US09126526B2
A vehicle approach informing device includes: an informing sound output unit mounted on a vehicle and configured to inform of approach of the vehicle by transmitting sound to the outside; a distance measurement unit to detect a current position of the vehicle and to measure a distance between the detected current position and a predetermined position; and a sound volume control unit configured to set a sound volume outputted by the informing sound output unit to a predetermined normal sound volume when the distance measured by the distance measurement unit is equal to or longer than a first distance, and to set the sound volume to a lower level than the normal sound volume when the distance measured by the distance measurement unit is shorter than the first distance.
US09126523B2
Provided is a vehicle that elevates a working beam installed between a pair of booms with a working beam elevating unit and can ensure the area of a load receiving surface where a load is loaded. The working beam elevating unit is received in a working beam and one end of a chain is fixed to a boom. Therefore, the working beam is moved up/down by loosening and retracting the chain. Therefore, as the working beam elevating unit is installed at the working beam, it is not necessary to ensure a space for installing the working beam on a vehicle body. Therefore, it is correspondingly possible to enlarge the space (area of the load receiving surface) on the vehicle for loading a load.
US09126520B2
The present invention relates to a detachably attachable moving headboard trailer ejector and floor cleaning apparatus for use with a self-unloading trailer having a front end, a rear end, side walls, and either a reciprocating slat conveyor floor or a conveyor belt floor. The invention comprises, in one embodiment, a base, a panel sweeper, one or more panel sweeper support members, a means for traversing the panel sweeper, a tether bar, side flanges, and a base flange. In use, the invention is placed in the front end of a self-unloading trailer and the trailer is loaded with material; when material is ejected from the trailer, the invention transverses or “travels” along the top of the moving floor and pushes the material out of the trailer's back end. The rubber flanges ensure a snug fit within the trailer and keep post ejection residual material at a minimum.
US09126514B2
A system to inductively transfer power and transmit and receive data between a support structure associated with a vehicle and apparel worn by a user. The support structure has one or more primary inductive power coils. The apparel has one or more secondary inductive power coils. Primary circuitry cooperates with the primary inductive coils to energize at least one of the primary inductive coils. Secondary circuitry on the apparel cooperates with the secondary inductive power coil. An inductive data transmit and receive sub-system allows wireless inductive transmission of audio, text, images, video and other data between the support structure when occupied by the user, the vehicle data bus the support structure is conductively connected to, and devices located on the apparel.
US09126511B2
A self-locking step-by-step mechanism for an adjustment device of a vehicle seat has a clamping roller lock and a step-by-step device. The clamping roller lock a rotatable release wheel and a toothing. The step-by-step device has a) a pivotably mounted actuating lever, b) a driver pivotably mounted on the actuating lever and which has two driver regions which interact with the toothing of the release wheel, c) a drag lever which has supporting surfaces which enter into contact with the driver, and d) a spring. The spring has at least one projection. The drag lever has at least one indentation which is normally in engagement with the projection. The spring is fixed against rotating.
US09126510B2
A vehicle seat with a built-in cushion airbag device includes an inflator that produces gas by being activated; and a cushion airbag that is divided by a tether into a plurality of inflating portions including at least a rear-side inflating portion arranged on a seat lower side of a rear portion of a seat cushion, and a front-side inflating portion arranged to a seat front side of the rear-side inflating portion, and that inflates toward a seat upper side, with the front-side inflating portion becoming higher than the rear-side inflating portion, by the gas produced by the inflator being supplied.
US09126507B2
The invention relates to a longitudinal seat adjuster for a vehicle seat having easy entry functionality and folding functionality, comprising a rail system for longitudinal seat adjustment having a lower rail and an upper rail and an unlocking device.
US09126497B2
Method for controlling a vehicle that includes a support, at least one wheel, a platform coupled to the at least one wheel, a coupling structure having a support portion coupled to the support and a platform portion coupled to the platform that allows the support portion to move or slide fore and aft with respect to the platform portion, an actuator coupled to the coupling structure to control the position of the support portion relative to the platform portion, a drive coupled to the at least one wheel to deliver power to the at least one wheel to propel the vehicle and maintain the platform level, and a controller coupled to the drive to control the drive and coupled to the actuator to control the actuator.
US09126495B2
A reverse polarity protection circuit includes a p-channel MOSFET, an n-channel MOSFET, zener diodes, a coil that suppresses a backward flow of an electric current, a resistor that retains a voltage difference between a source of the p-channel MOSFET and a drain of the n-channel MOSFET, a resistor that protects the circuit if short-circuit destruction of the p-channel MOSFET occurs, a resistor that protects the circuit if short-circuit destruction of the n-channel MOSFET occurs, an electrolytic capacitor that suppresses fluctuation in an input voltage to a power supply control IC, a battery that supplies a voltage to an ECU, and the power supply control IC that generates a voltage for causing an IC in the ECU to operate.
US09126491B2
A shield for a coil unit to carry out non-contact power feeding by a resonance method includes a magnetic sheet capable of reducing a magnetic field, and a copper shield capable of reducing both an electric field and magnetic field. The magnetic sheet is arranged to take a layered configuration at a side closer to the coil unit than the copper shield.
US09126483B2
A vehicular display system includes a vehicle on-board unit having a vehicular display part, and a mobile device having a mobile display part. The vehicular display part is fixedly mounted on a vehicle and configured to display vehicular information including at least a vehicle speed. The mobile display part is configured to display the vehicular information including the vehicle speed when the mobile device is set in position between a driver of the vehicle and the vehicular display part.
US09126482B2
Attitude display system for remotely operated machine is provided. The attitude display system includes a pitch display and a roll display. The pitch display includes a fixed pitch reference scale and a pitch indicator. The pitch indicator can be configured to move relative to the fixed pitch reference scale to indicate a pitch of the remotely operated machine. The roll display includes a roll reference element and a roll indicator configured to pivot about a reference point to indicate a roll of the remotely operated machine. Further, the pitch display and the roll display include a pitch text field and a roll text filed to display a numeric value of the pitch and roll respectively. Also, the pitch indicator and the roll indicator can be configured to change to a first color and a second color based on a degree of movement or pivot.
US09126472B2
A door weatherstrip for a vehicle includes an extrusion part, which is mounted by insertion onto a flange 25 formed on the vertical side edge of a first-closing door 3 among double doors 3 and 4, and a molded part 51, which is integrally formed on the upper end of the extrusion part and seals between the first-closing door 3 and a next-closing door 4 when the doors 3 and 4 are closed. A molded part 51 has a wider part 31a including a deep insertion groove 29, and a slit 52 is formed in the door width direction from the side end on the sidewall 31, and water that has invaded through between the flange 25 and the molded part 51 flows out onto a drip channel 8 established on the upper edge of the door opening of the body via the slit 52.
US09126469B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle window assembly adapted to be mounted vertically above a header beam, having a flange portion that extends in a direction towards the center of a vehicle until it transits into a depressed portion. The assembly comprises a communication module adapted to receive and/or send information signals, a main window area, and an extended window area. The extended window area is formed as a partial extension of the main window area in a direction away from an upper main window area border.
US09126462B2
A self-inflating tire assembly includes an air passageway in the tire that is operable to be sequentially flattened by the tire footprint in a direction opposite to a tire direction of rotation to pump air from an inlet device through the passageway to an outlet device for direction into the tire cavity. A valve device for a tire is also disclosed. The valve device includes an insert mounted in the tire, a valve body mounted within the valve insert; wherein the valve body has a first, second and third chamber, wherein a first and second check valve is positioned in the first and second chamber. A pressure membrane is received within the valve body, and positioned to open and close the third chamber. The pressure membrane is in fluid communication with the tire cavity and the third chamber of the valve body. A spring is received within the third chamber and is positioned to exert force upon the pressure membrane to bias the pressure membrane position relative to the channel in the open position.
US09126460B2
A tire inflation system for a vehicle includes an axle spindle having a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface, a sleeve having a radially inner surface, a radially outer surface, an inboard end portion and an outboard end portion with a flared end. A cavity is located between the radially inner surface of the axle spindle and the radially outer surface of the sleeve. The cavity being in fluid communication on an inboard end portion with a first rotary seal and in communication on an outboard end portion with a second rotary seal, wherein the flared end of the sleeve closes the cavity on the outboard end portion.
US09126458B2
In the present invention, a carcass (120) of a pneumatic tire (1A) comprises a toroidal-shaped carcass main body (121) and a carcass folded part (122) folded at a bead core (111). A bead filler (131) is disposed outward of the bead core (111) in the tire radial direction. A rubber sheet (132) is disposed outward of the bead filler (131) in the tire radial direction. A space (DA) is formed between the tire radial direction outer side end (131a) of the bead filler (131) and the tire radial direction inner side end (132b) of the rubber sheet (132).
US09126453B2
In a wristbhaving a label-like structure, fracturing notches for preventing unauthorized use are positioned where the two ends of the band are to be glued together. If temporary peeling of the glued ends is attempted, the wristband breaks reliably and it is difficult to return it to the original state. If fracturing notches (11) are formed on either a first winding region (6) or a second winding region (7), which are positioned at left and right ends of the printing region (5). The wristband is configured so that a ring shape can be formed by overlapping and adhering the adhesive layer on the rear surface of one of shape, the first winding region (6) or the second winding region (7) onto the other winding region. An adhesion position check mark (15, 16) is formed on either the first winding region (6) or the second winding region (7).
US09126451B2
A thermal recording material having a heat-sensitive color-forming layer that contains a phosphate modifier in addition to an activator and lueco dye can provide good imaging. The phosphate modifier such as unsubstituted dibenzyl phosphate can be paired with an activator such 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid to provide an environmentally friendly thermal recording material.
US09126438B2
A printer comprising a roll storage part, a feeder, a printing head, a plurality of support rollers, and at least one guide member. The roll storage part rotatably stores a roll that winds a print-receiving tape around a predetermined axis. The feeder pulls out and feeds the print-receiving tape. The printing head performs desired printing on the print-receiving tape. The plurality of support rollers contact an outer peripheral surface of the roll and rotatably support the roll. The at least one guide member is provided to the roll storage part in an advanceable and retreatable manner and guides the print-receiving tape by contacting an end surface of the roll. The guide member comprises a plurality of through-holes configured to guide advancing and retreating of the guide member. A plurality of support rollers are respectively inserted along the width direction thorough the through-holes.
US09126431B2
An ink jet recording method uses an ink jet recording apparatus including a plurality of heads arranged in parallel in a first direction, each of which ejects droplets of a different radiation-curable ink composition onto a recording medium, and first light sources provided for corresponding heads so as to be disposed at a predetermined side of the corresponding heads. The first light sources emit active radiation to irradiate the droplets on the recording medium. The method includes ejecting droplets of the ink compositions from the heads onto the recording medium, and performing a first irradiation by irradiating the droplets of each ink composition with the active radiation from the corresponding first light source at an irradiation energy within 500 ms after the droplets have landed. The irradiation energy is in the range of 5% to 10% of the energy E90 at which the ink composition is 90% cured.
US09126425B2
According to one example, there is provided a method of duplex printing. The method comprises printing recto pages and associated recto checkmarks on a first side of a web and printing verso pages and associated verso checkmarks on a second side of a web, the length of each successively printed recto and verso checkmark varying in accordance with a respective recto and verso checkmark length sequence, determining the length of successive printed verso and recto checkmarks and determining their sequence position in the appropriate checkmark length sequence, and determining whether a print error has occurred based on the determined recto and verso checkmark sequence positions.
US09126424B2
An inkjet printing process includes advancing a print medium so that it contacts a relatively high-contact area of a platen. After the print medium first contacts the relatively high-contact area, ink is deposited on a side of the medium not contacting the platen to form an image. The print medium continues to advance so that the image passes over a relatively low-contact area of the platen.
US09126423B2
A method of surface marking an article, especially a building product, is provided. One described method includes the steps of laser marking a first graphic design element on a surface of an article and ink-jet printing a second graphic design element in registry with the first graphic design element on the surface of the article to create a high quality overall graphic design. Also provided are articles made according to this method, and systems for carrying out the method.
US09126417B2
A cover for a liquid container which exposes at least a portion of a detecting member, having a liquid supply portion to a liquid ejecting apparatus through communicating with the liquid containing unit, and a first surface provided with a first container side engagement portion arranged between the liquid supply portion and the detecting member. The cover includes a first cover side engagement portion engaging with the first container side engagement portion.
US09126395B2
A bridge sleeve has at each extreme end of the bridge sleeve, a multi-component stabilizer. One component of each stabilizer includes an inner cylindrical contacting surface having a diameter that changes as this respective component of the stabilizer moves axially relative to at least one other component of the respective stabilizer.
US09126393B2
A bonding apparatus configured to bond a component on a substrate is presented. The apparatus includes a stage, a push member, a support member and a compression member. The stage fixes the substrate in place and by using at least one first suction part formed in the stage. The push member is disposed above the stage and pushes the substrate fixed to the stage to support the substrate on the stage. At least one second suction part is formed in the support member to attach to a pad part of the substrate. The compression member compresses the component into the pad part fixed to the support member.
US09126385B2
Disclosed are an adhesive coating method and apparatus and a display panel. The adhesive coating method moves a coating unit at a first speed for forming a plurality of adhesive dots, which are separated from each other by a first distance in a straight section, and the coating unit coats an adhesive for forming the adhesive dots on the first substrate. When the coating unit enters from the straight section into the corner section, the adhesive coating method accelerates the coating unit to a second speed faster than the first speed for forming a plurality of adhesive dots, which are separated from each other by a second distance greater than the first distance in a corner section.
US09126384B2
A bonded body 10 includes a plate-shaped alumina or aluminum nitride ceramic member 12 and a Mo or Ti terminal 14 having a Ni coating, a Au coating, or a Ni—Au coating (Au on Ni) and joined to a recess 12a in the ceramic member 12 with a joint layer 16 therebetween. The joint layer 16 contains Au, Ge, Ag, Cu, and Ti and is in contact with at least part of the side surfaces (herein the entire side surfaces) and the bottom surface of the recess 12a. Ti is rich in the joint interface between the joint layer 16 and the ceramic member 12. The percentage (porosity) of the sum of the cross-sectional areas of pores to the cross-sectional area of the joint layer 16 in a cross-section taken across the thickness of the bonded body 10 is 0.1% to 15%.
US09126378B2
This invention is intended to provide a large-capacity servo press apparatus driven by multiple motors, the servo press apparatus enabling a drive at a high efficiency and with reduced torque pulsations in a simple structure. The disclosed servo press comprises a slide that is moved up and down by a plurality of crank structures (including eccentric rings and connecting rods), main gears that drive the crank structures, a plurality of drive gears interlinked with the main gears directly or indirectly, intermediate gears interlinked with the main gears directly or indirectly, and servo motor sets connected to drive shafts to drive the drive gears. In each of the servo motor sets, a plurality of servo motors are directly connected to each servo motor shaft.
US09126371B2
A method of manufacturing a custom sized plastic tote lighter in weight than heretofore known custom sized plastic totes is provided. The method comprises separating an injection molded tote into upper and lower portions by cutting the injection molded tote. A sleeve or middle portion of plastic material is secured to the upper and lower portions of the injection molded tote to create a custom sized plastic tote of a desired height. Alternatively, portions of different injection molded totes may be used to create a custom sized plastic tote. The sleeve may be made from different materials and may be made of multiple pieces.
US09126368B2
The present invention relates to a foil applicator, such as a spatula (1), for applying foil, in particular self-adhesive foil, to a surface, for instance the bodywork of a car. It is the object according to the present invention to provide an improved foil applicator. For this purpose the handgrip (2) is elongate and the pressing edge (5) lies at an angle relative to the handgrip. The foil applicator further comprises at least one hook (7, 8). Using the hook adhered foil can be pulled back, for instance out of or from edges, seams and transitions, in the event air bubbles have been included in the foil, without having to pick up another tool, which would take some time and during which time the foil could adhere more fixedly to the surface and the foil could be damaged even more when—after another tool has been picked up—it must then be released at or from the edges, seams and transitions.
US09126365B1
Various embodiments related to three dimensional printers, and reinforced filaments, and their methods of use are described. In one embodiment, a void free reinforced filament is fed into an conduit nozzle. The reinforced filament includes a core, which may be continuous or semi-continuous, and a matrix material surrounding the core. The reinforced filament is heated to a temperature greater than a melting temperature of the matrix material and less than a melting temperature of the core prior to drag the filament from the conduit nozzle.
US09126364B2
A press die is provided which includes a lower die having a lower core and an upper die having an upper core, the upper die includes moving blocks installed movably in a first horizontal direction and a bending shaft installed to the moving blocks, and the bending shaft presses a plate against a side surface forming portion of the lower core as the moving blocks move in the first horizontal direction, thereby enabling the plate to be deformed in the first direction.
US09126362B2
An apparatus for corona treating film includes a source of film material and at least one transport roller that is rotatably mounted in a frame. The transport roller has a longitudinal axis and has a width greater than the film. First and second treater heads have first and second leading edges, first and second trailing edges and are mounted parallel to the longitudinal axis. The second leading edge is parallel to and spaced from the first trailing edge by a second predetermined distance. The film is transported over the roller and a high voltage electric arc is provided to the first and second treater heads. The roller is grounded and provides a return path for the electric current provided to the first and second treater heads, thereby corona treating the front side or back side of the film if a second roller and third and fourth treater heads are used.
US09126361B2
When manufacturing hybrid components, especially the fan blades or stator vanes of an aircraft gas turbine including a metallic enveloping structure and a supporting structure in fiber-composite material, the mating faces of the metallic structure are cleaned and roughened with plasma prior to fitting the fiber-composite material and the metallic molecules activated so that high attractive forces take effect and an intimate, extremely strong adhesive connection is produced between the metal and the fiber-composite material. Fan blades or stator vanes of the fan structure of a gas-turbine engine which are manufactured according to this method are capable of transmitting high loads and feature a long service life.
US09126359B2
A method of producing a device comprises at least one displaceable operating member, wherein a foil (2) is placed into a mold and at least one polymer is injected into the mold to form a housing wall (3) adhering to the foil (2). The displaceable operating member comprises at least a flexible part of the foil (2) extending over a hole (5) in the housing wall (3). The foil is inserted into the mold, after which said polymer is injected into the mold to form the housing wall (3) with the hole and to form a support element (6) located in the hole (5). A gap (7) is provided between the support element (6) and the housing wall (3). The support element (6) is, at least at an outer area (9) near the gap (7), adhered to the foil (2) with a reduced adhesion force compared to an adhesion force between the housing wall (3) and the foil (2). After removing the device from the mold, the support element (6) and the flexible part of the foil (2) are mutually disconnected at a location of said reduced adhesion force.
US09126355B2
A system for changing a dimension of manufactured composite material parts may comprise a male tool, a female tool, a removable material, and a retainable material. The male tool may include a convex outer surface configured to receive composite material placed thereon to form a new part. The female tool may include a concave inner surface configured to receive the male tool such that the outer surface of the male tool faces the inner surface. The removable material may be placed on the composite material in a first area corresponding to a wide area on a previously manufactured part where an outer dimension was measured to be greater than a designed value. The retainable material may be placed on the composite material in a second area corresponding to a narrow area on the previously manufactured part where the outer dimension was measured to be less than the designed value.
US09126354B2
A method and a device for recycling labeled plastic articles are described. Accordingly, the labels are detached from the plastic articles and the plastic articles treated in this way are sorted in particular automatically. During sorting, plastic articles from which the labels have not been properly detached are sorted out and again subjected to the treatment for detaching the labels.
US09126349B2
An apparatus for severing a workpiece having a cutting mechanism operable to cut the workpiece substantially along a selected course; drive mechanism operable to drive the cutting mechanism to cut the workpiece; a transport assembly operable to guide the workpiece in movement relative to a predetermined severing position and with respect to the cutting mechanism; and a frame mounting the cutting mechanism and transport assembly in predetermined relation to each other and relative to the severing position so that the drive mechanism is operable to drive the cutting mechanism to cut the workpiece in the severing position.
US09126347B2
A microscopic geometry cutting device includes: a controller that outputs a timer count start command in starting a driving program which controls a drive of an X-axis or a Y-axis moving mechanism; an arrival time calculator that calculates an arrival time from when the timer count start command is output till when the cutter arrives at a machining start position in accordance with relative moving speed information of the moving mechanisms and machining start position information of a workpiece W; an elapsed time determiner that determines whether an elapsed time from when the timer count start command is output is coincident with the arrival time and outputs a trigger signal when the elapsed time is coincident with the arrival time; and a reciprocating stage driver that drives the reciprocating stage in a manner that the cutter advances and retracts in a predetermined cutting depth in response to the trigger signal.
US09126335B2
A method for applying a substance to the teats of a dairy livestock comprises extending a robotic arm between the legs of a dairy livestock positioned in a stall. The method continues by rotating a linear member of a spray tool about an axis that is perpendicular to the robotic arm, wherein the linear member has a perimeter that lies within an outer perimeter of the robotic arm when the robotic arm extends between the hind legs of the dairy livestock. The method continues by discharging a substance as the linear member rotates.
US09126331B2
A moving apparatus includes: robot guiding rails extended in a first direction to guide the working robot, and including first and second ends; first rollers included at a vicinity of the first end of the robot guiding rail and having a rotation axis in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; hook arms included at the vicinity of the first end of the robot guiding rail, and including hooks extended in the first direction and facing upwardly; hook latches included at a vicinity of the second end of the robot guiding rail, positioned at a position corresponding to the hook arm, and latched by the hooks of the hook arms at lower sides thereof; and docking guiding rails included at the vicinity of the second end of the robot guiding rail, extended in the first direction, and having an upper surface for guiding the first roller.
US09126325B1
A creeper is provided wherein the creeper has a main frame comprising a front and a rear; wheels attached to the main frame; a handle attached to the mainframe rearward of said wheels; a platform slidably attached to the main frame and rail engagement brackets attached to the mainframe forward of the wheels. Pressure is applied to the handle thereby lifting the front of the main frame thereby supporting the creeper on the wheels. The creeper is moved to a position under the railcar. Pressure is removed from the handle thereby allowing the front of the creeper to lower wherein the rail engagement brackets engage with rails of a track. The personnel lays on the platform and slides the platform under the railcar.
US09126299B2
A work holder which is adapted to hold a workpiece firmly in place for machining operations with respect to a machine tool. The workpiece is fashioned with a dovetail protuberance, which protuberance is designed to affix the workpiece to the work holder to the machining operations. Once the machining is completed, the dovetail protuberance may be removed in any convenient manner. Thus, the finished product may not then exhibit the former protuberance.
US09126298B2
A machining center includes a rotatable tool magazine (22) arranged above a work space (WS) facing a spindle (15) tilted so that the spindle side becomes lower and having a plurality of grippers (24) for holding tools (16) in a circumferential direction, and a shutter (26) arranged below the tool magazine (22) to be able to open and close facing the spindle side. The tool magazine (22) has a tool-free area (AR2) where there are no grippers (24) at a part of the circumferential direction and a tool-holding area (ARA) where there are grippers (24) at another part of the circumferential direction. The tool magazine (22) is controlled in rotation so that when the shutter (26) is closed, the tool-free area (AR2) moves to the spindle side while when the shutter (26) is open, the tool-holding area (AR1) moves to the spindle side.
US09126294B2
An apparatus includes a body, a driver, a plurality of shafts, and a plurality of arms. The body is configured for insertion into a component and the driver is adapted for movement relative to the body. The plurality of shafts extend through the body and are connected to the plurality of arms. The tool is configured such that contact by the driver against the shaft rotates the plurality of shafts to pivot the plurality of arms.
US09126293B2
An assembling method of a vehicular air-conditioning apparatus including various equipment, which is required for air-conditioning a vehicle, mounted in a vehicular-air-conditioner frame on a production line includes modularization of, among the various equipment, at least a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, and an outdoor heat exchanger off the production line, and, further, modularization of a refrigeration cycle by connecting the above modules with refrigerant pipes off the production line, as well as incorporating the modularized refrigerant cycle into assembly work on the production line as a refrigerant cycle module.
US09126279B2
A brazing method is disclosed. The brazing method includes providing a substrate, providing at least one groove in the substrate, providing a support member, positioning the support member over the at least one groove in the substrate, providing a braze material, applying the braze material over the support member to form an assembly, and heating the assembly to braze the braze material to the substrate. Another brazing method includes providing a preform, providing a wire mesh, pressing the wire mesh into the preform, heating the preform to form a braze material including the wire mesh, providing a substrate, providing at least one groove in the substrate, applying the braze material over the at least one groove in the substrate, then brazing the braze material to the substrate.
US09126268B2
A lathe tool that works in conjunction with a HUNTER lathe to engage a rotating an inner frictional surface of a flywheel on its axis to perform various symmetrical operations about an axis of rotation such as cutting and facing with a cutting tool. The components of the lathe tool position to one side of the flywheel to allow sufficient clearance for engaging a large flywheel across the full diameter of the flywheel, and also provide adjustment mechanisms for enhanced precision. A lathe mount extends perpendicularly from the Hunter lathe terminating at a lathe mount aperture. A tool mount passes through the lathe mount aperture terminating at a cutting tool notch, where the cutting tool attaches. A bracket passes through the tool mount and includes an adjustable screw that extends towards the Hunter lathe, rotating to draw the lathe tool to and from the flywheel.
US09126263B2
A continuous casting plant (1) includes at least one continuous casting line, optionally, at least one reducing unit, at least one separation device, and one or more devices for tempering the strip, and at least one auxiliary rolling line is arranged parallel to the continuous casting line with conveyors (10, 10′) for continuously inwardly transferring different slab formats into the line of the continuous casting plant (1).
US09126261B2
An injection pump for the hot-chamber die casting of corrosive light alloys includes a body provided with an internal coaxial liner where an injector piston sealingly slides. The liner being made of a material resistant to the molten alloy and has a coefficient of thermal expansion different from the material of the body. Static sealing elements, made of a graphite-based non-metallic material that yields under compression, are arranged between the internal surface of the body and the external surface of the liner. The pump also has axial compression means arranged between a ring nut screwed into the body and the liner and the static sealing elements.
US09126259B2
A composite utility knife blade and method of making such a blade involves butt joining a tool steel wire to a front edge of an alloy steel backing strip. The wire is electron beam welded to the backing strip to form a composite strip defining a first metal portion formed by the alloy steel backing strip, a second metal portion formed by the tool steel wire, and a weld region joining the first and second metal portions. The composite strip is then annealed, and the annealed strip is straightened to eliminate any camber therein. The annealed composite strip is then hardened such that the first metal portion defines a surface hardness within the range of approximately 38 Rc to approximately 52 Rc, and the second metal portion defines a surface hardness within the range of approximately 60 Rc to approximately 57 Rc.
US09126252B2
Forming a channel letter box using a profile, including: determining an incision position on one surface of the profile where at least one surface incision is to be made; surface incising at the determined position; folding the profile at the incision position to form the channel letter box, wherein the profile comprises at least one protruding rib on one surface of the profile; and cutting and attaching a top plate to the channel letter box, wherein a thickness of the top plate is substantially close to a distance from the top of the profile to the top of a top rib of the at least one rib.
US09126251B2
A method for making a device includes providing a tubular member which will be formed into the device, masking at least a portion of the inner surface of the tubular member with a removable sacrificial material, selectively removing a portion of the tubular member and sacrificial material using a laser device, and mechanically removing the sacrificial material from the inner surface of the tubular member. Ultrasonic energy could be applied to a workpiece which is being laser cut to prevent any generated slag from welding itself to an exposed surface of the workpiece. A compressed fluid or gas, such as air, could be used to clean the surface of the laser-cut workpiece to remove slag formation which adheres to the surface of the cut workpiece.
US09126245B2
A method for the removal of semi-volatile organic compounds in soils, sludges, groundwater, process water, and wastewater is presented. Oxidation and biological attenuation processes utilize persulfates and other oxidants with trivalent metals, such as ferrous iron or Mn3+, as activators. The resulting chemical oxidation process yields degradation compounds which facilitate further attenuation via biological processes.
US09126244B2
Anaerobic reductive dechlorination processes remove chlorinated solvents from contaminated subsurface soil and ground water. The presence of organic hydrogen donors enables anaerobic microorganisms present in the subsurface soil and groundwater to accelerate the reductive dechlorination process. The present invention provides an alternative method to control the release rate of organic hydrogen donors during dechlorination. The invention utilizes encapsulated substrates to control the release rate of organic hydrogen donors, therefore accelerating the biotic process of anaerobic reductive dechlorination.
US09126243B2
An arm-length glove made of a flexible material for performing maintenance work within sealed housings. An armhole-side end of which can be attached to a flange of a maintenance opening in a gas-tight manner and the hand end of which is freely movable, wherein a hand-grip is located in the hand end. The hand end is telescopically extendable. A camera and a light source are located at the hand end. Furthermore tools and/or sensors are also located at the hand end.
US09126242B2
A bell jar includes a metallic bell jar (1), and a metallic base plate (2) on which the bell jar (1) is placed, and packing (3) seals an inside of a container. To the base plate (2), a pressure gauge (4), a gas introduction line (5), and a gas discharge line (6) are connected so as to allow monitoring of internal pressure of the bell jar (1) and introduction and discharge of a gas. A vacuum pump (7) is provided in a path of the gas discharge line (6), and the vacuum pump (7) reduces internal pressure of the bell jar so as to be lower than vapor pressure of water. The vacuum pump (7) reduces the internal pressure of the bell jar so as to be lower than vapor pressure of water, thereby efficiently removing moisture, and completing drying of the bell jar in a short time.
US09126240B2
The invention provides an intermediate storage device of an electrostatic coating system that can clean efficiently, a method for cleaning the same, and a method for coating. An intermediate storage device 10 comprises: a first hole 141 which is open to a cylinder chamber 14 and is connected to a paint supply source; a second hole 142 which is open to the cylinder chamber 14 and is connected to a coating gun; and a switch means which switches between a first cleaning which cleans the cylinder chamber 14 by supplying cleaning fluid W from the first hole 141 and discharging from the second hole 142 waste fluid that has undergone cleaning and a second cleaning which cleans the cylinder chamber 14 by supplying cleaning fluid W from the second hole 142 and discharging from the first hole 141 waste fluid that has undergone cleaning.
