US09152509B2
A computing device initiates a transaction, corresponding to an application, which includes operations for accessing data stored in a shared memory and buffering alterations to the data as speculative alterations to the shared memory. The computing device detects a transaction abort scenario corresponding to the transaction and notifies the application regarding the transaction abort scenario. The computing device determines whether to abort the transaction based on instructions received from the application regarding the transaction abort scenario. When the transaction is to be aborted, the computing device restores the transaction to an operation prior to accessing the data stored in the shared memory and buffering alterations to the data as speculative alterations to the shared memory. When the transaction is not to be aborted, the computing device enables the transaction to continue.
US09152508B1
Restoration of a backup of a first volume to a second volume on physical media. In one example embodiment, a method for restoration of a backup of a first volume to a second volume on physical media includes accessing a volume boot record of the second volume while the volume boot record is in a valid state on the physical media, modifying the volume boot record to place the volume boot record into an invalid state on the physical media, writing data from the backup of the first volume to the inaccessible portion of the data segment of the second volume while the volume boot record is in the invalid state, and restoring the volume boot record to the valid state. In this example embodiment, the invalid state prevents a standard operating system from accessing at least a portion of the data segment of the second volume.
US09152502B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards a data storage service that uses hash values, such as substantially collision-free hash values, to maintain data integrity. These hash values are persisted in the form of mappings corresponding to data blocks in one or more data stores. If a data error is detected, these mappings allow the data storage service to search the one or more data stores for data blocks having matching hash values. If a data block is found that corresponds to a hash value for a corrupted or lost data block, the data storage service uses that data block to repair the corrupted or lost data block.
US09152500B1
Hash collision recovery in a deduplication vault. In one example embodiment, a method for hash collision recovery in a deduplication vault includes creating first parity data for all unique blocks of a source storage at a point in time. The first parity data includes both the unique blocks as well as an order of block positions of the unique blocks as stored in the source storage. Next, a hash value is generated for each of the unique blocks. Then, a backup is stored in a deduplication vault including each of the unique blocks together with its corresponding hash value. Next, second parity data is created for all of the unique blocks of the backup. Then, the first parity data is compared to the second parity data to determine whether one or more hash collisions occurred resulting in one or more missing unique blocks.
US09152493B2
An error check and correction circuit includes a Chien search unit. The Chien search unit includes a calculation circuit and a plurality of Chien search circuits. The calculation circuit is configured to calculate a first bit stream by multiplying a value of (n−k) bits by a plurality of elements and a second bit stream by multiplying a value of k bits by the plurality of elements. The plurality of Chien search circuits configured to calculate the element by connecting the first bit stream and the second bit stream, and substitute the calculated element into the error correction search equation.
US09152492B2
To perform recovery of a headless computer, a direct connection is established by the headless computer with a recovery computer over a network link. After establishing the direct connection, the headless computer is initiated in recovery mode. The headless computer receives a recovery routine from the recovery computer, and the recovery routine is executed in the headless computer to implement a procedure to receive a recovery image from the recovery computer. The recovery image upon loading in the headless computer causes loading of software for recovery of the headless computer.
US09152482B2
The present invention provides a multi-core processor system, including: multiple central processor units and multiple groups of level-one hardware message queues. Each central processor unit is separately connected to a group of level-one hardware message queues and is configured to process messages in the level-one hardware message queues. Each group of level-one hardware message queues includes multiple level-one hardware message queues. Moreover, in each group of level-one hardware message queues, a level-one hardware message queue having a higher priority is scheduled preferentially, and level-one hardware message queues having the same priority are scheduled in a round-robin manner according to round robin scheduling weights. Through the multi-core processor system provided in the present invention, the efficiency and performance of the multi-core processor system are improved.
US09152480B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for storing application data and a terminal device, and relate to the field of communications, so that installation of an application having a default specified path and storage of data that is generated after the application is run are enabled to be located in the same storage space. The method includes: receiving an instruction for running a local application, wherein the instruction is triggered by a user; determining an actual path of a storage space in which the application is installed; running the application, and acquiring data that is generated after the application is run; and storing the data that is generated after the application is run in the actual path of the storage space in which the application is installed. The embodiments of the present disclosure are applied to use of a mobile phone.
US09152477B1
Systems and methods for communication among mobile applications are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for a first mobile application and a second mobile application on a mobile device to share information includes (1) a first mobile application executed by a computer processor on a mobile device determining that a second mobile application is present on the mobile device; (2) receiving, from a user, permission for the first mobile application to access data from the second application; (3) the first application executed by the computer processor requesting data from the second application; and (4) the first application receiving the requested data from the second application.
US09152476B2
One or more application programming interfaces (APIs) are exposed by a host program running on a device to facilitate a control program displaying content in a window in which the host program displays content. As part of an API, a method is exposed that the control program can invoke to pass to the host program a definition of a surface presenter to be created by the host program. Additionally, the control program can store content that the control program desires to have presented in a buffer of the surface presenter, and invoke another method exposed as part of an API to pass to the host program an indication of the content that the control program desires to have displayed in the window in which the host program displays content.
US09152456B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that implements a safepoint for a thread, which includes a compiler and a runtime environment. During compilation of an application to be executed by the thread, the compiler obtains a register to be associated with the thread and inserts safepoint code into the application, wherein the safepoint code includes an indirect load from a memory location stored in the register to the register. During execution of the application by the thread, the runtime environment writes a thread-specific value for the thread to the register, wherein the thread-specific value corresponds to an enabled value, a triggered value, or a disabled value. In these embodiments, executing the indirect load by the thread causes the thread to trap if the thread-specific value corresponds to the triggered value.
US09152449B2
Co-locating a virtual machine with nested virtualization, in one aspect, may comprise receiving a list of one or more virtual machine instances to co-locate with associated configuration information. A parent virtual machine instance may be identified to host the one or more virtual machine instances. Virtual machine images associated with the one or more virtual machine instances may be consolidated. A composite parent virtual machine image may be created based on the consolidated virtual machine images and the parent virtual machine instance. The parent virtual machine instance may be configured to accommodate for capacity requirement of the one or more child virtual machine instances. The parent virtual machine instance may be started on a processor via the composite parent virtual machine image. The one or more virtual machine instances may be started within the parent virtual machine instance as one or more child virtual machine instances.
US09152436B2
Methods and systems for providing gesture support for shared sessions are shown and described. One method includes facilitating the establishment of a first and second connection with a first and second computing device, negotiating gesture capabilities with the first and second computing devices, receiving gesture inputs from the first and second computing devices, reconciling the gesture inputs, and transmitting a modified shared session window to the first and second computing devices.
US09152435B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a set of linked rotational views of a model object. A modeling client can host modeling logic and an application programming interface (API) to create, access, manipulate, and import/export modeling objects used in modeling applications, such as engineering, medical, financial, and other modeling platforms. The source data accepted into the modeling client can include consumer or business-level applications, whose spreadsheet, database or other content can be extracted and encapsulated in object-oriented format, such as extensible markup language (XML) format. A set of layers of the model objects can be associated via a set of linkages. A rotator widget or other interface object can be presented to allow a user to traverse the linkages and rapidly rotate through layers in a view, without having to switch tabs, planes, database dimensions, or manually operate other dimensional control, enhancing viewing efficiency of large layers.
US09152433B2
A client-server based project schedule management system comprises multiple editors accessible through a web browser to perform various scheduling tasks by members of a project. Client-executable code is generated by the server for the client, which is passed to the client along with schedule-related information for populating the respective editors. The client executes the server-generated code to display the respective editor with pertinent information populated therein, and to manage and maintain any new or updated information in response to user interactions with the editor. Rows of tasks are represented by corresponding objects, where editor elements are object attributes which are directly accessible by the respective objects. Database queries are generated by the server based on constant strings containing placeholders which are replaced with information used by the query.
US09152425B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include mitigating instruction prediction latency with independently filtered instruction prediction presence predictors coupled to the processor pipeline. The prediction presence predictor includes a plurality of presence predictors configured to each receive an instruction address in parallel and to generate an unfiltered indication of an associated instruction prediction. The prediction presence predictor includes a plurality of dynamic filters that are each coupled to one of the plurality of presence predictors. Each dynamic filter is configured to block the unfiltered indications based on a performance of the presence predictor it is coupled to. The prediction presence predictor further including stall determination logic coupled to the plurality of dynamic filters. The stall determination logic is configured to generate a combined indication that will stall instruction delivery, allowing potentially latent instruction predictions to be accounted for, based upon one or more non-blocked indications received from the plurality of dynamic filters.
US09152424B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include mitigating instruction prediction latency with independently filtered instruction prediction presence predictors coupled to the processor pipeline. The prediction presence predictor includes a plurality of presence predictors configured to each receive an instruction address in parallel and to generate an unfiltered indication of an associated instruction prediction. The prediction presence predictor includes a plurality of dynamic filters that are each coupled to one of the plurality of presence predictors. Each dynamic filter is configured to block the unfiltered indications based on a performance of the presence predictor it is coupled to. The prediction presence predictor further including stall determination logic coupled to the plurality of dynamic filters. The stall determination logic is configured to generate a combined indication that will stall instruction delivery, allowing potentially latent instruction predictions to be accounted for, based upon one or more non-blocked indications received from the plurality of dynamic filters.
US09152422B2
An apparatus and method for compressing trace data is provided. The apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect trace data corresponding to one or more function units performing a substantially significant operation in a reconfigurable processor as valid trace data, and a compression unit configured to compress the valid trace data.
US09152421B2
A method of encapsulating a long instruction in a set of short instructions for execution on a processor, the long instruction having k bits and each short instruction having l bits where l
US09152417B2
Embodiments of apparatus, computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer-readable media are described herein for expediting execution time memory alias checking. A sequence of instructions targeted for execution on an execution processor may be received or retrieved. The execution processor may include a plurality of alias registers and circuitry configured to check entries in the alias register for memory aliasing. One or more optimizations may be performed on the received or retrieved sequence of instructions to optimize execution performance of the received or retrieved sequence of instructions. This may include a reorder of a plurality of memory instructions in the received or retrieved sequence of instructions. After the optimization, one or more move instructions may be inserted in the optimized sequence of instructions to move one or more entries among the alias registers during execution, to expedite alias checking at execution time. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09152413B2
Task implementation tools are registered to interface with a change management tool. The change management tool configures a plurality of tasks to implement a change to an information technology infrastructure's configuration, and sends a plurality of task instructions to the plurality of task implementation tools for performing the plurality of tasks. Each task instruction is directed to a targeted task implementation tool for performing a particular task and includes task-related information for the targeted implementation tool to perform the particular task. Registering the plurality of task implementation tools to interface with the change management tool includes registering each the plurality of task implementation tools to accept the task instruction for the particular task directed to it from the change management tool, to know what to do with the task instruction and to know how to respond to the task instruction.
US09152412B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to merging artifacts in a version control system and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for compositing deltas when merging artifacts in a version control system. In one embodiment, a method for compositing deltas for artifacts can be provided. The method can include generating deltas for a contributor artifact of an ancestor artifact, identifying interrelated ones of the deltas and grouping the interrelated ones of the deltas into a composited set of deltas. The method further can include rendering the composited set of deltas in a hierarchical view of a compare view for a version control data processing system in a development platform.
US09152407B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for updating players that run, display, or otherwise use electronically-stored content. Information is included in the content that not only indicates the player version needed to play the content, but also the existence of a newer player version. Content providing such an indication is termed “version-aware content” and allows a player to recognize that a newer player version exists. Version-aware content may be interpreted to provide a user with a message indicating that there is a newer version available. In another example, a player may automatically update based on the version-aware content's indication that a newer player exists. Content created to be compatible with older player versions can be created as version-aware content. Similarly, existing content can be modified to be version-aware content. In both cases, distribution of such content can encourage player updates and thus more rapid proliferation of a newer player version.
US09152405B2
An apparatus and an article of manufacture for pre-provisioning a virtual machine instance include deriving a weight function for at least one virtual machine request based on historical data of the at least one virtual machine request to create a weighted virtual machine request for each request, capturing at least one inter-arrival pattern of requests, and applying the at least one pattern to the at least one weighted request to create a prioritized ordering of the at least one weighted request, and pre-provisioning at least one instance of a virtual machine image based on the prioritized ordering of the at least one weighted request.
US09152395B2
Systems and methods are provided that enable direct response to user input, e.g., in accordance with storyboards. For instance, applications can predefine storyboards which describe output in terms of received input. The predefined storyboards can be used externally and independently from the applications to process user input on behalf of the applications.
US09152390B1
The invention is directed to a method, computer program product and apparatus for generating modular, hierarchical code from block diagram notations. The generated code for a block preserves the hierarchical structure of the block, and is independent of where this block is embedded. Therefore, code for a block need to be generated only once, and then stored and reused multiple times, each time the block is reused in a diagram.
US09152387B2
A system integrator for modeling an object instance of a COBOL data set, the object instance including representations of OCCURS DEPENDING ON clauses or REDEFINE clauses. The system comprises a client interface module, an import module, an object model module and modeler module. The client interface module generates an interface and receives a copybook selection and a set of REDEFINE criteria. The import module receives the copybook selection and imports a copybook from a database. The object model module receives the copybook and the set of REDEFINE criteria, and creates a customized object model for the copybook. The modeler module receives the customized object model and a set of COBOL data, and forms an object instance equivalent to the set of COBOL data, the object instance including representations of a OCCURS DEPENDING ON clause or REDEFINE clause.
US09152380B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for generating and processing random numbers are provided. An apparatus comprises a processing system that includes a processor, a random number generator and a pair of buffers. A first buffer receives low-entropy random numbers generated by the random number generator and a second buffer provides high-entropy random numbers directly to a processing system. The processing system may directly access the second buffer in response to an instruction executed by the processing system. The processing system responds to an interrupt based on occupancy levels of the buffers by conditioning low-entropy random numbers read from the first buffer to obtain high-entropy random numbers that are then stored in the second.
US09152376B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing multimodal input. A system configured to practice the method continuously monitors an audio stream associated with a gesture input stream, and detects a speech event in the audio stream. Then the system identifies a temporal window associated with a time of the speech event, and analyzes data from the gesture input stream within the temporal window to identify a gesture event. The system processes the speech event and the gesture event to produce a multimodal command. The gesture in the gesture input stream can be directed to a display, but is remote from the display. The system can analyze the data from the gesture input stream by calculating an average of gesture coordinates within the temporal window.
US09152369B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a virtual identification information generator and a display controller. The virtual identification information generator generates a virtual identification information item to virtualize the display, for each of two or more external devices wirelessly connected to the electronic apparatus by use of a wireless communication module, based on specific identification information of the display including information indicative of properties of the display. The display controller displays image signals transmitted from the external devices on a display. The display image signals are generated by the external devices based on the virtual identification information items.
US09152361B2
An information processing apparatus that communicates with a peripheral device searches for a generic driver corresponding to compatible identification information of the peripheral device, if a specific driver corresponding to model information of the peripheral device has been found and if a setting is enabled to use a generic driver, and controls installation of the generic driver if the generic driver has been found.
US09152360B1
Methods and systems for branch printing. A secure print path to a remote printer can be configured from a device from which a print job originates. The secure print path is configured to include secure device communications and secure job spooling. The print job can be routed via port forwarding to the remote printer for rendering (e.g., printing) at the remote printer. Configuring the secure print path can involve employing an SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and an IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) over an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to train a print server to determine the optimal pooling path for the secure print path.
US09152347B2
Using a set of non-volatile storage media and a virtual input/output system operating in a memory sharing environment, by: (i) estimating which non-volatile storage medium, of the set of non-volatile storage media, will have the fastest access at a given time; and (ii) read-writing (that is, reading and/or writing) data by the virtual input/output system of a high importance page to the non-volatile storage media estimated to have the fastest access time.
US09152346B2
Using a set of non-volatile storage media and a virtual input/output system operating in a memory sharing environment, by: (i) estimating which non-volatile storage medium, of the set of non-volatile storage media, will have the fastest access at a given time; and (ii) read-writing (that is, reading and/or writing) data by the virtual input/output system of a high importance page to the non-volatile storage media estimated to have the fastest access time.
US09152336B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for comparing at least one performance benchmark to at least one performance indicator for a front end LUN. If the at least one performance indicator exceeds the at least one performance benchmark, the failure domain of the front end LUN is reduced. If the at least one performance indicator does not exceed the performance benchmark, the failure domain of the front end LUN is increased.
US09152335B2
In one embodiment, a layered file system of a storage input/output (I/O) stack executes on one or more nodes of a cluster. The layered file system includes a flash-optimized, log-structured layer configured to provide sequential storage of data and metadata (i.e., a log-structured layout) on solid state drives (SSDs) of storage arrays in the cluster to reduce write amplification, while leveraging a data de-duplication feature of the storage I/O stack. An extent store layer of the file system performs and maintains mappings of the extent keys to SSD storage locations, while a volume layer of the file system performs and maintains mappings of the LUN offset ranges to the extent keys. Separation of the mapping functions between the volume and extent store layers enables different volumes with different offset ranges to reference a same extent key (and thus a same extent).
US09152331B2
A memory stores first configuration information indicating a plurality of logical storage areas and a first condition defining a state of a storage apparatus as a trigger for the storage apparatus to move data. A CPU acquires: a second condition defining a state of a computer as a trigger for the computer to move a first object, which is stored in a first logical storage area among the plurality of logical storage areas and performed by the computer, to another one of the plurality of logical storage areas; second configuration information associating the first object and the first logical storage area; first state information indicating a state of the plurality of logical storage areas; and second state information indicating a state of the first object. If a state of performing data movement is set, the CPU identifies a cause of the state of performing the data movement.
US09152327B2
An application may store data to a dataset comprising a plurality of volumes stored on a plurality of storage systems. The application may request a dataset image of the dataset, the dataset image comprising a volume image of each volume of the dataset. A dataset image manager operates with a plurality of volume image managers in parallel to produce the dataset image, each volume image manager executing on a storage system. The plurality of volume image managers respond by performing requested operations and sending responses to the dataset image manager in parallel. Each volume image manager on a storage system may manage and produce a volume image for each volume of the dataset stored to the storage system. If a volume image for any volume of the dataset fails, or a timeout period expires, a cleanup procedure is performed to delete any successful volume images.
US09152324B2
A user may discover and navigate among hyperlinks through the use of a keyboard. For example, a user may press a tab key to discover and navigate to a first hyperlink that is part of a hypertext document. The first hyperlink is, in response, given focus and a focus shape is drawn around the text or graphics for the hot region of the hyperlink. If the user again presses the tab key, the next hyperlink is given focus and a focus shape (i.e., an outline that surrounds the next hyperlink) is drawn around the next hyperlink. A user may also tab to a placeholder for an image in order to make a decision whether the image should be downloaded or not.
US09152318B2
A gallery software application enables a user to browse, view, and interact with various content items, such as still images and videos. The gallery includes a graphical user interface with two modes: stack and grid. In stack mode, images (which represent content items) are divided into groups, and a group is represented by a displayed stack of images. In grid mode, images are displayed in a grid of rows and columns. The displayed stacks and images can be scrolled. When the scrolling reaches the end of a set of stacks or images, the last stack or image is displayed with perspective distortion. In grid mode, a value is displayed for meta-data of a content item that is not currently displayed. If a user indicates the displayed value, the grid is scrolled until the content item whose meta-data matches that value is displayed.
US09152317B2
A method of operating a graphical user interface of a computing device is disclosed. The method comprises displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) element on the touch sensitive display screen. The method further comprises in response to receiving touch input data indicative of a one-touch gesture mapping the one-touch gesture to a corresponding GUI element function. The method further comprises in response to receiving touch input data indicative of a multi-touch gesture, mapping the multi-touch gesture to the corresponding GUI element function. The method further comprises transforming display of the GUI element on the touch sensitive display screen based on the corresponding GUI element function.
US09152316B2
An electronic device, a controlling method thereof, and a non-transitory storage medium are provided. The method includes displaying a first user interface of a first mode in a first area of a touch screen of the electronic device and one or more snapshots of a second user interface of a second mode in a second area of the touch screen while the electronic device is in the first mode. The method also includes detecting a first sliding gesture on or near the touch screen. The method further includes switching the electronic device from the first mode into the second mode if the first sliding gesture complies with a predetermined switching condition.
US09152312B1
A method includes displaying a scrollable sequence of content items, the content items having a plurality of sources and a plurality of content types; in response to user commands, scrolling the scrollable sequence of content items in a direction parallel to a first axis; visually indicating a first focus item in the scrollable sequence and displaying in the current focus item an affordance including a related-content affordance; and responding to user selection of the related-content affordance in the current focus item by scrolling the current focus item in a direction parallel to a second axis that is distinct from the first axis and displaying a second focus item in place of the first focus item, the second focus item including a content item of one or more content items related to the first focus item in accordance with predefined criteria.
US09152308B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying a current configuration of graphical representations displayed in a user interface presented by a computing device, each of the graphical representations being associated with a respective computer-executable application, determining at least one usage signal corresponding to each of the graphical representations, the usage signal reflecting user interaction with the respective associated computer-executable application, determining one or more success metrics indicative of an efficiency of the current configuration of graphical representations, generating, using an optimization technique, a modified configuration of graphical representations based on the usage signals and the one or more success metrics, and presenting, in the user interface, at least a portion of the modified configuration of graphical representations.
US09152301B2
An exemplary apparatus at least partially displays a first object group on a first display portion, selects at least one first object from the first object group in response to an operation of a direction operation portion, changes a selected position in an order of alignment in a second object group in response to an operation of a first or second operation portion, displays at least one object included in the second object group and corresponding to the selected position on a second display portion, adds a new object corresponding to the selected first object at a position corresponding to the selected position in the second object group in response to an operation of a third operation portion, and displays at least one object included in the second object group on the second display portion.
US09152298B2
A display apparatus and a displaying method thereof are provided. A storage unit stores installed items, a UI generator generates a UI including a first area to display the installed items and a second area to display installable items, a display unit displays the generated UI, and, if one of the items displayed on the second area is selected, a controller displays a process of moving the selected item moved to the first area.
US09152288B2
A remote multi-touch system includes a pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device, a display separate from the pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device and the display. The pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device measures a position at which one or more touches are executed on the pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device and, for each of the one or more touches, a force with which that touch is executed. The controller receives a touch report for each of the one or more touches from the pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device. Each touch report indicates the position at which that touch is executed and the force with which that touch is executed. The controller outputs to the display a pre-touch visualization command for displaying a pre-touch visualization. The pre-touch visualization is displayed at a location of the display mapped from the position at which that touch is executed on the pressure-sensitive, multi-touch device.
US09152287B2
A system and method for classifying touches input into a four-wire resistive touch screen is presented. A voltage may be applied to electrodes in a layer making it the active layer. A first set of four voltages may be measured by a voltage sensing circuit from electrodes in the active layer of a touch screen and a passive layer of a touch screen. The voltage may be switched from electrodes of the first layer to the electrodes of the second layer. A voltage sensing circuit may measure a second set of four voltages nearly simultaneously from electrodes in the active layer and the passive layer of a touch screen. Each set of measured voltages from the passive layer and or the active may be processed. A rule set may be applied to the processing results. An indication of the type of touch that was applied to the touch screen may be provided and optionally including quantitative results.
US09152286B2
A touch panel system (11) prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system (11) includes a touch invalidating section (9) which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel (1) is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic apparatus including the touch panel (1).
US09152284B1
A switch circuit and method is described. In one embodiment, the switch circuit is configured to couple each of a plurality of plurality of capacitive sense elements and a plurality of capacitance sensors in different modes. In a first mode, the switch circuit is configured to couple each of the plurality of capacitance sensors to a group of two or more of the plurality of capacitive sense elements. In a second mode, the switch circuit is configured to couple the plurality of capacitance sensors to individual ones of the two or more of the plurality of capacitive sense elements in one of the groups.
US09152278B2
A location of contact with a touch sensitive device is determined. Values associated with each electrode of a plurality of electrodes formed on a single layer of the touch sensitive device are sampled. A determination is made as to whether a contact with the touch sensitive device has occurred. Values sampled subsequent to the contact are adjusted based on selected stored sampled values. A location of contact is then determined based on the adjusted values.
US09152277B1
A touch sensor, a projection surface, and a projector are combined to form a touchable projection surface system. An image presented by the projector is modified at least partially in response to touches on the touchable projection surface assembly. Implements such as styli, rollers, brushes, and so forth, as well as body parts such as fingers, palms, feet, and so forth may impart touches. Responses to the imparted touches may vary at least partially in response to the different implements.
US09152275B2
An optical touch system includes a light source module, at least one image detecting module and a processing unit. The light source module provides a detecting light. The detecting light is transmitted in front of the base plane. The image detecting module detects an intensity variation of the detecting light. The image detecting module generates a detecting signal corresponding to the detecting light. When an object approaches or touches the base plane, at least a portion of the detecting light is obstructed by the object. The processing unit determines a position of the object with respect to the base plane according to the detecting signal, and determines that the object approaches or touches the base plane according to an intensity of a portion of the detecting signal corresponding to an obstruction position of the object. A method of touch detection and a computer program product are also provided.
US09152267B2
A display device with a touch screen includes a panel including a first area and a second area, wherein first electrode strings and second electrode strings crossing the first electrode strings are formed in the first area and the second area; a driving controller applying touch driving signals to the first electrode strings in order; and a sensing controller receiving touch sensing signals according to the touch driving signals through the second electrode strings, wherein a distance between adjacent first electrode strings in the first area is different from a distance between adjacent first electrode strings in the second area, or a distance between adjacent second electrode strings in the first area is different from a distance between adjacent second electrode strings in the second area.
US09152261B2
A display input device includes a display portion and a touch panel portion. The display portion displays a screen on which objects are provided. The touch panel portion is provided on the display portion and detects a plurality of touched positions being touched by a user. After a multipoint touching operation of touching a plurality of points on the touch panel portion at the same time, when an operation of moving objects that are movement targets among the objects being displayed is performed on the touch panel portion, if the distance between two points among the plurality of points touched by the multipoint touching operation is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold distance, the display portion collectively moves all the objects that are the movement targets.
US09152257B2
An output driver includes control logic configured to switch on a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit to provide an output impedance for a logic low on a transmission line. The output driver includes a variable pull-up resistor. The control logic is configured to switch on the pull-up circuit to a first value of impedance to drive a logic high on the transmission line. The control logic is configured to switch on the pull-up circuit to a second value of impedance and to switch on the pull-down circuit to provide the output impedance to drive a logic low on the transmission line. The system could alternatively be configured for the inverse to switch on a combination of pull-up and pull-down circuits for a logic high, where the pull-down circuit is switched on for a logic low.
US09152254B2
In one embodiment, an active stylus includes one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for wirelessly communicating with a device through a touch sensor of the device. The active stylus also includes an electrode for wirelessly receiving or transmitting signals through the touch sensor of the device to enable the communication, wherein the electrode is disposed at or near a tip of the active stylus. The active stylus further includes a conductive element providing at least a portion of a connection between the electrode and the media. The conductive element is made of a single piece of conductive material and includes a first end connected to a circuit board of the active stylus that the media is disposed on. The conductive element also includes a second end that includes a deformable ring configured to fit within an interior portion of the electrode.
US09152252B2
A display device comprising a display panel including a plurality of pixels configured to write a first image data signal corresponding to a corresponding frame for a first frame and emits light according to driving current depending on a second image data signal corresponding to a previous frame is disclosed. In one aspect, the first frame includes a reset period of resetting data voltage according to the second image data signal, a compensating period of compensating threshold voltages of driving transistors of the pixels, a data writing period of transferring scan signals corresponding to the pixels in sequence, writing the first image data signal, and a light emitting period of simultaneously emitting light according to the second image data signal, wherein the data writing period and the light emitting period frame are overlap each other.
US09152244B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating an image display device using a pointing device includes receiving, from the pointing device, a first signal and a second signal to display a pointer at a particular location on a screen of the image display device, wherein the first signal initiates displaying of the pointer in accordance with a first input selection of the pointing device, determining whether coordinates corresponding to the second signal to display the pointer are outside an active area, wherein the active area is greater than an actual size of the screen, and resetting the coordinates to new coordinates corresponding to a pre-designated area of the screen and displaying the pointer at the pre-designated area of the screen when the coordinates are determined to be outside the active area.
US09152242B2
A transmission interface has a quick burst motion readout mechanism and is configured to be used between a master device and a slave device. The transmission interface includes a trigger channel configured to allow the master device to transmit a trigger signal to the slave device before transmission of data, and includes a data transmission channel provided to the slave device to transmit readable data to the master device after the slave device receives the trigger signal. The master and slave devices are adapted to a predetermined data transmission protocol by which the readable data can be directly transmitted and not accompanied by address data related to the readable data.
US09152241B2
Visual and/or audible cues are used to assist users with data input on keyboards having keys associated with multiple input symbols or functions. Each input symbol or function has a correspondence to an input object, such as a finger. During key actuation, one or more input objects are detected. Candidate input symbols or functions are determined based on identification of the key being actuated. The candidate input symbols or functions are presented to the user in the form of cues having visual and/or audible features. The detected input objects may be optionally identified and presented to the user in the form of cues having visual and/or audible features as well.
US09152240B2
A method for previewing an output character, and an electronic device are provided. In the present method, at least one touch signal generated by pressing at least one of the keys of a software input panel (SIP) is received. Then, an impending output character corresponding to the pressed key is determined from all relative characters thereof. Finally, showing a display window including at least the output character, and a display format of the output character in the display window is changed to specifically indicate the output character. As a result, the correctness of the pressed key on the SIP can be determined easily, and whether the impending output character is the expected character can be confirmed at the same time.
US09152225B2
A mobile terminal including a flexible display unit and a related control method are provided. The mobile terminal may include a flexible display unit configured to display first screen information that is flexible in response to an external physical force, a sensing unit configured to sense flexure of the flexible display unit and a controller configured to control the flexible display unit to output second screen information containing information associated with the first screen information on one region of the flexible display unit in response to the flexure.
US09152223B2
Included within a shared housing are at least one user interface element; a first isolated computational entity; a second isolated computational entity; and a switching arrangement. The switching arrangement is configured to, in a first mode, connect the first isolated computational entity to the at least one user interface element; and, in a second mode, connect the second isolated computational entity to the at least one user interface element.
US09152220B2
Methods and arrangements for video delivery preparation. A video, being accessible online, is displayed at an interface in response to a user request. A relative probability of video access by the user with respect to at least two other online-accessible videos is qualitatively determined. An ordered prediction set is created with respect to the other videos. The other videos are prepared incrementally based on the prediction set, so that the user is able to access and view the videos. The preparing includes preparing a first one of the other videos over a first time period and a second one of the other videos over a second time period, wherein at least a portion of the first time period is coincident with at least a portion of the second time period. An element is displayed at the interface which provides a connection to at least one of the other videos.
US09152213B2
A system-on-chip bus system includes a bus configured to connect function blocks of a system-on-chip to each other, and a clock gating unit connected to an interface unit of the bus and configured to basically gate a clock used in the operation of a bus bridge device mounted on the bus according to a state of a transaction detection signal.
US09152208B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products are provided for updating a content item. In this regard, a current context associated with a content item can be determined based on criteria such as, a user's tendencies, user preferences, battery level, time of day, etc. The current context of the content item can be active or inactive. If a content item is in an active current context and an associated triggering event occurs, the content item can be updated. If the content item is in an inactive current context, the content item need not be updated. Content items may be updated in various manners, including generating a preview of the content item. A preview of a content item may be generated by retrieving the content item via an interface, where the interface is determined from data associated with the content item. Upon retrieval of a content item via the interface, a preview of the content item can be generated, such as by generating an image file having associated metadata. The metadata maybe used for linking the preview to additional, related content items.
