US09251205B2
The method and system receive streaming data to be processed by a plurality of processing elements comprising one or more stream operators. One embodiment is directed to a method and a system for managing processing in a streaming application. A stream operator may select a delay pattern. The stream operator may compare one or more performance factors from the delay pattern to one or more optimal performance factors. The stream operator may delay the stream of tuples using the delay pattern if the performance factors are determined by the optimal performance factors.
US09251199B2
A cache and method of caching for a database are provided, in which the cache and the database are in the same state. Responsive to a query for data, the method extracts search terms from the query and maps filter settings to an appropriate format. The method also (a) outputs data retrieved from a cache, if there is a cache hit and (b) builds cache and retrieves the data from the database, if there is a cache miss. If there are multiple users and/or instances, the cache may be updated for all users and/or instances by determining whether all changes are to be committed, in which case the changes are pushed to all users and/or instances.
US09251195B2
A multi-master node model database management technology involves notifying a higher-level master node of a transaction minimum value as a minimum value of an implementation-underway transaction in a snapshot from a lower-level master node, comparing the transaction minimum value with minimum values retained by the respective master nodes and thus updating a node minimum value and a cluster minimum value. Then, the lower-level master node transmits a write set containing a shadow copy of its own database, a heap tuple map deployed on its own memory and the transaction minimum value to the higher-level master node, and the higher-level master node receiving the write set updates the database by use of the write set if the transaction minimum value is equal to or larger than the cluster minimum value, and aborts the write set if the transaction minimum value is smaller than the cluster minimum value.
US09251190B2
A computerized method for sharing removable storage media in a network, the method comprising associating, in an index entry, a first piece of removable storage media in a first storage device with at least a first storage policy copy and a second storage policy copy; copying, to the first piece of removable storage media, data associated with the first storage policy copy; and copying, to the first piece of removable storage media, data associated with the second storage policy copy.
US09251183B2
A method, computer program product and system for managing tenant-specific data sets in a multi-tenant system, by receiving a request to convert a data set in a physical data store from a first type of multi-tenant deployment to a second type of multi-tenant deployment, retrieving tenant identification metadata identifying a tenant making the request, modifying the data set in the physical data store based on the second type of multi-tenant deployment, and modifying metadata associated with an abstraction layer to allow the modified data set to be accessed.
US09251182B2
A method for supplementing structured information within a data system for entities based on unstructured data analyzes a document with unstructured data and extracts attribute values from the unstructured data for one or more entities of the data system. Entity records with structured information are retrieved from the data system based on the extracted attribute values. Entity references for corresponding entities of the data system are constructed based on a comparison of the retrieved entity records and the extracted attribute values. The entity references are linked to the corresponding entities within the data system, with the entity references including extracted attributes from the unstructured data for corresponding linked entities.
US09251169B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer-implemented method for creating a final mosaic image. The method includes receiving a main image from a database of images. The method includes generating a grid overlay having one or more grid cells, the grid overlay being coupled with the main image such that the one or more grid cells each include a portion of the main image to create one or more image cells. The method also determines a tint value for each of the one or more image cells. The method also includes receiving one or more tile images from the database of images, and positioning one of the one or more tile images into each of the one or more image cells to create one or more tiled cells. The method also comprises assigning the tile image positioned in each of the tiled cells the tint value determined for the image cell that each of the tile images has been positioned into to create a polished image.
US09251166B2
In one example embodiment, a method is illustrated as retrieving a plurality of search queries and defining relationships between search queries in the plurality of search queries based on semantic data associated with the search queries. A visual representation of the of the plurality of search queries may be generated and the visual representation may be partitioned into a plurality of tiles, each title representing a predefined portion of the visual representation.
US09251165B2
An approach is provided for automatically deploying an information technology (IT) system instance having hardware and software components. Based on components consisting of system context diagrams, component models, operational models, data flow diagrams, and use cases describing functional requirements of the IT system instance, an application model of the software components is generated. Based on the application model and the use cases, an infrastructure model of infrastructure components is generated. Based on the application model and the infrastructure model, a computer file in a markup language is generated. The computer file includes a design of the IT system instance and instructions for accessing library-stored assets specifying the hardware and software components. The computer file is exported to a deployment tool for an automatic deployment of the IT system instance based on carrying out the instructions to access the assets.
US09251150B2
An information processing device for managing information saved in a save location, including an authentication unit configured to manage first authentication information and second authentication information in association with each other, said first authentication information required to authenticate a client device requesting an operation relevant to the information, and said second authentication information required for authentication at said save location that saves the information; a save location monitor unit configured to monitor the information saved in the save location by using the second authentication information, and update index information of the information saved in the save location; and an information management unit configured to create a list of the information saved in the save location by using the index information of the information saved in the save location, and provide the list to the client device.
US09251148B2
An electronic device may include a processor and a blacklist database listing objects not to be displayed. The processor is to remove an object from a frame before the frame is sent to or received from an electronic device when the object is listed in the blacklist database. In an example, an electronic device can include logic to receive, in a processor, a frame to be sent to or received from an electronic device and logic to scan the frame to identify an object. The electronic device can also include logic to determine if the object is listed in a blacklist database. The electronic device further includes logic to modify the frame to remove the object when the object is listed in the blacklist database and logic to transfer the frame for processing.
US09251145B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a second computer device, data content sent from a first computer device. The data content includes a first set of user metadata and permission metadata. A second set of user metadata and permission metadata is created. Both the first set and the second set of user metadata and permission metadata are maintained with the data content. The second set of user metadata and permission metadata is used in place of the first set of user metadata and permission metadata. The first set of user metadata and permission metadata is restored prior to transmitting the data content. The data content is transmitted at least with the first set of user metadata and permission metadata.
US09251144B2
Some implementations disclosed herein provide techniques and arrangements to enable translating language characters in media content. For example, some implementations receive a user selection of a first portion of media content. Some implementations disclosed herein may, based on the first portion, identify a second portion of the media content. The second portion of the media content may include one or more first characters of a first language. Some implementations disclosed herein may create an image that includes the second portion of the media content and may send the image to a server. Some implementations disclosed herein may receive one or more second characters of a second language corresponding to a translation of the one or more first characters of the first language from the server.
US09251142B2
Interpretation from a first language to a second language via one or more communication devices is performed through a communication network (e.g. phone network or the internet) using a server for performing recognition and interpretation tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving an input speech utterance in a first language on a first mobile communication device; conditioning said input speech utterance; first transmitting said conditioned input speech utterance to a server; recognizing said first transmitted speech utterance to generate one or more recognition results; interpreting said recognition results to generate one or more interpretation results in an interlingua; mapping the interlingua to a second language in a first selected format; second transmitting said interpretation results in the first selected format to a second mobile communication device; and presenting said interpretation results in a second selected format on said second communication device.
US09251137B2
Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to enter text select text based upon the number of words in phrases of the text, upon the number of letters in words of the text, or upon other patterns of the text. The method may also involve indexing the selected text, matching text currently being entered by the user into an application to a portion of a segment of the indexed text, and entering a remaining portion of the segment of the indexed text into the application based upon the matching. In many embodiments, the text may be selected from the text entered into any of several applications. In a few embodiments, the text may be selected from sources specified by a user. In further embodiments, the sources may constitute data files.
US09251136B2
Techniques for managing big data include tagging of documents and subsequent retrieval using per-subject dictionaries having entries with some entries specially designated as entities. An entity indicates that the term in the entry has special meaning, e.g., brands (trademarks/service marks), trade names, geographic identifiers or other classes of terms. A dictionary may include a non-entity entry for a term and one or more entity entries, for different entity types. The entries may also include subject-determining-power scores. The subject-determining-power scores provide an indication of the descriptive power of the term with respect to the subject of the dictionary containing the term. The same term may have entries in multiple dictionaries with different subject-determining-power scores in each of the dictionaries. The entity distinctions for a term can then be used in tagging documents and processing retrieval requests.
US09251135B2
Methods and a system for calculating N-gram probabilities in a language model. A method includes counting N-grams in each page of a plurality of pages or in each document of a plurality of documents to obtain respective N-gram counts therefor. The method further includes applying weights to the respective N-gram counts based on at least one of view counts and rankings to obtain weighted respective N-gram counts. The view counts and the rankings are determined with respect to the plurality of pages or the plurality of documents. The method also includes merging the weighted respective N-gram counts to obtain merged weighted respective N-gram counts for the plurality of pages or the plurality of documents. The method additionally includes calculating a respective probability for each of the N-grams based on the merged weighted respective N-gram counts.
US09251122B2
A method for estimating a molecular mass parameter in a sample that includes at least one component of given molecular mass, comprising the steps consisting of passing the sample through a processing chain comprising a mass spectrometer with a MEMS or NEMS electromechanical sensor, in this way obtaining a signal representing the molecular mass parameter and estimating the molecular mass parameter by means of a signal processing device. The molecular mass parameter is defined on the basis of a parameter of time distribution of successive detections, by the MEMS or NEMS electromechanical sensor, of the adsorption of said component, and the estimation of the molecular mass parameter is made by Bayesian inference, on the basis of a direct analytical modeling of said signal according to the molecular mass parameter and to technical parameters of the processing chain comprising at least one technical parameter of the MEMS or NEMS electromechanical sensor.
US09251107B2
A method includes processing a direct memory access (DMA) descriptor in a DMA controller. The method includes storing first data of the DMA descriptor at an address that is identified by second data of the DMA descriptor.
US09251105B2
A method and system for transmitting an aggregated interrupt packet are described herein. The method includes sending metadata from a client device to a host device. The method also includes detecting at least two sets of data from the client device. Additionally, the method includes detecting an identifier for the client device. Furthermore, the method includes generating an aggregated interrupt packet in the client device that comprises the identifier and the at least two sets of data for the client device. The method also includes sending the aggregated interrupt packet from the client device to the host device.
US09251104B2
A computer program product is provided including computer readable program code for running an application on a computer having a display, wherein the application requires external network access. The computer program product further includes computer readable program code for determining a number of people gathered around the computer, and computer readable program code for automatically changing the network priority of the application as a function of the number of people determined to be gathered around the computer. The number of people gathered around the computer is preferably determined using a facial recognition module to analyze an image captured by a camera of the computer or using a speech recognition module to analyze sound captured by a microphone of the computer.
US09251099B2
Memory modules and authorization systems include a nonvolatile memory, an authentication engine configured to receive an initialization request from a user system, configured to generate a certification value based on device identifiers of devices includes in the user system in response to the initialization request and configured to control access to the nonvolatile memory based on the certification value, and a certification value storage configured to store the certification value.
US09251098B2
An apparatus for accessing an encrypted memory portion of a memory is provided. The apparatus includes a plurality of signature generators, wherein each signature generator of the plurality of signature generators is configured to generate a signature of a plurality of signatures depending on an instruction of a plurality of instructions, wherein each of the plurality of instructions is a processor instruction for controlling a processor. Moreover, the apparatus includes a key modifier for generating a processed key depending on a standard key and on the plurality of signatures. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a controller for accessing the encrypted memory portion of the memory, wherein the memory access controller is configured to employ the processed key to access the encrypted memory portion of the memory.
US09251092B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to hybrid address translation. An aspect of the invention includes receiving a first address, the first address referencing a location in a first address space. The computer searches a segment lookaside buffer (SLB) for a SLB entry corresponding to the first address; the SLB entry comprising a type field and an address field and determines whether a value of the type field in the SLB entry indicates a hashed page table (HPT) search or a radix tree search. Based on determining that the value of the type field indicates the HPT search, a HPT is searched to determine a second address, the second address comprising a translation of the first address into a second address space; and based on determining that the value of the type field indicates the radix tree search, a radix tree is searched to determine the second address.
US09251075B2
Various embodiments are provided for managing a global cache coherency in a distributed shared caching for a clustered file system (CFS). The CFS manages access permissions to an entire space of data segments by using the DSM module. In response to receiving a request to access one of the data segments, a calculation operation is performed for obtaining most recent contents of one of the data segments. The calculation operation performs one of providing the most recent contents via communication with a remote DSM module which obtains the one of the data segments from an associated external cache memory, instructing by the DSM module to read from storage the one of the data segments, and determining that any existing contents of the one of the data segments in the local external cache are the most recent contents.
US09251073B2
A multi core processor implements a cash coherency protocol in which probe messages are address-ordered on a probe channel while responses are un-ordered on a response channel. When a first core generates a read of an address that misses in the first core's cache, a line fill is initiated. If a second core is writing the same address, the second core generates an update on the addressed ordered probe channel. The second core's update may arrive before or after the first core's line fill returns. If the update arrived before the fill returned, a mask is maintained to indicate which portions of the line were modified by the update so that the late arriving line fill only modifies portions of the line that were unaffected by the earlier-arriving update.
US09251058B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for servicing storage requests for a non-volatile memory device. An interface module is configured to receive a storage request for a data set of a non-volatile memory device from a client. The data set is different from a block of the non-volatile memory device, and may have a length different from a block size of the non-volatile memory device. A block load module is configured to load data of at least the block size of the non-volatile memory device. A fulfillment module is configured to service the storage request using at least a portion of the loaded data.
US09251050B2
A method of managing resource allocations in a storage system provisioning system, including monitoring write applications that result in new storage block allocations during a current time slice, calculating a time remaining to exceed actual capacity of allocated storage blocks, if the calculated remaining time does exceed length of next time slice immediately transmitting an alert when an estimated number of future write requests exceeds a predetermined threshold, and if the calculated remaining time does exceed length of next time slice immediately transmitting an alert when an estimated number of future write requests exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein a duration of a time slice is set by a storage system administrator based upon a current storage library setup and a time required to arrange a new storage device when a thin provisioning device is going out of disk space.
US09251044B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for automating responses to expressions from an executing computer program. An automation object includes a plurality of expressions and corresponding responses, wherein at least one of the responses includes a response variable. A configuration object provides machine specific values for the response variables in the responses for a target computer on which the target computer program will execute. Compiled responses are generated by replacing the response variables in the responses with the machine specific values for the response variables provided in the configuration object for the target computer on which the target computer program will execute. The expressions in the automation object are processed to provide compiled responses for expressions received from the executing target computer program.
US09251041B2
A software testing system operative to test a software application comprising a plurality of software components, at least some of which are highly coupled hence unable to support a dependency injection, each software component operative to perform a function, the system comprising apparatus for at least partially isolating, from within the software application, at least one highly coupled software component which performs a given function, and apparatus for testing at least the at least partially isolated highly coupled software component.
US09251038B2
A remote debugging technique provides anonymity of program variables and selective debugging capability by providing a registration facility by which program variables are registered locally with a debugging module. An external program then communicates with the debugging modules and observes and/or modifies the program variables by specifying either an index or a variable name. The need to publish symbols is thereby averted and only the variables that a developer is interested in observing need be registered.
US09251035B1
A method for real-time analysis of results from a load test performed on a target website includes calculating first-level aggregated test results within each of a plurality of load server instances that generate a load on the target website. The first-level aggregated test results are calculated from data points received by each of the load server instances from the target website. The first-level aggregated test results include a sum of the data points, a count of the number of the data points, a sum of squares of the data points, and an average of the data points. A standard deviation result (STDEV) is calculated and chart is generated on a display via a graphical user interface. The chart provides a visual representation of a performance metric for the load test based on the standard deviation result.
US09251034B2
A computing device performance monitor may be configured to collect performance metric information regarding one or more monitored computing devices, and may assign condition point values to each metric. The performance monitor may generate a total of the condition point values, and use the total to determine an appropriate response.
US09251026B2
The embodiments provide an application diagnostics apparatus including an instrumentation engine configured to monitor one or more methods of a call chain of the application in response to a server request according to an instrumentation file specifying which methods are monitored and which methods are associated with a code extension, an extension determining unit configured to determine that at least one monitored method is associated with the code extension based on code extension identification information, a class loading unit configured to load the code extension from a resource file when the at least one monitored method associated with the code extension is called within the call chain, a code extension execution unit configured to execute one or more data collection processes, and a report generator configured to generate at least one report for display based on collected parameters.
US09251025B1
Systems and methods are provided herein that can facilitate the managed reliability of data storage, including management of device remanufacturing and masking from an operating system a failure or predicted failure of a device running on a computer or a networked cluster of computers having access to the device. The systems and methods may facilitate removal of a device by coordinating among computers or controllers in a network cluster the logical removal of a device. At a later time, a coordinated logical re-introduction of the device to the systems or computers from which the device was logically removed can be performed. This can be accomplished via a virtualization system that may include a device function driver (DFD), a device virtualization bus driver (DVBD), and a device management service (DMS).
US09251023B2
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing automated memory address recording in constrained random test generation for verification of processor hardware designs. A test generation program includes a built in feature to keep track of storage addresses used and to make the addresses available to the test definition. This built in feature of a constrained random test generator allows storage addresses used in the past to be accessed by the current instruction generation eliminating the requirement of deliberately establishing target addresses first. This allows separate test events to interact with the same storage addresses without having to write a special test.
US09251022B2
Embodiments relate to building, by a computing device, a pseudo-random dynamic instruction stream that comprises instructions configured to perform a transaction execution. The computing device may cause the transaction execution to be tested in a multi-processing system based on the instruction stream. A status of the test may be output to one or more output devices.
US09251021B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to asynchronously replicating data in a distributed computing environment. To achieve asynchronous replication, data received at a primary data store may be annotated with information, such as an identifier of the data. The annotated data may then be communicated to a secondary data store, which may then write the data and annotated information to one or more logs for eventual replay and committal at the secondary data store. The primary data store may communicate an acknowledgment of success in committing the data at the primary data store as well as of success in writing the data to the secondary data store. Additional embodiments may include committing the data at the secondary data store in response to receiving an instruction that authorizes committal of data through a identifier.
US09251019B2
A storage controller is configured to determine a reliability metric of a storage division of a solid-state storage medium based on one or more test read operations. The storage division may be retired based on the reliability metric and/or the age of the data on the storage division. A storage division comprising aged data may be marked for post-write reliability testing, which may comprise determining a post-write reliability metric in response to grooming and/or reprogramming the storage division. The storage controller may project the reliability metric of the storage division to the end of a predetermined data retention period. Portions of a storage divisions that exhibit poor reliability may be removed to improve the reliability of the storage division without taking the entire storage division out of service.
US09251000B2
Methods and apparatuses for combining error coding and modulation schemes are described herein. One or more methods include encoding data using linear error correcting code, modulating the encoded data, writing the modulated data to memory, and decoding the written data using a Viterbi algorithm and a linear error correcting code decoder.
US09250999B1
A method includes deploying non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) in a memory arrangement coupled to a CPU core of a computing device via a memory bus. The method further includes configuring the CPU core to conduct NVRAM read operations directly over the memory bus, and providing an I/O logic device to process write instructions initiated by the CPU core as a Direct Memory Access (DMA) write operation on the NVRAM.
US09250998B2
A method includes generating error detection information associated with data to be stored at a cache in response to determining that the data is clean. The method also includes storing the clean data at a first region of the cache. The method further includes generating error correction information associated with data to be stored at the cache in response to determining that the data is dirty. The method also includes storing the dirty data at a second region of the cache.
US09250988B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure a method and technique for allocating virtualization-based resources for resolving a problem report associated with a computing environment is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a problem report associated with a computing environment; determining a resource template from the problem report corresponding to the computing environment; determining whether a virtual machine is available from a virtualization-based resource pool based on the resource template; and responsive to determining that a virtual machine is available from the virtualization-based resource pool based on the resource template, utilizing the virtual machine for the problem report.
US09250984B2
A technique for message history display includes combining message histories for multiple different messaging services. A system constructed according to the technique may include, for example, a message history database; a history aggregation engine that aggregates message logs for storage in the message history database; and a history provisioning engine that provides an aggregated message log associated with the user from the message history database to a requesting device. A method according to the technique may include, for example, identifying a device in association with a user profile; providing an online platform that receives messages from and sends messages to the device; and creating an aggregated log from messages sent to and from the device.
US09250980B2
A system for parallel processing tasks by allocating the use of exclusive locks to process critical sections of a task. The system includes storing update information that is updated in response to acquisition and release of an exclusive lock. When processing a task which includes a critical section containing code affecting execution of the other task, an exclusive execution unit acquires an exclusive lock prior to processing the critical section. When the section has been processed successfully, the lock is released and update information updated. Meanwhile a second task, whose critical section does not contain code affecting execution of the other task may run in parallel, without acquiring an exclusive lock, via a nonexclusive execution unit. The nonexclusive execution unit determines that the second critical section has successfully completed if the update information has not changed during processing of the second critical section.
US09250978B2
A technique for implementing user-level read-copy update (RCU) with support for asynchronous grace periods. In an example embodiment, a user-level RCU subsystem is established that executes within threads of a user-level multithreaded application. The multithreaded application may comprise one or more reader threads that read RCU-protected data elements in a shared memory. The multithreaded application may further comprise one or more updater threads that perform updates to the RCU-protected data elements in the shared memory and register callbacks to be executed following a grace period in order to free stale data resulting from the updates. The RCU subsystem may implement two or more helper threads (helpers) that are created or selected as needed to track grace periods and execute the callbacks on behalf of the updaters instead of the updaters performing such work themselves.
US09250977B2
In an embodiment, a lock command is received from a thread that specifies a resource. If tier status in a nodal lock indicates the nodal lock is currently owned, an identifier of the thread is added to a nodal waiters list, and if the thread's lock wait indicator indicates that the thread owns the nodal lock, then a successful completion status is returned for the lock command to the thread after waiting until a next tier wait indicator in the nodal lock indicates that any thread owns a global lock on the resource. If the tier status indicates no thread holds the nodal lock, the tier status is changed to indicate the nodal lock is owned, and if a global waiters and holder list is empty, an identifier of a node at which the thread executes is added to the global waiters and holder list.
US09250971B2
A processing device includes a user interface module, the user interface module to connect the processing device with a user interface. A communication module connects the processing device with a mobile device. A communication link is established between the processing device and the mobile device. The communication module receives a request from the mobile device to display information. The user interface module sends the information for display on the user interface.
US09250970B2
A system and method for managing an application on a home user equipment, preferably a set-top-box of a television, the method includes the steps of: a) dividing the application into at least one separate executable application part, b) determining for each separate executable application part whether to be executed on the home user equipment or on a computational entity, located in the internet, c) transferring application parts determined for execution on the computational entity according to step b) to the computational entity, d) executing transferred application parts on the computational entity, e) returning results of executed application parts to the home user equipment, and f) synchronizing returned results with results of separate application parts executed on the home user equipment.
US09250956B2
A method and an apparatus that execute a parallel computing program in a programming language for a parallel computing architecture are described. The parallel computing program is stored in memory in a system with parallel processors. The system includes a host processor, a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled to the host processor and a memory coupled to at least one of the host processor and the GPU. The parallel computing program is stored in the memory to allocate threads between the host processor and the GPU. The programming language includes an API to allow an application to make calls using the API to allocate execution of the threads between the host processor and the GPU. The programming language includes host function data tokens for host functions performed in the host processor and kernel function data tokens for compute kernel functions performed in one or more compute processors, e.g GPUs or CPUs, separate from the host processor. Standard data tokens in the programming language schedule a plurality of threads for execution on a plurality of processors, such as CPUs or GPUs in parallel. Extended data tokens in the programming language implement executables for the plurality of threads according to the schedules from the standard data tokens.
US09250954B2
A system can include at least one offload processor having a data cache, the offload processor including a slave interface configured to receive write data and provide read data over a memory bus; an offload processor module including context memory and a bus controller connected to the slave interface; and logic coupled to the offload processor and context memory and configured to detect predetermined write operations over the memory bus; wherein the offload processor is configured to execute operations on data received over the memory bus, and to output context data to the context memory, and read context data from the context memory.
US09250941B2
A tenant database is used to add tenant ID information to the cloud network manager (CNM) address mapping table to isolate tenant specific data to a tenant ID to the CNM. The CNM maintains a mapping among a plurality of items in a plurality of databases or tables. The plurality of databases or tables include a tenant database (DB), a tenant identifier to tenant label (TITL) table, a top of rack server label to virtual switch link label (TLVLL) table, a label mapping table (SMVL), and a CNM address mapping table. The CNM uses the plurality of databases to generate tenant specific labels that are added to packets sent between tenant virtual machines (VMs).
US09250928B2
A first computing device running a particular program is used to identify a second computing device also running the particular program and substantially co-located with the first computing device in a particular physical location. The first computing device and the second computing device are joined in a use session of the particular program. It is determined that the first computing device displays a first user interface of the particular program at a first instance, the first user interface showing a first context in a plurality of contexts. The second computing device displays a second user interface of the particular program at the first instance based at least in part on the first user interface showing the first context, the second user interface showing a second context in the plurality of contexts.
US09250926B2
A platform extensibility framework may be provided. A visualization platform may register feature extensions and receive requests to create objects. The objects may be created according to drawing instructions provided by the visualization platform, an application requesting the object's creation, and/or at least one of the feature extensions.
US09250923B2
Techniques for computer system recovery which remotely restore a default partition to a recent state even when an operating system is functioning abnormally. In an example embodiment, a service center computer establishes a first network connection to a monitored computer system. The service center computer configures the monitored computer system to boot from a bootable image file in the monitored computer system and reboots the monitored computer system into an alternate operating system environment of the bootable image file. The service center computer establishes a second network connection to the monitored computer system to restore a recent backup image of the default partition from a diagnostic partition to a default partition. The service center computer establishes a third network connection to the monitored computer system and reboots the monitored computer system to the default partition.
US09250903B2
The invention relates to determining the status of run-time-instrumentation controls. The status is determined by executing a test run-time-instrumentation controls (TRIC) instruction. The TRIC instruction is executed in either a supervisor state or a lesser-privileged state. The TRIC instruction determines whether the run-time-instrumentation controls have changed. The run-time-instrumentation controls are set to an initial value using a privileged load run-time-instrumentation controls (LRIC) instruction. The TRIC instruction is fetched and executed. If the TRIC instruction is enabled, then it is determined if the initial value set by the run-time-instrumentation controls has been changed. If the initial value set by the run-time-instrumentation controls has been changed, then a condition code is set to a first value.
US09250900B1
Methods and systems for implementing a microprocessor with a selective register file bypass network are disclosed. Late bypasses are removed from a register file bypass network of a microprocessor design. One or more late bypasses are then added back to the register file bypass network based at least in part upon the results of analyzing a plurality of instructions that are to be processed in an instruction pipeline of the microprocessor. An electronic design for at least the register file bypass network is then generated with these one or more late bypasses that are added to the register file bypass network. Without incurring additional hardware or cost for the microprocessor design, one or more bypasses in the register file bypass network may be optionally shared among multiple free-riders, and an entire port stage may also be optionally bypassed to another port stage based upon one or more criteria.
US09250895B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for establishing subsystem boundaries is provided. The method may include receiving an input program having a plurality of subroutines and at least one inter-subroutine call. The method may include generating a graph having a plurality of nodes and at least one edge, wherein the at least one edge includes a first end connected to a first node and a second end connected to a second node. The method may include assigning an edge weight to the at least one edge wherein the edge weight is based on a number of second ends received by the second node. The method may include determining, based on the assigned edge weight, a distance value between each pair of nodes. The method may include generating a grouping of nodes based on the determined distance value between each pair of nodes.
US09250892B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for diagnosing consistency of a software cluster are provided herein. The system includes a deployment manager configured to function as a master node of the software cluster, a plurality of nodes connected to the deployment manager, and an electronic device or devices registered with the deployment manager. The deployment manager can be configured to generate a master matrix barcode and each of the plurality of nodes can be configured to generate a node matrix barcode. The electronic device(s) may be associated with a system administrator and may also be installed with application software. Embodiments may allow the system administrator to encode, manage and analyze diagnostic information of the nodes in the software cluster utilizing the master matrix barcode and the node matrix barcode in an efficient manner.
US09250889B2
Assigning severity to a software update, including: receiving, by an update manager, version information for a software application from a computing system, the version information describing a version of the software application installed on the computing system; determining, by the update manager, a severity level of one or more available updates for the software application in dependence upon the version information and update version information; and providing, by the update manager to the computing system, the severity level for each of the one or more available updates.
US09250886B2
A method for optimizing provisioning workflows in cloud computing is provided. The method comprises determining a time coefficient for each resource type or aggregated resource types which define the installation time of a current workflow; accessing the current workflow and creating a tree topology based on the current workflow which defines serialized and parallelized provisioning steps; dividing the tree topology into independent sub-paths; determining a timing condition for an execution time of an optimized workflow; creating an optimized workflow template maintaining the timing condition by: selecting cheapest installation methods and cheapest resources; and reducing the parallelization of the tree topology; creating the optimized workflow by merging the optimized workflow template with data and the resource types of the current workflow.
US09250884B2
A method, system, and computer program product for cloud-based deployments of software applications that are monitored for compliance with regulatory requirements. One exemplary method commences upon receiving an indication of a compliance corpus such as HIPPA or SOX, then mapping the compliance corpus to one or more predetermined configurations of a virtual compliance platform. Any of the particular predetermined configurations include steps, operations, and/or rules for provisioning infrastructure (e.g., using cloud-resident resources). After provisioning the virtual compliance platform based on the predetermined configuration, the provisioning operations further deploys a compliance monitor. The compliance monitor encapsulates the software application within the compliance monitor so as to monitor and/or log the operation and performance of the software application with respect to the compliance regulations. In some cases, a virtual compliance platform includes a virtual machine.
US09250882B2
The invention refers to technical methods and systems to easily provide existing software applications, for example Android applications built for In-App Billing with Google Play application programming interface (“API”), with compatibility with other alternative payment platforms, preferably direct carrier billing, with no additional development effort.
US09250881B1
An object has an unresolved symbol corresponding with a direct first function call in a first module of the object. A loader receives a request to resolve the symbol and identifies a callee function called by the first function call, identifies a second module in which the callee function is located, and determines whether the function call corresponds with one or more properties of two or more properties. The loader returns a first callee function entry point associated with a first property when the first function call has the first property. The loader returns a second callee function entry point associated with a second property when the first function call has the second property. The first and second callee function entry points are for storing in a program linkage table. The request can be received when the first function call is first invoked or when the first module is loaded.
