US09135370B2
Provided is a method of generating updating parameters. The method obtains search keywords used by users within a predetermined time period; counts the search keywords to obtain primary keywords, related keywords, co-search frequencies of each primary keyword and the respective related keywords being searched together, and search frequencies of the primary keywords being searched alone; computes first feature values based on the search frequencies of the primary keywords being searched alone; and then computes second feature values based on the first feature values and the co-search frequencies of the primary keywords and the respective related keywords. The second feature values serve as updating parameters for determining displaying modes of the related keywords. An apparatus of generating updating parameters, and a method and an apparatus of displaying related keywords according to the updating parameters are also provided. The solution keeps abreast with the user trends to allow a better user experience and improve computing performance and efficiency. For a service provider, no special secret algorithm is needed, and the operation is easy with a low development cost.
US09135349B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for facilitating comprehension of web pages by non-native speakers of the base language in which the web-page content is provided. In these embodiments, selected base-language terms of a web page are automatically linked with translations of the terms, into one or more target languages, that are stored in a computer-readable database. A web-page-reader's browser is enhanced by the system to provide translations of displayed terms from the base language to the reader's native language or another target language selected by web-page reader. In alternative embodiments of the present invention, selective term translation is provided to users of various additional types of information display systems, including electronic-book displays, mobile phones, and other information-display devices.
US09135344B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing search results based on user interaction with content. A server receives identification of a plurality of clicks of encoded uniform resource locator (URL) links and identifies, for each of the plurality of clicks, data about a user who clicked an encoded URL link and traffic data associated with a device from which the user clicked the encoded URL link. The server may store a record comprising data about the user and traffic data associated with each click. The server may determine, based on the records, a relevancy score for each content identified from decoding the encoded URL links. The server may communicate, responsive to receiving a request to search content based on a keyword, a set of search results based on the keyword and the relevancy score.
US09135341B2
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for paginating and previewing essentially continuously-flowing non-paginated search results, such as XHTML/HTML formatted information content. The method includes at least: entering a search query; sending the query to a search engine; and receiving a search result having a list of data files matching to the search query. The method comprises at least: paginating the essentially continuously-flowing content of the data files retrieved; rendering preview pages from the data files; selecting the preview pages to be previewed; and previewing the matching preview pages associated with the data files retrieved.
US09135339B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for invoking an audio hyperlink. Embodiments include identifying a predetermined playback time in an audio file pre-designated as having an associated audio hyperlink; playing an audio indication of the audio hyperlink at the predetermined playback time; receiving from a user an instruction to invoke the audio hyperlink; identifying a URI associated with the audio hyperlink; and invoking the URI. The audio file may include an audio subcomponent of a file also including video.
US09135337B2
A method and system are provided for identifying a television content item desired by a television viewer from a set of television content items. Each of the television content items has one or more associated descriptors. The system receives from the television viewer a reduced text search entry directed at identifying the desired television content item. The search entry is a prefix substring of one or more words relating to the desired television content item. The system dynamically identifies a group of one or more television content items from the set of television content items having one or more descriptors matching the search entry as the television viewer enters each character of the search entry. The system then transmits the names of the one or more television content items of the identified group to be displayed on a device operated by the television viewer.
US09135333B2
A composite variable duration soundtrack for a user to play while reading a text source, the soundtrack duration being defined by a soundtrack timeline. The soundtrack comprises multiple sound layers configured to play concurrently through the soundtrack timeline, each sound layer having an arrangement of one or more audio features that are configured to play at preset start times in the soundtrack timeline. At at least one sound layer is adapted for modifying the preset start and stop times of its audio features to match the reading speed of a user based on a reading speed input.
US09135316B2
An information providing device includes a search result information transmission means that transmits search result information, which indicates one or more pieces of information of information that has been searched for by an information search device, to a terminal device, a graph display information transmission means that transmits graph display information for displaying a graph showing a relationship between display order in which the information that has been searched for by the information search device as the search result and a value of a predetermined presentation item related to the information is displayed, and a range indication display information transmission means that transmits range indication display information for displaying predetermined range indication information at a position in the graph, the position indicating a display range being a range of the information indicated by the search result information.
US09135311B2
A content unification system is described herein that aligns related content from various sources into one unified stream. The system leverages tagging (e.g., hashtags or other added metadata associated with content) to filter and connect related content across sites, formats, and sources. One component of the system is a user-friendly and customizable “dash board” view of the various topics, called a “tagboard”. Tagboards can be quickly and easily created by users and can be embedded on any website. Users can interact with various content sources such as blogs, forums, or services without leaving the tagboard they are viewing. The content unification system provides users the tools to make the web efficient, increase user interaction, and increase the signal to noise ratio. The system also allows site owners and publishers to monetize their traffic better by directing advertisements to their content in real time.
US09135309B2
A computer-implemented method of creating a data mining model in a database management system comprises accepting a database language statement at the database management system, the database language statement indicating a dataset and a data mining model to be created from the dataset, and creating, in the database management system, the indicated data mining model using the indicated dataset, wherein creation and application of the data mining model does not require moving data to a separate data mining engine.
US09135302B2
A query, issued to a database server, is re-written with a nested materialized view. The selected materialized view is nested within a “parent” materialized view that has one or more nesting levels for one or more nested materialized views. The selected nested materialized view has a cardinality associated therewith, which is lower than the cardinality associated with any of the other nested materialized views, and is nested at a final nesting level of the one or more nesting levels.
US09135290B2
Methods for analyzing and rendering business intelligence data allow for efficient scalability as datasets grow in size. Human intervention is minimized by augmented decision making ability in selecting what aspects of large datasets should be focused on to drive key business outcomes. Variable value combinations that are predominant drivers of key observations are automatically determined from several competing variable value combinations. The identified variable value combinations can then be then used to predict future trends underlying the business intelligence data. In another embodiment, an observed outcome is decomposed into multiple contributing drivers and the impact of each of the contributing drivers can be analyzed and numerically quantified—as a static snapshot or as a time-varying evolution. Similarly, differences in observations between two groups can be decomposed into multiple contributing sub-groups for each of the groups and pairwise differences among sub-groups can be quantified and analyzed.
US09135285B1
A method includes receiving a request to store an extensible markup language (XML) document in a repository. The XML document includes a plurality of markup elements. The method includes extracting a plurality of nodes from the XML document. Each node corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of markup elements, and the plurality of nodes are stored in a same memory block. The method further includes determining a set of memory requirements for each node. Each set of memory requirements includes a first memory space required to store a respective node, a second memory space required to store a set of direct child nodes of the respective node, and a third memory space required to store all descendant nodes of the respective node. The method includes storing each node in respective records in the repository based on each corresponding set of memory requirements for each node.
US09135284B1
Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to improving shared file access in wide area network file systems. In a particular implementation, one or more elements of a wide area file system cooperate to keep an original file intact on a remote file server until a new copy of the same file is flushed to the remote file server. In a particular implementation, rename operations identifying a source and a target in connection with application-level save operations are executed as two composite operations including creation of the target, and a delayed deletion of the source. The delay after which the source is deleted can be configured to be just large enough so that the application save operation on a local cache can be completed.
US09135279B2
Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared over the mesh. Information in the core object may be identified with a corresponding user such that a user may use any collaborating device in the mesh to access the information. In one example, the information is stored remotely from a device used to access the information. A remote source may store the desired information or may determine the storage location of the desired information in the mesh and may further provide the desired information to a corresponding user.
US09135276B2
A method and a device for displaying images on a digital media frame is disclosed. In one embodiment, the device includes a memory, a processing unit, a display, an interface circuit, and a display circuit. The interface circuit has at least one receiving port capable of identifying various types of networking protocols that are used to transfer the image data. The processing unit attaches auxiliary information to each image before images are stored in a memory. The display circuit displays images according to the image data received. The digital media frame further contains a user input device, which allows a user to alter the image display sequence. The user input device is an input device other than a keyboard or a cursor control device.
US09135273B2
Disclosed is a similar facial image search system which is less susceptible to bias in search results even when there is a difference in the angle from which a face is photographed. The present invention is provided with: a means for detecting a first face from the inputted search subject image; a means for calculating and a means for recording a feature value of the detected first face; a means for detecting a second face from an inputted key image used for search; a means for calculating the face angle of the second face; a means for determining a synthesis pattern from the calculated face angle; a means for generating a synthetic face image according to the determined synthesis pattern; a means for calculating the feature value of the second face using the generated synthetic face image; a means for searching a database using a plurality of calculated face feature values as a query; and a means for integrating the plurality of the retrieved search results.
US09135271B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing a method that comprises: determining excess queries over multiple time periods for a given geographic feature, where the geographic feature defines a location; comparing geographic features for similarity based at least in part on the excess queries associated with a respective geographic feature; and for a given target geographic feature, determining one or more similar geographic features based on the comparing.
US09135248B2
Systems, methods, and devices for determining contexts and determining associated demographic profiles using information received from multiple demographic sensor enabled electronic devices, are disclosed. Contexts can be defined by a description of spatial and/or temporal components. Such contexts can be arbitrarily defined using semantically meaningful and absolute descriptions of time and location. Demographic sensor data is associated with or includes context data that describes the circumstances under which the data was determined. The demographic sensor data can include demographic sensor readings that are implicit indications of a demographic for the context. The sensor data can also include user reported data with explicit descriptions of a demographic for the context. The demographic sensor data can be filtered by context data according a selected context. The filtered sensor data can then be analyzed to determine a demographic profile for the context that can be output to one or more users or entities.
US09135247B2
A method includes determining a location of erroneous content in a web page in response to a user's request for correcting the erroneous content in the web page; receiving the user's input of correction content for the erroneous content; and submitting correction information to a correction service provider including the location of the erroneous content and the correction content. An alternative method includes receiving correction information submitted by a user for erroneous content in a web page, the correction information including a location of the erroneous content and correction content; storing the received correction information; and retrieving the correction information and sending the correction information to the user in response to the user's request for visiting the web page.
US09135242B1
Computerized methods and systems for the analysis of textual data, including: receiving, from one or more memories at one or more processors, textual data; using the processors, formatting the textual data for analysis and applying a probabilistic topic model to the textual data to extract semantically meaningful topics that collectively describe it; using a keyword weighting module, generating a topic cloud view representing the topics as a tagcloud with each being associated with a plurality of keywords; using a topic ordering module, generating a document distribution view representing a distribution of the textual data across multiple topics; using a document entropy calculation module, generating a document scatterplot view representing how many topics are attributable to the textual data; using a temporal topic trend calculation module, generating a temporal view representing changes in the occurrence of topics over time; and displaying one or more of the views to a user.
US09135238B2
Named entities are disambiguated in search queries and other contexts using a disambiguation scoring model. The scoring model is developed using a knowledge base of articles, including articles about named entities. Various aspects of the knowledge base, including article titles, redirect pages, disambiguation pages, hyperlinks, and categories, are used to develop the scoring model.
US09135234B1
Collaborative generation of digital content with interactive reports is enabled. An editor selects a layout and assigns story blocks to authors. Story blocks include a textual component and an interactive report component. In one embodiment, the interactive report includes static data captured at authorship time. In another embodiment, the interactive report includes live data updated at read time. After an author creates a story block, it is submitted to the editor for review and approval. The editor may send the story block back to the author for subsequent editing prior to approval. Once the editor approves all of the content from all of the authors, the editor can publish the content. The resulting content is published as an interactive report or magazine, enabling readers to see not just the story content of the publication, but to interact with the reports and underlying data.
US09135230B2
The invention relates to an editing of a digital document containing an image, a text, a pattern and the like on pages constituting the digital document. In response to an operation for deleting an image positioned in a page, such image is not added to another page but is moved to and displayed in an evacuation area provided independently from the page area. In the evacuation area, such image is displayed together with a serial number of the page in which such image was present originally. Thus the page layout is not destructed in pages other than the page of image deletion, and the user can easily confirm later the image existed in such page.
US09135225B2
A system and method for injecting a node into a data description of an electronic form are provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a request detector, an injection tool, a template module, and a storing module. The request detector may be configured to detect a request to include a new form object into an electronic form. The injection tool may be configured to determine that the data schema does not accommodate the new form object, and to automatically modify the data description by adding a node that is associated with the new form object. The template module may be configured to add the new form object into the electronic form to create a modified electronic form. The modified electronic form comprises the modified data description, while the data schema upon which the electronic form was originally based may remain unchanged.
US09135221B2
Systems and methods for identifying and analyzing neuropsychological flow patterns, include creating a knowledge base of neuropsychological flow patterns. The knowledge base is formed by obtaining signals from multiple research groups for particular behavioral processes, localizing sources of activity participating in the particular behavioral processes, identifying sets of patterns of brain activity for the behavioral processes and neuropsychologically analyzing the localized sources and the identified patterns for each of the research groups. The neuropsychological analysis includes identifying all possible pathways for the identified sets of patterns, ranking the possible pathways based on likelihood for the particular behavioral process and reducing the number of ranked possible pathways based on additional constraints. A system for comparison of obtained signals from an individual to the created knowledge base is provided. These obtained signals are then used to further update the existing knowledge base.
US09135217B2
At least one weighting value is determined in a manner that is influenced by a vehicle user. A maximum released power, which a predefined electrical consumer of the motor vehicle may consume, is determined as a function of the weighting value. The power consumption of the electrical consumer is controlled as a function of the maximum power that is released.
US09135210B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, processor 1000 comprising a plurality of processor cores for processing an instruction-execution sequence is provided. Signal path 140 that is able to communicate an inter-core interrupt signal fint is connected to at least two processor cores 100A and 100B. Each core of the at least two cores has an inter-core interrupt count setting register (ICSR) 110 and a FIFO counter 120. Inter-core interrupt synchronization function, inter-core interrupt generation function, and FIFO counter updating function are implemented to the every core. In embodiments of the present invention, a core and a method therefor are also provided.
US09135205B1
A data storage assembly for cold storage. The data storage assembly includes a circuit board and a plurality of hard disk assemblies (HDA). Each HDA includes a platter and a head assembly to read and write data on the platter. The circuit board includes a processor and a read channel. The processor acts as a hard disk controller for the plurality of HDAs and controls the platters. The processor further manages which HDAs are active at a time and the read channel is shared by the plurality of HDAs.
US09135188B2
An adapter can be used to connect a portable electronic device to an accessory in instances where the portable electronic device and the accessory have incompatible connectors. The adapter provides two connectors, one compatible with the portable electronic device and the other compatible with the accessory. The adapter has several modes of operation. The portable electronic device selects the appropriate mode of operation for the adapter once it receives information about the accessory connected to the adapter. The portable electronic device instructs the adapter to switch to the selected mode and in response the adapter configures its internal circuitry to enable the selected mode. The portable electronic device can then communicate with the accessory via the adapter. The presence of the adapter can be transparent to the accessory.
US09135185B2
A die-stacked memory device incorporates a data translation controller at one or more logic dies of the device to provide data translation services for data to be stored at, or retrieved from, the die-stacked memory device. The data translation operations implemented by the data translation controller can include compression/decompression operations, encryption/decryption operations, format translations, wear-leveling translations, data ordering operations, and the like. Due to the tight integration of the logic dies and the memory dies, the data translation controller can perform data translation operations with higher bandwidth and lower latency and power consumption compared to operations performed by devices external to the die-stacked memory device.
US09135184B2
A mechanism is provided for accessing data in a hybrid hardware managed cache in front of flash memory enabling load/store byte addressability to flash memory. A determination is made as to whether a real address associated with the effective address associated with a request resides in a page table. Responsive to the real address existing in the page table, responsive to the real address referring to a flash page, and, responsive to the flash page failing to reside in the hybrid hardware managed cache, a load-through fault is issued that allows the faulting processor executing the request to execute other work while the flash page is brought into the hybrid hardware managed cache. The operation is then issued to the new hybrid hardware managed cache real address.
US09135175B2
A system includes a number of processors with each processor including a cache memory. The system also includes a number of directory controllers coupled to the processors. Each directory controller may be configured to administer a corresponding cache coherency directory. Each cache coherency directory may be configured to track a corresponding set of memory addresses. Each processor may be configured with information indicating the corresponding set of memory addresses tracked by each cache coherency directory. Directory redundancy operations in such a system may include identifying a failure of one of the cache coherency directories; reassigning the memory address set previously tracked by the failed cache coherency directory among the non-failed cache coherency directories; and reconfiguring each processor with information describing the reassignment of the memory address set among the non-failed cache coherency directories.
US09135174B2
In response to receiving a memory access request and expected coherence state at an attached processor at a coherent attached processor proxy (CAPP), the CAPP determines that a conflicting request is being serviced. In response to determining that the CAPP is servicing a conflicting request and that the expected state matches, a master machine of the CAPP is allocated in a Parked state to service the memory access request after completion of service of the conflicting request. The Parked state prevents servicing by the CAPP of a further conflicting request snooped on the system fabric. In response to completion of service of the conflicting request, the master machine transitions out of the Parked state and issues on the system fabric a memory access request corresponding to that received from the AP.
US09135169B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and article of manufacture for generating hash codes to identify objects. The method increases variation in object hash codes to reduce conflict between object hash codes and enables them to be added to pinned objects. The method includes: generating a seed value for each heap area and generating the hash code on the basis of address of the object and seed value of the heap area to which the object is allocated. The article of manufacture includes computer readable instructions which, when implemented, cause a computer to perform the steps of the above method. The computer-implemented system includes a processor; and a memory which includes a hash code, an object, a seed value, and a heap area, wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the above method.
US09135167B2
A controller, a data storage device and a data storage system including the controller, and a data processing method are provided. The controller may process a plurality of instructions in parallel by including a plurality of address translation central processing units (CPUs) in a multi-channel parallel array structure, thereby improving the performance of a semiconductor memory system.
US09135164B2
First data is received for storing in a first asymmetric memory device. A first writing phase is identified as a current writing phase. A first segment included in the first asymmetric memory device is identified as next segment available for writing data. The first data is written to the first segment. Information associated with the first segment is stored, along with information indicating that the first segment is written in the first writing phase. Second data is received for storing in the asymmetric memory. A second segment included in the first asymmetric memory device is identified as the next segment available for writing data. The second data is written to the second segment. Information associated with the second segment and the second memory block is stored along with information indicating that the second segment is written in the second writing phase.
US09135150B2
A unit testing framework automatically issues a call to a remote testing automation framework on an originating system to automatically execute a functional test script specified in a unit testing framework test case through a functional testing framework on a target on a remote system. The originating system automatically issues a call to the remote testing automation framework to copy a functional test log resulting from executing the functional test script from the remote system to the originating system. The unit testing framework automatically evaluates whether the functional test log comprises at least one error. The unit testing framework, responsive to the functional test log comprising at least one error, automatically marks the unit testing framework test case as failed.
US09135149B2
Systems and methods for generating and traversing test cases trees are provided. A test case tree indicates an order of execution for multiple test cases, where setup and tear down or equivalent steps are not required before and after execution of each test case in the tree. The tree may allow for generation of virtual test cases to encompass multiple test cases which ordinarily would have mutually exclusive execution requirements.
US09135146B1
Technologies are described herein for use in identifying and resolving software issues. One or more corrective actions may be identified and taken that are based upon the similarity between an unresolved issue and one or more resolved issues and/or upon the similarity between code changes made to resolve similar previously resolved issues. A version control graph might also be utilized to determine if a change made to resolve an issue in one branch of a software component is applicable to another branch of the software component. The version control graph might also be utilized to compute the relevance of an entry in an issue tracking system for an issue at a point in time after the entry is created in the issue tracking system.
US09135145B2
A system and methods are provided for distributed tracing in a distributed application. In one embodiment, a method includes observing a plurality of messages sent and received among components of the distributed application, generating a probabilistic model of a call flow from observed messages of the distributed system, and constructing a call flow graph based on the probabilistic model for the distributed application. Distributed tracing may include observing messages by performing the subscription-based observation techniques and operations to receive, message traces describing messages being communicated among components of the distributed application. In this regard, the tracing service may merge message traces from different instrumentation points with message traces obtained by observing message queues to generate a probabilistic model and call flow graph. A distributed application developer or other relevant user may benefit in efficiently and effectively tracking down a cause of an abnormal behavior or analyzing performance profiles.
US09135133B2
Various embodiments of a object metric tracking system are disclosed, applicable to distributed systems composed of a variety of computing nodes coupled together via a network. The computing nodes are arranged in various physical and virtual configurations via a configuration system. Detector nodes are also coupled to the distributed system, each node including one or more modules dedicated to collecting data about tracked system metrics. The data from the detector nodes is sent to a processing engine where it is decomposed for quick storage in a data storage pool including a number of independent storage nodes. A smart metric tracking object is used to provide programmatic access to the data in the storage pool, automatically abstracting away the details of the storage system. A reporter component processes the data and provides human or machine-readable reports for integration with various systems, including a reporting website.
US09135128B2
Systems and methods for backing up storage volumes are provided. One system includes a primary side, a secondary side, and a network coupling the primary and secondary sides. The secondary side includes first and second VTS including a cache and storage tape. The first VTS is configured to store a first portion of a group of storage volumes in its cache and migrate the remaining portion to its storage tape. The second VTS is configured to store the remaining portion of the storage volumes in its cache and migrate the first portion to its storage tape. One method includes receiving multiple storage volumes from a primary side, storing the storage volumes in the cache of the first and second VTS, migrating a portion of the storage volumes from the cache to storage tape in the first VTS, and migrating a remaining portion of the storage volumes from the cache to storage tape in the second VTS.
US09135117B2
In response to receiving a checkpoint request from a first task for a process executing in parallel with at least a second task for the process, checkpoint data from the first task is stored to establish a restart point for the first task, wherein the checkpoint data records a current state of the first task, and the checkpoint data from the first task is merged with previously received checkpoint data for the at least second task to create a checkpoint file. In response to restarting the process, the first task and the at least second task are restarted using the checkpoint data in the checkpoint file.
US09135113B2
A method includes storing data encoded with an Error Correction Code (ECC) in analog memory cells, by buffering the data in a volatile buffer and then writing the buffered data to the analog memory cells while overwriting at least some of the data in the volatile buffer with success indications. Upon detecting a failure in writing the buffered data to the analog memory cells, recovered data is produced by reading both the volatile buffer and the analog memory cells, assigning reliability metrics to respective bits of the recovered data depending on whether the bits were read from the volatile buffer or from the analog memory cells, applying ECC decoding to the recovered data using the reliability metrics and reprogramming the recovered data.
US09135102B2
In a method for intelligently monitoring and dispatching an Information Technology (IT) service alert, a computer receives a service error alert and classifies the service error alert. The computer assigns the service error alert, based on the service error alert class. The computer monitors the progress of the resolution of the service error alert.
US09135101B2
Systems and methods presented herein provide for resetting a controller in a Single Root Input/Output Virtualization (SR-IOV) architecture. The architecture includes a physical function that periodically issues a heartbeat command to a physical function of an SR-IOV controller, starts a first timer, determines a firmware failure of the controller upon expiration of the first timer, and issues a command to reset the firmware of the controller. The architecture also includes a plurality of a virtual function drivers coupled to a plurality of virtual functions of the controller. Each virtual function driver periodically issues a heartbeat command to its corresponding virtual function, starts a second timer having a duration that is less than a duration of the first timer, determines a firmware failure of the controller upon expiration of the second timer, and pauses input/output operations to its corresponding virtual function until the firmware of the controller is reset.
US09135097B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with detecting a node death in a clustered distributed system are described. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting a ping message to a peer node in the network. If a reply to the ping message is not received from the peer node, a query is sent to table of port identifiers that lists ports in the cluster. In one embodiment, the query includes a port identifier associated with the peer node. The peer node is declared as inactive/dead when the query fails to locate a match in the table for the port identifier. When the query locates a match in the table for the port identifier, another ping message is periodically transmitted to the peer node.
US09135095B2
Methods and systems are provided for inter-application communication using messages posted on a bulletin board.
US09135093B2
The present disclosure relates to software, computer systems, and computer implemented methods for providing centralized process integration (PI) domain alert monitoring. One process includes identifying at least one alert rule at a central rules repository, the at least one alert rule associated with at least one message inter-communication within a process integration (PI) domain, where the PI domain includes at least one PI component, and where the message inter-communications within the PI domain occur between PI components. At least one alert consumer registration associated with at least one alert consumer system for an identified alert rule is identified. Information associated with the at least one identified alert rule from the central rules repository is distributed to the corresponding PI component associated with the message inter-communication linked to the alert rule and to the at least one registered alert consumer system.
US09135088B2
In a multi processing system, packet routing units are arranged in respective middleware layers in first nodes corresponding to memory spaces connected to plural processor cores and perform routing of a packet among parent nodes and child nodes in a tree. The child nodes are user nodes that are objects of respective application layers in the memory spaces. The first nodes are the parent nodes. The user nodes, the first nodes, and a second node in the tree are assigned addresses that identify parent-child relationship of nodes in the tree. The second node is a parent node of the first nodes. The packet routing unit (a1) stores the packet if the source address is identical to an own node address, (a2) transfers the packet to a child node if the source address indicates the child node, and (a3) transfers the packet to a parent node in the other cases.
US09135087B1
Systems and methods for limiting resource usage of a kernel of an integrated circuit are provided. For example, in one embodiment a method for limiting a number of workgroups that may simultaneously access a kernel of an integrated circuit (IC) includes determining a threshold number of workgroups that may access the kernel simultaneously. A thread of execution is received. The thread of execution is allowed to access the kernel when the threshold number of workgroups would not be exceeded by the thread of execution accessing the kernel.
US09135084B2
Processing of tickets received by a ticket processing system is performed by allowing processes running on one or more hosts to access a ticket processing table to retrieve and process the tickets. A weighted load distributor (WLD) grants weighted round robin turn access to the processes running on the hosts. The WLDs running on different hosts coordinate so that a primary WLD is selected that is responsible for distributing turn access to the ticket processing table to various requesting processes. The hosts use a throttle to determine the real-time availability of resources for the hosts. The throttle determines whether a process should be allowed to proceed with processing tasks associated with a particular ticket based on resource costs associated with the required processing, as well as resources available to the respective host and ticket priority.
US09135083B2
There are provided methods for single-owner multi-consumer work queues for repeatable tasks. A method includes permitting a single owner thread of a single owner, multi-consumer, work queue to access the work queue using atomic instructions limited to only a single access and using non-atomic operations. The method further includes restricting the single owner thread from accessing the work queue using atomic instructions involving more than one access. The method also includes synchronizing amongst other threads with respect to their respective accesses to the work queue.
US09135072B2
In an embodiment, a memory controller includes multiple ports. Each port may be dedicated to a different type of traffic. In an embodiment, quality of service (QoS) parameters may be defined for the traffic types, and different traffic types may have different QoS parameter definitions. The memory controller may be configured to schedule operations received on the different ports based on the QoS parameters. In an embodiment, the memory controller may support upgrade of the QoS parameters when subsequent operations are received that have higher QoS parameters, via sideband request, and/or via aging of operations. In an embodiment, the memory controller is configured to reduce emphasis on QoS parameters and increase emphasis on memory bandwidth optimization as operations flow through the memory controller pipeline.
US09135064B2
Approaches for throttling backgrounds processes to a high degree of precision. The utilization of a shared resource that is used by one or more background processes is monitored. A frequency at which the one or more background processes are executed is dynamically adjusted based on the current utilization of the shared resource without adjusting the frequency in which one or more foreground processes are executed to ensure that the utilization of the shared resource does not exceed a threshold value. The monitoring of the utilization of the shared resource may be performed more often than the adjusted of the frequency at which the background processes are executed, and the utilization of the shared resources may be performed many times a second. Consequently, the utilization of the shared resource may be above a certain level (such as 65%) and less than another level, such as 90%, when background processes are executing.
US09135058B2
This method includes steps for the parallel management of a first list and of a second list. The first list corresponds to a list of tasks to be carried out. The second list corresponds to a list of variables indicating the presence or absence of tasks to be carried out. The list of tasks is managed in a “FIFO” manner, that is to say that the first task inputted into the list is the first task to be executed. A task interruption is managed using a “Test And Set” function executed on the elements of the second list, the “Test And Set” function being a function which cannot be interrupted and including the following steps: reading the value of the element in question, storing the read value in a local memory, and assigning a predetermined value to the element which has just been read.
US09135049B2
A virtual disk image manager running on a computing device determines that an operation is to be performed on a virtual disk image. The virtual disk image manager then determines whether an underlying storage domain on which the virtual disk image is stored supports the operation. In response to determining that the storage domain supports the operation, the virtual disk image manager uses native capabilities of the storage domain to perform the operation. In response to determining that the storage domain does not support the operation, the virtual disk image manager performs the operation without the use of the storage domains native capabilities.
US09135042B2
To provision a secure customer domain in a virtualized multi-tenant environment, a virtual machine (VM) is configured for a customer in the customer domain. A first, second, and third virtual network interfaces (VNICs) are configured in the VM. The first VNIC has a first network address within a first address range selected for the customer domain and enables an application on the VM to access a second application in a second VM in the customer domain. The second VNIC enables a third application outside the customer domain to access the VM in the customer domain. The second VNIC is configured to use an addressing specification used by a server of the third application. The third VNIC enables access from the first application to a fourth application executing outside the customer domain. The third VNIC is configured to use an addressing specification used by a server of the fourth application.
US09135039B2
Object calls for objects not available on a local virtual machine are fulfilled by requesting the object itself from a remote virtual machine and reconstructing a local instance of the requested object on the local virtual machine. The local instance is reconstructed using information about the class, variables, and methods associated with the remote instance of the object communicated to the local virtual machine. Present and future calls to the object are then directed to the local instance of the requested object.
US09135037B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving an outgoing packet from a source virtual machine; obtaining a secret key for the source virtual machine, the secret key not being known by a destination virtual machine; obtaining a unique token derived at least partly from the secret key and a network address of the destination virtual machine; encapsulating the outgoing packet in a second packet along with the token and a token expiration time; and sending the second packet to the destination virtual machine.
US09135036B2
Methods and systems for reducing communication during video processing utilizing merge buffering are disclosed and may include storing data in a merge buffer in the virtual machine layer in a wireless communication device comprising a virtual machine user layer, a native user layer, a kernel, and a video processor. The data may then be communicated to the kernel via the native user layer. The data may include function calls, and/or kernel remote procedure calls. The data may be communicated via an application programming interface. Video data may be processed in the video processor based on the communicated data. The virtual machine user layer may include a Java environment. The data may be communicated to the kernel via the native user layer when the merge buffer is full or filled to a predetermined level.