US09126239B2
The invention described herein is directed to a skid for cleaning subsea conduits, such as strakes and fairings, and a method of cleaning subsea conduits. This invention may be utilized for the removal of marine growth from subsea conduits.
US09126238B2
The vehicle snow removal system is a drive-through station for clearing snow, ice, or other debris from a flat surface of a vehicle, such as the vehicle's roof, for example. The vehicle snow removal system includes a pair of vertical supports, each having an upper end and a lower end. The lower ends thereof are adapted for mounting on a support surface. The pair of vertical supports are laterally spaced apart from one another such that the vehicle may drive therebetween. Opposed ends of a horizontal support are mounted on respective upper ends of the vertical supports. At least one blower is mounted substantially centrally on the horizontal support, and the vertical supports each have sufficient height to provide clearance for the roof of the vehicle. The at least one blower may be actuated either automatically or manually to blow accumulated snow from the flat surface of the vehicle.
US09126234B2
A system for automatically sorting a mailpostal matter and a method thereof are provided. The system for automatically sorting a mailpostal matter includes a mailpostal matter supply unit configured to convey two inputted mailpostal matters by controlling a distance between the two inputted mailpostal matters to be equal to a distance between carriers when the two mailpostal matters are inputted through one inlet at the same time, a mailpostal matter inserting unit, configured to insert the two conveyed mailpostal matters into two crossbelt carriers which are continuously empty at the same time when the two mailpostal matters are conveyed from the mailpostal matter supply unit, and a crossbelt carrier configured to move the two mailpostal matters inserted from the mailpostal matter inserting unit.
US09126226B2
A device (10) for applying particulate material onto a surface of a mould is described. The device (10) comprises a container (12) for holding particulate material and defining an opening (18) for releasing the material. A closure device (20) is operable to open and close the opening (18). A levelling means (24) projects from the container (12) adjacent to the opening (18) and is operable to level the surface of the material dispensed. The levelling means (24) is shorter than the length of the opening (18) so that the opening extends beyond each end of the levelling means (24). In this way, an even layer of particulate material can be dispensed in one pass covering the bass of a mould cavity and opposed side walls of the cavity.
US09126218B2
An ultrasonic atomizing unit is provided which can spray fine particles of a liquid farther without greatly increasing a voltage applied to a piezoelectric vibrator and using a fan. An annular atomizing member (1) is provided and ultrasonically vibrates a vibrating plate (12) with a piezoelectric vibrator (11) to atomize a liquid. The atomizing member (1) is elastically sandwiched and held by a casing (3) through a pair of annular elastic rings (2) that are in contact with the atomizing member (1). A maximum facing width in a radial direction between each annular elastic member and one surface of the atomizing member (1) on one side in the radial direction from the center of the atomizing member (1) is 40% of a radial direction width of the piezoelectric vibrator (11) on one side in the radial direction from the center of the piezoelectric vibrator (11).
US09126214B2
A showerhead is disclosed in this invention. The showerhead includes a bottom portion, at least one plate, and a top portion. The bottom portion includes a plurality of gas tubes which are integratedly formed on the bottom portion. The gas tubes include at least one first gas tube. The at least one plate includes a first plate. The first plate includes a plurality of first openings, wherein the gas tubes pass through the first openings. The top portion is coupled to the bottom portion for forming at least one inner space.
US09126211B2
A rotary atomizer is disclosed, comprising an atomizer bell and a shaft carrying the same. The rotary atomizer may further include a retainer between the atomizer bell and the shaft, said retainer preventing, e.g., by the action of a centrifugal force, the atomizer bell from detaching itself from the shaft.
US09126204B1
A process and system for producing an engineered fuel product that meets customer specifications for composition and combustion characteristics is provided. The engineered fuel product is preferably a high-BTU, alternative fuel that burns cleaner than coal or petroleum coke (petcoke) and has significantly reduced NOx, SO2 and GHG emissions.
US09126190B2
A method is disclosed for preparing zeolite SSZ-70 using an imidazolium cation as a structure directing agent in conjunction with a polyethyleneimine modifier. The SSZ-70 zeolite is characterized as having an external surface area larger than conventional SSZ-70 zeolites.
US09126189B2
Disclosed is a method of making a pyrochlore comprising, obtaining a solution comprising a solvent and a metal precursor or salt thereof capable of forming a pyrochlore, wherein the metal precursor or salt thereof is dissolved in the solvent, subjecting the solution to a drying step to obtain a non-gelled or non-polymerized pyrochlore precursor material in powdered form, and subjecting the pyrochlore precursor material to a calcination step to obtain a pyrochlore.
US09126184B2
A process is disclosed using a new catalyst for use in the alkylation of benzene with a substantially linear olefin. The catalyst allows for cation exchange with a rare earth element to increase the alkylation of benzene, while reducing the amount of isomerization of the alkyl group. This is important for increasing the quality of the alkylbenzene by increasing the linearity of the alkylbenzene.
US09126181B2
An aromatic alkylation catalyst is presented. The aromatic alkylation catalyst comprised a zeolite, an inorganic oxide, and silanol functional groups of less than about 0.65 area/mg on the surface of the catalyst.
US09126173B2
An integrated plant generates syngas from biomass, where the integrated plant includes a Thermo Mechanical Pulping (TMP) process, a biomass gasifier, a methanol synthesis process, and a liquid fuel generation process. Biomass is received as a feedstock in the TMP process. The biomass is pre-treated in the TMP process for subsequent supply to the biomass gasifier by using a combination of heat, pressure, moisture, and mechanical agitation that are applied to the biomass to make the biomass into a pulp form. The TMP process breaks down a bulk structure of the received biomass, at least in part, by applying steam to degrade bonds between lignin and hemi-cellulose from cellulose fibers of the biomass. Next, the broken down particles of the biomass are reacted in a biomass gasification reaction at a temperature of greater than 700 degrees C. to create syngas components, which are fed to a methanol synthesis process.
US09126171B2
A process for recharging the reaction tubes of a tube bundle reactor with a new fixed catalyst bed, in which a heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of an organic compound had been performed beforehand in a preceding fixed catalyst bed comprising Mo-comprising multielement oxide active compositions to form a steam-comprising product gas mixture, in which, before the recharge, solid deposit which had been deposited on the tube inner walls and comprises molybdenum oxide and/or molybdenum oxide hydrate is brushed away with the aid of a brush.
US09126160B2
A system, including method and apparatus, for forming an array of emulsions. The system may include a plate providing an array of emulsion production units each configured to produce a separate emulsion and each including a set of wells interconnected by channels that intersect to form a site of droplet generation. Each set of wells, in turn, may include (1) at least one first input well to receive a continuous phase, (2) a second input well to receive a dispersed phase, and (3) an output well configured to receive from the site of droplet generation an emulsion of droplets of the dispersed phase disposed in the continuous phase.
US09126154B2
This invention relates to high hydrocarbon resistant chemically cross-linked aromatic polyimide polymers, membranes and methods for making and using these polymers and membranes. The high hydrocarbon resistant chemically cross-linked aromatic polyimide membrane described in the present invention comprises a plurality of repeating units of a first aromatic polyimide comprising hydroxyl groups cross-linked with a second aromatic polyimide comprising carboxylic acid groups via covalent ester bonds. These membranes exhibit high permeability and selectivity in separation of mixtures of gases and liquids.
US09126144B2
There is disclosed a honeycomb structure in which a ring crack is not easily generated. A honeycomb structure includes a honeycomb substrate, and a bulging portion continuously or intermittently surrounding, in a ring shape, at least a part of an outer periphery of the honeycomb substrate. The outer periphery of the honeycomb substrate has one or a plurality of stress relaxing portions which are crevices each having an open end in the surface over a region of −5 to +10 mm or less from a reference bonded portion to a tapered surface, and a total of lengths of all the stress relaxing portions is 3% or more of a circumferential length of the honeycomb substrate.
US09126141B2
A membrane for a method for filtration of gas effluents from an industrial installation including a wall having an internal surface and an external surface, the wall having pores of variable dimensions in the radial direction and in the longitudinal direction of the wall.
US09126136B2
Cassette bodies for use with electrophoresis apparatus can be formed of a single piece of molded or machined plastic. Such cassette bodies can include a plurality of channels that pass through the cassette body, from a proximal end to a distal end. Such channels can be defined by upper and lower chambers. The upper chambers can be in fluid communication with a first buffer pool through a semi-permeable membrane, and the lower chambers can be in fluid communication with a second buffer pool. An electric current can be passed through the first and second buffer pools, and then reversed, to perform an electrophoresis operation that can separate a biomolecule of interest from free probes, and provide for convenient collection of said biomolecule of interest.
US09126134B2
The invention relates to an exhaust gas separating tower, comprising a washing section, a flash-distilling section above the washing section, and a liquid seal means between the flash flash-distilling section and the washing section. The washing section is configured for washing exhaust gas entering the tower with a cooling liquid to at least partially remove solid dust entrained in the exhaust gas, cool the exhaust gas, and condense at least a portion of moisture in the exhaust gas into liquid. The flash-distilling section is configured for flash-distilling the cooling liquid from the washing section to produce a cooled cooling liquid and a cooling liquid vapor. The liquid seal means is configured so that the cooling liquid produced by flash-distillation can enter the washing section through the liquid seal means while the flash-distilling section is in gas-phase isolation from the washing section, wherein a pressure in the flash-distilling section is lower than that in the washing section.
US09126126B2
A process for recovery of sulfolane used in a solvent-extraction or extractive-distillation process includes introducing a mixture into a solvent-recovery column having a heat source connected to a bottom portion of the column and removing a lean solvent stream, substantially free of hydrocarbons, from the bottom of the column, removing a polar-hydrocarbon-rich overhead stream from the top section of the column and maintaining the needed vacuum conditions using a liquid-jet ejector, preferably using water as the liquid.
US09126124B2
Apparatuses and methods for enhancing the multisensory experience of the members of the audience at entertainment venues are disclosed. The inventions disclosed herein permit an audience member to receive sensory stimulation of the senses of sound, sight, smell, touch, or taste through multisensory entertainment modules positioned on a structure so that each audience member is within a maximum optimal distance from one or more multisensory entertainment modules. An object of the inventions is to provide each attendee at an entertainment event with a multisensory experience of similar quality to that of every other attendee.
US09126115B2
Technologies are generally described for a safety scheme for a gesture-based game. In some examples, a method performed under control of a gesture-based game system may include determining whether an obstacle exists within a playing space associated with a game being currently played on the gesture-based game system, and generating in a display area associated with the game a barrier image associated with the obstacle.
US09126110B2
A game device comprises: a first receiving unit configured to receive an input direction from a controller comprising an input interface for accepting an input direction in which to move a target displayed on a screen of a display device; a second receiving unit configured to receive, from a sensor that detects the position or the attitude of the controller, information relating to the position and the attitude of the controller; and a movement control unit configured to move the position of the target based on both of the direction received by the first receiving unit and the information relating to the position or the attitude of the controller received by the second receiving unit.
US09126105B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for expanding gaming social networks with players having no existing social relationships with other players. One method includes an operation for identifying first filters selected by a first user, the first filters identifying a first criteria for desired new friends. Another operation identifies second filters selected by a plurality of users in the network, where the second filters are entered by each user to identify second criteria for being added as a friend in the network. A plurality of candidates to be added as friends for the first user are determined, where each candidate conforms to the first criteria and where the first user conforms to the second criteria set by each candidate. Additionally, friendship requests are sent to one or more of the candidates or candidates are added as friends when the candidates have chosen automatic addition of friends.
US09126103B2
Playing card-handling devices, such as shufflers, dealing shoes, discard racks and verification systems, are rotatably secured to a gaming table to allow for functional and ergonomic adjustment of the card-handling device, without removal from the gaming table. One end of the device, preferably a front end of the device from which playing cards may be removed, has a structure that extends through an aperture in the gaming table. The device is movable within the aperture. Movement in the X-Y direction, angular movement and rotational movement, parallel to the movement of the plane of the surface of the gaming table, is enabled. The movement of the device about the aperture preferably maintains the base of the device relatively parallel to the plane of the surface of the gaming table.
US09126091B2
A golf club swing training apparatus and a method for fabricating it are provided. The apparatus includes a golf club shaft and a slide mechanism. The shaft includes an upper portion and a lower portion that are spaced apart to form a gap there-between. The slide mechanism is inserted within this gap and is connected to the lower end of the upper shaft portion and the upper end of the lower shaft portion. The slide mechanism includes an upper connector, a sliding rail, a rail guide block, and a lower connector that are configured to permit a lateral shift of this lower portion relative to this upper portion during a swinging of the club. The method uses an axial alignment apparatus to maintain the elongated axis of the upper shaft portion in substantial alignment with the elongated axis of the lower shaft portion when the slide mechanism is being connected.
US09126090B1
A visual reference and feedback device for use with a golf club is presented. The visual reference and feedback device includes a clubface reference head and a neck that connects a supporting body to the clubface reference head. The supporting body includes three supporting members having a first supporting member, a second supporting member, and a third supporting member. C-clip fasteners may be formed at distal ends of the first supporting member and second supporting member. A sternum guide may be formed as a rectangular structure at the outer portion of the first supporting member and proximate to the neck of the visual aid and feedback device.
US09126078B2
In an elliptical step exercise apparatus a dynamic link mechanism can be used to vary the stride length of the machine. A control system can also be used to vary stride length as a function of various exercise and operating parameters such as speed and direction as well as varying stride length as a part of a preprogrammed exercise routine such as a hill or interval training program. In addition the control system can use measurements of stride length to optimize operation of the apparatus.
US09126058B2
A mouthwash composition comprises water and a modified polyglutamic acid composed of a plurality of segment A and a plurality of segment B randomly arranged, in which, the segment A has a formula I: The segment B has a formula II: wherein X=H, Na, K, NH4, ½Ca, or ½Mg, and Y=Cl, Br, or I. The modified polyglutamic acid in the mouthwash composition is 0.1-5 wt %. The mouthwash composition in the present invention can eliminate bad breath, and also has antibacterial properties, so it can suppress the formation of dental plaque and is effective in preventing periodontal disease.
US09126052B2
Approaches for rate initialization and overdrive pacing used during capture threshold testing are described. Cardiac cycles are detected and the cardiac events of a cardiac chamber that occur during the cardiac cycles are monitored. The number of intrinsic beats in the cardiac events is counted. Initialization for a capture threshold test involves maintaining a pre-test pacing rate for the capture threshold test if the number of intrinsic beats in the cardiac events is less than a threshold. The pacing rate is increased for the capture threshold test if the number of intrinsic beats in the cardiac events is greater than the threshold.
US09126037B2
A medical electrical lead includes an inductance augmenter assembly. The assembly includes an inductor coil formed of an insulated wire, which is wound about a non-conductive core and is electrically coupled in series between a conductor coil of the lead and an electrode of the lead.
US09126036B2
An electron therapy unit for delivering therapeutic electrons to a patient during an operation that is made up of a movable and stowable beam head that may be connected permanently or temporarily to either a base cabinet or a fixed structure using one or more optionally pivotable arms is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the inventive electron therapy unit is a mobile unit suitable for in-hospital use or for shared use between hospitals or clinics. The unit is self-contained, small, light and easy to use. It has a very reliable, compact design, allowing for easy stowing to a small rugged configuration for transport. In another exemplary embodiment, the inventive electron therapy unit is a stationary unit. An ion chamber for use with such an optionally transportable electron therapy unit is also provided. The ion chamber employs two or more collector plates and associated bias plates, each having a centrally located hole that extends through the plate. Further provided is a method for reducing or eliminating the possibility of significantly higher current caused by electrical arcs and power excursions during operation of the inventive electron therapy unit.
US09126031B2
This disclosure provides a medical lead assembly that includes a lead body having a proximal end configured to couple to an implantable medical device and a distal end. The lead assembly further includes an electrode assembly located at the distal end of the lead body, the electrode assembly including a tip electrode, a conductive electrode shaft that is electrically coupled to the tip electrode and an energy dissipating structure that is coupled to at least a portion of the conductive electrode shaft at high frequencies to redirect at least a portion of the current induced in the lead by a high frequency signal from the tip electrode to the energy dissipating structure.
US09126021B2
A guidewire includes a first junction that joins a distal end of an inner coil body and a portion of a core shaft positioned a non-zero distance away from a distal end toward a proximal end; a second junction that joins a proximal end of the inner coil body and the core shaft; a third junction that joins a distal end of the outer coil body and the distal end of the core shaft; and a fourth junction that joins a proximal end of the outer coil body and the core shaft. The outer coil body includes a tapered coil portion and a uniform-diameter coil portion. The inner coil body is disposed inside the uniform-diameter coil portion of the outer coil body. The inner coil body is joined to the core shaft at only the first and second junctions but is not joined to the outer coil body.
US09126013B2
Novel catheter systems including those having guidewire lumens that can convert from an Over-the-Wire mode to a Rapid Exchange mode are useful and effective when crafted such that this conversion happens without adjusting the position of the guidewire in a body lumen.
US09126011B2
A catheter for providing a blood flow includes a wall defining at least one lumen extending between a distal end and a proximal end. A distal end portion of the catheter is deformable to selectively open and close one or more ports in the wall to allow the blood flow into or out of the at least one lumen of the catheter.
US09126005B1
A breathing tube support device for holding and supporting one or more flexible breathing tube(s) of a breathing circuit during provision of anesthesia, assisted and artificial ventilation and/or spontaneous ventilation has a flexible support arm formed of a length of flexible axially extendable and collapsible corrugated tubing, a mounting base at a bottom end thereof for attachment to the patient or a support surface, and a breathing tube holder a top end thereof for receiving and supporting a section of the breathing tube(s). The flexible support arm can be expanded to increase its length longitudinally and collapsed upon itself to shorten its length longitudinally, and is sufficiently flexible to assume a bent or curved configuration, and sufficiently stable to retain the bent or curved configuration, whereby breathing tube(s) held and supported by the device can be optimally positioned relative to the patient's head and neck area.
US09125989B2
Device for determining the characteristics of peritoneal membrane comprising means for measuring glucose in the fluid drainage and a processing unit comprising means for determining the characteristics of the membrane as a function of that rate of glucose measured at different times. The invention also relates to a method for determining the characteristics of peritoneal membrane including the consideration of glucose measured at different moments in the liquid drainage.
US09125986B2
The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device (10) comprising a housing (12, 14); a medicament container (22) arranged inside the housing; a medicament delivery drive unit comprising a plunger rod (28) acting on said medicament container (22) and a power force (26) capable of driving said plunger rod (28) for delivering a dose of medicament. The invention is characterised in a delivery controller (30) comprising a manually operable release mechanism (30, 36) for releasing said plunger rod (28) and said power source (26) for delivering a dose of medicament and a manually operable control speed mechanism (30, 38) capable of controlling the speed of the released plunger rod and thereby the medicament delivery speed.
US09125962B2
The present invention includes an apparatus and method for processing solid waste products. The invention features periodic removal of water preferably while the contents are under pressure. The apparatus comprises a rotatably mounted cylindrical vessel having a first end, a second end and an interior surface, at least one end terminating in a hatch that may be opened to allow access to the interior of the vessel and sealably closed to allow pressurization of the vessel; a steam inlet for injecting stem disposed at one or both ends; and one or more valves for exhausting water periodically as the waste mass is being processed.
US09125955B2
An embodiment of the invention comprises method of imaging a target site comprising administrating ligand of Formula I complexed to 99mTc wherein R1 and R2 are independently an alkyl or cycloalkyl; R3 is and alkyl; X is CO or SO2; Y is (CH2)n, C6H4, (OCH2CH2)n(NHCH2CH2)n and (OCH2CH2CH2)n, or a combination thereof; Z is linker group capable of conjugating to a vector; and n is an integer between 0 and 10.
US09125953B2
The invention relates to a complex made of α-cyclodextrin and a halogenated ether, characterized by a content of the halogenated ether of at least 3 wt % of the total weight of the complex.
US09125950B2
An immunogenic composition comprising a siderophore covalently linked to a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier molecule wherein the antigenicity of the siderophore moiety is sufficient to stimulate an immunologic response to the siderophore when the composition is circulating in the bloodstream of a human or non-human animal and vaccine.
US09125947B2
The presently described technology provides phenylethanoic acid, phenylpropanoic acid, phenylpropenoic acid, a salt thereof, a derivative thereof or a combination thereof chemically conjugated to hydrocodone (morphinan-6-one, 4,5-alpha-epoxy-3-methoxy-17-methyl) to form novel prodrugs or compositions of hydrocodone which have a decreased potential for abuse of hydrocodone. The present technology also provides methods of treating patients, pharmaceutical kits and methods of synthesizing conjugates of the present technology.
US09125941B2
The invention discloses an aqueous method of making polymer coated superparamagnetic nanoparticles. Nanoparticles made by the method are included in the invention.
US09125925B2
Methods and compositions for reducing intraocular pressure in a patient, particularly a human patient, are described. In particular, compositions are disclosed that contain an anthocyanoside or an extract comprising it, a proanthhocyanidin or an extract comprising it and combinations thereof. The compositions are useful for lowering intraocular pressure.
US09125921B2
An anti-viral composition comprising terpenes and fatty acids found in the Scophulariaceae family of plants is disclosed. It further comprises other lipophillic constituents and the aglycons of the glycosides occurring in said family of plants. Preferably, the composition is derived by extraction of the roots and rhizomes of mixtures of Picrorhiza kurrooa Royle, Picrorhiza scrophularflora Pennell and Neopicrorhiza scrophulańiflora. Solvents and solvent combinations are disclosed. The composition is effective against both DNA and RNA viruses and against fungal, bacterial, parasitic and protozoal infections and diseases and also as a hepatoprotective, anti-hyperlipidemic, anti-diabetic and kidney-protective agent. Antibodies and vaccines for the cited diseases can be made by administration of the composition to animal or other subjects.
US09125917B2
Effective treatments of pain and inflammation are provided. Through the administration of an effective amount of fluocinolone at or near a target site, one can reduce, prevent or treat inflammation and pain and autoimmune disorders. In various embodiments, fluocinolone formulations may be provided within biodegradable polymers to reduce, prevent or treat sciatic pain and/or inflammation. In various embodiments, prevent transplant rejection for at least twenty-five days. In some embodiments, the pain relief can be for at least fifty days, at least one hundred days, at least one hundred and thirty-five days or at least one hundred and eighty days.
US09125904B1
Biphenyl imidazoles and related compounds of Formula I, useful as antiviral agents, are provided herein. Pharmaceutical compositions containing a compound of Formula I, together with a second active agent, such as an NS3a protease inhibitor are provided herein. Methods for treating viral infections, including Hepatitis C infections, are included herein by providing a compound of Formula I together with an additional active agent. In certain embodiments the additional active agent is an NS3a protease inhibitor.
US09125903B2
The present invention relates to a composition useful for the treatment of lipid metabolism disorders, comprising one or more of the following active ingredients: (a) extract of rice fermented with Monascus purpureus, (b) at least one omega-3 fatty acid, (c) L-carnitine or a salt thereof; and one or more of the following active ingredients: (d) at least one policosanol or a natural extract containing policosanols; (e) resveratrol or a natural extract containing resveratrol; (f) Coenzyme Q10; and (g) at least one vitamin.
US09125901B2
The present invention provides 4-(benzimidazol-2-ylamino)benzamide derivatives and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof. The (benzimidazol-2-ylamino)benzamide derivatives are of formula wherein X, Y, Z, and Q are defined herein. Also provided herein are methods of slowing the expansion of cancer cells with these compounds.
US09125898B2
The present invention provides a method of treatment, prevention and/or delay of progression of neuropathic pain by a specific dosing regime of acetam derivatives.
US09125886B2
This invention provides a trivalent immunogenic composition including a soluble portion of a Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M.hyo) whole cell preparation; a porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) antigen; and a PRRS virus antigen, wherein the soluble portion of the M. hyo preparation is substantially free of both (i) IgG and (ii) immunocomplexes comprised of antigen bound to immunoglobulin.
US09125880B2
Methods are provided for the synthesis of polymer conjugates of cytokines and receptor-binding antagonists thereof, especially a non-glycosylated interferon-beta, which conjugates retain unusually high biological potency. Preparation of polymer conjugates according to the methods of the present invention diminishes or avoids steric inhibition of receptor-ligand interactions that commonly results from the attachment of polymers to receptor-binding regions of cytokines, as well as to agonistic and antagonistic analogs thereof. The invention also provides conjugates and compositions produced by such methods. The conjugates of the present invention retain a high level of biological potency compared to those produced by traditional polymer coupling methods that are not targeted to avoid receptor-binding domains of cytokines. In assays in vitro, the biological potency of the conjugates of non-glycosylated interferon-beta of the present invention is substantially higher than that of unconjugated interferon-beta and is similar to that of interferon-beta-1a that is glycosylated. The conjugates of the present invention also exhibit an extended half-life in vivo compared to the corresponding unconjugated cytokine. The present invention also provides kits comprising such conjugates and/or compositions, and methods of use of such conjugates and compositions in a variety of diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic applications, including treatment of multiple sclerosis.
US09125849B2
The present invention provides isolated peptides or the fragments derived from SEQ ID NO: 42, which bind to an HLA antigen and induce cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL). The peptides may include one of the above mentioned amino acid sequences with substitution, deletion, or addition of one, two, or several amino acids sequences. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions including these peptides. The peptides of this invention can be used for treating cancer.
US09125848B2
Compositions and methods for immunization against human breast cancer are disclosed. A breast cancer vaccine comprises an immunogenic polypeptide comprising human α-lactalbumin.
US09125844B1
The disclosure relates to nutritional supplements to be administered to, or to be taken by, women desiring to become pregnant, and pregnant and nursing women, so that a woman (and any fetus) will be nutritionally supplemented before, during and after the gestation period. The nutritional supplements have a blend of folic acid, lycopene and co-enzyme QIO, optionally docosahexaenoic acid, and other vitamins and minerals, and a nutritionally acceptable carrier therefor, but are free or substantially free of other materials in nutritionally effective amounts. Specific nutritional supplements are described.
US09125832B2
Agents for coloring keratinic fibers, containing (a) at least one compound of formula (I), and (b) at least one zwitterionic surfactant are disclosed and described.
US09125831B2
Agents for coloring keratinic fibers, containing (a) at least one compound of formula (I) and (b) at least one phosphate surfactant are disclosed and described.
US09125818B2
To suppress a curing agent paste stored in a sealed state in a packaging container from self-curing over a long period of time, provided are a dental alginate impression material as described below, and a curing agent paste to be used for the dental alginate impression material. The dental alginate impression material may includes: a base material paste including as main components: an alginic acid salt (A); and water (B); and a curing agent paste including as main components: a gelling reaction agent (C); a poorly water-soluble organic solvent (D); and a humectant (E).
US09125817B2
Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a light-cure and dual-cure resin that have low color and is color stable over conventional light, self and dual-cured resins. Additionally, the light-cure resin has enhanced degree of cure over conventional light-cure resins. Finally, due to the low color and enhanced color stability of the dual-cure resins, their inherent property of having lower shrinkage stress as compared to light-cure resins can now be utilized in various dental applications and other resin applications.
US09125816B2
A pharmaceutical composition useful for treating hypogonadism is disclosed. The composition comprises an androgenic or anabolic steroid, a C1-C4 alcohol, a penetration enhancer such as isopropyl myristate, and water. Also disclosed is a method for treating hypogonadism utilizing the composition.
US09125814B2
Disclosed are hydrogel compositions formed by the mixture of a tetramethylmethane substituted with one or more polyethylene glycols, and wherein each polyethylene glycol substituent is independently further substituted with one or more electrophilic groups, and a tetramethylmethane substituted with one or more polyethylene glycols, and wherein each polyethylene glycol substituent is independently further substituted with one or more nucleophilic groups. Disclosed are also methods of preparing the above hydrogels. The hydrogel compositions can further comprise pharmaceuticals, such as analgesics or local anesthetics. Disclosed are also methods of sealing a wound, preventing post-surgical adhesion, and reducing post-surgical pain using the disclosed hydrogels.
US09125813B2
A particulate glucomannan gel is produced by dissolving glucomannan-rich flour in water, precipitating glucomannan from the solution with ethanol, treating the precipitated glucomannan with an alkali to transform to water-insoluble, irreversible hydrogel particles, recovering and drying the hydrogel particles, and milling dried particles to a desired particle size. The resulting gel particles are incorporated into hygienic or cosmetic preparations as a deposit-cleaning agent.
US09125802B2
The present invention provides a dental curable composition which has excellent curability and which cures into a cured product that is less susceptible to discoloration by hydrogen sulfide in an oral environment. The present invention is a dental curable composition containing: a polymerizable monomer (a) having an acidic group, as a polymerizable monomer component; and a copper compound (b) and a benzotriazole compound (c) represented by the following general formula (1) and/or a benzimidazole compound (c) represented by the following general formula (2), as polymerization initiator components (symbols used in the formulae are as described in the description).
US09125800B2
An indicator assembly for use with a non-vascular catheter device. The indicator assembly includes: a first retainer secured to a catheter tube, the first retainer being an indwelling retainer which is deployed within a non-vascular lumen or cavity of the body; a second retainer secured to the catheter tube, the second retainer deployed outside the human body; and an indicator located outside the body on the catheter tube between the first retainer and the second retainer. The first retainer and the second retainer are configured to maintain substantially the same position with respect to each other on the tube and the indicator is configured to signal a change in position with respect to either the first or the second retainer, thereby indicating a change in the length of a stoma.
US09125799B1
A remotely locatable pacifier apparatus that includes a handheld control unit disposed in wireless communication with a pacifier unit, said control unit having a plurality of control unit Light Emitting Diodes (“LEDs”) disposed thereon, each of said control unit LEDs illuminable sequentially to signal a direction and proximity of the pacifier unit relative the control unit, whereby a user is able to locate the pacifier unit without causing an audible or visible signal from the pacifier unit.
