US08506545B2
An absorbent pad including a chassis having a first side edge and a second side edge. The chassis includes a liquid pervious topsheet and a liquid impervious backsheet. An absorbent system is disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. An elastic element is disposed along each of the first and second side edges of the chassis and attached to at least one of the topsheet and the backsheet, the elastic elements generating a cupping action so that the absorbent pad is biased towards a cup-like shape. A first side adhesive element is attached to the chassis inwardly from the first side edge of the chassis. A second side adhesive element is attached to the chassis inwardly from the second side edge of the chassis. A central adhesive element is attached to the chassis between the first and second side adhesive elements. The absorbent pad has a first configuration in which the central adhesive element is releasably attached to an inner surface of an undergarment so that the absorbent pad retains its cup-like shape and a second configuration in which the first and second side adhesive elements are releasably attached to an outer surface of the undergarment to overcome the cupping action of the elastic elements.
US08506540B2
This application teaches practical and cost effective methods and apparatus to enhance supply chain efficiency by transforming fluid enclosing supply delivery containers in to collection and disposal containers, and in particular, providing inter alia, a canister system having a lid which would couple to either a thread able supply container or a spike able supply container. This enables the user to select from a plurality of supply containers for the collection and removal of waste such as a threaded pour bottle type of supply container, or a spike able type of intravenous solution supply container.
US08506535B2
A gas vent valve assembly may be attached or incorporated to a disposable fluid transfer set used with a fluid warmer to administer an infusate to a patient. The gas vent valve assembly has a housing having a fluid inlet, a gas outlet and a fluid outlet. The gas outlet is located at the top of the housing while the fluid outlet is located at the bottom of the housing. The fluid inlet is located at a side lower portion of the housing. Inside the housing is an actuator float that has an upper seal and a lower seal. The dimension of the float relative to the chamber of the housing is such that the float is freely movable within the housing to an upper position whereby its upper seal closes the gas outlet while the fluid outlet is opened, and to a lower position whereby its lower seal closes the fluid outlet and the gas outlet is opened. The movement of the float is dependent on the respective amounts of air and fluid in the housing, and the buoyancy of the float relative to the fluid in the housing. When a predetermined volume of air gets inside the housing, the float sinks to its lower position to close the fluid outlet and open the gas outlet, so that the air inside the housing is vented to atmosphere while fluid is prevented from being output to the patient. When the amount of gas in the chamber has been reduced to a given volume, with a corresponding increase in the amount of fluid in the housing, the float is raised to open the fluid outlet, thereby enabling the fluid inside the housing to be output to the patient. At that time, the gas outlet is shut to prevent any reverse inflow of air into the housing.
US08506525B2
A wound sealing fluid delivery apparatus and method includes a surface seal. A catheter with a first end and a second end is provided such that the catheter passes through the surface seal. An infusion port is connected with the first end of the catheter and an expandable internal seal is connected with the catheter at the second end.
US08506522B2
A peritoneal dialysis machine including a membrane pump and a touch screen display that includes a mode-indicating portion and an operation-descriptive portion, the mode-indicating portion having a plurality of touch sensitive indicia each indicating one of a plurality of modes in which the machine can operate, the display being used to keep a patient continually informed of which one mode of at least three operating modes the machine is operating in, as the operation-descriptive portion changes to display details of a specific operation being carried out within the one mode, the indicia for each of the three operating modes always being visible to the patient while the machine is operating, the operating mode being selected by the patient touching one of the indicia on the screen.
US08506519B2
An ultrasound system has a catheter including an elongate flexible catheter body having a main lumen extending longitudinally therethrough. The catheter further includes an ultrasound transmission member extending longitudinally through the main lumen of the catheter body, the ultrasound transmission member having a proximal end connectable to an ultrasound generating device and a distal end coupled to the distal end of the catheter body. The catheter further includes a bent distal head or shaped a distal end of the catheter body to improve steerability.
US08506518B2
A medical/surgical irrigator with a handpiece for discharging a lavage solution. There is reservoir in which a therapeutic agent is stored. The therapeutic agent can be selectively mixed with the lavage solution to form a blended solution. The mixing can be performed selectively so as to make it possible to sequentially apply the blended solution or a basic (lavage only) solution.
US08506515B2
Devices and methods for treating intraocular pressure are disclosed. The devices include shunts for draining aqueous humor from the anterior chamber to the uveoscleral outflow pathway, including the supraciliary space and the suprachoroidal space. The shunts are preferably implanted by ab interno procedures.
US08506514B2
The present invention relates to a method and system to regulate pressure in an object, and is especially suitable for regulating intracranial pressure in people suffering from hydrocephalus. The system includes the measurement of physical parameters other than the pressure to be regulated, especially the present position of the object, such as the inclination.
US08506511B2
An extracorporeal blood circuit including: a withdrawal conduit connectable to a coronary withdrawal catheter; a withdrawal pump connectable to the withdrawal conduit, wherein a pumping rate of the withdrawal pump determines a blood withdrawal rate from the coronary withdrawal catheter; a filter having an input connected to the withdrawal conduit and a blood output connected to an infusion conduit and a filtrate output connected to a filtrate conduit; a filtrate measurement device to determine an amount of filtrate removed from the blood in the filter; a fluid supplementation conduit providing a blood replacement fluid to at least one of the withdrawal conduit, filter and infusion conduit; a supplementation pump connectable to the fluid supplementation conduit, wherein a pumping rate of the supplementation pump determines a rate at which the blood replacement fluid flows into the blood flowing through the blood circuit, and a controller regulating the pumping rate of the supplementation pump such that the rate of the blood replacement fluid provides an amount of blood replacement fluid to the at least one of the withdrawal conduit, filter and infusion conduit so as to substantially match the amount of filtrate removed.
US08506509B1
A compression garment for treating post operative patients involved in body contouring surgery and including a base structured for removable disposition in an operative position about the torso and other portions of the patient's body. The compression garment is dimensioned, configured and structured to apply appropriate compression to the surgically affected portions of the patient in order to reduce pain, diminish swelling and avoid fluid accumulation, while not impairing the venous and lymphatic circulation of the affected body portion. The base has one or a first and second cover member overlying its internal and external faces and a closure assembly serves to maintain the garment in a variable closed orientation such that appropriate compressive force may be applied to the affected body areas.
US08506508B2
A compression sleeve includes a wicking layer secured to bladder material defining an inflatable bladder along a seamline. Fibers of the wicking layer extend through the seamline to allow fluid wicked by the wicking layer from the wearer's skin to evaporate to the atmosphere.
US08506492B2
The invention relates to an ultrasound catheter comprising a device arranged in the area of the catheter tip for ultra-sound image recording, with at least one lumen routed into the area of the catheter tip open at this end and ending adjacent to the ultrasound image recording device for issuing an ultrasound contrast means being provided.
US08506485B2
Delivery systems, and methods using the same, having an ultrasound viewing window for improved imaging and a needle for ablation treatment of target tissues. In an embodiment, the target tissue is a fibroid within a female's uterus. In an embodiment, the delivery system includes a rigid shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and an axial passage extending through the rigid shaft. In an embodiment, the axial passage is configured for removably receiving the ultrasound imaging insert having an ultrasound array disposed a distal portion.
US08506457B2
The invention pertains to a stationary exercise bike along with a display that provides instruction to lead a rider through an exercise program. The invention allows a rider to obtain benefits of a group, instructor-led class though the rider's schedule does not permit the rider to participate in the class. The invention also describes a method of exercising with the foregoing bike and display.
US08506454B2
A fluid pressure control device including a first pump actuated by power from a motor; a pressure regulator that regulates a discharge pressure from the first pump; a second pump actuated by electric power; a switcher opening a first path extending from the pressure regulator to a fluid pressure chamber of a friction engagement element, and blocking a second path extending from the second pump to the fluid pressure chamber of the friction engagement element, when the signal pressure is equal to or more than a set pressure, and the switcher blocking the first and opening the second paths when the signal pressure is less than the set pressure; and a control that controls the second pump and the fluid supply unit to supply the fluid regulated by the pressure regulator to a destination different from the fluid pressure chamber of the friction engagement element when the motor is stopped.
US08506453B2
A method for operating a torque-transmitting system, which is coupled on the input side to an output shaft of a drive assembly and on the output side to an input shaft of a transmission. A torque flux from the drive assembly to the transmission passes via the torque-transmitting system. The torque-transmitting system includes a hydrodynamic torque converter via which a hydraulic path of the torque flux passes, a converter lockup clutch which is arranged functionally in parallel with the torque converter and via which a mechanical path of the torque flux passes, and a control unit which controls distribution of the torque flux between the hydraulic and mechanical paths in such a way that a predetermined overall torque profile is established at the input shaft of the transmission.
US08506452B2
Inventions are directed to components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for continuously variable transmissions (CVT). In one aspect, a control system is adapted to facilitate a change in the ratio of a CVT. A control system includes a control reference nut coupled to a feedback cam and operably coupled to a skew cam. In some cases, the skew cam is configured to interact with carrier plates of a CVT. Various inventive feedback cams and skew cams can be used to facilitate shifting the ratio of a CVT. In some transmissions described, the planet subassemblies include legs configured to cooperate with the carrier plates. In some cases, a neutralizer assembly is operably coupled to the carrier plates. A shift cam and a traction sun are adapted to cooperate with other components of the CVT to support operation and/or functionality of the CVT. Among other things, shift control interfaces for a CVT are described.
US08506450B2
Disclosed is a hybrid vehicle with a transmission, the transmission including a transmission input shaft (25) to which the power from the engine is transmitted, transmission output shafts (26, 27) from which a power for driving a driven section is outputted, a first input shaft (21) which is connectable to the transmission input shaft (25) via a first clutch (CL1) of a twin clutch unit (20), a second input shaft (22) which is connectable to the transmission input shaft (25) via a second clutch (CL2), gear trains (G1 to GR) which are configured so that the gear trains can be selected to connect the first input shaft (21) and the second input shaft (22) to the transmission output shafts (26, 27), and a connection device (SM1) which can be selectively switched between a first operation state for enabling power transmission between the output shaft of an electric motor (3) and the transmission input shaft (25) and a second operation state for interrupting the power transmission therebetween.
US08506445B2
A torque transmitting device includes a first race, a second race, and a biasing member. The torque transmitting device selectively transmits a torque in a rotational direction between a first member and a second member. The second member includes a surface that defines an annular bore having a decreasing diameter in an axial direction. The second race opposes the first race and includes a surface that opposes the second member and has the decreasing diameter in the axial direction. The first race and the second race define a predetermined torque limit. The biasing element biases the second race against the second member with a predetermined force that contributes to a predetermined holding torque between the surface of the second race and the surface of the second member that is less than the predetermined torque limit.
US08506440B2
The invention relates to a differential assembly in the form of a crown gear differential, more particularly for being used in the driveline of a motor vehicle. The differential assembly comprises a differential carrier (103) which is rotatingly drivable around an axis of rotation A;two sideshaft gears (112, 113) having crown gear teeth, which are rotatably held in the differential carrier (103) on the axis of rotation A and each comprise a circumferential supporting face (125, 126); differential gears (111) with spur gear teeth, which rotate jointly with the differential carrier (103) around the axis of rotation A and which engage the teeth of the sideshaft gears (112, 113) and each comprise a circumferential contact face (127); wherein the differential gears (111) are supported by means of their contact faces (127) against the supporting faces (125, 126) of the sideshaft gears (112, 113) towards the axis or rotation A.
US08506436B2
Embodiments of the present invention include bicycle chain rings for bicycles having specially shaped ramps, tapers and profiled teeth for improved shifting performance. Additional embodiments of the bicycle chain rings of the present invention may be configured with one or more additional features formed within the chain rings including a transition slide, a tapered ramp face, a ramp bridge, a ramp lead, a trailing transition slide and a wear pin.
US08506435B2
Tension apparatus for a belt drive system. The tension apparatus includes a first component that is movable between a first tension position corresponding to a first belt length and a second tension position corresponding to a second belt length that is longer than the first belt length. The tension apparatus also includes a second component, a first component bracket coupled to the first component and defined by a first surface having a first perceptible indicator, and a second component bracket coupled to the second component and located adjacent the first component bracket. The second component bracket is defined by at least one second surface that has second perceptible indicators. The first perceptible indicator is selectively alignable with one of the second perceptible indicators in response to movement of the first component to one of the first and second tension positions such that tension of the belt is adjustable.
US08506419B2
A golf club head having a club face for hitting a ball comprises a hollow main body provided with a front opening, and a face member disposed at the front of the main body so that a front surface thereof forms at least a major part of the club face, and a rear surface thereof faces a hollow of the main body. The peripheral edge of the face member is welded to the main body so as to form a weld bead, and the width of the weld bead is changed so that a difference (Wmax−Wmin) between the maximum width Wmax and minimum width Wmin is not less than 1 mm.
US08506415B2
Putter heads and putters include one or more of: (a) a main putter body portion including a first arm and a second arm; (b) a first polymeric and/or damping element engaged with the first arm; and (c) a second polymeric and/or damping element engaged with the second arm. The putter heads further may include polymeric material within the putter head structure and exposed at a central ball striking portion of the ball striking face, e.g., in elongated openings provided in the ball striking face. Grooves may be provided in the material of the ball striking face and/or in the exposed polymeric material to affect the ball launch. The putter heads may have various additional features or structures, e.g., relating to weighting features, alignment aid features, putter head constructions or parts, polymeric material exposure features, groove features, etc.
US08506408B2
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating a shared activity conducted by multiple participants via remote devices, particularly when there are more players then available remote devices. For example, the shared activity may be users playing electronic versions of a variety of card games or board games (or other game types). Users interact with a central device and one or more remote devices. The central device may be used to present “public” information on a central game play field—such as a game board, draw and discard piles, place cards, current scores, whose turn it is, etc. And the remote devices are used to present “private” game information to individual players—such as a player's “hole cards” or letter tiles. Further, users may make game choices and provide game input by interacting with the handheld device.
US08506405B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include transmitting game content from a wagering game server to a gaming machine via a network to present a wagering game at the gaming machine for a player, and generating and storing video of one or more rounds of the wagering game. The operations can also include receiving, at the wagering game server via the network, video of the player playing the one or more rounds of the wagering game. The operations can further include combining the video of the one or more rounds of the wagering game with the video of the player playing the one or more rounds of the wagering game, and storing and providing access to the combined video via the network to a player account associated with the player.
US08506398B2
A game apparatus that includes a CPU and in which a plurality of players participate and play a game on a display screen displayed on a common display device. A display area is divided by the number of participating players, and the divided areas are allotted to each player. In addition, an evaluating value is set according to a superiority or inferiority situation of a play content of each player, a size of the divided areas are changed based on the evaluating value, and the display screen in correspondence with a change of the divided areas is generated and displayed. Furthermore, when there is a player who reaches game-over, the display area is re-divided by the number of remaining players.
US08506394B2
Various embodiments are directed to gaming systems, gaming devices, and methods for presenting tournament games. According to one embodiment, a gaming device provides a base game in a normal, non-tournament mode, and the player's eligibility to play a tournament game is also determined. An eligible player is prompted to select a desired tournament game from a list of available tournaments while base game is in the normal, non-tournament mode. In response to the player's selection of a tournament game, the gaming device is reconfigured from the normal mode to a tournament mode. The gaming device processes game play in the tournament mode and creates a final tournament score for the player. At the conclusion of the tournament game on the gaming device, the gaming device is reconfigured into the normal, non-tournament mode.
US08506381B2
A gaming machine includes a first lottery device which performs a lottery to determine an arrangement of option areas on a lottery field to be presented to a player, and a first presenting device which presents the determined arrangement. A second lottery device performs a lottery to draw a lottery position on the lottery field when the arrangement of each of the option areas has been determined by the first lottery device, and a second presenting device presents a lottery position based on a lottery result by the second lottery device. A dividend control device gives a dividend corresponding to a property of an option area, when the property of the option area is configured to yield the dividend and the option area satisfies a predetermined relationship with the lottery position drawn by the second lottery device.
US08506373B2
An amusement device that awards prizes has a display and an input device. The amusement device includes a memory that stores at least one electronic game and a system control program. The at least one electronic game has a plurality of play scenarios and is at least partially skill-based. The amusement device also includes a controller operatively coupled to the memory, the input device and the display. The controller controls the display based upon the system control program retrieved from the memory and based upon inputs from the input device. The controller is configured to permit the user to selectively retrieve from the memory and play the at least one electronic game and determine at least one of an optimum series of requisite moves that will result in an optimal achievable score for a particular play scenario selected from a plurality of play scenarios.
US08506372B2
A system and method are configured to provide a videogame to one or more players. The videogame may involve a series of different virtual geographic locations at which players perform activities. A group of players may be associated with each location. The players may include virtual players controlled by artificial intelligence and one or more real world players. Players may progress through the videogame by moving from location to location, performing objectives at the various locations, and interacting with the players at the locations.
US08506367B2
A mass transit vehicle including a cabin mounted to a frame and including a roof and a passenger zone defining a passenger zone length, an air cleaning unit including an air cleaner housing mounted to the roof, an air cleaning device disposed within the housing, an inlet upstream of the air cleaning device, and an outlet downstream of the air cleaning device, and a duct system disposed within the cabin and extending substantially along the passenger zone length. The air cleaning unit is operable to draw in air through the inlet, through the air cleaning device, and discharge a flow of cleaned air out of the outlet, and the duct system is in fluid communication with the outlet and operable to receive the flow of cleaned air from the outlet and direct the flow of cleaned air to the cabin substantially evenly along the passenger zone length.
US08506362B2
A polishing apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to hold and rotate a substrate, a press pad configured to press a polishing tape having a polishing surface against a bevel portion of the substrate held by the substrate holder, and a feeding mechanism configured to cause the polishing tape to travel in its longitudinal direction. The press pad includes a hard member having a pressing surface for pressing the bevel portion of the substrate through the polishing tape, and at least one elastic member for pressing the hard member against the bevel portion of the substrate through the belt-shaped polishing tool.
US08506357B2
In the cylindrical grinding of the main and rod bearings of crankshafts, the rod bearings are ground prior to the main bearings. The advantage of this is that the deformations that unavoidably occur, mainly during grinding of the rod bearings due to the removal of ground material are taken into account and compensated for again during grinding of the main bearings. The rod bearings are ground through CNC-control in the pin-chasing grinding method, and the crankshaft is held in a rotating axis in the process, said axis defined by two bearing points in the longitudinal extension of the crankshaft main bearing which are only machined. Deviations in said actual rotating axis from the determining geometric longitudinal axis of the crankshaft are taken into account in the pin-chasing grinding method by the computer of the grinding machine. The finished ground rod bearings then have an exact relation to the main bearings, which would have been ground strictly according to the determining geometric longitudinal axis of the crankshaft.
US08506355B1
A system and method are provided for in-situ inspection optical inspection during a parallel polishing process. The method provides a polishing device with a spindle bit for holding a metallurgical sample, and a rotatable wheel having an inner diameter with a top surface for accepting a polishing compound and a transparent outer diameter. An optical system underlies the wheel outer diameter for recording images of the metallurgical sample. The method polishes the metallurgical sample against the wheel inner diameter. Without releasing the metallurgical sample from the spindle bit, the metallurgical sample is moved to a first position overlying the wheel outer diameter, and the metallurgical sample is optically inspected. In one aspect, the polishing device has a cleaning system overlying the wheel outer diameter, and the method sprays the wheel outer diameter with cleaning solution to support an in-situ inspection.
US08506354B2
A cup attaching apparatus for attaching a cup serving as a machining jig on a surface of a lens comprises: a white LED which is an illumination light source for illuminating the lens placed on a lens supporting member; a screen applied with an alignment mark, on which screen an image of the lens illuminated by illumination light from the white LED is projected; a movement device which moves the cup set in an arm toward the lens along a reference axis for cup attachment, the position of the reference axis being associated with the alignment mark; and a light intensity increasing and decreasing device which increases and decreases light intensity of the white LED in response to an operation signal from an operation member to be operated by an operator, the operation member being placed on a front of a housing of the apparatus.
US08506352B2
An eyeglass lens processing apparatus for processing a peripheral edge of an eyeglass lens, includes: a processing unit including a plurality of processing tools that process the peripheral edge of the eyeglass lens held by a lens chuck shaft; a calibrating lens; a mode selector that selects a calibration mode; a memory that stores calibration processing data for processing the calibrating lens to a predetermined shape; a detecting unit that includes a tracing stylus that contacts a surface of the calibrating lens which is processed by the processing unit based on the calibration processing data to detect the shape of the processed calibrating lens in the calibration mode; and a calculating unit that obtain calibration data by comparing a detected result by the detecting unit with the calibration processing data in the calibration mode.
US08506348B2
A brassiere is provided having a pair of breast-receiving cups, each cup comprising at least one fabric layer molded to at least one foam layer, and an inner breast-receiving side and a lower periphery and an upper periphery. A first shaped pocket is formed on the breast-receiving side having a slit formed therein. A first shaped cushion conforming substantially to the shape of the pocket is removably insertable into the pocket to provide breast enhancement to a wearer.
US08506343B2
An interactive toy doll is provided having a torso defining a front portion and a back portion. The doll may additionally include legs extending from a lower portion of the torso, an image sensor located on the front portion of the torso, and an image display located on the back portion of the torso. The doll may further include a processor operatively connected to the image sensor and the image display. Additionally, the doll may include legs that may be grasped by a user while leaving the image sensor and the image display exposed so that a user may view an image on the image display while grasping the legs.
US08506341B2
A method of manufacturing a spark plug having an insulator, a center electrode, a metallic shell, a ground electrode, and a noble metal tip provided on the ground electrode and having a discharge surface forming a spark discharge gap in cooperation with the center electrode. The method of manufacturing includes a fusion-zone formation step of forming a fusion zone through radiation of a high-energy beam to the boundary between the ground electrode and the noble metal tip.
US08506326B2
A coaxial cable continuity connector comprising a connector body, a post engageable with connector body, wherein the post includes a flange having a tapered surface, a nut, wherein the nut includes an internal lip having a tapered surface, wherein the tapered surface of the nut oppositely corresponds to the tapered surface of the post when the nut and post are operably axially located with respect to each other when the coaxial cable continuity connector is assembled, and a continuity member disposed between and contacting the tapered surface of the post and the tapered surface of the nut, so that the continuity member endures a moment resulting from the contact forces of the opposite tapered surfaces, when the continuity connector is assembled, is provided.
US08506322B2
Portable computer battery structures are provided. The portable computer battery structures may include a battery with a metal enclosure and a battery cable with a floating end. The battery may have six cells. Three pairs of parallel-connected cells may be connected together in series. The six cells may be substantially planar in shape. The battery may have a connector with at least five conductive pins and six recesses. The battery cable may have a cable with at least five conductive pins that mate with the five pins of the battery's connector and with six support pins that slide into the six recesses of the battery's connector. The batter connector may be formed on a printed circuit board substrate that folds over on itself.
US08506320B1
A mounting apparatus is used to fix a flash drive mounted on a circuit board with a connector. The mounting apparatus receives the flash drive and connector. The mounting apparatus includes a base board, and a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to each other. An operation portion extends from an end of the base board opposite to the circuit board and forms a blocking portion on a front surface to block a top of the flash drive. Two pairs of fixing portions are formed on the mounting apparatus, respectively for perpendicularly and horizontally mounting the mounting apparatus to the circuit board.
US08506307B2
An electrical connector and method of forming the same are provided, where the method can include affixing at least one layer to a core such that the layer is isomorphic to at least a portion of on an external surface of the core, press fitting the core with the layer into a socket cavity in a socket body, and removing the core from the socket cavity while leaving at least a portion of the layer so that the layer forms a shell layer affixed to an internal surface of the socket cavity. The method can further include inserting at least one plunger and a biasing device into a shell cavity so that a tail of the plunger is slidably received in the shell cavity and the biasing device biases a tip of the plunger away from an internal surface of the shell cavity.
US08506306B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a substrate and a joint. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface, wherein a substrate signal contact, two ground contacts and two positioning openings are formed on the substrate, and the positioning openings are respectively formed on the ground contact and pass through the substrate. The joint includes a connection port, a joint signal contact and two ground structure, wherein the connection port is electrically connected to the joint signal contact, the joint signal contact is connected to the substrate signal contact, and the joint signal contact is located between the two ground structures, and the ground structures are respectively inserted into the positioning openings to be electrically connected to the ground contacts.
US08506299B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis with which and in which the data records for fabricated teeth are fitted into a virtual model of the oral situation. It is possible to subsequently directly manufacture the denture base or to insert the fabricated teeth in the model.
US08506284B2
A method of cooling a load provided in a load compartment in a furnace chamber of a furnace of a hot isostatic pressing device includes releasing hot pressure medium from the load compartment. Cool pressure medium is provided for enabling it to fall through the released hot pressure medium outside the load compartment. The thus obtained mixed pressure medium is led into the load compartment. A hot isostatic pressing device includes a load compartment having an aperture near an upper portion thereof configured to vent warm pressure medium into a region surrounding the compartment and a conduit configured to introduce cool pressure medium into the region surrounding the compartment for mixing with the warm medium. The compartment also includes an aperture near a lower portion thereof configured to receive a mix of warm and cool pressure medium from the region surrounding the compartment.
US08506281B2
There is provided a rotating structure of a rotary member disposed in a press molding apparatus including the rotary member; a main body; and a rotating block. The rotating block includes a convex strip to be attached to the lower portion of the rotary member and a concave strip to be attached to the main body. The convex strip includes a flat mounting portion and a convex sliding portion, and is formed with bolt holes penetrating through the mounting portion and the convex sliding portion at a plurality of positions. The concave strip includes a flat mounting portion and a concave sliding portion, and is formed with bolt holes penetrating through the mounting portion and the concave sliding portion at a plurality of positions. The convex sliding portion and the concave sliding portion are positioned at slidable positions.
US08506280B1
The invention comprises a die apparatus including a flexible lip for adjusting a gap between the flexible lip and a second lip. The apparatus include a cross-bar contacting the lip and extending substantially the length of the lip, where the cross-bar is connected to linear moving members. The linear moving members may be moved, for instance, through pivoting pivot members. The pivoting members may pivot by adjusting a slide bar. As a result, the dimensions of the gap may be changed by moving the slide bar in a first direction or a second direction.
US08506277B2
A cylindrical core for manufacturing an endless belt-shaped body includes a cylindrical portion that includes a cylinder whose cylindrical shape is not maintainable without support when an outer surface thereof is orthogonal to the direction of gravitational force; and flange portions that are detachably mounted on both axial ends of the cylindrical portion, wherein the cylindrical core is used in a method for manufacturing an endless belt-shaped body, the method including applying a coating film forming resin solution onto an outer surface or an inner surface of the cylindrical portion in a state in which the flange portions are mounted on the cylindrical portion; drying a solvent of the coating film forming resin solution; and solidifying the coating film forming resin by heating in a state in which the flange portions are removed, to form the endless belt-shaped body.
US08506276B2
A method for manufacturing a bladder for use in manufacturing tires having a surface-modified rubber layer on an outer surface side of a base rubber layer, including the steps of: forming an uncross-linked body of the surface-modified rubber layer by molding a rubber composition including a modified butyl rubber composition and an organic peroxide and applying a siloxane compound having a (meth)acryloyl group to a surface of this rubber molded body; forming the base rubber layer from an unvulcanized body or vulcanized body formed from a rubber composition different than the modified butyl rubber composition; laminating the uncross-linked body of the surface-modified rubber layer on the outer surface side of the base rubber layer; and heat treating.
US08506275B2
The invention relates to a tire curing mold comprising at least one lining element for molding the tread of said tire, said lining element comprising at least one bead for molding a groove in the tread. The curing mold comprises at least one insert forming a portion of the bead, said insert partially or completely delimiting a slot extending into the depth of the bead. The slot is oriented substantially perpendicularly to the bead. The slot is configured in order to mold a flexible wall of reduced thickness made as one piece with at least one wall of the groove molded by the bead.
US08506271B2
A compressor includes a shell, a compression mechanism, and an axial biasing system. The shell defines a first passage forming a first discharge passage. The compression mechanism includes first and second scroll members meshingly engaged with one another and forming a series of compression pockets. The first scroll member includes a second discharge passage. The axial biasing system includes a biasing member having first and second surfaces generally opposite one another. The first surface includes a first radial surface area exposed to an intermediate pressure from one of the compression pockets and a second radial surface area exposed to a discharge pressure. The second surface includes a third radial surface area exposed to the intermediate pressure. The biasing member is axially displaceable between first and second positions. The biasing member axially engages the first scroll member when in the first position.
US08506269B2
A balance shaft module equipped with a dual pump including a main oil pump and a sub-oil pump may include a pump rotor rotatably coupled to a housing, a discharge space formed in the housing for discharging oil in the sub-oil pump, a pulse chamber formed in the housing to increase the discharge space, wherein the oil discharged through the discharge space is merged with the oil flowing through the pulse chamber such that discharge pulse pressure is reduced, and an eccentric washer having a discharging opening space formed by cutting off a portion inward from the outside, wherein the discharge opening space of the eccentric washer is connected to the discharge space to fluid-communicate with the discharge space of the pump rotor.
US08506267B2
A technique facilitates the pumping of fluids in a well related application while minimizing the number of system components. The system and methodology comprise a plurality of pumps for use at a well site to deliver a well treatment fluid to a desired location. A single driveline is coupled between the plurality of pumps and a motive unit without incorporating a splitter box. The driveline is driven by the motive unit to rotate the plurality of pumps.
US08506263B2
A vacuum pump is provided comprising a pumping mechanism, a drive shaft for driving the pumping mechanism and a gear box connected to the drive shaft for rotating the drive shaft. Pressure control means are provided to define a path to allow fluid to flow from the pumping mechanism to the gear box in order to reduce the pressure difference therebetween. A reservoir is located within this path for collecting oil passing along the drive shaft from the gear box towards the pumping mechanism. In use, this enables pressurized fluid flowing from the pumping mechanism towards the gear box to urge oil which has collected in the reservoir, towards the gear box.
US08506262B2
A method for operating at least one pump in a pump assembly comprises providing a pump assembly comprising a fluid end and a power end, the fluid end in communication with a fluid source and at least one downstream destination and comprising a pump housing for a pressurizable chamber, at least one valve for controlling fluid communication with the chamber, the at least one valve defining a normal duration of allowing fluid communication with the chamber during operation of the pump assembly, providing a valve actuation guide external to the chamber, the valve actuation guide coupled to the valve and operable to assist in controlling fluid communication with the chamber, operating the pump assembly, and actuating the valve actuation guide to change an aspect of the valve duration.
US08506261B2
A displacement control system (B) for a variable displacement compressor has an electromagnetic clutch (200), a displacement control valve (300) including a valve body (306) that is applied with pressure of a suction pressure region of a variable displacement compressor (100) and an electromagnetic force of a solenoid unit in an opposite direction to the pressure of a discharge pressure region, and biasing means that biases the valve body (306) in the same direction as the electromagnetic force, and means (453, 454, 405) for adjusting current, which adjusts current supplied to a displacement control valve coil (316) according to external information detected by external-information detecting means (403, 451, 452).
US08506258B2
Wind turbine systems and methods are disclosed herein. A representative system includes a wind turbine blade having an inner region that has an internal load-bearing truss structure, and an outer region that has an internal, non-truss, load-bearing structure. In particular embodiments, the truss structure can include a triangular arrangement of spars, and/or can include truss attachment members that connect components of the truss without the use of holes in the spars. Spars can be produced from a plurality of pultruded composite members laminated together in longitudinally extending portions. The longitudinally extending portions can be connected at joints that interleave projections and recesses of each of the spar portions. The blades can include fan-shaped transitions at a hub attachment portion, formed by laminated layers and/or a combination of laminated layers and transition plates.