US09135035B2
Methods and apparatus for marshalling markup language objects into programming language objects in a scripting language runtime environment. A markup language integration method may be implemented in scripting runtime environments that allows the use of simple and complex markup language structures in scripts. At runtime of a script, only classes for the schema structures that are referenced by the script are generated. Document Object Model (DOM) objects may be incrementally constructed according to the schema structures referenced by the script, and bytecode may be generated corresponding to the schema structures according to class metadata for the schema structures. The bytecode may be dynamically linked in the runtime environment. The classes defined by the schema act as wrappers for the DOM objects; when an object is updated by the script, a corresponding DOM object is also updated. Type checking may be applied to catch script errors during development.
US09135021B2
Method for input and output of data with non-standard I/O devices for web and other applications is presented. In one aspect, non-standard input data is received from the non-standard input device at a client, and the non-standard input data is provided as equivalent standard input data to the standard browser running on the client, so that the standard browser can submit the input data to an application running on a server in communication with the client over a network.
US09134998B2
On a host, host content change requests are intercepted in real-time. In a tracking mode, the change requests are logged and allowed to take effect on the host. In an enforcement mode, the change requests are logged and additionally compared against authorized change policies and a determination is made whether to allow the change to take effect or to block the changes, thereby enforcing the authorized change policies on the host. Tracking and enforcement can be done in real-time. In either mode and at any time, the logged changes can be reconciled against a set of approved change orders in order to identify classes of changes, including changes that were deployed but not approved and changes that were approved but not deployed.
US09134997B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that quantitatively assesses the impact of a project change request to software quality including determining at least one initial project request defect value based on an initial project request effort value and a defect insertion rate, determining at least one project change request defect value based on a project change request effort value and the defect insertion rate, comparing at least one project change request defect value to at least one initial project request defect value, and providing a quality impact value based on the result of the comparison.
US09134996B2
A method of updating an anti-virus application including an updatable module running on a client terminal. The method includes receiving an update at the client terminal, initializing the updatable module within a sandbox environment and applying the update to the updatable module. Control tests are then run on the updated sandboxed module and if the control tests are passed, the updated module is brought out of the sandbox environment and normal scanning is allowed to proceed using the updated module. If the control tests are not passed, however, normal scanning using the updated module is prevented.
US09134995B2
Each of a first and second component version for each of a first and second component of a software application are stored. Upon receipt of a launch request for the software application from a client device, a profile of the client device is determined. The profile includes a programming language requirement for the client device. Component versions are selected based on the profile of the client device including the programming language requirement for the client device. One of the selected component version for the first component and the second component of the software application is executed by an application server, and the other of the selected component version for the first component and the second component of the software application is executed by the client device.
US09134989B2
A system and method for selectively updating the versions of stored datasets on a wireless device that selectively communicates to a wireless network and downloads datasets, such as software applications and information, from download servers on the wireless network. The wireless device has a resident dataset version summary file that identifies the version of each resident dataset, and upon the wireless device attempting to communicate with the download server, the wireless device compares the version of each specific resident dataset listed in the resident dataset version summary file with the version of downloadable datasets resident on the download server to thereby determine if the version of a wireless device resident dataset is different from the version of a download server resident dataset. If the download server resident dataset is more recent, the wireless device can download it to overwrite the wireless device resident dataset.
US09134981B2
Systems and methods for increasing speed and reducing processing power of a compile process of programmable logic of an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. For example, in one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a high level program, comprising computer-readable instructions for implementation on programmable logic of an integrated circuit (IC); translating the high level program into low level code representative of functional components needed to execute functionalities of the high level program; generating a host program comprising computer-readable instructions for implementing the low level code based upon the high level program; obtaining modifications to the high level program; determining whether the modifications can be implemented by a new host program utilizing the low level code; and generating the new host program to implement the modifications, when the modifications can be implemented by the new host program utilizing the low level code.
US09134978B1
A method for selecting a performance optimization level for program code segments (e.g., JavaScript code) embedded in interactive webpages according to the origin (e.g., domain) of the webpages is disclosed. The information on historic usage behavior on webpages from the same origin is collected. The historic usage behavior can be specific to the current user or an average or aggregated behavior across many users who have visited webpages from the same origin. The historic usage information is used to select an appropriate level of optimization to achieve the maximum performance improvement for the least amount of compilation cost. The selected optimization level can be adjusted over time based on a measure of actual performance improvement resulted from the different levels of optimization that had been carried out during prior visits.
US09134976B1
In various implementations of a software analysis system, compliance checking is facilitated by analyzing different characteristics of a software system to be developed, and by comparing the information extracted from these analysis. Two or more characteristics may be expressed in different formats or languages, and the descriptions of one or more of these characteristic may be incomplete.
US09134972B2
A user interface generation device includes: a generation unit which generates a user interface for instructing an execution unit to execute a function based on an application program; and a storage unit which stores a definition file defining a user interface object and information indicating a display ability of a display unit. The generation unit selects or discards the object definition information and judges whether all the objects can be displayed. If No, the generation unit rewrites the information relating to the object size according to the information in the display unit so that all the objects can be displayed. After this, the generation unit generates a synthesis user interface according to the information.
US09134971B2
Systems and/or methods are provided relating to an extensible framework. The extensible framework provides constructs with which device developers can model devices within the framework to enable a host application utilizing the framework to interact with the devices. New devices can be supported by the framework without disrupting existing devices or the host application.
US09134968B2
An inline view port is presented to a user in response to the user selecting an identifier in the code whereby the user is able to see relevant information related to the identifier in a spatially consistent location with the code that is being investigated. The user further has the ability to dive further into portions of the viewport document without having to leave the current editor, drive into additionally relevant portions of code through the viewport, and cascade the viewports such that multiple levels of depth of relationships can be viewed in the viewport.
US09134957B2
A method of recommending tags for user includes receiving a current rating of current user on current objects; determining a candidate tag set based on the current user and the current rating; ordering each candidate tag in the candidate tag set based on index value thereof; and recommending tags for the current user based on the ordering.
US09134945B2
System and method for zero client communications. A zero client device includes a housing, and in the housing, a transcoding processing unit (transcoder) and a communications processing unit coupled to the transcoder. The transcoder is configured to receive input data from human interface device(s), encode the input data, and provide the encoded input data to the communications processing unit for transmission over a network to a server. The communications processing unit is configured to receive the encoded input data from the transcoder, transmit the encoded input data over the network to the server, receive output data from the server, and send the output data to the transcoder. The transcoder is further configured to receive the output data from the communications processing unit, decode the output data, and send the decoded output data to at least one of the human interface devices.
US09134939B2
There is provided a technique to contribute to an improvement in convenience of a setting screen for performing setting for a function capable of being executed by an image processing apparatus. A display control apparatus causes plural setting screens to be selectively displayed, which are respectively for performing settings for plural functions capable of being executed by the image processing apparatus and on each of which plural setting items for each of the functions can be displayed, and includes a selection function determination unit to determine that a setting screen for which function among the plural functions has been selected, an item information acquisition unit to acquire information relating to, among the plural setting items relating to the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, a setting item to be displayed on the setting screen for the function, and a control unit to display, based on the information acquired by the item information acquisition unit and on the setting screen for the function whose setting screen is determined to have been selected by the selection function determination unit, the setting item to be displayed on the setting screen.
US09134937B2
A system for secure printing is disclosed herein. An example of the system includes a client that initiates a print request, creates an identifier, transmits the print request and identifier, and renders print data. The system also includes a cloud-connected printer and a server to which the cloud-connected printer is coupled that receives the transmitted print request and identifier, verifies the availability of the cloud-connected printer, transfers the identifier to the available cloud-connected printer, and establishes a secure connection between the available cloud connected printer and the client. Other details of the system are disclosed herein, as are other examples of the system. Examples of a method for secure printing and a non-volatile storage medium are also disclosed herein.
US09134936B2
In response to information indicating data to be printed from a portable device, a system generates compatible printer information indicating one or more compatible printers compatible with printing of the data to be printed, sing information related to the data to be printed and device information of each one of the nearby printers. Based on the compatible printer information, a display for the system displays thereon a screen that lists one or more compatible printers that are compatible with printing of the data to be printed.
US09134933B2
An information processing apparatus which is capable of printing a file attached to an e-mail using an existing printing apparatus. An electronic mail with a file attached thereto is received. With respect to each of printing apparatuses, a printer driver used in the printing apparatus and an identifier that identifies the printing apparatus are stored in association with each other in a storage unit. Based on the stored information, a printer driver corresponding to an identifier that identifies a printing apparatus entered in the received electronic mail is identified as a printer driver to be used. Print data is generated from the file attached to the received electronic mail using the identified printer driver. The generated print data is sent to the identified printing apparatus.
US09134929B2
A storage apparatus having an application program and connected to a data processing apparatus, the storage apparatus including a reception part configured to receive data from outside and store the data in the storage apparatus; and an execution part configured to operate the application programs and transmit an execution request to the data processing apparatus via an interface which is specific to the data processing apparatus so that a data processing is executed by functions provided to the data processing apparatus when the storage device receives a data processing request related to the data stored in the storage apparatus.
US09134919B2
A memory device and a method of operating the same are provided. The memory device includes a control logic and a memory cell array. The control logic is configured to receive input information including a plurality of commands, a plurality of addresses, and priority information, and to change an execution sequence of the received commands of the input information according to the priority information. The memory cell array is configured to include a plurality of memory cells, and the memory device is configured to perform an operation on one or more memory cells based on the changed execution sequence.
US09134916B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to implementing management policy in a computer system. The management policy may be applied to a first content unit by using metadata associated with first content unit to manage storage of or access to the first content unit. The metadata associated with the first content unit may be stored in a second content unit that includes in its content, an identifier that identifies the first content unit.
US09134915B2
A hypervisor as a movement source stores key information, and the key information is registered in a storage using the stored key information through a logical HBA which is used for migration.
US09134911B2
An instruction is provided that includes an opcode field to identify a store instruction to store in a designated location current values of operational parameters of an adapter function of an adapter; a first field to identify a location, the contents of which include a function handle identifying a handle of the adapter function for which the store instruction is being performed, and an indication of an address space associated with the adapter function identified by the function handle to which the store instruction applies; and a second field to identify the designated location of where a result of the store instruction is to be stored. Execution of the instruction includes obtaining information from a function information block associated with the adapter function; and copying the information from the function information block into the designated location, based on completion of one or more validity checks with one or more predefined results.
US09134910B2
A request is output to a first queue of a storage device. A head flag of the request is set based on whether the request is a read type request and a comparison of a percentage of requests queued at the first queue that are read type requests to a threshold percentage. The storage device is to store the request at a head of the first queue if the head flag of the request is set.
US09134902B2
A mobile terminal having a touch screen and a method present a user interface in the mobile terminal having a touch screen. The method includes: detecting a touched area corresponding to a touch when the touch is sensed in the touch screen; and executing different functions according to whether the detected touched area is equal to or greater than a preset area threshold. Various touch inputs are sensed through a touch screen in the mobile terminal, and the mobile terminal and method present user interfaces corresponding to the respective touch inputs.
US09134900B2
Illustrated is a system and method to receiving input at a soft bar, the input received at a middle position on the soft bar equal distance from a first position and a second position on the soft bar. The system and method also including a traversing of the soft bar from the middle position to one of the first or second position, using the input, a plurality of times to generate a candidate password, each traversal to generate a position value that is part of the candidate password. Further, the system and method to include unlocking a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for use, the unlocking to occur where the candidate password is equivalent to a stored password.
US09134894B2
In a method for selecting objects of an electronic device, a touch operation performed on a touch screen of the electronic device is detected. A selection region on the touch screen is determined according to a touch operation that is detected from the touch screen. The selection region is scaled according to one or more predetermined ratios when contact points of the touch operation move on the touch screen. Objects displayed on the touch screen are selected according to the determined selection region.
US09134890B2
A display input device includes a display portion, a touch panel portion, and a determination portion. The display portion displays a screen and an image, and displays a plurality of objects as images whose display positions are movable. The touch panel portion is provided for the display portion, and accepts a user's input, and detects a plurality of positions being touched. The determination portion determines whether two points being touched are in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. The touch panel portion accepts an input of selecting, as selected objects, some or all of the objects displayed on the display portion. When the touch panel portion has detected that two-point touching has been performed thereon in the state where the objects are selected, the display portion aligns the display positions of the selected objects, based on the direction of the touched two points and movement of the touched points.
US09134887B2
Multi-device visual correlation interaction includes displaying, by a first device, a user interface representation of a user interface displayed by a second device, the user interface representation containing one or more element representations, each element representation corresponding to an element contained within the user interface displayed by the second device; receiving from a user of the first device, a selection of a particular element representation of the user interface representation, the particular element representation corresponding to a particular element contained within the user interface; transmitting to the second device, by the first device, a contextual information request corresponding to the selection; in response to transmitting the contextual information request, receiving from the second device, by the first device, contextual information corresponding to the selection; and generating based on the contextual information, by the first device, a contextual list of actions associated with the particular element.
US09134880B2
Provided is a system and method for summoning user interface object(s) of a display to a gesture position of a user. In a pressure sensitive display embodiment, a user maintains a convenient touch position to the display, performs a summon gesture, and user interface object(s) are automatically moved to the user's touch position as requested. When a summon gesture is recognized, a user interface object, or point or interest thereof, automatically transitions to a desired position where the gesture was recognized. Objects can transition in a variety of manners. Also, a magnetic mode can be activated for virtually magnetizing objects of interest to a user's position, for example as the user touches various places on the display. A user's configurations can be stored into a cloud system for convenient access and use at a plurality of different data processing system user interfaces.
US09134879B2
A user interface display method that facilitates setting of various setting parameters for controlling an application program and preserving past values of the setting parameters as historical snapshots. When a setting panel is displayed and the user modifies setting parameter values in the setting panel and saves the new values, the pre-modified setting parameter values are saved as a historical snapshot, and the modified values are saved as the current setting parameters for controlling the program. Historical snapshots of setting panels that have been saved in the past can be displayed simultaneously with the current setting panel in a manner that visually simulates a stack of panels. The user can select any one of the historical panels in the stack, modify the setting values in that panel, and save the modified values as the current settings while keeping the historical snapshot.
US09134874B2
An exemplary method includes a media player user interface system 1) displaying a GUI on a display screen associated with a computing device, the GUI including a user-scrollable media content menu that contains a display area associated with a media feed accessible by the computing device, 2) selecting menu display content for the display area based at least in part on a scroll status of the user-scrollable media content menu, 2) and populating the display area with the selected menu display content. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US09134870B2
Disclosed is a capacitive touch-sensitive panel. The capacitive touch-sensitive panel includes a dielectric substrate, a plurality of first conductive traces which extend in a first direction and are formed on one surface of the dielectric substrate, and a plurality of second conductive traces which are formed on the other surface of the dielectric substrate. Here, the second conductive traces include a main trace which extends in a second direction, a first branch which extends so as to obliquely intersect the main trace, and a second branch which is connected to the first branch, and the second branch connected to the first branch so as to intersect the first branch.
US09134869B2
A test method of pressing a touch panel includes driving at least one pressing element such that a bottom surface of the at least one pressing element presses on a top surface of the touch panel. Pressing forces and corresponding pressing strokes are recorded while the touch panel is continuously pressed. The recorded pressing forces and the pressing strokes are converted into a test curve diagram, according to which a first turning point is determined at which the corresponding pressing force represents a force when the pressed touch panel contacts a test platform.
US09134863B2
Disclosed is an input device for a capacitive touch panel, which is an input device for inputting the position on the touch panel by making the input device contact with the touch panel, including an insulating layer (11) having flexibility and optical permeability, and a conductive layer (12) having optical permeability and laminated onto the insulating layer (11), and the input device (10) is integrally formed into a cylindrical shape so that the insulating layer (11) and the conductive layer (12) become a portion to be contacted with the touch panel. Thereby, users less likely to have a sense of wear and tear of fingers, the position pointed by the input device on the touch panel is precisely recognized with ease, the accuracy of the position detected by the touch panel is improved, and input means is less likely to be lost though the input device is lost.
US09134859B2
The present invention relates to a display device having a touch panel, and more particularly, to a touch panel display device which can improve visibility. The display device of the present invention includes: a display panel; a first film layer that is disposed on the display panel, and includes a first material, a first transparent layer having a first pattern disposed on the first material, and an index matching layer disposed between the first material and the first transparent layer; a second film layer that is disposed on the first film layer, and includes a second material, a second transparent layer having a second pattern disposed on the second material, and an index matching layer disposed between the second material and the second transparent layer; and a touch window disposed on the second film layer.
US09134858B2
A touch panel and an electronic device are provided. The touch panel includes a sensing electrode array, a touch controller, and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit. The sensing electrode array is arranged in two dimensional array of n rows and m columns for generating a sensing signal in response to a touch on the touch panel. The touch controller is operationally connected to the sensing electrode array for receiving the sensing signal and identifying the touch on the touch screen. The ESD protection circuit includes ESD protection units each being electrically connected to a corresponding row or column of the sensing electrode array and the touch controller for electrostatic discharge protection.
US09134857B2
An adaptive digital filtering method and apparatus for touch data in a touch system is described. Adaptive digital filtering involves estimating a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for stored touch data, and reducing a digital filter order if the SNR is high and increasing the digital filter order if the SNR is small.
US09134852B2
The present invention relates to A static eliminating method for a touch screen comprising: detecting if the touch screen departs from an object by using said photo sensor, and counting the number of communication failures between the touch screen and a control chip or detecting if the touch screen of a hand-held device is switched from the state of facing down into the state of facing up by using a gravity sensor, counting the number of failures of communication between the touch screen and the control chip; executing the reset operation of turning off and then turning on if the number of failures exceeds a communication failure set value; or executing the reset operation of resetting the register software of the touch screen/turning off and then turning on touch screen if the number of failures is smaller than a communication failure set value and the number of touch events in the same area of the touch screen in a set time exceeds a false report set value.(executing the reset operation of resetting the register software of the touch screen in a preferable embodiment) By using this method, the touch screen can be quickly reset to recover normal service if the touch screen is affected by static.
US09134840B2
A user input apparatus is provided with user input means for the user to input data or a command by using the user's human body, and use-form detection means for detecting a form in which the user uses the user input means by the user's human body. A computer connected to the user input apparatus changes the operation of the application being executed by application execution means, according to a detection result obtained by the use-form detection means. Therefore, input operations can be performed without inconvenience even if the user cannot use one hand due to another work.
US09134836B2
Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a planar display unit, and a touch panel which is disposed so as to overlap the display unit and is capable of detecting a vertical distance between two-dimensional coordinates along a surface of the display unit and a finger. Resolution of the two-dimensional coordinates becomes finer as the vertical distance decreases. Thus, even when the operating finger is immobilized in a state where the electronic device is fixed, a display of a pointer is not wobbled or a display of a screen is not wobbled. In addition, when a line is drawn using a drawing mode, the line is not displayed jaggedly.
US09134830B1
A touch screen on a user device is used to measure the weight of one or more objects on a measurement device that is placed on the touch screen. The measurement device may include a plurality of styluses. The user device receives pressure data indicating the amount of pressure or force caused by the measurement device and one or more objects and calculates a weight based on the pressure data. The pressure data may be received from one or more of the measurement device or from the touch screen.
US09134814B2
A projector detects a first input operation and a second input operation using an operation detection section, detects an operation position of the input operation in an operation area in which the input operation can be detected, and notifies the first operation and the operation position when the second operation is not detected within a predetermined time from when the first input operation is detected.
US09134809B1
Some implementations provide a virtual keyboard having a plurality of keys grouped into a plurality of blocks of multiple keys. For instance, a first type of keyboard control input may navigate a focus of the keyboard from a first block of keys to a second block of keys as a shortcut for quickly traversing a number of keys. A second type of keyboard control input may navigate the focus from a first key to an adjacent key. Navigation of the focus to a target block may result in the focus being centrally located within the target block so that the keys in the target block can be accessed with a minimal number of additional control inputs. Further, in some implementations, one or more suggested words maybe displayed based, at least in part, the keys contained within a block in which the focus is currently located.
US09134807B2
Pressure sensitive key techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a device includes at least one pressure sensitive key having a flexible contact layer spaced apart from a sensor substrate by a spacer layer, the flexible contact layer configured to flex responsive to pressure to contact the sensor substrate to initiate an input, for a computing device, associated with the pressure sensitive key. At least one of the flexible contact layer or the sensor substrate are configured to at least partially normalize an output resulting from pressure applied at a first location of the flexible contact layer with an output resulting from pressure applied at a second location of the flexible contact layer that has lesser flexibility than the first location.
US09134805B2
Various embodiments of the invention may allow applications and information to be clustered together in ways that simplify and automate various tasks. Other embodiments may present a graphical user interface to the user that allows the user to choose from a matrix of information categories and applications that can help provide that information. Still other embodiments may provide different user interface methods based on status awareness.
US09134804B2
Various embodiments of the invention may be used to verify that a person being authorized by biometric techniques to use a device is a living person and not some form of recording intended to spoof the system. Some embodiments may try to cause a change in a measured biometric feature, and compare images taken before and after the change to verify the change occurred. In some embodiments, multiple stages of verification may be used, either to increase the difficulty of spoofing the security system, or to provide different levels of security for different levels of access to the device's functionality.
US09134795B2
Directional haptic feedback provided in a haptic feedback interface device. An interface device includes at least two actuator assemblies, which each include a moving inertial mass. A single control signal provided to the actuator assemblies at different magnitudes provides directional inertial sensations felt by the user. A greater magnitude waveform can be applied to one actuator to provide a sensation having a direction approximately corresponding to a position of that actuator in the housing. In another embodiment, the actuator assemblies each include a rotary inertial mass and the control signals have different duty cycles to provide directional sensations. For power-consumption efficiency, the control signals can be interlaced or pulsed at a different frequency and duty cycle to reduce average power requirements.
US09134788B2
Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for adjusting a rate at which operations are performed by a processor based on a comparison of a first indication of power consumed by the processor as a result of performing a first set of operations and a second indication of power consumed by the processor as a result of performing a second set of operations. The rate at which operations are performed by the processor may be adjusted when the comparison indicates that a difference between the first indication of power consumed by the processor and the second indication of power consumed by the processor is greater than a threshold value.
US09134787B2
To preserve power and increase the overall efficiency of the CPU, the platform idle driver causes the power gate controller to cut power to the idle core. Such power gating is autonomous, i.e., the operating system and the other cores are not involved. In operation, the platform idle driver first prepares the core and the power gate controller for power gating the core. The platform idle driver then triggers the power gating. The power gate controller monitors interrupts released by the interrupt controller, and if any on the released interrupts are associated with the power gated core, the power gate controller resumes dispersing power to the core.
US09134786B2
Methods and systems for a device in a network are disclosed. The methods and systems compare priority data of the device to priority data of a set of other devices in the network. In addition, the methods and systems determine the device has a priority greater than or equal to a priority of each device in the set of other devices based, at least in part, on the comparison. The methods and systems also select the device as an elected device based, at least in part, on the priority determination. In addition, the methods and systems transmit, using the elected device, a Wake-On-LAN command.
US09134781B2
The present invention discloses an inquiry system having a database and a first testing module as well as a memory unit, a second testing module and a maximum power efficiency control unit built in a power bank. In addition to the information exchange performed by the first testing module through an external computer, the built-in second testing can perform information exchange with a device to be charged (such as a handheld electronic device) directly. Meanwhile, the charging time of the power back can be reduced through the maximum power efficiency control unit.
US09134775B2
The disclosed embodiments provide an apparatus that controls a current drawn from an adapter by a computer system. During operation, the apparatus senses the current drawn from the adapter using a first current sensor and a second current sensor, wherein a response time of the first current sensor is faster than a response time of the second current sensor. Then, when the current sensed using the first current sensor exceeds a predetermined high-current threshold, the apparatus limits the current drawn from the adapter to a first predetermined current limit. Additionally, when the current sensed using the second current sensor exceeds a predetermined thermal-limit current, the apparatus limits the current drawn from the adapter to the predetermined thermal-limit current.
US09134762B2
A mobile device case or cover can include a display module that can display notifications or other useful data to users. The display module can communicate wirelessly with the mobile device to obtain notifications. In addition, in some embodiments, the display module can communicate with a secondary mobile device (such as a phone in a user's pocket) to obtain notifications or other data.
US09134758B2
A connecting mechanism for connecting a first unit and a second unit together is illustrated. The connecting mechanism includes a first linkage bar, a second linkage bar for being coupled to the first unit, and a third linkage bar for being slidably connected to the second unit. The first linkage bar includes a first end with a latching protrusion and an opposite second end. The second linkage bar includes a third end, an opposite fourth end, and a number of teeth. The first end is slidably connected to the second linkage bar. The latching protrusion is configured to selectively interlock with any one of the teeth of the second linkage bar. The third linkage bar includes a fifth end pivotally connected to the second end of the first linkage bar and a sixth end pivotally connected to the fourth end of the second linkage bar.
US09134757B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a base having a first side and a second side, and a lid having a first side and a second side. The electronic device may also include a heat exchanger provided at the base. The heat exchanger may have a first surface exposed to outside the base.
US09134749B2
An internal voltage generator includes an internal voltage control unit suitable for generate an enable signal based on a voltage level of an internal voltage, a clock control unit suitable for generate a control clock having a restricted toggling period based on the enable signal and a clock while controlling the toggling number of the control clock, and an internal voltage generation unit suitable for generate the internal voltage based on the control clock.
US09134742B2
A voltage regulator, alternatively operating in an active mode in response to an enabled mode indication signal, and operating in a standby mode in response to the disabled mode indication signal, is provided. The voltage regulator comprises a regulation unit and a feedback circuit. The regulation unit drives an output node with an output signal. The feedback circuit comprises a first resistance unit, connected between the output node and the feedback node, and a second resistance unit. The second resistance unit is connected between the feedback node and a ground reference voltage, and the resistance thereof is scaled down when a mode indication signal is enabled, so as to achieve a level dip event on a feedback signal, and accordingly driving the regulation unit enhancing its drivability of the output signal.
US09134741B2
The disclosed invention provides apparatus and methods for dynamic biasing in electronic systems and circuits. The apparatus and methods disclosed provide non-linear biasing responsive to monitored load conditions.
US09134740B2
A regulator includes a first transistor, a first bias circuit, a second bias circuit, a differential circuit having second to fifth transistors, and a current mirror circuit. The first transistor outputs an output voltage lower than the input voltage. The first bias circuit generates a first bias voltage lower than a reference voltage. The second bias circuit generates a second bias voltage lower than a feedback voltage relating to the output voltage. The second transistor into which the reference voltage is inputted and the third transistor into which the feedback voltage is inputted are a pair of differential transistors. The fourth transistor is complementarily connected to the second transistor. The fifth transistor is complementarily connected to the third transistor. The differential circuit outputs a comparison signal to the first transistor. The current mirror circuit is connected to the second and third transistors.
US09134737B2
A thermostatic mixing valve includes a mixing slide arranged between two seats for mixing fluids at different temperatures and capable of flowing between the mixing slide and the two seats, respectively, so as to supply a mixed fluid; and an axial thermal actuator arranged between the mixing slide and an absorption member sensitive to the temperature of the mixed fluid for creating a controlled movement of the position of the mixing slide between the two seats in order to supply the mixed fluid at a controlled temperature, where the absorption member includes one of the seats and is capable of moving in a direction that increases the distance between the seats when the mixing slide is bearing on the other seat so as to absorb an excess of axial movement of a rod of the absorption member due to excessive variation of the mixed fluid temperature.
US09134733B2
A robot cleaner system is described including a docking station to form a docking area within a predetermined angle range of a front side thereof, to form docking guide areas which do not overlap each other on the left and right sides of the docking area, and to transmit a docking guide signal such that the docking guide areas are distinguished as a first docking guide area and a second docking guide area according to an arrival distance of the docking guide signal. The robot cleaner system also includes a robot cleaner to move to the docking area along a boundary between the first docking guide area and the second docking guide area when the docking guide signal is sensed and to move along the docking area so as to perform docking when reaching the docking area.
US09134730B2
The invention relates to a management method for managing a turning movement of an aircraft taxiing on the ground, the aircraft having wheels each fitted with an independent drive device, in which method commands are generated for the independent drive devices so that at least some of those devices contribute to the turning movement. According to the invention, the method comprises the steps of: estimating at each instant during the turning movement: an instantaneous total power developed by all of the independent drive devices in response to the commands; and an instantaneous mean angular acceleration for all of the wheels; and adapting the commands to the independent drive devices such that the total instantaneous power developed by all of the independent drive devices is minimized, while conserving the mean angular acceleration.
US09134723B2
In devices for generating a path of a tool of a processing machine by way of computer simulation, an NC program is created using a generated processing path. The NC program used to be corrected by verification of actually moving the processing machine. In contrast, the disclosed processing path generation device has been constituted to be provided with a means for calculating a closest distance and direction from a relationship of a position and posture between a tool and a work at an arbitrary point upon the processing path; a means for imparting a color determined by the closest distance and the direction calculated at the point upon the processing path; a means for panoramically displaying the color imparted to the work; and a means for correcting the relationship of the a position and posture between the tool and the work on the basis of information from a display device.
US09134722B2
To allow a robot body to quickly resume operation, using simple control, when a main power supply is restored after a failure. A calculation unit divides a series of operations of the robot body into a plurality of operation blocks in advance and causes the robot body to perform operations sequentially from one operation block to another using power supplied from the main power supply (S21 to S25). The calculation unit causes the robot body to continue operation using the power supplied from an auxiliary power supply, even if the main power supply fails, until the operation block being processed at the time of the failure of the main power supply out of the plurality of operation blocks is finished (S27). The calculation unit causes the robot body to stop operation, when the operation block being processed at the time of the failure of the main power supply is finished, until the main power supply is restored from the failure (S28). When the main power supply is restored from the failure, the calculation unit causes the robot body to resume operation beginning with an operation block next to the operation block caused by the calculation unit to be performed by the robot body in the process of step S27 (S30, S31, and S22).
US09134721B2
A worksite system is disclosed. The worksite system may have an input module configured to receive at least one of a boundary and a characteristic of an awareness zone at a worksite, and at least one locating device configured to determine a position of a mobile machine and another mobile entity at the worksite. The worksite system may also have a controller in communication with the input module and the at least one locating device. The controller may be configured to track movement of the mobile machine, and to make a determination of a presence of the other mobile entity. The controller may also be configured to initiate a collision avoidance strategy in response to at least one of the mobile machine nearing or entering the awareness zone when the other mobile entity is in the awareness zone.
US09134719B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for generation of a controlled device Module are provided. Various components are provided to a Module designer for selection, and the designer defines the interface APIs specifying the component functionalities. The designer may specify custom commands or events for the Module including Commands, Properties, and Parameters, and custom components corresponding to the custom commands are generated. A self-describing capabilities component is then generated for each component, and a composite capabilities component may then be generated from the capabilities components of each of the components. The completed Module package is then produced by an integrated development environment station.
