US08933419B2
An optical fiber phosphor screen including a thin film phosphor layer and an optical fiber faceplate, allowing interfering light in a cladding of the optical fibers to be reduced. The phosphor screen includes an angular filter including at least one layer arranged between the thin film phosphor layer and the optical fiber faceplate.
US08933403B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for measuring at least two properties of an object, for some embodiments, said device comprising a measuring device for measuring at least one physical property of an object and an infrared imaging device for measuring at least one thermal property of an object, and wherein said first measuring device and said infrared imaging device are arranged to be synchronized to perform simultaneous measurements of the object.
US08933395B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus to identify at least one component from a plurality of components in a fluid mixture, the apparatus including a first input channel into which a first flow containing a plurality of components is introduced; a plurality of buffer input channels, into which additional flows of buffer solution are introduced, disposed on either side of the first input channel; wherein the first flow and the additional flows have a flow direction along a length of the apparatus; a detector apparatus which detects and identifies selected components of the plurality of components; a laser which emits a laser beam which damages or kills selected components of the plurality of components; and at least one channel disposed at the another end of the apparatus which is adapted to receive the first flow and the additional flows after operation of the laser on the selected components.
US08933394B2
A semiconductor device includes one or more transistor cells mounted on a first conductive type silicon carbide (SiC) substrate, wherein each of the transistor cells includes a second conductive type wall region formed on a first surface of the SiC substrate, a first conductive type source region formed in the wall region, a gate electrode formed with a gate insulating film; a source electrode formed in such a way as to be brought into contact with the source region, and a drain electrode formed on a second surface of the SiC substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a second conductive type region located close to an outside of an outermost cell of the transistor cells, the second conductive type region surrounding the wall region and being insulated from both of the gate electrode and the source electrode.
US08933383B2
A system and method of trajectory correction includes a voice coil coupled to the projectile and providing a linear force; a linkage assembly coupled to the voice coil and comprising: a linkage shaft; a slot coupled to the linkage shaft; and a pin loosely coupled to the slot to form a first pivot point, wherein the linkage assembly converts the linear force to a torque force through the first pivot point; and a canard assembly coupled to the linkage assembly and including a canard shaft coupled to the linkage shaft to form a second pivot point; and at least one canard coupled to the canard shaft, wherein the torque force is transmitted to canard shaft by the linkage shaft, and wherein the canard shaft transmits the torque force to the canard to correct the trajectory of the projectile.
US08933382B2
A missile guidance system is configured to estimate a time to go, the time to go comprising an amount of time until a missile would reach a closest point of approach to a target. The guidance system is also configured to estimate a zero-effort miss distance along a zero-effort miss vector, the zero-effort miss distance comprising a distance by which the missile would miss the target if the missile performs no future maneuvers. The guidance system is also configured to determine a tolerance for the zero-effort miss distance, the tolerance being a function of the time to go. The guidance system is further configured to modify a course of the missile by adjusting an expenditure of propellant such that the estimated zero-effort miss distance in excess of the tolerance is removed from future consideration.
US08933380B2
An enhanced flash chamber with a flash chamber; a microwave source in communication with the flash chamber for providing a quantity of energy to a plurality of antennas within the flash chamber; a fluid chamber positionable within the flash chamber capable of holding a liquid and the plurality of antennas; and transport tubing for transporting a target material for extraction through the fluid chamber where the quantity of energy from the microwave source interacts with the plurality of antennas to heat the liquid held in the fluid chamber to a superheated state and the superheated state of the liquid transfers a portion of the quantity of energy to the target material to extract an extraction product from the target material.
US08933368B2
A modified region is accurately formed at a desirable position with respect to a laser light irradiation surface of an object to be processed. When an average difference γ has a value exceeding a predetermined threshold during trace recording, a particle segment Z including a line segment S where the average difference γ exceeds the predetermined threshold is defined. This determines that a particle exists on a line to cut 5 and randomly reflects measuring laser light, whereby a segment where the presence of the particle affects a control signal in a line segment to cut is detected as the particle segment Z. Correcting the control signal in the particle segment Z inhibits a converging lens from moving more than necessary because of an error included in the signal value under the influence of the presence of the particle, thus allowing the converging point of the processing laser light to accurately follow a front face 3.
US08933356B2
In a state wherein a striker (88) is not locked in a latch (90), a movable terminal (74) of a spring terminal (70) is in contact with a fixed terminal (54) of a terminal base (14). Namely, a micro switch is turned ON. Here, the movable terminal (74) is folded outwardly, and includes a leaf spring function. Further, in an end portion of the movable terminal (74), a hemispherical contact portion (74A) protrudes outwardly, and the contact portion (74A) contacts a contact portion (54A) of the fixed terminal (54). Thus, in a state wherein the contact portion (74A) is in contact with the contact portion (54A), elastic energy is accumulated in the movable terminal (74).
US08933353B2
A switch (1), in particular a foot-operated switch, with a housing (2), in which a switching device (4) is arranged, wherein a leadthrough with a bearing (6) is provided on opposite sides of the housing (2), and a pivotable pedal (3) can be fixed to the bearings (6). The pedal (3) can be positioned removably on the bearings (6) and, in the state in which it is positioned on the bearings (6), can be secured on the bearings (6) in each case via at least one connecting element (12).
US08933350B1
A pan box assembly for fixtures for use on exterior walls. The box assembly includes a base unit, which is mounted directly to a flat surface substrate, and two extension elements. The unit, along with the extension elements, allows for modification of certain dimensions of the box assembly so that it can be used with three different finish thicknesses. The extension elements may be added or removed without uninstalling the box or removing the back of the box.
US08933340B2
A signal line and a circuit board that can be easily bent in a U shape and prevent unwanted emission include a line portion includes a plurality of laminated line portion sheets made of a flexible material. Signal lines extend within the line portion in an x-axis direction. Ground lines are provided within the line portion on a positive direction side in a z-axis direction with respect to the signal lines and have line widths equal to or smaller than the line widths of the signal lines. Ground lines are provided within the line portion on a negative direction side in the z-axis direction with respect to the signal lines. The signal lines overlap the ground lines when seen in a planar view from the z-axis direction.
US08933334B2
A flame retardant that is arranged to improve the cold resistance and the productivity of a composition, a flame-retardant composition, an insulated wire, a wiring harness, and a method for manufacturing the flame-retardant composition. The flame retardant includes a pulverized natural mineral which is mainly composed of magnesium hydroxide, wherein the pulverized natural mineral is surface-treated with an organic high polymer such as polyolefin. The amount of surface treatment is within a range of 0.1 to 10 mass %. The flame-retardant composition includes 30 to 250 parts by mass of the flame retardant with respect to 100 parts by mass of an organic high polymer such as polyolefin. The insulated wire includes a conductor and the flame-retardant composition which covers the conductor, and the wiring harness includes the insulated wire.
US08933329B2
It is an object to provide a maleimide-based compound having excellent photoelectric conversion characteristics, and a tautomer or a stereoisomer thereof, a dye for photoelectric conversion, a semiconductor electrode, a photoelectric conversion element, and a photoelectrochemical cell. In order to accomplish the above-described objects, a dye for photoelectric conversion including at least one compound represented by the following general formula (1) is provided. (In the formula (1), R1 represents a direct bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkylene group. X represents an acidic group. D represents an organic group containing an electron-donating substituent. Z represents a linking group that has at least one hydrocarbon group selected from aromatic rings or heterocyclic rings).
US08933305B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XRP32008 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XRP32008, cells from soybean variety XRP32008, plants of soybean XRP32008, and plant parts of soybean variety XRP32008. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XRP32008 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XRP32008, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XRP32008, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XRP32008. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XRP32008 are further provided.
US08933303B2
The invention provides seed and plants of broccoli hybrid PX 05181827 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of broccoli hybrid PX 05181827 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a broccoli plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another broccoli plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants.
US08933301B2
The present invention provides a series of independent human-induced, non-transgenic mutations found in at least one tomato β-galactosidase 4 gene, tomato plants having these mutations in at least one of their tomato β-galactosidase 4 genes, and a method of creating and identifying similar and/or additional mutations in the tomato β-galactosidase 4 gene by screening pooled and/or individual tomato plants. Tomato plants identified and produced in accordance with the present invention have fruit that are firmer when ripe with reduced post-harvest softening compared to fruit from wild type tomato plants as a result of non-transgenic mutations in at least one of their tomato β-galactosidase 4 genes.
US08933287B2
A new family of crystalline microporous silicometallophosphates designated MAPSO-64 and modified forms thereof have been synthesized. These silicometallophosphates are represented by the empirical formula R+rMm2+EPxSiyOz where R is an organoammonium cation such as ETMA+ or DEDMA+, M is an alkaline earth or transition metal cation of valence 2+, and E is a trivalent framework element such as aluminum or gallium. The MAPSO-64 compositions are characterized by a BPH framework topology and have catalytic properties for carrying out various hydrocarbon conversion processes, and separation properties for separating at least one component.
US08933281B2
Processes and reactor systems are provided for the conversion of oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrocarbons, ketones and alcohols useful as liquid fuels, such as gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel, and industrial chemicals. The process involves the conversion of mono-oxygenated hydrocarbons, such as alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, furans, carboxylic acids, diols, triols, and/or other polyols, to C4+ hydrocarbons, alcohols and/or ketones, by condensation. The oxygenated hydrocarbons may originate from any source, but are preferably derived from biomass.
US08933272B2
It is described a process for the production of hexamethylenediamine by hydrogenation of adiponitrile, comprising an improved step of regeneration of the catalyst. Also described are an equipment for the production of hexamethylenediamine, and a washing apparatus (14) for implementing the catalyst regeneration step.
US08933267B2
The present invention relates to a compound according to formula I in particular as anti-ulcer agent and/or anti-Helicobacter pylori agent, wherein R1 is selected from linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl, H, thioether and benzyl, and R2 is selected from linear or branched C1-C10 alkanediyl and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
US08933265B2
A process and a mixture for oxidizing an alkyl-aromatic compound comprises forming a mixture comprising the alkyl-aromatic compound, a solvent, a bromine source, a catalyst, and ammonium acetate; and contacting the mixture with an oxidizing agent at oxidizing conditions to produce an oxidation product comprising at least one of an aromatic aldehyde, an aromatic alcohol, an aromatic ketone, and an aromatic carboxylic acid. The solvent comprises a carboxylic acid having from 1 to 7 carbon atoms; and the catalyst comprises at least one of cobalt, titanium, manganese, chromium, copper, nickel, vanadium, iron, molybdenum, tin, cerium, and zirconium.
US08933264B2
To provide a method for producing an organic compound having a sulfo group by efficiently hydrolyzing an organic compound having a fluorosulfonyl group with a small number of steps with a small quantity of waste liquid.A method for producing an organic compound having a sulfo group, which comprises bringing an organic compound having a fluorosulfonyl group into contact with subcritical water at from 200 to 320° C. to convert the fluorosulfonyl group into a sulfo group.
US08933260B2
Provided herein are processes for the preparation of alkoxycarbonyl isothiocyanates from alkyl chloroformates and thiocyanates in toluene by controlling the amounts of water and catalyst.
US08933259B2
Organosilicon compounds bearing SiOC groups and having low residual silicon-bonded chlorine are prepared continuously by reacting a chlorosilane with alcohol and optionally water by contacting a gaseous phase containing alcohol with a liquid phase containing silane, organosilicon intermediates, organosilicon compounds containing SiOC groups and optional inert solvent in a reaction column in which the gas phase passes through the liquid phase in bubble form, or is provided with a vaporizer operating by a crossflow principle.
US08933254B2
This invention relates to a process, comprising reacting ethylene and oxygen or a source of oxygen in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor to form a product comprising ethylene oxide, wherein the catalyst contains silver or silver compound and a support and the catalyst is in the form of particulate solids having a mean particle diameter from 1 to 1000 μm and wherein the molar ratio of oxygen to ethylene is from 1:4 to 10:1.
US08933252B2
Provided are: a method for rapid fluoromethylation, by which a fluoromethyl group can be easily bonded to an aromatic-ring carbon of an aromatic compound with little generation of by-products; and a process for preparation of a PET tracer using the same. The method is characterized by cross-coupling an organoboron compound in which an aromatic ring is bonded to a boron atom with FCX2Br (wherein X is ordinary hydrogen or heavy hydrogen) in a solvent obtained by adding water to an aprotic polar solvent, in the presence of a palladium complex, a phosphine ligand, and a base.
US08933235B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) as defined in the specification and compositions comprising any of such novel compounds. These compounds are endothelial lipase inhibitors which may be used as medicaments.
US08933233B2
β-Lactamase inhibitor compounds (BLIs) are disclosed, including compounds that have activity against class A, class C or class D β-lactamases. Methods of manufacturing the BLIs, and uses of the compounds in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions and antibacterial applications are also disclosed.
US08933230B2
Phosphorus-containing group-substituted quinolines of formula (I) are provided in the present invention. The preparation process and application of the compound, and formulation comprising phosphorus-containing group-substituted quinolines are also disclosed. The compounds are protein kinase inhibitor and can be used for treating protein kinase abnormal activity-associated diseases, such as tumor, etc.
US08933223B2
A process for preparing a cyclic tertiary amine of the formula I where A is a C4-alkylene group, a C5-alkylene group or a —(CH2)2—B—(CH2)2— group, where B is oxygen (O) or an N—R1 radical and R1 is C1-C5-alkyl, aryl or C5-C7-cycloalkyl, and the radical R2 is a linear or branched C2-C16-alkyl, C5-C7-cycloalkyl or C7-C20-aralkyl, in which (i) an amino alcohol II from the group consisting of 1,4-aminobutanol, 1,5-aminopentanol, aminodiglycol (ADG) and aminoethylethanolamine of the formula IIa where R1 is as defined above or hydrogen (H), in which case R1=R2 in the amine I, is reacted with a primary or secondary alcohol R2OH (III) at a temperature in the range from 150 to 270° C. in the liquid phase in the presence of a copper-comprising heterogeneous catalyst in a reactor.
US08933213B2
Provided herein are methods, compounds, and compositions for reducing expression of fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4) mRNA and protein in an animal. Such methods, compounds, and compositions are useful to treat, prevent, delay, or ameliorate a metabolic disease, or a symptom thereof.
US08933205B2
The invention provides a process for preparing a cell-binding agent chemically coupled to a drug. The process comprises covalently attaching a linker to a cell-binding agent, a purification step, conjugating a drug to the cell-binding agent and a subsequent purification step.
US08933204B2
The invention relates to a novel, industrial-scale process for the purification of gamma-immunoglobulins (IgG) starting from plasma or fractions thereof. The method involves two chromatographic steps, i.e. a cation exchange capture chromatography, and then a polishing anion exchange chromatography, ensuring a highly purified end product, which contains no aggregates, and high yields. The process also involves a virus inactivation step by means of a solvent/detergent treatment to inactivate the viruses with a lipid envelope, and a virus removal step by nanofiltering to ensure the removal of the non-enveloped viruses.
US08933191B1
New methods of synthesizing new types of plant derived high molecular weight polyols are provided.
US08933187B2
Disclosed herein are self-crosslinking compositions containing a hydrosilation catalyst and the reaction product of a mixture comprising (i) a resinous copolymer having both silicon-bonded hydrogen and silanol groups, and (ii) one or more vinyl-functional polyorganosiloxanes. These compositions have stable post-cure adhesive properties and are suitable for use in electronic applications.
US08933186B2
Disclosed are novel polyorganosiloxane, a polycarbonate resin composition comprising the same and a modified polycarbonate resin. Disclosed is also a novel polyorganosiloxane derivative which may be utilized in various applications and is used in particular as an impact modifier, a modifier or a comonomer of polycarbonate resin.
US08933178B2
A control method for controlling a fluidized bed polymerization reactor in the production of a given polymer product, the method comprising the following steps: (a) determining a ratio of the production rate of the polymer product in the reactor to the pressure in the reactor, (b) setting a production rate of the polymer product in the reactor which production rate, on the basis of said ratio of step (a), corresponds to a desired pressure in the reactor; (c) adjusting the feed rates of monomers into the reactor in accordance with said set point production rate.
US08933170B2
Bio-sourced polycarbonate compositions comprising, for example, a styrene-ethylene-butadiene-styrene polymer are disclosed. These polycarbonate compositions can exhibit improved ductility and/or ageing resistance compared to conventional polycarbonate compositions. Methods for the preparation of the bio-sourced polycarbonate compositions are also disclosed.
US08933157B2
A boron nitride composition comprising at least two different boron nitride powder materials having different properties, e.g., surface areas, particle size, tap density, etc.
US08933156B2
Improved reaction processes comprise reacting a mixture to form a product comprising a metal alkyl, metal oxide, or mixture thereof and then passing said product to a post-reactor heat exchanger. The improvement comprises one or more of the following: (1) reacting said metal alkyl compound with an acid to produce a soluble metal ester; or (2) adding an ionic surfactant; or (3) adding a mixture comprising an antioxidant to the product under conditions sufficient to avoid formation of significant amounts of insoluble metal or metal compounds derived from said metal alkyl compound; or (4) purging said post-reactor heat exchanger with an inert gas under conditions to remove metal oxide from the post-reactor heat exchanger.
US08933153B2
The present invention relates to impact-modified polycarbonate molding compositions, the use thereof for producing shaped bodies and moldings, as well as shaped bodies and molding produced therefrom themselves. Compositions of the present invention comprise mixtures of graft polymers prepared in the emulsion polymerization process and in the bulk, solution and/or suspension polymerization process having a defined grafted particle size distribution. Compositions of the present invention, on the one hand are suitable for producing, over a wide processing window, (i.e. also at high processing temperatures), non-lacquered components having a high gloss surface, and on the other hand, are also capable of precise imaging of fine-grained or surface-etched mold surfaces. A result of this point is that components of the present invention are capable of having both high gloss and deep matte component sections that can be realized in a mold having different surface textures in a single injection molding step without further after-treatment of the surface. The molding compositions have a high heat distortion temperature and ductility at low temperatures and an excellent resistance to stress cracking under the influence of media—which is particularly important with respect to non-lacquered components.
US08933151B2
Provided is a shrinkage-reducing agent for a hydraulic material, which does not require a combination with any other admixture, is inexpensive, and is capable of suppressing a reduction in strength of a hardened concrete material, suppressing generation of a crack in a hardened concrete material by virtue of its excellent shrinkage-reducing ability, and imparting excellent freeze-thaw resistance. The shrinkage-reducing agent for a hydraulic material includes at least one kind of polyoxyalkylene compound (A) as an essential component, in which a concrete or a mortar produced by using the shrinkage-reducing agent for a hydraulic material has a spacing factor of 350 μm or less.
US08933149B2
A drag reducing composition comprising a finely divided, solid polyolefin friction reducing agent formed from olefins containing from 2 to 30 carbon atoms, the polyolefin drag reducing agent suspended in a suspending medium and comprising 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,3-pentanediol monoisobutyrate containing up to 10% by weight of water.
US08933148B2
A solventless radiation curable stretchable ink composition including an aliphatic urethane monomer or oligomer; an acrylic ester monomer; a photoinitiator; and an optional colorant. A patterned article including a deformable substrate; an image printed on the deformable substrate, the image being formed from a radiation curable stretchable ink composition comprising an aliphatic urethane monomer or oligomer; an acrylic ester monomer; a photoinitiator; and an optional colorant.
US08933145B2
The present invention relates to methods for making wear and oxidation resistant polymeric materials by high temperature melting. The invention also provides methods of making medical implants containing cross-linked antioxidant-containing tough and ductile polymers and materials used therewith also are provided.
US08933138B2
The present invention provides photolatent Ti-chelate catalyst compounds of formula (I), wherein R1 is for example C6-C14 aryl which is substituted by one or more R′2, R′3 or R′4; or the two R1 together are unsubstituted linear or branched C1-C12alkylene; R2, R3, R4, R′2, R′3, and R′4 independently of each other are for example hydrogen, halogen or linear or branched C1-C20alkyl; R5, R6 and R7 independently of each other are hydrogen, linear or branched C1-C20alkyl, C6-C14aryl, Br or Cl, provided that not more than one of R5, R6 and R7 is hydrogen; as well as formulations comprising said compounds and defined 1,3-diketones.
US08933137B2
Expandable composite resin particles for frozen storage comprising: composite resin particles of a polyolefin-based resin and a polystyrene-based resin; 7.5 to 11% by weight of volatile blowing agent contained in the composite resin particles and containing pentane; and 0.5 to 1.5% by weight of moisture attached to surfaces of the composite resin particles.
US08933131B2
Disclosed herein are novel mixtures of scattered-branched chain fatty acids and derivatives of scattered-branched chain fatty acids. Further disclosed are uses of these mixtures in cleaning compositions (e.g., dishcare, laundry, hard surface cleaners) and/or personal care compositions (e.g., skin cleansers, shampoo, hair conditioners).
US08933129B2
The present teachings provide compounds of Formulae I and II: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, complexes, esters, and prodrugs thereof, wherein R1, R1′, R2, R2′, R3, R3′, and X are as defined herein. The present teachings also provide methods of making the compounds of formulae I and II, and methods of treating RyR-associated conditions, disorders, and diseases that include administering a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I or II to a subject in need thereof. In addition, the present teachings relate to methods of reducing the open probability of a ryanodine receptor, and methods of reducing Ca2+ release across a ryanodine receptor (e.g., into the cytoplasm of a cell), by contacting a compound of formula I or II with a ryanodine receptor.
US08933121B2
The present invention discloses the potential of Calebin A in inhibiting adipogenesis and applications thereof in obesity management. The present invention elucidates the potential of Calebin A to favorably modulate biochemical markers associated with obesity. Notable biomodulatory properties of Calebin A include inhibiting leptin production, increasing adiponectin expression and inhibiting local (adipocyte) and systemic inflammation caused by pro-inflammatory cytokines Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF-α), Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and Interleukin-1 (IL-1β).
US08933120B2
A composition comprising from 0.005% to 0.02% bimatoprost by weight and from 100 ppm to 250 ppm benzalkonium chloride, wherein said composition is an aqueous liquid which is formulated for ophthalmic administration is disclosed herein.A method which is useful in treating glaucoma or ocular hypertension related thereto is also disclosed herein.
US08933118B2
A drug containing a metal-salen complex compound which is effective for a brain tumor is provided. The present invention is an anti-brain-tumor drug containing a metal-salen complex compound represented by the following Chemical Formula (I). In the formula, M represents a metal atom which is Fe, Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Mo, Ru, Rh, Pd, W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt, Nd, Sm, Eu, or Gd, and X represents a halogen atom.
US08933108B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) in free form or in pharmaceutically acceptable salt form a method for manufacturing the compound of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and pharmaceutical compositions.
US08933104B2
The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof wherein R1, R2, R3, A1, A2, A3, A4, L, B1, B2, B3 and B4 are as defined herein. The compounds of Formula I have been found to act as glucagon antagonists or inverse agonists. Consequently, the compounds of Formula I and the pharmaceutical compositions thereof are useful for the treatment of diseases, disorders, or conditions mediated by glucagon.
US08933096B2
The invention provides a compound of formula (I): or a salt or prodrug thereof, wherein R1, R4-R8, R10, R2′-R6′, W, and A have any of the values described in the specification, as well as compositions comprising a compound of formula (I). The compounds are useful as antibacterial agents.
US08933086B2
The present invention provides heteroaryl substituted pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridines and heteroaryl substituted pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyrimidines that modulate the activity of Janus kinases and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to activity of Janus kinases including, for example, immune-related diseases, skin disorders, myeloid proliferative disorders, cancer, and other diseases.
US08933079B2
Pyridone and pyridazinone derivatives that are active against the melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) and useful as anti-obesity pharmaceuticals.
US08933055B2
The antimicrobial composition of the present invention comprises a cationic active ingredient, a quaternized sugar-derived surfactant, and an optional foam boosting surfactant. These formulations have a high cidal activity in a short amount of time and provide stable copious foam. The formulations of the present invention also exhibit enhanced tissue (e.g. skin) compatibility as defined by an in vitro whole toxicology assessment method.
US08933054B2
A low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid and/or its salt is obtained by dispersing hyaluronic acid and/or its salt in an acidic water-containing medium.
US08933053B2
Phosphoramidate derivatives of 5-fluoro-2′-deoxyuridine are disclosed for use in the treatment of cancer, especially in the treatment of cancer where the patient shows resistance, for example, in a patient with cells with a lowered level of nucleoside transporter proteins and/or with nucleoside kinase-deficient cells and/or with mycoplasma-infected cells and/or with cells with a raised level of thymidylate synthase.
US08933051B2
The invention relates to microRNA-34a and related microRNAs for use in the treatment of B-cell lymphoma. Likewise it relates to microRNA-34a for use in the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma, and for a method of treatment of B-cell lymphoma comprising administering microRNA-34a. These claims are based on the observation that microRNA-34a shows strong anti-proliferative effects when overexpressed in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (gDLBCL) cell lines, or when delivered intratumorally or systemically in xenograft models of DLBCL.
US08933050B2
The present invention relates to methods for the diagnostic and the staging of cancer such as liver cancer. The present invention also relates to methods for the treatment of cancer including liver cancer such as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
US08933038B2
Disclosed are: a peptide comprising an amino acid sequence composed of contiguous nine amino acid residues derived from a WT1 protein, wherein an amino acid residue at position 2 in the amino acid sequence is selected from the group consisting of Ala, Ile, Leu, Val, Phe, Tyr, Ser and Asp and an amino acid residue at position 9 in the amino acid sequence is Arg; a polynucleotide encoding the peptide; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the peptide; and a method of treating cancer using the peptide.
US08933036B2
A method of attenuating hair loss includes applying to the hair a composition having an effective amount of a hair-loss attenuating peptide hydrolysate and a cosmetically acceptable carrier.
US08933028B2
Methods for facilitating joint immobilization or fusion using selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) such as raloxifene are disclosed. The SERM may be administered systemically or locally. In conjunction with SERM, other therapeutic agents such as calcium, vitamin D, bone morphogenetic protein may be administered simultaneously. The method can similarly be applied to facilitate bone repair, bone healing, and connective tissue healing processes in a patient.
US08933016B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide antimicrobial metallodrugs comprising an antimicrobial peptide (“AMP”) and/or an antibiotic covalently bound to a metal binding moiety. These metallodrugs combine a metal binding domain which typically catalyzes oxido-reductase chemistry or acts as a Lewis-Acid catalyst, with a member of a diverse class of antimicrobial agents currently validated in preclinical and clinical settings for the treatment of a broad spectrum of pathogenic organisms.
US08933009B2
The present invention relates to the field of membrane separation processes and clean in place compositions for cleaning such membranes. The cleaning compositions can remove proteins, fats, and other food, beverage, and brewery based soils and offer an environmentally friendly alternative surfactant system to NPE. According to the invention, surfactants and polymers useful for this process are unpredictable and specific surfactants, polymers, and combinations of the same are disclosed for use alone, as part of a cleaning composition. Methods of use of the same are also included.
US08932999B2
A method of cleaning a wellbore prior to the production of oil or gas is disclosed, wherein the wellbore has been drilled with an invert emulsion drilling mud that forms an invert emulsion filter cake. The method may include the steps of circulating a breaker fluid into the wellbore, where the breaker fluid includes an aqueous fluid, and imino diacetic acid or salt thereof. Optionally an acid buffering agent, and a weighting age are also included. The breaker fluid is formulated such that after a predetermined period of time and the filter cake present in the wellbore or on the wellbore face is substantially degraded. Other methods may also include drilling the wellbore with a water-based drilling mud that forms a water-based filter cake, wherein the method may include the steps of circulating a breaker fluid into the wellbore, where the breaker fluid may include an aqueous fluid, and an iminodiacetic acid or a salt thereof.
US08932998B2
A method for forming a well and pipeline treating fluid is provided. The method comprises combining a cross-linkable gelling polymer, a scavenging compound capable of reducing a concentration of divalent and polyvalent metal ions and salts thereof available for reaction, a hydration solvent and optionally an acid. The resulting mixture has a pH ranging from about 3 to about 7 and a first viscosity. The mixture is maintained at conditions suitable for hydration of the cross-linkable gelling polymer until the mixture has a second viscosity that is greater than the first viscosity. The mixture is combined with an aqueous based fluid and at least one cross-linking agent. The pH of the mixture is raised to a sufficient level to allow a desired degree of cross-linking to occur. Other methods, a well and pipeline treating gel and a well and pipeline treating fluid are also provided.
US08932984B2
Mesoporous activated carbon is disclosed. In at least some embodiments, virgin activated carbon to be processed may be coconut shell-based. The enhanced activated carbon may have a mesopore structure of at least about 10%. The enhanced activated carbon may be produced through a calcium-catalyzed activation process. A chelator may also be used. Catalyzed thermal activation may be carried out until a desired mass loss is achieved.
US08932982B2
An exhaust gas purification catalyst includes a catalytic layer containing a particle component A-1 and a particle component A-2 with different catalytic metal contents, each of which is composed of catalytic-metal-doped CeZr-based mixed oxide powder. The particle component A-1 having the lower catalytic metal content is supported on a particle component B composed of Zr-based-oxide-supported alumina powder, and the particle component A-2 having the higher catalytic metal content is supported on a particle component C composed of CeZr-based mixed oxide powder in which catalytic metal is not solid-dissolved.
