method using the optical apparatus are disclosed. The optical apparatus includes a stage supporting a substrate, first optical systems providing a first light onto the substrate, a gantry supporting the first optical systems to transfer them on the stage, and second optical systems disposed between the gantry and the stage and detecting displacement of the first optical systems. Each of the second optical systems includes a beam source generating a second light different with the first light, and sensor arrays for sensing the second light provided to the first optical systems to detect displacement of the first optical systems.
US09690198B2
Non-linear metallic thermal resist structure having more than two layers of different metals and effective eutectic temperature that is lower than eutectic temperature of a reference non-linear metallic thermal resist having only two layer of same different metals. Optionally, at least one the layers of such resist structure is doped with material different from host metals and/or deposited under conditions resulting in strain or stress in a layer at hand. Method of multi-exposure-based patterning of a substrate carrying such structure with laser pulses characterized by irradiance at levels equal to or below 10 mJ/cm2. The sequence of steps producing the required pattern on the substrate may be explicitly lacking a step of removal of a portion of the resist structure between two consecutive exposures.
US09690189B2
Provided are a mask blank substrate which has effectively and extremely high principal surface flatness while a reduction in the manufacturing throughput of the mask blank substrate is suppressed, a mask blank, and a transfer mask. Also provided are manufacturing methods therefor.A virtual reference surface that becomes an optically effective flat reference surface defined by a Zernike polynomial which is composed of only terms in which the order of a variable related to a radius is the second or lower order, and includes one or more terms in which the order of the variable related to the radius is the second order is set, and a mask blank substrate satisfying the condition that data (PV value) relating to the difference between the maximum value and the minimum value of the difference data between the reference surface and the measured shape of the mask blank substrate is one-eighth or less of an exposure wavelength (A) is selected.
US09690187B2
Methods for selecting the best measurement sites for OPC model calibration are disclosed. Embodiments include selecting a predetermined number, n, of structures representing an IC design layout eligible for SEM measurement; specifying an image parameter space of image parameters for the n structures; optimizing a redundancy in the image parameter space of measurement sites for the n structures; and calibrating an OPC model for the IC design layout based on the optimized redundancy.
US09690184B1
A rotatable video surveillance system is configured with a drive mechanism that rotates a bracket for a camera up to 360 degrees. The drive mechanism comprises a plurality of gears that rotate a camera back and forth up to at least 180 degrees. The drive mechanism comprises a control arm connecting between the first gear and a second gear, and a third output gear connected to a rotatable bracket. The drive mechanism typically rotates the bracket at a non-linear speed. A switch may be connected to produce back and forth rotation or pause. An electronic control can be used to control the speed of said drive mechanism and/or pan angle and pause. The rotatable surveillance camera covers at least up to 180 degrees. At night, a camera may see 10 to 30 feet, but with a spotlight the camera may see 300′ to 600′. Doppler radar range is about 1 mile.
US09690170B2
A remote-controllable camera dolly and a system for television, film or video recording, including a camera dolly is disclosed. The remote-controllable camera dolly comprises a planar first main part, at least four first wheels that are connected to the first main part and whose rotational axes are each arranged parallel to one another, at least four second wheels that are connected to the first main part and whose rotational axes are each arranged in a first plane that is substantially orthogonal to the rotational axes of said at least four first wheels such that the camera dolly can be moved, guided along a guide element, by means of said at least four first wheels and at least four second wheels, as well as a motorized camera holder which is detachably connected to the fast main part and can be pivoted an at least two axes.
US09690166B1
An apparatus that is wearable by a solo video camera man that allows for solo focusing of subjects without the need for a “focus follow” The device allows for one operator to work the camera and focus it without touching the lens through one hand operation of the lens. There is silent operation for sound recording while filming. The device is modifiable for left hand or right hand use. The device is foldable for portability. The device provides a stable platform for portable camera operation. There is adjustable focus tension for micro control and operator preference. There is an add-on surround frame to support sound and lighting equipment that moves with the camera and that can also house a monitor. The system includes a vest and adjustable support strut that makes hands-free use fatigue-free between scenes. A scale linked to the lens focus makes pre-set focus points easy to mark and visually reference by the single operator. The unit can be tripod mounted for stationary filming. The fold down back stop is adjustable in and back along the shoulder support bars to provide repeatable eye relief to camera or affixed monitor. The back stop and shoulder supports provide a gripping, tacky surface for stability. There is a direct mechanical link between the control handle and the lens focus and no cables or gears with backlash or slippage.
US09690164B2
An acousto-optic crystal optical waveguide is applicable to an acoustic wave sensor for sensing acoustic wave, wherein the acousto-optic crystal optical waveguide includes an acousto-optic crystal core and an inner cladding layer covering the acousto-optic crystal core. The acoustic wave is able to change the refraction index of the acousto-optical crystal optical waveguide to make a light beam with specific wavelength refracting to outside of the acousto-optic crystal waveguide when a light beam transmits through the acousto-optic crystal optical waveguide. Objective of acoustic wave sensing is achieved by detecting wavelength and intensity variation of the light beam transmits through the acousto-optic crystal optical waveguide.
US09690163B2
This invention enables obtainment of a reflectance variable element having a high cold tolerance. Two transparent substrates are disposed so as to face each other across a gap. On respective surfaces of the transparent substrates, the surfaces facing each other, respective transparent conductive films are formed. An electrolytic solution is charged in the gap. The electrolytic solution has a composition in which at least silver ions and copper ions, a content by weight of the copper ions being smaller than that of the silver ions, are contained in a non-aqueous solvent containing a non-aqueous solvent having a boiling point that is higher than that of methanol and methanol, a content by weight of the methanol being smaller than that of the non-aqueous solvent.
US09690162B2
This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity.
US09690161B2
A diffraction grating comprises a liquid crystal (LC) cell configured to apply an electric field through a cholesteric LC material that induces the cholesteric LC material into a heliconical state with an oblique helicoid director. The applied electric field produces diffracted light from the cholesteric LC material within the visible, infrared or ultraviolet. The axis of the heliconical state is in the plane of the liquid crystal cell or perpendicular to the plane, depending on the application. A color tuning device operates with a similar heliconical state liquid crystal material but with the heliconical director axis oriented perpendicular to the plane of the cell. A power generator varies the strength of the applied electric field to adjust the wavelength of light reflected from the cholesteric liquid crystal material within the visible, infrared or ultraviolet.
US09690159B2
A DC-DC converter (600) generates a supply voltage VPW1, etc. for supplying to a drive circuit (500), by converting a voltage level through an operation of a switching element which changes an electric current passing through an inductor. A mode control signal Cm is generated in a power supply control section (220) of the display control circuit (200), and is supplied to the DC-DC converter (600), whereby the DC-DC converter (600) is operated in a PFM control mode during a period when a load condition is light such as during a non-refreshing period in an intermittent driving, whereas the mode is changed to a PWM control mode in the other periods.
US09690155B2
A TFT substrate (100A) of a liquid crystal display panel includes: an organic interlayer insulating layer (24) covering a TFT; a first transparent electrically-conductive layer (25) provided in the first region of a surface of the organic interlayer insulating layer (24); and an inorganic dielectric layer (26) covering the first transparent electrically-conductive layer (25) and provided in a second region of the surface of the organic interlayer insulating layer (24) which is different from the first region, the inorganic dielectric layer (26) containing SiN, wherein an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of the first region and the second region of the surface of the organic interlayer insulating layer (24) is not less than 3.45 nm and not more than 5.20 nm.
US09690141B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device, which hardly causes display unevenness in joining parts in which mutually neighboring exposure regions are overlapped upon carrying out a photo-alignment treatment for forming a horizontal alignment film. The method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a step of forming a horizontal alignment film by carrying out a photo-alignment treatment of irradiating a photo-alignment film material applied to at least one substrate of a pair of substrates with polarized light, wherein the photo-alignment treatment is carried out by exposure to a plurality of regions of one substrate surface; two neighboring regions among the plurality of regions to be exposed include an overlapped part; an irradiation amount of the polarized light to the overlapped part is gradually lowered in one of the two neighboring regions toward the other of the two neighboring regions; and the overlapped part of the two neighboring regions has a width of 20 mm or wider.
US09690139B2
A display panel comprises a first electrode on the first substrate and a first alignment layer on the first electrode. The first alignment layer is disposed on the first electrode and comprises a first alignment area and a second alignment area. An alignment direction of the first alignment area is opposite to an alignment direction of the second alignment area. The first electrode is disposed in the first alignment area and comprises a first trunk electrode and at least two first branch electrodes respectively connected to two sides of the first trunk electrode. At least one of the first branch electrodes comprises a first distal end and a first connection end connected to the first trunk electrode. An included angle between the extending direction from the first distal end to the first connection end and the alignment direction of the first alignment area is between 50° and 80°.
US09690135B2
A liquid crystal display panel, in which pixel units are provided on the liquid crystal display panel, each pixel unit includes sub-pixel units displaying different colors, at a position of the apposed substrate or the array substrate corresponding to the sub-pixel unit of at least one color in each pixel unit, a monochromatic quantum dot layer is disposed. This liquid crystal display panel has increased color gamut of the liquid crystal display panel, enhanced color saturation, increased display quality, and increased life of quantum dots. A display device and a process for patterning the monochromatic quantum dot layer are also provided.
US09690127B2
An electronic device includes: a main body of the electronic device; a display, provided on the main body of the electronic device, where the display includes a first light transmitting layer, and a support layer between the main body of the electronic device and the first light transmitting layer, and where the first transmitting layer is located on a first surface of the electronic device; N sensors, provided in the display, and located inside the first transmitting layer, wherein a capturing module of the N sensors faces an inner surface of the first transmitting layer; and the N sensors are adapted to capture ambient light penetrating the first light transmitting layer or ambient light irradiating the N sensors via a through hole of the first light transmitting layer.
US09690121B2
Techniques for providing eyewear with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear without having to substantially compromise aesthetic design principles of the eyewear. The electrical components can be partially or completely internal to eyewear. The electrical components can also be attached to the eyewear as an after-market enhancement. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. Apparatus for presenting after-market electrical components are also disclosed.
US09690115B2
The present invention relates to contact lenses which reduce indoor glare and provide improved comfort to the wearer. The contact lenses of the present invention have, at about body temperature, a percent transmission between 70 to 90% across the region of 420-700 nm.
US09690112B2
An image capturing apparatus includes: an image sensor in which multiple light receiving elements are arrayed with respect to one lens on an image sensing plane on which an object image is formed by an imaging lens, the lens being arranged such that the exit pupil of the imaging lens and the light receiving elements are in a conjugate relationship; a polarizer arranged at approximately the position of the exit pupil of the imaging lens, and having multiple areas that have different polarization directions corresponding to different areas of the exit pupil; and an image processing unit that generates multiple images corresponding to the areas of the polarizer from output of the light receiving elements.
US09690110B2
A device may have a display with an array of pixels for displaying three-dimensional images for a viewer. Each pixel may have an array of subpixels and associated lens structures. A beam steerer may be interposed between the array of pixels and the viewer. The beam steerer may steer light that is emitted from the array of pixels towards the viewer. The electronic device may have a camera that monitors the location of the viewer. The beam steerer may be adjusted based on information on the location of the viewer that is gathered from the camera. Other input-output devices such as an accelerometer may also be used in gathering information that is used in adjusting the beam steerer. Different sets of data may be supplied to the array of pixels based on the location of the viewer.
US09690109B2
Disclosed is a display device having a display panel wherein the display device includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other to define a plurality of pixels in the display panel, each pixel being divided into N number of sub-pixel areas including a 2D sub-pixel and a 3D sub-pixel, wherein N is an integer and greater than 1; and a lenticular film including a plurality of lenses and attached to the display panel, wherein 3D sub-pixels on an odd-numbered horizontal line and 3D sub-pixels on an even-numbered horizontal line are alternately arranged on a line-by-line basis in a vertical direction.
US09690105B2
A beam shaping system including: a first and second optical modules that are accommodated in a spaced-apart relationship in an optical path of light through the system to sequentially apply beam shaping to light incident thereon. The beam shaping system includes first and second alignment modules respectively carrying the first and second optical modules and operable for laterally positioning the optical modules with respect to the optical path. A calibration module of the beam shaping system is connectable to the first and second alignment modules and is operable to sequentially calibrate and align the respective lateral positions of the first and second optical modules with respect to the optical path. The system thereby enables shaping of an incoming light beam of given predetermined wave-front and lateral intensity distribution to form an output light beam having desired wave-front and desired lateral intensity distribution.
US09690103B2
An electronic device displays an image during a communication between two people. The image represents one of the people to the communication. The electronic device determines a location where to place the image and displays the image such that the image appears to exist at the location.
US09690101B2
As a first prism and a second prism respectively have a third surface and a sixth surface, which are reflecting surfaces which are asymmetrical with respect to an axis, inside thereof, it is possible to correct an aberration, and to display an video having high performance. Furthermore, in the first prism, as a plurality of reflecting surfaces (a second surface and the third surface) is provided, it is possible to reduce a size and a weight of the apparatus. Furthermore, like the second surface and a fifth surface, as a surface which functions not only as a light incident surface that causes video light to be incident but also as a total reflecting surface which totally reflects the video light is provided, it is possible to further reduce a size of an optical system.
US09690089B2
A synthetic image can be generated by a simple operation in a short time. A magnifying observation apparatus includes: a z-axis movement unit capable of automatically adjusting a working distance to an observation surface of an observation target placed on a placement section; an xy-axis movement mechanism capable of changing relative positions of the placement section and a microscope lens section; and an image synthesizing unit for generating a synthetic image obtained by synthesizing a plurality of images each captured at a relative distance made different by the z-axis movement unit, wherein image synthesis processing by the image synthesizing unit and processing of moving the microscope lens section by the z-axis movement unit and capturing an image by the camera section are asynchronously executed.
US09690084B2
A projection device to magnify and project, on a screen, an image displayed at an image display element, includes: a dioptric system including at least one positive lens and at least one negative lens; and a reflection optical system having at least one reflection optical element.
US09690079B2
Camera methods and apparatus using optical chain modules which alter the direction of received light
Methods and apparatus for capturing or generating images using multiple optical chains operating in parallel are described. Pixel values captured by individual optical chains corresponding to the same scene area are combined to provide an image with at least some of the benefits which would have been provided by capturing an image of the scene using a larger lens than that of the individual lenses of the optical chain modules. By using multiple optical chains in parallel at least some benefits normally obtained from using a large lens can be obtained without the need for a large lens. Furthermore in at least some embodiments, a wide dynamic range can be supported through the use of multiple sensors with the overall supported dynamic range being potentially larger than that of the individual sensors. Some lens and/or optical chain configurations are designed for use in small handheld devices, e.g., cell phones.
US09690059B2
An optical module includes a first ferrule, a second ferrule, a clip for holding the first ferrule and the second ferrule together, a board including a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, an optical waveguide connecting the board to the first ferrule, an outer case forming a housing of the optical module and including a protrusion, and an inner case disposed in the outer case and to which the clip is attached. A pressing surface is formed at an end of the inner case. A first end of the board is in contact with the protrusion and a second end of the board is in contact with the pressing surface such that the board is clamped between the protrusion and the pressing surface.
US09690054B2
A ferrule assembly for an optical fiber connector has a first ferrule component having a structured surface defining features for aligning a section of an optical fiber, and a second ferrule component that is coupled to the first ferrule component by a web, wherein the web is flexible to allow folding the web to fold the second ferrule component over the groove in the first ferrule component. The optical alignment features includes one or more open grooves for receiving a bare section of an optical fiber. The section of the optical fiber is retained in the groove between the two ferrule components.
US09690051B2
A wafer structure includes a diffractive lens disposed on a backside of a wafer and coupled to a front side waveguide, the diffractive lens being configured to receive light and focus the light to the front side waveguide.
US09690042B2
Disclosed are an optical input/output device and an opto-electronic system including the same. The device includes a bulk silicon substrate, at least one vertical-input light detection element monolithically integrated on a portion of the bulk silicon substrate, and at least one vertical-output light source element monolithically integrated on another portion of the bulk silicon substrate adjacent to the vertical-input light detection element. The vertical-output light source element includes a III-V compound semiconductor light source active layer combined with the bulk silicon substrate by a wafer bonding method.
US09690041B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) backlight unit includes first and second curved bottom floor reflectors exhibiting mirror image symmetry along a center line extending in a latitudinal direction, first and second sides disposed along a longitudinal direction, the first and second bottom floor reflectors disposed therebetween, first and second back reflectors disposed on distal ends of the first and second bottom floor reflectors, respectively, away from the center line, and LEDs disposed in or adjacent to the first and second back reflectors. A curvature of the first and second bottom floor reflectors respectively reach a maximum near the center line.
US09690039B2
A light source device 11 has a light emitting element 23, a light guide plate 15 which light from the light emitting element 23 enters, and wiring 17 for supplying power to the light source. The light guide plate has a guide part 31 for positioning the wiring 17.
US09690036B1
In some examples, a lighting apparatus includes a light guiding component having a light absorbing material disposed on at least one surface. The light absorbing material may be selected to have light absorbing properties to compensate for variations in the color of portions of light emitted by a light source. For instance, the color of the light absorbing material may be generally complimentary to an undesirable color of a portion of the emitted light. Consequently, by reflecting the portion of light off the light absorbing material, the undesirable color may be absorbed from the portion of the light so that the resulting light is of a more uniform color. This disclosure also describes techniques for assembling electronic devices in a component stack to provide enhanced display lighting uniformity.
US09690027B2
The present invention relates to an optical film and method of manufacturing the same. The optical film of the present invention includes an acrylic resin and a core-shell type graft copolymer wherein the core includes a conjugate diene rubber, and the shell includes an acrylic monomer, an aromatic vinyl monomer, and a maleimide monomer.
US09690008B2
A method for detecting atmospheric icing potential comprises emitting, by a Doppler lidar (light detection and ranging) entity, electromagnetic radiation to the atmosphere and receiving radiation backscattered from the aerosol, such as a cloud, present in the atmosphere. From the received backscattered radiation, an indication of the icing potential at a number of distances, on the basis of the comparison and an indication of the temperature at the one or more distances, is determined.
US09690007B2
The present invention relates to a method for comparison of multiple tropical cyclone routes. The method is implementable through a mobile device having an application processor and a touch-sensed display. The method is capable of determining multiple reference cyclone routes relevant to an concerned cyclone route by comparing each of multiple historical cyclone routes, each of which routes consists of multiple cyclone center coordinates, with an estimated cyclone route consisting of multiple estimated cyclone center coordinates for representing the concerned cyclone route.
US09690006B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a downhole tool that includes a photon source, a photon detector having a plurality of detector pixels in a cylindrical row and column arrangement, and a radial collimator having at least two concentric frustoconical collimators circumferentially arranged about the photon detector and at least two azimuthal collimating members radially arranged with respect to the photon detector, wherein one of the azimuthal collimating members is on a first side of a detector pixel and a second azimuthal collimator is on a second side of a detector pixel opposite the first side.
US09690005B2
A metal detector of the disclosure includes a detection head, a supporting rod, and a headset. The supporting rod is connected with the detection head. A first control printed circuit board (PCB) is located inside the supporting rod, and is electrically connected to the detection head. The headset includes a second control PCB connected to the first control PCB by wireless communication, and a display electrically connected to the second control PCB. When an operator wears the headset, a visual direction of the operator keeps within a display range of the display. The detection head detects a metal signal, the first control PCB transmits the metal signal to the second control PCB by wireless communication. The second control PCB transforms the metal signal into a video signal transmitted to the display to display for the operator.
US09689996B2
Improved imaging systems are disclosed. More particularly, the present disclosure provides for an improved image sensor assembly for an imaging system, the image sensor assembly having an integrated photodetector array and its associated data acquisition electronics fabricated on the same substrate. By integrating the electronics on the same substrate as the photodetector array, this thereby reduces fabrications costs, and reduces interconnect complexity. Since both the photodiode contacts and the associated electronics are on the same substrate/plane, this thereby substantially eliminates certain expensive/time-consuming processing techniques. Moreover, the co-location of the electronics next to or proximal to the photodetector array provides for a much finer resolution detector assembly since the interconnect bottleneck between the electronics and the photodetector array is substantially eliminated/reduced. The co-location of the electronics next to or proximal to the photodetector array also enables/facilitates programmable pixel configuration for optimal image quality.
US09689994B2
A method correcting a measured spectrum of X radiation, according to a number of channels Nc, each channel i corresponding to an energy range between Ei and Ei+ΔEi, including: determining function δti,j(k) determining size of temporal deviation Δt interval separating two interactions with energy Ei and Ej, stacking of which leads to a detected energy value Ek; determining, from the function δti,j(k), probability function Pi,j(k) that an event counted in a channel k corresponds to a stack of two interactions, respectively of energies Ei and Ej; determining, from the probability function Pi,j(k), a stack spectrum as a part of the measured spectrum that corresponds only to the stacks alone; and calculating or estimating at least a first corrected spectrum, by the difference between the measured spectrum and the stack spectrum.
US09689984B1
A method of displaying a weather condition indicator with respect to an aircraft includes receiving weather data from a weather radar system. The weather data includes data indicative of a first location of the weather condition. The method also includes determining a second location of the weather condition based on data indicative of a movement of the weather condition, and displaying the weather condition indicator with reference to the second location.
US09689976B2
A system for providing integrated detection and countermeasures against unmanned aerial vehicles include a detecting element, an location determining element and an interdiction element. The detecting element detects an unmanned aerial vehicle in flight in the region of, or approaching, a property, place, event or very important person. The location determining element determines the exact location of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The interdiction element can either direct the unmanned aerial vehicle away from the property, place, event or very important person in a non-destructive manner, or can cause disable the unmanned aerial vehicle in a destructive manner.
US09689971B2
The disclosure relates to a laser ranging calibration method and a laser range finder including a line laser generation module, an image capturing module and a processing module. The line laser generation module projects a line laser beam to a first direction from a first position. The image capturing module at a second position captures a ranging image in the first direction. When the ranging image includes a calibration target image of a calibration target having a first width, the processing module calculates a measured width of the calibration target according to a position of a line spot image of a laser spot on the calibration target image, obtains a calibration parameter according to the first width and the measured width, performs range finding according to the laser spot shown in the ranging image, and performs a calibration task using a calibration parameter.
US09689970B2
Distance measurement methods and apparatus use laser pulse sets having signatures which enable returned pulses to be correlated with emitted pulses. Each pulse set comprises at least one pulse and a signature selected from a set of possible signatures. Pulse sets reflected from at least one surface are detected and, for each set, the signature is recognized and a time of flight is determined. Signatures are defined by one or more of: spacing in time between pulses of a set, wavelength of the at least one pulse of the set, spacing in time between a first subset of a set and a second subset of a set, difference of wavelength between pulses of a set, and difference of wavelength between a first subset of a set and a second subset of a set. Each set can have multiple groups of pulses and pulses within a group can have different amplitudes.
US09689969B2
A system is provided that includes a Doppler radar unit that transmits a first electromagnetic wave having a first frequency, which a test system converts to a first electrical signal having the first frequency. The test system generates a second electrical signal having a second frequency, and mixes the first and second electrical signals to produce a third electrical signal having a third, sum or difference frequency. The third frequency represents a Doppler-shifted frequency caused by reflection of the first electromagnetic wave by a target at a distance from the Doppler radar unit. The test system converts the third electrical signal to a second electromagnetic wave having the third frequency, and transmits the second electromagnetic wave back to the Doppler radar unit for calculation of a speed representing that of the target as a function of the first and third frequencies, from which the Doppler radar unit may be calculated/certified.
US09689960B1
The systems, devices, and processes described herein may identify a beam of a voice-controlled device that is directed toward a reflective surface, such as a wall. The beams may be created by a beamformer. An acoustic echo canceller (AEC) may create filter coefficients for a reference sound. The filter coefficients may be analyzed to identify beams that include multiple peaks. The multiple peaks may indicate presence of one or more reflective surfaces. Using the amplitude and the time delay between the peaks, the device may determine that it is close to a reflective surface in a direction of the beam.
