US08696303B2
A feathering device for the fan blades of a turboprop engine that includes at least one set of fan blades with adjustable orientation is provided. The assembly is attached in rotation to a rotating cowling connected to a turbine rotor. Each blade is coupled, for the adjustment of its orientation, to a control ring that is movable between two extreme positions, one of which corresponds to feathering of the blades. Mechanical parts are able to extend elastically as a result of a rise in their temperature, these mechanical parts being positioned facing the control ring so as to be able to exert a thrust force on the ring in order to put it in a position to feather the blades when they expand. A device to cause a rise in the temperature of the mechanical parts so as to expand them is also provided.
US08696300B1
A body fan device for keeping a user cool, dry, and comfortable when wearing a garment is provided. The body fan device comprises an outer casing having a front side and a rear side with the front side directed toward the user and the rear side directed toward the garment. A fan is mounted between the front side and the rear side. A power mechanism powers the fan. A securing mechanism secures the outer casing between the garment and the user. A front vented panel is mounted to the front side of the outer casing and a rear vented panel mounted to the rear side of the outer casing. Upon activation of the fan, air is drawing through the rear vented panel inward into the outer casing and out through the front vented panel and against the user.
US08696294B2
An apparatus for orientating a solid growth culture medium plate from an original orientation to a worked orientation, the plate having a lid and a bottom, the apparatus including an orientation mechanism that includes opposed jaws able to receive and hold a plate therebetween in a held position that defines a notional tube above and below the plate, the orientation mechanism being mounted on a jaw support member such that the jaw support member is rotatable such that at least the plate bottom rotates about a generally horizontal axis that intersects the notional tube to orientate at least the plate bottom from the original orientation to the worked orientation.
US08696283B1
A screw comprising a drive part, a threaded part, and a retaining ring is disclosed herein. Each of the drive part and the threaded part comprises a plurality of interface surfaces that transmit torque from the drive part to the threaded part and prevent the parts from disengaging from one another during use. Each plurality of interface surfaces forms one or more geometric shapes that create additional friction between the drive and threaded parts, and may further include mating pins and holes to prevent the parts from detaching from one another. The retaining ring, which removably connects the screw to a wrench during assembly of the screw with a receptacle, is disposed within a cavity formed when the drive part is assembled with the threaded part.
US08696279B2
A device for connecting two components, comprising at least one leg, which has a fastening opening and which is connected to at least one holder, further comprising a pin receptacle for receiving a fastening pin which can be guided through the fastening opening, wherein the leg and the pin receptacle delimit between each other a receiving slit for a first component, and wherein the leg, on its side facing away from the receiving slit, has at least one abutment surface for a second component, wherein in each case at least two guiding bars run along two opposing sides of the pin receptacle, and these guiding bars connect the pin receptacle to the holder such that it can be moved elastically in its axial direction.
US08696272B1
A wheel chock comprises a tray and a folding cover. The cover contains three sections that are connected by hinges. When the cover is in a retracted position, it forms a flush solid surface. When the cover is in a raised functional position, its front section forms a sloped wheel platform and its middle and rear sections form a wedge.
US08696255B2
A cutting tool with a cutting insert secured in an insert pocket. The cutting insert has a single outwardly protruding engagement protrusion located on its opposing side surfaces. The engagement protrusion of a respective side surface has an outer surface that defines an imaginary plane that does not intersect any portion of the respective side surface apart from that outer surface. The outer surface of one engagement protrusion engages a major wall of the insert pocket.
US08696249B2
A rock bolt component includes an elongate tubular section with an internal bore. A fixing member has an elongate body that includes a securing portion positionable in the internal bore of the tubular section and a coupling formation which projects from an opposite end of the fixing member. The fixing member is securable by deformation of an end of the tubular section, once the securing portion of the fixing member has been inserted into the end of the tubular section.
US08696247B2
Systems and methods for controlling movement of an elongated member providing communication between a vessel and a subsea unit are provided. The method can include connecting a positively buoyant member to an elongated member at a first location and connecting a negatively buoyant member to the elongated member at a second location, wherein at least a portion of the negatively buoyant member rests on a seabed when the elongated member is in an operational null position.
US08696246B2
The invention relates to a supporting element (8) for an offshore wind turbine (3), comprising a base body (1) formed by a circular or polygonal basement (4), a shaft (5) with vertical walls and a plurality of vertical cavities (6) extending over the entire height thereof and a slab (2) dispose on the shaft (5) of the base body (1), on which slab (2) a wind turbine (3) is positioned and secured. The base body (1) of the supporting element (8) is produced using sliding formwork, from the basement (4) up to the upper base thereof. In addition, the method includes the following steps: ballasting the supporting element (8) by partially filling the above-mentioned vertical cavities (6); seaward towing the supporting element (8) from the production site thereof to the offshore wind turbine installation site; anchoring the supporting element (8) by filling the vertical cavities (6) completely; until the supporting element (8) rests on a stone bed (19) on the sea bed; and mounting the wind turbine (3).
US08696234B2
A method for installing a paver system includes positioning a first grid substrate adjacent to a second grid substrate, the first and second grid substrates form a paver support surface. At least the first grid substrate includes an integrated boundary ridge extending along the first paver support surface. The first grid substrate is interlocked with the second grid substrate with a first paver piece bridging the first and second grid substrates to form a paver linkage. Movement of at least the first paver piece is arrested beyond the integrated boundary ridge by directly or indirectly engaging at least the first paver piece against the integrated boundary ridge. In another example, movement of the first paver piece is arrested by anchoring at least the first paver piece on the first and second paver support surfaces through distribution of forces incident on at least the first paver piece through the paver linkage.
US08696213B2
A hub, in particular for bicycles having a hub shell and two bearings received therein on bearing seats for rotatably supporting relative to a through axle, wherein the two bearings are retained at a defined axial distance by means of a sleeve. A radial spacer device is provided to reduce radial play of the sleeve in the hub shell and to facilitate inserting the through axle.
US08696210B2
An object of the present invention is to prevent loss of oil film and improve lubrication performance of the bearing by eliminating angled portions at butting surfaces in a two-piece retainer. A two-piece retainer is made by assembling a pair of semi-annular retainer parts into an annular structure. As assembled, lubricant reservoir grooves are formed, each by two arc-shaped groove wall surfaces which are formed on both sides of the butting surface, and by a groove bottom which is formed at a region including the butting surface.
US08696206B2
A bearing ring is provided, including a body and an end face (3; 6). The problem of providing a bearing assembly having a space-saving preloading device which can be actuated quickly is solved for this bearing ring by a piston (8; 15) of a fluidic preloading device; the piston being accommodated in the end face (3; 6). A bearing assembly is also provided including a bearing (2) having a bearing ring (1) and a first fluidic preloading device for setting a bearing preload, this preloading device acting on a first end face (3) of the bearing ring (1), and further including a second fluidic preloading device which acts in the opposite direction on a second end face (6) of the bearing ring (1).
US08696199B2
A temperature sensor circuit and system providing accurate digital temperature readings using a local or remote temperature diode. In one set of embodiments a change in diode junction voltage (ΔVBE) proportional to the temperature of the diode is captured and provided to an analog to digital converter (ADC), which may perform required signal conditioning functions on ΔVBE, and provide a digital output corresponding to the temperature of the diode. DC components of errors in the measured temperature that may result from EMI noise modulating the junction voltage (VBE) may be minimized through the use of a front-end sample-and-hold circuit coupled between the diode and the ADC, in combination with a shunt capacitor coupled across the diode junction. The sample-and-hold-circuit may sample VBE at a frequency that provides sufficient settling time for each VBE sample, and provide corresponding stable ΔVBE samples to the ADC at the ADC operating frequency. The ADC may therefore be operated at its preferred sampling frequency rate without incurring reading errors while still averaging out AC components of additional errors induced by sources other than EMI.
US08696195B2
Balance spring boot (1) to be driven onto an index (10) for adjusting a balance spring (20) pivoting relative to an axis (D) and including two pins (2, 3), parallel to each other in one direction (D1) and arranged for limiting the radial beat of a balance spring (20) inserted between said pins, and including a means of resting on said index (10) arranged, when said balance spring boot (1) is assembled on said index (10), for adjusting said direction (D1) parallel to said pivot axis (D).Said spring boot (1) includes in a parallel direction to said direction (D1) a sight hole (4) clear so as to allow visualisation by an operator or instrument of said pins (2, 3) and the portion of a balance spring (20) inserted between them at a distance from and/or in contact with one and/or the other of said pins (2, 3).
US08696191B2
The invention provides a working trough and a method for maintaining a uniform temperature of a working fluid. The working trough is applied to an electrical discharge machine that performs wire cutting using the working fluid. The method for maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid is applied to the working trough and characterized by forming opening structures in a receiving slot of the working trough such that a spiral swirl having a predetermined height is allowed to be formed in the working fluid, thereby maintaining a uniform temperature of the working fluid in the receiving slot when a wire cutting process is performed in the working fluid by the electrical discharge machine. The disturbance of the spiral swirl also facilitates the discharge of scraps. The present invention further has an advantage of low cost.
US08696184B2
According to one embodiment, a surface light source device includes a light guide plate, and first and second light-emitting units. The light guide plate includes a flat portion and a curved portion. The curved portion guides, to the flat portion, light introduced from the end surface and transmits light introduced from the inner circumferential surface. The flat portion includes a light diffusing portion to diffuse the light guided by the curved portion, and a light-emitting surface to output the light diffused by the light diffusing portion. The first light-emitting unit emits light toward the end surface. The second light-emitting unit emits light toward the inner circumferential surface.
US08696168B2
An illumination device having enhanced thermal dissipating capacity is provided. The illumination device includes a heat sink, an LED module, a cover, an LED driver, and a lamp base. The LED module is disposed at one end of the heat sink. The cover covers the LED module. The LED driver is in connection with the LED module, and includes a circuit board and at least one electrical contact member disposed on the circuit board. The lamp base is connected to the other end of the heat sink, and comprises an insulating unit, a first electrode, a second electrode and at least one contact port. The contact port is arranged on the lateral interior of the insulating unit, so that the electrical contact member of the LED driver may establish electrical connection with the lamp base.
US08696165B2
A dynamic mask adapted to an illumination system is provided. The illumination system includes at least one light source capable of emitting an illumination beam. The dynamic mask includes a board disposed in a transmission path of the illumination beam for adjusting a luminous flux of the illumination beam. The board has at least one strip-shaped opening. The strip-shaped opening has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The strip-shaped opening is mirror-symmetric with respect to a symmetrical axis, and the symmetrical axis is a straight line extending from the first end to the second end. A width of the strip-shaped opening increases from the first end to the second end, and the board is capable of moving along a direction parallel to the symmetrical axis. An illumination system using the dynamic mask is also provided.
US08696163B2
A lamp with wide-angle light emission includes a housing, a light emitting module and a bulb. The housing has a coupling portion and an electrical connector formed at two ends thereof. The light emitting module is arranged at the coupling portion of the housing. The bulb covers the light emitting module and includes a center part and a border part, with the center part axially aligning with the light emitting module and the border part surrounding the center part. Furthermore, a diffusing reflector is arranged on the center part, and the border part is formed by a light transmitting portion.
US08696162B2
The invention provides a lighting system (1) comprising a plurality of elements (10) adjustably connected to a plurality of supports (11) arranged on a grid. Each of the plurality of elements (10) comprises a light source (L1). Each of the plurality of elements (10) further comprises at least two adjustable connections (12). The adjustable connections (12) connect the corresponding element (10) to respective supports (11) and adjustably position the corresponding element (10) relative to the respective supports (11). The invention further relates to a space comprising such a lighting system, a method of providing an illumination profile using such a lighting system and the use of such a lighting system for defining an illumination profile in a space.
US08696153B2
A light and support structure apparatus, wherein the light may have beam width adjustment such that the beam may be easily adjusted from a wide beam to more of a spot beam. The light may be mounted upon a tripod or a monopod, and in some embodiments a tripod with flexible legs utilizing ball and socket joint connectors which, when interconnected, form a flexible assembly. Each connector may include a body with a first and second end portion. An external socket engaging surface is provided at one end of the body. The other end of the body has an internal cavity. The socket engaging surface of one connector is snapped into the internal cavity of another to interconnect the connectors.
US08696146B2
A partition wall for partitioning a mirror accommodating space for accommodating a mirror holder and a mirror surface angle adjusting unit, and a harness accommodating space for accommodating a harness are provided in a mirror housing of an electric door mirror. An opening for exposing the terminal part of the mirror surface angle adjusting unit to the harness accommodating space, and insertion through-holes located to surround the opening and through which screws passes from the harness accommodating space toward the mirror surface angle adjusting unit respectively are formed in the partition wall. Further, reinforcing tube portions surrounding the insertion through-holes and protruding to the harness accommodating space are installed in the partition wall.
US08696144B2
A monitor visor includes a top component and two side components respectively formed at two sides of the top component, wherein the top and side components are formed in a sheet-like configuration and are orderly connected to form a visor body having a visor cavity with a bottom opening. The sizes of top and side closing walls of the visor cavity match with the sizes of the top and side edges of the monitor respectively. A connecting component is provided between the top component and the side component to join the top component and the side component together. The contour of the inner side of the connecting component matches the shape of the vertex angle of the monitor. The visor is able to match the monitor screen with a circular or another shape of its vertex angle. The visor is easily disassembled, packaged and transported in a convenient manner.
US08696140B2
A projector includes: an imaging unit that picks up an image of a projection target area with light in a first wavelength band and generates a first pickup image and picks up an image of the projection target area with light in a second wavelength band and generates a second pickup image; an image generating unit that performs keystone distortion correction on the basis of the first pickup image; a positional-information generating unit that generates, on the basis of the second pickup image, positional information indicating a position of indication light included in the projection target area; and a projecting unit that projects an image based on the positional information in a state in which the keystone distortion correction is performed.
US08696139B2
A projector includes: a cooling device which supplies cooling air to a cooling target, wherein the cooling device includes a plurality of cooling fans each of which discharges cooling air, and a plurality of ducts each one end of which is connected with the corresponding one of the plural cooling fans to introduce the cooling air toward the cooling target in directions different from each other, and the plural ducts communicate with each other at the other end and have an outlet port through which the cooling air flows out.
US08696136B2
A display system includes an optical light source and a display panel with an array of optically excitable pixels. Optics are positioned between the optical light source and the display panel so as to direct light from the optical light source toward the display panel to cause the optically excitable pixels to emit a visible image.
US08696117B2
The different illustrative embodiments provide a method, computer system, and computer program product to fit a lens. The method comprises obtaining an image of the lens. The method also comprises identifying an edge of a lens on an eye in the image. The method also comprises associating a number of zones with the image of the lens based on the edge of the lens. The method also comprises identifying the value for each zone in the number of zones based on intensities within the lens. The method also comprises designing a new lens based on the value to reach a desired value.
US08696112B1
A detachable securement system for holding eyewear onto hats using magnetic force attraction and a laminated hook and loop securement strap assembly is described. A magnetic plate with rare earth magnets is placed inside the crown band of a hat. A receiver plate and securement strap assembly is located directly opposite on the front of the hat. The securement strap is a novel combination of both a hook and a loop fastening strip joined together adhesively to form a single, interlocking strap. The receiver plate is centrally located within the adhesive layers between the fastening strips. The strap when wrapped around the nose guard area of eyewear firmly interlocks onto itself. The combined use of magnetic force attachment and a single, interlocking securing strap provides a convenient means for securing and storing eyewear on hats.
US08696108B2
In a printing press, it is configured such that a newspaper web offset printing press is composed by a feeder device, a printing device, a guiding device, a turn bar device, and a folding unit; as a guiding device, there are provided an upstream side guide roller and a downstream side guide roller which are disposed with a predetermined interval along a transportation direction of a web for guiding transportation of the web; and there is disposed an ink-jet printer for performing digital printing on the web guided between the guide rollers. By setting diameters of the upstream side guide roller and the downstream side guide roller to different values, vibration of the print medium which is transported while being guided by the guide rollers is suppressed, and the print quality is thereby improved.
US08696106B1
A polymer composition includes a first polymer layer containing a base polymer matrix, and a second polymer layer grafted onto the first layer. The second polymer layer contains a stimulus-responsive polymer, and the surface free energy of the stimulus-responsive polymer is adjustable from a first surface free energy state to a second surface free energy state when heated to a critical activation temperature. A method of preparing a polymer composition includes providing a first polymer layer containing a base polymer, and grafting a second polymer layer containing a stimulus-responsive layer onto the first layer. A method of printing an image involves applying an ink onto an intermediate transfer member containing a first polymer layer containing a base polymer matrix and a second polymer layer containing a stimulus-responsive polymer grafted onto the first layer, spreading the ink, inducing a property change of the ink, and transferring the ink to a substrate.
US08696099B2
A liquid ejecting head includes: a pressure generating chamber to which liquid is supplied through a liquid supply channel; a pressure generating unit that generates a variation in pressure in the pressure generating chamber; a nozzle opening that ejects the liquid discharged from the pressure generating chamber according to the variation in pressure to the outside; and a flow channel for circulation that is formed in the nozzle opening side rather than the pressure generating chamber and separates a part of the liquid discharged from the pressure generating chamber. When Ms, Mn, and Mc each are inertances of the liquid supply channel, the nozzle opening, and the flow channel for circulation, a relationship of Ms≧(1/Mn+1/Mc)−1 is established.
US08696098B2
A printhead having a circulation device to create a directed flow of ink and a separator to divert particulate matter, which can be present in the ink, to a location where the particulate matter falls out of the directed flow. The circulation device can include a heater configured to provide the directed flow of ink and the separator can include a divider to provide a location for particulate matter to be separated and screened from the ink and a bin to catch particulate matter falling from the ink during circulation.
US08696097B2
A system for generating an edible decorative item for a food product is provided. The system includes a computer including a processor for executing computer program codes. The computer also includes a display device for displaying a user interface. The system also includes an image forming apparatus including a spongeless ink cartridge for storing an edible ink. The spongeless ink cartridge does not include a sponge. The image forming apparatus also includes an image forming unit for forming an image on an edible image formation medium to generate the edible decorative item.
US08696091B2
Apparatus and methods for heating a printer jet stack. The apparatus includes a first layer and a second layer disposed generally parallel to the first layer. The apparatus also includes a heating layer including a thermal epoxy configured to generate heat when an electrical current is applied thereto. The heating layer is disposed between and bonds together the first layer and the second layer.
US08696090B2
The present invention relates to an adapter on jet printer and its corresponding ink cartridge. The adapter comprises a chamber for accommodating the ink cartridge and a chip set on the adapter. The contact surface of the chip and the printer is set with an information contact that is electrically connected with the printer and two detecting contacts. The opposite back surface of the chip with two detecting contacts is set with a non-contact trigger switch. The non-contact trigger switch is electrically connected with two detection contacts respectively. The non-contact trigger switch is triggered to become disconnected at least once by the non-contact trigger mechanism on the ink cartridge when the ink cartridge is inserted into the printer, after which it is not triggered by the non-contact trigger mechanism so as to go to the connected status.
US08696088B2
A nozzle surface cleaning apparatus wipes a nozzle surface of a droplet ejection head. The apparatus includes: a wiping member which wipes the nozzle surface in which a nozzle aperture is formed; a head movement device which causes movement of the droplet ejection head in a head movement plane and in a head movement direction; and a fine vibration device which causes vibration of one of the wiping member and the droplet ejection head in a vibration plane and in a vibration direction, the vibration plane being parallel to the head movement plane, the vibration direction being different to the head movement direction.
US08696087B2
An inflow opening of an inflow path opens to a space in a tank. An outflow opening of an outflow path opens to the space in the tank. The inflow opening and the outflow opening are vertically above a maximum level of the moisturizing liquid allowed to be stored in the tank.
US08696086B2
There is provided an ink-jet printer including: an ink supply source; an ink-jet head in which a plurality of nozzle groups corresponding to a plurality of color inks are formed; a maintenance mechanism; a controller which controls the ink-jet head and the maintenance mechanism; and a filling liquid filled in the ink-jet head in a state before the ink-jet printer is used for the first time, wherein, in the state before the ink-jet printer is used for the first time, the controller controls the maintenance mechanism and the ink-jet head to perform an initial discharge operation; and an amount of a liquid discharged from the ink-jet head during the initial discharge operation is adjusted based on a color difference between one of the plurality of color inks and a replaced-ink.
US08696085B2
An image recording apparatus includes a conveying mechanism configured to convey a recording medium in a conveying direction, and a recording unit configured to record an image on the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism when the recording medium is in a first position below the recording unit. The apparatus also includes a discharge path in which the recording medium conveyed by the conveying mechanism is conveyed from the first position to a second position which is opposite the conveying mechanism and above the recording unit. Moreover, the apparatus includes a reading unit which faces the discharge path and is positioned on a side of the recording unit. The reading unit is configured to read the image recorded on the recording medium by the recording unit.
US08696079B1
A convenient drawer organizer storage and display system is provided, which includes a display base member and at least one storage module configured to hold personal items, such as jewelry or accessories. The display base member is fashioned of a single piece of fabric having a dense pile face. The display base member is manually positionable to cover the drawer bottom surface. One or multiple storage modules are positionable on the display base member, with any unutilized surface of the display base member functioning as a display space. Thus the display space available for storage of items includes both the space within the storage modules and the unutilized surface of the display base member. Variations of storage modules are also presented.
US08696077B2
A slide-track buffering device with a smoothly sliding carriage comprising: a control stand on which there are a guide plate extending forward, a guide chute at the rear part of the guide plate, and a beveled resisting groove in front of the guide chute; a slide carriage sliding on and covering the guide plate and comprising a shorter first area in the back, a locator under the first area, and an accommodating groove in front of the locator; at least a spring unit linking between the control stand and the slide carriage; a swing member which is held in the accommodating groove and located between the slide carriage and the control stand and is provided with a joint hole in the back and a boss underneath in order to engage the locator with the joint hole, accommodate the boss in the guide chute and embody superior smoothness and actuation.
US08696064B2
A backrest inclination structure for lumbar support enables a backrest to enter a free state when a user sitting at any position of a chair lifts a lever of a spring continuous control unit, such that the backrest fits the user's moving back when the backrest is configured for movable inclination. Hence, the backrest can move together with the user's back ergonomically to provide lumbar support. Accordingly, the user can sit comfortably on the chair and be free from lumbago and kyphosis which are common among sedentary individuals.
US08696063B2
A car seat including a base unit securable to the seat of a car and a seat unit mounted to the base unit. First and second pivot mechanisms are provided on opposite sides of the car seat. A release mechanism provided on each of the first and second pivot mechanisms to disengage the first portion of the pivot mechanism from the second portion of the pivot mechanism. When the first portion of the first pivot mechanism is disengaged from the second portion of the first pivot mechanism, the seat unit pivots relative to the base unit about the second pivot mechanism. When the first portion of the second pivot mechanism is disengaged from the second portion of the second pivot mechanism, the seat unit pivots relative to the base unit about the first pivot mechanism.
US08696061B2
A vehicle seat which comprises a back frame (10) provided inside a seat back (3) to support a headrest (4). The back frame (10) includes right and left side frames (12, 12), and a plurality of support spring members (20B, 20C) having opposite right and left ends (20b, 20c) locked between the right and left side frames (12, 12) and extending in a right-left direction to support a lumber region of an occupant. Each of the support spring members (20B, 20C) is shaped such that a central region thereof protrudes frontwardly relative to the right and left ends thereof in an approximately flat state. Thus, the central region of the support spring unit is largely bent (depressed) rearwardly when a rearward load is applied thereto during a rear impact event.
US08696059B2
A seat cushion for reducing back pain via elevating specific areas of a user's posterior and back is provided. The seat cushion includes two outer sections of generally semicircular shape and first height, each having a lower layer of firm foam of first thickness and an upper layer of soft foam of second thickness, the first thickness exceeds the second thickness, an inner section of generally rectangular shape with length and width and second height less than the first height, the inner section extends lengthwise between the outer sections forming a channel above the inner section and between the outer sections, a cushion base provides support for the underside of the outer sections and inner section, whereby for the user sitting on the seat cushion, a specific area of the user's posterior and back aligned with the channel is elevated above the channel to relieve pressure on the specific area.
US08696055B2
A highchair includes a seat assembly, a tray connected with the seat assembly, a leg assembly connected with the seat assembly, and an adjustment mechanism. The seat assembly includes a rear support surface and a lower support surface for supporting an infant or child. The leg assembly is configured to support the seat assembly above a floor surface. The adjustment mechanism can be for adjusting the tray with respect to the seat assembly or the seat assembly with respect to the leg assembly. The adjustment mechanism can include a button, a linkage, a cable, and a locking member.
US08696042B2
In an embodiment, the present invention discloses a EUV cleaner system and process for cleaning a EUV carrier. The euv cleaner system comprises separate dirty and cleaned environments, separate cleaning chambers for different components of the double container carrier, gripper arms for picking and placing different components using a same robot handler, gripper arms for holding different components at different locations, horizontal spin cleaning and drying for outer container, hot water and hot air (70C) cleaning process, vertical nozzles and rasterizing megasonic nozzles for cleaning inner container with hot air nozzles for drying, separate vacuum decontamination chambers for outgassing different components, for example, one for inner and one for outer container with high vacuum (e.g., <10−6 Torr) with purge gas, heaters and RGA sensors inside the vacuum chamber, purge gas assembling station, and purge gas loading and unloading station.
US08696039B2
Various novel connectors are provided. In one embodiment, the connector includes a collar configured to receive first and second components. In this embodiment, the connector may also include a load ring configured to be received in a groove of the second component and to move into and out of engagement with the collar when the second component is received by the collar. The connector of this illustrative embodiment may also include a cotter configured for installation to the second component and to inhibit disengagement of the load ring from the collar. In some embodiments, engagement of the load ring and the collar effects securing of the first and second components to one another. Other devices, systems, and methods related to connectors are also disclosed.
US08696024B2
A coupler for securing an accessory to a motorized vehicle and comprising an accessory attachment component securable to the accessory and a coupler frame securable to the vehicle. The accessory attachment component includes an accessory pivotal connector and an accessory positioning connector. The coupler frame has a coupler pivotal support defined in the coupler frame configured to receive and pivotally support the accessory pivotal connector and a coupler positioning support configured to receive and guide the accessory positioning connector in a coupled configuration. The accessory positioning connector is aligned with the coupler positioning support when the accessory pivotal connector is received in the coupler pivotal support and slidable toward the coupled configuration. The coupler further comprises a locking mechanism engageable with the accessory attachment component and the coupler frame to lock the accessory attachment component and the coupler frame in the coupled configuration.
US08696019B2
A knee airbag module for restraining an occupant seated in the interior compartment of a vehicle. The module includes an inflatable airbag cushion configured to deploy to a location forward of the legs of the seated occupant, and an inflator to supply inflation gas for inflating the cushion. The module further includes a housing configured to couple to the vehicle and a cover connected to the housing. The housing includes a base, a forward side wall and a rearward side wall, which together with the cover form a compartment for housing the airbag cushion prior to deployment, as well as the inflator. A portion of the rearward side wall is inclined to guide the deploying airbag cushion in an oblique direction when breaching the housing.
US08696018B2
A fixing clip includes a clip body and a lock pin. The lock pin is temporarily held by the clip body at a temporary holding position and is securely held by the clip body at a secure holding position. When the lock pin is positioned at the temporary holding position, an entirety of the lock pin is located within the clip body. The clip body includes a rectangular body head, a body leg and a lock pin inserting hole. The body head includes side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the rectangular body head on opposite sides of the lock pin inserting hole. Thus, when the lock pin is positioned at the temporary holding position, the lock pin is suppressed from being erroneously inserted to the secure holding position.
US08696016B2
A stroller apparatus can collapse in a compact and convenient manner. In some embodiments, the stroller apparatus can be provided with a mounting fixture capable of detachably fastening a child support accessory thereon. The mounting fixture affixed on the stroller frame can lock with a connector affixed on the child support accessory. The connector can be inserted into the mounting fixture for locking the child support accessory in position on the stroller frame. The connector can lock with the mounting fixture in either of a rearward and forward facing configuration of the child support accessory. In other embodiments, the stroller apparatus can include a child support that has a connector portion through which it is assembled with the stroller frame. The construction of the stroller frame is such that it can be conveniently collapsed in a compact form.
US08696015B2
A juvenile stroller includes a foldable frame, wheels coupled to the foldable frame, and a seat coupled to the foldable frame. The frame can be folded to assume a compact size and unfolded to position the seat relative to the wheels to transport a child sitting in the juvenile seat.
US08696013B2
A novel snowboard binding provides a high level of adjustability, convenience, and usability for snowboarders. One aspect of the invention discloses a hook-and-go strapping system which reduces or eliminates cumbersome effort to strap or release snowboard boots to a conventional snowboard binding. Another aspect of the invention discloses a locking lever and a spring-loaded locking plate, which uniquely enable an “on-the-fly” stance positioning of a snowboard binding. The on-the-fly stance positioning as disclosed in some embodiments of the invention involves an easy rotational or angular adjustment of a snowboard binding from a snowboard even after a snowboard boot is strapped into the snowboard binding. Yet another aspect of the invention discloses a unique leg support apparatus comprising a forward lean bar, a tool-free forward lean adjuster with one or more fitting grooves, and a tilt-adjustable articulating high back for fine adjustability and comfort.
US08696012B2
A collapsible vehicle trailer consisting of a frame/cargo surface and a draw mounted to the frame/cargo surface by a hinge connection in such a manner that the draw may be folded down and pushed in underneath the frame/cargo surface, and that to the frame and/or cargo surface a hinged wheel suspension is arranged consisting of wheels, hub and spring so that the wheel with suspension may be rotated to become flush with the cargo surface, and that between wheel suspensions one or more shafts being articulated at the centre and at each side towards the wheels are disposed. One or more bars are arranged between the hinged draw and the center part/section of the shaft, whereby the bar(s), when the draw is folded backwards in underneath the cargo surface, pushes the centre part/section of shaft backwards, whereby the wheels and wheel suspensions are rotated in underneath and flush with the frame/cargo surface.
US08696010B2
An autonomous transport robot for transporting a payload, the autonomous transport robot including a drive section assembly having at least one motor and a pair of drive wheels coupled to the motor, a frame configured to support a payload, a transfer arm connected to the frame and configured for the autonomous transfer of payload to and from the frame, and a suspension system movably connecting the drive section assembly and the frame allowing relative movement between the frame and the drive section assembly.
US08696004B2
A strut assembly includes a top mount assembly, a shock absorber, a lower spring seat and a spring extending between the top mount assembly and the lower spring seat. The lower spring seat includes an annular disc and a tubular extension extending from the annular disc. The tubular wall defines a plurality of lands or steps which define bearing surfaces which are used to press the lower spring seat onto the shock absorber.