US09250876B2
A method includes inspecting function summaries generated during a static analysis of a program and identifying a set of function summaries for a same method that have structural similarities. The method includes replacing the set of structurally similar summaries with a coarse summary. The method further includes using the coarse summary in subsequent static analysis operations. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed.
US09250875B1
Embodiments describe a computer implemented method of compiling application source code into application object code. A compiler generates application object code having a plurality of table of contents TOC placeholder locations for a potential TOC pointer value command within a calling function. A first function call site of the calling function is corresponded to a first TOC placeholder location. A second function call site of the calling function is corresponded to a second TOC placeholder location.
US09250873B2
A method for the computer-aided generation of at least one part of an executable control program, particularly a measuring, control, regulating, and/or calibration program, for controlling a control system having at least one electronic processor unit is provided. The functionality of the control program is described at least partially in at least one graphical model and the graphical model is divided in hierarchical levels into submodels. A submodel can be divided nested into submodels of a lower hierarchical level, whereby values for options for the compiling of the graphical model to program code are preset and program code is generated from the model co-compiled to the executable control program. Values for options for the compiling of the graphical model to program code and to the executable control program can be preset thereby granularly with the automatic avoidance of conflicting presettings of values for these options.
US09250865B2
A method, apparatus, and/or computer program product performs selective speculative class-based optimization through the use of a type propagation analysis of class. Responsive to a determination that the type of class is not a fixed type, a determination is made as to whether the class is sub-classed. Responsive to a determination the class is not sub-classed, a virtual synthetic property method is created. The virtual synthetic property method is accommodated in an enhanced java virtual machine using a stack frame type. The stack frame type has associated metadata for throwing an exception and an invisibility property. The virtual synthetic property method, along with a virtual guard, is inlined, and a slow path is created. The slow path handles executions of the virtual synthetic property method when sub-classes of the class, which override an implementation of the virtual synthetic property method, are loaded in the future.
US09250856B2
One or more controller may extract voice commands from retrieved web content, format the web content according to vehicle computing system (VCS) specific formatting information, provide the formatted web content for display by the VCS, and update the recognized voice commands of the VCS according to the extracted voice commands. A server may identify whether a received web request for web content is directed to a vehicle sub-domain for providing an in-vehicle-specific version of the content, identify whether the received web request is for presentation of web content via a VCS, and redirect the web request to the vehicle sub-domain when the request is not directed to the vehicle sub-domain and is for presentation via the VCS.
US09250854B2
User interface virtualization describes a technique for providing a user with access to one computing device from another computing device, while translating the ergonomics of one computer's user interface style into the ergonomics of the other's. An agent running on a remote desktop collaborates with a corresponding client running on a client machine that accepts a “touch and swipe” style input. The agent and client exchange user interface metadata and user interface input events and translate the exchanged information to provide native graphical user interface elements (at the client machine) and simulated user actions (at the remote desktop). The agent running on the remote desktop may use an interface interaction API or library to programmatically manipulate the user interface of the remote desktop responsive and act as a proxy for the corresponding client.
US09250852B2
An information processing apparatus, a screen output system, a screen output control method, and a program control output are disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes an image acquiring unit, a differential region extracting unit, a designation accepting unit, and an image output unit. The image acquiring unit acquires a first image to be output to a first display. The differential region extracting unit extracts a differential region that differs between the first image and a second image to be output to a second display. The designation accepting unit accepts a designation of whether to output each differential region to the second display. The image output unit incorporates a portion of the first image that corresponds to a differential region for which a designation to output has been accepted into the second image and outputs the updated second image to the second display.
US09250848B2
Disclosed are methods of allocating tasks for a print job in a multi-threaded system. One method determines a utilisation measure of at least one of a plurality of intermediate data generating threads, and a complexity limit of a intermediate data generation task. The complexity limit is decreased if the determined utilisation measure of the intermediate data generating thread is under a predetermined threshold. The complexity limit limits a processing load of the intermediate data generation task to be allocated to the intermediate data generating thread. The method then compares the processing load of the intermediate data generation task to be allocated with the determined complexity limit, and allocates the intermediate data generation task to the intermediate data generating thread for processing in an event that the processing load of the intermediate data generation task satisfies the complexity limit.
US09250834B2
According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided methods of decomposing and modifying a bitmap image before it is rendered by an output device. Segments of a print image are determined by an aptly programmed processor. In a bitmap driver process, dimensions and location of an area on each print image is processed so as to form objects that can be deleted, modified, or replaced. The process allows for the addition of objects such as tracking or security and the processing of objects to interpret the data found, remove it, and possibly replace it with data based on what was read. These modified objects are embedded in the output bitmap image without increasing its size by reusing dimensions and location of selected areas of the print image.
US09250830B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing data on storage nodes. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a file to be stored across a plurality of storage nodes each including a cache. The is stored by storing portions of the file each on a different storage node. A first portion is written to a first storage node's cache until determining that the first storage node's cache is full. A different second storage node is selected in response to determining that the first storage node's cache is full. For each portion of the file, a location of the portion is recorded, the location indicating at least a storage node storing the portion.
US09250824B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backing up method, device, and system for a virtual machine. The backing up method for a virtual machine includes a backup server mounting a snapshot initial volume of a to-be-backed-up original volume of a virtual machine in a primary storage device to the backup server, creating an initialization backup volume on a backup storage device and mounting the initialization backup volume to the backup server, and backing up an original data block of the original volume to the initialization backup volume.
US09250820B2
A system and method for storing infrequently accessed data with reduced power consumption. In one embodiment, a solid state drive (SSD) includes flash memory and environmental data logging circuitry. The SSD is shut off or operated in a sleep mode to reduce power consumption, and turned on or transitioned to an active mode as needed when data on the SSD is to be accessed, or when a calculation, based on a number of erase cycles previously performed in the flash memory and on a temperature history of the SSD indicates that a data refresh may be needed to prevent data corruption in the SSD, due to data retention limitation of the nonvolatile memory in the SSD.
US09250819B2
Mechanisms are provided for optimizing random access in a storage system. According to various embodiments, an access pattern may be identified for a plurality of data segments stored in a first arrangement on a storage medium. Each of the plurality of data segments may be stored at a respective first storage location on the storage medium in the first arrangement. The access pattern may indicate an order in which the data segments are likely to be retrieved from the storage medium. The plurality of data segments may be stored in a second arrangement on the storage medium based on the identified access pattern. Each of the plurality of data segments may be stored at a respective second storage location on the storage medium in the updated arrangement.
US09250811B1
Techniques for implementing a data queuing and/or caching scheme for optimizing data storage are described herein. Data write requests are received and processed by at least queuing the requests and/or associated data for recording upon one or more data storage devices. The order within the queue, as well as the order in which the queued requests are serviced, may, in some embodiments, be optimized. The stored data are verified by determining the position of a write pointer implemented by the one or more data storage devices relative to the contents and/or position of the queued data requests.
US09250809B2
One or more storage systems are connected to one or more storage boxes comprising multiple storage devices. Multiple storage areas provided by one or more storage boxes include an allocated area, which is a storage area that is allocated to a virtual volume, and an empty area, which is a storage area that is not allocated to any logical volume. Multiple owner rights corresponding to multiple storage areas are set in one or more storage systems. A storage system having an empty area owner right changes an empty area to the allocated area by allocating the empty area. In a case where a configuration change (a relative change in the number of storage boxes with respect to the number of storage systems) is performed, a first storage system that exists after the configuration change sets, in the first storage system, either more or fewer owner rights than the owner rights, which have been allocated to the first storage system before the configuration change.
US09250804B2
An electronic device detects erroneous key selection entries or inaccurate actuation of a keypad. The device has a keypad with aligned keys. Each of the keys is partitioned into two sensor sub regions. A first one of the sub-regions includes at least a first sensor and a second one of the sub-regions includes a second sensor. A processor with a keypad sensor inputs is selectively coupled to the first and second sensors of each of the sub-regions. The second sensor of the first key and a proximal first sensor of an adjacent second key are coupled to a common keypad sensor input to provide indistinguishable sub-regions of adjacent keys. The processor is programmed to detect an erroneous key selection entry when only a key actuation signal is provided from the common keypad sensor.
US09250799B2
Provided is a control method for an information input device capable of facilitating an operation input performed by a user. The control method for an information input device includes: acquiring a moving distance of an object when a user performs a movement operation for moving the object on a detection surface of a touch sensor for detecting a position of the object on the detection surface; acquiring a value regarding an operation mode of the movement operation; and outputting a value calculated based on the acquired moving distance and the acquired value regarding the operation mode, as an operation input amount exhibited in the movement operation performed by the user.
US09250796B2
A video editing system includes dragging and dropping video segments within a graphical user interface. These actions are used to create a compiled video from the video segments, and are optionally performed using a touch sensitive display. Some embodiments include a filter that can be dragged across a video during presentation of the video. As the filter is dragged, a first part of the displayed video is seen with the filter applied while a second part of the displayed video is seen without application of the filter. The boundary between the first part and the second part is optionally responsive to a pointing device, such as a touch sensitive display. The video editing system may be included in a mobile device that is also configured to record the video using a camera.
US09250790B2
Information processing device, method of processing information, and computer program storage device
An information processing device, method and computer program storage device that cooperate to handle different user interface situations differently. An exemplary device detects an external object as being in a touch state when and external object is in contact with a detection surface, and an adjacent state when the external object is within a predetermined distance from said detection surface but not in contact with said detection surface. A processor, when operating in a first mode, processes the touch state differently than the adjacent state. Also, the processor when operating in a second mode, processes said adjacent state as if it was the touch state.
US09250789B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus control method and storage medium
A user interface technique with excellent operability for displaying an object to be selected upright for an operator who operates a display screen of a display device from any direction. For this purpose, when the operator touches the display screen with his/her index finger, menu icons are displayed on a circumference with the touch position as a center, and with the central position of the circle as a lower position, at equal intervals. At this time, when the operator touches the display screen with his/her thumb while touching the display screen with his/her index finger, it is determined that the operator exists on an extension line on the thumb touch position side defined with the two touch positions. Then the respective menu icons are rearranged so as to be displayed upright from the operator.
US09250764B2
A method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for enabling the organization, presentation and selection of icons related to information technology processes. In a first version, icons related to individual information technology processes are associated with an enclosing icon displayed by a computer. The user may direct the computer to display or cease displaying the icons by selecting the enclosing icon. In a second version the enclosing icon may be associated with another enclosing icon, wherein icons are organized into a presentation hierarchy. In a third version, the icons may be personalized by associating textual, graphical and/or photographic data as provided by the user.
US09250761B2
Described herein are techniques for automatically forming groups of application windows. The techniques may be performed with a computing device executing a windowing system, the windowing system having a user interface element that can be interacted with by a user to manage applications executing on the computing device. Each application may correspond to a separate process and application window. It may be determined that an operation has occurred that will evict the application windows of target applications from the display, and in response an application group may be automatically formed. The application group may have indicia of the evicted target applications. The application group may be provided to the user interface element, and when the user interface element is interacted with by the user the user interface element displays user-selectable graphic application indicators for both the application group and applications other than the target applications.
US09250756B2
A touch sensor integrated type display device includes gate lines, a gate insulating film, data lines formed to cross over the gate lines, thin film transistors formed in pixel regions, a first passivation layer that covers the thin film transistors, first electrodes disposed on the first passivation layer along the data lines with the gate lines interposed therebetween, a second passivation layer covering the first electrodes, pixel electrodes that are formed in the pixel regions to partially overlap the first electrodes, and second electrodes formed on the second passivation layer in parallel with the gate lines, each of the plurality of second electrodes is disposed between neighboring pixel electrodes with the gate lines interposed therebetween.
US09250755B2
A touch display having advanced-fringe-field-switching liquid crystal structure, including a pixel cell and a multiplexer circuit, wherein the multiplexer circuit is used to couple the pixel cell with a source driver unit to provide a fringe-field-switching display function during a display period, and couple the pixel cell with a touch detection unit to provide a touch detection function during a touch detection period.
US09250754B2
Trackpad apparatus and computing devices including trackpad apparatus are disclosed. In an example implementation, a trackpad apparatus includes a capacitive touch-sensing pattern disposed on a top surface of the trackpad apparatus and a capacitive pressure-sensing pattern disposed below the capacitive touch-sensing pattern. The trackpad apparatus also includes at least one controller. The at least one controller and the capacitive touch-sensing pattern are collectively configured to detect location-specific reductions in charge coupling in the capacitive touch-sensing pattern resulting from charge being shunted out of the capacitive touch-sensing pattern by one or more electrically conductive objects being placed in electrical contact with the top surface of the trackpad apparatus. In the example trackpad apparatus, the at least one controller and the capacitive pressure-sensing pattern are collectively configured to detect location-specific changes in charge coupling in the capacitive pressure-sensing pattern resulting from pressure being applied to the top surface of the trackpad apparatus.
US09250749B2
There is provided a portable optical touch system including a first image sensing module, a second image sensing module, a connecting device, a communication interface and a processing circuit. The two image sensing modules have partially overlapped field of views and the partially overlapped field of views is for defining a touch region. The connecting device is configured to adjust or fix a distance between the first and second image sensing modules. When an object is in the touch region, the processing circuit calculates a position of the object according to images of the object acquired by the two image sensing modules and outputs information of the position of the object through the communication interface.
US09250747B2
A touchless input device has image sensors on the side of a surface to capture the positions and movement of fingers or any visible objects working near or on the surface. Embodiments include touchless data entry keyboards, touchless pointing devices, and touchless screens. It provides better performance, finer resolution, and more clearly defined action space than infrared beam based touchless input devices. In particular, one embodiment merges the space for data entry and the space for cursor movement into one and reduces the number of devices and working space needed by users.
US09250741B2
A method, a device and a mobile terminal for 3D operation control of a touch screen are disclosed. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring capacitance values of at least two acquiring points in a motion trajectory formed by a finger or a conductor moving in a touch screen sensing space; calculating coordinates of the acquiring points on the X-axis, the Y-axis and the Z-axis respectively according to the capacitance values of the acquiring points to obtain 3D coordinates of the acquiring points; and determining the motion trajectory according to the 3D coordinates of the at least two acquiring points and executing a corresponding operation. In this way, the purpose of identifying a 3D gesture can be achieved to enrich the operations of the mobile terminal.
US09250736B2
The present disclosure provides a capacitive in-cell touch panel and a display apparatus, wherein touch sensing electrodes are set on a color filter substrate, a common electrode layer connected as a whole plane on a TFT array substrate is divided into strips to be used as touch driving electrodes, and metal driving electrodes directly electrically connected to the corresponding touch driving electrodes are set on the TFT array substrate so as to reduce resistance of the touch driving electrodes. The embodiments of the disclosure can save the production cost and improve the production efficiency. Moreover, the touch function and the display function are driven in a time division manner, and thus the production cost can be further reduced, and the picture quality and touch accuracy can be enhanced.
US09250734B2
The use of one or more proximity sensors in combination with one or more touch sensors in a multi-touch panel to detect the presence of a finger, body part or other object and control or trigger one or more functions in accordance with an “image” of touch provided by the sensor outputs is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more infrared (IR) proximity sensors can be driven with a specific stimulation frequency and emit IR light from one or more areas, which can in some embodiments correspond to one or more multi-touch sensor “pixel” locations. The reflected IR signal, if any, can be demodulated using synchronous demodulation. In some embodiments, both physical interfaces (touch and proximity sensors) can be connected to analog channels in the same electrical core.
US09250726B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a touch display and an electronic apparatus. The touch display comprises a display device; a touch device, positioned on a display surface side of the display device, and the touch device comprising a touch-sensitive layer; a shielding circuit layer, disposed between the touch-sensitive layer and the display device; and a transparent insulating layer, disposed between the touch-sensitive layer and the shielding circuit layer, wherein the shielding circuit layer and the touch-sensitive layer are equipotential. The electronic apparatus comprises the touch display.
US09250725B1
A tensioning system includes a layer of a device and a flexible overlay film that is configured to cover the layer of the device. A tensioning mechanism is configured to tension the flexible overlay film against the layer of the device throughout a periphery. The tensioning mechanism also is configured to allow movement of the flexible overlay film in two dimensions.
US09250720B2
A method and apparatus for filtering pressure data from a pressure-sensitive device is disclosed. A computer implemented method for filtering pressure data from a pressure-sensitive device comprises receiving, from a pressure sensitive device, a raw pressure value for a stroke, filtering the raw pressure value for the stroke to determine a filtered pressure value, and computing a width of a stroke based on the filtered pressure value.
US09250715B2
A portable electronic device having an input device for receiving a gesture based input from a user is used to control a navigation operation of an appliance. The portable electronic device receives via the input device the gesture based input and uses one or more parameters stored in a memory of the portable electronic device and one or more characteristics associated with the gesture based input to cause the portable electronic device to transmit a navigation step command to thereby control the navigation operation of the appliance.
US09250713B2
Control exposure techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a determination is made by a computing device as to which of a plurality of controls correspond to one or more inputs detected using one or more magnetometers, cameras, or microphones. A result of the determination is exposed by the computing device to one or more applications that are executed by the computing device.
US09250706B1
A system and method for creating a unique signature, discrete from underpinning symbols, using a template having a plurality of symbols in an array and a continuous line connecting a defined order of a sequence of symbols on the template, the continuous line connecting all symbols in the sequence, the line forming a signature, discrete from the symbols and the template of symbols. The user selectively chooses the sequence of symbols defined by a name, nickname, username or ID number. The line has a plurality of segments, each having a span fillable with a graphic pattern and a plurality of colors. In one embodiment, the unique signature is created electronically by inputting the defined order of the sequence of symbols. When the user is a signatory to a document inserts the unique signature into the document, the unique signature indicates the document has been signed by the user.
US09250704B2
First a standard image to which a link is defined is displayed. If a user operates a input device and if the viewpoint enters into the first link boundary, and if the information indicating that a resume operation is required does not exist the first frame of moving image data is read out and displayed on the display device as a still image. If the viewpoint enters into the second link boundary, playing back and displaying of the moving image and is started. If the viewpoint moves out from the second link boundary, a frame displayed when the playback of the moving image is suspended is displayed as a still image and the resume point is stored. If the viewpoint moves out of the first link boundary, a standard image is displayed.
US09250696B2
An apparatus comprises a reference voltage bias generator configured to generate a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. During a low supply mode, the first reference voltage is equal to a supply voltage potential and the second reference voltage is equal to a ground potential. During a high supply mode, the first reference voltage is equal to a first fraction times the supply voltage potential and the second reference voltage is equal to a second fraction times the supply voltage potential. The apparatus further includes a reference voltage booster coupled to the reference voltage bias generator, wherein the reference voltage booster is configured to generate the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage with increased drive capability.
US09250693B2
An external memory power control apparatus and method capable of controlling power of an external memory inserted into a mobile terminal. The external memory power control apparatus includes an external memory power switch for switching between a power supply and an external memory to supply or block power for the external memory; and a controller, when ‘power-on’ is selected on the mobile terminal, for checking and notifying operability of the external memory inserted into the mobile terminal after completing booting while the external memory power switch turned off, wherein the controller may selectively turn on/off the external memory power switch depending on operability of the external memory.
US09250691B2
A method, apparatus and system for power management in a mobile computing device is provided. In one aspect, the mobile computing device comprises a display with a backlight that is power by a power supply under the control of a processor. The mobile computing device is also configured to execute a web browser or other application that access a network resource. Activation of the backlight is controlled in coordination with the network resource in order to manage drain of power from the power supply.
US09250687B1
A modular data storage system uses CPU blades to communicate with remote clients to function as a file server to those clients. The files are store on solid-state data storage blades using, e.g., flash memory. A crossbar switch connects the CPU blades and the data storage blades. The system can provide access time, power consumption, reliability, maintainability, and other advantages over prior art file servers using disk shelves.
US09250685B2
Disclosures related to waking a sleeping device while minimizing active components needed to receive a remote wakeup request. In one aspect, devices having an RF tuner, may be configured to detect a digital or an analog signal variation or change in RF signal characteristics. Further, the variation or change may be interpreted as a wakeup signal.
US09250684B1
In some implementations, a system administrator can specify a maximum amount of power for a data center or a rack of servers. If the data center or rack consumes more than a threshold amount of power, the data center or rack can be put into power capping mode. Once in power capping mode, servers in the data center or rack can be power capped. The amount of power at which a server is capped can be dynamically determined based on the amount of discretionary power available to distribute among the power capped servers in the rack or data center and the amount of power that the server consumes relative to other servers in the data center or rack. Once power consumption in the data center or rack falls below a threshold level, power capping for the data center or rack can be disabled.
US09250680B2
A method and apparatus for power-efficiency management in a virtualized cluster system. The virtualized cluster system includes a front-end physical host and at least one back-end physical host, and each of the at least one back-end physical host comprises at least one virtual machine and a virtual machine manager. Flow characteristics of the virtualized cluster system are detected at a regular time cycle, a power-efficiency management policy is generated for each of at least one back-end physical host based on the detected flow characteristics, and the power-efficiency management policies are performed. The method can detect the real-time flow characteristics of the virtualized cluster system and make the power-efficiency management policies thereupon to control the power consumption of the system and perform admission control on the whole flow, thereby realizing optimal power saving while meeting the quality of service requirements, so that a virtualized cluster system with high power-efficiency is provided.
US09250676B2
The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and devices used to protect data in a storage device. In one aspect, a method includes, performing a soft power fail operation on a section of the device, the operation including: (1) signaling a power test condition to a first controller on the storage device; (2) providing one or more controllers with power from an energy storage device, where the energy storage device is distinct from a power supply used during normal operation; (3) signaling a power fail condition to the one or more controllers on the storage device, where the one or more controllers communicate with the first controller and correspond to said section of the storage device, and where, in response to the power fail condition, each of the one or more controllers performs a data hardening operation; and (4) resuming normal operation on said section of the storage device.
US09250661B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a sensor, a touch screen and a display for decreasing damage possibility of the touch screen. The touch sensor comprises a horizontal conducting layer, a conductive bridge having two ends respectively connected with one horizontal conducting layer, and a vertical conducting layer, the conductive bridge overlapping with the vertical conducting layer and being spaced from the vertical conductive layer by an insulating layer; the vertical conducting layer comprises at least one insulating zone provided at a first designated position; a distance of two corresponding end points in a width direction of the conductive bridge of the projection zone, which projection zone is a normal projection zone of the at least one insulating zone on the conductive bridge, is not less than a width of the conductive bridge.
US09250656B2
A cover window for a display device includes a display area and a non-display area, the cover window including a frame member disposed corresponding to the non-display area, and a protective member disposed on the frame member corresponding to the display area and the non-display area.
US09250637B2
A temperature control device includes a temperature detector, a difference operation unit, a controller, a saturation processing circuit unit, a rewritable storage unit, and a conversion unit. The difference operation unit operates a digital value corresponding to a difference value between a detected temperature value and a target temperature. The controller calculates a manipulated variable using the digital value operated by the difference operation unit. The saturation processing circuit unit includes a digital circuit to limit an output value of the controller to a pre-set upper limit value. The rewritable storage unit stores the upper limit value read from a storage area of the rewritable storage unit and input into the saturation processing circuit unit. The conversion unit converts the output value of the saturation processing circuit unit into an analog signal to output the converted value as a control command value to the heater.
US09250631B2
A continuous flow regulator for vehicle heating systems includes a body configured to be connected in-line with coolant flowing through the heating coil of the heating system. A spring biased ball valve assembly is disposed in the body and is configured to restrict flow through the regulator in response to increasing flow rate of coolant and to open flow through the regulator in response to decreasing flow rate of coolant. Flow rate of coolant is therefore continuously adjusted and regulated to protect the heater core from corrosion due to high coolant flows therethrough.
US09250629B2
A helicopter is provided and includes an air frame formed to accommodate a pilot, flight control elements disposed on the airframe to generate lift and thrust in accordance with control commands issued by the pilot and a current control mode, a sensor disposed on the airframe to sense helicopter proximity to terrain and obstacles and a flight computer configured to change the current control mode based on sensed helicopter proximity to the terrain and the obstacles.
US09250624B2
The invention relates to an industrial robot and a method for programming an industrial robot, for which the industrial robot is guided manually to a virtual surface (25) in the room, at which point the industrial robot is selected such that it cannot be guided any further manually. Next, that force (F) and/or torque acting on the industrial robot when an attempt is made to guide the industrial robot further manually is ascertained and stored, despite reaching the virtual surface (25).
US09250620B2
A method of designing, presenting, generating, and fabricating custom implants by obtaining a 3D image of a site to receive an implant, simulating volumetric changes of the site, generating a virtual 3D implant that effects the volumetric changes of the site, and fabricating a real 3D implant that includes the volumetric changes. A method of designing, presenting, generating, and implanting custom implants by obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) image of a site to receive an implant, simulating volumetric changes of the site, generating a virtual 3D implant that effects volumetric changes of the site, and injecting or infusing a gel or semi-solid implant into a patient to effect the volumetric changes. A method of implanting a custom implant in a patient. A method of correcting disfigurement in a patient. A method of replacing a disc in a patient's back. An implant fabricated by this method.
US09250611B2
An athletic device is worn by a participant during an athletic event (e.g., a race). In one example, a race course is provided with a plurality of mats or signal devices along the race course. The mats may have antennas and generate a magnetic field. The device may include a chip system having an RFID tag and a display. As the participant progress along the course, the tag is triggered at each mat and race data may be displayed on the device. Data relating to a location of the participant may also be provided to the participant during the athletic event.
US09250606B2
A drum unit is provided. The drum unit includes a frame, a photosensitive drum that is rotatably supported by the frame, a contact member that is held to the frame and that contacts a circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum. The circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum has an image forming area on which an electrostatic latent image is formed and a non-image forming area that is adjacent to the image forming area. The contact member is in surface-contact with the non-image forming area and is not contacting with the image forming area.
US09250601B2
A developing cartridge is provided. The developing cartridge includes a housing which accommodates developer therein, a receiving member provided which couples with a force output member of an image forming apparatus to receive a driving force, a developing roller which rotates by the driving force received by the receiving member; a detectable rotary member having a first detectable portion and a second detectable portion and rotates by the driving force from a first rotational position where the first detectable portion is detected by a detection member provided in the image forming apparatus to a second rotational position where the second detectable portion is detected by the detection member, and a cut-off mechanism which cuts off a transmission of the driving force from the receiving member to the detectable rotary member in a state where the detectable rotary member is positioned in the second rational position.
US09250599B2
An auto tray switching method that is invoked when a misfeed occurs includes automatically switching to a different paper tray that has appropriate paper stock to continue a job. A misfeed signal is indicated only if the tray in which the misfeed occurred is selected by a user for another job.
US09250598B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus capable of preventing a paper jam in an arc-shaped sheet passing path for turning around a sheet and transporting the sheet in a double-sided transporting path. In this apparatus, a double-sided sheet passing path is formed so as to include: an arc-shaped interval that causes the sheet to turn around and to be transported to a registration sensor on an upstream side in the transport direction of a sheet and that includes the registration sensor as one end point; and an interval that transports the sheet having passed between ADU transport rollers, obliquely downward. A single-sided sheet passing path is formed so as to include an interval that transports the sheet having passed over the registration sensor in a substantially horizontal direction.
US09250595B1
A method for controlling an electrophotographic printing system to print digital image data for an image region. An image region database stores data characterizing a plurality of reference image regions, each reference image region having one or more associated system control parameters that are appropriate for use in printing the reference image region. The system control parameters can include parameters related to correcting color registration errors. The image region to be printed is compared with the reference image regions in the image region database, and a similar reference image region is selected. The image region is printed using the system control parameters associated with the selected similar reference image region.
US09250593B2
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrier, a charging device, a latent image forming device, a developing device, a transfer device, a toner amount detector, and a control circuit to execute an imaging condition determination process. The control circuit obtains a linear approximation formula of a developing potential and an amount of toner according to an exposure potential of the patch pattern and a detected amount of toner to calculate a developing gamma and a developing start voltage according to a gradient of the linear approximation formula, determines target charging potential, exposure potential and developing bias according to the developing gamma and the developing start voltage, determines an amount of a background potential to be corrected according to a difference between the developing start voltage and a target developing start voltage obtained according to environmental information, and corrects the target charging potential.
US09250590B2
A power supply device includes a voltage output unit configured to output a DC voltage corresponding to a control signal from a first controller and an output evaluator configured to perform a judgment process of judging whether or not the DC voltage is a voltage corresponding to a set value received from the fist controller, and to output a result of the judgment to the first controller. The output evaluator includes a storage for storing correspondence information which shows a correspondence relationship between the set value and a voltage value of the DC voltage outputted from the voltage output unit. The output evaluator performs the judgment process by outputting the correspondence information to the first controller, and receiving a set value determined on the basis of the correspondence information from the first controller.
US09250586B2
A roller for image fixing, includes: a hollow cylindrical member; a shaft member inserted into one longitudinal end of the cylindrical member; a hole portion penetrating the cylindrical member and the shaft member; a first countersink formed at a circumference of one end of the hole portion in an outerside of the cylindrical member; a second countersink formed at a circumference of the other end of the hole portion in an outerside of the cylindrical member; and a pin inserted in the hole portion to fix the cylindrical member and the shaft member relative to each other. The one and the other end portions of the pin are deformed so as to be closely contacted to the first and second countersink portions, respectively.
US09250581B2
A fixing device includes an excitation coil, a rotatable heater, and a support shaft. The excitation coil includes a turning end and an extended portion continuous with the turning end. The heater includes a heat generation layer and a thermosensitive magnetic body composed to switch between magnetized and demagnetized states at a Curie temperature to selectively create localized heating areas in the heat generation layer. The support shaft is made of a nonmagnetic material having a lower electrical resistivity than the thermosensitive magnetic body and supports opposed ends of the heater axially along the heater. The support shaft includes a body portion having a largest outer diameter of the support shaft and an end positioned outside the turning end of the excitation coil, and support portions having a smallest outer diameter of the support shaft and supporting the heater.
