US09275111B2
A method, system, and a computer program product for converting asymmetric requests into symmetric requests are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises a computer partitioning a query into a set of partitions along a dimension of a multi-dimensional data source, wherein each partition of the set of partitions comprises more than one member and the query has a query result count. The method includes the computer creating a candidate query for each partition of the set of partitions, wherein each candidate query has a candidate query result count. Responsive to a determination that the query result count is greater than a sum of the candidate query result counts, the method includes the computer substituting the query with the candidate queries.
US09275107B2
A method of analyzing the performance of a query optimizer includes identifying an event trigger. A reproduction object characterizing operational parameters of the customer computer at the time of the event trigger is populated. The reproduction object is transported from the customer computer to a test computer. The reproduction object is analyzed at the test computer to characterize the performance of a query optimizer.
US09275101B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, generating a plurality of structured queries, where each structured query comprises references to nodes and edges of the social graph, generating search results corresponding to at least one of the structured queries, and sending one or more of the structured queries to a user for display, where at least one of the structured queries is displayed with a preview of one or more of the search results corresponding to the structured query.
US09275093B2
In particular embodiments, a method includes, from an indexer in a sensor network, accessing a set of sensor data that includes sensor data aggregated together from sensors in the sensor network, one or more time stamps for the sensor data, and metadata for the sensor data identifying one or more pre-determined attributes of the sensor data. The method includes, at the indexer, generating an index of the set of sensor data according to a multi-dimensional array configured for querying of the set of sensor data along with a plurality of other sets of sensor data. One or more first ones of the dimensions of the multi-dimensional array include time, and one or more second ones of the dimensions of the multi-dimensional array include one or more of the pre-determined sensor-data attributes. The method includes, from the indexer, communicating the index of the set of sensor data for use in responding to one or more queries of the set of sensor data along with a plurality of other sets of sensor data.
US09275088B2
Arrangements described herein relate to managing versions of artifacts stored across disparate tools. In a multi-dimensional configuration space, dimensions can be defined. The dimensions can represent respective variations of respective versions of a plurality of artifacts for at least a first configuration of a system. Via the dimensions, versions of the plurality of artifacts can be mapped to at least a corresponding first configuration of the system, the mapped versions of the plurality of artifacts corresponding to the versions of the artifacts used in the first configuration. The first configuration can be identified by a point in the multi-dimensional configuration space defined by the respective dimensions. At least a first of the plurality of artifacts can be stored by a first tool, and at least a second of the plurality of artifacts can be stored by a second tool disparate from the first tool.
US09275086B2
A data storage system according to certain aspects can archive database data associated with different database applications. The data storage system according to certain aspects may provide database archiving modules that include logic incorporating and/or based on the native schema and/or native commands specific to particular database applications. The database archiving modules according to certain aspects may determine the relationship between tables associated with corresponding database applications and archive selected database data based on the native schema and native commands.
US09275081B2
A data management method is disclosed. The data management method includes receiving input image data including a plurality of frames, sorting a type of a frame included in the input image data, and erasing one or more I-frames among the plurality of frames included in the input image data or erasing at least a portion of data corresponding to the one or more I-frames among the plurality of frames included in the input image data. Thus, the data management method stores a low amount of image data in a limited storage space while minimizing loss of the image data, thereby effectively storing and managing data.
US09275080B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for early access to captured images including generating and storing within a geospatial database a plurality of placeholder records having information identifying a particular captured image and including at least one geographic image boundary field containing information indicative of a real-world geographic area depicted within the image, an image file location field, and an image status field; receive a plurality of signals from one or more processing computer, at least two of the signals having the information identifying particular captured images, and second information indicative of updates indicating a change in at least one of the image location and image processing status for the image identified by the first information; and populating at least one of the image location and the image processing status of the placeholders within the geospatial database with the information indicative of updates for identified captured images.
US09275079B2
A method and apparatus for enabling semantic association of images with augmentation data is described. The method may include receiving digital image data captured by a mobile device. The method may also include performing image recognition analysis on an object within the digital image data to identify the object. The method may also include querying a semantic associations database based on a determined identify of the object to determine a secondary meaning associated with the object, and transmitting augmentation data to the mobile device that is semantically relevant to the object based on the secondary meaning.
US09275062B2
A computer-implemented system and method for augmenting search queries using glossaries is provided. At least one search query of one or more search terms is received. A set of tagged documents each associated with a tag and a glossary for the tag is accessed. The glossary includes one or more terms selected from that tagged document, definitions for the terms, and aliases for the terms. The search query is compared to the glossaries in the set. One or more terms in at least one of the glossaries that are related to the search terms of the search query are selected for inclusion in the search query.
US09275053B2
Watermark encoders and decoders can be integrated into operating systems, Internet browsers, media players, and other applications and devices. Such integration enables the watermark-enabled application or device to provide additional functionality and information available via the watermark. The watermark, for example, may link to metadata or actions related to a media object. To exploit this watermark enabled functionality, the integrated application uses a watermark decoder to access the related metadata and actions. The user interface of the integrated application is enhanced to present metadata and actions linked via the watermark. Similarly, watermark encoders may be integrated into applications to convert media objects into enhanced, watermarked objects. A variety of other arrangements and features are also detailed. Many arrangements can be implemented using object identifiers other than watermarks.
US09275051B2
A system for interactive paper is described. Data fragments are captured at locations in a rendered document. A digital version of the document is optionally located. Markup data applied to the capture creates a rich set of interactions for the user. New models for publishing documents and new document-related services are described.
US09275049B2
Removable cases for portable electronic devices incorporating memory tags (e.g., NFC memory tags) capable of being read by an electronic reading device are disclosed. The memory tags may be pre-programmed or programmable to contain one or more readable items of identification data associated with the custodian of the device or protective case. The memory tags may also or alternatively include code or executable commands that effectuate certain functionality (e.g., go into silent or airplane mode, call home or a particular person, turn off, check email, set alarm, play music or video, etc.) in another of the user's device. The protective case may protect, shield, and/or conceal the tag visually in part or in whole while allowing the tag to be read and the tags position visually identified. Systems and methods to recover lost or misplaced electronic devices using information contained in the memory tag of the protective enclosure are also disclosed.
US09275045B2
A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source.
US09275039B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a first set generating unit that generates a first set of states reachable by following ε-transitions in a forward direction and a reverse direction among states included in a finite state automaton; a second set generating unit that generates a second set representing a set of states included in each of a plurality of first sets connected by one transition that is not an ε-transition and the first set that is not connected to another first set by one transition that is not an ε-transition; a combination generating unit that obtains, among combinations of ε-removal patterns to be respectively applied to the ε-transitions in the second set, a combination with which the number of transitions after removing ε-transitions is the smallest; and a removing unit that removes ε-transitions in the second set by the removal patterns included in the obtained combination.
US09275032B2
Techniques for performing a process during a real time collaboration by multiple users or clients on a spreadsheet file are disclosed herein which may permit calculations to be performed locally by at least one of the clients. By doing so, increases in performance are realized since only data updates need to be provided to the host machine. As such, a determination is preferably made whether calculations performed locally can result in different data. If conflicting data is a possibility, then the calculations for the spreadsheet file will usually be performed remotely by a host machine. If not, then each client capable of doing so will perform the calculations locally and then provide only the updated data to the host machine. The determination of whether to perform the calculations locally or not may also be made dynamically, such as when one or more new formulas are added to the spreadsheet file.
US09275031B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for receiving and processing data analysis expressions. A particular method includes receiving a data analysis expression at a pivot table of a spreadsheet. The data analysis expression is executed for a particular cell of the pivot table by determining a context associated with the particular cell, calculating a value of the data analysis expression based on the context, and outputting the calculated value at the particular cell.
US09275030B1
Methods for removing vertical and horizontal lines from a document image. The horizontal line removal method includes: for a column of black pixels at each horizontal position along the line, removing them if their maximum stroke width is less than the median value of maximum stroke widths in a small window centered at that horizontal position; Remove connected components remaining in the horizontal line bounding box that do not extend significantly above or below the bounding box boundaries; and Perform closing operation to join broken pieces of character strokes caused by underline removal. This method preserves character strokes while removing underlines. The vertical line removal method includes: for vertical lines that have large height to width ratio, remove parts of such lines that are not at intersection of with horizontal or near-horizontal lines; remove all remaining connected components that touch neither left nor right boundary of the bounding box.
US09275029B2
Historical form usage information for a group of fields associated with a graphical user interface (GUI) form is analyzed with a computer processor. Usage characteristics for each of the group of fields associated with the GUI form is indentified within the historical form usage information. The GUI form is automatically changed based upon the identified usage characteristics for each of the group of fields. The changed GUI form is displayed on a display of the computing device.
US09275025B2
A special paste feature presents a variety of options to a user for choosing the appearance of the pasted object or objects. When the user selects to specially paste the object, an interface is presented for the user to select from a variety of styles and format codes or predefined groups thereof to keep in the pasted object. Once the user selects the level of structure and formatting that he or she desires to import into the target document, the object will be copied into the target document or application using only the structure and formatting selected to remain by the user.
US09275022B2
A method for rendering a document on a web browser includes receiving a portion of text within the document to be rendered on a web browser and determining a maximum height of the portion of text. A spacer element is inserted into the portion of text, where the spacer element has a height greater than the maximum height of the portion of text. A vertical position of the portion of text and the spacer element is adjusted by an offset, where a baseline of the portion of text is determined from the height of the spacer element and the offset. The portion of text is rendered on the web browser based at least in part on the baseline.
US09275014B2
Vector processing engines (VPEs) having programmable data path configurations for providing multi-mode Radix-2X butterfly vector processing circuits. Related vector processors, systems, and methods are also disclosed. The VPEs disclosed herein include a plurality of vector processing stages each having vector processing blocks that have programmable data path configurations for performing Radix-2X butterfly vector operations to perform Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) vector processing operations efficiently. The data path configurations of the vector processing blocks can be programmed to provide different types of Radix-2X butterfly vector operations as well as other arithmetic logic vector operations. As a result, fewer VPEs can provide desired Radix-2X butterfly vector operations and other types arithmetic logic vector operations in a vector processor, thus saving area in the vector processor while still retaining vector processing advantages of fewer register writes and faster vector instruction execution times over scalar processing engines.
US09275013B2
Systems and methods are described herein for applying a predefined functional shape to coefficients of a discrete Fourier transform of a waveform. The waveform may based, at least in part, on an electro-cardiogram (ECG). The predefined functional shape may be parabolic, and may be defined on a logarithmic scale. The application of a predefined functional shape may allow a more accurate reconstruction of a waveform to be generated at a lower sampling rate.
US09275003B1
A network interface controller atomic operation unit and a network interface control method comprising, in an atomic operation unit of a network interface controller, using a write-through cache and employing a rate-limiting functional unit.
US09275002B2
Tile-based processor architecture model for high-efficiency embedded homogeneous multicore platforms
The present invention relates to a processor which comprises processing elements that execute instructions in parallel and are connected together with point-to-point communication links called data communication links (DCL). The instructions use DCLs to communicate data between them. In order to realize those communications, they specify the DCLs from which they take their operands, and the DCLs to which they write their results. The DCLs allow the instructions to synchronize their executions and to explicitly manage the data they manipulate. Communications are explicit and are used to realize the storage of temporary variables, which is decoupled from the storage of long-living variables.
US09275000B2
An electronic device includes a set of programming terminals for receiving corresponding programming signals, and assignment circuitry for assigning an address to the electronic device according to the programming signals. The assignment circuitry includes circuitry for providing a set of comparison signals, with at least part of the comparison signals that is variable during a non-zero comparison interval, and comparison circuitry for determining the address according to a comparison between the programming signals and the comparison signals during the comparison interval.
US09274996B2
According to one embodiment, filtering cached input/output (I/O) data includes receiving a current I/O transfer that is part of an ongoing data stream, and evaluating whether to filter ongoing data streams once the data stream reaches are particular size threshold. The transfer rate for the ongoing data stream may be calculated and a determination is made as to whether the transfer rate is greater than a throughput associated with a target storage device. The current I/O transfer is cached if the transfer rate is greater than the throughput associated with a target storage device, or is not cached if the transfer rate is not greater than the throughput associated with a target storage device. The current I/O transfer may be also cached if the transfer rate is less than or equal to the throughput associated with the target storage device and the I/O transfer is a write I/O transfer.
US09274990B2
An interface device capable of supporting an unknown I/O device comprises: a transmission module, used for receiving a control signal sent by an I/O device and sending a feedback signal to the I/O device; a signal process module, used for generating a control indicating signal according to the control signal and generating the feedback signal according to a feedback indicating signal; and a USB interface, used for sending the control indicating signal to a data process device and receiving the feedback indicating signal from the data process device; wherein, information content of the control indicating signal and information content of the feedback indicating signal both comprise the information of a first device description unit and a first interaction description unit contained in a first device index chart.
US09274985B2
Banks within a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) are managed with virtual bank managers. A DRAM controller receives a new memory access request to DRAM including a plurality of banks. If the request accesses a location in DRAM where no virtual bank manager includes parameters for the corresponding DRAM page, then a virtual bank manager is allocated to the physical bank associated with the DRAM page. The bank manager is initialized to include parameters needed by the DRAM controller to access the DRAM page. The memory access request is then processed using the parameters associated with the virtual bank manager. One advantage of the disclosed technique is that the banks of a DRAM module are controlled with fewer bank managers than in previous DRAM controller designs. As a result, less surface area on the DRAM controller circuit is dedicated to bank managers.
US09274979B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for implementing asymmetric AES-CBC (Advanced Encryption Standard-Cipher Block Chaining) channels usage between encryption and decryption of data. In operation, data to be written to memory is identified. In addition, the data is encrypted utilizing a first AES-CBC channel. Additionally, at least one of a plurality of AES-CBC channels is utilized to decrypt the data to achieve a determined performance target.
US09274977B2
A method begins by a processing module generating an integrity check value for each encoded data slice of a set of encoded data slices to produce a set of integrity check values. The method continues with the processing module encoding the set of integrity check values to produce encoded integrity check values. The method continues with the processing module sending the encoded integrity check values for storage in a memory system.
US09274976B2
In the field of computer software (code) security, it is known to include verification data such as hash values in or associated with the code to allow subsequent detection of tampering by a attacker with the code. This verification technique is used here in a “White Box” cryptographic process by tying the verification data to the content of functional table lookups present in the object (compiled) code, where values in the table lookups are selectively masked (prior to the source code being compiled into the subject code) by being subject to permutation operations.
US09274973B2
The present disclosure includes devices, systems, and methods for memory address translation. One or more embodiments include a memory array and a controller coupled to the array. The array includes a first table having a number of records, wherein each record includes a number of entries, wherein each entry includes a physical address corresponding to a data segment stored in the array and a logical address. The controller includes a second table having a number of records, wherein each record includes a number of entries, wherein each entry includes a physical address corresponding to a record in the first table and a logical address. The controller also includes a third table having a number of records, wherein each record includes a number of entries, wherein each entry includes a physical address corresponding to a record in the second table and a logical address.
US09274965B2
The present disclosure is directed towards a prefetch controller configured to communicate with a prefetch cache in order to increase system performance. In some embodiments, the prefetch controller may include an instruction lookup table (ILT) configured to receive a first tuple including a first instruction ID and a first missed data address. The prefetch controller may further include a tuple history queue (THQ) configured to receive an instruction/stride tuple, the instruction/stride tuple generated by subtracting a last data access address from the first missed data address. The prefetch controller may further include a sequence prediction table (SPT) in communication with the tuple history queue (THQ) and the instruction lookup table. The prefetch controller may also include an adder in communication with the instruction lookup table (ILT) and the sequence prediction table (SPT) configured to generate a predicted prefetch address and to provide the predicted prefetch address to a prefetch cache. Numerous other embodiments are also within the scope of the present disclosure.
US09274962B2
An apparatus and method is described herein for providing instantaneous, efficient cache state recover upon an end of speculative execution. Speculatively accessed entries of a cache memory are marked as speculative, which may be on a thread specific basis. Upon an end of speculation, the speculatively marked entries are transitioned in parallel by a speculative port to their appropriate, thread specific, non-speculative coherency state; these parallel transitions allow for instantaneous commit or recovery of speculative memory state.
US09274961B2
A method for building a multi-processor system with nodes having multiple cache coherency domains. In this system, a directory built in a node controller needs to include processor domain attribute information, and the information can be acquired by configuring cache coherency domain attributes of ports of the node controller connected to processors. In the disclosure herein, the node controller can support the multiple physical cache coherency domains in a node.
US09274959B2
Handling virtual memory address synonyms in a multi-level cache hierarchy structure. The multi-level cache hierarchy structure having a first level, L1 cache, the L1 cache being operatively connected to a second level, L2 cache split into a L2 data cache directory and a L2 instruction cache. The L2 data cache directory including directory entries having information of data currently stored in the L1 cache, the L2 cache being operatively connected to a third level, L3 cache. The first level cache is virtually indexed while the second and third levels are physically indexed. Counter bits are allocated in a directory entry of the L2 data cache directory for storing a counter number. The directory entry corresponds to at least one first L1 cache line. A first search is performed in the L1 cache for a requested virtual memory address, wherein the virtual memory address corresponds to a physical memory address tag at a second L1 cache line.
US09274953B2
In one embodiment, a memory that is delineated into transparent and non-transparent portions. The transparent portion may be controlled by a control unit coupled to the memory, along with a corresponding tag memory. The non-transparent portion may be software controlled by directly accessing the non-transparent portion via an input address. In an embodiment, the memory may include a decoder configured to decode the address and select a location in either the transparent or non-transparent portion. Each request may include a non-transparent attribute identifying the request as either transparent or non-transparent. In an embodiment, the size of the transparent portion may be programmable. Based on the non-transparent attribute indicating transparent, the decoder may selectively mask bits of the address based on the size to ensure that the decoder only selects a location in the transparent portion.
US09274943B2
A storage unit management method for managing a plurality of physical units in a rewritable non-volatile memory module is provided, wherein the physical units are at least grouped into a data area and a spare area. The method includes configuring a plurality of logical units for mapping to the physical units belonging to the data area, and determining whether the rewritable non-volatile memory module contains cold data. The method further includes performing a first wear-leveling procedure on the physical units if it is determined that the rewritable non-volatile memory module does not contain any cold data, and performing a second wear-leveling procedure on the physical units if it is determined that the rewritable non-volatile memory module contains the cold data.
US09274942B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile storage device and an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a first control circuit configured to send a delete notification to the nonvolatile storage device to invalidate data in a first logical address area when read data corresponding to the first logical address area is the same as data expressed by a first function. The nonvolatile storage device include a nonvolatile storage medium, a management table configured to associate a logical address corresponding to valid data for the nonvolatile storage device with a physical address, and a second control circuit configured to update the management table to invalidate a logical address designated by the delete notification, and to send the data expressed by the first function to the information processing apparatus when a logical address included in a read instruction received from the information processing apparatus is invalid.
US09274937B2
Data of a vector storage request pertaining to one or more disjoint, non-adjacent, and/or non-contiguous logical identifier ranges are stored contiguously within a log on a non-volatile storage medium. A request consolidation module modifies one or more sub-requests of the vector storage request in response to other, cached storage requests. Data of an atomic vector storage request may comprise persistent indicators, such as persistent metadata flags, to identify data pertaining to incomplete atomic storage requests. A restart recovery module identifies and excludes data of incomplete atomic operations.
US09274933B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining a description of a test suite which comprises a plurality of tests, wherein each test of the test suite is described by values of functional attributes, wherein at least a portion of the functional attributes are setup-related attributes, wherein a combination of values of the setup-relates attributes potentially indicate a setup activity to be performed prior to executing the test to set up a test environment for the test. Identifying, based on the description of the test suite, a setup activity that is associated with two or more tests, wherein the setup activity is configured to set up a component of the test environment, wherein the identifying is performed by a processor. Providing a first instruction to perform the setup activity prior to executing a first test of the two or more tests. And, providing a second instruction to reuse the component of the test environment when executing additional tests of the two or more tests, whereby avoiding performing duplicate setup activities.
US09274931B2
Arrangements described herein relate to inserting implicit sequence points into computer program code to support debug operations. Optimization of the computer program code can be performed during compilation of the computer program code and, during the optimization, implicit sequence points can be inserted into the computer program code. The implicit sequence points can be configured to provide virtual reads of symbols contained in the computer program code when the implicit sequence points are reached during execution of the computer program code during a debug operation performed on the computer program code after the computer program code is optimized and compiled.
US09274929B2
A method of creating constraints for use with object code insertion technology can include deriving an A-representation and a B-representation of values produced by execution of instructions of a portion of object code, wherein prior to object code insertion the A-representation and the B-representation of a value produced by same instruction(s) are equivalent. The method further can include identifying equalities between A-representations of values produced by different instructions and determining constraints from the identified equalities using B-representations, where the constraints are observed after object code insertion.
US09274922B2
A processor-implemented method for diagnostic testing using an expected result parameter is provided. The processor-implemented method may include establishing a known system environment associated with a function under test and setting the expected result parameter corresponding to the function under test and the known system environment. A call is issued by the processor to execute the function under test. Before returning to the caller, the function under test compares an expected result value to an actual result value. The function under test determines an error based on the actual result value being different from the expected result value and performs a low-level diagnostic based on the determined error. Then the processor receives a return value from the function under test based on the issued call.
US09274920B2
Mobile electronic devices and related methods to achieve an enhanced security level are disclosed. A security module is deeply embedded in a non-open companion chip of the mobile device, wherein the companion chip controls vital functions of the mobile device. Any security technology can be provided by the security module. The security module can, in case of a security violation, disable all vital functions of the companion chip without requiring communicating to other components of the mobile device. The vital functions deployed in the companion chip comprise e.g. system power management or audio functions.
US09274917B2
A measure of performance may be calculated for a composite cloud service of a particular cloud in a federated cloud environment. A determination may be made as to whether the measure of performance indicates breaching of a performance policy associated with the composite cloud service.
US09274915B2
Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring PCIe packets between clock domains. An interrupt is set to a root complex or external hardware based on the detection of malformed, and illegal, packets.
US09274906B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to invoking and managing a failover of a storage account between partitions within a distributed computing environment, where each partition represents a key range of data for the storage account. The partitions affected by the failover include source partitions hosted on a primary storage stamp and destination partitions hosted on a secondary storage stamp, where the storage account's data is being actively replicated from the primary to the secondary storage stamp. Upon receiving a manual or automatic indication to perform the failover, configuring the source partitions to independently perform flush-send operations (e.g., distributing pending messages as a group) and then configuring the destination partitions to independently perform flush-replay operations (e.g., aggressively replaying currently pending transactions). Upon completing the flush-replay operations, designating the secondary storage stamp as a new primary storage stamp such that live traffic is directed to the new primary storage stamp.
US09274899B2
A mechanism for providing non-volatile memory for suspend-to-RAM in a computer system. A method includes searching for a checkpoint message in a memory upon receipt of notification of restoring of power in a system. The checkpoint message is a confirmation of storing of state of a storage device prior to loss of the power in the system. The method also includes determining whether the checkpoint message indicates that the system reached the power integrity checkpoint. The power integrity checkpoint is a confirmation of the storing of the state of other device prior to the loss of the power in the system. The other device is different from the storage device. The method further includes restoring operating conditions of the system when it is determined that the system has reached the power integrity checkpoint.
US09274891B2
A decoding method, a memory storage device and a memory controlling circuit unit are provided. The decoding method includes: reading at least one memory cell according to a first read voltage to obtain at least one first verification bit; executing a hard bit mode decoding procedure according to the first verification bit, and determining whether a first valid codeword is generated by the hard bit mode decoding procedure; if the first valid codeword is not generated by the hard bit mode decoding procedure, obtaining storage information of the memory cell; deciding a voltage number according to the storage information; reading the memory cell according to second read voltages matching the voltage number to obtain second verification bits; and executing a soft bit mode decoding procedure according to the second verification bits. Accordingly, the speed of decoding is increased.
US09274882B2
In a data storage system including a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) array, a page is a smallest granularity of the NVRAM array that can be accessed by read and write operations, and a memory block containing multiple pages is a smallest granularity of the NVRAM array that can be erased. Data are stored in the NVRAM array in page stripes distributed across multiple memory blocks. In response to detection of an error in a particular page of a particular block of the NVRAM array, only the particular page of the particular block is retired, such that at least two of the multiple memory blocks across which a particular one of the page stripes is distributed include differing numbers of active (non-retired) pages.
US09274880B1
An error detection and correction circuit is provided that reduces the number of errors in a data signal sent over a high-speed serial link with little area overhead and without deteriorating the latency of the data transmission. An error detection and correction circuit on the transmit side may compute parity bits for each data packet of N bit-wise interleaved data packets and insert these parity bits into a serial data stream. A transmitter may send the serial data stream with the data packets and the parity bits over a high-speed serial link to a receiver. An error detection and correction circuit on the receive side may locate and correct single-bit errors and detect double-bit errors in each packet of the data signal. Thus, the error correction circuit may correct up to N errors in the N bit-wise interleaved data packets.
US09274869B2
A fault cause extraction apparatus including a storage unit which stores a model including one or more correlation functions between pieces of performance information acquired from a plurality of elements and a correlation-destruction-propagation detecting unit which calculates a degree of influence for each of the elements based on correlation destruction information. The correlation destruction information is calculated based on whether pieces of performance information newly acquired from the elements satisfy a relationship represented by the correlation functions.
US09274867B2
A method for publishing the web sites on remote server using shared hosting in cases of unexpected server timeouts. A list of elements (work items) to be published is generated. The list is sorted out according to dependencies of elements from one another. Then, the work items are sorted out by the priority. The work item from the top of the list (with the highest priority) is processed first. After the work is performed with this work item, the work item is marked as closed if the process has executed successfully. Then, the process moves to the next work item and so on. The process has a library of the work items. Thus, in case of a server timeout, the process knows exactly which work items have been processed prior to the timeout and can start the processing from the next work item.
US09274866B2
In at least one embodiment, a data storage system includes a non-volatile memory array including a plurality of blocks of physical memory, each including multiple pages. The data storage system further includes a controller that maintains a data structure identifying blocks of physical memory in the memory array that currently do not store valid data. The controller, responsive to receipt of a write input/output operation (IOP) specifying an address and write data, selects a particular block from among the blocks identified in the data structure prior to a dwell time threshold for the particular block being satisfied, programs a page within the selected block with the write data, and associates the address with the selected block.
US09274864B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module obtaining a plurality of data objects for storage in a dispersed storage network (DSN) and determining one or more common data object aspects of a data object of the plurality of data objects. The method continues with the DS processing module disperse storage error encoding at least a portion of the data object to produce a set of encoded data slices and generating a set of DSN addresses for the set of encoded data slices, wherein each of the set of DSN addresses includes a field referencing the one or more common data object aspects. The method continues with the DS processing module outputting the set of encoded data slices for storage in the DSN based on the set of DSN addresses.
US09274862B2
Among other things, at a client computer system in communication with a computer network, a request object is generated that includes logic to control the handling of requests. At least one of the requests depends on (for example, simply by being part of a sequence) a result of at least one of the other of the requests. The request object is sent to a server computer system that is in communication with the computer network. A response object is received that includes results of at least some of the requests.
US09274861B1
Provided are systems and methods for a first process for writing messages to a shared memory (each of the messages being written to a respective buffer of the shared memory, and the messages configured to be read in a specified sequence by a second process), determining that writing of one of the messages to the shared memory has been completed and, sending, to the second process and in response to determining that writing of one of the messages to the shared memory has been completed, an offset value corresponding to a location in the shared memory, wherein the second process is configured to read one or more messages that are stored in the portion of the shared memory before the offset value. Also the second process reads one or more messages stored in buffers that reside in the portion of the shared memory before the offset value, and commits the reads.
US09274859B2
A message exchange system for software components on different processors. A first component's attempt to load a write register with a message pointer (or a message itself) triggers a determination whether space exists in a shared memory queue. If so, the queue is updated by incrementing a message counter, writing the message/pointer into the queue where designated by a write pointer, and changing the write pointer to a next queue location. A second component's attempt to load the message/pointer from a read register triggers a determination whether there is at least one new message in the queue. If so, the queue is updated by decrementing the message counter, reading the message/pointer from the queue where designated by a read pointer, and changing the read pointer to point to a next queue location. The determinations and queue updates are performed atomically with respect to the software components.
US09274842B2
Described is a server monitoring technology that is scalable to large numbers of servers, e.g., in a datacenter. Agents on servers run queries to monitor data sources for that server, such as performance counters and other events. The agents monitor their resource usage and those of monitored events to stay within an administrator-specified resource budget (policy), e.g., by modifying the running queries and/or monitoring parameters. A controller receives results of the monitoring, analyzes the results, and takes action as needed with respect to server operation and monitoring. The controller may dynamically update an agent's queries, monitoring parameters and/or monitored data post-processing operations. The controller may issue alerts and reports, including alerts indicative of inter-server problems between two or more servers.
US09274833B2
A task scheduler scheduling running units to execute a plurality of tasks is provided. The task scheduler includes a time control portion having a common time to control a state of the plurality of tasks, and a task calculator calculating a slack disappearance time for each of the plurality of tasks. An arrival time of one of the plurality of tasks is defined as T. A deadline time representing when the one of the plurality of tasks is required to be completed is defined as D. A worst case execution time predicted to be required for a completion of the one of the plurality of tasks is defined as W. A current elapsed time is defined as C. The slack disappearance time is expressed by S=T+D−W+C. A task having an earliest slack disappearance time from among the plurality of tasks is scheduled to be preferentially executed.
US09274830B2
Versions of a service not reachable by a set of service requestors that use the service are removed. Multiple, different versions of a service are stored, along with metadata associated with the multiple, different versions of the service. The metadata is examined to determine one or more of the multiple, different versions of the service that are not reachable by the set of service requestors that use the service. Those versions are deleted.
US09274824B2
Method, device, and storage medium to provision virtual machines, software, storage, and network resources of a standard operating environment including devices having identical software, hardware, and configurations. A provisioning device uses dedicated flows based on the resource to be provisioned.