US09689958B1
The present technology may be directed a system for determining an angle and distance between a positioning node and secondary device using a plurality of acoustic transmitters to transmit acoustic ranging signals that are modulated using ranging sequences, respectively. The system includes an acoustic receiver to detect the acoustic ranging signals, and a signal processor to calculate times of arrival and a plurality of aliased angles of arrival of the acoustic ranging signals. An anti-aliasing module may select an angle of arrival from the calculated plurality of aliased angles using the times of arrival of the acoustic ranging signals. A time of flight may be calculated from a comparison of times of arrival for radio signals and the acoustic signals. The time of flight may be used to calculate the distance between the positioning node and secondary device.
US09689957B2
A solar tracking system and method that use a tube that admits solar radiation and one or more photodetectors for generating a signal related to an intensity of solar radiation at a distal end of the tube. The system has a scan unit for periodically executing a certain scan pattern in an elevation angle El and in an azimuth angle Az of the shielding tube. A processing unit in communication with the photodetector determines an on-sun orientation of the shielding tube based on a convolution of the signal obtained while executing the scan pattern with a trained convolution kernel. The on-sun orientation thus found can be used to update the orientation of one or more solar surfaces, e.g., reflective or photovoltaic surfaces.
US09689954B2
An integrated electron spin resonance (ESR) circuit chip includes a chip substrate, a transmitter circuit, and a receiver circuit. The transmitter circuit and receiver circuit are disposed on the chip substrate. The transmitter circuit includes an oscillator circuit configured to generate an oscillating output signal and a power amplifier (PA) circuit configured to generate an amplified oscillating output signal based on the oscillating output signal. The receiver circuit receives an ESR signal from an ESR probe. The receiver circuit includes a receiver amplifier circuit configured to generate an amplified ESR signal based on the received ESR signal, a mixer circuit configured to receive the amplified ESR signal and to down-convert the amplified ESR signal to a baseband signal, and a baseband amplifier circuit configured to generate an amplified baseband signal based on the baseband signal.
US09689949B2
Phase unwrapping is provided for phase contrast magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. The velocity values are unaliased. For a given location over time, a path over time through a directed graph of possible velocities at each time is determined by minimization of derivatives over time. The possible velocities are based on the input velocity, the input velocity wrapped in a positive direction, and the input velocity wrapped in a negative direction, so the selection to create the minimum cost path represents unaliasing of any aliased velocities.
US09689945B2
A virtual coil emulation method is used in a magnetic resonance imaging scan for acquiring a magnetic resonance image of an object (10). The scan is performed by an MR system (1) using a physical coil arrangement (9; 11; 12; 13) including a set of individual transmit coils. The coils are adapted for transmission of a desired RF transmit field to the object (10) for magnetic resonance spin excitation of the object (10). Each coil is associated with a physical transmit channel. The RF transmit field corresponds to a virtual arrangement of two or more of the coils. Virtual transmit channel properties include virtual transmit channel weights are assigned to the RF transmit field which describe the virtual complex RF field amplitudes with respect to each individual coil of the virtual coil arrangement to be applied to the physical coils (9; 11; 12; 13) for generating the RF transmit field.
US09689938B2
In a gradient magnetic field coil device including: a plurality of main coils generating in an imaging region of a magnetic field resonance imaging device a magnetic field distribution in which an intensity linearly inclines; and a plurality of shield coils, arranged on an opposite side of the imaging region across the main coils, suppressing residual magnetic field generated by the main coils on the opposite side. The plurality of main coils and the plurality of shield coils are connected in series. The device further includes a plurality of current adjusting devices, connected to the shield coils in parallel, independently adjusting currents flowing through the shield coils, respectively, to enhance symmetry of the residual magnetic field. The gradient magnetic field coil device is provided which can suppress generation of eddy current magnetic field even if there is a relative position deviation between the main coils and shield coils.
US09689936B2
An apparatus includes circuits including a first circuit and a second circuit, each circuit including subarrays of magnetic tunnel junctions, where: (1) the magnetic tunnel junctions in each subarray are arranged in rows, the magnetic tunnel junctions in each row are connected in series, and the rows are connected in parallel; and the subarrays are connected in series. The apparatus further comprises a field line configured to generate a first magnetic field for configuring an operating point of the first circuit based on a current flow through the field line, wherein impedance of one or more of the magnetic tunnel junctions in each of the plurality of rows of each subarray of magnetic tunnel junctions included in the first circuit is configured based on the first magnetic field.
US09689935B2
A Hall-Effect measure apparatus comprises a magnetic source, a wafer on a thermal chuck, a dc current source and a voltage meter. The magnetic source generates a magnetic field in a perpendicular position relative to the wafer. Furthermore, the magnetic field is targeted at a specific region of the wafer to be tested. By performing a Hall-Effect measurement and van der Pauw measurement, the carrier mobility of the specific region of the wafer can be calculated.
US09689934B2
A method and system for determining a force experienced by an object of interest (OOI) within a magnetic field is disclosed. The method includes moving the OOI toward an expected position by altering the magnetic field and then calculating force information associated with the force experienced by the OOI. The force calculation based on a comparing the new position of the OOI vs the expected position of the OOI. The force calculations include magnetic flux measurements.
US09689932B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for influencing and/or detecting magnetic particles in a field of view (28), in particular for examination of human patients. The apparatus comprises i) selection-and-focus means (120) for generating a magnetic selection-and-focus field (50), wherein said at least one set of selection-and-focus field coils comprises—at least one inner selection-and-focus field coil (113, 115) being formed as a closed loop about an inner coil axis (115a), first inner selection-and-focus field coil (115)—a group of at least two outer selection-and-focus field coils (116-119) arranged at a larger distance from said inner coil axis (115a) than said at least one inner selection-and-focus field coil (113, 115) and at different angular positions, each being formed as a closed loop about an associated outer coil axis (116a-119a), and ii) drive means (120) comprising a drive field signal generator unit (122) and drive field coils (124; 125, 126, 127) for changing the position in space and/or size of the two sub-zones (52, 54) in the field of view (28) by means of a magnetic drive field so that the magnetization of the magnetic material changes locally.
US09689924B2
An integrated circuit is configured to receive a test clock input and includes circuitry configured to generate test clocks from the test clock input, and test circuitry configured to use the test clocks in a test mode.
US09689919B2
In an integrated circuit, a first scan chain of flip-flops is loaded with data for testing data retention of the flip-flops and a memory is loaded with data for performing a retention test by a memory built-in self-test (MBIST) wrapper circuit. A portion of the system is placed in a low-power state for a predetermined period of time before data is read from the memory and retention of data by the memory while in the low-power state is determined.
US09689914B2
A method of testing a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) includes applying a voltage through at least one testing element and at least one conductive line, wherein the at least one conductive line traces a perimeter of at least one of a top chip or an interposer substantially parallel to an outer edge of the at least one top chip or the interposer, and the at least one conductive line is configured to electrically connect a plurality of conductive connectors. The method further includes measuring a current responsive to the applied voltage. The method further includes determining an integrity of the 3DIC based on the measured current.
US09689912B2
A method and apparatus for measuring thickness of a film in a solar cell provides for directing light emitted at multiple emission wavelengths, to a surface of the solar cell. Each emission results in the generation of a responsive photo current. The photo currents are read by a current meter having one contact coupled to a surface of the solar cell and another contact coupled to another surface. The currents associated with each of the different light emissions are identified and the thickness of a film in the solar cell is calculated based on the two currents or associated quantum efficiencies, and associated absorption coefficients. In one embodiment, the film thickness is the thickness of a CdS or other buffer film in a thin film solar cell.
US09689911B2
A system includes a signal system controller electrically connected to a first track section of a first rail of a track system, and electrically connected to a second track section of the first rail, in which the first track section is separated from the second track section by a first rail insulated joint. The signal system controller is configured to transmit a test signal on the first track section and configured to receive the test signal on the second track section to test the first rail insulated joint between the first track section and the second track section.
US09689907B2
A method and device for measuring a variation of a capacitance, the device includes: a capacitance having a voltage across its terminals; a charging element and a discharging element; a comparison element; control elements activating the charging element or the discharging element as a function of the value of the voltage across the terminals of the capacitance and of which an output voltage has a high value during the charging and a low value during the discharging; a counter measuring a time representative of a predetermined number of charging and discharging cycles of the capacitance; and an additional capacitance electrically connected to the output voltage and to the capacitance, able to be charged and discharged simultaneously with the charging and discharging of the capacitance.
US09689903B2
In an embodiment, a body of apparatus includes an opening, such as a V-shaped jaw, that deterministically locates a position of a wire in at least one dimension when the wire is placed in the opening. The apparatus also includes a plurality of sensors. At least one differential signal can be generated from signals from magnetic sensors, such as anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) sensors, of the plurality of sensors to cancel out common mode interference. An additional sensor of the plurality of sensors provides an output from which the location of the wire in another dimension is determined. The current flowing through the wire can be derived from at least the at least one differential signal and the location of the wire the other dimension.
US09689900B1
A current sensing circuit for sensing current in a DUT includes first and second input terminals; a shunt resistor connected to the first input terminal; a shunt resistor sensing circuit that amplifies voltage between terminals of the shunt resistor; a low pass filter coupled to an output of the shunt resistor sensing circuit; a current transformer having a primary winding connected between a terminal of the shunt resistor and the second input terminal; a current transformer sensing circuit connected to a secondary winding of the current transformer and configured to amplify current from the secondary winding; and an adder configured to add outputs of the low pass filter and the first current transformer sensing circuit. The current transformer sensing circuit includes a first transimpedance amplifier and a first input resistor. The current transformer has a low frequency-side cutoff frequency equal to a cutoff frequency of the low pass filter.
US09689891B2
A method for optimizing loop gain of an atomic force microscope (AFM) apparatus includes determining a change in gain of the physical system and adjusting a controller frequency response of the controller in an AFM loop to compensate for the determined change in gain. The AFM loop has a corresponding loop response that includes the product of the controller frequency response and a physical system response of the physical system.
US09689888B2
A device is described that includes a pendulous proof mass, a support base, a flexure, and at least two resonators. The support base defines a plane and supports the pendulous proof mass. The flexure flexibly connects the pendulous proof mass to the support base, suspends the pendulous proof mass within the support base, and in response to an acceleration of the device, the pendulous proof mass rotates about the flexure in the plane defined by the support base. The at least two resonators flexibly connect the pendulous proof mass to the support base and flex based on the rotation of the pendulous proof mass about the flexure, wherein each of the at least two resonators resonate at a respective resonant frequency.
US09689887B1
In some examples, a portable electronic device may monitor onboard sensor information to detect and characterize a fall event. For example, the device may receive acceleration information from one or more accelerometers for determining that the device is falling, and may receive information from one or more gyroscopes for determining an orientation of the device. Based at least in part on the sensor information, the device may determine the fall duration, an estimated fall height, device orientation before during and after the fall, and/or a coefficient of restitution resulting from the device impacting a surface. The device may store the fall information on the device. Further, in some examples, the device may send the fall information to a remote computing device, which may aggregate the fall information from a plurality of the devices, such as for improving or optimizing the design of the devices.
US09689882B2
A monitoring system monitoring an environmental condition of an area by measuring an environmental quantity, including: a static monitoring section including plural static sensor units each configured to collect first measure data relating to the environmental quantity in respective portions of the area; a mobile monitoring section including at least one robot configured to move within the area to collect second measure data relating to the environmental quantity in a portion of the area surrounding the robot; and a central unit communicating with the static sensor units and robot to perform: conditioned to assessing an anomalous environmental condition from first measure data collected by at least one static sensor unit, commanding the robot to operate according to anomaly routines, and conditioned to assessing an anomalous environmental condition from second measure data collected by the robot, commanding at least one static sensor unit to operate according to anomaly routines.
US09689881B2
A method for separating target molecules or particles from a fibrinogen containing sample comprises: (a) trapping the said target molecules or particles in a fibrin network by converting at least partially the fibrinogen contained in the sample into fibrin; (b) retracting the said fibrin network to form a fibrin clot; (c) separating the said fibrin clot from the surrounding sample medium.
US09689878B2
Provided is an assay method using an encoded particle-based platform. In the assay method, first, a plurality of encoded particles having codes distinguishable from one another according to kinds of included target materials are prepared. The plurality of encoded particles are provided onto a plate including a plurality of wells by pipetting, and disposed in the plurality of wells by a self-assembly method. An analyte is provided into the plurality of wells. The codes of the plurality of encoded particles disposed in the plurality of wells are decoded. The target materials of the plurality of encoded particles are released to cause a reaction between the target materials and the analyte.
US09689877B2
Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I): Formula (I), including stereoisomers, salts and tautomers thereof, wherein R1a, R1b, R2a, R2b, R2c, R2d, R2e, R2f, R2g, R2h, R2i, R2j, R2k, R2l, R2m, R2n, R2o, R2p, R2q, R2r and R2s are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds are also provided.
US09689871B2
Peptides useful in determining the presence of autoantibodies in patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis are disclosed.
US09689854B2
A food safety detection device includes a xylem fiber substrate, which is configured with a sampling portion and a reaction portion. The reaction portion includes at least one chemical reagent. The sampling portion absorbs a test sample. The test sample moves on the xylem fiber substrate to the reaction portion and reacts with the chemical reagent. A manufacturing method for the food safety detection device is also disclosed. The food safety detection device is advantageous for easy operation, safety and rapid analysis.
US09689852B2
A sensing system for selective analyte detection in presence of interferences is presented. The sensing system includes an inductor-capacitor-resistor (LCR) resonant sensor includes a substrate, a plurality of first sensing elements mutually spaced apart and disposed on the substrate, a plurality of second sensing elements, each second sensing element disposed overlapping a corresponding first sensing element of the plurality of second sensing elements, and a protecting film applied onto the plurality of first sensing elements and the plurality of second sensing elements, wherein the protecting film is disposed to be in a physical contact with the analyte and is configured to enable an operational contact of the plurality of first sensing elements and the plurality of second sensing elements with the analyte.
US09689842B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a device for detecting an analyte in a sample. The device comprises a fluidic network and an integrated circuitry component. The fluidic network comprises multiple zones such as a sample zone, a cleaning zone and a detection zone. The fluidic network contains a magnetic particle and/or a signal particle. A sample containing an analyte is introduced, and the analyte interacts with the magnetic particle and/or the signal particle through affinity agents. A microcoil array or a mechanically movable permanent magnet is functionally coupled to the fluidic network, which are activatable to generate a magnetic field within a portion of the fluidic network, and move the magnetic particle from the sample zone to the detection zone. A detection element is present which detects optical or electrical signals from the signal particle, thus indicating the presence of the analyte.
US09689834B2
A gas sensor including a plate-shaped detecting element is disclosed, wherein the detecting element has a pair of principle surfaces and a pair of side surfaces adjacent to the pair of principle surfaces, in a radical direction thereof, wherein a first chamfered portion is provided between at least one first principal surface of the pair of principal surfaces and the rear end surface of the detecting element, and wherein the angle between a first axis ridgeline portion formed by the first principal surface and a first side surface that is one of the pair of side surfaces and extending in the direction of the axis, and a first width ridgeline formed by the first principal surface and the first chamfered portion and extending in a width direction is larger than 90°.
US09689810B2
An automatic calibration method suitable for an electronic apparatus comprising a proximity sensor is disclosed. The automatic calibration method includes steps of: resetting data comprising a minimal index and a maximal index when a specific function is activated; updating the minimal index and the maximal index according to readings from the proximity sensor; resetting the minimal index when the proximity sensor detects a far event according to a threshold value of the proximity sensor; resetting the maximal index when the proximity sensor detects a near event according to the threshold value; and, re-calculating the threshold value according to the minimal index or the maximal index every time the minimal index or the maximal index is updated.
US09689802B2
An apparatus and method to measure water content and water pH of multiphase fluid mixtures of water and oil. The apparatus employs a water content sensor containing an infrared light source and a photodetector. The pH sensor includes a pH indicator that exhibits a color change in an oleophobic coating including an image recording device. The apparatus and method may be applied to measure water fraction and pH within oil/water pipelines.
US09689798B1
Disclosed herein is a protective film detecting method of detecting the formed condition of a protective film formed on the front side of a workpiece. The protective film detecting method includes a fluorescence intensity measuring step of forming a plurality of reference protective films having different thicknesses on the front sides of a plurality of reference workpieces, next applying excitation light absorbable by an absorbing agent contained in each reference protective film to each reference protective film, and next measuring the intensity of fluorescence emitted from the absorbing agent due to the absorption of the excitation light, and a threshold deciding step of deciding a threshold of the fluorescence intensity corresponding to a desired one of the different thicknesses of the reference protective films according to the fluorescence intensity measured above.
US09689797B2
The present invention discloses a microscopy imaging structure with phase conjugated mirror and the method thereof. The afore-mentioned imaging structure produces a reverse focusing conjugated probe beam together with an original probe beam. These two probe beams meet at the focal point in the object body to be probed, and an interference pattern is produced. The interval between any two consecutive wave fronts in the interference pattern is then half of the wavelength of the original probe beam, and hence the vertical resolution of the image is improved. The present invention also applies a light modulator module on the probe beam to easily adjust the depth of the focal point of the probe beam and the phase conjugated reverse focusing probe beam in the object body. With the adoption of this invention, the size or position limitation of the target object is eliminated and the imaging resolution is also improved.
US09689780B2
A single-use coring probe for collecting a frozen aliquot from a frozen biological sample includes a hollow coring bit and an ejector adapted. The ejector is operable to eject a frozen sample core from the bit as it moves from a retracted position to an extended position. Use of the ejector converts the probe to a disabled configuration to discourage reuse of the coring probe to obtain another sample. The probe may include a locking mechanism adapted to prevent re-use of the single-use coring probe by locking the ejector in the extended position. A hand-held coring device can be used to take frozen sample cores from frozen samples. A tissue container is suitable for holding a frozen tissue sample in frozen storage and also for holding the sample while the sample is sectioned and/or a full-depth frozen sample core is extracted from the frozen tissue.
US09689768B2
A pressure difference sensor includes a pressure difference measuring cell, which has a measuring cell platform with pressure contactable measuring chambers in its interior, a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface. The mounting surfaces have a variable separation under pressure loading of the measuring chambers. A first reinforcement element with a first planar reinforcement area and a second reinforcement element with a second planar reinforcement area. A deflection of the mounting surfaces due to a pressure loading of the measuring chambers is lessened by the reinforcement elements, wherein especially at least 50% of an effective stiffness K=1/(dx/dp) of the reinforcement elements connected by the pressure difference measuring cell is provided only by these connections of the reinforcement element with the measuring cell platform without additional connections between the reinforcement elements in a parallel branch, wherein x is the separation between the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface having the greatest pressure dependence dx/dp.
US09689756B2
A tool for use in locating a pressure measurement device between a surface and a biasing member is provided. The tool includes a first indexing member configured to couple to a first side of the pressure measurement device, and a second indexing member configured to couple to a second opposing side of the pressure measurement device. The second indexing member includes an outer surface including a recess sized to receive at least a portion of the biasing member. The first and second indexing members are configured to be pressed between the biasing member and the surface such that the first and second indexing members compress against the pressure measurement device.
US09689754B2
The invention regards a method for estimating the temperature of a semiconductor chip accommodated in a power semiconductor device in operation, such as an IGBT power module, the method comprising the steps of; while the power semiconductor device is in operation determining a voltage drop over the power semiconductor device for a value of applied load current and; estimating the temperature of the semiconductor chip by evaluating the relationship between the determined voltage drop and the value of applied load current on the basis of a semiconductor chip temperature model. The invention also regards the corresponding apparatus for estimating the temperature of a semiconductor chip, as well as a wind turbine comprising such an apparatus.
US09689745B2
Current apparatuses and methods for analysis of spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (SOCT) signals suffer from an inherent tradeoff between time (depth) and frequency (wavelength) resolution. In one non-limiting embodiment, multiple or dual window (DW) apparatuses and methods for reconstructing time-frequency distributions (TFDs) that applies two windows that independently determine the optical and temporal resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution may relate to scattering information about a sample, and temporal resolution may be related to absorption or depth related information. The effectiveness of the apparatuses and methods is demonstrated in simulations and in processing of measured OCT signals that contain fields which vary in time and frequency. The DW technique may yield TFDs that maintain high spectral and temporal resolution and are free from the artifacts and limitations commonly observed with other processing methods.
US09689735B2
The invention relates to meter electronics (20) for vibratory flowmeter friction compensation is provided. The meter electronics (20) includes an interface (201) configured to communicate with a flowmeter assembly (10) of a vibratory flowmeter (5) and receive a vibrational response and a processing system (203) coupled to the interface (201) and configured to measure a mass flow rate of a fluid using the vibrational response. The processing system (203) is configured to determine a fluid velocity (V) using the mass flow rate, a fluid density (p), and a cross-sectional flow area (A), determine a friction factor (f) using the fluid velocity (V) and a pressure drop (ΔP), and determine a compensation factor using the friction factor (f). The invention also relates to a vibratory flowmeter compensation method.
US09689733B2
A vibration limit switch with a membrane, which can be set into oscillation, and a drive unit for setting the membrane into oscillation and/or for detecting an oscillation of the membrane, with the drive unit comprising at least one electromagnetic drive and one Piezo-electric drive.
US09689723B2
Disclosed is a batteryless counter (1) for gas or water meters having at least one Wiegand sensor (2) or another power generating element and an evaluation circuit (10) connected thereto for processing a pulse (31), and the batteryless counter (1) feeds the pulses (31) generated and processed by the Wiegand sensor (2) to an isolator (17), and that at the output of this isolator (17) a pulse duration setting (18) is disposed, which processes the pulses (31) simultaneously counted via the counting circuit (4) by a pulse selection circuit (6) and converts the other pulse shapes/pulse frequencies and guides them outwards.
US09689717B2
Phase estimation apparatus processes sensor signals from sensors to estimate a phase of a periodically varying state of an object, such as position of a moving object. A phase estimation processor applies a first correlation calculation to simultaneously collected samples of the sensor signals to generate first quadrature values, where the first correlation calculation employs variable calculation values, and applies a phase calculation to the first quadrature values to generate the phase estimation. A pre-quadrature calibration circuit applies respective second correlation calculations to respective sequences of samples of the sensor signals individually to generate second quadrature values for each of the sensor signals, and applies phase and/or magnitude calculations to the sets of second quadrature values to generate the variable calculation values for the first correlation calculation, thereby compensate for the error component and improve accuracy of the estimated phase.
US09689714B2
A sensor network having a series arrangement of fiber-coupled, reflective sensors is disclosed. In operation, a first light signal having multiple wavelength bands is launched in an upstream direction on a fiber bus. Each sensor includes a wavelength filter and an FP sensor that is sensitive to a parameter. Each wavelength filter (1) selectively passes a different one of the wavelength bands to its FP sensor and (2) reflects the remaining wavelength bands back into the fiber bus to continue upstream. The FP sensor imprints a signal based on the parameter onto its received light and reflects it as a second light signal. The collimator, wavelength filter, and FP sensor of each sensor are arranged such that each second light signal is returned to the fiber bus, which conveys them in a downstream direction to a processor that measures them and estimates the parameter at each sensor.
US09689710B2
Systems and methods for identifying and targeting power outages are provided. Electric meters of a system receive electric power from power distribution equipment in a power distribution network and information that identifies the respective power distribution equipment from which the meters receive electric power. Communication nodes are associated with electric meters and receive, from neighboring communication nodes, information identifying each respective neighboring communication node and the information identifying the power distribution equipment from which respective electric meters, associated with neighboring communication nodes, receive electric power. A communication node of a particular electric meter can select a suitable communication node of a neighboring electric meter with which it can communicate. When the particular electric meter experiences a loss in power, it can then transmit an immediate regarding the loss in power to the selected communication node.