US09152198B2
A power adapter and an electrical connector for the power adapter operate to provide power to an electronic device such as a laptop computer. The power adapter includes a switch and a circuit for detecting whether or not the electrical connector is connected to the electronic device. If the adapter is not connected to an electronic device, the switch is opened so that no power is drawn from an AC supply. The electrical connector includes first and second conductors that are electrically connected to the detection circuit. The detection circuit detects a change in potential when the connector is plugged into an electronic device.
US09152196B2
A method of managing power distribution between a portable computing device (PCD) and a PCD docking station is disclosed and may include determining that the PCD is docked with the PCD docking station, switching a power supply to the PCD from a PCD battery to a PCD docking station battery, and powering the PCD and the PCD docking station from the PCD docking station battery. Further, the method may include determining whether a PCD battery power equals a charge condition and charging the PCD battery when the PCD battery power equals the charge condition. The method may also include monitoring a PCD docking station battery power, determining whether the PCD docking station battery power equals a warning condition, and transmitting a first warning when the PCD docking station battery power equals the warning condition.
US09152194B2
Novel tools and techniques are described for waterproof charging contact system. In one aspect, the charging contact system may comprise docking station comprising a first set of compliant charging contacts for a tablet computer system and a second set of compliant charging contacts for a handset computer. Each compliant charging contact comprises a charging pin pressed into an elastomer diaphragm inserted within a body of the docking station. The tablet computer system comprises a first set of static charging contacts configured to mate with the first set of compliant charging contacts. The handset comprises a second set of static charging contacts configured to mate with the second set of compliant charging contacts.
US09152191B1
A Mobile Soft Duct System includes a soft duct that can be extended and retracted along a track to deliver an air supply to various locations. A vent attached to a part of the soft duct system can include a flow control element that can be adjusted to direct air to a target location. Managing a soft duct system can include monitoring an environment to detect temperature hotspots and configuring the soft duct system, in response to detection of a hotspot at a particular location, to deliver air to the particular location to mitigate the hotspot. Configuring the soft duct system can include extending the soft duct along the track and adjusting a flow control element in a vent to direct air to the particular location. Soft duct system management can be implemented by one or more computer systems.
US09152176B2
A multi-screen user device and methods for controlling data displayed are disclosed. The data displayed by the multiple screens of the device is dependent on the physical orientation of the device, whether the content for an application is displayed across a plurality of the multiple screens, and whether the data being displayed for the application originated from a single-screen application or a multi-screen application.
US09152169B2
A hinge structure adapted to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a first cable and a second cable. The hinge structure includes a first hinge, a second hinge, a first electrical connection element and a second electrical connection element. The first hinge is fixed at the first body. The second hinge is fixed at the second body and pivoted to the first hinge along an axis. The second electrical connection element is rotatably connected to the first electrical connection element along the axis. The first cable is connected between the first body and the first electrical connection element, and the second cable is connected between the second body and the second electrical connection element.
US09152164B2
A current source includes a first MOS transistor of a first channel type including a drain connected to an output terminal, and a source directly connected to a first power supply, a second MOS transistor of the first channel type including a drain connected to a gate, the gate of the second MOS transistor being connected to the gate of the first transistor, and a source directly connected to the first power supply, a third MOS transistor of a second channel type opposite the first channel type including a drain connected to the drain of the second MOS transistor, a fourth MOS transistor of the second channel type including a drain connected to the source of the third MOS transistor, a gate connected to a first bias voltage, and a source directly connected to second power supply voltage, and a control voltage generator that detects an output voltage on the output terminal and provides a shifted version of the output voltage to the gate of the third MOS transistor.
US09152159B2
An output transistor coupled between an input terminal where an input voltage is input and an output terminal where an output voltage is output; an error amplifier configured to generate a first error signal and a second error signal based on a voltage in accordance with the output voltage and a reference voltage, and to output the first error signal to a gate terminal of the output transistor; an anti-overshoot circuit coupled to the output terminal and controlled by the second error signal; an output transistor control part configured to add a control signal based on a first current in accordance with an AC component of the output voltage to the first error signal; and a sensitivity adjustment part configured to decrease the first current based on the second error signal when the output voltage is higher than a certain voltage.
US09152156B2
The step-down regulator includes a first error amplifying circuit that receives a first reference voltage and the first voltage and supplies a first control signal to a control terminal of the first transistor so that the first reference voltage and the first voltage are equal to each other. The step-down regulator includes a second error amplifying circuit that receives a voltage at the second end of the current controlling circuit and a second reference voltage and supplies a second control signal to the current controlling circuit so that the voltage at the second end of the current controlling circuit and the second reference voltage are equal to each other. The step-down regulator includes a diode that is connected to the second end of the current controlling circuit at an anode thereof and to the second potential at a cathode thereof.
US09152136B2
An input module for an industrial controller is configurable to simplify setup and commissioning. The input module includes input terminals configurable, for example, as a counter input. Still other input terminals may be configured to trigger events as a function of the input signals present at the terminals. Time signals corresponding to transitions in state of the input terminals, triggering of events, or operation of the counters may be recorded. The input module is further configurable to transmit data back to the processor or to transmit data directly to another module in the industrial control network.
US09152134B2
A closed-loop control device for a process, in which a dead band element is connected upstream of a linear dynamic controller to reduce actuating interventions in the steady control state. If a control deviation (e) of the control loop exceeds a first threshold value (s1), then the dead band element is automatically deactivated, where a control deviation (e1) passed via the dead band element is uninfluenced by a set dead band in the inactive state. If the control deviation (e) then undershoots a second threshold value that is less than the first threshold value, then the dead band element is automatically re-activated. This reduces the energy consumption and wear of an actuator and improves the control behavior with regard to steady-state accuracy and the control behavior of the control loop.
US09152133B1
A threat detection system includes a facility including at least three separate rooms located in the facility and a positive pressure zone located external to the facility. A ventilation system is coupled to the at least three separate rooms. A first room is located in the facility, wherein the first room includes a first room pressure zone that is negative with respect to the positive pressure zone external to the facility. A second room is located in the facility and connected to the first room, wherein the second room includes a second room pressure zone that is negative with respect to the first room pressure zone. A third room is located in the facility and connected to the second room, wherein the third room includes a third room pressure zone that is negative with respect to the positive pressure zone external to the facility and positive with respect to the second room pressure zone, whereby the first room pressure zone, the second room pressure zone, and the third room pressure zone result in air within the facility or entering the facility to flow into the second room.
US09152132B2
A time information obtaining device and a radio-controlled timepiece are shown. According to one implementation, the time information obtaining device includes a receiving section, a code identifying section, a decoding section, and a consistency confirming section. The consistency confirming section confirms consistency of time information. The consistency confirming section generates the selected code string using the following: (i) a matching selected code string portion in which, for a code string portion including a code which may change according to the time information, a type of code is selected based on a degree of match between an identified code string and a model code string; and (ii) a majority selected code string portion in which, for a portion other than the above, a type of code is selected by majority determination among the codes identified to be a same position.
US09152127B2
An image forming apparatus includes a development device, an airflow generating device which generates an airflow, and a support member which supports a lower surface of the development device. An inner door is openable and closable so as to detachably attach the development device, an outer door covers the inner door, and a first duct portion is formed by the inner door and a lateral surface of the development device. The first duct portion guides the airflow along the lateral surface in a vertical direction, and a second duct portion guides the airflow along a longitudinal direction of the development device.
US09152126B2
The present invention provides a driving force transmission mechanism for an image forming apparatus and a process cartridge. The transmission mechanism includes a photosensitive drum driving component (10) and an image forming apparatus driving head (20). The driving component (10) includes a drum shaft (3) which axially projects from an end of a photosensitive drum (1) and a boss (4) which axially projects from an end surface of the drum shaft (3). A tooth (5a) is obliquely arranged on a side wall (4b) of the boss and projects in a radial direction. The driving head (20) includes a recess (11) with a twisted-surface and matching with the boss (4), the recess has a polygonal cross section with a twisted corner section. The process cartridge includes the driving component. The photosensitive drum driving component is easy to manufacture and is not easy to be damaged when using for a long time.
US09152124B2
An image forming apparatus, including a frame, a cartridge attachable to the frame and including a first on-cartridge electrode and a second on-cartridge electrode, a first electrode protruding from the frame toward the cartridge to contact the first on-cartridge electrode when the cartridge is attached to the frame, and a second electrode protruding from the frame toward the cartridge to contact the second on-cartridge electrode when the cartridge is attached to the frame, is provided. The second electrode is on an upstream side of the first electrode with regard to an attaching direction and in a position to be passed through by the first on-cartridge electrode when the cartridge is moved. When the cartridge is detached from the frame, a tip of the second electrode is closer to the frame than a tip of the first electrode with regard to a facing direction of the cartridge and the frame.
US09152123B2
A jam removing device, an apparatus including a jam removing device, and a method of removing a jam are provided. The jam removing device includes a first door member installed on an in/out path of a tray mounted with a developing unit and is opened or closed with respect to an apparatus body, a second door member installed in the apparatus body in an opposite direction to the first door member and is opened or closed with respect to the apparatus body, a guide unit including a first guide that guides insertion/withdrawal of the tray with respect to the apparatus body and a second guide that guides the first guide so that the developing unit approaches or separates from a transfer unit, a first link unit connecting the first door member and the first guide, and a second link unit connecting the second door member and the first guide.
US09152122B2
A static-electricity-blocking mounting unit, including: a mounting sheet metal in which a female screw portion is formed, the female screw portion being configured to threadably engage with a male screw configured to fix a member to be fixed to a housing; and an insulating member made of an insulating material and configured to support the mounting sheet metal, wherein the mounting sheet metal is fixed to the housing via the insulating member, and the member to be fixed is fixed to the housing by the male screw threadably engaging with the female screw portion of the mounting sheet metal.
US09152117B2
A toner consumption amount identifying unit identifies a toner consumption amount of toner consumed in a printing process from the print data. A toner residual amount identifying unit identifies a toner residual amount in a toner container from the toner consumption amount. A toner residual amount data managing unit stores order-timing toner residual amount data into a non volatile memory device at a timing when an ordering process of the toner container succeeds, and deletes the order-timing toner residual amount data in the non volatile memory device if the value of the toner residual amount is larger than a value of the order-timing toner residual amount data. An order processing unit performs the ordering process if the order-timing toner residual amount data is not stored in the non volatile memory device and the value of the toner residual amount is either equal to or less than a predetermined value.
US09152116B2
A printing apparatus including: a plurality of reception units, wherein at least one of the plurality of reception units receives a printing job; a printing unit that performs printing based on the printing job received by the at least one of the plurality of reception units; a determination unit that determines a difficulty level of reprinting based on which of the plurality of reception units received the printing job; a setting unit that sets a correction-performing condition based on the determined difficulty level of reprinting, wherein the correction-performing condition becomes easier to satisfy as the determined difficulty level of reprinting increases; and a correction unit that performs a correcting process by causing the printing unit to form a pattern and by correcting an image to be printed based on a result of measuring the pattern, if the correction-performing condition is satisfied when the printing job is received.
US09152114B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member for carrying an electrostatic latent image; a developing device, containing a developer including a toner and a carrier, for developing the electrostatic latent image carried on the image bearing member into a toner image with the developer; a supplying device for supplying the toner to the developing device; a first detecting portion for detecting information on a temperature of the developing device; a second detecting portion for detecting information on a temperature of the supplying device; and a correcting portion for correcting, when detection results of the first and second detecting portions are different from each other, an image forming condition with increase of a supply amount of the supplying device.
US09152104B2
In an image forming apparatus, multiple toners are superimposed, formed and layered, on a recording medium and a toner image is made. The toner that superimposed lastly on the recording medium, that is, a top layer of toner, has a toner fixing characteristic value that causes the top layer of toner to be fixed on the recording medium by lower temperature than one or all of the other multiple toners. This provides for a better fixing quality.
US09152092B2
A container is detachably mountable on an apparatus body in a mounting-detaching direction that is along the same direction as a mounting-detaching direction of a transfer unit and that is in the reverse direction of the mounting-detaching direction of the transfer unit. When the transfer unit and the container are mounted on the apparatus body, a belt, a cleaning device, and the container are arranged in that order in a transport direction of the belt. A discharge portion is provided, the discharge portion extending in the mounting-detaching direction of the container, for discharging the toner removed by the cleaning device to the container.
US09152090B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; a transfer member arranged so as to face the image carrier; and a non-transferred toner adhesion unit that causes a non-transferred toner to adhere to an inter-sheet area present on the image carrier during a period of continuous image formation in which images are continuously formed on the image carrier. The transfer member is a foam roller. The image forming apparatus further includes a contacting and separating unit that causes the foam roller and the image carrier to come into contact with and be separated from each other. The contacting and separating unit separates the image carrier and the transfer member when the inter-sheet area present on the image carrier passes through a transfer area in which the image carrier and the transfer member face each other in association with rotation of the image carrier.
US09152084B2
A toner housing container includes: a container body housing a toner; a conveying portion; a pipe receiving port; and an uplifting portion. Flow rate index of the toner measured by powder rheometer and represented by “flow rate index=(total energy at a rotation speed of 10 mm/s)/(total energy at a rotation speed of 100 mm/s)” is in a range of “1.8≦flow rate index≦6.5”. Container body includes protruding portion protruding from container body interior side of container opening portion toward one end of container body. Uplifting portion includes: uplifting wall surface extending from container body internal wall surface toward protruding portion; and curving portion curving to conform to protruding portion. When the toner housing container is mounted on the toner conveying device, the protruding portion is present between the curving portion and the toner receiving port of the conveying pipe being inserted.
US09152081B2
A developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer includes a developer bag 16 provided with an injection port for permitting entrance of the developer and an opening 35a for permitting discharge of the developer and includes a sealing member 19 which includes a bonded portion bonded to the developer bag 16 so as to seal the opening and which is capable of exposing the opening by peeling the bonded portion from the developer bag 16 by being moved, and the sealing member includes a first bonded portion 22a in an upstream side of the opening and a second bonded portion 22b in a downstream side of the opening with respect to a sealing member unsealing direction, the first bonded portion and the second bonded portion interposing the opening, and the second bonded portion is provided in a non-contact position with the opening.
US09152080B2
A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device according to one example embodiment includes a housing having an inner volume forming a reservoir for storing toner. A rotatable shaft is positioned within the reservoir. A paddle is mounted to the shaft. The paddle includes a magnet that has a magnetic field detectable by a magnetic sensor for detecting the motion of the paddle.
US09152079B2
A developing apparatus includes a developing unit configured to be detachable from and attachable to an image forming apparatus to contain a developer, a rotary member configured to rotate in the developing unit, and a detection unit installed on an internal surface of the developing unit and configured to detect a pressure caused by pressure through the developer by rotation of the rotary member. In addition, a measurement unit is configured to measure a period in which the pressure is changed, and a determination unit is configured to determine an amount of the developer in the developing unit based on the period detected by the measurement unit.
US09152067B2
Toner contains a binder resin and a colorant, wherein the binder resin contains a resin having a polyhydroxy carboxylic acid skeleton, wherein the toner has a half effusion temperature of from 80° C. to 120° C. as measured by a temperature rising method using a flow tester.
US09152066B2
A toner, including: a binder resin; releasing agent-encapsulating capsules; and a colorant, wherein the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules each include: a capsule formed of a resin (I) which is different from the binder resin; and a releasing agent (RA) which is encapsulated in the capsule, and the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules exist in the binder resin, and wherein 50% to 100% of the releasing agent-encapsulating capsules exist in a region from a surface of the toner to a depth of 0.10 times a volume-average particle diameter of the toner.
US09152055B2
An optical irradiation apparatus includes: a light-emitting device configured to emit a plurality of light beams whose optical axes extend in a substantially identical direction; a collimator part configured to convert the light beams into parallel light beams; and a light condensing part configured to collect the parallel light beams. The light-emitting device includes a super luminescent diode array in which a plurality of waveguides are provided on a substrate. Each of the waveguides has a light-emitting facet including a light emission point from which an associated one of the light beams is emitted. The light emission points are located in a plane. The plane including the light emission points is orthogonal to a direction of an optical axis of the collimator part.
US09152054B2
In an entire region exposure unit, a platform section and a local transfer mechanism are arranged in one direction. The local transfer mechanism is provided with a local transfer hand. A substrate on which a resist film having a predetermined pattern is formed is held by the local transfer hand. A light-emitting device is attached to the upper portion of the local transfer mechanism. Strip-shaped light is emitted from the light-emitting device toward below. The local transfer mechanism operates such that the local transfer hand is moved relative to the light-emitting device. At this time, the light-emitting device irradiates one surface of the substrate that is moving horizontally with the strip-shaped light. The resist film is modified by the light.
US09152049B2
According to one embodiment, an actinic-ray- or radiation-sensitive resin composition includes any of the compounds of general formula (I) below, a compound that when exposed to actinic rays or radiation, generates an acid and a hydrophobic resin. (The characters used in general formula (I) have the meanings mentioned in the description.) RN-A−X+ (I)
US09152043B2
The various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to resists and, more particularly, to negative tone molecular glass resists, and their associated methods of fabrication and use. In one embodiment of the present invention, a negative tone molecular glass-based resist comprises: a molecular glass, comprising, a molecular glass core, wherein the molecular glass core is not a polymer chain, and a functional group bound to the molecular glass core and configured to provide a decrease in solubility of the molecular glass; and an initiating component configured to produce a reactive species upon exposure to radiation, wherein the reactive species facilitates the decrease in solubility of the molecular glass.
US09152042B2
The invention provides a novel acrylic ester derivative which can form a structural unit of a polymer to be incorporated into a photoresist composition; a polymer produced through polymerization of a raw material containing the acrylic ester derivative; and a photoresist composition which contains the polymer and which, as compared with the case of conventional ones, realizes formation of a high-resolution resist pattern having improved LWR. Specifically, the present invention provides, for example, an acrylic ester derivative represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, or a trifluoromethyl group; each of R2, R3, R5, R7, R8, and R10 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or an alkoxy group; each of R4 and R6 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, or an alkoxy group, or R4 and R6 are linked together to form an alkylene group, —O—, or —S—; R9 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkoxy group, or —COOR11; R11 represents an alkyl group; X represents —O— or >N—R12; R12 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; Y represents >C═O or >S(═O)n; n is an integer of 0 to 2; and the wavy lines represent that either R8 or R9 may be in an endo or exo position.
US09152028B2
An exemplary laser projection device includes a substrate, three laser chips mounted on the substrate, and a spectroscope arranged on laser beams paths of the laser chips. Each laser chip is a laser diode. The spectroscope includes a first group of splitters, and a second group of splitters spaced from the first group of splitters. Laser beams emitted from the laser chips are adjusted into the second group of splitters by the first group of splitters. And then, the laser beams adjusted into the second group of splitters are adjusted to be oriented toward the same direction and mixed together to obtain light of a predetermined color.
US09152027B2
A control section relatively decreases an absolute value of a current supplied to a discharge lamp in a first period and relatively increases the absolute value in a second period, and in the second period, performs any one of a first control for supplying an alternating current to the discharge lamp, a second control for supplying, to the discharge lamp, a current in which a maximum duration of a first polarity is longer than that in the first control, and a third control for supplying, to the discharge lamp, a current in which a maximum duration of a second polarity is longer than that in the first control, and as the state of deterioration proceeds, decreases at least one of the maximum duration of the first polarity in the second control and the maximum duration of the second polarity in the third control.
US09152023B2
Provided is a light source cooling device that includes: a case in which exhaust port (112) is formed; ventilation device (102) that has a blowing port blowing air and that is located in the case; flow path component (301); light source (101); and holding part (121) disposed in an inner surface of case (108). Flow path component (301) constitutes flow path (403) for guiding air from ventilation device (102) to exhaust port (112) in the case. Light source (101) is located in flow path (403). Flow path component (301) includes a first opening and a second opening. The first opening is connected to exhaust port (112), while the second opening is connected to the blowing port of ventilation device (102). An outer surface of flow path component (301) is held by holding part (121).
US09152020B2
An additional knurled ring for an optical lens is composed of an annular portion and teeth distributed in a radial direction around the outside of the annular portion. The inner diameter and shape of the additional knurled ring match the outer diameter and shape of an adjusting ring of the optical lens. The additional knurled ring is movably connected with the outside of the adjusting ring of the optical lens. Since the additional knurled ring for the optical lens can be extended towards the front of the lens and beyond the front end of the optical lens, the interference of stray light with the imaging of the optical lens is blocked. Digital scale designations are engraved or printed on the outside of the additional knurled ring for optical lens, the position of the scale and the values of the designations are corresponding to the focal length, aperture, and focal range information of the optical lens. The front end with the enlarged outside diameter of the additional knurled ring for optical lens is movably connected with a cap, and the shape and size of the cap matches the shape and size of the front end of the additional knurled ring.
US09152018B2
An image pickup lens includes an optical system that includes a magnification variable lens used for a magnification variation, and a focus lens configured to adjust an in-focus state, a wide attachment lens being configured to change an enlargement ratio of the image pickup lens and attachable to the optical system, and a manipulator manipulated so as to instruct driving of the magnification variable lens. A moving amount of the magnification variable lens per a predetermined manipulated amount of the manipulator when the wide attachment lens is attached is smaller than that when the wide attachment lens is not attached.
US09152014B2
Example stereoscopic image photographing apparatuses and methods are disclosed. A disclosed example stereoscopic image photographing apparatus includes a shutter unit including a first region and a second region that are defined based on a gravity direction as an absolute basis regardless of an arrangement of the stereoscopic image photographing apparatus. A first image signal is generated by converting a first optical signal input through a first region of the shutter unit, and a second image signal is generated by converting a second optical signal input through the second region. In addition, a stereoscopic image is generated using the first image signal and the second image signal. Thus, a stereoscopic image with a difference between right and left views may be generated regardless of an orientation of the stereoscopic image photographing apparatus.
US09152013B2
A light-quantity control apparatus includes multiple light-quantity control blades each configured to overlap with at least another one of the light-quantity control blades so as to form a light-passing aperture and each configured to rotate to change a size of the light-passing aperture. Each of the multiple light-quantity control blades includes a thick portion and a thin portion. The thick portion forms an outer end portion on an opposite side to the light-passing aperture in a rotation direction of the light-quantity control blade. The thin portion is formed in an aperture side blade area that overlaps with the at least another one of the multiple light-quantity control blades so as to form part of a circular overlap of the multiple light-quantity control blades and that includes an inner edge forming an edge of the light-passing aperture.
US09152008B1
The present invention includes a fundamental laser light source configured to generate fundamental wavelength laser light, a first nonlinear optical crystal configured to generate first alternate wavelength light, a second nonlinear optical crystal configured to generate second alternate wavelength light, a dual wavelength Brewster angle waveplate configured to rotate a polarization of the first alternate wavelength light relative to the second alternate wavelength light such that the first and second alternate wavelength light have the same polarization, a set of Brewster angle wavefront processing optics configured to condition the first and second alternate wavelengths of light, a harmonic separator configured to separate the first alternate wavelength light from the second alternate wavelength light, and a Brewster angle output window configured to transmit the first or second alternate wavelengths of light from the interior of a laser frequency conversion system to the exterior of the laser frequency conversion system.
US09151984B2
In embodiments of active reflective surfaces, an imaging structure includes a circuit control layer that controls pixel activation to emit light. A reflective layer of the imaging structure reflects input light from an illumination source. An active color conversion material that is formed on the reflective layer converts the input light to the emitted light. The active color conversion material can be implemented as a phosphorus material or quantum dot material that converts the input light to the emitted light, and in embodiments, the active color conversion material is laminated directly on the reflective layer.
US09151983B2
Disclosed are: a stretched film obtained by uniaxially stretching a laminated film which comprises a base film and a polyvinyl alcohol resin layer laminated on one surface of the base film, wherein the base film has a multilayer structure of resin layers including two resin layers which comprise different resins from one another; a polarizing stretched film obtained by imparting polarizing performance to the stretched film; and a method for producing a polarizing plate using the polarizing stretched film. It is preferable that the resins constituting the above-described two resin layers show different phase transition temperatures from one another.
US09151976B2
A display device includes a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, a common electrode disposed opposite to the pixel electrode and spaced apart from the pixel electrode, where a microcavity is defined between the common electrode and the pixel electrode, and a cutout is defined in the common electrode, an insulating layer disposed on the common electrode, a roof layer disposed on the insulating layer, where a liquid crystal injection hole is defined through the common electrode and the roof layer such that the common electrode and the roof layer expose a portion of the microcavity, a liquid crystal layer disposed in the microcavity, and an encapsulation layer disposed on the roof layer, where the encapsulation layer covers the liquid crystal injection hole, and seals the microcavity.
US09151973B2
In a liquid crystal display (LCD) device, the adjacent sides of a bottom cover, a guide panel, and an top cover are separated to form spaces, and the separated spaces are not aligned to thus prevent a leakage of light to corner regions.
US09151972B2
Provided is a display panel including: an array substrate; an opposite substrate facing the array substrate and including a second base substrate and a common electrode disposed on the second base substrate; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. The array substrate includes: a first base substrate disposed in a display area and a non-display area; a photosensitive polymer organic layer disposed in a first non-display area and extending to a pad area, the photosensitive polymer organic layer having a taper shape at an end portion of the first non-display area; a thin film transistor disposed on the first base substrate in the display area; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a signal input pad connected to the thin film transistor and disposed on the photosensitive polymer organic layer in the pad area.
US09151960B2
A polarization conversion element is equipped with an element main body having a light incident surface and a light emission surface that are generally in parallel with each other, and a phase difference plate bonded to the light emission surface of the element main body. The element main body includes a plurality of light-transmissive substrates that are sequentially bonded at a predetermined angle with respect to the light emission surface, polarization separating films and reflection films that are alternately provided between the plurality of light-transmissive substrates, and adhesive layers formed between the plurality of light-transmissive substrates, respectively. The adhesive layers are each formed from ultraviolet light curing adhesive to a thickness between 5 μm and 10 μm.
US09151958B2
A display system includes a driver configured to create command signals for generating a pair of images along two different optical paths; a pair of polarized sources, each polarized source configured to produce a polarized image of one of the pair of images along a respective optical path at substantially the same time based on a command signal from the driver, the first of the pair of polarizer sources configured to produce a different polarization than the second of the pair of polarizer sources; a polarization co-alignment element configured to optically align the polarized images from the respective polarizer along a common optical path; and a display screen configured to display the co-aligned polarized images. Depending on the mode of the display system, 3-D polarized glasses may be worn by the viewers for observing the displayed images.
US09151947B2
In an optical deflector including a mirror, a movable frame supporting the mirror, a first piezoelectric actuator for rocking the mirror with respect to a first axis of the mirror, a support body supporting the movable frame, and a second piezoelectric actuator for rocking the mirror through the movable frame with respect to a second axis of the mirror, at least one piezoelectric sensor is provided for sensing rocking vibrations of the mirror caused by the first and second piezoelectric actuators. The second piezoelectric actuator includes a pair of meander-type piezoelectric actuators opposite to each other with respect to the first axis. Each of the second meander-type piezoelectric actuators includes a plurality of piezoelectric cantilevers folded at every cantilever and connected from the support body to the movable frame in parallel with the first axis. The piezoelectric sensor is incorporated into an outermost one of the piezoelectric cantilevers.
US09151918B2
An opto-electronic assembly for high speed opto-electronic signal transmission which comprises: mounting plate with a top side; wherein the top side contains at least one area at a higher level and at least one area at a lower level, an electro-optical or opto-electronic transducer component with a number of transducers with the optical port of the transducer component on the top side; a micro-mirror component; an optical transmission path assigned to each transducer wherein the transmission axis of each transmission path is oriented substantially parallel to the surface of the transducer component and to the top side of the mounting plate; and a transducer component that is mounted with the bottom side on the mounting plate below a micro-mirror component that is mounted above the transducer component in such a configuration that the optical transmission path to or from each transducer is reflected at the dedicated mirror surface.
US09151913B2
A method of forming a fiber optic device includes securing one or more optical fibers to a support. The support is coupled to a base that includes one or more optoelectronic devices. After one or more of the fibers are secured to the support, and the support is secured to the base, one or more of the fibers are cleaved. A portion of the one or more optical fibers that is in contact with the support may be bent. This method, and fiber optic devices made using this method are more easily aligned and may be produced at lower costs than existing manufacturing processes.
US09151903B2
Methods of operating an optical circuit switch and optical circuit switches are disclosed. A command to make an optical connection between a first port and a second port may be received. A determination whether or not input signal light is present at the first port may be made. When light is present at the first port, an optical connection may be made between the first port and the second port. When light is not present at the first port, the optical circuit switch may wait until light is present at the first port before making the connection.
US09151899B2
This embodiment provides an optical fiber head in which a lens can reliably be fixed to a case body by a simple configuration, and therefore the optical fiber head can easily be produced at low cost. The optical fiber head includes a light projecting fiber, a light projecting lens, and a case body accommodating and holding the light projecting fiber and the light projecting lens. A blocking unit in which an opening is formed, a light projecting lens inserting hole, and an optical fiber inserting hole are provided in the case body. The light projecting fiber is fixed to the case body while a leading end surface of the light projecting fiber abuts a rear end surface of the light projecting lens, so that the light projecting lens is fixed to the case body by being sandwiched between the blocking unit and the light projecting fiber in an axial direction.
US09151896B2
A cable holding tool for holding optical fiber ribbons relative one another for preparation has a cable holding portion and an optical fiber holding portion, each having a cover and an opening therein to receive an optical cable and a fiber optic ribbon respectively. The cable holding tool also has at least one channel disposed between the cable holding portion and the optical fiber holding portion to receive and divert at least one optical fiber ribbon from the optical cable disposed in the cable holding portion from the optical fiber holding portion. A spacer is also provided that is movable parallel to the optical fiber groove from a first position to at least one second position to assist in staggering the fiber ribbons.
US09151892B2
In order to provide a spot size converter and a method for making the same which enable the optical connection with low loss and are able to reduce the excess loss for the position misalignment in mounting, a spot size converter according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes: a substrate on which an optical waveguide including a first core is laminated and which includes a notch; a core reducing part which is formed so that a cross-section area of the first core may gradually decrease toward an end part of the first core in the direction of light propagation; a second core which surrounds the core reducing part and is made of a material whose refractive index is smaller than that of the first core; a peripheral clad which surrounds the second core and is made of a material whose refractive index is smaller than that of the second core; and a lower clad which is formed in a lower part of the second core and includes the peripheral clad; wherein the lower clad is formed in the notch.
US09151889B2
Various embodiments described herein include rare earth doped glass compositions that may be used in optical fiber and rods having large core sizes. Such optical fibers and rods may be employed in fiber lasers and amplifiers. The index of refraction of the glass may be substantially uniform and may be close to that of silica in some embodiments. Possible advantages to such features include reduction of formation of additional waveguides within the core, which becomes increasingly a problem with larger core sizes.
US09151886B2
An optical thin film includes: a transparent substrate including a first surface and a second surface which is opposite to the first surface; a first light-condensing layer formed on the first surface of the transparent substrate, the first light-condensing layer having a haze value ranging from 5% to 30% and a surface roughness ranging from 0.1 RMS to 1 RMS; and a second light-condensing layer formed on the second surface of the transparent substrate. The second light-condensing layer has a haze value ranging from 70% to 100% and a surface roughness ranging from 1 RMS to 10 RMS.
US09151882B2
A material roll including a roll of a continuous sheet material, including an optical member including a polarizer and a release film provided on one side of the optical member with an adhesive interposed therebetween, wherein when no external force is applied, the continuous sheet material curls in the longitudinal direction in such a way that the release film is facing inward, and the continuous sheet material is for use in a process including bonding the optical member to a substrate with the adhesive interposed therebetween to form an optical display unit.