US08506254B2
An impeller is provided that may be used in compressors or turbines. In another aspect of the present invention, a fiber or a bundle of fibers is woven to form at least two blades of an impeller. Yet another aspect of the present invention employs a peripheral component woven around impeller blades. An additional conductive fiber or bundle of fibers is woven into the impeller in a further aspect of the present invention. Moreover, an aspect of the present invention provides a chilling system that includes at least one compressor, at least one wave rotor, and a refrigerant.
US08506253B2
A balancing assembly for a rotor assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a flange engaging portion defining a flange receiving opening for mating with the flange in a slidable manner. A hole extends through at least part of the flange engaging portion, the hole corresponding in size to a recess and adapted to receive a rivet or other suitable fastener to fix the balancing weight with respect to the disc.
US08506252B1
A turbine rotor blade with a cooling air channel formed in a mid-chord region, the channel includes a number of rows of semi-circular shaped ribs that extend across the channel and open toward the blade tip. Adjacent ribs form metering and impingement passages that discharge a jet of cooling air against the rib above it. The open ends of the ribs form vortex generating passages in which the impingement cooling air flows into to form a vortex flow pattern in the cooling air.
US08506246B2
The static seal (30) includes a rotary seal body (32) comprising an annular base portion (34) which is drivingly mountable on a rotary component such as a shaft and an annular cantilever portion (40) connected at one end to the base portion (34). The seal (30) 5 further includes a rotary seal face (48) and circumferential weights (44) connected to the cantilever portion (40). The seal is configured to dilate under centrifugal force to provide a running clearance between the rotary seal face and a complementary static seal face with which the rotary seal face is in contact when the rotary seal body (28) is stationary. The rotary seal body is further configured so as to facilitate the breaking up of slurry which may set around the seal when the pump (10) of which the seal forms part is inoperative.
US08506243B2
A gas turbine article includes a substrate, a plurality of geometric surface features that protrude from the substrate, and a thermally insulating topcoat disposed over the plurality of geometric surface features. The thermally insulating topcoat includes segmented portions that are separated by faults that extend through the topcoat from the geometric surface features.
US08506239B2
A gas turbine is provided. The gas turbine includes at least one rotor, having rotor blades arranged on the periphery of rotor disks in a plurality of radial planes, and a tie-bolt extending along slots in the rotor disks and holding the rotor disks together as a unit. At least one annular spacer for fixing the position of the tie-bolt in relation to the center line of the rotor disks is also provided. The spacer includes through-openings that are arranged radially in relation to the tie-bolt or to its center line and that extend coaxially.
US08506237B2
A turbomachine that includes a radial-flow impeller and one or more of a variety of features that enhance the performance of machinery in which the turbomachine is used. For example, when the turbomachine is used in a dynamometer, the features enhance the useful shaft horsepower range of the dynamometer. One of the features is a variable-restriction intake that allows for adjusting flow rate to the impeller. Other features include a unique impeller shroud and a shroud guide each movable relative to the impeller. Yet another feature is an exhaust diffuser that facilitates an increase in the range of shaft power and the reduction of deleterious vibration and noise. The turbomachine can also include a unique impeller blade configuration that cooperates with the adjustable intake and the exhaust diffuser to enhance flow through the turbomachine.
US08506233B2
An axial turbine (1) has a plurality of expansion stages (2) each defined by stator blades (13) and rotor blades. The expansion stages (2) are followed by an exhaust diffuser (4) for collecting the flow passing through the expansion stages (2) and discharging it to the outside. The expansion stages (2) and/or the diffuser (4) have at least a non-axial symmetric portion. The stator blades (13) define different openings (17) along the circumference of the turbine.
US08506231B2
A handler includes a device holding portion, which holds an uninspected device and loads the device in a measuring socket on a device tester, having a suction means for sucking the device by a very weak pushing force at the time of sucking the device from an uninspection tray and for loading the device in a measuring socket and also having a clamper capable of outputting a pushing force which can be changed at the time of the measurement contact. The device holding portion includes a position correcting mechanism for making a device position correction executed by an image recognizing and position correcting means.
US08506229B2
A pipe handling apparatus has a boom pivotally movable between a first position and a second position, a riser assembly pivotally connected to the boom, an arm pivotally connected at one end to the first portion of the riser assembly and extending outwardly therefrom, a gripper affixed to an opposite end of the arm suitable for gripping a diameter of the pipe, a link pivotally connected to the riser assembly and pivotable so as to move relative to the movement of the boom between the first and second positions, and a brace having a one end pivotally connected to the boom and an opposite end pivotally connected to the arm between the ends of the arm. The riser assembly has a first portion extending outwardly at an obtuse angle with respect to the second portion.
US08506228B2
A punch rivet and a die for the production of a punch rivet connection are described. The punch rivet is characterized by special rivet foot and underhead geometries. In the region of the rivet foot, the shank outer face and shank inner face are connected by means of a small radially outer radius and a larger radially inner radius, which radii merge into one another tangentially. The angle that the common tangent encloses with a radial plane is in the range of 10°±20°. The die is preferably matched to the described punch rivet, but can also be used in combination with conventional punch rivets.
US08506223B2
An low-profile cam locking fastener assembly in which a locking nut is connected to a locking washer through a tubular skirt that extends from the nut opening. The skirt and nut opening are coaxial having contiguous inner surfaces that are threaded to receive a bolt or stud. The washer is mounted to the skirt so as to be rotatable with respect to nut as well as axially movable to a position in which cooperating cam elements on opposing faces between the washer and the nut are separated. The cam elements are arranged so that when the nut and washer are fastened down to a bolt or stud on a workpiece, the cam elements engage one another to substantially prevent the nut from loosening from the threaded bolt/stud.
US08506222B2
A nut plate assembly includes a nut retainer and a bushing for expanding a tubular body of the retainer. The retainer assembly is used to cold work an opening of a workpiece in order to fix the nut retainer assembly relative to the workpiece. A nut member can be snapped into the retainer. A method of installation includes passing a mandrel through the bushing to radially expand the bushing into a tubular body of the retainer. The tubular body is compressed between the workpiece and bushing as the bushing is displaced radially causing corresponding radial displacement of the tubular body. The expanded bushing applies pressure to the tubular body for a desired fit between the nut retainer and workpiece.
US08506219B2
A cargo rack for transferring loads between a marine vessel and an offshore marine platform provides a frame having a front, a rear, and upper and lower end portions. The lower end portion has a perimeter beam base, a raised floor and a pair of open-ended parallel fork tine tubes that communicate with the perimeter beam at the front and rear of the frame. Openings in the perimeter beam base align with the forklift tine tubes. The frame includes fixed side walls extending upwardly from the perimeter beam. A plurality of gates are movably mounted on the frame, each gate being movable between open and closed positions, the gates enabling a forklift to place fluid holding tanks on the floor by accessing either the front of the frame or the rear of the frame. A manifold arrangement with fittings enables transfer of fluid in any tank to a common outlet.
US08506217B2
A vehicle wheel chock for a vehicle restraint system for an auto-rack railroad car which secures a vehicle in the auto-rack railroad car. The vehicle wheel chock is configured to be positioned on a grating adjacent to a tire of the vehicle.
US08506202B2
A constant velocity universal joint having a recess-projection engagement configuration in which backlash at a shaft connecting region does not easily occur, and an inner joint component and a shaft can he firmly connected. hi the constant velocity universal joint, the inner joint component and the shaft (5) fitted into an axis hole (22) of the inner joint component are connected by die recess-projection engagement configuration. Engagement contacting regions (38) of projections (35) and recesses (36) corresponding thereto are in close contact over the whole region.
US08506200B2
A rapid locking hand knob construct includes a fixed threaded sleeve having an inner groove around its outer diameter that is mated to a rubber sleeve. One end of a first tube is connected to an inside diameter of one end of a fixed ring. The fixed ring has a groove provided around an outside diameter at an end thereof and an inner conical surface provided around an inside diameter at another end thereof. The tube hole at the end of a second tube is mated to a locking lining, wherein one end thereof includes an outer tapered surface that is inserted into an inner tapered surface of the fixed ring. A hole on the fixed threaded sleeve is secured into the groove of the fixed ring by a screw. A rotary rubber sleeve drives the movable thread sleeve up and down horizontally in the direction of the tube fitting.
US08506196B2
A fluid delivery system usable in an oral care implement and a reservoir containing a flowable substance. A capillary channel formed of one or more wicking or capillary members extends through at least a portion of the oral care implement to deliver flowable substance(s) through one or more outlets via capillary action. In one embodiment, the rate of fluid flow through the capillary channel is different in at least a first flow section than in a second flow section. In another embodiment, the rate of flow between flow sections of the wicking member is different than in at least one of the flow sections. A variety of flowable substances can be administered for therapeutic, hygienic, and/or other benefits, such as fresh breath, tooth whitening, tooth sensitivity, plaque and/or tartar control, or producing sensations of heat, cool, or tingling.
US08506194B2
A liquid dispensing device is provided with a container having first and second spaces for storing two different lotions respectively; a first transmission assembly in the first space; a first dispensing assembly in ratchet engagement with opening of the first space; a second transmission assembly in the second space; and a second dispensing assembly in ratchet engagement with opening of the second space. An individual is allowed to use either an application head in the first dispensing assembly or an application head in the second dispensing assembly.
US08506193B1
A cosmetic fluid dispenser, comprising in combination a vertically elongated housing structure containing upper and lower compartments, the lower compartment configured to receive and store cosmetic fluid; a dispenser tube projecting vertically from the lower interior of the lower compartment, upwardly into the upper compartment; a plunger movable vertically in the housing, the housing structure including a rotor rotatable to drive the plunger downwardly for effecting fluid displacement into and upwardly in the dispenser tube; and a valve for preventing inadvertent leakage of fluid from the tube, and characterized as openable in response to use of the dispenser.
US08506190B2
A cutter mechanism has a fixed blade and slidable blade which cooperates with the fixed blade to cut a recording sheet. The fixed blade is biased in a direction away from a base portion by a biasing member. A holder supports the fixed blade away from the base portion to cause a cutting edge of the fixed blade to swing up and down and permit opposite ends of the fixed blade to be pushed down at least in the direction of the base portion. The fixed blade holder has a wall portion positioning the fixed blade in a sliding direction of the slidable blade, a first regulating member that regulates lifting of the fixed blade cutting edge, and a second regulating member that regulates lifting of the fixed blade root portion in a state in which a gap is formed between the base portion and the root portion.
US08506188B2
A thermal printer includes a first thermal head, a first platen roller, first biasing means, a second thermal head, a second platen roller, and second biasing means. The first thermal head, the first platen roller, the first biasing means are in contact with a heat-sensitive layer of thermal recording paper. The second thermal head, the second platen roller, and the second biasing means are in contact with a heat-sensitive layer of the thermal recording paper. The second thermal head is arranged on the upstream side of the first thermal head in a paper feed direction. A paper feed speed of the first platen roller to the thermal recording paper is larger than a paper feed speed of the second platen roller. The first platen roller is in contact with the thermal recording paper while being more slippery compared with the second platen roller.
US08506182B2
A stabilized stereographic camera system may include an upright support having a longitudinal axis. A camera support coupled to one end of the upright support may mount first and second cameras, the first camera movable with respect to the second cameras. A ballast may be coupled to another end of the upright support. A balance mechanism may move a movable portion of the stereographic camera system relative to the upright support in response to movement of the first camera with respect to the second camera to maintain a constant weight distribution of the stereographic camera system.
US08506178B2
The invention provides and apparatus for mechanically splicing fiber optic cables and method for performing the process. The apparatus comprises an inventive segmented track with a middle track segment containing a splicer mount, and first and second rotating track segments on opposed sides of a middle segment, the rotating segments moving from a cleaving orientation wherein the rotating track segments align with a respective flat edge angled cleaver and a rounded edge angled cleaver, to a splicing orientation wherein the rotating track segments align with the middle track segment. First and second fiber key holders securely holding partially stripped fiber optic cables move along the respective first and second track segment for cleaving by the cleavers and then toward the middle track segment where their cleaved tips come into controlled aligned contact within a splicer joint contained in the splicer joint mount.
US08506173B2
There is provided a fiber optic receptacle and plug assembly adapted to provide electrical connectors for electrical conductors. The receptacle and plug define complimentary alignment and keying features for ensuring that the plug is mated with the receptacle in a predetermined orientation. An alignment sleeve is disposed within the plug for receiving a multi-fiber receptacle ferrule and a multi-fiber plug ferrule. The fiber optic receptacle and corresponding plug each include a biasing member assembly for urging the receptacle ferrule and the plug ferrule towards one another, wherein the biasing member assembly includes a spring, a spring centering cuff and a ferrule boot that operatively engage the rear of the receptacle ferrule and the plug ferrule, respectively, to substantially center a spring biasing force on the end face of the receptacle ferrule and the plug ferrule. The electrical connectors of the receptacle and plug are preferably provided separate from the biasing member assembly.
US08506171B2
Spring strut bearing, which has an antifriction bearing that is arranged axially between an upper carrier part and a lower carrier part and a sealing ring. The upper carrier part has two upper rims, and the lower carrier part has two lower rims. The upper rims and the lower rims engage into one another with the result that a combined labyrinth and slip-ring seal is formed.
US08506166B2
Lubrication for rolling elements are made in a turnaround passage in an end cap to ensure proper and steady lubrication by the lubrication system simple in construction, with accompanying sustainable maintenance-free condition for lubrication. The end cap has an inward end surface facing directly towards the end surface of the carriage of the slider and having a concavity which sinks below the inward end surface and has openings communicating with the turnaround passages. A porous compact impregnated with lubricant is fitted into the concavity in a fashion exposed in part to the turnaround passage through the openings so that the rolling elements rolling through the turnaround passages, as coming into rolling-contact with the parts of the porous compact exposed out of the openings, are applied with the lubricant.
US08506165B2
An easily openable packaging bag according to the present invention does not produce an opening piece resulting in a small piece of waste when opening, and facilitates opening even with a single hand. Furthermore the easily openable packaging bag of the present invention can be also applied to a packaging bag provided with barrier characteristics. The easily openable packaging bag joins both ends of a packaging material into a tube shape. Both of the joined ends are heat sealed to form a bonded rear portion in a rear portion of the tube portion and solid contents are contained in an inner section of the tube portion. A weakened portion is formed in a portion not occupied by the contents in the tube portion along a circumferential direction of the tube portion and the weakened portion is not provided in at least a portion of the bonded rear portion.
US08506160B2
A liquid based ice protection test method tests an aircraft part that includes at least a first heating element mounted on an inside surface of an aircraft skin. The method includes bringing the aircraft skin into contact with a low temperature bath and taking one or more temperature readings of the aircraft skin. A liquid based deicing test system includes a container that holds a low temperature bath, a fixture to suspend the aircraft part within the container, and a temperature sensing device for reading temperatures on an outside surface of the aircraft part. A liquid based ice protection test method includes sealing off ends of an aircraft part, attaching at least one temperature sensing device on the aircraft part and at least partially submerging it in a low temperature bath, and obtaining temperature information from the temperature sensing device.
US08506156B2
Provided is a device for diluting a viscous substance which is advantages in increasing frequency of contact between the viscous substance and a diluent in order to finely fragment the viscous substance, even when the viscous substance has a high viscosity, and efficiently dilute the viscous substance with the diluent. The device comprises a viscous substance supply portion 27 for supplying the viscous substance to the dilution chamber 20, a rotor 3 rotatably provided in the dilution chamber 20 and finely fragmenting the viscous substance supplied to the dilution chamber 20 by rotation to form a number of small fragments 92 of the viscous substance, and a diluent supply portion 28 for supplying a diluent such as water vapor to the dilution chamber 20 so that the diluent is contacted with the small fragments 92 formed by rotation of the rotor 3.
US08506155B2
An HMA plant which uses incidental heating of metal surfaces in combination with hot exhaust gases to pre-heat and pre-dry virgin aggregate material contained in an enclosed container which permits hot dry air to pass through interstices in the virgin aggregate material stored in the container.
US08506149B2
Disclosed is an optical sheet for use in liquid crystal displays, which simultaneously functions to uniformly diffuse light emitted from a light guide plate and a diffusion plate and to increase brightness, decreases the loss of light, and enables the fabrication of thinner liquid crystal displays.
US08506147B2
A light source apparatus for vehicle lamps and particularly vehicle headlights can include a plurality of LED elements can be mounted in a cavity located on a base surface or on a base. Each of the LED elements can be arranged in such a manner as to form an emission shape and a brightness distribution that is suited for a light distribution pattern, and especially a light distribution pattern for a vehicle headlight.
US08506146B2
A vehicle head lamp includes: a light source; a reflector that reflects light emitted from the light source; a condenser lens that irradiates the light reflected by the reflector forward; and a shade that blocks part of the light reflected by the reflector to obtain a desired light distribution. The shade includes a main shade that has an opening for passing overhead sign light irradiated forward and upward and a sub-shade that is provided so as to be inclined rearward and downward from an upper edge of the main shade in order to obtain a cut line of the light distribution, and the reflector has an OHS reflection area used to project part of the reflected light toward a lower surface of the sub-shade and that allows the light reflected on the lower surface to pass through the opening of the main shade as the OHS light.
US08506144B2
The invention provides a car lighting unit (1) comprising a reflector (10) and a light source (20) arranged to generate light (21). The reflector (10) circumferentially surrounds the light source and the reflector has a reflector opening (11). The reflector is arranged to reflect at least part of the light from the light source through the reflector opening. The car lighting unit further comprises a 3D hologram (30). The car lighting unit is constructed to generate a beam of light (22) and a holographic 3D image (31), using light from the light source (20).
US08506141B2
A trim means for a motor vehicle comprises a carrier having a B side and a C side. A recess is formed into the B side of the carrier, and the carrier has an aperture in the region at the edge of the recess. A planar lighting unit comes to lie flush in the recess on the B side of the carrier, so that on the B side of the carrier a substantially continuous planar surface of the carrier with the lighting unit is produced. The lighting unit has a connection cable which is guided through the aperture to the C side of the carrier, where it is connected with a plug connector, a further conductor or directly with a control unit. A cover layer is applied onto the B side of the carrier and covers the planar lighting unit and at least a portion of the surface of the carrier. The cover layer forms the visible side of the trim means and is permeable to the light emitted from the lighting unit.
US08506134B2
A retrofit luminaire assembly is provided for retrofitting a mounting frame such as a plaster frame or other recessed lighting assembly without the need to remove the existing plaster frame. The retrofit assembly includes a mounting ring that can support a replacement electrical junction box and the replacement luminaire. The mounting ring is inserted through the opening in the plaster frame and secured to the plaster frame by an attachment member that engages the top face of the plaster frame. The attachment member can include a plate coupled to the mounting ring to form two outwardly extending arms. The plate is axially adjustable with respect to the mounting ring to clamp the plaster frame between the plate and the bottom flange of the mounting ring. In another embodiment, the attachment member has a hook-like end that engages a bottom surface of the mounting frame.
US08506125B2
A lighting apparatus comprises a light panel having a panel frame, and a plurality of LEDs or other light elements secured to the panel frame. Lenses and/or filters are adjusted in distance from the light elements, by for example moving the lenses/filters into different slot positions of the frame, to alter characteristics of the emitted light. Focal lenses, diffusion lenses, and color filters may be used individually or in combination. A compound lens includes lens elements having different characteristics arranged in a pattern. Through groupwise control of the intensity of the light elements, the different characteristics are emphasized or de-emphasized. The light panel may have an integrated battery, and may be mounted on a stand. The panel may be modular, allowing larger panels to be constructed from smaller panels.
US08506124B2
A light-emitting method is provided. The light-emitting method is applied in a light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes an emitting member to emit light. The light-emitting method includes detecting an air pressure of the light-emitting device and controlling the emitting member to emit light with color and luminance value according to the detected air pressure. A related light-emitting device is also provided.
US08506115B2
An information display device illuminates a light pipe, and includes a controller to regulate the power levels delivered to a light source, thereby regulating the amount of light delivered to the light pipe. Alternatively, the information display device delivers visual data, including alpha-numeric characters, predetermined images, or a controlled phasing. The information display device may be utilized to illuminate information associated with the structure. The illumination system provides the ability to phase between different colors, as well as blended colors. Accordingly, an information display device phases between varying colors, and may blend colors to create color schemes. The illumination system includes a control module disposed within the structure to control device parameters. The illumination system further includes landscape lights that are in communication with the control module and the information display device, such that the landscape lights may phase with the information display device, thereby providing a unified phasing effect.
US08506114B2
A lighting device comprising a white light source, a filter which filters blue light from the white light, and a second light source which emits red light and/or reddish-orange light. In some embodiments, the white light source comprises a solid state light emitter. A method of lighting, comprising illuminating a white light source, illuminating a red and/or reddish-orange light source, the light sources being positioned and oriented such that the light mixes, and filtering blue light from the mixed light. A method of lighting, comprising illuminating a white light source, filtering blue light from the white light, and illuminating a red and/or reddish-orange light source. A light filter, comprising a first filter component which has a wall region and a window region, and a second filter component comprising two or more reflection regions. Also, methods of filtering.
US08506098B2
A mounting portion structure for stably temporarily fixing a door mirror is provided. Two temporary fixing pieces are formed to protrude on a gasket. Pawls are formed to direct outward at tips of the two temporary fixing pieces. The gasket is previously secured to the mirror base by a screw. The two temporary fixing pieces are inserted through an opening in a mirror mounting portion of a vehicle, and the pawls of the temporary fixing pieces are locked to facing edges of the opening to temporarily fix the mirror base to the mirror mounting portion. Then, the mirror base and the mirror mounting portion are permanently fixed by a screw.
US08506091B2
An illumination apparatus including a first light emitting device, a first phosphor layer, a second light emitting device and a second phosphor layer and a beam combining element is provided. The first light emitting device is capable of providing a first light beam and the first phosphor layer is disposed on the transmission path of the first light beam. The second light emitting device is disposed opposite to the first light emitting device and for providing a second light beam, wherein the second phosphor layer is disposed on the transmission path of the second light beam. The beam combining element is disposed between the first phosphor layer and the second phosphor layer. In addition, the invention also provides a projection apparatus.
US08506089B2
An apparatus for preventing bird collisions with a window including a UV light source, a mask, and a first lens configured to direct UV light from the UV light source through the mask. The mask is at least partially transparent to UV light and includes a pattern that is at least partially opaque to UV light. The UV light passing through the mask contains the pattern. The pattern-containing UV light is projected onto a pane of glass to form a UV image visible to birds corresponding to the pattern on the pane. The image is configured to deter birds from flying into the pane of glass.
US08506086B2
The invention relates to a device for representing surface colors for simulating print results through a screen, comprising at least one light source and a projection surface. According to the invention the base colors are generated from white light through filters from surface colors and the mixed colors are generated through subtractive color mixing, preferably through reflexive color filters. Through the method for representing surface colors for simulating print results the capability is created to represent surface colors at different locations and at different times identically.
US08506085B2
Methods and systems for projecting images that may be implemented to provide the ability for a user of an information handling system to view a selected projected image privately, while allowing other projected images to be publicly viewable to other users who cannot see the privately-projected image. With appropriate intervening polarization, a user may be allowed to view the projected private image and any projected publicly viewable images, and the private image and publicly viewable images may be optionally simultaneously projected if so desired.
US08506074B2
Ophthalmic lens including at least one spherical face with an optical center and a geometrical center, and having in succession a top vision region, an intermediate vision region and a bottom vision region, with a principal meridian of progression traversing the three vision regions of the aspherical face, the lens being noteworthy in that the top vision region is adapted for mid-distance vision, the bottom vision region is adapted for near-distance vision, and the intermediate vision region is adapted for intermediate distance vision, and in that the optical center of the aspherical face is in the intermediate vision region, the optical center coinciding with the geometrical center of aspherical face. This lens is particularly suitable for people with emmetropic longsightedness.
US08506059B2
An ink jet recording apparatus includes a recording head, an ink tank, and two ink routes. The recording head is mounted on a carriage moving along a recording surface of a recording medium and discharges ink and thereby performs recording on the recording medium. The ink tank is disposed inside the recording apparatus and stores ink to be supplied to the recording head. The two ink routes connect the ink tank and the recording head and are capable of circulating ink between the ink tank and the recording head. One of the ink routes is an ink supply path that supplies ink from the ink tank to the recording head, and the other ink route is an ink reflux path that returns ink from the head to the ink tank. The ink reflux path is capable of being fluidly connected to and disconnected from the recording head.
US08506058B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure generating chamber communicating with a nozzle for ejecting liquid droplets and a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric layer and a pair of electrodes disposed on both sides of the piezoelectric layer. The piezoelectric layer is made of a perovskite-type oxide containing barium titanate, calcium titanate, and europium oxide.
US08506048B2
A control section is included which performs a background image pre-printing which enables each ink to be ejected from the upstream side background color nozzle row and the downstream side color nozzle row and can land the color ink after landing the background color ink on the medium in a region concerning the transport direction, and a background image post-printing which enables each ink to be ejected from the upstream side color nozzle row and the downstream side background color nozzle row and can land the background color ink after landing the color ink on the medium in a region concerning the transport direction, the control section performing the printing so as to switch over the background image pre-printing and the background image post-printing on one medium.
US08506039B2
A liquid dispenser includes a substrate. A first portion of the substrate defines a liquid dispensing channel including an outlet opening. A second portion of the substrate defines a liquid supply channel and a liquid return channel. A liquid supply provides a continuous flow of liquid from the liquid supply through the liquid supply channel through the liquid dispensing channel through the liquid return channel and back to the liquid supply. A diverter member, positioned on a wall of the liquid dispensing channel that includes the outlet opening, is selectively actuatable to divert a portion of the liquid flowing through the liquid dispensing channel through outlet opening of the liquid dispensing channel. The diverter member includes a MEMS transducing member anchored to the wall of the liquid dispensing channel. A compliant membrane is positioned in contact with the MEMS transducing member.
US08506038B2
A method enables an operator to detect misalignment of printheads that eject clear ink in an inkjet printer. The method prints a first test pattern with a first color of ink and then prints a second test pattern of clear ink on top of the first test pattern. The ink of the first and the second test patterns is then spread to enable the clear ink to be dispersed in interstitial spaces in the ink of the first color. An operator is then able to detect the spatial relationship of predetermined marks in the second test pattern to predetermined marks in the first test pattern. The predetermined marks of the first and the second test patterns are arranged to enable an operator to detect a misalignment distance and the inkjet printer uses the misalignment distance entered by the operator to adjust the alignment of the printheads that eject clear ink.
US08506037B2
An image forming apparatus including: an output image forming section for forming an image and a pattern on a supporting medium under a prescribed condition; an output section for transferring the formed image on a recording sheet; a correction section for performing reading of the formed pattern and correcting the condition based on a result of the reading; and a correction control section for controlling operations of the output image forming section, the output section, and the correction section, wherein the correction control section identifies whether or not an area where the image is to be formed and an area where the pattern is to be formed overlap each other, and when the areas are identified that they do not overlap each other, the correction control section controls the output image forming section to simultaneously form the image and the pattern in parallel on the supporting medium.
US08506035B2
An apparatus and method apply release fluid to a leveler in a printing apparatus. The apparatus can include a substrate path, at least one release fluid spray nozzle, and a marking material leveling system having a marking material leveler. The method can include transporting a substrate with marking material along the substrate path. The method can include pulse spraying release fluid to the marking material leveling system using the at least one release fluid spray nozzle. The method can include leveling marking material on the substrate using the marking material leveler with release fluid. The method can include determining an adjusted amount of release fluid to spray to the marking material leveling system. The method can include pulse spraying the adjusted amount of release fluid to the marking material leveling system using the at least one release fluid spray nozzle.
US08506020B2
A brake control system that enables accurate brake control is provided that precisely detects a master-cylinder pressure and includes a back-up function. The brake control system includes a master-cylinder operated by a brake operation of a driver; a first mechanism that regulates a pressure inside the master-cylinder according to the brake operation amount; a first control apparatus that controls operation of the first mechanism; a second mechanism that regulates communication of the pressure inside the master-cylinder to a wheel-cylinder; and a second control apparatus that controls operation of the second mechanism and operation of a pump apparatus that increases a pressure communicated to the wheel-cylinder. The first and second control apparatuses each have a power supply circuit and CPU. The brake control system further includes a first hydraulic pressure sensor that measures a pressure inside the master-cylinder and is electrically connected to the first control apparatus, and a second hydraulic pressure sensor that measures a pressure inside the master-cylinder and is electrically connected to the second control apparatus.
US08506019B2
A block and sleeve assembly is disclosed including a holder block, and a hollow sleeve. In radial cross-section, outer peripheral edges of the shoulder portion of the sleeve have a shape of a first polygon. The holder block and the hollow sleeve include cooperating rotation inhibiting features. For example, the holder block includes a stop projecting forwardly past a plane of the front face and positioned radially offset from a circumference of the opening in the holder block to allow a rearward surface of the shoulder portion of the sleeve to contact the front face of the holder block and to prevent rotation of the hollow sleeve greater than N degrees, N = 360 n , where n is the number of sides of the first polygon, by contacting an outer peripheral edge of the shoulder portion with the stop. A sleeve per se and an assembly including a cutting pick are also disclosed.
US08506016B2
A support member has a sheet-shaped body that expands and contracts and that supports a cushion, and a frame-shaped body that fixes the sheet-shaped body in a tensioned state. The sheet-shaped body is attached to a frame member by the frame-shaped body being engaged with the frame member. The frame-shaped body is rigid and maintains a shape that follows an outer shape of the frame member when an occupant is seated, and has a first portion where an end portion of the sheet-shaped body is fixed, and a second portion where the end portion of the sheet-shaped body is not fixed. The second portion is formed at a position that corresponds to a position where a load of the occupant concentrates when the occupant is seated.
US08506005B2
A trailer floor assembly includes a pair of longitudinally extending side rails supporting a plurality of self-mating transverse panels. The plurality of transverse panels includes extruded aluminum panels interspersed with roll-formed steel panels at locations where extra strength is desired (e.g., king pin, landing dollies, and rear door). The extruded panels include T-shaped slots in a bottom wall thereof to allow the extruded panels to be fastened to the side rails by fasteners engaging the bottom wall of the panel but not the top wall the panel. The assembly eliminates transverse cross-beams used to support longitudinal panels in the prior art, and thereby provides improved aerodynamics.
US08506003B2
The invention is also directed to a method for forming a component for a vehicle. The method comprises forming a substrate in a mold by injecting a first resin into a first cavity, reconfiguring a portion of the mold to form a second cavity, and injecting a second resin into a second cavity; providing a flexible member adjacent at least a portion of the substrate to form a cavity between the substrate and the flexible member; coupling at least a portion of the flexible member to the substrate; and introducing a material into the cavity after securing at least a portion of the flexible member to the substrate. The flexible member and the material introduced into the cavity form a cushioned region for the vehicle component
US08505996B1
Disclosed is a storage box for an automobile, in which a box door opens upward. The storage box includes: a box housing defining a storage space, and including a gear bar disposed therein; a box door opening and closing the storage space, and including a first hinge point and a second hinge point below the first hinge point formed thereon; a bridge slidably disposed on the box housing and rotatably coupled to the first hinge point, to be slid by the box door when the box door is opened and closed; a supporting member rotatably coupled to the second hinge point; and a rotating body engaged with the gear bar and the supporting member and rotatably disposed on the bridge, moving along the bridge and rotating during sliding of the bridge, and enabling the supporting member to raise and support the box door.