US09274823B1
A system, method and computer program product for implementing a thin hypervisor. The thin hypervisor does not have any association with a VM. The thin hypervisor serves as a wrapper over hardware capabilities of a processor. The processor has privileged low-level capabilities EPT VTX, AMD V and the ARM has virtualization technology. In order to use processor hardware capabilities and receiving root privileges, the system operates in a “super user” mode. The VM operates in a VM environment with kernel privileges in a user mode. A super user space is created in a safe mode. A user space application (or a process) is created. A user space virtualization framework library is used. These entities are separated by a user space and a kernel space. A thin hypervisor is implemented in the user space.
US09274822B2
Technologies are generally provided for reactive loop sensing in multi-datacenter deployments. In some examples, tagged metrics from deployment elements on different datacenter or platform providers may be used by a stability module to generate a synthetic generalized deployment model that aliases multiple system elements into general state vectors. The state vectors may include a transfer vector on the border between each datacenter or platform, and the feedback from the metrics may cause the states of the datacenters/platforms to match the deployment's unobserved variables allowing stability analysis before failure. For example, the metrics may be associated with a portion of the deployment on one of the multiple datacenters. The stability analysis module may compare the received metrics with model metrics derived from a model of the multi-datacenter deployment to determine the stability of the deployment and/or adjust the model for increased stability.
US09274818B2
A system and method for efficiently transferring virtual machine images across nodes in a cloud computing environment, includes analyzing each image on each node to create hash code clusters and a similarity matrix. An instruction to transfer an image from a source node to a target node is received. The clusters and the similarity matrix are used to determine to what extent the data from the image is already on the source node, or on any other node, and further determines the cost and speed of transferring such data to the target node. An optimal transfer plan is generated, and data that is not already on the target node is transferred to the target node from the most efficient node on which it is available, according to the optimal transfer plan.
US09274817B1
Techniques for delivering and measuring storage quality-of-service to virtual machines in a distributed virtual infrastructure. In one example, a method comprises the following steps. A controller obtains quality-of-service data from at least a portion of components of a distributed virtual infrastructure, wherein the components of the distributed virtual infrastructure comprise one or more storage units, one or more processing units, and one or more switches operatively coupled to form the distributed virtual infrastructure. The controller manages at least one input/output request throughout a path defined by at least one of the one or more processing units, at least one of the one or more switches, and at least one of the one or more storage units, based on at least a portion of the collected quality-of-service data.
US09274815B2
A portable self-contained node apparatus establishes a connection to a host apparatus having one or more peripheral devices connected directly thereto. The node apparatus is configured to view the one or more peripheral devices while being unaware of the host apparatus, and to act as a master device interacting directly with the one or more peripheral devices.
US09274814B2
A hooking system for hooking predetermined references to predetermined dynamically loaded library (DLL) functions includes a DLL version identifier provided by a hook entry code to an enhanced hook. The hook entry code is dynamically generated during runtime of an affected software application. The version identifier enables unambiguous communication of a single enhanced hook with functions of multiple versions of identically named DLLs loaded into the same isolated process memory area.
US09274807B2
In an electronic device capable of running multiple software applications concurrently, applications, documents, cards, or other activities can be selected for hibernation so as to free up system resources for other activities that are in active use. A determination is made as to which activities should hibernate, for example based on a determination as to which activities have not been used recently or based on relative resource usage. When an activity is to hibernate, its state is preserved on a storage medium such as a disk, so that the activity can later be revived in the same state and the user can continue with the same task that was being performed before the activity entered hibernation.
US09274806B2
An indicia reading apparatus includes an interconnect cable and an indicia reading device. The indicia reading device is configured so that, if the indicia reader device is not configured to any interconnect cable and detects an indicia which does not contain one of a plurality of specified sequences of data elements that the indicia reading device will recognize and use to configure itself to operate with the interconnect cable, the indicia reading device will indicate to the user of the indicia reading device that the indicia reading device needs to be configured to operate with the interconnect cable.
US09274805B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for thermally aware booting in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. Because bringing high power consumption processing components online when a PCD is booted under less than ideal thermal conditions can be detrimental to the health of the PCD, embodiments leverage a low power processing component early in a boot sequence to authorize, delay or modify the boot sequence based on measured thermal indicators. One exemplary method is essentially a “go/no go” method that delays or authorizes completion of a boot sequence based on the thermal indicator measurements. Another exemplary method modifies a boot sequence of a PCD based on a thermal boot policy associated with a thermal boot state. A thermal boot policy may include allowing the boot sequence to complete by modifying the power frequency to which one or more high power consumption components will be booted.
US09274803B2
A computer system that includes a processor for operating a software application in the computer system. The software application provides for creation, storage, and retrieval of a file, the file having a corresponding profile that the software application uses for at least the purpose of preparing the software application to display the file upon its retrieval by the software application. Also included is a plurality of storage media that are communicatively coupled to the processor. A storage management module distributes stored files and their accompanying profiles among the plurality of storage media according to predetermined patterns. One of such predetermined patterns is separate storage of a file and the file's corresponding profile.
US09274782B2
A comparison tool compares metadata that describes an original workflow and metadata that describes a customized workflow. The original workflow and the computer application provide original functionality. The customized workflow is a modified version of the original workflow. The customized workflow and the computer application provide customized functionality. Analysis results, such as a report, are generated that represent the customized functionality. The comparison tool may further compare the original workflow metadata and customized workflow metadata with metadata that describes an updated original workflow. The updated original workflow and an updated version of the computer application provide updated functionality. Analysis results may be generated that represent the customized functionality merged with updated functionality, and a merged workflow may be created. A workflow editor may generate the metadata by associating step-specific metadata, such as origin metadata, type-of-step metadata, and dependency metadata, with individual workflow steps in the workflows.
US09274781B2
A display device capable of upgrading smart functions as broadly described herein may include a multi-functional display device capable of upgrading smart functions, including a broadcast receiver for receiving a broadcast signal, a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the received broadcast signal, a decoder for decoding the demultiplexed broadcast signal, a display for displaying the decoded broadcast signal, an external device interface configured to connect to a smart card for receiving upgrade data, a memory for storing the upgrade data and version information of the smart card, and a controller configured to process and display the received broadcast signal on the display, determine whether the smart card is connected to the display device, and communicate with the smart card to operate the multi-functional display device, wherein the smart card includes at least one smart function for execution on the multi-functional display device.
US09274775B2
At a timing after a target application is installed, in a case where a usage amount of a resource used at a predetermined timing by the target application exceeds a declaration of a maximum value of the usage amount of the resource described in an application file corresponding to the target application, a framework is instructed to stop the target application.
US09274772B2
A precompiled form of information derived from CIL metadata is created in a compact type layout (CTL) format. Information in CTL format for each data type in a program can be represented as a contiguous byte stream. Information that is irrelevant to decisions concerning layout of a data type in memory can be suppressed. information that is irrelevant to creation of virtual machine data structures can be suppressed. The information in CTL format may reference types, methods, and fields by CIL metadata token. Virtual override information such as, for example, a logical virtual table layout, can be pre-computed. Interface implementation information can be pre-computed. A decoder can generate data structures used in generation of an executable from the CTL formatted data.
US09274765B2
A spatial graphical user interface for interfacing with a plurality of data sources to create a layered image includes a content acquisition module configured to acquire a first primary image from any one of the data sources where the primary image has at least an image of one object thereon. A transparent layer generating module generates a transparent layer to be overlaid over the primary image which spatially corresponds to the primary image. A link generating module generates an icon on the transparent layer over the at least one object such that the icon represents a link to data contained in the data sources related to the object on the primary image. The layered image is the combined view of the primary image, the transparent layer and icons on the transparent layer.
US09274764B2
A method is illustrated that comprises receiving at least two states, each state including at least one object with an associated property. Further, the method includes comparing each object of each state to produce a set of differences between states. Additionally, the method includes defining a transition based upon the set of differences.
US09274763B2
The present invention provides a system and method for constructing a complete definition of a backend requirements model that can be automatically accessed and interpreted, and generated into a mobile consumable API for creation of, and use with, mobile applications. The mobile consumable API can be provided and made available to mobile app developers on a separate, stand-alone platform, and may act as an intermediary between the mobile app and the primary mainframe/enterprise/back end system. The method may include identification and definition of one or more of information providers, integration providers, and system behaviors, and creating a domain model. The domain model may be automatically codified into an API based solution as the app/mainframe interface, and stored on a development and operational platform for use.
US09274755B2
A method for generating boilerplate code is provided. The method may include scanning an initial source code file for an annotation identifying metadata of an element, scanning a generator module for instructions for processing the metadata of the element, and scanning the generator module for a template module that includes an indication of a location for inserting the processed metadata of the element in an output file. The method may further include processing the metadata of the element of the generator module according to the instructions, and inserting the processed metadata of the element at the indicated location in the output file.
US09274742B2
Traditional, programmatic automated remote control of computerized devices requires extensive tailoring for each device type and operating system. A visual-symbolic control method enables largely device-agnostic control of any target device with access to display and a means of user input (keyboard, mouse, touchpad, touch-screen, etc). An image-processing daemon analyzes the displayed image and recognizes its component visual entities (windows, icons, buttons, etc.), creates symbolic entities from extracted attributes of the visual entities, and organizes the symbolic entities into a symbolic object model instance. The functional relationships and hierarchies of the visual entities are captured in the arrangement of symbolic entities in the symbolic object model instance. Visual-symbolic control commands act on the symbolic entities, and, where appropriate, the commands are transmitted to the target device as user-like target-input.
US09274727B2
It is determined whether a relay apparatus connected via a network is an external apparatus having a function of executing predetermined processing. In accordance with a determination result, the relay apparatus is registered as the external apparatus having the function of executing the predetermined processing.
US09274705B2
Disclosed are a terminal in which a shape or configuration of a virtual keypad is transformable by considering user's convenience and a method for controlling the same, the terminal including: a display module configured to display a virtual keypad; a user input unit configured to receive a touch or drag input from a user; and a controller configured to transform the shape of the virtual keypad according to a dragged direction or dragged length when a spot of the virtual keypad is touched to be dragged in a specific direction.
US09274697B2
Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including: a display unit to display a window; a touch panel unit to detect a touch operation which is performed for the display unit; and a control unit, wherein when the touch panel unit receives a flick operation in a first direction for a portion other than a predetermined position in a predetermined scroll area displayed on the display unit, the control unit instructs the display unit to scroll the window displayed in the scroll area in the first direction, and when the touch panel unit receives the flick operation in the first direction for the predetermined position in the scroll area, the control unit executes a function which is previously related to the first direction.
US09274693B2
In one example, a method includes receiving a digital note of a plurality of digital notes generated based on image data comprising a visual representation of a scene that includes a plurality of physical notes such that each of the plurality of digital notes respectively corresponds to a particular physical note of the plurality of physical notes, wherein each of the physical notes includes respective recognizable content. In this example, the method also includes receiving user input indicating a modification to one or more visual characteristics of the digital note. In this example, the method also includes editing, in response to the user input, the one or more visual characteristics of the digital note. In this example, the method also includes outputting, for display, a modified version of the digital note that includes the one or more visual characteristics.
US09274690B2
A multimedia visual progress indication system that provides a cache bar that is overlaid onto the program material or displayed on a dedicated display. A cache bar indicates the length of a recording session or the length of stored program material and expands to the right when material is being recorded. Index and/or bookmark indicators are displayed next to the cache bar. A position indicator moves within the cache bar and tells the user visually where his current position is within the program material. Numeric time or counter mark of the current position is displayed in the vicinity of the cache bar. The trick play bar and its associated components are displayed for a predetermined time period.
US09274689B2
A method is provided for enabling sharing of data. The method comprises defining a sharing region corresponding to a portion of a surface of an apparatus. The method further comprises enabling sharing of data with an external device in response to user input associating the data with the sharing region.
US09274687B1
A method of managing schedule changes for correlated calendar events. The method includes receiving, at one or more computing devices, a first calendar event including an event designation as a parent event and receiving a second calendar event including an event designation as a child event. The method further includes receiving, at the one or more computing devices, an indication of event dependency between the second calendar event and the first calendar event. If an indication is received that the first calendar event is cancelled, the method further includes cancelling, using the one or more computing devices, the second calendar event. If an indication is received that the first calendar event is rescheduled at a temporal interval from a first event time, the method further includes rescheduling, using the one or more computing devices, the second calendar event from a second event time based on the temporal interval.
US09274680B2
The present invention relates to a method of navigation around documents represented by identifiers displayed on a viewing screen. Navigation commands control the position of a cursor also displayed on the screen, independently of the position of the identifiers. The identifiers automatically scroll over the screen as a function of the position of the cursor on the screen thus defining the direction of scrolling. When the cursor is positioned on an identifier, the latter is highlighted and the user can enter a command to activate the document, for example to reproduce it. Advantageously, the identifiers scroll over concentric carrousels, each carrousel containing identifiers of documents having common properties. The invention also relates to a viewing appliance able to execute a navigation software module.
US09274678B2
Techniques are shown for generating image frames from a media presentation, selecting candidate thumbnails from the generated image frames using a selection process, and testing each selected candidate thumbnail for a success ranking relative to a target metric. The probability of choosing a selected candidate thumbnail with a success ranking higher than all other selected thumbnails as an optimum thumbnail for presentation to a user is based, at least in part, on the ratio of the success ranking of the selected candidate thumbnail with the highest success ranking to the sum of the success rankings of all of the selected candidate thumbnails. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09274668B2
Configuring a set of guided documents for operation of a business activity based on a workflow for the activity, industry expertise, and a plurality of models of source data that is relevant to the business activity, wherein points of entry to access the guided documents are organized around one or more industry-specific data dimensions.
US09274665B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a touch detecting method and a touch detecting apparatus. The touch detecting method may include: dividing a plurality of detecting rows in a touch screen into row groups; determining a selected detecting row in each row group; performing a primary touch detecting on pixel points in each detecting row in each row group, wherein the touch detecting on the pixel points in the same pixel column in the same row group is performed synchronously; upon there being a pixel column existing touch feedback in any row group, performing a subsidiary touch detecting on the pixel points in the selected detecting row in the pixel column, to determine the pixel point being touched. The touch detecting method and touch detecting apparatus according to the embodiments may solve problems of responding slowly, halting, or not responding caused by too many touch detecting times in the prior art.
US09274656B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus for detecting a touch. The apparatus includes a touch sensor that includes a first plurality of electrode lines and a second plurality of electrode lines. The apparatus also includes a touch sensor controller coupled to the touch sensor. The touch sensor controller is operable to apply a respective voltage pulse simultaneously to each of the first plurality of electrode lines, measure a respective signal at each of the second plurality of electrode lines, and detect a touch based on the measurement of the respective signals.
US09274655B2
Method of detecting a touched position on a touch display of a display apparatus includes determining an amount of an electrical charge generated by a touch on the touch display panel of a display apparatus, determining a difference between the amount of the electrical charge generated from the touch and an amount of a reference electrical charge and comparing this difference to a threshold value, detecting the position of the touch if it is determined that the difference between the amount of the electrical charge generated from the touch and the amount of the reference electrical charge is substantially the same as or larger than the threshold value and detecting the touched position using a pressure according to the touch if it is determined that difference between the amount of the electrical charge and the amount of the reference voltage is smaller than the threshold value.
US09274654B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus relate to touch sensors that are configured to measure input applied to the sensor from a user. Some implementations involve the measurement of changes in capacitance between pairs of adjacent patterned electrodes to detect input at a touch sensor.
US09274648B2
A method of compensating for coordinates of an edge portion of a touch sensing system is disclosed. The method includes calculating coordinates of a touch point, suitably converting the coordinates of the touch point based on a resolution of a display panel, deciding whether or not current coordinates of the touch point are present in a bezel area outside an active area of the display panel, in which an image is displayed, and when the current coordinates of the touch point are present in the bezel area, modifying the current coordinates of the touch point into edge coordinates of the active area contacting the bezel area.
US09274641B2
There is provided a system and method for communicating with a first peripheral device, of a plurality of peripheral devices, using a touch-sensitive system that has a processor and a touch surface. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method includes detecting, using the processor, a plurality of touches on the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system that are made by the first peripheral device. The method further includes identifying, using the processor, the first peripheral device based on the plurality of touches on the touch surface of the touch-sensitive system that are made by the first peripheral device. The method additionally includes communicating data, using the processor, to a receptive circuit of the first peripheral device in response to the identifying of the first peripheral device.
US09274638B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a light-shielding layer, a patterned transparent layer, a reflecting layer, at least one first sensing series, and at least one second sensing series. The substrate has a touch sensing region and a peripheral region. The light-shielding layer is disposed in the periphery region. The light-shielding layer has a patterned opening and a sidewall adjacent to the patterned opening. The patterned opening is configured to provide a mark identifiable by human eyes. The patterned transparent layer is disposed in the peripheral region, and the patterned transparent layer covers a portion of the patterned opening. The patterned transparent layer has an inclined sidewall positioned in the patterned opening. The reflecting layer covers the inclined sidewall and the patterned opening. The first sensing series and the second sensing series are arranged in the touch sensing region to detect a position of a touch point.
US09274634B2
Disclosed is a touch panel. The touch panel includes a substrate including a view area and a dead area; a bridge electrode on the view area of the substrate; a print part on the dead area of the substrate; a wire electrode formed on the printed part to make direct contact with the print part; and an insulation pattern on the bridge electrode and the wire electrode.
US09274623B2
Disclosed are a position information input system capable of coupling a signal generating device and a signal receiving device to each other. Firstly, a coupling unit is formed at a signal receiving device. Under such configuration, a signal generating device and the signal receiving device can be coupled to each other once the signal generating device is coupled to the coupling unit. This can enhance portability and a storage characteristic of the position information input system. Secondly, a contact power switch is installed in the coupling unit. Under such configuration, if a user separates the signal generating device from the signal receiving device for input of position information, the contact power switch is automatically turned on. As a result, the signal receiving device is automatically turned on. On the contrary, if a user, who has completed the input of position information, couples the signal generating device to the signal receiving device, the contact power switch is automatically turned off. As a result, the signal generating device is automatically turned off. This can solve the conventional user's inconvenience, i.e., turning on a power switch for input of position information, and tuning off the power switch upon completion of the input of position information. This can enhance a user's convenience.
US09274613B2
As keys of the keyboard of a portable communication device are asserted, the device dynamically determines at least a portion of a corresponding telephone number to present on the device's display by, at least in part, considering likelihoods of differing explicit and implicit interpretations of these key assertions. By one approach this can comprise according a likelihood advantage to an explicit interpretation of one or more of the key assertions and/or implicit interpretations of such key assertions. These likelihood advantages need not be necessarily dispositive with respect to the resultant interpretation.
US09274605B2
There is provided an information processing device including a display control section configured to display objects in a virtual three-dimensional space, the virtual three-dimensional space including a depth direction of a display screen and having a center region and a peripheral region located around the center region, and an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation on the objects at least in the depth direction based on a movement of a body of a user. The range of the depth direction in which the objects are displayed is set to a first range in the center region and to a second range narrower than the first range in the peripheral region.
US09274600B2
Systems and methods for providing passive haptic feedback are described. Embodiments of the present invention comprise an actuator for bringing a manipulandum and braking surface into contact and thereby providing a resistance. The manipulandum includes scroll wheels, scroll drums, linear sliders and similar user input devices. The actuator may be, for example, electromagnetic or piezo-electric. An embodiment of the present invention may include a processor in communication with the actuator for providing the haptic effects.
US09274595B2
A method for navigating concurrently and from point-to-point through multiple reality models is described. The method includes: generating, at a processor, a first navigatable virtual view of a first location of interest, wherein the first location of interest is one of a first virtual location and a first non-virtual location; and concurrently with the generating the first navigatable virtual view of the first location of interest, generating, at the processor, a second navigatable virtual view corresponding to a current physical position of an object, such that real-time sight at the current physical position is enabled within the second navigatable virtual view.
US09274583B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a central processing unit 21 the operation of which is stopped or slowed down in a sleep mode; an edge detection unit 23 detecting an edge of an interrupt signal supplied from the outside and generating an edge detection signal; and a data holding unit 22 holding data supplied from the outside when the edge detection signal is received. The central processing unit 21 reads the data held by the data holding unit 22 after returning from the sleep mode to an active mode in response to the interrupt signal.
US09274579B2
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that allow signals that are compliant with multiple standards to share a common connector on an electronic device. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a connector that provides signals compatible with a legacy standard in one mode and a newer standard in another mode.
US09274568B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile device comprising a plate; the plate being adapted to accommodate a printed circuit board; a ring bonded to the plate; a seal disposed between the ring and the plate, the plate and ring and seal forming a mid-plate structure; wherein the seal comprises a platform; and a housing unit bonded to the platform.
US09274565B2
A hinge device which rotatably connects a display to a keyboard part comprised of a hinge pivot member which attaches the keyboard part and a bracket which is attached to the display and holds the hinge pivot member and of a hinge cover, wherein if making the bracket hold the hinge pivot member, then attaching the hinge cover to the pivot of the hinge pivot member and making it slide in the axial direction to engage it with the housing of the display part and attaching the front cover to the display part in this state, a projecting part which is provided at the front end part of the front cover is inserted in the hinge cover and return of the hinge cover in the axial direction is prevented, so the front cover and hinge cover can be simply removed at the time of maintenance of the display part.
US09274563B2
A footpad and a carrying apparatus having the same are provided. The footpad can be applied to an electronic device to serve as a support for the electronic device. The footpad being disposed on a lower surface of the electronic device includes a hollow elastomer and a spiral structure directly formed on the inner surface of the hollow elastomer. The distance between an inner spiral portion of the spiral structure and the lower surface of the electronic device is greater than the distance between an outer spiral portion of the spiral structure and the lower surface of the electronic device. The footpad is able to physically change the shape thereof according to the weight distribution of the electronic device and provides a support force thereto so as to maintain balance and stability of the electronic device.
US09274557B2
According to one embodiment, a stand for an electronic device, includes a first housing and a connector. The connector is configured to detachably connect to the electronic device and to be rotatably supported by the first housing. The electronic device includes a display face and a second housing. The second housing includes a first opening formed at an end thereof. The connector includes a support, a protrusion, and a base member. The support is configured to support the second housing from outside. The protrusion is spaced from the support and inserted into the first opening. The base member includes a first part configuring at least a portion of the support and a second part integrated with the first part and configuring at least a portion of the protrusion.
US09274556B2
A tablet computer stand configured to hold a tablet computer in either horizontal (landscape) or vertical (portrait) positions. Tablet computer stand may comprise a T-shaped tablet computer dock (the “T-Arm”), a dock rotator, a neck, and a U-shaped base (the “U-Foot”).
US09274554B2
A protective case for electronic equipment is used to dissipate heat of electronic equipment. The protective case contains a body including a through hole defined therein and a metal plate disposed in the through hole, a Nano heat dissipation layer formed on a back surface of the metal plate, such that the electronic equipment retains with a protective case and contacts with the metal plate. The metal plate has an external rim retained in the body. The body also includes a recess defined thereon, and the metal plate adheres with the recess. The protective case also contains a dissipating piece, and a back surface of the dissipating piece connects with a front surface of the metal plate, a front surface of the dissipating piece contacts with the electronic equipment.
US09274547B2
A display system can include a panel 110. The panel 110 can include a perimeter 117 and can display images on a front side. A bezel 170 can extend from the perimeter of the panel. The display system can include a designated area 140 on the bezel. A three dimensional optical sensor 115 can generate information to determine if an object is in contact with the designated area on the bezel.
US09274543B2
A method for estimating a clock skew between a first clock and a second clock. The method includes the steps of detecting the clock skew to generate a detection resultant signal representing the clock skew; and determining time unit of a signal processing process, and estimating the clock skew according to the time unit of the signal processing process and the detection resultant signal.
US09274541B1
An adjustable vehicle control pedal comprises a first arm having a first end rotatable along a plane between first and second positions. The first end defines a first through opening extending nonparallel to the plane. A second arm has a first end defining a second through opening extending nonparallel to a long dimension of the second arm. The second arm is repositionable in relation to the first arm among a plurality of positions in which the first and second through openings are in substantially coaxial adjacent registration with one another. An insert is receivable through the first and second through openings in each of the plurality of positions to lock the second arm against rotation in relation to the first arm along the plane. A position sensor is responsive to movement of the first arm between the first and second positions.
US09274538B2
A circuit for downscaling voltage comprising: a voltage regulator; a voltage reference register configured to provide a voltage reference value; a voltage comparator configured to output a logical one if a supply voltage of the voltage regulator is greater than the voltage reference value, wherein a first input of the voltage comparator is coupled to output of the voltage regulator and a second input of the voltage comparator is coupled to output of the voltage reference register; an AND gate, where a first input of the AND gate is coupled to output of the voltage comparator and a second input of the AND gate is coupled to a voltage reference ready signal; a switch configured to close based on output of logical one from the AND gate; and a pull-down resistor configured to couple to the output of the voltage regulator only if the switch is closed.
US09274536B2
Described herein is an apparatus and system of a low-impedance reference voltage generator. The apparatus comprises: a voltage-control loop including a first transistor to provide an output voltage; and a current-control loop to sense current through the first transistor, relative to a reference current. The node having the output voltage is a low-impedance node.
US09274531B2
An assembly for a thermostatic mixing valve includes a valve body including a first fluid channel having a first inlet port for receiving a first fluid from a first fluid supply line, a second fluid channel having a second inlet port for receiving a second fluid from a second fluid supply line, and a cartridge chamber having a first layer, a second layer offset from the first layer, and an opening for receiving a thermostatic mixing cartridge. A first removable insert guides the first fluid to the first layer when inserted into the first fluid channel and guides the second fluid to the first layer when inserted into the second fluid channel. A second removable insert guides the first fluid to the second layer when inserted into the first fluid channel and guides the second fluid to the second layer when inserted into the second fluid channel.
US09274526B2
An autonomous vehicle includes: a first sensor which obtains environmental information on surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle; and a control unit which controls a drive unit based on a self position. The control unit includes: a first estimation unit which calculates a first estimate value indicating an estimated self position, by estimation using a probabilistic method based on the environmental information; and a second estimation unit which calculates a second estimate value indicating an estimated self position, by estimation using a matching method based on the environmental information, and the control unit changes, according to the first estimate value, a second estimate range for the calculating of the second estimate value by the second estimation unit, and controls the drive unit using the second estimate value as the self position.
US09274515B2
Systems and methods are provided for recording data associated with the operation of Foundation Fieldbus devices. Device parameter data associated with one or more Foundation Fieldbus devices may be received by a device comprising one or more computers. A visual representation of the operation of the one or more Foundation Fieldbus devices may be generated by the device receiving the device parameter data. The device may then record at least a portion of the device parameter data received to generate the visual representation.
US09274508B2
Methods and apparatus for lock and key security, the lock including a light receptacle, a scatter pattern detecting module, and a locking mechanism, the key including a light source and a prism, the lock and key security including receiving, in the light receptacle of the lock, light transmitted by the light source in the key through the prism; identifying, by the scatter pattern detecting module, a scatter pattern of the received light; comparing, by the scatter pattern detecting module, the scatter pattern to a unique preauthorized pattern for operating the lock; if the scatter pattern matches the unique preauthorized pattern, switching, by the scatter pattern detecting module, the current locking state of the locking mechanism; and if the scatter pattern does not match the unique preauthorized pattern, maintaining the current locking state of the locking mechanism.
US09274502B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including an image reader that is disposed on an upper side of an image forming apparatus body and is provided with an opening portion through which wiring connected to the image forming apparatus body side passes, and an air supply device that is provided in the image forming apparatus body or in the image reader, and forms an air flow that blocks infiltration of outside air into the image reader on an outer side of the opening portion.
US09274499B2
A process cartridge includes: a first unit including a photosensitive drum; a second unit, including a process member, movable to a spaced position and to a close position; and a spacer member for holding the second unit at the spaced position. The spacer member includes a contact portion for holding the second unit at the spaced position and includes a portion-to-be-phase-determined for preventing rotation of the spacer member by being engaged with a phase-determining portion provided in the second unit. The spacer member is rotated, by receiving a force from the drum at the contact portion when the drum is rotated, against a force with which the phase-determining portion determines a rotational position of the spacer member, and eliminates a contact state of the contact portion with the drum to permit movement of the second unit from the spaced position to the close position.
US09274498B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a process unit having a photosensitive body extending in a first direction; a first roller disposed on one side in a second direction of the process unit, which is substantially perpendicular to a vertical direction and the first direction; an exposure unit; a fixing unit disposed on the other side in the second direction of the process unit; and a second roller disposed on an upper side of the fixing unit and on the other side in the second direction of the first roller and configured to transport the recording medium passed through the fixing unit to an outside of a casing. The casing includes a guide portion configured to guide the process unit into the casing, and the exposure unit is disposed on the one side in the second direction of the process unit and the guide portion.
US09274494B2
An image forming apparatus, including a main body and a cartridge configured to be detachably attached to the main body, is provided. The cartridge includes a photosensitive member configured to carry an image formed in a developer agent thereon, a movable mechanism, and a developer roller configured to supply the developer agent to the photosensitive member. The movable mechanism is configured to shift between a first state, in which the developer roller is placed in a contact position to contact the photosensitive member, and a second state, in which the developer roller is placed in a separated position to be separated from the photosensitive member. The main body includes a detectable member configured to detect a state of the movable mechanism between the first state and the second state.
US09274492B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a belt to which a toner image formed with toner added with lubricant is transferred; a blade configured to be arranged in a belt width direction of the belt to scrape against the belt surface; a case configured to include room for housing waste toner scraped off by the blade; a conveyance section configured to convey the waste toner towards two end parts in the belt width direction in the room of the case; and an elastic section configured to flick the waste toner conveyed to the two end parts by the conveyance section towards the blade through elastic force.
US09274482B2
A toner image for measurement of an area coverage modulation of 90% or more is formed on a photosensitive drum in a non-image formation, and a setting condition for defining a developability of a toner image in an image formation is set so that a detection result of an optical sensor detecting the toner image for measurement becomes a preset target value. The target value is set to be lower as a value of the setting condition increases from a lower side to a higher side of the developability. The target value is set so that a color difference ΔE of an image having half the maximum image density obtained after the setting condition is set with respect to an image having half the maximum image density obtained after the setting condition is set in a setting mode with use of unused developer is 6.5 or less.