US09250580B2
An image heating apparatus includes: a rotatable heating member; an coil provided outside the heating member and configured to generate heat by electromagnetic induction in the heating member; a coil holder configured to hold the coil; a plurality of magnetic cores arranged opposed to the heating member along a longitudinal direction of the heating member with the coil interposed therebetween; a core holder configured to hold at least one of the magnetic cores which is movable; and a moving mechanism configured to move the core holder between a first position and a second position which is farther away from the heating member than the first position. The core holder is provided with a stopper portion configured to stop movement of the core holder from the second position to the first position by abutment to the coil holder.
US09250569B2
A toner container includes a housing and a shutter. The housing includes a toner accommodating chamber. A communication hole is formed in the housing. The communication hole communicates an interior with an exterior of the toner accommodating chamber. The communication hole also includes a replenishment hole, through which toner is supplied to the toner accommodating chamber, and a first collection hole. The shutter is configured to slide between an opening position and a closing position of the communication hole to open/close the communication hole. The shutter moves in a closing direction from the opening position to the closing position to close the replenishment hole and the first collection hole in this order.
US09250561B2
A printer forms a first adjustment mark and a second adjustment mark on a belt when execution conditions of inter-light source adjustment or inter-color adjustment processing are established. In the first adjustment mark, a first toner line is positioned at a leading end in the moving direction of the belt, and a second toner line is positioned at a trailing end. In the second adjustment mark, a second toner line is positioned at a leading end, and a first toner line is positioned at a trailing end.
US09250552B2
To provide a polymeric compound having superior charge-providing properties, the polymeric compound contains at least one unit represented by the following general formula (5). In the general formula (5), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R2 to R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a hydroxyl group or a halogen atom, or R3 and R4 may combine each other to form a ring; and A represents a divalent linking group.
US09250549B2
Toners of respective colors of a full-color toner set each contain a binder resin which is polyester resin; and a release agent dispersing aid which is styrene acrylic copolymer resin having at least one of an α-methylstyrene structure and a styrene structure. The styrene acrylic copolymer resin is contained in an amount of 7 parts by weight to 14 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the polyester resin. The full-color toner set has a sum of resistivities of the toners of the respective colors of 410×109 to 510×109 (Ω·cm).
US09250547B2
An intermediate transfer member that contains a mixture of a polyimide generated from a polyamic acid, an optional conductive component, and a polyethylene glycol silicone phosphate, and processes of preparation thereof.
US09250545B2
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layered photosensitive layer formed so as to overlie the conductive substrate, the photosensitive layer containing a binder resin, a charge-generating material, a hole-transporting material, an electron-transporting material represented by General Formula (1), and at least one compound selected from a compound represented by General Formula (2) and a compound represented by General Formula (3). The amount of the at least one compound selected from the compound represented by General Formula (2) and the compound represented by General Formula (3) is in the range of approximately 10 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight in total relative to 100 parts by weight of the electron-transporting material represented by General Formula (1).
US09250524B2
The present invention relates to a positive working lithographic printing plate precursor, comprising: (1) a substrate; and (2) an imaging layer, formed on the substrate, comprising a water-insoluble and an alkaline aqueous solution-soluble or dispersible resin and a photo-thermal converting material, wherein the imaging layer comprises either polyurethane or polyurethane urea or both of the polyurethane and the polyurethane urea, the polyurethane and the polyurethane urea comprising a unit having a substituent having an acidic hydrogen atom and a unit having a polysiloxane moiety in a side or main chain. The present invention can provide a lithographic printing plate precursor which has high printing durability, good scratch resistance, and good developing properties, as well as enhanced ink receptivity.
US09250517B2
A polymer comprising recurring units of butyrolactone (meth)acrylate, recurring units having a carboxyl or phenolic group which is substituted with an acid labile group, and recurring units having a phenol group or an adhesive group in the form of 2,2,2-trifluoro-1-hydroxyethyl is quite effective as a base resin for resist. A positive resist composition comprising the polymer is improved in such properties as a contrast of alkali dissolution rate before and after exposure, acid diffusion suppressing effect, resolution, and profile and edge roughness of a pattern after exposure.
US09250515B2
In an electrophotographic photoreceptor having a photosensitive layer on a conductive support, a binder resin that constitutes the photosensitive layer includes a polymer containing a skeleton derived from dehydroabietic acid in the main chain. An electrophotographic photoreceptor which accelerates conversion to natural materials from the viewpoint of manufactured product quality or production suitability, since the binder resin of the photosensitive layer has satisfactory solvent solubility.
US09250513B2
Any defects in the reflective multilayer coating or absorber layer of an EUV mask are problematic in transferring a pattern of the EUV mask to a wafer since they produce errors in integrated circuit patterns on the wafer. In this regard, a method of manufacturing an EUV mask is provided according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. To repair the defect, a columnar reflector, which acts as a Bragg reflector, is deposited according to various embodiments so as to locally compensate and repair the defect. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the reflective loss due to the defect can be compensated and recover the phase different due to the defect from, so as to form a desirable wafer printed image.
US09250510B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to providing panoramic stereo vision captured with a single camera scheme employing a catadioptric optical path. In an aspect the presently disclosed subject matter can capture a stereo image over a full 360-degree horizontal field of view or portions thereof. Further, the vertical FOV is enlarged compared to conventional cata-fisheye schemes. A system according to the instant subject matter can be calibrated with a computational model that can accommodate a non-single viewpoint imaging model to conduct 3D reconstruction in Euclidean space.
US09250507B2
Two light modulators, a first light modulator and a second light modulator, suffice for four light sources, a first light source, a second light source, a third light source, and a fourth light source, whereby the cost can be lowered as compared with a configuration in which three light modulators are required. As a result, cost reduction is achieved. Further, since two light modulators suffice, the size of the projector can be reduced as compared with the configuration in which three light modulators are required.
US09250497B2
Method and device for the optical parametric chirped pulse amplification, using two pump signals and making it possible to extend the spectral gain band.According to the invention, which is particularly applicable to laser-matter interaction, a four-wave mixing effect is used, preferably in an optical fiber (F), between each pulse (S) and the two pump signals (P1, P2); and the half-sum (fM) of the respective optical frequencies (fP1, fP2) of these signals pertains to the pulse spectrum support.
US09250496B1
Wide band phase modulators used with high power laser carriers convert high-frequency RF signals to phase-modulated optical signals. Higher laser optical power to the modulator produces larger RF signal sidebands. A carrier attenuation filter passes the attenuated carrier and non-attenuated RF modulation sidebands. Carrier attenuation leaves the larger RF signal sidebands. A demodulation filter used with a photodetector or a balanced photodetector pair converts the phase-modulated optical signal back to an electrical signal. Carrier-only attenuation allows high power laser use, avoids photodetector damage or saturation, and provides increased RF link gain, low noise figure (NF) and high spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR). Filtered-out carrier power fed back to the laser source increases to overall system efficiency. An additional optical delay filter with dual outputs used with a polarization multiplexer or a coherent combiner coupler combines signal power to a single photodetector to further increase electro-optic signal conversion efficiency.
US09250489B2
The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel, and an LCD device. The LCD panel includes a color filter (CF) substrate, and an array substrate. A side of the CF substrate protrudes relative to the array substrate so that at least part of a common electrode of the CF substrate are exposed to the outside, and the common electrode of the CF substrate is electrically connected with a common line of the array substrate by a conducting member. The array substrate is further configured with a ground line, and discharge points are arranged between the common line of the array substrate and the ground line of the array substrate.
US09250480B2
In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate and a counter substrate each having a display region and a peripheral region arranged adjacent to the display region. A resin layer is formed either one of the array substrate and the counter substrate. A protrusion in the shape of a wall is arranged on the resin layer with a gap between the protrusion and the substrate opposing the protrusion. A seal material is formed between the array substrate and the counter substrate, and arranged between a peripheral portion of the display region and the protrusion for attaching the array substrate and the counter substrate. A liquid crystal layer is formed in a surrounded region by the array substrate, the counter substrate and the seal material.
US09250478B2
The present invention discloses a sealant coating equipment of a liquid crystal panel which comprises a nozzle, the nozzle is used for sealant coating of substrates required to be sealant-coated, the equipment further comprises a monitoring and detecting device. When the nozzle is performing sealant coating, the monitoring and detecting device is used for instantaneously acquiring images after the sealant coating is performed by the nozzle, determining if there are defects of sealant coating according to the acquired images, and recording location data of defective sealant coatings when determining that there are the defective sealant coatings. When the nozzle finishes the sealant coating, the monitoring and detecting device is further used for displaying images of the defective sealant coatings and locations data of the defective sealant coatings. The present invention further discloses a sealant coating method of a liquid crystal panel.
US09250473B2
A display apparatus comprises a display panel, a first polarizing plate and a second polarizing plate. The display panel comprises a first substrate including a pixel electrode, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between a first surface of the first substrate and a first surface of the second substrate. The first polarizing plate comprises a first polarizer having a first polarizing axis, and a first λ/4 phase difference plate having a refractive index between about 1.35 and about 2.05 in a thickness direction. The second polarizing plate comprises a second polarizer having a second polarizing axis crossing the first polarizing axis, and a second λ/4 phase difference plate having a refractive index between about 1.35 and about 2.05 in a thickness direction. Accordingly, light leakage in a side view may be reduced and viewing angle may be improved.
US09250468B2
A display panel and a display unit are provided that allow a high-contrast and a bright image to be obtained. A display panel is composed of a light modulation device. The light modulation device includes: an electrode capable of generating a main electric field in a direction parallel to a plane intersecting with a normal line of a transparent substrate; and a light modulation layer including a bulk and a particulate each having an optical anisotropy. Optical axes AX1 and AX2 of the bulk and the particulate are parallel or substantially parallel to a top surface of the transparent substrate, and may be faced in different directions from each other and may be faced in same or substantially same directions with each other within the plane parallel or substantially parallel to the top surface of the transparent substrate depending on a magnitude of the electric field generated by the electrode.
US09250465B2
An array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units, each of the pixel units includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode that are insulated from each other, and a conductive layer that is electrically connected in parallel to the common electrode. A double-layer metal layer is deposited on the common electrode at an opaque region of the pixel electrode to form a ring structure around a transparent region of the pixel electrode, thus reducing the resistances of the common electrodes. The ring structure can be U-shaped, half-ring shaped, or full-ring shaped.
US09250461B2
In a liquid crystal display device, there is provided a liquid crystal display panel in which a TFT substrate and a counter substrate are bonded together by a sealing material, with a liquid crystal sandwiched between the substrates. Further, a front window with a black border print formed in the periphery is bonded to the liquid crystal display panel by a UV curable resin. The liquid crystal, is filled by a drop method. The thickness of the TFT substrate and the counter substrate is reduced to about 0.2 mm toy polishing. An inner end of the black border print of the front window is inside an inner end of the sealing material, to prevent the counter substrate of the liquid crystal display panel from being deformed by stress generated In the curing of the UV curable resin, thereby preventing yellow discoloration in the periphery of the display area.
US09250457B2
A driver for a liquid crystal lens, an imaging apparatus and a temperature controlling method thereof, include: a liquid crystal lens which adjusts a focal length according to a voltage applied thereto; a lens driver which applies the voltage to the liquid crystal lens; a sensor driver which detects a temperature of the liquid crystal lens, compensates for the detected temperature, and determines whether the compensated temperatures maintains a preset range for the driver for the liquid crystal lens to perform a control operation; and a heater driver which, according to the determination by the sensor driver, controls heat generation of the liquid crystal lens to maintain a temperature of the liquid crystal lens in the preset range. Thus, the driver detects a temperature of the liquid crystal lens accurately by compensating for a resistance value from the liquid crystal lens to thereby maintain stability of the imaging apparatus.
US09250448B2
Backlit display systems, such as those employed with LED backlit displays, including those configured for autostereoscopic operation, may employ synchronization between the backlight and the presentation of sequential left and right eye images at a frame rate exceeding approximately 100 Hz. To successfully directionally illuminate isolated frames, the disclosed principles provide for segmenting the directional illumination and introducing a phase shifted, synchronized, pulsed drive scheme for the illumination segments. Accordingly, the principles disclosed herein are directed to segmented directional illumination systems and related techniques for segmented directional backlight illumination.
US09250447B2
Disclosed herein is a parallax barrier including a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and the second substrates. A plurality of first strip electrodes and a plurality of second strip electrodes are arranged on the first substrate, whereas a plurality of third electrodes and a plurality of fourth electrodes are arranged on the second substrate. Each of the third electrodes has a step-shaped first portion and each of the fourth electrodes has a step-shaped second portion.
US09250430B2
A microscope adapter unit disposed on an optical path of illumination light between a light source unit including a light source and a sample surface includes a first lens group having at least one lens and a second lens group having at least one lens. The first lens group converts the illumination light into roughly parallel luminous fluxes, and makes the illumination light enter the second lens group.
US09250427B2
A projection lens is provided having a positive refractive power as a whole and including a correction group consisting of a plurality of lens groups that corrects field curvature by moving in an optical axis direction and changing the distance between each lens group. The conjugation length of a combined optical system combining the most magnification side lens group constituting the correction group to the most reduction side lens group constituting the correction group in the projection lens is constant before and after the movement of the correction group for correcting field curvature. If the projection lens is variable in magnification or focusable by moving at least some of the lens groups, the movement of the correction group for correcting field curvature is allowed to be performed independently of the movement for either changing magnification or focusing.
US09250416B2
A thin lens module has a case, in which an optical lens set, an image sensor, a focusing driving device, two position indicators, a zooming driving device, a shutter, and a shutter driving device are provided. An optical axis of the optical lens set has a first optical axis section and a second optical axis section, and the first optical axis section is perpendicular to an object side. The focusing driving device, the position indicators, and the shutter driving device respectively connects to joints for signal transmission, and these joints are provided on a side of the case parallel to the first optical axis section to achieve the thinning purpose.
US09250409B2
A unitary tray for operably supporting a fiber-optic module is disclosed. The tray includes a guide base and guide rails that define a central channel sized to accommodate the fiber-optic module. The fiber-optic module can be slid into a central module position from the back or the front of the tray, and then locked in the central module position. Opposing unitary side guides with slotted channels can be used to form a drawer that holds one or more of the trays. The drawers can be used to form fiber-optic equipment such as an interconnection unit that supports the modules and that allows for conveniently making multiple optical fiber interconnections.
US09250405B2
A connecting device for a fiber optic cable includes a first part having first and second electrical connectors located on its housing, and a second part having a third electrical connector located on its housing. The second and third electrical connectors are adapted to be mechanically and electrically connect with each other or disconnected from each other. The first part has electrical components disposed within its housing and electrically connected to the first and second electrical connectors. The second part receives end portions of optical fibers of the fiber optic cable; it has optical transceivers within its housing but no other electrical circuitry. Also disclosed is a cable device employing an optical fiber cable and two connecting devices at its two ends, at least one of which having a structure described above. Various form factors can be adopted for the first part, including a plug, wall plate, standalone box, etc.
US09250401B2
Multi-channel optical modules are provided. The multi-channel optical module may include a plurality of optical devices receiving or transmitting optical signals, a housing for optically coupling the plurality of optical devices to an optical fiber, at least one optical filter separating or multiplexing the optical signals according to wavelengths of the optical signals between the optical fiber and the plurality of optical devices, and at least one filter holder protruding into an inside of the housing. The optical filter may be mounted on the filter holder to align optical paths between the optical fiber and the optical devices.
US09250399B2
Super miniature TFF and TFP active modular optoelectronic components are based on an optical interface that is three times less than the size of SFF/SFP components and about six times smaller than an SC based component and thus provides a density that is three times higher than LC interfaces. The invention provides substantially smaller photonic devices that can be used with substantially smaller optoelectronic components and combines the new optoelectronic components with the new smaller miniature interconnect systems such as the Push-Release type using the same interface. The new interface can be used with sub-millimeter or larger diameter ferrules. Photonic devices are mounted in a close proximity of the active end of a fiber stub thereby avoiding the need for lenses and active alignment and enabling use in active hermetic or non-hermetic subassemblies.
US09250394B2
A connector for ribbon optical fiber comprises a plug (1) and a socket (2). The plug (1) movably connects with the socket (2) through buttons (106) which are set on the both sides of the front end of the plug, and an alignment core (12) which allows a ribbon optical fiber movably aligning in the inside movement is also set on the front end of the plug (1). In the connector for ribbon optical fiber of present invention, the plug (1) movably connects with the socket (2) through buttons (106), therefore repeated plugging and pulling can be achieved, and the optical fiber movably aligns inside the alignment core with the advantages of simple structure and good effect of alignment.
US09250393B2
Embodiments include methods for connecting a stack of waveguide layers to a face of a ferrule presenting a mechanical alignment structure. The method includes bringing a ferrule in an alignment position and dispersing glue in cavities of mechanical alignment structure for each waveguide layer. The method also includes sliding the waveguide layer into the cavities, inserting a comb-like tool in the ferrule so that the tool presses the waveguide layer into the cavities, glue curing the ferrule, and adding a cover to the ferrule. The mechanical alignment structure comprises mechanical alignment slots arranged in a bidirectional lattice structure.
US09250389B2
A signal transfer link includes a first plasmonic coupler, and a second plasmonic coupler spaced apart from the first plasmonic coupler to form a gap. An insulator layer is formed over end portions of the first and second plasmonic couplers and in and over the gap. A plasmonic conductive layer is formed over the gap on the insulator layer to excite plasmons to provide signal transmission between the first and second plasmonic couplers.
US09250382B2
A glass lighting panel (1), comprising: a first glass substrate (101), a second glass substrate (102), a spacer profile (103) at the periphery of the glass panel (1) between the first and the second glass substrate, the spacer being used to maintain an intermediate space (104) between the first and second glass substrates, According to the invention, the panel comprises: an intermediate organic glass substrate (105), at least one light source (106). According to the invention, the spacer profile (103) comprises: means (107) to maintain the intermediate organic glass substrate (105) in the intermediate space (104) between the first and the second glass substrates, means (108) to lodge the at least one light source (106) so as the at least one light source emits light into the intermediate organic glass substrate (105) predominantly along a plane of the panel. According to the invention, at least part of the intermediate organic glass substrate (105) is arranged to deflect the light out of the plane of the panel and through at least one of the first and second glass substrates to provide a diffused light output.
US09250372B2
An organic EL display device including a substrate, a transparent electrode, a luminescent layer, and a metal electrode layer in this order from a light emission side, a circularly polarizing plate disposed on the light emission side of the substrate, the circularly polarizing plate including a polarizing film and phase difference films that stacked on each other. The phase difference film includes a resin composition (A) containing polystyrene-based polymer having a syndiotactic structure and polyarylene ether, a ratio of the polystyrene-based polymer having the syndiotactic structure with respect to the polyarylene ether in the resin composition (A) is 65:35 to 55:45, being a weight ratio of (the polystyrene-based polymer having the syndiotactic structure) with respect to (the polyarylene ether), the phase difference film satisfies a relation Re450
US09250370B2
An adhesive composition for a polarizer plate, the adhesive composition including a (meth)acrylic copolymer and a polyisocyanate curing agent containing an isocyanurate structure.
US09250367B2
A fluidic variable focal length optical lens has a sealed housing having a first fluidic chamber filled with a first fluidic medium and a second fluidic chamber filled with a second fluidic medium, the first and the second fluidic chamber being separated from each other by an elastic membrane, wherein the first and the second fluidic medium have different refractive indices, and a deformator configured to deform the membrane laterally within a pump zone, thereby laterally displacing the first fluidic medium from the pump zone to a lens zone and the second fluidic medium from the lens zone to the pump zone, so that the membrane also deforms in the lens zone and changes a focal length of the lens zone along a normal direction.
US09250362B2
Provided is an optical system having at least two or more lenses, wherein at least one of the lenses comprises an anti-reflection film formed by a wetting method on a part of or the entirety of the light beam effective surface thereof, and wherein at least one of the lenses other than the lens comprising the anti-reflection film is fixed to the space between the lens and a barrel for holding the lens via an energy-curable resin to be filled therein.
US09250358B2
Provided are an adhesive for a polarizing plate and a polarizing plate comprising the same, and more particularly, an adhesive composition for a polarizing plate comprising one or more acrylic monomers having a hydrophilic group, a radical polymerization initiator, an epoxy resin, and a cationic photopolymerization initiator, as well as a polarizing plate comprising a polarizer, a polymer film adhered to one side or both sides of the polarizer, and an adhesive layer for bonding the polarizer and the polymer film, in which the adhesive layer is formed of an adhesive composition comprising one or more acrylic monomers having a hydrophilic group, a radical polymerization initiator, an epoxy resin, and a cationic photopolymerization initiator.
US09250343B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for using a rigid-stem assembly comprising a plurality of interconnected rigid stems in a marine survey. An embodiment discloses a geophysical survey method comprising: deploying a rigid-stem assembly from a survey vessel into a body of water, wherein the rigid-stem assembly comprises a plurality of rigid stems that are interconnected and each comprise a stem body defining one or more interior chambers; towing the rigid-stem assembly from the survey vessel through the body of water; and either (1) detecting a geophysical signal with a sensor towed by the survey vessel, and/or (2) activating a geophysical source that is towed by the survey vessel. Also disclosed are survey systems and rigid-stem handling systems.
US09250339B2
A system and method to transport data collected in a borehole penetrating the earth to a surface location are described. The system includes one or more measurement tools disposed in the borehole, the one or more measurement tools configured to collect data relating to the borehole and a formation penetrated by the borehole. The system also includes a data node tool disposed in the borehole with a plurality of data nodes, the data node tool being configured to receive the data from the one or more measurement tools, program one or more data nodes with at least a first portion of the data, and eject the one or more data nodes into a fluid stream for transport to the surface location.
US09250332B2
To provide a radiation image detecting device providing high responsivity and high precision of an emission start judgment, an electronic cassette has a panel unit and a control unit. The panel unit has a two-dimensional array of normal pixels for accumulating signal charge upon receiving X-rays and detection pixels for detecting the X-rays. A signal processing circuit periodically samples a dose signal, corresponding to an X-ray dose per unit of time, from the detection pixels. An emission start judgment unit performs based on the dose signals of the detection pixels a first judgment process for judging whether X-ray emission has been started, and a second judgment process for judging whether a result of the first judgment process is correct. The control unit sets a second sampling cycle SP2 used in the second judgment process longer than a first sampling cycle SP1 used in the first sampling process.
US09250325B2
A flasher type fish sonar includes a front case in which a display window is formed in front, a rotary disc opposite to the display window rotated by a motor, an ultrasonic transducer for transmitting ultrasonic waves in the water by a control portion and for receiving reflected signals in the water, a display signal transmitting portion for transmitting reflected signals received by the ultrasonic transducer and display data forming formed by the control portion and for transmitting the same to the rotary disc, a display control portion attached to the rotary disc, a fish sonar display portion displayed by light emitting diodes attached near an edge of the rotary disc, and a letter illustration numeral display portion displayed by light emitting diodes inside of center portion of the rotary disc.
US09250321B2
A radio frequency ranging system is grounded in establishing and maintaining phase and frequency coherency of signals received by a slave unit from a master unit and retransmitted to the master unit by the slave unit. For a preferred embodiment of the invention, coherency is established through the use of a delta-sigma phase-lock loop, and maintained through the use, on both master and slave units, of thermally-insulated reference oscillators, which are highly stable over the short periods of time during which communications occur. A phase relationship counter is employed to keep track of the fractional time frames of the phase-lock loop as a function of the reference oscillator, thereby providing absolute phase information for an incoming burst on any channel, thereby enabling the system to almost instantaneously establish or reestablish the phase relationship of the local oscillator so that it synchronized with the reference oscillator.
US09250320B2
An Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system, and method of harmonizing a transponder Squawk code and an ADS-B system, ensures that a Squawk code broadcast by the ADS-B system matches the transponder Squawk code. The transponder Squawk code is transmitted from a transponder positioned onboard an aircraft and the transmitted transponder Squawk code with a device positioned onboard the aircraft. A Squawk code input of an ADS-B Squawk code to be transmitted with the ADS-B system is received. The ADS-B Squawk code is compared with the received transmitter Squawk code using a comparator and the pilot is informed whether the transmitter Squawk code matches the ADS-B Squawk code. A message formatter generates a message that includes the ADS-B Squawk code. A wireless transmitter broadcasts the ADS-B Squawk code generated by the message formatter.
US09250316B2
Systems, methods, articles of manufacture and apparatus are disclosed to align actions of audio source monitors. An example method disclosed herein includes invoking an audience monitor to transmit a radio frequency (RF) initialization packet to a base unit, receiving an indication that the base unit has received the RF initialization packet at a first time, and invoking the base unit to transmit an RF acknowledgement packet to the audience monitor. The example method also includes receiving an indication that the RF acknowledgement packet is received by the audience monitor and waiting for an end to a delay period having a first value, identifying whether the audience monitor has finished processing the RF acknowledgement packet when the delay period ends at a second time, and incrementing the delay period to a second value when the audience monitor is still processing the RF acknowledgement packet and the delay period has ended.
US09250310B2
A method of positioning a mobile terminal includes obtaining first accuracy information on acquisition of position information using a first method, obtaining second accuracy information on acquisition of position information using a second method when a displacement of the mobile terminal exceeds a predetermined distance, and selecting the first method or the second method to obtain position information after movement of the predetermined distance based on the first accuracy information and the second accuracy information.
US09250308B2
A method of configuring a power meter may include comparing a maximum power measurable by the power meter to a pulse output power comprising a pulse having an initial pulse weight and an initial pulse duration. The power meter may change at least one of the pulse weight and the pulse duration until the pulse output power is at least equal to the maximum power measurable by the power meter.
US09250306B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system is provided for obtaining MR images by scanning a region of the object previously located on an object's positioning image. The system comprises a displaying unit, inputting unit, approximating unit, and locating unit. The displaying unit displays a plurality of tomographic images of the object as the positioning image, each of the tomographic images including an indication of a target of interest thereon. The inputting unit enables information about a running state of the target in a direction along the target to be supplied toward each of the tomographic images. The approximating unit calculates three-dimensionally an approximated curve indicating the running state of the target in the direction on the basis of the supplied information about the running state. The locating unit locates the region substantially perpendicular to the approximated curve.
US09250301B2
A magnetic medium is magnetized in the relative movement direction at a predefined pitch km and a magnetic sensor includes plural magnetoresistive elements whose electrical resistance value changes depending on a magnetic field at a place where the magnetoresistive element is disposed. A position where the magnetoresistive element is disposed is defined as a reference position and, in addition to the magnetoresistive element of this reference position, the magnetoresistive elements as harmonic reducing patterns are disposed at the following positions, with P(n) defined as the n-th prime: a position offset by λm/(2·P(n)) from the reference position toward at least one side of the relative movement direction, wherein N≧n>1 and N is a natural number satisfying N>3, and a position further offset by λm/(2·P(L+1)) from a position offset by λm/(2·P(L)), wherein 1
US09250260B2
A sensor device includes a mounting board having a first rigid board on which an angular velocity sensor is mounted and a third rigid board on which an angular velocity sensor is mounted, and a pedestal for fixing the mounting board. Further, the pedestal includes a base section having a first fixation surface along an x axis and a y axis, and projecting sections disposed on the base section, and having a second fixation surface along the x axis and a z axis, and a third fixation surface along the y axis and the z axis, each of the rigid boards is supported by at least two of the first fixation surface, the second fixation surface, and the third fixation surface, and the angular velocity sensors have respective detection axes intersecting with each other.
US09250256B2
Device for storing and dispensing cuvettes from a stack. The device has at least one cuvette stack receiving compartment, which may be a tube open at both ends, wherein one of the openings is provided with retaining springs, partly blocking the opening, so that the cuvette stack having been dropped into the compartment may come to rest on the retaining springs. The retaining springs are being spaced apart from the opening of the compartment by a distance that allows at least two cuvettes in the stack to stick out of the compartment opening. Furthermore, a cuvette separator with retaining spring spreaders is provided, moveable between a standby position away from the compartment and a cuvette separation position across the retaining spring opening of the compartment, and in between the two cuvettes, sticking out of the compartment.
US09250249B2
Provided are assays useful for detecting and monitoring autophagy and phospholipidosis, including the progression of lysosomal storage diseases. Drugs and treatments for lysosomal storage diseases can be monitored for effectiveness in lysosomal storage disease conditions. Drug candidates and suspected toxic agents can also be screened for toxicity to cells, tissues and organs. Also provided are methods for distinguishing between phospholipidosis activators and autophagy pathway perturbation agents.
US09250247B2
The invention is directed to methods of screening for HLA antibodies comprising detecting antibodies specific for native HLA antigens and denatured HLA antigens. The invention also provides for methods of removing antibodies specific for denatured HLA antigens or antibodies specific for native HLA antigens from a serum sample. In addition, the invention also provides for method of predicting whether a transplant recipient has an increased risk for rejecting the transplanted organ.
US09250246B2
Embodiments of near-infrared (NIR) dyes are disclosed, along with methods and kits for detecting analytes with the NIR dyes. The NIR dyes have a structure according to the general structure At least one of R1/R2, R2/R3, R3/R4, R5/R6, R6/R7, and/or R7/R8 together forms a substituted or unsubstituted cycloalkyl or aryl.
US09250242B2
This invention provides methods and compositions for capturing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) as well as various divergent CTC phenotypes using seprase-specific affinity reagents. Methods of analyzing CTCs and assessing their metastatic potential in vivo and in vitro are also disclosed.
US09250235B2
Object: To provide a test reagent for the analyte in a test sample, utilizing the level of agglutination of a particle suspension which suspend insoluble carrier particles carrying a substance for capturing the analyte as an indicator, which reagent does not undergo self-agglutination during storage, and which non-specific agglutination rarely occurs during measurement, as well as to provide a method for the analyte to be measured in a test sample. Means for Solution: The test reagent for the analyte comprises at least a Solution A which is a buffer solution having an electric conductivity of not less than 30 ms/cm; and a Solution B having an electric conductivity of not more than 6.5 ms/cm, the Solution B being a particle suspension which suspends particles which are insoluble carrier particles carrying a substance for capturing the analyte.