US08932969B2
Provided are: a glass substrate for p-Si TFT flat panel displays that is composed of a glass having high characteristic temperatures in the low-temperature viscosity range, typified by the strain point and glass transition point, having a small heat shrinkage rate, and being capable of avoiding the occurrence of the problem regarding the erosion/wear of a melting tank at the time of melting through direct electrical heating; and a method for manufacturing same. The present glass substrate is composed of a glass comprising 52-78 mass % of SiO2, 3-25 mass % of Al2O3, 3-15 mass % of B2O3, 3-25 mass % of RO, wherein RO is total amount of MgO, CaO, SrO, and BaO, 0.01-1 mass % of Fe2O3, and 0-0.3 mass % of Sb2O3, and substantially not comprising As2O3, the glass having a mass ratio (SiO2+Al2O3)/B2O3 in a range of 7-30 and a mass ratio (SiO2+Al2O3)/RO equal to or greater than 6. The present method for manufacturing a glass substrate involves: a melting step of obtaining a molten glass by melting, by employing at least direct electrical heating, glass raw materials blended so as to provide the aforementioned glass composition; a forming step of forming the molten glass into a flat-plate glass; and an annealing step of annealing the flat-plate glass.
US08932968B2
A biodegradable ceramic fiber composition for a high-temperature thermal insulator is provided. The composition includes: 58 to 67% by weight SiO2, 26 to 34% by weight CaO, 2 to 8% by weight MgO, 0 to 1% by weight Al2O3, 0 to 5% by weight B2O3, 0 to 3% by weight Na2O+K2O, and 1% by weight or less impurities selected from TiO2 and Fe2O3. The composition has a linear thermal contraction coefficient of 3% or less (when maintained at 1100° C. for 24 hours) and a dissolution rate constant of 700 ng/cm2·hr or more in a synthetic body fluid. When compared to known biodegradable ceramic fibers, the ceramic fiber composition also has a significantly improved solubility in a synthetic body fluid so that it can easily be dissolved and removed even when inhaled into the human lungs, thereby reducing harmfulness to the human body.
US08932963B2
A film deposition method using a film deposition apparatus, includes: a film deposition process step in which at least a substrate is mounted on at least one of the circular concave portions and a film is deposited on the substrate; and a particle reducing process step performed before or after the film deposition process step, in which particles in the vacuum chamber are reduced without mounting substrates on the circular concave portions, the particle reducing process step including, a step of supplying a first gas to the vacuum chamber; a step of generating plasma from the first gas by supplying high frequency waves to a plasma generating device provided for the vacuum chamber; and a step of exposing the plurality of circular concave portions, on each of which a substrate is not mounted, to the plasma while rotating the susceptor.
US08932949B2
FinFET structures and methods of manufacturing the FinFET structures are disclosed. The method includes performing an oxygen anneal process on a gate stack of a FinFET structure to induce Vt shift. The oxygen anneal process is performed after sidewall pull down and post silicide.
US08932944B2
In the manufacture of a silicon carbide semiconductor device having a termination region being a JTE region or FLR, the margin of the amount of etching for removing a damage layer formed in the surface of the termination region is enlarged. A silicon carbide semiconductor device has a termination region being a JTE (Junction Termination Extension) region or an FLR (Field Limiting Ring) at a termination of the semiconductor elements. The termination region is formed by one step of ion implantation in which the kind of impurity and the implant energy are fixed. In the impurity concentration profile of the termination region in the depth direction, the concentration peak in the shallowest position is in a position deeper than 0.35 μm from the surface, and the concentration in the surface portion is not more than one-tenth of the shallowest concentration peak.
US08932936B2
A method for fabricating a device is disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a substrate and forming a plurality of fins over the substrate. The method further includes forming a first opening in the substrate in a first longitudinal direction. The method further includes forming a second opening in the substrate in a second longitudinal direction. The first and second longitudinal directions are different. The method further includes depositing a filling material in the first and second openings.
US08932924B2
Exemplary power semiconductor devices with features providing increased breakdown voltage and other benefits are disclosed.
US08932912B2
According to one embodiment, a one-time programmable (OTP) device having a lateral diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) structure comprises a pass gate including a pass gate electrode and a pass gate dielectric, and a programming gate including a programming gate electrode and a programming gate dielectric. The programming gate is spaced from the pass gate by a drain extension region of the LDMOS structure. The LDMOS structure provides protection for the pass gate when a programming voltage for rupturing the programming gate dielectric is applied to the programming gate electrode. A method for producing such an OTP device comprises forming a drain extension region, fabricating a pass gate over a first portion of the drain extension region, and fabricating a programming gate over a second portion of the drain extension region.
US08932906B2
System and method for bonding semiconductor substrates is presented. A preferred embodiment comprises forming a buffer layer over a surface of a semiconductor substrate while retaining TSVs that protrude from the buffer layer in order to prevent potential voids that might form. A protective layer is formed on another semiconductor substrate that will be bonded to the first semiconductor substrate. The two substrates are aligned and bonded together, with the buffer layer preventing any short circuit contacts to the surface of the original semiconductor substrate.
US08932900B2
A fine pitch phase change random access memory (“PCRAM”) design and method of fabricating same are disclosed. One embodiment is a phase change memory (“PCM”) cell comprising a spacer defining a rectangular reaction area and a phase change material layer disposed within the reaction area. The PCM cell further comprises a protection layer disposed over the GST film layer and within the area defined by the spacer; and a capping layer disposed over the protection layer and the spacer.
US08932897B2
A phase change memory cell includes a first contact, a phase change region above and in contact with the first contact, an electrode region, and a second contact above and in contact with the electrode region. The phase change region surrounds the electrode region. The electrode region has a first surface in contact with the phase change region and a second surface in contact with the second contact, and the second surface is wider than the first surface.
US08932896B2
The solar cell manufacturing apparatus includes: a load lock chamber configured to allow loading and unloading of a substrate by switching between atmospheric ambient and vacuum ambient; a processing chamber where the substrate for a solar cell is to be doped with impurity ions for pn junction formation in the vacuum ambient; and a conveyance chamber including a conveyance unit configured to convey the substrate between the load lock chamber and the processing chamber. The doping of impurity ions is performed by irradiation with the impurity ions from an ion gun, and the ion gun is provided with a grid plate, as its ion irradiation surface, facing the substrate conveyed to the processing chamber.
US08932893B2
A method of fabricating a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device includes bonding a transducer wafer to a substrate wafer along a bond interface. An unpatterned transducer layer included within the transducer wafer is patterned. A release etch process is then performed during which a sacrificial layer is exposed to a selected release etchant to remove at a least a portion of the sacrificial layer through the openings in the patterned transducer layer. A release etch stop layer is formed between the sacrificial layer and the bond interface prior to exposing the sacrificial layer to the release etchant. The release etch stop layer prevents the ingress of the selected release etchant into the region of the MEMS device containing the bond interface during the release etch process.
US08932879B2
Methods are described for phototransferring a compound from a first surface to a second surface. Compounds are described with photocleavable linkers. Compounds attached to a first surface through a photocleavable linker are put in proximity (or contact) with a second surface, and then phototransferred to the second surface upon exposure to electromagnetic radiation. Illuminating the compound with radiation photocleaves the compound from the first surface and transfers the compound to the second surface.
US08932870B2
A method for determining whether a subject has alcoholic hepatitis is described. The method includes determining the levels of a trimethylamine in a biological sample obtained from the subject. The level of trimethylamine in the biological sample is compared to the control value, and the subject whose level of trimethylamine exceeds the control value is diagnosed as having alcoholic hepatitis.
US08932866B2
As a result of collecting blood from pancreatic cancer patients, esophageal cancer patients, and stomach cancer patients, and conducting mass spectrometry on N-linked sugar chains in the plasmas, sugar chains whose abundances are significantly different from those of healthy subjects have been successfully identified from the blood samples of the cancer patients.
US08932864B2
Provided is a method and device for identifying glycated protein in a sample using a matrix including a boronic acid moiety that binds glycated proteins.
US08932861B2
The present invention relates to a transformation vector comprising the partial fragments of a gene encoding transposase, a microorganism transformed with the vector, and a method of producing lysine using the microorganism.
US08932858B2
Hydrophobically modified polysaccharide compositions, articles incorporating the compositions, and methods for cell culture, automatic release of cells, and release of cell culture coating from a substrate or the cell culture articles incorporating the coating compositions, as defined herein.
US08932857B2
The present invention provides a method for selecting human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells which can be safely used for transplantation. That is, the present invention provides a method for selecting human iPS cells having reduced differentiation resistance, comprising the steps of: (1) inducing differentiation of human iPS cells; (2) detecting remaining undifferentiated cells after the step (1); and (3) selecting human iPS cells whose rate of remaining undifferentiated cells detected in step (2) is equivalent to or not more than that of control cells.
US08932838B2
The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase polypeptides having improved properties as compared to naturally occurring transaminases including the ability of converting the substrate, 3′-hydroxyacetophenone to (S)-3-(1-aminoethyl)-phenol in enantiomeric excess and high percentage conversion. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminases, and methods of using the engineered transaminases to synthesize (S)-3-(1-aminoethyl)-phenol and related compounds useful in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
US08932834B2
A method for producing an L-amino acid which includes the steps of culturing a bacterium belonging to the family Enterobacteriaceae and having an L-amino acid producing ability in a medium to produce and accumulate an L-amino acid in the medium, and collecting the L-amino acid from the medium, wherein the bacterium has been modified so that an activity or activities of one or two or more enzymes of the arginine succinyltransferase pathway, such as arginine succinyltransferase, succinylarginine dihydrolase, succinylornithine aminotransferase, succinylglutamate-semialdehyde dehydrogenase, and succinylglutamate desuccinylase, is/are decreased.
US08932828B2
The present invention relates to novel methods for making and refolding insoluble or aggregated proteins having free cysteines in which a host cell expressing the protein is exposed to a cysteine blocking agent. The soluble, refolded proteins produced by the novel methods can then be modified to increase their effectiveness. Such modifications include attaching a PEG moiety to form PEGylated proteins.
US08932824B2
The present invention provides a method for detecting or screening for the presence of cancer in a subject. The method comprises obtaining, providing or collecting a tissue or fluid sample (such as a urine sample) from said subject, and then determining the presence or absence of delta-catenin in said sample, or increased levels of delta-catenin in said sample as compared to a normal or control subject. The presence of delta-catenin in said sample, or increased levels of delta-catenin in said sample, indicating said subject is afflicted with or at least at risk of developing cancer.
US08932818B2
The present invention relates to compounds that modulate ribosomal frameshifting and nucleic acid constructs for use in methods for identifying or validation of compounds that modulate ribosomal frameshifting. In particular, the present invention relates to the use of nucleic acid constructs to identify or validate compounds capable of modulating the efficiency of programmed ribosomal frameshifting and the use of compounds that modulate the efficiency of programmed ribosomal frameshifting to inhibit the replication or infectivity of viruses that employ programmed ribosomal frameshifting.
US08932813B2
This disclosure relates to methods of performing activation by polyphosphorolysis (APP) reactions using at least one of the polyphosphorylating agents triphosphate, polyphosphate, imidodiphosphate, thiodiphosphate (or μ-monothiopyrophosphate), and related compounds.
US08932808B1
Methods are provided for determining whether a subject has a graft tolerant phenotype. In practicing the subject methods, the expression of at least one gene in a sample from the subject, e.g., a blood sample, is assayed to obtain an expression evaluation for the at least one gene. The obtained expression evaluation is then employed to determine whether the subject has a graft tolerant phenotype. Also provides are compositions, systems and kits that find use in practicing the subject methods. The methods and compositions find use in a variety of applications, including the determination of an immunosuppressive therapy regimen.
US08932801B2
The present invention relates to an isocyanate-modified photosensitive polyimide. The photosensitive polyimide of the invention possesses excellent heat resistance, chemistry resistance, and flexibility, and can be used as a liquid photo resist or dry film resist, or used in a solder resist, coverlay film, or printed wiring board.
US08932799B2
A system and method for photoresists is provided. In an embodiment a cross-linking or coupling reagent is included within a photoresist composition. The cross-linking or coupling reagent will react with the polymer resin within the photoresist composition to cross-link or couple the polymers together, resulting in a polymer with a larger molecular weight. This larger molecular weight will cause the dissolution rate of the photoresist to decrease, leading to a better depth of focus for the line.
US08932780B2
An example fuel cell assembly may include a proton exchange membrane (or membrane electrode assembly) that has a first major surface and a second major surface. An anode electrode, which may include a patterned metal layer with a plurality of apertures extending through the patterned metal layer, may also be provided. An anode gas diffusion layer secured to an anode adhesive frame may be situated between the anode electrode and the first major surface of the proton exchange membrane. A cathode electrode may, in some instances, include a patterned metal layer with a plurality of apertures extending through the patterned metal layer. A cathode gas diffusion layer secured to a cathode adhesive frame may be situated between the cathode electrode and the second major surface of the proton exchange membrane. In some instances a fuel cell assembly may be flexible so that the fuel cell assembly can be rolled into a rolled configuration that defines an inner cavity with open ends. A fuel pellet may be inserted into the inner cavity, and one or more end caps may be provided to cover and seal the open ends.
US08932779B2
A device for a solid oxide fuel cell or a solid oxide electrolysis cell includes an integral one-piece construction of a current collector and a manifold. The device eliminates the need for a brazing or thermal bonding process for joining the manifold with the current collector, and thus makes it possible to prevent breakdown of the junction formed between the manifold and the current collector, which can lead to gas leakage through the junction, and thus can be used for a long period of time.
US08932775B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, a controller, a resistance sensor, and a regulator. The fuel cell has a cathode plate, an anode plate, and an ion-exchange membrane interposed between the cathode plate and the anode plate. The controller is for controlling a gas flow rate to the anode plate. The resistance sensor is coupled to the fuel cell for measuring a resistance of the fuel cell. The regulator is coupled to the controller and coupled to the anode plate for regulating the gas flow to the anode plate. The controller receives a signal from the resistance sensor and is configured to control the regulator to adjust the gas flow to the anode plate based on the signal from the resistance sensor.
US08932774B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst for producing gaseous hydrogen current or hydrogen-rich currents through hydrocarbon reforming with water vapor. Said catalyst comprises at least one support, an active phase and at least two promoting agents, and is characterized in that it is a metal-type-supported solid in which the active phase comprises at least one transition metal chosen from group VIII, and at least one promoting agent chosen from the alkaline-earth or transition metals; and the support comprises at least one mixed oxide with a basic nature, and at least one promoting agent chosen from among the lanthanides group. The invention also has as an object the process for preparing the catalyst, as well as its use in the process for obtaining the hydrogen or hydrogen-rich gas from hydrocarbons, in different operating conditions and using various types of hydrocarbons. The catalyst to which this invention pertains has elevated activity and selectivity toward the gasification of hydrocarbons, as well as a high resistance to various deactivation mechanisms which the catalyst undergoes during the reforming process with water vapor.
US08932768B2
A method of manufacture an article of a cathode (positive electrode) material for lithium batteries. The cathode material is a lithium molybdenum composite transition metal oxide material and is prepared by mixing in a solid state an intermediate molybdenum composite transition metal oxide and a lithium source. The mixture is thermally treated to obtain the lithium molybdenum composite transition metal oxide cathode material.
US08932766B1
A method is disclosed for producing elements ultra-low diameter, ultra-high aspect ratio nanowires. A hierarchical template with ordered and arrayed nanopores either freestanding or on a support material is provided. The template can be pre-shaped. Optionally, one or more compounds can be layered within the nanopores to reduce the diameters thereof. The template is filled with material to form a nanostructure array configured as ultra-low diameter, ultra-high aspect ratio nanowires with a diameter of less than 10 nm. The optional layering is self-initiated by selectively adjusting pH of a coating material. The nanostructure array may be supported in a lower thermal conductivity material. The method can be used to produce elements that function as a phonon-confined thermoelectric device, a photovoltaic device and a battery.
US08932753B2
A rechargeable battery is provided such that the positive electrode comprises lead dioxide, the negative electrode comprises a metal selected from the group consisting of iron, zinc, cadmium, lanthanum/nickel alloys and titanium/zirconium alloys, and the electrolyte is an aqueous alkali-metal acetate. Upon discharge, the lead dioxide is reduced to lead oxide, and the electrolyte remains unchanged. The reactions are reversed when the battery is charged.
US08932745B2
A method for connecting cell outgoing conductors of a first and a second cell. Here, a connection between the first and second cell outgoing conductors is produced by means of a connecting apparatus, which includes a first and a second component. At the same time, however, the first and second components also have the function of pre-bending the cell outgoing conductor of the first and second cells, respectively, in order thus to enable a particularly low physical height of the cell outgoing conductor arrangement. A system according to the invention includes a first and a second cell, which have cell outgoing conductors that are connected and shaped in this way.
US08932744B2
A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. A current collector containing copper (Cu), in which ratio I (200)/I (111) between intensity I (200) of a peak originated in (200) crystal plane of copper obtained by X-ray diffraction and intensity I (111) of a peak originated in (111) crystal plane thereof is in the range from 0.5 to 1.5.
US08932737B2
A coating and associated method for coating is disclosed. The coating provides a hard, transparent, UV blocking coating for a substrate. A UV blocking layer is first deposited upon the substrate, and a hard coating is deposited above the UV blocking layer. A soft coating layer may be deposited between the UV blocking layer and the hard coating. The soft and hard coating layers may both have the general composition SiOxCy. the soft and hard coating layers may be deposited by a plasma vapor deposition process.
US08932736B2
A novel organic compound suitable for blue light emission and an organic light-emitting device containing the novel organic compound are provided. An organic compound represented by the following general formula (1) wherein R1 to R18 independently denote a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy group, a substituted or unsubstituted amino group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.
US08932731B2
The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electroluminescent devices, in particular blue-emitting devices, by using compounds of the formula (1) or formula (2) as dopants in the emitting layer or as hole-transport material in a hole-transport layer.
US08932721B2
The present invention relates to laminates of a plasticizer-containing plastic, obtained by bonding by means of a moisture-reactive hot-melt adhesive which comprises at least one aldimine and at least one polyurethane polymer which contains isocyanate groups and is solid at room temperature. The bonded assembly is notable for improved adhesive, particularly following heat/moisture storage or alternating storage. Preferred embodiments of such laminates are bonded films or film-laminated supports, the film preferably being a pPVC film.
US08932706B2
A laminate including a plurality of layers, wherein one of the layers is a heat-activatable expandable layer including a thermally expandable composition. The heat-activatable expandable layer includes a plurality of microcapsules containing the thermally expandable composition. This thermally expandable composition includes an easily volatilizable hydrocarbon, and a binder resin. When subjected to high temperatures during the process of applying a label, the microcapsules rupture and the thermally expandable composition “foams,” which can be used to provide a texture to the label, and can raise or surround the graphics of the label.
US08932705B2
Disclosed is a thermosetting resin composition including a thermosetting aromatic oligomer represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, a hollow particle, and solvent, and a board comprising the same. In the above Chemical Formula 1, wherein B, L1, L2, Z1 and Z2 are the same as in defined in the specification.
US08932701B2
An optical sheet suitable for use in a laminate comprising at least one glazing component. The optical sheet comprises a non-metallic multi-layer optical film that has multiple optical layers, and can be, for example, a solar energy reflective film (e.g., an infrared radiation reflective film). The multiple layers are thermally and/or otherwise fused together along all, substantially all or at least a substantial portion of the peripheral edge of at least the optical film, so as to prevent or at least substantially reduce the occurrence or degree of delamination of the multiple layers along all, substantially all, or the substantial portion of the peripheral edge of the optical film. At least the optical film can be dimensioned such that, when bonded to a glazing component, all, substantially all or at least the substantial portion of the peripheral edge of at least the optical film is positionable so as to be co-extensive with or substantially co-extensive with a corresponding portion of the peripheral edge of the glazing component to which the optical sheet is to be bonded.
US08932699B2
The present invention provides a crystalline substance that has an uneven structure extending along the direction of a crystal axis. An aspect of the present invention provides a crystalline substance 1, which has a surface 10L that exposes an oxide crystal thereon and extends in a direction of a crystal axis of the oxide crystal, wherein the surface 10L has an uneven structure that is configured by faces 11L to 14L extending in at least three orientations along the crystal axis.
US08932697B2
A composite material assembly (1) comprises a) a surface enhancing layer (5) comprising at least one layer of fibers, having a length to width aspect ratio of more than 5:1 and b) a structural layer (7) comprising at least one reinforcing fiber and at least one polymeric matrix.
US08932693B2
Polyamide blend molding compound, includes a polyamide blend content and at least one impact-resistant component, characterized in that the polyamide blend content includes the following polyamides: (A) 20 to 65% by weight of at least one semi-crystalline polyamide with an enthalpy of fusion >40 J/g and with an average of at least 8 C atoms per monomeric unit; (B) 8 to 25% by weight of at least one amorphous and/or microcrystalline polyamide, with the microcrystalline polyamide having an enthalpy of fusion in the range of 4 to 40 J/g, and (C) 1 to 20% by weight of at least one polyamide with an average of a maximum of 6 C atoms per monomeric unit. The impact-resistant component includes as follows: (D) 10 to 40% by weight of a polyamide elastomer which is composed of hard segments and soft segments, with the hard segments being based on lactams and/or amino-carboxylic acids, and (E) 0 to 35% by weight of a non-polyamide elastomer.
US08932691B2
Disclosed is a multilayer structure useful for preparing highly abrasion-resistant protective liners, including tubular articles such as multilayer tubes or pipes.
US08932690B2
A method for the joining of a ceramic shaft and a ceramic plate into an assembly, such as a heater, adapted to be used in semiconductor processing. The joined pieces are adapted to withstand the environments within a process chamber during substrate processing, chamber cleaning processes, and the oxygenated atmosphere which may be seen within the shaft of a heater or electrostatic chuck. The ceramic pieces may be aluminum nitride and the pieces may be brazed with aluminum. The joint material is adapted to withstand both the environments within a process chamber during substrate processing, and the oxygenated atmosphere which may be seen within the shaft of a heater or electrostatic chuck. The joint is adapted to provide a hermetic seal across the joint. The joined pieces are adapted to be separated at a later time should rework or replacement of one of the pieces be desired.
US08932681B2
Method and apparatus for coating a pipe or a pipe section with a layer of at least one polymer. The method includes providing the pipe or the pipe section having an outer surface defining the periphery of the pipe or the pipe section; applying on the outer surface of the pipe or pipe section a layer of at least one polymer material in melt stage using a nozzle, which is mounted on a carriage capable of travelling along the periphery of the pipe or the pipe section; and moving the carriage along at least a part of the periphery during the application of the polymer material to form a layer on the surface of the pipe or the pipe section that is particularly useful for coating field joints in pipelines.
US08932679B2
A method for coating a metallic surface with an aqueous composition for pretreating before applying another coating or for treating said metallic surfaces. The method is characterized in that the composition contains, in addition to water; a) at least one hydrolyzable or at least partially hydrolyzed fluorine-free silane, and; b) at least one hydrolyzable or at least partially hydrolyzed fluorine-containing silane. The invention also relates to corresponding compositions.
US08932665B2
The invention relates to a method for preventing the crystallization of a pharmaceutical in a polymer film, wherein the solvent-containing coating compound, which comprises a matrix-forming polymer or polymer mixture and at least one pharmaceutical and is spread to produce the polymer film, is temporarily dried at temperatures that is at least 10° C. above the melting temperature of the pharmaceutical contained in the coating compound. The maximum temperature is thus higher than that which is required for mere drying and obviates the need for an additional, time-consuming and expensive work step.
US08932662B2
The application discloses a method for the preparation (by extruding, injection molding or powder coating and subsequent cross-linking by irradiation with UV or visible light) of a medical device element involving a coating composition comprising: a) as the only polymer constituent(s), at least 50% by weight of poly(ethylene oxide)(s) optionally in combination with non-thermoplastic hydrophilic polymer(s), and b) low molecular weight scaffold(s) having a plurality of photo-initiator moieties covalently linked thereto and/or covalently incorporated therein, wherein the photo-initiator moieties constitute 0.01-20% by weight of the combined amount of the poly(ethylene oxide)(s), any non-thermoplastic hydrophilic polymers and the low molecular weight scaffolds. The application further discloses such extruded, injection molded or powder coated medical devices having thereon a layer of a covalently cross-linked coating composition of a poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), optionally a non-thermoplastic hydrophilic polymer and a low molecular weight scaffold having a plurality of residues of photo-initiator moieties.
US08932660B2
The invention relates to a gelatin substitution product, characterized in that it contains essentially a vegetable fat, in particular in that it contains essentially cocoa butter.Application to the production of culinary confectionery preparations.
US08932647B1
A functional beverage that can be used by athletes and bodybuilders for restoring human growth hormones using an HGH precursor. The composition includes water, sweeteners, acids, gums, natural colorants, natural flavors, including pantothenic acid, chromium, copper, choline, and boron. The composition also includes selected amino acids such as L-Leucine, L-Isoleucine, L-Valine, and L-Arginine.
US08932643B2
Described herein are tissue grafts derived from the placenta. The grafts are composed of at least one layer of amnion tissue where the epithelium layer has been substantially removed in order to expose the basement layer to host cells. By removing the epithelium layer, cells from the host can more readily interact with the cell-adhesion bio-active factors located onto top and within of the basement membrane. Also described herein are methods for making and using the tissue grafts. The laminin structure of amnion tissue is nearly identical to that of native human tissue such as, for example, oral mucosa tissue. This includes high level of laminin-5, a cell adhesion bio-active factor show to bind gingival epithelia-cells, found throughout upper portions of the basement membrane.
US08932639B2
The present invention relates to topical compositions containing solid particles that are stabilized via encapsulation into a cross-linked silicone matrix. The stabilized particles possess an electrical potential sufficient to prevent the particles from penetrating into the skin. The particles can readily be used either alone or in combination with other skin care actives to form topical compositions with improved stability and performance.
US08932632B2
Adhesives and sealants comprising submicron particles and nanomaterials, methods of making such adhesives and sealants, and methods of using such adhesives and sealants are provided.
US08932631B2
Liquid formulations of imidoalkanepercarboxylic acids, in the form of aqueous dispersions comprising, in percentages by weight relative to the total weight of the composition: A) from ≧7% to 40% and preferably from 10% to 20% of imidoalkanepercarboxylic acids having the general formula (I), the said imidoalkanepercarboxylic acids being in the β form and having a dissolution time, determined via the test of the rate of dissolution at a temperature of 40° C. or 18° C., of not more than 5 minutes when determined at 40° C. or 15 minutes when determined at 18° C., for an amount of dissolved acid equal to 99% of the theoretical amount; B) from 0.001% to 0.9% of a nonionic surfactant; the said dispersions having a viscosity of not more than 2000 mPa·sec at 25° C. by applying a shear rate of 20 s−1; in which the dissolution time of the component A), determined via the test of the rate of dissolution at a temperature of 40° C. or 18° C., is not more than 5 minutes when determined at 40° C. or 15 minutes when determined at 18° C., for an amount of dissolved acid equal to 99% of the theoretical amount, as defined in the rate of dissolution test; the said dispersions in the test of stability at 40° C. for seven days show variations in viscosity of not more than 300 mPa·sec; the said aqueous formulations being obtainable by grinding the crystals of imidoalkanepercarboxylic acids in α form dispersed in an excess of water, in the presence of a surfactant chosen from nonionic surfactants; cooling the liquid dispersion to a temperature below 30° C.
US08932630B1
The invention is directed in part to oral dosage forms comprising a combination of an orally analgesically effective amount of an opioid agonist and an orally active opioid antagonist, the opioid antagonist being included in a ratio to the opioid agonist to provide a combination product which is analgesically effective when the combination is administered orally, but which is aversive in a physically dependent subject. Preferably, the amount of opioid antagonist included in the combination product provides at least a mildly negative, “aversive” experience in physically dependent addicts (e.g., precipitated abstinence syndrome).
US08932628B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions, formulations and medicaments comprising a bupropion salt, in particular, modified-release tablets comprising an effective amount of bupropion hydrobromide, and the use of the bupropion salt to prepare a medicament to treat a condition.
US08932624B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for rendering a surface resistant to bio-film formation by a combination of an alkanediol and an antimicrobial agent (and, optionally, an organic hydroxy acid). The invention provides for compositions which may be used to render surfaces bio-film resistant, articles having bio-film resistant surfaces, and methods for their preparation. The present invention may be advantageously applied to medical articles as well as articles used in non-medical contexts, such as child care or food preparation.
US08932621B2
The present disclosure relates to implantable medical devices which include at least one mesh and at least one film attached to the mesh along different portions of the mesh creating at least one aperture between the mesh and the film.
US08932620B2
Methods of making a biologically active three-dimensional scaffold capable of supporting growth and differentiation of a cell are described. Biologically active three-dimensional scaffold made by the methods of the invention and an engineered tissue made from the scaffolds are described. Fibers of desired porosity can be obtained from non-structural ECM by lyophilization and/or electrospinning which can be useful for numerous tissue engineering applications requiring complex scaffolds, such as wound healing, artificial skin (burns), soft tissue replacement/repair and spinal cord injury.
US08932614B2
A composite that includes a polymeric material having a void structure and particulate ceragenin material (i.e., ceragenin particles) associated with the void structure. The average particle size of the ceragenin particles in the composite is in a range from 5 nm to 20 μm, 50 nm to 10 μm, 100 nm to 5 μm, or 1 μm to 10 μm. The composite has a high loading of ceragenin particles (e.g., about 10% to about 25%, by weight). The composite has good polymer stability, the ability to release ceragenins from the ceragenin particles disposed in the composite over a sustained period of time at a characteristic elution rate, and the ability to kill large numbers of bacteria and other susceptible microbes over the sustained period of time.
US08932609B2
The use of flagellin and flagellin related polypeptides for the protection of mammals from the effects of apoptosis is described.
US08932608B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition that includes one or more inactivated Mycobacterium spp., which are preferably inactivated using gamma irradiation, and which is than formulated for mucosal or pulmonary delivery to a subject. The pharmaceutical compositions are useful for preventing or treating mycobacterium-associated infections in a subject, including a human subject.
US08932600B2
Modified Rv3616c proteins and their use as medicaments, particularly for the prevention of reactivation of tuberculosis.