US08696002B1
A roll center variator is described, generally including a first transverse locating device, a second transverse locating device, an adjustable spacing mechanism, and first and second simple links attached to the spacing mechanism and a vehicle axle. Each of the transverse locating devices has two ends attached to opposing sides of a vehicle frame. The spacing mechanism is attached at a first point to the first locating device and at a second point to the second locating device. The first and second locating devices are comprised of a Watt's linkage, Panhard rod, or other transverse locating device. The variator includes a screw-threaded rod engaged with the spacing mechanism, wherein rotation of the rod in one direction increases a distance between a first point and a second point of the spacing mechanism and rotation in the opposite direction decreases the distance between the same two points.
US08695998B1
An axle lift assembly includes a beam slidably coupled with and extending on a longitudinal extent of a vehicle frame. A trailing arm has a first end pivotably coupled with the beam. An axle is rotatably coupled with an intermediate portion of the trailing arm. An air spring is disposed between a second end of the trailing arm and the beam for absorbing an upward force from the axle. A support bracket extends down from the beam proximate the first end of the trailing arm. A pneumatic actuator is disposed between the support bracket and the trailing arm for raising the axle from a deployed position to a retracted position that substantially eliminates the upward force on the air spring from the axle.
US08695994B2
A sliding device for sliding on the ground down a sloped or inclined surface (grass, dirt, sand, synthetic turf, etc.) has an upper deck and a slide mechanism mounted below and in parallel with the upper deck. The slide mechanism has a slide base formed by upper and lower planar members spaced apart and extending horizontally in parallel, with an enclosure formed by left and right braces and front and rear braces with radiused ends, and an endless anti-friction belt is entrained to slide around the slide base. The slide base is formed as an air tight enclosure provided with a portable air pump mechanism, and the lower planar member has an array of small air holes to let pumped air out to form an air layer between the lower planar member and the belt sliding around it for reducing friction and higher downhill sliding speeds. The device may be used for sliding down a hill like a body board, boogie board, surfboard, sled, ski, or skateboard.
US08695992B2
A convertible trailer assembly is provided that can be pushed or pulled. The trailer assembly can be converted between pushed or pulled operation or provided as a retrofit assembly for a stroller that allows its conversion between pushed or pulled operation. The Assembly includes a linkage assembly to provide a smoother towing experience for the user. The linkage uniquely takes up the constant jarring motion that is incompatible as between the user and the trailer and dissipates it in a toggle that consists of a lever extending upwardly from a tow point on the trailer. When accelerating or going uphill the toggle pulls forward, at equilibrium the toggle motion absorbs the incremental differences in acceleration/deceleration and at the rear limit of its range of motion, the toggle pushes a brake actuator to slow the trailer.
US08695991B2
A chuck including a body having a tail section and a nose section defining an axial bore. A plurality of jaws are movably disposed with respect to the axial bore and a nut is in threaded engagement with the jaws. A sleeve engages the nut so that rotation of the sleeve moves the jaws. A first ring defines a plurality of teeth and a second ring is rotatable relative to the nut over a limited arc and defines at least one pawl. In a first state, the second ring is non-rotatable relative to the first ring in both the opening and closing directions, and in a second state the first and second rings are rotatable about the body, and the second ring is rotatable relative to the first ring in the closing direction.
US08695984B2
A gaming device having a primary Three Card Poker game is provided. The Three Card Poker game includes three cards dealt to the player and the dealer, where all cards are dealt face-up. First, the player has an option to replace one card from the player's hand. Then, the dealer may replace one card according to a set of predetermined rules. The player makes a primary wager and an optional secondary wager. A primary award is provided if the player's hand beats the dealer's hand. In the secondary wager is placed, a secondary is award is provided if the either the player's or the dealer's hand is of a predetermined value.
US08695983B1
An entertaining game played with multiple specially designed tiles mounted on sections of miniature tracks similar to railroad tracks. The tiles are individually designed and mounted so that the sections of tracks can be connected in a straight path, can bank on curves and can go up and down inclines to create almost unlimited patterns. Once the path is created and with the tiles upright, the tile at one end can be tipped causing the tiles along the entire path of travel to tip in succession, thus producing a unique and fun effect. Since the tiles are permanently mounted on the sections of track, the set up time is quick, and once the user has created a desired pattern, the tiles can be moved to the upright position very quickly. When the first tile is tipped and the tiles have fallen along all the paths created, they can be quickly reset.
US08695981B2
A casino card game (20) including a plurality of cards (23) having values, suits, and colors are disposed in a vertical shuffler (22). The game (20) also includes a betting surface (21) presenting a plurality of wagering areas (26-38) corresponding to the values, suits, and colors of the cards in the vertical shuffler (22). The betting surface (21) further includes a plurality of player positions, each identified with a unique indicia (24). During each round of the game, players place wagers on the wagering areas (26-38) of the betting surface (21) and a dealer spins the vertical shuffler (22) to determine a winning card (23). The dealer then identifies each of the wagering areas (26-38) associated with the value, suit, and color of the winning card, if any, and pays the wagers on those identified wagering areas (26-38) according to a predetermined payout.
US08695971B2
In a sheet processing apparatus, a pair of regulating members is provided at a pair of joggers so that the regulating members are movable together with the joggers. When the pair of joggers is laterally moved, the pair of regulating members also laterally moves together with the pair of joggers. By moving the pair of joggers to passage positions, the pair of regulating members regulates the lateral ends of a sheet, which falls and is stacked on a first stacking tray.
US08695970B2
A multi-function peripheral (MFP) including a machine body, a paper feeding cassette, and a sensing module is provided. The paper feeding cassette is assembled to the machine body, and multiple pieces of paper are suited for being stacked on a supporting surface of the paper feeding cassette. The sensing module includes a holder and a sensor. The holder is disposed at a side of the paper feeding cassette and capable of moving along a normal of the supporting surface. The sensor is disposed on the holder. A sensing surface of the sensor faces the supporting surface and keeps a distance from a top piece of the paper.
US08695959B2
A sheet folding device includes a transport unit that transports a sheet; an abutting unit that abuts an end of the sheet being transported to form a bent portion at the sheet; a folding unit that nips the bent portion of the sheet by a pair of folding rollers to form a fold line in the sheet; a guide member that partially covers the folding roller and guides the sheet; and a position adjustment unit that adjusts a position of the guide member. An exposure amount of the folding roller with respect to the sheet can be varied by adjusting the position of the guide member through the position adjustment unit.
US08695957B2
The device utilizes a thruster cylinder driven by a enlarged knob and terminating in a thruster plate to clamp to a support. Provision is made to attach a device to the clamp through a rotating index wheel which can lock the device by receiving a tang from a trigger lever at a selected increment of rotation. A second embodiment has two index wheels so that the attached device can be displaced in one of four directions to avoid conflict with other devices on the same support. The second axis is normally used to return a displaced device to an upright orientation.
US08695937B2
A seat slide apparatus for a vehicle includes a first rail provided with a limiting portion extending from an end of each of the first folded back wall portions at a predetermined position in a longitudinal direction of the first rail, a second rail provided with a first through-hole extending through each of the second side wall portions and a second through-hole extending through each of the adjacent second folded back wall portions, the through-holes facing in the width direction at a predetermined position in the longitudinal direction of the second rail, and locking members, each of which is inserted through the first through-hole and the adjacent second through-hole and bridges the second side wall portion and the adjacent second folded back wall portion in the width direction and blocks a movement of the limiting portion in directions the first rail and the second rail move relative to each other.
US08695930B1
The versatile support apparatus has an assembly including a plurality of substantially rigid longitudinal members. At least one substantially flexible transverse securing member may be attached transversally to a portion of each of the plurality of longitudinal members. Each longitudinal member of the plurality of longitudinal members may be repositioned about a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal member. A first-end coupling portion of the end of a first longitudinal side of the assembly may be selectively coupled to a second-end coupling portion of an opposite end of an opposite second longitudinal side of the assembly to form an interior cavity. The support apparatus is configured to support an object within the interior cavity. An additional intermediary coupling portion is provided to allow construction of support assemblies of multiple sizes.
US08695926B2
A gurney flap assembly has an actuator, a flexible or hinged body, the body flexing from a retracted to a deployed position in reaction to motion of the actuator, and a first seal extending along a first edge of the flexible body that flexes from the stowed position. Linear motion of the actuator output is transposed to the gurney flap thereby moving it from a retracted position into the airstream. This trailing edge device will improve airfoil lift.
US08695913B2
The earphone cord winder allows the cord of an earphone device to be wound thereto in order to prevent damage due to excessive bending. The earphone cord winder has a body, first, second, and third protrusions formed around the body at intervals forming an upper cord groove and a lower cord groove, two receiving slots recessed on a first surface of the body, a plug groove recessed on a second surface of the body, a middle groove connecting the opposite sides of the first protrusion, a remote control groove communicating with the upper cord groove, two first recessions communicating with the two receiving slots respectively, at least one second recession recessed on a side of the second protrusion, and at least one third recession recessed on a side of the third protrusion and communicating with the plug groove.
US08695904B2
A mobile crushing station for receiving and comminuting excavated material from earth moving vehicles provides at least one moveable skip connected to a chassis or frame for receiving material from vehicles, such as rear unloading vehicles like dump trucks. The skips are configured to move to dump material fed into the skips into a feed hopper. The feed hopper is positioned to guide material onto a feed conveyor, such as an inclined apron conveyor. The feed conveyor is configured to transport material to a feed orifice of a crushing device, such as a sizer, a crusher, or a crushing circuit. The crushing device is configured to crush material fed into the crushing device. The crushing device also has a discharge orifice that is positioned above a portion of a discharge conveyor. The mobile crushing station is moveable so it may be repositioned closer to an excavation site as excavation activities progress.
US08695901B2
A fuel injector assembly includes a first coil driven by a direct current driver and a second coil driven by an alternating current driver where both the first coil and the second coil share a common connection to reduce the number of external terminal connections. The second coil generates a second magnetic field that is utilized to heat a component in thermal contact with the fuel flow that in turn heats fuel before exiting the fuel injector.
US08695900B2
A variable arc sprinkler head or nozzle may be set to numerous positions to adjust the arcuate span of the sprinkler. The sprinkler head includes an arc adjustment valve having two portions that helically engage each other to define an opening that may be adjusted at the top of the sprinkler to a desired arcuate length. The arcuate length may be adjusted by pressing down and rotating a deflector to directly actuate the valve. The sprinkler head may include a lock-out feature to prevent adjustment. A method of irrigation is also provided involving moving the deflector between an arc adjustment position and an operational, irrigation position. The sprinkler head may also include a flow rate adjustment valve that may be adjusted by actuation of an outer wall of the sprinkler. Rotation of the outer wall causes a flow control member to move axially to or away from an inlet.
US08695896B2
A re-fillable liquid spray dispenser useful as a fragrance atomizer includes a re-filling valve apparatus that is cooperative with a discharge nozzle of a liquid reservoir. A main chamber into which liquid may be filled in the spray dispenser is cyclically vented in unison with liquid injection through the re-filling valve apparatus. In this way, the liquid spray dispenser is accurately and efficiently vented during a liquid filling operation.
US08695895B2
The present utility model provides a two-way nozzle cap (10) for a container, comprising of a cap body (11) and a dip tube (12), wherein the cap body (11) includes: an engagement portion (21) engaged with the opening of the container; a hollow orifice portion (22) provided in the top of the cap body (11), comprising an orifice formed on the upper part of the orifice portion, at least two protrusions (32) provided on the inner wall of the orifice portion to clamp the upper end of the dip tube, a mixing chamber (33) formed between the orifice and the top of the dip tube (12), and channels defined between the protrusions (32) and the dip tube (12), and fluid communicating the mixing chamber (33) to the interior of the container.
US08695891B2
A fragrance delivery device that includes a hollow vessel containing a first fragrance medium and further comprising a porous exterior surface with a porous wicking extension extending therefrom; and a reservoir containing a second fragrance medium, the second fragrance medium in fluid communication with the wicking extension.
US08695886B1
In operation the storage device of this invention is an attachment to a player/recorder such as an iPhone or iPod. The storage device allows the user to record content, store it on the storage device, retrieve the content, and display/play the content on the host device. The software may come pre-loaded on the storage device. The storage chip may have an adhesive back and comes in different colors, shapes and sizes.
US08695885B2
A method for manufacture of a contactless smart card device including mounting at least one antenna and at least one smart card module onto a substrate layer, placing aramagnetic material over at least part of the at least one antenna, and laminating the substrate layer and the paramagnetic material to provide a laminate.
US08695883B2
A data carrier card and a method for producing a data carrier card, in particular a chip card or magnetic stripe card. The data carrier card has a card body having one or several foils, where the foil or at least one of the foils is a coextruded foil having at least two areas with different material properties. The use of coextruded foils makes it possible to form in a simple manner different areas in the card body which differ from each other in material quality. In particular, it is possible to form for example a data carrier card with a card body having a plurality of alternating opaque and transmissive strips or with window strips and/or windows enclosed in the surface of the card body.
US08695880B2
A method for obtaining an image indicia includes performing one or more exposures of an imager to capture one or more images, and controlling active portions of an aiming pattern to inhibit capture of the aiming pattern in the one or more captured images or removing the aiming pattern from the one or more captured images. An attempted may be made to decode one or more decodable indicia utilizing the one or more captured images.
US08695878B2
A system and method for monitoring retail shelf inventory that combines bar code and RFID technologies to permit electronic data entry of retail item shelf assignments and real time reporting of item removal from display/dispensing shelves.
US08695872B2
Invention describes real-time control system increasing shopping efficiency, maintaining item quality, inventory, and directing customer transactions, requiring handling and processing of items only once. Invention controls access to items inside modules via card with unique embedded identification features. Invention stores customer transactions and entered shopping lists. Invention per customer selected shopping list and items availability, will in real-time navigate customer to complete required transactions within customer selected criteria. Invention controls card identification features and modules containing items. Invention based on card identification and item identification such as barcode information will store customer executed transactions, and will require customer to pay for completed transactions before leaving the store. Invention in real-time maintains inventory of items, controls environment surrounding items, and reports items exceeding shelf life limit preventing their transaction. Invention analyzes transactions executed by the card, correlates transactions to customer at payment module, stores behavior patterns for future optimizations of transactions.
US08695870B2
A folding box cutout has wall units that can be folded along the fold lines, a lid unit that can be folded about a lid folding line, and a bottom unit that can be folded about a bottom folding line. In the transport state, the folding box cutout is folded to form a flat folding box, which is filled and closed by the lid unit and the bottom unit. A corrugated cardboard unit lies against the inner wall of the wall units and is connected to the inner wall of the folding box cutout so that the folding box cutout and the corrugated cardboard unit form a unit that can be handled as one piece for folding it flat and for unfolding it. The corrugated cardboard unit is present on each inner wall of the wall units, particularly all around, after the flat folded folding box has been erected.
US08695863B2
A sleeve for a pneumatic nailer is provided that includes a cylindrical tubular body made of plastic and having a lower edge; and a metal reinforcing ring is integrally secured to the lower edge.
US08695856B2
A disposable pump for a liquid dispensing system includes a compressible container and a housing forming a chamber and a dispensing opening wherein the pressure in the chamber may be varied for pumping liquid from the container to the chamber, and from the chamber to the dispensing opening. A regulator is fixedly arranged in the chamber for regulating a flow of liquid between the container and the chamber and between the chamber and the dispensing opening. The regulator includes an outer valve for regulating the flow between the chamber and the dispensing opening. The outer valve is displaceable between a symmetrical position corresponding to a closed position, where the outer valve is in sealing contact with the housing, and a tilted position corresponding to a dispensing position.
US08695853B2
A refrigerator having an ice water dispenser either with an overlap frame or flush frame. The ice water dispenser has a dispenser inner sheet and dispenser outer body onto which a dispenser face cover sheet is attached by way of lateral rips. The dispenser face cover sheet is fixed to cover the periphery of the outer body with respective openings for buttons.
US08695852B2
A fluid dispenser head including a fluid dispenser member; a dispenser endpiece that is connected to a nozzle via a duct; a pusher that is manually and axially movable down and up so as to move the dispenser endpiece in such a manner as to dispense fluid; and a rotary control hoop for moving the pusher axially between a storage position and an actuatable position. The head further includes axial guide for guiding the pusher axially without turning about its own axis; and rotary cam that is turned by the control hoop, the pusher being in engagement with the cam so as to urge the pusher in axial movement, without any turning component.
US08695849B2
A spray device comprises spray container receiving means and spray container actuation means (102, 126), wherein the spray container actuation means are adapted to periodically cause ejection of spray material from a spray container (116) by means of an actuator arm (102), wherein the actuator arm (102) incorporates position indication means (144).
US08695844B1
A cooking vessel having a handle for supporting a lid is described. The handle may include an upper support member having an upper arcuate body coupled to the cooking vessel at opposite ends and a lower support member having a lower arcuate body coupled to the cooking vessel at opposite ends. The lower arcuate body and the upper arcuate body may define a receiving space for receiving the cooking vessel lid. The upper support member and the lower support member may have sheet like portions. The support members may further be dimensioned to support the lid within the receiving space at an angle from a side of the cooking vessel of between 45 degrees and 90 degrees.
US08695843B1
An adaptable bin having a retractable cup holder includes a bin wall and a bin floor. The bin wall and the bin floor define a storage volume, which substantially encapsulates the retractable cup holder. A plurality of spiral links are movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. At least one of the plurality of spiral links is operatively attached to one of the bin wall and the bin floor. A cup holder axis is defined by the plurality of spiral links, each of which rotates about the cup holder axis between the stowed position and deployed position. The plurality of spiral links define the retractable cup holder in the deployed position.
US08695841B2
An improved no-spill cup construction and valve assembly which provides an extremely secure seal against accidental liquid flow from the cup spout. An initially blocked opening in a flexible material moves up along a protruding member until the opening is unblocked, so as to allow fluid flow.
US08695836B1
A beverage container comprising of multiple compartments and a cap to dispense beverages independently from the multiple compartments is disclosed. The invention enables the use of a beverage container, such as a single bottle, for carrying a plurality of beverages within its multiple compartments. The disclosed design of a split cap includes a plurality of valves that enable it in selectively dispensing contents of each compartment. The user may choose to consume one or more of beverages stored from the disclosed beverage container. A container and cap assembly built with pressure withstanding material allows consumer to enjoy a plurality of pressurized beverages, such as multiple types of soda, from a single bottle.
US08695833B2
The closeable opening device according to the invention comprises a base (2) in which a cutting element (3) is supported. Driving dogs (42) in the closing screw cap (4) engage with driving dogs (32) in the cutting element (3), so that the cutting element (3) is displaced in the base (2) to the end position upon initial opening. At least one first rotational stop (5, 50) ensures that the cutting element remains in position and neither moves upward in an undesired manner when the screw cap is opened, nor can be displaced downward by any relative displacement of the two parts, thus causing same to fall into the container. The first rotational stop (5) is made of a rib (50) on the inner face of the spout (20), which interacts with a recess in the form of a flat spot (35) on the cutting element (3). A second rotational stop (5) made of a stop cam (52) can additionally be present at the spout end (51) of the inner thread (24) in the spout (20), against which the inlet end (36) of the outer thread (31) on the cutting element (3) is stopped. When using both rotational stops (5), an end position of the cutting element (3) is secured in a form-fit as well as force-fit manner in the base (2).
US08695830B2
A container lid for sealing an opening to a container may include a handle and a flip top that are each independently pivotable along the same axis. The handle can be secured to the container lid between a mount on the lid and the flip top. The handle supports the weight of the container and, because the handle is independently rotatable relative to the flip top, the handle will not inadvertently open the flip top.
US08695820B2
The invention relates to a cap. More particularly, the invention relates to a bottle cap which has engaging formations which allow it to be releasably secured to other caps of the same kind. The cap includes a sleeve moulded integrally to an end wall, the sleeve having at least one line of weakness spaced apart from the end wall for separation of at least one ring portion from the sleeve. The cap further includes primary external co-operating engaging formations provided on either side of the line of weakness, such that the cap is connectible side-to-side, via the primary external cooperating engaging formations, to other caps or ring portions, or to bottles having corresponding primary external cooperating engaging formations.
US08695815B2
A housing frame includes a first and second beams connected to each other through a connection member. The two beams are each obtained by perpendicularly bending a metal plate twice in the longitudinal direction. The second beam is arranged perpendicular to the first beam. The connection member has a connection base portion extending from a bent side surface of a second base portion to a bent side surface of a first base portion through a cut portion formed in a first side portion and overlaps with the first base portion and the second base portion. The connection base portion and the first base portion are fastened together by a first fastening member, and the connection base portion and the second base portion are fastened together by a second fastening member.
US08695810B2
Product, method of making product, and technique for using product to separate oil from water via a filter, such as cotton, polyester, or leather, coated with a chemical that blocks oil while allowing water to pass therethrough.
US08695805B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to vibratory separators that are used for processing drilling fluid, and in particular, vibratory separators that utilize electro-magnetic clamping apparatuses for attaching screen assemblies to a basket assembly. In one exemplary embodiment, an illustrative vibratory separator is disclosed which includes, among other things, a basket assembly having at least one screen support, and at least one screen assembly that is adapted to be releasably secured to the at least one screen support. Additionally, the disclosed vibratory separator also includes an electro-magnetic clamp apparatus that is adapted to releasably secure the at least one screen assembly to the at least one screen support when the electro-magnetic clamp apparatus is energized to a magnetized state, and to release the at least one screen assembly from the at least one screen support when the electro-magnetic clamp apparatus is de-energized to an un-magnetized state.
US08695802B2
The invention relates to a receptacle (28, 88, 122) for receiving a phosphor storage plate (20) comprising a phosphor storage layer (22) for storing X-ray information. Said receptacle (28, 88, 122) comprises a cover plate (98) with a first recess (102) and a base plate (100) which is at a distance from the cover plate (98) such that a receiving chamber (90, 92, 94, 96, 124) for receiving the phosphor storage plate (20) is arranged between the base plate (100) and the cover plate (98). Said phosphor storage plate (20) is maintained in the receiving chamber (90, 92, 94, 96, 124) between the cover plate (98) and the base plate (100). The first recess (102) of the cover plate (98) is above the surface of the phosphor storage layer (22) of the received phosphor storage plate (20) when the phosphor storage plate (20) is received. The invention also relates to an X-ray cassette (12, 42, 50, 78, 82) provided with said type of receiving device (28, 88, 122).
US08695797B2
The plastic housing connects two housing parts with only a plurality of pins on one of the housing parts and a plurality of the sleeves correlated with the pins with boreholes. The diameters of the pins are at the same time larger than the diameters of the boreholes. Furthermore, the distances between the adjacent pins and the distances between the boreholes correlated with the pins are unequal by such an extent that the pins can be inserted in the correlated boreholes, but the pins and the boreholes are braced against one another as the result of the unequal distances in a connecting plane. In this way, a simple and secure connection is created between the housing parts and the flexural and torsional rigidities of the entire housing are improved.
US08695790B2
A fastening system for joining two ends of a conveyor belt segment includes an inhibiting surface for controlling movement of the ends relative to each other. The inhibiting surface is offset from an inner surface of a conveyor belt segment employing the fastening system and engages a surface of a corresponding conveyor belt segment to reduce tenting of the conveyor belt segment ends.
US08695778B2
Apparatus for preventing unauthorized removal of currency items from a currency handling apparatus is provided. A removable security gate mechanism (500) is provided that comprises a housing (501), a rotatable gate (510), a drive wheel and a positioning member. The positioning member is selectively engageable with the drive wheel for positioning the rotatable gate (510).
US08695774B2
A pressure control system includes a hydraulically-controlled component, a pilot valve, and a regulating valve. The pilot valve is configured to produce a pilot signal and includes a first valve, which is a MEMS microvalve. The regulating valve is in fluid communication with the pilot valve, and is configured to receive the pilot signal. The regulating valve is further configured to output a control signal, which controls the hydraulically-controlled component.
US08695768B2
A shock absorber comprises a first cylinder including an inside bore; a piston dividing the inside bore of the first cylinder into a first chamber and a second chamber; a piston rod which extends within the first chamber; a second cylinder surrounding the first cylinder; a first connection passage arranged to connect the first chamber to a location outside of the shock absorber; a first tube member defining a second connection passage connected with the second chamber at the second end of the first cylinder; and a damping device comprising at least one valve element, the damping device being disposed between the second chamber and the second connection passage. The piston is configured to separate the first and second chambers so that the first and second chambers are not in fluid communication with each other through the piston.
US08695757B2
The assembly comprises a base spring layer made with a base of a resilient porous material, and the base spring layer being intended to be placed opposite a surface of the automobile. It comprises a stiffening layer arranged above the base spring layer and having a surface density greater than 250 g/m2 and at least one resilient porous upper layer arranged on the stiffening layer. The stiffening layer is made with a base of a dense porous material having a resistance to air flow strictly greater than 2000 N·m−3·s. The assembly advantageously has an upper resistive layer.
US08695753B2
A diaphragm for a loudspeaker including a plurality of masses, each mass being substantially the same radial distance from the center of the diaphragm, the plurality of masses being divided into two arrays, each array including one or more individual masses, wherein, in use, at a selected frequency, the pair of arrays act to produce a dominant bending moment, and, the center of the diaphragm lies substantially on the axis of the dominant bending moment, wherein, the dominant bending moment is the bending moment produced by the combination of masses which has the greatest magnitude, if they produce more than one bending moment.
US08695752B2
Deep-drawn membranes formed of polyester or polycarbonate films, comprising units of Formula (I) and (II), useful for acoustic signal converters as microphones and speakers. The film can be produced by thermoplastic processes or solvent cast processes. Especially suitable for the production of small membranes with a diameter of up to 10 cm useful in mobile devices as microphones, mobile telephones, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), headphones or as signal transmitters
US08695746B2
A three wheeled vehicle is disclosed having a vehicle frame with a frame sidewall providing a substantially flat surface, with recesses in the flat surface. Alignment arms have inner ends and outer ends, where the inner ends are mounted to the frame sidewall, and the outer ends mount a wheel hub. The inner ends have couplings with pivotal portions and fixed portions, the pivotal portions being at least partially positioned within the recesses, and the fixed portions being attached to the substantially flat surface.
US08695738B2
A drivetrain for a plug-in hybrid vehicle which uses constant gear ratios, rather than any type of multi-gear transmission (traditional transmission gears or CVT) to power the driven wheels in order to increase drivetrain efficiency. A transmission is not a necessary drivetrain component for vehicles with an electric motor/generator (EMG). The EMG is the only mechanical power source until highway speeds are achieved. At that time, the driver may choose to activate and engage the small internal combustion engine (ICE) and the EMG is usually electrically disconnected so that it does not regeneratively charge the vehicle batteries using the power created by the ICE. Constant gear ratios may be achieved by a mechanical gearing system or by a belt drive system. This drivetrain is only for plug-in hybrid vehicles where the batteries are primarily charged by AC electrical outlet or solar (photovoltaic) cells.
US08695733B2
PCD inserts comprise a PCD body having multiple FG-PCD regions with decreasing diamond content moving from a body outer surface to a metallic substrate. The diamond content changes in gradient fashion by changing metal binder content. A region adjacent the outer surface comprises 5 to 20 percent by weight metal binder, and a region remote from the surface comprises 15 to 40 percent by weight metal binder. One or more transition regions are interposed between the PCD body and substrate. The transition region comprises PCD, binder metal, and a carbide, comprises a metal binder content less than that present in the PCD body region positioned next to it.
US08695729B2
A Polycrystalline Diamond Compact (PDC) cutter for a rotary drill bit is provided with an integrated sensor and circuitry for making measurements of a property of a fluid in the borehole and/or an operating condition of the drill bit. A method of manufacture of the PDC cutter and the rotary drill bit is discussed.
US08695724B2
A technique for reducing the costs of manufacturing an auxiliary handle provided separately from a main handle in a hand-held power tool is provided. A hand-held power tool includes a power tool body having a front end region to which a tool bit can be mounted, a main handle that is disposed on a rear end side of the power tool body opposite from the tool bit, an auxiliary-handle mounting member for mounting an auxiliary handle, and longitudinally elastic elements that are disposed between the power tool body and the auxiliary handle mounting member in the axial direction of the tool bit and can elastically deform in the axial direction. The auxiliary-handle mounting member is allowed to move with respect to the power tool body in the axial direction of the tool bit by elastic deformation of the longitudinally elastic elements, so that transmission of vibration from the power tool body to the auxiliary-handle mounting member in the axial direction is reduced.
US08695719B2
A cover plate for a concealed sprinkler includes a member having at least one passageway section enabling heated air to pass between the cover plate and the sprinkler housing and towards the sprinkler head to permit the timely activation of the sprinkler head. In one embodiment, the passageway section is defined by one or more undulations formed within the cover plate, each of which define a ridge at the periphery, enabling air to pass therethrough. The cover plate includes a plurality of mounting tabs upon which a fusible material is applied to adhere the cover plate to the housing of the sprinkler head. The cover plate of the present invention increases the response time of the concealed sprinkler head while maintaining a low profile, discrete appearance.
US08695715B2
A method of assembling a wellbore servicing tool, comprising placing a first module adjacent to a second module along an axis, engaging a bridge with each of the first module and the second module by, while the bridge radially overlaps one of the first module and second module, substantially restricting movement of the bridge to movement radially toward the first module and the second module and toward the axis. A method of assembling a wellbore servicing tool, comprising angularly aligning a first module with a second module, joining the first module to the second module while maintaining the angular alignment between first module and the second module. A method of assembling a wellbore servicing tool, comprising assembling a cement head without using torque to join components of the cement head, and passing a fluid through the cement head into a wellbore.
US08695712B2
A pressure mitigating device is used to reduce pressure in a void within a wellhead housing. In one embodiment, the pressure mitigating device includes two plates that define a void between them. Increased pressure in the wellhead housing causes the plates to elastically displace towards each other. The plates contact each other, limiting the displacement prior to plastic deformation.
US08695709B2
A crossover tool has an internal sleeve rotatably positioned within an external sleeve, and each of the sleeves has ports alignable with ports on the other sleeve. After deploying the crossover tool downhole and diverting fluid flow below the tool, fluid flow communicated into the internal sleeve tends to rotate it relative to the external sleeve until the ports are substantially aligned so that wear to the components is substantially reduced. The ports themselves may facilitate the rotation and alignment. For example, ports on the internal sleeve may produce tangentially exiting fluid flow. Alternatively, an additional outlet may be defined in the internal sleeve and eccentrically located to its rotation axis. Furthermore, an internal sleeve or insert may partially block fluid flow through the ports to allow greater fluid flow through the additional outlet to enhance rotation of the internal sleeve.
US08695705B2
A method of servicing a wellbore comprising placing a composition comprising an emulsified resin composite into a fluid loss zone of the wellbore, wherein the emulsified resin composite comprises a nonaqueous external phase (NEP) and an aqueous internal phase (AIP), and allowing the composition to cure to form a composite material.
