US09305028B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for detecting fraud in a social gaming environment is disclosed herein. For example, game events generated responsive to a player playing a game executing on a client device are received. The game events may then be used to build a player profile for the player. The player profile may characterize the game actions performed by the player. The player profile is then compared with a golden profile. The golden profile may specify an expected gaming behavior. Based on the comparison between the player profile and the expected gaming behavior specified by the golden profile, a player account associated with the player may be marked as suspicious.
US09305016B2
A query controller accesses a cache comprising information related to data that is newly added to a database, responsive to detecting a data extraction application is ready to query the database for at least one data extraction rule. The information is added to the cache for each new data event received by a data processing application, prior to the data processing application adding the data parsed from each new data event to the database. The query controller evaluates each data extraction rule against the information in the cache to determine whether the information is relevant to at least one data extraction rule. The query controller sends a separate query by the data extraction application to the database only for any particular data extraction rules to which the information is relevant, such that the query controller reduces the number of queries sent for each query period to only queries based on data extraction rules that need to be reevaluated based on the information updated about data that is newly added to the database.
US09305013B2
An apparatus and a method for accessing data from a server. In one embodiment, data referred by a Universal Resource Identifier (URI) is mounted on a file system. The mounted data can then be operated on using the file system. To mount the data referred by the URI, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) fragment of the URI is determined. An identifier on the file system is generated based on the URL fragment. Data referred by the URI is mapped to the file system using the identifier.
US09305012B2
A method for data storage implemented in a data storage system is disclosed. Data storage nodes may be interconnected by means of a communications network. The method may include sending a request for a first data item to a plurality of storage nodes. The first data item may include a reference to a second data item stored in the storage system. The method may include receiving the first data item from at least one storage node, and sending a request for the second data item to the plurality of storage nodes based on the reference included in the first data item.
US09305001B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a macroscopic cluster view of storage devices, as opposed to merely an isolated view from an individual node. For example, nodes within a node cluster may be queried for storage device reports comprising storage device information regarding storage devices with which the nodes are respectively connected (e.g., I/O performance statistics, path connections, storage device attributes, status, error history, etc.). The storage device reports may be aggregated together to define one or more storage device data structures (e.g., a storage device data structure comprising one or more tables that may be populated with storage device information). In this way, the cluster view may be generated based upon querying one or more storage device data structures (e.g., an error cluster view, a storage device cluster view, a node summary cluster view, etc.).
US09304997B2
A system for migrating data from a source file system to a destination file system, in a manner that is transparent and seamless to clients of the source file system.
US09304989B2
A system and a method for microcontent natural language processing are presented. The method comprising steps of receiving a microcontent message from a social networking server, tokenizing the microcontent message into one or more text tokens, performing a topic extraction on the microcontent message to extract topic metadata, generating sentiment metadata for the microcontent message, analyzing co-occurrence of all available metadatas in the plurality of microcontent messages, producing a list that ranks the plurality of microcontent messages based on all available topic metadata, and compiling a trend database that reveals how perception of users of the social networking server on a given topic changes by tracking how the list changes over time.
US09304988B2
There is described a computer implemented method for performing automatic audio production, comprising: receiving an audio signal to be processed; receiving semantic information; determining at least one semantic-based rule using the received semantic information, the semantic-based rule comprising production data that defines how the audio signal to be processed should be produced; processing the audio signal to be processed using the production data, thereby obtaining a produced audio signal; outputting the produced audio signal.
US09304986B1
Methods and systems to automatically build a native interface for connecting a hardware block to an external component such as a processor or a memory. A description file of the hardware block is parsed to extract a plurality of interface signals. A register map is automatically created, in hardware, based on the extracted interface signals. A wrapper is automatically generated for interfacing with the automatically built register map according to a target interface.
US09304967B2
Provided is a reconfigurable processor that may process a first type of operation in first mode using a first group of functional units, and process a second type of operation in second mode using a second group of functional units. The reconfigurable processor may selectively supply power to either the first group or the second group, in response to a mode-switch signal or a mode-switch instruction.
US09304966B2
A method for providing local access to managed content is disclosed. The method comprises receiving from a remote host a request to perform an operation with respect to content associated with a set of managed content and obtaining information required to respond to the request. The method further comprises providing in response to the request a content locator usable to perform the requested operation through direct communication with a local content system associated with the remote host.
US09304961B2
An access system includes line cards. The line cards include first and second line cards. The first line card receives a first packet and includes a first interface control module that generates a first request signal to transfer the first packet. The first request signal includes an identifier of a second interface control module in the second line card. Crossbar modules are separate from the line cards and include first and second crossbar modules. The first crossbar module includes a first scheduler module. The second crossbar module transfers packets between a pair of the line cards. The packets include the first packet. The first scheduler module is separate from the line cards and, based on the first request signal, schedules the transfer of the packets from the first interface control module, through the second crossbar module, and to the second interface control module.
US09304959B2
The present invention discloses a method of to generate transaction ID(s) in a bus interconnection design. An encoding table for each slave can be derived by calculating all possible transactions from all the masters to the slave so as to determine the minimum width of the transaction ID received by the slave in the interconnecting bus design, thereby avoiding the routing congestion in the interconnecting bus.
US09304946B2
Technologies are described herein for providing a hardware-based accelerator adapted to manage copy-on-write. Some example technologies may identify a read request adapted to read a block at an original memory address. The technologies may utilize the hardware-based accelerator to determine whether the block is located at the original memory address. When a determination is made that the block is located in at the original memory address, the technologies may utilize the hardware-based accelerator to pass the original memory address so that the read request can be performed utilizing the original memory address. When a determination is made that the block is not located in the memory at the original memory address, the technologies may utilize the hardware-based accelerator to generate a new memory address and to pass the new memory address so that the read request can be performed utilizing the new memory address.
US09304942B2
A system for controlling access to resources in an apparatus when the apparatus is not active. Emerging technologies may allow information to be accessed in an apparatus memory without the operating system of the apparatus facilitating the access. In such instances, a subsystem in the apparatus may become active upon reception of wireless signals, and may grant direct access to memory. An access control configuration for the subsystem may be implemented in order to control memory access even when other software systems are inactive. The subsystem access control configuration may be configured (e.g., by the user) when the apparatus is active, and may be established (e.g., installed or updated) upon subsystem activation.
US09304936B2
In response to receipt of a store-conditional (STCX) request of a processor core, the STCX request is buffered in an entry of a store queue for eventual service by a read-claim (RC) machine by reference to a cache array, and the STCX request is concurrently transmitted via a bypass path bypassing the store queue. In response to dispatch logic dispatching the STCX request transmitted via the bypass path to the RC machine for service by reference to the cache array, the entry of the STCX request in the store queue is updated to prohibit selection of the STCX request in the store queue for service. In response to the STCX request transmitted via the bypass path not being dispatched by the dispatch logic, the STCX is thereafter transmitted from the store queue to the dispatch logic and dispatched to the RC machine for service by reference to the cache array.
US09304935B2
Performing a transaction in a transactional memory environment for performing transactional executions, the transactional memory environment including a digest-generating transaction to generate a computed digest and a digest-checking transaction to compare computed digests is provided. Included is identifying, by a computer system, a first indicator signaling a beginning instruction of a digest-generating transaction including a plurality of instructions; suppressing committing memory store data of the digest-generating transaction to memory; generating a computed digest based on the execution of at least one of the plurality of instructions; identifying a second indicator associated with the plurality of instructions signaling an ending instruction of the digest-generating transaction, the computed digest is replicable for an error-free execution of the plurality of instructions; and saving the computed digest, as a reliability digest, based on completing the digest-generating transaction and not save the first computed digest based on an abort of the digest-generating transaction.
US09304929B2
A storage system has a data storage device, a tag storage device and a controller. The tag storage device has a plurality of first tag entries and a plurality of second tag entries, wherein each of the first tag entries is associated with one data storage line allocated in the data storage device. The controller is coupled between the data storage device and the tag storage device, and arranged to set a specific second tag entry in the tag storage device to associate with a specific data storage line with which a specific first tag entry in the tag storage device is associated.
US09304919B2
The present application describes some embodiments of a prefetcher that tracks multiple stride sequences for prefetching. Some embodiments of the prefetcher implement a method including generating a sum-of-strides for each of a plurality of stride lengths that are larger than one by summing a number of previous strides that is equal to the stride length. Some embodiments of the method also include prefetching data in response to repetition of one or more of the sum-of-strides for one or more of the plurality of stride lengths.
US09304914B1
A computer-implemented method for caching content in a cache memory device is disclosed. The method starts with receiving a request for accessing a first data block associated with a first file, and a file manager provides access of the first data block in a persistent storage device of a storage system. The file manager then caches the first data block in a cache memory device including deduplicating the first data block, wherein at least some of data blocks stored in the cache memory device are deduplicated data blocks, and wherein at least one of the data blocks is referenced by different regions of an identical file or different files.
US09304910B2
A storage system and method for interleaving a plurality of logical sectors in the storage system is disclosed. The method includes: dividing each logical sector into a predetermined number of slices; sequentially indexing the logical sectors, wherein each logical sector is identified by a logical sector index; sequentially indexing the predetermined number of slices in each logical sector, wherein each slice of the predetermined number of slices is identified by a slice index within each logical sector; and interleaving the logical sectors according to a slice interleaving process. The interleaving step further includes: a) identifying a first indexed slice of a first indexed logical sector as an initial slice; and b) identifying a subsequent slice by advancing the slice index to a subsequent index in the slice index sequence and advancing the logical sector index to a subsequent index in the logical sector index sequence.
US09304908B1
A first portion of an asymmetric memory is configured as temporary storage for application data units with sizes corresponding to a small memory block that is smaller than the size of a logical write unit associated with the asymmetric memory. A portion of the remaining asymmetric memory is configured as a reconciled storage for application data units with varying sizes. A first application data unit is received for writing to the asymmetric memory. Based on computing the size of the first application data unit as corresponding to the small memory block, the first application data unit is written to the temporary storage. Upon determining that a threshold is reached, a memory write operation is performed for writing the application data units from the temporary storage to the reconciled storage. The application data units written to the reconciled storage are removed from the temporary storage.
US09304902B2
A system can comprise an I/O circuitry, a processor, reconfigurable circuitry, an array of flash storage devices, and a serial interconnect network that is coupled to transfer data between the I/O circuitry, the processor, the reconfigurable circuitry and the flash storage devices. The processor can be configured to designate an interconnect address space for use in communication over the interconnect network among the I/O circuitry, the processor, the reconfigurable circuitry and the flash storage devices. The reconfigurable circuitry can be configured to translate data addresses during transfers of data between the I/O circuitry and the array of flash storage devices. A method to access an array of flash storage devices that are coupled to I/O circuitry over a serial interconnect network can comprise using reconfigurable circuitry to capture data during transfers of data over the serial interconnect network.
US09304898B2
Technologies are generally described herein for compressing an array using hardware-based compression and performing various instructions on the compressed array. Some example technologies may receive an instruction adapted to access an address in an array. The technologies may determine whether address is compressible. If the address is compressible, then the technologies may determine a compressed address of a compressed array based on the address. The compressed array may represent a compressed layout of the array where a reduced size of each compressed element in the compressed array is smaller than an original size of each element in the array. The technologies may access the compressed array at the compressed address in accordance with the instruction.
US09304897B2
An image data producing apparatus includes: a page dividing portion that divides data described in a page description language into a page unit; a plurality of image processors that form raster data from divided data; and a controlling portion that allocates pages on which the raster data is formed to each of the plurality of the image processors, and causes each of the plurality of the image processors to execute registration of a printing resource on respective pages with at least a change of the printing resource by controlling each of the plurality of the image processors irrespective of a page allocation.
US09304896B2
A data processing node has an inter-node messaging module including a plurality of sets of registers each defining an instance of a GET/PUT context and a plurality of data processing cores each coupled to the inter-node messaging module. Each one of the data processing cores includes a mapping function for mapping each one of a plurality of user level processes to a different one of the sets of registers and thereby to a respective GET/PUT context instance. Mapping each one of the user level processes to the different one of the sets of registers enables a particular one of the user level processes to utilize the respective GET/PUT context instance thereof for performing a GET/PUT action to a ring buffer of a different data processing node coupled to the data processing node through a fabric without involvement of an operating system of any one of the data processing cores.
US09304893B1
Improved techniques involve marking each test case routine written in the source code with test case identifiers that describe that test case routine. Software in a development system parses source code to locate such identifiers and, upon compilation of the source code, generates a report based on those identifiers. Advantageously, the improved techniques ensure that test cases remain current with the source code.
US09304892B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media determining a behavior model of a computing system under test. In some implementations, actions include executing, using a user interface of a computing SUT, an initial test script on the SUT; recording, after executing the initial test script, a state of the SUT in the behavior model by observing one or more events that can be triggered using the user interface of the SUT; and iteratively refining the behavior model until an end condition is reached by generating one or more new test scripts, executing the new test scripts on the SUT to test unobserved behavior, and recording one or more new states reached by executing the new test scripts on the SUT in the behavior model.
US09304884B2
A test apparatus applicable to a server includes a processing unit, a control unit, a switch unit and a power relay unit. The processing unit outputs a reset signal and a processing signal. The control unit includes a first physical layer chip performing a first communication protocol, and a second physical layer chip performing a second communication protocol. The switch unit receives a working voltage and a processing signal to select a powering signal or a disconnection signal to output. The power relay unit receives the powering signal or the disconnection signal. When the power relay unit receives the powering signal, the server performs a test task on the first physical layer chip. When the power relay unit receives the disconnection signal and the processing unit outputs the reset signal to the control unit, the server performs the test task on the second physical layer chip.
US09304883B2
Embodiments relate to testing memory write operations. An aspect includes detecting a first write operation to a set of “n” divisions in a memory table, and defining a selected set of entries of an optimization checking table corresponding to the set of “n” divisions of the memory table. The aspect includes determining that at least one selected entry of the selected set of entries is not among an optimal set of entries of the checking table. The aspect further includes determining whether to generate an optimization error or to end an optimization analysis of the first write operation without generating the optimization error by comparing the first time stamps of one or both of the at least one selected entry and one or more optimal entries of the optimal set of entries to a temporal window defined by a predetermined duration.
US09304878B2
High availability of a virtual machine is ensured even when all of the virtual machine's IO paths fail. In such a case, the virtual machine is migrated to a host that is sharing the same storage system as the current host in which the virtual machine is being executed and has at least one functioning IO path to the shared storage system. After execution control of the virtual machine is transferred to the new host, IO operations from the virtual machine are issued over the new IO path.
US09304874B2
An example method of saving and restoring a state of one or more registers for a guest includes detecting exit of a virtual machine mode of a guest running on a virtual machine. A set of registers is accessible by the guest and includes a first subset of registers and a second subset of registers. The method also includes identifying the first subset of registers. The first subset of registers includes one or more registers to be overwritten by the guest upon re-entry of the virtual machine mode. The second subset of registers is mutually exclusive from the first subset of registers. The method further includes after detecting exit of the virtual machine mode of the guest, detecting re-entry of the virtual machine mode of the guest. The method also includes restoring a saved state of the second subset of registers for the guest.
US09304872B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided for data processing in order to provide a value for determining whether an error has occurred in the execution of a program. The method may include: determining a numerical value on the basis of a plurality of reference numbers determined by a checking circuit outside the program; determining a signature of at least one instruction of the program by means of an arithmetic code; updating a cumulative value on the basis of the numerical value and the signature; and transferring the updated cumulative value to the checking circuit in order to determine whether an error has occurred in the execution of the program, on the basis of the plurality of reference numbers and the cumulative value.
US09304871B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being configured to cause the processor to access a snapshot of data stored on one or more DR clusters within a disaster recovery (DR) family only when the snapshot was made consistent with respect to data on one or more production clusters within the DR family before a time-zero, and perform DR testing using the snapshot, wherein the time-zero represents a time selected to simulate a disaster, wherein the DR family includes one or more DR clusters accessible to a DR host and the one or more production clusters accessible to a production host, and wherein the DR host is configured to replicate data from the one or more production clusters to the one or more DR clusters.
US09304862B2
A computer-implemented method of handling a current email messaging campaign to be broadcast to increase a deliverability parameter regarding a percentage of the campaign which has been successfully delivered is described. The email messaging campaign comprises a plurality of email messages with the same message content and a plurality of different email addresses to send the message content to. The method is implemented on a processor and comprises: receiving feedback data relating to a delivery error arising from a previous email messaging campaign previously broadcast to a plurality of recipients; categorizing the feedback data into one of a plurality of categories to identify a type of error; selecting one of a plurality of predetermined corrective actions based on the category of the feedback data determined in the categorizing step; and dynamically and automatically modifying the current outgoing email messaging campaign which has yet to be broadcast using the corrective action chosen in the selecting step.
US09304856B2
A method, system and memory controller are provided for implementing ECC (Error Correction Codes) control to provide enhanced endurance and data retention of flash memories. The memory controller includes a VT (threshold voltage) monitor to determine VT degradation of cells and blocks; the VT monitor configured to store information about the determined VT degradation; a first ECC engine having a first level of ECC capability; a second ECC engine having a second level of ECC capability, the second level higher than the first level, the second ECC engine having a longer latency than the first ECC engine; a logic to issue a read request to a particular cell/block, and, using the determined VT degradation, use the first ECC engine if the determined VT degradation is less than a threshold and to use the second ECC engine if the determined VT degradation is above the threshold.
US09304848B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to dynamically routing instructions to execution units based on detected errors in the execution units. An aspect of the invention includes a computer system including a processor having an instruction issue unit and a plurality of execution units. The processor is configured to detect an error in a first execution unit among the plurality of execution units and adjust instruction dispatch rules of the instruction issue unit based on detecting the error in the first execution unit to restrict access to the first execution unit while leaving un-restricted access to the remaining execution units of the plurality of execution units.
US09304847B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for network management application to automatically determine a session prompt for a network device and perform error handling. After logging in to a network device, the network management application records the first session prompt response. The network management application sends a series of empty carriage returns and random characters and records the session prompt responses. The network management application compares the responses and determines whether the prompt is a static or a dynamic prompt based on the results. The network management application elicits error responses from the network device by sending additional random characters and records the results in an error handling dictionary. The error handling dictionary is used later when running user-provided commands, enabling a determination of whether a command executed successfully.
US09304844B2
One or more triggers may be coupled to sources on a system on a chip of a portable computing device. The sources monitor the system for status conditions. The one or more triggers are coupled to a trigger bus. A sequencer engine is coupled to the trigger bus and a communication bus. The sequencer engine receives one or more instructions from the communication bus for determining how the sequencer engine should monitor the one or more triggers via the trigger bus and preserve data received from the one or more triggers before a system reset. The sequencer engine then receives data from the one or more triggers and stores the data in local memory storage. The sequencer engine, if programmed, may generate at least one of a trace packet, an interrupt signal, and a general purpose input/output signal in response to receiving data from one or more triggers.
US09304843B2
A method begins by a requesting entity sending a distributed storage network (DSN) access request to a request verification entity, wherein the DSN access request includes a signed certificate and DSN accessing information. The method continues by a request verification entity sending a signed DSN access request to the requesting entity when the request verification entity signs the DSN access request after verifying the signed certificate and the DSN accessing information. The method continues by the requesting entity sending the signed DSN access request to a DSN accessing entity. The method continues by the DSN accessing entity sending an authorized DSN access request to the DSN via a network connection when the DSN accessing entity verifies a signature of the request verification entity, wherein the authorized DSN access request includes, at a minimum, the DSN accessing information.
US09304838B1
A device may receive a model including a group of blocks, and may receive a command to execute the model. The device may assign a parameter sample time to a subset of blocks of the group of blocks. The parameter sample time may permit a block, of the subset of blocks, to be executed based on a parameter change event detected during the execution of the model. The device may cause the model to be executed after assigning the parameter sample time to the subset of blocks. The device may detect a parameter change event, associated with the model, prior to the execution of the model being completed. The parameter change event may include an event that is external to the execution of the model. The device may cause at least one block, of the subset of blocks, to be executed based on the detecting the parameter change event.
US09304837B2
Configurations for a cellular user interface are provided. In one embodiment, a client configuration includes a viewer and a content development kit. A content server distributes cellularized content among several client viewers. Connectors in a scheduled configuration regularly acquire updated content from data sources. An integration server interfaces between the connectors and the content server for distributing content. A monitoring agent assists with content updating upon detecting source changes. A registration server enables cell content update in client viewers through the content server. Cells in the cellularized environment include a visual proxy component and a metadata component. The visual proxy component can be configured for displaying different content at various levels of detail. The metadata component enables intelligent organization and display of content through queries, channels, and data updates. In addition, procedural geometry in the cellularized environment automates the content presentation and provides a flexible arrangement of the cells.
US09304836B2
Bridging data distributed service (DDS) domains in a networked system based on discovery data is provided. Each DDS domain includes DDS software applications capable of publishing data and subscribing to data. A DDS domain bridge is communicatively coupled with the DDS software applications of both DDS domains. The DDS domain bridge monitors discovery data provided by the DDS software applications for a topic name, a topic type, and/or QoS properties. The DDS domain bridge includes creation rules and enabling rules controlling input/output DDS dataflow objects. Based on the state of the DDS dataflow objects set by the rules, uni- or bi-directional DDS dataflow is established between the input and output DDS dataflow objects enabling data propagation between DDS software applications of DDS domains.
US09304835B1
A graph processing system includes a graph API (Application Program Interface), as executed on a processor of a computer and as capable of implementing any of a plurality of graph operators to express computations of input graph analytics applications. A run-time system, executed by the processor, implements graph operators specified by each graph API function and deploys the implemented graph operators to a selected computing system. A library contains multiple implementations for each graph API function, each implementation predetermined as being optimal for a specific set of conditions met by a graph being processed, for functional capabilities of a specific computing system on which the graph is being processed, and for resources available on that specific computing system.
US09304830B1
Techniques and solutions are described for multi-threaded processing of data, which may include dividing incoming data content stream into a plurality of fragments, for processing by a corresponding plurality of parallel parser threads running within one or more computing devices. A fragment order is assigned to the plurality of fragments. During a first processing phase of the parser threads, for each of one or more selected fragments of the plurality of fragments, a first available delimiter is determined within data content of the selected fragment. The data content within the selected fragment is parsed, starting from the first available delimiter to a last available delimiter within the fragment. During a second processing phase, for each of the one or more selected fragments, data content in a fragment suffix for the selected fragment is parsed with data content from a fragment prefix from a subsequent fragment.
US09304828B2
In one embodiment, a storage system comprises: a first type interface being operable to communicate with a server using a remote memory access; a second type interface being operable to communicate with the server using a block I/O (Input/Output) access; a memory; and a controller being operable to manage (1) a first portion of storage areas of the memory to allocate for storing data, which is to be stored in a physical address space managed by an operating system on the server and which is sent from the server via the first type interface, and (2) a second portion of the storage areas of the memory to allocate for caching data, which is sent from the server to a logical volume of the storage system via the second type interface and which is to be stored in a storage device of the storage system corresponding to the logical volume.
US09304816B2
Provided are techniques for multiple stage workload management. A staging queue and a run queue are provided. A workload is received. In response to determining that application resources are not available and that the workload has not been previously semi-started, the workload is added to the staging queue. In response to determining that the application resources are not available and that the workload has been semi-started, and, in response to determining that run resources are available, the workload is started. In response to determining that the application resources are not available and that the workload has been semi-started, and, in response to determining that the run resources are not available, adding the workload to the run queue.
US09304806B2
A cloud manager monitors available resources on host computer systems, including a number of hardware threads supported by CPUs on the host computer systems and whether or not the CPUs have split core enabled. The cloud manager receives a request to provision a virtual machine (VM) that includes a hardware multithreading parameter that specifies whether hardware multithreading is allowed on the host computer system. The cloud manager then selects a host computer system for the VM taking into consideration the hardware multithreading parameter, the hardware threads supported by the CPU, and the split core settings. The VM is then placed on the selected host computer system using the hardware multithreading parameter. The result is more efficient utilization of CPU resources in a host for a virtual machine.
US09304804B2
A first virtual machine executing in a first computer server is replicated to a second virtual machine executing in a second computer server, which is connected to the first computer server over a network. Virtual disks of the first virtual machine are transmitted to the second server, where each transmitted virtual disk corresponds to one of the virtual disks of the second virtual machine, the virtual disks of the first virtual machine having a format different from the format of the virtual disks of the second virtual machine. A plurality of updates to the virtual disks of the first virtual machine is captured, and contiguous data blocks from the virtual disks of the first virtual machine that are subject to the captured updates are identified. The identified contiguous data blocks are then transmitted to the second server for storage in the virtual disks of the second virtual machine.
US09304790B2
Technologies are generally described for masking power usage of co-processors on field-programmable gate arrays. In some examples, one or more moat brick circuits may be implemented around a co-processor loaded on a held-programmable gate array (FPGA). The moat brick circuits may be configured to use negative feedback and/or noise to mask the power usage variations of the co-processor from other co-processors on the FPGA.
US09304789B2
A pseudo task generation requester 200 generates a request for generating a pseudo task 283 indicating that a certain one of CPUs is in an use state, and notifies a second OS 125 of the generation request, in the case where a task to be processed by a first virtual machine 110 is assigned to the one CPU, but a task to be processed by a second virtual machine 120 is not assigned to the one CPU. A pseudo task finishing requester 206 finishes the pseudo task 283 when a task in the first virtual machine 110 is finished with respect to the CPU to which the pseudo task 283 is assigned.
US09304787B2
Described is a technique for establishing an interaction language for a user interface without having to communicate with the user in a default language, which the user may or may not understand. The technique may prompt the user for multiples responses in order to determine a specific language. The responses may include speech input or selecting particular regions on a map. In some implementations, the language may be precise to a particular dialect or variant preferred or spoken by the user. Accordingly, this approach provides an accurate and efficient method of providing a high degree of specificity for language selection without overwhelming the user with an unmanageable list of languages.
US09304782B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing a program to a server. One method includes an operation for receiving a request by a switching device from a first server, the request being for a boot image for booting the first server. In addition, the method includes operations for determining if the boot image is available from non-volatile storage in the switching device, and for forwarding the request to a second server when the boot image is absent from the non-volatile storage. Further, the method includes an operation for sending the boot image to the first server from the switching device when the boot image is available from the non-volatile storage.
US09304779B2
Systems and methods herein provide a storage system that optimizes the boot time when the storage system is rebooted. One embodiment includes a storage controller operable to determine a topology of one or more storage devices. The storage controller stores the topology in memory. When the storage controller detects a system reboot event, it provides the stored topology to the host and directs the host to reboot with the stored topology.
US09304777B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system comprising a queue configured to store a plurality of instructions, wherein the queue comprises a plurality of entries, wherein each entry of the plurality of entries of the queue is associated with a corresponding identification comprising a corresponding wrap bit and corresponding position bits; and a processing unit configured to receive (i) a first identification associated with a first entry storing a first instruction, and (ii) a second identification associated with a second entry storing a second instruction, compare (i) a first wrap bit of the first identification and (ii) a second wrap bit of the second identification, and determine a relative age of the first instruction with respect to the second instruction.
US09304773B2
A data processor (102) includes a prefetch buffer (112) and a fetch control unit (116). The prefetch buffer (112) has a plurality of lines. The prefetch buffer (112) has a variable maximum depth that defines a number of lines of the plurality of lines that are capable of storing instructions. The fetch control unit (116) is coupled to the prefetch buffer to monitor at least one of the plurality of lines of the prefetch buffer (112) and to adjust the variable maximum depth of the prefetch buffer (112) in response to a state of the data processor (102).
US09304771B2
A method, circuit arrangement, and program product for selectively predicating instructions in an instruction stream by determining a first register address from an instruction, determining a second register address based on a value stored at the first register address, and determining whether to predicate the instruction based at least in part on a value stored at the second register address. Predication logic may analyze the instruction to determine the first register address, analyze a register corresponding to the first register address to determine the second register address, and communicate a predication signal to an execution unit based at least in part on the value stored at the second register address.
US09304761B2
The present invention is a system for collaborative programming of data entry workflows between end users, Electronic Health Record (EHR) system developers, and third party developers. The system comprises application servers, database servers, an EHR, networked devices, and peripheral devices, all stored in a distributed computing environment. The database servers comprise databases, which host workflows programmed by end users, EHR developers, and third party developers. The system also has a secure network connection for data exchange between application and database servers, and networked devices. The EHR gathers patient health information, processes it and stores it in one of the databases. The system itself, stored in one of the application servers, uses a plurality of templates (form, system and external system) stored in one of the databases to interact with the peripheral devices connected to networked devices that expand the capabilities of the networked devices or the EHR itself.
US09304757B2
In general, embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for configuring a mobile device according to detection of one or more peripheral devices in an environment using short-range wireless communication. In one example, a method includes, receiving, by a computing device that communicates with a peripheral device using short-range wireless communication, a unique identifier of the peripheral device. If the computing device recognizes the unique identifier of the peripheral device, the computing device may determine a configuration operation based on the unique identifier that changes a current operating state of at least one application executing on the computing device to a different operating state. If the computing device does not recognize the unique identifier of the peripheral device, the computing device may send a lookup request to a network resource external to the computing device that requests data specifying the configuration operation for the computing device.
US09304756B1
A method of distributing a software upgrade to user computer systems having a software application installed thereon is disclosed. A determination is made as whether the software upgrade is to be a forced upgrade or a recommended upgrade for a first user based on a parameter related to the first user or the software upgrade. A determination is made as to whether a software upgrade file is to be downloaded to a user computer using a trickle mode or a burst mode.
US09304749B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for instruction scheduling. The method includes receiving a sequence of instructions, identifying redundant flag-register based dependency of the instructions, and re-ordering the instructions without being restricted by the redundant flag-register based dependency.
US09304738B1
Systems and methods for evaluating information via a computer network using weighted terms are provided. A data processing system can detect an indication of user interest in subject matter of an information resource, and can identify a plurality of keywords associated with the subject matter. The data processing system can determine a weight for each of the plurality of keywords for the information resource. The data processing system can receive a request for content to provide for display with the information resource, and can evaluate the weight of each of the plurality of keywords associated with the information resource to determine one or more keywords to use for content selection. The data processing system can select content to provide for display with the information resource based at least in part on the selected keyword(s) or the weight associated with the selected keyword(s).
US09304733B2
A method of synchronizing of a plurality of display apparatuses. The method includes determining a victim function, receiving a count value counting a number of times that the victim function is called in a predetermined period of time from at least one display apparatus, determining a minimum count value by comparing the received count values with each other, and synchronizing the plurality of display apparatuses based on the determined minimum count value such that the plurality of display apparatuses synchronize to the display apparatus with the slowest display execution speed.