US09151880B2
Embodiments relate to mirrors having a reflective layer of or including silicon aluminum (e.g., SiAl). The mirrors may be first surface mirrors, or second surface mirrors. The SiAl layer may be provided between dielectric layers. The mirrors may be flat or bent in different instances, and may or may not be heat treated. In certain example instances, such mirrors may be used in interior residential, commercial, appliance, and/or other applications.
US09151872B2
The present invention relates to photochromic double-fused naphthopyrans of the general formula (I) or (II) and the use thereof in plastics of all kinds, particularly for ophthalmic purposes. The photochromic compounds according to the invention are characterized by two distinct absorption bands of the open form in the visible wavelength range, i.e. two conventional photochromic dyes, each having only one discrete absorption band, can be replaced with dye molecules of this type. The compounds according to the invention, moreover, have a very good lifetime with a very high performance.
US09151865B2
A reflective photo-electric sensing system includes a transmitter for the transmission of light and a reflector for reflecting the light. The reflector being positioned in a far field. A light channeling device receives reflected light from the far field or from a near field and channels the received reflected light to a near field receiver or a far field receiver dependent on an angle of the received reflected light. An electrical signal is generated at the near field receiver or the far field receiver. A controller evaluates the electrical signal of the near field receiver and the electrical signal of the far field receiver and generates an actuation signal dependent on the evaluation.
US09151863B2
The present application relates to the field of metal detectors, which may find military, industrial and civilian application. In one form, the present application relates to a method and apparatus for a metal detection system in which a first component is synchronized with a second component. The metal detection system is adapted for use in diminishing interference between two or more metal detectors operating in close proximity. In one form, the metal detection system is adapted for use in a ground loop metal detection system that allows for the detection of metal or metallic objects at greater depths than currently available with standard pulse induction or induction type metal detecting equipment.
US09151846B2
Signal processor for a GNSS receiver, in particular a GPS receiver, characterized by the use of un-refreshed volatile dynamic memory as a storage element for real-time digital data. The invention takes advantage from the fact that many memory units are used to store real-time data and are constantly overwritten at a rate which can conveniently be shorter than a mean retention time of a DRAM cell. Moreover several memories are used to store noise-dominated data which are then statistically analyzed in a way that can tolerate a small rate of retention errors. Thus the automatic refresh circuitry can be disposed of without adverse effect.
US09151843B2
Methods and systems for indoor global navigation satellite system detection utilizing low Earth orbit satellite signals may comprise receiving low Earth orbit (LEO) RF satellite signals utilizing a LEO satellite signal receiver path (LEO Rx) in a wireless communication device comprising the LEO satellite signal receiver path and a medium Earth orbit satellite signal receiver path (MEO Rx). A received signal strength indicator (RSSI) may be measured for the received LEO signals and an expected received MEO signal strength may be calculated. A power level of the MEO Rx may be configured based on the calculated MEO signal strength by powering down when the calculated expected MEO signal strength is below a threshold level for MEO positioning purposes and/or powered up when it increases above the threshold level. The RSSI may be measured at a plurality of points along the LEO Rx.
US09151837B2
A method of surveying the condition of an underground conduit by positioning a propelled carriage assembly within the underground conduit. The carriage assembly includes (i) at least one transmitter/receiver unit capable of transmitting a pulsed signal toward at least a portion of an inner wall of the conduit, and (ii) a secondary sensor positioned on the carriage assembly. The data derived from the pulsed signal at a given lateral location within an underground conduit is read as is a secondary sensor condition derived from secondary sensor data taken at the given lateral location. Then it is determined whether the secondary sensor condition indicates a basis for a false void detection by the data derived from the pulsed signal and if the basis for false void detection exists, providing an indication of such basis.
US09151825B2
Teachings herein improve selection of the positioning method(s) used to obtain positioning information responsive to a positioning request, by approaching positioning QoS holistically. Approached holistically, a joint QoS metric as taught herein takes into account the joint effect of individual QoS parameters of a positioning method, or the joint effect of multiple methods in a sequence. Processing in one or more embodiments thus includes determining a joint QoS metric for each of a plurality of candidate positioning methods or sequences, and selecting a positioning method or sequence based on those joint QoS metrics. By selecting a positioning method or sequence in this way, holistically based on joint QoS metrics rather than a piecemeal approach based on a one-by-one check of individual QoS parameters, selection proceeds flexibly according to actual QoS requirements of position-based services and/or systematically according to the joint effect of multiple positioning methods.
US09151823B2
A wireless communication device capable of more accurately estimating its location in an indoor environment is disclosed. In an indoor environment, the wireless communication device may seek to generate a fingerprint map so as to later identify its location within the environment. However, the map requires the device to at least estimate its current position. Therefore, the device includes one or more sensors to identify each of a bearing and a speed of the device. For example, the speed may be determined based on sensed steps and a stored step length. This information may then be used to estimate the device's location as it moves through the indoor environment.
US09151812B2
In a method to operate an image-generating medical modality in order to avoid harm to a patient caused by an electromagnetic field, an adjustment process is implemented in which the electromagnetic field is radiated by the modality and preliminary image data are acquired using the electromagnetic field; and a clearance between the patient and a wall of the modality is determined from the image. The determined clearance forms the basis of a check process to determine an adaptation of the electromagnetic field for a diagnostic examination of the patient that follows. During the diagnostic examination, that also includes radiation of the electromagnetic field, movement monitoring of the patient takes place and the adjustment process is restarted as soon as a movement of the patient is registered.
US09151811B2
A temperature monitoring system for a medical device comprises an optical transmit/receive unit, an elongate optical fiber having a proximal end, a distal end, and an inner core extending between the proximal end and the distal end, and one or more fiber Bragg grating elements formed in the inner core of the optical fiber. The optical fiber is operably coupled to the transmit/receive unit at the proximal end. At least a portion of the optical fiber is also operably coupled to a medical device and is structured to measure temperature at one or more temperature sensing locations on the medical device.
US09151806B2
Reading circuit for a magnetic field sensor with sensitivity calibration, and related reading method
A reading circuit for a magnetic-field sensor, generating an electrical detection quantity as a function of a detected magnetic field and of a detection sensitivity, is provided with an amplification stage, which is coupled to the magnetic-field sensor and generates an output signal as a function of the electrical detection quantity and of an amplification gain. In particular, the amplification gain is electronically selectable, and the reading circuit is moreover provided with a calibration stage, integrated with the amplification stage and configured so as to vary a value of the amplification gain in such a way as to compensate a variation of the detection sensitivity with respect to a nominal sensitivity value.
US09151801B2
Provided is a measurement circuit that measures a signal under measurement input thereto, comprising a level comparing section that outputs a logic value according to a comparison result between a signal level of the signal under measurement and a set threshold level; a logic comparing section that acquires the logic value output by the level comparing section at a comparison timing input thereto; and a timing adjusting section that adjusts relative phases of a signal output by the level comparing section and the comparison timing, based on the expected value pattern of the signal under measurement and the threshold level.
US09151798B2
Provided is an apparatus for testing a semiconductor device. The apparatus includes a plurality of testing pads. The apparatus includes a plurality of testing units. The apparatus includes a switching circuit coupled between the testing pads and the testing units. The switching circuit contains a plurality of switching devices. The apparatus includes a control circuit coupled to the switching circuit. The control circuit is operable to establish electrical coupling between a selected testing unit and one or more of the testing pads by selectively activating a subset of the switching devices.
US09151795B2
An apparatus for inspecting a passive component having a signal transmission line on a printed circuit board (PCB), includes a reflectometry unit for inputting an incident signal to an input port connected to the signal transmission line, receiving a reflected signal in response to the incident signal, and computing a plurality of frequency-based reflection coefficient values in a preset frequency range and a plurality of time-based reflection coefficient values in a preset time range based on the incident signal and the reflected signal; and a defect detection unit for determining whether the signal transmission line has a defect based on the plurality of frequency-based reflection coefficient values, and determining a location of the defect on the signal transmission line based on the plurality of time-based reflection coefficient values.
US09151794B2
A fault detection system for subsea pipeline direct electrical heating cables is provided. The fault detection system includes a first ammeter for measuring a first phase current, a second ammeter for measuring a second phase current, and a third ammeter for measuring a third phase current. The fault detection system also includes a first calculation unit for calculating a negative sequence current from the first phase current, the second phase current, and the third phase current, and a first detection unit for detecting a change in the negative sequence current.
US09151792B1
Apparatuses and methods of high-voltage capacitance-sensing circuits are described. One apparatus includes a capacitance-sensing circuit coupled to a capacitive-sense array of electrodes. The capacitance-sensing circuit includes a self-capacitance sensing channel, a first voltage source (e.g., a low-voltage drive source) to drive a reference voltage, and a second voltage source (e.g., high-voltage drive source) to drive a sensing voltage. The sensing voltage is greater in magnitude than the reference voltage. The capacitance-sensing circuit also includes 1) a first set of switches to selectively couple the self-capacitance sensing channel or the second voltage source to a sensing electrode of the capacitance-sensing array; and 2) a second set of switches to selectively couple the first voltage source or the second voltage source to a shielding electrode of the capacitance-sensing array.
US09151788B2
A test probe has a probe portion, a current source lead attachment portion and a voltage sense lead attachment portion. The test probe includes two conductive halves secured together with an electrically insulating material disposed between the halves electrically insulating them from each other. Each half has an “L” shape including a probe portion and a test lead attachment portion extending perpendicularly outwardly from the probe portion, and provides the test probe with an overall “T” shape. The conductive halves can be made of copper-beryllium. Methods of providing and using the test probe can include uncoupling a male coupling member of a power cable connector of a loadbreak bushing assembly from a female coupling member of the loadbreak bushing and inserting the rod-shaped probe portion into the female coupling member.
US09151776B2
An object of the invention is to provide a combined sensor capable of suppressing the influence of electrostatic force generated by a potential difference and preventing a reduction in the S/N ratio or a variation in the sensitivity of a sensor.A combined sensor according to the invention includes first and second movable portions and first and second dummy portions provided around the first and second movable portions, which are formed in a layer of a laminated substrate. The first dummy portion and the second dummy portion are electrically separated from each other. A first potential is applied to the first movable portion and the first dummy portion and a second potential is applied to the second movable portion and the second dummy portion (see FIG. 2).
US09151772B2
To include a pulse counting unit, a pulse timing unit, an overflow detection unit that holds a detected matter in an overflow register, a capture unit that holds an output of the pulse counting unit in a pulse counting register and holds an output of the pulse timing unit in a pulse timing register, and a computation unit (frequency calculation unit) that reads the pulse counting register, the pulse timing register, and the overflow register to calculate a frequency computation value, and when the pulse timing unit has overflowed, the computation unit adds a predetermined constant acquired by a period of a capture clock a period of a timing clock to pulse timing data at the previous interrupt to obtain pulse timing data acquired by a period of time from the last pulse edge a period of the timing clock.
US09151766B2
An in vivo method of determining activation or inactivation of the atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) hormonal systems, the method comprising simultaneously detecting the presence or amount of atrial and brain natriuretic peptide prohormones (proANP and proBNP) or fragments thereof in a sample.
US09151746B2
The invention relates generally to methods and apparatus for conducting analyses, particularly microfluidic devices for the detection of target analytes.
US09151745B2
Disclosed herein is a chip for inspecting toxicity and efficacy, including: a first substrate including fitting holes formed at corners thereof; and a second substrate including gap forming members formed at corners thereof corresponding to the fitting holes to form a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate, and protrusions formed on the gap forming members corresponding to the fitting holes and fitted in the fitting holes. The chip for inspecting toxicity and efficacy is advantageous in that alignment of the chip can be easily performed, in that problems with the emission of fluorescence or the penetration of measuring light in the chip can be solved, and in that the cost of producing the chip can be reduced.
US09151725B2
A humidity measurement device comprises a capacitance measurement unit (101) and a microcontroller (102). The capacitance measurement unit (101) is used to output a frequency signal of a humidity-sensitive capacitor (C1) by the humidity-sensitive capacitor (C1) and a frequency signal of a reference capacitor (C2) by the reference capacitor (C2) respectively. The microcontroller (102) is used to obtain a frequency value of the humidity-sensitive capacitor (C1) and a frequency value of the reference capacitor (C2) based on the frequency signal of the humidity-sensitive capacitor (C1) and the frequency signal of the reference capacitor (C2), and obtain a current ambient humidity value by using a linear function relationship of a frequency difference between the humidity-sensitive capacitor (C1) and the reference capacitor (C2) and a humidity value. A humidity measurement method includes using the said humidity measurement device to measure a current ambient humidity value.
US09151699B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for sampling, comprising a housing (2) having a housing chamber (8) which has two connection openings (10) for connecting one line portion in each case. The device (1) includes a withdrawal element (13) which is movable in the housing chamber (8). The withdrawal element is formed, at least in portions, in a profile-like manner, and bounds a hollow sampling region (19), extending along a profile longitudinal direction course (16), at the periphery of the sampling region, while leaving an entry opening (21) which extends along an opening longitudinal direction course (20). Guide means are provided by means of which a defined movement pattern of the withdrawal element (13) in the housing chamber (8) is predetermined, via which movement pattern at least one of the two opening cross-sections (32) in a projection view perpendicular thereto may be traversed over the entire area by means of the entry opening (21). The invention proposes that as a result of the movement pattern specified by the guide means, an orientation of the withdrawal element (13) in an observation plane which moves with the withdrawal element relative to a geometric intersection line of the observation plane with a nonmoving geometric reference plane which extends perpendicular to the observation plane and to at least one opening cross-section (32), remains the same when the withdrawal element (13) is moved.
US09151698B2
A testing system for examining the coating and open cooling-air holes of turbine blades includes a positioning device for an infrared camera with two degrees of freedom, a rotating-pivoting device for positioning the turbine blade, and a rotatable air duct arranged on the rotating-pivoting device. The rotatable air duct is configured for introducing into the turbine blade air at a temperature higher or lower in comparison with the turbine blade.
US09151697B2
The invention aims to produce an instrumentation making it possible to measure the loadings which pass through mechanical joins between two mechanical structures, so as to best evaluate the dimensions and masses without impairing their mechanical properties of a secure transfer of load. To this end, the invention proposes introducing into the zones of transit of the loadings an instrumented component of the form that favors the measurement of shear and its installation. In one embodiment, a zone of transit of loadings consists of an instrumentalized hollow shaft which takes the form of a cylinder (1) able to be introduced into collinear openings (30) in the fittings (20, 25, 26). It comprises a longitudinal housing (10) into which is introduced an insert (2) composed of a central prop (21) in tight contact with the internal wall (1i) of the shaft (1) and connected, on each side, to a flyweight (31, 32) also in tight contact, by way of multiple tabs (41 to 44) away from contact with said internal wall (1i). High-temperature gauges (51, 53, 55, 57) are welded to the tabs (41 to 44), so as to measure a variation in electrical resistance corresponding to the bending deformation of the tabs (41 to 44).
US09151693B1
A combinatorial test device is configurable to contemporaneously test one or more sensors of output devices free from user intervention. A device under test such as a user device is placed in a test fixture of the combinatorial test device. Under the control and monitoring of a test controller testing takes place. The testing may be performed for quality assurance after assembly or repair, or to determine the reliability of the device such as by testing the device until a particular life cycle value is reached or a component in the device fails.
US09151688B2
A package testing system or apparatus that may be mounted directly onto an F/F/S machine and allows for communication with an F/F/S machine in the form of either a digital or analog signal. The communication may be implemented into a PID loop which allows for a predetermined burst pressure set point to be reached “automatically” by either the burst pressure controller or the F/F/S controller to automatically adjust the sealing parameters via the PID loop. The system may employ a novel sealing system that uses either a viscous solution or a series of laminated materials to seal either the needle entry point or the puncture side of the material in its entirety, thereby eliminating the use of known sealing patches that cover the porous webbing in testing. Methods for conducting such testing and for operating such systems are within the scope of the present disclosure.
US09151678B2
A shielded sensor system and method features an airflow housing including a downward facing inlet and a downward facing outlet. At least one sensor is disposed in the housing between the inlet and the outlet. A particulate screener is located between the inlet and the sensor.
US09151677B2
A demodulation sensor (30) is described for detecting and demodulating a modulated radiation field impinging on a substrate (31). The sensor comprises the means (1,7,15) for generating, in the substrate, a static majority current assisted drift (Edrift) field, at least one gate structure (33) for collecting and accumulating minority carriers (21), the minority carriers generated in the substrate by the impinging radiation (28) field. The at least one gate structure comprises at least two regions (4,9,18) for the collection and accumulation of the minority carriers (21) and at least one gate (5,6,8) adapted for inducing a lateral electric drift field under the gate structure, the system thus being adapted for directing the minority carriers (21) towards one of the at least two regions (4,9) under influence of the static majority current assisted drift field and the lateral electric drift field induced by the at least one gate, and a means for reading out the accumulated minority carriers in that region.
US09151675B2
A dual-switching sensing device includes two sensor modules and a dual-function switching circuit with an operational amplifier and two integrator modules. Each of the integrator modules includes a transistor, an integrator capacitor and a switching unit. Through control of the switching unit, each of the integrator modules may operate in different modes, so that the dual-switching sensing device may be used to sense different targets.
US09151671B2
The present invention is thus directed to an automated system of varying the optical path length in a sample that a light from a spectrophotometer must travel through. Such arrangements allow a user to easily vary the optical path length while also providing the user with an easy way to clean and prepare a transmission cell for optical interrogation. Such path length control can be automatically controlled by a programmable control system to quickly collect and stores data from different path lengths as needed for different spectrographic analysis. Moreover, the system utilizes configured wedge shaped windows to best minimize the reflections of light which cause periodic variation in transmission at different wave lengths (commonly described as “channel spectra”). Such a system, as presented herein, is able to return best-match spectra with far fewer computational steps and greater speed than if all possible combinations of reference spectra are considered.
US09151657B2
A liquid level transducer for a tank, such as a railroad tank car or the like, includes a mounting head connected to the tank and a sensor assembly extending into the tank from the mounting head. The sensor assembly includes a sensor tube located in the tank and a gauging rod assembly positioned in the sensor tube. The gauging rod assembly can be pulled out of the tank until it magnetically couples with a magnetic float that surrounds the sensor tube. The float moves in response to a change in liquid level and the magnetic coupling provides the user with a visual indication of the liquid level. A sensor board extends along a length of the gauging rod assembly and is responsive to movement of the float for electronically determining the liquid level without the need to magnetically couple the gauging rod assembly to the float.
US09151656B2
A self-alignment filling level detecting device has a reflector and a sensor detachable from each other. The sensor has a light emitter, a light sensor, and a controller. The light sensor receives different light intensities when the reflector is assembled to the sensor and when the reflector is not assembled to the sensor. Thus, the controller determines whether the reflector has been accurately engaged and aligned with the sensor or not based on sensing results of the light sensor. Since the reflector and the sensor are detachable from each other, either the reflector or the sensor can be replaced individually if any one of them malfunctions.
US09151651B2
An apparatus and method for determining temperature is disclosed. An ultrasonic signal is generated that propagates through a buffer and a portion of the signal is reflected at an interface. A time of flight is measured between generating the ultrasonic signal and detecting the reflected portion. The temperature is determined based on the time of flight of the reflected signal.
US09151649B2
Apparatus and method for monitoring operation of a flow metering system. In one embodiment, a flow metering system includes a flow meter, a first and second pressure sensors, a flow conditioner, and a condition monitor. The flow meter is configured to measure the volume of fluid flowing through the flow meter. The first pressure sensor is disposed proximate the flow meter to measure pressure of the fluid proximate the flow meter. The flow conditioner is disposed upstream of the flow meter. The second pressure sensor is disposed upstream of the flow conditioner to measure pressure of the fluid upstream of the flow conditioner. The condition monitor is coupled to the flow meter and the pressure sensors, and is configured to identify a potential discrepancy in operation of the flow metering system based on a difference between pressure measurements of the first and second pressure sensors.
US09151648B2
An apparatus for measuring a process variable of a process fluid based upon a process variable sensor measurement, includes an elongate spool that provides a spool conduit therethrough adapted to be coupled in line with process piping to receive a flow of process fluid. A meter body is carried in the elongate spool and receives the spool conduit therethrough. The meter body has a primary element opening which extends from the spool conduit to outside of the meter body. A carrier is configured to removably mount to the meter body and includes a primary element in the spool conduit through the primary element opening. A process variable transmitter is coupled to the primary element and is configured to measure the process variable of process fluid. The meter body is preferably configured to receive different types of primary elements carried on the carrier.
US09151638B2
A rotating electric machine according to the embodiments includes a rotating-electric-machine unit, a rotation detector, an Oldham coupling, and a washer. The rotating-electric-machine unit includes a shaft. The rotation detector includes a body and a rotation input pin that is rotatably provided on the body. The Oldham coupling couples the rotation input pin of the rotation detector and the shaft to each other while allowing any relative displacement in a direction intersecting an axial direction. The washer is provided on the rotating-electric-machine unit while being positioned with respect to the shaft. The washer includes an attaching portion at which the body of the rotation detector is attached to the washer.
US09151634B2
An apparatus and method of providing road guidance based on an augmented reality head-up display (HUD) are provided. The method includes creating, by a controller, a route toward a destination and operating the augmented reality HUD to display a virtual preceding vehicle driven along the route to show that the virtual preceding vehicle is driven in front of a traveling vehicle by a reference distance.
US09151625B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for complementing a position of a vehicle and an apparatus for controlling complementing a position of a vehicle that select a representative vehicle within divided areas and complement a position of an own vehicle from a representative vehicle by using a DGPS complementation signal received through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication.
US09151623B2
Method and apparatus for controlling an electrical device and a wireless charging device, each comprising one or more modules. An interrupt signal is received. A type of the interrupt signal is determined. A first module is activated based on the type of the interrupt signal to perform one or more functions. The electrical device and the wireless charging device share at least the first module.
US09151621B2
There is provided an apparatus, wherein the apparatus is caused to acquire a location estimate of a positioning device that is to determine its location inside a building, wherein the location estimate is acquired on the basis of an indoor non-magnetic field based location discovery system; access an indoor Earth's magnetic field, EMF, map of plurality of buildings, wherein the indoor EMF map represents at least one of magnitude and direction of the Earth's magnetic field affected by the local structures of a corresponding building; and select a part of the indoor EMF map on the basis of the location estimate of the positioning device, wherein the selected part of the indoor magnetic field map includes the indoor EMF map for the area in which the positioning device currently is.
US09151618B2
One embodiment accesses two or more photos taken by one or more travelers at one or more destinations and one or more points-of-interest located within the destinations; constructs one or more photo streams for each unique traveler-destination combination, wherein each one of the photo streams comprises two or more of the photos taken by the corresponding traveler at the corresponding destination; maps each one of the photos to one of the points-of-interest; constructs one or more timed paths for each unique traveler-destination combination based on the photo streams and the mapping between the photos and the points-of-interest, wherein each one of the timed paths comprises one or more of the points-of-interest located within the corresponding destination and visited by the corresponding travel; and constructs an itinerary based on a start point-of-interest, an end point-of-interest, a time constraint, and the timed paths.
US09151615B2
A navigation system of a vehicle includes a first display arranged behind a first mirror surface of a right outside mirror of the vehicle, a second display arranged behind a second mirror surface of a left outside mirror of the vehicle, and a control unit connected to the first display and the second display to control an output of graphic information on the first display and the second display. The control unit is configured to determine a current maneuver instruction based on a route and a current position of the vehicle, and the control unit is configured to control the output of different graphic information on the first display and the second display, based on the current maneuver instruction and/or the current position.
US09151611B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a rotation sensor for detecting a plurality of rates of rotation about orthogonal axes (x,y,z). The rotation sensor comprises a substrate, driving masses, X-Y sensor masses, and Z sensor masses. The driving masses are driven by drive elements to oscillate in the X-direction. The X-Y sensor masses are coupled to the driving masses, and driven to oscillate in the X-Y direction radially to a center. When a rate of rotation of the substrate occurs about the X-axis or the Y-axis, the X-Y sensor masses are jointly deflected about the Y-axis or X-axis. When a rate of rotation of the substrate occurs about the Z-axis, the X-Y sensor masses are rotated about the Z-axis, and the Z sensor masses are deflected substantially in the X-direction.
US09151609B2
A footer square apparatus may be used to measuring a building foundation and may include a footer square body, a first guide line, a second guide line, a third guide line, a corner marking, and at least one angle marking. The first guide line and second guide line may be perpendicular, and the third guide line may form a 45° angle with the first guide line and second guide line. The at least one angle marking may identify an angle as measured between a line from the corner marking to the angle marking and at least one of the first guide line, the second guide line, and the third guide line.
US09151608B2
An apparatus, tool, and method for modifying a portion of a floor plan based on measurements made by one or more sensors. The apparatus comprises a correction unit for compensating the sensor measurements for instrument errors and a layout unit for improving the conformity of the portion of the floor plan to a set of layout rules. The apparatus may also comprise the sensors that made the measurements.
US09151605B1
A cap for use with a beverage container comprising a housing that attaches to a beverage container, the housing comprising an opening for dispensing the contents of the beverage container and further comprising a valve activated by a valve button. A sensor within the housing estimates the amount of a fluid that has been dispensed from the opening and a display device is provided for displaying the amount of fluid that has been dispensed from the opening. The display device may be any type of display, including an LED display, and LCD display, or a plurality of indicator lights.
US09151601B2
An aspheric face form measuring method calculates phase information of interference light from light intensity of a fringe pattern image obtained by detecting interference light that is formed by measurement light and reference light reflected off a subject aspheric face being overlaid. The method changes a relative distance between an optical system and the subject aspheric face and transitions a position of a null region. The method performs calculation of form data for a vertical incident region where measurement light is vertically incident to the subject aspheric face, using phase information and a scanning amount. The method performs calculations of form data, of the null regions, a non-vertical incident region that is outside of the vertical incident region. The method also composites a plurality of partial form data of the subject aspheric face previously calculated, using each of a plurality of the phase information and scanning amounts.
US09151595B1
A laser thickness gauge has three laser displacement sensors each transmitting a laser beam onto a target web. Two sensors are spaced along the web and face one surface of the web and the third sensor faces the opposite surface. The thickness of a web that is positioned along a passline plane between the sensor is measured even when the passline plane is not perpendicular to the beams of the sensors. A data processor computes the passline angle from the distance measurements communicated from the three sensors. During setup and calibration, data representing physical characteristics of the gauge are measured and stored and during operation are processed with currently measured data to generate correction factors that are used to correct thickness measurements determined from the three laser sensors.
US09151594B2
A position detection apparatus comprises a sensor unit 80 and a moving holder 81 and a holder drive portion 82. The sensor unit has a plurality of pairs of sensors, each of which includes a light emitting portion held on the first holding surface 81a and a light receiving portion held on a second holding surface 81b as a pair and which are arranged along sheet width direction, and the sensor unit detects the edge position of the sheet S while the holder drive portion moves the moving holder in the sheet width direction and every other light emitting portions in the plurality of pairs of sensors is turned on.
US09151593B2
In a system and a method for positioning a processing tool in relation to a workpiece, an object alignment mark and the workpiece are situated on a first object. In addition, a workpiece alignment mark is situated on the workpiece. The processing tool via which the object alignment mark is detectable is situated on a second object, which is disposed so as to be displaceable along at least one movement direction in relation to the first object. Furthermore, an alignment sensor is disposed thereon, with whose aid the object alignment mark and the workpiece alignment mark are detectable. In addition, a scannable measuring standard, which extends along the at least one movement direction, is disposed on the second object. At least two scanning units for scanning the measuring standard are situated on the first object in order to thereby determine the relative position between the first and the second object along the movement direction, the two scanning units having a defined offset.
US09151589B2
A surface texture measurement device capable of resolving errors for each entire display range, a controller for the surface texture measurement device, and a method for controlling the surface texture measurement device that includes selecting any one of the display ranges as a reference range and defining a calibration measurement value for each display range; sequentially inputting the calibration measurement values in place of the measurement values to the range amplifier corresponding to the reference range to obtain a reference display value rDATAi; inputting the calibration measurement values to the range amplifiers corresponding to each display range, then obtaining an AD-converted value ADi and a display value DATAi; computing a gain error rate ki=rDATAi/DATAi, a display resolution DIVi=DATAi/ADi, and a corrected display resolution cDIVi=DIVi×ki; and displaying the corrected display value cDIVi=DIVi×ki.
US09151572B1
A system and method for aiming and alignment of a shell firing weapon includes a portable aiming unit that may be located in close proximity to the weapon that includes a reference head for emitting and/or receiving at least one energy ray. The portable aiming unit can be aligned to a reference azimuth, either absolute or relative. A sighting unit is also included in the system and removably mounted to the weapon. The sighting unit includes a reference head that is complementary to the reference head of the portable aiming unit. The at least one energy ray established between the portable aiming unit and the sighting unit provides an accurate relative reference of directing the weapons fire and monitoring linear and angular displacement of the weapon as it is fired so that corrections can be made in aiming the weapon in response thereto.
US09151570B2
A riflescope comprises a body, an elevation knob, a windage knob, and an eyepiece. The elevation knob may be mounted on the body and configured to generate an elevation setting corresponding to the elevation of the riflescope. The windage knob may be mounted on the body and configured to generate a windage setting corresponding to the left and right offset of the riflescope. The eyepiece is for viewing a target and may include a display configured to show a range to the target as determined by the elevation knob or the offset determined by the windage knob.
US09151568B2
An improved rifle sling comprising of three buckles on an adjustable belt. An adjustment buckle having two serrated openings, a hooked buckle having two serrated openings and a hook at one end and a sliding buckle angled or bent at the middle with two smooth openings. The adjustment buckle allows the user to adjust the belt to a desired length. The sliding buckle is attached to one end of the belt and slides about the rest of the belt. The sliding buckle hooks onto the hooked buckle that is attached close to the other end of the belt when carrying the rifle close to the body. The sliding buckle is unhooked from hooked buckle adding slack to the belt as it slides across it allowing the rifle to be raised normally when it is to be deployed rapidly into a shooting position. The rifle can be carried across the back or front of a user's body.
US09151567B1
An arrow rest adaptable between right-hand and left-hand configurations includes a support body having a floor portion, a first arm portion and a second arm portion extending from the floor portion. The first at second arm portions have first and second upper connection ends, respectively. An arrow support portion is rotatably connected to the support body between the first and second arm portions for supporting the shaft of an arrow. A capture arm has a lower connection end for connection to one of the first and second upper connection ends. The capture arm is either connected to the first arm portion when the arrow rest is in a right-hand configuration or connected to the second arm portion when the arrow rest is in a left-hand configuration. A torsion hinge assembly includes a shaft rotatably connected to the support body and fixedly connected to the arrow support portion. First and second pulleys are fixed at opposite ends of the shaft. The first pulley is connected to an activation cable when the arrow rest is in a right-hand configuration. Alternatively, the second pulley is connected to the activation cable when the arrow rest is in a left-hand configuration.
US09151565B2
A firearm training device is structured for use with the user's firearm to provide realistic simulation of the firing, recoiling and re-cocking of the weapon, while enabling the use of the training device without modification to the firearm in order to accommodate the training device, the training device being receivable in the magazine compartment of the firearm and being easily removed therefrom.