US08695696B2
A jar comprises an outer housing; an inner mandrel within the outer housing to define a fluid chamber; a valve disposed within the fluid chamber with a restriction surface facing, during setting, a cooperating restriction surface on the outer housing and a pressure surface facing the inner mandrel, the valve movable between a seated position and an unseated position; the cooperating restriction surface cooperating with the restriction surface to set the jar for a jar in a first direction; the pressure surface being exposed to fluid within the fluid chamber when the jar is set and pressuring up for a jar in the first direction; the pressure surface being indented to cause uneven radial movement, in a plane perpendicular to a jar axis, of the restriction surface towards the cooperating restriction surface when the jar is set and pressuring up for a jar in the first direction; and jarring surfaces.
US08695689B2
A heat exchanger is provided that comprises at least two rows of low channels through which a liquid medium can flow, and secondary surfaces arranged between the flow channels and over which air flows, the liquid medium and the air being circulated in the cross-counterflow and the first row being arranged on the air outlet side and the second row on the air inlet side. According to the invention, the liquid medium enters a first region of the first row, is deflected into a second region inside the first row, and from the second region of the first row into the second row.
US08695668B2
The invention relates to a tire comprising at least one, and preferably at least two, reinforcing structures of the carcass type, one inner one and one outer one, possibly one or more crown reinforcing structures, at least one circumferential bielastic reinforcing element consisting of a bielastic fabric in which the said fabric used is a bielastic knit, namely a loop mesh fabric the mesh-forming loops of which are able to move relative to one another in the direction of knitting and in the direction perpendicular to the direction of knitting, the said bielastic reinforcement being positioned in such a way as to run substantially parallel along a portion of a reinforcing structure.
US08695665B2
The invention relates to a tire having a component composed of a composite of rubber chafer and outer sidewall layer components comprised of rubber compositions containing the same or different specialized cis 1,4-polybutadiene elastomers.
US08695655B2
A tire tread 2 for a vehicle tire has a plurality of tread elements 10 extending radially outwardly from a tread base 24 to a radially outer surface. Each tread element 10 is defined by adjacent grooves 12, 14. The tread 2 has at least one tread element 10 projecting from the tread base 24 and having one or more tread wear indicators TWI 20. Each TWI 20 is located at the intersection of two grooves 12, 14 adjacent or integral to the at least one tread element 10.
US08695653B2
A cover for a toilet is provided. The cover includes a sheet having side-facing portions that extend from a top portion and are configured to extend to a ground surface and a front-facing portion that extends from the top portion and is configured to extend to a ground surface spaced-frontwardly from the toilet. A support is carried on about a proximal end of the front-facing portion for providing support to a technician during servicing of the toilet. The support may be a cushion that is made of any appropriately configured material.
US08695649B2
A portion measuring and dispensing device comprises a chamber, a handle and a hingeable lid. The chamber comprises a bottom, a side structure attached to the bottom, and an aperture opposite of the bottom. The handle comprises a body defining a longitudinal channel with a first end opening to the chamber and a second end opening at a distal point on the handle. The second end is proportioned to be received within a mouth of a bottle.
US08695639B2
A micro fluidic probe head includes a first layer, a second layer, and a first tubing port extending from an upper face of the first layer. The first layer has a first via, enabling fluid communication between the first port and a lower face of the first layer. The second layer includes a first aperture on a face, and a first microchannel enabling fluid communication between an upper face of the second layer, facing the lower face of the first layer, and the first aperture. The head enables fluid communication between the first via and the first microchannel. At least a portion of the first microchannel is a groove open on the upper face of the second layer, closed by a portion of a lower face of a layer of the head. The probe head further comprises a second tubing port, a second via, a second aperture and a second micro channel.
US08695635B1
A mixing valve device includes a stationary valve piece attached to a cover of an outer housing and having two inlet passages for receiving cold water and hot water and having two outlet passages, a movable valve piece movably and rotatably engaged in the housing and having an outlet pathway for selectively aligning with either of the outlet passages of the stationary valve piece and for controlling the mixed water to flow out through either of the outlet passages of the stationary valve piece, the movable valve piece includes an inlet pathway adjustable to different communication area with the inlet passages of the stationary valve piece for adjusting the water temperature of the mixed water.
US08695631B2
A pressure release valve including a holder element provided on the outside of the lid of a pressure cooker, a body packing disposed inside the holder element, a pressure release tube provided in the lower inside portion of the body packing, a valve plunger disposed in the body packing and comprising a shank portion and a beveled portion which is at the lower end of the shank portion and set on the upper end of the pressure release tube so as to allow the interior of the pressure release tube to be an empty space, a coil spring mounted on the valve plunger, a lock nut connected to the holder element, and a filtering cap provided fixedly or non-fixedly within the lock nut.
US08695625B2
A faucet assembly 10 including base 28 configured to be supported by a sink deck 12, a waterway 22 supported by the base 28, and a valve cartridge 18, 20 fluidly coupled to the waterway 112 way 22. A delivery spout 26 is illustratively supported by the base 28 and receives an outlet conduit 46 in fluid communication with the waterway 22.
US08695624B2
The present invention relates to a multi-way valve for use in medicine or medical technology, having at least one basic housing through which a medium can flow in sections, and having an actuator which is held in said basic housing so as to be rotatable about a central axis, wherein the basic housing has at least two connection points for the inflow and outflow of the medium and forms an actuator receptacle which has a peg arranged concentrically with respect to the central axis and which has, on the inner side of the basic housing, a radially encircling cutout, and wherein the actuator has a control element, a substantially hollow cylindrical section which receives the peg of the actuator receptacle at least in sections, at least one throughflow opening for the fluidic connection between two connection points, and at least one radially encircling molding on the outer side of the cylindrical section, and wherein the peg of the actuator receptacle has at least one counterbearing for the actuator to form a sealing surface in the region of at least one connection point. The invention is characterized in that the peg has at least one flattened portion on the circumference relative to the central axis, and the molding of the actuator engages into the cutout of the actuator receptacle in order to fix the actuator in the actuator receptacle in a positively locking and fluid-tight manner.
US08695617B2
The present disclosure relates to a cane with a novel handle assembly. The handle assembly includes, among other components, an inner frame, an outer cover, and a resilient filler that is positioned between the inner frame and the outer cover to provide the handle assembly with a measure of resiliency to increase the user's comfort during use. In one embodiment of the disclosure, it is envisioned that the handle assembly may include a fluorescent material to facilitate location of the cane in poorly lit, or dim, areas.
US08695616B2
The present invention relates to a walker. The walker includes a first front leg, a first rear leg; and a first handle disposed between and connecting the first front leg to the first rear leg. The walker further comprises a trough region formed in a top surface of the first handle. The trough region has a hole formed therein. The walker further includes a cane having a grip region and a body portion. The body portion of the cane is removably received within the hole and the grip region of the cane is removably received within the trough region.
US08695615B2
In a safety structure for an automatic opening/closing umbrella, a completely locked-in condition is provided for determining whether or not the umbrella is closed and stored to prevent an accident caused a partially locked-in condition of the umbrella, such as a sudden pop-out of a handle part of the umbrella that hits any part of a user's body. The safety structure alleviates impacts and includes a mark and the handle part is made of an elastic material. When the rod is pushed into the handle part to enter an entry portion of the umbrella and reach a completely locked-in condition, the mark is labeled noticeably on the rod, and at least one distal portion of the handle part is made of a suitable elastic material such as polyurethane.
US08695607B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for constraining and/or supporting tissue structures along an airway
Apparatus, systems, and methods constrain and/or support tissue structures along an airway.
US08695601B2
A mask assembly includes a forehead support having a base provided to a frame and at least one, and preferably two upwardly extending support arms. The arms define a fixed or an adjustable included angle that is preferably less than 180° and, in the range of about 100°-150°. The arms can be attached either directly to headgear straps, or the arms can be connected to headgear straps via clips.
US08695598B2
The invention relates to an oxygen breathing device, in particular for cockpit crew member of an aircraft, comprising a pressurized oxygen source for storing pressurized oxygen, an oxygen mask, adapted to fit to nose and mouth of a person to be supplied with oxygen from the pressurized oxygen source, an oxygen supply line connecting the pressurized oxygen source with the oxygen mask, a pressure regulator/safety valve coupled in the oxygen supply line to selectively open or shut off oxygen flow from the pressurized oxygen source to the oxygen mask and/or to control pressure of said oxygen supplied to the oxygen mask. According to the invention, such oxygen breathing device is improved by having a pneumatic seal adapted to pneumatically seal the pressurized oxygen source in a non-use condition, an opening device adapted to open the pneumatic seal in case of an emergency situation requiring oxygen supply to the person, a change over valve adapted to selectively supply oxygen from the pressurized oxygen source or pressurized air from a pressurized air source to the oxygen mask.
US08695593B2
A system for mechanical ventilation treatment is described. In one embodiment the system provides advice on treatment and/or weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation based on the patient's conditions. In another embodiment the system includes apparatus to monitor and analyze the patient's data and data from the mechanical ventilator and controls the ventilator automatically.
US08695584B2
The invention relates to a domestic oven (1), having a cavity (2) and a carrier structure (3, 4) connected with the cavity (2), wherein the carrier structure (3, 4) comprises at least two side panels (3) arranged in the side regions (5) of the oven (1) and a component plate (4), wherein the component plate (4) is connected with the side panels (3), wherein the side panels (3) extend in vertical direction (V) and in a first horizontal direction (H) and wherein the component plate (4) extends in a horizontal transverse direction (T) perpendicular to the first horizontal direction (H). To eliminate tensions in the carrier structure due to thermal expansion in an easy and cheap way, the invention is characterized in that the component plate (4) has at least one carrier extension (6) extending in transverse direction (T) which extends in a corresponding first opening (7) with at least one bearing surface (8) in the side panel (3), so that a relative movement in transverse direction (T) is allowed between the side panel (3) and the component plate (4).
US08695577B2
A bowstring release assembly is adapted for connection to the wrist of a user and includes a jaw mechanism adapted to receive, retain, and release a bowstring, and an adjustable wrist strap connected to the jaw mechanism via an extension member. The adjustable wrist strap includes a flexible base member adapted to fit around the wrist of a user. A first anchor member is connected to one end portion of the wrist strap and a second anchor member connected to another end portion. A cable is fixed with respect to one of the anchor members and is adapted to engage the other of the anchor members to thereby draw the first and second end portions toward each other and cinch the adjustable wrist strap around the wrist of a user.
US08695574B2
An intake manifold is provided that includes an integrated charge air cooler and a housing having a first housing part and a second housing part connected thereto. The charge air flows into the housing via an inlet and flows out of the housing via an outlet. The charge air cooler is disposed in the housing and is permeated by the charge air on the path from the inlet to the outlet. Also, the charge air cooler is completely enclosed by the housing, except for passages for passing a cooling fluid, and the charge air cooler is elastically supported relative to the housing by at least one elastic bearing element in particular disposed on a collector of the charge air cooler.
US08695572B2
There is described a connecting arrangement for a fuel line (5) which extends through a passage (4) of a cylinder head (1) to a nozzle holder (2) to feed fuel to an injection nozzle. The fuel line has a pressure nipple (6) which on its front side has a sealing surface (8) and on its rear side a pressure receiving surface. A cap screw element (15) which surrounds the fuel line and is screwed to the inlet opening (3) of the passage projects into the passage with an axially directed tube portion (17) which in the tightened condition exerts on a pressure transmission arrangement a force which is directed axially towards the nozzle holder and which is transmitted to the pressure receiving surface of the pressure nipple to press its sealing surface against a counterpart sealing surface (10) on the nozzle holder. A sealing arrangement which seals off a first free space (21) between the outside wall of the fuel line and the inside wall of the pressure transmission arrangement and a second free space (22) between the outside wall of the pressure transmission arrangement and the inside wall of the passage relative to the exterior is positioned completely in the interior of the passage.
US08695561B2
An engine that is lighter in weight includes a crankcase, a crankshaft, a body cylinder, a head cylinder, a piston, a piston ring and a cylinder fixing bolt. The piston ring is arranged on an outer peripheral surface of the piston. One end portion of the cylinder fixing bolt extends toward the head cylinder and an other end portion of the cylinder fixing bolt extends toward the crankcase. The cylinder fixing bolt connects the head cylinder, the body cylinder and the crankcase to one another. A lower section of the body cylinder is located within the crankcase. The piston ring abuts on the lower section when the piston is located at a bottom dead center.
US08695557B2
A mass compensating shaft drive for compensating forces or moments of inertia of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine is provided having a balance shaft supported by at least one journal in a housing of the internal combustion engine. A rolling bearing is located between each of the at least one journals and the housing. The balance shaft includes an oil gallery that is adapted to be connected to a source of pressurized lubricating oil. A check valve is located between the oil gallery and each of the at least one bearing journals, with the check valve being arranged to open upon at least one of a lubricating oil pressure or a centrifugal force generated through rotation of the balance shaft exceeding a predetermined closing force for the check valve.
US08695550B2
A first housing has a first concave portion that opposes to a vane rotor, and the first concave portion has an inside diameter larger than an inside diameter of a first through hole of the first housing. A boss part of the vane rotor has a first convex portion projected into the first concave portion. A reed valve is arranged between an end surface of the first convex portion and a bottom surface of the first concave portion, and has an outside diameter larger than the inside diameter of the first through hole.
US08695549B2
A valve train device for switching lift of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine includes a camshaft including a carrier shaft and a cam assembly disposed non-rotatably and axially displaceably on the carrier shaft via a guide. The cam assembly includes a bearing region, at least one cam group having at least two cams and a first and a second axial contour. A bearing bush is mounted non-rotatably and axially displaceably in a camshaft bearing and radially supports the camshaft in the camshaft bearing. The cam assembly is mounted rotatably and axially displaceably in the bearing bush in the bearing region. The bearing bush includes a first axial reverse opposing contour that corresponds to, and is switchable into operative contact with, the first axial contour and a second axial reverse opposing contour that corresponds to, and is switchable into operative contact with, the second axial contour.
US08695544B2
A high expansion ratio internal combustion engine includes: a variable compression ratio mechanism that varies a mechanical compression ratio of the internal combustion engine; and a variable valve train in which some valve(s) of a plurality of intake valves is phase-variable and the remaining valve(s) is phase-fixed, the variable valve train being configured such that a working angle of the phase-variable intake valve is larger than a working angle of the phase-fixed intake valve, wherein a valve-open timing of the phase-variable intake valve is retarded after a valve-open timing of the phase-fixed intake valve when the internal combustion engine is under low-load operating state.
US08695538B2
A lick deterrent device to deter animals from biting or chewing. The deterrent device has a flexible substrate physically conformable in three directions with conductive traces thereon. The lick deterrent device is configured for electrical connection to a removable power source. The traces are configured so that they may be contacted by an animal's tongue or saliva, so that upon contact, an electrical circuit is completed thereby delivering a mild electric shock to the animal. The lick deterrent device may be stretchable in at least one direction.
US08695531B2
A bottomer for the production of sacks, preferably cross-bottom valve sacks, includes at least one glue unit that applies glue to the components of the sacks. The glue unit includes a nozzle bar, which has at least one nozzle for extruding glue onto the sack components. The glue unit also includes a counter support, which positions the sack components with a force against the nozzle bar.
US08695530B2
Methods for coating medical devices for implantation within a body vessel are provided comprising providing a cylindrical container, placing a medical device inside the cylindrical container, and applying a polymer in liquid form inside the container.
US08695520B1
The sailboat of the present invention's space frame base is supported by three hulls. Each hull is allowed to rotate freely about a vertical axis intersecting one vertex of the triangular base and weathervane in the direction sailboat of the present invention motion. The direction that sailboat of the present invention moves is only constrained by an independent dagger board/canard rudder structure, whose orientation can be controlled relative to the space frame, when locked at an angle, relative to the nominal configuration. There are two masts on the sailboat each with a twin sail set. Each of said mast assemblies', orientation relative to the apparent wind, is controlled by associated canard winglets. These two masts and the fore spar complete the foldable space frame. The mast assembly angle relative to said base deck plane is changeable to enhance lift on one of said bow, starboard, or port hulls.
US08695518B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a machine for sewing, embroidering, quilting and/or the like. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for sewing, embroidering, quilting and/or the like. In one example, the present invention may be applied (e.g., as a machine and/or method) to a multi-needle machine or method.
US08695514B2
An air infiltration abatement system (300) for a power plant (10) includes a recirculated flue gas source (175), a recirculated flue gas supply line (310) connected to the recirculated flue gas source (175) and a power plant component. The power plant component has a leakage area in fluid communication with the recirculated flue gas supply line (310). The recirculated flue gas source (175) receives a combustion flue gas (75) from an oxygen fired boiler (20) of the power plant (10), and provides the combustion flue gas (75) to the recirculated flue gas supply line (310). The recirculated flue gas supply line (310) supplies the combustion flue gas (75) as a recirculated flue gas (330) to the oxygen fired boiler (20) via the leakage area of the power plant component.
US08695510B2
A table arrangement having a guide rail structure secured to the table adjacent the underside of the table top. A carriage is movable along a guide structure from a retracted position under the table top to an extended position disposed adjacent one table edge. A supporting frame is hingedly carried on the carriage and mounts a flat-panel video monitor thereon, the latter being storable directly under the table top when the carriage is in the retracted position. Movement of the carriage to the extended position causes the supporting frame and monitor to project beyond the adjacent table edge, whereupon the supporting frame and monitor can be swung upwardly about the hinge axis into an upright use position wherein the monitor protrudes above the table top adjacent the one edge, and the monitor screen fronts onto the region above the table top.
US08695509B2
A reinforced longitudinal beam for railway vehicles includes a first partial beam and a second partial beam. The first partial beam is connected to a second assembly of the railway vehicle and the second partial beam is connected to a first assembly of the railway vehicle. Particular surfaces are provided on the first partial beam for forming a welded connection to the second partial beam, and particular surfaces are provided on the second partial beam for forming a welded connection to the first partial beam, wherein one of the partial beams comprises an end facing.
US08695506B2
A perforating system having a perforating gun with shaped charges, a chassis sub, a communication line in communication with a controller and extending through the chassis sub and perforating gun, a selectively opened and closed continuity switch in the communication line, a lead line connecting the communication line to a detonator, and an arming switch in the lead line. A method of testing the detonator involves confirming electrical continuity through the detonator.
US08695500B2
A self-inking stamp includes a housing, in which an ink pad holder adapted to receive an ink pad and a stamping unit including stamp types are arranged. The ink pad holder is replaceably arranged in the housing. An actuating member is slidably mounted on the housing and is coupled with a turn-over mechanism for pivoting the stamping unit between a coloring position and a print position. A signal generator records a movement of the actuating member into an actuating position corresponding to the print position. An electronic evaluating unit including a counting module is connected to the signal generator for processing a signal supplied by the signal generator. A switching member is connected to the evaluating unit and is arranged to be switched from a first switching state to a second switching state when the ink pad holder is inserted or removed.
US08695494B2
A system and method for rapid cooling a hot isostatic press including a pressure container. The pressure container has an internal load space and includes insulation disposed at least partially around the load space, heating elements disposed inside the insulation, and a load disposed on a load bearing plate. Fluid is directed into the load space of a pressure container using at least one nozzle to form a rotational flow. The fluid from the at least one nozzle is mixed as it passes through the rotational flow near the insulation with fluid near the load. The fluid from the at least one nozzle has a lower temperature than the fluid in the load space and/or the load.
US08695479B2
The pneumatic cylinder includes a cylinder body, a non-pressure head, a hollow piston rod, a piston head, and a push rod. The cylinder body has a mounting flange and an inlet port. The non-pressure head has a mounting flange. The hollow piston rod has an open end and a closed end. The piston head is secured to the hollow piston rod and defines the closed end of the hollow piston rod. The push rod has a socket end inserted within the hollow piston rod and a coupler end. The non-pressure head has a hollow rod guide bearing and a hollow rod seal and the piston head has a piston guide bearing and a piston seal. The hollow rod guide bearing and the hollow rod seal each slidably engage the hollow piston rod. The piston guide bearing and the piston seal each slidably engage the cylinder body.
US08695477B2
An assembly for a bolt catch on a firearm having a bolt that slides between a latched position and an unlatched position, the bolt held in the latched position by a bolt catch mechanism that includes a catch-release actuator pivotally mounted on the rifle to provide for latching and unlatching of the bolt by a user, the assembly including a lever having an L-shaped body that comprises a first leg and a second leg that is formed at substantially a right angle to the first leg, the first leg having a free end on which is formed a mounting member; and a clamp member structured to attach to the mounting member on the lever to enable clamping of the lever to the catch-release actuator in a manner that does not require disassembly of the firearm or disassembly or removal of the catch-release actuator from the firearm.
US08695474B2
A muzzle device for simultaneously mitigating the four major physical effects caused when a projectile is fired; muzzle climb, concussion, and recoil without an increased muzzle flash signature is provided. The muzzle device can include a cylindrical body defining an expansion chamber and can include a securing mechanism arranged at a proximal end and an end wall arranged at a distal end. An opening sized for a projectile can be arranged in the distal end wall. At least one distal tuning vent can be arranged in the distal end wall about the opening. A plurality of radial exhaust vents can be arranged through a cylindrical wall of the cylindrical body. The expansion chamber can define a fixed volume and the tuning and exhaust vents can define an open area. A ratio between the fixed volume and the open area can be about 0.6 to 1 to about 0.9 to 1. A method of tuning a muzzle device is also provided.
US08695471B2
A scroll saw includes a base, a worktable mounted to the base, a sliding plate slidably mounted on the worktable and a cutting assembly mounted to the base. A cutting slot is defined between the worktable and the sliding plate for a saw blade of the cutting assembly to pass therethrough. When the sliding plate is moved relative to the worktable to an appropriate position or is removed from the worktable, the saw blade can be changed easily and conveniently.
US08695466B2
An apparatus for cooling the cutting device of paper logs cutting machines including a channel (60) surrounding the cutting device, in which channel a cooling fluid is injected, the cooling fluid being confined inside the channel.
US08695449B2
A component pairing comprises a first component with a first component toothing and comprises a second component with a second component toothing which is in engagement with the first component toothing in order to be able to transmit a drive force in a drive direction via the component toothings. The first component is also assigned a first anti-rattle toothing. An anti-rattle component is fastened to the second component, which anti-rattle component has a second anti-rattle toothing which is in engagement with the first anti-rattle toothing. The anti-rattle component is mounted so as to be displaceable relative to the second component in the drive direction. The second component and the anti-rattle component are assigned in each case one friction section. The friction sections are in frictional engagement with one another.
US08695446B2
A process and system for detecting pluggage in a conduit that is feeding a solid and carrier gas to a flowing gas.
US08695443B1
An integrated apparatus and method for screening an object for a target material is provided. The integrated apparatus comprises a housing and an integrated screener. The housing is positionable adjacent the object, and has a channel therethrough. The integrated screener is positionable in the housing, and comprises a fan, at least one filter, a heater and an analyzer. The fan is for drawing air carrying particles and vapor through the channel of the housing. The filter(s) is/are positionable in the channel of the housing for passage of the air therethrough. The filter(s) comprise(s) at least one metal foam having a plurality of pores therein for collecting and adsorbing a sample from the particles and vapor passing therethrough. The heater is for applying heat to the at least one metal foam whereby the collected sample is desorbed from the metal foam. The analyzer detects the target material from the desorbed sample.
US08695433B2
A mechanical-quantity measuring device capable of measuring a strain component in a specific direction with high precision is provided.At least two or more pairs of bridge circuits are formed inside a semiconductor monocrystal substrate and a semiconductor chip, and one of these bridge circuits forms a n-type diffusion resistor in which a direction of a current flow and measuring variation of a resistor value are in parallel with a <100> direction of the semiconductor monocryastal silicon substrate, and an another bridge circuit is composed of combination of p-type diffusion resistors in parallel with a <110> direction.
US08695424B2
In order to be able to perform redundant measurements of rotation rates particularly economically, disclosed herein is a sensor device which includes a dual-axis, first rotation rate sensor element with which rotation rates of rotating motions of the sensor device about a first and a second rotation rate measurement axis can be detected, wherein the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes are oriented orthogonally in relation to one another. The sensor device is defined by the fact that the sensor device includes at least one other rotation rate sensor element with which a rotation rate of a rotating motion of the sensor device about a rotation rate measurement axis, which lies in a plane together with the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes, can be deselected.
US08695423B2
An intrinsically safe housing for a measuring instrument, having a viewing window for the display panel of a measuring instrument, an instrument display panel holding fixture for receiving an instrument display panel provided around the viewing window, said holding fixture having an inner void having a volume greater than a volume of the instrument display panel, a difference between said volumes forming a resin slot surrounding the instrument display panel upon its insertion, and a seal holding fixture provided around the viewing window containing a seal for sealing a front surface of said display panel, wherein the seal and the display panel holding fixture form a resin receptacle for a flowable resin, and the resin slot receives an overflow of said resin upon insertion of said instrument display panel.
US08695410B2
A fuel flow measuring apparatus comprises a fuel conditioning cabinet, a fuel supply delivered through a fuel supply line, a fuel measurement cabinet, a fuel transfer line to transfer fuel from the fuel conditioning cabinet to the fuel measurement cabinet, a fuel delivery line extending between the fuel measurement cabinet and the internal combustion engine and to deliver fuel thereto, a first fuel return loop extending from the fuel delivery line to the fuel measurement cabinet, a second fuel return loop extending between the fuel measurement cabinet and the fuel conditioning cabinet and an intermediate cooling system comprising an intermediate cooling tank containing an intermediate coolant, an intermediate coolant line in serial thermodynamic communication with the first fuel return loop and the second fuel return loop to thermally connect the fuel flowing through both of the fuel conditioning cabinet and the fuel measurement cabinet to define an isothermic fuel stability.
US08695404B2
A refrigerant leak detection system is provided for a motor vehicle, in which the system includes a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) module having a refrigerant sensor assembly adapted to be fixed within the drain hole of the sump. The refrigerant sensor assembly includes an elongated sensor element extending into the sump, a flange portion having apertures that allows the condensate to drain from sump, a collar portion with self-tapping threads.
US08695396B2
A product distribution apparatus, shown in the form of an agricultural air seeder is disclosed having sensors to measure the mass flow through the distribution system, sensors to weigh the tank and the product therein, and sensors to measure the quantity of product in the tank. The sensors are used to measure the change in the quantity of product in the tank during a calibration process where the apparatus is operated over an area and the number of rotations of the meter are recorded. The data is then used to determine a mass flow rate per revolution of the meter. A monitoring method is also disclosed in which an ‘area to empty’ and ‘product needed’ to complete a field or task is displayed to the operator.
US08695395B1
A method and apparatus for straightening dents and irregularities in wheels including a spindle, a platen mounted on the spindle configured such that the wheel can be mounted on the spindle with the spindle projecting through the central hub hole and at least one actuator device positionable between the spindle and a section of the wheel to be straightened, the actuator exerting a straightening force on the rim of the wheel and a mobile device including the same.
US08695378B2
Methods of making glass include the steps of providing a glass melt in a first melting furnace and flowing the glass melt through a connecting tube from the first melting furnace to a second melting furnace. The methods further include the steps of heating the glass melt within a first area of the connecting tube with a first heating device and heating the glass melt within a second area of the connecting tube with a second heating device. Apparatus for making glass are also provided with a first melting furnace, a second melting furnace, and a connecting tube connecting the first and second melting furnaces. Example apparatus include a first heating device configured to heat the glass melt within the first area of the connecting tube and a second heating device configured to heat the glass melt within the second area of the connecting tube.
US08695371B2
A refrigerator includes a water conditioning cartridge having a filter for removing impurities from water and a temperature control unit for selectively developing cold and heated water that is released from a refrigerator dispenser. The temperature control unit is preferably formed from one or more thermal electric coolers. The thermal electric cooler(s) include a plurality of heat sinks that develop cool and hot temperatures to treat or condition the water. A fan is positioned adjacent the thermal electric cooler(s) to provide air exchange for the plurality of heat sinks. The temperature control unit conditions, i.e., heats or cools water passing from the filter to the dispenser depending upon a selected consumer preference.
US08695370B2
An insulated icemaking compartment is provided in the fresh food compartment of a bottom mount refrigerator. The icemaking compartment may be integrally formed with the liner of the fresh food compartment, or alternatively, may be modular for installation anywhere in the fresh food compartment. A removable bin assembly with a front cover normally seals the icemaking compartment to maintain the temperature in the compartment. A cold air duct formed in the rear wall of the refrigerator supplies cold air from the freezer compartment to the icemaking compartment. A return air duct directs a portion of the air from the icemaking compartment back to the freezer compartment. An air vent in the icemaking compartment directs another portion of air into the fresh food compartment. A control system provides for controlling refrigerator functions in a manner that promotes energy efficiency. The temperature of the ice compartment is between the temperatures of the fresh food and freezer compartments.
US08695369B2
A heat pump system is provided and may include a compressor, a first heat exchanger in fluid communication with the compressor, a second heat exchanger in fluid communication with the first heat exchanger and the compressor, and a flash tank fluidly coupled to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A first conduit may extend between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger. A valve associated with the first conduit may operate in an open state to permit flow along the first conduit between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger to at least partially bypass the flash tank and may operate in a closed state to prevent flow along the first conduit between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger to direct flow into the flash tank.
US08695360B2
The invention relates to a desalination method and system that uses freeze crystallization technology that incorporates the use of compressed air energy as the source for freezing temperatures. When compressed air is released by a turbo expander, chilled air is produced as a by-product, wherein the chilled air is introduced into a crystallization chamber. Also injected into the chamber is a spray cloud of seawater droplets, which has been pre-chilled by heat exchange with the cold chamber walls, and which is then circulated and exposed to the chilled air in the chamber. The sizes of the droplets can vary, but are preferably predetermined, along with the relative temperatures, flows and speeds of the spray and chilled air, such that when the droplets are circulated within the chilled air, and settle at the bottom of the chamber, they are deposited at slightly above the eutectic temperature. This way, the ice/snow mass that forms at the bottom of the chamber will consist of frozen ice crystals, and a residue of salt water brine, which can runoff from the mass, either from the sides, or through any voids or channels that may form within the mass.
US08695344B2
The present invention discloses systems and methods for converting heat from external heat source streams or from solar energy derived from a solar collector subsystem. The systems and methods comprise a thermodynamic cycle including three internal subcycles. Two of the subcycles combine to power a higher pressures turbine and third or main cycle powers a lower pressure turbine. One of the cycles increases the flow rate of a richer working solution stream powering the lower pressure turbine. Another one of the cycles is a leaner working solution cycle, which provides increased flow rate for leaner working solution stream going into the higher pressure turbine.