US08932597B2
The present invention provides novel peptide immunogens comprising influenza virus matrix 2 protein epitopes and related compositions and methods. The present invention relates to a composition comprising a peptide immunogen useful for the prevention and treatment of an influenza virus-mediated disease. The invention also relates to vaccines, immunogenic products and immunogenic compositions containing the peptide immunogens.
US08932587B2
This invention relates generally to a therapeutic use of alkaline phosphatase to reduce or inhibit toxic effects associated with a bacterial infection in a subject.
US08932583B2
A device that includes a scaffold composition and a bioactive composition with the bioactive composition being incorporated into or coated onto the scaffold composition such that the scaffold composition and/or a bioactive composition controls egress of a resident cell or progeny thereof. The devices mediate active recruitment, modification, and release of host cells from the material.
US08932581B2
This invention is directed to coral scaffolds seeded with precursor cells in culture in the presence of a chelator and uses thereof in inducing or enhancing bone and/or cartilage formation in a subject, and kits related thereto. This invention is also directed to use of cadherin-upregulating coral for treating cancer or inhibiting cancer progression. This invention is also directed to use of aragonite or calcite-producing species for in vivo calcium release, and its application to the treatment of skin diseases, disorders or conditions.
US08932566B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising a oil-soluble polar modified polymer and a hyperbranched polyol.
US08932553B2
A method for manufacturing cubic diamond nanocrystals (10) comprising the following successive steps: (a) providing crystalline diamond powder where the maximum particle size of the powder is equal or more than 2 um and equal or less than 1 mm; (b) milling said crystalline micron diamond powder using nitrogen jet milling micronization so as to manufacture a fine powder; (c) nanomilling the fine powder of step b) using a planetary tungsten carbide ball mill; (d) acid treating the nanomilled powder of step c); (e) extracting the cubic diamond nanocrystals (10) by centrifugation. Advantageously round-shaped cubic diamond nanocrystals are manufactured.
US08932544B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for feeding and/or discharging fluids in microreactor arrays through one or several fluid ducts that extend into each individual microreactor and can be individually controlled and regulated, in order to control, regulate, influence, and/or verify processes. The fed or discharged amounts of fluid are introduced into or discharged from the volume of the reaction liquid during a continuous shaking process and are evenly mixed as a result of the shaking process. The continuous shaking process causes sufficient mass transfer and thorough mixing of the reaction partners or fluids while the reaction is not limited or restricted by the mass transfer conditions.
US08932541B2
Systems and methods for processing and analyzing samples are disclosed. The system may process samples, such as biological fluids, using assay cartridges which can be processed at different processing locations. In some cases, the system can be used for PCR processing. The different processing locations may include a preparation location where samples can be prepared and an analysis location where samples can be analyzed. To assist with the preparation of samples, the system may also include a number of processing stations which may include processing lanes. During the analysis of samples, in some cases, thermal cycler modules and an appropriate optical detection system can be used to detect the presence or absence of certain nucleic acid sequences in the samples. The system can be used to accurately and rapidly process samples.
US08932540B2
A device for transporting magnetic or magnetizable beads over a transport surface includes a chamber holding magnetic or magnetizable beads in a fluid, a transport element including the transport surface within the chamber, and a current wire structure including at least two sets of meandering current wires arranged on a side of the transport element opposite to the transport surface. The at least two sets are displaced with respect to each other in at least two directions. A switching unit switches currents individually applied to the sets of current wires according to a current driving scheme resulting in a transport of the beads over the transport surface.
US08932529B2
A desulphurization and decarbonisation apparatus includes (a) a starter for starting a reaction between an electropositive metal and sulphur oxides and carbon dioxide of a flue gas; (b) a first reaction chamber with a cooling unit for reducing the sulphur oxides and the carbon dioxide of the flue gas in an exothermic reaction with the electropositive metal; (c) a second reaction chamber for generating a first suspension including suspended carbon containing reaction products and sulphur containing reaction products by extracting solid reaction products of the first reaction chamber in a solvent; (d) a third reaction chamber for oxidizing the first suspension to generate a second suspension including suspended carbon containing reaction products and oxidized sulphur containing reaction products; and (e) a separator for separating the oxidized sulphur containing reaction products from the suspended carbon containing reaction products.
US08932528B2
The Invention relates to an apparatus or installation for producing active carbon, in particular by carbonization and subsequent activation of polymeric, organic, preferably sulphonated, starting materials, wherein the apparatus or installation comprises optionally a drying device for drying the starting materials, optionally a sulphonating device, arranged downstream of the optionally present drying device, for sulphonating and/or peptizing the optionally previously dried starting materials, a carbonizing device, arranged downstream of the optionally present drying device and/or the optionally present sulphonating device, for carbonizing the optionally previously dried and/or sulphonated and/or peptized starting materials, as well as an activating device, arranged downstream of the carbonizing device, for activating the starting materials previously carbonized in the carbonizing device, wherein the apparatus or installation also comprises at least one exhaust-gas treatment device for treating the exhaust gases formed in the carbonizing device and/or in the activating device during operation.
US08932520B2
Method and system for uniformly spacing particles in a flowing system comprising suspending particles in an elongated fluid filled cavity; exposing said cavity to an axial acoustic standing wave field, wherein said axial acoustic standing wave field drives said particles to nodal and anti-nodal positions along the center axis of said cavity to result in uniformly spaced particles; and focusing said particles to the center axis of said cavity.
US08932513B2
A method of synthesizing mechanically resilient titanium carbide (TiC) nanofibrous felts comprising continuous nanofibers or nano-ribbons with TiC crystallites embedded in carbon matrix, comprising: (a) electrospinning a spin dope for making precursor nanofibers with diameters less than 0.5 J.Lm; (b) overlaying the nanofibers to produce a nanofibrous mat (felt); and then (c) heating the nano-felts first at a low temperature, and then at a high temperature for making electrospun continuous nanofibers or nano-ribbons with TiC crystallites embedded in carbon matrix; and (d) chlorinating the above electrospun nano-felts at an elevated temperature to remove titanium for producing carbide derived carbon (CDC) nano-fibrous felt with high specific surface areas.
US08932510B2
A method for cutting a glass article from a strengthened glass substrate having a surface compression layer and a tensile layer includes forming an edge defect in the surface compression layer on a first edge of the strengthened glass substrate. The method further includes propagating a through vent through the surface compression and tensile layers at the edge defect. The through vent precedes a region of separation along a cut line between the glass article and the strengthened glass substrate.
US08932508B2
The incorporation of polyvalent metal ions into a silicate based interlayer in a laminated fire resistant glazing produced using a cast in place process provides an improvement in the properties of those glazings. The preferred metal ions are aluminium ions and zirconium ions. The preferred polyvalent metal compounds are those which are disclosed in EP 1206349 and WO 2004/014813.
US08932497B2
Fire retardant coating systems and solid body cast systems comprise a first part comprising at least one ingredient having NCO functionality; and a second part comprising at least one ingredient having an active hydrogen functionality that is co-reactive with the NCO, wherein the first part and the second part are formulated so that when the parts are mixed together they form a cured coating or a solid body. The coating system or solid body cast system comprises a first fire retardant ingredient that is a phosphorus-based compound, a second fire retardant ingredient that is an intumescent material, and a third fire retardant ingredient that is a brominated ingredient. Methods for preparing a fire retardant coating or solid body are also described.
US08932495B1
Embodiments of the invention generally provide hydrogen-doped and/or fluorine-doped transparent conducting oxide (TCO) materials and processes for forming such doped TCO materials. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a doped TCO on a substrate surface includes forming a TCO material on a substrate, exposing the TCO material to a hydrogen plasma while forming a hydrogen-doped TCO material during an atmospheric pressure plasma (APP) process, wherein the hydrogen-doped TCO material contains atomic hydrogen at a concentration within a range from about 1 at % (atomic percent) to about 30 at %, and exposing the hydrogen-doped TCO material to a thermal annealing process. In another embodiment, the method includes exposing the TCO material to a fluorine plasma while forming a fluorine-doped TCO material during the APP process, wherein the fluorine-doped TCO material contains atomic fluorine at a concentration within a range from about 1 at % to about 30 at %.
US08932494B2
A method for forming electrically conductive polyaniline (PANI)-based composites includes mixing a base form of PANI, a photo acid generator (PAG), and when the PAG does not hydrogen bond to the base form of PANI an additive which can form hydrogen bonds with the base form of PANI or PAG, together with at least one solvent to form a mixture. The solvent is removed from the mixture. After the removing, the mixture is photo-irradiated with a wavelength within an absorption band of the PAG for converting the base form of PANI to a salt form of PANI to form a polymer composite that includes the salt form of PANI. The polymer composite has a 25° C. electrical conductivity that is at least 3 orders of magnitude higher than a 25° C. electrical conductivity of the base form of PANI, such as a 25° C. electrical conductivity of ≧0.01 S/cm.
US08932479B2
Provided is a polishing liquid which is used for chemical mechanical polishing of a body to be polished having a layer containing polysilicon or a modified polysilicon, and using which the polishing rate of a layer containing a silicon-based material other than polysilicon is high and polishing of the layer containing polysilicon can be selectively suppressed. The polishing liquid includes components (A), (B), and (C), has a pH of from 1.5 to 7.0, and is capable of selectively polishing a second layer with respect to a first layer: (A) colloidal silica particles having a negative ζ potential; (B) phosphoric acid or an organic phosphonic acid compound represented by the following Formula (1) or (2); and (C) an anionic surfactant having at least one group represented by the following Formulae (I) to (IV): R2—C(R3)3-a—(PO3H2)a Formula (1): R4—N(R5)m—(CH2—PO3H2)n Formula (2): —PO3X2 Formula (I): —OPO3X2 Formula (II): —COOX Formula (III): —SO3X Formula (IV).
US08932478B2
To absorb a volatile substance from a gas phase in a liquid absorbent, the gas phase is brought into contact with a film of an absorbent which comprises an ionic liquid and a wetting-promoting additive. The process can be used in absorption refrigerating machines.
US08932475B2
A method of patterning a conductor on a substrate includes providing an inked elastomeric stamp inked with self-assembled monolayer-forming molecules and having a relief pattern with raised features. Then the raised features of the inked stamp contact a metal-coated visible light transparent substrate. Then the metal is etched to form an electrically conductive micropattern corresponding to the raised features of the inked stamp on the visible light transparent substrate.
US08932472B2
A separator system and method are provided in which the separator has two outlets for different components of mixed fluid. An energy harvester is provided on one of the outlets, wherein harvested energy is transferred to a pump located on an inlet of the separator. As a result, the differential pressure across the separator is increased.
US08932465B2
A filter within a filter cartridge design is described that includes a sealing structure on an endplate of an outer filter element. Generally, the sealing structure includes an annular flange on the endplate that can directly seal against an interior surface of a housing when the filter cartridge is assembled for use. During filtration, the annular flange prevents a working fluid from bypassing the outer filter element. The sealing flange can seal with the housing in a press fit engagement.
US08932459B2
A seal is brought into contact with a filter media, a filter pump is operated to start filtration, and a signal from a pressure sensor is received. When a predetermined value is exceeded by the signal from the pressure sensor, the filter pump is stopped, the seal is separated from the filter media, and take-up of one section of the filter by a filter collection roll is started. In finishing filter supply from a filter supply roll, drive of a motor is stopped, and an alarm signal is transmitted. If the supply is not to be finished, one section of the filter is taken up by the filter collection roll, and the next stage of filtration is entered.
US08932458B1
The delayed coking process comprises the steps of: thermally cracking hydrocarbon feedstock in the coke drum thereby converting the feedstock to coke and hydrocarbon products; routing thermally crack hydrocarbon products to downstream fractionators; and periodically removing coke out of the drum. Before coke removal, the drum has to be steam stripped, water quench, then vented. During venting, H2S scavenger is injected to the drum vapor space to remove residual H2S.
US08932455B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to the processing of hydrocarbon-containing feedstreams in the presence of an interstitial metal hydride containing catalyst comprising a surface, and a Group VI/Group VIII metal sulfide coated onto the surface of the interstitial metal hydride. The catalysts and processes of the present invention can improve overall hydrogenation, product conversion, as well as sulfur reduction in hydrocarbon feedstreams.
US08932440B2
[Problem] To provide a plating method and apparatus which do not require preparation of a separate treatment tank for each treatment step and therefore enable the facility to be reduced in size and, further, which can reduce the amounts of use of the treatment solutions.[Solution] A plating apparatus feeding a plating solution to a treatment tank in which an electrode is arranged and plating a workpiece made of a metal so as to perform plating, the plating apparatus characterized by being provided with a plurality of pipes which are connected to an outer wall of the treatment tank and a switch valve which is provided able to rotate at an inner side of the outer wall and which has at least one feed port for making at least one treatment solution feed pipe selected from the plurality of treatment solution feed pipes communicate with the treatment tank.
US08932438B2
The magnetic anisotropy of a magnetic layer in a spin valve tunnel magnetoresistive element or giant magnetoresistive element is enhanced. Deposition of the magnetic layer is performed by making sputtering particles obliquely incident on a substrate from a certain incident direction at a certain incident angle.
US08932436B2
The subject of the invention is an essentially ceramic target for a sputtering device, especially for magnetically enhanced sputtering, said target comprising predominantly nickel oxide, the nickel oxide NiOx being oxygen-deficient with respect to the stoichiometric composition.
US08932435B2
A hydrocarbon resource processing device may include a radio frequency (RF) source and an RF applicator coupled to the RF source. The RF applicator may include a base member being electrically conductive, and first and second elongate members being electrically conductive and having proximal ends coupled to the base member and extending outwardly therefrom in a generally parallel spaced apart relation. The first and second elongate members may have distal ends configured to receive the hydrocarbon resource therebetween. In another embodiment, the RF applicator may include an enclosure being electrically conductive and having a passageway therethrough to accommodate a flow of the hydrocarbon resource and a divider being electrically conductive and positioned within the enclosure.
US08932434B2
There are provided a dividing wall distillation column for producing high-purity acrylic acid, and a fractional distillation method using the same. The dividing wall distillation column includes a condenser, a reboiler and a main column having a dividing wall. Here, the main column is divided into a column-top zone, an upper feed zone, an upper outflow zone, a lower feed zone, a lower outflow zone and a column-bottom zone. Accordingly, since one distillation column can be used to realize the same effect as that obtained from the use of two distillation columns, the dividing wall distillation column can have an effect of reducing the costs of equipment to produce high-purity acrylic acid, as well as an energy-reducing effect, compared to a conventional process system.
US08932433B2
A method of improving retention and drainage in a papermaking process is disclosed. The addition of an associative polymer, a poly(vinylamine) and optionally a siliceous material to the papermaking slurry to improve retention and drainage is disclosed. Additionally a method to improve retention and drainage comprising addition of an organic microparticle, a poly(vinylamine) and optionally a siliceous material to the papermaking slurry is disclosed. A composition comprising an associative polymer, and a poly(vinylamine) and optionally further comprising cellulose fiber is disclosed.
US08932423B2
A contoured composite structure is fabricated by laying up a composite charge that includes at least one ply formed by uni-directional fiber pre-preg ply segments having substantially constant widths. The ply segments are placed in side-by-side, overlapping relationship with their longitudinal centerlines aligned in a polar orientation related to the contour of the structure. The charge is formed into the shape of the structure and cured.
US08932414B2
Disclosed is a high-strength steel plate with excellent warm workability that has a component composition comprising, in mass %, 0.05 to 0.4% C, 0.5 to 3% Si+Al, 0.5 to 3% Mn, no more than 0.15% P (not including 0%), and no more than 0.02% S (including 0%), with the remainder comprising iron and impurities, and a composition that includes a total of 45 to 80% martensite and/or bainitic ferrite in terms of the area ratio relative to the entire composition, 5 to 40% polygonal ferrite in terms of the area ratio relative to the entire composition, and 5 to 20% retained austenite in terms of the area ratio relative to the entire composition, wherein the C concentration (CγR) within said residual austenite is in the range of 0.6 mass % to less than 1.0 mass %, and that furthermore may include bainite. In the high-strength steel plate, TRIP effects are achieved to the fullest extent in warm working, and increased ductility over prior steel plates is reliably achieved.
US08932407B2
A substrate cleaning method is used for performing scrub cleaning of a surface of a substrate. The substrate cleaning method includes rotating a roll cleaning member and a substrate respectively in one direction while keeping the roll cleaning member in contact with the substrate in a cleaning area, and supplying a cleaning liquid to a surface of the substrate to scrub-clean the surface of the substrate in the presence of the cleaning liquid in the cleaning area. The cleaning liquid is supplied initially to an inverse-direction cleaning area of the cleaning area where the relative rotational velocity between the roll cleaning member and the substrate is relatively high, and thereafter to a forward-direction cleaning area of the cleaning area where the relative rotational velocity between the roll cleaning member and the substrate is relatively low while the substrate makes one revolution on a central axis thereof.
US08932403B1
A method for forming a surface-textured single-crystal film layer by growing the film atop a layer of microparticles on a substrate and subsequently selectively etching away the microparticles to release the surface-textured single-crystal film layer from the substrate. This method is applicable to a very wide variety of substrates and films. In some embodiments, the film is an epitaxial film that has been grown in crystallographic alignment with respect to a crystalline substrate.
US08932398B2
There is provided a gallotannic compound, a method of producing a gallotannic compound, a lithographic printing plate coating composition, a lithographic printing plate, a method of producing a lithographic printing plate and a method of printing.
US08932397B2
Provided is a near-infrared shielding coating agent containing: (1) an inorganic near-infrared absorbing agent; (2) a tetrafunctional silicon compound represented by general formula Si(OR1)4, a hydrolysate thereof, and/or a condensation polymerization product thereof; (3) a trifunctional silicon compound represented by general formula R2Si(OR3)3, a hydrolysate thereof, and/or a condensation polymerization product thereof; (4) a silane coupling agent represented by one of the general formulas Si(X)3—Y or R4Si(X)2—Y, a hydrolysate thereof, and/or a condensation polymerization product thereof; and (5) a solvent. This coating agent allows the formation, at an ordinary temperature between 5° C. and 40° C., of a near-infrared shielding film that has a high film hardness and is not prone to cracks.
US08932387B2
A combustible gas enrichment system includes an adsorption unit charged therein with an adsorbent for selectively adsorbing a combustible gas, a source gas feeding means capable of feeding source gas containing the combustible gas into the adsorption unit from the outside, a suctioning means capable of suctioning the gas from the inside of the adsorption unit and a controlling means for executing an adsorption process for feeding the source gas into the adsorption unit for adsorption of the combustible gas to the adsorbent and a desorption process for desorbing the combustible gas from the adsorbent under the suction force of the suctioning means after the adsorption process and taking the desorbed combustible gas to the outside. The controlling means operates the suctioning means such that the suction force of the suctioning means when no desorption process is effected is smaller than the suction force when the desorption process is effected.
US08932382B2
A method and processes to solubilize and transform phosphorus contents of rock phosphate (RP) into bio-organo-phosphate (BOP) fertilizer have been developed and integrated. The methods include collecting and sorting of organic wastes; blending with RP; subjecting the blend to biocomposting; collection, isolation, selection and growth optimization of consortia of efficient phosphorus solubilizing microorganisms (PSM) and novel plant growth regulating microorganisms (PGRM); where in PSM produce organic acids and other organic compounds using compost substrate at mesophillic stage, whereas the organic acids released during composting also act in synergism of PSM, thus forming a carbon rich acidic culture resulting in the solubilization of rock phosphate.
US08932379B2
An exhaust gas purification system with which diesel particulate filter (“DPF”) regeneration can be continued even when deceleration occurs during the DPF regeneration. The system includes a regeneration deceleration period intake/exhaust control unit that, when a vehicle decelerates during the DPF regeneration, increases an exhaust gas flow rate through an exhaust pipe by controlling respective openings of an exhaust gas recirculation (“EGR”) device and an intake throttle and adjusting a turbocharging amount of a high pressure stage turbocharger.
US08932371B2
A process is disclosed for preparing fluidizable particles of a biomass/catalyst composite material. The process comprises the steps of (i) providing a particulate, solid biomass material; (ii) forming a composite of the biomass material and a catalytic material; (iii) subjecting the biomass material to a thermal treatment at a torrefaction temperature at or above 200° C., and low enough to avoid significant conversion of the biomass material to liquid conversion products; and (iv) forming fluidizable particles from the biomass material. Step (ii) may be carried out before or after step (iii).
US08932368B2
The invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting the loss, theft or unauthorized use of a device and/or altering the functionality of the device in response. In one embodiment, a device monitors its use, its local environment, and/or its operating context to determine that the device is no longer within the control of an authorized user. The device may receive communications or generate an internal signal altering its functionality, such as instructing the device to enter a restricted use mode, a surveillance mode, to provide instructions to return the device and/or to prevent unauthorized use or unauthorized access to data. Additional embodiments also address methods and systems for gathering forensic data regarding an unauthorized user to assist in locating the unauthorized user and/or the device.
US08932364B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for filling bone voids which may be present at the time of surgery. The systems disclosed herein generally include a baseplate component, a spacer component, and void filler component. The spacer component is generally assembled to the baseplate component with a taper or press-fit, for example, in one of a plurality of selected axial positions. The void filler component is then generally assembled to the spacer component in one of a plurality of selected axial positions. The void filler component preferably has an outer surface with portions having varying diameters such that the outer surface thereof can be received within a canal of a bone and contact the bone forming the canal at different locations in order to aid in stabilizing the assembled components in the canal.
US08932356B2
Embodiments are directed to bone-joining or bone-bridging intervertebral implants with an inner channel-type structure of channels, which extend parallel from a bone contacting-surface of the implant to the inside of the implant, whereby the channels are connected by lateral openings.
US08932354B2
A tendon anchoring device may include an implant having a pair of spaced apart legs for straddling a tendon. A push rod removably attached to the implant may be utilized to guide and push a portion of the tendon into a pre-drilled bore in a bone. A fixation member may be slid along the push rod and threadably engage an inner surface of the pre-drilled bore to thereby anchor the tendon to the bone while a force is applied to the push rod. Once the fixation member has been installed, the push rod may be disengaged from the implant and removed from the bore. The implant may remain permanently straddled over the tendon inside of the bore.
US08932349B2
A cardiac valve with a support frame having a first end member and a second end member opposing the first end member in a substantially fixed distance relationship, and a cover extending over the support frame to allow for unidirectional flow of a liquid through the valve.
US08932339B2
The present invention provides a method and device for non-invasive anatomical and systemic cooling. The method and device provide for cooling of various bodily fluid-containing spaces or surfaces, such as mucus-containing spaces or surfaces via delivery of a dry fluid not including a coolant into or upon the mucus-containing space or surface. Exposure of such mucus to the dry fluid results in evaporation and cooling of the anatomical feature and/or systemic cooling, as intended. In this fashion, therapeutic hypothermia may be achieved to provide for neuroprotection of various organs after ischemic insult, such the brain after cardiac arrest.
US08932324B2
A tissue closure device including a tissue eversion apparatus, and a first and a second, redundant closure element that are placed on the external surface of a tissue puncture wound to enhance the efficacy of closure. The first closure element and the second closure element are left resident on the external surface of or in proximity to the tissue puncture wound in order to provide redundancy of closure.
US08932309B2
A surgically implantable mesh for covering a tear or rupture in a lining associated with an interior body cavity. A mat shaped polymer body has top and bottom spaced apart surfaces which are communicable at intervals by an interior configuration defined in the body and which promotes tissue in-growth following implantation. An antibacterial additive is intermixed with the polymer in a viscous state prior to formation and can included at least one of silver, gold, copper, bronze, or ground bamboo fibers.
US08932304B2
A vascular graft for anastomosis of blood vessels or ducts comprises piercing means (3) for engaging an end portion (8/8′) of a blood vessel or prosthesis and means (6, 6′) for precisely guiding one or more piercing elements (3) to pierce the wall of the vessel or prosthesis to a predetermined depth and in a predetermined direction.
US08932300B2
Methods and instruments for treating an osteoporotic vertebral body or for treating a vertebral compression fracture. An exemplary method includes introducing an open knit structure together with a bone cement into a bone wherein the knit structure extends substantially throughout the interior of the cement volume. In one aspect of the invention, the bone cement volumes cures with the filament structure reinforcing the cement. In another aspect of the invention, the open knit structure is configured to direct flows of bone cement to apply forces for reducing a vertebral compression fracture. In another aspect of the invention, the system provides bone cement flows that extend through the knit structure thus allowing the cement to fully interdigitate with the cancellous bone.
US08932297B2
Methods and apparatus for treating bones, including, in one or more embodiments, a device for delivering a bone filler material comprising: a housing having a throughbore; a plunger comprising a shaft having external threads, wherein the plunger is configured for advancement through the throughbore of the housing; and a threaded receiving member configured to releasably engage the plunger. Methods for removing an instrument from a vertebral body comprising applying ultrasonic energy to the instrument, wherein a distal end of the instrument is disposed in a cavity in the vertebral body, wherein the cavity contains a filler material; and removing the instrument from the vertebral body.
US08932292B2
The invention pertains to techniques or processes for managing surgical smoke. In one embodiment a suction apparatus evacuates the surgical smoke. For example, the suction apparatus may be arranged adjacent to an electrocautery electrode, which may generate smoke during operation, for evacuating smoke from a surgical site.
US08932279B2
A cooling system for a surgical handpiece may provide fluid flow to the surgical tip and to the internal electronic components to prevent temperatures that may damage or make the patient or surgeon uncomfortable. Tip directed gas further controls the tip-tissue interface by displacing blood or serum from the incision point, increasing precision and diminishing coagulum build-up. In the alternative, cooling fluid may be used to quench tissue being treated.
US08932278B2
A laser skin treatment process and system. The system includes features for producing a first laser beam of long pulse duration and a second laser beam of short pulse duration and a skin cooler for cooling the surface of a region of skin. The system is designed to utilize the first laser beam for heating a volume of skin tissue below the cooled surface region to a temperature to produce skin tissue modification but below skin tissue damage threshold. This volume of skin tissue is called a “thermal cavity”. The second laser beam is divided into a plurality of separate laser beams that are directed through separate optical fibers and via separate paths through skin tissue to a single tiny volume of skin tissue within the thermal cavity to produce in that tiny volume mechanical damage. This tiny volume is called an energy droplet. Thus tiny regions of tissue are damaged while minimizing or preventing any significant damage to adjacent tissue.
US08932277B2
In an instrument for laparoscopic surgery, with an operating handle, a rectilinear first shaft section connected to the operating handle, a flexible second shaft section arranged at the distal end of the first shaft section and having an end part located at the distal tip of the second shaft section, wherein the second shaft section can be moved from a rectilinear extension position to a curved position in a predetermined plane of curvature with the aid of a tensioning means engaging on the end part, provision is made for a flexible connecting means to extend between the first shaft section and the end part, and the flexible connecting means has a restoring function with which the flexible second shaft section can be restored automatically to a rectilinear or predetermined extension position.
US08932271B2
An access port for providing subcutaneous access to a patient is disclosed. The access port includes a septum including palpable identification indicia thereon. In particular, the access port in one embodiment includes a body that defines a fluid cavity and a needle-penetrable septum covering the fluid cavity for providing access thereto. The septum defines an outer periphery. One or more palpation features are included on the septum. The palpation features each include a portion that extends in a radial direction beyond the outer periphery of the septum. The palpation features are therefore disposed relatively farther away from each other, simplifying palpation and identification thereof after the port has been subcutaneously implanted into a patient. The palpation features can be indicative of an attribute of the port, such as its ability to withstand fluid pressures and flow rates associated with power injection, for instance.
US08932257B2
The present disclosure relates to a catheter insertion device, which comprises a catheter hub in which a check valve is arranged, and a catheter, which is in fluid communication with the catheter hub, wherein a support element is attached to the catheter, and a flexible buffer element is provided between the support element and the catheter hub.
US08932251B2
A breast cavity spacer device, such as for use with a percutaneous lumpectomy, is provided. The device includes a body having a projection on one end. The body has a bore extending there through. A catheter is disposed at least partially within the bore. A balloon member is fluidly coupled on one end of the catheter, the balloon member having an elliptical shape.
US08932235B2
Medical devices for navigation through anatomy, including guidewires, which may have a core wire, a slotted tubular member, or both. Embodiments may have coils, including non-circular cross-section edge-wound marker coils, extended coil tips, and soldered or glued mesial joint coils. Core wires may have a step, ridge, or taper at the joints to the tubular member, and may be flattened at the distal tip. Radiopaque material may be located inside the tubular member, and the distal tip may be heat treated to make it shapeable. Additional tubular members or coils may be used concentrically or in line and may enhance flexibility, provide radiopacity, reduce friction, or reduce material or manufacturing cost. Tubular members may be chamfered or tapered continuously or incrementally. Slots may be arranged in groups, such as groups of three, and may be equal in depth or unequal in depth to provide a steerable or compressible tip.
US08932230B2
The flow rate of a gaseous sample of exhaled breath through an analytical device is controlled by a pump, and in certain embodiments two pumps. Placement of the analyte sensor in a secondary stream branching off of the primary stream through the device offers further control over the manner, duration, and quantity of the breath that is placed in contact with the sensor.
US08932226B2
An ultrasound catheter is described herein for insertion into a cavity such as a blood vessel to facilitate imaging within a vasculature. The catheter comprises an elongate flexible shaft, a capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducer, and a sonic reflector. The elongate flexible shaft has a proximate end and a distal end. A capacitive microfabricated ultrasonic transducer (cMUT) is mounted to the shaft near the distal end. The reflector is positioned such that a reflective surface redirects ultrasonic waves to and from the transducer. In other embodiments, the catheter comprises a plurality of cMUT elements and operates without the use of reflectors. In further embodiments, integrated circuitry is incorporated into the design.
