US09315066B2
A writing implement may include a housing with an operating side and a writing side, a nib assembly longitudinally axially displaceably arranged in the housing with an ink reservoir and a piston longitudinally axially adjustably arranged therein, and an operating element, arranged on the operating side, which is rotatable and longitudinally axially displaceable into a first operating position and a second operating position. The operating element is mechanically connected to the nib assembly in the first operating position for the longitudinal axial displacement of the nib assembly and mechanically connected to the piston in the second operating position for the longitudinal axial adjustment of the piston.
US09315045B2
An image forming apparatus includes a media roll, art image forming device, and a feeder. In the media roll, a printing medium having an adhesive face is wound in a roll shape. The image forming device forms an image on the printing medium. The feeder feeds the printing medium. The feeder includes a protection belt and a pair of rotary bodies. The protection belt presses against and protects the adhesive face of the printing medium. The pair of rotary bodies sandwich and press the printing medium and the protection belt between the pair of rotary bodies. An approach angle of the printing medium is within a range from 0° to 30° and is formed by the printing medium drawn from the media roll and approaching to between the pair of rotary bodies and an opposing face of the protection belt opposing the image forming device.
US09315037B2
An ink aerosol filtration system includes an inlet, a filtration chamber communicated with the inlet and including at least one filter member, and an airflow source communicated with the filtration chamber to generate flow into the inlet, through the filtration chamber and through the at least one filter member, wherein the airflow source is controlled to maintain substantially constant pressure at the inlet.
US09315036B2
An ink cartridge comprises a main body comprising a first surface, a second surface, and a chamber, configured to store ink, disposed between the first surface and the second surface; an ink outlet portion disposed on the first surface of the main body configured to direct the ink from the chamber to an exterior of the main body; and an electronic circuit board disposed on the main body. The electronic circuit board comprises an electrical interface, a first portion facing a second direction that intersects a first plane that is perpendicular to the first direction, a second portion facing a third direction away from the ink outlet portion that intersects a second plane that is parallel to the first direction, and a connecting portion between the first portion and the second portion. The electrical interface is disposed on an area of the electronic circuit board including the connecting portion.
US09315033B2
A recording apparatus includes a housing; a recording head that is provided inside the housing and records an image on paper by ejecting ink on the paper; a case that is attached to the housing in such a manner that the case can be separated from a side wall of the housing; and a first supply tube that supplies ink in a liquid container body contained in the case to the recording head. A through hole is provided in the side wall of the housing so as to allow the first supply tube to pass therethrough, and a through hole is provided in the case so as to allow the first supply tube to pass therethrough. The through hole in the case expands to be larger than the through hole in the side wall.
US09315032B2
A print apparatus includes a carriage configured to move reciprocally along one direction; a liquid supply tube, one end thereof being connected to the carriage; a housing in an interior of which the carriage and at least a part of the liquid supply tube are arranged; and a control unit configured to control reciprocal movement of the carriage. The liquid supply tube is connected to the carriage from a counter-home position side that is the opposite side in the one direction to a home position side at which the carriage is located before the start of printing. The control unit carries out a movement control, before the start of printing, to cause the carriage to move at a first speed toward the counter-home position side from the home position side, and then to move at a second speed faster than the first speed toward the home position side.
US09315030B2
A fluid container usable with an image forming apparatus is disclosed. The fluid container includes a housing unit, a free-fluid chamber disposed in the housing unit and configured to store fluid, and a regulated chamber disposed in the housing unit. The regulated chamber includes a regulator unit, an outlet and a plurality of states. The regulator unit is configured to regulate respective fluid therein. The outlet is configured to transport the respective fluid from the regulated chamber. The fluid container also includes a plurality of valves disposed in the housing unit. At least one of the valves is configured to selectively stop fluid communication between the regulated chamber and the free-fluid chamber based on the respective state of the regulated chamber.
US09315024B2
A droplet discharging method includes: forming a plurality of dots on a first region of a medium, on a second region which is positioned in a −Y direction from the first region, and on a third region which is positioned in the −Y direction from the second region. The dots are formed on the first region by using a first head and a second head to cause a second head use ratio to be constant, the dots are formed on the second region by using the first head and the second head so as to cause the second head use ratio to be increased from a value less than a first set value to a value greater than a second set value greater than the first set value in the −Y direction, and the dots are formed on the third region by using the second head.
US09315023B2
It aims to provide an inkjet printer and a printing method that appropriately performs printing with high accuracy on print objects having various shapes. As a solution therefor, an inkjet printer is configured to perform printing using an inkjet scheme on a print object and includes an inkjet head that discharges ink droplets, a guide rail that retains the inkjet head by making the inkjet head face the print object and that is a Y direction extending member extending in a predeterminedly set Y direction, and an X direction driving section that moves the guide rail in an X direction and upon printing, the inkjet head moves along the guide rail and discharges ink droplets toward the print object, and the X direction driving section includes a ball screw and moves the guide rail in the X direction in accordance with a rotation amount of the ball screw.
US09315022B2
The present invention relates to an inkjet printing apparatus, includes at least four same-typed print heads, among which, at least two eject ink for coating layer, the rest for colored inks; print heads printing coating layer are interpolated or arranged abreast in a row, and those for colored inks are ranked abreast in another; along printing medium's motion direction, nozzles of print heads ejecting the same colored ink are connected in series. Arranging or interpolating print heads ejecting ink for coating layer in a row and print heads ejecting colored inks arranged abreast in another to make whole printing area covered by coating layer in the present invention, greatly narrow width of print head baseplate, reduce demands on width of UV solidification devices, save cost, and improve operating stability of carriage.
US09315017B2
A recording apparatus includes a first nozzle row and a second nozzle row. A part of nozzles of the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row are overlapped in a predetermined alignment direction. A defective nozzle is included in the nozzles of the first nozzle row. The recording apparatus includes a processing unit that causes the nozzle closest to the defective nozzle in one side of the opposite sides in the alignment direction to be selected as a first complementary nozzle and the closest nozzle in the other side thereof to be selected as a second complementary nozzle among the nozzles in an overlap section of the second nozzle row with the first nozzle row, and complementary dots that complement a dot which is supposed to be formed by the defective nozzle to be formed by the first complementary nozzle and the second complementary nozzle.
US09315016B2
An inkjet head has a head chip. The head chip has driving walls of piezoelectric material, which deform by applying voltage, to jet ink. Channels are arranged alternatively, alongside the driving walls and contain ink. Each channel has an outlet and an inlet port at a front and rear surface of the head chip. Driving electrodes, formed on surfaces of the driving walls, apply voltage to the driving walls. Connection electrodes, formed on the rear surface of the head chip, electrically connect to the driving electrodes. A wiring substrate, having wiring electrodes apply voltage to the driving electrode through the connection electrode. The wiring substrate is bonded to the rear surface of the head chip to protrude from the head chip in a direction perpendicular to the direction of the channels so that all the channels are exposed at the rear surface of the head chip.
US09315013B2
In a screen printing apparatus, a squeegee is slid on a mask contacting a board to print paste onto the board via pattern holes formed in the mask. The screen printing apparatus includes: a box-like member including a top-plate portion in which first suction hole is formed and which is allowed to contact a lower surface of the board; a blower suction pipe which communicates with an internal space of the box-like member, and which extends outside the box-like member; a motor which sucks air through the blower suction pipe to generate a blower suction force in the first suction hole; and an inverter which changes frequencies of the motor.
US09315011B2
There is described an intaglio printing press (1; 1*) comprising a plate cylinder (8) carrying one or more intaglio printing plates, the plate cylinder (8) receiving ink from an inking system (9, 20, 23; 20*, 23*) having a plurality of chablon cylinders (23; 23*) transferring ink directly or indirectly onto the plate cylinder (8), the intaglio printing press (1; 1*) comprising an adjustment system acting on the chablon cylinders (23; 23*) in order to compensate elongation of the one or more intaglio printing plates. The adjustment system comprises, for each chablon cylinder (23; 23*), an adjustable drive unit, which adjustable drive unit (25) is interposed between the chablon cylinder (23; 23*) acting as a rotating output body of the adjustable drive unit (25) and a driving gear (100) acting as a rotating input body of the adjustable drive unit (25). The adjustable drive unit (25) is designed to allow selected adjustment of a rotational speed of the chablon cylinder (23; 23*) with respect to a rotational speed of the driving gear (100). In an adjusting state of the adjustable drive unit (25), driving into rotation of the chablon cylinder (23; 23*) is adjusted over each revolution of the chablon cylinder (23; 23*) by means of an adjustment motor (300) of the adjustable drive unit (25). In a non-adjusting state of the adjustable drive unit (25), the adjustment motor (300) is inoperative and driving into rotation of the chablon cylinder (23; 23*) is performed exclusively mechanically via the adjustable drive unit (25), the chablon cylinder (23; 23*) rotating at a same rotational speed as the driving gear (100).
US09315009B2
An apparatus comprises: (a) a rotatable drum configured to have a UV-curable printing plate with an ablatable layer thereon, placed thereon; (b) at least one laser beam to image the plate on the drum by ablating some of the ablatable layer according to image data to form an imaged plate; (c) an unloading area onto which a plate is movable when unloaded; and (d) a plurality of UV LEDs configured to cure UV-curable material on at least an imaged portion of the plate during the imaging process, such that imaging of one part of the plate and curing of an imaged portion of the plate occur simultaneously. In another embodiment, the plurality of LEDs are to apply UV radiation to the back of the UV-curable plate or to both the front and back of the UV-curable plate during or after the unloading of the imaged plate.
US09315005B2
A method and a device for producing mirror units for heliostats, comprising a main body as a carrier of a reflective surface and a fixing carriage to ensure stress-free mounting of the main body during production, comprising the following features: a) a feed for main bodies (13) by means of a mirror-carrier delivery feed (3), b) a feed for fixing carriages (2) by means of running rails (4), c) a device for transferring a main body (13) into a fixing carriage, d) a mirror feed (8), e) an adhesive bonding device (5), f) a device for pressing a main body (13) together with a plurality of mirrors (11) and g) a measuring device (9) for checking relevant tolerances of the production process.
US09315003B2
A film sticking device includes a pressing part configured to press a film by contacting a surface of the film and pressing the film. A supporting part is coupled to the pressing part and supports the pressing part. A guiding part is configured to guide the supporting part and move the supporting part between a first position and a second position. The second position is separated from the first position. A body has one end coupled to the guiding part. The supporting part is positioned at the first position when a center part of the pressing part contacts the surface of the film.
US09314995B2
The present invention generally relates to nonwoven structures and composites comprising such nonwoven structures, particularly structures incorporating foam, and methods of making and use thereof. One aspect of the invention is generally directed to composites comprising a nonwoven structure immobilized to foam, e.g., using adhesive, needling, or other techniques. The nonwoven structure may comprise any of a variety of fibers. In certain embodiments, the composite may be substantially thermally insulating and/or acoustic insulating. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to systems and methods for making such composites, methods of use of such composites, kits comprising such composites, and the like.
US09314989B2
The invention relates to a flexible pipe having a multi-layered structure comprising unbonded layers, comprising an inner lining having the following layer arrangement: a) an innermost layer made of a fluoropolymer molding compound, b) an intermediate layer made of a molding compound on the basis of an olefinic polymer, which is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, isotactic polypropylene, syndiotactic polypropylene and syndiotactic polystyrene, c) an outer layer made of a polyamide molding compound, wherein the layer made of a polyamide molding compound is particularly efficiently protected against hydrolysis. The pipe is thus particularly suited for offshore applications in oil or gas production.
US09314986B2
A method and system automatically and dynamically updates the design of perforation lines in a package design file. It identifies an edge between two facets to which a perforation line is to be applied, determines a length of the edge, and uses the length of the edge and a default cut segment length to determine a number of cut segments that will be included in the perforation line. The method and system also may determine a phasing for the perforation line to ensure that the ends of the line are either a cut or spacer, depending on the desired function or placement of the line.
US09314984B2
A fluidic forming press is provided, comprising a frame structure, a movable first tool carrier, a movable second tool carrier, a drive system, and a press controller that controls the drive system. A first drive unit associated with the first tool carrier is designed as a fast-stroke unit, the first tool carrier can be mechanically locked in the closed position thereof in relation to the frame structure by means of at least one position-changeable locking body, at least one piston-cylinder unit associated with the second tool carrier is designed as a high-pressure unit at least for part of the motion of the second tool carrier in the direction of the first tool carrier, and a fluidic pressure booster is integrated into a feed line that connects the high-pressure unit to the associated pressure fluid unit.
US09314980B2
A telescope, mirror assembly and method of forming an aspheric mirror is disclosed. The telescope includes the mirror assembly which has a substantially spherical surface contour in a relaxed state. A plurality of actuators distributed substantially along an outer edge of the mirror is configured to apply a load to the mirror assembly to deform the mirror to obtain a substantially aspheric surface contour.
US09314968B2
A pressing apparatus associated with an absorbent article, including: a pair of rollers that are driven and rotate with outer circumferential surfaces thereof facing each other, when a fibrous continuous sheet overlapped with an article to be overlapped with a thermoplastic adhesive therebetween is passed in a continuous direction of the fibrous continuous sheet through a roller gap between the pair of rollers, the pressing apparatus sandwiching and pressing the article to be overlapped and the fibrous continuous sheet between the outer circumferential surfaces, and a heating mechanism that heats at least a roller of the pair of rollers that is positioned on a side of the fibrous continuous sheet, the heating mechanism heating the roller so as to keep a temperature of the outer circumferential surface of the roller within a range from 70° C. to 120° C.
US09314967B2
A clamping device for clamping a workpiece having a constant section includes a base; a head; jaws including a jaw fixed to the base and a jaw facing the other jaw and fixed to the head to clamp the workpiece; a guide to link the head to the base and to allow the displacement of the head in an action direction between a clamping position and an opening position. The guide includes at least two plates parallel one with the other with each plate being linked at a first end to a heel of the base and to the head at a second end opposed to the first end, the first ends and second ends being flexible to allow the plates to pivot in relation to the heel and the head, respectively; the clamping device being in one block of monolithic material such as metal.
US09314964B2
A process is provided for producing a composite component having a first component element and a second component element, which are connected with one another by an adhesive connection. The process includes forming an adhesive cavity by applying thermally active plastic material to an adhesive connection side of the first component element and/or to an adhesive connection side of the second component element; arranging the first component element on the second component element, wherein a gap is formed between the adhesive connection side of the first component element and the adhesive connection side of the second component element, and supplying of heat in such a manner that the thermally active plastic material expands and forms a boundary in the gap between the first component element and the second one. The process further fills the formed adhesive cavity with an adhesive for the permanent connection of the first component element with the second component element.
US09314963B2
Provided is an imprint product, which is for transcribing a fine pattern of a mold surface and which contains a fluorine-containing cyclic olefin polymer containing repeating unit represented by formula (1) and having a fluorine atom content rate of 40% to 75% by mass.
US09314958B2
Disclosed is a buffer assembly of a vacuum molding and cutting machine, and the buffer assembly includes a lower mold base, at least four hydraulic elements and a movable plate. The lower mold base has at least four installing holes for installing the hydraulic elements respectively, and each hydraulic element includes a piston plunger for propping the movable plate to a predetermined distance. When the cutting thickness is 0.1 mm-0.5 mm of a sheet, the impact force can be absorbed effectively to maintain the parallelism for the cutting, so as to improve the cutting quality and extend the service life of a die cutting tool.
US09314952B2
A nozzle is provided having a low precipitation rate and uniform fluid distribution to a desired arcuate span of coverage. The nozzle has an inflow port having a shape corresponding to the desired arc of coverage and a size for effecting a low precipitation rate. The nozzle also has a deflector surface with a water distribution profile including ribs for subdividing the fluid into multiple sets of fluid streams. There are at least two fluid streams for distant and close-in irrigation to provide relatively uniform distribution and coverage. The nozzle may be a unitary, one-piece, molded nozzle body including a mounting portion, an inflow port, and a deflector portion. There is also provided a mold assembly and method for forming a unitary, one piece nozzle body.
US09314945B2
The present invention discloses the method for producing artificial stone using used ground coffee including the steps of drying the used ground coffee; mixing and stirring resin, color and metal salt initiator thoroughly; then mixing used ground coffee, calcium carbonate or aluminum trihydrate (ATH) or mixtures of both calcium carbonate and aluminum trihydrate and peroxide with mixtures of resin, color and metal salt initiator; then stirring whole mixtures and leaving the mixtures to form a gel; next filling the mold with gelated mixtures and leaving them for setting at room temperature; removing and drying artificial stone in an oven to complete the reaction and to achieve the excellent product; then coating products with waterproof agents (Water Repellant; Water Repellant Preservative) or coated with resin as lacquer.
US09314929B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing, among other things, a wheelchair-assist robot for assisting a wheelchair user with everyday tasks or activities at work, at home, and other locations. In an embodiment, the mobile wheelchair-assist robot includes a wheelchair interface component configured to exchange control information with a wheelchair controller. In an embodiment, a wheelchair-assist robot mount assembly is provided for, among other things, electrically and physically coupling a wheelchair-assist robot to an associated wheelchair.
US09314928B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing, among other things, a wheelchair-assist robot for assisting a wheelchair user with everyday tasks or activities at work, at home, and other locations. In an embodiment, the mobile wheelchair-assist robot includes a wheelchair interface component configured to exchange control information with a wheelchair controller. In an embodiment, a wheelchair-assist robot mount assembly is provided for, among other things, electrically and physically coupling a wheelchair-assist robot to an associated wheelchair.
US09314921B2
An operator controllable robotic device is disclosed. The robotic device comprises a support member, an upper robotic arm, a lower robotic arm, and a control arm. The upper robotic arm is coupled to the support member and has rotational movement in at least one degree of freedom relative to the support member. The lower robotic arm is coupled to the upper robotic arm and has rotational movement in at least one degree of freedom relative to the upper robotic arm. The control arm allows an operator to control the robotic device. The control arm is coupled to the upper robotic arm and has rotational movement in at least one degree of freedom relative to the upper robotic arm. The control arm allows a movement of the operator to control a movement of at least one of the upper robotic arm and the lower robotic arm.
US09314919B2
A truck box is provided having a reinforced lid which resists bending, crimping, torqueing and misalignment when being opened and closed, and which avoids the appearance or a wave or roll along the surface of the lid.
US09314906B2
A socket includes a body having first and second ends and defining a longitudinal axis, a receptacle formed in the first end of the body, and an aperture in the body positioned between the first and second ends. An interior of the receptacle is visible through the aperture from a location exterior of the socket.
US09314902B2
A system including at least one means for mechanical processing of surfaces, in particular steel or cast iron beads using a blasting agent (5). An additive (6) for degreasing and cleaning of the surface to be blasted (2) and/or of the blasting agent is provided with the blasting agent (5), and comprising a granular material (6), which exhibits a lower breaking strength under the mechanical stresses that the blasting agent (5) is subject to during the blasting procedure than the at least one means for mechanical processing of the surfaces themselves. As the granular material (6) breaks down, additional additive (6) is added into the blasting agent (5) such that the proportion of the additive (6) in the blasting agent mixture blend (5) remains largely generally constant even at a prolonged operation of the device.
US09314901B2
This invention relates to a conditioner for a CMP (Chemical Mechanical Polishing) pad, which is used in a CMP process which is part of the fabrication of a semiconductor device, and more particularly, to a CMP pad conditioner in which the structure of the cutting tips is such that the change in the wear of the polishing pad is not great even when different kinds of slurry are used and when there are changes in pressure of the conditioner, and to a method of manufacturing the same.
US09314900B2
A handheld grinder comprising a housing; a grinding disk; a motor; an output shaft connected to the grinding disk and the motor to impart rotary motion thereto; and a circuit board residing in the housing and having thereon a rectifier that receives an alternating current and converts the alternating current to a direct current, a switching arrangement having a plurality of motor switches connected electrically between the rectifier and the motor and operates to deliver the direct current from the rectifier to the motor, a capacitor connected electrically between the rectifier and the switching arrangement, wherein the capacitor is coupled in parallel across the rectifier, a driver circuit interfaced with the motor switches and operable to control switching operation of the motor switches, and a power switch connected electrically between the rectifier and the driver circuit and operable to selectively energize the driver circuit and power on the grinder disk.
US09314898B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polishing pad having high planarization property and capable of making it possible to suppress the occurrence of scratches. A polishing pad of the present invention has a polishing layer having oval cells each with a long axis inclined by 5° to 45° with respect to the direction of the thickness of the polishing layer.
US09314896B2
A hand held power tool includes: a motor room housing a motor that drives an output shaft; a bevel gear including interconnected pinion and crown gears, wherein the pinion gear is connected to a pinion shaft drivingly connected to the output shaft and the crown gear is drivingly connected to a tool holding shaft; a gear housing that delimits a fluid tight gear space around the bevel gear; a bearing, around the pinion shaft and close to the pinion gear, which delimits a confined space around the pinion shaft and within the gear space; and a fluid tight axial sealing, around the pinion shaft inside the confined space of the gear space, which seals off the gear space from the motor room. At least one fluid conveying opening is arranged to put the confined space of the gear space in fluid contact with the rest of the gear space.
US09314894B2
A device for storing, sharpening, and cleaning a safety razor blade may include a polymer-based mat section, including at least one substantially plane surface, and one or more polymer-based holding elements adapted to hold a razor and the safety razor blade attached to the razor in a fixed relationship with the device. A device for sharpening and cleaning a safety razor blade may include a polymer-based mat, including at least one substantially plane surface, and a pair of guiding tracks arranged so that at least part of the polymer-based mat is arranged between the pair of guiding tracks. The pair of guiding tracks and the polymer-based mat may be arranged relative to each other in such a way that the pair of guiding tracks define a maximum allowed penetration depth of blades of the safety razor blade into the polymer-based mat.
US09314893B2
The present invention is a blade sharpening fixture, tool and kit for use with logging equipment with a rotary drum that has dozens of staggered blades mounted thereupon. The sharpening tool clamps onto a single blade of the logging equipment while the blade is still mounted on the rotary drum, so that the blade may be sharpened in the field. The sharpening tool includes a sharpening fixture and a grinder. The sharpening fixture includes a blade clamp for clamping onto the blade; a track attached to a sloped surface that can be positioned parallel or perpendicular to the blade; and a grinder connector assembly for securing the grinder securely and slidably to the track.
US09314872B2
A recording apparatus includes a rotation driving unit configured to rotate a recording layer forming medium in which a recording layer is formed, a laser irradiation unit configured to apply laser light to the recording layer of the recording layer forming medium, a first slide mechanism configured to change a position of an irradiation spot of the laser light on the recording layer in a first direction parallel to an in-plane direction of the recording layer, and a recording unit configured to perform a recording operation in which the position of the irradiation spot is changed in the first direction by the first slide mechanism while applying the laser light to the recording layer by the laser irradiation unit and rotating the recording layer forming medium by the rotation driving unit, thereby recording a predetermined pattern in consecutive areas including a central portion of the recording layer.
US09314870B2
A tool driving section of a friction stir spot welding device is configured to advance and retract each of a pin member and a shoulder member. A tool driving control section is configured to control the tool driving section such that an absolute value of a tool average position Tx is small, wherein Tx is defined by a following equation: Ap·Pp+As·Ps=Tx, where Ap is a cross-section area of a front end surface of the pin member, As is a cross-section area of a front end surface of the shoulder member, Pp is a press-fit depth of the pin member press-fitted from a front surface of an object to be welded, and Ps is a press-fit depth of the shoulder member press-fitted from the front surface of the object to be welded. Thus, especially in a double-acting friction stir spot welding, excellent welding quality can be accurately achieved according to welding conditions, and an internal cavity defect can be prevented or suppressed.
US09314869B2
A method of recovering a bonding apparatus from a bonding failure to resume a normal operating state for semiconductor chip fabrication is disclosed. The bonding apparatus comprises: i) a bonding tool for bonding a wire between a semiconductor chip and a substrate; and ii) a position sensor. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: a) the position sensor determining a position of the bonding tool when the bonding tool contacts a surface to bond the wire to the substrate; b) the bonding apparatus detecting a bonding failure caused by detachment of the semiconductor from the substrate based on the position of the bonding tool; and c) the bonding apparatus detaching the semiconductor chip from the wire.
US09314866B2
A system and method is provided for calculating a power output and coordinating the reduction of voltage and wire speed. Specifically, provided is a power circuit for generating welding output power, and a control circuit in communication with the power circuit to modify voltage and wire feed speed based on the calculated welding output power.
US09314864B2
A seal, fill head, and system are provided. The seal is adapted to cooperate with a fill head that is configured to place conductive bonding material into cavities on a mold. The seal comprises a first outer wall that is configured to abut a first adjacent wall of a support groove in a fill head. A second outer wall is configured to abut a second adjacent wall of a support groove in a fill head. An outer horizontal wall is situated between the first outer wall and the second outer wall. The outer horizontal wall comprises at least a first portion that is configured to abut an upper portion of the support groove. A convex bottom portion extends from the first and second outer walls. The convex bottom portion is configured to cooperate with a top surface of a mold.
US09314847B2
Cemented carbide material comprising tungsten carbide (WC) material in particulate form having a mean grain size D in terms of equivalent circle diameter of at least 0.5 microns and at most 10 microns, and a binder phase comprising cobalt (Co) of at least 5 weight per cent and at most 12 weight per cent, W being present in the binder at a content of at least 10 weight per cent of the binder material; the content of the WC material being at least 75 weight per cent and at most 95 weight per cent; and nanoparticles dispersed in the binder material, the nanoparticles comprising material according to the formula CoxWyCz, where X is a value in the range from 1 to 7, Y is a value in the range from 1 to 10 and Z is a value in the range from 0 to 4; the nanoparticles having a mean particle size at most 10 nm, at least 10 per cent of the nanoparticles having size of at most 5 nm; the cemented carbide material having a magnetic coercive force in the units kA/m of at least −2.1XD+14.
US09314842B2
An apparatus for parallel hot pressing includes a die assembly that defines multiple pockets, as well as a load transferring mechanism selectively providing a respective uniaxial compressive load at each of the pockets. Multiple heating mechanisms are arranged so that each of the pockets is aligned with a different respective one of the heating mechanisms, the load transferring mechanism and the heating mechanisms thereby providing both compressive loading and heating of multiple material samples in parallel when material samples are placed in the pockets. A method of hot pressing in parallel is also provided.
US09314841B2
Pressing device for a casting pipe at the spout of a metallurgical container, wherein the pressing device is provided with spring-loaded pressing elements that can be pressed against guide surfaces of a casting pipe. The casting pipe includes a tubular part and an upper plate. The guide surfaces are arranged on the underside of the plate on both sides of the tubular part and are directed downward at an angle. They form a plate cross-section that is tapered downward. The pressing elements are each provided with a head that is convexly curved in the adjustment direction of the casting pipe and can be pressed against a guide surface of the casting pipe, which is curved in the longitudinal direction of the pressing element or in the adjustment direction. Compressive forces exerted by the pressing pins are optimally transmitted, more toward the casting pipe opening and therefore acting more evenly.
US09314838B2
A method of manufacturing a cooled turbine blade for use in a gas turbine engine. The method includes forming an inner blade pattern, the inner blade pattern including an inner spar and a plurality of inner spar cooling fins. The method also includes forming an inner blade core, removing the inner blade pattern from the inner blade core, forming an outer blade pattern, forming a casting shell, removing the outer blade pattern from the casting shell, and casting the cooled turbine blade in the casting shell. The method also includes removing the casting shell from the cast cooled turbine blade, and removing the inner blade core from the cast cooled turbine blade.
US09314832B2
A sheet metal member shape-forming system and method includes a mold consisting of a sealing die defining therein a sealing cavity and an air hole and a shape-forming die defining therein a shape-forming cavity, a compressed gas guided through the air hole into the sealing cavity, a sheet metal member placed on the shape-forming die that is pre-heated in an out-mold heating zone prior to deliver to the molding zone, a lift unit controlled to move the shape-forming die and the sheet metal member to the sealing die and to impart an upward pressure on the shape-forming die against the sheet metal member and the sealing die during continuous supply of the compressed gas into the sealing die cavity to compress the sheet metal member against the upward pressure, enabling the sheet metal member to be rapidly compression-molded into a shaped metal component.
US09314830B2
A bending device. The bending device may comprise: a frame, center die, two sliding dies, and one or more motors. The center die may be positioned at a distal end portion of the frame and may advance towards a proximal end portion of the frame along a first path guide. The first sliding die may be positioned at a left portion of the frame and may advance towards and approximately near the first bent portion of the center die along a second path guide. The second sliding die may be positioned at a right portion of the frame and may advance towards and approximately near the second bent portion of the center die along a third path guide. The motors may actuate the movement of the center die, the first sliding die, and the second sliding die.
US09314824B2
Powder and deposition control in a throttle valve includes nozzle inserts in the valve body that form annular plenums and annular nozzles for injecting annular flows of cleaning gas adjacent to the inside wall surface of the valve body for cleaning powders and depositions off surfaces in the valve body and off the closure member of the throttle valve. The annular flows of cleaning gas can be in intermittent, periodic, or in pulsed bursts or at a steady-state flow rates to dislodge powder particles stuck to the inside surface of the throttle valve, to etch or reactively clean solid deposits, or to prevent or minimize build-up of powder particles or solid deposits in the throttle valve.
US09314823B2
Methods and systems for achieving higher efficiencies and capacities in sorting feed material are described, such as for separating desirable “good” rock or ore from undesirable “bad” rock or ore in an unsegregated, unseparated stream of feed material. Higher efficiencies are achieved with combinations of multiple sensor/diverter cells in stages in a cascade arrangement. The number and combination of cells in the cascade may be determined through a priori characterization of probabilities involved in sensor/rock and rock/diverter interactions, and mathematical determinations of the optimal number and combination of stages based on this probability. Further, desired sorting capacities are achieved through addition of multiple cascades in parallel until the desired sorting capacity is reached.
US09314820B2
Provided is an ultrasonic detection device including: a capacitive electromechanical transducer including a cell that includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed so as to oppose with a space; a voltage source for developing a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electric circuit for converting a current, which is caused by a change in electrostatic capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode due to vibration of the second electrode, into a voltage, in which the capacitive electromechanical transducer provides an output current with a high-pass characteristic having a first cutoff frequency with respect to a frequency, the electric circuit provides an output with a low-pass characteristic having a second cutoff frequency with respect to the frequency, and the second cutoff frequency is smaller than the first cutoff frequency.
