US09323954B2
A processor capable of secure execution. The processor contains an execution unit and secure partition logic that secures a partition in memory. The processor also contains cryptographic logic coupled to the execution unit that encrypts and decrypts secure data and code.
US09323949B2
The present invention relates to a method, computer program product and system for de-identifying data, wherein a de-identification protocol is selectively mapped to a business rule at runtime via an ETL tool.
US09323947B1
System, method and computer program product for controlling access to protected personal information
A computer-based system, method and computer program product for controlling access to protected personal information is disclosed. Protected personal information that is accessible by an information management application program is stored in a computer memory. In response to a request from an authenticated user for information, which includes protected personal information, information is displayed indicating that user has requested protected personal information, but the protected personal information is not displayed. In response to receiving user input requesting access to the protected personal information, a determination is made as to whether the user is authorized to access the requested protected personal information. If so, requested protected personal information is displayed to the user and information is stored relating to the user's access to protected personal information. Otherwise, requested protected personal information is not displayed to the user and information relating to the user's access to protected personal information is not stored.
US09323927B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for enhancing security and safety of an embedded system by monitoring and blocking unauthorized execution of a shell command in the embedded system.The apparatus for guaranteeing safe execution of the shell command in the embedded system includes a shell command detection part configured to detect an execution request of the shell command, and a shell command execution control part configured to control execution of the shell command according to whether a password based on safety is provided for the detected shell command.
US09323922B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that differentiates service provided to a database user based on a security profile of the user. During operation, the system receives a sequence of commands from a user at a database system. The system then uses the sequence of commands to determine a security profile which indicates whether the user is behaving suspiciously. Next the system associates a resource consumer group with the user based on the security profile. Finally, the system differentiates service provided to the user based on the resource consumer group.
US09323921B2
The disclosed architecture facilitates the sandboxing of applications by taking core operating system components that normally run in the operating system kernel or otherwise outside the application process and on which a sandboxed application depends on to run, and converting these core operating components to run within the application process. The architecture takes the abstractions already provided by the host operating system and converts these abstractions for use by the sandbox environment. More specifically, new operating system APIs (application program interfaces) are created that include only the basic computation services, thus, separating the basic services from rich application APIs. The code providing the rich application APIs is copied out of the operating system and into the application environment—the application process.
US09323919B2
A customer initiated password reset system resets user passwords on a variety of network entities, such as internal systems, allowing simultaneous reset with a minimum number of user specified passwords that nonetheless satisfy the password specifications of these internal systems. Thereby, the user avoids the tedium of logging into each of these systems, changing their password, logging out, etc., for each system with the likelihood of creating unique passwords for each system that have to be remembered. By further incorporating a score metric based upon how many character sets are touched, a required degree of complexity can be measured and enforced against the password specifications. Advantageously, a table-based approach to enforcing password reset against the multiple password specifications facilitates making and fielding updates.
US09323909B1
Techniques, apparatus and articles of manufacture are provided herein. A method includes providing a first sub-set of authentication information from a set of authentication information associated with a first cryptographic device issued to a user to a second cryptographic device in connection with a first user authentication request responsive to a request from the user to access a first protected resource, wherein the first sub-set comprises a first set of N pre-computed passcodes and corresponding challenges, and providing a second sub-set of authentication information from the set of authentication information associated with the first cryptographic device to a third cryptographic device in connection with a second user authentication request responsive to a request from the user to access a second protected resource, wherein the second sub-set comprises a second set of N pre-computed passcodes and corresponding challenges.
US09323904B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for providing copyright protection for blog posts prior to publication from within a running blog-publishing software application by automatically assembling and electronically submitting a copyright application for the blog post to the United States Copyright Office through the use of a portable application programming interface, which may be utilized by third-party blog-publishing applications, and then automatically publishing the blog post through the blog-publishing application once submission of the electronic copyright application for the blog post is confirmed. Additionally disclosed is a method and system of registering a blog post in order to memorialize the creation of the blog post from within a running blog-publishing application through the use of a portable application programming interface, which may be utilized by third-party blog-publishing applications, and then automatically publishing the blog post through the blog-publishing application once registration of the blog post is confirmed.
US09323902B2
Methods, devices and computer program products facilitate conditional access to a content embedded with watermarks. For such a content, when copy control rules associated with an embedded watermark message prohibits unconditional access to the content, it is determined whether or not an exception to the copy control rules exists, and if an exception to the copy control rules exists, the content is conditionally accessed. Additional watermark messages can be extracted while the content is being conditionally accessed, and based on the additionally extracted watermark messages, it is verified that conditional access to the content has been fulfilled.
US09323901B1
Information management is used to enforce and control rights associated with data through the use of policies implemented by a digital rights management (“DRM”) server. An information management system collects information about data objects in a computer system and classifies the data objects into one or more categories. The categories are mapped to service level objectives that include or request encryption and identify DRM policies to associate with data objects within each category. Each DRM policy identifies one or more users authorized to access data objects the DRM policy is associated with. Encryption is orchestrated, in one embodiment, by identifying a data object to the DRM server in an encryption request, and identifying a DRM policy to associate with the data object. The DRM server encrypts the data object and only allows it be decrypted by authorized users.
US09323899B2
An acquisition system includes a processor and one or more sensors coupled to the processor, where the one or more sensors monitor within an ear canal one or more of acceleration, blood oxygen saturation, blood pressure or heart-rate configured to monitor a biological state or a physical motion or both. The processor can be configured to analyze a portion of the biological state or the physical motion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09323898B2
Method and system for providing basal profile modification in insulin therapy for use with infusion devices includes periodically monitoring the analyte levels of a patient for a predetermined period of time in order to determine, based on the monitored analyte levels, an appropriate modification factor to be incorporated into the underlying basal profile which was running at the time the periodic monitoring of the analyte levels were performed.
US09323896B2
Systems and methods for determining radiation exposure during an x-ray guided medical procedure are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes an x-ray equipment model that simulates the emission of radiation from x-ray equipment during the x-ray guided medical procedure, a human exposure model that simulates one or more human anatomies during the x-ray guided medical procedure, a radiation metric processor that calculates at least one radiation exposure metric, and a feedback system for outputting information based on the at least one radiation exposure metric. The radiation metric processor calculates radiation exposure metrics based on input parameters that correspond to operating settings as well as the location and structure of one or more human anatomies.
US09323889B2
Provided are systems and methods for processing a reference sequence. Exemplary systems for processing a reference sequence may include a seed extractor configured to extract a seed from a reference sequence; a determiner configured to determine whether an unidentified base is present or absent in a seed extracted by the seed extractor; and an index generator configured to add a seed to an index when unidentified bases are absent from an extracted seed.
US09323888B2
The invention provides a method for determining copy number variations (CNV) of a sequence of interest in a test sample that comprises a mixture of nucleic acids that are known or are suspected to differ in the amount of one or more sequence of interest. The method comprises a statistical approach that accounts for accrued variability stemming from process-related, interchromosomal and inter-sequencing variability. The method is applicable to determining CNV of any fetal aneuploidy, and CNVs known or suspected to be associated with a variety of medical conditions. CNV that can be determined according to the method include trisomies and monosomies of any one or more of chromosomes 1-22, X and Y, other chromosomal polysomies, and deletions and/or duplications of segments of any one or more of the chromosomes, which can be detected by sequencing only once the nucleic acids of a test sample.
US09323886B2
A performance predicting apparatus includes an approximate model storage unit configured to store approximate models each of which is associated with one of categories, and which are used to calculate functional performance based on feature values, a feature value extracting unit configured to extract the feature values from shape data representing a shape of an object, a selection unit configured to select one of the approximate models to be used from the approximate models stored in the approximate model storage unit depending on the feature values extracted by the feature value extracting unit, and a performance calculating unit configured to calculate functional performance based on the feature values extracted by the feature value extracting unit using the approximate model selected by the selection unit.
US09323881B2
An integrated circuit layout includes a P-type active region and an N-type active region, and a plurality of trunks. The integrated circuit layout further includes a first metal connection connected to the P-type active region; and a second metal connection connected to the N-type active region. Each trunk of the plurality of trunks is electrically connected with the first metal connection and the second metal connection. Each trunk of the plurality of trunks is substantially perpendicular to the first metal connection and the second metal connection. A first trunk of the plurality of trunks has a width wider than a width of other trunks of the plurality of trunks.
US09323878B2
There is described a method of optimizing the design of an electronic device with respect to electromagnetic emissions based on frequency spreading. With the method, a designer can, for example, perform a transient simulation on the device only once, and then process the obtained signal data to add frequency spreading with specific parameters by post-processing. The resulting data can be filtered by various methods and the resulting spectrum observed. The designer can thus evaluate the reduction in electromagnetic emission level, and repeat this process by iteratively applying frequency spreading each time with specific parameters but without having to modify the schematic of the device and to perform another simulation of the device. The post-processing according to this innovation is extremely rapid as it is not a simulation process such as SPICE™, ADS™, etc. Only data is manipulated.
US09323871B2
An application programming interface (API) is provided for use with a modeling software. The API allows users at several devices operating on a network to collaboratively develop a model of an object or a group of objects. The API receives an indication that a selected component has been modified by the modeling software in accordance user commands, generates component data indicative of the modifications of the selected component, and causes an update indication to be transmitted to a collaboration server via a communication network to synchronize the selected component between the first computing device and a second computing device. The update indication may include a component identifier, such that the component identifier uniquely identifies the selected component in the model.
US09323867B2
Various embodiments provide a search tool that utilizes multiple different search engines. The individual search engines are configured to conduct searches in different ways across a search space that includes different types of data sets. In at least some embodiments, the type of search engine that is utilized is a function of characteristics of the data set(s) that is (are) to be searched. In search spaces that include different types of data sets, combining and mixing different search engines to collectively search the search space can provide a desirably fast and robust user experience.
US09323865B2
A method is provided for content alignment. The method includes obtaining a first content sequence and a second content sequence different from the first content sequence. The method also includes representing each of the first content sequence and the second content sequence in a hierarchical structure containing an ordered root element sequence and a sub-tree structure. The ordered root element sequence includes a plurality of root elements and each root element is associated with a sub-tree of elements. The method also includes determining a desired alignment between the first content sequence and the second content sequence using dynamic programming, and outputting results of the desired alignment between the first content sequence and the second content sequence.
US09323852B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise systems, computer program products, and methods for a financial and social management system that provides improved tracking and management related to how, where, when, and with whom a user enters into activities. The financial and social management system captures activity information and images from various sources of information, including but not limited to social networking accounts, e-receipts, contact lists, calendars, and the like, and associates the activity information and images with the activities. The financial and social management system may determine locations, social relationships, entities, categories, or the like from the various sources of information and tag the activities with location tags, social relationship tags, entity tags, category tags, or the like. The tags allow the user to easily filter the activities based on the location, social relationship, entity, category, or other activity information and display the activities and activity information in customized interfaces.
US09323851B1
A system may receive a model, extract information from the model, form a group of tags using the extracted information, and associate the group of tags with the model. The system may further receive a search query including one or more sequences of characters anddetermine whether to provide the model in a list of models created for the search query, based on the one or more sequences of characters and the group of tags.
US09323843B2
When a user enters a primary search query into a primary search query input area to perform a first search of the primary search query, disclosed is a method and system for automatically entering the primary search query into a secondary search query input area to perform a second search of the primary search query. When the user enters a secondary search query into the secondary search query input area to perform a first search of the secondary search query, the method and system automatically enters the secondary search query into the primary search query input area to perform a second search of the secondary search query.
US09323838B2
The present disclosure provides example methods and apparatuses of labeling product identifiers and methods of navigating products. Description information of one or more products is extracted. The description information of the products is clustered into a text. A subject analysis is applied to the text by using a text analysis method based on subject models to obtain one or more subjects and definition names for the subjects. A subject that is correlated to the description information of the product is used as an identifier of the product to label the product. The present techniques label the products with identifiers that have one or more user dimension attributes so that users may easily and intuitively find their desired products.
US09323837B2
The present invention discloses various embodiments of multiple domain anomaly detection systems and methods. In one embodiment of the invention, a multiple domain anomaly detection system uses a generic learning procedure per domain to create a “normal data profile” for each domain based on observation of data per domain, wherein the normal data profile for each domain can be used to determine and compute domain-specific anomaly data per domain. Then, domain-specific anomaly data per domain can be analyzed together in a cross-domain fusion data analysis using one or more fusion rules. The fusion rules may involve comparison of domain-specific anomaly data from multiple domains to derive a multiple-domain anomaly score meter for a particular cross-domain analysis task. The multiple domain anomaly detection system and its related method may also utilize domain-specific anomaly indicators of each domain to derive a cross-domain anomaly indicator using the fusion rules.
US09323832B2
Some example embodiments illustrate a system and method to sort a search result using sale format information. The system and method include providing a desirability index including multiple desirability values. Each desirability value may be associated with a keyword and indicate an accumulative frequency of the keyword being in an item listing selected throughout multiple user transactions. The system and method include identifying a search result including item listings in response to a query from a user device. The system and method include accessing, for each item listing, the desirability index and getting a desirability value for each keyword included in the item listing. The system and method include calculating a relevancy value using the desirability values for the keywords of a given item listing. The system and method further include sorting the item listings according their relevancy values and returning the sorted item listings to the user device.
US09323829B2
Relevant content from target content may be identified. The relevant content may be matched against a concept graph. The concept graph may include one or more concepts and associations between the concepts. Concepts may be determined based on the matching. The relevant content may be augmented with indicators to indicate the determined concepts. The determined concepts may be searched in one or more search spaces to obtain search results. Access may be granted to information indicated by the search results.
US09323823B2
A method for operating an automation system having at least two subsystems which are each provided with a control program, wherein relevant data from one subsystem is transmitted to the other subsystem within the scope of an updating phase of the automation system to transfer process control from a solo mode of one of the subsystems to a redundant control mode with another of the subsystems so as to facilitate updating.
US09323820B1
This disclosure relates to a system for recovering virtual datacenters in the event of a disaster. Virtual datacenter may be replicated in real time between hosting locations. One virtual datacenter may be active at a first hosting locations and a replica virtual datacenter may be inactive at a second hosting location. In the event of a disaster taking the virtual datacenter offline, its replica may be activated and user traffic redirected appropriately.
US09323819B1
A method is used in facilitating valid data entry. Data is received from a single data entry field. Based on a data entry event, the data is checked for validity against multiple permissible data formats. Based on the checking, validity checking results are generated.
US09323814B2
During application of data quality rules to a data set obtained from a data source, data is retrieved from the data source along with a common set of rules configured to format the retrieved data in a manner in accordance with one or more predefined data quality rules of the common set of rules. At least one predefined data quality rule is adjusted utilizing at least one editable widget to form a modified set of data quality rules adapted for use with a specified application. The modified set of data quality rules is applied to the retrieved data.
US09323813B2
At least one service is provided with at least one item of formatted assessment information associated with a data record, the formatted assessment information having a format which is predefined by the service and is predefined with regard to a multilevel assessment scheme having a number of assessment levels. A first item of assessment information associated with the data record is generated on the basis of a detected user specification. A plurality of items of formatted assessment information which are associated with the data record and correspond to format specifications of different services are derived from the first assessment information. The assessment information generated in this manner is made available to the services.
US09323809B2
A method for rapid data analysis comprising receiving and interpreting a query, collecting a first data sample from the first set of data shards, calculating an intermediate result to the query based on analysis of the first data sample, identifying a second set of data shards based on the intermediate result, collecting a second data sample from the second set of data shards, and calculating a final result to the query based on analysis of the second data sample.
US09323788B2
A media automation system can provide a common program to multiple different servers, for example a terrestrial broadcast radio server and a streaming radio server. Each of the different servers can receive different content blocks to be inserted during breaks in the common program. Media items from existing content blocks can be removed, and different items inserted. If a content block is under-filled, media items can be inserted without removing existing media items. When items are removed or added to a content block, the removal can be reported to a traffic and billing system for appropriate action. Content blocks can be customized by removing or inserting items based on information obtained from a cloud-based application, or some other source.
US09323780B2
Embodiments are directed to implementing locale-based sorting and to creating temporary metadata sorting values. In one scenario, a computer system sends a request for a contact list, where the request includes an indication of the user's locale. The contact list includes contact information for contacts of a specified user. The computer system receives the requested contact list, which includes various portions of appended, locale-specific sorting metadata for at least one of the user's contacts' fields. The computer system then sorts the contacts of the contact list according to the selected sorting criterion using the sorting metadata, where the sorting metadata includes a sorting order specific to the user's locale. After the contacts are sorted, the computer system presents the sorted contacts to the user in a user interface.
US09323777B1
Systems and methods for distributed file-sharing across personal devices are provided. Information is maintained in memory regarding multiple user devices associated with an authenticated user. The stored information may concern one or more files stored on each of the user devices. A request is received from a first user device associated with the authenticated user concerning access to a file. One or more of the other user devices may store a copy of the file. The user devices that store a copy of the requested file may be identified. A request is sent to the identified user devices, which may then provide one or more portions of the requested file to the requesting user device, which may then assemble the portions into a whole copy of the file.
US09323776B2
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for a self-describing tape that allow files stored on a tape according to a tape file system to be presented in a similar manner (e.g., to an operating system, to a network file system interface) by different instances of a second type of file system (e.g., a non-tape file system). This can include, for example, allowing a file system of the second type to consistently present files over a network file system interface as being available at the same directory path location, according to the same permissions.
US09323775B2
A map-reduce compatible distributed file system that consists of successive component layers that each provide the basis on which the next layer is built provides transactional read-write-update semantics with file chunk replication and huge file-create rates. A primitive storage layer (storage pools) knits together raw block stores and provides a storage mechanism for containers and transaction logs. Storage pools are manipulated by individual file servers. Containers provide the fundamental basis for data replication, relocation, and transactional updates. A container location database allows containers to be found among all file servers, as well as defining precedence among replicas of containers to organize transactional updates of container contents. Volumes facilitate control of data placement, creation of snapshots and mirrors, and retention of a variety of control and policy information. Key-value stores relate keys to data for such purposes as directories, container location maps, and offset maps in compressed files.
US09323770B1
A media item fingerprint consolidation system is described that merges fingerprints into a consolidated fingerprint. Fingerprints can be generated to compactly represent media items. Fingerprints of common media items can be merged to generate a consolidated fingerprint that compactly represents the common media items. The consolidated fingerprint can replace existing fingerprints.
US09323764B2
Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining a source data volume including a first multiple of source snapshots, and storing the first multiple of the source snapshots in a first storage pool including a second multiple of storage regions having respective identifiers. Upon receiving a request to copy the source data volume to a target data volume in a second storage pool, a first given source snapshot including a first set of the storage regions is accessed, and a second given source snapshot preceding the first given source snapshot is identified, the second given source snapshot including a second set of the storage regions. A set difference of the second and the first sets of the storage regions is identified, respective identifiers of the set difference are stored to the target volume, and a target snapshot is created for the target volume.
US09323757B2
The use of hierarchical list to represent and operate resource structure has been practiced by operating system, for example by Windows Explore of Microsoft Windows, for very long time. However, users are lack of Windows Explore like tools to work on resource structure, such as file system, across world wide web (“WWW”). Present invention has disclosed a technology of utilizing memory bound multi-layered hierarchical list to mirror an actual resource structure and presenting the multi-layered hierarchical list to a user across the Internet during a user session for the user through the multi-layered hierarchical list displayed on an end-user device to access and operate the resource structure.
US09323754B2
The overall architecture and details of a scalable video fingerprinting and identification system that is robust with respect to many classes of video distortions is described. In this system, a fingerprint for a piece of multimedia content is composed of a number of compact signatures, along with traversal hash signatures and associated metadata. Numerical descriptors are generated for features found in a multimedia clip, signatures are generated from these descriptors, and a reference signature database is constructed from these signatures. Query signatures are also generated for a query multimedia clip. These query signatures are searched against the reference database using a fast similarity search procedure, to produce a candidate list of matching signatures. This candidate list is further analyzed to find the most likely reference matches. Signature correlation is performed between the likely reference matches and the query clip to improve detection accuracy.
US09323748B2
Profiling data includes processing an accessed collection of records, including: generating, for a first set of distinct values appearing in a first set of one or more fields, corresponding location information; generating, for the first set of fields, a corresponding list of entries identifying a distinct value from the first set of distinct values and the location information for the distinct value; generating, for a second set of one or more fields, a corresponding list of entries, with each entry identifying a distinct value from a second set of distinct values appearing in the second set of fields; and generating result information, based at least in part on: locating at least one record of the collection using the location information for at least one value appearing in the first set of fields, and determining at least one value appearing in the second set of fields of the located record.
US09323746B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for presenting a machine translation and alternative translations to a user, where a selection of any particular alternative translation results in the re-ranking of the remaining alternatives. The system then presents these re-ranked alternatives to the user, who can continue proofing the machine translation using the re-ranked alternatives or by typing an improved translation. This process continues until the user indicates that the current portion of the translation is complete, at which point the system moves to the next portion.
US09323742B2
A method of providing a semantic data architecture includes providing a data model layer. The data model layer is formed by a processor, a storage device, a memory, and a communication interface in combination with a data model application program stored in the storage device. The processor, running the data model application program, is configured to use the storage device, memory, and communication interface to selectively receive source data from a source device, process the corresponding source data based on pre-defined data types and filtering terms to form semantic data arranged in a binary tree structure, and store the semantic data in the storage device. The method also includes providing a data filtering layer. The method may also include providing memory model, general purpose parser, backward inference, primitive functions, rewriting engine, and reasoning engine layers in various combinations. An apparatus for providing a semantic data architecture is also provided.