US08505992B2
A crib mattress caddy includes at least two top mounting straps and at least two bottom mounting straps. The caddy also includes front and back brackets each including an inner surface for interfacing with a mattress. A primary tilting strap and a primary lifting strap are also included. The inner surfaces of the front and back brackets interface with a mattress. The top and bottom mounting straps are both attached to the front and back brackets. The primary tilting strap is attached to the front bracket. The primary lifting strap is attached to the back bracket.
US08505991B2
The present invention provides a technology for holding an object to be reliably conveyed for the sake of high speed conveyance not only in a low temperature environment but also in a high temperature environment, and for reducing dust while conveying the object to be conveyed. A conveying device includes a link mechanism, which can expand and contract, has a plurality of arms to which power from a drive source is transmitted, and a mounting section which is connected to an operating tip section of the link mechanism through a drive link section and on which a substrate is mounted. The mounting section has latch sections for making contact with and latching side portions of the substrate.
US08505986B2
A hook module of an electronic device is disclosed. The hook module includes a base and a hook body. The base includes two positioning pillars and a side board, and the hook body is located on the base with one end passing through the side board. The hook body includes two elastic arms located at two edges of the hook body, respectively, and each of the elastic arms includes an abutting portion. When the hook body is moved by force applied on it, the two abutting portions abut against the two positioning pillars. The two positioning pillars and the two abutting portions move relative to each other to make the two elastic arms deformed, and an elastic restoring force generated from the two elastic arms drives the hook body to restore.
US08505979B2
A method of producing a data carrier with a marking is disclosed. The data carrier includes a laser-markable portion and a beam-modifying portion adjacent the laser-markable portion. The beam-modifying portion has a beam modifying property. The method includes irradiating a laser beam through the beam-modifying portion to allow the beam modifying property thereof to modify at least one beam property to produce a resultant laser beam. This resultant laser beam creates a marking with a visual impression corresponding to the resultant laser beam at the laser-markable portion. The method further includes modifying the beam modifying property of at least a part of the beam-modifying portion through which the laser beam is irradiated for creating the marking so that the exact same resultant beam is difficult to be obtained thereat. A data carrier thereby produced is also disclosed.
US08505978B1
Systems and methods for creating and providing shape-customized, computer-based, value-bearing items
Various embodiments of the present invention would provide shape-customized, value-bearing item labels, such as, for example, shape-customized, postage-indicia-bearing labels and would further provide systems and methods for creating and providing shape-customized, value-bearing item labels, such as, for example, shape-customized, image-customized, postage-indicia-bearing labels. Various embodiments of the present invention would provide shape-customized labels adapted for receiving value-bearing item indicia, such as, for example, postage indicia and would provide systems and methods for creating and providing shape-customized labels, such as, for example, shape-customized, image-customized labels, adapted for receiving value-bearing item indicia, such as, for example, postage indicia.
US08505969B2
A knee airbag module for protecting a vehicle occupant comprising a housing containing an inflatable airbag and an inflator for providing gas for inflating the airbag; and wherein the airbag is configured to inflate and deploy out of the housing into a position forward of the knees of the occupant; where the airbag includes front and rear panels that are connected together to form an inflatable chamber; wherein when the airbag deploys the front panel is positioned adjacent to an instrument panel of the vehicle and the rear panel is positioned adjacent to the occupant; wherein the cross-sectional vertical length of the front panel is shorter than the cross-sectional vertical length of the rear panel thereby causing the airbag to deploy upwardly.
US08505965B2
A vehicle occupant restraint system has an airbag, which provides a predetermined support force distribution in the filled (unfolded) state, and at least one energy-absorbing element that is attached to the airbag in order to unfold it or to locally increase the support force thereof. The energy-absorbing element(s) are arranged such that at least one energy absorbing element may apply itself to an occupant, and may at least partially follow the movements of the same at least to a certain extent. The energy-absorbing element has an occupant-protective function, and/or the airbag has a funnel function relative to an occupant to be supported. The occupant is guided toward the center of the airbag during an impact by means of the funnel function, and is possibly also protected laterally by means of the side walls.
US08505957B2
A stroller for carrying a child in a plurality of configurations includes a frame having a frame base defining a forward-facing direction and a rearward-facing direction and at least two side members attached at opposite sides of the frame base. The stroller further includes a plurality of wheels connected to the frame and a seat arranged generally above a platform attached to the frame and configured for selective rotation, relative to the frame base, about an axis generally perpendicular to the platform. The seat may be selectively rotated between a forward-facing position and a rearward-facing position. The seat may further be adapted to be selectively reconfigurable between a seated configuration and a standing configuration.
US08505953B2
A combination tool usable to couple between land vehicles or other objects is described, that is also usable to impact posts, such when constructing a fence. The combination tool can include a main body with a first end configured to impact a post, and a second end configured for coupling to a vehicle or other object. A restrainer pin detachably connected to the main body is usable to secure the combination tool to the object. The restrainer pin can also be used to engage a fence clip or similar flexible member, such as when constructing a fence. Additionally, the combination tool can include a ball hitch or similar protrusion for engagement with a tow vehicle or other object, and a platform or similar member for facilitating a user's access to the vehicles or other objects to which the combination tool is secured.
US08505949B2
A powered coupling system is configured to interconnect utility lines such as fluid and/or electric lines of a vehicle tractor to a trailer. A curved track is mounted to a frame of the tractor, and the system includes pneumatic and/or electrical connectors that move along the curved track to align the connectors with a corresponding connectors on a trailer. A linear actuator causes the connectors on the tractor to shift vertically to connect and disconnect the connectors on the tractor to connectors on the trailer. The curved track permits alignment of the connectors on the tractor with the connectors on the trailer even if the trailer is not in a straight line with the tractor.
US08505948B2
The present invention comprises an arm structure adapted for a boat transportation carriage. The boat transportation carriage may include a first frame portion and a second frame portion, with a third frame portion adapted to interconnect said two frame portions. Said arm structure may include a vertical arm portion and a horizontal arm portion, with the lower portion of the vertical arm portion being adapted indirectly to to rest against a chassis of the boat transportation carriage and its frame portion for supporting vertical loads. Between the lower portion of the horizontal arm portion and the upper portion of said chassis or frame portion and in adherement to the vertical arm portion there rests a support plate having a supporting surface for supporting cooperation with the horizontal arm portion and this supporting surface is disposed within a chosen intermediate area of said horizontal arm portion.
US08505944B2
A step device mounts on the tailgate of a truck to pivot downwardly and rearwardly from the open tailgate in a working position for providing easier access to the truck box. The step device includes a base fastened onto the tailgate upon which two rails are slidably mounted between retracted and extended positions. A pair of legs are pivotally coupled to rear ends of the respective rails and are joined by a step member opposite the pivoted ends. The base is fully unobstructed between the rails and the area between the legs is fully unobstructed above the step member to remove any tripping hazards in use.
US08505943B2
A safety guard which functions to push objects lying in the path of a vehicle out of the path of the wheels of the vehicle, such as a school bus, for safety purposes includes a front guard positioned at an angle in front of a wheel of the vehicle and is mounted to a side panel of the vehicle such that the frontal guard is supported in a cantilevered manner in front of the wheel. This configuration provides for a substantially universal mounting arrangement that can be particular advantageous in connection with school buses and other vehicles which are not provided with underbody frame and support structure closely adjacent to the vehicle wheel.
US08505941B2
A method enhances fatigue strength of ear portions which are high fatigue risk parts in a torsion beam almost without bringing about disadvantages in terms of productivity and cost. A torsion beam is formed with a portion of the tubular body into an approximately U-shape in cross section by crushing the portion of the tubular body in the radial direction and, thereafter, due to bending with a bottom line set as a belly side of bending, a bending strain of 2 to 6% in the tube longitudinal direction on a tensile side is imparted to the ear portions.
US08505939B2
A coupled torsion beam axle (CTBA) has improved compliance characteristics that can control a toe value of a rear wheel to be towed in during steering when the steering is performed in a simple structure. The CTBA includes trailing arms and carriers on which rear wheels are mounted via carrier brackets at both ends of a torsion beam, respectively, a center pipe penetrating in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle at the center of the torsion beam, and a steering rod of which one end is linked to the carrier and the other end is linked to the center pipe.
US08505924B2
A rotary shaft sealing assembly in which a first fluid is partitioned from a second fluid in a housing assembly having a rotary shaft located at least partially within. In one embodiment a lip seal is lubricated and flushed with a pressure-generating seal ring preferably having an angled diverting feature. The pressure-generating seal ring and a hydrodynamic seal may be used to define a lubricant-filled region with each of the seals having hydrodynamic inlets facing the lubricant-filled region. Another aspect of the sealing assembly is having a seal to contain pressurized lubricant while withstanding high rotary speeds. Another rotary shaft sealing assembly embodiment includes a lubricant supply providing a lubricant at an elevated pressure to a region between a lip seal and a hydrodynamic seal with a flow control regulating the flow of lubricant past the lip seal. The hydrodynamic seal may include an energizer element having a modulus of elasticity greater than the modulus of elasticity of a sealing lip of the hydrodynamic seal.
US08505915B2
A card game machine includes a machine base, a track unit arranged on the machine base, a displacement motor mounted on the machine base, two card-recovery slots, a video recognition device adapted for recognizing the types and spots of each individual playing card of a set of playing cards being arranged on the machine base, a slide coupled to and movable along the track unit, a transmission belt coupled between the slide and the displacement motor for enabling the slide to be moved by the displacement motor along the track unit, and a first pickup unit and a second pickup unit carried on the slide alternatively controllable to run a playing card pickup step, a playing card recognition step, a playing card exhibition step and a playing card discarding step.
US08505911B2
A sheet discharging tray device includes: a discharging section from which a sheet is discharged; a discharging tray on which the sheet discharged from the discharging section is stacked sequentially; a tray drive section which drives the discharging tray in a tray shift direction that is perpendicular to a sheet discharging direction from the discharging section with reference to a sheet surface; a controller which conducts a tray shift operation that shifts a position of the discharging tray under a condition of the number of sheets stacked on the discharging tray, and a sheet detection section which detects an alignment deviation in the tray shift direction. The controller changes an operation status of the discharging tray when a tray shift operation is conducted and changes a discharging operation of a sheet to the discharging tray, based on a detected result of the sheet detection section.
US08505906B2
A sheet conveyance device to convey a sheet which is stored within a sheet storing section, including: a plurality of sheet conveyance rollers, mounted on a sheet storing section, to be parallel to each other with respect to rotating centers, wherein the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers come into contact with the sheet to convey the sheet toward an exterior of the sheet conveyance device; and a coupling section to couple the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers and to rotate the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers, wherein at least one of the plurality of the sheet conveyance rollers represents an irregularly shaped roller, wherein the irregularly shaped roller is coupled to another sheet conveyance roller by the coupling section, and wherein a distance between a rotation center and a peripheral surface of the irregularly shaped roller is inconstant, in a rotational direction of the irregularly shaped roller.
US08505904B2
A bookbinding device and a print-medium post-treatment apparatus having the same. In the bookbinding device, when a print medium drops and is loaded a stack plate, a drop position of a leading end of the print medium is changed according to a size of the print medium. This prevents sequence upset of print media when the print media are stacked one above another on the stack plate.
US08505895B2
A clamping device in a main shaft driving device for a machine tool, in which the main shaft driving device rotationally driving a main shaft by a driving device, the clamping device includes: a braking member provided at a side of the frame and including a pressure-receiving surface and a braking portion; a pressure chamber formed by the pressure-receiving surface and the frame; and an operating fluid supplying mechanism provided for supplying the operating fluid from an operating fluid supply source to the pressure chamber. The press-contact force is caused to act upon the main shaft. The operating fluid supplying mechanism includes a switching portion that selectively supplies the operating fluid. The braking member is formed so that the braking portion causes the press-contact forces that differ from each other.
US08505894B2
A machine tool (11) according to the present invention includes a table (49) having a pallet mount on which a pallet for a workpiece to be mounted thereon is mounted, a pallet station (17) provided on the side of the machine tool and having a pallet rest for a pallet to be placed thereon, and a pallet carrying device (19) arranged between the table (49) and a column (23). The pallet is carried between the table (49) and the pallet station (17).
US08505890B2
A medium suction support device includes a medium support table, a suction unit, a plurality of flexible tube members and a sliding member. Through-holes are formed in the medium support table to pass through the medium support table. The suction unit is disposed on a side of the back surface to suction the recording medium disposed on the medium support surface via the through-holes. One opening end of each of the flexible tube members surrounds a corresponding one of the through-holes on the back surface. The sliding member is configured to move in parallel along the back surface. The sliding member has openings formed in an opposing surface facing the back surface with each of the openings being configured to respectively accommodate the other opening end of a corresponding one of the flexible tube members. The openings have different lengths in a parallel movement direction of the sliding member.
US08505875B2
A vacuum valve with a valve housing with a valve opening, a closing element, and at least one peripherally closed seal on the closing element with first and second seal main sections and first and second seal connecting sections allocated to corresponding seat main sections and connecting sections. The seal extends in a groove defined by two side walls and a base wall. The first seal main section is arranged on a front end face of the closing element and has a middle part where the seal extends in a straight line. The seal is clamped by a clamping bar at least across part of the middle part, with the clamping bar fixed on the closing element and forming one of the side walls. Through at least one second sub-region of the longitudinal extent of the seal, the two side walls and base wall are formed by the closing element.
US08505870B2
A pair of shear blades and a blowout preventer having the pair of shear blades. The shear blades are configured to cut a tubular inside the blowout preventer. The shear blades have different geometries of the front cutting surfaces. One geometry promotes a secure positioning of the tubular relative to the first blade while the second geometry promotes a puncturing of the tubular by the second blade.
US08505866B2
A sensor assembly that is fixed to a fixing subject member includes a bracket that is fixed to a fixing subject member, a spacer that is attached to the bracket and contacts the fixing subject member, and a rotation sensor that is held by the bracket and is sandwiched between the spacer and the bracket.
US08505858B2
The present invention relates to a member for guiding and supporting elongated flexible members such as wires, cables and other flexible lines that can introduce services and utilities into a residential, commercial or similar building structures. The guiding and support members receive and support at least one of the elongated flexible members so that it can be pulled around a corner without being damaged. Additionally, the guiding and support members can be used when the elongated member is only being pulled in a straight run or to organize elongated members that have already been run. Sweeps, including roller sweeps and cradles, can be secured to the guiding and supporting members to maintain a predetermined radius in the flexible members and reduce the amount of friction on the flexible member as it is pulled. This reduction in friction results in a smoother pull of the flexible member and a reduction in the amount of force needed to pull the flexible member.
US08505847B2
Lighter-than-air systems, methods, and kits for obtaining aerial images are described. For example, various methods for determining planned ascent, drift, and/or descent of a lighter-than-air system are described. In addition, various structural arrangements of lighter-than-air systems for accomplishing planned ascent, drift, and/or descent and obtaining aerial images are described.
US08505834B2
The invention concerns a spray nozzle for a fluidized bed device, said nozzle comprising a central liquid outlet (15) for a liquid coating agent and an annular air outlet (17) for conveying spraying air coaxially. An enclosing body (1) having a central recess (4) is maintained in a wall of the box of the fluidized bed device. Said enclosing body (1) is connected to a spraying air source through an air duct (6) and an axially mobile nozzle head (14) is centrally mounted inside said enclosing body (1). Said nozzle head (14) is connected to a liquid coating agent source through a liquid duct (10), said liquid duct (10) having a flexible tubular section (12) and being centrally guided inside the air duct (6).
US08505831B2
An energy control system, helping to reduce energy consumption from an energy grid, includes a power meter which receives first power-save signal and generates a second power-save signal for receipt by a control device. The target temperature of a thermostat is changed for a period of time in response to the second power-save signal. The control device can create a third power-save signal for receipt by a power-save adapter for an associated energy-consuming unit to permit only limited operation of the energy-consuming unit.
US08505827B2
The microcircuit card (10) comprising a body (12) delimiting an edge (14) of the card (10). The body (12) incorporates a luminous means (16) capable of illuminating at least partially the edge (14) of the card (10).
US08505824B2
A multicamera imaging-based bar code reader 10 for imaging a target bar code 30 on a target object 32 features: a housing 20 supporting a plurality of transparent windows H, V and defining an interior region, an imaging system including a plurality of camera assemblies C1-C5 coupled to an image processing system, each camera assembly of the plurality of camera assemblies being positioned within the housing interior. Each camera assembly includes a sensor array. One or more light reflecting fold mirrors M1-M14 define a camera assembly field of view positioned with respect to said light source and the sensor array at locations along a light path to transmit light from light source to the field of view and transmit light that bounces from a target in the field of view back along said light path to the image capture sensor array.
US08505818B2
A method for providing fire support command and control for small unit operations. The method involves displaying a geographical representation of a battle space using a map. One or more strike asset icons are displayed on the map, each representing strike assets which are geographically dispersed within the battle space. At least one target icon is also displayed on the map to represent a target within the battle space. In response to a user input identifying a desired effect upon the target, the system graphically conveys fire mission planning information to the user during an interactive mission planning process.
US08505812B2
An online sales/automatic rebate and coupon redemption system provides online customers automatic retrieval and redemption of all applicable rebates and coupons during purchase. Purchase orders from customers are selectively fulfilled and products are shipped to the customers either by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption or by other merchant or manufacturer environments. The system purchases from merchants using applicable coupons and rebates and then sells the products to the customers, passing the savings to them. The system makes it possible to automatically retrieve coupons and rebates for items in a shopping cart during the activity of an online purchase at an electronic mall or an online merchant site. The system provides coupons to potential customers via email, based on customer profile, geographical information, etc. Manufacturers and merchants can update coupon value and content based on ongoing sales and volume of customer activity.
US08505804B2
Metal paste for sealing, hermetic sealing method for piezoelectric element, and piezoelectric device
The present invention is a metal paste for sealing comprising a metal powder and an organic solvent characterized in that the metal powder is one or more kinds of metal powders selected from a gold powder, a silver powder, a platinum powder and a palladium powder which has a purity of 99.9% by weight or more and an average particle size of 0.1 μm to 1.0 μm and that the metal powder is contained in a ratio of 85 to 93% by weight and the organic solvent is contained in a ratio of 5 to 15% by weight. This metal paste preferably contains an additive such as a surfactant in accordance with the application method. As a sealing method using this metal paste, there is a method of applying and drying a metal paste, sintering it at 80 to 300° C. to form a metal powder sintered body and after that pressurizing the base member and the cap member while heating the metal powder sintered body.
US08505803B2
A method for batch brazing in a diffusion furnace includes inserting a plurality of fusible parts into a plurality of slots of at least one quartz boat, transporting the at least one quartz boat, including the fusible parts, into an interior of a reaction chamber of the diffusion furnace, sealing the interior of the reaction chamber, adjusting an atmosphere of the interior of the reaction chamber according to a recipe, moving a preheated furnace heating element from a location spaced apart from the reaction chamber to a location in substantial proximity with the reaction chamber to increase a temperature of the atmosphere of the interior of the reaction chamber above a predefined brazing temperature for a predefined brazing time period according to the recipe.
US08505800B1
An exemplary surgical apparatus may include a feeder belt configured as a continuous loop; staples fixed to and shearable from the continuous feeder belt; apertures defined in the continuous feeder belt; and a gear positioned at the distal end of the feeder belt within the continuous loop, where the gear engages at least one of the apertures to move the continuous feeder belt around the gear. Another exemplary surgical apparatus may include a feeder belt; a plurality of staples fixed to and shearable from the continuous feeder belt; and a plurality of teeth defined on the continuous feeder belt. Another exemplary surgical apparatus may include a continuous belt assembly that has a flexible rack with two ends, and a feeder belt with two ends, each end of the feeder belt connected to a corresponding end of the flexible rack; and staples fixed to and shearable from the continuous feeder belt.
US08505799B2
A powered endoscopic surgical apparatus is provided and includes a handle including a housing, a power source supported in the housing; an endoscopic portion extending distally from the housing of the handle; an end effector assembly coupled to a distal end of the endoscopic portion, the end effector assembly including a pair of jaws configured to perform a surgical function; a driving member; a drive source including a motor powered by the power source and connected to the driving member; and a gear assembly engaged with the motor. The gear assembly including a gear rack provided on the driving member; and a main gear operatively connected with the gear rack, the motor spinning the main gear such that rotary motion of the main gear moves the driving member in an axial direction such that the driving member actuates the end effector to perform the surgical function.
US08505784B2
A valve operating mechanism for use in a fluid dispenser is described, wherein the fluid dispenser includes a reservoir for a fluid to be delivered, a fluid outlet for the reservoir, a piston configured to move through the reservoir, and an actuator for the piston, the valve operating mechanism including a valve, wherein the valve has an upstream side and a downstream side, and in at least one point of operation of the valve operating mechanism, the valve is inoperable as a consequence of the pressure difference between the upstream side of the valve and the downstream side of the valve.
US08505781B2
A dispensing pump including a pump mechanism and a pump bead is provided. The dispensing pump head includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portion has a structure for attaching the dispensing pump to the container. The upper portion and the lower portion each has: (1) an internal area combining to form an enclosed space for containing a second product, and (2) a respective peripheral wall. The pump mechanism also includes a dispensing channel for the first product that extends between the upper and the lower portion. There is an aperture in either peripheral walls or a space between the respective peripheral walls. Upon the actuation of the dispensing pump, the upper portion passes into the lower portion to force air from the enclosed space and the second product is emitted through one of the apertures in either peripheral walls or the space therebetween.
US08505780B2
A proppant storage vessel has a first container with an interior volume, and a second container supported in spaced relation above the first container. The first container has a bottom hatch affixed to a bottom wall thereof. The bottom hatch is movable between an open position and a closed position. The first container has an opening at a top wall thereof. The second container has bottom hatch formed on a bottom wall thereof. The bottom hatch of the second container is aligned with the opening of the first container such that a proppant in the second container can flow through the hatch thereof into the interior volume of the first container. Each of the containers includes first, second, third and fourth inclined surfaces positioned in the interior volume and extending from the respective side walls and end walls thereof toward the bottom hatch.
US08505760B2
A self-opening closure includes a pouring sport, a screw cap and a self-opening cylinder, which is disposed inside the pouring spout and can be set rotating by the screw cap. The self-opening cylinder has three combined piercing and cutting elements with the interior having three molded elements, evenly distributed and extending toward the center of the cylinder, which have a nail shank and a nail head. The nail shank and the nail head of each element acts as a guide for one of the three cylinder wall segments located on the interior of the cap, concentrically to the axis of rotation of the cap. The screw cap is connected to a retaining element by at least two material bridges extending non-radially in relation thereto that are configured as predetermined breaking points. The retaining element engages with a flange on the pouring spout.
US08505758B2
Disclosed is a bottomed tubular bottle including an annular groove which is formed so as to be circumferentially and radially recessed inward along the outer peripheral surface of a body of the bottle with a bottle axis as a center and which contracts and deforms the body in the axial direction of the bottle when the internal pressure is reduced. The annular groove is recessed and formed by a first wall surface arranged on a mouth side of the bottle and a second wall surface arranged on a bottom side of the bottle. The body is formed so that the outer diameter on the bottom side is larger than the outer diameter on the mouth side with the annular groove interposed therebetween.
US08505755B2
A straw holder for vertically supporting a drinking straw in the mouth of a bottle containing a beverage to be consumed and for limiting vertical movement of the straw with respect to the bottle. The straw holder includes a straw support portion dimensioned for placement across the mouth of the bottle and having an aperture defined in the straw support. The aperture receives the drinking straw so that the straw is disposed through the aperture with a leading edge of the straw positioned in the bottle in communication with the beverage. The aperture is dimensioned for adjustably maintaining a vertical position of the leading edge of the straw in the bottle once a desired vertical position is selected. The straw holder also includes a bottle retaining portion coupled to the straw support portion for maintaining the position of the straw support across the mouth of the bottle. The bottle retaining portion includes at least one turn dimensioned for engaging the neck of the bottle.
US08505740B2
A solid-liquid separator using a roller system includes a casing, rollers disposed within the casing and each provided with a screen that is formed in an outer periphery thereof with plural pores, a supply device disposed outside the rollers for supplying into the casing under appropriate pressure a solid-liquid mixture to be separated into a solid component via the plural pores and a liquid component filtered inside, a casing wall disposed adjacent to the rollers after the solid-liquid mixture supplied with the supply device is passed through the rollers rotated, a discharge window formed in the casing wall for discharging the solid component, and a pressure application lid formed on the casing wall for stably applying prescribed pressure in a direction of closing the discharge window with a pressure application device. The liquid component is separated from the solid-liquid mixture by means of the rollers and the solid component is discharged from the discharge window on which pressure has been exerted by means of the pressure application lid.
US08505727B2
A blister package (12) of transparent plastics material having an actuation portion (18), an electrical device such as a flashlight (14) with a slider switch (32) disposed at least partially within the package, the device including a battery power source (22) and an activatable component such as a LED or light; and a package switch (46) with actuation element (66) having an activation condition and a deactivation condition and being changeable from its deactivation condition to its activation condition. The package and device combination being configured for the power source to form part of a closed electrical circuit with, and to activate, the activatable component when the package switch is in its activation condition, and for the circuit to be open once the package switch has changed to its deactivation condition. The consumer can test the operation of the packaged flashlight by operating the switch (46) to illuminate either the LED (24) or the fluorescent tube (26).
US08505718B2
A case assembly adapted to be assembled into a case for a portable electronic device has a single case front and multiple case backs packaged for sale in a single package. The case front is adapted to mate with each of the case backs to form a case dimensioned to hold a different size of portable electronic device. The case front has an opening such that a control of the portable device can be accessed through the case front. A two-way, mirrored finished may be constructed on the front such that light emitting elements of the case and display can only be viewed thorough the case exterior when the elements are lit. The case front and back form openings for the input/and outputs of the device when coupled together. A case back with and without a belt-clip or armband may be included.
US08505717B2
An arrangement for accepting cigarette or cigarillo butts and optionally also cigarette and cigarillo ashes includes a strip (1) with at least two bags (3) which are connected to one another so as to be separable along perforations (7) and tear-off aids (4). The strip (1) can be stored in a pack of cigarettes or cigarillos in a rolled-up or folded manner.
US08505713B1
A guide roller for centering conveyor belts for a conveyor assembly. The roller has a securing end for attachment to the conveyor assembly and a substantially cylindrical body adapted to receive a conveyor belt thereon and having a first end, a second end and an undercut portion positioned substantially between the first end and the second end, which is adapted to receive and secure therein a belt edge of a conveyor belt. The first end and second have a greater diameter than that of the undercut portion, so that the belt edge of the belt is secured without lateral movement of the belt.
US08505707B2
A money handling machine (1) according to the present invention includes a hopper (3) from which money is inputted, a money output port (8, 18) from which money is outputted, a recognition unit (5) which recognizes the denomination of the money inputted from the hopper (3), a bundled money storage chamber (35) provided solely for 100-yuan banknotes as a first denomination, a loose money storage chamber (9) which stores money in a loose state, a to-be-bundled money stacking section (15, 16), and a bundling device (17). The 100-yuan banknotes recognized by the recognition unit (5) are transported directly to the to-be-bundled money stacking section (15, 16) through a transport path, bundled into a batch by the bundling device (17), and stored in the bundled money storage chamber (35).
US08505702B2
A carrying device for extending into a piece of luggage and for absorbing and minimizing shocks when carrying the piece of luggage. The carrying device includes a handle and apparatus for absorbing and minimizing shocks when carrying the piece of luggage by the handle. The apparatus is normally disposed within the piece of luggage so as not to be unaesthetically visible, and is operatively connected to the handle so as to allow for the absorbing and the minimizing of the shocks when carrying the piece of luggage by the handle.
US08505701B2
A vibration attenuation apparatus may include a mass element, a bracket, and an elastomeric member. The mass element may include a first aperture. The bracket may include first and second portions. The first portion may be attached to a structure that transmits an input vibration. The elastomeric member may engage the mass element and the second portion of the bracket and may suspend the mass element relative to the bracket. The elastomeric member may include a shaft portion and a barb portion. The shaft portion may engage the second portion of the bracket. The barb portion may engage the first aperture of the mass element. The elastomeric member may include properties allowing the mass element to move relative to the bracket in response to the input vibration at a frequency that reduces an amplitude of the input vibration.
US08505699B2
A brake pad assembly provided for a disc brake apparatus. The brake pad assembly comprises a backing plate having a flat inner face and a flat outer face oriented opposite to the inner face, a friction member fixed to the inner face of the backing plate, and an anti-squeal shim attached to the outer face of the backing plate. The anti-squeal shim includes a flat support plate attached to the outer face of the backing plate and a straight flat flange plate. The support plate of the anti-squeal shim has a peripheral edge including opposite outer and inner edges and opposite side edges. The flange plate is in the form of a flexible cantilever formed integrally with the support plate of the anti-squeal shim and extends away from one of the outer, inner and opposite side edges of the support plate of the anti-squeal shim.
US08505694B2
A brake system for bicycles includes two pivotably connected first and second arms and two brake pads are respectively connected to the first and second arms. A cable unit is connected to the second arm and includes a brake cable. A link unit includes a first link which is connected between the second arm and the brake cable. A second link has a first end connected to the first arm and a second end of the second link is pivotably connected to a mediate portion of the first link. The distance between the two ends of the first link is longer than the distance between the second end of the first link to the second end of the second link. The brake cable is lifted with less force, the first link lifts the second link which moves the first arm to pivot to stop the wheel rim.
US08505686B2
An apparatus for cranking a shackle of a pump jack. The apparatus includes a shaft which fits through the shackle. The apparatus includes an arm rotatably attached to the shaft The apparatus includes a handle for cranking the shaft. The handle having a locked state in which the handle is unable to rotate the shaft, and an unlocked state in which the handle is able to rotate the shaft. The handle attached to the arm. The apparatus includes a locking mechanism engaging the arm at a pivot point and the shaft, the locking mechanism placing the handle in the locked state or the unlocked state by moving the handle about the pivot point to a first position or a second position, respectively.
US08505674B2
A steering drive for a motor vehicle comprising a steering wheel, a steering column, on which the steering wheel is disposed, a connecting rod, which interacts with the steering column to deflect the wheels of the motor vehicle, an electric motor, which is provided for boosting the steering thrust, as well as a belt drive, the electric motor interacting with the connecting rod via the belt drive. Said electric motor comprises a stator having twelve stator teeth as well as a rotor having ten rotor poles, the rotor poles being spaced apart from each other by an air gap and embodied as sinus poles.
US08505664B2
A snowmobile includes a throttle motor that is protected from brake dust. The snowmobile includes a snowmobile body including an engine room therein, an engine disposed inside the engine room, brake equipment disposed inside the engine room, a throttle valve arranged to adjust intake air supplied to the engine, and a throttle motor which is disposed at a more forward position than the brake equipment inside the engine room and arranged to drive the throttle valve.
US08505663B2
A traction unit has carrier sections on which suction cups or suction pads are mounted that are connected to a vacuum source. The carrier units are driven around the frame by a chain or belt driven by a motor. The frame has sections which move relative to one another horizontally and/or vertically in order to permit turning control of the traction unit and allowing for traversing of curved surfaces.