US09134717B2
An approach for modeling parallel working units of a system for advanced process control. The approach may be a systematic solution based on structured model order reduction. Two phases of it may incorporate model identification and model combination. The first phase is where a model of each parallel unit and a model of the remaining system without any unit may be obtained. The second phase is where the models may be combined to obtain a model of the whole system for any configuration needed by the advanced process control. The model of the whole system may be subjected to a structured model reduction to obtain a reduced order model for the advanced process control.
US09134712B2
When arrangements with a repeating working cycle such as, for example, in the case of engine test benches, are being controlled, resonances which have to be damped by the control system are often excited by the test specimen (for example an internal combustion engine) in the working range of the arrangement. The invention proposes for this purpose a control concept in which a modified actual value rist—mod is determined from a current actual value rist—akt of the control system and from a predicted imminent system-delay-free actual value on the basis of the actual value of a previous working cycle, and said modified actual value rist—mod is fed to the control system.
US09134711B2
A method for advanced batch control of a batch process. The method discloses completing at least one cycle of the batch process and collecting data on at least one process variable and at least one product property. A model is created based on the data, wherein the model comprises inputs. Thereafter the batch process is initiated. At one or more decision points the model is utilized to obtain outputs. A controller utilizes the model outputs to control the batch in accordance with the model outputs. Final product properties are reached at decreased variability compared to the prior art.
US09134710B2
The invention comprises systems and methods for ramping setpoints on thermostats controlling HVAC systems. At least one thermostat is located inside a structure and is used to control an HVAC system in the structure. At least one remote processor is in communication with said thermostat and at least one database stores data reported by the thermostat. At least one processor compares the outside temperature at least one location and at least one point in time to information reported to the remote processor from the thermostat. The remote processor ramps the setpoint on the thermostat so as to reduce the average spread between inside temperature and outside temperature in order to reduce energy consumption with affecting comfort. The remote processor takes into account the effect of weather conditions and occupant preferences in determining whether and when to ramp setpoints.
US09134707B2
Various embodiments are disclosed for optimal online adaptive control. One such method includes a cost function determination by a critic network coupled to the system under control. The cost function is one produces a minimum value for a cost of the system under control when applied by an action network. The method also includes a control input determination by an action network. The control input determination uses the cost function to determine a control input to apply to the system under control. The control input is one that produces the minimum value for the cost of the system under control. The method also includes simultaneously tuning respective parameters of the critic network and the action network by applying respective tuning laws that do not involve the system dynamics function f(x) for the system under test.
US09134701B2
A timepiece movement includes a balance-and-hairspring regulator and an escapement co-operating with the regulator, the outer turn (5) of the hairspring including a stiffened portion (6′; 6″; 6″′) arranged to make the development of the hairspring more concentric, is characterized in that the stiffened portion (6′; 6″; 6″′) is also arranged to at least partially compensate for the variation in the rate of the movement in dependence upon the oscillation amplitude of the balance caused by the escapement.
US09134700B2
A display device (1) includes: a light source (101) that outputs a laser beam; an illumination optical system (102) that emits illumination light of the laser beam; a diffraction pattern generation unit that generates a diffraction pattern from original image data; a spatial modulation element (103) that diffracts the illumination light by displaying the diffraction pattern; and a display control unit that performs at least one of a change in a display timing of a diffraction pattern the spatial modulation element (103) displays and a change in a size of a diffraction pattern the diffraction pattern generation unit generates.
US09134689B2
This image forming device has a first electrical component and a second electrical component, arranged in positions offset such that there is no mutual overlap; a third electrical component swivelably supported about pivots as pivot points; and support members for pivotably supporting the pivots. The support members pivotably support the pivots between the first electrical component and the second electrical component. The third electrical component, through swiveling, is selectively positioned at a first location overlapping the first electrical component but not overlapping the second electrical component, or at a second location overlapping the second electrical component but not overlapping the first electrical component.
US09134681B2
A torque transmission mechanism includes a cam member which is rotatably supported and is provided with a cam for pressing a joint member in an axial direction of a rotation shaft and bush which is fitted to the cam member. The bush has an engagement surface with which the cam of the cam member engages. Above mechanism rotates the cam member and moves the cam member along the bush, thereby moving the joint member between an advanced position in which the torque of a drive source is transmitted to a rotary member and a retracted position in which the transmission of the torque of the drive source to the rotary member is released. A rib to which the bush is fitted is formed on an end surface of the cam member existing at a side at which the cam member is fitted to the bush.
US09134677B2
An image forming apparatus including an endless belt; a driving roller to move the endless belt in circulation; a driven roller to rotate along with circulation of the endless belt; a first bearing arranged on a first-side end of the driven roller along an axial direction to movable and to support the driven roller rotatably; a resilient member to apply a resilient force to the driven roller; and a frame having a first guide to the first bearing to move in an inclined direction, which inclines with respect to a virtual line extending through a rotation axis of the driving roller and the rotation axis of the driven roller, is provided. The first guide is formed to incline with respect to the virtual line to be closer to a virtual plane containing the strained plane of the endless belt as the first guide extends farther from the driving roller.
US09134674B2
A replaceable unit is removably inserted into an apparatus. An installation detecting board has a first edge, a second edge a third edge, and a fourth edge. The first edge is located on a side of the installation detecting board opposite the second edge. The third edge is located on a side of the installation detecting board opposite the fourth edge. The replaceable unit has a body in which a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion are formed. The first and second positioning portion are aligned in the longitudinal direction of the replaceable unit such that the first positioning portion abuts the first edge and the second positioning portion abuts the second edge. A retainer is mounted on the body, and abuts at least one of the third edge and the fourth edge to prevent the installation detecting board from moving relative to the body.
US09134670B2
An image forming apparatus which reduces a time period required to detect a phase of a photosensitive drum without an increase in costs. The apparatus performs exposure control according to a phase of rotation of the drum. A reference position serving as a reference for rotation of the drum is detected when the drum is rotating at a predetermined speed. After the speed of the drum is reduced from the predetermined speed, a first time period is measured which has elapsed from detection of the reference position to a command to stop rotation of the drum. After rotation of the drum is started again, a third time period is measured which has elapsed from reaching of the predetermined speed to detection of the reference position. The phase of the photosensitive drum for performing the control is determined based on the first time period and the third time period.
US09134665B2
A fixing unit includes: a fixing member which defines a fixing nip, where the fixing member fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium by applying heat and pressure to the toner image on the recording medium, and the recording medium passes through the fixing nip; a housing in which the fixing member is disposed, where the housing includes an entrance part, via which the recording medium enters therein, and a discharge part, via which the recording medium is discharged therefrom; and a blocking part disposed on the housing and toward an image surface of the recording medium to which the toner image is transferred, where the blocking part blocks nanodusts, which are generated while the toner image is being fixed to the recording medium, from being discharged to an outside of the housing.
US09134658B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller executing a setting mode for setting a voltage to be applied to an image transfer member when a toner image is transferred onto a transfer medium, so that a predetermined current flows through a charging member when such an area of an image bearing drum as has carried the toner image transferred onto a transfer medium at a transfer portion then passes through a charge portion, the setting being executed on the basis of a current detected by a first detecting member when such a region of the drum as has been charged by the charging member and has been passed through the transfer portion in a state that a test voltage is applied to the transfer member then passes through the charge portion in a period in which no toner image passes through the transfer portion.
US09134657B2
An image forming apparatus is provided, which includes photoconductive drums arranged along a sheet conveyance direction, transfer bodies each disposed to face a corresponding one of the photoconductive drums, a fuser unit disposed downstream relative to a most downstream photoconductive drum in the sheet conveyance direction and configured to feed a sheet at a feeding speed lower than a feeding speed of the most downstream photoconductive drum, and a controller configured to, when the sheet is not in contact with any photoconductive drum but the most downstream photoconductive drum, perform a specific voltage applying mode to apply, to a most downstream transfer body in the sheet conveyance direction, a higher voltage than when the sheet is in contact with two or more photoconductive drums.
US09134651B1
A developer container includes a container body, a movable wall, and a stirring member. The container body is formed with a developer discharge port opening in a circumferential portion of the container body and communicating with an internal space for allowing discharge of developer therethrough. The movable wall includes an outer surface slidably in close contact with an inner surface of the container body, and a conveying surface defining a storage space for the developer, the movable wall being movable in the first direction in the internal space while conveying the developer in the storage space to the developer discharge port. The stirring member faces the developer discharge port in a direction intersecting the first direction and is rotatable to stir the developer in the storage space. The movement of the movable wall and the rotation of the stirring member are controlled independently of each other.
US09134649B2
In an image forming apparatus having a photosensitive drum capable of carrying a toner image, a developing roller that is provided to be capable of rotating while carrying toner, and that supplies the toner to the photosensitive drum by contacting the photosensitive drum, a regulating blade that regulates a layer thickness of the toner carried on the developing roller, and a voltage applying device for applying a voltage to the developing roller and the regulating blade. The developing roller includes a conductive base layer and a surface layer covering the base layer, and a surface charge density of the developing roller is equal to or smaller than a surface charge density of the toner.
US09134647B2
An image forming apparatus that reduces density irregularity caused by SD gap variation. A developing bias voltage for forming a developing electric field between a photosensitive drum and a developing sleeve is applied to the developing sleeve. A rotational period of the photosensitive drum is divided into a plurality of blocks, and current values are acquired for each block. An average value of the acquired current values for each block is stored until the photosensitive drum is rotated a predetermined number of times, for each of the predetermined number of times of rotation. A moving average value of the average values in each block is calculated, and a correction table for correcting the developing bias voltage to be applied in each block is created using the calculated moving average values, and the developing bias voltage is controlled based on the created correction table.
US09134646B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a development device that includes a developer bearing member in a development position opposite to the image bearing member to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the image bearing member, and a bias applying portion that applies a development bias to the developer bearing member. A degradation sensing portion senses information related to a level of degradation of toner stored in the development device, and an acquisition portion acquires information on a type of a recording material to which a toner image developed by the development device is transferred. In addition, a controlling portion controls a condition of the bias applied to the developer bearing member so that a development ability of the development device is decreased when the degradation sensing portion senses information that the level of degradation of toner is less than a predetermined level and the acquisition portion acquires information that smoothness of the recording material is more than a predetermined reference.
US09134641B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a plurality of image bearing members, provided in parallel, each for forming a toner image; a first intermediary transfer member for forming a primary transfer portion between itself and each of the image bearing members, wherein the toner images formed on the image bearing members are to be primary-transferred onto the first intermediary transfer member; a second intermediary transfer member onto which the toner images are to be secondary-transferred from the first intermediary transfer member; and a transfer member for tertiary-transferring the toner images from the second intermediary transfer member onto a recording material. The first and second intermediary transfer members are integrally assembled into a transfer unit. The transfer unit is movable relative to a main assembly of the image forming apparatus in a direction in which the image bearing members are provided in parallel.
US09134640B2
The present disclosure describes processes for making clear, high-gloss toners, including toner compositions resulting from such processes that find applications in overcoating and gloss enhancement.
US09134639B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a magenta toner having high lightness and saturation and having spectral reflection properties having a wider color range.A magenta toner including magenta toner particles each including a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the colorant includes a compound represented by a formula (1): (wherein R1 and R2 represent an alkyl group or an alkoxyalkyl group, and at least one of R1 and R2 has not less than 7 carbon atoms).
US09134635B1
A method for the continuous aggregation of pre-toner particles including continuously flowing a slurry that includes at least one resin, and optionally includes other components used in forming aggregated pre-toner particles, or continuously flowing individual dispersions of the components of the slurry, into a reactor. The reactor includes a cylinder with a cylindrical channel, a mixing shaft located in the cylindrical channel, a longitudinal axis of the mixing shaft is substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the cylinder, at least one blade that has a plurality of holes is attached to the mixing shaft. The slurry or the dispersions are continuously mixed to form aggregated pre-toner particles.
US09134633B2
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method comprises providing a substrate and a patterned layer formed on the substrate, one or more overlay marks being formed on the patterned layer; performing a pre-film-formation overlay inspection using a bright field (BF) inspection tool to receive a pre-film-formation data on the one or more overlay marks on the patterned layer; forming one or more layers on the patterned layer; performing a post-film-formation overlay inspection using a dark field (DF) inspection tool to receive a post-film-formation data on the one or more overlay marks underlying the one or more layers; and determining whether the pre-film-formation data matches the post-film-formation data.
US09134632B2
Lithography apparatus and device manufacturing methods are disclosed in which means are provided for reducing the extent to which vibrations propagate between a first element of a projection system and a second element of a projection system. Approaches disclosed include the use of plural resilient members in series as part of a vibration isolation system, plural isolation frames for separately supporting first and second projection system frames, and modified connection positions for the interaction between the first and second projection system frames and the isolation frame(s).
US09134624B2
The present disclosure provides a lithography machine and a scanning and exposing method thereof. According to the scanning and exposing method, the scanning and exposing process for a whole wafer includes two alternately circulated motions: a scanning and exposing motion and a stepping motion; and the scanning and exposing motion is a sinusoidal motion rather than a rapid-acceleration uniform-speed rapid-deceleration scanning and exposing motion in the conventional techniques. During the scanning of a single exposure shot, it may begin to scan the exposure shot once a wafer stage and a reticle stage begin to accelerate from zero speed. And the scanning and exposing may not end until the speeds of the wafer stage and the reticle decrease to zero. Therefore, the effective time of the scanning and exposing in the scanning and exposing motion is greatly increased and the production efficiency of the wafer is improved.
US09134619B2
An exposure apparatus includes a light shielding plate that is arranged on a plane conjugate to a substrate plane and shields against light to prevent the light; a first driving unit that rotationally drives the light shielding plate about an axis parallel to an optical axis of the illumination system; a second driving unit that linearly drives the light shielding plate within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis; a detecting unit that detects a light-shielding position; and a control unit that stores a light-shielding position at reference time point and prior to and after change of the light shielding plate, and calculates a variation amount of the light-shielding position based on a light-shielding position detected by the detecting unit at any time point after the light shielding plate is changed, a light-shielding position at the reference time point, and the difference between stored light-shielding positions.
US09134614B2
There is herein described a method and apparatus for photoimaging. More particularly, there is described a method and apparatus for photoimaging a substrate (e.g. a web) covered with a wet curable photopolymer wherein a rotatable phototool is pressed and rotated against the substrate to create an imaged substrate which is used to form images suitable for forming electrical circuits such as for printed circuit boards (PCBs), flat panel displays and flexible circuits. There is also described a method and apparatus for directly photoimaging a substrate covered with a wet curable photopolymer, wherein the photoimaged substrate is used to form images such as electrical circuits and a method and apparatus for exposing at least part of a solder mask on a printed circuit board (PCB) using a wet curable photopolymer wherein an imaging process may thereafter occur on the area above the solder mask.
US09134601B2
A polarizing-axis control plate includes first and second polarization areas and a polarizing-axis control plate area shading part arranged at a boundary between these polarization areas and arranged in a position corresponding to an image generating area shading part to shade all or part of right-eye and left-eye image lights. When these image lights enter the first and second polarization areas respectively, the polarizing-axis control plate emits these image lights in the form of linearly-polarized lights whose polarizing axes intersect with each other at right angles or circularly-polarized lights whose polarizing axes are rotated in opposite directions. The image generating area shading part is arranged at a boundary between first and second modulated-light generating areas to shade incident light. The polarizing-axis control plate area shading part is formed to contain a plurality of straight lines each having a width narrower than a linewidth of the image generating area shading part.
US09134594B2
The present invention provides a projection device management system including two or more projection devices which project images on a projection surface; and a management device which corrects the image projected by each projection device based on information on each projection device and manages information for maintenance of each projection device, the two or more projection devices being installed in the same theater.
US09134588B2
A stop apparatus includes a stop operation member, a plurality of stop blades, each of which is provided with a pivot and a driving pin, a blade supporter that supports the stop blades in such a way that the stop blades are rotatable about the pivots of the respective stop blades, a first cam member provided with a first cam groove with which the driving pins of the respective stop blades engage, a second cam member provided with a second cam groove having a shape different from the first cam groove, and a driving force transmission member that transmits rotational driving force of the stop operation member to the second cam member. At least one of the driving pins engages with both the first cam groove and the second cam groove.
US09134587B2
An optical image stabilizer, in which a magnet and a coil are arranged such that they oppose each other. The Hall sensor is arranged such that one face thereof is opposed to one face of the magnet. The Hall sensor can easily detect the location of a group of lenses by generating a corresponding signal in response to a variation in magnetic force following a variation in the gap between magnets depending on the direction in which a group of lenses is driven, and simultaneously, in response to a variation in magnetic force that occurs when the group of lenses is displaced in the direction that intersects the direction of the gap.
US09134575B2
A liquid crystal lens, a manufacturing method thereof, an operation method thereof and a photoelectric device are provided. The lens comprises: a first electrode layer; a first transparent substrate; a second transparent substrate, provided to a lower surface of the first electrode layer and opposite to the first transparent substrate; a second electrode layer, provided to an upper surface of the first transparent substrate and comprising a first sub-electrode-layer and a second sub-electrode-layer which are separated from each other; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the second transparent substrate and the second electrode layer.
US09134570B2
There is provided a color-regulating device for illumination. The color-regulating device includes a light-valving structure for adjusting a flux ratio of outgoing light through the light-valving structure to incident light entering the light-valving structure, and a color-adjusting structure having a wavelength-band converting element for changing incident light with a wavelength band into outgoing light with a different wavelength band through the element. Wherein, the light-valving structure and the color-adjusting structure do not overlap on the traveling path of the light emitted from the light source. Mixing the outgoing light of the light source passing through the light-valving structure with the outgoing light of the light source passing through and at least a portion thereof converted by the color-adjusting structure with a different wavelength band yields a color-adjusted light of different color temperature from that of the light source.
US09134565B2
In a pixel unit and a display panel having the pixel unit, the pixel unit includes a pixel portion configured to display a color, and a transmissive portion configured to transmit light. The pixel portion is disposed at a central portion of the pixel unit and the transmissive portion is disposed at a peripheral portion adjacent to the central portion, or the transmissive portion is disposed at the central portion of the pixel unit and the pixel portion is disposed at the peripheral portion adjacent to the central portion.
US09134564B2
A color liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display element and a backlight unit. The liquid crystal display element includes a color filter having a red filter segment, a green filter segment, and a blue filter segment. The blue filter segment is prepared from a blue photosensitive resin composition. The blue photosensitive resin composition includes a pigment combination, an alkali-soluble resin, a compound having an ethylenic group, and a photoinitiator. The pigment combination includes a copper phthalocyanine-based blue pigment. The color filter has a z value ranging from 0.3 to 0.5 in a chromaticity diagram of a XYZ color system. The backlight unit is coupled to the liquid crystal display element and has a color temperature ranging from 8,000 K to 20,000 K.
US09134557B2
The present invention provides a back frame of a flat panel display device. The back frame includes at least two assembling pieces. The at least two assembling pieces are joined to form the back frame. The back frame further includes a bracing piece that is fixed to the assembling pieces, wherein the assembling pieces are mountable to at least two different positions of the bracing piece in a lengthwise direction of the bracing piece and the bracing piece is mountable to at least two different positions of the assembling pieces in a lengthwise direction of the assembling piece. The present invention also provides a backlight system. The back frame and the backlight system of the flat panel display device of the present invention have a simple structure of mold for the back frame, reduce the cost of back frame mold, save the material used for back frame, and thus lower down the manufacturing cost of flat panel display device. Further, by making the mounting position of a bracing piece to an assembling piece adjustable in a two-dimensional manner, a single bracing piece may meet different needs for mounting so as to further reduce the manufacturing cost of the flat panel display device.
US09134546B2
This invention discloses various designs for rings and ring segments that make up functionalized layers in a functional layer insert, for incorporation into an ophthalmic lens. The layer insert which can include substrate layers that are intact full rings, segmented rings or a combination of both. Segmented rings may include Arc-Matched and Non Arc-Matched arcuate segments.
US09134545B2
A method for stabilizing contact lenses includes providing a lens design with a nominal set of stabilization zone parameters, applying a merit function to the lens design based on balancing moments of momentum, and creating a contact lens design with improved stabilization based on the application of the merit functions to the lens design with a nominal set of stabilization zone parameters.
US09134543B2
An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regions of different optical properties. The pattern is configured to define a phase coder, and a dispersion profile coder. The phase coder affects profiles of Through Focus Modulation Transfer Function (TFMTF) for different wavelength components of the light field in accordance with a predetermined profile of an extended depth of focusing to be obtained by the imaging lens unit. The dispersion profile coder is configured in accordance with the imaging lens unit and the predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing to provide a predetermined overlapping between said TFMTF profiles within said predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing.
US09134534B2
This disclosure concerns an interactive head-mounted eyepiece with an integrated processor for handling content for display and an integrated image source for introducing the content to an optical assembly through which the user views a surrounding environment and the displayed content. The optical assembly comprises a reflective image display that generates and reflects image light to an optically flat film then to a curved partially reflecting mirror of the optical assembly that reflects a portion of the image light from the image source and transmits a portion of the scene light from a see-through view of the surrounding environment to the user's eye as a combined image. The optical assembly comprises a modular image source, wherein the modular image source is mounted in a frame of the eyepiece such that its position with respect to a user's eye can be adjusted.
US09134530B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for modulating light to form an image on a display, as well as methods manufacturing such apparatus. The display apparatus includes shutters having asymmetric light obstructing portions extending out from opposing sides of a shutter aperture along an axis of motion of the shutter. Actuators move the shutters laterally along the axis of motion to move the shutter between fully closed, partially open, and fully open states to modulate light, thereby forming an image.
US09134525B2
An ocular optical system EL for observing an image displayed on an image display element Ob has, in order from the image display element Ob: a first lens L1 which is a positive lens; a second lens L2 which is a negative lens having a strong concave surface facing the image display element Ob; and a third lens L3 which is a positive lens having a strong convex surface facing the eye point EP in order to implement both high magnification and size reduction, wherein the first lens L1 is cemented and integrated with the image display element Ob, in order to reduce the size of the ocular optical system EL while ensuring tele-centricity and sufficiently wide luminous flux.
US09134524B2
In one example embodiment, a microscope control device a controller configured to store a plurality of images having different depth positions. In one example embodiment, the microscope control device divides the plurality of images into a plurality of sub-regions. In one example embodiment, the microscope control device, for each sub-region, generates in-focus position information which corresponds to a depth position.
US09134522B2
An autofocus apparatus includes a light source; an optical coupler having a first port, second port and a third port; wherein the optic coupler couples to the light source at the first port; an optical collimator for directing a light output from the second port of the optical coupler onto a sample through a Dichroic mirror and a microscope objective, wherein the sample is placed on a substrate supported by an adjustable microscopy stage; a scanning device for focusing the light at a plurality of focal points along an axis; a photodiode detector for converting a reflected light signal into an intensity signal; a memory device for storing a signal template; and a microprocessor for detecting a peak in the intensity signal by cross-correlating the intensity signal with the signal template; wherein the microprocessor generates a command for moving the position of the adjustable microscopy stage along the axis.
US09134521B2
A method and device for multi-directional selective plane illumination microscopy is provided. A detector focal plane is alternately illuminated with at least two counter-propagating, coplanar light sheets, and an image of a specimen cross-section positioned in the focal plane is detected while only one light sheet illuminates the specimen. The wavefront of the illumination beams may be deformed with adaptive optics using feedback from light transmitted through the specimen. Multiple images of the specimen cross-section may be detected at different times and specimen positions and orientations to produce multi-view image stacks which may be processed using image fusion to produce a reconstructed image representation of the specimen. Additionally, the direction of propagation of the alternating light sheets may be pivoted in the focal plane while detecting the image.
US09134510B2
An imaging lens which can be very compact and thin, corrects various aberrations properly and provides a small F-value and a wide view angle at low cost. In the imaging lens, designed for a solid-state image sensor, arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side are: a first positive (refractive power) lens with a convex object-side surface; a second positive lens; a third positive lens; a fourth positive lens; and a fifth negative lens with a concave image-side surface. None of these lenses is joined to each other and all the lens surfaces are aspheric. The object-side and image-side aspheric surfaces of the fifth lens have a pole-change point in a position other than a point of intersection with an optical axis. A diffractive optical surface is formed on one of three surfaces from the first lens image-side surface to the second lens image-side surface.
US09134507B2
An imaging lens, includes: in order from an object side to an image side, a first negative lens group including a negative lens a concave surface of which faces the image side; a second positive lens group including a negative lens a concave surface of which faces the object side, and a positive lens, or a cemented lens entirely having a positive refractive power in order from the object side to the image side; an aperture; a third positive lens group including a cemented lens of a biconvex lens and a biconcave lens from the object side; and a fourth lens group having a weakest refractive power among all of the lens groups and including a single lens, or a cemented lens, a surface on the object side of which is concave and a surface on the image side of which is convex.
US09134506B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having negative refractive power, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens has an Abbe's number νd1, the second lens has an Abbe's number νd2, and the fourth lens and the fifth lens have a composite focal length f45 so that the following conditional expressions are satisfied: 45<νd1<75, 20<νd2<35, −10.0
US09134497B2
An optical module is provided. The optical module includes a base module and a cable management bracket removably attached to the base module. The base module includes a first adapter configured to interface with a first cable. The base module further includes a plurality of second adapters configured to interface with a plurality of optical fibers and a plurality of second cables. The cable management bracket includes a plurality of cable routing slots for routing the plurality of second cables. A fiber optic panel is also provided. The fiber optic panel includes a base, a plurality of module guides removably attached to the base, and a plurality of the optical modules slid between the module guides. A fiber management system is further provided. The fiber management system includes a rack and the fiber optic panel mounted on the rack.
US09134494B2
The disclosure generally relates to sets of optical waveguides such as optical fiber ribbons and embedded optical waveguides (132a-d), and optical interconnects useful for connecting multiple optical waveguides such as in optical fiber ribbon cables and printed circuit boards having optoelectronic capabilities. In particular, the disclosure provides an efficient, compact, and reliable optical waveguide connector (100) that incorporates microlenses and re-directing elements (136a-d) which combine the features of optical waveguide alignment, along with redirecting and shaping of the optical beam.
US09134493B2
A connecting device for a fiber optic cable includes a first part having a first housing and first and second electrical connectors located on the first housing, and a second part having a second housing and a third electrical connector located on the second housing. The second and third electrical connectors are adapted to be mechanically and electrically connect with each other or disconnected from each other. The first part further includes electrical components disposed within the first housing and electrically connected to the first and second electrical connectors. The second part receives end portions of optical fibers of the fiber optic cable, and further includes optical transceivers disposed within the second housing which are electrically connected to the third electrical connector and optically coupled to the optical fibers. Also disclosed is a cable device employing an optical fiber cable and two connecting devices at its two ends, where at least one of the connecting devices has a structure described above.
US09134491B2
An optical module (8) set on a substrate (6) for assembling with a fiber (72) and includes a resin seat (1), an optical member (2) assembled on the resin seat (1) for receiving and transferring light signals sent by the fiber (72) to electrical signals and a connecting member (3) set on the optical member (2), the optical member (2) includes a first surface (21) perpendicular to the fiber (72) and a second surface (22) opposite to the first surface (21), the first surface (21) faces to the fiber (72), the connecting member (3) set on the first surface (21) of the optical member (2) and soldered to the substrate (6).
US09134486B2
An optical fiber connector socket is disclosed, which includes an insulated shell and a fastener. The insulated shell has a plug slot. A first opening and a second opening individually are formed on two opposite sides walls of the plug slot. A flexible hook is disposed corresponding to the second opening in the plug slot. The flexible hook is separated from an inner wall of the insulated shell. The fastener can slide along an axis of the plug slot between a lock position and a release position. The fastener extends to form a blocking piece between the flexible hook and the insulated shell. When the fastener is at the lock position, two sides of the blocking piece individually press against an inner edge of the second opening and the flexible hook. When the fastener is at the release position, the blocking pieces corresponds to the first opening.
US09134479B2
An optical demultiplexing device includes a first portion operative to receive an input optical signal having a first polarization, a second polarization and multiple channels, and split the input optical signal into a first optical signal having the first polarization and a second optical signal having the first polarization, and an optical demultiplexing portion communicatively connected to the polarization splitter portion, the optical demultiplexing portion operative to receive a combination of the first optical signal and the second optical signal, and output each channel of the first optical signal and the second optical signal to a photodetector device corresponding to each channel.
US09134478B2
Described are embodiments of hybrid optical apparatuses including anti-resonant optical waveguides, and methods for making such apparatuses and systems. In one embodiment, a hybrid optical apparatus may include a first semiconductor region including an active region of one or more layers of semiconductor materials and a second semiconductor region coupled with the first semiconductor region. The second semiconductor region may include an optical waveguide configured to transmit light inputted by a light input component. The optical waveguide may be defined by a first trench disposed on a first side of the waveguide, and a second trench disposed on a second side of the waveguide opposite the first side. A width of each trench may vary along a length of the apparatus to control optical power density of the light transmitted along the optical waveguide. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09134473B2
A spread illuminating apparatus includes a plurality of LEDs, an FPC on which the plurality of LEDs are mounted, and a light guide plate. The FPC is fixed to an underside surface of the light guide plate using a double-sided tape, and the plurality of LEDs are disposed opposing an incident light surface of the light guide plate. The double-sided tape includes a white substrate that reflects light and a white adhesive layer that reflects light and is formed on a surface of the white substrate on a side opposing the light guide plate. The white adhesive layer is prepared by mixing a light reflecting substance into an adhesive. Thereby, the brightness and environmental resistance of the spread illuminating apparatus can be improved.
US09134471B2
Stretched articles, such as oriented polymeric films or fibers, having microstructure features on at least one surface thereof, and processes for making such articles, are disclosed. A method of making fibers comprises forming a polymeric film having a body having a first surface and a second surface and having a longitudinal dimension. The film also comprises a plurality of elongate microstructure features disposed on the first surface of the body in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal dimension of the body, wherein the elongate microstructure features are substantially parallel. The method further comprises stretching the polymeric film in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal dimension of the body, and fibrillating the stretched polymeric film along the longitudinal dimension of the body to provide one or more fibers, wherein each fiber has at least one microstructure feature thereon.
US09134467B2
Mirrors having at least one of: (a) a reflective film including a first layer of or including aluminum and a second layer of or including silver or the like, and/or (b) a color tuning layer between first and second layers. The mirrors may be second surface mirrors in certain example embodiments. The mirrors may be flat or bent in different instances, and may or may not be heat treated (e.g., thermally tempered and/or thermally bent).