US09250227B2
A system operable to determine a future point of time, at which the alcohol concentration in blood of a user is less than a threshold value. The system includes an alcohol sensor operable to detect a current alcohol concentration in blood of the user, and a portable apparatus. The alcohol sensor and the portable apparatus comprises each a wireless communication apparatus. The wireless communication apparatus in the alcohol sensor is operable to wirelessly transmit the current alcohol concentration to the wireless communication apparatus in the portable apparatus.
US09250211B2
The invention provides apparatus and methods of preparation of lipoproteins from a biological sample, including HDL, LDL, Lp(a), IDL, and VLDL, for diagnostic purposes utilizing differential charged-particle mobility analysis methods. Further provided are methods for analyzing the size distribution of lipoproteins by differential charged-particle mobility, which lipoproteins are prepared by methods of the invention. Further provided are methods for assessing lipid-related health risk, cardiovascular condition, risk of cardiovascular disease, and responsiveness to a therapeutic intervention, which methods utilize lipoprotein size distributions determined by methods of the invention.
US09250206B2
A system of controlled translocation of macromolecules by gel electrophoresis employs a funnel nanopore structure. A graphene portion is attached to a porous material layer including funnel-shaped pores such that the graphene portion blocks the side of the porous material layer having openings for smaller pores. A pair of electrical contacts is formed on the graphene portion. A dielectric material layer may be deposited to hold the graphene portion in place. A nanoscale hole is formed through the dielectric material layer and the graphene portion to provide a smallest opening in a funnel nanopore structure. The funnel nanopore structure is placed within a capsule configured for gel electrophoresis. A linear chain of molecules can pass through a funnel-shaped pore and the nanoscale hole during the gel electrophoresis. A graphene nanopore detector allows measurement of blockage current for sufficient resolution of base pairs in DNA's.
US09250197B2
A method of examining an object containing a polycrystalline material, in which at least one part of the surface of the object is illuminated with substantially isotropic light, as well as a illumination device for carrying out the method. In this manner, the polycrystalline material is less influenced by the different reflection characteristics of individual particles of the polycrystalline material.
US09250192B2
An approach is provided in which a pH-indicating compound is incorporated in a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a number of layers with the pH-sensitive indicator being incorporated in one of the layers. Conductive pathways are formed from a conductive sheet laminated onto an outer surface of the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is exposed to a pH-activating solution. Plated-through hole defects in the printed circuit board are identified by detecting a color formation at a surface location of the printed circuit board that corresponds to the plated-through hole defect. Another approach is also provided where a pH-activating compound is incorporated in one of the layers of the printed circuit board which is then exposed to a pH-indicating solution to produce the color formation that identifies the location of the plated-through hole defect.
US09250189B1
A detection kit is used for detecting compounds and includes a magnifying lens in a cap that magnifies a surface of a color-changing detection swab when placed on the body of the detection kit. For example, the cap includes a plurality of lenses that are integrally formed in a plastic cap, and each lens magnifies the surface of a different swab.
US09250186B2
Novel measurement techniques based on moiré techniques and optical frequency conversion. For example, in the IR realm, the configuration can be any moiré configuration, the detector is an IR detector, and the light source can be at any wavelength. The optical configuration, the detector, and the type of light source depend on the physical properties of object/scene and the parameter(s) to be measured.
US09250184B2
A status estimation device for ultraviolet curable resin includes a probe configured to irradiate an ultraviolet curable resin with excitation light, a wavelength demultiplexer configured to receive fluorescence produced from the ultraviolet curable resin and detect spectral distribution of the fluorescence, and a computer configured to estimate status of the ultraviolet curable resin by comparing a shape of pre-irradiation spectral distribution detected when the ultraviolet curable resin is irradiated by excitation light before being irradiated by ultraviolet radiation with a shape of post-irradiation spectral distribution detected when the ultraviolet curable resin is irradiated by excitation light after being irradiated by ultraviolet radiation.
US09250183B2
Embodiments of luminescent materials and articles include first and second particles of first and second inorganic host lattices. The first particles are capable of producing first emissions having one or more first emission peaks at one or more first wavelengths. The first emissions have a first decay half-life that is long enough for the first emissions to be perceptible to the human eye for a first time period that begins when appropriate excitation of the luminescent material is discontinued. The second particles are capable of producing second emissions having one or more second emission peaks at one or more second wavelengths. The second emissions have a second decay half-life that is longer than the first decay half-life by a decay time difference that is sufficient for the second emissions to be perceptible to the human eye for a second time period that begins after the first time period.
US09250182B2
Apparatus for inspecting an article comprising: a controller configured to generate a drive signal having a periodic amplitude variation; a source, the source being operable by the controller to emit a source beam thereby to irradiate an article, the source beam comprising a beam of electromagnetic radiation having a periodic amplitude variation corresponding to that of the drive signal; and a detector, the detector being configured to detect a portion of the source beam that has been transmitted through at least a portion of the article, and to generate a detector signal having an amplitude variation corresponding to the amplitude variation of said portion of the source beam, the controller being further configured to generate a difference value corresponding to a difference between the amplitude of the detector signal and the amplitude of a reference signal.
US09250178B2
The present invention includes an exposure chamber configured to contain a passivating gas having a selected hydrogen concentration, the exposure chamber further configured to contain at least one NLO crystal for exposure to the passivating gas within the chamber, a passivating gas source fluidically connected to the exposure chamber, the passivating gas source configured to supply passivating gas to an interior portion of the exposure chamber, and a substrate configured to hold the NLO crystal within the chamber, the substrate further configured to maintain a temperature of the NLO crystal at or near a selected temperature, the selected temperature being below a melting temperature of the NLO crystal.
US09250176B2
The invention relates to a system for holding a fluid sample, said system comprising a transparent flexible tube for holding said fluid sample, a tube holder for holding said tube, a first flattening element, and second flattening element, wherein said first flattening element and said second flattening element may be moved relative to each other thereby changing said transparent flexible tube from a first state to a second state, where at least a first cross sectional dimension of said tube is smaller in said second state than in said first state.
US09250170B2
A torque testing machine includes a testing head and a calculating device connecting to the testing head to calculate a torque transmitted to the testing head. A first drive device includes a first connecting head being cooperative with the testing head. The first connecting head and the testing head oppose to each other. The first connecting head is rotatable about an axis. A second drive device includes a second connecting head being cooperative with the testing head. The second connecting head offsets a distance from the axis and is movable tangentially to the distance.
US09250168B2
There is provided a sample preconcentrator. The sample preconcentrator in which a sample gas injection port is coupled to a dried gas supply source and a gas analysis system to concentrate a sample gas comprises a sample concentrating unit containing an absorbent that is composed of carbon nanotube-metal nanocomplex; a conduit switching valve for selectively coupling the sample gas injection port to the dried gas supply source and the gas analysis system and controlling the absorption and desorption of the sample gas from the sample concentrating unit; and a plurality of conduits for connecting the sample gas injection port, the dried gas supply source, the gas analysis system, the sample concentrating unit and the conduit switching valve.
US09250165B2
A smear staining apparatus comprising: a staining section which stains a smear sample with a quantity of stain fluid; and a controller, wherein the controller: receives information regarding a stain state on a smear sample which is stained according to a first staining condition by the staining section; and determines a second staining condition on the basis of the information and a target value which defines a targeted stain state, is disclosed. A smear preparing apparatus, a smear processing system and method for determining staining condition are also disclosed.
US09250158B2
A bush component force detection device detects a component force acting on a cylindrical bush inserted into a hole provided in a frame of a vehicle to pivotally support a rod-like member inside thereof. The bush component force detection device includes: an outer ring provided between the bush and the hole with predetermined space from the bush and configured to surround an outer circumferential surface of the bush and to be attached on an inner circumferential surface of the hole; and a sensing unit. The sensing unit is a cylindrical member disposed between the bush and the outer ring and configured to surround the bush, and has one end of connected with an outer side of the bush, the other end connected with the outer ring, and strain gauges disposed on an outer circumferential surface thereof.
US09250154B1
According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a testing apparatus is provided. The testing apparatus may include a base portion configured to receive a device under test (DUT). The base portion may also include an array of light sensors to measure light leakage from the DUT. For example, the testing apparatus may receive, from the array of light sensors, one or more light intensity measurements associated with light leakage from between a bezel element and a display element along a first edge portion of the DUT. The testing apparatus may then transmit the measurements to a testing computer.
US09250153B2
A system is disclosed. The system includes a processing subsystem that determines preliminary voltages corresponding to a plurality of blades based upon blade passing signals (BPS), and generates a plurality of clearance values by normalizing the preliminary voltages for effects of one or more operational parameters, wherein the plurality of clearance values are representative of clearance of the plurality of blades.
US09250151B2
Machine for balancing vehicle wheels includes: a base frame supporting elements for gripping and rotating a wheel around a balancing axis; first sensor elements associated with the gripping and rotation elements for detecting the unbalance of the wheel; an electronic processing and control unit associated with the first sensor elements for calculating a balancing weight to apply onto the wheel; and an auxiliary detection appliance associated with the base frame and having: a rolling device for pressing onto the wheel, and in turn including: a support structure for two rollers revolving around axes parallel to each other; and a flexible member closed on itself in a loop, wrapped around the rollers and having a substantially flat active section, and a return section substantially opposite the active section; and second sensor elements associated with the rolling device for detecting the behaviour of the wheel when pressed by the rolling device.
US09250144B2
A dual capacitor load cell is presented that includes two coupled capacitors with a common plate between them where the common plate is responsive to a force applied to the load cell. The capacitance of the two capacitors varies inversely and changes in response to the applied force. The combined capacitance of each capacitor is used to determine the magnitude of the force being applied to the load cell.
US09250143B2
A multicapacitor sensor system facilitates the measurement of applied shear and moment forces. In one disclosed configuration, moments may be detectable in x, y and z directions, resulting in a full, 3-axis load cell with 6 degrees of freedom. The system may further include electrical circuitry to generate electrical drive pulses, sense amplify and buffer the voltages induced on the sense plates, and compute applied forces. An array of multicapacitor sensors that can be addressed individually without cross-talk and globally produce a map of forces and moments applied to the whole array. A MEMS implementation enables in vivo application.
US09250142B2
According to one embodiment, a pressure sensor includes a base unit, a film unit, and a plurality of sensing elements. The plurality of sensing elements is provided on the film unit radially with respect to a centroid of the film unit. The plurality of sensing elements has a first side and a second side intersecting the first side. Each of the plurality of sensing elements includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer. Each of the plurality of sensing elements has a shape anisotropy characterized by a length of the first side being longer than a length of the second side intersecting the first side. The plurality of sensing elements is provided at lines having radial configurations extending from the centroid to have a prescribed angle between the first side and the line.
US09250140B2
A wavelength assignment system in one embodiment includes an upstream port, a sensor port, and a downstream port. The upstream port is configured to receive a transmitted signal including a drive component and a read component comprising individual read channel components at corresponding individual read wavelengths. The sensor port is configured to provide a sensor component of the transmitted signal including a sensor portion of the drive component and substantially all of an individual read channel component to a sensor. The downstream port is configured to provide a downstream component including a downstream portion of the drive component and at least one additional read channel component of the transmitted signal to at least one additional sensor disposed downstream of the sensor. The wavelength assignment system is configured to receive the transmitted signal and separate the transmitted signal into the sensor component and the downstream component.
US09250139B2
Systems and methods are provided for characterizing biological tissues through their thermal signatures that include directing microwave energy into a biological tissue using a first slot antenna, detecting microwave radiation emitted by the biological tissue using a second slot antenna, generating output signals corresponding to the microwave radiation, processing the output signals to characterize a temperature of the biological tissue as a function of time to yield temperature characteristics, and characterizing a biological function of the biological tissue based on the temperature characteristics. The first and second slot antennas can be defined using a dual mode antenna and the generating can include alternatively collecting signals from the second slot antenna through a first low noise amplifier (LNA) and a reference load through a second LNA that the two LNAs are substantially identical.
US09250135B2
A system for detecting a flame. The system may discriminate between a detected hot object and flame. The system may be a camera-like structure incorporating an infrared sensor, a lens, and an element that could filter out some of the long-wave infrared radiation. The sensor may receive radiation of a scene which forms images on the sensor. The images may be provided to a processor that incorporates one or more modules to determine whether a flame is present in the scene.
US09250128B2
A method and a system for measuring an optical asynchronous sample signal. The system for measuring an optical asynchronous sampling signal comprises a pulsed optical source capable of emitting two optical pulse sequences with different repetition frequencies, a signal optical path, a reference optical path, and a detection device. Since the optical asynchronous sampling signal can be measured by merely using one pulsed optical source, the complexity and cost of the system are reduced. A multi-frequency optical comb system using the pulsed optical source and a method for implementing the multi-frequency optical comb are further disclosed.
US09250109B2
A vibration isolation system of mass flowmeter, includes upper horizontal section, vertical section, lower horizontal section, upper arc section between the upper horizontal section and vertical section, and lower arc section between the vertical section and lower horizontal section of U-shaped measuring tube. On the lower arc section there is vibration isolation block. It is characterized by full-length welding between the vibration isolation block's plane of the axis of U-shaped measuring tube and the lower arc section. The U-shaped measuring tube has an inertia center. The straight-line distance between the external welding point in the full weld of the lower arc section between the vibration isolation block mentioned and the measuring tube and the inertia center is equal to the straight-line distance between the internal welding point and the inertia center.
US09250102B2
Provided is a magnetic encoder which includes plural rows of magnetic encoder tracks. One magnetic encoder track of the magnetic encoder tracks includes magnetic pattern magnetized thereto to generate signals of equal pitch for detection of rotation. The magnetized magnetic pattern includes N poles and S poles arranged in alternate fashion. The magnetic encoder is configured to be employed spaced through an air gap from sensors that read magnetic signals of the respective magnetic encoder tracks. The magnetic encoder track is configured such that the magnetic pattern thereof acting on position of the corresponding sensor is, under the interference of magnetism of the plural rows of magnetic encoder tracks, detected by the corresponding sensor as an equal pitch magnetic pattern.
US09250101B2
An apparatus and associated method of monitoring power consumption of an electrical device, the method comprising identifying an electrical device using a power signature unique to that device, the power signature being derived from power consumption measurements, and location information; and monitoring power consumption of such an identified device.
US09250097B2
A navigation system includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled wireless phone and a GPS navigation system. The GPS enabled wireless phone includes a GPS receiver, a communications interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the GPS receiver and to the communications interface. The GPS navigation system includes a GPS receiver, a communications interface operable to communicatively couple to the communications interface of the GPS enabled wireless phone, and processing circuitry coupled to the GPS receiver and to the communications interface. The processing circuitry of the GPS navigation system is operable to establish device pairing with the GPS enabled wireless phone and to exchange GPS information and other information with the GPS enabled wireless phone via the secure link.
US09250094B2
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting a location reading; selecting a route having a current edge with an endpoint and a shape point; predicting a navigation instruction based on a calculation with the location reading, the shape point, and a time delay for the calculation; and displaying the navigation instruction on a device.
US09250092B2
On a mobile device a “live” network-based query for search is performed (e.g., performed automatically) in response to a map display update or other trigger event. In some implementations, when the map display is updated (or other trigger event occurs) a network-based map service is queried to obtain information related to the current location of the mobile device. The information can be presented on the map display. In some implementations, when multiple search results matching the query are provided by the map service, a confirmation request is presented on the mobile device to allow the user to select a search result. The selected search result (e.g., a destination) can be presented on the map display. A route from the current location of the mobile device to a destination can be drawn on the map display.
US09250072B2
The invention relates to a measuring and/or plotting and/or sighting instrument (1) comprising a first marker (8a), a second marker (8b), a third marker (8c) and a fourth marker (8d) linked together by a link element (10) allowing a relative displacement of the markers according to the following formula: d 1 d 2 = d 1 d 6 = Φ with: d1 being the distance between the first and fourth markers; d2 being the distance between the second and fourth markers; d6 being the distance between the first and third markers; and Φ being a constant number, notably Φ is equal or substantially equal to 1.5 or 1.6 or 1.62 or 1.618 or (1+√5)/2.
US09250069B2
The industrial machine includes a component that includes a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet. A circular magnetic sensor array senses a first magnetic flux associated with the first permanent magnet and a second magnetic flux associated with the second permanent magnet. The sensor array includes a first magnetic sensor that senses the first magnetic flux and a second magnetic sensor that senses the second magnetic flux. The controller receives a first flux signal related to the first magnetic flux and a second flux signal related to the second magnetic flux, analyzes the first flux signal to identify a first peak magnetic flux, and analyzes the second flux signal to identify a second peak magnetic flux. The controller then determines the inclination of the component based on the first peak magnetic flux and the second peak magnetic flux.
US09250059B2
The present disclosure provides detection devices and methods using a diffraction wavefront of a pinhole stitching measurement of surface shape. The light emitted from the laser passes through a filter hole, a first condenser lens, a spatial filter, a beam expander, a half wave plate, a λ/4 wave plate, an attention plate and then is transmitted through a beam splitter, reflected by a reflecting mirror and is irradiated onto an pinhole through a first optical adjustable shelf and a second set of condenser lens. A part of diffraction light generated by the pinhole is irradiated to the mirror to be measured; the light reflected by the mirror to be measured is reflected by a frame of the pinhole and generate a diffraction fringe along with another part of the diffraction wavefront of the pinhole. The interference fringe is focused by the third set of condenser lens on the third optical adjustable shelf and is collected by the CCD detector. The mirror to be measured is positioned on the second optical adjustable shelf and may be moved along a normal direction of the mirror to be measured to implement an annular aperture stitching measurement. Meanwhile, the first optical adjustable shelf may be rotated and moved in translation to measure the mirror by a scanning sub apertures stitching measurement.
US09250053B2
A surface roughness measuring unit according to the present invention includes a contact pin unit having a contact pin and a displacement detector, the contact pin being provided so as to project and retract through a through-hole of a skid and scanning and moving along a surface of a work piece, the displacement detector detecting displacement of the contact pin in a direction perpendicular to the work piece surface; a driver moving the contact pin unit forward and backward along the surface of the work piece; and a joint coupling the contact pin unit and the driver to a measurement head holder of a coordinate measuring system. The surface roughness measuring unit further includes a contact detector that detects contact of the skid on the surface of the work piece.
US09250050B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for annealing an ammunition cartridge that include an inductive coil, the inductive coil substantially encompassing the sides of an annealing chamber, the inductive coil including a first portion comprising a first diameter and a second portion comprising a second diameter, wherein the first diameter is larger than the second diameter. Apparatus, system and method may also include an insert, the insert encompassing the sides of the annealing chamber, and a cartridge case that is unevenly heated such that the cartridge case obtains at least a first hardness at a first location and a second hardness at a second location, the first hardness different from the second hardness.
US09250045B2
An explosive booster assembly (70) which includes a primary module (10) with a first housing (12) and a first booster (14), wherein a detonator (62) is engageable with the first housing, and an auxiliary module (30, 30A) which comprises a second housing (32) with a second booster composition (34), wherein the second housing (32) is interengageable with the first housing (12) to expose the first booster composition (14) to the second composition (34), and wherein any number of substantially identical auxiliary modules (30, 30A) are engageable with one another in order to form a compound booster assembly.
US09250044B1
Laser dazzler devices and methods of using laser dazzler devices are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide laser dazzling devices power by one or more green laser diodes characterized by a wavelength of about 500 nm to 540 nm. In various embodiments, laser dazzling devices according to the present invention include non-polar and/or semi-polar green laser diodes. In a specific embodiment, a laser dazzling device includes a plurality of green laser diodes.
US09250023B2
An explosion-proof enclosure including at least one heat exchanger for active thermal management. Equipment within the enclosure produces heat within the enclosure, while the at least one heat exchanger removes heat produced from the equipment and manages the internal temperature of the enclosure to a level suitable for hazardous locations.
US09250020B2
A vehicle thermal management system is provided that includes two or more heat exchangers configured in a non-stacked arrangement, where separate air inlets corresponding to each of the heat exchangers allow a direct intake of ambient air. Active louver systems consisting of sets of adjustable louvers and a control actuator are used to control and regulate air flowing directly into one or more of the heat exchangers, where the adjustable louvers are either adjustable between two positions, i.e., opened and closed, or adjustable over a range of positions. Air ducts may be used to couple the output from one heat exchanger to the input of a different heat exchanger.
US09250016B2
A clothes treating apparatus includes a filter insertion detecting device that detects whether a filter has been inserted in the clothes treating apparatus. The filter insertion detecting device, which is installed in a clothes drying machine or the like, may be moved in response to insertion of a filter assembly to generate a contact signal that indicates insertion of the filter assembly.
US09250015B2
A system for drying or heating product using solar energy including an enclosure defining a kiln chamber in which a charge of the product is placed, the enclosure having at each side of the chamber at least one passage through which air from the kiln chamber can pass to be heated by solar energy impinging on the enclosure, and an air flow system having at least one fan for generating a circulating air flow within the kiln chamber whereby air passes from one side of the charge to the other, and an air supply for drawing air into each passage from the bottom part of the kiln chamber at opposite sides of the charge to move through the passage into an upper portion thereof for discharge into an upper part of the kiln chamber through one or more outlets leading into the upper part of the kiln chamber.
US09250012B2
Condensable vapors such as carbon dioxide are separated from light gases in a process stream. The systems and methods employ a particle bed cooled by an in-bed heat exchanger to desublimate the condensable vapors from the process stream. The condensable vapors are condensed on the bed particles while the light gases from the process stream, which are not condensed, form a separated light-gas stream. The separated light-gas stream can be used in a recuperative heat exchanger to cool the process stream.
US09250008B2
A rail assembly for a refrigerator is provided. The rail assembly may include a pair of pinions respectively provided in a pair of rails installed on two opposite walls of a storage chamber of a refrigerator. A pair of racks is respectively coupled to the pair of the pinions to guide motion of the pinions. One of the racks includes an extended portion that allows the pinions move without engaging the racks so as to align the drawer door horizontally when a force is applied to a left or right portion of the drawer door coupled to the refrigerator.
US09250006B2
A condensate trap upstream of an engine cylinder is provided. The condensate trap includes a condensate containment shelf positioned within an outlet manifold of an air cooler, above a lower side of the outlet manifold, and extending from a first lateral side of the outlet manifold to a second lateral side of the outlet manifold, the condensate containment shelf and a outlet port housing forming a condensate restriction in direct fluidic communication with an outlet port of the outlet manifold.
US09250003B2
A robot refrigerator and a robot refrigerator system are provided. The robot refrigerator is remotely controlled. The robot refrigerator generates image information from a surrounding image and transmits the generated image information to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device remotely controls the robot refrigerator, or monitors or remotely controls the robot refrigerator in real time, so that the robot refrigerator easily avoids an obstacle, and thus, minimizes a movement time of the robot refrigerator. Thus, user convenience and system reliability is improved.
US09249992B2
Process for manufacturing a support structure and a solar receiver includes the following steps: a) providing a sheet of rigid material having a rectangular shape with a first median axis and a second median axis; b) performing two grooves running from one sheet side to the opposite side, defining two parabolic curves, the parabolic curves having the same axes of symmetry, parallel to the second median axis, the grooves dividing the sheet in a central surface, a first and a second lateral surfaces; c) bending the first lateral surface out of plane with respect to the central surface through an angle θ1 along the first groove; bending the second lateral surface out of plane with respect to the central surface through an angle θ2 along the second groove; the central surface, first and second lateral surfaces being curved and the central surface having a profile defining a third parabolic curve.
US09249979B2
A method is provided for operating a combustion device having at least one premix burner equipped with fuel stagings and is connected to a combustion chamber. The method includes changing, during transient operating states, the fuel staging of the at least one premix burner in accordance with combustion-induced pulsations which occur in the combustion chamber. A pulsation level of the pulsations which occur in the combustion chamber is continuously determined, the fuel staging of the at least one premix burner is changed for lowering the pulsation level if the pulsation level exceeds a predetermined maximum value, and, after a predetermined time interval, by the fuel staging being reset to the undisturbed value which determines the respective operating point if within the predetermined time interval the predetermined maximum value is not exceeded.
US09249975B2
A glow plug includes a heating rod (11), a plug body, a mounting device for mounting the heating rod, permitting axial translation movements of the heating rod relative to the plug body, a load sensor which is interposed between the heating rod and the plug body, and an electrical link, called the sensor link (71), which includes at least one signal line (74). The sensor link includes an earth conductive layer (82) which is interposed radially between the electrical power supply link of the heating rod and each signal line, to form a screening.
US09249974B2
A gas convenience outlet is provided for connecting an outdoor grill or other outdoor gas fired appliance to a home gas supply or other fixed position source of fuel gas, such as natural gas or liquid petroleum gas. The outlet includes a case having an open interior and an openable cover with a manifold mounted in the interior. The manifold has an inlet operatively connected with the supply of fuel gas and has one or more outlets. A primary manual shutoff valve located in the interior of the case is operatively connected with the manifold outlet. The outlet includes an outlet connector extending outside the case. The connector has a standardized fitting that releasably couples in gas tight engagement with one or more gas fired appliances by means of standardized appliance connectors, without the need for adaptors and without a loss of performance due to restriction of the gas supply.
US09249966B1
A solid state lighting apparatus comprising a base unit, LED Printed Circuit Assembly comprising a plurality of LEDs, conductive enhancing structure, temperature sensor, Power Supply Printed Circuit Assembly, and optics portion comprising at least one of a lens, holding device, mirror, reflector and/or other optical components. A solid state lighting apparatus is adapted for existing luminaire shapes and is applicable for retrofitting installed luminaires.
US09249951B2
A lens (12; 32; 42; 52) comprising a transparent main body (13; 43; 53), wherein a surface (14, 15; 14, 45; 54, 55) of the main body (13; 43; 53) is at least partly covered with an internally reflecting reflection layer (17), the lens (12; 32; 42; 52) has at least one first focal point (F1) and at least one second focal point (F2), at least the first focal point (F1) lies at least partly on a non-covered surface region of the main body (15; 45; 55), and at least one phosphor element (18) bears against the main body (13; 43; 53) at a contact region (19) having at least one first focal point (F1).
US09249945B2
Disclosed is a lamp for a vehicle, which includes: an inner lens; a light source unit configured to irradiate light toward the inner lens; and a mirror reflector configured to extend an image of the inner lens by reflecting one area of the inner lens. As a result, a large-area image of the inner lens is able to be implemented.
US09249931B2
A fluid storage tank includes a plurality of tank sub-units disposed in an array. Each tank sub-unit of the plurality of tank sub-units has an aperture defined in at least one wall overlapping with another aperture defined in at least one adjacent tank sub-unit of the plurality of tank sub-units. Each tank sub-unit of the plurality of tank sub-units is in fluid communication with a single outlet port for selectively extracting a stored fluid from the tank. Each of the plurality of tank sub-units is in fluid communication with a single fluid fill port.
US09249928B2
A device for suspending at least one component from a gantry, and a gantry that includes such a device includes a guide rail that can be secured on the gantry in an approximately vertical orientation, a carriage that is guided on the guide rail in a sliding movable manner and on which the component can be mounted, and a limit stop that is mounted on the guide rail beneath the carriage in a height-adjustable manner. The guide rail is divided into a lower part and an upper part, which are connected to each other by way of a pivot connection having a pivot axis parallel to the longitudinal direction of the guide rail.
US09249925B2
An apparatus for mounting a photovoltaic module is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first support member, a second support member, a ballast support structure, and brackets. The brackets each include a first leg and a second leg, where the first leg includes a hook-shaped portion at a distal end of the first leg and the second leg includes a hook-shaped portion at a distal end of the second leg.
US09249922B2
A foldable stand includes a body having an approximately planar shape. The foldable stand further includes a first inner portion hingably attached to the body. The foldable stand further includes a second inner portion hingably attached to the body. The foldable stand further includes a third inner portion hingably attached to the body, wherein the first inner portion and the second inner portion rotate away from the approximately planar shape of the body to intersect and create an approximately triangular support having the first inner portion as a first side, the second inner portion as a second side, and the body as a third side; and the third inner portion rotates away from the approximately planar shape of the body, providing for an extended stand configuration which is configured to receive an approximately rectangular prism shaped item.
US09249914B2
A connector structure for a Schrader (American) valve or a Presta (French) valve contains an air connector connected with a Schrader (American) valve or a Presta (French) valve. The Schrader (American) valve includes Schrader (American) threads and a Schrader (American) inlet part; the Presta (French) valve includes Presta (French) threads and a Presta (French) inlet part. The air connector contains a body including a Schrader (American) inserting hole with a Schrader (American) screwing section, a Presta (French) inserting hole, a movable groove, an air intake, and at least one through orifice; a limiting block including a retaining segment with plural locking teeth and including a defining segment; a control set disposed on the body and controlling the defining segment; a stopping rod mounted in and limited by the movable groove, the stopping rod including a confining slot and an abutting segment which correspond to the Schrader (American) inserting hole.
US09249902B2
A system configured to seal at least one flexible longitudinal member is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a sealing member having at first set of apertures, a second set of apertures, and inner and outer interface surfaces. The system also includes a clamping member having a first set of apertures and an interface surface. The first set of apertures in the clamping member is configured to align with the first set of apertures in the sealing member. The first sets of apertures are configured to receive the at least one flexible longitudinal member. The interface surface of the clamping member is configured to abut the inner interface surface of the sealing member. The system also includes at least one threaded blind bore in the interface surface of the clamping member, and at least one fastener configured to draw the clamping member into engagement with the sealing member.
US09249892B2
An actuating drive of an air passage device for an engine cooling system of a vehicle, the actuating drive including a drive gear to be driven by an electric motor, which is rotatable about an axis of rotation, and an output element which is operatively connected with the drive gear and is movable with the drive gear along an adjustment path, in order to shift the air passage device between an open position, in which the air passage device is opened in order to allow an air stream to pass through, and a closed position in which the air passage device is closed in order to minimize an air stream.