US09314817B2
In a method of making a thermal interface material, functionalized graphene sheets are dispersed in a liquid. The liquid is removed through a filter so as to form a filtration cake of aligned functionalized graphene sheets, substantially all of which are parallel to a common plane. At least one block of aligned functionalized graphene sheets is cut from the filtration cake. The block includes a first end face and an oppositely-disposed second end face that are parallel to each other and to which substantially all of the functionalized graphene sheets are transverse. The block also includes two oppositely-disposed sides to which substantially all of the functionalized graphene sheets are parallel. A first layer of a thermally conductive substance is applied to the first end face and a second layer of the thermally conductive substance is applied to the second end face of the block.
US09314815B2
Methods for making a bearing are disclosed, wherein the bearing includes a substratum and a self-lubricating surface coating composition. The self-lubricating surface coating composition further includes at least one cured thermosetting acrylate and at least one phenolic resin. Methods includes the step of disposing the self-lubricating surface coating composition onto the substratum.
US09314812B2
In one aspect, an adhesive dispensing system 30 includes a dispensing module 32 having an inlet and an outlet, a supply 35 of hot melt adhesive maintained at low pressure, and a low pressure liquid passageway 44 communicating between the supply 35 and the inlet of the dispensing module 32. Liquid material is received through the inlet at a low pressure, and the dispensing module 32 rapidly develops high pressure at the outlet 78 to jet the liquid material from the outlet 78. In another aspect, an apparatus for jetting liquid material includes a dispenser body 38 having a liquid chamber 40. A piston 54 is movably disposed within the liquid chamber 40, from a position wherein a piston tip 58 is spaced from a complimentary shaped recess 76, to a position wherein the piston tip 58 effectively seals off the recess 76, then to a position wherein the piston tip 58 is received within the recess 76 to displace a discrete volume of liquid material from the recess 76.
US09314809B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for spraying one or more target objects. A primary blower system is adapted to create a relatively isolated field of circulating air by creating a primary air stream around the field of circulating air. A secondary blower system is adapted to circulate air within the isolated field by flowing a secondary air stream in directions contrary to the primary air stream. A chemical spray comprising liquid, aerosol droplets, particulate matter, or the like may be emitted into the circulating air within the field and thereby deposited on target objects within the field. Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used for agricultural, automotive, aerospace, and other applications to emit, contain, and/or recapture a spray.
US09314797B2
Embodiments provide a slide assembly device having a static tooling base which is statically and solidly affixed to a base such as a table and a moveable tooling arm that is rotatable about a hinge connected to the static tooling base, so that moveable tooling arm rotates about the hinge in a manner similar to a book cover opening and closing. The embodiments further provide an upper slide chuck that is removably attachable to the moveable tooling arm and a lower slide receiver that is removably attachable to the static tooling base. The upper slide chuck is configured to hold an experimental slide via a vacuum mechanism to engagedly hold the experimental slide to the upper slide chuck while the moveable tooling arm is rotated about the hinge from an open-book position to a closed-book position.
US09314795B2
A biochip for the integration of all steps in a complex process from the insertion of a sample to the generation of a result, performed without operator intervention includes microfluidic and macrofluidic features that are acted on by instrument subsystems in a series of scripted processing steps. Methods for fabricating these complex biochips of high feature density by injection molding are also provided.
US09314791B2
Disclosed is a micro-fluidic system including a lower substrate, an upper substrate formed opposite to the lower substrate and formed with an air injection path, and a micro-fluidic device interposed between the upper and lower substrates, wherein the micro-fluidic chamber includes a fluid chamber filled with a fluid and the fluidic chamber is physically connected to the air injection path.
US09314790B1
A centrifuge layering insert configured for insertion into a centrifuge tube includes a tube having a first open end and a second open end. The centrifuge layering insert also includes a casing having an outer wall, an inner wall, a first open end, and a second substantially closed end. The casing forms an annular space around the tube between the tube first end and the tube second end. The tube has at least a portion of the length extending beyond the first open end of the casing in a direction opposite the second open end of the tube.
US09314789B2
Receptacle of gel card type comprising a body, formed in which are several adjacent wells, initially sealed by a cover having a length and a width. The cover has at least one precut between two adjacent wells so as to form at least one cover portion sealing at least one of the wells of the receptacle.
US09314775B2
Provided is a non-noble metal-based exhaust gas purifying catalyst which is capable of removing an unreacted material such as carbon monoxide in an exhaust gas at low temperatures. An exhaust gas purifying catalyst of the present invention contains a ceria-based carrier and a complex oxide of cobalt and an additional metal element, said complex oxide being supported by the ceria carrier. The additional metal element contains a metal element that is selected from the group consisting of copper, silver, magnesium, nickel, zinc and combinations of these elements.
US09314768B2
Agglomerate comprising a first phase change material (PCM) and a constituent having a density greater than 800 kg/m3 and forming the core of said agglomerate.
US09314764B2
The invention features methods of making devices, or “platens”, having a high-density array of through-holes, as well as methods of cleaning and refurbishing the surfaces of the platens. The invention further features methods of making high-density arrays of chemical, biochemical, and biological compounds, having many advantages over conventional, lower-density arrays. The invention includes methods by which many physical, chemical or biological transformations can be implemented in serial or in parallel within each addressable through-hole of the devices. Additionally, the invention includes methods of analyzing the contents of the array, including assaying of physical properties of the samples.
US09314763B2
A system configured for the production of at least one product selected from the group consisting of syngas, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis products, power, and chemicals, the system comprising a dual fluidized bed gasification apparatus and at least one apparatus selected from power production apparatus configured to produce power from the gasification product gas, partial oxidation reactors configured for oxidation of at least a portion of the product gas, tar removal apparatus configured to reduce the amount of tar in the product gas, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis apparatus configured to produce Fischer-Tropsch synthesis products from at least a portion of the product gas, chemical production apparatus configured for the production of at least one non-Fischer-Tropsch product from at least a portion of the product gas, and dual fluidized bed gasification units configured to alter the composition of the product gas. Methods of operating the system are also provided.
US09314761B2
A method for the production of synthesis gas from gaseous hydrocarbons includes the use of allothermal steam reforming with catalysts. In order to produce the synthesis gas efficiently without exhaust gas in a compact apparatus, energy is at least partly supplied by electrical energy, that the energy is supplied by electrically heated contact surfaces and that the energy is supplied by contact surfaces within a fixed bed of catalyst pellets and/or within a fluidized bed at least partly consisting of catalyst particles.
US09314757B2
A method to generate a ternary carburizing gas mixture, using a reaction of selective hydrogenation of acetylene in a stream of hydrocarbons to the form of ethylene, comprising the following steps: heating of the inside of the reactor with an inert gas to an operating temperature for a period of 20 minutes at a temperature of 300° K, passing a mixture of hydrogen and acetylene by the regiospecific catalyst, and moving out the reaction products on the outside after passing the mixture through the regiospecific catalyst, but generation is effected in a continuous mode in the operating temperature range of the regiospecific catalyst between 293° K and 398° K, preferably at a temperature of 350° K.
US09314751B2
A method for mixing includes releasably coupling a first container station to a docking station, the first container station having a shipping vessel bounding a compartment, the docking station having a stand and a drive motor assembly adjustably mounted to the stand. The vertical or horizontal position of the drive motor assembly is adjusted relative to the stand so that the drive motor assembly is in a first position. A drive shaft is advanced through the drive motor assembly and into a chamber of a first collapsible bag disposed within the compartment of the shipping vessel. The drive motor assembly is activated so that the mixer rotates the drive shaft causing mixing of the fluid within the first collapsible bag.
US09314741B2
In one embodiment, a carbon dioxide recovery apparatus includes a heat exchanger which heats a first rich liquid, a flow divider which divides the first rich liquid heated by the heat exchanger into a second rich liquid and a third rich liquid, a first release device which heats the second rich liquid and discharges a first semi-lean liquid, a second release device which heats the third rich liquid and discharges a second semi-lean liquid, and a regeneration tower which heats the first and second semi-lean liquids to generate a lean liquid. The first release device heats the second rich liquid, using the lean liquid. The second release device heats the third rich liquid, using a carbon dioxide-containing steam discharged at the regeneration tower. The heat exchanger heats the first rich liquid, using the lean liquid which has passed through the first release device.
US09314737B2
Provided is a dehumidifier including an adsorption column allowing a to-be-treated gas produced by electrolysis of water to circulate therethrough so as to allow moisture in the to-be-treated gas to be adsorbed therein, wherein the adsorption column includes an adsorbent capable of adsorbing moisture, a column body having a housing region containing the adsorbent, and a heating unit arranged within the column body and capable of heating the adsorbent so as to cause desorption of the adsorbed moisture from the adsorbent, and the column body is a tube having a bent portion.
US09314726B2
In a case structure for a fluid pressure device, a filter that constitutes part of a fluid pressure unit is equipped with a first body, a case unit connected to a lower portion of the first body, and a filter unit accommodated in the interior of the case unit. The case unit is made up from an outer case, which is formed as a bottomed cylinder from a light-permeable transparent material, and an inner case inserted into the interior of the outer case. Additionally, by insertion of the case unit into an installation hole that opens on a lower portion of the first body and rotating the case unit, projections and retaining walls provided on an outer circumferential surface of the case unit engage with support members provided in the installation hole, thus placing the case unit in a connected state.
US09314713B2
An apparatus and a method for separating diluted tailings containing a hydrocarbon diluent into a recovered diluent component and a diluent recovered tailings component. The method includes introducing the diluted tailings into a diluent recovery vessel so that they form a tailings pool in the diluent recovery vessel, introducing an amount of stream directly into the tailings pool, mixing the diluted tailings which are contained in the tailings pool, and maintaining the diluted tailings in the diluent recovery vessel for a residence time. The apparatus includes a diluent recovery vessel having a tailings pool section, a steam distributor located in the tailings pool section, and a mixing device associated with the tailings pool section.
US09314700B2
The information processing device according to the present invention fuses a basic first game content and a second game content used as source material for fusion before a preset condition related to fusing the first game content and second game content is satisfied, thereby varying the upper limits of parameters configured in the first game content in a stepwise manner, and, once the preset condition is satisfied, initializes the parameters configured in said first game content while at the same time providing items capable of increasing at least the initialized parameters configured in said first game content.
US09314696B2
An approach is provided for determining a group of users based on the overlapping area of two or more existing groups and providing services and/or content to the group based on the services and content of the existing groups. An interaction platform determines shapes of groups based, at least in part, on location information associated with one or more member devices of the groups. The interaction platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more representations of the shapes in a location-based user interface. The interaction platform determines one or more applications, one or more content items, or a combination thereof being used at the one or more member devices. The interaction platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of one or more other representations of the one or more applications, the one or more content items, or a combination thereof in the location-based user interface.
US09314690B2
A game is playable in two phases. In a first phase, a player is required to perform certain tasks, after which the player earns a collectible item. In a second phase, the player uses the earned collectible item to play a board game. The first phase may include multiple stages, and the game may be constructed such that a game piece is awarded for completing each stage. Alternatively, the collectible item may be awarded only after completing the last stage. Certain tasks may comprise at least one of solving problems, achieving certain goals, answering questions, solving puzzles, etc.
US09314686B2
A method and system for conducting multiple competitions of skill for a single performance are described herein. User generated competition groups and system generated competition groups allow users to participate in multiple competitions at once based on answering the same questions or making the same selections related to a single event. The users are informed of each competition either via email, text message or when logging into the network via a website. The users select which competition groups to join. After joining the desired groups, users then make their selections related to the event which are transmitted to the network where results are tabulated and transmitted back to the users. The results are separated based on each competition group, so that users can continually know where they stand in each separate competition. With multiple competition groups, users are able to have varying success from the same performance in multiple competitions.
US09314685B2
Activities, actions and events during user performance of physical activity may be detected using various algorithms and templates. Templates may include an arrangement of one or more states that may identify particular event types and timing between events. Templates may be specific to a particular type of activity (e.g., types of sports, drills, events, etc.), user, terrain, time of day and the like.
US09314679B2
A modular golf bag assembly and method of assembly are disclosed. The assembly includes: a golf bag body; a top collar attached to a top portion of the golf bag body; a bottom collar attached to a bottom portion of the golf bag body; a plurality of stays contained within the golf bag body and securely attached at respective ends to the top and bottom collars. In further embodiments, the assembly also includes a top divider configured for ratcheted attachment to the top collar and a base member configured to screwed onto the bottom collar.
US09314675B2
Embodiments of a golf club head and methods to manufacture such a golf club head are generally described herein. The golf club head generally includes at least one ball-striking face, which comprises a titanium alloy that is associated with an average grain size measuring no more than about 1 micron (μm) in the longest dimension. The golf club head is associated with a coefficient of restitution of about 0.847 or more when a ball impacts the ball-striking face.
US09314671B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball polyurethane composition excellent in resilience. Another object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball excellent in a shot feeling and resilience. The present invention provides a golf ball polyurethane composition comprising, as a resin component, a polyurethane elastomer including a polyisocyanate with at least two alicyclic hydrocarbon structures having 3 or more carbon atoms as a constituting component, and having a spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) of 13C nucleus of 7.3 seconds or less measured by a High resolution solid state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method.
US09314670B2
In one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, an exercise device is provided as two similar pedestals, each having an optionally compressible base and a set of feet which interlock within a positioning mat. A set of horizontal outer rails attached to the top of each base and a set of perpendicular inner rails, linearly connected to the outer rails and slidable along the outer rails. A user support platform linearly connected to the set of inner rails and slidable along the inner rails. A plurality of resistance members is provided to supply resistance. The said components of the exercise device provided allow for an exerciser positioned and either partially or totally supported by the user support platforms to propel their body parts being supported in an multi-directional space against resistance. The resistance provided is directed towards a centralized equilibrium position.
US09314668B2
A system includes a device that includes one or more bladders capable of being inflated and deflated. The system also includes an information package capable of processing data representing the inflating and deflating of the one or more bladders.
US09314662B1
Disclosed is a hand-grasped exercise unit to assist in reducing wrist and hand pain during exercises such as yoga. The device, normally used in pairs, is constructed for a user to rest the heel of the palm, fingers, and base of the thumb while engaging in exercises normally done in direct contact with a floor or other hard surface. The device comprises a frame having an upper platform, and a support base with two orthogonally-oriented side walls and a rear wall. An opening allows a user to insert four fingers of the hand between the two side walls and grasp a rounded lip on the upper surface of the unit. A main foam layer and a secondary foam layer are affixed to the top surface of the upper platform. The two foam layers are enclosed by a fabric cover to provide additional comfort.
US09314650B2
The invention provides methods and apparatuses for the treatment of adipose tissue. The methods comprise application of ultrasound energy to a region of adipose tissue, and the apparatuses comprise at least one source of ultrasound energy configured to direct ultrasound energy through a skin surface into the subcutaneous adipose tissue. In one embodiment, a pressure gradient is created in the region generating relative movement between fat cell constituents having different densities. In another embodiment, a protrusion of skin and underlying adipose tissue containing is formed and ultrasound energy is radiated into the adipose tissue in the protrusion. In another embodiment, an RF electric field is generated inside a region of adipose tissue together with the ultrasound energy.
US09314648B2
A system, method and apparatus tracks targets (e.g., tumors) during treatment (e.g., radiation therapy) using a radar motion sensor by generating a microwave signal, radiating the microwave signal to a subject, and receiving a modulated microwave signal from the subject. The modulated microwave signal is processed to provide a subject motion information using a sensor having an arctangent-demodulation microwave interferometry mode. A location of a target on or within the subject is determined based on the subject motion information and a three-dimensional model for the subject and the target. One or more control signals are generated based on the location of the target, and the treatment device is controlled using the one or more control signals to treat the target on or within the subject.
US09314624B2
An auditory device according to one embodiment includes a processing unit configurable to determine a noise estimate and a measure for one of a plurality of samples of an audio signal. The measure relates to an upper volume bounds. The processing unit is configured to apply at least one rule using the noise estimate and/or the measure to identify an input dynamic range for mapping the audio signal to a corresponding stimulation signal.
US09314618B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided for stimulation of tissues and structures within a body of a patient. In particular, implantable leads are provided which are comprised of a flexible circuit. Typically, the flexible circuit includes an array of conductors bonded to a thin dielectric film. Example dielectric films include polyimide, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) or other biocompatible materials to name a few. Such leads are particularly suitable for stimulation of the spinal anatomy, more particularly suitable for stimulation of specific nerve anatomies, such as the dorsal root (optionally including the dorsal root ganglion).
US09314613B2
A device may include at least one pair of modulation electrodes configured for implantation in the vicinity of a nerve to be modulated such that the electrodes are spaced apart from one another along a longitudinal direction of the nerve to be modulated. The electrodes may be further configured to facilitate an electric field in response to an applied electric signal, the electric field including field lines extending in the longitudinal direction of the nerve to be modulated. The device may further include at least one circuit in electrical communication with the at least one pair of modulation electrodes and being configured to cause application of the electric signal applied at the at least one pair of modulation electrodes.
US09314611B2
A stimulation device for the application of a transcutaneous electric stimulation stimulus onto the surface of a section of the human ear, which includes a holding element an electrode arranged in a electrode carrier. The holding element has a linear guide. A resting part is arranged at the holding element. The holding rod has a first axis and runs from a first position, which adjoins to the linear guide, to a second position, which adjoins to the electrode carrier. The resting part defines a first plane with a resting area at the ear, on which area a second axis is arranged perpendicular. The first axis and the second axis span a middle plane. The holding rod lies at the first position in the middle plane and departs from the middle plane from the run from the first position to the second position in a first rod section until a reversal point. The holding rod moves to the middle plane from the run from the reversal point to the second position in a second rod section, so that it lies in the middle plane after arriving at the second position.
US09314610B2
A reusable component of a hands-free defibrillation electrode, the reusable component having a flexible nonconductive element, and a flexible metallic element supported by the flexible nonconductive element, wherein the flexible metallic element has an exposed surface on one side of the reusable component and the exposed surface is configured to be adhered to a disposable coupling portion, and wherein the reusable component is configured to accept an electrical defibrillation pulse and spread the electrical pulse across the exposed surface area, from which it is delivered to the patient's chest through the disposable coupling portion.
US09314604B2
Apparatus enables one or more needleless injection ports to be established on IV tubing as needed. An IV tubing-engaging portion secures the apparatus about the tubing. A puncturing member establishes fluid communication between the IV line and a sealing member on the apparatus. Connecting a syringe to the sealing member establishes fluid communication between the IV line and the syringe, enabling an injection to be made. When the syringe is withdrawn, the sealing member reseals to prevent fluid leakage from the IV line.
US09314598B2
Balloon catheters, methods for preparing balloon catheters, and uses of balloon catheters are disclosed. The balloon catheter includes an elongate member, an expandable balloon, and a coating layer overlying an exterior surface of the expandable balloon. The coating layer includes a total drug load of a hydrophobic therapeutic agent and a combination of additives including a first additive and a second additive. The hydrophobic therapeutic agent is paclitaxel, rapamycin, or paclitaxel and rapamycin. The first additive is a surfactant. The second additive is a chemical compound having one or more hydroxyl, amino, carbonyl, carboxyl, acid, amide, or ester groups.
US09314584B1
A method of determining fractional flow reserve (FFR) in a blood vessel having stenosis includes injecting fluid into the blood vessel upstream of the stenosis using a power fluid injector, measuring pressure drop across the stenosis, and calculating FFR from measured pressure drop. The injected fluid may comprise a contrast medium. Further actions may include placing a pressure sensor proximal of the stenosis, injecting fluid into the blood vessel upstream of the stenosis using the power fluid injector, and measuring pressure in the blood vessel proximal of the stenosis. The pressure sensor may then be repositioned to a position distal of the stenosis, fluid may be reinjected into the blood vessel upstream of the stenosis using the power fluid injector, and pressure may be measured in the blood vessel distal of the stenosis.
US09314581B2
A laryngeal mask insertable into a patient, an airway tube of the laryngeal mask having a bore extending from a proximal to a distal end of the airway tube, a connector provided at the proximal end of the airway tube, the connector comprising a connector body with a longitudinal bore, at least two wall portions extending longitudinally from a first continuous wall to a second continuous wall, and two parallel and opposite longitudinal wall cut-away portions intermediate the at least two wall portions, the length of the longitudinal wall cut-away portions being greater than the length of the first continuous wall.
US09314578B2
Device for dispensing a plurality of unitary doses of dry powder, and inhaler comprising such device
Various embodiments relate to a device for dispensing a plurality of unitary doses of dry powder. The device includes: a casing; first and second supports respectively for two carriers each having a plurality of housings for respective unitary doses adapted to be connected to the mouthpiece for inhalation of the dose, the first and second supports being moveably mounted within the casing for sequentially connecting the housings to the mouthpiece; an indexing mechanism adapted to engage and move the first and second supports; and a changeover mechanism adapted to cause the device to pass from a first dispensing state to a second dispensing state and lock the second support in its stationary position while the device is in the first dispensing state, and to lock the first support in its stationary position while the device is in the second dispensing state.
US09314575B2
The device comprises a syringe (10, 11, 12) and safety means comprising a protective sheath (16) capable of adopting, relative to the syringe body, both an injection configuration in which the syringe needle (11) projects beyond said sheath, and a protection configuration in which the needle extends inside the sheath. The device includes a trigger member (30) enabling it to pass from the injection configuration to the protection configuration at the end of the injection stroke. It comprises means (34) for defining a first end-of-injection-stroke situation in which the trigger member (30) is unsuitable for causing the device to pass from the injection configuration to the protection configuration, and a second end-of-injection-stroke situation in which such passage is possible.
US09314572B2
Devices, systems, and techniques for transitioning between different drug delivery sources or different drug concentrations may account for diffusion and mixing of drug within the fluid. In one example, a method may include determining a flow rate for a fluid to be delivered to a patient via a drug pump and a catheter in fluid communication with a reservoir of the drug pump. The fluid includes a drug. The method also includes determining a concentration profile of the drug delivered via the catheter, wherein the concentration profile identifies a volume of delivered fluid needed to achieve a target transition dose of the drug. The method further includes determining, by a processor and based on the flow rate and the concentration profile, an initial delivery period required to achieve the target transition dose by delivering the fluid at the flow rate.
US09314567B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to compositions, methods, devices, and systems for delivering a composition (e.g., a fluid composition) to a subject. For example, the present disclosure relates to non-gassing, direct current (DC), electro-osmotic pumps in some embodiments. A pump may comprise an anode (e.g., a porous silver/silver oxide anode), a cathode (e.g., a porous silver/silver oxide cathode), and a membrane (e.g., a porous ceramic membrane) positioned at least partially between the anode and the cathode in some embodiments. A pump system may comprise an electro-osmotic pump, a reservoir comprising a pump fluid chamber in fluid communication with the electro-osmotic pump and a delivery fluid chamber in fluid communication with the electro-osmotic pump; a controller assembly in electrical communication with the anode and the cathode; and a cannula and/or a needle in fluid communication with the delivery fluid chamber. A pump fluid may comprise water and/or a delivery fluid may comprise a drug, in some embodiments.
US09314560B2
An apparatus for heating a medical fluid includes a fluid passage for delivering the medical fluid, a heating element for heating the medical fluid, and a detector. The detector has a first detector for detecting a parameter which correlates with a flow rate of the medical fluid, or a second detector for detecting a parameter which corresponds to a set point, for the flow rate of the medical fluid. A controller controls regulates a temperature of the medical fluid in the fluid passage and a temperature of the heating element, and a switching circuit switches the controller between controlling or regulating the temperature of the medical fluid and controlling or regulating the temperature of the heating element. The switching circuit is configured such that the switching is triggered in response to the switching circuit detecting that the flow rate falls below or exceeds a predetermined flow rate threshold value.
US09314559B2
An artificial heart for use in a human recipient includes a housing within which a quartet of turbine pump segments are operative. The quartet of turbine pump segments provides a redundancy which in turn enhances the safety factor provided by the artificial heart. A controller is powered by a rechargeable battery and is operative to apply appropriate drive signals to the motor drives of the turbine pump segments. The battery may be implanted along with the controller to avoid the need for any external connections to the artificial heart. An inductively coupled battery charger for use outside the recipient's body is positioned proximate the battery charger to provide inductively coupled charging for use in driving the artificial heart.
US09314556B2
A percutaneous system, method and related devices are provided. More particularly, a percutaneous system comprises one or more of an intracorporeal connector for fluid communication between two anatomical compartments, through an anatomical wall, an intracorporeal device for regulating the flow of fluid between the two anatomical compartments, and a percutaneous insertion device.
US09314555B2
A method and system for controlling inflammatory response at an internal tissue site of a patient utilizes a reduced-pressure treatment device. Controlling the inflammatory response may be accomplished in a number of ways that involve treating the inflammatory milieu. Treating the inflammatory milieu may include removing or moderating pro-inflammatory stimuli, e.g., fluids, enhancing perfusion of the tissue at or near the internal tissue site, or providing reduced-pressure therapy. The reduced-pressure treatment device is placed at or near the internal tissue site and is fluidly coupled to an external reduced-pressure source. The reduced-pressure treatment device provides reduced pressure proximate the tissue site and treats the inflammatory milieu. The reduced-pressure treatment device for controlling inflammatory response may be a minimally-invasive treatment device.
US09314553B2
A surgical system with a variable controller that allows the user to selectively vary the level of venting performance.
US09314524B2
The invention relates to topical formulations of flucytosine which demonstrate a clear advantage over currently available therapeutic regimens for the treatment and maintenance of fungal infections, particularly vulvovaginal candidiasis. The invention provides compositions which solve the long-standing need for antimicrobial agents which treat effectively resistant strains of Candida spp., especially C. albicans, C. glabrata, and C. tropicalis, and which pose limited risk of side effects, adverse reactions, or the development of resistant pathogens. The invention provides novel topical formulations of flucytosine designed to allow the active drug to act at the local application area, but which inhibit or moderate transdermal or transmucosal absorption of the drug, thus limiting systemic exposure.
US09314513B2
A method is disclosed for blocking or reducing physiological reaction in a mammal to the interaction of IgE antibodies present in said mammal upon contact with the corresponding antigen, by the administration to said mammal of therapeutically effective amount of a neurotoxin (CnT) derived from Clostridia sp.
US09314512B2
This invention relates generally to treating synucleinopathies in subjects that are not clinically diagnosed with a lysosomal storage disease, as well as associated methods of making medicaments and screening methods.
US09314511B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for delivering therapy for a cardiac disorder, wherein the system comprises a source for supplying a protein formulation containing a protein that is otherwise deficient in cardiac cells in a patient with a cardiac disorder, and a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end for delivering the protein formulation to the pericardial sac region of a human heart.
US09314492B2
The present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating cancer, which contains, as an active ingredient, a Panax ginseng cambium-derived cell line including wild ginseng or ginseng; a lysate thereof; an extract thereof; or a culture medium thereof, which are derived from a natural and have minimized side effects compared to the conventional therapeutic drugs, and thus are safe for the human body. Also, they are involved directly in the growth of cancer to induce cancer cell death effectively, and show anticancer activity of inhibiting or reducing the formation of tumor or the growth of tumor.
US09314490B2
The present invention relates to compositions of rosmarinic acid or its derivatives and to the use of a hydrolytic enzyme or of microorganism containing or producing hydrolytic enzymes in these compositions. The invention also pertains to methods for improving the biological effects of the rosemary extracts and for administering such compositions to a human or animal subject for improving the skin, coat, hair or health of the subject.
US09314487B2
The invention is directed to methods for treating cartilage disorders, diseases and injuries including, but not limited to, degenerative disc disease. The invention is also directed to methods for preventing cartilage disorders and diseases including, but not limited to, degenerative disc disease. The field of the invention is further directed to reducing inflammation associated with cartilage disorders, diseases and injuries including, but not limited to, degenerative disc disease.
US09314485B2
The invention relates to a method of inducing Foxp3 expression in a T cell comprising (i) stimulating a T cell (ii) inhibiting signalling via PI3K alpha or PI3K delta or m-TOR or Akt in said T cell, wherein said inhibition is commenced 10 to 22 hours after the stimulation of (i). The invention also relates to certain uses of PI3K inhibitors, PI3K inhibitors for particular uses, and kits.
US09314483B2
A subpopulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) that is substantially devoid of CD3+ cells, CD19+ cells, CD56+ cells and optionally of CD16+ cells, for use in treatment of CNS injury is provided.
US09314475B2
Injectable and oral formulations of a tetracycline compound are described. In one embodiment, the invention pertains to an oral formulation of a 9-aminomethyl tetracycline compound, or a salt thereof, in tablet form or capsule. The formulations may be used, for example, to treat infections.
US09314473B2
This invention relates the use of cortisol blockers (glucocorticoid receptor [GR] antagonists) for the treating or preventing treatment resistant prostate cancer, treating or preventing neoplasia, and treating or preventing infection related to acute or chronic injury or disease.
US09314470B2
Described are transdermal drug delivery systems for the transdermal administration of levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol, comprising an acrylic polymer matrix. Methods of making and using such systems also are described.
US09314466B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating a patient suffering from a cognitive disorder using the following compounds:
US09314458B2
The present invention relates generally to chemical agents useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of inflammatory conditions or in the amelioration of symptoms resulting from or facilitated by an inflammatory condition in a mammalian animal including human and primate, non-mammalian animal and avian species. More particularly, the present invention provides a chemical agent of the macrocyclic diterpene family obtaining from a member of the Euphorbiaceae family of plants or botanical or horticultural relatives thereof or derivatives or chemical analogs or chemically synthetic forms of the agents for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of an inflammatory condition or in the amelioration of symptoms resulting from or facilitated by an inflammatory condition in a mammal, animal or avian species. The present invention further contemplates a method for the prophylaxis or treatment of mammalian, animal or avian subjects for inflammatory conditions including chronic or transitory inflammatory conditions or for ameliorating the symptoms of an inflammatory condition by the topical or systemic administration of a macrocyclic diterpene obtainable from a member of the Euphorbiaceae family or botanical or horticultural relatives thereof or a derivative, chemical analog or chemically synthetic form of the agent. The chemical agent of the present invention may be in the form of a purified compound, mixture of compounds, a precursor form of one or more of the compounds capable of chemical transformation into a therapeutically active agent or be in the form of a chemical fraction, sub-fraction or preparation or extract of the plant.
US09314442B2
Compositions for the treatment of shock, autodigestion, multi-organ failure, intestinal ischemia, or intestinal hypoperfusion are provided.