US08505662B2
A floor structure of a motor vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to a mounting for a starter battery in a cross member adjoining wheel arches for rear wheels. The cross member comprises two stiffening webs and is designed tub-shaped between the stiffening webs. Because of this, the starter battery is reliably protected against a crash.
US08505651B2
An anchor system including a housing having a radial opening therein. A piston disposed within the housing and translatable therein. A slip in operable communication with the piston such that translation of the piston axially of the housing causes movement of the slip radially of the housing. The slip having a contact face that is nonparallel to an axis of the housing and nonparallel to a surface against which the slip is configured to be set. A method for anchoring a tool is included.
US08505645B1
A folding implement frame having seven sections in a use position and nine sections when folded. The frame design allows a frame having a width of greater than 27 meters to be folded into a transport position having a width of less than eight meters and a height of less than six meters. The hydraulic system transfers weight to the center frame section during folding and unfolding to enhance stability. The hydraulic system uses accumulators to minimize the amount of oil reduction in the tractor reservoir resulting from extension of the hydraulic cylinders of the implement. Implement raise and lower cycle times are minimized by a helper cylinder to lift the frame main section when the entire implement weight is on the main section and allowing a smaller cylinder to lift the frame main section in the use position for shorter cycle times to raise and lower the implement.
US08505628B2
High solids content slurry, systems and methods. The slurry comprises a carrier fluid and a solids mixture of first, second, third and fourth particle size distribution (PSD) modes wherein the first PSD mode is at least three times larger than the second PSD mode, which is larger than the third PSD mode, which is larger than the fourth PSD mode, and wherein at least one of the second and third PSD modes is less than 3 times larger than the respective third or fourth PSD mode. The method comprises forming the slurry, positioning a screen in a wellbore and circulating the slurry through the wellbore such that the solids mixture is deposited between the screen and the wellbore. The system comprises a pump to circulate the slurry, a workstring to position the screen and means for converting the slurry to a gravel pack.
US08505625B2
A method of controlling a well operation can include monitoring at least one parameter of cement lining a wellbore, the monitoring being performed via at least one optical waveguide, and modifying the well operation in response to the parameter being outside of a predetermined acceptable range. A well monitoring system can include at least one optical waveguide which is used to sense at least one parameter of cement lining a wellbore, an optical interrogation system optically connected to the at least one optical waveguide, and a control system which controls operation of at least one item of well equipment in response to information received from the optical interrogation system.
US08505622B1
A tool and method for drilling a secondary hole (window) from a pre-determined position within a well bore into the adjacent rock or formation. The invention includes an internal (relative to the production tubing) primary deflection wedge transitioning into an externally attached (relative to the production tubing) conical device that aids in the exit from the production tubing through the production casing, where a significant standoff exists between the smaller production tubing (completion) and the larger ID production casing. The primary deflection wedge serves as a directional guide to exit the production tubing. The conical device provides a way to transition and support a milling device to exit the adjacent casing at a desired angle without having the milling device move off the preferred course. This two-part assembly is called a tandem wedge kick off assembly.
US08505617B2
A cooler having a unitary construction including a channel portion including a plurality of fins on a base, the plurality of fins defining a plurality of microchannels therebetween, a tapered opening formed in a set of the plurality of fins, a manifold portion disposed on an edge portion of the base, the manifold portion including an inlet port and an outlet port disposed above the tapered opening in the plurality of fins, and a separator sheet including at least two elongated openings disposed between the channel portion and the manifold portion.
US08505612B2
A method to cover the exposures of a bath of molten steel by elements of casting powder in an ingot mold of a plant for the continuous casting of steel, including a step of subdividing the ingot mold into a desired number of zones, with each of which a covering movement is associated, the zones being determined and identified in a manner coordinated with the position of the snorkel and of the edge of the ingot mold, and a step of automated execution of one or more covering movements by elements of which the casting powder is distributed in a selected one of the zones, which movements, repeated in sequence according to a desired program, are selected from a group including pouring movements and throwing movements, at least on the basis of the reciprocal position of each of the zones and the snorkel.
US08505603B2
A vehicle of motorcycle type comprising at least two axle systems each equipped with a mounted assembly consisting of a wheel and a tire. Each of the tires comprises, in each sidewall, at least one additional layer of reinforcing elements forming with the circumferential direction an angle of between 20° and 60°, the orientation of the reinforcing elements of the additional layer in a sidewall being symmetrical to the orientation of the reinforcing elements of the additional layer in the other sidewall in relation to the equatorial plane, the angle formed by the plane comprising a reinforcing element of an additional layer with a radial plane comprising the radially inner end of said reinforcing element being oriented in the direction of rotation of the mounted assembly corresponding to the forward movement of the vehicle in the rear tire and in the opposite direction in the front tire.
US08505593B1
A refrigerator having a dispenser that includes an outlet and that is configured to dispense content through the outlet and along an output flow path. The refrigerator also includes a detection unit configured to detect user activity that is indicative of a desire to fill a container with content using the dispenser. The refrigerator further includes an optical system that is configured to, in response to detecting the user activity, direct a beam of light along at least a portion of the output flow path of the dispenser to assist a user in positioning a container to receive content dispensed along the output flow path.
US08505588B2
A method of making a fiber structure by multilayer three-dimensional weaving, the fiber structure having a thickness in a direction perpendicular to the warp and weft directions that varies along the warp direction while conserving the same number of warp yarns that are woven at all points of the fiber structure along the warp direction, wherein during a transition in the warp direction from a first portion of the fiber texture to a second portion of the fiber texture having a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the first portion, the number of warp planes is decreased and the number of layers of warp yarns is increased without changing the number of warp yarns, by constituting at least one warp plane in the second portion with warp yarns taken from at least two different warp planes in the first portion.
US08505587B2
For use in the manufacture of reinforcement layers for flexible pipes which are capable of absorbing compressive or tensile forces, and which are used for the transport of oil and gas, a thermoplastic material is applied to a strength-imparting layer. The strength-imparting layers are reeled on reels, and following unreeling, are laminated by application of heat and in direct continuation applied to the pipe. The strength-imparting layer includes a polymer reinforced with at least 20% by volume of fibers. The thermoplastic is of a reversible type (it may change from being relatively soft, but non-sticky to being sticky by changes in temperature). The method allows manufacture of very strong reinforcements for flexible pipes which cannot be manufactured using solid material, e.g., steel, since high performing bending forces are required in shaping. A reinforcement element is provided which is capable of resisting instantaneous shock loads as the thermoplastic material is protective.
US08505583B2
An apparatus for generating high-speed pulsed fluid jets. A valve assembly has a valve body with an inlet and an outlet. A valve shuttle is slidably or movably mounted with respect to the valve body. The valve shuttle is positioned within a cavity of the valve body and divides the cavity into an upper or inlet cavity and a lower or outlet cavity. The valve shuttle has a passage in communication with the upper cavity and the lower cavity. In an open condition of the valve assembly, fluid communication is formed between the inlet, the inlet cavity, the passage, the outlet cavity and the outlet.
US08505582B2
A hydraulic valve for oscillating-motor camshaft adjuster is provided. The valve has a bush and a hollow piston with a piston bottom. The piston is axially movable within the bush by means of an actuator against the force of a screw-type pressure spring. The actuator is applied to the piston bottom. A sleeve secured in the bush is disposed inside the hollow piston and can be displaced relative to the piston. The wall of this sleeve has at least one through-opening, which leads to at least one opening of the hollow piston, which opening can guide a supply pressure (P) applied inside the sleeve alternatively to two sets of pressure chambers of the oscillating-motor camshaft adjuster. The sleeve has a sleeve bottom that seals off the inside space of hollow piston.
US08505580B2
A reversing valve is provided having a generally cylindrical valve housing and a rotatable valve body positioned within at least partially within the housing, the valve body has a first fluid pathway and a second fluid pathway, each fluid pathway generally shaped as a “y” such that there are six openings into the body. A motor rotates the body to align the fluid pathways of the body with four openings in the housing in a first position and rotates the body 180 degrees to a second position aligning the fluid pathways of the body with four openings in the housing in a manner allowing reverse flow through the valve. At least one opening of each fluid pathway is blocked by the housing when the body is in either the first or second position.
US08505571B2
A liner assembly adapted to line a valve body of a control valve comprises a sleeve, a liner, and a retainer. The sleeve has an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface defines a bore. The outer surface is adapted to be disposed in engagement with the outlet of the control valve. The liner is slidably disposed within the bore of the sleeve. The retainer is in engagement with the liner to removably secure the liner within the sleeve.
US08505568B2
A device for accumulating, isolating, indicating and venting accumulated gas in a fluid system pipe includes a main pipe fitting affixed to a system pipe in which a hole has been drilled. A stand pipe attached to the pipe fitting houses a magnetic float. A magnetic-float level indicator exterior to the pipe and responsive to the magnetic float indicates the magnetic float's level. A valve attached to the stand pipe above the magnetic float allows controlled ventilation of the gas in the standpipe and thus in the piping system. Gas from the system pipe accumulates in the standpipe, removed from the primary fluid flow path of the system pipe. In the standpipe, as the liquid/gas interface drops, the float drops to a pre-determined level, at which point the user vents the gas from the piping system, causing the magnetic float to rise to a level indicating that gas is again at acceptable levels in the piping system.
US08505567B1
A mounting mechanism of a shower equipment is provided. An adjusting device is mounted between a vertical supporting tube and a connector connected to a head shower, wherein the supporting tube is connected to a mounting base equipped with a faucet. One end of a lower joint pipe is connected to the supporting tube and the other end is mounted to an interior of a ball valve. A guiding base is located above the ball valve and formed with a ball-shaped slot for receiving the ball valve. One end of an upper joint pipe is connected to and received in an outer base so that the bottom of the end appropriately presses against the guiding base and the other end is connected to the connector. Whereby, in fabricating the shower equipment, it needs only to adjust the supporting tube without any additional device or hand tool.
US08505544B2
According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a vibration-actuated microsurgical system includes an optical force detection arrangement having an optical encoding device configured to modulate an intensity of light in response to a displacement of a portion of the microsurgical system. Light sensing circuitry is configured to detect a force applied to the microsurgical system (e.g., and thereby to a sample) based on the intensity of light sensed from the optical encoding device. This detected force is used in controlling the application of the microsurgical system.
US08505541B2
A dental device has a U-shaped carrier with at least one channel for embracing an arch of teeth. The carrier has recessed insets in the channel. Discrete inserts carrying a beneficial agent can fit into the insets and release the agent gradually. The device may be used in a therapeutic application and as an athletic mouthguard. Temporary blanks may be initially fitted in the insets while a portion of the mouthguard is softened before an arch of teeth is pressed into the channel to make a custom impression. The inserts possess different physical properties than the carrier and may be positioned and shaped to mechanically buffer teeth of the arch from mechanical shocks as well as release beneficial agents. The inserts may be replaced or refreshed to maintain the beneficial agent. A dental device having a core carrying a beneficial agent inside a liquid-permeable shell functions as an infant's teething device.
US08505537B2
A breathing protector for use in a stoma of a laryngectomized or tracheotomised person is provided. This breathing protector is provided with an inlet and an outlet, such that an air flow in use will pass from the surroundings of said person through said inlet to said outlet, into trachea of said person. The breathing protector further comprises a heat-moisture exchanger (3) and a bacteriological filter (4), such that said air flow will pass through said heat-moisture exchanger and said bacteriological filter when said air flow in use passes through said inlet to said outlet. Also, the breathing protector is provided with a closing member (6) that may be activated to close the communication between said at least one inlet and said at least one outlet.
US08505535B2
A mask system for treating sleep disordered breathing, comprising headgear, a shell/cushion including a channel adjacent a front aperture, a frame, an elbow including at least one undercut on a proximal end, a retaining ring including a rear flange adapted to be retainably insertable in the channel of the shell/cushion, and a front flange adapted to retainably engage with the at least one undercut of the elbow.
US08505532B2
The invention to provide a carbon dioxide mist pressure bath system which is possible to cause the carbon dioxide mist to be absorbed efficiently through the skin and mucous membrane of the human living-body. The system comprises a carbon dioxide supply means 11; a liquid supply means 21; a carbon dioxide mist generating means 31 for pulverizing and dissolving carbon dioxide and the liquid to generate the carbon dioxide mist; a living-body cover member 41 for covering the skin and mucous membrane of the living-body and formed with a space of sealing inside the carbon dioxide mist generated by the carbon dioxide mist generating means 31; a liquid circulation means 61 for again supplying a liquid collected in the carbon dioxide mist generating means 31 into the carbon dioxide mist generating means; and a pressurization means 81 for pressurizing the inside of the living-body cover member 41.
US08505529B2
The present invention relates generally to 90% Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency gas or oil burning devices that depend on external air for combustion. More particularly it discloses an alternate intake apparatus for air for combustion that opens automatically when the inlet air conduit from outside is blocked or severely restricted.
US08505511B2
A glow plug includes: a tubular body (2) having at one of its ends a plug head (10) as well as a zone for being fixed into a bore, an arm (4) mounted on the body (2) of the plug at the end opposite to the plug head (10), and secured to the body (2) in a linking zone (16), an elastically deformable portion (18), located between the linking zone (16) with the arm (4) and the zone fixing the plug body (2), such that the linking zone (16) is mobile and can move longitudinally relative to the so-called stationary fixing zone, and a pressure sensor (8) arranged between an element (30) secured to the linking zone (16) and a fixed element (20) of the plug.
US08505510B2
Abrasion resistance is further enhanced in a sliding member used in an internal combustion engine.With respect to a valve lifter 6 used in an internal combustion engine 100, hard particles having higher hardness than the valve lifter 6 are dispersed onto the top face 61 of the valve lifter 6, and a nitriding treatment is conducted on the top face 61 dispersed with the hard particles.
US08505499B2
A radiator and an oil cooler are arranged at a front surface side of a cooling fan in parallel with each other in a flow direction of the cooling air, an intercooler and a condenser are arranged in parallel at a front surface side of the radiator and oil cooler, and a fuel cooler is arranged at a front surface side of the condenser. By arranging respective heat exchangers such that the heat release amount thereof sequentially increases from the upstream side toward the downstream side in the flow direction of the cooling air, each heat exchanger can efficiently release the heat of the fluid to be cooled. By arranging the fuel cooler at the front surface side of the condenser, two heat exchangers of the condenser and the fuel cooler can be accommodated within a range of the thickness dimension of the intercooler.
US08505494B2
Described is a counter-conditioning device and method for desensitizing an animal to an anxiety inducing sound and for minimizing a user's required involvement in such desensitization. The device and method are for automatically conditioning an animal that exhibits anxiety in response to the occurrence of a particular sound such that the animal learns to anticipate a treat upon the occurrence of the sound.
US08505491B2
Water distribution systems and methods for continuously supplying drinking water to one or more shipping containers holding livestock throughout the duration of a shipment.
US08505483B2
A milking arrangement in includes a milking robot with a gripper (10). The robot includes a base, a link arrangement attached to the base and rotatable around a base axis via a base joint. The gripper (10) has a proximal end and a distal end and is attached to the link arrangement at the proximal end. The gripper has an extension plane and a longitudinal center axis (x4) extending in the extension plane through the proximal end and the distal end. The longitudinal center axis divides the gripper in a primary side (10a) and a secondary side (10b). The gripper has a plurality of separate gripping recesses (11-14), each being configured to grip a respective teatcup. The gripping recesses are asymmetrically positioned with respect to the longitudinal center axis.
US08505478B2
Developed is high-efficiency synthesis method and apparatus capable of promoting the initial growth of carbon nanostructure by eliminating the initial fluctuation time and rising time in raw gas flow quantity.-A high-efficiency synthesis method of carbon nanostructure according to the present invention is a high-efficiency synthesis method of carbon nanostructure, the method comprising: bringing raw material gas and a catalyst into contact with each other under reactive conditions so as to produce a carbon nanostructure, wherein: the initiation of contact of the raw material gas with the catalyst is carried out instantaneously. Reaction conditions such as temperature and raw material gas concentration are set so as to meet those for catalyst growth, and under the reaction conditions, the initiation of contact of raw material gas G with catalyst 6 is carried out instantaneously. Consequently, the initial growth of carbon nanostructure is positively carried out, and the height growth and thickness growth thereof can be effected in high efficiency. Further, high-density growth and short-time high-speed growth can be realized. The catalyst includes any forms of catalyst such as catalyst substrate, catalyst structure, catalyst powders and catalyst pellet. It is especially preferred to employ a system wherein the feed and interruption of the raw material gas G are intermittently controlled by means of an electromagnetic three-way valve 24.
US08505475B2
A personal watercraft includes a hull, a deck, a steering handle, a steering shaft, a seat, and a display device. The deck is disposed above the hull. The steering handle is disposed above the deck. The steering shaft is arranged to extend downward from the steering handle. The display device includes a display portion and a switch. The display portion is disposed forward relative to the steering shaft. The switch is arranged to operate the display portion. The switch is disposed on a surface of the deck rearward relative to the steering shaft and forward relative to a central front end of the seat.
US08505471B2
A burning equipment for improving burning efficiency with a simple structure. The burning equipment includes a burning chamber having a top plate section and a bottom plate section; a first burn-promoting plate extending downward from the top plate section until the lower end reaches a prescribed height from the bottom plate section, dividing the burning chamber into a primary burning chamber and a secondary burning chamber, and having a plurality of through-holes; and an air outlet being provided to the secondary burning chamber. The air outlet is provided to the top plate section. A second burn-promoting plate extends downward from the top plate section, in the secondary burning chamber, until the lower end reaches a prescribed height from the bottom plate section. It divides an opening of the air outlet and also has a plurality of through-holes.
US08505467B1
The claimed subject matter provides a protection system for cargo on a portable platform. The protection system includes a corner protection member and/or a side protection member, wherein at least one opening is on the corner protection member and at least one opening is on the side protection member. The corner protection member contacts a corner of a portable platform and the side protection member contacts a side of a portable platform. A strap can lace into at least one of the opening on the corner protection member and/or the side protection member to bear force from such strap.
US08505461B2
The present invention relates to a diverter system to allow a line inspection robot to traverse an object. The diverter system includes a first diverter attached to a shield wire, a second diverter attached to the shield wire at a position spaced from the first diverter, and a bridge having a first end connected to the first diverter and a second end connected to the second diverter. The first diverter disengages the robot from the shield wire and onto the bridge and the second diverter disengages the robot from the bridge and onto the shield wire to allow the robot to traverse the object.
US08505448B2
An improved structure of trashcan includes an outer can with a controllable upper cover. The upper cover has a connecting hole with a stepping part that moves downward in the outer can when being stepped. A base is at the bottom of the upper cover. First, second, third, and fourth tracks surround the stepping part at symmetrical positions of the base. Each track accommodates a restoring assembly that connects to the stepping part so that the stepping part can restore its original position after the stepping part moves to the bottom of the trashcan. The first track and the second track are stacked vertically. The third track and the fourth track are also stacked vertically. This configuration decreases the area occupied by the base. As a result, the stepping area of the stepping part is increased for the user's convenience to step on.
US08505445B2
The present invention provides a device for performing multiple folding on a pastry case enclosing a stuffing so as to made stuffed foods with pastry cases, such as Chinese spring rolls and Mexican tacos. The device is characterized in that a stuffing feeder, a pastry case front folding plate, a pastry case front pressing stand, a pastry case two-sided folding plate, a pastry case flanging and pressing stand, and a consecutive folding and pressing stand are disposed on a conveyor belt of an apparatus in sequence, for performing the steps of: upon entry of the pastry case onto the conveyor belt, feeding a stuffing automatically and continuously, and then performing single folding, two-sided folding, and secondary bending-pressing, to thereby form stuffed foods with pastry cases by multiple folding.
US08505443B2
A cooking apparatus includes a first and second cooking vessel, a drain manifold connecting the first and second cooking vessel to a drain container for storing cooking medium, a first drain valve and second drain valve configured to connect the first and second cooking vessel with the drain container. A first drain lever selectively opens and closes the first drain valve, and a second drain lever selectively opens and closes the second drain valve. A first and second drain lever indicator indicate an operational status of the first and second drain valves, respectively. A controller monitors the first and second drain valve. When the first drain valve is open, the second drain lever indicator indicates a warning when the second drain lever is operated. When the second drain valve is open, the first drain lever indicator indicates a warning when the first drain lever is operated.
US08505437B2
A fluid pressure cylinder including a first damper and a second damper provided respectively on a head cover and a rod cover, which are disposed on both ends of the fluid pressure cylinder so as to face toward a piston. The first damper and the second damper are formed from an elastic material, and are made up from a main body portion against which the piston abuts, and a plurality of legs that project from the main body portion and which are gripped between the head cover and the rod cover and an inner wall surface of the cylinder tube.
US08505435B2
The invention relates to a travel limiting element in a brake booster device for a motor vehicle brake system, comprising a pair of longitudinal legs which are connected together via at least one transverse leg, wherein the travel limiting element can be brought into contact with a stop of the brake booster device. In favor of a simple design and cost-effective production, the travel limiting element comprises two dimensionally stable reinforcement braces which extend along the longitudinal legs, and the transverse leg is made of a damping material which surrounds the two longitudinal legs at least in sections.
US08505432B2
A multilayer backing composite for armor plate systems. One embodiment provides a ceramic layer and a bonded multilayer backing layer bonded to the ceramic layer. The backing layer can be formed from at least two layers each of alternating elastomeric interstitial layers and UHMWPE layers having an areal density in the range of about 125 to 400 g/m2. The areal density of the stack can be in the range of about 4 to 15 lbs/ft2, and specifically about 6.98 lbs/ft2. In some embodiments, at least one of the at least two UHMWPE layers nearer to the ceramic layer of the stack can have a lower areal density than at least one layer further from the ceramic layer. The ceramic layer can be SiC and 0.280″ thick; each rubber layer can be about 0.01″; and each UHMWPE layer can be about 0.15″.
US08505419B2
A wrench includes a body and a driving head connected to the body. The body includes a push rod, two first push pieces, two second push pieces and a push unit so as to control the position and angle that the driving head rotates relative to the body. The driving head includes multiple positioning holes, an engaging protrusion, a through hole in the engaging protrusion, a bead and a control rod to control the engagement or disengagement between the engaging protrusion and the socket.
US08505414B2
A method of manufacturing a blade of a cutting tool, the method including depositing a mixture including a hard material onto an edge of a movable steel strip to form a hard material coated steel strip; grinding the edge of the hard material coated steel strip; and subsequently to grinding, forming individual blades from the hard material coated steel strip.
US08505405B2
The ball screw apparatus includes a returning way L2 by mounting a circulating member 15 in mounted holes 16, 17 formed in the ball screw nut 13. The ball screw nut 13 includes a base portion 51 and an expanding portion 52. In the base portion 50 a distance from an axis center O1 of the rack shaft 3 to a bottom portion 14a of the nut side screw groove 14 is constant, and in the expanding portion 52 the distance is larger than that of the base portion 51. The expanding portion 52 includes a connecting area 34.
US08505398B2
There is provided a dissolution properties measurement system using a piezoelectric sensor, capable of continuously measuring dissolution properties of a substrate in an aqueous solution by using the piezoelectric sensor. The dissolution properties measurement system includes: a specimen receiving unit including a chamber receiving a specimen therein; a mass measuring unit connected with the specimen to measure a mass change of the specimen in real time; and a dissolution properties measuring unit measuring a dissolution properties of the specimen on the basis of the value measured by the mass measuring unit.
US08505383B2
The patron restraint system for amusement rides includes a locking receiver with a locking assembly for engaging a restraining strap. The engagement of the restraining strap in the locking receiver can be verified by a ride operator by visual or physical inspection, or by a sensor system indicating the locked or unlocked state of the locking receiver. A latching ratchet mechanism may be provided in the receiver to restrict movement of the restraining strap until it is released by the ride operator. The sensor system includes an acoustic sensor that detects alignment of an aperture with a piezoelectric acoustic emitter and an acoustic detector.
US08505373B2
The invention relates to a device for determining the inertial parameters of a body, particularly a motor vehicle. Said device comprises a receiving platform (P) on which the body (F10) can be placed. The receiving platform (P) is provided with a central, especially spherical joint (G00) about which the receiving platform (P) can be moved with three degrees of freedom (x, y, z) by means of drive units (Z1, Z2, Z3). The invention further relates to a method for determining the inertial parameters of a body, particularly by means of a device disclosed in one of the preceding claims. In said method, a control system is provided which allows a receiving platform (P) and a body (F10) mounted thereon to be moved about a central pivot (G00) with three degrees of freedom (x, y, z). The forces measured in the joints (G00, G20) and the angles measured in the central joint (G00) are fed to an evaluation process, by means of which the inertial parameters of the body (F10) are determined especially by using laws of mechanics, particularly the principle of angular momentum.
US08505372B2
A cam target wheel for a vehicle may include a camshaft; and a lobe, formed on an outer circumferential surface of the camshaft, for recognizing a ridge and valley of a cam vibration waveform.
US08505370B2
In a method and system to diagnose exhaust gas sensor deterioration, an automobile includes an exhaust gas system. The exhaust gas system has a fuel delivery system, an engine, a catalytic converter, an exhaust gas sensor, a processor, and/or a memory. The fuel delivery system supplies fuel which is combined with air to form a mixture combusted by the engine to generate exhaust. The processor controls the air-fuel ratio of the mixture based on the air-fuel ratio data of the exhaust detected by the exhaust gas sensor. The catalytic converter reduces pollutants in the exhaust. The processor analyzes the air-fuel ratio data to determine one or more time constants of a step response for rich to lean fuel operations and/or lean to rich fuel operations. The processor compares the time constants to a predetermined time constant threshold to determine if the exhaust gas sensor has malfunctioned.
US08505367B2
A device, a method, a computer program and a computer program product for diagnosing an internal combustion engine (100), in which a first cylinder (102) includes a combustion chamber (101), a fuel quantity and a fresh air quantity being supplied to the combustion chamber (101) for combustion; a torque contribution (D), generated by the combustion, of the first cylinder (102) in a first operating mode (B1) of the internal combustion engine (100) being a function of the fresh air quantity supplied, and in a second operating mode (B2) of the internal combustion engine (100) being essentially a function of the fuel quantity, wherein a first variable (L1) characterizing a smooth running of the internal combustion engine (100) in the first operating mode (B1) is ascertained, a second variable (L2) characterizing the smooth running of the internal combustion engine (100) in the second operating mode is ascertained, the first variable (L1) is compared to the second variable (L2), a diagnosis of the internal combustion engine (100) is made as a function of the result of the comparison.
US08505366B2
A spark plug assembly has a ceramic insulator with a metal outer shell surrounding at least a portion of the insulator. A ground electrode is operatively attached to the outer shell and a center electrode having an elongate body extends through the insulator. The center electrode and the ground electrode provide a spark gap. A force sensor is received about the insulator. An annular inner shell is received between the outer shell and the insulator, wherein the inner shell has a surface configured to confront the insulator along an axial direction.
US08505364B2
A system for use in monitoring operation of a rotor assembly is provided. The system includes a plurality of clearance sensors including at least a first clearance sensor configured to measure a distance between the first sensor and a surface of a lockwire tab, and a monitoring unit coupled to the plurality of clearance sensors, the monitoring unit configured to receive measurements from the plurality of clearance sensors, and determine whether a crack exists in the rotor assembly based on the received measurements.
US08505360B2
An improved method of breath sampling, particularly adapted for use in connection with motor vehicle alcohol breath monitoring devices, comprises the sending of a drive signal to a piston pump to draw a breath sample into a sensing chamber, the pump being connected to the sensing chamber. The operational status of the pump is monitored by monitoring the condition of a switch associated with the pump which is adapted to change state when the pump piston is withdrawn into its pump housing as a proper reaction of the pump to its drive signal and return to its original state when the pump piston is no longer withdrawn. The state condition of the of the switch is used to confirm proper pump operation in drawing the breath sample into the chamber; if proper pump operation is confirmed, the breath sample can be accepted for further processing and analysis.
US08505356B2
An apparatus and method is disclosed for calibrating a cup anemometer having a non-removable cupset. The calibration method may include mechanically connecting a cups assembly hub of the anemometer to a rotatable shaft of a variable-speed motor, placing at least the anemometer under vacuum so that drag effects on the cups assembly hub of the anemometer are eliminated when driven by the variable-speed motor, controlling the variable-speed motor to drive the cups assembly hub of the anemometer at a number of different rotational speeds, recording electrical signals produced by the anemometer at each of the number of different rotational speeds, and generating calibration data for the anemometer based on the recorded electrical signals and on expected wind speed values at each of the number of different rotational speeds.
US08505351B2
A three dimensional shape core mass is manufactured by machining a ribbon or tape of any material with various slots, channels, or holes of any shape before the ribbon or tape is spooled or layered onto a layering template or spooler. The machining is adjusted so the slots, channels, or holes of any shape extend in a radial or stacked direction perpendicular to the axis of spooling rotation or the plane of layering but with any curve or straight line and with any stacked length. For example, core masses that are manufactured as described are suitable as magnetic cores for high frequency rotating or linear transformers or for rotors and for stators of rotating or linear electric machines when an appropriate magnetic material is used, such as magnetic metal or amorphous metal ribbon or tape.
US08505348B2
A multipurpose key for use by vehicle operators in the case of emergency. In addition to conventional key electronics, the key including a glass-breaking spike, an open slot cutter for cutting seat belts and the like, and may also include a light, an alarm, and other functions. The multipurpose key is formed as a single key unit so as to be always available in the ignition slot of the vehicle in case of emergency. A key portion may be separable from the glass-breaking spike portion.
US08505337B2
A method for forming a fritted cover sheet includes providing a substrate and depositing an initial frit bead on the substrate. Thereafter, at least one additional frit bead is deposited on the substrate such that a base of the at least one additional frit bead contacts a base of an adjacent frit bead thereby forming a frit seal on the substrate.
US08505326B2
An ice making apparatus which includes an ice making tray to produce ice and an ejector rotatably disposed at the ice making tray, including a plurality of ice making cells formed in the ice making tray, wherein each of the ice making cells includes a freezing portion in which ice is produced and a buffering portion which is formed as a specified space at one side of the freezing portion to prevent water of the freezing portion from flowing out of the ice making tray. Accordingly, even in a refrigerator having the ice making apparatus installed on a rear surface of the door, the ice making apparatus can permanently provide an effect of preventing water inside the ice making cells from flowing out of the ice making tray due to an opening/closing operation of the door.
US08505311B2
An aircraft turbomachine with a housing, and first and second fuel injection systems, where each system includes an injector fitted with an attachment plate traversed by three mounting holes positioned according to a first configuration for the first system and according to a second configuration distinct from the first for the second system. Each system also includes a reception device installed on the housing, a sealing joint interposed between the plate and the reception device, and securing screws which attach the plate on to its reception device. Sealing joints are identical for the first and second fuel injection systems.
US08505309B2
Systems and methods for improving the efficiency of a power generation facility utilize heat energy to preheat inlet-air that is supplied to the compressor of a turbine or to preheat fuel that is burned in the turbine. The heat energy used to preheat the inlet-air can be drawn from a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) that produces steam using at least part of the exhaust gas of the turbine. The heat energy can be obtained from one or more predetermined points within the HRSG, such as a feed water line exiting a drum of the HRSG or a feed line connecting an economizer of the HRSG to a drum of the HRSG. The fluid drawn from the predetermined point passes through a heat exchanger or a preheater to remove the heat energy used for preheating. The fluid is then returned to the HRSG immediately downstream from the point from which it was drawn.