US08932225B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprises a first reception echo obtaining unit, a second reception echo obtaining unit, a reception echo combining unit, and an image generating unit. The first reception echo obtaining unit transmits a plurality of ultrasonic pulses having frequency spectra different from one another to an object, and obtains each of reception echoes corresponding to the plurality of ultrasonic pulses. The second reception echo obtaining unit transmits an ultrasonic pulse having the same frequency component characteristics as an combined pulse obtained by combining the plurality of ultrasonic pulses, and to obtain an reception echo. The reception echo combining unit combines the reception echoes obtained by the first reception echo obtaining unit and the reception echo obtained by the second reception echo obtaining unit to generate a combined signal. The image generating unit generates an image of echoes reflected from the object on the basis of the combined signal.
US08932222B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus has an ultrasonic probe for transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave at a group of a plurality of ultrasonic vibrators arranged in an array form to and from a subject and incorporating a preamplifier groups for amplifying the resulting weak ultrasonic echo received after obtaining tissue information about the subject. The ultrasonic vibrator group has a first area to which a first amplifier group is to be connected and a second preamplifier group to which a second amplifier group is to be connected. In an operating mode to cease the first preamplifier group from operating, a control circuit switches to supply the bias current being supplied to the first preamplifier group over to the second preamplifier group.
US08932203B2
A body implantable penile prosthetic assembly offering a user a one touch to erection (OTTER) capability and a penile implant deflation capability is described. The assembly includes a pump and a release mechanism. The pump is connectable to a pressure reservoir and a penile implant. The pump is operable to pressurize liquid in the pressure reservoir and the pressure reservoir is operable to store the pressurized liquid at a first pressure between 20-50 PSIg that is configured to inflate the penile implant to an erect state. The release mechanism is connectable between the pressure reservoir and the penile implant. The release mechanism is operable to inflate the penile implant with one-touch input from the user where the release mechanism is configured to release the stored pressurized liquid from the pressure reservoir to inflate the penile implant at a second pressure between 10-20 PSIg.
US08932199B2
Sleep mask for reducing sleep inertia. In an embodiment, the sleep mask comprises a foam layer having a shape that covers both of a human subject's eyes so as to attenuate ambient light. Visual stimulation element(s), configured to emit light, are positioned between the foam layer and the subject's eyes. In addition, a plurality of sensors positioned on the forehead of the subject collect electroencephalogram (EEG), electrooculogram (EOG), and electromyogram (EMG) signals. A soft exterior cover houses the foam layer, the visual stimulation element(s), and the sensors. The sleep mask further comprises processor(s) that determine and record each sleep stage of the subject, determine when to wake the subject, and, when it is determined to wake the subject, control the visual stimulation element(s) to wake the subject using emitted light.
US08932195B2
A method for improving neuronal performance of a target nerve of a patient according to one exemplary embodiment includes the step of: exposing the nerve to a pulsed magnetic field generated by DC current having a predetermined magnetic field strength at a predetermined frequency. The predetermined magnetic field strength and the predetermined frequency are selected such that an amplitude of a compound action potential of the target nerve increases as a result of the exposure and remains elevated for a time period after the exposure has ended.
US08932192B2
An inverted machine has a supporting bracket, an orientating assembly, a connecting frame and a table. The supporting bracket has two supporting shafts, two mounting jackets and a locating sheath mounted around one of the mounting jackets. The orientating assembly is connected to the supporting bracket and has a brake locator, a rotating shaft, two clamping slices, a pulling rod, a spring and a cam device. The brake locator is connected to the mounting jacket that is connected to the locating sheath. The rotating shaft is connected to the other mounting jacket. The clamping slices are pivotally connected to the brake locator. The pulling rod is connected to the clamping slices. The spring is mounted around the pulling rod between the clamping slices. The cam device is connected to the pulling rod. The connecting frame is connected to the orientating assembly. The table is mounted on the connecting frame.
US08932187B1
A resistance exercise apparatus is disclosed including a weighted object, an elongate beam, a first engagement member, a second engagement member, a frame, a first bearing and a second bearing. The elongate beam extends in and through weighted object such that when the beam rotates about its lengthwise axis, the weighted object rotates with the beam. Proximal ends of the engagement members are connected to the beam and include a cavity defined and a slot. The frame includes support extensions supporting the bearings, the bearings allowing the beam to rotate along its lengthwise axis within the bearings.
US08932177B2
A planetary gear train is provided with: a carrier; a planetary gear; a planetary pin inserted into an insert hole provided through the planetary gear and coupled to the carrier to rotatably support the planetary gear; a thrust collar attached to a surface opposed to the planetary gear of the carrier so as to surround the planetary pin; and a pin for coupling the thrust collar to the carrier. The thrust collar has a first surface opposed to the carrier and a second surface opposed to the planetary gear, and has a first pin hole provided on the first surface so as not to reach the second surface. The carrier has a second pin hole on a surface opposed to the planetary gear. The thrust collar is attached to the carrier by inserting the pin into the first pin hole of the thrust collar and into the second pin hole of the carrier.
US08932169B2
A backing plate for a friction clutch pack includes a shoulder or flange through which a plurality of radial drain passageways extend. The radial drain passageways intersect a circumferential channel which collects hydraulic fluid from the friction clutch. The radial passageways, assisted by centrifugal force, direct hydraulic fluid flow radially outwardly, away from other friction pack clutches and thus prevent such fluid from creating drag and causing increased spin losses as it flows to and through disengaged clutch packs.
US08932161B2
A variable speed alternator can include a shaft and adjustable pulley assembly coupled to the shaft. The adjustable pulley assembly can include a support member fixed to the shaft and an adjustable pulley moveably coupled to the support member. The adjustable pulley can have a plurality of individually moveable members each with an outer surface forming a portion of a belt engaging surface for receiving a flat belt to drive the adjustable pulley. Each moveable member can be selectively linearly moveable in a radial direction to vary an outer diameter of the adjustable pulley between a first position having a first outer diameter and a second position having a second outer diameter to selectively vary a driven speed of the alternator shaft.
US08932160B1
A throwable ball having a large internal passage aligned with its central axis. An insert defines the bounds of the internal passage. This insert is surrounded by compressible foam that gives the ball an easy gripping surface. Interlock features are preferably provided between the insert and the compressible foam so that they do not slip relative to each other.
US08932157B2
Typical embodiments of the disclosed apparatus are: a traditional soccer ball; a game-play area that is confined within rebound-fences and pass walls; a vertical scoring standard that is configured to spin on a vertical axis when struck by a soccer ball. The identified apparatus may be used in a confined and multi-directional soccer game.
US08932152B2
A center of a golf ball is formed from a composition having a flexural modulus from 150-450 MPa, a maximum loss factor (tan δ) between −20 and 0° C. of 0.08 or less, a rebound resilience of 55% or more, and a slab hardness ranging from 40-60 in Shore D hardness. The center composition includes, as a resin component, 30 to 70 mass % of (A) a modified polyester elastomer having a Shore A hardness of 95 or less; 70-30 mass % of (B) a binary ionomer resin having a Shore D hardness of 65 or more, a flexural modulus of 300 MPa or more, and a melt flow rate (190° C., 2.16 kg) of 1.0 g/10 min or more; and 0-50 mass % of (C) a thermoplastic resin other than (A) and (B) components (provided that a total content of (A), (B), and (C) components is 100 mass %).
US08932148B2
A golf club. The golf club includes a club head. The club head includes a clubface configured to make contact with a golf ball. The golf club also includes a shaft attached to the club head. The shaft includes a center axis. The golf club further includes an elliptical grip, wherein the elliptical grip includes a center axis. The center axis of the elliptical grip is non-parallel to the center axis of the shaft.
US08932147B2
Embodiments of golf coupling mechanisms are presented herein. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US08932137B2
The invention provides for an automated data collection having an endpoint coupled to at least one gaming machine to collect data from the at least one gaming machine, at least one concentrator in communication with the endpoint via a personal area network to obtain the data from the endpoint, and at least one remote collection server in communication with the at least one concentrator to receive the data from the at least one concentrator, wherein the data is pushed from the endpoint to the at least one remote collection server at predefined time intervals without interrupting game play on the at least one gaming machine.
US08932136B2
The present invention is an interactive system and method whereby participants may engage in a contest that is simultaneously or subsequently broadcast. The broadcast signal may be for the purpose of a pure entertainment source or may be an enticement to play the shown or other interactive games. The games may be computer simulation games, role-playing games, strategy games, question and answer games, casino games, or other games as desired. The broadcast signals may show a specialized view of the game being played and may contain live commentary or other enhancements. The games may be played with set top boxes connected to a television, a broadcast network, and a server system.
US08932129B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, and systems implementing techniques for using a central determination system with multi-play gaming machines having sub-games and with gaming machines having a base game and a bonus game. A seed value is provided for each of the games (i.e., each of the sub-games or the base game and the bonus game). This ensures that all possible game outcomes may be displayed for each of the games.
US08932123B2
An assembly block (20) including an LED element (51), a control unit (52) that controls the LED element (51), and a housing (30) that holds the LED element (51) and the control unit (52) is provided. The housing (30) includes mechanical interfaces (32, 33) for mechanically connecting to the outside and is at least partially translucent. The control unit (52) includes a first functional unit (111) that stores, on receiving first data sets (D1) that include data for controlling the color of light to be outputted from the LED element (51) and a transfer command via the first electrical interface (79a) associated with the first mechanical interface (32), the first data set (D1) in a buffer (121) and outputs the stored first data set (DS1) in the buffer (121) together with the transfer command via a second electrical interface (79b) associated with the mechanical interface (33) on the second side.
US08932117B1
A method and apparatus for euthanizing poultry by rapidly impacting the spinal column of the bird.
US08932090B2
The invention relates to a solderless electrical connection (42) between a first joining partner (10, 46) and a second joining partner (24, 26; 44) for connecting an electrical component, a connector strip or a lead frame. According to the invention, the first joining partner (10, 46) or both joining partners (10, 46, 24, 26, 44) have an OSP coating (56) on their respective contact surfaces (14, 48, 54, 34, 50).
US08932081B2
A connector includes a shield that supports a housing. The housing includes a tongue that extends in a mating region defined by the shield. The tongue includes grooves (which may be on both sides of the shield) that support a plurality of terminals. The grooves each include a retention feature that secures the terminal in the groove while allowing a mating terminal to engage the terminals in the grooves without first engage the tongue.
US08932048B2
A gas igniter includes a heating element, a bushing and a mounting bracket. The bushing is formed of a generally rigid electrically insulating material and supports the heating element. The bushing includes an elongated slot extending through the bushing. The mounting bracket includes a first connecting portion and a second mounting portion. The first connecting portion is inserted through the elongated slot located on the bushing for connecting the mounting bracket to the bushing. The second mounting portion is configured to attach the gas igniter to an associated support surface.
US08932044B2
The foil embossing device comprises an embossing roller and two counter-rollers, one of the rollers being driven by a drive and the rollers having a configuration where the teeth, rings, or ridges project from the base cylinder, at least the embossing roller having teeth that project from the base cylinder and at least partly also serve for driving the counter-roller. To increase the uniformity of the embossing of the foil, the embossing roller has a diameter that is reduced by 0.02 to 0.20 mm over a certain length that is at least the same as the width of the foil. The length of the reduced diameter is preferably chosen so as to exceed the width of the foil being printed. Due to this depression, such a device allows a perfectly uniform embossing of foils of any kind independently of the design of the embossing rollers.
US08932037B2
A pump unit of a vane-type pump having no dedicated housing including a drive shaft, a rotor that interacts with the drive shaft and accommodates vanes, a contour ring surrounding the rotor, and a first and a second side plate which are disposed laterally of the contour ring.
US08932034B2
A submersible well pump assembly has a rotary pump, a motor, and a seal section coupled between the motor and the pump. The seal section has a cylindrical housing having upper and lower adapter and a shaft extending axially through the housing. A guide tube surrounds the shaft and a bellows surrounds the guide tube. A well fluid passage communicates well fluid to a well fluid chamber between the bellows and the housing. A guide tube passage extends axially within the guide tube between an interior and an exterior of the guide tube from an upper portion to a lower portion of the guide tube for communicating lubricant in the motor with lubricant within the bellows.
US08932032B2
A process fluid pump can include a pump chamber, an inlet valve, and an outlet valve. Diaphragm regions can define at least a portion of each of the pump chamber, the inlet valve, and the outlet valve. The diaphragm regions can each have an actuation region with a surface that is convexly shaped when the formed actuation region is in a natural unstressed first state, and each formed actuation region can be actuated by a motive fluid to transition to a second state in which the surface is non-convexly shaped.
US08932026B2
A fuel supply apparatus includes a fuel pump having an electrically driven motor. A controller is connected to the motor of the first fuel pump and is capable of determining an estimated pressure based on a value of current supplied to the motor and a rotational speed of the motor. The controller controls the motor so that the estimated pressure becomes relatively equal to a target pressure.
US08932025B2
A rotor blade comprising fiber-reinforced plastic for a wind power plant is provided with a radar absorber embedded into the fiber-reinforced plastic. The rotor blade includes a layer close to the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of 100 to 800 ohm/square, which is located at a depth of 2 to 5 mm below the surface. The rotor blade also includes a layer far removed from the surface with a defined electrical sheet resistivity of at a maximum 50 ohm/square at a distance to the layer close to the surface of 5 to 16 mm. The integrated radar absorber covers one or several discrete surface sections of the rotor blade, without covering the entire surface of the rotor blade.
US08932021B2
A fan rotor includes a rotor body that has plurality of fan blades for rotation about a central axis. An annular wall extends radially inward from the rotor body. A hub body extends axially from the annular wall and defines a central hub bore with a hub bore diameter Db. The hub body further defines a first cylindrical hub portion on one axial side of the annular wall and a second cylindrical hub portion on an opposite side of the annular wall. A ratio of the outer diameter of the first cylindrical hub portion to a diameter of the central hub bore is 1.996-2.007, and a ratio of the second cylindrical hub portion outer diameter to the hub bore diameter is 2.051-2.063.
US08932015B2
A hydraulic blade speed control apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a rotor assembly comprising a shaft; a first blade assembly pivotably attached to the shaft at a first initial position; a second blade assembly pivotably attached to the shaft assembly at a second initial position opposite to the first initial position; and a hydraulic movement mechanism. An initial angle of 180 degrees exists between the first blade assembly with said respect to the second blade assembly. The rotor assembly is configured to rotate the first blade assembly and the second blade assembly in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction. The hydraulic movement mechanism is configured to pivotably move the first blade assembly in different angular positions with respect to the rotor assembly and the second blade assembly.
US08932013B2
An improved guide vane for an inline fan is provided, as is an inline fan assembly so characterized. The vane guide includes a first vane segment characterized by first and second end portions, and a second vane segment characterized by first and second end portions. The second end portion of the first vane segment is in a spaced apart and overlapped arrangement in relation to the first end portion of the second vane segment. The first end portion of the first vane segment is an adjacent most vane guide end portion in relation to an impeller of the fan. The first vane segment is of arcuate configuration, with the second vane segment being of linear configuration.
US08932005B2
An Archimedean Modular/Multi-Axis Rotor (AMR) is a wind/fluid driven electrical generating device as described which utilizes a single foil rotor and appears in an elongated Archimedean curve tapering at its ends. A plurality of AMR's can be assembled in a multiplicity of tetrahedral or other 3-dimensional type structures that generate electric power. These structures would be manufactured to facilitate easy shipping, handling, assembly, erection and maintenance. The AMR is quiet (no prop buffeting), bird friendly, can accommodate any varying orientations to the wind/fluid direction and continues to operate even when in the direct shadow of adjacent AMR rotors.
US08932000B2
A method for positioning a large load into a transport position is provided. According to the method, the load is placed upon a frame structure with a substantially horizontal extension. The raising device is placed transport plane underneath the frame structure. The raising device is then extended in a vertical extension reaching between the transport plane and the frame structure so that the frame structure and the load are raised above the transport plane and are held in position by the raising device. Subsequently, the vertical extension of the raising device is decreased into the transport position. Further, a method for positioning a large load into a storage position and a transport system for such methods are also provided.
US08931991B2
A moldable wire thread insert 1 for reinforcing a screw-in opening of a component has the following characteristics: a cylindrical spiral 20 made of a helically, wound wire 10, the neighboring coils 30 of which are arranged such that a closed cylindrical spiral wall 22, 24 is present, while at least one end of the cylindrical spirals 20 has a fastening flange 40, which extends radially outwards over the cylindrical spiral wall 22, 24 and with which the wire thread insert 1 is anchorable in the component and/or one end of the cylindrical spiral 20 is designed in a planar manner in order to form an even axial front surface of the cylindrical spiral 20.
US08931990B2
A pierce nut (1) for attachment to a plastically deformable metal sheet (4) has an abutment surface (14) adapted to abut against the metal sheet (4), an undercut pilot (11) protruding relatively to the abutment surface (14), and a countersunk groove (16a, 16b) which is formed in the abutment surface (14) and at least partly surrounds the pilot (11). The groove (16a, 16b) is without active undercuts facing the pilot (11). The groove comprises an inner groove (16a) and an outer groove (16b) and a ridge (17) located therebetween.
US08931983B2
A milling tool assembly has a replaceable cutter and a reusable shank connected to the cutter with a detachable joint. The joint may be, for example, a threaded connection. An intermediate alignment sleeve made of an elastic or semi-elastic material, is positioned between the cutter and the shank about the axis of rotation of the shank.
US08931973B2
An accessory part to be connected to an operating table has a connecting element (12, 16) and a component part of the operating table has a receiving area (14) for receiving at least an area of the connecting element (12, 16). An engagement element (22, 24) projects laterally from the connecting element (12, 16). The receiving area (14) has at least one guideway (18, 20) with which the engagement element (22, 24) engages during insertion of at least an area of the connecting element (12, 16) into the receiving area (14). When deformed, an elastically deformable element (52) exerts a force on the engagement element (22, 24). By the force exerted on the engagement element (22, 24) and by the course of the guideway (18, 20) a force (FA) is exerted in the direction of insertion (P2) on the connecting element (12, 16) when the accessory part and the operating table are connected.
US08931972B2
A thermal module mount structure including a first mount body and a second mount body. The first mount body defines therein a first passage and has multiple engaging sections inward extending into the first passage. The second mount body is disposed in the first passage and has multiple complementary engaging sections complementary to the engaging sections. Each of the complementary engaging sections has a moving space and multiple engaging splits in communication therewith. The second mount body is vertically displaceable within the first passage, whereby the first and second mount bodies can be relatively rotated to insert the engaging sections into the engaging splits at different heights. Accordingly, the height of the mount structure is changeable by means of adjusting the second mount body in accordance with different heights of radiating fins. Therefore, the mount structure has high commonness so that the cost for developing the molds is reduced.
US08931971B2
A cleaning pad (28) is disclosed. The cleaning pad (28) includes a base sheet (202) bonded to a fiber mat (203) and exhibits improved debris retention without leaving a residue on a surface to be cleaned when a volatile additive is applied to the pad (28).
US08931961B2
A fiber-optic connector for connecting an optical fiber to other optical assemblies is disclosed. The fiber-optic connector includes a top plate having a window of similar refractive index and transmission index as the material of an optic fiber to be contained within the fiber-optic connector. The fiber-optic connector also includes a ferrule connected to the top plate via multiple spring-loaded screws. The ferrule includes an interface and an insert. The insert is capable of firmly gripping an optical fiber. In order to reduce Fresnel reflection losses of the fiber-optic connector, the window is pre-coated with an anti-reflective surface on the side opposite an optic fiber to be contained within the fiber-optic connector.
US08931931B2
Provided is a soft box having a plurality of poles, an adapter ring having a plurality of holes into which the plurality of poles is correspondingly coupledly inserted, and a reflecting cloth adapted to connect the plurality of poles in such a manner as to reflect light therefrom, the soft box including: a zipper mounted on the reflecting cloth between the neighboring poles; and an auxiliary reflecting cloth disposed on the reflecting cloth adjacent to the inner side of the zipper along the longitudinal direction of the zipper in such a manner as to cover the inner surface of the zipper.
US08931924B2
A LED lamp is disclosed which is composed of a plurality of light unit, each of the light unit has metal its leads inserted into a heat sink for heat dissipation. A circuit board is optionally to use for electrically coupling the metal leads of each light unit to a control circuit for controlling the on/off of each of the light units.
US08931922B2
A wavelength-conversion plate is described herein. The wavelength conversion plate may include a converter of a first ceramic material and a reflector of a second ceramic material. The first ceramic material converts the primary light emitted by a light source such as a light emitting diode (LED) into a secondary light and the second ceramic material reflects the secondary light emitted by said converter. Preferably, the converter is inlaid into the reflector so that the reflector surrounds an outer edge of the converter. Such a configuration has an advantage of reducing unwanted side emissions from the converter.
US08931921B2
A lighting device may be provided to include a heat sink which includes a receiving recess and a top surface including a hole; a light source module which includes a substrate disposed on the heat sink, a light emitting device disposed on the substrate and a pad disposed on the substrate; a power supplier which is disposed in the receiving recess of the heat sink and includes a projection outputting a power signal for driving the light source module; and a connector which is coupled to the hole of the heat sink, includes a contacting part electrically connected to the pad of the light source module, and is electrically connected to the projection of the power supplier.
US08931920B2
A light assembly (100) for directing light into a light guide utilizes a light source (120) comprising a linear array of light emitting diodes (140). The linear array has two opposed long sides (160, 180) equally disposed about a longitudinal axis (162) and two opposed short sides (200, 220) and is positioned in a mounting plane (240). The array has an optical plane (250) lying in a plane perpendicular to the mounting plane (240). A primary optic (260) having a reflecting surface (270) is associated therewith, the reflecting surface (270) having a parabolic cross-section and a focal point (280) and a bisector of parabolic cross-section (282) wherein the focal point (280) is disposed at one of the long sides (160, 180) of the array (140) and the bisector of parabolic cross-section (282) has an axis (283) that is tilted with respect to the optical plane (250). In a preferred embodiment, the axis (283) of the bisector of parabolic cross-section (282) is tilted about 8 degrees. The construction provides an arrangement for feeding light from the array into a light guide.
US08931919B2
A lighting unit for use in a luminaire, in particular a luminaire for road and/or street lighting, has an adaptable light distribution wherein the lighting unit comprises at least two light sources or groups of light sources, each of the light sources or groups of light sources having an individual light distribution characteristic, wherein the overall light distribution of the lighting unit is adapted by modifying the ratio of the light outputs of the at least two light sources or groups of light sources
US08931912B2
A display illumination structure includes: a display including a gauge portion; a light source; a light guiding member including an incident portion, a horizontally extending portion configured to guide the light emanating from the light source along the gauge portion, and an interior reflecting bent portion configured to reflect the light that enters from the incident portion towards the horizontally extending portion; and a housing including a main reflecting surface configured to reflect light that exits from the light guiding member so as to be returned to the light guiding member, and an auxiliary reflecting surface configured to reflect light that is not incident on the incident portion and light that leaks from a halfway portion of the light guiding member towards a low-luminance poorly illuminated portion being formed in a position on the gauge portion which lies closer to the light source.
US08931905B2
A method of performing an ophthalmic test on an examinee's eyes utilizes a three-dimensional display screen that includes a right-eye image and a left-eye image to induce ocular responses in the examinee's eyes. The right and left-eye images are varied while detection devices are used to monitor the examinee's eyes ocular responses to the variations. The induced ocular responses of the examinee's eyes are then used to diagnose any ocular, mental or neurological conditions present. The ocular response inducing images are preferably included in a three-dimensional video game such that a players' performance while playing the game will be indicative of any disorders that may be present.
US08931903B2
Provided is an ophthalmologic apparatus including: a first control unit which controls a scanning unit for scanning an eye to be inspected with light emitted from a light source; a memory unit which stores control information for causing the first control unit to control the scanning unit to sequentially perform a first scan and a second scan after the first scan; and a second control unit which decreases a light amount irradiating the eye to be inspected after finishing the first scan and before starting the second scan, which are performed based on the control information.
US08931897B2
A contact lens and a method for treating an eye with myopia is described. The contact lens includes an inner optic zone and an outer optic zone. The outer optic zone includes at least a portion with a first power, selected to correct distance vision. The inner optic zone has a relatively more positive power (an add power). In some embodiments the add power is substantially constant across the inner optic zone. In other embodiments the add power is variable across the inner optic zone. While in some embodiments the inner optic zone has a power designed to substantially eliminate lag of accommodation in the eye with myopia, in other embodiments, the add power may be higher.
US08931891B2
An inkjet printing system, comprising: one or more inkjet printheads for printing drops of ink onto a receiver medium, and an acoustic air impingement drying system positioned in proximity to at least one of the inkjet printheads. The acoustic air impingement drying system includes: an airflow source providing a supply flow rate; an acoustic resonant chamber having an inlet slot that receives air from the airflow source and an outlet slot that directs air onto the receiver medium; an exhaust air channel for removing the air directed onto the receiver medium by the acoustic resonant chamber; a blower for pulling air through the exhaust air channel at an exhaust flow rate; and a blower controller that controls the supply flow rate and the exhaust flow rate, wherein the exhaust flow rate is controlled to match the supply flow rate to within 1%, or to exceed the supply flow rate.
US08931884B2
A wide-format printing apparatus can suppress a posture variation of a carriage to improve landing accuracy of ink, and can reduce an HP (head to platen) distance to the minimum gap, thus achieving higher image quality and mass-production performance. The HP distance, the main rail and the sub rail are adjustable, and the curve amount of both rails is made to be in agreement with the curve amount of the platen. After that, the adjustment for minimizing the local deformation of both rails is performed.
US08931880B2
Described herein are bioprinters comprising: one or more printer heads, wherein a printer head comprises a means for receiving and holding at least one cartridge, and wherein said cartridge comprises contents selected from one or more of: bio-ink and support material; a means for calibrating the position of at least one cartridge; and a means for dispensing the contents of at least one cartridge. Further described herein are methods for fabricating a tissue construct, comprising: a computer module receiving input of a visual representation of a desired tissue construct; a computer module generating a series of commands, wherein the commands are based on the visual representation and are readable by a bioprinter; a computer module providing the series of commands to a bioprinter; and the bioprinter depositing bio-ink and support material according to the commands to form a construct with a defined geometry.
US08931878B2
An embodiment of this invention is directed to suppressing a circuit scale and ensuring quick response in control of a DC motor. According to the embodiment, upon driving the motor to feed roll paper, the current value supplied to drive the motor is compared with a target value for PWM-control. A value representing the comparison result is counted for a PWM-control signal of one cycle. The output tendency of the comparison result is checked based on an obtained count in every cycle of the signal, and the tendency is encoded. The code values are stored for a predetermined number of cycles of the signal. The code values stored in both the first period and the second period longer than the first period are checked in regard to the past tendency of PWM-control, and the signal is adjusted.
US08931876B2
The storage apparatus includes a controller which performs a communication process with respect to a host apparatus; a storage unit in which data from the host apparatus are written; and a storage controller which performs access control with respect to the storage unit. The controller receives a command packet and a data packet from the host apparatus. In the case where the write enable bit of the data packet is set to be in a writing permitted state, the controller performs the update commanding of the address information and the write commanding of the data of the data packet. In the case where the write enable bit is set to be in a writing non-permitted state, the controller performs the update commanding of the address information and does not perform the write commanding of the data of the data packet.
US08931860B2
A mounting apparatus for a sliding drawer mechanism is disclosed. The mounting apparatus includes a bracket, a latching member and a mounting piece. The bracket includes a side plate, and the side plate defines a limiting hole. The latching member is secured to the sliding drawer mechanism and includes an elastic latching portion. The mounting piece extends from the sliding drawer mechanism, and a mounting post protrudes from the mounting piece. The mounting post is received in the limiting hole to prevent the sliding drawer mechanism from sliding along a direction substantially parallel to the side plate, and the elastic latching portion and the mounting piece are located on two opposite sides of the side plate, to prevent the sliding drawer mechanism from sliding along a direction substantially perpendicular to the side plate.
US08931854B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a high impact wear resistant tool has a superhard material bonded to a cemented metal carbide substrate at a non-planar interface. The superhard material has a thickness of at least 0.100 inch and forms an included angle of 35 to 55 degrees. The superhard material has a plurality of substantially distinct diamond layers. Each layer of the plurality of layers has a different catalyzing material concentration. A diamond layer adjacent the substrate of the superhard material has a higher catalyzing material concentration than a diamond layer at a distal end of the superhard material.
US08931839B1
An infant stimulation and learning apparatus includes an isolation device and an environmental monitoring and control system. The isolation device is constructed as an infant carrier having an isolation canopy hingedly affixed thereto. The environmental monitoring and control system includes an audio-visual display system, media player, fresh air circulation system and infant monitoring system. A video screen, forming part of the audio-visual display system, is mounted to the interior surface of the isolation canopy. The fresh air circulation system includes a blower for conveying air into and through the interior space of the isolation device and a filter for removing particulate matter from the airflow prior to introduction to the isolation device. Means for securing the infant stimulation and learning apparatus in an automobile seat and an infant stroller and an infant restraint are provided. The infant monitoring system transmits video, sound and temperature to a remote location.
US08931837B2
A thoracic back support sits vertically against the back portion of a chair/seat in which a force is transmitted through the thoracic area of the spine of a user. The thoracic back support has an interior resilient substrate that is divided by a shallow groove that extends from the lower cervical spine to the upper lumbar spine. The groove helps to reduce any stress over the spinous processes as the individual leans back against the thoracic back support. When the resilient substrate is compressed, a force is primarily directed into the soft tissue areas adjacent to the spine which allows for the thoracic spine to move into a maximally neutral position.