US09274466B2
The present invention relates to an image fixing apparatus including a fan for cooling one end region of the image fixing apparatus and a fan for cooling another end region thereof. When a temperature of the one end region reaches a cooling starting temperature, a fan corresponding to the one end portion is driven at a first rotation speed, and another fan is driven at a second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed even if the temperature of the other end region is lower than the cooling starting temperature so as to protect the fans from thermal damages.
US09274462B2
A transfer member includes a shaft and a body. When a measurement member is brought into contact with an outer surface of the body and voltage applied to the measurement member is changed by electrically connecting the shaft to ground, a time constant τv is measured based on a change in electric potential occurring on a surface of the measurement member. When a first measurement member is brought into contact with the outer surface, a second measurement member is brought into contact with the outer surface while being spaced apart from the first member by a predetermined distance in a circumferential direction of the outer surface, and voltage applied to the first member is changed by electrically connecting the shaft to ground, a time constant τs is measured based on a change in electric potential occurring on a surface of the second member. τv is larger than τs.
US09274456B2
A developing device includes a developing roller, a developer supply path, a developer conveyance path, a supply-side conveying member and an agitating-side conveying member. The developing roller is rotatably supported in the housing. The developer supply path is arranged along the developing roller. The developer conveyance path is arranged along the developer supply path. The supply-side conveying member is a conveying member arranged in the developer supply path and includes a first receiving portion arranged to face the communication path at an upstream side in the first direction and configured to receive the developer from the developer conveyance path, and has a hollow spiral shape at a side downstream of the first receiving portion. The agitating-side conveying member is a conveying member arranged in the developer conveyance path and includes a first transferring portion arranged to face the first receiving portion at a downstream side in the second direction.
US09274448B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first detection unit including a first light receiving element arranged in a direction of normal reflected light reflected from a first positional deviation correction pattern, a second detection unit including a second light receiving element arranged in a different direction of normal reflected light reflected from a second positional deviation correction pattern, and a control unit configured to correct a positional deviation based on a value calculated from a first detection result detected by the first detection unit and a second detection result detected by the second detection unit.
US09274447B2
A two-component color developer containing a toner and a resin-coated carrier, the toner containing at least a polyester resin as a binding resin, an organic pigment as a colorant and inorganic fine particles as an external additive, wherein the inorganic fine particles have a negative polarity, the toner has a volume resistivity of 40×109 to 220×109 Ωcm and a negative polarity, and the carrier has a coat durability of 90% or greater.
US09274445B2
A toner set, including: a transparent toner including a binder resin a, a releasing agent a and no colorant; and one or more color toners, each including a binder resin b, a colorant b and a releasing agent b, wherein the binder resin a includes a non-crystalline resin α and a crystalline resin α, the binder resin b includes a non-crystalline resin β and a crystalline resin β, the releasing agent a has an average particle diameter as a long diameter of 0.2 μm to 2.0 μm, and there is a relationship of 1
US09274436B2
A lithographic apparatus having: a substrate table constructed to hold a substrate; a projection system configured to project a patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of the substrate; a substrate surface actuator including a fluid opening for fluid flow therethrough from/onto a facing surface facing the substrate surface actuator to generate a force between the substrate surface actuator and the facing surface, the facing surface being a top surface of the substrate or a surface substantially co-planar with the substrate; and a position controller to control the position and/or orientation of a part of the facing surface by varying fluid flow through the fluid opening to displace the part of the facing surface relative to the projection system.
US09274427B2
Topcoat layer compositions are provided that are applied above a photoresist composition. The compositions find particular applicability to immersion lithography processing.
US09274421B2
A salt represented by formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 independently in each occurrence represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group or a C1-C12 hydrocarbon group where a methylene group can be replaced by an oxygen atom or a carbonyl group; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent a C6-C36 aromatic hydrocarbon group which can have a substituent or a C6-C36 heteroaromatic hydrocarbon group which can have a substituent; A− and A′− each independently represent an organic anion; and “m” and “n” independently each represent an integer of 1 to 2.
US09274420B2
A method of stabilizing a fluorine-containing acid amplifier. The method is provided to include the step of dissolving a fluorine-containing acid amplifier in an organic solvent thereby producing a solution of the fluorine-containing acid amplifier, the fluorine-containing acid amplifier being represented by general formula (1):
US09274418B2
An imprint lithography apparatus is disclosed that includes a first imprint template provided with pattern recesses and a second imprint template provided with pattern recesses, wherein the pattern recesses of the first imprint template are configured to form features on a substrate which interconnect laterally with features formed by the pattern recesses of the second imprint template, and wherein the pattern recesses of the second imprint template have a critical dimension which is three or more times greater than the critical dimension of the pattern recesses of the first imprint template.
US09274416B2
A method for forming a photo-mask is provided. A first photo-mask pattern relating to a first line, an original second photo-mask pattern relating to a first via plug, and a third photo-mask pattern relating to a second line are provided. A first optical proximity correction (OPC) process is performed. A second OPC process is performed, comprising enlarging a width of the second photo-mask pattern along the first direction to form a revised second photo-resist pattern. A contour simulation process is performed to make sure the revised second photo-mask pattern is larger or equal to the original second-mask pattern. The first photo-mask pattern, the revised second photo-mask pattern, and the third photo-mask pattern are output. The present invention further provides an OPC method.
US09274415B2
An exposure apparatus may include a first moving mechanism moving by driving a first drive source a first photomask; a second moving mechanism moving by driving a second drive source a second photomask; an imaging means for imaging a first alignment mark formed on the first photomask and a substrate side mark formed on the substrate and imaging a second alignment mark formed on the first photomask and a third alignment mark formed on the second photomask; and a control unit, wherein the control unit controls the first drive source so that alignment between the first alignment mark and the substrate side mark is performed based on results of imaging these marks, and the control unit controls the second drive source so that alignment between the second alignment mark and the third alignment mark is performed based on results of imaging these marks.
US09274411B2
Reflection type blank masks are provided. The blank mask includes a substrate having a recessed pattern with a predetermined depth, a reflection layer substantially on the substrate, an absorption layer substantially on the reflection layer, and a resist layer substantially on the absorption layer, wherein the resist layer has a recessed part that is formed by transference of the profile from the recessed pattern.
US09274400B2
The invention relates to optical beam steering. There is described an optical beam steering apparatus, comprising: a splitter arranged to split an optical beam into at least a first part having a first polarization and a second part having a second polarization, said first and second polarizations being substantially mutually orthogonal; a first liquid crystal device region arranged to receive said first part and to have director orientation substantially aligned to said first polarization; and a second liquid crystal device region arranged to receive said second part and to have director orientation substantially aligned to said second polarization.
US09274398B2
An electrophoretic display device includes a switching element on a substrate including a display area having a pixel region and a non-display area at a periphery of the display area, a passivation layer covering the switching element, a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and connected to the switching element, an electrophoresis film on the pixel electrode and including an ink layer and a base film, wherein the ink layer includes a plurality of charged particles, and the base film is formed of polyethylene terephthalate, a common electrode for generating an electric field with the pixel electrode to drive the electrophoresis film, and a color filter layer directly on the electrophoresis film, wherein the color filter layer is formed under temperatures of less than 100 degrees of Celsius.
US09274392B2
A liquid crystal display including: a first substrate including a pixel area including a first subpixel area and a second subpixel area; a first subpixel electrode positioned in the first subpixel area and a second subpixel electrode positioned in the second subpixel area; an insulating layer formed on the first and second subpixel electrodes; a third subpixel electrode positioned in the first subpixel area and overlapping the first subpixel electrode; a fourth subpixel electrode positioned in the second subpixel area and overlapping the second subpixel electrode; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first and fourth subpixel electrodes are connected to a first thin film transistor, and the second and third subpixel electrodes are connected to a second thin film transistor.
US09274386B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a gate wiring, a source wiring, an insulating film, a shield electrode, a primary pixel electrode, a peripheral wiring and a peripheral connecting electrode. The shield electrode is opposite to at least a portion of the gate wiring and the source wiring. The peripheral connecting electrode electrically connects the shield electrode and the peripheral wiring. The second substrate includes a pair of primary common electrodes.
US09274383B2
A liquid crystal lens includes a liquid crystal layer and at least two driving electrode plates. The liquid crystal layer is arranged between the driving electrode plates. Each of the driving electrode plates includes a transparent substrate, a circuit layer, an insulating layer, an electrode layer, at least a conducting pillar and an alignment layer. The transparent substrate has a surface, and the circuit layer is atop the surface. The conducting pillar is arranged in the insulating layer and connected to the electrode layer and the circuit layer. The alignment layer contacts the liquid layer. The electrode layer is interposed between the alignment layer and the insulating layer. The electrode layer in at least one of the driving electrode plates includes at least two ring-shaped electrodes.
US09274381B2
A fabrication method of a liquid crystal panel is provided. A first substrate and a liquid crystal material are heated to a first fabrication temperature and a one drop filling (ODF) process is performed to drop the heated liquid crystal material on the first substrate, wherein the first fabrication temperature is lower than 70° C. The first substrate is assembled to a second substrate through a sealant under a second fabrication temperature so that the liquid crystal material is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate and located inside a region surrounded by the sealant, wherein the second fabrication temperature is 50° C. to 70° C. Subsequently, the sealant is solidified.
US09274375B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a metal electrode, a transparent electrode, an interlayer insulating film, and a comb-shaped electrode. Distorted horizontal electric fields are generated in order to distort the orientation of liquid crystal molecules. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve a transflective liquid crystal display device that has high transmittance, reflectance, and yield, and that can suppress display defects such as screen burn-in without using a panel gap adjusting structure, a driving method that respectively applies different electric fields to the reflective region and the transmissive region, or a multi-L/S structure.
US09274373B2
A metal structure that holds a display unit, as the main structure, and a casing structure that is integrally molded from resin onto the metal structure. The metal structure is resilient against flexural loads, torsional loads, and other deformations from the exterior upon the display unit composed of thin plate glass, because the member that protects the display unit is in a box shape. The display unit itself can be protected from damage even if rigidity is reduced because of a thinner profile. The metal structure is manufactured by thin plate pressing and sufficient strength can be maintained even if the thickness is low. Furthermore, the metal structure is configured as a frame part of the entire casing, the rigidity of the entire device can therefore be maintained by using this structure, and the mounting board and functional components other than the display unit can also be protected.
US09274360B2
A cushion sheet including a cushion film defining a first surface of the cushion sheet; and an adhesive layer on a surface of the cushion film and defining a second surface of the cushion sheet, the cushion film and adhesive layer including a plurality of bubble discharge members inclined with respect to the first and second surfaces and openings extending through the cushion film and the adhesive layer for removing bubbles generated at adhesion, the openings having a first end in the adhesive layer and a second end in the cushion film; and each of the bubble discharge members are inclined at a penetrating angle within the cushion sheet between a respective one of the bubble discharge members and a line perpendicular to a plane of the cushion sheet, the line extending from the first end of the bubble discharge member to the first surface of the cushion sheet.
US09274354B2
A polarization control device in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a first polarization converter for converting a polarization angle of an input optical signal in response to first control voltages, a second polarization converter for converting a polarization angle of an input optical signal in response to second control voltages, and a third polarization converter for converting an optical signal received from the first polarization converter or the second polarization converter into a first output optical signal having a linear polarization state and outputting the first output optical signal.
US09274348B2
A dispersive device has a beam expanding optical system which includes first and second prisms each having a pair of faces inclined relative to each other, and expands light containing a plurality of wavelength components by passing the light through each of the faces of the first and second prisms; and a dispersive element which emits the light expanded by the beam expanding optical system, at different diffraction angles by the respective wavelength components. A direction of variation of an output angle of the light emitted from the beam expanding optical system due to temperature change is configured to be a direction to suppress variation of the diffraction angles of the respective wavelength components emitted from the dispersive element due to the temperature change.
US09274344B2
A method includes generating a primary beam using light emitted by a light-source. The method includes generating a secondary beam using a portion of the light using a lens of a telescope. The lens includes one or more refraction elements positioned on a first surface of the lens, and the secondary beam is generated by diverting the portion of the light using the one or more refraction elements.
US09274338B2
A near-eye display system includes an image former and a waveguide. The image former is configured to form a display image and to release the display image through a first exit pupil. The waveguide presents a back surface that faces the wearer's eye, and a front surface opposite the back surface. The waveguide is substantially transparent to external imagery received normal to the front surface, and is configured to receive the display image from the image former and to release the display image through a second exit pupil, which is larger than the first exit pupil.
US09274334B2
The invention is directed to a dust removal system, an image capture device and a dust removal vibration method thereof. The dust removal system includes a vibration generation module having a vibration unit which is arranged on a transparent object of an image capture device, and is driven to generate a vibration for dust removal, a vibration detection unit arranged on the transparent object and transform a vibration amplitude into a corresponding electrical signal so as to output a feedback signal continually, a compare unit outputting a control signal when the compare unit determines the feedback signal exceeds the threshold value, and a control unit controlling the vibration generation module based on the control signal to generate the corresponding vibration for dust removal. Thereby, an amplitude of the transparent object can be precisely obtained and the vibration can be precisely adjusted.
US09274332B2
The present invention relates to a display apparatus with pixels, wherein each pixel includes a switching device, a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS), and a gray scale control device. The switching device can be connected to a gate line and a data line to output a corresponding data signal in response to a gate signal. The MEMS may be connected to an output electrode of the switching device to transmit or block light in response to the corresponding data signal. The gray scale control device may be coupled to the output electrode of the switching device to control a time interval during which the corresponding data signal is applied to the MEMS. Accordingly, each pixel may display a desired gray scale.
US09274330B2
The present invention relates to an optical filter arrangement that have a cut wavelength for light passing there through. The optical filter arrangement comprises a stack of a first optical layer and a second optical layer. Further, the optical filter arrangement comprises an electro active polymer material arranged between the first and second layers such that the cut wavelength is adjusted upon application of an electrical voltage to the electro active polymer material.
US09274329B2
An optical shutter apparatus has at least one shutter blade that is movable between a first position blocking at least a portion of an aperture and a second position spaced apart from the first position. A linkage member is coupled to the at least one shutter blade and has a magnetic material. An actuator is coupled to the linkage member and is energizable to translate the at least one shutter blade between the first and second positions. An intermediate plate has a friction surface of a non-magnetic material. A magnet positioned away from the friction surface of the intermediate plate is disposed to urge the linkage member against the friction surface of the intermediate plate.
US09274322B1
A three-piece all-aspheric adapter fisheye lens includes a negative meniscus lens, a biconvex lens, and a biconcave lens positioned between the negative meniscus lens and the biconvex lens. The lenses are coaxial and are arranged with an exit pupil to cooperatively generate an image with a camera lens that has greater field of view than the camera lens alone when the exit pupil is coplanar and coaxial with an entrance pupil of the camera lens. Each lens has an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric image-side surface.
US09274319B2
An imaging lens is substantially constituted by five lenses, including: a positive first lens having a convex surface toward the object side; a negative second lens having a concave surface toward the object side; a positive third lens of a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side; a positive fourth lens of a meniscus shape with a concave surface toward the object side; and a negative fifth lens having a concave surface toward the image side, the surface thereof toward the image side being of an aspherical shape having at least one inflection point within a range from an intersection of a principal light ray at a maximum angle of view with the surface toward the image side inwardly toward the optical axis in the radial direction, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional formulae.
US09274316B2
Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side and an aperture stop positioned before the first lens element. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least one inequality, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
US09274313B2
An imaging lens is composed of a first lens having a negative meniscus shape with a convex surface on the object side, a negative second lens, a positive third lens, an aperture stop, a negative fourth lens, and a positive fifth lens disposed in order from the object side. The fourth and the fifth lens are cemented with an interface which is convex on the object side and has an aspherical shape. If the radius of curvature is taken as R9 and the focal length of the entire system is taken as f, the imaging lens satisfies a conditional expression given below: 1.0
US09274309B2
Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises six lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
US09274296B2
An optical fiber connector includes a body and a photoelectric conversion module received in the body. The photoelectric conversion module includes a base, a light emitting unit, a light receiving unit, and a light coupling block. The light emitting unit and the light receiving unit are fixed on the base. The light coupling blocks are formed on the base and are arranged over the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit. The light emitting unit is configured for emitting light to the light coupling block in a first direction. The light coupling block is configured for reflecting the light from the light emitting unit to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The light receiving unit is configured for receiving light emitting from the light coupling block in a direction opposite to the first direction.
US09274292B2
A signal transmitting connector of the present disclosure includes a connection terminal portion comprising a terminal that executes at least one of outputting of an electric signal to an external device or inputting of the electric signal from an external device, a connector portion comprising a photoelectric converting portion that executes photoelectric conversion between an optical signal and the electric signal, and a cable holding portion that holds an optical fiber transmitting the optical signal, the cable holding portion comprising one or a plurality of cable holding portion mirror(s) each forming an optical path between the optical fiber and the photoelectric converting portion.
US09274284B2
A wavelength selective switch includes an input port and an output port, a wavelength demultiplexer that demultiplexes wavelength-multiplexed signal light into wavelengths in different optical paths, an optical-path controller that controls an array that has a plurality of switch elements, the plurality of switch elements switching all or a part of the wavelengths to be coupled from the input port to the output port, and an actuator driver that shifts the plurality of switch elements, based on a deviation of a center wavelength of a pass band from a reference wavelength.
US09274279B1
Embodiments of the invention describe heterogeneous photonic integrated circuits (PIC) wherein a first silicon region is separated from the heterogeneous semiconductor material by a first distance, and a second silicon region is separated from the heterogeneous semiconductor material by a second distance greater than the first distance. Thus embodiments of the invention may be described as, in heterogeneous regions of a heterogeneous PIC, silicon waveguides using multiple heights of the silicon waveguide, or other structures with multiple offset heights between silicon and heterogeneous materials (as described herein).
US09274273B2
An opto-electric hybrid board which is capable of significantly reducing stresses applied to a bent portion thereof is provided. The opto-electric hybrid board includes a stacked electric circuit board and an optical waveguide. The electric circuit board includes an insulative layer having front and back surfaces, electrical interconnect lines formed on the front surface of the insulative layer, and an insulative coverlay formed on the front surface of the insulative layer and for covering and protecting the electrical interconnect lines. The optical waveguide includes a first cladding layer having a front surface, cores formed in a pattern on the front surface of the first cladding layer, and a second cladding layer covering the cores. Part of the opto-electric hybrid board is defined as a to-be-bent portion in which the coverlay and the optical waveguide are disposed in non-overlapping relation.
US09274270B2
The invention relates to a light-output device (1; 10; 30) controllable to provide different light-output functions. The light-output device comprises a light-source arrangement (12; 31) configured to emit light; and a light-guiding system (10; 32) arranged to receive the light and configured to guide the light to at least one light-output surface of the light-guiding system. The light-guiding system (10; 32) comprises at least a first light-guide (11b; 37) and a second light-guide (11a; 40, 41); and the light-guiding system (10; 32) is movable relative to the light-source arrangement (12; 31) between at least a first position where light output by the light-source arrangement is guided by the first light-guide (11b; 37) to provide a first light-output function, and a second position where light output by the light-source arrangement is guided by the second light-guide (11a; 40, 41) to provide a second light-output function, different from the first light-output function. The present invention is based on the realization that different light-output functions conveniently and intuitively can be achieved by moving a light-guiding system comprising at least two light-guides relative to a stationary light-source arrangement. Hereby, different light-output functions can be achieved with a single stationary light-source arrangement.
US09274269B2
Disclosed are a backlight unit and a display device. The backlight unit includes a bottom cover including first and second longer sides and first and second shorter sides, a light emitting module disposed on at least one of the first and second longer sides and the first and second shorter sides in the bottom cover, a light guide plate having at least a part disposed on the light emitting module in the bottom cover, an optical sheet on the light guide plate, a support member connected to the bottom cover and having at least a part disposed on the optical sheet, and a top cover disposed on the support member and connected to the bottom cover.
US09274264B2
A light source module includes a light guide element, at least one light-emitting element, and a quantum dot element. The light guide element has a light incident surface and a light exiting surface. The light-emitting element is disposed at the light incident surface for providing a first color light. The quantum dot element converts only a portion of the first color light into a first monochromatic light. The first color light and the first monochromatic light are mixed into a white light.
US09274263B2
The present invention relates to projection films and methods of making the same. In particular, the present invention relates to a projection film whereby the microspheres exhibit improved alignment on the light exit surface and have alignment on the light entrance surface that varies according to the individual microsphere diameter. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to a projection film that has the attributes of variable gain within the single projection film. In another embodiment, the present invention relates to an exposed microsphere projection film construction that provides modification of the head-on and angular pattern of light transmission (gain).
US09274261B2
A light emitting device comprising a first frame, a light bar and a light guide plate is provided. The first frame has a groove which has a bottom plane, two inner walls, and an opening. The light bar disposed in the groove comprises a substrate having a lower surface attached to the bottom plane and an upper surface having several light sources. The light guide plate has a light emitting surface and a light incident surface. The light incident surface perpendicular and adjoining to the light emitting surface has several abutting portions. The light guide plate is inserted to the groove via the opening. The emitting light of the light source entering the light guide plate is guided by the light guide plate to be emitted off the light emitting surface. The abutting portions abut to the upper surface, so that the light bar is fixed in the groove.
US09274250B2
A method of predicting weather-exacerbated threats, said method comprising inputting localized weather measurement data into a weather threat prediction system; predicting future localized weather conditions based on said localized weather measurement data combined with modeling from National Weather Service Data; inputting natural environment and infrastructure data into said weather threat prediction system; correlating said infrastructure data with said predicted future localized weather conditions; and determining a threat level index over a region, a threat level indicating an area having a certain probabilistic likelihood of being harmed by said future weather conditions.
US09274249B2
A method of automatically interpreting well log data indicative of physical attributes of a portion of a subterranean formation which include some portion of samples with known facies classification to be used as training data, dividing the training data into two subsets, a calibration set and a cross-validation set, using an automated supervised learning facies identification method to determine a preliminary identification of facies in the subterranean formation based on the calibration set, calculating a confusion matrix for the supervised learning facies identification method by comparing predicted and observed facies for the cross-validation set, calculating a facies transition matrix characterizing changes between contiguous facies, and using the preliminary identification, the facies transition matrix, and the confusion matrix, iteratively calculating updated facies identifications.
US09274248B2
A method comprising using a first mass analyzer of a downhole tool to isolate specific ions within a sample received in the downhole tool, using a second mass analyzer of the downhole tool to stabilize the ions isolated by the first mass analyzer, and using a third mass analyzer of the downhole tool to catalog the stabilized ions.
US09274243B2
A drill string communication system is described. An uphole transceiver can couple a signal onto the drill string at a power that is always greater that a selectable power for a downhole signal. Communication from a drill rig to an inground tool can be re-initiated using a maximum uphole transmit power of an uphole transceiver. A procedure can establish a new set of transmission parameters for a drill string signal to establish communication between the drill rig and the inground tool. The system can include a walkover locator that receives an active/inactive status-controlled electromagnetic locating signal. Responsive to a locating signal degradation, a reconfiguration command can modify the locating signal. The uphole transceiver and a downhole transceiver can automatically modify at least one parameter of a downhole signal. An uphole receiver can apply a compensation response to a transferred signal to compensate for a drill string channel transfer function.
US09274236B2
To provide a semiconductor device and a driving method of the same that is capable of enlarging a signal amplitude value as well as increasing a range in which a linear input/output relationship operates while preventing a signal writing-in time from becoming long. The semiconductor device having an amplifying transistor and a biasing transistor and the driving method thereof, wherein an electric discharging transistor is provided and pre-discharge is performed.
US09274225B2
A method and apparatus for generating and distributing satellite tracking data to a remote receiver is disclosed. The method for includes extracting from satellite-tracking data initial model parameters representing a current orbit of at least one satellite-positioning-system satellite, computing an orbit model using the initial model parameters, wherein a duration of the orbit model is longer than a duration of the satellite-tracking data, comparing, for an overlapping period of time, the orbit model to the satellite-tracking data; and adjusting the orbit model to match the satellite tracking data for the overlapping period of time so as to form an adjusted orbit model. The adjusted orbit model comprises the long-term-satellite-tracking data.
US09274222B1
A radar apparatus that focuses a subset of transmit beams within a field of view (FOV) is provided. The radar apparatus has a phased array transmitter that is operable to generate a transmit beam within the FOV, and a phased array receiver that is operable to receive a receive beam reflected from within the FOV. The apparatus also has a radar controller with an electronic circuit and electronic memory, the electronic memory having a plurality of pre-calculated beam density curves. The radar controller is operable to execute each of the plurality of pre-calculated beam density curves and steer at least one transmit beam generated from a particular executed beam density curve towards a sub-area of the FOV.
US09274216B2
The present invention relates to radar and antenna technique, and more particularly, to a radar apparatus and an antenna apparatus having antenna configuration of arranging a plurality of array antennas capable of concentrating antenna gain on a direction for sensing.
US09274212B2
A mobile terminal and a global positioning system calibration method are disclosed in the invention. The mobile terminal includes: a GPS parameter calibration module (10), which is configured to calibrate GPS parameters based on at least one of the following items: data from a GPS signal feedback and collection module (20), state parameters of the mobile terminal, and environmental parameters of the mobile terminal; the GPS signal feedback and collection module (20), which is configured to acquire the GPS parameters before and after the calibration implemented by the GPS parameter calibration module (10) and feed back the collected data to the GPS parameter calibration module (10). The GPS calibration function of the mobile terminal is enhanced with the invention.
US09274210B2
Systems, apparatus and methods for determining a set of ranges from selected subcarriers of an OFDM signal sent between a receiver (e.g., first transceiver or a local receiver of a local unit at a first location) and a transmitter (e.g., second transceiver or remote transmitter of a remote unit at a second location) are presented. The set of ranges is ambiguous as to the correct range. Each range in this set of ambiguous ranges represents a possible range between the transmitter and the receiver. Range ambiguities may be resolved by using additional subcarriers from the OFDM signal and/or using a last know position of a receiver and/or finding ranges to two, three or more transmitters. The range may be used with other ranges to find a location estimate of the receiver.
US09274202B2
Time-of-flight technology may be combined with optical detection technology identifying an angle of a light pulse emitted from a transmitter and reflected off an object based on a proportion of the reflected light pulse detected at each of at least two light sensors. The optical detection technology may include a light detector with two or more light sensors arranged at different orientations with respect to an aperture in the detector so that each sensor is able to detect a different subset of the light passing through the aperture. The effective angle of the light passing through aperture may then be calculated from the proportion of light detected at the each of the sensors. The effective angle information may be combined with a calculated time-of-flight of the light pulse to accurately identify a position of the object relative to the detector in two or three dimensions.
US09274199B2
NMR probe coils designed to operate at two different frequencies, producing a strong and homogenous magnetic field at both the frequencies. This single coil, placed close to the sample, provides a method to optimize the NMR detection sensitivity of two different channels. In addition, the present invention describes a coil that generates a magnetic field that is parallel to the substrate of the coil as opposed to perpendicular as seen in the prior art. The present invention isolates coils from each other even when placed in close proximity to each other. A method to reduce the presence of electric field within the sample region is also considered. Further, the invention describes a method to adjust the radio-frequency tuning and coupling of the NMR probe coils.
US09274190B2
A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography device includes a plurality of antenna elements. Each antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements has two conductor tracks. The conductor tracks are disposed on opposite sides of an insulator and are connected electrically conductively to one another by plated through-holes through the insulator. In areas, in which conductor tracks of at least two antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements cross, at least one antenna element of the at least two antenna elements only has a conductor track on one side of the insulator.
US09274182B2
A magnetic field measurement apparatus includes an irradiation portion, a gas cell, a measurement unit (polarization separation unit, light receiving portion, signal processing circuit), and a magnetic shield. The magnetic shield is formed in a elongated hollow shape having openings at both sides thereof. The gas cell, in which gaseous atoms are sealed, is disposed in a hollow area of the magnetic shield. The irradiation portion irradiates irradiation light including linearly polarized light adjusted so that the vibration direction of an electric field coincides with the axis direction of the magnetic shield onto the gaseous atoms sealed in the gas cell along a direction perpendicular to the axis of the magnetic shield. The measurement unit measures a rotational angle of a polarization plane of the irradiation light that has been irradiated by the irradiation portion and passed through the gaseous atoms.
US09274180B2
A microfabricated magnetic field transducer uses a magnetically sensitive structure in combination with one or more permeable magnetic flux guides. The flux guides may route off-axis components of an externally applied magnetic field across the sensitive axis of the magnetically sensitive structure, or may shield the magnetically sensitive structure from off-axis, stray fields or noise sources. A combination of flux guides and magnetically sensitive structures arranged on a single substrate may enable an integrated, 3-axis magnetometer in a single package, greatly improving cost and performance.
US09274173B2
A method, system, and computer program product to test a semiconductor device are described. The system includes an input interface to receive a set of test patterns to test the semiconductor device and a user selection corresponding to a subset of the set of test patterns. The system also includes a processor to process the subset of the set of test patterns to output test data to the semiconductor device.
US09274172B2
A method, system, and computer program product to test a semiconductor device are described. The method includes receiving a set of test patterns for testing the semiconductor device and a user selecting a subset of the set of test patterns. The method also includes cataloging a content of pattern files associated with the subset of the set of test patterns to generate a catalog, and processing the catalog to output test data to the semiconductor device.
US09274171B1
Systems and methods are provided for implementing customer-transparent logic redundancy in scan chains for improved yield of integrated circuits. More specifically, an integrated circuit structure is provided for that includes a plurality of combined latch structures. Each of the combined latch structures includes an original latch and a redundant latch. The integrated circuit structure further includes a plurality of combined logic structures. Each of the combined logic structures includes an original logic structure a redundant logic structure. Each redundant latch is a duplicate of each respective original latch within a combined latch structure and each redundant logic structure is a duplicate of each respective original logic structure within a combined logic structure such that a two fold library of latches and logic is provided for one or more scan chains of the integrated circuit structure.