US08695342B2
A turbine for converting thermal energy into mechanical work. The turbine includes a heating system, wherein the heating system is adapted for heating the turbine in a power off state and/or a start-up phase of the turbine. The heating system may include an electrical heating device and/or a steam heating device.
US08695339B2
A flow control system is provided having an engine, a turbocharger, and positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) line, and a flow regulating device. The engine has an air-oil separator and an intake manifold. The air-oil separator separates oil droplets and oil mist from a blowby gas. The turbocharger has an air inlet and an air outlet, where the air outlet is connected to the intake manifold of the engine. The positive crankcase ventilation (PCV) vent line has a first end connected to the air-oil separator and a second end connected to the air inlet of the turbocharger. The PCV vent line delivers the blowby gas from the air-oil separator to the air inlet of the turbocharger. The flow regulating device is located in the PCV vent line. The flow regulating device selectively limits the flow of blowby gas from the air-oil separator to the air inlet of the turbocharger.
US08695322B2
A turbomachine includes a plurality of injection nozzles arranged in a can-annular array and a transition piece including at least one wall that defines a combustion flow passage. A dilution orifice is formed in the at least one wall of the transition piece. The dilution orifice guides dilution gases to the combustion flow passage. A heat shield member is mounted to the at least one wall of the transition piece in the combustion flow passage. The heat shield member includes a body having a first surface and an opposing second surface through which extends a dilution passage. The dilution passage is off-set from the dilution orifice. The heat shield member is spaced from the at least one wall of the transition piece defining a flow region between the at least one wall and the second surface.
US08695320B2
A non-back-bending chain having a plurality of links wherein said links include a rounded portion, a right flat portion, a bottom portion, and a left flat portion. The rounded portion allows the chain to bend or coil in one direction. The flat portions, when in contact, prevent the chain from bending in the opposite direction. Therefore, a chain that can be used to both “push” and “pull” is provided. Further, the chain can be used to provide a rigid extension that can be used to support a force even when only supported by one end. The chain can be retracted for storage and bunched or coiled.
US08695306B2
An arrangement for securing fabric relative to a framework comprising a framework, a groove in the framework, and a locking spline for being received into the groove in the framework whereby a fabric panel can be retained relative to the framework by an insertion of the locking spline into the groove with a portion of the fabric panel disposed between the locking spline and the groove. The framework can have an obverse side, a peripheral edge, and a reverse side and the groove can be disposed to the reverse side of the framework whereby the fabric panel can be applied to the framework with a portion of the fabric panel retained within the groove and with the fabric panel reversing over the peripheral edge of the framework and traversing at least a portion of the framework. A secondary groove can enable a retention of a secondary material.
US08695303B2
Exterior building siding for aesthetic and protection of the building against wind, rain and solar energy by attaching each horizontal plank from the top of the wall downwardly that includes a starting strip where each plank is interlocked to the plank above it. Each of the horizontal planks includes a top wall portion that fits snuggly into an “L-shaped” groove above it so that the panels can be firmly locked together vertically in a downwardly fashion to prevent any wind uplift against the siding or moisture intrusion. In the preferred embodiment, an adaptor strip is bonded to a conventional siding plank for trap lock engagement. Each adaptor strip has a longitudinal recess to reduce mass and volume and a mid panel support for strength.
US08695297B2
A foundation for a wind turbine tower, provided with a central accommodation for accommodating and firmly constraining, by means of threaded bars projecting from such central accommodation, an actual wind turbine tower, made of steel or concrete, is entirely prefabricated and includes at least two prefabricated structural elements, modular and monolithic, made of reinforced concrete, approached in sequence, shape-coupled, and subsequently constrained to each other, at least at such central accommodation, by a series of post-tension cables arranged in respective through-holes, so as to make the entire foundation monolithic.
US08695294B2
Provided is a reinforced concrete partitioning structure that can exhibit electromagnetic shield function against an electromagnetic wave at target frequency. It includes an RC wall to attenuate an electromagnetic wave at target frequency propagating from an inner space to an outer space, a concrete portion having a thickness in a direction from the inner space to the outer space, and a front reinforcing bar lattice which forms a reinforcing bar plane in lattice at a position along the thickness of the concrete portion. The front reinforcing bar lattice has a plurality of longitudinal bars arranged at fixed spacing, and a plurality of transverse bars arranged at fixed spacing to intersect the longitudinal bars. The spacings of the longitudinal bars and transverse bars are adjusted according to the wavelength of an electromagnetic wave at the target frequency.
US08695279B2
Provided is a door frame assembly that enables a molding portion to be bent with ease and in which end portions of a door frame do not rust due to the entry of raindrops or the like. A second end portion B that follows on a second flange portion of a door frame is located between an inner wall portion of a glass run channel and a portion of a main frame portion that faces the inner wall portion. An engagement portion of the molding portion is partially connected to a third side wall portion at multiple locations along the direction in which a vertical door frame assembly extends.
US08695278B2
A door assembly for an instrument cabinet includes a door element having a first side edge and a second side edge opposite the first side edge adapted for installation in a predetermined orientation, at least two first withdrawable pins in a region of the first side edge and at least two second pins which form a pivot axis in a region of the second side edge, wherein, in an extended condition, the first pins are in communication with a first depression in the instrument cabinet to prevent the door element pivoting about the pivot axis and, in a withdrawn condition, extend out of the first depression to permit the door element to pivot about the pivot axis, at least one handle element having a fixed part that secures to a front side of the door element and a movable part that mechanically couples to the two first pins, wherein actuation of the movable part allows the first pins which are coupled thereto, to move into a retracted condition, wherein the door element and/or the handle element are of symmetrical construction such that releasing the handle element, turning it through 180 degrees and securing the turned handle element enables functional elements to close the door assembly to be switched from the first side edge to the second side edge and vice versa.
US08695277B2
A door operator to be disposed at a door leaf, a door frame, a door transom, or a wall, with at least one mounting plate, on which the door operator assembly is disposed. The assembly has a modular design and has at least one connector module, a drive module and a main module, which are latched onto the mounting plate by latching elements. The main module includes a system carrier, which accommodates at least one supply unit and at least one control unit, fastened by latching elements.
US08695275B2
The invention relates to the field of seed germination and growing of plants. A composition comprising a clay, an inert material, optionally a fibrous material, and a fourth component is provided, characterized in that said fourth component comprises a cation selected from the group consisting of Al, Zr and Ti and an anion selected from the group consisting of oxyhydroxide, oxychloride, nitrate, sulfate, chloride, hydroxide and alkoxide, and wherein the concentration of said fourth component ranges from 0.1 to 70 percent by weight (w %), preferably 0.5-25 w %, more preferably 1-10 w %, of the total weight of the clay, the inert material, and optionally the fibrous material, together.
US08695271B1
A fishing line trolling release mechanism. One embodiment is for use with a surface planer board line; another embodiment is for use with an underwater depth controlled downrigger-trolling cable and weight system. In either embodiment, the mechanism reduces or eliminates slack line, which results in more consistent hookups while retaining unhindered fish playing ability. The embodiment for board line release is snapped on the planer board line that slides out to the desired distance from the boat. The embodiment for downrigger release is snapped around the downrigger cable, then lowered to the desired depth by the rod and reel, employing a rotating diving and return plate to controls the depth of the combination prior to and after the fish strike.
US08695267B2
A laser sight is embedded in a mounting rail otherwise used for attaching accessories to small arms discharge devices such as pistols or rifles. The mounting rail has a transverse profile that extends along an axis of the mounting rail for engaging mating features of the accessories. The laser sight is located at least partly within the transverse profile of the mounting rail and has a sighting axis that extends substantially parallel to the axis of the mounting rail.
US08695266B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for aiding in the alignment of a scope of a firearm. The apparatus includes a light generation device and a level indicator. The light generation device is attachable to the firearm and is for generating a reference beam. The reference beam may be a horizontal, vertical, or cross-hair line beam. When the level indicator indicates a level state, the reference beam generated by the light generation device is also level. Typically, the level reference beam is projected against a flat surface and is used as a reference to line up the crosshairs of a scope attached to the firearm.
US08695260B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to cartridges and modifications for an M16/AR15 rifle. In one embodiment, a modified M16/AR15 rifle or carbine includes a bolt having a maximum outside diameter greater than that of a standard M16/AR15 bolt; and a bolt extractor pivoted to the bolt. The bolt and the bolt extractor are operable to: transport a cartridge from a magazine to a barrel, and eject a spent cartridge from the barrel. The rifle or carbine further includes a barrel extension configured to receive the bolt; a standard M16/AR15 upper receiver coupled to the barrel extension; a standard M16/AR15 lower receiver coupled to the upper receiver.
US08695258B2
A nameplate attachment structure enables a nameplate to be attached in at least two variations of postures to a chassis outer surface of an apparatus, the nameplate being formed of an elastic body, the nameplate including: a shaft projected on a rear surface of an indication surface and having a distal end including a locking stop; and at least two engagement pieces respectively having hook projections, the chassis outer surface including: a support hole through which the shaft is inserted; and at least two engagement holes engageable with the engagement pieces. When the shaft is inserted through the support hole, the locking stop restricts movement of the nameplate in a direction in which the shaft extends, and when the engagement pieces are inserted through the engagement holes, the hook projections are engaged with the engagement holes so that the nameplate is attached to the chassis outer surface.
US08695255B2
A holder for displaying a sheet of material is provided. The holder includes a backplate, a lens, and a bracket. The bracket includes a frame defining at least one vertical wall bordering at least one inner wall. The at least one inner wall includes at least one connector for connecting to at least one corresponding connector of the lens for securing the lens to the bracket. A portion of the lens contacts a first wall of the at least one vertical wall and a first inner wall of the at least one inner wall. The backplate is secured to the bracket via at least one fastener. A portion of the backplate contacts a second wall of the at least one vertical wall and a second inner wall of the at least one inner wall.
US08695254B2
A customizable display and method for selectively and securely displaying important information, such as a sign for use in healthcare environments. The display includes a cover and a frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a frame, which supports a plurality of tracks, and a plurality of slides positioned on the tracks. The slides receive interchangeable indicia plates, which bear the important information wherein the slides are positioned behind the cover to selectively display the interchangeable indicia plates. The frame defines a locking channel for receiving a locking system having at least one elongate locking member for cooperating with a slide coupling to secure the slides in the extended or concealed position. The slides are biased in the concealed and extended positions and the locking system is obscured by the cover to prevent unauthorized or accidental movement of the slides to alter the displayed information.
US08695247B1
A candle-shape decorative lamp is disclosed, including: a aquatic lamp main body, a magnet-driven element, a buoy and a bottom base. The magnetic-driven element and the buoy are disposed inside the aquatic lamp main body. The bottom base is fixedly engaged to the conic aquatic lamp main body with at least a light-emitting element disposed inside as well as a magnetic rotational axis for correspondingly attaching to the magnet-driven element, and driven by a driving element to rotate. When the magnetic rotational axis rotates, the magnet-driven element also rotates because of attachment to the magnetic rotational axis so as to wave the fluid inside the aquatic lamp main body, which leading to pushing to rotational plats to rotate the buoy. As such, the light emitted through the aquatic lamp main body forming ambient light with decorative effect so as to great rich and fun visual effects.
US08695245B2
A wing shaped beverage can pull tab that is wide and tall enough to accommodate advertisements, logos, slogans, contest announcements, graphics, website addresses, etchings, or other marketing, promotional or informational messages targeting the consumer of the beverage. The wing shaped can pull tab can be detached from the can and stored in a pocket without causing injury because of its smooth round edges and compactness. The wing shaped can pull tab is large enough that it does not fall into the can when detached and create injury or choking hazard. The wing shaped can pull tab has a U shaped lift end that accommodates the insertion of a finger to lift the tab to actuate the opening of a can more easily. The contoured U shaped lift end of the wing shaped can pull tab also accommodates the septum of the nose to allow consumption of the beverage from the can without having to tilt the head too far back.
US08695243B1
The secure license plate holder is specific to the vehicle to which it is assigned, having the vehicle identification number (VIN) permanently disposed on the holder. The holder is secured with tamperproof security fasteners requiring specialized tools for installation and removal. The license plate is also secured to the holder with tamperproof security fasteners. Decorative covers are installed over the fastener heads to prevent misinterpretation of the head as a part of the alphanumeric characters on the license plate and to indicate tampering. The holder includes an embedded SIM (subscriber identity module) chip, and the vehicle has a corresponding chip installed therein. Thus, removal of the plate and holder requires removal of part of the vehicle structure in order to avoid obvious damage to the fasteners and their covers.
US08695242B2
The present invention and related disclosure describes greeting cards with moving elements or devices which are operable to create motion in connection with some portion of the greeting card. The greeting card may include a multi-panel greeting card body or a three-dimensional foam greeting card body. At least one movable object is contained upon or within the greeting card body. A sound module having at least one pre-recorded digital audio file saved therein and a motor module are contained and concealed within the greeting card body. One or more switches may be used to activate the sound and motor modules, causing the pre-recorded audio file to play and causing movement of the movable or mobile object. This movement may be up-and-down or “bouncing” motion, spinning or rotational motion, side-to-side motion or any other reciprocating motion.
US08695239B2
A thumb for an excavator includes a base with an inner end adapted to be connected to an excavator arm and an outer end, wherein the outer end of the base includes a body mount structure. A thumb body is releasably connected to the base. The body includes an outer working portion, an inner tail portion, and a coupling or pivot portion located between the working portion and the tail portion. The coupling portion of the body is engaged with the body mount structure of the base, and the tail portion of the body is releasably secured or captured to the base so that the body is located in an operative position for use of its working portion. The tail portion of the body includes first and second spaced-apart tail members. The tail portion of the body and the base include respective mating portions that are engaged with each other when the body is installed in its operative position on the base, and forces are transferred from the body to the base through these mating portions to minimize shear forces acting on the fasteners.
US08695237B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming a terrain feature such as a snow half pipe used by snowboarders or skiers. Known half-pipe cutters are inaccurate and limited in height which limits the quality of the formed snow course. The apparatus comprises a frame which comprises an attachment for a self-actuated vehicle and a tool member adapted to the cross-sectional shape of the terrain feature; at least one primary forming surface, such as a belt, running over a working surface of the tool member to form the terrain feature; at least one secondary forming surface, in the form of a heated bar and finishing mats, to contact the formed terrain feature and provide a finish to its surface; and a guidance device, such as a laser guided device, to determine the position of the tool member with respect to the terrain surface.
US08695234B2
An improved anti-slip spike structure is provided, which is used in soles of snow shoes or special anti-slip shoes. In this structure, an anti-slip spike is mainly arranged on a sole surface. An external side of a metal spike body is wrapped with a hard rubber body into a solid cylindrical rod-shaped rubber spike. Then, the solid cylindrical rod-shaped rubber spike is placed into a shaping module to be integrally formed with a rubber sole. Since the rubber spike is entirely wrapped and has a large placement plane, it is easy to position the rubber spike in a mold. In addition, when the rubber spike is pressed to be shaped, the spike does not skew or shift and is homogeneously shaped with the rubber, so that the spike is completely joined to the sole. In this way, the sole is provided with comfort and flexibility, as well as firm joining against trampling and significant anti-slip safety and practicability.
US08695232B2
A laundry machine, more particularly, a dryer is disclosed. A dryer includes a cabinet, a drum in which a drying object is held, a steam generation device to supply steam to the drum, a water supply device to supply water to the steam generation device in order to generate steam, an additive holding part in which an additive is held, and an additive supply device to supply the additive held in the additive holding part to the drum.
US08695226B2
A device for three-dimensional representation of horsebacks through measurement points, comprising: plural vertically telescoping and column shaped segments which are connected with a frame and which include flexible transversal elements at their upper end which flexible transversal elements are bent like an umbrella and have flexible curvatures, wherein the vertical segments are configured to be variably offset from one another in the frame and configured fixable in a temporary manner and the curvature of the transversal elements that are bent in the shape of an umbrella is adjustable and fixable in a temporary manner, wherein the transversal elements include measuring points which are configured variably arrangeable in a vertical plane through devices for adjusting the curvature of the transversal elements, and wherein the measuring points of the transversal elements are arranged in the surface of the three-dimensional contour of the horseback.
US08695225B2
A recreational or outdoor mirrored compass is comprised of a base member, a hinged cover with a mirror and a sighting window for sighting a land mark, and a vial assembly pivotally coupled to said base member. The vial assembly comprises of a vial, a magnetized indicator member pivotally journaled in the vial and an azimuth ring. The compass further comprises of a hinge member for coupling the cover hingewise to the base member and a locking arrangement to lock the cover relative to the hinge member.
US08695220B2
A device for cutting food into bite-sized portions includes a first component that includes a base section having a plurality of individual, separate food-receiving slots that are defined by a plurality of walls and are open at both ends thereof. At least some of the walls have arcuate shaped bottom edges. The first component further includes a handle that extends beyond the base section for grasping. Each food receiving slot is formed to have a predetermined shape. The device also includes a second component, separate from the first component, that includes a plurality of fingers that have closed bottom ends. The fingers are sized and shaped to be received within the individual, separate food-receiving slots for ejecting food that is contained in the food receiving slots.
US08695211B2
In a push-button switch manufacturing method, a key-top end of a pressing element is inserted into a lower-mold recess. A reinforcing plate is placed in the lower mold so that the pressing element extends through a plate through hole of the reinforcing plate. An upper mold and the lower mold are moved toward each other so as to insert the other end of the pressing element into an upper-mold recess for the pressing element, which is provided in a lower surface of the upper mold. A liquid silicone rubber, which contains a component that does not adhere to the upper and lower molds but adheres to the pressing element, is introduced into a cavity, the upper and lower molds are opened to remove a molded product in which an intermediate portion in an axial direction of the pressing element is supported in the plate through hole by the silicone rubber.
US08695202B2
In a method for the production of a molded part based on a plastic profile reinforced by incorporated fibers, with the plastic profile being heated and deformed by means of an outer or inner mold, respectively, the plastic profile is provided, preferably in the longitudinal direction, with strap-like areas which are relatively harder and less flexible at the deformation temperature of the plastic matrix than the plastic matrix itself, thus counteracting a lateral, wave-like displacement of the fibers.
US08695200B2
A tether for connecting tubes includes two mutually spaced pads, each pad located on an opposite side of a lateral axis and releasably connectable to one of the tubes, an elastic stretchable connector that provides structural continuity between the pads, and handles, each handle located at an opposite axial end of the tether, suited to be gripped manually for the application of tensile force to the tether.
US08695197B2
A method for producing a coated pull-out guide for baking ovens, the pull-out guide including a guide rail and at least one of a middle rail and a running rail displaceably supported by rolling elements on the guide rail. The rolling elements are guided along tracks on one or more of the guide rail, middle rail and running rail. The method includes the steps of: assembling the pull-out into a unit including one or more of the guide rail, middle rail, and running rail; cleaning a metal surface of at least one of the rails by one or more of a mechanical and chemical cleaning method; and, applying a coating to the cleaned metal surface.
US08695194B2
Apparatus and methods for the manufacture of weighted ribbons are disclosed, and which weighted ribbons are for use in association with curtains and in other applications.
US08695193B2
Apparatus and methods for the manufacture of weighted ribbons are disclosed, and which weighted ribbons are for use in association with curtains and in other applications.
US08695182B2
Disclosed is a retaining mechanism for a buckle and buckle release system. The buckle release system is locked or unlocked via a manual release lever. A locking lever overlies the manual release lever and protects against the unintended release of the buckle. The retaining mechanism provides a further degree of protection. It includes a retaining bar that is pivotally interconnected to the locking lever. The retaining mechanism has a closed orientation wherein the locking lever cannot be actuated. The retaining mechanism can only be opened via a two part motion. First, the retaining bar is pivoted with respect to the locking lever. Second, the retaining bar and the locking lever are rotated together to permit access to the underlying manual release lever.
US08695181B2
A buckle includes a male member and a female member. The male member includes: a base; a pair of legs that project from the base; engaging portions that are provided on the legs to be engageable with the female member; and a linking body that links the pair of legs. The linking body includes a curved portion that is curved such that the middle thereof is closest to the base. A pair of projecting portions that are substantially parallel with an insertion direction of the male member extend from the base to be disposed outside the curved portion such that the curved portion is interposed therebetween. With this arrangement, the linking body for linking the pair of legs can be disposed with less possibility that other objects are caught in a space in the male member and without increasing a length dimension in the insertion direction more than necessary. The male member can be stably held relative to the female member against a torsion force.
US08695178B2
Various embodiments of slide fasteners include a first set of coupling elements and a second set of coupling elements configured to be removably joined together by a zipper. Each coupling element includes a first surface having a first shape and a second surface having a second shape, wherein the second surface is spaced apart from and cofaces the first surface. The first shape may be substantially triangular or substantially trapezoidal, according to various embodiments, and the second shape is substantially gear shaped. When the coupling elements of the first set and the second set are removably joined together, water is substantially prevented from leaking from the first surface to the second surface. In addition, the coupling elements are disposed on stringer tapes, and the surfaces of the stringer tapes adjacent the first surfaces of the coupling elements are laminated with a water resistant material.
US08695174B1
An anchor apparatus for a bead chain of window covering comprises a first anchor member, a second anchor member, an anchor plate and a main fastener. The first anchor member has a first space to hold the second anchor member. The anchor plate is held in a lower side of the first space and a second space of the second anchor member to form a coupling relationship with the main fastener. The main fastener runs through the lower sides of the first and second anchor members and the anchor plate for closing while the upper sides of the first and second anchor members are opened, thereby allow the bead chain to be moved. The main fastener can be released to allow the anchor plate to push the second anchor member to move with the upper sides of the first and second anchor members closed to fix the bead chain.
US08695173B2
The collar comprises a metal belt (10) having a projecting lug (18) in the vicinity of a first end (10A), and a hook (14) in the vicinity of a second end (10B), which hook has a front wall (15) designed to be retained against a rear wall (19) of the lug (18) while the hook (14) is hooked onto the lug (18) in order to maintain the collar in the tightened state. Seen from above, the rear wall (19) of the lug (18) has a V-shape having its tip (19A) pointing (S) away from the hook (14), and the front wall (15) of the hook (14) has hooking sides (15B) that are inclined relative to the transverse direction of the belt to match the inclination of the branches (19B) of the V-shape.
US08695172B2
A hose clamp includes a plate spring main body, and a slit and a first grip piece are formed at one end portion, while an insertion piece and a second grip piece are formed at the other end portion thereof. A locking piece having a hook-shaped locking portion is formed on the first grip piece via a bent portion, while an engagement holding portion is formed on the second grip piece. Provided on the locking piece are a taper portion which expands from the locking portion towards the bent portion and a stopper portion which extends substantially parallel to the first grip piece. The taper portion is disposed along a plane which is substantially parallel to a circumferential surface of the plate spring main body, and an intersection point between the taper portion and the stopper portion is offset in a width direction relative to the locking portion.
US08695163B2
A hold open arm assembly for a door closer to facilitate access to the holding feature by a resiliently biased plunger on a closer arm that is mounted to a soffit plate. A soffit ramp may extend from the soffit plate to provide a sloped surface for engagement by the plunger, leading to the plunger being gradually depressed as the door continues to open and receiving in a recessed area of its free end a rivet head at the soffit plate to hold the door open. When the first arm member pivots relative to the soffit plate and the plunger approaches the head, the plunger engages the sloped surface of the soffit ramp, slides along the sloped surface toward the head, and receives at least a portion of the head in the opening in the free end.
US08695159B2
A vacuum cleaner (1, 21, 31) comprises an air inlet opening (3), an air outlet opening (6) and a rotatable separator (9) for separating air and airborne particles. The separator (9) comprises at least one air entrance opening (109) located between the air inlet opening (3) and the air outlet opening (6). The vacuum cleaner (1, 21, 31) is provided with air-guide means (15, 22, 37) for guiding at least part of the air towards the separator (9). In use, the air-guide means (15, 22, 37) provides an at least partially closed boundary in axial direction for a column of rotating air (17) around the separator (9). The minimum distance (Rag) of an edge (115, 122) of the air-guide means (15, 22, 37) to the rotating axis (11) of the separator (9) is larger than a distance (Rs) of the air entrance opening (109) of the separator (9) to the rotating axis (11) of the separator (9).
US08695151B2
A re-usable, shed-resistant roller cover for use with paint and other heavy liquids is provided. This roller cover includes a non-woven, woven, or knit surface material adapted to be used with paint rollers, wherein the surface material is substantially free of texture, and wherein the surface material further includes a plurality of fibers, wherein the plurality of fibers further comprise natural fibers, synthetic fibers, or a combination thereof; and wherein the plurality of fibers have been interconnected with one another by mechanical means, chemical means, thermal means, solvent means, sonic means, or combinations thereof.
US08695148B2
A toothbrush includes a handle and a head mounted to the handle. The head may generally include a membrane attached to it and configured for attachment to a cleaning element. The membrane may be generally dome shaped and may be resiliently flexible when a brushing force is applied. A plurality of cleaning elements is mounted to the membrane. The cleaning elements may be attached using anchor free tufting. In addition, the cleaning elements may be sufficiently spaced so as to allow separation of the melted portion of the cleaning elements. In another arrangement, the head may also include walls or dams positioned between the cleaning elements. The walls prevent the melted portion of the cleaning elements from merging with the melted portion of another cleaning element. This isolation of the molten nylon allows the cleaning elements to move independently of each other.
US08695134B2
An apparatus for facilitating sleep is disclosed. Embodiments of the sleep system receive a person's lower arm in an arm cavity of a person laying in a sleep-on-side position. An exemplary sleep system has a trunk rest and head rest. Two separated cantilevered supports extending outwardly from the base portion of the head rest are in contact with and supported by a top edge of the trunk rest, thereby defining an arm aperture that receives the person's lower arm when laying in a sleep-on-side position. An arm cavity is defined by lower surfaces of the two cantilevered supports and a trunk rest cantilevered arm cavity surface that extends generally downward and inward.
US08695130B2
A support for a shower or a tub has a board adapted to be disposed on a bottom of a shower or a tub and has an I-beam attached to the board to support the board along a dimension thereof. The support may have an abutment that is attached to the board that supports a skirt that is integrally attached to the tub or shower.
US08695128B1
An adjustable return fitting includes a return fitting housing having a housing interior. A water jet adjustment dial including a dial body rotatably is carried by the return fitting housing and has a dial opening communicating with the housing interior of the return fitting housing. At least one dial tab is carried by the dial body. A baffle includes a baffle stem in the housing interior of the return fitting housing and has a main stem segment and a terminal stem segment extending from the main stem segment. The terminal stem segment is disposed within a rotational path of the at least one dial tab. A baffle disk is carried by the baffle stem in the housing interior of the return fitting housing.
US08695123B2
The present disclosure further provides a toilet for exhausting odorous air therefrom, comprising a bowl, a trap, a housing, a self-contained ventilation system, a water tank, and a water supply line. The bowl has a rim therearound wherein the bowl communicates with the rim. The main trap is contained in the bowl wherein the trap is for communicating the contents in the bowl with a drain conduit so as to provide a passageway from the bowl to a drain stack. The ventilation system includes an exhaust blower having a blower inlet and a blower outlet. The blower inlet is in communication with air space between the contents in the bowl and the rim. The blower outlet is in communication with the drain conduit downstream from the trap. The exhaust blower including a cut-off switch for deactivating the exhaust blower during a flush.
US08695112B2
Multilayer ballistic resistant articles formed from a combination of flexible and semi-rigid panel components. The flexible and semi-rigid panels may include woven fibrous layers, non-woven fibrous layers or both. The articles provide suitable protection against high energy ballistic threats, while remaining suitable for flexible vest applications.
US08701211B2
A method of producing sharp tips useful for scanning probe microscopy and related applications is described. The tips are formed by deposition into a mold(s) formed in a sacrificial crystalline semiconductor substrate with an exposed {311} surface which has been etched with a crystallographic etchant to form a 3-sided, trihedral or trigonal pyramidal mold(s) or indentation(s). The resultant tips, when released from the sacrificial mold material or substrate, are typically formed in the shape of a trigonal pyramid or a tetrahedron. Another embodiment involves starting with a {100} surface and the formation of two tips on opposite ends of a wedge at trigonal or trihedral points of the wedge. These tips are less susceptible to the tip wedge effect typical of tips formed using known methods.
US08701204B2
Referenced content is shared through collaborative business applications by detecting referenced content in an electronic communication. The referenced content references content stored in an external repository. The referenced content identifies a registered external repository connector. A determination is made whether an Access Control List (“ACL”) for the referenced content lacks an entry for a recipient of the electronic communication. Also an ACL entry is generated for the recipient in response to the recipient lacking an entry in the ACL for the referenced content. The ACL entry controls access to the referenced content for the recipient.
US08701203B2
A computer system including that restricts access of an unauthorized. The computer system preferably includes: a system unit; an identification information storage unit storing user identification information about a user of the computer system; a communication unit communicating with a service server storing user authentication information about the user of the computer system; and a controller receiving the user authentication information corresponding to the user identification information through the communication unit and controlling the system unit to perform a selective operation on the basis of the user authentication information.
US08701191B2
A method for controlling data access in a data-at-rest system includes executing a link intrusion prevention analysis between multiple layers of the data-at-rest system (for instance, at an application layer and a file layer), introducing a privacy policy at enforcement points that span multiple system layers, and dynamically altering the privacy policy.
US08701190B1
The probability of a computer file being malware is inferred by iteratively propagating domain knowledge among computer files, related clients, and/or related source domains. A graph is generated to include machine nodes representing clients, file nodes representing files residing on the clients, and optionally domain nodes representing source domains hosting the files. The graph also includes edges connecting the machine nodes with the related file nodes, and optionally edges connecting the domain nodes with the related file nodes. Priors and edge potentials are set for the nodes and the edges based on related domain knowledge. The domain knowledge is iteratively propagated and aggregated among the connected nodes through exchanging messages among the connected nodes. The iteration process ends when a stopping criterion is met. The classification and associated marginal probability for each file node are calculated based on the priors, the received messages, and the edge potentials associated with the edges through which the messages were received.
US08701181B2
A security payload is attached to a received binary executable file. The security payload is adapted to intercept application programming interface (API) calls to system resources from the binary executable file via export address redirection back to the security payload. Upon execution of the binary executable file, the security payload replaces system library export addresses within a process address space for the binary executable file with security monitoring stub addresses to the security payload. Upon the binary executable computer file issuing a call to a given API, the process address space directs the call to the given API back to the security payload via one of the security monitoring stub addresses that is associated with the given API. The security payload then can assess whether the call to the given API is a security breach.
US08701177B2
A graphical representation of the firewall and a network coupled to the firewall is generated and displayed. A number of an inbound port of the network is displayed. An arrow adjacent to the port number pointing toward the network is displayed to indicate that a communication is permitted to the port. The port number and the arrow are located between an icon for the network and an icon for the firewall. A port number of a destination of a communication originating from the network is displayed. Also, another arrow adjacent to the destination port number pointing toward the firewall is displayed to indicate that a communication is permitted to the destination port number. The destination port number and the other arrow are located between an icon for the network and an icon for the firewall.