US09323738B2
A location classifier generates location information based on textual strings in input text. The location information defines potential geographical relevance of the input text. In determining the location information, the location classifier may receive at least one geo-relevance profile associated with at least one string in the input text, obtain a combined geo-relevance profile for the document from the at least one geo-relevance profile, and determine geographical relevance of the input text based on the combined geo-relevance profile.
US09323737B2
A method for generating at least one interactive page template is provided. The at least one interactive page template includes at least one interactive component. The interactive component is a material which can be operated by at least one input signals of the mobile device and be presented by at least one output signals of a mobile device. The method includes: receiving, via a user interface, a setting command, wherein the setting command includes at least one material type and the input signals and output signals; obtaining, by a page component exploring module, at least one interactive page component from a page component repository according to the setting command; generating, by a template generating module, at least one interactive page template, wherein the interactive page template contains the interactive page component, according to the template integrating principle stored in a template integrating principle storage module; and displaying, by the user interface, the at least one interactive page template.
US09323733B1
A request for annotations identifying a user, an electronic content item (e.g., an electronic book), and a portion of the electronic content item is received from a client device. A set of annotations is identified that correspond to the identified portion of the electronic content item and an unlocked subset of this set of annotations is determined based on an access history of the identified user that indicates electronic content the identified user has previously accessed. At least one annotation from the unlocked subset is sent to the client device for presentation in conjunction with the identified electronic content item.
US09323730B2
A platform is herein provided, in accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, that allows two or more users to co-browse web pages in real-time using standard modern web browsers. Users' actions such as navigating or scrolling may be fully synchronized for all co-browsing users. According to some embodiments, a system for enabling co-browsing is provided, comprising a first user's web page; a second user's web-page; a Message Bus (MB); wherein the first user's page runs embedded JavaScript code that acts as an Events Synchronizer Module (ESM) such that when the second user page loads, the ESM sends the second user's webpage Document Object Model (DOM) to the MB, and the MB sends the DOM to said first user's ESM.
US09323728B2
A method, system and computer program product for coordinating the management of portal pages and its associated web content. A node is created in the portal database representing a draft of a portal page, where the node refers to a data structure that holds structured information pertaining to the portal content (e.g., portlet instances, layout, design). A shadow node associated with the portal page is created in the web content management system, where the web content of the portal page is associated with the shadow node. The shadow node refers to a data structure that stores information used to identify the portal page stored in the portal database. The portal page, after completing various tasks in the workflow process, is rendered by linking the web content of the portal page associated with its shadow node with the portal content of the portal page stored in the portal database.
US09323721B1
Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for identifying quotations occurring in resources. The method includes identifying first and second quotations that occur in particular resources in a set of resources, each particular resource being classified as a quotation-related resource; determining, for each of the first and second quotations, a number of occurrences of the quotation in the set and a number of different resources in the set in which the quotation occurs; determining that the first quotation and the second quotation are (i) semantically related and (ii) not identical; selecting a representative quotation from among the first quotation and the second quotation; and storing the representative quotation, the number of occurrences of the representative quotation and the number of different resources in which the representative quotation occurs in association with an entity to which the representative quotation is attributed.
US09323713B2
A method for automatically establishing a wireless connection between a receiving screen and a mobile wireless device to enable streaming of multimedia data is provided herein. The method comprises the steps of: (i) creating a dynamic image code which includes data enabling wireless connection that is associated with the target screen device; (ii) displaying said image code on the target screen device, until a connection with a mobile wireless device is established; (iii) capturing said dynamic image code by the mobile wireless device; (iv) decoding the dynamic code for retrieving the data enabling wireless connection that is associated with the target screen; and (v) establishing a wireless connection between a target screen device and a mobile wireless device for enabling data streaming by the mobile wireless device based on the retrieved enabling data wireless connection.
US09323711B2
An integrated circuit device includes a transmitter circuit including an output driver. The integrated circuit device includes a first register to store a value representative of a drive strength setting associated with the transmitter circuit such that the output driver outputs data in accordance with the drive strength setting. The integrated circuit device also includes a second register to store a value representative of an equalization setting associated with the transmitter circuit such that the output driver outputs data in accordance with the equalization setting. The integrated circuit device further includes a third register to store a value representative of a slew rate setting associated with the transmitter circuit such that the output driver outputs data in accordance with the slew rate setting.
US09323708B2
Protocol translation method and bridge device for switched telecommunication and computing platforms
A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.
US09323707B2
A universal serial bus (USB) signal test device includes a printed circuit board. A first connector, a second connector, and a number of USB hub integrated circuit (ICs) are arranged on the printed circuit board. The USB hub ICs are connected in series. A USB signal is passed through the USB hub ICs and an auxiliary test device in that order. The USB signals are measured with an oscilloscope after being passed through the USB hub ICs and the auxiliary test device.
US09323706B2
Systems and methods for configuration snooping are provided. A bridge identifies an initialization message of a central processing unit (CPU) for a device that is downstream of a primary interface of the bridge. The bridge identifies a response to the initialization message. The bridge determines the address range for the device. The bridge stores the address range for the device in a list in the bridge.
US09323705B2
An input output (IO) control device connects a plurality of devices with each other, and includes a plurality of ports to which the plurality of devices are connected and a control unit that controls the plurality of ports with each other, and the control unit collects a log of a the collection target port designated by a log collection instruction among the plurality of ports when the log collection instruction is received from any one of the plurality of devices through a first port to which the corresponding device is connected among the plurality of ports.
US09323702B2
In the verification of an integrated circuit design having arbitration logic which controls access from a plurality of requesters to a shared resource, an arbitration stall simulation mechanism selects one or more of the requesters for an extended stall procedure, and when a global counter expires, applies stalls having controlled durations to the selected requesters. The controlled durations can be randomly generated time periods within a preset range. The number of requesters subjected to the extended stall procedure can be randomly selected based on a predetermined percentage of requesters to stall. Local (requester-specific) code can perform the stalls for respective requesters using a stall duration inputs. The requester-specific codes can carry out the stalls using application program interface calls to override respective arbiter inputs from the requesters.
US09323700B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a bus, a memory connected to the bus, an arithmetic processing unit connected to the bus, a first DMA controller connected to the bus, and at least one functional block connected to the bus. The functional block includes a functional macro which is configured to perform a process that realizes a given function, a second DMA controller which is configured to control data transfer between the memory and the functional macro, and an access condition setting unit which is configured to set an access condition regarding the DMA transfer between the memory and the functional macro.
US09323691B2
A memory management unit can receive an address associated with a page size that is unknown to the MMU. The MMU can concurrently determine whether a translation lookaside buffer data array stores a physical address associated with the address based on different portions of the address, where each of the different portions is associated with a different possible page size. This provides for efficient translation lookaside buffer data array access when different programs, employing different page sizes, are concurrently executed at a data processing device.
US09323687B2
For data processing in a computing storage environment by a processor device, the computing storage environment incorporating at least high-speed and lower-speed caches, and tiered levels of storage, groups of data segments are migrated between the tiered levels of storage such that uniformly hot ones of the groups of data segments are migrated to utilize a Solid State Drive (SSD) portion of the tiered levels of storage, while sparsely hot ones of the groups of data segments are migrated to utilize the lower-speed cache.
US09323686B2
Embodiments of an invention for paging in secure enclaves are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes an instruction unit and an execution unit. The instruction unit is to receive a first instruction. The execution unit is to execute the first instruction, wherein execution of the first instruction includes evicting a first page from an enclave page cache.
US09323676B2
Embodiments relate to a non-data inclusive coherent (NIC) directory for a symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) of a computer. An aspect includes determining a first eviction entry of a highest-level cache in a multilevel caching structure of the first processor node of the SMP. Another aspect includes determining that the NIC directory is not full. Another aspect includes determining that the first eviction entry of the highest-level cache is owned by a lower-level cache in the multilevel caching structure. Another aspect includes, based on the NIC directory not being full and based on the first eviction entry of the highest-level cache being owned by the lower-level cache, installing an address of the first eviction entry of the highest-level cache in a first new entry in the NIC directory. Another aspect includes invalidating the first eviction entry in the highest-level cache.
US09323674B2
A processor includes: a primary cache memory; an instruction control unit that issues a store request to the primary cache memory; a pipeline processing unit that, upon receiving the store request, writes data to the primary cache memory; a buffer unit that obtains an address output to the primary cache memory from the pipeline processing unit during an output period of the store request regarding certain data to hold the obtained address in an entry, and when the output period ends, issues a write-back request for writing the data indicated by the address held in the entry to a memory; and a secondary cache memory that, upon receiving the write-back request from the buffer unit, writes the data of the primary cache memory to the memory, the certain data is quickly written back to the memory from the primary cache memory.
US09323671B1
A method and system for use in managing enhanced write caching is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method and system comprises performing write-back caching operations using a write cache of a storage processor of a data storage system. A first cache page corresponding to a disk location is provided in the write cache. A host is allowed to write to a second cache page in the write cache corresponding to the same disk location. Both the first and second cache pages are maintained after acknowledging the write to the host.
US09323664B2
Examples are disclosed for identifying read/write access collisions for a storage medium. In some examples, a plurality of write access requests for access to a storage medium may be received at a controller for a storage medium. The plurality of write access requests may be associated with separate logical block address (LBA) ranges. The separate write LBA ranges may be stored to sets of first registers. A read access request to the storage medium may also be received and a read LBA range associated with the read access request may be stored to a set of second registers. The separate stored write LBA ranges may then be compared to the read LBA range to identify overlapping ranges that may indicate read/write access collisions to the storage medium. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09323648B2
An automatic test apparatus for embedded software and an automatic testing method thereof, the automatic testing apparatus for embedded software, includes an output detector which collects interface status information in accordance with data transmission/reception from at least one of first and second electronic devices respectively loaded with first and second embedded software and exchanging data therebetween, and extracts a keyword from the collected interface status information, a scenario composer which uses identification information about the first and second embedded software and the extracted keyword, and composes a scenario corresponding to a predetermined event status and a control command generator which generates a control command to reproduce the event status based on the composed scenario. Thus, it is possible to previously detect unpredictable and predictable problems that may occur in interaction between the plurality of embedded software, interface operation to transmit and receive data, etc., and reproduce them.
US09323644B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generated aggregated dependencies between software elements in a code base. One of the methods includes receiving a query that defines a dependency between the software elements in a project. Searching a database to identify matching source software elements having the one or more source attributes and target software elements having the one or more target attributes of the query. Identifying pairs of matching source software elements and matching target software elements having the specified relationship, and generating, for each pair of matching source software elements and matching target software elements having the specified relationship, a new dependency in a raw dependency graph, the new dependency being a dependency from a source software element of the pair to the target software element of the pair.
US09323634B2
A system and method are provided for generating a configuration file based upon an application registry. The method, for example, includes, but is not limited to, determining, by a processor, which users are logged into the server that are associated with a predetermined group, determining, by the processor, for each user logged into the server associated with the predetermined group, which applications each user is running, and generating, by the processor, the configuration file based upon which applications each user is running and storing the registry file in a memory.
US09323628B2
A system and methodology to monitor system resources for a cluster computer environment and/or an application instance allows user to defined failover policies that take appropriate corrective actions when a predefined threshold is met. An engine comprising failover policies and mechanisms to define resource monitoring, consumption, allocation, and one or more thresholds for a computer server environment to identify capable servers and thereafter automatically transition an application between multiple servers so as to ensure the application is continually operating within the defined metrics.
US09323626B2
In response to failure of an application that initiated updates to a group of operational system resources without the updates being successfully committed, available non-committed pending update operations are ignored for any of the group of operational system resources determined to be in a fully functional data indexing and access state. For each physically inconsistent operational system resource that was left in a non-fully functional data indexing and access state as a result of the failure of the application, a portion of available pending updates are performed to change the respective physically inconsistent operational system resource to a partially backed out operational system resource with the fully functional data indexing and access state. Remaining available pending updates are ignored for the respective partially backed out operational system resource after the respective fully functional data indexing and access state is achieved to expedite system restart.
US09323622B2
A recovering method is adapted to an encoding operation performed on a storage area of a storage device. The recovering method includes: reading a variable set, wherein the encoding operation comprises a plurality of sub-operations, and each of the sub-operations is corresponding to at least one flag variable in the variable set; determining whether any one of the sub-operations is interrupted according to the variable set; when one of the sub-operations is interrupted, recovering the sub-operation according to the at least one flag variable corresponding to the sub-operation; and carrying on the encoding operation according to a process recorded by the flag variables in the variable set.
US09323610B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided that processes storage commands. Data may be read from a storage memory at a storage device based on a read command received at the storage device from a host. An error may be detected in the data read from the storage memory at the storage device. In response to the error, placeholder data may be transmitted from the storage device to the host without transmitting an indication that the read command failed or succeeded. Corrected data may be transmitted from the storage device to the host, where the host replaces the placeholder data with the corrected data.
US09323599B1
A system that utilizes a plurality of time series of metric data to more accurately detect anomalies and model and predict metric values. Streams of time series metric data are processed to generate a set of independent metrics. In some instances, the present system may automatically analyze thousands of real-time streams. Advanced machine learning and statistical techniques are used to automatically find anomalies and outliers from the independent metrics by learning latent and hidden patterns in the metrics. The trends of each metric may also be analyzed and the trends for each characteristic may be learned. The system can automatically detect latent and hidden patterns of metrics including weekly, daily, holiday and other application specific patterns. Anomaly detection is important to maintaining system health and predicted values are important for customers to monitor and make planning and decisions in a principled and quantitative way.
US09323589B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with automatic registration and discovery of services in a network using a platform independent interface are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from an event producer on the network to add an entry to a registration table. The example method may also include broadcasting a message to devices on the network to announce the presence of the event producer.
US09323577B2
Operating profiles for consumers of computing resources may be automatically determined based on an analysis of actual resource usage measurements and other operating metrics. Measurements may be taken while a consumer, such as a virtual machine instance, uses computing resources, such as those provided by a host. A profile may be dynamically determined based on those measurements. Profiles may be generalized such that groups of consumers with similar usage profiles are associated with a single profile. Assignment decisions may be made based on the profiles, and computing resources may be reallocated or oversubscribed if the profiles indicate that the consumers are unlikely to fully utilize the resources reserved for them. Oversubscribed resources may be monitored, and consumers may be transferred to different resource providers if contention for resources is too high.
US09323570B2
A computer system of the present invention is provided with an open flow controller 3, and a switch 4i. The switch 4i notifies a MAC address contained in packet data to the open flow controller 3 when the packet data from the virtual machine that the migration has completed does not fit with a rule shown by the flow set to the switch itself. The open flow controller 3 sets a communication flow for a migration destination VM generated according to the notified MAC address to the switch 4i. The switch 4i transfers the packet data for said virtual machine which follows a rule 444 shown by the communication flow for said migration destination VM, to the migration destination virtual machine based on an action 445 shown by the communication flow for said migration destination VM.
US09323569B2
A first transaction manager of a partitioned storage group stores a first conditional commit record for a first write of a multi-partition transaction based on a first conflict detection operation. A second transaction manager stores a second conditional commit record for a second write of the transaction based on a second conflict detection operation. A client-side component of the storage group determines that both writes have been conditionally committed, and stores an unconditional commit record in a commit decision repository. A write applier examines the first conditional commit record and the unconditional commit record before propagating the first write to the first partition.
US09323568B2
Accessing at least one memory location by one of a plurality of transactions in a multi-processor transactional execution environment is provided. Included is assigning, by a computer system, a conflict priority to a transaction; based on encountering a conflict with another process for a memory location, comparing, by the computer system, the assigned conflict priority of the transaction with another priority of the another process; and based on the conflict priority of the transaction being the higher priority continuing the transaction; and based on the conflict priority of the transaction being the lower priority, aborting the transaction.
US09323561B2
In general, embodiments of present invention provide an approach for calibrating a cloud computing environment. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an empirical approach for obtaining end-to-end performance characteristics for workloads in the cloud computing environment (hereinafter the “environment”). In a typical embodiment, different combinations of cloud server(s) and cloud storage unit(s) are determined. Then, a virtual machine is deployed to one or more of the servers within the cloud computing environment. The virtual machine is used to generate a desired workload on a set of servers within the environment. Thereafter, performance measurements for each of the different combinations under the desired workload will be taken. Among other things, the performance measurements indicate a connection quality between the set of servers and the set of storage units, and are used in calibrating the cloud computing environment to determine future workload placement. Along these lines, the performance measurements can be populated into a table or the like, and a dynamic map of a data center having the set of storage units can be generated.
US09323559B2
Performing a checkpoint includes determining a checkpoint boundary of the checkpoint for a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine has a first virtual processor, determining a scheduled hypervisor interrupt for the first virtual processor, and adjusting, by operation of one or more computer processors, the scheduled hypervisor interrupt to before or substantially at the checkpoint boundary.
US09323556B2
A service manages a plurality of virtual machine instances for low latency execution of user codes. The service can provide the capability to execute user code in response to events triggered on an auxillary service to provide implicit and automatic rate matching and scaling between events being triggered on the auxiliary service and the corresponding execution of user code on various virtual machine instances. An auxiliary service may be configured as an event triggering service to detect events and generate event messages for execution of the user codes. The service can request, receive, or poll for event messages directly from the auxiliary service or via an intermediary message service. Event messages can be rapidly converted to requests to execute user code on the service. The time from processing the event message to initiating a request to begin code execution is less than a predetermined duration, for example, 100 ms.
US09323553B2
Performing a checkpoint includes determining a checkpoint boundary of the checkpoint for a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine has a first virtual processor, determining a scheduled hypervisor interrupt for the first virtual processor, and adjusting, by operation of one or more computer processors, the scheduled hypervisor interrupt to before or substantially at the checkpoint boundary.
US09323547B2
Different processor cores in a computing device can support different features. In one or more embodiments, the features supported by each of multiple physical processor cores of a computing device are identified. A set of one or more features of the multiple physical processor cores to make available to virtual processor cores of the virtual machine are determined based at least in part on both the one or more features supported by each of the multiple physical processor cores and a number of virtual processor cores of the virtual machine. In additional embodiments, a multi-level scheduling model is used. An operating system level scheduler of an operating system schedules multiple applications for execution on multiple processor cores, and a user level scheduler of an application schedules application threads of that application for execution on one or more of the multiple processor cores.
US09323546B2
A system may include a configurable module having a firmware version supporting multiple functions and a configuration specifying which of the functions are utilized for a vehicle feature; and a controller configured to update the configuration of the module, based on a command published by a server to a controller-subscribed topic tree message topic, the command targeting the vehicle according to one of unique vehicle identifier and the vehicle feature.
US09323545B2
This present disclosure provides a method, system, module, and storage medium for automatic adaptation of hardware encoding and decoding, wherein the method calls a hardware codec of an embedded device to perform encoding and decoding, including the following steps: pre-storing at least one encoding and decoding plugin each of which corresponds to a hardware codec and complies with a pre-defined interface; importing the encoding and decoding plugin and loading the corresponding hardware codec; and encoding or decoding corresponding data. By dynamically loading the plugin, the prevent disclosure solves the problem that the management on different platforms are complex and the compatibilities of different platforms are poor; furthermore, the prevent disclosure improves the encoding and decoding capability of the system and further improves the video quality by reasonably scheduling the hardware codec of the embedded chip.
US09323539B2
Methods and apparatus related to constructing a persistent file system from scattered persistent regions are described. In one embodiment, stored information in a storage unit corresponds to one or more persistent memory regions that are scattered amongst one or more non-volatile memory devices. The one or more persistent memory regions are byte addressable. Also, the one or more persistent memory regions are used to form a virtual contiguous region. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09323538B1
Integrated circuits such as programmable integrated circuits may include calibration circuitry for calibrating memory interface circuitry. The calibration circuitry may include processing circuitry and test circuitry. The processing circuitry may provide instructions to the test circuitry and direct the test circuitry to begin processing at a selected instruction. The test circuitry may retrieve data storage addresses and control signal storage addresses from the instructions. The test circuitry may use the data storage address to retrieve test data from data storage circuitry and may use the control signal storage address to retrieve control signal data from control signal storage circuitry. The control signal, address, and test data may be provided to the memory interface circuitry. The test circuitry may verify data received from the system memory during instruction processing.
US09323536B2
A data processing apparatus and method of data processing are disclosed. A fetch unit retrieves program instructions comprising call instructions and return instructions from memory to be executed by an execution unit. A branch prediction unit generates a return address prediction for an identified return instruction with reference to a return address stack. The branch prediction unit performs a return address push onto said return address stack when the execution unit executes a call instruction and performs a return address pop from the return address stack when the execution unit executes a return instruction. An error detection unit identifies a missing call instruction or a missing return instruction in said program instructions by reference to the return address prediction, a resolved return address indicated by the execution unit when the return instruction is executed and the content of the return address stack.
US09323530B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer system for storing an internal instruction loop in a loop buffer. The computer system includes a loop buffer and a processor. The computer system is configured to perform a method including fetching instructions from memory to generate an internal instruction to be executed, detecting a beginning of a first instruction loop in the instructions, determining that a first internal instruction loop corresponding to the first instruction loop is not stored in the loop buffer, fetching the first instruction loop, optimizing one or more instructions corresponding to the first instruction loop to generate a first optimized internal instruction loop, and storing the first optimized internal instruction loop in the loop buffer based on the determination that the first internal instruction loop is not stored in the loop buffer.
US09323525B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a vector execution unit having a plurality of lanes to execute operations on vector operands, a performance monitor coupled to the vector execution unit to maintain information regarding an activity level of the lanes, and a control logic coupled to the performance monitor to control power consumption of the vector execution unit based at least in part on the activity level of at least some of the lanes. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09323524B2
Techniques for packing and unpacking data from a source register using a particular shift instruction are provided. The shift instructions takes, as input, a source register that contains a plurality of elements and a shift count register that contains a plurality of shift counts. Each shift count indicates how much to shift bits from the source registers. Where “source” bits are shifted (or copied) to in an output register depends on the position of the shift count in the shift count register. The shift counts may correspond to one or more bytes from the source register. The shift instruction may initiate a left shift operation or a right shift operation.