US09304731B2
Techniques for rate governing of a display data stream are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a processor circuit and a graphics management module comprising a differential analyzer. In some embodiments, the graphics management module may be operative on the processor circuit to determine a target display data transmission rate for one or more displays, determine, by the differential analyzer, an actual display data transmission rate for one or more display data packets based on the target display data transmission rate, transmit the one or more display data packets based on the actual display data transmission rate, and accumulate a difference between the actual display data transmission rate and the target display data transmission rate for the one or more display data packets. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09304726B2
A terminal apparatus downloads a file from a file server, generates a print job using the downloaded file, and transmits the generated print job toward an MFP. In the terminal apparatus, an application for downloading the file to be printed from the file server (a first application) accepts input of information which specifies the file to be downloaded, and thereafter initiates an application for transmitting the print job toward the MFP (a second application). After the second application accepts input of print setting, the first application starts download of the file.
US09304725B2
An image forming apparatus including a near field communication unit configured to make a short-range wireless communication with a portable information processing device including a display unit and a control unit, the control unit including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a portable information processing device that is within a communicable range through communication via the near field communication unit; a job setting unit configured to transmit data for displaying and activating a job setting screen on the display unit of the recognized portable information processing device, via the near field communication unit; and a job control unit configured to execute a job in response to a start instruction of the job, wherein the job setting unit receives a job setting, which is made by using the job setting screen, via the near field communication unit after the recognition to receive the job setting from the portable information processing device, and the job control unit receives a start instruction for the job whose job setting is received.
US09304714B2
A system and method is described for operating a computer memory system having a plurality of controllers capable of accessing a common set of memory modules. Access to the physical storage of the memory modules may be managed by configuration logical units (LUNs) addressable by the users. The amount of memory associated with each LUN may be managed in units of memory (LMA) from a same free LMA table maintained in each controller of the plurality of controllers. A request for maintenance of a LUN may be received from any user through any controller and results in the association of a free memory area with the LUN, and the remaining controllers perform the same operation. A test for misallocation of a free memory area is performed and when such misallocation occurs, the situation is corrected in accordance with a policy.
US09304708B2
A data access method applicable on an electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus comprises a control unit, a first storage apparatus, and a second storage apparatus. The method comprising: storing a first part of data and a second part of data of a data group in the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus, respectively; and selectively accessing the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus via different data paths for the first part of data and the second part of data, wherein access speed to the first storage apparatus is different from access speed to the second storage apparatus.
US09304703B1
System and method to encode and decode raw data. The method to encode includes receiving a block of uncoded data, decomposing the block of uncoded data into a plurality of data vectors, mapping each of the plurality of data vectors to a bit marker; and storing the bit marker in a memory to produce an encoded representation of the uncoded data. Encoding may further include decomposing the block of uncoded data into default data and non-default data, and mapping only the non-default data. In some embodiments, bit markers may include a seed value and replication rule, or a fractalized pattern.
US09304697B2
Embodiments relate to a method for migrating a virtual machine from a first processor to a second processor in a work group. The method includes determining a minimum hardware configuration to support the virtual machine. A list of one or more candidate processors in the work group is constructed. For each of the one or more candidate processors information about shared contiguous memory regions accessible to the candidate processor that is in common to contiguous memory regions accessed by the virtual machine is determined. The virtual machine is migrated to the second processor based on the determination of the information about shared contiguous memory regions accessible to each of the one or more candidate processors that are in common to contiguous memory regions accessed by the virtual machine. The migrating includes moving contiguous memory regions that are not in common between the first processor and the second processor.
US09304695B2
In order to eliminate I/O performance bottleneck of a path in a disk array system, one expander is composed of two internal expanders connected to each other, and when the path falls in a bottleneck, connection of two internal expanders in a designated expander is cut off, and the cut-off internal expanders are connected to a new path to change access route to the disk drive. A device management table managing individual disk drives and a routing table managing access routes of respective paths are updated according to the switching of the access route.
US09304683B2
A soft input panel (SIP) for a computing device is configured to be used by a person holding a computing device with one hand. For example, a user grips a mobile computing device with his right hand at the bottom right corner and uses his right thumb to touch the various keys of the SIP, or grips a mobile computing device with his left hand at the bottom left corner and uses his left thumb to touch the various keys of the SIP. The SIP comprises arced or slanted rows of keys that correspond to the natural pivoting motion of the user's thumb.
US09304668B2
A method is provided for controlling and customizing a display screen of a user interface which includes at least two sections of display elements with the display elements of one section being displayed in a different manner, such as being sized greater, than the display elements of another section. The method also defines a spatial relationship of the at least two sections. The method also includes receiving an input indicating a selection of a display element and causing the performance of an operation associated with the display element. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US09304660B1
A system and method is provided for generating a dynamic, user interface that is capable of frequently changing and learning to provide the most relevant information to the user. The method includes executing a plurality of user interface (UI) modules on a computing device. Each UI module is a software component that provides content for display in the user interface. Each UI module determines its own content and its own priority level and bids for user interface space using its determined priority level. A UI controller is executed on the computing device. The UI controller is a software component that receives bids for the UI modules, determines the number of available spots for UI modules in the user interface, and selects UI modules associated with the highest priority for display in the available user interface spots.
US09304651B2
A method for navigating a pointer on a graphical user interface (GUI) includes the steps of: scrolling an input device to locate the pointer corresponding to the input device on a point of interest within the GUI, depressing an actuating button associated with the input device on the point of interest, obtaining a detailed view of the point of interest while centering the point of interest on the GUI and maintaining a position of the pointer on the point of interest.
US09304646B2
Information from a position and/or gesture detection system can be embedded in a Web page, or other such presentation of content, and used to select or otherwise interact with content on the page. In some embodiments, video is captured and displayed showing a current view of the user. Position data corresponding to the video is provided and used to determine directions and extents of motion without having to do significant amounts of image processing. The position data is used to determine locations on the page where the user is attempting to provide input, such as to select an item of content. The content can be modified and/or rendered to appear to be associated with the user in the rendered view. Information from multiple gesture systems can be combined on a single page, and information from one or more gesture systems can be shared among multiple pages and devices.
US09304642B2
Disclosed herein is a touch sensor, including: a transparent substrate; and an electrode pattern formed on the transparent substrate, wherein the electrode pattern is formed in a mesh pattern and the mesh pattern includes at least one of the irregular unit patterns. Each unit pattern forming the mesh pattern may be formed in a polygonal shape.
US09304639B2
According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a substrate; a drive electrode that extends in a first direction; and a plurality of touch detection electrodes that are metal wirings extending in a second direction different from the first direction. The metal wirings are arranged with a predetermined pitch so as to make capacitive coupling with the drive electrode.
US09304638B2
Discussed is a display device and a driving method thereof. The driving method includes respectively receiving a plurality of sensing signals from a plurality of touch electrodes formed at a touch panel, determining whether there is a normal touch, by using a size of a touch region defined by the received sensing signals, and when it is determined that there is the normal touch, performing an operation of extracting touch coordinates of the touch region, or when it is determined that there is an abnormal touch, performing an operation of receiving the sensing signals without performing the operation of extracting the touch coordinates.
US09304636B2
A touch-screen device is disclosed having a touch-sensitive area that includes a plurality of patterned driver electrodes, each having a plurality of patterned conductive electrically connected driver micro-wires. An unpatterned conductive layer that is unpatterned in the touch-sensitive area is in electrical contact with the driver micro-wires of the driver electrodes. A plurality of patterned sensor electrodes each includes a plurality of patterned conductive electrically connected sensor micro-wires. A dielectric layer is located between the driver electrodes and the sensor electrodes.
US09304631B2
A touch screen panel includes a transparent substrate and an anti-scatter film disposed opposite to each other, a plurality of first sensing cells, the plurality of first sensing cells being disposed at a side of the transparent substrate that faces the anti-scatter film, the first sensing cells being connected along a first direction, a plurality of second sensing cells, the plurality of second sensing cells being disposed at a side of the anti-scatter film that faces the transparent substrate, the second sensing cells being connected along a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and an adhesive layer positioned between the transparent substrate and the anti-scatter film for bonding therebetween.
US09304630B2
A touch panel includes a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a capacitive detector. The first electrode plate includes a first transparent conductive layer. The second electrode plate includes a second transparent conductive layer opposite to and spaced from the first transparent conductive layer. The second transparent conductive layer is a conductive film having different resistance along different directions. The capacitive detector is electrically connected with the first electrode plate.
US09304626B2
An optical touch system includes: a coordinate processor; a display device; and an optical element. The optical element is configured to emit light towards the display device and provide information about reflected light corresponding to a portion of the emitted light to the coordinate processor. The display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image, a touch substrate disposed on the display panel, the touch substrate including optical recesses each configured to reflect respectively different amounts of incident light, and a protective layer disposed on the touch substrate. The coordinate processor is configured to determine a touch or near-touch coordinate based on the information received from the optical element.
US09304618B2
A method and apparatus for summarizing a session are described. In one embodiment, the system associates strokes with image data and comprises: a display surface; a memory coupled to the display surface to store stroke contexts for a plurality of strokes, wherein each stroke context represents an association between at least one stroke and a portion of image data previously displayed; a stroke capture module operable with the display surface and communicably coupled with the memory to capture one or more strokes written over image data presented on the display surface; and a summarization unit coupled to the memory to generate a summary of a session based on content displayed during the session containing one or more strokes made during the session.
US09304617B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a touch sensor including a mesh of multiple first lines and second lines of conductive material extending across a display. The first lines are substantially parallel to each other. The second lines are substantially parallel to each other. The display includes multiple pixels that each include sub-pixels. Each of the pixels has a first pixel pitch along a first axis and a second pixel pitch along a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis. Each of the sub-pixels has a first sub-pixel pitch along the first axis and a second sub-pixel dimension along the second axis. The second sub-pixel dimension is substantially equal to a first value or a second value, the second value being greater than the first value. The first lines extend across the display at a first angle relative to the first axis.
US09304616B2
The present disclosure provides a touch panel including a plate, a sensing layer, a border, and an optical compensation layer, wherein the plate has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, wherein the lower surface is planned with a conducting wire region and a sensing region. The border is overlaid on the conducting wire region, and the sensing layer is disposed in the sensing region. An optical compensation layer is disposed on the border, and is located between the plate and the border. The border has a first color, which appears as a second color if a user sees the border through the optical compensation layer, and thus achieves diversification of the border color.
US09304611B2
A stylus that includes a tip portion that has a cavity. The cavity has a plurality of holes at a first end and a transmitter of acoustic, e.g., ultrasound waves at the end longitudinally opposite the first end. The tip portion has a tip. The tip end is less than a quarter of a wavelength from the exit ends of the holes. When the end of the tip is placed against a working surface, the acoustic waves travel from the transmitter through the cavity, exit the holes and travel less than a quarter of a wavelength to the working surface relatively close to the tip.
US09304605B2
An information management system is intended for management of digitally represented information which is associated with absolute positions on an imaginary surface (200). The imaginary surface (200) contains at least two regions (201-208), each of which is dedicated to predetermined management of the digitally represented information. In the system the management of the digitally represented information is carried out on the basis of the region affiliation of the absolute positions associated with the information. The system is suitably based on use of a position-coding pattern which defines the imaginary surface (200) and which in parts is applicable on different bases. The system makes possible both digital recording of information and control of how the information thus recorded is to be managed.A database, a method for management of information, a method for compiling a pattern layout, a product and use are also described.
US09304604B2
A cursor maneuvering device comprises a cavity containing a plurality of colored lights and an image sensor and covered with a light mixing plate. The colored lights are located in the cavity in an as largely departed as possible manner and illuminate a pointing device contacting the surface of the light mixing plate. The image sensor detects a hue of light illuminating the pointing device and controls a cursor depending upon the hue. Changes in the hue of a moving pointing device are translated into movement of the cursor on the display of an electronic device. The pointing device may be anything touching the light mixing plate, for instance a finger.
US09304602B2
A data entry system, having an input interface adapted to identify a plurality of user interactions. The system includes a processor adapted to associate user interactions identified by the input interface with a plurality of letters of the alphabet, such that all the letters of the alphabet are assigned to at most eight user interactions. Most of the letters are assigned to specific user interactions according to one or more features of their shape in their printed form, such that most of the letters assigned to each user interaction have the same shape feature.
US09304600B2
A gesture recognition device that recognizes a gesture of a person from an image captured by a camera, and outputs information to an electronic apparatus in order to control the electronic apparatus based on the recognized gesture, has a person determination section that determines whether the person is included in the image, and an output section that outputs person out-of-view angle notification instruction information issuing an instruction to make a notification that the image of the person is not captured, when the person determination section determines that the person is not included in the image.
US09304594B2
Methods for recognizing gestures within a near-field environment are described. In some embodiments, a mobile device, such as a head-mounted display device (HMD), may capture a first image of an environment while illuminating the environment using an IR light source with a first range (e.g., due to the exponential decay of light intensity) and capture a second image of the environment without illumination. The mobile device may generate a difference image based on the first image and the second image in order to eliminate background noise due to other sources of IR light within the environment (e.g., due to sunlight or artificial light sources). In some cases, object and gesture recognition techniques may be applied to the difference image in order to detect the performance of hand and/or finger gestures by an end user of the mobile device within a near-field environment of the mobile device.
US09304593B2
A system for recognizing various human and creature motion gaits and behaviors is presented. These behaviors are defined as combinations of “gestures” identified on various parts of a body in motion. For example, the leg gestures generated when a person runs are different than when a person walks. The system described here can identify such differences and categorize these behaviors. Gestures, as previously defined, are motions generated by humans, animals, or machines. Multiple gestures on a body (or bodies) are recognized simultaneously and used in determining behaviors. If multiple bodies are tracked by the system, then overall formations and behaviors (such as military goals) can be determined.
US09304588B2
A tactile communication apparatus that includes a signal receiver configured decode data received via a wireless signal, a tactile communication device containing a plurality of pins on one side, each pin configured to respectively move in both an outward direction and inward direction to form a plurality of pin combinations based on a plurality of activation signals, and a communication processor configured to generate the plurality of pin activation signals based on the received data so as to convey the data to a user through the plurality of pin combinations of the tactile communication device. Data conveyed to the user includes data from external events, such as sporting or theatrical events.
US09304577B2
An apparatus comprising a memory and a controller. The memory processes a plurality of read/write operations. The controller (i) operates in a first power domain to control power savings operations, and (ii) processes the read/write operations in a second power domain. The first power domain is isolated from the second domain.
US09304572B2
A system and method for managing a power mode of a designated electronic device are provided. A geographical location of a mobile electronic device is determined. A comparison of the determined geographical location of the mobile electronic device and a stored location of a designated electronic device in a power-off mode is made. A wake-up signal is sent to the designated electronic device if the determined geographical location of the mobile electronic device is within a proximity threshold of the designated electronic device, where the designated electronic device is configured to enter a power-on mode upon receipt of the wake-up signal.
US09304563B2
A method includes determining a need to perform a learn cycle on a battery in a processing module of an information handling system, detecting a learn cycle in progress on another battery in another processing module of the information handling system, and postponing the learn cycle on the battery in response to detecting the learn cycle on the other battery.
US09304557B2
In various embodiments, a high-density solid-state storage unit includes a base section and a cassette section having plurality of flash cards. The cassette section can be removably attached to the base section to provide security of data stored on the plurality of flash cards. The cassette section provides for physical security of the flash cards in part through packaging of the enclosure and energy transfer to the base station. The cassette section further provides for security of the data stored on the flash cards in part through a trusted platform module (TPM) embodied as a removable module connected to a universal serial bus (USB) style connector.
US09304546B2
The disclosure discloses a docking station that includes a housing, a circuit board, a base end electrical connector, a screw, and a resilient member. The housing has a stud. The circuit board is supported on the stud and has a through hole. The through hole is aligned with and communicated with the stud. The base end electrical connector is disposed on the circuit board. The base end electrical connector and the stud are respectively located at two opposite sides of the circuit board. The screw is fastened to the stud via the through hole. The resilient member is sleeved onto the screw and located between the screw and the stud. The disclosure further discloses an electronic apparatus including the docking station.
US09304544B2
According to one embodiment, an external device includes a switching module configured to switch an external display, which is to be connected to a port of a display control circuit in an information processing device, between first and second external displays connected to the external device. A controller detects a state of a first detection signal representing whether or not a first external display is connected to the external device and a state of a second detection signal representing whether or not a second external display is connected to the external device. The controller controls the switching module based on the detected states of the first and second detection signals and a display priority.
US09304528B2
A reference voltage circuit and method making same, the reference voltage circuit including: a first sub-circuit for generating first and second temperature-compensated voltages; a second sub-circuit configured to receive the first and second temperature-compensated voltages and generate first and second reference voltages based on the first and second temperature-compensated voltages, respectively; and a third sub-circuit configured to receive and change voltage levels of the first and second reference voltages, and output a third reference voltage.
US09304527B1
The present disclosure provides a varying high voltage source implemented with low voltage domain electronic components that are less costly to manufacture. According to one aspect, the present disclosure provides a high voltage circuit apparatus comprising a pull up resistance module, a plurality of cascode cell stages, a first of the cascode cell stages being coupled to the pull up resistance module, a low voltage domain current sink module coupled to a last of the cascode cell stages, and a clamping voltage source coupled to the last of the cascode cell stages. The circuit apparatus is devoid of high-voltage transistor components.
US09304526B2
A reference voltage generating device including a reference voltage source, a charge supplying source, a first switch, a second switch, a charge storage unit and a logic unit is provided. First terminals of the first and second switches are respectively coupled to the output terminal of the reference voltage source and the charge supplying source. When a power on reset signal is received, the first switch is turned off and the second switch is turned on, such that the charge supplying source quickly charges the charge storage unit. When the output voltage is greater than or equal to the reference voltage, the first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off, such that the reference voltage source maintains the output voltage to the reference voltage.
US09304525B1
Disclosed are various embodiments related to dual-gate transistors and associated calibration circuitry. In one embodiment, dual-gate transistors may be configured in a sense amplifier arrangement, and calibration circuitry can be used to adjust an input offset of the sense amplifier. In another embodiment, a reference level voltage utilized in an amplifier with dual-gate transistors can be adjusted during a calibration sequence, and may be substantially unchanged from its nominal value outside of the calibration sequence. In another embodiment, a calibration sequence can be utilized to determine circuit results from a circuit including dual-gate transistors, and to adjust control gates to more closely coincide with expected or desired results. In yet another embodiment, a semiconductor memory device can include a memory array with amplifiers that include dual-gate transistors, as well as associated calibration circuitry.
US09304521B2
A real-time monitoring system that monitors various aspects of the operation of a refrigerant-cycle system is described. The system includes a processor that measures power provided to the refrigerant-cycle system and gathers data from one or more sensors in connection with a filter element.
US09304512B2
Propulsion prognostics apparatus and systems for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. One propulsion prognostics apparatus comprises a prognostics module configured to generate prognostics data and a power output sensor configured to be coupled to the engine system and configured to generate power output data representing an actual power output of the engine system. The propulsion prognostics apparatus further comprises a processor coupled to the prognostics module and the power output sensor. The processor is configured to receive the prognostics data and the power output data, compare the prognostics data and the power output data, and determine the airworthiness of the UAV based on the comparison. A propulsion prognostics system includes a UAV having an engine system and the above propulsion prognostics apparatus coupled to the UAV.
US09304510B2
Manufacturing and industrial processes that involve the transfer of materials from source locations to destination location may utilize the presently described system and process to verify that the correct physical connections are established and maintained in a material handling system. The system collects information related to individual physical connections, including machine-identifiable indicia, and compares this information to data that defines the intended connections within the material handling system. In doing so, the system and process verify whether the proper physical connections are in place.
US09304506B2
A range switching device provides a feedback control for rotating a motor toward a target rotation position. When a target shift range is switched, the range switching device rotates the motor toward a target rotation position by sequentially switching power supply phases of the motor based on an encoder count value. When the motor rotates within a predetermined stop range, the feedback control ends and a power supply to the motor is stopped. However, if the motor has not rotated to the target rotation position after a predetermined time has elapsed from the stopping of the power supply to the motor, an open drive is performed, in which the power supply phase of the motor is sequentially switched by open-loop control and the motor is rotated in small and/or minute steps toward the target rotation position. In such manner, position accuracy of the shift range switching is improved.
US09304495B2
A watch for providing a digital time display comprises a movement mechanism disposed in a case that includes a number of continuous belts. The belts each have a numerical indicia consistent with hours, minutes and optionally second. The belts mounted over opposed drums, and the drums are rotated through gear engagement motors to move the belts. The arrangement of belts and drums are mounted on a frame separate from the case. The motors are operated to move the belts to cause the numerical indicia of the combined belts to register with one or more windows visible through a transparent cover to provide a time display. The belts may be oriented to overlap one another. The watch includes a microcontroller for controlling the operation of the motors, an optical sensor to determining the position of the belts, and a wirelessly rechargeable battery pack for powering the motors.
US09304488B2
A packing member for packing a cartridge for an image forming apparatus, the packing member includes a frame portion having a recess for accommodating the cartridge; a closing member portion for openably closing the recess; a hinge portion for movably connecting the closing member portion relative to the frame portion to open and close the recess; a connecting portion connecting the frame portion and the closing member portion to close the recess; and the closing member portion being provided with a separating portion removable from the closing member portion while leaving the connecting portion on the frame portion.
US09304484B2
An image forming apparatus that forms an image on a recording medium includes an image-bearing-unit support member, a developing unit support member, a plurality of light exposure units, and a light-exposure-unit operating member. The image-bearing-unit support member is movable between the inside and the outside of the image forming apparatus while supporting a plurality of image bearing units which each include an image bearing member. The developing unit support member is movable independently of the image-bearing-unit support member. The plurality of light exposure units each cause a corresponding one of the image bearing members to be exposed to light so as to form an electrostatic latent image. The light-exposure-unit operating member moves the light exposure units relative to the developing unit support member.
US09304471B2
An image forming apparatus includes a discharge tray, a plurality of ribs, a ventilation duct, a ventilation hole, and an air flow generating portion. On the discharge tray, a sheet having been subjected to a fixing process for thermally fixing a toner image on the sheet is discharged. The plurality of ribs are formed on the discharge tray. The ventilation duct is formed on a side of an end among opposite ends of each of the plurality of ribs. The ventilation hole is formed in a partition wall separating the ventilation duct from a sheet mounting area of the discharge tray, and formed in a vicinity of the end of each of the plurality of ribs on the partition wall side. The air flow generating portion is configured to generate, via the ventilation duct, air flow between outside of an apparatus main body and spaces between the ribs.
US09304461B2
The present invention relates to a pressure rotating member which achieves the shortening of a warm-up time while suppressing a non-recording material-contacting area's temperature rise. The pressure rotating member which is used in a thermal fixing apparatus includes: a substrate; and an elastic layer that is formed on the substrate and has a void, wherein the elastic layer contains a needle-shaped filler, wherein the needle-shaped filler has such a thermal conductivity λ1 of the elastic layer in a direction along a rotary axis of the pressure rotating member as to be 6 times or more and 900 times or less of a thermal conductivity λ2 of the elastic layer in a thickness direction.
US09304460B2
A fixing device includes a housing, an induction heating unit, a first rotator, a second rotator, a shield member, an airflow generation unit, a cooling air path, and inlets. The shield member opposes the induction heating unit on a side thereof opposite from the first rotator. The airflow generation unit generates an airflow to cool the induction heating unit. The cooling air path is provided extending along the shield member on a side thereof opposite from the induction heating unit. The inlets open in the shield member, plurally arranged at intervals and paralleling the axis, for causing the airflow from the cooling air path to flow in toward the induction heating unit. The intervals between adjacent axially end-ward inlets are set narrower than the interval between axially central adjacent inlets.
US09304458B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; a transfer unit for transferring a toner image from the image bearing member onto the recording material; a fixing unit for fixing the toner image on the recording material; an electroconductive member contactable to the recording material; a resistance element connected with the electroconductive member; and a capacitor element connected with the electroconductive member. The electroconductive member is disposed so as to be nipped simultaneously by the transfer nip and the fixing nip and so as to be contacted by the recording material, and the electroconductive member and the capacitor element are connected in parallel between the electroconductive member and a ground potential.
US09304456B2
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a heating source, a heat conducting member and a reflecting member. The fixing belt is arranged rotatably. The pressuring member is arranged outside the fixing belt and comes into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip. The heating source is arranged inside the fixing belt to emit radiant heat. The heat conducting member comes into contact with an inner circumference face of the fixing belt and absorbs the radiant heat emitted from the heating source. The reflecting member includes a reflecting part and a nip forming part. The reflecting part reflects the radiant heat emitted from the heating source toward the heat conducting member. The nip forming part is unified with the reflecting part and comes into contact with the inner circumference face of the fixing belt to press the fixing belt to the pressuring member.
US09304453B2
An image forming apparatus includes a heating element that generates heat, a temperature detector that detects a temperature of the heating element, a resistor that divides a detection result of the temperature detector and a predetermined reference voltage, a disconnection detector that detects a disconnection of the temperature detector, a converter that converts the divided voltage value into a digital signal and outputs the digital signal to a controller, a comparing unit that inverts its output on the basis of a predetermined threshold, a delay circuit that delays an increase in an output voltage of the comparing unit, a discharge circuit that quickly discharges the output voltage of the comparing unit, a latch circuit connected to an output of the discharge circuit, and a power supply path connecting and disconnecting unit that is connected to the latch circuit and connects and disconnects a power supply path to the heating element.
US09304434B2
A developing device of the present disclosure includes a magnetic roller and a developing roller arranged so as to oppose the magnetic roller. Inside the magnetic roller, a regulation pole and a conveyance pole are provided. The regulation pole is turned toward an opposing surface side of an end portion of a regulation blade provided in a developer container. The regulation pole and the conveyance pole are arranged such that in magnetic fields formed by these magnetic poles, a point where no magnetic pole perpendicular to a surface of the magnetic roller is generated is located in a gap between the surface of the magnetic roller and the regulation blade.
US09304433B1
In a developing device, a developing coating layer of each of a plurality of developing rollers has been formed by a dipping method in which a developing base body is dipped in a liquid in a state where the developing base body is in a vertical attitude such that a first end of the developing base body faces down and a second end of the developing base body faces up. The plurality of developing rollers are arranged from an upstream side to a downstream side in a rotation direction of an image-carrying member in such a manner that directions faced by the first end and the second end of each of the plurality of developing rollers are alternately reversed.
US09304431B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a development device, a transferring device, a static eliminating device, a cleaning device, a light concentrating member and a separating claw. On the image carrier, an electrostatic latent image is formed. The development device develops and visualizes the electrostatic latent image by a toner. The transferring device transfers the toner on the image carrier to a recording sheet. The static eliminating device irradiates the image carrier with a light to eliminate a remained static charge. The cleaning device removes the toner remained on the image carrier. The light concentrating member is arranged between the static eliminating device and image carrier to concentrate the light emitted from the static eliminating device and to irradiate the image carrier with the concentrated light. The separating claw is supported by the light concentrating member to separate the recording sheet from the image carrier.
US09304420B2
A two-component developer is provided. The two-component developer includes a toner containing a binder resin, a colorant and a release agent, and a resin-coated carrier composed of a carrier core material and a resin coating layer formed on a surface of the carrier core material. The toner has an exposure rate of the release agent on the toner surface of 1.00% or above and 3.07% or below. The carrier core material has an apparent density of 1.86 g/cm3 or more and 2.45 g/cm3 or less. The exposure rate of the release agent of the toner and the apparent density of the carrier core material satisfy the following formula (1): y≦−1.54x+5.93 (1) wherein y represents the exposure rate of the release agent of the toner, and x represents the apparent density of the carrier core material.
US09304416B2
Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member, including: a support; an undercoat layer formed on the support; and a photosensitive layer formed on the undercoat layer, in which the undercoat layer includes a cured product of a composition including (i) an isocyanate compound having a structure represented by the following specific formula (1), (ii) at least one resin selected from a polyvinyl acetal and an acrylic polyol; and (iii) a compound represented by any one of the specific formulae (A1) to (A8).
US09304409B2
A liquid immersion lithography apparatus includes a projection system, an opening from which liquid is supplied to a space under the projection system, the opening being connectable to a liquid source via a flow passage to supply the liquid to the space and the opening being connectable to a vacuum source via the flow passage, and a holding member by which a substrate is held, the holding member being movable below the projection system and the opening. The substrate held by the holding member is exposed through the liquid that is supplied from the opening and that covers only a portion of an upper surface of the substrate.
US09304404B2
An arrangement actuates an element in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus. The arrangement includes first and second actuators and first and second mechanical couplings. The first and second actuators are coupled to the element via corresponding ones of the first and second mechanical couplings for applying respective forces to the element which is regulatable in at least one degree of freedom. The first and second actuators have first and second actuator masses, respectively, and the first actuator mass and the first mechanical coupling conjointly define a first mass-spring system operating as a first low-pass filter. The second actuator mass and the second mechanical coupling conjointly define a second mass-spring system operating as a second low-pass filter. The first and second mass-spring systems have first and second natural frequencies deviating from each other by a maximum deviation equal to 10% of the largest of the first and second natural frequencies.
US09304399B2
A resist composition includes: a crosslinking material that is crosslinked in the presence of an acid; an acid amplifier; and a solvent.
US09304392B2
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus comprising: a projection system, a stage system having a holder that holds a substrate, a supply port that is arranged such that an upper surface of the substrate faces the supply port, and a recovery port that is arranged to surround the supply port and collects an immersion liquid from the upper surface of the substrate such that only a portion of the upper surface of the substrate is covered with the immersion liquid. The apparatus also comprises an alignment system which detects an alignment mark of the substrate not through the immersion liquid. The substrate held on the holder is positioned based on a detection result of the alignment system to align the substrate with an exposure light projected through the immersion liquid by the projection system.
US09304389B2
A photomask including first opaque patterns and second opaque patterns is provided. The first opaque patterns are distributed in a first plane defined in the photomask, while the second opaque patterns are disposed above the first opaque patterns and spaced apart from the first opaque patterns. In other words, the first opaque pattern and second opaque pattern are not distributed in the same plane.
US09304387B2
A three-dimensional (3D) display device and method using a directional light field is provided. The 3D display device may construct a light field using a direction light generated by a high speed projector and at least one rotating optical device to thereby display a more natural 3D image in a wide region.
US09304382B2
A projector is provided which can secure long-term reliability and enable high-speed start-up through suppression of local heat generation of phosphor. The projector includes a light source device including an excitation light source emitting excitation light, a phosphor disk on which a phosphor that converts the excitation light into fluorescence is continuously formed in a circumferential direction of the phosphor disk, a motor unit rotating the phosphor disk in the circumferential direction, a light modulation device generating an image light through modulation of light including the fluorescence, and a projection optical system projecting the image light. If the number of rotations of the phosphor disk reaches a predetermined number that is smaller than a target number, the excitation light source is turned on, while if the number of rotations of the phosphor disk is increased after reaching the predetermined number, an output of the excitation light source is increased.