US09151564B1
A firearm training system provides a firearm body having a trigger and a position input circuit. When the trigger is pulled, the position input circuit emits a two-dimensional trigger position signal that allows monitoring of the actual two-dimensional trigger pull path taken by the trigger during the trigger pull. The trigger pull path can be displayed graphically on an electronic device in real time. In other embodiments, the information associated with the trigger position signal can be stored and can be graphically viewed after the trigger pull is complete. The system provides a way to monitor trigger pull path to determine whether the trigger has been pulled laterally. By repeatedly monitoring trigger pulls using the system, a user can train to improve trigger pull technique. Also, a motion sensing circuit disposed on the firearm body can measure movement of the firearm body during the trigger pull, and a barrel displacement indicator can be graphically and numerically displayed on the electronic device corresponding to the actual barrel displacement. A method of providing firearm user input information to a user is also provided.
US09151556B1
Disclosed is a firearm bolt that may optionally incorporate one or more ejectors that are positioned outside of a central portion of a cartridge that experience high compression forces when the cartridge is fired.
US09151538B2
Disclosed is a drying device for a hollow fiber membrane, including: a tubular drying member that is formed with an opening portion through which a hollow fiber membrane is input and output at at least one end thereof in a length direction, the hollow fiber membrane passing inside the tubular drying member while forming a gap between the hollow fiber membrane and an inner circumferential surface of the tubular drying member; and a gas supply unit that is formed on a side surface of the tubular drying member and supplies a drying gas into the tubular drying member. Thus, it is possible to dry the hollow fiber membrane in a short time at a low cost without the necessity of large equipment.
US09151533B2
The invention refers to a method for tempering, such as cooling, of a number of packaged units of products (bags) by using a coolant in the form of a mixture of ice cubes and water, and characterised by the fact that an ice slurry of water and ice particles is applied, and that the mixture is circulated around the units in order to cool them. Preferably, injectors should be utilised to pump the slurry around and in between the bags. The invention also refers to a system and an application.
US09151531B2
People can damage their medicines by taking them outside in hot or cold weather. On the other hand, some people need to carry their medicines with them wherever they go (even if the weather is extremely hot or cold). Specially constructed storage systems can protect medicines from damage due to hot and cold weather without requiring bulky structures or expensive components that consume electricity to regulate temperature.
US09151528B2
A system and methods for sanitation of ice storage equipment. An ozone generator provides a sanitizing agent comprised of a mixture of ambient air and ozone. The sanitizing agent is circulated through an ice storage bin. The sanitizing agent cleanses interior surfaces of the ice storage bin and also cleanses surfaces of an ice dispenser that dispenses ice from the ice storage bin.
US09151525B2
A method of operating an evaporator assembly in which a refrigerant is circulatable to transfer heat out of air in a housing. The evaporator assembly includes a thermostat that completes a solenoid control circuit when the temperature of the air in the housing is above a predetermined cut-in temperature, and opens the solenoid control circuit when the temperature of the air is below a predetermined cut-out temperature. The thermostat completes a fan control circuit when the solenoid control circuit is open, and opens the fan control circuit when the solenoid control circuit is completed. A fan controller detects a signal voltage when the fan control circuit is completed, and provides a first predetermined drive voltage to a fan motor drive. Upon the fan controller failing to detect the signal voltage, a second predetermined drive voltage being greater than the first predetermined drive voltage is provided to the motor drive.
US09151524B2
An icemaker is mounted remotely from a freezer compartment. The icemaker includes an ice mold. A thermoelectric device is provided and includes a warm side and an opposite cold side. A flow pathway is connected in communication between the cold side of the thermoelectric device and the icemaker. In one aspect, a fan is operatively positioned to move air from the fresh food compartment across the warm side of the thermoelectric device and a pump moves fluid from the cold side of the thermoelectric device to the icemaker. Cold air, such as from a refrigerator compartment, may be used to dissipate heat from the warm side of the thermoelectric device for providing cold fluid to and for cooling the ice mold of the icemaker.
US09151521B2
A refrigeration system includes a medium temperature subsystem circulating a coolant in a closed loop between at least one medium temperature chiller and at least one medium temperature load and at least one cascade heat exchanger, and a low temperature subsystem circulating a coolant in a closed loop between at least one low temperature heat exchanger and at least one low temperature load. A cooling circuit is provided for circulating a coolant and includes a first pump and a second pump and a fluid cooler and a valve, and interfaces with the medium temperature chiller and the low temperature chiller. The valve is movable to a closed position to define a first flow path and a second flow path, where the first flow path includes the first pump and the medium temperature chiller and fluid cooler, and the second flow path including the second pump and the low temperature heat exchanger and the cascade heat exchanger.
US09151517B2
A construction element (29) which extends in two dimensions comprises a solar energy converter member (1) which also extends along and defines one surface of the construction element (29). The construction element (29) further comprises a building construction member (30) which extends along the construction element (29) and defines the second surface thereof. At least a part of the solar energy converter member (1) is integral with at least a part of the building construction member (30) whereby this integral part both contributes to the requirements for solar energy conversion as well as to requirements for constructions.
US09151514B2
A suspension system for the attachment of a multiple bladed fan, connected beneath the roof of a canopy-styled tent or other overhead structure. The system's bracket is comprised of multiple arms that universally grip the frame of the said canopy-styled tent or overhead structure. Suspension is not limited to a fan, but also other embodiments, each powered by a plug or battery. The bracket is manufactured in polymer or like material. The system's fan blades are comprised of foam, rubber, or other soft matter. The suspension system allows the fan or other attached embodiment's height to be manipulated by a process further shown in this application. The system further includes embodiments for lighting, heating, or the mounting of additional embodiments. The suspension system and its embodiments are portable and may be broken down into a self-contained bag or case for easy transport.
US09151510B2
An HVAC remote controller for use in an HVAC system is described. In some instances, the HVAC remote controller may include a wireless interface for communicating with one or more HVAC controllers and/or other HVAC devices. The HVAC remote control unit may be configured to display two or more option on a display, wherein the user may be allowed to select one of the two or more options resulting in a selected option. The HVAC remote control unit may display a visual cue for the selected option that visually distinguishes the selected option from the remaining options. The visual cue may include a different border for the selected option than the remaining options and/or a marker within or adjacent to the border. It is also contemplated that a similar visual cue may be used in conjunction with an HVAC controller display, if desired.
US09151487B2
The invention relates to a heating element (25) for liquids to be vaporized as well as a burner (6) of a steam cutting device (1) and a burner (38) of a power-generating device, the element being designed as an induction heater (47) comprising one coil (25a). In order to improve vaporization, the coil (25a) of the induction heater (47) is enclosed in a hybrid construction which is composed of a main part (31) with laterally extending webs (33), and which consists of an easily magnetizable material (35) and a thermally highly-conductive material, a covering element (32) consisting of nanocrystalline materials being arranged on the webs (33), and the easily magnetizable material (35) being designed to be installed on a thermally highly-conductive material (37) of a vaporizer (21).
US09151470B2
To provide an illumination device in which there is no variation in light intensity distribution of the illumination device, and in which illumination spots, particularly light intensity spots, are not prone to occur in a read image in an image reading device, by maintaining a constant gap between a light source and an end face of a light guide. The illumination device includes: a light guide having an end face for taking in light, a diffuse reflecting surface for diffusely reflecting the light taken in from the end face, and a light exit surface for emitting the light that is diffusely reflected at the diffuse reflecting surface towards an irradiation surface. The illumination device further include a reflector having a diffuse reflecting surface that reflects light from the light source toward the one end face of the light guide. The light guide has, at the one end, a flange portion that abuts the reflector, the light source is mounted to a circuit board, and the reflector is held between the flange portion of the light guide and circuit board so as to maintain a predetermined gap between the light source and light guide.
US09151467B2
A lighting device (1) for providing a homogeneous luminous intensity distribution in relation to an optical axis of the lighting device (1), the lighting device (1) comprising: at least one light source (7); a housing (3) arranged to enclose the at least one light source (7), the housing (3) comprising an at least partly transparent housing portion being arranged in parallel to the optical axis of the lighting device (1); and a reflector (4) arranged inside the housing (3), the housing (3) and the reflector (4) together defining a single light mixing chamber (6), wherein the reflector (4) is arranged to reflect light from the at least one light source (7) away from the optical axis of the lighting device (1) towards the at least partly transparent housing portion.
US09151465B2
A light source device includes: a rod-shaped light source or an array light source extending in a main scanning direction; a reflector that is placed opposite the rod-shaped light source or the array light source, extends in the main scanning direction, and reflects light output from a side face of the rod-shaped light source or the array light source; and a plurality of reflector supports that are arranged at an interval along the main scanning direction and support the reflector.
US09151451B2
The present invention provides a lamp head assembly with positioning structures for combining with a lamp base. The lamp head assembly includes a conducting head and a supporting barrel. The conducting head has an insulating seat, a first conducting plate and a second conducting plate and a conduction piece. The conduction piece is electrically connected with the first conducting plate. A portion of the second conducting plate is protruded out of the insulating seat, and an end of the insulating seat is formed with a inserting plate. The supporting barrel includes a supporting section connected and an assembling section; wherein, the supporting barrel is assembled on the conducting head through a positioning of the inserting plate and the slot.
US09151429B2
A flow restrictor includes a first disc and a second disc. A rod extends between the first disc and the second disc and spaces the first disc from the second disc. A first hole is formed in the first disc.
US09151420B2
A tube or pipe clamp has two clamp members that are pivotably connected to one another at respective hinge-forming ends thereof. The tube or pipe clamp has a locking device that includes a shaft and a locking element operatively attached to the shaft, the shaft being pivotably attached to one of the clamp members. The other clamp member has a pair of prongs defining a slot for receiving the shaft of the locking device, the locking element being engageable with the prongs to lock the clamp members to one another at ends thereof opposite the hinge-forming ends. The prongs each have at least one projection on a side facing away from the one clamp member. Each of the projections is disposed proximate the free end of the respective prong.
US09151417B2
A pipe lining composition and a method for installing the pipe lining composition into a pipeline requiring repair is provided. The lining composition is a layered lining composite formed of alternating plies of felt and carbon fiber strand reinforcing such that layers of carbon fiber reinforcing strands are trapped between layers of felt. Once the composite is laid up the composite is preferably stitched to provide stability and to maintain the layers relative to one another and then formed into a tube. In accordance with the method, the lining tube is then sequentially filled resins of increasing viscosity as it is drawn through rollers in a manner that fully wets out the carbon fiber before it is placed into the pipe to be lined.
US09151416B2
Blow molded articles are made from a polymeric composition containing a mixture of polyphenylene sulfide resins. For instance, the polymeric composition may contain a linear polyphenylene sulfide resin combined with a branched polyphenylene sulfide resin. The composition can further contain a reinforcing agent, such as glass fibers, a polytetrafluoroethylene polymer, a polyphenylene oxide polymer, a silane coupling agent, and/or an impact modifier. Compositions made according to the present disclosure can have relatively high near zero shear rate melt strengths while also having high shear rate melt viscosities and high engineering stresses at a high percent elongations, making the compositions amenable to extrusion and molding processes. Compositions made according to the present disclosure are particularly well suited to molding articles with a complex shape. When producing blow molded articles, for instance, the composition provides better control over wall thickness while having improved interior surface smoothness at higher throughput and extrusion rates.
US09151413B2
The invention relates to a bushing for sealing a strand-shaped element (10), in particular one or more lines, in an opening (14) of a wall (15), comprising a foamed sealing body (40), which completely surrounds the strand-shaped element (10) and defines a volume, and a fastening body (20) for fastening the bushing to the wall (15), characterised in that the fastening body (20) is made of a different material than the sealing body (40), the volume defined by the scaling body (40) is delimited on one side at least along a portion of said side and is connected at least by bonding to the sealing body (40) along said portion.
US09151408B2
The method of preserving the anodized finish of a barrier door of a process module includes bonding a seal to a metal surface, anodizing the metal surface, and then using a CNC machine to polish the metal surface without damaging the seal. The metal surface is polished by traversing a polishing path along the metal surface with a polishing head maintaining frictional contact with the metal surface. The integrity of the seal is preserved by bounding the polishing head to skirt the edge of the seal by following the polishing path.
US09151407B2
A valve cage for a fluid flow control device includes a hollow cylindrical body, a noise abatement section, a high capacity flow section, and a transition section. The noise abatement section has a plurality of inlet openings, a plurality of outlet openings, and a plurality of tortuous flow paths extending between the inlet and outlet openings. The high capacity flow section is disposed axially adjacent to the noise abatement section and includes a first axial end, a second axial end, and a plurality of primary flow openings. The transition section is defined at an interface between the noise abatement section and the second axial end of the high capacity flow section and includes a plurality of transition openings. The transition section provides a valve cage with zero dead band between the noise abatement and high capacity flow sections when implemented into a fluid flow control device.
US09151402B2
A cylinder valve for pressurized gas with a body including a gas inlet, a gas outlet and a passage connecting the inlet to the outlet. The valve also includes a closing/opening valve, a pressure reducer and a device for reducing or closing the gas passage between said valve and a pressure reducer. The device includes an element that is made of shape-memory alloy and positioned in a cavity of the passage. The element includes an active deformable portion, the circular outer edge of which is capable of engaging with the inner surface of the cavity in order to close the passage following a rise in temperature caused by combustion. The combustion can be generated by adiabatic compression during the opening of the valve.
US09151400B2
A cam assembly for use in a slam-shut safety valve includes a cam having an elongated first cam arm, and the cam is pivotable about a rotational axis. The cam assembly also includes a torsional spring having a pair of stationary outer arms and a pair of pivotable inner arms, wherein the pair of stationary inner arms is coupled to a portion of the first cam arm. The pair of inner arms is adapted to act on the first cam arm to bias the cam into a position that allows the cam to be relatched in a valve rearming process. The pair of inner arms is symmetrically disposed about the first cam arm to prevent lateral displacement of the cam.
US09151397B2
A molded waterway assembly for a centerset faucet including a hot water inlet tube and a cold water inlet tube overmolded within a coupler.
US09151388B2
A sealing gasket made of a resilient rubber material or rubber-like material. The sealing gasket is formed as a rotationally symmetric body with a substantially constant cross-sectional profile. The cross-sectional profile includes: a first sealing part located furthest away from a center of rotation of the body and a second sealing part located radially inside the first sealing part, as viewed in the radial direction. An open space is defined by the first and second sealing parts. The second sealing part essentially curves through an angle away from the center of rotation. A seed housing can include such a seal and a seeder can include such a seed housing.
US09151384B2
A continuously variable transmission (CVT) is provided for use on a recreational or utility vehicle. The CVT is electronically controlled by at least one control unit of the vehicle. The CVT includes a primary clutch having a first sheave and a second sheave moveable relative to the first sheave. An actuator controls movement of the second sheave.
US09151374B2
A hydrostatic transmission includes a hydraulic pump, a top housing that houses the hydraulic pump, and a hydraulic motor. An endblock sub-assembly has a pump running face for interfacing with the hydraulic pump, and a motor connection portion for interfacing with a hydraulic motor. The enblock sub-assembly forms a porting manifold for communicating hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor includes an internal rotor set, and the hydraulic motor is secured to the endblock sub-assembly in a manner that permits rotation of the rotor set. The top housing is fixed to the endblock sub-assembly such that the housing and endblock sub-assembly form a reservoir for the hydraulic fluid. The motor connection portion of the endblock sub-assembly supports the hydraulic motor externally to the top housing. The hydrostatic transmission is suitable for incorporation into various light vehicle categories, including zero-turn radius vehicles.
US09151373B2
A wet clutch arrangement includes a housing arrangement which is filled or fillable with fluid, a first friction surface formation which is rotatable with the housing arrangement around an axis of rotation and a second friction surface formation which is rotatable with a driven member around the axis of rotation and which can be brought into frictional engagement with the first friction surface formation by a piston pump. At least a portion of a torsional vibration damping arrangement is provided in a torque transmission path and includes an input region and an output region. The torsional vibration damping arrangement further includes at least in a first torque transmission path a phase shifter arrangement for generating a phase shift of rotational irregularities transmitted via the first torque transmission path relative to rotational irregularities transmitted via a second torque transmission path.
US09151370B2
An angle adjusting mechanism includes a base seat, a driving assembly, a guiding assembly and an adjusting member. The driving assembly is mounted on the base seat. The driving assembly includes a driving member, a screw rod rotated by the driving member and a screw nut sleeved on the screw rod. The driving member is mounted on the base seat. The screw nut engages with the screw rod and is capable of moving along an axial direction of the screw rod. The guiding assembly is mounted on the base seat and guides the screw nut. The adjusting member is sleeved on the guiding assembly and rotated by the screw nut to a predetermined angle.
US09151369B2
Aerostatic air bearing, assembling method thereof, and aerostatic lead screw actuator using the same
Disclosed is an aerostatic air bearing. The disclosed aerostatic air bearing includes: an aerostatic nut, said aerostatic nut including a housing having an air inlet disposed therein, a helical plenum chamber disposed in said housing, said helical plenum chamber being fluidly connected to the air inlet and fluidly interconnecting a plurality of openings, said openings being disposed in a helical pattern, and a plurality of porous media, each of said porous media being disposed in one of the plurality of openings respectively; and a lead screw coupled to said aerostatic nut, said lead screw including a threaded surface separated from each of the plurality of porous media.
US09151356B2
A splice is described for jointing thermoplastic strips that include steel cords. In the splice a splice polymer is used that is a mixture of a co-polymer and a base polymer, wherein the co-polymer is a grafted co-polymer, a block co-polymer or a random co-polymer functionalized for enabling adhesion to the steel cords. Particular about the inventive splice is that the amount of co-polymer in the base polymer is such that in a test-till-break of a splice, part of the steel cords fracture in the test while the remaining cords are pulled out of the polymer without breaking. Surprisingly, a splice with such a failure behavior results in a better overall splice strength than a splice wherein a too large amount of co-polymer is added. When too much co-polymer is added all steel cords break in the test which strangely enough leads to a lower overall strength of the splice.
US09151355B2
A co-axial adjustable damping assembly includes a cylinder unit having an outer case with a cap, and an inner case having a piston unit which movably contacts inside of the outer case. A valve unit extends through the piston unit and is inserted into the inner case. A piston is connected to the valve unit and defines a first oil chamber and a second oil chamber in the inner case. A path communicates between the first and second oil chambers. A piston rod extends through the inner case, the outer case, the piston unit and the piston. A switching device is connected to the cap and has a first tube which has a cam part contacting the piston rod. A damping device has a driving rod inserted into the first tube. The driving rod is rotated to move the piston rod linearly to adjust the path.
US09151353B2
The present shock absorber has a pressure tube with a compression chamber and a traction chamber, separated by a piston provided with a traction passage. The valve includes: a counter pressure chamber loaded by piston, provided with an upper opening and a control base, open to the compression chamber, where a hollow sealing plug is displaceable between a closed position, hence communicating traction passage only with the counter pressure chamber, and open positions; a return spring driving sealing plug to its closed position; and an inertial seal, inside the counter pressure chamber and displaceable from inoperative position, away from the control base, to operative position, where it blocks said base, increasing hydraulic pressure in the counter pressure chamber to hydraulically drive sealing plug to its closed position when piston is subjected to a given upward acceleration.
US09151352B2
A device for vibration-damping mounting of a vehicle brake system fluid assembly in a receiving opening includes a stay bolt, an elastic damping element in the form of a sleeve through which the stay bolt passes, a clamping sleeve guided by the stay bolt, and a screw element having an internal thread. The stay bolt comprises a connecting pin and a threaded shank having an external thread onto which the screw element can be screwed in order to move the clamping sleeve axially on the stay bolt towards the elastic damping element. The clamping sleeve and the screw element are in the form of a one-piece clamping element having a bearing shoulder, wherein the axial force generated by the clamping element as a result of the screwing-on movement acts via the bearing shoulder on the elastic damping element. A fluid assembly includes at least one such device for vibration-damping mounting.
US09151322B2
A foil journal bearing applicable to high speed machining and grinding machines for machining microscopic features. A single foil is secured to and supported by a hollow, generally cylindrical, housing. The foil has a length substantially equal to twice the interior circumference of the housing and a mounting feature, extending across its width, for engagement with a feature of complementary shape in the housing. One portion of the foil has a length approximately equal to one half of the foil length, and comprises a bump foil and a plurality of regions comprising groups of generally uniformly-spaced ridges and flats, the regions being separated by extended flat regions. The other portion of the foil has a length approximately equal to one half of the foil length, and comprises the top foil and is generally flat and overlies the bump foil which overlies the interior of the housing.
US09151312B2
The invention relates to a combination of a functional element having a flange section and a connection section, in particular a rivet element, and a pressure plate, in particular a pressure plate having an opening, for attachment to a component, in particular to a panel of composite material or sheet metal, wherein the functional element and the pressure plate are formed to be arranged on opposite sides of a hole of the component and are to be connected together via the connection section which extends through the hole, in particular by riveting, in order to clamp a region of the component surrounding the hole between the flange section and the pressure plate and wherein the pressure side of the pressure plate confronting the component in the attached state is provided with a means providing security against rotation.
US09151305B2
Lever bodies (31) include first shaft introducing grooves (34) which introduce lever supporting shafts (11) of a first connector housing (10) to first initial engaged positions P1, second shaft introducing grooves (35) which introduce action receiving shafts (23) of a second connector housing (20) to second initial engaged positions P2, first communicating grooves (37) which introduce the lever supporting shafts (11) to pivoting fulcrum parts (36), second communicating grooves (39) which introduce the action receiving shafts (23) to action receiving parts (38), and shaft detaching grooves (40, 41) which make the lever supporting shafts (11) and the action receiving shafts (23) escape to the outside of the lever bodies (31) along detachment moving traces which are different from those at the time of installing.
US09151304B2
A cushion arrangement for smoothing stage changes in an hydraulic cylinder and including at least one compression chamber of variable volume with a movable and/or deformable chamber wall element displaceable by at least one of the pistons when approaching the transition zone between first and second stages of displacement. The compression chamber is operatively connected to a gas volume to be compressed upon displacement of the chamber wall element.
US09151297B2
A centrifugal compressor includes an asymmetric self-recirculating casing treatment that includes, on an inner face of a casing 10, a suction ring groove 1, a ring guide channel 2 and a back-flow ring groove 3 to form a self-recirculating channel. A position or a width of the suction ring groove 1 is distributed in an arc shape in a circumferential direction, and the arc has a center angle α in a range of 0<α≦30°.
US09151296B2
The present invention relates to a device for pumping a fluid at low flows, comprising a body (1) including a channel (2) having a circular cross section for transportation of a fluid, and a cylindrical cavity (3) arranged in connection with the channel and with its longitudinal axis being non coplanar with the longitudinal axis of the channel, and a pump including a rotatable cylinder (6) extending into the cavity, coaxial with the cavity, with the periphery of the cylinder protruding into the channel, thereby driving the fluid in the channel by shear forces. The channel and the cylinder are both arranged at a distance from the bottom of the cavity, so as to form a cylindrical space (20) between the cylinder and the bottom of the cavity for receiving some of the driven fluid, wherein the cylinder and the cavity are arranged so that a vortex (23) is generated in the fluid in the space by the rotation of the cylinder, and an opening (22) is formed between the space and the channel, which allows the vortex generated in the space to continue into the channel. The device provides a steady and smooth flow in the channel.
US09151293B2
Herein described is a system for injecting and extracting gas for a fluid rotating machine of the type comprising at least one stator case, one first stage which receives the gas flowing into the machine, one final stage, downstream of which the gas is discharged from the machine, and one or more intermediate stages arranged between the first stage and the final stage. Each stage is made up of a single centrifugal rotor and a fixed ducting, associated to such centrifugal rotor and made on the single stator case. The system comprises at least one first worm screw for extracting gas from the machine and at least one second worm screw for injecting gas into the machine. Both worm screws for extracting gas and for injecting gas are operatively connected to at least one stage of the machine.
US09151292B2
A shunt pulsation trap for a screw compressor reduces gas pulsation and NVH, and improves off-design efficiency, without using a traditional serial pulsation dampener and a sliding valve. A screw compressor has a pair of multi-helical-lobe rotors that are housed in a compressor chamber that propel gas flow from a suction port to a discharge port of the compressor chamber. The shunt pulsation trap includes an inner casing as an integral part of the compressor chamber, and an outer casing oversized and surrounding the inner casing. The shunt pulsation trap houses at least one gas pulsation dampening device, and includes at least one injection port (trap inlet) branching off from the compressor chamber into the pulsation trap chamber and a feedback region (trap outlet) communicating with the compressor outlet.
US09151291B2
A rotary engine includes a housing body having a first rotation chamber and a second rotation chamber. A first rotary body is arranged within the first rotation chamber, and a second rotary body is arranged within the second rotation chamber. A boundary surface of the first rotation chamber has a variable distance from an opposite surface of the first rotary body. A pair of valve flaps having a first valve flap and a second valve flap is arranged on the first rotary body. Upon rotation of the first rotary body, the valve flaps are in engagement with the boundary surface of the first rotation chamber and are rotated in mutually opposite directions with regard to the first rotary body so as to form two mutually demarcated working chambers within the first rotation chamber.
US09151285B2
An air pump structure includes a main body. The main body has a central air chamber. The main body has two side air chambers at two sides thereof. The two side air chambers communicate with the central air chamber through an air inlet unit. The two side air chambers each have a passage at a lower end thereof to communicate with an air outlet. A one-way valve plate is coupled to the air outlet. Two air pump members are to seal the two side air chambers. The air pump members cooperate with a link member and an electromagnetic member to pump air. The present invention has a simple configuration and lowers the cost and is convenient for assembly to enhance its quality and prevent air leakage.
US09151279B2
An offshore structure for use with an OTEC system includes a submerged spar having a lower portion having a cold water intake. The cold water intake includes a domed terminus in fluid communication with a cold water pipe. A dry machinery space adjacent the cold water intake includes one or more cold water supply pumps and one or more cold water pipe lifting and retention winches having a lifting cable connected to the cold water pipe.
US09151275B2
A drive system has a transmission unit with planetary gear stage and a first shaft associated with a planetary carrier and having a coupling flange connectable to a machine or rotor shaft. The transmission unit and a motor/generator unit includes a rotor connected with a rotation-lock to a hollow rotor shaft which is connected to a second shaft of the transmission unit and enclosed by a gearbox housing. A coupling is arranged radially between the second shaft and the hollow rotor shaft. A gearbox housing support with a hollow cylindrical extension is arranged between the transmission unit and the motor/generator unit. The cylindrical extension concentrically encloses an end section of the second shaft and forms a bearing seat for a bearing arrangement disposed radially between the second shaft and the cylindrical extension. The hollow cylindrical extension is concentrically enclosed by the rotor and the hollow rotor shaft.
US09151273B2
An apparatus for generating electricity. The apparatus comprises a plurality of solar energy collectors for generating electricity from solar energy; a plurality of wind turbines for generating electricity from wind energy; a support structure having arms extending radially from a vertical shaft, the arms positioned at different vertical distances along the vertical shaft and the arms having decreasing lengths in a direction toward a top of the apparatus; solar energy collectors affixed to terminal ends of the arms and disposed at different vertical distances along the vertical shaft, the solar energy collectors shaped and oriented to direct wind streams striking the solar energy collectors toward the wind turbines; and each one of the plurality of wind turbines rotatably supported by the vertical shaft to rotate about the vertical shaft and disposed at different vertical distances along the vertical shaft.
US09151267B2
A wave-powered water vehicle includes a) a first component which is a float that travels on or near the water surface; b) a second component which is wave actuated and travels below the first component; and c) a means whereby the first component engages the second component and/or the second component engages the first component; wherein the engagement means provides lateral support of one component for the other, and thereby minimizes lateral movement of one against the other when the components are fitted together.
US09151266B2
Improvements in an ocean wave energy conversion unit that converts kinetic energy from oceanic waves into useable form of energy that will benefit society called and Aqua-tamer. The unit is designed to be modular in nature where the units can be deployed to function individually or assembled into groups where units will rely on each other and function together as a whole. Each individual unit has an electrical output. As a group (Colony) during deep sea surface applications, the electrical output of each Aqua-Tamer unit will be consolidated and used to operate a water-electrolysis operation that produces Oxygen Gas (O2) and Hydrogen Gas (H2). This production of O2 and H2, instead of electrical output, is designed to eliminate the requirements of an Ocean-wide electrical grid system and still facilitate an economic logistically efficient) method of energy transportation (energy in a gas state.
US09151263B2
Methods and systems for stopping and starting an engine automatically are presented. In one example, a method inhibits automatic engine stopping in response to output of an on-board camera. The method prevents engine stopping during conditions where little fuel may be saved via automatically stopping the engine.
US09151249B2
A system for storing and dispensing fuel and a ballast fluid is disclosed. The system may be installed in a station. The system may be employed in a vehicle or facility having a power plant. Fuel and ballast fluid may be stored cryogenically in a liquid phase and dispensed to the vapor phase. The system may employ a thermal and volumetric compensatory arrangement wherein fuel dispensed from storage for use in a power plant is used as a heat exchange medium (refrigerant) for ballast fluid received for storage; during refueling, ballast fluid stored in the vehicle or facility may be dispensed and used as a refrigerant for fuel being stored in the vehicle in space made available by the dispensed ballast fluid. The fuel may be natural gas with a main component of methane; the ballast fluid may be a fluid obtainable from ambient environmental air, such as nitrogen or oxygen. The fuel and ballast fluid may be conditioned so that the respective boiling points are approximately equal. The system may employ a heat transfer system with a microchannel heat exchanger.
US09151233B2
A vehicle controller performs a throttle-valve-late-close control in which the throttle valve is held open until a delay time has passed after the fuel cut is started, and an EGR-valve-open-close control in which the EGR valve is repeatedly opened and closed. Then, the throttle valve is closed and the EGR valve is opened. In a period from a latter period of an exhaust stroke to a preceding period of an intake stroke, a valve-overlap control is executed so that a variable valve timing controller is controlled to make both an intake valve and an exhaust valve opened. A pumping loss of an engine is sufficiently reduced and an energy-regenerate efficiency can be effectively improved.
US09151232B2
A system is provided for controlling a powered unit having an engine configured to operate using a plurality of fuel types each in a corresponding fuel tank. The system includes a controller operable to transmit a first set of control signals including a first set of valve signals to the each fuel tank based at least in part on a first stored engine operating profile to control amounts of fuel from each fuel tank to the engine. The controller can transmit a second set of control signals including a second set of valve signals to each fuel tank based at least in part on a second stored engine operating profile to control amounts of fuel from each fuel tank to the engine. Further, the controller can switch, by transmitting either the first set of control signals or the second set of control signals, between a first operating condition associated with a first external domain and a second condition associated with a second external domain. The first operating condition is associated with the first stored engine operating profile, and the second operating condition is associated with the second stored engine operating profile.
US09151225B2
An air intake structure for a turbojet engine nacelle includes a substantially annular main structure having an internal wall, an external wall and an air intake lip structure connecting the external and internal walls upstream. The air intake structure also includes a first acoustic attenuation structure which has a holed acoustic skin, a cellular core and a solid rear skin with which the internal wall is equipped, and a second acoustic attenuation structure having a similar architecture fitted to a part of the air intake lip substantially near a junction with the internal wall. The rear skin of the first acoustic attenuation structure is aligned with the rear skin of the second acoustic attenuation structure, both of rear skins being structural.
US09151224B2
A gas turbine engine has a spool, a towershaft connected to the spool and an impeller pump. An integrated drive pump is connected to the towershaft and to the impeller pump for driving the impeller pump at a constant speed. The integrated drive pump is positioned on an engine core. The gas turbine engine includes a fan and a bypass duct located between a cowl and the engine core. The gas turbine engine includes an intake manifold for the impeller pump, and the intake manifold receives air from the bypass duct.