US09323523B2
The length of character data having a termination character is determined. The character data for which the length is to be determined is loaded, in parallel, within one or more vector registers. An instruction is used that loads data in a vector register to a specified boundary, and provides a way to determine the number of characters loaded, using, for instance, another instruction. Further, an instruction is used to find the index of the first termination character, e.g., the first zero or null character. This instruction searches the data in parallel for the termination character. By using these instructions, the length of the character data is determined using only one branch instruction.
US09323514B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating a bundle package, digitally signing the bundle package, selectively disturbing the bundle package, and/or indexing one or more resource packages retrieved from the bundle package. That is, a bundle package (e.g., an application or game bundle package) comprises one or more app packages comprising application code configured to execute on various computing environments (e.g., operating systems, processors, etc.). The bundle package may comprise one or more resource packages comprising supplemental data used to provide optional user experience functionality for the application (e.g., French language support, high resolution textures, a gaming pad support, etc.). In this way, a client device may selectively download portions of the bundle package that may be relevant, which may mitigate download bandwidth, storage space, or resources otherwise used to obtain unnecessary portions of the bundle package (e.g., a tablet device may merely download low resolution textures).
US09323498B2
A fixed point multiplier that can be used in mobile computer systems operating under limited power constraints provides a trade-off between computational accuracy and energy consumption that may be changed dynamically for energy conservation purposes. In one embodiment, the multiplier pre-stores multiplication shift coefficients to eliminate leading-one circuitry normally used in shift and accumulate multipliers.
US09323497B2
A perform floating-point operation instruction is executed specifying a Test (T) bit of general register 0, if the T bit is ‘1’ the execution sets a condition code value indicating whether a specified conversion function is installed, if the T bit is ‘0’ the execution stores a result of a specified floating-point conversion function in general register 0 and sets a condition code value.
US09323494B2
An image processing system includes an image processing apparatus. A portable information terminal is communicable with the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a first display section, a storage section, and a first control section. The storage section stores screen data to be displayed on the first display section. The first control section controls the first display section to display an image indicating a first region contained in a virtual display screen corresponding to the screen data. The portable information terminal includes a second display section and a second control section. The second control section controls the second display section to display an image indicating a second region generated correspondingly to positional relationship information indicating a relative positional relationship between the first display section and the second display section.
US09323493B2
An information processing apparatus capable of communicating with printers includes: an application to set printing setting information as a document to be printed; a printer driver to generate printing data by employing the printing setting information specified by the application and the document; a determining unit to determine whether the printing setting information to be set using the printer driver is included in the printing setting information set using the application, using selected printer attributes and printing setting information set using the application; and a display to display information relating to printing settings to be set using the printer driver of the selected printer in a case the determining unit determines that the printing setting information to be set using the printer driver is included. If a printer is selected which cannot be controlled by a binding application, the binding application displays items to be set with a printer driver.
US09323491B2
An image processing apparatus includes a storage storing attribute information of the apparatus, a receiving unit receiving an instruction to perform image processing from a terminal, a checking unit, a request unit, an acquiring unit, an extracting unit, and a notification unit. The checking unit checks the image processing condition against the attribute information, and determines whether the instruction is executable in the apparatus. The request unit requests attribute information from a second image processing apparatus when the instruction is determined to be inexecutable in the apparatus. The acquiring unit acquires one or more pieces of attribute information transmitted as a response to the request. The extracting unit extracts attribute information of a second image processing apparatus which may execute the instruction, from the one or more pieces of attribute information. The notification unit notifies the terminal of identification information of the second apparatus storing the extracted attribute information.
US09323490B2
An image processing device that displays a printed material, includes a first calculator configured to calculate display data based on: original data of an image printed on a sheet of paper; first data indicating diffuse reflection of the sheet; second data used for giving regular reflection texture of the sheet to a display image for displaying texture of the printed material; and third data used for giving regular reflection texture of the image to the display image for displaying the texture of the printed material.
US09323487B2
An integrated printer driver includes the capability to discover available ad-hoc printing devices and obtain the features and options currently supported by those ad-hoc printing devices. The integrated printer driver automatically selects a particular ad-hoc printing device based upon a user's selected feature and option set and allows a user to print an electronic document prior to an ad-hoc communications link being established with the particular ad-hoc printing device. The integrated printer driver generates an un-rendered print job and holds the un-rendered print job until an ad-hoc communications link is established with the particular ad-hoc printing device. After the ad-hoc communications link has been established, the integrated printer driver determines whether the particular ad-hoc printing device is capable of successfully processing the un-rendered print job and if so, causes the un-rendered print job to be transmitted to a print rendering server for rendering.
US09323483B2
In one implementation, a print service system communicates with a device to provide notifications related to a print job at the device based on the proximity of the device to the printer. Additionally, the print service system communicates with the printer to provide a print job to the printer.
US09323480B2
An image forming system including a print data management device and an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus receiving print data associated with a print job from a print data management device, if the print data is associated with a first operation and the print data management device is in an enabled state, receiving the print data from an information processing apparatus, if the print data is associated with a second operation, receiving the print data from the information processing apparatus, if the print data management device is in a disabled state, printing the print data associated with the print job on a recording medium, generating history information relating to the print job, the history information including identification information identifying whether the print job that has been printed is associated with the first operation or the second operation, and transmitting the history information to the print data management device.
US09323476B2
Methods for managing region lock in a storage controller are disclosed. Upon receiving in a hardware based region lock management circuit a data request, the region lock management circuit determines a lock type of a region lock specified in the data request and conditionally creates a region lock data structure, wherein the region lock data structure is conditionally created based on the type of the region lock requested. The region lock management circuit further determines whether the data request is requesting access to at least a portion of a locked data region and the lock type of the locked data region. If the data request is requesting access to at least a portion of the locked data region and the lock type of the locked data region permits firmware diversion, the region lock management circuit diverts the data request to a storage controller firmware processor for further processing.
US09323474B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for selective zone control session termination. A zone control service executing in the data processing system creates logical zoning definitions in memory for each client session. Each client session attempts to make changes to a fabric. Responsive to the zone control service receiving a request to commit a session from a given client and changes made by the given client during the session not conflicting with changes made by another client in a concurrent session based on the logical zoning definitions, the zone control service applies the changes made by the given client during the session to the fabric.
US09323473B2
A virtual tape library includes a local, non-tape based storage, a store to store a data structure which associates emulated tape storage elements with the local storage or a remote storage, a first interface to provide access to the local storage, in response to tape library commands identifying emulated tape storage elements associated with the local storage, and a second interface to provide access to the remote storage, in response to tape library commands identifying emulated tape storage elements associated with the remote storage.
US09323472B2
A Controller Module (CM) includes a memory that temporarily stores therein data to be written into storage, a switch that connects to another CM and a DMA controller that transfers the data stored in the memory to the other CM via the switch. The DMA controller reads a transfer status of the transferred data from the switch and writes the read transfer status into the memory.
US09323469B2
Disclosed is a method of reading data from a memory including a NAND cell array for performing communications via a serial peripheral interface (SPI) bus. The method includes sequentially receiving inputs of a block address, a word-line address, and a bit-line address of the NAND cell array; and starting to output data written in the NAND cell array immediately after the bit-line address is completely input. In this case, the sequential receiving of the inputs is performed via one input terminal.
US09323467B2
When a read command is received from a host requesting data stored on a disk of a Data Storage Device (DSD), it is determined whether the DSD is in a startup period and whether the requested data is stored in a solid state memory of the DSD. The requested data is designated for storage in the solid state memory if it is determined that the DSD is in the startup period and the requested data is not stored in the solid state memory.
US09323463B2
A first storage apparatus, on the basis of management information representing data existing in a virtual cache area, when a first data conforming to a read request exists in the virtual cache area, determines whether the first data is stored in a first cache area of the first storage apparatus. The first storage apparatus, when the first data is not stored in the first cache area, acquires the first data from a second cache area of a second storage apparatus, and transmits the first data to a host computer. The first storage apparatus, when the first data is associated with the first cache area on the basis of a degree of importance, notifies the second storage apparatus to that effect, and change an apparatus in charge of a cache of the first data of the management information from the second storage apparatus to the first storage apparatus. The first storage apparatus, when the first data is associated with the second cache area, notifies the second storage apparatus to that effect, and deletes the first data.
US09323453B2
A portable electronic device having an input device for receiving a gesture based input from a user is used to control a navigation operation of an appliance. The portable electronic device receives via the input device the gesture based input and uses one or more parameters stored in a memory of the portable electronic device and one or more characteristics associated with the gesture based input to cause the portable electronic device to transmit a navigation step command to thereby control the navigation operation of the appliance.
US09323451B2
Provided is a method of controlling display of an item. In the method, a plurality of individual items is displayed. A touch input is detected from at least two of the displayed individual items. An outline of a folder item to be generated is displayed around a plurality of the at least two touched individual items. Upon receiving a touch release input, the folder item is generated and displayed within the outline to arrange the individual items that receive touch inputs therein.
US09323448B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for tracking and analyzing user interactions with a mobile user interface (UI). During operation, the system collects data while a user interacts with the mobile UI through a touchscreen, wherein the data includes tap-attempt data that specifies coordinates for touchscreen locations that the user has tapped while interacting with the mobile UI. Next, the system compares the tap-attempt data with locations of tappable elements in the mobile UI, wherein each tappable element has an associated tap target size. For each tappable element, the system uses results of the comparison to determine a percentage of tap attempts that have succeeded or failed for the associated tap target size. Finally, the system makes the percentage information available to a UI designer to enable the UI designer to adjust tap target sizes for the mobile UI.
US09323443B2
Systems and computer program products may provide drilling of displayed content in a touch screen device. A system or computer program may provide detecting a touch gesture by a user on a first portion of displayed content on a touch display. The first portion may include a drillable data element having at least a first dimension, a second dimension and a third dimension. The system or computer program may further provide detecting information associated with the touch gesture, determining a requested drilling action based at least in part on the detected information, the requested drilling action including at least one of a change of a displayed drill dimension and a change of a displayed drill degree, sending the requested drilling action of the first portion to a report server and presenting a drilled first portion on the touch display.
US09323439B2
A system and method that displays published electronic documents including an electronic periodical database that stores electronic files representing a plurality of electronic documents and a plurality of corresponding published issues to each of the plurality of electronic documents, a electronic periodical display controller that displays a graphic substrate upon which the electronic documents and corresponding published issues are arranged, a user input controller that receives user input to manipulate the graphic substrate to control a zooming function and a panning function, and associates input user information with a specific one of the plurality of electronic published issues, and a user input database that saves the input user information associated with the specific electronic published issue, and displays the stored input user information within the graphic substrate associated with the specific one of the plurality of electronic published issues of the plurality of electronic documents.
US09323434B2
An integrated user interface system being disposed at a chair and methods for manufacturing and using same. The user interface system comprises one or more interface elements that are disposed at an armrest or other suitable chair location and that are obscured from view or otherwise de-emphasized when a user is distal from the user interface system. At least one selected interface element becomes emphasized when a user hand becomes proximate to the user interface system. The selected interface element can become emphasized, for example, by becoming visible and/or by forming a raised projection. Upon becoming emphasized, the selected interface element is activated for use and can be manipulated to interact with available system resources. The chair advantageously can appear to be an ordinary chair when the user interface system is not in use and can present the user interface system when the user wishes to access the system resources.
US09323430B2
Image processing device and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing image processing program
An image processing device includes a touch panel, a screen group storage portion, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the image processing device to perform operations. The operations include determining that it is a switching timing when a predetermined condition is satisfied, and switching a currently displayed screen to a next screen and displaying the next screen on the touch panel, based on screen group information stored in the screen group storage portion, in response to determining that it is the switching timing.
US09323426B2
A system and method is provided that automatically predicts the link that a user would like to follow by collecting and modeling user actions, and navigates to the link. In one aspect, the system may store a history of the user's manipulation of a browser's user interface, and predict the link of greatest interest to the user by comparing the visual similarity of potential links with previously selected and non-selected links, and estimating the location of the screen that the user is currently viewing.
US09323421B1
Methods and systems for providing timer, app, and screen management are provided. Information may be stored in memory regarding a plurality of applications. Each application may be associated with a timer classification rule indicating at least one time event associated with a new classification. It may be detected when the time event has occurred for an identified application. The new classification associated with the calendar event may be applied to the identified application. The application may be moved to a designated screen of a mobile device based on the applied classification.
US09323418B2
A method for analysis of a prototype graphical user interface (GUI) comprising the following steps: receiving, with a processor, a computer code representative of the prototype GUI, wherein the prototype GUI comprises GUI elements having known identities and known behavioral attributes; transforming the computer code into a description of visible sub-elements of the prototype GUI elements, wherein each sub-element has visual properties that would be visible to a user of the prototype GUI; grouping particular visible sub-elements into a perceived GUI element based only on the sub-elements' visual properties according to a grouping algorithm without regard to the known identity(ies) of the prototype GUI element(s) to which the particular sub-elements belong; and storing, in a non-transitory first memory store, the perceived GUI element.
US09323414B2
A device with a graphical user interface, via which the functions of the device are controlled has functions divided into categories which are sub-divided into subcategories. The categories are represented by primary regions that are schematically arranged on the user interface. The primary regions contain elements, each of which represents a sub-category of the category of the respective primary region. In addition, only one primary region is expanded by the display of a secondary region after an element has been selected. The secondary region contains control elements for at least one function that is assigned to the sub-category representing the selected element. The at least one function is controlled by the control elements.
US09323409B2
A system for receiving, storing, and displaying biometric input has a touchpad and a digitizer. The digitizer comprises a substantially transparent touch activatable overlay placed over the touchscreen and a plurality of sensors supported by the overlay to detect input to the overlay. The digitizer includes a data outlet for transferring the detected input as overlay data so the touchpad can visually display the detected input on its touchscreen. The digitizer has sufficient sensors that the overlay data contains more information than the touchpad data would if the touchscreen were contacted directly without the digitizer present.
US09323399B2
A capacitive touch pad includes an electrode board, a plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads, and a cover. The electrode board has touch sensor circuitry formed thereon. The plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads is formed in an array over the touch pad circuitry of the printed circuit board. The plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads is spaced apart by a predetermined distance to form spaces between the pads of the plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads. The cover is positioned over and covering substantially all of the plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads. The cover has a first cavity with a first depth, where the first cavity is shaped to form an air gap between the pads of the plurality of capacitive touch sensor pads to dampen capacitive coupling between adjacent touch pads.
US09323385B2
An embodiment of a method for detecting noise for a capacitance sensing panel may comprise generating an input signal based on a noise signal, performing a series of measurements for measuring capacitances from a capacitive sensor sensitive to the noise signal, and controlling timing for at least one of the subconversions based on the input signal.
US09323373B2
A touch screen display device includes a plurality of display pixels for generating an image, emitters interspersed among the display pixels and emitting light, and detectors interspersed among the display pixels for detecting light. The light from the emitters is coupled into a transparent substrate to reach the front surface which transmits light incident at an angle smaller than a critical angle and which totally internally reflects light which is incident at an angle greater than the critical angle. The display device further includes processing means coupled to the emitters and detectors for detecting the light reaching each detector from different specific emitters and determining the light that is received by each detector that may be due to direct reflection from a near-field object, and the light that is totally internally reflected and which may be frustrated by a touching object.
US09323371B2
A haptic sensation producing device (10) for presenting a haptic sensation to a user is equipped with a panel-like haptic sensation producing member (11) that is disposed on the front face side of a display panel (20), wires (12) for holding the haptic sensation producing member (11), wire tensile units (13) that are provided for the respective wires and pull the corresponding wires, and a control unit (14) that controls the wire tensile units (13) to move the haptic sensation producing member (11) and generate the haptic sensation. If a change occurs in an object in a content as a result of a touch by the user, the control unit (14) calculates tensile forces such that the haptic sensation conforming to the change can be generated and the tensile forces are optimized, and controls the wire tensile units (13) based on the calculated tensile forces.
US09323370B2
An electrode sheet (2) is provided with an X pattern electrode part (12) in which X pattern electrodes (18) of X electrodes (17) multiply connected in the X direction are multiply arranged in the Y direction, and a Y pattern electrode part (22) in which Y pattern electrodes (28) of Y electrodes (27) multiply connected in the Y direction are multiply arranged in the X direction. In a planar view, the Y electrodes (27) are provided between the X electrodes (17), and multiple different electrode patterns are alternately arranged in one of the X direction, the Y direction, and a diagonal direction.
US09323365B2
A touch screen device and a method for constricting the touch screen device are provided. In some aspects, the touch screen device includes a transparent substrate. The touch screen device includes a first masking layer applied to an outer perimeter of an inner surface of the transparent substrate. The touch screen device includes a transparent conductor for a touch sensor applied to at least a portion of the first masking layer and a portion of the inner surface of the transparent substrate. The touch screen device includes a second masking layer applied to at least a portion of the transparent conductor on an inner surface of the first masking layer. The portion of the transparent conductor is arranged between the first masking layer and the second masking layer.
US09323353B1
A mechanism for utilizing multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays to detect the 3D location of an object with respect to a capacitive panel is disclosed. The multiple reconfigurable hover sensing arrays may change size and shape by integrating multiple capacitive sensor electrodes. The distance to an object relative to the capacitive panel may be determined by applying a distance formula to capacitive signals detected by the reconfigurable hover sensing arrays. In addition, a user interaction interface that may change the shape of the identifier of the interface corresponding to the detected 3D movement of the object is also disclosed.
US09323346B2
An object tracking device includes a camera with a field of view oriented in a first direction and a mirror with a field of reflection oriented in a second direction. When an object is in a first region in the field of view of the electronic camera, the camera has a direct view of the object and a reflected view of the object from the mirror. A processor coupled with the camera is configured to receive a first image data set and a second image data set from the camera. The first image data set and the second image data set each include the direct view of the object and the reflected view of the object from the mirror.
US09323343B2
An information processing method is performed by an information processing apparatus, for executing predetermined processing in relation to an object displayed on a screen. The information processing method includes: obtaining position information indicating positions detected for two or more parts of an operating body; calculating a control amount on a basis of the positions of the two or more parts, the positions being indicated in the position information; and controlling including displaying, on the screen, a control symbol including a first symbol which represents the control amount calculated in the calculating and a second symbol which represents a threshold to be a criterion for determining whether or not the control amount satisfies a predetermined condition, and executing the predetermined processing in a case where the control amount is determined to satisfy the predetermined condition.
US09323338B2
A method for three-dimensional (3D) sensing. The method includes obtaining a first two-dimensional (2D) skeleton of an object, obtaining a second 2D skeleton of the object different from the first 2D skeleton, and calculating a 3D skeleton of the object based on the first and second 2D skeletons.
US09323332B2
A force feedback system provides components for use in a force feedback system including a host computer and a force feedback interface device. An architecture for a host computer allows multi-tasking application programs to interface with the force feedback device without conflicts. One embodiment of a force feedback device provides both relative position reporting and absolute position reporting to allow great flexibility. A different device embodiment provides relative position reporting device allowing maximum compatibility with existing software. Information such as ballistic parameters and screen size sent from the host to the force feedback device allow accurate mouse positions and graphical object positions to be determined in the force feedback environment. Force feedback effects and structures are further described, such as events and enclosures.
US09323329B2
Provided is a haptic panel including a plurality of haptic units. A haptic unit includes a lower electrode, a P-type semiconductor and an N-type semiconductor which are disposed on the lower electrode, a first upper electrode disposed on the P-type semiconductor, and a second upper electrode disposed on the N-type semiconductor. The haptic unit is configured to represent a tactile sense in response to a tactile signal and a thermal sense in response to a thermal signal.
US09323314B1
A mobile communications device and a method for reducing energy usage in a mobile communications device are provided. An example mobile communications device includes an application processor. The application processor includes a first central processing unit (CPU), where the first CPU consumes a relatively high amount of power when operating in an active mode. The mobile communications device includes a microcontroller coupled to the application processor. The microcontroller includes a sensor subsystem configured to process, using a second CPU, first data received from one or more sensors. The second CPU consumes a relatively low amount of power when operating in an active mode. The microcontroller includes a location subsystem configured to receive satellite signals and process, using the second CPU, second data that is based on the received satellite signals. The first CPU operates in a sleep mode during the processing of the first and second data.
US09323312B2
A microcontroller system includes a power manager that is configured to, during a power saving mode, configure an interrupt delaying module to receive and hold an interrupt from an interrupt source. In response to receiving the interrupt from the interrupt source, the power manager causes the microcontroller system to exit the power saving mode. Upon exiting the power saving mode, the power manager configures the interrupt delaying module to release the interrupt.
US09323303B2
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods systems, and program products for determining a change in a mode of transportation. A change in a mode of transportation of the mobile computing device may be determined by determining that a speed of the mobile computing device has changed. A first geographical location is stored as a geographical location of the mobile computing device that corresponds to the change in mode of transportation. A graphical indication of the first geographical location is displayed. The graphical indication of the first geographical location is different than graphical indications for one or more other geographical locations of the mobile computing device at one or more other times. The one or more other geographical locations were not determined to correspond to a change in mode of transportation.
US09323300B2
An indication of a first performance state is received, the first performance state being associated with a first voltage. The first performance state applies to at least one computing system component and the indication is received by a computing system component distinct from the requesting computing system component. An indication of a second performance state is received. The second performance state is associated with a second voltage that is different from the first voltage. It is determined whether the second performance state is within a range defined by a minimum and maximum performance state. Responsive to a determination that the second performance state is within the minimum and maximum performance state, the voltage of the at least one computing system component is set equal to the voltage associated with the second performance state.