US09304375B2
An electronic device carrying case is provided. The electronic device includes a case part having an inside recessed to form a hollow opened to one side and an outer peripheral surface formed with a curved surface, and a mount part having an upper part provided to be detachable from a lower end of the case part and a lower part with an inwardly recessed curved surface.
US09304374B2
A focal-plane shutter includes: a mechanical portion including: a board including an opening; and a leading blade and a trailing blade capable of opening and closing the opening; and a leading blade actuator and a trailing blade actuator respectively driving the leading blade and the trailing blade, and respectively including a leading blade coil and a trailing blade coil, wherein a current value flowing through at least one of the leading blade coil and the trailing blade coil is adjusted such that one of variations in a leading blade run-up period and a trailing blade run-up period depending on a temperature change corresponds to the other one.
US09304372B2
A light modulation device comprising an optical element and at least one addressable mask disposed adjacent to the optical element. The optical element comprises at least two sub-elements, each of the at least two sub-elements having at least one optical characteristic wherein at least one optical characteristic of one sub-element is discrete from at least one optical characteristic of another sub-element. The mask comprises at least two regions corresponding to the at least two sub-elements, each of the at least two regions being individually addressable to enable its corresponding sub-element to be light transmitting.
US09304369B2
A display panel includes: a substrate constituted by an active matrix substrate; a substrate opposite the substrate; and a light modulation layer interposed between the substrates. The change in the magnitude or the frequency of the voltage applied between a pixel electrode and a common electrode rotates a shape-anisometric member in the light modulation layer, and the pixel electrode extends over a scan signal line over an insulating layer.
US09304368B2
An electrochromic device, which contains: one support; a first electrode layer formed on the support; a second electrode layer provided to face the first electrode layer; an electrochromic layer provided to be in contact with the first electrode layer or the second electrode layer; a solid electrolyte layer containing inorganic particles, which is filled between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and is provided to be in contact with the electrochromic layer; and a protective layer provided on the second electrode layer.
US09304360B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a liquid crystal panel and a display device. The liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal layer provided between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. Spacers are arranged on the opposite substrate, pad are arranged on the array substrate, and each of the spacers corresponds to a plurality of pads and has different contact areas with the plurality of pads.
US09304352B2
A two-way viewing angle display pane and a method for fabricating the same are provided and relate to the display field. The method for fabricating the two-way viewing angle display panel comprises: providing a transparent substrate (17); forming a grating (18) made of a light-shield layer on the transparent substrate; forming a transparent adjusting layer (19) on the transparent substrate (17) having the grating (18) formed thereon; and sequentially forming a pixel layer (13) and a transparent conductive layer (20) on the transparent adjusting layer (19). The technical solution of the invention may optimize the two-way viewing angles and avoid the yield rate problem caused by the thinned substrate.
US09304345B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a liquid crystal display device including: a backlight unit including a light guide plate under a liquid crystal panel and a light source at a first side of the light guide plate; a main frame surrounding the backlight unit and including a first guide wall and a first supporting portion, the first guide wall protruding from each corner of an upper surface of the main frame, and the supporting portion extending from adjacent two corners of the upper surface at the first side toward the backlight unit; a light-shielding tape attached on the upper surface of the main frame by being guided by the first guide wall and including a first chamfer portion at each corner and a protrusion at adjacent two corners at the first side, wherein the first chamfer portion and the protrusion correspond to the first guide wall and the first supporting portion, respectively; and a liquid crystal panel disposed over the backlight unit and attached on the light-shielding tape.
US09304340B2
A method for measuring flicker value of a liquid crystal module and related device are proposed. The method includes: providing flicker images to a liquid crystal module; applying a measure unit to scan the liquid crystal module to convert luminance of the liquid crystal into voltage signals to obtain analog luminance signals of the liquid crystal module; receiving the analog luminance signals from the measure unit and converting the analog luminance signals of the measure unit into digital luminance signals; performing Fourier transformation of the digital luminance signals to obtain magnitude of specific frequency wave; obtaining flicker value of the liquid crystal module through the magnitude of specific frequency wave. By using the present invention, the common voltage signal applied on the liquid crystal module is adjusted based on the flicker value of the liquid crystal module measured in real time. Therefore quality of liquid crystal module products is raised.
US09304337B2
A Faraday rotator includes two magnet sub-assemblies assemblies spaced apart and aligned with each other with a gap therebetween. Each magnet sub-assembly includes a central magnet magnetized in direction parallel to the gap. The central magnet is sandwiched between two end magnets magnetized in a direction perpendicular to the gap. A magneto-optic crystal is located in the gap between the central magnets.
US09304336B2
A magneto-optic surface includes a support; at least two moving elements; each of the moving elements including at least one anchoring point to the support and at least one moving part movable with respect to the support, the moving part including at least one magnetic part; the support and the moving elements being laid out in such a way that under the effect of an external magnetic field, at least one of the moving elements moves with respect to the support such that the optical properties of the magneto-optic surface are modified.
US09304335B2
A device includes a laterally diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) device integrated with an optical modulator. An optical waveguide of the optical modulator includes a silicon-containing structure in a drift region of the LDMOS device.
US09304334B2
A microfluidic panel including at least one substrate, one or more channels formed in the substrate, and fluid disposed within the one or more channels. The fluid is selected to store thermal energy and the microfluidic panel is adapted to convert the thermal energy into useable energy or condition the energy to adjust optical wavelength passband of the panel.
US09304327B2
An eyewear device is provided which has lenses positioned above the temples when worn yielding an unobstructed view below the bottom of both lenses. The lower edge of the lenses may be curved toward the upper edge to increase the viewing area and the lenses may be rotationally engaged to temples to allow changes in viewing angle through them.
US09304322B2
A phase difference element capable of decreasing deterioration of 3D characteristics and a display unit including the phase difference element are provided. The phase difference element includes a phase difference film, and an anti-glare film. The phase difference film has a phase difference layer composed of two or more phase difference regions each having different direction of a slow axis that are regularly arranged in a plane. Retardation of the anti-glare film is 20 nm or less and total haze of the anti-glare film is 30% or less.
US09304320B2
Disclosed herein are a head-mounted display and a method of controlling the same, more particularly, a method of displaying an image preview interface based on the position of a camera unit in the case that the camera unit mounted to a head-mounted display is detached.
US09304313B1
A System and Method for Joint Compensation of Turbulence-induced-aberration and Laser Source Aberrations to provide measurement and compensation of aberrations in a laser beam projected from a laser source and the aberrations induced by propagation through an optical system and through a turbulent medium to a target utilizing only a single primary phase correction device means in the projected laser beam path and a secondary phase correction device means incorporated into the wavefront sensor path while at the same time the corrections are made using strictly null-seeking feedback control loops, thus providing a robust means of compensation. Reduction of the number of phase correction device means in the projected laser beam path can reduce cost, size, weight, and power compensation of the compensation system when the projected laser beam is a high energy laser.
US09304311B2
An electronic tablet magnifying case device protects an electronic tablet and supports the tablet in a use position proximate a magnifying lens to reduce eye strain. The device includes a base and a first panel pivotally coupled to and extending from a first lateral side of the base. Each of a plurality of brackets is coupled to the first panel wherein an electronic tablet is couplable to the first panel on an interior face of the first panel. A second panel is pivotally coupled to and extends from a second lateral side. The second panel includes a magnifying lens pivotable to a use position wherein the magnifying lens is directed towards the interior face of the first panel when the first panel is in an extended position relative to the base.
US09304300B2
An anamorphotic telescope has mutually different magnification along directions of minimum and maximum magnification in an image plane. A spectroscope with an elongated input slit directed along one of the directions of maximum and minimum magnification may be located in the image plane. The anamorphotic telescope has a first and second reflector lens with mutually different first and second radii of curvature in directions (y, x) that optically correspond to directions of minimum and maximum magnification. At least one of the first and second reflector lens has a variable radius of curvature in one direction (x), which varies as a function of position in the other direction (y), the variable radius of curvature decreasing in a direction of the angle from the view direction to the light directed by the first reflector lens to the second reflector lens.
US09304297B2
An imaging lens is substantially constituted by six lenses, including: a negative first lens having a concave surface toward the object side; a positive second lens; a negative third lens; a positive fourth lens of a meniscus shape with a concave surface toward the object side; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens having a concave surface toward the image side, the surface toward the image side thereof being an aspherical shape having at least one inflection point thereon, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
US09304291B2
An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant lens parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
US09304286B1
A tactical mirror system includes a convex mirror that may be rapidly deployed and adhesively affixed to a room entry door to provide a room entry team member with a view of the room interior from a concealed cover position outside the room adjacent to the doorway is disclosed. A rip-cord is affixed to allow the user to peel away a protective layer thereby exposing an adhesive coated surface thereby allowing for rapid affixation of the mirror. A pair of diametrically opposed notches and a resilient transversely disposed band that function to allow the mirror device to be removably mounted to a baton to allow a room entry team member to manually extend and position the mirror. A plurality of mirrors may be provided and configured for compact nested storage thereby providing the user with a plurality of deployable mirror devices.
US09304283B2
An apparatus includes first and second electrodes separated by an insulative material (such as a piezoelectric material). The apparatus also includes a protective layer over the first and second electrodes. The protective layer has a first opening that exposes a portion of the first electrode and a second opening that exposes a portion of the second electrode. The apparatus further includes a first electrical contact at least partially within the first opening and electrically coupled to the first electrode. In addition, the apparatus includes a second electrical contact at least partially within the second opening and electrically coupled to the second electrode. Each of the first and second electrical contacts includes a stack of metal layers. The stack of metal layers includes a titanium nitride layer, a titanium layer over the titanium nitride layer, and an aluminum copper layer over the titanium nitride layer and the titanium layer.
US09304275B2
A breakout cable includes a polymer jacket and a plurality of micromodules enclosed within the jacket. Each micromodule has a plurality of bend resistant optical fibers and a polymer sheath comprising PVC surrounding the bend resistant optical fibers. Each of the plurality of bend resistant optical fibers is a multimode optical fiber including a glass cladding region surrounding and directly adjacent to a glass core region. The core region is a graded-index glass core region, where the refractive index of the core region has a profile having a parabolic or substantially curved shape. The cladding includes a first annular portion having a lesser refractive index relative to a second annular portion of the cladding. The first annular portion is interior to the second annular portion. The cladding is surrounded by a low modulus primary coating and a high modulus secondary coating.
US09304264B2
An interposer sub-assembly for holding or gripping a plurality of optical fibers in a multi-fiber ferrule connector including: a substrate comprising a bottom surface, a top surface, and a front face; a pair of guide pin grooves on the bottom surface of said substrate, wherein the pair of guide pin grooves are capable of receiving guide pins from a ferrule connector; and a plurality of resilient fiber grooves formed on the bottom surface, wherein the plurality of resilient fiber grooves are configured for receiving a plurality of optical conduits.
US09304253B2
Disclosed are plasmonic near-field transducers that are useful in heat-assisted magnetic recording. The disclosed plasmonic near-field transducers have an enlarged region and a flared region. In some embodiments the disclosed plasmonic near-field transducer can also include a peg region. The flared region can act as a heat sink and can lower the thermal resistance of the peg region of the near-field transducer, thus reducing its temperature. Also disclosed are methods that include delivering light to a magnetic transducer region via a waveguide, receiving the light at a plasmonic near-field transducer having an output end and disposed in proximity to the magnetic transducer region, and delivering a surface plasmon-enhanced near-field radiation pattern proximate the output end of the plasmonic transducer in response to receiving the light.
US09304252B2
Waveguides that include a top cladding layer made of a material having an index of refraction n4; a core bilayer structure, the core bilayer structure including a lower index core layer having an index of refraction n3; and a higher index core layer having an index of refraction n1, wherein the higher index core layer includes TiO2 and one or more than one of Nb2O5, CeO2, Ta2O5, ZrO2, HfO2, Y2O3, Sc2O3, MgO, Al2O3 and SiO2, wherein the lower index core layer is adjacent the higher index core layer; a bottom cladding layer made of a material having an index of refraction n2, wherein the waveguide is configured with the higher index core layer of the core bilayer structure adjacent the top cladding layer and the lower index core layer of the core bilayer structure adjacent the bottom cladding layer, and wherein n4 is less than n3 and n1, and n2 is less than n3 and n1.
US09304248B1
A light emitting module is disclosed. The light emitting module includes a circuit board, a plurality of light emitting devices mounted on the circuit board and spaced apart from each other, molding parts wrapping the respective light emitting devices, and a reflective member disposed on the circuit board to surround the light emitting devices. The reflective member has a height greater than that of each of the molding parts. The reflective member has a plurality of openings exposing the light emitting devices, and each of the openings has a reflective side wall extending upward from the circuit board.
US09304244B1
A light guide plate includes a light exit surface, a light guide plate bottom surface, and at least one light incidence surface. The light exit surface and the light guide plate bottom surface are opposite to each other. The light incidence surface is connected to the light exit surface and the light guide plate bottom surface. The light guide plate is of a wedge configuration and has an end that is close to the light incidence surface and has a thickness greater than a thickness of an end thereof distant from the light incidence surface. The light guide plate includes a hollow wedge cavity that includes a hollow wedge cavity bottom surface adjacent to the light guide plate bottom surface. The hollow wedge cavity receives therein a reflector plate laminated on the hollow wedge cavity bottom surface and having a surface facing the light exit surface and including reflection projections.
US09304233B2
A lens module, including: a first lens including a first conical surface based on an optical axis and a first flat surface extending in a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis; and a second lens including a second conical surface based on an optical axis and a second flat surface extending in a vertical direction with respect to the optical axis, wherein the first conical surface and the first flat surface are connected by a first curved surface having a first radius, and the second conical surface and the second flat surface are connected by a second curved surface having a second radius.
US09304229B2
An improved system for the recording and display of barometric pressure information, comprising a timekeeper, barometric sensor, memory system, and display, integrated to form an instrument or horological complication for the display of the current barometric pressure and past pressure history by use of an animated display.
US09304223B2
A stud finder in one embodiment includes a first surface configured to be positioned adjacent to an object, a second surface generally opposite the first surface, an orifice opening to the first surface and to the second surface, a stud sensor configured to sense a structure through the object, and a vacuum source configured to draw a first vacuum in the orifice.
US09304221B2
Translational data acquired by at least one translational survey sensor is received, and rotation data is received. A representation of wavefield velocity based on the translational data and the rotation data is determined.
US09304220B2
A technique includes generating a data stream that contains data acquired by nodes of a subterranean survey data acquisition network and introducing data into the data stream, which describes an equipment failure that occurred in the network.
US09304202B2
One or more electromagnetic radiation sources, such as a light emitting diode, may emit electromagnetic waves into a volume of space. When an object enters the volume of space, the electromagnetic waves may reflect off the object and strike one or more position sensitive detectors after passing through an imaging optical system such as glass, plastic lens, or a pinhole located at known distances from the sources. Mixed signal electronics may process detected signals at the position sensitive detectors to calculate position information as well as total reflected light intensity, which may be used in medical and other applications. A transparent barrier may separate the sources and detectors from the objects entering the volume of space and reflecting emitted waves. Methods and devices are provided.
US09304196B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle with a radar device (3, 4) which is designed for detecting an object (25) located in a detection zone (7, 8) of the radar device (3, 4), wherein the detection zone (7, 8) is defined by an elevation angle zone (δ1, δ2) and an azimuth angle zone (α), wherein the elevation angle zone (δ1, δ2) also covers at least such a partial angle zone (δ1) which lies within an angle interval of 15° to 90° above a horizontal (33) defined with respect to the motor vehicle (1).
US09304188B2
An apparatus and method for determining the location of a terminal are disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a reception unit, an initiation unit, a selection unit, and a correction unit. The reception unit receives the location identifications (IDs) of one or more illumination lights. The initiation unit initiates the location coordinates of a receiving terminal to the coordinates of an illumination light corresponding to the most frequently received location identification (ID). The selection unit selects the coordinates of an illumination light corresponding to the second-most frequently received location ID. The correction unit calculates the reception ratio of reception from the coordinates of the initiated illumination light to reception from the coordinates of the selected illumination light, and then corrects the coordinates of the receiving terminal based on the calculated reception ratio.
US09304180B2
In a method and apparatus for the creation of an MR image of a vascular structure of an examination region, the spins in the examination region are saturated by the irradiation of at least one RF saturation signal, which delivers a lower signal intensity as spins in a subsequent MR signal recording for the creation of the MR angiographic image, which flow through at least one blood vessel into the examination region, and are not saturated by the RF saturation pulse. Raw data space of the MR angiographic image is read out with a non-Cartesian trajectory in the MR signal acquisition for the creation of the MR angiographic image.
US09304179B1
An MRI sampling method combining phase and frequency encoding.
US09304178B2
Systems and methods for coil arrangements in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) are provided. One coil arrangement includes a magnet bore, a radio-frequency (RF) transmit coil coupled to the magnet bore, and at least one RF receive coil coupled to the magnet bore. The RF receive coil is movable within the magnet bore.
US09304174B1
Method and apparatus for monitoring system operations in an integrated circuit. A method includes receiving a first power supply voltage from a first processing domain, comparing the first power supply voltage to a first reference voltage, receiving the second power supply voltage from the second processing domain, comparing the second power supply voltage to a second reference voltage, determining that the first power supply voltage exceeds the first reference voltage or that the second power supply voltage exceeds the second reference voltage, and transmitting one or more alarms corresponding to one or more of the first power supply voltage and the second power supply voltage in response to determining that the first power supply voltage exceeds the first reference voltage or that the second power supply voltage exceeds the second reference voltage. An integrated circuit and system monitor are also provided.
US09304173B2
In a method and a device for determining the internal resistance of a battery cell of a battery, the battery is connected to a controllable motor/generator in such a way that a flow of energy can take place from the battery to the motor/generator or from the motor/generator to the battery, including the following steps: modulation of the magnetic field-forming portion of the motor/generator, determination of a change in voltage at the battery cell and of a change of the current flow through the battery cell during the modulation of the magnetic field-forming portion of the motor/generator, and calculation of the internal resistance of the battery cell as the quotient of the change in voltage and the change in current flow.
US09304162B2
A processing system configured for capacitive sensing comprises transmitter circuitry, a first internal diagnostic mechanism, and a determination module. The transmitter circuitry is coupled with a first transmitter path of a plurality of transmitter paths and configured to transmit a first transmitter signal with the first transmitter path, wherein each transmitter path of the plurality of transmitter paths is configured for capacitive sensing. The first internal diagnostic mechanism is coupled to a second transmitter path of the plurality of transmitter paths. The first internal diagnostic mechanism is configured to acquire a first resulting signal while the transmitter circuitry transmits the first transmitter signal with the first transmitter path, wherein the first internal diagnostic mechanism comprises a selectable leakage path coupled to the transmitter circuitry. The determination module is further configured to determine that the first transmitter path is ohmically coupled to the second transmitter path of the plurality of transmitter paths based upon the first resulting signal.
US09304154B1
Methods and systems are provided for detecting and measuring a peak value of a light pulse. One example method involves (i) receiving an analog signal comprising a pulse, (ii) differentiating the analog signal, using a differentiator, to provide a differentiated signal, (iii) detecting, using a comparator, a zero-crossing in the differentiated signal, (iv) delaying the analog signal by a delay amount, using a signal buffer, to provide a time-delayed analog signal, (v) in response to detecting the zero-crossing, causing a measurement of the time-delayed analog signal to be obtained, (vi) determining a measurement time associated with the measurement, and (vii) outputting the measurement and the measurement time. The methods and systems may be implemented for light detection and ranging (LIDAR) applications. In such applications, the measurement and measurement time may correspond to an object and a distance of the object, respectively, in an environment of a LIDAR device.
US09304151B2
An apparatus includes a sensor excited by an input voltage adapted to provide a sensor output first voltage corresponding to a physical input excitation. A transformation circuit device provides the operational voltage to the sensor, detects the sensor output first voltage, nulls an amount of offset voltage in the sensor output first voltage, amplifies the nulled offset sensor output first voltage, and provide a noise filtered and temperature compensated output second voltage. A simulator circuit receives the compensated output second voltage and provides an output third voltage representative of a simulated bridge sensor, being absent of offset voltage, and being independent of temperature dependence and noise in the sensor.
US09304146B2
An RF reflectometry scanning tunneling microscope is suitable for observing a surface of an object, and includes a probe that cooperates with the object to form a tunneling resistor therebetween, an RF resonant circuit that cooperates with the tunneling resistor to form a LCR resonant circuit including an inductor connected to a parallel connection of a capacitor, a resistor and the tunneling resistor, a directional coupler receiving an RF signal and outputting the RF signal to the LCR resonant circuit, and an RF signal measuring device that generates a scanning result associated with the surface of the object based on a reflected RF signal resulting from reflection of the RF signal by the LCR resonant circuit.
US09304144B2
A method of actuating a plurality of probes by delivering photothermal energy to the probes so that the probes are heated and deform relative to a sample. The photothermal energy is delivered to the probes by: directing an input beam into an optical device; transforming the input beam with the optical device into a plurality of actuation beamlets which are not parallel with each other; and scanning the actuation beamlets across the probes, optionally via an objective lens. A spacing between the actuation beamlets is different to a spacing between the probes so that only a subset (typically only one) of the actuation beamlets illuminates a probe at any instant. As the actuation beamlets scan across the probes the probes are illuminated in an illumination sequence. The actuation beamlets are controlled so that different amounts of photothermal energy are delivered to at least two of the probes during the illumination sequence.
US09304142B1
This invention provides an angular speed detection and monitoring system comprised of an energy harvesting integrated generator and sensor with wireless data transmission capability, a wireless data relay station and a wireless remote termination station for control wiring connections and digital communications. The invention provides real-time rotational acceleration and speed measurement for continuous process control and ‘Zero-Speed’ detection for simple on-off interlock control and fault monitoring of rotating equipment or moving surfaces.
US09304141B2
In needle-based dispensing systems, the target amount of liquid to be dispensed is in many cases very well controlled. However, the amount of liquid that is actually reaching the receiving well may show a discrepancy, because part of the liquid leaving the inner needle space remains on the outer surface of the dispense needle, and so a small amount of liquid is “lost” in the dispensing act. A sensor arrangement according to the present invention is suitable for detecting the presence of any liquid from the aspiration reservoir that is left behind on the outside of the dispense needle, before the dispense step is actually started. The “lost” volume can also be measured very accurately by inserting the tip of a dispense needle into a hollow metallic cylinder, forming a capacitor, whereby the capacitance value depends on the volume of the “lost” dispense volume.
US09304120B2
The invention relates to a method and system for monitoring of particles properties in a stream and the use of such method and system. In particular, the invention concerns sampling of liquids like aqueous suspensions or filtrates that contain solid matter in forest industry, oil and mining industry, as well as in and water treatment, desalination or water reuse processes, and in subsequent measurement of the samples. A sample from a stream of liquid is dyed to stain particles contained in the sample, which is conducted to a first flow chamber having means for causing said sample to be divided into particle populations according to their size or mass. A liquid flow is applied through the first flow chamber to cause at least one particle population to flow into a second flow chamber. The particle populations are measured to produce at least one measurement signal representative of the amount and/or properties of the particles, and processing extract key variables of each particle population and presenting them as an analysis of particle populations or the whole sample in terms of a count and size of particles and/or their hydrophobicity.
US09304113B2
A heat-resistant ultrasonic sensor forms a piezo-electric ceramics film with a thickness of 0.5 mm or smaller and a Curie point of 200° C. or higher on a flexible metal plate. A thin metal film that is an electrode is attached to a top surface of the piezo-electric ceramics film and a metal wire mesh covers the thin metal film and is attached to a top surface of the thin metal film. A core of a heat-resistant coaxial cable is connected to the metal wire mesh at a connection point. The heat-resistant coaxial cable is fixed to the thin metal plate with a metal fixing member that is a ground portion. An electric insulating cover is attached to the thin metal plate and covers the piezo-electric ceramics film, the thin metal film, the metal wire mesh, the connection point, the fixing member, and the core of the coaxial cable.
US09304108B2
A quenching depth measuring method is used for measuring the quenching depth in a workpiece and includes the steps of: magnetizing the workpiece by disposing, in the vicinity of the workpiece, a magnetizer equipped with an exciting coil; detecting, through a detection coil, an induced magnetic field generated by the magnetization; measuring the induced magnetic field as the output voltage of the detection coil; and specifying the thickness of the quenched hardened layer of the workpiece on the basis of known electromagnetic characteristic information of an unquenched material and a fully-quenched material and an output voltage value measured by the detection coil, the unquenched material being made of the same material as the constituent material of the workpiece and being a material on which a quenching process is not performed, the fully-quenched material being a material on which the quenching process is performed.
US09304105B2
A control device for controlling an oxygen concentration sensor includes: a voltage sweeping unit for applying a voltage to the sensor for a time interval during an impedance detection process; a pre-sweeping voltage memory for storing a terminal voltage of the sensor as an initial terminal voltage just before applying the voltage; an impedance detection unit for detecting an element impedance; a voltage returning unit for returning the terminal voltage to the initial terminal voltage after a predetermined time interval has elapsed; a monitoring unit for monitoring the terminal voltage after the voltage returning unit starts returning the terminal voltage; a determination unit for determining whether a monitored terminal voltage of the sensor reaches a stored terminal voltage in the memory; and a stop unit for stopping a returning operation of the voltage returning unit when the monitored terminal voltage reaches the stored terminal voltage.
US09304101B1
An improved pulse discharge technique is provided which continuously measures a gas sensor's impedance at elevated temperatures. The present invention is characterized in that the measured impedance values are used to control said sensor's operating temperature within a defined temperature range or to monitor said sensor's operating temperature via impedance monitoring.
US09304097B2
A method for aligning a second pattern to a first pattern based on a first alignment structure on a first substrate is disclosed. The alignment structure has a different magnitude of the electrical characteristic than the substrate. A controller controls the relative position of an electrical probe with respect to the substrate to measure the electrical characteristic corresponding at a plurality of positions proximate the substrate. The measured electrical characteristics are used to identify the location of the alignment structure by identifying a difference between the measured electrical characteristic at a pair of the plurality of positions exceeding a predetermined threshold. A second substrate having the second pattern including a second alignment structure formed thereon is aligned to the first substrate by a controller based on the identified locations of the first and second alignment structures.
US09304085B2
A method of setting a laser-light intensity value includes: emitting laser light, the laser light being excitation light, a fluorescent-dyed biological sample being irradiated with the excitation light and emitting light; detecting fluorescence emitted by the biological sample, and outputting a signal corresponding to a brightness value; prestoring relation information, the relation information including the plurality of laser-light intensity values, and information on at least one possible correlation between a phototoxicity degree and the brightness value in relation to each of the laser-light intensity values, the phototoxicity to the biological sample resulting from the laser light; generating a fluorescence image having the brightness value based on the output signal; calculating a brightness value representative of a ROI area based on the generated fluorescence image; and referring to the relation information, and determining a laser-light intensity value satisfying tolerance of the phototoxicity based on the calculated representative brightness value.
US09304079B2
A gas analyzer for the absorption-spectroscopic in-situ determination of at least one chemical and/or physical parameter of a gaseous measurement medium, wherein the gas analyzer includes a first housing; at least one laser as a radiation source, which laser is arranged in the first housing; at least one first process window for coupling the radiation emitted by the laser into a measurement medium; and at least one detector by which, following interaction with the measurement medium, the radiation is detected. The first process window can be configured as an afocal meniscus lens having a convex surface and a concave surface.
US09304076B2
A cleaning equipment of sample bottle for chromatography analysis comprising: a base; a support frame vertically fixed to the base; a horizontal column having two ends, wherein one of the ends is disposed at the support frame through an adjustment knob; a rotary drive device fixed to the other end of the horizontal columns; a rotation disk which can rotate through driving of the rotary drive device, and a side edge of the rotation disk provides with multiple placing holes for receiving and fixing sample bottles; a cleaning agent recycling tank disposed below the rotation disk, wherein a side wall of it provides with an ejector pipe connected with a water pump; and a control unit for controlling on/off and rotation speed of the rotary drive device, and on/off of the water pump. The invention also provides a cleaning method of sample bottle for chromatography analysis.
US09304072B2
A microelectromechanical nanoindenter including a body, a probe moveable relative to the body, an indenter tip coupled to an end of the moveable probe, and a micromachined comb drive. The micromachined comb drive includes an electrostatic actuator capacitor configured to drive the probe, along with the indenter tip. The micromachined comb drive includes a plurality of sensing capacitors forming a differential capacitive displacement sensor, each sensing capacitor comprising a plurality of comb capacitors and each configured to provide capacitance levels which, together, are representative of a position of the probe, wherein each of the comb capacitors of the actuator capacitor and the sensing capacitors includes a fixed electrode comb coupled to the body and a moveable electrode comb coupled to the probe.
US09304069B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for treatment of histological samples. The apparatus includes at least a working station, in which the sample gets into contact with a liquid reagent. Further, the apparatus includes a purification device, which blows off at least a part of the reagent adhering to the sample and/or the sample holding arrangement by means of a gas flow, or which sucks off at least a part of the reagent adhering to the sample and/or a sample holding arrangement.
US09304065B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for multiple single-cell capturing and processing utilizing microfluidics. Tools and techniques are provided for capturing, partitioning, and/or manipulating individual cells from a larger population of cells along with generating genetic information and/or reactions related to each individual cell. Different capture configurations may be utilized to capture individual cells and then processing each individual cell in a multi-chamber reaction configuration. Some embodiments may provide for specific target amplification, whole genome amplification, whole transcriptome amplification, real-time PCR preparation, copy number variation, preamplification, mRNA sequencing, and/or haplotyping of the multiple individual cells that have been partitioned from the larger population of cells. Some embodiments may provide for other applications. Some embodiments may be configured for imaging the individual cells or associated reaction products as part of the processing. Reaction products may be harvested and/or further analyzed in some cases.
US09304063B2
A paint tester station for testing a paint applicator is disclosed. The paint tester station comprises a testing material defining a testing surface suitable for testing a paint applicator thereon, and a housing defining a plurality of walls surrounding a periphery of the testing surface. The housing defines a window providing access to the testing surface. Thus, as paint is applied to the testing surface through the window, the walls cooperate to assist in limiting application of paint to within the periphery of the testing surface.
US09304052B2
A manometer comprises a manometer body with an indicating scale with graduated markings of pressure units and a safety vent, a plunger with a annular groove and a tinted O-ring a cap mount, a primary box spring and an auxiliary box spring. By means of the tinted O-ring and the indicating scale with graduated markings of pressure units, the manometer innovatively functions as indication of air pressure measured. By means of the primary box spring and auxiliary box spring, the manometer precisely measures overall air pressure in combination of coarse air pressure variation responded by the primary box spring and fine air pressure variation responded by the auxiliary box spring. By means of the safety vent disposed on the peripheral of manometer body and the tinted O-ring on the plunger, the manometer provides a safety proactive means for input compressed air.