US08931835B1
Apparatuses for protecting internal structures of a vehicle from environmental factors, such as light and/or heat, and methods of making and using such apparatuses are described. The apparatus reflects sunlight, ultra-violet rays, and/or heat away from the internal structure(s) of a vehicle, such as the seats, the steering wheel, and/or the gear shift. Therefore, absorption of heat and sunlight is minimized or prevented while the vehicle is parked in the sun. The apparatuses cover the entire major surface(s) of the internal structure(s), and thus enable an individual to immediately sit on or contact the interior structures of the vehicle without experiencing pain or discomfort when entering the vehicle.
US08931830B2
A wind deflector for a sliding roof system is disclosed herein, the wind deflector having: a wind deflector element that is adjustable between a lowered position and an extended position; and a pair of raising arms that are each connected with the wind deflector element at one end and with an abutment at the other end, wherein the abutment is vehicle-fixed, that the raising arms are configured to be telescopically length-adjustable, and that an adjustment mechanism is provided by which the distance of the wind deflector element from the abutments is reduced when it is moved from the lowered position to the extended position.
US08931829B2
An open roof construction includes at least one closure element for selectively opening and closing a roof opening and a wind deflector assembly having a wind deflector arm pivotally connected to a stationary part and a wind deflector body extending in a transverse direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. A spring biases the wind deflector assembly in an upward direction to a first, operative position, in which the wind deflector body is positioned above the surface of the roof opening, from a second, inoperative position in which the wind deflector body is positioned in a storage position, below the surface of the roof. At least one guiding clamp guides the wind deflector assembly, at least during a part of the movement from the first operative position to the second inoperative position.
US08931827B2
A structural mounting insert for sealing between and/or adhering to surfaces of members is described. The insert includes a base member and activatable material about the base material.
US08931826B2
A load transmitting member comprising a rising face portion rising from a floor panel and a facing face portion facing a portion of the side panel between a rear edge portion of a rear-door opening portion and a rear-wheel house portion and having its short longitudinal width is arranged on an inward side of a side panel. The load transmitting member is fixed to a front portion of the rear-wheel house portion directly or via a bracket. The load transmitting member can be arranged so as not to prevent a smooth ingress/egress action of a passenger, and a proper load-transmission function of the load transmission member when the impact load is inputted to a rear door from the vehicle side can be attained so as to effectively restrain the rear door from coming into a vehicle compartment.
US08931822B2
A vehicle sun visor includes: an urging member that applies turning force toward a storage position to a sun visor body when a turning angle of the sun visor body from the storage position is a predetermined angle or smaller; and a damper that applies braking force when the sun visor body turns. When a turning speed of the sun visor body toward the storage position is a predetermined speed or lower, the damper braking force is smaller than a value obtained by subtracting turning force based on the weight of the sun visor body from the turning force of the urging member, and, when the turning speed exceeds the predetermined speed, the damper braking force is larger than or equal to the value obtained by subtracting the turning force based on the weight of the sun visor body from the turning force of the urging member.
US08931815B2
Embodiments of the present invention include door-securing latches that allow an occupant of a room or other space accessed through a door to secure the door, from inside the room or other space, in order to prevent entry or access by others. Embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanically strong and secure latch that cannot be easily broken or compromised by application of force to the door or by insertion of a tool or device between the door and an adjacent door frame to disable the latch, but that can be disabled by a knowledgeable individual, such as an apartment manger seeking to rescue a disabled apartment occupant in an emergency situation.
US08931812B1
A multi-point sliding door latch intended to fit within standard sized opening in the stile of a sliding door. Preferably the latch has at least two hooks oriented in opposite directions that slide in a generally linear manner between an unlatched and latched position in response to rotation of a pair of actuators located within the latch housing. Preferably, the latch includes reinforcement blocks defining cavities with a portion of the hooks extending into the cavities when the hooks are in the latched position.
US08931811B1
A kit for creating Brunnian link items such as bracelets, necklaces and other wearable or decorative items is disclosed and includes a loom, a hook, and a plurality of clips and a plurality of elastic bands. The loom includes a base supporting a plurality of upward extending pins. Each of the pins includes a flange for holding an elastic band in a desired orientation.
US08931808B2
A fitting assembly is provided having a nut and a self-releasing ferrule, which in certain embodiments may be assembled by an operator. The fitting assembly includes a nut with a first end, and a second end that defines a slot, and a ferrule with a first end that defines one or more slots, and a second end, with the second end of the nut adapted to receive the first end of the ferrule, the second end of the ferrule adapted to be received in a component or fitting of a liquid chromatography system. The nut and ferrule of the fitting assembly have passageways therethrough for receiving and removably holding tubing.
US08931806B2
A tongue for a seat belt system. The tongue is configured to allow a seat belt to smoothly slide thereon at normal times and that is capable of preventing stretch of a lap belt in the event of emergency. The seat belt sliding unit includes a predetermined number of the protrusions disposed in the first and second concave portions and. The first protrusion has a flat or substantially flat end surface on the shoulder belt side, a flat or substantially flat end surface on the lap belt side, and an arc-like top end. An angle formed by the imaginary line between the topmost end of the protrusion and an arc center of an outer peripheral surface of the concave portions and the end surface on the shoulder belt side is less than an angle formed by the imaginary line and the end surface on the lap belt side.
US08931805B2
A telescoping shaft having a roller assembly in a steering column is provided. The telescoping shaft includes an outer shaft having at least one projection or at least one groove, and an inner shaft telescopically received in the outer shaft, the inner shaft having the other of the at least one groove and the at least one projection, the at least one groove matingly engaging the at least one projection, each of the at least one grooves having a mounting section formed therein. A roller assembly is positioned in the mounting section of each of the at least one grooves and includes a spring having a first biasing section and a second biasing section, a first plurality of rollers positioned on the first biasing section and a second plurality of rollers positioned on the second biasing section, the at least one projection extending between the first plurality of rollers and the second plurality of rollers.
US08931804B2
In a steering device, when a telescopic position of a steering wheel is disposed at a vicinity of an adjustment end on a front side of a vehicle body, if a large force is applied erroneously to the steering wheel toward the front side of the vehicle body, rear ends of telescopic position adjusting long grooves are brought into contact with a fastening rod and push the fastening rod to the front side of the vehicle body. An engaging protrusion pushes an inner column to the front side of the vehicle body. A large force to the front side of the vehicle body, which is applied to the steering wheel is supported by the vehicle body via the inner column, and a force which is applied to a vehicle body attaching bracket can be reduced. This prevents the vehicle body attaching bracket from becoming detached from the vehicle body.
US08931801B2
An airbag for a vehicle occupant restraint system of a motor vehicle is provided. The airbag comprising at least one first and one second layer of an airbag material, at least one inflatable chamber formed between the first and the second layer, which is inflatable for the protection of a vehicle occupant and at least one seam, by which the first and the second layer are connected with each other along at least a portion of their respective circumference. The airbag is deployed between a vehicle occupant and a vehicle side structure. The airbag is formed such that when the airbag is mounted in the vehicle and inflated, the seam extends along a plane which is oriented obliquely or transversely to a plane formed by the longitudinal and the height direction of the vehicle.
US08931799B2
There are provided an airbag device and a steering wheel that can reduce the number of components and weight and allow a retainer to be easily positioned relative to an airbag cover. An airbag cover 4 includes a side wall portion 41 standing on an inner side, a recess 42 formed in an end face at almost the center of the side wall portion 41, and retaining holes 43 and 43 formed in the side wall portion 41 on both sides of the recess 42. A retainer 3 includes a first hook 31 that is fittable in the recess 42 and contactable with a bottom face 42a of the recess 42, and second hooks 32 that are contactable with inner faces 43a of the retaining holes 43. The retainer 3 is centered in a width direction by fitting the first hook 31 in the recess 42, and the side wall portion 41 is clamped in a standing direction by the first hook 31 and the second hooks 32 by contacting the first hook 31 with the recess 42 and contacting the second hooks 32 with the retaining holes 43.
US08931797B2
An elongated trailer has a frame with longitudinally extending frame members connected by front and rear cross frame members, and a pair of wheels are pivotally connected to opposite ends of each of the front and rear cross frame members. A steering system includes a front steering crank member connected to a tow bar and supported by the front cross frame member for pivotal movement on a vertical axis, and a rear steering crank member is supported by the rear cross frame member for pivotal movement on a vertical axis. A set of tie rods pivotally connect the front and rear crank members to the corresponding front and rear wheels. An elongated link member or rod connects the front and rear crank members and extends longitudinally of the frame substantially above the bottom surfaces of the frame members to protect the steering system from projecting objects on the ground.
US08931794B2
A bicycle frame set includes a main frame, a rear wheel suspension pivotally attached to the main frame, and a double eccentric cam assembly disposed within one or more pivot joints between the main frame and the rear wheel suspension. The double eccentric cam assembly includes inner and outer eccentric cams removably fastened together and retained in place within the pivot joint by a removable fastener passing through an aperture in the inner eccentric cam and defining a pivot axis. The aperture is eccentric relative to a perimeter of the inner eccentric cam. The inner cam is received within a correspondingly shaped opening in the outer cam which opening is itself eccentric relative to a perimeter of the outer eccentric cam. A rotational position of each of the cams is thus adjustable, so as to change a relative location of the pivot axis of the pivot joint.
US08931789B2
A tie rod comprising locking elements to lock the tie rod to respective end supports (60,60′), the locking elements comprising, at each end support, two pairs of spacers (42, 43, 42′, 43′), each pair having surfaces joined to each other in the shape of an annular portion of a spherical cap, and at least two tightening nuts (41); wherein, at each end support, there are provided, symmetrically with respect to the support, two pairs of spacers, wherein the pair of joined surfaces of the first pair of spacers (42,43) has a radius equal to the radius of the pair of joined surfaces of the second pair of spacers (42′, 43′), said pairs of joined surfaces being arranged on different spherical surfaces, and wherein the two tightening nuts (41) are tightened externally on the first pair of spacers (42,43).
US08931787B2
A support cart for a machine screw may comprise a frame and a plurality of trolleys. The frame may have a pair of tracks and a caster assembly. The caster assembly may have a first position where the frame does not contact a surface, such as a floor, allowing the frame to be movable. The caster assembly may also have a second position which allows the frame to contact the surface, such as a floor, rendering the frame to be substantially stationary. The plurality of trolleys may include a base, an adjuster, a support bracket, and a plurality of rollers. The trolleys may be movable along the tracks of the frame via the plurality of rollers. A height position of the support bracket may be adjustable relative to the base via the adjuster.
US08931782B2
An upper oil pan of an engine includes a flange with an oil pan abutment surface that is fixedly coupled to a flange formed on a cylinder block. The oil pan abutment surface comprises a flat portion that is substantially parallel to a cylinder block abutment surface of the cylinder block, a slanted portion that is slanted with respect to the flat portion, and a vertical wall portion connecting the flat portion and the slanted portion. The vertical wall portion is formed substantially perpendicular to the flat portion. The cylinder block and the upper oil pan are fixedly coupled together via an interposed liquid gasket. Thus, the seal structure in which the liquid gasket is adequately cured is provided, and sufficient sealing properties can be obtained with a small amount of material used.
US08931781B2
A round absorbing Airsoft target trap assembly is provided that includes a target frame and a backstop for receiving and reducing the velocity of Airsoft rounds passing through the target frame.
US08931779B2
Methods of delivering groups of cards to a card game and, upon the occurrence of an event, dispensing a bonus card comprising feeding playing cards individually from an infeed area of a card handling device into an intermediate storage compartment designated for receiving playing cards. At least one bonus card may be fed from an infeed area of a card handling device into an intermediate storage compartment designated for receiving bonus cards. Groups of playing cards are selectively delivered. At least one bonus card may be selectively delivered.
US08931763B2
An aeration system for treating liquid contained in a vessel is provided. The aeration system includes a header pipe and a plurality of lateral pipes coupled to the header pipe. The lateral pipes each have one or more tubular diffuser membranes sleeved therearound. Also provided is a coupling for sealingly joining end portions of two adjacent pipes is provided. The coupling includes two saddle sections and a deformable gasket extending between the pipes. The coupling is adapted for enabling one pipe to be removed and replaced from a series of pipes without substantially moving any adjacent pipes.
US08931761B2
A customizable decorative fencing system. A plurality of stakes, configured to be driven into the ground at selected positions, have projecting portions projecting above the ground. Posts have cavities in lower distal ends thereof. Any stake projecting portion is configured to slide into any post cavity, and be frictionally, removably, interchangeably retained therein. Fence components, including base units, gate units, and end units, include post collars, and hinge collars, respectively, through which any post can slide. Removability and interchangeability of posts with respect to fence components, and removability and interchangeability of posts with respect to stakes, provides for an infinite number of possible fence configurations.
US08931760B2
The ball valve may be manually opened and dosed with ease and securely prevent leakage. The ball valve includes a valve body having a fluid inlet passage, fluid outlet passage, and a communicating part provided between these passages. The ball valve includes a ball having a fluid communication passage and preferably is arranged on the communicating part of the valve body for rotating about a reference axis. A substantially cylindrical ball seat which preferably has a desired opening part on its peripheral wall and is arranged between the ball and valve body. The ball valve includes a ball seat pressing part inside the valve body, adjacent to the ball seat and a presser screw screwed into the inner periphery of the valve body. The presser screw preferably presses the ball seat pressing part by adjustment of its tightening force and presses the ball seat pressing part without contacting the packing.
US08931754B2
A safety valve includes a cylinder having an open end and a plug for closing the open end with a hermetic seal. The interior of the cylinder communicates with a high-pressure gas passage. The cylinder is deformed as a function of gas pressure in the high-pressure gas passage to widen the open end. This allows gas in the high-pressure gas passage to escape and thus prevents the gas pressure from increasing beyond an acceptable level.
US08931752B2
The present invention generally provides mold modules for constructing boat hulls, methods of constructing boat hulls using the mold modules, and hulls constructed using the mold modules. The modules may be adjustable, and may be included in a kit for building the hull of many boats of different dimensions but generally the same shape. Each mold module generally comprises a mold in a shape complementary to that of a portion of a boat hull, and an edge mold to form the edge of the hull part formed by that mold module. A mold module according to the present invention may also comprise one or more mold adjustment areas, and calibrators for selecting the boat hull dimensions. Methods for using the aforementioned mold modules generally comprise steps of molding hull parts, removing them from the mold modules, aligning them and finally attaching them together.
US08931751B2
The invention relates to a molding tool for the production of components composed of fiber composite materials, in which the molding tool has a fiber composite structure and an electrical resistance heating element, whereby carbon fibers or carbon filaments are embedded into the fiber composite structure of the molding tool in a plastic matrix, close to the shaping surface of the molding tool. Such a molding tool is further developed in that the carbon fibers or carbon filaments in the plastic matrix, close to the shaping surface, essentially determine the mechanical strength of the molding tool, and that the electrical resistance heating element is interconnected in such a manner that at least individual sections of the electrical resistance heating element form an electrical parallel circuit with one another.
US08931744B1
The present invention features a shopping cart support apparatus to a shopping cart with a cart handle and wheels for enhanced assistance for those slightly disabled or partially disabled persons. The support apparatus has a base support bar snugly and pivotably attached to the shopping cart handle. The support bar can be securely locked via at least one wing nut. Two sleeves are fixedly disposed on the support bar so that a user can rest his/her arms on for additional body support. A stopper component is disposed on the distal end of each sleeve to provide a secure means to hold the users arm in position.
US08931737B2
A shower unit for an aircraft comprises: a shower head, and controls to manually control the water output. A shower enclosure defines a receiving cavity to receive the user. The shower enclosure supports the shower head and the controls for the user to shower in the receiving cavity. The shower enclosure comprises a first door on a first side of the shower enclosure, and a second door on a second side of the shower enclosure to define a passageway through the shower enclosure. The shower unit is adapted to be positioned in the aircraft such that the passageway communicates between two separate zones of the aircraft.
US08931723B2
A webbing take-up device is obtained that is capable of reducing the load on a reduction balance spring without using special components, and without performing special processing on a spiral direction inside end of the reduction balance spring. When the reduction balance spring rotates in a take-up direction as winding of the reduction balance spring loosens, an inside engagement portion turns in the take-up direction inside an engagement groove. Accordingly, a load absorption portion which is further to a main body portion side of the reduction balance spring than the inside engagement portion curves into a concave shape that is open towards a pull-out direction as the load absorption portion stands up. In this state, when further load in the take-up direction acts on the reduction balance spring, this load is absorbed by the load absorption portion undergoing resilient deformation so as to curve further.
US08931717B2
An improved spray nozzle assembly for use in a steam desuperheating device that is adapted to spray cooling water into a flow of superheated steam. The nozzle assembly is of simple construction with relatively few components, and thus requires a minimal amount of maintenance. In addition, the nozzle assembly is specifically configured to, among other things, prevent thermal shock to prescribed internal structural components thereof, to prevent “sticking” of a valve element thereof, and to create a substantially uniformly distributed spray of cooling water for spraying into a flow of superheated steam in order to reduce the temperature of the steam.
US08931715B2
A plural component spray nozzle comprising a nozzle block having two feed passageway and a main passageway. The main passageway is configured to receive one material through each feed passageway. There is a receiver block having two receiver channels. Each receiver channel comprises an entry port on one end and an exit port on another end. The receiver block is configured to selectively receive the nozzle block in actuated or blocked position. In the actuated position, the exit ports of the receiver channels are fluidly connected with their corresponding feed passageways. In the blocked position, the exit ports of receiver channels are fluidly blocked with their corresponding feed passageways.
US08931710B2
An improved rotary disc atomizer for use in, for example, spray dryers or congealers is disclosed. The rotary disc may be directly mounted to the shaft of a high-speed electrical motor. The high-speed electrical motor comprises a permanent magnet rotor and electro-magnetic bearings. The electro-magnetic bearings may be supported by one or more upper/lower bearing housings and used to enable frictionless support of the shaft/rotor and rotary disc. The atomizer system may further comprise a gas distributor enabled to dynamically adjust the velocity at which the gas leaves the radial vanes and meets with the atomized droplets.
US08931706B2
A mixed water control valve for a faucet includes a control unit, two mounting seats and a balance unit. The control unit includes a valve housing, a rotation plate and a control handle. The balance unit includes a fixed sleeve and a pressure regulating sleeve. The pressure regulating sleeve is movable in the fixed sleeve by a pressure differential between the two mounting seats to control the water flow rate of the cold and hot water of the two mounting seats and to regulate the water pressure automatically so as to provide a pressure balance and to stabilize the temperature of the mixed cold and hot water in the valve housing so that the mixed water flowing from the valve housing is kept at a constant temperature.
US08931704B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing an opaque, transparent or translucent transaction card having multiple features, such as a holographic foil, integrated circuit chip, silver magnetic stripe with text on the magnetic stripe, opacity gradient, an invisible optically recognizable compound, a translucent signature field such that the signature on back of the card is visible from the front of the card and an active thru date on the front of the card. The invisible optically recognizable compound is preferably an infrared ink comprising an infrared phthalocyanine dye, an infrared phosphor, and a quantum dot energy transfer compound. The infrared ink can be detected by a sensor found in an ATM or card assembly line.
US08931701B2
In part, the invention relates to a security feature for authenticating an object having an outer surface and an inner surface. The security feature includes a substrate having a length and a width and a two-dimensional code comprising a plurality of two dimensional regions, the plurality of two dimensional regions disposed in the substrate, the two-dimensional code is substantially invisible when inspected during exposure to visible light and readable during exposure to ultraviolet light.
US08931699B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure provide a card reader for receiving payment card information at a mobile point-of-sale terminal. In some implementations, a reader of the subject technology can include a memory, a conditioning module and a 3.5 mm audio plug including an audio bus that is configured for insertion into a headphone port of a host device, such as a smart phone or tablet computer. Implementations of the subject technology also include a microprocessor configured to perform operations for receiving a training sequence for use in determining communication parameters associated with a mobile device, and in response to the training sequence, transmitting an acknowledgement signal to the mobile device, via the audio bus, to indicate that a communicative coupling with the mobile device has been successfully established.
US08931683B2
A surgical device is disclosed which includes a handle portion, a central body portion and a SULU. The SULU includes a proximal body portion, an intermediate pivot member and a tool assembly. The intermediate pivot member is pivotally secured to the proximal body portion about a first pivot axis and the tool assembly is pivotally secured to the intermediate pivot member about a second pivot axis which is orthogonal to the first pivot axis. The SULU includes a plurality of articulation links which are operably connected to the tool assembly by non-rigid links. The articulation links are adapted to releasably engage articulation links positioned in the central body portion. The body portion articulation links are connected to an articulation actuator which is supported for omni-directional movement to effect articulation of the tool assembly about the first and second axes. The handle portion includes a spindle and barrel assembly drive mechanism for advancing and retracting a drive member positioned in the tool assembly. In one embodiment, the tool assembly includes a cartridge assembly having a plurality of staples and an anvil assembly.
US08931682B2
A surgical instrument including an end effector that has a selectively reciprocatable implement movably supported therein. The implement is selectively advanceable in a distal direction upon application of a rotary actuation motion thereto and retractable in a proximal direction upon application of a rotary retraction motion thereto. An elongate shaft assembly is coupled to the end effector and is configured to transmit the rotary actuation motion and rotary retraction motion to the reciprocatable implement from a robotic system that is configured to generate the rotary actuation motion and said rotary retraction motion.
US08931679B2
A surgical stapler includes an anvil assembly and a cartridge assembly. The anvil assembly defines staple forming depressions. One or both of the anvil assembly and the cartridge assembly are pivotable relative to the other between an open position and a clamped position. The cartridge assembly includes a first plurality of staples and a second plurality of staples. The first plurality of staples is initially positioned in alignment with the staple forming depressions of the anvil assembly for ejection from the cartridge assembly. The second plurality of staples is movably supported in the cartridge assembly from a first position misaligned with the staple forming depressions of the anvil assembly to a second position aligned with the staple forming depressions for subsequent ejection from the cartridge assembly.
US08931677B2
A fastener driving tool includes a power source including a cylinder, a piston with a driver blade reciprocating in the cylinder, a tool nose associated with the power source for receiving the driver blade for driving fasteners fed into the nose, and a magazine housing a supply of the fasteners. A magazine feeder mechanism is associated with the magazine for sequentially feeding fasteners into the nose, and the feeder mechanism includes a reciprocating feed piston. A conduit is connected between a port in the cylinder and the feed mechanism for diverting combusted gas for activating the feed piston. The port is disposed in the cylinder a specified distance below a piston prefiring position, the distance being reflective of a delay of activating the feed piston until the drive piston finishes a driving stroke and begins a return to the prefiring position.
US08931666B2
A fuel dispenser includes first and second cylinders adapted to contain respective first and second fluids, one being fuel and the other being a fuel additive such as a lubricant. First and second pistons in the cylinders displace the fluids through outlets and into a mixing line. The dispenser typically allows the volume of fluids displaced from each cylinder to be accurately controlled and adjusted in order to change the ratios. This is achieved by an adjustable aperture adapted to be opened and closed and optionally varied in degree of opening, typically by rotation of at least one of the components, to release fluid contained in the cylinder in front of the piston without passing the fluid into a mixing line. The adjustable aperture includes an aperture in a piston head, allowing the fluid in front of the piston to pass into or through the piston.
US08931665B2
A multi-compartment syringe apparatus (500) for in-situ mixing of a plurality of products before use, the apparatus comprising: a tube; a hollowed flexible plunger (530); a one way filter piston (514), connected to the plunger (530), the piston confining a first compartment (502) at a side of a needle (540) of the apparatus, and a second compartment (510) at a side of the plunger, wherein the filter allowing passage of content only form the first compartment to the second compartment (510); a first product (506), stored in the first compartment (502); a second product (508), stored in a first breakable container (504) disposed in the plunger (530); thereby the second product (508) mixes with the first product (506); and the mixed products are then pushed out of the apparatus, through the needle (540).
US08931655B2
There is disclosed a lid for a bin, particularly a front-lift bin, the lid being configured for engagement, at an end thereof, with an open-topped receptacle of the bin whereby the lid is pivotable between an open position in which it is substantially clear of the open top to permit emptying of the bin by inversion of the bin, and a closed position, in which it covers the open top, the lid further comprising a closure which is movable across an opening defined through the lid, between an open condition, in which it permits waste to be placed into the receptacle through the opening at the end, and a closed condition, in which it covers the opening. There is also disclosed a bin incorporating the lid.
US08931652B2
A lockable cap is a security feature for a medical prescription bottle. The lockable cap may have a dial locking mechanism that is attached to the cap and the dial locking mechanism and the cap can be attached or removed from the bottle only when the user has the correct combination on the dial lock. When the combination is incorrect, the cap cannot be removed from the bottle.
US08931650B2
Baby bottles can have a single container, or two containers to create a space for thermal isolation, as selected by the user. The baby bottle can be vented to allow air to enter the bottle through a passageway as liquid is removed. A filter and one-way valve can be provided in the passageway. The passageway can be formed by radially aligning a vent opening in a top cap with a vent opening in a nipple flange, or by providing a channel in the top cap which is always in radial alignment with both the top cap vent opening and the flange vent opening.
US08931648B1
A horizontal frame support assembly allows a user to raise a frame with an irregular shape from a surface. The horizontal frame support assembly comprises a hub section mechanically coupled to a plurality of arms where each arm is attached to a frame support. Each frame support is configured to receive a portion of the frame with the irregular shape and has sufficient height to lift the frame from the surface.
US08931647B2
The present invention provides a PVDF porous film and method for producing it, which has high water permeability and high chemical resistance to washing chemicals and the like that has been difficult to realize with conventional polymer porous films, and which can be used over a prolonged period of time, and a method of producing the same and the like. Namely, the present invention provides a porous film in which the degree of crystallization of the PVDF resin is 50% or more but not more than 90%, and the product of the degree of crystallization of the PVDF resin and the specific surface area of the film is 300 (%·m2/g) or more but not more than 2000 (%·m2/g).
US08931633B2
A carrier and loader for cartridges with a base component hinged to a cover component. A clip portion with rib formations provides resilient clips for frictional engagement and holding the cartridges, which are pried from the channel of the clips for loading. With the carrier in an open position, cartridges are inserted one or two at a time directly into the swing-out cylinder of a revolver without handling the cartridges.
US08931632B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for transporting at least one item of media. The apparatus includes at least one guide member providing a first guide surface that guides at least one item of media as the item is transported, at least one elongate slit in the guide surface and at least one belt member each extending along a respective slit and comprising a first belt portion that extends outwardly from the slit beyond the guide surface and a further belt portion that undercuts a region of the guide surface.
US08931631B2
A regulating unit inserted in an installation for preparing batches of containers of the bottle kind. The unit is interposed between an upstream conveyor and a downstream conveyor and at each of its ends, between two adjacent walls (16), includes a mechanism for centering each conveyor module (9). These mechanism includes arms (25) of the same length forming a pair of compasses between two adjacent walls (16), which pair of compasses has a central articulation secured to the conveying module (9) by a sliding connection located in the mid-plane of the corresponding lane. The walls (16) are connected to one another by a pantograph system (30) and a connecting member, having a link rod (35) extending between the pair of compasses and the pantograph to collaborate with the corresponding support of the conveying module (9) in order to keep it in the mid plane of the corresponding lane.
US08931628B2
A device is provided for detecting and adjusting the tension of the scraper chain. The device identifies broken chain as it leaves the return sprocket and enters the top race of the conveyor. When detected, the chain can be stopped automatically by the armored face conveyor control system, to avoid the potential for further damage, and warn the operators that repair of the chain is required.The device also provides a conveyor with sliding frames at both ends to allow the conveyor ends to be independently adjusted to each end of the coal block, whilst maintaining good chain tension and control.
US08931627B2
A bottle pushing mechanism for a tunnel type sterilizing dryer, includes a bottle pushing block (2) and at least one barb (5) cooperated with meshes of a transmitting mesh belt (1). The barb (5) is connected with the bottle pushing block (2). The bottle pushing block (2) could move along with the transmitting mesh belt (1) by the barb (5). The bottle pushing mechanism has a simple and compact structure, convenient installation, high reliability, good transmitting effect and no pollution.
US08931620B2
According to one embodiment, a medium detecting method includes conveying a medium in a first direction along a first conveying path, and allowing the medium conveyed from the first conveying path to enter a second conveying path arranged with the first conveying path so that the medium is conveyed in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The method also includes allowing light emitting elements of first and second detecting sensors to irradiate light such that the light intersects the first and second conveying paths, and detecting the presence or absence of the medium based on whether or not light receiving elements of the first and second detecting sensors receive the light.
US08931616B2
A sorting device having at least one control unit for sorting mixtures of individual elements in sorting units according to at least one characterizing feature of the individual elements and having at least one conveyor belt. The sorting device comprises at least one buffer unit having at least two displaceable storage elements for intermediate storage of individual elements.
US08931602B2
A shock absorber assembly comprises a piston and cylinder arrangement, a damping-fluid chamber and a damping valve arrangement which is located in the damping fluid chamber and serves to divide the chamber into sub-chambers. The assembly is such that in use the valve arrangement regulates the flow of fluid between the sub-chambers.
US08931601B2
An assembly for dampening vibration movement between a cylinder and a concentric duct, where the cylinder is positioned radially inside the duct, includes a damper attached to the duct. The damper includes a housing attached to the duct, a contact member positioned at least partially inside the housing and having a contact surface adjacent an outer surface of the cylinder, and a cap threadedly engaged with the housing for applying a load on the contact member in a direction toward the cylinder.
US08931600B2
A caliper body of a floating-type disk brake includes a cylinder having a cylinder bore into which piston pressing brake pads are disposed against a disk rotor, a bridge extending from the cylinder part including a through-hole, and a claw part formed on a leading end side of the bridge and disposed opposite to the cylinder part. The caliper body of the floating-type disk brake is made in a mold with sprues provided in at least two places spaced apart from each other in a disk rotor circumferential direction on a region corresponding to the claw part. Molten metal is poured from the sprues in at least two places of the mold, and starts to solidify from a side of the cylinder part.