US09689709B2
Techniques for mirroring to allow for data transmissions from a device through mirror capable device. In an embodiment, a plurality of mirror capable devices may report their capability, which may include signaling conditions related thereto. A mirror capable device may be selected from the plurality of mirror capable devices based on signaling conditions associated with the utility device's power consumption.
US09689700B1
A navigation system, apparatus and method for prioritizing and geometrically linearizing navigational data/content, where internal navigational data having one or more first navigational destinations and/or locations are stored. A global positioning apparatus may be operatively coupled to a processor in the navigation system and configured to determine a current car position (CCP). Communications operatively coupled to the processor may be configured to receive external navigational data comprising one or more second navigational destinations and/or locations, wherein the processor may be configured to prioritize the internal and external navigational data according to at least one of a source and/or type. The processor may also be configured to process the internal and external navigational data to generate a linearized representation of navigational paths for the prioritized first and second navigational destinations and/or locations relative to the CCP.
US09689680B2
An approach is provided for determining a request by a user to initiate route calculation to at least one destination. The approach involves determining one or more items of interest associated with the user. The approach also involves determining availability information of the one or more items of interest at the at least one destination. The approach further involves causing, at least in part, a presentation of at least one message regarding the availability information.
US09689678B2
The invention relates to a vibrating MEMS inertial angular sensor including a substrate for supporting at least two mass bodies mounted to bear mobile relative to the substrate and associated with at least one electrostatic actuator and at least one electrostatic detector. The sensor includes first means for suspending the mass bodies relative to the substrate and means for coupling the mass bodies together. The substrate is connected to a stationary rack by second suspension means.
US09689676B2
A yaw-rate sensor having a substrate and a plurality of movable substructures that are mounted over a surface of the substrate, the movable substructures being coupled to a shared, in particular, central spring element, means being provided for exciting the movable substructures into a coupled oscillation in a plane that extends parallel to the surface of the substrate, the movable substructures having Coriolis elements, means being provided for detecting deflections of the Coriolis elements induced by a Coriolis force, a first Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a first axis, a second Coriolis element being provided for detecting a yaw rate about a second axis, the second axis being oriented perpendicularly to the first axis.
US09689675B2
A sensor for detecting a rotation rate of an object, including: a sensor element, which is designed to vibrate at an angle to the rotation axis of the rotation rate to be detected at an excitation frequency on a resetting element fastened in a spatially fixed manner to the object, such that the sensor element is deflected at a reaction frequency in a reaction direction at an angle to the rotation axis and at an angle to the vibration direction owing to the Coriolis force; and a measuring transducer, which is designed to detect the vibration in the reaction direction wherein the vibratable sensor element is formed in such a manner that a comparison of a temperature-dependent displacement of a frequency spacing between the excitation frequency and the reaction frequency and a temperature-dependent position of the sensor element on the object satisfies a predefined condition.
US09689673B2
The present disclosure relates to a method (1) and system for determining the position of a target. The method comprises a step of measuring (110) with a range and direction measuring device the position of at least one reference object relative to the position of the range and direction measuring device. The method further comprises a step of marking (120) the at least one reference object in a geo-referenced three-dimensional map so as to obtain a geo-referenced position of the at least one reference object. The method further comprises a step of measuring (130) with the range and direction measuring device the position of the target relative to the position of the range and direction measuring device. The method further comprises a step of calculating (150) a position of the target based on the measured position of the at least one reference object relative to the position of the range and direction measuring device, based on the measured position of the target relative to the position of the range and direction measuring device, and based on the obtained geo-referenced position of the at least one reference object.
US09689661B2
Exemplary apparatus and method can be provided. For example, with at least one first arrangement, it is possible to provide at least one first radiation, which can impact at least one second arrangement that is provided in an optical path between the at least one first arrangement(s) and at least sample. The second arrangement can have at least one birefringent property, In addition, with at least one detector third arrangement, it is possible to receive at least one second radiation from at least one first portion of the second arrangement(s), and at least one third radiation from at least one second portion of the second arrangement(s). The second and third radiations can be associated with the first radiation(s). Using at least one computing fourth arrangement, it is possible to determine information regarding the first radiation(s) based on the second and third radiations.
US09689657B2
The disclosure relates to a method of detecting an object using a detection signal supplied by a proximity sensor. The method comprises the steps of generating a reference signal by filtering the value of the detection signal, defining a first detection threshold, and going from an object non-detecting state to an object detecting state when the value of the detection signal becomes greater than the first detection threshold. When the value of the detection signal becomes greater than the first detection threshold, the value of the reference signal is readjusted in a manner such that the value of the detection signal again becomes less than or respectively greater than, the first detection threshold.
US09689655B2
This invention relates to a method for measuring a feature of an object that comprises obtaining a representation of at least the feature on the object by acquiring multiple data points via surface measurement of at least the feature. A model substantially replicating at least the feature of the object is fitted to the representation. The model comprises parameters defining at least two independently alterable portions that are linked at a common point. The fitting comprises changing the form of the model by altering at least one of the at least two independently alterable portions. The method also comprises obtaining information regarding at least the feature from the fitted model.
US09689636B2
A muzzle brake that will remove 80-90% of rifle recoil is disclosed. The invention uses cone shaped nozzles similar to rocket nozzles to expand the gasses properly in the correct direction to eliminate most of the rifle recoil and muzzle climb. The marksman can keep his rifle on target and fire all day without having a sore shoulder.
US09689632B2
An integrated spring bottom metal latch is disclosed that obviates the problem of rifles having heavy recoil from erroneously and unintentionally opening and dropping shells or magazines upon firing. The integrated spring allows for exact manufacturing versus compression springs. As a result, the presently disclosed invention may be utilized to address specific recoil requirements as found in any number of rifles exhibiting different recoil.
US09689630B2
A heat exchanger system for cooling liquid includes a generally rectangular arrangement of a plurality of horizontally spaced finned tube arrays arranged above the ground, the arrangement having longer sides extending in a length direction and shorter sides extending in a width direction. A plurality of fans are provided above the finned tube arrays for inducing air through the finned tube arrays, wherein at least two of said fans are mutually spaced in the width direction. At least one wind deflector is provided adjacent one of the longer sides, wherein the at least one wind deflector is installed on the ground separately from any of the plurality of finned tube arrays.
US09689628B2
An inner fin is an offset fin having a wavy cross-section that is perpendicular to an oil flowing direction, and has a louver that is partially cut and bent in a direction parallel with the oil flowing direction. The wavy cross-section is defined by alternately placing first-side convex parts and second-side convex parts. A fin height fh is defined by a distance from the first-side convex part to the second-side convex part in the cross-section. An area surrounded by the inner fin, a tube, and the first-side or second-side convex parts located adjacent with each other on the same side in the cross-section is converted into a corresponding circle having a diameter de. When a relationship of X=de/fh0.3 is defined, the diameter of the corresponding circle and the fin height respectively have dimensions that satisfy a relationship of 0.5≦X≦1.0.
US09689625B2
A method for manufacturing a heat pipe includes following steps: providing a tube; providing a rod; inserting the rod in the circular tube, a receiving portion is formed between an inner face of the tube and the upper portion of the rod; providing an amount of metal powder and filling the metal powder into the receiving portion; sintering the metal powder at a high temperature to form a first wick structure adhered on the inner face of the tube and then drawing the rod out of the tube; injecting a working medium into the tube and sealing the tube to form the heat pipe.
US09689623B2
A flat heat pipe includes a tube, a sealed section, an insulation section and a heat conduction section. The tube includes a metal shell and a chamber. The sealed section is formed by rolling the metal shell and making two opposite inner walls of the tube combined closely on the tube that separate the chamber into a first chamber and a second chamber. The insulation section is a hollow chamber including the first chamber. The conduction section includes the second chamber, a capillary and working fluid. Further, the heat conduction device includes a heat dissipating shell, a heating element and a flat heat pipe. The plate heat pipe is disposed in the heat dissipating shell and thermally conducted with the heating element.
US09689620B2
Disclosed is a heat exchanger that can more efficiently transfer heat between a heat-exchange fluid and an object with which heat is to be exchanged. A heat exchanger (1) can transfer heat between a heat-exchange fluid flowing through flow paths (R1) and a fluid with which heat is to be exchanged flowing through other flow paths (R2) by means of the flow path structure member (10) (a first metal sheet (11) and a second metal sheet (12)) in which the flow paths (R1 and R2) are formed. The flow paths (R1 and R2) are formed so that the side surfaces thereof are not straight and so that the depths thereof change along the flow direction.
US09689607B2
A fluid is liquefied from a gaseous state to a liquid state, and the liquefied fluid is stored. In one embodiment, the fluid is oxygen. Mechanisms are employed that enhance the durability, longevity, reliability, efficiency, of a system used to liquefy the fluid.
US09689605B2
A refrigerator is described. The refrigerator includes a body. The refrigerator further includes a door. The refrigerator further includes a first rail guide and a second rail guide. The refrigerator further includes a first rail assembly and a second rail assembly. The refrigerator further includes a shaft that is configured to connect the first rail assembly with the second rail assembly. The refrigerator further includes a first pinion that is located at a first end of the shaft and configured to engage the first rail guide based on the door being pushed in or pulled out. The refrigerator further includes a second pinion that is located at a second end of the shaft and configured to engage the second rail guide based on the door being pushed in or pulled out. The refrigerator further includes a torsion reduction part that is configured to reduce torsion of the door.
US09689600B2
An icemaker unit and a refrigerator having the same. A drainage duct is provided to the icemaker unit, including a longitudinally inclined structure, a laterally inclined structure, and drainage holes to enhance drainage of the water. An upper part of the drainage duct is formed of a high heat-conductivity material and a lower part of the drainage duct of a low heat-conductivity material.
US09689598B2
Systems and methods for providing power to a refrigeration unit or an air conditioner used on a hybrid vehicle. The system includes an accumulation choke, a PWM rectifier, and a frequency inverter. The accumulation choke is configured to receive a first AC power, a second AC power, and a DC power. The accumulation choke and PWM rectifier convert the received power into an intermediate DC power having a peak voltage. The PWM rectifier provides the intermediate DC power to the frequency inverter. The frequency inverter converts the intermediate DC power to an output AC power. The frequency inverter provides the output AC power to the refrigeration unit.
US09689596B2
Systems and methods are described herein for cleaning objects, such as refrigeration coils and the like, by placing a first end of a bag over one side of the coils, and placing a second end of the bag over a suction hose of a vacuum. When the vacuum is activated and compressed air (or other gas or liquid) is blown into a second, opposite, side of the refrigeration coils, the dirt removed therefrom is directed toward the interior of the bag and into the vacuum and contained therein. Baffles within the bag direct the flow of dirt and debris toward the vacuum.
US09689590B2
An integrated CO2 refrigeration and air conditioning (AC) system for use in a facility includes one or more CO2 compressors configured to discharge a CO2 refrigerant at a higher pressure for circulation through a circuit to provide cooling to one or more refrigeration loads in the facility and a receiver configured to receive the CO2 refrigerant at a lower pressure through a high pressure valve. The integrated system further includes an AC module configured to deliver a chilled AC coolant to AC loads in the facility. The AC module includes an AC evaporator and an AC compressor. The AC evaporator has an inlet configured to receive CO2 liquid and an outlet configured to discharge a CO2 vapor. The AC compressor is arranged in parallel with the one or more CO2 compressors and is configured to receive CO2 vapor from both the AC evaporator and the receiver.
US09689587B1
An automatic over-temperature control system for a solar collection is provided in which a light sensor in combination with an electronic solenoid valve is used to prevent entry of cold water into a thermosiphon solar collector during daylight intervals. By delaying entry of water until dusk (low light), the solar tubes have cooled sufficiently so water can be safely introduced into an empty or depleted solar collector without damaging the collector tubes.
US09689582B2
An overvoltage recovery circuit (ORC), a controller for an HVAC system and an HVAC system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the ORC includes: (1) a first supply voltage terminal connected to a first voltage supply, (2) a second supply voltage terminal connected to a second voltage supply, (3) interruption circuitry including a switch and a trip terminal connected to the second supply voltage terminal and (4) detection circuitry connected to the first supply voltage terminal and the switch of the interruption circuitry, the detection circuitry configured to operate the switch in response to an overvoltage condition at the first supply voltage terminal.
US09689579B2
A dehumidifier includes an improved structure of a water tank in order to enhance convenience in use of the water tank. The dehumidifier includes: a main body to form an external appearance of the dehumidifier, and including an air entrance and an air exit; a heat exchanger in which refrigerant to exchange heat with air coming through the air entrance circulates; and a water tank configured to store condensed water formed when the air come through the air entrance exchanges heat with the refrigerant, wherein the water tank includes: a storage space formed in the water tank to store the condensed water, and a handle coupled to the water tank at one side of the water tank, and inclined toward the other side of the water tank.
US09689578B2
A refrigerant distribution unit for an air conditioner, includes: a refrigerant pipe provided on an outdoor unit side; branch refrigerant pipes provided on an indoor unit side; a distribution portion which distributes a refrigerant from the refrigerant pipe to the branch refrigerant pipes; a main unit which stores the distribution portion and includes a first side face from which the refrigerant pipe is drawn out and a second side face from which the branch refrigerant pipes are drawn out; and an electric component box. Each of the branch refrigerant pipes includes a branch gas pipe and a branch liquid pipe which are drawn out from the second side face. The adjacent branch gas pipes are disposed parallel such that lengths of the branch gas pipes increase sequentially from one toward the other, and the adjacent branch liquid pipes are disposed parallel such that lengths of the branch liquid pipes similarly increase sequentially.
US09689576B2
An oven appliance with one or more features for minimizing the time to preheat the cooking chamber and balancing the heat distribution within the cooking chamber of the oven appliance is provided. Features for minimizing the acoustic noise of the oven appliance are also provided. Further, a method for operating an oven appliance to minimize the preheat time and balance the heat distribution within the cooking chamber of the oven appliance while minimizing acoustic noise is provided.
US09689573B2
Combustion equipment for use in a gas turbine engine is provided. The combustion equipment includes an inner and outer case, wherein the outer case encloses the inner case creating a cavity located between the two cases. The combustion equipment also has a fuel delivery device for delivering fuel into a combustion region within the inner case, wherein the fuel delivery device passes through a hole in the outer case and a corresponding hole in the inner case. The combustion equipment also includes a seal assembly to prevent the leaking of pressurized gas into the cavity located between the outer and inner cases via the hole through which fuel delivery device passes. The seal assembly includes a flexible sleeve that extends around the fuel delivery device and interconnects the inner case with the outer case, permitting relative movement of the inner and outer cases when the combustion equipment is in use.
US09689567B2
A surgical-instrument alignment station comprises a case having an interior surface and an exterior surface. The case comprised a top side and a bottom side joined along a hinge. A plurality of suction cups are fixed to the exterior surface of the bottom side of the case for allowing the case to be selectively attached to a surface. An alignment block is affixed to the exterior surface of the bottom side of the case. The alignment block comprises an elongated element that defines a plurality of slots for selectively holding a plurality of surgical-tool implements. The elongated element further comprises a clamping element configured to selectively engage surgical-tool implements. The station further comprises a first internal pocket in the top side of the case and a light source in the top side of the case.
US09689564B2
A device comprising an arm, with a hollow portion, a hub having a stator portion, and an elongated portion disposed into the arm; a rotor with an elongated portion for housing part of a spring. Wherein the spring has a first end disposed in the arm and a second end disposed in the elongated portion of the rotor, and a moveable arm, with a substantially hollow portion operable to receive the elongated portion of the rotor. Certain embodiments may include more than one moveable arm.
US09689560B2
A LED light bulb simultaneously using as nightlight contains: a LED element, at least one LED filament, a base, a driving circuit, and a light guiding element. The base includes a hollow cavity for accommodating the driving circuit and LED element which electrically connects with the driving circuit, the base also includes an electrical fitting electrically connected with the driving circuit and a bulb holder. The light guiding element is made of photoconductive material and coupled with the base, and the light guiding element includes a light entering end corresponding to a light emitting end of the LED light to guide lights from the LED element. The at least one LED filament is electrically connected with the driving circuit and surrounds around the light guiding element, and the at least one LED filament is supported by the light guiding element to emit the lights.
US09689557B2
A light-emitting device having a cover (1), a heat sink (2) and a light-emitting assembly (3), wherein the heat sink (2) has at least one first locking part (a), the cover (1) has at least one second locking part (b) corresponding to the first locking part (a), the second locking part (b) engages with the first locking part (a) to form an enclosed cavity (5) for the light-emitting assembly (3), and the second locking part (b) has a pressing part (b1) pressing the light-emitting assembly (3) against the heat sink (2).
US09689546B2
A vehicle lighting unit can be configured to include a thin light guide. The vehicle lighting unit can include a solid light guide having a first surface including an internal reflection portion and a light exiting portion that are formed as a single continued surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a light incident surface through which light enters the light guide so that the light reaches and is internally reflected off the internal reflection portion of the first surface, then is internally reflected off the reflection portion of the second surface, and exits through the light exiting portion of the first surface. The reflection portion of the second surface can include a plurality of divided reflection regions, and the reflection regions can include at least one reflection region disposed at a reference position and at least one reflection region disposed at a position closer to the light exiting surface than the reference position.
US09689540B2
An apparatus and methods for retrofitting known solar simulator systems to allow the exit beam to be changed in size and location without changing the other fundamental functions of the main optical elements. The solar simulator system is provided with means for de-magnifying the exit beam to provide higher power densities at the illumination plane. By adding or replacing one final optical element, the system user can change the location of the illumination plane and the size of the illumination area. This change in size can increase or decrease the power density of the exit beam.
US09689539B2
The invention discloses an LED fluorescent lamp, comprising a base plate, an end cap, an aluminum profile, a light diffusing plate, a light guide plate component, a lamp shade, a power unit and a lamp panel component as well as an LED lamp bead on the lamp panel component; first slots are arranged on two left side walls of the aluminum profile; the light guide plate can rotationally sleeved in the first slots; the top of the lamp shade is provided with a holding groove, at the bottom of which a hollowed-out part is hollowed out; the light diffusing plate is fixed in the holding groove and provided with many stripes on the surface; the stripes are crossed to form diamond-shaped stripes; and two sides of the lamp shade are arcs. The invention has the advantages of high thermal radiation effect, soft light and better light-emitting angle.
US09689538B2
An electronic candle includes a housing, an LED light source, a battery, and one or more sensors to detect a blow of air or a tilt of the electronic candle. The electronic candle further includes a microprocessor that is coupled to the LED light source, to the blow sensor and to the tilt sensor. The microprocessor is programmed to control illumination produced by the LED light source, to receive signals indicative of the detection of a blow, and to detect a tilt of the electronic candle.
US09689536B2
An LED tube lamp is disclosed. An installation detection circuit is configured in the LED tube lamp configured to receive an external driving signal. The installation detection circuit is configured to detect during one or more pulse signals whether the LED tube lamp is properly installed on a lamp socket, based on detecting a signal generated from the external driving signal. The installation detection circuit includes a switch circuit coupled to the pulse generating circuit, wherein the one or more pulse signals control turning on and off of the switch circuit. The installation detection circuit is further configured to: when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is not properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in an off state to cause a power loop of the LED tube lamp to be open; and when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in a conducting state to cause the power loop of the LED tube lamp to maintain a conducting state.
US09689534B2
A pipeline-waste-gas reduction method to reduce the amount of gas wasted by existing high-pressure pipelines having existing pipeline controllers and existing actuator-based control valves, by reducing the pressure of gas sent to existing pipeline controllers by a determined factor, consequently reducing the amount of gas wasted by the controllers, and then increasing control pressure returned by the controllers by the same factor, ensuring that the proper control pressure is sent to the existing actuator-based control valves.
US09689533B2
A gas delivery system for a plasma process system such as a plasma etching system wherein inner surfaces of gas passages are coated with a corrosion-resistant material coating formed by curing a layer of fluidic precursor deposited on the inner surfaces. The coating can be formed by (a) flowing a fluidic precursor of a corrosion-resistant material through the gas passages and depositing a layer of the fluidic precursor to completely coat the inner surfaces of the gas passages; (b) removing excess fluidic precursor from the inner surfaces; (c) curing the deposited layer of the fluidic precursor to form a corrosion-resistant material coating.
US09689531B2
A composite pressure container for fluids includes a pressure container, a boss (1), and a coupling or valve member (5) fitted in an opening in the boss. The pressure container includes an inner fluid-tight liner layer (4) and a pressure supporting layer (3) formed by winding fiber-reinforcement onto the liner layer. The boss is positioned in a central opening of the pressure container. The structure of the boss comprises a depressurization passage for preventing build-up of internal pressure inside the boss.
US09689522B2
The invention relates to a lining element for repairing a connection area between a main pipe and a branch pipe, the lining element including a layer of resin-absorbing material, wherein at least six flexible, expandable lining parts are connected to each other by at least six connections to form the lining element. To manufacture such a lining element the at least six flexible, expandable lining parts are provided and connected to each other by at least six connections to form the lining element.
US09689519B2
A trampoline support structure includes a manifold, a first annular tube, a mesh encircled tube, a second annular tube and a support tube. The manifold includes a longitudinal installation portion, a transverse installation portion and an installation hole located on the transverse installation portion. The first annular tube includes a first assembly section inserted into the transverse installation portion and an anchor hole located on the first assembly section. The mesh encircled tube includes an anchor section inserted into the installation hole, the anchor hole and the longitudinal installation portion. The second annular tube includes a second assembly section inserted into the first assembly section. The anchor section, the longitudinal installation portion and the support tube form a multi-layer structure, thus can solve the problem of inadequate structural strength occurred to the conventional techniques.
US09689510B1
A cable organizer includes a sliding rail assembly including a first sliding rail unit, a second sliding rail unit and a connection member with two opposite ends thereof respectively pivotally connected to the first sliding rail unit and the second sliding rail unit, and a cable-organizing rack including a first holder block and a second holder block respectively affixed to the first sliding rail unit and a first cable supporting frame and a second cable supporting frame respectively pivotally connected to the first holder block and the second holder block so that the first cable supporting frame and the second cable supporting frame can protrude out of the sliding rail assembly, facilitating maintenance.
US09689495B2
A powertrain system including an internal combustion engine rotatably coupled to a variator of a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is described. A method for controlling the CVT includes determining a first speed ratio change rate based upon a desired speed ratio and a commanded speed ratio, and determining a commanded speed ratio trajectory based upon the first speed ratio change rate, an actual speed ratio and a commanded speed ratio. A ratio change coefficient and a force ratio factor are determined based upon the commanded speed ratio trajectory. A shift force is determined based upon the ratio change coefficient and a total speed ratio change rate. A primary pulley pressure and a secondary pulley pressure for the CVT are controlled based upon the shift force and the force ratio factor.
US09689486B2
In an aspect, a decoupler includes a hub, a pulley, a torsion spring having a plurality of coils including first and second end coils, a first spring driver fixed to the pulley, and having a first spring driver surface and a first end coil support surface; a second spring driver not fixed to the pulley, and having a second spring driver surface and a second end coil support surface, a driving clutch member mounted connected to the second spring driver, a driven clutch member mounted concentrically with the driving clutch member and drivingly connected to the hub, a one-way wrap spring clutch mounted about the hub and disposed to interconnect the driving and driven clutchmembers, and configured to transfer torque in a first direction between the driving and driven clutchmembers. A first overrun limit surface connected to the first spring driver engages a second overrun limit surface connected to the second spring driver when an angular displacement of the second spring driver relative to the first spring driver reaches a first selected angular displacement so as to prevent an increase in the angular displacement. At the selected angular displacement any axial compression of the torsion spring resulting from rotation of the second end coil support surface relative to the first end coil support surface is sufficiently small to prevent the coils from binding to one another.