US09323288B2
An apparatus having a plurality of storage slots aids in storing tablet computers, specifically iPad, for charging and/or transmitting data to and/or from. Moreover, the apparatus allows for automatically plugging a tablet computer into either a charging cable and/or a data transmission cable when disposing in the apparatus. Methods of making and using the same are provided.
US09323285B2
An integrated circuit with hazard prediction and prevention circuitry is provided. The hazard prediction circuitry may predict a future hazard condition between two periodic signals, and the hazard prevention circuitry may selectively delay at least one of the two periodic signals to avoid the predicted hazard condition. Single-port memory cells may provide multiport memory functionality using an arbitration circuit that includes the hazard prediction and prevention circuitry and receives memory access requests from at least two request generators. The arbitration circuit may operate in synchronous mode and perform port selection based on a predetermined logic table. The arbitration circuit may also operate in asynchronous mode and execute a memory access request as soon as it is received by the arbitration circuit. Metastability caused by receiving memory access requests at the same time from at least two request generators may be avoided with the hazard prediction and prevention circuitry.
US09323274B2
A reference voltage generator is provided. In an example, the reference voltage generator includes a temperature-dependent device, a processing module configured to process a digital representations of first and second voltages derived from the temperature-dependent device and a reference voltage to determine a value, and a digital to analog converter (DAC) configured to generate a reference voltage based on the value. The first voltage is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) and the second voltage is complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) and the reference voltage is substantially independent of absolute temperature in an operating temperature range of the reference voltage generator.
US09323272B2
An integrated circuit that supports both internal and external voltage regulators as well as various modes, such as a low power mode or a test mode, includes voltage regulator selection circuitry and power control circuitry. The regulator selection circuitry selects one of internal and external regulators based on two pin conditions. The power control circuitry controls ON/OFF status of the regulators corresponding to a power mode, including power-on reset, entering a low power mode, and wake-up from a low power mode.
US09323260B2
An internal voltage generation circuit including a voltage generator and a detection voltage generator. The voltage generator generates a temperature reference voltage signal whose level depends on an internal temperature, a division reference voltage signal whose level is constant regardless of the internal temperature, and a selection reference voltage signal obtained by detecting a level of an internal voltage signal. The detection voltage generator compares the division reference voltage signal and the selection reference voltage signal in response to the temperature reference voltage signal to generate a detection voltage signal controlling a pumping operation of the internal voltage signal.
US09323257B2
A voltage conversion circuit may include a first reference voltage generation block configured to be provided with an external voltage, and generate a first reference voltage; a second reference voltage generation block configured to be provided with the external voltage and generate a second reference voltage according to a standby trim code; a trim code generation block configured to generate the standby trim code according to levels of the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage; and an internal voltage generation block configured to select the first reference voltage or the second reference voltage as a determined reference voltage according to an operation mode of a semiconductor memory apparatus, and to generate an internal voltage from the external voltage.
US09323254B2
A motor control apparatus includes a torque-limit output unit configured to output a torque limit with which power consumption of a motor is equal to or smaller than a predetermined motor power limit value and voltage amplitude required for driving the motor is equal to or smaller than a predetermined voltage limit, a position-command generating unit configured to generate a position command to a reference position according to the torque limit value, and a power/voltage limiting unit configured to perform processing for correcting a motor torque current on the basis of an excess of the motor power consumption with respect to a motor power consumption limit value and processing for correcting a motor excitation current on the basis of an excess of a motor torque divided voltage with respect to a motor torque divided voltage limit value.
US09323253B2
A pump control assembly having a flow control assembly disposed between the first end of a load sensing valve and a fluid pump is disclosed. The flow control assembly may include an orifice, a first valve assembly, and a second valve assembly. When the first valve assembly is in an open position and the second valve assembly is in a first position, fluid passing through the orifice is directed to a fluid reservoir and to the load sensing valve. When the first valve assembly is in a closed position and the second valve assembly is in a second position, all fluid passing through the orifice is directed to the load sensing valve. An electronic controller can be configured to transmit an output current to the first and second valve assemblies in response to an operational parameter of a prime mover supplying power to the fluid pump.
US09323234B2
Example methods, apparatuses and systems to correlate candidate factors to a predicted fault in a process control system are disclosed. Techniques may include obtaining a value associated with a particular factor corresponding to a process, and predicting a fault based on the value. A set of candidate factors corresponding to the predicted fault may be determined, and a correlation between the predicted fault and at least one factor from the set may be displayed. Different sections of the display may respectively correspond to the predicted fault and to the at least one factor, and the correlation may be indicated by time aligning the different sections. Modifications to one displayed section may result in automatic modification of other sections to maintain the correlation. A user may select one or more candidate factors to be displayed, and may indicate a particular point of a particular section to obtain additional details.
US09323220B2
The invention relates to a timepiece fitted with a lever escapement wherein the end of contact angles β1 and β2 between the pallet stones and the escapement wheel are respectively higher than the locking-angles δ2 and δ1 of the two locking positions of the lever. This escapement requires neither adjustment nor final alteration of the position of the pallet stones.
US09323218B2
Techniques for efficiently generating full parallax 3-D holographic images of a 3-D real or synthetic object scene are presented. A holographic generator component (HGC) can receive a real object scene or generate a synthetic object scene. The HGC can downsample the scene by a defined downsampling factor and generate, from the downsampled scene, an intermediate object wavefront recording plane (WRP) that can be placed in close proximity to the scene. The HGC can expand and interpolate the WRP to generate the holographic images. The HGC can decompose a scene into polyphase image components (PICs), generate a WRP for the image components, sum the WRP of the PICs, and expand and interpolate the WRP to generate holographic images of the scene. The HGC can utilize look-up tables to store and use wavefront patterns of each region of an image to facilitate reducing computational operations in generating the holographic images.
US09323211B2
An image forming apparatus includes an opening/closing member, an opening/closing detecting device and an operating member. The opening/closing member turns integrally with a supporting shaft around the supporting shaft. The opening/closing detecting device detects an opening/closing state of the opening/closing member. The operating member turns integrally with the supporting shaft so as to interlock with turning of the opening/closing member. The operating member includes a pressing part having an external circumference face around the supporting shaft and a relief part having an external circumference face inside a rotation locus of the pressing part. The opening/closing detecting device includes a switch part switching between an ON position depressed by the pressing part in accordance with turning of the operating member, and an OFF position depressing-released by the relief part in accordance with turning of the operating member, and detects the opening/closing state of the opening/closing member by switching the switch part.
US09323194B1
A fixing device includes: a sensor circuit portion which includes a plurality of series circuits of thermistors and capacitors and in which the capacitors differ from each other in capacitance; a signal circuit portion to which each sensor output voltage that is a voltage between the thermistor and the capacitor is input and which switches between output levels each time the sensor output voltage that exceeds a threshold value is increased; and a processing circuit that includes a output port to which the series circuits are connected so as to be parallel to each other and an input port and that recognizes a target temperature to be detected with each of the thermistors based on a rising time since the start of the voltage application to each of the series circuits until the output signal rises and a falling time until the output signal falls that are measured.
US09323192B2
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a pressing member and a sheet member. The sheet member is disposed between the fixing belt and the pressing member. The sheet member includes a sliding contact part, an upstream side fixed part, a downstream side fixed part and a loose part. The sliding contact part comes into sliding contact with the inner circumference face of the fixing belt. The upstream side fixed part is fixed to the pressing member at an upstream side of the sliding contact part. The downstream side fixed part is fixed to the pressing member at a downstream side of the sliding contact part. The loose part is formed in at least one of an area between the sliding contact part and the upstream side fixed part and an area between the sliding contact part and the downstream side fixed part.
US09323180B2
A developing device includes a contact member and a developing adhesion member. The contact member is provided to an air releasing part communicating an inside and an outside of a developer case storing a developer containing a toner, in a condition being contactable with an agitating member agitating and conveying the developer in the developing case. The developing adhesion member is supported by the contact member and is configured to collect the developer within air flowing from the inside to the outside of the developing case and to receive vibration caused by agitating and conveying operations of the agitating member through the contact member.
US09323179B2
A developing unit includes a casing, a developer carrier, a developer conveying path, a developer conveying member, and a layer thickness regulator. The developer carrier is driven to rotate in the casing and carries a toner on the circumferential surface. The developer conveying member is located in the developer conveying path and driven to rotate so as to convey the developer in a second direction and to supply the toner to the developer carrier. The layer thickness regulator is spaced from the developer carrier, and regulates a layer thickness of the developer supplied to the developer carrier. The developing unit is configured to satisfy a condition of 2.0
US09323176B2
A powder supply device to supply powder to a supply destination includes a body, a single holder including multiple mounts on which multiple powder containers are removably mounted respectively, and a reservoir disposed in the body and below the single holder to store powder discharged from the multiple powder containers; and the single holder is removably attachable to the body of the powder supply device including the reservoir.
US09323172B2
In an image forming apparatus, an image forming device have an operating part and is configured to form an image at an image formation position on an imaging target. A control device is configured to control the image forming device to start performing an image forming process, determine an adjustment amount regarding the image formation position based on an operation amount of the operating part measured during a period of time from a first specified timing in a previous image forming process to a second specified timing in or before a current image forming process, and adjust, based on the adjustment amount, the image formation position where an image is formed pursuant to the current image forming process.
US09323167B2
The disclosure describes a process for making a polyester resin of defined acid value using a temperature-sensitive reaction and dipropylene glycol as a reagent.
US09323165B2
Disclosed are an electrophotographic photoreceptor which has high durability and high potential characteristics and can suppress the occurrence of stick-slip and turning up of a blade and the abrasion of the blade even when the blade is used as a cleaning unit. The surface layer contains barium sulfate composite fine particles, in which a conductive metal oxide is adhered to the surface of a core material made from barium sulfate, in a cured resin. The 10 point average roughness RzJIS of the surface layer is not less than 0.2 μm and not more than 1.5 μm, and a value obtained by an equation n×d, wherein n represents the peak count of the surface layer and d represents the number average primary particle diameter of the barium sulfate composite fine particles, is not less than 10,000 (pieces·nm) and not more than 200,000 (pieces·nm).
US09323164B2
A coating is disclosed. The coating may be used in an apparatus having a radiation source, e.g. a lithographic apparatus. The coating comprises the elements Si, O, F and, optionally, C and H. An article is also disclosed. The article may be any one of the group consisting of a substrate table, an optical element, a shutter member, a sensor, a projection system, and a confinement structure. At least a portion of a surface of the article is coated with a coating. The coating comprises the elements Si, O, F and, optionally, C and H. The coating may comprise the elements Si, O, C and H.
US09323152B2
A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition including a compound represented by the following formula (1), having a melting point of 40° C. or lower at 1 atm, a resin whose solubility in alkali increases under the action of an acid, and a photoacid generator. In the formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group; and R2, R3, and R4 independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, and at least two of R2, R3, and R4 may be bonded to each other to form a cyclic structure.
US09323146B2
A photoresist composition containing a polymer having a structural unit including an acid-labile group, and a compound represented by the formula (1). In the formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent acid-labile group. R2 represents an alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms and a valency of (m+1). m is an integer of 2 to 5. R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or a monovalent fluorinated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms. n is an integer of 0 to 5. At least two of a plurality of R1s optionally taken together represent a ring structure, together with a plurality of oxygen atoms bonding to R1 and the carbon atom(s) constituting R2 and bonding to these oxygen atoms. M+ represents a monovalent radiation-degradable onium cation.
US09323137B1
There is provided a system and method for illuminating a windshield of a vehicle during a carwash. The system has a vehicle illuminating display device and an applicator for applying a reflective or absorptive material to the windshield of the car. The display device include a mask or template of an image to be displayed on the windshield and a light assembly for passing rays of light through and around the template. The method has the steps of moving the car into position and then applying a substance, such as a wax or soap, to the surface of the windshield. The targeted vehicle's windshield is then illuminated through the use of either LED or incandescent lighting to thereby project an image corresponding to the template onto the windshield.
US09323133B1
A photo booth with an improved lighting system may comprise a light reflecting element, a rear wall panel, and a side wall panel positioned to form a booth interior chamber which may function as an enclosure configured to receive one or more subjects. A camera may be positioned to the front of the booth and directed to take images of the booth interior chamber. A light source may be positioned at a location above the camera and oriented to direct an initial burst of light downward towards a portion of the light reflecting element positioned above the camera.
US09323129B2
An object of the present disclosure is to increase a frame speed at the time of performing continuous shooting in a shutter drive device by controlling a charge member by using a position sensor and a temperature sensor. The shutter drive device of the present disclosure includes: a shutter mechanism; a charging member that drives the shutter mechanism by using a plurality of gears, a rack member, and a motor; the temperature sensor mounted on the charging member; a position sensor that is mounted on the charging member, and detects the rack member moved to a predetermined position; and a control part that controls stop timing of the motor based on a position of the rack member detected by the position sensor and a temperature detected by the temperature sensor.
US09323124B2
Provided are display apparatuses and methods of operating the same. In a display apparatus, a display image may be continuously held for longer than about 10 msec after the power of the display panel is turned off. The display apparatus may indicate a liquid crystal display (LCD) apparatus including an oxide thin film transistor (TFT). Off leakage current of the oxide TFT may be less than about 10−14 A.
US09323121B2
A semi-transmissive display apparatus includes: a reflective electrode provided for each pixel, wherein the semi-transmissive display apparatus performs reflective display operation by using the reflective electrodes and transmissive display operation by using spaces between the reflective electrodes of the pixels.
US09323118B2
Disclosed is a display device, comprising: two liquid crystal cells connected together and facing in opposite directions, each liquid crystal cell includes a substrate, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a cholesteric liquid crystal layer filled between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, the polarization properties of the filled cholesteric liquid crystals are opposite to each other. In the present invention, the two cholesteric liquid crystal cells are connected together, such that transparent display as well as double-side display can be achieved by using the reflective, polarizing and full stable performance of the cholesteric liquid crystals as well as by controlling voltage to switch two cholesteric liquid crystal cells between a plane orientation and a vertical orientation. In addition, with this technology, no polarizer is used and light absorption is removed, thus, the transmission rate of the display device is improved. Further, with this technology, no backlight is required, and the display is achieved by using the reflection-transmission of the cholesteric liquid crystals, therefore, energy is saved. Moreover, with this technology, no liquid-crystal-molecule alignment film is required and no rubbing process is required, therefore, the process is simplified.
US09323115B2
A process for manufacturing a liquid crystal display panel, a display device and a monochromatic quantum dot layer are disclosed; in the liquid crystal display panel, a plurality of pixel units are defined on the liquid crystal display panel, each pixel unit having sub-pixel units displaying different colors, at a position of the apposing substrate or the array substrate corresponding to a sub-pixel unit of at least one color in each pixel unit, a monochromatic quantum dot layer is disposed. Dispersing of monochromatic quantum dots with a macromolecular polymer network can prevent the quantum dots from aggregation and increase the quantum yield of the quantum dots, so as to increase the light efficacy of quantum excitation, as well as avoiding the contact between the monochromatic quantum dots with oxygen and increasing the life of quantum dots.
US09323114B2
A self-luminous reflective pixel structure, a display panel and a display device. The pixel structure includes a first electrode capable of reflecting light, a self-luminous layer disposed over the first electrode, a second electrode disposed over the self-luminous layer, and a reflected light control layer disposed over the second electrode. A self-luminous structure and a reflective structure can be formed in a single pixel with the pixel structure.
US09323111B2
The present invention provides an array substrate, its manufacturing method, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of grid lines a plurality of data lines, and pixel regions defined by every two adjacent grid Fines and every two adjacent data lines. The pixel region is provided with a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor. The common electrode includes a first common electrode and a second common electrode which are powered independently. A projection of the first common electrode onto a layer where the data lines are located covers the data line, and a projection of the second common electrode onto a layer where the pixel electrode is located falls on the pixel electrode.
US09323106B2
A fabricating method of a transparent liquid crystal display includes the following steps. First, a first substrate and a second substrate are assembled. Then, a liquid crystal composition is injected between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal composition includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules and a polymerizable material, wherein the polymerizable material includes a polyether polyol acrylate monomer and a liquid crystal polymerization initiator. Afterward, an irradiation procedure and a thermal procedure are executed.
US09323095B2
A lens includes a main lens, a first light-diffusion capping layer and a second light-diffusion capping layer formed on the top of the main lens in sequence. The main lens includes a light incident surface and a light exit surface opposite to the light incident surface. The main lens defines a recess in the top thereof, and the recess is located at a central region of the light exit surface and recessed inwardly toward the light incident surface. The first and the second light-diffusion capping layers are received in the recess, and the second light-diffusion capping layer is located over the first light-diffusion capping layer. A refractive index of the first light-diffusion capping layer is smaller that that of the main lens but larger than that of the second light-diffusion capping layer. A backlight module source incorporating the lens and the LED light source is also provided.
US09323085B2
An image display apparatus including a display panel, a holding member holding four sides of the display panel, and cushioning members disposed between the display panel and the holding member such that a pressing force depending on an amount of deformation is applied to the display panel, wherein a pressing force acting on the display panel through the cushioning member for a lower side among the four sides of the display panel is higher than a pressing force acting on the display panel through the cushioning members for other sides of the display panel.
US09323084B2
A curved liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight unit, a bottom cover and a reinforcement frame. The liquid crystal display panel includes a thin film transistor substrate and a color filter substrate. The backlight unit applies light to the liquid crystal display panel. The bottom cover supports the backlight unit and has a flat shape. The reinforcement frame has a predetermined curvature and is attached to the bottom cover. The flat bottom cover is mounted on the reinforcement frame such that the flat bottom cover has the predetermined curvature of the reinforcement frame.
US09323081B2
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display apparatus includes adhering an array substrate and a counter substrate to form a liquid crystal cell; injecting liquid crystal between the array substrate and the counter substrate; adhering an optical film having been cut away at one corner thereof in a triangular shape on the surface of the counter substrate: and mounting a back light to the liquid crystal cell by aligning a corner of the liquid crystal cell and a corner of the back light on the notched portion.
US09323079B1
An optical modulator device made on large core silicon fin waveguide platform and its fabrication methods. The optical device includes two silicon optical coupling waveguides each having a lower ridge and an upper ridge, two mode transformers respectively connecting the coupling waveguides with an optical modulator waveguide. The optical modulator waveguide has a silicon fin waveguide structure with a narrower fin structure on top of a wider lower ridge structure. Each coupling waveguide and the corresponding mode transformer form a two-stage horizontal taper structure, namely a taper in the lower ridge of the coupling waveguide and a taper of the mode transformer. The light travelling in the coupling waveguide with majority of light in the upper ridge can gradually shift to the lower ridge of the optical modulator where an electro-optic region is positioned. The electro-optic region changes its optical property in response to an applied electric field.
US09323077B2
A thermochromatic element includes a sealed enclosure, an isolation layer and a first heating element. The isolation layer is received in the sealed enclosure that divides the sealed enclosure into a first chamber and a second chamber. The first heating element is located adjacent to the first chamber. The first heating element includes a carbon nanotube film including a number of carbon nanotube linear units and a number of carbon nanotube groups. Each carbon nanotube linear unit includes a number of first carbon nanotubes substantially oriented along a first direction, and are spaced from each other and substantially extending along the first direction. The carbon nanotube groups are combined with the carbon nanotube linear units by van der Waals force. The carbon nanotube groups between adjacent carbon nanotube linear units are spaced from each other in the first direction.
US09323071B2
Laser speckle reduction using a passive diffuser. A diffuser for reducing laser speckle is disclosed comprising a diffuser having a colloid configured for placement in a light path of a coherent light source. The colloid exhibits Brownian motion. The diffuser can be formed of transparent plates containing the colloid. In a system for illumination, a coherent source of light outputting a light beam along a light path is provided; and a diffuser for reducing laser speckle effects is placed in the light path, the diffuser comprising a colloid disposed in a container that is transparent to the light beam output by the coherent source. A method includes illuminating a photosensitive sensor, comprising transmitting a coherent light from a light source through a diffuser comprising a colloid and directing the light from the diffuser onto the photosensitive sensor. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09323061B2
A real-world viewer can include viewing optics positioned along a viewing optical axis for viewing a field of view of the real-world. An active display overlay unit can be optically coupled to the viewing optical axis of the viewing optics, for generating images and directing the images along the viewing optical axis of the viewing optics for simultaneous overlaid viewing of the images in the real-world scene as viewed in the field of view through the viewing optics. The active display overlay unit can be capable of providing full-color luminance of at least 1200 fL to the ocular of the host system with a luminance to power fL:mW ratio of at least 6:1 or greater or providing monochrome luminance from the active display overlay unit of at least 5000 fL to the ocular of the host system with a luminance to power fL:mW ratio of at least 15:1 or greater.
US09323060B2
A display unit in a head mounted display (HMD) is divided into a main body part generating image light; and an emission port part having an emission port through which the generated image light is emitted to the observer's eye. The main body part and the emission port part are connected to each other such that they are allowed to be attached and detached by an external force. In a head mounting state of the HMD, when a first external force acts on the emission port part in response to a situation that the emission port part (e.g., a half mirror) comes into contact with a member located at or near the observing eye or in front of the observing eye within the observer's face and thereby protecting the observing eye, the first external force causes the emission port part to be detached from the main body part.
US09323055B2
A head-mounted display provides a user with an augmented view of an object being viewed; a tracking mechanism such as a camera repeatedly determine the position and orientation of the head-mounted display relative the object being viewed; and a computer system provides information for the augmented view and repeatedly updates the augmented view of the object being viewed based on the determined position and orientation of the display. The head-mounted display may be a see-through display; it may be video-based or optical-based, and it may be monoscopic and stereoscopic. The tracking mechanism determines its position using one or more markers or beacons on the object being viewed. The markers may be active or passive, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that emit invisible light.