US09125792B2
A spray nozzle system for a bidet includes a nozzle casing and a rotating member within the nozzle casing. The rotation of the rotating member changes a water output pattern of the nozzle. A first inlet pipe to the nozzle casing is positioned to cause the rotating member to rotate upon receiving fluid flow. A second inlet pipe to the nozzle casing is positioned to suppress rotation of the rotating member upon receiving fluid flow. A controller is configured to vary the relative fluid flow provided to the first inlet pipe and the second inlet pipe, thereby controllably varying the water output pattern of the nozzle.
US09125788B2
A method and system for motor learning. The method comprises the steps of detecting a user's motor intent; and giving robotic assistance to the user for executing a motor task associated with the motor intent based on the detected motor intent.
US09125777B2
A body transport apparatus including an inflatable air mattress with a plurality of air exit holes on the bottom to provide an air cushion when the mattress is inflated and a cover portion connected to the mattress adjacent a perimeter to define an enclosed volume. The cover portion may include a selectively closeable passageway. A flap may be defined in the cover portion that is movable between open and closed configurations. A plurality of hollows may be defined in the cover portion when inflated to define a body contact area that is less than a surface area of the top surface.
US09125770B2
A portable, adjustable disposable medical suction system and method of use is disclosed. The system includes a delivery device to provide a conduit from a surgical site on a patient to the portable, adjustable medical suction system. The suction system may be a battery powered vacuum pump with one or more different adjustments directed to a strength of the vacuum, duration of the vacuum and interval between suction. The delivery device may be an intranasal tampon device or a tube inserted into the surgical site. During surgery and recovery at a surgical center or hospital, the vacuum source attached to the delivery system may be an industrial type vacuum source. Upon discharge, the suction system can be connected to the delivery system so that bleeding can be resolved by the patient in the comfort of his/her own home. The system and method of use is safer and mitigates body fluid borne contamination.
US09125769B2
An absorbent article that includes an absorber capable of absorbing a body fluid of a user, a liquid-permeable sheet covering one surface of the absorber and allowing a body fluid of the user to pass through, and a liquid-impermeable sheet covering another surface of the absorber and disallowing a body fluid of the user to pass through, wherein the color of the liquid-permeable sheet has an L* value of 88 or more, an a* value of 0 to 0.3 and a b* value of −8 to 0 in the L*a*b* color system, and the color of the absorber has a b* value of 1 to 5 and an L* value of 93 or more in the L*a*b* color system.
US09125762B2
A prosthesis is compressed in a device by being wrapped in a flexible sheet inside a cartridge, the opposite edges of the sheet being led out through a longitudinal slit in the cartridge and attached respectively to the outer surface of the cartridge and the inner surface of a surrounding shell; subsequent relative rotation of the shell pulls the sheet outwardly of the cartridge causing compression of the prosthesis. Stop projections are provided to limit the rotation to less than one complete revolution. End pieces of the device have tubes aligned with the prosthesis when compressed, and a pusher rod is pushed through the tubes to push the prosthesis into an introducer sheath. The or each end piece may incorporate a ratchet mechanism to prevent rotation in the wrong direction.
US09125759B2
The disclosure describes methods of making collagen based biocomposite constructs and related devices. The methods include: (a) winding at least one collagen fiber a number of revolutions about a length of a support member having a long axis, the winding having at least one defined pitch and/or fiber angle relative to the long axis of the support member to form an elongate construct; and (b) applying a fluid polymeric material, such as, for example, an acrylate emulsion and/or other thermoplastic material, onto the collagen fiber during the winding step. Optionally, the fluid polymeric material can include antibiotics and/or other therapeutic agents for additional function/utility.
US09125758B2
The present invention relates to a fluid absorbing sheet including a bottom- or under-layer of water- or fluid-tight material, a middle layer of super absorbent polymer (SAP) and an upper layer of diffusing material The fluid absorbing sheet may further include at least one water- or fluid-tight bag for collecting and/or disposing of body fluids and/or other body wastes. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing such a sheet as well as its use.
US09125757B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a central ramp, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the central ramp capable of being moved in a first direction to move the first and second endplates outwardly and into an expanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed down an endoscopic tube.
US09125754B2
An artificial disc prosthesis is provided. The prosthesis of the present invention enables spinal segment alignment by having a variable height across its surface. The variable height is achieved by an asymmetric artificial nucleus or by at least one variable height end plate.
US09125751B2
The present invention relates generally to a prosthetic spinal disc for replacing a damaged disc between two vertebrae of a spine and methods for inserting said discs. The present invention also relates to prosthetic spinal disc designs that are implanted using a transforaminal approach, methods thereof, and apparatus thereof.
US09125750B2
Tissue spacer implants, surgical distraction instruments, surgical insertion tools, coupling devices, surgical kits, surgical methods for distraction, and methods for coupling bodies are disclosed. The tissue spacer implants include a first end member, a second end member, and an intermediate spacer member having a coupling mechanism adapted to couple the first end member with the intermediate spacer member and to couple the second end member with the intermediate spacer member. The surgical instruments may be used for inserting these implants and include a first elongated member, a second elongated member, a distraction mechanism, and an actuator. The coupling devices may be used to couple the components of the implants.
US09125748B2
A method and apparatus for replacing damaged meniscal tissue includes a meniscus implant including a porous body having a plurality of interconnected open micro-pores and one or more open cavities for receiving meniscal tissue. The interconnected micro-pores are arranged to allow fluid to flow into the porous body and are in fluid communication with the one or more open cavities.
US09125746B2
A system and method for sharing and absorbing energy between body parts. In one aspect, the method involves identifying link pivot locations, fixing base components and minimally invasive insertion techniques. In one particular aspect, the system facilitates absorbing energy between members forming a joint such as between articulating bones.
US09125740B2
Prosthetic heart valve devices for percutaneous replacement of native heart valves and associated systems and method are disclosed herein. A prosthetic heart valve device configured in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology can include an expandable support having an outer surface and configured for placement between leaflets of the native valve. The device can also include a plurality of asymmetrically arranged arms coupled to the expandable support and configured to receive the leaflets of the native valve between the arms and the outer surface. In some embodiments, the arms can include tip portions for engaging a subannular surface of the native valve.
US09125732B2
Apparatus and methods are described including an implantable device shaped to define (a) at least two artery-contact regions, the artery-contact regions comprising struts that are configured to stretch an arterial wall by applying pressure to the arterial wall, and (b) at least two crimping regions that comprise locking mechanisms configured to prevent the crimping regions from becoming crimped due to pressure from the wall of the artery on the artery-contact regions. The crimping regions are configured to be crimped during insertion of the device, via a catheter, by the locking mechanisms being unlocked during insertion of the device. Other embodiments are also described.
US09125728B2
A combined multi-lumen central access catheter and an embolic filter including ports proximal and distal the filter for fluid infusion and/or pressure sensing and infusion ports in the catheter to permit infusion of bioactive agents, flushing agents and/or contrast agents and managing the capture of the clot thereafter.
US09125725B2
A laser surgical system for making incisions in ocular tissues during cataract surgery includes a laser system, an imaging device and a control system. The laser system includes a scanning assembly and a laser to generate a laser beam that incises ocular tissue. The imaging device acquires image data of a crystalline lens and constructs an image from the image data. The control system operates the imaging device to generate image data for the patient's crystalline lens, processes the image data to determine an anterior capsule incision scanning pattern for scanning a focal zone of the laser beam to perform an anterior capsule incision, and operates the laser and the scanning assembly to scan the focal zone of the laser beam in the anterior capsule incision scanning pattern, wherein the focal zone is guided by the control system based on the image data.
US09125721B2
A pressure-driven valve is disclosed. The valve includes a housing and a flow control portion disposed within the housing. The housing includes a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The flow control portion has a first side subject to fluid flow pressure in a fluid flow channel, and a second side subject to an outlet pressure representative of pressure at the fluid outlet. The flow control portion is deformable to increase and decrease flow through the fluid flow channel based on pressure differentials between the fluid flow pressure, a tube pressure, and the outlet pressure. In some instances, the flow control portion comprises a flow control membrane and a radially-fluctuating pressure tube attached to the periphery of the membrane.
US09125715B2
This invention discloses methods and apparatus for providing pulsatile release of active agents via a punctal plug inserted into a punctum. A tube is provided which may be inserted into a cavity of a punctal plug. One or more pulsatile delivery units are arranged in a generally linear fashion within the tube. The pulsatile delivery units include a core comprising the active agent and an encapsulation layer around the core.
US09125709B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus's for improving orthodontic treatments. In an embodiment, an orthodontic tracking template is provided for assisting in determining whether a patient's teeth are in an appropriate tooth arrangement for transitioning between a wire and bracket orthodontic treatment to a patient-removable orthodontic appliance treatment. The tracking template may include a shell portion defining a plurality of tooth-receiving cavities arranged to fit over at least a portion of the patient's teeth in an intermediate tooth arrangement without applying a tooth-moving force to the teeth or to any brackets attached to the teeth.
US09125706B2
An embodiment of a bone stabilization and distraction system of the present disclosure includes a light-sensitive liquid; a light source for providing light energy; a light-conducting fiber for delivering the light energy from the light source to cure the light-sensitive liquid; a delivery catheter having a proximal end in communication with the light-conducting fiber and the light-sensitive liquid, an inner lumen for passage of the light-conducting fiber, and an inner void for passage of the light-sensitive liquid; and an expandable body removably engaging a distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the expandable body has a closed end, a sealable open end, an inner cavity for passage of the light-sensitive liquid, an external surface and an internal surface, and wherein the expandable body has an insertion depth with a fixed dimension, a width with a fixed dimension, and a thickness with a changeable dimension.
US09125704B2
An implant for fusing adjacent bones is disclosed. The implant includes an elongate threaded member and a flexible portion extending from the elongate threaded member. The flexible portion includes a plurality of prongs configured to be reversibly compressed toward an axis defined by the elongate threaded member.
US09125700B2
A system and method facilitating replacement of comminuted bone fractures or portions thereof adjacent bone joints. The system and method employs a prosthesis to replace at least a portion of the comminuted bone fractures. The prosthesis serves in reproducing the articular surface of the portion or portions of the comminuted bone fractures that are replaced. In doing so, the prosthesis serves in restoring joint viability and corresponding articulation thereof.
US09125695B2
An ankle fusion nail apparatus and method includes a first, tibial component that includes a hole there through. The tibial component includes, among other things, a base. A second. talar component includes a hole there through, also, and, among other things, a base and a top. The tibial component is separate from the talar component. A third, central component is provided that is separate from the first tibial component and the second talar component. The central component is conformed to connect with the tibial base and the talar top such that the central component joins the tibial and talar components together and aligns them as the central component is connected with the tibial base and the talar top.
US09125689B2
Ablation treatment planning comprises: acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) image data set of a region of interest; introducing 3D model data of an ablation volume into the 3D image data set; and drawing, as a 2D image, what remains of a cross sectional multiplanar reformatting (MPR) slice of the region of interest and the ablation volume within an MPR plane by virtue of using the MPR plane as a clipping plane. The introduction is doable by tagging image pixels using a stencil buffer and possibly by culling specific inside areas and/or outside areas of the ablation volume. An ablation volume, for, e.g., receiving a cryoablation needle to eliminate tumor tissue and having any arbitrary shape, may be visualized within a 3D image space by drawing 2D images in any desired MPR plane such that also oblique orientations of the ablation volume can be represented. Subsequently, an ablation needle may be guided to a location and in an orientation as previously planned.
US09125685B2
A trocar device includes a main part that has a first and a second end. A shaft tube is connected to the second end of the main part. A through-opening for receiving an instrument extends from the first end of the main part to the end of the shaft tube that faces away from the main part. A sealing unit is disposed in the main part and has an elastic sealing element having a hollow-cylindrical wall, which divides the through-opening into a first region that runs from the sealing unit as far as the first end of the main body, and into a second region that runs from the sealing unit as far as the end of the shaft tube that faces away from the main part. When the instrument has been properly inserted in the through-opening, the sealing element seals off the two regions from each other.
US09125683B2
A catheter for insertion into vasculature of a patient to a target area in the vasculature includes a hollow inner shaft, a non-occluding self-expandable scaffold coupled to the distal end of the inner shaft and disposed at the distal end of the inner shaft, and a hollow outer shaft. The outer shaft is slidable over the inner shaft and scaffold such that the scaffold is in a non-expanded state when the outer shaft is around the scaffold. The outer shaft has a state where the distal end of the outer shaft remains near the target area without the inner shaft and the scaffold being within the outer shaft. The inner shaft and the scaffold are removable through the proximal end of the outer shaft while the distal end of the outer shaft remains near the target area.
US09125679B2
A surgical instrument is provided, including: at least one articulatable arm having a distal end, a proximal end, and at least one joint region disposed between the distal and proximal ends; an optical fiber bend sensor provided in the at least one joint region of the at least one articulatable arm; a detection system coupled to the optical fiber bend sensor, said detection system comprising a light source and a light detector for detecting light reflected by or transmitted through the optical fiber bend sensor to determine a position of at least one joint region of the at least one articulatable arm based on the detected light reflected by or transmitted through the optical fiber bend sensor; and a control system comprising a servo controller for effectuating movement of the arm.
US09125678B2
The surgical orientation system is used to assist a surgeon to orient a prosthetic component relative to a patient's anatomy during surgery. An embodiment is particularly suited for assisting surgeons to locate an acetabular cup into a reamed acetabulum. The system includes: an implement (1) for releasable attachment of a prosthetic component; an electronic orientation monitor (2) attached to the implement (1); and a brace (3). The brace (3) is releasably attachable to the patient so as to define a reference point (4) relative to the patient's anatomy. This reference point (4) is external of the patient and includes at least one surface (5) defining a reference plane that is used to orient the monitor (2) into a reference orientation to calibrate the monitor (2). The surgeon then manipulates the implement (1) so that the prosthetic component is in the desired position relative to the patient and the monitor (2) provides an indication to the surgeon when a subsequent orientation of the monitor (2) has a predefined relationship relative to the reference orientation; for example the predefined relationship may be parallel to within predefined tolerances. Upon receiving the indication the surgeon inserts the prosthetic component into the patient.
US09125677B2
The efficacy and safety of laser medical treatments are ensured by performing a combination of measurement techniques to examine tissue properties in order to control characteristics of the laser treatments of cartilaginous tissues. In some aspects, a treatment tool is provided that is capable of taking and providing feedback relating to multiple measurements, including temperature measurements (in particular, radiometry), mechanical measurements, light scattering, speckle interferometry, optoacoustic measurements, and monitoring tissue electrical characteristics. The device is capable of providing feedback during the course of laser treatment of tissue to increase the safety and efficacy of treatment.
US09125674B2
A surgical template system for use in working on a bone comprises: a tool guide block comprising at least one guide aperture for receiving and guiding a tool to work on a bone; locating means comprising a plurality of locating members, each member having a respective end surface for positioning against a surface of the bone; and attachment means for non-adjustably attaching the tool guide block to the locating means such that, when attached, the member end surfaces are secured in fixed position with, respect to each other, for engaging different respective portions of the surface of the bone, and the at least one guide aperture is secured in a fixed position with respect to the end surfaces. Corresponding methods of manufacturing a surgical template system, methods of manufacturing locating means for a surgical template system, methods of fitting a prosthesis to a bone, surgical methods, and surgical apparatus are described.
US09125672B2
Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and tools for repairing articular surfaces repair materials and for repairing an articular surface. The articular surface repairs are customizable or highly selectable by patient and geared toward providing optimal fit and function. The surgical tools are designed to be customizable or highly selectable by patient to increase the speed, accuracy and simplicity of performing total or partial arthroplasty.
US09125666B2
A catheter and catheter system for eccentric remodeling and/or removal of atherosclerotic material of a blood vessel of a patient include an elongate flexible catheter body with a radially expandable structure. A plurality of electrodes or other electrosurgical energy delivery surfaces can radially engage atherosclerotic material when the structure expands. An atherosclerotic material detector near the distal end of the catheter body may measure circumferential atherosclerotic material distribution, and a power source selectively energizes the electrodes to eccentrically remodel the measured atherosclerotic material.
US09125660B2
An assembly including an obstruction device including a proximal obstruction balloon and a distal obstruction balloon mounted on a shaft, the balloons being inflatable via an inflation lumen, and a delivery system that includes an insertion tool and an injection site assembly assembled with one of the balloons, the insertion tool including a connector which is connectable to the injection site assembly and which permits passing tools and injection fluid therethrough.
US09125654B2
Circular stapling instruments and anvil assemblies. The anvil assemblies may have collapsible anvil support members that may be inserted through an opening in a patient and then expanded to be attached to an anvil plate assembly that has a staple-forming surface thereon. The anvil support member is attachable to the anvil plate assembly in such a way that when the anvil assembly is coupled to the stapling head of a circular stapler, the staple-forming surface is in substantial registry with the staples supported in the stapling head. A variety of different anvil support members and anvil plate assemblies are disclosed.
US09125642B2
In some embodiments, nerves surrounding arteries or leading to organs are targeted with energy sources to correct or modulate physiologic processes. In some embodiments, different types of energy sources are utilized singly or combined with one another. In some embodiments, bioactive agents or devices activated by the energy sources are delivered to the region of interest and the energy is enhanced by such agents.
US09125638B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a medical device and methods for collecting a tissue sample from a patient's body. The device may include a first tube defining a lumen and an aperture at a distal end of the first tube. A second tube extends within the lumen of the first tube and defines a lumen and slots, where at least some of the slots have sharp edges configured to shear tissue. The second tube is movable relative to the first tube such that the sharp edges cut a plurality of samples from tissue disposed within the aperture.
US09125637B2
A method of loading a locked tissue biopsy needle into a biopsy gun includes rotating a head of the biopsy gun in a first direction, with the head located at a front distal portion of the biopsy gun. The method includes inserting the locked tissue biopsy needle into a distal end of the head of the biopsy gun. The locked tissue biopsy needle provides a stylet inserted in a longitudinal lumen of a cannula, and the stylet is locked in position relative to the cannula thus preventing longitudinal movement of the stylet within the cannula. The method includes rotating the head of the biopsy gun in a second direction opposite from the first direction and rotating the stylet relative to the cannula and unlocking the stylet from the cannula allowing longitudinal movement of the stylet within the cannula.
US09125625B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for implementing textile-based screen-printed amperometric or potentiometric sensors. The chemical sensor can include carbon based electrodes to detect at least one of NADH, hydrogen peroxide, potassium ferrocyanide, TNT or DNT, in liquid or vapor phase. In one application, underwater presence of chemicals such as heavy metals and explosives is detected using the textile-based sensors.
US09125624B2
Method and apparatus are described herein for registering an anatomical region with a scanned image of the anatomical region. The method includes pressing a moldable appliance against a surface of the anatomical region or a facsimile thereof to provide an intermediate appliance; hardening the intermediate appliance to provide the formed appliance; providing a fiducial body attached to the formed appliance; attaching the formed appliance with the fiducial body attached thereto to the anatomical region; scanning the anatomical region with the formed appliance attached thereto and the fiducial body attached to the formed appliance to obtain a three-dimensional volume representation of the fiducial body and an interior of the anatomical region; segmenting the part of the fiducial body in the three-dimensional volume representation to obtain a segmented fiducial body region; aligning the segmented fiducial body region with a reference model of the fiducial body to obtain a mapping transformation; and operating a data processor to map locations in an interior of the anatomical region to corresponding locations in the three-dimensional volume representation of the interior of the anatomical region based on the mapping transformation. The apparatus may include a moldable appliance configured for molding into a formed appliance and a fiducial body being attached to the moldable appliance, wherein the fiducial body is scan detectable entirely or in part, shaped such that an orientation of the fiducial body relative the anatomical region is uniquely determinable, and rigidly fixed to the formed appliance such that the fiducial body is in a fixed spatial relationship with the formed appliance.
US09125622B2
A plurality of sets of volume data, each of which represent the state of a beating heart in different phases, are obtained. Coronary artery regions are extracted from at least two sets of volume data from among the obtained sets of volume data. A plurality of analysis points are set in each extracted coronary artery region. Correlations are established among analysis points set at the same anatomical positions within the coronary artery regions. Index values that indicate the character of plaque are calculated at each analysis point within all of the coronary artery regions. The character of plaque is evaluated at positions within the coronary artery regions, by integrating the index values calculated at the analysis points corresponding to each of the positions. The evaluation results regarding the character of plaque at each of the positions within the coronary artery regions are output, correlated with information regarding the positions.
US09125618B2
Embodiments for providing an elastic image are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasound system comprises: an ultrasound data acquisition unit configured to transmit and receive ultrasound signals to and from a living body to output ultrasound data corresponding to a plurality of frames while applying compression to the living body; and a processing unit configured to extract frames from a (n−1)th frame to a (n−i)th frame on a basis of a nth frame, wherein n indicates an integer larger than one and i indicates a positive integer, detect an optimal frame for forming an elastic image among the extracted frames by using first displacement between the nth frame and each of the extracted frames based on the ultrasound data, calculate second displacement between the optimal frame and the nth frame based on the ultrasound data, and form the elastic image based on the second displacement.
US09125608B2
A system and method for calibrating a sensor of a characteristic monitoring system in real time utilizes a self-calibration module for periodic determination of, and compensation for, the IR drop across unwanted resistances in a cell. A current-interrupt switch is used to open the self-calibration module circuit and either measure the IR drop using a high-frequency (MHz) ADC module, or estimate it through linear regression of acquired samples of the voltage across the sensor's working and reference electrodes (Vmeasured) over time. The IR drop is then subtracted from the closed-circuit value of Vmeasured to calculate the overpotential that exists in the cell (Vimportant). Vimportant may be further optimized by subtracting the value of the open-circuit voltage (Voc) across the sensor's working and reference electrodes. The values of Vmeasured and Vimportant are then controlled by respective first and second control units to compensate for the IR drop.
US09125604B2
An electrochemical sensor includes a base plate including one end portion and another end portion, an electrode portion formed on the one end portion of the base plate, a connecting portion, formed on the another end portion of the base plate, for electrically connecting the electrode portion to a monitoring instrument, and an attaching portion formed on the another end portion, the attached portion being employed for attaching the another end portion to the monitoring instrument in a state where the one end portion is enabled to swing relatively to the monitoring instrument.
US09125601B2
A needle assembly for an injection device comprising a needle cannula which is mounted in a hub connectable to an injection device, and which needle assembly comprises a back needle. Further the needle assembly is provided with means which, when activated, prevents a user from physically contacting the back needle.
US09125600B2
A medical device including a barrel having an open first end and capable of supporting a needle at a second end of the barrel is provided and includes a lid releasably adhered to and overlying the open first end of the barrel in a fluid tight manner; and a pad secured to a surface of the lid such that the pad is disposed within a cavity of the barrel when the lid is adhered to the barrel, wherein the pad comprises a disinfecting solution.
US09125593B2
A method of observing a three-dimensional image of an examinee's eye to be examined, includes: obtaining a first three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image of an anterior segment of the examinee's eye by optical coherence tomography for obtaining a tomographic image by converging a measurement light on the anterior segment of the examinee's eye; obtaining a second three-dimensional image which is a three-dimensional image of a fundus of the examinee's eye by optical coherence tomography for obtaining a tomographic image by converging the measurement light on the fundus of the examinee's eye by a timing different from a timing of obtaining the first three-dimensional image; constructing a three-dimensional eyeball image of the examinee's eye through image processing based on the obtained first and second three-dimensional images; and displaying the constructed three-dimensional eyeball image on a monitor.
US09125592B2
A system for processing an image data volume acquired with a medical imaging acquisition device 100 from a body comprising a needle is provided. It has been realized it is advantageous to display 150 a plane intersecting the image data volume showing the needle to a user of the system. This allows better positioning of the needle. The system comprises a needle-plane determination 110 module for determining a plane being parallel to and intersecting a representation in the image data volume of the needle and being parallel to a viewing direction. The needle plane determination module may make use of pixel processing and/or spectral transformation, in particular the Gabor transform.
US09125588B2
A physiological sensor-transmitter assembly for measuring a physiological property at an internal body location of a subject over time is described. An instrument for inserting the assembly in the subject and a method of monitoring a physiological property measured at the internal body location over time are also described. The assembly includes a sensor and a transmitter adapted to transmit information from the sensor in a non-wired fashion to a receiver. The assembly also includes an anchor adapted to attach to an externally accessible portion of a subject and a tether that connects the sensor and the anchor to maintain a position of the sensor within the gastrointestinal tract of the subject.
US09125584B2
An exemplary method includes positioning a lead in a patient where the lead has a longitudinal axis that extends from a proximal end to a distal end and where the lead includes an electrode with an electrical center offset from the longitudinal axis of the lead body; measuring electrical potential in a three-dimensional potential field using the electrode; and based on the measuring and the offset of the electrical center, determining lead roll about the longitudinal axis of the lead body where lead roll may be used for correction of field heterogeneity, placement or navigation of the lead or physiological monitoring (e.g., cardiac function, respiration, etc.). Various other methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
US09125564B2
A system for detection of frequency power for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD), comprising: an acoustic sensor to be placed on the chest of a patient to generate acoustic signals SA: a memory adapted to store acoustic signals SA; a control unit adapted to receive said acoustic signals SA; the control unit comprising: an identification unit to identify diastolic or systolic periods in a predetermined time period and to generate a period signal SP, a filtering unit adapted to apply a filter to said identified periods to generate a low frequency band signal SLFB indicating low frequency bands of identified periods; a calculation unit to estimate the power in said low frequency band of identified periods, to calculate a low frequency power measure and to generate a low frequency power measure signal SLFP. The invention also relates to a stethoscope and a method for detection of low frequency power.
US09125562B2
Catheter-based Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems utilizing an optical fiber that is positioned off-axis of the central longitudinal axis of the catheter have many advantage over catheter-based OCT systems, particularly those having centrally-positioned optical fibers or fibers that rotate independently of the elongate body of the catheter. An OCT system having an off-axis optical fiber for visualizing the inside of a body lumen may be rotated with the body of the elongate catheter, relative to a handle portion. The handle may include a fiber management pathway for the optical fiber that permits the off-axis optical fiber to rotate with the catheter body relative to the handle. The system may also include optical processing elements adapted to prepare and process the OCT image collected by the off-axis catheter systems described herein.
US09125560B2
A detecting apparatus includes: a change-over switch for switching on/off display of a scope model on a liquid crystal monitor; a position calculating portion for calculating respective positions of source coils; a scope model generating portion for generating a scope model of an electronic endoscope based on the respective positions of the source coils calculated by the position calculating portion; and a selector for selectively outputting to the liquid crystal monitor a display-pause-time image stored in a display-pause-time image storing portion and a scope model image from the scope model generating portion; and a control portion for controlling each of these portions. The detecting apparatus thus displays an insertion shape of the endoscope at a timing as needed.
US09125553B2
A distal end bending piece subjected to processing for fastening a nail-plate portion so as to allow seesaw movements is assembled on a proximal end side of a distal end rigid portion, a sleeve is inserted from a rear side, and the sleeve is fitted and fixed to the distal end rigid portion in a state where a distal end bending piece is housed in the sleeve, thereby allowing a first nail-plate portion to elastically press an inner circumferential surface of the sleeve and allowing a second nail-plate portion to elastically press a bottom surface of a recessed portion of the distal end rigid portion at a predetermined contact pressure. Such a configuration enables a secure and stable electrical conduction between the distal end rigid portion and the distal end bending piece without interfering with a reduction in a diameter of the insertion portion.
US09125551B2
An endoscope procedure instrument provided with: a tube part that is cylindrical in shape and attaches to the front end of the endoscope, the tube part having a slit provided to the side surface thereof extending along the direction of the central axis; and a grasping member that is disposed to the tube part extending along the slit, for holding a biologic tissue with respect to the endoscope.
US09125545B2
A rotary dinnerware washing apparatus includes a housing defining therein a washing chamber, a washing mechanism mounted in the housing for spaying hot water over the washing chamber, and a rotating rack rotatably mounted in the washing chamber, a power drive arranged below the washing chamber for rotating the rotating rack in the washing chamber. The rotating rack has partitions radially suspending in the washing chamber and respectively kept in contact with the peripheral wall of the washing chamber and dividing the washing chamber into multiple separately enclosed zones, for example, two cleaning zones, two buffer zones at two opposite lateral sides of the cleaning zones and one dinnerware access zone between the buffer zones.
US09125540B2
A bare floor cleaner has a foot with a dry suction nozzle and a handle assembly pivotally connected to the foot assembly. A diverter mounted in the working air conduit between the foot assembly and the handle assembly is movable by movement of the handle assembly between a dry suction position and a wet mop position for selectively at least partially blocking working air flow from the dry suction nozzle to a collection assembly. A fluid delivery system includes a user operated trigger for actuating the fluid delivery system to distribute fluid in the wet mop position and deactivating a motor/fan assembly. A trigger lock prevents cleaning solution from being distributed when the handle is in dry mode position. The fluid delivery system includes a heating element to raise the temperature of the cleaning solution before it is distributed to the surface to be cleaned. Support glides on the foot reduce the surface area contact between the foot pad and the surface to be cleaned.
US09125537B2
An upright vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle assembly, a lower body pivotally connected to the nozzle assembly and provided with an inclination unit on the outer circumferential surface of the lower body, an upper body rotatably connected to the lower body, a bearing member installed between the lower body and the upper body, a steering unit contacting the inclination unit and elastically installed on the upper body, wherein, when the upper body is swiveled with respect to the lower body, the steering unit is moved upwards and downwards by the inclination unit and then applies pressure to the upper body so as to return the upper body to its original position.
US09125528B2
To better facilitate the application and removal of make-up on the skin, including on the face, and especially around the eyes, the present invention provides a wiping product having two or more lobes which substantially conform to both the user's finger and the area around the user's eyes. The wiping product is not secured to the user's finger or worn like a glove, but rather is simply supported by one or more fingers in use. In this manner, the wiping product is both simple to use and provides excellent application and removal of make-up in often hard to reach areas, such as the recesses of the eyes.