US09689484B2
A differential control system for a motor vehicle such as a truck including at least one differential includes at least one differential lock which is able to operate the differential into at least a locked or an unlocked state, a controller that controls the differential lock, a manually operable control member freely rotating bidirectionally around at least one axis, an encoder connected to the control member to convert a rotation of the control member into a signal fed to the controller which controls the differential lock in order to operate the differential into a locked or an unlocked state.
US09689479B2
A motor-driven machine tool has a drive motor, the motor shaft of which is driven in rotation, with a tool drive shaft, which is driven in rotation or in oscillation about its longitudinal axis, and with a coupling drive for converting the rotational movement of the motor shaft into a driving movement of the tool drive shaft. Furthermore, a coupling is provided, which compensates an angular offset or change in position between the motor shaft and tool drive shaft which deviates from an axially parallel or right-angled arrangement of the two shafts.
US09689475B2
A tensioning or guide rail for a chain drive, in particular for a chain drive of an internal combustion engine, comprises two spaced-apart contact sections and one non-contact section arranged therebetween, the contact sections each having a sliding surface which is adapted to be brought into contact with a chain, and the non-contact section interconnecting the two contact sections as a support structure. Such a rail is to be configured such that the installation space available can be utilized more advantageously. To this end, the support structure of the non-contact section comprises an opening extending continuously from a front to a rear of the tensioning or guide rail and separating the contact sections provided with the sliding surfaces. The invention also relates to an endless drive of the type in question.
US09689472B2
A power transfer device that includes an automatic transmission that includes a plurality of engagement elements and a speed change gear mechanism capable of establishing a multiplicity of shift speeds by changing a power transfer path by engaging or disengaging the engagement elements; and a control device that is configured to control the automatic transmission.
US09689466B2
The present invention provides a reduction mechanism in which high torque output can he achieved, thinness and size and weight reduction can be achieved, and the number of teeth of a gear and reduction ratio can be freely set. In a gear motor that includes a reduction mechanism in which a planetary two-stage gear is arrayed between a sun gear of a planetary gear mechanism and an internal gear of a planetary gear mechanism, the reduction mechanism has at least a single planetary two-stage gear arrayed such as to be positioned between the sun gear and the internal gear and including a small gear or a large gear that meshes together with a large gear or a small gear of the planetary two-stage gear, and both end portions of the at least a single planetary two-stage gear are supported by ball bearings.
US09689461B2
A damper assembly for a motor vehicle drive train is provided. The damper assembly includes a spring retainer retaining arc springs; an engine-side cover for connecting to an engine crankshaft, the spring retainer being fixed to the engine-side cover; and a seal configuration between the engine-side cover and the spring retainer. The seal configuration, the engine-side cover and the spring retainer define an arc spring cavity for lubricating fluid to lubricate the arc springs. The seal configuration is configured to prevent lubricating fluid from radially exiting the arc spring cavity during rotation of the damper assembly about a center axis thereof. A method of forming a damper assembly is also provided.
US09689454B2
The present disclosure relates to a frequency tuned damper with an elastic element (7) adapted to connect a vibration body (5) to a surface (3). The elastic element has a wide portion (17) and a narrow portion (19) disposed at different locations along a longitudinal axis (23) which is substantially parallel with the normal of the surface when the damper is mounted, and has a first circumferential mounting groove (11) in the wide portion (17), for attaching the wide portion to the surface, and a second circumferential mounting groove (15) in the narrow portion (19), for attaching the narrow portion to the vibration body. The first circumferential mounting groove extends along an elongated path. This provides a damper that is capable of providing two different resonance frequencies in two perpendicular directions in the plane of the surface, and can easily be aligned in a desired direction.
US09689450B2
A brake backing plate includes first and second sheet metal stampings. Each sheet metal stamping has a respective textured face with a plurality of integrally formed piercing members. A solid non-porous metal core is sandwiched between the first sheet metal stamping and the second sheet metal stamping. The piercing members of the first sheet metal stamping penetrate into the metal core, and the piercing members of the second sheet metal stamping penetrate into the metal core, to secure the first sheet metal stamping, the second sheet metal stamping, and the metal core together.
US09689441B2
A cam stop conducts rotation from a driving part, such as a tire ring, to a driven part, such as a rotary dryer or kiln. The cam stop includes a pair of support blocks securable to the driven part, and a cam rod rotatably coupled with the support blocks and extending between the support blocks. The cam rod includes a logarithmic spiral cam profile, and the cam rod is displaceable in a radial direction into engagement with the driving part by rotation according to the logarithmic spiral cam profile. Rotation of the tire ring may be conducted to the rotary drum by frictional engagement between the cam rod and the driving part.
US09689437B1
A clutch mechanism includes a meshing arrangement between a first plurality of teeth on a first component coupled to a driven shaft and a corresponding second plurality of teeth on a second component coupled to a driving shaft.
US09689434B2
A hydraulic controller for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle includes at least one gear shift piston-cylinder unit having a gear shift piston for actuating a shifting element in the form of a multi-plate clutch, and a gear shift pressure chamber in which an actuating pressure may be built up by supplying operating fluid. The gear shift piston-cylinder unit has a centrifugal oil chamber that is separated from the gear shift pressure chamber by a gear shift piston. Operating fluid may be supplied to the centrifugal oil chamber via a centrifugal oil line supplied by a first supply line. The hydraulic controller has a second supply line for supplying operating fluid to the centrifugal oil line. The second supply line may be closed and opened by a centrifugal oil valve.
US09689419B2
A threaded portion with thread groove formed and non-threaded portion without the thread groove are prepared on rod-like portion of stud, and non-threaded diameter-increasing portion whose outer diameter is increasing toward thread ridge of screw portion with thread groove formed and non-threaded small diameter portion connecting to small diameter region of non-threaded diameter-increasing portion and having same diameter as that of small diameter region are prepared at threaded portion side edge of non-threaded portion. A holder is provided with stud-receiving hole which receives the rod-like portion, a first locking portion and a second locking portion. The second locking portion is engaged with the non-threaded small diameter portion in a fixedly holding status, and the second locking portion is engaged with the non-threaded diameter-increasing portion in a status that the holder is moved for a predetermined amount in a direction away from the fixedly holding status.
US09689418B2
A reduced-corrosion assembly includes a first and a second component joined by a fastener having a head and a body. A coating covers a section of the body. The assembly also includes a washer, a compression limiter, and a nut arranged on the first component and adapted to engage the fastener body to thereby tighten the assembly. When the assembly is tightened, the compression limiter is arranged on the fastener body between the first and second components, while the second component is arranged on the fastener body between the compression limiter and the washer. Furthermore, the washer is arranged on the fastener body between the fastener head and the second component, while the coating covers the body substantially up to where the nut engages the body such that corrosion of the assembly is limited or reduced. A vehicle employing the reduced-corrosion fastening system is also provided.
US09689417B2
A washer includes a domed central portion with a central opening establishing a longitudinal axis, a base wall extending in a direction radially outwardly from the axis, and an extension wall extending in a direction radially outwardly and axially away from the base wall. The washer also includes a curled radially outer periphery with a peripheral wall extending radially outwardly from the extension wall and in a direction axially away from the extension wall back toward the base wall. A fastener assembly includes the washer and a fastener having a shank extending through the central opening of the central portion. A fastener arrangement includes the fastener assembly and an object to which the fastener assembly is fastened. A product, and a related method, include a panel carried by an underlying support structure to which the shank of the fastener assembly is coupled, with the curled radially outer periphery engaging the panel.
US09689416B2
A torque limiting fastener comprising a body. The body includes a threadform, an inner bore and a controlled break region. The body defines an elongated body extending from a first end to a second end, and the body includes an outer surface. The threadform extends at least partially between the first end and the second end along the outer surface. The inner bore extends from the second end at least partially toward the first end of the body. The controlled break region is positioned between the inner bore and the outer surface. The controlled break region includes an outer surface break point formed into the outer surface and an inner surface break point formed into the inner bore. The outer surface break point and the inner surface break point defining a shear plane therebetween.
US09689413B2
The invention relates to a magnet retention member (1) which can be fitted to a wall (28) of a locking sleeve (27) for a gear mechanism, a locking sleeve (27) and a position sensor arrangement (37) for a gear mechanism. In order to be able to produce the position sensor arrangement (37) with the magnet retention member (1) and/or the locking sleeve (27) in the most cost-effective manner possible, there is provision according to the invention for the magnet retention member (1) to have a retention slot (4) for receiving a wall (28) of the locking sleeve (27), which is flanked by retention arms (2, 3) of the magnet retention member (1), the wall (28) having a securing portion (32) for the magnet retention member (1) and the position sensor (37) having a magnet retention member (1) according to the invention and/or a locking sleeve (27) according to the invention.
US09689404B2
A fan frame and a fan having temperature detecting element are provided. The fan frame includes a body and a circuit board. The body includes an inlet. The circuit board is installed around the inlet of the body. The temperature detecting element traverses the inlet. The first wire electrically connects the first contact end and the first external contact terminal. The second wire electrically connects the second contact end and the second external contact terminal. At least one of the first wire and the second wire includes a plurality of bending sections. By utilizing the bending sections of the first wire or the second wire, the length of the first wire or the second wire can be increased. Therefore, the influence in the temperature detecting element caused by the circuit board can be lowered and the error of the detecting temperature can be decreased.
US09689397B2
A turbocharger for an internal combustion engine includes a rotating assembly having a turbine wheel disposed inside a turbine housing and a compressor wheel disposed inside a compressor cover. The turbine housing defines a turbine outlet cavity, a turbine housing inlet, and a turbine housing outlet. The turbine housing inlet is configured to channel engine post-combustion gases to the turbine wheel and the turbine housing outlet is configured to exhaust the gases aft of the turbine wheel. A diffuser arranged inside the turbine outlet cavity is configured to channel the post-combustion gases aft of the turbine wheel and out to the turbine housing outlet, without discharging into the turbine outlet cavity.
US09689385B2
The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for operating a multi-phase pump which has a suction-side inlet (10) and a discharge-side outlet (20) and which pumps a multi-phase mixture charged with solids, comprising the following steps: a. pumping a multi-phase mixture into a discharge-side separation chamber (45), b. separating a gaseous phase from a liquid phase and a solid phase in the separation chamber (45), c. separating the liquid phase from the solid phase in the separation chamber (45), and d. supplying a portion of the liquid phase freed from the solid phase to the suction side.
US09689380B2
An actuator device for a rearview device of a motor vehicle includes at least one retaining element, at least one adjusting element, at least one driving means, and at least one heat-conducting means. The adjusting element is configured to be transferred into a plurality of functional positions, in particular from a basic position into at least one end position. The driving means includes at least one shape-memory element in the form of a wire, extending between the retaining element and the adjusting element and configured to be secured to both. Extension of the shape-memory element can be modified when electrically energized. The adjusting element can be transferred from one functional position into another functional position by modifying the extension. The heat-conducting means lies in contact with the driving means at least in the end position of the adjusting element. At least one switching means provides no contact between the driving means and the heat-conducting means in the basic position of the adjusting element and causes contact between the driving means and the heat-conducting means.
US09689379B2
A mechanism to create rotational mechanical advantage from an acceleration field consisting of a gravity arm assembly (14) rotationally connected in a horizontal plane to a gimbal assembly (41). A powered action arm assembly (21) rotationally connected in a horizontal plane, adjacent to the first arm assembly, to the gimbal assembly (41). A counterweight arm assembly (72), connecting at one end to a gearbox assembly (64) and connecting at the opposite end to an attachment mounting assembly (87), all vertically connected to the gimbal assembly (41). A mounting stand assembly (80) to rotationally connect to the gimbal assembly (41). An electrical control assembly (100) to controllably power the action arm assembly. The gravity arm and action arm assemblies are balanced about the gimbal assembly by the counterweight arm assemblies. The action arm assembly rotates about the axis of the gravity arm assembly, creating an imbalance in the gimbal assembly, causing the gravity arm assembly to rotate, and the counterweight arm assembly to swing, all in the same direction of the action arm assembly.
US09689378B2
The invention proposes a device (1000) and a method for storing and transporting a wind turbine blade (100). The blade (100) is inserted between an upper structure (220) and a lower structure (240) applying a clamping force on the blade surface. The magnitude of the clamping force can be adjusted by way of a device (400) comprising an elastic member (440) arranged between the upper structure (220) and the lower structure (240) during operation. The magnitude of the elastic force exerted by the elastic element (420) is proportional to the magnitude of the clamping force. Furthermore, the magnitude of the elastic force linearly depends on the amount of compression of the elastic element (440) with respect to a characteristic rest length.
US09689377B2
Wind turbine rotor blade having an electrical heating device and a plurality of lightning conductors
A wind turbine rotor blade includes: a rotor blade root; a rotor blade tip; an electrical heating device; a first lightning receptor disposed in the region of the rotor blade tip; precisely two lightning conductors leading from the lightning receptor to the rotor blade root; a second lightning receptor arranged at a distance to the rotor blade tip and connected to one of the lightning conductors; and, each one of the two lightning conductors being electrically conductively connected to the electrical heating device at a multiplicity of points between the rotor blade root and the rotor blade tip so as to cause equipotential bonding between the two lightning conductors via the electrical heating device in response to a lightning strike to the rotor blade.
US09689370B2
Apparatus for converting wave motion on a body of water into electrical power includes an electrical power generating system. The system includes a floatable housing. An electrical power generating unit is disposed within the floatable housing. The electrical power generating unit includes two spaced apart wheels which are connected by a drive element, and at least one generator for generating electrical power. A weight is connected to the drive element. When the system is tilted by wave motion, the weight moves toward the lower wheel, thereby turning the wheels and generator(s) and creating electrical power. In an embodiment, two weights are combined to provide drive element movement in a single direction. In another embodiment, the weight travels along a track which has two upturned ends.
US09689367B2
A method for determining the starting capability of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, which can be started by an electric motor powered by a battery, including detecting first battery parameter values during a successful starting sequence of the internal combustion engine at a first time, detecting second battery parameter values at a second time following the first time, determining at the second time the expected battery voltage for a starting sequence of the internal combustion engine taking place at a third time based on the detected first and second battery parameter values, and comparing the battery voltage expected at the third time with a predetermined threshold value in order to derive therefrom the starting capability of the internal combustion engine.
US09689354B1
An exhaust gas recirculation system for an engine is provided. The system comprises an exhaust duct configured to receive and exhaust gases from the engine; an exhaust gas recirculation duct configured to recirculate a portion of the exhaust gases within the exhaust duct to the intake of the engine; and at least one recirculation treatment device provided in the exhaust gas recirculation duct, wherein the recirculation treatment device comprises a catalyst configured to encourage removal of contaminants from the recirculated exhaust gases.
US09689351B2
A fuel vapor treatment apparatus of a vehicle in which a supercharger that supercharges intake air is provided at an intake passage of an internal combustion engine includes a pump controller that drives a pump, a gas passage pressure detector that is provided between a canister and the pump in a gas passage and detects pressure of the gas passage, and an abnormality determining module that determines whether an upstream-side purge passage has an abnormality, on the basis of the pressure detected by the gas passage pressure detector. The pump controller drives the pump when an upstream-side valve is in an opened state. The abnormality determining module determines whether the upstream-side purge passage has an abnormality, on the basis of the pressure detected by the gas passage pressure detector after the upstream-side valve enters the opened state and the pump is driven.
US09689349B2
A fuel evaporative emission control apparatus executes a first leak presence/absence determination for determining the presence or absence of leaks of fuel evaporative gases based on the detection results of a tank pressure detection portion, with a first opening/closing portion being closed, a second opening/closing portion being opened, and a third opening/closing portion being closed. The fuel evaporative emission control apparatus can determine whether leaks of fuel evaporative gases are present or absent, can pinpoint the location of the leaks, and can detect a sensor abnormality.
US09689342B2
Systems and methods for improving fuel injection of an engine that includes a cylinder receiving fuel from a direct fuel injector are disclosed. In one example, a transfer function or gain of a direct fuel injector is adjusted in response to an exhaust lambda value and a first pulse width of two pulse widths provided to an injector of a cylinder during a cylinder cycle.
US09689339B2
An engine assembly includes an internal combustion engine with an engine block having at least one cylinder. An intake manifold and an exhaust manifold are each fluidly connected to the at least one cylinder and define an intake manifold pressure (pi) and an exhaust manifold pressure (pe), respectively. A controller is operatively connected to the internal combustion engine and configured to receive a torque request (TR). The controller is programmed to determine a desired fuel mass (mf) for controlling a torque output of the internal combustion engine. The desired fuel mass (mf) is based at least partially on the torque request (TR), the intake and exhaust manifold pressures and a pressure-volume (PV) diagram of the at least one cylinder.
US09689332B2
A method for the rapid restarting of an internal combustion engine that is slowing down at a reduced supplied air volume, in which the supplied air volume is increased again following a detected restart request and an ignitable fuel/air mixture is produced by a fuel injection in an intake cylinder that is in the intake cycle when the supplied air volume is increased, and the mixture is ignited in the intake cylinder to produce a combustion in the power cycle of the intake cylinder.
US09689324B2
A vaporized fuel processing apparatus has a closing valve provided in a vapor path connecting an adsorbent canister to the fuel tank, a pressure sensor configured to detect the inner pressure of the fuel tank, and an electric control unit configured to determine whether the amount of increase in the inner pressure of the fuel tank is within an acceptable range or not, to learn a valve opening start position of the closing valve when the inner pressure of the fuel tank is reduced by an amount not less than a predetermined value, and to stop or prohibit the learning of the valve opening start position of the closing valve when the amount of increase in the inner pressure of the fuel tank is not within the acceptable range during or before the learning of the valve opening start position of the closing valve.
US09689322B2
A vehicle includes an engine having cylinders in fluid communication with an intake air flow, a mass air flow (MAF) sensor positioned with respect to the intake air flow which outputs a pulse train signal describing the frequency of the intake air flow, and a controller. The controller includes a calibrated non-linear conversion curve recorded in memory. The controller executes a method to convert the frequency data into a corresponding mass air flow using the calibrated non-linear conversion curve, determines the instantaneous mass air flow value at each leading or trailing edge of the pulse train signal, and accumulates the instantaneous mass air flow values over a calibrated duration. A time-weighted average of the accumulated mass air flow values is then used to execute a control action. The controller includes a host computer device and memory storing the curve and instructions for executing the method.
US09689315B2
A bleed valve includes inlet and outlet housings, a hollow shaft defining a valve axis, and a full-area piston. The shaft includes a first end mounted to an inner diameter portion of the inlet housing and a second end mounted to an end cap of the outlet housing. The piston is slidably mounted to the shaft. A first chamber is defined between an upstream side of the piston and the inner diameter portion of the inlet housing. A second chamber is defined between a downstream side of the piston and the end cap of the outlet housing. An area of an upstream surface of the piston at an angle with respect to the valve axis is in fluid communication with the first chamber, and is substantially equal to an area of a downstream surface of the piston at an angle with respect to the valve axis and in fluid communication with the second chamber.
US09689314B2
A turbomachine intermediate casing including an internal hub designed to accept a turbomachine compressor shaft, an outer shell ring, and a plurality of radial arms connecting the hub and the shell ring, one of the arms including an internal housing of radial shaft for driving auxiliary machines, the casing further includes a bevel gearbox for the radial shaft arranged in the outer shell ring, the gearbox being formed as one with the outer shell ring, and the bevel gearbox includes a housing for gears between a radial shaft and an accessories gearbox, the housing including an opening opening to the periphery of the outer shell ring.
US09689304B2
A thermal regulation device for a cooling system of an engine that includes a pump positioned upstream from a cooling housing of the engine and at least one consumer requiring permanent cooling. The device includes a main pipe for circulating coolant through the cooling housing and a secondary pipe bypassing the cooling housing. A two-way valve is positioned on the main pipe at the outlet of the cooling housing of the engine, and the secondary pipe includes a tapping on the main pipe downstream from the pump and upstream from a portion of the main pipe used for cooling the engine so that the flow is maintained at a constant and permanent level for ensuring the cooling of the at least one consumer.
US09689302B2
An exhaust manifold for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine is disclosed having a housing, an inlet flange which can be fixed to the cylinder head of the internal combustion engine and has a plurality of inlet openings, and an exhaust outlet. The housing comprises an inner shell and an outer shell, an insulating material being incorporated between the outer shell and the inner shell. A guide plate is provided on the inlet flange side of the inner shell and the outer shell. The guide plate has inflow openings which correspond with the inlet openings of the inlet flange and is joined to the inlet flange. The outer shell engages with its inlet flange-side edge around the guide plate and is joined to the inlet flange and the guide plate.
US09689300B2
An engine control system is provided and includes an engine having combustion chambers and provides driving torque through combustion of a fuel injected into the combustion chambers. A turbocharger includes a turbine rotated according to flow energy of exhaust gas, a compressor compressing external air, and a vane adjusting amount of exhaust gas supplied to the turbine. An EGR device recirculates exhaust gas to the combustion chamber. An exhaust manifold includes a body with an internal fluid path, exhaust inlets in which exhaust gas is introduced, a partition to form internal fluid paths, and an exhaust outlet to which exhaust gas is exhausted. Temperature sensors measure temperature of exhaust gas flowing through the internal fluid paths. A controller adjusts an opening amount of the vane of the turbocharger, exhaust gas recirculated using the EGR device, and fuel to be injected to the combustion chambers based on measured temperature.
US09689295B1
Methods and systems are provided for exhaust gas heat recovery at an exhaust gas heat exchanger. Exhaust gas may flow in both directions through an exhaust bypass passage and the heat exchanger coupled to the bypass passage. Hot or cold EGR may be delivered from the exhaust passage to the engine intake manifold and heat from the exhaust gas may be recovered at the heat exchanger.
US09689293B2
A reductant delivery unit reduces nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from a vehicle. The delivery unit includes a solenoid operated fluid injector having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The inlet receives a source of reducing agent and the outlet communicates with an exhaust gas flow path of the vehicle so that the fluid injector controls injection of the reducing agent into the exhaust gas flow path. The fluid injector has an inlet tube for directing the reducing agent between the inlet and the outlet. A coil heater is integral with the fluid injector and is constructed and arranged, when energized, to inductively heat the inlet tube and thus at least a portion of the reducing agent so that an unheated volume, of the reducing agent in the inlet tube, which is adjacent to the fluid outlet, is less than about 100 mm3.
US09689291B2
According to one embodiment, a diesel exhaust fluid purging system includes a metering valve with a supply port and a delivery port. The purging system also includes a pump assembly that is fluidly connected to the supply port of the metering valve. The pump assembly includes a pump and a single supply line that is fluidly connectable with a diesel exhaust fluid source. The purging system further includes an injection assembly that is fluidly connected to the delivery port of the metering valve. The injection assembly includes an air supply line that is fluidly connectable with an air supply source. Additionally, the purging system includes a controller in electrical communication with the metering valve, the pump assembly, and the injection assembly. The controller is configured to purge the pump assembly of residual diesel exhaust fluid using air from the air supply line.
US09689282B2
A variable valve lift apparatus that changes a lift of a valve in an engine may include an outer body selectively pivoting based on rotation of a cam, having a first end configured to be connected with a valve and a second end mounted with a pivot shaft, and having an internal space formed in the outer body, an inner body pivoting based on rotation of the cam, disposed in the internal space of the outer body, and having a first end rotatably connected to the first end of the outer body, a connecting shaft disposed through the first end of the outer body and the first end of the inner body and connecting the outer body and the inner body to each other, and a lost motion spring having a portion fixed to the outer body and another portion fixed to the inner body.
US09689278B2
A rotor disk comprises a plurality of circumferentially distributed hooks, the set of hooks defining an annular groove adapted to cooperate with at least two flange sectors. At least one of the hooks comprises a second element through which a recess is formed which opens up at each of the transverse flanks of the second element and at the internal peripheral surface of the second element.