US08931598B2
A mechanism for use in an elevator governor assembly including a ground configured to rotate about a ground axis, three or more circumferentially overlapping cams each pivotally attached to the ground at one of three or more ground pivot points radially spaced from the ground axis, and a plurality of links pivotally attaching the three or more cams to one another at a plurality of link pivot points. The circumferentially overlapping cams form a substantially contiguous circular ring about the ground axis. The interconnection of the ground, the cams, and the links form a generally circular mechanism.
US08931592B2
A panel assembly that includes a first panel having an inner surface and an outer surface, and a second panel having an inner surface and an outer surface. The second panel includes a plurality of rib members formed therein that extend inwardly. The rib members include an inner surface and an outer surface. A plurality of panel portions are defined between the plurality of rib members. The panel portions include an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface of the rib members are secured to the inner surface of the first panel, and the inner surface of the panel portions is spaced apart from the inner surface of the first panel to define at least first and second cavities.
US08931590B2
An exhaust system component for a motor vehicle has a first exhaust passage, an attachment flange, which encloses the first exhaust passage, for the connection of the component to an adjacent component, the attachment flange defining an attachment plane for the contact with the adjacent component and having fastening holes for the connection to the adjacent component, and a second exhaust passage, which is spaced apart from the first exhaust passage in a longitudinal direction of the component. A normal line on the attachment plane extends at a non-negligible angle to the longitudinal direction, and the fastening holes are elongated in a direction parallel to the attachment plane.
US08931582B2
A subterranean drilling system may include a drill string and a rotary drill bit coupled to the drill string. The rotary drill bit may include a bit body and a cutting element coupled to the bit body, with the cutting element being structured to rotate in response to torque applied to the cutting element. The system also may include a cam assembly coupled to the drill string, a cam follower assembly in contact with a cam surface of the cam assembly, and a torque-applying structure coupled to the cam follower assembly. The torque-applying structure may be configured to apply torque to the cutting element in response to relative rotation between the cam assembly and the cam follower assembly.
US08931560B2
What is provided is a method and apparatus which can be detachably connected to an annular blowout preventer thereby separating the drilling fluid or mud into upper and lower sections and allowing the fluid to be displaced in two stages, such as while the drill string is being rotated and/or reciprocated. In one embodiment the sleeve can be rotatably and sealably connected to a mandrel. The swivel can be incorporated into a drill or well string and enabling string sections both above and below the sleeve to be rotated in relation to the sleeve. In one embodiment the drill or well string does not move in a longitudinal direction relative to the swivel. In one embodiment, the drill or well string does move longitudinally relative to the sleeve of the swivel.
US08931557B2
An apparatus for servicing a wellbore comprising a housing, high-pressure ports, high-volume ports, and a mandrel slidably positioned within the housing. The housing defines an axial flowbore and the mandrel defines a mandrel axial flowbore. The mandrel is alternatingly movable from a first position to a second position and to a third position. When the mandrel is in the second position, a route of fluid communication via the high-pressure ports is provided and a route of fluid communication via the high-volume ports is obstructed. When the mandrel is in the third position, a route of fluid communication via the high-volume ports is provided. The apparatus is transitionable from the second position to the third position without communicating an obturating member to the apparatus, without removing an obturating member from the apparatus, or combinations thereof.
US08931553B2
Electrically conductive proppants and methods for detecting, locating, and characterizing same are provided. The electrically conductive proppant can include a substantially uniform coating of an electrically conductive material having a thickness of at least 500 nm. The method can include injecting a hydraulic fluid into a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation at a rate and pressure sufficient to open a fracture therein, injecting into the fracture a fluid containing the electrically conductive proppant, electrically energizing the earth at or near the fracture, and measuring three dimensional (x, y, and z) components of electric and magnetic field responses at a surface of the earth or in an adjacent wellbore.
US08931548B2
A modular tool for use in subterranean formations includes a first module, a second module and one or more connectors for connecting the first and second modules. In particular, the first module includes a first collar that at least partially defines an exterior of the tool and that includes a first engagement mechanism at a first end of the collar and a second engagement mechanism at a second end of the collar. The first module also includes a fluid passageway for passing drilling fluid therethrough. The second module has a similar configuration as includes similar architecture. The one or more connectors facilitate the connection of at least one flowline fluidly connected to an exterior of the tool, and an electrical pathway for transmitting power and/or data between the modules.
US08931540B2
A motorized window treatment can include a headrail that is configured to be mounted to a structure. A covering material can be attached to the headrail and configured to be raised and lowered by a pair of lift cords that are operatively attached to a lift mechanism. The treatment can also include a bottom bar that is attached to an opposite end of the covering material as the headrail. The bottom bar can define a channel, which can house a sliding member that is configured to move along the bottom bar and is coupled to the ends of the lift cords. By sliding along the channel, the sliding member allows the lengths of the lift cords to change with respect to one another such that when a force is applied to the bottom bar the bottom bar will move from an unleveled position to a leveled position.
US08931535B2
An attaching method for attaching a support plate to a surface of a substrate with an adhesive involves the steps of applying an adhesive to the surface of the substrate, heating and thereafter cooling the substrate, positioning centers of the substrate and the supporting plate to coincide with each other, and forming a layered structure by pushing the supporting plate onto the substrate with the adhesive therebetween in a pressure-reduced atmosphere. In the positioning step, after the supporting late has been placed on the substrate, it is possible to finely adjust the alignment of the supporting plate and a semiconductor wafer when attached because the adhesive is applied to the surface of the substrate, and thereafter the substrate is heated and cooled.
US08931534B2
Wheel assemblies and valves for use with central tire inflation systems are provided. A wheel assembly may include a wheel having a rim and a wall extending radially inwardly from the rim. The wall may include an inboard side and an outboard side, and a central opening therethrough. The wheel may include a wheel duct for communicating pressurized fluid to a tire. A valve may be secured to the wheel wall. The valve may include an inboard side and an outboard side. The valve may include a hub interface adapted to extend from its inboard side. The hub interface may be adapted to extend around the wheel wall. The valve may include an inlet duct opening on the hub interface to communicate with a duct in a wheel hub on which the wheel is mounted. The valve may also include an outlet duct configured to communicate with the wheel duct.
US08931532B2
A tire includes a tread band provided with a tread pattern including a first and a second portion of tread pattern, repeated just the same along the circumferential extent of the tire, forming respectively a short pitch module and a long pitch module of the tread pattern, wherein the modules include a respective first transverse groove in which, starting from an axially outer first end thereof toward an opposed axially inner second end thereof, an initial section and a section of enlarged cross-section are formed, the latter being blind, at least on its axially inner side, when in the footprint area. The initial section and the section of enlarged cross-section have, respectively, a first width and a second width, and the ratio between the second width and the first width of a first transverse groove belonging to a short pitch module is greater than the ratio between the second width and the first width of a first transverse groove belonging to a long pitch module.
US08931529B2
A support stand for movable support of a power tool features the use of rollers to support a tool mount along an elongated track. The track features a cover arrangement disposed over the surfaces on which the rollers move so as to avoid sawdust or other debris from building up on the track and interfering with smooth rolling motion of the tool mount. The stand is assembled in a working position by attaching two stand sections end to end to form the track, and is also configured for arrangement into a collapsed condition in which the stand sections stack one atop the other for space efficient storage and convenient transport.
US08931522B2
A fill cap for a drink container for receiving an open end of a drink bottle. The fill cap includes a cylindrical collar and an annular flange extending radially inwardly from the cylindrical collar. A valve structure is connected to and surrounded by the annular flange and in includes a pair of generally planar lip members. Each lip member has an outer portion adjoining the inner edge of the flange and the lip members converge at an angle axially downwardly to inner edges where the lip members adjoin each other at a slit. A pair of opposing side walls extend from the flange to edges of the lip members located axially downwardly from the flange. The slit is configured to receive the bottle neck therethrough.
US08931520B2
The present invention provides a pipe featuring an inner core; an outer pipe wall; and measurement instrumentation configured or arranged between the inner core and outer pipe wall, and also configured to respond to one or more process variables related to media flowing in the pipe and to provide a signal containing information about the one or more process variables. The pipe may include a pipe liner configured inside the outer pipe wall, where the measurement instrumentation in configured on the inside of the pipe liner.
US08931517B2
The present invention provides a solenoid valve able to control flow amount as desired without receiving influence of change in fluid pressure. In the present invention, in a control valve for opening and closing a first poppet valve 103 and a second poppet valve 104 by a solenoid portion, a first pressure receiving area S1 which is a seating area of the first poppet valve 103, a second pressure receiving area S2 which is a seating area of the second poppet valve 104, a third pressure receiving area S3 which is a pressure receiving area of a first pressure sensing portion 145 and a fourth pressure receiving area S4 which is a pressure receiving area of a second pressure sensing portion 155 are made approximately equal to each other. Thereby unbalanced forces received from fluid flowing in and out when each poppet valve is actuated are all canceled.
US08931509B2
A distributor assembly has a distributor extending along a central axis between a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The distributor has a flow passage extending from the first end of the distributor and a plurality of feeder ports extending from the second end of the distributor to the flow passage and each feeder port is in fluid communication with the flow passage. Each feeder port extends along a central axis from a first end at the flow passage to a second end at the second end of the distributor and each feeder port comprises a first axial segment and a second axial segment, the first axial segment being connected between the flow passage and the second axial segment and the second axial segment being connected between the first axial segment and the second end of the distributor.
US08931506B2
An energy-saving, downsized gas supply apparatus equipped with a vaporizer is provided, wherein the gas supply apparatus is capable of stably and easily performing highly accurate gas flow rate control without requiring rigorous temperature control on the vaporizer side. The present invention pertains to a gas supply apparatus equipped with a vaporizer that includes (a) a liquid receiving tank; (b) a vaporizer that vaporizes liquid; (c) a high-temperature type pressure type flow rate control device that adjusts a flow rate of a vaporized gas; and (d) heating devices that heat the vaporizer, the high-temperature type pressure type flow rate control device, and desired portions of pipe passages connected to the vaporizer and the high-temperature type pressure type flow rate control device.
US08931503B2
A fuel inlet valve for a fuel tank includes a flange that is attachable to the fuel tank and a first aperture and a second aperture formed in the flange. The fuel inlet valve also includes a fuel valve associated with the first aperture and a fill pipe nipple associated with the first aperture. The fuel valve and the fill pipe nipple form a fuel path through the first aperture. The fuel inlet valve also has at least one nipple associated with the second aperture and connectable to said at least one nipple is connectable to a purge line, a fuel pump, or a fuel line.
US08931495B1
Systems and methods for recovering particulate matter washed from piece of construction equipment with water. Waste materials washed from the construction equipment are collected in a bin. The liquid in the bin is allowed to drain into a receptacle having a sloped bottom for conveying the liquid to a sump. The liquid in the sump is pumped to a first baffle box extending into a first settlement tank to remove a portion of the particulate matter in the liquid. The liquid cascades from the first settlement tank to a second baffle box extending into a second settlement tank to remove another portion of the particulate matter. The liquid is stored after removal of the portions of the particulate matter for recycling in a tank.
US08931490B2
The present invention relates to signaling mechanisms that transduce magnetic inputs into physiological cellular outputs. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for non-invasively controlling cellular signaling functions and behaviors by harnessing receptor-mediated and intracellular molecular-mediated signal transduction using nanomagnetic cellular switches.
US08931486B2
An intra-oral dental appliance for treatment of sleep disorders including snoring, sleep apnea and nocturnal bruxism. The appliance includes an upper member conforming to the patient's maxillary dentition; a lower member conforming to the patient's mandibular dentition; and a connecting assembly for adjustably coupling the upper and lower members together. The connecting assembly includes a first element mounted on the upper member, the first element having a cavity therein; a second element mounted on the lower member; and a connector having a first end captured within the cavity and a second end adjustably connectable to the second element. The connecting assembly maintains the lower member in a protruded position relative to the upper member to maintain the patency of the user's pharnygeal airway while permitting anterior and lateral movement of the lower member relative to the upper member in the protruded position.
US08931478B2
A patient interface assembly includes a housing that defines an inlet port and an outlet port. A jet pump receives pressurized gas flow from the inlet port and delivers the gas flow to the outlet port. A nebulizer is fluidly coupled to the outlet port and positioned to introduce medication into the gas flow and deliver medicated gas flow to a patient.
US08931474B2
A fireplace liner comprising a first panel configured to be located in front of a fireplace burner assembly that has a lateral dimension that extends across a viewing window of a fireplace box. The first panel is configured to extend laterally along the lateral dimension, and, a rear end of the first panel, nearest to the burner assembly, includes a first trough having a vertical wall with a plurality of first slots therein. The liner comprises a second panel configured to be located behind the burner assembly in the box. The second panel is configured to extend laterally along the lateral dimension, and a front end of the second panel, nearest to the burner assembly, includes a second trough having another vertical wall with a plurality of second slots therein. The first and second slots permit secondary air flow there-through.
US08931469B2
A quiver for holding arrows or bolts. The quiver may be releasably attached to a mounting rail on a bow, belt, or the like. The quiver includes a frame connecting two end structures, each end structure having arrow head pockets, arrow shaft clips, and a connector for attachment to the frame. At a midsection of the frame is a mounting block with an attachment mechanism for releasably securing the quiver to the mounting rail. The preferable mounting rail is of the Picatinny type. A first set of arrows (three in the preferred embodiment) may be positioned with arrow heads in the arrow head pockets of one end structure and arrow shafts in the arrow shaft clips of the second end structure. A second set of arrows is positioned in a similar manner but in the opposite direction between the end structures on the frame.
US08931467B2
Disclosed herein is a magazine rifle which includes a bullet loading mechanism and a firing mechanism interlinked to operate together by a single motor, thereby enabling single bullet firing, semi-automatic firing, and fully automatic firing. The magazine rifle includes a rotatable magazine, a bullet loading mechanism which loads a bullet received in the rotatable magazine into a cartridge chamber, and a firing mechanism which discharges compressed air from a compressed air cylinder according to manipulation of a trigger to allow the bullet loaded in the cartridge chamber to be fired through a barrel. The bullet loading mechanism and the firing mechanism are driven by a drive unit automatically driven by a single motor and a gear connected to the motor.
US08931463B2
A conventional gasoline engine is retrofitted and calibrated to operate as a bi-fuel engine using Hydrogen as the second fuel. When operated with Hydrogen, which typically leads to a reduction of engine output power, the engine is preferably operated in a charged mode and in a lean mode with the engine throttle kept in a wide open position during charged and lean mode operation resulting in a more efficient engine with a reduction of engine output power loss.
US08931462B2
An internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle has a multi-channel fresh gas system with a plurality of fresh gas lines leading to different cylinder groups. At least one shut-off element is connected in each of the fresh gas lines and coupled to a control and/or regulating device. A multi-channel exhaust system for the discharge of exhaust gas out of the cylinders has a plurality of exhaust lines leading away from the different cylinder groups. A multi-channel exhaust-gas recirculation system has exhaust-gas recirculation lines, for recirculating exhaust gas from the exhaust system to the fresh gas system. The method and device utilize crossed-channel exhaust-gas recirculation, in which the exhaust-gas recirculation lines branching off from the exhaust lines of a certain channel lead back in each case to fresh gas lines of a different channel. The shut-off elements of the individual fresh gas lines are actuated such that a fresh gas line which is shut off from the fresh gas supply by a shut-off element is supplied with exhaust gas from an exhaust line of a different channel, whose associated fresh gas line is not shut off from the fresh gas supply, via an exhaust-gas recirculation line.
US08931456B2
A method for engine braking of an engine which has at least one exhaust-gas turbocharger with an exhaust-gas turbine acted on by an exhaust-gas flow and a charge air compressor. A device for throttling exhaust-gas flow is arranged between exhaust outlet valves and the exhaust-gas turbocharger, and a bypass line conducts the exhaust-gas flow past the throttling device, the exhaust-gas flow being conducted through the at least one bypass line to a turbine wheel of the exhaust-gas turbine. An exhaust gas counter-pressure and a charge air pressure are measured. Based on the measurement, an optimum position of the throttling device to obtain a predetermined braking action is determined. The exhaust-gas counter-pressure and the charge air pressure are subsequently controlled by adjusting the throttling device corresponding to the determination of the optimum position of the throttling device.
US08931446B2
A camshaft adjuster (2) having a locking cover (1) formed of sheet metal, wherein the locking cover (1) has a substantially disc-shaped base surface (3) and has a collar (7), which extends in an axial direction (5) and which runs at least partially around the base surface (3), for receiving a spring cover (31). As a result of the production of the locking cover (1) from sheet metal in combination with a turned-up collar (7), the locking cover (1) can be produced simply and cost-effectively and nevertheless offers adequately high strength despite the low material thickness.
US08931439B2
A thermal management module includes a motor with an output shaft, and a gear train connecting the output shaft to a driven gear connected to a valve for controlling coolant flow in a coolant system. At least one grille shutter is movable between an open position allowing air through the grille shutter and a dosed position preventing air through the grille shutter. A linkage connects the at least one grille shutter to the output shaft or the gear train, so that the motor is operable to control a valve operating position of the valve and a shutter operating position of the at least one shutter.
US08931437B2
A pet restraint harness system for use in a vehicle may be installed in a rear or front passenger seat. The restraint system includes a harness fastened about the pet and a restraint framework fastened about the seat and, in some configurations, to manufacturer latch points provided in the vehicle. The restraint framework includes a vertical strap positioned against the seatback and one or more horizontal supports, such as lateral straps, attached to the vertical strap to resist lateral movement, vertical movement, or both. Ends of the vertical and lateral straps may attach to each other about the seat. At least two restraining straps are attached to the vertical strap, the horizontal supports, or among the combination of both. The restraining straps are configured to attach to an animal's collar, to a harness, or both.
US08931423B2
A soil opener comprises a tip attached to or integral with a body. The tip includes furrowing prow for cutting a furrow in the soil surface, a protrusion on the underside of the tip for cutting a trench within the furrow, and a seed distributor for depositing seeds within the furrow in laterally displaced seed rows. The body includes a seed passage for directing a seed stream to the seed distributor, a primary fertilizer passage for depositing a primary fertilizer stream, and a secondary fertilizer passage for depositing a secondary fertilizer. As the soil opener is moved across the soil surface, the body opener deposits primary fertilizer in the vicinity of the seed rows, and secondary fertilizer between the seed rows in a trench slightly below the surface of the seeds.
US08931419B2
A writing table or a desk includes a frame, a worktop, four hinged axes, a first pivotal panel, a second pivotal panel being wider than the first panel, two limit stops, and a rotatable handle. The worktop is attached via a first axis to the first panel connected via a second axis with the frame. The worktop is attached via a third axis to the second panel connected via a fourth axis with the frame. A first limit stop is secured on a first side of the frame and limits the rotation of the first panel. A second limit stop is secured on a second side, being opposite to the first side, of the frame and limits the rotation of the second panel. The handle is immovably mounted on the first panel to provide moving the worktop by one hand of a user of the writing table or the desk.
US08931417B2
An apparatus includes: a primary anchoring element, a beam mount movably connected to the primary anchoring element, a beam connected to the beam mount, a vessel mount movably connected to the beam, a vessel connected to the vessel mount, the vessel being movable along at least a vertical axis, and a control unit within the vessel. The control unit is configured to accept control input from a passenger within the vessel and transmit at least one control signal to cause the beam to move relative to the primary anchoring element, the vessel mount to move relative to the beam, and the vessel to move relative to the vessel mount independently.
US08931403B2
An oil filtering system for a storage unit configured to receive and hold oil from a fryer in a main storage space thereof includes a filtering unit and a conveying unit. The filtering unit is removably arranged on an inner bottom surface of the storage unit within the main storage space and configured to filter the oil in the storage unit via lower and upper filtering layers thereof. The conveying unit is removably connected to the filtering unit and has a portion extending upwardly from the filtering unit within the main storage space for conveying the filtered oil from the filtering unit.
US08931401B2
A cooking appliance includes a base upon which a pot is supported, with a stirrer configured as a lid, for closing an open top of the pot. A tool coupled to a motorized drive of the stirrer extends downwardly into the pot. A heating element is coupled to the base and resiliently biased outwardly from the base to engage the base of the pot. A latch mechanism is provided for releasably connecting the pot to the base. The motorized drive includes a planetary gear set mounted coaxially with a pot axis, and a tool coupling is connected to a planet gear of the planetary gear set to drive the stirring tool in an orbital motion.
US08931400B1
A remote temperature monitoring system includes a first unit operatively connected to one or more temperature sensors for sensing the temperature of one or more materials or food items being cooked or heated. The first unit transmits the sensed temperature to a second unit that is located remotely from the first unit during heating. The second unit is programmable with the desired temperature and/or heating parameters of the item. By monitoring the temperature status of the item over time, the system determines when the food has reached the desired temperature or degree of cooking, and notifies the user.
US08931398B2
A modular infuser includes a back plate assembly containing drive mechanisms and supporting a belt assembly, and infusing and mixing chambers. The belt assembly includes rollers rotating a continuous filter belt in either direction, an annular seal, and a funnel directing liquid to a removable, rotatable spout. The infusing chamber moves between having the bottom clamped to the seal through the filter belt and being spaced apart from the filter belt to allow waste removal by rotation of the filter belt. The mixing chamber receives and mixes ingredient and water, passing the mixture into the infusing chamber below. Replacement of the filter belt with different mesh sizes and of the removable spout with different inner diameters allows the mechanism to be easily adapted for different beverages, such as coffee or tea. Multiple instances of the modular infuser may be mounted in a single vending machine.
US08931396B2
Apparatus for the removal of sediment from sparkling wines, designed to remove the capsule covering the neck of a bottle (18) containing sparkling wine, comprising: a frame (12), a tilting mechanism (14) comprising: a holder (16) for supporting a bottle (18) in a predetermined position, said holder (16) being movable on the frame (12) between a low position, in which the neck is inclined downwards, and a high position in which the neck is inclined upwards, and a capsule removing mechanism (32) provided with at least one capsule removing knife, said capsule removing mechanism (32) being movable on the holder (16) and synchronized with said holder (16) so that the said capsule removing knife or knives remove(s) the capsule, when the holder (16) is in a predetermined angular position relative to the horizontal. The capsule removing knife is movable relative to the capsule removing mechanism (32).
US08931394B2
Apparatuses and methods for facilitating reloading and resisting recoil of a firearm include an elastic member in communication with a portion of the firearm. A contact member coupled to the portion of the firearm, the elastic member, or combinations thereof, is movable between a first position in which movement of the portion of the firearm is biased by the elastic member and a second position in which movement of the portion of the firearm is generally unaffected by the elastic member. An actuator can be used to move the contact member between the first and second positions.
US08931392B2
The present invention relates to a protection device (10) for protection against so called RSV-grenades comprising a grid configuration (20) with at least one profile element arranged to affect the electric detonation release arrangement (52) of such a grenade (50) by means of short-circuiting, characterized in that said at least one profile element (30; 30a; 30b; 30c; 30d; 30e; 30f) has a cross section being tapering in the principal incoming direction of the grenade. The invention also relates to a motor vehicle.
US08931390B2
According to an embodiment, a ballistic protection material includes a strike face layer having a first thickness. The strike face layer is configured to distort an outer surface on a projectile that contacts the strike face layer. A ballistic layer is configured to hinder continued movement of a projectile that has passed through the strike face layer. A spacer layer is situated between the strike face layer and the ballistic layer. The spacer layer has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. The second thickness of the spacer layer provides a selected distance between the strike face layer and the ballistic layer.
US08931382B2
An apparatus for slicing food products includes a product feed which feeds a product to be sliced along a product feed direction through a cutting plane in which at least one cutting blade moves. The position of the cutting blade is adjustable relative to the product. A control unit is provided which is designed to automatically adjust the position of the cutting blade for the optimization of the blade wear.
US08931381B2
A method of slicing food comprises providing a cutting board, knife, food product, and a food slicing system comprising a finger guard comprising a substantially flat surface having a bottom contoured edge, a finger ring connected to a first side of the finger guard, and a knife guide attached to the finger guard at a substantially straight edge, the knife guide having an area smaller than an area of the finger guard and angled relative to the finger guard by an angle between approximately 0 and 15 degrees, the substantially straight edge having a length of at least approximately one inch and angled relative to the cutting board by an angle between approximately 15 and 60 degrees when the bottom contoured edge rests against the cutting board.
US08931379B2
Biosafety blade devices that aid in the manipulation and safety of either single-edged or double-edged razor blades are disclosed. The devices include finger guards that assist with holding and manipulating a razor blade. The device also includes various embodiments of blade guards that prevent accidental contact with the sharp edge of a razor blade, securely lock a blade preventing reuse, minimize recoil and flying projectiles, control the depth of a skin biopsy, reversibly fix blade curvature and allow for tissue to be measured and securely held to the blade or easily expelled into a specimen container. The components of the biosafety blade, i.e., the finger guards and blade guards, can be used separately or they can be combined to provide for maximum comfort, accuracy, versatility and safety.
US08931378B2
A block of a solid lubricant material, such as PTFE, is biased continuously or intermittently against the cutting edge of a rotary slitting blade for corrugated paperboard. The solid lubricant block prevents the build up of starch adhesive and biasing movement compensates for wear of the block and wear of the cutting blade edge.
US08931377B2
A fitting structure for tools contains: a fitting end of a fitting tool and a fitted end of a fitted tool. The fitting end includes a toothed retaining area formed on an inner wall thereof, a concaved portion defined on an upper end thereof, a peripheral groove arranged around the concaved portion, and a ring disposed in the peripheral groove. The fitted tool includes a working portion arranged on a lower end thereof, a polygonal engaging portion defined over the working portion, an annular locking portion formed over the polygonal engaging portion. The annular locking portion has an annular lock trough defined thereon, and the annular lock trough has a color marking element fixed therein for identifying the fitted tool.
US08931370B2
A bicycle pedal with automatic engagement and disengagement includes a body (2) rotatable on a pedal axle (3) with: a front abutment (4) cooperating with a conjugate abutment surface (5) provided on a cleat (6) fixed to the sole of a shoe; a retaining member (9) rotatable about a geometrical axis (A) parallel to that of the pedal, adapted to be pressed against the cleat by a flexing element (B, 15) to attach the cleat to the pedal, one end (15a) of the flexing element being immobilized against the body (2), the other end (15b) being in bearing engagement against the retaining member. The articulation axle of the retaining member (9) includes a rod (13) that extends transversely under the flexing element (B, 15), which is in bearing engagement on said articulation axle, the flexing element functioning in flexion at three points.
US08931367B2
A connecting opening portion is provided at the portion that is an outer circumferential portion of a hollow-structured operating pedal and is connected to connecting links inside the connecting opening portion, a reinforcing member having a U-shaped section is integrally weld-joined so as to open outward. End portions of the connecting links are inserted inside the reinforcing member, and are relatively pivotablly connected by a first link pin. Accordingly, the rigidity of the operating pedal is improved, and at the same time, the stress concentration is relieved, whereby buckling and deformation are suppressed. As a result, the plate thickness of the hollow-structured operating pedal can be kept small to minimize the weight thereof, and also, the width dimension of the operating pedal in the vehicle fore and aft direction can be reduced to achieve a compact size.
US08931361B2
An electric vehicle transmission, the transmission comprising an input shaft arranged to be driven by an electric motor, an output shaft arranged to transfer drive from the input shaft to driving wheels of the vehicle to which the transmission is fitted, a first clutch for engaging/disengaging a first gear ratio of the transmission, a second clutch for engaging/disengaging a second gear ratio of the transmission, and a fluid pump driven in response to rotation of the output shaft, wherein the first clutch is biased to engage said first gear ratio in the absence of pressure from the fluid pump.
US08931359B2
An actuating device includes a first actuating device mounted to a second actuating device. Each of the first and second actuating devices includes a base link, a first link, a second link, a translating link, a shaft, and a drive. The base link includes a first joint, a second joint, and a base plate extending between them. The first link is mounted for rotation to the first joint, and the second link is mounted for rotation to the second joint. The translating link includes a third joint, a fourth joint, and a translating plate extending between them. The drive includes an arc surface and is mounted to the translating link such that, when operating the actuating device, a position of the arc surface is fixed relative to the translating plate. The shaft is mounted to the arc surface to cause translation of the translating link as the shaft rotates.
US08931342B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an angular velocity sensor capable of measuring an exact angular velocity, an ink jet head capable of producing an exact amount of ink, and a piezoelectric generating element capable of generating electric power due to positive piezoelectric effect. In the present invention, a piezoelectric film comprising a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode is used. The first electrode comprises an electrode layer having a (001) orientation. The piezoelectric layer comprises a (NaxBiy)TiO0.5x+1.5y+2—BaTi03 layer (0.30≦x≦0.46 and 0.51≦y≦0.62) having a (001) orientation.
US08931339B2
A method which allows especially the extrapolation of the measured value at the upper and lower end of a measuring range where normally no direct measurement range where normally no direct measurement is possible by superposition of interfering signals, for example by reflection on a radar antenna. In the presence of strong interference signals, for example by reflection of a radar antenna. In the presence of strong interference signals, which are for example caused by the natural resonance of the container or neck in which the measuring device is mounted, the direct level indicator signal can be regularly used if it has a high amplitude caused by a superposition with the interfering signal lies between two interfering signals and does not extend beyond these, the level indicator value can be interpolated by the shift of the signals from the point of reflection. The inventive method automatically adapts itself to a prevailing measuring situation while according to known methods for the user has to decide between a measurement via a shift of EOL signal or a measurement via the direct level indicator echo.