US09125526B2
The present invention provides a rolling mat which is easy to roll, which is sanitary and which enables the right amount of force of pressing food material to be readily determined. A rolling mat includes: a plurality of rod-like rib parts arranged in a direction Y in which food material is rolled; and a knitted string part that connects the plurality of rib parts 12 with each other by knitting a string material part so as to sandwich the rib parts, wherein the rib parts are formed of a plastic material and/or a metal material having hardness that is at least greater than silicone resin, and the knitted string part is made of man-made monofilament fiber or high molecular weight polyethylene fiber produced by stretching polyethylene resin having a high molecular weight into fibers.
US09125524B2
The device comprises two gripping arms movable to and from a resting position and a gripping position in which they are spread apart from one another and in contact with an inside face of the side wall of the cooking vessel; a fix-mounted gripping member designed for being in contact with an outside face of the side wall of the cooking vessel; and displacement means designed for being manually guided to and from an open position and a closed position and for effecting a spreading of the movable arms while switching from the open position to the closed position. Said device further comprises anti-return means separate from the displacement means and designed for being moved from a resting position to a clamping position in which they are inserted between the two arms and prevent the two arms from coming together.
US09125521B2
A combined multiple beverage brewing apparatus is capable of brewing an individual serving of at least two different beverages such as coffee or tea. The apparatus generally includes a removable brewing basket with separate brewing sections, which are usable in different brewing positions and have separate spouts such that different beverages may be brewed and dispensed without contacting the same spout. The brewing basket is configured to receive a first reusable filter that holds a first brewing material and filters as water passes through and a second reusable filter that holds a second brewing material while hot water contained in the brewing basket steeps the second brewing material. At least one of the brewing sections further includes a valve to hold hot water in the brewing basket until a brewing release mechanism actuates the valve to release the brewed beverage through the dispensing spout.
US09125517B2
It is disclosed a household multi-purpose cooking appliance that can function in a barbecue mode, in an oven mode and in a fryer/boiler mode. The appliance comprises a cooking chamber with a top aperture closed by a lid associated to a heating element and an insulating cover. The cooking chamber can contain a lower heating element for use in the oven or fryer cooking mode. A pan is inserted in the cooking chamber in the fryer mode.
US09125516B2
A fire pit burner having an inlet hub adapted to be fluidly connected to a fuel source, a fuel supply spoke, and a burner tube. The fuel supply spoke is fluidly connected to the inlet hub at a first end and the burner tube at a second end at such an angle that the elevation of the first end is above the second end. Additionally, the fuel supply spoke and the burner tube each have a plurality of top and side holes in order to distribute the fuel and flames.
US09125513B2
A handle-interlocking airtight boiling pot includes: a rotational body which is rotatably supported at the side of the container and is mounted to rotate between a lid opening position and a lid closing position; a hand grip part formed at an upper end of the rotational body; and an airtightly fixing part which is formed integrally with a lower part of the hand grip part and protrudes toward the lid to airtightly fix the lid to the container by pressing an upper side of the lid when the rotational body is located at the lid closing position. The lid includes: a retaining protrusion formed at an upper side of an edge portion of the lid to catch and retain the airtightly fixing part of the rotational body at the lid closing position; and a contact groove part with which a contact surface of the airtightly fixing part gets in contact.
US09125511B2
An installation unit for installation to a rail of a window curtain assembly includes an elongate rack and multiple slots are defined through the rack. Multiple sliding members are connected to the rack. The sliding members are installed to the rail of the window curtain assembly. By removing the rack from the sliding members, the sliding members are remained in the rail of the window curtain assembly. The installation of the sliding members to the rail is easy and quick.
US09125508B2
Apparatus and associated methods may relate to a collapsible tree system having limbs which automatically pivot from a low-profile position while the tree is in a collapsed state to an in-use position when the tree is in an extended state. In an illustrative example, the system may include limb supports movably disposed along a central support. Movement of the limb supports closer together and further apart may cause the limbs to pivot to and from positions. For example, due to limb contact with an adjacent limb support, the limbs may be caused to pivot to the low-profile position. When no forcible contact is present between an adjacent limb support and limb, gravitational forces may permit the limbs to freely pivot to the in-use position. In an illustrative example, each limb support may include a nesting cup for receiving a proximal end of the limbs while in the stowed position.
US09125503B2
A free-standing display fixture includes a main body having a top edge, a bottom edge, a right side panel, a center panel and a left side panel. Each of the left side panel, the center panel and the right side panel include interior surfaces and the interior surfaces of the left side panel and the right side panel face each other. Located between and coupled to left side panel and right panel are a plurality of uniquely arranged display components.
US09125502B2
Disclosed is a hanger panel which assists in hanging a variety of articles, such as a tablet PC, a smart phone, a cup holder, a pencil holder, etc., to a table, a desk, a wall, or the like, and a hanger device using the same. The hanger device includes a hanger panel provided with a plurality of hanging grooves, stands spaced apart from each other in parallel by a predetermined distance to support the hanger panel, and a slide fixing member movably fixed to the stand to fix the hanger panel to the stand.
US09125492B1
A cabinetry system is disclosed herein that includes removable drawer panels, door panels, and trim components, which permit the entire outward appearance of the cabinetry system to be changed within a short period of time. The cabinetry system includes a door assembly having at least one hinge assembly, a metal door plate coupled to the at least one hinge assembly, a door panel having a cavity formed in an inward-facing surface thereof, the cavity sized to receive the metal door plate, and a plurality of magnets coupling the door panel to an outward-facing surface of the metal door plate. After being removed from the cabinets, one set of door and drawer panels may be stored in internal storage components provided within the cabinetry system while a second set of door and drawer panels are in use.
US09125490B2
A device for detachably coupling a drawer to an extendable rail of a pull-out guide including an adjusting device by which a position of a drawer connected to the rail is adjustable relative to the rail in a lateral direction. The adjusting device includes a fastening part that can be fastened to the drawer and a coupling part that can be coupled to the rail. The fastening part is linearly movable by the adjusting device relative to the coupling part, and the adjustment device includes a setting wheel mounted on the coupling part or on the fastening part so as to rotate about an axis. The adjustment device also includes at least two axially spaced transmission devices for converting a rotary movement of the setting wheel into a linear movement of the fastening part relative to the coupling part.
US09125479B2
The invention relates to a backpack including a main rear pocket adapted to receive a load and carrying straps configured to position and maintain the main rear pocket on the user's shoulders, whereby the main rear pocket is formed by the juncture of a first base panel, made of flexible material, adapted to be in contact with the body of the user, and of a second external panel, also made of flexible material, the first base panel being extended at the ends of the main rear pocket to form two closed side loops for passage of the user's arms, forming the carrying straps.
US09125473B2
The present invention relates to a system for packaging and applying a product, including a container intended for containing said product and having a neck and a bottom, the neck extending along a longitudinal axis; a product application assembly including a closing element suitable for closing the container and a product application secured to said closing element and intended for being inserted in said container in order to be loaded with the product to be applied; a retaining device suitable for retaining said application assembly on said container, and movable mounted between an operative configuration in which the application assembly is retained on the container, and an inoperative configuration in which the application assembly can be removed from the container; a resilient element provided such as to adopt a stressed configuration when the retaining device is in the operative configuration thereof.
US09125466B2
A business card holder includes a support for containing a number of business cards permitting vertical extraction of one card from the set by grasping the card along its narrower upper edge. The lower surface of the support is bevelled so as to cause the set of cards to be presented at the upper end of the support at differing heights for ease of extraction. The upper edge of at least one wall containing the cards is lower than the top edge of all of the cards in the set, providing an edge that will permit the uppermost card to be bent slightly outward over this top edge for extraction. The vertical height of the card support when positioned within a pocket may be established by providing a downwardly extending leg that will rest against the bottom of the pocket.
US09125464B2
A low profile wallet may comprise a first plate, a second plate, and a substantially flat strap configured to attach around the first plate and the second plate. Different types, colors, patterns, styles, etc. of plates may be interchanged creating multiple different wallet plate combinations. The plates may include openings formed on opposite sides for retaining the strap. The shape of the openings may enable easier attachment and removal of the strap and in one example also may enable a reduction of the overall size of the plates. Separation notches may be formed on elongated upper or lower ends of the plates. The separation notches may have a substantially concave shape and/or may be offset from lateral sides of the plates.
US09125459B1
An invisible zipper head assembly structure includes a sliding member and a pulling member. The sliding member has a base portion, a first lateral wall portion, a second lateral wall portion, a seat portion, and a retaining body. The retaining body has a positioning portion passing through a positioning through hole of the seat portion. The pulling member is movably mated with the retaining body. A first thickness of the first lateral wall portion is smaller than a second thickness of the second lateral wall portion. The first symmetric center line of the base portion passes through a geometric center point of the positioning through hole, and the second symmetric center line of the seat portion is horizontally moved relative to the first symmetric center line by a predetermined horizontal offset and along a horizontal direction from the second lateral wall portion to the first lateral wall portion.
US09125456B2
An object-containing button includes a housing and upper and lower floors mounted within the housing. Each floor has a plurality of thread-receiving holes and two pin holes formed at opposite side of the thread-receiving holes. A container rotatably and detachably coupled to the housing. An object is stored inside the container. A removable lid covers a bottom opening of the container facing the upper floor. A pin-carrying member having two pins inserted through the pin holes for piercing and tearing open the cover.
US09125452B2
Cleat structures, e.g., for golf shoes, may include a flat and flexible interior surface and/or a generally disk-shaped perimeter area that includes features to promote in-molding of the cleat to a footwear sole component (e.g., to permanently engage the cleat with an outsole member). Such cleats may provide a flexible and comfortable base, including a low profile, e.g., to enable formation relatively thin and/or flexible footwear sole components. Footwear sole components and articles of footwear that include one or more in-molded cleat structures of this type also are described. Molds used for in-molding procedures and methods of using the molds to make articles with in-molded components (e.g., for making footwear sole structures including one or more in-molded cleats) also are described.
US09125451B2
An orthopedic sandal comprises a sole and six mounted straps. Made of rubber that generates high friction, the straps pass through the edge of the sole to create 12 one to three centimeter-long extensions underneath the sole. The 12 extensions generate extra friction when the sandal contacts with the ground. The sole consists of an outer layer and an inner layer. Made of rubber mixed with nylon fibers, the outer layer has an empty inside divided sidewardly into 4 compartments. Each compartment is divided horizontally into two by a thin rubber layer. Made of soft rubber, the inner layer is a pouch divided into three compartments filled with special soft gel that has physical stability under the change of temperature and pressure. The inner layer is pre-shaped to ergonomically fit the wearer's sole and is also able to reshape to well fit the wearer's particular sole.
US09125450B2
Disclosed is a boot system having an outer boot including a securing system and a superior end that includes a cuff; an inner boot sized to fit between the outer boot and a foot area of a user inserted in the boot system; and a harness system having a flexible panel and a lace slidably engaged with the panel. The inner boot includes a tension capture element coupled adjacent to a superior end of the inner boot. The harness system is removably secured to the outer boot.
US09125448B2
A support system includes a headwear system, a frame adapted to have a visor attached thereto, a first member attached to the headwear system, a second member attached to the frame, which is pivotable relative to the first member, an adjustable mechanism adapted to abut and apply force to the second member in a first state to compress the second member into abutting engagement with the first member, an extending pivot member extending axially through a passage in the first member and a passage in the second member. The position of the adjustable mechanism is adjustable to place it in the first state or in at least a second, nonabutting state. The extending pivot member includes a first flange and a second flange, spaced from the first flange to capture a portion of the first member and a portion of the second member therebetween.
US09125447B2
An assembly for mounting a visor on a helmet includes a visor assembly having a lens and a fastening element with a pair of latching prongs each with a resiliently displaceable prong end; a casing attached to the helmet and having a pair of channels each for receiving the a latching prong and a pair of fixtures, each fixture for engaging a respective prong end when displaced outwardly; and a lock having a pair of locking prongs, each locking prong being insertable into one channel from an opposite end as the latching prongs and each locking prong having a locking prong end that is positionable under a respective latching prong to prevent displacement of the latching prong end inwardly to disengage from the respective fixture.
US09125443B2
The rubber glove according to the present invention includes: a sleeve portion generally in the form of a cylinder having a first end and a second end and provided with a cuff formed on the first end; and a glove body linked to the second end of the sleeve portion, wherein the sleeve portion and the glove body are integrally formed by a film of rubber or resin, and the sleeve portion includes a maximum perimeter portion of 240 mm to 360 mm and a drawn portion having a minimum perimeter portion of 50 to 90% of the maximum perimeter portion in length.
US09125436B2
A smoking article comprising a rod of smokeable material (3) and a wrapper (4) wrapped around the rod of smokeable material, wherein the wrapper comprises a region of ventilation embossing (9) overlapping the smokeable material. A manufacturing method and apparatus are also described.
US09125428B2
A retort sterilization device includes a water steam generation device for generating water steam and a heating pot, connected to the water steam generation device, for accommodating retort food. The water steam generation device includes a heat exchanger for performing heat exchange between liquid flowing in a liquid path and heating vapor flowing in the vapor path. A top end of the liquid path of the heat exchanger is connected via a water steam supply pipe to a water steam ejection section located in an internal area of the heating pot. The heat exchanger is connected to a liquid container. A bottom end of the liquid path of the heat exchanger is connected to the liquid container via a communicating tube. The liquid container is coupled to the heating pot.
US09125425B2
The invention relates to a method of preparing an edible fat continuous spread comprising a dispersed aqueous phase and crystalline non-esterified plant sterol, said method comprising the steps of preparing a fat continuous emulsion and mixing said emulsion with fast re-crystallized non-esterified plant sterol.
US09125424B2
A method for performing a filleting cut for filleting fish which are conveyed tail-first is carried out along a row of wedge-shaped ray bones projecting away from a main bone stem with a wedge width increasing from ray bone to ray bone by a pair of circular knives having sharp cutting edges. Starting from the tail end, meat of each fish is cut by the circular knife pair having a V-shaped arrangement as a result of the fact that a cutting gap having the smallest cutting edge spacing is set to a basic size which is at least substantially equal to or smaller than a wedge width of the outermost ray bone at the tail end of the conveyed fish. In the fixed position of the V-shaped arrangement, the ray bones are guided through the cutting gap, wherein the circular knife cutting edges, which in their cutting edge region are flexibly deformable out of the associated circular knife surface counter to an elastic restoring force, are displaced counter to the elastic restoring force by the broadening ray bones with increasing widening of the cutting gap. A tailored suitable apparatus comprises a circular knife pair having cutting edges which, in the fixed V-shaped arrangement, are designed such as to be able to be deformed with a degree of deformation defined by the difference between ray bone wedge widths. Circular knives configured for the apparatus may each have a cutting edge region which is deformable in a wave-like manner along the cutting edge as a result of a bending pressure transverse to the circular knife surface.
US09125423B2
An animal euthanasia device includes a chamber with an opening through which a partitioned cage may be wheeled. A pivotally attached door seals the opening using fixed edge seals and an inflatable door threshold seal. A latch secures the door, once closed. After a sensor verifies door closure, an electro-magnetic lock prevents inadvertent door opening during the process, which may be automated using a programmable logic controller (PLC). The PLC coordinates actuation of a fan and damper within an air exhaust opening, a fan and a damper within an exhaust gas opening, and a damper within a fresh air inlet opening, and also triggers a solenoid valve that controls flow of euthanizing gas into the chamber. A keyed selector switch controls power to the device to initiate the automated process, which is monitored using oxygen sensors, and CO2 flow and pressure sensors, and is reported on a human machine interface.
US09125422B2
A kicker unit and the method of using the kicker unit are described. The kicker unit along with its sensor, motor and embedded software makes this novel invention to self-guide the movement of the flattened dough from flattening platen to cooking platen. The sensor and motor based movement control of the kicker enables the flattened dough to successfully move without being disfigured and remain round and flat. The curved shape of the kicker base enables the flattened dough to be transported in good shape.
US09125418B2
Compositions have been discovered that are suitable for forming a stable dispersion. The compositions comprise an agriculturally active compound and a multivalent metal oligomeric or polymeric compound having a molecular weight of from about 150 to about 15,000 Daltons.
US09125417B2
The present invention relates to a pesticide composition intended for protecting plants, crops or seeds against phyto-pathogenic fungi or damaging insects, and the corresponding methods of treatment using the said composition. More precisely, the subject of the present invention is a pesticide composition based on fosetyl-Al, propamocarb-HCl, an insecticide active substance and optionally a further fungicide active substance.
US09125412B2
Insect controlling compositions including an N-substituted (6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)alkyl sulfoximine compound exhibiting increased stability, along with methods for preparing same, are disclosed.
US09125409B2
A plant disease control agent comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of saccharides and substances each having a bactericidal and/or fungicidal activity. The plant disease control agents are effective for the control of cucumber, grape and cabbage downy mildew, damping-off in seedlings caused by Pythium spp, cucumber and barley powdery mildew, wheat stem rust, potato and tomato late blight, and others.
US09125407B2
This invention relates to compositions for combating parasites in animals, comprising 1-arylpyrazole compounds in combination with substituted imidazole compounds. This invention also provides for an improved methods for eradicating, controlling, and preventing parasite infestation in an animal comprising administering the compositions of the invention to an animal in need thereof.
US09125401B1
A pet toy in provided in combination with a material for the evaporative delivery of catnip aroma. The evaporative material comprising substantially catnip oil, sunflower oil, and polyacrylamide, wherein the catnip oil and/or the sunflower oil are delivered by evaporation through syneresis. A number and size of openings in the pet toy housing are varied as desired to control the rate at which odor is allowed to permeate, and the amount of evaporative gel or rate of syneresis can control the duration through which the odors may be attractive to pets.
US09125396B1
A scent dispenser system used for dispensing scent from a liquid. The system includes a dispenser having an open volume. The system includes absorbent beads in the open volume of the dispenser, where the absorbent beads having the capability to absorb a liquid. The system includes aeration windows in the dispenser to receive a liquid and to allow air to pass through the dispenser and about the absorbent beads.
US09125390B1
The multiple hook catfish dip worm is constructed of a worm body that is particularly adapted to prolong adhesion of stinky cheese bait that is otherwise washed off of during use in water as a fishing lure. The worm body is of tubular construction, and features a plurality of ribs along a length, and is made of a highly flexible material. The worm body includes a hook member that is concentrically aligned with and spans along the length of the worm body. Treble hooks extend radially from the hook member, and exit through the worm body. The worm body includes the treble hooks at various locations along the length of the worm body, and increases the likelihood of hooking a fish biting the worm body. The hook member includes a looped end, which enables a line to connect thereto.
US09125385B2
The present disclosure provides a method of making a mammal (e.g., a rodent, such as a mouse) by integrating an intact polynucleotide sequence into a specific genomic locus of the mammal to result in a transgenic mammal. A transgenic mammal made by the methods of the present disclosure would contain a known copy number (e.g., one) of the inserted polynucleotide sequence at a predetermined location. The method involves introducing a site-specific recombinase and a targeting construct, containing a first recombination site and the polynucleotide sequence of interest, into the mammalian cell. The genome of the cell contains a second recombination site and recombination between the first and second recombination sites is facilitated by the site-specific, uni-directional recombinase. The result of the recombination is site-specific integration of the polynucleotide sequence of interest in the genome of the mammal. This inserted sequence is then also transmitted to the progeny of the mammal.
US09125384B2
The invention relates to a method of selectively expanding human leukemic cells in a non-adult NOD/SCID/IL2rgnull mouse by transplanting a substance containing a leukemic stem cell derived from a human acute myelogenous leukemia patient to the mouse. In addition, the invention relates to screening for a medicament capable of eradicating leukemic stem cell (LSC), consideration of treatment methods suitable for individual patients, identification of a differentially expressed gene and the like, using a mouse with expanded human leukemic cells.
US09125380B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling animal behavior are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system comprises a computing device comprising at least one processor and memory. The system includes a detection electrode and an animal signaling device. The computing device is configured to detect a change of an electrical capacitance at a detection electrode. The computing device is also configured to determine a position of an animal based on the change in the electrical charge. Further, the computing device is configured to control the animal signaling device to communicate a signal in response to determining the position of the animal.
US09125378B1
A portable petting device for petting or scratching of pets, such as dogs or cats. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. §1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
US09125376B2
A milking robot comprising a movable arm and a plurality of grippers. The movable arm has a length in a longitudinal direction. The plurality of grippers are swivably mounted to the movable arm such that each gripper moves between a first position parallel to the movable arm's longitudinal direction and a second position at which the gripper extends sideways in a horizontal plane away from the movable arm's longitudinal direction.
US09125374B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 45-171 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races B1:1 to B1:28, CA-I, CA-IIA, CA-IIB, CA-III, CA-IV, CA-V, CA-VI, CA-VII, CA-VIII, currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) biotype Nr:0, lettuce mosaic virus (LMV) race LMV:1, and root aphids (Pemphigus bursarius), as well as very slow bolting. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 45-171 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 45-171 RZ.
US09125368B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH266907. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH266907, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH266907 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH266907.
US09125366B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV249240. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV249240, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV249240 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV249240 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV249240.
US09125363B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV977627. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV977627, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV977627 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV977627 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV977627.
US09125360B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1VKK and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1VKK with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1VKK through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1VKK or a locus conversion of PH1VKK with another maize variety.
US09125352B2
A method for the culture of somatic plant embryos comprising contacting said embryos with a culture medium containing a plasmolytic or near plasmolytic concentration of a sugar alcohol or a combination of sugar alcohols; and culturing said embryos in said culture medium for a time period suitable for the desired level of maturation to be achieved. Inositol is a preferable sugar alcohol.
US09125350B1
The pivotally collapsible greenhouse is a portable greenhouse that comprising a collapsible frame and a cover. The collapsible frame comprises five nested struts that are nested that pivot around a center shaft. Once expanded, the collapsible frame is covered in a transparent material.
US09125344B2
An assistance system that optimizes the operation of a self-propelled agricultural working machine includes a device for determining working and efficiency parameters of the machine includes an arithmetic logic unit and a display unit. The arithmetic logic unit processes information generated by machine-internal sensor systems, external information and information stored in the arithmetic logic unit. One or more mathematical models describing the working process are stored in the arithmetic logic unit and derive efficiency parameters of the working machine from the available working parameters and, with consideration for monetary interrelationships, determine the opportunity costs of the working process and visualize the opportunity costs in the display unit.
US09125341B2
A riding mower including two mower blades that rotate to mow grass and generate air flows, the two mower blades including a left mower blade and a right mower blade, a mower deck, two motors that rotate the respective mower blades and a controller is provided. The left and right mower blades being provided adjacent to each other and one of the left and right mower blades being disposed obliquely in front of the other mower blade. The riding mower generates a combined air flow and discharges mowed grass to the outside of the mower deck together with the combined air flow. The controller controls such that a difference between the rotational speeds of the left and right mower blades is changed at a predetermined period and the mowed grass is discharged to the rear of the mower deck uniformly in a lateral direction of the mower deck.
US09131630B2
A liquid cooled power electronics assembly configured to use electrically conductive coolant to cool power electronic devices that uses dielectric plates sealed with a metal sleeve around the perimeter of the dielectric plates to form a device assembly. The configuration allows for more direct contact between the electronic device and the coolant, while protecting the electronic device from contact with potentially electrically conductive coolant. Material used to form the dielectric plates and the housing are selected to have similar coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) so that the reliability of the seals is maximized.
US09131623B2
Devices and methods for constructing low-profile, minimal-thickness electronic devices using existing production techniques are disclosed in this application. An electronic component and interposer form a sub-assembly. The sub-assembly is placed in an aperture in a circuit board with the interposer providing interconnections between the electronic component and the circuit board. The circuit board is coupled to the electronic component at least by one or more fluidic channels included in the interposer. The sub-assembly placed in the aperture in the circuit board as described herein conceals the thickness of the integrated circuit within the thickness of the circuit board, reducing overall thickness.
US09131622B2
A locking lever for a removable rack rail includes a base plate, a body plate mounted to the base plate so as to be pivotable about a pivot point between a first position and a second position with respect to the base plate, a tang extending in a lateral direction from the body plate, and a finger tab extending from the body plate for actuating the body plate to pivot about the pivot point with respect to the base plate, wherein when the body plate is in the second position the tang is at least partially recessed so that an end portion of the locking lever can fit in a slot on a mounting rail, and wherein when the body plate is in the first position the tang extends laterally beyond the lateral edge of the base plate so that the end portion cannot be removed from the slot.
US09131617B2
In an electrical component having at least one flexible carrier material, the connecting surfaces formed on conductive pathways thereof are joined to the connecting surfaces of individual metal bodies via individual bonded connections. At least one rail profile is conformed in the surface structure of each bonded connection; each bonded connection having at least one ultrasonic welding bond. In order to produce the electrical component, individual metal bodies are arranged on the conductive pathways of a flexible carrier material. Connecting surfaces of the individual metal bodies and connecting surfaces of the conductive pathways are materially bonded to each other. One of the connecting surfaces to be bonded is produced from a foil that is fully furnished with conductive pathways, and energy directors made from aluminum are integrated in the conductive pathway or the metal body.
US09131615B2
A printed circuit board has a first solder land, a second solder land, and a signal line pattern. The first solder land is configured to be soldered with an electronic part. The second solder land is configured to accumulate solder, the second solder land being disposed on a downstream side of the first solder land as viewed in a direction in which the printed circuit is carried. The signal line pattern includes an exposed part that is not covered with a resist, the exposed part being disposed between the solder land and the solder bridge prevention land.
US09131610B2
A layer of material having a low thermal conductivity is coated over a substrate. A film of conductive ink is then coated over the layer of material having the low thermal conductivity, and then sintered. The film of conductive ink does not absorb as much energy from the sintering as the film of conductive ink coated over the layer of material having the low thermal conductivity. The layer of material having the low thermal conductivity may be a polymer, such as polyimide.
US09131600B1
In one embodiment, a display panel includes a plurality of display elements, and image control circuitry coupled to the display elements. A power supply circuitry is coupled to the display elements. A housing encloses the display elements and the image control circuitry. The housing is sealed with respect to external elements. A first integrated data and power cable extends from outside the housing, through a housing wall and electrically connected to the image control circuitry and the power circuitry. A second integrated data and power cable extends from outside the housing, through the housing wall and electrically connected to the image control circuitry and the power circuitry.
US09131599B2
The Electronic Module has a body case 2, including a plurality of case members 3, 4 and that has an internal space (S) where a first opening P1 is formed on one side surface of the internal space and a second opening P2 that opens in a direction different from that of the first opening P1 is in an exposed state when a plurality of the case members are separated each other, a substrate 5 on which a sensor IC 51 is mounted and that is housed in the internal space of the body case, and a resin body 6 that covers the substrate 5 by being filled in the internal space of the body case and solidified or hardened, and is characterized by that a plurality of the case members and the substrate 5 are integrated by the use of the resin body 6 as an accouplement.
US09131594B2
An RF resonator cavity for accelerating charged particles is provided, wherein an electromagnetic RF field can be coupled into the RF resonator cavity. During operation, the RF field acts on a particle beam which traverses the RF resonator cavity. At least one intermediate electrode for increasing the dielectric strength is arranged in the RF resonator cavity along the beam path of the particle beam, wherein the conductivity of the intermediate electrode is limited such that upon coupling-in of the electromagnetic RF field at the operating frequency of the RF resonator cavity the intermediate electrode is at least partially penetrated by the coupled-in electromagnetic RF field.
US09131593B2
A radiation imaging control apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive at least one piece of order information for radiation imaging, a transmission unit configured to transmit, to an external device, a first signal indicating that radiation imaging for the order information is started in response to an instruction being issued for starting radiation imaging corresponding to at least one of pieces of the received order information and to transmit, to an external device, a second signal indicating that radiation imaging for the order information is finished in response to radiation imaging corresponding to the order information being finished, and a control unit configured to limit a transmission of the first signal by the transmission unit if an instruction for starting radiation imaging for the finished order information is issued again.
US09131591B2
A medical device includes an energy storage unit that is configured for being supplied with solar energy. The medical device is configured for an evaluation of a charging state of the storage unit according to a medical workflow and for the output of information related to the result of the evaluation or a signal related to the evaluation. A supply of energy is provided during the workflow.
US09131584B2
An airfield lighting system is provided, the system including a constant current regulator configured to output a constant current, a plurality of insulating transformers configured to be electrically connected to the constant current regulator to supply an electric power, and a plurality of individual lighting devices each electrically connected to the insulating transformer to turn on or turn off an LED lamp, wherein the individual lighting apparatus includes an LED unit including an ADC (AC-DC Converter) and at least one LED lamp connected to a secondary side of the ADC and transmitting defect information of the LED lamp, and a defect information receiver configured to measure a current and a voltage at a primary side of the ADC, measure an electric energy (electricity) or a resistance value using the measured current and voltage, and generate status information of the LED unit.
US09131571B2
A lighting apparatus includes a rectifier circuit configured to be coupled to an AC source and to produce a rectified voltage from an AC voltage and a string including at least two serially-connected LED segments and coupled to the rectifier circuit. A segment control circuit is configured to selectively bypass at least one segment of the string responsive to the rectified voltage. An energy storage circuit is coupled to the rectifier circuit and controls current flow between at least one energy storage device and the string. A control circuit controls the segment control circuit and the energy storage circuit. The segment control circuit may support a current from the rectifier circuit through all of the segments in the string circuit at a peak of the rectified voltage and the energy storage circuit may charge the at least one energy storage device to a voltage near the peak of the rectified voltage.
US09131566B2
A buck converter for operating at least one LED. In this case, the buck inductor comprises a first buck inductor and a second buck inductor, wherein a charge pump is coupled between the coupling point of the two buck inductors and a supply connection of a control apparatus which is used for actuating a buck switch.
US09131561B2
An apparatus includes a current control circuit configured to selectively provide current responsive to a varying voltage to at least one LED coupled in series with the first current control circuit and to at least one capacitor coupled to the at least one LED and the first current control circuit. The current control circuit may be configured to cause the at least one capacitor to be selectively charged from a current source and to be discharged via the at least one LED responsive to a varying input, such as a varying current from the current source or a varying voltage applied to the current source. For example, the current control circuit may be configured to limit current through the at least one LED to less than a current provided by the current source.