US09304050B2
A temperature measurement apparatus includes a light source; a first splitter that splits a light beam into a measurement beam and a reference beam; a reference beam reflector that reflects the reference beam; an optical path length adjustor; a second splitter that splits the reflected reference beam into a first reflected reference beam and a second reflected reference beam; a first photodetector that measures an interference between the first reflected reference beam and a reflected measurement beam obtained by the measurement beam reflected from a target object; a second photodetector that measures an intensity of the second reflected reference beam; and a temperature calculation unit. The temperature calculation unit calculates a location of the interference by subtracting an output signal of the second photodetector from an output signal of the first photodetector, and calculates a temperature of the target object from the calculated location of the interference.
US09304048B2
A temperature emulator may include a stacked assembly including a pair of end plates positioned at an uppermost and lowermost location of the stacked assembly, a plurality of heat sink plates positioned between the pair of end plates, a plurality of shim plates positioned between adjacent pairs of heat sink plates, and an exothermic charge assembly positioned between at least one pair of heat sink plates, the exothermic charge assembly including an exotherm charge configured to react exothermally in response to a thermal cure cycle.
US09304045B2
A temperature monitoring device that can automatically collect temperature data and wirelessly interface with a workflow management system. The device is provided in a portable housing and incorporates one or more temperature sensors, such as a physical probe, infrared sensor, or RFID transceiver, along with an interface for wirelessly communicating with a host personal device that has been programmed with temperature management tasks. The device may be used to automatically collect temperatures and provide wirelessly provide the data to the host for monitoring and tracking as part of a comprehensive workflow management system that includes food safety monitoring and compliance programs.
US09304041B2
An atomic absorption spectrometer, including: a light source combination; a detection device; a flame atomization device; a hydride generation device; a graphite furnace atomization device; and an adjustment mechanism. The flame atomization device includes a flame atomizer. The hydride generation device includes a hydride atomizer. The graphite furnace atomization device includes a graphite furnace atomizer. An axis of the flame atomizer, an axis of the hydride atomizer, and an axis of the graphite furnace atomizer are adjusted by the adjustment mechanism to coincide with an optical axis of the light source combination.
US09304040B2
A method of optical spectroscopy and a device for use in optical spectroscopy. The device includes a substrate, and a plurality of etalon cavities affixed to or coupled to the substrate. A signal is received from a Fabry-Perot interferometer. The signal is sampled using the device according to a generalized Nyquist-Shannon sampling criterion. The signal is sampled using the device according to a phase differential criterion for wave number resolution. An input spectrum for the signal is reconstructed based on the signal sampled according to the generalized Nyquist-Shannon sampling criterion and the signal sampled according to the phase differential criterion for wave number resolution.
US09304027B2
A tilted gauge head for indicating liquid level within a container is operatively connectable to a liquid level sending unit. The gauge head includes a mounting base adapted for connection to the container, an indicator dial assembly operatively connectable to the liquid level sending unit for indicating liquid level, and at least one bracket with a rear mounting wall connected to the mounting base and a front mounting wall connected to the indicator dial assembly. The mounting walls are oriented at an acute angle with respect to each other such that the indicator dial assembly is oriented or tilted at the acute angle with respect to the mounting base. In this manner, the indicator dial assembly can more easily be viewed by a user from an angle to thereby reduce parallax reading errors.
US09304026B2
The direct-flow Coriolis mass flowmeter comprises a tensioned section of string, along which a substance to be measured flows, a device for tensioning the section of string, a device for exciting a transverse circular oscillatory movement in the string, two sensors which are spaced apart along the string and which convert the magnitude of a transverse deflection of the string in two mutually perpendicular directions into electrical signals, wherein these signals are coupled to inputs of a microprocessor device which calculates the flowrate as a function of the difference in phases of the signals from the sensors.
US09304024B2
A self-checking ultrasonic flow meter for measuring fluid flow in a conduit which includes a plurality of transducers engaged with the conduit. The flow meter includes a signal processor in electrical communication with the transducers which produces a measurement of flow rate and an associated estimate of uncertainty due to changes that have affected the accuracy of the measured flow rate. The transducers form multiple transducer pairs positioned to form acoustic transmission paths that are co-located in two or more chordal measurement planes. A plurality of axial velocity measurements are made in each chordal plane. A method for measuring fluid flow in a conduit with an ultrasonic flow meter.
US09304016B2
An encoder device for optical detection of movement or position includes a first terminal for delivery of an electric measurement code signal. The encoder device further includes a first printed circuit board, a detector mounted on the first printed circuit board, and a code device provided with a pattern. The detector and the code device are displaceable relative to each other, wherein the detector is adapted to generate the electric measurement code signal in dependence on the relative displacement. The detector includes at least one light-sensitive semiconductor chip having a first light-sensitive chip surface and a second chip surface on opposing sides. The first light-sensitive chip surface has a first chip contact area for an electrical connection. The encoder device further includes a second printed circuit board positioned between the detector and the code device, wherein the second printed circuit board is shaped so as to allow the passage of light from the code device to the first light-sensitive chip surface. The second printed circuit board has a first PCB contact area connected to the terminal, wherein the first PCB contact area is connected to the first chip contact area by solder, electrically conducting glue, ohmic contact, etc.
US09304011B2
A map display device includes a map data acquiring unit 21 for acquiring map data, an HOV lane determining unit 26 for determining whether or not HOV lane information showing that an HOV lane exists is included in link data defining roads included in the map data acquired by the map data acquiring unit, a display processing unit 28 for, when the HOV lane determining unit determines that HOV lane information is included in the link data, creating display data showing that a symbol showing an HOV lane is superimposed on a road formed by the link data including the HOV lane information, and a display unit 6 for displaying a map on the basis of the display data created by the display processing unit.
US09304001B2
In some example embodiments, a position recognition method of an autonomous mobile robot may include: dividing a grid map into a plurality of spaces; extracting, by a processor, learning data of each of the plurality of spaces; generating, by the processor, space models of each of the plurality of spaces using the extracted learning data; and/or recognizing, by the processor, a current position of the autonomous mobile robot based on the extracted learning data, the space models, and actual range scan data input through the autonomous mobile robot.
US09303997B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel prediction engine that (1) can formulate predictions about current or future destinations and/or routes to such destinations for a user, and (2) can relay information to the user about these predictions. In some embodiments, this engine includes a machine-learning engine that facilitates the formulation of predicted future destinations and/or future routes to destinations based on stored, user-specific data. The user-specific data is different in different embodiments. In some embodiments, the stored, user-specific data includes data about any combination of the following: (1) previous destinations traveled to by the user, (2) previous routes taken by the user, (3) locations of calendared events in the user's calendar, (4) locations of events for which the user has electronic tickets, and (5) addresses parsed from recent e-mails and/or messages sent to the user. In some embodiments, the prediction engine only relies on user-specific data stored on the device on which this engine executes. Alternatively, in other embodiments, it relies only on user-specific data stored outside of the device by external devices/servers. In still other embodiments, the prediction engine relies on user-specific data stored both by the device and by other devices/servers.
US09303993B2
An angular velocity sensor includes a sensor element having a shape defined in an XYZ space, and can detect an angular velocity about a Z axis. The sensor element includes a support body extending in a direction of an X axis, an arm connected with the support body, and a weight connected with the arm. The arm has a first end connected with the support body and a second end connected with the weight. The arm has substantially a J-shape including a first arm portion extending in a direction of a Y axis from the first end to a first corner, a second arm portion extending in the direction of the X axis from the first corner to a second corner, and a third arm portion extending in the direction of the Y axis from the second corner to the second end. The length of the arm in the direction of the X axis is larger than the length of the weight in the direction of the X axis. This angular velocity sensor can improve the sensibility to angular velocity about the Z axis.
US09303986B2
Visual codes are scanned to assist navigation. The visual code may be a Quick Response (QR) code that contains information useful to calibrating a variety of navigation-based sensors such as gyroscopes, e-compasses, and barometric pressure sensors.
US09303970B2
A coordinate measuring device includes a probe detecting a shape of a measured object and outputting a signal indicating results of the shape detection. A probe interface receives the signal indicating the results of the shape detection. A cable transmits the signal indicating the results of the shape detection between the probe and the probe interface and bends accompanying displacement of the probe. The probe interface includes an impedance detector having a calculator detecting impedance in the cable. The impedance detector transmits high-speed test data to the probe through the cable and detects impedance in the cable according to whether a reception confirmation signal output by the probe is received.
US09303966B1
An initiation distributor includes two plates coupled in a spaced-apart fashion. Each plate includes detonation transfer holes. A face of one plate has a depression and defined channels leading from the depression to the plate's detonation transfer holes, and has a detonation transfer port located in line with a plate's channels. The second plate has a detonation transfer port, and channels defined in its face that lead from the plate's detonation transfer port to its detonation transfer holes. Each of one plate's detonation transfer holes can be aligned with one of the second plate's detonation holes. A conduit couples the detonation transfer ports in the two plates with a pathway defined between the depression and each of the plates' detonation transfer holes. Explosive material fills the depression, all channels, all detonation transfer holes, all detonation transfer ports, and the conduit.
US09303964B2
A guiding assembly is adapted to be connected to a projectile and comprising a rear main unit adapted to be connected to the front end of the projectile, and a front main unit rotatably connected at its rear end to the front end of the rear main unit. The front main unit is adapted to rotate about a central longitudinal axis. A relative speed control unit is operable between the rear main unit and the front main unit and capable of providing spin braking force to slow the relative speed of rotation of the front main unit. An at least one guiding fin radially extends from the front main unit. The pitch angle of the fin is controllable by a return spring connected to the fin so that the pitch angle of the fin is growing as the aerodynamic pressure on the fin lowers and it is growing smaller as the aerodynamic pressure on the fin gets bigger.
US09303961B1
A modular charge system based on a standard module fitted with a flying plate or a liner and axially coupled to other modules to configure the size and type of charge. The explosive is enclosed in a casing, which has a cylindrical wall with a plurality of external longitudinal rails that run lengthwise. The rails are substantially parallel, and approximately equidistantly spaced around the perimeter of the casing. The space between a pair of rails defines a channel. The casing rails function as a cylindrical tamper. The explosive is partitioned into removable portions and permanent portions, where the removable portions are separated from the permanent portions and any retained removable portions, therein enabling the module to be fitted with a variety of flying plates, liners and other hardware. Modules may be coupled utilizing internal slides, positioned in the channels to join modules.
US09303949B1
A handguard attachment systems having a handguard with at least one handguard attachment aperture; a barrel nut having at least one registration groove defined by a recess around at least a portion of an outer periphery of the barrel nut; a compression collar having a registration/compression slot formed through the compression collar and at least one compression adjustment aperture formed therethrough, spanning at least a portion of the compression/registration slot; and at least one registration tab, wherein the registration tab is sized so as to be at least partially received within at least a portion of the registration/compression slot and to be at least partially received within at least a portion of the registration groove of the barrel nut, wherein the registration tab includes an alignment aperture formed therethrough, wherein the alignment aperture is sized so as to allow at least one attachment screw to pass therethrough.
US09303940B2
A firearm support is disclosed herein. The firearm support may include a main body assembly, at least two legs operably attached to the main body assembly, and a mounting assembly operably attached to the main body assembly. The mounting assembly may include an attachment mechanism operable to attach a firearm to the mounting assembly, a pan mechanism operable to control an angular rotation about a first axis of the mounting assembly, and a cant mechanism operable to control an angular rotation about a second axis of the mounting assembly.
US09303937B2
Counting device designed to determine the number of shots and cartridges in a weapon, which comprises an activator sensor (11) that supplies an activation signal to a processor (12) in response to a mechanical impulse; the processor (12) in turn supplies a counting-initiation signal to a counting sensor (13) that supplies at least two counting signals offset by a predetermined period of time to the processor (12).
US09303929B2
Heat exchanger (1) for a system for solidification and/or for crystallization of a semiconductor material, comprising a first member (2) and a second member (3), the first and second members being movable with respect to each other, characterized in that the first member comprises a first pattern of relief (21) and the second member comprises a second pattern of relief (31), the first pattern of relief being designed to cooperate with the second pattern of relief.
US09303927B2
A heat spreader structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The heat spreader structure includes a main body. The main body includes a first board body and a second board body corresponding to the first board body. The second board body is mated with the first board body to form the main body. The main body has a circulation area and a connection area. The circulation area is connected with the connection area to together define a chamber in which a working fluid is contained. The circulation area has a first capillary structure, while the connection area has a second capillary structure. In manufacturing, the heat spreader structure can be freely bent and shaped without damaging the internal capillary structures.
US09303922B2
A method and apparatus to increase the cooling rate of gas used in a batch annealing furnace of cold rolling mills under bypass cooling. The invention makes use of the higher heat transfer capacities of nanocoolants developed by a high-shear mixing of nanoparticles and stabilizers in a basic aqueous medium for cooling heated hydrogen flowing through a heat exchanger during bypass cooling of the batch annealing furnace. The nanofluid is prepared in a nanofluid preparation unit.
US09303903B2
An ice maker having an ice tray horizontally suspended within a housing and a drive body rotatably coupled to a transverse axis of the ice tray and configured to oscillate the ice tray about the transverse axis. The cold side of a thermoelectric device is thermally coupled with a bottom surface of the ice tray, and a hot side opposes the cold side. A barrier extends around the periphery of the ice tray within the housing, and separates the housing into a first chamber and a second air chamber. A heat sink is thermally coupled with the hot side of the thermoelectric device and extends into the second air chamber. An intake duct member is coupled with the housing proximate the second air chamber, and is configured to dispense a cold air flow over the heat sink. The barrier restricts the cold air flow from entering the first chamber.
US09303900B2
The invention relates to heat transfer agents and heat transfer compositions containing hydrocarbon lubricating oils and halogenated alkene heat transfer fluid that promote oil flow and provide for improved oil return. The heat transfer compositions are useful in various heat transfer systems such as refrigeration, cooling, air conditioning, chiller operations.
US09303899B2
A solar energy-powered heating and cooling system for buildings, including solar energy tiles attached to a roof or an outside surface of walls of a building, an energy collector used to concentrate energy collected by the solar energy tiles, an energy converter activating solar energy into another form of energy, supply pipes hidden inside cavity floor and/or hollow walls and containing a flow medium, and an intelligent control unit. The solar energy collected by the solar energy tiles is brought to the energy collector and then converted via the energy converter. The energy is instilled into the flow medium that is subsequently transferred to the cavity floor and/or hollow walls via the supply pipes so as to either heat up or cool down the building. The process is controlled by the intelligent control unit.
US09303888B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a ventilation system comprising a housing. The housing includes an inlet through which air is received and the housing is capable of being installed within a structure. A ventilating assembly can be supported within an interior of the housing. The ventilating assembly can be operable to generate a flow of air and can be in fluid communication with the inlet. The system can include a thermal damper assembly comprising an aperture and a substantially non-metallic curtain. The damper assembly is capable of being coupled to the housing so that the aperture of the thermal damper assembly and the inlet of the housing are in fluid communication with each other. In some embodiments, the thermal damper assembly is configured and arranged to be uncoupled from the housing after the housing has been installed within the structure to provide access to the interior of the housing.
US09303887B1
A buttressed hinge assembly or a flexible hinge assembly adjusts to fit a vent on a wall or a roof in order to hold a fan thereon, which fan is especially suitable for a restaurant roof or wall. The hinge assembly attaches to a roof or wall vent to hold the fan in a proper position, yet permits the fan to be easily moved for cleaning of vent and the fan.
US09303881B2
An air conditioning apparatus includes a compression mechanism, a heat source-side heat exchanger, an expansion mechanism, a usage-side heat exchanger, a blower, housings and a bypass circuit. The blower feeds an air flow to the heat source-side heat exchanger. The housings is configured to accommodate the heat source-side heat exchanger and the blower in a space above the bottom plate. The bypass circuit is disposed so as to pass below the blower and the heat source-side heat exchanger. The bypass circuit is configured to bypass a third refrigerant tube on a discharge side of the compression mechanism, and at least one of a first refrigerant tube and a second refrigerant tube. The first refrigerant tube extends from the usage-side heat exchanger to the expansion mechanism. The second refrigerant tube extends from the expansion mechanism to the heat source-side heat exchanger.
US09303873B2
A system including a plurality of multi-tube fuel nozzles each having a plurality of tubes extending in an axial direction, wherein each tube of the plurality of tubes includes an air inlet, a fuel inlet, and a fuel-air mixture outlet, and a fuel nozzle housing, including an outer wall extending circumferentially about a central axis, a plurality of radial walls extending from the outer wall inwardly toward the central axis, a plurality of fuel nozzle receptacles disposed within the outer wall, wherein the plurality of radial walls separate the plurality of fuel nozzle receptacles from one another, and the plurality of multi-tube fuel nozzles are disposed in the plurality of fuel nozzle receptacles a mounting structure including a plurality of radial support arms extending outwardly from the outer wall.
US09303872B2
A fuel injector is provided and includes a member defining a flowpath through which a first fluid flows, the flowpath having a cross-section with transverse elongate and short axes, a head defining a plenum storing a supply of a second fluid and a system fluidly coupled to the flowpath and the plenum to inject the second fluid from the plenum and into the flowpath at first and second locations along the elongate axis. The injected second fluid is formed into jets at the first and second locations, the first fluid entrains the jets such that the injected second fluid flows through the flowpath and mixes with the first fluid, and the short axis has a sufficient dimension such that the jets remain spaced from a sidewall of the member.
US09303871B2
A combustor assembly defining a main combustion zone where fuel and air are burned to create hot combustion products includes a liner, a transition duct, and a transition inlet cone. The liner defines an interior volume including a first portion of the main combustion zone, and has an inlet and an outlet spaced from the inlet in an axial direction. The transition duct includes an inlet section and an outlet section that discharges gases to a turbine section. The inlet section is adjacent to the outlet of the liner and defines a second portion of the main combustion zone. The transition inlet cone is affixed to the transition duct and includes a frusto-conical portion extending axially and radially inwardly into the main combustion zone. The transition inlet cone deflects combustion products that are flowing in a radially outer portion of the main combustion zone toward a combustor assembly central axis.
US09303867B2
Methods and systems are provided for enhancing heavy oil recovery using fixed-bed chemical looping combustion processes that incorporate carbon dioxide capture and/or sequestration. A fixed-bed chemical looping combustion process is provided for generating heat and carbon dioxide. The heat thus generated may be employed in thermal recovery techniques such as SAGD to enhance recovery of heavy oils. Additionally or alternatively, the carbon dioxide produced by the process may be sequestered, captured, employed as a tertiary recovery technique, or any combination thereof. Advantages of certain embodiments include one or more of the following advantages: lower cost, relatively high conversion rates, and high theoretical efficiency of carbon dioxide capture.
US09303864B2
A light fixture is provided with a light seat including four spaced, upward inclined sides and holes arranged along a bottom edge of each side, insulators fastened in the holes respectively, LED arrays each including LEDs, and wires each passing through the hole to interconnect a power source and the LED array; a lampshade secured to the light seat; and a centrally raised cover comprising a threaded fastening assembly for securing the cover to the light seat, and through holes disposed along edges as heat sinks which are in close proximity to a predetermined number of the LED arrays.
US09303860B1
A moisture resistant light tube assembly for use in forming a moisture resistant LED light tube. The light tube assembly includes a rear component with an elongated heat sink having a flat strip upon which an LED circuit board (or boards) may be placed under pressure legs formed of a polymer for maintaining the circuit board in thermal contact with the heat sink. A polymer lens provides a dome over the rear component. The light tube assembly is formed by co-extrusion of a polymer shell around the heat sink, co-extrusion of the polymer pressure legs to the polymer shell and co-extrusion of the dome to the rear component from one or more polymers selected for their ability to be bonded together by co-extrusion.
US09303853B2
A collapsible lighting device has a main body surrounded by a collar whose position is adjustable along the longitudinal axis of the main body. Pivotally connected or hinged legs are attached to the collar and to the main body with struts. When the collar is on one position, the legs deploy outward from the main body to the extent permitted by the struts, thereby allowing the legs to support the collapsible lighting device upright. A lamp head is attached to a member which telescope from the main body. When deployed, the lamp head can be switched on to provide illumination. When the collar is another position, the legs are drawn in toward the main body to form a cylindrical shape. The lam head can be positioned so that when the telescoping member is retracted into the main body, the collar surrounds the exterior of the lamp head, thus protecting the lamp head for transport. The overall cylindrical shape of the lighting device in the collapsed position facilitates transport, for example using a strap to carry the device on one's back.
US09303840B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a resin layer on the display panel and having a first protrusion having a first style on a surface thereof; a first window on the resin layer and having a second protrusion having a second style on a surface thereof; and a second window on the first window.
US09303838B2
A vehicle light installed in a vehicle includes: a main case having a front opening; first and second light guides that are disposed in the main case; light sources that emit light into the first and second light guides; and a translucent cover fitted to cover the opening of the main case. The first light guide is rod-shaped and includes a first extended section extending from the inboard side of the first light guide relative to the vehicle width direction toward the outboard side of the first light guide relative to the same and a second extended section that continues from the first extended section, curves back inwardly, and extends to the inboard side, and the second light guide is plate-shaped and disposed so as to pass in front of or behind the portion of the first light guide that curves back.
US09303829B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to illumination devices, and methods for making the same. The device, in particular, includes a first conductor layer, a first insulator layer disposed on the first conductor layer and having at least one first aperture defined therein through the first insulator layer, a second conductor layer disposed on the first insulator layer and having at least one second aperture defined therein through the second conductor layer and positioned to align with the at least one first aperture, and a light manipulation layer disposed on the second conductor layer and having at least one pair of apertures defined therein through the light manipulation layer including a third aperture and a fourth aperture, where the third aperture is positioned to align with the at least one second and first apertures.
US09303815B2
A lubrication device including a tank of fluid lubricant to be dispensed to a user position, a component for raising the pressure of the lubricant, a device for regulating the flow rate of the lubricant under pressure, and a distributor for enabling the lubricant flow to be conveyed to the user position with regulated flow rate, the lubricant flow rate regulator device being provided with a lubricant flowmeter which reads the flow rate regulated by the regulator device.
US09303812B2
A hanger bar assembly includes a first hanger bar member that includes a first rail segment. The first hanger bar member also includes a first channel segment that includes a first channel. The first hanger bar member also includes a first transitional middle segment extending between the first rail segment and the first channel segment. The hanger bar assembly further includes a second hanger bar member that includes a second rail segment. The second rail segment is positioned in the first channel of the first channel segment. The second hanger bar member further includes a second channel segment that includes a second channel. The first rail segment is positioned in the second channel. The second hanger bar member also includes a second transitional middle segment extending between the second rail segment and the second channel segment.
US09303800B2
A torque limiting fluid connector system which can be hand screwed to a maximum tightening torque and be hand loosened, including: an outer member having a front opening, a back opening, and a plurality of outwardly flexible portions separated by axially extending slots; an inner member having a front opening, a back opening, an interior threaded surface and a plurality of outwardly extending projections dimensioned to be received within the axially extending slots when the inner member is received within the outer member; a connector having one end received within the inner member and an opposite end extending out of the back end of the inner member; and a washer mounted onto the end of the connector that is received within the inner member.
US09303799B2
A lined sleeve for tube welding is in the form of an inner tube including a first protruded portion and a second protruded portion. The first protruded portion and the second protruded portion are respectively received in two ends respectively of two tubes to be welded together. The inner tube further includes a recessed portion between the first protruded portion and the second protruded portion.
US09303797B2
An hose standoff comprises a sleeve molded onto a hose and a standoff flange extending circumferentially from the sleeve. The flange contacts a surface to which the hose is adjacent, spacing the hose away from the surface and any proximate edges. The sleeve may extend from the flange, along the hose, in at least one direction to protect the hose from abrasion or cutting by an edge extending perpendicular from the surface toward the hose. A metal collar may be crimped onto the hose with the sleeve overmolding the collar. Also, a fabric covering may be disposed over the hose with the collar crimped over the fabric covering and the sleeve overmolding the collar and at least a portion of the fabric covering. Preferably the sleeve overmold contacts and bonds or otherwise mechanically locks with the fabric covering and/or the underlying hose.
US09303795B2
Disclosed is a pipe-in-pipe apparatus comprising an inner pipe disposed within an outer pipe wherein the inner pipe is an engineered pipe or umbilical. The outer pipe will shield the inner pipe. As a result, the design of the inner pipe only needs to address the functions required for the engineered pipe-in-pipe apparatus. The end fittings of the system are designed for enabling maximum operation and intervention flexibility. The engineered pipe-in-pipe apparatus will allow longer sections of the inner pipe to be used which will reduce the amount of field fabrication and streamline the installation process. The apparatus may be used for both new piping systems as well as the updating or retrofitting of an existing onshore or offshore piping system.
US09303793B2
A conduit-receiving device for receiving a conduit on a packing means handling machine has conduit carriers held along a course of the conduit-receiving device. The carriers are spaced apart from one another by being latched to a wall element of the machine. Each conduit carrier has a base section adjacent to the wall element, and an upper arm section that latches to a first profile section of the wall element to hold the conduit carrier. The upper arm section projects away from the base section. The conduit carrier is held to a second profile section of the wall element by a rear of the base section.
US09303779B2
A slam-shut safety device includes a valve body, a valve disc, a reset pin, a and a guide collar. The valve disc is shiftable between an open position spaced away from a valve seat, and a closed position seated against the valve seat. The reset pin operatively is coupled to the valve disc and shiftable between an untripped position placing the valve disc in the open position and a tripped position placing the valve disc in the closed position. The guide collar includes a hollow cylindrical portion slidably supported in a guide bore and extending at least partly over the reset pin at a location adjacent to the valve disc. The guide collar is shiftable between a retracted position and an extended position relative to the guide bore for providing added structural integrity and protecting the reset pin from bending forces.
US09303772B2
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.
US09303765B2
A combined oil control ring comprising a pair of circular side rails each having a gap, and a spacer expander longitudinally sandwiched by the side rails, which has seating tabs for pushing inner surfaces of the side rails on the inner side, a side rail-pushing surface of each seating tab being provided with one or more grooves extending substantially longitudinally; each of the side rail-pushing surfaces including the grooves being provided with a nitride layer, and the depth d (μm) of the grooves, the surface hardness h (micro-Vickers hardness HV0.1) of the nitride layer, and the thickness t (μm) of the nitride layer having micro-Vickers hardness HV0.1 of 700 or more meeting the relation of the 0.05≦1000×d/(h×t)≦0.45 (1).
US09303757B2
A saddle-type vehicle that allows an oil pressure adjusting system for a hydraulic clutch to be optimally disposed in a power unit in which a crankshaft is disposed along the vehicle body front-rear direction. A crankshaft of an engine is disposed along the vehicle front-rear direction. An oil pressure adjusting system that operates hydraulic clutches is attached to a clutch cover of a power unit. The oil pressure adjusting system is disposed so as to overlap with the hydraulic clutches as viewed in the axial direction of the crankshaft.
US09303754B2
The invention relates to a clutch assembly of a motor vehicle, in particular to a clutch-controlled differential unit, having a switchable clutch device which can transmit the drive power from a drive element which is at the drive input side in relation to the clutch device to a drive element which is at the drive output side in relation to the clutch device, wherein an oil delivery device is provided for the oil lubrication of the clutch, which oil delivery device, in an operating-state-dependent manner, delivers oil of an oil circuit which serves the clutch device. The clutch assembly is mounted in a housing which forms a clutch chamber for the clutch device. In order to permit rapid deoiling of the clutch chamber in situations in which the clutch device is opened, a deoiling device is provided which actively deoils the clutch chamber when the deoiling unit is not imparting a delivery action.
US09303736B2
A control device for a vehicle continuously variable transmission that includes: an input-side variable pulley of which an effective diameter is variable; an output-side variable pulley of which an effective diameter is variable; a transmission belt that is wound between the input-side variable pulley and the output-side variable pulley; and a check valve that, on the basis of a first pressure that is one of an input-side pressure applied to the input-side variable pulley and an output-side pressure applied to the output-side variable pulley, regulates a second pressure that is the other one of the input-side pressure and the output-side pressure includes: a control unit that, when the second pressure is regulated by the check valve, controls the first pressure on the basis of a pressure required to suppress a slip of the transmission belt and a pressure required to achieve a target speed ratio.
US09303735B2
To provide a chain tensioner that has a simple structure, is universally usable, is capable of supplying sufficient and necessary oil when restarted after a long time after the stop of oil supply, enables reduction in entire length and size, and enables easy production and reduction in production cost. An urging unit 140 provided in an oil pressure chamber 101 to be expandable and contractible urges a plunger 120 outward from a plunger bore 111 in a tensioner body 110 of the chain tensioner 100. The plunger 120 includes a plunger body 126, a check valve 150 provided inside the body, and a reserve tube 130 that has an oil reservoir chamber 123 communicating with the oil pressure chamber 101 through an oil hole 132.
US09303731B2
A transmission system including a first input shaft (1) that is arranged to receive drive directly from a drive source (80), and a second input shaft (3) that is arranged to receive drive from the drive source via a drive interruption means (86), such as a friction clutch device, a first gear element (15) rotatable relative to the first input shaft (1) and a selector assembly (29) for selectively locking the first gear element (15) for rotation with the first input shaft (1) from operational modes that include the following modes: lock the gear element for rotation with the first input shaft in forward and reverse torque directions, lock the gear element for rotation with the first input shaft in the forward torque direction and not lock in the reverse torque direction; and lock the gear element with rotation with the first input shaft in the reverse torque direction and not lock in the forward torque direction. A method of performing a power on down shift is also provided.
US09303728B2
A rotary actuator includes a rotation shaft rotatably driven by a motor, an internal gear provided on an outer side of the rotation shaft in a radial direction of the rotation shaft, a rotation output section provided between the rotation shaft and the internal gear in the radial direction to reduce a rotation speed outputted from the rotation shaft and to output a power in conjunction with the internal gear, a cylindrical housing portion fixed to the internal gear, and an attachment member integrated with an outer wall of the housing portion. The internal gear has a protrusion protruding from an outer wall of the internal gear, and the housing portion has a recess into which the protrusion is inserted. The attachment member has an attachment hole that is different from the recess in position in a circumferential direction of the housing portion.
US09303713B2
A piston-cylinder unit with a center longitudinal axis, a first end, a cylinder filled with a fluid, a piston arranged so as to be displaceable in the cylinder and which divides the cylinder into a first work space remote of the first end and a second work space close to the first end. A piston rod is arranged at the piston and projects through the first work space and is guided out of the cylinder concentric to the center longitudinal axis at a second end opposite the first end so as to be sealed by a guiding and sealing device, and a sensor device for direct or indirect detection of the internal pressure of the piston-cylinder unit.