US09134465B1
Systems according to the present disclosure provide one or more surfaces or structures that function as power transferring surfaces or structures (deflective shields) for which at least a portion of which includes or is composed of “fractal cells” placed sufficiently closed close together to one another so that a surface (plasmonic) wave causes near or similar replication of current present in one fractal cell in an adjacent fractal cell. A fractal of such a fractal cell can be of any suitable fractal shape and may have two or more iterations. The fractal cells may lie on a flat or curved sheet or layer and be composed in layers for wide bandwidth or multibandwidth transmission. The surfaces and/or structures can also provide cloaking of objects inside the shields.
US09134463B2
The present invention relates to an optical film having improved optical performance and to a backlight unit comprising the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a microlens array (MLA) sheet which comprises a base unit and a lens unit formed on one side of the base unit, wherein the lens unit consists of a plurality of conical lenses. Existing hemispherical microlens array sheets have limitations in terms of improving luminance, and therefore cannot replace prism sheets in high luminance product s. However, the microlens array sheet consisting of conical lenses of the present invention can improve both luminance and viewing angle characteristics.
US09134462B2
An optical component includes: a multilayer inorganic thin-film on a substrate, wherein the inorganic thin-film is formed by laminating a plurality of layers made of silicon oxide and a plurality of layers made of metal oxide, the metal oxide is metal oxide containing any one of zirconium, tantalum, and titanium, the layers made of silicon oxide include a low-density silicon oxide layer and a high-density silicon oxide layer having a density higher than the low-density silicon oxide layer, the outermost layer of the inorganic thin-film is the low-density silicon oxide layer, and the surface roughness of the outermost layer of the inorganic thin-film is equal to or greater than 0.55 nm and equal to or smaller than 0.7 nm.
US09134445B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of processing marine seismic data, the data having been acquired using a “dense over/sparse under” streamer array having N over streamers disposed at a first depth and M under streamers disposed at a second depth greater than the first depth, where 0
US09134440B2
A radiation detector includes a first detection unit including a first radiation entrance region into which incoming radiation enters and in which first photoelectric conversion elements are arranged. The radiation detector also includes a second detection unit including a second radiation entrance region. The first detection unit detects an occurrence position of a first interaction and a track of recoil electron by using the first photoelectric conversion elements. The second detection unit detects an occurrence position of a second interaction resulting from the scattered radiation. A position of a radiation source is measured by the occurrence positions of the first and second interactions and the track of the recoil electron.
US09134436B2
An X-ray apparatus includes an X-ray radiation unit configured to radiate X-rays to an object; and a main control unit configured to acquire orientation information of the X-ray radiation unit and orientation information of an X-ray detector and select the X-ray detector based on the orientation information of the X-ray radiation unit and the orientation information of the X-ray detector.
US09134435B2
An image-pickup apparatus including a detector comprising a detecting unit and a reading circuit, the detecting unit including pixels, each of which including a conversion element, the reading circuit which includes a connecting unit that is electrically connected to a signal wire transferring an electric signal and that electrically connects the signal wire to a node, and which performs a reading operation to output the electric signal from the pixel. A control unit controls an operation of the reading circuit, and a sensing unit senses the end of radiation irradiation based on an output of the reading circuit, which is acquired during the period of an accumulation operation of the detector. The control unit starts establishing the electrical connection between the signal wire and the node through the connecting unit based on the sensed irradiation end, and retains the electrical connection until the start of the reading operation.
US09134424B2
A GNSS enabled handset receives signals from different resources comprising GNSS satellites and/or from a wireless network. The GNSS enabled handset acquires location information comprising various positioning resource data comprising GPS data and/or WiFi data from the received signals. The GNSS enabled handset calculates a plurality of possible position fixes based on the acquired location information using various positioning approaches. A current position fix associated with the GNSS enabled handset is determined based on the plurality of calculated possible position fixes via running a location-based service (LBS) client on the GNSS enabled handset. The LBS client determines the plurality of possible position fixes using various positioning approaches in a particular or determined order. Confidence levels for each of the calculated plurality of possible positions are determined and used to refine the current position fix. The refined current position fix is used for a location-based service from a LBS application server.
US09134422B2
An ultraviolet laser generates a coherent beam, which is downconverted to produce pairs of frequency-entangled photons. For each entangled pair, a first photon is sent along a first path and a second photon is sent along a second path. A first detector detects those photons sent along the first path, and a second detector detects those photons sent along the second path. The detection is performed in a single photon regime. Coincidence counting is performed on outputs of the detectors, including comparing leading edges on outputs of the first and second detectors within a time window.
US09134418B1
A method for computing and displaying a weather hazard threat level for a weather radar system of an aircraft includes receiving weather radar returns from a radar antenna of the weather radar system. The weather radar returns include at least one of horizontal scans and vertical scans. Radar reflectivity may be determined from the weather radar returns, and, for at least one of the horizontal scan data and the vertical scan data, areas of radar reflectivity and a temperature associated with the areas of radar reflectivity may be determined. A lightning flash rate may be estimated using the radar reflectivity, areas of radar reflectivity, and temperature associated with the areas of radar reflectivity. Weather radar information may then be displayed, wherein the weather radar information is adjusted on the display based on the lightning flash rate.
US09134417B2
Disclosed is an obstacle determination device (1) including a driving assistance ECU (3) that determines collision with an obstacle detected by output of a radar (2) mounted on a vehicle and performs driving assistance for the vehicle. When a distance of a null-point zone divided by null points where the output of the radar (2) is low is represented as a distance between the null points, the driving assistance ECU (3) determines, in a distant zone that is away from a reference zone that is the null-point zone nearest to a host vehicle in a predetermined range, if the null-point zone of the distance between the null points shorter than the distance between the null points in the reference zone is detected by a predetermined number or more, that the host vehicle does not collide with the detected obstacle.
US09134416B2
Systems and related methods are delineated for employing a TCAS to provide a radar function for a UAS. One such system comprises a TCAS having at least a transceiver and an antenna, and a processor coupled to the transceiver for receiving signals generated from receipt of reflected energy received over the antenna, the reflected energy resulting from the one or more of a Mode S interrogation waveform and an ATCRBS interrogation waveform transmitted from the antenna.
US09134412B2
A transponder system including first and second arrays of receiving and transmitting antenna elements arranged in spaced apart relationship with a predetermined spacing. The antenna elements of the first array are connected, via respective transmission modules, to respective antenna elements of the second array in accordance with their positions in the arrays thus forming receiving and transmitting pairs of antenna elements. The transmission modules include: a sampler adapted for digitizing signals received by the receiving antenna element of the corresponding pair, a memory for storing a digital representation of the received signals, and a signal generation module operable for generating from the digital representation a signal to be transmitted by the transmitting antenna element of the corresponding pair with a predetermined temporal delay to thereby provide a predetermined angular shift between a waveform of the received input signal and a waveform of the collective output signal.
US09134401B2
A charge generating region is arranged within a region of a polygonal pixel region excluding a corner portion thereof. A signal charge collecting region is arranged at a center portion of the pixel region on the inside of the charge generating region so as to be surrounded by the charge generating region. A photogate electrode is arranged on the charge generating region. A transfer electrode is arranged between the signal charge collecting region and the charge generating region. A semiconductor region has a portion located at the corner portion of the pixel region and the remaining portion located on the outside of the pixel region, and has a conductivity type opposite to that of the signal charge collecting region and an impurity concentration higher than that of surroundings thereof. A readout circuit is arranged in the semiconductor region.
US09134400B2
A comparator of a mono-pulse radar and a signal generation method thereof are provided. The comparator includes an antenna array, a TEM mode cavity power combiner and a switch device. The antenna array includes N antennas. The TEM mode cavity power combiner includes a combination port and M input port sets, and each of the input port sets has a positive input port and a negative input port, wherein N and M are integer greater than 1. The switch device is coupled between the antenna array and the TEM mode cavity power combiner and is used for transmitting the reflected signal received by the antenna array to the positive input port or the negative input port of one of the input port sets. The combination port of the TEM mode cavity power combiner generates an output signal according to the reflected signals received from the input port sets.
US09134398B2
A wireless location system is disclosed having one or more location centers for locating mobile stations (MS) based on, e.g., WIFI, CDMA, AMPS, NAMPS, TDMA, GPRS, and GSM. MS location requests can be processed via, e.g., Internet communication between a network of location centers. A plurality of MS locating technologies may be used, including those based on: two-way TOA and TDOA; pattern recognition; distributed antennas; and reduced coverage base stations. The system includes strategies for: automatically adapting and calibrating system performance according to environmental and geographical changes; automatically capturing location signal data for enhancing a historical data base retaining predictive location signal data; evaluating MS locations according to heuristics and constraints related to, e.g., terrain, MS velocity and path; and adjusting likely MS locations adaptively and statistically. The system is useful for emergency calls, tracking, routing, people and animal location including applications for confinement to and exclusion from certain areas.
US09134393B2
A system and method for generating a magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) report includes a) acquiring MRE data from a subject including positively motion encoded medical imaging data and negatively motion encoded medical imaging data and b) deriving uncorrected difference medical imaging data from the MRE data for a given slice. The method also includes c) filtering the uncorrected difference medical imaging data to create filtered medical imaging data corrected for errors associated with phase ramps occurring during gradient switching used to derive the positively motion encoded medical imaging data and negatively motion encoded medical imaging data, d) generating a corrected difference image for the given slice from the filtered medical imaging data and the uncorrected difference medical imaging data, e) repeating steps b) through d) for each slice reflected in the MRE data, and f) generating a report of elastic properties of the subject from the corrected difference image.
US09134386B2
A giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensor for reading information from a magnetic storage medium has a first non-magnetoresistive layer, a first magnetoresistive layer formed on the first non-magnetoresistive layer, a second non-magnetoresitive layer formed on the first magnetoresistive layer, a second magnetoresistive layer formed on the second non-magnetoresistive layer, and a third non-magnetoresistive layer formed on the second magnetoresistive layer. The first non-magnetoresistive layer is provided with a single step on a surface of the first non-magnetoresistive layer. The step has an edge extending in a direction substantially parallel to a plane of a working surface of the GMR sensor.
US09134384B2
Position sensor (10) for determining a linear position in a sensing direction, e.g. for application in a vacuum actuator. The position sensor (10) has a first sensor part and a second sensor part moveable with respect to each other. The first sensor part comprises an annular magnet (2) and a magnetic field sensor (3) positioned at a first distance (11) from the annular magnet on the magnet axis (1a). The second sensor part comprises a flux shaper (1) moveable through the annular magnet (2) along the sensing direction between a first and a second position, in the first position the flux shaper being substantially at the first distance (11) from the magnetic field sensor (3). The flux shaper is arranged to influence the magnetic field in a space between the annular magnet (2) and the magnetic field sensor (3).
US09134372B2
A TAP linking module (21, 51) permits plural TAPs (TAPs 1-4) to be controlled and accessed from a test bus (13) via a single TAP interface (20).
US09134371B2
Scan architectures are commonly used to test digital circuitry in integrated circuits. The present disclosure describes a method of adapting conventional scan architectures into a low power scan architecture. The low power scan architecture maintains the test time of conventional scan architectures, while requiring significantly less operational power than conventional scan architectures. The low power scan architecture is advantageous to IC/die manufacturers since it allows a larger number of circuits (such as DSP or CPU core circuits) embedded in an IC/die to be tested in parallel without consuming too much power within the IC/die. Since the low power scan architecture reduces test power consumption, it is possible to simultaneously test more die on a wafer than previously possible using conventional scan architectures. This allows wafer test times to be reduced which reduces the manufacturing cost of each die on the wafer.
US09134370B2
Continuous application and decompression of test patterns and selective compaction of test responses
A method for applying test patterns to scan chains in a circuit-under-test. The method includes providing a compressed test pattern of bits; decompressing the compressed test pattern into a decompressed test pattern of bits as the compressed test pattern is being provided; and applying the decompressed test pattern to scan chains of the circuit-under-test. The actions of providing the compressed test pattern, decompressing the compressed test pattern, and applying the decompressed pattern are performed synchronously at the same or different clock rates, depending on the way in which the decompressed bits are to be generated. A circuit that performs the decompression includes a decompressor such as a linear finite state machine adapted to receive a compressed test pattern of bits. The decompressor decompresses the test pattern into a decompressed test pattern of bits as the compressed test pattern is being received.
US09134362B2
Disclosed is a method for automatically sorting LEDs (light emitting diode) according to electrostatic resistance and a system using the same. The system includes a transport carrier for laying LEDs and passing LEDs through an electrostatic discharging zone, a lightening evaluating zone, and a sorting zone in sequence. An electrostatic discharging device discharges an electrostatic power to the LED in the electrostatic discharging zone. Furthermore, a lighting device inputs a lightening power to the LED in the lightening evaluating zone. Moreover, an evaluating device in the evaluating zone generates an evaluating signal to a sorting device in the sorting zone according to the lighting condition of the LED for allowing the sorting device to sort LEDs according to electrostatic resistance. Thereby the reliability both for the failure rate and the detection rate can be raised.
US09134360B2
A circuit has a first circuit module including a first resistor and first and second transistors coupled in parallel with the first resistor. The first resistor and the first and second transistors are coupled together at a first node. An equivalent resistance across the first circuit module increases as a voltage of the first node is increased from a first voltage to a second voltage, and the equivalent resistance across the first circuit module decreases as the voltage of the first node is increased from the second voltage to a third voltage.
US09134356B2
In processing devices, in particular in measuring, test or control units for the drivetrain or components thereof, it is often necessary to combine signals or data of different synchronization sources with one another or to process them whilst maintaining the original temporal relation. In order to achieve this, the signals or data have hitherto often been synchronized to a specific clock source, but this is frequently not possible. Therefore, a method and a device are specified which enable the processing of data or signals with different synchronization sources in a processing device by virtue of the fact that a dedicated time level is introduced for each synchronization source in the processing device, the temporal reference of the associated data and signals being retained in the time levels. The signals and data are processed in the time levels with the temporal original reference being maintained.
US09134354B2
The embodiments disclose a circuit for detecting and determining a type of ground fault in a security system. An operational amplifier (OA) having positive and negative inputs and an output may receive AC input signals having different frequencies, f1 and f2 at a positive input and provide an AC output signal at the output. An OA feedback loop may comprise a ground fault equivalent impedance connected at the OA negative input and a feedback resistor connected between the OA output and the OA negative input. A rectifier may convert the AC output signal to a DC signal and a filter to obtain a steady DC voltage from the rectified DC signal. A steady DC voltage for two different AC input signals may be obtained and converted to a relative voltage with respect to a constant input voltage amplitude. The relative voltages may be compared to detect and determine a type of ground fault condition.
US09134353B2
A system for electric grid utilization and optimization comprising a communications interface executing on a network-connected server and adapted to receive information from a plurality of iNodes, the plurality of iNodes comprising a source iNode, a sink iNode, a plurality of transmission or distribution iNodes, an event database coupled to the communications interface and adapted to receive events from a plurality of iNodes via the communications interface, a modeling server coupled to the communications interface, and a statistics server coupled to the event database and the modeling server, wherein the modeling server, receives a request to establish an allocation of at least one of transmission losses, distribution losses, and ancillary services to a specific sink iNode, computes at least one virtual path for electricity flow between a source iNode and the specific sink iNode, the computed path being determined based on optimization of perceived comfort of users in affected areas.
US09134352B2
The invention discloses a current detecting circuit, a temperature compensating device and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology, which resolves the problem of image flicker in the display screen or abnormal display due to changes in the turn-on voltage of the thin film transistors in the display panel caused by changes in the temperature in the prior art. The current detecting circuit includes a voltage source, a first mirror current source for supplying a reference current, a second mirror current source for obtaining a difference between a current output from the first mirror current source and a current output from a unit to be detected and converting the difference into a voltage signal, and an inverter for amplifying the voltage signal and output a detection result. A temperature compensating device including the foregoing current detecting circuit. A display device including the above temperature compensating device.
US09134338B2
A method of laser-based speed determination includes determining, via a digital scan of a field of view, a location of a target, directing, via a laser-aiming device, a laser from a laser device to the determined location, and determining a speed of the target via light reflected from the target to the laser device.
US09134336B2
The described apparatus for analyzing a biological sample includes a first analysis instrument fluidly connected to a reservoir for receiving a first flow of the biological fluid and adapted for performing a measurement of a property of the biological sample. A second analysis instrument is fluidly connected to the reservoir for receiving a second flow of the biological fluid and adapted for performing a thermally controlled analysis of the biological sample. The second analysis instrument includes a thermally controlled chamber. A flow stopping device stops the second flow within the thermally controlled chamber in order to allow the second analysis instrument to perform the thermally controlled analysis of the biological sample. The first analysis instrument may include, for example, a hematology analyzer or a flow cytometer, and the second analysis instrument may include, for example, a dynamic light scattering instrument.
US09134334B2
A sample is contained in a sample container and a physical relationship between the sample and a sample ID thereof is established. However, after the sample ID is read by a bar code reader and the sample is transferred to an analysis-dedicated small sample container, the sample ID and the sample are separated from each other. Following the end of analysis, therefore, the sample ID must be merged with a corresponding analysis result. A read/write-enable ID carrier is provided on an analysis-dedicated sample container into which the sample is pipetted or on a tank for holding the analysis-dedicated sample container. When the sample is pipetted or when the analysis-dedicated sample container is moved, the sample ID and other information are transferred to the read/write-enable ID carrier.
US09134329B2
The disclosure provides rifamycin and rifamycin derivative compositions, including rifabutin and rifabutin derivative compositions able to cause drug-sensitization in a cancer cell or inhibition of a cancer cell. The disclosure also provides methods of administering such compositions to cancer cells to sensitize them to drugs, such as chemotherapeutics, or directly inhibit them. The disclosure also provides methods of administering such compositions to increase reactive oxygen species (ROS), particularly superoxides, in cancer cells. The disclosure further provides methods of determining whether a cancer will respond to chemotherapeutics and whether to administer rifamycin or a rifamycin derivative based on ROS levels in cancer cells of a patient.
US09134325B2
Provided herein are methods for identifying a cancer patient at risk for resistance to an HDAC inhibitor therapy, comprising obtaining a tumor sample from the cancer patient; detecting the presence of Testis-specific Y-encoded-like protein 5 (TSPYL5) expression in the sample; quantifying a level of the TSPYL5 expression in the sample, wherein a high level of the TSPYL5 expression, relative to a defined expression threshold of the TSPYL5, correlates with resistance to the HDAC inhibitor therapy; and applying the correlation to identify the cancer patient at risk for resistance to the HDAC inhibitor therapy. Also provided is a method for identifying a cancer patient with an increased likelihood of a positive clinical response to an HDAC inhibitor therapy comprising obtaining a tumor sample from the cancer patient; detecting the presence of Testis-specific Y-encoded-like protein 5 (TSPYL5) expression in said sample; quantifying a level of said TSPYL5 expression in said sample, wherein a low level of the TSPYL5 expression, relative to a defined expression threshold of the TSPYL5, identifies said cancer patient with an increased likelihood of a positive clinical response to said HDAC inhibitor therapy. Related methods and compositions are also provided.
US09134322B2
A method for ‘ruling out’ acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in a subject presenting with chest pain expected to be cardiac in nature. The method includes a) recording an Electrocardiography (ECG) reading from said subject, b) determining the amount of Heart-type Fatty acid binding protein (H-FABP) and cardiac Troponin T (cTnT) in a sample from said subject, c) comparing the results from b) to reference values for ruling out an acute Myocardial Infarction in a subject, and d) based on the results from steps a)-c) either ‘ruling out’ or ‘ruling in’ a diagnosis of acute Myocardial Infarction in said subject.
US09134315B2
In one aspect, B1,4GalT-V, an isoform of the enzyme lactosylceramide synthase, is provided as a biomarker for cancer. Also provided are methods and compositions directed at cancers characterized by the overexpression or upregulation of the lactosylceramide synthase isoform B1,4GalT-V.
US09134303B1
The present invention involves extracting from Legionella bacteria, particularly L. pneumophila bacteria, an essentially protein-free O-polysaccharide or carbohydrate antigen, coupling this antigen to an activated chromatographic column through a protein spacer molecule which is first conjugated to the antigen, utilizing the column thus prepared for the affinity purification of raw polyvalent antibodies to the same Legionella bacterium from which the O-polysaccharide or carbohydrate antigen was separated—thereby obtaining antigen-specific antibodies which are useful for the rapid detection of the corresponding Legionella bacterium or its antibody in human bodily fluids such as urine, sputum, blood and the like or in environmental samples suspected of harboring the Legionella bacterium.
US09134295B1
Serial suspended microchannel resonator sensor array. The array includes a plurality of resonator cantilevers in fluid communication with one another and a plurality of delay channels in fluid communication with, and disposed between, the resonator cantilevers. An object introduced into the array will flow in one direction and be measured by each of the cantilevers in turn after a selected delay in the delay channels.
US09134279B2
An internal defect inspection method where an ultrasonic wave is emitted from an ultrasonic wave transmitter toward a sample, the ultrasonic wave reflected by the sample is detected by an imaging type common-path interferometer as an interference signal, an ultrasonic wave signal is obtained from the interference signal, and any defect within the sample is detected from the ultrasonic wave signal. An internal defect inspection apparatus including an ultrasonic wave transmitter, an imaging type common-path interferometer and an ultrasonic wave signal detecting device is also provided.
US09134275B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to polycrystalline diamond (“PCD”) exhibiting enhanced diamond-to-diamond bonding. In an embodiment, PCD includes a plurality of diamond grains defining a plurality of interstitial regions. A metal-solvent catalyst occupies at least a portion of the plurality of interstitial regions. The plurality of diamond grains and the metal-solvent catalyst collectively exhibit a coercivity of about 115 Oersteads or more and a specific magnetic saturation of about 15 Gauss·cm3/grams or less. Other embodiments are directed to polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) employing such PCD, methods of forming PCD and PDCs, and various applications for such PCD and PDCs in rotary drill bits, bearing apparatuses, and wire-drawing dies.
US09134262B1
A multi-channel contaminant sensor includes a first contamination test platform including an exposed first base metal portion that react in a first manner when exposed to one or more airborne contaminates. A second contamination test platform includes an exposed second base metal portion that reacts in a second manner when exposed to the one or more airborne contaminants.
US09134258B2
A method for imaging an object is provided. The method includes acquiring image data of the object, wherein the image data includes a plurality of original voxels, and identifying, using a processing device, a first subset of voxels from the acquired image data. The method also includes performing a principal component analysis (PCA) on the first subset of voxels and determining whether sheet-like material is present in the object based on the results of the performed PCA on the first subset of voxels.
US09134252B2
The present invention relates to a head (500) for a sensor comprising two sections of optical fiber enabling the propagation of infrared light having at least one infrared wavelength and generating evanescent waves toward the outside in order to detect infrared signatures of an external medium, said head (500) comprising: an optical fiber forming a curved portion (15) for connecting the two sections of fiber, and for coming into contact with the external medium so as to detect the infrared signatures interfering with the propagation of the evanescent waves propagating along the fiber, and means (504, 506) for protecting the curved portion (15) against external mechanical stress, while ensuring that a contact area (30) exists between the external medium and said curved portion (15).
US09134245B2
Methods are provided herein for determining antioxidant activity of a test sample in intact cells. The method includes determining the antioxidant capacity of a test sample in intact red blood cells, wherein the test sample is added to intact red blood cells and oxidative damage is measured by alteration of fluorescence intensity of an oxidation-sensitive fluorescent indicator dye.
US09134238B2
The invention provides a method and apparatus for determining the amount of various materials in a liquid sample. Because the apparatus is particularly resilient it can be used repeatedly with very harsh liquid samples such as boot water from an oil refinery. The apparatus uses at least one volume and/or concentration independent optical analysis method to determine at least one of: the pH, amount of chloride, and/or amount of iron in the sample. The optical property can be colorimetric, fluorescent or both and result from adding dyes, complexing agents, turbidity inducing compounds, and other optically effecting reagents to the sample. Because the measurements are concentration and volume independent they can be done continuously, quickly, and avoid the inconvenient start and stop procedures in prior art measurement regimens. The method further includes using a BDD cell to oxidize materials (such as sulfoxy compounds) that would otherwise interfere with the optical analysis and/or to sparge the sample with gas.
US09134237B2
A sample of blood containing CTCs, or other cells of interest, is stained with fluorescent markers for image analysis and scanned to identify the presence and location within the cartridge of target cells or subcellular elements. A sample containing desired target cells or subcellular elements is then further processed, in part by photobleaching the sample, so that those same targets may be re-analyzed with additional biomarkers conjugated to the same or different fluorochromes using the same imaging criteria that were used for the initial analysis. The present invention has applications with targets such as circulating epithelial, cells, circulating tumor cells, circulating endothelial cells, leukocytes, lymphocyte subsets, cells containing an organelle or receptor of interest, cellular debris, disrupted cells and their debris, or any other formed element that might be captured and imaged. The invention provides a means to further interrogate individual targets of interest, especially when coupled with genetic analysis such as FISH.
US09134233B2
A drop detection method comprises ejecting an ink drop that includes a fluorescent agent, illuminating the ink drop in flight with excitation light to excite the fluorescent agent, detecting fluorescence emitted by the drop in flight, having a longer wavelength than a wavelength of the excitation light, and, prior to such detecting, filtering out light having a shorter wavelength than the fluorescence wavelength; and a printer with drop detection assembly for performing the method.
US09134229B2
A system and method for optical data acquisition of an illuminated turbid medium object, the system comprises a variable structured light detector and a controller. The light detector is adapted to retrieve light from a plurality of detection points of an output surface of the illuminated turbid medium object with a plurality of detection patterns. The controller is adapted to control the variable structured light detector for the variable structured light detector to use a detection pattern corresponding to an illumination pattern of the illuminated turbid medium object. The light detector is further adapted to optically measure a combination of retrieved light from the plurality of detection points as an optical measurement. The controller is further adapted to store an illumination pattern identifier indicative of the illumination pattern, a detection pattern identifier indicative of the detection pattern and the corresponding optical measurement.
US09134228B2
The present invention relates to a method of measuring polysorbates, such as polysorbate 80, using Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR).
US09134227B2
Method for determining polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentration in a solid state sample. The method includes exposing the sample to diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy, recording at least one spectroscopic parameter of infrared diffuse reflection of the sample, which is a signal obtained at one or more frequencies within a range of frequencies (+/−10 cm−1) selected from the group consisting of 3000-3100 cm−1, 740, 777, 814, 842, 1430, 1510, 1600, 4055-4056, 4642-4646, 5924, and 5951-5953 cm−1, and performing data analysis by correlating the at least one spectroscopic parameter with variables of a trained multivariate calibration model related to PAH concentrations, thereby determining PAH concentrations in the sample.
US09134218B2
Methods of testing a honeycomb filter for defects include the step of wetting at least one of the first end portion and the second end portion to provide at least one wetted end portion. The method further includes the step of monitoring the second end portion for fog passing through the filter.
US09134211B2
A surface shape measuring device includes a substrate, an electrode portion including at least one electrode pattern, the electrode pattern extending on the substrate, a coating layer on the substrate to cover the electrode pattern, and a detector electrically connected to the electrode pattern and detecting a change in a physical quantity of the electrode pattern generated by the deformation of the substrate or the coating layer by an external load applied thereto.
US09134200B2
A vehicle chassis sensor assembly comprising a housing member defining a sensor cartridge slot, a rotatable shaft with a magnet and retained in a sleeve, and a rotatable arm coupled to the shaft. A sensor cartridge is mounted in the slot through the interior of a connector socket and an opening between the slot and the connector socket. A plate on the sensor cartridge covers the opening. The sensor cartridge includes a terminal header and a separate board mounted to the terminal header. The board includes the sensor. Deformable posts on the terminal header and the sensor assembly extend through respective apertures in the board and the terminal header for securing the board and the sensor cartridge to the terminal header and the sensor assembly respectively.
US09134198B2
A method and device detecting a rotating stall affecting a turbine engine compressor. The detection method includes: detecting an abnormal acceleration of the engine or an operating line of the compressor that is characteristic of a failure of the engine; storing a reference temperature measured at an outlet from a turbine of the engine at an instant of detection; comparing a determined temperature threshold with the difference between a current temperature at the outlet of the turbine as measured after detection and the reference temperature; and identifying that a rotating stall is present in event of the threshold being exceeded.
US09134192B2
A pressure gauge has an indicator needle and a scale plate. A preset pressure indicating member extending along a pressure scale in a circular arc pattern is slidably attached to a front wall of a case, and provided with a first display section. An opaque shield portion provided with a second display section at one end thereof is provided to a transparent cover rotatably attached to the front wall. The transparent cover drives the preset pressure indicating member to set a preset pressure range between the first display section and the second display section which is observable from the outside through the transparent cover.
US09134189B2
A dynamic quantity sensor includes a force receiving portion, a first movable portion that rotates in a first rotational direction around a first rotational axis according to dynamic quantity in a first direction that the force receiving portion receives, and rotates in the first rotational direction around the first rotational axis according to dynamic quantity in a second direction different from the first direction that the force receiving portion receives; and a second movable portion that rotates in a second rotational direction around a second rotational axis according to the dynamic quantity in the first direction that the force receiving portion receives, and rotates in an opposite direction to the second rotational direction around the second rotational axis according to the dynamic quantity in the second direction that the force receiving portion receives.
US09134183B2
A temperature sensor includes: a gate voltage generation unit including a bias resistor, a first source resistor, and a first MOS transistor and configured to generate a gate voltage; and a variable voltage output unit including an output resistor, a second source resistor, and a second MOS transistor and configured to generate the variable voltage.
US09134180B2
A detector comprises a housing (1), a pyroelectric array sensor (2) mounted within the housing, a heater (4) associated with the pyroelectric array sensor, and control means (6) for varying the power supplied to the heater to control the temperature of the pyroelectric array sensor relative to the ambient temperature in order to minimise the rate of change of temperature of the pyroelectric array sensor and to keep a predetermined difference between the temperature of the pyroelectric array sensor and the ambient temperature.
US09134175B2
A spectrometry device includes a wavelength-tunable interference filter that is provided with a stationary reflection film, a movable reflection film and an electrostatic actuator which changes a gap dimension between the stationary reflection film and the movable reflection film; a detector that receives incident light; a filter control unit that sets the gap dimension between the stationary reflection film and the movable reflection film to be a first dimension corresponding to light having a first wavelength which is smaller than that of a measurement target wavelength region; a cutoff filter that cuts off the light having a wavelength which is smaller than that of the measurement target wavelength region; and a light quantity acquisition unit that acquires the light quantity of stray light received by the detector when the gap dimension is changed to be the first dimension.