US09314430B2
An elongate dosage form of generally cylindrical shape having two opposing ends, the dosage form being buoyant in. gastric fluid, wherein the dosage form is weight biased such that. one end is heavier than the ether end. The dosage form is adapted to float on gastric fluid with its long axis substantially perpendicular to the surface of the: fluid with its heavier end pointing: generally; downwards and into the fluid.
US09314423B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for transdermal delivery, and treatment of hair related conditions. The compositions can be used in a variety of applications, including causing or promoting hair growth and/or hair pigmentation. In some cases, the composition may include nitric oxide and/or peptides. The nitric oxide and/or peptide may be present within a first phase comprising a lecithin, such as phosphatidylcholine. In certain embodiments, the lecithin is present in liposomes, micelles, or other vesicles containing nitric oxide, peptides, or both. The composition can take the form of a gel, a cream, a lotion, an ointment, a solution, a solid “stick,” etc., that can be rubbed or sprayed onto the skin, e.g., onto the scalp, or other suitable portion of the skin. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
US09314421B2
The present invention provides a novel system and method for transscleral delivery of therapeutic agents, including macromolecules, into a target site in intrascleral space using ultrasound. Advantageously, the present invention not only significantly enhances transscleral diffusivity of macromolecular therapeutic agents, but also causes little damages to ocular tissues and structure.
US09314408B2
The present invention relates to dental polymerizable composite materials (curable dental compositions) comprising one or more plasticizers comprising a tricyclic structural element, to dental materials (polymers), obtainable by curing from the dental polymerizable composite materials comprising one or more plasticizers comprising a tricyclic structural element, to processes for producing a dental material and to dental curable composite materials for use in a therapeutic method in the production of a dental material.
US09314393B2
A robotic gait training system includes a femoral support unit supporting a thigh of a patient, a hip joint support unit supporting buttocks of the patient, a lower leg support unit supporting a lower leg, an ankle support unit supporting an ankle, a support fixing toe tip positioned at an ankle height of the patient in use, a toe tip pad supporting and wrapping a forefoot of the patient, a tilt sensor, a first linear actuator operation unit rotating the femoral support unit based on the hip joint unit, a second linear actuator operation unit rotating the lower leg supporting unit based on the femoral support unit, a control unit generating a functional electric stimulation (FES) control signal, and an FES unit stimulating the plantarflexor or dorsiflexor of ankle joint based on the FES control signal received from the control unit.
US09314392B2
A device for moving a knee joint in a body of a patient is provided. The device includes a first arm member coupled to a first leg support configured to support an upper portion of a leg of the patient, a second arm member coupled to a second leg support configured to support at least one of a lower portion of a leg and a foot of the patient, and a control assembly operatively connected to the first and second arm members and configured to selectively move the second arm member relative to the first arm member. The control assembly includes a first motorized drive assembly coupled to the first and second arm members and operable to drive movement of the second arm member relative to the first arm member and a second motorized drive assembly coupled to the first and second arm members and operable to drive movement of the second arm member relative to the first arm member.
US09314377B2
An inline storage-and-liquid-processing pouch for use with body fluids from a patient is presented that involves introducing body fluids into a first chamber in the storage-and-liquid-processing pouch and flowing air through a second chamber. The chambers are separated by a high-moisture-vapor-transfer-rate member. The air flow in the second chamber enhances liquid removal from the first chamber across the high-moisture-vapor-transfer-rate member. Other systems, devices, and methods are disclosed herein.
US09314370B2
A patient temperature control catheter includes working fluid supply and return lumens through which working fluid circulates to exchange heat with a patient in whom the catheter is positioned. At least one lumen is defined by plural coils axially spaced from each other. At least a first coil is a large coil that inflates with working fluid to seat against a wall of a blood vessel in which the catheter is positioned, with blood flowing through the coil so as not to block blood flow in the vessel.
US09314362B2
Methods, instruments and systems are provided for separating opposite walls of the stomach by extragastric application of suction. Plication of the stomach can be performed between the separated walls after which the separate walls are brought back toward one another. In another aspect, methods, instruments, devices and systems are provided for reducing the effective volume of a stomach by performing one or more extragastric plications of the stomach.
US09314359B2
An stent delivery system may include a delivery device and a tubular body having a lumen sized to slidably fit about an outer diameter of the delivery device and a drainage stent having an anchoring mechanism, wherein the delivery device includes a constraining member configured to engage an external portion of the tubular body at the proximal end of the delivery device. A method of delivering a stent may include inserting a tubular body into the port of an endoscope, inserting a stent delivery device and a stent having an anchoring mechanism into the tubular body, wherein the delivery device includes a constraining member configured to engage and retain the tubular body at the proximal end of the delivery device, advancing the drainage stent distally through the tubular body, sliding the tubular body proximally, and engaging an external portion of the tubular body with the constraining member.
US09314357B2
A stent for placement in living body is substantially in a tubular form and includes a plurality of wave-shaped struts extending in the axial direction from one end to the other of the stent. The axially-extending wave-shaped struts are arranged in a circumferential direction, and connection struts interconnect the respective circumferentially adjacent wave-shaped struts. The circumferentially adjacent wave-shaped struts include a plurality of closer sections and farther sections. The connection struts interconnect between the closer sections of adjacent wave-shaped struts, and each has at the center thereof a bent portion extending in the axial direction of the stent.
US09314351B2
A femoral sizing instrument for use in a knee joint replacement procedure has a housing which includes formations by which it can be located relative to the femoral posterior condyles. A cortex arm has a tip for engaging the anterior cortex of the femur and a sulcus arm has a tip for engaging the sulcus. Each of the cortex and sulcus arms can be adjusted relative to the housing to adjust the distance between its tip and the posterior condyles measured generally parallel to the anterior posterior axis. The instrument includes at least one scale for indicating the positions of the tips of the cortex and sulcus arms relative to the posterior condyles.
US09314347B2
A methodology for grafting together adjacent bony structures is provided using an implant device having an endplate with an inner disc portion and outer ring portion spaced from the inner disc portion by a connecting wall disposed therebetween. An endplate interior surface includes a retaining structure for securing the endplate to one of the bony structures, and endplate an exterior surface has an integrally formed socket. A ball-joint rod has a longitudinally extending body and an end, and at least a portion of the ball-joint rod end is curvilinear in shape. The curvilinear ball-joint rod end is rotatably disposed in the endplate socket to fixedly interconnect the bony structures.
US09314345B2
A surgical instrument comprises a first wall defining a cavity disposed for communication with a suction source and extending between a first end and a second end. The first end includes at least a portion of a valve disposed for communication with the cavity. The second end includes at least a portion of an implant engaging surface. A second wall is connected to the first wall and extending between a first end and a second end. The first end includes an impact surface and the second end includes at least a portion of the implant engaging surface. Methods of use are disclosed.
US09314344B2
A modular humeral head resurfacing implant including a head, an anchoring stem, and a modular extended articulation flange. The head includes an exterior hemispherical articulating surface defining a terminating rim, an interior concave surface opposite to the exterior articulating surface, and a first coupling mechanism proximate to the terminating rim. The anchoring stem is coupled to the interior concave surface and extends along a stem axis that extends through an axial center of the head. The articulation flange includes a second coupling mechanism configured to cooperate with the first coupling mechanism to fasten the articulation flange to the head and an outer articulating surface that is curved along substantially its entire length and is substantially flush with the exterior hemispherical articulating surface when the articulation flange is fastened to the head.
US09314342B2
A method of implanting a knee replacement system in a leg with a femur and a tibia of a patient can include, implanting a femoral component onto a condyle of the femur and placing a trial tibial component on a tibial plateau of the tibia. The tension of a posterior cruciate ligament can be adjusted. The tension of an anterior cruciate ligament can be adjusted. The posterior position of the trial tibial component can be adjusted. The knee condition at toe off onset can be simulated during walking.
US09314341B2
Positioning instruments and related methods are described for implanting an joint unloading system for treating joints. The positioning instruments and methods allow the joint unloading system to be positioned at a joint such that the desired motion will occur for the particular design of a particular joint unloading system which is to be implanted. The positioning instruments include a locating instrument for locating an anatomical feature and a target location for implantation of the joint unloading system, a verification instrument for verification of the target location, an alignment guide, a placement guide for guiding placement of a part of the joint unloading system, and positioning device for aligning portions of the joint unloading system.
US09314339B2
A permanent non-resorbable implant allows surgical replacement of cartilage in articulating joints, using a hydrogel material (such as a synthetic polyacrylonitrile polymer) reinforced by a flexible fibrous matrix. Articulating hydrogel surface(s) are chemically treated to provide a negative electrical charge that emulates the negative charge of natural cartilage, and also can be treated with halogenating, cross-linking, or other chemical agents for greater strength. For meniscal-type implants, the reinforcing matrix can extend out from the peripheral rim of the hydrogel, to allow secure anchoring to soft tissue such as a joint capsule. For bone-anchored implants, a porous anchoring layer enables tissue ingrowth, and a non-planer perforated layer can provide a supportive interface between the hard anchoring material and the softer hydrogel material.
US09314323B2
The invention, in various embodiments, provides systems, devices, and methods for treating urinary incontinence.The invention also provides a driver and methods for advancing needles, cannulas, and other medical devices through the pubic bone. The driver may be used in connection with a driver frame assembly for proper positioning and stabilization of the driver, and with other devices for creating a cavity in the urethral floor and for positioning medical devices therein. The invention also provides simple connections for attaching a suture to a device within the cavity in the urethral floor or in the vagina, an also for attaching sutures to the pubic bone.
US09314319B2
A transfer part for holding an implant has a clamping portion for clamping connection with the implant. The clamping portion has a radial groove, a clamping ring and a force transmission element. The clamping ring is insertable into the radial groove to directly engage with the implant. The force transmission element secures the clamping connection against rotation. An inner ampule for receiving and securing a transfer part for holding an implant has an upper fixing portion and a lower fixing portion. The upper fixing portion reaches to a large surface recess in the ampule for insertion and removal of the transfer part, and has a laterally open indentation enlarging towards the recess adapted for the closely fitting insertion of the transfer part. The lower fixing portion has a laterally open indentation towards the recess adapted to receive the implant.
US09314307B2
Methods of controlling a gripping force of an end effector of a robotically-controlled surgical instrument are provided. The method includes receiving a first input signal indicative of a high grip level input at a master gripping mechanism that controls a slave gripping force of the end effector; receiving a second input signal indicative of a user's readiness to operate the surgical instrument to perform a surgical procedure; and outputting an actuation signal in response to receiving the first input signal and the second input signal together to increase the slave gripping force from a first level to a second level higher than the first level during the surgical procedure.
US09314306B2
System and methods for manipulating and positioning elongated flexible members are described herein. In on variation, an elongate member manipulator includes an elongate member holder having first and second rotary members configured to hold an elongate member, wherein the rotary members are actuated in opposite rotational directions to generate a corresponding linear motion of the elongate member held by the rotary members along a longitudinal axis of the elongate member, and wherein the rotary members are actuated in opposite linear directions to generate a corresponding rotational motion of the elongate member held by the rotary members about the longitudinal axis of the elongate member.
US09314301B2
An tissue interface module has an applicator chamber on a proximal side of the tissue interface module and a tissue acquisition chamber on a distal side of the tissue interface module. The applicator chamber may include: an opening adapted to receive the applicator; an attachment mechanism positioned in the applicator chamber and adapted to attach the tissue interface module to the applicator; a sealing member positioned at a proximal side of the applicator chamber; and a vacuum interface positioned at a proximal side of the applicator chamber and adapted to receive a vacuum inlet positioned on a distal end of the applicator. The invention also includes corresponding methods.
US09314297B2
An electrosurgical forceps is provided with a shaft that extends from a housing of the electrosurgical forceps. An end effector assembly operably coupled to a distal end of the shaft includes a pair of first and second jaw members one of which being movable from an open configuration for positioning tissue therebetween, to a clamping configuration for grasping tissue therebetween. A knife blade assembly includes a knife blade that is translatable within the first and second jaw members when the first and second jaw members are in the clamping configuration. The knife blade assembly includes a medial portion defining an opening therethrough having proximal and distal ends. A knife blade stop in operative communication with the knife blade assembly includes a pair of leading and trailing stops thereon that are configured to contact respective distal and proximal ends of the opening to limit translation of the knife blade assembly.
US09314294B2
A surgical system comprises a device adapted to deliver a plurality of surgical instruments to a site within a patient's body, a first surgical instrument comprising an active electrode probe, a second surgical instrument for performing a non-electrosurgical procedure, a conductive shield surrounding the active electrode probe of the first surgical instrument and connected to a reference potential, and a cold instrument monitor connected to the second surgical instrument and to the reference potential.
US09314292B2
A medical instrument includes a housing, an RF generation circuit activation button coupled to an activation button lever supported by the housing. The activation button lever includes a top surface, the activation button lever rotatable about an activation button pivot point. A cutting blade is operably coupled to a sheath. A control lever is supported by the housing and pivotally coupled to a trigger lever including a projection to engage the top surface of the activation button lever and to control the actuation of the cutting blade by actuating the sheath in a distal direction by rotatably moving the control lever proximally about a trigger pivot point. The top surface of the activation button lever and the projection of the trigger lever remain engaged to prevent actuation of the cutting blade until the activation button is fully rotatably moved proximally about the activation button pivot.
US09314289B2
An apparatus for treating tissue within a lumen may include a therapeutic or diagnostic instrument. A cleaning device may also be supported by the instrument. The cleaning device has a portion of a cleaning surface positioned proximal to the distal end of the cleaning device.
US09314284B2
A bone plate system for internal fixation of bone fractures includes a bone plate having a plurality of bone plate holes. The holes are constructed to receive either a non-locking, locking, or variable-angle locking bone screw. The holes have discrete columns of teeth or thread segments arranged around the inner surface of the hole for engaging threads on the heads of locking and variable-angle locking bone screws. Conventional locking bone screws engage the bone plate coaxially with the central axis of the bone plate hole. Variable-angle locking bone screws can engage the bone plate at a selectable angle within a range of selectable angles relative to the central axis of the bone plate hole. The head of the variable-angle locking screw is at least partially spherical, and the thread thereon has a profile that follows the arc-shaped radius of curvature of the spherical portion of the screwhead.
US09314283B2
A device for implanting a bone fixation system comprises an insertion instrument extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the distal end having an engagement portion for removably engaging a proximal end of a bone plate, the insertion instrument having an elongated channel extending therethrough to permit insertion of a first protection sleeve therethrough, wherein a longitudinal axis of the elongated channel is coaxial with a longitudinal axis of a first opening extending through the bone plate and a first protection sleeve insertable into the elongated channel and guiding insertion of an anti-rotation screw therethrough and through the bone plate, a longitudinal axis of the first protection sleeve being angled with respect to the longitudinal axis of the elongated channel.
US09314280B2
A minimally invasive tool to facilitate implanting a pedicle screw and housing is provided. The minimally invasive tool includes a first sleeve having flexible tabs that couple to a housing and a second sleeve slidably engaged in the first sleeve. The second sleeve provides reinforcing such that the first and second sleeve provide counter torque for driving the pedicle screw.
US09314279B2
Devices, systems and methods for dynamically stabilizing the spine are provided. The devices include an expandable spacer or member having an unexpanded configuration and an expanded configuration, wherein the expandable member in an expanded configuration has a size, volume and/or shape configured for positioning between the spinous processes of adjacent vertebrae in order to distract the vertebrae relative to each other. The systems include one or more expandable members and a mechanical actuation means for expanding the expandable member. The methods involve the implantation of one or more devices or expandable spacers.
US09314263B2
The devices and methods generally relate to treatment of occluded body lumens. In particular, the present devices and method relate to removal of the occluding material from the blood vessels as well as other body lumens.
US09314257B2
Orthopaedic surgical instruments including a base trial adapted to be positioned on a proximal end of a patient's resected tibia, and a guide tower including a tower base adapted to be positioned on the base trial. A method of use is also described.
US09314254B2
Devices and methods for removing a spinal disc are provided herein. Discectomy instruments are disclosed that can remove a spinal disc in a single-pass, i.e., without repeatedly inserting and removing the instrument from a patient. In an exemplary embodiment, the discectomy instrument includes a distal housing, at least one cutting blade, and a handle. When the distal housing is positioned adjacent to a spinal disc, a handle can be actuated to advance the cutting blade along a substantially arc-shaped path through the disc. In certain aspects, the path of the blade can correspond to the anatomy of the disc and to the approach used to access the spine. A second cutting blade can be advanced through the disc and can intersect with the arc-shaped path, forming a complete cut. The cut disc can be received in the distal housing and removed from the patient.
US09314251B2
A number of orthopaedic surgical instruments are disclosed. A method, apparatus, and system for fabricating such instruments are also disclosed.
US09314249B2
A device for containing emboli within a left atrial appendage of a patient includes a frame that is expandable from a reduced cross section to an enlarged cross section and a slider assembly. There is provided in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention methods of preventing retention anchors from projecting outside of the native diameter of the frame, thus facilitating recapture of the device.
US09314238B2
A suture anchor of a T-type is inserted into and through a small-diameter hole formed in a bone and, when deployed, is oriented substantially transversely with respect to the small-diameter hole. Prior to deployment, the suture anchor is coupled to an insertion shaft through a deformable portion and is aligned with the shaft axis so that the insertion shaft and the suture anchor can be inserted into the small-diameter hole.
US09314231B2
The use of a memory metal mesh stent as a retractor in a lateral approach to the spine. The expanded stent is used as a conduit through which an implant can pass. This advance is predicated upon the appreciation that modern stent implants have diameters that are large enough to accommodate passage of an intervertebral spinal implant therethrough.
US09314230B2
An anchor for use with a closure device includes a body being configured to move from a pre-deployed state to a deployed state. In the pre-deployed state, the body has a first width aspect relative to a direction of deployment and a second width aspect in the deployed state relative to the direction of deployment, the second width aspect being greater than the first width aspect and the body being formed from a rapidly eroding material configured to erode through dissolution within a body lumen.
US09314227B2
The present disclosure suggests an apparatus for determining at least one parameter in the vaginal channel of a user. The apparatus comprises a flexible pessary and a measurement unit comprising at least one sensor for measuring the at least one vaginal parameter. The measurement unit is reversibly mountable to the flexible pessary.
US09314224B2
According to one embodiment, an image processing system includes a stereoscopic display device and a control unit. The stereoscopic display device is configured to display a stereoscopic image viewed by an observer stereoscopically by displaying a predetermined parallax number of parallax images. The control unit is configured to perform control, when generating the predetermined parallax number of parallax images from volume data that is three-dimensional medical image data, so as to change a parallactic angle between parallax images based on the shape of a subject portion and to display a predetermined parallax number of parallax images at the parallactic angle thus changed on the stereoscopic display device.
US09314222B2
A method of operating a remote medical navigation system using ultrasound, employs ultrasound imaging from a medical device to supplement or to replace conventional x-ray imaging of the operating region during navigation.
US09314219B2
A method of real-time estimation of target rotation and translation for 6 degrees of freedom using a single planar 2-dimensional imager and an algorithm, such as the iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm, that includes creating pairing, using a nearest neighbor algorithm, between a set of target points of at least three fiducial markers and a set of source points of the markers using K nearest neighbors, iteratively executing estimation of a rotation parameter R and a translation parameter T of the markers using a cost function such as root mean square error, terminating the estimation of R and T if the change in a mean distance between the set of target points of the markers and the set of source points of the markers is below a threshold or at a maximum iteration number, transforming the set of target points of the markers using estimated parameters, and re-associating a new set of the target points of the markers.
US09314217B2
The invention relates to an intra-oral x-ray imaging arrangement which includes as separate structures, first, a radiation source (4) having a collimator structure (4′, 40) limiting an x-ray beam for producing the beam used in imaging and for aiming it to the object to be imaged, secondly, an imaging sensor (30) arranged positionable within a patient's mouth (30), and a control system of the imaging arrangement. The collimator structure (4′, 40) is implemented as a structure (40) which enables adjusting a collimator opening limited by the collimator for at least one of the following: its size, its shape, its location, its position.
US09314216B2
The invention relates to an intra-oral x-ray imaging arrangement which includes an imaging sensor (30) arranged positionable within a patient's mouth and a control system of the imaging arrangement. The control system is arranged in functional connection with a means that has been arranged to send measurement signals to the control system informing on position of at least one component included in the arrangement. In connection with the imaging sensor (30), and a radiation source (4) included in the arrangement, means (A, M, G) have been arranged to measure their spatial position and to send measurement signals based on these measurements to the control system arranged with a means to determine, based on said measurement signals, information on mutual spatial position of the imaging sensor (30) and the radiation source (4), or of a component (40, 50) arranged to the radiation source (4).
US09314208B1
A catheter adapted for greater mapping resolution and location precision has a basket-shaped, high density electrode assembly for large-area mapping, and an integrated distal tip providing an array of ultra-high density microelectrodes for acute focal mapping. The basket-shaped electrode assembly 18 has a plurality of electrode-carrying spines and the distal tip has a nonmetallic, electrically insulating substrate body with indentations in which microelectrodes are positioned in a manner that the outer surface is generally flush with the outer surface of the substrate body to present a generally smooth, atraumatic distal tip profile.
US09314206B2
The present invention depicts systems and methods for utilizing sensors and other means that are able to track a User, and grasp his pattern of food intake (e.g., the volume, Calories, content, and other attributes of food entities), Calories outtake, and online network capabilities for tracking the balance of User Calories and other nutritional attributes.
US09314202B2
A method for analyzing nerve fibers distribution is provided, including inputting a stimulation signal into a nerve tissue through at least two sensing and conducting electrodes, applying a stimulation signal ratio to control the stimulation signal using an electric current steering technique to electrically stimulate a plurality of nerve fibers within a plurality of stimulations areas of the nerve tissue; receiving a plurality of evoked compound action potentials (ECAP) using at least two sensing and conducting electrodes due to the nerve fibers electrically stimulated and computing a distance between the nerve fiber and the conducting electrodes including eliminating non-ideal effect caused by an electric potential attenuation factor, wherein the electric potential attenuation factor is a function of the distance between each of the conducting electrodes and the nerve tissue; and integrating and comparing the received ECAPs and analyzing the nerve fibers distribution of the nerve tissue.
US09314188B2
The present invention generally relates to computer-assisted joint replacement surgery, and corresponding navigation systems. The systems and methods presented find particular use in performing hip replacement surgery. For example, in one embodiment, there is provided a system and method for: (a) measuring a pre-dislocation positional relationship between a patient's pelvis and the patient's femur; (b) performing a post-dislocation femoral registration of the femur; (c) tracking the position of the femur relative to the pelvis during a reduction procedure; (d) calculating a change in leg length and a change in offset, after the reduction procedure, based on the femoral registration and the pre-dislocation positional relationship between the pelvis and the femur; and (e) conveying the change in leg length and the change in offset.
US09314179B1
An automatic method of determining local activation time (LAT) from at least four multi-channel cardiac electrogram signals including a ventricular channel, a mapping channel and a plurality of reference channels. The method comprises (a) storing the cardiac channel signals, (b) using the ventricular and mapping channel signals and a first reference channel signal to compute LAT values at a plurality of mapping-channel locations, (c) monitoring the timing stability of the first reference channel signal, and (d) if the timing stability of the monitored signal falls below a stability standard, using the signal of a second reference channel to determine LAT values. Substantial loss of LAT values is avoided in spite of loss of timing stability.
US09314178B2
A medical device includes a housing configured for implantation within a body of a patient, and detection circuitry disposed in the housing and coupled to an electrode arrangement. The detection circuitry is configured to sense cardiac signals from the patient. A processor is coupled to the detection circuitry. The processor is configured to compare the cardiac signals to an initial detection threshold, automatically generate an additional detection threshold in response to a predetermined number of the cardiac signals meeting or exceeding the initial detection threshold or a previously generated detection threshold, count each occurrence of a cardiac signal meeting or exceeding each of the respective detection thresholds, and record cardiac signal data only for a cardiac signal that meets or exceeds the highest of the detection thresholds.
US09314176B2
An apparatus and a method for processing signal are provided. The signal processing apparatus comprises an input interface and a processing unit. The input interface receives smoothing parameters and a to-be-separated signal. The processing unit establishes an upper extreme envelope and a lower extreme envelope of the to-be-separated signal, and calculates a mean envelope between the upper extreme envelope and the lower extreme envelope. The processing unit performs smoothing according to the smoothing parameters and the mean envelope to generate a smoothed mean envelope, and determines a trend component or a non-trend component according to the smoothed mean envelope.
US09314173B2
There is provided a remote controller including a plurality of press buttons, an optical finger mouse and a transmission interface. The press buttons are configured to trigger a control signal. The optical finger mouse is configured to detect a physiological characteristic and a displacement. The transmission interface is configured to output the control signal, the physiological characteristic and the displacement to a display device. There is further provided a display system.
US09314172B2
A system for providing a training load schedule for peak performance positioning includes an apparatus for providing a training load schedule for peak performance positioning. The apparatus includes an initial load schedule module that provides an initial load schedule. The apparatus also includes a fatigue level module that detects a fatigue level. In addition, the apparatus includes a dynamic load schedule module that creates and updates a dynamic load schedule by modifying the initial load schedule based on the fatigue level.
US09314169B2
Devices, systems, and methods to determine fractional flow reserve. At least one method for determining fractional flow reserve of the present disclosure comprises the steps positioning a device comprising at least two sensors within a luminal organ at or near a stenosis, wherein the at least two sensors are separated a predetermined distance from one another, operating the device to determine flow velocity of a second fluid introduced into me luminal organ to temporarily displace a first fluid present within the luminal organ, and determining fractional flow reserve at or near the stenosis based upon the flow velocity, a mean aortic pressure within the luminal organ, and at least one cross-sectional area at or near the stenosis. Devices and systems useful for performing such exemplary methods are also disclosed herein.
US09314166B1
A monitoring device with a pedometer is disclosed herein. The monitoring device preferably comprises an article, an optical sensor, an accelerometer and processor. The optical sensor preferably comprises a photodetector and a plurality of light emitting diodes. A sensor signal from the optical sensor is processed with a filtered accelerometer output signal from the accelerometer to generate a pedometer function.
US09314165B2
A method and system for continually monitoring oxygenation levels in real-time in compartments of an animal limb, such as in a human leg or a human thigh or a forearm, can be used to assist in the diagnosis of a compartment syndrome. The method and system can include one or more near infrared compartment sensors in which each sensor can be provided with a compartment alignment mechanism and a central scan depth marker so that each sensor may be precisely positioned over a compartment of a living organism. The method and system may comprise hardware or software (or both) may adjust one or more algorithms based on whether tissue being monitored was traumatized or is healthy. The method and system can also monitor the relationship between blood pressure and oxygenation levels and activate alarms based on predetermined conditions relating to the oxygenation levels or blood pressure or both.
US09314161B2
According to one embodiment, a moving object contour extraction apparatus includes a contour acquisition unit and a contour correction unit. The contour acquisition unit is configured to acquire a contour of a moving object in each image slice. The contour correction unit is configured to correct the contours of the moving object in image slices of at least one image slice time series based on motion trend information of the moving object in each of a plurality of image slice time series.
US09314160B2
Systems and methods for real-time target validation during radiation treatment therapy based on real-time target displacement and radiation dosimetry measurements.
US09314149B2
An illumination device for a speculum may include a first housing part and a second housing part that define a cavity therein. The illumination device may further include a pull tab configured to move from a first position to a second position. When the pull tab moves from the first position to the second position, the pull tab may be disposed so as to allow an electric circuit to be complete so as to provide illumination from an illumination source. When the pull tab is disposed in the first position, the pull tab may be positioned to interrupt the electric circuit such that the illumination device is in an unilluminated state.
US09314141B2
A robot cleaner capable of improving the external esthetic quality thereof while enhancing the cleaning performance, the robot cleaner including a body configured to remove dust while navigating on a floor and to form an external appearance of the robot cleaner, and a side brush assembly installed at the body to clean corners of the floor, wherein the side brush assembly includes a motor configured to supply a power while being installed at the body, a rotation shaft coupled to the motor, and a plurality of side brushes rotatably coupled to the rotation shaft, and wherein the plurality of side brushes have respective intervals changed with respect to one another such that the plurality of side brushes are prevented from being exposed to outside the body.
US09314137B2
A water amount controlling device includes a control unit for controlling an amount of water to be supplied, and a washing agent receptacle including a detection unit , wherein the detecting unit is adapted for detecting and identifying e.g. a type, a consistency or an amount of washing agent dispensed from a washing agent reservoir to be received in the washing agent receptacle, and wherein the control unit is adapted for controlling an amount of water based on the detected and identified property of the quantity of washing agent.
US09314136B2
A set of plastic lifts are placed between sheet pans or trays in order to stack them within an oven and during cooling and transport. The dimensions of the plastic lifts are selected to provide adequate tray spacing for circulation of air between the trays for cooking and cooling purposes. Preferably, the plastic lifts comprise a set of four cylindrical lifts of 2½″ height and eight cylindrical lifts of 1¼″ height, with two of the smaller lifts nested within an axial bore of each of the larger lifts. The lifts are fabricated of a non-slide plastic material able to withstand temperatures up to 400° F. and capable of rapid cooling. The primary object is to achieve greater efficiency in domestic and commercial food preparation by heating and transporting multiple trays at the same time and enabling a more compact footprint for the trays.
US09314115B2
Play yards and methods of operating the same are disclosed. An example play yard includes a plurality of posts, a lower frame supported by the plurality of posts, and a top frame supported by the plurality of posts when the play yard is in an erected position. The top frame includes a first rounded rail; a second rounded rail opposite the first rounded rail; a third rounded rounded rail between the first rounded rail and the second rounded rail; and a fourth rounded rail opposite the third rounded rail. In the erected position, the third rail curves upward and a center of the third rail is at a first height and a center of the first rail is a second height. The second height is closer to the lower frame than the first height.
US09314113B1
A carrier for transporting a child by a transporting individual. The carrier includes a belt, a seat, a torso support, and one or more couplers. The belt is configured for securing about the waste and/or hips of the transporting individual; the seat is coupled to the belt, is configured for at least partially supporting the child if the child is seated in the carrier, and has a surface configured for at least partially supporting at least part of the posterior of the child; the torso support is coupled to the seat by one or more couplers and is configured for supporting at least part of the torso of the child; and the one or more couplers are configured to enable adjustment of a distance between one or more coupling locations for each of the one or more couplers and a selected reference point.