US09303703B2
An improved bracket assembly for receiving a brake assembly and a brake actuator is provided. The bracket assembly includes a tube configured to receive a camshaft of the brake assembly and an actuator mounting bracket disposed proximate a first end of the tube. The actuator mounting bracket is configured for coupling to the actuator and defines an aperture configured to receive the tube. The bracket assembly further includes a brake spider mounting bracket disposed proximate a second end of the tube. The spider mounting bracket includes a body defining inboard and outboard sides, is configured to receive a brake spider on the outboard side and defines an aperture configured to allow the tube to extend therethrough. The spider mounting bracket further includes a neck extending from the inboard side of the body that is configured to receive the tube and positions the weld away from the body to reduce stress.
US09303701B2
Impeller speed, which is difficult to measure when a torque converter includes an impeller clutch, is estimated based on a known relationship among impeller speed, turbine speed, and turbine torque. Turbine torque may be directly measured by a turbine torque sensor or estimated based on other measurements such as output shaft torque or vehicle acceleration. The relationship is stored in a controller in terms of the coefficients of a second order polynomial relating turbine torque to impeller speed and turbine speed. A slip speed is calculated based on a measured input shaft speed and the estimated impeller speed. Closed loop control is used to adjust the impeller clutch torque capacity to maintain a target slip.
US09303698B2
A vehicular electric drive system includes: an electric motor operatively connected to drive wheels; a hydraulically operated clutch disposed in a power transmitting path between the electric motor and the drive wheels; a gear mechanism disposed between the hydraulically operated clutch and the drive wheels; a first chamber accommodating the electric motor and the hydraulically operated clutch; a second chamber accommodating the gear mechanism; a partition wall disposed so as to isolate the first chamber and the second chamber from each other; a connecting hole formed on the partition wall; an oil seal fitted in the connecting hole; an oil pump provided to deliver the oil required within the first chamber; and a splash type lubricating mechanism provided to supply the oil to the second chamber.
US09303696B2
A torque transfer device can include a housing and a clutch. The housing can define a clutch cavity and a pocket. The pocket can be formed at an axial end of the clutch cavity and have a generally arcuate shape that extends circumferentially about the clutch cavity above a static lubrication level. The clutch can include an outer carrier, an inner carrier, a plurality of first and second interleaved friction plates. One of an outer and an inner plate carrier of the clutch can be coupled to an input member for common rotation. The other of the carriers can be coupled to a differential case for common rotation. Rotation of the outer carrier relative to the housing through a fluid in the clutch cavity can sling a portion of the fluid toward an inner surface of the housing to cause the portion of the fluid to collect in the pocket.
US09303694B2
A bearing for a wind turbine, the use of the bearing and a method to control the temperature of the bearing is provided. A bearing for a wind turbine comprises an inner ring and an outer ring. The inner ring and the outer ring are prepared and arranged in a way to rotate with respect to each other. The inner ring comprises at least one channel. The channel is prepared and arranged in a way that air flows along inside the channel so that excess heat of the inner ring is removed by the airflow in the channel.
US09303690B2
A rolling bearing comprises rollers and a retainer which holds the rollers. On an inner diameter surface of each of annular regions in the retainer, a cutout is formed from an axially outer side end surface of the retainer toward an inner side of the retainer. Each cutout has an outer diametrical position on a more radially outer position than an outer diametrical end of an inner-side projection of the retainer.
US09303683B1
A connector system is provided suitable for use in disconnecting a pair of pivotally connected panels in a multi-panel structure when the connector system is applied to the multi-panel structure. The connector system has a plurality of first connectors having first and second members, with the first member affixable to a first panel and the second member affixable to a second panel, the first and second members of the first connectors comprising at least two openings to permit passage therethrough of a pin that, when in place, permits relative pivotal movement of the first and second panels when the first and second members are connected to the first and second panels, where the first connectors may be easily detached upon actuation of an actuator by a user to remove the pin from the openings. The actuator may be manually and/or automatically operated.
US09303678B2
A nut for fastening a first workpiece defining a through recess to a second workpiece including a bolt projecting in an axial direction through the recess, and the nut comprises an axially extending shank and flange at a first end of the shank, and the nut defines a bore extending axially through the flange and into the shank and further defines an opening to the bore proximate to the first end of the shank, and the nut further includes an elastic holding section radially outward of the opening, and the nut partially defines a depression radially outward of the holding section, so that the holding section can flex radially outward into the depression when the nut is jammed onto the bolt.
US09303666B2
The clamping system for attaching a tool to a tool holder offers highly precise self-adjustment of the tool in the tool holder, which remains in effect even at the high tool temperatures encountered during operation. For this purpose, the tool comprises a central clamping bolt, a positioning pin, and a groove, whereas the tool holder comprises a draw bolt, a T-slot, and a register pin. The draw bolt draws the clamping bolt by way of slanted surfaces against the tool holder with force components acting in three directions.
US09303659B2
Disclosed is a method of controlling the flow rate of a hydraulic pump, which controls the discharge flow rate in proportion to a manipulated amount of a manipulation lever operated by a user even when the discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump is varied. The method of controlling the flow rate of a variable capacity hydraulic pump for a construction apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first step of calculating the required flow rate of the variable capacity hydraulic pump according to a manipulated amount of a manipulation lever operated by a user; a second step of calculating the maximum discharge flow rate within a range equal to or less than a preset horsepower or torque of the variable capacity hydraulic pump corresponding to the pressure detected by a discharge pressure detecting sensor; and a third step of controlling the discharge flow rate of the variable capacity hydraulic pump in proportion to a manipulated amount of the manipulation lever within a range equal to or less than the maximum discharge flow rate set in the second step.
US09303658B2
A turbomachine system and method, with the system including a slug detector coupled to a main line to detect a slug flow in a multiphase fluid in the main line. The system also includes a compressor fluidly coupled to the main line and disposed downstream of the slug detector, and a bypass line fluidly coupled to the main line upstream of the compressor and downstream of the compressor. The system further includes at least an upstream control valve fluidly coupled to the main line upstream of the compressor and communicably coupled to the slug detector. The upstream control valve is configured to actuate between a normal position, in which the upstream control valve directs fluid to the compressor, and a bypass position, in which the upstream control valve directs fluid to the bypass line, according to when the slug detector detects a slug flow.
US09303657B2
A motor bearing heat dissipation structure includes a metal base, a heat conducting element connected to the metal base and including a wall portion and an extended portion, and a plastic bearing cup located around an outer side of the wall portion of the heat conducting element and fixed to the metal base. The plastic bearing cup internally defines a bearing receiving hole. The extended portion is horizontally extended from an upper end of the wall portion toward a center of the plastic bearing cup. A bearing is received in the bearing receiving hole and seated on the extended portion, so that heat produced by the bearing when it rotates along with a rotary shaft of a motor is transferred from the extended portion of the heat conducting element to the metal base for dissipation. A fan using such motor bearing heat dissipation structure is also disclosed.
US09303655B2
An annular seal is provided for use in a turbomachine. The annular seal may form a generally rectangular cross-section and may include an outer radial surface forming an outer sealing surface and defining at least one annular groove and a plurality of slots spaced circumferentially about the outer radial surface. Each slot may have an end terminating in the at least one annular groove. The annular seal may also include a first axial sidewall forming a sidewall sealing surface and a recessed portion and a second axial sidewall opposing the first axial sidewall. At least one annular groove and the plurality of slots may be configured to maintain a low pressure environment across at least a portion of the outer radial surface. The second axial sidewall, the recessed portion, and the inner radial surface may be configured to maintain a high pressure environment there across during operation of the turbomachine.
US09303651B2
A bearing cup structure and a thermal module thereof. The bearing cup structure includes a cup body and a retainer ring. The cup body has a fixing section, a receiving space and a shoulder section. The fixing section is formed at one end of the cup body. The shoulder section is formed in the receiving space. The retainer ring is formed with a hole in communication with the receiving space. With the bearing cup structure, the heat dissipation efficiency of the thermal module is increased and the assembling time is shortened to lower the manufacturing cost.
US09303646B2
A cross flow fan and an air conditioner including the cross flow fan, where the cross flow fan includes a fixing member, and a plurality of blades fixed to an upper surface of the fixing member and spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction. one or more of the blades include a protrusion protruding in a downward direction from a surface of the blade.
US09303645B2
A regenerative blower includes an annular housing assembly that surrounds a rotating impeller and defines a toroidal flow channel, an inlet to admit fluid to the toroidal flow channel, an outlet to discharge fluid from the toroidal flow channel, a low fluid-pressure region of the toroidal flow channel proximate to the inlet, and a high fluid-pressure region of the toroidal flow channel proximate to the outlet. A non-contact interaction between concentric surface contours of the impeller and the housing assembly form opposed concentric fluid pathways between the impeller and the housing assembly from the high to low fluid-pressure regions of the toroidal flow channel. The opposed concentric fluid pathways are so convoluted as to restrict fluid from flowing therethrough from the high fluid-pressure region of the toroidal flow channel to the low fluid-pressure region of the toroidal flow channel.
US09303636B2
Disclosed is a system for controlling a hydraulic pump in a construction machine which can reduce the discharge flow of the hydraulic pump in proportion to the load pressure of the hydraulic pump to enhance operability by the driver. The present invention provides the system for controlling the hydraulic pump in the construction machine, which is characterized by detecting the discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump and the operation activity of an operation lever, and comparing the detected discharge pressure of the hydraulic pump and a predetermined pressure value, and when the detected discharge pressure exceeds the predetermined pressure value, the maximum dischargeable flow of the hydraulic pump is reduced in proportion to the difference between the detected pressure and the predetermined pressure value.
US09303622B2
There is provided a wind turbine apparatus which comprises blades having an aerofoil profile. The apparatus is arranged to start up even in light wind conditions and to act as a lift type device at higher rotational speeds. The apparatus may comprise wind deflectors to concentrate wind through the apparatus. Further, the blades may be orientated at less than 90° to a radius line which leads to improved performance. Still further, the apparatus may be arranged to heat water by means of solar energy.
US09303618B2
The invention relates to a device (10) which comprises a stationary member (14), comprising a stabilization means (20) relative to the bottom of the expanse of water, a member (16) movable relative to the stationary member (14), comprising at least one floating element (40) intended for remaining on the surface (12) of the expanse of water, such that the swell drives the movement of said movable member (16), a guiding means (17, 18) substantially vertical to the movement of the movable member (16) relative to the stationary member (14), and a generation means (32) for electric power, arranged between the stationary member (14) and the movable member (16), intended for converting into electric power the mechanical energy from the vertical motion of the movable member (16) relative to the stationary member (14).
US09303616B2
A method for adapting an engine to an octane number of fuel by decrementing an initial octane number. Starting with a reference setting of the spark advance in an engine operating range for a given octane number, the engine operating range being divided into a plurality of zones, each including an anti-pinking corrective value of the spark advance of the reference setting, the engine is switched to a reference setting that corresponds to a lower octane number: when a threshold value of the advance correction loop is exceeded in at least one zone, or when a counter of the number of zones, in which another threshold value of the advance correction loop is exceeded, exceeds a multi-zone threshold.
US09303608B2
A fuel injector has a valve nozzle defining a fuel-injection port downstream of a fuel passage. The fuel-injection port is inclined toward a nozzle periphery from a fuel-inlet to a fuel-outlet. A valve needle is capable of moving in a valve-opening direction to open the fuel-injection port so that a fuel flowing into the fuel-inlet from the nozzle periphery is injected into an internal combustion engine. The fuel-injection port has an upstream-portion defining the fuel-inlet, and a downstream-portion defining the fuel-outlet. The downstream-portion is smoothly connected to the upstream-portion at a position most close to a center of the valve nozzle, and the downstream-portion is offset toward the nozzle periphery relative to the upstream-portion, so that the upstream-portion and the downstream-portion forms a step surface therebetween. The step surface is eccentric to a center line of the upstream-portion.
US09303607B2
A fuel system including a high pressure fuel pump with a quiet fuel metering valve is disclosed. In one example, the quiet fuel metering valve may be cam driven. The fuel system may reduce engine noise and may provide operating modes that are different from other fuel systems.
US09303596B2
An EGR cooler and an EGR cooler device includes a pre-cooler which is located at a central region at which a cooling water chamber of an EGR cooler housing, in which cooling water circulates, is divided into two spaces, and in which hot exhaust gas introduced from an exhaust system is discharged as primary-cooled exhaust gas via heat-exchange with the cooling water. Therefore, it may be possible to reduce costs by a decrease in number of EGR tubes via optimal primary cooling performance for the exhaust gas in the pre-cooler and particularly to relieve damage by a thermal load generated due to the hot exhaust gas by fully surrounding an inlet and an outlet of the pre-cooler with the circulating cooling water.
US09303588B2
A sound absorber comprising a base body and a tongue (24). The base body has a bottom plate, a wall enclosing the bottom plate and an opening enabling the entry of air into the base body. The tongue has a fixed end, a free end and a central portion disposed between the fixed and the free end. The free end of the tongue is spaced from the wall and the bottom plate, and the central portion of the tongue is disposed to extend at least partially straight along a width direction. Furthermore, a sound absorber assembly can include at least two sound absorbers, and an engine, in particular, for an aircraft, comprising such a sound absorber and/or such a sound absorber assembly.
US09303584B2
A piston assembly having a piston member and a connecting rod. The piston member has a crown portion and a lower portion bonded together with a cooling gallery formed between them. The connecting rod has a ball end which is positioned in a socket in the piston member. In one embodiment, the ball end can have two flat surfaces and be held in position by C-clips. In another embodiment, the ball end is cylindrically shaped and the socket has a corresponding shape.
US09303572B2
A microcomputer is formed of a CPU and a detection circuit and inputs sensor signals of a vibration sensor and a rotation sensor. The detection circuit includes an AD converter circuit for AD conversion of the sensor signal of the vibration sensor at a predetermined sampling interval, a peak hold circuit for detecting a peak value of the sensor signal, a RAM for storing the peak value, a counter for detecting a crank angle at a peak value detection time, and an angle calculation part. The microcomputer divides a pre-ignition check interval into plural interval units and checks the pre-ignition based on the peak value detected in each unit interval. The pre-ignition and the knock are checked by using different threshold values in an interval, in which the pre-ignition check interval overlaps a knock check interval.
US09303570B2
Methods and systems for controlling an engine that may be automatically stopped and started are presented. In one example, a compressor is activated from a deactivated state in response to one or more environmental parameters during an engine start. The methods and systems may improve engine response after an engine start.
US09303565B2
A method and system for controlling a two-shaft turbine engine, the two-shaft turbine engine including a gas producer having a compressor with adjustable inlet guide vanes. The method includes monitoring a rotational speed of the gas producer, maintaining an inlet guide vane angle constant when a rotational speed of the gas producer is below a threshold value, and adjusting an inlet guide vane angle of the compressor at a predetermined rate when the rotational speed of the gas producer is above the threshold value.
US09303560B2
Disclosed herein are screw shaft turbine compressors having (i) a compressor section, (ii) a turbine section, (iii) a combustion section coupling to the compressor section and the turbine section, and (iv) a grooved shaft. The grooved shaft can include one or more grooves for providing fuel from the compressor section to the combustion section and for allowing exhaust to leave the combustion section and exit the turbine section. A method for generating different speed to torque ratios on the shaft and a system for generating torque on the shaft are further disclosed.
US09303546B2
A method is provided for protecting at least one metallic surface against discolorations under the action of heat. The method includes applying a lacquer to the metallic surfaces and then stoving the metallic surface while sealing the metallic surface against oxygen contact to form a permanently effective oxygen barrier.
US09303544B2
A method of detecting a thermal event is provided that relies not only on monitored exhaust temperatures, but also on temperature gradients propagating in the direction of exhaust flow. Specifically, the method of detecting a thermal event in a vehicle exhaust system includes monitoring at least one operating parameter at multiple locations spaced in exhaust flow of the vehicle exhaust system. The method then includes initiating a protective action if the monitoring indicates that at least one respective predetermined temperature requirement and a respective predetermined temperature gradient requirement are exceeded at two of the multiple temperature sensor locations within a predetermined time period.
US09303542B2
A honeycomb catalyst body capable of containing in a limited space, having high mechanical strength, less pressure loss, and suitable purification performance is provided, and it includes a plugged honeycomb structure having porous partition walls defining cells, plugged portions, and porous projecting portions projecting so as to extend from the partition walls into the cells and being formed integrally with the partition walls; and catalysts loaded onto the projecting portions, wherein a porosity of the partition walls is 40 to 70%, thicknesses of the projecting portions is from 30 to 140% of thicknesses of the partition wall, an amount of the catalyst loaded onto the partition walls thereof is smaller than an amount of the catalyst loaded onto the projecting portions, one catalyst loaded onto projecting portions is a selective reduction catalyst, and another catalyst loaded onto projecting portions is an ammonia slip preventing catalyst.
US09303539B1
A universal drain plug system and method allow for the use of a single tool, such as a wrench, for installing and removing drain plugs from fluid containers such as vehicle oil pans. The system includes a plurality of different drain plugs, each with a substantially identical tool-engaging head portion, but with a different threaded shaft. The threaded shafts may differ in diameter, length, and thread dimensions including thread height and pitch, for example.
US09303537B2
Disclosed herein is a device which provides a safety measure to vehicles by utilizing the dead man (tether) switch, or other electrical connection, in combination with a valve and actuator, to keep oil from leaking out of the lubrication system of the vehicle in a rollover situation.
US09303528B2
A thermal radiation shield comprises a first mounting base and a ring section. The first mounting base is disposed at a first axial end of the ring section for securing the shield ring section within a generally annular cavity defined at least in part by a hot fluid flow path boundary wall, and a radially adjacent and spaced apart cold fluid flow path boundary wall. The ring section is configured to substantially block a line of sight between the hot fluid flow path boundary wall and the cold fluid flow path boundary wall.
US09303527B2
A hub cooling apparatus adapted to a wind generator has a circulating fan module installed in a nosed end of a hub and a wind guiding module installed in a main shaft of a nacelle; wherein the circulating fan module is driven by the rotating hub, the wind guiding module is driven by the rotating main shaft.
US09303525B2
A method for determining calibration data for at least two cameras (camera1, camera2) in a multi view position, includes a step of determining respective parameters ((h100, . . . , h122), (h200, . . . , h222)) for identifying at least one respective homographic transformation on respective images (image1,image2) taken by said cameras of a same scene, by performing respective geometry analyses on said respective images (image1, image2), a step of performing at least one respective combined homographic transformation/feature detection step on said respective images thereby obtaining respective sets (feature set1, feature set2) of features on respective transformed images, such that said calibration data are obtained from matches (ml, . . . , mk) determined between said respective sets of features.
US09303521B2
An interstage coverplate assembly is provided for a rotor assembly. The coverplate assembly includes an annular first coverplate, an annular second coverplate and an annular coverplate lock that extends axially between and rotatably connects the first and the second coverplates. The first coverplate includes a plurality of coverplate tabs arranged circumferentially around an axial centerline. The coverplate lock includes a plurality of lock tabs arranged circumferentially around the centerline. A first of the lock tabs circumferentially engages a first of the coverplate tabs.
US09303518B2
A component for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary embodiment can include a platform having an outer surface and an inner surface. A cover plate can be positioned adjacent to the outer surface of the platform. The outer surface of the platform can include a pocket and the cover plate is positioned relative to the pocket to establish a platform cooling channel therebetween.
US09303515B2
A turbomachine diaphragm includes a sealing section having a first end portion that extends to a second end portion through an intermediate portion. At least one rail member includes a first end section that extends from the first end portion of the sealing section to a second end section through an intermediate section having an inner surface section and an outer surface section. The second end section includes a machined surface having a repair coupon mounting element. A repair coupon is mounted at the repair coupon mounting element and operatively connected to the at least one rail member. A method of repairing a turbomachine diaphragm is also disclosed herein.
US09303512B2
A vane pump includes a vane cam mounted in a recess of a rotor, and configured to move with eccentricity with respect to an axis of rotation of the rotor. A cam port is formed in a surface of a pump body facing the vane cam, and configured to hydraulically communicate with the recess of the rotor. The vane cam includes an outer peripheral surface configured to contact a proximal end of each of vanes, and configured to cause projection of the vanes along with rotation of the rotor. The vane cam hydraulically separates the proximal end portion of a first slot in a suction region from the proximal end portion of a second slot in a discharge region.
US09303510B2
Fluid analysis measurements may be performed during withdrawal of a downhole tool to the surface. Fluid may be collected within a fluid analysis system of the downhole tool and the collected fluid may be exposed to the wellbore pressure during withdrawal of the downhole tool. Measurements for the collected fluid, such as optical density, the gas oil ratio, fluid density, fluid viscosity, fluorescence, temperature, and pressure, among other, may be recorded continuously or at intervals as the downhole tool is brought to the surface. The measurements may be employed to determine properties of the collected fluid, such as the saturation pressure and the asphaltene onset pressure.
US09303506B2
A measurement system for collecting data. The measurement system includes a tubular suspended downhole, the tubular having an outer surface and a flowbore extending therethrough, the flowbore conveying a fluid, a first recess formed in the outer surface of the tubular, a first detection system mounted in the first recess, a second recess formed in the outer surface of the tubular, and a second detection system mounted in the second recess. The second recess is offset relative to the first recess by at least one of an axial distance and a circumferential distance. The first detection system is operable to measure a portion of the data, and the second detection system operable to measure another portion of the data.
US09303502B2
Water production from a subterranean formation is inhibited or controlled by pumping a fluid containing coated particles through a wellbore into the formation. The particles have been previously coated with a relative permeability modifier (RPM). Upon contact with water, the RPM coating expands or swells and inhibits and controls the production of water. The RPM may be a water hydrolyzable polymer having a weight average molecular weight greater than 100,000. The particles may be conventional proppants or gravel.
US09303499B2
A method for enhancing the recovery of hydrocarbon deposit includes the step of sensing a material property of an underground volume. A three-dimensional map identifying the spatial variation in the sensed material property of the underground volume is generated. Propagating electromagnetic radiation is transmitted in the volume based on the map. The propagating electromagnetic radiation transmission is varied in at least one of frequency, polarization, wavelength, frequency, amplitude, mode, and phase in response to the variation in the material property of a region within the volume to which the propagating electromagnetic radiation is directed. Accordingly, the volume is heated in a spatially varying manner to heat material in the volume and thereby induce the flow of hydrocarbon deposits from the volume.
US09303486B2
A tool assembly including an equalization valve allowing for continuous equalization of pressure above and below a sealing element includes a housing having a fluid passageway that is fluidically continuous across a sealing element disposed on a mandrel. The mandrel is part of a sealing assembly that contains the sealing element. The equalization valve includes a valve plug moveable from an open to a seated position wherein the valve plug is seated against the sealing mandrel. The valve plug defines a conduit that provides minimal fluid flow across the sealing element when the valve plug is seated against the sealing mandrel. The equalization valve further includes an outer port for permitting lateral flow of fluid from the tubing string to the annulus defined between the tubing string and the wellbore. The equalization valve may be part of a downhole tool assembly which includes the equalization valve and a sealing assembly.
US09303483B2
A swellable packer with enhanced sealing capability. A packer assembly includes multiple seal elements, each seal element being swellable downhole, each seal element having at least one face inclined relative to a longitudinal axis of the assembly, and the inclined faces of adjacent seal elements contacting each other. A method of constructing a packer assembly having a desired differential pressure sealing capability includes: providing a base pipe and multiple seal elements, each seal element being swellable in a downhole environment, and each seal element having a predetermined differential pressure sealing capability less than the desired sealing capability; and after the desired sealing capability is determined, installing a selected number of the seal elements on the base pipe, so that the combined predetermined differential pressure sealing capabilities of the installed seal elements is at least as great as the desired sealing capability.
US09303475B2
A wellbore tool which includes a housing having an axial flowbore and a piston sleeve movably disposed within the flowbore. The tool is moveable between first and second operating positions by an actuation mechanism having a piston with a seat having a plurality of separate arcuate segments. The tool can be moved between first and second operating positions with the use of actuating plugs of different sizes that can be landed upon the seat.
US09303463B2
The invention relates to a riser for transporting fluid between an upper facility and a subsea facility. The riser has a center axis and a length along the center axis and comprises an unbonded flexible metal armored riser section and an unbonded flexible composite armored riser section arranged in fluid connection to each other. The metal armored riser section comprises at least two cross-wound tensile armor layers each comprising a plurality of helically wound elongate metal armor elements wound with a winding angle of about 60 degree or less relative to the center axis. The composite armored riser section comprises at least one tensile armor layer comprising a plurality of helically wound elongate composite armor elements wound with a winding angle of about 60 degree or less relative to the center axis.The invention also relates to an offshore system comprising such riser.
US09303462B2
A cutter assembly includes a substrate and at least one island. The substrate includes a surface circumscribed by a peripheral edge, a flank surface extending from the peripheral edge, and at least one pocket with an opening on the surface and spaced apart from the peripheral edge. The at least one pocket extends from the opening towards an interior of the substrate. The at least one island is in the at least one pocket, and the at least one island includes a cutting surface that is exposed by the opening of the at least one pocket.
US09303461B2
Cutting elements for earth-boring tools include a substrate having a front end surface, an opposing back end surface, and at least one side surface extending between the front end surface and the back end surface. A volume of polycrystalline hard material is disposed on the front end surface of the substrate. The substrate and polycrystalline hard material may have a curved or an annular configuration defining an aperture within the cutting element. Earth-boring tools include such cutting elements. Methods of forming earth-boring tools include attaching such one or more such cutting elements to a body of an earth-boring tool.
US09303451B2
Systems and methods for pivoting a blind slat by manipulating one or more tilt cords of a set of blind slats to achieve superior blind closure. More particularly, the present invention relates to a window covering having a blind slat that is rotated clockwise or counter-clockwise by rotating a driving mechanism that is positioned in a horizontal orientation. The present invention further relates to a window covering system that achieves tilting of blind slats without requiring the traditional tilting components of standard Venetian-type blinds.
US09303450B2
A covering for an architectural opening has a horizontal movable rail supported by cords, with a variety of configurations, some of which prevent the horizontal movable rail from skewing, most of which conceal the cords.
US09303448B2
A deployable flood shield, and associated method, prevents ingress of water through an opening. An outer frame is positioned to surround the opening and has a top channel, a bottom channel, a left channel and a right channel. A flexible shield is stored within the bottom channel prior to deployment and has a left edge retained by the left channel and a right edge retained by the right channel. Seals are configured with each of the bottom, left, and right channels for sealing between the bottom, left, and right channels and the flexible shield when deployed. A controller deploys the flexible shield to prevent the ingress of water into the opening. A deploy command is received and a motor is driven, for a predefined period, to deploy a flexible shield to block the opening and preventing the flexible shield from retracting.
US09303438B2
A hinge assembly for moving a window sash relative to a window frame may include a track, a slider, first, second and third links, and a stop member. The slider may engage the track and may be translatable along the track. The first link may be pivotably coupled to the track. The second link may be pivotably coupled to the slider. The third link may be pivotably coupled to the first and second links. The stop member may engage the track and may be configured to limit translational motion of the slider. The stop member may be movable between a plurality of positions. Each of the plurality of positions may correspond to one of a plurality of ranges of translational motion of the slider.
US09303431B2
A door entry device comprising includes a case, a key holder and a key pad. The case covers a door-locking device on a door. The key holder has a slot into which a key end fits. The knob is mounted on the case. A currently active security code can be entered into the keypad. When the currently active security code has been entered into the keypad, turning the knob results in turning the key holder to unlock the door-locking device.
US09303428B1
A tent with a reinforced frame-supporting structure is provided, comprising a top disc (1), a plurality of vertex angle support bars (2) whose tops are circumferentially and obliquely connected with the top disc (1), foot bar supports (3) connected with the bottom of each vertex angle support bar (2), hinged beams (4) arranged between two adjacent vertex angle support bars (2), wherein either end of the hinged beams (4) is connected with the upper end of adjacent foot bar supports (3) respectively, a frame-reinforcing support bar (5) is provided between the hinged beam (4) and the top disc (1) whose top is obliquely connected with the top disc (1) and bottom is connected with the middle hinged portion of the hinged beam (4). The tent has the advantages of reinforced-frame structure, increased-hinge stability and prevention of water accumulation in the middle of the inclined plane of the top fabric.
US09303425B1
A decoy mounting arrangement for a layout hunting blind that allows a decoy to be mounted on the hunting blind door and to move therewith.
US09303424B1
A one man or two man layout hunting blind that can be folded into a compact transportable condition and that is easily assembled or deploy in the field, the layout hunting blind having a head end and a foot end with an inner frame assembly that does not extend to the foot end, the inner frame assembly including a combination of inner folding assemblies and locking sleeves that make the blind easy to deploy in the field.
US09303409B2
A cleanout boom for guiding a plumbing snake, pressure washer, camera or a similar apparatus into a vent pipe on the roof of a structure. A head assembly with a remote mechanism to attach the head assembly to the vent. The device can be entirely operated from the ground.
US09303404B2
An insulated composite structural panel comprises a first concrete layer, a second concrete layer, and an insulation layer disposed therebetween. One or more shear ties are embedded in the panel. The shear ties include a base portion and a plurality of elongated anchor elements extending from the base portion. A portion of each anchor element extends through the first and second concrete layers and insulation layer. The tie is formed of a material exhibiting ductile elastic-plastic behavior under an applied shear load. In a non-limiting example, the tie may be formed of a fiber reinforced polymer. The tie is constructed and acts to form stable flexural hinges at the interface between the insulation layer and each concrete layer. During a shear load event, portions of the anchor elements within the insulation laterally deform in a ductile manner to keep the structural panel relatively intact.
US09303402B2
An apparatus for clamping a floor including truss top cords having tongue configured ends and including an overlying sheath having a plurality of bolt receiving apertures, the apparatus incorporating a concrete foundation wall having an upper end forming an outer flange and an inner recess; outer threaded bolts anchored within and extending upwardly from the outer flange and positioned for, upon receipts of the truss's tongue configured ends within the inner recess, extension through the sheath's bolt receiving apertures; and an outer plurality of threaded nuts fitted for engagements with the outer plurality of threaded bolts, the nuts, upon the tongue configured end receipts, upon the bolt extensions, and upon the threaded engagements, clamping the sheath against the outer flange and capturing the tongue configured ends within the inner recess.
US09303401B2
A partition system includes a plurality of wall elements merging one into another, wherein at least one wall element is designed as a stepped element, and wherein at least one wall element is designed as a corner element.