US09323053B2
A technique/system using imaging cameras to detect and actively track intense light sources, such as the Sun, then provide electronically-generated and localized shades, via the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) shutter screen imbedded on viewing glasses or windshields, tracking the intense projections as they traverse across the viewing glasses during dynamic motion allowing the viewer to directly and comfortably observe the scene with intense light sources and any displays or objects in direct or nearby line-of-sight that are normally washed-out by eye saturation due to extremely intense illumination. This intense illumination shielding technique/system can be used for providing improved vision in situations where the viewing location is confined relative to the primary viewing glasses where direct observation or see-through may occur with intense light sources in view from the near and far field and also with the entire system in a dynamic motion environment.
US09323050B2
Light scanning device having reduced size and parts count, and image forming apparatus with the same
Respective first semiconductor lasers 44a and 44b and respective second semiconductor lasers 45a and 45b are arranged on a drive substrate 46 (YZ plane) such that the emission directions of light beams L1 to L4 of the respective first semiconductor lasers 44a and 44b and the respective second semiconductor lasers 45a and 45b are perpendicular to the YZ plane. On the YZ plane, the respective first semiconductor lasers 44a and 44b and the respective second semiconductor lasers 45a and 45b are divided to two mutually different lines y1 and y2 in the lateral direction perpendicular to the rotation axis of a polygonal mirror 42, and the respective first semiconductor lasers 44a and 44b and the respective second semiconductor lasers 45a and 45b are arranged on respective different lines z1 to z4 in the vertical direction as the rotation axis direction of the polygonal mirror 42.
US09323046B2
An illumination device includes: an excitation light source that emits excitation light having a first wavelength; and a fluorescent member that includes a fluorescent substance that, when it is irradiated with the excitation light, emits light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength, transmits a part of the excitation light and reflects another part of the excitation light, and a first reflective film provided at a side of the fluorescent substance, which is opposite to an excitation light incidence side, the fluorescent member emitting multiplexed light including an excitation light component reflected from the fluorescent substance and the first reflective film and a light component emitted from the fluorescent substance.
US09323040B2
An eyepiece lens system forms a magnified virtual image of an object to be observed, the system including: a first group disposed adjacent to an image display device and having negative refractive power; and a second group disposed adjacent to the first group on a side closer to an eye and having positive refractive power; the first group including a cemented doublet lens of a biconcave lens and a biconvex lens, the second group including two or three positive lenses, being telecentric on the object side. The eyepiece lens system has satisfactory telecentricity on the object side and satisfactorily corrects aberration.
US09323038B2
A method for object preparation for imaging with an array microscope system without scanning. Artifact-free image is formed based on scanning-free imaging of an object array formed from spatially-separated portions of the initially spatially-continuous object that are arranged, in the object plane of the array microscope, in a pattern associated with an array of individual objectives of the array microscope. The size of an individual portion of the object does not exceed the size of a FOV of the individual objective defined in the object plane.
US09323037B2
A biological image presentation device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring, at multiple positions on an axis as a standard of a biological region, images of sections orthogonal to the axis; a determination unit determining an image as a standard and an image for comparison with the image as a standard from among a plurality of images acquired by the acquisition unit; an extraction unit extracting, from the image as a standard, a position where a change of luminance value equal to or larger than a defined value is present; a detection unit detecting a position corresponding to the position extracted by the extraction unit from the image for comparison; a division unit dividing the image as a standard on the basis of the position extracted by the extraction unit; a mapping unit mapping the image for comparison to an area corresponding to each divided area of the image as a standard while modifying so as to conform to the shape of the divided area; and a display control unit switching and displaying an image for display in a display area by using the image as a standard and an image mapped by the mapping unit.
US09323035B2
One embodiment provides an annular optical device, comprising: an annular meso-optic having a substantially triangular cross section and including an annulus centered about an axis of revolution; and a secondary optical structure substantially coaxial within the annulus of the annular meso-optic, wherein the secondary optical structure and the annular meso-optic are separated by a media comprising a media refractive index that is lower than a secondary optical structure refractive index, with the secondary optical structure being configured to hold a specimen to be radiated by impinging electromagnetic radiation directed into the secondary optical structure substantially along the axis of revolution, wherein re-directed radiation from the specimen is allowed into the annular meso-optic by the secondary optical structure if an angle of incidence of the re-directed radiation exceeds the angle of Total Internal Reflectance. Other embodiments are descried and claimed.
US09323029B2
An imaging lens is constituted essentially by six lenses, including: a first lens of a biconvex shape; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power and is of a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the object side; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; and a sixth lens having a negative refractive power and a concave surface toward the image side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
US09323025B2
The invention relates to a kinematic mount having a base part (8) and a bracket part (7), which is positioned on the base part (8), and which is tiltable relative thereto around at least one tilting axis. The invention provides that the mount has at least one pivot lever (22, 23), which is connected to the base part (8) by way of a first joint (25), and which is connected to the bracket part (7) by way of a second joint (27, 24, 28), which is spaced apart from the first joint (25) in a longitudinal direction of the pivot lever (22, 23). The base part (8), the pivot lever (22, 23), and the bracket part (7) form a gear unit, which converts a movement of an actuator (11, 12) impacting the pivot lever (22, 23) into a tilting of the bracket part (7) relative to the base part (8).
US09323024B2
An interchangeable lens to be detachably attached to a camera body, that includes a holding unit at which a plurality of contacts is arranged, in the interchangeable lens, the first contact is arranged on one end and the eleventh contact is arranged on another end of the arrangement of the twelve contacts; the second contact is arranged next to the first contact in the arrangement of the twelve contacts; and the twelfth contact is arranged next to the eleventh contact in the arrangement of the twelve contacts.
US09323013B2
In a bidirectional optical communications module, an optics system is provided having a lens block that uses a single surface for reflecting light into or reflecting light passing out of the end of the optical fiber and a single surface for reflecting light toward a monitor photodetector. No other surfaces in the lens block are used to turn the light path. A filter block of the optics system that is adjacent to the lens block performs wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing. The filter block reflects light at either its lower or upper surface back toward the lens block. In some embodiments, a portion of light passes through the upper surface of the filter block to provide some attenuation of light being transmitted so that the light is not coupled back into the light source. Because the upper surface of the filter block is the topmost surface of the optics system, the optics system can be very compact while also limiting the number of surfaces that turn the light path. Limiting the number of surfaces in the optics system that turn the light path reduces optical losses and increases tolerance to optical misalignment.
US09323012B1
An optical device including an optical bench and an optical chip, the optical bench having multiple optical waveguides formed on its first side and the optical chip has multiple optical waveguides formed on its first side. The optical chip is flip-chip bonded onto the optical bench with its first side facing the first side of the optical bench. The distance between adjacent waveguides on the optical bench are designed to be slightly different from the distance between adjacent waveguides on the optical chip, where the latter usually is a pre-designed value under certain conventions. The difference amount is properly designed such that under reasonable misalignment between the optical chip and the optical bench in the in-plane direction perpendicular to waveguide propagation one can always find that one of the multiple waveguides is aligned sufficiently well with the corresponding waveguide on the optical chip.
US09323009B2
A computer program product for fabricating an optical assembly having stored computer readable program code including a first program to place a flexible portion of a substrate including a waveguide, the waveguide exposed at one end edge of the substrate upon a horizontally movable stage of a flip-chip bonder, a second program to vertically move a clamp through the stage opening to place the waveguide exposed end in a vertical position, a third program to vertically downwardly move a bond head containing an optical component upon the waveguide exposed substrate edge to position the optical component with the exposed waveguide, a fourth program to fixably mount the optical component to the substrate edge, and a fifth program to release the optical component from the bond head while moving the clamp vertically downward through the stage opening unbending the flexible portion of the substrate with the optical component mounted thereon.
US09323008B2
Disclosed are structures with an optical waveguide having a first segment at a first level and a second segment extending between the first level and a higher second level and further extending along the second level. Specifically, the waveguide comprises a first segment between first and second dielectric layers. The second dielectric layer has a trench, which extends through to the first dielectric layer and which has one side positioned laterally adjacent to an end of the first segment. The waveguide also comprises a second segment extending from the bottom of the trench on the side adjacent to the first segment up to and along the top surface of the second dielectric layer on the opposite side of the trench. A third dielectric layer covers the second segment in the trench and on the top surface of the second dielectric layer. Also disclosed are methods of forming such optoelectronic structures.
US09323006B2
A protector is fixed to a housing in a state where a ferrule on which the protector is mounted is accommodated in a ferrule accommodation space of the housing, and thus a release of a locking state by a locking window and a fixing hook is regulated.
US09323004B2
An optical device and a method of manufacturing an optical device. The optical device includes: a conversion means for converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light and for outputting the parallel light; and a first lens means for focusing the parallel light outputted from the conversion means on a core of an optical fiber. The method includes: converting propagation light propagating through an optical waveguide into parallel light; outputting the parallel light; and focusing, using a first lens, the parallel light on a core of an optical fiber.
US09323001B2
In an embodiment, a polarization-dependent loss (PDL) compensator includes a substrate, an anti-reflective coating, and a partial reflective coating. The substrate has an input surface and an output surface opposite the input surface. The anti-reflective coating is formed on the output surface. The partial reflective coating is formed on the input surface. The PDL compensator may include PDL that depends on an incident angle of an optical signal with respect to the partial reflective coating.
US09322998B2
A fiber optic connector includes a ferrule. The ferrule includes an inner piece including silica and an outer piece including ceramic. The outer piece surrounds the inner piece and the inner piece extends beyond an end of the outer piece by a distance of at least 10 micrometers.
US09322992B2
Multimode light detectors are provided, which combine a plurality of measurements of light to detect information, using a mode transformation device. The light may be light from one or more objects, and the mode transformation device may be configured to transform the light into many single mode light beams. Each measurement of the light may be a measurement of a corresponding single mode light beam. The multimode detectors may include one or more optical receivers, configured to mix one or more single mode light beams with one or more local oscillators, respectively. Methods are provided for detecting information of objects, including obtaining light from the objects, transforming the light into multiple single mode light beams, and collecting (and/or combining) measurements of the single mode light beams.
US09322991B2
Coating compositions that include acrylic polymers as reinforcing agents. The coating compositions are radiation-curable and include a multifunctional acrylate component, an acrylic monomer diluent, an acrylic polymer, and a photoinitiator. The acrylic polymer is not radiation-curable and lacks hydrogen-donor groups, urea groups, and urethane groups. The acrylic polymer is non-reactive and does not chemically bond to the crosslinked network formed by curing the acrylate components. Instead, the acrylic polymer reinforces the cured network through physical interactions. Representative acrylic polymers include (meth)acrylates that lack substituents with hydrogen-donor, urea, and urethane groups.
US09322988B2
High aspect ratio core optical fiber designs, which could be semi-guiding, including a core region having a first refractive index and a high aspect ratio elongated cross-section along a slow axis direction, are described. An internal cladding having a second refractive index sandwiches the core and acts as a fast-axis signal cladding. The core has an edge region at both of its short edges that is in contract with edge-cladding regions having a barbell shape. The refractive index of the core regions, the refractive index of the internal claddings, and the refractive index of the edge-cladding regions, are selected so as to maximize the optical power of a lowest-order mode propagating in the fiber core, and to minimize the optical power of the next-order modes in the fiber core. A process to fabricate such a high aspect ratio core fiber is also provided.
US09322984B2
The present invention provides a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device using the backlight module. The backlight module includes a backplane (2), a light guide plate (4) arranged in the backplane, a backlight source (6) arranged in the backplane, and a plurality of mounting member (8) in the backplane to position and fix the light guide plate (4). The light guide plate (4) includes a main body (42) and a plurality of mounting sections (44) extending outwards from sides of the main body. Each of the mounting sections (44) includes a first lug (442) and a second lug (444) that are spaced from each other. The mounting members (8) each include a base (82) and first, second, and third positioning pillars (84, 86, 88) extending upwards from the base (82) and arranged sequentially to space from each other. The main body (42) is positioned against the base (82) and the second positioning pillar (86). The first lug (442) is positioned against the base (82) and the first positioning pillar (84). The second lug (444) is positioned against the base (82) and the third positioning pillar (88).
US09322981B2
A liquid crystal display includes a support frame having a partitioned storage space; a backlight unit disposed in the storage space; a liquid crystal display panel disposed over the backlight unit and spaced apart from the backlight unit by a gap; and a cover window combined with the support frame such that the liquid crystal display panel is attached to the cover window.
US09322980B2
The backlight device (24) of the present invention is provided with: a heat-dissipating member (36) having a bottom surface part (36a); a light guide plate (20) that has a light-receiving face (20a) on the side face thereof and that is arranged such that the back surface of the plate faces the front of the bottom surface part (36a); and LED light-source (28) that is arranged opposite to the light-receiving face (20a) above the front surface of the bottom surface part (36a); a reflective sheet (26) that is arranged to be in contact with the back surface of the light-guide plate (20); and a protruding part (38) that is formed so as to protrude from the front surface of the bottom surface part (36a) between the LED light source (28) and the light-receiving face (20a), the protruding part (38) being higher than the back surface of the light guide plate (20).
US09322979B2
A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device including an light emitting diode light source; a light conversion layer disposed apart from the light emitting diode light source, wherein the light conversion layer is configured to convert light emitted from the light emitting diode light source to white light and provide the white light to a liquid crystal panel; and a light guide panel disposed between the light emitting diode light source and the light conversion layer, wherein the light conversion layer includes a semiconductor nanocrystal and a polymer matrix, wherein the semiconductor nanocrystal is coated with a first polymer, and wherein the polymer matrix comprises a thermoplastic second polymer.
US09322975B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of flat panel display, and proposes a side-lighting backlight, including a back plate on which a reflecting plate is arranged, an optical sheet assembly spaced from the back plate to form an optical cavity therebetween, and a light-emitting element arranged on one side of the back plate, wherein a convex lens is arranged between the reflecting plate and the optical sheet assembly, so that light from the light-emitting element is guided into the optical cavity through the convex lens and then exits through the optical sheet assembly, and the distance between the convex lens and the light-emitting element is greater than a light coupling distance. The convex lens can also function to keep the distance between the optical sheet assembly and the reflecting plate constant. The side-lighting backlight according to the invention has a lighter weight, a thinner thickness and a greatly simplified manufacturing process over a backlight in the prior art.
US09322969B2
In harsh and hazardous environments, the presence of elevated levels of hydrogen gas is an indicator of chemical and/or radiological activity. The present hydrogen-sensing optical fiber provides rapid and reliable hydrogen detection and quantification, irrespective of temperature fluctuations. The hydrogen-sensing optical fiber does not exhibit significant irreversible hydrogen-induced attenuation losses after exposure to a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
US09322968B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to a polarizing lens, which comprises a polarizing layer comprising a dichroic dye and a functional film in this order on a lens substrate, and further comprises a waterborne resin layer between the polarizing layer and the functional film as a layer adjacent to both the polarizing layer and functional film, wherein the waterborne resin layer is greater than 0.50 μm in thickness and has been formed by coating and drying a waterborne resin composition comprising a polyether polyurethane resin and a water-based solvent.
US09322966B2
An interference filter includes first and second reflecting films opposed to each other across a gap, the first and second reflecting films include an Ag—Sm—Cu alloy film or an Ag—Bi—Nd alloy film, the Ag—Sm—Cu alloy film includes 0.1 atomic %≦Sm≦0.5 atomic %, and 0.1 atomic %≦Cu and ≦0.5 atomic %, and Sm+Cu≦1.0 atomic %, the Ag—Bi—Nd alloy film includes 0.1 atomic %≦Bi≦3.0 atomic %, and 0.1 atomic %≦Nd≦5.0 atomic %, and the thickness of the Ag—Sm—Cu alloy film or the Ag—Bi—Nd alloy film is ≧10 nm and ≦40 nm.
US09322965B2
An optical member has: a transparent substrate; and a dielectric multilayer on the transparent substrate formed by stacking a plurality of unit refractive index layers each formed of a high-refractive index layer having a refractive index of 2 or more and a low-refractive index layer having a refractive index of 1.6 or less. In the optical member, a total number of the unit refractive index layers is 15 or more, and a number of the unit refractive index layers satisfying a condition of nHdH/nLdL≧3 is 10 or more, nHdH represents an optical thickness of the high-refractive index layer, and nLdL represents an optical thickness of the low-refractive index layer.
US09322957B2
A method for producing an optical material includes a predetermined compound (a), compound (b), compound (c), compound (d), and compound (e). The method minimizes the occurrence of a defect where peeling traces are left on a lens. The first to the fifth step minimizes the defect where peeling traces are left. First: dissolving the compound (b) into the compound (a) to obtain a first solution. Second: adding the compound (e) to the first solution obtained in the first step and then mixing to obtain a second solution not comprising the compound (d). Third: adding the compound (c) to the second solution obtained in the second step to obtain a reaction mixture. Fourth: adding the compound (d) to the reaction mixture obtained in the third step and then mixing to obtain a resin composition for an optical material. Fifth: cast-molding the resin composition and then polymerizing to obtain the optical material.
US09322952B2
In a method for detecting rain on a windshield, whose degree of wetting is determined with at least one sensor value, it is provided that the sensor value is determined piezoelectrically, wherein vibrations on the windshield are detected, which change depending on the degree of wetting or raindrops hitting the windshield. As a result, the entire windshield serves as a detection surface, thereby yielding a high accuracy.
US09322946B2
A method and apparatus are provided for steering a first acoustic linear antenna belonging to a plurality of acoustic linear antennas towed by a vessel. A plurality of navigation control devices are arranged along the plurality of linear antennas in order to act at least laterally on the position of the linear antennas. At least one of the navigation control devices arranged along the first acoustic linear antenna performs steps of: obtaining a local measurement of a feather angle or of a parameter linked to the feather angle, the local measurement being associated with the at least one of the navigation control devices arranged along the first acoustic linear antenna; computing a lateral force, as a function of the obtained local measurement; and applying the computed lateral force.
US09322943B2
A method for deghosting seismic data collected with a seismic system, the seismic data being related to a subsurface of a body of water. The method includes receiving the seismic data recorded by detectors distributed along a variable-depth profile; calculating migrated (d1) and mirror-migrated (d2) gathers based on the seismic data, wherein the migrated and mirror-migrated gathers depend on a feature characterizing a configuration of the seismic system; applying a joint deconvolution model to the migrated and mirror-migrated gathers (d1, d2) to calculate a single deghosted gather (dg); and generating a final image of the subsurface based on the single deghosted gather (dg). The feature is not present in a gather after a step of stacking that is performed prior to generating the final image.
US09322941B2
A system and method are described herein for generating a frequency sweep signal set for use in seismic data gathering. Low frequency sweep rate modifications are combined to compensate for vibrator limitations and vibrator far-field responses with high frequency sweep rate modifications to compensate for absorption, and then the frequency sweep signal set is generated based on the combination of high and low frequency sweep rate modifications.
US09322928B2
A determination section of an FPD checks external information against a determination table and determines whether detection of a rise of X-ray pulses is allowed based on an output voltage from a short-circuited pixel. The FPD detects X-ray images. The external information is transmitted from an imaging control device. The X-ray pulses are sequentially generated by an X-ray generating apparatus. A controller selects a pulse irradiation mode in a case where the detection of the rise of the X-ray pulse is allowed. If not, a successive irradiation mode is selected. In the pulse irradiation mode, the rise and the fall of the X-ray pulse are detected and timing of storage operation is synchronized with the detected timing of the rise. In the successive irradiation mode, the storage operation is performed at predetermined time intervals without the detection of the rise and the fall of the X-ray pulse.
US09322926B2
According to certain aspects, the invention includes using acquisition channel results from a number of satellites to achieve composite weak acquisition. According to certain other aspects, the invention also includes solving for an improved position estimate and, with a sufficiently accurate, either initial or improved position estimate, also solving for GPS system time using a composite of acquired signals from a plurality of satellites. Within commonly experienced initial position and time uncertainties, the geometric range changes are fairly linear, which allows the point of convergence of ranges to solve for GPS position and subsequently for time with reasonable accuracy, which is the equivalent to obtaining frame sync without any data demodulation or preamble matching.
US09322914B1
A method for indicating a weather threat to an aircraft is provided. The method includes inferring a weather threat to an aircraft and causing an image to be displayed on an aviation display in response to a determination by aircraft processing electronics that the inferred weather threat to the aircraft is greater than a measured weather threat to the aircraft.
US09322904B2
A system for sensing proximity using EHF signals may include a communication circuit configured to transmit via a transducer an EM signal at an EHF frequency, and a proximity sensing circuit configured to sense a nearby transducer field-modifying object by detecting characteristics of a signal within the communication circuit. A system for determining distance using EHF signals may include a detecting circuit coupled to a transmitting communication circuit and a receiving communication circuit, both communication circuits being mounted on a first surface. The transmitting communication circuit may transmit a signal toward a second surface, and the receiving communication circuit may receive a signal relayed from the second surface. The detecting circuit may determine distance between the first surface and a second surface based on propagation characteristics of the signals.
US09322902B2
A BC-mode image with an improved frame rate in an ultrasound system is formed. A transmit/receive unit forms first and second receive signals responsive to first and second control signals. An image processing unit is configured to form a B-mode image and a C-mode image based the first and second receive signals and to combine them to form a BC-mode image. The control signal generates a third control signal for a B-mode scan along scan lines, which are not within the color box to form third receive signals. The control unit repeatedly generates the second and third control signals. The image processing unit is further operable to form a B-mode image based on the third receive signals and the second signals.
US09322901B2
Optical devices are described that integrate multiple heterogeneous components in a single, compact package. In one or more implementations, the optical devices include a carrier substrate having a surface that includes two or more cavities formed therein. One or more optical component devices are disposed within the respective cavities in a predetermined arrangement. A cover is disposed on the surface of the carrier substrate so that the cover at least substantially encloses the optical component devices within their respective cavities. The cover, which may be glass, is configured to transmit light within the predetermined spectrum of wavelengths.