US09249886B2
A seal assembly includes a stator attached to a housing and a rotor attached to a shaft. A static sealing member is attached to the stator presenting a contact with the rotor at stand-still. An electromagnetic is attached to the stator at a distance from an end of the static sealing member. The static sealing member is activated and moved away from the rotor by the magnetic force exerted by the electromagnet as the shaft rotates. The electromagnet is controlled by a control system for controlling the equipment in which the bearing isolator is used. To deactivate the static sealing member during shaft rotation, the bearing isolator may have its own control system with a sensor to indicate if the shaft is rotating. As the shaft rotates, contaminants are expelled through gaps between the stator and the rotor.
US09249883B2
A piston assembly, which may be part of a concentric slave cylinder for use in an automatic transmission, is provided. The piston assembly includes a piston and a piston cylinder disposed adjacent to the piston and having portions forming a receiving slot. A piston guide is attached to the piston. The piston guide has a main body portion and an alignment protrusion extending from the main body portion. The alignment protrusion is disposed in the receiving slot of the piston cylinder. The alignment protrusion includes a main alignment portion and a spring lever. The spring lever is separated from the main alignment portion by a gap. Compressible material is disposed in the gap.
US09249876B2
Provided is a planetary gear train for transmission of e-bike motor, including: a carrier protrusively formed in a center with a stator axis insertion boss provided with a stator axis insertion groove in a shape corresponding to that of the stator axis for insertion of the stator axis, and mounted with a plurality of gear installation units; a plurality of planetary gears interposed rotatably mounted at an upper surface of the gear installation unit of the carrier; and a fixing pin rotatably mounting the plurality of planetary gears on the gear installation units, wherein the fixing pin includes a pin head inhibiting the planetary gears from deviating.
US09249872B2
An axle assembly that includes a housing, an input pinion, a ring gear, an angular contact bearing, and a differential assembly. The input pinion has a plurality of pinion teeth and is received in the housing for rotation about a first axis. The ring gear, which is received in the housing, is a bevel gear having ring gear teeth that define a pitch angle and are meshingly engaged with the pinion teeth. The angular contact bearing supports the ring gear for rotation on the housing about a second axis that is transverse to the first axis. The angular contact bearing has a first race, which is integrally formed into the ring gear, a second race, and a plurality of bearing balls disposed between the first and second races. The differential assembly has a differential case that is mounted to the ring gear for rotation therewith.
US09249871B2
A lock-up device is a device disposed in a space produced between a front cover and a turbine in a torque converter so as to mechanically connect the front cover and the turbine, and includes a clutch part and a release part. The clutch part is disposed in a power transmission path from the front cover to the turbine, and is configured to be in a clutch-on state of transmitting a power from the front cover to the turbine in a set posture. The release part is configured to be actuated by means of a hydraulic pressure, turn the clutch part of the clutch-on state into a clutch-off state, and block transmission of the power from the front cover to the turbine.
US09249862B2
A differential Bevel gear speed reducer consisting of standard type gears, each of the standard type gears having a same tooth form and a same gear module value, wherein three identical pinion Bevel gears are located between an input Bevel gear and an output Bevel gear, revolution-inducing Bevel gears that have a same number of teeth, a same module value, and a same cone apex as the pinion Bevel gears are fixedly placed at an outer side of axes of the three pinion Bevel gears, an orbit Bevel gear that is engaged with the revolution-inducing Bevel gears is fixedly placed at inside of a housing, causing the pinion Bevel gears and the revolution-inducing Bevel gear to revolve along an orbit of the orbit Bevel gear as the input Bevel gear revolves, and the rotation of the input Bevel gear causes differential rotation of the output Bevel gear.
US09249861B2
The present invention relates to a roller reducer comprising a transmission gear having an externally threaded shaft having at least one left-handed thread portion, at least one right-handed thread portion, and at least one shaft flange ring, and a plurality of rollers, each roller having a plurality of thread portions, comprising at least one left-handed thread portion and at least one right-handed thread portion, each thread portion arranged to engage with the respective thread portions of the shaft, and at least one roller flange ring arranged adjacent to the roller thread portions to rotationally slide against the corresponding at least one flange ring of the shaft.Diameters of the flange rings of the rollers and the flange rings of the shaft are each equal to the respective effective thread diameters of the engaged thread portions of the rollers and the shaft, respectively.
US09249855B2
Provided is a damper configured so that a compact pedal unit can be obtained using the damper and so that the damper can be easily retrofitted to a pedal unit. A damper (1) comprises elements such as: a pair of cams (slide cam (4) and stationary cam (5)) which rotate relative to each other about the axis (O1) to cause the sloped cam surfaces (4132, 5211) thereof to make sliding contact with each other; a coiled spring (3) which presses the sloped cam surface (4132) of the slide cam (4) against the sloped cam surface (5211) of the stationary cam (5); a case (2); and a resin roller (8) which is fitted in a rotatable manner on the shaft (7A). The rotational motion of the slide cam (4) about the axis (O1) is restrained by the case (2), and as a result, the slide cam (4) rotates about the axis (O1) relative to the stationary cam (5) in association with the rotation of the case (2) about O1.
US09249849B2
A device with stiffness adjustment has a housing having a plurality of passageways, each defining an axis. The device has a plurality of stiffness devices each having a plurality of flat springs elongated in the direction of the passageway axis. The plurality of stiffness devices are each rotatable about their respective passageway axis. In an embodiment, the device has a casing interposed between the wall of the passageway of the housing and the stiffness devices. The casing is a spring.
US09249842B2
A power unit for a motorcycle includes an internal combustion engine with a transmission having an input shaft and an output shaft. A clutch with a hydraulic cylinder is provided for changing over the connection/disconnection of power transmission between a crankshaft and the input shaft. A cylinder support member, mounted on the engine body, includes a cylindrical case portion where a portion of the hydraulic cylinder is housed. The power unit can be miniaturized by suppressing the projection of the hydraulic cylinder from the engine body in the axial direction. A cover member is mounted on the engine body for covering and surrounding a projecting end portion of an output shaft from an engine body. A cylinder support member is mounted on the engine body such that a portion of a case portion is arranged in an opening portion formed by cutting away a portion of the cover member.
US09249839B2
A shifting device of a motor vehicle transmission having a driveshaft (2) in the form of a hollow shaft with radial bores (5, 6, 7, 8). At least one drive output element (3) is arranged on the driveshaft (2), a shifting element (4) is arranged to move axially within the hollow shaft (2), and coupling elements, in the form of balls (9, 10, 11, 12), move radially within the radial bores (5, 6, 7, 8; 24). The drive output element (3) can be coupled to and decoupled from the driveshaft (2) by axial displacement of the shifting element (4) and radial displacement of the balls (9, 10, 11, 12). The shifting element is in the form of a shifting piston (4) and the hollow shaft (2) is in the form of a shifting cylinder (2aa).
US09249833B2
In a tapered roller bearing, each of tapered rollers has a roller large end face, and a large rib end face of an inner ring. The large rib end face is formed at such a position that the large rib end face passes through the reference point, and a curvature radius of the large rib end face is set to a value within a range from 100% to 120% of a distance from a cone center of each of the tapered rollers to a prescribed reference point that is apart from the cone center along an inner ring raceway surface. The roller large end face is formed at such a position that the roller large end face passes through the reference point, and a curvature radius of the roller large end face is set to a value within a range from 80% to 100% of the distance.
US09249829B2
Bearing assemblies, apparatuses, and motor assemblies using the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a bearing assembly includes a plurality of superhard bearing elements distributed circumferentially about an axis. At least some of the superhard bearing elements may include a first end surface, a second end surface generally opposite the first end surface, a first side surface extending between the first end surface and the second end surface, a second side surface generally opposite the first side surface, and a bearing surface extending between the first end surface, the second end surface, the first side surface and the second side surface. Such superhard bearing elements may also include a ramped feature negatively sloping away from the bearing surface. The bearing assembly may further include a support ring that carries the plurality of superhard bearing elements.
US09249820B2
A connection element consists of a longitudinally oriented support structure that is at least partially hollow and a sensor unit that is arranged in the inside of the support structure, is connected to a signal transmission device, and is non-positively connected to the support structure. The required force for the non-positive connection is produced by internal stresses after a plastic deformation of the support structure during a joining process of the support structure and the sensor unit. A method for manufacturing a connection element consisting of a support structure that is at least partially hollow and a sensor unit includes positioning the sensor unit in a region of the support structure and, using radially movable tool segments, exerting a force on the support structure in the radial direction and at the same time reducing the periphery of the support structure in the region in which the sensor unit is positioned.
US09249818B2
A compression lock on a connector for a shelving post has upper and lower, mating collar parts having distal ends encircling more than 180 degrees of the post but separated by a gap through which the post can pass. Each distal end has an axially extending projection with a rounded end and a recess adjoining the projection. The projections of one collar part mate with the recesses of the other collar part to interlock the collar parts around a compression sleeve and form a frusto-conical inner surface that wedges the a mating sleeve against the post to affix a shelf attached to the connector. A tab allows removal of a locking connector, with the connectors stamped out of sheet metal and bent into the frusto-conical shape.
US09249815B2
A screw device for fixing insulating panels together is made in one piece from synthetic material and includes a head and a shank. The head has a flat surface for abutment on one of the insulating panels, a surface opposite the abutment surface having at least one drive wing, which extends to a distance greater than 10 mm from the opposite surface. The shank includes an elongate body extending from the head and substantially perpendicular to the abutment surface. The screw has a point arranged at an end of the body opposite the head, and at least one helical thread, which extends at least over part of at least one of the point and body, and is spaced from the head. The helical thread has a diameter that increases towards the head, a portion having a frustum-shaped envelope, and a pitch greater than 8 mm.
US09249807B2
An apparatus for converting fluidic flow into electrical energy includes a focusing chamber through with fluidic flow enters, a fin diverter positioned adjacent an entrance of the focusing chamber, a constricting chamber positioned adjacent a downstream end of the focusing chamber having a flow passage that converges in a frustum shape, a streamliner positioned adjacent an outlet end of the constricting chamber, an extraction chamber positioned adjacent the streamliner, an energy converter driven by the fluidic flow passing through the extraction chamber for producing electrical energy, and a diffusing chamber positioned to receive at an inlet end the fluidic flow passing out of the extraction chamber, the diffusing chamber having a flow passage that diverges from the inlet end of the diffusing chamber to an exhaust end at which the fluidic flow exits the apparatus.
US09249798B2
A multi-step autofrettage process for pre-treating a multi-cylinder reciprocating pump fluid end that has a central cylinder and at least two side cylinders is provided that includes autofrettaging the central cylinder; and autofrettaging the at least two side cylinders, wherein the autofrettaging of the central cylinder is performed independently of the autofettaging of the at least two side cylinders.
US09249789B2
Disclosed is an embodiment that introduces a novel system to pump fluids, or, gases or, semi-solids, or, solids, from one place to another. Conventionally, a motorized pump systems are used to pump any given fluid from one position to another, nonetheless, in this invention not only a new system of pumping fluids is so introduced, but, existing functions of a conventional motorized pumping systems are saliently augmented by the pipe pump system. The pipe pump functions basically, by a series of electromagnets, that are placed around a flexible and resilient tube, (a rubber tube, for instance), and when these said electromagnet arrangements are actuated, then, that causes the pipe pump to pump out fluids, by squeezing on the fluids, or gases, contained within.
US09249788B2
This electric fan has a rotation shaft that is provided rotatably with respect to a stator, a rotor yoke provided on the rotation shaft and formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape so as to cover the stator from a front surface, and a bracket that fixes the stator to a fan shroud and is formed so as to cover a rear surface of the stator, with a fan body provided so as to integrally rotate with the rotation shaft and the rotor yoke. The fan body has a fan boss formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape so as to cover the rotor yoke from a front surface, and a plurality of blades that is provided protruding radially from an outer circumferential surface of the fan boss. A first labyrinth portion is provided between an opening portion of the fan boss and the fan shroud.
US09249787B2
A variable speed compression system that is driven by a variable frequency high speed motor that receives power from a high frequency generation unit that is driven by a high speed gas turbine is provided. The speed of the turbine may be varied to control the output frequency of the high frequency generation unit, thus controlling the output of the compression system by controlling the speed of the turbine driving the generation unit.
US09249785B2
A solar energy system can be controlled during periods of reduced insolation. For example, one or more environmental condition sensors can detect environmental properties indicating current or expected insolation levels and can generate at least one signal indicating a current or impending transient reduced-insolation event. The at least one signal can be received (for example, by a controller) from the sensors that indicates changes in insolation. Responsively to the at least one signal, characteristics of a current reduced insolation event or of an impending transient reduced-insolation event can be calculated. In response to the calculated characteristics, a quantity of available insolation can be calculated. An attemperation flow rate in the solar steam system can be controlled responsively to the calculated quantity of available insolation such that the temperature of steam entering the steam turbines is maintained within a predefined range.
US09249776B2
An aerodynamic dome structure that is placed in front of a wind turbine hub includes a plurality of arcuate panels. The arcuate panels are interconnected to form a dome-shaped structure. A plurality of arcuate radial spar supports may be employed to support the arcuate panels.
US09249775B2
Method for igniting a fuel/air mixture in a cyclically operating internal combustion engine comprising combustion chambers which are delimited by walls that are at ground potential, using an ignition device comprising an ignition electrode provided in each combustion chamber, in which method, via an electrical DC/AC converter, an electric oscillating circuit is excited, which is connected to the secondary side of the DC/AC converter, and in which the ignition electrode, which is guided through one of the walls delimiting the combustion chamber in a manner in which it is electrically insulated from said walls by an insulator and extends into the combustion chamber, constitutes a capacitance in cooperation with the walls of the combustion chamber that are at ground potential, and in which the excitation of the oscillating circuit is controlled so a corona discharge igniting the fuel/air mixture is created in each combustion chamber at the ignition electrode.
US09249774B2
A method for determining a level of spark plug fouling and providing an indication to change the spark plugs of an ignition system is provided. The method includes providing a dwell command on a control wire of an ignition system and generating an indication of a recommendation to change a spark plug of the ignition system based upon a current on the control wire.
US09249772B2
A method and apparatus for testing a starter assembly for an engine is provided. A test apparatus may include a controller operative to route power from a power supply to a tested starter assembly. The test apparatus may analyze a condition of the tested starter assembly based on monitored signals at one or more terminals of the starter assembly. A testing method may include monitoring an operating condition of the tested starter assembly during application of a variable voltage and/or current to an input of the starter assembly.
US09249753B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine is described. The internal combustion engine includes a high-pressure accumulator and a low-pressure area. The high-pressure accumulator and the low-pressure area are connected via a pressure control valve. An open position of the pressure control valve is a function of a control pressure. A negative load change of the internal combustion engine is detected. The control pressure is reduced at a point in time from a starting level to a low level as a function of the detection of a negative load change.
US09249747B2
A system includes a cylinder event module that determines an air-per-cylinder value for a cylinder intake event or a cylinder non-intake event of a current cylinder based on a mass air flow signal and an engine speed signal. A status module generates a status signal indicating whether the current cylinder is activated. A deactivation module, based on the status signal, determines a current accumulated air mass in an intake manifold of an engine: for air received by the intake manifold since a last cylinder intake event of an activated cylinder and prior to one or more consecutive cylinder non-intake events of one or more deactivated cylinders; and based on a previous accumulated air mass in the intake manifold and the air-per-cylinder value. An activation module, based on the status signal, determines an air mass value for the current cylinder based on the air-per-cylinder value and the current accumulated air mass.
US09249744B2
A method for operating an engine comprises introducing a first fuel, a second fuel and an oxidant into a first engine cylinder and a second engine cylinder; monitoring a plurality of engine parameters; and adjusting a quantity of one of the first fuel, the second fuel, and the oxidant introduced to the first engine cylinder to be different from a quantity of one of the first fuel, the second fuel, and the oxidant introduced to the second engine cylinder based at least one of the plurality of monitored engine parameters.
US09249740B2
An engine includes variable valve mechanisms and a variable compression ratio mechanism. An ECU executes temperature balance control when a fuel-cut operation is executed. In the temperature balance control, valve opening characteristics of an exhaust valve are controlled based on a magnitude relation between an actual catalyst temperature and a target catalyst temperature and a magnitude relation between a water temperature and a required cylinder wall temperature. When executing a fuel-cut operation, it is thereby possible to control both the actual catalyst temperature and the water temperature in a well-balanced manner so that the actual catalyst temperature falls within a temperature range suitable for operation of the catalysts, and the water temperature becomes close to the required cylinder wall temperature.
US09249737B2
A sensor apparatus and methods for facilitating combustion of a gaseous fuel are provided. The sensor apparatus comprises a combustion apparatus defining a combustion chamber therein. The combustion apparatus is configured to combust a fuel-air mixture within the combustion chamber to produce at least one combustion product. At least one optical diagnostic apparatus is coupled to the combustion apparatus for measuring at least one property of the at least one combustion product within the combustion chamber. A controller is coupled to the at least one optical diagnostic apparatus, and is configured to determine the Wobbe index of the fuel in real-time based on the measured at least one property of the at least one combustion product and pre-determined combustion state data stored within the controller.
US09249733B2
A gas turbine engine stand comprising an engine frame and a base frame. The base frame has a slide rail to enable axial translation of the engine frame relative to the base frame. A load transfer arrangement engages with a part of the engine frame and slidingly engages with the slide rail. There is a locking mechanism to lock the engine frame to the base frame to prevent relative axial translation. The gas turbine engine stand is used, inter alia, for splitting a core engine from a fan case.
US09249732B2
A support hanger is provided for a turbine engine. The support hanger includes a pin with a pin head, a retainer and a flexible seal. The retainer is pivotally connected to the pin head. The retainer includes a seal bearing surface facing towards the pin head. The seal includes a retainer bearing surface sealingly engaging the seal bearing surface.
US09249729B2
A gas turbine engine has, in flow series, a compressor section, a combustor, and a turbine section. The engine further has a cooling system which diverts a cooling air flow received from the compressor section to a heat exchanger and then to the turbine section to cool a component thereof. The cooling air flow by-passes the combustor and is cooled in the heat exchanger. The cooling system has a valve arrangement which regulates the cooling air flow. The engine further has a closed-loop controller which estimates and/or measures one or more temperatures of the cooled component, compares values derived from the estimated and/or measured temperatures with one or more corresponding targets, and issues a demand signal to the valve arrangement based on the comparison and a value of the demand signal at a previous time step.
US09249728B2
A power generation system includes a compression unit which compresses a gas, a storage which stores the compressed gas output from the compression unit, a first expansion unit which generates first power and outputs a first exhaust gas, a heating unit which heats at least the stored gas output from the storage, a second expansion unit which generates second power and outputs a second exhaust gas, a first regenerator which performs a first heat exchange between the second exhaust gas and the stored gas output from the storage, to generate a first heat exchange gas used to generate the first power and a first regenerator gas, and a second regenerator which performs a second heat exchange between the first exhaust gas and the first regenerator gas to generate a second heat exchange gas used to generate the second power after heated at the heating unit.
US09249725B2
A plurality of cylinders are disposed in parallel in a vehicle width direction, a clutch chamber is disposed in either one of the right and the left in the vehicle width direction, an intake manifold, a fuel injection device, a throttle body, and an intake pipe are disposed between a cylinder assembly and an air cleaner in an upper part of a crankcase assembly. The throttle body is disposed on an opposite side in the vehicle width direction of the clutch chamber.
US09249724B2
A device for changing a compression ratio of an internal combustion engine is provided. The engine has a crank drive with a crankshaft with at least one crank pin, mounted in a rotationally movable fashion, connected to a connecting rod and a piston arranged in a cylinder of the internal combustion engine. In order to convert rotational movement of the crankshaft into a bidirectional movement of the piston with a defined stroke height, a rotationally movable, externally toothed eccentric for changing the piston stroke height is arranged between the crank pin and an eyelet on the connecting rod. In order to rotate the eccentric, an externally toothed first gearwheel is axially connected in a rotationally fixed fashion to a second gearwheel via a shaft arranged parallel to the crankshaft which is arranged in a meshing fashion on a third gearwheel which can be rotated by an actuating element.
US09249721B2
An assembly can include a turbine housing that includes a bore, a wastegate seat and a wastegate passage that extends to the wastegate seat; a bushing configured for receipt by the bore; a rotatable wastegate shaft configured for receipt by the bushing; a wastegate plug extending from the wastegate shaft; a control arm operatively coupled to the wastegate shaft; a control linkage operatively coupled to the control arm where the control linkage includes a control axis; an actuator operatively coupled to the control linkage for translation of the control linkage in a direction of the control axis; and a biasing mechanism operatively coupled to the control linkage where the biasing mechanism applies an off-axis force to the control linkage. Various other examples of devices, assemblies, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09249717B2
A suction pipe assembly of an internal combustion engine has a suction pipe and a cooling fluid intercooler arranged in the suction pipe. A seal chamber is provided that is delimited by at least one section of the suction pipe and at least one section connected with the cooling fluid intercooler. A seal, disposed in the seal chamber, seals the suction pipe relative to the cooling fluid intercooler. The seal is made of an initially flowable sealing material introduced into the seal chamber in an initially flowable state and subsequently cured in a curing phase in the seal chamber. The seal chamber is seal-tightly closed with the exception of at least one fill opening through which the sealing material is introduced into the seal chamber.
US09249715B2
An air-cooled engine includes a cylinder provided with a plurality of cooling fins at an outer peripheral surface of the cylinder, a cooling fan, a cylinder cover covering the cylinder, an air guide plate, and an air guide portion. The air guide plate is positioned between an inner surface of the cylinder cover and the fins. The cooling fan generates cooling air stream for cooling the cylinder, and the air guide plate is configured to guide the cooling air stream to flow through a space between the inner surface of the cylinder cover and the fins. A first small space is defined between the air guide plate and the inner surface of the cylinder cover. The air guide portion covers at least a part of the first small space at an upstream side of the air guide plate in the axial direction of the drive shaft.
US09249705B2
A metering unit for a reducing agent includes an injector for supplying the reducing agent to an exhaust gas treatment device. A temperature sensor is disposed at the injector. A method for metering reducing agent and a motor vehicle having a metering unit are also provided.
US09249703B2
A muffler providing a compact and low-profile form factor for small two-stroke engines is described, particularly useful for aerodynamic radio controlled aircraft. The muffler comprises a tuned internal header eliminating the need for an external header to mount the inventive muffler to the exhaust port of a two-stroke engine while maintaining enhanced engine performance, obviating the need for a conventional tuned-pipe exhaust.
US09249702B2
A device provides lubricant protection and includes at least two friction members, at least one lubricant reservoir for a lubricant arranged in the device, and at least one lubricant protection arrangement having flow means for enabling a lubricant protection gas to flow through the lubricant in the lubricant reservoir and the device. A method is also provided.
US09249694B2
A camshaft unit includes a camshaft having a radial channel, a hydraulic phase setting device communicating with the radial channel for adjusting the phase length of the camshaft with respect to a crankshaft via hydraulic pressure medium and a pressure medium channel embodied as a solid cylinder head component. To transfer a pressure medium, at least one pressure medium transfer element is formed between the pressure medium channel and the radial channel. The pressure medium transfer element includes a ring channel including a ring channel opening extending in the peripheral direction of the ring channel and including a radial channel opening leading into a radial channel and opposite the ring channel opening. The pressure medium channel communicates with the radial channel via the ring channel opening and the radial channel opening.
US09249690B2
An energy generation system and method are presented for use in operating a heat engine. The energy generation method comprises: reducing a CO2 gas into CO and O2 gases; reacting said CO and O2 gases, thus combusting the CO gas, and yielding a substantially pure CO2 outlet gas; and supplying said CO2 outlet gas to the heat engine as a working gas in its heat-to-work generation process.
US09249686B2
A housing for a turbomachine includes a peripheral wall delimiting an annular space and a fluid conveying system for redirecting a partial flow of a main flow, which has an axial channel, a front annular channel and a rear annular channel in fluid connection with the axial channel and having a front annular space opening and a rear annular space opening. The fluid conveying system has a front valve device and a rear valve device controllable independently of the front valve device, for opening and closing the annular space openings, and an outlet opening for tapping the partial flow from the fluid conveying system. In the closed state of the rear annular space opening, the partial flow is directable through the rear annular channel and, in the closed state of the front annular space opening, the partial flow is directable through the front annular channel.
US09249682B2
Disclosed is a steam turbine power plant adapted to start operating very efficiently by highly accurate look-ahead control of a plurality of its startup constraints. The power plant includes a fundamental startup constraint prediction device 32 that calculates from a control input variable of the controller 12, 14 a prediction period about a fundamental startup constraint which is short in response time, a reference control input variables calculating device 33 that calculates such a reference control input variable of the controller 12, 14 as the value predicted and calculated by the fundamental startup constraint prediction device 32 will not exceed a limit value, other startup constraint prediction devices 35a, 35b each calculating a corresponding prediction period of data about desired one of other startup constraints from the prediction period of reference control input variables data, other control input variable calculating devices 36a, 36b each calculating corresponding other control input variables of the controller 12, 14 from the value predicted and calculated by the other startup constraint prediction device 35a, 35b, and a control signal output device 40, 41, 42 or 43 that outputs a command value to the controller 12, 14 in accordance with a value selected from the reference control input variable and the other control input variable.
US09249681B2
A turbine engine fan case assembly includes a structural case and a liner assembly. A radially accommodating attachment system connects the liner assembly to the structural case. The attachment system comprises a circumferentially-distributed plurality of longitudinally elongate radially outwardly open channels mounted to the liner assembly. The attachment system further comprises an associated plurality of inwardly-projecting tongues mounted to the structural case. Each tongue is accommodated in an associated such channel.
US09249676B2
A rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor configured for rotation about an engine axis, the rotor including an aft surface including a rotor slot and a cover plate attached to the aft surface of the rotor, the cover plate including a tab received within the rotor slot and a cover plate slot aligned with the rotor slot. A lock assembly disposed within the rotor slot holds a position of the cover plate relative to the rotor. The lock assembly includes a key portion conforming to the rotor slot, a lock portion engageable with a surface of the rotor slot and a threaded member for holding the lock assembly within the rotor slot.
US09249672B2
A manufacturing method includes forming one or more grooves in a component that comprises a substrate with an outer surface. The substrate has at least one interior space. Each groove extends at least partially along the substrate and has a base and a top. The manufacturing method further includes applying a structural coating on at least a portion of the substrate and processing at least a portion of the surface of the structural coating so as to plastically deform the structural coating at least in the vicinity of the top of a respective groove, such that a gap across the top of the groove is reduced. A component is also disclosed and includes a structural coating disposed on at least a portion of a substrate, where the surface of the structural coating is faceted in the vicinity of the respective groove.
US09249668B2
An airfoil includes an airfoil body that has a leading edge and a trailing edge and a first sidewall and a second sidewall that is spaced apart from the first sidewall. The first sidewall and the second sidewall join the leading edge and the trailing edge and at least partially define a cavity in the airfoil body. A damper member is enclosed in the cavity and is free-floating within the cavity.
US09249666B2
An airfoil and method of fabricating an airfoil including a first and a second side coupled at a leading and a trailing edge and extending there between. The airfoil includes a plurality of first chord sections having a first chord length and extending outward from one of the first side or second side at the leading edge and a plurality of second chord sections having a second chord length and extending outward from the one of the first side or the second side at the leading edge. The leading edge including spaced-apart wave-shaped projections defining a waveform. The configuration defining a three-dimensional crenulated airfoil configured to facilitate desensitization of an airfoil unsteady pressure response to at least one impinging upstream generated wake or vortex by decorrelating spatially and temporally and reducing in amplitude an unsteady pressure caused by interaction of the airfoil with the upstream generated wake or vortex.
US09249665B2
Systems and devices adapted to reduce disturbances and windage effects in a turbine during operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cap includes: a body portion having a shape complementary to an aperture in a turbine component, the body portion including an external surface which substantially covers the aperture; and a cap groove formed in a circumferential surface of the body portion, the cap groove configured to substantially align with a component groove formed in the aperture.
US09249663B2
A steel set assembly includes a first pair of legs and a second pair of legs with the first pair of legs being spaced from and positioned opposite the second pair of legs. First and second beams are provided with the first beam being secured to one leg of the first pair of legs and one leg of the second pair of legs. The second beam is secured to the other leg of the first pair of legs and the other leg of the second pair of legs. A panel is secured to the first and second beams and includes a base having a top surface and a bottom surface, a block having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a pad. The block is secured to the base and the pad is positioned between the top surface of the base and the bottom surface of the block.
US09249661B2
An apparatus and a method including exposing a first fluid to a pre-filter, observing the first fluid, introducing a second fluid to the first fluid, exposing the first and second fluids to a filter, and observing the first and second fluids wherein the observing the first fluid and observing the first and second fluids comprise optical measurements and the first fluid comprises material from a subterranean formation. Some embodiments may compare the optical measurements of the first fluid and the first and second fluids and/or estimate the first fluid's likelihood of forming precipitants with other fluids and/or the first fluid's asphaltene content.
US09249645B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for sealing off a part of a wall (5) in a section (6) drilled into an earth formation and to be placed in such section (6), where said apparatus comprises elongate members (1) arranged along a closed curve, where adjacent elongate members (1) are connected via intermediate links (2), each link (2) being moveable from an unlocked position to a locked position. The invention further relates to a method for applying such an apparatus comprising the steps of:—positioning an apparatus in collapsed configuration in a section (6) drilled into an earth formation with a the wall (5) to be sealed off;—expanding a net or cage in the apparatus, which net or cage is formed by elongate members (1) connected by intermediate links (2);—expanding a flexible member (3) arranged at an outer diameter of the apparatus to seal against the wall (5).
US09249643B2
A ram assembly of a blowout prevent (BOP) includes a ram shuttle, a ram wedge and a ram seat. The ram shuttle and the ram wedge are slidably positionable in a ram channel of a BOP housing between a retracted and extended position. The ram shuttle has a wedge cavity extending therethrough and an inclined surface thereon. The ram wedge has a tubular cavity therethrough for receiving the tubular. The ram wedge has a corresponding inclined surface engageable with the inclined surface of the ram shuttle, and wedges between the ram shuttle and the housing whereby a force is generated therebetween. The ram seat is positionable in the housing about the passage, and is engageable with the ram wedge and the housing when the ram shuttle and the ram wedge are moved to the extended position whereby a seal is formed therebetween.