US09134162B2
A magnetic level indicating system includes a chamber for fluidic coupling to a process vessel. Material level in the vessel equalizes with material level in the chamber. A magnetic float in the chamber rises and falls with the material level in the chamber. A magnet actuated visual indicator is mounted to the chamber for indicating level of the magnet in the chamber and thus material level in the vessel. The indicator comprises an elongate transparent tubular housing defining an interior space open at opposite ends. An indicator assembly is mounted in the housing interior space and responsive to movement of the float and visible through the housing to indicate material level in the chamber. An end cap is received in each of the opposite ends of the tubular housing and a seal member is disposed between each end cap and the tubular housing.
US09134161B2
Disclosed is a method of determining a volume of liquid in a sample tube, comprising the steps of capturing an image of the sample tube, determining a first region of interest within the sample tube based upon pre-stored information concerning dimensional properties of the sample tube, scanning the first region of interest to detect the position of a meniscus indicative of an upper extent of the liquid, and using said meniscus position together with certain pre-stored properties of the sample tube to determine a volume of liquid in the tube, and outputting said volume. Also disclosed is an apparatus for performing the method.
US09134153B2
A flowmeter that improves a corrosion resistance is provided.The flowmeter includes a silicon substrate having a diaphragm where a heater is formed, an aluminum pad formed on a silicon substrate, an organic protective film laminated on the silicon substrate, and a mold resin that covers the silicon substrate. The diaphragm has an exposed portion exposed from the organic protective film, an adhesion surface high in adhesion property to the mold resin is laminated on the silicon substrate, and an adhesion film of the mold resin to the adhesion film is provided between the exposed portion and the aluminum pad.
US09134151B2
A method for operating a sensor in a multisensor system, especially in a field device in the form of a measuring device for process automation technology, wherein data output from the sensor are evaluated by the measuring device connected with the sensor and the measuring device supplies the sensor with energy. In order reliably to limit production of lost heat in a measuring device to a certain value and, in spite of this, to be able to connect a number of sensors with different energy requirements to a measuring device, before a startup of the sensor, it is checked whether, with startup of the sensor, a maximum consumption of electrical energy of the measuring device would be exceeded.
US09134147B2
Provided is a measuring arrangement system operative for measuring a physical and/or chemical process variable of a process medium, which is held in a container, having a measuring device with a process connection and a sensor housing attached to it, such that the process connection comprises a measuring cell housing with a measuring cell, wherein a circumferential web, which divides the circumferential surface into a first and second circumferential section, is provided on the circumferential surface of the measuring cell housing; the process connection comprising a union nut with an inside thread and interior ring stop; and a tubular flange having first and second ends, having on its first end an outside thread, designed to correspond to the inside thread of the union nut, such that the circumferential web is designed so the measuring cell housing can be clamped between the flange and the union nut in two different directions.
US09134138B2
A navigation device comprises a processing device and a database. The database may store first data defining, for a plurality of objects, respectively a three-dimensional representation of the object. The database may store second data including, for at least a subset of the plurality of objects, an icon representation of the respective object, coordinates of the respective object and a pointer to a portion of the first data which is associated with the respective object. The processing device is coupled to the database and is configured to control an optical output device to display an object based on the first data or based on the second data.
US09134123B2
The tension element position sensor includes three housing elements, wherein the two outer housing elements are configured pot shaped with a base towards a center housing component, wherein one element is the spring motor and the other is the rotation angle sensor. Thus the rotation angle sensor includes two Hall sensors, wherein an encoder magnet rotates as a function of the rotation of the winding drum opposite to the faces of the Hall sensors on the face side of one respective gear of two gears meshing with one another. Herein the arrangement of the gears and circuit boards in the receiver of this lateral housing component is of particular importance. Also the spring motor can be completely preassembled and stored in a closed manner.
US09134122B2
An apparatus for detecting the flatness of a top surface of a wafer includes a plurality of detector elements, a metal sink and a plurality of injection pipes. Each detector element comprises: a metal tube body, jet pipes, a light receiver and a light emitter. The method comprises: injecting ultra-pure water into the detector elements by injection pipes; emitting parallel beams along an upward-oblique direction, a preset Angle θ being formed between the beams and the vertical direction. The radiated beams above the water surface are incident on a receiver. The intensity of the beams received by the light receiver is used to calculate the height of the detecting point of the surface of the silicon wafer to determine the flatness condition of the wafer surface. The flatness of the photo-resist covered on the wafer surface can also be accurately measured by this method.
US09134113B2
The present invention relates to a position identification system and a method for gesture identification thereof. The method for gesture identification does not use the conventional digital image capture method, instead, the method uses IR detection. In order to accurately detect the movement track of the external object, in the present invention, at least two IR LED are provided. When the first IR LED emits the IR ray signal, the second IR LED is used for receiving IR ray signal. Moreover, the present invention determines the distance between the external object and the IR LEDs by detecting the emitting IRs with different energy. Further, the present invention adopts TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) such that the present invention can grasp the distance between the first IR LED and the external object and the distance between the second IR LED and the external object. Thus, the relative position of the external object can be captured.
US09134110B2
Provided is an observation device which can obtain a phase image of a moving object rapidly with high sensitivity even when using a photodetector having a slow read-out speed per pixel. The observation device 1 comprises a light source 10, a first modulator 20, a second modulator 30, a lens 40, a beam splitter 41, a photodetector 46, and an arithmetic unit 50. The lens 40 receives scattered light generated by a moving object 2 and forms a Fourier transform image of the object 2. The photodetector 46 outputs data representing a sum in a v direction of data temporally changing at a frequency corresponding to a Doppler shift frequency of the light having reached each position on a light-receiving surface through the lens 40 at each position in a u direction at each time. The arithmetic unit 50 obtains an image of the object 2 according to the output of the photodetector 46.
US09134102B2
A non armor piercing monolithic composite projectile includes a high temperature polymer and a filler material. The filler material is intimately dispersed throughout the high temperature polymer such that the projectile is uniform in appearance and composition and a portion of the filler forms a portion of an outer surface of the body. The projectile is preferably lead-free.
US09134095B1
The invention provides a verticalness indicating apparatus for a bow in which the axial position of a pendulum member with respect to the housing in which the pendulum is mounted controls one or both of the color and intensity of light delivered via a light guide from the apparatus to one or more sight pins of a bow sight mounted on the bow. In this manner, the apparatus provides visual cues to the archer as to the vertical alignment of the bow contemporaneously with the archer's focus on the sight pin.
US09134084B1
A muzzle brake attachment for a firearm. The muzzle brake utilizes an inner perforated tube approximating or slightly larger than the bore diameter of a firearm barrel, and an un-perforated or substantially un-perforated outer shield tube. The muzzle brake substantially routes exhausted propellant gases out of the forward end of the muzzle brake, effectively controlling felt recoil while stabilizing the muzzle.
US09134066B2
A glue-thermal curing equipment includes a chassis, a support, a heating baking plate and a lifting device. The chassis is formed with an accommodation space therein. The support is fixedly disposed in the accommodation space. The heating baking plate is disposed on the support, and has a top surface acting as a heat generating surface. The heat generating surface allows a panel device to be directly disposed thereon, and fully provides uniform thermal energy to a liquid-state glue layer disposed on the panel device. The lifting device is elevatably disposed on the support and enables the panel device to be lifted and separated from the heat generating surface.
US09134058B2
A refrigerant circuit is configured, which includes an electric compressor, a condenser, an expansion mechanism, an evaporator, a hot gas introduction path connecting the electric compressor and the evaporator together, and a switching valve for controlling a flow of refrigerant in the hot gas introduction path. In addition, a fan is provided. In a defrosting cycle for introducing refrigerant into the evaporator through the hot gas introduction path to defrost the evaporator, if the pressure of the condenser is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold, the fan forms an air flow from a radiator to the condenser.
US09134048B2
A regenerative refrigerator includes a cylinder, a regenerator containing a regenerator material, and a partitioning member provided in the regenerator and partitioning off the regenerator material. The partitioning member includes a ring member having a center opening and having an outer circumferential surface fitting with the inner circumferential surface of the regenerator, and a layered body provided on the ring member to close its center opening. The layered body includes a filter member and a reinforcing member stacked in multiple layers. The filter member is configured to prevent passage of the regenerator material and to allow passage of a refrigerant gas. The reinforcing member is configured to reinforce the filter member. The layered body has a peripheral edge portion held tight from the first and second opposite sides of the layered body in its stacking direction by the ring member.
US09134046B2
A pulse tube refrigerator includes a first pulse tube; a first regenerator connected to the first pulse tube; a compressor configured to compress the coolant gas; a first supply side valve; a first filter provided between a supply side of the first supply side valve and the high temperature end of the first regenerator; a first suction side valve connected to the first filter via a first joint point; a first self seal joint provided between the supply side of the compressor and a suction side of the first supply side valve; a second self seal joint provided between a supply side of the first suction side valve and the suction side of the compressor; and a third self seal joint provided between a first regenerator side of the first filter and the high temperature end of the first regenerator.
US09134041B2
One embodiment of the present invention is a boiler for boiling water to produce steam, having (1) an evaporating section comprising (a) a combustion chamber for burning fuel with air and generating hot flue gas, (b) an evaporating heat exchanger around the combustion chamber for exchanging heat between the flue gas and water to produce the steam which exits the boiler; and (2) a condensing section comprising (c) a condensing heat exchanger for exchanging heat between the hot flue gas from the combustion chamber and a low-temperature water return having a temperature below approximately 100° F., generating flue gas condensate, which leaves the boiler, wherein the low-temperature water return is heated by the hot flue gas in the condensing heat exchanger before entering the evaporating heat exchanger for additional heating. The disclosed vacuum condensing boilers make vapor vacuum steam more efficient and economical for industrial, commercial, and home applications.
US09134036B2
An exhaust device for convection or combi ovens captures exhaust from opening side-opening oven doors with minimal energy waste.
US09134034B2
A gas oven includes an oven cavity, an upper gas burner disposed within the oven cavity, a venturi assembly coupled to the upper gas burner, a lower gas burner disposed within a lower burner combustion chamber. The channel member is communicatively coupled between the lower burner combustion chamber and the venturi assembly for the upper gas burner to provide an airflow path therebetween.
US09134024B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling the introduction of air into a burner. More particularly, the invention provides for a damper system that controls the introduction of air into a burner system by altering the size of a peripheral flow path for the introduction of air into the plenum of the burner.
US09134021B2
Provided is a boiler structure with which, by reducing the pressure drop in boiler evaporation tubes correspondingly to the heat flux, which varies in accordance with the distance in the boiler height direction, it is possible to reduce auxiliary power for a water feed pump and so forth, in addition to improving the flow stability and the natural circulation characteristics. The boiler structure includes a number of boiler evaporation tubes that are arranged on a wall surface of a furnace and that form a furnace wall, water pumped into the boiler evaporation tubes being heated in the furnace during flowing inside the tubes to produce steam, wherein the boiler evaporation tubes are formed by connecting tubes of a plurality of types, in which tube wall thicknesses are adjusted on the basis of furnace heat flux such that the higher the furnace heat flux in a region is, the smaller the tube inner diameter becomes.
US09134020B1
A color changing container apparatus is disclosed. The color changing container apparatus includes a container having an open top, a bottom and a side, and constructed from a material such that at least a part of the container transmits light there-through; and at least one light emitting device attachable to the container to direct light through the container when the container is connected to the at least one light emitting device and providing at least one light color to illuminate the container.
US09134003B2
In an automotive headlamp, a light-emitting module is configured such that a light-emitting element and a control circuit unit for controlling the lighting of the light-emitting element are structured integrally with each other. A control circuit unit in a position anterior to the light-emitting element in a lamp unit is located below a shade section so that the control circuit unit can be clear of the path of light used to form a low beam light distribution pattern of the light emitted by the light-emitting element. In this setting, the light-emitting element is so located that a main optical axis Ax2 is perpendicular respect to an optical axis Ax1 of the lamp unit and that a light-emitting portion of the light-emitting element protrudes higher than the control circuit unit in the direction of the main optical axis Ax2.
US09134002B2
A vehicle lighting unit can be configured such that it is difficult or impossible for an observer to visually recognize a light source, a light guide and the like through an outer lens and to suppress brightness unevenness. The vehicle lighting unit can project light outwardly through an opening portion formed in a mirror housing of a sideview mirror along a vehicle length direction and near an outer side of the sideview mirror in a vehicle width direction. The vehicle lighting unit can include: a housing provided inside the mirror housing, an outer lens inside the mirror housing so as to close the opening portion, a light source disposed in a lighting chamber at a position vertically shifted from the position of the opening portion, and a light guide disposed in the lighting chamber while shifted from the position of the opening portion toward the light source.
US09133996B2
A bezel for a light fixture appears illuminated when a bezel light source is energized and the bezel appears opaque when the bezel lights source is not energized. The bezel has a metalized coating which reflects light transmitted from a location remote from and external to the bezel and which transmits light emitted by the bezel light source.
US09133995B2
A sealed optical street luminaire having a luminaire housing fitted with a clear, flat lens and provided with an LED light source assembly mounted in the housing. The light source assembly has a heat dissipating LED support member secured to a heat conductive adapter for securement in the luminaire housing. A reflector is secured in the luminaire housing. The LED support member supports LED modules at a predetermined angle and orientation relative to an inner reflective surface of the circumferential wall of the reflector. The heat dissipating LED support member and the heat conductive adapter dissipate heat through the luminaire housing whereby to operate the LED modules at a lower temperature than the critical thermal temperature Tc of the LED modules whereby to achieve lifespan, photometric and colorometric rating of the LED modules.
US09133992B2
Disclosed is a portable electric candle having a lamp pendulating and rotating simultaneously, including: a lamp unit (10) having a lamp (12), a weight (18), and a permanent magnet (19), wherein the lamp unit (10) can perform a pendulating motion using both a magnetic force and a repulsive force and repeats the pendulating motion using a restoring force; a rotator (20) including a cylindrical base (22), an inner container body (24), a contact terminal (26), the electromagnet (27), a magnetized body (28), and a power supply terminal part (29); a rotator housing (30) for inducing a rotation of the rotator (20) therein; and a motion selecting switch (102) for selecting a motion of the lamp (12) so as to perform one of a rotating motion and a pendulating motion selectively or to perform both the rotating motion and the pendulating motion simultaneously.
US09133989B2
A lighting system comprising multiple linear lighting module building blocks is described. A lighting module is designed to emit light in a linear configuration, and multiple lighting modules are concatenated to emit light in a single linear configuration. A mechanical coupling system allows the lighting modules to be inserted into the linear configuration from a direction perpendicular to the linear configuration. The housing of the lighting modules is designed to allow the module to be clipped together in the linear configuration.
US09133981B2
A hanger system for the secured attachment of an illuminated fixture to a load bearing element is presented. The hanger system includes a crossbar, a canopy, and at least two cables. The crossbar further includes at least two sockets each having a first slot. The canopy is disposed along and contacts one side of the crossbar. The canopy further includes at least two second slots. Each first slot is separately aligned with one second slot. Each cable includes an anchor at a first end. Each anchor is rotatably disposed within one socket so that the cable extends through the first and second slots. The cable is rotatably disposed within the paired arrangement of slots. Each cable also has a second end attachable to the illuminated fixture. The hanger system could further include optional features such as a power cord or a stem. The stem may be configured in a fixed or rotational arrangement between crossbar and illuminated fixture.
US09133979B2
The invention relates to a support structure for an article. In particular, the invention relates to a support structure for mounting modular articles such as display units and the like upon a wall. The support structure comprises a support bracket (1), the support bracket having at least one opening (15), the opening being sized to accommodate a fixing (4) by which the support bracket may be secured to a wall (3), the opening being larger than the fixing whereby the position of the support bracket (1) may be adjusted relative to the fixing (4). The support structure also comprises a support element (2), the support element having a dimension (d) which is larger than the opening (15), the support element having a fixing hole (14) therethrough, the distance between the fixing hole (14) and the periphery of the support element (2) being non-uniform. The support bracket (1) has a support surface (12) adapted for engagement by the periphery of the support element (2). The invention also provides a method of mounting the support structure, and a support bracket for use in the structure and method.
US09133970B2
An air valve connecting device or attachment includes a housing having an inlet barrel, a sliding member slidably engaged in the housing and having an upper portion extendible out of the housing, the sliding member includes a pathway for selectively aligning with the inlet barrel, a catching element is attached to the sliding member, a gasket is engaged in the catching element, and an inflation valve is engageable into the gasket for depressing the gasket and the catching element and the sliding member to engage into the housing and for moving the sliding member out of the housing, and the inflation valve is detachable from the housing by depressing the sliding member into the housing.
US09133969B2
A device for connecting a rotatable element to a stationary element allows a flowable material to pass from the stationary element to the rotatable element, or vice versa. The device (1) comprises a stator body (2) suitable for being connected to the stationary element and a rotor body (4) suitable for being connected to the rotatable element, a conduit (5) being formed in the stator body (2) to communicate with a further conduit (6) formed in the rotor body (4). The device (1) comprises furthermore a sealing device (7) to prevent leakages of the flowable material, the sealing arrangement (7) comprising a first sealing surface (18) and a second sealing surface (19), the first sealing surface (18) being formed on a deformable sealing portion (15), so that the flowable material deforms the sealing portion (15), thereby pushing the first sealing surface (18) against the second sealing surface (19).
US09133966B2
A device having a first part shrink-fitted with a first shrink ring, the first shrink ring being shrink-fitted with a second shrink ring exhibiting a lower thermal expansion coefficient than a thermal expansion coefficient of the first shrink ring.
US09133963B2
A clamp for securing a tubular or hose-shaped object on a support. The clamp includes a clamp jacket having first and second ends, wherein a first leg protrudes from the first end of the clamp jacket and a second leg projects from the second end of the clamp jacket. The first leg has a lug which in the open state protrudes in the direction of the second leg. The second leg includes a fastening section which can be inserted into a gap between the lug and a neighboring portion of the first leg located opposite the lug, wherein, in the closed state of the clamp, the lug is plastically deformed toward the outer side of the fastening section facing away from the first leg.
US09133953B2
A linear travel structure of an electrical operating device includes a body, a substrate, a cover, a first transmission assembly, a second transmission assembly, and a third transmission assembly. The body receives the substrate to mount thereto so as to enclose and define a first receiving space. The cover is mounted to the body and, together with the substrate, encloses and defines a second receiving space. The substrate includes an electrical machine mounted thereto and received in the second receiving space. The first transmission assembly, the second transmission assembly, and the third transmission assembly are all received in the first receiving space. The electrical machine is connected in cascade with the first, second, and third transmission assemblies for operation therewith. With such a multiple-staged transmission arrangement, advantages including high transmission efficiency, high bearing capacity, high speed ratio, and small volume, can be achieved over the conventional devices.
US09133945B2
A water pressure regulator includes a sealing member and a body having a diaphragm assembly. The diaphragm assembly is positioned and secured within the body to define first and second chambers. The diaphragm assembly has a force acting thereon from within the second chamber. The first chamber defines first and second zones and first and second passageways therebetween. An inlet of the body is configured to provide water to the first zone and an outlet of the body is configured to deliver water out of the second zone. The sealing member is positioned within the first zone. The water pressure regulator further includes one or more plugging members for plugging/unplugging the first and second passageways, thereby controlling the operation of the water pressure regulator. The water pressure regulator may be used in a watering system.
US09133944B2
A switching valve, in particular for controlling a fluid subject to high pressure is described. The switching valve has at least one valve unit, which includes a valve seat element and a switching element guided movably in a guide element, wherein the valve seat element and the switching element interact to provide a switching valve function. The valve seat element and the guide element are provided in a housing. The valve seat element, the guide element and the housing form a through flow channel for the fluid to be controlled. An elastically and/or plastically deformable sealing body is provided in a fully enclosed space between the inner wall of the housing and the outer walls of the valve seat element and of the guide element. The sealing body can be subject to a predetermined pressure to seal off the through flow channel from the housing and subject the valve seat element and the guide element to an inward-directed preload.
US09133941B2
Internal valve apparatus are described. An example internal valve includes a body having a valve seat disposed in a fluid flow passageway between an inlet and an outlet. A flow control member is operatively coupled to the body and movable between a first position to engage the valve seat to restrict fluid flow through the valve and a second position to move away from the valve seat to allow fluid flow through the valve. A removable actuator is coupled to the body and operatively coupled to the flow control member to cause the flow control member to move between the first and second positions. A portion of the removable actuator is cantilevered in the fluid flow passageway between the inlet and the outlet when the removable actuator is coupled to the body.
US09133939B2
A hydraulic seal arrangement for a rotating machine, particularly a gas turbine engine, comprises a hydraulic seal and a hydraulic trap. When the machine is shut down, oil is retained in the hydraulic trap. When the machine is restarted, the oil from the hydraulic trap is available to re-make the hydraulic seal, thereby reducing or avoiding the leakage that typically occurs in such seal arrangements until the flow of oil through the seal arrangement is re-established.
US09133937B1
A seal has a casing having an outer-diameter surface, an interior facing surface, an exterior facing surface, and a chamfered surface between the exterior facing surface and the outer-diameter surface. A sleeve assembly is positioned radially inward from the casing, and has at least one dust lip that engages an interior side of the chamfered surface for blocking debris from the interior facing surface of the seal. A primary sealing body is positioned radially inward from the casing for blocking debris from the interior facing surface of the casing. The sleeve assembly rotates either with the casing or with respect to the casing.
US09133928B2
An autofunction control system for motor vehicles comprising an engine, a transmission and an accelerator, the position of the accelerator defining a set ERPM, the system configured to define a desired percentage of maximum available power for each set ERPM, the system configured to control the transmission ratio of the transmission to load the engine at least to the desired percentage of power, wherein the desired percentage of power is a function of the set ERPM when the set ERPM is between a low threshold and a high threshold, and wherein the system is configured to control the transmission ratio to load the engine closest to the maximum available absolute power for the engine for a set ERPM above the high threshold ERPM.
US09133922B2
A ball screw device includes a screw engaged into two nut members for forming a ball guiding passage between the nut members and the screw member and for receiving and engaging with bearing members, and a load applying device is disposed on the screw member and disposed between the nut members and applies a load onto the nut members in order to force and move the nut members away from each other and so as to apply a force onto the ball bearing members and in order to stably anchor and retain the ball bearing members between the nut members and the screw member and in order to facilitate a movement between the nut members and the screw member.
US09133912B2
A planetary gear train may include a first shaft receiving torque from an engine, a second shaft disposed in parallel with the first shaft, a first planetary gear set disposed on the first shaft including a first rotation element, a second rotation element and a third rotation element operated as an output element, and a second planetary gear set disposed on the second shaft including a fourth rotation element, a fifth rotation element, and a sixth rotation element. A planetary gear train may further include four transfer gears connecting rotation elements of the second planetary gear set with the first shaft and rotation elements of the first planetary gear set, and frictional elements connecting rotation elements with each other or with the first shaft and brakes connecting with the transmission housing.
US09133907B2
A centrifugal-pendulum vibration absorbing device disposed within a liquid chamber that stores a liquid, the centrifugal-pendulum vibration absorbing device having a support member coupled to a rotary element that is rotated by power from a drive device; and a mass body supported by the support member so as to be swingable. An order of vibration of the mass body is determined on the basis of an order of vibration to be damped generated by the drive device in consideration of at least a force caused by a centrifugal liquid pressure generated within the liquid chamber along with rotation of the drive device to act on the mass body.
US09133902B2
Disclosed herein in an energy absorption device that incorporates a diverse range of uses within a single shock absorber. The disclosed energy absorption device is a novel combination of interaction between various components (e.g., piston head, shock tube, cylinder end, external cylinder, and adjustment mechanism) within a single shock absorber. When the components disclosed herein are considered together and designed as an interrelated assembly, the ability to incorporate such a diverse range of uses within a single device emerges. The ability to combine dashpot, square wave, progressive wave, and self-compensating damping in a single device is unprecedented, as is the ability to deliver sublinear damping force vs. input velocity performance in an adjustable device. The disclosed device allows a user to make simpler sizing calculations and decisions, and provides the user with the ability to adjust the shock absorber to a specific application, for example, with the turn of an adjustment knob.
US09133901B2
A spiral air pressure spring designed by the invention solves the technical problems of complex structure and low compressive strength in the current gas springs. The spiral air pressure spring comprises a spring body, and is characterized in that the spring body is formed by an air column having a pressure air containing cavity, the air column is spiral, and at least one vent hole communicated with the containing cavity is arranged on the air column. The hardness of the spiral air pressure spring is adjusted by filling pressure air, the spiral air pressure spring is particularly large in deformation stroke and good in transverse and longitudinal ventilation, is used for manufacturing mattress, sofa, massage chair, cushion and the like, and is easy to remove moisture so that the influence on human body health is eliminated; the spiral air pressure spring is convenient in hardness adjustment and wide in one-way deformation range, meets the demands on various occasions and can be adjusted in real time to enhance the comfortable level; in addition, the spiral air pressure spring is convenient for coiled package to save the transportation cost, and can be unfolded by inflation when used by a user.
US09133900B2
A suspension assembly between a sprung element and an unsprung element includes a load-carrying spring element arranged in parallel with a negative stiffness element between the sprung element and the unsprung element. The negative stiffness element includes first and second opposed mutually-repelling elements.
US09133893B2
A clutch arrangement (1) for transmitting a drive torque from a drive shaft (2) to a secondary assembly, in particular to a fan wheel (11) of a motor vehicle, comprising a drive shaft (2), an output (10) and a friction disc clutch (12) which can be shifted by means of an electromagnetic arrangement (13). The clutch arrangement (1) comprises, in addition to the friction disc clutch (12) for transmitting torque from the drive shaft (2) to the output (10), a fluid friction clutch (4) whose hydraulic control valve (5) can be actuated by means of the electromagnetic arrangement (13) of the friction disc clutch (12) in order to set the slip.
US09133891B2
A clutch plate arranged to face a contact object so as to be relatively rotatable and relatively movable includes a contact surface being able to contact the contact object via lubricant and a minute groove open at the contact surface and formed of a plurality of groove portions having a predetermined groove pitch. A ratio of a contact area of the contact surface to an area obtained by adding an opening area of the minute groove to the contact area of the contact surface is 90% to 96% in an initial state.
US09133890B2
A friction clutch, for example, a dual clutch, having traction mode and power take-off, with a pressure plate that is axially pre-stressed, applying a load to a cup spring, against an opposing pressure plate while tensioning friction linings of a clutch plate, the pressure plate being displaceable against the effect of the cup spring by means of pressure levers distributed along the periphery that are rotatably arranged by means of first pivot joints on knee levers that are axially stressed by a disengaging mechanism and have a specifiable axial distance relative to the disengaging mechanism. In order to achieve a constant transmissibility of the existing torque in traction mode over the service life when there is wear of the friction linings, an automatic adjusting device is provided in series with the adjusting screws between the pressure levers and the pressure plate.
US09133885B2
A flange forming an input for the device and including a damper stop tab extending radially outward; a plate including first and second curved slots; and a curved friction assembly including a first end disposed in the first curved slot, a second end disposed in the second curved slot, at least one curved engagement plate including an engagement tab extending radially inward, at least one curved friction plate rotationally fixed to the plate, and a resilient element urging the at least one curved engagement plate and the at least one curved friction plate into contact. The device includes at least one elastic element engaged with the flange.
US09133873B2
The invention relates to an engagement member that is adapted to be fixed in a groove of a component and to a method for interconnecting two components via an engagement member. In order to provide an engagement member and a method, which provide for an easy assembly of the engagement member in the groove, while still providing sufficient forces for interconnecting the two components, the invention provides that the engagement member comprises a fastening pin that can be pushed into a cavity of one of the two components.
US09133870B2
An adjustable tower stud assembly is disclosed for securing an object, such as a roof rack, to an external panel such as the roof of a vehicle. The object requires more support than can be provided by the external panel and it is also connected to a sub-surface support. Upper and lower collared studs are connected by a threaded connection that allows the length of the tower stud assembly to be adjusted. Stops on a lower collar ground the tower stud assembly to the sub-surface support after the tower stud assembly is adjusted to the proper length.
US09133867B2
A linear mechanical quick release fastener is operated by three movements with self-centering chucks and for mounting all types of compatible clamping devices for machining workpieces, especially on automatic precision machine tools. A bottom part has raised locking elements formed integrally in one piece one after another on a plane along a direction at right angles to a clamping direction and base jaws formed integrally in one piece, with a threaded hole for a clamping bolt and a screw element. A top part has recesses, one after another along a direction at right angles to the clamping direction, designed as a counterpiece of the locking elements. One recess is connected at an open front side to a mounting area recessed continuously, which is accessible from the top, and another recess is open on a front side. The top part can receive an upper plane of any compatible clamping device.
US09133854B2
A centrifugal blood pump device includes a housing, a centrifugal pump section having an impeller which rotates in the housing to send blood by centrifugal force upon rotation, an impeller rotation torque generation section for attracting a magnetic member of the impeller and rotating the impeller, and a plurality of grooves for hydrodynamic bearing provided on an inner face of the housing on the impeller rotation torque generation section side. A side wall of each of the grooves for hydrodynamic bearing is formed as an inclined side wall inclined obliquely such that the groove for hydrodynamic bearing is expanded from a bottom face of the groove for hydrodynamic bearing toward an opening face of the groove for hydrodynamic bearing.
US09133851B2
A control device of a compressor includes a valve control unit configured to control an anti-surge valve that returns fluid in a discharge side of the compressor to a suction side of the compressor in accordance with a control parameter, a simulation unit configured to simulate operational status of the compressor in a plant in accordance with a plant model and the control parameter of the plant to which the compressor is installed, and a control parameter adjusting unit configured to adjust the control parameter in accordance with a result of the simulation.
US09133847B2
A magnetically-levitated centrifugal pump comprises a pump head section and a pump section, where the pump section comprises a stator, a torque transmission disc, a motor, a displacement sensor, and a pump housing.
US09133844B2
A method of manufacturing a scroll member for a compression mechanism installed in a scroll compressor includes a casting step and a cutting step. An iron casting is formed in the casting step, which includes a spiraling part. The iron casting obtained in the casting step is cut during the cutting step in order to obtain a final shape of the scroll member. The iron casting may include a fixed part having a central portion with a first axial thickness and an external periphery portion with a second axial thickness larger than the first axial thickness before the cutting step. A dimension of a specified portion of the spiraling part may be larger before the cutting step is performed than after the cutting step is performed, with the specified portion preferably disposed toward an external periphery of the spiraling part.