US09314097B2
An improved portable folding table includes a folding frame and a table top supported by the folding frame. The folding frame includes a connecting sleeve, supporting blocks, supporting rods coupled to the connecting sleeve and the supporting blocks and first/second cross-bars coupled to the supporting blocks. The table top includes a tablecloth, third/fourth cross-bars at the bottom of the tablecloth and coupled to the supporting blocks, auxiliary cross-bars positioned between the third and fourth cross-bars and holders fixedly attached to the bottom of the tablecloth to receive ends of the auxiliary cross-bars. The holders prevent the auxiliary cross-bars from sliding out during normal operation.
US09314096B1
A rechargeable toothpaste-dispensing toothbrush assembly stores and dispenses toothpaste while also providing a charger to recharge the assembly. The assembly includes an elongated member having a handle. A surface is removably coupled to the elongated member. A plurality of bristles is coupled to the surface. A toothpaste cartridge is positionable in the handle. A plunger is coupled to the handle and positioned adjacent to the toothpaste cartridge. The plunger is operationally engaged to the toothpaste cartridge. A button is coupled to the handle and is operationally coupled to the plunger wherein the plunger engages the toothpaste cartridge upon manipulation of the button wherein the button is configured for dispensing toothpaste from the toothpaste cartridge to the bristles.
US09314078B1
A universal case has a single, unitary, elastic body of flexible and resilient material that can stretch to cover both smaller and larger mobile devices. The body has a side wall, a front perimeter lip, a rear perimeter lip and a web defining a cavity and being integral with one another and formed together from the flexible and resilient material as the single, unitary, elastic body. The side wall, the front perimeter lip and the rear perimeter lip define a perimeter channel to extend around a perimeter of the mobile device. The front perimeter lip defines a cavity and has corner lips with a wider width to define corner pockets. A groove is disposed in the channel, and extends into an inner surface of the side wall.
US09314070B2
A piece of jewelry that can be expanded or contracted through the use of linearly interconnected rhombuses where the elements of each rhombus are rotatable with respect to an adjacent rhombus and wherein the various elements are held together by pins of a special design so that the length of the piece of jewelry is easily expanded or contracted at the desire of the wearer but where unintentional expansion or contraction is unlikely.
US09314064B2
A heated insole for a shoe has an insole body and a removeable heating member. The insole body has a recess. The heating member is configured to be removable from and insertable into the recess while the insole is disposed within the shoe.
US09314057B2
The fit of a garment is improved. An upper garment, which is a piece of clothing, has a sleeve portion, which is provided with a vertical seam line in the longitudinal direction and a horizontal seam line that extends to the vertical seam line from both directions with respect to the circumferential direction. The horizontal seam line has ends, which are located at different positions on the vertical seam line.
US09314053B2
A maternity garment, which provides mild support to shape a woman's body and to act as a suspender for bottoms such as pants, shorts, or skirts that may be ill fitting due to body changes as a result of pregnancy, wherein the preferred garment has at least one shoulder strap, a belly panel, a hip band, two side panels, and a back panel, and is made of high performance fabric with varying degrees of compression.
US09314042B2
A method for preserving the aroma of coffee in chocolate products, comprising the steps of roasting and grounding the coffee beans, blending cocoa butter with the coffee beans and milling the coffee beans under inert atmosphere using a mill mesh between 16 and 30 microns resulting in a powdered product, homogenizing the resulting suspension of cocoa butter with the powdered product. Then lowering of the temperature of the resulting composite mass to a temperature between 28 and 29 degrees Celsius and holding it for a period of time not less than 5 minutes and no more than 10 minutes, molding the composite mass to predetermined shapes, and then lowering temperature, resulting in a solid product.
US09314033B2
Described are methods and compositions relating to dough compositions leavened by chemical leavening systems that include acidic chemical leavening agent and encapsulated basic chemical leavening agent, wherein the dough composition can be refrigerated in a low pressure package that contains a carbon dioxide atmosphere.
US09314031B2
The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing crop plants, by applying to the plants a mixture of a plant growth regulator, and seaweed extract, and to a composition comprising the same.
US09314030B2
A wood preservative includes injectable particles comprising one or more sparingly soluble copper salts. The copper-based particles are sufficiently insoluble so as to not be easily removed by leaching but are sufficiently soluble to exhibit toxicity to primary organisms primarily responsible for the decay of the wood. Exemplary particles contain for example copper hydroxide, basic copper carbonate, copper carbonate, basic copper sulfates including particularly tribasic copper sulfate, basic copper nitrates, copper oxychlorides, copper borates, basic copper borates, and mixtures thereof. The particles typically have a size distribution in which at least 50% of particles have a diameter smaller than 0.25 μm, 0.2 μm, or 0.15 μm. At least about 20% and even more than 75% of the weight of the particles may be composed of the substantially crystalline copper salt. Wood or a wood product may be impregnated with copper-based particles of the invention.
US09314028B2
The present invention provides an antiseptic composition comprising a germinant and an antimicrobial agent, wherein the germinant increases a pathogen's susceptibility to attack from the antimicrobial agent and wherein the antimicrobial agent does not inhibit the germinant. The present invention also provides an antiseptic wipe, handwash or paint comprising such antiseptic composition and a method of sterilizing a surface using such a composition.
US09314027B2
Functionalized fullerenes are used in a method of combating fungal growth on surfaces and treating fungal diseases of patients. Surfaces that can be treated by the materials comprising an effective amount of functionalized fullerenes include those of fruits, vegetables, harvested grains, plants, or plant seeds. The method of combating fungal growth on a surface can be augmented but is not dependent on irradiation of the surface by light. Functional fullerenes are employed in various dosage forms such as topical, ingestible or administration.
US09314018B2
Semiochemical compositions comprising a feline scratch marking semiochemical analogs of these semiochemical compositions and a method to prevent cats from scratching in particular places and on multiple objects are described.
US09314016B2
The present invention relates to a device for controlling rodents. More specifically, the present invention relates to a device consisting of a combination of a solid and a pulpy bait (commonly known as ‘fresh bait’ or ‘ paste bait’ in rodent control practice), wherein the solid part is a shaped paraffinized rodenticide bait with a rodenticide concentration which is lower than or equal to the rodenticide concentration of the combination and contains the pulpy rodenticide bait with a rodenticide concentration which is higher than or equal to the rodenticide concentration of the combination. The rodent control device according to the invention has an enhanced acceptance by the rodents and can preferably be fixed by a hole formed in the solid part preventing the rodents to take it away. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the preparation and use of such rodent control device.
US09314014B2
The present invention provides an aqueous composition for storage of red blood cells consisting essentially of: adenine; dextrose; at least one non-metabolizable membrane-protectant sugar; and a specifically defined pH buffering system. Also provided are improved methods for preserving red blood cells and methods for increasing the viability, membrane retention, and recoverability while suppressing apoptosis, hemolysis, and post-reinfusion clearance of stored red blood cells which utilize the novel compositions.
US09314009B2
A fishing pole holder assembly attaches a fishing pole to a support structure so that the fishing pole is readily accessbile. The assembly includes a clamp configured for coupling to a support structure. A holding member is provided having a first end and a second end. The second end of the holding member is attached to the clamp. The holding member is tubular. The holding member includes a plurality of upper bends proximate the first end of the holding member wherein the holding member is configured to receive and support a handle of a fishing pole.
US09314008B2
An ice fishing equipment storage and transport system or kit provides easier and more organized retention of ice fishing equipment when being stored, transported, or in use. System can include a container such as a bucket having an open interior. A sleeve can be selectively attachable to the bucket and include one or more rod holder tubes, the rod holder tubes having one or more channels or slots adapted to hold an ice fishing rod or tip-up. A bucket container extension portion can attach to the bucket to capture and retain the sleeve between the bucket and the extension. The system can also include a lid for covering the bucket. In some embodiments, the lid can include additional features such as a selectively attachable transducer guide channel and an opening allowing for passage of a battery cable.
US09313998B2
A method, comprises receiving a flow of milk at an inlet of a manifold. The inlet comprises a first end coupled to a hose that receives a flow of milk from a teat cup and a second end terminating in a chamber of the manifold. The manifold comprises one or more other inlets and a plurality of outlets. The plurality of outlets includes one or more milk collector outlets and one or more drain outlets. The method proceeds by causing the flow of milk to be directed to a corresponding milk collector outlet by causing a shut-off valve corresponding to the inlet to open, and by causing a drain valve corresponding to the inlet to close. The method concludes by causing the flow of milk to be directed to a corresponding drain outlet by causing the shut-off valve corresponding to the inlet to close, and by causing the drain valve corresponding to the inlet to open.
US09313996B1
The present invention provides novel lettuce cultivar Big Thunder and plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom. The invention also provides methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce plants of the invention with themselves or another lettuce plant. The invention also provides lettuce plants produced from such a crossing as well as plant parts, seed, and tissue culture therefrom.
US09313993B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB36L14 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB36L14, cells from soybean variety XB36L14, plants of soybean XB36L14, and plant parts of soybean variety XB36L14. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB36L14 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB36L14, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB36L14, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB36L14. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB36L14 are further provided.
US09313992B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB41B14 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB41B14, cells from soybean variety XB41B14, plants of soybean XB41B14, and plant parts of soybean variety XB41B14. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB41B14 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB41B14, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB41B14, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB41B14. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB41B14 are further provided.
US09313985B2
A soybean cultivar designated S130047 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S130047, to the plants of soybean cultivar S130047, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S130047, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S130047. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130047. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130047, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S130047 with another soybean cultivar.
US09313983B2
A soybean cultivar designated S130061 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S130061, to the plants of soybean cultivar S130061, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S130061, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S130061. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130061. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S130061, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S130061 with another soybean cultivar.
US09313980B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1MDK and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1MDK with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1MDK through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1MDK or a locus conversion of PH1MDK with another maize variety.
US09313979B1
A novel maize variety designated X08D411 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X08D411 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08D411 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08D411, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08D411. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08D411.
US09313977B2
A method for newly developed strain of rice that grows 6 feet tall with a record yield of 15 ton per hectare, 4 times the world average of 4 ton per hectare. The panicle is 47-50 cm long with 600-700 grains per panicle, with a stem diameter of 1.2 cm.
US09313961B2
The invention provides Brassica oleracea plants comprising a white-stem trait and methods for producing a plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants.
US09313949B2
A combine harvester has a chopping mechanism and a spreading mechanism. The spreading mechanism is disposed downstream of the chopping mechanism, mechanically driven by a drive train and includes at least two rotors. The drive train of the spreading mechanism has a belt drive engageable by a clutch and configured to drive a first transmission stage via an output shaft, at least one second transmission stage drivably connected to the first transmission stage by a shaft and a braking device. The first and second transmission stages each have an output shaft for driving one or each of the rotors.
US09313943B2
A seed-double eliminator is described for a seeding machine that moves seed along a seed path. The seed-double eliminator may include a pocket with a pocket opening exposed to the seed path and a pocket cavity extending away from the seed path. A flexible extension may extend from within the pocket cavity toward the seed path. The flexible extension may be disposed to contact at least one seed of a seed-double pair being moved along the seed path by the seeding machine in order to remove the at least one seed from the seed path.
US09313939B2
A system, method, and computer program product for separating a seed aliquot from a bulk sample and preparing the seed aliquot for downstream research purposes is provided. The system embodiments may comprise a counter device, which is configured to receive at least a portion of the bulk sample and to separate the seed aliquot from the portion of the bulk sample, and a packaging device, which is configured to receive the separated seed aliquot and to dispense the aliquot into an aliquot container. Other embodiments may include a conveyor system for advancing the bulk sample and/or seed aliquot along a conveyance path that may be determined from a research protocol received from an input source. Various embodiments of the present invention may maintain an identity of the seed aliquot as it is advanced along the conveyance path and may selectively subject the seed aliquot to a variety of processing steps in accordance with the research protocol with little or no manual control or supervision.
US09320182B2
A power semiconductor module, and an arrangement using the module. The module has a basic parallelepipedal shape with opposed pairs of main, longitudinal and narrow sides, a cooling device which is capable of carrying a flow of a cooling fluid, having a power electronics switch and a housing. The cooling device has a cooling volume with at least one cooling face and four connection devices which are arranged in pairs on the main sides. In addition, the connection devices carry the cooling fluid and are designed as a flow inflow and a flow outflow and as a return inflow and a return outflow, respectively. The power electronics switch has load input connection devices and load output connection devices which are arranged on one or both longitudinal sides and a control connection device which is arranged on a narrow side of the module.
US09320180B2
The present invention provides an apparatus (100) and method for cooling and recovering heat energy from power cables and/or transformers. The apparatus (100) comprises a first conduit (102) in thermal contact with at least one electrical power cable (104) and/or at least one transformer, a heat transfer device (106) coupled to the first conduit (102), fluid circulating means (112) and a heating circuit (114) coupled to the heat transfer device (106) for interfacing with an external heating system (126), such as those typically installed in domestic or commercial premises (128). When in use, the circulating means (112) is operable to circulate a fluid through the first conduit (102) to thereby enable the heat transfer device (106) to recover at least a portion of the heat energy of the cable (104) and/or transformer from the heated fluid for subsequent reuse by an external heating system (126) via the heating circuit (114). The apparatus and method are found to be particularly suited for the recovery and reuse of wasted heat from subterranean high-tension power cables and above surface substation transformers, while cooling the equipment to improve operational performance and lifetime.
US09320172B2
A thermal management system includes a distributor plate secured to and parallel to a circuit board. The circuit board has a module secured thereto and the distributor plate defines an area on an inner surface thereof secured to or otherwise in thermal contact with the module. Heat pipes embedded in the distributor plate include a portion over the module and a portion over the circuit board outward from the module. A portion of the heat pipes outward from the module may be substantially perpendicular to a direction of airflow between the circuit board and distributor plate. The module may be located closer to one edge of the circuit board and the heat pipes may according extend from adjacent that edge to an opposite edge of the circuit board. An inward facing surface may include fins extending toward the circuit board and the fins may be contoured to the circuit board.
US09320170B2
A communication module-cooling structure includes a main body section to be cooled by a cooling mechanism, and a heat sink including a cooling receiving section including partition walls and slit-shaped receiving spaces defined by the partition walls. The receiving spaces of the cooling receiving section receive communication modules, and each of the communication modules includes a substrate mounted with a communication circuit component thereon and first and second sidewalls which sandwich the substrate therebetween in a thickness direction of the substrate. At least one of the first and second sidewalls of each of the communication modules is in surface contact with an inner surface of each of the receiving spaces.
US09320148B2
A printed wiring board includes a core substrate having a penetrating hole extending through the core substrate, an electronic component accommodated in the penetrating hole of the core substrate, a filler resin filling clearance between the component and the core substrate, a first resin insulation layer formed on the component and a first surface of the core substrate, and a second resin insulation layer formed on the component and a second surface of the core substrate on the opposite side of the first surface of the core substrate. The filler resin has elastic modulus which is set to be lower than 0.2 Gpa and thermal expansion coefficient which is set to be higher than 100 ppm and lower than 200 ppm, and the core substrate has elastic modulus which is set to be higher than 30 Gpa, and thermal expansion coefficient which is set to be lower than 10 ppm.
US09320132B2
Provided are a ground device and a portable terminal having the same. The ground device for connecting an inner metallic material with an outer metallic material includes a ground piece electrically connected with the inner metallic material and a connection terminal portion which is bent to extend as one piece from the ground piece and is connected with the outer metallic material. A portable terminal includes an inner metallic material provided in an inner side of a main body of the portable terminal, an outer metallic material provided in a battery cover provided in an outer side of the main body, and a ground device for connecting the inner metallic material with the outer metallic material, and the ground device includes a ground piece mounted in the main body to be connected with the inner metallic material and a connection terminal portion which is multi-step bent as one piece from the ground piece to be connected with the outer metallic material.
US09320127B2
Systems and methods for tuning a parameter associated with plasma impedance are described. One of the methods includes receiving information to determine a variable. The information is measured at a transmission line and is measured when the parameter has a first value. The transmission line is used to provide power to a plasma chamber. The method further includes determining whether the variable is at a local minima and providing the first value to tune the impedance matching circuit upon determining that the variable is at the local minima. The method includes changing the first value to a second value of the parameter upon determining that the variable is not at the local minima and determining whether the variable is at a local minima when the parameter has the second value.
US09320121B2
Apparatus and control systems for LED lighting, and methods for configuring the control systems are provided. An LED lighting apparatus includes: a primary LED lighting device containing a WiFi module and a Zigbee module; and at least one secondary LED lighting device containing a Zigbee module. An LED lighting control system includes an LED lighting apparatus, a WiFi router, and a smart terminal. A Zigbee network is formed by Zigbee modules included in the primary/secondary LED lighting devices. The WiFi module of the primary LED lighting device is connected to internet via the WiFi router. The smart terminal is configured to directly control lighting of the at least one secondary LED lighting device via the primary LED lighting device.
US09320119B2
What is proposed is: an operating device for operating in particular a light-emitting means (12), having: —supply terminals (16, 17) for connecting the operating device to a supply voltage provided by a supply source (20), —output terminals (10) for controlling the light-emitting means (12), —an interface (21) for connection to a bus (2), and—a transmission path which is coupled to the interface (21), wherein the transmission path is designed to connect the received supply voltage to the bus (2) selectively.
US09320115B2
The present invention generally provides a power control unit adapted to provide adjustable levels of a controlled output power signal, such as but not limited to a pulse width modulated signal or a serial binary signal. One embodiment of a power control unit according to the present invention comprises a housing holding internal electronic components. This housing further comprises input and output wiring extending out of the housing and internally connected to the electronic components. The electronic components further comprise circuitry capable of providing at least 2 levels of the controlled output power signal. The present invention also includes lighting systems incorporating a power control unit according to the invention.
US09320113B2
A method of self-calibrating a lighting device, comprising: —monitoring a calibration area, which encompasses at least a part of an area being illuminable by the lighting device; and—calibrating the light output settings of the lighting device. The monitoring operation includes repeating: —detecting any relevant change, out of a set of relevant changes comprising at least a light intensity change, in the calibration area during a monitoring time, while keeping the light output of the lighting device constant; and—determining an amount of change within the monitoring time; until the amount of change is below a limit value. Thereby the lighting device does not perform the calibration until it has detected a period of no or small changes.
US09320110B2
A lighting device includes a voltage conversion circuit having at least a switching element connected to a positive potential side of the output terminals of the DC power source unit, and a drive unit which outputs a drive signal to the switching element. The drive unit has a first impedance element with a first impedance which is determined based on a power consumed by the drive unit before a predetermined time has elapsed after a control power source is supplied. A control capacitor for use in generating the drive signal is charged when the switching element is turned off during an on/off operation of the switching element. The lighting device further includes a second impedance element with a second impedance having a resistance component, which is arranged in a path in which the control capacitor can be charged in DC when the switching element does not perform the on/off operation.
US09320105B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system for selecting a color show generated by LED landscape, pool, and/or spa lights. The system can include an overlay indicating the color shows available to select from. A selector adjacent to the overlay can be positioned to select one of the color shows. The system includes a microcontroller in communication with the selector and a triac circuit in communication with the microcontroller. The microcontroller controls the LED landscape, pool, and/or spa lights using the triac circuit in response to the position of the selector.
US09320100B2
The present invention relates to a lighting apparatus which stably performs dimming control on a lamp implemented with light emitting diodes (LEDs) or the like. The lighting apparatus may improve power efficiency by driving power supplied to a lamp in a current regulation method, perform constant current control such that the lamp maintains constant brightness, perform dimming control for controlling the brightness of the lamp, commonly supply the power provided to the lamp to peripheral circuit modules, and perform constant voltage control such that a driving voltage supplied as power is maintained at a predetermined level or more.
US09320096B2
A light emitting diode system includes a first light emitting diode apparatus and a second light emitting diode apparatus. The first light emitting diode apparatus includes an alternating-current-to-direct-current and light-controlling unit, a plurality of first light emitting diode modules and a first connector. The second light emitting diode apparatus includes a second connector, a signal-converting unit and a plurality of second light emitting diode modules. The first light emitting diode apparatus outputs a drive direct current power and a light-controlling signal to the signal-converting unit through the first connector and the second connector. Therefore, the signal-converting unit is configured to control colors and intensities of the second light emitting diode modules.
US09320094B2
Electronic circuits provide an error signal to control a regulated output voltage signal generated by a controllable DC-DC converter for driving one or more series connected strings of light emitting diodes.
US09320091B2
An example controller includes a measurement block and a drive block. The measurement block determines an amount of time that a dimmer circuit, that is coupled to an input of a power supply, disconnects an ac input voltage. The drive block generates a drive signal to control switching of a switch included in the power supply. The drive block operates a closed loop dimming control when the amount of time is less than or equal to a threshold and operates an open loop dimming control when the amount of time is greater than the threshold. The closed loop dimming control includes setting one or more operating conditions of the drive signal in response to a feedback signal that is representative of an output quantity of the power supply. The open loop dimming control includes holding the one or more operating conditions of the drive signal to a value.
US09320089B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active layer provided for generating radiation. The semiconductor chip can be operated in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode. The semiconductor layer sequence emits radiation in the first operating mode, while the semiconductor layer sequence emits no radiation in the second operating mode. The semiconductor layer sequence is operated in the forward direction in the first operating mode and in the reverse direction in the second operating mode. A display including a number of semiconductor chips of this type and a use as a motor vehicle headlight are furthermore specified.
US09320087B2
In a conductive fabric that includes conductive yarn and non-conductive yarn, a fabric end edge in a region that includes an end portion of at least a portion of the conductive yarn is provided in a position recessed farther to an inside of a fabric surface than a fabric end edge in another region. The end portion of the at least a portion of the conductive yarn is provided to the inside of the fabric surface.
US09320080B2
A master-slave distributed communications network includes a master node, a plurality of slave nodes. Each slave node is configured to store an address of the next node for a message to be routed on an uplink to the master node, and when sending a data packet to the master node it appends the pre-stored address and forwards the data packet to the next node thus lengthening the data packet, as the data packet is progressed from the slave nodes to the master node. For a downlink message, the master node using a pre-stored routing table includes in the data packet the addresses of all the slave nodes on the selected route. As the data packet is progressed from slave node to slave node, the address of each slave node which has forwarded the data packet is deleted thus shortening the overall length of the data packet.
US09320074B2
Configurations are described for maintaining a continuity and quality of wireless signal connection between a mobile device and systems accessible through the internet. In particular, configurations are disclosed to address the challenge of a mobile device that moves through a physical environment wherein the best wireless connectivity performance is achieved by switching between available connection sources and constantly evaluating a primary connection with other available connections that may be switched in to become a new primary connection. The mobile device may be self-propelled or carried by some other mobilizing means.
US09320073B2
A random access procedure control method and apparatus is provided for controlling a random access procedure efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation. The method for controlling random access procedure of a terminal in a wireless communication system having a primary cell and at least one secondary cell includes initiating a random access procedure in the primary cell and the at least one secondary cells, detecting a random access failure of a terminal performing the random access procedure, determining whether the random access failure is detected in the primary cell or the at least one secondary cell, and determining whether to continue the random access procedure according to a result of the determining of whether the random access failure is detected.
US09320070B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a user equipment pairing processing method, a network side device, and a user equipment. The method includes: acquiring, by a network side device, pairing request information of a beneficial user equipment and a candidate support user equipment that are to be paired; and implementing, by the network side device, pairing of the beneficial user equipment and the candidate support user equipment according to the pairing request information, and sending a pairing success message to the beneficial user equipment and the candidate support user equipment. In the technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention, user pairing in cooperative communication is implemented.
US09320065B2
The present invention provides systems, methods and apparatus that pre-plan the payload connections of multiple dockees with a stationary docking environment in a docking process in accordance with a connection negotiation process which balances the needs and capabilities for all parties participating in the docking process. In accordance with one disclosed aspect, a connection negotiation system establishes one or more communication paths between one or more pairs of end points located in devices in a communication system.
US09320061B2
Disclosed are a broadband digital trunking service implementation method and a trunking scheduling management center. The trunking scheduling management center receives a trunking call establishment request, and sends a network side a trunking bearer establishment request carrying call information and a transmission bearer address according to the trunking call establishment request.
US09320059B2
This description suggests a technique of controlling the timing advance group (TAG) of a cell. In particular, this description suggests a method of managing the TAG in a communication system. The method may include receiving a control signal indicating a cell by user equipment (UE); putting the cell in a first TAG by the UE in response to the control signal, wherein the first TAG includes only at least one secondary cell of which the uplink timing is not decided; performing a random access procedure on the cell in the first TAG by the UE; and putting the cell in a second TAG from the first TAG by the UE.
US09320056B2
When an “always-on” method is applied, a situation of a shortage in resources for transmitting a SR is avoided while avoiding a delay in transmission of an uplink data signal or a drop in use efficiency of resources. A mobile station (UE) of the invention includes a transmission unit (23) configured, when resources for a collision-type SR to be shared with a different mobile station (UE) are set up, to transmit a collision-type SR including an identifier of the mobile station (UE) by using the resources for a collision-type SR. When no resources for an uplink data signal are allocated for the collision-type SR, the transmission unit (23) is configured to retransmit the collision-type SR by using the resources for a collision-type SR.
US09320054B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of scheduling communications with a group of wireless communication devices. For example, a wireless communication unit may transmit at least one scheduling frame including an indication of a downlink period allocated for simultaneous transmission from the wireless communication unit to at least one group of a plurality of wireless communication devices, wherein the wireless communication unit is to simultaneously transmit a plurality of different wireless communication transmissions to the plurality of wireless communication devices of the group during the downlink period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09320048B2
Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes determining a primary access category for a transmission opportunity (TXOP) to transmit data to a primary wireless communication device, the primary access category being an access category included in a group of access categories that are associated with different transmission priorities, respectively; retrieving one or more primary data units belonging to the primary access category to transmit to the primary wireless communication device during the TXOP; determining a secondary access category for the TXOP, the secondary access category being an access category included in the group of access categories, the secondary access category having a transmission priority different from the primary access category; retrieving one or more secondary data units belonging to the secondary access category to transmit to a secondary wireless communication device during the TXOP; and transmitting spatially steered streams during the TXOP, the steered streams embodying the one or more primary data units and the one or more secondary data units.
US09320043B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling interference in a heterogeneous network environment. The method for controlling the inter-cell interference of a base station according to one aspect of the present invention comprises the following steps: transmitting, to a terminal, information relating to subframes in which a portion of a resource is to be punctured; transmitting, to the terminal, a relevant subframe in which a portion of a resource is punctured on the basis of the information relating to said subframes. A method for controlling the inter-cell interference of a base station according to another aspect of the present invention comprises the following steps: setting a resource for transmitting system information; and transmitting system information using only said resource for transmitting system information, or preferentially using said resource for transmitting system information when transmitting system information using a subframe designated as an almost blank subframe (ABS). Accordingly, inter-cell interference problems may be alleviated even in the event pieces of important system information, such as CRS, should be transmitted using an ABS.
US09320042B2
The present invention is directed to achievement of a data transmission control to cause base stations to cooperate with one another, taking into account efficient use of radio resources. A wireless communication system, which is an aspect of the present invention, includes: a first base station; a second base station connected via a wired network; and a wireless communication terminal that conducts at least one of single data transmission in which a single base station transmits data and cooperative data transmission in which a plurality of base stations cooperate to transmit data. The base stations notify the wireless communication terminal of a condition indicating a case where the cooperative data transmission can be performed. If the communication quality of the propagation path meets the condition, the wireless communication terminal transmits, to the base stations, information that is required for the cooperative data transmission.
US09320041B2
Various embodiments of a scheme of dynamic activation and release of carrier aggregation in an LTE-Advanced system are provided. When transmission need of an LTE-Advanced user is large and the user is within coverage of at least one secondary component carrier, carrier aggregation is activated while a certain amount of resource of each component carrier is preserved to support carrier aggregation. This avoids unnecessary activation and waste due to signaling cost. When the primary component carrier of an LTE-Advanced user has sufficient resource to satisfy transmission need of the user or when the user is not within coverage of at least one secondary component carrier, carrier aggregation is released. This minimizes complex measurement and cost of controlling signals due to multi-carrier scheduling.
US09320037B2
An apparatus and method for supporting Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. A frame used by the terminal in P2P communications includes a plurality of P2P contention channels overlapping with a region for cellular communications and at least one P2P dedicated channel allocated by a base station only for the P2P communications. The method includes establishing a P2P connection with a correspondent terminal through the at least one P2P dedicated channel, and exchanging P2P communication data with the correspondent terminal through at least one of the plurality of P2P contention channels.
US09320030B2
A method and apparatus for performing effective feedback in a wireless communication system supporting multiple antennas. A method for transmitting CSI of downlink transmission via uplink in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a joint-coded rank indicator (RI) and a first wideband (WB) precoding matrix indicator (PMI) at a first subframe, and transmitting a wideband channel quality indicator (WB CQI) and a second WB PMI at a second subframe. A user equipment (UE) preferred precoding matrix is indicated by a combination of the first PMI and the second PMI. If the RI is Rank-1 or Rank-2, the first PMI indicates one of subsets each having 8 indexes from among 16 indexes of the first PMI of a precoding codebook.
US09320027B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for allocating an uplink carrier for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting uplink control information in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation of M (M≧1) uplink component carriers comprises: a step of receiving setup information on a primary uplink component carrier, from among said M uplink component carriers, via which one or more pieces of uplink control information are to be transmitted; a step of multiplexing said one or more pieces of uplink control information; and a step of transmitting the multiplexed uplink control information through the primary uplink component carrier.
US09320019B2
A WiFi device, which utilizes full spectrum capture, captures signals over a wide spectrum including one or more WiFi frequency bands and extracts one or more WiFi channels from the captured signals. The AP analyzes the extracted WiFi channels and aggregates a plurality of blocks of WiFi channels to create one or more aggregated WiFi channels based on the analysis. The WiFi frequency bands comprise 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WiFi frequency bands. The AP determines one or more characteristics of the extracted WiFi channels based on the analysis. The determined characteristics comprise noise, interference, fading and blocker information. The AP generates a channel map comprising at least the extracted one or more WiFi channels based on the determined characteristics. The AP dynamically and/or adaptively senses the extracted one or more WiFi channels and updates the determined characteristics of the extracted WiFi channels.
US09320012B2
In order to know a communication state similar to an actual usage state of a user over a wide area, provided is an information processing apparatus that sends and receives information to and from a communication terminal via a network. The information processing apparatus includes a log information acquiring section that acquires, from the communication terminal, one or more pieces of log information in which position information identifying each of one or more positions and information relating to a communication environment of the communication terminal at each of the one or more positions are associated with each other; and a statistical information generating section that generates statistical information relating to the communication environment at a position, based on the one or more pieces of log information.