US09689276B2
A gas turbine engine includes an annular casing and a plurality of shroud segments forming an annular shroud. The annular shroud forms with the annular casing an annular cavity therebetween. The annular cavity includes an inlet and an outlet. An annular ring assembly is disposed in the annular cavity between the casing and the shroud and cooperating therewith to provide a first annular chamber and a second annular chamber. The annular ring assembly and a first portion of the shroud form the first annular chamber. The annular ring assembly and a second portion of the shroud form the second annular chamber. The annular ring assembly forms an intermediate annular chamber disposed between the first annular chamber and the second annular chamber. A flow path for coolant air is sequentially defined through the inlet, the first annular chamber, the intermediate annular chamber, the second annular chamber and the outlet.
US09689275B2
A variable geometry turbo system that controls a flow of exhaust gas introduced into a turbine of a turbo charger may include a vane base ring in which the turbine may be positioned at a center thereof, a fixed vane which may be fixed onto a first surface of the vane base ring to guide the exhaust gas introduced into the turbine, a variable vane which may be pivotally positioned on the first surface of the vane base ring and adjacent to the fixed vane so as to vary a flow path of the exhaust gas introduced into the turbine, a vane cover ring fixed to the vane base ring with the fixed vane and the variable vane interposed therebetween, and an actuating module coupled to the variable vane and selectively actuating the variable vane.
US09689274B2
A variable geometry turbine comprises: a turbine wheel in a housing assembly defining a radial gas flow inlet passage; an annular wall member which is displaceable to control gas flow through the inlet passage; and a linkage mechanism comprising at least one actuating member operably connected to the annular wall member to control displacement of the wall member. The actuating member has a terminal portion defining a radially extending flange and extends in a direction substantially parallel to the turbine axis through an aperture defined by a retaining member to locate the radially extending flange in between said retaining member and annular wall member. The terminal portion is contacted by the retaining member to connect the actuating member to the annular wall member. The aperture defines a clearance to accommodate displacement of the retaining member relative to the actuating member.
US09689273B2
Described is a shroud arrangement for a gas turbine engine, comprising: a seal segment for bounding a hot gas flow path within the gas turbine engine, the seal segment being attached to a casing of the engine via at least one fore attachment and at least one aft attachment, the fore and aft attachment restricting radial movement of the seal segment relative to the engine casing; and, an axial restrictor which prevents axial movement of the seal segment relative to the engine casing, the axis being the principal rotational axis of the engine, wherein the fore and aft retention features are slidably engaged with a carrier segment or engine casing from a common direction. Also described is a gas turbine engine having the shroud arrangement.
US09689267B2
A blade wheel for a rotary electric machine may include a hollow cylindrical main body having an outer surface extending around an axis of rotation in a circumferential direction of the main body; a first end region and a second end region of the main body, each peripherally extending around the main body in the circumferential direction, the first and second end regions lying opposite each other in the direction of the axis of rotation; a recess extending along the outer surface and between the first end region and the second end region of the main body in the circumferential direction; and at least one web-shaped vortexing element extending within the recess and between the first and second end regions. The at least one vortexing element is designed to generate a movement of air away from the outer surface when the blade wheel rotates about the axis of rotation.
US09689266B2
A production facility for forming elongated products, in particular wind turbine blades, includes elongated mould assemblies that may be accessed on the basis of an appropriate transport system which includes at least one support member laterally positioned between the elongated mould assemblies. The support member is positioned so as to enable a rotational movement of an arm or is configured to change position or includes a rotatable carrier element. The support member may be positioned in a non-interference position, in which one or both mould assemblies can be moved into a position so as to form a composite mould assembly.
US09689259B2
An engine may include a cylinder having a first combustion chamber at one end thereof and a second combustion chamber at an opposing end thereof, first and second cylinder heads at an end of the first combustion chamber and the second combustion chamber, respectively, and a double-faced piston slidably mounted within the cylinder. The piston may be configured to move in a first stroke from the first end to the second end of the cylinder. The piston and the cylinder may be configured such that the first stroke includes an expansion stroke portion during which chemical energy from combustion in the first combustion chamber is converted into mechanical power of the piston, and a momentum stroke portion during which the piston continues to move to the second end of the cylinder and gases are exchanged between the first combustion chamber and a location outside the cylinder.
US09689256B2
Methods and systems for evaluating the subterranean formation of a wellbore are provided. In one embodiment, a geographical orientation of a downhole tool relative to Earth may be determined. The downhole tool may include a coring tool positioned to extract a core sample from a formation of the Earth. The orientation of the core sample with respect to the downhole tool also may be determined. Further, based on the geographical orientation of the downhole tool and the orientation of the coring sample, a geographical orientation of the core sample with respect to the Earth may be determined.
US09689253B2
A method of monitoring a reservoir during an oil recovery process includes placing a plurality of electrodes proximate the reservoir, injecting a nanoparticle dispersion into the reservoir with an injection fluid, and recording a current measurement and a voltage measurement from the plurality of electrodes with an electronic control module during the oil recovery process.
US09689249B2
Disclosed are systems and method for automating downhole drilling based on the profile and energy of the wellbore being drilled. One method includes advancing a bottom hole assembly (BHA) within a subterranean formation and thereby forming a wellbore along an actual wellbore path, the BHA including a controller module, one or more sensors, and a steering assembly, taking survey measurements with the sensors at two or more survey stations along the actual wellbore path, comparing the survey measurements with data corresponding to a planned wellbore path, determining a return path based on minimum energy of the actual wellbore path when the actual wellbore path has deviated from the planned wellbore path, and conveying a corrective command signal to the steering assembly in order to reorient a trajectory of the actual wellbore path such that it returns to the planned wellbore path.
US09689247B2
A propellant tool for use in a hydrocarbon bearing formation. The tool includes a tubular body having a connector on each end for connection with other tubular members within a tubular string. A coded marker is positioned on the tubular body and a propellant chamber is positioned on an outside surface of the tubular body. A propellant ignition mechanism positioned on the tubular body for igniting the propellant in the propellant chamber.
US09689246B2
Downhole stimulation devices include an energetic material disposed within a housing and an initiator for igniting the energetic material. The initiator may comprise a shaped charge configured to produce a projectile to penetrate the energetic material to ignite the energetic material. The housing of the device may comprise a continuous outer surface. Methods of operating a downhole stimulation device include initiating an energetic material disposed within a housing of the stimulation device in order to burn the energetic material in a laterally extending direction transverse to a depth of a borehole in which the stimulation device is disposed.
US09689238B2
A wellbore perforating system and method with reliable and safer connections in a perforating gun assembly is disclosed. The system/method includes a gun string assembly (GSA) deployed in a wellbore with multiple perforating guns attached to plural switch subs. The perforating guns are pre-wired with a cable having multi conductors; the multi conductors are connected to electrical ring contacts on either end of the perforating guns. The switch subs are configured with electrical contacts that are attached to the electrical contacts of the perforating guns without the need for manual electrical connections and assembly in the field of operations. The system further includes detonating with a detonator that is positioned upstream of the perforating gun. The detonator is wired to a switch that is positioned downstream of the perforating gun.
US09689231B2
A wellbore isolation device comprises: a first material and a second material, wherein the first material and the second material form a galvanic couple and wherein the first material is the anode and the second material is the cathode of the galvanic couple, and wherein the second material is a fiber or a plurality of fibers. A method of removing the wellbore isolation device comprises: contacting or allowing the wellbore isolation device to come in contact with an electrolyte; and causing or allowing at least a portion of the first material to dissolve.
US09689220B2
A setting tool (10) for use in a downhole wellbore is described as having a hydraulic fluid pumping mechanism (78) for providing pressurized hydraulic fluid. A piston mechanism (116) is moveable by said pressurized hydraulic fluid acting upon a portion of the piston mechanism (116). A resetting mechanism (84) is provided which when operated releases the pressurized hydraulic fluid from acting upon said portion of the piston (116) and which results in the resetting of the setting tool (10). In addition, a method for resetting a setting tool (10) is described including the steps of: (i) running the setting tool (10) downhole; (ii) actuating the setting tool (10) and thereby deploying an apparatus (203) downhole; (iii) retrieving the setting tool (10) to surface; and (iv) bleeding off pressure to reset the setting tool (10).
US09689212B2
The present invention provides a system and method for directional drilling of a borehole in a formation along a predetermined trajectory. The method comprising the steps of: providing a directional drilling system, comprising a rotatable drill string comprising a first drill string section and a second drill string section; a drill bit connected to a downhole end of the drill string; and a coupling sub comprising a first end connected to the first drill string section; a second end connected to the second drill string section; a hinge member between the first end and the second end allowing hinging of the second end relative to the first end; and locking means, operable between a hinge mode and a locking mode for locking the hinge member to prevent hinging of the second end relative to the first end; operating the directional drilling system with the locking means in the locking mode to drill a substantially straight section of the trajectory; and operating the directional drilling system with the locking means in the hinge mode to drill a curved section of the trajectory.
US09689203B1
A barrier opening system for emergency escape and rescue comprises a vertical acting barrier device, an escape device, and a rescue device, the vertical acting barrier device winds a barrier via a winding shaft; a prestressed spring preloaded on the winding shaft for storing a restoring force when the barrier is unwound by the winding shaft; a brake mechanism for stopping the winding shaft from rotating; a brake release mechanism for releasing the winding shaft under an abnormal condition; an escape device comprising an identification unit and a master key for activating the brake release mechanism; the identification unit identifies a rescue personnel's identity before allowing the personnel to use the master key to activate the brake release mechanism; when the emergency button and/or the master key activate(s) the brake release mechanism to release the winding shaft, the barrier can be lifted up by the restoring force.
US09689202B2
A roll control device for a vehicle curtain has a damper, a speed-reduction device, and a unidirectional transmission device. The speed-reduction device is connected to the damper and has a sleeve, a gear mount, and multiple planet gears. The sleeve is hollow and has multiple inner teeth annularly arranged in the sleeve. The gear mount is mounted in and extends out of the sleeve and is connected to the damper. The planet gears are mounted rotatably on the gear mount and engage with the inner teeth in the sleeve. The unidirectional transmission assembly is connected to the speed-reduction device and has a transmission member and a unidirectional transmission device. The transmission member has a gear segment extending into the gear mount and engaging with the planet gears. The unidirectional transmission device is connected to the transmission member to control the transmission member to rotate in unidirectional.
US09689192B2
The present application refers to a closing system for through openings, comprising a quick opening door provided with a vertically moveable flexible panel, running between a pair of vertical guides and being attached by its upper end to a motor driven drum for its actuation, the system having in combination with the quick opening door a fire door mounted with capacity to move between an opening position and closing position, being the quick opening door and the fire door arranged for its alternate actuation.
US09689190B2
The present invention provides an intelligent control system for remote control of doors and windows, comprising an intelligent control end, a server and a control terminal of doors and windows. The intelligent control end sends a remote control command to the control terminal of doors and windows through the server. The control terminal of doors and windows processes the received remote control command and executes a corresponding control action to finish remote control of doors and windows, wherein the control terminal of doors and windows comprises an MCU. The MCU is connected with a signal receiving/transmission component, a mechanical component for control of doors and windows, a detection component of doors and windows, a position detection component of doors and windows and an anti-theft component. In the intelligent control system for remote control of doors and windows of the present invention, the intelligent control end sends a control signal to a remote control terminal of doors and windows for realizing remote control of doors and windows. The intelligent control system has the characteristics of simple system design, ultra-low power consumption and large-scale use, and can be used for remote control of diversified doors and windows like skylights, flat open doors and windows, doors and windows opened inside and outside, sliding doors and windows, etc.
US09689189B1
The present invention relates to a gate. More specifically, the present invention relates to a gate having at least one arm, wherein the at least one arm is configured to extend and retract. When the at least one arm is substantially extended, the at least one arm substantially prevents access through the gate. When the at least one arm is substantially retracted, the at least one arm no longer substantially prevents access through the gate.
US09689186B2
A hinge and an electronic device are provided according to the present application. The hinge includes a spindle, a spindle sleeve arranged with respect to the spindle, and a first material with a variable state arranged between the spindle and the spindle sleeve, and a torsion of the spindle is variable according to the variable state of the first material. The electronic device includes the hinge, a first body and a second body; and the first body and the second body are rotatably connected via the hinge.
US09689185B2
A hinge assembly is disclosed that may include one or more leaves that can be connected to a panel. The hinge assembly may further include a barrel having a passage through which a pivot pin passes. A spacer is positioned in an opening between a first barrel section and a second barrel section. Bushings are disposed within the first and second barrel sections.
US09689184B2
A door outside handle for a vehicle may include a handle lever configured to be mounted on a grip handle, a rotating lever configured to be rotatably connected with the handle lever via a lever shaft, and a rotating lever restriction part configured to be included in the handle lever and the rotating lever and release a restriction of the rotating lever to rotate the rotating lever when side crash accidents occur and restrict the rotation of the rotating lever when the side crash accidents do not occur.
US09689171B1
A staging transport assembly comprises a base plate, an L-shaped attachment piece, a fastener to couple the base plate to the L-shaped attachment piece, a support plate comprising a first surface and an opposing second surface where the second surface is coupled to the base plate, and at least two wheels coupled to the first surface of the support plate. The base plate comprises a first edge having a first protrusion and a second opposing edge having a second protrusion and further comprises a first surface and a second opposing surface. The L-shaped attachment piece includes a short side comprising a cavity configured to receive the first protrusion of the base plate, a first end terminating in a lip, and a second opposing end coupled with a long side disposed along a portion of the first surface of the base plate when the cavity is mated with the first protrusion.
US09689170B1
A cleaning apparatus and method for cleaning generally upright surfaces, walls and windows of a building has a frame rotatably supporting one or more brushes adapted to engage the upright surface of a building. A davit supported on top of the building is connected to a cable pendently supporting the frame and brushes. A winch driven with a motor mounted on the frame operably connected to the cable operates to move the frame and brushes relative to the upright surface. A counterforce generator mounted on the frame establishes a force on the frame and brushes that maintains the brushes in effective continuous engagement with the upright surface during cleaning thereof.
US09689162B2
An insulating wall assembly features a plurality of insulation panels fitted together end-to-end and each having least one slot in a side thereof facing into an interior space of a building. At each slot, a respective set of supports each have an insertion portion engaged in the slot and a fastening portion reaching outwardly from said slot past the first face of the insulation panel. A respective framing member is fastened to each set of supports with a longitudinal dimension of said framing member running along the slot in which said set of supports are engaged. Each framing member has a first leg fastened face-to-face with the fastening portions of the respective set of supports and a second leg facing away from the insulation panels to present a surface for fastening of wall-finishing panels thereto. Holes in the supports accommodate electrical wiring or other lines within the finished wall assembly.
US09689156B2
Disclosed is a plumbing fixture (e.g. a bidet or toilet) of the type having a frontal basin and means for directing a supply of water to the basin for cleaning the basin. The plumbing fixture includes a modular housing mountable behind the basin and at least one control positioned in the modular housing to control operation of the plumbing fixture. The control may be selected from the group Consisting of light controls, bidet wand position controls, bidet wand heated air supply controls, bidet wand water supply controls, lid position movement controls, seat position movement controls, deodorizer controls, audio device controls and ultra violet sanitizer controls.
US09689155B2
A flush water volume regulator is provided, capable of constraining the occurrence of a buoyancy force acting on a water reservoir, whereby flush water in the water reservoir can be circulated with flush water in a flush water tank outside the water reservoir. The flush water volume regulator 38 of the invention has a water reservoir, being a water reservoir 40 disposed inside this flush water tank 16, capable of storing a predetermined amount of flush water, on which an opening 40a through which flush water within water reservoir 40 and flush water outside water reservoir 40 can pass, and an opening-closing valve 42 for opening 40a during the standby state before starting a flush and for blocking opening 40a or reducing the opening surface area of opening 40a when the water level inside flush water tank 16 is dropping after starting a flush.
US09689151B2
A sink comprising a basin, a rim extending outwardly from the basin, a support member in the form of a channel coupled to an underside of a portion of the rim to increase the rigidity of the rim, and a mounting element operatively coupled to the channel and configured to secure the rim to a fixture.
US09689146B2
A securing apparatus including a first and second component. The first component has an opening extending along an axis. The elongated member has a piston hole penetrating the first component and aligned with the opening. A piston is located within the piston hole, and is complimentary shaped to sit within the piston. A pressure member is located within the opening, and an activator is configured to coordinate with and extend into the opening. The activator applies a force to the pressure member and distorts the pressure member. The second component, which compliments and mates with the first component, has an engaging surface that coordinates with an end of the piston. The force applied to the pressure member causes the pressure member to distort and apply pressure to the piston to extend the piston outward to interact with the engaging surface of the second component to restrain the second component.
US09689131B2
A water repellent sand layer that is made of water repellent sand and serves as a water shield layer is provided to be slanted between upper and lower soil layers, a water conveying belt portion is provided to include at least one or both of gravel and a culvert that are provided between the water repellent sand layer and the upper soil layer, and a water shield wall is provided at a slant downstream side. Water falling and permeating from a ground surface into the soil layer is blocked by the water repellent sand layer, flows downward in the water conveying belt portion located above the water repellent sand layer to the slant downstream side, and is blocked by the water shield wall at the slant downstream side, so that the collected water is recovered from a drain hole in the culvert that penetrates the water shield wall.
US09689124B2
A guardrail extruder head includes: top and bottom feeder channels; an impact plate; a top plate connecting the impact plate to the top feeder channel; a bottom plate connecting the impact plate to the bottom feeder channel; a front extruder plate coupled between the top and bottom plates; a curved deflector plate attached to the front extruder plate and coupled between the top and bottom plates; a front brace on the front extruder plate near the curved deflector plate and coupled between the top and bottom plates; a back extruder plate opposite to the front extruder plate and coupled between the top and bottom plates; a front side plate and a back side plate positioned between the top and bottom feeder channels; a back brace on the back extruder plate near the feeder channels and coupled between the top and bottom plates; and an impact force transfer brace coupled to the front brace and the impact plate.
US09689120B2
In a method for optimizing a cutting process in milling machines which are used to machine road coverings, which comprise a milling device fitted with milling tools which is sprayed with liquid in order to cool the milling tools, in addition to a drive motor, the following steps are provided: detection of the at least one parameter which is representative of the instantaneous power output of the milling device and controlling the amount of cooling liquid supplied according to the at least one parameter which is representative of the instantaneous power output of the milling device.
US09689119B2
A self-propelled construction machine includes machine frame that is laterally extendible to adjust a width of the machine frame. A frame lock can selectively lock and unlock the machine frame to permit the width adjustment. A controller includes a frame extension mode configured to steer at least one ground engaging unit to provide a lateral force to adjust the width of the machine frame as the machine is driven across the ground surface by the ground engaging units.
US09689116B2
A support (32) adapted to be used in place of ballast in supporting a rail support member (31) of a rail track comprises a body (50). The body (50) includes a lower face (70) for resting on a support surface, and an upper surface (71) for supporting the rail support member (31).
US09689115B2
Substrates for paperboard packing with improved internal sizing including the use of a combination of a dispersed rosin size (DRS) with an alkenylsuccinic anhydride size for reducing edgewicking with less use of the sizing agents.
US09689109B2
A method of the present disclosure includes a first operation of supplying hot air to laundry until the dryness of the laundry has reached a predetermined standard dryness, and a second operation of alternately performing a moisture supply operation of supplying moisture to the laundry and a hot air supply operation of supplying hot air to the laundry.
US09689092B2
Articles of knit fabric having a surface side and a base side, and including a set of ground yarns and a layer of effect yarns, wherein the ground yarns and effect yarns are knit through intermesh points in a predetermined arrangement, wherein the effect yarns are alternately arranged with the ground yarns, and wherein the ground yarns contain at least one elastic fiber and optionally at least one hard fiber, and the effect yarns contain at least one hard fiber or at least one elastic fiber are provided.
US09689090B2
In an open-end spinning rotor with a rotor cup, and with a rotor shaft, through which the spinning rotor is supported in a bearing, the rotor shaft and the rotor cup are detachably connected to each other through a coupling device. The coupling device includes a positive-locking connection for the transmission of the turning moment between the rotor cup and the rotor shaft, along with a magnetic device for the axial connection of the rotor shaft and the rotor cup. The rotor shaft features at least one projection with a one turning moment-transmitting area, which engages in a recess of the rotor cup with a turning moment-transmitting counter-area. A socket for a permanent magnet is arranged on the rotor cup.
US09689088B2
The present invention relates to a method of washing animal fibers comprising contacting the animal fibers with a surfactant composition comprising a mixture of alcohol ethoxylate surfactants and optionally at least one propoxylated surfactant.
US09689086B2
A wing electrode is configured by disposing at least a wing in a circumferential direction at equal intervals, the wing having a specific width in an axial direction of the electrode shaft and a tip in a shape corresponding to an inner surface of the hollow tube. A housing tube is arranged concentrically to the electrode shaft and to house the wing electrode by winding the respective wings around the electrode shaft. A slit of the housing tube is arranged in the axial direction so as to correspond to each wing. A diameter adjustment unit is operable to expand and contract each wing in the radial direction by rotating the electrode shaft and the housing tube relatively after inserting each wing into the slit of the housing tube. As a matter of course, the electrolyte is filled in the hollow tube at any time before the electrolytic treatment.
US09689082B2
An electroplating apparatus has a vessel for holding electrolyte. A head has a rotor including a contact ring for holding a wafer having a notch. The contact ring includes a perimeter voltage ring having perimeter contact fingers for contacting the wafer around the perimeter of the wafer, except at the notch. The contact ring also has a notch contact segment having one or more notch contact fingers for contacting the wafer at the notch. The perimeter voltage ring is insulated from the notch contact segment. A negative voltage source is connected to the perimeter voltage ring, and a positive voltage source connected to the notch contact segment. The positive voltage applied at the notch reduces the current crowding effect at the notch. The wafer is plated with a film having more uniform thickness.
US09689069B2
In some examples, an article may include a superalloy substrate and a coating on the superalloy substrate. In accordance with this example, the coating includes a diffusion barrier layer on the substrate and a wear resistant oxide layer over the diffusion barrier layer. The diffusion barrier layer may include iridium and the wear resistant oxide layer may include at least one of silica, zirconia, or chromia.
US09689068B2
A method of creating a localized deposition on a sample in a vacuum chamber having an ion source generating a positively-charged beam of ions and a separate source of primary radiation generating a beam of radiation. An ion beam from the ion source is directed toward the sample, and the primary radiation beam is applied to the sample to generate emitted electrons from the sample. The ion beam and the primary radiation beam are positioned so that the paths of at least some of the ions in the ion beam and the paths of at least some of the emitted electrons from the sample substantially overlap in space near the sample surface. The energy of the ions in the ion beam and the electric potential of the sample are adjusted to substantially prevent deposition of ions on the sample. The energy of the ions in the ion beam and the electric potential of the sample are adjusted so that a portion of the ions in the ion beam are neutralized by the emitted electrons from the sample, and such neutralized ions continue in their respective paths to deposit on the sample.
US09689065B2
A stack includes a substrate, a magnetic recording layer having a columnar structure, and an interlayer disposed between the substrate and the magnetic recording layer. The columnar structure includes magnetic grains separated by a crystalline segregant or a combination of crystalline and amorphous segregants.
US09689064B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of incorporating lithium into a coating. One may supply a substrate having a coating containing aluminum ions and immersing the substrate including the coating containing aluminum ions in a water-soluble diketone including lithium for exchange where the ketone carbonyls are separated by at least one carbon atom. This may then be followed by exchanging a portion of the aluminum ions with lithium ions from the diketone solution. Such coatings may have improved chemical resistance.