US08701174B1
A technique controls access to a protected resource. The technique involves performing a series of authentication operations between an end user device and an authentication engine, and providing, while the series of authentication operations results in ongoing successful authentication, a virtual desktop session from a virtual desktop server to the end user device to enable a user at the end user device to access the protected resource using the virtual desktop session. The technique further involves closing the virtual desktop session when the series of authentication operations results in unsuccessful authentication (e.g., receipt of an incorrect authentication factor, loss of communications between the end user device and the authentication engine, etc.) to prevent further access to the protected resource using the virtual desktop session. Such operation provides additional security beyond that offered by a virtual desktop session without ongoing authentication, and thus protects against more advanced types of cyber threats.
US08701168B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that associates a digital certificate with an enterprise profile. During operation, an identity store receives a digital certificate from a client. Next, the identity store searches for a mapping rule which determines if an enterprise profile is associated with the digital certificate, wherein the enterprise profile facilitates in identifying user capabilities. If a mapping rule is found, the identity store executes the mapping rule to determine if an enterprise profile is associated with the digital certificate. If so, the enterprise profile, which is associated with the digital certificate, is returned to the client.
US08701163B2
An authorization method is implemented in an authorization engine external to an authorization server. The authorization server includes a cache. The external authorization engine comprises an authorization decision engine, and a policy analytics engine. The method begins when the authorization decision engine receives a request for an authorization decision. The request is generated (at the authorization server) following receipt of a client request for which an authorization decision is not then available at the server. The authorization decision engine determines an authorization policy to apply to the client request, applies the policy, and generates an authorization decision. The authorization decision is then provided to the policy analytics engine, which stores previously-generated potential cache directives that may be applied to the authorization decision. Preferably, the cache directives are generated in an off-line manner (e.g., during initialization) by examining each security policy and extracting one or more cache dimensions associated with each such policy. The policy analytics engine determines an applicable cache directive, and the decision is augmented to include that cache directive. The decision (including the cache directive) is then returned to the authorization server, where the decision is applied to process the client request. The cache directive is then cached for re-use at the authorization server.
US08701161B1
An optical communication system has a transmitter that generates an optical signal containing payload data and security data. The transmitter double modulates an optical signal where payload data is in-band and security data is out-of-band. If a man-in-the-middle attack occurs and the intrusion device is unable to detect the out-of-band signal, the intrusion device will not replicate the out-of-band signal thereby allowing the presence of the intrusion device to be detected.
US08701160B2
The present invention discloses a network security HTTP negotiation method and related devices. the method comprises: a server receiving an HTTP request message with a header field sent by a terminal, wherein the header field indicates security mechanism(s) supported by the terminal, or the security mechanism(s) supported by the terminal and indication parameter(s) which show that the terminal has been in an accessing safety state; the server parsing the HTTP request message, and sending a response message with negotiated security mechanism(s) supported by the server and priority parameter(s) thereof to the terminal according to the result of the parsing if the header field of the request message indicates the security mechanism(s) supported by the terminal; and the server receiving another HTTP request message sent by the terminal again to authenticate security mechanism(s) selected by the terminal, wherein the header field of the request message indicates the security mechanism(s) selected by the terminal according to the response message and the priority parameter(s) of the security mechanism(s). The invention expands the HTTP protocol, solves the problem that the terminal security mechanisms are difficult to be deployed, and improves the network service quality.
US08701154B2
An information processing apparatus including a user-information analyzing unit which analyzes user information and calculates a variation in parameter. A procedure selecting unit classifies, based on the calculated amount, the user into a predetermined group, and acquires, from a procedure database, a procedure corresponding to the group of the user. A basic part producing unit records, in a product's ROM, various set values. Based on the result of analysis by the user-information analyzing unit, a unique part producing unit records an initial parameter value in the product's ROM. A system controller controls a storage unit to store a characteristic amount extracted by an image-characteristic-amount extracting unit and setting conditions on the image processing which are supplied from a remote control signal receiving circuit so that both are associated to each other.
US08701151B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for downloading terrestrial DMB data using a multi-download algorithm. The multi-download algorithm enables the terrestrial DMB receiving apparatus to download and store the data service data in advance from the ensemble consisting of the video service data, the audio service data, and the data service data while enjoying the video or audio service, so that the DMB subscriber can be quickly provided with the data service data whenever needed later.
US08701140B2
A broadband data broadcast system that allows rich multimedia content to be delivered to a plurality of subscribers is disclosed. The broadband data broadcast system operates by multiplexing a plurality of rich multimedia digital information streams together at a centralized data broadcast center. The data broadcast center then broadcasts the multiplexed digital information stream on a broadcast medium such as satellite broadcasts, radio frequency broadcasts, or digital television broadcasts. A large number of receiver systems receive the broadcast signal and demodulate the broadcast signal to retrieve the multiplexed digital stream. The receiver system extracts a subset of digital information streams that the particular receiver system's owner has designated are of interest. The receiver system caches the interesting digital information stream for later access. The receiver system outputs the interesting digital information streams to a client system upon demand. The receiver system may also stream an incoming digital information stream to a client as the stream is received.
US08701137B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling an administrator to monitor and control usage of media content in a locale. In one embodiment, the locale includes one or more media devices that have access to media content from one or more local and/or remote content sources. Usage data defining usage of the media content by a user is obtained. A pattern including two or more media segments consumed by the user is detected based on the usage data and one or more predefined pattern detection rules. The administrator is then enabled to review the pattern and choose whether to block usage. Usage of at least one of the media segments included in the pattern is then blocked at the one or more media devices at the locale in response to the administrator choosing to block usage of the at least one of the media segments included in the pattern.
US08701132B2
The present invention provides a movement mechanism that is capable of easily releasing a bite-in state of a feed screw and a rack without increasing the size or the cost of an apparatus and without breaking the movement mechanism. A movement mechanism according to the present invention linearly moves a movement object, and includes: a feed screw; a drive motor for rotating the feed screw; a drive section for supplying a drive pulse to the drive motor; a movement member for linearly moving the movement object along with the rotation of the feed screw by the drive motor, the movement member being engaged with the feed screw; a detection section for detecting a situation in which the movement object is not moving; and a control section for, when the detection section has detected a situation in which the movement object is not moving, causing the drive section to output a drive pulse that causes the drive motor to rotate and vibrate.
US08701131B2
A disc conveying device includes a pair of rails positioned on opposite sides across a disc-shaped recording medium transported in the lead-in direction or ejecting direction in a direction orthogonal to a center axis direction, and extending in the direction of the conveyed disc-shaped recording medium; link arms that are turnably supported to a base chassis, are turnable as to the pair of rails, and move in parallel in a direction of separating the rails from the peripheral face of the disc-shaped recording medium; conveying rollers that convey the disc-shaped recording medium by being supported by the rails, and touch the peripheral face of the disc-shaped recording medium with at least one conveying roller rotating; and an ejecting lever that is turnable as to at least one of the rails, by which turning the peripheral face of the disc-shaped recording medium is pressed, and the disc-shaped recording medium is conveyed.
US08701126B2
Techniques for virtualized computer system environments running one or more virtual machines that obviate the extra host operating system (0/S) copying steps required for sending and receiving packets of data over a network connection, thus eliminating major performance problems in virtualized environment. Such techniques include methods for emulating network I/O hardware device acceleration-assist technology providing zero-copy I/O sending and receiving optimizations. Implementation of these techniques require a host 0/S to perform actions including, but not limited to: checking of the address translations (ensuring availability and data residency in physical memory), checking whether the destination of a network packet is local (to another virtual machine within the computing system), or across an external network; and, if local, checking whether either the sending destination VM, receiving VM process, or both, supports emulated hardware accelerated-assist on the same physical system. This optimization, in particular, provides a further optimization in that the packet data checksumming operations may be omitted when sending packets between virtual machines in the same physical system.
US08701120B2
The amount of host real storage provided to a large guest storage buffer is controlled. This control is transparent to the guest that owns the buffer and is executing an asynchronous process to update the buffer. The control uses one or more indicators to determine when additional host real storage is to be provided.
US08701116B2
The disclosure aims to solve the general problem of managing the system with multiple resources of different types. In particular, the disclosure is intended for the sharing of resources between multiple applications that can be executed on a computer platform for situations involving the addition of new resources that were not initially provided in order to achieve these objectives, conflicts are avoided between shared resources starting at the application, with access rights being allocated for each application, while an opening is maintained for the addition of new applications and resources. More specifically, according to this method for managing the resources of a computer system, that are shared between multiple applications, allocation rules are provided during the execution of the applications and the rules generate access rights for each application in relation to each shared resource in the form of successive steps. The steps are controlled for each shared resource by a specific control module and, with each command, a decision criteria module parameterization step checks the rule for allocating access rights, whereby the decision criteria can be shared between at least parts of the control modules.
US08701115B2
Techniques for configuring a hypervisor scheduler to make use of cache topology of processors and physical memory distances between NUMA nodes when making scheduling decisions. In the same or other embodiments the hypervisor scheduler can be configured to optimize the scheduling of latency sensitive workloads. In the same or other embodiments a hypervisor can be configured to expose a virtual cache topology to a guest operating system running in a virtual machine.
US08701100B2
A print controlling device is provided. The present print controlling device includes a storage unit to store information regarding software or firmware installed in an image forming apparatus, a search unit to search and identify whether there is firmware version newer than or later than that installed in the image forming apparatus using the stored firmware information, a determination unit to determine whether the searched or identified firmware of the newer or latest version is compatible with an application program installed in the print controlling device using compatibility information when firmware of the newer or latest version is identified, an interface unit to request and receive firmware of the newer or latest version from a firmware providing server according to the determination result, and an upgrade unit to upgrade the firmware of the image forming apparatus using the received firmware of the newer or latest version.
US08701099B2
A method, a system and a computer program product for effectively accelerating loop iterators using speculative execution of iterators. An Efficient Loop Iterator (ELI) utility detects initiation of a target program and initiates/spawns a speculative iterator thread at the start of the basic code block ahead of the code block that initiates a nested loop. The ELI utility assigns the iterator thread to a dedicated processor in a multi-processor system. The speculative thread runs/executes ahead of the execution of the nested loop and calculates indices in a corresponding multidimensional array. The iterator thread adds all the precomputed indices to a single queue. As a result, the ELI utility effectively enables a multidimensional loop to be replaced by a single dimensional loop. At the beginning of (or during) each iteration of the iterator, the ELI utility “dequeues” an entry from the queue to use the entry to access the array upon which the ELI utility iterates. The ELI utility performs concurrent iterations on the array by using the queue entries.
US08701096B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving an ordered sequence of programming language statements, identifying a first statement and one or more second statements that are configured to be executed after the first statement, in which the first statement is configured to initiate an asynchronous task that executes asynchronously with respect to the one or more second statements, and configuring the one or more second statements to execute upon completion of the asynchronous task.
US08701087B2
In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of annotating software objects. The method includes storing rules that define how to annotate a software object. The method further includes processing the software object according to the rules. The method further includes generating an annotation document based on the software object having been processed according to the rules. The method further includes generating an annotated software object based on the software object and the annotation document. As a result, annotated software objects may be generated in a dynamic, non-intrusive manner.
US08701086B2
An aspect of the present invention facilitates analysis of software code written in a programming language. In one embodiment, a visual interface designed to receive values identifying constructs of the programming language is provided on a display unit. In response to receiving, from a user using the visual interface, values corresponding to a construct of interest, a rule indicating a string of characters (that would constitute the construct of interest) is generated based on the received values. The generated rule is then applied to the software code to identify blocks matching the string of characters, each block representing a corresponding occurrence of the construct of interest in the software code.
US08701085B2
Application development and debugging can be aided through use of a graphical user interface that allows for mapping the relationship between user interface components and/or between business logic components. Particularly, an application development tool can support at least two views for developing an event-based application. In a static view, all possible bindings between components can be illustrated and, in some embodiments, edited. For example, an event generator component may be represented as a first screen component with links to one or other screen components with each link representing a different event that triggers one or more actions handled by the other components. The views may also illustrate data bindings between components. The application development tool can include a dynamic view where event relationships and/or data bindings between object instances can be viewed as code is executed.
US08701083B2
Systems and methods for varying software build properties using primary and supplemental build files
A primary file can be used to specify default build properties for software under development. A set of modified build properties may be stored in a supplemental file. The default build properties can be temporarily overridden with modified build properties for a given build, allowing freedom in the choice of build properties without proliferation of files used for the same purpose, which can be confusing. In addition, users can create new build commands for software under development, and associate the new commands with supplemental files. When the user invokes a new build command, the build process can override the default properties with the modified properties in the supplemental file, and then restore the defaults. Other advantages and features of the invention are described below.
US08701053B2
The present invention provides a decision method which decides a mask pattern used in an exposure apparatus comprising a projection optical system that projects a mask pattern including a main pattern and an auxiliary pattern onto a substrate, and an exposure condition in the exposure apparatus, the method including a step of calculating an image of a mask pattern formed on the substrate by the projection optical system while changing settings of the mask pattern and the exposure condition, and deciding the mask pattern and the exposure condition based on the image of the mask pattern, wherein the step includes determining whether or not to generate a new auxiliary pattern after the settings are changed.
US08701050B1
A computing device can be configured to receive an indication of a first input gesture, a first portion of the first input gesture indicating a first character key of a plurality of character keys of a graphical keyboard and a second portion of the first input gesture indicating a second character key of the plurality of character keys. The computing device also can be configured to determine, based at least in part on the first character key and the second character key, a candidate word. The computing device can be configured to output, for display at a region of a display device at which the graphical keyboard is displayed, a gesture completion path extending from the second character key. Further, the computing device can be configured to select, in response to receiving an indication of a second input gesture substantially traversing the gesture completion path, the candidate word.
US08701046B2
Techniques for the aggregate and hierarchical display of grouped items spanning multiple storage locations are described. Some techniques may aggregate items in response to user input identifying a scope for item retrieval. The user input may identify a scope such as selection of a local storage location or a search query for retrieving items. The aggregated items may span multiple storage locations and include items within the identified scope and related items outside the identified scope. A group of aggregated items are presented in a hierarchical display within a user interface. The hierarchical display may visually differentiate items inside and outside of the identified scope, and may identify parent-child relationship between related items. An aggregate header for the group of aggregated items may be displayed indicating total items in the group and a status for items in the group within the identified scope. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08701042B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a current configuration of graphical representations displayed in a user interface presented by a computing device, each of the graphical representations being associated with a respective computer-executable application, determining at least one usage signal corresponding to each of the graphical representations, the usage signal reflecting user interaction with the respective associated computer-executable application, determining one or more success metrics indicative of an efficiency of the current configuration of graphical representations, generating, using an optimization technique, a modified configuration of graphical representations based on the usage signals and the one or more success metrics, and presenting, in the user interface, at least a portion of the modified configuration of graphical representations.
US08701040B2
A panoramic graphical user interface includes a contiguous background and a collection of mixed-media content objects. The contiguous background includes one or more space-orientating graphical elements and is sized to fit within a first dimension of a display and to extend beyond a second dimension of the display. The collection of mixed-media content objects are anchored over the contiguous background. The collection of mixed-media content objects are arranged to fit within the first dimension of the display and arranged to extend beyond the second dimension of the display.
US08701038B2
Disclosed are a method for displaying a program execution window based on a user's location and a computer system that embodies the method, wherein a window of a selected and executed program is displayed on a selected local zone of a displaying screen. The computer system includes a microprocessor, a system memory, and a program storage device storing therein a program-window-displayed-location control program and application programs that can be selected and executed by a user. When the microprocessor executes the control program, the control program detects if any one of the application programs is selected by the user and uses a user location identification device to determine which one of a plurality of local zones that constitute the displaying screen that the user is located on. Then, a window of the execution of the selected application programs is displayed on the one of the local zones of the displaying screen.
US08701027B2
The present invention relates to a system and methodology to provide a glanceable, interactive user interface associated with one or more prioritized informational items or notifications. Such items can be received from external sources and/or from a notification system, wherein priorities can be assigned by the sources and/or automatically determined by a computer-based prioritization system. The notifications are then arranged and/or located in a graphical display according to the assigned priorities, thus enabling a user to quickly glance at the display and determine how many items are pending, where items have originated from, and what urgency level is associated with respective items. Various shapes, locations, colors, and sounds are utilized in a variety of ergonomic configurations, some controlled by the invocation of a variety of filters and informational lenses to enable users to easily manage a plurality of information sources.
US08701025B2
A computer method and system for interactive visualization and modification of a user interest model via an interactive graphical user interface is described. The method and system comprise displaying at least one keyword in a circular sector on a ring on the interactive graphical user interface, wherein the keyword represents an interest of the user interest model, wherein a radial position of the keyword on the ring represents a degree of interest stored as part of the user interest model, and wherein the circular sector represents a semantic type of the user interest model. The method and system further enable a user to actively influence the modeling server and graphically modify/change the degree of interest via an interaction component of the interactive graphical user interface.
US08701019B2
A social networking system includes a question and answer system that displays to a viewing user questions and answers provides by other users of the social networking system. The question and answer system may display answers to a particular question in a way that visually indicates both the global answer set and a subset of the global answer set, such as the viewing user's friends. The social networking system may also display to a viewing user news stories about another user asking or answering a question, where the format of the displayed new stories is based on an affinity that the viewing user has for the user who provided the question or answer mentioned in the news story. The displayed questions and/or answers may be associated with an object in the social networking system, where the user interface provides additional information about those objects.
US08701009B2
A system and method for analyzing time for a slide presentation that permits a speaker to coordinate available time with the number of slides to be shown and a method of operating the same is described. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a time allocation tool enabling a user to establish a presentation time with respect to at least one slide in the slide presentation and allocate any remaining presentation time to each remaining slide on a pro-rata basis and (2) a monitoring module associated with the time allocation tool to monitor the progress of the slide presentation and display a time status for the slide presentation as well as a slide number and a time status for a currently displayed slide.
US08701008B2
The sharing of video editing techniques is performed by receiving a project description file, thumbnail graphics, and a location identifier at a first server, wherein the project description file is generated during editing of multimedia content by the user, and wherein the thumbnail graphics represent multimedia editing objects incorporated into the edited multimedia content. The edited multimedia content is retrieved from a second server based on the location identifier. The edited multimedia content is synchronized with the thumbnail graphics and multimedia editing objects specified by the project description file. The synchronized edited multimedia content, thumbnail graphics, and multimedia editing objects are displayed.
US08701005B2
Recorded video information is managed by annotation markers. The recorded video information is annotated with at least one marker and the annotated video information is saved in an electronically searchable file.
US08701003B2
Methods and apparatus for modifying a user interface as a function of the detected emotional state of a system user are described. In one embodiment, stress analysis is performed on received speech to generate an emotional state indicator value, e.g., a stress level indicator value. The stress level indicator value is compared to one or more thresholds. If a first threshold is exceeded the user interface is modified, e.g., the presentation rate of speech is slowed. If a second threshold is not exceeded, another modification to the user interface is made, e.g., the speech presentation rate is accelerated. If the stress level indicator value is between first and second thresholds, user interface operation continues unchanged. The user interface modification techniques of the present invention may be used in combination with known knowledge or expertise based user interface adaptation features.
US08701000B2
Methods and systems for managing open documents are disclosed. Document representations are displayed in a carousel display. Each of the representations displays a document viewport portion of content from a corresponding open document. Upon determining a first gesture associated with a selected representation, a full view of the document viewport portion of the open document corresponding to the selected representation is displayed. The content of the open document displayed in the document viewport portion may be adjusted based upon a user action in the open document. Upon determining a second gesture, the full view of the document viewport portion is closed and the adjusted content is displayed as the document viewport portion in the carousel display. A greater portion of the open document than what is visible in the document viewport portion is displayed.
US08700998B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a foreign language translation tool that assists in the localization of an application. In particular, the foreign language translation tool enables translation in the context of a running application. In addition, the tool provides an editing mechanism so that the user may modify or correct the translation of the selected text and allows the user to easily and quickly verify the correctness of translations.
US08700988B2
Systems and techniques to design and deploy portal pages include selectively interpreting a portal page template based on a mode of operation. The interpretation of the portal page template results in presentation of a design-time application operable to edit the portal page template if the mode of operation is design-time, and the interpretation of the portal page template results in presentation of a run-time application operable to interact with portal dynamic content if the mode of operation is run-time. Interpreting the portal page template at design-time can result in code that enables editing of the portal page template being added, and the added code can be client-side scripting that enables addition of a content component to a content container in the portal page template using a drag-and-drop action in a WYSIWYG portal layout editor.
US08700987B2
A device receives and displays an electronic book or electronic magazine, and receives user selection of a portion of content of the electronic book or electronic magazine. The device executes an application that obtains items of data related to the selected portion of content, receives selection of one or more items of the data, and attaches the one or more items of data to the selected portion of the content in a bookmark fashion to annotate the e-book or e-magazine.
US08700986B1
A plurality of objects associated with respective footnote reference information within a document are generated. An overflow object associated with overflow footnote reference information corresponding to a previous footnote marker appearing on a previous page is invoked to lay out the overflow footnote reference information, generating overflow layout data. A current page object associated with current page footnote reference information that corresponds to a current page footnote marker appearing on the page is invoked to lay out the current page footnote reference information, generating current page footnote reference information layout data, if an available footnote height is sufficient to lay out the current page footnote reference information. The page is displayed based on the overflow layout data and the current page footnote reference information layout data.
US08700981B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding data.
US08700977B2
Methods for Error Correction Code (ECC) decoding include producing syndromes from a set of bits, which represent data that has been encoded with the ECC. An Error Locator Polynomial (ELP) is generated based on the syndromes. At least some of the ELP roots are identified, and the errors indicated by these roots are corrected. Each syndrome may be produced by applying to the bits vector operations in a vector space. Each syndrome is produced by applying vector operations using a different basis of the vector space. The ELP may be evaluated on a given field element by operating on ELP coefficients using serial multipliers, wherein each serial multiplier performs a sequence of multiplication cycles and produces an interim result in each cycle. Responsively to detecting at least one interim result indicating that the given element is not an ELP root, the multiplication cycles are terminated before completion of the sequence.
US08700974B2
In a memory system, a memory controller includes a randomizer and a seed controller. The seed controller provides a seed to the randomizer and includes; a first register block performing a first cyclic shift operation using a first parameter related to the nonvolatile memory device, a second register block performing a second cyclic shift operation using a second parameter related to the nonvolatile memory device, and a seed generating block generating the seed from the first and second cyclic shift results.
US08700973B1
Systems and methods are provided for decoding received codewords using an LDPC code. An LDPC post-processor is disclosed for performing post-processing when standard LDPC decoding fails due to a trapping set. The LDPC post-processor may direct the LDPC decoder to decode the received codeword again, but may change some of the inputs to the LDPC decoder so that the LDPC decoder does not fail in the same way. In one embodiment, the LDPC post-processor may modify the symbol positions in the received codeword that correspond to a particular unsatisfied check. In another embodiment, the LDPC post-processor may modify the messages in the decoder's iterative message algorithm that correspond to the symbol positions.
US08700970B2
A system and method for decoding data. Multi-dimensional encoded data may be received that potentially has errors. The multi-dimensional encoded data may encode each input bit in a set of input bits multiple times in multiple different dimensions to generate encoded bits. The encoded bits may be decoded in at least one of the multiple dimensions. If one or more errors are detected in a plurality of encoded bits in the at least one of the multiple dimensions, an intersection sub-set of the encoded data may be decoded that includes data encoding the same input bits encoded by the plurality of encoded bits in at least a second dimension of the multiple dimensions. The values of the input bits by decoding the intersection sub-set may be changed.
US08700968B2
Methods and apparatus utilize hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions and retransmissions that are usable on multiple carriers, i.e. joint HARQ processes. For example, a downlink (DL) shared channel transmission of a joint HARQ process is received on one of the carriers. A first part of an identity of the joint HARQ process is determined by using HARQ process identity data received on a shared control channel. A second part of the joint HARQ process identity is determined using additional information. The joint HARQ process identity is then determined by combining the first part and the second part. A WTRU is provided that is configured to receive the DL shared channel and to make the aforementioned determinations. A variety of other methods and apparatus configurations are disclosed for utilizing joint HARQ processes, in particular in the context of DC-HSDPA.
US08700967B2
A predetermined logical operation is performed to unsent data which is sent toward the receiver 50 and to retransmission data which is resent toward the receiver, and the transmission data obtained by the logical operation is sent to the receiver.
US08700964B2
A test apparatus that tests a device under test, including (i) a master domain that includes a master period signal generating section, which generates a master period signal, where the master domain operates based on the master period signal and (ii) a slave domain that includes a slave period signal generating section, which generates a slave period signal, where the slave domain operates based on the slave period signal. The master period signal generating section receives a control signal and resumes generation of the master period signal, which is on hold, and the slave period signal generating section receives the control signal, initializes phase data of the slave period signal, and resumes generation of the slave period signal, which is on hold.
US08700961B2
A controller communicates with a plurality of multi-chip memory packages. Each multi-chip memory package comprises a plurality of memory dies, each having a respective plurality of memory blocks, some of which are good and some of which are bad. The controller determines a number of good blocks in each memory die. Based on the determined number of good blocks in each memory die, the controller selects a memory die from each of the multi-chip memory packages to access in parallel, wherein the selected memory dies are not necessarily all in the same relative position in each multi-chip package. The controller then creates a metablock from a set of good blocks from each of the selected memory dies, wherein a maximum number of metablocks that can be created across the selected memory dies is determined by a lowest number of good blocks in the selected memory dies.
US08700959B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to scalable input/output (I/O) function level error detection, isolation, and reporting. An aspect of the invention includes detecting an error in a communication initiated between the function and a system memory, the communication including an I/O request from an application. Future communication is prevented between the one function and the system memory in response to the detecting. The application is notified that the error in communication occurred in response to the detecting.
US08700958B2
Network survivability is quantified in such a way that failure cases can be compared and ranked against each other in terms of the severity of their impact on the various performance measures associated with the network. The degradation in network performance caused by each failure is quantified based on user-defined sets of thresholds of degradation severity for each performance measure. Each failure is simulated using a model of the network, and a degradation vector is determined for each simulated failure. A comparison function is defined to map the degradation vectors into an ordered set, and this ordered set is used to create an ordered list of network failures, in order of the network degradation caused by each failure.
US08700949B2
In one embodiment, a method of storing data includes storing a first copy of data in a solid state memory and storing a second copy of the data in a hard disk drive memory substantially simultaneously with the storing the first copy. In another embodiment, a system for storing data includes a solid state memory, at least one hard disk drive memory, and a controller for controlling storage of data in the solid state memory and the hard disk drive memory. Other methods, systems, and computer program products are also described according to various embodiments.
US08700942B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a power supply control portion that performs control of a power supply; a detection signal emitting portion that, when a connection of an external power source is detected in an operation stand-by state in which power consumption is suppressed and an operation is on stand-by, emits a detection signal only for a certain time period, in accordance with the detection; and a power supply portion that supplies power to the power supply control portion based on the detection signal emitted by the detection signal emitting portion and also stops the power supply to the power supply control portion after a certain time period elapses from the connection in the operation stand-by state.
US08700933B2
A method and apparatus to monitor architecture events is disclosed. The architecture events are linked together via a push bus mechanism with each architectural event having a designated time slot. There is at least one branch of the push bus in each core. Each branch of the push bus may monitor one core with all the architectural events. All the data collected from the events by the push bus is then sent to a power control unit.
US08700925B2
Metrics representing a combined measure of power used by a central processing unit (CPU) and power used by a graphics processing unit (GPU) are compared to a shared supply power and thermal power budgets. Power used by the CPU and power used by the GPU are regulated in tandem using a fuzzy logic control system that can implement fuzzy rules that describe the management within thermal and supply power design constraints of the platform.
US08700913B1
Detection of fake antivirus includes classifying text content of a user interface of an application program and scanning files associated with the application program for suspicious code. The user interface may be a graphical user interface (GUI) window of the application program. The text content may be obtained from a painted portion of the GUI window and by intercepting text changing operations performed on the GUI window. The text content may be input to a learning model to determine whether or not the application program belongs to the antivirus category. The application program is deemed to be fake antivirus when the application program is classified as belonging to the antivirus category and has a file with suspicious code.
US08700906B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for secure computing in multi-tenant data centers. These techniques permit a client to delegate computation of a function to multiple physical computing devices without the client's information being vulnerable to exposure. The techniques prevent discovery of the client's information by a malicious entity even if that entity is a co-tenant on many of the same physical computing devices as the client.
US08700905B2
A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer is transmitted to the signature capture apparatus. The electronic document and the first hash sum thereof are displayed on the first monitor. The first hash sum is also displayed on the second monitor. After electronically capturing the handwritten signature, the signature data are encrypted using the first hash sum. A digital signature image is generated in the signature capture apparatus and the first hash sum is embedded therein. The embedded first hash sum is then extracted in the computer. If the extracted hash sum is identical to the first hash sum generated in the computer apparatus, the encrypted signature data and the signed document are stored.
US08700897B2
A method and terminal equipment for applying digital rights management are disclosed by the present disclosure. The method includes the following steps: performing encryption processing on a portion of the content of a multimedia file using a pre-generated key when downloading the multimedia file; and downloading the encrypted multimedia file to a designated terminal equipment. With the present disclosure, the downloading speed of the multimedia file can be increased, and the waiting time for playing the file can be decreased.
US08700893B2
Certification of a key, which a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) has attested as being non-migratable, can be performed in a single round trip between the certificate authority (CA) and the client that requests the certificate. The client creates a certificate request, and then has the TPM create an attestation identity key (AIK) that is bound to the certificate request. The client then asks the TPM to sign the new key as an attestation of non-migratability. The client then sends the certificate request, along with the attestation of non-migratability to the CA. The CA examines the certificate request and attestation of non-migratability. However, since the CA does not know whether the attestation has been made by a trusted TPM, it certifies the key but includes, in the certificate, an encrypted signature that can only be decrypted using the endorsement key of the trusted TPM.
US08700886B2
A processor configured to operate with multiple operation codes for each of a plurality of instructions comprises memory circuitry and processing circuitry coupled to the memory circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to decode a first operation code to produce a given one of the instructions and to decode a second operation code different than the first operation code to also produce the given instruction. Thus, the same instruction is produced for execution by the processing circuitry regardless of whether the first operation code or the second operation code is decoded. The assignment of multiple operation codes to a given instruction may occur in conjunction with the design of the processor, and dynamic selection of a particular one of those operation codes may be performed in conjunction with assembly of code for execution by the processor.