US09131559B2
A heat dissipating method for a light emitting diode is provided. The heat dissipating method includes following steps. Firstly, a circuit board with a light emitting diode formed on one side and a heat dissipating fan formed on the other side is provided. The heat dissipating fan is configured to dissipate heat for the light emitting diode. Secondly, a power source is provided for supplying power for the light emitting diode. Finally, a speed of the heat dissipating fan is adjusted according to an input power of the power source. A lighting device using the heat dissipating method is also provided.
US09131556B2
In accordance with certain embodiments, lighting systems include one or more lightsheets each including a plurality of strings of light-emitting elements, control elements, and power conductors for supplying power to the light-emitting elements and control elements.
US09131549B2
An interface circuit interfaces a device with a line-pair. The interface circuit includes: a diode bridge having polarity-independent input terminals coupled to the line-pair, and first and second output terminals having a positive polarity and a negative polarity, respectively; a first galvanic isolation device for outputting a receive signal received on the line-pair via the diode bridge; a second galvanic isolation device receiving a transmit signal; a voltage-controlled variable resistance element connected across the positive and negative output terminals of the diode bridge; and first and second filters cascaded between the second galvanic isolation device and the voltage-controlled variable resistance element. The first filter has decoupled charge and discharge paths so as to decouple the rise time and the fall time of the transmit signal. The second filter has a voltage-dependent frequency characteristic. The voltage-controlled variable resistance element couples the transmit signal to the line-pair via the diode bridge.
US09131547B2
The invention relates to an illumination device (LV) comprising at least one light fixture (LE), wherein the at least one illumination device (LV) has at least one sensor device (SEV) for detecting objects (O1, O2, O3), supplying information to the illumination device (LV) for controlling the at least one light fixture (LE). This sensor device (SEV) is equipped to detect the object type (Oid1, Oid2, . . . , OidN) of a detected object (O1, O2, O3) and/or the at least one sensor device (SEV) is equipped to determine the distance of the detected object (O1, O2, O3), the illumination device (LV) having at least one memory (SPE), said memory (SPE) being equipped to store at least one light profile (LP1, LP2, . . . , LPN), such that the at least one light profile (LP1, LP2, . . . , LPN) contains luminous intensity values (W11, . . . , W1M; W21, . . . , W2M; . . . ; WN1, . . . , WNM) as a function of object types (Oid1, Oid2, . . . , OidN) and/or the distance of an object (O1, O2,O3) from the at least one light fixture (LE) of the illumination device (LV), and the illumination device (LV) comprises at least one control device (STV) which controls the at least one light fixture (LE) with a corresponding luminous intensity value (W11, . . . , W1M; W21, . . . , W2M; . . . ; WN1, . . . , WNM) in accordance with the information concerning the object type (Oid1, Oid2, . . . , OidN) and/or the distance of a detected object in accordance with the information originating from the at least one sensor device (SEV). The invention also relates to an illumination system consisting of such illumination devices which are preferably equipped for communication with one another.
US09131544B2
An illustrative LED driver circuit is based on a transition-mode power factor correction integrated circuit using flyback topology. The LED driver circuit features a universal input circuit having various fault and surge protections, output circuit open load and short circuit protection, and main transformer over temperature protection.
US09131543B2
A method for matching an impedance of a system comprising a cavity and one or more feeds to an impedance of one or more sources of electromagnetic radiation irradiating a plurality of frequencies into the cavity via the feeds, comprising: determining a plurality of s-parameter of the system for a frequency band; determining the system impedance based on the s-parameters; and modifying the system impedance according to the difference between the impedance of the system and the impedance of the source.
US09131539B2
Disclosed is an induction cooking device that is not likely to be affected by induction heating and wherein boiling-over can be detected. An induction cooking device has: a top plate on which a cooking container is placed; a heating coil that generates an induction magnetic field for heating the cooking container; a heating control unit that controls the heating power of the cooking container by controlling the high-frequency current supplied to the heating coil; electrodes disposed in a lower surface of the top plate; and an electrostatic capacity detector that detects changes in electrostatic capacity occurring in the electrodes when articles to be cooked contact with the top plate. When the electrostatic capacity detector senses changes in the electrostatic capacity of the electrodes, the heating control unit decreases or stops the heating power of the cooking container, and the electrodes are disposed outside of the outer circumference the heating coil.
US09131531B2
A first wireless transceiver communicates pre-association data via a first wireless network, the pre-association data relating to a second wireless network, wherein the first wireless network supports communication via a first wireless protocol and wherein the second wireless network supports communication via a second wireless protocol that is different from the first wireless protocol. A second wireless transceiver communicates the pre-association data with the first wireless transceiver via a transceiver interface and processes the pre-association data to support an association by the second wireless transceiver with the second wireless network.
US09131526B2
Presented are methods and apparatus for decoupling transport and control (T&C) functions from a plurality of eNBs and collecting the T&C functions in a centralized entity for managing the T&C functions for a larger pool of eNBs. An enhanced interface and protocol is defined for allowing the new T&C pool entity to communicate with the eNBs over a shared IP based network. The redistributed functionality provides for optimizing both data compression capabilities and security by compressing data earlier in its transmission path and by encrypting data before it is sent to an eNB.
US09131521B2
In a communications apparatus, a communication controller transmits and receives signals on any of plural channels. A channel switching controller is responsive to channel switching information selectively defining plural reception-waiting periods using the channels to alter a channel to be used by the communication controller. A neighboring node channel controller exchanges channel switching information with other nodes to manage the channel switching information received from the other nodes. When transmitting transmission signals, a transmission controller refers to the channel switching information of the other nodes, and controls repetitive transmission of the transmission signals on the channel thus searched for.
US09131519B2
A coexistence signaling scheme for radio communications is described. In one embodiment, a method for coexistence signaling includes establishing first communications and second communications with separate access points or base stations. The method further includes determining protocol timings of the first and second communications. Based on various communications parameters, protocol timings, and identified interference conditions, the method includes generating one or more priority signals to manage the first and second communications. According to certain aspects, overlapping channel conditions can be avoided while maintaining acceptable communications data throughput.
US09131517B2
Primary and secondary apparatuses avoid concurrent performance of activities, wherein the secondary apparatus has a best and possibly different worst case minimum amounts of time required to perform activity. The primary apparatus ascertains a first future moment when it will become inactive and ascertains whether its upcoming period of inactivity will not be less than the secondary apparatus' best case minimum amount of time required to perform activity. If not, the primary apparatus asserts, in advance of the first future moment, an inactivity indicator signal indicating its upcoming inactivity. The interval between assertion of the inactivity indicator signal and the first future moment is greater than or equal to a difference between the secondary apparatus' worst and best case minimum amounts of time required to perform activity.
US09131515B2
A wireless receiver receives reference signals over a wireless link. The wireless receiver calculates a selection indication based on the received reference signals, and the wireless receiver selects from among plural channel estimation techniques based on the selection indication, where the selected channel estimation technique is usable to perform channel estimation of the wireless link.
US09131513B2
A controller receives information relating to at least one of multiple small cells. Responsive to the received information, the controller coordinates allocation of resources for use by the small cells in communicating data with respective user equipments (UEs), where the coordinating of the allocation of resources reduces interference among the small cells.
US09131511B2
Backoff snooze wake power consumption within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. If a communication (e.g., transmission) attempt fails (e.g., by a wireless station (STA), smart meter station (SMSTA), etc.), then a backoff snooze countdown may be performed before a subsequent communication is attempted. Also, if communication activity is detected on the communication medium, then such a backoff snooze countdown may be performed before monitoring the communication medium or a subsequent communication attempt is made. Such a backoff snooze countdown may be based on a codeword value (e.g., such as provided within a beacon received from an access point (AP)), and different respective backoff snooze countdowns may be made based on different respective codeword values. Such backoff snooze countdowns are performed outside of a restricted access window (RAW) in which only devices of a particular class (e.g., low-power, Z, etc.) have access to the communication medium.
US09131507B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for receiving signals, which comprises the followings: receive signals on at least one receiving branch, which comprises at least two reception units, including one data reception unit and one pilot reception unit at least. Said signal refers to a codeword in a transmission codebook; calculate metric value of each codeword in said transmission codebook according to said received signal; obtain the codeword with maximal metric value among all said codewords and the metric value corresponding to this codeword; if this value exceeds threshold value, Determining the codeword corresponding to said maximal metric value; if this value is less than the threshold value, Determining discontinuously-sent DTX. In the present invention, perform joint demodulation of data symbol and pilot symbol to make the demodulation results more reliable; meanwhile; judge whether it is discontinuous transmission based on joint demodulation of data symbol and pilot symbol.
US09131505B2
A method for providing uplink service from a base station to a terminal includes: transmitting information on a TCP packet and a dedicated code to a terminal; receiving a code number from the terminal using the dedicated code; searching a requesting bandwidth for the code number and allocating resources to the terminal; and receiving the ACK packet for the TCP packet through the allocated resources from the terminal.
US09131499B2
A method for setting an almost blank subframe (ABS) pattern in a base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an ABS bitmap pattern from a neighboring base station; setting the ABS pattern of the base station by repeating the ABS bitmap pattern within a previously set number of radio frames; receiving an offset value indicating an application start point of an updated ABS bitmap pattern and an application start of the updated ABS bitmap pattern from the neighboring base station; and setting the ABS pattern of the base station by repeating the updated ABS bitmap pattern from a start subframe of a specific radio frame indicated by the offset value.
US09131497B1
A method and apparatus for admission control in a wireless train communication system with TDMA are disclosed. The method and apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention identifies neighboring devices within neighborhood of a given device that use the time slot. The frequency and location information for the intended device and the unintended devices are used to determine whether to grant the time slot. In another embodiment according to the present invention, the receive signal strength information at the neighboring devices is used, instead of the distance information, for admission control.
US09131494B2
Disclosed is a method whereby a relay node receives a signal from a base station in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the invention comprises: a step in which a relay node receives, from the base station, a request signal for changing the size of a downlink physical control channel transmitted to a terminal corresponding to the relay node; a step in which a signal in response to the request signal is sent to the base station; a step of setting a downlink available symbol between the base station and the relay node, based on the request signal; and a step in which a relay node specific signal, sent from the base station, is received from the downlink available symbol.
US09131492B2
A base station includes a reference signal sequence generator configured to generate a reference signal sequence for a reference signal for each of n antenna ports using one initialization seed cinit with n being a positive integer. The initialization seed is defined as: cinit=(└ns/2┘+1)·(2NIDcell+1)·216+NIDgroup, where ns is a first slot number in a subframe, NIDcell is a cell identifier of the base station, and NIDgroup is a group identifier. The base station also includes a transmit path circuitry configured to transmit a downlink grant and the reference signal. In some embodiments, the group identifier NIDgroup is a one-bit group identifier dynamically indicated in a codepoint in the downlink grant transmitted by the base station.
US09131481B2
A mobile station apparatus controls the transmission method of uplink signals to efficiently transmit uplink control information, while avoiding increase of overhead of the control information. The mobile station apparatus has a reception processing unit 401 which performs detection processing of a physical downlink control channel in a plurality of cells, an uplink control information generating unit 4051 which generates a reception confirmation response to data of one or more physical downlink shared channels for which assignment of a resource is indicated by downlink control information included in one or more physical downlink control channels detected in a same subframe by the reception processing unit 401, a control unit 405 which controls application of transmission diversity to a physical uplink control channel according to a situation of a cell in which the physical downlink shared channel has been detected by the reception processing unit 401, and a transmission processing unit 407 which transmits the reception confirmation response generated in the uplink control information generating unit according to a control result of the control unit 405, using the physical uplink control channel.
US09131480B2
Techniques to manage group control signaling for machine-to-machine (M2M) devices are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor circuit, and a M2M control component arranged for execution by the processor circuit to manage M2M group control signaling in a wireless network for multiple M2M devices in a M2M group, the M2M control component to generate a resource allocation for multiple M2M devices of a M2M group, generate a M2M group control message with the resource allocation, and send the M2M group control message to the M2M devices in the M2M group. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09131479B2
According to the invention data in a number of logical downlink intended for one or more mobile terminals are received in a first mapping unit, where at least a first High Speed Radio Network Temporary identity is allocated to these logical downlink channels addressing a group of mobile terminals for allowing transmission of channel data for reception by mobile terminals. A mobile terminal then reads, from a Broadcast Control Channel, necessary information including a High Speed Radio Network Temporary identity allocated to at least one logical downlink channel, where at least said first identity exists among possible identities. It then listens to a high speed shared control channel for the read identity. In case it detects the identity, the terminal follows a scheduling command, receives data on a high-speed downlink shared channel and processes said data.
US09131478B2
A method and system for improved communication are disclosed herein. In at least one example embodiment, the present disclosure relates to a method of communication by a first device with second and third devices. The method includes engaging in first communications with the second device, with which the first device is in a first paired relationship, terminating the first paired relationship, and either receiving from the third device a request to enter into a second paired relationship or sending to the third device the request to enter into the second paired relationship. Additionally, the method includes either outputting an image for detection by the third device, or detecting the image when output by the third device. Further, the method includes communicating with the third device so as to establish the second paired relationship with the third device and, upon establishing that relationship, automatically reestablishing the first paired relationship.
US09131469B2
A broadcast data transmission method includes generating service composition information of a broadcasting service to be provided using a broadcast packet transmitted through a frequency channel; generating first signaling information indicating an ensemble in which the service composition information is to be transmitted; and transmitting the broadcast packet, the service composition information, and the first signaling information. The service composition information may include at least one of a service identifier for the broadcasting service, genre information representing a genre of the broadcasting service, and information about a provider of the broadcasting service.
US09131461B2
Providing paging controls for mobile communication is described herein. By way of example, the paging controls can comprise paging occasions of a wireless signal determined from a formula based on an integer raised to a function of a constant power (e.g., 2^K or 2^(K−L), where K and/or L are constant). Selected paging occasions can be grouped within the wireless signal, or distributed throughout a subset of time frames of the signal. Furthermore, paging groups can be assigned to each of the paging occasions by employing distinct identifiers of mobile device assigned to each paging occasion. By employing various paging occasions and paging groups, false alarm pages can be mitigated. According to at least one aspect, system information can be efficiently broadcast to multiple devices (e.g., all devices in a cell) by employing at least one paging group assigned for cell-wide paging.
US09131451B2
A method is described for transmitting signals at a communication apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting a plurality of component carriers. A physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with uplink control information (UCI) and a PUSCH without the UCI are simultaneously transmitted using the plurality of component carriers. A predefined transmission power determination scheme is used to determine the transmission power of the PUSCH with the UCI, and determine the transmission power of the PUSCH without the UCI. If a total transmission power of the PUSCH with the UCI and the PUSCH without the UCI exceeds a value corresponding to a maximum transmission power configured for the communication apparatus, the determined transmission power of the PUSCH without UCI is adjusted while maintaining the determined transmission power of the PUSCH with the UCI.
US09131444B2
Devices, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for optimized page matching is disclosed. According to some embodiments, a portion of a sub-slot is read. A page message is extracted from the portion of the sub-slot. A page matching procedure is performed prior to the end of the sub-slot. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09131443B2
A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes data analyzer analyzing content that makes up a web page received from a server connected to a network via a base station, display unit displaying the web page, and channel transition controller adjusting the timing to transit to a standby mode which consumes a smaller amount of electric power than in a present mode based on the result of the analysis made by the data analyzer.
US09131442B2
An apparatus and a method for reducing power consumption in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes an antenna, a Radio Frequency (RF) module, a first amplifier, an external power amplifier, and a controller. The RF module converts a baseband transmission signal to an RF signal. The first amplifier amplifies power of the RF signal inside the RF module. The external power amplifier amplifies power of an output signal of the first amplifier. When a transmission power level of a transmission signal is equal to or less than a maximum output level of the first amplifier, the controller controls to transmit the transmission signal amplified by the first amplifier via the antenna. When the transmission power level of the transmission signal is equal to or greater than the maximum output level of the first amplifier, the controller controls to transmit a transmission signal amplified by the external power amplifier via the antenna.
US09131436B2
Provided is a mobile communication method, in which in direct communication between a mobile station UE#1 and a mobile station UE#2, synchronization between the mobile station UE#1 and the mobile station UE#2 is appropriately established. A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting, by the mobile station UE#2, “Timing information #1” indicating deviation of a reception timing of “Ud preamble #1” from a desired timing to a radio base station eNB on the basis of a received “Ud preamble #1”, and a step of transmitting, by the radio base station eNB, a “Ud TA command #1” for adjusting a transmission timing of a data signal in the third radio link to the mobile station UE#1 on the basis of received “Timing information #1”.
US09131432B2
Apparatus and method for wireless communication in a wireless communication network include receiving a synchronization channel message parameter at a user equipment (UE) from a network entity. The aspects also include transmitting data to the network entity based on the synchronization channel message parameter. Additionally, the aspects include determining whether an assignment of a reverse supplemental (RS) channel to the UE is performed by the network entity. Still further, the aspects include incrementing a counter value when the network entity fails to assign the RS channel. The aspects also include selecting another network entity when the counter value reaches a predetermined threshold. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09131431B2
A method for automatically establishing a wireless network used in a wireless access point (AP) device is provided. The method comprises the steps outlined below. A first virtual AP unit is activated and operated in a provisional station mode according to a default configuration. The AP device determines whether the wireless AP device is connected to an access controller (AC), if the wireless AP device and the AC are connected, the wireless AP device communicates with the AC to perform a configuring process according to a retrieved configuration to activate a second virtual AP unit. The wireless AP device operates the second virtual AP unit in a configured mode and operates the first virtual AP unit in a provisional AP mode.
US09131426B2
Provided is a communication device including a communication control unit that inserts, into a destination field of a data packet, intermediate node designation information designating an intermediate node different from a destination node of the data packet on a path to the destination node, and a transmission unit that transmits the data packet into which the intermediate node designation information is inserted.
US09131420B2
In a wireless communication system where different frequency bands are deployed to generate various communication zones, pilot signal set management for a plurality of pilot signals generated from an additional coverage zone is based on identifying a preselected signal set from the plurality of pilot signals and determining whether a predetermined criterion is met.
US09131405B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. And, a method of transmitting and receiving channel status information on a multi-cell operation in a wireless communication system and apparatus for the same are disclosed. The present invention may include determining a report type of channel status information on multi-cell operation and transmitting/receiving the channel status information corresponding to the determined channel status information report type via uplink data channel.
US09131395B2
Acknowledgment and/or receiver recovery mechanisms for scheduled responses within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Explicit scheduling information is provided from a first wireless communication device (e.g., an access point (AP), a transmitting wireless communication device) to a number of other wireless communication devices (e.g., wireless stations (STAs), receiving wireless communication devices) directing those other wireless communication devices a manner by which responses (e.g., acknowledgments (ACKs), block acknowledgments (BACKs), training feedback frames, etc.) are to be provided to the first wireless communication device there from. Such direction may include the order, timing, cluster assignment, etc. by which each respective wireless communication device is to provide its respective response to the first wireless communication device. In the event of the first wireless communication device failing to receive at least one response from at least one of the other wireless communication devices, various communication medium recovery mechanisms may be performed.
US09131380B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for solving and managing security problems, which may occur during a handover of a User Equipment (UE) between PLMNs in a mobile communication network, by using a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol are provided. By the method, a UE can perform a security mode command and an authentication with a network. Further, the method can prevent interruption of communication due to authentication or security during a handover of a UE between Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs).
US09131376B2
Various examples are disclosed of how to leverage technology in a vehicle to provide various services in a convenient manner. For example, the pairing of the portable device with the on-board computer of the vehicle may be utilized as a level of authorization to provide certain services in a more automated and/or convenient way to the vehicle driver or other occupant of the vehicle, such as by authenticating wireless transactions with entities external to the vehicle using device pairing technology, and by modifying vehicle navigation routes to include suggested nearby points of interest that may be determined to be of particular value to a vehicle occupant.
US09131365B2
An apparatus for securing communications includes a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving a request to activate a service transferring communications of a cellular network to a wireless local network. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to provide an activation key to a device responsive to an indication that the device is authorized to utilize the service based on determining an identifier(s) of the request is valid. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to provide a private key to the device, to enable the device to utilize the private key to subsequently register to transfer communications of the cellular network to a wireless local network(s), responsive to receiving a message for the private key from the device and a message from the cellular network. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US09131359B2
The present invention relates to a remote control of a portable terminal, and more particularly, to a method for remotely controlling functions of a portable terminal, and a system thereof. A method for remotely controlling a function of a portable terminal includes receiving a request for remote control of at least one function of the portable terminal, setting up the requested at least one function for remote control, determining whether an event corresponding to the set up function is generated and performing the set up function if the event is generated.
US09131358B2
The present invention is generally directed toward a system for modifying caller identification (Caller ID) information by an outgoing caller on a mobile device. The system includes a storage means for storing Caller ID information prepared by a telecommunications provider, a telecommunications provider Caller ID module configured to transmit the Caller ID information to a receiving party, and a mobile device Caller ID module stored on the mobile device and configured to display the name associated with the Caller ID information on the mobile device. The mobile device Caller ID module is configured to customize the name by the outgoing caller and transmit the customized name to the telecommunications provider Caller ID module. The customized name is then transmitted in place of the telephone account name to the receiving party as part of the Caller ID information.
US09131357B2
A data request is generated (e.g., text, email, SMS, multimedia messaging system (MMS), etc.) from a source device. The data request is delivered to a PSAP or other emergency monitoring service location in a useable format. Exemplary useable formats include a canned voice message, delivery to a call center that translates data to voice, text to speech, and text to instant messaging (IM). Additional information and location are staged for use by the PSAP or other monitoring service location.
US09131354B2
Disclosed is a method for a terminal, which is in an idle state in a wireless access system that supports machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, updating an M2M group identifier (MGID), which identifies a multicast service flow that is shared by a group of M2M terminals inside an M2M group zone. The method can comprises the steps of: receiving from a first base station the MGID and the M2M group zone identifier of the first base station; receiving from a second base station an M2M group zone identifier of the second base station; requesting from the second base station an MGID update when the M2M group zone identifier of the second base station is different from the M2M group zone identifier of the first base station; and updating the MGID on the basis of a new MGID that is transmitted from the second base station as a response to the request.
US09131347B2
Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for utilizing a pressure profile to determine a location context identifier (LCI) for use in or with a mobile communication device.
US09131342B2
A selection of a category of interest and location information is used to determine categorical information that is provided to a device. In some implementations, the device includes a touch-sensitive display and presents the categorical information on a map using an indicator. In some implementations, the categorical information can be shared and/or updated by others.
US09131340B2
A method includes, when a UE enters a first core network device and performs a location update, determining, by the first core network device and at least according to that a timer does not time out, that context information of the UE is available, and sending, by the first core network device, to a second core network device, a location update request that includes information that the context information of the UE is available. The method further includes executing, by the first core network device, the location update at least according to saved context information of the UE. The timer is sent to the first core network device by the second core network device before the UE enters the first core network device and when the UE leaves the first core network device and performs the location update. Alternatively, the timer is saved in the first core network device in advance.
US09131335B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments enable a wireless docking center device to manage one or more wireless and/or wired peripheral devices on behalf of a wireless dockee device. Example embodiments of the invention include wireless docking management of peripheral devices, power management in wireless docking, intelligent and automatic connection activation in wireless docking, notification based on user proximity to a peripheral device in wireless docking, and redirect data transmission between peripheral devices in wireless docking. Wireless docking is mentioned as example herein, but similar solutions may also be applied to other connected device environments.
US09131334B2
Disclosed are a Bluetooth communication method and system which enable a Bluetooth device to be connected to other terminals without a pairing process and data to be transmitted through Bluetooth communication when the Bluetooth device is paired with any of a plurality of terminals having the same device information. The Bluetooth communication method includes receiving, by a receiving unit in a central communication server, communication information from a first terminal when the first terminal and a Bluetooth device are paired, transmitting, by a transmitting unit in the central communication server, the communication information to a second terminal having the same device information as the first terminal, and establishing, by the second terminal, a communication channel with the Bluetooth device, without the pairing process, on the basis of the received communication information.
US09131333B2
Tools (systems, apparatuses, methodologies, computer program products, etc.) for pairing electronic devices including touchscreen-enabled electronic devices, and for facilitating communication between paired electronic devices.
US09131328B2
This invention provides a mechanism for invocation of wireless mobile terminal (Smartphone) apps according to spatial events. The spatial events relate to either entering or being within or exiting or being outside of a physical space. For planes, the spatial boundary may be a circle or the perimeter of an arbitrary polygon. For a three dimensional space, the spatial boundary may be a spherical surface or the surface of an arbitrary polyhedron. Spatial parameters, that identify a boundary, are provided by a Smartphone app builder to an interactive compiler for defining a spatial region. The algorithms for doing so are provided herein. The name of the spatial configuration is afterwards inserted within an Invoke facility service's Boolean expression by the builder of an Invoke facility service. The builder defines which manner of spatial event activity is to be utilized within the Boolean expression.
US09131326B2
A method and apparatus for determining if there is a stream of video signals corresponding with a stream of audio signals. If the sample rate of a digital bitstream including is determined. if the sample rate is 48 m kHz (where m is an integer), it is determined that there are video signals corresponding to the audio signals. If the sample rate is 44.1 m kHz (where m is an integer), it is determined that there are no video signals corresponding to the audio signals.
US09131323B2
An implantable actuator system is disclosed. The system comprises a hermetically sealed housing; an actuator positioned in the housing, the actuator having at least one element displaceable relative to the housing; a coupling element connecting the actuator to the recipient's ear; and a diaphragm positioned at an end of the housing to provide a hermetic seal between the coupling element and the housing, wherein the diaphragm has sufficient flexibility to permit the coupling element to transmit vibrations to or from the actuator, wherein a liquid is positioned around the displaceable element of actuator to dampen the frequency response of the actuator, and in certain aspects, to make the system insensitive to differences in pressure between inside and outside of the housing.
US09131312B2
A method of monitoring a subject via an earbud module includes positioning the earbud module within an ear of the subject such that a sensor region thereof matingly engages a region of the ear at the intersection of the anti tragus and acoustic meatus and is oriented in a direction away from the ear canal. Physiological information is then detected and/or measured via the optical sensor. The optical sensor includes an optical emitter and an optical detector, and detecting and/or measuring physiological information about the subject includes directing optical energy at the ear region via the optical emitter and detecting optical energy absorbed, scattered, and/or reflected by the ear region via the optical detector. Environmental information in a vicinity of the subject may be monitored via an environmental sensor associated with the earbud module and subject motion may be monitored via a motion sensor associated with the earbud module.
US09131311B2
A canal phone incorporates a transducer within an isolation sound chamber for reproducing sound from an audio source, and a sound-transmission passageway, or ambient sound port, for allowing ambient sounds to enter the isolation sound chamber. The passageway has inner and outer apertures, one oriented towards the ambient noise environment outside of the listener's ear and the other oriented toward the isolated chamber formed by the space between a loudspeaker diaphragm within the canal phone and the tympanum of the listener's ear. The canal phone has a port blocking switch mechanism that selectively opens or closes the aperture of the passageway that is open to the ambient noise. This switch mechanism may also electrically disconnect the transducer and seal either the outer or the inner end of the passageway in different embodiments of the invention.
US09131304B2
A loudspeaker is provided which includes: a magnetic circuit including a magnet having at least one hole, a plate fixed to one of a pair of polar surfaces of the magnet, and a box-shaped yoke having an inner bottom surface fixed to the other polar surface of the magnet; a voice coil vertically vibratably provided in a magnetic gap formed by the plate and the yoke; a diaphragm having a peripheral edge connected to an upper end of the voice coil; and a magnetic fluid filled in at least one of a gap between the voice coil and the plate and a gap between the voice coil and the yoke. The loudspeaker includes at least one means for uniformly distributing the magnetic fluid.
US09131296B2
An audio system has a connector with a signal pin that interfaces the audio system with an external device. An audio integrated circuit has a digital to analog converter (DAC) and an audio power amplifier having an input coupled to an output of the DAC and an output coupled to an output pin of the audio integrated circuit. Data storage contains stored instructions that program a processor to select an audio output mode of operation namely line-out mode or headphone mode. A configurable output conditioning circuit is coupled between the output pin of the audio integrated circuit and the signal pin of the connector. The conditioning circuit changes the output impedance that is presented at the signal pin, under control of the programmed processor when selecting the audio output mode of operation. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09131289B2
A software-defined (SD) optical network is disclosed. An SD optical line terminal (OLT) includes a global SD controller, one or more SD OLT drivers connected to the global SD controller, and an underlying hardware component connected to each of said one or more SD OLT drivers. An SD optical network unit (ONU) includes a local SD controller, one or more SD optical network unit (ONU) drivers connected to the local SD controller, and an underlying hardware component connected to each of said one or more SD ONU drivers, wherein the local SD controller manages said one or more SD ONU drivers by issuing commands communicated to said one or more SD ONU drivers, and wherein each of said one or more SD ONU drivers implements a required function on the underlying hardware component. Other apparatuses, systems, and methods also are disclosed.
US09131288B2
A G.709 based multiplexing routing control method and gateway network element. The method includes carrying, in a gateway network element, the multi-stages multiplexing capability of the gateway network element in a link state broadcast data packet, and broadcasting, through a routing protocol, the multi-stages multiplexing capability of the gateway network element to the routing area or Path Computation Entity (PCE) in which the gateway network element is located. The gateway network element is configured to carry the multi-stages multiplexing capability of the gateway network element in a link state broadcast data packet, and to broadcast, through a routing protocol, the multi-stages multiplexing capability of the gateway network element to the routing area or PCE in which the gateway network element is located. This enables the multi-stages multiplexing capability of the gateway network element to be broadcasted to other network elements, resolving interconnection and intercommunication problems between new and old equipment.
US09131284B2
A mobile computing device includes first, second and third cameras coupled to produce first, second and third camera video streams, respectively. The first camera is on a first side of the mobile computing device, and the second and third cameras are included in a stereo camera on a second side of the mobile computing device. A video processor is coupled to generate an output video stream including a first video layer generated from the first camera video stream. The video processor is further coupled to generate the output video stream to include second and third video layers from the second camera video stream in response to the second and the third camera video streams. The video processor is further coupled to overlay the first video layer between the second video layer and the third video layer in the output video stream.