US09274164B2
A detection apparatus for light-emitting diode chips comprises a transparent chuck with the light-concentration capability, a probing device and a light-sensing device. The transparent chuck comprises a light-incident plane and a light-emitting plane. The light-incident plane is used to bear a plurality of light-emitting diode chips under detection. The probing device comprises two probe pins and a power supply. The two ends of each probe pin is electrically connected to one of the light-emitting diode chips and the power supply, respectively, to make the light-emitting diode chip emit a plurality of light beams. The light beams penetrate through the transparent chuck by emitting into the incident plane of the transparent chuck. The light-sensing device is disposed on one side of the light-emitting plane of the transparent chuck to receive the light beams which penetrate through the transparent chuck.
US09274163B2
In one embodiment, a method of testing a semiconductor component includes loading a plurality of semiconductor components into a main turret of a turret handler, transporting the plurality of semiconductor components using the main turret to a test area, and splitting the plurality of semiconductor components into a first set and a second set. The method further includes testing a first semiconductor component in the first set at a first test pad using a tester while transporting a second semiconductor component in the second set to a second test pad and testing the second semiconductor component using the tester while transporting the first semiconductor component out of the first test pad. The first set and the second set are merged into the plurality of semiconductor components and the plurality of semiconductor components are transported away from the test area using the main turret.
US09274162B2
A method for testing a semiconductor device includes testing the semiconductor device in a plurality of operation modes sequentially, and programming the semiconductor device to operate in at least one of the operation modes when the semiconductor device passes the testing.
US09274161B1
The present invention provides a method to ensure that distributed resources of a power distribution system remain connected to the circuitry of the power distribution system when a fault occurs at a distributed resource node to assist in identifying the location of the fault by continuing to inject current from the distributed resources into the distribution system. The system contains multiple power electronics based converters which convert the local direct current (DC) distributed sources (DRs) to the alternating current (AC) of the grid. The converters also provide the capability of limiting the current in the system when a fault occurs. The converters also protect the power distribution system equipment against high fault currents.
US09274159B2
A method for monitoring an electric power circuit configured to transfer a power signal to a torque module that is electrically isolated from a chassis ground includes injecting a common voltage component into a common mode voltage of electrical phases during operation and monitoring a negative-ground voltage and a positive-negative voltage of the electric power circuit. An AC line resistance is determined based upon the negative-ground voltage and the positive-negative voltage. Faults in electrical isolation between the electric power circuit and a chassis ground are detected based upon the AC line resistance.
US09274153B2
An electrostatic capacitance sensor 1 includes a semiconductor substrate 4. A first fixing plate 2 is joined to a one-side surface 4a of the semiconductor substrate 4, and a second fixing plate 3 is joined to other-side surface 4b of the semiconductor substrate 4, whereby a space portion S is formed. Then, static electricity suppressing means 70 for suppressing static electricity from being generated in the space portion S is provided in the electrostatic capacitance sensor 1.
US09274142B2
Conductive electronic device structures such as a conductive housing member that forms part of an antenna may be tested during manufacturing. A test system may be provided that has a capacitive coupling probe. The probe may have electrodes. The electrodes may be formed from patterned metal structures in a dielectric substrate. A test unit may provide radio-frequency test signals in a range of frequencies. The radio-frequency test signals may be applied to the conductive housing member or other conductive structures under test using the electrodes. Complex impedance data, forward transfer coefficient data, or other data may be used to determine whether the structures are faulty. A fixture may be used to hold the capacitive coupling probe in place against the conductive electronic device structures during testing.
US09274138B2
A scanning probe microscopy device for mapping nanostructures on a sample surface of a sample is provided. The device may comprise a plurality probes for scanning the sample surface, and one or more motion actuators for enabling motion of the probes relative to the sample, wherein each of the plurality of probes comprises a probing tip mounted on a cantilever arranged for bringing the probing tip in contact with the sampling surface for enabling the scanning. The device may further comprise a plurality of Z-position detectors for determining a position of each probing tip along a Z-direction when the probing tip is in contact with the sample surface, wherein the Z-direction is a direction transverse to the sample surface, for enabling mapping of the nanostructures.
US09274130B2
Methods for preventing or treating pain are provided. Such methods comprise administering to a subject (e.g., a human subject) an antibody or antibody fragment that binds LPA. The antibody may be a humanized monoclonal antibody.
US09274129B2
Compositions and methods for producing monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives reactive against bioactive lipid targets are described. These compositions include derivatized lipids, each of which comprises a bioactive lipid that having a polar head group and at least one hydrocarbon chain (e.g., a lysolipid such as lysophosphatidic acid or sphingosine-1-phosphate) in which a carbon atom has been derivatized with a pendant reactive group; immunogens made by linking a derivatized lipid to a carrier moiety (e.g., a carrier protein, polyethylene glycol, colloidal gold, alginate, or a silicone bead); monoclonal antibodies and derivatives produced by immunizing an animal with such an immunogen; and therapeutic and diagnostic compositions containing such antibodies and antibody derivatives. Methods for making such derivatized lipids, immunogens, and monoclonal antibodies and derivatives, methods for detecting such antibodies once generated, and therapeutic and diagnostic methods for using such antibodies and derivatives, are also described.
US09274119B2
The present invention relates to an antibody binding to Claudin6 (CLDN6) expressed on a cell membrane. The antibody of the present invention recognizes human CLDN6 present in a native form on cell membrane surface and exhibits cytotoxicity through ADCC and/or CDC activities against cancer cell lines highly expressing human CLDN6. Moreover, the antibody of the present invention has cell growth inhibitory effect through conjugation with toxin on cancer cell lines highly expressing human CLDN6. The human CLDN6 is overexpressed in tumor tissues (lung adenocarcinoma, gastric cancer, and ovarian cancer), although its expression is not observed in normal tissues. Thus, the anti-CLDN6 antibody is expected to highly accumulate in tumors highly expressing human CLDN6 and can serve as a very effective antitumor agent.
US09274116B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for detecting the activation states of components of signal transduction pathways in tumor cells. Information on the activation states of components of signal transduction pathways derived from use of the invention can be used for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and in the design of cancer treatments.
US09274114B2
Methods for in vitro diagnosis of type I allergy comprises the steps of contacting an immunoglobulin-containing body fluid sample from a patient suspected of having type I allergy with a variant or fragment of the mature protein, amino acids 25-260, of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1, which variant or fragment shares epitopes for antibodies with the mature protein, amino acids 25-260, of the polypeptide of SEQ ID NO: 1; and detecting the presence, in the sample, of IgE antibodies specifically binding to the variant or fragment. The presence of such IgE antibodies specifically binding to the variant or fragment is indicative of a type I allergy in the patient.
US09274113B2
The present invention relates to a novel method of screening an agent for preventing or treating cancer using glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GRS) and cadherin (CDH). More particularly, it relates to a method of screening and test agent which modulates the binding level of GRS or their fragment with CDH. As can be seen foregoing, the present invention relates to a novel use of GRS and CDH and provides a method of screening an agent for preventing or treating cancer. The method may be used for developing novel agent for treatment of various cancer.
US09274112B2
The present invention provides assays and devices for detection of substances in liquid samples. The assays and devices utilize passive diffusion between a porous material and a porous membrane containing a specific binding pair member to enable detection of the substance of interest.
US09274110B2
The present invention relates to a method for the in vitro diagnosis of active tuberculosis, comprising a step of contacting lymphocytes of a patient suspected to have active tuberculosis with at least one protein of mycobacteria, said protein being an enzyme having a lipolytic activity, and a step of detecting the presence of specific activated lymphocytes.
US09274104B2
According to one embodiment, a measuring system using an optical waveguide is provided. The measuring system has an optical waveguide, magnetic fine particles, a magnetic field applying unit, a light source and a light receiving element. The optical waveguide has a sensing area to which first substances having a property of specifically bonding to subject substances to be measured are fixed. Second substances having a property of specifically bonding to the subject substances are fixed to the magnetic fine particle. The magnetic field applying unit generates a magnetic field for moving the magnetic fine particles. The light source inputs a light into the optical waveguide. The light receiving element receives the light output from the optical waveguide.
US09274103B2
Conjugates of 1,3-bis(1,4,7-triazacyclonon-1-yl)-2-hydroxypropanes with a variety of conjugating members are used in the formation of dinuclear metal complexes which bind to phosphate esters. By virtue of their conjugated forms, the complexes are incorporated into chromatographic media, affinity binding reagents, and dyes, which make the complexes useful in a wide range of assays, separations, and purifications. In addition, dinuclear metal complexes of 1,3-bis(1,4,7-triazacyclonon-1-yl)-2-hydroxypropanes that are not so conjugated are used in the detection of phosphate esters of biological species by either MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry or by dye displacement.
US09274101B2
The present invention relates to growing and testing eukaryotic cells (e.g., animal or plant cells) in a multi-test format. In particular, the present invention provides methods and kits for obtaining a complex metabolic profile of animal cells. In addition, the present invention provides tools for assaying the effects of candidate compounds (e.g., hormones) on substrate utilization by mammalian cells.
US09274092B2
A method and device for packing a chromatography column formed of one or more vibration devices attached to top and/or bottom flanges of the column. Media is added in one or more steps to the column, allowed to settle under the effects of gravity and then subjected to one or more treatments of vibration from the vibration devices until a suitably packed column is obtained. Liquid used to suspend the media while being placed into the column may be at least partially removed before or during the vibration step(s). The remaining liquid is then removed or replaced after the packing has been obtained.
US09274088B2
Medical diagnostic ultrasound imaging is performed with a multi-dimensional transducer array and an imaging system for planar scanning. The elements of the array may be distributed on a periodic grid with aperiodic shifts in position. When a one-dimensional array is formed on the array, the aperiodic shifts better distribute acoustic energies, reducing peaks in side lobes. Using a layered structure of switches underneath the acoustic elements, side lobes may be further reduced. The switches are used for interconnecting elements to form macro elements of the one-dimensional aperture on the multi-dimensional array. The switches are distributed on a grid corresponding to the desired imaging frequency. The acoustic elements are distributed with a finer pitch. The finer pitch allows formation of the macro elements for the one-dimensional aperture where the edges of the macro elements have fewer or no periodic patterns.
US09274085B2
Provided is an eddy current inspection device, an eddy current inspection probe and an eddy current inspection method that make it possible to detect defects existing in deeper parts of test objects. Three or more odd number of excitation coils are arranged at even intervals in a circumferential direction on a postulated circumference. Excitation currents applied to the excitation coils are controlled so that the phase difference between excitation currents applied to adjacent ones of the excitation coils arranged in the circumferential direction on the postulated circumference equals one cycle divided by the number of excitation coils. A magnetic field generated according to an eddy current occurring in the test object due to a magnetic field caused by the application of the excitation currents to the excitation coils is detected by use of a detector arranged on a postulated plane containing the postulated circumference but inside the postulated circumference.
US09274076B2
An aspect includes a low slope electrode device, including: at least one electrode; at least one container at least partially enclosing the at least one electrode and having at least one ion sensitive region; an external buffer container having at least one separating element that separates said at least one ion sensitive region into: a first ion sensitive area separating an internal buffer solution bathing the at least one electrode and an external sample solution; and a second ion sensitive area separating the internal buffer solution bathing the at least one electrode and an external buffer solution; wherein the at least one separating element, the first ion sensitive area, and the second ion sensitive area establish a charge flow circuit. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09274072B2
A method for determining the interstitial oxygen concentration of a sample made from a p-doped semiconductor material includes a step of heat treatment of the sample in order to form thermal donors, determining the duration of the heat treatment required to obtain a compensated semiconductor material, determining the thermal donors concentration in the sample of compensated semiconductor material, from the charge carriers concentration, and determining the oxygen concentration from the thermal donors of and the duration of the heat treatment.
US09274064B2
Provided herein is an apparatus, including a mapping means for generating a map of locations of surface features of an article based on photon-detector signals corresponding to photons scattered from the surface features of the article, and a surface feature manager. The surface manager is configured to locate a predetermined surface feature of the surface features of the article based, at least in part, on the map of the surface features locations, irradiate photons of a first power onto the location of the predetermined surface feature to analyze the predetermined surface feature, and irradiate photons of a second power onto the location of the predetermined surface feature to remove the predetermined surface feature.
US09274059B2
A microfluidic electrochemical device and process are detailed that provide chemical imaging and electrochemical analysis under vacuum at the surface of the electrode-sample or electrode-liquid interface in-situ. The electrochemical device allows investigation of various surface layers including diffuse layers at selected depths populated with, e.g., adsorbed molecules in which chemical transformation in electrolyte solutions occurs.
US09274053B2
The present invention presents a device and methods of use thereof in combined electrohydrodynamic concentration and plasmonic detection of a charged species of interest using a flow-through nanohole array. The device comprises microchannels, which are linked to a substrate with arrays of through nanoholes, wherein the substrate comprises two layers, wherein one of the layers is made of insulator material and one of the layers is made of metal, whereby induction of an electric field across the nanohole array results in the species of interest concentrating inside the nanoholes and in the vicinity of the nanohole arrays. The induction of an electric field is achieved by means of an external electric field source, which is applied to the fluid containing the species of interest, resulting in electroosmotic (EO) flow. An additional pressure driven fluid flow in the microchannels, co-directional to the EO flow is applied by external means. The resulting fluid flow from the combination of the EO and pressure driven flow results in a total bulk fluid flow hereafter referred to as bulk flow (BF). The local electric field strength across the insulator layer of the nanoholes is high and the charged species in the fluid may exhibit a high electrophoretic (EP) velocity, opposing the BF. The local field strength in the metallic portion of the nanoholes is null, due to the conducting nature of the metal, and the charged species in the fluid exhibits a null EP velocity in this region. The BF and the EP velocity of the charged species may be balanced which may result in the concentration of the charged species inside the nanoholes and at both sides of the nanohole array. An incident light over one side of the nanohole array may result in the formation of surface plasmons (SP) at the interface of the metal and the surrounding liquid containing the concentrated species. The signal from the SP may be detected by optical means, including surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging and SPR spectroscopy.
US09274049B2
The present disclosure relates to a gas sensor, including: a gas collecting chamber including: (a) a nanoporous wall including alumina, on a portion of the gas collecting chamber in the near vicinity of the solid propellant fuel; a micro pump attached to the gas collecting chamber; and a gas analysis device connected to the gas collecting chamber. The gas analysis device measures both type and concentration of gases collected in the gas collecting chamber via the nanoporous wall, the gases measured being selected from the group consisting of CO, CO2, NO, N2O, NO2 and combinations thereof. The present disclosure also relates to a method of sensing propellant degradation in solid fuel and a method of using a gas collecting chamber to sense such degradation.
US09274045B2
Schemes are described to produce quasi-static charge separation, Terahertz radiation, and programmable magnetic field generation using linearly-polarized light in unbiased, transparent insulators. The methods exploit a recently-observed magneto-electric optical nonlinearity that produces intense magnetization in undoped, homogeneous dielectrics. Analysis reveals that strong magnetic effects can be induced at modest optical intensities even with incoherent light. Consequently, efficient solar power conversion is feasible without the semiconductor processing or electron-hole pair generation that is required in conventional photovoltaic cells. Additionally, conditions and techniques are described to generate intense THz radiation in unbiased substrates and large magnetic fields orientated transverse to the direction of propagation of light, without the need for any external permanent magnetic or electromagnetic apparatus.
US09274043B2
A sample identification sorting apparatus includes an identifying unit having an optical information-measuring section that measures optical information of a sample dispersed in a liquid, and a determining section that determines whether the sample is a target sample or a non-target sample, a sorting unit including a sorting nozzle having a flow path in communication with the flow path of the identifying unit, a liquid waste-collecting section that collects by suction a liquid waste discharged from a sorting nozzle tip, and a container to collect a sorting solution containing a target sample, a moving unit and a control unit that cause the sorting nozzle and/or the collecting container to move relatively based on the optical information. The liquid waste-collecting section has a suction nozzle that sucks a liquid waste containing a non-target sample discharged from the sorting nozzle tip or containing a non-target sample or a non-sortable sample.
US09274029B2
Swabs, and materials of the present disclosure, and methods of making same, include randomly arranged sea-island bicomponent fibers.
US09274024B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of determining one or more characteristics of a target object, comprising determining a first phase map for at least a region of a target object based on radiation directed toward the target object, determining one or more further phase maps for a sub-region of the region of the target object, determining a number of phase wraps for the sub-region based on a plurality of phase maps for the sub-region, and determining a characteristic of the region of the target object based on the number of phase wraps for sub-region and the first phase map. Embodiments of the invention also relate to a method of determining one or more characteristics of a target object, comprising determining a phase map for at least a region of a target object based on one or more diffraction patterns, determining a wavefront at a plane of the object based upon the phase map, and determining a refractive property of the object based on the wavefront.
US09274022B2
Diagnostic system for bulk well material handling plants that includes multiple fluid flow pathways to transport well materials. The bulk well material handling system includes multiple connections, each connected to a fluid flow pathway. The system also includes a control system connected to the multiple connections and adapted to automatically operate one or more connections of the multiple connections to a fluid flow pathway to analyze a pneumatic integrity of the fluid flow pathway in the bulk material handling system.
US09274019B2
A system for measuring hot or cold aisle containment air leakage in a data center includes a plurality of equipment enclosures arranged in a first row and a second row, a plurality of panels cooperatively arranged with the plurality of equipment enclosures to form an air containment region, and a conduit mounted within the air containment region and sealed at each end, the conduit having an orifice and a plurality of openings distributed at substantially uniform intervals along a length of the conduit.
US09274011B2
Device for determining the force of an operational arrangement acting on a load receiver, wherein the load receiver is arranged movably relative to a component of the operational arrangement, wherein sensor means are provided, determining the force acting on the load receiver, wherein transmission means are provided, which wirelessly transmit a signal representing the force generated and emitted by the sensor means to a control device of the operational arrangement, and wherein energy supply means providing the power supply at least for the sensor means and/or for the transmission means are provided on the load receiver.
US09274010B2
A capacitance type sensor includes: a dielectric layer made of a polymer; an elongated front-side electrode placed on a front side of the dielectric layer; an elongated back-side electrode placed on a back side of the dielectric layer; a front-side wiring connected to the front-side electrode; a back-side wiring connected to the back-side electrode; and a plurality of detection portions formed between the front-side electrode and the back-side electrode. Each of the front-side electrode and the back-side electrode has an elongated electrode body containing a binder and a conductive material, and an extended wiring portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the electrode body and having lower volume resistivity than the electrode body, and the front-side wiring and the back-side wiring have lower volume resistivity than the electrode body.
US09274008B2
A nanothermometer is disclosed. In various embodiments, a nanothermometer comprises a nanoparticle such as a gold nanoparticle, a fluorophore, and a linker, such as a peptide linker, extending between the nanoparticle and the fluorophore, whereby the fluorophore is self-quenched. The linker can comprise one or more cysteines. An unheated thermometer shows little or no fluorescence. Upon heating, fluorophore-linker conjugates are released from the nanoparticle, thereby unquenching the fluorescence. An increase in fluorescence results. In some embodiments, the increase in fluorescence can be irreversible. Methods of measuring temperature of a sample such as a biological sample, and methods of synthesizing a nanothermometer, are also disclosed. A molecular thermometer is also disclosed.
US09274003B2
An image pixel apparatus for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes an absorption structure device configured to absorb the electromagnetic radiation and to take it up as a quantity of heat. At least one plasmonic resonance structure device of the apparatus is configured to forward the electromagnetic radiation to the absorption structure device. A detection device that has at least one detection element is configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation by way of changes in an electrical property of the at least one detection element that are caused by the quantity of heat taken up.
US09274001B2
Current apparatuses and methods for analysis of spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (SOCT) signals suffer from an inherent tradeoff between time (depth) and frequency (wavelength) resolution. In one non-limiting embodiment, multiple or dual window (DW) apparatuses and methods for reconstructing time-frequency distributions (TFDs) that applies two windows that independently determine the optical and temporal resolution is provided. For example, optical resolution may relate to scattering information about a sample, and temporal resolution may be related to absorption or depth related information. The effectiveness of the apparatuses and methods is demonstrated in simulations and in processing of measured OCT signals that contain fields which vary in time and frequency. The DW technique may yield TFDs that maintain high spectral and temporal resolution and are free from the artifacts and limitations commonly observed with other processing methods.
US09273993B2
An optical subassembly testing system includes a pedestal, a rotation device, a holder and a supporting device. The rotation device includes a rotation member, a connecting plate and a retractable pillar. The rotation member is arranged on the pedestal and rotates relative to the pedestal. The connecting plate includes a mounting portion and a protruding portion, the mounting portion is arranged on the rotation member, the protruding portion extends away from the mounting portion and is exposed outside of the rotation member, and the retractable pillar is fixed perpendicular to the pedestal on an end of the protruding portion. The holder is fixed on an end of the retractable pillar and clamps a fiber connector. The supporting device includes a plurality of receiving grooves surrounding the pedestal, the receiving grooves are configured for receiving transmitter optical subassemblies (TOSAs) to test by aligning the fiber connector with each TOSA in turn.
US09273992B2
A radiation force balance calibrator (100) for calibrating a high intensity focused ultrasound transducer (106), the radiation force balance calibrator comprising: a balance frame (130); a force sensor (138) for measuring force, wherein the force sensor is attached to the balance frame; a balance (124) with first (132) and second ends (134), wherein the first end is attached to a pivot (128) for enabling the balance to pivot relative to the balance frame, wherein the second end is adapted for exerting force onto the force sensor; an oil target phantom (116) connected to the balance for absorbing ultrasound radiation (112, 114) from the high intensity focused ultrasound transducer, wherein the absorption of ultrasonic radiation causes a reduction in the force exerted by the balance on the force sensor; and wherein the radiation force balance calibrator is constructed of non-magnetic materials.
US09273986B2
A chiller system including an evaporator for evaporating a refrigerant and a water pipe in fluid communication with the evaporator. The water pipe is configured to allow water to pass through at a flow rate and to circulate the water with the evaporator to exchange heat with the refrigerant in the evaporator. The chiller system includes a flow restrictor tube within the water pipe that is configured to allow the water to flow through the flow restrictor tube at a reduced flow rate relative to the flow rate. The chiller system also includes a measuring probe that passes through walls of the water pipe and the flow restrictor tube and includes an accuracy range of flow rates less than the flow rate. The measuring probe is configured to measure the reduced flow rate within the flow restrictor tube where the reduced flow rate is within the accuracy range.
US09273978B2
The disclosure is directed to a method, computer program product, mobile device for delivering a navigational notification generated for a mobile device. The delivering of the navigational notification includes obtaining one or more notification parameters and one or more audio parameters; and controlling the delivery of the navigational notification at least partly based on the notification parameters and the audio parameters. The notification parameters are indicative of one or more aspects of the navigational notification such as time-sensitivity, priority or the like. Various configurations of computer program products, mobile devices and systems for controlling the delivery of the navigational notification are also described.
US09273971B2
An apparatus and a method for detecting a traffic lane using wireless communication is provided and includes a sensor unit including an image recognition sensor and a radar sensor. In addition, a controller is configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one of a plurality of other vehicles and generate road driving information regarding a traveling vehicle after confirming a reliability of the at least one other vehicle using traffic lane recognition information received from the at least other vehicle. The controller is configured to confirm a traffic lane of the traveling vehicle based on the reliability and output the road driving information.
US09273969B2
A system and method for positioning a new waypoint in a flight plan displayed on an avionics display in the form of an interactive graphical image comprises generating symbology on the display graphically representative of the new waypoint on the flight plan, and dragging the new waypoint on the display to alter its position.
US09273968B2
Track information generating devices, methods, and programs acquire a self-contained navigation track of a vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of self-contained navigation information, and acquire a GPS track that is a track of the vehicle indicated by time-series pieces of GPS information. The devices, methods, and compare the self-contained navigation track with the GPS track to acquire a first correction amount for obtaining the highest degree of coincidence between the self-contained navigation track and the GPS track and then correct the self-contained navigation information using a second correction amount that is smaller than the first correction amount.
US09273967B2
A bias estimating method includes: calculating a virtual posture angle which is a posture angle with a bias which is assumed to be zero by the use of detection values of a plurality of axes in a calibration posture where one axis of a multi-axis acceleration sensor is parallel to the vertical direction; and estimating a bias value contained in the detection value of the axis using the detection value of the axis and the virtual posture angle.
US09273965B2
A method for estimating a boundary for a future location of a moving object includes: receiving location information about two previous locations of the moving object represented by a first and a second elliptical error probabilities (EEPs); representing each of the EEPs as a conic section via an implicit quadratic equation; defining four tangent lines from the implicit quadratic equation, each tangent line being tangent to both of the EEPs; determining two transverse tangent lines from the four tangent lines; forming a cone in a direction from the first EEP to the second EEP from the two transverse tangent lines; and estimating the boundary of the future location of the moving object as a first side of the cone formed by a first transverse tangent line and a second side of the cone formed by a second transverse tangent line, of the two transverse tangent lines.
US09273962B2
A physical quantity sensor includes: a substrate; first and second displacement members in a spatial plane on the substrate and having rotation shafts; fixed electrodes on the substrate opposed to the first and second displacement members; a support member supporting the rotation shafts; fixing members supporting the support member via a spring unit; and a driving unit oscillating the support member in an oscillation direction. Each of the first and second displacement members shifts perpendicularly to the spatial plane around an axis of the corresponding rotation shaft. Each rotation shaft is shifted in an opposite direction from the center of gravity of the corresponding displacement member.
US09273961B2
In embodiments of the invention, a vehicle stabilization control unit may determine a control moment value for one or more gyroscopes coupled to a vehicle frame to exert for stabilization of the vehicle frame. A number of input axes for the flywheels of the one or more gyroscopes to precess may be increased in order to generate the determined control moment value. In some embodiments, the one or more gyroscopes are further coupled to a turntable, and increasing the number of input axes for the flywheels comprises rotating the turntable. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the one or more gyroscopes comprise at least two gyroscopes coupled inline to the vehicle frame (e.g., aligned lengthwise with respect to the front and rear wheel to spin and precess in opposite directions with respect to each other).
US09273957B2
A method is provided for calibrating a sensor used for surface weight measurement or thickness measurement on a material sheet via transmission measurement and/or reflection measurement. The method may include: providing a two-dimensional calibration sample with a known surface weight; detection of the transmission values and/or the reflection values of the calibration sample via the sensor on a plurality of different positions two-dimensionally or areally distributed across the surface of the calibration sample; and the detection of the calibration value for the sensor via calculation of average from the plurality detected transmission values and/or reflection values and the composition of the average transmission and reflection values with the known surface weight of the calibration sample. Also provided is a method for measurement of layer thickness and/or surface weight of material sheets using the calibration method, as well as an apparatus for layer thickness measurements and/or surface weight measurement.
US09273955B2
A projector illuminates an object, within the field of view of a camera, with a sequence of code patterns. The camera captures the illuminated object and provides object images to a decoder to convert the code patterns into code. A transition locator locates discontinuities in the code pattern images. A dequantizer reconstructs a range image from those discontinuities and said code.
US09273942B1
An ammunition cartridge for a gun is optically initiated by a mechanism wholly within the cartridge case itself. The case has as optical primer initiation means producing light fluence to ignite a primer, which ignited primer may in turn ignite into a flashtube, and which ignited flashtube may in turn ignite a bed of propellant in said cartridge. The optical primer initiation means may be an LED, a laser diode, a VCSEL, or some other light emitting device in general. The cartridge optically initiated primer package is so sized and made electrically and mechanically seamlessly physically compatible with current ammunition cartridges such that these new cartridges are completely interchangeable. If the cartridge primer initiation means is of a percussion type, the cartridge is adapted to include an in-line piezoelectric crystal so that electrical power will be generated when the cartridge assembly is struck by a firing pin during percussion type operations; the power is then used to initiate the light emitting device.
US09273938B2
An archery target includes an impact-absorbing core configured to arrest an incoming projectile and a multilayered bag enveloping the impact-absorbing core and defining an outer surface of the target. The multilayered bag includes a flexible fabric layer comprising a plurality of interwoven fibers and a polyurethane coating layer applied to the flexible fabric layer and at least partially overlapping the flexible fabric layer such that the polyurethane coating layer at least partially fills spaces between the plurality of interwoven fibers. The fabric layer may be a woven polyester fabric having a denier rating of at least one thousand. The archery target may further include a marking defining a target area. The marking may be applied to the multilayered bag using a dye sublimation process.
US09273934B2
The present invention relates to a bullet-proof glass pane, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, comprising a ballistic block comprising a plurality of panes of glass, ceramic or plastic material bonded to each other over their surfaces in a layered composite, and interposed bonding interlayers of plastic material, wherein at least one bullet-resistant strip is provided, having, in particular, an essentially rectangular cross-section and covering the ballistic block of the bullet-proof glass pane at its peripheral edge.
US09273932B2
An armor material and method of manufacturing utilize nano- and/or microlaminate materials. In one embodiment, the armor material comprises a layered composite material including a strike face, a core layer, and a spall liner. The strike face achieves hardness and toughness by the controlled placement of hard and tough constituent materials through the use of nano- and/or microlaminate materials. The core layer achieves energy absorption through the use of nano- or microlaminated coated compliant materials. The spall liner provides reinforcement through the use of nano- or microlaminated fiber reinforced panels. In one embodiment, nano- and/or microlaminated materials can be manufactured through the use of electrodeposition techniques.
US09273931B2
Amorphous alloy armor made of at least one thin layer of bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys and methods of forming such armor are provided. Forming the armor in accordance with the current invention provides ruggedness, a lightweight structure, excellent resistance to chemical and environmental effects, and low-cost manufacturing.
US09273926B2
A convertible projectile launching device includes a projectile launching device, such as a paint ball marker, a less than lethal launcher or an airsoft gun, to which a user can secure at least one shell that changes the outer configuration or appearance of a projectile launching device on which it is secured into a MILSIM style projectile launching device. Any type of fasteners may be used to secure the shells to the device. The surface of at least one shell provides a rail system for mounting objects to the projectile launching device. The shell has a mating surface that engages a corresponding mating surface on the projectile launching device in order to increase stability of the shell. A blanking plug or a butt stock can be inserted into the rear of the shell, secured by a latch or other mechanism on at least one shell.