US09303397B1
A beaver control device for use with a culvert pipe features a tubular frame having opposing longitudinal ends which are open and a plurality of openings spaced angularly about the frame. The openings provide alternative paths, in addition to the open ends of the frame, for water to pass through the device in an event that one of the open ends become obstructed. The device also features a plurality of transverse bars spanning across transversely opposing portions of an inner surface of the frame. The transverse bars are spaced along a longitudinal length of the frame and elevated relative to a bottommost edge of the frame which rests on the ground. The transverse bars are closer to the bottommost edge than to a topmost edge of the frame which is vertically opposite same. Elevating and spacing the transverse bars as described deters the beaver from passing through the device.
US09303393B2
A tamper-resistant aerator including an aerator cartridge, an insert defining at least one removal slot, and a locking ring defining at least one removal slot at least partially disposed within a housing is disclosed. The locking ring rotates with respect to the housing to allow alignment of the removal slot of the locking ring with the removal slot of the insert. Alignment of the slots form a continuous passageway through the locking ring and into the insert. Alternatively, a plurality of removal slots may be provided. A mating engagement between the locking ring and the housing secures the locking ring within the housing while still allowing it to rotate with respect to the housing. An aerator system is also provided comprising an aerator as described above and a tool adapted to be received in the continuous passageway formed by the alignment of the slots and engage the insert.
US09303391B2
A faucet includes a faucet mount assembly for mounting the faucet to a surface and for communicating and mixing hot and cold water to a user. The faucet mount assembly generally includes a mounting plate, a fluid tube, and one or more valve housings. The valve housings are coupled to the mounting plate and are configured to receive valve components for selectively allowing water to flow through the valve housings. The fluid tube is disposed in fluid communication with outlets of the valve housings and is configured to transfer water from the valve housings to a spout for delivery to a user.
US09303390B2
A work machine includes: a work state detection unit detecting a physical amount; a time integration unit calculating a time integration value; a determination unit associating the time integration value with a predetermined operating angle of an excavation-loading mechanism and determining that an operation of an operation lever is performed at a time the time integration value is not smaller than a predetermined integration value; a counting unit performing accumulation adding with number of times of loading as once at a time each operation is an excavation-loading work performed in an order of: an excavation operation; a forward swing operation; a soil discharge operation; and a backward swing operation; a default setting unit setting a bucket capacity; a workload calculation unit calculating a workload by multiplying the number of times of loading by the bucket capacity; and an output unit outputting the workload.
US09303388B2
A work vehicle includes an engine, an exhaust gas purification apparatus, a reducing agent tank, an engine coolant circuit, a branch path, a valve, an accepting portion, and a valve control unit. The exhaust gas purification apparatus purifies a nitrogen oxide in an exhaust gas. The reducing agent tank stores a reducing agent to be supplied to the exhaust gas purification apparatus. The engine coolant circuit includes a water pump for circulating a engine coolant through a circulation path as the engine is driven. The branch path is provided for heat exchange between the engine coolant and the reducing agent in the reducing agent tank. The valve controls supply of the engine coolant into the branch path. The accepting portion accepts an operation instruction from an operator. The valve control unit gives an instruction for an opening operation of the valve in response to the operation instruction from the operator.
US09303387B2
A hydraulic system has a pump that furnishes pressurized fluid to a supply node connected to a plurality of functions. Each function includes hydraulic actuator and a control valve assembly through which fluid flows both from the supply node to the hydraulic actuator and from the hydraulic actuator to a return line. A control method involves receiving a plurality of commands, each designating desired operation of a function. Each command is separately used to derive a flow value designating an amount of flow for the respective function, a load value indicating a load magnitude related to the respective function, and a pressure value denoting a supply pressure for the respective function. Then, the control valve assembly for each given hydraulic function is operated in response to the flow and load values for that function and in response to the pressure value that is greatest among the plurality of functions.
US09303376B2
A snow removal system is provided that includes a compression module having a tubular casing with an inlet, and an outlet having a converging cross-sectional surface area shape and air-hole perforations, a conveyor screw concentric to the casing spanning from the inlet to the outlet is powered to move and compact the snow at the outlet, a conveyor belt moves the output snow away from the compression module at a velocity v1, a moveable truss houses the conveyor belt and supports the compression module, the device contacts a snow-covered surface and the truss moves at a velocity v2 perpendicular to the snowplow, where v1 is great enough to move the snow from the compression module when the truss moves at a velocity v2, the conveyor screw turns at a rate that to incorporate V1 and v2 to ensure the conveyor belt capacity is not exceeded.
US09303375B2
A vehicle barrier fence for arresting an impacting vehicle of substantial mass within a selected distance of the fence. The fence having, in part: a retaining structure, at least one cable having a first end comprising a cable terminator, a post having an orifice defined there through sized to receive the cable terminator into the post, and a cable retainer for retaining the cable terminator within the post.
US09303371B2
A bearing preset system for inhibiting movement of bearings in a construction comprises a first plate (1) having an upper and a lower surface wherein the upper surface (3) of the first plate is adapted for mounting onto and being secured to a lower surface of a first bearing member and a second plate (2) having an upper and a lower surface wherein the lower surface (5) of the second plate is adapted for mounting onto and being secured to an upper surface of a second bearing member and wherein the conformation of the lower surface (7) of the first plate and the conformation of the upper surface (9) of the second plate are such as to prevent movement in at least one shear direction between the first and second plates.
US09303369B1
Methods for embedding photocatalytic titanium dioxide in asphalt surfaces to reduce pollutants via photocatalytic reactions include applying an amount of an asphalt surface treatment compound to an upper surface of the asphalt surface, the asphalt surface treatment compound including a mixture of a liquid carrier compound with a titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalyst.
US09303367B2
Applicator (11) for application of a viscous mass (31) to a surface (33) comprising a heated chamber (32) in communication with openings (12) controlled by valves (14) allowing dropwise discharge of the viscous mass to the surface. The valves (14) are non-packed and comprise an outer sleeve (15) having at least one through opening (16) in its sleeve wall and valve plug (17) adapted to the internal surface of the sleeve (15). The valve plug (17) is reciprocated by a valve lifter (18) from a closed position completely sealing the at least one through opening (16) in the sleeve wall, to an elevated open position exposing at least the lowermost part of the at least one through opening (16) allowing viscous mass (31) to pass from the outside of the sleeve (15) to the inside thereof.
US09303362B2
A calendering roller used to manufacture textured nonwoven fabric including papermaking fibers is disclosed. The calendering roller includes a positive pattern that includes a basic element having a ring shape and a repetition of said basic element along multiple rows and columns substantially overall a peripheral surface of the calendaring roller. The ring defines an apex relatively to a center portion of the ring defining a cavity and a grinded surrounding zone. The ring includes at least one radial channel putting in communication the cavity and the grinded surrounding zone so as to define a discontinuous calendering surface. The repetition is regular except for multiple substantially longitudinally and transversally oriented regions. The regions are of limited size with respect to a calendering roller size and randomly distributed so as to define multiple random longitudinal and transverse lines in the textured nonwoven fabric including papermaking fibers, generating a cloth-like visual texture.
US09303359B2
Process for manufacturing a sheet of paper and/or board, according to which, in a plant comprising a fan pump and a head box: a cellulose fiber suspension is prepared; the white waters are introduced into the thick stock; the mixture is homogenized in the fan pump; the thin stock is transferred to the head box; the sheet is formed and then dried, characterized in that, before homogenization of the mixture in the fan pump, a cationic copolymer obtained by Hofmann degradation reaction is introduced into the white waters and/or the thick stock and/or the mixture formed by the white waters and the thick stock.
US09303353B2
A basket comprising a body and at least one strap, the body consisting of a bottom and an open top. The body includes ventilation holes which are also used as projection-receiving openings through which locking mechanisms may engage. At least one strap may be connected to the body in a variety of locations, based upon user preference and at least one strap may be adjustable for ease of use. The body also comprises guide slots through which the straps may be fed prior to their connection to the body. The body may also include handles which may be located in a variety of places near or within the top edge of the body. The basket may be used with or without straps, providing the user with versatility of use.
US09303351B2
A washing machine includes: a main body forming an external appearance; a tub installed at an inner side of the main body and keeping washing water in storage; a drum rotatably installed at the inner side of the tub; a rotational shaft coupled with the drum to transfer a driving force; a driving motor installed between the tub and the drum to rotate the rotational shaft; and a gasket installed between the drum and the tub and preventing leaked washing water from being introduced to the driving motor.
US09303346B2
An embroidery frame includes a mounting portion, an annular portion, a rotation member, a first guide portion, an extending portion, and a drive mechanism. The mounting portion is mounted on a carriage of a sewing machine. The annular portion holds a work cloth. The rotation member is formed in an annular shape and is supported by the annular portion. The rotation member rotates in a circumference direction of the annular portion. The first guide portion is provided on the rotation member and has a first penetrating portion. A through hole is formed in the first penetrating portion. A string-like material to be supplied for sewing is inserted through the first penetrating portion. The extending portion is formed on the annular portion and extends toward the outside in a radial direction of the annular portion. The drive mechanism is provided on the extending portion and rotates the rotation member.
US09303343B2
A drive device for driving a helical fiber sheet for needling, the device including a needling table having a stationary top surface for receiving a helical fiber sheet for needling, a circular turntable positioned under the top surface of the needling table and having a plurality of drive needles vertically mounted thereon, the drive needles passing through the needling table and projecting relative to its top surface, the drive needles being positioned on at least one diameter of the turntable, and a drive system constructed and arranged to drive the turntable in rotation relative to the top surface of the needling table about a vertical axis.
US09303337B2
An article of manufacture for warming human extremities via graduated thermal insulation with a blanket comprised of concentrations of and transitions to and from concentrations of various types of woven thread fabric or non-woven fabric, having various properties of thermal insulation.
US09303332B2
Silicon single crystal substrates having uniform resistance, few BMDs in a surface layer and a moderate number of BMDs in a center of thickness of the substrate are formed from Czochralski silicon single crystals. The substrates have a resistivity in the center of a first main surface not lower than 50 Ω·cm and a rate of change in resistivity in the first main surface not higher than 3%, an average density of bulk micro defects in a region between the first main surface and a plane at a depth of 50 μm of less than 1×108/cm3, and an average density of bulk micro defects in a region lying between a plane at a depth of 300 μm and a plane at a depth of 400 μm from the first main surface not lower than 1×108 /cm3 and not higher than 1×109 /cm3.
US09303331B2
Systems and methods are provided to promote uniform thermal environment to feedstock material (e.g., silicon) in a crucible of a crystal growth apparatus are provided herein. More specifically, a heating system may be arranged in the crystal growth apparatus so as to include at least a first and second heating element which are configured to distribute heat axisymmetrically to the feedstock material and the second heating element that is configured to distribute heat symmetrically to the feedstock material to thereby provide uniform heat distribution to the feedstock material in the crucible to allow for increased consistency in crystal ingot quality.
US09303329B2
Techniques disclosed herein include an electro-chemical deposition apparatus that provides an efficient circulation system, chemical management that provides reliable and uniform plating, and a configuration that provides short maintenance times and greater tool availability. Techniques include a processing tank containing an anolyte fluid, and one or more plating cells each having a catholyte fluid compartment with a circulation path that connects to a separate or remote catholyte reservoir. Thus, with such a configuration, a single pump can be used to flow catholyte (via manifolds) through one or more plating cells. Thus, with the catholyte reservoir maintained off board, instead of dumping catholyte over a weir into a reservoir, catholyte fluid—after flowing through a plating cell—is returned to the catholyte reservoir.
US09303316B1
A deposition apparatus includes an input spool located in non-vacuum input module, at least one vacuum process module, an accumulator, and an air to vacuum sealing mechanism. The accumulator and the sealing mechanism are configured to continuously provide a web substrate from the input spool at atmosphere into the at least one process module at vacuum without stopping the web substrate.
US09303315B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses and methods for fabricating electrochemical cells. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a single chamber configurable to deposit different materials on a substrate spooled between two reels. In one embodiment, the substrate is moved in the same direction around the reels, with conditions within the chamber periodically changed to result in the continuous build-up of deposited material over time. Another embodiment employs alternating a direction of movement of the substrate around the reels, with conditions in the chamber differing with each change in direction to result in the sequential build-up of deposited material over time. The chamber is equipped with different sources of energy and materials to allow the deposition of the different layers of the electrochemical cell.
US09303306B2
Method, and articles therefrom, for providing a hard, abrasion-resistant, attractive, oxide surface layer of selectable thickness and having an outer appearance within the scale from gray to black, to a zirconium titanium alloy article by heating the article in an oxygen containing atmosphere.
US09303305B2
A method for applying a non-magnetic, abrasive, wear-resistant hardfacing material to a surface of a drill string member includes providing a non-magnetic drill string member formed of a non-magnetic material, the drill string member having an outer surface. It also includes providing a non-magnetic hardfacing precursor material comprising a plurality of non-magnetic, sintered carbide pellets and a non-magnetic matrix material; heating a portion of the non-magnetic hardfacing precursor material to a temperature above the melting point of the matrix material to melt the matrix material. It further includes applying the molten non-magnetic matrix material and the plurality of non-magnetic, sintered carbide pellets to the exterior surface of the drill string member; and solidifying the molten non-magnetic matrix material to form a layer of a non-magnetic hardfacing material having a plurality of non-magnetic, sintered carbide pellets dispersed in the hardfacing material.
US09303303B2
The invention relates, according to a first aspect, to a process for the heat treatment of a cylinder head-type casting made from an aluminum alloy, in particular an alloy of aluminum, of silicon and of magnesium, and where appropriate of copper, comprising the steps of: —solution annealing (L) of the part for a time between three and ten hours; —quenching (S) of the part in air or in a fluidized bed; —tempering (H) of the part at the peak of resistance, or in the vicinity of the peak of resistance to attain a level of resistance of the part at least equal to 85% of the maximum level of resistance at the tempering temperature in question. According to a second aspect, the invention relates to the castings obtained at the end of the process according to the invention, and which have an improved fatigue resistance.
US09303301B2
A boron-containing stainless steel having excellent hot workability and weldability and a good surface quality is proposed and is a boron-containing stainless steel comprising C: 0.001-0.15 mass %, Si: 0.1-2 mass %, Mn: 0.1-2 mass %, Ni: 5-25 mass %, Cr: 11-27 mass %, B: 0.05-2.5 mass %, Al: 0.005-0.2 mass %, O: 0.0001-0.01 mass %, N: 0.001-0.1 mass %, S: not more than 0.005 mass %, one or both of Mg: 0.0001-0.005 mass % and Ca: 0.0001-0.005 mass % and the remainder being Fe and inevitable impurities provided that a part of Si, Al, Mg, Ca and S is included as a non-metallic inclusion made of sulfide and/or oxysulfide.
US09303300B2
Melt-solidified substance, copper alloy for melt-solidification and method of manufacturing the same
A melt-solidified substance includes melt-solidified portions formed by welding, build-up spray welding, metallizing or fusing. The melt-solidified portions have the alloy composition containing Zr: 0.0005 to 0.05 mass %, P: 0.01 to 0.34 mass %, Cu: the remainder and satisfying the relationship between the contents of P and Zr, [P]/[Zr]=0.3 to 20, and the mean grain size in the macrostructure after melt-solidification is 300 μm or less. If Fe and/or Ni are contained in the melt-solidified portion as inevitable impurities, the content of Fe or Ni is restricted to be 0.3 mass % or less when either Fe or Ni is contained, and the total content of Fe and Ni is restricted to be 0.4 mass % or less when both Fe and Ni are contained.
US09303297B2
The present invention relates to a method for heat treatment of a columnar work. In order to provide the method for heat treatment of a columnar work being able to attain a high productivity, a reduction of cost, and an improvement of quality, as compared with the prior art, the method for heat treatment of a columnar work of the present invention includes a quench-hardening step (S1) and a tempering step (S2) being carried out after the quench-hardening step (S1), the quench-hardening step (S1) includes a first quench-hardening step (S11) and a second quench-hardening step (S12) being carried out after the first quench-hardening step (S11), the entire region of the columnar work (3) from an outer circumferential surface (31f) to a core thereof (32), or a partial region thereof, is heated up to a temperature not lower than a transformation temperature Ac3, and then, the work is quench-hardened.
US09303296B2
A high-strength stainless steel for oil well having corrosion resistance excellent in a high-temperature environment, having excellent SSC resistance at normal temperature, and having better workability than 13% Cr steels has a chemical composition containing, by mass percent, C: at most 0.05%, Si: at most 1.0%, Mn: at most 0.3%, P: at most 0.05%, S: less than 0.002%, Cr: over 16% and at most 18%, Mo: 1.5 to 3.0%, Cu: 1.0 to 3.5%, Ni: 3.5 to 6.5%, Al: 0.001 to 0.1%, N: at most 0.025%, and O: at most 0.01%, the balance being Fe and impurities, a microstructure containing a martensite phase, 10 to 48.5%, by volume ratio, of a ferrite phase and at most 10%, by volume ratio, of a retained austenite phase, yield strength of at least 758 MPa and uniform elongation of at least 10%.
US09303292B2
A gold nanoparticle-based colorimetric assay kit for hepatitis C virus RNA that detects unamplified HCV RNA in clinical specimens using unmodified AuNPs and oligotargeter polynucleotides that bind to HCV RNA. A method for detecting hepatitis C virus comprising contacting a sample suspected of containing hepatitis C virus with a polynucleotide that binds to hepatitis C virus RNA and with gold nanoparticles, detecting the aggregation of nanoparticles, and detecting hepatitis C virus in the sample when the nanoparticles aggregate (solution color becomes blue) in comparison with a control or a negative sample not containing the virus when nanoparticles do not aggregate (solution color remains red).
US09303287B2
The invention provides methods and compositions for hybridizing at least one molecule to an RNA target. The invention may, for example, eliminate the use of, or reduce the dependence on formamide in RNA hybridization applications. Compositions for use in the invention include an aqueous composition comprising at least one nucleic acid sequence and at least one polar aprotic solvent in an amount effective to enable hybridization to RNA.
US09303286B2
This invention is in the field of medical devices. Specifically, the present invention provides portable medical devices that allow detection of analytes from a biological fluid. The methods and devices are particularly useful for providing point-of-care testing for a variety of medical applications.
US09303285B2
Apparatus, systems and methods can provide improved detection of botulinum neurotoxins. In one aspect an isoquinolynyl compound can be used to enhance the sensitivity of both Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and non-FRET cell-based assays. In another aspect, non-FRET assays and constructs utilize a reporter that is not coupled with the second fluorophore in a manner that produces significant FRET. In that subject matter an environment cell can include an enzyme that facilitates degradation of the reporter significantly faster after the cleavage than before the cleavage, and presence of the Botulinum toxin correlates with reduction of the signal from a baseline signal. Where the environment is a cell, the cell can advantageously express both the construct that includes the reporter, and an enzyme that facilitates the degradation.
US09303279B2
A polymer matrix that may coated on an electrode is created by co-crosslinking (1) an adduct of a polyaniline formed by templated oxidative polymerization on a polymer acid; (2) a water-soluble crosslinker; and (3) a redox enzyme. The polymer matrix may be hydrated, and the absorbed water may make it permeable to, for example, glucose. The polyaniline may be polyaniline itself or a substituted polyaniline; the water-soluble crosslinker may be poly(ethylene glycol)diglycidyl ether, and the redox enzyme may be glucose oxidase. The polymer matrix may be produced by co-crosslinking (1) an adduct of an electrically conductive polymer and a polymer acid; (2) a water-soluble crosslinker; and (3) a redox enzyme in a single step at an about neutral pH, curing by drying. After hydration, the crosslinked polymer matrix may form a 3-dimensional glucose-permeable bioelectrocatalyst, catalyzing the electrooxidation of glucose.
US09303278B2
The present invention is to enhance the stability and enzyme activity of an L-arabitol dehydrogenase derived from Neurospora crassa using techniques from quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics and partial mutation techniques. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for preparing an L-arabitol dehydrogenase in which a residue which affects enzyme stability is found through a screening based on quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics, and enzyme activity is enhanced by mutation of the found residue, nucleic acid molecules encoding the L-arabitol dehydrogenase, a vector including the nucleic acid molecules, a transformant including the vector, a mutant of the L-arabitol dehydrogenase and an improved L-arabitol dehydrogenase.
US09303275B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having C4-dicarboxylic acid transporter activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, and methods of producing C4-dicarboxylic acids, such as malic acid.
US09303265B2
A gene having novel functions is searched for, by which plant weight (that is, biomass level) can be increased and by which substance productivity can be increased or decreased. A chimeric protein is expressed in which a transcriptional factor comprising the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, 4, or 6 is fused to a functional peptide that converts an arbitrary transcriptional factor into a transcriptional repression factor.
US09303261B2
Disclosed is a composition for a whitening effect or for the prevention of gray hair, which includes antisense nucleic acid molecules of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the composition has an miRNA of SEQ ID NO: 1 or a base sequence complementary thereto. Also disclosed is a method for controlling chromogenesis in test materials and for screening for expression control materials of chromogenic genes. The composition and the screening methodcan be used for the whitening effect or for the prevention of gray hair.
US09303255B2
An objective of the present invention is to establish a technique for making it possible to immobilize an enzyme on an electrically conductive base material in a uniformly, high density, and constantly aligned orientation, for the purpose of constructing an enzyme electrode having improved electrode performance. An electrode having enzyme crystals immobilized thereon, the electrode being provided with an electrically conductive base material that can be connected to an external circuit and enzyme crystals that serve as an electrode catalyst, wherein the enzyme crystals are immobilized on the electrically conducive base material; a method for producing an electrode having enzyme crystals immobilized thereon; and a biological fuel cell and a biosensor which are provided with an electrode having enzyme crystals immobilized thereon.
US09303254B2
Chimeric alpha-amylases having the characteristics of high thermostability and good performance in starch degradation, especially high-temperature liquefaction processes, are provided. The alpha-amylases are chimeras of AmyL and AmyS enzymes, and are useful in starch degradation processes. Methods of making the chimeric enzymes, and methods of using the chimeric alpha-amylases for liquefaction, cleaning starch residue from a surface, and treating woven material to remove coatings. Kits for practicing the methods are provided. Polynucleotides encoding the chimeric amylases, vectors, and expression hosts also are provided.
US09303253B2
The invention relates to an eukaryotic cell expressing nucleotide sequences encoding the ara A, ara B and ara D enzymes whereby the expression of these nucleotide sequences confers on the cell the ability to use L-arabinose and/or convert L-arabinose into L-ribulose, and/or xylulose 5-phosphate and/or into a desired fermentation product such as ethanol. Optionally, the eukaryotic cell is also able to convert xylose into ethanol.
US09303252B2
Provided are modified valencene synthase polypeptides and methods of using the modified valencene synthase polypeptides. Also provided are methods for producing modified terpene synthases.
US09303246B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing dendritic cells and their use in medicaments by genetic engineering aimed at functionally improving their therapeutic efficacy in the treatment of cancer, microbial infections, allergies, auto-immune diseases or organ and stem cell transplant rejection.
US09303241B2
A method and apparatus for dry hopping a beverage contained in a fermentation tank can include providing a hops vessel defining an interior space. The method can include adding hops to the interior space of the hops vessel, sealing the interior space of the hops vessel from ambient atmosphere, and propelling at least a portion of the hops from the interior space of the hops vessel into a supply hose, closing an exit port valve, and opening a bypass valve which is in fluid communication with a top portion of the hops vessel and the supply hose thereby propelling hops remaining in the supply hose into the fermentation tank.
US09303236B2
Disclosed herein are cleaner/corrosion inhibiting compositions useful in applications relating to the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas. Also disclosed herein are methods of using the compositions as cleaners/corrosion inhibitors, particularly in applications relating to the production, transportation, storage, and separation of crude oil and natural gas.
US09303235B2
An environmentally friendly product packaging assembly having a secondary use after a product has been removed therefrom. The packaging assembly comprises a candle having a wall made of a vaporizable material and defining a cavity therein for retaining the product. The candle includes a wick embedded in the wall in a spiral, coiled or helical fashion and positioned to substantially encircle the cavity. The assembly may include a containment mechanism that at least partially restricts access to the cavity and thereby aids in retaining the product therein. The assembly may further include a base positioned under a bottom end of the candle. The containment mechanism and base may themselves be made out of recyclable or combustible materials. Once the product has been removed from the cavity, the assembly may be used as a conventional candle. The candle wall is vaporized leaving little to no waste for disposal.
US09303232B2
The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. Such perfume raw materials and compositions, including the delivery systems, disclosed herein expand the perfume communities' options as such perfume raw materials can provide variations on character and such compositions can provide desired odor profiles.
US09303227B2
A process for recovering liquefied petroleum gas from tail gas includes recovering a tail gas stream from a pressure swing adsorption zone and contacting the tail gas stream with a sponge liquid such as an unstabilized reformate liquid stream in order to recover C3+ hydrocarbons from the tail gas stream. The C3+ hydrocarbons may be recovered from the sponge liquid as liquefied petroleum gas.
US09303219B2
Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for treating a vacuum gas oil (VGO) hydrotreating feed are provided. In one example, a method comprises contacting the VGO hydrotreating feed with a first hydrotreating catalyst in the presence of hydrogen at first hydroprocessing conditions effective to form a first hydrotreated effluent. The first hydrotreated effluent is separated to form a hydrotreated VGO-containing stream and a hydrotreated diesel-containing stream. The hydrotreated VGO-containing stream is stripped and fractionated to form a VGO product stream. The hydrotreated diesel-containing stream is combined with a hydrotreated diesel-, naphtha-containing stream to form a combined stream. The combined stream is stripped to form a diesel product stream.
US09303213B2
A process for preparing a renewable biofuel consists of subjecting a bio-oil mixture to deoxygenation in a hydrotreater and then separating hydrocarbon fractions from the deoxygenated product to form the biofuel. The bio-oil mixture contains a bio-oil feedstream and a treated bio-oil feed. The treated bio-oil feed is a stream from which undesirable heavy materials and solid materials have been removed.
US09303208B2
This invention relates to liquid crystal compounds of formula I containing cyclopentyl group and difluoromethyleneoxy linking group. Liquid crystal compounds of formula I have a large dielectric anisotropy, high clearing points, and a fast response speed, thereby having great significance to formulate a liquid crystal mixture.
US09303200B2
A polymer composition includes a base polymer comprising a hydrocarbon rubber, an acrylic copolymer, and a refined oil in which the acrylic polymer is dispersed. The polymer composition is swellable when treated with an aqueous medium, non-aqueous medium, or both. A sealing element for a flow channel includes an expandable section filled with a swellable composition that swells when treated with a swelling material. The swellable composition includes the polymer composition, and the swelling material may be aqueous, non-aqueous, or both.
US09303198B2
The present invention provides a stabilized refrigerant composition containing a hydrofluoropropene with low global warming potential (GWP) that can remain stable even in the presence of air (oxygen) for a long period of time. More specifically, the present invention provides a refrigerant composition containing a hydrofluoropropene and a stabilizer. The stabilizer is at least one member selected from the group consisting of alkylcatechols, alkoxyphenols, benzoquinones, phenothiazines, and phthalates.
US09303187B2
The present invention provides a chemical mechanical polishing method for polishing a substrate comprising silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, and polysilicon. The method comprises abrading a surface of the substrate with a CMP composition to remove at least some silicon dioxide, silicon nitride and polysilicon therefrom. The CMP composition comprising a particulate ceria abrasive suspended in an aqueous carrier having a pH of about 3 to 9.5 and containing a cationic polymer; wherein the cationic polymer consists of a quaternary methacryloyloxyalkylammonium polymer.
US09303185B2
An indirect printing apparatus is disclosed. The printing apparatus comprises an intermediate transfer member. A polyurethane based sacrificial coating is on the intermediate transfer member. The printing apparatus also comprises a coating mechanism for forming the sacrificial coating onto the intermediate transfer member and a drying station for drying the sacrificial coating. At least one ink jet nozzle is positioned proximate the intermediate transfer member and configured for jetting ink droplets onto the sacrificial coating formed on the intermediate transfer member. An ink processing station is configured to at least partially dry the ink on the sacrificial coating formed on the intermediate transfer member. The printing apparatus comprises a substrate transfer mechanism for moving a substrate into contact with the intermediate transfer member.
US09303184B2
A liquid polycarbonate coating composition including an aliphatic polycarbonate resin and a cross linking compound, said aliphatic polycarbonate resin being derived from, in the presence of a catalyst, an aliphatic polyol which comprises (a) from 50 to 100% by weight of the aliphatic polyol, one or more cycloaliphatic polyols that consist essentially of primary hydroxyl groups and (b) from 0 to 50% by weight of the aliphatic polyol, one or more linear aliphatic polyols, is provided. A method of coating a substrate with the liquid polycarbonate coating composition and the resulting articles are also provided.
US09303180B2
A coating composition comprising a hydrolyzable silyl-containing (meth)acrylic copolymer which is obtained from copolymerization of an alkyl (meth)acrylate with a silane compound having a long-chain alkylene linker between a hydrolyzable functional group and a radically polymerizable unsaturated group, and an organometallic catalyst is low-temperature curable and isocyanate-free. Even though the silane content is increased for coating hardness, the composition maintains alkali resistance and has good adhesion and solvent resistance when applied onto substrates.
US09303165B2
Compound of Formula I: are described, along with compositions containing the same and methods of use thereof.
US09303159B2
A propylene polymer composition comprising (percent by weight): A) 68%-80%, of a propylene homopolymer having a Polydispersity Index (P.I.) value of from 4.7 to 10 and MFR L (Melt Flow Rate according to ISO 1133, condition L, i.e. 230° C. and 2.16 kg load) from 10 to 30 g/10 min; B) 20%-32%, of a copolymer of propylene containing from 40.1% to 42.5% extremes included of ethylene derived units; the composition having an intrinsic viscosity of the fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C. comprised between 3 and 6 dl/g and a MFR L from 4 to 12 g/10 min. Said Propylene polymer composition being particularly suitable for injection molded articles having high rigidity and high impact properties at room and at low temperatures.
US09303158B2
Disclosed herein is a nonwoven fabric comprising within the range of from 50 to 99 wt %, by weight of the composition, of a reactor grade propylene-α-olefin copolymer possessing within the range of from 5 to 35 wt %, by weight of the copolymer, of units derived from one or more of ethylene and/or C4 to C12 α-olefins; a melt flow rate (230° C./2.16 kg) within the range of from 500 to 7500 g/10 min; and a weight average molecular weight of less than 200,000; and a second polypropylene having a melting point, Tm, of greater than 110° C. and a melt flow rate (230° C./2.16 kg) within the range of from 20 to 7500 g/10 min; wherein the fabric has a CD Elongation value of greater than 50% (measuring the fabric of 35 g/m2 basis weight). The fabric described herein can be used in structures comprising one or more layers of the fabric described herein, and can include any number of other fabric layers made from other materials.