US09151219B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving a margin to surge. A compressor recirculation valve is held at a semi-open position during steady-state boosted engine operation and operation in a soft surge region. The valve is fully opened to reduce hard surge, or fully closed to meet a transient increase in boost demand.
US09151215B2
Artificial aspiration methods and systems for increasing engine efficiency and or power. The methods include determining an engine operation status, determining an artificial aspiration goal value based on the engine operating status, determining an artificial aspiration system configuration based on the artificial aspiration goal value and the engine operating status, and configuring the artificial aspiration system to obtain the determined artificial aspiration system configuration. The system includes a plurality of sensors for sensing characteristics of an operating engine, and an artificial aspiration control unit comprising a processor connected to receive the sensed characteristics of the engine. On one example, the processor is configured to determine the engine operating status, determine an artificial aspiration goal value based on the engine operating status, determine an artificial aspiration system configuration based on the artificial aspiration goal value and the engine operating status, and configure the artificial aspiration system to obtain the determined artificial aspiration system configuration.
US09151208B2
The invention relates to an exhaust manifold (18) of an interna! combustion engine (20), with a number of exhaust pipe bends (1) corresponding to the number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine (20), said exhaust pipe bends being brought together at one end into an input flange (2 ) which can be fastened to the internal combustion engine (20), and being brought together at the other end; with a supply gas duct (21) which is connected at one end to a collector component (4) and at the other end to a rotor space (15) of a turbine housing (17) of a turbine of an exhaust-gas turbocharger; and with at least one compensator (19′) for compensating for thermal stresses in at least one exhaust pipe bend (1) and the supply gas duct (21), wherein the at least one compensator (19′) is designed as a component which is integrated in at least one exhaust pipe component (1).
US09151207B2
A diagnostic method for an engine having a valve for controlling dilution of intake air. The method comprises, during engine fueling, indicating a degradation of the valve when the valve is commanded closed but sensor output corresponds to an oxygen level below that of air. The method further comprises, absent engine fueling, indicating degradation of the sensor when the valve is commanded closed but the sensor output corresponds to an oxygen level below that of air.
US09151198B2
An exhaust treatment system includes an exhaust treatment device having a stepped outer diameter. First and second clamps each include a stepped inner diameter such that the clamps engage the exhaust treatment device and other portions of the exhaust treatment system when the exhaust treatment device is properly oriented. The exhaust treatment device interferes with one of the clamps to preclude coupling the exhaust treatment device to an adjacent portion of the exhaust treatment system when an attempt is made to install the exhaust treatment device in a reversed improper orientation. A consistent exhaust flow direction through an exhaust treatment device such as a diesel particulate filter may be maintained through use of the inventive system.
US09151195B2
A crankcase for an internal combustion engine, having a suction arrangement which is assigned to the crankcase and is configured for ventilating the crankcase of blow-by gas, in particular a gas/oil mixture, to produce a limited vacuum in the crankcase is disclosed. The crankcase has at least one dividing wall which is configured to feed blow-by gas and to separate oil. A ventilating housing part and a carrier housing part which is arranged above the ventilating housing part in included in the crankcase. The dividing wall is formed between the ventilating housing part and the carrier housing part and a suction arrangement is formed in the form of a suction jet pump which is configured for extracting oil from the dividing wall.
US09151190B2
A valve timing controller includes: a driving-side rolling body configured to rotate synchronously with an engine crankshaft; a driven-side rolling body configured to rotate in a unified manner with a camshaft for opening/closing an engine valve relative to the driving-side rolling body; an advance chamber, and a retard chamber; a torsion spring disposed in a space formed between a front plate or a rear plate of the driving-side rolling body and the driven-side rolling body and configured to bias at all times the driving-side rolling body and the driven-side rolling body in the advance direction or the retard direction; and a first cylindrical portion provided in the front plate or the rear plate and a second cylindrical portion provided in the driven-side rolling body, the first and second cylindrical portions being insertable into each other in an axial direction.
US09151180B2
A lubrication system for a gas turbine engine includes a variable output lubricant pump operable to supply lubricant to an actuator system.
US09151179B2
The present embodiments are generally directed toward systems and methods for cooling one or more shroud segments of a gas turbine engine. For example, in a first embodiment, a shroud segment is provided that is configured to at least partially surround a turbine blade of a turbine engine. The shroud segment includes a body and a microchannel disposed in the body. The microchannel is configured to flow a cooling fluid through the body.
US09151163B2
A rotor disk for a turbomachine, which is connectable to at least one rotor blade and/or a shaft of the turbomachine, having at least one borehole, which has an elliptical inlet opening having a first passage cross-sectional area and an elliptical outlet opening having a second passage cross-sectional area, so that the second passage cross-sectional area is smaller than the first passage cross-sectional area.
US09151160B1
A hydraulic motor for generating electricity with a water holding container with a conduit extending downwardly to a distribution valve assembly. A hydraulic shock valve assembly connected to a port in the conduit, adjacent to the distribution valve assembly, periodically imparts a shock to the water entering the distribution valve assembly with some water collected by a holding tank. The distribution valve assembly permits the water to go through to move a piston assembly. The moving valve member quickly moves from two end positions a spring loaded actuating mechanism that is unstable when the distal end of the valve rod reaches a predetermined position. The piston assembly also actuates as a wheel assembly that in turn drives an actuating valve assembly driving the hydraulic shock valve assembly and an electric generator that in turn powers a pump to bring water from the holding tank to the container.
US09151159B2
A traction-type actuator includes a frame, a first actuating unit, a second actuating unit, a rotatable member and a traction member. The rotatable member is disposed on the frame. The first actuating unit and the second actuating unit are located at two sides of the rotatable member. The traction member has a strip shape and can be curved and wound. The traction member has two ends fixed to the frame and is in a tightened state. The traction member winds through the first actuating unit, and then winds on the rotatable member, and finally winds through the second actuating unit. When the first actuating unit is actuated, the second actuating unit will be towed, vice versa, the first actuating unit and the second actuating unit are push-pull by the traction member so that the rotatable member is turned clockwise and counterclockwise.
US09151157B2
The invention relates to a bit holder for an earth working machine, in particular a road milling machine, having a support member onto which an insertion projection is indirectly or directly attached on an insertion projection side, the support member comprising two first and/or two second stripping surfaces that are at an angle to one another, and the support member having a working side that comprises a bit receptacle. In order to achieve a stable and long-lived configuration for such a bit holder, provision is made according to the present invention that the first and/or second stripping surfaces diverge from the insertion projection side toward the working side.
US09151156B2
A guidance system for mining a seam of material includes a mining machine, a carriage, and a guide assembly. The mining machine includes a cutter head and defines a roll axis extending the length of the machine, a pitch axis extending from one side of the machine to the other side, and a yaw axis extending from a top side of the machine to the bottom side. The carriage includes a first emitter, a second emitter, and a third emitter. The first emitter projects a first laser that is aligned with a seam plane. The second emitter projects a second laser, and the third emitter projects a third laser. The guide assembly includes a first indicator and a target. The first indicator is aligned with the second laser, and the target is aligned with the third laser. The relative positions of the first indicator with respect to the second laser and the target with respect to the third laser indicate the orientation of the roll axis, pitch axis, and yaw axis relative to the seam plane.
US09151154B2
An apparatus for preparing and testing a sample of a subterranean formation, the apparatus comprising a pressure cell defining an interior volume, the pressure cell comprising a first end member comprising a channel formed therein, a second end member, a wall member positioned between the first end member and the second end member, and a sample cell positioned within the interior volume of the pressure cell, wherein the channel of the first end member fluidly connects with a first point external of the pressure cell, with a second point external of the pressure cell, and with the sample cell.
US09151145B2
The present invention provides for an apparatus for use with a traveling valve assembly of a downhole pump for releasing gas and thereby breaking gas locks. The apparatus comprises a piston slidably disposed within a cylindrical housing, the piston being driven by an attached plunger element. On the down stroke of the pump, the piston protrudes through end of the cylindrical housing engaging and opening the adjacent valve. On the up stroke of the pump, the piston retracts into the cylindrical housing, disengaging from the valve allowing it to close. Fluid flows along the outer surface of the apparatus by means of fluid ports connected by defined fluid passages.
US09151143B2
A well screen assembly for use downhole comprises a fluid pathway configured to provide fluid communication between an exterior of a wellbore tubular and an interior of the wellbore tubular, a flow restrictor disposed in the fluid pathway, and a plug disposed in series with the flow restrictor in the fluid pathway. The plug substantially prevents a fluid flow through the fluid pathway. The plug is configured to be at least partially dissolvable when contacted by a fluid, and the fluid comprises a chemical configured to dissolve the plug.
US09151132B2
A system and method is provided for setting a metal-to-metal seal (e.g., in an annular space between wellhead components) using a temporary elastomer seal. For example, the annular space may be sealed with one or more elastomer seals before hydraulically setting the metal-to-metal seal. A seal assembly may include the elastomer seals and the metal-to-metal seal. Positioning the seal assembly in the annular space between the wellhead components may isolate pressure in the annular space below the seal such that the metal-to-metal seal may be set. In an exemplary embodiment, a hydraulic mechanism axially compresses the metal-to-metal seal between two members of the seal assembly, thereby radially expanding and setting the metal-to-metal seal.
US09151126B2
Systems and related methods to simulate trapped annular pressure and wellhead movement during downhole drilling scenarios.
US09151110B2
A cord enclosure assembly to encase one or more lift cords extending from the headrail of an architectural covering, such as a blind or shade system, is disclosed, for the purpose of avoiding exposed cords capable of creating a hazardous loop. The cord disclosure assembly comprises an enclosure having a pivot cup portion and an adaptor. The adaptor is configured to be selectively attached to the pivot cup portion about a pivot point. The adaptor is also configured to connect the enclosure to the headrail about a swivel point. At least one of the pivot point and the swivel point at a top of the enclosure allows the enclosure to swivel, or move in a lateral direction when attached to the headrail. This lateral movement allows the enclosure to be positioned substantially horizontally such that it may be stored under the headrail behind the blind or shade assembly.
US09151108B1
A gate apparatus that includes a gate, an elongate member or gate base for the ends of the gate, and a stairway post adapter such that a wooden stairway post can serve as a base for a gate without harming the wood of the stairway post. The stairway post adapter includes a vertical or longitudinally running channel for receiving the gate base, a horizontally or laterally extending channel for receiving a strap, and a recess or receptor or face for confronting a section of a stairway post. The gate base includes an upper and lower eyelet. Each of the ends of the gate includes upper and lower pins for engaging the upper and lower eyelets of the gate bases. On the hinge side of the gate, the pins are relatively long and remain in the eyelets as the gate is lifted and swung. On the latch side of the gate, the pins are relatively short such that that latch side of the gate can be lifted and disengaged from the eyelets and then swung open. The gate is extendable and retractable in length, and is reversible.
US09151102B2
A cable deflecting piece, which is fastened on a rail head or rail foot of a guide rail and is intended for a cable operated window lifter, contains a base body which during mounting and following fastening of the cable deflecting piece, abuts against the guide rail on one side of the rail head or rail foot, also contains a rotary and bearing pin, which projects from the base body, can be inserted in a position in which it is tilted in relation to the longitudinal extension of the guide rail, into a rotary and bearing opening of the rail head or rail foot and can be pivoted about a cable deflecting piece, further contains a rotation prevention means which, in a final mounting position, once the cable deflecting piece has been pivoted about the mounting axis of rotation, secures the connection of the cable deflection piece to the rail head or rail foot such that the cable deflecting piece cannot rotate and additionally contains a device which is formed on the basic body and is intended for securing the abutment of the base body against the rail head or rail foot perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the guide rail.
US09151098B2
A front cable and a rear cable are wound about a drum, are made to change direction by being caught onto a front pulley and a rear pulley, respectively, disposed on a center rail, and are respectively connected to a guide roller unit at respective terminals. The closing cable section of the front cable is routed to the outside of the center rail, the corresponding terminal being connected to the guide roller unit farther rearward than a load roller, and the opening cable section of the rear cable is routed to inside the center rail, the corresponding terminal being connected to the guide roller unit.
US09151089B2
In a vehicle door assembly, controllers processes signals from an extension force sensor and a retraction force sensor to control a door handle. As a motor retracts the handle, a swing arm in the vehicle door presses against the retraction force sensor causing the handle controller to stop the motor. Pushing on the retracted handle presses the swing arm against the retraction force sensor a second time causing the controllers to operate the motor and extend the handle. As the handle extends, the swing arm presses against the extension force sensor and the handle controller stops the motor as the handle is fully extended. Subsequently, a hand pulling on the door handle presses the swing arm against the extension force sensor a second time causing the controllers to unlatch a latch holding the vehicle door shut, and thereby allow the vehicle door to open.
US09151086B2
A storage compartment arrangement for a motor vehicle, in particular an automobile, is provided. The arrangement can include a storage compartment, a storage compartment cover displaceable by a drive, a key and a control device, which is configured to cooperate with the key and to displace, in particular to close, the storage compartment cover on the basis of an actuation of the key.
US09151079B2
A system for operating an electric door release having an actuator powered by an energy harvester. The actuator may be a piezoelectric actuator and the harvester may be a piezo harvester. The system may further include a power module, a rechargeable battery and a voltage boost circuit disposed between the energy harvester and the actuator. When a piezoelectric actuator is used, a recycle actuator discharge circuit may be disposed between the piezoelectric actuator and the power module battery for recapturing a portion of the energy delivered to the piezoelectric actuator. The piezoelectric harvester may include an energy input portion whereby the piezo electric harvester is excited by the energy input portion. The energy input portion may include a circular or linear driving gear for exciting the piezoelectric harvester or a stepper motor generator, driven by movement of a door. The harvester may also be a stepper motor/generator.
US09151073B2
An underground fluid storage tank hold-down system for holding down an underground cylindrical fluid storage tank in a hole that has been excavated, the underground tank hold-down system comprising a multiplicity of paired hold-down straps having a first end and a second end. A multiplicity of paired deadmen anchors are adapted to be placed to either side of the tank when the tank is in the hole. The deadmen anchors each have anchor upstanding loops. A tank hold-down assembly is provided comprising a take-up coupler assembly having a pair of arched sections, having hooks thereon, including a first arched section and a second arched section and a threaded engagement assembly. The threaded engagement assembly includes a threaded member and a receiving member adapted to receive part of the threaded member. The straps engage the hooks and the anchor upstanding loops.
US09151068B2
The present invention provides for a system, or kit, of blow molded panels having integrally formed connectors which combine to form an enclosure, commonly in the form of a utility shed. The corner sections, roof, wall and floor panels are formed of blow molded plastic with integrally formed connectors to interlock with one another.
US09151062B2
Floor panel comprising coupling parts enabling two floor panels to adopt two or more different mutually locked positions (P1-P2) when coupled, wherein the two or more mutual positions (P1-P2) differ from each other in that they, at the coupled sides, define two or more different distances (S) between the upper side edges of the floor panels, and adapter elements are provided with the coupling parts, so that the use or non-use of these adapter elements enables setting the mutually locked position (P1-P2).
US09151058B1
A ledger board bracket includes a ledger board receiving section defined having a channel extending along its length to provide an offset between a ledger board and a building when the ledger board is mounted to the building in connection with installation of a deck. An integral flange may be incorporated to help direct water away from entering the channel. A joist hanger may be implemented on a front surface of the ledger board bracket to enable the ledger board bracket to implement a combination ledger board and joist hanger bracket. Apertures may be provided in the bracket to enable fasteners to pass through the bracket in connection with mounting the ledger board to the building and in connection with securing the joists to the ledger board.
US09151052B2
An insulation system for coupling to a building substrate comprising a plurality of insulation panels, bracket members and splice members. Each insulation panel includes a longitudinal slot. Each bracket member is formed from a polymer and includes an elongated body having a body wall, a first end wall and a second end wall. Upper and lower ribs extend from the body wall and are structurally configured to extend into the longitudinal slot of each of the plurality of insulation panels, and to elastically deform the longitudinal slot so as to effectively seal along a length thereof, defining a vapor barrier. A similar structure is on each splice member. The bracket members are positioned in a spaced apart relationship with insulation panels therebetween. The upper and lower ribs extend into corresponding ones of the longitudinal slots of the insulation panels, with splice members extending between adjacent adjacently abutting insulation panels.
US09151045B2
A partition structure includes two partition members each of which has two edges formed on a side and an engaging assembly including a first engaging member, a second engaging member and at least one locking member. The first engaging member has two first L-shaped wing portions extending from two sides thereof and a convex portion formed on a middle and having at least one opening slot. The second engaging member has two second L-shaped wing portions extending from two sides thereof and a concave portion formed on a middle. The locking member is fixed to the concave portion. The two first L-shaped wing portions and the two second L-shaped wing portions correspondingly overlap each of the two edges, respectively, the convex portion and the concave portion are engaged with each other, and the locking member is correspondingly engaged with the opening slot.
US09151036B2
A square shaped lightweight steel component with reinforced members includes a main body structure (1) and reinforced members (2). The main body structure (1) is a square steel tube integrally molded by a steel plate with certain thickness. One side of the square steel tube is provided with an opening. Angular curled edges (5) are respectively set on two sides of the opening. The reinforced members (2) are fixedly connected with the side of the main body structure (1) having the opening and installed with an interval therebetween.
US09151035B2
A double axis frame strut has a strut frame and a tongue that extends from a distal end of the strut frame. The tongue can be rigidly coupled to an axle that is rotatably coupled to the strut frame and extends from a distal end of the strut frame. The tongue can rotate relative to the strut frame and the tongue can include a hole which can be coupled to other double axis frame struts or other structure. The hole in the tongue can define a first axis of rotation and the axle can define a second axis of rotation. The axis of the hole in the tongue can be perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the tongue relative to the strut frame.
US09151028B2
A flushing valve suitable for reducing water wastage from a cistern of a toilet is described. The flushing valve comprising an inlet valve, an outlet valve and a timer valve. The timer valve is mechanically connected to both the inlet valve and the outlet valve so as to control their movement between an open and a closed position such that the timer valve prevents both the inlet valve and the outlet valve from simultaneously being in their open positions. By preventing the inlet valve and the outlet valve from simultaneously being in their open positions results in the fact that the flushing valve does not allow the cistern to start to refill until after the flush process is complete. This results in a significant reduction in the volume of water passing through the cistern during each flushing cycle.
US09151025B2
The invention provides a fluid delivery assembly for use with a water discharge fixture, such as a faucet. The fluid delivery assembly includes a tube assembly, a housing and a retaining assembly. The fluid delivery assembly provides for water flow from hot and cold water inlets to the faucet. The fluid delivery assembly may be assembled by hand without the need for tools, allowing for easy replacement of the fluid delivery assembly, without the need to disassemble the faucet assembly or to replace the entire faucet assembly.
US09151020B2
A device for extracting water from atmospheric air (18) by means of a flowable sorbent for the sorption of the water, in particular a brine solution with a hygroscopic salt, the sorption being provided at least along a sorption path (1, 5), the flowable sorbent being arranged at least along the sorption path (1, 5) essentially on a guide element (1) for guiding the sorbent, the guide element (1) having at least two distributor elements (3), arranged at least partially vertically one above the other, for enlarging the sorption area or sorption path (5), is proposed, which achieves a better energy yield in order to implement an economical type of operation. This is achieved, according to the invention, in that a width (27), formed as a projection onto the horizontal plane, of the distributor element (3) is greater than a height (26), formed as a projection onto a vertical plane, of the distributor element (3).
US09151019B2
A hybrid-type construction machine comprises an engine 11; an electric power accumulator 19B; first and second pumps 28, 14; a motor generator 27 for driving the first pump 28; and plural actuators 1A, 1B, 7, 8 and 9 which are driven by the first and second pumps 28, 14, wherein the first and second pumps 28, 14 are arranged such that the first pump 28 controls at least one of the actuators 1A, 1B, 7, 8 and 9 independently from the second pump 14 and the second pump 14 controls at least another one of the actuators 1A, 1B, 7, 8 and 9 independently from the first pump 28, the first pump 28 is electrically driven by the motor generator 27 with electric power from the electric power accumulator 19B, and the second pump 14 is directly coupled to the engine 11.
US09151012B2
A thumb body is pivotally connected to a first mount, and a stiff-arm anchor is connected to and extends between the first mount and a second mount. The stiff-arm anchor is selectively removable from the first and second mounts. A stiff-arm support link includes a first end connected to the thumb body and a second end connected to the stiff-arm anchor. The thumb can be converted from a hydraulic mode to a stiff-arm or fixed mode by disconnecting the first end of a hydraulic cylinder actuator from the thumb body and disconnecting the second end of the hydraulic cylinder actuator from the second mount, and by installing the stiff-arm anchor and stiff-arm support link.
US09151009B2
A manufactured composite comprising synthetic turf and impermeable geomembrane is used in a single-layer capping system as the single layer to provide permanent, impermeable and functional aesthetic cover for land reclamation. During installation of composite pieces at a job site, an edge portion of a tufted section of a second composite piece is overlaid onto an edge untufted section of the first composite piece already laid and anchored over foundation soil to form a reinforced overlapping seam, through which the two composite pieces are physically and permanently joined together. As composite pieces are joined together, the continuity of synthetic grass and the continuity of impermeability are extended and realized over the entire site to form permanent, impermeable and functional aesthetic cover for land reclamation.
US09151006B2
A material pushing apparatus is disclosed that has a central blade, at least one removable side plate attached to the central blade and a segmented scraping edge flexibly attached to the central blade along the bottom longitudinal edge of the blade. A position sensor is attached between the blade and the scraping edge and produces a position signal that is displayed to indicate the relative position between the blade and edge in order to characterize the amount of downward pressure applied to the scraping edge. Other aspects and features of the disclosed apparatus include a tilt sensor and display, and an improved coupler having shock-absorbing features and a cam-type clamping arrangement.
US09151004B2
A paving machine including a right hopper, a left hopper, an apron and an automated hopper and apron control system is provided. The right hopper, the left hopper and the apron are configured to move in a vertically upward and downward direction. The automated hopper and apron control system is configured to control the movement of one or more of the right hopper, the left hopper, and the apron. The automated hopper and apron control system may include a controller. The controller is configured to operate the automated hopper and apron control system in a manual mode and an auto mode as desired by an operator. In the auto mode, the controller actuates one or more of the right hopper, the left hopper, and the apron from a first position to one of a fully raised position and a fully lowered position.
US09151001B2
An exemplary fastener apparatus for a railroad rail and tie includes a yoke plate, at least one securing tooth, and opposing securing arms. The yoke plate has a first plate extending along a first plane and a second plate extending out from an edge of the first plate and along a second plane which is at a different angle from the first plane. The securing tooth extends out from the second plate in a first direction. The opposing securing arms are spaced apart from each other a distance to detachably seat over the railroad tie and extend out from the first plate in the first direction.
US09150998B2
A method to produce a fabric applique includes the steps of providing a piece of steel, removing oxide layers from the steel, and forming a pattern on the steel. The steel is etched and coded. A die cutting laminate including the coded steel is prepared and compressed to cut fabric.
US09150997B2
Embodiments may relate to a home appliance, more specifically, to a washing apparatus having a steam generator and a controlling method of the same and embodiments may relate to a home appliance including a steam generator. according to one embodiment of the present invention, a home appliance includes a steam generator configured to generate steam to supply the generated steam to an object accommodation part where an object is accommodated, wherein the steam generator includes a housing configured to accommodate water supplied thereto; a heater configured to heat the water accommodated in the housing by heating the housing to generate steam; and a control unit configured to cut off or apply an electric power of the heater based on the temperature of the housing.
US09150992B2
A sewing machine with a drive-selection device capable of positioning an upper thread wiper when in a non-drive position, the drive-selection device includes a moving member movably disposed on the pivot, an actuator for moving the moving member, and a pulling member for moving the actuator. The actuator is pivoted to the base and has one end provided with an actuating end, at the actuating end is provided an actuating protrusion which engages with and moves the actuating portion, another end of the actuator is formed with an engaging portion which is pushed against by the pulling member. The pulling member is pivoted to the base and has one side provided with a push portion which protrudes toward the engaging portion, and the pulling member is further provided with a fixing portion. An elastic member is disposed between the fixing portion and the actuating portion.
US09150990B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for embroidery thread color management are disclosed. An example method comprises determining a set of thread colors needed for a set of embroidery designs including a first embroidery design and a second embroidery design, annotating the second embroidery design, the annotating comprising appending a reference to the second embroidery design in a first queue of designs to be embroidered by a first embroidery machine, and rolling back the annotation of the second embroidery design. The rolling back comprises removing the annotation, removing the reference, and removing a thread color from the set of thread colors, the thread color resulting from the second embroidery design.
US09150988B2
An absorbent material including a fibrous material having a plurality of individual fibers forming a fiber matrix, a plurality of absorbent fibers, wherein the plurality of absorbent fibers are impregnated within the fiber matrix by means of a needlepunch process.
US09150987B2
An areal implant comprises a flexible, porous basic structure which is non-resorbable or partly resorbable and which contains non-resorbable colored elements arranged in a stripe-like pattern. Furthermore, resorbable colored elements arranged in a stripe-like pattern are provided.
US09150986B2
A composite structure may include a knit component and a bonded component. The knit component has a first surface and an opposite second surface, and the knit component includes a fusible yarn and a non-fusible yarn that form a knitted structure. The fusible yarn is at least partially formed from a thermoplastic polymer material, and the fusible yarn is located on at least the first surface. The bonded component is positioned adjacent to the first surface, and the bonded component is thermal bonded to the first surface with the thermoplastic polymer material of the fusible yarn.
US09150982B2
Disclosed are a crystal form of (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolate salt and a method for preparing the same. The crystal form is: Form C of the crystal form of (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolate calcium salt, where the X-ray diffraction pattern has diffraction peaks at the 2θ angles of 6.3±0.2 and 19.2±0.2; or the crystal form of (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolate strontium salt, where the X-ray diffraction pattern has diffraction peaks at the 2θ angles of 6.5±0.2 and 22.0±0.2. The crystal form of (6S)-5-methyltetrahydrofolate salt of the present invention has the advantages of excellent physicochemical properties, good stability, high purity, good reproducibility, and being more suitable for production on an industrial scale.
US09150981B2
There is provided an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device including a chamber in which a wafer is loaded; a gas supply mechanism for supplying process gas into the chamber; a gas discharge mechanism for discharging gas from the chamber; a heater having a slit and for heating the wafer to a predetermined temperature; a push-up base on which the wafer is mounted in an lifted state and housed in the slit in a lower state; a vertical rotation drive control mechanism for moving the push-up base up/down and rotating the push-up base in an lifted state; and a rotating member for rotating the wafer in a predetermined position and a rotation drive control mechanism connected to the rotating member.
US09150977B2
The present invention relates to a copper plating solution for relieving the deposit stress of an electroplated copper film. In the copper electroplating solution of the present invention, glycerin propoxylate ethoxylate is used as a carrier for relieving the deposit stress, and phenylurea is added as a deposit stress relieving additive. The copper electroplating solution of the present invention includes the phenylurea by from about 0.02 to about 0.08 g/l.
US09150976B2
Copper electroplating liquid which does not use formaldehyde, which is harmful to the environment, and which exhibits excellent via filling ability is offered. The copper electroplating liquid of this invention includes the compound that has the structure of —X—S—Y— where X and Y are each an atom selected from the group of hydrogen atoms, carbon atoms, sulfur atoms, nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms, and X and Y can be the same only when they are carbon atoms, and a specific urea derivative. When the copper electroplating liquid is used, deterioration of the appearance will not occur and a good filled via can be formed.
US09150969B2
In a method of etching a metal layer of an object to be processed, the metal layer is etched by ion sputtering etching while forming a protective film containing carbon on a surface of a mask of the object. The object is exposed to an oxygen plasma after etching the metal layer. The object is exposed to hexafluoroacetylacetone after exposing the object to the oxygen plasma.
US09150968B2
High-surface-area carbon nanostructures coated with a smooth and conformal submonolayer-to-multilayer thin metal films and their method of manufacture are described. The manufacturing process may involve initial oxidation of the carbon nanostructures followed by immersion in a solution with the desired pH to create negative surface dipoles. The nanostructures are subsequently immersed in an alkaline solution containing non-noble metal ions which adsorb at surface reaction sites. The metal ions are then reduced via chemical or electrical means and the nanostructures are exposed to a solution containing a salt of one or more noble metals which replace adsorbed non-noble surface metal atoms by galvanic displacement. Subsequent film growth may be performed via the initial quasi-underpotential deposition of a non-noble metal followed by immersion in a solution comprising a more noble metal. The resulting coated nanostructures may be used, for example, as high-performance electrodes in supercapacitors, batteries, or other electric storage devices.
US09150965B2
A processing apparatus includes a gas supply passage for supplying a corrosive gas having a halogen, a part of the passage being made of a metal; a stabilization reaction unit which has an energy generator for supplying light energy or heat energy to the corrosive gas that has passed through the metallic part of the gas supply passage and/or has an obstacle configured to apply a collision energy to the corrosive gas that has passed through the metallic part of the gas supply passage, the collision energy being generated from a collision between the obstacle and said corrosive gas. A reaction for stabilizing a compound containing the metal and the halogen contained in the corrosive gas takes place by means of at least one of the light energy, heat energy, and collision energy; and a trapping unit which traps the compound stabilized in the stabilization reaction unit.
US09150961B2
Gas flow from multiple gas sources into a sample chamber of a beam system is controlled by a cycling valve for each gas source, with the gas pressure in the sample chamber being determined by the relative time that the valve is opened and the upstream pressure at the valve. A gas valve positioned inside the vacuum chamber allows rapid response in shutting off a gas. In some preferred embodiments, a precursor gas is supplied from a solid or liquid material in a container that remains outside the vacuum system while in use and which is readily connected or disconnected to the gas injection system without significant leakage.
US09150960B2
An apparatus and methods for plasma-based sputtering deposition using a direct current power supply is disclosed. In one embodiment, a plasma is generated by connecting a plurality of electrodes to a supply of current, and a polarity of voltage applied to each of a plurality of electrodes in the processing chamber is periodically reversed so that at least one of the electrodes sputters material on to the substrate. And an amount of power that is applied to at least one of the plurality of electrodes is modulated so as to deposit the material on the stationary substrate with a desired characteristic. In some embodiments, the substrate is statically disposed in the chamber during processing. And many embodiments utilize feedback indicative of the state of the deposition to modulate the amount of power applied to one or more electrodes.
US09150955B2
The invention relates to sputter targets and methods for depositing a layer from a sputter target. The method preferably includes the steps of; placing a sputter target in a vacuum chamber; placing a substrate having a substrate surface in the vacuum chamber; reducing the pressure in the vacuum chamber to about 100 Torr or less; removing atoms from the surface of the sputter target white the sputter target is in the vacuum chamber (e.g., using a magnetic field and/or an electric field). The deposited layer preferably includes a molybdenum containing alloy including about 50 atomic percent or more molybdenum, 0.1 to 45 atomic percent titanium; and 0.1 to 40 atomic percent of a third metal element that is tantalum or chromium.
US09150947B2
An austenitic stainless steel having excellent resistance to scale peeling which can suppress peeling of a protective oxide scale which is formed on the steel surface even when the steel undergoes repeated cycles of high temperature heating and cooling and which is suitable for use in a high temperature, humidified gas environment at a high temperature and particularly at 1023 K or above has a steel composition consisting essentially of C: 0.01-0.15%, Si: 0.01-3%, Mn: 0.01-2%, Cu: 0.1-2.5%, Cr: 23-30%, Ni: 16-25%, Al: 0.005-0.20%, N: 0.001-0.40%, P: at most 0.04%, S: at most 0.01%, at least one of Y and Ln series elements: a total of 0.005-0.1%, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, with the number of inclusions containing Y and Ln series elements in the steel surface being at most 5×10−3/μm2.