US09273919B2
A drive assembly of a firearm includes a hammer, a firing pin, a trigger and drive means for driving the firing pin. The hammer includes a main body having at least a first tooth, a first seat engaged by the firing pin and a second seat engaged by the drive means that intercepts the first seat. The firing pin and the drive means are movable in the respective seats between a first rest portion, distal one from another, and a second firing position, respectively, proximal one to another. The trigger includes a first portion that, when the trigger is pivoted, it is movable between the first and second positions, respectively. The trigger includes a second portion configured to engage/disengage the first tooth and a third portion configured to counter the drive means when the first portion of the trigger is in the second position and the first tooth is disengaged.
US09273917B1
A magazine loader includes a loader housing having a housing interior; an ammo slot in the loader housing, the ammo slot communicating with the housing interior; a clip slot in the loader housing opposite the ammo slot, the clip slot communicating with the housing interior; and an ammo loading plunger carried by the loader housing and extending into the housing interior, the ammo loading plunger positional between an extended ammo preloading position and a retracted ammo loading position in the housing interior.
US09273912B2
A heat dissipation device for electronic controllers, is provided and includes a housing that has a hollow portion into which a working fluid for heat transfer and dissipation is filled. The housing of the electronic controller is formed to have the hollow portion using the material containing the heat-conductive filler and the heat transfer working fluid is filled in the hollow portion, to improve the cooling efficiency and achieving the weight reduction. By forming the condensation unit that condenses the vaporized working fluid in the upper end portion relative to the working fluid filled in the hollow portion of the housing, the heat exchange effect of the working fluid may be maximized.
US09273904B2
In a method for reprocessing wet waste materials containing organic components, in particular sludges in a cement clinker production plant, in which raw meal is preheated in a preheater (3) in countercurrent flow to the hot exhaust gases of a clinker furnace (2), and calcined in a calciner (4) fired with alternative fuels, the wet waste materials are dried in a drying unit (18) using a hot gas produced from the preheater waste heat and the dried waste materials and the drier exhaust gases are discharged from the drying unit (18), wherein the drier exhaust gases are introduced into the calciner (4).
US09273894B1
An auxiliary water reservoir system is disclosed for coupling with an ice making apparatus. The auxiliary water reservoir system comprises an auxiliary water reservoir. An auxiliary water supply conduit supplies water to the auxiliary water reservoir. A return conduit couples with the ice making apparatus and positions an excess water within the auxiliary water reservoir. An auxiliary water pump and auxiliary pump conduit positions the water and the excess water from the auxiliary water reservoir to the ice making apparatus. An auxiliary system controller is electronically coupled to a water inlet regulator and a water level sensor for maintaining a water level within the auxiliary water reservoir. The auxiliary water pump propels the water to the ice making apparatus for utilizing the water and the excess water.
US09273887B2
A heat transfer system includes an evaporator having a heated wall, a liquid barrier wall containing working fluid, a primary wick positioned between the heated wall and an inner side of the liquid barrier wall, a vapor removal channel located at an interface between the primary wick and the heated wall, and a liquid flow channel located between the liquid barrier wall and the primary wick. Methods of transferring heat include applying heat energy to a vapor barrier wall, flowing liquid through a liquid flow channel, pumping the liquid from the liquid flow channel through a primary wick, and evaporating at least some of the liquid at a vapor removal channel.
US09273878B2
A smart phone or a tablet may execute an application program code to identify a diagnostic status associated with a time-coded signal emitted by a low-cost user interface of a building appliance such as a furnace or water heater and suggest a recommended action to the user. The signal emitted by the low-cost user interface may be audio or a visual signal.
US09273874B2
An air conditioning and ventilating system for a two-story building with a water tank disposed on the roof includes a first condenser unit and a first air handling unit for cooling a first set of primary cooled rooms and a first set of secondarily cooled rooms on an upper floor of the building. The system also includes a second condenser unit and a second air handling unit for cooling a second set of primarily cooled rooms and a second set of secondarily rooms on a lower floor and wherein the second condenser unit and second air handling unit are independent of the first condenser unit and first air handling unit. On both floors cool air from the first set of rooms is partially returned to the air handling units and partially recirculated into the primary cooled rooms.
US09273866B2
In a coal fired power plant (17) incorporating a feed-water heater (10), energy is provided to the feed-water heater by pumping geothermal hot water through supply and return pipes (15, 16) from a geothermal reservoir (14) located beneath an adjacent coal seam (19). The coal seam acts as an insulating layer, increasing the temperature of the geothermal reservoir (14). Solar heat collectors (21) and (25) can also be provided to boost the temperature of the geothermal hot water and/or the feed water.
US09273863B2
An illustrative light fixture provides an emitter housing and a driver housing in a single fixture with an airflow channel defined between the emitter and driver housings. The airflow channel minimizes thermal conduction between the emitter and driver housings, and maximizes thermal convective cooling for at least one of the emitter housing and driver housing. The emitter housing includes vertical fins extending into the airflow chamber. The left and right sides of the emitter and driver housings define top and bottom edges that are respectively coplanar with the top and bottom edges of the vertical fins.
US09273855B2
The present invention provides an illumination device comprising an elongated support element (10) with an illumination source (20) integrated therein. Preferably the elongated element is collapsible, telescopic or resiliently flexible. It may comprise a plurality of sections (11, 12) which are adapted to reciprocate between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. The device is particularly suitable for temporary or collapsible structures such as tents, umbrellas, awnings, shades or the like.
US09273848B2
The light source unit comprises a light source emitting visible light and light of a non-visible wavelength; a rod-like light guide at the end of which the light source is provided and within which incident light from the light source is propagated in the long axis direction; a reflector that is linear along the long axis direction and provided on the contour surface of the light guide; and a support member encompassing the reflector and light guide, having a given width in the direction perpendicular to the long axis direction, and provided with an opening extending along the long axis direction. The reflector and support member are formed by a reflecting material containing a substance reflecting the light of a non-visible light wavelength and reflecting the visible light and light of a non-visible light wavelength.
US09273844B2
A vehicular lamp includes: a projection lens; a light source arranged to a rear of a rear side focal point of the projection lens; a reflector that reflects light from the light source toward the projection lens; a cut-off forming member arranged between the light source and the projection lens; a first sub-reflector that is arranged in front of the reflector and reflects the light from the light source rearward; and a second sub-reflector that is arranged to the rear of the rear side focal point and reflects reflected light from the first sub-reflector toward the projection lens.
US09273843B2
A lighting arrangement for use in automotive front lighting and a method of producing such an arrangement are described. At least one LED lighting element 40 is provided for emitting light. A collimator 10 is provided for forming an emission pattern of the emitted light, which is subsequently projected by a secondary optic arrangement 42. The collimator 10 comprises a cutoff reflector surface 18 with a front edge 30 and a back edge 32. The back edge 32 is located adjacent to the LED lighting element 40. The front edge is spaced from the back edge 32 in a depth direction X, A. The front edge 30 is arranged as a shielding edge for forming a light/dark cutoff in the emission pattern. First and second lateral reflector surfaces 26a, 26b are arranged opposite to each other adjacent to the LED lighting element 40. The front edge 30 of the cutoff reflector surface 18 is arranged within a focal area of the secondary optic arrangement 42. For providing a beam pattern well suited for automotive front lighting, the first and second lateral reflector surfaces 26a, 26b extend further into the depth direction A, X than the cutoff reflector surface 18.
US09273827B1
A kinetic response system comprising an impact member to receive an impact force thereto, one or more annular guides positioned proximate the impact member, one or more projectile masses to respectively travel along the one or more annular guides, a kinetic energy converter to accelerate the one or more projectile masses along the one or more annular guides, and a controller to selectively trigger the kinetic energy converter to accelerate the one or more projectile masses along the one or more annular guides. The one or more projectile masses being accelerated in response to the impact force contributing to acceleration of the impact member above a defined threshold. The accelerated projectile masses create a rotational force to cause a kinetic push against the impact member in opposition to the impact force.
US09273821B2
A positioning device working with a fixer for handheld, portable, mobile devices includes a securing member coupled to the fixer that serves to hold a mobile device in position. The securing member has a locking unit and a first connecting portion for engaging with the fixer. The securing member can secure the fixer onto an external article with the locking unit securing the securing member to the external article, so as to rapidly, removably suspend the mobile device at a nearby handrail. Thereby, the mobile device is strongly positioned over the external article by the locking unit and prevented from swinging or being displaced.
US09273816B2
A system includes an enclosure and a compressible device. The enclosure forms a confined space where water can accumulate in ambient conditions that fluctuate between freezing and non-freezing water temperatures. The enclosure can contain a protected item within at least a portion of the confined space. The compressible device is within at least the portion of the confined space and compresses under pressure from an uncompressed state to a compressed state that increases the available volume for water within the confined space. The compressible device compresses from the uncompressed state to the compressed state under a first pressure force created by the expansion of frozen water within the enclosure. The first pressure force is less than a second pressure force capable of damaging the enclosure or the protected item.
US09273812B2
A female member for retrofit to a hydraulic line connector includes a body portion having a body passage that is connected to a hydraulic component. A cylindrical wall portion extends from the body portion and defines a bore that is selectively in fluid communication with the body passage. An opposing pair of slits are formed through the cylindrical wall. A spring clip has a rectangular cross section and includes a first leg featuring a first arcuate portion, a second leg featuring a second arcuate portion and a closed end portion positioned between and attached to the first and second legs. The first and second legs are removably received by the opposing pair of slits of the cylindrical wall. The bore of the cylindrical wall receives a male member having a circumferential or annular shoulder that is engaged by the first and second arcuate portions of the first and second legs when the male member is positioned within the bore.
US09273809B2
A hydrostatic unit includes a hydraulic machine that is connected mechanically and hydraulically to a pressure medium supply via an adapter piece and a rotary leadthrough.
US09273800B2
A valve (1), in particular a vacuum valve, comprising a valve plate (2) for closing an opening (3), in particular of the valve (1), and comprising at least two piston cylinder units (4, 5) for pressing the valve plate (2) against a valve seat (6), in particular of the valve (1), said valve seat surrounding the opening (3), at least one of the piston cylinder units (5) having at least one cylinder (7) as a component and at least one piston (8) arranged displaceably in the cylinder (7) as a further component, one of the components of the piston cylinder unit (5) being fixed on the valve plate (2), in particular in a manner stationary relative to the valve plate (2), wherein at least one of the components, preferably the other component, of this piston cylinder unit (5) is mounted on at least one support (10, 11) of the valve (1) so as to be movable, preferably displaceable, at least in a direction (9) parallel to the spacing between two adjacent piston cylinders units (4, 5). (FIG 7)
US09273799B2
A device that can be attached to the outlet of a gas cylinder, which can monitor the amount of gas in the cylinder.
US09273790B2
A valve control apparatus is provided with a valve, a shaft supporting the valve, an end-gear of an actuator driving the valve. The shaft is press-inserted into the end-gear. A stopper disposed on the shaft regulates a valve operation range. The end-gear can engage with the middle gear of the reduction-gears mechanism even in out of the gear-operation-angle range. When a rotation angle sensor detects a rotation angle of the end-gear in out of the gear-operation-angle range, it is determined that a malfunction occurs in a rotation-force-transmitting path.
US09273789B2
A pressure relief valve in a triple offset butterfly valve configuration. It has a body, pallet, pallet assembly and closure mechanism with a lever arm providing mechanical advantage upon a cam which aids in the closing of the valve. The valve relies upon a shear pin which can be machined to alter the opening pressure of the valve. The pallet is secured to the pallet assembly by a plurality of adjustment fasteners and retainer fasteners which can be adjusted to provide an effective seal on the valve. A valve seal has one or more layers of graphite and metal. A pallet seal is captured in a groove in the pallet which restricts radial movement of the pallet seal. The valve seal is captured between a retainer and the pallet seal.
US09273787B2
A control valve for controlling liquid flow in a heating and/or cooling installation under command from an actuator within a range defined by a manually preset maximum. The control valve includes differential pressure regulating facilities and flow area regulating facilities. The control valve is provided with means for manually presetting a maximum flow through area and with means for automatically adjusting the flow area through area within the preset maximum.
US09273783B2
A diaphragm device comprising: a supporting member; a flexible membrane that is supported by the supporting member; and a housing that accommodates the flexible membrane and the supporting member, and wherein the flexible membrane air-tightly separates a first chamber and a second chamber connected to the outside through a through-hole formed in a membrane supporting portion of the supporting member, inside the housing, wherein an avoidance recessed portion to avoid interference with an opening edge of the through-hole is formed at a position corresponding to the through-hole in the flexible membrane, wherein the avoidance recessed portion is provided at a thick portion thicker than the other portion of the flexible membrane, and the thick portion protrudes toward the first chamber.
US09273778B2
A method of controlling a transmission includes selecting a target speed of a second shaft, and measuring a second speed of the second shaft and an output speed of an output shaft. The method includes detecting a rolling neutral condition wherein a first and second clutch are uncoupled from a torque generator and a synchronizer is mated to a predicted gear to apply a load in a direction, and one of a first condition wherein the output speed is decreasing and the target speed is less than the second speed and a second condition wherein the output speed is increasing and the target speed is less than the second speed. The method then includes translating the synchronizer away from the predicted gear, coupling and decoupling the second clutch to and from the torque generator, and mating the synchronizer to the predicted gear to again apply the load in the direction.
US09273777B2
In a manual transmission mode, a downshift instruction signal is outputted by a position sensor, and a shift range is lowered by one gear, as a result of an operation of a shift lever by the driver. The driving force of the vehicle is increased through downshifting. The number of times of downshifting within a predefined time is limited to a predefined number of times.
US09273770B2
A method for producing a functional shaft is provided in which a functional element which is provided with a pocket is inserted into a retaining element, a shaft is inserted into the pocket, and a force applied to the functional element while the shaft is being inserted into the pocket is measured. A device for producing a functional shaft and to a functional shaft produced in accordance with the method is also provided.
US09273764B2
Drive of a seat adjusting device, especially for motor vehicles, with a spindle that is fastened on a first of two rails, which are adjustable with respect to each other by at least one mounting on one end of the spindle, and with a transmission driven by a motor that is mounted on the second rail, whereby the mounting is a single piece stamped bent part with a first area with at least one fastener opening and a second area that is offset upward relative to the first area for holding one end of the spindle, whereby the first area and the second area are connected to form a single piece by a transition area, whereby the second area is designed with a slot with legs lying opposite each other, at least in sections, and opposite a slot between which the end of the spindle can be fixed.
US09273756B2
A power transmission belt with a body made from a first rubber composition in which at least one load carrying member is embedded. The body has a plurality of laterally spaced ribs with exposed surfaces on the inside of the body. The ribs are made from a second rubber composition in which: a) a plasticizer of 8.3 to 10.7 (cal/cm3)1/2 in solubility parameter; and b) solid lubricant are respectively blended in an amount: i) 5 to 25 pts.wt.; and ii) 5 to 50 pts.wt. per 100 pts.wt. ethylene-α-olefin elastomer. The body further has short fibers fixed at the exposed, pulley engaging rib surfaces.
US09273755B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a flywheel for energy storage, specifically a method for finely balancing the flywheel during manufacture, the method being especially useful in conjunction with flywheels having a composite construction, and the method also being suitable for simultaneously proving the structural integrity of the flywheel.
US09273747B2
Suspension control and method for controlling a damper device of a bicycle that includes a damper device having a controllable damping valve. The damper device serves to dampen a relative motion between a first and a second component. A control device and a memory device are provided. The control device and the memory device define a characteristic damper curve which is characteristic of a correlation between a damping force and a characteristic parameter of the relative motion between the first and second components. At least one electric operating device is provided by means of which the defined characteristic damper curve can be modified in at least two sections of the characteristic damper curve while riding.
US09273731B2
An idler roll bearing assembly, made by a method, includes a shaft having a non-grooved outer surface. A shell extends about the shaft and is rotatable relative to the shaft. A rolling bearing is secured to the shaft. A roll head is secured to the rolling bearing. The roll head includes a portion preventing axial displacement of the rolling bearing. The shell is supported for the relative rotation by the roll head. A retaining sleeve is located on the shaft to prevent axial displacement of the rolling bearing. The sleeve has an interior surface in engagement with the non-grooved outer surface of the shaft. An inner diameter of the sleeve and an outer diameter of the shaft are sized such that the sleeve is secured onto the shaft by frictional interference fit and the sleeve is maintained at a position on the shaft by the frictional interference.
US09273730B2
A non-contact seal for rotatable shafts includes a stator ring and a rotor ring with internal pumping discs. Each of the, the stator ring pumping discs, and the rotor ring is split diametrically into two halves for mounting on a rotatable shaft at an intermediate station without having access to the end of the shaft or without having to remove other components. Various sealing components are employed between the split rings to prevent fluids within the seal from leaking out.
US09273729B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards an apparatus/method including rolling elements, an outer ring surrounding an inner ring and the inner and outer rings guiding rotation of the rolling elements in a rotation region therebetween, and a cap secured to the inner ring. The apparatus further includes a bearing shield arrangement secured to one of the outer and inner rings and configured with the other of the outer and inner rings to define a gap for the flow of vapor or lubricant from the rotation region through a vapor restricting pathway.
US09273726B2
The invention concerns a method to produce a cage (1) for a rolling bearing (40), wherein the method comprises the steps of; —(10): providing an elongated metal profile (1) comprising a first and second distant ends (12, 13), wherein the metal profile (1) is essentially ring-shaped, —(20): subsequently joining the first and second ends (12, 13) of the metal profile (1) to thereby form a closed ring (1), —(30): forming in the closed ring (1) a plurality of openings (14) on at least one axial side face of the ring (1), wherein the openings (14) are meant to receive at least one rolling element (43) of the rolling bearing (40), and wherein the forming of the openings (14) is made by drilling from the axial side face of the ring (1). Furthermore, the invention regards a cage (1) and a rolling bearing (40).
US09273720B2
A foldable table includes a first tabletop panel, a second tabletop panel, a first peripheral edge rim, a second peripheral edge rim, and a foldable frame. The foldable frame includes a reinforcing frame which includes first through fourth elongated reinforcing member spacedly mounted along two longitudinal sides of the first receiving cavity and the second receiving cavity respectively, a first and a second leg frame pivotally mounted on the first receiving cavity and the second receiving cavity respectively, and a hinge arrangement. The hinge arrangement includes a first connecting joint, a second connecting joint, and a first and a second locker device coupled to the first connecting joint and the second connecting joint respectively, wherein the first locker device and the second locker device are arranged to operate between a locked position and an unlock position.
US09273714B2
A system for installing and removing a temporary concrete barrier from a bridge deck includes a bolt, a star washer, a flat washer, a two-part sleeve, and a barbed nut. A method of using the system includes the steps of positioning the temporary concrete barrier at a desired location on the bridge deck; drilling a mounting hole in the bridge deck; filling the mounting hole with epoxy; inserting the barbed nut and two-part sleeve into the mounting hole and epoxy; inserting the bolt into the two-part sleeve and the barbed nut; waiting for the epoxy to set, tightening the system so that the temporary concrete barrier is held in place with respect to the bridge deck; loosening the system and removing the concrete harrier when it is no longer needed; and filling the mounting hole with epoxy after the concrete barrier is removed.
US09273713B2
Insulated stud for attaching applique to metal body vehicle and methods of making and using the same
One variation may include a product comprising a stud assembly including a stud comprising a first metal and an insulator attached to the stud. Another variation may include a method comprising providing a stud assembly and an appliqué, wherein stud assembly comprises a stud comprising a first metal and an insulator attached to the stud, the appliqué comprising a second metal; attaching the appliqué to the stud assembly so that the insulator isolates the first metal from the second metal of the appliqué.
US09273702B2
A counterbalance valve is provided with load-sensing, hydro-mechanically setting, features. The counterbalance valve relief setting changes dynamically based on the load pressure at the load port of the counterbalance valve.
US09273700B2
A pressure medium supply arrangement for operating a pneumatic apparatus, comprises a pressure medium supply, a pressure medium connection, a vent connection and at least one pressure medium charging connection to the pneumatic apparatus, together with a suction line, a compressor line, a vent line and at least one pressure medium charging line. A charging apparatus is configured to simultaneously direct the pressurized pressure medium applied to the pressure medium charging connection, and the further pressure medium made available in the charging apparatus by the first compressor stage of a two-stage or multistage compressor, to the second compressor stage of the compressor.
US09273698B2
A fan unit for a heat exchanger of a vehicle, has a plate-like support structure or shroud which has a main opening defining a passage for a flow of air for ventilation of the heat exchanger, and an electric fan arranged to cause the flow of air. The fan has a drive motor and an impeller connected to the motor. The support structure or shroud has a top side intended to extend at a small distance from a horizontal cross-member of the heat exchanger or the vehicle, so that an interspace is defined between them. This top side of the support structure or shroud has a flexible sealing gasket which has a configuration such that, in the assembled operating condition of the fan unit, the gasket is able to close off the interspace.
US09273689B2
Valve arrangement, connection plate for a hydrostatic piston machine, and hydrostatic piston machine
A valve arrangement is configured to rectify a volumetric flow supplied by a hydraulic pump to a first pump connection or second pump connection. The valve arrangement includes a first suction valve arranged between a suction-side connection of the valve arrangement and the first pump connection. The valve arrangement also includes a second suction valve arranged between the suction-side connection and the second pump connection. The valve arrangement also includes a first pressure valve arranged between a pumping-side connection of the valve arrangement and the second pump connection. The valve arrangement also includes a second pressure valve arranged between the pump-side connection and the first pump connection. The first suction valve is acted on by the pressure of the second pump connection in the opening direction. The second suction valve is acted on by the pressure of the first pump connection in the opening direction.
US09273678B2
The compression device according to the invention includes first and second compressors mounted in parallel and an oil level equalization line arranged to fluidly connect the oil sumps of the first and second compressors. The oil level equalization line includes at least one oil level regulating portion positioned near one of the first and second compressors and including a dam wall extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of said oil level regulating portion and a flow opening arranged such that, when the oil level in the oil sump of the compressor situated near the oil level regulating portion extends above the upper level of the dam wall, oil flows through the flow opening toward the other compressor.
US09273674B2
The invention relates to a device and method for the defined longitudinal shifting of an adjusting device which rotates along in a drive shaft, along the center axis of the drive shaft. The solution according to the invention is characterized in that a working chamber (12) is arranged at the opposite end of the drive shaft (1), into which working chamber a passage hole (7) arranged in the drive shaft (1) opens, wherein a working piston (13) that operatively connects to the working chamber (12) is arranged in such a way that, in the event of a pressure build-up in the working chamber (12), the adjusting device (2) is variably moved against the spring force of a restoring spring (10) by means of a radial piston pump according to the invention that is arranged on the drive shaft (1).
US09273673B2
A device for throttling a fluid flow includes a basic body which has at least one throttle point with a predefinable opening cross section. The basic body has a resilient configuration at least in a region of the at least one throttle point. Accordingly, the opening cross section of the at least one throttle point is configured to be set in a variable manner as a function of a pressure difference.
US09273666B2
A Magnus type wind power generator (A) comprising a horizontal rotary shaft (3) for transmitting torque to a power generating mechanism (2), rotary columns (5), flow directing plane (7) installed at main shaft (3), driving motors (15) for rotatively driving the respective rotary columns (5) around the axes thereof, which the relative action between rotation of each rotary column (5) and wind produces Magnus lift, which rotates the horizontal rotary shaft (3) so as to drive the power generating mechanism (2). Firstly, air flow directing plane (7), installed to direct flow to the low pressure area so as to cause another delay and eventually increase the Magnus lift. Secondly, the crossed spiral on the surface of the cylinder (6) provided to generate more air flow in three directions upon the rotary cylinder (5) increases the Magnus force.
US09273665B1
A dual inlet flow wind power generating system is disclosed having two inflow chambers directing air flow into a common turbine. In one embodiment, a second phase of air flow directly impinges on the air blades of the turbine to provide multi-phased air flow with enhanced power generation. Two inflow chambers may be configured on either side of the common impingement chamber and the system may be configured around a vertical axis. Additionally, air deflectors in one or more chambers may direct flow into a flow tube and may be configured as a positive flow vortex inducer. A negative flow vortex inducer is also described, whereby air is directed by air deflectors to reduce the pressure at the outlet end of a flow tube. In another embodiment, a dual outlet flow system is described having a single inflow chamber and two impingement chambers for second phase air flow.
US09273661B2
A combustion control device for an engine capable of operation over a wide range and in which the NOx discharged amount is small is provided, as well as a combustion method for a homogeneous lean air/fuel mixture. The combustion method for a homogeneous lean air/fuel mixture of the present invention forms a homogeneous lean air/fuel mixture inside of the cylinder of the engine, and then causes this homogeneous lean air/fuel mixture to combust by way of spark ignition. A temperature at which a steep rise in a laminar burning velocity occurs when changing a cylinder temperature under a pressure condition corresponding to compression top dead center is defined as an inflection-point temperature. With the combustion method of the present invention, the cylinder temperature at compression top dead center inside of the cylinder is raised to higher than the inflection-point temperature upon combusting the homogeneous lean air/fuel mixture.
US09273652B2
Provided is an air intake device for an internal combustion engine, the air intake device being configured so that a reduction in the amount of intake air is minimized. An air intake device for an internal combustion engine has: an intake air path for supplying air from a surge tank to the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine; and an exhaust gas path for supplying exhaust gas from an exhaust gas distribution header to the combustion chamber. The length of the exhaust gas path measured along the centerline of the exhaust gas path is set to be in the range from 75% to 125%, inclusive, of the length of the intake air path measured along the centerline of the intake air path.
US09273646B2
A separating device (3) for separating particles from an intake air (2) of an internal combustion engine, comprising two cyclone cells (5, 6) which are designed to cause two raw air streams (7, 8) containing the intake air (2) to rotate oppositely and a discharge device (49) which is designed to guide an exhaust air stream (35, 36) containing the particles tangentially away from a respective cyclone cell (5, 6) and to combine the exhaust air streams (35, 36) to a common exhaust air stream (53).
US09273639B2
A system for storing and dispensing fuel and a ballast fluid is disclosed. The system may be employed in a vehicle or facility having a power plant. Fuel and ballast fluid may be stored cryogenically in a liquid phase and dispensed to the vapor phase. The system may employ a thermal and volumetric compensatory arrangement wherein fuel dispensed from storage for use in a power plant is used as a heat exchange medium (refrigerant) for ballast fluid received for storage; during refueling, ballast fluid stored in the vehicle or facility may be dispensed and used as a refrigerant for fuel being stored in the vehicle in space made available by the dispensed ballast fluid. The fuel may be natural gas with a main component of methane; the ballast fluid may be a fluid obtainable from ambient environmental air, such as nitrogen or oxygen. The fuel and ballast fluid may be conditioned so that the respective boiling points are approximately equal. The system may employ a heat transfer system with a microchannel heat exchanger.
US09273636B2
An automatic control apparatus for a carburetor choke valve includes a pull-rod, throttle control lever, choke block, and temperature control assembly which is arranged on a cylinder head through a bracket having a rotating shaft and coil spring. The rotating shaft is connected to the spring and one end of the pull-rod via a rotary arm. The other end of the pull-rod is located at a choke valve shaft. The block and valve shaft are connected to respective ends of the lever. During cold start, the block is opened driving the lever to pull the valve shaft. When rotated through a certain angle the valve shaft is blocked by part of the pull-rod, such that the valve and block cannot be fully opened. During warm start, the valve shaft when returning is blocked by another part of the pull-rod such that the valve cannot fully close.
US09273613B2
A method monitoring a servo-control loop, including: estimating monitoring parameters from operating data of the servo-control loop; obtaining indicators from the monitoring parameters; determining at least one signature from values of at least some of the indicators; and detecting and locating a degradation affecting the servo-control loop as a function of the at least one determined signature.
US09273607B2
A system may include a compressor, a heat exchanger and an ITM. The compressor is configured to receive an air stream and compress the air stream to generate a pressurized stream. The heat exchanger is configured to receive the pressured stream and indirectly heat the pressurized stream using heat from an oxygen stream from an Ion Transport Membrane (ITM). The ITM is configured to receive the heated pressurized stream and generate an oxygen stream and the non-permeate stream, wherein the non-permeate stream is passed to a gas turbine burner and the oxygen stream is passed to the heat exchanger.
US09273603B2
A power supply system mounted in a vehicle. A rotary machine is connected to an output shaft of an internal-combustion engine of the vehicle, and has a power generation function, an engine start-up function, and an engine output assist function. A first secondary battery and a second secondary battery are each electrically connected in parallel with the rotary machine. A connection switch is provided along a connecting line electrically connecting the first and second secondary batteries, where the connection switch is configured to electrically connect and disconnect the second secondary battery and a parallel connection of the first secondary battery and the rotary machine. A switch controller is configured to disconnect the second secondary battery and the parallel connection by controlling the connection switch to a current cut-off state during the engine start-up and during engine output assist.
US09273599B2
To effectively improve flame propagation speed utilizing active species in an internal combustion engine 10 that promotes combustion utilizing active species. The internal combustion engine 10 is provided with an internal combustion engine main body 11 that combusts fuel air mixture in a combustion chamber 20 and an active species generation unit 13 that generates active species in a region which a flame surface has not yet reached during flame propagation in the combustion chamber 20. In a region which the flame will eventually pass through, the active species generation unit 13 generates the active species while the flame surface has not yet reached the region.
US09273596B2
A secondary air injection system to aid in the warm-up of a catalyst employed as part of an emissions control system of a vehicle to obtain efficient reduction in engine emissions. A compressor utilized to compress or boost air for increased engine performance is additionally used as a secondary air injection source, eliminating the need for external air pumps. The compressor is configured to transmit boosted air to the engine of the vehicle or to the catalyst to aid in the warm-up of the catalyst. A valve having an open configuration and a closed configuration controls the passage of the boosted air to the engine or to the catalyst. The valve may be controlled by a controller based upon airflow, temperature, pressure, or time. A control map relating engine speed to airflow may be used for obtaining airflow values for controlling the configuration of the valve.