US08931338B2
A flow sensor includes a main flow body, a laminar flow element, a first bypass tap, and a second flow element sensor tap. The main flow body has a first main flow port, a second main flow port, a main flow channel, a first bypass tap, a second bypass tap, and a bypass flow channel. The laminar flow element is disposed within the main flow channel. The bypass flow channel has a cross sectional area, and the first bypass tap and the second bypass tap each have a cross sectional area that is greater than the maximum cross sectional area of the bypass flow channel.
US08931332B2
There is provided an engine stroke determination apparatus. The engine stroke determination apparatus is for determining stroke of a single-cylinder four-stroke engine and includes a transistor igniter. The apparatus is configured to determine a compression stroke and an exhaust stroke by comparing voltages of ignition signals that are output in the compression stroke and the exhaust stroke by the transistor igniter.
US08931331B2
A system and method for volumetric metering on a sample processing device. The system can include a metering reservoir, and a waste reservoir positioned in fluid communication with a first end of the metering reservoir to catch excess liquid from the metering reservoir that exceeds a selected volume. The system can further include a capillary valve in fluid communication with the second end of the metering reservoir to inhibit liquid from exiting the metering reservoir until desired. The method can include metering the liquid by rotating the sample processing device to exert a first force on the liquid that is insufficient to move the liquid into the capillary valve, and rotating the sample processing device to exert a second force on the liquid that is greater than the first force to move the metered volume of the liquid to the process chamber via the capillary valve.
US08931329B2
A leak detection method for an air bed having an air chamber comprises adjusting the air chamber to a predetermined pressure level, sensing a first pressure value of the air chamber after a first time interval, sensing a second pressure value of the air chamber after a second time interval, determining a pressure change in the air chamber, detecting whether the air chamber is leaking by comparing the pressure change with a second pressure value, and displaying a leak detection indicator. In one embodiment, the second pressure value is a pressure change in a second air chamber. In another embodiment, the second pressure value is an expected pressure change of the air chamber that is calculated based upon changes in ambient temperature and barometric pressure.
US08931327B2
Vapor wake detection is a highly advantageous method and system for detecting explosives and other illicit substances. With vapor wake detection, a canine and a handler are used; however, unlike other detection schemes, the canine leads the handler. After the handler positions the canine in a desired location, the canine detects scents in the air that come to the canine. When the canine detects a trained scent, the canine leads the handler to or follows behind the carrier of the item with the scent. Once the carrier is identified by the handler, the proper personnel are contacted. To implement vapor wake detection effectively, specific rigorous training is utilized.
US08931322B2
A material handling system for feeding sheet material to a laser cutting system. The material handling system including a shuttle having a number of roller pairs corresponding to a number of material coils. Each roller pair holding a leading end of one of the material coils. The shuttle translating the leading end of a selected material coil to a location at which sheet material from the selected material is fed to the laser cutting system.
US08931315B2
A deadbolt lock assembly comprising a retractable and extendable deadbolt, a housing, an outside member movably mounted on the housing, the member being normally disconnected from the deadbolt, and an operator input device on the housing, the device connecting the member to the deadbolt in response to presentation of an appropriate credential, such that a force applied to the member by the operator is mechanically transmitted to the deadbolt to move the deadbolt.
US08931304B2
An example compressor arrangement includes a first compressor portion configured to compress a fluid and a second compressor portion configured to compress the fluid more than the first compressor portion. The compressor arrangement also includes a motor disposed between the first compressor portion and the second compressor portion. The first compressor portion is configured to communicate the fluid to the second compressor portion along a primary flow path. The second compressor portion is configured to divert at least some of the fluid from the primary flow path, communicating the diverted fluid back to the first compressor portion along a secondary flow path.
US08931299B2
An air conditioning system for a vehicle and a method of operation is disclosed. The air conditioning system includes a primary refrigerant loop and a secondary liquid loop. The primary refrigerant loop includes a compressor configured to be selectively driven by the engine, a condenser, an expansion device and a refrigerant-to-liquid heat exchanger. The secondary liquid loop includes the refrigerant-to-liquid heat exchanger, a thermal storage reservoir within which the refrigerant-to-liquid heat exchanger is mounted, a pump configured to pump a liquid through the refrigerant-to-liquid heat exchanger, a liquid-to-air heat exchanger configured to mount in a HVAC module and receive the liquid from the refrigerant-to-liquid heat exchanger, and a liquid flow valve configured to selectively direct the liquid directly to the pump or through the thermal storage reservoir to the pump.
US08931294B2
An object is to provide a cooling unit which can reduce influence of radiation heat from a work piece having high temperature on members surrounding the work piece, prevent leak of coolant and vacuum leak, reduce cost, and prevent turning angle of a work piece conveying mechanism from being limited. The cooling unit is attached to the work piece conveying mechanism in the state that the outer wall part is in close contact with the to-be-cooled surface. The coolant stored in the lower space is evaporated by the heat transmitted from the to-be-cooled surface P via the outer wall part, and the to-be-cooled surface is cooled via the outer wall part by the heat of evaporation lost at the time of the evaporation of the coolant. The vapor in the lower space (coolant container) is discharged to the vacuum chamber by the vapor exhaust unit when the pressure of the vapor in the lower space reaches the fixed value or higher.
US08931293B2
A temperature controlled food serving having at least one channel of thermally conductive material for receiving at least one food-holding pan. The at least one channel defines an elongate pan receiving cavity for placement of the at least one food-holding pan at any desired location along the cavity. A temperature control system comprises at least one heating element for heating the at least one channel to maintain food products held in the food-holding pans at a food holding temperature. The at least one channel has at least two different temperature zones along a length of the channel so that food products in different temperature zones can be held at different food holding temperatures.
US08931287B2
A water-going liquefied carbon dioxide (LCD) transport vessel having a pressurized and refrigerated LCD container, a cargo discharge pump within the container for pumping LCD out of] the container along a conduit, a booster pump for pumping LCD along the conduit to a platform, a first backflow line downstream of the cargo pump to the container, a second backflow line from downstream of the booster pump to the container, and optionally a heater arranged to heat LCD flowing from the vessel along the conduit.
US08931278B2
A steam generation system delivers heats water and carbon dioxide at high temperatures in the presence of one or more plasma arc torches and converts the materials into hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The converted gas is delivered to a heat recovery steam generator (“HRSG”) to produce steam, which may be used to power a steam turbine. Depending on the amount of steam and/or power desired, the system may use a control system to vary the flow, temperature and pressure of the gas delivered to the HRSG. The control system may do this by bringing additional torches on-line or off-line in the processing chamber, by adding unheated gas directly from a supply source, shunting the gas from the HRSG, and varying the flow of water delivered to the HRSG.
US08931277B2
Embodiments of a system for storing and providing electrical energy are disclosed. Also disclosed are embodiments of a system for purifying fluid, as well as embodiments of a system in which energy storage and fluid purification are combined. One disclosed embodiment of the system comprises a latent heat storage device, a sensible heat storage device, a vapor expander/compressor device mechanically coupled to a motor/generator device, a heat-exchanger, and a liquid pressurization and depressurization device. The devices are fluidly coupled in a closed-loop system, and a two-phase working fluid circulates therein. Embodiments of a method for operating the system to store and generate energy also are disclosed. Embodiments of a method for operating the system to purify fluid, as well as embodiments of a method for operating a combined energy storage and fluid purification system are disclosed.
US08931275B2
A waste heat recovery system that efficiently converts waste heat from an engine coolant and an engine exhaust in a vehicle. The system includes a coolant heat exchanger that receives heat from the engine coolant, an exhaust heat exchanger that receives heat from the engine exhaust and an economizer heat exchanger. A plurality of valves control the flow of the fluid in different modes as determined by a power ratio between the heat provided by the exhaust heat exchanger and the heat provided by the coolant heat exchanger, including an economizer heat exchanger after coolant heat exchanger mode at low power ratios, where the fluid from the pump flows to the economizer heat exchanger after the coolant heat exchanger and an economizer heat exchanger before coolant heat exchanger mode at high power ratios, where the fluid from the pump flows to the economizer heat exchanger before the coolant heat exchanger.
US08931273B2
Methods and systems are provided for raising an exhaust temperature to spin a turbocharger turbine and reduce turbo-lag. Pressurized air is discharged from a boost reservoir into an intake manifold while spark retard is increased to expedite exhaust heating while also increasing a net combustion torque. By expediting turbine spin-up in response to a tip-in, turbo-lag is reduced and engine performance is improved.
US08931270B2
Disclosed is a hydraulic brake booster. A relative movement structure of a control plunger and an output shaft is modified in such a manner that the output shaft operates in the control plunger, thereby reducing the overall length of the booster and the manufacturing cost. An inner circumferential surface of a guide of the control plunger does not make contact with an outer circumferential surface of the output shaft, so that the vibration and the impact caused by the contact between the control plunger and the output shaft are not delivered, thereby improving brake pedal feeling. The control plunger includes a guide having a groove, and an inner diameter of the guide is greater than an outer diameter of the output shaft. The control plunger and the output shaft perform relative movement in the overlap state therebetween, thereby reducing the overall length of the booster and the manufacturing cost.
US08931268B1
An apparatus for accommodating fluid expansion and contraction within an axle housing or axle support structure of a hydrostatic transaxle is provided. A partitioning element separates the hydraulic fluid from an air chamber created at least partially by the partitioning element and the partitioning element extends around a portion of the axle and at least a portion of the partitioning element is movable along the longitudinal axis of the axle to expand the volume of the sump.
US08931260B2
A selective catalytic reduction system that can defrost urea aqueous solution without interruption of warm air of an engine or heating of a vehicle cabin. The system includes a defrosting control unit to open a tank heater valve at the time of starting the engine and close the tank heater valve when the temperature of the urea aqueous solution detected by a temperature sensor reaches a predetermined defrosting completion determination value, and a warm air priority control unit to prohibit the opening of the valve by the defrosting control unit when the temperature of the cooling water is less than a predetermined defrosting permission value and permit the opening of the valve by the defrosting control unit when the temperature of the cooling water is equal to or more than the defrosting permission value.
US08931258B2
A method for metering a reducing agent from a metering device to an exhaust gas treatment device includes initially determining at least one operating parameter of the metering device. An injector pressure at an injector for feeding the reducing agent into the exhaust gas treatment device is then calculated from the at least one operating parameter. Then, an opening time for the injector is calculated, in which at least the injector pressure determined in step b) is used. The injector is then opened for the opening time calculated in step c). A method for setting up or configuring a control unit for a metering device and a motor vehicle having a metering device are also provided.
US08931256B2
An engine system for a machine is disclosed. The engine system may have an intake manifold configured to direct air into a donor cylinder and a non-donor cylinder of an engine. The engine system may have a first exhaust manifold configured to direct exhaust from the non-donor cylinder to the atmosphere and a second exhaust manifold configured to receive exhaust from the donor cylinder. The engine system may further have a control valve configured to selectively direct a first amount of exhaust from the second exhaust manifold to the intake manifold and an after-treatment component configured to treat the first amount of exhaust. In addition, the engine system may have a controller configured to adjust a first operating parameter of the donor cylinder such that a ratio of an amount of a gaseous component and an amount of particulate matter in the first amount of exhaust exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US08931255B2
One embodiment is a unique strategy for raising exhaust temperatures which includes deactivating a first group of cylinders while maintaining a second group of cylinders in a combustion mode and injecting fuel into each of one of the second group of cylinders not earlier than 2 degrees before top dead center (TDC). The strategy also includes passing fuel rich exhaust from the second group of cylinders into an exhaust pathway and oxidizing at least a portion of the fuel rich exhaust in the exhaust pathway. In one form, the oxidizing occurs independent of any catalytic influence. Other embodiments include unique methods, systems, and apparatus for raising exhaust temperatures and/or regenerating one or more components of an aftertreatment system. Further embodiments, forms, objects, features, advantages, aspects, and benefits shall become apparent from the following description and drawings.
US08931251B1
A metal chain construction that includes a series of interconnected links with each link constructed and arranged in an annular configuration having either a circular or oval cross-sectional area. The link has, on at least one side thereof, a substantially planar indicia surface that is recessed into the cross-sectional area. An indicia in the form of a discernible indicia message is formed on said recessed indicia surface such as by an engraving. The link is of a metal alloy and the link joint is formed of a metal alloy solder mix.
US08931250B2
The front top roller (20) includes a fiber contacting portion (30) and a reduced-diameter portion (31). The fiber contacting portion (30) has a substantially uniform outer diameter. The reduced-diameter portion (31) is provided at both ends of the fiber contacting portion (30) in an axial direction, and is formed with an outer diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the fiber contacting portion (30). The fiber contacting portion (30) has a width (W1) in an axial direction of 18 mm and the outer diameter (D1) of 30 mm. An outer diameter (D2) of the reduced-diameter portion (31) is 25 mm.
US08931249B2
A method interrupts yarn production on a spinning machine having at least one spinning point having an inlet for a fiber material and an outlet for the yarn made from the fiber material, and wherein the spinning machine comprises a delivery device for feeding the fiber material into the spinning point, a take-off device for drawing off the yarn out of the spinning point, a winding device for winding up the produced yarn, and a yarn monitoring unit for monitoring at least one yarn parameter. Yarn production is interrupted upon detecting a defined deviation of the monitored yarn parameter from a target value, upon changing bobbins at the winding device, and/or prior to switching off the spinning machine. The feed speeds of the delivery device, the take-off device, and the winding device are gradually reduced to a stop in order to interrupt the yarn production, wherein the reducing takes place such that the end of the produced yarn is located between the outlet of the spinning point and the winding device after the reducing is completed.
US08931243B2
The present invention relates generally to a closure and particularly to a closure of the type known as a sport cap.
US08931228B2
Disclosed is a waterproofing membrane that comprises a carrier sheet, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer on one surface of the carrier sheet, and a protective coating layer on the adhesive layer. The protective coating layer is highly reflective (optionally textured) and operative to bond to concrete cast against it. Preferably, the protective coating layer comprises cement, polymer, and white pigment, and may optionally or additionally include a filler, a UV absorber and an antioxidant. The protective coating layer protects the membrane against weather exposure, tolerates foot traffic and strongly adheres to concrete cast against it. Also disclosed is a waterproofing membrane comprising a carrier sheet, a pressure sensitive adhesive layer, a protective coating layer (as described above), and a highly releasable bonding layer.
US08931220B2
An insulated window buck with integrated fastening and anchor elements for a self aligning cut or molded insulated concrete form (ICF) window buck. The insulated window buck with integrated fastening and anchor generally includes an insulated ICF window and door buck made with multiple components with a configuration that allows for the use of various type of materials' on the face and edges of the buck, and have the ability to friction fit to the inside of an ICF wall so as no external bracing or strapping is needed to keep the buck aligned with the ICF wall during concrete placement. Having a firm insulation material component on the internal portion of the buck is an integral part of the invention in that through the use of recesses in the insulation material the fluid concrete can flow into these recesses and make a permanent bond to the buck. Also having the ability to use single or multiple insulation pieces to make up the insulating and friction fit element of the buck is an integral part of the invention.
US08931210B2
A material may include a substrate, such as sand, treated with a binder, for securing a layer of hydrating particles thereto. Typical binders may include lignicite, or other naturally occurring materials such as sugars, molasses, corn syrup, gelatin, water, a combination, or the like. Substrates may include natural organic materials or inorganic materials. Various materials can serve as a powdered, polymeric coating. Commonly called acrylamides or polyacrylamides by industrial suppliers, certain polymers have been found to serve well by being comminuted to powder and adhered to the substrate granules.
US08931206B2
The present disclosure relates to treating articles suspected of being infested with bed bugs using carbon dioxide.
US08931198B2
A firearm which is modifiable by the user such that a firearm barrel is arranged replaceable by the user, wherein the firearm comprises a barrel unit, which is detachable by the user and fastenable to a receiver, which barrel unit comprises the barrel and a locking piece, wherein the locking piece has a backward narrowing rear cone, which fits a cone in the receiver and which has a forward narrowing front cone, and which fits a cone in the centering bush, wherein to the centering bush is rotatably connected a clamping bush having an outer thread which fits an inner thread in the receiver, wherein by rotating the clamping bush in the locked direction, the rear end of the locking piece is centerable by means of the rear cone and lockable to the cone in the receiver.
US08931196B1
A firearm having modular components that can be assembled under field conditions, by using simple tools. Upper and lower receivers are assembled by pins and a barrel and gas tube are secured to the upper receiver by a barrel nut. Mounting flanges of the upper receiver and a handguard are secured in reliable assembly by a manually actuated clamp mechanism having a clamping condition releasably securing the handguard to the upper receiver and having a releasing condition permitting separation of the handguard from the upper receiver. A pocketed soft protective container receives and protects the modular firearm components until firearm assembly takes place.
US08931186B2
A drying machine is disclosed. The drying machine includes a selectively rotatable drum receiving an object to be dried, a steam supply member having one side connected to a steam generator and the other side connected to the drum, and a swirler installed in the steam supply member at a predetermined position for swirling steam flowing through the steam supply member. A method for controlling the drying machine includes heating a drum, supplying steam generated in a steam generator into the drum, and supplying hot air into the drum. The drying machine having the above described configuration can efficiently eliminate creases of clothes.
US08931185B2
An electronic caliper generates power for measurement operations. The caliper comprises a scale member, a slider, a signal processing portion configured to measure a displacement between the scale member and slider, a power generating arrangement attached to the slider comprising a gear assembly configured to rotate in response to a force provided through the scale member to the gear assembly by a user opening or closing the caliper, and a power generator coupled to the gear assembly and configured to rotate in response to force provided by the rotating gear assembly and provide power to the signal processing portion. The power generating arrangement generates power as the user opens or closes the caliper and is configured such that it contributes a motion resistance force component of at most 20N during the user opening or closing the caliper using a maximum manual acceleration and/or speed.
US08931180B2
A knife according to the present disclosure includes a housing and a blade. The blade includes a blade edge adapted to engage a material, and the blade is coupled to a blade shuttle. The blade and blade shuttle are substantially enclosed within the housing when the blade shuttle is in a retracted position, and the blade is extended from the housing when the blade shuttle is in an extended position. The blade shuttle is adapted to be conveyed to the retracted position based on the blade receiving a force directed substantially perpendicular to the blade edge.
US08931178B2
An air flow deflector which may be retrofit onto an existing hair or animal fur hand clipper. Deflector attaches to the clipper by various means to cover existing air flow channels or air vents on the clipper and directs the clipper motor cooling air away from the clipper. The deflector prevents hair and fur from being blown by such air vents in random directions during use of the clipper by redirecting the existing cooling air away from the clipper housing in a preferred direction. Retrofitting existing clippers is accomplished by attaching the deflector on the clipper over existing vents.
US08931163B2
Fasteners are provided that include a head and having a head, a tip end having a tip, a first body portion having right-hand threads, and a second body portion having left-hand threads. The first body portion is adjacent to the tip end of the fastener and extends a first distance along a length of the fastener towards the head end. The second body portion is adjacent to the first body portion, and extends the head end of the fastener and extending a second distance along the length of the fastener towards the head end. The right-hand threads, and the left-hand threads, can have a thread angle α of less than about 60°.
US08931161B2
A rail mounting mechanism for coupling an auxiliary device to a weapon has an adjuster and a lever that can be used to overcome tolerances in mounting rails to provide a consistent grasp of the rail.
US08931159B2
An assembly for collapsing a self-expanding prosthetic heart valve includes a compression member, a support member and a constricting member. The compression member has a tapered wall between its first open end and its second open end, the tapered wall defining an open space adapted to receive the valve. The support member has a base and a recess adapted to receive an end of the valve. The support member and the compression member are movable toward one another to compress the valve and push it through a relatively small aperture in the second open end of the compression member. The second end of the constricting member is sized to receive the compressed valve from the second open end of the compression member for loading into a delivery device.
US08931141B2
A planetary type dual-shaft hinge includes a female shaft member, a male shaft set rotatably inserted through the female shaft member, and a transmission mechanism including a first transmission member and a second transmission member respectively affixed to the first shaft and the second shaft, and a link coupled between the first transmission member and the second transmission member. The two pivoting points between the link and the first and second transmission members are respectively deviated from the two connection points between the first and second transmission member and the first and second shaft, so that when the hinge is used in a flip-up electronic apparatus and the cover member of the electronic apparatus is opened from the base member thereof, the first shank can be turned about the second shaft, smoothening the relative movement between the cover member and the base member.
US08931138B2
A movement assist device includes a retraction tool having a case, a latch switched between a standby position which is locked inside the case and a retraction position which releases the locking so as to be capable of sliding, and an urging device; and a striker switching the latch from the standby position to the retraction position, or vise versa. The retraction tool or the striker is provided in a fixed body, or a moving body movably disposed in the fixed body. When the latch is switched from the standby position to the retraction position, a sliding door moves by an urging force. The case includes a striker leading portion notched such that a width of the case becomes thin to a middle of the other end from one end in a longitudinal direction. Also, one portion of the latch is exposed and disposed in the leading portion.
US08931137B2
A bushing for securing a grip to a firearm that includes a housing made from a resilient material and an insert made from a material having a hardness greater than the resilient material of the housing. The housing has a top end, a bottom end, a housing bore extending from the top end to the bottom end, and a contact surface that is configured to engage an internal surface of a receiver of the firearm. The insert is sized and shaped to be received within the housing bore and includes an insert bore configured for engagement with a fastener. The housing is configured to undergo elastic deformation when compressed between the insert and the internal surface of the receiver as the fastener is tightened to draw the insert toward the internal surface of the receiver.
US08931118B2
A motorsports helmet having an isolation mount defining a receptacle is provided. An adjustment plate is selectively disposed within the receptacle at different depths and includes an ear-cup. The ear-cup is secured relative to the adjustment plate and includes at least two degrees of freedom of movement.
US08931112B1
A protective shell has a proper size, shape, and thickness to cover and attach to an anatomical joint or part. The protective shell is made of a material that is rigid, and that is partially or entirely transparent or semitransparent. The protective shell has an exterior face and an interior face, allowing for the application of graphics to be placed upon the interior face while viewing the graphics from the exterior face and protecting the graphic from being scraped off as a result of friction from a ground surface or with a collision from another object. The frontal external face is concave in shape to be less exposed to the ground plane and being scraped than the rest of the external faces of the shell while allowing the graphic that is placed upon the interior face to be viewed more clearly from the front of the exterior face.
US08935798B1
Systems, methods and computer storage mediums automatically enabling private browsing of a web page are described herein. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to equipping a web browser with the ability to automatically open web pages in a privacy mode based on content of the web pages so that a user is not required to manually activate the privacy mode. The web browser is able to identify characteristics of the content provided by the web pages by analyzing the web pages for content that increases the likelihood that the user may require that the web page be opened in the privacy mode.
US08935789B2
The disclosed invention is a new method and apparatus for detecting and removing virus from a computing device based on a web or network service. Virus is detected by transmitting the attributes and behavior of application modules on a computing device to another computing device via a web service, where it is analyzed. After the item has been classified, that information is sent back to the computing device along with the instructions on how the remove the virus. Along with the instructions on virus remediation a clean copy of the file or a network location of the clean copy can be sent.
US08935787B2
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, introducing a privacy policy at enforcement points that span multiple system layers, and dynamically altering the privacy policy.
US08935784B1
Subscribers to web feeds are protected from malware attacks. User web feed activity is monitored, attempts by the user to subscribe to web feeds are detected, and identifiers of web feeds to which the user attempts to subscribe are captured. Links in these web feeds are identified, and it is determined whether identified links in web feeds are safe to access. Web feeds are displayed to the user only in response to determining that all links identified therein are safe. User attempts to obtain new content from displayed web feeds are detected, and links in the new content are identified. It is determined whether identified links in new content are safe. New content that contains only safe links is displayed to the user, whereas new content containing at least one suspicious link is blocked.
US08935769B2
The present invention is a system and a method for improving the authentication security across a network from a mobile electronic computing device in the context of one or more users, devices, sites/sessions, servers, locations, proximity, motion and/or behavioral attributes within a defined session lifecycle. The authentication method and system utilizes a strong, elegant, private, definitive and real-time, triangulated verification, which requires mutual authentication between the parties.
US08935768B1
A class level of an email is determined responsive to defined rules for email classification. Client access to the email is then controlled responsive to the class level. One of a plurality of client authentication modes may be selected for authentication of the client responsive to the class level. The class level of the email may be determined responsive to an operational use of the email, a known keyword being present in content of the email, a source address of the email, a number of destination addresses of the email, an addressed resource of a user selectable link that is contained in a body of the email, characteristics of earlier email that the client deleted without reading, and/or various other rules.
US08935762B2
An authentication server and user device are provided. The authentication server includes: a memory for storing a user identification code associated with a user; a function generator for generating a plurality of functions, the functions adapted to produce a pass code based on the user identification code; a memory for storing a function associated with the user; an application generator for generating an application adapted to implement the function on a user device; an application distributor for distributing the application to the user device; a transaction code generator for generating a transaction code for a transaction; a transaction code distributor for supplying the transaction code to the application; and a controller for receiving a pass code for the transaction from the user device and for authenticating the transaction based on the received pass code, the function, the user identification code and the transaction code.
US08935753B1
A network based healthcare management system is provided. The system includes a plurality of client workstations and a plurality of healthspace service processors. The healthspace service processors access at least one database remotely disposed relative to the client workstations with the healthspace service processors providing access to predetermined healthspace resources. The system further includes a healthspace service interface unit operably coupled to the client workstations and healthspace service processors to selectively actuate at least one of the healthspace service processors responsive to the client workstations. The healthspace service interface unit including an efficiency module which adaptively maintains a plurality of parametric indicia with respect to optimum healthspace resource utilization.
US08935744B2
Systems and methods for creating a list of trustworthy resolvers in a domain name system. A computer receives a resolver profile for a resolver sending queries to a domain name server. The resolver profile is based on any, or a combination, of a top-talker status of the resolver, a normalcy of distribution of domain names queried, a continuity of distribution of query type, and a RD bit status, and information related to query traffic based on the topology of the domain name server. Resolver profiles can be compared to a trust policy to determine whether the resolver is trustworthy. Resolvers deemed trustworthy can be added to a list of trustworthy resolvers. Embodiments can detect the occurrence of a network-based attack. Embodiments can mitigate the effect of a network-based attack by responding only to queries from resolvers on the list of trustworthy resolvers.
US08935741B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for enabling enforcement of an administrative policy on one or more mobile devices are described herein. In an embodiment, an administrator uses a policy server to create and provide an enforcement policy to a mobile device. An enforcement policy may include information on mobile device resources which may be controlled by an administrator. An enforcement policy also includes information on how mobile device features will be set, configured or disabled. An enforcement device driver and an enforcement monitor on a mobile device use the enforcement policy to control access to resources associated with the mobile device regardless of whether the mobile device is “online” and connected to a network or “offline” and disconnected from a network.
US08935737B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive a call request from a set top box that is remote from the server where the call request identifies a telephone number that is presented from video content presented by the set top box where the telephone number is detected based on a combination of image pattern recognition and speech recognition and where the telephone number is associated with a marketing entity, establish a voice communication with a first telephone device associated with the set top box, and establish the voice communication with a second telephone device associated with the telephone number and the marketing entity if the first telephone device accepts the voice communication. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08935736B2
A channel switching method, a channel switching device, and a channel switching system are provided. The method includes that: a network buffer apparatus determines whether a buffered video stream burst in unicast is synchronous with a channel video stream pushed by a network node to a client in multicast; notifies the client of sending a request for joining a multicast group, so as to implement fast channel switching; and dynamically adjusts the speed of pushing the video stream in unicast, so that the number of concurrent connections of the client and the channel switching efficiency are increased, and the deployment and operation cost of an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system is decreased. In this case, the channel switching scheme achieves universality and expandability, and the level of user experience is improved.
US08935732B2
A Dynamic Video Source Selection (DVSS) component that can be implemented in a physical or virtual STB that is capable of presenting a high quality service and consistent navigational paradigm to the viewer, while detecting, selecting, and presenting the best quality programming possible based upon the current position of the viewer's device within the network.
US08935724B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving a plurality of user-generated comments associated with media content where the plurality of user-generated comments are temporally associated with a portion of the media content during a presentation of the media content at a group of communication devices, and identifying from the plurality of user-generated comments a cluster of comments associated with a segment of the media content based on satisfaction of a threshold number of comments for the segment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08935705B2
A dependency datastructure represents a processing task. The dependency datastructure comprising a plurality of components, each component encapsulating a code unit. The dependency datastructure may include dependency arcs to inter-component dependencies. Dependencies that are not satisfied by components within the dependency datastructure may be represented as pseudo-components. An execution environment identifies components that can be executed (e.g., have satisfied dependencies), using the dependency datastructure and/or concurrency state metadata. The execution environment may identify and exploit concurrencies in the processing task, allowing for multiple components to be executed in parallel.
US08935703B2
A system for providing performance counter inheritance includes an operating system that receives a request of a first application to monitor performance of a second application, the request identifying an event to monitor during the execution of a task associated with the second application. The operating system causes a task counter corresponding to the event to be activated, and automatically activates a child task counter for each child task upon receiving a notification that execution of a corresponding child task is starting. Further, the operating system adds a value of each child task counter to a value of the task counter to determine a total counter value for the task, and provides the total counter value of the task to the first application.
US08935701B2
A method, system and apparatus for a unified management platform in a computer network such as in a virtualized computer environment, is provided.
US08935699B1
Architectures and techniques for substantially maintaining performance of hyperthreads within processing cores of processors. One technique can include determining that a first thread is scheduled for execution on one of two or more hyperthreads, where the first instruction thread has a first priority. Such a technique also includes determining that a second instruction thread is one of executing or scheduled for execution on another of the two or more hyperthreads, where the second instruction thread has a second priority that is less than the first priority The technique can further include preempting execution of the second instruction thread based at least in part on the second instruction thread having the second priority that is less than the first priority.