US08700882B2
A device for storing data includes a sequence generator configured to generate a first number sequence that is a pseudorandom number sequence, a cross-correlation unit configured to produce a second number sequence that is a cross-correlation between the first number sequence and a third number sequence, and a write and read unit configured to write the second number sequence in memory and read the second number sequence from the memory, wherein the cross-correlation unit is further configured to reconstruct the third number sequence by obtaining a cross-correlation between the first number sequence and the second number sequence read from the memory.
US08700881B2
A controller, a data storage device and a data storage system including the controller, and a data processing method are provided. The controller may process a plurality of instructions in parallel by including a plurality of address translation central processing units (CPUs) in a multi-channel parallel array structure, thereby improving the performance of a semiconductor memory system.
US08700879B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to performing concurrent memory operations.
US08700875B1
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a macroscopic cluster view of storage devices, as opposed to merely an isolated view from an individual node. For example, nodes within a node cluster may be queried for storage device reports comprising storage device information regarding storage devices with which the nodes are respectively connected (e.g., I/O performance statistics, path connections, storage device attributes, status, error history, etc.). The storage device reports may be aggregated together to define one or more storage device data structures (e.g., a storage device data structure comprising one or more tables that may be populated with storage device information). In this way, the cluster view may be generated based upon querying one or more storage device data structures (e.g., an error cluster view, a storage device cluster view, a node summary cluster view, etc.).
US08700874B2
A method performed in a memory controller for maintaining segmented counters split into primary and secondary memories, the primary memory faster. Events occur that require incrementing one of the segmented counters and the memory controller responds by incrementing a corresponding primary part in the primary memory. Each time a primary part is rolling over the memory controller determines that a secondary part should be updated. Also, the memory controller periodically determines that the secondary part of a segmented counter should be opportunistically updated. The opportunistic update is based on a probability function and a random number. The secondary part includes at least all of bits of the segmented counter not in the primary part and is stored in the secondary memory. Each time an update to the secondary part occurs, both the secondary part and primary part of the segmented counter must be updated.
US08700871B2
A storage resource is effectively utilized in migration of a snapshot. First de-duplication efficiency which is de-duplication efficiency of snapshot data, and second de-duplication efficiency which is de-duplication efficiency of snapshot entities created on the basis of the snapshot data are calculated and compared with each other. Based on a result of the comparison as well as a first preservation period set for the snapshot in the migration source and a second preservation period set for the snapshot in the migration destination, one of the following methods is selected: a first method of migrating an snapshot image, a second method of migrating snapshot data to an archive storage system, and a third method of migrating data materialized from a first differential volume, a second differential volume, and a switch snapshot.
US08700868B1
According to one general aspect, a method is provided for managing memory when tracking an estimated number of events, the method using a logarithmic count to track the estimated number. The method may detect a new occurrence of the event and increment the logarithmic count when no bits in a random number are in bit positions of significance. The bit positions of significance may be based on the value of the logarithmic counter and may be represented by bits having a non-zero value in a bitmask.
US08700864B2
A method to monitor the behavior of a working set cache of a full data set at run time and determine whether it provides a performance benefit is disclosed. An effectiveness metric of the working set cache is tracked over a period of time by efficiently computing the amount of physical memory consumption the cache saves and comparing this to a straightforward measure of its overhead. If the effectiveness metric is determined to be on an ineffective side of a selected threshold amount, the working set cache is disabled. The working set cache can be re-enabled in response to a predetermined event.
US08700859B2
The present invention is directed to a transfer request block (TRB) cache system and method. A cache is used to store plural TRBs, and a mapping table is utilized to store corresponding TRB addresses in a system memory. A cache controller pre-fetches the TRBs and stores them in the cache according to the content of the mapping table.
US08700849B2
A storage device includes: an input/output section connected to an electronic apparatus; a memory for storing data; a control section accessing the memory based on an instruction input from the electronic apparatus to the input/output section; and a communication section communicating with an external apparatus separate from the electronic apparatus, wherein the control section accesses a range in the memory specified by the electronic apparatus based on the instruction from the electronic apparatus and causes data associated with the accessed range to be transmitted and received between the communication section and the external apparatus.
US08700836B2
A system, apparatus and method for efficient utilization of available band-width on the system's bus connection. The system includes a scheduler configured to receive a virtual schedule that provides at least one slot for sending a message over the communication bus. A module is configured to send a message over the communication bus.
US08700832B1
A method for adding file based storage hardware to a block based storage system includes detecting, by the file based storage hardware, an electrical coupling between the file based storage hardware and the block based storage system, the block based storage system having a set of logical units (LUs) predefined as file based storage hardware specific LUs. The method includes forwarding, by the file based storage hardware, an initiator record to the block based storage system, the initiator record configured to control access by the file based storage hardware to data stored by the block based storage system and the initiator record having a file based storage hardware specific identifier. The method includes, following the block based storage system associating the initiator record having the file based storage hardware specific identifier with the predefined file based storage hardware specific LUs, establishing a communication path with the block based storage system.
US08700830B2
A memory buffering system is disclosed that arbitrates bus ownership through an arbitration scheme for memory elements in chain architecture. A unified host memory controller arbitrates bus ownership for transfer to a unified memory buffer and other buffers within the chain architecture. The system is used within a communication system with a bus in chain architectures and parallel architectures.
US08700818B2
Various memory devices (e.g., DRAMs, flash memories) are serially interconnected. The memory devices need their identifiers (IDs). Each of the memory devices generates IDs for neighboring memory devices. The IDs are generated synchronously with clock. Command data and previously generated ID data are synchronously registered. The registered data is synchronously output and provided as parallel data for calculation of a new ID for the neighboring device. The calculation is an addition or subtraction by one. The IDs are generated in a packet basis by interpreting serial packet-basis commands received at the serial input in response to clocks. A clock latency is controlled in response to the interpreted ID and the clock. In accordance with the controlled clock latency, a new ID is provided in a packet basis. In high frequency generation applications (e.g., 1 GHz), two adjacent devices connected in daisy chain fashion are guaranteed enough time margin to perform the interpretation of packet commands.
US08700814B2
An apparatus includes a first module including a bus port for coupling the first module to a bus; a first configuration port receiving an input indicating whether address assignment is enabled/disabled for the first module; a second configuration port providing an output indicating whether address assignment is enabled/disabled for a second module; a memory to store a unique address, wherein the unique address identifies the first module; and a controller coupled to a central management unit (CMU) via the bus, the controller to receive the unique address from the CMU, determine whether address assignment is enabled for the first module and store the unique address in the memory if address assignment is enabled, enable/disable address assignment for a second module when the second module is coupled to the first module, and the controller to enable/disable address assignment for the second module based on a message from the CMU.
US08700807B2
A baseboard management controller is disclosed. The baseboard management controller adapted to monitor a host comprises a baseboard management control module, a memory controller and a video graphic array (VGA) module. The VGA module comprises a video controller, a decoder, a select circuit and a mapping circuit. The decoder receives a transaction signal from a first local bus and decodes a first address signal contained in the transaction signal. The select circuit selectively transfers data from one of the microprocessor bus, the video controller and the memory controller back to the first local bus according to a control signal. The mapping circuit being connected with the decoder maps the first address signal and a second address signal to a third address signal, updates the first address signal and transfers an updated transaction signal.
US08700806B1
A service level objective (SLO) subsystem that includes an SLO engine in a network storage system that allows new degrees of freedom to be added to the SLO subsystem, without requiring any modification of an associated SLO engine or the system's existing SLOs, and without requiring the SLO engine to have any a priori knowledge of the new degrees of freedom. In certain embodiments, the system has a modular design which includes the SLO engine and one or more SLO modules that interface with the SLO engine. Each SLO module corresponds to a different degree of freedom. Each SLO module evaluates SLO compliance and determines what specific action(s) within its corresponding degree of freedom should be taken to comply with an SLO.
US08700804B1
A mobile application platform enables a user of a mobile device to manage Personalized Offline Web Applications (POW Apps) on a variety of devices. A Virtual Directory (VD) technology that is multi-source capable permits the POW code and content to be variably localized (Developer/User controls POW content/code stored on the user's device). The end user enters login information into a mobile application that is using the engine of the mobile application platform and receives POW code and content individually configured to the end user. A content manager or publisher controls what aspects of the POW application are stored locally and what aspects are kept on the server. When content is requested that is not stored locally, the content is either downloaded and opened locally or accessed on the web server like in the case of a streaming video or audio. After viewing any portion of the video or audio file, the user can decide to download the entire video or audio for offline use. The user is given this option or the content developer can predetermine how different types of POW code and content are handled through configuration settings. In addition to accessing or downloading online content, periodic communication back to the mobile application platform cloud can be implemented to get updates to the content and report back user activity, such as test scores and usage statistics.
US08700802B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems for providing dynamic content to users are described. The dynamic content is received from a developer. A plurality of dynamic representations of the dynamic content is provided. The plurality of dynamic representations corresponds to a plurality of dynamic formats. Logic corresponding to the plurality of dynamic representations is provided to the developer.
US08700793B2
In a method, an apparatus and a computer program product for service decomposition in IP-broadcast networks, a full service bundle is detected within a first transport stream protocol having a plurality of broadcast packets corresponding to respective broadcast services. The respective service identifiers of the plurality of broadcast packets are evaluated, and the full service bundle is decomposed to create a plurality of decomposed broadcast packets on the basis of the service identifiers. For at least one same service identifier the corresponding plurality of decomposed broadcast packets is sent with the first transport stream protocol as a main service bundle, and for at least one remaining same service identifier the corresponding plurality of decomposed broadcast packets is sent with a second transport stream protocol as a sub service bundle. The second transport stream protocol contains synchronization information of the first transport stream protocol.
US08700788B2
A method and system for secure automatic user login to a destination website in a single action, without the use of a file manager, cookies, or without storing user login information in a data folder having restricted access or that is external to the user PC. A user computer having a display, a mouse, and a browser is activated for establishing an Internet connection. The connection may be established from the user computer to the destination website with a single mouse click or a single touch on a displayed vendor icon or other symbol placed on a displayed graphic of the user PC display such as the desktop, task bar, or tool bar during a prior setup process. During the setup, an encrypted token is produced encrypting the user credential information. The encrypted token may be stored in the user data folder.
US08700785B2
The present invention provides an improved SIP communication protocol. An NAT (Network Address Translator) traversal method is added before the SIP communication protocol, i.e. a client to client (C2C) module function is added to improve the function of SIP communication protocol, so as to solve the problem that the RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) packets cannot traverse NAT firewall to achieve C2C communication after SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is ended in VoIP. The major content of the present invention is to conduct a plurality of detection before SIP communication protocol, so as to predict the allocation rules of the port number by the C2C module, and open the RTP channel for C2C.
US08700776B2
A server system hosts a plurality of conversations. For a respective conversation the server system receives units of content from respective participants in the conversation. The server system receives a sequence of edits to a respective content unit of the conversation from at least one participant other than an initial author of the content unit to produce a revised content unit. The server system stores a respective timestamp for each distinct edit in the sequence of edits to the content unit, including distinct timestamps for at least first and second edits to the content unit. The server system updates the conversation with the revised content unit and automatically provides the updated conversation to the one or more server systems hosting conversations for the participants in the conversation.
US08700772B2
A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user configures a presentation environment into one or more sub-environments, restricts access to one or more devices of a presentation sub-environment, or schedules one or more resources within a presentation sub-environment.
US08700766B2
A server computer receives web request events corresponding to web requests issued by users. Each web request event includes: a cookie that identifies the user computer that originated the corresponding web request; an IP address corresponding to the user computer; and a date/time stamp indicating when the corresponding web request was received at a web server. The server stores the web request events. The server selects a subset of the web request events, all of which are associated with the same cookie. Then the server computes a geographical location corresponding to the user computer, where the computation uses the IP address associated with the web request event. The server determines the local time and day of week corresponding to the web request. The server then classifies the user computer based, at least in part, on a usage pattern corresponding to the web request events in the subset.
US08700762B2
There is described a method for monitoring at a management terminal events of a given type occurring in a communication network. The communication network comprises a plurality of network elements. The management terminal has a browser suitable for supporting a web like management graphic interface. The method comprises: at one of the network elements, providing a monitoring module; at the management terminal, transmitting to the monitoring module a request for monitoring the events of the given type, the request including an access token suitable for obtaining authorization to access a monitoring channel between the monitoring module and the management terminal; at the monitoring module: listening for possible management information relative to the events, each time the management information are received, processing it to generate updating data, using the access token for accessing the monitoring channel and transmitting the updating data to the management terminal through the monitoring channel.
US08700757B2
A method for executing a management operation by a terminal in a communications system. The method comprises the followings: The terminal receives the management operation commands that indicate the operation to target operation nodes in the device capability management object and operates them. The said operation initiates the process for executing the corresponding device capability management operation, then the said management operation transfers the device capability status. Also, the corresponding terminal and system are disclosed. The present invention can centrally manage and control the terminal capability.
US08700755B2
A transmission device is included in a communication network, and the transmission device includes a link trace frame transfer unit that transfers, from a first transferring port corresponding to an operation system route, a first link trace frame that is received and that is destined to a target transmission device, and that transfers, from a second transferring port corresponding to a preliminary system route, a second link trace frame that is distinguishable from the first link trace frame, when transferring ports of the transmission device have a route redundancy configuration; and a link trace response frame transmission unit that transmits, in response to receiving the second link trace frame, a second link trace response frame to an origin transmission device, the second link trace response frame being distinguishable from a first link trace response frame that is transmitted in response to receiving the first link trace frame.
US08700750B2
Described is a technology in which a destination machine (e.g., a server) is synchronized with source data via an API, including to configure the destination machine. The API includes functions for specifying the source data, the destination machine, and the deployment/synchronization type, along with a function for synchronizing the source data to the destination machine. The API allows combining content, configuration data and/or database data into a single unit (object). The API handles communication with a service/agent on the destination machine that configures that destination machine based on the source data. The API may include functions for packaging web applications, deploying web applications, synchronizing websites, deploying archive data, and/or deploying manifest data. In this manner, deployment/synchronization (including backup operations) may be performed against a group of objects using an API.
US08700745B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for managing life-cycles of a “software as a service” (SaaS) software application. In one embodiment, a method comprises installing the SaaS software application in a system landscape on a computer server, the system landscape containing at least an application server and a database (DB) server; separating system data from customer data and storing them in different databases; creating a virtual machine (VM) image for the system landscape, the VM image to include the databases containing system data and exclude the databases containing customer data; deploying the SaaS software application to one or more computer servers by loading VMs based on the VM image; when the SaaS software application need to be upgraded to a new version, preparing a new VM image with the new version of the SaaS software application and using the new VM image.
US08700744B2
A data Interface for transferring digital data between a host and a client over a communication path using packet structures linked together to form a communication protocol for communicating a pre-selected set of digital control and presentation data. The signal protocol is used by link controllers configured to generate, transmit, and receive packets forming the communications protocol, and to form digital data into one or more types of data packets, with at least one residing in the host device and being coupled to the client through the communications path. The interface provides a cost-effective, low power, bi-directional, high-speed data transfer mechanism over a short-range “serial” type data link, which lends itself to implementation with miniature connectors and thin flexible cables which are especially useful in connecting display elements such as wearable micro-displays to portable computers and wireless communication devices.
US08700733B2
An apparatus and method for executing an application within a mobile device is provided. The method includes detecting, by the mobile device, a connection with a host device through a wired interface; receiving, from the host device, a request to execute a specific application installed in the mobile device; and executing the specific application according to the received request.
US08700709B2
Architecture that enables conditional location-based notifications. One or multiple factors (filter criteria) can be considered, and triggering of a notification can be based on some or all of the factors. Those factors can be static (e.g., time based) or dynamic (e.g., a previous user location) and extend the ability to filter unnecessary notifications, and thus, increase user satisfaction. The filter criteria can include checking user back balance, and calendar as prerequisites to sending a notification.
US08700707B2
In an embodiment, a communication device may be provided. The communication device may include a first communication interface configured to receive a first data portion from a corresponding communication device. The communication device may further include a second communication interface configured to receive data from a further communication device. The further communication device may receive a second data portion from the corresponding communication device. The first data portion and the second data portion may be useful data for a user of the communication device. The communication device may further include a synchronizer configured to synchronize the first data portion with the second data portion based on the data received from the other communication device via the second communication interface.
US08700702B2
This invention provides a terminal searching for web pages on the web and extracting the prescribed data from the web pages and a server verifying and accumulating the extracted data. The prescribed data can be extracted from the web pages on the web in a manner that the process relating to the data extraction is distributed between the terminal and the server. Therefore, necessary processes up to the data extraction are distributed, and the burden placed on each apparatus can be lessened. Further, new data not formerly found in the web pages can be found out and extracted from the web pages that has been updated or newly made.
US08700699B2
Techniques describe providing a web page for a proxy-based browser on a mobile device to enhance user experience. A proxy server receives a layout of the web page, extracts web elements from the web page, and captures images of the web elements of the web page. The web elements are incorporated with a background screen image to form a composite screen format to represent a display of the web page. The background screen image is compressed by splitting an encoded frame into fixed-size slices and splitting a previous screen frame into fixed-size slices. The proxy server provides the web page synchronized with the mobile device based on the composite screen format and the compressed background screen image. Furthermore, the proxy server receives input from a user to provide updates to web elements that are dynamic on the web page to be displayed on the screen of the mobile device.
US08700697B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for acquiring a specialized Control User Interface (CUI) in a remote control device of home network. A first message is transmitted to a client requesting a User Interface (UI) list. The UI list is received from the client. The UI list comprises specialized CUI information from a server. A second message is transmitted to the client requesting the specialized CUI in accordance with the specialized CUI information in the UI list. The specialized CUI is received from the server via the client.
US08700693B2
An extensible mechanism for executing code on one of one or more servers and in association with one of one or more client applications (i.e. “clients”). In accordance with a model of the extensible mechanism, the execution of server side code is partitioned into three stages, a view stage for determining the code for running, a server stage for determining the server to execute the code and a launcher stage to determine the client for interacting with the server to run the code. Lists of processing elements at each stage extensibly configure the mechanism to work with different types of server side code to be run, different servers to run the code and different clients with which to interact with the server running the code. By modeling the execution of server side code in stages and using lists of processing elements, the mechanism is easily extended to new code types, servers and launchers. The extensible mechanism can be plugged into or otherwise adapt another application, for example, an integrated development environment.
US08700686B1
A computer-implemented method for estimating a time-varying parameter of a nonlinear system includes receiving input data for the nonlinear system, the input data including a desired state and a desired state derivative of the nonlinear system for a number of time points, generating for one of the plurality of time points an approximate time-varying parameter based on at least the desired state, the desired state derivative, an approximate state of the nonlinear system, and a Lyapunov function, and providing the approximate time-varying parameter for the one of the plurality of time points.
US08700684B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for managing files in a distributed storage system. The apparatus and method for managing a file in a distributed storage system according to the present invention counts the number of inquiries on a file requested by a client; selects the file as a hot file if the number of inquiries counted in a certain counting period is larger than a hot file selection threshold value; and increases the number of copies of the file selected as a hot file or stores the file selected as a hot file in a storage device having a relatively good performance.
US08700681B2
A method and system for generating schema to Java descriptors. In one embodiment, a second object having customized schema to Java mapping information is created. The second object is placed within a first object. Via the first object, schema to Java generation is initiated.
US08700680B2
Information that maps a point in XML document structure to a name of a variable and an EXI grammar form that includes grammars each defining relationship among an event representative of an element in the XML document structure, an EXI event code, and a next grammar for use are read. A selecting unit selects grammars in the EXI grammar form such that the grammars are traced in sequence. A determining unit updates a grammar stack which identifies a current position in the XML document structure each time a grammar is selected. If the updated stack does not indicates the point, a function setting unit sets a skip function for skipping a corresponding value in an EXI stream, otherwise, sets a read function for reading and providing the corresponding value to a corresponding variable. A composer generates an EXI decoder including skip and read functions set for individual grammars.
US08700673B2
Metadata search is enhanced by utilizing relationship data indicating relationships between metadata items. A server generates an index mapping metadata items to terms associated with the metadata items and a graph describing relationships between each of the metadata items. When the server receives a search request, the server locates a candidate set of the metadata items based on the search term(s) and the index. The server performs a link analysis of the graph to determine a relationship score for each metadata item. For each particular metadata item in the candidate set of the metadata items, the server calculates a ranking score based at least on the relationship score for the particular metadata item. The server generates a ranked result set based on comparing the ranking scores for the candidate set of metadata items. The server then provides information indicating the ranked result set in response to the search request.
US08700669B1
Described are techniques for obtaining information about a data storage system. Boot code is executed on the data storage system and determines whether a flag is set. If the flag is set, an agent is executed which communicates with a central location at predetermined time intervals. At a first predetermined time interval, a first message is sent to the central location polling for a pending work item. If there are any work items pending for the data storage system, first processing is performed which includes sending a second message to the data storage system indicating whether there are any pending work items for the data storage system and including at least one work item if there are any pending work items. The at least one work item describes second processing to obtain first information about a state of the data storage system.
US08700665B2
A system is disclosed that integrates with conferencing platforms and provides real-time information by having intelligent agents running on a networked server that is integrated with the conferencing platform. The intelligent agents may be customized or adapted “on the fly” or be preprogrammed by a user or caller to examine real-time data feeds or actively search websites and other information sources. The agents then report any relevant information or content to the system for injection or broadcast into the conference.
US08700658B2
Methods and systems for knowledge discovery and organization employ a relational meta model and domain context-based knowledge inference engine to produce answers to queries that involve inferences among items stored as knowledge in a knowledgebase.
US08700657B2
Systems, methods and apparatus to monitor media presentations are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a media presentation device associated with a Domain Name Service (DNS) query based on a public Internet Protocol (IP) address that originated the DNS query and a destination address of the DNS query. A media source is identified based on a domain name requested in the DNS query. Identification of the media presented in association with the DNS query based on at least one of tagging data and metering data is attempted. A panelist associated with the media presentation device is credited with exposure to the identified media from the media source via the media presentation device when the media is identified. The panelist associated with the media presentation device is credited with exposure to media from the media source via the media presentation device when the media is not identified.
US08700653B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, interface instructions on a client device cause the client device to generate a search interface that includes a query input field and provide query characters input in the query input field to a search service as a first query suggestion request. The client device receives, in response the query suggestion request, first query suggestions and renders the first query suggestions according to and order. In response to the client device receiving first search results responsive to one of the first query suggestions and being received independent of user selection of a first query suggestion and independent of sending a completed query to the search service, the client device generates an indication in the interface that indicates the first query suggestion for which the search results are responsive.
US08700650B2
An exemplary method includes a search results comparison system receiving data representative of a first search term and a second search term, identifying a group of search results that are each related to the first and second search terms, determining a degree of relatedness of each of the search results to the first search term and a degree of relatedness of each of the search results to the second search term, and presenting a set of one or more search result icons representative of one or more of the search results in between a first search term icon representative of the first search term and a second search term icon representative of the second search term. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08700643B1
A computer-implemented method for managing media-related queries, includes receiving media-related search parameters at a computer system; storing, in computer memory of the computer system, data for performing a search corresponding to the parameters; and periodically executing the search automatically on the computer system to generate a group of media programs for a user and transmitting the information for the group of media programs to a device associated with the user.
US08700642B2
A reputation monitoring system provides a software process that runs continuously to identify content that is fast moving and deserving of attention by an organizational representative. The system includes a software agent designed to proactively alert subscribers to potentially concerning movements of a content item within search result rankings. The agent tracks a threshold number of search results over time, and utilizes additional contextual services to determine whether to deliver an alert to subscribers. It is not uncommon for negative items to be written about an individual or organization on the web. There is significant value in being able to identify when negative items are written and if they are gaining notoriety. The reputation monitoring system provides a solution by monitoring search results.
US08700637B2
A method, a data aggregation tool, and a set of instructions are disclosed. A data storage 120 may store a data aggregation tree with at least one entry node, a root node, and an initial entry status level for the at least one entry node. A processor 110 may detect an entry node status level change to a resulting entry status level at the at least one entry node. The processor 110 may aggregate a root node score at a root node based on an entry node score for the at least one entry node.
US08700636B2
One embodiment selects from a plurality of actions performed by one or more users of a social networking system a first action and one or more second actions, wherein each action has one or more attributes; computes a score for each second action by comparing the one or more attributes of each second action with the one or more attributes of the first action; ranks the one or more second actions according to the score computed for each second action; and selects from the one or more second actions one or more highest-ranking second actions as being related to the first action.
US08700619B2
Search results may be provided to a user. A search query may be received from the user. A query feature vector may be formed for the search query. The query feature vector may be compared with news feature vectors associated with documents related to current events. An augmented query feature vector may be formed based on results of the comparison of the query feature vector with the news feature vectors. The augmented query feature vector may be compared with feature vectors related to target documents. Search results that include target documents may be identified based on results of the comparison of the augmented query feature vector with the feature vectors related to the target documents. The user may be made able to perceive at least some of the identified search results.
US08700607B2
A data processing system processes transaction database information to predict future demand using data regression techniques to extract trend line information from historical pattern frequency values. By extrapolating the trend line, a predicted pattern frequency value may be calculated. By applying regression techniques (such as least-squares approximation), the trend line information may be extracted and projected to predict the future pattern frequency which may be applied to calculate the expected value of a recommendation rule.
US08700599B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to suggesting context dependent keywords for advertising. A set of seed queries can be identified from a context, where the context is a source keyword, a search query, a category, or a landing page. Moreover, the set of seed queries can be inputted to a search engine. A predetermined number of web pages returned by the search engine upon executing the set of seed queries can be retrieved. Candidate keywords can be extracted from the web pages returned by the search engine. Further, keywords from the candidate keywords can be selected from the candidate keywords based on relevance scores of the candidate keywords.
US08700596B2
Embodiments provide a query and aggregation layer that is communicatively coupled to, and independent of, a presentation layer and a storage layer. The query and aggregation layer includes a data model configured to expose an access mechanism that is usable to access different data sources in the storage layer. A search query is received from the presentation layer, and one or more data providers identified in the search query are ascertained. At least some of the data providers are creatable on a same thread as that of the data model. Also, the search query is issued to identified data providers in the query and aggregation layer effective to cause the identified data providers to execute the search query on data sources associated with the identified data providers. Additionally, search results are received at the data model from the identified data providers and returned to the presentation layer.
US08700592B2
A web search system uses humans to rank the relevance of results returned for various sample search queries. The search results may be divided into groups allowing training and validation with the ranked results. Consistent guidelines for human evaluation allow consistent results across a number of people performing the ranking. After a machine learning categorization tool, such as MART, has been programmed and validated, it may be used to provide an absolute rank of relevance for documents returned, rather than a simple relative ranking, based, for example, on key word matches and click counts. Documents with lower relevance rankings may be excluded from consideration when developing related refinements, such as category and price sorting.
US08700591B2
A search engine has a plurality of comparators. Discriminants are set in the comparators for each search, and the comparators are selectively connected.
US08700576B2
Provided are a method, system, and program for archiving files. A hierarchical file system having directories is provided. An archival retention policy is associated with at least one of the directories in the hierarchical file system, wherein the retention policy applies to files included in the associated directory, and wherein the retention policy specifies a retention time indicating a time period during which a file is subject to the retention policy.
US08700569B1
A system and method for merging a first database with a second database (one-way merge), and a system and method for merging two databases with one another (two-way merge) is described herein. During the one-way merge, new or updated records are transferred from a copy of a client database to a server database after it is determined that the server database either does not contain one or more records in the copy of the client database or contains an older version of one or more records in the copy of the client database. During the two-way merge, new or updated records are transferred between a client database and a server database after it is determined that either the client database or the server database does not contain one or more records in the other database or contains an older version of one or more records in the other database.
US08700567B2
The present invention enables a unified way of accessing files generated by application programs configured to store contents in files in different formats, without using a conversion program.A database for holding correspondence between an identifier of a content and a storage position of the content is generated based on a backup catalog generated by a backup server, and contents are accessed by using this database. Contents generated by a plurality of different application programs are accessed in a unified way using a single name space.
US08700563B1
In an embodiment, a plurality of transactions for accessing a database may be acquired. The database may be associated with a plurality of locks. The plurality of transactions may include a first transaction, a second transaction, and a third transaction. A logical serialization sequence for executing the transactions may be identified. The logical serialization sequence may indicate that (1) the first transaction is to be executed before the second transaction based on all locks that are required by the first transaction being available; (2) the second transaction is to be executed after the first transaction has completed execution based on the second transaction requiring a lock that is required by the first transaction; and (3) the third transaction is to be executed before or during execution of the first transaction based on all locks required by the third transaction being different than the locks required by the first transaction.
US08700561B2
A method is provided in one example and includes receiving first sets of metadata elements representing an inventory of objects in a data storage location of a network environment and presenting an inventory view of the objects to a user. The inventory view includes a first summary of the inventory objects. The method further includes receiving a request from the user to manipulate the inventory view based on a first selected dimension group and presenting to the user a manipulated inventory view that includes a second summary of a first subset of the inventory objects. In more specific embodiments, the method includes receiving a request from the user to perform a protection task on objects of the first subset and initiating the protection task. The protection task includes one of applying a remediation policy to the objects of the first subset and registering the objects of the first subset.
US08700558B1
An interface facilitates user input of quantitatively weighted recommendations, including weighted factors in support of decision choices. A user input mechanism allows a user to specify a factor in support of a choice, and to specify values for quantitative parameters associated with the factor along two or more axes. An overall quantitative weight for the factor is generated based on the specified quantitative parameters. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface is presented, wherein the user specifies the values for the weighting parameters by dragging a movable indicator within an N-dimensional space. Each axis of the N-dimensional space corresponds to a weighting parameter. An overall quantitative weight for the factor is calculated, for example, as the product of the specified values along each of the axes. A visual indication of this calculation is presented, so as to provide an intuitive sense of the overall weight assigned to the factor.
US08700556B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus, a method and a computer program product for controlling a recommender system, wherein a bias is applied to the output of a recommender in order to favour newly added services and content sources. The bias may decay in time and/or with the number of ratings given to content coming from the new service.
US08700546B2
An inferential sensor module is incorporated into an engine simulation model. One or more parameters for the inferential sensor module are calibrated using one or more of engine measurement data and the engine simulation model. The calibration is performed such that a difference between an inferred signal predicted by the inferential sensor module and a signal measured on an engine is minimized. The inferential sensor module and the one or more calibrated parameters are loaded into an engine control unit in order to predict inferred variables.
US08700543B2
A system for generating a demographic profile for a set of at least one webpage, the system comprising a webpage audience information gatherer operative for providing, for at least one webpage, training data including demographic information characterizing an audience of the webpage; a predictor developing system operative to compute at least one content characteristic of said webpage and to develop a prediction process which if applied to said content characteristic would have predicted said training data; and a webpage audience predictor operative, for at least one new webpage, whose audience is unknown, to compute at least one content characteristic of the new webpage and to generate predicted demographic information predicted to characterize said unknown audience of said new webpage by applying said prediction process to said new webpage's content characteristic.