US09322896B2
Systems, methods of reducing off-resonance blurring in acquired magnetic resonance imaging data. The method includes acquiring a first set of spiral interleaf data for each of one or more spiral-in/out interleaves by performing a first sampling each of one or more locations in k-space along a first redundant spiral-in/out trajectory, and acquiring a second set of spiral interleaf data for each of the one or more spiral-in/out interleaves by performing a second sampling of each of the one or more locations in the k-space along a second redundant spiral-in/out trajectory, wherein the second redundant spiral-in/out trajectory corresponds to a time-reversed trajectory of the first redundant spiral-in/out trajectory. The method may yet further include combining the first set of spiral interleaf data and the second set of spiral interleaf data with an averaging operation such as to reduce artifacts.
US09322889B2
An MTJ sensor having low hysteresis and high sensitivity is disclosed. The MTJ sensor includes, in one embodiment, a bridge with first and second active MTJ elements and first and second passive MTJ elements connected in a Wheatstone bridge configuration. First and second magnetic shield elements are located over the first and second passive MTJ elements and form a gap therebetween that concentrates magnetic flux toward the first and second active MTJ elements. A three-dimensional coil is wound around the first and second magnetic shield elements with over-windings located over the first and second magnetic shield elements and under-windings located under the first and second magnetic shield elements, connected together by a plurality of vias adjacent the first and second magnetic shield elements.
US09322886B2
An analyzer comprises a particle system acquisition unit operative to acquire information on a particle system defined in a virtual space; a magnetic moment association unit operative to associate a particle in the particle system with a magnetic moment; a numerical operation unit operative to perform numerical operation according to a governing equation that governs a motion of each particle in the particle system, the particle system including the particle which is associated with the magnetic moment by the magnetic moment association unit; and a magnetic field calculation unit operative to calculate a magnetic field created by the particle system using the results of the numerical operation performed by the numerical operation unit.
US09322879B2
Test circuits located on semiconductor die enable a tester to test a plurality of die/ICs in parallel by inputting both stimulus and response patterns to the plurality of die/ICs. The response patterns from the tester are input to the test circuits along with the output response of the die/IC to be compared. Also disclosed is the use of a response signal encoding scheme whereby the tester transmits response test commands to the test circuits, using a single signal per test circuit, to perform: (1) a compare die/IC output against an expected logic high, (2) a compare die/IC output against an expected logic low, and (3) a mask compare operation. The use of the signal encoding scheme allows functional testing of die and ICs since all response test commands (i.e. 1-3 above) required at each die/IC output can be transmitted to each die/IC output using only a single tester signal connection per die/IC output. In addition to functional testing, scan testing of die and ICs is also possible.
US09322866B2
A transformer diagnosis apparatus and method which can advantageously be used for on-line diagnosis of a transformer, and by which transformer properties may be monitored and/or determined. The diagnosis method includes collecting, for at least two different transformer loads, measurements of a current being indicative of the transformer load, as well as measurements of at least one further transformer AC signal. The method further includes deriving, from the collected measurements, at least two values of a quantity which depends on a transformer property as well as on transformer load; and determining, from the derived values, a set of coefficient(s) of a relation for how the quantity is expected to vary with transformer load. The method further includes using the determined coefficient(s) in performing a diagnosis of the transformer.
US09322863B2
A system for measuring a capacitor (CSENj) precharges a CDAC (23) in a SAR converter (17) to a reference voltage (VAZ) and also precharges a first terminal (3-j) of the capacitor to another reference voltage (GND). During a measurement phase, the CDAC is coupled between an output and an input of an amplifier (31) and the capacitor also is coupled to the input of the amplifier, so as to redistribute charge between the capacitor and the CDAC. The amplifier generates an output voltage (VAMP) representing the capacitance being measured. The output voltage is stored in the CDAC. The SAR converter converts the output voltage to a digital value representing the capacitance being measured.
US09322862B2
A capacitive sensing array device of an electronic apparatus includes sensing electrodes, a shielding conductor layer, a coupling signal source, a constant voltage source and switch modules. The coupling signal source provides a coupling signal coupled to an object. The constant voltage source provides a constant voltage to the shielding conductor layer to form a stable vertical parasitic capacitor between the shielding conductor layer and each sensing electrode. Each switch module is electrically connected to the constant voltage source via the corresponding sensing electrode. When one sensing electrode is selected to perform sensing, the corresponding switch module is configured as an open-circuited state such that the selected sensing electrode is disconnected from the constant voltage source, while the other sensing electrodes are electrically connected to the constant voltage source to form a stable horizontal parasitic capacitor between the selected sensing electrode and the other sensing electrodes.
US09322860B2
An electrical resistance measuring device for a tire (T) that measures the electrical resistance from a bead portion (71) to a tread portion (70) and includes a measuring tip (5a) that is curvedly deformable along the shape of the tire (T).
US09322853B2
An antenna device of an embodiment includes: an antenna; a variable impedance matching circuit that is connected to the antenna; a probe that receives power from the antenna; a power detector that is connected to the probe; a control circuit controlling the variable impedance matching circuit based on a value of power measured by the power detector; a first arithmetic circuit calculating a variation in the value of power measured by the power detector; a comparator circuit that compares the variation with a predetermined numerical value range; and a starter circuit that activates the control circuit based on a result of the comparison performed by the comparator circuit.
US09322852B2
Gate drive faults are detected for an inverter which comprises a phase switch having an insulated gate, such as an IGBT. A complementary transistor pair is adapted to receive a supply voltage and a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to alternately charge and discharge the insulated gate. A comparator compares the voltage at the insulated gate with a reference voltage representing a gate drive fault to generate a first logic signal. A latch samples the first logic signal when the PWM signal has a value corresponding to charging the insulated gate. A logic circuit inhibits charging of the insulated gate when the latched logic signal indicates the gate drive fault. An insulated gate voltage less than the reference voltage is indicative of an under-voltage fault as well as other device failures of the IGBT or the complementary transistors.
US09322846B2
A contactor including a bellows body, a fixed portion connected to one end of the bellows body, a movable portion connected to the other end of the bellows body, and a movable touch piece that extending from at least one side edge along the bellows body, where the movable portion is configured to be depressed to compress the bellows body and to bring a movable contact point, located at a free end of the movable touch piece, into contact with the fixed portion.
US09322838B2
Provided are a superconducting accelerometer, an acceleration measurement device, and an acceleration measurement method. The superconducting accelerometer includes a test mass including a rod-shaped body part, a disc-shaped coupling part connected to the body part, the test mass being made of a superconductor; a solenoid levitation coil disposed to surround a portion of the body part and adapted to magnetically levitate the test mass, the solenoid levitation coil being made of a superconductor; a measurement superconductor coil disposed at at least one side of an upper portion and a lower portion of the coupling part; and a SQUID sensor adapted to detect current depending on variation of a distance between the test mass and the measurement superconductor coil.
US09322834B2
The present invention is to present a sample analyzer which is capable of displaying a particle distribution map of a measured sample and a reference particle distribution map so as to be visually compared without reducing a display area for displaying information other than the particle distribution map. The blood analyzer 1 comprises: a display 302; a measurement unit 2 for measuring a blood sample; and a controller 301 being configured to 1) generate a particle distribution map representing a distribution of the particles contained in the blood sample, based on measurement data obtained by the measurement unit 2; and 2) control the display 302 so as to display the particle distribution map of the blood sample at a predetermined display position and to display a reference particle distribution map at the predetermined display position so as to be visually compared with the particle distribution map of the blood sample.
US09322832B2
The invention provides methods for diagnosing degenerative joint disease in an animal by collecting a saliva sample from an animal; determining the amount of at least one diagnostic agent selected from the group consisting of interferon gamma, interferoninducible protein-10, interleukin-2, and total saliva protein in the saliva sample; comparing the amount of diagnostic agent found in the saliva sample to a corresponding amount of the same diagnostic agent found in a saliva sample from one or more comparable control animals that do not suffer from degenerative joint disease; and diagnosing that the animal is susceptible to or suffering from degenerative joint disease if the amount of diagnostic agent in the saliva sample from the animal is greater than the amount of same diagnostic agent found in the saliva sample from the one or more comparable control animals.
US09322830B2
The present invention provides a method for studying transport of an agent across a membrane comprising the steps a) providing at least one surface with a bilayer structure tethered to the surface, said bilayer structure comprising a detection volume, b) contacting the bilayer with at least one agent to be analyzed, and c) detecting a change in refractive index in the detection volume resulting from transportation of the agent across the membrane. Further there is provided a device comprising a) at least one surface, b) at least one bilayer structure tethered to the surface, and c) at least one sensor capable of detecting a change in refractive index in a detection volume, wherein the bilayer structure encloses a first volume of the detection volume and wherein the volume not enclosed by the bilayer structure but within the detection volume is a second volume and wherein the ratio between the first volume and second volume is above about 0.001.
US09322818B2
The fuel physical property determination method relating to the first aspect of the present invention includes: a test fuel flame-imaging step of obtaining imaging data by imaging flames formed by supplying a pre-mixed gas containing a test fuel and an oxidant agent, to a test tube in which an internal flow path thereof has a diameter set smaller than a flame-quenching distance at normal temperature; and a physical property determination step of determining a physical property of the test fuel by comparing the imaging data obtained in the test fuel flame-imaging step and imaging data obtained by imaging flames ignited by supplying a pre-mixed gas containing a standard-mixed fuel and an oxidant agent, to the test tube, the standard-mixed fuel having a known physical property.
US09322815B2
Ion chromatography apparatus including (a) a chromatographic column, (b) a source of an aqueous eluent liquid stream, (c) a detector, (d) a recycle line between the detector and the chromatographic column, and (e) a purifying device disposed along the recycle line including ion exchange removal medium. Also, such apparatus with an electrolytic purifying device disposed along the recycle line. Also, methods of using such apparatus.
US09322813B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing a sample using at least one detector are disclosed.
US09322809B2
An acoustic wave sensor includes a piezoelectric substrate, a transmitting electrode configured to excite a main acoustic wave propagating through a propagation region of an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a receiving electrode configured to receive the propagated main acoustic wave, a first insulating film provided on the propagation region of the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate, a second insulating film provided on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate to cover the first insulating film, and a reaction section provided on the upper surface of the second insulating film above the propagation region. The reaction section is configured to react with an object. A velocity of a transverse wave propagating through the first insulating film is higher than a velocity of a transverse wave propagating through the second insulating film. The acoustic wave sensor described above has high detection sensitivity.
US09322808B2
The present invention relates to a method of non-destructive inspection of mechanical structures (2) by using vibratory waves in order to detect local defects and/or changes of state. According to the invention, the method comprises: a first training stage in which a transient vibratory excitation is injected into an inspection zone (Z) and the received signals are picked up and time reversed in order to constitute reference excitation signals; a second training stage in which the reference excitation signals are emitted simultaneously and the resulting diverging signals are picked up in order to constitute reference response signals; and a stage of inspecting the mechanical structure (2), in which the reference excitation signals are emitted, the resulting diverging signals are picked up, and the diverging signals are compared with the reference response signals.
US09322796B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods of determining resistivity of fluids downhole in a well. The apparatus and methods may include using a sensor that employs a focused electric dipole as a transmitter and a uses a receiver to detect the electric current strength in the fluid under measurement responsive to the transmitter. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09322792B2
There is provided an X-ray diffraction apparatus configured to irradiate a sample S on a sample stage with X-rays generated from an X-ray source and detect the X-rays diffracted by a sample using a detector, including a virtual mask setting section and a signal processing section. The detector outputs detection signals according to intensity of the X-rays received by detection elements, for each of the plurality of detection elements forming a detection surface. The virtual mask setting section is capable of setting a virtual mask on the detection surface of the detector, and setting at least an opening dimension of the virtual mask as an opening condition of the virtual mask independently in an X direction and a Y direction. The signal processing section processes the detection signals outputted from the detector according to the opening condition of the virtual mask set in the virtual mask setting section.
US09322788B2
A surface inspection apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect a first detection signal according to a first diffracted light beam and a second detection signal according to a second diffracted light beam; a storage unit which is configured to store a first reference data and a second reference data; and a determination unit which is configured to determine a processing condition of the pattern in the substrate as an inspection object substrate, based on consistency between the first detection signal and the first reference data, and consistency between the second detection signal and the second reference data.
US09322785B2
A method and apparatus for generating a 3D model of and/or detecting inclusions in a polished gemstone such as diamond is described. The gemstone (103) is rotated in a series of discrete increments. At each rotational position of the gemstone, the gemstone (103) is illuminated with collimated light (111,112) and a silhouette image recorded. At each rotational position, the gemstone (103) is also (before further rotation) illuminated with diffuse light (109), and a diffuse image recorded. The images are analyzed to obtain a 3D model of the surface of the gemstone. Features may then be identified in the diffuse images and tracked between subsequent diffuse images. The tracked features may be located relative to the 3D model of the gemstone, taking into account reflection and refraction of light rays by the gemstone. Some or all of the located features may then be identified as inclusions.
US09322783B2
We describe a detection module used in an apparatus (and a system of the apparatus and the detection module) for conducting luminescence assays in multi-well plates, wherein the detection module includes a housing comprising a light detector and a control board. The apparatus and detection module each include engagement elements that align and engage the detection module with the apparatus in the system.
US09322780B2
A method for wavelength-resolving and high spatial resolution fluorescence microscopy in which fluorescence labels in a sample are repeatedly excited to emit fluorescence radiation and frames including images of isolated labels are produced with a microscope. The positions of the images of the isolated fluorescing labels are localized with a localization precision exceeding the optical resolution of the imaging beam path of the microscope. The imaging beam path of the microscope has a diffractive element which, during the imaging, diffracts the image of the sample comprising the isolated fluorescing labels into a first diffraction order so that each frame contains the first diffraction order images of the isolated fluorescing labels. A parameter of the first diffraction order images of the isolated fluorescing labels is evaluated and an indication of the wavelength of the isolated fluorescing labels is derived from this evaluated parameter.
US09322778B2
An optical sensing apparatus and a method for detecting characteristics of a sample.
US09322776B2
A system for characterizing a bi-directional reflectance distribution function scattered light pattern of a portion of a sample is disclosed. The system can comprise a hemispherical member comprising an reflective inner surface; an entrance port operable to receive electromagnetic radiation from an electromagnetic radiation source; a first reflective optical element operable to receive at least a portion of the electromagnetic radiation and to direct the at least the portion of the electromagnetic radiation onto the portion of the sample to be characterized; a wide-angle lens operable receive the electromagnetic radiation that was specularly reflected and diffusely scattered from the portion of the sample onto the inner surface of the hemispherical member; and an imaging device operable to record intensity information imaged by the wide-angle lens to characterize the bi-directional reflectance distribution function scattered light pattern of the portion of the sample.
US09322769B2
A method detects the degree of spoilage of food by exposing a food sample to an excitation wave having a first wavelength of about 340 nm or about 380 nm, wherein the excitation wave has a bandwidth of 40 nm or less. The excitation wave is permitted to interact with the food sample and return emission spectra. A detector detects the emission spectra. A predetermined threshold value is established which defines when a food sample is or is not spoiled. The emission spectra is analyzed at a second wavelength of about 400 nm, about 450 nm or about 530 nm to provide a test or measured value of the emission spectra indicative of the degree of spoilage of the food sample. Whether or not a food sample is spoiled beyond the predetermined threshold is determined by comparing the measured value to the predetermined threshold value.
US09322768B1
A pseudo-active chemical imaging sensor including irradiative transient heating, temperature nonequilibrium thermal luminescence spectroscopy, differential hyperspectral imaging, and artificial neural network technologies integrated together. The sensor may be applied to the terrestrial chemical contamination problem, where the interstitial contaminant compounds of detection interest (analytes) comprise liquid chemical warfare agents, their various derivative condensed phase compounds, and other material of a life-threatening nature. The sensor measures and processes a dynamic pattern of absorptive-emissive middle infrared molecular signature spectra of subject analytes to perform its chemical imaging and standoff detection functions successfully.
US09322747B2
A system and method for collecting a selected phase of a representative sample from a multiphase fluid flowing through a flowline, preferably located subsea. The system includes a multiphase sampling apparatus attachable to the flowline for sampling the representative sample; a vehicle sampling apparatus (e.g., ROV) locatable proximate the flowline having a power supply and a fluid sample collector for storing at least one selected phase of the representative sample; an interface for connecting the multiphase sampling apparatus and the vehicle sampling apparatus; and a temperature control arrangement disposed between the multiphase sampling apparatus and the vehicle sampling apparatus configured to minimize the temperature difference between the representative sample and the multiphase fluid flowing through the flowline.
US09322746B2
Sample bags having at least one multilayer wall are described. The multilayer wall may include an inner layer and a sealing layer. The sealing layer is outside of the inner layer and forms a seam around at least a portion of the sample bag. In certain embodiments, the inner layer comprises a patterned periphery. The patterned periphery extends into the seam to provide the inner layer with a mechanical stability.The inner layer may be a thin metal foil or a plastic film and the sealing layer may include a sealing surface of a thermoplastic, wherein the thermoplastic of each sealing layer may be fused to form a seal around the periphery of the sampling bag. The sample bag thereby an inner layer with a low permeable, low adsorption layer coupled with a second layer providing an effective seal results in a sample bag with improved sample gas stability.
US09322744B2
Provided is a tire air pressure monitoring device capable of accurately determining the wheel position of a transmitter. The tire air pressure monitoring device comprises: a transmitter installed on each wheel for transmitting detected air pressure information via a wireless signal; a rotational position detection mechanism disposed on the vehicle body side which detects the rotational position of each wheel and also outputs rotational position information to a communications line at prescribed time intervals; and a vehicle body side rotation position estimation mechanism that estimates the rotational position (i.e., number of teeth) at the time of transmission by the transmitters, on the basis of the reception information for the wireless signal from the transmitters and the rotation position information for the wheels input via the communications line.
US09322736B2
In accordance with some implementations of the described invention, a testing device is provided which includes a safety shield having one or more motion control cam tracks, wherein the cam tracks are configured to receive a cam follower that is connected to a mounting member onto which is mounted one or more testing modules. The testing modules perform specific functions for testing a sample product. The mounting member is moved within the safety shield as the cam follower tracks within the motion control cam tracks. In such implementations, the mounting member is further connected to two or more hydraulic cylinders or other actuators which are configured to move the mounting member to various positions within an x-axis and a y-axis. The integrated safety and motion control features of the safety shield provide precise, repeatable movement of the mounting member while preventing injuring to a user. Other implementations are also described.
US09322730B2
This disclosure provides example methods, devices, and systems for a sensor co-located with an electronic circuit. In one embodiment, a sensor assembly may comprise a semiconductor device configured to include a sensor having a sensing element, an electronic circuit and wherein the sensing element and the electronic circuit are hermetically sealed in the same sensor assembly; and wherein the sensor assembly is capable of outputting an environmental condition signal associated with an environmental condition measured by the sensor.
US09322725B2
A first pedaling force measurement device measures a plurality of pedaling force parameters acting on a first crank arm to one end of which a first pedal can be attached and to another end of which a crank shaft can be attached. The first pedaling force measurement device is provided with a strain-flexing part, a first parameter detection part and a first interference suppression part. Strain acting on the first crank arm is conveyed to the strain-flexing part. The parameter detection part is disposed on the strain-flexing part, and detects a plurality of parameters based on the strain being conveyed to the strain-flexing part. The interference suppression part suppresses interference in one parameter detected by the parameter detection part from the other parameters.
US09322716B2
A component measuring apparatus includes a plurality of light sources having different Wavelengths. The component measuring apparatus also includes an irradiation unit that applies lights emitted from the plural light sources to a measurement object, and a light receiving unit that receives at least one of light having transmitted through the measurement object and light having been scattered from the measurement object. The component measuring apparatus further includes a measuring unit that measures intensity of the light received by the light receiving unit per wavelength.
US09322714B2
A method of manufacturing a particle-based image display having a plurality of imaging cells is disclosed. The method includes filling the plurality of imaging cells with a plurality of first particles, identifying a defect associated with one or more of the imaging cells, and repairing the defect within a unit corresponding to part of the plurality of imaging cells.
US09322710B2
An optical sensing device includes a plurality of scanning lines having a plurality of first scanning lines and a plurality of second scanning lines, a plurality of sensing lines, a plurality of reading lines, and a plurality of optical sensing modules electrically connected to the scanning lines. Each optical sensing module includes a first optical sensing unit and a second optical sensing unit, each of which includes a sensing unit, a charge storage unit, and a reading unit. The optical sensing module further includes a plurality of differential amplifiers electrically connected to the corresponding reading lines, for determining the difference between the reading lines, wherein the difference indicates the ambient light variation. A first transistor of the sensing unit of the first optical sensing unit is different to a first transistor of the sensing unit of the second sensing unit in channel width.
US09322708B2
An optical device includes: a substrate having a dielectric layer and a plurality of metal particles; and an organic molecular layer formed by self-assembly on at least either the surface of the dielectric layer or the surfaces of the metal particles. In the organic molecular layer, a first organic molecule and a second organic molecule are alternately arranged in a first direction, and the chain length of an organic group of the first organic molecule and the chain length of an organic group of the second organic molecule are different from each other.
US09322697B2
Level of substance in a container can be determined by exciting vapor in unfilled space within the container. Variable frequency oscillator and emitting transducer can provide signals to excite resonance of vapor. Sensors can measure the peak resonant signal of vapor excited in unfilled space within the container as the amount of substance in the container changes. A signal-processing unit coupled to the sensor and variable frequency oscillator can process signals sensed by the sensing transducer and can extract them from background noise affecting the acoustic signal of the system using correlation functions by referencing the signal generated by the variable frequency oscillator. A computer can obtain the sign processed by the signal-processing unit and calculate the unfilled space within the container and derive there from an amount of filled space representing the amount of the substance contained therein. A gauge can indicate the amount of substance in the container.