US09689053B2
The present invention inexpensively provides with high productivity and good yield a steel rod superior in drawability and a steel wire superior in twistability using the same as a material, that is, draws a high strength steel rod superior in ductility where the chemical components contain C: 0.80 to 1.20%, Si: 0.1 to 1.5%, Mn: 0.1 to 1.0%, Al: 0.01% or less, Ti: 0.01% or less, one or both of W: 0.005 to 0.2% and Mo: 0.003 to 0.2%, N: 10 to 30 ppm, B: 4 to 30 ppm (of which, solute B is 3 ppm or more), and O: 10 to 40 ppm, which has a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, has an area percentage of pearlite structures of 97% or more, has a balance of non-pearlite structures, and has a total of the area percentage of the non-pearlite structures and the area percentage of the coarse pearlite structures of 15% or less, to obtain high strength steel wire superior in ductility having a tensile strength of 3600 MPa or more and a number density of voids of lengths of 5 μm or more at the center of 100/mm2 or less.
US09689051B2
A hollow seamless pipe for a high-strength spring with reduced occurrence of decarburization in the inner and outer peripheral surfaces, hardened surface layers in the inner and outer peripheral surfaces during quenching, and sufficient fatigue strength is provided. The hollow seamless pipe contains a steel material, which includes 0.2 to 0.7 mass % of C, 0.5 to 3 mass % of Si, 0.1 to 2 mass % of Mn, more than 0 and 0.1 mass % or less of Al, more than 0 and 0.02 mass % or less of P, more than 0 and 0.02 mass % or less of S, and more than 0 and 0.02 mass % or less of N. The C content in the inner and outer peripheral surfaces is 0.10 mass % or more. A thickness of a whole decarburized layer in each of the inner peripheral surface and the outer peripheral surface is 200 μm or less.
US09689032B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for sequencing long nucleic acid fragments.
US09689026B2
Methods for the rapid detection of the presence or absence of a SNP in a target nucleic acid in a sample are described. The methods can include performing an amplifying step, a hybridizing step utilizing a double stranded probe with two overlapping SNP specific hydrolysis probe sequences where one of the probe sequences can include a hairpin structure toward the 3′ end, and a detecting step. Furthermore, the double stranded SNP specific hydrolysis probes along with kits are provided that are designed for the detection of a SNP in a target nucleic acid.
US09689020B2
The present invention provides a method for determining whether or not a test sample contains a phytopathogenic oomycete selectively from two kinds of oomycetes of a phytopathogenic oomycete and a non-phytopathogenic oomycete. The method according to the present invention comprises: (a) putting the test sample on a front surface of a cellulose film; wherein the cellulose film has a thickness of not less than 0.5 micrometers and not more than 3.7 micrometers; (b) leaving the test sample at rest for more than 8 hours and not more than 12 hours after the step (a); (c) observing a back surface of the film after the step (b); and (d) determining that the test sample contains the phytopathogenic oomycete, if an oomycete is found on the back surface of the film in the step (c).
US09689013B2
Provided are the following: a method, for improving reactivity of a nucleic acid synthesis reaction, comprising a step for adding an ω-amino acid to a reaction solution; a composition, for a nucleic acid synthesis reaction, comprising DNA polymerase, reaction buffer, at least one primer, at least one deoxyribonucleotide triphosphate, and an ω-amino acid; and a reaction buffer, for a nucleic acid synthesis reaction, comprising an ω-amino acid.
US09689004B2
The invention relates to the fields of industrial microbiology and alcohol production. More specifically, the invention relates to improved production of butanol isomers by recombinant microorganisms containing an engineered butanol pathway and disrupted activity of the genes in pathways for the production of by-products during the fermentation when the microorganisms are grown in a fermentation medium containing acetate. In embodiments, recombinant microorganisms have an increased growth rate in a fermentation medium containing acetate as a C2 supplement.
US09689000B2
The present invention relates to a gene expression regulating sequence consisting of a combination of HRE, E2F and TERT, and to a gene delivery system having significantly improved selective tumor cell cytotoxicity using same, and more particularly, to a recombinant adenovirus. In addition, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical antitumor composition comprising the recombinant adenovirus. The replication of the recombinant adenovirus of the present invention is tumor-specifically regulated by the novel gene expression regulating sequence of the present invention, thus enabling the recombinant adenovirus of the present invention to exhibit improved selective tumor cell cytotoxicity or apoptotic potential, and exhibit remarkably improved antitumor effects particularly in hypoxic conditions. In addition, the specific expression of the recombinant adenovirus in tumor cells may increase in vivo stability, and thus may induce greatly improved antitumor effects.
US09688997B2
Applicants have successfully generated heritable phenotypes in plants making them resistant to bacterial blight. TAL effector binding elements, (EBEs) of bacterial pathogen disease susceptibility genes are modified to prevent induction of expression associated with disease states caused by the bacterial pathogens. Surprisingly, Applicants have found that modifications may be made in the EBEs of these genes which prevent bacterial pathogen induction, but still allow for normal plant development and seed production. Nucleic acid sequences for generating such plants, amino acid sequences, cells, vectors and expression constructs are included as well as resistant plants, seeds and lines.
US09688992B2
The inhibitory oligonucleotides (ODNs) which strongly block NF-κB activation induced by TLR9 agonists and TLR7 agonists are provided. The production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha, is inhibited by the inhibitory-ODNs. Interferon production from human PBMC induced by TLR9 agonist is prevented by the inhibitory-ODNs. These ODNs can be used as a remedy for the treatment of immune-mediated disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), sepsis, multiple organ dysfunction syndromes.
US09688987B2
This invention provides compounds which comprise modified oligonucleotides capable of inhibitory expression of connective tissue factor and composition containing same as well as methods of treating hyperprolific disorders and fibrotic diseases, and of reducing scarring resulting from wound healing using such compounds.
US09688986B2
Provided herein are methods for the treatment of Alport Syndrome, using modified oligonucleotides targeted to miR-21. In certain embodiments, a modified oligonucleotide targeted to miR-21 improves kidney function and/or reduces fibrosis in subjects having Alport Syndrome. In certain embodiments, administration of a modified oligonucleotide targeted to miR-21 delays the onset of end-stage renal disease in a subject having Alport Syndrome. In certain embodiments, a modified oligonucleotide targeted to miR-21 delays the need for dialysis or kidney transplant in a subject having Alport Syndrome.
US09688984B2
Methods and compositions that affect grain shape, width, and yield in rice are disclosed. Methods of transgenic modulation and marker-assisted breeding methods improve grain length to width ratio and grain yield in rice. Down-regulation of OsSPL16 in rice resulted in increased grain quality.
US09688983B2
This disclosure concerns nucleic acid molecules and methods of use thereof for control of coleopteran pests through RNA interference-mediated inhibition of target coding and transcribed non-coding sequences in coleopteran pests. The disclosure also concerns methods for making transgenic plants that express nucleic acid molecules useful for the control of coleopteran pests, and the plant cells and plants obtained thereby.
US09688980B2
The present invention relates to a method for synthesising templated molecules. In one aspect of the invention, the templated molecules are linked to the template which templated the synthesis thereof. The intion allows the generation of libraries which can be screened for e.g. therapeutic activity.
US09688976B2
Disclosed herein are a transformed Synechococcus elongatus strain having improved capability of producing acetone and a method for producing acetone and a method for removing carbon dioxide using the same. In an aspect, the transformed Synechococcus elongatus strain of the present disclosure can produce acetone with high selectivity using carbon dioxide as a carbon source. The present disclosure is economical because the Synechococcus elongatus strain can economically produce high value-added acetone using carbon dioxide existing in the atmosphere as a carbon source without requiring an additional catalytic reaction. Also, the present disclosure is environment-friendly because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be removed or reduced using the microorganism.
US09688975B2
The present invention relates to beta-glucosidase variants, e.g. beta-glucosidase variants of a parent Family GH3A beta-glucosidase from Aspergillus fumigatus. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the beta-glucosidase variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the beta-glucosidase variants.
US09688971B2
The present disclosure provides variant Cas endoribonucleases, nucleic acids encoding the variant Cas endoribonucleases, and host cells genetically modified with the nucleic acids. The variant Cas endoribonucleases find use in a variety of applications, which are also provided. The present disclosure also provides methods of detecting a specific sequence in a target polyribonucleotide; and methods of regulating production of a target RNA in a eukaryotic cell.
US09688967B2
Genetically engineered bacteria, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of modulating and treating disorders associated with hyperammonemia are disclosed.
US09688962B2
The present invention is directed to methods of inducing spatial organization of cells an in vitro culture system using ultrasound technology. The invention is further directed to methods of inducing extracellular matrix remodeling and neovessel formation in an in vitro culture system and generating vascularized engineered tissue constructs using ultrasound technology.
US09688961B2
The present invention relates to testis somatic cell-derived pluripotent stem cells, and more particularly, to pluripotent adult stem cells which exhibit a positive immune reaction to both CD34 and CD73 and which are derived from testis somatic cells. The present invention further relates to a method for producing the testis somatic cell-derived pluripotent stem cells, and to a pharmaceutical composition including same for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
US09688954B2
The present invention relates to the enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides, particularly, sialylated oligosaccharides comprising the carbohydrate moeities of the gangliosides GM3, GD3, and GT3.
US09688951B2
The invention includes a bioreactor system for growing a photosynthetic culture in an aqueous liquid and harvesting the photosynthetic culture. The present invention further relates to a method for growing a photosynthetic culture in an aqueous liquid and harvesting the photosynthetic culture. The present invention further relates to a use of a harvester system arranged to collect at least part of the scooped photosynthetic culture in a photo bioreactor system.
US09688949B2
A beer making system may use a detachable vessel to contain liquid during the mashing and boiling steps, and may also be used during the fermentation steps of beer making. The beer making system may recirculate liquid through the vessel, then select between several flow paths during the beer making process. A removable reservoir system having a grain reservoir and several hops or adjunct reservoirs may be selected as a flow path, as well as a bypass flow path. A programmable controller may cause liquid to recirculate through a heater and one of the various flow paths, the sequence, timing, and temperature profile of which are defined in a recipe for a particular beer.
US09688944B2
Synergistic surfactant blends are disclosed. In one aspect, the blend comprises an anionic surfactant and a metathesis-based cationic surfactant comprising a quaternized derivative. The quaternized derivative is a quaternized fatty amine, quaternized fatty amidoamine, imidazoline quat, or esteramine quat made from a metathesis-derived C10-C17 monounsaturated acid or its ester derivative. Also disclosed are synergistic surfactant blends comprising a cationic surfactant and a metathesisbased anionic surfactant comprising a sulfonated derivative. The sulfonated derivative is a fatty ester sulfonate, fatty acid sulfonate, sulfoestolide, fatty amide sulfonate, sulfonated fatty ester alkoxylate, imidazoline quat sulfonate, sulfonated amidoamine oxide, or sulfonated amidoamine betaine. The synergistic blends have a negative value or a reduced interfacial tension (IFT) when compared with an expected IFT value calculated from the individual surfactant components. Blends of the invention also exhibit surprisingly favorable solubility profiles.
US09688938B2
A lubricant composition including an acyclic amine compound. A method of lubricating a system including a fluoro-polymer seal with the lubricant composition is also provided. An additive concentrate for a lubricant composition is also provided. The acyclic amine compound is useful for adjusting the total base number of a lubricant composition. The lubricant composition is compatible with fluoropolymer seals.
US09688935B1
The inventive technology includes methods and apparatus for the generation and application of segregated catalytic additives for the pre-combustion treatment of carbonaceous fuel and/or feedstocks. The application of such segregated additives results in the reduction of environmentally harmful emissions during combustion as well as gasification processes. Specifically, pre-combustion treatment of carbonaceous materials with the inventive additives results in the reduction of NOx and/or mercury emissions by least 20% and 40% respectively.
US09688934B2
A method of and device for processing carboneceous material into gas and activated carbon together with blower.
US09688924B2
The invention provides a process for hydrogenating a low-sulphur feed into very low sulphur and very low aromatic hydrocarbon fluids having a boiling range in the range of from 100 to 400° C. and a boiling range of not more than 80° C., comprising the step of catalytically hydrogenating said feed at a temperature from 80 to 180° C. and at a pressure from 60 to 160 bars.
US09688920B2
A process to facilitate gravimetric separation of alkali metal salts, such as alkali metal sulfides and polysulfides, from alkali metal reacted hydrocarbons. The disclosed process is part of a method of upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock by removing heteroatoms and/or one or more heavy metals from the hydrocarbon feedstock composition. This method reacts the oil feedstock with an alkali metal and an upgradant hydrocarbon. The alkali metal reacts with a portion of the heteroatoms and/or one or more heavy metals to form an inorganic phase containing alkali metal salts and reduced heavy metals, and an upgraded hydrocarbon feedstock. The inorganic phase may be gravimetrically separated from the upgraded hydrocarbon feedstock after mixing at a temperature between about 350° C. to 400° C. for a time period between about 15 minutes and 2 hours.
US09688912B2
A method of etching a semiconductor substrate, having the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate having a first layer containing Ti and a second layer containing at least one of Cu, SiO, SiN, SiOC and SiON; providing an etching liquid containing, in an aqueous medium, a basic compound composed of an organic amine compound and an oxidizing agent, the etching liquid having a pH from 7 to 14; and applying the etching liquid to the semiconductor substrate to selectively etch the first layer of the semiconductor substrate.
US09688907B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of treating a portion of a subterranean formation comprising the use of an aqueous fracturing fluid containing a fast dissolving and easily dispersible unpunfied polygalactomannan ether.
US09688896B2
A thermally conductive resin composition containing (A1) a fluorine-based compound having one to two terminal SiH group(s), in which a content of molecules having two such groups is 60 to 100 mole %, (B1) a fluorine-based compound having one to two terminal alkenyl group(s), in which a content of molecules having two such groups is 60 to 100 mole %, (A2) a fluorine-based compound in which a content of molecules having two terminal SiH groups is 0 to 40 mole %, (B2) a fluorine-based compound in which a content of molecules having two terminal alkenyl groups is 0 to 40 mole %, and (C) a thermally conductive filler, and satisfying, in connection with the content of the fluorine-based compounds, relation of [(A1)+(B1)]/[(A2)+(B2)]=20/80 to 80/20, (A1)/(B1)=20/80 to 80/20, and (A2)/(B2)=20/80 to 80/20, as well as a thermally conductive sheet including the same are provided.
US09688889B2
[Problem] An object of the present invention is to provide a sealant composition for a nonaqueous electrolyte cell in which the application position and uniformity of applied film thickness of the sealant can be visually confirmed even when being applied as a thin film, and having excellent durability in relation to various electrolytic solutions used in the cell.[Solution] A sealant composition for a nonaqueous electrolyte cell, containing (A) an elastomer and (B) a cobalt blue colorant, in which the component (B) has a content of 0.1-20 mass parts with respect to 100 mass parts of the component (A).
US09688885B2
The invention provides a chemical-mechanical polishing composition comprising (a) abrasive particles, (b) a cobalt accelerator selected from a compound having the formula: NR1R2R3 wherein R1, R2, and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen, carboxyalkyl, substituted carboxyalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, substituted hydroxyalkyl and aminocarbonylalkyl, wherein none or one of R1, R2, and R3 are hydrogen; dicarboxyheterocycles; heterocyclylalkyl-α-amino acids; N-(amidoalkyl)amino acids; unsubstituted heterocycles; alkyl-substituted heterocycles; substituted-alkyl-substituted heterocycles; N-aminoalkyl-α-amino acids; and combinations thereof, (c) a cobalt corrosion inhibitor, (d) an oxidizing agent that oxidizes a metal, and (e) water, wherein the polishing composition has a pH of about 3 to about 8.5. The invention further provides a method of chemically-mechanically polishing a substrate with the inventive chemical-mechanical polishing composition. Typically, the substrate contains cobalt.
US09688884B2
A polishing composition of the present invention is to be used for polishing an object including a portion containing a high-mobility material and a portion containing a silicon material. The polishing composition comprises odd-shaped abrasive grains and an oxidizing agent having a standard electrode of 0.3 V or more, and preferably further contains a salt, such as an ammonium salt. The pH of the polishing composition is 1 or more and 6 or less, or 8 or more and 14 or less. The average degree of association of the abrasive grains, obtained by dividing the value of the average secondary particle diameter of the abrasive grains by the value of the average primary particle diameter of the abrasive grains, is preferably 1.6 or more.
US09688881B1
The present invention is directed to a method for powder coating a metal substrate using a low-melt polyamic acid (PAA) polymer that readily imidizes to polyimides. These low-melt PAAs have been shown to be useful in resins applied as powder coatings to metal surfaces. The resin includes an end-capping material capable of providing crosslinking functionality to at least one end of the low-melt PAA polymer. The end-capping material functions dually as a polymerization chain terminator and crosslinking agent, thus producing resins that have molecular weights low enough to flow well and form good cured films applicable for use in powder coating.
US09688874B2
Disclosed are electrodepositable coating compositions that include a cationic amine salt group-containing (meth)acrylic polymer in which the (meth)acrylic polymer is prepared by polymerizing a mixture of ethylenically unsaturated monomers comprising at least 10% by weight of a (meth)acrylic monomer containing hydroxy ester groups, the % by weight being based on total weight of ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and an acid salt of a guanidine or a guanidine reaction product. Associated methods of preparing an amine salt group containing composition and for coating a substrate are also disclosed. Substrates coated with the electrodepositable coating composition are also disclosed.
US09688872B2
The waterborne coating composition herein is useful for promoting adhesion of paint to a component such as a plastic automobile part or accessory. The waterborne coating composition is particularly useful for promoting adhesion of paint to a thermoplastic polyolefin surface. The waterborne coating composition is prepared from a mixture comprising at least one chlorinated polyolefin resin and at least one urethane acrylic hybrid resin. The waterborne coating composition provides not only good adhesion of a paint to a thermoplastic polyolefin surface, but also provides good appearance. The waterborne coating composition is also compatible with a wide variety of paint systems and can be rapidly dried under ambient conditions.
US09688870B2
A radiation curable type ink jet ink set contains a magenta ink which contains C. I. Pigment Red 57:1 in an amount of 2.0% by mass to 4.0% by mass and a yellow ink which contains C. I. Pigment Yellow 185 in an amount of 1.5% by mass to 4.0% by mass. An ink jet recording method includes a jetting step of jetting the yellow ink and/or the magenta ink contained in the radiation curable type ink jet ink set onto a substrate from an ink jet recording head, and a curing step of curing the magenta ink and/or the yellow ink by radiation irradiation.
US09688868B2
A conductive polymer dispersion is provided which is capable of easily forming a conductive coating film having both excellent water resistance and excellent solvent resistance.The conductive polymer dispersion of the present invention includes a π-conjugated conductive polymer, a polyanion, a polyester resin having an alkali metal salt of an acid group, and a glycidyl group-containing acrylic resin. In the conductive polymer dispersion, the ratio (α/β) of total mass α of the polyester resin and the glycidyl group-containing acrylic resin to total mass β of the π-conjugated conductive polymer and the polyanion is in a range of 6.90 to 62.5.
US09688865B2
Provided is a liquid composition containing a first solvent that is a polyol compound which has a distribution coefficient of water-octanol in a range of 0.0 to 2.5, and has three or more hydroxyl groups; a second solvent that is an organic solvent having a distribution coefficient of water-octanol which is in a range of −1.0 to 1.0; water; and a coloring material, in which the content of the first solvent is in a range of 0.005 mass % to 0.5 mass %, and the content of the second solvent is in a range of 0.5 mass % to 15 mass %.
US09688859B2
Polymer shells similar to those described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,822,782 can be formed on pigment particles by (a) physi-sorping a reagent comprising polymerizable groups on to the pigment particles by treating the particle with a reagent having a polymerizable or polymerization-initiating group, such that the reagent will not desorb from the particle surface when the particle is placed in a hydrocarbon medium; or (b) treating pigment particles bearing nucleophilic groups with a reagent having a polymerizable or polymerization-initiating group, and an electrophilic group, thus attaching the polymerizable or polymerization-initiating groups to the particle surface. The zeta potential of the pigment particles can be varied by a process similar to (b) but using a reagent which does not have a polymerizable or polymerization-initiating group.
US09688852B2
A rubber composition for the manufacture of tires is based on one or more diene elastomers, one or more reinforcing fillers, and a vulcanization system. The vulcanization system includes one or more thiazole compounds chosen from compounds having the following formula (I): Certain specific thiazole derivatives are described.
US09688847B2
Disclosed is a polyolefin composition for stretched film including an olefin-based polymer (A) having a melting endotherm (ΔH-D), as obtained from a melting endothermic curve which is obtained under a measurement condition of holding a sample at −10° C. for 5 minutes in a nitrogen atmosphere and then increasing the temperature at a rate of 10° C./min with a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), of 0 to 80 J/g; and an olefin-based polymer (B) having a melting endotherm (ΔH-D), as observed under the foregoing measurement condition, of more than 80 J/g, wherein a content of the olefin-based polymer (A) is 0.5% by mass or more and less than 17% by mass relative to a total content of the olefin-based polymer (A) and the olefin-based polymer (B), and the polyolefin composition has a melting endotherm (ΔH-D), as observed under the foregoing measurement condition, of 80 to 120 J/g.
US09688846B2
Disclosed is a rubber composition for tire treads and a tire manufactured using the same. The rubber composition for tire treads includes 50 to 200 parts by weight of a wet masterbatch, 60 to 70 parts by weight of a raw rubber, and 50 to 200 parts by weight of a carbon black, the wet masterbatch being prepared by reacting 50 to 200 parts by weight of a carbon black, 20 to 100 parts by weight of a plant based resin and 50 to 200 parts by weight of a processing oil with respect to 100 parts by weight of a styrene-butadiene latex, according to a batchwise method. Accordingly, high grip performance is exhibited under a condition of heavy load, high slip and high speed, thereby being applicable to an ultra-high performance tire.
US09688843B2
Disclosed is a polycarbonate resin a composition. The polycarbonate resin composition may simply and exactly improve appearance properties such as yellow index (Y.I), haze and the like, and thermal stability during a high-temperature process, and provide processability by reducing gas generation during molding, through provision of a relational formula of addition amounts of a hindered phenol-based compound and a phosphite-based compound which function as antioxidants when mixed with the polycarbonate resin.
US09688842B2
A thermoplastic composition includes a poly(carbonate-arylate ester); and an organophosphorus compound in an amount effective to provide 0.1 to 1.0 wt % phosphorus based on the total weight of the composition, wherein an article molded from the composition has a smoke density after four minutes (Ds-4) of less than or equal to 300 determined according to ISO 5659-2 on a 3 mm thick plaque and a maximum average rate of heat release emission (MAHRE) of less than or equal to 90 kW/m2 determined according to ISO 5660-1 on a 3 mm thick plaque.
US09688841B2
The invention relates to a flame-retardant thermoplastic polyurethane based on at least one diisocyanate and on at least one substance reactive toward isocyanate, and preferably on at least one chain extender, and also optionally on at least one catalyst, and comprising at least one flame retardant, and also optionally additives and/or auxiliaries, where one flame retardant is a metal hydroxide at least to some extent surrounded by a coating, the material comprises, as further flame retardant, at least one phosphorus-containing flame retardant which is a derivative of phosphoric acid, phosphonic acid, and/or phosphinic acid and the material further comprises hydrotalcite and/or phyllosilicate, and also to an associated production process and the use.
US09688838B1
A diisononyl terephthalate (DINT) plasticizer is synthesized by esterifying an isononanol mixture composed of multiple alcohols with pure terephthalic acid in the presence of an esterification catalyst, and the DINT plasticizer due to featuring a low plasticizer migration below 1.4% and a low glass transition temperature below −75° C. is so suitable for making those soft plastic products, such as hoses, wires, cables, exercise mats, table mats, playing balls or disposable gloves, required for having a high content of plasticizers more than 70 PHR.