US08700542B2
Systems, methods, and computer products for optimally managing large rule sets are disclosed. Rule dependencies of rules within a set of rules may be determined as a function of rules execution frequency data generated from applying the rules over a data set. The rules within the set of rules may be clustered into rules clusters based on the determined rule dependencies, in which the rules clusters comprise disjoint subsets of the rules within the set of rules. Cluster frequency data for the rules clusters may be used to arrive at an optimal ordering. Each rule within the set of rules may be assigned a unique identification that may capture an execution order of the rules within the set of rules.
US08700540B1
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of event listings, accessing event information associated with the event listings, accessing social network information associated with a particular user, and ranking the event listings for the particular user based at least in part on the social network information and event information.
US08700528B2
An operational support system includes a data collection unit and a number of network devices that are associated with various telecommunications services. The data collection unit retrieves raw data records from the network elements and identifies information in the raw data records that is relevant for billing purposes. The data collection unit normalizes the raw data records to create a billable record. The billable record may then be passed to a rating or billing unit that determines the charges associated with a customer's use of the telecommunications services.
US08700523B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for enabling a holder of a transaction account linked to a financial transaction instrument to delegate management of the transaction account to an assistant. Information relating to the transaction account, including at least identification information relating to the holder of the transaction account, is stored in a database. The database stores financial transaction data relating to financial transactions performed using the financial transaction instrument. A designation of at least one assistant to manage the transaction account on behalf of the holder is accepted and stored. Assistant management authentication data associated with the transaction account is established, to be used by the assistant to execute management instructions at a designated level of management access. An instruction from the assistant is accepted to access transaction data associated with the transaction account.
US08700519B2
A method and a system for maintaining a record of a shipping insurance elected by a seller eligible to purchase the shipping insurance for an item to be shipped to a buyer are described. A claim and complaint module receives a complaint from the buyer and a claim from the seller. A claim processing module processes the claim from the seller based on the corresponding complaint from the buyer.
US08700513B2
Transaction processing involves receiving data from an access transaction application of a portable consumer device, wherein the received data comprises data from an access transaction data string that includes a transit verification value wherein, with the exception of the transit verification value, the access transaction data string is substantially similar to a retail data string comprising retail data, wherein the access application data string is adapted for use with an access transaction processing system and the retail data string is adapted for use with a retail processing system. The transaction processing involves processing access transaction application data for selective authorization of the transaction.
US08700512B1
A financial planning system uses contextual data about a user to help create and modify a financial plan to achieve a financial goal. Financial goals can include money saving goals, investment goals, loan payment goals, and goals to purchase or rent goods, property and/or services. In some embodiments, the financial planning system can create a collaborative financial plan to create a financial plan for a group of people to achieve a shared financial goal. Contextual data, such as banking information, social network activity, past activity, preferences, etc., can be used to shape the financial plan to make it more effective and efficient. Banking accounts, social network accounts, loyalty program accounts, and others can be linked to the financial planning system to enable the financial planning system in gathering contextual background information.
US08700511B2
In an electric power storage system connected to a commercial power system, a controller includes a deterioration price holding unit that holds discharge costs in association with depths of discharge of a storage battery, a price information obtaining unit that obtains a price of electricity, and a depth-of-discharge switching unit that discharges the storage battery at a depth of discharge at which the discharge cost held in association with the depth of discharge does not exceed a difference in the price, so as to properly determine the depth of charge and discharge in consideration of life properties of the battery and the difference in the price in the dynamically changing price of electricity.
US08700497B2
A logical inventory mechanism takes components in assemblies into account when determining purchase requirements. The inventory control system determines assemblies that are available, determines their components and whether or not each component may be reused, then adjusts physical inventory to generate therefrom logical inventory based on physical inventory plus parts in the assemblies that may be reused if the assemblies are disassembled. By computing logical inventory that would be available by disassembling assemblies, inventory levels may be reduced, thereby enhancing the efficiency of an inventory control system that includes the logical inventory mechanism. Assemblies in inventory thus may be used in two very different matters, as the starting point for a higher-level assembly, or to be disassembled to use one or more reusable components in the assembly in a different assembly.
US08700491B2
A system for transmitting information related to a network-based marketplace includes identifying information that may be interesting, useful, and entertaining to the users and to the potential users of the network-based marketplace. The identified information may be other than information that is already being displayed in listings by the network-based marketplace. The identified information may be about the sellers, the buyers or other items related to the items offered for sale.
US08700485B2
A method and system for authenticating users while conducting an auction via a computer system. The system can automatically authenticate users who have previously registered with the auction system and who have enabled automatic authentication. When a user is registered, the system may store authentication information in a cookie on the user's computer. When the user decides to perform a transaction (e.g., list item auction or place a bid for an item) that requires authentication, the system retrieves the stored authentication information. If automatic authentication is enabled, then the system allows the transaction to proceed without manual authentication. If, however, automatic authentication is not enabled or the system does not recognize the stored authentication information, then the system requests manual authentication. The use of automatic authentication allows a user to enter information relating to a transaction without manually entering any identification information.
US08700480B1
Technologies are described herein for extracting quotes from customer reviews regarding collections of items. An identifier of an individual item is received and customer reviews regarding a collection of items containing the individual item are retrieved. A collection of sentences is parsed from the retrieved customer reviews, and sentences that discuss the individual item are identified. A quote is extracted from the identified sentences and displayed to a customer in conjunction with information regarding the individual item. Similarly, individual items belonging to a collection of items are identified, and customer reviews regarding the individual items are retrieved. A collection of sentences are parsed from the retrieved customer reviews, and those sentences that discuss topics relevant to the collection of items are identified. A number of quotes are extracted from the identified sentences and displayed to a customer in conjunction with information regarding the collection of items.
US08700465B1
Technologies relating to determining online advertisement statistics are described. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a method that includes receiving a prediction value for a click-through rate for an online advertisement, the prediction value indicating a probability that the online advertisement will be accessed when displayed in an online medium, the prediction value based on a ratio of a number of times the advertisement has been accessed by users to a number of times the advertisement has been displayed to users, identifying at least one condition that is present when the online advertisement is to be displayed, the condition affecting accuracy of the prediction value, and generating a corrected prediction value based on at least one stored shift value associated with the at least one condition.
US08700463B2
Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for generating advertisements using an algorithmic system, such as a combinatoric system, and determining effectiveness metrics or predictions for the advertisements are described herein.
US08700460B2
A subscriber-based sales leads exchange system for efficiently maximizing revenue to lead sellers and for providing high quality, temporally relevant sales leads to lead buyers based on a transaction between a lead seller and a customer of said lead seller.
US08700456B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a controller receives an indication of acceptance by a customer of an offer for a subsidy from a second vendor (e.g., a subsidizing vendor). The offer may define, for example, a reduction in the price charged for an item purchased from a first vendor and an obligation for the customer to fulfill in exchange for the subsidy. The customer is charged a second price for the items, which is less than the total price, and may even be zero.
US08700450B2
A customer relationship management system, the system comprising: a memory that includes an interaction database of interaction data, wherein the interaction data is related to interactions between customers and merchants; a data retrieval system, wherein the data retrieval system accesses data from the memory, based on a set of criteria, and defines a promotional group subset of the customers stored in the interaction database to which promotional efforts are directed and a control group subset of the customers stored in the interaction database to which promotional efforts are not directed, the target group and the control group are mutually exclusive, and wherein the target group of customers and the control group of customers are based on the same set of criteria other than promotional efforts, which enables the control group to be useful in assessing effectiveness of the promotional efforts; a promotion analyzer, wherein the promotion analyzer enables retrieval of data from the interaction database related to interactions involving customers in the promotional group; and a display for presenting a representation of the retrieved interaction data.
US08700440B1
A system and method for managing multiple transportation operations according to which one or more vehicles such as, for example, airplanes, arrive at, and depart from, one or more specific locations such as, for example, airports.
US08700426B2
The present solution provides a new tool to assist clients and prospects in evaluating and optimizing their use of PPO networks. The interactive analysis tool of the present solution allows you to rapidly see the impact of different network configurations based on actual experience measured against a comprehensive bill review database.
US08700422B2
A health care apparatus (10) and methods for rendering audio visual content to a medical patient in the patient's home, in which a content element storage (22) stores a plurality of audio visual content elements (28) to be rendered to the patient, including role playing simulation content elements (40) in which in which the patient is presented with a situation involving an issue related to a medical condition confronted by a character (42) and in which the patient provides input related to the character's situation.
US08700417B2
To perform a query, a set of nodes for an origin is loaded, it is determined if a node is a destination for each node of the set of nodes, and a path is recorded in response to the node being the destination. A hypothetical path is generated in response to the node not being the destination, it is determined if the hypothetical path exceeds a stopping rule, and the hypothetical path is recorded in response to the hypothetical path not exceeding the stopping rule.
US08700416B2
A system for providing vehicle part information includes a build configuration module that provides delta information that indicates a change in build configurations for vehicles. The build configuration indicates vehicle parts that were used at specific manufacturing plants on the vehicles during a time period. A build data module includes vehicle identification information that indicates predetermined build parameters for the vehicles. A display control module includes a database that combines the delta information and the vehicle identification information in a matrix and that stores the matrix.
US08700413B2
A Web services composition method. The method can include compiling a set of service activation rules (SARs) for corresponding Web services in the marketplace. Selected Web services can be scheduled for execution when corresponding ones of the SARs include execution conditions satisfied by the state of the marketplace. Conversely, selected Web services can be removed from execution consideration when corresponding ones of the SARs include obviation conditions satisfied by the state of the marketplace.
US08700412B2
Methods and systems are provided for processing a financial transaction. A set of conditions is received that define circumstances for execution of the financial transaction. Funds are collected for each of a plurality of partial payments prior to satisfaction of the set of conditions, with at least two of the partial payments being collected from different persons. The collected funds are accumulated for support of the financial transaction until satisfaction or failure of the set of conditions.
US08700406B2
Techniques are disclosed for using the hardware and/or software of the mobile device to obscure speech in the audio data before a context determination is made by a context awareness application using the audio data. In particular, a subset of a continuous audio stream is captured such that speech (words, phrases and sentences) cannot be reliably reconstructed from the gathered audio. The subset is analyzed for audio characteristics, and a determination can be made regarding the ambient environment.
US08700405B2
A system includes a hands free mobile communication device. Software stored on a machine readable storage device is executed to cause the hands free mobile communication device to communicate audibly with a field operator performing field operations. The operator receives instructions regarding operations to be performed. Oral communications are received from the operator and are processed automatically to provide further instructions in response to the received oral communications.
US08700403B2
A method of statistical modeling is provided which includes constructing a statistical model and incorporating Gaussian priors during feature selection and during parameter optimization for the construction of the statistical model.
US08700400B2
Subspace speech adaptation may be utilized for facilitating the recognition of speech containing short utterances. Speech training data may be received in a speech model by a computer. A first matrix may be determined for preconditioning speech statistics based on the speech training data. A second matrix may be determined for representing a basis for the speech to be recognized. A set of basis matrices may then be determined from the first matrix and the second matrix. Speech test data including a short utterance may then be received by the computer. The computer may then apply the set of basis matrices to the speech test data to produce a transcription. The transcription may represent speech recognition of the short utterance.
US08700397B2
A method of and a system for processing speech. A spoken utterance of a plurality of characters can be received. A plurality of known character sequences that potentially correspond to the spoken utterance can be selected. Each selected known character sequence can be scored based on, at least in part, a weighting of individual characters that comprise the known character sequence.
US08700392B1
A user can provide input to a computing device through various combinations of speech, movement, and/or gestures. A computing device can analyze captured audio data and analyze that data to determine any speech information in the audio data. The computing device can simultaneously capture image or video information which can be used to assist in analyzing the audio information. For example, image information is utilized by the device to determine when someone is speaking, and the movement of the person's lips can be analyzed to assist in determining the words that were spoken. Any gestures or other motions can assist in the determination as well. By combining various types of data to determine user input, the accuracy of a process such as speech recognition can be improved, and the need for lengthy application training processes can be avoided.
US08700388B2
A processed representation of an audio signal having a sequence of frames is generated by sampling the audio signal within first and second frames of the sequence of frames, the second frame following the first frame, the sampling using information on a pitch contour of the first and second frames to derive a first sampled representation. The audio signal is sampled within the second and third frames, the third frame following the second frame in the sequence of frames. The sampling uses the information on the pitch contour of the second frame and information on a pitch contour of the third frame to derive a second sampled representation. A first scaling window is derived for the first sampled representation, and a second scaling window is derived for the second sampled representation, the scaling windows depending on the samplings applied to derive the first sampled representations or the second sampled representation.
US08700385B2
Providing for generation of a task oriented data structure that can correlate natural language descriptions of computer related tasks to application level commands and functions is described herein. By way of example, a system can include an activity translation component that can receive a natural language description of an application level task. Furthermore, the system can include a language modeling component that can generate the data structure based on an association between the description of the task and at least one application level command utilized in executing the computer related task. Once generated, the data structure can be utilized to automate computer related tasks by input of a human centric description of those tasks. According to further embodiments, machine learning can be employed to train classifiers and heuristic models to optimize task/description relationships and/or tailor such relationships to the needs of particular users.
US08700384B1
A method for displaying a combination of languages for digital content in an electronic device is described. First digital content comprising a plurality of words in a primary language is received. Second digital content comprising a plurality of words in a secondary language is received. A combination of the primary language and the secondary language is determined. The combination of the primary language and the secondary language is displayed.
US08700381B2
The invention relates to a method for quantification of amplified nucleic acids comprising the steps of: calculation of a measure of randomness M of the cycle-to-cycle amplification efficiency Ê(C) for target and comparative nucleic acids,—identification of the cycle numbers CM where M is minimal for target and comparative nucleic acids, calculation of the characteristic cycle numbers Cc from the values of CM-.
US08700372B2
A method for determining spatial distribution of a property within a volume of subsurface formations includes generating an initial model of spatial distribution of a property of the formations using available data related to the property distribution within the volume. A forward model is generated in the wavenumber domain of spatial distribution of a potential field. Measurements of a physical parameter having a potential field obtained at spaced apart locations above the volume and/or in at least one wellbore penetrating the volume are entered. A revised model of spatial distribution of the potential field is generated by interpolating the measurements of the parameter. The interpolating is performed in the wavenumber domain. A revised model of spatial distribution of the physical property is generated by inversion in the wavenumber domain of the revised potential field model.
US08700369B2
A method and apparatus for estimating error in a multi-axis controlled machine is applicable to any type of machine configuration in order to estimate and confirm in advance the final position and the posture of the machine, which are produced when geometric errors of the machine are synthesized. The method includes defining the structure of the multi-axis controlled machine subjected to error estimation; and defining parameters, which represent behaviors of drive axes having geometric error and relationships between the drive axes according to the defined structure of the multi-axis controlled machine, adding the defined parameters by applying the parameters to a generalized error synthesis model, and generating an error synthesis model of the multi-axis controlled machine by applying a result of parametric modeling in response to a result of the adding.
US08700368B1
This invention allows users to build, manipulate, and finally deploy various model configurations with little performance overhead, better syntactic clarity and configuration flexibility.
US08700362B2
A designing method of a wind turbine rotor includes: providing operation environment data indicative of an operation environment of a wind turbine generator including the wind turbine rotor and design data of the wind turbine blade; calculating a position of a center of mass of the wind turbine blade in each position in a lengthwise direction of the wind turbine blade in the operation environment from the operation environment data and the design data; and calculating an evaluation value which is a value depending on an integral value obtained by integrating a product of the calculated position of the center of mass of the blade and a mass per unit length at each position in a lengthwise direction of the wind turbine blade from a blade root portion of the wind turbine blade to a blade tip end of the same.
US08700351B2
Measurement apparatus is described that comprises a measurement portion for acquiring object measurements and an output portion for outputting measurement data relating to the acquired object measurements. A deactivation portion is provided for inhibiting normal operation of the measurement apparatus such that output of the measurement data is prevented. The deactivation portion, in use, reads apparatus usage information from an apparatus usage module and inhibits normal operation of the measurement apparatus if said apparatus usage information fails to meet one or more predetermined criteria. The apparatus usage module may be provided as an integral part of the measurement apparatus or as a separate activation button. The measurement apparatus may comprise a measurement probe such as a touch trigger measurement probe.
US08700349B2
In a method for measuring a scattering medium, pulse light with a predetermined wavelength is made incident on a scattering medium which is a measurement object and a scattering medium for reference, the pulse light transmitted inside the scattering media is detected to acquire a light detection signal, the measurement waveform is acquired on the basis of the detected light detection signal, a parameter of a function showing the theoretical waveform of the measurement object is specified in such a manner that the result of convolution operation on the theoretical waveform of the measurement object and the measurement waveform of the reference is made equal to the result of convolution operation on the theoretical waveform of the reference and the measurement waveform of the measurement object, and calculation is made for the internal information of the scattering medium on the basis of the theoretical waveform shown by the function.
US08700347B2
An intelligent electronic device IED has enhanced power quality and communications capabilities. The IED can perform energy analysis by waveform capture, detect transient on the front-end voltage input channels and provide revenue measurements. The IED splits and distributes the front-end input channels into separate circuits for scaling and processing by dedicated processors for specific applications by the IED. Front-end voltage input channels are split and distributed into separate circuits for transient detection, waveform capture analysis and revenue measurement, respectively. Front-end current channels are split and distributed into separate circuits for waveform capture analysis and revenue measurement, respectively.
US08700345B2
An automatic analyzer, capable of obtaining analysis results using reaction liquids with absorbance appropriate for analysis processing, is provided. To that end, the analyzer includes: a standard deviation calculating section for calculating a standard deviation of absorbances of a reaction liquid, measured by a photometry section at any one time a reaction container passes through the photometry section, every time the reaction container passes through the photometry section; a standard deviation judging section for judging whether each standard deviation calculated by the standard deviation calculating section is smaller than a threshold set based on a standard deviation of absorbances of a homogeneously-stirred reaction liquid; and an absorbance determining section for determining any of average values of a plurality of absorbances with a standard deviation judged smaller than the threshold by the standard deviation judging section, calculated by the average value calculating section, as absorbance for sample analysis.
US08700336B2
The present invention relates to detection of materials derived from transgenic plant events. In particular, the invention provides methods, reagents, kits and reference materials for detecting the presence or absence in a sample of genetic material derived from and attributable to select transgenic plant events.
US08700320B1
A method and apparatus for presenting audio and/or multimedia descriptions of featured locations to a traveling user, so that descriptions are not replayed in repeated journeys in the same area. When descriptions along a certain route are exhausted in the course of repeated journeys, the user is offered an alternate route in order to visit additional featured locations that have not yet been presented to the user.
US08700318B2
Disclosed herein is a navigation system for a vehicle. The navigation system includes a user interface configured to receive input from and output information to a user, and a controller configured to perform a plurality of functions based on the user input, the controller further configured to disable performance of at least one of the plurality of functions based on a vehicle condition and provide a warning to the user indicating that performance of the plurality of functions is to be performed by a passenger other than a driver, wherein the controller enables performance of the at least one of the plurality of functions upon receiving input signifying that the user is a passenger other than the driver.
US08700311B2
A method and navigation device are disclosed which allow for switching the display of map information, depending on the current position and the availability of relatively more detailed map information. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving information of a current position and displaying map information including the current position on a navigation device; determining relative map information coverage for the current position; and switching the displayed map information to display map information of relatively more detailed coverage of the current position, upon determining that map information of relatively more detailed coverage of the current position is displayable. The method may include determining a travel route based upon a travel destination input into a navigation device and determining whether or not, based upon the current position information, travel along the route enters a region wherein the relatively more detailed map information is displayable.
US08700308B2
A navigation system for a motor vehicle includes: a motor vehicle, a server which is spatially separate from the motor vehicle, and a wireless communication connection between the server and the motor vehicle for the time-staggered transmission of a first navigation information item and at least a second navigation information item from the server to the motor vehicle, the first navigation information item being assigned a first priority and the second navigation information item being assigned a second priority, the sequence of the transmission of the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item being a function of the priority level, and a man-machine interface being arranged in the motor vehicle for outputting the first navigation information item and the second navigation information item to an operator of the motor vehicle.
US08700306B2
Autonomous collision avoidance systems for unmanned aerial vehicles are disclosed. Systems illustratively include a detect and track module, an inertial navigation system, and an auto avoidance module. The detect and track module senses a potential object of collision and generates a moving object track for the potential object of collision. The inertial navigation system provides information indicative of a position and a velocity of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The auto avoidance module receives the moving object track for the potential object of collision and the information indicative of the position and the velocity of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The auto avoidance module utilizes the information to generate a guidance maneuver that facilitates the unmanned aerial vehicle avoiding the potential object of collision.
US08700305B2
A driving control device according to the present invention activates a control for suppressing sideways movement of a vehicle towards a side object, when the side object present to the side of the vehicle as well as towards the rear of the vehicle is detected. Also, the activation of the control is suppressed when, in the absence of detection of the side object, the vehicle starts entering an adjacent lane in order to change lanes.
US08700304B1
A system and method is provided of determining geographic positions. In one aspect, a user points the device at first and second positions on the surface of a geographic object. Based on the position of the device, the orientation of the device, and information identifying the geographic position of the surface of the object, a processor determines and displays the distance between the first and second positions.
US08700302B2
Mobile endpoints are provided that enable direction based pointing services including a positional component for receiving positional information as a function of a location of the portable electronic device, a directional component that outputs direction information as a function of an orientation of the portable electronic device and a location based engine that processes the positional information and the direction information to determine a subset of points of interest relative to the portable electronic device as a function of at least the positional information and the direction information. Devices can include compass(es), e.g., magnetic or gyroscopic, to determine a direction and GPS systems for determining location. A component for determining acceleration can also optionally be included.
US08700300B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving at a computer server system, from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a string of text that comprises a search query. The method also includes identifying one or more search results that are responsive to the search query, parsing a document that is a target of one of the one or more results, identifying geographical address information from the parsing, generating a specific geographical indicator corresponding to the one search result, and transmitting for use by the computing device, data for automatically generating a navigational application having a destination at the specific geographical indicator.
US08700299B2
Disclosed is a navigation device including a traveling route estimating unit 1 for estimating a route along which a moving object will travel and which falls within a predetermined region from a current position, a first recommended speed arithmetic unit 10 for computing a recommended speed in each of road sections on the route estimated by the traveling route estimating unit 1 on the basis of road state information showing a road state, and a second recommended speed arithmetic unit 20 for computing a recommended speed in a road section between the road sections for each of which the recommended speed is computed by the first recommended speed arithmetic unit 10 according to a predetermined speed variation function.
US08700298B2
The different advantageous embodiments provide a method for generating an integrated aircraft clearance. Flight information, preference information, environmental information, and constraints are retrieved from a number of sources. The flight information includes at least one of flight plan information, flight scheduling information, flight status information, and environmental information. The flight information is processed against the preference information, the environmental information, and the constraints. A clearance solution is generated for an aircraft based on the flight information, the preference information, the environmental information and the constraints.
US08700277B2
A transmission control device (6) for an automatic or automated transmission (2). A shifting strategy of the transmission control device (6) controls and/or regulates the operation of the transmission (2) based on driving condition data such as vehicle mass, driving resistance, vehicle inclination, vehicle velocity, vehicle acceleration, engine rotational speed and/or engine torque, and based on data about the driver's wishes. The transmission control device (6) continuously calculates the driving condition data of the vehicle mass, driving resistance and/or vehicle inclination based on topographic data of a current position of the motor vehicle, and/or the shifting strategy determines a gear change from an actual gear into a target gear based on topographic data of a defined distance ahead of a motor vehicle. The defined distance ahead of the motor vehicle depends on the currently velocity of the vehicle.
US08700272B2
A system for automated control of a machine having a ground engaging work implement includes an implement load sensor system. A controller determines a change in terrain based at least in part upon a change in the load on the ground engaging work implement. If the change in terrain exceeds a threshold, the controller generates an alert command signal. A method is also provided.
US08700271B2
A track type tractor incorporates control over lift, tilt, angle and pitch into an implement control joystick. The pitch cylinder and the tilt cylinder share segments of the hydraulic circuit, and a diverter valve prioritizes pitch control over tilt control in the rare occurrence when the operator is requesting both tilt and pitch changes to the dozer blade. Angle control and pitch control may be accomplished by finger controllers incorporated into the implement control joystick. Thus, the operator can control the dozer blade in four degrees of freedom without losing contact with the implement control joystick.
US08700263B2
A vehicle guidance system and method for automatically adjusting an amount of a user-configurable steering parameter applied to at least one steerable wheel of a vehicle. The vehicle guidance system may comprise a computing device for receiving a desired angle of the steerable wheel, measuring the actual angle of the steerable wheel, and comparing the actual angle with the desired angle. The computing device may then decrease the user-configurable steering parameter automatically if over-steering has occurred, meaning the actual angle of the wheel is determined to be greater than the desired angle of the wheel and angled in the same direction as the desired angle, or the computing device may increase the user-configurable steering parameter automatically if under-steering has occurred, meaning the actual angle of the wheel is determined to be less than the desired angle of the wheel or is angled in the opposite direction as the desired angle.
US08700258B2
A park assist system for providing guidance to park a vehicle into a parking area is disclosed. The park assist system includes an imaging device, at least one indicator, and a control module. The imaging device acquires image data representative of a field of view (FOV). The indicator provides feedback to guide the vehicle into the parking area. The control module is in communication with the imaging device and the at least one indicator. The control module includes control logic for monitoring image data representative of the viewable area. The control module includes control logic for determining if a specific predetermined object is located within the FOV. The specific predetermined object indicates the presence of the parking area. The control module includes control logic for activating the at least one indicator to provide feedback regarding the parking area.
US08700248B2
A charge and discharge control apparatus is provided with: a setting device which is configured to set a hunting allowable period (T), which is a hunting period in which hunting of engine power is allowed; and a calculating device which is configured to calculate a charge and discharge amount of a battery by multiplying a difference between a state of charge (SOC) of the battery and a target SOC, which is a target value of the SOC, by a charge and discharge coefficient determined on the basis of the hunting allowable period.
US08700244B2
System for providing information on power consumption amount of electric vehicle includes receiving means for receiving departure point of the electric vehicle and destination of the electric vehicle from a terminal device; a database which stores a plurality of power consumption amounts required to move between respective two sections, corresponding to combinations of two sections, the combinations including a combination of a first section in a predetermined area including the departure point and the destination, and a second section including a second point in the predetermined area; extracting means which retrieves the database to thereby extract a power consumption amount required to travel from the departure point to the destination; and transmitting means for transmitting information on the power consumption amount extracted by the extracting means to the terminal device.
US08700237B1
A system is disclosed for communicating a dataset in a consist, the dataset having a critical data portion. The system includes a first transceiver configured to communicate a first data signal indicative of at least the critical data portion of the dataset over a first communication line, and a second transceiver configured to communicate a second data signal indicative of at least the critical data portion of the dataset over a second communication line. The system includes a processor configured to receive the first data signal and the second data signal, to compare the first data signal with the second data signal to determine whether the first data signal or the second data signal includes a more accurate signal, and to determine at least the critical data portion of the dataset based upon the more accurate signal. The critical data portion is associated with the operability of the consist.
US08700236B1
Flight entries in a flight logbook maintained on a flight server are automatically generated using a remote location-aware mobile device. The remote location-aware device automatically detects aircraft takeoff and landing. The flight server posts designated flight information from the flight logbook to a plurality of social networks.
US08700235B2
A method for estimating a loading criterion relating to the load experienced by a structural component of an aircraft, and assistance with detecting a so-called “hard” landing. The method includes measuring parameters of the aircraft and calculating at least one loading criterion for the loading of the structural component using at least one neural network receiving the parameters as input. Assistance with detecting a hard landing then includes determining of a time of impact of the aircraft on a landing strip from the measured parameters, then estimating a plurality of the parameters at the determined time of impact so as to calculate the at least one loading criterion relating to the loading of the structural component.
US08700233B1
A method of controlling wing position and velocity for a flapping wing air vehicle provides six-degrees-of-freedom movement for the aircraft through a split-cycle constant-period frequency modulation with wing bias method that generates time-varying upstroke and downstroke wing position commands for wing planforms to produce nonharmonic wing flapping trajectories that generate non-zero, cycle averaged wing drag and alter the location of the cycle-averaged center of pressure of the wings relative to the center of gravity of the aircraft to cause horizontal translation forces, rolling moments and pitching moments of the aircraft.
US08700232B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for centralized management of tasks to be carried out by a crew in the course of an aircraft flight. The method uses onboard navigation aid systems, such as a flight management system, a system for managing in-flight alerts for the implementation of the following steps: creation of a task by the flight management system; scheduling of the tasks by a system for managing alerts; and task execution by the system for managing alerts.
US08700222B1
An irrigation controller includes a processor and a memory that either forms a part of the processor or is connected to the processor. A plurality of manually actuable controls allow a user to enter a watering program into the memory or select a watering program stored in the memory. Circuitry is controlled by the processor for turning corresponding valves ON and OFF in accordance with the watering program. Programming stored in the memory implements predetermined watering restrictions that disable portions of the watering otherwise effectuated by the watering program.
US08700213B2
A compact, lightweight manipulation system that excels in operability and has a force feedback capability is provided. When automatic operation of a slave manipulator 105 that follows manual operation of a master manipulator 101 is bilaterally controlled by means of communication, the force acting on the slave manipulator is fed back to the master manipulator by operating the master manipulator primarily under electrically-driven speed control and the slave manipulator primarily under pneumatically-driven force control. Therefore, in the master manipulator, it is not necessary to compensate for the dynamics and the self-weight of the master manipulator in the motion range of a user, allowing highly accurate, broadband positional control, which is specific to an electrically-driven system, and in the slave manipulator, nonlinearity characteristics specific to a pneumatically-driven system presents passive softness, provides a high mass-to-output ratio, and produces a large force.
US08700209B2
A system and method for electronic assistance in dispensing pharmaceuticals, utilizing software, hardware and barcode technology to yield error free, clinically correct, adjudicated prescriptions. The system is adaptive to the preferences of an authorized user, by being configurable on the basis of when and what type of warnings are given in particular circumstances, based on entries in a field, and whether the order can proceed. Additionally, the invention allows for automated and electronically assisted refilling of orders. The invention allows for tracking and monitoring of prescription orders through barcode labeling and scanning.