US09133837B2
A method of controlling a hydraulic system having a variable displacement pump operatively coupled to an engine. The method includes detecting a speed of the engine, and determining a desired power value of the pump. The method also includes identifying an allowable power value that may be expended by the pump at the detected speed. The method also includes selecting a pump power value. The selected pump power value is the lower of the allowable power value and the desired power value. The method further includes adjusting the pump to deliver the selected pump power value.
US09133836B2
A vacuum pumping system comprises a primary foreline for receiving a gas stream from an outlet of a chamber, a first vacuum pump for evacuating the chamber, a second vacuum pump for evacuating the chamber, a first secondary foreline for conveying gas from the primary foreline to the first vacuum pump, a second secondary foreline for conveying gas from the primary foreline to the second vacuum pump, and valve means for selectively connecting a chosen one of the first and second secondary forelines to the primary foreline. The condition of the vacuum pumps is monitored during use. When both vacuum pumps are operating normally, the valve means is controlled to divert a first reactant-rich gas from the primary foreline into the first secondary foreline, and to divert a second reactant-rich gas from the primary foreline to the second secondary foreline, thereby inhibiting mixing of the first and second reactants within the vacuum pumps. However, in the event that the condition of one of the vacuum pumps indicates that one of the pumps is likely to fail during a current process within the chamber, the valve means is controlled to divert both the first reactant-rich gas and the second reactant-rich gas to the other vacuum pump, thereby preventing the potentially costly loss of a batch of substrates within the chamber.
US09133823B2
A vertical axis wind turbine includes a support axis and a wind wheel. The wind wheel includes a rotation base, plural rotation stand sets, plural deflection structures, plural blades, and plural deflection-limiting structures corresponding to the plural blades. The rotation base is rotatably disposed on the support axis. The plural rotation stand sets may define a rotation plane. A first end of each rotation stand set is fixedly disposed on the rotation base. Each blade is pivotally coupled to a second end of the corresponding rotation stand set through the corresponding deflection structure. Consequently, an angle of attack of the blade in an airflow is correspondingly adjusted. When one of the plural blades is deflected, the corresponding deflection-limiting structure generates a first rotational torque in a first rotating direction or a second rotational torque in a second rotating direction so as to rotate the rotation base.
US09133820B1
A system is provided. The system includes a vertical axis wind turbine comprising a plurality of support arms, a housing coupled to the arms, a bridging connector having a first end portion and a second end portion, a blade coupled to the second end portion, and an electric generator housed within the housing. The first portion is coupled to the housing. The blade vertically extends along the housing. The generator operative based at least in part on the housing vertically rotating between the arms via the blade.
US09133813B2
A laser spark plug, in particular for an internal combustion engine, having an arrangement or structure for coupling, especially focusing, laser radiation in or on an ignition point, including an arrangement or structure for influencing a fluid flow disposed in an end region of the laser spark plug on the side of the combustion chamber, which constitute an essentially sleeve-shaped extension of the laser spark plug in the direction of the combustion chamber, in which the arrangement or structure for influencing the fluid flow is configured to influence the fluid flow in the region of the ignition point.
US09133811B2
The internal combustion engine (1) has a throttle (23) for controlling an intake air amount and performs start-up through cranking. As the cranking is initiated, an atmospheric pressure is detected and an initial opening is set accordingly. The controller (31) controls the throttle (23) to the initial opening when the cranking is initiated, and controls the throttle to start to increase the throttle opening from the initial opening at a predetermined timing after the cranking initiation. By setting the initial opening based on one or both of the atmospheric pressure and the temperature at the time of cranking initiation, the intake negative pressure and the intake air amount are optimized.
US09133809B2
An arrangement for an internal combustion engine, including a flywheel connectable the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, a starter generator arranged in a housing of the flywheel, and a friction clutch, which connects the flywheel to a transmission. An intermediate piece is fastened to the output side of the flywheel, such that a torque-transmitting fastening of the intermediate piece to the flywheel is arranged radially to the inside of a torque-transmitting fastening of the intermediate piece to the friction clutch, with respect to the radial spacing from the axis of rotation of the flywheel, and that the intermediate piece forms the abutment for a friction lining of the friction clutch at an abutment surface.
US09133798B2
The invention relates to a tank arrangement (2), comprising a fuel tank (4) comprising at least one fuel chamber (6, 6a, b), a tank installation unit (8) arranged in the fuel tank (4), a fuel pump element (10) arranged in the installation unit (8) and designed to make fuel (12) available from the tank arrangement (2) to a fuel user (14), a pump unit (6, 16a, b) arranged in the fuel chamber (6, 6a, b) and operatively connected to the fuel pump element (10) and designed to convey fuel (12) out of the fuel chamber (6, 6a, b) into the tank installation unit (8), and a pressure regulating element (18), functionally arranged between fuel pump element (10) and pump unit (16). The arrangement is characterized in that the pressure regulating element (18) is designed as a mechanical pressure regulator.
US09133797B2
A driver's seat and a passenger's seat integrally formed as a bench seat elongated in a vehicle width direction together with an intermediate connecting portion, which connects the driver's seat and the passenger's seat. An upper end portion of a seat support frame configured to be erected above a footrest surface and constitute a part of a vehicle body frame formed along one plane. A fuel tank and canister arranged in a separated manner in the vehicle width direction below the bench seat supported on the upper end portion of the seat support frame.
US09133793B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a compressor housing includes a compressor inlet in fluid communication with a compressor volute configured to house a compressor wheel, the compressor inlet configured to provide a first air flow to the compressor wheel and a compressor outlet in fluid communication with the compressor volute, the compressor outlet configured to direct a compressed gas to an intake manifold. The compressor housing further includes an exhaust gas recirculation inlet port in fluid communication with the compressor volute, the exhaust gas recirculation inlet port being configured to combine an exhaust gas flow with the air flow to the compressor wheel.
US09133788B2
A reciprocating engine is so arranged that, in an initial period of an expansion stroke, a high-pressure combustion gas above a piston is introduced via gas passage holes provided in an upper portion of a cylinder inner surface on a thrust side into a gas chamber defined by the cylinder inner surface and a top ring, a second ring, and a second land of the piston, so as to support the piston from the thrust side by the introduced high-pressure combustion gas. A half ring is inserted in the gas chamber in a state of being placed on the second land from the thrust side and so as to be movable up and down with clearances above and below, whereby as the piston reciprocates, the half ring moves up and down an amount corresponding to the size of the clearances, thereby continually cleaning the inside of the gas chamber.
US09133777B2
The ISG (Idle Stop & Go) system may include a vehicle information receiving unit receiving a vehicle information, and a control unit including an ISG operation logic which performs an idle stop when a preset idle stop condition is satisfied and restarts the engine when a preset restart condition of the engine is satisfied, and an ISG deactivation determination logic which determines whether a preset ISG deactivation condition is satisfied or not, based on the accumulated number of determinations that the idle stop condition is not satisfied, the accumulated number of idle stops, and the accumulated number of determinations that a performance time of the idle stop is smaller than a preset idle stop retention time, and deactivates the ISG operation logic when the ISG deactivation condition is satisfied.
US09133774B2
Vehicular vibration damping control device and vehicle mounted with vibration damping control device
A vehicular vibration damping control device that performs vibration damping of pitch/bounce vibrations of a vehicle through drive output control includes a vibration damping control portion that controls a driving torque of an engine to perform pitch/bounce vibration damping, and a compensation component adjustment portion that reduces the magnitude of a compensation component for compensating for a wheel torque calculated by the vibration damping control portion on the basis of an amount of change in the throttle opening degree of the engine. The compensation component is reduced when the temperature of a conductor for supplying a current to a throttle motor for adjusting a throttle opening degree estimated on the basis of the amount of change in throttle opening degree becomes higher than a predetermined value.
US09133763B2
A method of establishing and maintaining a piston compression height during portions of a combustion cycle in a differential-stroke cycle combustion engine, includes providing a piston seat cup coupled to said first piston part and a piston seat cover operatively associated with said piston seat cup and defining a sealed piston seat cavity, abutting said second piston part with said piston seat cover and moving said piston seat cover relative to said piston seat cup, aligning a fluid ingress aperture with a cooperating piston rod passage and piston pin inlet for a portion of said combustion cycle thereby allowing fluid to enter said piston seat cavity, and aligning a fluid egress aperture with a cooperating piston pin passage and piston rod outlet for a portion of said combustion cycle thereby allowing fluid to exit said piston seat cavity.
US09133757B2
Methods and systems are provided for purging condensate from a charge air cooler to an engine intake. During an engine deceleration event, airflow through a charge air cooler is temporarily increased to purge stored condensate to the engine intake. By delivering condensate while an engine is not fueled, misfire events resulting from ingestion of water are reduced.
US09133756B2
A method for determining when a cooling system for a work vehicle is restricted with debris. A first temperature difference between an inlet and an outlet of a heat exchanger is determined when the airflow though said heat exchanger is substantially unrestricted. When a subsequent temperature difference is less than the first temperature difference by a predetermined amount, the direction of the airflow is reversed to remove debris from the heat exchanger.
US09133749B2
A system includes an injector control module and an SCR optimization module. The injector control module controls an amount of ammonia (NH3) stored in a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst to maintain a first storage level. The SCR optimization module determines whether the first storage level maximizes a conversion efficiency of the SCR catalyst at a first temperature and minimizes a probability of NH3 slip when the temperature of the SCR catalyst transitions from the first temperature to a second temperature. The injector control module controls the amount of NH3 stored in the SCR catalyst to maintain a second storage level when the second storage level maximizes the efficiency of the SCR catalyst relative to the first storage level and minimizes the probability of NH3 slip relative to the first storage level.
US09133736B2
A valve timing adjusting system includes a displacement mechanism unit that displaces a camshaft rotational phase relative to a crankshaft, a locking mechanism unit that locks the rotational phase, and a control unit that controls operations of a hydraulic control valve. The control unit includes a property obtainment unit that obtains property information regarding hydraulic properties, and a lock release process completes locking release by supplying oil pressure to the locking mechanism unit for moving the rotational phase from an intermediate locked phase toward one of a retard/advance position, and then supplying oil pressure to the locking mechanism unit for moving the rotational phase toward the other of the retard/advance position; the rotational phase stands by at a predetermined position of the one of the retard/advance position past the intermediate locked phase during the lock release process, until a standby time has elapsed.
US09133732B2
A turbine engine vane assembly assembled using an anti-rotation pin method can include a vane assembly having a vane supported on a shroud ring and a cavity seal coupled to the vane assembly by a securement mechanism. The cavity seal defines a securement receiving portion through which the securement mechanism is inserted. The securement receiving portion also includes a deformation receiver. The securement mechanism has a deformable rim at a first end and a key at a second end. The securement mechanism is rotatable between a first configuration and a second configuration where the key matingly engages the shroud ring and the cavity seal to reduce axial movement of the vane assembly. The deformable rim can be deformed into the deformation receiver to prevent rotation of the securement mechanism and disengagement of the securement mechanism from the vane assembly and cavity seal.
US09133729B1
A gas turbine engine includes a flex mount for a Fan Drive Gear System defined by a lateral and transverse stiffness relatonship.
US09133725B2
A turbomachine has a housing having a passage extending along an axis and an annular axially directed housing face extending radially from the passage. A shaft extending axially in the passage has an outer shaft surface radially spaced from an inner surface of the passage and forming therewith an annular axially extending gap. A radial impeller fixed to the shaft outside the housing has an axially directed and radially extending impeller face axially spaced from and confronting the radial housing face and forming therewith a radially extending gap opening into the axially extending gap. An impeller housing forms a flow space with the impeller outside the housing. The radial gap opens into the flow space. A plurality of spaced seals engaged in the radial gap between the radial faces of the housing and impeller fluidically separates the axial gap from the flow space.
US09133722B2
A system for supplying an injection fluid to a combustor is disclosed. The system includes a transition duct comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a passage extending between the inlet and the outlet and defining a longitudinal axis, a radial axis, and a tangential axis. The outlet of the transition duct is offset from the inlet along the longitudinal axis and the tangential axis. The passage defines a combustion chamber. The system further includes a tube providing fluid communication for the injection fluid to flow through the transition duct and into the combustion chamber.
US09133719B2
A thermal barrier coating system on a base material includes a bond coat layer with a lower face in direct contact with the base material and an upper face, a first ceramic layer in direct contact with the upper face of the bond coating layer and a second ceramic layer disposed on an outermost surface of the coating system and configured to be exposed to hot gas. The first ceramic layer includes a layer, combination, mixture, alloy, blend or multilayer structure of at least one of yttria-stabilized zirconia with a yttria content in a range of 6-8 wt-%, YTaO4 doped zirconia, and titania doped zirconia. The second ceramic layer includes a layer, combination, mixture, alloy, blend or multilayer structure of at least one of YTaO4 doped zirconia, titania doped zirconia, scandia stabilized zirconia, ceria containing perovskite material, yttrium aluminum garnet material, Monazite material, and spinel material. A material of the second ceramic layer is different from a material of the first ceramic layer.
US09133712B2
A blade includes an airfoil having a base and a free, tip end. The tip end includes at least one porous, abradable element.
US09133711B2
A steam turbine of an embodiment includes: a nozzle box having a circular ring-shaped steam passage into which steam is led from a steam inlet pipe and having, on a downstream portion of the steam passage, a plurality of first-stage nozzles in a circumferential direction; and a second-stage nozzle side structure combined with the nozzle box and having a plurality of at least second-stage nozzles in a circumferential direction. Further, in the respective nozzle box and second-stage nozzle side structure, there are provided at least a pair of abutment surfaces for sealing which are not parallel to a turbine rotor axis and abutting each other. Furthermore, a seal member is provided in a part of a gap between the nozzle box and the second-stage nozzle side structure, the gap being formed by combining the nozzle box and the second-stage nozzle side structure.
US09133709B2
Methods for detection of the presence and distribution of oil in subsurface formation are described herein. The present invention involves injection of an aqueous dispersion of the nanoparticles into the potentially oil containing subsurface formation, followed by a remote detection of the oscillation responses of the nanoparticles in the oil/water interfaces in the reservoir rock by applying magnetic field.
US09133708B2
A method for reconstituting a signal due to a flow distortion in a mud-pulse telemetry system, having steps of obtaining at least one parameter to be transmitted by a transmitter to a receiver through the mud-pulse telemetry system, estimating a change in a flow rate in a borehole fluid along a trajectory of the mud-pulse telemetry system undergoing a fluid distortion, estimating a Doppler rate of the signal traveling through the borehole fluid along the trajectory of the mud-pulse telemetry system, calculating a Doppler compensation value for the signal sent along the trajectory in the borehole fluid, transmitting the signal of the at least one parameter through the mud-pulse telemetry system, receiving a portion of the signal of the at least one parameter and reconstituting at least a portion of the signal using the Doppler compensation value.
US09133703B2
A steering tool is movable by a drill string to form an underground bore along an intended path. A sensing arrangement of the steering tool detects its pitch and yaw orientations at a series of spaced apart positions along the bore, each position is characterized by a measured extension of the drill string. The steering tool further includes a receiver. At least one marker is positioned proximate to the intended path, for transmitting a rotating dipole field to expose a portion of the intended path to the field for reception by the receiver. The detected pitch orientation, the detected yaw orientation and the measured extension of the drill string are used in conjunction with magnetic information from the receiver to locate the steering tool. The steering tool may automatically use the magnetic information when it is available. A customized overall position determination accuracy can be provided along the intended path.
US09133688B2
An integral multistage safety valve is designed to provide a second level of protection should a first stage fail. The valve may be used in oil and/or gas wells. The interior portion of the multiphase safety valve is designed so as to reduce turbulence and pressure loss through the valve when the valve is in an open position. The valves may be independently operable, or operable with a single control line. The multi-stage valve reduces the number of body joints required to construct two identical valves thereby reducing cost and potential leak paths and increasing reliability of the system.
US09133672B2
A system includes a back pressure valve configured to mount in a mineral extraction system. The back pressure valve comprises a cylindrical body comprising a venting port coaxial with a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body and a plunger disposed in the venting port, wherein the plunger comprises a stem that extends from the venting port into an adjacent cavity of the cylindrical body. A method of operating a valve, includes biasing a plunger to an open position, biasing a valve locking mechanism to a locked position in relation to a bore of a mineral extraction system, and biasing a plunger to a closed position.
US09133661B2
A vertical blind assembly module includes a head rail unit with opposite sides and a unit axis extending between the sides, a housing and an axle pivotally connecting the housing to the head rail unit so that the housing can pivot about a pivot axis that is perpendicular to the unit axis. A slat is coiled in the housing so enabling the slat to be extended from the housing a selected distance and retracted into the housing. A foot rail unit is pivotally connected to the projecting end of the slat, the pivotal connection being collinear to the pivot axis. By turning the axle relative to the head rail unit about the pivot axis when the slat is extended, the slat can be turned between a closed position wherein the slat is parallel to the unit axis and an open position wherein the slat is perpendicular to the unit axis.
US09133660B2
A device for adjusting a slat of a window blind including a housing, in which a plurality of frames, a rod, a plurality of transmission members, and a plurality of turning members are provided. The rod is meshed with a first rack of each transmission member, and the turning members are respectively meshed with a second rack of each transmission member. The first rack has a plurality of teeth in a line, and the first and the last teeth are shorter than the rest teeth. Furthermore, the first and the last teeth are designed for ratchet, so that the teeth of the rod will slide on and over the first or the last teeth when the user is overturning the rod to protect the teeth of the first rack of the transmission member.
US09133658B2
A sound attenuating covering for an architectural opening is provided. The covering may include a frame, a first shade, and a second shade. The frame may include opposing side members, each defining an opposing channel extending along at least a portion of the side member. The first shade may be positioned forward of the frame and may define a plurality of horizontally-extending, transversely-collapsible cells. The second shade may be positioned rearward of the first shade and may be slidably received within the channels of the side members. The first and second shades may be operably coupled to a roller and may move in conjunction with one another across the architectural opening.
US09133652B2
A tire-encircling judderbarred cable loop is an assembly that includes a loop of steel cable partially concentrically enclosed by a thick flexible sleeve, thereby defining an enclosed judderbarred portion of the cable and an exposed hitching portion of the cable. The area of the loop is large enough to encircle a contact area of an automobile tire. The flexible sleeve and the judderbarred portion collectively possess sufficient size and hardness to impart a humanly perceptible juddering signal to a driver of the automobile when the tire rolls over the enclosed portion. When the tire rests within the loop, the loop is confined and the weight of the automobile arrests movement of any object hitched to the hitching portion of the cable.
US09133641B2
Disclosed is a high-performance shear friction damper provided in a building construction and attenuating a vibration which is applied to the building construction due to external loads such as an earthquake or strong wind. The high-performance shear friction damper includes first and second support bodies supported to a building construction or damping rods, two prop plates fixed to the second support body and extending to surround both side surfaces of the first support body, friction plates mounted between the first support body and the prop plates, and fastening units each including a tension bolt penetrating the first support body, the friction plates and the prop plates, and a nut fastened to an end of the tension bolt, wherein the first support body has slots extending in a horizontal direction, the tension bolts extend while penetrating the slots to allow the first support body to be slidably movable in the horizontal direction with respect to the friction plates.
US09133627B2
A flooring system may comprise a top floor layer, a subfloor, and/or an underlayment material disposed between the sub-floor and the top floor layer. The top floor layer may include a plurality of luxury vinyl tiles, configured such that respective tile joints may be formed between adjacent luxury vinyl tiles. The underlayment material may comprise a cross-linked, polyolefin foam. The composition of the underlayment material may be such that the tile joints between the adjacent luxury vinyl tiles may bend by less than about 45 degrees over a twelve hour period when 3.1 pounds per square inch (psi) of pressure is applied. The underlayment material may have a compressive creep of less than fifty percent of an original thickness associated with the underlayment material at a load of 3.1 psi and/or a compressive strength of more than 15 psi.
US09133621B2
A universal inside corner patch for patching inside corners formed by protrusions from a commercial low slope roof is disclosed. The universal inside corner patch includes a body having a central portion and a peripheral portion. A cutout is formed in the body extending from the peripheral portion to the central portion thereof. The cutout defines in the body a skirt having an edge on one side of the cutout and a flap having an edge on an opposite side of the cutout. Folding locations such as lines or other indicia on the body correspond to respective angles of an inside corner to be patched. When the skirt portion is overlapped with the flap portion with the edge of the skirt portion registering with one of the folding locations, the inside corner patch is configured to conform to an inside corner with an angle corresponding to the one of the folding locations. An adhesive may be disposed on a back surface of the body for adhering and sealing the corner patch in place.
US09133619B1
An architectural building block including a front terminal wall, a rear terminal wall disposed substantially parallel to the front terminal wall, a pair of side walls adjoining the front terminal wall and the rear terminal wall, a top wall and a bottom wall. The side walls lean toward one another. The pair of side walls converge from the rear terminal wall to the front terminal wall. The bottom wall is disposed substantially parallel to the top wall, wherein each of the top wall and bottom wall adjoins the front terminal wall, the rear terminal wall and the pair of side walls.
US09133616B2
An in-situ cast floor underlayment is disclosed in this invention, wherein the floor underlayment comprises a cemented rubber layer, which further comprises rubber granules and cementitious binder. The floor underlayment further comprises a highly deformable cemetitious composite layer on top of the cemented rubber layer for the protection thereof. The rubber granules are pre-treated such that a better interaction between the rubber granules and the cementitious binder is achieved. A method of installing the in-situ casted floor underlayment is also disclosed.
US09133611B2
Provided are toilet ventilation systems. A toilet ventilation system may use an air conduit to facilitate removal of air from a toilet bowl into a toilet tank via an overflow tube. The air conduit may connect the toilet tank and a ventilation fan. The toilet ventilation system may include a ventilation valve coupled to the air conduit and configured to open into a room environment. The ventilation valve may be coupled to a flush handle via a ventilation valve connector. Engaging the flush handle may open the ventilation valve into the room environment. The toilet ventilation system may also include a drainage connector configured to couple the flush handle to the overflow tube that may be connected to the toilet bowl via a drainage tube.
US09133610B2
The present invention relates to a toilet plunger containment system including a decorative shell, a selectively removable tray having a disposable disinfectant and a specialized plunger which is housed within the decorative shell during periods of non-use.
US09133608B2
A plumbing device (e.g. trap seal primer) provides a minimum air gap to a fluid source. There is an inlet member for coupling to a fluid source, an outlet member for receiving fluid from the inlet member and discharging fluid from the plumbing device and a support bracket connecting the inlet member and outlet member in spaced relation to maintain a minimum unobstructed air gap therebetween. A nozzle may direct fluid into the outlet member. The nozzle may be recessed in a nozzle discharge barrel. The inlet member may form a recess about a rim of the nozzle discharge barrel. The inlet member may be sized to substantially shield an outlet member opening from debris. The plumbing device may be coupled to a potable water source, such as a normally closed fluid supply line, to draw fluid in when the line is opened.
US09133603B2
A cab having a rollover protection structure for a construction machine is provided, which includes a front right pole positioned on the front right side of the cab and formed to extend upwardly from a bottom frame, a front left pole positioned on the front left side of the cab and formed to be spaced apart from the front right pole, a front upper end lateral pole connecting upper ends of the front right pole and the front left pole to each other, a first reinforcement member installed on an upper portion of the front right pole, and a second reinforcement member installed on a lower portion of the front left pole.
US09133591B2
An end treatment array for crash attenuation includes a transition barrier module formed of side walls, end walls, a top wall, and a bottom wall, wherein the module walls together define an enclosed interior space. The end treatment array further includes a containment impact sled having an axially extending frame. The frame has a width sufficient to contain the transition barrier module within the frame when in an assembled configuration, and has an axial length which is at least one-half the length of the transition barrier module. The frame defines an interior volume, the purpose of which is to contain a substantial portion of the transition barrier module in the assembled configuration, and to contain debris caused by destruction of the plastic barrier modules in a vehicular impact. The containment impact sled is attached to the transition barrier module.
US09133587B2
The invention relates to a self-propelled road-milling machine for doing work on surfacings on the ground, and in particular carriageways. The road-milling machine according to the invention is characterized by a signalling arrangement which has at least one control unit for the entry of at least two different states of operation by the driver of the road-milling machine and at least one visual indicator or display unit to indicate or display for the driver of the transporting vehicle the at least two states of operation which are preset with the control unit by the driver of the road-milling machine. The first state of operation may be a request for the transporting vehicle to be braked or stopped and the second state of operation may be a request for the transporting vehicle to be started or to continue travelling. In a preferred embodiment of the visual indicator or display unit, the request for braking or stopping is shown as a cross and the request for starting or continued travel as an arrow.
US09133579B2
A refiner (10, 11) for refining fibrous material has a first refining surface (1′) and a second refining surface (2′) arranged opposite to one another and mobile in relation to one another. The refining surfaces have refining surface portions (15, 27) feeding material to be refined and/or discharging refined material as well as refining surface portions (16) grinding the material to be refined, on the upper surface of which there are blade bars (17) and between them blade grooves (18). In the refining surface (1′, 2′) of the refiner (10, 11) the cross-sectional area (A) of at least some blade grooves (18) is arranged to decrease from one blade groove (18) to the next from the direction of the feed edge (13) to the direction of the discharge edge (14) of the refining surface (1′, 2′).
US09133572B2
A sewing machine that includes a processor, a plurality of detection devices that is configured to be capable of changing mounting positions and configured to detect an ultrasonic wave, and a memory that is configured to store computer-readable instructions that instruct the sewing machine to execute steps comprising, identifying, when a first ultrasonic wave transmitted from a transmission source of the ultrasonic wave is detected by the detection devices, a position of the transmission source of the first ultrasonic wave, based on information relating to the detected first ultrasonic wave, and controlling sewing based on the identified position of the transmission source of the first ultrasonic wave.
US09133552B2
In one embodiment of the present invention an electrolytic cell is provided comprising a containment vessel; a first electrode; a second electrode; a source of electrical current in electrical communication with the first electrode and the second electrode; an electrolyte in fluid communication with the first electrode and the second electrode; a gas, wherein the gas is formed during electrolysis at or near the first electrode; and a separator; wherein the separator includes an inclined surface to direct flow of the electrolyte and the gas due to a difference between density of the electrolyte and the combined density of the electrolyte and the gas such that the gas substantially flows in a direction distal to the second electrode.
US09133542B2
A coating apparatus comprises a coating chamber for coating the articles. The at least one preheat chamber is coupled to the coating chamber. The at least one loading station has a proximal end connectable to at least one of the preheat chambers when in an installed position at a distal end of the preheat chamber. The loading station further includes a carrier for carrying the articles and a drive system. The drive system is positioned to move the carrier between: a loading/unloading position of the carrier in the loading station; a preheat position of the carrier in the preheat chamber to which the loading station is connected; and a deposition position of the carrier in the coating chamber. A gas source is connected to the preheat chamber.
US09133539B2
A method for shaping a component cast from a titanium alloy including firstly heating the component to a plastic temperature such that it becomes plastically deformable and subsequently subjecting the component to a deformation process to thereby plastically deform the component to a desired geometric shape.
US09133537B2
A method of improving a superalloy component is proposed. The method involves the introduction of at least one additive into the superalloy component, the at least one additive being selected from the group of Hf, La, and Y. The at least one additive is introduced into a surface layer of the component. Preferably, the surface layer has a depth of 0.5 mm or less. The component may include, for example, an airfoil of a gas turbine.
US09133536B2
A galvannealed steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; a galvannealed layer which is formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet and includes Al, Fe, and the balance composed of Zn and inevitable impurities; and a composite oxide layer of Mn, Zn, and P which is formed on the surface of the galvannealed layer, includes Mn, P, and Zn, and has the P/Mn ratio of equal to or higher than 0.3 and equal to or lower than 50. The galvannealed layer includes a flat portion having an area ratio of equal to or higher than 10% and equal to or lower than 70% and a rough portion which is at a position closer to the steel sheet than the flat portion at the interface of the galvannealed layer and the composite oxide layer 5. The composite oxide layer of Mn, Zn, and P contains an amorphous compound.
US09133525B2
A method for identifying a risk factor for diseases, disorders or conditions, such as those caused by human immunodeficiency virus, using the polymerase chain reaction and specific primers. Methods for treating patients having these diseases, disorders or conditions by antimicrobial treatment of the risk factor by combined antiviral and antibacterial treatment or by sustaining or stimulating the subject's immune system. Methods for screening biological products including red blood cell preparations. Primers and methods for detecting nucleic acids or microbial agents associated with red blood cells, such as those associated with red blood cells in subjects infected with HIV and undergoing antiretroviral therapy.
US09133522B2
The present invention provides nucleic acid sequences that are used for identification and diagnosis of specific cancers. The nucleic acid sequences can also be used for prognosis evaluation of a subject based on the expression profile of a biological sample.
US09133519B2
Provided are methods for determining susceptibility, resistance or tolerance to Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map) infection, comprising: determining, using a biological sample from a mammalian subject, a presence or absence of at least one EDN2 gene mutation, or the genotype of at least one EDN2 gene single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) selected from the SNP group consisting of SNP105 (nucleotide position 105,288,174 on BTA3 (UMD 3.1)), SNP208 (nucleotide position 105,298,664 on BTA3 (UMD 3.1)), and SNP272 (nucleotide position 105,305,070 by on BTA3 (UMD 3.1)), that segregates with resistance and/or tolerance to Map tissue infection; and determining, based thereon, at least one of susceptibility, resistance or tolerance of the mammalian subject to Map infection. Additionally provided are mammals (e.g., bovine) derived culling, selecting, or selective breeding, based on disclosed methods, and methods for procuring mammals. Preferably, the mammals carry non-susceptible alleles of SNP105 (G), SNP208 (G), and SNP272 (G).
US09133516B2
The invention provides a method for identification of alleles. In this method, genomic DNA is used as target. Multiple allele-specific PCR amplification are carried out with a group of primers comprising one or more allele-specific primers for a target gene, a universal primer, and a common primer; and a DNA polymerase without 5′ to 3′ exonuclease activity. The PCR products are hybridized with tag probes immobilized on a DNA chip. Results are determined based on the signal intensity and the position of the probe immobilized on the array. Each allele-specific primer comprises a unique tag sequence at the 5′ end. Each tag probe immobilized on the DNA chip comprises a sequence identical to its corresponding tag sequence; and each tag probe hybridizes only with the complementary sequence in the PCR amplification product.
US09133505B2
The invention relates to methods and kits for the quantitative analysis of in vivo mutation frequencies of the Pig-A gene in individuals, particularly using peripheral blood samples of vertebrates.
US09133492B2
Vectors expressing kanA-kanB-kanK and other kanamycin production-related genes, Streptomyces species recombinant bacteria transformed with the vectors, a method of producing kanamycin antibiotics by the bacteria, and a new kanamycin compound produced by the bacterium are provided. With the use of the recombinant bacteria of the present invention, the direct fermentative biosynthesis of amikacin and tobramycin as semi-synthetic kanamycins is possible, and the yield of kanamycin B as a precursor of the semi-synthetic kanamycin is improved.