US09322690B2
A meter tube assembly for use with an ultrasonic flow meter is provided. The meter tube assembly includes a pipe spool having an extremely rough first section including an interior surface with a relative roughness (ε/D) of 1% or greater. Fluid passing through the extremely rough section exhibits a flow profile that remains substantially constant over the range of Reynolds numbers. As such, ultrasonic flow meters can be simplified as they need not account for different Reynolds numbers.
US09322687B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic-inductive flow meter having a measuring tube on which there is fitted a magnetic unit for generating a magnetic field, which is aligned substantially perpendicular to a flow direction of an electrically conductive measuring medium flowing through the measuring tube and whose measurement voltage induced in the measuring medium can be detected by at least two inserted measuring electrodes electrically insulated from the measuring tube. In order to avoid coupling interference voltages into the electrical electrodes, the first and the second electrode leads can be jointly twisted starting from the leadthrough as far as the first electrode, where the first electrode lead is electrically connected to the first electrode, and the second electrode is connected to a short-circuited conductor loop which encompasses the measuring tube and is connected to the second electrode lead at a location of the first electrode.
US09322685B2
Systems and methods for measuring air speed which solve the problem of icing or blockage by creating an exterior surface on an aircraft that channels air and measures the pressure difference of the pressure through the airflow and the static pressure. This exterior surface cannot be blocked easily because air is always flowing when the aircraft is in motion, any external matter that could be on the exterior surface is readily visible, and the exterior surface can be heated to prevent icing. In addition, the exterior surface is made of a flexible material that is able to conform closely to the exterior shape of the aircraft. The preferred embodiments comprise microelectromechanical system pressure sensors placed under the air channels for measuring the pressure difference in each channel and an air speed processor for transforming the pressure differences into an air speed estimate.
US09322675B2
An absolute encoder includes a scale having marks, a detector for detecting light modulated by some of the marks, and a processor. The marks include a first mark and at least two types of second marks. The first marks and the second marks are alternately arrayed. The processor specifies a signal range of a plurality of periods of output signals based on extrema of the output signals, obtains a data seq constituted by a plurality of quantized data based on based on a plurality of extrema, corresponding to the second marks, of the output signals within the signal range, obtains a phase based on periodic signals of the output signals within the signal range, and outputs data representing the absolute position based on the data sequence and the phase.
US09322667B2
A method for detecting power consumption anomalies. The method obtains two different time power series and compares them to generate a dissimilarity matrix. A dimensionality reduction equation is applied to the dissimilarity matrix to obtain a low dimensional embedding of the power data. A probability score of each of the time series being anomalous is then calculated.
US09322655B2
An axially symmetrical Coriolis vibratory gyroscope includes a thin-walled resonator with a hemispherical or cylindrical or toroidal form, the resonator being fixed at the center to a support and being formed with openings in that wall of the resonator which is located around the support, the number of openings being determined on the basis of the formula 4nk, where k is an integer, n is the order of oscillation modes, wherein the support has a symmetrical form along the longitudinal axis and is fixed to a base, electrodes are positioned on the wall of the resonator or next to the resonator for exciting and measuring two oscillation modes, a constant amplitude of one of the modes is maintained and a secondary oscillation mode which is sensitive to Coriolis forces is monitored, and the base is provided with a seat for the support of the resonator and with electrically insulated hermetically sealed leads which pass outwards via the base and through the openings in of the resonator.
US09322646B2
A method of adaptively positioning a scanner [10] within a three-dimensional scene identifies an optimal next position for the scanner [40] based on analysis of a data point cloud that mimics the scanned portion of the scene. Occluded areas [38] are delineated from scan data and scans made at different locations in the scene are registered to a reference four-coordinate system. The fourth coordinate corresponds to the hue observed by the scanner at each data point.
US09322645B2
A rotary angle sensor used to determine a relative angular position as compared to a reference position, comprising a housing (1), at least one rotor (3, 4) that is rotatably mounted inside said housing (1), one circuit board (2) containing electrical and/or electronic components as well as one or multiple stators corresponding to the number of used rotors (3, 4). The rotary angle sensor is supposed to be improved in such a manner that allows for an especially precise alignment of a circuit board inside a housing and an easy installation of said board. This is achieved by the circumstance that bearing surfaces (9) for the circuit board (2) are provided in the direct radial vicinity of the stator inside the housing (1) and that clamping structures (11) are radially aligned with the stator in order to position the circuit board (2).
US09322640B2
Optical measuring systems for measuring geometrical parameters of nano-objects and methods of measuring a critical size (CS) are provided. The optical method of measuring the CS includes selecting parameters of an optic scheme and an illumination condition; recording a set of nanostructure images corresponding to various wavelengths with various defocusing levels of scattered radiation; calculating a plurality of sets of images of a nanostructure with various defocusing levels, corresponding to various wavelengths of the scattered radiation with CS values within a known range; and comparing a set of measured images of the nanostructure with the sets of the calculated images and determining a best approximate value of the CS values.
US09322636B2
An inductive sensor includes a primary winding, two secondary windings and a moveable target, the primary winding being centered about a central axis and carrying a high-frequency alternating current which can induce a voltage in secondary windings, the secondary windings also being centered about the central axis and made up of a number k of substantially identical loops, which are successively crossed and arranged opposite the primary winding. In this case, the target is made up of a part having p=1 angular sector with an angular opening. The opening of the angular sector of the target is less than that of a loop of secondary winding with a deviation calculated such as to eliminate the fourth harmonic of the linearity deviation Fourier decomposition, between the measured angular value and real angular value for the position of the target over the measurement course.
US09322632B2
A linear position sensor assembly having a magnetic shield minimizes interference (noise) from adjacent electrical and electromagnetic devices, particularly solenoids. The sensor assembly includes a permanent magnet linear contactless displacement (PLCD) sensor comprising a pair of magnetic field sensors which are spaced apart by a member of high magnetic permeability such as a metal bar. The sensors and metal bar are enclosed, i.e., surrounded on three sides, by a cover or shield of high magnetic permeability material such as steel or mu metal, for example. A permanent magnet is disposed in sensed proximity to the sensors and translates with a clutch actuator component. When the clutch actuator component translates axially, the two field sensors provide a signal to associated electronics having high linearity, low noise and no deadband.
US09322628B2
A tape measure for measuring a workpiece includes a housing, a coilable measuring tape at least partially disposed within the housing and having a first end extendable out of the housing, and an end hook member including an attachment portion and a hook portion. The attachment portion is arranged to engage a first surface of the first end of the tape to attach the end hook member to the tape. The hook portion extends in a direction substantially normal to the attachment portion and includes a first face and a second face arranged to engage the workpiece. The second face faces outward from the end of the tape. A magnet housing is coupled to the end hook member, a first magnet is disposed within the magnet housing and arranged to magnetically engage the workpiece when the workpiece is positioned adjacent the second face, and a second magnet is disposed within the magnet housing and is arranged to magnetically engage the workpiece when the workpiece is positioned adjacent the first face.
US09322626B2
Shell holders for firearms have a body including a plurality of bores, a plurality of elastomeric elements, each associated with a different selected one of the bores, each elastomeric element having a protruding portion that protrudes a selected distance into the bore, a plurality of movable adjustment elements, each connected to the body and each operably engaged to a different selected one of the elastomeric elements, wherein the selected distance the protruding portion of the elastomeric element protrudes into the bore is adjustable based on an adjustment position of each adjustment element, and the selected distance is independently adjustable for each elastomeric element. The shell holder may be for a shotgun. The movable adjustment elements may include a plurality of jaws movable with respect to the body. There may be a gap defined between the body and each jaw. The elastomeric elements may be received within the gaps.
US09322624B2
A liquid-jacketed disrupter comprising a container (101) for receiving liquid and housing a receptacle (120) for explosive material, in which the container comprises one or more indentations (115) which result in the generation of liquid jets upon detonation.
US09322622B2
An improved shotshell of the type having a hull, having a propellant, a wad, and a load. The improvement comprises the load comprising of at least one non-spherical slug and shot, with at least one shot disposed in front of the slug in the hull.
US09322614B2
A front iron sight for a firearm including a housing defining an open unobstructed tubular aperture for a sightline therethrough and a partially open top portion, and preferably with a leading end of the front iron sight housing including a straight flat top portion and straight exterior side wall portions.
US09322607B1
A compact silencer device for a firearm comprising of multiple chambers which trap the gases from a projectile exiting the barrel of a gun to slow down the gases and reduce the temperature, sound, and flash associated with the projectile. In one embodiment, the first chamber which attaches to the barrel of the firearm comprises of sound baffling materials or gas porting baffles which vent gases from the second chamber passing rearward. The second chamber comprises of a chamber which can accommodate a retractable third chamber of the device, the second and third chamber of the device can have sound baffles to slow down the gases from the projectile.
US09322602B2
A heat exchanger provided with a plurality of plate-like fins 2 arranged in parallel with a predetermined interval and a plurality of flat-shaped heat transfer pipes 3 inserted in a direction orthogonal to said plate-like fins 2 and through which a refrigerant flows, in which said heat transfer pipe 3 has an outside shape with a flat outer face arranged along an air flow direction and a section substantially in an oval shape and first and second refrigerant flow passages 31a, 31b made of two symmetric and substantially D-shaped through holes having a bulkhead 32 between the two passages inside, which is bonded to said plate-like fin 2 by expanding diameters of said first and second refrigerant flow passages 31a, 31b by a pipe-expanding burette ball.
US09322596B2
The formation of cracks is suppressed in a drying process for a water-containing wet gel without modifying the gel and without using a reagent. A water-containing wet gel is dried by removing water and then removing the remaining solvent. For example, a wet-gel container storing water-containing wet gel, containing a wet gel and a solvent, is heated. The solvent is vaporized into an upper space of the wet-gel container. The solvent-containing gas diffuses into a dehydrating agent container, and water is removed by a dehydrating agent. This state is maintained for one to two days to remove almost all amount of water from the solvent. Thereafter, the dehydrating agent container is detached and the wet gel, from which water has been removed, is heated to almost completely remove the solvent, and further heated at a higher temperature to completely remove the solvent to obtain a crack-free dry gel.
US09322594B2
A drier comprising a drier chamber inside a drier housing. An inner atmosphere of the drier chamber has an elevated temperature relative to the outer atmosphere. An inlet lock and an outlet lock reduce the inflow of the outer atmosphere into the drier chamber and the outflow of the inner atmosphere into the outer atmosphere. The inlet lock comprises a first air curtain, which extends over the inlet lock and which runs upward, and a second air curtain, which is behind the first air curtain in the direction of motion of the objects and which extends over the inlet lock and which runs downward. The outlet lock is designed substantially identically to the inlet lock, however the objects first pass through an air curtain directed downward and then pass through an air curtain directed upward. The conveyor system is designed that the objects are moved continuously and at a substantially constant height through the entire drier housing.
US09322593B2
An umbrella draining assembly mainly includes a cylindrical containing cistern body, a flinging device disposed in an inner section of the containing cistern body, and a bearing plate disposed at a bottom edge of the containing cistern body. A positioning component is disposed in the containing cistern body. The flinging device includes an embedding section, at an inner edge thereof is disposed a plurality of tapering serrated segments. A transmission component is disposed at a bottom edge of the embedding section. When the umbrella draining assembly is in use, a top shaft of an umbrella is inserted into the embedding section, with the positioning component fixing the position of the umbrella. The transmission component drives the embedding section to rotate quickly, causing rainwater on the umbrella to be flung outward due to centrifugal force and to fall on the bearing plate at a bottom edge of the containing cistern body. The umbrella draining assembly of the present invention drains wet umbrellas carried from outdoor to indoor on rainy days and prevents rainwater thereon to drip on the floor.
US09322577B2
Water heater appliances and methods for operating water heater appliances are provided. A water heater appliance includes a tank defining an interior volume, and a sealed system for heating water within the interior volume. The sealed system includes a compressor operable to compress refrigerant, and a first condenser downstream of and in fluid communication with the compressor. The first condenser is operable to heat water within the interior volume using energy from the refrigerant. The sealed system further includes a second condenser downstream of and in fluid communication with the first condenser. The second condenser is operable to heat water within the interior volume using energy from the refrigerant. The sealed system further includes an evaporator between and in fluid communication with the second condenser and the compressor.
US09322574B2
A protective transparent enclosure, such as a greenhouse, encloses a concentrated solar power system having line-focus solar energy concentrators. The line-focus solar energy concentrators have a reflective front layer, a core layer, and a rear layer. The core and the rear layers, when bonded with the reflective front layer, enable the line-focus solar energy concentrator, in some embodiments, to retain a particular form without additional strengthening elements. In some embodiments, the core layer and/or the rear layer are formed by removing material from a single piece of material.
US09322569B2
A motorized vent covering for an air vent of the environment control system, the motorized vent covering comprising an air flow restrictor for controlling air flow through the vent; and an actuator, the actuator including a motor configured to drive the air flow restrictor to control the flow of air from the vent, and a controller in communication with the motor, the controller configured to provide operating instructions to the motor to open or close the air flow restrictor to adjust the flow of air through the air vent.
US09322568B2
A control system is disclosed for a house HVAC system including a thermostat, supply and return air plenums and an HVAC fan. The thermostat selectively controls the HVAC system to maintain the desired temperature and resulting in a variable operating cycle period between successive on times. A fresh air intake duct is between an exterior intake vent and the return air plenum. A stale air exhaust duct is between the return air plenum and an exterior exhaust vent. The control system comprises a controllable intake damper in the fresh air intake duct and a controllable exhaust damper in the stale air exhaust duct. A controller is operatively connected to the house HVAC fan and the controllable dampers. The controller predicts an upcoming cycle period for a next successive operating cycle and calculates a fresh air vent time.
US09322555B2
A cap assembly for a bundled tube fuel injector includes an impingement plate and an aft plate that is disposed downstream from the impingement plate. The aft plate includes a forward side that is axially separated from an aft side. A tube passage extends through the impingement plate and the aft plate. A tube sleeve extends through the impingement plate within the tube passage towards the aft plate. The tube sleeve includes a flange at a forward end and an aft end that is axially separated from the forward end. A retention plate is positioned upstream from the impingement plate. A spring is disposed between the retention plate and the flange. The spring provides a force so as to maintain contact between at least a portion of the aft end of the tube sleeve and the forward side of the aft plate.
US09322554B2
A combustor for a turbine engine includes a first liner defined about an axis with a first row of first combustion air holes, one of the first combustion air holes is defined along each of a multiple of fuel injector zero pitch lines. A second liner defined about the axis with a second row of second combustion air holes, each of the second combustion air holes circumferentially offset relative to each of the multiple of fuel injector zero pitch lines.
US09322552B2
The invention relates to a method for treating solids-containing process gas in a suspension smelting furnace, comprising directing the process gas from the reaction shaft of the suspension smelting furnace to a lower furnace and, further, through a raised shaft to a waste heat boiler to cool the process gas, whereby, through one or more gas nozzles placed on the lower furnace top wall, oxidizing gas is fed into the process gas flowing in the lower furnace, whereby the amount of oxidizing gas is adjusted during the process so that the amount of sulphides contained in the solid matter of the process gas that is directed to the waste heat boiler is minimized. The invention also relates to the equipment.
US09322548B2
A combustor applied in thermophotovoltaic system comprises a combustion device and a reversed tube covering the combustion device. The combustion device includes a combustion body made of a transparent and temperature resistant material and a burning unit disposed in the combustion body. When a burning-supported medium is adopted during burning via the burning unit, the radiant intensity is increased. The reversed tube then further redirects the hot product gas for reheating an outer wall of the combustion body in combustion. Therefore, uniform illumination is accordingly resulted for enhancing the radiant intensity. Accordingly, a photovoltaic cell plate connected to the combustor preferably transforms light into electricity. The present invention fully utilizes a micro system as well as miniature energy to offer advanced electricity.
US09322536B1
A support tube assembly for use in mounting traffic signals and other traffic control devices. The tube has a standard 1.9 inch outer diameter with a wider three-quarter inch access slot and a larger internal volume to accommodate five-eighth inch conductors. The support tube assembly may include a secondary mounting assembly for attaching a second traffic control device. The secondary mounting assembly includes a mounting strip that fits inside the access slot and a mounting plate that attaches to the strip. Each edge of the access slot has a contoured profile that mates with the corresponding side on the mounting strip so, when the secondary mounting assembly is attached to the tube, the edges of the access slot are gripped between the back of the mounting plate and the inner mounting strip. A cut-to-fit vinyl closure strip is included to enclose the exposed sections of the access slot.
US09322527B2
Disclosed are a light unit and an illumination system using the same. The light unit includes a top plate, a bottom plate, and at least one light source module located between the top plate and the bottom plate. The bottom plate includes a specular-reflection region and a diffuse-reflection region. The diffuse-reflection region includes a first reflective pattern that reflects incident light via Lambertian distribution and a second reflective pattern that reflects incident light via Gaussian distribution.
US09322520B1
A portable multi-functional light emitting device includes a first cover, a transparent waterproof cover, an illumination module, a second cover and a light guide member. Both illumination module and transparent waterproof cover are installed in the first cover, and the first cover is integrally combined with the second cover, so that the illumination module achieves both waterproof and translucent effects by the transparent waterproof cover. This device with a small volume is convenient to carry, and the second cover is connected to a PET bottle or a circular rod-shaped light guide member, and the illumination module provides an illumination required in outdoor activities or a warning light effect.
US09322519B2
The invention relates to an LED fluorescent tube, characterized in that the tube comprises: a light guide column; two round aluminum substrates or round copper-aluminum bases distributed symmetrically at both sides of the light guide column in the axial direction of the light guide column, gradually far away from the light guide column; two cylindrical hollow column radiators equipped with wire passing holes; and two holders. The LED fluorescent tube of the invention has not only good heat dissipation, but also light weight and excellent energy-saving effect due to the structural advantages.
US09322509B2
The truss mounting bracket simplifies installation of electronic type equipment below fabricated trusses commonly used in warehouse and other buildings. The mounting bracket includes a housing having at one end thereof a structure for connecting with an electrical conduit section. The opposite end of the housing is adapted to allow securement below a fabricated truss. A head portion extends from a center portion of the housing and has a thread connection therewith. The head portion engages the truss and allows the housing to be tightened against the lower surface of the truss. The conduit and the housing allow electrical cables to pass through the conduit and at least partially through the housing.
US09322507B2
A device for a mounting system for positioning electronic equipment. The device having a first rail fixedly positionable on a first planar surface and engageable with a mechanism carried by the electronic equipment, and a leveling mechanism. The leveling mechanism having a first elongated aperture adapted to receive a mounting hardware.
US09322502B2
Systems and methods for pulling a pipe liner through a host pipe comprising a pulling head with a number of fingers having flexion points which move from an open orientation to a closed position when the pulling head is placed under tension from winch to thread a pipe liner through a host pipe.
US09322497B1
A connector assembly for gas appliances is disclosed. The connector assembly may be used in pairs and the composite hose may be fluidly connected therebetween. It may include two rotating direction. That is, the first screw pipe may rotate relative to the first pipe portion of the connecting pipe in the first rotating direction, and the second screw pipe may rotate relative to the second pipe portion of the connecting pipe in the second rotating direction which is different from the first rotating direction. It is easy to move the gas appliance relative to the gas supply and then prevents from gas leakage which results from the composite hose being twisted many times.
US09322496B1
A push-to-connect fitting release assistance assembly, device and method allows for simplified manual operation of a push-to-connect fitting through a clip device capable of manual fit around a fitting adapted for such use. In various embodiments, the clip device comprises a base portion and first and second leg portions, where the leg portions are adapted to provide a gradually increasing or decreasing axial pressure to a release pusher member included as part of the fitting assembly. In various embodiments, the main body component of the fitting is adapted with axially inner, intermediate and outer portions that provide a snug mechanical fit with the clip device.
US09322495B2
A pipe coupling for forming a pipe connection includes: a wall formed as a tube and including an inner surface defining an inner diameter and an outer surface; an electrical conductor supported by the wall and extending about a circumference of the coupling; and a pair of contacts exposed on the outer surface and electrically in contact with the electrical conductor for connecting an electrical power source to the electrical conductor.
US09322476B2
The present invention provides a vehicle engine oil seal having excellent sliding properties over the entire rotation range of engines from a low rotation range to a high rotation range. The present invention is a vehicle engine oil seal comprising: an elastic member with a seal lip portion having at least a main lip portion, wherein the elastic member is formed of a composition containing a fluororubber and a fluororesin and has projecting portions at least on a surface of the main lip portion, the projecting portions being substantially formed of the fluororesin contained in the composition, the fluororesin is a copolymer including a polymerization unit derived from ethylene and a polymerization unit derived from tetrafluoroethylene, and the fluororubber is a polymer including a polymerization unit derived from vinylidene fluoride.
US09322473B2
A method of producing a piston includes a step of producing a naked piston having the skirt portion; a step of forming the skirt portion with streaks; a step of applying a skirt portion of the naked piston with a first film forming paint which is provided for producing the inner solid lubricant film; a step of heating the first film forming paint on the skirt portion at a temperature of 60° C. to 160° C. for a time less than 800 seconds to dry the same; a step of applying an outer surface of the dried first film forming paint with a second film forming paint which is provided for producing the outer solid lubricant film; and a step of heating the first and second film forming paints on the skirt portion at a temperature of 160° C. to 240° C. for a time of 15 minutes to 180 minutes.