US09273593B2
An ECU alternatively changes a target air-fuel ratio At to a rich side and a lean side by active air-fuel ratio control. The ECU measures an oxygen storage capacity OSC of an exhaust purification catalyst based on an oscillation period of the target air-fuel ratio At and the target aft-fuel ratio At, and executes a deterioration determination with respect to the exhaust purification catalyst based on the measurement value. When executing the deterioration determination, the ECU closes a waste gate valve to prevent a decrease in the accuracy of the deterioration determination that is caused by two kinds of exhaust gas whose flow paths are different from each other arriving at the area surrounding an air-fuel ratio sensor.
US09273589B2
An exhaust apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a first exhaust collecting section, a first exhaust passage, a first exhaust sensor, and a rib. The first exhaust passage is connected to the first exhaust collecting section and has a curved shape to change a flow direction of the exhaust gas from a direction in which the exhaust gas is ejected from each of first cylinders. The first exhaust passage includes an outer wall provided on a radially outer side of the curved shape. The rib is provided on the outer wall of the first exhaust passage and extends along a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the exhaust gas flows. The rib is positioned downstream from the first exhaust sensor.
US09273578B2
The present invention relates to a catalytic converter which comprises a molecular sieve and a mixed oxide, and to a method for the selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides in exhaust gases of diesel engines.
US09273571B2
The invention relates to an adjustable camshaft for the valve gear of an internal combustion engine, comprising an outer shaft, on which at least one first cam is arranged and connected to the outer shaft in a rotationally fixed manner, and an inner shaft extending through the outer shaft, to which inner shaft at least one second cam is connected in a rotationally fixed manner, wherein the second cam connected to the inner shaft in a rotationally fixed manner has a cam hole and is rotatably supported on a seating point on the outer shaft. According to the invention, at least one oil groove is introduced at the seating point in the outer shaft and/or in the inner wall of the cam hole, into which oil groove oil is guided from a gap between the outer shaft and the inner shaft through at least one passage extending through the outer shaft.
US09273562B2
Superalloy components are joined by mating a recess formed in one component with a corresponding projection formed in another component along a contact surface. The components are compressed along the contact surface and resistance heat welded to each other. Current is passed between the components at a selected flow rate and application time until localized melting occurs along the contact surface, and they are mutually affixed to each other. When repairing a damaged surface portion of a superalloy material component, the damaged portion is removed to form an excavated recess. A repair splice is formed, preferably of a same material with similar mechanical structural properties, having a mating projection with profile conforming to the corresponding recess profile. The splice and substrate are resistance heat welded under compression pressure until localized melting occurs along the contact surface, so that they are mutually affixed.
US09273557B2
Provided is a motor device capable of suppressing undesired vibrations occurring at the time of starting a motor, by canceling a torque in a motor device system so as to reduce a reaction torque acting on a motor base. The motor device is equipped with a dual axis motor having first and second rotating shafts and projecting at either end, a rotational direction converter having an input shaft to which the torque of the dual axis motor is inputted and an output shaft that outputs the torque by rotating in a direction opposite to that of the input shaft, and a flywheel provided at an end portion of the first rotating shaft, for balancing out the reaction torque acting on the input shaft and the output shaft of the rotational direction converter when the dual axis motor rotates.
US09273551B2
Apparatus and method for collecting and preserving in representative condition a fluid sample from a reservoir which comprises: positioning a sample container including a sampler in the vicinity of a subterranean zone to be sampled, and wherein the step of collecting and preserving the sample comprises allowing or causing the sample to first flow into the sample receptacle, wherein the movement of the sample into the sample receptacle is restricted by the movement of a sampling piston, and wherein the movement of the sampling piston is further controlled by the rotation of an electrical motor connected to the sample piston by mechanical linkage such that the rotation of the electric motor in either direction translates to lateral movement of the sample piston, the lateral movement of the sample piston in turn allowing sample to enter the sample receptacle, and wherein once an adequate volume of sample has been collected, reversing the direction of the electrical motor will serve to cause the sample piston to exert pressure on the collected sample and thus preserve the integrity of the sample from the deleterious effects of shrinkage as the sample is recovered to the surface.
US09273550B2
Apparatus and methods for locating faults in inductively coupled wired drill pipe while drilling. In one embodiment, apparatus includes a drill string and a wired drill pipe fault monitor. The drill string includes a plurality of wired drill pipes. Each wired drill pipe includes an inductive coupler at each terminal end. The wired drill pipe fault monitor is coupled to the wired drill pipes. The fault monitor includes an impedance measuring system and a fault locator. The impedance measuring system is configured to measure, while drilling the borehole, an input impedance of the wired drill pipes. The fault locator is configured to determine a propagation constant for the wired drill pipes, and to analyze the measured input impedance and determine, as a function of the measured input impedance and the propagation constant, a location of a fault in the wired drill pipes.
US09273540B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a downhole slot cutter. The downhole slot cutter a housing of the downhole slot cutter configured to be inserted into a tubular positioned within a wellbore, and a plurality of dies supported by the housing, wherein the plurality of dies is configured to extend radially outward from the housing.
US09273537B2
A system and methodology utilizes a technique for filtering sand. For example, a sand control system may be provided with a base pipe having a non-permeable section and a permeable section in which the permeable section is created via at least one opening formed laterally through a wall of the base pipe. The sand control system also comprises at least one drainage tube positioned along an exterior of the base pipe and coupled to the base pipe in fluid communication with the at least one opening. The drainage tube is permeable and enables the inflow of fluid while preventing the influx of sand. The inflowing fluid is delivered along an interior of the drainage tube and through the opening into an interior of the base pipe for production.
US09273525B2
A stop collar is assembled using a method including the steps of receiving a bore of a base having a set of fingers extending along an exterior of a tubular, receiving a bore of a sleeve onto the tubular adjacent the set of fingers, and receiving the sleeve onto the set of fingers in an interference-fit. In alternate embodiments, the base comprises a plurality of angularly distributed fingers and/or the base comprises a gap to permit conformance of the base to the tubular. A fingerless base may cooperate with one or more separate fingers to form a base. In an embodiment of the method, the sleeve may be thermally expanded prior to the step of receiving the sleeve onto the set of fingers. The sleeve may be heated to expand the bore prior to being received onto the set of fingers.
US09273517B2
A closed-loop method for geosteering includes acquiring logging while drilling data and processing the logging while drilling data downhole while drilling to obtain a geosteering correction (a correction to the drilling direction based upon the LWD measurements). The geosteering correction is further processed downhole to obtain new steering tool settings which are then applied to the steering tool to change the direction of drilling. These steps are typically repeated numerous times without the need for uphole processing or surface intervention.
US09273514B2
A window assembly includes a window frame and an exterior window treatment system mounted to the window frame. The exterior window treatment system has a treatment storage housing configured to receive an exterior window treatment movable between a stored position within the treatment storage housing and a deployed position extending from the treatment storage housing. The window system also includes at least one guide for guiding the window treatment between the stored position and the deployed position. The window assembly includes at least one interface frame coupled with each of the treatment storage housing and the at least one guide for engaging the window treatment system to the window frame.
US09273511B2
A shower door assembly with linkage control comprising a stationary frame, a movable frame and an adjustment assembly disposed between the stationary frame and the movable frame. The adjustment assembly comprises at least two adjustment devices and locking devices for locking each of the adjustment devices. Each of the locking devices comprises a locking element and a guiding device along which the locking element can slide. An actuating arm is provided to release and lock adjustment devices all at once. Therefore, it is unnecessary to adjust each of the adjustment devices separately, facilitating the operation of adjustment.
US09273505B1
An automated door closure system regulate the release and closure of a door in a door assembly that includes a primary door, a secondary door, and a door frame. The system includes a door closer, a control unit, and an automatic input sensor. The door closer, which is connected between the secondary door and the door frame and includes a cylinder and an operating rod, biases the secondary door toward a closed position. The control unit includes a motive device and a rod catch element. The rod catch element, which may be moved by the motor, is positioned in proximity to the operating rod to adjustably prevent the secondary door from being closed. The automatic input sensor detects a door assembly use condition. The control unit controls the motive device based on the detected condition to move the rod catch element, allowing the door closer to close the secondary door.
US09273485B2
A dumpster enclosure having replaceable panels and a front gate designed with sockets positioned to allow access to a dumpster lift arm opening for removal of the dumpster front enclosure by a garbage truck without exiting the garbage truck.
US09273481B2
A water circulation system for a swimming pool includes a venturi skimmer; a pump with a suction side and a discharge side; a suction drain; a pool return line; and at least one pool inlet fluidically connected to the pool return line. A pump inlet on the pump suction side has an inlet selector to fluidically connect the pump to the venturi skimmer, the suction drain, or a combination of the venturi skimmer and the suction drain. In addition, pump outlet on the pump discharge side has an outlet selector to fluidically connect the pump to the venturi skimmer, the pool return line, or a combination of the venturi skimmer and the pool return line. The pump is a multispeed pump or a variable speed pump. Also provided is a method of circulating water for a swimming pool generally comprising this circulation system.
US09273480B2
A method and apparatus for the repair of door and window jambs or other exterior surface trim of a building and more specifically to the manufacturing of protective covers of a water and environmentally resistant material that are pre-dimensioned to fit all or a portion of standard and non-standard sized door or window jamb, frames or exterior trim using a unique preformed groove. The protective covers may further be included in a kit that provides for a homeowner to easily size the covers to the appropriate dimension and perform a repair.
US09273470B2
A connector for coupling a veneer panel to a back-up comprises a support member comprising a mounting flange adapted for securing the support member to said back-up wall, and first and second support member side walls extending outwardly from the mounting flange. The first and second support member side walls define at least one generally horizontal slot when the support member is secured to the back-up wall. The connector further comprises a veneer connector configured for non-rotational sliding receipt in the generally horizontal slot and adapted to support a generally horizontal edge of said veneer panel when the veneer connector is received in the generally horizontal slot and when the support member is secured to the back-up wall.
US09273467B2
A skylight system including a support frame and an apex patch fitting that together support a plurality of glass pieces joined together in a selectable shape. The support frame includes a sill and a setting chair that are arranged to support the base portions of the glass pieces. The apex patch fitting may be of selectable shape and includes an upper and lower member to retain the peaks or corners of the glass therebetween. The apex patch fitting includes one or more positioning keys to align and secure the glass pieces. A method of making the skylights includes the use of an apex retainer tool to maintain the apex patch fitting in a fixed position while placing glass pieces on it. Multiple apex patch fittings can be used for a skylight, including a skylight that is ridge shaped or hipped ridge shape.
US09273463B1
Building environmental control systems are disclosed which comprise one or more prefabricated temperature sensing and control panels in operable communication with a system control unit, an air handling system, and a heating and/or cooling utility supply system. The panels are configured to constitute a portion of the sheathing of a building or an internal partition. According to some embodiments, the panels include an outer wall and an inner wall defining an inner space therebetween in which is situated a heat exchanger and a temperature sensor. Each panel comprises an inlet to admit an air stream into its inner space and an outlet for discharging the air stream into a space adjacent to the inner wall after having been thermally conditioned by the heat exchanger.
US09273458B2
A building structure includes an upper chord element, a lower chord element and web elements extending between the upper chord element and the lower chord element. The upper chord element forms part of an outer surface of a roof for the building structure.
US09273453B2
Drain clean-out assemblies that can be used to drain the contents of a drain line prior to removing a clean-out plug mounted to the assembly or to which the assembly is mounted. The drain clean-out assembly includes clean-out plug and a device for selectively preventing and permitting drainage of a fluid through a drain port of the assembly. The assembly may include a housing having oppositely-disposed first and second ends, wherein the first end of the housing is configured to attach to a drain line, the second end of the housing is a clean-out port, the clean-out plug is removably attached to the clean-out port, and the drain port is defined by and through the clean-out plug and in fluidic communication with an interior of the housing.
US09273446B2
An underwater trenching apparatus comprises at least one trenching tool; a lifting attachment point configured for attachment of a lifting means for lowering the trenching apparatus to, or raising the trenching apparatus from, its location of operation; at least two steerable endless track units for transmitting tractive effort to move the underwater trenching apparatus in use; and for each steerable endless track unit, a first mounting arrangement permitting rotation of the track unit about a vertical axis, and a first actuator configured to move the track unit about the vertical axis, and control means configured to control the action of the actuator. In alternative forms, in addition to, or alternative to the steerable endless track units, the apparatus includes height adjustment means for adjusting the vertical spacing between the main body portion and the respective endless tracks; and control means configured to control the action of the height adjustment means.
US09273445B2
A fluidified inert material spreading device configured to bury a pipeline in a body of water is configured to travel in the body of water in a travelling direction along and over the pipeline, and has a hull, which extends along a longitudinal axis, houses at least one expansion chamber for fluidified inert material, is connected to at least one feed port to feed the fluidified inert material to the expansion chamber, and has a quantity or number of outlet ports configured to release the fluidified inert material from the expansion chamber, close to the pipeline, and which as a whole define a flow cross section greater than the flow cross section of the feed port.
US09273437B2
A safety trailer is shown, the device including first and second platforms, at least one of the first and second platforms having an axle and wheels attached thereto; a plurality of interconnected wall sections positioned between and connected to the first and second platforms, the plurality of wall sections defining a protected work area on a side of the trailer; and wherein each wall section has a longitudinal member extending a length of the wall section, the longitudinal member being positioned at the approximate position of a bumper of a vehicle colliding with the wall section.
US09273433B2
A working machine for use in milling the surface of a road includes a drive engine that produces engine exhaust gases. The working machine also includes a milling drum that is mounted for rotation against the surface of the road so as to generate milled material including dust from the road surface. The milling drum is contained within a milling chamber, and a spray assembly directs water into the milling chamber in such a manner that, during a period of rotation of the milling drum against the surface of the road, at least a portion of the water is converted to a vapor. A conduit is provided for conducting at least a portion of the engine exhaust gases into an enclosed space in communication with the milling chamber to raise the temperature of a gas stream therein containing vapor and dust from the milled material.
US09273432B2
Formulations and methods for papermaking use one or more volatile debonders, where the volatile debonder forms a solution or an emulsion with water in a paper precursor, and where the volatile debonder is evaporable from the paper precursor before the paper precursor is completely dried to form a paper sheet during papermaking. Two volatile debonders having different boiling points can be used, where they are miscible in water and in each other, and where one volatile debonder has a higher molecular weight and the other volatile debonder has a lower boiling point.
US09273428B2
The invention refers to a method for forming particles or droplets of at least one substance comprising the steps of providing a foamed medium, which foamed medium comprises said substance, and forming particles or droplets of said substance at least partly by electrostatic processing. The use of foamed medium in electrostatic processing enables higher production speeds and increases the evenness of a coating layer formed by electrospinning or electrospraying the particles or droplets on a substrate.
US09273424B2
A washing machine includes; a cabinet forming an external appearance and having an open upper portion; a reservoir hanging within the cabinet and allowing washing water to be put therein; a washing tub rotatably disposed within the reservoir and accommodating the laundry; and a spray nozzle spraying washing water into the washing tub such that one boundary of sprayed washing machine reaches a side wall of the washing tub and the other boundary of the sprayed washing water reaches the bottom of the washing tub, wherein the spray nozzle includes: a tube part forming a passage along which washing water is introduced; and a spray part connected with the tube part to spray washing water and disposed such that a spray face against which washing water discharged from the tube part splashes is bent at a certain angle with respect to a discharge direction of the tube part. The laundry can be effectively wet by increasing a spray range of washing water.
US09273423B2
A thread routing mechanism for needle-switchable type sewing machine is installed on a needle bar switching mechanism of the sewing machine, and includes a thread take-up lever, a cylindrical needle bar case and a plurality of threads. The thread take-up lever includes a sway control end and a thread take-up end having thread holes. The cylindrical needle bar case has a rotation axis and a plurality of spaced needle bar holes, and internally defines a hollow space. The needle bar holes are equally distant from the rotation axis, and each receives a needle bar therein. The needle bars respectively carry a needle having an eye formed thereon. The threads are separately routed through a thread course defined by the thread holes, the hollow space and the needle eyes, such that the length of the threads in the thread course maintains same without being affected by a needle bar switching operation.
US09273408B2
Solder bumps are provided on round wafers through the use of injection molded solder. Copper pillars or ball limiting metallurgy are formed over I/O pads within the channels of a patterned mask layer. Solder is injected over the pillars or BLM, filling the channels. Molten solder can be injected in cavities formed in round wafers without leakage using a carrier assembly that accommodates wafers that have been previously subjected to mask layer deposition and patterning. One such carrier assembly includes an elastomeric body portion having a round recess, the walls of the recess forming a tight seal with the round wafer. Other carrier assemblies employ adhesives applied around the peripheral edges of the wafers to ensure sealing between the carrier assemblies and wafers.
US09273406B2
An electrolytic cell, a method for manufacturing the cell, and a method of operating same. The electrolytic cell has at least two bipolar plates, at least one fluid inflow and outflow, as well as at least one laminated core arranged between the at least two bipolar plates. The laminated core is constructed from laminations which are stacked one on top of the other. At least two laminations have recesses which are designed to extend through the entire thickness of the respective lamination. The at least two laminations are arranged one on top of the other in such a way that recesses in adjacent laminations overlap partially, but not completely, as a result of which ducts, which are continuous in the direction of the plane of the lamination, are formed.
US09273403B2
The invention relates to a method for improving the performance of nickel electrodes in alkali chloride electrolysis by adding water-soluble platinum compounds to the catolyte.
US09273401B2
A method of mitigating galvanic corrosion on a vehicle is provided for use of metals with carbon containing composites. An electrically conductive material comprising a plurality of electrically conductive metallic particles and a polymer is applied to a corrosion susceptible region of an assembly having a carbon-reinforced composite and a metal. The electrically conductive material has an electrical conductivity of greater than or equal to about 1×10−4 S/m and serves as a sacrificial anode to mitigate or prevent corrosion of the metal in the assembly. Also provided are assemblies for a vehicle having reduced galvanic corrosion that include a metal component in contact with a carbon-reinforced composite, which defines a corrosion susceptible region having an electrically conductive material disposed therein.
US09273400B2
An erosion resistant coating for a substrate includes two or more coating layers affixed to the substrate having an increasing modulus of elasticity and hardness from an innermost layer of the coating adjacent to the substrate to an outermost layer of the coating furthest from the substrate. A method of applying a coating system to a substrate includes applying a first layer of a high hardness and high modulus of elasticity material combined with an added metal to the substrate. A second layer of the high hardness and high modulus of elasticity material combined with the added metal is applied to the first layer, resulting in a coating system wherein the second layer has a modulus of elasticity and hardness greater than the modulus of elasticity and hardness of the first layer.
US09273397B2
A method for inspecting a liquid droplet ejection apparatus that ejects a liquid droplet from an ejection port includes (a) ejecting the liquid droplet toward an ejection target at an inspection drive frequency that is higher than an operation drive frequency set during a normal operation; (b) measuring a characteristic of the liquid droplet deposited on a surface of the ejection target; and (c) determining that the ejection port the characteristic of which is outside a predetermined range is defective.
US09273394B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes at least three gas supply lines connected to a process chamber in parallel to allow a gas to flow therethrough, and at least three flow-rate controllers provided on the gas supply lines to detect the flow rate of the gas flowing through each of the flow-rate controllers to control the flow rate to a set value and a diagnosis method. The apparatus has a function of splitting and supplying a gas controlled to a predetermined flow rate by the third flow-rate controller, to a first flow-rate controller for the smallest detectable range of the three flow-rate controllers and to a second flow-rate controller, in order to test the operation of the control of the flow rate of the first flow-rate controller, based on the value obtained from the flow rate of the gas flowing through the second flow-rate controller and the predetermined flow rate.
US09273390B2
An apparatus and method for coating an organic film are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an evaporation device, an electron emission device and a spray device; wherein the evaporation device comprises an evaporation container, the evaporation container is a linear evaporation container, in which a uniform organic gas is generated; the electron emission device is horizontally arranged over the evaporation container such that the organic gas evaporated in the evaporation container is uniformly charged and becomes charged organic gas; the spray device is provided with an electric field, under which the charged organic gas is moved toward a substrate so as to deposit the organic film on the substrate.
US09273386B2
A pair of guiding elements is characterized in that at least one of its elements is made of a steel containing at least 0.15 to 0.3% by weight of carbon, 2 to 5% (preferably 2 to 3%) by weight of chromium, at least 0.45% (preferably no greater than 0.9%) by weight of molybdenum, and at least 0.01% by weight and no greater than 0.5% (preferably no greater than 0.3%) of vanadium. This steel is nitrided after being shaped whereby obtaining a compound layer consisting of iron and nitrogen atoms of a thickness ranging from 5 to 50 micrometers. The steel can also contain 0.4% to 1.5% by weight of manganese.
US09273381B2
In an embodiment, a polycrystalline diamond compact includes a substrate and a preformed polycrystalline diamond table bonded to the substrate. The table includes bonded diamond grains defining interstitial regions. The table includes an upper surface, a back surface bonded to the substrate, and at least one lateral surface extending therebetween. The table includes a first region extending inwardly from the upper surface and the lateral surface. The first region exhibits a first interstitial region concentration and includes at least one interstitial constituent disposed therein, which may be present in at least a residual amount and includes at least one metal carbonate and/or at least one metal oxide. The table includes a second bonding region adjacent to the substrate that extends inwardly from the back surface. The second bonding region exhibits a second interstitial region concentration that is greater than the first interstitial region concentration and includes a metallic infiltrant therein.
US09273380B2
An aluminum-carbon composition including aluminum and carbon, wherein the aluminum and the carbon form a single phase material, characterized in that the carbon does not phase separate from the aluminum when the single phase material is heated to a melting temperature.
US09273379B2
A titanium alloy product according to the present invention: has a strength level higher than that of an existing titanium alloy product; can be successfully cold rolled (coil rolled); and is also provided with workability. In the titanium alloy product according to the invention, expensive alloy elements are not essentially required, and hence cost can be suppressed. The titanium alloy product according to the invention includes Al equivalent represented by (Al+10O (oxygen)): 3.5 to 7.2% (% by mass, the same hereinafter), Al: more than 1.0% and 4.5% or less, O: 0.60% or less, Fe equivalent represented by (Fe+0.5Cr+0.5Ni+0.67Co+0.67Mn): 0.8% or more and less than 2.0%, and one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Cu: 0.4 to 3.0% and Sn: 0.4 to 10%, in which the balance is Ti and unavoidable impurities.
US09273372B2
Provided are a method for manufacturing a stabilizer and a heating device, the method being able to suppress the occurrence of unevenness in the hardness of a curved portion of a semimanufactured product of the stabilizer and reduce the process time in a tempering process. In electric heating in a first heating step (step A), the temperature of an inside portion of a shoulder can be steeply increased to a temperature (
US09273370B2
A hot-rolled steel sheet has an average value of the X-ray random intensity ratio of a {100} <011> to {223} <110> orientation group at least in a sheet thickness central portion that is in a sheet thickness range of ⅝ to ⅜ from a steel sheet surface of 1.0 to 6.0, an X-ray random intensity ratio of a {332} <113> crystal orientation of 1.0 to 5.0, rC which is an r value in a direction perpendicular to a rolling direction of 0.70 to 1.10, and r30 which is an r value in a direction that forms an angle of 30° with respect to the rolling direction of 0.70 to 1.10.
US09273369B1
Methods and apparatuses for stabilizing the strain-temperature response for a shape memory alloy are provided. To perform stabilization of a second sample of the shape memory alloy, a first sample of the shape memory alloy is selected for isobaric treatment and the second sample is selected for isothermal treatment. When applying the isobaric treatment to the first sample, a constant stress is applied to the first sample. Temperature is also cycled from a minimum temperature to a maximum temperature until a strain on the first sample stabilizes. Once the strain on the first sample stabilizes, the isothermal treatment is performed on the second sample. During isothermal treatment, different levels of stress on the second sample are applied until a strain on the second sample matches the stabilized strain on the first sample.
US09273367B2
The present invention provides an optically induced cell lysis biochip, which comprises: an upper substrate made of a transparent, electrically conductive material; a lower substrate made of a transparent, electrically conductive material; a photoconductive layer formed under the lower surface of the upper substrate or on the upper surface of the lower substrate; and a chamber formed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. When there is an electric potential difference between the upper and lower substrates, a light spot illuminated on the photoconductive layer can cause the impedance of the illuminated area to decrease, thereby causing the electric current to center on the illuminated area of the photoconductive layer. Further, the electric current flowing through the illuminated area can induce the cell lysis process of a target cell.
US09273357B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for testing individuals to determine whether they are at increased risk of developing anti-resorptive therapy-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw.
US09273356B2
Methods and kits are provided for determining which single nucleotide polymorphism (“SNP”) variant of an allele of a heterozygous patient is on the same allele as a disease-causing mutation that is at a remote region of the gene's mRNA comprising a) an allele specific reverse transcription reaction using an allele specific primer which recognizes one SNP variant, wherein further the 3′ end of the primer is positioned at the SNP nucleotide position, and b) analysis of the resulting cDNA product from the reverse transcription reaction at the region of the mutation to determine the presence or absence of the mutation on this allele specific cDNA product, wherein the allele specific primer is shorter than about 20 nucleotides.
US09273354B2
An apparatus and system are provided for simultaneously analyzing a plurality of analytes anchored to microparticles. Microparticles each having a uniform population of a single kind of analyte attached are disposed as a substantially immobilized planar array inside of a flow chamber where steps of an analytical process are carried out by delivering a sequence of processing reagents to the microparticles by a fluidic system under microprocessor control. In response to such process steps, an optical signal is generated at the surface of each microparticle which is characteristic of the interaction between the analyte carried by the microparticle and the delivered processing reagent. The plurality of analytes are simultaneously analyzed by collecting and recording images of the optical signals generated by all the microparticles in the planar array. A key feature of the invention is the correlation of the sequence of optical signals generated by each microparticle in the planar array during the analytical process.
US09273347B2
The present invention provides methods and kits for detecting RNA-interacting regions in genomic DNA.
US09273345B2
Embodiments herein relate to compositions and methods for making and using aptamers, for example, DNA aptamers (DCEs) and/or RNA aptamers. In some embodiments, methods relate to making and amplifying target DCEs. In certain embodiments, methods for making capture elements or aptamers concern using a reporter moiety and signal reducing moiety prior to amplifying a target-specific capture element. In some embodiments, methods disclosed herein may be used to rapidly generate large quantities of aptamers such as DCEs directed to a particular target agent. Some embodiments relate to systems for performing automated generation of aptamers.
US09273338B2
The present invention relates to animal model systems comprising a chimera between an avian embryo and a mammalian organism. Specifically, chimeric model systems comprising normal, diseased or genetically transformed mammalian cells and tissues transplanted into avian embryos, and uses thereof for in vivo testing of drugs and therapeutic modalities are disclosed.
US09273336B2
Methods are provided to obtain recombinant microbial cells having at least one genetic modification that increase the buoyant density of a recombinant microbial cell or the buoyant density of inclusion bodies produced within a recombinant microbial cell. Exemplified are genetic modifications that increase the buoyant density of a recombinant microbial cell expressing heterologous peptides and polypeptides. Increasing expression of the genes ysaB, glyQ, glyS or a combination thereof within the recombinant microbial cell produces cells or inclusion bodies having higher buoyant density. A similar effect was achieved by decreasing or disrupting expression of the endogenous gltA gene. Increases in buoyant density render peptide production more efficient with respect to time and costs.
US09273335B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising: a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity and a quinone compound. The present invention also relates to methods of using the compositions.
US09273333B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of compound of Formula-II, which is an intermediate in the preparation of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors. wherein X is hydrogen or hydroxy protecting group and R1 is carboxyl protecting group.
US09273329B2
In the present disclosure, after a volatile organic acid is added as a catalyst to a slurry and the hydrolytic saccharification reaction of hemicellulose is performed, the volatile organic acid (including one added to the slurry and one produced as a by-product) contained in a C5 saccharified solution can be easily recovered by adding a small amount of sulfuric acid to the C5 saccharified solution and subjecting the C5 saccharified solution to air stripping treatment. The efficiency of hydrolytic saccharification of hemicellulose into C5 sugars using a volatile organic acid can also be continuously improved by adding the recovered volatile organic acid as a catalyst to another slurry of cellulosic biomass.
US09273328B2
A yeast of the genus Kluyveromyces is modified to improve the ethanol yield from xylose by attenuation of at least one gene selected from the group consisting of the ADH1 gene derived from Kluyveromyces marxianus, a gene functionally equivalent to the ADH1 gene, the ADH4 gene derived from Kluyveromyces marxianus, and a gene functionally equivalent to the ADH4 gene.
US09273327B2
There is provided a method for inserting a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a foreign peptide into a poxvirus genome, said method comprising: identifying in the poxvirus genome a poxvirus open reading frame wherein said open reading frame is characterized by an initial ATG start codon and wherein expression of said open reading frame is driven by an operably-linked poxvirus promoter located upstream of the open reading frame and wherein expression of said open reading frame provides a peptide that is non-essential to viability of the poxvirus; and inserting the nucleic acid sequence that encodes the foreign peptide at a position downstream of the poxvirus promoter; wherein following said insertion, (i) the nucleic acid that encodes the foreign peptide is operably-linked to the poxvirus promoter and expression of said nucleic acid is driven by said poxvirus promoter; and (ii) translation of the foreign peptide is initiated at an ATG start codon located at the same position as the ATG start codon of the poxvirus open reading frame. Also provided are a poxvirus vector and corresponding uses of the poxvirus vector in medicine.
US09273325B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for the serum-free production of an immortalized human cell line stably transfected under serum-free conditions with a specific vector carrying the gene coding for the protein of interest. Furthermore the invention relates to a production cell line obtained by said method, a production method for said protein of interest utilizing said production cell line, and the specific vector carrying the gene of interest itself.
US09273320B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a recombinant sweet protein in a filamentous fungus. The invention also relates to isolated polynucleotides encoding the sweet protein and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, as well as methods of using the sweet protein produced by the method of the invention.
US09273316B2
This invention describes a genetic system for targeting the EVI1 gene in mammalian cells. The EVI1 gene is an oncogenic transcription factor that, when expressed, accelerates cell division and inhibits death of cells. Nucleotide sequences that block the expression of EVI1 and drug delivery systems for them are described. These nucleotide sequences cause a block in cell growth and division and trigger death of mammalian cells, including lung and ovarian cancer cells.