US09249638B2
A well system can include an accumulator in communication with a wellbore, whereby the accumulator applies pressure to the wellbore. A method of maintaining a desired pressure in a wellbore can include applying pressure to the wellbore from an accumulator in response to pressure in the wellbore being less than the desired pressure. Another well system can include a dampener in communication with a wellbore isolated from atmosphere, whereby the dampener mitigates pressure spikes in the wellbore.
US09249627B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for protecting the lower main wellbore of whipstocks and completion deflectors from debris accumulation. A well system subassembly includes a deflector tool arranged within a casing string and defining a deflector surface and an inner bore extending longitudinally from the deflector surface and one or more seal stacks disposed about the inner bore of the deflector tool. A wellbore barrier device is disposed about the inner bore uphole from the one or more seal stacks and is expandable from an unswelled configuration to a swelled configuration. When the wellbore barrier device is in the swelled configuration, it protects the one or more seal stacks from debris generated from milling and/or drilling operations.
US09249621B2
According to some embodiments curtain assemblies are provided having fabric curtains with brush edges that are mated to the fabric curtain. The brush edges are configured to extend laterally from the curtain to contact, for example, the side edges of the opening in which the curtain assembly is installed and remain in contact with the side edges during movement of the curtain. The brush edges can be configured to deflect along the plane of the motion of the curtain to maintain the contact between the curtain and the side edges. In some embodiments, the curtain assemblies can include optional side tracks configured to receive the brush edges, for example, to improve the connection between the brush edges and the side edges.
US09249618B2
A covering for an architectural opening is provided. The covering may include a head rail, an end rail, and a cellular panel operably connected between the head rail and the end rail. The cellular panel may include at least one cellular unit. Each cellular unit may include a primary cell having a first side and a second side. In one configuration, the first side has a single crease, and the second crease has three creases. A vane may be operably connected to the primary cell and extend around at least a portion of a side of the primary cell.
US09249614B1
An attic access drop panel for selectively closing a geometrically shaped attic passageway includes a rigid panel having an external periphery formed to fit within the structural elements defining the attic passageway and an insulating member on top of the rigid panel conforming to the external periphery of the rigid panel. A plurality of angle brackets are affixed about the periphery of the rigid panel wherein each bracket has a first leg affixed to the top of the rigid panel and a second leg extends upwardly from the top of the rigid panel. The second leg defines at least one protrusion engaging the insulating member and forms a bead at a top of the second leg for bearing against a structural element of the attic defining the attic passageway.
US09249610B2
The invention relates to a closure device for closing off, at least in part, a cavity (1) that is open at its top, said device comprising a set of panels (3) suitable for forming a closure cover and cover support means (13). In the invention, each panel has link means for linking to the neighboring panel(s) (3) so as to enable said set of panels (3) to go from a stacked configuration, in which they are superposed on one another in order to open up said opening in said cavity (1) at least in part, to a deployed configuration, in which the panels of at least some of said set of panels (3) extend in alignment with one another while bearing against said cover support means (3). Said device further comprises elastically deformable means (4) suitable for being compressed by said panels when said set of panels (3) are in the stacked configuration.
US09249601B2
A system is disclosed and includes an adapter, an activation apparatus and a sensor apparatus. The adapter is for use with a mechanical key. The adapter comprises a body which includes an RFID assembly and which, in use, is securely coupled to the head of said key. The activation apparatus is for use with a key to which a body is securely coupled and comprises an RFID writer operable to encode said RFID assembly to form an RFID-tagged mechanical key. The sensor apparatus is for use with an RFID-tagged mechanical key and comprises an RFID reader adapted to output data in standard Wiegand format in the presence of said RFID-tagged mechanical key. Methods for use with the system are also disclosed.
US09249600B2
A lock includes a cylinder, fixed to a door or door wing, with which a pivot is associated coaxially and rotatably, a lever for closing the door or door wing to a jamb being keyed to the end of the pivot; a separate body can be keyed detachably to the head of the pivot and is provided with magnetic elements for the temporary locking of the rotation of the body with respect to the cylinder.
US09249592B2
Ceiling suspension system including a plurality of rigid, elongated seismic joists interposed between opposing walls of a room, spaced selected distances apart along a horizontal support plane, and hangers suspended from the respective joists to support a grid from the respective lower ends thereof.
US09249589B2
A collector net having a net section adjustably connected to a bracket section, wherein the bracket section is adapted to adjustably connect to a pool frame. The net section comprising a net member, a net frame attached to the net member, and a handle removably attached to the net frame and adjustably attached to the bracket section. The bracket section has a first bracket member telescopically inserted within a second bracket member, and a threaded nut adapted to hold the first and second bracket members in a desired position and length, wherein the second bracket member includes a pair of legs separated along a length thereof a distance such that the bracket section is adapted to be placed stably upon the pool frame, and a strap member adapted to wrap around the second bracket member and the pool frame to thereby secure the bracket section to the pool frame.
US09249583B2
An easy-to-install and remove flooring system comprises three components: 1) a plurality of rolled-out liners, 2) a plurality of tiles, particularly resilient tiles, and 3) an adhesive adhering the tile to the liner. A grid pattern matching the size of the tiles is printed on the liner to enable easy centering and balancing of the tile in the room. The edge portions of adjacent liners are adjacent or overlapped. At least some of the tiles are adhered to two of the liners.
US09249581B2
A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard.
US09249579B2
A kit for securing stone veneer panels to a structure, the kit comprising a plurality of stone veneer panels with upper and lower flanges, a plurality of brackets for securing the panels to the structure and a filler panel for placement between adjacent vertically disposed stone veneer panels to fill the gap between the panels. The brackets are secured to the structure through a bracket center mount and also utilize upper and lower wing walls to form a channel for receipt of the flange of the panels.
US09249578B2
Disclosed are aspects of board finishing systems. For example, in various aspects, disclosed are joint compound compositions, wall assemblies, methods of treating walls, and products related to any of the foregoing, including reinforcement trim, e.g., for protecting corners where boards meet, fasteners, and tape. The joint compound preferably is a drying type composition with reduced shrinkage property, and includes binder and hollow spheres, resulting in an ultra lightweight formulation in some embodiments. The joint compound composition can be applied in a one-coat treatment in preferred embodiments. Other aspects of board finishing system accommodate such a one-coat treatment to thusly allow a user to manipulate the compound closer to the plane of board as compared with conventional formulations. Joint tape and reinforcement trim can include non-swelling synthetic paper facing material in some embodiments.
US09249574B2
A structural engineered wood rim board for light frame construction having joinery slots in a flange, a portion of a light frame construction building constructed from structural engineered wood components including a structural engineered wood rim board for light frame construction having an exterior-facing cavity, a structural engineered wood rim board corner system for light frame construction, and a light framing building method using a structural engineered wood rim board are disclosed.
US09249570B2
A system for constructing a load bearing surface includes a plurality of modular ground covering panels. Along at least one first side edge of each of the panels, the lower surface projects beyond the upper surface to define a lower peripheral tab. Along at least one second side edge of each of the panels, the upper surface projects beyond the lower surface to define an upper peripheral tab. The lower peripheral tab of one of the panels and the upper peripheral tab of another one of the panels overlappingly engage so that the upper surfaces of the panels are in adjoining relation to form the load bearing surface. A connector assembly includes a first connection element fixed to the lower peripheral tab, and a second connection element that releasably fastens the upper peripheral tab to the first connection element to secure the panels together.
US09249567B2
A reusable architectural wall is provided which provides a cost-effective space-dividing wall structure formed of internal support rails joined by a lightweight, cost effective facing panel on each panel side, which preferably is formed of standard architectural materials such as gypsum board, R-board and the like. The wall is structurally rigid, field cuttable, installable horizontally or vertically and has a substantial acoustic reduction, cable carrying capacity, and HVAC capability.
US09249559B2
First equipment is provided in a first lateral branch of a well, and second equipment in a second lateral branch of the well. Cross-lateral logging is performed using the first and second equipment in the corresponding first and second lateral branches.
US09249558B2
A connection for firmly securing an adapter for carrying a digging tooth to a lip of an excavating container. The connection has substantially aligned openings in the adapter and the lip. A pressure applying unit, such as a hydraulic actuator, is arranged inside the opening and generates a generally horizontally acting force which draws the adapter and the lip towards each other. A stress member is operatively coupled to the hydraulic actuator and resiliently deforms relative to its relaxed shape when it is subjected to the horizontally acting force. The wedge is shaped so that upon a reduction or cessation of the horizontally acting force the stress member, remains in the resiliently deformed state in which it draws the adapter and the lip towards each other and keeps them immovably secured to each other until the wedge can be withdrawn following a repressurization of the hydraulic actuator.
US09249556B2
An hydraulic shovel according to the present invention includes a lower running body 1, an upper turning body 3 turnably mounted on the lower running body 1, a boom 4 pivotably attached to the upper turning body 3, an arm 5 pivotably attached to the boom 4, a bucket 6 attached to the arm 5, an boom angle sensor S1 which detects a condition of the boom 4, an attachment condition determining part 300 which determines whether the boom 4 is within a predetermined upper working range based on a detection value of the boom angle sensor S1, and an operating condition switching part 301 which switches an operating condition of the hydraulic shovel. The operating condition switching part 301 slows down a movement of the bucket 6 if the attachment condition determining part 300 determines that an attachment is within the predetermined upper working range UWR.
US09249554B2
The invention provides a bail for a rope shovel having a hoist rope and a dipper. The bail includes a pair of arms coupled to the dipper; and a cross-member extending between the pair of arms and being pivotably coupled to each of the arms. The cross-member includes a mounting block for coupling the hoist rope to the bail.
US09249547B2
A sweeping vehicle is provided including a disc brush and a holding device for the disc brush, the holding device having a holding part and a holding arm pivotably connected to the holding part, the holding device held on the vehicle by the holding part, and the disc brush held on the holding arm. The vehicle includes an adjusting device having an adjustment member of variable length engaging the holding arm, the holding arm being pivotable relative to the holding part upon change in length of the adjustment member. The holding device includes a brush carrier pivotably mounted on the holding arm and a coupling device coupling the brush carrier to the adjusting device, the brush carrier being pivotable relative to the holding arm upon change in length of the adjustment member for pivoting the disc brush about a pivot axis aligned at a slant to the axis of rotation.
US09249539B2
A dryer monitor detects when textiles in a dryer are dry, detects when textiles in a dryer are overdry, and/or may count dryer cycles. The dryer monitor includes a humidity sensor, a temperature sensor, a controller and various status indicators. The humidity and temperature sensors may be located outside the drying compartment of the dryer. In the case of a clothes dryer, the humidity and temperature sensors may be located outside the drum of the dryer and may be located, for example, in the exhaust compartment of the dryer. The dryer monitor determines dryness of items in the dryer, and may also determine whether the items are overdry, based on humidity information received from the humidity sensor. The dryer monitor counts dryer cycles based on temperature information received from the temperature sensor.
US09249524B2
An object is to reduce variation in shape of crystals that are to be formed. Solutions containing respective raw materials are made in an environment where an oxygen concentration is lower than that in air, the solutions containing the respective raw materials are mixed in an environment where an oxygen concentration is lower than that in air to form a mixture solution, and with use of the mixture solution, a composite oxide is formed by a hydrothermal method.
US09249515B2
Cutting tool has a substrate and a multilayer coating deposited by PVD. The coating comprises a base layer of one or more identical or different layers of a nitride or carbonitride which contains at least aluminium (Al) and a chromium-containing, oxidic functional layer. Attachment of the chromium-containing functional layer is improved by an intermediate layer of one or more oxides or oxide nitrates of the metals Al, Cr, Si, and/or Zr provided between the base layer and the functional layer. The intermediate layer has a cubic structure and the chromium-containing functional layer is selected from chromium oxide (Cr2O3), chromium oxynitride, aluminium-chromium oxide (AlCr)2O3, aluminium-chromium oxynitride or a mixed oxide or mixed oxynitride of aluminium, chromium and further metals of (AlCrMe1, Men)2 oxide or (AlCrMe1, Men)2 oxynitride, where Me . . . Men means one or more further metals, selected from Hf, Y, Zr and Ru, and wherein the functional layer has a rhombohedral structure.
US09249504B2
A method of making an electrical conductor includes depositing an ultra-thin layer including aluminum-doped zinc oxide layer on a surface and using atomic layer deposition to deposit a nano-layer including alumina in contact and conformal with a surface of the ultra-thin layer including aluminum-doped zinc oxide.
US09249476B2
In the rolling bearing of the present invention, at least one of the bearing rings is obtained by applying a induction heat treatment to a spheroidizing annealed steel material having a DI value of 1.0 or more to form a hardened layer having a hardness of 550 HV or more on at least a raceway surface and a fitting surface, and in the induction heat-treated bearing ring, (A) an average retained austenite amount is 12 vol % or less, (B) the raceway surface has a retained austenite amount of 12 vol % or more and a residual compressive stress of −100 MPa or less, and (C) a difference between a hardness of the raceway surface and a minimum hardness of a region having a hardness of less than 550 HV is 150 HV or more.
US09249469B2
The present invention relates to non-invasive methods, kits and means for diagnosing and/or prognosing of colon cancer in a body fluid sample from a subject. Further, the present invention relates to set of polynucleotides or sets of primer pairs for detecting sets of miRNAs for diagnosing and/or prognosing of colon cancer in a body fluid sample from a subject. In addition, the present invention relates to sets of miRNAs for diagnosing and/or prognosing of colon cancer in a body fluid sample from a subject.
US09249468B2
Described herein are methods for diagnosing ovarian cancer. In particular, certain microRNAs are useful to the response to chemotherapy of ovarian cancer patients.
US09249467B2
Compositions, kits, and methods for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of bladder cancer in a subject are provided by detecting in a urine sample a combination of biomarkers. In one embodiment of the invention, a nine-biomarker panel consisting of IL-8, MMP9, SDC1, CCL18, SERPINE1, CD44, VEGF-A, CA9, and ANG may be detected. In another embodiment of the invention, a three-biomarker panel consisting of CCL18, CD44, and VEGF-A may be detected. In yet another embodiment of the invention, a nine-biomarker panel consisting of CA9, CCL18, MMP12, TMEM45A, MMP9, SEMA3D, ERBB2, CRH, and MXRA8 may be detected.
US09249458B1
This invention combines artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) with self-avoiding molecular recognition systems (SAMRS), in processes that involve template-directed primer extension in highly multiplexed form in mixtures containing large numbers of primers. This process yields extension products, or in its PCR format, amplicons, that have AEGIS tags that can be cleanly captured in highly complex mixtures.
US09249455B2
Disclosed are methods, kits, and components for detecting small RNA molecules, such as microRNA and siRNA, in a sample. The methods utilize primers and reporter molecules comprising non-natural bases. The disclosed kits may include one or more components for performing the disclosed methods.
US09249448B2
The invention pertains to the field of reaction systems generating malodor, particularly from constituents of human sweat. Specifically, the invention pertains to proteins for generating malodors, substrates for generating such malodor, inhibitors of such malodor generation and test and screening systems for measuring their malodor inhibition efficacy and finding substances previously not known to inhibit malodor generation. Thus, the invention also pertains to the field of deodorants.
US09249441B2
Recombinant DNA techniques are used to produce oleaginous recombinant cells that produce triglyceride oils having desired fatty acid profiles and regiospecific or stereospecific profiles. Genes manipulated include those encoding stearoyl-ACP desturase, delta 12 fatty acid desaturase, acyl-ACP thioesterase, ketoacyl-ACP synthase, and lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase. The oil produced can have enhanced oxidative or thermal stability, or can be useful as a frying oil, shortening, roll-in shortening, tempering fat, cocoa butter replacement, as a lubricant, or as a feedstock for various chemical processes. The fatty acid profile can be enriched in midchain profiles or the oil can be enriched in triglycerides of the saturated-unsaturated-saturated type.
US09249434B2
Methods for production of highly unsaturated fatty acids by marine microorganisms, including the heterotrophic marine dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium, using low levels of chloride ion are disclosed. Specifically, methods of increasing production of highly unsaturated fatty acids by marine microorganisms while growing in low chloride media by manipulating sodium ion and potassium ion levels. The invention also relates to methods of production of highly unsaturated fatty acids by marine organisms at low pH levels, and includes methods for generation of low pH tolerant strains.
US09249432B2
Disclosed herein are enzymes and combinations of the enzymes useful for the hydrolysis of cellulose and the conversion of biomass. Methods of degrading cellulose and biomass using enzymes and cocktails of enzymes are also disclosed.
US09249422B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the expression of protein. Embodiments of methods may comprise the cleavage and repair of a nucleotide sequence encoding a highly expressed protein leading to a reduction in the expression of the highly expressed protein.
US09249421B2
Methods for the self-assembly of photosynthetic unicells into a multicellular shape are provided. DNA constructs as well as methods for integration of the DNA constructs into the genomes of photosynthetic unicells for the expression of cell wall proteins or cell adhesion molecules for the self-assembly of photosynthetic unicells into a multicellular shape are also disclosed.
US09249406B2
The present invention relates to mutated tissue plasminogen activators, and their use for treating thrombotic diseases.
US09249405B2
Disclosed are a modified FIX (factor IX) polypeptide comprising a leucine, cysteine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, histidine, lysine, asparagine, glutamine or tyrosine in position 338; pharmaceutical preparations containing said modified FIX polypeptide; a nucleotide sequence coding for the modified FIX polypeptide; and a method for producing the modified FIX polypeptide.
US09249402B2
A process for the production of cellulases and hemicellulases using a strain of a filamentous fungus in a stirred and aerated bioreactor, in at least two phases, a phase a) for growth of said strain in the presence of at least one carbonaceous growth substrate in a closed reactor, a phase b) for the continuous production of cellulases, in which at least one carbonaceous inducer substrate is supplied at a supply rate which is constant over a period of at least more than 200 h, said carbonaceous substrate being at least one aqueous hemicellulosic hydrolysate solution obtained from an acid pre-treatment of a lignocellulosic substrate, said aqueous hemicellulosic hydrolysate solution not undergoing prior sterilization and not undergoing pH rectification, being operated at a dilution rate in the range 0.001 to 0.02 h−1.
US09249401B2
The present disclosure relates to CBH II chimera fusion polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides, and host cells for producing the polypeptides.
US09249398B2
Methods are disclosed herein for treating an infection with a Mycobacterium infection. Methods are also disclosed for treating a Mycobacterium biofilm. The method include the use of trehalose dimycolate hydrolase, a variant thereof, or a nucleic acid encoding trehalose dimycolate hydrolase or a variant thereof Methods are also disclosed for detecting a Mycobacterium in a sample from a subject. The methods include treating the sample with trehalose dimycolate hydrolase or a variant thereof, and detecting a Mycobacterium nucleic acid in the sample.
US09249396B2
Compositions and methods are provided for enzymes with altered properties that involve a systematic approach to mutagenesis and a screening assay that permits selection of the desired proteins. Embodiments of the method are particularly suited for modifying specific properties of restriction endonucleases such as star activity. The compositions includes restriction endonucleases with reduced star activity as defined by an overall fidelity index improvement factor.
US09249388B2
Methods for obtaining pluripotent (embryonic stem) cells from parthenogenetic embryos, especially primates, are provided. These cells are useful for producing differentiated cells, tissues and organs, especially human and non-human primate cells, tissues and organs.
US09249387B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein are generally related to a cell culture system. More particularly, the systems and methods enable the culturing and interconnecting of a plurality of tissue types in a biomimetic environment. By culturing organ specific tissue types within a biomimetic environment and interconnecting each of the organ systems in a physiologically meaningful way, experiments can be conducted on in vitro cells that substantially mimic the responses of in vivo cell populations. In some implementations, the organ systems are fluidically connected with a constant-volume pump.
US09249385B1
The present invention is concerned with a system for fusion at least two cells. The system has an optical tweezers system for generating moving optical traps for manipulating the cells, an optical scissors system for cutting cell membrane of the cells and inducing fusion of the cells, an incubation system for providing cell culture in which the cells suspend and cell culture environment for the cells, and a visual detection system allowing visual monitoring of the cells undergoing fusion.
US09249380B2
A method of producing a dosage form detergent product, comprises the steps of: (a) producing an open-mouthed pouch by forming a water-soluble, synthetic plastics film into a mould cavity defining the pouch, (b) introducing a particulate first detergent composition into the pouch, (c) forming a recess in the upper surface of the particulate first detergent composition, (d) introducing into the recess a pre-formed, shape-retaining second detergent component with an at least substantially planar face positioned to be exposed from the particulate first detergent component, and (e) sealing a water-soluble film over the mouth of the pouch and against the exposed face of the pre-formed detergent product.
US09249376B2
A cleaning solution is provided. The cleaning solution contains denatured alcohol, deionized water, and an organic surfactant mixture consisting of water, 2-butoxyethanol, sodium citrate, ethoxylated alcohol, and tetrapotassium pyrophosphate. The present invention is intended for use with granite, marble, or other shiny surfaces. The solution utilizes a minimal amount of surfactants and highly distilled alcohols that can safely clean and sterilize these surfaces, without leaving unpleasant residues behind.
US09249358B2
A method for producing synthesis gas, including: 1) pre-processing a biomass raw material; 2) pyrolyzing the biomass raw material to yield a pyrolysis gas and a carbon powder; 3) separating the pyrolysis gas from the carbon powder and a solid heat carrier; 4) separating the carbon powder away from the solid heat carrier via a solid-solid separator; 5) conveying the generated pyrolysis gas to a condensate tank for spray condensation, condensing a condensable part in the pyrolysis gas to generate biological fuel oil, pressurizing the generated biological fuel oil by a high pressure oil pump and feeding to a gasification furnace to be gasified; and 6) feeding one part of non-condensable pyrolysis gas to a combustion bed to combust with air, and conveying the other part of the non-condensable pyrolysis gas to the pyrolysis bed as a fluidizing medium.
US09249355B2
The present invention relates to liquid-crystalline media (LC media) comprising self-aligning additives which effect homeotropic (vertical) alignment of the LC media at a surface or the cell walls of a liquid-crystal display (LC display). The invention therefore also encompasses LC displays having homeotropic alignment of the liquid-crystalline medium (LC medium) without conventional imide alignment layers. The LC media are optionally supplemented by a polymerisable or polymerised component, which serves for stabilisation of the alignment, for adjustment of the tilt angle and/or as passivation layer.
US09249351B2
Viscoelastic surfactant based aqueous fluid systems useful as thickening agents in various applications, e.g. to suspend particles produced during the excavation of geologic formations. The surfactants are zwitterionic/amphoteric surfactants such as dihydroxyl alkyl glycinate, alkyl ampho acetate or propionate, alkyl betaine, alkyl amidopropyl betaine and alkylimino mono- or di-propionates derived from certain waxes, fats and oils. The thickening agent is used in conjunction with an inorganic water-soluble salt or organic additive such as phthalic acid, salicylic acid or their salts.
US09249344B2
The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising a copolymer having cross-linkable epoxy groups as well as a solvent. The copolymer is made up of one or more first, second and third monomers, wherein the first monomer possesses an epoxy group and third monomer has a bulky side chain. Surprisingly, the third monomer provides for stability without affecting the ability of the copolymer to form cross-links. The invention also relates to a method of preparing the pressure sensitive adhesive composition and to a method of its use.
US09249327B2
An image forming method includes an ink applying step of applying an ink composition containing a pigment, a compound represented by the following structural formula (1), a compound represented by the following structural formula (2) and water, onto a recording medium being conveyed at a conveyance speed of 80 m/min or higher: wherein l, m and n each represent an integer of 1 or more (l+m+n=3 to 15); AO represents ethyleneoxy or propyleneoxy; R represents a hydrocarbon group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms; PO represents propyleneoxy; EO represents ethyleneoxy; and p and q represent integers that satisfy the relations: 0≦p≦10 and 1≦q≦50.
US09249315B2
A release film for soft composite materials is provided. The release film contains a film with a closely packed self-assembled monolayer. A method of applying soft composite materials to a substrate without loss of the soft composite material to the release film is also provided. The method is useful in applications such as applying thermal pastes to semiconductor packaging.
US09249312B2
Disclosed is an eco-friendly water-based paint composition for interior finishing materials of buildings. The eco-friendly water-based paint composition includes: 3 to 6 wt. % of diatomite for adsorbing harmful materials; 7 to 12 wt. % of titanium dioxide for enhancing a deodorization effect; 0.4 to 1.5 wt. % of antimicrobial agent-containing microcapsules for killing harmful microorganisms derived from an indoor air; 0.1 to 0.5 wt % of preservative for suppressing and preventing propagation of fungi derived from indoor air; 30 to 40 wt. % of an inorganic binder for binding different ingredients of the water-based paint composition so as to form a smooth surface; 3 to 10 wt. % of water for blending different materials for the water-based paint and controlling workability; and residual silica for forming thickness during painting as a base material of the water-based paint.
US09249311B2
A water-resistant, easily removable indoor/outdoor concrete curing coating compound including water, a hydrophobic membrane-forming polymer resin, and a rosin soap or rosin soap derivative that is readily self-degrading and film-forming.
US09249309B2
A base coat coating composition which is able to suppress cracking of a metal thin film, even when a tough top coat layer capable of satisfactorily protecting the metal thin film is formed on the metal thin film, and even when a heat resistance test is performed, as well as a composite film and a method for producing the composite film. Specifically, a base coat coating composition used for undercoating a metal thin film formed on a metal substrate, and containing a coating film-forming component which contains at least 30% by mass of an epoxy (meth)acrylate having a cyclic structure and has an average molecular weight between crosslinks of 180 to 1,000, as well as a composite film having a base coat layer obtained from the base coat coating composition, and a method for producing the composite film.
US09249306B2
The present invention presents designs for high extinction quenched “dyedrons” that can be activated by conversion of a single acceptor/quencher in the molecular assembly to a fluorescent state. The quencher is activated by noncovalent binding to a unique complementary expressible fluorogen activating peptide (FAP). In this way, the quencher serves as the homogeneous switch, receiving energy efficiently from each of the donor molecules of the dendronic antenna, and releasing it as fluorescence only when activated by binding. The sum of the extinction of the multiple dyes on the antenna will provide dramatic enhancements in the effective brightness of the probe in standard imaging systems. This approach provides a set of probes with exceptional brightness, specifically targeted to an expressed tag that activates the fluorescence of the dyedron.
US09249305B2
This invention is based upon the discovery that activated carbon can be used to sequester polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that may be present in asphalt and creosote compositions. The treatment of asphalt and creosote compositions with activated carbon accordingly reduces the level of free polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in such compositions by sequestering them therein or removing them from the composition. After being sequestered the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons remain trapped in the asphalt or creosote composition, and are not available to the environment during normal processing into useful industrial products. This sequestration reduces the risk of exposing humans and the environment to the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons which would otherwise be free to migrate from the asphalt or creosote product during manufacturing and the service life of the product. In other words, the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are absorbed onto the activated carbon and are not available for bioaccumulation from the environment.
US09249303B2
A thermoplastic elastomer compound is disclosed having a high latent heat of fusion, indicative of a large thermal capacity. Use of thermal capacity agents, particularly linear paraffin waxes used in replacement of conventional plasticizer oils, contributes the thermal capacity advantages. Selection of the particular thermal capacity agent can provide an ability to engineer the amount of thermal capacity and the transition temperature in which that thermal capacity can be utilized as absorption or release of heat. The compound experiences a solid-solid phase transition whenever the thermal capacity agent melts into liquid form in the compound.
US09249300B2
A resin composition has a first resin, a second resin incompatible with the first, and a modified elastomer having a reactive group capable of reacting with the first resin. The resin composition has a co-continuous phase structure including continuous phases A and B respectively formed of the first and second resins, dispersed domains a and b respectively distributed in the continuous phases A and B, and finely dispersed subdomains a′ and b′ respectively distributed in the dispersed domains a and b. The dispersed domain a includes a dispersed domain formed of at least one of the second resin and a first resin, modified elastomer reaction product, the dispersed domain b at least one of the first resin and the reaction product, and the finely dispersed subdomains a′ and b′ each independently at least one of the first resin, the second resin, the modified elastomer, and the reaction product.
US09249289B2
Extruded or molded profiles comprising a polyolefin composition consisting of 85% by weight or more of a copolymer of 1-butene with ethylene (A) having an ethylene copolymerized content up to 18% by mol, and having Mw/Mn lower than 3, hardness shore A (measured according to ISO 868) lower than 90, no melting point (TmII) detectable at the DSC after cancelling the thermal history, melting enthalpy (ΔHf), measured by DSC after 10 days of aging at room temperature, comprised between 4 and 15 J/g; and up to 15% by weight of a propylene copolymer or a composition of copolymers of propylene (B) having a melting point from about 126° C. to 200° C., isotactic index greater than 90%.
US09249285B2
The present invention relates to a silica-containing rubber mixture produced from at least one rubber, one sulphur-containing alkoxysilane, one crosslinking agent, one filler, and optionally further rubber auxiliary products, wherein this mixture comprises from 0.1 to 15 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of rubber used, of a polysulphide additive of the formula (I) A-S—(S)x—S—B (I) where x is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, and A and B, independently of one another, are an optionally derivatised carboxyalkyl, carboxyaryl or hydroxyaryl group, and comprises from 0.1 to 15 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of rubber used, of 1,6 -bis(N,N-dibenzylthiocarbamoyldithio)hexane (CAS No.: 151900-44-6).
US09249283B2
The invention relates to a hollow glass microsphere and polymer composite having enhanced viscoelastic and rheological properties.
US09249277B2
Disclosed is a method of making a polystyrene based nanocomposite by combining a monomer with a nanoparticle to form a mixture and subjecting the mixture to polymerization conditions to produce a polymeric composite. In an embodiment the nanoparticle has been treated with an additive prior to combining with the monomer and the additive contains a silane moiety.
US09249268B2
A biaxially oriented film includes a PLA and polyolefin (PLA/PO) blend. The film has a haze of 80% or greater as measured by ASTM-D1003 and a 45° gloss of less than 50% as measured by ASTM-D-2457.