US09150942B2
The invention relates to modifications of a non-ammoniacal thiosulfate process of leaching precious metals (e.g. gold or silver) from precious metal-containing ores. The process involves leaching the ore with an aqueous lixiviant containing a soluble thiosulfate other than ammonium thiosulfate, a copper compound and an organic compound that serves as a copper ligand (i.e. a ligand-forming compound). Four modifications of this process are effective for increasing the amount of precious metal that can be extracted, reducing the consumption of materials, or for improving the rate of extraction. These four process, which may be used singly or in any combination, include (a) additions of soluble lead (e.g. as lead nitrate), (b) additions of thiourea, (c) increases in dissolved oxygen, and (d) increases of temperature at ambient pressure. This avoids the use environmentally harmful chemicals and allows for extraction from a variety of ores, e.g., containing substantial amounts of sulfides and/or quartz.
US09150941B2
The present invention provides a method for preventing the forming of cracks and slowing the crack propagation in metallic airplane structural parts by laser shock peening with the following steps: Providing an airplane structural part having a crack; irradiating a first surface area of the airplane structural part close to the crack with a first pulsed laser beam having a first wavelength and a first pulsation frequency, wherein energy of the first laser beam is absorbed by the airplane structural part and a shock wave runs through the airplane structural part, which creates compressive prestressings in the airplane structural part.
US09150939B2
A method for the production of iron from an iron oxide-containing material includes contacting an iron oxide-containing material with a particle size distribution range with a ∂90 of less than 2 mm, with a carbon-containing material with a particle size distribution range with a ∂90 of less than 6 mm, in a commercial scale reactor at a temperature of between 900° C. and 1200° C. for a contact time sufficient to reduce the iron oxide to iron.
US09150937B2
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for preparing a sugar is provided. The method includes mixing an organic acid and a solid acid catalyst to form a mixing solution, adding a cellulosic biomass to the mixing solution to proceed to a dissolution reaction, and adding water to the mixing solution to proceed to a hydrolysis reaction to obtain a sugar.
US09150929B2
The present invention relates to diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic methods for thyroid cancers. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for treating a an anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) patient comprising the step of administering to the patient an effective amount of an anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor. In another embodiment, a method for diagnosing ATC in patient comprises the step of performing an assay on a biological sample from the patient to identify the presence or absence of a C3592T and/or a G3602A mutation in exon 23 of the ALK gene according to SEQ ID NO:6, wherein the presence of either of both of the mutations correlates with a diagnosis of ATC in the patient.
US09150926B2
Disclosed herein are methods of diagnosing and treating a malignant adrenocortical tumor, including adrenocortical carcinoma. In some examples, methods of diagnosing a malignant adrenocortical tumor include detecting expression of at least one microRNA (miR) gene product, such as miR-100, miR-125b, miR-195, miR-483-3p, miR-483-5p and IGF2 mRNA in a sample obtained from the subject with an adrenocortical tumor and comparing expression of at least one of these miR gene products and IGF2 mRNA in the sample obtained from the subject to a control. Altered expression of at least one of the miR gene products and IGF2 mRNA, such as a decrease in miR-100, miR-125b or miR-195 or an increase in miR-483-3p, miR-483-5p, and an increase in IGF2 mRNA, in the sample obtained from the subject compared to the control indicates a malignant adrenocortical tumor.
US09150924B2
The present disclosure provides methods involving use of BIN1 expression levels, in heart tissue, in evaluating the risk of a poor outcome in a patient diagnosed with congestive heart failure. The methods finds use in evaluating patients who are heart transplant candidates as well as in assessing therapy options and efficacy of treatment in congestive heart failure patients.
US09150915B2
A method comprises magnetically holding a bead carrying biological material (e.g., nucleic acid, which may be in the form of DNA fragments or amplified DNA) in a specific location of a substrate, and applying an electric field local to the bead to isolate the biological material or products or byproducts of reactions of the biological material. For example, the bead is isolated from other beads having associated biological material. The electric field in various embodiments concentrates reagents for an amplification or sequencing reaction, and/or concentrates and isolates detectable reaction by-products. For example, by isolating nucleic acids around individual beads, the electric field can allow for clonal amplification, as an alternative to emulsion PCR. In other embodiments, the electric field isolates a nanosensor proximate to the bead, to facilitate detection of at least one of local pH change, local conductivity change, local charge concentration change and local heat. The beads may be trapped in the form of an array of localized magnetic field regions.
US09150909B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus make a determination of a level of integrity of a sample of biomolecules. For example, the determination of the integrity of RNA in a sample may be done in a fast and reproducible manner, such that the user can be assured of accuracy of a test (e.g. quantitative polymerase chain reaction qPCR) on the sample and compare results of different samples. The determination of integrity of an RNA sample is performed by comparing a size profile to reference size profiles (degradation standards) obtained from degradation over different lengths of times. As the reference scale of the level of integrity is derived from the actual degradation that occurs in a sample, high accuracy, reproducibility, and efficiency is provided.
US09150908B2
An automated method for detecting the presence of a nucleic acid in a sample, where the method is performed within a housing of a self-contained, stand-alone analyzer. The method includes purifying the nucleic acid after it has been immobilized on a magnetically-responsive solid support. A pipette of the analyzer is used to form a reaction mixture comprising the purified nucleic acid and all reagents required to perform a nucleic acid amplification. Amplification products are synthesized that include a nucleotide sequence contained in the nucleic acid or the complement of the nucleic acid. The amplification products are exposed to a probe in a mixture, where the probe forms a hybrid with one of the amplification products. The formation of the hybrid in the mixture provides an indication of the presence of the nucleic acid in the sample.
US09150907B2
A microfluidic flow cell subassembly, which may be assembled into a flow cell having fluidic connections outside of the main substrate, is described for encapsulating a sample to allow for subsequent controlled delivery of reagents to the sample, such as multiplexed in situ biomarker staining and analysis. The fluidic connectors are thin film fluidic connectors capable of connecting to a fluid delivery system. The subassembly may be sealed against a solid support to form a flow cell. Methods of use are also disclosed.
US09150898B2
Alternative and improved approaches to the heterologous expression of the proteins of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae are disclosed. These approaches typically affect the level of expression, the ease of purification, the cellular localization, and/or the immunological properties of the expressed protein.
US09150888B2
The present disclosure identifies pathways and mechanisms to confer production of carbon-based products of interest such as ethanol, ethylene, chemicals, polymers, n-alkanes, isoprenoids, pharmaceutical products or intermediates thereof in photoautotrophic organisms such that these organisms efficiently convert carbon dioxide and light into carbon-based products of interest, and in particular the use of such organisms for the commercial production of ethanol, ethylene, chemicals, polymers, n-alkanes, isoprenoids, pharmaceutical products or intermediates thereof.
US09150882B2
The teachings herein are generally directed to a method of enhancing the genetic stability of parvovirus vectors. The stability of conventional ss or dsAAV vector constructs can be enhanced, for example, to obtain a concurrent increase in vector titer and purity, as well as an improvement in vector safety, due at least in part to the elimination of stuffer DNA from the AAV vector. The method is broadly applicable to all gene transfer/therapy applications, such as those requiring delivery of foreign DNA containing recombinant gene expression cassettes. Such foreign DNA can range, for example, from about 0.2 up to about 5.2 kb in length. The enhanced vector constructs are highly flexible, user-friendly, and can be easily modified (via routine DNA cloning) and utilized (via standard AAV vector technology) by anyone skilled in the art.
US09150864B2
Disclosed herein are methods for decreasing Factor 12 and treating or preventing thromboembolic conditions in an individual in need thereof. Examples of disease conditions that can be ameliorated with the administration of antisense compounds targeted to Factor 12 include thrombosis, embolism, and thromboembolism, such as, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, stroke, and mesenteric thrombosis. Methods for inhibiting Factor 12 can also be used as a prophylactic treatment to prevent individuals at risk for thrombosis and embolism.
US09150860B2
The invention provides novel FUS/TLS nucleic acids and proteins that comprise one or more genetic markers (for example, single nucleotide polymorphisms) and methods of use thereof including methods relating to the diagnosis of ALS or other related motor neuron disease by virtue of the presence of the mutant FUS/TLS sequence(s).
US09150857B2
Provided herein are methods for the treatment of liver cancer. These methods encompass the administration of a compound comprising a modified oligonucleotide, wherein the modified oligonucleotide is targeted to a miRNA. Also provided herein are compositions for the treatment of liver cancer. Such compositions include compounds comprising a modified oligonucleotide, wherein the modified oligonucleotide is targeted to a miRNA. Certain miRNAs have been identified as overexpressed in liver cancer, such as, for example, hepatocellular carcinoma, and are thus selected for targeting by modified oligonucleotides. Further, certain miRNAs have been identified as overexpressed in hepatocellular carcinoma cells exposed to dioxin, and are thus selected for targeting by modified oligonucleotides. Antisense inhibition of certain of these miRNAs has been found to inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis.
US09150856B2
The present invention relates to methods for producing a biological substance, comprising: (a) cultivating a fungal host cell in a medium conducive for the production of the biological substance, wherein the fungal host cell comprises a first nucleic acid sequence encoding the biological substance operably linked to a second nucleic acid sequence comprising a promoter variant selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO: 6, SEQ ID NO: 7, SEQ ID NO: 8, SEQ ID NO: 9, SEQ ID NO: 10, SEQ ID NO: 11, and SEQ ID NO: 12; and a subsequence thereof; and hybrid and tandem promoters thereof; and (b) isolating the biological substance from the cultivation medium. The present invention also relates to the isolated promoter variants and to constructs, vectors, and fungal host cells comprising the promoter variants operably linked to nucleic acid sequences encoding biological substances.
US09150852B2
The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.
US09150848B2
The present invention relates to B-domain truncated Factor VIII molecules with a modified circulatory half life, said molecule being covalently conjugated with a hydrophilic polymer. The invention furthermore relates to methods for obtaining such molecules as well as use of such molecules.
US09150844B2
The present invention discloses novel hybrid proteins that have both plasminogen activator and anti-thrombotic properties, including clot specific action, that renders these as highly advantageous for the treatment of circulatory disorders involving fibrin clot formation due to underlying tissue damage in the blood vessels leading to myocardial infarction, strokes etc. Also disclosed are new proteins, and methods of obtaining the same, that help to dissolve blood clots by activating plasminogen in a plasmin or thrombin dependent manner and also inhibit both the activity and generation of thrombin through the intrinsic pathway of blood coagulation.
US09150841B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods and compositions for production of recombinant I2S protein with improved potency and activity using cells co-express I2S and FGE protein. In some embodiments, cells according to the present invention are engineered to simultaneously over-express recombinant I2S and FGE proteins. Cells according to the invention are adaptable to various cell culture conditions. In some embodiments, cells of the present invention adaptable to a large-scale suspension serum-free culture.
US09150832B2
A system is provided for stimulating one or more cells, wherein the stimulation is sub-threshold and may alter a transmembrane potential of the one or more cells. For some populations of cells it may be possible to affect the transmembrane potential to gain a therapeutic benefit. Cells of the sino-atrial node spontaneously depolarize predominantly due to the slow depolarization of transmembrane potential. The present system may provide sino-atrial cells with a local field stimulation that while not eliciting an action potential may nonetheless alter local transmembrane potential. Such alteration of transmembrane potential may permit an increase or decrease in a rate of depolarization, and hence modify heart rate.
US09150826B2
Apparatuses, kits, and methods for portable sample disruption (e.g., for encouraging cell lysis).
US09150823B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous microemulsion, comprising a) one or more liquid carboxylic acid esters, b) one or more water-soluble salts having one or more cations, preferably selected from the group comprising sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and ammonium, c) one or more salts of sulphosuccinic acid ester, d) one or more nonionic surfactants selected from alkoxylated sorbitan ester and alkoxylated vegetable oil, and e) one or more boosters.
US09150821B2
The application describes a highly concentrated, liquid washing or cleaning agent which contains a) 18 to 35 wt. %, relative to the entire washing or cleaning agent, of anionic surfactant of the sulfonate type selected from the group consisting of C9-13 alkylbenzenesulfonates, olefinsulfonates, sulfonated estolides, C12-18 alkanesulfonates and mixtures thereof, b) 15 to 25 wt. %, relative to the entire washing or cleaning agent, of nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of alkoxylated fatty alcohols, alkoxylated oxo alcohols, alkyl polyglycosides and mixtures thereof, c) 2 to 15 wt. %, relative to the entire washing or cleaning agent, of anionic surfactant of the sulfate type selected from the group consisting of fatty alcohol sulfates, fatty alcohol ether sulfates and mixtures thereof and d) 0.5 to 20 wt. %, relative to the entire washing or cleaning agent, of fatty acid and/or fatty acid soap.
US09150817B2
The present invention provides a process for concentrated PUFA oil, characterized in that alcoholysis reaction using lipase is carried out in the presence of a small amount of water and at least one compound as an additive selected from magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide, calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide, and then separation is conducted to obtain a glyceride fraction.
US09150808B2
The present invention relates to cooling additives for middle distillates, containing A) at least one polyester of formula (A1) wherein one of the radicals R1 to R4 represents a linear C16-C40 alkyl or alkenyl radical and the remainder of the radicals R1 to R4 represent, independently of one another, hydrogen or an alkyl radical having 1 to 3 C atoms, R5 is a C—C bond or an alkylene radical having 1 to 6 C atoms, R16 is a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms, n is an integer from 1 to 100, m is an integer from 3 to 250, p is 0 or 1, and q is 0 or 1, B) at least one copolymer of ethylene and of at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester, the copolymer having a melt viscosity, measured at 140 DEG C., of at most 5000 mPas, and C) at least one organic solvent.
US09150799B2
A system and method for processing solid waste products includes an autoclave, a combined heat and power generation system and a water treatment system. Water in the solid waste products is vaporized to raise steam, by heating the autoclave. Waste liquids, steam and cellulosic material are removed from the autoclave. The cellulosic material is combusted in the heat and power generation system, which generates steam and electricity, with the steam recycled to the autoclave. The steam and the waste liquids are processed in the water treatment system, with the cleaned water cycled to the heat and power generation system to be converted into steam.
US09150796B2
A reactor process added to a coking process to modify the quantity or yield of a coking process product and/or modify certain characteristics or properties of coking process products.
US09150792B2
There is herein described a high pressure gas to liquid (GTL) process. More particularly, there is described a once through high pressure GTL process utilizing a porous catalytic membrane reactor capable of being connected to a novel structured fixed bed reactor that incorporates forced flow through the porous catalytic structured catalyst in combination with high levels of heat transfer where there is no compression of syngas between reforming and Fischer-Tropsch steps.
US09150784B1
A lighting module includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip and a converter element for wavelength conversion. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip emits electromagnetic radiation including a dominant wavelength of 430 nm to 450 nm. The converter element includes a first phosphor and a second phosphor. The first phosphor is a garnet phosphor. The first phosphor emits electromagnetic radiation including a wavelength from the blue-green spectral range. The second phosphor is a nitrido-silicate phosphor. The second phosphor emits electromagnetic radiation including a wavelength from the orange-red spectral range.
US09150781B2
Methods for reducing the amount of water produced from a subterranean formation can include the use of a gellable treatment fluid that comprises a quaternary ammonium salt as a gel-time modifier. The gellable treatment fluids can comprise an aqueous base fluid, a base polymer comprising an acrylamide monomer unit, an organic crosslinking agent, and a gel-time modifier comprising a quaternary ammonium salt.
US09150779B2
A well treatment fluid and method of use includes water, at least one hydratable polymer, an optional crosslinking agent, and a delayed release percarbonate formulation effective to reduce initial viscosity of the fluid after a period of time. Also disclosed are processes for fracturing a subterranean formation.
US09150777B2
Fluids viscosified with viscoelastic surfactants (VESs) may have their viscosities reduced (gels broken) by the direct or indirect action of an internal breaker composition that contains at least one mineral oil, at least one polyalphaolefin oil, at least one saturated fatty acid and/or at least one unsaturated fatty acid. The internal breaker may initially be dispersed oil droplets in an internal, discontinuous phase of the fluid. In one non-limiting embodiment, the internal breaker, e.g. mineral oil, is added to the fluid after it has been substantially gelled. An oil-soluble surfactant is present to enhance or accelerate the reduction of viscosity of the gelled aqueous fluid.
US09150772B2
The present invention relates to flameless heating apparatus for food products. In particular, the present invention relates to an improved potentially exothermic mixture/blend for such heaters and to a meal package including foods, and heating apparatus. It is known to have food products such as rations for back-packer, adventurers and military forces which comprise hermetically sealed packages of food which can be heated without flame, on demand. Such food products and apparatus are collectively referred to as Meals-Ready-to-Eat (“MRE”). In addition to the above uses, the products can be used as emergency rations for shelters and for heating of non-food products. Currently MRE packages yield hydrogen as a by-product. The present invention seeks to improve the efficiency of the reaction. In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a composition operable to provide thermal output with no or an insignificant production of any flammable gasses.
US09150771B2
In an embodiment is a seal including an elastomer; and boron nitride nanoparticles disposed in the elastomer, wherein the seal is thermally conductive and electrically insulating. In another embodiment, is a method of making a seal, the method includes compounding an elastomer with boron nitride nanoparticles to provide a composition; and molding the composition into a shape.
US09150768B2
The present invention relates, in part, to ternary azeotropic compositions and mixtures including chlorotrifluoropropene, methanol, and a third component selected from isohexane, trans-1,2-dichloroethylene, and petroleum ether. The present invention further relates to ternary azeotropic compositions and mixtures including chlorotrifluoropropene, cyclopentane, and a alcohol selected from methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol.
US09150765B2
Shaped ceramic articles can be obtained by screen printing the desired shapes from a dispersion of a precursor of the ceramic onto a receiving surface using a transfer assisted technique that applies a differential pressure, at least partially drying the screen printed shapes, and firing them to generate the shaped ceramic articles. Shaped abrasive particles made using lower viscosity sol gels that tended to flow or creep after the screen printing formation were found to have higher grinding performance over screen printed shaped abrasive particles made with higher viscosity sol gels.
US09150762B2
The present invention provides a selective adhesion method and a self-assembly method for macroscale materials based on molecular recognition. One or more host bodies formed from a macromolecule having one or more host groups on the side chains, and one or more guest bodies formed from a macromolecule having one or more guest groups on the side chains are vibrated in a solvent to selectively form an assembly.
US09150756B2
A sampling device for a substance detection instrument includes a membrane comprising a porous support having a coating thereon, the coating comprising a carborane polysiloxane or an arylene polysiloxane, the membrane having a front side configured to be placed in contact with a test sample and a back side; a sample line having an inlet proximate to the back side of the membrane and an outlet in fluid communication with a substance detector; and a source of carrier gas in fluid communication with the back side of the membrane and the sample line inlet.
US09150744B2
The present invention relates to an ink-jet recording ink which can simultaneously achieve long-term preservation stability, high luster, and light fastness of a printed image, and an aqueous pigment liquid dispersion to produce the ink. Moreover, the present invention relates to a production method of the aqueous pigment liquid dispersion. For the aforementioned objects, the applicant provides an aqueous pigment liquid dispersion, including: C. I. pigment green 36 (a); a styrene-acrylic acid type copolymer (b); a basic compound (c); and a wetting agent (d), wherein the styrene-acrylic acid type copolymer (b) has styrene-based monomer units of 60 mass % or more in the total of all the monomer units, an acid value of 120 to 240, and a weight average molecular weight of 6,000 to 40,000, and the mass ratio (b)/(a) is within a range from 0.15 to 0.25.
US09150732B2
The present invention provides aqueous emulsion polymers comprising (A) monomers A (B) at least one (meth)acrylate with olefinically unsaturated side groups (monomers B), and (C) at least one photoinitiator, and also the use thereof in coating materials, more particularly in exterior architectural paints.
US09150728B2
The present invention relates to colorful regenerated asphalt-concrete and to a method for manufacturing same. More particularly, disclosed are colorful regenerated asphalt-concrete using recycled aggregates from waste asphalt and to a method for manufacturing same, in which products obtained from the thermal decomposition of waste asphalt are mixed with new aggregates and asphalt, and a pigment and an ultraviolet-ray blocker are mixed into the mixture, to thereby not only improve the physical properties of the regenerated asphalt concrete, but also maintain the color of the regenerated asphalt concrete over a long period of time, thus achieving improved weather resistance and durability.
US09150716B2
There is provided a resin foam excellent in dustproof performance, particularly dustproof performance in a dynamic environment. The resin foam of the present invention has a thickness recovery ratio of 65% or more, wherein the thickness recovery ratio is defined as a ratio of a thickness 1 second after releasing a compressed state to an initial thickness, when the resin foam is compressed for 1 minute in the thickness direction so as to give a thickness equal to 20% of the initial thickness in a 23° C. atmosphere; and then the compressed state is released in a 23° C. atmosphere.
US09150712B2
A rubber composition for a tire tread contains styrene-butadiene rubber in a compounding amount of 100 parts by weight, silica in a compounding amount of 90 to 170 parts by weight, and an aromatic modified terpene resin in a compounding amount of 10 to 30 parts by weight. The styrene-butadiene rubber contains 40 to 100% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR1) and 60 to 0% by weight of solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR2), the total content thereof being 100% by weight. The S-SBR1 has a styrene content of 30 to 38% by weight and a vinyl content of 60 to 80% by weight, the total content thereof being 100% by weight, a glass transition temperature of −20 to −5° C., and a weight average molecular weight of 1,000,000 to 1,800,000.
US09150711B2
Predominately amino terminated phosphonamide oligomers and their use as flame retardant additives in polyamides and copolyamides without detracting from melt processability are described herein. Other important properties such as strength, modulus, dyeing and thermal stability are maintained.
US09150710B2
The invention relates to a flameproof agent stabilizer combination containing, as component A 40-99 wt. % of a phosphinic acid salt of formula (I) and/or a diphosphinic acid salt of formula (II) and/or polymers thereof, wherein R1, R2 are the same or different and represent C1-C18-alkyl linear, branched or cyclic, C6-C18-aryl, C7-C18-arylalkyl and/or C7-C18-alkylaryl; R3 represents C1-C10-alkylene, linear or branched, C6-C10-arylene, C7-C18-alkylarylene or C7-C18-arylalkylene; M represents Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na, K and/or a protoned nitrogen base; m represents 1-4; n represents 1-4; x represents 1-4, as component B 1-60 wt. % of a phosphinic acid salt of general formula (III) wherein R4 represents C1-C18-alkyl linear, branched or cyclic, C6-C18-aryl, C7-C18-arylalkyl or C7-C18-alkylaryl and M represents Mg, Ca, Al, Sb, Sn, Ge, Ti, Zn, Fe, Zr, Ce, Bi, Sr, Mn, Li, Na, K and/or a protonated nitrogen base, as component C 0-50 wt. % of a synergist containing nitrogen and/or a phosphorous/nitrogen flameproof agent, as component D 0-10 wt. % of a zinc salt and/or a basic or amphoteric oxide, hydroxide, carbonate, silicate, borate, stannate, mixed oxide-hydroxide, oxide-hydroxide-carbonate, hydroxide-silicate and/or hydroxide-borate and/or mixtures of said substances, as component E 0-10 wt. % phosphonite or phosphonite/phosphite-mixture and as component F 0-10 wt. % ester and/or salts of long-chained fatty acids having 14-40 C-atom, the total of the components always amounting to 100 wt. %, under the proviso that if R4 represents C1-C18-alkyl, then at least one of the groups R1 and/or R2 represent C6-C18-aryl, C7-C18-arylalkyl and/or C7-C18-alkylaryl.
US09150703B2
Siloxanes having terminal hydroxy groups, and which have a content of cyclic siloxanes of not more than 5% by weight, are stabilized by addition of ammonia in gaseous form or as a solution in a protic or aprotic solvent or in the form of an ammonia-releasing compound in amounts of at least 0.01 ppm by weight and not more than 100 ppm by weight, calculated as ammonia and based on the total weight of the siloxanes having terminal hydroxy groups. Ammonia in gaseous form is preferably used.
US09150702B2
This invention relates to a laser-marking additive wherein the laser-marking additive comprises a bismuth containing compound and a functionalized polymer having 0.01 to 50 wt % of functional groups, in which the weight percentage is based on the total amount of functionalized polymer and bismuth containing compound. The invention further relates to a method for preparation of such laser-marking additive, a laser-markable composition comprising such laser-marking additives and preparation thereof and molded parts comprising the laser-markable composition, as well as films made from the laser-markable composition.
US09150696B2
Process for the preparation of a polymer containing benzohetero[1,3]diazole. units which comprises reacting at least one disubstituted benzohetero[1,3]diazole compound with at least one heteroaryl compound. Said polymer can be advantageously used in the construction of photovoltaic devices such as, for example, photovoltaic cells, photovoltaic modules, solar cells, solar modules, on both a rigid and flexible support. Furthermore, said polymer can be advantageously used in the construction of Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs), or of Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs).
US09150685B2
Cured epoxy resins are widespread on account of their outstanding mechanical and chemical properties. It is common to use epoxy resins based on bisphenol A diglycidyl ether or bisphenol F diglycidyl ether, but for many sectors these are problematic because of their endocrine effect. The present invention relates to 2-phenyl-1,3-propanediol diglycidyl ether derivates and to curable epoxy resin compositions based thereon, as alternatives to the bisphenol A or bisphenol F diglycidyl ethers and to the epoxy resin compositions based thereon.
US09150684B2
A process for producing high resilience flexible polyurethane foams. The process includes forming a mixture of (a) isocyanate prepolymer, (b) polymeric compounds having isocyanate-reactive groups, (c) castor oil, (d) optionally chain-extending and/or crosslinking agents, (e) catalysts, (f) blowing agents, and optionally (g) additives, and reacting the mixture to form the flexible polyurethane foam. More than 5 wt % of (c) is used, based on the total weight of components (b) to (g), and (a) is obtained by mixing diphenylmethane diisocyanate (a1) and polyol 1 (a2) and also optionally further polyols, chain extenders and/or crosslinkers, where (a2) includes a polyalkylene oxide polyol having a hydroxyl number of 30 to 60, an average functionality of 2.3 to 3.2 and a propylene oxide fraction, based on the alkylene oxide content, of 70 to 100 wt %. A polyurethane foam obtained by the process, and the use of such a foam as an auto seat.
US09150680B2
There are provided a radically polymerizable composition that has a low viscosity suitable for use in coating and that forms a cured product having a high refractive index, a cured product formed by curing the composition, and plastic lens formed by curing the composition. The radically polymerizable composition includes, as essential components, phenylbenzyl acrylate (A); and bis[(meth)acryloylmethyl]biphenyl (B) or biphenyl compound (C) having a molecular structure in which biphenyl structures are bonded to each other through a methylene.
US09150663B2
Heterodimeric antibody-Fc-containing proteins, such as bispecific antibodies, and novel methods for producing such proteins.
US09150650B2
The present invention relates to human monoclonal antibodies neutralizing vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and the use thereof. More specifically, relates to human ScFv molecules neutralizing vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, and a composition for inhibiting angiogenesis and a composition for treating cancer, which contain the human ScFv molecules. The disclosed monoclonal antibody neutralizing vascular endothelial growth factor receptor shows excellent neutralizing ability in living cells, compared to that of a commercially available antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor receptor, and shows the ability to neutralize vascular endothelial growth factor receptor not only in humans, but also in mice and rats. Thus, the monoclonal antibody will be useful in anticancer studies and will be highly effective in cancer treatment.
US09150646B2
A coating for a surface of a surgical implant, the coating including a binding protein for capturing cells to the surface via a bi-functional linker molecule. The linker can have a first functional group (such as a trichlorosilyl group) for covalently linking to the surface, and a second functional group (such as a benzothiosulfonate group) for covalently linking to the binding protein. One exemplary linker molecule is S-(11-trichlorosilyl-undecenyl)benzenethiosulfonate. The coating may be a self-assembled monolayer and may also include a spacer molecule, which can be unreactive with the binding protein. The target cells may be endothelial stem cells (such as endothelial progenitor cells). The binding protein may be an antibody, antibody fragment or non-antibody derived antigen binding molecule. The binding protein may bind a cell surface marker specific to target cell type. Coated surgical implants, and methods of forming such a coating are also contemplated.
US09150641B2
Herein is reported a method for reducing the aggregation of an immunoglobulin in solution comprising the steps of i) comparing the amino acid sequence of the fourth framework region of the heavy chain of an antibody with a reference or germline sequence and determining whether one or more threonine residues and/or serine residues have been replaced by a different amino acid residue, and ii) modifying the amino acid sequence of the immunoglobulin by reverting the exchanged threonine residues and/or serine residues back to threonine or serine of the reference or germline sequence and thereby reducing the aggregation of an immunoglobulin in solution.
US09150640B2
The present invention provides methods for the expression and/or production of variable domains with a C-terminal extension that can be used for coupling of the variable domain to one or more further groups, residues or moieties. In the method of the invention a yield of at least 80% of variable domains with a cysteine containing C-terminal extension is obtained. Also variable domains are provided and polypeptides comprising one or more variable domains obtainable by the methods of the present invention, as well as compounds that comprise such variable domains and/or polypeptides coupled to one or more groups, residues or moieties.
US09150637B2
The present invention is in the field of hemophilia therapy. It relates to a new variant of antihemophilic factor VIII having increased specific activity in comparison to known factor VIII products.
US09150635B2
This invention provides a first polypeptide comprising all or a portion of the extracellular domain of ILT3, wherein the polypeptide is water-soluble and does not comprise the Fc portion of an immunoglobulin. This invention also provides a second polypeptide comprising (i) all or a portion of the extracellular domain of ILT3 operable affixed to (ii) the Fc portion of an immunoglobulin, wherein the Fc portion of the immunoglobulin comprises a function-enhancing mutation, and wherein the polypeptide is water-soluble. This invention further provides a third polypeptide comprising (i) all or a portion of the extracellular domain of ILT3 operable affixed to (ii) a transmembrane domain. This invention further provides related nucleic acids, expression vectors, host vector systems, compositions, and articles of manufacture and therapeutic and prophylactic methods using the polypeptides of the invention.
US09150631B2
The present invention provides for engineered molecular opsonins that may be used to bind biological pathogens or identify subclasses or specific pathogen species for use in devices and systems for treatment and diagnosis of patients with infectious diseases, blood-borne infections or sepsis. An aspect of the invention provides for mannose-binding lectin (MBL), which is an abundant natural serum protein that is part of the innate immune system. The ability of this protein lectin to bind to surface molecules on virtually all classes of biopathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoans) make engineered forms of MBL extremely useful in diagnosing and treating infectious diseases and sepsis.
US09150630B2
There are provided Idbf (inhibitor of Dvl and bone formation) which is a novel Dvl-binding protein that binds to Dvl to inhibit signal transduction carried out through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, a gene for coding for the same, the use thereof, and the use of an inhibitor of the Idbf. The Idbf was known to be expressed by activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and bind to Dvl to block signal transduction carried out through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Therefore, the Idbf can be used in development of medicines for inhibiting the signal transduction carried out through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway, and an Idbf inhibitor can be used in preparation of medicines for activating the signal transduction carried out through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.
US09150629B2
The present disclosure relates to novel lipocalin muteins which bind to PCSK9. The disclosure also provides corresponding nucleic acid molecules encoding lipocalin muteins and methods for producing lipocalin muteins as well as their encoding nucleic acid molecules.