US09131275B2
Technologies manage video-on-demand (VoD) for a set of video files stored in a hierarchical network comprising a plurality of nodes, one or more of the plurality of nodes being user nodes, the user nodes connected to one or more of the plurality of parent nodes, and one or more of the plurality of parent nodes storing a video file previously requested by a user node, the method comprising, for a user node, periodically ranking a video file from the set of video files wherein the ranking is based on separation between a parent node in the network storing the video file and the user node, and interest of the user node for the video file; and on receiving a request for the VoD, providing a list of the set of video files and recommending one or more video files having a predefined ranking.
US09131268B2
Provided are a display device configuring a multi-display and a display method. The multi-media display receives a DisplayPort signal from outside, converts the received signal into a set of LVTTL signals, converts a portion of the LVTTL signals into a high-quality image signal capable of using HDMI to display multimedia on a corresponding display device, and converts another portion of the LVTTL signals into a DisplayPort signal to transmit the DisplayPort signal to another display device. Accordingly, an infinite multi-display can display high quality multimedia.
US09131266B2
In an embodiment, a device controller initiates a dynamic discovery procedure to detect media output devices that are currently in proximity to a user. The device controller determines a first subset of the detected media output devices configured to present a first media type (e.g., video, audio, etc.) to the user and a second subset of the detected media output devices configured to present a second media type (e.g., audio, video, etc.) to the user. The device controller directs first and second portions of media to the first and second subsets conjunctive presentation. In another embodiment, the first and/or second subsets can include two or more devices, such that the same media type can be presented by multiple devices (e.g., to achieve a surround sound effect, a split-screen or cloned video effect, etc.).
US09131253B2
Media content is paired with context-relevant supplemental content, and the media and supplemental content are provided to a user. A media stream containing the media content may be received from a source system, and context information about the media content is determined from information about the media stream. The supplemental content may be selected based on the determined context information. This may enable a business model in which third parties can register advertising or other supplemental content and specify the criteria that cause it to be combined with the media content.
US09131251B2
A method for transmitting video streams from a server to a media device includes selecting by the server first encoding parameters for a first set of video streams based on a first current bandwidth capacity for a network and based on a first current window size of a receive buffer of the media device, and transmitting the first set of video streams from the server to the media device. The method includes selecting by the server second encoding parameters for a second set of video streams based on a second current bandwidth capacity for the network based on a second current window size of the buffer. The first current bandwidth capacity is different from the second current bandwidth capacity or the first window size is different from the second current window size. The method includes transmitting the second set of video streams from the server to the media device.
US09131245B2
Techniques are described related to constructing reference picture lists. The reference picture lists may be constructed from reference picture subsets of a reference picture set. In some examples, the techniques may repeatedly list reference pictures identified in the reference picture subsets until the number of entries in the reference picture list is equal to the maximum number of allowable entries in the reference picture list.
US09131244B2
An image decoding apparatus is provided. The image decoding apparatus includes a processor which obtains information about a color representation from a bitstream, obtains a residue, which corresponds to a difference between a current image and a predicted image of the current image, from the bitstream, and reconstructs the current image by using the residue and the predicted image, based on the information about the color representation.
US09131237B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a motion vector. The method of encoding a motion vector includes: selecting a mode from among a first mode in which information indicating a motion vector predictor of at least one motion vector predictor is encoded and a second mode in which information indicating generation of a motion vector predictor based on pixels included in a previously encoded area adjacent to a current block is encoded; determining a motion vector predictor of the current block according to the selected mode and encoding information about the motion vector predictor of the current block; and encoding a difference vector between a motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor of the current block.
US09131233B1
A method for compressing a video stream including the steps of: (1) encoding at least two pictures of the video stream as a first intra picture and a second intra picture, where the first intra picture occurs temporally before the second intra picture, (2) encoding another picture of the video stream as a first inter picture, where the first inter picture (a) occurs temporally (i) after the first intra picture and (ii) before the second intra picture and (b) uses (i) the second intra picture and (ii) one other picture occurring temporally before the first inter picture as references, (3) encoding another picture of the video stream as a second inter picture, where the second inter picture (a) occurs temporally (i) after the first intra picture and (ii) before the second intra picture and (b) uses (i) the second intra picture and (ii) the first inter picture as references and (4) encoding another picture in the video stream as a third inter picture, where the third inter picture (a) occurs temporally after the first intra picture and (ii) before the second intra picture and (b) uses (i) the second intra picture and (ii) the second inter picture as references.
US09131219B2
A method for determining a centerline for a triangulation-based optical profilometry system, compensating for the spatial variations of the reflectance of an object's surface. The method comprises providing a luminous line on the object, the luminous line being a triangulation line superposed with a compensation line; capturing an image of the triangulation line and of the compensation line; for each position along the imaged triangulation line, determining a transverse triangulation profile from the imaged triangulation line and a transverse compensation profile from the imaged compensation line; determining a transverse correction profile given by the reciprocal of the transverse compensation profile; multiplying the transverse triangulation profile with the transverse correction profile to obtain a corrected transverse triangulation profile; computing a center of the corrected transverse triangulation profile. The centers determined at positions along the triangulation line form the centerline. Embodiments of a triangulation-based optical profilometry system integrating the method are disclosed.
US09131216B2
A method for temporally synchronizing an input bit stream of a video decoder with a processed video sequence decoded by an external video decoder includes the steps of: capturing the input bit stream and supplying it to a bit stream analyzer; parsing and analyzing the captured input bit stream by the bit stream analyzer; decoding the input bit stream and providing reconstructed images Nrec therefrom; storing the reconstructed images Nrec in a buffer; and comparing a processed video sequence received from the output side of the video decoder with each of the stored reconstructed images, to find a matching frame n* from the reconstructed images in the buffer.
US09131215B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving video data via a digital data interface are provided. The video data transmission method includes: inserting three-dimensional (3D) video data into a video data period in a video frame; inserting information regarding a 3D image format of the 3D video data into a data island period in the video frame; and transmitting the video frame via the digital data interface.
US09131212B2
Each control period includes a right eye display period and a left eye display period. A driving circuit supplies grayscale potential based on a right eye image to each pixel in each of the three unit periods of the right eye display period, and supplies the grayscale potential based on a left eye image to each pixel in each of the three unit periods of the left eye display period. The driving circuit performs overdriving in two unit periods from the beginning of each display period, sets the polarity of a voltage applied to each pixel in the two unit periods from the beginning of each display period reverse in the right eye display period of the control period and in the right eye display period of the control period.
US09131211B2
An imaging system may include a pixel array having a plurality of image pixels and a plurality of test pixels. The test pixels may each include a photodiode configured to receive a test voltage. For example, the photodiodes of test pixels may be coupled to a bias voltage supply line or the photodiodes may receive test voltages via a column readout line or a row control line. The test voltage may be output on a column line associated with the column of pixels in which the test pixel is located. Verification circuitry may compare the output test signal with a predetermined reference signal to determine whether the imaging system is functioning properly. If an output test signal does not match the expected output signal, the imaging system may be disabled and/or a warning signal may be presented to a user of the system.
US09131206B2
A method for play synchronization and a device using the same are provided. A first device stores time-based content play information. The first device plays content according to the time-based content play information. The first device transmits the time-based content play information to a second device so that the second device plays the content according to the time-based content play information. Accordingly, the content played by one device can be played by another device concurrently.
US09131204B2
Systems and methods for optimizing properties of objects within a scene or achieve a visual goal.
US09131198B2
A signal processing apparatus includes an initial detecting module, a mixer, a symbol rate detecting module, a judging module and a correcting module. The initial detecting module determines an initial carrier frequency offset of an input signal according to a spectrum of the input signal. The mixer adjusts the input signal according to the initial carrier frequency offset to generate a frequency-compensated signal. The symbol rate detecting module determines a symbol rate of the input signal. The judging module judges whether the initial carrier frequency offset is correct according to the frequency-compensated signal. When a judgment result of the judging module is negative, the correcting module determines a corrected carrier frequency offset according to the symbol rate and the spectrum.
US09131197B2
There is provided an imaging apparatus capable of reducing effects given by an object outside a dynamic range of the camera, and capturing an object image with appropriate exposure, when a camera performs imaging. The imaging apparatus is configured to separate image data into a plurality of blocks, extract a specific-color block using an average value of each color component acquired using only a pixel group whose pixel output is included within a predetermined range and the number of the groups, set a weighting coefficient of an exposure-amount calculation for the block to be determined as the specific color, and set the exposure based on the weighting coefficient and an average value of brightness acquired using only the pixel groups whose pixel output and the average value of the brightness of the block are included within the predetermined range.
US09131189B2
Broadcast server and method for transmitting electronic program guide data to set top boxes via a broadcast network. The broadcast server is arranged to prepare a list of unique entries and associated identifications of the text items received, and to provide a compressed list to the plurality of set top boxes. The broadcast server repeats the following steps for each text item in the list: determining whether a next text item has a number of shared consecutive characters at the start in common with a compressed text item from the compressed list, identifying said compressed text item as a source of shared consecutive characters and determining the number of shared consecutive characters; storing for the next text item an identification, a reference to the source of shared consecutive characters, the number of shared consecutive characters, and the remaining non-shared text in the compressed list.
US09131188B2
Provided are an image display device, a key input for controlling the image display device, and a corresponding operating method. The method includes detecting an input of at least one of control keys provided at a predetermined area on the image display device and displaying a control key OSD corresponding to the at least one control key, receiving an input of one of the control keys while the control key OSD is displayed and changing the displayed control key OSD to select key OSDs for selecting menu items corresponding to the inputted control key, and displaying the select key OSDs.
US09131187B2
An image inspection apparatus is provided for inspecting an image output on a recording medium by scanning the output image. The image inspection apparatus includes an inspection reference image generator to obtain an output-target image print data, and to generate an inspection reference image using the output-target image print data, an inspection result acquisition unit to acquire a result of a defect determination based on a difference between the generated inspection reference image and the read image, a restriction-on-disclosure process unit to change, based on restriction-on-disclosure positional information, which indicates a restricted area in the read image that should be restricted when displayed, a value of a pixel in the restricted area, when a defect is detected in the read image, to generate a corrected image, and an information transmission unit to transmit the corrected image through a network.
US09131185B2
A data communication apparatus that is capable of improving operability when inputting authentication information. An authentication unit accepts authentication information inputted when a user logs in to the data communication apparatus and authenticates the user based on the accepted authentication information. A designation unit designates a file transmission destination that is inputted by the authenticated user. A transmission unit transmits a file to the transmission destination inputted. A registration unit registers the transmission destination of the file. A control unit prohibits registration of the authentication information at the time of registration of the transmission destination of the file when the accepted authentication information is used for file transmission, and permits registration of the authentication information at the time of registration of the transmission destination of the file when the inputted authentication information is not used for file transmission.
US09131181B2
A method to configure an apparatus to apply a plurality of mono colorization filters to a low resolution version of a color image. A contrast value is determined for each application of the mono colorization filters. The mono colorization filter achieving the highest contrast value is applied to a high resolution version of the color image to produce a high contrast monochrome image. The high contrast monochrome image is then printed by the apparatus.
US09131174B2
An image processing device includes a texture direction determining unit that determines a texture direction of an image, a defective pixel detecting unit that calculates a pixel value average for each of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels, and detects a defective pixel position on the basis of difference information of the pixel value average according to an arrangement direction of the pixel groups, and a correction unit that corrects, as a correction target, a pixel value at the defective pixel position detected on the basis of the difference information in the same pixel group arrangement direction as the texture direction determined by the texture direction determining unit.
US09131173B2
A digital image photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the digital image photographing apparatus, the method involving dividing an imaging surface of an imaging device into a plurality of areas, and applying a first skip mode to an area that is expected to include a target object and applying a different second skip mode to an area that is not expected to include the target object, so that images having different resolutions may be obtained from the plurality of areas.
US09131167B2
A broker service that acquires location based image data receives a request from a requestor. The request comprises request criteria that at least include a location criterion and a time criterion for obtaining image data, which comprises at least one of a still image and a video. The broker service determines that a position indication of a first producer of a plurality of producers fulfils the location criterion at least to an extent. The plurality of producers comprises devices remote from the requestor and having capabilities of image capture and location determination. The broker service transmits an image request to the first producer. The image request corresponds to the request. The broker service receives image data from the first producer responsive to the image request. The broker service determines that the image data fulfils the time criterion. The broker service transmits the image data to the requestor.
US09131165B2
An illumination light source system includes an excitation light source; a reflection/transmission member having a transmission area which transmits excitation light from the excitation light source and a reflection area which reflects the excitation light, the transmission area and the reflection area sequentially crossing an emission light path of the excitation light source; a fluorescent member provided in at least one of a reflection light path of the excitation light reflected by the reflection area and a transmission light path of the excitation light transmitted through the transmission area, the fluorescent member being provided with a phosphor which generates a color different from that of the excitation light by excitation with the excitation light; and a controller which reduces a light volume of the excitation light source while a boundary area between the transmission area and the reflection area of the reflection/transmission member is located on the emission light path.
US09131162B2
There is provided an interference removing method of an image system including the steps of: respectively acquiring different numbers of images within two brightness intervals having different brightness variations using an image sensor having a sampling frequency; lighting a light source with a lighting frequency, which is a half of the sampling frequency, and synchronizing to the sampling frequency; and subtracting a first image, which is associated with the lighting of the light source, acquired in a later brightness interval of two adjacent brightness intervals having identical brightness variations by a second image, which is associated with a sampling time of the first image, acquired in an earlier brightness interval of the two adjacent brightness intervals. The present disclosure further provides an image system.
US09131161B2
A light emission control unit includes: a light emission control section configured to control a light emission timing of a flash used in an image pickup unit, in which the image pickup unit has a function of variably controlling, during exposure, an aperture diaphragm between a first diaphragm position and a second diaphragm position at which the aperture diaphragm is closed more than at the first diaphragm position, and the light emission control section allows the flash to emit light at a first timing at which the aperture diaphragm is closed to the second diaphragm position in an exposure section.
US09131155B1
A system, method, and computer program product for digital stabilization of video data from cameras producing multiple simultaneous views, typically from rolling shutter type sensors, and without requiring a motion sensor. A first embodiment performs an estimation of the global transformation on a single view and uses this transformation for correcting other views. A second embodiment selects a distance at which a maximal number of scene points is located and considers only the motion vectors from these image areas for the global transformation. The global transformation estimate is improved by averaging images from several views and reducing stabilization when image conditions may cause incorrect stabilization. Intentional motion is identified confidently in multiple views. Local object distortion may be corrected using depth information. A third embodiment analyzes the depth of the scene and uses the depth information to perform stabilization for each of multiple depth layers separately.
US09131135B2
An electronic device may have a camera module for acquiring still and video digital images of a subject. A light source such as a light-emitting diode may serve as a flash for the camera module. A shutter may be mounted above the light-emitting diode. When the light-emitting diode is not being used to produce a flash of light for illuminating the subject, the shutter may be closed to block the light-emitting diode from view by a user. During image acquisition operations in which it is desired to illuminate the subject, the shutter may be opened to allow light from the light-emitting diode to exit the electronic device. The electronic device may have a touch screen display with an active region and an inactive region. The camera module and light source may be mounted under a portion of the inactive region of the display. The shutter may include a filter structure.
US09131129B2
There is set forth herein an imaging terminal having a picture taking mode of operation. In the picture taking mode of operation the terminal can capture a frame of image data into a buffer memory prior to activation of a trigger signal. The terminal can be operative so that responsively to activation of a trigger signal, the terminal transmits one or more frames of the buffer memory to a storage memory. The terminal can further be operative so that responsively to activation of a trigger signal an operator is presented with indicators of frames captured both prior to and subsequent to the activation of the trigger signal. The terminal can be operative so that an operator can select for archiving one or more frame.
US09131125B2
A receiving device and method for operating the same includes a tuner tuned to a first channel having a first program, a memory storing program guide data therein and a controller in communication with the tuner and the memory. The controller determines the first channel is a blacked out channel, searches the program data in the memory for a second program equivalent to the first program, determines a second channel associated with the second program and tunes the tuner device to the second channel.
US09131119B2
Systems and methods for assisted positioning of a haul machine at a destination position for receiving materials from a loading machine are provided. The method includes obtaining from at least one perception device information reflecting a location or orientation of a first fiducial attached to the loading machine; determining a location or position of the first fiducial based on the information provided by the at least one perception device; determining the destination position based on the location or position of the first fiducial; and issuing guidance to an operator of the haul machine indicating an adjustment in steering angle based on the determined destination position.
US09131117B2
A method provides for the optimal location of servers and the optimal assignment of programs to the servers in a video-on-demand (VOD) network with a tree topology. Each node may have demands for multiple VOD programs. The central server at the root of the network stores all programs, and each of the other servers may store some of these programs. The cost considered include cost of servers, cost of assigning programs to servers, and cost of link bandwidths used for broadcasting programs from servers to demands at various nodes. The demand for a specific program is served by the closest server that has this program along the path that connects the requesting node to the root of the tree network. The invention consists of a dynamic programming method that determines optimal server locations and optimal program assignments for minimizing the costs. Starting from the end-nodes of the tree network, the method determines optimal solutions to sub-trees, eventually reaching the root node, thus providing an optimal solution to the entire network.
US09131110B2
Disclosed are example embodiments of a method and system to reduce re-transmission requirements of a compress media transferring system implemented in a network where packet loss could be possible. An extended header for each transmitted packet can indicate the priority of the packet and endpoints can determine if a re-transmission of a missing packet is desired. Buffering of packets at different hops in a multi-hop system could allow for the retransmission request to be satisfied by a more recent hop than the original system transmitting the video packet. In one embodiment three levels of priority are established to achieve a reliable frame rate of 30 frames per second by compressing the first and second levels at 7.5 frames per second and a third level at 15 frames per second.
US09131108B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium in a media controller having computer instructions to execute a soft-phone client application on the media processor, receive a call originating from an internet protoco multimedia subsystem network where the calls are directed to the media processor by a gateway having a switch that routes the call in accordance with a destination address included in a eession initiation protocol header message, and selectively answer the call at any of a plurality of terminal devices including a mobile cellular phone coupled to the media processor via a femtocell. The computer instructions can be operable to present an audio portion of the call through a speaker of a presentation device operatively coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09131100B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel that has a photoelectric conversion section which converts incident light into an electric signal; a color filter which is formed corresponding to the pixel; a micro lens which focuses the incident light to the photoelectric conversion section via the color filter; and an in-layer lens which is formed between the color filter and the micro lens and has a refractive index smaller than that of the micro lens.
US09131096B2
An anti-flicker filter is described, including determining a video sequence based on designated portion of a video, selecting a plurality of video elements from the video sequence, calculating an individualized filter for each video element of the plurality of video elements based on motion in each video element, and applying the individualized filter to each video element of the plurality of video elements.
US09131095B2
An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling the same capable of preventing an unnecessary repetitive performance of a scan task by sensing in advance a succeeding scan command generated with respect to a document which has already been scanned and using a previous scan result without an additional scan task are provided. The method includes generating and storing a first image through a first scan task according to a first scan command, determining whether a document at the first scan task is replaced by a new document using document sensors if a second scan command is generated, and using the first image as a result of the second scan command without performing a second scan task according to the second scan command upon determining that the document at the first scan task is not replaced by the new document.
US09131092B2
An image reading device, including: a casing having a document placement surface on which a document is to be placed; a cover provided on the casing and configured to be pivotable relative to the casing about an axis between a covering position at which the cover covers the document support surface and an exposure position at which the document support surface is exposed; two hinges provided so as to be spaced apart from each other in an axis direction in which the axis extends, one end portion of each of the two hinges being inserted into the casing movably in a movement direction perpendicular to the document placement surface while the other end portion is connected to the cover; and a contact member configured to be capable of coming into contact with one of the two hinges in the axis direction.
US09131090B2
The invention relates to an information processing apparatus which performs mirroring for synchronizing storage contents of a first storage unit and a second storage unit. If mirroring is valid when the information processing apparatus is started, the information processing apparatus detects a storage unit attached to itself. If a detection result indicates that no storage unit has been detected or one storage unit has been detected, the information processing apparatus displays, on a display unit, a connection acknowledgement screen for the storage unit which has not been detected. If the detection result indicates that two storage units have been detected, activation processing is executed for the information processing apparatus.
US09131089B2
A first terminal device indicates a file based on a first gesture on a touch panel, and upon receipt of a search instruction by a second gesture on the touch panel, transmits search information including the indicated file and user information to an image processing device. The image processing device stores the search information. A second terminal device obtains search information from the image processing device, executes a search operation using the search information, and transmits information that identifies retrieved data to the first terminal device as a search result.
US09131084B2
An information processing system including an information processing apparatus that selects between transferring data and obtaining data, and controls transferring data or obtaining data based on the selection. The system also includes a server that stores data transferred from the information processing apparatus, and controls transferring data to the information processing apparatus based on a request for transferring data received from the information processing apparatus.
US09131083B2
A portable imaging device that has a CMOS image sensor, a color display for displaying an image sensed by the CMOS image sensor and a central processor. The central processor has an image sensor interface for receiving data from the CMOS image sensor, multiple processing units for parallel operation to simultaneously process the data, and an image display interface for sending processed data to the color display. The central processor is integrated onto a single chip.
US09131082B2
A printer may comprise a command file storage unit, a receiving unit, a command file sending unit, and a first data sending unit. The command file storage unit may store a command file including a first command, a second command, and a third command. The first command is a command for sending a request for first data. The second command includes design data, and is a command for converting the first data into second data in accordance with the design data. The third command is a command for displaying a web page in accordance with the second data. The receiving unit may receive a request. The command file sending unit may send a response including the command file when a request for the command file is received. The first data sending unit may send a response including the first data when the request for the first data is received.
US09131081B2
A method for synchronously implementing media switch in gateways used for IP FAX is disclosed. The method comprises sending a message for notification of fax event from a media gateway which firstly detects a fax event to the other media gateway of the fax event; implementing a media switch in the media gateway which firstly detects the fax event into fax mode; implementing a media switch in the other media gateway of the fax event into fax mode after receiving said message for notification of fax event. Therefore, the method of the invention overcomes the disadvantages of the related art and more particularly prevents fax failure due to difference of routing for a born network and cross-domain. The IP FAX used by the method of the invention can be applied broadly as the method also improves compatibility and reliability for IP FAX.
US09131075B1
A printing system and operating method thereof are disclosed herein. The printing system includes a server device, an electronic device and a wireless printing device. The wireless printing device includes a network module and a printing module. The server device includes a storage position. The electronic device is configured to transmit print data to the storage position of the server device. The network module is configured to receive the print data transmitted from the server device. The printing module is configured to print the print data received by the network module.
US09131072B1
A network device receives utilization information, for an infrastructure network, that provides data for individual segments of the infrastructure network. Based on the data for the individual segments, the network device generates a costing matrix that includes prices for each segment of the individual segments. The network device identifies particular segments of the infrastructure network associated with an end-to-end path for a subscriber and generates pricing of different service levels for the end-to-end path. The pricing is based on the costing matrix and a particular time period. The network device provides, to the subscriber, a user interface that includes service plan options with the pricing of different service levels for the end-to-end path and receives, via the user interface, a selection of one of the service plan options. The network device sends instructions to provision the infrastructure network to support the selected service plan option.
US09131071B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by a policy and charging rules node (PCRN), the method including: receiving a RADIUS accounting request (ACR) start message from a network access server (NAS); establishing a RADIUS session with the NAS; applying rules by a rules engine to information in the ACR start message to determine a traffic detection function (TDF) to be updated; establishing a Sd session with the TDF; and binding the Sd session to the RADIUS session.
US09131066B2
A wireless communication apparatus comprises a selection module to select an application from applications to be run on the apparatus, a movement information generation module to generate movement information indicating positional change of the apparatus by detecting a position of the apparatus, a target selection module to select a counterpart wireless communication apparatus as a connection target from other apparatuses which are wirelessly connectable with the apparatus by referring to to a type of the application selected by the selection module and the movement information generated by the movement information generation module, and a wireless communication module wirelessly transmits data handled by the application to the counterpart wireless communication apparatus selected by the target selection module.
US09131053B1
A method for improving a call-participant behavior, the method includes receiving an intensity data signal and an intensity variation data signal related to an ongoing call, receiving a pitch data signal and a pitch variation data signal related to the ongoing call, receiving a tempo data signal and a tempo variation data signal related to the ongoing call, receiving a channel comparison data signal related to the ongoing call, generating a real-time call progress signal based on the intensity data signal, the intensity variation data signal, the pitch data signal, the pitch variation data signal, the tempo data signal, the tempo variation data signal, and the channel comparison data signal, and sending the real-time call progress signal to a user device.
US09131052B1
Systems and methods are provided for using automatic speech recognition to analyze a voice interaction and verify compliance of an agent reading a script to a client during the voice interaction. In one aspect of the invention, a method may include a voice interaction, wherein the agent follows the script via a plurality of panels. The voice interaction is evaluated via the plurality of panels employing panel-by-panel playback with an automatic speech recognition component adapted to analyze the voice interaction. As such, it may be determined, via generating a score using confidence level thresholds of an automatic speech recognition component such that confidence level thresholds are assigned to each of the plurality of panels and evaluating the score against at least one of a static standard and a varying standard, whether the agent has adequately followed the script.
US09131049B2
A telephone call is connected through a caller transfer point in a PSTN to a call recorder in a private hosted telephony network for making an audio recording of the telephone call. The telephone call is also connected from the caller transfer point through an IVR transfer point in the PTSN to a remote IVR server for dialog processing of the telephone call. At some point during the dialog process the connection between the call recorder and the IVR transfer point is placed on hold while maintaining a live connection between the call recorder and the caller transfer point. A human agent is then connected through the IVR transfer point to the telephone call for further handling of the telephone call, and the connection to between the IVR transfer point and the call recorder is restored to allow communication between the caller and the human agent.
US09131041B2
Audio input may be received at one or more microphones of a mobile device. Based on the audio input, a change in an acoustic environment of the device, such as a change in a direction of arrival of the audio input or a degradation in a quality of acoustic echo cancellation being performed upon the audio input, may be detected. A determination may be made that the detected change coincides with a non-acoustic physical event detected using an auxiliary sensor at the mobile device. The event may for example be device motion, a new proximate object, a change in a proximity of an object, a new heat source or a change in a heat level from a known heat source. Based on the determining, a signal processor, possibly comprising an audio beamformer or echo canceller, may be recalibrated, e.g. the audio beamformer or echo canceller may be caused to reconverge.
US09131033B2
A device may encapsulate video data such that Supplemental Enhancement Information (SEI) messages are stored separately from a sequence of coded video pictures described by the SEI messages. An example device includes a control unit configured to generate one or more SEI messages separate from the coded video pictures, wherein the SEI messages describe respective ones of the sequence of coded video pictures and include elements common to more than one of the coded video pictures, and an output interface configured to output the SEI messages separately from the sequence of coded video pictures. An example destination device may receive the SEI messages separately from the coded video pictures and render the coded video pictures using the SEI messages.
US09131024B2
A server stores server metadata entries corresponding to data objects, each server metadata entry including a server file name and an identifier, distinct from the server file name, for a respective data object. The server receives client metadata entries from a client, each client metadata entry corresponding to a data object for which at least one metadata parameter has changed since a prior execution of a synchronization process. Each client metadata entry includes a client file name and an identifier, distinct from the client file name, for a respective data object corresponding to the client metadata entry. The server synchronizes the received client metadata entries with corresponding server metadata entries, if any, having identifiers that match said identifiers in the received client metadata entries, without regard to whether the corresponding server metadata entries include server file names that match the client file names in the received client metadata entries.
US09131023B2
Systems and methods for enhancing multimedia experience are disclosed. A system includes a multimedia device adapted to obtain a multimedia data stream comprising multimedia data and at least one multimedia enhancement data sequence, and adapted to obtain instructions from a multimedia enhancement data sequence. The system further includes auxiliary devices communicatively coupled to the multimedia device, and adapted to receive the instructions from a multimedia device. The multimedia enhancement data sequences each include a start section, a target section, an instruction section, and an end section. A multimedia device is adapted to send instructions to at least one auxiliary device. A method includes obtaining a multimedia data stream comprising multimedia data and at least one multimedia enhancement data sequence using a multimedia device, obtaining instructions from a multimedia enhancement data sequence, and sending instructions to auxiliary devices communicatively coupled to the multimedia device.
US09131019B2
A social networking system presents questions to a user on an interface associated with the social networking system to elicit information about the user that is missing from the user's profile or is otherwise outdated. The questions are selected based on a number of factors, such as the need for or value of the information item, probability of a response, or cost of collecting the information item. In presenting the selected question, the social networking system prompts a user for information about the user in a an interface associated with a page from the social networking system, an application external to the social networking system, or using a push notification or prompt. The questions may be formatted in various ways, such as an explicit question, confirmation, a selection of responses, or social context to encourage the user to respond to the question.
US09131013B2
A system and computer program product for delivering tailored specific content to a mobile device. A shim application is provided to the mobile device by a content server after the mobile device visits the content server for the first time. The shim application detects the capabilities of the mobile device, such as the screen size, screen resolution, memory size, browser capabilities, etc. The shim application then includes such information in the header of the requests, such as a request for content, sent from the mobile device to the content server. The content server then generates the requested content in the appropriate format based on the information provided in the header. In this manner, the content server will now be able to ensure that the content provided by the content server for a particular mobile device will be appropriately displayed on the mobile device.
US09131012B2
The present invention refers to system for accessing POS terminals (10), with or without pin pad, using a client system (15) to connect such POS terminal (10) to a network comprised by at least one server (30), the system enabling any POS terminal (10) to execute applications (25) located in such servers, through a plurality of specific protocols (20) in a process similar to the Internet, as well to download and update applications from application servers (30) and to perform electronic operations in transaction serves (35).