US09320010B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of estimating a location of a mobile device. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to control a mobile device to transmit a first message to a wireless communication station (STA) and to receive a first acknowledgement (ACK) message from the STA in response to the first message, when the mobile device is at a first location, wherein the controller to control the mobile device to transmit a second message to the STA and to receive a second ACK message from the STA in response to the second message, when the mobile device is at a second location, wherein the controller is to determine a distance difference between a first distance and a second distance based on a first round trip time and a second round trip time, the first distance being between the first location and the STA, the second distance being between the second location and the STA, wherein the first round trip time includes a round trip time of the first message and first ACK, and the second round trip time includes a round trip time of the second message and second ACK.
US09320004B2
A communication apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect received powers of a plurality of radio signals received during a first predetermined time period from another apparatus, and a transmission unit configured to transmit by proxy identification information of the another apparatus using a detection result by the detection unit as at least one condition.
US09319998B2
An information processing apparatus and a communication apparatus for accurately recognizing, at the base station, the current receiving quality of the mobile terminals for improving the throughput of the base station. A mobile terminal determines its own receiving quality based on the signal received from the base station for generating the receiving quality message indicating the receiving quality and generates the power control information requesting the transmission power of the base station. The receiving quality message is transmitted at a frame rate and power control information is transmitted at the slot rate to the base station. Based on both the receiving quality message and power control information, the base station estimates the current receiving quality of the mobile terminal and adaptive modulation and coding is performed based on the estimated value.
US09319988B1
A method and corresponding system to help manage user equipment device (UE) transmission power, specifically in a scenario where the UE was being served by a base station on a first carrier frequency and the UE is then going to communicate with a base station (whether the same or another base station) instead on a second, different carrier frequency. As disclosed, a UE may determine, based on communication by the UE on the first carrier frequency, a baseline initial transmit power for the UE to use for an initial transmission from the UE to a cellular base station on the second carrier frequency. Responsive to the second carrier frequency being different than the first carrier frequency, the UE may adjust the baseline initial transmit power to establish an adjusted initial transmit power. The UE may then engage in the initial transmission using the adjusted baseline initial transmit power.
US09319987B2
An apparatus for use in a mobile device includes a switch unit configured to switch a common connection of a transmitter and a first receiver from a first antenna to a second antenna and a connection of a respective second receiver from the second antenna to the first antenna; and a processing system configured to detect a switch condition that the transmitter needs to transmit via the second antenna, obtain power-related reception parameters of said first and said second receivers, cause the switch unit to switch the common connection of the transmitter and the first receiver so that the transmitter transmits via the second antenna, and adjust the power of the transmitter in dependence on the power-related reception parameters.
US09319986B2
A method of controlling a mobile information terminal that includes a device for identifying a position of the mobile information terminal based on a received signal includes activating, by a processor, the device based on a reception status of the received signal before deactivating the device, and an index related to movement of the mobile information terminal after deactivating the device.
US09319985B2
A method for reducing power consumption by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method can include the wireless communication device performing a first measurement of an alternative cell during a first measurement gap; sending a first measurement report generated based on the first measurement to the serving cell; storing the first measurement report; determining a mobility state of the wireless communication device; comparing the mobility state to a mobility threshold criterion; resending the first measurement report to the serving network as a report for a second measurement gap in an instance in which the mobility state satisfies the mobility criterion; and performing a second measurement of the alternative cell during the second measurement gap and sending a second measurement report generated based on the second measurement to the serving cell in an instance in which the mobility state does not satisfy the mobility threshold criterion.
US09319981B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include an apparatus, method and/or system of controlling a wireless docking device. For example, a wireless docking interface may include an indicator to indicate at least a wireless docking disconnected state of a wireless docking device, a ready to connect state, and a wireless docking connected state; a control button; and a controller to trigger a wireless docking operation based on a change in a button state of the control button, the wireless docking operation including an operation selected from the group consisting of pairing the wireless docking device with a mobile device, disconnecting the mobile device from the docking device, and triggering the mobile device to switch between first and second power states.
US09319978B2
A method in a network node 150 for assisting a wireless terminal 145 to select an access node for a communication in a wireless communication network 100.The wireless communication network comprises a cellular network access node 130 and a wireless local network access node 140.The network node 150 establishes a state of a wireless local network unit 210 in the wireless terminal, obtains information of a radio condition and/or a load condition of the respective wireless local network access node and cellular network access node, and then determines which access node to use out of the wireless local network access node and the cellular network access node for the communication, based on the established state of the wireless local network unit and the obtained radio condition and/or load condition of the respective wireless local network access node and cellular network access node.
US09319973B2
In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for supporting wireless access network service request capability in a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network (WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands (e.g., GAN bands and/or UMA bands). The UE device includes capability for gaining Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity with a wireless access network node (e.g., a GAN controller (GANC) or UMA network controller (UNC)). Thereafter, the UE device is operable to initiate a registration request message towards the wireless access network node, wherein the registration request message includes at least one information element pertaining to wireless access network services required by the UE device.
US09319961B2
A small, portable wireless router combined with a wideband, wearable antenna supports a local wireless network created on the move for exchanging information between multiple personnel spread over a useful geographic area. Multiple information sources of different types, such as cameras and GPS, can use the network to send information feeds to mobile users with interface devices such as smartphones that can deliver multiple feeds at the same time to the user. Devices connected to other networks, such as information processing devices at fixed operating bases, can deliver information feeds to the network.
US09319951B2
Example disclosed mobile station methods comprise performing a first access check based on a first equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN) list and a first registered public land mobile network (RPLMN) identifier to determine whether a mobile station is allowed to access a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell, performing a second access check based on a second EPLMN list and a second RPLMN identifier, and conditioning reporting of the CSG cell based on the first and second checks. Example disclosed network methods comprise receiving a message from a packet switched domain network node indicating whether a mobile station is allowed to access a CSG cell, and if the message indicates that the mobile station is not allowed to access the CSG cell, informing a circuit switched domain network node that a DTM handover failure has occurred.
US09319930B2
A wireless multimedia point-to-multipoint network using different radio access technologies (RATs) is disclosed. Paired cellular spectrum may be used by the RATs. Controlling signaling and traffic may be sent using different RATs. Channel setup information may be provided by different RATs.
US09319927B2
A communication control apparatus includes a communication quality determining unit, a rank value calculating unit, and a download control unit. The communication quality determining unit acquires wireless communication qualities of a plurality of mobile stations. The rank value calculating unit calculates a reference value to determine mobile stations to be data download destinations by using the wireless communication qualities acquired by the acquiring unit, compares the reference values of the respective mobile stations at a first time point, and determines mobile stations to be the data download destinations in order from a mobile station whose reference value is the highest based on results of the comparison. The download control unit downloads data to the mobile stations determined as the data download destinations by the rank value calculating unit.
US09319919B2
The present invention relates to a method by which a terminal measures interference in a wireless communication system in which a macro cell and a small-scale cell coexist. The interference measurement method can include a step in which a terminal receives setting information for interference measurement (IM). Here, the setting information for the IM includes at least two settings, each setting is defined in a resource element (RE) unit, the first of the two settings is for measuring interference from other neighboring cells besides the macro and small-scale cells, and the second is for measuring interference from the macro cell. The interference measurement method may further include: measuring interference by using setting information for the IM; and feeding back channel quality obtained by using the measured interference value.
US09319917B2
In a wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication system for performing a control not to transmit signals, or to transmit signals with a reduction in a transmission power by a part of radio resources for a downlink signal in a cell provided by a base station, the terminal receives control information in generating a report related to a measurement result of the cell provided by the base station, monitors a state of a radio link with an own cell, and performs measurement on reception of the downlink signal. If an instruction for restricting the measurement to a part of the radio resources is included in the control information from the base station after the radio link failure occurs, the terminal generates and transmits a radio link failure report including the measurement result in the radio resources as instructed when the radio link failure occurs.
US09319916B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for measuring a power level in at least a portion of a plurality of resource blocks occurring in a radio frequency spectrum, wherein the measuring occurs for a plurality of time cycles to generate a plurality of power level measurements, calculating a baseline power level according to at least a portion of the plurality of power levels, determining a threshold from the baseline power level, and monitoring at least a portion of the plurality of resource blocks for signal interference according to the threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09319915B2
The present invention provides a method and system of providing minimization drive test (MDT) measurement information to a base station in a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a method includes indicating availability of MDT measurement information logged by user equipment to a base station in a wireless network environment. The method further includes receiving an information request message to transfer the MDT measurement information in response to the indication. The method includes transmitting an information response message including at least a portion of the MDT measurement information to the base station, where the information response message indicates whether any portion of MDT measurement information is leftover with the user equipment. The method then includes repeating the above steps of receiving and transmitting till the entire MDT measurement information is transferred to the base station.
US09319911B2
Various embodiments provide adaptive monitoring of a wireless communication network. In one embodiment, a first set of network data generated for a wireless communication network is analyzed. The first set of network data is a set of historical network data for the wireless communication network. A baseline for at least one operating characteristic associated with the wireless communication network is determined based on the analyzing. A second set of network data generated for the wireless communication network is received. The second set of call detail records that has been received is utilized to determine if the at least one operating characteristic corresponds to the baseline. A set of monitoring operations performed by a network management system with respect to the wireless communication network is dynamically adjusted based on the at least one operating characteristic failing to correspond to the baseline.
US09319909B2
A user equipment (UE) configured for radio link monitoring is described. The UE includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The UE monitors a radio link quality for a secondary cell (SCell). The UE also determines whether a physical layer problem is detected based on the radio link quality. If a physical layer problem is detected, the UE stops a time alignment timer (TAT) of the SCell or sets the time alignment timer (TAT) of the SCell as expired.
US09319893B2
Providing for noise estimation in wireless communication, and particularly for access request signals transmitted by a user equipment (UE), is described herein. By way of example, a wireless signal receiver can employ unused signal dimensions of a wireless network for noise estimation. In addition, the unused signal dimensions can be selected for time-frequency resources that are associated with a particular wireless channel, in order to obtain a noise estimate for that channel. By employing unused signal dimensions, a noise measurement is likely to include no other signal transmissions, and provide an accurate estimate of noise on that channel. According to various aspects of the subject disclosure, one or more Chu sequences employed for signal transmissions, root sequences thereof, or one or more cyclic shifts of a root sequence can be employed for the unused signal dimension.
US09319890B2
Attachment data collected by a set of femto access points (FAPs) is utilized to localize, predict, and/or weight potential wireless communication traffic within and between areas. Moreover, the attachment data can be indicative of user equipment (UE) density/traffic within coverage areas of respective femtocells. The attachment data can be consolidated and analyzed to identify location and motion of a UE “swarm”. Moreover an automatic cell planning (ACP) component can be employed to utilize the attachment data for determining an optimal macro site and optimal antenna setting(s) that facilitate steering/tuning the macro antenna beam to focus upon the swarm area. In addition, the ACP component can facilitate reconfiguration of the macro antenna beam as reported swarm concentrations shift between the FAPs.
US09319888B2
A technique for enabling utilization of a one-way link in wireless communication systems of the type using whitespaces is disclosed. A wireless communication system is arranged to include a transmitting station which transmits data by wireless communication and receiving stations which receive data as sent thereto, for performing wireless communication by using a whitespace. The receiving station detects data receivability at a specific frequency and sends communication quality information which is a detection result thereof to the transmitting station. The transmitting station holds this communication quality information. Then, upon startup of data reception by wireless communication, the receiving station sends to the transmitting station a packet indicating required quality which is a condition for the data reception. The transmitting station selects, by reference to the communication quality information, a frequency satisfying this required quality and allocates it to the receiving station as a frequency used for data transmission.
US09319887B2
Methods and apparatus for reduction of interference between a plurality of wireless interfaces. In one exemplary embodiment, a device having a first (e.g., Wi-Fi) interface and a second (e.g., Bluetooth) interface monitors interference between its interfaces. A reduction in transmit power of the Wi-Fi module causes a disproportionately larger reduction in undesirable interference experienced at the Bluetooth antennas. For example, when the Bluetooth interface detects interference levels above acceptable thresholds, the Wi-Fi interface adjusts operation of one or more of its transmit chains based on various conditions such as duty cycle, Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI), etc. Various embodiments of the present invention provide simultaneous operation of WLAN and PAN interfaces, without requiring time division coexistence, by reducing power on a subset of interfering antennas.
US09319880B2
A reference picture buffer may supply an asymmetric macroblock to a video encoder to improve the bandwidth between the encoder and buffer. The macroblock width may be sized to match the minimum burst width of the buffer. The size of the macroblock may be kept unchanged by reducing the macroblock height.
US09319876B2
Anonymizing location information of a mobile device by an anonymization provider. The anonymization provider receives, from the mobile device, location information identifying the location of the mobile device and anonymity requirements. The anonymization provider determines whether the received location information satisfies the received anonymity requirements. Based on the received location information satisfying the received anonymity requirements, the anonymization provider generates an obfuscated location for the mobile device and sends the obfuscated location to the mobile device. Based on the received location information not satisfying the received anonymity requirements, the anonymization provider sends a request for new anonymity requirements to the mobile device.
US09319864B2
A method when roaming by a mobile communication device including a SIM card identifying itself using an IMSI roams between a home network and one or several visited networks, which networks are interconnected by a PSTN. The method a) stores on the SIM card a first IMSI associated with a first collaborating network; b) initiates a location update procedure using the first IMSI; c) triggered by the location update procedure and based on the first IMSI, causes an STP (Signal Transfer Point) of the first collaborating network to send a location update message to an ITP (Internet Transfer Point); and d) causes the first ITP to forward the message to an STP of the home network via a wide area network and not using the PSTN.
US09319850B2
A method and system of managing group calls is disclosed. The method of comprises receiving call control signaling associated with a group of user communication entities; identifying a user communication entity of the group of user communication entities; determining a first association between the user communication entity, the first group call and at least one of a first delivery method and a second delivery method; in response to determining the first association: determining that the user communication entity is participating in a second group call; determining whether a first priority associated with the first group call and the user communication entity is higher than a second priority associated with the second group call and the user communication entity; and based on a determination that the first priority is higher, conveying to the user communication entity via the first delivery method a call control message associated with the first group call.
US09319849B2
A content output system includes a plurality of mobile terminals that store content data, and a content display apparatus that is communicatively connected to the plurality of mobile terminals, obtains the content data from the mobile terminals, and displays the content data on a display. The content display apparatus displays the content data on the display in association with the mobile terminals that store the content data.
US09319843B2
A database may be searched for prior meetings matching the proposed meeting. Each prior meeting may include attendees of each prior meeting and travel time of each attendee to the each prior meeting. Upon identifying one or more matched prior meetings, a notification for an attendee of the proposed meeting based on travel times of the attendee to the one or more matched prior meetings may be generated.
US09319837B2
The invention relates to a method for automatically creating a geofence (1), comprising the following steps: detecting a starting position; transferring the starting position to a digital map; automatically creating an area object on the digital map, wherein the area object comprises the starting position; detecting movement data of at least one moveable object in the region of the area object; and automatically reducing the area object to form the geofence (1), on the basis of the movement data.
US09319836B2
A method for providing a network service of a cellular communication network covering a geographical area for a plurality of mobile terminals, the method comprising: defining a grid covering at least a part of the geographical area with grid fields, framed by grid lines and spaced by a grid spacing; providing grid information comprising reference point information and information on said grid spacing, generating crossing information in response to one of the plurality of mobile terminals crossing one grid line, based on said grid information and on position information of the at least one mobile terminal, and keeping grid field information for at least one grid field comprising identification information of the one mobile terminal when inside the one grid field based on said crossing information.
US09319835B2
Systems and techniques for securely managed location-and-tracking service (LTS) access are described herein. A trusted execution environment (TEE) may establish a connection to an LTS. The TEE may provide verification to the LTS that the connection origination from the TEE. The TEE may request an LTS location for the mobile device from the LTS using the connection. The TEE may provide the LTS location to applications of the mobile device.
US09319830B2
An audio playback apparatus includes an integrated circuit in which an FM reception circuit and a near field wireless communication circuit are integrated and packaged into one chip, a switch unit configured to switch between output of an audio signal supplied from the FM reception circuit and output of an audio signal supplied from the near field wireless communication circuit, and a connection terminal configured to output an audio signal selected using the switch unit and supply an FM broadcast signal received through a cable of an earphone connected to the connection terminal to the FM reception circuit. An associated method performed by the audio playback apparatus cooperates with the mobile terminal apparatus and associated method to provide a functional system.
US09319824B2
The present invention provides a system, wireless communication device, method and computer program product for combining one or more compatible services with a current service. A user of a wireless communication device is subscribed with a registered service provider. A user sends a request for identifying the one or more compatible services with the current service to the registered service provider. The registered service provider identifies and sends a list of the identified compatible services to the wireless communication device. The user then selects at least one compatible service from the list of the identified compatible services. Thereafter, the registered service provider sends the software required for combining the selected compatible services with the current service. The user creates a combined service by combining the selected compatible services with the current service using the software on the wireless communication device.
US09319822B2
An over-the-air update method for continuous delta of an Android handheld device is provided, having advantages of transmitting a plurality of update packages, rebooting once to complete all updates after the update packages are executed, and meeting the update power failure recovery requirement. A command document is continuously processed from the interrupt row according to update information and processing progress after rebooting in cases of abnormal power failure in the update process. In addition, an update power failure recovery method for an Android handheld device is provided. Rebooting is only required once no matter how many update packages are installed. Obstacle to release of a plurality of packages does not exist. The plurality of update packages are provided with update power failure protection. Processing is convenient and realization is reliable.
US09319817B2
The present invention provides a tip-plate assembly for arrangement at a proximal end portion of a hearing device to be worn at least partially within an ear canal such that said proximal end portion faces towards an ear drum. Said tip-plate assembly comprises a tip-plate (9) having a seating aperture (10), a receiver module (5) having a sound output port (6) at a front end (11), and a suspension element (12). Said suspension element (12) at least partly envelopes said receiver module (5) at said front end (11) and said receiver module (5) is mounted in said seating aperture (10) by means of said suspension element (12). Said tip-plate assembly may further comprise a microphone module (15). Moreover, a hearing device comprising such a tip-plate assembly is given, and a method of manufacturing a hearing device comprising such a tip-plate assembly is proposed.
US09319812B2
A method of assessing hearing characteristics of a subject is provided. The method includes determining a hearing capability of the subject based on responses of the subject to a series of sounds presented to the subject. Each sound corresponds to a presence, absence or irrelevance of a predetermined plurality of features. The method further includes assigning the subject to one of a predetermined plurality of classes based upon the responses of the subject, each of the plurality of classes being derived from hearing tests performed on a plurality of other subjects.
US09319801B2
In a hearing aid system, which comprises at least one hearing aid device, incorrect adaptation of the signal processing unit of the hearing aid device to the receiver used is intended to be avoided. To this end, automatic identification of the type of receiver used is proposed, as well as automatic adaptation of the signal processing in the hearing aid device by the hearing aid system. Incorrect manual adaptation is thereby prevented.
US09319800B2
An electro-acoustic transducer includes a conductive substrate provided with at least one cell and at least one electrode, and a pad substrate disposed corresponding to the conductive substrate and provided with at least one pad corresponding to the electrode, in which at least one of the electrode and the pad includes an electric pattern for electric connection and at least one dummy pattern that is provided around the electric pattern to be separated the electric pattern.
US09319793B2
A system and method for supplying power to a headset, and for transmitting multiple signals generated in the headset to a terminal using frequency division multiplexing. An audio signal and a carrier signal are generated in the terminal and summed together to form a composite uplink signal. The composite uplink signal is provided to a headset over a first physical channel. At the headset, the audio and carrier signals are separated, and the carrier signal is used to generate power in the headset. Signals generated by a plurality of acoustic sensors in the headset are combined using frequency division multiplexing to generate a composite downlink signal, which is transmitted to the terminal over a second physical channel. One or more carrier signals used to generate the composite downlink signal are provided by either a carrier source in the headset, or by recovering the carrier signal from the composite uplink signal.
US09319782B1
Audio of electronic audio devices may be synchronized by a signal synchronization component that receives one or more signals corresponding to elements of the audio output by the electronic audio devices. The signal synchronization component may perform calculations to align signals corresponding to the output audio of the electronic audio devices and then determine a delay for the output audio transmitted from the electronic audio devices with respect to each other. Additionally, the signal synchronization component may operate in conjunction with audio sources of the electronic audio devices to modify the timing for transmitting output audio by one or more of the electronic audio devices based, at least in part, on the delay. In this way, the output audio transmitted by the electronic audio devices may be synchronized.
US09319773B2
A headphone comprising: at least one speaker housing comprising at least a first surface with a first opening and a second surface with second opening; at least one resonator designed to cover at least a portion of the second opening of the second surface; at least one speaker, at least a portion of the speaker disposed within the speaker housing proximate to the first opening of the first surface of the speaker housing.
US09319772B2
A multi-floor type MEMS microphone includes a housing formed by a stack of circuit boards and provided with a first cavity, a second cavity in vertical communication with the first cavity, and a sound hole in communication with the second cavity. The second cavity has a vertical cross-sectional area smaller than that of the first cavity. A MEMS transducer is disposed in the second cavity and electrically conducted with the housing, and an ASIC chip is disposed in the first cavity and electrically conducted with the housing. By this design, the volume of the back chamber of a vibrating diaphragm of the MEMS transducer can be increased in a limited space of the housing, and thus the sensitivity of the microphone can be improved.
US09319768B2
A system for detecting a jack configuration comprising a first plurality of switches configured to couple a first headphone jack position to ground. A second plurality of switches configured to couple a second headphone jack position to ground. A microphone bias circuit for applying a microphone bias signal to the second headphone jack position when the first headphone jack position is coupled to ground, and for applying the microphone bias signal to the first headphone jack position when the second headphone jack position is coupled to ground.
US09319760B2
A portable electronic device that provides audio sound output from multiple internal speakers to a common output audio opening in a housing of the portable electronic device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the multiple internal speakers are provided in close proximity to one another, such as adjacent to one another, and serve to produce audio sound pertaining to different audio channels. The sound (i.e., pressure waves) produced by each of the internal speakers is directed into a respective acoustic chamber and output via the output audio opening in the housing. Accordingly, the acoustic chambers for the multiple internal speakers can each direct their audio sound output to the same output audio opening in the housing. The respective acoustic chambers can be formed adjacent to one another with a structural barrier serving to separate the distinct acoustic chambers.
US09319757B2
An apparatus includes a wavelength-selective optical switch able to route light between a first optical port and a plurality of second optical ports. The wavelength-selective optical switch includes a bank of optical wavelength-converters. Each wavelength converter of the bank is able to selectively optically couple an optical data stream on a wavelength-channel between the first optical port and individual ones of the second optical ports.
US09319755B2
A system and method for are provided for common distribution and rendering of communications capability for emergency alert services. A zone headend device, for a local zone, receives a local emergency alert service (EAS) message that is intended for a particular geographic locality. The zone headend device processes the local EAS message for delivery over a television conditional access system and sends the local EAS message to a regional headend device for a region of multiple zones including the local zone. The regional headend device receives the local EAS message and another local EAS message from another zone headend device. The regional headend device processes the local EAS message and the other local EAS message for in-band delivery with regional programming for broadcast quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and over-the-top streaming.
US09319754B2
A method and apparatus for coordinated splicing of multiple streams is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for controlling flow of a plurality of streams of a first data stream is disclosed. Further, a method and an apparatus for selecting splice opportunity points for a plurality of streams of the first data stream is disclosed.
US09319746B2
A method, apparatus, and system to provide the ability for a user to make audio and/or audio-video phone calls simultaneously while watching (co-viewing) provider video content in remote locations. A control system is provided to set up call, direct provider video content, and provide for the phone calls and video content to be delivered and then synchronized. The phone calls may be routed by the control system to PSTN destinations or Internet based destinations and calls made or received may be bridged to other Internet based sources. The provider video content may be provided directly from its source or routed through NAT traversal or through the control system.
US09319743B2
A digital service signal apparatus is disclosed. The digital service signal apparatus includes a receiving module receiving signaling information having channel information for an application from the digital service signal, a generating module generating a request using the channel information, a sending module sending the generated request, a downloading module downloading the application, an executing module configured to execute the API related to the application and a registering module configured to register the specific key set according to the mode number.
US09319736B2
An apparatus and method for editing transport stream (TS) program information, and a TS recording device using the same, the apparatus including: a demultiplexer that demultiplexes a TS in order to separate the TS into a video stream, an audio stream, and a program information section; a controller that generates new program information using user data obtained from the video stream separated from the TS by the demultiplexer; and a section modifier that modifies the program information section using the new program information generated by the controller. Using the apparatus and method for editing TS program information, the user data can still be used even when the user data is included in a video frame and a recorded program is reproduced at high speed. Thus, controlling the viewing of a program by rating is possible.
US09319735B2
An electronic program schedule system with access to both stored television program schedule information and data feeds containing status information for live programs such as sporting events. The system includes a data processor for receiving program schedule information for a plurality of programs and data feeds containing status information for certain of the programs, and a video display generator for generating a display signal simultaneously comprising information from both the stored schedule information and the received data feed. The system is further provided with user control means such as a remote controller for generating user control commands and transmitting signals to the data processor in response thereto so as to control the content of the display signal. The display signal may be displayed on a display apparatus such as a television receiver. In addition, the program schedule system of the present invention utilizes category-specific user interfaces providing access to multiple services including television programs, received data feeds, home shopping services, and video games as well as the stored program schedule information.
US09319730B2
There is provided a method of delivering a video stream, the method executable at a network transmission device. The method comprises: identifying a stream sent to a plurality of subscribers; locating a promotional segment in the identified stream; transmitting a first replaced promotional segment to a first subscriber, the first replaced promotional segment having been selected based on a subscriber attribute associated with the first subscriber, the first replaced promotional segment replacing the promotional segment; transmitting a second replaced promotional segment to a second subscriber the second replaced promotional segment having been selected based on a subscriber attribute associated with the second subscriber, the second replaced promotional segment replacing the promotional segment; and resuming transmitting of the identified stream to the first subscriber and the second subscriber following transmission of the respective first and second replaced promotional segments. Execution of the method allows targeted advertising by selecting individual promotional segments to reach specific subscribers by selective insertion in a broadcast stream.
US09319724B2
An exemplary method includes a media program distribution service system 1) receiving data representative of a plurality of scene tags specifying one or more media program scenes tagged by a plurality of end users of a media program distribution service, 2) aggregating the plurality of scene tags, 3) determining, based on a favorite scenes determination heuristic and the aggregate scene tags, a set of one or more favorite scenes that are most popular among the plurality of end users of the media program distribution service, and 4) providing, based on the determined set of one or more favorite scenes, a favorite scene based feature of the media program distribution service. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09319715B2
Provided is an intra prediction decoding apparatus that restores quantized residual coefficients, intra prediction information and size information on a prediction unit from a received bit stream, restores an intra prediction mode of the current prediction unit on the basis of the intra prediction information and the size information on the current prediction unit, generates unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, and adaptively filters the reference pixels on the basis of the intra prediction mode. Also, the apparatus generates a prediction block by adaptively filtering reference pixels corresponding to the intra prediction mode. Then, the apparatus generates a restoration image using the prediction block and a restored residual block. Accordingly, a prediction block close to an original image can be restored, and an image compression ratio can be improved.
US09319713B2
A video decoding method and apparatus and a video encoding method and apparatus based on a scanning order of hierarchical data units are provided. The decoding method includes: receiving and parsing a bitstream of an encoded video; extracting from the bitstream information about a size of a maximum coding unit for decoding a picture of the encoded video, and encoding information about a coded depth and an encoding mode for coding units of the picture, wherein the size of the maximum coding unit is a maximum size of a coding unit which is a data unit for decoding the picture; and determining a hierarchical structure of the maximum coding unit and the coding units into which the picture is divided according to depths, and decoding the picture based on the coding units, by using the information about the size of the maximum coding unit and the encoding information about the coded depth and the encoded mode.
US09319711B2
A method determines a plurality of interpolation filters for use in interpolating sub-pel values for a temporal prediction process of video content. The plurality of interpolation filters are designed based on sub-pel offsets for two reference blocks. The method determines a first sub-pel offset for a first reference block for the unit of video content and determines a second sub-pel offset for a second reference block for a unit of video content. A set of interpolation filters is determined to interpolate a set of sub-pel pixel values for use in the temporal prediction process for the unit of video content. The set of interpolation filters is designed for the first sub-pel offset and the second sub-pel offset and is used to interpolate a first sub-pel pixel value for the first reference block and a second sub-pel value for the second reference block.
US09319710B2
Video encoding and its corresponding decoding are disclosed. The video encoding incorporates: a predictor for predicting a pixel value of each pixel in a current block of the video to generate a predicted pixel value; a subtractor for calculating a difference between an original pixel value of the pixel in the current block and the predicted pixel value of the pixel in the current block to generate a residual signal; a transformer for transforming the residual signal into frequency coefficients; a quantizer for quantizing the transformed frequency coefficients; and an encoder for encoding the quantized frequency coefficients by using one of different variable length coding tables.
US09319708B2
The embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for improved motion estimation using a graphics processing unit. One such embodiment includes a method for determining a motion vector describing motion relative to a reference block, which comprises determining which of a plurality of prediction blocks is a good match with the reference block, according to a match criteria. The method further comprises performing a local area exhaustive search, in an area centered around the good match prediction block, to produce a best match with the reference block. The best match has integral pixel resolution. The method further comprises modeling the degree of match between the best match and the reference block as a quadratic surface and analytically determining a minima of the quadratic surface, corresponding to a best matching block with fractional resolution. The method further comprises computing a fractional motion vector based on the best matching block with fractional resolution.
US09319706B2
A video decoding method including: extracting, from a bitstream of an encoded video, at least one of information indicating independent parsing of a data unit and information indicating independent decoding of a data unit; extracting encoded video data and information about a coded depth and an encoding mode according to maximum coding units by parsing the bitstream based on the information indicating independent parsing of the data unit; and decoding at least one coding unit according to a coded depth of each maximum coding unit of the encoded video data, based on the information indicating independent decoding in the data unit and the information about the coded depth and the encoding mode according to maximum coding units.
US09319704B2
A video decoding method including: extracting, from a bitstream of an encoded video, at least one of information indicating independent parsing of a data unit and information indicating independent decoding of a data unit; extracting encoded video data and information about a coded depth and an encoding mode according to maximum coding units by parsing the bitstream based on the information indicating independent parsing of the data unit; and decoding at least one coding unit according to a coded depth of each maximum coding unit of the encoded video data, based on the information indicating independent decoding in the data unit and the information about the coded depth and the encoding mode according to maximum coding units.