US09150628B2
The present invention relates to new inhibitors of the nucleic enzyme poly(adenosine 5′-diphospho-ribose) polymerase [“poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase” or “PARP”, which is also sometimes called “PARS” for poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase]. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of PARP inhibitors to prevent and/or treat tissue damage resulting from cell damage or death due to necrosis or apoptosis; neural tissue damage resulting from ischemia and reperfusion injury; neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases; to prevent or treat vascular stroke; to treat or prevent cardiovascular disorders; to treat other conditions and/or disorders such as age-related macular degeneration, AIDS and other immune senescence diseases, arthritis, atherosclerosis, cachexia, cancer, degenerative diseases of skeletal muscle involving replicative senescence, diabetes, head trauma, immune senescence, inflammatory bowel disorders (such as colitis and Crohn's disease), muscular dystrophy, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, chronic and acute pain (such as neuropathic pain), renal failure, retinal ischemia, septic shock (such as endotoxic shock), and skin aging; to extend the lifespan and proliferative capacity of cells; to alter gene expression of senescent cells; or to radiosensitize hypoxic tumor cells.
US09150616B2
Peptides for the treatment of inflammation, and therapeutic uses and methods of using the same are disclosed. Peptides including a transducing sequence are effective for inhibiting cytokine activity and TNF-α secretion through interaction with toll-like receptors. Experiments are described illustrating the efficacy of the compounds in treating otitis media.
US09150613B2
Small molecule, peptidic hepatocyte growth factors mimics, which act as both mimetics and antagonists, have been generated. These molecules have been shown or predicted to have therapeutic potential for numerous pathologies including dementia, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, cancer, and defective wound healing.
US09150610B2
Apparatus and methods to perform hydrogen/deuterium exchange using semipermeable membranes are described. The system has two channels separated by a semipermeable membrane. One channel comprises a flow carrying the analyte of interest, and the second channel comprises a solution comprising a deuterated solvent (e.g. deuterium oxide). The system does not require an external electric field gradient across the membrane to perform the hydrogen-deuterium exchange procedure. The present invention facilitates sample and reagent handling as well as simplifies manufacture of devices and/or instrumentation related to deuterium exchange.Further described is a chemical analyzation device for analyzing chemical compositions and/or compounds, and a method for analyzing chemical compounds and a computer program product for inducing a computer to perform steps in the method. Also described is a method for analyzing interactions between analytes and charged molecules, and calculating binding coefficients of the analytes with respect to the charged molecules.
US09150591B2
Provided is a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof, which has an AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid) receptor potentiating action. The compound of the present invention is useful as a prophylactic or therapeutic drug for depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the like.
US09150588B2
A compound having PDE inhibitory represented by formula (1), W1-W2 (1), wherein (i) W1 is and W2 is (ii) W1 is and W2 is or (iii) W1 is and W2 is or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and a method of treating or preventing schizophrenia.
US09150576B2
Disclosed herein are R-7-(3-aminomethyl-4-methoxyimino-3-methyl-pyrrolidin-1-yl)-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-1,4-dihydro-[1,8]naphthyridine-3-carboxylic acid and L-aspartic acid salt, process for the preparation thereof and pharmaceutical composition comprising the same for antimicrobial. Because the R-7-(3-aminomethyl-4-methoxyimino-3-methyl-pyrrolidin-1-yl)-1-cyclopropyl-6-fluoro-4-oxo-1,4-dihydro-[1,8]naphthyridine-3-carboxylic acid and L-aspartic acid salt is more soluble and less toxic and has less side effects as an antimicrobial agent than hydrochloride and the other salts (D-aspartate and phosphate) conventionally used, the salt may be useful for oral and injectable administration.
US09150562B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a diol sulfone derivative comprising reaction of a halomethyl substrate with a thio-aryl compound to obtain a thio-ether compound, and oxidizing the thio-ether compound to the corresponding sulfone. In case of a chiral halomethyl substrate, the resulting chiral diol sulfone derivative is suitable as a building block for statin type compounds.
US09150558B2
The invention relates to the design and synthesis of novel anabaseine-based compounds, which are useful in treating or preventing a wide variety of conditions, including nervous system diseases or disorders, such as, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, drug dependence, and substance addiction, and compositions, kits, and methods thereof. The invention also provides novel anabaseine-based compounds, compositions, kits, and methods thereof for treating or preventing non-nerve system diseases or disorders (such as, inflammation and cancer) in a subject identified in need thereof. Certain enantiomeric compounds of the invention exhibited enhanced selectivity toward α7 nAChRs relative to alpha4beta2 nAChRs. Other enantiomeric compounds of the invention exhibited enhanced selectivity for alpha4beta2 nAChRs relative to α7 nAChRs.
US09150557B1
The invention relates to the compounds of formula I or its pharmaceutical acceptable salts, as well as polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of compounds of formula I, and methods for the treatment of hyperglycemia may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, microvascular complications, macrovascular complications, lipid disorders, prediabetes, obesity, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, stroke, neuropathy, renal complications, hypertriglyceridemia, cardiovascular complications, and post prandial hyperglycemia.
US09150556B2
Disclosed are small molecule inhibitors which are useful in treating various diseases and conditions involving chymase.
US09150548B2
The invention provides a combination of a) a compound of Formula Ia: [insert Formula Ia], or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and b) vemurafenib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of a hyperproliferative disorder, such as cancer.
US09150546B2
The present invention provides a novel P2X3 and/or P2X2/3 receptor antagonist.A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein Ra, Rb and Rc are, (a) Ra and Rb are taken together ═Z; and Rc is a group represented by R1c; or (b) Rb and Rc are taken together to form a bond; and Ra is a group represented by —Y—R1a; R1a and R1c are each independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, etc.; R2 and R3 are each independently substituted or unsubstituted aryl, etc.; R4a and R4b are each independently hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, etc.; X is —N(R5)—, etc.; R5 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, etc.; —Y— is —O—, etc.; ═Z is ═O, etc.; and n is an integer of 0 to 4.
US09150543B2
This invention comprises the novel compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, X and Y have defined meanings, having histone deacetylase inhibiting enzymatic activity; their preparation, compositions containing them and their use as a medicine.
US09150542B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of crystalline Form I of methanesulfonate salt of dabigatran etexilate. (Formula (I)). The present invention does not require the isolation of the dabigatran etexilate intermediate.
US09150540B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), their use as inhibitors of tubulin polymerization and their use as PARP inhibitors as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and Y have defined meanings.
US09150538B2
Provided is a simple and efficient method for the large-scale production of a 4,4-difluoro-3,4-dihydroisoquinoline derivative. In the method for producing a 4,4-difluoro-3,4-dihydroisoquinoline derivative represented by general formula (1): a compound represented by general formula (2): is reacted with hydrogen fluoride.
US09150535B2
The present invention is directed to a method for producing artemisinin having the formula from dihydroartemisinic acid in a continuous flow reactor using singlet oxygen as well as to the continuous flow reactor for producing artemisinin.
US09150534B2
Fluorinated prodrug compounds as can be used for selective streptococcal mevalonate pathway inhibition.
US09150531B2
The present invention discloses novel compounds useful for the inhibition of IL-6/STAT signaling and/or PI3K/NF-κB signaling in the treatment of associated diseases or conditions, e.g. cancer. A pharmaceutical composition comprising such novel compounds, its use and a method thereof, is also disclosed.
US09150526B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula I, wherein X, R, R1, R2, D, E1, E2, E3, E4, G1, G2, G3 and G4 have the meanings indicated in the claims, which are valuable pharmaceutical active compounds. They are inhibitors of the protease cathepsin A, and are useful for the treatment of diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart failure, renal diseases, liver diseases or inflammatory diseases, for example. The invention furthermore relates to processes for the preparation of the compounds of the formula I, their use and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US09150516B2
Methods for fluorinating organic compounds are described herein.
US09150513B2
Disclosed are novel polymorphic solvated and desolvated forms of the sodium salt of 4-tert-butyl-N-[4-chloro-2-(1-oxy-pyridine-4-carbonyl)phenyl]-benzenesulfonamide. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a crystalline sodium salt of 4-tert-butyl-N-[4-chloro-2-(1-oxy-pyridine-4-carbonyl)-phenyl]benzenesulfonamide (hereinafter “Compound A-1,4-dioxane/water solvate”), wherein the crystalline form is characterized by an X-ray powder diffraction pattern comprising diffraction angles (° 28), when measured using Cu Ku radiation, at about 4.0, 8.1, 10.1, 14.2, 16.2, 18.6, 20.3, 24.7, 25.0, and 26.5.
US09150507B2
This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein R1 is optionally substituted lower alkyl, Y is —S(O)n— wherein n is 1 or 2, or —CO—, R2 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R7 is hydrogen or lower alkyl, X is lower alkylene, lower alkenylene, arylene, cycloalkylene or the like, and Z is lower alkyl, optionally substituted carbocyclyl, optionally substituted heterocyclyl or the like.
US09150498B2
The present invention discloses high yielding enantioselective process for synthesis of Oseltamivir from readily available starting material, cis-1,4-butene diol. The process features incorporation of chirality using sharpless asymmetric epoxidation (AE) and diastereoselective Barbier allylation and construction of cyclohexene carboxylic acid ester core through a ring closing metathesis (RCM) reaction. Further also disclosed herein is synthesis of (−)-methyl 3-epi-shikimate.
US09150495B2
Several aromatic hydrocarbons di-substituted with a polyamine are described according to formulas selected from compounds 4, 7, 10, 15 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The novel dimeric polyamines of the present invention demonstrate enhanced penetration into cells having an upregulated polyamine transport system, such as various types of cancer cells. The disclosed aromatic polyamine dimers provide highly efficient drugs for targeting cancer cells with active polyamine transporters.
US09150491B2
A bicyclohexane derivative compound useful in the field of photoresist, the field of intermediate of drugs and pesticides, and the like, and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. A bicyclohexane derivative compound represented by the following general formula (II) is provided. (In formula (II), Y independently represents an alkyl group of 1 to 10 carbons, a halogen atom, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or a hydroxyl group, X1 represents a halogen atom, m represents an integer of 0 to 11, and m represents an integer of 0 to 10.).
US09150481B2
A process for preparing cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone by cyclohexane oxidation, includes steps of: firstly processing uncatalyzed oxidation on cyclohexane by molecular oxygen, in such a manner that an oxidized mixture with cyclohexyl hydrogen peroxide serving as a primary product is generated; then decomposing the cyclohexyl hydrogen peroxide to produce cyclohexanol and cyclohexanone; and then distilling to obtain a cyclohexanol product and a cyclohexanone product, wherein the step decomposing the cyclohexyl hydrogen peroxide utilizes a three-step decomposition process including steps of: (1) performing the homogeneous catalytic decomposition by utilizing the bis(tert-butyl)chromate as a catalyst; (2) performing the heterogeneous catalytic decomposition of the sodium hydroxide alkaline aqueous solution under low alkalinity; and (3) performing the heterogeneous catalytic decomposition of the sodium hydroxide alkaline aqueous solution under high alkalinity.
US09150480B2
A process for preparing fluorinated ethers, such as desflurane, comprises reacting the corresponding chlorinated ether, such as isoflurane, with anhydrous hydrogen fluoride in the vapor phase in the presence of chromia catalyst. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader quickly to ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the appended issued claims.
US09150474B2
Purifying and/or recovery of ethanol from a crude ethanol product obtained from the hydrogenation of acetic acid. Separation and purification processes of crude ethanol mixture are employed to allow recovery of ethanol and remove impurities. In addition, the process involves the esterification of acetic acid in a column used for recovering the ethanol.
US09150472B2
A method of inhibiting the deposition of asphaltene in a mixture comprising hydrocarbons, the method comprising contacting the mixture with a composition which comprises at least one poly(hydroxycarboxylic acid) amide salt derivative.
US09150471B2
Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for treating a hydrocarbon-containing feed stream are provided. The method comprises the steps of contacting the hydrocarbon-containing feed stream comprising C4, C5, C6, and/or C7 hydrocarbons, water, and contaminants with a Linde Type A molecular sieve at dehydration conditions effective to remove water and form a dehydrated feed stream. The contaminants comprise oxygenates, sulfur compounds, or combinations thereof. The dehydrated feed stream is contacted with a sodium faujisite molecular sieve having a silica/alumina molar ratio of from about 2 to about 2.5 at absorption conditions effective to remove the contaminants and form a dehydrated contaminant-depleted feed stream.
US09150466B2
A process and apparatus for the dehydrogenation of paraffins is presented. The process utilizes a reactor that includes a slower flow of catalyst through the reactor, with a counter current flow of gas through the catalyst bed. The catalyst is regenerated and distributed over the top of the catalyst bed, and travels through the bed with the aid of reactor internals to limit backmixing of the catalyst.
US09150458B2
The method of increasing the hardness of wurtzite crystalline materials is directed to the production of tool bits and inserts having a hardness approaching that of diamond, while simultaneously providing greater toughness and fracture resistance than diamond. The method includes forming a workpiece of boron nitride having a wurtzite crystal structure (wBN), and optionally combining boron nitride having a cubical crystal structure (cBN) with the wBN material. The workpiece is heat-treated by a defocused laser beam moved across the surface at a rate sufficient to preclude melting or deformation of the workpiece. The heated area is quickly quenched by a water jet, and a gas jet immediately follows the laser path to assure separation of the water from the laser contact area. The result is an increase in hardness of about 88%, from an initial hardness of about 40 GPa to a treated hardness of about 75 GPa.
US09150429B2
The solar, water desalination system includes a desalination chamber where fine water droplets are injected upward by an air atomizer towards an air-cooled condenser. Hot saline water is ejected vertically upward to double the contact time between the droplets and the surrounding air. The air is preheated by solar energy in parallel with an auxiliary heater to prevent lowering of the droplet temperature. Pumped air functions as a condensation media and to pull the salt water into the atomizer. This arrangement improves the heat and mass transfer inside the desalination chamber.
US09150426B2
The product of a molten alkali metal metalate phase separation can be processed into a purified metal from a metal source. Metal sources include native ores, recycled metal, metal alloys, impure metal stock, recycle materials, etc. The method uses a molten alkali metal metalate as a process medium or solvent in purifying or extracting high value metal or metal oxides from metal sources. Vitrification methods using the silicate glass separation phase can be prepared as is or can be prepared with a particulate phase distributed throughout the silica glass phase and encapsulated and fixed within the continuous glass phase. Tungsten metal can be obtained from an alkali metal tungstate. A typically finely divided tungsten metal powder can be obtained from a variety of tungsten sources including recycled tungsten scrap, tungsten carbide scrap, low grade tungsten ore typically comprising tungsten oxide or other form of tungsten in a variety of oxidation states.
US09150425B2
According to one embodiment, an active material for a battery includes a titanium composite oxide. The titanium composite oxide contains a monoclinic β-type titanium composite oxide as its main phase and has a ratio (A2/A1) which is 0.4 or less, where A1 is an area intensity of a first peak existing in a frequency range of 105 cm−1 to 133 cm−1 and A2 is an area intensity of a second peak existing in a frequency range of 134 cm−1 to 154 cm−1 on a Raman spectrum measured using an argon laser having a wavelength of 514.5 nm.
US09150424B2
Disclosed are: a novel lithium titanate; and a method for producing the novel lithium titanate. Specifically disclosed is a compound that has a chemical composition represented by the general formula (1): Li2Ti18O37, or the compound additionally containing copper and/or tin. The compound represented by the general formula (1) is synthesized by causing a lithium compound to react with a compound that has a chemical composition represented by the general formula (2): H2Ti12O25 in a liquid phase so that some of hydrogen ions contained in the compound represented by the general formula (2) are substituted by lithium ions, and then carrying out solid-liquid separation and thermal dehydration. An electricity storage device which uses, as a constituent member, an electrode that contains an electrode active material produced from the compound represented by the general formula (1) has excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics, especially excellent charge and discharge cycle characteristics at high temperatures, and is expected to have high capacity.
US09150421B2
There is provided a colloidal particle of an oxide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Ti, Fe, Zr, Sn, Ta, Nb, Y, Mo, W, Pb, In, Bi, and Sr, which is capable of being dispersed in a hydrophobic organic solvent, and a hydrophilic organic solvent dispersed sol thereof or a sol thereof dispersed in a hydrophobic organic solvent having a solubility of water of 0.05 to 12% by mass, and further, a fine powder of a metal oxide colloidal particle capable of being redispersed in various organic solvents. A silane treated modified metal oxide colloidal particle on the surface of which an amine compound and 1 to 4 silyl group(s) per 1 nm2 of the surface area are bonded, and which is produced by coating a metal oxide colloidal particle as a core with a complex oxide colloidal particle.
US09150420B2
A carbon electrode has a conical or pyramidal tip, wherein the tip is surrounded on its side by a raised edge.
US09150419B2
A reagent delivering article comprising porous sintered polycrystalline diamond where the delivering article is capable of retaining at least one chemical reagent and releasing the chemical reagent in a fluid or has reactive sites on diamond surfaces of the article.
US09150417B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for growth of graphene at a temperature above 1400° C. on a silicon carbide surface by sublimation of silicon from the surface. The process comprises heating under special conditions up to growth temperature which ensured that the surface undergoes the proper modification for allowing homogenous graphene in one or more monolayers.
US09150414B2
A nanocomposite comprises a nanostructure, and a copolymer adsorbed to the nanostructure and containing at least one ionic monomer unit and a different monomer unit from the ionic monomer unit; the ionic monomer unit selected from the group consisting of a zwitterionic monomer unit and a cationic monomer unit which are represented by the following formula (1): (in the formula (1), R1, R2, and R3 each independently represent any one of a hydrogen atom and a monovalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, Y1 represents any one of a carbonyl group and an arylene group, Y2 represents any one of —O— and —NH—, n is 0 or 1, R4 represents a divalent organic group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and X represents any one of a zwitterionic group and a cationic group).
US09150408B2
A method of etching a plurality of cavities in a wafer provides a wafer having a patterned hard mask layer. The patterned hard mask has open areas defining locations for first cavities and second cavities. A mask is applied to cover the patterned hard mask layer. The mask is etched to remove wafer material from areas defined by the second cavities. The mask is removed and etching then removes wafer material except as prevented by the hard mask layer. This leaves the first cavities with a first depth and further deepens the second cavities to a depth greater than the first depth. By suitably configuring the second cavities, a capped die can be formed by securing the wafer to a second wafer and removing at least a portion of the unsecured side of the first wafer to expose the second cavities, thereby forming a plurality of caps on the second wafer.
US09150404B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device having through molding vias includes eutectic bonding a capping wafer and a base wafer to form a wafer package. The base wafer includes a first chip package portion, a second chip package portion, and a third chip package portion. The capping wafer includes a plurality of isolation trenches and a plurality of separation trenches having a depth greater than the isolation trenches with respect to a same surface of the capping wafer. The method also includes removing a portion of the capping wafer exposing a first chip package portion contact, a second chip package portion contact, and a third chip package portion contact. The method further includes separating the wafer package to separate the wafer package into a first chip package, a second chip package, and a third chip package.
US09150402B2
A MEMS device, such as an accelerometer or gyroscope, fabricated in interconnect metallization compatible with a CMOS microelectronic device. In embodiments, a proof mass has a first body region utilizing a thick metal layer that is separated from a thin metal layer. The thick metal layer has a film thickness that is significantly greater than that of the thin metal layer for increased mass. The proof mass further includes a first sensing structure comprising the thin metal layer, but lacking the thick metal layer for small feature sizes and increased capacitive coupling to a surrounding fame that includes a second sensing structure comprising the thin metal layer, but also lacking the thick metal layer. In further embodiments, the frame is released and includes regions with the thick metal layer to better match film stress-induced static deflection of the proof mass.
US09150396B2
The electric-vehicle control device is used in an electric vehicle which is provided with a vehicle body having a driving tire and an axle shaft and with a driving motor which imparts torque to the driving tire. The electric-vehicle control device issues a motor control command to the driving motor. The electric-vehicle control device is provided with a control unit, and the control unit gives feedback control to the driving motor by vibration parameters indicating vertical vibration of the electric vehicle at the center of the axle shaft.
US09150393B2
A thin jack includes a body, a piston support post, and a dividing piston. The body has a receiving chamber which opens down, a limiting piston circumferentially disposed on the receiving chamber, and upper and lower passages penetrating the body and being in communication with the receiving chamber. The piston support post is movably received in the receiving chamber and is in fluidtight sliding contact with the limiting piston. The dividing piston is disposed at the piston support post, is in fluidtight sliding contact with the receiving chamber, corresponds in position to the limiting piston to confine the dividing piston to the receiving chamber, and divides the receiving chamber into upper and lower receiving spaces in communication with the upper and lower passages, respectively. Accordingly, elevation of the body is controllable while lifting an object, and users can keep raising the thin jack without moving the thin jack horizontally.
US09150391B2
A hoist system includes a drum, a motor, and a transmission. The drum includes a hollow shell, a first end, a second end, and an internal web, and defines a longitudinal axis extending between the first end and the second end. The internal web extends across an interior portion of the shell in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, thereby defining a first portion and a second portion of the shell. The motor is coupled to the first end and includes an output shaft. The transmission is driven by the motor and includes a planetary gear train positioned within the interior portion of the shell. The planetary gear train includes an input gear coupled to the motor output shaft and an output gear coupled to the internal web to rotate the drum about the longitudinal axis. The planetary gear train is positioned in a first portion of the shell.
US09150389B2
The invention relates to a system capable of determining in which lane a container handling machine is present below a quay crane or the like crane and/or capable of determining the correct location of a container handling machine in its driving direction (y) with respect to a quay crane or the like crane as containers are delivered to the crane or containers are retrieved from the crane by the container handling machine. The crane is fitted with at least one scanning laser distance sensor or the like range finder, and the container handling machines are fitted with one or more reflectors whose height profile is used for the determination of a correct location and/or for the identification of a container handling machine and for the distinction thereof from other container handling machines.
US09150388B2
A hoist apparatus includes branch guide rails with a branch point, the branch point defining a branching point between first and second traveling rails, and the branch guide rails including first guide rails having a cross-section in a first direction, and second guide rails having a cross-section in a second direction and connected to the first guide rails, and a traveling unit configured to travel along the branch guide rails, the traveling unit including first auxiliary wheels configured to roll and contact a first side of the second guide rails.
US09150385B2
The present invention relates to an elevator door controller system for operating doors of an elevator car. The system includes a travelling cable for delivering DC power to the car. The car includes a power storage device for storing DC power from the travelling cable, a DC motor for operating the car doors, and an elevator door drive powered by the power storage device for driving the DC motor to operate the car doors.
US09150369B1
An adjustable leg assembly for a mobile loading dock having an elongate, adjustable housing with incremental slots and a compression spring within the housing. The leg assembly also includes a lock bracket for insertion into the slots to contact and hold the spring in place and a baseplate for contact with the ground. A user removes the bracket from the slots allowing the spring to compress which shortens the length of the adjustable housing allowing movement of the loading dock to a different location.
US09150361B2
A conveyor support structure for an aggregate processing apparatus, the support structure comprising a base section and a deployable boom structure. The boom structure includes a mid-section pivotably coupled to the base section, and a head section pivotably coupled to the mid-section. When the boom structure adopts a transport state, the mid-section extends at an angle of approximately 45° with respect to the ground surface. A pair of crossed head section supports are pivotably coupled between the base section and the head section and serve to guide the movement of the boom structure.
US09150355B2
A telescoping mechanism and method of extending and retracting a telescoping mechanism includes a first arm that extends in a particular direction with respect to a base, a second arm that extends in that direction with respect to the first arm, a first drive assembly that extends and retracts the first arm, and a second drive assembly that extends and retracts the second arm. The first drive assembly includes a rotatable drum and a cable. The cable is wrapped at least one turn around the drum. The cable has a first portion attached to one end portion of the first arm and a second end portion to an opposite end portion of the first arm.
US09150329B2
Disclosed is a dispensing unit that may include a body having front wall, a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a floor, and a roof. In example embodiments the body may be configured to receive a second floor that may be arranged on the floor and the first and second sidewalls may be configured to receive holders for decorative members.
US09150321B2
The methods and apparatuses disclosed herein operate to change the orientation of an absorbent article. The apparatus includes a transfer apparatus having a frame that is rotatable about a first axis of rotation and a transfer member that is rotatable about a second axis of rotation. The method includes advancing an absorbent article in a machine direction. The absorbent article is defined by a longitudinal centerline intersected by a lateral centerline at a center. The method includes rotating the absorbent article from a first orientation where the longitudinal centerline extends in a cross direction to a second orientation where the longitudinal centerline extends in the machine direction. The method includes shifting the absorbent article such that the center of the absorbent article shifts from a first cross-directional position to a second cross-directional position. The steps of rotating the absorbent article and shifting the absorbent article may occur concurrently.
US09150317B2
A device minimizes the oxygen content in containers provided with a displacement medium or fluid by a feed unit (20). The displacement medium displaces oxygen from the container before closing. The food device (20) has one medium feed channel to introduce the displacement medium into the container and being at least partially a component of a filling device (26) for filling the container. The filling device (26) has a filling mandrel (17) with a filling channel (28), from which the media feed channel extends in a separated manner. The filling mandrel (17) has at least one further medium transport channel. The filling channel (28) is guided at its free cross-section in a ring channel region of the filling mandrel (17) having a larger cross-section. The filling channel (28) separates the medium feed channel from the medium transport channel within the ring channel region in a fluid-tight manner.
US09150314B2
A headphone ear tip holder includes a flat panel with a plurality of apertures, which are shaped for holding headphone ear tips securely.
US09150310B1
A method for aerial refueling situational awareness is described. The method includes providing, to a display, a video image of the refueling environment, and providing at least one video overlay onto the video image, the at least one video overlay indicative of a positional relationship between an aircraft to be refueled and a tanker aircraft, the at least one video overlay including at least one guidance cue to assist in the alignment and coupling of the aerial refueling boom with the receiving aircraft receptacle.
US09150307B2
A method of controlling a high speed rotary wing aircraft (1) comprising: a fuselage (2); at least one main rotor (3); at least one variable pitch propulsive propeller (4); at least two half-wings (11, 11′) positioned on either side of said fuselage (2); at least one horizontal stabilizer (20) provided with a movable surface (21, 21′); and at least one power plant driving said main rotor (3) and each propulsive propeller (4) in rotation. Said method serves to adjust the lift of said half-wings (11, 11′) and the lift of the horizontal stabilizer (20) so that the collective pitch of said blades (31) of said main rotor (3) is equal to a setpoint collective pitch, so that the longitudinal cyclic pitch of said blades (31) of said main rotor (3) is equal to a setpoint longitudinal cyclic pitch, and so that the lateral cyclic pitch of said blades (31) of said main rotor (3) is equal to a setpoint lateral cyclic pitch during a stabilized stage of flight.
US09150303B2
An aircraft with a control system having joint control for a throttle and a propeller of an aircraft may be modified to decouple the joint control of a throttle and a propeller. Control of the throttle and propeller may be independent of the other. Exemplary modification of a control system may use new structures, existing structures, repurpose existing structures, or use a combination thereof. Additionally or alternatively, modification of a control system may provide controls with tactile distinction to a user.
US09150301B2
Disclosed herein is a collapsible wing assembly of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a method of locking and unlocking the collapsible wing assembly of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The collapsible wing assembly comprising a center wing adapted to be attached to the fuselage; and a pair of outboard wings, wherein each of the outboard edges of the center wing comprises a first attachment structure, and each of the inboard edges of the outboard wings comprises a second attachment structure, wherein the first attachment structure is operable to engage with the second attachment structure and displace the second attachment structure to a captive position towards the trailing edge of the center wing.
US09150299B2
A shell component for an aircraft or spacecraft. The shell component includes a skin panel, a plurality of stringers which are arranged on the skin panel, a former which includes a fiber composite material and is arranged over the stringers so as to cross the stringers, and a former connection structure which includes a ductile material and a plurality of foot portions fixed to the skin panel. The foot portions each transition integrally into a shoulder portion fixed to the former over an associated fixing span, the fixing spans associated with the foot portions extending along the former substantially continuously over the stringers.
US09150292B2
The present invention relates to an inflatable floatable unit (2) comprising an inflatable flotation layer (21) comprising a plurality of inflatable floatation tubes (211); an inflatable structural layer comprising an inflatable outer tube defining a circumferential barrier, the inflatable structural layer being arranged substantially above the inflatable flotation layer; and a flooring element (23) provided between the inflatable flotation layer (21) and the inflatable structural tube layer (22), thereby defining a bottom of the inflatable floatable unit, wherein the inflatable structural layer further comprises a plurality of inflatable seating elements extending in a longitudinal direction in a protected area (224) enclosed by the inflatable outer tube element, and the inflatable floatable unit comprises a gangway element (24) extending in a direction transversal to the longitudinal direction of the inflatable seating elements, thereby defining a gangway.
US09150286B2
A water habitat platform is created from converted trash and rubbish found within the oceans. A process separates the trash from water to identify the raw materials, which are then converted into building blocks. The blocks are used to create platforms or islands that sustain themselves using power generated from tidal forces. The islands are connected to each other and movable.
US09150285B2
An anchor assembly (1) comprises a plate anchor element (2) mounted on an associated dynamic implanting follower (6) to facilitate dynamically embedding the plate anchor element (2) in a mooring bed below a body of water. The plate anchor element (2) has a tubular sleeve (20) which is slidably mounted on a shaft (8) of the implanting follower (6), and locates at an upper end of the implanting follower (6) which has a pointed penetrating tip (9) at a lower end of the shaft (8). Radial flukes (22) are mounted on the sleeve (20) in a cruciform configuration. A through-hole (3) is provided in one of the flukes (22) for attachment of a tether line. For deployment of the plate anchor element (2) the anchor assembly (1) is dropped from a height above the mooring bed, freefalling through the water and penetrating into the mooring bed. The implanting follower (6) is then retrieved leaving the plate anchor element (2) buried in the mooring bed.
US09150280B2
A bicycle multi-gear cassette mountable to a wheel hub driver mechanism that includes truncated conical shell having a first opening proximate a small shell base and a second opening proximate a large shell base. The openings are coaxial with an axis of the shell. A plurality of toothed sprockets having different numbers of teeth are disposed on the shell and extend radially of the central axis. A torque load transmitting profile is configured on the shell proximate one of the small and large shell bases. A radial load transmitting profile is configured on the shell proximate one of the small and large shell bases. The shell, sprockets, and the load transmitting profiles embody a single piece.
US09150271B1
A bike stroller includes a front bike stroller frame equipped with two front wheels and providing a connecting tube, a handlebar fastened to the front bike stroller frame, a rear bike stroller frame equipped with a rear wheel and providing a connecting tube and adjustably connected to the front bike stroller frame between a first position for enabling the bike stroller to be used for riding and a second position for enabling the bike stroller to be used as a baby stroller, a seat post frame selectively and detachably fastenable to the connecting tube of the front bike stroller frame or rear bike stroller frame, and a bicycle saddle selectively and detachably fastenable to the connecting tube of the front bike stroller frame or rear bike stroller frame.
US09150270B2
A fuel tank from which fuel is supplied to an engine includes: overhang portions that project outward from left and right main frames in the vehicle width direction; and fuel pipes that pass the inside of the fuel tank from an area in the vicinity of a fuel filler port, and extend downward from the overhang portions arranged outside the pair of main frames in the vehicle width direction. The fuel pipes are constituted of a drain pipe through which spilled filling fuel or rain water collected around the fuel filler port is discharged to the outside of the fuel tank, and a breather pipe which makes the inside of the fuel tank and atmosphere communicate with each other.