US08935696B2
A communication method of virtual machines and a server-end system are provided. A virtual hardware address is assigned to a virtual machine when the virtual machine are established, wherein the virtual hardware address includes a tenant identity. A validation procedure for a packet is performed when the virtual machine desires to communicate with another virtual machine by transmitting the packet, so as to determine whether the virtual hardware addresses of the source-end and the destination-end in the packet have the same tenant identity. If the both virtual hardware addresses have the same tenant identity, the packet is transmitted to the another virtual machine.
US08935692B2
A cloud management system can insert a self-management module in virtual machines. The self-management module can be configured to automatically perform management functions on the virtual machine in which it is inserted. The management functions can include activation, suspension, or termination of the virtual machine. The management functions can also include tracking and monitoring the virtual machine. The management functions can also include providing messages to the cloud management system regarding the status and usage of the virtual machine.
US08935691B2
A method for downloading a first application to a target system through a host system consisting of downloading a first application adapted to run on a host system from a program store to a host system, and subsequently downloading a second application adapted to run on a target system from the host system to the target system. The first application and the second application enable the host system and the target system to exchange information.
US08935689B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and computer program product for updating software on an embedded computer device. According to one aspect of the present invention, a concurrent embedded application update is performed in which selected state information for one or both of an embedded virtual machine and a plurality of applets on an embedded computer device is securely exported to a host computer device. After software updates have been installed, the selected state information can be restored on the embedded computer device from which it was exported and/or it can be migrated to a second embedded computer device.
US08935685B2
A processor instruction scheduler comprising an optimization engine which uses an optimization model for a processor architecture with: means to generate an optimization model for the optimization engine from a design of a processor and data representing optimization goals and constraints and a code stream, wherein the processor has at least two execution pipes and at least two registers, and wherein the design comprises data for processor instruction latency and execution pipes, and wherein the code stream comprises processor instructions with corresponding register selections; and reordering means to generate an optimized code stream from the code stream with the optimal solution provided by the optimization engine for the optimization model by reordering the code stream, such that optimum values for the optimization goals under the given constraints are achieved without affecting the operation results of the code stream.
US08935684B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for improving the performance of a compiler. A set of source code instructions are processed to generate a plurality of source code instruction subsets, each of which is respectively associated with a mathematical operator. The source code subsets are then reordered to “hoist,” or place, a source code instruction subset associated with a product operator before a source code instruction subset associated with a summation operator. The plurality of source code instruction subsets are iteratively reordered until no source code instruction subset associated with a summation operator precedes a source code instruction subset associated with a product operator. A compiler is then used to compile the resulting reordered plurality of source code instruction subsets into a set of optimized object code instructions.
US08935673B1
A system and method are provided for enhanced navigation along execution time and code space in a debugger to assist a user in remediating errors, streamlining, or reverse engineering a computer program and the source code thereof. Snapshots of system states are recorded, a causality tree of commands is constructed through execution of the program to be debugged, and an intelligent display of system states captured during runtime and indexed or cross-referenced by time are displayed to the user in an intelligent manner to aid the user with certain debugging tasks. Additionally, further features in assisting the user to locate a root cause of an error or unexpected value and remediate that cause are also provided.
US08935668B2
Remote configuration ensures compliance of remote client devices. A server polls a client device for its configuration file. The server compares the configuration file to a compliance policy. If the configuration file fails the compliance policy, the server retrieves a compliant configuration file that conforms to the compliance policy. The server sends the compliant configuration file to the client device with an instruction to replace the configuration file.
US08935662B2
A computing device executes one or more applications within a shell session, such as a Powershell session. The computing device may detect, within the shell session, a runtime exception that causes the shell session to prematurely terminate. The computer device serializes an object associated with the runtime exception prior to closure of the shell session. The computer device may also serialize other objects. Serializing the object includes identifying the object's type, identifying data associated with the object's type, identifying internal types of the object, and identifying data associated with each of the internal types, and generating a representation of the object that preserves the object's type, the data included in the object, and all internal types of the object.
US08935659B2
The method according to the invention for generating software, from source files associated with components, including first variables initialized at zero and second variables initialized at specific values, capable of being run on a terminal, includes, for each software component, at least one of which is capable of a specific restart when the software is run, a compilation step and a linkage editing step. It comprises, for at least one restartable software component, a step for renaming a data storage, data and data initialization segment, associated with each object file of the component to be restarted, and configuring the linkage editor, performing specific linkage editing suitable for repositioning the values of the second initialized variables of the renamed segment at specific values resulting from the renamed segment, and values of the first variables of the renamed segment, when the component is restarted.
US08935658B2
A computer system and method for software delivery that include articles of manufacture having two or more installed, functional software applications organized in a protoset, the protoset configured to enable creation of one or more subsets (also called reduced metasets) from the two or more installed, functional software applications, each of the one or more subsets configured to be operable with a predefined computer system independent of the protoset; and a protoset module configured to operate on the protoset to enable creation of the one or more subsets of the two or more installed, functional software applications, the module responsive to one or more requests for the creation of the one or more reduced metasets.
US08935656B2
A system is provided and includes a first computing device operable to execute an application, and a second computing device, remotely and continuously communicable with the first device, by which a non-distractive description of updated information of the application is automatically issuable to a user substantially immediately following an occurrence of the update, wherein a form of the non-distractive description is defined in accordance with an activity currently performed by the user.
US08935653B2
A method for generating website feature requirements includes receiving a screen capture image including a website. The screen capture image is matched to one or more known website features listed within a database of website features. A website features requirements specification is generated based on the results of the matching. One or more recommendations for modifying the website features requirements specification is automatically generated based on considerations of cost or complexity of implementation. The website features requirements specification is updated based on the one or more recommendations.
US08935652B2
A method for generating website feature requirements includes receiving a screen capture image including a website. The screen capture image is matched to one or more known website features listed within a database of website features. A website features requirements specification is generated based on the results of the matching. One or more recommendations for modifying the website features requirements specification is automatically generated based on considerations of cost or complexity of implementation. The website features requirements specification is updated based on the one or more recommendations.
US08935647B2
An abstract decision module primitive for placement within a logical representation (i.e., a netlist) of a circuit design is described. The decision module primitive receives as inputs alternative solutions for a given function or segment of a netlist. The alternative solutions include functionally equivalent, but structurally different implementations of the function or segment of the netlist. The decision module primitive alternatively selects between connecting one of the inputs to the netlist to provide a complete functional definition for the netlist based on constraint information.The selected input of the decision module may be updated as additional constraint information is determined throughout the various stages of the design process. In addition, alternative solutions for a given function or segment of the netlist may be added to and/or removed from the inputs of a decision module as additional constraint information is identified.
US08935638B2
A computing device receives a first user input at presence-sensitive display of the computing device, wherein the first user input corresponds to a portion of a desired non-textual object. The device displays a first graphical representation indicating the first user input at the touchscreen display, and determines a first non-textual object suggestion based upon at least the first user input. The device displays a second graphical representation indicating the first non-textual object suggestion, wherein the second graphical representation of the first non-textual object suggestion is displayed differently than the first graphical representation of the first user input, and detects an indication whether the first non-textual object suggestion corresponds to the desired non-textual object.
US08935637B2
A mobile terminal and a method for operating the mobile terminal are provided. The method senses touch of the mobile terminal in a predetermined mode and senses movement of the mobile terminal upon determining that the mobile terminal has been gripped based on the touch and then changes the mode of the mobile terminal according to the predetermined mode and the movement of the mobile terminal. This method enhances user convenience since it is possible to change the mode of the mobile terminal through movement of the mobile terminal while the mobile terminal is gripped.
US08935623B1
A method of generating an application programming interface (API) for an electronic circuit. A graphical user interface is displayed through which a user can initiate generation of the API. A component is selected from a plurality of components for placement in said electronic circuit. The component represents an implementable function in the electronic circuit. The component is configured using the graphical user interface. The data pertaining to the selected component and the configuration of the component is stored. The graphical user interface is utilized to access the stored data. The interface is initiated to invoke a processing of said data which causes a generation of the application programming interface. The application interface is for controlling the function of the component in said electronic circuit.
US08935615B2
An interface securing method between a user and a non certified application running on an electronic device and providing at least one view to be rendered on a screen, and a view comprising or associated to at least one interface control component. The method implements, prior to rendering a view: analysis of the interface control components of the view, so as to detect at least one interface control component that could pose a security problem, called a suspicious component; and if at least one suspicious component is detected, restriction or invalidation of the functions of at least one input control component, distinct from the at least one suspicious component and able to allow the information to be provided by the user to the application.
US08935605B2
A method for parsing a document in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format includes identifying data via the XML format, defining a tag set including a plurality of tags, defining a tokenizer that produces one token at a time, parsing the XML document via a parser, validating the XML document via a validation engine, the validation engine driving the tokenizer, the validating being an integral part of the parsing, and permitting the validation engine to be written in a recursive-descent code-driven manner.
US08935601B1
Systems and methods for decoding a received codeword are provided. The received codeword is decoded based on a parity code to produce a plurality of checks. A first unsatisfied check is selected from the plurality of checks, and a first set of symbol positions in the received codeword that are connected to the first unsatisfied check is identified. A second set of symbol positions in the received codeword that are not connected to the first unsatisfied check is identified. The received codeword is modified by setting the first set of symbol positions to first predetermined values and by setting the second set of symbol positions to second predetermined values. The modified received codeword is decoded based on the parity code.
US08935595B2
A Solid-State Disk (SSD) controller uses LDPC decoding to enable flash memory accesses with improved latency and/or error correction capabilities. With SLC flash memory having a BER less than a predetermined value, the SSD controller uses a 1-bit read (single read) hard-decision LDPC decoder to access the flash memory. If the hard-decision LDPC decoder detects an uncorrectable error, then the SSD controller uses a 1.5-bit read (two reads) erasure-decision LDPC decoder to access the flash memory. With flash memory having a raw BER between two other predetermined values, the SSD controller omits the use of the hard-decision LDPC decoder and uses only the erasure-decision LDPC decoder to access the flash memory. Variations of the SSD controller similarly access MLC flash memory. Some SSD controllers dynamically switch between hard-decision and erasure-based decoders based on dynamic decoder selection criteria.
US08935594B2
A structure of 3D memory comprises a plurality of stacking layers and a plurality of cells. The stacking layers are arranged in a three-dimensional array and disposed parallel to each other on a substrate, and the stacking layers comprises a plurality of stacking memory layers. The cells comprises a first group of cells (such as m of cells) for storing information data and a second group of cells (such as n of cells) for storing ECC (error checking and correcting) spare bits. All of the first group and the second group of cells are read out at the same time for performing an ECC function. The ECC spare bits in the 3D memory according to the present disclosure can be constructed at the same physical layer or at the different physical layers. The embodiments can be implemented, but not limited, by a vertical-gate (VG) structure or a finger VG structure.
US08935588B2
A decoding method for decoding information content in at least one data packet, which is transmitted from a sender to a receiver via a data link. The information is represented by a bit sequence, which is transformed into a transmittable redundancy version. The information is initially transmitted for a first time in a first data packet from the sender to the receiver. The information is represented by a first redundancy version, which is self-decodable. An incorrect receipt is confirmed by sending a confirmation from the receiver to the sender. The information is retransmitted at least a second time in a second data packet from the sender to the receiver upon receipt of the confirmation, wherein, for representation of the information, a second redundancy version is used, the selection of which is performed in dependence on a coding parameter, describing whether the redundancy version is self-decodable or not.
US08935587B2
A method of performing HARQ performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a bundling indicator which indicates the number of bundled downlink subframes, determining whether at least one bundled downlink subframe is missed by comparing the bundling indicator with the number of detected bundled downlink subframes, generating a representative ACK/NACK signal when no bundled downlink subframe is missed, and transmitting the representative ACK/NACK signal on an uplink channel. Recovery capability is maximized and the packet loss is reduced in such a situation that less number of ACK/NACK signals are fed back than that of downlink packets.
US08935583B2
A method to perform component testing by supplying test patterns to a serial input pin coupled to an IEEE 1149.6 boundary-scan cell that is associated with an IEEE 1149.6 test receiver. The test receiver is configured to operate in a scan test mode. The output from the test receiver circuit is coupled to a logic block to be scan tested. The output from the logic block is coupled to a serial output pin on the integrated circuit during scan test mode. High performance integrated circuits can use SerDes pins in a scan test mode to be scan tested without impacting mission critical signals.
US08935582B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise software-based techniques that can be used to improve scan chain test pattern generation and scan chain failure diagnosis resolution. For example, certain embodiments can be used to generate high quality chain diagnosis test patterns that are able to isolate a scan chain defect to a single scan cell. Such embodiments can be used to generate a “complete” test set—that is, a set of chain diagnosis test patterns that is able to isolate any scan chain defect in a faulty scan chain to a single scan cell.
US08935581B2
Techniques are described for detecting faults in media content based on the behavior of users viewing the media content. Embodiments stream a first instance of media content to one or more users. The behavior of the one or more users is monitored while the users are viewing the streaming first instance of media content. Embodiments then determine whether the first instance of media content is faulty, based on the monitored behavior of the one or more users.
US08935580B2
Methods and apparatus for associating each data packet in a media stream with logic corresponding to a particular quality-of-service (QoS) and/or error correction requirement. In an exemplary embodiment, each packet in the media stream is assigned a frame tag which designates a particular quality-of-service and/or error correction scheme for the corresponding packet. At least a portion of each packet is encoded according to the packet's designated quality-of-service as indicated by the frame tag. A receiver accesses the frame tags from within the transmitted media stream in order to determine the appropriate means for processing or decoding the encoded portion of each packet. In this manner, each packet within the media stream can have its own quality-of-service and/or error correction requirements and processing, thereby enhancing link efficiency and better enforcing QoS policy across the system.
US08935573B2
During execution of a unit test, receiving from the unit test a first request referencing a mock object. An instance of the mock object and initial cached mock object data is returned to the test unit, wherein the initial cached mock object data includes first data for a real object represented by the mock object. Second data for the real object represented by the mock object is collected. The second data for the real object is compared to the initial cached mock object data. Responsive to determining that at least one aspect of the second data for the real object does not correspond to the initial cached mock object data, the cached mock object data is updated with the second data for the real object. An indication can be provided to the unit test that the initial cached mock object data returned to the unit test is unreliable.
US08935570B2
Information Technology (IT) system configuration is managed using a set of defined flows with atomic execution properties. The instructions to execute a change to one or more infrastructure elements (a “forward transaction”) are maintained with instructions and/or information needed to execute a corresponding “reverse” transaction that is responsible for returning the element(s) to a pre-transaction action state in the event of a configuration failure or other request originating at a high level flow.
US08935569B2
A control computer system comprising at least two modules (1, 2, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1021, 1071) which are designed to be redundant with respect to one another. The control computer system having at least one comparison unit (20, 21, 91, 92, 1011, 1012) for monitoring the synchronization state of the at least two redundant modules (1, 2, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1021, 1071) and for detecting a synchronization error at least one peripheral unit (95, 96, 1022, 1030, 1031, . . . , 1038). At least one switching matrix (21, 1013, 1063) which is set up to allow or block access to the at least two redundant modules or access to the peripheral unit (95, 96, 1022, 1030, 1031, . . . , 1038) by the at least two redundant modules, and an error-handling unit (44, 1080) which is set up to receive signals from the at least one comparison unit (20, 21, 91, 92, 1011, 1012) and to drive the at least one switching matrix (1013, 1063) in order to completely or selectively prevent access to the at least two redundant modules or access to the peripheral unit by the at least two redundant modules.
US08935563B1
A computer-implemented method may include (1) identifying at least one computer cluster configured to (a) facilitate substantially continuous availability of at least one multi-tier application that includes a plurality of discrete architectural layers and (b) provide a plurality of virtual machines configured to execute the discrete architectural layers within the multi-tier application, (2) detecting a failure that prevents at least one node within the computer cluster from providing at least one virtual machine configured to execute at least one discrete architectural layer within the multi-tier application, (3) identifying a different node capable of providing the virtual machine within the computer cluster, and then (4) directing the different node within the computer cluster to provide the virtual machine in order to facilitate substantially continuous availability of all of the discrete architectural layers within the multi-tier application despite the detected failure. Various other systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US08935556B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for blocking standby power of computer peripheral devices, comprising: a synchronization signal sensing control unit which senses the existence of horizontal and vertical synchronization signals provided to a monitor from a computer body, and outputs a switching control signal according to the sensed result; and a power switching unit which is provided with external power and situated on a power supply path for supplying power to the computer peripheral devices, and has a structure adapted for conducting or blocking the corresponding path according to the switching control signal.
US08935555B2
A method for waking an information handling system includes receiving in a chassis a plurality of modular information handling systems and a plurality of modular information handling resources, routing access of one of the modular information handling resources to one or more of the plurality of modular information handling systems, monitoring a plurality of power management event lines, determining a wake message received at one of the modular information handling resources, determining which of the plurality of modular information handling systems is associated with the received wake message, forwarding a wake signal to the determined modular information handling system, and powering on the determined information handling system. The modular information handling resource is configured to receive a wake message. Each line is coupled one of the modular information handling resources.
US08935552B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor that executes a plurality of application programs, a display that displays results of the execution of the plurality of application programs, and a storage that stores a first table in which the plurality of application programs and a plurality of pieces of operation information corresponding to the plurality of application programs are associated with each other and recorded, and a second table in which the plurality of application programs and order determined on the basis of power to be consumed by the processing unit to execute the plurality of application programs are associated with each other and recorded.
US08935548B2
A DC-DC converter includes an interface to receive data having voltage values. A first circuit carries out a voltage transition from a previously received voltage value to a received voltage value (VSEL). A second circuit activates or inactivates the first circuit in response to an activation signal or a stop signal provided by the interface. A third circuit configures the second circuit so that, when new data including a new voltage value is received during a voltage transition, the second circuit interprets the stop signal as an activation signal for the first circuit to carry out a new voltage transition. The setting circuit sets at least one parameter needed by the first circuit to carry out the new voltage transition in response to the new data and before the end of the new voltage transition.
US08935534B1
A media access control (MAC) security apparatus for a local area network interface includes a parser, an encryption engine, an authentication engine, and a first buffer. The parser is configured to output packets. The encryption engine is configured to receive the packets from the parser and generate encrypted data based on the packets received from the parser and cryptographic primitives. The encryption engine includes an advanced encryption standard engine configured to form the cryptographic primitives. The authentication engine is configured to perform authentication operations of the local area network interface based on the encrypted data from the encryption engine. The first buffer is configured to interface the encryption engine to the parser. The parser and the encryption engine process data at different rates. The first buffer is configured to compensate for the different rates.
US08935531B2
The disclosure relates generally to mobile device applications, and more particularly, to a privacy system for a mobile device application. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of sending and receiving encrypted messages between users within an associated group of users is provided. The method includes: receiving a first message from a first user within the group of users, wherein the first message includes proprietary information; encrypting the first message into ciphertext; transforming the ciphertext into a second message, wherein the second message includes quotidian information; and sending the second message to a second user within the group of users. Once the second user receives the second message, the second user will assay the second message to be an encryption of an unknown first message. The second message is received from the second user, and is decrypted into the first message, which is displayed to the second user.
US08935525B2
A unique TIO based trust information delivery scheme is disclosed that allows clients to verify received certificates and to control Java and Javascript access efficiently. This scheme fits into the certificate verification process in SSL to provide a secure connection between a client and a Web server. In particular, the scheme is well suited for incorporation into consumer devices that have a limited footprint, such as set-top boxes, cell phones, and handheld computers. Furthermore, the TIO update scheme disclosed herein allows clients to update certificates securely and dynamically.
US08935520B2
A device for descrambling encrypted data includes a descrambler, a secure link, and a secure element that securely transmits a control word to the descrambler in a normal operating mode. The secure element includes a first secure register, a read-only memory having a boot code, a random-access memory for storing a firmware image from an external memory, and a processor coupled to the first secure register, the read-only memory, and the random access memory. The processor executes the boot code to generate the control word, stores the control word in the first secure register, and send the stored control word to the descrambler through a secure communication link. The descrambler may include a second secure register that is connected to the first secure register through the secure link. The first and second secure registers are not scannable during a normal operation. The secure link contains buried signal traces.
US08935511B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining processor offsets to synchronize processor time values. A determination is made of a master processor offset from one of a plurality of time values of the master processor and a time value of one of the slave processors. A determination is made of slave processor offsets, wherein each slave processor offset is determined from the master processor offset, one of the time values of the master processor, and a time value of the slave processor. A current time value of the master processor is adjusted by the master processor offset. A current time value of each of the slave processors is adjusted by the slave processor offset for the slave processor whose time value is being adjusted.
US08935504B1
Optimizations are provided for frame management operations, including a clear operation and/or a set storage key operation, requested by pageable guests. The operations are performed, absent host intervention, on frames not resident in host memory. The operations may be specified in an instruction issued by the pageable guests.
US08935501B2
A control method includes allocating a plurality of virtual disks to a virtual storage allocated to a physical storage, associating data with one of the plurality of virtual disks which has been instructed to store the data and storing the data in the physical storage, and selecting, by a processor, one of the plurality of virtual disks as a data movement target virtual disk from which data is to be moved in accordance with a network bandwidth of the physical storage corresponding to the virtual storage when free space in the virtual storage exceeds a threshold value.
US08935491B2
Invented hardware logic based methods and systems enable dynamically allocating and assigning an array of processing cores among instances of software programs, based on at least in part on indications of which instances of the programs are ready-to-execute, wherein such an indication for any given program instance is based at least in part on whether its fast-access memory contents are ready for it to execute without it needing at that time access to memories other than its fast-access memory. The invention also provides hardware logic based mechanisms for automating the updating of the fast-access memories for instances of the programs dynamically sharing the array of cores according to control by the program instances via their associated hardware device registers, including while a given program instance whose fast-access memory contents are being updated is not assigned for execution on any of the cores.
US08935484B2
A write-absorbing, volatile memory buffer for use with a processor module and a non-volatile memory is disclosed. The write-absorbing buffer operates as a dirty cache that can be used to look up both read and write requests, although allocating new blocks only for write requests and not read requests. The blocks are small sized, and a write-only least-recently used cache replacement policy is used to transfer data in the blocks to the non-volatile memory. The write-absorbing buffer can be used to store copy-on-write pages for at least one virtual machine associated with the processor module and reduce write overhead to the non-volatile memory.
US08935483B2
Described embodiments provide a packet classifier of a network processor having a plurality of processing modules. A scheduler generates a thread of contexts for each tasks generated by the network processor corresponding to each received packet. The thread corresponds to an order of instructions applied to the corresponding packet. A multi-thread instruction engine processes the threads of instructions. A state engine operates on instructions received from the multi-thread instruction engine, the instruction including a cache access request to a local cache of the state engine. A cache line entry manager of the state engine translates between a logical index value of data corresponding to the cache access request and a physical address of data stored in the local cache. The cache line entry manager manages data coherency of the local cache and allows one or more concurrent cache access requests to a given cache data line for non-overlapping data units.
US08935481B2
Aspects of the present disclosure disclose systems and methods for managing a level-two persistent cache. In various aspects, a solid-state drive is employed as a level-two cache to expand the capacity of existing caches. Any data stored in the level-two cache may be stored in a particular version or format of data known as “raw” data, in contrast to storing the data in a “cooked” version, as is typically stored in a level-one cache.
US08935480B1
A merchant system computes various probabilities that visitors to a Web site will request individual Web pages of the Web site. The computed probabilities are then utilized to cache Web pages having the highest probabilities of being requested to a client device. The probability data may include aggregate probability data that defines the probability that any visitor to the Web site will request a Web page, customer segment probability data that defines the probability that customers in a particular customer segment will visit the Web pages, and/or customer-specific probability data that defines the probability that a specific customer of the Web site will visit the Web pages. Only Web pages having a computed probability greater than a caching threshold may be cached at the client device. Additionally, the Web pages may also be cached at the client device based upon the actual interaction with the Web site by a visitor.
US08935476B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for managing caching of extents of tracks in a first cache, second cache and storage device. A determination is made of an eligible track in a first cache eligible for demotion to a second cache, wherein the tracks are stored in extents configured in a storage device, wherein each extent is comprised of a plurality of tracks. A determination is made of an extent including the eligible track and whether second cache caching for the determined extent is enabled or disabled. The eligible track is demoted from the first cache to the second cache in response to determining that the second cache caching for the determined extent is enabled. Selection is made not to demote the eligible track in response to determining that the second cache caching for the determined extent is disabled.
US08935475B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides for the execution of threads and/or workitems on multiple processors of a heterogeneous computing system in a manner that they can share data correctly and efficiently. Disclosed method, system, and article of manufacture embodiments include, responsive to an instruction from a sequence of instructions of a work-item, determining an ordering of visibility to other work-items of one or more other data items in relation to a particular data item, and performing at least one cache operation upon at least one of the particular data item or the other data items present in any one or more cache memories in accordance with the determined ordering. The semantics of the instruction includes a memory operation upon the particular data item.
US08935461B2
A memory includes a storage element which stores the number of times of application of a rewrite voltage pulse into a memory array, and a required-time output unit which outputs data representing a required time for a rewrite operation based on the number of times of application stored in the storage element.
US08935460B2
A memory apparatus includes first memory chip and second memory chip; and a control unit configured to manage a global reserved area, a first virtual area for the first memory chip, and a second virtual area for the second memory chip, wherein the first virtual area includes a first user area and a first reserved area, the second virtual area includes a second user area and a second reserved area, the global reserved area includes a first plurality of reserved blocks corresponding to the first reserved area and a second plurality of reserved blocks corresponding to the second reserved area, and the control unit is configured to assign a second virtual block included in the global reserved area to the first user area if the control unit detects a first virtual block included in the first user area is a bad block.
US08935453B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed in which unrelated completion operations intended for a single destination (requestor) are coalesced to improve achievable data bandwidth. During transmission, the completion operations are collected and compressed into a single packet and transmitted along the link. At a receiving end of the link, the single packet is decompressed and the previously unrelated packets are returned to their initial state before receipt by the requestor. The method can be implemented in the root complex, end points, and/or switches, in the case of a PCIe implementation, but can also be applied to other protocols besides PCIe.
US08935450B2
Various exemplary aspects are directed to apparatuses and methods involving switches communicatively-coupled on a bus where one or more of the switches operate to block signals from passing through the switch in a first mode, and to pass signals through the switch in a second mode. A logic circuit is responsive to addressing information received in the first mode, by storing and configuring the apparatus with the address information. The logic circuit ignores address information received in the second mode (e.g., does not reconfigure the apparatus with address information received in the second mode).
US08935445B2
The present invention relates to a multi-computers network sharing system having plug-and-play interfaces, comprising: an ethernet physical unit, a media accessing and controlling unit, a flow control unit, a plug-and-play interface transforming module, and a plurality of plug-and-play interfaces. In the multi-computers network sharing system of the present invention, when one of the external electronic devices is connected to any one of the plug-and-play interfaces, the flow control unit transmits the ethernet signal accessed by the first media accessing and controlling unit to the plug-and-play interface transforming module, therefore the plug-and-play interface transforming module transforms the ethernet signal to a plug-and-play interface signal and next transmits the plug-and-play interface signal to the electronic device connected with the plug-and-play interface, such that the electronic device can connect to the Internet without using any network cables or wi-fi devices.
US08935443B2
The description generally relates to a system designed to synchronize the rendering of a media file between a master device and a sister device. The system is designed so that a media file is simultaneously rendered on a master device and a sister device beginning from identical temporal starting points.
US08935434B1
A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.
US08935426B2
The invention relates to routing messages over a network of interconnected devices of a networked control system, particularly to routing messages for individually controlling devices of a networked control system such as light sources of a lighting system. A basic idea of the invention is to determine a routing path for a message from a sender device to a destination device through the grid of interconnected devices of a networked control system, and to change the routing path, when a faulty device is contained in the routing path, in order to route the message around the faulty device, instead of determining an entirely new routing path. Thus, an efficient routing of a message over a network of interconnected device may be provided. An embodiment of the invention provides a method for routing messages over a network of interconnected devices (10, 12, 14, 16, 18) of a networked control system (20), wherein the devices are arranged in an approximately rectangular grid and each device (10) is adapted for routing messages, which were received from directly neighbored devices (12, 14, 16, 18) in the grid, to directly neighbored devices (12, 14, 16, 18) in the grid, wherein the routing comprises the acts of determining a routing path for a message from a sender device to a destination device through the grid (S10), routing the message from the sender device to the destination device along the determined routing path through the grid (S12), and changing the routing path according to a predetermined routing rule for routing the message around a faulty device contained in the determined routing path (S14).
US08935419B2
In a system without a TCP termination process at normal times, and in the case where a URL within an HTTP access is extracted from reception packets, a passage/access refusal determination of the URL is performed, and a determination result is an access refusal, the TCP termination process is performed, a filtering device has the possibility that when an UTTP access as a disconnect case is frequently performed, it is erroneously recognized as a DoS attack on the side of the Web server device. A network system has a detection unit of frequent accesses to access control object data in the same Web server device from the same client device and a disconnect unit of a TCP connection to the Web server device after detection through the detection unit.
US08935412B2
The functionality of communications standards and protocols that are application-layer specific are overlaid on an IP-based infrastructure, by employing an IP DNS server as the registration host for IP and other communications standards based and protocol based communications. Communication can occur at either the IP layer or the communications standards or protocol application layer. At the IP layer, a host application can interrogate network nodes. To extend this service to other communications standards or protocol communications, device registration and resolve services are implemented on the DNS server. Similar to the manner in which an IP-based service uses a native, IP-based DNS resolve request, a host can utilize a resolution request against the communications standards and protocol-enabled DNS server for standards and protocol application-layer interrogation of endpoints.