US09319696B2
Embodiments for changing bit rates in streaming media are provided. As portions of a streaming media file are downloaded for playback, the size of the portion is compared with an expected size determined prior to initiating playback of streaming AV data. The portion of the media file may be padded such that the size of the portion matches the size specified prior to initiating playback of streaming AV data.
US09319695B2
A moving image output device includes a moving image acquisition unit to acquire moving image data which represents a moving image as a collection of a plurality of images, a image generation unit to generate each piece of image data which represents each image of the moving image by processing the moving image data acquired by the moving image acquisition unit, an image output unit to sequentially output each piece of image data generated by the image generation unit according to a set time interval, and an interval setting unit to set to the image output unit a first time interval, and temporarily setting to the image output unit a second time interval which is longer than the first time interval as for image data for which the image generation by the image generation unit fails to occur in time with the sequential image output with the first time interval.
US09319691B2
An image coding device includes a first block encoder and a second block encoder. The first block encoder compresses input pixel values including first and second input pixel values in a block. The first input pixel value is located at a first position of the block, and the second input pixel value is located at a second position of the block. The second block encoder compresses the input pixel values by the unit block. The first and second block encoders compare the input pixel values based on different methods of compression. The first block encoder outputs the first input pixel value as a first compressed pixel value, and compresses the second input pixel value to a second compressed pixel value.
US09319678B2
In one embodiment, a method receives a frame type storage medium including frame type decisions made by a first encoding process to encode a video at a first bitrate to generate a first encoded video. While performing a second encoding process to encode the video at a second bitrate to generate a second encoded video, the method performs: retrieving information from the storage medium regarding a frame type decision made during the first encoding process; inserting a keyframe in the second encoded video based on the retrieved information from the storage medium, wherein the inserted keyframe in the second encoded video is aligned with a corresponding keyframe in the first encoded video; and continuing to retrieve information from the storage medium and inserting keyframes in the second encoded video. Keyframes in the first encoded video are aligned with keyframes in the second encoded video.
US09319674B2
Disclosed are a 3D image display device and a driving method thereof. The 3D image display device includes a panel, a barrier panel, an image collector, and a timing controller. The panel includes a plurality of left-eye pixels and right-eye pixels. The barrier panel is disposed at a front surface of the panel, and includes a light transmitting area and a light blocking area. The image collector collects images of an object. The timing controller sets and stores a view map with the images in a view map correction mode and, in a 3D viewing mode, determines which of a plurality of viewing zones for a 3D image the object is located in and generates a barrier control signal for driving the barrier panel according to the determined result.
US09319671B2
Provided is a video quality assessment system for digital TV. The video quality assessment system includes a video quality test signal insertion device which inserts a test signal for testing video quality into a predetermined area of a transient effect area (TEA) of each frame of a source video and a video quality measurement device which detects the test signal from a predetermined area of the video signal recovered after reception and outputs the test signal. Preferably, an insertion position of the test signal is one line or two or more lines of the TEA area which are located in a lower end portion of the video, and the test signal is configured with multi-bursts including a large number of frequencies which are in a range of DC to ½ of a sampling frequency.
US09319669B2
An image processing device includes a processor; and a memory which stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute, acquiring an image that includes a marker that includes a plurality of first color regions and a plurality of second color regions, of which a color is different from a color of the first color regions, the plurality of first color regions being opposed to each other and the plurality of second color regions being opposed to each other; extracting the first color regions or the second color regions from the image; reducing the first color regions or the second color regions until a first degree of similarity between a shape of the first color regions or the second color regions, the first color regions or the second color regions being extracted, and a predetermined elliptical shape satisfies a predetermined first threshold value.
US09319666B1
A device is configured to receive an image including a calibration pattern and apply a filter to the image based on a first coordinate plane. The device is configured to determine a first set of response peaks associated with the calibration pattern based on applying the filter, the first set of response peaks being associated with a set of control points and a set of boundary points. The device is configured to determine a second set of response peaks associated with the calibration pattern based on a second coordinate plane and a third coordinate plane, the second set of response peaks being associated with the boundary points. The device is configured to determine the control points based on determining the first set of response peaks and the second set of response peaks, and provide information that identifies the control points.
US09319665B2
An involuntary action adjusted by the accommodation of the crystalline lens of the eye provides the data to the embedded algorithm to get the new image. Instead of the user performing a voluntary action to control the embedded algorithm, an involuntary action by the user is used to control the embedded algorithm allowing the user to automatically adjust the Plane of Depth (POD) for a Light Field Photograph (LFP) image or an eyeglass image. The adjustment of eyeglass image is used by an accommodation system to control the mechanical system of lenses in an eyeglass to automatically focus the glasses over a range of PODs. In addition, a voluntary far/near button can be used manually to adjust the POD for both the LFP image and the eyeglass adjustment. The variation of the crystalline thickness to adjust the focus of nearby and distant objects is called accommodation.
US09319641B2
A method is provided that includes receiving from a camera, video depicting a scene having a center bounded by first and second horizontal edges. The scene also includes an identified object of interest (OI) having a region around the identified OI and a motion vector representing a location, and an amount and at least a horizontal direction of movement. The method also includes calculating from the location of the identified OI, a distance of the identified OI from either or both of the horizontal edges of the scene, and in which the first horizontal edge is in the horizontal direction of movement and the second horizontal edge is opposite the horizontal direction of movement. And the method includes causing an increase or decrease in speed of the camera in the horizontal direction of movement based on location of the identified OI relative to the first/second horizontal edges.
US09319639B1
A rear-view mirror and modular monitor system and method includes an interior mirror that embeds a modular monitor behind see-through mirror glass. In some embodiments, the system includes multiple cameras, some in the vehicle, bus and/or truck, as well as some cameras outside the vehicle, bus and/or truck, advantageously providing the driver an opportunity to view what is happening, for example, in the back rows of the bus and/or cabin, while also using the mirror to look at objects in the bus and/or cabin that are visible using the mirror. The rear-view mirror and modular monitor system is configured to be easily assembled and/or disassembled when necessary for maintenance and/or to replace parts.
US09319631B2
An external input apparatus connected with a communication terminal delivering conference data including voice or video to another set of equipment connected via a network is disclosed. The external input apparatus includes a first display part for displaying an image; an operation reception part for receiving a user's operation; an image obtaining part for obtaining image data of the image; an image data transmission part for transmitting the image data to the other set of equipment by using the communication terminal; a transition information storage part for registering, according to display control information reported by the communication terminal, a transition condition of a share menu which is used for receiving a sharing control operation for the image data; and a menu control part for displaying, by using the first display part, the share menu determined according to the display control information obtained from the communication terminal and the transition condition.
US09319630B2
A method and a device are provided for processing a video transmitted over a communication network. The video processing may include timing playback of an image frame of the video so as to maintain a continuous playback of the video regardless of network delays and other adverse factors. An ith image frame of the video may be fetched for processing from a buffer queue. A sampling interval of the ith image frame may be calculated. Further, a waiting time and a regulated waiting time of the ith image frame may be calculated. A playing interval of the ith image frame may be determined based on the regulated waiting time. If the time elapsed since start of playback of an (i−1)th image frame of the video is not shorter than the playing interval of the ith image frame, the ith image frame may be played at the current time point.
US09319625B2
A communication terminal including an interface that receives an input requesting a reservation to record content; a control unit that acquires image data corresponding to a user of the communication terminal; a recording reservation unit that generates recording reservation information based on the input and the image data; and a communication unit that transmits the recording reservation information to a server, and receives, from the server, content based on the recording reservation information.
US09319623B2
An information processing apparatus stores sets of image data associated with sets of user identification information. When receiving a set of the user identification information and a set of apparatus identification information identifying one of image display apparatuses, the information processing apparatus stores information of a stored set of image data associated with the received set of user information in a manner of associating the stored set of image data with the received set of apparatus identification information, and, in response to receiving a request from the image display apparatus identified by the set of apparatus identification information, transmits the set of image data associated with the set of apparatus identification information to the image display apparatus.
US09319619B1
Provided is a method and system for displaying video from a plurality of video streams on a display. It includes an input interface for receiving video data from a plurality of video streams and transferring the video data to a frame controller in communication with a television display. The frame controller causes the video data from each of the plurality of different video streams to be displayed in a separate frame on the television display, and each frame occupying an area of the television display separate from an area occupied by any other frame. A system for displaying video from a plurality of video stream using the correct aspect ratio and resolution is also provided.
US09319611B2
An image sensor can include pixels that are grouped into subsets of pixels, with each subset including three or more pixels. A method for asymmetrical high dynamic range imaging can include capturing an image of a subject scene using a single integration time for all of the pixels. In a subset of pixels, charge in N pixels is read out and summed together. N represents a number that is between two and one less than a total number of pixels in the subset. Un-summed charge is read out from one pixel in the subset. The un-summed charge and the summed charge are combined when producing a high dynamic range image.
US09319610B2
The present disclosure relates to an image pickup device, a control method, and an image pickup apparatus, which can implement more various data outputs.An image pickup apparatus of the present disclosure includes a pixel array in which incident light of an object is photoelectrically converted by a photoelectric conversion element at each of a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix form, a selection unit that selects the number of A/D converters that output a pixel signal of each pixel in the pixel array, and a control unit that controls the selection unit and causes the selection unit to select the number of the A/D converters according to a request. The present disclosure can be applied to an image pickup device, a control method, and an image pickup apparatus.
US09319596B2
A small light-emitting device is provided. A light-emitting device which is less likely to produce a shadow is provided. A structure including a switching circuit for supplying a pulsed constant current and a light-emitting panel supplied with the pulsed constant current has been conceived.
US09319594B2
An imaging device of the present invention comprises an additive combination for subjecting image data to additive combination, a gain application section for applying minus gain image data that has been subjected to additive combination by the additive combination section, an additive combination section for, at the time of imaging in the imaging section, respectively subjecting a plurality of image data, that have been acquired by divided exposure at the divided exposure time, to additive combination to create combined image data, and a gain application section for applying the minus gain to the combined image data to create taken image data.
US09319580B2
A method for shooting a multi-focused image in an electronic device includes selecting a plurality of focus targets in a preview mode, calculating camera lens moving distances of the focus targets, and shooting an image of each focus target from a single fixed angle by reference to the camera lens moving distances of the focus targets. Thus, a user does not have to move the focus several times from the fixed angle.
US09319577B2
An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles.
US09319574B2
A camera lens assembly is provided. The camera lens includes a movable Auto Focusing (AF) unit configured to move back and forth in a direction of an optical axis of an image sensor, and a movable Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) unit installed on the movable AF unit and configured to move back and forth in the direction of the optical axis together with the movable AF unit. The movable OIS unit floats in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis on the movable AF unit. The camera lens assembly simplifies the construction while implementing both the auto focus function and the optical image stabilization function. As a result, the camera lens assembly is advantageous for miniaturization and may improve reliability.
US09319570B2
An apparatus for a video camera facilitates the use of the camera by an operator. A shoulder mount may comprise one or more pads that may be movably attached to a mounting or reinforcing plate and coupled to a mechanism that facilitates the rotation, translation and/or tilting of the pads. One or more releases may be positioned to permit an operator to actuate the mechanisms and to unlock and reposition the pads with respect to the camera body. A tripod configuration may be defined in which all pads are fully confined within the volume of a recess of the camera body, thereby permitting attachment of a tripod or other mechanical mount.
US09319558B2
A data processing apparatus is constructed by an input device for inputting an instruction for causing a job processor to perform a job, an analyzing unit for analyzing the instruction inputted by the input device, a discriminating unit for discriminating a processing ability of the job processor which performs the job based on the instruction inputted by the input device, and a controller for controlling a supply of the instruction inputted by the input device to the job processor in accordance with a result of the analysis by the analyzing unit and a result of the discrimination by the discriminating unit. The job processor performs a job to transmit input data to another apparatus, and the input device inputs an instruction including a designation of destinations to transmit data by the job processor.
US09319553B2
An image-forming apparatus includes a light-irradiation unit configured to move a spot of laser light on a surface of a photosensitive member at a non-constant scanning velocity in a main scanning direction to form a latent image on the photosensitive member, an image data correcting unit configured to correct a length in the main scanning direction of image data by inserting one or more image data pieces into the image data, the number of the image data pieces increasing as the scanning velocity increases, and/or extracting one or more image data pieces from the image data, the number of the image data pieces increasing as the scanning velocity decreases, and a brightness correcting unit configured to correct a brightness of the laser light so that an emission brightness increases as the scanning velocity increases and/or the emission brightness decreases as the scanning velocity decreases.
US09319544B2
An image reading apparatus, including a main unit including a placement plane and an image reader, a document cover swingably supported by the main unit via a hinge to move between a closed position and an open position, and a conveyer unit to convey a document sheet, is provided. The hinge includes an in-main-unit joint section attached to an end of the main unit, an on-cover joint section attached to an end of the document cover, and an urging member arranged in between the in-main-unit joint section and the on-cover joint section. A coupling device to couple the end of the document cover and the end of the main unit together and to restrict the end of the document cover and the end of the main unit from being separated from each other is disposed in an intermediate position between the document cover and the conveyer unit.
US09319538B2
A first image forming apparatus detects a malfunction generated in a functional unit thereof and determines a functional mode that cannot be executed. The first image forming apparatus transmits the functional mode that cannot be executed to a management apparatus. When obtaining the functional mode that cannot be executed, the management apparatus updates a functional mode table. The management apparatus increases a priority of the first image forming apparatus for a functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. Along with this, the management apparatus decreases a priority of a second image forming apparatus that normally operates for the functional mode that the first image forming apparatus can execute. When receiving a job, the management apparatus refers to the updated functional mode table to allocate the job to one of the image forming apparatuses.
US09319537B2
A power supply unit includes a plurality of the interface ports and a plurality of power delivery units, each coupled to one of the interface ports and configured to extract power from data signals communicated over the interface ports by remote devices. A sharing circuit is coupled to each of the power delivery units for generating a power supply voltage from the power extracted from the data signals. A controller is configured to generate a communication line power loss estimate for each of the interface ports and configure the power delivery units to balance amounts of power supplied by each of the remote devices based on the communication line power loss estimates.
US09319529B2
A telephony equipment migration arrangement is provided. The telephony equipment migration arrangement includes legacy telephony equipment located in one or more equipment bays, at least one transport cable, with one or more connectors, to provide external carrier connectivity, replacement telephony equipment located in one or more equipment bays remote from the legacy telephony equipment, and at least one remote coupling cable, with one or more connectors, connected to the replacement telephony equipment. The connector(s) of the remote coupling cable are mounted in a location having a predetermined locational relationship with the equipment bay in which the legacy telephony equipment is located, and the transport cable is communicatively coupled to the remote coupling cable.
US09319527B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing estimated wait times to consumers waiting to communicate with a customer service representative. The system accesses information about the consumer, analyzes that information, and based on that analysis places the consumer into a segment. The system then provides to the consumer an estimated wait time to communicate with a customer service representative based on the segment assigned to the consumer. Access to information about the consumer can be actively granted by the consumer, or passively acquired by a system configured to utilize publically available information.
US09319521B1
A computing device includes a memory; and a processing circuit coupled to the memory and configured to receive call data regarding a plurality of telephone calls placed to the computing device, each of the plurality of telephone calls being placed by a caller; prioritize each caller based on the call data and prioritization data stored in the memory, the prioritization data providing an indication of a relationship between each caller and a receiver associated with the computing device and including at least one of electronic contact data, electronic calendar data, and social media data; determine a future time for each caller to speak with the receiver based on the prioritization of each caller; and transmit a message to each caller providing an indication of the future time.
US09319517B2
A system and method for providing content or information over a communication network having communication service providers. The system includes a call handler having a call landing module configured to receive an incoming call from a calling device, wherein the incoming call is generated by dialing a predetermined service number on the calling device. Further, the call handler includes a call action module configured to capture a Calling Line Identity (CLI) of the calling device and capture the predetermined service number, and is configured to perform an action on the incoming call. Also, the system includes a look up module and a forwarding module configured to scan a database having information or content corresponding to a plurality of service numbers, retrieve information or content corresponding to the predetermined service number from the database, and forward the information or content to the calling device.
US09319515B2
Communication systems and methods are described that include call notification with rich caller identification. Components of the communication systems are configured to receive a call for a user via an enterprise voice channel. A call request is automatically generated in response to event data of the received call. The call request includes caller data from enterprise databases or directories. The caller data provides identifying information of the caller to the user via the call request. The call request can include response options by which the user can participate in the call. The call request is routed to a target device of the user via a data channel of the host enterprise. The target device provides the user with multiple action or response options via the call request. The response options include for example accepting the call, delaying the call, forwarding the call, ignoring the call, and ignoring the caller.
US09319511B2
Systems and methods of managing and diagnosing enterprise telephonic devices are disclosed. A provisioning request can be received from an enterprise telephonic device. The provisioning request can include a domain name system lookup request. An enterprise network address of a device management server can be provided to the enterprise telephonic device. A voice data link can be established with the enterprise telephonic device so as to permit the enterprise telephonic device to communicate over a data network with endpoint telephonic devices. The device management server can periodically receive heartbeat data from the enterprise telephonic device. The heartbeat can be indicative of a status of at least one functionality of the enterprise telephonic device. The enterprise telephonic device can provide diagnostic logs when requested by the device management server. In addition, the enterprise telephonic device can be configured to periodically request software updates.
US09319503B2
A method of dialing a phoneword using a mobile communication device that has full keyboard, which maps numbers to letters differently than on standard telephone keypads. The method detects the prefix of the phoneword and proceeds to display a message on the mobile communication device to indicate that a pre-determined key needs to be pressed before entering letters of the phoneword. The method can also display for selection, candidate phonewords that correspond to a partial entry of the phoneword.
US09319501B2
Accessories for mobile devices. Embodiments include an external protective case and/or holster for mobile electronic devices, wherein the external protective case/holster incorporates a battery pack, a payment processing device, television signal receiver, and/or a modular multi-input/output device.
US09319493B2
A communication method in an information processing system including a group of first information processing apparatuses that transmit data and a group of second information processing apparatuses that receive the data is disclosed. The communication method includes storing data subject to being transmitted to one of the second information processing apparatuses in a data storage by associating the data with identifier information of the second information processing apparatus, and performing transmission processing to transmit the stored data to the second information processing apparatus in response to reception of a first token generated by the second information processing apparatus serving as a generating source of the first token, the first tokens indicating a transmission right to transmit the data to the second information processing apparatus and being transferred between the group of the first information processing apparatuses and between the group of the second information processing apparatuses.
US09319486B2
A method of predicting interest levels associated with publication and content item combinations is described. Additionally, a server computing device for predicting interest levels associated with publication and content item combinations is described. Further, a computer-readable storage device having processor-executable instructions embodied thereon is described. The processor-executable instructions are for predicting interest levels associated with publication and content item combinations.
US09319476B2
A transparent proxy device includes an ingress, an egress, and an application proxy. The ingress and the egress operate up to a layer four communication layer. The transparent proxy device is configured to establish spliced connections in relation to end devices. The spliced connections include layer four connections between the ingress and the application proxy and the application proxy and the egress. The transparent proxy device is configured to maintain an end-to-end connection in relation to the end devices even when the application proxy fails.
US09319459B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving session information at a traffic interceptor in communication with a plurality of service devices, the session information transmitted from one of the service devices and identifying flows associated with a session and the service device associated with the session, storing the session information at the traffic interceptor, and transmitting traffic received at the traffic interceptor to the service device selected based on the session information. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US09319458B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving a first data streamed from a first server computer at a first site; collecting a first throughput data for the first site based, at least in part, on a first throughput of the first data streamed from the first server computer; receiving a second data streamed from a second server computer at a second site; collecting a second throughput data for the second site based, at least in part, on a second throughput of the second data streamed from the second server computer; switching from the second server computer at the second site, to a third server computer at the first site, based, at least in part, on a comparison between the first throughput data and the second throughput data; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.
US09319445B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more programs include instructions for detecting a display change associated with media content item represented on a display, transmitting a request (e.g., to a server) for at least a portion of the media content item, receiving the requested portion of the media content item, storing the received portion of the media content item in a local cache, receiving a user input indicative of the selection of the media content item, and presenting the received portion of the media content item in response to receiving the user input indicative of the selection of the media content item.
US09319442B2
A method is provided for use in connection with a communication session between two or more participants. The communication session may be an online/web-based meeting, voice call, video call, instant messaging session, etc. Interactions between two or more participants of the communication session are monitored in order to identify an additional participant for the communication session based on a topical context of the interactions. A request is sent to the additional participant to join the communication session. Before the request is sent to the additional participant, the participants in the existing communication session may be notified with a prompt inquiring as to whether the additional participant should be contacted to join the existing communication session.
US09319441B2
Methods, computing devices, and computer readable storage media for testing network connections are disclosed. A first processor of a plurality of processors may define a new TCP connection to be opened. The first processor may apply a hash function to determine a second processor of the plurality of processors to open the new TCP connection. The first processor may provide data defining the new TCP connection to the second processor. The second processor may open the new TCP connection in accordance with the data provided by the first processor.
US09319439B2
A method for reducing a call establishment time in real-time communication between at least two devices. The method includes: receiving, at a first internal server of a system, a first communication from a caller, wherein the first communication is a push request that comprises an attempt to initiate a connection with a callee; and sending a push notification via the first internal server to the callee, wherein the first internal server has at least two interfaces, wherein each interface of the at least two interfaces comprises a User Datagram Protocol (UDP) port, wherein the sending includes: embedding, by the first internal server and inside the push notification, an external UDP (IP, port) pair, of the at least two interfaces, to which the callee is able to connect.
US09319426B2
An information handling system includes a processor and a management controller separate from the processor. The management controller is operable to store an anti-virus program and a malicious marker detection program in a memory of the management controller, and to execute the malicious marker detection program. The malicious marker detection program operates to detect a state of a device of the information handling system, determine that the information handling system is under attack from a malicious program in response to detecting the state of the device, and send an alert to a management system coupled to the information handling system, the alert indicating that the information handling system is under attack from the malicious program.
US09319415B2
Reference architecture pattern role data representing reference architecture pattern roles to be associated with entities taking part in the development, and/or deployment, and/or operation of an application is generated. Reference architecture pattern tier data representing reference architecture pattern tiers used to create, and/or deploy, and/or operate an application using the reference architecture pattern is generated. For each reference architecture pattern role at least one access and/or operational permission is associated with each reference architecture pattern tier. At least one entity is assigned one of the reference architecture pattern roles and for each reference architecture pattern tier, the at least one entity is automatically provided the at least one access and/or operational permission associated with the reference architecture pattern role assigned to the entity.
US09319413B2
A method for establishing a resource access authorization in M2M communication is provided. When an entity including a terminal, a gateway and an end user as client in a first M2M service provider domain attempts to access resource located in terminal or gateway in second M2M service provider domain, the method includes receiving client credential allocated from M2M Authentication Server (MAS1) in first M2M service provider domain by performing client registration to Network Service Capabilities Layer (NSCL1) in first M2M service provider domain by client, requesting an authorization to access resource to resource owner through NSCL (NSCL2) in second M2M service provider domain based on information about Universal Resource Identifier (URI) of resource by client, verifying client through MAS1 by the resource owner, authorizing client to access the resource by the resource owner, and issuing access token to the client by MAS (MAS2) in second M2M service provider domain.
US09319408B2
This is directed to providing access to content stored on a local cloud. In particular, a device can direct a librarian service overseeing the operation of a local cloud to provide another device with access to content stored on the local cloud. The librarian service can generate credentials for the other device, and provide the credentials to the other device. Using the credentials, the other device can connect directly to the local cloud and access the content. In addition, the local cloud can validate the credentials of the other before providing access to the content. The credentials can include, for example, a key to install or load on the device. The librarian may not require, however, the user to create credentials or register with the librarian before being permitted to access the content on the local cloud.
US09319405B2
This invention describes a system and methods for media content subscription service distribution; typical services include cable television, premium content channels, pay-per-view, XM radio, and online mp3 services. Subscribers use portable electronic devices to store digital certificates certifying the subscriber's privileges and an assigned public key. The devices can communicate with specially enabled televisions, radios, computers, or other media presentation apparatuses. These, in turn, can communicate with central databases owned by the provider, for verification purposes. Methods of the invention describe media content subscription service privilege issuing and use. The invention additionally describes methods for protecting media content transmitted to users with a variety of encryption schemes. The invention also comprises methods for subscribed users to bestow a subset of their privileges to a number of secondary users, with appropriate permission from the media content subscription service provider.
US09319402B2
This is directed to a digital handshake for establishing a secure communications path between two electronic devices. Each device can capture an image of the other device using a camera (e.g., a front facing camera or a back facing camera) and extract, from the captured image, a key or seed associated with the other device. For example, each device can display a seed to be identified from an image taken by the other device. Using the extracted keys or seeds, each device can generate, using a same process, an identical digital handshake key. The digital handshake key can then be used to define a secure communications path between the two devices and share information securely. In some embodiments, a digital handshake key can be shared among several devices to create a multi-device secure communications path. Once a communications path has been established, the devices in the path can be identified and authenticated from the digital handshake key to receive access to secured goods, services or information.
US09319398B2
In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for a central identification management computer system that includes at least: a computer programmed with software instructions that at least include: code to receive a user registration request from a user who desires to establish a user identification profile; code to independently verify profile information of the user; code to register the user identification profile with the central identification management computer system; code to receive an identification request; code to generate a timed unique alpha-numeric identifier where the at least one first timed unique alpha-numeric identifier is associated with the user identification profile stored in the database of the central identification management system; code to transmit the timed unique alpha-numeric identifier in response to identification request; and code to record, in a permanent identification usage log, the timed unique alpha-numeric identifier, and a timestamp related to the identification request.
US09319394B2
A computer-implemented system and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes providing provisioning information for storage in a provisioning repository; receiving a service request from a service consumer, the service request including requestor identifying information; generating an authentication request to send to an authentication authority, the authentication request including requestor identifying information; receiving validation of an authenticated service request from the authentication authority; and providing the requested service to the service consumer.
US09319391B2
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for providing account information for a telephone number. All users are authenticated to ensure they may access the account information. Once authenticated, the user provides one or more telephone numbers that they would like to retrieve account information for. The system searches for the telephone number and if found, checks to ensure that the telecommunications provider services the phone number. When the telecommunications provider is the provider for the phone number, the record is retrieved and sent to the user.
US09319389B2
A controller is provided with a controller key and a first controller identification information unique to the controller. The controller generates a controller unique key unique to a respective controller based on the controller key and the first controller identification information, and a second controller identification information based on the first controller identification information. A decryptor decrypts the encrypted medium device key using the controller unique key to obtain a medium device key. An authentication/key exchange process unit performs authentication/key exchange process with the host device through an interface unit using the medium device key, the medium device key certificate and the second controller identification information to establish a secure channel.
US09319384B2
Systems and methods for filtering unsafe content at a network security appliance are provided. According to one embodiment, a network security appliance captures network traffic and extracts a media file from the network traffic. The network security appliance then determines the presence of a hidden data item embedded in the media file in a machine-readable form. When such a hidden data item is identified, the network security appliance performs one or more actions on the media file based on a predefined security policy.
US09319382B2
Certain embodiments described herein provide a computer system, a log collection device, and methods for protecting a plurality of guarded networks from internet threats. The computer system includes at least one processor in operative communication with a plurality of log collection circuits via the internet and in operative communication with a plurality of intelligence sources via the internet. The log collection circuit includes at least one processor in operative communication with a computer system via the internet and in operative communication with at least one firewall of the guarded network. The at least one processor of the computer system is operative to receive traffic information from each log collection circuit of the plurality of log collection circuits, to receive intelligence data from the plurality of intelligence sources, to generate reputation information regarding one or more addresses of the plurality of addresses, and to transmit the reputation information to each log collection circuit of the plurality of log collection circuits.
US09319381B1
A method for supplementing a content policy is provided. The method may include receiving a request to access network content associated with a network content, with the network content including additional network content associated with one or more linked network contents. The method may confirm that the network content is associated with the content policy. The content policy may include a list of pre-approved network contents. Based on the confirmation, the method may selectively provide access to the network content and apply the content policy to the additional network content associated with the one or more linked network contents. A policy enforcement module may determine whether or not the additional network content should be included in the network content, and, based on the determination, selectively allow inclusion of the additional network content within the network content.
US09319378B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems and computer readable media for using a Diameter routing agent (DRA) to obtain mappings between mobile subscriber identification information and dynamically assigned Internet protocol (IP) addresses and for making the mappings accessible to applications. One exemplary method includes, at a DRA, receiving a Diameter message containing a dynamically assigned IP address and mobile subscriber identification information. The method further includes routing the received Diameter signaling message. The method further includes copying, by the DRA, the IP address and the mobile subscriber identifier from the message. The method further includes making a mapping between the dynamically assigned IP address and the subscriber identification information accessible to applications.
US09319376B2
Information processing apparatuses, control methods and storage mediums are provided, which may transmit or attempt to transmit data to a target device by using network information, modify a MAC address in the network information to a MAC address of a device having same device identification information as the target device when a communication with the target device is not established, and, when the MAC address is modified, transmit the data to the device having the same device identification information as the target device. In one or more embodiments, a network port monitor may transmit an inquiry notification by way of broadcast when data is not transmitted to the target device. When a response to the inquiry notification is received from a device having same device identification information as the target device, the device having the same device identification information is set as a new connection or transmission destination.
US09319370B2
A web-based system allows for publishing a website with features and access configured on a user-by-user basis by the website owner to present personal data as well as social network feeds in a single interface. The website owner can update and manage his/her social media from the same page, as well as organize private data if desired. The system includes a messaging function, in accordance with which users can drop a message into the message service of a site owner, and it gets delivered to the site owner in exactly the manner specified by the site owner.
US09319363B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a write request from a publisher comprising a channel name wherein the channel identified by the channel name comprises an ordered plurality of messages stored in buffers, each buffer having a predetermined time-to-live and being assigned to a respective node, identifying a first node and a first buffer stored on the first node based on the channel name of the request that has available storage for storing messages and wherein the first buffer has a time-to-live that has not expired, and sending a write grant to the publisher wherein the grant comprises identification of the first node and the first buffer, and wherein the publisher is configured to send messages to the first node for storage in the first buffer based on the grant until the first buffer is full or its time-to-live has expired.