US08505308B2
A starter/generator machine for a turbine with a turbine enclosure, an air duct, and a plurality of fan blades is provided. The starter/generator machine includes a plurality of stator elements spaced at intervals in a ring shape adjacent to the air duct and a plurality of rotor elements mounted on the fan blades. The stator elements and the rotor elements are mounted to interact magnetically to exert a force sufficient to move the rotor elements. The stator elements are shaped to minimize air flow interference and are formed with a core, at least one pole, and multiple windings. The spacing between the stator elements and the rotor elements forms an air gap on the order of 5-10 mm, and the number of stator elements is different from the number of rotor elements.
US08505306B2
A combustor assembly includes a support structure and at least one combustor liner panel selectively attached to the support structure. The combustor liner panel includes an uncooled ceramic portion, a cooled ceramic portion and a support that receives the cooled ceramic portion.
US08505303B2
The present invention discloses a combustor system and method of measuring impurities in the combustion system. The combustion system includes an up-stream fuel injection point; a down-stream turbine combustor; a flame zone in the turbine combustor comprising a plurality of axial sub-zones; an optical port assembly configured to obtain a non-axial, direct, optical view of at least one of the plurality of axial sub-zones, and an impurity detection system in optical communication with the optical port assembly.
US08505297B2
An apparatus and method for improving vehicle performance by application of pneumatic boost to vehicle engines, including diesel engines having at least one turbocharger supplying air to the engine, in a manner which increases engine torque output while minimizing the potential for exceed various operating limits to the maximum practicable extent. The vehicle's pneumatic booster system controller implements strategies for shaping the rate of the air injection during a boost event, tailoring the air injection to obtain maximum engine torque output while respecting the operating limits, by controlling the timing, duration, quantity and/or injection pattern during a boost event to achieve a refined distribution of compressed air injection over the course of the boost event to provide desired engine torque output and fuel efficiency while minimizing the potential for exceeding a wide variety of operation limits, regulatory, engineering and passenger comfort limits.
US08505293B2
An improved system for converting kinetic energy contained in naturally occurring horizontal flows occurring in fluids accumulated above ground into useful mechanical energy is specified in which at least one circulating element guided in a closed cycle, arranged substantially horizontal above the ground is provided, to which at least one buoyancy body having a crosssection of impact for the flow is attached by means of at least one guy rope or by means of a backstay chain, wherein in a section of the closed cycle, in which a propulsive power aligned in a direction of circulation acts on the buoyancy body via the flow impacting on the cross-section of impact, the distance between the circulating element and the buoyancy body is set greater than in a section of the closed cycle, in which via the flow impacting on the cross-section of impact no propulsive power aligned in the direction of circulation acts on the buoyancy body, further optimizing is carried out in that the buoyancy body is set during the cycle in its alignment to the flow such that with a flow acting transversely to the temporary direction of circulation of the circulating element it also experiences a force component acting in the direction of circulation and transfers to the circulating element via the at least one guy rope.
US08505280B2
The invention relates to a process for controlling the injection of urea in a selective catalytic reduction, known as CR, system for treating nitrogen oxides, intended to be installed in the exhaust line (6) of a motor vehicle (1) engine (2), wherein the treatment comprises chemically reducing, in a catalyst (3), known as SCR catalyst, the nitrogen oxides by adding ammonia contained in urea, the process comprising the following steps: —the temperature of the gases in the exhaust line (6) of the engine (2), upstream of the SCR catalyst (3), is measured, —if the temperature measured is above a predetermined minimum value, called minimum injection temperature, an order is given to inject urea (5), —if the temperature measured is below the minimum injection temperature, the following substeps are carried out: —a mass of ammonia stored in the SCR catalyst (3) is determined, —the amount of ammonia required to obtain a nitrogen oxide conversion greater than a predetermined value is determined, if the mass of ammonia stored in the catalyst is below this required amount, an order is given to activate a method of heating the exhaust gases, and to inject urea into the system.
US08505276B2
Disclosed is a particulate matter measurement device that continuously measures changes in a mass of particulate matters contained in an exhaust gas under dynamic operating conditions. The device dilutes and separates the flow of exhaust gas while an engine is operating. The particulate matters contained in one of the exhaust gas streams are collected by a collection filter to measure the mass and the remainder is measured by a mass-related value measurement. Then, time series change data for the mass of the particulate matter are found based on correlations of the individual measured data. With this arrangement, the flow volume of the dilute exhaust gas that passes through the collection filter and the flow volume of the dilute exhaust gas that is introduced into the mass-related value measurement device are ensured by adjusting the flow volume of the diluting gas that dilutes the exhaust gas.
US08505272B1
A device capable of correcting the relatively twisted positional relationship of mutually adjacent link frame bodies, and precisely place the link frame bodies at appropriate positions. A link side plate includes a rear side plate portion having first and second linear position holding surfaces respectively at rear and front sides thereof in a longitudinal direction. The first linear position holding surface has a convex shape formed with two faces whose attitudes are mutually different with respect to a lateral direction. The second linear position holding surface has a concave shape formed with two faces whose attitudes are mutually different with respect to the lateral direction.
US08505271B2
The invention relates to spliced fiber glass rovings and systems and methods for splicing rovings. In one embodiment, a method for joining fiber glass rovings comprises overlapping a leading end of a first roving with a trailing end of a second roving to create an overlapped region; pneumatically splicing a portion of the overlapped region to form a spliced region; and applying an adhesive to the spliced region. In one embodiment, a spliced fiber glass roving comprises a spliced region comprising a plurality of glass fibers of a leading end of a first roving intertwined with a plurality of glass fibers of a trailing end of a second roving, wherein the spliced region is between about 1 and 20 centimeters long and has a tensile strength between about 50 and 150% of the first roving prior to splicing.
US08505259B1
A deck unit is disclosed to form a deck system for a roof or floor that is capable of supporting a heavier load and/or spanning greater distances. The deck unit is a profiled, metal unit, that derives its greater load-bearing strength in part from its greater depth but provides flexibility in achieving the greater strength from the way the additional depth is obtained. In particular, a full length channel is attached to a hat-shaped profile. The channel adds strength both by increasing deck unit depth and by avoiding lengthening the webs on the hat-shaped profile. The channel increases design flexibility by allowing the designer to increase the strength of pre-existing decks by the addition of a channel of suitable metal thickness and size. It also provides a channel for conduit, cabling and wiring. The deck unit may be fluted or, by the addition of a liner panel to close the interior of hat-shaped profile, cellular. Sound absorbing materials can be installed in either a fluted or cellular deck unit.
US08505255B2
The invention relates to a floor covering as is frequently used in houses and apartments. The floor covering has on its underside a layer of thermoplastic material. This layer is connected in a fixed manner to the floor covering. The floor covering consists of wood, wood derivatives and/or synthetic materials. In order to produced said floor covering, the thermoplastic material is heated and applied, or rolled onto the underside of the floor covering. The latter exhibits excellent sound-proofing properties.
US08505252B2
A protective barrier that will typically be installed beneath ceilings during construction work being performed on ceilings or roofs of buildings. The protective barrier can be comprised entirely of one material or of different materials connected by seams. Some or all of these materials can be designed to fail when contacted by water via dissolution, melting or through some other destructive process initiated by contact with water. This failure can create access points from the ceiling through the protective barrier to the area being protected by the barrier, which can allow water from a fire suppression system to reach a fire located below the protective barrier.
US08505249B2
An energy generating system for placement on a roof structure is disclosed including one or more solar panels (10) being secured to roof system components. The solar panels are secured thereto with hook and loop fasteners (16, 78) that may be integral with the roof system components (86).
US08505248B1
A minimal, ballasted roof mounting system and method are provided. The mounting system has a staggered interlocking mounting structure, movable anchors, aerodynamic deflectors that also act as thermal chimneys and grounding of the solar panels without external wiring.
US08505244B2
A tower structure for a wind energy turbine, wind power, renewable energy, and other uses made of concrete, steel-reinforced concrete or other materials, and a method of manufacture thereof are described. The structure includes several pre-fabricated tower lengths, each tower length having at least three pre-fabricated wedges, such that a central protruding edge of each wedge approaches or lies at a center line of the tower structure when assembled. Tower lengths higher in the tower may be narrower and may be made up of fewer wedges than lower tower lengths. Each tower length may also include several apertures or channels adapted to accommodate a cable joining all the tower lengths of the tower. Also, tower lengths may have a circular or polygonal outer ring made up of bracing elements, each bracing element arranged when assembled to brace one or more wedges.
US08505238B2
An aeroponic plant growing system with vertically aligned planting sites. The system includes a plurality of plant-holding containers, a walled enclosure, and a fluid dispenser housed therein. One of the enclosure's walls defines a plant-supporting frame on which are formed horizontally extending, outwardly-facing grooves and their respective inwardly-projecting ridges. Tapered between its distal ends, each container can be individually received within one of a plurality of spaced apart orifices defined by each groove. So received, the container extends into the enclosure and a substantial portion of the container's transverse cross-section most distal from its wider end is cantilevered over each horizontally extending ridge situated downwardly of that particular container's interface with the frame, thus positioning, in use, the taproots of large numbers of plants within a barrier-free, vertical corridor of extremely narrow footprint down which their roots can grow both aeroponically and gravitropically.
US08505237B2
The instant invention relates to a process for enhancing plant growth in greenhouses or plant tunnels or over mulches by incorporating one or more yellow pigments or dyes into a greenhouse, mulch film or glazing and exposing the plants through or over such film to solar radiation so that specific and defined ratios of the light transmitted, emitted or reflected between 410 to 450 nm, 380 to 410 nm and 450 to 500 nm are obtained. A further aspect of the invention is the use of one or more yellow pigments or dyes as plant growth enhancing additive in polymeric films for greenhouses, plant tunnels or mulches or a coating for greenhouse glazing so that specific and defined ratios of the light transmitted, emitted or reflected between 410 to 450 nm, 380 to 410 nm and 450 to 500 nm are obtained.
US08505235B2
An electronic animal trap with a CPU-controlled, rearming, three-killing-plate configuration and extended killing cycle for trapping and exterminating larger rodents such as rats. The high-voltage output circuit is connected to a pair of killing plates which are activated with a high-voltage pulse train for a killing cycle when a pest of known impedance is sensed across the pair of plates. A third killing plate, electrically coupled to a first plate of the pair of plates, is brought to the voltage level of the first plate within approximately 1 msec of circuit activation for increased kill and escape-prevention capabilities.
US08505230B2
A robot mounting device includes a pair of spaced-apart arms adapted to retain robot body of a surveillance robot. The robot mounting device also includes a latching mechanism to secure the robot mounting device to a rifle. The positioning of the robot can be adjusted within robot mounting device to site a camera in the axle of the robot with respect to the rifle. The rifle can then be oriented to obtain visual imagery of an environment.
US08505228B2
A sighting device for a firearm accessory includes a first coupling member, a second coupling member, and a multiple rail arrangement. The first coupling member is supported on an upper half portion of the firearm accessory. The second coupling member is supported on a lower half portion of the firearm accessory, and includes an elongated coupling slot formed thereon to detachably engage with a firearm rail of the firearm. The multiple rail arrangement includes a plurality of mounting rails formed on the first coupling member and the second coupling member, wherein the mounting rails allow the firearm accessory to be mounted onto at least one additional firearm accessory so as to eliminate a need to individually attach the additional firearm accessory to the firearm.
US08505220B2
An article of footwear includes an upper and a sole assembly that is operably coupled to the upper. The sole assembly includes a first portion and a second portion that are separated by a groove. Also, the article of footwear includes a biasing structure that is elongate and nonextendable. The biasing structure is operably coupled to the sole assembly to bias the first and second portions of the sole assembly generally toward each other.
US08505219B2
An article of footwear with a multi-directional sole structure including a flex groove system is disclosed. The flex groove system includes a plurality of longitudinal flex grooves and lateral flex grooves that divide the sole structure into a plurality of segments. The flex groove system also includes a plurality of diagonal flex grooves that intersect the corners of the plurality of segments. The flex grooves system can provide enhanced flexibility for the sole structure and can enhance multi-directional flexing.
US08505208B2
This invention discloses a spectacle edging assist device including a flexible layout chart, chart holding portion, and spectacle frame holding portion. An index used to determine the suitability of a lens while the layout chart is superposed on a spectacle frame is drawn on the flexible layout chart. The chart holding portion holds the layout chart upon bending the layout chart to have a curvature corresponding to the frame curve of the spectacle frame, and also holds the layout chart to be movable in the horizontal direction of the spectacle frame. The spectacle frame holding portion holds the spectacle frame so that its front portion overlaps the layout chart. The chart holding portion brings at least two end pieces of the spectacle frame into contact with the layout chart. A spectacle lens suitability determining method is also disclosed.
US08505201B2
A method of repairing a damaged coated vane from a turbine module without removing the vane from the module is taught. The method includes locally removing the coating in the vicinity of the damage as well as any underlying damage in the superalloy substrate. A diffusible coating precursor is then applied to the damage site. A heat treating fixture is then mounted on the vane and repair site is heated to up to 2000° F. in an inert environment to interdiffuse the coating precursor and the substrate. After the diffusion anneal, the vane is cleaned and the module is returned to service.
US08505197B2
A method of fabricating a multilayer substrate may include bonding a front face of a donor substrate to a front face of a receiver substrate by molecular adhesion to form a stack and applying a heat treatment to the stack to consolidate a bond interface between the donor substrate and the receiver substrate. The method may further include thinning a back face of the donor substrate, trimming a periphery of the donor substrate and at least a portion of a periphery of the receiver substrate, and etching the back face of the donor substrate, the periphery of the donor substrate, and the at least a portion of the periphery of the receiver substrate subsequent to thinning the back face of the donor substrate and trimming the periphery of the donor substrate and the at least a portion of the periphery of the receiver substrate.
US08505189B2
A manufacturing apparatus for a backlight unit includes a feed mechanism, a testing mechanism, and an attachment mechanism. The feed mechanism arranges a plurality of light-emitting diodes in a row. The testing mechanism tests the light-emitting diodes. The attachment mechanism positions the light-emitting diodes to a circuit board. The attachment mechanism comprises a support assembly and a laminating device, in which the support assembly receives the light-emitting diodes tested by the at least one testing unit, the support assembly is opposite to the circuit board, and the laminating device laminates the light-emitting diodes to the circuit board. A method for manufacturing the backlight unit is also provided.
US08505186B2
A method of making a chair includes the steps of providing at least one female fastener device. The at least one female fastener device is inserted into a substrate for attaching the at least one female fastener device to the substrate such that at least a portion of that female fastener device's body defining a channel extends into the substrate and the projections extend through the substrate such that the distal ends of the projections extend beyond a second side of the substrate that is opposite a first side of the substrate. The distal ends of the projections are bent into the second side of the substrate. At least one male fastener is inserted into the channel of the at least one female fastener device to attach a chair component to the substrate.
US08505168B1
A non-invasive door bracket assembly that does no damage to the door or the door jam. It utilizes the door jam hinge screws to support the bracket assembly reducing parts and eliminating additional holes in the door and jam, while providing higher load support. This assembly can support a variety of door products but principally a child proof door jam cover.
US08505166B2
A riser hinge (10) is disclosed which includes a mounting flange assembly (12) pivotally coupled to a strap assembly (15). The strap assembly includes a camming assembly (27) having a multi-lobed cam 28 with a large lobe (38) and a small lobe (39). The lobes have a top bearing surfaces which extends to a flat dwell surface. The large lobe top dwell surface (41) is of a select size (arcuate length) which is longer than that of the small lobe top dwell surface (44). The camming assembly also includes a cam follower (56) having two cam following ridges (69). The asymmetrical configuration of the grooves creates a first, large ridge (70) and a second, small ridge (71). The bottom bearing surface (77) of the small ridge rides upon the top bearing surface of the small lobe. Similarly, the bottom bearing surface (73) of the large ridge rides upon the top bearing surface of the large lobe.
US08505162B2
Horse hoof protection against thrush conditions is obtained by depositing onto the horse hoof bottom wall a synthetic organic resin such as a urethane resin through which a medicament that does not block cure of the resin has been, distributed for continuing hoof wall contact. The resin is suitably free flowing into place, conforms to the contours of the hoof bottom wall, and adheres to the wall when cured. The protection by the resin is resilient and softer than the hoof wall and acts to cushion the hoof against shock.
US08505161B2
A road sweeper is provided with a rotatingly drivable sweeping brush, a sweepings container, a suction blower in flow communication with the sweeping brush for taking in dust-containing air, and at least one filter for separating dust from the air drawn in, wherein the filter can be acted upon on the clean side with external air stored in a pressure container and subject to pressure, via at least one external air valve for cleaning. In order for the filter to be cleaned off with as small an amount of external air as possible, the pressure container can have a pressure container wall located opposite the clean side of the at least one filter, the at least one external air valve being arranged on the wall, wherein a section of a suction conduit extends between the pressure container wall and the clean side of the filter.
US08505160B2
A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner body housing a cyclone dust separating unit therein, a dust receptacle removably mounted in the cyclone dust separating unit, a carrying handle movable at a front of the dust receptacle to protrude out or withdraw in, for carrying of the dust receptacle, and a lifting unit to move in accordance with the protruding or withdrawal of the carrying handle, so as to lock the dust receptacle with the cyclone dust separating unit when the carrying handle is withdrawn in the dust receptacle, and to unlock the dust receptacle from the cyclone dust separating unit when the carrying handle protrudes out of the dust receptacle.
US08505154B2
A screen intake system has a body with an open end and a chamber. A flat screen is disposed at the open end of the body. To keep the screen clear of debris, an airburst system has pipes disposed in the chamber. The pipes dispose parallel to one another adjacent the flat screen, and each of the pipes has orifices in a side facing the flat screen. Directors are disposed along the backs of the pipes in a lattice, and each of the directors has a channel in which the pipe disposes. Compressed air released by valves from a tank dispersed from the pipe's orifices. Each of the directors directs the resulting water/airburst from the orifices toward the adjacent flat screen to clear it of debris.
US08505153B2
A scrubber assembly includes a scrubber support structure, a scrubber element and a vibrating motor. The scrubber support structure is configured to attach to a windshield wiper. The scrubber element is movably attached to the scrubber support structure and extends between a first end and a spaced apart second end along a central longitudinal axis. The motor is mounted to the scrubber element so as to cause the scrubber element to vibrate when the vibrating motor is activated.
US08505138B1
An adjustable back platform device featuring a base panel having side wall extending from side edges, the walls being positioned generally parallel to one another; a hole disposed in both the first side panel and in the second side panel, the holes function as handles to allow the adjustable back platform device to be lifted; and a first adjustable leg, a second adjustable leg, and a third adjustable leg, each adjustable leg being disposed on a bottom surface of the base panel, the adjustable legs allow a distance between the base panel and a floor surface to be modified; wherein when a user lies atop the base panel, the back platform device functions to raise the user's back a certain distance off the floor surface so as to align the user's back with a bottom floor of a cabinet.
US08505136B2
A linking device is configured at the bottom of a playpen. Two of the bottom pipes at opposite side pivot to a base seat and further pivot to the linking device, which is engaged by a locking device so that the bottom pipes and the linking device are secured at an unfolding position. To fold the hub assembly, using a strap or by pushing the locking device directly pivots the locking device to disengage from the linking device and the bottom pipes may rotate to a folding position. To restore the hub assembly to the unfolding position, the linking device can be pressed to push an inclined surface of the locking device to impart a force to the locking device to pivot the locking device until the linking device snaps to engage the locking device, so the hub assembly is secured at the unfolding position again.
US08505133B1
A bed/desk combination wherein the desk is disposed above the bed and unneeded space above the foot of the bed is used for the sitting portion of the desk and unneeded space below the desk surface as well as further space unneeded by the desk function is used for the space above the head of the bed.
US08505127B2
A heating source placed upon a transportable vehicle is electrically heated in an oven and transported to the room via rail. Heat from the payload is dissipated into the room and, after the ambient temperature lowers back down, the vehicle and payload are returned to the oven for subsequent re-heating.
US08505126B2
A sanitary washing apparatus includes a nozzle having a water discharge port, the nozzle being configured to wash a human private part by squirting water from the water discharge port, a flow channel configured to supply the water to the nozzle, a sterilizing water supply unit provided partway through the flow channel, the sterilizing water supply unit being capable of supplying sterilizing water, and a control unit configured to execute a physical washing process of washing the nozzle using water and a sterilizing process of sterilizing the nozzle using the sterilizing water after the washing the human private part. The washing nozzle can be sterilized more efficiently or a user's sense of cleanliness regarding the washing nozzle can be improved.
US08505114B1
A garment attachable retention system for securing a device, such as game call, dog whistle, training device, protection devices, sharpeners, clippers, lights, work tools, other electronic devices, other hunting or fishing devices, and etc. to a garment in a retractable manner. The retention system generally includes a garment, a substantially sealed first pocket secured to the garment, a retracting mechanism positioned within the first pocket and having an elongated member retractably connected thereto, and a device connected to the elongated member and adapted to retractably extend from the retracting mechanism via the elongated member. The first pocket may be located along an exterior surface of an interior surface of the garment. Various types of garments may be utilized, such as a coat, vest, pants, waders, suspenders, hat, cap, shirt, face masks, gloves, etc. In addition, a heating pad may be utilized to keep the device warm during non use.
US08505112B2
A diving suit made of a rubber material comprising HNBR (hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber) is disclosed, as well as a process for the production of the diving suit and the use of HNBR in a rubber material of a diving suit for use in contaminated water.
US08510859B2
Methods and arrangements to launch trusted, distinct, co-existing environments are disclosed. Embodiments may launch trusted, distinct, co-existing environments in pre-OS space with high assurance. A hardware-enforced isolation scheme may isolate the partitions to facilitate storage and execution of code and data. In many embodiments, the system may launch a partition manager to establish embedded and main partitions. Embedded partitions may not be visible to the main OS and may host critical operations. A main partition may host a general-purpose OS and user applications, and may manage resources that are not assigned to the embedded partitions. Trustworthiness in the launch of the embedded partition is established by comparing integrity metrics for the runtime environment against integrity measurements of a trusted runtime environment for the embedded partition, e.g., by sealing a cryptographic key with the integrity metrics in a trusted platform module. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08510850B2
A de-identification system is described herein for converting original messages into de-identified messages. The de-identification system leverages original message-inception-functionality which operates as a gateway for providing original messages for use by a production environment. Namely, the de-identification system includes a transformation module that receives the original messages from the original message-inception functionality. The transformation module then converts instances of sensitive information contained in the original messages into non-sensitive information, to produce the de-identified messages. A de-identified environment can consume the de-identified messages with high confidence that the messages have been properly sanitized. This is because the de-identification work has been performed at a well-contained quarantine level of the message processing functionality.
US08510842B2
A build process management system can acquire data pertaining to a software build process that is currently being executed by an automated software build system. The software build process can include executable process steps, metadata, and/or environmental parameter values. An executable process step can utilize a build artifact, representing an electronic document that supports the software build process. The acquired data can then be synthesized into an immutable baseline build process and associated baseline artifact library. The baseline artifact library can store copies of the build artifacts. The immutable baseline build process can include baseline objects that represent data values and dependencies indicated in the software build process. In response to a user-specified command, an operation can be performed upon the baseline build process and associated baseline artifact library.
US08510841B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving a first file. The method also includes accessing at least one storage module comprising a first malware pattern, a second malware pattern, and a third malware pattern. The second malware pattern is a first permutation of the first malware pattern. The third malware pattern is a second permutation of the second malware pattern and is different than the second malware pattern. The method includes comparing, by at least one processor, the first file to the third malware pattern. In addition, the method includes determining, by the at least one processor, that the first file comprises malware in response to comparing the file to the third malware pattern.
US08510840B2
A method and apparatus for detecting scans are described. In one example, a plurality of flows is allocated into a plurality of bins associated with different source Internet protocol (SIP) addresses. A set of bin characteristics for at least one bin of the plurality of bins is generated if the at least one bin reaches a predefined flow capacity. Afterwards, the set of bin characteristics is compared to a scan characteristics list to determine if a potential scan exists.
US08510839B2
An anti-virus system provider distributes an e-mail identifying content filtering rule seeking to identify e-mail messages suspected of containing an item of malware from a central source (20) to users (2). This distribution may be by an e-mail message itself which is appropriately signed and encrypted. At the user system (2), the received e-mail identifying content filtering rule is extracted from the e-mail message and added to the content filtering rules (18) being applied within that user system. In this way, malware which is distributed by e-mail may be identified by characteristics of its carrier e-mail rather than characteristics of the malware itself which not yet have been properly analyzed or the mechanisms for detecting such characteristics of the malware itself not yet put in place.
US08510838B1
Applications running in an API-proxy-based emulator are prevented from infecting a PC's hard disk when executing file I/O commands. Such commands are redirected to an I/O redirection engine instead of going directly to the PC's normal operating system where it can potentially harm files in on the hard disk. The redirection engine executes the file I/O command using a private storage area in the hard disk that is not accessible by the PC's normal operating system. If a file that is the subject of a file I/O command from an emulated application is not in the private storage area, a copy is made from the original that is presumed to exist in the public storage area. This copy is then acted on by the command and is stored in the private storage area, which can be described as a controlled, quarantined storage space on the hard disk. In this manner the PC's (or any computing device's) hard disk is defended from potential malware that may originate from applications running in emulated environments.
US08510837B2
Embodiments of the invention improve the detection of malicious software applications, such as a rootkit, on hosts configured to access storage volumes over a storage area network (SAN). A rootkit detection program running on a switch may be configured to detect rootkits present on the storage volumes of the SAN. Because the switch may mount and access storage volumes independently from the (possibly comprised) hosts, the rootkit is not able to conceal itself from the rootkit detection program running on the switch.
US08510832B2
The invention discloses a method and system for content categorization, which aims at reducing the processing burthen of the content categorization as well as the network transmission traffic. The method comprises: transmitting, by a content categorization requester, a content digest of a content to be categorized to a content categorization provider; and performing, by the content categorization provider, content categorization according to the content digest. The device for requesting content categorization comprises: a digest operation determination component, adapted to determine whether it is necessary to obtain a content digest of a content to be categorized; a digest obtaining component, adapted to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized when the digest operation determination component determines it necessary to obtain the content digest of the content to be categorized; and a first transmit component, adapted to transmit the content digest obtained by the digest obtaining component.
US08510830B2
A flow based detection system for detecting networks attacks on data networks. Flow records are collected in a novel data structure that facilitates efficient sorting. The sorted data structure can be subsequently analyzed in an efficient manner to find out if the network is under attack. An attack is identified if the numbers of unique corresponding addresses or conversations are too large.
US08510829B2
Systems and method to detect malicious media file are described. In one example, an apparatus including a network connection, a memory, and a programmable processor communicatively coupled to the memory is discussed. The memory can include instructions, which when executed by the programmable processor cause the apparatus to receive a data stream from the network connection and detect at least a portion of a media file within the data stream. The instructions can also cause the apparatus to determine a file type of the media file and extract the media file from the data stream. Further, the instructions cause the apparatus to parse the media file to location a suspicious tag, extract an embedded URL from the suspicious tag, determine with the embedded URL is malicious, and block the media file if the embedded URL is malicious.
US08510824B2
A method for digital copyright protection includes stream media server negotiation with a copyright center to generate copyright object RO, RO carrying copyright service regulations and establishing encrypted communication channel information; subscriber equipment receiving RO, through the establishing encrypted communication channel information carried by RO to establish encrypted communication channel with stream media server; and stream media server transmitting media stream to subscriber equipment. The present disclosure also discloses a DRM system, subscriber equipment and multi-media server.
US08510813B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to facilitate the management and/or security of network login and authentication systems. Some embodiments of the invention allow users to maintain a plurality of user accounts with a given domain, and switch among multiple login sessions. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed below can be used to identify and prevent phishing attacks. In some embodiments, the present invention involves using a personal identification number or string as an additional security measure. In some other embodiments, the present invention involves using an application identifier while establishing a login session with the network server.
US08510810B2
A credential store provides for secure storage of credentials. A credential stored in the credential store is encrypted with the public key of a user owning the credential. A first user may provide a credential owned by the first user to a second user. The first user may add credentials owned by the first user to the credential store. An administrator may manage users of the credential store without having the ability to provide credentials to those users.
US08510798B2
A method and structure for authentication in a system having devices capable of communicating via multiple signal paths. Authentication is carried out between first and second devices. A first device communicates with a second device over a first data signaling path of an interface between the first and second devices in a first portion of an authentication process. A second device communicates with the first device over a second data signaling path of the interface between the first and second devices in a second portion of the authentication process.
US08510795B1
A system and a method automatically generate video-based tests to distinguish human users from computer software agents. The system comprises a CAPTCHA generation engine, a CAPTCHA serving engine, a video clips database, and a video tests database. The CAPTCHA generation engine selects a video clip from the video clips database, and segments the video clip into multiple video segments. For each video segment, the CAPTCHA generation engine associates a plurality of related queries with the video segment, generates a video test based on the association, and stores in the video tests database. A CAPTCHA serving engine selects a video test for a user, maintaining a user trial counter for each user taking the video test. Based on the user trial counter information and the response to the selected video test, the CAPTCHA serving engine determines whether the user is a human user.
US08510790B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a substrate processing apparatus and a substrate processing system capable of performing an appropriate processing in response to the operating condition of the substrate processing apparatus and of realizing an improvement in the availability rate of the apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes: storage section for storing a plurality of recipes describing a procedure for processing a substrate and operating authorities of a user corresponding to the plurality of recipes; and display section for displaying an authority setting screen for setting the operating authorities of the user to the respective recipes and an edition screen for editing a recipe stored in the storage section on the basis of the operating authority set via the authority setting screen. The substrate processing apparatus can edit the authority setting screen displayed by the display section and can set different operating authorities to the recipe between when the operating condition of the substrate processing apparatus is online and when the operating condition of the substrate processing apparatus is offline.
US08510789B2
Data to be output to a removable storage medium is encrypted for sending to an output device by an encryption process based on encryption parameters comprising public data of a trusted party and an encryption key string comprising a policy for allowing the output of the data. The trusted party provides a decryption key to the output device but only after being satisfied that the policy has been met. The decryption key is generated in dependence on the encryption key string and private data of the trusted party. The output device uses the decryption key in decrypting the data to be output. Embodiments are provided that involve multiple policies and trusted parties.
US08510787B2
An access node (e.g., DSLAM) is described herein which can limit bandwidth usage in a transport network by incorporating an enhanced rapid TV channel changing functionality/enhanced BTV server in which TV channels from a multicast TV stream are dynamically selected based on past TV channel clicking statistics and then stored therein so there is a good chance that it can respond to a TV channel change request from a STB.
US08510784B2
In a cooperative processing system for performing cooperative process between a portable terminal and a television terminal through a service server and a device control server, content and content information separately managed by a content server connected to the television terminal and the service server are searched based on a search condition extracted from the content or the content information reproduced and displayed by the portable terminal, and the search result of the content and the content information is seamlessly displayed on the television terminal. Consequently, the convenience of the user in content usage can be enhanced.
US08510781B2
The present invention provides a data processing method includes receiving a broadcasting signal where mobile service data are multiplexed with main service data, extracting transmission-parameter-channel signaling information and fast-information-channel signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, parsing first program table information describing virtual channel information of an ensemble and a service provided by the ensemble using the fast-information-channel signaling information, the ensemble corresponding to a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, obtaining permission information of broadcasting contents included in the mobile service data from the first program table information and controlling the contents included in the mobile service data in accordance with the permission information.