US09131011B1
Systems and methods for facilitating communication between a client computing device and a remote server are provided. In some aspects, a method includes facilitating receiving, from a client computing device, a data unit for transmission to a remote server, wherein the client computing device is not configured to implement a proprietary remote procedure call protocol. The method includes inserting the data unit into a fixed-format packet frame, wherein the fixed-format packet frame comprises data associated with proprietary remote procedure call functions by use of open systems interconnection (OSI) model information, for transmission to the remote server via the proprietary remote procedure call protocol. The method includes facilitating transmitting the fixed-format packet frame comprising the data unit over the firewall to the remote server according to the proprietary remote procedure call protocol.
US09131008B2
A method for discovery profile based unified credential processing for disparate security domains can include loading a discovery profile specifying types of manageable resources to be discovered during discovery of manageable resources and authentication protocols for use in accessing each type of the resources. The method also can include discovering the resources across disparate security domains and selecting a discovered one of the resources in a particular one of the security domains for a systems management task. The method further can include transforming an authentication credential not specific to the particular one of the security domains to a mapped authentication credential specific to the particular one of the security domains and authenticating into the particular one of the security domains with the mapped authentication credential utilizing an authentication protocol specified by the profile in order to perform the systems management task on the selected discovered one of the resources.
US09131003B2
A method of generating a data block to be transmitted from a protocol layer to a receiving side in a wireless communication system, the protocol layer having a header compression function, comprises generating at least one of a control packet which includes control information and a compressed packet generated by header compression for an upper layer data block, and generating a first lower layer data block which includes type indication information and the control packet, if the control packet is generated, the type indication information indicating a type of control information included in the generated control packet.
US09131001B2
In a particular embodiment, a method includes intercepting, at a first device, a message to be processed by a first protocol layer of the first device. The method also includes processing the message to a second protocol layer of the first device. The method further includes generating, at the first device, a packet based on an operand associated with the message. The method also includes transmitting the generated packet via a media access control (MAC) layer from the first device to a second device to enable the second device to host a protocol stack corresponding to the first protocol layer.
US09130997B2
Behavior of an online system is modified dynamically using feature expressions and feature loops. A feature expression can be expressed as a combination of other features or feature expressions, thereby allowing specification of complex features. The sets of feature expressions and policies of an online system can be modified while the online system is running. Feature loops aggregate values of a feature expression across a plurality of actions, for example, number of occurrences of an event over a time interval. The online system evaluates a set of feature expressions in response to actions performed by users. Feature expressions are used to specify policies that determine how the online system reacts to certain types of user actions. The ability to dynamically modify the feature expressions and policies of the online system allows the online system to adapt to attacks by malicious users in a timely manner.
US09130996B1
A request is received from a device within a network for a resource on server outside of the network. The resource is subject to a policy of the network. An informational webpage is served to the device; the webpage includes an interface element. An indication of a selection of the interface element is received the resource is served to the device from a proxy server configured to apply the policy to the resource.
US09130991B2
Methods and systems for processing network packets within a Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) environment are described. An example method comprises receiving network data to be transported between a first PEP and a second PEP. The network data is segmented in one or more original network packets. The method may further comprise collecting packet identifying data associated with the one or more original network packets before the network data is packetized into one or more performance enhanced packets by the first PEP. The method may further comprise transmitting the identifying data to the second PEP. Upon receiving of the identifying data, the second PEP may recreate the segmentation of the original network data.
US09130984B2
In one implementation, network taps are detected using impedance measurements from a network. A network device is configured to calculate a baseline impedance as a function of a sequence of impedance values. As impedance measurements subsequent to the sequence of impedance values are received, the network device is configured to calculate a difference between the impedance measurement and the baseline impedance. The network device generates a network tap warning message when the difference between the impedance measurement and the baseline impedance exceeds a threshold. The network device may be an endpoint computer, a data switch, or an external device remote from the network.
US09130982B2
A system and a method for detecting anomalous attacks in Internet network flow operate by counting a number of Internet traffic messages that are detected as anomalous attacks to provide a count; computing a running average of the number of messages that are detected as anomalous attacks; and comparing the count to the running average to provide an anomalous attack alarm if the count is greater than a multiple of the running average. The attacks can include at least one of spoofing attacks or denial of service attacks. A computer readable storage medium stores instructions of a computer program, which when executed by a computer system, results in performance of steps of the method.
US09130979B2
Providing virtual applications from a remote based system based on native applications. A method includes, at a remote based system, receiving a native application from an on-premises system remote from the remote based system. The method further includes at the remote based system, sequencing the native application into a virtual application. The method further includes providing the virtual application to a system different than the remote based system.
US09130978B2
A method for processing network traffic data includes receiving a packet, and determining whether the packet is a previously dropped packet that is being retransmitted. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of headers, the plurality of headers having respective first field values, and determining whether the first field values of the respective headers form a first prescribed pattern. A method for processing network traffic content includes receiving a plurality of packets, and determining an existence of a flooding attack without tracking each of the plurality of packets with a SYN bit.
US09130976B1
Techniques described and suggested herein include systems and methods for identifying potential sources of infections of devices by unauthorized code. In an embodiment, network traffic is logged. A plurality of computing devices that include unauthorized code is identified. The logged traffic is used to identify information sources accessed by the identified affected devices. The identified information sources may be refined. Refinement of the identified information sources may include excluding information sources that have been accessed by uninfected devices. A user interface that allows a user to further refine the identified information sources may be provided.
US09130975B2
A method and apparatus that learns and generates procedures for machine-to-machine interactions by monitoring user browser interactions with the server. Based on an action by a user of the web browser, a communication is sent from the web browser to the server, which is recorded by a macro recorder. The communication is in a first format such as HTML, which contains human-readable API documentation for a user's interactions with the server. The web browser receives a response to the communication which contains a response in the first format and a response in a second format. The second format is parsed to produce a normalized representation. The normalized representation describes the machine-readable API and the service invocation flow that can be interpreted by a particular programming language to generate service macros to invoke the services programmatically from a remote client to a server that supports the same services for machine-to-machine interaction.
US09130971B2
According to various embodiments, techniques are described for managing data within a multi-site clustered data intake and query system. A data intake and query system as described herein generally refers to a system for collecting, retrieving, and analyzing data. In this context, a clustered data intake and query system generally refers to a system environment that is configured to provide data redundancy and other features that improve the availability of data stored by the system. For example, a clustered data intake and query system may be configured to store multiple copies of data stored by the system across multiple components such that recovery from a failure of one or more of the components is possible by using copies of the data stored elsewhere in the cluster.
US09130969B2
A method of scheduling requests from various services to a data storage resource, includes receiving service requests, the service requests including metadata specifying a service ID and a data size of payload data associated with the request, at least some of the service IDs having service throughput metadata specifying a required service throughput associated therewith; arranging the requests into FIFO throttled queues based on the service ID; setting a deadline for processing of a request in a throttled queue, the deadline selected in dependence upon the size of the request and the required service throughput associated therewith; providing a time credit value for each throttled queue, the time credit value including an accumulated value of the time by which a deadline for that queue has been missed; comparing the time credit value of a throttled queue to the time required to service the next request in that throttled queue.
US09130960B2
Disclosed is a method of selecting a data source node from a plurality of data source nodes, the selected data source node being used to send data to a data requesting node over a packet data network. The method includes, at an intermediate node of the network, intercepting at least one message sent to or from the data requesting node, the message(s) relating to data source node suitability, determining a cost of communication between the data requesting node and each of the data source nodes to which the message(s) relate, and influencing data source node suitability information sent to the data requesting node to take account of the cost to enable the data requesting node to use the information to select a data source node.
US09130958B2
A P2P network system for reducing streaming delay in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network is provided. The P2P network system may include at least one peer, a seed server, and a tracker server that manages the network. The seed server provides content to the at least one peer. The peer, the seed server, and the tracker server operate such that the P2P network is managed based on the distance of each peer from the seed server.
US09130953B2
An intelligent network streaming and execution system for conventionally coded applications provides a system that partitions an application program into page segments by observing the manner in which the application program is conventionally installed. A minimal portion of the application program is installed on a client system and the user launches the application in the same ways that applications on other client file systems are started. An application program server streams the page segments to the client as the application program executes on the client and the client stores the page segments in a cache. Page segments are requested by the client from the application server whenever a page fault occurs from the cache for the application program. The client prefetches page segments from the application server or the application server pushes additional page segments to the client based on the pattern of page segment requests for that particular application. The user subscribes and unsubscribes to application programs, whenever the user accesses an application program a securely encrypted access token is obtained from a license server if the user has a valid subscription to the application program. The application server begins streaming the requested page segments to the client when it receives a valid access token from the client. The client performs server load balancing across a plurality of application servers. If the client observes a non-response or slow response condition from an application server or license server, it switches to another application or license server.
US09130950B2
A telecommunication system that carries out telecommunication functions between multiple parties as initiated by the user interaction with a social network application, while maintaining privacy of the device identifiers (phone numbers or static IP addresses assigned to devices) of the participating parties.
US09130945B2
A communication gateway consistent with the present disclosure may detect unauthorized physical or electronic access and implement security actions in response thereto. A communication gateway may provide a communication path to an intelligent electronic device (IED) using an IED communications port configured to communicate with the IED. The communication gateway may include a physical intrusion detection port and a network port. The communication gateway may further include control logic configured to evaluate physical intrusion detection signal. The control logic may be configured to determine that the physical intrusion detection signal is indicative of an attempt to obtain unauthorized access to one of the communication gateway, the IED, and a device in communication with the gateway; and take a security action based upon the determination that the indication is indicative of the attempt to gain unauthorized access.
US09130942B2
The various embodiments provide a framework for using a server to create and maintain equivalence classes among applications operating on multiple devices that have registered with the server. In the various embodiments, the server may use equivalence classes to select an application on a target device (the “recipient application”) that has the highest probability of being able to receive shared media from an application operating on the originator device (i.e., the “originator application”) based on the recipient application's similarity to the originator application. The various embodiments further enhance privacy protections and the overall user experience by enabling the server to select an appropriate recipient application on the target device without the originator device or its user having to know anything about the target device's characteristics and functionalities.
US09130938B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a switch, and a system for processing a message, which relate to the field of communications technologies, and are used to improve real-time performance in ARP request processing when APR request flooding occurs. An access switch generates a mapping table in a communication process between an intra-group server and a DHCP server, where the mapping table includes mapping between the intra-group server and address information of the intra-group server; receives an ARP request sent by a source server, where the ARP request is used to indicate a destination server that the source server needs to access; searches the mapping table according to the ARP request, and when the address information of the destination server is obtained according to the mapping table, sends the address information of the destination server to the source server.
US09130934B2
A service controller includes a network interface for coupling to a local area network of a hospitality establishment, and one or more processors coupled to the network interface. The one or more processors are configured to detect a device identifier of a user device on a local area network of a hospitality establishment, determine whether a guest of the hospitality establishment is associated with the device identifier, and automatically activate a service for the user device at the hospitality establishment in response to detecting the device identifier on the local area network when a guest of the hospitality establishment is determined to be associated with the device identifier.
US09130927B2
The present invention discloses a single sign-on service system and its respective elements, and an operating method thereof. The single sign-on service system includes a terminal configured to access at least one of a plurality of application service servers according to a request for activating at least one of a plurality of applications, and receive a service token used to operate the application service from each application service servers on the basis of a single sign-on token without separately inputting sign-on information, an application service servers configured to provide data for operating the application service by the terminal having the service token and when a single sign-on message is received, provide the single sign-on message to a single sign-on service servers.
US09130920B2
A network security layer with a role mapping component with a current role mapping between services and access permissions is provided between a user and the services. A multi-tenancy module with current membership mapping is also provided. The security layer has a network authentication protocol for user authentication at log-in. Snapshots of a baseline role mapping between services and permissions are taken at certain times. The role mapping component verifies snapshots at set intervals, and when the user performs certain actions, the current role mapping is compared with the baseline role mapping. Upon discrepancy, the role mapping component executes a set of rules, including forceful log-out to prevent system intrusion. Comparison of current membership mapping with a baseline membership mapping can also be applied. The security layer can thus monitor authorization-exceeding modifications to baseline policies attempted by logged-in and initially authorized users.
US09130911B2
Described are a secure obfuscation network (SON) and ingress nodes, transit nodes and egress nodes used in such a network. Also described is a method for implementing such a network.
US09130909B2
According to an embodiment, a data management apparatus includes a first receiver, a generator, a second receiver, a convertor, and a transmitter. The first receiver is configured to receive first values from at least one power meter, the first values being acquired by encrypting power usage amounts collected by the at least one power meter using the corresponding first secret key. The generator is configured to generate a second value by summing the first values. The second receiver is configured to receive a conversion key from a key management server. The conversion key is generated by using the first secret key and the second secret key. The convertor is configured to convert the second value into a third value by using the conversion key. The transmitter is configured to transmit the third value to an application server.
US09130908B2
In a transmitting device, a receiving device, and an operation method thereof according to the present invention, in relation to a simultaneous link transmission of divided data through a plurality of heterogeneous networks for one session, particular partial data to be transmitted or received through a network vulnerable to a security problem among divided partial data is forcedly divided and is then transmitted through two or more networks or a partial data packet included in particular partial data is forcedly re-divided and is then transmitted through two or more networks, so as to effectively conceal the service and thereby prevent other people or another party from recognizing the service through copying or intercepting of data packets.
US09130904B2
A method for secure external access to a collaborative design system is provided that includes establishing a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel between an engagement virtual machine and an external computer system, wherein the external user provides a user id and password for authorization to establish the VPN tunnel, receiving the user id and password in a web interface of the collaborative design system and identifying the engagement virtual machine the external user is allowed to access based on the user id and password, prompting the external user to log into the engagement virtual machine, wherein the user id and password are again received from the external user, issuing a security ticket to the external user when the user logs into the engagement virtual machine, and using the security ticket to authenticate accesses initiated by the external user to engagement files stored in a file system in an intranet.
US09130903B2
A method for using standards-based functionality to provide unified management for a plurality of remote desktop sessions includes executing an enhanced management access point on a first physical machine. The method includes monitoring a plurality of desktop sessions including a desktop session executing on one of a second physical machine and a virtual machine executing on the second physical machine. The desktop session provides access to at least one application or file. The method includes determining a first level of activity of the desktop session. A level of activity may be one of: active, inactive, hibernating and standby. The method includes receiving a notification of a migration of the desktop session to a third physical machine, the migrated desktop session maintaining the first level of activity. The method includes instructing a management component on the third physical machine to modify the migrated desktop session to a second level of activity.
US09130901B2
User input including an application profile is received. The profile specifies a first server group, a second server group, and computing flows between the first and second server groups. User input identifying at least the first server group to include in a cloud chamber is received. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses assigned to virtual machines provisioned into the first and second server groups are obtained. Based on the computing flows specified in the application profile and the IP addresses assigned to the virtual machines, a set of firewall rules are generated for each virtual machine in the cloud chamber.
US09130898B2
Tools and techniques for transmitting utility usage data. In some cases, the tools receive utility usage data provided by a utility meter and transmit that data for reception by a utility provider. In particular cases, the utility usage data may be received at a network interface device. The network interface device might, in some instances, include a broadband modem, such as a digital subscriber line modem, which can be used to transmit the utility usage data to the utility provider.
US09130895B2
A user is identified based at least in part on a user identification designation associated with an incoming communication. A message recipient is then determined based at least in part on the identified user and one or more address books associated with message recipients by comparing the user identification designation to one or more entries in the one or more recipient databases. The incoming communication is routed to the determined message recipient. Escalation procedures are implemented up to a configured level in the recipient organization based on various criteria. As messages are escalated and deposited in mailboxes associated with the determined message recipients, the determined message recipients are notified of the deposited messages.
US09130889B2
Disclosed is a method and system for maximizing the use of available bandwidth on an ISP communication system between an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and remote locations where at least one of the remote locations has a remote cache. An embodiment may create a pool of the cacheable objects being sent to the remote locations from the downstream traffic. An embodiment may determine bandwidth savings for each object in the pool of cacheable objects that would be achieved by remotely caching each object and prioritize the pool of cacheable objects based on the determined bandwidth savings for each object. An embodiment may create a queue of objects to multicast to the remote caches based on the pool of cacheable objects and the remaining multicast bandwidth and then multicast the queue to the remote caches. The remote caches may intercept and reply to requests for objects held in the remote cache without accessing the ISP communication system, thus, saving bandwidth on the ISP communication system.
US09130888B2
Systems and methods for authorizing a customer premise equipment (CPE) device to join a network through a network termination unit (NTU). The CPE device can send an encrypted connection request, and an authorization server can decrypt the connection request and provide a network membership key (NMK) associated with the CPE device to the NTU. The authorization server can encrypt the NMK associated with the CPE device using a device access key (DAK) associated with the NTU.
US09130887B2
A system is provided for forwarding packets with hierarchically structured variable-length identifiers (HSVLIs) over Ethernet. The system receives an Ethernet-encapsulated registration message from a content server, which includes a packet containing an HSVLI. A destination MAC of the registration message is an Ethernet group MAC address. The system then creates an entry in a forwarding information base corresponding to the HSVLI indicating a MAC address of the content server and a port on which the registration message is received. The system receives an interest packet from a client which includes the HSVLI. The packet has the Ethernet group MAC address as its destination MAC address and the client's MAC address as its source MAC address. The system forwards the interest packet to the content server, which has the content server's MAC address as its destination MAC address and a local switch's MAC address as its source MAC address.
US09130882B1
Techniques for the dynamic assignment of a target website resource based on request context are described. In an embodiment, a request for a website resource of a requested website is received. One or more context values associated with the request are determined, including a particular context value identifying information associated with a referral website that is different from the requested website. A particular website resource from a plurality of website resources is selected based on the one or more context values associated with the request. The particular website resource is caused to be delivered.
US09130881B2
A method, system, and computer programming product for returning a response directly to a transaction request originator in a customer information control system (CICS) is provided. The method can include receiving a transaction request in a CICS and allocating resources in the CICS in response to receiving the transaction request. The method additionally can include determining whether the CICS is an intended endpoint of the transaction request. Finally, the method can include extracting an address of an originator of the transaction request from the transaction request and sending a response to the originator at the extracted address upon determining that the CICS is the intended endpoint of the transaction request, but otherwise routing the transaction request to a different CICS along with the address within the transaction request.
US09130874B2
Techniques are provided for detecting failure of switching elements of a distributed switch configured to forward Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames. Periodic discovery advertisement messages, which include a fabric name fieldm, are transmitted between a controlling Fiber Channel Forwarder (cFCF) and a FCoE data forwarder (FDF). The cFCF determines a FDF has failed out of the switch fabric based on a reserved value in the fabric name field of a received discovery advertisement message, such as a zero or null value, and de-instantiates virtual links with that FDF.
US09130869B2
A method of connecting a network forwarding element may include transmitting a first connection request from the forwarding element to a first network controller. After transmitting the first connection request, a rejection message may be received from the first network controller at the network forwarding element, with the rejection message being responsive to the first connection request and with the rejection message including an address of a second network controller. Responsive to receiving the rejection message, a second connection request may be transmitted from the network forwarding element to the second network controller. Related forwarding elements and controllers are also discussed.
US09130862B2
An information processing system comprising a communication terminal and an information processing device that allow communication therebetween. The communication terminal includes: a remote controlling part for acquiring an operation screen image, with which the user makes remote operation of the information processing device; and a cloud service connecting part for connecting to a service providing server providing a cloud service over a network, and acquiring a display screen image for using the cloud service from the service providing server in response to user's instruction, thereby causing the acquired display screen image to be displayed on the display part together with the operation screen image. The remote controlling part sends connecting information for connecting to the service providing server to the information processing device. The remote controlling part switches the display screen image displayed by the cloud service connecting part to the display screen image acquired by the information processing device.
US09130849B2
A communication resource assignment system may include a communication resource assignment tool that includes a communication resource assignment algorithm that receives previously acquired user information, and outputs resource assignment information calculated by the communication resource assignment algorithm, a resource assignment state managing unit that receives and stores the resource assignment information output from the communication resource assignment tool, and a communication resource distributing unit that accesses the resource assignment state managing unit, reads the resource assignment information, and transmits the read resource assignment information to a management target device that has output a communication resource request among a plurality of management target devices that perform communication with each other via a network.
US09130845B2
A network monitoring and network congestion analysis can be performed based on a comparison of data packets at multiple different network nodes installed at different locations on a communication path. A downstream network node may be installed at a user location while an upstream network may be installed at an access router further up the network. A network congestion analyzer may receive data packet information including timestamps from both network nodes, and may compare the data packet information to group the data packets into application flows and match the corresponding packets from the different network nodes. Based on the data packet matching, the network congestion analyzer may calculate packet loss, packet delay, packet delay variation, and perform other network congestion analysis techniques for the application flows corresponding to a user's various devices and the applications executing on those devices.
US09130842B2
A method for monitoring remote access connection latency between a client device and a server device comprises using a virtual channel between the client device and the server device to determine a value for the latency in a network connection therebetween.
US09130834B2
A method, device, and computer program product for data processing in a coordinated multipoint transmission area formed by a base station in a network are provided, wherein the base station determines a performance of a connection to at least one other base station, and wherein the base station and the at least one other base station are connected via an X2 interface. Based on the determined performance, a selection is made between a decentralized self-organizing cooperation and a centralized coordinated multipoint transmission. Furthermore, a communication system is suggested comprising such a device.
US09130830B2
A method for detecting errors on an audio/video (A/V) data stream in a data service network includes providing multicast components operably coupled to each other via respective links for transmitting the A/V data stream to a user and for defining at least one multicast tree. The method further includes generating a state information signal indicative of a number of errors on the A/V data stream for at least one of the links and at least one of the plurality of multicast components. The method further includes determining the cumulative number of errors on the A/V data stream that are indicative of the number of errors for the at least one of the links and the at least one of the plurality of multicast components in the multicast tree in response to the state information signal.
US09130826B2
A network architecture system that expands the control network administrators have on existing networks. The system provides application identification and usage data by user, by device and network location. Dynamic traffic mirroring of the system allows for the efficient use of a tool to identify computer applications running on the network. The system includes the ability to embed the tool where needed rather than pervasively based on the use of the dynamic mirroring to bring the packets to the tool. The architecture implemented functions allow the ability to start small with a single application identification tool added to a network management server, examine flows from throughout the network (via mirroring) and upgrade policy control based on real application identification data and usage, then grow to pervasive deployment where virtually all new flows could be identified and controlled via policy. This architecture enables substantially complete application visibility and control.
US09130825B2
Systems and methods for calculating and presenting confidence interval(s) for key performance indicator(s) (KPIs) are described. For example, in some embodiments, a method may include identifying vectors representing network events observed by a network monitoring system, each vector including: a dimension, an indication of a sampling ratio with which a respective event was observed, and a value associated with the dimension. The method may also include calculating a KPI corresponding to the observed events for the dimension based, at least in part, upon the values. The method may further include calculating a confidence associated with the KPI, based, at least in part, upon the sampling ratios. In some cases, events may be observed with different sampling ratios. Additionally or alternatively, sampling ratios may include adaptive sampling ratios controlled by the network monitoring system in response to network or resource loading (e.g., subject varying over time), whitelist differentiated sampling ratios, etc.
US09130824B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC includes a processor and a memory having firmware. The firmware includes a master management instance and a plurality of assisting management instances. When the firmware is executed at the processor, the master management instance is configured to manage a chassis of a computer system, and each of the assisting management instances is configured to manage at least one health or performance related aspect a respective different computer node of a plurality of computer nodes of the computer system.
US09130817B2
Described herein are an apparatus, system, and method for generating pulse modulated (PWM) signals. The apparatus (e.g., input-output transmitter) comprises: an edge detector to detect one of a rising or falling edges of a clock signal; a counter to count up or down in response to detecting one of the rising or falling edges of the clock signal, the counter to generate a select signal; and a control unit to receive a data signal for transmission to a receiver and to generate a PWM signal as output according to a value of the select signal and the data signal, wherein the receiver and the transmitter are a Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI®) M-PHYSM receiver and transmitter.
US09130812B2
Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a wireless signal comprising a packet. At least a portion of the wireless signal is configured to be received over a bandwidth lower than or equal to 1.25 MHz. The packet is formed from at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol comprising thirty-two tones. The thirty-two tones correspond to frequency subcarriers within the bandwidth. The thirty-two tones of the at least one OFDM symbol are allocated as: twenty-four data tones, two pilot tones, five guard tones, and one direct current (DC) tone. The apparatus includes a processor configured to evaluate the wireless signal. The processor includes a transform module configured to convert the at least one OFDM symbol into a frequency domain signal using a thirty-two point mode.
US09130810B2
OFDM signal communication methods and apparatus are described. In accordance with the invention OFDM signals are generated in the time domain with symbols being mapped to specific points in time. Training symbols may be included in the transmitted OFDM signal to facilitate symbol recovery. An exemplary receiver of the invention receives the OFDM signal from the communications channel, converts it into the frequency domain, and then filters it in the frequency domain to eliminate tones corresponding to other users. The filtered signal free of MAC interference is then converted into the time domain where channel estimation and compensation operations are performed. After channel compensation symbol recovery is performed in the time domain.
US09130806B2
A wideband phase modulator comprises a multiphase generator, a phase selector, and a phase adjuster. The wideband phase modulator is configured to receive an N-bit digital phase-modulating signal comprising a timed sequence of N-bit phase-modulating words, where N is a positive integer representing the bit resolution of the N-bit digital phase-modulating signal. The multiphase generator generates a plurality of coarse carrier phases, all having the same carrier frequency but each offset in phase relative to the other. The M most significant bits of the N-bit phase-modulating words are used to form M-bit phase select words that control the output phase of the phase selector. The phase adjuster performs a precision rotation operation, whereby a selected coarse carrier phase is adjusted so that the phase of the resulting final precision phase-modulated signal more closely aligns with a desired precision phase.
US09130801B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for pushed-based package distribution. In one aspect, a method combines accepting a plurality of persistent connections in which each connection is initiated by a different client, determining a version of a package for each of the clients, and distributing the package version to the clients.
US09130793B2
A differential receiver circuit on an integrated circuit consumes substantially no standby power, has constant propagation delay regardless of the input common mode bias, has acceptable common mode rejection and includes first and second pass circuits and buffers to receive differential input signals. The first pass circuit provides a true output signal based on a differential between the “true” buffered signal and the complimentary buffered signal. The second pass circuit provides a “complementary” output signal based on a differential between the complimentary buffered signal and the “true” buffered signal. The differential receiver circuit rejects common mode biases that may be present on the received differential signals without varying propagation delay times.
US09130786B2
An apparatus includes selection logic configured to select a first subset of a first set of samples stored at a first set of registers. The first subset includes a first sample stored at a first register of the first set of registers and further includes a second sample stored at a second register of the first set of registers. The apparatus further includes shift logic configured to shift a second set of samples stored at a second set of registers. The apparatus further includes a channel estimator configured to generate a first value associated with a channel estimate based on the first subset and further based on a second subset of the shifted second set of samples.
US09130778B2
Described spam detection techniques including string identification, pre-filtering, and frequency spectrum and timestamp comparison steps facilitate accurate, computationally-efficient detection of rapidly-changing spam arriving in short-lasting waves. In some embodiments, a computer system extracts a target character string from an electronic communication such as a blog comment, transmits it to an anti-spam server, and receives an indicator of whether the respective electronic communication is spam or non-spam from the anti-spam server. The anti-spam server determines whether the electronic communication is spam or non-spam according to features of the frequency spectrum of the target string. Some embodiments also perform an unsupervised clustering of incoming target strings into clusters, wherein all members of a cluster have similar spectra.
US09130774B2
Data mirroring in a service such as a virtual private LAN service is disclosed. Data packets, segments, frames, or other forms of encapsulation may be mirrored off of a core network (e.g., IP, TCP) to one or more mirroring destinations without using a parallel network. Encapsulation techniques are provided that enable packets to be mirrored and transmitted across services such as VPLS, MPLS, and others to a mirror destination. Once received at the mirror destination, mirrored packets may be used for troubleshooting in a more efficient and less resource and time-consuming manner.
US09130772B1
A packet is communicated between a first node and a second node by assigning a plurality of packet fragments to a plurality of communication links connecting the first node and the second node, respectively, such that respective sizes of the plurality of packet fragments are based on respective bandwidths of the plurality of communication links. The plurality of packet fragments is transmitted on the plurality of communication links from the first node to the second node. The plurality of packet fragments is then reassembled at the second node upon receipt.
US09130771B2
Systems, methods and apparatus to join a network are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a manual user action at a zone player that is unconfigured for a first network, the action initiating automatic establishment of a connection to the first network by the zone player; transmitting, by the zone player responsive to the manual user action, a first message over a second network to be received by a device configured for the first network, wherein the first message indicating that the zone player is available to join the first network; receiving, over the second network by the zone player, a second message from the device, the second message generated responsive to receipt of the first message and including a security parameter to join the first network; and establishing a connection to the first network by the zone player using the security parameter without further input by any user via either the zone player or the device.
US09130769B2
Techniques are provided for controlling downstream Converged Cable Access Platform (CCAP) access points. At the CCAP access point having a network interface and a coaxial interface, control plane information is received from a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) via the network interface, where the control plane information is designed to configure the CCAP access point to enable communication over the network interface and the coaxial interface. At the CCAP access point, data plane and control plane information is transmitted to the CMTS, and may include information from one or more customer termination devices.
US09130766B2
A system for and method of system for performing residential gateway diagnostics and corrective actions is presented. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may comprise running one or more diagnostic tests on a residential gateway using a module of the residential gateway, storing a diagnostic test result, analyzing the diagnostic test result, and performing one or more corrective actions in response to the diagnostic test result.
US09130763B2
Embodiments enable content sharing using event notifications that include a global identifier and a private identifier. The event notifications are sent to potential participants to an event. Potential participants that accept the event notification or otherwise request to join the event use the private identifier to submit content to a content sharing service. Based at least on the private identifiers associated with event participants, the content from event participants is selectively shared among the other event participants.
US09130757B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for protecting authenticated communication in dynamic federated environments is provided. The method includes distributing shares of a private signature key to a group of users. When switching from an existing to a new group of users, the method includes producing a plurality of sub-shares from each of the distributed shares of existing users, with each sub-share being accompanied by a corresponding validity proof. The sub-shares from multiple existing users are combined to generate a set of shares for new users, with each new share being derived from sub-shares from multiple existing users.