US09319361B2
An approach for unfiltering a filtered electronic communication is provided. In one aspect, a computer system receives filtered electronic communication, wherein the filtered electronic communication is a status message. Moreover, the computer system determines a requestor of the filtered electronic communication. The computer system also detects an attempt made to communicate with the requestor. Furthermore, the computer system unfilters, in response to the attempt, the filtered electronic communication.
US09319360B2
Systems and methods for prefetching relevant information for responsive mobile email applications are describe. In some embodiments, the server performs operations for prefetching data for an application operating on a client device. The server receives from a client device a request for a list of conversations. In response to the request, the server fetches conversation headers associated with the request list of conversations and fetches up to a predetermined number of messages, within conversations in the list of conversations, which are determined to be most relevant to a user of the client device in accordance with predefined criteria, and then transmits the fetched headers and the fetched messages to the client device. Other embodiments are also described.
US09319359B1
A real-time messaging platform and method are disclosed which can be used to promote content in the messaging platform. In one embodiment, the promotion system is disclosed which performs initial candidate selection so as to narrow down the set of candidate promotions before applying more expensive processing. The candidate selection takes advantage of the connection graph information associated with accounts in the messaging platform to identify targeted accounts. In another embodiment, the promotion system uses a prediction model to predict a user's engagement with the promotion and utilizes the prediction to assist in ranking the candidate promotions. Promotions can be assigned metrics based, for example, on a weighted combination of user engagement rates, decayed with time to reflect an intuition that recent interactions by one or more users with the promotion will have a greater impact than older interactions with the promotion.
US09319356B2
A graphical user interface on a display device of a computer enables communications using a computer service. The graphical user interface includes a list of potential message recipients selected by a user as significant to the user. The graphical user interface also includes a mobile device identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients and a user account identifier associated with one or more of the listed potential message recipients. At least one of the listed potential recipients includes a mobile device identifier as the only available conduit for data delivery to the potential message recipient using the computer service.
US09319348B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more parallel data streams having a first data rate, multiplexing by round-robin selection the parallel data streams into a single serial data stream, modifying the serial data stream by passing it through a self-synchronous scrambler, and transmitting to a receiver across a transmission line the modified serial data stream at a second data rate that is approximately equal to ten times the first data rate.
US09319324B2
A method for placing services at network devices is disclosed. A network contains a plurality of network devices and the network offers a set of services to subscribers. Each subscriber of the network utilizes a subset of the set of service, where an order of the services is not predefined. The method starts with ordering the services from the most utilized service to the least utilized, and selects services from the most utilized to the least utilized. For each service, a network device is selected so that placing the service adds a least sum of additional delay based on services already placed in the network, and a path for each subscriber utilizing the service is updated to include the service, where the path is an ordered chain of services, and where the service is inserted in the path to result in minimum addition to delay to the subscriber.
US09319319B2
A communication network traffic control element is disclosed which is arranged to receive traffic, such as voice and data, as a plurality of discrete traffic packets at an input and communicate the traffic as a serial traffic stream to an output. The traffic control element can include a receiver which is arranged to receive the traffic packets, and a processor which is arranged to communicate the serial traffic stream to the output. The processor can include a buffer to vary a traffic output rate from the processor independently of an input rate of traffic flow to the receiver.
US09319318B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing PCRF-based IP CAN session information pass-through are disclosed. According to one method, a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) receives Internet protocol connectivity access network (IP CAN) session information from an access network-aware gateway. The PCRF forwards at least a portion of the IP CAN session information to a deep packet inspection (DPI) node.
US09319304B2
The disclosure relates to a method of routing for an Autonomous System AS in a communication system, in which the AS comprises a plurality of network devices including a first network device and a second network device. The first network device distributes routing information to a forwarding table by calculating a first route from the first network device to the second network device. The first network device receives information of a destination network device of the communication system from the second network device, and forms a second route from the second network device to the destination network device to be stored in the forwarding table using the received information of the destination network device. When the first route fails, the first network device calculates a third route from the first network device to the second network device and updates the routing information in the forwarding table according to the third route.
US09319300B2
Systems and Methods for determining endpoint configurations for endpoints of a virtual private network (VPN) and deploying the configurations to the endpoints. Parameters required for building the configurations are accepted from a user, the configurations enabling the endpoints to process a mixture of time sensitive and non-time sensitive data, and the parameters comprising: endpoint IP addressing scheme information, network design information, and templates used to define profiles of the endpoints. The configurations for the parameters are generated, wherein the parameters comprise endpoint authentication information, and the configurations are set based on endpoint hardware-specific information with no further input required from the user. Each endpoint is queried to verify that the endpoint hardware-specific information is consistent with the configurations for the endpoint. The configurations are deployed to the endpoints of the VPN.
US09319293B2
Techniques for network packet flow analysis and control are described herein. One example method may include obtaining network topology information corresponding to a plurality of nodes of an access network, receiving communication monitoring messages from two or more of the plurality of nodes, wherein the communication monitoring messages include communication information corresponding to a plurality of communication layers, and determining information loss statistics associated with the plurality of nodes based on the communication monitoring messages and the network topology information.
US09319284B2
A delay in a configuration changing operation of a computer system including a manual procedure and an automatic procedure is detected.Based on actions of a setup tool or a configuration tool operated on IT resources, an event which occurs corresponding to the start and the end of a manual procedure is detected and the actual time of the manual procedure is calculated from the detection time points. Next, a delay rate is calculated from a scheduled time and the actual time of the manual procedure, and an end time point of an incomplete operation procedure is estimated from an estimated time required for the manual procedure with the calculated delay rate taken into account and from a time required for the automatic procedure to determine whether the scheduled operation will be finished within a period.
US09319283B2
Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for connecting services, including web services, using intermediate data exchange objects to create composition services. Data exchange objects may be service independent objects that represent the inputs and/or outputs of various services. The systems and methods may employ data exchange objects to determine whether two services are composable and to implement and execute composite services according to the data exchange objects.
US09319281B2
Requested processing time of each batch job is complied with. A resource-correction control server calculating an amount of a resource required for setup of a batch application includes an intermediate-process-unit-data acquiring unit that compiles data of completed batch processes as a single data set at a predetermined time point, a resource-correction determining unit that, using the intermediate process unit, determines a process progress rate that is a progress rate of a process at the current time point and whether the process progress rate has reached a required progress rate that is a progress rate required to terminate the batch process within the requested processing time, and an allocation-resource calculating unit that, as a result of the determination, if the required progress rate has not been reached, calculates the amount of the resource required for recovery of the delay based on a delay-recovery-object progress rate and resource information.
US09319280B2
A method for calculating the effect of an action on a network includes creating a mapping of a plurality of devices of a networked computing environment. In one embodiment, the mapping describes a relationship between a primary device and at least one device of the plurality of devices. In another embodiment, the method includes determining a plurality of potential actions to be performed on the primary device. In a further embodiment, the method includes calculating an effect of a potential action of the plurality of potential actions on the plurality of devices in response to simulating performing the potential action on the primary device. In yet another embodiment, the method includes performing an optimization action in response to calculating the effect of the potential action. In certain embodiments, the optimization action maximizes availability of the networked computing environment.
US09319278B2
Apparatus, methods, and machine-readable articles of manufacture facilitate configuration of a networked messaging system. In some embodiments, nodes of the system are automatically interrogated to obtain current configuration information of each of the nodes, and a configuration file with the nodes' current configuration information is generated and stored in a format that is readily editable. Exemplary formats include spreadsheet, comma separated variables, and other text formats. An administrator is allowed to access and edit the configuration file, resulting in an updated configuration file with updated configuration information. Editing may include adding and removing servers, creating and removing digital networking mailboxes or links on the nodes, and other configuration changes. After the file is edited and the administrator or another authorized person issues a command to configure the system, messages are automatically sent to the nodes to configure the system in accordance with the updated configuration information.
US09319273B2
According to an example, a unified policy management system may include a session manager module to establish sessions with policy enforcement points. A notification manager module may receive an event trigger notification from a policy enforcement point via an interface session. A coordination engine may determine whether an event identified from the event trigger notification is to cause a change in policy enforced by another policy enforcement point and facilitate the change via another interface session.
US09319260B2
An OFDM receiver receives OFDM symbols in the frequency domain and comb filters and then punctures the OFDM symbols to leave symbols with actual pilot information and with null values at the data symbols. The receiver provides the punctured OFDM symbols to an OFDM symbol queue. A virtual pilot interpolator is coupled to the punctured OFDM symbol storage to generate virtual pilot information introduced to OFDM symbols. The interpolator may be a two dimensional Wiener filter. The receiver also includes a time domain channel estimator that processes a first OFDM symbol including virtual pilot information to generate a channel impulse response for the first OFDM symbol. A frequency equalizer equalizes the OFDM symbol in response to the channel impulse response for the first OFDM symbol.
US09319255B2
A transmitter includes: a modulation circuit for modulating a baseband signal into a multi-bit digital signal containing a radio frequency band component; a plurality of switch mode amplifiers each provided corresponding to a respective bit of the multi-bit digital signal supplied from the modulation circuit; and a signal-synthesizing circuit. The signal-synthesizing circuit connects a band-restricting unit that restricts the band of the output signals of the plurality of switch mode amplifiers and a voltage-current conversion unit that converts output signals of the switch mode amplifiers from voltage into current to perform signal synthesizing.
US09319252B2
The present invention relates to precoding and feedback channel information in wireless communication system.
US09319243B2
A first processing session is entered with a POP client. A set of messages from a message repository is identified as available for access by the POP client. When the POP client causes a message to be deleted from the message repository (either by explicit or implicit actions), the message is removed from the set of messages available for access by the POP client but maintained for access by another POP client or by another messaging program. The messages available may be limited by a session size and they may be ordered newest to oldest. In some instances messages are part of conversations and the number of conversation from which the message may be drawn is limited.
US09319242B2
A method includes receiving a request for establishing a communication pathway end-to-end over a network. The communication pathway includes a radio communication channel and a packet communication channel. The request identifies a plurality of traffic flows to be carried by the communication pathway and quality-of-service attributes associated with the traffic flows. At least one traffic flow is associated with at least one quality-of-service attribute determining the quality-of-service requirement for the at least one traffic flow. A quality-of-service is negotiated, based on the quality-of-service attribute, and the negotiated quality-of-service is reported.
US09319239B2
A system matches frame counter values between a timing master and one or more slave devices in a synchronous network. To detect synchronization losses, a timing master counts transmitted frames of a continuous data stream. When a synchronization loss occurs, the timing master transmits a message to the slave devices that includes a synchronization frame counter value. The message synchronizes the frame counter value of the timing master to the frame counter value of the slave devices.
US09319234B2
A device for controlling a host apparatus through a wireless link with a personal controller. The device includes a wireless communications module for communicating with a personal controller via a peer-to-peer communications standard. The device connects to the host apparatus via a plug and receptacle interface which includes power and signal pins.
US09319227B2
Devices described herein are configured to receive a post to a collaboration space shared by a group of users and provide the post to the group of users through a user interface associated with the collaboration space. In some embodiments, the group of users is a social network or social network group. The devices are further configured to automatically create a content item associated with an application of a device of at least one user of the group of users based on the post, the content item accessible through a user interface of the application.
US09319218B2
In a multi-wire channel that includes at least three wires, each unique wire pair of the multi-wire channel has approximately the same signal propagation time. In this way, jitter can be mitigated in the multi-wire channel for signaling where, for a given data transfer, a differential signal is transmitting on a particular pair of the wires and every other wire is floating. In some implementations, matching of the signal propagation times involves providing additional delay for at least one of the wires. The additional delay is provided using passive signal delay techniques and/or active signal delay techniques.
US09319208B2
Radio frequency (RF) duplexing devices and methods of operating the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an RF duplexing device includes a transmission port, a receive port, a first duplexer, and a second duplexer. The first duplexer is coupled to the transmission port and the receive port, and is configured to provide a first phase shift from the transmission port to the receive port. The second duplexer is also coupled to the transmission port and the receive port. However, the second duplexer is configured to provide a second phase shift that is differential to the first phase shift from the transmission port to the receive port. By providing the second phase shift so that the second phase shift is differential to the first phase shift, the RF duplexing device can provide isolation through cancellation without needing to introduce significant insertion losses.
US09319207B2
A system and method for establishing windows that govern the exchange of acknowledgements in a full-duplex communication. The window is established for two nodes which transmit asymmetric frame sizes in full-duplex mode. The window is related to the size of the asymmetric frames. Frames are exchanged in full-duplex between the two nodes, and the window size is defined as enabling the nodes to send data until the number of unacknowledged frames at the nodes is less than or equal to the window size, at which point acknowledgments are exchanged simultaneously. In sending the acknowledgment, both nodes can send acknowledgments simultaneously in full-duplex in the same frequency bin.
US09319205B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus in which a base station transmits a signal to a relay in a wireless communication system. A method in which a terminal receives a downlink signal in a wireless communication system that supports carrier aggregation comprises: a step of receiving, on a first carrier, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) having no carrier indication information; and a step of receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) using the scheduling information carried on the PDCCH, wherein the PDSCH is received on the first carrier in the event the PDCCH is a non-semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) PDCCH, and the PDSCH is received on a second carrier different from the first carrier in the event the PDCCH is an SPS PDCCH.
US09319200B2
An embodiment of a system for operating a communications controller for a group of user equipments engaged in a direct mobile communication (“DMC”) link in a wireless communications system is provided. The communications controller is configured to allocate a set of subframes to the group of UEs for the DMC link, signal the set of allocated subframes to the group of UEs, and signal a length of a sliding window to the group of UEs. In an embodiment, ACK/NACK feedback for communications over the DMC link is aggregated according to the length of the sliding window, and the ACK/NACK feedback for the communications over the DMC link is determined independently from ACK/NACK feedback for cellular transmission between the communication controller and the group of UEs. In an embodiment, the length of the sliding window is a number of subframes.
US09319199B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method, a base station, and a user equipment. The communication method includes: sending a PDCCH to a user equipment in one subframe, where the PDCCH is used to schedule transmission of PDSCHs of at least two subframes of the user equipment, the PDCCH carries first indicator information, and the first indicator information indicates a channel resource for transmitting uplink ACK/NACK information that is corresponding to the PDSCHs; determining a transmission subframe carrying the uplink ACK/NACK information that is corresponding to the PDSCHs, and receiving the uplink ACK/NACK information on the channel resource in the transmission subframe. In the embodiments of the present invention, when a PDCCH schedules multiple PDSCHs, an ACK/NACK resource indicator field is used to indicate a channel resource of ACK/NACK feedback that is corresponding to the scheduled PDSCHs, thereby improving scheduling flexibility.
US09319183B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate conveying decoding statuses in a wireless communication environment. A UE can transmit a plurality of codewords as part of an uplink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission to a base station. The base station can receive and attempt to decode the plurality of codewords. Further, decoding statuses for the plurality of codewords can be determined. Moreover, the decoding statuses for the plurality of codewords can be signaled to the UE. For example, the decoding statuses for the plurality of codewords can be conveyed via a single PHICH. According to another example, multiple PHICHs can convey the decoding statuses. Pursuant to a further example, the decoding statuses can be conveyed at least in part via a PDCCH.
US09319176B2
A method for encoding control information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, includes obtaining a plurality of Channel Quality Information (CQIs) for a plurality of downlink carriers, at least one RI (Rank Indicator) and at least one ACK/NACK (Acknowledgement/Negative-ACK); concatenating the plurality of CQIs; encoding the concatenated plurality of CQIs, the at least one RI and the at least one ACK/NACK, separately; and transmitting the encoded plurality of CQIs, the encoded at least one RI and the encoded at least one ACK/NACK on only one uplink carrier.
US09319173B2
Link adaptation is supported in a multi-user MIMO environment. In some aspects, a frame including a transmission parameter request (e.g., a null data packet announcement (NDPA) including a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) request (MRQ)) specifies multiple destinations. In some aspects, a decision to transmit a frame specifying multiple destinations is based on whether all of destinations support providing feedback to such a frame. In some aspects, transmission parameter feedback (e.g., MCS feedback (MFB)) including channel estimate information is provided in a case where MFB of type MU is requested.
US09319172B2
A method for air to ground communication interference mitigation within an aircraft equipped with a multi-beam array antenna includes adjusting a modulation symbol interleaving and/or forward error correction of an aircraft receiver interface in response to detected interference from an interferer. The method further includes reducing a data rate of the aircraft receiver interface when the adjusting of the modulation symbol interleaving and/or forward error correction does not mitigate the detected interference. Another method for interference mitigation may include performing antenna beam-steering away from a geographic (GEO) arc during an aircraft turn. This method further includes reducing an aircraft transmitter transmit power when a signal quality of a forward link is within a predetermined range of a signal quality threshold.
US09319170B2
An all-optical modulator includes a directional coupling unit that multiplexes, on a carrier light beam, a signal light beam of a modulation signal that a carrier signal at a characteristic frequency is modulated with an information signal. The all-optical modulator includes a nonlinear medium that cross-phase-modulates the carrier light beam with the multiplexed signal light beam, and frequency-multiplexes the information signal in the signal light beam on the carrier light beam to generate an optical frequency division multiplexed signal. The all-optical modulator includes a monitoring control unit that controls a polarization control unit that controls a polarization state of the signal light beam in a direction in which an intensity of a modulation component takes a maximum value, based on the intensity of the modulation component involved in a modulation signal at a desired characteristic frequency of the optical frequency division multiplexed signal.
US09319168B2
A transmitting apparatus includes a group processing unit configured to divide plurally data of one block, control processing units configured to perform predetermined control processing for each of the divided data, a combination processing unit configured to combine the data subjected to the control processing into one signal, a transmission processing unit configured to apply predetermined transmission processing to the combined signal to convert the signal into a transmission signal, and a control-signal generating unit configured to retain a predetermined number of control value candidates, one set of which includes M control values used in the control processing carried out by the control processing units, and select, as a selected candidate, one of the control value candidates based on power information of the transmission signal, and generate M control signals corresponding to the selected candidate and input the control signals to the control processing units.
US09319160B2
The invention relates to a method and a first device for updating at least one data element in a data carousel, in which an updating element is added to the data carousel for at least one group of at least one data element, wherein the updating element indicates either the time of update of at least one of the data elements of the group, or a time interval for checking an update of at least one of the data elements of the group. The invention also comprises a method and a second device for checking an update of a data element in a data carousel, wherein the checking of at least one of the data elements is performed on the basis of an updating element that is added in the data carousel for at least one group of data elements. Finally, the invention comprises a data flow that has an updating element in the data carousel for at least one group of data elements.
US09319154B2
Methods for testing multiple data packet signal transceiver devices under test (DUTs) with a shared tester. The DUTs transmit their data packet signals until predetermined numbers of data packets have been transmitted or predetermined time intervals expire, following which, each DUT awaits a synchronization request to begin transmitting data packets to the tester. Alternatively, the tester determines when its receiver is available for receiving data packets, following which, synchronization requests are sent to respective DUTs to initiate their transmissions of data packets to the tester. Further alternatively, power levels among data packets initially transmitted from the DUTs are monitored to determine when they are indicative of them having settled. As each DUT data packet signal power settles, a status signal indicating the settled nature of each DUT is provided to the tester which then begins receiving the respective DUT data packet signals, as they settle in power, for analysis.
US09319146B2
A photodiode converts an optical signal output from a laser diode to a current signal, and a current-to-voltage conversion circuit converts the current signal to a voltage signal. A comparison amplifier compares the voltage signal with a reference voltage to control the current flowing from a variable current source and increases or decreases a bias current for driving the laser diode. The current-to-voltage conversion circuit comprises a resistor and a variable current source that are connected in parallel. Therefore, it is possible to change the bias current without changing the resistance value of the resistor and to avoid limiting the dynamic range of the optical signal that is output. In addition, since the resistance value of the resistor does not change, the loop gain does not change, thereby stabilizing the control operation.
US09319140B2
A method comprising receiving a coaxial network unit (CNU) registration request from a CNU via a coaxial portion of a network, wherein the registration request is addressed to an optical line terminal (OLT), and forwarding the CNU registration request to the OLT via an optical portion of the network. Included is an OLT comprising a processor configured to receive a registration request including a logical node identifier (LNID) assigned to a coaxial line terminal (CLT) in a payload of the registration request, wherein the CLT intermediates between the OLT via an optical portion of a unified optical-coaxial network and a CNU via an electrical network portion of the unified optical-coaxial network, assign a logical link identifier (LLID) to the CNU, and send the LLID to the CNU via the CLT.
US09319133B2
Methods and systems are described for determining and providing instructions for manual adjustment of a tilt angle of a radio frequency/free space optical transceiver system. Specifically, these instructions are provided for adjusting a tilt angle of a transceiver system using a tilt adjustment so that the transceiver system is approximately at a center of a range of motion of a gimbal assembly. A user interface in communication with a computing system of the local transceiver system provides instructions so that the above-described adjustments are implemented accurately and precisely. This tilt adjustment improves the reliability of the communication network because the gimbal assembly is able adjust the position of the transceiver system during relative movement between the transceivers system, thus maintaining the link despite the relative movement.
US09319130B2
The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. While the DL and UL subframes are preconfigured for each frame instance, the flexible subframes are dynamically allocated to be an uplink subframe in one instance of a frame and a downlink subframe in another instance of the frame.
US09319126B2
A wireless relay device and a method of processing data using the same are provided. The wireless relay device includes a voice input/output (I/O) unit, a voice processing unit, an information protection processing unit, a Wi-Fi unit, and a radio transmission and reception unit. The voice I/O unit receives or outputs a user voice signal. The voice processing unit performs voice processing on the user voice signal. The information protection processing unit encrypts or decrypts voice data using an information protection algorithm. The Wi-Fi unit sends the encrypted voice data to a portable device of a user located within a set range, or receives encrypted voice data from a portable device of a user located within the set range. The radio transmission and reception unit relays wireless communication to a portable device of a user located outside the set range.
US09319117B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a codeword feedback method and a receiver, which relate to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: determining a precoding type used for downlink signal transmission, or receiving codebook indication signaling transmitted by a transmitter; selecting a codebook according to the precoding type, or selecting a codebook according to the codebook indication signaling; and selecting a codeword according to the codebook, and feeding back the codeword to the transmitter. The present invention can provide a new feedback mechanism for channel state information and a non-linear precoding codebook when needing to use both linear precoding and non-linear precoding, so that a communication system can select an appropriate precoding codebook to feed back state information according to different needs, thereby improving the performance of the communication system.
US09319116B2
An apparatus and method for feeding back channel state information is disclosed. The method is for providing channel state information for a wireless communications channel provided between a first network node having at least one transmission antenna and a second network node having at least one reception antenna. The method comprises the steps of: determining characteristics of each tap resolvable in the time domain of at least one sub-channel within said channel from signals received by said at least one reception antenna over said channel from said at least one transmission antenna; arranging said characteristics into at least one vector; quantizing said at least one vector by selecting one of a plurality of codebook vectors at a first level of a hierarchical codebook of vectors; and providing, to said first network node, an indication of an index to said one of a plurality of codebook vectors.
US09319114B2
Coding techniques for a (e.g., OFDM) communication system capable of transmitting data on a number of “transmission channels” at different information bit rates based on the channels' achieved SNR. A base code is used in combination with common or variable puncturing to achieve different coding rates required by the transmission channels. The data (i.e., information bits) for a data transmission is encoded with the base code, and the coded bits for each channel (or group of channels with the similar transmission capabilities) are punctured to achieve the required coding rate. The coded bits may be interleaved (e.g., to combat fading and remove correlation between coded bits in each modulation symbol) prior to puncturing. The unpunctured coded bits are grouped into non-binary symbols and mapped to modulation symbols (e.g., using Gray mapping). The modulation symbol may be “pre-conditioned” and prior to transmission.
US09319112B2
A cellular multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system has a base station. The base station has a plurality of antennas. To control a signal transmission in the MIMO system, the base station monitors at least one indicator which indicates whether a spatial resolution of the plurality of antennas allows signals received from at least two terminals to be distinguished. The base station selectively activates a multiple access transmission and reception for the at least two terminals as a function of the at least one indicator. The multiple access transmission and reception causes the at least two terminals to share a common channel.
US09319111B2
The disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses that allow for channelization code allocation adapted for uplink MIMO transmissions. A method for use in a user equipment of a telecommunication system comprises spreading data symbols of a plurality of streams to be transmitted from the user equipment as MIMO transmissions. The step of spreading the data symbols comprises allocating, for each stream, at least one channelization code (62) to be applied for spreading the data symbols of the stream. The plurality of streams are allocated channelization codes (62) from a predefined code tree (61) of applicable channelization codes such that any channelization code (62) is allocated to more than one stream only if there is no applicable channelization code left in the code tree (61) which currently is not allocated for any stream. The channelization code allocation scheme makes it possible to avoid inter-stream interference in many scenarios of uplink MIMO transmissions.
US09319110B2
A hinge is provided for mechanically and electrically coupling a machine and a display wirelessly. The hinge includes a machine portion having a first transceiver for wirelessly sending a signal concerning an operation or status of the machine and a display portion having a second transceiver for wirelessly receiving the operating signal. The hinge machine portion and the hinge display portion are mechanically connected so as to: (i) swivel with respect to each other; or (ii) tilt with respect to each other.
US09319109B2
A connectivity monitor/controller. A wireless connection is established between a mobile device and a docking station that also communicates with external device(s) each configured to selectably communicate with the mobile device via a connectivity through the docking station or through a direct connection with the mobile device. The docking station receives a connectivity assignment specifying external device(s) and a respective connectivity between the mobile device and the specified external device. Each specified connectivity is established based on the connectivity assignment. A display indicating a connectivity configuration including an indication of each specified external device and an indication of each external device's respective connectivity is generated, where the indication of the respective connectivity indicates either a connectivity through the docking station or a direct connectivity, or both.
US09319106B2
An embodiment provides a method, including: initiating communication between a first communication device with a first near field communication device and a second communication device with a second near field communication device, wherein said second near field communication device is in a stopped state comprising; receiving a request from said first communication device at said second communication device; after receiving the request, shifting said second near field communication device to an operational state; receiving other information from said first near field communication device at said second near field communication device; ending communication between said first near field communication and said second near field communication device; and shifting said second near field communication device to a stopped state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09319101B2
A system and method for non-intrusive fault detection of a ground fault in a communication channel is provided. A bias voltage may be established on a first portion of the communication channel and a second portion of the communication channel. A first voltage may be detected across a first resistor electrically connected to the first and second portions of the communication channel. Data indicative of whether the ground fault exists in the first or second portions of the communication channel may be provided based on the detecting.
US09319096B1
Implementations generally relate to ultrasonic communication between devices. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a data signal, where the data signal is transmitted and received in an indoor environment. The method further includes demodulating the data signal based on direct sequence spread spectrum.
US09319095B2
A method of operating a transmitter (FIGS. 3A and 5A) is disclosed. The method includes receiving a sequence of data bits (DATA), wherein each data bit has a respective sequence number. A first data bit of the sequence is spread (508) with a first spreading code (504) determined by the sequence number (502) of the first data bit. A second data bit of the sequence is spread (508) with an inverse of the first spreading code (506) determined by the sequence number (502) of the second data bit. The first and second data bits are modulated (510) and transmitted (516) to a remote receiver.
US09319094B2
A wireless transceiver includes a transmit path configured to generate a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal for transmission via an antenna, the transmit path generating a feedforward signal having at least one adjustable phase. A receive path is configured to receive an RF receive signal via the antenna. A circulator-based duplexer includes a circulator configured to couple the transmit signal from the transmit path to the antenna and to couple the receive signal from the antenna to the receive path. A controller is configured to process feedback from the receive path and to control the at least one adjustable phase to cancel portions of the transmit signal on the receive path.
US09319092B2
In a high frequency module, mounting lands for reception signal output side ports of SAW duplexers, respectively, on a top surface of a multilayer body are arranged so as to be superposed on reception side external connection lands on a bottom surface of the multilayer body along the layer direction and the mounting lands are directly connected to the reception side external connection lands via holes. Transmission side external connection lands are located on the bottom surface of the multilayer body. The transmission side external connection lands are connected to mounting lands for transmission signal input side ports on the top surface of the multilayer body via certain inner layer electrodes that do not come close to the via holes of the reception system and the via holes.
US09319091B2
A semiconductor device is configured to perform a transmission process and a reception process using a radio wave, includes a transmission unit configured to perform the transmission process, and includes a modulator having a first inductor of a spiral shape, and a reception unit configured to perform the reception process, which includes a local oscillator having a second inductor. The second inductor includes a first portion extending in a first direction, a second portion extending in a second direction and a third portion extending in a third direction. The second direction and the third direction intersect with the first direction. The first portion, second portion and third portion include a same conductor layer. The second portion has an end which is not connected with the first portion. The third portion has another end which is not connected with the first portion, and the end of the second portion and said another end of the third portion are located apart in a plan view.
US09319076B2
A modulation method includes sampling the first input signal by using the first local oscillation signal and the second local oscillation signal to generate the first sampled signal, sampling the second input signal by using the third local oscillation signal and the fourth local oscillation signal to generate the second sampled signal, sampling the second input signal by using the first local oscillation signal and the second local oscillation signal to generate the third sampled signal, sampling the first input signal by using the third local oscillation signal and the fourth local oscillation signal to generate the fourth sampled signal, adding the first sampled signal and the second sampled signal to produce the first modulation signal, adding the third sampled signal and the fourth sampled signal to generate the second modulation signal, and adding the first modulation signal and the second modulation signal to generate an output signal.
US09319056B2
A quantum interference device includes a gas cell into which metal atoms are sealed, a heater that heats the gas cell, a heat transmission portion that is located between the gas cell and the heater, is connected to the gas cell, and transmits heat generated from the heater to the gas cell, and a heat dissipation portion that is connected to the gas cell so as to be spaced apart from the heat transmission portion, and dissipates heat of the gas cell.
US09319051B2
Digital phase-locked loop (PLL) with dynamic hybrid (mixed analog/digital signal) delta-sigma (ΔΣ) phase/frequency detector (ΔΣ PFD). A hybrid 2nd-order ΔΣ PFD may be implemented based on a continuous-time 1st-order ΔΣ analog-to-digital converter (ADC) enhanced to 2nd-order via closed loop frequency detection. Fine resolution encoding of the ΔΣ PFD output facilitates true multi-bit phase/frequency error digitization with drastically reduced ΔΣ quantization noise. The implementation of low complexity ΔΣ PFD is assisted via digital requantization and adaptive noise cancellation. The PLL includes independent frequency-locking and phase-locking operational modes and all-digital control of a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO).