US08700205B2
A moving stop station includes a vehicle carrier configured to move a vehicle along an assembly line, an assembly platform disposed adjacent to the assembly line, and a synchronizer in communication with the vehicle carrier and the assembly platform. The synchronizer is configured to synchronize the motion of the assembly platform with the motion of the vehicle carrier as the vehicle carrier moves along a length of the assembly line, and includes a sensor, processor, and actuator. The sensor is configured to sense the position of the vehicle carrier and to generate a position signal corresponding to the sensed position. The processor is configured to receive the position signal and selectively provide a synchronization signal in response, and the actuator is configured to receive the synchronization signal and synchronize the motion of the vehicle carrier and the motion of the assembly platform in response.
US08700202B2
A system for assisting in the use by an operator of the operating element of a tool at desired locations at a worksite, includes a stationary control and a position sensor secured to the tool. The stationary control is located at the worksite, and has data stored therein specifying one or more desired locations for operation of the operating element of the tool at the worksite. A position sensor is mounted on the tool. The position sensor determines the position of the operating element of the tool. The position sensor includes a communication device for communicating with said stationary control, a sensor for determining its relative position with respect to said stationary control, and a display for providing indications to the user of the tool of the desired location for the operating element of the tool and of the actual location of the operating element of the tool.
US08700196B2
A method for providing finishing parameters related to an ophthalmic lens adapted to a spectacle frame in which generic finishing parameters (GFP) are provided (S11) for an ophthalmic lens adapted to a spectacle frame, the generic finishing parameters (GFP) being associated to a first identifier (ID1); a request (REQ1) is received (S12) from a distant entity, indicating an association between the first identifier (ID1) and a second identifier (ID2) assigned to the chosen finishing entity (CFE); specific finishing parameters (SFP) specific to the chosen finishing entity are generated (S13), the specific finishing parameters (SFP) being obtained by associating the generic finishing parameters (GFP) with specific parameters corresponding to the chosen finishing entity (CFE); a second request (REQ2) associated with at least the first identifier (ID1) is received (S14); and, upon receipt of the second request (REQ2), the specific finishing parameters (SFP) are sent (S15) to the chosen finishing entity (CFE).
US08700195B2
In one aspect, audio streams are added to a mix until the mix is either complete (i.e., all audio streams have been added) or the mix is closed early (i.e., before the mix is complete). In another aspect, audio and video streams are synchronized by playing back the audio stream and then synchronizing display of the video frames to the playback of the audio stream.
US08700194B2
Robust media fingerprints are derived from a portion of audio content. A portion of content in an audio signal is categorized. The audio content is characterized based, at least in part, on one or more of its features. The features may include a component that relates to one of several sound categories, e.g., speech and/or noise, which may be mixed with the audio signal. Upon categorizing the audio content as free of the speech or noise related components, the audio signal component is processed. Upon categorizing the audio content as including the speech related component and/or the noise related components, the speech or noise related components are separated from the audio signal. The audio signal is processed independent of the speech related component and/or the noise related component. Processing the audio signal includes computing the audio fingerprint, which reliably corresponds to the audio signal.
US08700192B2
The present disclosure provides a dynamic view in a modeling of an automation system. A first portion of the model may be described in a first sequence description and a second portion of the model may be described in a second sequence description. The sequence descriptions are linked together. In one embodiment, the links are visually provided.
US08700177B2
Systems and methods according to the present invention relate to a novel peripheral nerve stimulation system for the treatment of pain, such as pain that exists after amputation.
US08700176B2
Skin treating devices and systems for delivering RF electromagnetic energy to the skin. The devices include one or more electromagnetic RF generating units, multiple RF electrode groups and a controller for controllably applying RF energy to the skin through any selected RF electrode group or any selected RF electrode group combination selected from the multiple groups. The electrodes may be stationary and/or movable electrodes. Different RF frequencies and/or frequency bands may be used. The alternation of energy application through different electrode groups at different times, and/or the changing of the inter-electrode distance and configuration by using movable RF electrodes may reduce or prevent electrode overheating, control RF energy distribution within the skin and enable use of the devices and/or for different skin treating applications.
US08700165B2
System and method for estimating lead configuration from neighboring relationship between electrodes
A method and neurostimulation control system for programming electrodes disposed adjacent tissue of a patient. A fixed spatial grid of electrode positions is generated. One of the electrodes is designated as a reference electrode to be currently examined, and assigned to one of the electrode grid positions. One or more previously unassigned ones of the electrodes neighboring the reference electrode are assigned respectively to one or more of the electrode grid positions immediately surrounding the electrode grid position to which the reference electrode is assigned. The electrodes are programmed based on the assignment of the electrodes to the electrode grid positions.
US08700163B2
A method of treating a patient with at least one substance addiction, which comprises directly stimulating a cranial nerve, such as the vagus nerve, of a patient with an electrical pulse signal defined by a plurality of parameters to provide a therapy regimen for alleviating a symptom associated with the substance addiction.
US08700157B2
System, telemetry head and method for programming an implantable medical device adapted to provide a therapeutic output to a patient, the implantable medical device being programmable through a telemetry interface. A telemetry head is adapted for transcutaneous communication with the implantable medical device through the telemetry interface when the telemetry head is positioned with respect to the implantable medical device. A computing device has computing processing power and a user interface linked with the telemetry head. The computing device processes the computing instructions associated with the implantable medical device. The computing device supplies the user interface based, at least in part, on the computing instructions associated with the implantable medical device. The telemetry head receives programming instructions from the computing device and provides the programming instructions to the implantable medical device using the transcutaneous telemetry interface.
US08700148B2
Techniques for controlling one or more modular circuits (“satellites”) that are intended for placement in a subject's body. The one or more satellites are controlled by sending signals over a bus that includes first and second conduction paths. Also coupled to the bus in system embodiments is a device such as a pacemaker that provides power and includes control circuitry. Each satellite includes satellite circuitry and one or more effectors that interact with the tissue. The satellite circuitry is coupled to the bus, and thus interfaces the controller to the one or more effectors, which may function as actuators, sensors, or both. The effectors may be electrodes that are used to introduce analog electrical signals (e.g., one or more pacing pulses) into the tissue in the local areas where the electrodes are positioned (e.g., heart muscles) or to sense analog signals (e.g., a propagating depolarization signal) within the tissue.
US08700144B2
A system and method for stimulating an electrode is provided. The stimulator includes a sensor circuit configured to couple to the at least one electrode of a medical device to measure a power characteristic of the at least one electrode. The stimulator includes a control circuit configured to compare the measured power characteristic of the at least one electrode to a desired power characteristic, and, based upon a comparison of the measured power characteristic of the at least one electrode and the desired power characteristic, select between a first operational mode and a second operational mode of the electrode stimulator. The first operational mode includes delivering energy to the at least one electrode to stimulate the tissue and the second operational mode includes recovering energy from the at least one electrode.
US08700143B2
Adaptations to the OptiVol™ alert algorithm are disclosed which may reduce the number of false positive alerts while retaining the desired sensitivity. Some embodiments monitor fluid levels in patients. Some embodiments reset a cumulative index when a short-term impedance value is greater than a baseline impedance value minus a predetermined positive hysteresis value.
US08700138B2
Approaches for determining threshold values for one or more arrhythmia rate zones and/or the number of rate zones are described. A probability function for heart rate is determined using collected and measured heart rate values. One or more heart rate probability values are selected. Thresholds for arrhythmia rate zones are determined from the probability function based on the selected probability values. Determining the rate zone thresholds may involve determining a threshold for a lower rate limit and/or determining one or more tachyarrhythmia rate zone thresholds. The number of rate zones may also be determined based on the probability function.
US08700128B2
An apparatus and method for placing a device in a body area of a patient, by: tracking the device over a 3-dimensional model of the body area; activating the device at different locations in the body area; measuring the response signal or parameter caused by the activation; storing the locations as well as the response signals; choosing an optimal location for the device base in the stored response signals and navigating the device to the optimal location.
US08700127B2
A system and method for providing a dark-blood technique for contrast-enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance, improving visualization of subendocardial infarcts or perfusion abnormalities that may otherwise be difficult to distinguish from the bright blood pool. In one technique the dark-blood preparation is performed using a driven-equilibrium fourier transform (DEFT) preparation with motion sensitizing gradients which attenuate the signal in the ventricular cavities related to incoherent phase losses resulting from non-steady flow within the heart. This dark-blood preparation preserves the underlying contrast characteristics of the pulse sequence causing a myocardial infarction to be bright while rendering the blood pool dark. When applied to perfusion imaging, this dark-blood preparation will help eliminate artifacts resulting from the juxtaposition of a bright ventricular cavity and relatively dark myocardium.
US08700122B2
The skin preparation device and sensor of the present invention include an array of rigid tines. The tines serve to “self-prepare” the skin at each electrode site. These tines, when pressed against the skin, penetrate the stratum corneum, thereby reducing skin impedance and improving signal quality. A self-prepping device of the present invention is an optimized array of short non-conductive rigid tines in which the individual tines are created in a geometry that allows for a sharp point at the tip when molding, machining or etching is used as a method of fabrication.
US08700115B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to an optical sensor for detecting glucose. The sensor comprises a chemical indicator system disposed within a gap between the distal end of an optical fiber and an atraumatic tip portion, wherein the optical fiber and atraumatic tip portion are coupled by a coupling member, such as a rod or hypotube or cage that traverses the gap. The sensor further comprises a means for generating and detecting an optical reference signal unrelated to the glucose, such that ratiometric correction of glucose measurements for artifacts in the optical system is enabled.
US08700111B2
A monitoring device configured to be attached to the ear of a person includes a base, an earbud housing extending outwardly from the base that is configured to be positioned within an ear of a subject, and a cover surrounding the earbud housing. The base includes a speaker, an optical emitter, and an optical detector. The cover includes light transmissive material that is in optical communication with the optical emitter and the optical detector and serves as a light guide to deliver light from the optical emitter into the ear canal of the subject wearing the device at one or more predetermined locations and to collect light external to the earbud housing and deliver the collected light to the optical detector.
US08700107B1
A sound-amplifying case for a mobile device is provided. The sound guide groove is provided under a portion of the body and opened over the speaker of the mobile device for guiding sound from the speaker toward the pop-up plate. The sound guide hole is provided through a portion of the base groove of the body exposing the speaker of the mobile device to the sound guide groove. The blockable sound slit is provided between the body and the pop-up plate above the sound guide groove, and the blockable sound slit is configured to open when the pop-up plate is closed down and to close when the pop-up plate is opened up. The wedge-shape bellow sound amplifier comprises first and second foldable pan-shaped plates, and each of them is installed between corresponding side edge of the base groove of the body and corresponding inner edge of the pop-up plate.
US08700105B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for establishing communication between a low duty cycle device and other devices through a wireless communication network. In one particular implementation, the low duty cycle device may awaken from a hibernating state in synchronization with transmission of messages.
US08700101B2
A system and methods for controlling a mobile electronic device is disclosed. A notification in response to a prescribed event is outputted. A change in a position of the mobile electronic device is detected. A strength of the notification is reduced, when a change in the position of the mobile electronic device is detected while the notification sound is being outputted.
US08700072B2
Message content is scaled to support rich messaging. Devices and associated messaging systems can support various levels of content richness or fidelity. Message content scaling is employed to ensure sharing of content in as rich a manner as possible given limitations associated with various messaging systems, among other things. Messages can be scaled down or degraded, for instance where communicating devices do not support high fidelity content being transmitted. Alternatively, messages can be scaled up or enriched in cases, where low fidelity content is transmitted to a device supporting richer content, for example.
US08700070B2
A method and network controller (200) with a radio network controller (206) that transmits (302) a first signaling message to a communication device (108). The first signaling message includes extended information that some communications devices (108) are expected to be unable to process. The radio network controller (206) further transmits (312) a second signaling message that includes substantially all information that is contained within the first signaling message except for the extended information. The method and network controller (200) also includes a signaling message retransmission controller (208) communicatively coupled to the network controller, that identifies information contained within the extended information and indicates the extended information to the radio network controller (206).
US08700065B2
When a call is placed within a femtocell area of coverage, the location of the femtocell is used as the location of the mobile device. The location of the femtocell is stored in the network, and if the call is placed through the femtocell, the location of the femtocell is used to determine the location of the mobile device.
US08700064B2
A method and system for device discovery in a wireless network is provided. The device discovery involves directionally transmitting a data unit from a transmitting station over a channel in different directions to emulate omni-directional transmission, receiving the data unit transmissions from different directions at a receiving station, determining the quality of the transmissions received from the different directions, and detecting location information for the transmitting station relative to the receiving station based on the highest quality transmission among the transmissions received from the different directions. Further, if a channel has sufficient bandwidth to satisfy direct link communication between two stations, then during a direct link set-up stage, the two stations conduct a probing message exchange using omni-direction transmission, and upon successful probing, obtain communication link status information and set proper communication configurations for the two stations based on the communication link status information.
US08700052B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are for receiving a tracking failure notification including a device identifier of a tracked device that is unavailable because of a failure condition, determining the failure condition as being one of a network failure and a tracked device failure, retrieving known location data of the tracked device including a last known location of the tracked device, determining a potential location of the tracked device, and notifying an entity of the failure condition, the device identifier, and the potential location.
US08700042B2
Successfully decoded data received from a mobile terminal as well as the transmission format of that data is relayed over the backhaul from a base station receiver that successfully decoded the mobile terminal's transmission to the base stations in the mobile terminal's active set that presumably were unable to decode the mobile terminal's transmission due to inadequate signal-to-noise ratio. A base station that receives this transmission from the relaying base station that did'successfully decode and demodulate the mobile terminal's transmission is then able to reconstruct the data and subtract it from the total interference, thereby increasing the signal-to-noise ratio at this base station for its in-cell processing.
US08700041B2
A wireless, multi-modal access device and system adapted to integrate a number of communications networks operating in differing communication modes to facilitate transfer of communication links during a communication session to promote efficient use of the communication networks. The system includes a plurality of Universal Multi-Modal Access Devices UMMAD that are capable of operating at different frequencies and different protocols (TDMA, AMPS, CDMA, GSM, PCS etc) to communicate with any one of a number of Wide Bandwidth Gateways (WBG), which are each capable of communication using one or more of the protocols. The communication links may be switched from one WBG to another or from one protocol to another during a communication session to continue the session under the control of a Universal System Traffic Controller. Numerous other applications of the UMMADs for unique identification and e-commerce are disclosed.
US08700031B2
A method for providing wireless communication services via efficient management of frequency bands includes transmitting uplink communications to a first system on a first frequency. The method also includes receiving downlink communications from the first system on a second frequency. The method may also include transmitting uplink communications to a second system by re-using the second frequency. The method further includes receiving downlink communications from the second system by re-using the first frequency.
US08700028B2
A system a method for managing diagnostic sessions in a communication network includes a first step (604) of determining presence information of at least one mobile station. A next step (610) includes estimating a usage probability of the at least one mobile station based on the presence information. A next step (614) includes implementing a Diagnostic Management session in response to the usage probability.
US08700025B2
A mobile communications system includes a radio base station and a remote radio apparatus connected with a high-speed transmission medium to the radio base station. A user apparatus includes a unit which measures a received level of a signal transmitted from the radio base station and a received level of a signal transmitted from the remote radio apparatus and detects a change in relative magnitudes of measured values; a unit which measures a path loss between the user apparatus and the radio base station and a path loss between the user apparatus and the remote radio apparatus and detects a change in relative magnitudes of measured values; and a transmitter which transmits a report signal which shows that a predetermined event has occurred. The predetermined event occurs if the relative magnitudes of the received levels are reversed and/or if the relative magnitudes of the path losses are reversed.
US08700019B2
A communication system, method, and components are described. Specifically, a communication system that supports dynamic device pairing of communication devices is described. Such pairing is accomplished using a feature or pairing server, without requiring modification to associated communication endpoints. Moreover, sequenced applications can be applied for all communication endpoints when pairing is in effect.
US08700014B2
An audio guided system (AUGUST) for mobile devices that facilitates the creation and dissemination of audio guided activities (AGAs) from a source computer/device to a plurality of other recipient mobile devices, wherein the AGA is disseminated to the recipient mobile devices in a form that is compatible with the capabilities of the respective recipient mobile devices. The audio guided system comprises the source computer/device, the plurality of other recipient mobile devices and a server.
US08700011B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a method and system for presenting a transit indicator. For example, to reduce distraction, a person in communication with a mobile device user operating a vehicle is warned. A warning signal is generated when a determined speed of travel of a mobile device is greater than a predetermined threshold speed of travel and the mobile device is in communication with a communication device. The mobile device transmits the generated warning signal to the communication device to indicate to a user of the communication device that a user of the mobile device may be operating a vehicle.
US08700009B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, devices, and system for monitoring and sharing emotion-related data from one or more persons connected via the internet. An emotion monitoring device (EMD) measures physiological signals obtained from biosensors and computes emotion states relating to emotional arousal and valence. Various signal processing methods are employed to reduce artifact and improve the detection of emotional states. The EMD communicates the emotion data to an internet server via a wireless network. The internet server transmits the emotion data to other persons equipped with an EMD. Their emotion data similarly is obtained and shared with others. The networked emotion data can used to enrich online, community experiences such as games and social networks. An implementation of an EMD based on a smart phone enables emotion data to be monitored in wide area, mobile environment. The biosensors can be integrated into the casing or a cover for the mobile phone.
US08700005B1
An item-providing system supplies items to a user device for consumption at the user device via communication infrastructure. The device may correspond to a book reader device or other type of device. In one illustrative case, the item-providing system may send a notification message to the user device to notify the user device to wake up and perform one or more actions. The item-providing system may provide scheduling functionality for determining the timing at which to send the notification message.
US08699998B2
Methods, systems and devices for controlling access to messaging (SMS, MMS, email, etc.) on mobile devices (e.g., cell phones) during times or in locations in which such activity is prohibited or inhibited by the parental control settings. Parental control settings limit messaging features available to mobile devices to certain times and/or locations. Messages received at restricted times/locations are stored in temporary memory without notifying the mobile device user (i.e., messages are not placed in the inbox), unless the message is received from a pre-approved source (e.g., parent, teachers, etc.). Once the context for restricting access to messaging (e.g., time, location, etc.) no longer applies, the stored messages may be transferred from the temporary memory to the inbox and the user may be alerted regarding the new message.
US08699995B2
A method, device, system, and media are directed to controlling a multi-tuner radio. A voice command may be received and/or filtered. An operation of the radio may be modified based on the voice command. A gesture input may be received through a gesture pad. Another operation of the multi-tuner radio may be modified based on the received gesture input. A fingerprint may be recognized with a gesture pad. A user may be authenticated based on the recognized fingerprint. The operation or the other operation may be personalized based on the fingerprint. User training may be provided for the gesture input.
US08699992B2
A mobile telephone device includes: a communication switching unit that selectively switches between an LTE communication system and a CDMA communication system, for performing communication; and a determination unit which, upon communication initiation being requested in a situation where a location registration is performed in the LTE communication system, determines whether or not the communication initiation is of a predetermined communication type; wherein if it is determined that the communication initiation is not of the predetermined communication type, the communication switching unit changes a location registering destination by giving priority to the LTE communication system after communication is completed in the CDMA communication system, and if it is determined that the communication initiation is of the predetermined communication type, the communication switching unit continues the location registration to the CDMA communication system even after the communication is completed in the CDMA communication system.
US08699983B2
A fluid sensor comprises a sensor housing (12), a sensor package (14), an actuator (16) and a switch (18). The sensor package (14) is disposed within the sensor housing (12) and includes first and second screens and at least one sensing membrane. The sensing membrane is disposed between the first and second screens (36) and is adapted to expand when exposed to a predetermined quantity of a first predetermined fluid. The actuator (16) is disposed proximate the sensor package (14) within the sensor housing (12) and moveable between a first position and a second position through an intermediate position. The switch (18) is disposed proximate the actuator (16) and is operable between closed and open positions. When the actuator (16) is in the second position at least a portion of the actuator (16) depresses the switch (18) to control an-electrical, circuit connected therewith.
US08699975B1
Various embodiments may provide a circuit including a radio frequency (RF) power amplification module having an RF power amplifier. The RF power amplification module may further include a directional coupler coupled with the RF power amplifier and configured to produce a power signal at a coupling port of the directional coupler corresponding to an output power of the RF power amplifier. The RF power amplification module may further include a switch coupled between the coupling terminal and a sensing path to selectively couple the coupling port with a power detector via the sensing path. The RF power amplification module may further include a termination load coupled to an isolation port of the directional coupler. Some embodiments may include a plurality of RF power amplification modules coupled together by the sensing path.
US08699972B2
Functionality can be implemented to calibrate the output transmit power of a power amplifier of a network device without the use of test equipment. An RF signal can be transmitted at the saturated output power (of a power amplifier) from a transmitter unit to a receiver unit of the network device via a loopback path. A received power of the RF signal received via the loopback path can be measured. The loopback gain associated with the network device is determined based on the saturated output power and the measured received power. The output transmit power can be calibrated by iteratively decreasing the output transmit power by an unknown value, transmitting a new RF signal via the loopback path at the decreased output transmit power, measuring the new received power, and calculating the decreased output transmit power using the loopback gain and the measured new received power.
US08699970B2
A method and a system for determining the amplitude and/or the phase of the output signal of a transmission link dependent upon the amplitude of the input signal (AM-AM and/or AM-PM characteristic) impresses a test signal (s(t)) on the transmission link, measures the response signal (e(t)) resulting from the test signal (s(t)) by amplitude and/or phase distortion in the transmission link and determines the amplitude response (|e(t)|) of the response signal (e(t)) and/or the phase responses (φS(t), φE(t)) of the test signal (s(t)) and of the response signal (e(t)) dependent upon the amplitude response (|s(t)|) of the test signal (s(t)). The amplitude response (|s(t)|) of the test signal (s(t)) consists of several first and second response segments with constant amplitude values over the duration (ΔT) of the respective first or second response segment.
US08699963B2
An audio subsystem in a mobile communication device has a speaker. In one implementation, the audio subsystem has a higher-gain power amplifier, a lower-gain power amplifier, and a switching system configured to route signals produced by the lower-gain power amplifier to the speaker while the device is operative in a first mode and configured to route signals produced by the higher-gain power amplifier to the speaker while the device is operative in a second mode. In another implementation, the audio subsystem has a power amplifier coupled to the speaker and a power supply control controlled to provide voltage at a first voltage level to the power amplifier while the device is operative in a first mode and controlled to provide voltage at a second, higher, voltage level to the power amplifier while the device is operative in a second mode.
US08699958B2
A wireless communication device includes a circuit board to include an antenna element, an estimating unit to estimate a current distribution in at least a partial area on the circuit board, which is induced by power feeding to the antenna element, and a specifying unit to specify a radiation pattern associated with the current distribution estimated by the estimating unit as a radiation directivity of the circuit board.
US08699957B2
A transmission/reception apparatus and method are provided for channel estimation in a mobile communication system for transmitting packet data based on FDMA, and include a transmitter for transmitting signals through a pilot channel and a control channel, and a receiver for receiving the signals of the pilot channel and the control channel and estimating a channel for demodulation of a data channel using the signal of the pilot channel and information about transmission power used when the control channel is transmitted. The receiver includes a pilot channel receiver, a control channel receiver, a control channel signal reproducer, and a channel estimator for performing channel estimation using the signals received through the pilot channel, the control channel, the signal transmitted through the control channel by the transmitter, and the information about transmission power used when the control channel is transmitted by the transmitter.
US08699952B2
A proximity network system includes a plurality of Bluetooth devices disposed respectively in each one of a plurality of electronic apparatuses. The Bluetooth devices are arranged for enabling the electronic apparatuses to receive and transmit Bluetooth wireless signals with each other. Each Bluetooth device includes a community relationship module, an identifying module and a distance detecting module. The community relationship module stores a community relationship data of each Bluetooth device. The identifying module reads the community relationship data of each Bluetooth device to identify whether each Bluetooth device has the same community relationship. The distance detecting module determines whether each Bluetooth device is in a proximity network. When the Bluetooth devices are identified to have the same community relationship with each other and are in the proximity network, each electronic apparatus is allowed to receive and transmit the Bluetooth wireless signals with another electronic apparatus.
US08699951B2
Provided is a method for performing a Bluetooth communication in a wireless terminal. The method includes steps of in a Bluetooth performance optimization mode of the wireless terminal, designating an orientation or direction in which the wireless terminal is to be positioned corresponding to a Bluetooth device to communicate with the wireless terminal; measuring and storing a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the wireless terminal positioned in the designated orientation or direction; repeatedly performing the above steps while storing the RSSI associated with each orientation or direction in which the wireless terminal is positioned; and displaying the RSSI associated with each orientation or direction in which the wireless terminal is positioned.
US08699948B2
A host side wireless communication terminal and guest side wireless communication terminals are stacked together, for example. The wireless communication terminals each generate an access point list within a range wherein near field wireless communication can be performed. The host side wireless communication terminal stores the data of the vibratory waveform by the user tapping a finger or the like on the casing, as reference data. The guest side wireless communication terminals detect the vibratory waveforms propagated through the casing or the like of the host side device, set the vibratory waveform data as key data, and transmits this to the host side by near field wireless communication. Upon the key data and reference data matching, the host side wireless communication device performs near field wireless communication pairing between the wireless communication devices that have transmitted the key data thereof.
US08699925B2
A developing device includes a developing roller, toner supplying roller, regulation blade, and casing. The developing roller faces an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is to be formed, and supplies toner to the image carrier. The toner supplying roller faces the developing roller, and supplies the toner to the developing roller. The regulation blade faces the toner supplying roller at predetermined distance. The casing houses the developing roller, toner supplying roller, and regulation blade. The casing includes a toner catching support member facing the developing roller or the toner supplying roller between the regulation blade and the image carrier. The developing device further includes a toner catching member, which is arranged along a longitudinal direction of the toner catching support member and catches toner that drops from the developing roller, and a vibration generating portion, which vibrates the toner catching member.
US08699922B2
A development system (10) for an electrophotographic printer (100) with multiple augers and containing a development roller (11) and a first channel (12) containing a feed auger (13) and developer (14), where the magnetic strength of the feed pole of the development roller increases in the direction of developer flow (18) in the first channel. This increase in magnetic field strength of the feed pole (50) ensures that a uniform layer of developer is formed on the development roller despite the volume of developer in the first channel decreasing along the length of the first channel in the direction of developer flow.
US08699914B2
A tandem drum unit includes a pair of side plates, a plurality of photosensitive drums and a plurality of developing cartridge accommodating sections. The plurality of photosensitive drums is juxtaposed in a second direction, each photosensitive drum having an axis extending in a first direction and supported rotatably about the axis by the pair of side plates. Each developing cartridge accommodating section accommodating therein a developer cartridge having a casing and a connecting frame extending in the first direction and connected to the pair of side frames. The casing of each developer cartridge is seated on at least two abutment portions, the at least two abutment portions being positioned spaced away from each other in the first direction, wherein the plurality of connecting frames includes an endmost connecting frame in the second direction having a specific abutment portions resiliently movable in the pressing direction of the developer cartridge.
US08699893B2
An image forming apparatus having a fixing part fixing a toner image onto a recording medium by heating it, includes an ambient temperature predicting part predicting an ambient temperature from a fixing temperature rising period of time taken until the fixing part reaches a certain temperature; a member temperature predicting part predicting a member temperature of a member from the predicted ambient temperature and an operating state of the image forming apparatus; a cumulative-used-service-lifetime calculating part calculating a current cumulative used service lifetime from the predicted member temperature, the operating state of the image forming apparatus and an immediately preceding cumulative used service lifetime; a limit-of-usable-period-of-time calculating part calculating a limit of usable period of time by subtracting the calculated current cumulative used service lifetime from a service lifetime of the member; and a reporting part reporting the calculated limit of usable period of time.
US08699892B2
A method of evaluating electrophotographic overcoatability of a composition is provided. The method includes measuring a color (C1) of a toner image fixed on a sheet, dropping the composition on the toner image, and removing the composition from the toner image. The method further includes measuring a color (C2) of the toner image from which the composition has been removed, and calculating a color difference between the color (C1) of the toner image and the color (C2) of the toner image on which the composition is dropped and from which the composition is removed thereafter.
US08699891B2
A detection apparatus includes a transmission member that is provided facing a conveying path on which a medium is conveyed and that transmits light from the medium being conveyed on the conveying path; a detection section that detects the medium or an image on the medium according to the light which is transmitted by the transmission member, wherein the light is received by a light-receiving member of the detection section; and an opposing member provided on an opposite side of the conveying path from the transmission member and having at least one opposing surface that faces the transmission member. In a conveying direction of the medium, a length of the opposing surface is shorter than a length of a detection surface.
US08699890B2
An image forming agent storage container includes a container body and at least two container-side protruding portions. The container body is configured to be detachably attached in an image forming apparatus body. The container body forms a storage chamber in which an image forming agent is stored. At least two container-side protruding portions protrude toward an outside of the container body and have cavities on a storage-chamber side thereof. The cavities are configured to store the image forming agent. The at least two container-side protruding portions are configured so that a body-side protruding portion is formed on the image forming apparatus body is fitted between the at least two container-side protruding portions, which are adjacent to each other.
US08699888B2
An optical linear feedback circuit has an optical loop delay path (10) for recirculating a sequence of optical signals, and an output path for outputting delayed optical signals after circulating one or more times around the loop. A selector (50) is provided for selecting one or more of the delayed optical signals from the sequence, and an optical logic circuit (20) is coupled to carry out a logical operation on the selected delayed optical signals to create an optical feedback signal which is coupled to the optical loop delay path, so that the optical feedback signal can be added to the sequence of optical signals already circulating. By recirculating around a loop, each round trip can be regarded as equivalent to a shift of a shift register, so longer sequences can be built up without needing an additional storage cell for each shift function.
US08699880B2
The present disclosure provides a polarization multiplexed transceiver, including: a transmitter; a receiver; circuitry within the transmitter configured to insert pilot tones as a reference state of polarization for a polarization multiplexed signal; and circuitry within the receiver configured to de-multiplex the polarization multiplexed signal using the pilot tones. The transmitted signal is constructed in such a manner as to facilitate the division of the receiver processing between the analog and digital domains such that the implementation may be simultaneously both highly spectrally efficient and power efficient.
US08699879B2
An optical packet switching apparatus includes an optical switch unit for switching the route of a received optical packet signal and output the received optical packet signal, and an optical switch control unit for extracting destination information from the received optical packet and generating a control signal for the optical switch unit according to the destination information. The optical switch control unit includes a clock generator for generating a plurality of local clocks of different phases, and a clock selector for selecting a local clock having the smallest phase difference with the received optical packet from the plurality of local clocks. The optical switch control unit generates the control signal using the local clock selected by the clock selector as an operation clock.
US08699866B2
Disclosed is a heating apparatus. In the heating apparatus, carbon nanotube heating elements for heating fluid flowing through a flow channel in a heating chamber are disposed at a heat transfer part. The contact area of the carbon nanotube heating elements and the heat transfer part is 50% or more of the contact area of the heat transfer part and the fluid. Therefore, it is possible to more efficiently heat the fluid.