US09273311B1
Five novel plant transcription terminators MYB2, KTI1, PIP1, EF1A2, and MTH1 are isolated from soybean and their functions in the regulation of RNA transcription and processing in plants are described.
US09273298B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions comprising at least one isoprene synthase enzyme with improved specific productivity. In particular, the present invention provides variant plant isoprene synthases for increased isoprene production in host cells.
US09273296B2
An I-CreI variant, wherein one of the two I-CreI monomers has at least two substitutions, one in each of the two functional subdomains of the LAGLIDADG core domain situated respectively from positions 28 to 40 and 44 to 77 of I-CreI, said variant being able to cleave a DNA target sequence from the glutamine synthetase gene. Use of said variant and derived products for improving expression system for the production of recombinant protein.
US09273294B2
Processes and C/D box small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) for altering telomerase activity and altering telomerase length are described. The processes of the invention involve the use of C/D box snoRNAs for targeted 2′-O-methylation modification of nucleotides in a pseudoknot region of the telomerase RNA. Depending on their position, the 2′-O-methylation modifications can cause an increase in telomerase activity and subsequent telomere lengthening or a decrease in telomerase activity and subsequent telomere shortening.
US09273293B2
Disclosed are mutant DNA polymerases having increased 3′-mismatch discrimination relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The mutant polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the mutant DNA polymerases.
US09273292B2
We provide a Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell which is capable of higher protein sialylation compared to a wild type Chinese Hamster Ovary cell, such as in the presence of functional GnT 1, in which the CHO cell is obtainable by selection with Ricinus communis agglutinin I (RCA-I).
US09273289B2
It is desirable to produce live vaccines, which are highly attenuated and which do only contain minimal or no animal-derived components. The production of highly attenuated live viruses can be better achieved when using specifically designed cell lines as producer substrate as opposed to using less defined primary cells. However, live viruses, thus produced comprise undesirable components from the cell lines and cell culture. The present invention relates to methods of production and purification of live enveloped viruses, which are suitable for vaccination.
US09273279B2
A recombinant filamentous fungal cell (e.g. Aspergillus) having one or more inactivated chromosomal genes is provided. The chromosomal genes in some embodiments correspond to derA, derB, htmA, mnn9, mnn10, ochA, dpp4, dpp5, pepAa, pepAb, pepAc, pepAd, pepF and combinations thereof. The recombinant fungal cells may include further inactivated chromosomal genes which correspond to pepA, pepB, pepC and pepD. The recombinant filamentous fungal cells may include a heterologous nucleic acid encoding a protein of interest. Also provided are methods of producing a protein of interest in said recombinant filamentous fungal cell.
US09273277B2
The invention provides articles of manufacture comprising biocompatible nanostructures comprising nanotubes and nanopores for, e.g., organ, tissue and/or cell growth, e.g., for bone, kidney or liver growth, and uses thereof, e.g., for in vitro testing, in vivo implants, including their use in making and using artificial organs, and related therapeutics. The invention provides lock-in nanostructures comprising a plurality of nanopores or nanotubes, wherein the nanopore or nanotube entrance has a smaller diameter or size than the rest (the interior) of the nanopore or nanotube. The invention also provides dual structured biomaterial comprising micro- or macro-pores and nanopores. The invention provides biomaterials having a surface comprising a plurality of enlarged diameter nanopores and/or nanotubes.
US09273276B2
A cell culture method using an in vitro microscale cell culture device having a first microscale chamber containing cells attached to an inner surface of the chamber and cell culture medium in contact with the cells. The cells are maintained in culture in the in vitro microscale cell culture device while flowing culture medium through the first chamber at a controlled rate to provide a liquid residence time value for the cells in the first chamber of the in vitro microscale cell culture device that is comparable to a liquid residence time value obtained with respect to comparable cells in vivo, such that metabolism by the cells in culture in the in vitro microscale cell culture device is comparable to metabolism by comparable cells in vivo.
US09273273B2
A wash pod is provided that includes unit dose of anhydrous wash concentrate surfactant containing at least one cationic surfactant and at least one nonionic surfactant in water soluble hygroscopic polymeric package containing the concentrate. The film encapsulates the wash formula unit dose and dissolves when placed in a bucket of water while also being chemically and physically strong enough to hold a more preferred alkaline formula as well as to remain stable during storage is provided. A low volatile organic compound (VOC) car wash formula that is highly concentrated with a low water content and contains nonionic and cationic surfactants to promote cleaning, foaming and beading, while also containing a small amount of carnauba wax is also provided. The formulation of the car wash detergent provides a streak free low residue finish on a cleaned surface.
US09273270B2
A unit dose cleaning product for delivering a peroxide-containing bleaching agent, includes a peroxide-containing bleaching agent component containing a peroxide-containing bleaching agent and a first at least partially water soluble material encapsulating the peroxide-containing bleaching agent, a peroxide bleach activating agent component including a peroxide bleach activating agent, and having the peroxide-containing bleaching agent component dispersed therein forming a cleaning composition, and a pouch made of a second at least partially water soluble material enclosing the cleaning composition, wherein the first at least partially water soluble material of the peroxide-containing bleaching agent component exhibits a substantially longer dissolution time than the second at least partially water soluble material of the pouch.
US09273269B2
Provided are scale-inhibition compositions comprising (a) a first acrylic acid polymer having an average molecular weight of about 3000 to about 6000; (b) a second acrylic acid polymer having an average molecular weight of about 6000 to about 10000; (c) an aminocarboxylic acid selected from methylglycine diacetic acid (MGDA), glutamic acid diacetic acid (GLDA), diethylene triamine pentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethyl ethylene diamine triacetic acid (HEDTA), ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), and a combination thereof; and (d) a phosphonic acid selected from 1-hydroxyethane 1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP), amino tris(methylenephosphonic acid) (ATMP), ethylenediamine tetra(methylene phosphonic acid) (EDTMP), tetramethylenediamine tetra(methylene phosphonic acid) (TDTMP), hexamethylenediamine tetra(methylene phosphonic acid) (HDTMP), diethylenetriamine penta(methylene phosphonic acid) (DTPMP), and a combination thereof. The scale-inhibition compositions may be useful in machine ware washing detergents and formulations.
US09273267B2
A method of treating an edible oil to remove aldehydes comprises contacting the oil with an amino acid and an adsorbing agent. The amino acid and the adsorbing agent are contacted with the oil separately or as a mixture.
US09273266B2
A lubricant composition comprises a cycloaliphatic amine alkoxylate and a base oil selected from (a) a polyalkylene glycol; (b) a polyalphaolefin; (c) a naphthenic compound; and (d) combinations thereof; provided that the cycloaliphatic amine alkoxylate and the base oil are miscible. The lubricant may exhibit a viscosity change at 40° C. of less than 5 percent (%) after 13 days at 120° C. in dry air, indicating significant thermoxidative stability with minimal or no aromatic content, thereby enabling use of Groups II and III base oils, in particular, without reduced toxicity and/or quality concerns as compared with Group I base oil lubricants.
US09273260B2
The present invention relates generally to processes for preparing agglomerated particulate low-rank coal feedstocks of a particle size suitable for reaction in a fluidized-bed reactor and certain other gasification reactors and, in particular, for coal gasification and combustion applications. The present invention also relates to an integrated coal hydromethanation process including preparing and utilizing such agglomerated particulate low-rank coal feedstocks.
US09273259B2
The present invention is directed toward compositions suitable for use as dielectric fluids, lubricant fluids and biodiesel fluids. Compositions described herein are obtained from a saturated, unsaturated or combinations of both monol, diol, triol or polyol acyl ester based fluid and/or a non-ester based fluid and 2,4,6-tris(di-C1-C6-alkylaminomethyl) phenol and/or the carboxylic acid salt of 2,4,6-tris(di-C1-C6-alkylaminomethyl) phenol. These compositions demonstrate improved oxidative stability and/or hydrolytic stability at higher use temperatures.
US09273258B2
Methods are provided for producing a jet fuel composition from a feedstock including a natural oil. The methods include reacting the feedstock with a low-weight olefin in the presence of a metathesis catalyst under conditions sufficient to form a metathesized product. The methods further include hydrogenating the metathesized product under conditions sufficient to form a jet fuel composition.
US09273256B2
Embodiments of the claimed invention are directed to methods and apparatuses that recycle unconverted oil fractions resulting from a hydrocracking unit, by feeding the unconverted oil fractions into a vacuum flasher and processing the fractions obtained therefrom.
US09273253B2
The invention provides a process for the preparation of a gas oil fraction comprising the steps of: (a) providing a stream of a first hydrocarbon product of which a major portion of the hydrocarbons have a boiling point in the range of from 370-540° C. and a stream of a second hydrocarbon product of which a major portion of the hydrocarbons have a boiling point of less than 370° C.; (b) separating at least part of the stream of the first hydrocarbon product in a separating section into a gaseous stream and a liquid stream; (c) separating at least part of the second hydrocarbon product stream in a separating section into a gaseous stream and a liquid stream; (d) introducing at least part of the liquid stream as obtained in step (b) and at least part of the liquid stream as obtained in step (c) into a fractionating section to obtain a number of fractions of hydrocarbons including a gas oil fraction, wherein the at least part of the liquid stream as obtained in step (b) is introduced into the fractionating section at a level which is lower than the level at which the at least part of the liquid stream as obtained in step (c) is introduced into the fractionating section; and (e) recovering from the fractionating section the gas oil fraction.
US09273247B2
The invention relates to the use of a substituted, chiral amino alcohol, comprising one or more structural units of the following formula (1), wherein the abbreviations A, Y, R1 and R3 to R5 have the following meanings: is a covalent bond or a hydrocarbon group, Y is a covalent bond or a hydrocarbon group that can have an oxygen atom at one of its ends through which it is bonded to R1, R1 is an aliphatic or heterocyclic or aromatic radical, the carbon chain of which may be interrupted by one or more B groups, R5 is selected from the group consisting of (a) aliphatic radicals, wherein individual carbon atoms may be replaced by oxygen atoms or carbonyl groups, and wherein the carbon chains of same radicals may be optionally interrupted by a B group, and (b) araliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic and heterocyclic radicals, wherein the carbon chain can be interrupted by one or more B structural elements and/or by one or more D coupling groups, R3, R4 are hydrogen or aliphatic or araliphatic substituents, which are independent of one another, wherein the carbon chain can be interrupted by one or more B groups, B is selected from polymerizable or crosslinkable structural elements from the group comprising C1-C16-alkenyl, C1-C16-alkenyloxy, —C═C—, —CH═CH—COO—, —CH═CH—, —CX═CH—COO— with X═C1-C16-alkyl, and the trans-form of —OOC—CH═CH—COO—, and D is selected from —O—, —NH—, —N(CH3)—, —N(C2H5)—, —SO2—, —CO—, —COO—, —CH═CH—, —OCOO—, —OCH2—, CH═N, —CF2CF2—, as a chiral dopant in liquid crystal (mixtures), e.g., in electro-optical systems.
US09273242B2
The invention provides a high density cement composition for preventing gas migration. The composition includes a silica sand component, a silica flour component, a hematite component, a manganese tetraoxide component, and an expansion additive component.
US09273240B2
A method for preparing a ternary or higher zeotropic refrigerant mixture comprising components of different volatilities is described. The method comprises: mixing together the less volatile components of the mixture in a pre-blending process; and separately adding the most volatile component to the pre-blended mixture by pressure or mass flow control so that the desired initial liquid composition is attained. The liquid zeotropic refrigerant mixture that is prepared may be transferred from a container in which it is held to another container or to a piece of equipment that is to use the refrigerant mixture. This method comprises the steps of: removing at least a portion of the prepared liquid zeotropic refrigerant mixture from a container in which it is held; charging the liquid zeotropic refrigerant mixture that is removed to another container or to a piece of equipment in which it is to be used; and adding at least the most volatile component of the refrigerant mixture to the holding container to compensate for the removal of liquid refrigerant mixture therefrom.
US09273236B2
The present invention relates to aqueous polymer dispersions having a polymer content of at least 55% by weight that are suitable for pressure sensitive adhesives. The invention also relates to a process for preparing these aqueous polymer dispersions and the use of the aqueous polymer dispersions in pressure sensitive adhesives and, respectively, pressure sensitive adhesive compositions, especially in pressure sensitive adhesives for transparent substrates, such as plastics labels. The aqueous polymer dispersions have a polymer content of at least 55% by weight, based on the total weight of the dispersion. The polymer is composed of ethylenically unsaturated monomers and has a glass transition temperature below −10° C., in which the dispersed polymer particles have a polymodal particle size distribution, in which at least 70% by weight of the polymer particles have a particle diameter of below 350 nm.
US09273234B2
Release film furnished on at least one side with a release layer (c) based on at least one cured polysiloxane, the film comprising at least one inner layer (a) based on at least one thermoplastic polymer, equipped with at least one at least oligomeric compound having a long-term antistatic effect, as antistat, and at least one layer (b) based on at least one thermoplastic polymer; method for producing the release film, and the use thereof as a detachable protective or masking film.
US09273230B2
A hot melt assist waterborne adhesive having high amplitude bead profile and higher heat resistance is provided. The hot melt assist waterborne adhesive includes an emulsion polymer, a preservative, a plurality of pre-expanded hollow microspheres and water. The hot melt assist waterborne adhesive is suitable as a partial or complete replacement to hot melt adhesives for use in converting paper and packaging process.
US09273216B2
A solvent borne brushable coating composition and process for using the same are provided. The composition includes a crosslinkable component having one or more polymers having two or more crosslinkable groups a crosslinking component comprising one or more crosslinking agents having crosslinking groups; and 2 weight percent to 50 weight percent of drying oil comprising linseed oil, tung oil, poppy seed oil, perilla oil, walnut oil or a combination thereof. When a layer a pot mix resulting from mixing of the crosslinkable and crosslinking components is brush applied over a substrate, it has a low brush drag while providing desired coating properties, such as high gloss and rapid cure even under ambient conditions. The solvent borne brushable coating compositions is well suited for use in automotive refinish applications.
US09273214B1
According to the present invention, sprayable liquid solvent-based compositions for removable coatings are provided along with methods of applying those compositions to a surface for protecting and improving the appearance of the surface. Solvent-based compositions may be applied to a surface as a liquid and undergo evaporation and/or drying to form a “rubberized” material, forming a substantially uniform protective coating on a surface.
US09273212B2
Natural antibacterial waterproof composition for soil and wood and method for manufacturing the same
A natural antibacterial waterproof composition for soil and wood and a method for manufacturing includes beef tallow, soybean oil, turpentine, pine resin, paraffin, and a natural antibacterial insecticide, wherein the natural antibacterial insecticide is made by extracting effective components from ginkgo leaves through hot-water extraction. According to the present invention, the natural antibacterial waterproof composition for soil and wood is applied to the surfaces of the soil wall, soil brick and wood and absorbed therein, thus providing waterproofing performance and protecting the soil wall, soil brick and wood from harmful insects like ants, worms and so on. Further, the composition has excellent waterproofing and insecticidal performance during a long period of time as well as during a short period of time, thus desirably decreasing the maintenance cost.
US09273211B1
A film, coating, appliqué and method to eliminate paint removal via hazardous methods and maintain effective corrosion inhibition via employment of a re-useable coating. Embodiments of the invention generally relate to a multilayer film having a first layer constructed of at least one electro-active polymer, a second layer constructed of at least one flexible electrically-conductive solid, and a third layer constructed of at least one inert polymer.
US09273207B2
Provided are mixtures of biodegradable polyesters comprising at least one polymer of natural origin and at least two aliphatic-aromatic polyesters of the diacid-diol type of which at least one with a high content of long chain aliphatic diacids of renewable origin showing excellent mechanical properties, sufficiently high melting temperatures, adequate crystallization rates, improved biodegradability properties as well as stability of physical properties over time.
US09273201B2
Polypropylene composition comprising propylene homopolymer (H-PP) and a propylene copolymer (C-PP), said copolmyer comprises (a) a propylene copolymer fraction (A) having a comonomer content of equal or above 1.0 wt.-%, the comomers are C5 to C12 α-olefins, and (b) a propylene copolymer action (B) having a comonomer content of 4.0 to 20.0 wt-%, the comomers are C5 to C12 α-olefins, wherein further (i) the comonomer content in propylene copolymer fraction (A) is lower compared to the comonomer content in the propylene copolymer fraction (B), (ii) the propylene copolymer (C-PP) has a comonomer content of at least 2.0 wt.-%, the comomers are C5 to C12 α-olefins, (iii) the weight ratio [(A)/(B)] of the propylene copolymer fraction (A) to the propylene copolymer fraction (B) is in the range of 20/80 to 80/20, and (iv) the weight ratio [(C-PP)/(H-PP)] of the propylene copolymer (C-PP) to the propylene homopolymer (H-PP) is in the range of 95/5 to 75/25.
US09273200B2
The present invention provides a propylene polymer molded article being high in tensile elongation and scratch resistance and a propylene polymer composition capable of affording such a molded article. Specifically, the present invention provides, in one embodiment thereof, a propylene polymer composition comprising a propylene polymer (A-1) that is a polymer having an intrinsic viscosity, as measured in tetralin at 135° C., of from 1.2 dl/g, inclusive, to 1.7 dl/g, exclusive, or a propylene polymer (A-2) that is a polymer having an intrinsic viscosity, as measured in tetralin at 135° C., of from 1.7 dl/g, inclusive, to 2.9 dl/g, inclusive, a propylene polymer (B) that is a polymer having an intrinsic viscosity, as measured in tetralin at 135° C., of from 0.5 dl/g, inclusive, to 1.1 dl/g, exclusive, and a nucleating agent.
US09273199B2
Disclosed is a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) composition that comprises at least a first high density polyethylene component having a density of 0.940-0.968 g/cm3 and a melt index I2.16 of 0.5-10.0 dg/min and a melt flow ratio (flow index I21.6 at 190° C. divided by melt index I2.16 at 190° C.) of at least 25. A second HDPE component may be included in the composition with melt index I2.16 of greater than 10 dg/min and melt flow ratio of 30 or less. The disclosed compositions are suitable for use in living hinge closure applications.
US09273191B2
Implantable medical devices include a substrate having applied thereto a coating including a polymeric material possessing a core and at least one functional group known to have click reactivity.
US09273189B2
The present invention relates to methods for making highly crystalline polymeric material, for example, highly crystalline cross-linked and not cross-linked ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE). The invention also provides methods of making additive-doped highly crystalline polymeric material using high pressure and high temperature crystallization processes, medical implants made thereof, and materials used therein.
US09273184B1
A method for forming a fluorinated compound includes a step of forming a sulfonate ester of a polyethylene glycol. The sulfonate ester is then reacted with a fluorinated diol in the presence of a base such that the polyethylene glycol is attached to one of the hydroxyl groups in the fluorinated diol. The other hydroxyl group in the fluorinated diol is reacted is converted into a leaving group and reacted with an number of nucleophiles. Complexes of the fluorinated compounds that as useful in Magnetic Resonance Imaging are also provided.
US09273181B2
Provided is a novel aromatic polyester-based polymer. The aromatic polyester-based polymer includes the repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula I and contains at least one aromatic diol monomer. The aromatic polyester-based polymer has a high glass transition temperature and excellent heat resistance, mechanical properties and transparency, as well as shows excellent formability and processability into films or the like, and thus solves the problems occurring in the conventional crystalline or amorphous engineering plastic materials. In addition, the aromatic polyester-based polymer may be applied to next-generation engineering plastic composite materials, such as matrix resins of composite materials for cars and airplanes. The aromatic polyester-based polymer may also be applied to flexible substrates for next-generation flexible displays, solar cells or electronic paper requiring transparency and high heat resistance at the same time.
US09273178B2
A polyester resin is described which includes bio-based, cyclohexadiene Diels-Alder reaction adduct monomer for use in toner for imaging devices.
US09273168B2
A novel polyethylene is devised which polyethylene is particularly advantageous for manufacturing rotomoulded articles.
US09273167B2
Propylene copolymer having a melt flow rate MFR2 (230° C.) in the range of 2.5 to 12.0 g/10 min, a xylene cold soluble content (XCS) in the range of 20.0 to 45.0 wt.-%, a comonomer content in the range of more than 7.5 to 12.0 wt.-%, wherein further the comonomer content of xylene cold soluble (XCS) fraction of the propylene copolymer is in the range of 16.0 to 28.0 wt.-%.
US09273153B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of processing natural rubber latex using an extruder including a plurality of process zones by processing coagulant with latex to produce a coagulum and serum. In some embodiments, the coagulant can include an acid, a metal salt, or a mixture of both. Some embodiments can include a coagulum wash stage, and a deresination step. In some embodiments, the extruder can be operated to move coagulum through the extruder to remove at least some fraction of water to form a substantially dewatered coagulum, and a drying step to form a dried coagulum. In some embodiments, a stabilizer such as an antioxidant can be introduced into the extruder, and processed to remain in some fraction in the dried coagulum. Some alternative embodiments include a latex processing method of providing a flow of coagulant, and combining latex with the flowing using an emulsion dispensing bar.
US09273136B2
The invention relates to isolated fully human monoclonal antibodies having specificity for human NKG2D and compositions thereof. The invention further relates to methods for using such antibodies in treating diseases or conditions such as cancer, autoimmune disease, or infectious disease.
US09273128B2
This invention provides an antibody targeting a cancer antigenic protein specifically expressed on the surface of cancer cells and use thereof as a therapeutic and/or preventive agent for cancer. More specifically, the present invention provides an antibody, or a fragment thereof which has immunological reactivity with a partial CAPRIN-1 polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence shown by SEQ ID NO: 5 or an amino acid sequence having 80% or higher sequence identity to the amino acid sequence, and a pharmaceutical composition for treatment and/or prevention of cancer comprising the same as an active ingredient.
US09273127B2
The invention provides the sequences of two polypeptides comprising the amino acid sequences as shown in SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:2, which can be used for the preparation of monoclonal antibodies against human p28GANK. The invention also provides the monoclonal antibodies against human p28GANK and their use.
US09273114B2
The present invention provides stabilized activin IIB receptor polypeptides and proteins capable of binding and inhibiting the activities of activin A, myostatin, or GDF-11. The present invention also provides polynucleotides, vectors and host cells capable of producing the stabilized polypeptides and proteins. Compositions and methods for treating muscle-wasting diseases and metabolic disorders are also provided.
US09273111B2
A polypeptide comprising one or more sequences derived from CDR2 or CDR3 of a TREM-1 protein, characterized by the ability to treat, ameliorate, or lessen the symptoms of conditions including sepsis, septic shock or sepsis-like conditions and IBD.
US09273104B2
The present invention relates to methods for producing a polypeptide having biological activity, comprising: (a) cultivating a fungal host cell in a medium conducive for the production of the polypeptide, wherein the fungal host cell comprises a first polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide operably linked to a second polynucleotide encoding a variant signal peptide or a variant prepropeptide; and (b) isolating the secreted polypeptide having biological activity from the cultivation medium.
US09273102B2
Disclosed are polypeptides for Campylobacter jejuni that are useful as immunogenic agents for vaccine use. Also disclosed are nucleic acid fragments encoding the polypeptides as well as compositions, methods and molecular biology tools derived from or related to the proteins.
US09273091B2
Tubulysins are a series of naturally occurring cytotoxic agents that are of interest as anticancer therapeutic agents. Processes and intermediates useful for preparing naturally occurring and non-naturally occurring tubulysins and analogs and derivatives thereof are described.
US09273089B2
Composite probes for super resolution optical techniques using super resolution via transiently activated quenchers (STAQ) include a donor moiety and an acceptor moiety joined by a linker, wherein the acceptor moiety, when excited by incident radiation, is excited to a state which, for example, absorbs in the donor emission region, such that the acceptor moiety in its excited state quenches at least a portion of the donor moiety emission. Other transiently activated quenching mechanisms and moieties could accomplish the same task by reducing donor population. Also disclosed are methods for irradiating a selected region of a target material including the composite probe, wherein the composite probe enables improved resolution by point spread function modification and/or nanoscale chemical reactions.
US09273087B2
A method for preparing a crosslinked polymer coated controlled porosity glass (CPG) particle is provided. The method involves mixing CPG particles in a solution comprising polyvinylbenzylchloride and a first solvent at a temperature below 10° C. A second solvent is added and a crosslinking agent is added to the mixture. The first solvent is removed rapidly within 1½ hours of addition of the crosslinking agent. The crosslinking reaction is permitted to proceed and the mixture is then cooled and treated to remove any remaining solvent. The resulting coated CPG particles are washed and dried. Also provided a polymer coated CPG particles using for loading ligand thereon.
US09273082B2
The present disclosure provides substituted aliphanes, cyclophanes, heteraphanes, heterophanes, hetero-heteraphanes and metallocenes, of Formula I D-M-D (Formula I) useful as antiviral agents. In certain embodiments disclosed herein M is a group —P-A-P— where A is Certain substituted aliphanes, cyclophanes, heteraphanes, heterophanes, hetero-heteraphanes and metallocenes disclosed herein are potent and/or selective inhibitors of viral replication, particularly Hepatitis C virus replication. Pharmaceutical compositions/and combinations containing one or more substituted aliphanes, cyclophanes, heteraphanes, heterophanes, hetero-heteraphanes and metallocenes and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier are also provided by this disclosure. Methods for treating viral infections, including Hepatitis C viral infections are provided by the disclosure.
US09273075B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) and salts thereof, wherein: a) R1 is H or CH3, and R2 is Ry; or b) R1 is Rx and R2 is H; wherein Rx and Ry are disclosed herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to inhibit the Notch receptor, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are prodrugs of compounds that are useful in treating, preventing, or slowing the progression of diseases or disorders in a variety of therapeutic areas, such as cancer.
US09273074B2
A compound has Formula I: A, B, C, D, W, X, Y, and Z are independently selected from hydrogen, optionally substituted C1-C6 alkyl, optionally substituted C1-C6 alkoxy, aryl, aldehyde, protected aldehyde, CH, N, O, S, null, and bond; Q is selected from aldehyde, protected aldehyde, and null, at least one of A, B, C, D, W, X, Y, Z, or Q is an aldehyde or protected aldehyde; the bonds between each of A-B, B-C, C-D, W-X, X-Y, and Y-Z are selected from single bond, double bond, triple bond, and no bond; L is a linker selected from a C1-C12 alkyl, aralkyl, and aryl, any of which is optionally substituted; one or more methylene unit (CH2) of the C1-C12 alkyl is optionally replaced by any combination of oxygen, carbonyl(C═O), and NH; and R1 and R2 are independently selected from —NR3R4, halogen, C1-C8 alkoxy, aralkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, and OCH2CH2CN; R3 and R4 are independently a C1-C4, straight chain or branched alkyl group.
US09273055B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of tyrosine kinase enzyme inhibition, in particular anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibition using novel small molecules. Provided are compounds capable to modulate ALK activity, compositions that comprise the compounds, and methods of using the compounds for the treatment or prevention of diseases or conditions that are characterized by ALK activity or expression.
US09273054B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds that inhibit Lp-PLA2 activity, processes for their preparation, to compositions containing them and to their use in the treatment of diseases associated with the activity of Lp-PLA2, for example atherosclerosis, Alzheimer's disease.
US09273042B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I having BACE1 inhibitory activity, their manufacture, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as therapeutically active substances. The active compounds of the present invention are useful in the therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment of e.g. Alzheimer's disease.
US09273038B2
Crystalline solid forms of the selective late sodium current inhibitor 4-(pyrimidin-2-ylmethyl)-7-(4-(trifluoromethoxy)phenyl)-3,4-dihydrobenzo[f][1,4]oxazepin-5(2H)-one (Compound I) were prepared and characterized in the solid state: Also provided are processes of manufacture and methods of using the crystalline forms.
US09273029B2
Compounds of the formula (I) in which R, R1 and X 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
US09273026B2
The invention relates to compound of the formula I or a salt thereof, wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification; to its preparation, to its use as medicament and to medicaments comprising it.
US09273025B2
The present invention provides compounds that function as modulators of mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH2) activity; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The present invention provides therapeutic methods involving administering a subject compound, or a subject pharmaceutical composition. The present invention further provides assays for identifying agonists of ALDH2.
US09273017B2
The present disclosure relates to (thio)morpholine derivatives of the formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate or hydrate thereof; with the proviso that the derivative of formula (I) is not 2-(4-ethylphenyl)-4-morpholinoethanol or 4-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-morpholinyl]benzeneacetonitrile or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a solvate or hydrate thereof. The compounds of the invention have affinity to S1P receptors and may be used in the treatment, alleviation or prevention of S1P receptor mediated diseases and conditions.
US09273012B2
A straightforward single step method for the preparation and/or production of substituted quinazolines is disclosed, wherein said quinazolines preferably contain one substituent at position 4, and may contain other functional groups at various positions, such as 5, 6, 7, and/or 8 of quinazolines. In addition, the extension of this new method leads to the formation of different type of heterocyclic aromatic compounds, that include but are not limited to perimidines, anthrapyrimidin-7-ones (also known as anthrapyrimidinones), anthra[1,9:5,10]dipyrimidines (also known as quinazoline[5,4-ef]perimidines) and benzo[e]-pyrimido[4,5,6-gh]pyrimidines.
US09273006B2
There is provided compounds for treating bone loss diseases and for preventing bone loss. Specifically the present invention relates to compounds, preferable isoquinolene derivatives.
US09273005B2
Provided herein are hydroxypyridone derivatives, for example, a compound of Formula I, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods of their use for treating, preventing, or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a proliferative disease.
US09272998B1
The present invention evaluated the anti-epileptogenic effect of tryptamine derivative HHL-6 and its effects on the expression of BDNF and c-Fos. HHL-6 possesses potent anticonvulsant and anti-epileptic activity in PTZ-induced acute seizure and chemical kindling model of epilepsy. The results suggests that one of the possible mechanism of HHL-6 to inhibit epileptogenesis might be due to its controlling effect on the cellular and molecular expression of the factors that contribute in the development of epileptogenic plasticity in the CNS.