US08510776B2
An information receiving terminal includes a designation information transmitting portion to transmit designation information designating a program and a related information receiving portion. The information providing apparatus includes a related information storage portion to store related information containing a plurality of information to which each provision period is settable in association with a program, a designation information receiving portion, a related information extracting portion to extract the related information appropriate for a designated program, and a related information transmitting portion to transmit the extracted related information. The information receiving terminal or the information providing apparatus includes an information selecting portion to select information to which a provision period corresponding to a provision time point of the related information is set from a plurality of information constituting the received/extracted related information as information constituting the related information. An information providing system effectively providing program-related information is provided.
US08510772B2
An alert generation method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, alert data indicating filters for specified alert types associated with possible future events. The computer processor receives monitor definition data and media generated audio/video data; compares the alert data to the media generated audio/video data; determines a first alert type matches first audio/video data of the media generated audio/video data; and determines that the first audio/video data comprises a primary event. The computer processor broadcasts the primary event.
US08510771B2
Described herein are methods and apparatus for the identification of locations in a presentation stream based on metadata associated with the presentation stream. Locations within a presentation stream are identified using signature data associated with the presentation stream. The identified locations within a presentation stream may be utilized to identify boundaries of segments within the presentation stream, such as segments of a show and interstitials (e.g., commercials) of the show. The identified portions of a presentation stream may then be utilized for filtering segments of content during presentation.
US08510770B1
Systems and methods for predicting whether a program will be watched live, including receiving a plurality of message posts relating to the program; determining, from the plurality of message posts, a number of live message posts for the program based on a number of message posts relating to the program posted within a first predetermined time frame relative to the live playing of the program; determining a number of other message posts for the program based on a number of message posts relating to each program posted within a second predetermined time frame different from the first predetermined time frame; determining a first ratio based on the number of live message posts and the number of other message posts for the program; determining whether the program was predominantly watched live based on the first ratio; predicting whether the program will be watched live based on the determination; and recording the prediction in an electronic programming guide.
US08510768B2
Media monitoring and measurement systems and methods are disclosed. Some embodiments of the present invention provide a media measurement system and method that utilizes audience data to enhance content identifications. Some embodiments analyze media player log data to enhance content identification. Other embodiments of the present invention analyze sample sequence data to enhance content identifications. Other embodiments analyze sequence data to enhance content identification and/or to establish channel identification. Yet other embodiments provide a system and method in which sample construction and selection parameters are adjusted based upon identification results. Yet other embodiments provide a method in which play-altering activity of an audience member is deduced from content offset values of identifications corresponding to captured samples. Yet other embodiments provide a monitoring and measurement system in which a media monitoring device is adapted to receive a wireless or non-wireless audio signal from a media player, the audio signal also being received wirelessly by headphones of a user of the monitoring device.
US08510756B1
A system, method and computer program product for increasing efficiency of Guest OS code in a Virtual Machine, including installing a driver (Guest Tool) in the Virtual Machine; upon detection of an event in the Virtual Machine that could require a context switch to a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), intercepting the event; analyzing the event for whether the event can be handled in the VM and without a context switch; for those events that can be handled natively in the VM, replacing selected instructions with other instructions that accomplish the same task but do not require a context switch; for those events that cannot be handled natively in the VM, transferring control to the VMM; handling the event in the VMM; and returning control to the VM.
US08510737B2
A method and system that facilitates prioritization of tasks available through the devices in a home network. The tasks are user level descriptions of the high-level actions a user and underlying devices can perform. By prioritizing tasks for a user, the present invention aims to minimize the effort required to compare and comprehend the usefulness and feasibility of tasks. In doing so, the number of tasks possible to a user can be reduced and the highest priority task for a given user and device can be used by the application software as the suggested ‘most likely’ task for the user.
US08510735B2
A system for virtualizing information technology (IT) appliances can include an IT appliance hosting facilities software. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can be implemented at a layer of abstraction above a virtual machine host, which is implemented in a layer of abstraction above a hardware layer of a computing system. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can include programmatic code functioning as virtualized hardware upon which a set of IT appliance software modules are able to concurrently run. The IT appliance hosting facilities software can provide caching, application level security, and a standardized framework for running the IT appliance software modules, which are configured in conformance with the standardized framework.
US08510734B2
Embodiments provide an optimized virtual application or suite of virtual applications, but are not so limited. In an embodiment, components of a system are configured to generate an optimized virtual package that can be used in a virtual application streaming environment. Components of the system can provide bits of the optimized virtual package based in part on scenario mappings associated with a user action and/or an application or application feature. In one embodiment, a client virtualization handler can operate to download byte ranges of an optimized virtual package including re-prioritizing byte range download operations as part of streaming virtual application functionality over a computing network.
US08510730B2
Disclosed is a system and a method for managing applications installed in home network devices (HNDs) providing services on an Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi®) framework. In the system, a mobile hand-held device (MHD) including a display unit is defined as the subject of application management between a plurality of HNDs and an application server for storing applications of the HNDs. Service frameworks existing in a plurality of HNDs including vehicle devices are based on OSGi®, and interoperation between the MHD and the HNDs depends on a Digital Living Network Alliance® (DLNA®) standard.
US08510728B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for dynamic selection of a runtime classloader for a generated class file. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for dynamic selection of a runtime classloader for a generated class file is provided. The method includes extracting meta-data from a program object directed for execution in an application server and determining from the meta-data a container identity for a container in which the program object had been compiled. The method also includes selecting a container according to the meta-data. Finally, the method includes classloading the program object in the selected container.
US08510725B2
The deployment of native methods in a virtual machine environment may be significantly simplified by incorporating a corresponding native code segment into the application file, such as a JAVA class file, and using the embedded native code segment for library bind operations of the corresponding class file.
US08510724B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for reconstructing program control flow. Embodiments include implementing or morphing a control flow graph (“CFG”) into an arbitrary loop structure to reconstruct (preserve) control flow from original source code. Loop structures can be optimized and can adhere to target platform constraints. In some embodiments, C++ source code (a first higher level format) is translated into a CFG (a lower level format). The CFG is then translated into High Level Shader Language (“HLSL”) source code (a second different higher level format) for subsequent compilation into SLSL bytecode (that can then be executed at a Graphical Processing Unit (“GPU”)). The control flow from the C++ source code is preserved in the HLSL source code.
US08510718B2
Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for a platform verification portal. A plurality of configuration items are stored with each comprising a plurality of verification commands capable of being executed by a verification scanning engine executing a verification scan on a target server to compare a set of actual software or configuration settings of the software against a desired software stack. A plurality of configuration item rules is stored. Execution of one or more verification scanning engines across a selected set of target servers is remotely initiated. A request for configuration items is received from each of the target servers. For each of the target servers a set of configuration items applicable to the target server is dynamically selected. For each of the target servers, a list identifying the set of configuration items is transmitted to the target server for execution by the verification scanning engine.
US08510711B2
A strategy mechanism is disclosed, including at least one business program component and a strategy management component which, as a single executable program object, makes a plurality of at least two administration functions available to the at least one business program component. In at least one embodiment, the program code for implementing the administration functions is realized in the strategy management component in such a way that the at least one business program component itself need not contain any program code for realizing the administration functions. Further, the program code in the strategy management component is generically realized such that all business program components running in the software system can use the administration functions.
US08510709B2
System and method for automatically parallelizing iterative functionality in a data flow program. A data flow program is stored that includes a first data flow program portion, where the first data flow program portion is iterative. Program code implementing a plurality of second data flow program portions is automatically generated based on the first data flow program portion, where each of the second data flow program portions is configured to execute a respective one or more iterations. The plurality of second data flow program portions are configured to execute at least a portion of iterations concurrently during execution of the data flow program. Execution of the plurality of second data flow program portions is functionally equivalent to sequential execution of the iterations of the first data flow program portion.
US08510698B2
In a computer aided design (CAD) apparatus, an association-data acquiring unit acquires association data that defines an association between pins of a first connector and those of a second connector to be connected to the first connector, and an assignment of signals to the pins. A part-information acquiring unit acquires information including a symbol of the first connector. A layout-condition acquiring unit acquires a layout condition to lay out the symbol of the first connector on a circuit diagram. A circuit diagram creating/updating unit lays out the symbol of the first connector on the circuit diagram based on the layout condition, and adds a net name indicating a signal assigned to each of the pins to the symbol.
US08510692B2
A software program for verifying a system design having at least one integrated circuit chip. The software program, when executed by a processor, result in obtaining a random value for a variable; selecting an unused value for the variable based upon the random value, the variable not having been assigned the unused value during one or more prior verification tests; and creating a new verification test for the system using the unused value for the variable. In this way, the new verification test is created in which variables falling within a random class are more efficiently used.
US08510689B1
A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for using pattern-dependent models at early stages of the design process. This addresses the key disadvantage of prior approaches which are restricted to using such models later in the design process for IC designs that are nearly complete. Pattern-dependent manufacturing effects are extracted from early stage designs and using the extracted pattern-dependent effects to efficiently and effectively design the integrated circuit. One or more contexts are built around one or more units of the design, with examples of units being a block or cell. The units are then used in the context to generate pattern-dependent data as a basis for one or more pattern-dependent models.
US08510687B1
The present disclosure involves a method of data preparation in lithography processes. The method of data preparation includes providing an integrated circuit (IC) layout design in a graphic database system (GDS) grid, and converting the IC layout design GDS grid to a second exposure grid by applying an error diffusion and a grid shift technique to a sub-pixel exposure grid.
US08510677B2
A multifunction device displays a navigation user interface that includes: a navigation bar having a plurality of unit regions and a plurality of subunit regions. Each of the unit regions represents a range of values. Each subunit region represents a subset of a respective range of values. The navigation user interface also includes a content area for displaying content associated with subunit regions. In response to detecting an input that selects a respective subunit region, the multifunction device updates the content area in accordance with the respective selected subunit region. In response to detecting an input that selects a respective unit region, the multifunction device updates the navigation bar to include subunit regions in accordance with the selected unit region and updates the content area in accordance with at least one of the subunit regions in the updated navigation bar.
US08510675B1
Systems and methods for interfacing with a window having a hidden border are provided. In some aspects, a method includes providing for presentation of a first window within a display, while providing for hiding a border of the first window. The method also includes receiving an indication of a first user input for interfacing with an edge of the first window. The method also includes providing for making visible the border of the first window in response to the indication of the first user input.
US08510673B2
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for pinning a tab in a tabbed browser. Briefly stated, browsing software is configured to recognize a “pin” event, such as a hot key, a menu selection, and the like. Upon recognizing the pin event, the browsing software splits a display screen into a pinned window and a tabbed window. The tabbed window displays one or more open tabs and the content of the currently in focus tab. The pinned window may display content that was previously displayed within one of the tabs in the tabbed window or may display new content. The browsing software may configure the navigation of the pinned window differently than the navigation for the tabs in the tabbed window.
US08510664B2
A method and apparatus for discerning and displaying an email-thread chart of senders and recipients (“senders/recipients”) included in an email thread, are disclosed. The email-thread chart may include the senders/recipients arranged in chronological order matching the order in which individual related emails, included in the email thread, were sent and received (the sending/receiving of related emails is hereinafter referred to as “transactions”). The email-thread chart may further include the date-and-time-stamp of the transactions and the labeling of the transactions by transaction type (e.g. “Cced”, “forwarded”, “replied”, etc.) The senders/recipients may be discerned from the body of the email. The body of the email may contain quoted text containing the email thread. The email-thread chart may be displayed automatically in response to a user's attempt to send the email to a remote user, or in automatic response to any other user action. The email-thread chart may include a graphical user interface (“GUI”) and may allow the user to select one of the senders/recipients displayed, and to perform numerous functions related to the selected senders/recipients (e.g. delete all references to the selected sender/recipient from the email thread, etc.)
US08510663B2
A method, system and computer program product for coordinating the data update rate for a shared resource amongst multiple, different and independently executing computing applications. A method coordinates the data update rate for a shared monitored resource amongst multiple, different and independently executing monitoring applications. The method can include detecting a toggling active of a fast mode user interface control disposed in a window of a corresponding monitoring application. The method also can include the activation in response to the detection, of a fast mode of data acquisition for the shared monitored resource. Finally, in response to the detection, other monitoring applications can be messaged to deactivate a fast mode of data acquisition for the shared monitored resource.
US08510659B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for using multi-dimensional modeling techniques to handle analytical metrics and assignment previews, for example, in the context of territory proposals and what-if analysis. In some embodiments, a set of proposed territory definitions is generated in a territory management system to represent a hierarchical set of proposed territories each as a set of cells of a hypercube. A modification is received to the proposed territory definitions, and the proposed territory definitions are updated according to the modification. A query is received (e.g., at the territory management system via a user interface) and is executed against the proposed territory definitions in the territory management system to generate a query result. The query result is output to provide analytical metrics and/or assignment preview functionality.
US08510657B2
The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically creates graphical content when a user creates or modifies a hierarchical list of content data and chooses from one of a plurality of graphical definition choices for the graphical elements. In addition, the present invention includes a user interface with three different displays. The first display presents the user with one or more galleries including a gallery with a plurality of graphical definitions. The second display is a content entry area. The final display is a drawing canvas.
US08510648B2
A facility for managing a document conversion environment is described. In various embodiments, the facility includes a native application associated with a native document type and an isolation service. The isolation service determines whether a native application associated with the native document type has started and when it has not started, starts the native application and causes the started native application to load and convert a native document to a common document format, wherein the isolation service starts a single instance of the native application and monitors the single instance of the native application so that it complies with specified a parameter, condition, or setting of operation.
US08510645B2
Disclosed is a method of applying a function to a set of data. Initially a tabular representation of the set of data is displayed, the representation comprising a plurality of columns. The data in the representation is grouped in each column based upon an order of the at least one column in the tabular representation. The method also generates a new column of data comprising a transform of existing column data contained in the tabular representation, wherein transform data within the new column depends upon a grouping context of the existing column data. Desirably the method further repositions the new column of data in the tabular representation and updates the transform data in the new column in accordance with a destination grouping context of a destination position of the new column in the tabular representation.
US08510634B2
Methods include receiving data and an ECC code read from a memory array, generating an ECC code from the received data, and determining whether the received data is corrupted by evaluating the generated ECC code against the ECC code read from the memory array. If the received data is determined to be corrupted, a correction algorithm and a recorded likely state of a known bad/questionable bit of the received data may be used to correct error in the received data. Alternatively, if the received data is determined to be corrupted, the correction algorithm and a recorded location of a known bad/questionable bit of the received data may be used to correct error in the received data.
US08510624B2
A data processing system includes a memory configured to receive data and an encoder configured to encode data being transferred to the memory. The encoder includes an outer encoder configured to generate an outer codeword by encoding the data being transferred to the memory, and an inner encoder configured to generate a plurality of inner codewords by encoding the outer codeword.
US08510619B2
The subject matter disclosed herein provides an outer coding framework for minimizing the error rate of packets. In one aspect, the method may include determining, based on a cyclic redundancy check, a first erasure table including zero or more erasures; determining a second erasure table; using the first erasure table to locate errors in a frame of packets, when the zero or more erasures of the first erasure table do not exceed a threshold of erasures; and using the second erasure table to locate errors in the frame of packets, when the one or more erasures of the first erasure table do exceed the threshold of erasures. The frame may include the one or more rows encoded using the outer code. The block that is read may be provided to enable an inner code to encode the block before transmission. Related systems, apparatus, methods, and/or articles are also described.
US08510610B2
The instant disclosure relates to a raw data compression method for the fabrication process. The method includes the steps of: inputting into a signal converter a collection of raw data points representing operational parameter of a semiconductor equipment within a predetermined time period; obtaining an approximation of the raw data points with a Fourier series; computing the Fourier coefficients and the residuals between the raw data points and the corresponding predicted values predicted by the Fourier series; determining if the residuals exceed an error threshold; recording and storing the Fourier coefficients as the compressed data if none of the residuals exceeds the error threshold; and recording the raw data point as abnormal data point if the corresponding residual exceeds the error threshold before recording and storing the Fourier coefficients and the abnormal data point as the compressed data.
US08510607B2
A method for resetting and reenumerating a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device, an Electrical Fast Transient/Burst (EFTB) unit of a USB device for resetting and reenumerating the USB device and a USB device are described. In one embodiment, a method for resetting and reenumerating a USB device involves detecting a USB reset command from a host device at a USB device, setting a reset flag in the USB device in response to the detecting of the USB reset command, determining if the USB device is in a corrupted state in response to the reset flag, and causing a Single Ended Zero (SE0) signal to be issued to reset the USB device out of the corrupted state and reenumerate the USB device back to the host device if the USB device is determined to be in the corrupted state. Other embodiments are also described.
US08510606B2
A method for maintaining reliable communication between a command initiator and a target device is provided. After the command initiator detects an error corresponding to the target device and a path between the command initiator and the target device, the command initiator performs a downshift evaluation. The initiator maintains a transmission speed if the downshift evaluation determines that forgoing a transmission speed downshift is required, and reduces the transmission speed if the downshift evaluation determines that transmission speed downshift is required. The command initiator then logs the downshift evaluation result and reports any transmission speed change to a user.
US08510603B2
According to some embodiments, an application may call an event handler. The event handler may determine that an error has occurred within the event handler and store information associated with the error into an exception buffer. A pulling mechanism of the application may detect the stored information associated with the error, and, as a result, information associated with the error may be retrieved from the exception buffer.
US08510600B2
An automated method for provisioning a grid used to run a load test on a target website includes sending one or more requests in a multi-threaded manner to at least one cloud provider, the one or more requests for an allocation of N load server instances and M result server instances which comprise the grid. Requests received back from the cloud provider are also handled in a multi-threaded manner; any errors occurring during the allocation being corrected automatically. The N load server instances and the M result server instances are then verified to be operational and correctly running software deployed to provide defined test services. Errors identified during the verification are automatically corrected either by attempting to restart a failed instance or allocating a different instance.
US08510599B2
Detection, notification and/or processing of events, such as errors associated with adapters, are facilitated. Hardware detects an event, places one or more adapters in an error state to prevent access to/from the adapters, and notifies the operating system of the event.
US08510596B1
A method or apparatus detects a memory corruption of at least one portion of memory during run-time and corrects the memory corruption of the at least one portion of memory by replacing the at least one portion of memory with a backup of the at least one portion of memory. In this way, memory corruption can be corrected in a timely fashion while minimizing security risks.
US08510587B2
A time synchronization system includes a host system, a BIOS module, a BMC module, and a RTC module. The BIOS module is embedded in the host system. The BMC module is connected with the BIOS module and communicates with the BIOS module. The RTC module communicates with the BMC module and provides time signals to the BMC module. The host system acquires the time signals from the BMC module through the BIOS module.
US08510584B1
An integrated circuit in accordance with one embodiment of the invention can include a plurality of storage elements that can be coupled in a first mode and a second mode. The first mode includes the plurality of storage elements being coupled to enable normal operation of the integrated circuit, and the second mode includes the plurality of storage elements being coupled together as a shift register. The integrated circuit also includes a rewritable non-volatile memory and a sleep controller that is coupled to the rewritable non-volatile memory. The sleep controller is for switching the plurality of storage elements between the first mode and the second mode. The sleep controller is for extracting data from the plurality of storage elements in the second mode and storing the data with the non-volatile memory to record the operating state of the plurality of storage elements in the first mode.
US08510581B2
A method of managing the power up of a device that has power down state and at least two power up states. The method includes statistically analyzing the power up time profile of the device. The method also includes determining one or more predetermined statistical indicators associated with the stored power up time profile. The method further includes calculating an anticipated start up time from the statistical indicators. The method also includes at the anticipated start up time changing the device state from the power down state to a predetermined one of the power up states depending on the statistical indicators. The method further includes maintaining the device at predetermined power up states for a predetermined duration. The method also includes returning the device to the power down state if there is no user interaction with the device during the predetermined duration.
US08510580B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for sending a first link handshake signal between a first subsystem and a power management unit (PMU) of a system on a chip (SoC) to request entry into a power saving state for the first subsystem, sending a second link handshake signal between the first subsystem and the PMU to acknowledge the request, and placing the first subsystem into the power saving state without further signaling between the PMU and the first subsystem. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08510570B2
A method and system are provided for authenticating and securing an embedded device using a secure boot procedure and a full non-volatile memory encryption process that implements Elliptic Curve Pinstov-Vanstone Signature (ECPV) scheme with message recovery on a personalized BIOS and master boot record. The signature includes code that is recovered in order to unlock a key that is in turn used to decrypt the non-volatile memory. The use of ECPVS provides an implicit verification that the hardware is bound to the BIOS since the encrypted memory is useless unless properly decrypted with the proper key.
US08510567B2
The present application provides methods and corresponding systems for accessing services in a gaming or other environment based on conditional biometric identity verification. In one aspect, this includes the step or steps of determining a location of a gaming device having a display and at least one biometric sensor associated therewith; prompting a user of the gaming device for at least one item of physical biometric data with the biometric sensor based at least on the location of the gaming device; receiving the at least one item of physical biometric data; and enabling at least one service on the gaming device based on a match between the at least one item of physical biometric data received and at least one authenticated item of physical biometric data associated with the user.
US08510566B1
A computer system to authenticate documents periodically appending a hash representing a document to a data structure, the data structure configured to store one or more hashes and creating a commitment for the data structure at pre-established intervals by creating a digest of the one or more hashes of the of the data structure, wherein the size of the commitment is constant regardless of the number of hashes in the data structure. A method, system, and computer product for verifying the existence of a document comprising postulating a state of existence of the document, obtaining, from a server, a proof of existence of the document at a time T, obtaining, from a trusted medium, a commitment for time T, and testing the postulate by determining whether there is a pre-established correspondence between the proof obtained from the server and the commitment obtained from the trusted medium, wherein a successful determination establishes the postulate is true and wherein a negative comparison establishes the postulate is false.
US08510557B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for accessing secure and certified electronic messages using a combination of biometric security, a separate and secure network and email infrastructure, email management processes, and the addition of text, audio and visual format options to sending emails messages. In an exemplary embodiment, a secure message and file delivery method includes biometrically authenticating a sender of an electronic message; receiving the electronic message through a secure connection to the sender; storing the electronic message, wherein the electronic message is encrypted prior to storing; notifying a recipient of the electronic message; and delivering the electronic message through a secure connection to the recipient.
US08510554B2
Disclosed is a key management system including plural terminal devices and a server. Each of the terminal devices includes: authentication means for authenticating a user and acquiring user information; delivery key registration means for registering a delivery key linked to the user information based on corresponding information, transmitted from the server, between the user information and the delivery key; encryption key receiving means for receiving an encryption key using the delivery key. The server includes terminal information storage means for storing the terminal identification information, user information on the user utilizing the terminal device and the delivery key, wherein the terminal identification information, the user information and the delivery key are linked to each other; and encryption key delivering means for transmitting the encryption key using the delivery key linked to the user information on the user performing secret communication.
US08510549B2
A method, device, system and computer program for providing a transport distribution scheme for a security protocol are disclosed. A first packet data connection is established to a remote node for transmitting packet data over a network with a security protocol. An authentication procedure is performed with the remote node via the first packet data connection for establishing a security protocol session with the remote node. At least one security parameter is negotiated with the remote node for transmitting packets through the first packet data connection. A second packet data connection is established to the remote node, and at least one security parameter is negotiated with the remote node for use with the second packet data connection. The first and second packet data connections are handled as packet data subconnections associated with the security protocol session.
US08510548B1
A method and a discovery system are provided for discovering encrypted peer-to-peer (EP2P) nodes associated with a particular EP2P network. An EP2P connection request associated with the EP2P network is sent to each of a plurality of initial IP address and port number combinations. If an EP2P connection response associated with the EP2P network is received from a particular initial IP address and port number combination, it is determined to belong to an initial EP2P node associated with the EP2P network. An EP2P discovery request associated with the EP2P network is then sent to the particular initial IP address and port number combination, and an EP2P discovery response associated with the EP2P network is received. If the EP2P discovery response includes one or more new IP address and port number combinations, they are determined to belong to one or more new EP2P nodes associated with the EP2P network.
US08510544B2
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that is capable of continuously performing secure boot between module groups in the case where software of a terminal device consists of module groups provided by a plurality of providers, while keeping independence between the providers. The information processing apparatus is provided with a linkage certificate that contains a first configuration comparison value, which indicates a cumulative hash value of the first module group to be started up by secure boot, and a module measurement value, which indicates a hash value of the first module of the second module group to be started up by secure boot. After the secure boot of the first module group, it is verified that the first module group has been started up by comparison with the first configuration comparison value.
US08510534B2
A scalar/vector processor includes a plurality of functional units (252, 260, 262, 264, 266, 268, 270). At least one of the functional units includes a vector section (210) for operating on at least one vector and a scalar section (220) for operating on at least one scalar. The vector section and scalar section of the functional unit co-operate by the scalar section being arranged to provide and/or consume at least one scalar required by and/or supplied by the vector section of the functional unit.
US08510528B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to classify storage locations in a storage medium according to at least three response time grades, to classify data to be stored in the storage locations according to at least three access frequency grades, and to migrate the data between the storage locations according to a predicted access frequency assigned to preemptive allocations of some of the storage locations, based on the response time grade and the access frequency grade associated with the data prior to migration. Other apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08510522B2
A state transition management device includes a first terminal receiving a first signal based on a current state-number, a memory which stores a state transition rule and from which a plurality of subsequent state-number candidates are read out in accordance with the first signal, a plurality of first nodes revealing the plurality of subsequent state-number candidates, a second terminal receiving a second signal based on the current state-number, a selection method specifying unit which outputs a selection method specifying signal in accordance with the second signal, a second node revealing the selection method specifying signal, a event terminal receiving a event-signal based on an event, a third terminal receiving a third signal based on the current state-number, a selection circuit which selects a subsequent state-number from the plurality of subsequent number candidates in accordance with the event-signal and the third signal.
US08510519B2
Provided is a hybrid RAID controller for a storage device of a PCI-Express (PCI-e) type that supports a low-speed data processing speed for a host. Specifically, embodiments of this invention provide a hybrid RAID controller coupled to one or more (i.e., a set of) semiconductor storage device (SSD) memory disk units and one or more hard disk drive (HDD)/Flash memory units. Among other things, the SSD memory disk units and/or HDD/Flash memory units adjust a synchronization of a data signal transmitted/received between the host and a memory disk during data communications between the host and the memory disk through a PCI-Express interface and simultaneously support a high-speed data processing speed for the memory disk, thereby supporting the performance of the memory to enable high-speed processing in an existing interface environment at the maximum.
US08510517B2
For betterment, by putting a virtual storage device into a suspend mode, physical resources are turned OFF on a virtual storage device basis. Moreover, control information and volume data of the virtual storage device are stored in any external volume, for example, and the resources that have been used by the virtual storage device are deallocated. At the time of resumption of operation, using any resources not in use, the virtual storage device is restored based on the control information in storage. When a change is made to a WWN on the side of a host, the storage device receives a WWN change notification from a management server, and makes settings again to a WWN table, thereby making it accessible from the host.
US08510507B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for implementing a virtual mirror of a primary storage device (106) on a secondary storage device (108). The method comprises providing a map (124a) for translating primary data storage locations on said primary storage device (106) to secondary data storage locations on said secondary storage device (106) and utilizing said map (124a) to enable data stored on said secondary storage device (108) to mirror data stored on said primary storage device (106). By providing such a method, the requirements of the primary and secondary disks (106, 108) can be decoupled such that a smaller secondary disk (108) could be used with a larger primary (106) which will not be filled to capacity. This reduces the unused capacity on the secondary disk (108) which would otherwise be wasted. Further, this approach allows for the replacement of the primary and secondary disks (106, 108) to be independent of each other, provided the size of the secondary disk (108) remains at least as large as the size of the data on the primary disk (106).
US08510506B2
The invention proposes a disk array device that can improve response performance while maintaining data consistency even in the case a write request is received from a host device by a controller that does not have master authority. The disk array device includes a master controller and a slave controller. Upon adding identifying information indicating that write data has been stored in a buffer memory to the write request, the slave controller transmits, to the master controller, the write request to which the identifying information has been added as well as the write data. After having stored the write data, the master controller transmits the write request to which the identifying information has been added to the slave controller. Upon receiving the write request, the slave controller alters the attributes of the buffer memory where the write data has been stored, from the buffer memory to the cache memory.
US08510497B2
A flash storage device includes a flash storage for storing data and a controller for receiving a command containing data and selecting a sector size for the data. The controller allocates the data among data sectors having the sector size and writes the data sectors to the flash storage. In some embodiments, the controller generates system data and stores the system data in the data sectors or a system sector, or both.
US08510496B1
Method and apparatus for scheduling access requests for a multi-bank low-latency random read memory (LLRRM) device within a storage system. The LLRRM device comprising a plurality of memory banks, each bank being simultaneously and independently accessible. A queuing layer residing in storage system may allocate a plurality of request-queuing data structures (“queues”), each queue being assigned to a memory bank. The queuing layer may receive access requests for memory banks in the LLRRM device and store each received access request in the queue assigned to the requested memory bank. The queuing layer may then send, to the LLRRM device for processing, an access request from each request-queuing data structure in successive order. As such, requests sent to the LLRRM device will comprise requests that will be applied to each memory bank in successive order as well, thereby reducing access latencies of the LLRRM device.
US08510479B2
A process control system is provided having a plurality of I/O devices in communication using a bus. A primary redundant I/O device and a secondary redundant I/O device are coupled to the bus, where the secondary redundant I/O device is programmed to detect a primary redundant I/O device fault. The secondary redundant I/O device, upon detecting the primary redundant I/O device fault, publishes a primary redundant I/O device fault message on the bus. The controller may deactivate the primary redundant I/O device and activate the secondary redundant I/O device responsive to the primary redundant I/O device fault message.
US08510468B2
A method and apparatus for route aware network link acceleration provides a managed communication channel for accelerated and reliable network communication between a client and other network devices as needed. The communication channel may comprise one or more segments having increased speed, reliability, security, or other improved characteristics as compared to traditional communication links. Network traffic may be routed through one or more of the segments based on various criteria to improve communication of the traffic. In one embodiment, the segments may be arranged in a daisy chain configuration and be provided by one or more chaining nodes.
US08510464B2
Time delays from content servers to network devices on paths to a client are measured such as for, but not limited to, their use in selecting a content server based on a common network device. After identifying multiple context servers for possibly providing content to a client, time delays to multiple network devices along the path from each candidate content server to the client are measured, such as by the servers and/or probe agents associated therewith. The time delays to one or more network devices common to multiple content servers are analyzed to select one of the content servers, typically by selecting a smallest delay to a common network device. The operations involved in identifying delays to multiple network devices, as well as the operations involved in making a selection based on a delay to a common network device may be used in an extensible number of applications.
US08510459B2
In one form the invention provides a method of modifying a data file for transmission over a data network. The method comprises the steps of receiving the original data file and creating a header file, the header file including the length in bytes of the original data file. At least one repetition byte sequence is identified within the original data file, the repetition byte sequence comprising a byte value that is repeated consecutively within the repetition byte sequence. A modified data file is created by replacing the repetition byte sequence with a repetition marker, the repeated byte value, and a repeat frequency value representing the number of times the repeated byte value occurs within the repetition byte sequence. The repetition marker is added to the header file. The invention further provides a method of transmitting a data file to a remote device over a data network.
US08510447B2
Cloud computing platforms having computer-readable media that perform methods for direct addressability and direct server return are provided. The cloud computing platform includes a load balancer and several servers. The servers are configured with public addresses, private addresses, and an address of the load balancer. The loopback interface of the servers is configured with the address of the load balancer. This allows a server to bypass the load balancer when replying to communication messages. Additionally, the public and private addresses of the servers enable direct addressability in the cloud computing platform. Accordingly, an application executing in the cloud computing platform may connect two or more clients on the same server.