US09303155B2
A composition for manufacturing the inner liners and inner tubes of tires, and a method of preparing the same. The composition includes the following two phases: A) a continuous phase of a composition of graphene oxide/rubber including graphene oxide, a reactive rubber, and a solid rubber; and B) a dispersion phase of an epoxy natural rubber or a thermoplastic resin. In the composition of graphene oxide/rubber, the graphene oxide leads to low gas permeability and remarkably reinforces the rubber composition. The epoxy natural rubber or thermoplastic resin is dispersed in the composition of graphene oxide/rubber and forms an islands-in-the-sea structure. The composition has low gas permeability, excellent mechanical properties, and flexibility, and is adhesive to adjacent rubber.
US09303154B2
A vulcanizable composition of matter comprising a rubber component, a filler, a curative for the rubber, where the rubber component includes a multi-modal polymer including at least two distinct peak molecular weights within a range defined by a lower limit of 80 kg/mole and an upper limit of 500 kg/mole.
US09303151B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a pelletized stabilizer mixture for halogen-containing plastics, comprising the following steps: (a) heating, at from 40 to 100° C. in an extruder or kneader, a mixture comprising (A) at least one lubricant, (B) at least one substance having stabilizer activity, and (C) auxiliaries and additives, where at least 1% by weight of all of the substances, based on the total amount of the mixture, has a melting point below 100° C., (b) forcing the material through a pelletizing die, (c) carrying out die-face pelletization under water, (d) transporting the pelletized stabilizer mixture away in a stream of water, (e) extracting the pelletized stabilizer mixture from the water, and (f) drying the pelletized stabilizer mixture. The present invention further relates to pelletized stabilizer mixtures producible therefrom, and also to use of these.
US09303135B2
An aqueous ink for indirect printing applications including water; a co-solvent; a colorant; and a polymer latex comprising an aqueous dispersion of polymer particles wherein the polymer latex has a softening temperature of from about 60° C. to less than 105° C. and a glass transition temperature of from about 45° C. to about 100 C.
US09303128B2
A method for granulating a particle-containing material from an industrial process includes mixing the particle-containing material in the presence of water with a material that consists of or comprises a water-absorbing and swellable organic polymer compound which is insoluble in water so as to obtain granulates.
US09303126B2
A hyperbranched polymer based on one or more repeating units of an ABx type monomer, wherein A and B are functional groups and x is greater than or equal to 2, wherein A reacts with, or substantially reacts with, B, wherein B is fractionally functionlized with a plurality of functional groups comprising a first functional group comprising a C6-C30 alkyl chain attached to the repeating unit through a carbonyl group (C═O) via an ester linkage, a second functional group comprising a partially fluorinated or perfluorinated C3-C20 alkyl chain attached to the repeating unit through a carbonyl group (C═O) via an ester linkage, and a third functional group comprising substantially one of a stabilized radical source attached to the repeating unit via a C0-C6 tether, or a 5 to 8 member chloroamide heterocycle of carbon and nitrogen that is attached to the repeating unit via a C2-C6 tether.
US09303124B2
It is to provide a solution for forming an organic metal thin film that can form rapidly a dense monomolecular film with less impurity. A solution for forming an organic thin film comprising (A) at least one organic metal compound shown by the following formula (I) (provided that at least one organic metal compound contains a hydroxyl group); and (B) at least one organic metal compound shown by the following formula (II), R3mM2X54-m (II) wherein the solution is 40≦[(A)/{(A)+(B)}]×100≦100 (mass %), and 0≦[(B)/{(A)+(B)}]×100≦60 (mass %); or a solution for forming an organic thin film comprising an organic metal compound having at least one hydroxyl group and at least one hydrolysable group among the organic metal compounds shown by the following formula (I); or a solution for forming an organic thin film wherein the mass ratio of trimer with respect to dimer is greater than 0.5 among the metal organic compound shown by formula (I).
US09303122B2
Disclosed is a polymer composite (polyplex) that contains nucleic acid, a cationic polymer, and an anionic polymer. The anionic polymer covers the surface of the composite comprising the cationic polymer and nucleic acid, has a negative charge at neutral pH, and can change so as to have a positive charge at mildly acidic pH.
US09303118B2
A method of preparing a poly(glycolic acid) (PGA) from the C1 feedstocks carbon monoxide and formaldehyde or its equivalent. By controlling the comonomer feed ratios and the polymerization temperatures, high quality PGA can be prepared. The method is extended to copolymers of PGA where alkylene oxides or cyclic ether comonomers are included into the polymerization mixture with the C1 monomers to yield polyester-ether thermoplastics.
US09303117B2
A series of ladder-type multifused arenes (hexacyclic, heptacyclic and nonacyclic units) and the synthesizing methods thereof are provided. The ladder-type multifused arenes are copolymerized with various electron-deficient acceptor units to afford various p-type low-band gap conjugated copolymers.
US09303116B2
An epoxy resin curing agent which provides good adhesiveness to polyester in addition to excellent performance and high gas-barrier properties of epoxy resins, an epoxy resin composition containing the epoxy resin curing agent, an adhesive for laminating which mainly contains the composition, a laminate film obtained by using the adhesive, a multi-layer packaging material, and a packaging bag. The epoxy resin curing agent is a reaction product of (A) m-xylylenediamine or p-xylylenediamine, (B) a polyfunctional compound having one acyl group, which forms amide linkage by a reaction with polyamine and is capable of forming an oligomer; and (C) an aromatic dicarboxylic acid, an ester thereof, an amide thereof, an acid anhydride thereof, or an acid chloride thereof.
US09303109B2
Disclosed herein are catalyst compositions containing boron-bridged, cyclopentadienyl-fluorenyl metallocene compounds with an alkenyl substituent. These catalyst compositions can be used for the polymerization of olefins. For example, ethylene copolymers produced using these catalyst compositions can be characterized by a combination of a flat or a conventional comonomer distribution and low levels of long chain branching.
US09303107B2
An ethylene-based polymer, which is a low density polyethylene (LDPE), obtained by free radical polymerization of ethylene, and wherein the LDPE has a GPC parameter “LSP” less than 1.60.An ethylene-based polymer that comprises the following features: a) at least 0.1 amyl groups per 1000 total carbon atoms; b) a melt index of 0.01 to 0.3; c) a z-average molecular weight of Mz (conv.) of greater than 350,000 g/mol and less than 425,000 g/mol; d) a gpcBR value from 1.50 to 2.05, and e) a MWD(conv) [Mw(conv)/Mn(conv)] from 6 to 9. An ethylene-based polymer that comprises the following features: a) at least 0.1 amyl groups per 1000 total carbon atoms; b) a melt viscosity ratio (V0.1/V100), at 190° C., greater than, or equal to, 58; c) a melt viscosity at 0.1 rad/s, 190° C., greater than, or equal to, 40,000 Pa·s, and d) a gpcBR value from 1.50 to 2.25.
US09303103B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to olefin polymerization catalysts, and more specifically to chromium-based catalysts and methods of use of chromium-based catalysts for the production of polyolefins, and even more specifically to methods for controlling or tailoring the flow index response of chromium-based catalysts through the controlled addition of a reducing agent to the catalysts under controlled mixing conditions.
US09303100B2
The present invention refers to novel ruthenium- and osmium-based catalysts for olefin metathesis reactions, particularly to catalysts having stereoselective properties. Z-selectivity is obtained by utilizing two mono-anionic ligands of very different steric requirement. In olefin metathesis reactions these catalysts selectively provide the Z-isomer of disubstituted olefinic products even in presence of air or of acids.
US09303099B2
Methods for controlling properties of an olefin polymer using an alcohol compound are disclosed. The MI and the HLMI of the polymer can be decreased, and the Mw and the Mz of the polymer can be increased, via the addition of the alcohol compound.
US09303095B2
The present invention relates to a process of preparing a polyolefin in a loop reactor by introducing anti-fouling agent in by-pass pipes. Also, the invention relates to the use of anti-fouling agent to prevent blockage by feeding the anti-fouling agent into the by-pass pipes of the loop reactor.
US09303087B2
Monoclonal antibodies against LRP6 and that block the Wnt signaling pathway are disclosed. Methods of production and use thereof are also disclosed.
US09303086B2
The present invention provides: antibodies specifically reacting against hDlk-1 and having anti-tumor activity in vivo (anti-hDlk-1 antibodies, and in particular, humanized anti-hDlk-1 antibodies); fragments of the antibodies; hybridomas that produce the antibodies; a complex of the antibody or antibody fragment and an agent; a pharmaceutical composition, a tumor therapeutic agent, a tumor diagnostic agent and an agent for inducing apoptosis in tumor cells, each of which comprises the aforementioned antibody or the like; a method for treating tumor, a method for detecting tumor, a method for inducing apoptosis in tumor cells, a kit for detecting and/or diagnosing tumor and a kit for inducing apoptosis in tumor cells, each of which comprises the use of the aforementioned antibody or the like; etc.
US09303081B2
Provided is methods for producing mixtures of antibodies from a single host cell clone, wherein, a nucleic acid sequence encoding a light chain and nucleic acid sequences encoding different heavy chains are expressed in a recombinant host cell. The recombinantly produced antibodies in the mixtures according to the invention suitably comprise identical light chains paired to different heavy chains capable of pairing to the light chain, thereby forming functional antigen-binding domains. Mixtures of the recombinantly produced antibodies are also provided by the invention. Such mixtures can be used in a variety of fields.
US09303075B2
The present invention relates to the identification and functional characterization of human cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) and their use; in particular as transfection vehicles.
US09303073B2
The invention relates to the development of chimeric OspA molecules for use in a new Lyme vaccine. More specifically, the chimeric OspA molecules comprise the proximal portion from one OspA serotype, together with the distal portion from another OspA serotype, while retaining antigenic properties of both of the parent polypeptides. The chimeric OspA molecules are delivered alone or in combination to provide protection against a variety of Borrelia genospecies. The invention also provides methods for administering the chimeric OspA molecules to a subject in the prevention and treatment of Lyme disease or borreliosis.
US09303059B2
Chemoselective isolation of aliphatic hydroxyl group-containing and aromatic hydroxyl group-containing compounds is accomplished via formation of polymeric siloxyl ethers. Chemoselective release of aliphatic hydroxyl group-containing and aromatic hydroxyl group-containing compounds from polymeric siloxyl reagents is described.
US09303057B2
The present invention is provides isolated riboswitches with FRET pairs for distinguishing changes in regulatory interactions controlled by the expression platform domain found in riboswitches. The invention further provides methods of using those riboswitches to detect structural changes in the expression platform domain and to identify potential antibiotics.
US09303045B2
The present invention provides compounds of the formula: that are 5HT3 receptor antagonists and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of 5HT3 receptor such as emesis, pain, drug addiction, neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders, and GI disorders. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and processes for preparing such compounds.
US09303041B2
The invention relates to compounds of Formula I, wherein R1, R2, and R3 are defined in the specification, useful for the synthesis of novel conjugates and immunogens derived from olanzapine. The invention also relates to conjugates of an olanzapine hapten and a protein.
US09303039B2
In general, the present invention features improved methods useful for the synthesis of analogs of halichondrin B, such as eribulin and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof (e.g., eribulin mesylate).
US09303011B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a cyclic sulfone compound having a 1,3-dithietane-1,1,3,3-tetraoxide structure is provided. The cyclic sultone compound is preferably a compound represented by formula (I) [wherein in formula (I), R1 to R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, or the like].
US09302984B2
The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds, and more specifically to certain aryl-phenyl-sulfonamido-cycloalkyl compounds of the following formula (collectively referred to herein as “APSAC compounds”). The present invention also pertains to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds and compositions, both in vitro and in vivo, in treatment, for example, of inflammation and/or joint destruction and/or bone loss; of disorders mediated by excessive and/or inappropriate and/or prolonged activation of the immune system; of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), atherosclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, ankylosing spondylitis, and the like; of disorders associated with bone loss, such as bone loss associated with excessive osteoclast activity in rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer-associated bone disease, Paget's disease and the like, etc.; and of cancer, such as a haematological malignancy, a solid tumor, etc.
US09302981B2
The present invention provides novel cycloalkylmethylamine analogs, and methods of preparing cycloalkylmethylamine analogs. The present invention also provides methods of using cycloalkylmethylamine analogs and compositions of cycloalkylmethylamine analogs. The pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds of the present invention can be advantageously used for treating and/or preventing obesity and obesity related co-morbid indications.
US09302980B2
The problem to be solved by the present invention is to easily and efficiently produce an amino acid having 2 to 7 carbon atoms as a high-purity solid without complicated operation, which is useful as a synthetic intermediate for medicines or agrochemicals.The present invention is characterized in comprising a step of precipitating solid amino acid with high purity. In the present invention, the by-produced salt composed of the sulfonic acid and the amine was removed to the mother liquor by reacting an amine with a sulfonic acid salt of amino acid in an aprotic polar solvent, or by reacting a sulfonic acid with an amine salt of amino acid in an aprotic polar solvent.The sulfonic acid salt of amino acid, for example, may be produced by reacting a N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl) amino acid with a sulfonic acid, or by reacting an amino acid tert-butyl ester with a sulfonic acid.
US09302977B2
Methods of making monomethyl fumarate, which can then also be used in methods of making prodrugs of monomethyl fumarate, are disclosed. Monomethyl fumarate and prodrugs of monomethyl fumarate are useful for treating neurodegenerative, inflammatory, and autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, irritable bowel disorder, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
US09302967B2
The present invention relates to compounds of general formula 1 for the treatment of bronchial asthma by inhibition of IL-4 or IL-5 pathway inhibition. The present invention also relates to the use of compound of general formula 1 for the treatment of bronchial by inhibition of IL-4 or IL-5 pathway. The present invention also relates to the method of treating asthma by inhibition of IL-4 or IL-5 pathway by administration of compound or said composition through oral, intranasal, route or by inhalation to a mammal in need thereof. Compound of general formula 1 may be used for reducing perivascular and peribronchial inflammation.
US09302960B2
A process for producing a feed for a stream cracker. At least a portion of the C6 cyclic hydrocarbons are removed from a stream prior to it being passed into an isomerization zone. Disproportionation reaction selectivity is increased, producing valuable C3 hydrocarbons and C4 hydrocarbons. Also, a higher ring opening conversion of C5 cyclic hydrocarbons is observed. The yield may be adjusted by controlling an amount of C6 cyclic hydrocarbons passed to the isomerization zone. The catalyst in the isomerization zone is free of chloride, and the streams including effluent from the isomerization zone may be passed to a steam cracker without requiring chloride removal.
US09302955B2
Methods and systems are provided for separating a selected xylene isomer. The method includes separating a feed stream including a plurality of aromatic hydrocarbons into a first stream including toluene and isomers of xylene, and a second stream including isomers of xylene. The method further includes separating the first stream into a third stream including toluene and a fourth stream including isomers of xylene. The method further includes combining the second stream and the third stream in an adsorptive separation unit including an adsorbent configured to adsorb the selected xylene isomer from the second stream. The third stream desorbs the selected xylene isomer to produce a fifth stream including the selected xylene isomer and toluene and a sixth stream including non-selected xylene isomers and toluene. Still further, the method includes separating the sixth stream into a seventh stream including the non-selected xylene isomers and the third stream including toluene.
US09302952B2
One exemplary embodiment can be an alkylation unit. The alkylation unit can include at least one alkylation reaction zone having an alkylation catalyst, at least one cooler communicating with the at least one alkylation reaction zone, a settler communicating with the at least one alkylation reaction zone and the at least one cooler, a fractionation zone receiving an effluent from the settler passing through a line, and a boot coupled to a substantially horizontal portion of the line. Generally, the boot receives an effluent portion rich in the alkylation catalyst.
US09302949B2
The present invention is a system for processing organic waste using insect larvae, which has the advantage of being able to process large quantities of organic fecal waste material. The system includes a plurality of substantially flat reaction vessels stacked one on top of the other in parallel arrangement to form a processing blocks 11. Each of the reaction vessels in the processing block 11 are dimensioned and configured to contain a quantity of organic waste, each reaction vessel having front and back ends and side edges, the reaction vessels each being separated from the reaction vessel above by an air space 23, the processing block being contained in a plant enclosure having side walls. At least one of the side walls of the plant enclosure (plenum wall 38) is positioned adjacent the processing block such that the plenum wall is adjacent one of the side edges of the reaction vessels. The plenum wall has a plurality of openings which open to the air spaces and the openings positioned on the plenum walls such that openings are immediately adjacent air spaces. The system further includes an air circulation system for circulating purified and adjusted air through the air spaces by passing air through each of the openings in the plenum wall. The system also includes a feeder system for loading raw organic waste onto the reaction vessels and a discharge system for removing processed organic waste from the reaction vessels.
US09302941B2
A particulate material for the production of a cement foam which material includes particles including, attached to the particle surface, a surfactant which renders the particles hydrophilic, the surfactant including a moiety which is hydrolysable under alkaline conditions, which surfactant, after loss of the moiety by alkaline hydrolysis, renders the particles partially hydrophobic.
US09302940B2
The present invention relates to binders based on latently hydraulic and/or pozzolanic materials that are activated by an addition of ternesite (C5S2$).
US09302929B2
A tilting device for cropping a sheet of laminated glass, comprising two side-by-side rows of suckers, each supported by a bar of a frame which is pivoted, on the opposite side with respect to the suckers, to a supporting structure, the bars both resting on the same elements for the alternating lifting and lowering of the bars, which are adapted to produce the simultaneous alternating tilting of both of the frames and of the corresponding rows of suckers.
US09302920B1
Integrated controller and method for a water filtration system. The system can include a membrane filter, a valve coupled to the membrane filter, and a water softener and/or a media filter. The filtration system can include a controller coupled to membrane filter and coupled to the water softener and/or the media filter. The controller can include a flow meter and a switch. The flow meter can be coupled to the membrane filter and the water softener and/or the media filter. The switch can be electrically connected to the valve. In some embodiments, the controller can cause the switch to flush the membrane filter only when the water softener and/or the media filter is not being regenerated.
US09302919B2
A seawater desalination unit is disclosed, which comprises: a frame, an exit filtration part, and a water drawing part. The frame is configured with a reservoir, a water intake pipe and a water discharge pipe in a manner that the water intake pipe is connected to the reservoir respectively via one end thereof, while allowing a first check valve to be disposed at a position between the reservoir and the water intake pipe, and the water discharge pipe is connected to the second filtration part and the reservoir respectively via two opposite ends thereof, while allowing a second check valve to be disposed at a position between the high-pressure reservoir and the water discharge pipe. Moreover, the water drawing part is arranged in fluid communication with the water intake pipe.
US09302918B2
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an oxychloride or oxide of actinide(s) and/or of lanthanide(s) from a chloride of actinide(s) and/or of lanthanide(s) present in a medium comprising at least one molten salt of chloride type comprising a step of bringing said chloride of actinide(s) and/or lanthanide(s) present in said medium comprising at least one molten salt of chloride type into contact with a wet inert gas.
US09302915B2
A method for producing a polysilane includes a step of reacting (i) at least two silane monomers and (ii) at least one alkali metal. The silane monomers contain the following structural units: at least one aryl group, at least one alkyl group, at least one alkenyl group, and at least three halogen atoms. At least three of the halogen atoms are bonded to a silicon atom of one of the silane monomers.
US09302913B2
There is provided a method for producing a high-purity metal nitride by simple processes with good yield.Specifically provided is a method for producing a metal nitride including heating a metal hydride under a nitrogen gas or an ammonia gas.
US09302909B2
The invention relates to nanotechnology and is directed at nanocomposite materials with effectively controllable optical properties which can be used in non-linear optics, information engineering, for designing optical memory means etc. The inventive nanocomposite material comprises nanoparticles, intermediate bonding molecule particles which modify the space configuration when they are exposed to an external light action, and bondable molecule particles which exhibit the optical properties near nanoparticles, wherein the nanoparticles, intermediate bonding molecules and bondable molecules are connected in series so as to form a three-dimensional cluster structure. Moreover, the intermediate bonding molecule particles which modify the space configuration when they are exposed to an external light action can contain additional inclusions in the form of functional substituents which enhance the bonding properties thereof.
US09302903B2
Microneedle devices and methods of manufacture are provided for transport of molecules or energy across or into biological barriers, such as skin. The device can comprise one or more microneedles formed of a first material and a second material, wherein the second material is dispersed throughout the first material or forms a portion of the microneedle. The first material preferably is a polymer. The second material can be pore forming agents, structural components, biosensor, or molecules for release, such as drug. The device also can comprise a substrate and a plurality of microneedles extending from the substrate, wherein the microneedles have a beveled or tapered tip portion, a longitudinally extending exterior channel, or both. Methods of making these devices include providing a mold having a plurality of microdepressions which define the surface of a microneedle; filling the microdepressions with a first molding material; and molding the material, thereby forming microneedles.
US09302899B2
A method of conducting a fueling transaction at a fuel dispenser. The fuel dispenser includes a flow meter operatively connected to internal fuel flow piping. The method comprises the step of providing a displacement sensor for generating information representative of an amount of fuel delivered through the flow meter. The displacement sensor comprises at least one transponder operatively connected to the flow meter. The method also comprises providing at least one interrogator electronics configured for remote electronic communication with the at least one transponder and authorizing the fueling transaction. Finally, the method comprises communicating with the at least one transponder using the at least one interrogator electronics during the fueling transaction. Fuel dispensers and flow meter assemblies comprising displacement sensors having transponders and/or capacitive sensing elements are also disclosed.
US09302895B2
A filling machine for filling containers with a liquid filling material, the filling machine includes a transport element with filling elements arranged thereon, each forming a filling point for filling a container. Each filling element has a housing having a discharge opening, a channel formed in the housing. The channel connects to a product line to supply the filling material, and a liquid valve, a measurement system provided separately for each filling element for determining filling level, filling material quantity, or filling material volume in a container, a controlled gas path associated with each filling element, and a control valve fitted to the controlled gas path. At least two filling points and their filling elements define a function-and-process unit, and a control valve is provided in common for a gas path of all filling elements of a function-and-process unit.
US09302888B2
A system includes a lift member configured to removably couple with a lifting device and a support member coupled to the lift member. The support member includes a first arm having a first end portion configured to removably engage a first section of an electronics panel, and a second arm having a second end portion offset by an arm distance from the first end portion. The second end portion is configured to selectively move to adjust the arm distance to removably engage a second section of the electronics panel opposite to the first section. The first and second end portions are configured to engage the electronics panel in a first orientation, to support the electronics panel during a transition to a second orientation, and to disengage the electronics panel in the second orientation.
US09302887B2
A method and an apparatus for monitoring a passenger transport installation, in fact the entraining elements which establish a connection of a plate link chain to a step or pallet of the passenger transport installation. There is provided on the entraining element side a triggering element which, when a specifiable movement of the entraining element is detected or when at least one safety element is missing, triggers an alarm state and optionally halts the drive of the passenger transport installation.
US09302879B2
A postprocessing apparatus includes a support unit that supports a sheet that is transported, an abutment unit against which a leading end of the sheet supported by the support unit abuts, a postprocessing unit that performs a postprocessing operation on the sheet abutting against the abutment unit, a detection unit that detects an image formed at a predetermined position on the sheet and detects a position of the image when the sheet abuts against the abutment unit, and a changing unit that changes a position of the abutment unit relative to the postprocessing unit on the basis of the position of the image detected by the detection unit.
US09302871B2
A roll for a machine for processing a material web, in particular a paper, cardboard, or tissue machine, has a cylindrical roll core and a roll cover which is arranged on the radially outer lateral face of the roll core. The roll cover has a functional layer and a connecting structure which lies radially between the roll core and the functional layer. The radially outer lateral face of the functional layer provides a contact surface which can be brought into contact with the material web or a covering. A plurality of pressure and/or temperature-sensitive sensors are embedded in the roll cover. The sensors are arranged in the connecting structure or at the interface between the connecting structure and the functional layer.
US09302866B1
A center-fed media feed system including a media sheet pick mechanism having a hub-mounted D-shaped pick tire having variable tread width along the outer circumference thereof and a media aligner downstream of the pick mechanism. The nip of the pick tire contacting a media sheet is disposed at a first predetermined distance from the media aligner. A wide tread portion initially contacts a leading edge portion of the media sheet providing a first media feeding force to move the media sheet toward the media aligner and, at a second predetermined distance between the leading edge of the media and the media aligner, a narrow tread portion of the pick tire contacts the media so as to provide a reduced media feeding force, allowing the media sheet to align to the media aligner and then be fed into a feed nip in the media aligner or a downstream feed roll pair.
US09302863B1
A method for adjusting a pick height of a pick mechanism includes determining a media type for a media stack. When the media type is a first media type, the lift plate is raised to raise the media stack and pick mechanism until a first light blocking region of a flag extending from the pick mechanism blocks an optical path of a sensor indicating that the pick mechanism has reached a first pick height. When the media type is a second media type, the lift plate is raised to raise the media stack and pick mechanism such that the first light blocking region first blocks the optical path, a first light passing region of the flag subsequently unblocks the optical path, and then a second light blocking region of the flag subsequently blocks the optical path indicating that the pick mechanism has reached a second pick height.
US09302857B2
A transfer pump for moving pellets of adhesive includes a pump housing with an adhesive inlet coupled to a supply hopper, an adhesive outlet coupled to an outlet hose, and an adhesive passage extending between the adhesive inlet and the adhesive outlet. A first air nozzle communicates with the adhesive passage adjacent the adhesive inlet and expels a first air jet that pushes pellets of adhesive through the adhesive passage. A second air nozzle communicates with the adhesive passage between the adhesive inlet and the adhesive outlet and expels a plurality of second air jets that draw pellets of adhesive through the adhesive passage by a vacuum force. The first and second air nozzles prevent clogging of pellets in the adhesive passage and enable movement of larger pellets than either air nozzle individually.
US09302856B2
A method for adjusting the rotational position of a rotatable element of a rotary device. The rotary device can be: a filler, capper, labeler, a star wheel conveyor, or other rotary device. The rotary device can be part of a system that includes an adjustment mechanism having at least a portion disposed radially outside the rotatable element. The adjustment mechanism includes an adjustment element positioned to engage the rotatable element. The method includes moving the adjustment element and/or rotating the rotatable element(s) so that the adjustment element engages a rotatable element to adjust the position of the rotatable element. In some cases, the same motor that rotates the rotary device about the axis to convey articles is used to assist in engaging the adjustment element and the rotatable element to adjust the position of the rotatable element.
US09302853B2
A conveying installation has least one endless conveyor belt guided via a plurality of rollers along a leading belt run for conveying material or products and a returning belt run, particularly for manufacturing a paper web with a wire belt or felt belt. At least one of the rollers has an adjustable mounting for adjusting and correcting a direction of movement of the conveyor belt. A tensioning unit for detecting and controlling a tension of the conveyor belt has a pressure-measuring apparatus disposed at the adjustable mounting. A movement correction unit for detecting deviations of a direction of movement of the conveyor belt from a correct movement and for correcting the movement includes a sensor that is disposed to monitor a lateral periphery of the conveyor belt. A sensor output of the sensor is used for adjusting the adjustable mounting of the one of the rollers.
US09302852B2
An aggregate processing apparatus comprising a conveyor support structure having a base section located at a side of the apparatus, a mid-section pivotably coupled to the base section and a head section pivotably coupled to the mid-section. The conveyor support structure is operable between a deployed state, in which the mid-section and the head section project from the side, and a transport state in which the mid-section is folded to extend across the first face and the head section is folded with respect to the mid-section to extend across an end face of the apparatus.
US09302846B2
Disclosed and claimed herein are devices for the treatment of medical waste using high temperature and pressure steam. The devices are designed to be self-contained and are movable by one person of average strength and ability. The devices are self-contained and require no special installation, connections, plumbing or permanent or semi-permanent electrical connections. Disclosed and claimed herein are methods using the disclosed and claimed devices.
US09302845B2
This invention is directed to a non-rigid composite sheet comprising in order a first component having an areal density of from 102 to 678 gsm comprising a first fabric of filamentary yarns having a tenacity of at least 11 g/dtex and a UV and weather impervious first polymeric layer, a second component having an areal density of from 10 to 170 gsm comprising a flame resistant inorganic refractory layer adjacent to at least one protective polymeric layers, and a third component having an areal density of from 102 to 678 gsm comprising a second fabric of filamentary yarns having a tenacity of at least 11 g/dtex and an impact and scratch resistant second polymeric layer, the second fabric of the third component being adjacent to the refractory layer of the second component.
US09302839B2
A volumetrically efficient plastic hot fill container at least one vacuum panel defined by a vacuum panel area of a sidewall that is constructed and arranged to flex inwardly in order to accommodate volumetric shrinkage that may occur within the container as a result of the conventionally known hot fill process. Advantageously, at least a portion of the vacuum panel area of the sidewall is formed as a plurality of undulations. The undulations preferably have a horizontal component and provide an increased surface area to the vacuum panel area relative to what a flat surface would provide. As a result, the amount of volumetric shrinkage that may be accommodated through inward deflection of said vacuum panel area of said sidewall is increased relative to a flat surface would provide.
US09302837B2
A method for opening a seal including a metal foil and a layer of thermoplastic resin via which the seal is heat-sealed to the rim of a glass jar or equivalent container, the rim having been coated beforehand with a heat-sealing primer, the heat-sealed seal providing hermetic closure of the glass jar or equivalent container, where the initial and final tear forces are not more than 28 N on peeling of the seal at 90° at a speed of 300 mm/min; a glass jar or equivalent container suitable for implementation of this method, where the coating of heat-sealing primer contains an organic and/or inorganic material in which organic and/or inorganic fillers are incorporated; and the application of this method or this glass jar or equivalent container to the packaging of processed food products.
US09302836B2
A ream wrap package formed by wrapping a sheet of polymeric film around a stack of paper, the sheet having at least one line of weakness formed therein, to form a rectangular tube with sides overlapping, sealing one side to the other to form a girth seal, closing the tube at each end to form an envelope seal with tucked in ends and overlapping flaps, at least one of which is trapezoidal, so that in the formed package there is at least one line of weakness extending along the whole length of a surface of the package outside the girth seal, positioned so that it terminates at each end of the package within a region of the transverse direction defined by that portion of the overlapping flaps where there are only two layers of overlapping film.
US09302835B2
An easy open flexible container including two webs of material sealed together to form a containment area. At least one of the two webs includes at least two layers and one of the two layers includes a slit or perforation. The easy open flexible container further includes a heat seal joining the at least two layers together. The heat seal positioned over or adjacent to the slit or perforation to form a tearable track for opening the easy open flexible container.
US09302834B2
A dispensing system based on secondary packaging having side panels forming a tubualar form, top and bottom panels held substantially perpendicular to the side panels of the secondary package, and optionally including a stabilizing insert. Apertures in the top panel and posts in the bottom panel are provided to stabilize and support primary packages in the secondary package. The apertures in the top panel are sized to allow a primary package to be removed individually by passing through such aperture. Primary packages within the secondary package are biaxially supported between apertures in the top panel surrounding an elongated neck on the primary package and posts in the bottom panel that interlock with a depression in the bottom of the primary package. Such dispensing system can be opened and individual primary packages removed without exposing any other primary containers held within the dispensing system, while maintaining stable storage and transportation utility in the system.