US09319049B2
An input receives a generated frequency having a first frequency component and a second frequency component. A filter block includes filter coefficients describing a relationship between the second frequency component and an environmental characteristic. The filter block predicts the first frequency component based on the environmental characteristic, and updates the filter coefficients based on an offset between the predicted first frequency component and a received frequency corresponding to the first frequency component.
US09319048B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit including a logic circuit. The logic circuit is configured to operate without inputs from a first clock signal. The logic circuit is further configured to frequency-divide the first clock signal to generate a second clock signal based on a logic combination of a first pattern provided by a first circuitry driven by the first clock signal, and a second pattern provided by a second circuitry driven by the first clock signal.
US09319047B2
Memristor-based nano-crossbar computing is a revolutionary computing paradigm that does away with the traditional Von Neumann architectural separation of memory and computation units. The computation of Boolean formulas using memristor circuits has been a subject of several recent investigations. Crossbar computing, in general, has also been a topic of active interest, but sneak paths have posed a hurdle in the design of pervasive general-purpose crossbar computing paradigms. Various embodiments are disclosed which demonstrate that sneak paths in nano-crossbar computing can be exploited to design a Boolean-formula evaluation strategy. Such nano-crossbar designs are also an effective approach for synthesizing high performance customized arithmetic and logic circuits.
US09319045B1
A circuit for reducing gate leakage current in a switchable power domain of a CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) integrated circuit chip includes a first transistor having a drain electrode coupled to a first terminal of a power switch having a second terminal coupled to a first reference voltage, the first transistor having a gate electrode, a body electrode, and a source electrode. The source electrode and body electrodes are coupled to a second reference voltage. The first transistor has a relatively high first gate leakage current that flows from its gate electrode to its body electrode if the power switch is open and a voltage of the gate electrode of the first transistor representing a first logic level exceeds a voltage of the body electrode by more than a first predetermined amount. A first circuit produces a relatively low voltage on the gate electrode of the first transistor representing a second logic level to substantially reduce the first gate leakage current when reduced power consumption of the chip is needed.
US09319039B2
In some embodiments, a differential amplifier with duty cycle correction is provided.
US09319026B2
A high-frequency module includes a multilayer body including stacked dielectric and a pair of ground electrodes spaced apart from each other; a common terminal arranged in the multilayer body to receive and transmit communication signals; and a duplexer that is mounted on a surface of the multilayer body and that separates communication signals input and output via the common terminal. The duplexer includes a first SAW filter mounted on the surface of the multilayer body and grounded by the ground electrode and a second SAW filter mounted on the surface of the multilayer body so as to be spaced apart from the first SAW filter and is grounded by the ground electrode. Thus, degradation of isolation characteristics of the transmission and reception terminals of a splitter is prevented.
US09319020B2
A semiconductor resonator has a substrate with a thickness extending between a first end and a second end and a pn-junction along the thickness of the substrate forming a free charge carrier depletion region. In another embodiment, a semiconductor resonator has a substrate with a crystal lattice doped at degenerate levels such that the flow of free charge carriers can be minimized. A method of compensating a temperature coefficient of a semiconductor resonator by creating a pn-junction based free charge carrier depletion region within a thickness of a substrate of the resonator is also disclosed.
US09319018B2
Non-linear distortions, called glitches, occur in radio receivers when automatic gain control (AGC) is employed for regulating the dynamic range of the received signal. It is proposed to determine (S1) the occurrence of a glitch caused by operation of the AGC mechanism, and estimate (S2) a representation of how energy of a signal transient associated with the glitch is transferred by digital filter(s) in the receiver. The radio signal is then detected (S3) at least partly based on the estimated representation. In this way, the adverse effects of the glitch can be mitigated and detection of the desired signal can be significantly improved. This also means that the link performance will be significantly improved.
US09319015B2
There is provided an audio processing apparatus. An obtaining unit obtains an audio signal. A first audio level controller gives a first gain to the audio signal obtained by the obtaining unit. A second audio level controller gives a second gain to the audio signal output from the first audio level controller. A time constant in processing for increasing the first gain of the first audio level controller is larger than a time constant in processing for increasing the second gain of the second audio level controller.
US09319011B2
A Class-D amplifier includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a digital filter, a digital pulse width modulation (PWM) unit, a pre-driver unit, and an output driver. The ADC is configured to receive an input signal and one or more feedback signals, and to generate a first digital signal. The digital filter, the digital PWM unit, and the pre-driver unit are configured to generate control signals based on the first digital signal. The output driver is configured to generate an output signal based on the control signals. A first feedback path is defined as from a first output node of the output driver to a first input node of the ADC; and a second feedback path is defined as from a second output node of the output driver to a second input node of the ADC. The first and second feedback paths are free from a low-pass filtering device.
US09319007B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional (3-D) transformer-based (TF-based) power amplifier architecture, including a power splitting plane having at least one input transformer-based circuit; and a power combining plane having at least one output transformer-based circuit. The power splitting plane includes at least one input transmission line, at least one input transformer and an input terminal. Moreover, the power combining plane includes at least one output transmission line, at least one output transformer, at least one power amplifier-cell (PA-cell) and an output terminal. The power combining plane is vertically stacked, attached and electrically connected to the power splitting plane. Consequently, as compared with the existing 2-D power amplifiers, the 3-D transformer-based power amplifier architecture of the present disclosure is capable of achieving a symmetric and compact power distribution layout. Accordingly, the present disclosure further provides an integrated circuit layout for the 3-D TF-based power amplifier architecture.
US09319006B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a directional coupler includes a coupler circuit and at least one amplifier coupled between a coupler circuit isolated port and a directional coupler isolated port and/or between a coupler circuit coupled port and a directional coupler coupled port. In various embodiments, the directional coupler is disposed over and/or in a substrate.
US09319002B2
The purpose of the invention is to reduce Cartesian loop transmission delay for compensating the distortion occurring in a high-frequency power amplifier and make the distortion compensation converge quickly, thereby increasing the efficiency. A transmission device has: a high-frequency power amplifier; a pre-distortion compensation circuit for independently generating the coefficients of the distortion compensation signal for each order of the odd and even symmetric distortions of the high-frequency power amplifier; a means for varying the power supply voltage of the high-frequency power amplifier with an orthogonal modulation OFDM input signal; a digital frequency converter; a high-frequency band ADC; and a high-frequency band DAC. In the transmission device, an error distortion compensation signal is created from the output of the high-frequency power amplifier and the orthogonal modulation OFDM input signal, and a delay device is inserted at the previous stage of a distortion compensation circuit, said delay device having a delay equivalent to a time constant for varying the power supply voltage of the high-frequency power amplifier with the orthogonal modulation OFDM input signal.
US09318998B1
An integrated circuit device includes a multi-port piezoelectric-on-semiconductor microelectromechanical resonator, which is configured to support independent and concurrent piezoelectric transduction of multiple resonance modes. The resonator includes a semiconductor resonator body (e.g., Si body) suspended opposite an underlying recess in a substrate. Opposite ends of the semiconductor resonator body are anchored to the substrate. The resonator body may be formed so that a plan layout view of a portion of the semiconductor resonator body is dumbbell-shaped to thereby support acoustic energy trapping of multiple high-Q resonance modes.
US09318997B2
A resonator has a main resonator body and a secondary resonator structure. The resonator body has a desired mode of vibration of the resonator alone, and a parasitic mode of vibration, wherein the parasitic mode comprises vibration of the resonator body and the secondary resonator structure as a composite body. In this way, unwanted vibrational modes are quenched by the second suspended body.
US09318990B2
Redundant winding connections for multiphase electric machines are disclosed. According to one aspect, a multiphase machine having redundant winding connections includes: a first set of N coils operating as a first winding group, wherein each coil in the first winding group operates at a different phase from the other coils in the first winding group and wherein N is an integer greater than three; a second set of N coils separate from the first set and operating as a second winding group, wherein each coil in the second winding group operates at a different phase from the other coils in the second winding group and wherein the failure of one of the coils in the first winding group does not affect the function of the second winding group.
US09318988B2
A system and associated method for reactive power generation for a wind turbine generator includes receiving a higher-than-generator level voltage command signal. A reactive current is determined for the wind turbine generator in response to the voltage command signal and is transmitted to a controller of the wind turbine generator for generating a real and reactive power based on the reactive current command. A trim value may be generated and applied to the voltage command signal.
US09318984B2
A linear motor device includes a linear motor and a control unit configured to apply a load to a pressurizing object by causing a movable part of the linear motor to move. After causing the movable part to move toward the pressurizing object at a predetermined first speed based on position control, the control unit controls the movable part to move by performing deceleration to a second speed which is slower than the first speed and at which the pressure applied to the pressurizing object is less than or equal to a predetermined pressure when the movable part starts to apply the pressure to the pressurizing object, and the control unit causes the movable part to move until the current flowing through the linear motor is greater than or equal to a predetermined current limit value.
US09318982B2
According to a control apparatus for an AC motor, a switching section selects a two-phase control current value as a current fixing value, when a first current detection value of a first phase of the AC motor and a second current detection value of a second phase of the AC motor are normal. The switching section selects an one-phase control current value, which is calculated based on a normal phase current detection value, which is a value of the normal phase and is one of the first and the second current detection values, as the current fixing value, when it is determined that the current supplied to the AC motor has been stabilized after an abnormality is detected in part of the first and second detection values.
US09318980B2
A piezoelectric actuator includes a vibrating body including a piezoelectric device; a driving circuit that supplies a driving signal to the piezoelectric device; a phase difference detecting circuit that detects a phase difference between the driving signal and a detection signal detected based on vibration of the vibrating body; and a frequency controller that controls the frequency and power of the driving signal, wherein the frequency controller sets the power to an upper limit voltage value when the frequency is changed so that the phase difference falls within a predetermined range and sets the voltage to a lower limit voltage value smaller than the upper limit voltage value when the phase difference is outside the predetermined range.
US09318978B2
Embodiments of the present invention describe a voltage converter and a method for operating the voltage converter. In one embodiment the voltage converter includes a primary path configured to generate a pulse modulated voltage or current from an input direct current (DC) voltage, a transformer arrangement with m≧1 primary windings and n≧2 secondary windings inductively coupled together, the m primary windings being connected to the primary path, and a secondary path configured to output a pulsed direct current (DC) voltage or current, wherein the secondary path includes n capacitors connected in series and n secondary controllable semiconductor switches, and each of the n secondary windings is connected via at least one of the secondary controllable semiconductor switches to at least one of the capacitors.
US09318975B2
A power system includes a power semiconductor devices; a control circuit outputting first firing signals each being for a corresponding power semiconductor device, and outputting first activation response signals each being associated with a corresponding power semiconductor device. A first interface circuit cooperates with the control circuit to input a first serial signal and output the first firing signals, and to input the first activation response signals and output a second serial signal. A second interface circuit cooperates with a controller to input the second serial signal, to output to the controller second activation response signals corresponding to the first activation response signals, to input from the controller second firing signals corresponding to the first firing signals, and to output the first serial signal. The controller controls the power semiconductor devices with the second firing signals, and monitors the power semiconductor devices with the second activation response signals.
US09318973B2
A driving device includes a driving circuit and a control circuit. The driving circuit has an input terminal and an output terminal and applies a driving voltage to a switching element through the output terminal. The control circuit outputs two types of control signals to the input terminal of the driving circuit. The driving circuit has a circuit group including multiple unit circuits which are turned ON by the same control signal. Each unit circuit includes one voltage source, one switch controlled to be turned ON and OFF by the control signals, and one resistor connected in series to the switch between the voltage source and the output terminal. Each voltage source outputs a different voltage, and each resistor has a different resistance. One end of each switch of all the unit circuits is connected to the output terminal.
US09318966B2
A method of controlling a switching converter and a related controller suitable for the switching converter allow to implement a burst-mode functioning without generating acoustic noise and with a relevantly reduced ripple of the regulated DC voltage or current provided in output to a supplied load. The method includes sensing the difference between the error signal and the burst-stop threshold at the beginning of a burst period. If the error signal has surpassed (either upwards or downwards) the burst-stop threshold, the method sets the switching stage in a high impedance state at a new active edge of a clock signal, keeps the switching stage in the high impedance state for an integer number of cycles of the clock signal, and re-enables the switching stage to switch the energy tank circuit up to the end of the burst period. The integer number is determined based on the difference between the error signal and the burst-stop threshold.
US09318963B2
A primary-only power supply enables transmission of a signal or message from the secondary side of an isolated power supply to the primary side. To enable robust detection of the message without interfering with primary side sensing for output regulation, a configurable impedance current path is configured between the primary winding and ground. The primary side controller controls the configurable impedance current path to have a relatively low impedance during the normal mode and a relatively high impedance during the messaging mode.
US09318962B2
A switching mode power supply (SMPS) includes a transformer having a primary winding for coupling to an input power source, a secondary winding for providing an output voltage of the SMPS, and an auxiliary winding. The SMPS also has a power transistor coupled to the primary winding and a primary side control circuit coupled to the auxiliary winding and the power transistor. The primary side control circuit is configured to regulate the output of the SMPS by controlling the power switch in response to a feedback voltage signal that is representative of an output of the SMPS. The SMPs also has a secondary-side control circuit coupled to the secondary winding and being configured to cause the output voltage of the SMPS to discharge when the output voltage of the SMPS is higher than a first reference voltage.
US09318960B2
Disclosed herein are high efficiency, low loss AC-DC power supply circuits, and associated control methods. In one embodiment, an AC-DC power supply circuit can include: (i) a rectifier configured to rectify an AC power supply to generate a DC input voltage; (ii) a first stage voltage converter configured to convert the DC input voltage to a first output voltage, and to convert a first control signal to a feedback signal that represents the first output voltage; and (iii) a second stage voltage converter configured to convert the first output voltage to a constant DC output signal, where the first control signal represents a duty cycle of the second stage voltage converter.
US09318957B2
A method is disclosed to operate a voltage conversion circuit such as a buck regulator circuit that has a plurality of switches coupled to a voltage source; a slab inductor having a length, a width and a thickness, where the slab inductor is coupled between the plurality of switches and a load and carries a load current during operation of the plurality of switches; and a means to reduce or cancel the detrimental effect of other wires on same chip, such as a power grid, potentially conducting return current and thereby degrading the functionality of this slab inductor. In one embodiment the wires can be moved further away from the slab inductor and in another embodiment magnetic materials can be used to shield the slab inductor from at least one such interfering conductor.
US09318955B2
A power supply apparatus supplies a power supply signal to a device's power supply terminal via a power supply line. An A/D converter receives, via a feedback line, an analog measurement value corresponding to the power supply signal supplied to the device's power supply line, and converts the analog measurement value into a digital measurement value. A digital calculation unit generates a control value by digital calculation such that the digital measurement value from the A/D converter matches a predetermined reference value. A D/A converter digital/analog converts the control value so as to supply the analog power supply signal to the device's power supply terminal via the power supply line. A feedback ratio calculation unit calculates the ratio between the control value and the digital measurement value. The digital calculation unit is configured to change its calculation content based on the ratio calculated by the feedback ratio calculation unit.
US09318952B2
Series switches for power delivery. A regulator operated as a current source is arranged in parallel with a switched capacitor divider. A switched capacitor divider is configured in series with a plurality of linear regulators with each regulating one of a plurality of voltage outputs from the switched capacitor divider. In another embodiment, a series switch bridge has a first pair of switches connected in series with a second pair of switches across a voltage input, each switch within a pair of switches is switched in-phase with the other while the first pair of switches is switched out of phase with the second pair of switches. A balancing capacitor is coupled across one switch in both the first and second pair to be in parallel when either of the pair of switches is closed to reduce a charge imbalance between the switches.
US09318945B2
A resonant-mode power supply, comprising an assembly of switches connected in a bridge or a half-bridge configuration, a series resonant circuit connected in the bridge or half bridge diagonal, a part of which is formed by a multi-winding inductor by means of which a load is connected, and a controller configured to stabilize output voltages or currents by controlling the switching frequency of the assembly of switches. The series resonant circuit comprises an energy recirculation circuit (ERC1) for limiting the resonant circuit quality factor, connected through the diode rectifier (DR2) to the supply voltage node and a current monitoring circuit (CMC) configured to monitor the recirculation circuit current (Ilim) and, by means of the controller (C), to change the switching frequency of the assembly of switches (K1, K2, K3, K4) in order to reduce power supplied to the resonant circuit upon exceeding the threshold value by the current (Ilim) in the energy recirculation circuit (ERC1).
US09318933B2
A structure reliably secures a stepping motor to a circuit board. The stepping motor has an axially protruding boss portion accommodating a shaft in the inside, which boss portion is provided to be snapped into a circuit board, axially protruding current conducting terminal pins that are made so as to be soldered to the circuit board, and securing pins not functioning as electrodes, which securing pins are made so as to be soldered to the circuit board and are arranged in a position whereby they sandwich the boss portion between themselves and the current conducting terminal pins.
US09318929B2
An electric machine has a stator which carries a polyphase coil winding, wherein coil ends are connected in a predetermined manner to a plurality of electric connection conductors. The electric machine comprises a power connection unit having a plurality of terminal conductors which are constructed separate from the connection conductors and which by a first end portion are bondingly connected or connectable to the connection conductors and by a second end portion are connected or connectable to the electrical energy source. The power connection unit is constructed as a plastic composite element, in which the terminal conductors are embedded at least over a portion of their length in a plastic shell so as to be spaced apart from one another, and wherein first end portions of the terminal conductors project out of the plastic shell.
US09318920B2
A method for maximizing the benefits of Fault Circuit Indicators on an electrical feeder has two steps. In the first step a data set for the feeder is obtained based on historical data. In the second step, the number of FCIs and their location is calculated based on the data set obtained in the first step. The number of FCIs and their location is determined utilizing a simulation algorithm that ensures each FCI is used efficiently and provides actionable information to the utility's crew.
US09318896B2
Fault-tolerant power control in a computer system is described. In an example, a power controller to control power applied to an enclosure having a plurality of computing devices includes: first and second alternating current (AC) primary power meters respectively measuring first and second input power feeds to the enclosure; a first alternative power meter to measuring power supplied by the first input power feed; a second alternative power meter to measure power supplied by the second input power feed; a first controller coupled to the first primary power meter and the second alternative power meter; and a second controller coupled to the second primary power meter and the first alternative power meter; wherein the first controller is coupled to the second controller.
US09318895B2
A load control system has a plurality of drivers provided correspondingly to a plurality of load driving elements in order to control driving of the respective load driving elements for driving loads. Each of the plurality of drivers includes a control unit that controls the load driving element directly associated with a subject driver. The respective drivers are electrically connected to one another so that a mutual control communication state, in which the control unit of the subject driver can transmit to the control units of all or a portion of target drivers of other drivers excluding the subject driver a command signal for controlling the driving of a load driving element directly associated with the all or the portion of target drivers, is created in the load control system.
US09318892B2
A surge arrester includes at least one resistor element and a cage in which the at least one resistor element is disposed. The cage includes an upper holder, a lower holder and at least three insulating rods, which are each held at one respective rod end thereof by the upper holder and at the other respective rod end thereof by the lower holder. The upper holder and the lower holder are configured in such a way that they each enable at least two different positions for at least one of the insulating rods, relative to the two holders, and the at least one insulating rod can be positioned differently relative to the two holders.
US09318890B2
Disclosed is a tunable capacitor which includes: a variable capacitor unit placed between a first terminal and a second terminal; and an ESD protection circuit which is inserted either between the first terminal and a ground terminal or between the second terminal and the ground terminal, or is inserted both between the first terminal and a ground terminal and between the second terminal and the ground terminal.
US09318880B1
A spark plug includes a terminal metal fitting held inside a cylindrical insulator, and a resistor disposed inside the insulator so as to be located between the terminal metal fitting and a center electrode held inside the insulator. The terminal metal fitting includes an engaging portion engaged into the inner peripheral surface of the insulator and a small-diameter portion extending from the engaging portion. The small-diameter portion is formed with ribs extending in an axial direction of the small-diameter portion and projecting outward from the outer peripheral surface of the small-diameter portion. A conductive sealing member is located at least at part on a distal end side of a gap between the outer peripheral surface of the terminal metal fitting and the inner peripheral surface of the insulator.
US09318879B2
A spark plug has a firing pad attached to a center electrode or a ground electrode by way of a fused portion. In one or more embodiments, the firing pad is composed of a precious metal material. The fused portion can be formed in such a way that a material composition thereof at a sparking surface of the firing pad has a greater percentage of the precious metal material than a material of the underlying electrode to which the firing pad is attached.
US09318875B1
A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using a gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided.
US09318870B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for generating a sub-208 nm laser. A laser apparatus includes one or more seed radiation sources for generating a first radiation beam having a first fundamental wavelength on a first optical path and a second radiation beam having a second fundamental wavelength on a second optical path, a first amplifier for amplifying the first radiation beam, a second amplifier for amplifying the second radiation beam, and a wavelength conversion module comprising a plurality of crystals for frequency multiplying and mixing the amplified first and second radiation beams to produce an output beam at a fifth harmonic that is less than about 208 nm.
US09318866B2
A plasmonic laser device has resonant nanocavities filled with a gain medium containing an organic dye. The resonant plasmon frequencies of the nanocavities are tuned to align with both the absorption and emission spectra of the dye. Variables in the system include the nature of the dye and the wavelength of its absorption and emission, the wavelength of the pumping radiation, and the resonance frequencies of the nanocavities. In addition the pumping frequency of the dye is selected to be close to the absorption maximum.
US09318863B2
A laser pulse shaper device includes shaper unit including first dispersive element for spatially separating spectral components of laser pulses, second dispersive element for parallelizing and deflecting spectral components into Fourier plane of dispersive elements, and mirror for back-reflecting of laser pulses via dispersive elements, and light modulator in Fourier plane of dispersive elements, which is capable of modulating spectral components of laser pulses, wherein beam path of shaper unit includes forward beam path from first dispersive element via second dispersive element to mirror and return beam path from mirror via second dispersive element to first dispersive element, and focusing device is arranged at input side of forward beam path before first dispersive element for focusing spatially separated spectral components of laser pulses to Fourier plane of dispersive elements. Furthermore, a method for stretching or compressing laser pulses is described.
US09318858B2
A receptacle connector comprises a receptacle shell, a receptacle contact array A and a receptacle contact array B, a plurality of contact portions of the receptacle contact array A and a plurality of contact portions of the receptacle contact array B facing in opposite directions to each other, when a plug connector having a first fitting section is fitted to the receptacle connector, at least the plurality of contact portions of the receptacle contact array B are connected to the plug connector having the first fitting section, and when the plug connector having a second fitting section is fitted to the receptacle connector, the plurality of contact portions of the receptacle contact array A are connected to the plug connector having the second fitting section.
US09318854B2
The present invention is a detecting structure of receptacle connector, which comprises a receptacle connector having an insulating base, multiple signal terminals and a shielding housing; at least two contact elastic clips provided respectively on both sides of the shielding housing; and at least two detecting terminals provided respectively on both sides of the insulating base, and each of the detecting terminals contacts with each of the contact elastic clips movably. Thereby, a plug connector and the receptacle connector may butt mutually for appropriate displacement between each of the contact elastic clips and each of the detecting terminals in order to perform the detection by truncating contact signals or generating contact signals to achieve the effects of simple structure, easy operation and effective detection.
US09318850B2
In an embodiment, a connector such as an edge connector includes a connector housing, a first set of pins configured within the housing and having first ends to couple to corresponding signal lines of a first circuit board and second ends to couple to corresponding signal lines of a mating connector of a second circuit board, and a conductive material adapted to the housing to reduce interference caused by one or more sources of interference. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09318848B2
A communications connector includes a printed circuit board having a first internal conductive layer and first and second external conductive layers that are stacked with dielectric layers therebetween. The printed circuit board has input terminals, output terminals and signal current carrying conductive paths which electrically connect respective ones of the input and output terminals. The signal current carrying conductive paths are arranged in pairs to form differential transmission lines. The first signal current carrying conductive path includes a first segment that is on the first internal conductive layer which is routed in a vertically stacked arrangement with a second segment of the second signal current carrying conductive path, the first and second signal current carrying conductive paths being part of the same differential transmission line.
US09318838B2
A connector is provided that includes a female terminal with sacrificial portion. The terminal is configured to minimize arcing between a mating male terminal and an intended contact portion of the female terminal. The female terminal is configured such that arcs between the male terminal and the female terminal occur such that the sacrificial portion of the female terminal experiences any arcing while the intended contact portion remains suitable for reliably engaging the male terminal.
US09318834B2
A power plug device includes a casing, a first prong, a second prong, and a linkage mechanism. The first and second prongs are pivotally arranged in a receiving recess of the casing. The linkage mechanism includes a linkage member, a first link, and a second link. A first end of the first link and a first end of the second link are respectively connected to the first and second prongs. A second end of the first link and a second end of the second link are both disposed in a guiding groove of the linkage member. When the first prong rotates, the second end of the first link can move in the guiding groove to drive the second end of the second link through the linkage member to move inversely in the guiding groove, such that the second prong rotates inversely with respect to the first prong.
US09318833B2
A housing used for an electric connector, includes a terminal space into which an electric terminal is to be inserted, and a lance for preventing the electric terminal from being slipped out of the terminal space. The lance includes a flexible portion, and a protrusion extending from the flexible portion and engaging with the electric terminal. The lance defines an escape space in which the flexible portion can be bent in a direction in which the protrusion and the electric terminal are disengaged with each other. The flexible portion has a passage along which a jig can move and which extends in a direction in which the jig is inserted into the lance, and the jig is used for disengaging the protrusion and the electric terminal from each other.
US09318823B2
The invention relates to an electrical connector assembly comprising a first connector and a second connector. The first connector comprises a first insulating body and first terminals. The first insulating body comprises an inserting wall. The first terminal comprises a U-shaped segment fixed to the inserting wall and a first soldering foot. Two outer surfaces of the U-shaped segment respectively comprise a coupling part. The second connector comprises a second insulating body and second terminals. The second insulating body comprises a receiving trough, separating plates, and separating troughs. The receiving trough matches the inserting wall. The separating plate comprises a first chamfer and a second chamfer. The second terminal comprises a pair of elastic arms, a main arm, and a second soldering foot. The pair of elastic arms is fixed in the receiving trough and matches the U-shaped segment. The main arm is disposed in the separating trough.
US09318817B2
A device for mechanical and electrical connection of line wires in a cable to line connectors in an electrical assembly for a motor vehicle, wherein each line wire of the cable is connected to one line connector of the electrical assembly in such a manner that a form-locking unit, comprising a contact stud and a contact socket, is mechanically attached to the respective line connector via the contact stud, and furthermore, the respective line wire is mechanically attached to the contact stud of the form-locking unit, specifically providing an electrical contact between the line wire, the contact socket, and the line connector.
US09318811B1
Methods and designs for ultra-wide band(UWB) array antennas with superior performance and attributes
A array of fixably interconnected planar elements equally spaced and orthogonally oriented, that is ultra wide band with a low operating frequency, exhibits steerability in both azimuth and elevation and is capable of dual polarization. The configuration of the array, having a 1:2 ratio of elements to feed lines, allows the implementation of two oppositely driven 50 ohm coaxial feed lines to feed into a single 94 ohm element without the need for custom components or impedance transformers.
US09318808B1
Configurable passive electromagnetic reflectors are disclosed, as are aircraft comprising configurable passive electromagnetic reflectors and methods to use configurable passive electromagnetic reflectors. In one embodiment a system comprises a reflector comprising a surface having a plurality of addressable patches switchable between a reflective state and a non-reflective state, and a controller coupled to the reflector to provide signals to switch the plurality of addressable patches between the non-reflective state and the reflective state to configure the reflector to selectively reflect incident electromagnetic radiation toward a remote target. Other embodiments may be described.
US09318799B2
Measures for fading-based control of an antenna radiation pattern. Such measures may comprise reception of at least one radio wave signal via an antenna unit, detection of fading conditions in relation to the received at least one radio wave signal, and control of an antenna radiation pattern of the antenna unit, at least in terms of antenna lobe width, on the basis of the detected fading conditions.
US09318797B2
An electronic device includes a main body, a metal cover, an antenna and a magnetic flux inducer unit. The metal cover is disposed at the main body and the main body includes a nonmetal covered portion. The antenna is disposed in the main body. The magnetic flux inducer unit is disposed in the main body and located between the nonmetal covered portion and the antenna. The permeability of the magnetic flux inducer unit is greater than 1.
US09318793B2
A display cover layer may be mounted in an electronic device housing using housing structures such as corner brackets. A slot antenna may be formed from a corner bracket opening, metal traces on a hollow plastic support structure, or other conductive structures. The slot antenna may have a main portion with opposing ends. An antenna feed may be located at one of the ends. The slot antenna may have a slot with one or more bends. The bends may provide the slot antenna with a C-shaped outline. A side branch slot may extend from the main portion of the slot at a location between the two bends. The presence of the side branch slot may enhance antenna bandwidth. A hollow enclosure may serve as an antenna support structure and as a speaker box enclosing a speaker driver. The antenna feed may be positioned so as to overlap the speaker driver.
US09318791B2
A chassis component of an information handling system may include a chassis main lid component constructed of carbon fiber composite material that supports a lid chassis antenna housing that includes an internal antenna cavity defined therein to create an antenna window for the system. The carbon fiber composite material may be attached to the chassis antenna housing by an interlocking rib that provides sufficient joint strength to allow for a substantially larger and extended chassis antenna housing with larger antenna window that may be spaced further away from the carbon fiber composite material of the chassis main lid component than would otherwise be possible for the same form factor size so as to minimize or substantially eliminate shielding or blocking of wireless signals by the carbon fiber composite material lid component that would result in reduced system wireless performance.
US09318786B2
A high-frequency signal line includes an element assembly including a plurality of insulator layers, a linear signal line provided in or on the element assembly, a first ground conductor provided in or on the element assembly and extending along the signal line, and a plurality of floating conductors provided in or on the element assembly on a first side in a direction of lamination relative to the signal line and the first ground conductor, so as to be arranged along the signal line in an orientation crossing the signal line when viewed in a plan view in the direction of lamination. The floating conductors are opposite to the signal line and the first ground conductor with at least one of the insulator layers positioned therebetween, the floating conductors being connected to neither the signal line nor the first ground conductor. A capacitance is created between the first ground conductor and each of the floating conductors, and has a greater value than a capacitance created between the signal line and the floating conductor.