US08510443B2
A real-time harmful website blocking method using an object attribute access engine is disclosed. In one embodiment, information about visual objects, currently being displayed on a screen by processes currently being executed, is obtained from a client. Attributes of the visual objects are extracted from the obtained information about the visual objects. Whether harmfulness is present is determined based on the extracted object attributes, and thus whether to block access to a server being connected thereto is decided. The client is requested to terminate a process for displaying the visual objects.
US08510442B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein for implementing dormant mode with paging in a WLAN. Power savings in the computing device and reduction in traffic across the network are achieved by requiring a computing device to inform the WLAN of its location only when it crosses a paging area boundary or is to receive IP traffic. Dormant mode with paging is implemented in a protocol that supports dormant functionality and paging functionality but does not itself provide methods or standards for implementing such functionality, such as the IEEE 802.11. The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein provide the methods needed to implement dormant mode with paging in such a protocol. Generally, the methods and apparatuses for implementing dormant mode with paging basically include (1) establishing paging areas; (2) communicating access group information to a computing device; and (3) locating a computing device.
US08510438B2
A method for measuring latencies caused by processing performed within a common resource is provided. A current latency value representing a time of residency of an IO request in a queue prior to receipt of acknowledgment from the common resource of completion of the IO request is received from a device comprising the queue, which maintains entries for IO requests that have been dispatched to and are pending at the common resource. An average latency value is calculated based in part on the current latency value. An adjusted capacity size for the queue is calculated based in part on the average latency value and the queue's capacity is set to the adjusted capacity size. IO requests are held in a buffer if the queue's capacity is full to reduce the effect of an amount of work transmitted to the common resource on current latency values provided by the device.
US08510433B2
Methods and systems for rectifying deteriorated channel conditions on a communication link are described. In response to the detection of a link deterioration event, a cluster of beams about a currently utilized beam pair can be trialed to determine a suitable, alternate pair of beams on which to establish a communication link. In turn, in the case of a link blockage event, a set of beams having a relatively large azimuthal angle with respect to a currently utilized beam pair can be trialed to determine a suitable beam pair for further communication.
US08510432B2
In a method and system for aggregating event information, events are received at a first plurality of nodes in a distributed system. For the events received at each node aggregated attribute information is determined in accordance with two or more rules and stored in distinct first tables, each table storing aggregated attribute information for a respective rule of the two or more rules. At each node of the first plurality of nodes, the two or more distinct first tables are transmitted to a respective node of a second set of nodes in the distributed system. At each node of the second set of nodes, two or more distinct second tables are generated by merging the aggregated attribute information in the tables transmitted to the node. Each rule of the two or more rules is evaluating using the aggregated attribute information obtained from a corresponding table of the second tables.
US08510430B2
A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for selective monitoring of individual transactions in an instrumented software application. In response to receiving a new transaction at an entry point, a monitoring policy is checked to determine if the monitoring policy indicates that the transaction should be monitored. If the monitoring policy indicates that the transaction should be monitored, a determination is made as to whether the system resources are operating at a predetermined system condition defined in the monitoring policy. If the system resources are operating at the predetermined system condition, the transaction will be monitored. If the system resources are not operating at the predetermined system condition, the transaction will not be monitored.
US08510417B2
A system and method for delivering content objects over the Internet to an end user system with a content delivery network (CDN) is disclosed. Content objects may be dynamically served by loading and/or reconfiguring publishing points upon receipt of an end user request. When an end-user media player requests a content object, the request is assigned to an edge server within a particular POP of the CDN. An optional peer-discovery algorithm may determine a content source for the requested content object within the CDN. The peer-discovery algorithm determines whether the publishing point associated with the requested object is loaded into the edge server. Alternatively, the algorithm queries other edge servers within or remote from the POP to determine whether the request is mapped by other edge servers to a content source using their respective publishing points. The edge server may reconfigure its publishing point toward the content source.
US08510411B2
Embodiments are described for a system and method for redirecting Internet traffic away from illegitimate web sites. A redirect process includes a typo identifier engine and a direct navigation engine. The typo identifier engine generates a list of domain names based on common typographical variations of legitimate brand domains, and common direct navigation domains. A web crawler process verifies if the generated domain name are registered. The sites are classified as either legitimate or illegitimate based on a series of defined rules and analysis of parameters, such as site content, registrar identity, and owner. The direct navigation engine compares the user's request with the list of known illegitimate domains found by the typo identifier engine. If a match is found, the system replaces the user requested domain name with a redirected domain name.
US08510409B1
An application program of a multi-homed host computer at a multi-homed Internet site specifies a destination IP address, a local network interface device and a local site gateway to the network layer of the host computer when establishing a remote TCP connection to the destination IP address, and then the network layer of the operating system of the host computer uses only this specified outbound source path for the remote TCP connection instead of an outbound source path from an operating system supplied routing table. This allows the host application to have control over its remote output paths and provides the host application with the ability to create private remote connections.
US08510407B1
A software component for accessing and displaying time-varying Internet content includes a definition for rendering a graphical user interface and a URL pointing to the time-varying Internet content to be downloaded and presented within said user interface. A component provider may create displays of Internet content which vary as a function of the varying of the time-varying Internet content. In one example, the graphical user interface includes an image, and the image varies in order to illustrate the varying of the time-varying data.
US08510398B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving from a first communication device a message and a message request at a messaging server, selecting a second communication device from a group of other communication devices, providing a notification of the message to the second communication device, providing a message to the second communication device when the second communication device transmits an access request to the messaging server in response to the notification, and establishing a communication session between the first and second communication devices using the messaging server when the second communication device transmits a session request to the messaging server in response to receiving the message. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08510396B2
Apparatus and method for storing content flip list of digital media server using user input feedback
Provided is a method for storing a content flip list of a digital media server using user input feedback. The method includes receiving a content request message from a user and transmitting the received request message to a media server, converting information received as a response to the request message into a page format, defining the converted information as a current page, and receiving and storing previous and next pages of the current page, and outputting the received current page through an output part.
US08510393B2
A method for preserving e-mail messages. It is determined, by a processor, whether an event has occurred with respect to an e-mail message, wherein an occurrence of the event results in a consequence activity with respect to the e-mail message. Responsive to determining that the event has occurred, it is determined, by the processor, whether criteria is satisfied, wherein the criteria relates to a status of an e-mail user. Responsive to determining that the criteria is satisfied, the consequence activity is prevented notwithstanding that the event has occurred.
US08510391B2
A system for resolving disputes in an online answers community is disclosed. The system improves the system's ability to resolve reports of abuse.
US08510387B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for messaging with heterogeneous inter-related attachments. Embodiments provide messaging systems, devices and methods for electronic messaging with attachments containing, for example, documents created from a translating print driver and/or documents containing identifiers associating the documents to a subject.
US08510382B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for generating contact plans and responding to web form inquires using the contact plans.
US08510375B2
Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are provided for receiving and presenting, or playing-out, representations of media content and for enabling time synchronization and random seeking across multiple representations. A client device can access an appropriate time mapping fragment that associates play-out time intervals of the media content of the multiple representations with the corresponding media segments to identify the appropriate media segment corresponding to the desired time point within the current representation or in another selected representation. The time mapping fragments may be created and preloaded onto a media content server, and the media content server may transmit the time mapping fragment(s) to a client device upon receiving a request form the client device or as part of a media segment. In other cases, the media content server may create the time mapping fragments dynamically, e.g., upon receiving a request from the client device.
US08510372B2
A gateway system for distributing requests from multiple terminals to multiple first servers includes a second server device and a name resolution device wherein: an address generating function for generating an IP address from a character string is distributed to the name resolution device, and multiple specified IP addresses are registered in the second server devices; when the name resolution device receives a first request for resolving a name, the name resolution device extracts the access destination URL from the first request, generates an IP address from the character string of the host name of the extracted URL by utilizing the address generating function, and sends the generated IP address to the terminal; and when the terminal sends a second request setting the access destination of the URL for the first server device, to the second server device where the IP address is registered, the second server device transfers that transmitted second request to the first server device based on the URL of the access destination.
US08510370B2
In one general aspect, a data access method is disclosed that includes directing data block write requests from different clients to different data storage servers based on a map. Data blocks referenced in the data block write requests are stored in the data storage servers. Data from the data write requests are also relayed to a parity server, and parity information is derived and stored for the blocks. This method can reduce the need for inter-server communication, and can be scaled across an arbitrary number of servers. It can also employ parity load distribution to improve the performance of file transfers.
US08510367B2
A computer network processor for managing information access, exchange, and interaction over a communications network has at least one input port for receiving input from the network, a first portion of memory for storing an operations framework, the framework supporting an information model including attributes and at least one communications system interface, a second portion of memory for caching information; and at least one interface to a at least one communications interface. The processor performs role-based task execution and related workflow based in part on defined attributes of the information model and in part on instruction solicited from a user through the at least one communications interface.
US08510362B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for variable fast Fourier transform. According to an embodiment of the present invention, two n-point fast Fourier transform (FFT) processors are used to generate two n-point FFT output data or one 2n-point FFT output data. The one 2n-point input data is alternately input to the two n-point FFT processors. Each of the two n-point FFT processors selects a twiddle factor for the n-point input data or the 2n-point input data and performs fast Fourier transform. A butterfly operation is performed on signals obtained by performing fast Fourier transform on the 2n-point input data signal, and the processed signals are aligned in an output order. According to this structure, it is possible to realize a fast Fourier transform hardware engine that selectively performs multi-frequency allocation in a base station system that supports the multi-frequency allocation.
US08510359B2
[Problems] To provide a highly efficient pseudo-random number generation device which can be used in a small-scale computer and a mobile terminal.[Means for Solving Problems] A memory table having n elements is prepared. A unique value is set for each of the n elements. By changing the contents of the respective elements in the memory table so as to change the memory table state. The change is extracted as a random number. Thus, it is possible to obtain a random number table of a cycle of power n at the maximum.
US08510357B1
Circuitry for adding together three long numbers may include the formation of redundant form sum bit signals and redundant form carry bit signals. These signals may be finally combined in a ripple carry adder chain that produces sum bit output signals and ripple carry bit signals. Both a ripple carry bit signal and a redundant form carry bit signal must be passed from the circuitry performing each place of the addition to the circuitry performing the next-more-significant place of the addition. Various techniques are disclosed for facilitating subdividing long chains of such circuitry, as well as possibly including (between such subdivisions) “pipeline” registers for both ripple and redundant form carry bit signals.
US08510351B2
Systems. Methods, and Computer Program Products are provided for implementing transactional processing for user operations in a clustered file system (CFS). Transactional functionality is provided for user defined operations for one of writing and modifying files, and user defined write operations and individual user defined modification operations to various possible alternative files are wrapped into either a single transaction or multiple transactions individual.
US08510345B2
A solution for generating a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) policy based on a context model is provided, which generates an application scope of the SOA policy; generates a context model; generates an action list for the context model based on action semantic modules customized by a user; generates a condition part of the SOA policy according to the context module; generates an action part of the SOA policy according to the action list; and combines the condition part and the action part to generate the SOA policy.
US08510341B2
The reusable custom-defined nestable compound data type for construction of database objects of one or more embodiments of the invention provide advantages over traditional non-reusable structured tables of RDBM systems. The data structure of one or more embodiments of the invention may be thought of in part as a generalized form of a user defined compound data type that may be used to model various “exotic” data structures, such as flexible hierarchies and networks, in database schema. Thus, the system, methods and data structures of one or more embodiments of the invention may be used to define and instantiate structures that support the creation of flexible nested records that expose the relationship between parent records and private child sub-records in a database schema.
US08510334B2
A method and apparatus for managing shared resources in a clustered database management system is provided. In an embodiment, multiple master nodes exist in a database management system. A master node receives a lock request from a second node. The lock request is a request for a lock on a shared resource. The master node grants the lock request to the second node. While the second node holds the lock, the second node causes the master node to modify the shared resource.
US08510324B2
A method is provided for efficiently transferring records related to places of interest between two communicating vehicles in a V2V system without initially having to transfer full text records. A determination is made as to whether information stored in a memory of the vehicle is redundant with the respect to the other vehicle. A query request is transmitted from a first vehicle to a second vehicle containing specifics as to what records the first vehicle is seeking. Data satisfying the query request represented by global unique index numbers is hashed to determine the similarity between the data of the two communicating vehicles. The similarity is used to determine whether a full filtered set of global unique index numbers should be transferred to the second vehicle for determining which records are not duplicate records. Thereafter, the second vehicle wirelessly transmits to the first vehicle the non-overlapping data that satisfies the query request.
US08510317B2
A method includes accessing a cookie file from a media receiver via a network. The method includes detecting an occurrence of the keyword (selected from the cookie file) within a portion of a media content stream. The method includes identifying one or more additional words that are located within a number of words from a location corresponding to an occurrence of the keyword within the portion of the stream of media content. The method includes filtering the one or more additional words to exclude at least one black listed word to produce a filtered search set. The method includes providing a search result in response to locating the keyword. The search result is based on an Internet search conducted using the keyword and the filtered search set, and is made accessible via a display device after the portion of the media content stream is made available via the display device.
US08510314B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products are provided for ranking distinct book content items based on implicit links to other distinct book content items. The implicit links are defined based on the identification of matching features in the distinct book content items. In some implementations, the matching features are uncommon phrases in textual content of the distinct book content items. Edges representing implicit links are generated between distinct nodes representing distinct book content items in a weighted graph. Search results for distinct book content items can be ordered based on the edges connected to the distinct nodes in the weighted graph that represent the distinct book content items.
US08510312B1
A system identifies metadata associated with a document by capturing text of a document and comparing the text of the document with a collection of metadata records. Sets of matches between the text of the document and at least one record in the collection of metadata records may be identified, where each set of matches corresponds to a metadata record in the collection of metadata records. Metadata records corresponding to each set of matches may be scored. At least one of the metadata records may be identified based on the scores of the metadata records. The at least one identified metadata record may be associated with the document.
US08510309B2
Systems and methods are provided for selecting invitational content for users based on their short-term and their long-term features. In operation, responsive to a request from a user terminal for a content package a journal of events associated with a user. Thereafter, short-term and long-term features in the journal are identified and tagged with pre-defined tags indicating a type of content associated with the patterns. The tags are then used to select invitational content by selecting content based on tags for the identified short-term features associated with a threshold level of activity or tags for the identified long-term features.
US08510304B1
A transactionally consistent indexer is a tiered middleware framework component that updates a transactional index for a data blob according to a data transaction requested by an application. The transactionally consistent indexer determines index entries to be added or removed from a transaction index based on the application request. The transactionally consistent indexer further inserts each index entry to be added into the transaction index. With respect to each index entry to be removed, the transactionally consistent indexer uses a time stamp or version number of the index entry for ensuring optimistic concurrency during deletion. The transactionally consistent indexer then updates a data blob that is associated with each index entry to be added or each index entry to be removed based on the application request.
US08510301B2
A media system has media file storage that includes two or more media files having substantially the same media content. The two or more media files have different playback characteristics. The media system uses the playback characteristics to select one of the two or more media files for playback.
US08510300B2
Some embodiments include a system, method, apparatus and means for managing information associated with risk. In some embodiments, information associated with risk is collected, analyzed, stored, and disseminated. According to some embodiments, the information associated with risk is utilized to identify risk.
US08510298B2
A method, system and computer program product for ranking of products related to a product category in online shopping. A search query for one or more products is received from a user. A set of attributes and features of each attribute are extracted related to a product category for each of the one or more products. A score of each attribute is calculated based on the features. Further, the weights are assigned to each of the one or more attributes and a product rank is generated for each of the one or more products based on assigned weights and the score by using a predefined relevancy-ranking algorithm.
US08510295B1
Embodiments for managing resource storage for data objects are provided. In one embodiment, an aggregated user happiness (AUH) contribution for a data object is calculated by evaluating the metadata associated with the data object based on one or more AUH criteria. One or more resource storage parameters for the data object are determined based on the AUH contribution. The data object is replicated and stored on data servers based on the resource storage parameters.
US08510292B2
A mechanism is provided for detecting and disregarding application specific nodes contained in shared XML documents. The techniques described involve determining one or more application specific nodes within XML documents and performing path expression evaluations of the XML documents as if the nodes are not present. In one embodiment, a mechanism is provided by which a user may specify the criterion that determines which subset of nodes in XML documents are to be ignored from path expression evaluations. A query that specifies a path operation based on a path is evaluated ignoring said identified nodes when evaluating said path operation.
US08510288B2
Aspects described relate to analyzing data at a high level of abstraction. “Smarts,” incorporating one or more analytic patterns, may be applied to data sources. These Smarts may be in the form of at least one of an equation, rule, constraint or expression to generate a result from applying the analytic pattern to the data. Smarts may be pre-defined and selected from a library based on user preference and the data input. Any suitable user interface may be used to apply analytic pattern(s) to items of data as well as provide a visual environment for a user to make intuitive adjustments to the data, add controls in the user interface to filter or constrain the data, or combinations thereof, resulting in one or more modified results.
US08510282B2
A method and system for cataloguing browsing activity into separate browsing threads. Each browsing thread is an archived set of links that were considered during a specific time-period. The user is also provided with the ability to add metadata to a browsing history. The invention permits the user to reload an archived thread and resume any browsing from the point at which the thread was paused or suspended. In addition, the method and system provides cataloguing of the user browsing activity into separate threads with the ability to add metadata to threads or the individual entries within a thread. The threads may also be archived by date and time and indexed by keyword such that saved threads may be located, resumed, reviewed, and amended at a later point in time, including by other users, if desired.
US08510271B1
A system uses one or more processors and an interface to a backup repository to generate a set of backup objects for a point in time, store the set of backup objects in the backup repository, and store mapping information usable to retrieve appropriate backup objects when desired. A first map relates one or more applications to objects used by the applications. A second map relates the objects to corresponding data blocks or other data locations on volumes. A third map relates the data locations to corresponding backup objects for the point in time.
US08510267B2
Several different embodiments of a massively scalable object storage system are described. The object storage system is particularly useful for storage in a cloud computing installation whereby shared servers provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. In several embodiments, the object storage system includes a ring implementation used to associate object storage commands with particular physical servers such that certain guarantees of consistency, availability, and performance can be met. In other embodiments, the object storage system includes a synchronization protocol used to order operations across a distributed system. In a third set of embodiments, the object storage system includes a metadata management system. In a fourth set of embodiments, the object storage system uses a structured information synchronization system. Features from each set of embodiments can be used to improve the performance and scalability of a cloud computing object storage system.
US08510255B2
Systems and methods are described for predicting and/or detecting occupancy of an enclosure, such as a dwelling or other building, which can be used for a number of applications. An a priori stochastic model of occupancy patterns based on information of the enclosure and/or the expected occupants of the enclosure is used to pre-seed an occupancy prediction engine. Along with data from an occupancy sensor, the occupancy prediction engine predicts future occupancy of the enclosure. Various systems and methods for detecting occupancy of an enclosure, such as a dwelling, are also described.
US08510246B2
A system for computing probabilities of variables in a belief network includes a data acquisition interface configured to receive data representative of the belief network. The system further includes a partial evaluator configured to carry out a partial evaluation algorithm that determines the probability calculations that must be performed on the received data in order to compute the probabilities of the variables in the belief network. The system further includes a source code generator configured to output the probability calculations as a source code in a programming language.
US08510245B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method for determining a patient-specific probability of transplant glomerulopathy. The method collects clinical parameters from a plurality of patients to create a training database. A fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model is created using data from the training database; and, the fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network is validated. Clinical parameters are collected from an individual patient; and, such clinical parameters are input into the fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model via a graphical user interface. The patient-specific probability of transplant glomerulopathy is output from the fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model and sent to the graphical user interface for use by a clinician in pre-operative planning. The fully unsupervised Bayesian Belief Network model is updated using the clinical parameters from the individual patient and the patient-specific probability of transplant glomerulopathy.
US08510232B2
A method is provided for recommending a product to a plurality of people. The method comprises the following steps. A consumer is provided with an entry point to recommend the product. The consumer is then provided with at least one applet configured for a corresponding social network. The applet is used to create a custom recommendation personalized by the consumer, and disseminate the custom recommendation amongst the consumer's contacts within the social network. A computer readable medium including instructions for implementing the method is also provided.
US08510229B1
A method for analyzing project efficiency is provided. For a plurality of projects, a weight is assigned to each of a set of deliverables. The weight is associated with each of the deliverables for each of the plurality of projects. A status of each deliverable of a set of deliverables is determined for a project, where the status indicates that the deliverable has at least been started. A weight associated with each deliverable is used to generate an earned value. The earned value and an actual cost of the project are used to calculate an efficiency.
US08510227B2
Systems and methods are provided for electronically managing content. In one embodiment, information identifying content items found on a page is received from a client system through code embedded on the page. Systems and methods for associating advertisement data with content items are also disclosed.
US08510223B2
The present invention generally provides systems and methods for performing money transfer transactions via a wireless communication device, such as a cellular phone. In accordance with the invention, the wireless communication device is associated with, or automatically linked to, at least one payment source account (i.e., the wireless communication device is associated with a payment source account that may be automatically charged for payment of account balances, authorized charges, and/or money transfers). In a preferred embodiment, the wireless communication device is associated with at least one pre-paid payment source account. In one example, the wireless communication device is a pre-paid cellular phone and/or is associated with a pre-paid money transfer account. In certain aspects, the wireless communication device may access a pre-directed phone number, e.g., *55, to access a money transfer service provider. Once connected to a money transfer service provider, a user may initiate a money transfer via the wireless device, which is optionally paid to a payee in-person at a money transfer service provider location.
US08510221B2
Systems and methods for recognizing a check deposit received in a self-service financial transaction device are described. A check is received from a customer associated with an entity for deposit into an account of the entity. Upon determining a that an amount of the check received for deposit cannot be determined from a scanned image of the check, deposit transaction data for the customer is collected and analyzed, including the frequency and timing of the customer's previous check deposits, the amount of the customer's previous check deposits, the payor of such deposits, and the like, to predict the amount of the currently received check.
US08510216B2
A financial instrument management system determines a current market rate of interest that is compared with an annual percentage yield of a financial instrument from a financial institution. The system processes (e.g., receives and/or presents) an early redemption request prior to a maturity date of the financial instrument. The early redemption request comprises a request for a payout equal to a current value of the financial instrument and a market value adjustment. The current value comprises the principal of the financial instrument plus accrued interest. The market value adjustment comprises a bonus portion such that the payout is greater than the current value of the financial instrument when the current market rate of interest is less than the annual percentage yield and/or a discount portion such that the payout is less than the current value when the current market rate of interest is greater than the annual percentage yield.
US08510215B2
Disclosed is a method for enrolling a voiceprint in a fraudster database, the method comprising: a) defining a fraud model comprising at least one hypothesis indicative of a fraudulent transaction; b) processing audio data based on the fraud model to identify at least one suspect voiceprint in the audio data suspected of belonging to a fraudster; and c) enrolling the at least one suspect voiceprint in the fraudster database.
US08510214B2
A method for the online settling of a transaction in which network communications are established between a user, such as a debtor, and a server is presented. The method comprises receiving information, at the server, regarding the transaction, seeking available information pertinent to the transaction from at least one source external to the server and the user, processing data from the available information using a rules based engine including rules established on behalf of a party to the transaction located at the server, and presenting a transaction settlement offer set to the user based on at least one decision made by the rules based engine. While online, the user/debtor may accept one of the offers or engage in further approved negotiation of other offers.
US08510211B2
A system and method are described for the providing securities exchange members increased liquidity for affecting trades. Securities exchange members will have access to both a Dark Trading Facility and securities exchange for trading. When trading on the security exchange, these members will be able to access the Dark Trading Facility using the security exchange infrastructure. Further, when such members enter orders onto the Dark Trading Facility, they will have access to the security exchange display book from the dark pool of the Dark Trading Facility. The trading transactions executed in the Dark Trading Facility or initiated by the Dark Trading Facility, preferably, are automatic and anonymous.
US08510201B2
A retirement fund program managed by computer software requiring an initial fixed investment and producing an ever increasing revenue stream to a group of participant investors organized by life expectancy and grouped into an investment partnership. A financial portfolio is created from the monies invested by each investor and is used to manage high quality securities to generate income for the partnership. Periodically, the surviving members of the partnership are entitled to receive the revenue generated from the portfolio, which statistically will increase as fewer participant investors survive. The partnership can purchase term life insurance on each participant investor, so that the initial investment can be returned to the estate of a participant investor if the participant investor becomes deceased during the program. Upon termination of the program, all remaining assets will be distributed pro rata among the living participant investors of the investment partnership.
US08510199B1
A system for determining risks and/or valuations associated with financial products, comprises a data processing system having computer(s), database(s), financial product data record creating for creating one or more financial product data records, financial product data records identifying a particular financial product by a transaction credit or serial number, and financial product risk data software for creating one or more risk data records associated with the financial product data records.
US08510196B1
Systems and methods provide for an automated system for analyzing damage and processing claims associated with an insured item, such as a vehicle. An enhanced claims processing server may analyze damage associated with the insured item using photos/video transmitted to the server from a user device (e.g., a mobile device). The mobile device may receive feedback from the server regarding the acceptability of submitted photos/video, and if the server determines that any of the submitted photos/video is unacceptable, the mobile device may capture additional photos/video until all of the data are deemed acceptable. To aid in damage analysis, the server may also interface with various internal and external databases storing reference images of undamaged items and cost estimate information for repairing previously analyzed damages to similar items. Further still, the server may generate a payment for compensating a claimant for repair of the insured item.
US08510189B2
A method for the online modification, submission and approval processing of a future payment request to afford a user the ability to renegotiate established loan agreement debt terms in which network communications are established between a user, such as a debtor, and a server is presented. The method comprises receiving information, at the server, regarding the loan agreement debt terms, presenting received information to a debtor, providing an interactive environment enabling a debtor to modify existing terms, submitting modified terms, processing data from the available information using a rules based engine, and processing a future payment request based on at least one decision made by the rules based engine. While online, the user/debtor may engage in revising a rejected future payment request in an attempt to reach a satisfactory renegotiation of debt terms.
US08510187B1
A tax refund amount is determined or received at an intermediate computer operably connected to tax authority and user computers. The user computer and a tax preparation program are used to prepare an electronic tax return and determine the refund amount. Accounts that are available to receive a portion of the refund are identified and selected. A determination regarding how the refund can be allocated to selected accounts is made. The refund is transferred from the tax authority to the intermediate computer, and respective portions of the refund are transferred from the intermediate computer to respective selected accounts based at least in part upon a determined or selected allocation to increase the value of the refund, e.g., due to interest rates of selected accounts, compared to the refund value determined with the tax preparation program.
US08510183B2
In an embodiment, a plurality of logical deployment units are distributed throughout a system. Each logical deployment unit is provided with one or more business objects. Links are set up between the plurality of logical deployment units, and the logical deployment units are enabled to receive a business transaction and to identify an individual material associated with the business transaction. In the embodiment, each business object is visible only within its own logical deployment unit and has access to the individual material, and the plurality of logical deployment units and the one or more business objects are integrated.
US08510180B2
A system and method for increasing asset utilization using satellite aided location tracking. Smart sensor technology incorporated into mobile tracking hardware affixed to an asset can be used to support decision processes related to management of multiple assets. Automated decision processes based on customized business rules can operate on asset positions at various defined landmark locations and customized geographical areas.
US08510179B2
Stored inventory transaction information in a first format for use by a first computerized system is transformed to readily make the stored inventory transaction information available for use in a second computerized system that utilizes a second format in a cost-efficient and time-efficient manner.
US08510177B2
In accordance with the present invention, an information management application that provides users with the ability to create and customize matrix displays of information relating to a particular product or service for navigation by other users is provided.
US08510168B2
A method of distributing hair care or cosmetic products where a salon owner, stylist or booth renter can procure hair care or cosmetic products including hair dyes from a vending device located within the salon as needed at the point of use. The transaction data representing the product purchased, identification of the purchaser, location of the vending device and like is transmitted to a central computer over a communications network. The central computer updates inventory data of the vending device based on the transaction data and if necessary, schedules delivery to the vending device based on the updated inventory data. Additionally, apart from inventory control, the transaction data can be used to follow fashion trends in the hair care and cosmetics fields.
US08510167B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for consolidating content item requests for multiple content item environments. In one aspect, a method includes consolidating content item requests for two or more content item environments in a webpage. A first content item environment is a primary content item environment and the remaining content item environments are secondary content item environments. The primary content item environments issues a content item request for itself and the secondary content item environments, and owns a process that distributes the received content items for the secondary content item environments to the secondary content item environments.
US08510146B2
A contact center or enterprise communication system is provided. The system includes a first contact associated with a first task offer; one or more resources operable to accept the first task offer; and a contact center or enterprise communication system operable to determine a broadcast group of the one or more resources as a function of an acceptance factor for one or more of the resources.
US08510144B1
A method for workforce scheduling by a computer system is provided. The method includes receiving a first workforce schedule describing initial assignments of a plurality of workers to a plurality of shifts, each shift comprising one or more work activities, each work activity comprising an activity and a time interval, and storing the first workforce schedule in a memory. The method also includes receiving a cell size associated with each activity, and determining a quantity of workers in each work activity associated with each activity in the first workforce schedule. The method further includes determining cell size violations by dividing the quantity of workers assigned to each work activity by the cell size for the activity associated with the work activity. The method also includes modifying the first workforce schedule to minimize cell size violations, resulting in a second workforce schedule, and storing the second workforce schedule in the memory.
US08510131B1
A method for refilling prescriptions including generating a prescription order selection display; generating a display to allow the customer to access pharmacy data; when the customer selects the prescription order selection: generating one or more prescription order displays so that the customer can refill a particular prescription; when the customer selects to pick up a drug corresponding to the particular prescription from the one of one or more member pharmacies, refilling the prescription order at the one of the one or more member pharmacies; and when the customer selects to have the drug shipped to a postal address, shipping the drug to the postal address; and when the customer chooses to access pharmacy data: generating one or more pharmacy data access displays for the customer wherein the customer is allowed to access one of a personal prescription history and specific drug information.
US08510127B2
A system and method develops a customized meal plan for a patient based on a chemotherapy treatment regimen for the patient and delivers the corresponding food items of the meal plan to the patient. The customized meal plan is designed to mitigate the physical effects and nutritional losses associated with chemotherapy and other cancer related treatments, such as radiation therapy. As the medical condition of the patient changes, the meal plan can be revised to provide updated customization. The meal plan may be developed using information provided by the patient, a caregiver, such as a nurse or physician, or a combination thereof.
US08510126B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for monitoring patients in a unit of a hospital, an entire hospital, or several hospitals. In some of these embodiments, the methods receives data pertaining to multiple patients. The method aggregates the data and calculated scores based on the received data. The method also calculates trends associated with the aggregated data and/or the generated scores. The method further displays the aggregated and calculated data in a unified display that facilitates efficient allocation of resources in the hospital unit, the hospital, or the group of hospitals.
US08510124B2
Systems and methods are described for providing consumers with access to the discounted rates for health care procedures provided by primary care physicians, specialist physicians and facilities. Fee information for contracted providers is stored in a database and is accessible to consumers via an online interface. Consumers select query criteria for providers and are presented with actual cost information pertaining to procedures prospectively rendered by providers. Additional information, such as quality or efficiency of providers, can also be presented. Information on multiple providers can be obtained and presented in a comparative arrangement. The presented information can be limited to providers within a geographic region, within a cost range, within a quality range, or other criteria.