US09249263B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to recyclable polyarylene sulfide that may exhibit and maintain excellent mechanical properties, particularly does not exhibit decrease in melt viscosity when it is molten, and thus, exhibit little deterioration of mechanical properties, and a method for preparing the same. The polyarylene sulfide has initial melt viscosity measured at 300° C. of 300 to 6000 poise, and melt viscosity after heat treated and molten at 300° C., equal to or greater than the initial melt viscosity.
US09249262B2
An object of the invention is to provide a curable organic polymer having superior curability, a method for producing the same, and a curable composition containing the same. An organic polymer (A) including a silicon-containing organic group represented by the general formula (1):— SiR1aR2bXc (1) (wherein, R1 that is present in the number of “a” each independently represents a group including a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms as a basic skeleton, in which at least one hydrogen atom on the carbon atoms of positions 1 to 3 is substituted with an electron-withdrawing group; R2 that is present in the number of “b” each independently represents a C1 to C20 hydrocarbon group, or a triorganosiloxy group represented by the formula of: (R′)3SiO— (wherein, R′ each independently represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms); X that is present in the number of “c” each independently represents a hydrolyzable group or a hydroxyl group; a is 1 or 2; b is 0 or 1; c is 1 or 2; and the relationship of: a+b+c=3 is satisfied) in the number of one or more on average per molecule, a method for producing the same, and a curable composition containing the same are provided.
US09249261B2
Polymeric ionic liquids, methods of making and methods of using the same are disclosed.
US09249253B2
The process of obtaining a polylactide-urethane copolymer is described which includes contacting an α, ω dihydroxyl polylactide prepolymer of general formula I wherein X is NH or O, R is an alkyl or an aryl group, n and n′ are integer numbers which are substantially the same and are in the range from 20 to 140, with a diisocyanate compound of general formula II O═C═N—R′—N═C═O wherein R′ is an alkyl or an aryl group and with an amine or an alcohol of general formula III R″X′]2 wherein R″ is an alkyl or an aryl group and X′ is NH2 or OH, and with the proviso that at least one of R or R″ is an aryl group.
US09249252B2
Provided are microalgal oils having a low polyunsaturated fatty acid profile and derivatives of the oils, including acids, esters, epoxides, hydroxylated acids and esters, urethanes, amides, and polymers thereof. Also provided are compositions comprising the oils and their derivatives and their uses in foodstuffs and in industrial and material applications. The compositions include flexible polyurethane foams prepared from the microalgal oils.
US09249246B2
The piezoelectric and barrier liner for a high-pressure storage vessel is made out of PVDF-TrFE copolymer and the amount of crystallinity in the liner material is over 30%, preferably 35% at least.
US09249231B2
There is provided a motif-specific, context-independent antibody that specifically binds a recurring, modified motif consisting of (i) at least one sumoylated lysine residue, and (ii) one or more degenerate amino acids bound by a peptide bond to said sumoylated lysine residue, said antibody specifically binding said motif in a plurality of non-homologous peptides or proteins within an organism in which it recurs. Also provided is a motif-specific, context-independent antibody that specifically binds a recurring, modified motif consisting of (i) a C-terminal aspartic acid residue, and (ii) one or more degenerate amino acids bound by a peptide bond to said C-terminal aspartic acid residue, said antibody specifically binding said motif in a plurality of non-homologous peptides or proteins within an organism in which it recurs.
US09249229B2
Cancer treatments use a therapy that: 1) interferes with the interaction between CD200 and its receptor to block immune suppression thereby promoting eradication of the cancer cells; and 2) directly kills the cancer cells either by complement-mediated or antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity or by targeting cells using a fusion molecule that includes a CD200-targeting portion.
US09249225B2
Disclosed herein are a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to human CD 133 and single-chain variable fragments thereof. Also disclosed herein is a hybridoma that produces the monoclonal antibody that specifically binds to human CD133.
US09249213B2
The invention relates to neutralizing antibodies, and antibody fragments thereof, having high potency in neutralizing hCMV, wherein said antibodies and antibody fragments are specific for one, or a combination of two or more, hCMV gene UL products. The invention also relates to immortalized B cells that produce, and to epitopes that bind to, such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and epitopes in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of disease.
US09249206B2
Provided herein are glucagon analogs which exhibit potent activity at the GIP receptor, and, as such are contemplated for use in treating diabetes and obesity. In exemplary embodiments, the glucagon analog of the present disclosures exhibit an EC50 at the GIP receptor which is within the nanomolar or picomolar range.
US09249205B2
This invention provides long-acting, superactive analogs of glycoprotein hormones demonstrating enhanced bioactivity both in vitro and in vivo as compared to wild type counterparts. The analogs are particularly useful for treating subjects showing low receptor expression or poor receptor responsiveness, and for the treatment of any condition associated with glycoprotein hormone activity.
US09249202B2
The peptides of the invention comprise (i) a T-cell epitope of an antigen (self or non-self) with a potential to trigger an immune reaction presented by a class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) determinant and recognized by a CD4+ T cell, more specifically, of an allergen or autoantigen, coupled, optionally, through the use of a linker to (ii) an amino acid sequence having a reducing activity, such as a thioreductase sequence. The peptides may be used for the prevention or treatment of immune disorders, more specifically, of allergic disorders or autoimmune diseases. The present invention thus provides methods of treatment or preventing immune disorders by using such peptides.
US09249200B2
Methods, systems and devices are implemented in connection with light-responsive ion channel molecules. One such method is implemented using a light-activated ion channel molecule that responds to a light stimulus. The method includes engineering the light-activated ion channel molecule in a cell; and activating the ion channel molecule, in response to light stimulus that is provided to the ion channel molecule and that has properties that do not activate a ChR2 ion channel, to allow ions to pass through the light-activated ion channel molecule.
US09249189B2
The invention relates to compounds that are analogs of a cyclic peptide, cyclo[EKTOVNOGN] (SEQ ID NO: 13), AFPep, that has anti-estrotrophic activity. The analogs of the invention include peptides and peptidomimetics that inhibit estrogen receptor-dependent cell proliferation. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating cell proliferative disorders or physiological conditions characterized by undesirable or unwanted estrogen induced cell proliferation, including breast cancer.
US09249182B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for purifying antibody products from a sample matrix. In particular, the present invention relates to compositions and methods for purifying antibody products employing hydrophobic interaction chromatography media. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method for reducing process-related impurities (e.g., host cell proteins), as well as product-related substances, including molecular weight variants (e.g., aggregates and fragments of the antibody product).
US09249174B2
Disclosed herein are nucleotide analogs, methods of synthesizing nucleotide analogs and methods of treating diseases and/or conditions such as a HCV infection with one or more nucleotide analogs.
US09249173B2
Provided herein are compounds, compositions and methods for the treatment of liver disorder, including HCV and/or HBV infections. Specifically, compound and compositions of nucleoside derivatives are disclosed, which can be administered either alone or in combination with other anti-viral agents.
US09249167B1
A new cage monovinylgermasilsesquioxanes of the general formula 1, in which R1 are the same and represent a C1 to C6 alkyl group or a cyclopentyl or cyclohexyl group or a phenyl group. The invention also relates to the method of synthesis of cage monovinylgermasilsesquioxanes of the general formula 1.
US09249154B2
Novel compound having the following formula: Also disclosed are a pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, methods for treating cancer using the same, and methods for the synthesis of the same. The novel compounds of the present invention are found to inhibit protein kinases, especially Checkpoint kinase Chk1/Chk2.
US09249142B2
This invention provides compounds of formula (I): wherein R1a, R1b, R1c, R1d, R2a, R2b, X1, X2, and G have values as described in the specification, useful as inhibitors of HDAC6. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of proliferative, inflammatory, infectious, neurological or cardiovascular diseases or disorders.
US09249141B2
The present invention discloses compounds according to Formula I: Wherein R1a, R1b, R2, R4, R5, R6a, R6b, R7, R8, W, X, Cy, and the subscript a are as defined herein.The present invention relates to compounds inhibiting autotaxin (NPP2 or ENPP2), methods for their production, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and methods of treatment using the same, for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of diseases involving fibrotic diseases, proliferative diseases, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, dermatological disorders, and/or abnormal angiogenesis associated diseases by administering the compound of the invention.
US09249132B2
The present invention is directed to novel substituted bicyclic aromatic compounds useful as S-nitrosoglutathione reductase (GSNOR) inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of making and using the same.
US09249131B2
The present invention relates to modulator of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including CF Transmembrane Regulator (“CFTR”), compositions thereof, and methods therewith. The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using such modulators.
US09249130B2
According to the invention there is provided a compound of formula A1 which may be useful in the treatment of a condition or disorder ameliorated by the inhibition of the A1-A2b or, particularly, the A2a receptor wherein the compound of formula A1 has the structure, wherein, A represents Cy1 or HetA; Cy1 represents a 5- to 14-membered aromatic, fully saturated or partially unsaturated carbocyclic ring system comprising one, two or three rings, which Cy1 group is optionally substituted by one or more R4a substituents; HetA represents a 5- to 14-membered heterocyclic group that may be aromatic, fully saturated or partially unsaturated, and which contains one or more heteroatoms selected from O, S and N, which heterocyclic group may comprise one, two or three rings and which HetA group is optionally substituted by one or more R4b substituents; B represents a Cy2 or HetB; Cy2 represents a 3- to 10-membered aromatic, fully saturated or partially unsaturated carbocyclic ring system comprising one or two rings, which Cy2 group is optionally substituted by one or more R4c substituents; HetB represents a 3- to 10-membered heterocyclic group that may be aromatic, fully saturated or partially unsaturated, and which contains one or more heteroatoms selected from O, S and N, which heterocyclic group may comprise one or two rings and which HetB group is optionally substituted by one or more R4d substituents.
US09249121B2
Solid forms comprising 3-(5-amino-2-methyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-piperidine-2,6-dione, compositions comprising the solid forms, methods of making the solid forms and methods of their uses are disclosed.
US09249114B2
Compounds of the formula I in which R, R1, X and Y have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are inhibitors of TBK1 and IKKε and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases.
US09249112B2
The present invention relates to solid forms of the N-methyl-D-glucamine (meglumine) salt of 6-carboxy-2-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-benzoxazole and to methods for their preparation. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one solid form and to the therapeutic or prophylactic use of such solid forms and compositions.
US09249111B2
Chemical entities that are kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer are described. Specifically quinoxaline derivatives of Formula I: and their use in modulating the activity of B-raf and/or mutant B-raf kinase to regulate and modulate abnormal or inappropriate cell proliferation, differentiation, or metabolism are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of treating cancer associated with B-raf and/or mutant B-raf kinase activity in a subject, comprising administering the compounds of Formula I.
US09249109B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for preparing dipeptidyl peptidase-IV inhibitor intermediates. The present invention is able to reduce preparation costs by using low cost reagents on reaction and is able to be used in mass production by improving yield.
US09249108B2
A novel solid form of Rosuvastatin comprises as the active ingredient a salt of bis[(E)-7-[4-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-isopropyl-2-[methyl(methylsulfonyl)-amino]pyrimidin-5-yl]-(3R,5S)-3,5-dihydroxyhept-6-enoic acid] and sorbitol. The crystal comprising the two components, and minor amounts of water, shows improved properties such as crystallization behavior and stability.
US09249099B2
The invention provides crystalline forms of biphenyl-2-ylcarbamic acid 1-(2-{[4-(4-carbamoylpiperidin-1-ylmethyl)benzoyl]methylamino}ethyl)piperidin-4-yl ester, and pharmaceutically acceptable solvates thereof. The crystalline form can be a freebase, or a salt such as a diphosphate, monosulfate or dioxalate salt. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these crystalline compounds or prepared using these compounds; processes and intermediates for preparing the crystalline compounds; and methods of using these compounds to treat a pulmonary disorder.
US09249096B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): as defined in the specification and compositions comprising any of such novel compounds. These compounds are endothelial lipase inhibitors which may be used as medicaments. The disclosure also provides a novel method of treating diseases or conditions related to the activity of endothelial lipase by use of compounds according to Formula (II): as defined in the specification and compositions comprising any of the compounds.
US09249094B2
A process for preparing an N-vinyl compound by vinylating a compound having at least one nitrogen atom (referred to hereinafter as compound for short) with acetylene, wherein before the vinylation, the compound is reacted with an alkali metal hydroxide in a reaction zone and the mean residence time of the alkali metal hydroxide and of the compound in the reaction zone is less than 6 minutes.
US09249093B2
This invention relates to novel substituted styryl benzylsulfones that are multikinase inhibitors and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. The invention also provides compositions comprising a compound of this invention and the use of such compositions in methods of treating diseases and conditions beneficially treated by an agent that inhibits kinases, such as phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K) and polo-like kinase (PLK-1).
US09249089B2
This invention provides, but is not limited to, novel oleanolic acid derivatives having the formula: wherein the variables are defined herein. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, methods and intermediates useful for making the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
US09249088B2
A process for producing a reaction product of a diazo compound, which process comprises: a. continuously supplying to a first reactor a precursor of a diazo compound; a water-miscible solvent; a base and water; b. mixing the precursor of a diazo compound; the water-miscible solvent; the base and water to generate a diazo compound; c. continuously removing from the first reactor, through a hydrophobic membrane, into a second reactor the formed diazo compound; d. continuously removing from the first reactor all reaction products that have not passed into the second reactor; e. continuously supplying to the second reactor a substrate in a non-water-miscible solvent; f. mixing the above components to generate a reaction product of a diazo compound; and g. continuously removing from the second reactor the non-water-miscible solvent and the reaction product of the diazo compound, and apparatus suitable for carrying out such a process.
US09249087B2
Histone deacetylases inhibitors (HDACIs) and compositions containing the same are disclosed. Methods of treating diseases and conditions wherein inhibition of HDAC provides a benefit, like a cancer, a neurodegenerative disorder, a peripheral neuropathy, a neurological disease, traumatic brain injury, stroke, hypertension, malaria, an autoimmune disease, autism, autism spectrum disorders, and inflammation, also are disclosed.
US09249079B2
The invention relates to a process for increasing the carbon monoxide content of a feed gas mixture comprising carbon dioxide, hydrogen and carbon monoxide via a catalytic reversed water gas shift reaction, comprising the steps of (1) heating the feed gas mixture having an initial feed temperature of at most 350° C. in a first zone to a temperature within a reaction temperature range in the presence of a first catalyst; and (2) contacting the heated feed gas in a second zone within the reaction temperature range with a second catalyst. This process shows relatively high conversion of carbon dioxide, and virtually no methane or coke is being formed, allowing stable operation.
US09249076B2
Provided herein are processes comprising providing a fermentation medium comprising a fermentable carbon source, a recombinant microorganism comprising an engineered butanol biosynthetic pathway, and butanol; contacting said fermentation medium with an extractant composition comprising an effective amount of antioxidant or antioxidant-like compound, whereby at least a portion of the butanol in the fermentation medium partitions into the extractant; recovering at least a portion of the butanol and extractant composition from the fermentation medium; recycling the extractant composition recovered in (c) one or more times in the fermentation medium; optionally adjusting the effective amount of antioxidant or antioxidant-like compound in the extractant composition, whereby the rate of oxidation or effect of oxidized products in the recycled extractant composition is substantially reduced and/or avoided such that the extractant composition may be recycled.
US09249073B2
The invention pertains to a process for preparing a succinic acid ester comprising the steps of bringing an aqueous liquid comprising succinic acid, alcohol, and at least 5 wt. % of a dissolved chloride salt selected from magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, and zinc chloride, calculated on the weight of the liquid, to reaction conditions, thereby obtaining a succinic acid ester, and recovering the succinic acid ester and an aqueous solution comprising the dissolved chloride salt. It has been found that the process according to the invention shows a high yield and has a high reaction rate. Additionally, it has been found that the process makes it possible to carry out the separation of the succinic acid ester from the aqueous reaction medium in high yield.
US09249064B2
A method and system for converting intermittent renewable energy and renewable carbonaceous feedstock to non-intermittent renewable electrical and thermal energy, storing it as fuels and chemicals and using it to capture and re-use or dispose of CO2 emissions. The system in a preferred embodiment is realized through the generation of non-intermittent renewable electricity utilizing intermittent renewable energy sources along with gaseous fuel from renewable carbonaceous feedstock, producing oxygen and hydrogen from non-intermittent renewable electricity and utilizing the oxygen and hydrogen as required for gasification of renewable carbonaceous feedstock to produce gaseous fuel stream and gaseous intermediate stream, utilizing the gaseous intermediate stream to produce renewable fuels and renewable chemicals, and utilizing oxygen for oxy-rich combustion for concentrating CO2 emissions for easy processing, re-use and disposal.
US09249054B2
A containment element for a pressure containment assembly, comprising mullite or a polymorph of mullite.
US09249052B2
A cement reinforcing fiber of the present invention is a cement reinforcing fiber made of a polyolefin fiber, wherein a fiber treating agent is adhered to a surface of the polyolefin fiber, and the fiber treating agent is a polyoxyethylene alkyl phosphoric ester salt. One preferred polyoxyethylene alkyl phosphoric ester salt is a compound represented by chemical formula (2) below. A cured cement of the present invention contains the above-described cement reinforcing fiber. In the chemical formula (2) above, R is an alkyl group with a carbon number of 2 to 20, A is an alkali metal element, and n is 1 to 20.
US09249045B2
A lithium-containing, transparent glass-ceramic material is provided. The material has low thermal expansion and has an amorphous, lithium-depleted, vitreous surface zone. The zone is at least 50 nm thick on all sides and encloses a crystalline interior, which has high transmission. The material includes a transition region connecting the zone and the interior.
US09249039B1
A process for separating a sludge stream containing particulate matter into a stream containing predominantly clarified water and a stream containing predominantly particulate matter is disclosed. The process involves passing the sludge stream through a solid reagent contactor bed composed of solid reagent tablets having a copolymer composition for particle aggregation as described in U.S. Pat. No. 8,076,391. The dissolution of the solid reagent tablets into the sludge stream treats the sludge and makes it amenable for the speedy settling of concentrated sludge at the bottom of a sludge concentrator tank leaving a relatively clean water phase to rise to the top. The process is particularly useful for recovering water from mining sludge.
US09249038B2
A water purifier includes a filter part to filter water, a storage part to store the water filtered by the filter part, and a separation unit to partition a space within the storage part into a plurality of spaces. A contact part is disposed between an inner surface of the storage part and the separation unit.
US09249035B2
A method of treating water to reduce pollutants comprises mixing an adsorbent reagent with the water to form a water-adsorbant reagent mixture. Thereafter, subjecting the mixture to a liquid-solids separation process that produces treated water and sludge. The method further includes contacting the water or treated water with a living aquatic organism wherein the value of at least one property of the organism is correlated to the concentration of pollutants in the water. This value is evaluated and the method entails adjusting the quantity of adsorbent reagent mixed with the water as a function of the value of the property.
US09249027B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for exfoliation of graphene, comprising a chamber which has a through-hole formed at one surface thereof; a cylinder which receives graphite and a volatile material to be vaporized at room temperature and has an opening to be corresponding to the through-hole of the chamber, and which is disposed at an outside of the chamber; a clamp which is disposed in the chamber to pass through the through-hole of the chamber and thus selectively seal the opening of the cylinder; and an operation mechanism which is connected with the clamp and moves the clamp so that the opening of the cylinder is selectively sealed by the clamp. Therefore, it is not necessary to use an acid like sulfuric acid, and it is also not necessary to perform a thermal treatment process for removing sulfuric acid.
US09249003B2
A tool holder for a bucket lift is disclosed. The tool holder includes a backboard having left, right, front and back sides. A left side member and a right side member are attached to the left side and right side, respectively, of the backboard. A scabbard portion is attached to the front side of the backboard; the scabbard portion forms a pocket between the scabbard portion and backboard. A left hook and a right hook extend from the left side member and right side member respectively, the left hook and right hook are configured and arranged to couple to a bucket of an aerial bucket lift.
US09249001B2
A universal load-handling device to be used with an industrial truck comprising a longitudinal support fixable in a transverse direction to a lifting carrier in a transversally displaceable manner by a longitudinal-support drive; a plurality of prongs and a plurality of linear conveyors respectively assigned to the prongs, wherein the linear conveyors protrude vertically over the prongs, in order to carry the loading goods on the linear conveyors and to move the loading goods in the transverse direction relative to the prongs; and wherein the prongs are supported on the longitudinal support by a width-adjustment drive so that they are displaceable longitudinally.
US09248991B2
A media transport module comprising: a transport extending from a pick coupling area to a stacking port; and a retractable guide. The retractable guide is moveable to extend beyond the stacking port when media items are being stacked and thereby guide media items ejected from the stacking port onto a carriage plate. The retractable guide is also moveable to retract to the stacking port when media items have been stacked so that the carriage plate can close without touching the retractable guide.
US09248986B2
A sheet feeding device comprising a tray, a sheet feeder, first and second guide members, a separator, and an inclined guide portion. The first guide member disposed downstream of the tray and includes a first inclined surface that contacts and guides the sheets. The separator separates the sheets from other lower sheets. The second guide member is disposed downstream of the first guide member and includes a second inclined surface that contacts the sheets. The second inclined surface is inclined more steeply than the first inclined surface relative to a supporting surface of the tray. A first inclined guide portion extends from an upper end portion of the first guide member and includes a third inclined surface that contacts the sheets. The third inclined surface is inclined more steeply than the first inclined surface.
US09248978B2
A positioning device for a polarization plate is disposed adjacent to a transferring roller for receiving the polarization plate transferred from the transferring roller and further roughly positioning the polarization plate. The positioning device includes a positioning platform, a driving mechanism; and a conveying mechanism located under the positioning platform and connected to the driving mechanism. The conveying mechanism is capable of being driven to move upwards relative to the positioning platform by the driving mechanism to be partly exposed above the positioning platform. The positioning device ensures that the whole polarization plate can enter the positioning platform from the transferring roller and be transferred to the target position.
US09248977B2
A parts feeder has a vortex chamber with a wall disposed generally symmetrically about an axis and into which bulk parts are fed. A vortex generator disposed at a narrow end of the chamber generates a spiral vortex that rises up the wall. Parts entrained in the vortex are separated and oriented by the vortex. Properly oriented parts are successively able to pass through an outlet port to exit the vortex chamber; thus continuously feeding parts. An opening extends through the vortex generator. Defective parts, oversize parts, and parts which are tangled or held together may readily be removed from the vortex chamber through the opening.
US09248973B1
An inventory system has mobile drive units that freely and independently move about a facility to transport inventory holders. The mobile drive units may operate through communications with other drive units, or under a more centralized control of a management module. For various operating scenarios, the mobile drive units are directed to shuffle the inventory holders in a manner that minimizes travel of the mobile drive units, thereby improving overall system efficiency. One or more single mobile drive units may be used to transport inventory holders to and from a region, and one or more other mobile drive units may be used to reposition or slide each of the inventory holders back and forth within the region to efficiently place inventory holders before an operator on an as-needed basis.
US09248968B2
A product storage apparatus for collectively storing processed products includes an endless loop member that is circularly moved along a path, plural holders each of which is fixed to the endless loop member with a predetermined pitch and holds the processed products, and a drive unit that circularly moves the endless loop member to circularly move the plurality of holders intermittently by stopping the endless loop member temporarily at every move by a mathematical product of the pitch and a natural number n. According to the product storage apparatus, it is possible to store the processed products with high space efficiency.
US09248965B1
This disclosure describes systems and methods for automatically verifying the processing of items within a materials handling facility. In many instances one or more items are processed in a materials handling facility and an agent processing the item must place the item in a designated container so that the item can be routed to the appropriate destination. By using image capture and analysis, the placement of the item in the appropriate container can be verified without requiring the agent to scan or otherwise identify the container into which the item was placed.
US09248961B2
A security lock for a storage tank includes a lock ring configured for engaging an opening that provides access to the storage tank. A suitable mounting assembly is used to mount the lock ring to the opening. One or more obstructions are disposed within an inside (and/or outside) area of the lock ring. The one or more obstructions define one or more openings that are sized to allow storage tank contents to be introduced through the security lock while blocking pipes, tube or other implements that are larger than the openings so that such implements cannot be used for siphoning or otherwise removing the storage tank contents.
US09248960B2
A dual-tank liquid storage tank system comprises a lined primary storage tank disposed within a lined secondary tank. Construction of the system involves rolling out a secondary tank liner over an engineered base course, and then laying out a primary tank liner over the secondary tank liner, with an outer portion of the primary tank liner rolled up to fit within the primary tank perimeter. The primary tank's perimeter wall is then assembled from wall panels resting on the secondary tank liner, and then the primary tank liner rolled out and deployed over the primary tank wall. An outer portion of the secondary tank liner is then rolled up toward the primary tank wall, and the secondary tank's perimeter wall is assembled from wall panels resting on the base course. The secondary tank liner is then rolled out and deployed over the secondary tank wall.
US09248959B2
A an intermodal container comprising: a first post; a second post; a third post; a fourth post; a floor drain hole located in one of the posts; an outlet drain hole located in one of the posts; a floor attached to the first, second, third, and fourth posts, the floor comprising: a front floor beam; a first side floor beam; a second side floor beam; a rear floor beam; a floor grating permanently attached to the top surface of at least two of the floor beams; at least one floor plate permanently attached to the bottom sides of the front, first side, second side, and rear floor beams, the beams and at least one floor plate forming a floor container, and the floor drain hole in fluid communication with the floor container, and generally at the same elevation as the interior of the floor container, and the outlet drain hole located at an elevation below the floor drain hole and the floor container, the floor container in fluid communication with the interior of the post with the floor drain hole and also in fluid communication with the interior of the post with the outlet drain hole.
US09248954B2
A cartridge for beverage dispensing machine is provided with outlet means (9B, 14) that are opened by the combined action of a mechanical compression and internal pressurization of the cartridge.
US09248952B2
A dispenser for conduit and related components and tools is provided. In one form, the dispenser includes a first container configured to receive tubing and a second container configured to be connected to the first container. The second container has one or more compartments for containing one or more components or tools for use with the tubing.
US09248945B2
A mouthpiece structure for a pressure vessel includes a liner made of a synthetic resin, and constituting a vessel body and a cylindrical part communicating between an interior and an exterior of the vessel body, a cylindrical mouthpiece mounted closely to an inner periphery of the cylindrical part, a retainer having a covering portion which covers regions of outer surfaces of the cylindrical part and the mouthpiece respectively and a peripheral wall surrounding the cylindrical part, the cylindrical part and the mouthpiece having an interface between an inner periphery of the cylindrical part and an outer periphery of the mouthpiece, the interface having a distal end facing the regions, a first sealing member disposed between the mouthpiece and the covering portion, and a second sealing member disposed between the cylindrical part and the peripheral wall of the retainer.
US09248943B2
A crown system includes a crown having a top surface and a bottom surface and a liner having a top surface that contacts a bottom surface of the crown. The liner is configured to absorb oxygen in a headspace and includes at least about 2.2 micromoles of sodium sulfite per cubic millimeter in a volume of the liner to a depth of about 0.003 millimeter from a bottom surface of the liner.
US09248935B2
A dispensing container is provided, the container including an outer shell comprising a top, a bottom, sidewalls extending between the top and bottom, and two ends, at least one end being open; an inner tray, slidably received within the outer shell, comprising at least one storage compartment adapted for storage of a plurality of units of a product to be dispensed, and comprising at least one depressible detent, the detent comprising a raised surface that abuts the outer shell; wherein, in a closed configuration, the detent holds the inner tray within the outer shell, and wherein the at least one detent may be depressed by pressure to allow the inner tray to slide relative to the outer shell.
US09248934B2
A packaging container for dry granular products includes a rectangular container body, and a rectangular cover defining a sleeve surrounding the container body in sliding engagement, both of folded sheet material. The container body having a first pair of opposed width defining sides, a second pair of opposed height defining sides, and a third pair of opposed length defining sides perpendicular to the width and height defined by the first and second pairs of opposed sides. The container body has at least one product discharge opening in second pairs of opposite sides. The cover is slidable over the first and second pairs of opposed sides of the container body between a closed position in which the cover overlies at least one product discharge opening and an open position in which at least one product discharge opening is partially exposed by the cover.
US09248931B2
A device for removing a ring-shaped label from a pack of substantially identical, abutting ring-shaped labels comprises a pick-up head which is provided with a stop surface and retaining devices for holding a ring-shaped label against the stop surface. The device comprises a storage holder for accommodating the pack of ring-shaped labels. A displacement device can displace the pack of ring-shaped labels from a storage position, in which the pack of ring-shaped labels is situated at a distance from the stop surface of the pick-up head, to a discharge position, in which the pack of ring-shaped labels is pushed against the stop surface of the pick-up head by means of an outer ring-shaped label. A blast of air is delivered when the outer ring-shaped label is held against the stop surface of the pick-up head. The blast of air is directed laterally between the outer ring-shaped label and the adjacent ring-shaped label of the pack of ring-shaped labels, so that the adjacent ring-shaped label is blown off the outer ring-shaped label.
US09248927B2
A work insertion device that can be constituted as a small, low-cost device has a structure where a transfer disk having many storage holes formed through its outer periphery part is placed such that its rotation center line is inclined upward to form a sharp angle α with a vertical line and that some of the many storage holes are positioned in the work storage chamber. The works stored in bulk state in the work storage chamber are directly stored in some of the many storage holes positioned in the work storage chamber by utilizing the intermittent turning of the transfer disk.
US09248908B1
A helicopter has a propulsion system that includes a diesel engine driven electric generator, battery storage, power inverters for converting AC current to DC current and converting DC current to AC current, and an electric motor powered main rotor and an electric motor powered tail rotor. The propulsion system is integrated with electric controls of the main rotor electric motor and the tail rotor electric motor to provide additional system efficiencies. The design of the helicopter allows a single engine helicopter to be just as safe as a twin engine design helicopter while consuming less fuel. The helicopter design also includes a main rotor tilt system which tilts the rotation axis of the main rotor forward during high-speed flight to improve the aerodynamic efficiency of the helicopter airframe and rotary wing.