US09688830B2
Described are (a) a process for production of polyurethane foam by reacting one or more polyol components with one or more isocyanate components, wherein wax having a congealing point in the range from 40° C. to 90° C. is employed as an additive, (b) a polyurethane foam obtainable by said process, (c) the use of waxes having a congealing point in the range from 40° C. to 90° C. as an additive in the manufacture of polyurethane foams to coarsen the foam structure, and also (d) a polyurethane foam production composition containing a wax having a congealing point in the range from 40° C. to 90° C.
US09688828B2
Provided are non-crosslinked foamed polyethylene resin particles that have a bulk density BD of 10 g/L or more and 100 g/L or less and are obtained by foaming polyethylene resin particles containing an antistatic agent in an amount of 0.1 part by weight or more and 3 parts by weight or less with respect to 100 parts by weight of a polyethylene resin and having a density of 0.920 g/cm3 or more and less than 0.940 g/cm3, and the non-crosslinked foamed polyethylene resin particles have a shrinkage ratio of 3% or more and 30% or less determined in accordance with Formula (1). The non-crosslinked foamed polyethylene resin particles can simply afford an antistatic molded non-crosslinked foamed polyethylene resin body that has a small shrinkage ratio with respect to mold dimension, is deformed in a small degree, and has good surface stretch.
US09688819B2
Addition-crosslinkable silicone resin compositions containing a branched organopolysiloxane bearing each of Si—H groups, alkenyl groups, and aryl groups, and also containing blocks of linear organopolysiloxane free of Si—H and alkenyl groups with a chain length of at least three siloxy groups, and further bearing at least one aryl group, serve as excellent potting compositions for electronic devices, particularly LEDs, with high refractive index and optical transmittance, and wide processing latitude.
US09688814B2
The invention relates to a method for producing functionalized polyoxymethylene block copolymers comprising the step of polymerizing formaldehyde in a reaction vessel in the presence of a catalyst, the polymerization of formaldehyde in addition taking place in the presence of a starter compound comprising at least 2 Zerewitinoff active H atoms, to obtain an intermediate product. The intermediate product obtained is subsequently reacted with a cyclic carboxylic acid ester or carbonic acid ester, thus obtaining a functionalized polyoxymethylene block copolymer. The invention further relates to functionalized polyoxymethylene block copolymers obtained by such a method and to the use of said copolymers.
US09688810B2
A resin composed of a particular polymer, the particular polymer including a repeating unit containing a structure derived from a dehydroabietic acid, a specific structural unit, and a specific aromatic ring-containing structural unit in the main chain.
US09688809B2
Provided is a method for purifying an aliphatic polyester which reduces coloring of the aliphatic polyester, reduces the amount of residual monomer and residual catalyst, and improves stability and appearance. This method for purifying an aliphatic polyester subjects an aliphatic polyester containing a monomer to heat treatment under dry air containing oxygen at a temperature at or above the melting point of the monomer and at or below the melting point of the aliphatic polyester.
US09688808B2
Fiber reinforced epoxy resin composites are produced using a specific epoxy resin system. The epoxy resin system contains at least one polyglycidyl ether of a polyphenol. The system also contains a hardener that contains a mixture of aminocyclohexanealkylamine and polyalkylene polyamine hardeners. The ratio of epoxy resin groups to amine hydrogen groups is from 1.05 to 1.50. The epoxy resin system contains a tertiary amine catalyst such as a tertiaryaminophenol, a benzyl tertiary amine or an imidazole compound.
US09688804B2
There are described a dispersion of polymeric beads where the beads comprise a copolymer composition comprising (preferably consisting essentially of): copolymers (and processes for making them) comprising (a) at least 8.5 wt-% preferably >=20 wt-% of a higher itaconate diester (preferably dibutyl itaconate—DBI); (b) less than 23 wt-% acid monomer but also sufficient to have an acid value less than 150 mg KOH/g of polymer, (c) optionally with less than 50 wt-% of other itaconate monomers, and (d) optionally less than 77 wt-% of other monomers not (a) to (c). The DBI may be biorenewable. A further embodiment is an aqueous suspension polymerization process for preparing vinyl polymer beads from olefinically unsaturated monomers and a free-radical initiator, where at least 10 wt-% of the monomer is DBI.
US09688785B2
A composition comprising at least one first divalent unit represented by formula: and at least one of a second divalent unit comprising a pendant Z group or a monovalent unit comprising a thioether linkage and a terminal Z group, wherein each Z group is independently selected from the group consisting of —P(O)(OY)2 and —O—P(O)(OY)2. R″ and R″′ are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and alkyl having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms. Y is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, trialkylsilyl, and a counter cation. Methods of treating a surface using these compositions and articles with a surface in contact with these compositions are provided. Methods of making these compositions are also provided.
US09688782B2
The present invention relates to a method for separation of a polymer from a polymer solution or dispersion, wherein (i) a solution or dispersion of a polymer in an organic solvent is atomized by being brought into contact with water vapor in an atomizer container; (ii) the mixture obtained in the atomizer container is routed into a polymer degasification container and flows through same, wherein the organic solvent present in the polymer particles is driven at least partially out of the polymer particles due to the thermal contact between the polymer particles and the water vapor and transitions into the gas phase (iii) the mixture exiting from the polymer degasification container is routed into a phase separator (1) and the organic solvent present in the gas phase is separated from the polymer particles and the condensed water vapor; and (iv) the polymer particles and the condensed water vapor are routed into a phase separator (2) in order to separate the polymer particles from the condensed water vapor.
US09688781B2
Superabsorbent material, comprising clay-crosslinked superabsorbent polymers, obtainable by polymerizing in a spray-stream, polymerizable compounds in the presence of a polymerization initiator system, and nano-sized or individual clay particles, which are all introduced into a vessel by a spraying step in the form of a said spray-stream thereof, whereby said clay particles crosslink said polymers during polymerization. The invention also relates to such a process and absorbent articles comprising such superabsorbent material.
US09688771B2
The invention relates to an antigen binding site for binding to a P2X7 receptor, the antigen binding site being defined by general formula 1: FR1-CDR1-FR2-CDR2-FR3-CDR3-FR4.
US09688768B2
The present invention relates to silent Fc variants of anti-CD40 antibodies and compositions and methods of use of said antibodies for treating pathological disorders such as autoimmune and inflammatory disorders and/or for preventing or reducing the risk of graft rejection in transplantation.
US09688766B2
A highly stable mutant of human IgG4 antibody is provided. Such antibody is an antibody in which the CH3 domain of human IgG4 is substituted with the CH3 domain of human IgG1 and which exhibits inhibited aggregate formation, an antibody in which the CH3 and CH2 domains of human IgG4 are substituted with the CH3 and CH2 domains of human IgG1, respectively, or an antibody in which arginine at position 409 indicated in the EU index proposed by Kabat et al. of human IgG4 is substituted with lysine and which exhibits inhibited aggregate formation.
US09688765B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating pain using comprising RANK/RANKL antagonists.
US09688763B2
The present invention relates to polypeptides directed against or specifically binding to chemokine receptor CXCR2 and in particular to polypeptides capable of modulating signal transduction from CXCR2. The invention also relates to nucleic acids, vectors and host cells capable of expressing the polypeptides of the invention, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptides and uses of said polypeptides and compositions for treatment of diseases involving aberrant functioning of CXCR2.
US09688736B2
A peptide compound useful in the treatment of hypoglycemia is described.
US09688722B2
Inhibitors of fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP) and Prolyl Oligopeptidase (POP) are disclosed, along with their use in various therapies related to conditions, diseases, and disorders involving abnormal cell proliferation such as malignancies and angiogenesis, and in neural disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Stalk portions of the inhibitor molecules, and substrates of FAP and POP, are also disclosed and may be used, for example, in screening methods for identifying such inhibitors.
US09688721B2
Tubulysin compounds of the formula (I) where R1, R2 R3a, R3b, R4, R5, W, and n are as defined herein, are anti-mitotic agents that can be used in the treatment of cancer, especially when conjugated to a targeting moiety.
US09688720B2
The present invention regards specific IBAT inhibitors useful in the prophylaxis and/or treatment of a liver disease. It also relates to compositions comprising these IBAT inhibitors, a method for treatment of the disorders and a kit comprising the substances or the compositions.
US09688710B2
Inhibitors of sodium glucose cotransporter 1 (SGLT1), compositions comprising them, and methods of their use to treat diseases and disorders such as diabetes are disclosed. Particular compounds are of the formula: the various substituents of which are defined herein.
US09688707B2
The present invention provides bicyclic morpholino compounds and oligomeric compounds prepared therefrom. More particularly, incorporation of one or more of the bicyclic morpholino compounds into an oligomeric compound is expected to enhance one or more properties of the oligomeric compound. Such oligomeric compounds can also be included in a double stranded composition. In certain embodiments, the oligomeric compounds provided herein are expected to hybridize to a portion of a target RNA resulting in loss of normal function of the target RNA.
US09688704B2
Objects are to provide a novel azole silane compound, a synthesis method thereof, and a silane coupling agent containing the azole silane compound as a component, and to provide a surface treatment solution using the azole silane compound, a surface treatment method, and a bonding method of two materials different in the quality of material. The azole silane compound of the present invention is a compound represented by the specific chemical formula (I-1) or (II-1).
US09688702B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) as inhibitors of LMP7 for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
US09688700B2
The present invention relates to porous metallic frameworks comprising at least one at least bidentate organic compound coordinated to at least one metal ion, wherein the at least one at least bidentate organic compound is derived from 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid or 2,5-thiophenedicarboxylic acid. The present invention further relates to shaped bodies comprising these frameworks, processes for producing them and their use, in particular for the storage and separation of gases.
US09688686B2
Disclosed herein is novel highly stable, crystalline porphyrin containing covalent organic frameworks and their synthesis using Schiff base reaction which are hydrophobic in nature having good selectivity towards alcohol uptake at low pressure over water. Particularly, present invention provides novel highly stable, porous covalent organic frameworks (COFs) comprising porphyrin linked hydroxyl aromatic compound by intramolecular O—H—N═C bonding; wherein porphyrin is tetra(p-amino-phenyl)porphyrin (Tph) and hydroxyl aromatic compound is selected from group consisting of Triformylphloroglucinol (Tp), 2, 5-dihydroxyterephthalaldehyde (Da).
US09688672B2
The invention is directed to a formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2a, R2b and R3-R7 are herein. The invention is also directed to compositions containing a compound of formula (I) and to the use of such compounds in the inhibition of mutant IDH proteins having a neomorphic activity. The invention is further directed to the use of a compound of formula (I) in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with such mutant IDH proteins including, but not limited to, cell-proliferation disorders, such as cancer.
US09688666B2
The present disclosure relates to novel crystalline salt forms of lamivudine, methods for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and their use in the treatment of viruses such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection.
US09688663B2
The invention provides reagents, methods, and compositions for studying protein-protein interactions. The inventive system and methods allow the analysis of protein-protein interactions in vivo and in vitro. Advantages offered by various embodiments of the inventive system and methods compared to existing photocrosslinking approaches include, for example, (i) novel reversible crosslinking reagents that allow easy isolation, purification, and enrichment of the crosslinked products; (ii) trifiuoromethyl phenyldiazirine- or perfluorinaled phenylazide-based photocrosslinking reagents that provide high specific labeling, no side product, and higher photocrosslinking efficiency; (iii) versatile spacer groups that allow systematic contact site mapping; (iv) novel methods for isolating, purifying, and detecting crosslinked products based on the reversible-link chemistry; and (v) the ability to study the interaction sites in vitro, in situ, or in vivo.
US09688662B2
The present invention relates to N-(2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridin-5-yl)-4-quinazolinamine and N-(2,3-dihydro-1H-indol-5-yl)-4-quinazolinamine derivatives of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and A have the meaning defined in the claims. The compounds according to the present invention are useful as inhibitors of PERK. The invention further relates to processes for preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds as an active ingredient as well as the use of said compounds as a medicament.
US09688657B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparation of Dabigatran etexilate or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention relates to novel compounds, in particular Ethyl-3-{[(2-formyl-1-methyl-1H-benzimidazole-5-yl)carbonyl]-(2-pyridinyl) amino}propanoate and Ethyl-3-{[(2-dichloromethyl-1-methyl-1H-benzimidazole-5-yl)carbonyl]-(2-pyridinyl)amino}propanoate and process for preparation thereof. The present invention further relates to the use of these novel compounds in the preparation of Dabigatran etexilate or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US09688656B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): a stereoisomer, a tautomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a polymorph, a solvate thereof, wherein all of the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are monoacylglycerol acyltransferase type 2 (MGAT2) inhibitors which may be used as medicaments.
US09688647B2
Direct epoxidation of propene is carried out on electrochemically tuned mixed oxide catalyst surfaces in a single chamber reactor with mixed reaction gas of hydrocarbon and oxygen. Yield and selectivity improvement compared to platinum- or silver-based noble metal catalysts have been demonstrated for the same reactor set up. Increase in propylene oxide yield has been demonstrated when a cell voltage is applied.
US09688629B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I): or a salt thereof, wherein: X is CR4 or N; R1, R2, R3, R4, and A are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds as inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases or disorders in a variety of therapeutic areas, such as autoimmune diseases and vascular disease.
US09688627B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I) wherein L1, L2, L3, L4, R1, R4, R5, R6, and s are as defined in the specification. Compounds of formula (I) are EP4 agonists useful in the treatment of glaucoma, osteoporosis, bone fracture, periodontal bone loss, orthopedic implant, alopecia, neuropathic pain, and related disorders. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating conditions or disorders are also described.
US09688626B2
A process for converting light paraffins (especially C3-C5) to middle distillate and higher boiling range liquid hydrocarbons by (1) oxygen or air oxidation of iso-paraffins to alkyl hydroperoxides; (2) conversion of alkyl hydroperoxides to dialkyl peroxides; (3) radical coupling of paraffins using the dialkyl peroxides as radical initiators forming heavier hydrocarbon products; and (4) fractionation of the heavy hydrocarbon products. The net reaction is catalytically converting light paraffins to heavier hydrocarbons using oxygen or air to effect the conversion.
US09688612B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for producing an optically active amino acid in high yield and in a highly enantioselective manner, which method has fewer restrictions on the material that can be used as the substrate, and to provide, among others, a compound useful as a chiral auxiliary for the method. The present invention provides an N-(2-acylaryl)-2-[5,7-dihydro-6H-dibenzo[c,e]azepin-6-yl]acetamide compound represented by Formula (1): or a salt thereof, or a metal complex represented, by Formula (3):
US09688611B2
A method for producing a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, tautomer or stereoisomer, such as compound 1 and compound 2 is disclosed. The method proceeds through an O-allylated tyrosine-based compound, such as compound 3 and preferably comprises [3,3] sigmatropic Claisen rearrangement and olefin cross metathesis reactions. In addition, a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of formula (I) a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) related apoptosis inducing ligand (TRAIL) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient is disclosed.
US09688608B2
The present invention relates to novel pyrazole(thio)tetrahydronaphthyl carboxamides, to processes for preparing these compounds, to compositions comprising these compounds, and to the use thereof as biologically active compounds, especially for control of harmful microorganisms in crop protection and in the protection of materials.
US09688604B2
The invention relates to a compound of formula (1) The invention further relates to Pd complexes comprising the compound according to the invention and to the use thereof in alkoxycarbonylation.
US09688599B2
A method for producing mixed aldol products from the products of hydroformylation reactions. In one embodiment, the method comprises mixing hydroformylation reaction products comprising aldehydes with a catalyst inside a reactor to create a mixture. The method also includes agitating the mixture at a temperature in a range of between about 200° F. to about 275° F. to create a reacted mixture. The reacted mixture is then cooled in the reactor to create an organic phase and an aqueous phase. The organic phase is pumped out of the reactor and may then be transferred to a distillation tower. The organic phase may be distilled until any mixed aldol products are isolated, wherein the mixed aldol products may be subsequently removed.
US09688596B2
Disclosed are 2-methylene analogs of vitamin D3 and related compounds, their biological activities, and various pharmaceutical uses for these analogs. Particularly disclosed are 1α-hydroxy-2-methylene-vitamin D3, (20S)-1α-hydroxy-2-methylene-vitamin D3, and (5E)-1α,25-dihydroxy-2-methylene-vitamin D3, their biological activities, and various pharmaceutical uses for these compounds including methods of treating and/or preventing bone diseases and disorders.
US09688586B1
A modified fertilizer structure and a process for making the structure are disclosed. The structure contains at least a first modified oil layer that coats the fertilizer particle. Additional layers may be added as necessary to include a modified fiber layer that coats the modified oil layer, a second and third modified oil layers, a second modified fiber layer, a layer of diatomaceous earth mineral particles and a superabsorbent layer. The structure may be constructed by placing fertilizer particles in a rotating drum, then adding the materials for each layer consecutively into the drum at appropriate conditions. The modified fertilizer structure is configured to gradually release the nutrients into the soil over a desired period of time.
US09688582B2
A dielectric ceramic composition and a ceramic electric device having a dielectric layer composed of the dielectric ceramic composition including a main component having a perovskite crystal structure expressed by general formula ABO3, an oxide of Eu, an oxide of Ra (Sc, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu), an oxide of Rb (Y, Dy, Ho, Tb and Gd) and an oxide of Si, in which 0.075≦α≦0.5, 0.5≦β≦3, 1.0≦γ≦4, 1.5≦δ≦5, and 0.030≦α/δ≦0.250 where a content of an oxide of Eu is α mole, a content of the oxide of Ra is β mole, a content of the oxide of Rb is γ mole, and a content of the second sub-component is δ mole with respect to 100 moles of the main component.
US09688579B2
A concrete mix design having a slump class from S1 to S5 or a flow class from F1 to F6 and a workability retention between 10 minutes and 120 minutes, comprising from 150 to 600 kg of cement per cubic meter of concrete, aggregates selected from the group consisting of sand, fine aggregates, coarse aggregates or combinations thereof containing between 0.5 wt. % and 75 wt. % of phyllosilicates, is characterized in that the concrete mix design includes an admixture system 1 which is based on 100% polycarboxylate ether based copolymer (PCE), the admixture system 1 comprising at least one component B1 being a PCE copolymer.
US09688578B2
A method is for sealing hydrocarbon wells, wherein a composition is used. The composition comprises a prepolymer; a free radical initiator; a hydraulic material; a monomer and water. The composition further comprises an inhibitor.
US09688576B2
The formulation for making plasterboard with paper cover sheets comprises finely divided gypsum, a minor amount by weight of starch and, as crosslinking agent for the starch, a tri-functional reactive s-triazine having substituents at positions 2, 4 and 6 of the triazine ring which are reactive with the starch. A preferred crosslinking agent is 2,4,6-trichloro-s-triazine, which is preferably partially reacted with the starch before further reaction with the paper cover sheets for the plaster board.
US09688567B2
Lithium disilicate-apatite glass ceramics comprising transition metal oxide are described which are characterized by a high chemical stability, and the translucence of which can be adjusted as desired, and which can therefore be used in particular as restoration material in dentistry.
US09688566B2
The invention relates to the field of forehearth frits, pearls, and/or concentrates for use in glass compositions. In particular, the present invention provides a system of forehearth frits, pearls, and/or concentrates that is capable of imparting a brown color to a glass composition for forming colored glass in the forehearth of a glass furnace, and a method of using the colored system of forehearth frits, pearls, and/or concentrates. The invention further provides a glass composition for use in forming the color system or for use directly in a forehearth.
US09688563B2
An apparatus for forming holes in a glass substrate, includes a laser source that irradiates a laser beam on a first surface of the glass substrate, and a base plate on which a second surface of the glass substrate, opposite to the first surface, is placed. The base plate includes a recessed area in a central part thereof, and supports arranged within the recessed area to support the glass substrate. At least a part of the supports is arranged in a lattice shape within a plane approximately perpendicular to a direction in which the supports extend. One support and another adjacent support closest to the one support, amongst the supports arranged in the lattice shape, are arranged at an interval that is shorter than 30 mm, and the supports have a height that is higher than 70 μm.
US09688560B2
The present invention relates to water purification systems and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of water filtration systems to combat Legionella bacterial contamination of industrial and commercial water systems, such as grocery store misting systems.
US09688538B2
An improved graft polymerization method from general graphitic structures with organic based monomers through the mechanism of Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) polymerization was developed. Organic hybrid nanomaterials comprising graphitic structures are covalently bonded via chemically reactive groups on the outer walls of the structure. Methods for forming the covalently bonded structures to many organic based monomers and/or polymers may occur through RAFT polymerization utilizing dithioester as a chain transfer agent. The method may also comprise nanocomposite formation of such organic hybrid nanomaterials with common plastic(s) to form graphitic nanocomposite reinforced plastic articles.
US09688528B2
A producing method for a diaphragm-type resonant MEMS device includes forming a first silicon oxide film, forming a second silicon oxide film, forming a lower electrode, forming a piezoelectric film, forming an upper electrode, laminating the first silicon oxide film, the second silicon oxide film, the lower electrode, the piezoelectric film, and the upper electrode in this order on a first surface of a silicon substrate, and etching the opposite side surface of the first surface of the silicon substrate by deep reactive ion etching to form a diaphragm structure, in which the proportion R2 of the film thickness t2 of the second silicon oxide film with respect to the sum of the film thickness t1 of the first silicon oxide film and the film thickness t2 of the second silicon oxide film satisfies the following condition: 0.10 μm≦t1≦2.00 μm; and R2≧0.70.
US09688517B2
A crane including support means arranged to support a load and to move the load along a path, and a scanner including a radiation source and radiation detection means arranged to scan a scanning volume. The path is arranged to pass through the scanning volume so that the scanner can scan the load as it moves along the path.
US09688516B2
For load compensation, different kinds of elastomeric load compensators are placed at various locations on the crane for increased flexibility and for shock and vibration absorption. The elastomeric load compensators employ elastomeric tension elements, elastomeric torsion elements, or elastomeric shear elements. Elastomeric tension elements can be simply inserted in series with the main hoist rope. An elastomeric load compensator employing elastomeric torsion elements is mounted to the underside of the boom for receiving the live end of the main hoist rope. A single stack of elastomeric shear elements is suitable for mounting a hoist or winch or an idler sheave to the crane structure. For additional load compensation, the hoist, winch, and idler sheaves are mounted on rails for increased displacements under heave loads, and the increased displacements are compensated by elongated elastomeric tension elements or multiple elastomeric tension, torsion or shear elements in series.
US09688515B2
An elevator car door interlock including a locking assembly, cable assembly, switch assembly, and top mounting assembly. The elevator car door interlock works in combination with flags installed in an elevator's hoistway. A flag is installed in the areas where it is permitted to open the elevator doors. The locking assembly includes an arm that engages the flag. The flag then prevents the arm from reaching its maximum tilt and keeps it in the substantially vertical position. This causes the hook in the locking assembly to remain in the lowered position. The hook in this position allows the cable to freely travel when the elevator doors are attempted to be open. If the elevator is in a locking zone, then there is no flag present and as the door is attempted to be open, a weighted member attached to the bottom of the cable will begin to rise. However, because no flag is present to hold the arm back and subsequently, keep the hook lowered, an elongated spring biases the hook upwards until it engages a locking pin mounted to the weighted member. This prevent the cable from traveling freely throughout the shaft, thereby keeping the elevator doors locked.
US09688508B2
In a filament winding method, while a rotating tank relatively reciprocates in a tank axial direction to a helical winding head, fibers are fed from yarn-feeding sections to the tank. After the tank turns back in the tank axial direction, a large number of fibers are wound around one domed portion and a trunk portion of the tank, and trailing ends of the large number of fibers are located at one end portion of the trunk portion. Then a piece or a small number of fibers are fed from a rotating hoop winding head to the trunk portion, and hoop winding is performed on helical winding layers formed around the trunk portion. Then, at the one end portion of the trunk portion, the large number of fibers pulled from the yarn-feeding sections of the helical winding head are cut off.