US09150264B2
An assembly line for motor vehicles in which a overhead guide supports a plurality of conveying units, each of which has a longitudinal axis, is provided with a supporting element for a respective body to be assembled, and is mobile in a given direction of advance through one or more rotation stations, in each of which an drive assembly, carried by the rotation station, is designed to engage a driven transmission assembly, carried by the conveying unit, for rotating the supporting element about the longitudinal axis.
US09150263B2
A self-controlled device maintains a frame of reference about an x-, y- and z-axis. The self-controlled device processes an input to control the self-propelled device, the input being based on the x- and y-axis. The self-propelled device is controlled in its movement, including about each of the x-, y- and z-axis, based on the input.
US09150261B2
An air dam for an automotive vehicle has panel wherein the panel extends vertically down from a bottom of a bumper of the vehicle when in the deployed position. The panel has at least one openable and closable air flow opening therein. In an aspect, each air flow opening opens to a mouth of a duct that extends rearwardly form the panel. In an aspect, the panel has a plurality of air flow openings and ducts. In an aspect, the air dam is a deployable air dam.
US09150253B2
A vehicle body frame structure includes a side frame, a sub-frame, a cabin side support member, an under-floor frame, and a link stay. The sub-frame includes a separate side fastening portion, an adjacent side fastening portion, and a central bending point. In the link stay, a first end portion side is fastened to a lower surface of the cabin side support member together with the adjacent side fastening portion so as to be extractable, and a second end portion side is fastened to the under-floor frame. A nut for fastening the second end portion side of the link stay is held by a lateral wall on a side separating from the floor tunnel portion of the link stay, and the support bolt is fitted into the nut from a lower side of a floor tunnel portion in a vehicle width direction serving as an axis.
US09150240B2
A steering column for a motor vehicle including a steering spindle bearing unit for rotatably supporting a steering spindle of the steering column and a bracket unit for securing the steering column on the motor vehicle. The steering spindle bearing unit is bearing supported by a securement device on at least one bracket part of the bracket unit, wherein the position of the steering spindle bearing unit relative to the bracket unit is secured in position in a closed position of the securement device and, in an open position of the securement device, is displaceable. The securement device includes an operating lever swivellable about a lever swivel axis, by which the operating lever is displaceable between the closed position and the open position. The steering column includes at least one damping element for damping the swivel movement of the operating lever about the lever swivel axis.
US09150239B2
A steering apparatus is capable of configuring an electrically operated tilt mechanism, which is interchangeable with a manually operated tilt mechanism, and which is small in size and easily mounted on a vehicle. A tilt bracket holding a steering column and supported on the fixing bracket to be relatively movable thereto, and a tilt shaft extending in a lateral direction of the vehicle body and supported on the fixing bracket to be relatively movable thereto in an axial direction of the steering column are provided. By way of a driving unit, the tilt bracket is rotated about the tilt shaft axis to adjust a relative position of the tilt shaft to the fixing bracket. Furthermore, a tilt slider is disposed between an elongated hole on the fixing bracket and the tilt shaft, and a biasing member biasing the tilt slider in the axial direction of the tilt shaft.
US09150230B2
A cart includes a platform assembly, a handle assembly, first wheel assembly and a second wheel assembly. In use, the cart may folded from a deployed position in which it rolls along a surface to transport items, to a stowed position, in which it is collapsed in a compact geometry for storage. The cart may be further integrated into a chair, chaise lounge, garden cart, bicycle utility cart or a bicycle passenger cart.
US09150226B2
Mounting rings and methods for mounting structures to shafts are provided. The rings and methods may be used to mount other rings or housings to a shaft. The rings are characterized by having flexible inner diameters that can deflect under a radial load. The radial deflection of the inner diameter permits the rings to deflect and engage an outer diameter of a shaft. The engagement of the rings with a shaft provides at least some resistance to movement, for example, rotation and/or axial displacement, of the shaft relative to the ring and structure. In one aspect, the ring has a closed, hollow, construction, for example, a circular, oval, or polygonal closed, hollow construction. The ring may include a plurality of indentations, such as slots, on the inside diameter of the ring that may relieve at least some of the circumferential stress in the ring. Methods for using the rings to mount a structure to a shaft are also disclosed.
US09150225B2
A safety device for railway vehicles is provided, more specifically a safety device that reduces the negative consequences resulting from collisions or pedestrian accidents involving railway vehicles. As such, the railway vehicle safety device consists of a main impact dampening area and at least one secondary support and resistance area, with the safety device being installed on the railway vehicle's front end, so that the main impact dampening area dampens the force of the impact caused by a collision between the vehicle and a pedestrian.
US09150217B2
A drive control apparatus for hybrid vehicles adapted to facilitate controlling a rotation speed of an internal combustion engine, preventing excess speeds of a motor generator. The drive control apparatus for hybrid vehicles is adapted for a drive control of a vehicle using outputs from an engine and motor generators, and includes a target engine operating point setter for setting up a target engine operating point to determine target engine torque and a target engine rotation speed of the engine from target engine power and an efficiency of system. A motor torque command value calculator sets up respective torque command values of the motor generators, and an engine torque corrector corrects the target engine torque by a target engine torque correction value set up based on the torque command values of the motor generators and permissible output torque of the motor generators.
US09150214B2
A technique includes receiving, at a controller of a vehicle, the controller including one or more processors, a first request to calibrate a park lock system of the vehicle. The calibration can include commanding, by the controller, a first actuator to move a second actuator to maximum engagement/disengagement positions indicating maximum engagement/disengagement of a park pawl with/from a park gear of a transmission. The calibration can include determining, at the controller, full engagement/disengagement positions for the second actuator based on the maximum engagement/disengagement positions. The controller can then control the engagement/disengagement of the park lock system using the full engagement/disengagement positions for the second actuator, respectively.
US09150206B2
A brake system includes: (a) a first brake device including a first actuator and a first brake that utilizes an output of the first actuator; (b) a second brake device including a second actuator and a second brake that utilizes an output of the second actuator; (c) a regenerative-electric-energy obtaining device configured to obtain a regenerative electric energy that is returned to a power source device; and (d) an actuator control device configured to reduce a total consumed electric energy, by controlling the first actuator and/or the second actuator in a manner that maintains a state in which a required braking force is satisfied by a braking force of the first brake and/or a braking force of the second brake, such that the total consumed electric energy is made smaller when a regenerative electric energy is small, than when the regenerative electric energy is large.
US09150203B2
A vehicle braking control device includes a braking force simultaneous control mode executing unit capable of executing a braking force simultaneous control mode for simultaneously controlling right/left wheels cylinders by a brake hydraulic pressure circuit according to slip ratios of right/left wheels, a braking force independent control mode executing unit capable of executing a braking force independent control mode for independently controlling the right/left wheels cylinders, and a switching controller capable of switching the braking force simultaneous control mode and the braking force independent control mode, wherein the switching controller switches to the braking force independent control mode at the time a slip ratio difference of the right/left rear wheels becomes equal to or less than a preset and predetermined value during switching from the braking force simultaneous control mode to the braking force independent control mode.
US09150202B2
An electric motor for rotating a wheel of a vehicle, the electric motor having a rotor, a stator and coil windings, a first sensor arranged to output a first signal indicative of a position of the rotor relative to the stator, a second sensor arranged to output a second signal indicative of a position of the rotor relative to the stator; wherein the first sensor and second sensor are offset with respect to each other such that upon rotation of the rotor relative to the stator the first output signal and second output signal allow the direction of the rotor to be determined; wherein the first output signal and second output signal are used for controlling current in the coil windings and at least one of the first output signal and second output signal are provided to a vehicle braking system to allow the vehicle braking system to determine a wheel lock condition or an onset of a wheel lock condition, wherein the onset of a wheel lock condition is determined based on predetermined criteria.
US09150183B2
A process to manufacture a vehicle interior trim with an airbag cover, the process including: obtaining an interior trim part; and creating a weakening line around at least a part of a defined area of said interior trim part, said defined area being the airbag cover, characterized in that the weakening line is created by milling along the weakening line a number of holes, the holes being milled by a milling machine having a milling tool and a stitching axis for moving the milling tool substantially perpendicularly to a zone of the trim part to be milled.
US09150178B1
A vehicle seat includes a back and a cushion. A mounting assembly supports the cushion and includes a first mounting arm coupled with the back and rotatable with respect to the cushion such that the back is translatable over the cushion. The vehicle seat further includes a first restraint arm coupled with the seat back and operatively coupled with the first mounting arm such that translation of the seat back drives corresponding rotation of the first restraint arm.
US09150177B2
The present invention relates to an occupant protection system and, more particularly, to an apparatus and method for detecting a vehicle rollover event using and enhanced sensor input architecture that uses both a roll over sensor and an electronic stability control system.
US09150176B2
A device and a method for triggering passenger protection systems, the passenger protection systems being triggered as a function of a rollover process. A signal which characterizes a road grip coefficient (coefficient of friction) is received via an interface. An evaluation circuit is provided which triggers the passenger protection systems as a function of the signal and a stability factor, the evaluation circuit determining the stability factor as a function of at least one kinematic variable.
US09150175B1
A vehicle front end assembly includes a radiator assembly, a fascia component overlapping the radiator assembly, and a grill laterally aligned with the radiator assembly. The grill and radiator assembly define an airflow space longitudinally therebetween. The vehicle front end assembly further includes an airbag coupled between the fascia component and the radiator assembly, and the airbag is disposed outside of the airflow space in both deflated and inflated configurations.
US09150166B2
Various enhancements to the capabilities of vehicles in general, and particularly light-duty utility vehicles, which can advantageously enhance the cargo-carrying capabilities of such vehicles. The present invention provides a cargo bed insert, as well as an insert system, for removable attachment to a vehicle's existing cargo box. Improvement to a light-duty utility vehicle, where the improvement is in the form of a cargo box for the vehicle which includes one or more features of the described cargo bed insert and/or system is disclosed. The invention contemplates methods for enhancing the cargo-carrying capability of a light-duty utility vehicle. In particular, methods for enhancing the cargo-carrying capacity of such a vehicle beyond a manufacturer's specified cargo weight capacity are provided. Lastly, the invention includes a mounting assembly for a removable attachment to a vehicle's frame. The mounting assembly may be employed as a stand-alone item, or in conjunction with the cargo bed insert, to create a system for enhancing a vehicle's cargo-carrying capability.
US09150164B2
A vehicle entertainment system (1) is adapted to be mounted to a vehicle. It has a mounting bracket (2) adapted for coupling to a dashboard of a vehicle, a vehicle seat, its headrest if present, or mounting posts for such a headrest, or into an arm-rest for a vehicle seat. A mounting arm (7) is mounted for rotation relative to the mounting bracket about a main axis (6) arranged in use to extend generally horizontally. A monitor unit (3) has a front side (5) and a rear side (29). The monitor unit has at least one structure enabling access to entertainment for a user. The structure may be at least one of a monitor screen on the front side, controls for an audio system on the front side, controls for an audio system on the rear side, and a slot (30) adapted for a tablet computer to dock therein both physically and electronically with the screen of the tablet computer (35) exposed on the rear side.
US09150159B1
A vehicle roof rack system for use on a roof of a vehicle which may include a moonroof the roof rack system includes first and second side rail members adapted to be mounted to the roof of the vehicle, the first and second side rail members each including a first channel located proximal a bottom side, a second channel located proximal a top side, a third channel extending substantially perpendicularly between the first and second channels, and a fourth channel extending substantially angularly between the first and second channels and a plurality of crossbows extending between the side rails and movable between a use position and a storage position at a plurality of locations along the side rails and also movable to channels in the rails located proximal the rear of the vehicle for storage of the rails and to provide an unobstructed view out the moonroof.
US09150155B2
In a first aspect, the invention is directed to a vehicular camera and a method for calibrating the camera after it has been installed in a vehicle. In particular, the invention is directed to calibrating a vehicular camera after the camera has been installed in a vehicle, wherein the camera is of a type that applies an overlay to an image and outputs the image with the overlay to an in-vehicle display.
US09150150B2
There is provided an interior illumination lamp for a vehicle. In the interior illumination lamp for a vehicle including a lamp unit having a light source, which is a functional part, and a lens provided inside a vehicle room, which is a decorative part, the lens is engaged with the lamp unit through an inner peripheral edge of an opening in a roof trim, thereby to clamp the roof trim between them and to attach the interior illumination lamp for a vehicle in a state where the roof trim is clamped. The lamp unit is provided with a plurality of positioning projections at a position where the lamp unit is contacted with the roof trim.
US09150147B2
A system, and related method and computer program product are disclosed. The system may comprise a lighting system including a plurality of light groups disposed on a Machine, each light group including one or more lights, a graphical user interface, and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the graphical user interface to display a machine icon and a plurality of light icons. Each light icon may be in the shape of a light and corresponding to one of the light groups. Each light icon may be displayed proximal to the machine icon in a position generally indicative of a location on the Machine of the light group that corresponds to the light icon. In an embodiment, a light beam may be displayed generally adjacent to the first light icon to show a direction of light when the corresponding light group on the Machine is illuminated.
US09150144B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor-type light source 2, a lens 35, a heat sink member 4, a light control member 6, a driving member 7, and a cover member 8. The cover member 8 is fixed to a fixing surface of the heat sink member 4 such a manner as to be integrated with the semiconductor-type light source 2. The light control member 6 is mounted to the cover member 8 in such a manner as to be changeably movable between a first location and a second location. As a result, the present invention is capable of reducing dispersion in relative position between the semiconductor-type light source 2 and the light control member 6, and reducing dispersion between a light distribution pattern for low beam LP and a light distribution pattern for high beam HP.
US09150142B2
In a method of controlling different lighting functions in a vehicle, activation of another one of the lighting functions is dependent on an actual speed of the vehicle, when manually switching from a currently activated one of the lighting functions to the other one of the lighting functions. In particular, when a low beam is automatically activated and a predefined speed is exceeded, activation of a parking light is barred while the low beam remains activated.
US09150134B2
A service control center is provided on a machine at a position accessible to a service technician or an operator. The service control center includes a service control panel. Further, the service control panel includes a first rotary switch adapted to selectively operate a transmission locking system and a second rotary switch adapted to selectively operate an engine starter system. A first flange having a first opening configured to retain the first rotary switch in a locked position and a second flange having a second opening configured to retain the second rotary switch in a locked position.
US09150132B2
An HVAC comfort system operates in a cabin of a vehicle. A plurality of vehicle status parameters are measured including a cabin temperature and a seat occupancy configuration. The method detects whether the vehicle status parameters correspond to a predetermined override state. When the vehicle status parameters correspond to the predetermined override state, then a respective mandated setting is automatically activated. Unless prevented by the mandated setting, one of a plurality of HVAC modes is automatically selected in response to the cabin temperature and other inputs, wherein the HVAC modes include an extremity heating mode and a panel circulation mode. The extremity heating mode is comprised of automatic activation of a touchpoint heated surface and other outputs in response to the seat occupancy configuration. The panel circulation mode is comprised of automatic activation of one or more zones for convective cooling in response to the seat occupancy configuration and may include activating other cooling devices.
US09150131B2
Disclosed is a headrest fore-aft position adjuster including a displaceable body which receives load of an occupant's head and which displaces in a fore-aft direction with respect to a headrest pillar and a lock mechanism which locks and unlocks the displaceable body at a plurality of positions along the fore-aft direction, and the lock mechanism includes an engaging part which displaces in the fore-aft direction integrally with the displaceable body, a plurality of engaged part which is provided along a trajectory of the engaging part and which the engaging part is engaged with in a locked state and the engaging part is configured to engage with the engaged parts from a lateral position.
US09150117B2
A vehicle vibration suppression control device includes: a first torque target value calculation unit that inputs a motor torque instruction value and that uses a previously modeled transmission characteristic of the vehicle to calculate a first torque target value; a second torque target value calculation unit that includes a filter having a characteristic of a model H(s)/Gp(s) formed with a model Gp(s) of a transmission characteristic of a torque input to the vehicle and a motor angular velocity and a bandpass filter H(s) in which a frequency in the vicinity of a torsional vibration frequency in the vehicle is a center frequency, that inputs a deviation between a detection value of the vehicle state amount and an estimation value of the vehicle state amount and that calculates a second torque target value; and a motor torque control unit that controls a motor torque according to a final torque target value obtained by adding the first torque target value and the second torque target value. The vehicle state amount is estimated based on the first torque target value on which the lag processing has been performed and the second torque target value.
US09150116B2
A conveyor system has a transport device that can be moved along a substantially vertical path of travel and a linear motor having a primary part arranged on the transport device, and a secondary part arranged along the path of travel, the primary part has a primary winding and at least one permanent magnet, the secondary part has a profile in the direction of the path of travel with alternatingly arranged grooves and teeth, and a brake winding is arranged on the secondary part such that it can generate a braking force by interacting with the permanent magnet to brake the transport device for increasing operational safety.
US09150114B2
According to one embodiment, a storage system includes storage devices configured to execute communication by using an identifier, a converter configured to convert the identifier of the storage devices, a controller configured to execute communication with the storage devices via the converter by using the identifier converted by the converter, convert a DC power output from the storage devices into a DC power of a predetermined magnitude and output the DC power, and charge the storage devices with the DC power of the predetermined magnitude, an AC/DC converter configured to convert the DC power output from the controller into an AC power, convert an AC power supplied from a distribution system into a DC power and supply the DC power to the controller, and a controller configured to control the controller and the AC/DC converter.
US09150101B2
A fuel-cell vehicle includes a vehicle body provided with a vehicle body frame, a fuel cell that is disposed in an inside space of a vehicle body frame and generates electric power using hydrogen as fuel, a fuel tank including a tank main body storing hydrogen fuel to be supplied to the fuel cell and a tank valve, an engine that generates a drive force for a vehicle with the electric power from the fuel cell, and at least one casing that accommodates a required vehicle component and is formed into a box shape with high rigidity.
US09150093B2
The in-wheel motor for installation inside a wheel disk of a wheel includes: a cylindrical coil body; a coil body support member fixed to a shaft; an outer yoke that is disposed on an outer circumferential side of the coil body, and is fixed to a wheel disk; a cylindrical inner yoke that is disposed on an inner circumferential side of the coil body, and is rotatable around the shaft; and a magnet that is fixed on one of an inner circumferential face of the outer yoke and an outer circumferential face of the inner yoke, the magnet disposed to face a circumferential face of the coil body.
US09150088B2
Provided is an automotive windshield cover structure for removably covering a windshield of a vehicle. The automotive windshield cover structure includes a windshield cover, a first extension portion and a second extension portion. Or, the automotive windshield cover structure includes a windshield cover, at least one air vent portion and at least one add-on portion. The automotive windshield cover structure covers the windshield of the vehicle effectively and blocks rain, snow or sunlight, such that the windshield cover cannot be removed from the windshield by wind or lifted by wind. The first extension portion and the second extension portion are adhered to and engaged smoothly and tightly with door receiving grooves at the left front and right front portions of the vehicle, respectively, when a door of the vehicle shuts, to prevent water droplets from being guided across the automotive windshield cover structure to flow into or seep into the vehicle.
US09150087B2
A truck bed cover may be deployed as a tonneau cover or as a canopy cover. The truck bed cover includes a top shell and right and left side shells. The side shells are operable to pivot and slide with respect to the top shell so that the cover may be deployed in a canopy cover configuration or collapsed into a tonneau cover configuration. When in the tonneau cover configuration, the truck bed cover may be tilted up to provide access to the inside of the truck bed or tilted down into a closed position.
US09150084B2
A vehicle includes a rocker panel and a pillar reinforcement extending in a direction transverse to the rocker panel. The vehicle further includes a door having a bracket disposed over an intersection of the rocker panel and the pillar reinforcement when the door is in a closed position. The bracket is configured to reduce intrusion propagation of the door toward a passenger compartment and redirect an impact load laterally along the rocker panel.
US09150081B2
An evaporator having a manifold and a plurality of refrigerant tubes extending downward in the direction of gravity from the manifold. The evaporator includes at least one PCM housing engaging the upper portion of the refrigerant tube for storing a phase change material. When operating in a first operating mode, heat is transferred from the phase change material to the refrigerant to freeze and cool the phase change material. When operating in a second operating mode, heat is transferred from the refrigerant to the frozen phase change material to condense the refrigerant. The condensed refrigerant falls downwardly through the tubes and receives heat from a flow of air to cool the air and evaporate the refrigerant. The evaporated refrigerant rises upwardly back to the low pressure of the cold manifold.
US09150066B1
A resilient towing device connects a receptacle to a towing vehicle while reducing the longitudinal forces exerted on the receptacle when a momentum of the towing vehicle differs from a momentum of the receptacle. A pair of spaced apart rods has a hitch end, a middle region, and a receptacle end. The hitch end forms a hook having an opening. The hook and/or the opening may be used to hitch on to a tow hitch from a towing vehicle. The middle region includes a support portion that may be used to support a receptacle handle. The support portion may include a U-shape that is sized and dimensioned to receive and support a receptacle handle. A receptacle end of the rods forms a pair of arcs that extends upwardly and away from the middle region, pressing down on a receptacle lid.
US09150063B2
A connection device for pulling an aircraft. The connection device includes first and second connection portions, a connection rod and a rod retaining portion. The first and second connection portions have first and second guide spaces into which the connection arm is inserted. First and second arm receiving portions are pushed to rotate from a standby state by the connection arm inserted into the first or second guide space, and are connected by a link member. When the first arm receiving portion rotates from the standby state, the rod retaining portion rotates together with the first arm receiving portions, and enables the connection rod to pass through the second hole so that the connection rod is connected to the connection arm inserted into the first guide space or the second guide space.
US09150054B2
A pneumatic tire includes a tread that has: land portions formed and segmented by a plurality of circumferential grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction and by a plurality of widthwise grooves extending in a tire width direction; and sipes formed in contact patches of the land portions. The pneumatic tire includes: recessed sections (groove-bottom recessed sections) that are formed in tire-width-direction lateral surfaces of the land portions provided in tire-width-direction outermost parts, so as to connect to the widthwise grooves; and indents/lugs that are formed in bottom surfaces of the recessed sections such that indents/lugs thereof are arranged alternately and continuously in a linear manner.
US09150047B2
A deep-lip wheel cover apparatus that attaches with a steel wheel includes a wheel cover, a center cap, and a hub ring. The hub ring is centrally connected with the steel wheel so that the wheel cover and the center cap can be attached to the hub ring. The wheel cover also attaches with the steel wheel through a plurality of fastening systems, where the plurality of fastening system provide additional connection points in between the wheel cover and the steel wheel. When the wheel cover and the center cap are installed within the steel wheel, the wheel cover and the center cap completely cover the steel wheel creating a deep-lip appearance within the steel wheel.
US09150038B2
A printing device is provided with a printing unit configured to print an image on a sheet, a sheet discharge unit having a discharge tray and configured to discharge the sheet from the printing unit to the discharge tray, and a control unit configured to control the sheet discharge unit to execute a slow discharge process between two subsequent print jobs, the slow discharge process being a sheet discharge process in which sheet discharging ability of the sheet discharge unit is impaired.
US09150037B2
An individual sheet overlapping mechanism includes holding cylinders having paper edge holding mechanisms capable of holding a front edge portion in a conveying direction of a first individual sheet and that are provided rotatably along the conveying direction of the first individual sheet. The holding cylinders are configured to wrap the first individual sheet that has reached the holding cylinders around the holding cylinders by the paper edge holding mechanisms, release the first individual sheet at a timing when a second individual sheet has reached the holding cylinders, and stack the first individual sheet on the second individual sheet.
US09150035B2
A support member includes first portions. At least one of upstream and downstream guides includes second portions. The first and second portions are arranged in an orthogonal direction orthogonal to a conveyance direction. Each of the first and second portions extends in the conveyance direction and includes a support surface for supporting the recording medium. At least one of the first portions is positioned between two second portions of the second portions in the orthogonal direction. The two second portions are adjacent to each other in the orthogonal direction. Each of the first portions is at a different position from each of the second portions with respect to the orthogonal direction. Each of the first portions overlaps the second portions with respect to the conveyance direction.
US09150024B2
In a liquid containing vessel inserted in a −Y axis direction, a substrate support member includes a first engaging section engaging with the liquid containing vessel from a +Z axis direction side at a position more to the −Y axis direction side than a contact section of a substrate, a second engaging section engaging with a liquid containing section at a position more to a +Y axis direction side than the substrate and is provided more to a −Z axis direction side than the contact section, a first pressed section receiving a first pressing force with a component in the −Z axis direction at a position more to the −Y axis direction side than the contact section, and a second pressed section receiving a second pressing force with a component in the −Z axis direction at a position more to the +Y axis direction side than the contact section.
US09150021B2
A liquid ejecting head unit includes: a liquid ejecting head that has a fixing face to be used for attachment and that ejects a liquid from a nozzle; a head fixing member that has stiffness higher than that of the fixing face and that is secured to the fixing face on the liquid ejecting head; and a support member that has an attachment face to which the liquid ejecting head is attached through the head fixing member.
US09150016B2
A support substrate and a liquid ejecting element substrate are bonded to each other with an adhesive agent to manufacture a liquid ejection head. The support substrate is provided with a liquid supply port and a recess or through-hole in its main surface. The adhesive agent is applied onto the main surface of the support substrate by means of a roller holding the adhesive agent on its peripheral surface by moving the support substrate and the roller relative to each other such that the recess or through-hole faces the roller before the liquid supply port faces the roller.
US09150007B2
A device for retaining a print medium during printing according to various exemplary embodiments can include a print medium protector pocket having a front sheet, a back sheet, and an opening. The pocket may be adapted to receive therein through the opening a print medium. A plurality of retaining mechanisms may be cut into the back sheet for releasably attaching the print medium and holding the print medium relative to the back sheet during a printing operation. In various embodiments, a device for retaining a print medium during printing can include a reusable carrier assembly and an adhesive retaining mechanism. The adhesive retaining mechanism is temporarily attached to the carrier assembly to temporarily retain the print medium at any position on the carrier assembly during the printing operation.
US09150000B2
A method for making a transparent conductive element includes providing a carbon nanotube film. The carbon nanotube film includes a number of carbon nanotube wires in parallel with and spaced from each other and a number of carbon nanotubes in contact with adjacent two of the carbon nanotube wires. The carbon nanotube film is placed on a surface of a softened polymer substrate. The polymer substrate and the carbon nanotube film are stretched. The softened polymer substrate is solidified to maintain the stretched state of the carbon nanotube film.
US09149993B2
A method of making an elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure including (a) forming an elongate, composite-material, hollow core, (b) in association with such forming, preparing along the core's length an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, (c) in association with such preparing, creating, unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality, and (d) bonding the inner surface of the sleeve to the outer surface of the core.
US09149991B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for forming a composite structure. The apparatus comprises a bond assembly jig having a support plate, an anchor member attached to the support plate, and a block member connected to the anchor member such that the block member is permitted to move in a vertical direction. The bond assembly jig can be arranged within an autoclave and may further comprise a shroud that is arranged to shield the anchor member and the block member from the pressures exerted within the autoclave. The method is accomplished by assembling the anchor member and block member on the support plate, arranging the composite materials, placing a caul component over the composite materials and a shroud over the anchor member and block member, and applying heat and pressure to the bond assembly jig to cure the composite materials.
US09149989B2
The invention concerns a process for the layerwise production of a product comprising the steps of applying a layer of a hardenable material, wherein for example the process parameters of layer thickness and layer material are adjustable, selectively hardening predetermined regions of the applied layer on the basis of the geometrical data of the product, wherein for example the process parameters for the nature and level of the energy input are adjustable, repeating those steps until the geometry of the product has been produced in the form of hardened material, and finally removing the non-hardened material. Known processes suffer from the disadvantage that they do not afford variability in regard to the local properties of the product. The invention remedies that disadvantage insofar as at least one process parameter is altered during the production procedure in order to influence the grain size in a first region of the product in relation to a second region of the product.
US09149987B2
The present invention relates to a device for producing three-dimensional models by a layering technique, at least one print head (8) being provided for selective dispensing of at least one material onto a target surface in the form of droplets. The print head (8) is in engagement with a receptacle at two points spaced a distance apart, the position and alignment of the print head (8) relative to the target surface is steplessly adjustable in all spatial directions via these two points, and the receptacle and the target surface are movable in relation to each other.
US09149986B2
A three-dimensional printing apparatus including a chassis, a tank, an outer cover and a shielding module is provided. The tank is disposed at the chassis and adapted to be filled with a liquid forming material. The outer cover is pivoted on the chassis. The shielding module includes a pivot and a mask. The pivot is disposed on the chassis and beside the tank. The mask is winding on the pivot and connected with the outer cover. When the outer cover rotates to a first position and covers the tank, the mask is winding on the pivot. When the outer cover rotates to a second and exposes the tank, the outer cover pulls the mask out of the pivot, so that the mask covers the tank in order to shield the liquid forming material filled in the tank.
US09149982B2
A machine for continuously forming heat-reflective blanks is provided. The heat-reflective blanks each include a blank of sheet material and a thermal film patch coupled to the blank. The machine includes an intake station configured to align a first blank of sheet material and a second blank of sheet material for application of a first thermal film patch and a second thermal film patch, respectively. The intake station is further configured to maintain a spacing between the first blank and the second blank. The intake station includes adjustable hold-down bars for maintaining an alignment and the spacing of the first and second blanks. The machine also includes an applicator station configured to apply the first and second thermal film patches to the first and second blanks, respectively, to form a first heat-reflective blank and a second heat-reflective blank, and an ejection station configured to eject the heat-reflective blanks.
US09149973B2
An apparatus is disclosed that is used for making flexible tubing with annular corrugations from a sleeve of uncured rubber. The sleeve is positioned on a mandrel and radially expanded by fluid pressure into an external forming member that includes a plurality of annular discs loosely connected to a support and positioned in approximate axial alignment. A disc aligning tube is located around an axial length portion of the external forming member. While the sleeve is radially expanded, the aligning tube is slid in an axial direction to engage the discs and to urge any misaligned discs into accurate axial alignment.
US09149969B2
Apparatus for forming plastic preforms into plastic containers, with at least one blowing station arranged on a moving carrier, wherein the blowing station has a blow mould carrier for holding a blow mould and the blow mould carrier has a first blow mould carrier part and a second blow mould carrier part, wherein the second blow mould carrier part can be moved away from the first blow mould carrier part in order to open the blow mould for removal of a plastic container and/or for insertion of a preform, and wherein the second blow mould carrier part can be moved towards the first blow mould carrier part in order to transfer the blow mould into a closed state for forming the preform, wherein that the second blow mould carrier part has a lower density and/or strength than the first blow mould carrier part.
US09149965B2
A method for detecting an insert object in an injection-molded part pertains to an insert object that is fixedly connected to the injection-molded part during the injection molding by the insert object being placed in a cavity, which is surrounded by a mold wall of a mold, before the beginning of the injection-molding cycle. The mold wall includes at least one temperature or pressure sensor, which records and analyzes at least one measured value at at least one point in time during an injection-molding cycle. On the basis of the analysis, it is established whether an insert object was present at a specific location in the cavity during the injection-molding cycle. Finally, after it is ejected, the injection-molded part is sorted as an accepted part or a rejected part on the basis of the analysis of the measured value.
US09149964B2
Molded articles, such as a lens, are produced by multiple repetitions of a transfer process composed of the transformation step of bringing a transfer member (62) provided with a transfer configuration area consisting of the same configuration as that of a lens part with aspherical configuration or the configuration opposed to the lens part with aspherical configuration into contact with a photohardening resin to thereby transform the photohardening resin in conformity with the transfer configuration of the transfer member (62); the hardening step of irradiating at least a transformed area of the transformed photohardening resin with light by the use of a light irradiation unit (60) to thereby attain hardening; and the departing step of letting the photohardened resin and the transfer member depart from each other.