US09302827B1
A dispensing cap unit for use on a liquid container which permits a smooth flow of liquid out of the container when the container is rapidly inverted. The dispensing cap unit includes an air vent passage located inside the outer wall of the unit and is separated from the liquid flow path by a partition wall which terminates short of the lower end of the outer wall. A baffle element extends across the air vent passage adjacent to the end of the partition wall to define, with the end of the partition wall, an air vent passage outlet port which is oriented so that liquid is not likely to flow into the air vent passage via the air vent passage outlet port.
US09302822B2
Some disclosed bladder closures comprise a first rigid member adapted to be secured to a first side of a bladder opening and a second rigid member adapted to be secured to a second side of the bladder opening opposite from the first side. At least one fastener is included for clamping the first and second rigid members together to seal the bladder opening. The fastener is rotatably mounted in the first rigid member and comprises a latch positioned on an outer side of the first rigid member, a shaft that passes through the first rigid member, and at least one tab that engages with a portion of the second rigid member when the latch is rotated. The latch pivots at least partially around the shaft to engage with a projection of the second rigid member that extends through a hole in the first rigid member to lock the fastener in place.
US09302819B2
In general, the present invention is directed to a reusable two-way mailing bag that may include a pouch configured to receive a shipping or postage label; an internal cavity, the internal cavity further comprising a pocket; and a closing device for closing the internal cavity; configured to be folded into the pocket such that the pouch may be visible. In accordance with some embodiments, a reusable two-way mailing bag may include a double-sided pouch configured to receive a shipping or postage label; an internal cavity comprising a pocket; a zipper for providing access to and closing the internal cavity; and an attachment device; the two-way mailing bag foldable into the pocket such that the double sided pouch is visible when the two-way mailing bag is an folded or unfolded position, and the attachment device engagable to maintain the two-way mailing bag folded into the pocket.
US09302812B2
This invention relates to a gate or panel for a storage container comprising a rectangular or square infill panel having an inner face and an outer face, an outer perimeter frame adjacent to the outer face of the infill panel, and an infill panel attachment member attached to and extending along at least a pair of opposing margins of the gate, each infill panel attachment member comprising an infill panel retaining flange which extends in a plane parallel to an inner face of the perimeter frame so that the infill panel is retained between the retaining flanges and an inner face of the outer perimeter frame.
US09302803B1
An emptying system is configured to remove matter from a colostomy bag. The emptying system includes a clamping device that is configured to apply pressure to both sides of the colostomy bag and to squeeze the matter out of the colostomy bag. An outer bag is attached to the clamping device such that the outer bag receives the matter from the colostomy bag and is configured to cover the clamping device.
US09302802B2
A method of operating a plant for the treatment of containers may include treating the containers with pre-set treatment parameters by a first treatment unit of the plant. The treatment parameters are capable of being altered at least in part and depend at least in part upon product parameters—characteristic of the container—of the containers to be treated. At least one product parameter characteristic of the container is determined by detecting a recognition mark associated with the container, and at least one treatment parameter is altered on the basis of this characteristic product parameter.
US09302796B2
Long-term packaging using a combination of an induction seal and a reseal without release layers, both of which are activated by the induction heating process. The exemplary induction seal comprises a laminate of a heat-sealing layer, an aluminum foil layer, and a foam backing. The exemplary reseal comprises a low-density polyethylene foam core sandwiched between first and second layers of solid low-density polyethylene film. The reseal deforms during the induction heating process to be shaped to engage the outer and inner peripheral surfaces of the finish, so that the reseal is hermetic even after the induction seal is removed. Preferred containers are PETE with PP compression closures. Replaceable desiccant and oxygen scavengers may be used with food or other contained material. Precise timing of induction heating is required to achieve the desired result.
US09302780B2
Aircraft with a cockpit including a viewing surface for piloting which is at least partially virtual
The invention concerns an aircraft including a cockpit comprising a viewing surface for piloting giving at least one pilot a view of an outside scene comprising the environment of the aircraft extending forward of the aircraft. At least part of said viewing surface for piloting is free of any glazed surface and is formed by display means for a digital image representing at least part of an outside scene comprising the environment of the aircraft extending forward of the aircraft.
US09302779B2
The invention concerns an aircraft cockpit comprising at least one instrument panel (4) and a seat (2) for a pilot characterized in that the instrument panel forms a single unit and is carried by a hinged support (6) enabling the pilot to adjust the position of the instrument panel (4) relative to the pilot seat (2). Preferably, the instrument panel forms a single unit and is curved, for example along the arc of a circle, around the pilot seat.
US09302766B2
A split winglet configured for attachment to a wing of an airplane. The split winglet may include an upper winglet smoothly extending from the wing tip above a chord plane of the wing and a ventral fin projecting below the chord plane from a lower surface of the upper winglet. The upper winglet may include a transition section which curves upward from the wing tip into a substantially planar section. Upper and lower surfaces of the upper winglet may be bounded by leading and trailing edges which are swept toward an airstream direction, parallel with the chord plane, and curve toward the airstream direction before terminating at a point distal of the wing tip. Similarly, upper and lower surfaces of the ventral fin may be bounded by leading and trailing edges which curve toward the airstream direction and terminate at a point distal of the wing tip.
US09302724B2
A headlamp assembly for a saddle-type vehicle ensures a generous light-emitting area of an upper lamp, and can make a gap formed between upper and lower lamps hard to see. The headlamp assembly includes upper and lower lamps, each including a light source and a reflector, with the lower lamp arranged below the upper lamp. The headlamp assembly also includes extension members, which extend in a substantially horizontal direction and approach front ends of the reflectors from a front side thereof, where flange portions are attached to and extend downwardly from the lower edges of the reflectors.
US09302722B2
A seal assembly can be incorporated into a track pin joint assembly including a pin defining a longitudinal axis, a first member and a second member both coaxial with the pin about the longitudinal axis. The first member is pivotable about the longitudinal axis with respect to the second member and includes a load ring engagement surface defining, at least in part, an axially-extending seal cavity disposed in proximal relationship to the second member. A seal assembly including a seal ring and a load ring is disposed in the seal cavity and sealingly engages the first member and the second member. The load ring includes a main body and a neck having a neck perimeter with a first sealing blade disposed along the neck perimeter and comprising an outwardly-extending projection. The first sealing blade is adapted to sealingly engage one of the seal ring and the first member.
US09302706B2
An articulated connection can be used to transfer a steering movement to a vehicle wheel. The articulated connection can include an axle journal and a steering arm. The axle journal can be configured to be coupled to the wheel. The steering arm can be configured to receive and transfer the steering movement to the axle journal. The steering arm can be bendable so as to elastically deflect with respect to the axle journal. The steering arm can be curved along a portion of its length and/or the articulated connection can include a limiting device. The limiting device can be configured to limit an amount of deflection of the steering arm in at least one direction.
US09302702B1
The present disclosure is directed to a steering system for an electric vehicle. The steering system may include a hydraulic pump configured to direct hydraulic fluid to a steering gearbox of the electric vehicle, and an electric motor having a shaft that is coupled to the hydraulic pump. The electric motor may be configured to drive fluid flow through the pump. The steering system may also include a sensor configured to measure a value indicative of a torque applied by the electric motor, and a control unit configured to control operation of the electric motor based on an input from the sensor.
US09302685B2
A two-axle sub-truck is disclosed. The two-axle sub-truck may include a first axle and a second axle. The two-axle sub-truck may also include a first traction motor located between the first and second axles and a second traction motor located outside the first and second axles.
US09302668B2
A control device of the invention is applied for a hybrid vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, a motor and a rotational position detector to detect a rotational position of a rotary shaft of the motor. The control device performs a procedure for obtaining an offset amount according to a request for obtaining the offset amount, which offset amount is a difference between a detected rotational position of the rotary shaft with the rotational position detector and an actual rotational position of the rotary shaft. The control device is configured to perform the procedure for obtaining the offset amount while the engine is running, when the vehicle stops and the control device determines that there is the request for obtaining the offset amount.
US09302665B2
A test bench for testing a brake comprises a pressure generating assembly for providing a brake fluid with an increased hydraulic pressure, a test bench control, and an electromechanical brake actuator. The pressure generating assembly is actuated mechanically and the brake fluid is supplied to the brake to actuate the brake. The electromechanical brake actuator, which simulates a vehicle driver's braking foot, is provided for mechanical actuation of the pressure generating assembly. The brake actuator comprises an electric motor activated by the test bench control and a planetary roller screw drive driven by the electric motor. The planetary roller screw drive is mechanically coupled to the pressure generating assembly to mechanically actuate the pressure generating assembly.
US09302662B2
Provided is a vehicle brake system including a master cylinder which generates a master hydraulic pressure through an operation of a brake pedal by an operator, and a cylinder body which houses a first and second slave pistons driven by an electric motor operated in accordance with an operation amount of the brake pedal, and is formed with a first hydraulic chamber and a second hydraulic chamber for generating a slave hydraulic pressure through operations of the first and second slave pistons. Further, the cylinder body includes a first bleeder and a second bleeder which are configured to be switchable between open states in which a first hydraulic chamber and a second hydraulic chamber are in communication with an external of the cylinder body and closed states in which the first hydraulic chamber and the second hydraulic chamber are not in communication with the external of the cylinder body.
US09302652B2
The invention is based on a wiper device for a motor vehicle window, with a wiper arm adapter unit (10a 10j) and a wiper blade adapter unit (12a 12j), which, in a fitted state, form a form-fitting connection. It is proposed that the wiper device has at least one movably mounted latching means (56a 56j) for restricting the wiper arm adapter unit (10a 10j) in the freedom of movement thereof, in the fitted state, at least substantially in a vertical direction (44a 44j) of the wiper blade adapter unit (12a 12j).
US09302651B2
A method for cleaning a windscreen of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, includes a phase of remotely activating a cycle of cleaning a windscreen of the vehicle, the cleaning cycle including at least one wiping phase with the aid of a wiping device of the vehicle.
US09302650B2
A vehicle burglarproof system and a vehicle burglarproof method are disclosed. The vehicle burglarproof system comprises a vehicle component, an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor, a first register, a remote controller and a microcontroller. The remote controller comprises a second register. The ECG sensor senses current ECG information. The first register stores the current ECG information. The second register stores pre-recorded ECG information. If the current ECG information matches the pre-recorded ECG information, the microcontroller controls the vehicle component to change to a second state from a first state which is different from the second state.
US09302648B2
The invention relates to a belt tensioner with a belt shaft (10), a force limitation arrangement (70) connected with the belt shaft (10), and a tensioner drive wheel (20) coupled with the belt shaft (10) so as to be locked against relative rotation, in which a retaining element (30, 50) is provided for coupling the tensioner drive wheel (20) to the belt shaft (10), and the retaining element (30, 50) is releasable by the rotation of the belt shaft (10) in the belt webbing withdrawal direction after the tensioning movement has been completed.
US09302641B2
A guard bar has an inverse-U shape, and its inward end portion is configured to pass through a cross bar and be welded to the cross bar and its outward end portion is fixed to the cross bar via a junction member. The junction member has a reinforcement portion which is fastened together with a link bracket and the cross bar. Thus, there can be provided a seatback bar structure of a vehicle which can properly attach the guard bar, considering the manufacturing accuracy of extrusion molding of aluminum or aluminum alloy, and also can properly transmit a load inputted to the guard bar in a vehicle's rollover to a leg portion and side panels so as to achieve appropriate load dispersion.
US09302635B2
A waterproof cover can prevent substantial deformation thereof and maintain high waterproof performance even when temperature inside the waterproof cover changes. The waterproof cover has a peripheral wall composed of a rubber or elastomer. Two end portions of the peripheral wall are connected to an attachment member. The peripheral wall has an attachment hole passing through the peripheral wall in a thickness direction. A ventilation film is provided inside the attachment hole as an inner pressure adjustment member to adjust inner pressure of the waterproof cover.
US09302628B2
A vehicle storage assembly can cover a vehicle storage area such as an interior console or a cargo box. The storage assembly can include a base and a lid. The lid can be opened from two sides to allow easy access for a driver and passengers to an interior storage compartment. The base includes at least two rods, which can act as axles for the lid to pivot about. The lid includes at least one rotation member or guide which can be released from the rod only when the lid is in a desired position, for example, a closed position. The lid can include a latch for each rod. The lid can have a lock to secure one or both of the latches with the lid in a closed position.
US09302625B2
Asymmetric sectioned mirrors are presented. The mirrors include, for example, constant radius of curvature sections that are selected to increase the sizes and improve the definitions of images, for example images of children milling, walking and/or standing about either the front or alongside regions of a school bus. The mirrors may be asymmetric in either or both the horizontal and vertical directions. The mirrors may include a mounting system capable of using both ball mounts and tunnel mounts.
US09302624B2
A vehicular exterior rearview mirror system includes an exterior rearview mirror assembly having a mirror casing portion and a mirror reflective element sub-assembly having a mirror reflective element. The mirror reflective element sub-assembly includes a mirror back plate. A heater pad is disposed between a side of the mirror back plate and the mirror reflective element. The mirror reflective element is fixedly attached to the mirror back plate with the heater pad disposed therebetween. The mirror reflective element sub-assembly includes a display indicator having a light source that is activatable to emit light. When activated, the light source emits light that transmits through a light-transmitting passageway of the display indicator and through a light-transmitting portion of the heater pad and through the mirror reflective element to be viewable by the driver of the vehicle. The display indicator is associated with a blind spot detection system of the vehicle.
US09302610B2
A headlight for motor vehicles including a box-shaped housing, a light unit arranged in the housing, a front pane sealing the housing to the front relative to the direction of travel, and mountings provided on the housing for connecting the housing to the vehicle. Impact protection is provided by a rupture device that has at least one flexurally sensitive region of reduced wall thickness in the wall of the housing. The flexurally sensitive region at least partially extends transversely to the direction of the possible impact loading. A rupture element supported against the vehicle structure is provided on at least one point of the flexurally sensitive region. A targeted continuous rupturing of the flexurally sensitive region is provided by the rupture element in an impact with an unprotected road user.
US09302606B2
Improvements in a self-tightening holding strap that grips onto a tube. The strap uses an elastomeric cushion with hook and loop fasteners to hold the strap onto a tubular pipe. The hook and loop fasteners allows the self-tightening holding strap to be easily installed, removed and repositioned where desired. The elastomeric cushion conforms around a textured or powder coated surface to increase the gripping forces. The elastomeric cushion can expand slightly as forces increase but retain the high grip. A tightening clasp allows an installer to pull from only one side of the self-tightening holding strap with one or both hands and using the elastomeric cushion to prevent the self-tightening holding strap from sliding on the pole. The self-tightening holding strap to be sewn onto a cover, canopy or strap.
US09302596B2
A redox flow battery. A metal-ligand coordination compound including an aromatic ligand that contains an electron withdrawing group is used as the catholyte and/or the anolyte so that a redox flow battery having high energy density and excellent charge/discharge efficiency may be provided.
US09302592B2
An electrical battery exchanging system for reuse application is disclosed. The system includes: a number of rechargeable battery packs, a battery condition detecting module, a user ID checking module, a power source, a charging controlling module. Since the system can monitor conditions of rechargeable battery cells of the rechargeable battery packs and uses user ID for operating control purpose, it has benefits of conveniently exchanging low-power battery with fully charged one, easily sorting out end-of-life batteries and getting them for recycle or reuse, simply charging service fee and stably operating under a business model.
US09302581B1
A disconnecting driveline component can include a shaft coupled to one of a pair of output members of a differential. A clutch input can be coupled for rotation with one of a ring gear and the one of the output members. A clutch output can be coupled for rotation with one of a differential case and the shaft. A collar can be axially-slidable between a first position, where the collar couples the clutch input and the clutch output to transmit rotational power therebetween, and a second position where the collar is rotatably decoupled from one of the clutch input and the clutch output. A pilot input can be non-rotatably coupled to the clutch input. A pilot output can be fixed to the clutch output. An electromagnet can draw the pilot input into frictional engagement with the pilot output when the collar is in the second position.
US09302578B2
An in-wheel motor driving device in which a motor section A and a wheel hub bearing section C are connected coaxially in series via a speed reducer section B, whereby an axial dimension of the in-wheel motor driving device is reduced to provide a large inside space of a vehicle as well as an increase in freedom of routing a power supply wires. A terminal box for the power supply wires which supply power to the motor section A is disposed on the outer circumferential side surface of the housing which holds the motor section A. The power supply wires are routed out of the terminal box to an inboard side and are anchored by a power supply wire holder which extends perpendicularly to an axial centerline of the housing.
US09302569B2
A waterproofing structure for a vehicle door having a cover member for closing a service hole formed in an inner panel, and a clip for detachably mounting the cover member to the inner panel. The cover member includes a seat portion and a tool hole. The seat portion is formed on an outer side of the cover member facing the inner panel, and the clip is mounted thereto. To detach the clip from the inner panel, a tool is inserted into the tool hole from an inner side. The clip includes a countersunk head covering the tool hole to seal the hole while the clip is mounted to the seat portion. The seat portion serves as a canopy with respect to the tool hole, and changes a course of water entering an interior of the door and falling toward the tool hole from the outer side of the cover member.
US09302567B1
A versatile barrier within a vehicle improves safety while transporting pets. The versatility of the barrier applies to both its positioning and orientation within a single vehicle and its utilization in different types of vehicles. The barrier can be utilized vertically or horizontally, or some combination thereof, to confine a pet to an area in the vehicle away from the driver. Multiple attachment points allow the barrier to be adjusted to the shape necessary to create such separation. The multiple attachment points—on the barrier's perimeter and/or interior—create versatility and adjustability with respect to utilizing the barrier in various types of vehicles and creating multiple possible configurations within a single vehicle. Similarly, the combination of possible materials used for modes of attachment creates a barrier that can be utilized not only in various types of vehicles but also in multiple configurations within a single vehicle.
US09302554B2
A system for controlling bicycle tire air pressure on the go is provided. The system has a wheel mounted portion and a control unit in wireless communication with one another. The wheel mounted portion attached to each wheel has a gas source, manifold, regulator to control air flow into and out of the tire, and a wireless communication device. The control unit monitors air pressure in each tire, and has a user interface allowing input of a higher or lower tire pressure. Based on user input, the control unit instructs operation of the wheel mounted portion, controlling pressure within the tire.
US09302541B2
A sprag clutch assembly for an aircraft drive wheel drive system capable of moving an aircraft autonomously on the ground in both forward and reverse directions is provided. The clutch is mounted within an aircraft drive wheel to be operatively engaged to control drive means braking torque when the aircraft is driven in a forward or reverse direction. The clutch assembly includes a plurality of pivoted sprag elements activatable to transmit torque and configured so that ratcheting occurs only when the aircraft drive wheel is driven in a forward direction and a braking torque is applied when the aircraft drive wheel is driven in reverse when the relative speed of the drive system is slower than the drive wheel speed, thereby permitting the drive system drive motor to function as a brake when the clutch assembly is engaged and the aircraft is reversing.
US09302536B2
A commercial vehicle wheel cover including a frame having a locking door, at least two hinge points, at least two spring attachments, and at least two retaining features. The frame has a front side and a back side, with the at least two hinge points arranged integrally and circumferentially on the back side of the frame. The at least two spring attachments are rotatably connected to the at least two hinge points. The at least two retaining features are located adjacent to said at least two hinge points in the radial direction, and the at least two spring attachments are secured in the at least two retaining features. One of the at least two hinge points is located on the locking door. The locking door is used to install the final spring attachment on the drop center or hub of a wheel.
US09302528B2
An interactive electronic greeting card with pop-up feature includes a pocket or cavity which houses various electronic and mechanical components and a pop-up element. In a first position, the pop-up element is substantially contained within the greeting card pocket or cavity. When the push button is depressed, the pop-up element is ejected or “pops up” out of the greeting card pocket or cavity, revealing a greeting or other printed indicia, a mobile object or a gift card attached thereto. The push button also initiates playback of a pre-loaded digital audio file, which may be a spoken message, a sound, a song, music or other such audio recording.
US09302519B1
A printer detects malfunctioning ejectors during printing of three-dimensional objects or two-dimensional printed matter. The printer operates the printhead or printheads in the printer to form convex drops of material on a substrate. A camera is positioned to minimize light reflections from the substrate into the camera. The camera is configured to generate image data of the light reflected from the substrate and specularly from the convex drops on the substrate. A controller analyzes the image data to identify malfunctioning inkjets.
US09302514B2
A printhead assembly, a printhead alignment tool usable with a printhead assembly, and a method of aligning a misaligned printhead are disclosed. The printhead assembly includes a printhead disposed on a printbar beam member. A position of the printhead may be adjusted relative to a printbar beam member.
US09302506B2
A method for printing on an article having a non-planar surface in an embodiment includes obtaining coordinates or a geometry for a non-planar surface of an article; determining a tangent orientation for a print head in three dimensions; and using the tangent orientation and positioning the print head relative to the non-planar surface of the article. Embodiments of apparatus for printing on articles having non-planar surfaces are also disclosed.
US09302495B2
A thermal head has a support substrate, an upper substrate arranged on the support substrate on one surface side thereof in a laminated state, and an intermediate layer arranged between the upper substrate and the support substrate to bond the upper substrate and the support substrate to each other. The intermediate layer has one of a through hole and a concave portion forming a cavity portion between the upper substrate and the support substrate. A heat generating resistor is formed on a surface of the upper substrate on a side opposite to the support substrate at a position opposed to the cavity portion. The intermediate layer is formed of a glass paste having a melting point lower than a firing temperature of the support substrate and higher than a melting temperature of the upper substrate.
US09302480B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a liquid discharge unit with a pressure generating chamber group which communicates with a nozzle disposed on a nozzle surface and is formed from pressure generating chambers disposed in a first direction, and a case member which communicates with the pressure generating chamber group and holds a liquid. The case member has a liquid inlet on the side opposite to the liquid discharge direction and at a position between the pressure generating chambers at both ends in the first direction. First and second liquid discharge units are arranged at positions where the first directions of the first and second liquid discharge units are parallel to each other in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction, and positions of the liquid inlets of the case member respectively corresponding to the first and second liquid discharge units do not overlap in the second direction.
US09302478B2
A semiconductor device includes unit circuits arranged in a first direction, a bonding pad, and electrically conductive patterns configured to connect the unit circuits to the bonding pad. Each of the electrically conductive patterns includes a first portion connected to the bonding pad and extending in the first direction, and a second portion connected to the corresponding unit circuit. The electrically conductive patterns include a first type pattern in which the first portion is positioned on a first side of the second portion in a view from the first direction, and a second type pattern in which the first portion is positioned on a second side, which is opposite to the first side, of the second portion in a view from the first direction.
US09302473B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes: a piezoelectric element that is displaced according to a voltage of a drive signal; a cavity which is filled with a liquid and of which an inside volume is changed due to the displacement of the piezoelectric element; a nozzle that communicates with the cavity and is capable of discharging the liquid; a charge source that supplies a charge to the piezoelectric element; and a connection path selecting section that causes the piezoelectric element and the charge source to be electrically connected to each other by using a first signal path or a second signal path. The charge source includes: a first auxiliary power source that outputs two types or more of voltages; and a second auxiliary power source that outputs three types or more of voltages by using the two types or more of voltages output from the first auxiliary power source.
US09302470B1
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material by ejecting ink; and an image processing unit that, in a case where information of a bar code image is included in image information for forming an image by the image forming unit, carries out a process of making a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting an edge portion in the bar code image smaller than a drop size of the ink used for pixels constituting a portion other than the edge portion.
US09302469B2
A method is provided for compensating a failing nozzle in a printhead comprising a series of print elements with nozzles for operation in an inkjet printing process in which a colorant is applied for locally changing an optical density, thereby printing an image. The method comprises at least two compensation mechanisms, each providing a different amount of additional optical density in the environment of a missing dot in the printed image. A nozzle is recorded as a failing nozzle if the associated print element does not apply an ink dot within predetermined specifications. An environment density is determined in an environment of a missing dot associated with said failing nozzle. The environment density is compared with a predetermined threshold, and an appropriate compensation mechanism is selected from the at least two compensation mechanisms. The method is applied in an inkjet printing system for balancing under- and overcompensated optical density.
US09302467B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric actuator is disclosed that includes forming a vibration plate, forming a plurality of electrodes on the vibration plate, forming a piezoelectric layer on the electrodes, and forming a common electrode on the piezoelectric layer.
US09302465B2
A dry cleaning apparatus, assembly and method provides for a dry flexographic plate cleaner apparatus that is configured as a unitary subassembly to be used within a printing press assembly. The cleaner apparatus and subassembly comprise a plurality of motorized drives such that, among other things, a cleaning roller can be moved towards and away from the rotating printing plate so as to achieve optimum spacing. This also allows the press operator to make adjustments to the cleaner apparatus and subassembly without having to stop the printing press assembly. The apparatus and subassembly is further removable from the printing press assembly as may be desired or required for service. Additionally, the apparatus, assembly and method of the present invention also provides for use of at least one controller for electronically controlling the apparatus in accordance with the method and implementing optimized cleaning capabilities and functionalities.
US09302461B2
In a proof printing press, a length of an outer circumference of a plate cylinder at a downstream side of a facing position P1 in a rotation direction is longer than a length in a circumferential direction of a mounting surface of the plate cylinder, where the length of the outer circumference of the plate cylinder extends between the facing position P1 where the plate cylinder faces a collecting cylinder and a facing position P2 where the plate cylinder faces a wiping roller, and a length of the outer circumference of the plate cylinder at a downstream side of the facing position P2 is longer than the length in the circumferential direction of the mounting surface of the plate cylinder, where the length of the outer circumference of the plate cylinder extends between the facing position P2 and a facing position P3 where the plate cylinder faces an impression cylinder.
US09302458B2
A machine for forming a bonded edge fold on a headliner is disclosed. The headliner includes a ceiling and an edge flange that has a wall section and a backing section. The machine includes a lower die that receives the headliner and an upper die disposed above the lower die. The machine further includes a slide connected to the upper die and at least one actuator operable to move the slide. Movement of the slide causes the slide to engage with the backing section and fold the backing section over the wall section forming a bonded edge fold. A method of forming a headliner is also disclosed.
US09302457B2
Methods and devices for using liquid optically clear adhesives (LOCAs) are described. A method for detecting uncured LOCA between a first substrate and a second substrate is described. In addition, an improved method for curing a laminated stack up having LOCA between a first substrate and a second substrate is described. The method includes a pre-curing method involving variable exposure of the LOCA. In addition, an improved light emitting diode (LED) unit assembly for exposing a laminated stack up to ultraviolet (UV) light during a pre-curing process is described. A method for testing the LED unit assembly prior to a pre-curing process is described.
US09302437B2
The present invention relates to a high-pressure tank made from fiber-reinforced plastic for, in particular, gaseous media, wherein, on its inner wall, the tank is equipped completely or partially with a substantially permeation-tight foil made of metal, wherein the metal has a high elastic range and a low thermal expansion coefficient, and the foil has a thickness of ≦0.5 mm. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing tanks of this type.
US09302435B2
A bus bar assembly comprises a plurality of conductive plate-shaped bus bars and a resin mold section in which a plurality of conductive plate-shaped bus bars are partially embedded. In a method for manufacturing the bus bar assembly, firstly a plurality of conductive plate-shaped bus bars are disposed within a cavity formed by a die such as to be stacked in a thickness direction Z with a predetermined amount of space therebetween. Second, a first end and a second end of each bus bar are respectively supported by jigs in the width direction Y. Next, the cavity in the die is filled with the insulating resin and the plurality of bus bars are molded into a single body. After that, jigs are removed from the bus bars and jig placement portions are formed in the resin mold section.
US09302431B2
A rapid prototyping apparatus includes a construction platform, a movable platform, a printing module, a cleaning and maintenance module, a construction material spreading element, a heater and a heat shield. A construction chamber is formed in the construction platform. The movable platform and the construction platform are movable relative to each other. The printing module is installed on the movable platform, and includes at least one printhead unit. The cleaning and maintenance module is installed on the movable platform. The construction material spreading element is installed on the movable platform for spreading a ceramic construction material to the construction chamber. After the ceramic construction material is spread in the construction chamber, the construction material is heated by the heater. After the printhead unit performs a printing operation, the printhead unit is cleaned and maintained by the cleaning and maintenance module.
US09302425B1
A method and apparatus for sealing a cut edge of a foam board is disclosed. The foam board has a top surface, a bottom surface, a first cut edge and a second cut edge. Each cut edge extends between the top and bottom surface. The method includes heating of at least one of cut edges to raise the surface to a first temperature, applying pressure to the at least one of the cut edges by a pressure source at a first pressure, and cooling the at least one of the cut edges to a second temperature. The first temperature is above the foam glass transition temperature and the second temperature is below the glass transition temperature.
US09302419B2
An extruder having an operative unit composed of a cylinder and at least two screw shafts which are rotatably accommodated therein, a gear unit having at least two output shafts, wherein each output shaft, via a connecting element, is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to one screw shaft, a motor which drives the gear unit and is coupled to the gear unit via a clutch, and a controller installation, wherein each connecting element or each output shaft is assigned a separate measuring installation for determining the applied torque, wherein the measuring installations communicate with the controller installation which, depending on the individual determined torques, controls the clutch which is implemented as a switchable clutch, wherein the controller installation is configured for opening the clutch both when a determined torque exceeds a torque limit value and also when the difference between the two determined torques exceeds a limit value.
US09302414B2
An airbag assembly includes inner and outer panels that are coupled to define a cavity therebetween, an inflatable member disposed within the cavity and at least one reinforcing band disposed within at least the inner panel. The reinforcing band includes a plurality of glass fibers, and each of the plurality of glass fibers includes a coating layer.
US09302413B2
A composition for manufacturing a foam material based on flavonoid tannins, includes a flavonoid tannin powder mainly of the prorobineditinidin and/or the profisetinidin type, according to an amount in weight in the range between 40% and 45% of the composition, furfuryl alcohol, a blowing agent, and a catalyst. The composition is totally formaldehyde-free, and contains an amount of furfuryl alcohol greater than 20% in weight of the composition. The composition makes possible to obtain foam materials of high characteristics and low cost, that can typically be used in the fields of building and in the automotive industry and in the vehicles in general.
US09302406B2
A power tool has a tool unit and a base device. The tool unit has a housing having a drive device disposed therein. The base device has a clamp surface that can clamp a contact surface of the housing for supporting the tool unit. The housing may include an internal housing portion and an external housing portion positioned on an outer side of the internal housing portion. The external housing portion may define the contact surface of the housing. The internal housing portion may be made of a first material. The external housing portion may be made of a second material that is different from the first material.