US09688507B2
A film dispenser apparatus for dispensing film from a film roll including a holding member. The holding member can define a longitudinal axis that extends from a first end to a second end. The holding can include a brake portion defined on the second end of the holding member, and a connecting portion extending radially inward from the brake portion. The second end of the holding member can define a slot including a first portion extending across the width of the brake portion and a second portion and a third portion extending across the length of the brake portion. The film dispenser can further include a rotating member defining an axis of rotation. The longitudinal axis of the holding member can be aligned with the axis of rotation of the rotating member.
US09688506B2
A coil component has a core including a winding core extending in a predetermined direction, and a winding wrapped around the winding core in two or more layers. A first winding portion at one end in the predetermined direction in an (n+1)'th layer of the winding, where n is a natural number, is positioned over a space between second and third winding portions in an n'th layer, the second and third winding portions being adjacently spaced in the predetermined direction.
US09688498B2
There is provided a sheet tray including: first, second and third trays. The second tray moves between a first position and a second position in which an overlapping area is smaller than that obtained in the first position. The third tray includes a third support surface and a fourth support surface. The third support surface includes a protrusion which protrudes upward to be positioned above the first support surface in a state that the third tray is in the first pivoting position. The third tray overlaps with the first support surface in a state that the second tray is in the first position and that at least a part, of the third tray, except for the protrusion is positioned below the first support surface, and the third tray does not overlap with the first support surface in a state that the second tray is in the second position.
US09688487B2
An adhesive bin (10) for storing and moving adhesive particulate (14) to an adhesive melter (12) includes a supply hopper (16), a transfer pump (62) operable to generate a vacuum, and a shroud (94). The supply hopper (16) has a sidewall (20, 22, 24, 26) and defines an interior space (36). The transfer pump (62) extends through the sidewall (22) and into the interior space (36). In addition, the shroud (94) is connected to the sidewall (22) and extends into the interior space (36) and at least partially surrounds an inlet (82) of the transfer pump (62).
US09688485B2
The method of conveying samples using a continuous flow of pressurized air for conveying elongated items holding samples along a path in a tube system from at least one dispatch station, at which the elongated items are dispatched into the path, to at least one receiver station in the direction of the flow of pressurized air along the path. Individual items are sent in succession by means of pressurized air supplied to the tube system via the dispatch station and via a by-pass duct that extends around the at least one dispatch station from an upstream to a downstream side thereof. A constant flow of pressurized air is conducted via the by-pass around the at least one dispatch station into said path by which items already underway along the path in the tube system remain moving during dispatching of an item into the path.
US09688481B2
A positioning device (1) for positioning products (2) simultaneously with their conveyance one after the other in a plane of conveyance (3) and along a direction of conveyance (4). The device has at least one orientation mechanism (5), itself having at least one pusher (6) movable along an action movement between an inactive position and an active position. The effect of the action movement is to act on a product (2) by pushing it to make it pivot by a predetermined angle around an axis perpendicular to the plane of conveyance (3), the at least one pusher (6) being movable also in the direction of conveyance (4). Also disclosed is a corresponding method.
US09688476B1
A sod harvester having a sod hold down with at least one free wheeling elastic belt that maintains a downward pressure on sod slabs carried on a conveyor belt with the free wheeling elastic belt moving in unison with the conveyor belt through frictional engagement between sod slabs on the conveyor belt and the free wheeling belt or between the conveyor belt and idler pulleys, which rotationally support the elastic belt, to enable the hold down to prevent or inhibit slippage of the sod slabs on the conveyor belt during sod slab transfer thereon.
US09688471B2
The invention relates to a pharmacy picking device (I) comprising a housing (10) with a plurality of shelf bases (II) disposed one above the other, at least one operating device (12), a conveyor device (14), a housing-coupling interface (15), and a universal supply-and-control module (20) This universal supply-and-control module (20) comprises a feed device (21), an identification and measurement device (22), operator input/output devices (23), an electronic controller (24) and a voltage supply assembly (25), as well as a housing-coupling interface (15) and an electrical interface (27), said supply-and-control module (20) being arranged adjacent to the housing (10) such that a mechanical coupling is produced by said housing-coupling interface (15) and module-coupling interface (26), in such a manner that drug packages in or on the supply-and-control module (20), which are to be deposited, are delivered to a position on the conveyor device (14) which is known to the electronic controller.
US09688464B2
The Breathable Container for fruits and vegetables extends the shelf life of various fresh fruits and vegetables and vase life of fresh cut flowers by changing the atmosphere in which these living products are stored and respires. The Breathable Container does this by utilizing a Gas Permeable Non-Woven Fabric Based Film. The high oxygen and carbon dioxide permeability of the Gas Permeable Non-Woven Fabric Based Film establishes an ideal atmosphere for the perishable items stored within the Breathable Container, and therefore extends their shelf life. The establishment of lower oxygen and carbon dioxide atmospheres within the Breathable Container using the Gas Permeable Film, also leads to a reduction in the respiration rate of the perishable items stored. The reduction in the respiration rate of the perishable items prevents loss of moisture, production of metabolic heat, yellowing, browning, and reduces the production levels of ethylene by the perishable items.
US09688460B1
A dispensing apparatus having a lower housing having an opening, and a reservoir piece seated inside the lower housing and having a containing section that holds at least one item to be dispensed, the containing section having an enclosing wall, a base and an opening provided in the enclosing wall that communicates with the interior of the containing section. A biasing element is positioned between the base of the reservoir piece and the lower housing, with the biasing element normally biasing the reservoir piece to a non-dispensing position where the openings are not aligned. The apparatus also has an upper housing, and the upper housing and lower housing can be squeezed together to cause the reservoir piece to move downwardly against the normal bias of the biasing element, so as to align the openings to arrive at a dispensing position.
US09688453B2
A hermetically sealed package effectively dissipates heat generated inside the package. The hermetically sealed package includes a hermetically sealed enclosure formed from a base portion and a lid. Within the enclosure two or more heat generating elements, such as integrated circuit chips, are supported by the base portion and rise to different heights from the base portion. At least one resilient heat exchange component, such as a leaf spring, extends from the lid of the hermetically sealed enclosure to the different heights. The heat exchange component is configured to conduct heat from the plurality of heat generating elements to the lid of the enclosure.
US09688446B2
A connecting structure is provided for connecting a first member and a second member, wherein the first member comprises a connecting upright portion and a plurality of locking flanges provided to extend outwards along the circumferential direction of the outer face of the connecting upright portion, while the second member comprises a connecting side-wall portion that overlies the connecting upright portion and a plurality of locking projections provided to extend inwards from the inner face of the connecting side-wall portion. The bottom faces of the locking flanges distend downwards in a convex curved shape and, when the second member is overlaid on the first member and rotated, the upper faces of the locking projections are guided with sliding contact along the convex curved bottom faces of the locking flanges and stopped at the lowermost position of the convex curved bottom faces.
US09688437B1
A cover for a stackable transport pallet, wherein a corner element is fastened at each of the corners of a main panel, the corner elements are injection moldings made of plastic, the corner elements include an L-shaped corner bearing element and a corner guide element molded. The corner bearing elements rest on the main panel, wherein the outer edges of the corner bearing elements terminate flush with the main panel, the corner guide elements can be recessed in a form-fitting manner in correspondingly shaped apertures in the main panel, wherein the upper side of the corner guide elements terminates flush with the upper side of the main panel, the thickness of the guide elements is greater than the thickness of the main panel by such an extent that those parts of the corner guide elements which project beneath the main panel butt against the inner sides of the transport pallet.
US09688436B2
A glass roving package 200 is provided which has a simple configuration which can prevent shifting and collapse of the glass roving package 200 during transportation of the package, and for which it is easier to package glass rovings 100 and unpack, and the cost of the glass roving package 200 can be reduced. The glass roving package 200 includes groups of glass rovings 100 stacked on top of each other on a base board 20, the glass rovings 100 in each group being arranged, and a wrapping material wrapped around an outer circumferential portion of the groups of glass rovings 100. A displacement prevention sheet 10 is interposed between a lower group of glass rovings 100 and an upper group of glass rovings 100 in order to prevent the upper group of glass rovings 100 from being displaced during transportation of the package.
US09688431B2
The invention relates to a longitudinal sealing device (1) for producing a sealed longitudinal seam (2) on a packaging material (3) which has a tubular portion (4) and a seam portion (5) that adjoins the tubular portion (4) and comprises the sealed longitudinal seam (2). A first layer (6) of the packaging material and a second layer (7) of the packaging material lie one above the other in the seam portion (5). The tubular portion (4) lies above a transport plane (T) of the longitudinal sealing device (1), and the seam portion (5), lying below the transport plane, is moved along a running direction (L) parallel to the transport plane (T). The longitudinal sealing device (1) comprises a positioning device (8) in order to position the two layers (6, 7) relative to each other, a heated sealing roller pair (9) in order to provide the sealed longitudinal seam (2) between the two layers (6, 7), and an unheated conveyor roller pair (10) arranged downstream of the sealing roller pair (9) when seen in the running direction (L). The sealing roller pair (9) comprises two sealing rollers (9a, 9b), a sealing lateral face (17) of which contacts the packaging material (3), and the conveyor roller pair (10) comprises two conveyor rollers (10a, 10b), a conveyor lateral face (18) of which contacts the packaging material. The sealing lateral face (17) of the sealing roller pair (9) is offset relative to the conveyor lateral face (18) in a direction (S) perpendicular to the transport plane.
US09688415B2
An aircraft hybrid fuel system includes a main tank and a set of flexible bladders, the main tank and the set of flexible bladders defining a fuel containment space. The system further includes a set of pathways coupling the set of flexible bladders to the main tank. The set of pathways is constructed and arranged to vent gas out of the set of flexible bladders into the main tank while fuel from a fuel source is provided into the fuel containment space defined by the main tank and the set of flexible bladders. Along these lines, each flexible bladder can be provisioned with a fuel port to provide fuel, and a separate vent port to vent gas to the main tank.
US09688412B2
An aerodynamic fairing whose floor has absolutely no contact with respect to the lateral panels over the entire length of the fairing along the longitudinal axis. A free space e is provided between the floor and the lower edge of each panel. There is a longitudinal mechanical gap between the floor and each of the lateral panels. The absence of any rigid mechanical connection between the floor and the lateral panels allows the transfer of the thermomechanical stresses from the floor to the lateral panels and therefore preventing the deformation of the fairing.
US09688411B2
An impact protection apparatus is provided, comprising a gas container configured to hold a compressed gas and an inflatable member configured to be inflated by the gas and function as an airbag of a movable object, such as an aerial vehicle. A valve controls flow of gas from the container to the inflatable member in response to a signal from a valve controller. The valve and valve controller are powered by an independent power source than one or more other systems of the movable object. A safety mechanism may also be provided that, unless deactivated, prevents inflation of the inflatable member.
US09688408B2
A passenger seat for a means of transportation is provided, which comprises a seat frame with a top side, which top side is configured for supporting a seat pan with a seat cushion for providing a seating area for a passenger, and a bottom side opposing the top side. The passenger seat further comprises a stowage cavity arranged between the top side and the bottom side of the seat frame. The seat frame further comprises a first beam and a second beam, both beams being arranged parallel to each other and parallel to a transversal axis of the passenger seat. The top side of the seat frame provides an access to the stowage cavity such that a stowage compartment, which is configured to accommodate an item of luggage, is insertable into the stowage cavity through the access.
US09688407B2
A method and apparatus are presented. An apparatus comprises a wall and a urinal. The wall is physically associated with a fuselage for an aircraft. The urinal is positioned along the wall, the wall and urinal positioned within a specialty lavatory area module.
US09688397B2
An aircraft may have a fuselage, a left wing extending from the fuselage, a right wing extending from the fuselage, a tail section extending from a rear portion of the fuselage, and a first engine and a second engine operably connected by a common driveshaft, wherein the first and second engines are configured for freewheeling such that if one of the first and second engines loses power the other of the first and second engines continues to power the aircraft.
US09688396B2
The present invention is a winged VTOL aircraft of novel configuration that utilizes a single-axis rotor mounted at an oblique angle within a forward-facing, bifurcating duct, that is controlled by a plurality of servo driven vanes, producing a mechanically simple, redundantly controlled vehicle that can carry cargo, people, or otherwise, directly from point to point. The configuration uses sets of vanes to produce both moments and forces referenced around the vehicle's center of gravity, thereby, allowing the vehicle to translate in a level position, or stay stationary relative to the ground while at a slight pitch or roll attitude. This feature is very important for autonomous vehicles to accurately pick up and drop off payloads on unlevel terrain or in windy conditions. Other rotor vehicles require pitch or roll attitude to translate or compensate for wind. Complementing this vehicle's mechanically simple rotor system is a novel mechanism that collectively drives the pitch of the rotor blades by combining the input from three separate servos. Each servo can be controlled by redundant fight control systems.
US09688384B1
Methods and apparatus to control a gap between movable aircraft wing components are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a body having a trailing edge and a leading edge. The leading edge is to be coupled to an aircraft wing. The trailing edge is to engage a flap of the aircraft wing. The body includes a structure located between the trailing edge and the leading edge. The structure is to engage the flap to maintain a distance between the body and the flap.
US09688382B2
The following steps are performed in the method of constructing an aircraft: taking a subassembly comprising two wings that are rigidly fastened together, and fitting it to a fuselage wall; and fastening the subassembly to the wall by means of fastener elements that are distinct from the subassembly and that present main axes that are vertical.
US09688381B2
The invention relates to a subfloor structure with an integral hull, for a rotary wing aircraft. The subfloor structure comprises an integral subfloor hull that defines in one piece, upward web portions acting as longerons and a bottom central portion offering both load bearing capabilities and aerodynamical loft features. The subfloor structure is useful for rotary wing aircrafts such as helicopters, and is e.g. made of composite and/or light alloy such as aluminum.
US09688380B2
The present disclosure pertains to a window module for an aircraft or spacecraft, including a window frame which comprises, at least in portions, a current-generating element for generating an electric current.
US09688377B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a part of a fuselage of an aircraft having a longitudinal axis, the part including a keel beam and a lower rear shell, each being made from composite materials of the type comprising fibers and of which a part of the fibers extends continuously between the keel beam and the lower rear shell.
US09688375B2
A fuel supply device includes a fuel tank, a fuel path, and a fuel pump. The fuel tank includes a fuel storage region including a sealed region configured to store a fuel. The fuel path is connected to an engine and the fuel tank. The fuel path includes a vaporized-liquid fuel mixture suction portion to suck a vaporized-liquid fuel mixture. The vaporized-liquid fuel mixture is produced by mixing the vaporized fuel into the liquid fuel. The vaporized fuel is produced from the liquid fuel stored in the fuel storage region. The fuel pump is disposed in the fuel path. The fuel pump is configured to produce a negative pressure in a pump suction port connected to the vaporized-liquid fuel mixture suction portion.
US09688374B2
A boat maneuvering system includes a power source, a first operating device configured to operate the power source, a first controller configured to control the power source, a second controller configured to accept an operation instruction input from the first operating device and to output a control signal to the first controller, a first electric power line that connects the power source to a battery to convey electric power therebetween, a second electric power line that connects the second controller to the battery to convey electric power therebetween, a communication path that connects the first controller and the second controller to convey a signal therebetween, and a signal conversion portion provided on the communication path to electrically separate the first and second controllers.
US09688371B1
A neutrally buoyant underwater vehicle is provided in which a length of the vehicle is up to one tenth the length of a predetermined acoustic wavelength. The vehicle includes an inertial navigation system with an accelerometer capable of measuring velocity in a multi-axis direction. The navigation system is operationally connected to a hydrophone which measures acoustic energy of the wavelength arriving at the underwater vehicle. A processor gathers the data from the accelerometer and the hydrophone to convert the data into usable units. The operation of the vehicle-based components is similar to a vector sensor for frequencies of 250 Hz or lower.
US09688369B2
An inflatable life raft assembly is disclosed, including a deployable and inflatable life raft that a user can voluntarily and repeatedly deploy from a storage carrier, inflate for use, and fold back into the container after use. The carrier is integrally formed with or permanently attached to the inflatable life raft. A compressed gas cylinder can assist the user in inflating the life raft. The storage carrier can automatically open when the life raft inflates, by pressure exerted from within the carrier by the expanding life raft. The inflatable life raft includes weight inserts to render the life raft assembly throwable, both when the life raft is folded and stored in the carrier, and when the life raft is deployed and inflated, greatly assisting a user in tossing or throwing the life raft to a person in need of a floating aid.
US09688367B2
A tow rope engagement system for a water ski or wakeboard or configured to communicate a majority of the force from the boat engaged to the tow rope, directly to the water ski or wakeboard during deep water starts by a rider. The lesser force required to ride is transferred to a handle held by the skiers hands once the skier has reached a substantially standing position and is on top of the water. A quick release is provided which will disconnect the tow rope should the rider activate it manually or by falling.
US09688357B1
A foldable boat includes a boat hull, left and right wing members, two forward buoyant bodies, and two rearward buoyant bodies. When the foldable boat is in a folded position, flat bodies of the left and right wing members are substantially perpendicular to a bottom wall of the boat hull, and the forward and rearward buoyant bodies can be packed in an accommodation space of the boat hull. When the foldable boat is in an unfolded position, the flat bodies are substantially parallel to the bottom wall, and each of the forward buoyant bodies and a corresponding one the rearward buoyant bodies are fastened to a corresponding one of the left and right wing members so as to provide a buoyant force to the boat hull.
US09688351B2
A torque sensor for electrically assisting a vehicle with pedals includes a housing, a first gear, an actuator, and a control circuit. The housing defines a receiving chamber and is configured to be coupled to a drive member. The first gear is rotatably mounted in the receiving chamber. The actuator is received in the receiving chamber and is driven by the first gear. The control circuit including a resistor is received in the receiving chamber and the actuator slides along the resistor as a rider applies force to the pedals, thus for adjusting a resistance value of the control circuit, to allow the control circuit to output a signal which governs the assisting power. The disclosure also includes an electric bicycle using the torque sensor.
US09688349B2
A chainless drive mechanism for a bicycle using pedal arms, one on each side of the bicycle, each pedal arm carrying a pedal engageable with a rider's foot. Each pedal arm is mounted to a crank by a rotating joint and connected to the frame of the bicycle by a link, each link having rotating joints at each end. The cranks are connected by a shaft passing through the hub of to the driven wheel of the bicycle. The cranks may be connected to the driven wheel by a multi ratio free wheeling gear mechanism.
US09688343B2
A tubular handlebar includes an internal peripheral surface and a stem head with a mounting system for a mobile device. The tubular handlebar includes a open end, a closed end, at least one speaker unit embedded into at least one through hole of the internal peripheral surface, and a bass reflex system to enhance the acoustic characteristics of the sound generated by the at least one speaker unit. The tubular handlebar has a sound box affixed to the internal peripheral surface of the tubular handlebar and housing a rear part of the at least one speaker unit. The bass reflex system includes a bass reflex duct connecting the sound box with the first end. The mounting system further includes a first connector to electrically connect the mobile device to a second connector. The second connector can be detached or reattached to the at least one speaker unit.
US09688341B2
The present disclosure provides a cardboard-based unit, structural elements comprising said unit and land-vehicles comprising said units and structural elements.
US09688340B1
An accessory for a self-balancing board is provided. The self-balancing board comprises a foot-deck having two lateral foot-deck ends. Each lateral foot-deck end is coupled to a motor that drives a wheel in response to an orientation of the lateral foot-deck end relative to a horizontal plane. The accessory includes a chassis, at least one travel surface-contacting element coupled proximal to a first longitudinal end of the chassis to facilitate travel of the chassis over a travel surface, and a seat coupled to the chassis and configured to support a person. The accessory further includes a first foot-deck engagement element proximal to a second longitudinal end of the chassis distal to the first longitudinal end and constructed to engage the foot-deck of the self-balancing board proximal to the first lateral foot-deck end, and a second foot-deck engagement element proximal to the second longitudinal end of the chassis and constructed to engage the foot-deck of the self-balancing board proximal to the second lateral foot-deck end. At least one control member coupled to the first foot-deck engagement element and the second foot-deck engagement element controls the orientation of the lateral foot-deck ends relative to a horizontal plane via the first foot-deck engagement element and the second foot-deck engagement element.
US09688337B2
A no hands bike chain cleaning tool to clean the chain of a bicycle that is driven through the cleaning tool in response to a rotation of the bicycle pedals. The cleaning tool has a hook projecting from the rear thereof to engage the drop down arm of the rear derailleur of the bicycle and thereby prevent a displacement of the cleaning tool away from the rear derailleur when the pedals are rotated in a first direction. The rear of the cleaning tool has an inwardly extending depression to receive therewithin an edge of the drop down arm and thereby block the cleaning tool from moving into the rear gear wheel when the pedals are rotated in an opposite direction. The cleaning tool has a top cover and a bottom tray that are detachably connected to one another by the actuation of a push-button so as to surround the bicycle chain to be cleaned.
US09688333B2
Provided is a multi-functional turn signal lamp for a bicycle that can be used in a state of being fixed or being detachably attached to an end portion of a handle bar of the bicycle, can perform a turn indicator function, a front lighting function or a brake signaling function via LEDs mounted at the end portion of the handle bar and can enable a user to listen to music via a speaker using the power of a battery upon inserting a portable repository. Also, the present invention can enable a turn indicator lamp composed of an LED part (6) to be operated, or a brake lamp function to be performed by selectively pushing each key of a key part (4) and can enable a module (22) to be separated from a grip part (37), and the grip part (37) to be tightly fixed to the handle bar (50).
US09688322B1
A work vehicle includes left and right track assemblies, each track assembly including a main frame, a pivot member, a pivot shaft coupled to the pivot member, and an actuator coupled between the pivot shaft and the main frame. Each track assembly is configured to permit pivotal steering movement, pivotal pitch movement, and pivotal camber movement. The actuator of each track assembly is coupled to the respective main frame at one end of the actuator, and at an opposite end of the actuator to an actuator anchor via a self-aligning bearing arrangement to permit transmission of steering forces while enabling pivotal movement of the respective track assembly.
US09688306B2
A method of controlling a backing system for a vehicle and trailer assembly comprises initiating a path input mode on an electronic input device associated with an electronic control unit in the vehicle. An intended backing path is input into the electronic control unit by defining the intended backing path with an input control mechanism for the electronic input device. The path input mode on the electronic input device is ended.
US09688303B1
A system and method for detecting failure of a steering angle sensor include: a steering angle sensor, an angular position encoder and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit reads an initial value of the steering wheel rotation angle signal and estimates a rotation angle of a steering wheel based on the motor rotation angle signal, the electronic control unit checks if a difference between an actual value of the steering wheel rotation angle signal and an estimated rotation angle of the steering wheel is smaller than a predetermined value or not, if the difference is bigger than the predetermined value, it means that the steering wheel rotation angle signal fails, and the estimated rotation angle of the steering wheel serves as a substitute signal and is sent to the electronic control unit.
US09688299B2
An infant carrier holder has a floor with a ramp and sidewalls and is mounted to a shopping cart. The ramp and sidewalls can contribute to stably supporting an infant carrier. The holder serves as a mechanical interface between an infant carrier, which can be received in the holder, and the shopping cart. The holder can be concavely shaped to assist in shopping cart nesting in addition to supporting a received infant carrier at a desired angle. The holder can be adjustably mounted to a gate or a basket of the shopping cart and may/may not interfere with nesting operations. The holder permits an infant carrier to be supported on a shopping cart without using a significant amount of shopping cart space or interfering with nesting operations.
US09688298B1
A convertible hand truck includes first and second truck frames coupled with each other through a pair of fixed members and a pair of pivoting members such that the second truck frame is turnable relative to the first truck frame among a folded position, a platform-cart position and a reclined-truck position. A stabilizing lever is pivotably connected with the second truck frame or the pivoting members to be engaged with or disengaged from the fixed members in response to the turning of the second truck frame. The second truck frame extends outwardly from the first truck frame in the reclined-truck position so as to expand and enlarge the carrying area of the hand truck for more loads.