US09130746B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with auto-negotiating over a single pair PHY are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a physical layer (PHY) transceiver configured to communicate over a single twisted pair channel. The apparatus includes a setup logic configured to control the PHY transceiver to initiate an auto-negotiation sequence over the single twisted pair channel with a remote device upon detecting a transmission from the remote device on the single twisted pair channel. The auto-negotiation sequence includes an exchange of parameters with the remote device using a half-duplex mode to communicate on the single twisted pair channel.
US09130743B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the communicating between remote devices using a low message rate wireless connection via monitoring, control and information systems. The network described in this invention is capable of supporting billions of such devices in an efficient and cost effective manner. The network uses a very low signaling rate and centrally controlled architecture in order to achieve this efficiency. The network can easily support numerous applications each controlling large numbers of devices. As the complexity of protocol used in the network is very much reduced in comparison to existing hierarchical mobile wireless networks, it is possible to produce devices that use very little energy allowing their use in many new and novel applications.
US09130739B2
The invention concerns the contact-less technology MIFARE, and describes a method to update a state by injecting an IV using a non-linear feedback shift register that makes use of only look-up tables and basic operations on 8-bit words.
US09130729B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication and of mobile communication, and more particularly to a method for spectrum resource allocation and interference avoidance of femtocell in a heterogeneous environment consisting of macro cell and femtocell, and specifically to a spectrum allocation method based on interference suppression and user difference bandwidth requirements. According to the spectrum allocation method based on interference suppression and user difference bandwidth requirements of the present invention, spectrum resource can be allocated reasonably according to the priority level of bandwidth requirements in combination with graph coloring algorithm and chromaticity preference algorithm. In this manner, in-layer interference among femtocells and cross-layer interference among femtocells and macro cells can be effectively suppressed, the difference bandwidth requirements of femtocell users can be satisfied, and the efficiency of frequency utilization and the whole throughput of system can be also optimized to the maximum extent.
US09130727B2
In a method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel, information bits to be included in the PHY data unit are encoded using a forward error correction (FEC) encoder. The information bits are mapped to a constellation symbols. Additionally, either the information bits are encoded according to a block coding scheme, or the constellation symbols are encoded according to the block coding scheme. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols are generated to include the constellation symbols and the PHY data unit is generated to include the OFDM symbols.
US09130724B2
A technique for operating a wireless communication device includes transmitting a scheduling request from the wireless communication device and receiving, following the scheduling request, an uplink grant that assigns an uplink channel to the wireless communication device. A time period between the scheduling request and the uplink grant is determined. Only channel quality information is transmitted in the uplink channel when the uplink grant requests the channel quality information and the time period is less than a predetermined time period.
US09130723B2
Method and device for acquiring resource for uplink control channel in wireless communication system
Provided are a method and device for acquiring a PUCCH (physical uplink control channel) resource index in a wireless communication system. A terminal acquires a PUCCH resource index indicating a dynamic PUCCH region corresponding to an e-PDCCH (enhanced physical downlink control channel). The PUCCH resource index is acquired based on the smallest CCE (control channel element) index wherein the e-PDCCH is allocated, and a first dynamic PUCCH region corresponding to the e-PDCCH is not overlapped with the dynamic PUCCH region corresponding to PDCCH.
US09130721B2
A device and method for receiving, by a mobile terminal, system information from a base station. The method includes: receiving a block of first system information from the base station via a broadcast channel configured to broadcast only system information; and receiving a plurality of blocks of second system information from the base station via a downlink shared channel configured to carry system information and other data, one of the plurality of blocks of second system information including scheduling information.
US09130718B2
A method for sending physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signals in downlink pilot time slots (DwPTS) comprises: a base station (BS) transmits the PDCCH signals on one or more symbols in the DwPTS, and resources used for transmitting the PDCCH signals are different from resources used for transmitting primary synchronization signals of synchronization signals. In the present invention, the method for sending the PDCCH signals can solve the problem of conflict between the PDCCH and the primary synchronization signals in the DwPTS by generating a less delay and less impact on other channels.
US09130713B2
More than one radio-access technology is supported in an apparatus, and channel-coding functions in the apparatus are shared between at least two of said more than one radio-access technology.
US09130711B2
Embodiments include processes, systems, and devices for reshaping virtual baseband signals for transmission on non-contiguous and variable portions of a physical baseband, such as a white space frequency band. In the transmission path, a spectrum virtualization layer maps a plurality of frequency components derived from a transmission symbol produced by a physical layer protocol to sub-carriers of the allocated physical frequency band. The spectrum virtualization layer then outputs a time-domain signal derived from the mapped frequency components. In the receive path, a time-domain signal received on the physical baseband is reshaped by the virtual spectrum layer in order to recompose a time-domain symbol in the virtual baseband.
US09130706B2
A wireless communication receiver receiving a multiplexed signal comprising two or more signal streams calculates a received signal quality for the multiplexed signal as a function of stream-specific received signal qualities, determines one or more loss parameters indicative of variations in the stream-specific received signal qualities, and generates quality feedback based on such information. In turn, a transmitter controls the selection of one or more transmission parameters of the multiplexed signal based on the quality feedback, such that its transmit link adaptations account for the losses in received signal quality at the receiver arising from the variations in the stream-specific received signal qualities. The quality feedback may include calculated loss values, or parameter/penalties that permit loss calculation, and the method applies to both code multiplexing and spatial multiplexing.
US09130683B2
An electronic circuit (100) for use in a wireless receiver (1720). The circuit (100) includes an audio demodulator (15), an audio envelope portion (35) operable to deliver an audio envelope signal, a high pass filter (38) coupled between the audio demodulator (15) and the audio envelope portion (35), a volume control (25) fed by the audio demodulator (15) and operable to provide a controllable audio signal output, and a controller (45) responsive to the audio envelope portion (35) to provide an attenuation control to the volume control (25). Other circuits, receivers, processes of operation, processes of manufacture, and processes of testing are disclosed.
US09130682B2
A circuit sets an output potential at a radio frequency (RF) output of a pin photoreceiver that includes an ohmic terminal resistor connected between a supply voltage and the RF output. The circuit includes a control loop with an ohmic replication resistor having a resistance approximately equal to a resistance of the ohmic terminal resistor. The control loop further includes a sub-circuit configured to measure a voltage difference across the ohmic replication resistor and to reproduce the voltage difference as the supply voltage at an output terminal of the control loop.
US09130677B2
An optical communication system that connects a plurality of user-side optical line terminating apparatuses (hereinafter referred to as ONUs) to a station-side optical line terminating apparatus (hereinafter referred to as OLT) using a common optical fiber, wherein the ONU as at least a part of the ONUs includes a transceiver having a power saving function for inactivating a transmitting unit while supplying electric power to a receiving unit and a control apparatus that transmits support information of the power saving function to the OLT via the transceiver, and the OLT includes a control apparatus that generates transmission allowance information of upstream communication based on the support information of the power saving function and a transceiver that receives the support information of the power saving function and transmits the transmission allowance information to the ONU.
US09130676B2
The invention relates to a method for performing a switch operation between a first Optical Line Terminal OLT and a second OLT in a Passive Optical Network PON, said first and second OLTs being connected to a plurality of Optical Network Units ONUs through at least one splitter. The invention enables to avoid the detection of a timestamp drift error during protection switching operation by modifying the threshold of the detection in the second OLT.
US09130670B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a propagation delay of an optical signal between first and second devices in an optical transmission network, the optical signal being transmitted from the first device to the second device via a first optical fiber and from the second device to the first device via a second optical fiber. The second device includes a loopback having a first mode enabling the optical signal to be routed between the two devices. The method includes: detecting by the second device a triggering by the first device of a propagation delay measurement; receiving a measurement signal transmitted by the first device via the first optical fiber; and configuring the loopback in a second mode in which the loopback injects a return signal into the first fiber in response to the measurement signal. The first device implements a method for determining the propagation delay.
US09130664B2
A method for communicating messages by a mobile device via a sound medium is disclosed. The mobile device receives input sounds from at least one mobile device via the sound medium. From the input sounds, an input sound signal carrying a first message encoded with a first key is detected. The mobile device decodes the first message based on a matching key. An output sound signal carrying a second message encoded with a second key is generated. Further, the mobile device transmits an output sound corresponding to the output sound signal via the sound medium.
US09130656B2
A method of wireless communication includes monitoring coexistence issues among supported radios in a User Equipment (UE). The method includes configuring a UE with first and second filter configurations. The first filter configuration covers a first frequency band, for example a portion of the ISM band. The first filter configuration may be wider than the second filter configuration, which excludes a portion of the first frequency band that is adjacent to a proximate second frequency band, for example LTE Band 7 or LTE Band 40. The UE selects between the first and second filter configurations based on the frequency of a first UE event. If the UE event is in a frequency in the adjacent portion excluded by the second filter configuration, the UE arbitrates depending on event priority. The second filter configuration may be chosen to reduce or minimize arbitration.
US09130654B2
A system and process for customizing the performance of an xDSL communication system in which a transmitting modem and/or a receiving modem will negotiate a performance parameter for adjustment.
US09130652B2
A protective case for a smartphone has a planar portion of the length and width of the smartphone, an upper portion shaped to capture a smartphone leaving a touchcreen of unobstructed, the upper portion enabled to fasten to the planar portion, an opening into the planar portion, the opening having an axis at right angles to the plane of the planar portion on a side opposite the upper portion, pairing circuitry enclosed in the protective case for wirelessly pairing with the smartphone, a power source enclosed in the planar portion for powering circuitry and mechanisms in the protective case, a locking mechanism in the planar portion proximate the opening, enabled to engage to an anchor pin inserted into the opening, and circuitry enabled to accept an unlock command via wireless communication from a smartphone executing a security application, the command causing the locking mechanism to release from an anchor pin.
US09130650B1
This disclosure provides methods and apparatus for processing differential signals having non-inverted and inverted signals. An example apparatus has first and second circuit arms, each arm connected to receive one of the input signals. Each arm has a post-cursor branch comprising a delay, an inverter and a series terminating resistance connected between the first input and a first circuit arm common node, and a main cursor branch comprising a buffer and a series terminating resistance connected between the first input and the first circuit arm common node. A first transformer has a primary winding connected between the first circuit arm common node and a first output and a secondary winding connected between an output of the buffer of the main cursor branch of the second arm and ground, with a capacitor and a resistor connected in series between the secondary winding and ground. A second transformer has a primary winding connected between the second circuit arm common node and a second output and a secondary winding connected between an output of the buffer of the main cursor branch of the first arm and ground, with a capacitor and a resistor connected in series between the secondary winding of the second transformer and ground.
US09130646B2
According to some embodiments, there is provided a signal generating device, including a signal generator and a local signal generating unit. The signal generator generates a signal of a fixed frequency. The local signal generating unit generates, based on the signal of the fixed frequency, a first local signal to convert a frequency of a first signal, and a second local signal to convert a frequency of a second signal. The second signal is a signal resulting from that the first signal is subjected to frequency conversion based on the first local signal and has a frequency different from the first local signal.
US09130632B2
An antenna diversity system comprises a diversity transmitter having a plurality of transmitter-side antennas, the diversity transmitter being arranged to generate at least one sequence of signals comprising data packets having payloads identical and identifiers different for each of the data packets, each of the identifiers identifying a corresponding one of the plurality of transmitter-side antennas; and to successively transmit at least two of the signals at different points in time on the corresponding ones of the plurality of transmitter-side antennas; and a receiver comprising a first receiver-side antenna, the receiver being arranged to successively receive the signals of the at least one sequence on the first receiver-side antenna, and to suspend receiving of subsequent signals of the at least one sequence when an error check of a data packet comprised in a received signal of the at least one sequence indicates a successful reception.
US09130629B2
A terminal device notifies a base station device about control information associated with a receive quality of the terminal device. The base station device performs data modulation on a plurality of pieces of transmit data for the terminal device, by using a plurality of different data modulation schemes one by one, based on the control information, and spatially multiplexes the plurality of pieces of transmit data after the data modulation over a single wireless resource and transmits a spatially multiplexed signal. The terminal device receives the signal with the plurality of pieces of transmit data spatially multiplexed, and detects desirable transmit data from the receive signal, based on a first channel matrix which represents channel state information between the base station device and the terminal device and a second channel matrix in which the first channel matrix is multiplied by a transform matrix. Accordingly, an adaptive modulation technology is applied even to MIMO spatial multiplexing transmission using a LR technology, and hence a wireless communication system and so forth that can contribute to improvement in frequency utilization efficiency can be provided.
US09130623B2
User equipment includes a convertor that converts transmission target frequency domain signal into time domain signal; a quadrature modulator that applies quadrature modulation to the time domain signal; a cancellation signal generator that generates image leakage cancellation signal by converting image signal into time domain signal, and applying the quadrature modulation, wherein the image signal has a frequency component that is symmetrical to the transmission target signal with respect to center of transmission frequency range; an adjuster that monitors the frequency component of the image signal in output signal from the quadrature modulator, and that adjusts amplitude and a phase of image leakage cancellation signal so as to cancel the frequency component; and a combiner that combines output signal from the quadrature modulator with image leakage cancellation signal, and that provides a power amplifier with combined signal.
US09130617B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receivers of transmit chains of a MIMO system to receive transmit power information and to compute channel characteristics of the transmit chains to enable dynamic adjustment of the transmit power on the transmit chain to optimize an overall data throughput while meeting a maximum emission limit, such as a regulatory limit on emitted power. The transmit power and the data rate on the transmit chains may be independently controlled. The receiver of the MIMO system may determine the new transmit power for the transmit chains from the computed channel characteristics and the current transmit power of the transmit chains. Alternatively, the receiver may transmit the computed channel characteristics of the transmit chains to the transmitter for the transmitter to determine the new transmit power for the transmit chains. The transmitter may use the new transmit power to transmit new data on the transmit chains.
US09130615B2
A transmitter, receiver, and method for channel estimation for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system in which the transmitter includes a multiplicity of transmit antennas spaced such that spacing between adjacent antennas provides a spatial correlation coefficient greater than a threshold level. The transmitter selects a subset of the multiplicity of transmit antennas for transmitting the pilot reference signals. The pilot reference signals are transmitted only from the selected subset of transmit antennas to the receiver. The receiver includes a channel estimator configured to derive a channel estimation for all of the multiplicity of transmit antennas using the received pilot reference signals and known or estimated spatial correlation among the multiplicity of transmit antennas.
US09130613B2
The invention is directed to a method and system for supporting MIMO technologies which can require the transport of multiple spatial streams on a traditional Distributed Antenna System (DAS). According to the invention, at one end of the DAS, each spatial stream is shifted in frequency to a pre-assigned band (such as a band at a frequency lower than the native frequency) that does not overlap the band assigned to other spatial streams (or the band of any other services being carried by the DAS). Each of the spatial streams can be combined and transmitted as a combined signal over a common coaxial cable. At the other “end” of the DAS, the different streams are shifted back to their original (overlapping) frequencies but retain their individual “identities” by being radiated through physically separate antenna elements.
US09130607B2
A system and method of coordinating scheduling in a wireless communication system are described herein. In one aspect, user equipments determine one or more cells that interfere with communications received by the user equipments. The user equipment may determine particular information about the interfering cells, including a metric function based on the precoding matrix used by the interfering cell. The user equipment may transmit this information to the interfering cell in order to coordinate the use of precoding matrices between cells.
US09130605B2
A system for the coexistence between a plurality of wireless communications modules sharing single antenna is provided. A wireless communications chipset includes a first wireless communications module configured to transmit or receive first wireless communications signals, and a second wireless communications module configured to transmit or receive second wireless communications signals. A path selection circuit is configured to connect the first wireless communications module to the antenna via a first transceiving path or a second transceiving path for transmitting and receiving the first wireless signals according to transceiving statuses of the first wireless signals and the second wireless signals.
US09130584B1
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal. According to one implementation, an apparatus includes multiple processing branches, each including: a continuous-time quantization-noise-shaping circuit, a sampling/quantization circuit, and a digital bandpass filter. A combining circuit then combines signals at the processing branch outputs into a final output signal. The continuous-time quantization-noise-shaping circuits include adjustable circuit components for changing their quantization-noise frequency-response minimum, and the digital bandpass filters include adjustable parameters for changing their frequency passbands.
US09130577B2
A PLL circuit generating a generated clock in synchronization with an external clock by a phase locked loop includes a first detector for detecting whether or not the generated clock is in synchronization with the external clock, and a measuring device for measuring at least one of a high time from a rise to a fall of the external clock and a low time from a fall to a rise thereof. In a state that the generated clock and the external clock are in synchronization, when it is detected that a fluctuation of the high time or the low time becomes equal to or more than a predetermined value, the PLL circuit fixes a frequency of the generated clock to a frequency outputted at this time point, and continues output of the generated clock having the fixed frequency.
US09130572B2
A controller includes an operating member operable by user's depression, and a touch detection device constructed to detect a depressing touch on the operating member. The touch detection device includes a movable contact pattern provided on the lower surface of the operating member, and a fixed contact pattern disposed underneath the operating member. One of the fixed and movable contact patterns is a coil-shaped contact pattern while the other of the fixed and movable contact patterns is a uniform surface pattern, at least one of the fixed and movable contact patterns has flexibility, and at least one of the fixed and movable contact patterns has a surface slanted from the center of the coil toward the outer peripheral edge of the coil. The coil-shaped contact pattern comprises first and second contact elements constituting a dual coil pattern.
US09130570B2
A four quadrant bidirectional switch. In one embodiment, the four quadrant bidirectional switch comprises a first switch, a second switch, and a third switch, wherein (i) the first and second switches are normally-off switches, (ii) the third switch is a dual-gate, bidirectional, normally-on switch, and (iii) the first, the second, and the third switches are coupled to one another in a bi-cascode configuration.
US09130562B2
A high-voltage gate driver circuit configured to drive a high-side power switch and a low-side power switch includes an active dv/dt triggered ESD protection circuit coupled between a protected node and a power rail node. The active dv/dt triggered ESD protection circuit includes a dv/dt circuit controlling an ESD protection transistor connected between the protected node and the power rail node. The ESD protection transistor is turned on when an ESD event occurs at the protected node to conduct ESD current from the protected node to the power rail node. The dv/dt circuit is charged up after a time constant to disable the ESD protection transistor.
US09130550B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method for operating a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a clock generating unit receiving a reference clock and generating first and second clocks that are different from each other from the reference clock; a first latch configured to receive input data based on the first clock and to output the input data as first output data; and a second latch configured to receive the first output data based on the second clock and to output the first output data as second output data, wherein a first edge of the first clock does not overlap a first edge of the second clock, and at least a part of a second edge of the first clock overlaps a second edge of the second clock.
US09130548B2
A pulse stretching circuit having a pulse delay circuit for receiving an input pulse signal and for outputting a delay pulse signal, and a pulse adjustment circuit, connected to the pulse delay circuit, receiving the input pulse signal and the delay pulse signal and for outputting an output pulse signal having a pulse width longer than a pulse width of the input pulse signal. The pulse adjustment circuit causes a leading edge of the output pulse signal in response to a leading edge of the input pulse signal, keeps a state in which the output pulse signal is displaced with the leading edge thus caused longer than a total time of times for both pulse widths of the input pulse signal and the delay pulse signal, and causes a trailing edge of the output pulse signal in response to a trailing edge of the delay pulse signal.
US09130546B2
A drive circuit is provided with an input terminal for receiving input signals, an output terminal that outputs drive signals generated from the input signals, a control power supply terminal that receives a control power supply voltage, an output terminal that outputs an output signal, and a reset terminal that receives a reset signal. The output signal is given to a gate of a MOSFET. A secondary side circuit and a MOSFET constitute a step-down chopper circuit, which steps down a voltage through duty ratio control of the gate drive signal and generates a control power supply voltage. Upon receipt of a reset signal, the drive circuit stops outputting the drive signal and changes the output signal so as to reduce the control power supply voltage VCC.
US09130540B2
A high-frequency module includes a mount board, a wave splitter chip mounted on one principal surface of the mount board and including a transmission filter and a reception filter, a first inductor chip mounted on one principal surface of the mount board and including an inductor, and a second inductor chip mounted on one principal surface of the mount board and including an inductor. The first and second inductor chips are disposed adjacent to each other and each has a polarity. The first and second inductor chips are disposed such that the polarities thereof are opposite to each other, as viewed from the reception filter.
US09130539B2
An elastic wave device includes a first elastic wave element, a second elastic wave element, and a first substrate. The first elastic wave element includes a first piezoelectric substrate. The second elastic wave element includes a second piezoelectric substrate. The second piezoelectric substrate is stacked on the first piezoelectric substrate. A coefficient of linear expansion of the second piezoelectric substrate is greater than a coefficient of linear expansion of the first piezoelectric substrate. The first substrate is bonded to the second piezoelectric substrate. A coefficient of linear expansion of the first substrate is lower than the coefficient of linear expansion of the second piezoelectric substrate.
US09130536B2
This application relates to systems and methods for splitting a current signal into at least two signals that are out of phase with each other. The power splitter may include a conductive element that may generate standing magnetic field that alternates at specified frequency. An inductor placed near or in the magnetic field may induce an alternating current at the specified frequency. Each end of the inductor may be coupled to a connector that may be coupled to an antenna that may be incorporated into a plasma processing chamber.
US09130534B2
A broadband-operable impedance filter has capacitive elements of variable capacitance in the signal path, an inductive element in a parallel path connected in parallel to the signal path, and inductive elements in the ground path. The impedance filter allows communication in a first frequency band and the reception of HF signals in a second frequency band.
US09130533B1
In one embodiment, a non-dispersive phase shifter includes a composite right- and left-handed (CRLH) circuit that can be toggled between a first phase delay state and a second phase delay state with a substantially constant phase shift over a range of frequencies.
US09130528B2
An electronic circuit arrangement for receiving low-frequency electromagnetic waves is proposed, having an inductor (L) acting as an antenna for generating a received signal, having a first receiver (2), connected to the inductor (L), for decoding a first component of the received signal and having a second receiver (3), connected to the inductor (L), for decoding a second component of the received signal, wherein at least the second receiver (3) is connected to the inductor (L) via an attenuator element (4) having adjustable attenuation, wherein at least one adjustment signal generation circuit (5, 6) is provided for generating an adjustment signal corresponding to a voltage of the received signal which is fed to the attenuator element (4) for adjusting the attenuation.
US09130527B2
In some embodiments, a method and system for controlling distortion of the output of a miniature speaker by attenuating critical frequency band of the input signal to be reproduced, using tuning parameters that have been predetermined where the critical frequency band is a frequency range of the speaker's frequency response in which Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) peaks. The distortion control is performed in a manner which allows an increase in the average loudness of the speaker's output without significantly increasing distortion. The tuning parameters include a center frequency and a bandwidth of the critical frequency band, and a power threshold value. In some embodiments, the system is a loudness maximizer configured to limit distortion of a speaker's output by limiting distortion in a critical frequency band using predetermined control parameters, and limit the dynamic range of the output signal and increase its perceived overall average loudness level.
US09130521B2
Aspects of the invention include an operational amplifier circuit having a construction of a rail-to rail input folded circuit and includes an N-MOS differential pair composed of a pair of N-channel type MOS-FETs connected to a pair of voltage input terminals, and a P-MOS differential pair composed of a pair of P-channel type MOS-FETs connected to the pair of voltage input terminals. In some aspects, a comparator determines whether an common mode input voltage to the N-MOS differential pair and the P-MOS differential pair is higher than a half of a power supply voltage or not, and either one of the N-MOS differential pair and the P-MOS differential pair is selectively operated according to the comparison result. Active loads are provided separately for the N-MOS differential pair and for the P-MOS differential pair.
US09130519B1
A method and apparatus for combined linear, low-noise buffer and sampler for ADC (analog to digital converter) have been disclosed. In one implementation components contributing to sampling errors are included in a feedback path.
US09130516B2
A POP noise suppression circuit includes a power source terminal, a clock signal input terminal, a charge unit, a discharge unit, a common-mode voltage judging and switching control unit, a charge and discharge capacitor, and a ground terminal. The charge unit includes a first clock generation circuit for generating a first pair of non-overlapped clock signal, and a first equivalent resistor. The discharge unit includes a second clock generation circuit for generating a second pair of non overlapped clock signals, and a second equivalent resistor. The charge unit generates a charge voltage changing slowly to the charge and discharge capacitor. The discharge unit generates a discharge voltage changing slowly to the charge and discharge capacitor. A POP noise suppression system is further provided.
US09130513B2
An audio signal amplifying device and method for reducing a size and corresponding power consumption of demodulation filters in the signal amplifying device. In the device and method, carrier waves having phase shifts are generated from a received audio signal. The shifted carrier waves are compared to the audio signal to generate modulation signals, which are amplified based on a power supply voltage. The amplified modulation signals or a power supply signal are output based on a comparison between the carrier waves and the audio signal. The output signals are synthesized to produce a synthesized signal having a lower average voltage and current value, thus reducing power consumption of the signal amplifying device.
US09130504B2
An HF resonator has a cylindrical cavity made of a dielectric material. The cavity includes a first cylindrical portion, a second cylindrical portion, and a dielectric ring that connects the first portion and the second portion. The inner face of the first cylindrical portion has an electrically conductive first inner coating. An inner face of the second cylindrical portion has an electrically conductive second inner coating. An electrically conductive first enclosed coating is arranged between the first cylindrical portion and the dielectric ring. An electrically conductive second enclosed coating is arranged between the second cylindrical portion and the dielectric ring. The first enclosed coating is conductively connected to the first inner coating. The second enclosed coating is conductively connected to the second inner coating. The HF resonator includes a device that is provided for applying a high-frequency electric voltage between the first enclosed coating and the second enclosed coating.
US09130496B2
A drive-signal-generating circuit includes: a current-detecting unit to detect a current flowing through a three-phase motor; a calculating unit to calculate d- and q-axis currents based on a detection output of the current detecting unit; a reference-signal-output unit to output a reference signal indicating a first-reference value of the q-axis current for rotating the motor at a target-rotational speed; first- and second-control-signal-output units to output first- and second-control signals corresponding to respective errors between current values of the d- and q-axis currents and a second and the first reference values, respectively; a drive-signal-output unit to output such a drive signal that the d- and q-axis currents reach the second and first reference values, respectively; and an adjusting unit to adjust the detection output so that a ripple of the second-control signal become smaller, after a rotational speed of the motor reaches a predetermined rotational speed corresponding to the target-rotational speed.
US09130495B2
A motor controller is configured to perform positioning of a rotor of a brushless motor immediately when power supply is turned on, and not after actually receiving a target value related to control for the brushless motor from a main ECU, which determines the target value. The motor controller finishes or is performing the rotor positioning, when the target value is received from the main ECU. For this reason, the motor controller can start rotation control for the brushless motor in accordance with the received target value in a short period of time.
US09130470B2
A power converter control system includes primary bridge controller that is configured to actuate a first plurality of gate drive units that switch a first plurality of power elements in a primary bridge of a power converter. The control system further includes a secondary bridge controller separate from the primary bridge controller that is configured to actuate a second plurality of gate drive units to switch a second plurality of power elements in a secondary bridge of the power converter.
US09130467B2
A primary side resonant circuit is formed by a primary side resonant inductor and a primary side resonant capacitor, and secondary side resonant circuits are formed by secondary side resonant inductors and secondary side resonant capacitors. Mutual inductances are formed equivalently through magnetic field resonant coupling between a primary winding and secondary windings, and a multi-resonant circuit that includes two or more LC resonant circuits is formed by a primary side circuit and a secondary side circuit. Electric power is transmitted from the primary side circuit to the secondary side circuit; resonant energy that is not transmitted from the primary winding and, of energy which the secondary winding has received, resonant energy that is not supplied to an output are each retained in the multi-resonant circuit; and, at the secondary side, the resonant energy is retained in a current path in which a rectifying element is not formed in series.
US09130460B2
The present invention relates to a master-slave interleaved BCM PFC controller for controlling a PFC circuit with master and slave channels. In one embodiment, the PFC controller can include: a master channel controller that generates a master channel control signal and an inverted master channel control signal; a first phase shifter that provides a first phase shift for the master channel control signal, and generates a delayed opening signal therefrom; a second phase shifter that provides a second phase shift for the inverted master channel control signal, and generates a delayed shutdown signal therefrom; a slave channel controller that receives the delayed opening signal, the delayed shutdown signal, and a slave channel inductor current zero-crossing signal, and generates a slave channel control signal therefrom.
US09130451B2
One example refers to a circuitry comprising a first charge pump stage controlled by a first control signal, a second charge pump stage controlled by a second control signal, wherein the first charge pump stage and the second charge pump stage are arranged subsequently to each other and comprising a control unit for providing the first control signal and the second control signal, wherein the control unit is arranged to set the second control signal to high when the first control signal is high. Also, a multi-branch charge pump, a method for controlling various charge pumps and a system for controlling various charge pumps are suggested.
US09130449B2
A low power consumption bleeder circuit is disclosed, and it is coupled to an alternating-current (AC) power source, an input filtering capacitor, and a rectifying filter. The low power consumption bleeder circuit includes a first switch component, a second switch component, and a controller. The first switch component is coupled to a first input terminal of the AC power source and a first connection terminal of the rectifying filter. The second switch component is coupled to a second input terminal of the AC power source and the first connection terminal of the rectifying filter. When the AC power source is detected to be removed, the controller controls at least one of the first switch component and the second switch component to be conductive.
US09130446B2
An electrical slip coupling assembly and method for enhancing transmission of torque are provided. The coupling assembly includes a field member (FM), an armature member (AM), and annular windings. The FM includes flux concentrating axial and radial teeth. The AM includes an interchangeable non-ferrous electrically conductive material cladding on an axial inner surface of the AM and a relatively low conductivity ferrous material cladding on a radial inner surface of the AM. The excitation of the annular windings induces the axial teeth and the radial teeth to generate flux field concentrations that create an axial eddy current zone (AECZ) in the AM across an axial air gap, and a radial eddy current zone (RECZ) in the AM across a radial air gap. During relative motion between the FM and the AM, the eddy currents in the AECZ and the RECZ create a driving torque between the FM and the AM.