US09133489B2
Provided herein are novel ACCases and nucleotides encoding the same, that when introduced into a cell or organism results in an increase and/or accumulation of fatty acids, glycerol lipids, and/or oils in the cell or organism, and/or a change in the types of fatty acids, glycerol lipids, and/or oils that are normally present in the cell or organism. Also provided herein are organisms transformed with the novel ACCases.
US09133488B2
Disclosed herein are synthetic methods and compounds related to the compounds that are useful as or in the production of biologically active compounds. Stereoselective and stereospecific synthetic methods are disclosed to produce compounds, such as, for example, γ,δ-unsaturated-β-hydroxyesters and aminated derivatives thereof, at high yields with desired stereochemistry. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US09133486B2
Compositions of a fusion protein comprising a spatially tethered ferredoxin-NADP-reductase (FNR) and an active [FeFe] hydrogenase, genetic sequences encoding such fusion proteins, and methods of use thereof are provided. The fusion proteins of the invention link an FNR polypeptide to an active [FeFe] hydrogenase through a polypeptide linker. The fusion protein facilitates improved electron transfer through a ferredoxin, and allows direct electron transfer from NADPH to the hydrogenase.
US09133480B2
The present invention relates to recombinant modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) virus containing restructured sites useful for the integration of heterologous nucleic acid sequences into an intergenic region (IGR) of the virus genome, where the IGR is located between two adjacent, essential open reading frames (ORFs) of the vaccinia virus genome, wherein the adjacent essential ORFs are non-adjacent in a parental MVA virus used to construct the recombinant MVA virus, and to related nucleic acid constructs useful for inserting heterologous DNA into the genome of a vaccinia virus, and further to the use of the disclosed viruses as a medicine or vaccine.
US09133475B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for providing and using markers of aphid resistant germplasm, particularly for identifying aphid resistance germplasm in soybean plants. Specifically, the inventions related to providing aphid resistant germplasm identified by markers associated with decreased damage from aphid feeding, as well as enhanced tolerance to aphid infestation of soybean plants. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods for using genetic markers in breeding methods for producing plants with increased resistance to aphid damage and tolerance, while retaining and acquiring desired agronomic traits. Additionally, markers were developed for fine mapping of aphid resistance genes including allele specific contributions to plants for breeding soybean plants with increased aphid resistance. Furthermore, the invention relates to plants produced by these breeding programs, including plants with having aphid resistant genes between the molecular markers identifying aphid resistant genes, for use in commercial soybean production.
US09133471B2
Inbred corn line designated BB87 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line BB87, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line BB87 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line BB87 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line BB87 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line BB87.
US09133470B2
The present invention relates to materials and methods for modulating growth rates, yield, and/or resistance to drought conditions in plants. In one embodiment, a method of the invention comprises increasing expression of an hc1 gene (or a homolog thereof that provides for substantially the same activity), or increasing expression or activity of the protein encoded by an hc1 gene thereof, in a plant, wherein expression of the hc1 gene or expression or activity of the protein encoded by an hc1 gene results in increased growth rate, yield, and/or drought resistance in the plant.
US09133469B1
Methods of increasing renewable oil production are provided and include transforming a plant cell with an isolated nucleic acid encoding a Vernonia galamensis diacylglycerol acyltransferase (VgDGAT) polypeptide, where the expression of the VgDGAT polypeptide increases an amount of renewable oil in the plant. Transgenic plant cells comprising an isolated nucleic acid encoding a Vernonia galamensis diacylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (VgDGAT1) polypeptide are further provided.
US09133462B2
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acids (dsRNAs) targeting gene expression of phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4K), in particular human phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase, catalytic, beta polypeptide (PIK4CB) or human phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase, catalytic, alpha polypeptide (PIK4CA), and their use for treating infection by positive stranded RNA viruses such as hepatitis C virus (HCV). Each dsRNA comprises an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length, generally 19-25 nucleotides in length, and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of the PIK4CB or PIK4CA target mRNA. A plurality of such dsRNA may be employed to provide therapeutic benefit. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and including a delivery modality such as fully encapsulated liposomes or lipid complexes. The invention further includes methods for treating diseases caused by positive stranded RNA virus infection using the pharmaceutical compositions; and methods for inhibiting the propogation of positive stranded RNA viruses in and between cells.
US09133455B2
The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogs into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.
US09133452B2
The present invention provides a method of producing a maturated oligonucleotide library, including a step of obtaining a terminal-modified product of a maturation target oligonucleotide library, including adding a tag sequence to the 5′ terminus of the maturation target oligonucleotide library and an arrest sequence, which stalls translation elongation on a ribosome, to the 3′ terminus of the maturation target oligonucleotide library, a step of transcribing the terminal-modified sequence product to give a transcript, and a step of in vitro translation for translating the transcript in vitro, wherein the maturation target oligonucleotide library is a random oligonucleotide library.
US09133451B2
The subject matter disclosed herein pertains to the modulation of a bacterial invasion switch and the subsequent use of the bacterium to vaccinate an organism. In one embodiment, the bacterial invasion switch is modulated by changing the proteolysis of ExoR protein. In another embodiment, a mutated bacterium produces a mutant ExoR protein that resists proteolysis.
US09133424B2
Methods for use of select organic compounds for the activation and stabilization of thermally labile enzymes, including proteases, are disclosed. The invention further relates to compositions of certain organic compounds with enzymes to enable the use of such enzymes at high temperature conditions, such as for warewash temperatures and conditions. In particular, organic activator-stabilizers including heat-deactivated proteases and zwitterionic materials are combined with enzymes according to the invention. As a result, the invention provides enzyme cleaning efficacy for various high temperature conditions, including warewash applications.
US09133409B2
The present invention relates to methods of improving the low temperature storage and performance properties of fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof, as well as compositions containing fatty acids and/or derivatives thereof having superior lower temperature storage and performance properties.
US09133394B2
Quantum-dot binding ligands with silsesquioxane moieties are provided. The quantum-dot binding ligands include a multiplicity of amine or carboxy binding ligands in combination with silsesquioxane moieties providing improved stability for the ligated quantum dots. The ligands and coated nanostructures of the present invention are useful for close packed nanostructure compositions, which can have improved quantum confinement and/or reduced cross-talk between nanostructures.
US09133390B2
The invention provides a light emitting diode device comprising a light emitting diode arranged on a substrate and a wavelength converting element. The wavelength converting element contains a luminescent material a Mn4+-activated fluoride compound having a garnet-type crystal structure. The Mn4+-activated fluoride compound preferably answers the general formula {A3}[B2-x-yMnxMgy](Li3)F12-dOd, in which formula A stands for at least one element selected from the series consisting of Na+ and K+ and B stands for at least one element selected from the series consisting of Al3+, B3+, Sc3+, Fe3+, Cr3+, Ti4+ and In3+, and in which formula x ranges between 0.02 and 0.2, y ranges between 0.0 (and incl. 0.0) and 0.4 and d ranges between 0 (and incl. 0) and 1. As the luminescent materials of the described type and structure have high stability and low sensitivity towards humid environments, they can advantageously be used as in wavelength conversion elements of LED devices.
US09133385B2
A method for enhancing the rheology of drilling fluids that is effective for any mud weight “clay-free” invert emulsion drilling fluid, even when drilling at high temperatures. The improved rheology is effected with addition of a silicon oil to the drilling fluid. A nonlimiting example of such a rheology additive comprises polydimethylsiloxane.
US09133382B2
A nitrate salt composition comprising A) an alkali metal nitrate and optionally an alkali metal nitrite in a total amount in the range from 90 to 99.84% by weight and B)an alkali metal compound selected from the group B1) alkali metal oxide, B2) alkali metal carbonate, B3) alkali metal compound which decomposes into alkali metal oxide or alkali metal carbonate in the temperature range from 250° C. to 600° C., B4) alkali metal hydroxide MetOH, in which Met is lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, B5) alkali metal peroxide Met2O2, in which Met is lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and B6) alkali metal superoxide MetO2, in which Met is sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, in a total amount in the range from 0.16 to 10% by weight, in each case based on the nitrate salt composition.
US09133375B2
This invention relates to compositions useful as adhesives and more particularly to the preparation of heat-curable epoxy-based adhesive compositions that are resistant to being washed off substrate surfaces prior to being cured. The incorporation of a solid diene-based rubber, in particular an acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer rubber having a relatively high Mooney viscosity, significantly enhances the wash-off resistance of the adhesive, while still allowing the adhesive to be readily dispensed by pumping under high shear conditions.
US09133369B2
A polymer film that includes a polymeric substrate having a first side and a second side; a back-side coating on the first side of the substrate, the back-side coating formed from at least an ionomer, an acrylic emulsion, and at least one inorganic material, said inorganic material comprising a majority of particles have a mean largest dimension in the range of 0.2 μm to 25 μm; and a polymeric surface layer in contact with the second side of the polymeric substrate is described. Articles, such as labels, and methods of making films and labels are also described.
US09133365B2
There is provided a high temperature hybridized molecular functional group adhesion barrier coating for a composite structure. The coating has one or more hybridized molecular functional groups attached to a composite surface of the composite structure, wherein the one or more hybridized molecular functional groups are hybridized through a chemical derivatization process. The coating further has one or more chemical derivatization compounds attached to the one or more hybridized molecular functional groups via a condensation reaction. The coating is resistant to high heat temperatures in a range of from about 350 degrees Fahrenheit to about 2000 degrees Fahrenheit, and the coating is a thermally protective, toughened adhesion coating that mitigates effects of a hostile operating environment.
US09133364B2
The invention relates to a polyurethane P comprising a moiety derived from a polyfunctional isocyanate F, and a hydroxyfunctional compound ABCE made from a grafted fatty acid AB which in turn is made from a fatty acid A having at least one olefinic unsaturation, and grafted with a mixture B of olefinically unsaturated monomers which mixture comprises at least one acid-functional olefinically unsaturated monomer B1, wherein the grafted fatty acid AB has on average at least 1.1 acid groups per molecule, at least one polyhydric alcohol C having at least two hydroxyl groups, and at least one fatty acid E, to a process of making this polyurethane, and to a method of use thereof in the form of an aqueous dispersion to formulate coating compositions.
US09133362B2
A mechanochromic coating composition is disclosed comprising a binder composition and a crystalline mechanophore. The mechanophore changes color upon application of a mechanical load to the coating composition.
US09133345B2
A metallic coating is provided. The nickel based metallic coating includes tantalum, cobalt, chromium, and aluminum. The nickel based metallic coating does not include silicon and/or hafnium and/or zirconium. A tantalum addition in nickel based coating stabilized the phases gamma/gamma1 at high temperatures leading to a reduction of local stresses.
US09133344B2
The present disclosure is drawn to methods and compositions directed at durable ink-jet inks. As such, an ink-jet ink can have a liquid vehicle, a colorant dispersed or dissolved in the liquid vehicle, a high Tg polymer having a Tg of at least 45.degree. C. dispersed in the liquid vehicle, and a near-infrared absorbing dye in the liquid vehicle. The ink can be formulated such that when printed on a substrate and irradiated with a near-infrared energy source, the near-infrared absorbing dye generates enough heat to uniformly melt the high Tg polymer, thereby enhancing the durability of ink-jet ink printed on the substrate.
US09133334B2
Dedusting agents for fiberglass products and methods for making and using the same are provided. The composition can include a binder and a dedusting agent. The dedusting agent can include an emulsion comprising one or more pitches, one or more fatty acids, one or more rosins, or any combination thereof.
US09133328B2
A composition includes: a) polystyrene, the polystyrene including polybutadiene; b) vegetal fibers having a length lower than 50 μm; and c) at least one compatibility agent including a polybutadiene maleic anhydride copolymer, the copolymer including at least 17% by weight of the copolymer of maleic anhydride. The composition is used for manufacturing a plastic composition. The plastic composition obtained by heating the composition, a sheet obtained by extruding the plastic composition, and a container obtained by thermoforming the sheet are also described.
US09133327B2
The invention provides a composition comprising at least the following: A) an ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer; B) an olefin-based polymer; and C) a crosslinking agent; and wherein the ethylene/α-olefin interpolymer of component A) has the following properties: i) has a density greater than, or equal to, 0.850 g/cc; ii) a molar ratio of “vinyl to total unsaturation” greater than, or equal to, 1/10; iii) an 1 10/12 ratio from 6.2 to 40.
US09133326B2
The invention relates to a mineralized composite material and methods of forming such a material. The process comprises mineralization of a chitin template with calcium carbonate. The mineralized composite material of the invention has similar properties to the natural material nacre.
US09133322B2
The present invention relates to polyamide molding compounds, pigmented black, which include nigrosin and at least one nucleation agent, carbon black being ruled out. The present invention likewise relates to a method for producing molded articles from the mentioned polyamide molding compounds and also the corresponding molded articles. The polyamide molding compounds are used in the production of components with increased temperature requirements, e.g. in the automobile sector.
US09133319B2
Nanodispersions of inorganic clays in isocyanate may be created via pre-exfoliation, delamination, or both of the clay and subsequent mixing with isocyanate. In an embodiment, such an isocyanate nanodispersion is reacted with an isocyanate-reactive material or substrate to form a polyurethane nanocomposite.
US09133304B2
The present invention discloses new catalyst systems based on complexes of divalent metals supported by chelating phenoxy ligands for immortal ring-opening polymerization of cyclic esters and cyclic carbonates.
US09133302B2
Disclosed is a thermoplastic elastomer composition having excellent thermal resistance, and which includes a hard segment of a resin component, an elastic soft segment of a rubber component and the like. The thermoplastic elastomer composition has properties of both a plastic and a rubber, and, in particular, it has an elasticity as a function of a rubber at room temperature, and is further plasticized at high temperatures so as to be molded. Further, by increasing a proportion of the hard segment, the thermoplastic elastomer composition has improved heat resistance and grease resistance. Accordingly, the present invention provides a thermoplastic elastomer composition having excellent thermal resistance, which can be applied to an automotive constant velocity joint boot and the like.
US09133301B2
Epoxy resin hardener compositions and epoxy resin compositions containing such hardener compositions
An epoxy resin hardener composition including a reaction product of (i) a compound having at least one vicinal epoxy group, and (ii) an amino alcohol; an epoxy resin composition including the epoxy resin hardener composition and a compound having at least one vicinal epoxy group; and a powder coating composition including particles of the epoxy resin hardener composition and particles of a compound having at least one vicinal epoxy group.
US09133299B2
The present invention relates to a polyurethane resin composition including a first polyurethane resin and a second polyurethane resin that are different from each other in their compositions, an organic solvent, and a surfactant, and a polyurethane mounting pad manufactured from the resin composition.
US09133295B2
Methods for making polymer particles in gel form via an emulsion and/or suspension polymerization are provided. In at least one specific embodiment, the method can include reacting a first reaction mixture comprising a phenolic monomer, an aldehyde monomer, and a first catalyst to produce a prepolymer. The method can also include combining the prepolymer with a carrier fluid and a second catalyst to produce a second reaction mixture. The second catalyst can include a dicarboxylic acid, an anhydride, a dihydroxybenzene, or any mixture thereof. The method can also include polymerizing the prepolymer to form polymer particles in gel form.
US09133294B2
Described herein are alkyl phenolic resins and methods of producing them. The content of residual phenol in the alkyl phenolic resin may be less than about 2% w/w, the softening point of the alkyl phenolic resin may be about 85° C. to about 105° C., the tackiness of the alkyl phenolic resin may be about 8 N to about 25 N, the alkyl group of the alkyl phenol may have 6-12 carbon atoms, and the content of 4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl) phenol in the alkyl phenol may be from about 0% to about 85% w/w. The invention also relates to a use of the alkyl phenolic resin as rubber tackifier.
US09133283B2
The invention relates to a wind power plant comprising a vertically disposed shaft (2), a rotor with a number of straight or slightly curved blades (3, 4) which are parallel to the shaft (2); said rotor rotates round the shaft (2) whereby at least, one rotor blade (3, 4) which is disposed on the side facing the shaft (2) has a strip (5), which, in turn, is parallel to the shaft and projects from the surface of the rotor-blade (3, 4).
US09133263B2
The invention relates to a cell containing a gene encoding a conditional transgenic surface marker that is detectable upon expression on the surface of the cell, wherein the gene encoding a conditional transgenic surface marker comprises: (i) a promoter, operably linked to (ii) a first transcription sequence, and (iii) a second transcription sequence encoding the surface marker, whereby the first transcription sequence prevents the transcription of the second transcription sequence, whereby the first transcription sequence is conditionally removable such that the second transcription sequence is transcribable, and whereby the surface marker renders the cell sortable through the detection of the conditional transgenic surface marker. Furthermore, the invention relates to a construct for generating such a cell, and to a method for separating such a cell from a population of cells.
US09133255B2
Controlled studies demonstrate that products and related methods using soy related peptides lower total and LDL cholesterol levels in individuals. In one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a product containing an effective amount of lunasin peptides that lowers cholesterol levels in an individual that consumes the lunasin peptides is provided. In another exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a composition containing an effective amount of lunasin peptides or lunasin peptide derivatives and one or more enzyme inhibitors is provided. In a related exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for lowering or reducing cholesterol levels in an individual is provided where a product containing an effective amount of lunasin peptides to an individual is provided and a claim that the product lowers or reduces cholesterol, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol or lipid levels in an individual that consumes the composition is made.
US09133252B2
A polypeptide is provided that comprises an actinohivin variant polypeptide having an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NOS: 4-12. The polypeptide can be provided as part of a fusion protein that includes the actinohivin variant polypeptide and either a fragment crystallizable domain of an antibody (Fc), a fragment antigen-binding domain of an antibody (Fab), or a single chain variable fragment of an antibody (scFv). Isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding the polypeptides are also provided along with vectors and plant cells capable of expressing the polypeptides. Methods of treating an infection of a subject by an enveloped virus are further provided and include administering an effective amount of the polypeptides to a subject.
US09133251B2
Herein a Bacillus exosporium antigen delivery (BEAD) system that provides a means to introduce recombinant proteins or small molecules into the exosporium of members of the B. cereus family of bacteria, i.e. B. anthracis, B. cereus, and B. thuringiensis, is disclosed. The system results in the surface display of recombinant proteins or small molecules such that they can stimulate an immune response. In addition, methods of making and using the system are described.
US09133249B2
The present invention provides therapeutic and prophylactic compositions for use in treating and preventing disorders involved epithelial cell apoptosis, such as gastrointestinal disorders (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) in a subject, such as a human patient.
US09133245B2
Provided herein is a new class of cyclic lactadherin peptides (cLac) that mimic the natural phosphatidylserine (PS)-binding activity of the parent lactadherin protein. These cLacs are useful as small molecule indicators of early stage of apoptosis and of treatment efficacy evaluation.
US09133242B2
The invention relates to a peptide having the sequence SEQ.1: INWLKIAKKVAGML-NH2 and one or more of the variants thereof selected from among the sequences SEQ.2 to SEQ.25, or one of the mixtures thereof. The peptides are used especially as a medicament, in particular for the treatment of cancer. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition including the peptides.
US09133241B2
The present invention provides, among other things, novel peptides and compositions for treating disease.
US09133236B2
Novel peptides are described which comprise an amino acid motif selected from the group consisting of “PG”, “GP”, “PI” and “IG” and having up to 10 amino acids upstream and/or downstream of the amino acid motif, wherein “P” in the motif is proline or hydroxyproline and the peptide stimulates the development, maintenance and repair of bone, cartilage and associated connective tissue. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions of these peptides, as well as therapeutic and prophylactic uses of such peptides.
US09133232B2
Disclosed are polycyclic polyether compounds of formula I and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. wherein R, OR1, and R2 are as defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of regulating mucus clearance in a cell, and methods of treating decreased mucus clearance or mucociliary dysfunction.
US09133221B2
A method for manufacturing a hydrophilic silicone macromer is provided. A hydrosilylation between a Si—H bond of a polysiloxane and a C═C bond of a hydrophilic mononmer is performed by using a rhodium-containing catalyst to form the polysiloxane having a hydrophilic side chain having an amide group or a phosphoryl choline group. After performing an end-capping reaction, the hydrophilic silicone macromer is formed.
US09133220B2
Novel compounds of the general formula are introduced, containing 5-arylidene-3,5-dihydro-4h-imidazol-4-one core. These compounds can be used for fluorescent staining of cell membranes, biomolecules' labeling in vivo and in vitro, a number of compounds also have photoacidic properties. This allows to use them, for example, as instruments to drastically change pH of a medium, and also as dynamic fluorescent probes for investigation of complex objects like proteins and micellae, as well as in studies of hydration dynamics and in photolithography.
US09133219B2
The antibacterial compound of formula I wherein X1, X3; X4 and X6, each independently of the others, represents a nitrogen atom or CR2, with the proviso that at least one of X1, X3; X4 and X6 represents a nitrogen atom; X2 represents C—H, C—(C1-C6alkyl), C—(C1-C6alkoxy), C-halogen, C—COOH; X5 represents C—H or C—(C1-C6alkyl), C-halogen; A1, A2, A3, R1 and R4 represent various substituents, G represents aryl or heteroaryl, which is unsubstituted or substituted which compounds show good activity against pathogenic bacteria.
US09133213B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I) that are useful antimicrobial agents and effective against a variety of multi-drug resistant bacteria:
US09133204B2
5-Membered heterocyclic amides and related compounds are provided, of the Formula: wherein variables are as described herein. Such compounds are ligands that may be used to modulate specific receptor activity in vivo or in vitro, and are particularly useful in the treatment of conditions associated with pathological receptor activation in humans, domesticated companion animals and livestock animals. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods for using such compounds to treat such disorders are provided, as are methods for using such ligands for receptor localization studies.
US09133194B2
The invention relates to peptide mimetics comprising the residues P4-P3-P2-P1, which were cyclized between the side chains of P3 and P2 amino acid and are, as inhibitors of the serine protease plasmin, suitable to be used to inhibit fibrinolysis and thus to reduce blood loss in hyperfibrinolytic conditions, for example during surgery.
US09133193B2
Provided are an organic semiconductor material, organic semiconductor thin film and organic thin-film transistor, which contain a perylene tetracarboxylic diimide derivative represented by the following formula (1): In the formula (1), R1 means a linear or branched alkyl group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms, R2 means a linear or branched alkyl group having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, R3 means a linear or branched alkyl group having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms, X1 and X2 each mean a heteroatom selected from an oxygen atom, sulfur atom or selenium atom, Y means a halogen atom or cyano group, m stands for a number of from 0 to 4, and n stands for a number of from 0 to 2. Further, the alkyl groups represented by R1 and R2 may each be substituted with one or more fluorine atoms.
US09133190B2
The present invention provides, in part, compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and N-oxides of the foregoing; processes for the preparation of; intermediates used in the preparation of; and compositions containing such compounds, salts or N-oxides, and their uses for treating D1-mediated (or D1-associated) disorders including, e.g., schizophrenia (e.g., its cognitive and negative symptoms), cognitive impairment (e.g., cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia, AD, PD, or pharmacotherapy therapy), ADHD, impulsivity, compulsive gambling, overeating, autism spectrum disorder, MCI, age-related cognitive decline, dementia, RLS, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's chorea, anxiety, depression, MDD, TRD, and bipolar disorder.
US09133181B2
The present invention relates to pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridine compounds of the formula I, in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are defined as indicated below. The compounds of the formula I are kinase inhibitors, and are useful for the treatment of diseases associated with diabetes and diabetic complications, such as, diabetic nephropathy, diabetic neuropathy and diabetic retinopathy, for example. The invention furthermore relates to the use of compounds of the formula I, in particular as active ingredients in pharmaceuticals, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US09133177B2
The inventions describe disclosed and described herein relate to ambipolar small molecule host materials for guest phosphorescent metal complexes. Methods of making the ambipolar small molecules are also described. These ambipolar small molecules, which comprise both an oxadiazole and one or more carbazole groups, can be used to make the emission layers of unexpectedly efficient OLED devices containing the materials of the inventions, wherein (I) at least one of the R1, R2 and R3 groups is an optionally substituted carbazole group.
US09133168B2
The present invention relates to novel chemical compounds derived from pyrimidines, to the method for preparing same, to the novel intermediates obtained, to the use thereof as drugs, to the pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and to the therapeutic use thereof as AKT inhibitors.
US09133154B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods for treating neurodegenerative diseases and disorders, particularly ophthalmic diseases and disorders. Provided herein are substituted 3-phenylpropylamine derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compositions are useful for treating and preventing ophthalmic diseases and disorders, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Stargardt's Disease.
US09133152B2
A process for the preparation of 10-deacetyl-7,10-bis-trichloroacetylbaccatine III with HPLC purity higher than 99% and free from 2-debenzoyl-2-pentenoylbaccatine III by purification of 10-deacetyl-7,10-bis-trichloroacetylbaccatineIII followed by alkaline hydrolysis of the protecting groups in position 7 and 10.
US09133150B2
The present invention provides O-nitro compounds, pharmaceutical compositions of O-nitro compounds and methods of using O-nitro compounds and/or pharmaceutical compositions thereof to treat or prevent diseases or disorders characterized by abnormal cell proliferation, such as cancer, inflammation, cardiovascular disease and autoimmune disease.
US09133149B2
A method of producing an alkylene oxide includes passing a reaction mixture comprising alkylene, oxygen and a gaseous chlorine-containing promoter species over a supported catalyst containing silver and a promoting amount of rhenium to undergo an epoxidation reaction at a first operating condition. The method further includes subsequently performing the epoxidation reaction at a preferred operating condition. The preferred operating condition is characterized by an efficiency of the epoxidation reaction toward the alkylene oxide where the efficiency is lower than that of a maximum efficiency achievable at an operating temperature corresponding to the preferred operating condition.
US09133147B2
Compounds of the invention are useful in inhibiting thrombin and associated thrombotic occlusions having the following structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein Q is CH2, NR4, O, S, S(O) or S(O2), wherein R4 is H, C1-6 alkyl, aryl, or C3-8 cycloalkyl; R1 is a heterocycle or —(CR5R6)1-2NH2, wherein R5 and R6, each time in which they occur, are independently H, C1-6 alkyl, —CH2F, —CHF2, CF3 or —CH2OH; R2 is OH, NH2 or NHSO2CH3; R3 is C1-6 alkyl.
US09133136B2
The present invention provides analogs and derivatives of thalidomide which inhibit cancer and angiogenesis. The present invention further provides compounds which disrupt microtubule polymerization. The present further provides methods of treating cancers comprising mutant p53.
US09133135B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing nitrogen compounds using carbon dioxide, and to the use of the method in the production of vitamins, pharmaceutical products, adhesives, acrylic fibers, synthetic leathers, pesticides, herbicides, antifungal agents and fertilizers. The invention also relates to a method for producing vitamins, pharmaceutical products, adhesives, acrylic fibers, synthetic leathers, pesticides, herbicides, antifungal agents and fertilizers, which includes a step of preparing nitrogen compounds using the method of the invention. The invention further relates to a method for preparing labelled nitrogen compounds using carbon dioxide and to the uses thereof.
US09133132B2
The present invention is related to intermediates useful in the preparation of pharmaceutically acceptable salts of (+)-7-[4-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-isopropyl-2-(methanesulfonyl-methyl-amino)-pyrimidin-5-yl]-(3R,5S)-dihydroxy-hept-6-enoic acid and polymorphs of said intermediates, methods for preparation thereof and use thereof.
US09133124B2
A novel crystalline form of the sodium salt of 4-tert-butyl-N-[4-chloro-2-(1-oxy -pyridine-4-carbonyl)-phenyl]-benzenesulfonamide and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same are disclosed. Processes for the preparation thereof and methods for use thereof are also disclosed.
US09133119B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) and to the use thereof in organic electronic devices, and to organic electronic devices which comprise compounds of the formula (I), preferably as hole-transport materials and/or as matrix materials, in particular in combination with a further matrix material.
US09133116B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of Formula I, their pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives, tautomeric forms, isomers, polymorphs, prodrugs, metabolites, salts or solvates thereof. The invention also relates to processes for the synthesis of novel compounds of Formula I, their pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives, tautomeric forms, isomers, polymorphs, prodrugs, metabolites, salts or solvates thereof. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I and methods of treating or preventing one or more disorders of the central and/or peripheral nervous system, preferably by modulating neurological and/or psychiatric targets (GPCR and/or non-GPCR).
US09133112B2
A process for preparing β-mercaptocarboxylic acid is provided with Step a for reacting a compound represented by a formula: X12S or a compound represented by a formula: X2SH, alkali hydroxide represented by a formula: X3OH (the X groups being defined), and unsaturated carboxylic acid represented by the following General Formula (1) to obtain a reaction solution including a compound represented by the following General Formula (2) and a compound represented by the following General Formula (3), Step b for neutralizing the reaction solution obtained in Step a with an acid to obtain a reaction solution including β-mercaptocarboxylic acid represented by the following General Formula (4) and a compound represented by the following General Formula (5), Step c for distillation-refining the reaction solution obtained in Step b to obtain the β-mercaptocarboxylic acid, and Step d for returning a distillation residue in Step c to Step a.
US09133111B2
The presence of certain impurities in diphenyl sulfone have a deleterious effect on the properties of the poly(aryletherketone)s produced therein, including one or more of color, melt stability, molecular weight, crystallinity, etc. and here identify those impurities and provide processes for the recovery of the diphenyl sulfone.
US09133106B2
A method for producing a ketoxime is provided. The method includes the step of performing a reaction of a nitrogen-containing compound, ketone and an oxidant by using a titanium-silicon molecular sieve as a catalyst, so as to form the ketoxime, thereby increasing the yield and selectivity of the ketoxime.
US09133105B2
The present disclosure provides novel compounds capable of functioning as transcription factor modulators, as well as compositions, pharmaceutical formulations, and kits. Also provided are methods of treating a condition regulatable by a transcription factor and/or cofactor using the compounds, compositions, pharmaceutical formulations, and kits provided herein.
US09133097B2
The present invention is directed to unsaturated sphingosine compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of cancer and for the treatment of other diseases including diabetes and infection with intracellular bacteria. The invention is also directed to methods of using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds in treating these diseases.
US09133087B2
Catalytic chemical (not biological) reactions conducted during acid digestion of most cellulosic materials, comprising newspaper, wood sawdust, corn cobs, switchgrass and bagasse, are taught for direct conversion to ethanol with conversion efficiencies of at least 90 percent in less than 5 minutes. The cellulose material is thoroughly wet in a salt saturated sulfuric acid medium in the presence of transition metal salt catalysts possessing a degree of symmetry to form ethanol that can be removed by distillation affording a continuous process.