US09272995B2
The present invention provides a method for producing ionic liquids without the use of a volatile solvent and/or water. In some embodiments, methods of the invention allow a continuous process for producing ionic liquids.
US09272991B2
The present invention provides compounds (n-3 PUFA derivatives) of formula (I) that modulate conditions associated with cardiac damage, especially cardiac arrhythmias.
US09272986B2
The present invention relates to non-steroidal ligands for use in nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system, and a method to modulate exogenous gene expression in which an ecdysone receptor complex comprising: a DNA binding domain; a ligand binding domain; a transactivation domain; and a ligand is contacted with a DNA construct comprising: the exogenous gene and a response element; wherein the exogenous gene is under the control of the response element and binding of the DNA binding domain to the response element in the presence of the ligand results in activation or suppression of the gene.
US09272978B2
Hydroxy acid compound of substituted phenyl ester, preparation method and medical use thereof are provided. The title compound is shown in formula (I), Y═C1-4 straight carbon chain. The compound can release 2,6-diisopropylphenol rapidly under the action of enzymes in vivo, which has sedative, hypnotic and/or anesthetic effect. By protecting the hydroxyl group of 2, 6-diisopropylphenol in compound of formula (I), the first-pass metabolic activity of 2, 6-diisopropylphenol is reduced, so that the synthetic compound can be used for sedation, hypnosis, and/or anesthesia.
US09272977B2
A process for purifying a filtered fermentation broth of succinic acid is described. The process involves separating succinic acid from the other organic acids and salts in a raw filtered broth using a non-functionalized chromatographic resin. The operation can be run either as an isocratic elution to yield free succinic acid, or as a gradient or binary elution to produce succinate salt.
US09272976B2
Disclosed is a method for removing and purifying carboxylic acids from fermentation broths, comprising removing biomass and any solids present from the fermentation broth, finely cleaning up the biomass-free and solids-free fermentation broth by nanofiltration, and removing the carboxylic acid from the finely cleaned, biomass-free, and solids free fermentation broth by adsorption to one or more solid phases having tertiary amino groups.
US09272973B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing aldehydes having five carbon atoms, in which an input mixture containing 10% by weight to 50% by weight of linear butenes and less than 5% by weight of 1-butene is hydroformylated with synthesis gas in the presence of a catalyst system comprising rhodium and at least one bisphosphite ligand, wherein the hydroformylation is effected in a reactor from which, over an operating period, a cycle gas containing at least a portion of the products and unconverted reactants from the hydroformylation is continuously drawn off and partly condensed, and uncondensed components of the cycle gas are recycled into the reactor, and wherein, after the operating period has expired, the hydroformylation is stopped, the reactor is freed of reaction residues and the hydroformylation is restarted. It is based on the problem of making such a process more economically viable. The problem is solved by using a bisphosphite of the formula (1) and/or (2) as ligand, extending the operating period to more than 8000 h, and not separating solid reaction residues out of the reactor during the course of the operating period.
US09272971B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst for C2 oxygenate synthesis in which a hydrogenated active metal is supported on a porous carrier to synthesize a C2 oxygenate from a mixed gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide, wherein the porous carrier has an average pore diameter of 0.1 to 20 nm.
US09272969B2
Provided are azeotropic or azeotrope-like mixtures of 1,3,3-trichloro-1,1-difluoro-propane (HCFC-242fa) and hydrogen fluoride. Such compositions are useful as a feed stock or intermediate in the production of HFC-245fa and HCFO-1233zd.
US09272963B2
The present invention relates to a process for the purification by adsorption of a feed flow rich in methane and comprising at least carbon dioxide.
US09272962B2
A process is disclosed for making styrene by converting methanol to formaldehyde in a reactor then reacting the formaldehyde with toluene to form styrene in a separate reactor.
US09272959B2
Disclosed are a gas to liquids (GTL)-floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) system that can be used in offshore oil fields or stranded gas fields and a method for producing synthetic fuel using the same. More particularly, the disclosure relates to a GTL-FPSO system capable of producing liquid synthetic fuel from gas extracted from stranded gas fields or associated gas extracted from oil fields, including a reforming reactor and a liquid hydrocarbon producer, and a method for producing the same.
US09272954B2
This invention relates to a composition comprising: ceramic refractory particulates made from alumina, one or more rare earth oxides, one or more oxides of a transition metal, the transition metal being Sc, Zn, Ga, Y, Cd, In, Sn, Tl, or a mixture of two or more thereof; an alumina and phosphate containing composition; and water. The composition is free of SiO2 or substantially free of SiO2, and is useful as a mortar or coating for molten aluminum or steel contact refractories.
US09272951B1
A composition for hardening concrete that has a pH of less than 10, and may have a pH of 8 or less. Thus, the hardening composition may be free of or substantially free of alkaline materials. The hardening composition is water-based and includes silica particles and stabilizer, which may be present on portions of the surfaces of the silica particles. The stabilizer may be aluminum-based (e.g., it may comprise alumina, etc.). In use, the hardening composition is applied to the surface of concrete, either alone, with curing compounds, or as part of a polishing process. Any residue that remains on the treated surface may simply be swept, blown, or sprayed away.
US09272949B2
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to the development of temperable UV blocking coatings having enhanced UV blocking efficiency and aesthetic appearance on stock sheets of glass substrates using large-scale wet coating manufacturing methods. A glass substrate is provided. A base coat is curtain coated on the glass substrate from a oxide precursor material including zinc, cerium, titanium, and silicon precursor materials. The base coat is cured. A top coat is roll coated, directly or indirectly, on the base coat, with the top coat being a sacrificial cross-linked organic polymer-based layer. The substrate is heat treated with the base coat and the top coat thereon. The base coat and the top coat are substantially uniform in thickness, and the heat treating removes substantially all of the top coat while causing substantially no cracking in the base coat.
US09272947B2
Durable antireflective coatings and glass articles having such coatings are described herein. The antireflective coatings generally include a layer of nominally hexagonally packed nanoparticles that are partially embedded either in a surface of the glass article or in a binder that is on the surface of the glass article. Methods of making the antireflective coatings or layers and glass articles having such antireflective layers are also described.
US09272945B2
A thermo-electric method for texturing a glass surface including, for example, simultaneously heating a glass substrate to a temperature less than its glass transition temperature and applying a bias across the glass substrate using a template electrode. The applied bias at the processing temperature induces localized ion migration within the glass, which results in the formation in the glass surface of a negative topographical image of the pattern formed in the electrode.
US09272941B2
The disclosure is directed to a cutting process involving: (a) creating a starter crack using a scribe wheel, (b) application of laser or electrothermal heating, and (c) subsequent cooling from a gas or an aerosol jet, as the laser beam and cooling jet move along the desired cutting line. The cutting process can be implemented for cutting a glass panel or other substrate into a plurality of smaller panels. The starter crack may be created on any of the smaller panels within about 10 mm to about 20 mm from the corner of the smaller panel.
US09272931B2
A wastewater treatment system includes a wastewater collection system, at least one aeration subsystem aerating the aerobic portion, and at least one filtration subsystem. The wastewater collection system has an anoxic portion, an aerobic portion downstream of the anoxic portion, an anaerobic portion downstream of the aerobic portion. The filtration subsystem includes at least one bioreacting filter receiving fluid from the aerobic portion, being operable to filter wastewater received from the aerobic portion, and discharging filtered fluid into the anoxic portion, an oxygen contactor fluidically connected between the aerobic portion and the at least one bioreacting filter and operable to diffuse oxygen into the fluid being supplied from the aerobic portion, and an oxygen supply operable to supply oxygen to the oxygen contactor.
US09272927B2
According to the invention, a method for the prevention of microbial growth in process waters is provided, wherein first a peracid compound, and thereafter a halogenated dialkyl hydantoin are dosed into said process water. Further, according to the invention, a combination for the prevention of microbial growth is provided, said combination comprising compounds to be dosed separately, said compounds being a peracid compound to be dosed first, and a halogenated dialkyl hydantoin to be dosed after the peracid compound, the weight ratio of the peracid compound to the halogenated dialkyl hydantoin being at least 2:1, wherein the amount of the peracid compound is calculated as active agent, while the amount of halogenated dialkyl hydantoin is calculated as active chlorine.
US09272911B2
Graphene particulates, especially graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs), and a high-throughput process for the production of such particulates is provided. The graphene particulates are produced by a nanotomy process in which graphene blocks are cut from a source of graphite and then exfoliated into a plurality of graphene particulates. Graphene particulates having narrow widths, on the order of 100 nm or less, can be produced having band gap properties suitable for use in a variety of electrical applications.
US09272907B1
An ozone generator with a disposable emitter cartridge preferably includes two emitter cartridges, a protective housing, a high voltage generation circuit and a power supply. The disposable emitter cartridge preferably includes an anode element, a cathode element and an insulating spacer. The anode element includes a plurality of emitter projections. The cathode element includes a base plate with a plurality of openings. The anode element is attached to one side of the insulating spacer and the cathode element is attached to an opposing side. The protective housing preferably includes a base portion, an emitter housing and a pair of vent caps. The two emitter cartridges are removable retained on the base portion. The power supply supplies electrical power to the high voltage circuit. The high voltage circuit supplies high voltage to the two emitter cartridges. Electrical current arcs from the plurality emitter projections to the plurality of openings.
US09272888B2
A machine includes a machine body; a lifting arm assembly coupled to the machine body and carrying a pivotal mounting arrangement adapted to receive a working implement and being moveable between a raised and a lowered configuration; a compensation ram coupled between the machine body and the lifting arm assembly and configured to extend and retract; a tilt ram configured to move the pivotal mounting assembly between a crowd and a dump configuration, the tilt ram having a first and a second chamber; and a first sensor for sensing a hose burst signal, a second sensor for sensing a lift signal; a hose burst protection system such that fluid passes into the hose burst protection system, the hose burst protection system being configured to allow the passage of fluid from the second chamber when there is no hose burst signal.
US09272887B2
Systems and methods for providing access to wireline communication equipment are disclosed. Exemplary methods include positioning the wireline communication equipment at least partly below ground level, positioning an electric-powered lifting device near the wireline communication equipment and at least partly below the ground level, connecting the electric-powered lifting device to the wireline communication equipment, and configuring the lifting device to lift the wireline communication equipment above the ground level when access to the wireline communication equipment is desired.
US09272885B2
This assembly includes a security apparatus equipping a lifting device, in particular a winch, and a system for actuating the apparatus The security apparatus includes a toothed wheel, wedged on the shaft of the lifting device, and a worm meshing with the toothed wheel. The assembly also includes: a splined shaft secured to one end of the worm; a pocketed wheel with inner and outer splines, engaged on the splined shaft; an elastic member between the pocketed wheel and a stop piece; a drive wheel with a splined hub, with which the pocketed wheel is capable of engaging rotationally; and a back-up motor, capable of rotating the drive wheel.
US09272881B2
A mine elevator is provided having an anti-explosion traction system, an anti-explosion lift car protection system, a flexible guide rail guiding system, a compound lift car, and a counterweight system. The anti-explosion traction system comprises a traction rope tension regulating device, an anti-explosion traction machine, and an anti-explosion control cabinet. The anti-explosion lift car protection system comprises a rope holder, a speed limiter, two hydraulic buffers, a safety clamp, a brake rope, and a brake rope tension buffer device. The flexible guide rail guiding system comprises a steel wire rope guide rail, a guide rail tension device connected to the steel wire rope guide rail and fixed to the an upper platform, a guide rail connection device connected to the steel wire rope guide rail and fixed to a lower platform, and a flexible guide rail guide sleeve fixed to the compound lift car and the counterweight system.
US09272876B2
A cable retractor for releasing and retracting an application cable. a cable retractor comprises a base; a spool having sides, the spool rotatably secured to the base to permit the application cable to be wrapped around the spool; a mandrel disposed concentrically within the spool, the mandrel being rotationally secured to the base to prevent axial rotation of the mandrel relative to the base; and the mandrel further having a recessed groove running lengthwise, and an internal cable having an outer connector and inner connector, the outer connector being connected through the spool to one end of the application cable, and the inner connector being exposed at one end of the mandrel from within the recessed groove.
US09272873B2
Systems and methods for allowing existing rotary printing press units to produce smaller pages at a faster rate of speed without having to replace the press unit. Specifically, the systems and methods relate to retrofitting an existing press unit to produce three pages of material in each full rotation instead of the traditional two pages.
US09272868B2
A document reading device is capable of facilitating attachment/detachment of a reading unit provided inside a U-shaped document conveying path formed in a document conveying device. The document reading device includes a U-shaped document conveying path extending from a sheet supply tray to a sheet discharge tray through a reading section and a reading unit disposed inside the U-shaped document conveying path, a downstream part of the sheet supply tray on which a document is placed and a guide member provided upstream of the document conveying path to continue from the sheet supply tray and is arranged to be attachable/detachable with respect to the sheet supply tray or document conveying path. The reading unit is removable from inside the U-shaped document conveying path through an opening through which the downstream part of the sheet supply tray and guide member of the document conveying path are removed.
US09272867B2
At occurrence of jamming, a downstream-side conveying roller pair is stopped, while an upstream-side conveying roller pair continuously rotates, whereby a sheet between the downstream-side conveying roller pair and the upstream-side conveying roller pair is ejected from a sheet conveying path opened by a movable guide portion. At this time, a conveying force of a stepping motor driving the upstream-side conveying roller pair is made larger than the conveying force before the occurrence of jamming.
US09272866B2
Provided is a conveyance device that includes: a conveyance unit configured to convey a conveyance object; a motor configured to drive the conveyance unit; a sensor configured to detect a position of the conveyance object; an instruction unit configured to generate an instruction signal for conveying the conveyance object to a target position; and a control unit configured to control the motor by performing a speed feedback control and control the motor so as to cancel a delay between a time when the position of the conveyance object is detected and a time when the speed feedback control is reflected on the motor.
US09272865B2
A first sheet transfer guide plate includes a first divided sheet guide plate and a second divided sheet guide plate separable from each other. The first divided sheet guide plate is capable of being drawn out or pushed in relative to the second sheet transfer guide plate in a sheet width direction. The first divided sheet guide plate and the second divided sheet guide plate are separable from each other by a draw-out operation or a push-in operation of the first divided sheet guide plate. The first divided sheet guide plate is configured to release nipping of a sheet by paired sheet transfer rollers corresponding to the first divided sheet guide plate, along with the draw-out operation or the push-in operation of the first divided sheet guide plate.
US09272859B2
A supply apparatus including: a supply member that contacts a print medium and feeds out the print medium; a drive transmission unit configured to transmit rotation of a drive shaft to the supply member; and an arm member that supports the supply member and the drive transmission unit and rotates around a predetermined axis, wherein a contacting position between the supply member and the print medium is switched to any position of an upstream side or a downstream side in the feeding-out direction depending on a rotating position of the arm member.
US09272855B2
According to one embodiment, a paper-sheet stacking apparatus includes a holding unit, a pushing mechanism, a backup, and a variable-force spring mechanism. The holding unit has a stacking base for holding a plurality of paper sheets in standing position and is configured to stack the paper sheets, one laid on another in a direction of a plane. The pushing mechanism is configured to push paper sheets transported, into the holding unit. The backup opposed to the pushing mechanism, is able to move in the direction the paper sheets are stacked and is configured to hold any paper sheet stacked between the backup and the pushing mechanism and to move away from the pushing mechanism as paper sheets are stacked one after another.
US09272853B2
A system and method for discharging material from a chute on a farm implement into a container or bin such that the discharged material is evenly distributed in the container or bin. The system and method includes a farm implement with a bin for holding material, a conveyor for discharging material from the bin and a chute at the end of the conveyor for directing the material discharged from the conveyor. The chute may be moved into a plurality of positions based on sensor outputs to facilitate the even distribution of material in the container or bin receiving the discharged material.
US09272851B2
A method of using additional uplink measurements for MDT UL coverage is provided. A base station (eNodeB) establishes a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication network. The eNodeB and the UE are configured for Minimization of Drive Test (MDT). The eNodeB receives a Power Headroom Report (PRH) corresponds to a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) from the UE, and forwards the PHR to an MDT server. The eNodeB performs uplink measurement of a Demodulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) allocated in the PUSCH. The uplink measurement also involves measuring an uplink Received Interference Power (RIP) associated with the PUSCH. The eNodeB then reports uplink measurement results to the MDT server. The MDT server is able to determine uplink coverage based on the PHR and the uplink measurement results.
US09272848B2
A carrying device includes a rack and a platform. The platform that loads goods, is moveably arranged on a handle of the rack. The carrying device further includes a sensor that detects the goods loaded on the platform, a motor that is connected to the platform, and a controlling unit that controls the motor drive the platform to move relative to the handle with a predetermined distance, according to whether the sensor detects the goods loaded on the platform.
US09272839B2
Disclosed are a glass panel packaging box and a de-packaging method thereof. The glass panel packaging box includes a box body and a cushioning separator plate arranged in the box body. The cushioning separator plate is arranged between two glass panels. The cushioning separator plate includes a main body corresponding to the glass panels and lugs respectively extending from two opposite side edges of the main body. The box body includes a bottom board and side boards perpendicularly connected to the bottom board. The side boards include receiving slots that correspond to the lugs. The glass panel packaging box and the de-packaging method thereof provide lugs on the cushioning separator plate to make separation of the cushioning separator plate and the glass panel easy so as to increase working efficiency and allow reduction of the thickness of the cushioning separator plate used with a large-sized glass panel.
US09272837B2
A rubbing pad-dispensing tool comprising a tubular body for holding by hand, the tubular body having an interior arranged for containing a stack of rubbing pads and a pad-dispensing orifice positioned on a first end thereof; the pad-dispensing orifice having an end cap closure therefor, and in which the exterior of the end cap closure is provided with a planar pad-carrying area arranged such that in use, the rubbing pads may be brought one at a time into carried contact therewith.
US09272836B2
Aspects of the present invention are directed to a metered dose container that is transit proof. A container of the present invention may comprise a body having a vertical axis; a cap movable along the vertical axis of the body; a removable ring coupled to and between the moveable cap and the body, and a barrier, inside the body and coupled to the moveable cap. The barrier may define a loading chamber and separate the body into a storage chamber and a dispensing chamber. The barrier is adapted to be movable along the vertical axis of the body to form a transit position and a dispensing position.
US09272834B2
A volumetric displacement preservation system for preserving a volume of flowable substance in a vessel. A fluid exchange structure has a stopper, a head portion, and a fluid exchange valve with a first condition where fluid inlet and exhaust pathways in the fluid exchange structure are simultaneously closed and a second condition where the fluid inlet and exhaust pathways are simultaneously opened by conduit joining portions in the fluid exchange valve. A chamber retains a volume of preservative gas and is connected to the fluid inlet pathway externally to the vessel. The preservative gas can be supplied from the chamber into the vessel through the fluid inlet pathway as liquid is exhausted through the fluid exhaust pathway. The chamber can be replenished from preservative gas displaced from the vessel in a reverse volumetric displacement process or from preservative gas supplied by a preservative gas production canister.
US09272830B2
Unitized packages for containing and dispensing a product material are described herein. In particular, the unitized packages comprise a printed base card and a fluid vessel permanently bonded to the printed base card. The fluid vessel comprises a first laminate barrier layer comprising at least one layer of a biaxially oriented thermoplastic polymer, a portion of which is formed into a modified dome shape, and a planar second laminate barrier layer. The first and second laminate barrier layers are sealed together to form a fluid-tight enclosure, wherein the product material substantially fills the enclosure and the modified dome shape is resiliently sustainable. A method of manufacturing the unitized packages as described above is also provided. In particular, the method includes forming a portion of the first laminate barrier layer comprising the biaxially oriented polymer into the modified dome shape using a force such as pressurized gas.
US09272817B2
Liquid-dispensing systems that include integrated aeration systems to aerate a liquid while the liquid is being dispensed are described. Integrated aeration systems enable seamless aeration of a liquid during dispensing. In one aspect, a liquid-dispensing system includes a liquid-conditioning dispenser with an integrated aeration system composed of one or more channels that convey a fluid to mix with a liquid as the liquid is dispensed. The aeration system also includes an aeration switch used to open and close the channels and regulate the amount of the fluid that mixes with the liquid. The liquid-dispensing system also includes a pump and control system to apply pressure on a reservoir that contains the liquid. The pressure forces the liquid from the reservoir to the dispenser via a liquid supply line.
US09272815B2
A plastic container includes a medium applied to a portion of the container. A digital image is applied to a portion of the medium, the digital image being comprised of a plurality of ink droplets. Methods for digital printing on a portion of a medium that is applied to a container are also disclosed.
US09272812B2
A shipping container comprising a bottom pallet, a sleeve and a top. At least the pallet and sleeve are octagonal in shape and the pallet has a floor engaging leg for support at each of the eight corners of the pallet. The ninth leg is located at the center of the pallet and all legs are located to allow forklift entry from any of multiple approach directions. The legs are preferably of crescentoid shape.
US09272810B2
A pallet includes an upper deck and columns extending downwardly. A portion of the upper deck protrudes outwardly relative to an outer surface of the columns. Anti-shingling protrusions are formed on the outer surface of the column below the deck in order to prevent shingling of the pallet with another pallet.
US09272806B2
The storage box is formed from a sheet provided with a plurality of folding lines defining a parallelepiped provided with six faces. One of the faces is a hinged lid, and it is characterised in that the opposed face to the hinged lid comprises a first sector provided with an oblique folding line that defines a first joining zone. A second sector also provided with an oblique folding line that is joined to the first sector in the first joining zone; and a third sector is provided with an oblique folding line that defines a second joining zone; and a fourth sector that is joined to the third sector in the second joining zone.
US09272798B2
A complete cutting station for separatingly cutting out packaging units from a film composite, the cutting station having a movable complete cutting tool configured for severing the film composite. The complete cutting station further comprises a conveying system having a plurality of conveyor elements for conveying a respective separated packaging unit, wherein each conveyor element in turn comprises a head portion for engaging with a respective packaging unit. The head portions of the conveyor elements may be movable between a first position in which the gripped packaging units are at a first distance relative to each other, and a second position in which the packaging units are at a second, smaller distance from each other or at least partially overlap in at least one spatial direction.
US09272790B2
The present invention intends to extend the operating life of an air separation module (ASM) in a nitrogen enriched air (NEA) supply system by controlling the temperature of bleed air as a supply source of the NEA. The NEA supply system produces NEA that is enriched with nitrogen upon supply of source gas during a flight through an ascent phase, a cruising phase, and a descent phase, and supplies the NEA to a fuel tank, the system including: an air separation module that separates oxygen and nitrogen in the source gas; and a temperature regulation mechanism that regulates a temperature of the source gas supplied to the air separation module. In at least a part of a flight period through the ascent phase and the cruising phase, the temperature regulation mechanism regulates the temperature of the source gas to below a temperature of the source gas in the descent phase.
US09272788B2
An aircraft cooling system including a cooler having a cold transfer circuit, in which a cold transfer medium circulates. The cooler supplies cooling energy to an aircraft device to be cooled. The aircraft cooling system further includes a heat transfer arrangement having a heat transfer circuit, in which a heat transfer medium circulates and which is thermally coupled to the cold transfer circuit of the cooler via a heat exchanger, in order to absorb waste heat generated by the cooler and transfer it to a cabin air extraction system. The heat transfer arrangement further includes at least one heat pump which brings about an increase of the heat energy transfer from the cold transfer medium circulating in the cold transfer circuit of the cooler to the heat transfer medium circulating in the heat transfer circuit, at least in certain operating phases of the aircraft cooling system.
US09272785B2
A mounting apparatus includes a fixed mounting structure that includes a first fixed fitting including a plurality of first flanges and a second fixed fitting. A rotatable mounting structure has a swivel fitting configured to engage and swivel with respect to the first fixed fitting. The swivel fitting includes a plurality of second flanges, one of which is configured to rest on one of the plurality of first flanges when the swivel fitting and first fixed fitting are engaged. The rotatable mounting structure also has a slide fitting configured to slide with respect to the second fixed fitting based on the swivel fitting being engaged with the first fixed fitting. An adjustment assembly is arranged at an interface between the second fixed fitting and the slide fitting. The adjustment assembly is configured to adjust an angular position of the slide fitting relative to the swivel fitting.
US09272781B2
A rotating control system includes a member having at least one clevis defined by a pair of clevis arms disposed in a clevis plane, the at least one clevis having an axis of symmetry disposed in the clevis plane midway between the pair of clevis arms, a shaft member pivotally coupled between the pair of clevis arms, the shaft member having a shaft axis, the shaft axis disposed axially along the shaft member, and an anti-rotation device for limiting a rotation of the shaft member about the shaft axis, the anti-rotation device having a plurality of flanges configured to couple to the clevis arms of the member, the flanges extending from a surface of a base member, the anti-rotation device having at least one restraining member that protrudes toward the shaft member for limiting the axial rotation of the shaft member.
US09272776B2
A device for intermediate fastening between an aircraft fuselage and an aircraft landing gear is provided. The device includes at least one semi-open support structure comprising a pair of webs, which are substantially parallel to each other. The webs comprise first support means intended to receive the main pivot shaft of the landing gear and second support means intended to receive the stay joint or joints of the landing gear. The device includes two support structures linked together by a central box structure. The central box structure includes a front wall, a rear wall and linking walls linking those two walls.
US09272774B2
An aircraft landing gear assembly comprising a bogie beam (2), an axle (4) extending through the bogie beam and a jacking dome fitting (6) extending through a sidewall (8) of the bogie beam and arranged to transfer vertical loads applied to the jacking dome fitting to the axle.
US09272772B2
A surface element, e.g. a wing, of an aircraft includes a leading edge, a high lift device arrangement positioned along the leading edge and at least one add-on body positioned in a leading edge region, wherein the high lift device arrangement is interrupted in the region of at least one add-on body for preventing collision with the add-on body and wherein the surface element includes an arrangement of openings in a region covering the add-on body, which openings are connected to an air conveying device for conveying air through the openings. Thereby an additional flap for harmonizing the flow above a pylon or other add-on body can be eliminated.
US09272771B2
An onboard flight management system in an aircraft comprises means for continuously calculating first geolocation data, from data received from at least one external geolocation device, comprising a current position and future positions of an aircraft along a trajectory sequenced in several portions and comprising second data comprising demands required by an international navigation procedure called “Required Navigation Performance”, or RNP, for all the portions of the trajectory. The management system additionally comprises a means for displaying first and second data all the way along the trajectory, the first and second data being represented graphically and simultaneously on the said display means in order to enable the pilot to anticipate the flight characteristics for the aircraft and make them converge toward the required demands of the next trajectory portion.
US09272768B2
A self-supporting acoustic insulation panel (1) comprising a visible wall (3) that is not self-supporting and an invisible wall (2) that is not self-supporting facing a source (50) of soundwaves. A porous core (20) is arranged between the visible wall (3) and the invisible wall (2), a plurality of link elements (5) each extending from the invisible wall (2) towards the visible wall (3), each link element (5) passing through an orifice (21) in said core (20) and being connected to the visible wall (3) and to the invisible wall (2), each link element (5) separating the visible wall (3) from the invisible wall (2) and mechanically linking the visible wall (3) with the invisible wall (2) while acoustically decoupling the visible wall (3) from the invisible wall (2).
US09272766B2
A method and system for ballast water treatment is provided for a vessel with a ballast water tank system that pumps water from a local environment through a conduit into at least one tank on the vessel. The water contains aerobic micro-organisms from the local environment. Oxygen-containing gas is introduced into the water as it is pumped through the conduit. Living organisms are added into the water with the oxygen-containing gas introduced therein. As a result, the tank receives a mixture of the water with the oxygen-containing gas introduced therein and the living organisms added thereto. The living organisms are selected to consume (i) the aerobic micro-organisms, (ii) oxygen dissolved in the water, and (iii) food sources for the aerobic micro-organisms contained in the water. A vacuum is applied to the tank's ullage space at a point in time after the mixture is received in the tank.
US09272750B2
A drive arrangement for a bicycle including a chainring having a chainring axis, a plurality of different rear sprockets, the plurality of rear sprockets sharing a sprocket axis, a drive chain that runs around the rear sprockets and the chainring and in meshing engagement with a selected active sprocket of the plurality of rear sprockets and the chainring, and a rear derailleur. The rear derailleur is configured to shift the chain over a plurality of sprockets having a difference in tooth count of over 25 teeth ranging from a smallest to a largest sprocket.
US09272749B1
A brake structure capable of adjusting a distance between two brake shoes of a bicycle is disclosed. When the screw is screwed in the adjusting hole, the screw is against and pushing the push member, the concave portion of the push member is pushing the roller, and further the roller is rolling to push the horizontal wall to adjust a distance between the first brake shoe and the second brake shoe to be shorter. When the screw is screwed out of the adjusting hole, the push member is pushed back toward the bolt member, and further the horizontal wall is pushed back toward the push member to roll the roller to adjust the distance between the first brake shoe and the second brake shoe to be longer.
US09272741B2
A side skirt assembly for a trailer of a tractor-trailer includes a skirt panel and a plurality of skirt mounts that couple the skirt panel to the frame of the trailer. The skirt panel can be formed by a layered composite formed of alternating layers of fiberglass and layers containing recycled fiberglass. The position of the skirt mount can be laterally adjusted along the trailer frame whereby the skirt panel can be mounted to the trailer in more than one lateral position. Additionally, the skirt panel can include a track extending along at least a portion of the skirt panel length, and the track can slide relative to the skirt mount to adjust the longitudinal position of the skirt panel on the trailer during assembly.
US09272730B2
In an electric power steering system, a vehicle reactive force model computes a correction spring reactive torque in such a manner that an elasticity component included in a steering reactive force is increased with an increase in a lateral acceleration. As the lateral acceleration increases, an increase in a basic drive torque is suppressed by a larger amount. By an amount by which the magnitude of the basic drive torque is suppressed, a target pinion angle computed by a target pinion angle computing unit decreases and a correction component for a basic assist component is decreased. A steering assist force is decreased, and a steering reactive force is increased with a decrease in the steering assist force. Thus, it is possible to obtain an appropriate steering reactive force based on the magnitude of the lateral acceleration.