US09248901B2
An airframe structural element, such as an aircraft rib, is disclosed that comprises an integral pipe connector element for connecting pipes through the structural element. The pipe connection means provided by the pipe connector element may be aligned on a common axis with a pipe connection means provided by an adjacent airframe structural element.
US09248900B2
A tip fairing of a horizontal airfoil of an aircraft is provided. The tip fairing comprises stiffening elements and a skin covering the stiffening elements. The stiffening elements comprise a central web and two flanges located at the tips of the web, with contact between the skin and the stiffening elements being made through the flanges of the stiffening elements. The tip fairing is manufactured from a composite material, is manufactured from a single part, and the planes defining the webs of any pair of stiffening elements taken in twos form an angle less than about 30°.
US09248889B2
A stand-up paddle board is formed by a core surrounded by a skin. The core is manufactured by creating an upper core member mold and a lower core member mold, corresponding to the top and bottom of the core. The upper core member and lower core member includes a concave surface filled by a lattice-shaped matrix. The core members and the matrices are molded to be complimentary in shape, such that the surface of each matrix and the surrounding upper and lower core members adjoin each other and are connected by an adhesive to create an air-tight core having air-tight matrix chambers. The completed core is then surrounded by a conventional paddle board skin.
US09248887B1
An inflatable boat includes a hull-bottom backing sheet member, a hull-bottom top sheet member, transom strips bonded between the hull-bottom backing sheet member and the hull-bottom top sheet member, left and right sheet members bonded to the hull-bottom backing sheet member outside the hull-bottom top sheet member to form two lateral air chambers and to have the bonding areas between the hull-bottom backing sheet member and the left and right sheet members be kept above the waterline, and a V-shaped front piece formed on the middle of the front side of the hull bottom of the inflatable boat for breaking water (waves).
US09248877B1
A vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a power unit supported by the vehicle body frame, a steering system supported by the vehicle body frame, a pair of driving wheels spaced apart from each other in a vehicle width direction, a transmission unit that transmits a driving force generated by the power unit to the pair of driving wheels and causes the pair of driving wheels to always rotate at the same rotation speed, and a vehicle body vibration control damper extending between a first portion and a second portion spaced apart from each other, each of the first portion and the second portion being located on the vehicle body frame or a member fixed to the vehicle body frame, and generating a damping force relative to the vibration that changes a distance between the first portion and the second portion.
US09248876B2
An omnidirectional vehicle has a driving module and a mobile industrial robot. The omnidirectional vehicle has omnidirectional wheels and a vehicle body, on which at least one of the omnidirectional wheels is mounted by means of an individual suspension.
US09248860B2
A number of variations may include a center tunnel assembly which may include a series of truss structures.
US09248855B2
Disclosed is a steering system which is capable of ensuring that a wheeled excavator travels straight while being driven on a paved road. The steering system for wheeled construction equipment includes: a hydraulic oil pump; a steering motor connected to the hydraulic oil pump; a steering valve controlling the operation of the steering motor; a steering handle operating the steering motor and the steering valve according to steering manipulation by the driver; and a steering cylinder steered by the manipulation of the steering handle. The steering system further includes an idle mode control unit which converts working mode into a steering mode not having straight line driving recovery performance when working mode, in which working and driving are enabled, is selected, and which converts exclusive driving mode into a steering mode having the straight line driving recovery performance through a signal input when the exclusive driving mode, in which only driving is enabled, is selected.
US09248854B2
A steering control system includes a steering circuit, a primary control circuit and a redundant control circuit. The primary control circuit includes primary proportional control valves, and a primary pilot valve having a thermal bleed of pilot fluid to warm the primary pilot valve when not operating to control the steering circuit. The redundant control circuit includes secondary proportional control valves, and a pressure reducing valve having a thermal bleed orifice allowing fluid flow to warm the pressure reducing valve when not operating to control the steering circuit. The thermal bleeds may also flow past the proportional control valves to raise their temperatures. The circuits of the steering control system are contained in a single valve group housing.
US09248853B2
An abnormality diagnosing method is provided for a torque detecting device and an electric power steering device is provided using the torque detecting device. Immediately after the power supply is turned on and before steering auxiliary control is started, initial diagnosis is performed to determine that each monitoring block for monitoring an abnormality of a signal processing circuit constituting a torque detecting device operates normally. The initial diagnosis determines that a monitoring block is operating normally, by inputting a normal signal and an abnormal signal to the monitoring block alternately, and finding that the monitoring block carries out normal diagnosis when it receives the normal signal and that it carries out abnormal diagnosis when it receives the abnormal signal. Once all of the monitoring blocks are determined as normal, the steering auxiliary control based on a steering torque detected by the torque detecting device is started.
US09248851B2
Steering wheel hand detection systems are disclosed herein. The systems can optionally be used with a system for identifying the presence and/or location of a driver's hands on the steering wheel. The systems include a sensor mat including a plurality of sensor loops arranged in the steering wheel to achieve multiple sensing zones. Because the systems include a sensor mat including a plurality of sensor loops, the systems can be implemented in steering wheels having different designs. The systems can also be implemented to achieve different numbers and/or types (e.g., tap detection, swipe detection, grip detection, etc.) of sensing zones. Additionally, the systems can be implemented in a way that reduces the likelihood of crosstalk due to wire routing.
US09248845B2
A torque support for the articulated mutual support of two elements is provided, for example, a frame or a bogie on the one hand and a housing such as a final drive housing of a rail vehicle on the other hand. The torque support includes a rod, at the two ends of which one respective receiver head is arranged. The receiver head includes a bearing for accommodating a bolt which is used for support on the respective element. The rod is arranged as a sleeve at least in the region of its two ends and the bearing includes a socket which is arranged in the radial direction of the bolt between the bolt and the receiver head and is supported on the receiver head via at least one further bearing element. The socket includes a bulbous section in the manner of a universal ball joint on its outer circumference.
US09248834B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and responding to objects in a vehicle's environment. For example, an object may be identified in a vehicle's environment, the object having a heading and location. A set of possible actions for the object may be generated using map information describing the vehicle's environment and the heading and location of the object. A set of possible future trajectories of the object may be generated based on the set of possible actions. A likelihood value of each trajectory of the set of possible future trajectories may be determined based on contextual information including a status of the detected object. A final future trajectory is determined based on the determined likelihood value for each trajectory of the set of possible future trajectories. The vehicle is then maneuvered in order to avoid the final future trajectory and the object.
US09248826B2
A control device (10) includes: target deceleration calculation means (101) for calculating a target deceleration by using a target deceleration map in which a target deceleration is set for each vehicle speed; command power-generation torque calculation means (102) for calculating a command power-generation torque based on the target deceleration, a rotation speed of a power generator (2), and a transmission gear ratio of a transmission (3); and command Duty calculation means (103) for calculating a command Duty based on the command power-generation torque, and the rotation speed and an output voltage of the power generator (2). The target deceleration map is calculated based on a vehicle-speed shift in accordance with actual running conditions when a vehicle is decelerating with fuel stop.
US09248816B2
A hydraulic unit for a braking system of a vehicle includes a body with actuator-side and brake-side ports. Inlet and outlet valves are positioned in the body and operable to selectively supply and relieve hydraulic fluid to/from the wheel cylinder of a brake via the brake-side port. A damper is positioned in the body for damping pressure pulsations in the hydraulic fluid. The damper is selectively operable in a first state having a first damping characteristic, and in a second state having a second damping characteristic different from the first damping characteristic.
US09248808B2
A heated wiper assembly includes a wiping element adapted to contact a surface to be wiped. The heated wiper assembly also includes at least one elongated beam acting to support the wiping element. The heated wiper assembly further includes a pair of end caps operatively mounted to ends of the beam and an airfoil operatively mounted to the beam and extending between the end caps. The heated wiper assembly includes a plurality of heating elements extending longitudinally along lateral sides of the airfoil adjacent the wiping element to heat the wiping element to resist snow and ice build-up on the wiper assembly.
US09248805B2
A brake lock for a riding mower. The brake lock may include a shaft having a first end and a second end. A blocker may be attached to the first end and a shackle may be attached to the second end. The present invention may further include a padlock having a shackle hole and an activation component that locks and unlocks the padlock. The shaft may be placed within a brake housing blocking a brake handle from moving. The shackle of the shaft may be locked within the shackle hole and may thereby lock the brake handle in a braked position.
US09248804B2
In a steering device having a steering lock device and a telescopic clamp device, the strength of a column in a key-locked state and the force of telescopic clamping are secured. A flange section and ribs are formed between a through hole which a lock pin comes in and leaves and a slit for reducing the inner circumferential diameter of an outer column so as to increase the strength of the outer column. Hence, both the strength of the outer column against the bending moment applied to the lock pin in a key-locked state and the strength of the outer column against telescopic clamping effected by reducing the inner peripheral diameter of the outer column can be secured.
US09248801B2
A plastic cover element (10) for a driver airbag module having a side wall (22) extending from a lower end (22a) to an upper end (22b), enclosing an interior space. The upper end (22b) is covered by an overlap (30) which extends in a radial direction across the side wall (22) and in an axial direction back toward the lower end (22a) of the side wall (22), forming a screen section (32) extending generally parallel to the side wall. The outside surface of the overlap has at least one groove (40) to receive the sewn edge of a casing. An axial section (44) of the groove (40) extends into the lower end area of the screen section (32) and in the area of this axial section (44) and at least one reinforcing rib extends parallel to it between the screen section (32) and the side wall (22).
US09248798B2
A bolster assembly for a vehicle is provided, the bolster assembly comprising a body, and a plurality of brackets provided on a front surface of the body, the plurality of brackets being arranged in paired sets. Also provided is a plurality of energy absorbing elements, wherein each of the plurality of energy absorbing elements is operably associated with a respective bracket, and where within each paired set of brackets, the energy absorbing elements are disposed in adjacent relationship separated by a gap. Each paired set of brackets is aligned with a frame structure provided in the vehicle, the frame structure having a width greater than the gap. Upon a crash event and forward displacement of the body, the paired sets of brackets engage the frame structure, the energy absorbing elements deforming during the forward displacement to absorb energy.
US09248797B2
A seat belt device includes a belt reel on which a webbing is wound, an electric brush motor for driving the belt reel, a motor control part that performs drive control of the electric brush motor, a voltage detecting part that detects a voltage generated between both terminals of the electric brush motor, and a failure determining part that determines whether the electric brush motor has failed or not on the basis of the presence or absence of a voltage having a frequency component caused by the drive control of the electric brush motor that is detected by the voltage detecting part while the electric brush motor is driven by the motor control part.
US09248787B2
A vehicle interior part includes a main wall portion, a flange portion, a clip mount base, a protrusion, and a sealing member. The clip mount base includes a projecting wall and a base. The projecting wall projects from an opposed surface of the flange portion away from a distal end of the flange portion. The base projects from a distal end of the projecting wall. The protrusion protrudes from the opposed surface between the projecting wall and the distal end of the flange portion and has a first height on a first side closer to the distal end of the flange portion and a second height on a second side closer to the clip mount base. The first height is greater than the second height. The sealing member is disposed on the opposed surface between the protrusion and the distal end of the flange portion.
US09248775B2
A portable fluid storage system for use during frac jobs or other operations requiring storage of water or other fluids. The system comprises a lower chamber and an upper chamber sized to fit within the lower chamber. A lift system, such as screw jacks or rack and pinion gears, is disposed to move the lower chamber from a collapsed position to an extended position where the upper chamber is positioned above the lower chamber. A seal is disposed to engage the upper chamber and the lower chamber when the system is in the extended position. The upper chamber, the seal, and the lower chamber form a water tight compartment when the system is in the extended position. The system is transported as a traditional frac tank with a tractor or other truck. When positioned for use, the storage system is expanded to hold twice as much fluid as a traditional tank.
US09248771B2
A number of variations of the invention may include a vehicle having a doorframe gantry lift system for raising and lowering a cargo module in the doorframe. A number of variations of the invention may include a cargo module having at least a first lift structure constructed and arranged to mate with a first lift structure of a vehicle doorframe gantry lift system.
US09248770B2
A rotating cup holder includes a static sidewall forming part of the cup holder and a dynamic sidewall forming part of the cupholder. The static sidewall includes a plurality of guide tracks and a landing support between the plurality of guide tracks. The dynamic sidewall is rotatable between a collapsed state and an expanded state. The dynamic sidewall includes a plurality of ribs slidably disposed within the guide tracks of the static sidewall while the dynamic sidewall is in the collapsed state. The ribs extend away from the guide tracks in the expanded state. The dynamic sidewall also includes at least one end connector linking an adjacent pair of the ribs. The end connector rests on the landing support of the static sidewall in the expanded state.
US09248763B2
A vehicle seating system is provided that includes a first link having a first end rotatably coupled to a base, and a second link having a first end rotatably coupled to the base. The vehicle seating system also includes a main tube extending between a second end of the first link and a second end of the second link. The main tube is configured to transfer torque between the first and second links. The vehicle seating system further includes an energy management feature configured to facilitate rotation of the first link relative to the second link if a torque applied to the main tube exceeds a threshold value.
US09248762B2
An arrangement in a passenger vehicle, that provides a mechanism for reducing the peak inertial loading on the occupant including children during acceleration relative to the vehicle under impact.
US09248757B2
The invention relates to method for positioning a rock drilling rig and to a rock drilling rig. The rock drilling rig is moved using combustion-engine-free drive equipment with an electric drive motor. The torque is transmitted from the drive motor to the traction wheels over a mechanical anti-slip transmission connection. The ratio between the drive motor rotation rate and the traction wheel rotation rate is kept constantly the same during positioning. The drive motor is not only used for moving but also for stopping.
US09248756B2
A system for controlling battery charging in a vehicle includes a traction battery and a controller. The controller is configured to charge the traction battery to a SOC that is less than a maximum SOC based on an amount of charge predicted to be received from an anticipated regenerative braking event. The regenerative braking event is anticipated to occur during the next drive cycle. The target SOC may be set such that, upon occurrence of the anticipated regenerative braking event, the traction battery achieves the maximum SOC.
US09248752B2
A charging control system that controls charging of a plurality of vehicles that run on electricity includes: an assignment unit that assigns an order of priority relating to charging to the plurality of vehicles based on a predetermined index; a receiving unit that receives electric power demands that are requested from an electric power supply side; and a control unit that selects from among the plurality of vehicles in the order of highest priority charging-object vehicles in which the ON/OFF setting for turning charging ON and OFF is to be set to ON, and sets the ON/OFF setting of charging-object vehicles to the ON setting. The control unit changes the number of charging-object vehicles in response to changes in electric power demands over time.
US09248749B2
A vehicle charging equipment includes a charging equipment main body, a charging cable, a charge connector to be fitted to a vehicle-side connector and having a release button, a release button circuit to which voltage is applied from the vehicle to detect depression of the release button, a winding-up device to wind up the charging cable, a fit determination means for determining the fitting of the charge connector to the vehicle-side connector, and an automatic winding-up controller. The fit determination means includes a voltage detection unit and a fit determination portion, the voltage detection unit detecting voltage applied to the release button circuit to detect depression of the release button, and the fit determination portion determining the fitting of the vehicle-side connector based on the voltage detected. The automatic winding-up controller determines removal of the charge connector from the vehicle-side connector based on the determination by the fit determination means.
US09248742B2
A motor vehicle has a driver assistance device which is designed to guide the motor vehicle independently and can be switched between several assistance modes which differ in a degree of autonomy of the driver assistance device when driving the motor vehicle. An operating device having several operating elements allows the user to adjust respective driving parameters, which determine a driving behavior of the driver assistance device, in at least one of the assistance modes as a function of an activation of the operating elements. The operating device is designed in the form of a palm rest. Some of the operating elements are arranged on a support body. The support body is mounted such that it can be manually rotated about a vertical axis, and the driver assistance device is designed to adjust the currently active assistance mode as a function of a rotary position of the support body.
US09248739B2
A driving force distribution control apparatus for a four-wheel drive vehicle includes a basic distribution determination device and a servo controller. The basic distribution determination device is configured to determine basic distribution of a driving force to secondary drive wheels in accordance with the driving force and driving conditions of the vehicle. The basic distribution determination device includes a tire force limit determination device and an arithmetic device. The tire force limit determination device is configured to calculate a tire required acceleration in accordance with the driving conditions of the vehicle and configured to output a basic distribution adjustment signal having a characteristic that gradually decreases a ratio of the basic distribution for the secondary drive wheels to zero in a transient region in which the calculated tire required acceleration is lower than a predetermined threshold value.
US09248735B2
A liquid fuel trap device for a vehicle fuel system includes a housing forming a confined space and including an outlet port connectable to a fuel vapor recovery system via a fuel vapor passage; and a valve capable of discharging liquid fuel from the confined space into a fuel tank. The housing includes at least two retention devices adapted to impede fuel in the housing from reaching the outlet port in angled positions of the housing.
US09248734B2
A working vehicle, including: an engine housed inside a bonnet of a front part of a vehicle-body; a purification processing device which performs purification processing of exhaust gas that is discharged from the engine; and an exhaust member which discharges the exhaust gas that is discharged from the purification processing device, to an atmosphere, wherein the exhaust member has: a first exhaust part which protrudes from the bonnet to one side in a vehicle-width direction; a second exhaust part which communicates with an end part of the first exhaust part, and is disposed in an up-and-down direction of the vehicle-body; and a third exhaust part which communicates with an end part of the second exhaust part, and protrudes to the one side in the vehicle-width direction, and a height of an exhaust port of the third exhaust part is lower than a height of a floor of an operator seat.
US09248731B2
A hybrid work vehicle having a direct-current electric power bus for connecting at least an electric power controller, an electric machine for driving the vehicle, a reversible electric machine, and a battery.
US09248725B2
A panoramic vehicle sunroof system is provided. The panoramic sunroof system has a movable roof panel operable to define a sunroof opening extending generally from a front pillar to a rear pillar. A sunroof controller is configured to receive input indicative of vehicle speed and automatically control movement of the panel. The sunroof controller commands movement of the roof panel from a first open position to a second open position having an opening distance less than in the first position when speed exceeds a threshold. In the second position, wind noise is reduced.
US09248718B2
An adjustment device (1) for a chassis of a vehicle. The adjustment device includes at least one spindle (2), at least one slide-block (3), an axial guide (5) for the slide-block (3) and at least one connecting element (4, 17). The connecting element (4) is arranged, on the one hand, in a rotationally fixed manner on the spindle (2), and, on the other hand, is connected to the slide-block (3). The adjustment device (1) has an articulated joint (21) provided between the connecting element (4) and the slide-block (3).
US09248713B2
A safety chain engaging device for a towing vehicle having a gooseneck hitch attached with a rail of the towing vehicle is shown and described. The safety chain engaging device may include a first bracket configured to be secured with the rail of the towing vehicle, and a second bracket attached with the first bracket, the second bracket including a plate member spaced from the first bracket. The safety chain engaging device may also include at least one safety chain engaging member secured with the plate member, where the safety chain engaging member is configured to be laterally spaced from the rail upon securement of the first bracket with the rail.
US09248712B2
An automobile tire anti-skid chain includes lateral chains, one or more longitudinal chains, two tightening side chains and connecting parts. The longitudinal chain has an anti-skid blocks combination and a single anti-skid block in longitudinal alternate series connection. The lateral chain has an anti-skid blocks combination and a single anti-skid block connected in horizontal alternate series. The longitudinal and lateral chains cross and are connected. The single anti-skid block at the intersection is replaced by a connecting part. Ends of the lateral chain are linked to one tightening side chain through the connecting part. A detachable connection device is provided on the tightening side chain, through which the tightening side chain could be jointed into a closed loop. The anti-skid blocks combination has two abreast anti-skid blocks. Part of a single anti-skid block is sandwiched between and hinged with the two abreast anti-skid blocks.
US09248711B2
A safety system for containment of explosion when servicing a tire mounted on a rim includes an enclosure capable of receiving the tire and provided with openings to allow passage of air upon tire explosion, and a support device attached to the enclosure for contacting the tire to secure thereof in a servicing position within the enclosure and without contacting the rim. The system also includes a first energy absorbing unit attached to and located within the enclosure to face a first rim side and capable of substantially absorb kinetic energy of first rim parts ejected upon tire explosion. The system further includes a second energy absorbing unit attached to and located within the enclosure to face a second rim side and capable of substantially absorb kinetic energy of second rim parts and any portion of the tire ejected upon tire explosion.
US09248710B2
Various embodiments of an ultrasonic tire mounting machine and system are disclosed.
US09248708B2
A disclosed system for monitoring and locating a position of a tire pressure monitoring device within a tire includes a controller configured to detect a first transmission from a first sensor installed within a first wheel and a second transmission from a second sensor installed within a second wheel coupled to the first wheel. The controller and system utilizes a relative angular position corresponding to receipt of the transmissions to identify a lead and trailing tire pressure monitoring device. The controller is then enabled to correlate the signals with a known sequence of sensors to determine within which of the coupled tire assembly includes which tire pressure monitoring device.
US09248706B2
An apparatus for coupling a TPMS wheel unit and a valve stem into an assembly, the assembly and the installation method therefore are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an elastic member configured to counteract in response to mechanical communication between a bulb and a wall, wherein the wall is comprised in the TPMS wheel unit and the bulb is comprised in the valve stem; and a fastening mechanism configured to couple the TPMS wheel unit, the valve stem and the elastic unit.
US09248700B1
A hub assembly adapted for mounting on a bicycle wheel. The hub assembly includes a hub shell with a first flange and a driver side flange. The assembly is received around a hub axle. The hub axle is received through the hub shell and attached to a bicycle frame. One end of the hub axle is disposed next to the first flange. The end of the hub axle is supported on a first hub axle bearing. Also, the hub assembly includes a cassette body with a cassette body bearing. An opposite end of the hub axle is supported on a second hub axle bearing next to the cassette body bearing. A driver gear, received in a threaded cavity in one side of the driver side flange, is used for driving the hub assembly and the cassette body on the hub axle.
US09248699B2
A sealing device including an annular reinforcing insert couplable with a wheel hub in use and an annular sealing element carried by the reinforcing insert and including at least one sealing lip cooperating with a spacer carried by a wheel support pin in use; the reinforcing insert delimits an annular chamber arranged directly adjacent to the annular sealing element in axial direction, and the device further includes a shield mounted in floating manner with radial and axial play in the annular chamber, including a first radial end, which extends to the lip and couples in forced manner with the spacer in use, and a second radial end, opposite to the first, which cooperates with the reinforcing insert and with the annular sealing element to create a labyrinth seal in the annular chamber interposed in use between the annular lip and an environment (E) external to the wheel hub.
US09248693B2
A patterning process which uses self-assembly, wherein the patterning process includes: forming a silicon-containing film by applying a silicon-containing film composition having an organic substituent group substituted with an acid labile group onto a substrate to be processed, pattern-exposing of the silicon-containing film, forming a polymer film by applying a self-assembling polymer onto the silicon-containing film, self-assembling the polymer film to form a microdomain structure, forming a pattern on the polymer film, transferring the pattern to the silicon-containing film by using the pattern formed on the polymer as a mask, and transferring the pattern to the substrate to be processed by using the pattern transferred to the silicon-containing film as a mask. There can be provided a pattern having a microdomain structure formed by self-assembly with excellent uniformity and regularity, the pattern having been difficult to be obtained by a conventional self-assembly polymer.
US09248683B2
The present invention relates to a method for printing wood-based boards, in particular, wood-fiber boards, by means of a digital printing process. The method includes the steps of: a) measuring the color value of the wood-based board of at least one first batch and transmitting the color values to a computer program; b) measuring of the color values of the wood-based board of at least one further batch and transmitting the color values to the computer program; c) processing the color values of the wood-based board of the at least one further batch in the computer program and adapting the color value of the digital print; and d) printing at least one side of the wood-based board by means of digital printing technique by forming a décor layer such that no color deviations between the printed decors of the wood-based boards of the at least one first batch and each further batch occur.
US09248678B2
In order to control smoothness depending on accumulation of a pigment ink in the multi-pass printing, an information processing apparatus for an image forming apparatus that forms an image on the same area in a print medium by a plurality of printing scans with the same pigment ink, the information processing apparatus comprises an input unit that receives inputs of image data and a target gloss level; a storage unit that stores a plurality of pattern sets including a recording pattern for each of the printing scans; and a generation unit that generates pattern data corresponding to the recording patterns by selectively using the pattern sets based on the image data and the target gloss level; wherein at least one of the plurality of pattern sets has a different thinning ratio in the recording pattern for each of the printing scans on the same area.
US09248676B2
A printer has a carriage being movable between a first end and a second end of a reciprocating path; and a driving force transmitting path selecting mechanism provided at the second end of the reciprocating path. The selecting mechanism has: a common driving force outputting member; a plurality of force receiving members; a selecting member; and a position retainer for keeping the position of the selecting member. The selecting member connects the force outputting member to one of the plurality of force receiving members, and moves in association with the carriage when the carriage moves in a vicinity of the second end in a first direction extending from the first end to the second end. The position retainer keeps the position of the selecting member when the carriage moves in a second direction extending from the second end to the first end. The force receiving member connected to the force outputting member via the selecting member is selected in accordance with a movement of the carriage along the reciprocating path.
US09248672B2
A first movable portion has a cutting blade and configured to move between a first retracted position and a first cutting position. A first operating portion is a movable body configured to move in conjunction with a rotation drive portion. The first operating portion is configured to cause the first movable portion to move toward the first cutting position, and to cause the first movable portion to move toward the first retracted position. A drive stopping portion is configured to stop the rotation of the rotation drive portion, when the first movable portion reaches the first cutting position. A position holding portion is configured to hold a position of the first operating portion, when the first movable portion reaches the first cutting position.
US09248663B2
The object is to provide a thermal print head capable of improving printing quality on a medium. The Solution is to provide a base member 11 including a recess 113a, a heat storage region 2 formed in the recess 113a, a resistor layer 4 formed on the base member 11, and an electrode layer 3 formed on the base member 11 and electrically connected to the resistor layer 4. The resistor layer 4 includes a heating portion 41 spanned between two portions of the electrode layer 3 spaced from each other as viewed in a thickness direction Z of the base member 11. The heating portion 41 is located so as to overlap the recess 113a as viewed in the thickness direction Z. The base member 11 is made of a material having a thermal conductivity of 100 to 300 W/(m·K).
US09248662B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a color erasing apparatus comprises a reading section, a storage section and a control section. The reading section reads an image formed on a sheet to acquire image data. The storage section stores the image data acquired by the reading section. The control section determines whether or not there exists a mark in the image data, and carries out a control to, in a case in which there exists a mark in the image data, delete the image data read by the reading section from the storage section if it is determined that there exists a mark and the image data acquired by the reading section coincides with the image data stored through the processing of an image forming apparatus when determining whether or not the image data read by the reading section coincides with the image data stored in the storage section in advance, or store the image data read by the reading section in the storage section if it is determined that the image data doesn't coincide with each other.
US09248656B2
A printing material supply system includes a printing device and a cartridge. The printing device has a cartridge mounting structure. The cartridge is removably attached to the cartridge mounting structure. The cartridge mounting structure has a device-side terminal, a lever, a first device-side locking element and a second device-side locking element. The device-side terminal is configured to contact with a cartridge-side terminal. The first device-side locking element is configured as part of the lever. The second device-side locking element is configured to engage with a second locking surface of a second cartridge-side locking element. The cartridge-side terminal has a cartridge-side contact portion configured to be in contact with the device-side terminal. The cartridge-side contact portion is provided on the negative Z-axis side of the second locking surface.
US09248653B2
Provided is an image forming system including a case that accommodates an ink accommodating body which accommodates ink, a connection tube through which ink within the ink accommodating body can be supplied, and an image forming apparatus that has an ink jet printer that can eject the ink supplied through the connection tube and a reading apparatus which a reading surface on which an original copy G that is arranged on the ink jet printer is read. Then, the case is arranged beside the image forming apparatus in such a manner that an upper surface of the case is matched with the reading surface in terms of height.
US09248648B2
The present disclosure is directed to a microfluidic die that includes a first larger heater and a second smaller heater is a single chamber. The first heater is configured to form a primary bubble that ejects fluid from a nozzle associated with the chamber. The second heater is configured to form a secondary bubble to prevent blow back caused when the primary bubble bursts and ejects fluid from the nozzle. The first and second heater may be coupled to a single input trace and a single ground trace.
US09248644B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that ejects an ink from a nozzle opening; a moving unit that moves the head; and a heating unit that sets a temperature of a recording sheet onto which the ink is ejected from the head. Before the head ejects the ink onto the recording sheet, the moving unit is moved, and the head is moved to a position opposing a platen and an upper heater, which is a position to where heat radiated from the heating unit is transferred.
US09248634B2
A protective adhesive film may include a polyurethane sheet and an adhesive layer disposed on at least a portion of a first major surface of the polyurethane sheet. The adhesive layer may comprise a pressure-sensitive adhesive that includes an acrylate polymer and a silicone macromer. The adhesive layer may adhere to a surface of an electronic device without the application of any liquid or additive to the adhesive layer or the surface of the electronic device.
US09248632B2
A film for a bag. The film includes a plurality of extruded layers, with the layers including a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a fourth layer, and a fifth layer. The first layer is a mixture of metallocene polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene. The second layer contacting the first layer and comprising a tie layer. The third layer contacts the second layer opposite the first layer. The third layer comprises ethylene vinyl alcohol having a mol % ethylene of at least approximately 24 mol % and a thickness of between approximately 0.01 mil and 0.40 mil. The fourth layer contacts the third layer opposite of the second layer. The fourth layer comprises a tie layer. The fifth layer contacts the fourth layer opposite the third layer. The fifth layer comprises a metallocene polyethylene and liner low density polyethylene. The film includes a thickness that is between approximately 0.46 mil and 10.4 mil.
US09248629B2
A laminated polyester film provided on at least one side with layer (X) made from acrylic urethane copolymer resin (A), isocyanate compound (B), epoxy compound (C), compound (d-1) having a polythiophene structure and compound (d-2) having an anion structure, wherein the layer (X) has a continuous phase structure.