US09133069B2
The present disclosure describes an agricultural blend and a process of forming an agricultural blend. The agricultural blend includes a slag by-product from a process having a slag other than stainless steel slag or includes 11 atomic % silicon from a soluble compound and total silicon of less than about 30 atomic % silicon or greater than about 39 atomic % silicon. The process includes producing a slag by-product and blending the slag by-product with a liquid binder system to form the agricultural blend, the slag not being stainless steel slag.
US09133067B2
Organic fertilizer is produced through composting natural lignocellulose material and liquid wastes especially from livestock production, which has a content of minimum 35% dry matter, minimum 25 weight % of organic material, minimum 20 weight % of humus and minimum 1.5 weight % of nitrogen. The organic fertilizer is produced by spraying sorbent material with waste water, that is livestock waste water or food industry waste water or water cleaning plant sludges. The waste water contains a minimum of 20% weight of livestock waste water, which is homogenized with agent, which includes materials based on starch derivates or cellulose derivates, which increase thixotrophy and surface tension of this waste water and separators, which prevent creation of clusters and increase solubility of starch or cellulose derivates. Sorbent material with waste water is mixed, aerated and decomposed by aerobic bacterial activity in at least four cycles.
US09133066B2
A functional fertilizer composition containing natural mineral ingredients and a method of preparing the same are disclosed. More particularly, a functional fertilizer composition that is environmentally friendly, significantly accelerates growth of plants, relieves physiological disorders, is suitable for use as an agent for odor removal and a gas generation inhibitor, and enables preparation of a soil conditioner from a residue from which mineral ingredients are extracted and a method of preparing the same are disclosed. To this end, the method includes pulverizing vermiculite, mixing the pulverized vermiculite with water, adding sulfur or sulfuric acid to the mixture of pulverized vermiculite and water, stirring the mixture to which sulfur or sulfuric acid has been added, aging the stirred mixture to prepare an aqueous solution, and separating and extracting an aqueous solution containing mineral ingredients from the prepared aqueous solution.
US09133062B2
Methods of firing a cordierite green body to form a fired cordierite body. The green body comprises cordierite-forming raw materials and organic material, the body having a core portion and a skin portion. The green body is pre-heated to a pre-heat temperature that is less than a thermal decomposition temperature of the organic material. The green body is maintained at the pre-heat temperature for a period of time sufficient to minimize a temperature differential between the core portion and the skin portion. The green body is heated to a low firing temperature in a firing atmosphere sufficient to reduce a content of the organic material and to substantially remove chemically bound water from hydrous alumina. The green body is heated to a high firing temperature in a firing atmosphere sufficient to reduce the content of the organic material prior to a substantial removal of chemically bound water from clay.
US09133060B2
The present invention provides a gypsum composition, a gypsum board and their preparation method and the use of DHA as an anti-sagging additive in a gypsum product. Said gypsum board comprises set gypsum prepared from the composition; while said composition comprises gypsum, and an anti-deformation additive, wherein the anti-deformation additive comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of dehydroascorbic acid, dehydroascorbate and semidehydroascorbic acid. The set gypsum prepared from the said composition shows better anti-sagging or deformation resisting property. The gypsum product of the present invention is hardly distorted and has stronger stability even in the condition of high humidity, thus improve the quality of the gypsum product to meet the demands of the customer.
US09133057B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of an amino alcohol A and/or of a salt of the amino alcohol A as an additive when grinding at least one solid. The amino alcohol A has a structure according to formula I where: R1 and R2, independently of one another, each present an alkanol group including 2-4 carbon atoms, and b) R3 is a hydrocarbon group including 1-8 carbon atoms, and c) R3 is different from R1 and/or R2.
US09133047B2
Exemplary decontamination systems of the present disclosure may allow for removing contaminants from a fluid. In an embodiment, a decontamination system may include a filtration unit operable to receive an adsorbent and contaminated fluid. The filtration unit may include a filter operable to separate the fluid from the adsorbent and contaminants adsorbed onto the adsorbent. In an embodiment, the decontamination system may further include a recovery unit operable to separate the adsorbent and the contaminants adsorbed onto the adsorbent.
US09133046B2
This invention relates to an improved method of inhibiting corrosion and calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate scaling in thermal and membrane desalination processes. The method includes adding a composition having an acrylic acid 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropyl sulfonic acid copolymer, combined with a synergistically effective amount of oligomeric phosphinosuccinic acid to seawater or recirculation brine in a desalting process to produce water for drinking and industrial applications. The method also includes adding a composition including mono, bis, and oligomeric phosphinosuccinic acid adducts to the desalting process.
US09133045B2
Disclosed are methods, compositions and systems pertaining to polymer coatings that entrap enzymes, specifically enzymes capable of reducing carboxylic acids.
US09133043B2
The present invention provides a biological treatment method of biologically treating the subject water containing phenol, thiocyanate and the like, which improves the quality of treated water, while suppressing a reduction in treatment efficiency. As a means for achieving the aforementioned object, the present invention relates to a biological treatment method including introducing subject water containing a COD component, wherein the COD component is at least one of phenol and thiocyanate, into a biological treatment tank containing sludge containing bacteria capable of decomposing the COD component to thereby biologically treat the COD component with the bacteria, wherein, before the introduction of the subject water into the biological treatment tank, a step of counting the total number of bacteria contained in the sludge is carried out, so that the amount of the COD component loaded on a single bacterium per unit time can be controlled within a predetermined range.
US09133041B2
A groundwater remediation method for treating acidic or alkaline groundwater containing divalent and trivalent metal cations includes the step of injecting a slurry or suspension of solid alkaline material into the ground, the slurry or suspension being injected into one or more regions such that the groundwater contacts the solid alkaline material and the divalent and trivalent metal cations react to form a layered double hydroxide (LDH) material.
US09133021B2
A wafer level package having a pressure sensor and a fabrication method thereof are provided. A wafer having the pressure sensor is bonded to a lid, and electrical connecting pads are formed on the wafer. After the lid is cut, wire-bonding and packaging processes are performed. Ends of bonding wires are exposed and serve as an electrical connecting path. A bottom opening is formed on a bottom surface of the wafer, in order to form a pressure sensor path.
US09133020B1
Methods for manufacturing multiple bottom port, surface mount microphones, each containing a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone die, are disclosed. Each surface mount microphone features a substrate with metal pads for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between the microphone package and the device's printed circuit board. The surface mount microphones are manufactured from a panel of unsingulated substrates, each substrate having an acoustic port, and each MEMS microphone die is substrate-mounted and acoustically coupled to its respective acoustic port. Individual covers are joined to the panel of unsingulated substrates, and each individual substrate and cover pair cooperates to form an acoustic chamber for its respective MEMS microphone die. The completed panel is singulated to form individual MEMS microphones.
US09132998B2
An adjustable bearing foot assembly for installation in a base plate, for example a base plate of a crane sub-assembly, including a threaded nut comprising an inner thread; a bearing foot having an outer thread; and a securing element with which the bearing foot can be fixed, rotationally secure, in the threaded nut.
US09132989B2
There is provided a recording apparatus including a recording unit and a transporting mechanism to transport a recording medium. The transporting mechanism includes, a guide surface to guide an end portion, of the recording medium, in a direction intersecting with a transporting direction of the recording medium, and a pair of rollers arranged, in a direction orthogonal to the guide surface, at a position between the guide surface and a central portion of the transporting path. The pair of rollers includes, a driving roller to transport the recording medium, and a driven roller having a rotary portion facing a recording surface, of the recording medium, on which the image is recorded, and configured to rotate about a rotation axis thereof following movement of the recording medium, and a first shaft to support the rotary portion rotatably. The rotary portion is supported rockably with respect to the first shaft.
US09132983B2
An apparatus for folding a product having a first portion and a second portion has a receiving roll with a drive assembly for rotating the receiving roll at variable surface speeds in a first direction of rotation. The receiving roll is adapted to selectively hold the first and second portions of the product thereto. A folding roll has a drive assembly for rotating the folding roll at variable surface speeds in a second, opposite direction of rotation. The folding roll is adapted to selectively hold the first portion of the product thereto. An oscillating member is adapted to transfer the first portion of the product from the receiving roll to the folding roll. The oscillating member has a drive assembly for moving the oscillating member at variable surface speeds in both the first direction and the second direction.
US09132980B2
There is provided a technique of allowing the user to readily identify a printed material with a stable tint when a plurality of printed materials are output in a printing apparatus. To achieve this, a printing apparatus according to one aspect of the invention executes an adjustment job for printing an image on a plurality of sheets for adjusting the tint of the printed image, and controls to discharge, to a first discharge unit, a predetermined number of sheets among the plurality of sheets on which the image is printed by executing the adjustment job, and to discharge, to a second discharge unit different from the first discharge unit, a remaining sheet subsequent to the predetermined number of sheets.
US09132978B2
A stepping motor control device includes a driving IC driving a stepping motor by PWM control, and a setting circuit for setting PWM frequency of the driving IC. The setting circuit sets the driving IC such that in stepping motor accelerating and decelerating periods, the PWM frequency of the driving IC becomes higher than the PWM frequency of the driving IC in a constant-speed period of the stepping motor. Thus, power loss of the driving IC in the stepping motor accelerating and decelerating periods can be reduced, and ripple current can be reduced.
US09132974B2
A cask for whisky (10), e.g. in a hexagonal or triangular prism shape for ease of stackability. The cask is comprised of a number of staves (11), bound together to form the prism shape. Accordingly, stacking multiple casks naturally compresses the staves together and reduces spirit loss through the side wall of a cask. A method for stacking casks is also described, wherein the cask may be hexagonal, triangular or square ended.
US09132972B2
An article dropping apparatus may include a first shutter and a second shutter. A first movable member is movable relative to the first shutter. A second movable member is movable relative to the second shutter. An article may be supported by the first shutter and the second shutter to extend therebetween when the first shutter and the second shutter are positioned at closed positions. The first movable member and the second movable member may apply forces in opposite directions away from each other so that as the first and second shutters move from closed positions to open positions.
US09132968B2
An exemplary embodiment is directed to a cantilevered screw assembly comprising a solid oil bearing to facilitate rotation of the screw. Another exemplary embodiment of a cantilevered screw assembly includes an improved anchor system comprising multiple load-bearing walls. In particular, an exemplary embodiment may comprise a screw that is cantilevered to at least two walls. At least one reinforcement member may connect the walls for additional support.
US09132967B2
A pressure relief tube or enclosure such as for an auger screw. In one embodiment, a pressure relief tube may comprise at least one hatch that is adapted to expand in response to force applied from within the tube. An example of the pressure relief tube may automatically adapt or adjust to potential problem material in the tube to allow for conveyance or clearance of the problem material. Another example of the pressure relief tube may be manually adapted or adjusted to facilitate conveyance or clearance of the problem material. Related systems and methods comprising a pressure relief tube are also provided.
US09132959B2
An endlessly circulating link conveyor with energy supply from a stationary source comprises a plurality of links (1) that are connected to one another such that they can pivot with respect to one another, jointly form a link conveyor that follows a running path over deflection rollers (6) and can be driven in circulating fashion, an energy guiding chain (30), one end of which travels with the link conveyor and the other end of which is arranged in rotating fashion within the circulatory path, and via which the link conveyor can be connected to supply lines (36), where the links (1) of the link conveyor display a channel (2) for receiving distribution lines (40) and, laterally next to the channel, a guide groove (3) for guiding the energy guiding chain (30), where the upper face of at least one of the links (1) displays a mounting surface for consumers, and one of the links (1) is equipped for connecting the travelling end (32) of the energy guiding chain (30).
US09132956B2
A thermoplastic food wrap film including a plurality of parallel ribs formed therein. To produce the film, a thermoplastic web may be directed between opposing first and second rollers having ridges. The formation of the ribs may increase the width of the web. The film may be formed into a roll and inserted into a box having a cutting strip.
US09132953B2
An aerosol system for dispensing liquid material, comprising a container assembly and an actuator assembly comprising an outlet member defining an outlet opening, a collar member, an actuator member, and a selector member. The actuator member supports the collar member and the outlet member such that movement of the collar member relative to the actuator member causes the collar member to deform the outlet member. Movement of the selector member relative to the collar member moves the collar member relative to the actuator member. Deformation of the outlet member alters a cross-sectional area of the outlet opening. When the actuator assembly is in a first position, the liquid material is prevented from flowing out of the container. When the actuator assembly is in a second position, the liquid material is allowed to flow out of the container assembly through the outlet opening.
US09132952B1
A mobile fiber dispenser that dispenses a variety of types and lengths of pre-cut fibers. The main body of the dispenser is a cylindrical hopper. The pre-cut fibers are loaded into the top of the hopper. Inside the body of the dispenser is a counter auger that keeps the fibers from bridging and clumping. As the fibers pass through the counter auger, they drop into a feed auger that pushes the fibers through an auger housing toward a declumping apparatus. The counter auger and feed auger rotate in the same direction. The declumping apparatus at the end of the auger housing and feed auger intercepts the fibers as the fibers exit the auger housing. The declumping apparatus provides an even distribution of the pre-cut fiber through a discharge chute that extends downward from the auger housing. The fibers are discharged into a field vehicle's mixing process or other collection apparatus.
US09132941B2
Methods of stretching thermoplastic films in the machine direction include elongating the films in the machine direction without significantly reducing the films' machine-direction tear resistance. In one or more implementations, methods of stretching thermoplastic films include reducing the gauge of the films while substantially maintaining the films' machine-direction tear resistance. The methods can involve uniformly cold stretching the films by stretching the films to a draw of about one hundred and eighty percent, or less, of the films' original length.
US09132936B2
A carton for containing a plurality of articles arranged in at least a first layer and a second layer above the first layer. The carton comprises a plurality of panels that extends at least partially around an interior of the carton and an opening feature for accessing the articles in the carton. The opening feature extends in at least one panel of the plurality of panels. A tray is disposed at least partially in the interior of the carton. At least a portion of the tray can be positioned between the first layer and the second layer. The tray can be for supporting the articles in the second layer to allow removal of the articles in the second layer after activation of the opening feature of the carton.
US09132932B2
A portable combination dishware set comprising a first surface comprising a female part and a second surface comprising a male part of a fastening mechanism. The female part comprises a circular recess that forms a protuberance on the first surface, the protuberance terminating in a raised circular periphery, the raised circular periphery comprising a number of inwardly extending locking brackets, each locking bracket comprising an inner arcuate edge that joins the raised circular periphery at the first end of the inner arcuate edge and at the second end of the inner arcuate edge, and a locking channel situated directly underneath the arcuate edge of each locking bracket. The male part comprises a number of locking members, each comprising a vertical extension that connects the locking member to the second surface and a horizontal portion that extends partially around an outer circumference of a circular protrusion on the second surface.
US09132917B2
A lounge assembly configured to be positioned in the interior of an aircraft. The lounge assembly includes a first seat shell configured to at least partially surround a passenger seat, and an overhead storage bin assembly. The overhead storage bin assembly includes first and second posts configured to be secured to a floor of the aircraft, and an overhead bin housing supported by the first and second posts. The overhead bin housing includes at least a first overhead storage bin that is positioned generally above the first seat shell.
US09132913B1
A system includes an auto-flight system and a touchscreen flight mode control panel. The auto-flight system is configured to control a plurality of primary flight modes. The touchscreen flight mode control panel is communicatively coupled to the auto-flight system. The touchscreen flight mode control panel is configured to receive primary flight mode data from the auto-flight system. The touchscreen flight mode control panel is also configured to graphically present each primary flight mode of the plurality of primary flight modes to a user. The touchscreen flight mode control panel is further configured to detect touch gestures and direct executions of the user. The touchscreen flight mode control panel is additionally configured to output touch gesture data and direct execution data to the auto-flight system.
US09132912B2
Methods and systems for operating an avionics system on-board an aircraft are provided. In one embodiment, data associated with a take off roll is received, one or more v-speeds of the aircraft associated with the take off roll are calculated, and during the take off roll, the aircraft is controlled based on the one or more calculated v-speeds.
US09132909B1
A flap of the type that is movably connected to an aircraft wing to provide control of an aircraft in flight includes opposite ends, wherein at least a first opposite end includes a plurality of substantially rigid, laterally extending protrusions that are spaced apart to form a plurality of fluidly interconnected passageways. The passageways have openings adjacent to upper and lower sides of the flap, and the passageways include a plurality of bends such that high pressure fluid flows from a high pressure region to a low pressure region to provide a boundary condition that inhibits noise resulting from airflow around the end of the flap.
US09132907B2
Floor elements for a loading deck of an aircraft may be provided. The floor elements may include a hollow profiled element having a cover plate and a base plate which are connected to each other by webs. In order to collect water and/or to heat the loading deck, the hollow profiled element is designed at least in some sections as a conduit for conducting liquids and/or gases. In this way, the cargo deck thus formed by the floor elements simultaneously has several functions, namely the actual cargo deck function and the function of a liquid collecting trough which can be heated or is used as a heater for the cargo hold.
US09132903B1
Systems and methods are for maneuvering a marine vessel having a plurality of steerable propulsion devices. The plurality of propulsion devices are controlled to achieve a lateral movement by controlling the steering orientation of port and starboard propulsion devices so that forward thrusts provided by the port and starboard propulsion devices intersect at or forwardly of a center of turn of the marine vessel. One of the port and starboard propulsion devices is operated to provide a forward thrust and the other of the port and starboard propulsion devices is operated to provide a reverse thrust so that the lateral movement is achieved and a resultant yaw component is applied on the marine vessel. An intermediate propulsion device is controlled to apply an opposing yaw component on the marine vessel that counteracts the resultant yaw component.
US09132894B2
In a spar-type floating structure comprising a tall, thin floating body 2 and a ballast portion 3 provided to the floating body 2 so that the weight of the ballast portion 3 allows the floating body 2 to float in upright position, the floating body 2 includes a horizontally-extending first extended portion 21 arranged at the bottom, a horizontally-extending second extended portion 22 arranged in the middle, and a column portion connecting the first and second extended portions 21, 22 and extending up to the waterline, the first extended portion 21 forms the ballast portion 3, and the second extended portion 22 constitutes a buoyancy portion giving buoyancy to the floating body 2.
US09132889B2
A device (1) for supporting a photovoltaic panel essentially includes a sealed plastic jacket (2), the plastic jacket (2) forming a lower wall (3), an upper wall (4), and four sidewalls (5, 6, 7, 8), the device including elements for securing a photovoltaic panel to the upper wall (4) of the plastic jacket.
US09132882B2
A steering and suspension mechanism for a motorbike, scooter, bicycle, skateboard or other two wheeled, in-line, vehicle, incorporating a steering axis rake that is inclined to the vertical, in a direction that is upwards and forwards from the ground in the normal direction of travel, together with a trailing radial arm suspension, in combination. Steering may be effected via a push rod attached to the handlebars, which in turn pivot on the main chassis. A brake calliper may be pivoted on the wheel axle, with a link to the steering head assembly to prevent rotation of the calliper with the brake disc under braking. This link may be parallel or nearly parallel to the radial arm. The exact angle can be chosen to control ‘dive’ due to weight shift under braking.
US09132877B2
A motorcycle including a main-frame, at least three-wheels mounted on the main-frame, and a driver's seat mounted on the main-frame. The motorcycle also includes a forward driver's board, a rearward passenger's board, and a step mounted on the main-frame between the forward driver's board and the rearward passenger's board A middle step assembly includes a flattened U-shaped sub-frame adapted to be connected to the motorcycle main-frame, and a pair of steps, each of which is mounted on a different sub-frame end.
US09132876B2
A motorcycle foot peg (10) constructed to help isolate a rider from vibration and impact forces normally transmitted through a solid foot peg. The isolating foot peg is applicable for on and off road use where prolonged vibration or discrete impacts may cause injury. The foot peg has an adaptable rigid mounting platform (11) from which a rigid foot peg supporting shaft (19) projects outward in a cantilevered fashion. The supporting shaft is inserted through an internal aperture (34) and secured to an internal rigid tube (29) of a bushing (27). The bushing filled with a vibration isolating material (32) externally is secured to a receiver (23), which is incorporated into a foot peg platform (22). The foot peg platform (22) is thereby isolated from the supporting shaft (19) and motorcycle frame (12) by vibration damping material (32) with in the bushing (27). This relationship allows for reduction of vibratory forces that would normally be transmitted to the rider through a conventional solid Foot peg platform.
US09132875B2
An attachment structure for a windshield is provided in an upper part of a vehicle body front part of a vehicle for easing wind pressure to a driver. The structure includes a plate attached to the windshield, a shield stay attached to a vehicle body, and a clamp capable of fastening the plate and the shield stay from the front and rear sides. The clamp includes an operation portion capable of manually operating fastening and fastening cancellation. By operating the operation portion so as to cancel the fastening of the clamp, the plate is movable upward and downward along the shield stay.
US09132873B1
A conveyance system includes a plurality of feed-forward track segments aligned end-to end, each having an upwardly facing channel and at least one linear motor disposed in the channel. At least one carrier is supported for movement along the track segments. Each carrier includes at least one magnet that cooperates with the linear motors to move the carrier along the respective feed-forward track segments.
US09132861B2
Disclosed is a vehicle body reinforcing structure. The vehicle body reinforcing structure includes: a front pillar which is formed to be extended upward and downward in a height direction of a vehicle; a side inner reinforcing member which is formed to be extended in a length direction of the vehicle; a floor compliance; a first reinforcing member which is coupled to a lower portion of the front pillar in the height direction of the vehicle, and has one end that is coupled to the side inner reinforcing member; and a second reinforcing member which is integrally coupled to the other end of the first reinforcing member, and has one end that is coupled to the floor compliance, and the other end that is coupled to the side inner reinforcing member, thereby improving performance for coping with a frontal collision and a broadside collision of the vehicle.
US09132858B2
A method for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle during a driving maneuver, in which the surroundings laterally next to the vehicle are registered using a first sensor in the rear region and a second sensor in the front region. With the aid of distance values of the first sensor from an object, taken one after another during a short travel segment, an object edge is determined and a contact point is established which is located at the place at which a straight line, extending the object edge and a straight line bordering the registration range of the second sensor, which does not register the object, on the side of the first sensor, intersect. Also described is a device for implementing the method.
US09132855B2
Disclosed embodiments include power machines that provide an electronic tag along mode of operation. A control system is coupled to and selectively provides power to the left and right side tractive elements from the power source. First and second user input devices each provide an actuation signal indicative of manipulation between a neutral state and a forward state. An electronic tag-along input device provides a tag-along activation signal. When each of the first and second user input devices are in the forward state and the electronic tag-along input device provides a tag-along activation signal, a controller maintains power to the left and right side tractive elements when one of the first and second user input devices is in the forward state and the other of the first and second user input devices is the forward or neutral state.
US09132848B2
A conveyance cart that can convey a loaded burden, includes: a body frame supported by a wheel; a deck provided liftably against the body frame to load a burden; an electric actuator electrically driven to expand or contract to lift or lower the deck; and a controller that is configured to supply an electric current to the electric actuator. The controller stops supply of an electric current to the electric actuator when a continuous driving time of the electric actuator is equal to or longer than a predetermined time.
US09132837B2
A system for estimating the lane width and/or the number of lanes on a roadway includes environmental sensors mounted on a vehicle to monitor respective detection areas behind and to the sides of the vehicle. The sensors detect a roadway edge and the system determines a distance to the roadway edge. The system further determines a value or accesses a predefined nominal value of a lane width, and then estimates the number of lanes by evaluating the roadway edge distance with reference to the lane width value.
US09132832B2
A vehicle power transmission device is disposed on a hybrid vehicle having an engine and an electric motor, the vehicle power transmission device includes a first member having one of outer circumferential teeth disposed around one axial center or inner circumferential teeth meshing with the outer circumferential teeth and a second member having the other teeth, the inner circumferential teeth and the outer circumferential teeth meshes with each other to limit relative rotation around the one axial center between the first member and the second member, the relative rotation between the first member and the second member is limited to transmit torque of the electric motor to drive wheels.The vehicle power transmission device comprises: a sliding member sliding relative to at least one of the first member and the second member while generating frictional resistance as the first member and the second member relatively rotate within a range corresponding to a circumferential gap between the outer circumferential teeth and the inner circumferential teeth, the sliding member being a hollow elastic body, the sliding member sliding relative to at least one of the first member and the second member depending on magnitude of the torque of the electric motor.
US09132825B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for preventing over-shifting in electric vehicles having a multi-gear transmission and an electric motor operable in a drive mode and a regenerative braking mode. The method includes: (a) predicting the speed of the electric motor resulting from downshifting from a current gear being used to a next lower gear based on a current speed of the electric vehicle, a current speed of the electric motor, and a gear ratio of the next lower gear; (b) determining if the speed of the electric motor predicted in (a) will cause an overvoltage condition from regenerative braking or an overspin condition in the electric motor; (c) preventing downshifting to the next lower gear when it is determined that the downshifting will cause an overvoltage condition or an overspin condition in the electric motor; and (d) repeating steps (a), (b), and (c) a plurality of times.
US09132823B2
A coast stop vehicle for automatically stopping a drive source when a predetermined condition holds during the travel of the vehicle includes a drive source control unit adapted to control the automatic stop and the restart of the drive source, a transmission mechanism provided between the drive source and drive wheels, and a transmission control unit adapted to control a speed ratio of the transmission mechanism. When the drive source is restarted, the transmission control unit is adapted to control the transmission mechanism to a speed ratio higher than a predetermined speed ratio in response to an input shift request to the predetermined speed ratio, and the drive source control unit is adapted to restart the drive source in a state where the speed ratio of the transmission mechanism is higher than the predetermined speed ratio.
US09132820B2
A fluid pressure operable actuator includes a housing, with an end wall, and a pushrod projecting through an opening in the end wall for reciprocation upon service pressure application or release. A shield, configured as an annulus, is disposed on the pushrod to restrict contamination of an interior chamber of the actuator housing through a gap existing between an edge of the opening and a pushrod outer surface. To facilitate connecting the shield and the pushrod together, the annulus has a slit with an enlarged void at a radially outer end of the slit. This enlarged void engages an outer pushrod surface as the shield and the pushrod are joined.
US09132819B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes: a first braking force generating section configured to actuate, by a hydraulic pressure, wheel cylinders; a second braking force generating section configured to be mechanically regulated to provide the braking force to the one of the wheels; a braking force control switching section configured to automatically switch the second braking force generating section from a non-actuation state to an actuation state when a predetermined condition is satisfied in an actuation state of the first braking force generating section and in the non-actuation state of the second braking force generating section, and to switch the first braking force generating section to the non-actuation state; and a braking force characteristic control section configured to control a braking force characteristic generated by the first braking force generating section, and relating to the switching operation of the braking force control switching section.
US09132816B2
A brake system, and a method for operating a brake system of a vehicle. To reduce a braking force, brake fluid is able to be discharged from the braking device via a cross-section adjusting member which connects a delivery device to the braking device, in a controlled and/or regulated manner, into an intermediate reservoir and is delivered to the main brake cylinder using the delivery device. The discharge of the brake fluid from the braking device of the brake system takes place, at least at times, at a discharge volume flow that is greater than the maximum delivery volume flow of the delivery device, and when a certain operating state of the braking system occurs, the discharge volume flow is reduced.
US09132814B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for mitigating vibration in a vehicle. The apparatus can include a first sensor that generates a first signal that indicates a first phase angle of a first wheel of the vehicle and a second sensor that generates a second signal that indicates a second phase angle of a second wheel of the vehicle. The apparatus can further include a control module that based on the first signal and the second signal outputs a third signal to adjust at least one of the first phase angle and the second phase angle when the vehicle is experiencing a vibration.
US09132808B2
A vehicle brake unit is provided for use with a drive train having a drive train subassembly. The brake unit comprises a brake unit housing for enclosing a braking mechanism, the braking mechanism arranged to act on a power shaft configured for operatively connecting the output drive shaft of the drive train subassembly with a further drive shaft, in order to transfer power therebetween. The brake unit housing is arranged for mounting directly to a housing of the drive train subassembly. In one embodiment of the invention, the brake unit housing replaces the rear tail housing of a four-wheel drive transfer case.
US09132799B1
A pedestrian airbag system for a vehicle includes an air bag housing installed under a rear portion of a hood panel of a vehicle, an inflator disposed in a center area within the air bag housing, and an air bag cushion having a pair of chambers. which are disposed at respective sides of the inflator within the airbag housing, connected to the inflator to be supplied with gas from the inflator, and inflated to eject from the hood panel when the inflator explodes, covering A-pillars respectively, which are disposed at respective sides in the widthwise direction of a vehicle body.
US09132798B2
A seat-mounted airbag apparatus includes an inflator that is provided in a vehicle seat and generates gas by being activated; a shoulder airbag that is formed in a long bag shape and is housed in one side portion of a seatback of the vehicle seat, with one longitudinal end portion being fixed to a seatback frame, the shoulder airbag inflating and deploying by the gas being supplied there into, and extending from an upper end portion of the side portion toward a vehicle front side; and an expanding member that expands between the inflated and deployed shoulder airbag and the seatback frame, and that opposes one shoulder of a seated occupant from a side, and keeps the other longitudinal end portion of the shoulder airbag in a position opposing the one shoulder from the front.
US09132792B2
A riding vehicle may include a battery compartment and one or more grip tabs. The battery compartment may be configured to house a battery of the riding vehicle. The one or more grip tabs may be disposed in the battery compartment and may extend from one or more walls of the battery compartment to engage the battery in response to insertion of the battery into the battery compartment. The one or more grip tabs and the battery compartment may be formed from a same unitary piece of material.
US09132785B2
In an embodiment, a collapsible storage container for a bed of a vehicle includes a set of panels, a connection system, and a support system. The set of panels are configured to form an enclosed area in a bed of a vehicle. The set of panels are movable into a collapsed state and an uncollapsed state. In the collapsed state, the set of panels allow for substantially all of the bed of the pickup truck to be used. In the uncollapsed state, the set of panels form an enclosed area. The connection system connects the set of panels together such that the panels are movable into a collapsed state and an uncollapsed state. The support system is attached to a front panel to provide support when the front panel is in the uncollapsed position, wherein the front panel is movable to slide under a base of the collapsible storage container.
US09132784B2
A headache rack for pickup trucks and similar vehicles is disclosed which comprises a three panel construction including a center panel connected between left and right side panels. Each of the left and right side panels is mounted to an upright side rail coupled to one of the side walls of the truck bed, and to a cross bar extending generally horizontally between the side rails. Adjustment structure is provided to adjust the overall lateral dimension of the three panels in order to accommodate truck beds of different width.