US08510118B2
A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier.
US08510108B2
A voice processing device includes a zone detection unit which detects a voice zone including a voice signal or a non-steady sound zone including a non-steady signal other than the voice signal from an input signal and a filter calculation unit that calculates a filter coefficient for maintaining the quality of the voice signal in the voice zone while suppressing the non-steady signal in the non-steady sound zone according to the detection result by the zone detection unit, in which the filter calculation unit calculates the filter coefficient by using a filter coefficient calculated in the non-steady sound zone for the voice zone and using a filter coefficient calculated in the voice zone for the non-steady sound zone. In one embodiment, a verification unit verifies a constraint condition of the filter coefficient based on whether the amount of suppression of the non-steady sound signal that would result from applying the filter to the sound signal is less than or equal to a threshold value.
US08510097B2
Computer methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed for text-characterization using a finite state transducer that along each path accepts on a first side an n-gram of text-characterization (e.g., a language or a topic) and outputs on a second side a sequence of symbols identifying one or more text-characterizations from a set of text-characterizations. The finite state transducer is applied to input data. For each n-gram accepted by the finite state transducer, a frequency counter associated with the n-gram of the one or more text-characterizations in the set of text-characterizations is incremented. The input data is classified as one or more text-characterizations from the set of text-characterizations using the frequency counters associated therewith.
US08510093B2
An image processing apparatus includes a region dividing section, an character recognizing section, a classifying section, a translating section, a calculation section and a correcting section. The region dividing section divides a document image into sentence regions. The character recognizing section recognizes characters in the respective sentence regions. The classifying section classifies the sentence regions into groups in accordance with sizes of the characters. The translating section translates a sentence into a given language for each of the sentence regions. The calculation section calculates a character size of a sentence, which has been translated for each of the sentence regions by the translating section. And The correcting section corrects a size of a translated character of each character region for every sentence region classified into the same group such that the character sizes calculated by the calculating section become equal.
US08510092B2
Computer-implementable recursive summation algorithms are disclosed that are useful for efficiently performing recursive convolution, such as is often required in Statistical Signal Analysis (SSA) techniques. The disclosed recursive summation algorithms can be more computationally-efficient from both a speed and memory perspective than other recursive convolution techniques known in the prior art, such as the techniques relying on Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs).
US08510087B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium. A method includes receiving a geometric model in an initial state including at least a first feature and a second feature, at least one of the first and second features being a removal feature. The method includes detecting an interaction between the first and second features, and applying a dependency rule to the first feature and the second feature. The method includes performing a variational edit process including removing the first feature and the second feature according to the dependency rule. The method includes solving and recreating the edited model.
US08510085B2
A method of constructing a digital model of a road, includes the steps of acquiring a first set of data relating to the geometry of the road via a differential global positioning system (DGPS), acquiring a second set of data relating to the geometry of the road via a hybridized inertial unit with a global positioning system (GPS), indexing the values of the first and second sets of data by determining their confidence level, discarding the values of the first and second sets of data below a predefined confidence level in order to obtain a first and second set of corrected data, and aggregating the data of the first and second sets of corrected data in order to obtain the digital model of the road. The applicable to the fields of road cartography for navigation and road management, for the creation of adaptive localized algorithms.
US08510083B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for constructing a diagnostic network model in a more efficient and timely manner and with improved consistency. A structured electronic representation of a document is automatically reviewed to identify the symptoms experienced by the complex system, the plurality of components of the complex system and the causal relationships between a failure of the respective components and the occurrence of the various symptoms. Respective probabilities can be associated with the causal relationships between the symptoms and the failure of the various components. A network model, such as a Bayesian network model, may then be automatically constructed to represent the symptoms, the components, the causal relationships between failure of the components and exhibition of the symptoms, and the probabilities of the respective causal relationships.
US08510081B2
Method, system, and apparatus for evaluating drilling accuracy performance in drilling a wellbore that can include: (1) monitoring an actual toolface orientation of a tool, e.g., a downhole steerable motor, by monitoring a drilling operation parameter indicative of a difference between the actual toolface orientation and a toolface advisory; (2) recording the difference between the actual toolface orientation and the toolface advisory; and (3) scoring the difference between the actual toolface orientation and the toolface advisory.
US08510079B2
Systems and methods are provided for an advanced pedometer, which may include: a first accelerometer for providing first acceleration information for a first direction; a second accelerometer for providing second acceleration information for a second direction; a third accelerometer for providing third acceleration for a third direction; a clock for providing time information associated with the first acceleration information, the second acceleration information, and the third acceleration information; and a processing module comprising one or more processors. The processing module may be to execute computer-executable instructions to: determine fourth level acceleration information for a plane using the first acceleration information for the first direction, and the second acceleration information for the second direction, where the plane is defined by the first direction and the second direction; and estimate a distance traveled using the fourth level acceleration information, the third acceleration information, and at least a portion of the time information.
US08510076B2
The sensor module carries one or more sensor element, such as microphones or imaging devices, for detecting events in use. The sensor module has a locator for determining its location and preferably an orientation sensor for determining it location and a transceiver for communicating with other modules in the network or with a base station. The module also has a processor which is adapted such that, in use, the module communicates with other sensor modules and determines whether to operate in a sensing mode to detect events or a controlling mode. In this way a self organizing adaptive network is provided.
US08510069B2
A feedback system for controlling a servo motor comprising at least one rotary angle sensor and at least one rotary speed sensor, wherein the rotary angle sensor supplies a measured rotary angle value to a computer, wherein the rotary speed sensor supplies a measured rotary speed value to the computer, the actual rotary speed values are the measured rotary angle values interpolated according to the integrated measured rotary speed values, and wherein at high rotary speeds, the actual rotary speed values are the calibrated measured rotary angle values, differentiated with respect to time, and at low rotary speeds, the actual rotary speed values are the measured rotary speed values.
US08510063B2
A control device includes a force detector configured to detect a force in a normal direction and a force in a shearing direction of fingertips of a robot hand device respectively as a normal force and a shearing force, and an object detector configured to calculate a friction coefficient using the normal force and the shearing force detected by the force detector and to detect whether or not a thin-film object having a maximum friction coefficient different from a maximum stationary friction coefficient between the fingertips is grasped between the fingertips on the basis of the calculation result.
US08510060B2
A method, system and computer program product for life management and monitoring of a high temperature gas turbine including components having a thermal barrier coating is disclosed. The method, system and computer program product uses design, monitoring and diagnostics, and inspection data to determine the cumulative damage and remaining useful life of gas turbine components and unit risk and classification probability to determine thermal barrier coating damage probability, remaining useful life, and inspection recommendations.
US08510058B2
A method of scoring binding affinity of a proposed ligand molecule for a receptor molecule using a computer and computer data bases, which accounts for the increase in energy required where docking disrupts water molecules that are localized at ligand hydration sites. The method uses computer-stored data representing a predicted ligand-receptor structure (preferably one that is validated). The computerized scoring analysis includes determining whether the receptor includes one or more hydration sites occupied by localized water, and, if so, assessing a penalty if docking the ligand into the receptor results in unfavorable interaction of the ligand with a localized water molecule remaining at the receptor hydration site (i.e. after docking).
US08510053B2
The present invention relates to a method for modifying a property of a protein. The present invention also relates to a method for producing a protein which has a modified property, and a method for producing a microorganism which has a modified property. The present invention is useful in the field of microbial industrial production and the like.
US08510045B2
A method, system and apparatus for displaying points-of-interest (“POIs”) on a digital map are disclosed. One such method includes: presenting a digital map on a graphical display of an electronic device, wherein the digital map comprises map tiles and corresponds to a geographic region; receiving free-hand user input selecting a portion of the digital map; delimiting the portion of the digital map selected by the user; determining one or more of the POIs whose geographic coordinates are within the portion of the digital map selected by the user; and displaying a graphic for each of the determined POIs, wherein the displayed graphic is displayed on the digital map at the geographic coordinates of each of the determined one or more POIs.
US08510043B1
Systems and methods of displaying route information on an electronic display. The information includes a number of routes that extend within the displayed area. A large amount of information about the routes is stored in or accessible by the system. Therefore, the systems and methods are configured to initially display a map with much of the information being withheld. This initial map is clean and the displayed information is relevant to the user. The system is then configured to receive input requesting that the system display more specific information about the relevant routes of interest to the user.
US08510040B2
A preferred route may be determined from an origin location to a destination location. The determination is made by processing directed links (e.g., one-way edges) in a graph that includes one or more links and two or more nodes. The determination of a preferred route may include an estimate of the time required at one or more intersections along alternative. Individual routing preferences, such as a preference of a rural over an urban route, also may be considered. Techniques are described that may help reduce the time required to identify a preferred route, including the identification and removal of no outlet routes before processing the directed links and techniques using particular data formats.
US08510023B2
A method of controlling the ignition of a gasoline engine having an ignition coil which generates a spark on a spark plug, whereby the instant when coil charging starts is determined for each engine cycle as a function of the angular position of the crankshaft and the rotation speed of the engine, by calculating the ratio between the crankshaft angle of rotation still to pass through before the crankshaft reaches the angular position at which the ignition spark is to be produced, and the time required to charge the coil.
US08510015B2
A method comprising operating a compressor; obtaining operating parameters of the compressor; starting a counter for a crankshaft angle from 0 to 360 degrees; calculating piston displacement and a volume of gas in a cylinder of the compressor as a function of the angle; and calculating a pressure within the cylinder.
US08510006B2
A method of adapting the rapid filling time of a clutch. During adaptation, the clutch is filled by at least two successive rapid filling pulses with increasing rapid filling times. For each rapid filling pulse a reaction, resulting from the filling pulse, is monitored. If a defined reaction, for one of the rapid filling pulses, is recognized for the first time whereas for the, or for each of the previous rapid filling pulse(s) the defined reaction was not observed, then as a function of the rapid filling time of that rapid filling pulse for which the defined reaction was recognized for the first time, carrying out the adaptation of the rapid filling time and, for each rapid filling pulse used for the adaptation, gradients of the clutch pressure produced as a result of the respective rapid filling pulse are evaluated to determine the defined reaction pressure.
US08509983B2
A method is provided for detecting a level of diesel-exhaust-fluid (DEF) in a reservoir that is operatively connected to a catalyst for a diesel engine. The method is employed in a vehicle in order to facilitate a refill of the reservoir. The method includes sensing a level of diesel fuel in a fuel tank via a sensor operatively connected to the tank. The method also includes determining whether the vehicle is on an incline using the sensed level of diesel fuel in the fuel tank. The method additionally includes determining the level of DEF in the reservoir if the vehicle is determined to be substantially not on an incline. A system is also provided for detecting a level of DEF in the reservoir.
US08509977B2
A method of operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle which comprises a hybrid drive with a combustion engine coupled by a clutch to an electric motor. To start the combustion engine with the electric motor, the clutch is partially engaged to a slipping condition to deliver electric motor torque from a starting value, the torque transmitted by the clutch is increased to a first final value. If during this, the combustion engine begins turning, the break-away torque of the internal combustion engine is determined. If the combustion engine does not begin turning, the clutch is further engaged to a slipping condition starting from a second initial value, such that torque transmitted by the clutch increases linearly until the combustion engine begins turning, and the break-away torque of the internal combustion engine is determined from the clutch torque at which the combustion engine begins turning.
US08509965B2
Collision with ground/water/terrain and midair obstacles is one of the common causes of severe aircraft accidents. The various data from the coremicro AHRS/INS/GPS Integration Unit, terrain data base, and object detection sensors are processed to produce collision warning audio/visual messages and collision detection and avoidance of terrain and obstacles through generation of guidance commands in a closed-loop system. The vision sensors provide more information for the Integrated System, such as, terrain recognition and ranging of terrain and obstacles, which plays an important role to the improvement of the Integrated Collision Avoidance System.
US08509963B1
The present invention includes system and methods for managing information systems on an aircraft through the use of a remote management center. At the management center, the status information from aircraft computer systems is monitored for fault conditions. The management center then performs maintenance on the computer system when a fault condition is noticed. Exemplary systems include a remote management center that manages several different computer systems on several different manned aircraft. The management center connects to the aircraft and computer system through data links.
US08509955B2
A method and system are provided for controlling a distribution of electrical power in a power distribution network having a first power distribution region and a second power distribution region. The first power distribution region can include first primary devices that interact with first process devices, and the second power distribution region can include second primary devices that interact with second process devices a distribution controller including a standardized description of the first region. A first distribution controller can be connected to the first process devices, can control a distribution of electrical power in the first power distribution region, and can identify, following a network reconfiguration, an orphan network section that is disconnected from the first region and connected to the second region. The first distribution controller can transmit a standardized description of the identified orphan network section to a second distribution controller connected to the second process devices.
US08509954B2
A system and method migrating virtualized environments is disclosed. According to an aspect of the disclosure, a home energy management system and method includes a database configured to store site report data received from a plurality of residential sites using a wireless home energy network at each site. Each residential site includes a thermostat accessible to the wireless home energy network. A processor is operably coupled to the database and configured to access the site report data and detect a current temperature set-point of the thermostat at a first residential site; detect a first seasonal profile of the thermostat; detect a current operating mode of a HVAC system operably coupled to the thermostat; and determine a thermostat schedule of the thermostat using the first seasonal profile and the current operating mode of the HVAC system.
US08509945B1
An automated airport baggage handling system includes a baggage transport can transported with baggage between remote locations, a stationary baggage transport conveyor to transport the baggage, a communication link, a controller coupled to the baggage transport can and the baggage transport conveyor via the communication link, and a mobile robotic device controlled by the controller. A stationary guide track is located adjacent to the baggage transport can and the baggage transport conveyor, first sensors are located at the baggage transport can, the baggage transport conveyor, the robotic device and the guide track. A plurality of second sensors is attached to the baggage. The controller causes the robotic device to be displaced along the guide track in such a manner that the robotic device accesses the baggage transport can and thereafter accesses the transport conveyor while remaining positioned along the guide track.
US08509937B2
Disclosed is a processing apparatus to restrain load of a common usage system shared by a plurality of liquid processing modules. A processing module group includes k sets of share groups comprising a plurality of processing modules to perform an identical processing for each substrate (where, k≧2), each set of share groups includes n processing modules (where, n≧2), and each processing module includes the common usage system shared by n processing modules in each set and having a maximum capacity capable of processing m processing modules (where m≦n). A carrying mechanism repeatedly loads a substrate one by one to the processing module of each set in sequence. At this time, (1) after the completion of the processing in one processing module that uses the common usage system, the substrate is loaded into another processing module in the same set, or (2) without waiting for the completion of the processing in one processing module, the substrate is loaded into another processing module and then the processing is started in another processing module after the completion of the processing in one processing module.
US08509936B2
A sensor net system including: a plurality of sensor nodes, where each sensor node is held on a person of a differing worker, and each sensor node includes; a sensor which obtains sensor data of a worker; a radio frequency circuit which notifies a server of the sensor data; and a server which includes: a unit for storing a relation list for correlating the sensor data with a work category of the worker; a unit for confirming location of the worker based on the obtained sensor data; and a unit for confirming a work category in which the worker is engaged based on the confirmed location and the relation list.
US08509931B2
The present disclosure includes processing a signal to generate a first sub-set of data, transmitting the first sub-set of data for generation of a reconstructed audio signal, the reconstructed audio signal having a fidelity relative to the signal, processing the signal to generate a second sub-set of data and a third sub-set of data, the second sub-set of data defining a second portion of the signal and comprising data that is different than data of the first sub-set of data, and the third sub-set of data defining a third portion of the signal and comprising data that is different than data of the first and second sub-sets of data, comparing a priority of the second sub-set of data to a priority of the third sub-set of data, and transmitting one of the second sub-set of data and the third sub-set of data over the network for improving the fidelity.
US08509930B2
A data processing method for audio playback, an audio playing method, and an audio player are provided. The data processing method for audio playback in an application processor includes: reading n-th audio data (where n is a natural number of 1 or more) which is an n-th part of one or more audio files, which is selected in accordance with a user command, from a storage unit; decoding the read n-th audio data; and storing the decoded n-th audio data in an m-th buffer of an audio playing unit at a subsequent stage (where m is equal to n mode M, M is the number of buffers in the audio playing unit, and m is equal to M when the remainder is 0). Accordingly, since the application processor need not always be activated to play audio, it is possible to reduce the power consumption of a battery.
US08509922B2
A mobile terminal includes a wireless communication unit for collecting external information or transmitting recommended operation information to a home appliance, and a controller for generating the recommended operation information for the home appliance based on the collected external information. The mobile terminal may provide customized recommended operation information for each home appliance without separately including a device for controlling one or more home appliances provided in a home.
US08509914B2
A lead assembly comprises an outer body tubing, first and second conductors, and first and second tubing insert members. The outer body tubing comprises at least two longitudinal outer body tubing portions, each such portion comprising a through-hole and each portion comprising a keyed surface having a predetermined shape. Each of the tubing insert members receives a conductor and comprises a surface that substantially matches the predetermined shape of the keyed surface. When both of the conductors are inserted into corresponding longitudinal through-holes such that each of said first and second surfaces of the first and second hollow body members is substantially aligned with the keyed surface of a corresponding outer body tubing portion, electrodes formed on ends of the first and second conductors are encouraged to be substantially co-linear.
US08509913B2
An energy management system that facilitates the transfer of high frequency energy induced on an implanted lead or a leadwire includes an energy dissipating surface associated with the implanted lead or the leadwire, a diversion or diverter circuit associated with the energy dissipating surface, and at least one switch for diverting energy in the implanted lead or the leadwire through the diversion circuit to the energy dissipating surface. In alternate configurations, the switch may be disposed between the implanted lead or the leadwire and the diversion circuit, or disposed so that it electrically opens the implanted lead or the leadwire when diverting energy through the diversion circuit to the energy dissipating surface. The switch may comprise a single or multi-pole double or single throw switch. The diversion circuit may be either a high pass filter or a low pass filter.
US08509911B2
A far-field radio frequency (RF) telemetry system for communicating with an implantable medical device includes a diversity antenna system. Multi-frame messages each including multiple outgoing data frames are transmitted to the implantable medical device. In response, the implantable medical device transmits response data frames each following one or more of the outgoing data frames, according to a predetermined communication protocol. An antenna control circuit selects an antenna of the diversity antenna system for transmitting the outgoing data frames and/or receiving the response data frames based on the quality of signal reception associated with the response data frames.
US08509906B2
Systems and methods for producing asynchronous neural responses to treat pain and/or other patient conditions are disclosed. A method in accordance with a particular embodiment includes selecting a target stimulation frequency that is above a threshold frequency, with the threshold frequency corresponding to a refractory period for neurons of a target sensory neural population. The method can further include producing a patient sensation of paresthesia by directing an electrical signal to multiple sensory neurons of the target sensory neural population at the stimulation frequency, with individual neurons of the sensory neural population completing corresponding individual refractory periods at different times, resulting in an asynchronous sensory neuron response to the electrical signal.
US08509904B2
A BCI apparatus (10) for supporting the rehabilitation of stroke patients (12) with motor impairments is provided, comprising a probe (18) for recording a neuronal activity signal, an evaluation unit (24) for analysis of the activity signal, and an effector (18, 22, 26, 28) which is controlled by the evaluation unit (24) in dependence of a detected motion, wherein a session control unit (24) is configured to output a request to the patient (12) to generate a desired activity pattern, to at the same time record the activity using the probe (18), and to give the patient (12) a feedback via the effector whenever the desired activity pattern is identified by the evaluation unit (24). The request includes an instruction to imagine a specific movement or to try to execute the specific movement, wherein the probe (18) is an ECoG electrode with at least twenty individual electrodes (30), and wherein the evaluation unit (24) is configured to provide a plurality of frequency channels for the identification of the desired activity pattern and to evaluate the activity signal based on at least one of the amplitude and the phase in the frequency channels.
US08509901B2
A method and device is provided for adding to breathing by stimulating tissue to elicit a diaphragm response during intrinsic breathing.
US08509900B2
An electro-stimulation device for the treatment of anterior and posterior pelvic floor muscle dysfunction is reversibly compressible and is fully self-contained. The device requires no external power sources or control and may be inserted into the vagina or anus through the use of an applicator. In the compressed state the device may be of tampon proportions and after use may easily be removed. The device utilizes a compressible electrode component.
US08509898B2
An electronic device, comprising a housing, a functional unit disposed in the housing, a terminal lead electrically connecting the functional unit to the outside of the housing, and a sealed feedthrough in the housing, the feedthrough surrounding the terminal lead and insulating it with respect to the housing, wherein the feedthrough is produced from a liquid crystal polymer.
US08509889B2
Methods for treating atrial arrhythmias can involve configuring an implantable arrhythmia treatment device. A device can be configured after implantation when the patient is fully conscious and after any pain suppression medication has worn off. The device is caused to apply a phased unpinning far field therapy to the patient in response to detection of an arrhythmia via a far field configuration of electrodes. An indication of a pain sensation of the patient and the effectiveness of the treatment in response to the therapy can then be received. In response, at least one of a set of therapy parameters is adjusted and the steps are repeated until it is determined that an effective treatment is provide at a pain sensation that is tolerable to the patient. The device is then programmed to automatically treat arrhythmias detected in the patient with the determined set of therapy parameters.
US08509888B2
An implantable medical device can include a Hall effect sensor. The Hall effect sensor can include a first pair of electrical contacts and a second pair of electrical contacts. In an example, the Hall effect sensor can be configured to sense a magnetic field and can be configured to provide a voltage corresponding to a magnitude of the sensed magnetic field.
US08509885B2
This invention is directed to systems and methods for analyzing depression, and more particularly relates to systems and methods for analyzing and assessing depression and mood disorders in an individual using electroencephalographic measurements. Embodiments of the invention are not limited to depression, but can also include other mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and other disorders with at least one genetic-related component.
US08509884B2
This invention is directed to embodiments of systems and methods to identify a subgroup of ADHD at higher risk for complicating conditions that, for example, may be of concern to an ADHD evaluation, may account for attention and behavior symptoms, and may lead a clinician to exclusion of ADHD from primary diagnosis. In one embodiment, a method for identifying a subgroup of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients at higher risk for complicating conditions is provided. The method can include receiving, from a user or clinician, evaluation data associated with a plurality of patients identified with ADHD as a primary diagnosis; obtaining EEG data for each of the plurality of patients; determining, based at least in part on the EEG data, an indicator of ADHD, wherein the indicator supports a positive or negative ADHD evaluation; correlating the indicator with a user's or clinician's evaluation data; and based at least in part on the correlation, determining at least one subgroup of the plurality of patients, wherein the correlation provides positive support for diagnosis of ADHD or provides support for further testing for complicating conditions before proceeding with diagnosis of ADHD in at least one patient within the at least one subgroup.
US08509883B2
A method for identifying R waves in an ECG signal is proposed. An ECG measuring instrument measures ECG signals of a patient in which R waves are to be detected. The measured ECG signals are compared with respective reference quantities based on at least two comparison rules. The second comparison rule is dependent on a result of a first comparison conducted according to a first comparison rule. A signal that an R wave has been detected is issued if the first and the second comparison rules are fulfilled. Making the second comparison rule dependent on the result of the first comparison rule enables an adept response to changes of measurement conditions. These changes can be taken into account in further comparisons. Therefore the detection of R waves in an ECG signal can be optimized, leading to an improvement in the image quality in ECG-triggered MR examinations.
US08509878B2
To improve a surgical referencing unit for a surgical navigation system, with which a spatial position and/or orientation of the referencing unit is determinable, the referencing unit comprising a base body and at least one marker element arranged on the base body, and the spatial position of the marker element being determinable by the navigation system, so that the handling thereof is simplified and possible errors are eliminated during use thereof, it is proposed that the at least one marker element be movably mounted on the base body, that the referencing unit comprise a first interface device which is configured for engagement with a second interface device provided on a surgical instrument or an implant in a connected position, and that the at least one marker element be movable into a predefined marker element position in dependence upon the interacting first and second interface devices.
US08509876B2
In vivo medical stimulation probes include an elongate lead having at least one stimulation electrode disposed on a distal portion thereof. The probes may include a plurality of axially spaced apart RF chokes disposed on and/or in an axially extending shielding layer of the lead in advance of the at least one electrode to inhibit induced RF current from forming and/or traveling along the shielding layer.
US08509868B2
One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide a biogenic substance concentration measuring method with improved measuring accuracy. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for measuring a concentration of a biogenic substance contained in a living body, the method comprises steps of preparing a measuring device, wherein the measuring device comprises a light source, an optical filter, and a light receiver; irradiating different focused lights from the light source onto a particle chip implanted in a skin though a position on the surface of the skin to generate corresponding reflected lights; calculating the concentration of the biogenic substance on the basis of the difference of signals obtained from the reflected lights.
US08509867B2
This invention provides devices, compositions and methods for determining the concentration of one or more metabolites or analytes in a biological sample, including cells, tissues, organs, organisms, and biological fluids. In particular, this invention provides materials, apparatuses, and methods for several non-invasive techniques for the determination of in vivo blood glucose concentration levels based upon the in vivo measurement of one or more biologically active molecules found in skin.
US08509862B2
A rotation hinge apparatus of a portable terminal including a body housing, a folder including a liquid crystal display section and rotated in the body housing about first and second axes, and a connection member rotatably connecting the folder about the first and second hinge axes includes a base member; a rotation member; first and second guide pins provided in the rotation member; first and second guide sections provided in the base member. The first and second guide sections engage the first and second guide pins to place the liquid crystal display section of the folder at the center of the connection member by guiding linear movement of the first guide pin when the rotation member is rotated about the second hinge axis, and by moving the second guide pin, guiding and moving the second hinge axis in an inclined manner and then in a curved manner.
US08509861B2
A power management method with a portable electronic device (100) includes identifying, with a controller (202) of the portable electronic device, a power consumption event in the portable electronic device, the power consumption event having a power consumption requirement. The method further includes selecting (818), in response to the identifying, one of a collection of energy storage devices (304, 306, 308, 320) in an energy storage device farm (218) for the portable electronic device, the selecting being based at least on the power consumption requirement of the power consumption event and on one or more characteristics of the one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The portable electronic device executes the power consumption event using energy stored in the selected one of the plurality of energy storage devices. The portable electronic device (100) may be a mobile phone or other wireless communication device.
US08509858B2
A headphone for use with a wireless audio device. The headphone determines whether the origin of an incoming transmission is a cell phone or a device such as a land line device or a computer. The headphone applies a different equalization pattern depending on whether the origin is a land line device or a computer or whether the origin is a cell phone. The headphone may measure the amplitude of the incoming transmission above a first threshold frequency, or below a second threshold frequency, or both to determine if the origin is a land line device or a computer or if the origin is a cell phone.
US08509854B2
This patent relates to a mobile terminal and a method of controlling an operation of the same. The method of controlling an operation of a mobile terminal includes displaying a file list and scroll arrows for scrolling the file list on a touch screen. When the scroll arrow is touched and entered, the file list is scrolled at a scroll speed previously set in response to a time when the scroll arrow is touched and entered. A vibration signal to identify at least one of a scroll speed and a current scrolling position of the file list is provided. Accordingly, when a file list is scrolled, a scroll speed or a current scrolling position can be easily identified by a tactile sense.
US08509851B2
A method for displaying speed dial information is disclosed. A dialing signal is defined and stored in a memory of a mobile communication device. When the mobile communication device receives a trigger signal generated by pressing a button, it is determined whether the dialing signal is received. Contact information corresponding to the pressed button is displayed on a screen of the mobile communication device if the dialing signal is not received.
US08509850B2
Systems and methods for distributed antenna system reverse path summation using signal-to-noise ratio optimization are provided. In one embodiment, a method for reverse path summation for a distributed antenna system comprises: normalizing an uplink noise floor for a plurality of remote antenna units of a distributed antenna system, wherein the uplink noise floor is normalized based on a first remote antenna unit having a lowest noise floor of the plurality of remote antenna units; and scaling an uplink output gain of each of the plurality of remote antenna units by a scaling factor, wherein the scaling factor attenuates the uplink output gain based on a composite maximum host peak power for a host unit coupled to the plurality of remote antenna units.
US08509837B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for controlling power usage in a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising transmitting a pilot signal to a mobile station over a wireless channel, receiving a response that includes a signal-to-interference-and-noise associated with said pilot signal, determining an instantaneous channel rate to be used for a subsequent data transmission to said mobile station based at least on said signal-to-interference-and-noise, selecting a transmit power level for said data transmission; and transmitting data to said mobile station at said channel rate and said power level.
US08509836B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed comprising a combined open loop/closed loop uplink power control scheme for E-UTRA. The combined open and closed loop method for UL intra-cell PC controls the wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) transmit power spectral density (PSD), PSDTx, (e.g. power per RB).
US08509832B1
Methods, systems, devices, and computer program products route communication based on an urgency priority associated with a sender of the communication. The method involves receiving incoming communication, identifying the sender, determining an urgency priority designation associated with communication, and routing the incoming communication according to routing instructions associated with the urgency priority designation. Prior to receiving the incoming communication, the method may further involve receiving a selection to configure routing of communication based on one or more urgency priority designations, rendering urgency priority options and routing options that provide routing instructions, receiving routing instructions associated with each urgency priority designation, and receiving and recording the urgency priority designation associated with the sender. Still further, the method may involve offering the sender routing options based on the urgency priority designation and receiving a selection of one of the routing options from the sender.
US08509830B2
Data is synchronized between a mobile device and a computing device over a wireless link. Synchronization operations are scheduled according to a synchronization schedule that is based on a current time of day. In one embodiment, the day can be divided into different time periods by the user. The user can also specify the frequency with which synchronization operations are to be performed during each specified period.
US08509816B2
Mechanisms are provided for pre-fetching content data and storing the content data in a mobile device. An identifier of a mobile device and a location of the mobile device are received. Demographic information about a user of the mobile device is obtained based on the identifier of the mobile device. The demographic information of the user is compared with demographic information of other users to identify one or more similar users having similar demographic information to the demographic information of the user of the mobile device. Content data to transmit to the mobile device is identified based on the location of the mobile device and the identification of the one or more similar users. The content data is transmitted to the mobile device for storage in the mobile device.
US08509814B1
A method and system for integrating location based services into retail applications. Correlation-data and request-trigger logic are stored in data storage of a portable device. The correlation-data defines geographic locations and corresponding network addresses. The portable device determines its geographic location (i.e. by using a GPS receiver device). In response to determining its location, the portable device uses the request-trigger logic to determine if its present location is within a geographic area defined in the correlation-data. When the request-trigger logic finds that the location is within a defined area, the portable device responsively sends an information-request to a network address pre-correlated with the given location. In response to the information-request, the portable device receives merchant-information (i.e. coupons, special offers, etc.) from a merchant-server. The portable device displays the merchant information for viewing by a user. Advantageously, the invention can help avoid having merchants “spam” the device with unwanted information.
US08509799B2
The claimed subject matter relates to providing quality of service treatment to a subscriber (e.g., wireless terminal) based upon requests made on behalf of the subscriber by a plurality of logically separate entities from the subscriber. For instance, two network infrastructure devices, such as application servers, can initiate separate requests for quality of service treatment on behalf of the subscriber. Additionally or alternatively, a subscriber-side device can initiate a request for quality of service treatment on behalf of the subscriber. A provider of the quality of service treatment can provide appropriate treatment to one or more traffic flows based at least in part upon the requests.