US09322471B2
Music-based electronic transmission range selection for a vehicle is provided. A first signal from a first electronic control unit (ECU) is received that is indicative of an initiation of an electronic park function. The first ECU generates a signal when an operator presses an electronic park button on an electronic shift device. A corresponding first audio function is determined from the first signal and is implemented. It is determined whether a second signal from a second ECU is received, which second signal indicates successful engagement of the park function. If it is not received, a second audio function is implemented and, if it has been received, a third audio function is implemented. The second audio function produces sound that is dissonant with respect to the sound produced by the first audio function, and the third audio function produces sound that is consonant with respect to the first audio function.
US09322469B2
A folding fan type electronic shift lever may include a plurality of gear shift units disposed on a console surface of a vehicle, a console fixing pin penetrating a hole formed at a side of each of the plurality of gear shift units, an operating unit connected to one or more gear shift units of the plurality of gear shift units, and operated to allow the plurality of gear shift units to be rotated about the console fixing pin, and a control unit disposed on a lower portion of the console surface of the vehicle, receiving operational signals sent from the plurality of gear shift units through the console fixing pin, and transmitting the operational signals to a transmission control unit (TCU) of the vehicle.
US09322455B2
There is described a belt comprising a body made of a first elastomeric material, in which a plurality of longitudinal filiform resistant inserts is embedded, and a working surface coated by a coating fabric, advantageously the working surface consists of a toothing. The first elastomeric material comprises fibers which extend in a direction substantially perpendicular to the resistant inserts and substantially parallel to a surface defined by the axes of the resistant inserts.
US09322448B2
A shock absorber, which is particularly applicable to bicycles, includes a mount body, a first cap portion, a second cap portion, and a fluid cylinder. The fluid cylinder cooperates with a valve assembly that is offset from the mount body. The first and second cap portions enclose a gas cavity or gas chamber. One of the first and second cap portions is interchangeable with other caps so as to alter the performance of the shock absorber by altering the size of the gas chamber. The replaceable cap cooperates with the mount body such that it can be replaced without removing the shock absorber from a bicycle.
US09322446B2
A drum brake assembly and a drum having an annular drum wall with an open end and an attachment end. The drum wall further includes an outer drum surface and an inner braking surface, each of which extends between the open end and the attachment end. The drum includes a hub attachment section which is attachable to an associated wheel hub. The drum also has a drum wall connection section extending between the attachment end of the drum wall and the hub attachment section, where the drum wall connection section comprises a plurality of radially angled vanes interspersed with a corresponding plurality of air openings.
US09322434B2
The invention relates to a bearing arrangement, in particular for sensor arrangements, comprising a first bearing part and a second bearing part, which are designed and arranged so as to be movable relative to each other and which touch each other at least partially in the course of said relative motion. The first bearing part is guided on at least one first running surface of the second bearing part, and the first running surface of the second bearing part has a recess, in which at least one ridge is formed, wherein the arrangement of the ridge in the recess does not influence the relative motion between the first bearing part and the second bearing part.
US09322431B2
A slide rail includes a plurality of ball retainers, a fixed rail, and a moving rail. The moving rail is capable of being inserted into and drawn out from the fixed rail by being pulled frontward of the fixed rail to be taken out from the plurality of ball retainers or by being inserted into the plurality of ball retainers from front. The plurality of ball retainers are arranged in the sliding direction along the fixed rail. The plurality of ball retainers include a guide retainer arranged on a front end part of the fixed rail. The fixed rail includes a restriction member configured to restrict sliding of the guide retainer rearward of the fixed rail.
US09322421B2
A connector system for mechanically connecting two structural elements to each other, consisting of a connector element and mating grooves in each structural element. The connector element is comprised of a base plate having a split-tongue element at each side or end of said base plate. Each joined element has a mating groove formed into its connector-receiving surface. The mating groove is designed to allow fabrication via four sequential circular saw cuts, without loss of saleable decorative surface, and at a rate consistent with economical commercial production of vinyl, laminate, or hardwood flooring. The connector element is readily extruded in a variety of polymers, including PVC. The connector and mating grooves interact so as to generate a force component acting to forcibly draw the connector into the mating grooves. The connector system operation is relatively insensitive to geometric deviations associated with normal manufacturing methods.
US09322409B2
A ventilation unit is arranged to effect flow reversal, according to two opposite directions, of a gas flow generated by a fan without reversing the rotation direction of the fan. The ventilation unit includes a fan, at least a first piping arrangement through which a gas flow is intended to pass in one of the two possible directions depending on whether it is blown or sucked by the fan, and a switching assembly arranged between the fan and the at least a first piping arrangement, at least a pair of switching devices being provided in the switching assembly and being movable between two positions for selectively and alternately connecting the at least a first piping arrangement to a delivery duct and to a suction duct of the fan, so as to allow the passage of a gas flow in a direction or in the opposite direction within the at least a first piping arrangement.
US09322403B2
A compressor includes a compression mechanism, a drive shaft, a bearing, and an oil supply passage configured to supply lubrication oil to a clearance between the drive shaft and the bearing. The drive shaft includes a large-diameter shaft part supported by the bearing, and a small-diameter shaft part connected to a lower end part of the large-diameter shaft part. A sealing part is configured to reduced or prevent oil leakage from the bearing includes an oil receiving surface formed in the bearing housing so as to face a stepped surface formed at a boundary between the large-diameter shaft part and the small-diameter shaft part. A clearance is formed between the oil receiving surface and the stepped surface so as to surround an outer periphery of the small-diameter shaft part.
US09322393B2
A wind power generation device, comprising a base (1), a wind concentrating tower (2), a vertical generator (3), a vertical spiral turbine (4), a turbine air inlet duct (5), a trumpet-shaped wind pushing duct (6) and an umbrella-shaped wind drawing duct (7). The wind concentrating tower concentrates the wind, the trumpet-shaped wind pushing duct pushes the wind, and the umbrella-shaped wind drawing duct draws the wind to form an artificial tornado, generate a low air pressure in the center, and generate a great drawing and pushing force to the turbine, thus driving the vertical spiral turbine to drive the vertical generator to generate power. The wind power generation device achieves wind power generation of large installed capacity.
US09322391B2
A housing for a wind turbine includes a plurality of spine members with a central rib and opposed channels. Frame members are attached to adjacent spine members. The housing includes divergent frame members having a pair of longitudinal members which are inserted into channels of a spine member. The housing includes central support members, each central support member is attached to a divergent frame member. Each of the central support members is attached near the center of one of the divergent frame members. The housing also includes outer plates, each outer plate attached to and between adjacent spine members. Channels face in the opposite direction from adjacent channels on the spines. An inner shroud is attached to the spine members. Air passages are created underneath the arcuate outer plates. A cowling is attached to the end plates.
US09322383B2
A method for controlling the surface temperature of a glow plug. A heating current flowing through the glow plug and a voltage applied to the glow plug are measured, a temperature-dependent control variable is calculated from measured values of the heating current and the voltage using a first calculation rule, a target value of the control variable is calculated from a target temperature using a second calculation rule, the control variable is compared with the target value and, to minimize any deviation, the duty cycle of the pulse-width modulation is changed in accordance with this deviation. A value other than electrical resistance dependent on current and voltage is used as the control variable. The calculation rule in accordance with which this variable is calculated from measured values of current and voltage is provided to carry out the method and is established in each case for a series of glow plugs.
US09322381B2
A remote start vehicle system for a vehicle is provided. The system includes a remote start requester configured to request that the engine be started. The remote start requester is operable to request that the engine be started when the remote start requester is located outside of the vehicle. A control module is configured to cause the engine to be started upon request from the remote start requester. A sensor assembly is configured to sense a neutral gear state of the transmission, where the neutral gear state indicates whether the transmission is in neutral. The sensor assembly is configured to communicate the neutral gear state to the control module. The control module is configured to prevent the engine from being started if the neutral gear state indicates that the transmission is not in neutral. A method of remotely starting an engine is also provided.
US09322377B2
One embodiment provides a recoil starter mechanism, including: a starter case having a rotation shaft; a rope reel rotatably mounted on the rotation shaft; a coil spring wound on the rotation shaft, one end thereof being formed into a tip projecting portion; a hold plate holding the coil spring to the rotation shaft; and a ratchet which is formed into a ring-like shape and interposed between the rope reel and the hold plate. The ratchet includes: a fulcrum around which the ratchet is swingable with respect to the rope reel; a guide groove in which the tip projecting portion is engaged; and an engagement pawl which is to be engaged with an engagement portion of a pulley to thereby start an engine. The guide groove and the engagement pawl are disposed at opposite sides so as to interpose the rotation shaft therebetween.
US09322376B2
An internal combustion engine has an ignition promotion unit that has a function of promoting ignition of fuel sprays formed by the small quantity injections by supplying the fuel sprays with electric energy. The engine is provided with a control device which has a combustion control unit that carries out processing of causing the fuel injection valve to perform the plurality of times of small quantity injections so that fuel sprays formed by the first-time small quantity injection from among the plurality of times of small quantity injections are connected with one another by the fuel sprays formed by the subsequent small quantity injections from among the plurality of times of small quantity injections.
US09322372B2
A fuel injection valve includes a cylinder internal pressure sensor disposed in the vicinity of a distal end thereof. The cylinder internal pressure sensor detects a cylinder internal pressure in a cylinder and outputs a first sensor signal Ss1 responsive to the detected cylinder internal pressure. Further, a signal processor, which carries out predetermined signal processing with respect to the first sensor signal Ss1 to thereby convert the first sensor signal Ss1 into a second sensor signal Ss2, is disposed between the cylinder internal pressure sensor and a solenoid unit, which is disposed on a proximal end side of the fuel injection valve.
US09322370B2
A hand-held working implement comprises an internal combustion engine, an air filter, and an intermediate flange, wherein the intermediate flange is arranged between the air filter and the internal combustion engine, wherein the bottom of the intermediate flange is arranged opposite the air filter bottom, wherein the air filter bottom and the intermediate flange bound an interior space, wherein the interior space comprises a portion of the duct, wherein a portion of the duct in the interior space is bounded by at least one boundary wall which protrudes into the interior space transversely with respect to the air filter bottom, wherein the boundary wall is formed integrally on the intermediate flange and/or on the air filter bottom, and wherein the boundary wall bridges the spacing between the air filter bottom and the bottom of the intermediate flange.
US09322364B2
An intake manifold having an EGR-air flow distributor for distributing the desired air flow and EGR-air mixture through the intake manifold to each cylinder is disclosed. The EGR-air flow distributor includes a set of guide vanes defining plural flow channels in a plenum region of the inlet manifold. The EGR-air flow distributor also includes an EGR tube partially extending into the inlet manifold and having a slot formed therein for introducing EGR into the plenum region at a single location between the engine throttle and the guide vanes.
US09322353B2
An engine control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle is provided with a conversion angle detecting device, an angle determining device, an engine load calculating device and an engine control device. The conversion angle detecting device detects a rotational phase of a cam with respect to a crankshaft as a detected conversion angle of a variable valve operating mechanism of an engine. The angle determining device determines if the detected conversion angle is different from a starting conversion angle when the engine is started. The engine load calculating device calculates a requested load to be imposed on the engine based on the detected conversion angle if the detected conversion angle is different from to the starting conversion angle at a time the engine is started. The engine control device controls the engine in accordance with the requested engine load that was calculated.
US09322344B2
An engine-powered work tool includes an engine having a crank shaft, an output controller and a wind governor. The output controller includes an output control shaft angularly rotatable about its axis for controlling a rotation speed of the crank shaft. The wind governor can control the angular rotation of the output control shaft and includes: a governor plate for receiving cooling air generated at a cooling fan connected to the crank shaft; an arm fixed to the output control shaft; and a governor spring connected to the arm for biasing the output control shaft to increase the rotation speed of the crank shaft. The governor plate functions to bias the output control shaft to decrease the rotation speed of the crank shaft upon receipt of the cooling air. The governor spring has an end changeable in position relative to the output controller among a plurality of prescribed positions.
US09322338B2
A throttle valve for preventing a sudden unintended acceleration, the throttle valve regulating an amount of air supplied to an engine mounted on a vehicle and including a valve main body, a flow path formed in the valve main body and having an inlet through which the air flows in and an outlet connected to the engine, and a flow rate regulating unit regulating an amount of the air in the flow path by opening or closing the flow path, in which, when a rapid pressure drop occurs at the outlet side connected to the engine, the flow rate regulating unit is pressed by a force generated due to a difference in pressure between the inlet and the outlet so as to close the flow path without use of an additional drive source. When a rapid pressure drop occurs at the outlet side connected to the engine, a flow rate regulating unit automatically closes the flow path without use of an additional drive source by being pressed by a force generated due to a difference in pressure between the inlet and the outlet, thereby substantially preventing a vehicle sudden unintended acceleration accident.
US09322327B2
A turbocharger includes a turbine housing defining an exhaust gas inlet, and an exhaust gas exit. The turbine housing is integrated with a housing for a 3-way valve defining a primary through-passage that supplies exhaust gas directly to a catalyst. The exhaust gas inlet is connected to a bypass passage of the valve that allows exhaust gases to flow to the turbine before going to the catalyst. The valve includes a rotary element whose position is controllable to regulate flow through each of the primary through-passage and the bypass passage of the valve. The rotary element is rotatable over a first range of movement and a further second range of movement, the first range including a position in which the bypass passage is substantially fully closed. Over the second range the bypass passage is fully open regardless of the degree of opening or closing of the primary through-passage.
US09322321B2
A fresh air system for supplying combustion chambers of an internal combustion engine with fresh air may include a housing through which a fresh air path is routed. The fresh air system may include a charge air cooler arranged in the fresh air path. The housing may include an insertion opening, through which the charge air cooler is laterally inserted into the housing transversely to the fresh air path. An outer end region of the charge air cooler may close off the insertion opening and include a circumferential holding flange. The circumferential holding flange may be clamped between a holding rim enclosing the insertion opening and a separate holding frame.
US09322319B2
A heat exchanger for a vehicle may include a heat radiating portion provided with first, second and third connecting lines and receiving first, second, and third operating fluids respectively and a bifurcating portion connecting one of inflow holes formed to the heat radiating portion for flowing one operating fluid of the first, second, and third operating fluids with one of exhaust holes formed to the heat radiating portion for exhausting the one operating fluid, wherein the bifurcating portion may be mounted at an exterior of the heat radiating portion, and wherein the bifurcating portion bypasses the one operating fluid from the heat radiating portion according to a temperature of the one operating fluid.
US09322314B2
A method for operating a dosing unit for dosing reducing agent into an exhaust gas treatment device for purifying the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, includes providing the dosing unit with at least one delivery pump, at least one injector and a line section for conducting reducing agent from the delivery pump to the injector. The dosing unit is first operated for dosing reducing agent into the exhaust gas treatment device. Then, the dosing unit is shut off. Subsequently, a first pressure is maintained in the line section for at least a first time period, with the first pressure exceeding atmospheric pressure. A motor vehicle having the dosing unit is also provided.
US09322310B2
There is provided an engine device in which a gas purifying filter can be disposed, with high rigidity, in an engine as one of constituent parts of the engine, the need of countermeasures against exhaust gas for each of devices such as vehicles is eliminated, and general versatility of the engine can be enhanced. The engine device includes an engine having an exhaust manifold, and a gas purifying filter which purifies exhaust gas discharged from the engine, front and rear engine leg mounting portions provided on one side surface of the engine include front and rear filter supporting bodies which support the gas purifying filter, the gas purifying filter includes the front and rear filter supporting bodies, and the front and rear filter supporting bodies are connected to the front and rear engine leg mounting portions.
US09322305B2
A system and method of controlling an automotive electric oil pump are provided. The method of controlling an oil pump can minimize power consumption of a vehicle and improve the fuel efficiency accordingly by learning the performance of the electric oil pump and operating the electric oil pump based on performance.
US09322292B2
A bearing is provided which includes a first set of rolling elements, a second set of rolling elements spaced away from the first set of rollers, a race at least partially enclosing the first and second sets of rolling elements, and a pre-loading element in the race between two outer sections of the race applying pre-load forces to the first and second set of rolling elements. In this way, a simplified bearing structure is achieved while better maintaining pre-load forces.
US09322285B2
A turbine airfoil has a fillet connecting the nominal portion of the airfoil into an end wall. Cooling holes are formed over a greater circumferential extent in the fillet than they are through the nominal portion of the airfoil.
US09322284B2
A mechanism for synchronously varying pitch of a multi-blade rotor, such as rotors used in wind or hydraulic generator and helicopter is provided in the present invention. The sync-pitch-varying mechanism for the rotor mainly comprises a bearing a driver, a transmission, a linkage and a control unit, wherein the transmission includes a shaft coupling, a ballscrew, an intermediate cylinder, a driven shaft and a transition cylinder; the linkage includes a link hub, a guide support and multiple links; the control unit includes a speed sensor, a position sensor, a switch and a programmable controller; a rotatory driving force output by said driver through the shaft coupling is transmitted to the driven shaft through a screw-and-nut transmission between the ballscrew and the intermediate cylinder of the transmission so as to drive the driven shaft to move in a linear motion which is then transferred from the driven shaft to the link hub of the linkage through means of the transition cylinder; the controller is configured to enable the driven shaft to move reciprocally within a predefined range of length in order to move the link hub back and forth along the guide support in an axial direction thereof, and therefore multiple bearings for supporting the blades of the rotor are rotatably movable through the multiple links of the link hub. Advantageously, the mechanism of the invention has a simple and compact structure, low cost and high reliability, and the operation is easy to be controlled precisely.
US09322283B2
An airfoil includes an airfoil body made of a first metal with a leading edge, a trailing edge, pressure side and suction side; a sheath with first and second flanks made of a second metal; a first layer of non-conductive material adhesively bonded between a portion of the end of the first flank and the airfoil body and extending beyond the end of the first flank on the pressure side; and a second layer of non-conductive material adhesively between a portion of the end of the second flank and the airfoil body and extending beyond the end of the second flank on the suction side.
US09322278B2
An Archimedean screw apparatus for use either in power generation or for the pumping or conveying of fluid material includes a screw body formed by a shaft and at least one helical flight that is located in a close-fitting channel structure. The screw body is rotatably mounted such that the flight is in frictional contact with in inner surface of the channel. The weight of the screw body is borne at least partially by the channel structure and is dissipated fully or partially along the length of channel structure. Hence, preferably the Screw both is either provided with only a single bearing located at one end of the shaft, the other end being left floating within the channel structure, or the screw body is not provided with any bearings and the shaft is connected directly to a drive mechanism or to part of a power generating apparatus.
US09322266B2
A sampling apparatus, comprising a primary flowline, a secondary flowline, a dump flowline not provided downstream of the secondary flowline, and a relief valve provided in the dump flowline, may be disposed in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. A method of use of the sampling apparatus may comprise flowing fluid from the subterranean formation and into the primary flowline; diverting fluid from the primary flowline to a sample chamber through the secondary flowline; diverting fluid from the primary flowline to the wellbore through the dump flowline; and controlling the pressure in the sample chamber using the relief valve. The sampling apparatus may be used to terminate storage of a fluid sample in a sample chamber while continuing to pump fluid from the formation.
US09322254B2
A method for hydrocarbon resource recovery in a subterranean formation includes forming a laterally extending injector well in the subterranean formation and forming a laterally extending producer well spaced below the injector well. The method may also include radio frequency (RF) heating the subterranean formation to establish hydraulic communication between the injector well and the producer well. The method may further include injecting heated liquid water into the injector well to recover hydrocarbon resources from the producer well based upon the hydraulic communication therebetween.
US09322253B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system and methods for the production of hydrocarbons. The method includes flowing a stream directly from a hydrocarbon reservoir to a cavern and performing a phase separation of the stream within the cavern to form an aqueous phase and an organic phase. The method also includes flowing at least a portion of the aqueous phase or the organic phase, or both, directly from the cavern to a subsurface location and offloading at least a portion of the organic phase from the cavern to a surface.
US09322250B2
A system for gas hydrate production. The system includes a tubular having a plurality of ports. The plurality of ports includes a first port configured to automatically open at a first differential pressure, and to remain closed at differential pressures below the first differential pressure. A second port configured to remain closed at the first differential pressure, and to automatically open at a second differential pressure greater than the first differential pressure; wherein the second port is located uphole of the first port. Also included is a method of improving methane hydrate production.
US09322248B2
Completing a wellbore in a subsurface formation with packer assembly having first mechanically-set packer as first zonal isolation tool, and second zonal isolation tool comprises internal bore for receiving production fluids, and alternate flow channels. First packer has alternate flow channels around inner mandrel, and sealing element external to inner mandrel and includes operatively connecting packer assembly to a sand screen, and running into wellbore. First packer set by actuating sealing element into engagement with surrounding open-hole portion of the wellbore. Thereafter, injecting a gravel slurry and further injecting the gravel slurry through the alternate flow channels to allow it to bypass the sealing element, resulting in a gravel packed wellbore within an annular region between sand screen and surrounding formation below packer assembly.
US09322244B2
An inflow assembly for controlling fluid flow between a hydrocarbon reservoir and a production casing in a well, comprising a first tubular having an axial extension and at least one inlet and a first wall with at least a first axial channel extending in the first wall from the inlet, a second tubular having a first and a second end and at least one outlet, the second tubular being rotatable within the first tubular and having a second wall with at least a second axial channel extending in the second wall from the first end to the outlet. The assembly is configured to control a fluid flow between a hydrocarbon reservoir and a production casing in a well. The inflow assembly may also be utilized in a downhole completion comprising a casing string.
US09322241B2
Methods and apparatus for sealing a well are disclosed. The method includes introducing a plug axially into the well, with a mouth of the plug turned up and a bottom wall part turned down, the plug being positioned in the well at a desired depth. The plug is inflated by injecting a high-pressure liquid into it via its mouth so that a tubular wall part of the plug expands radially beyond its elastic limit and presses firmly and tightly against the wall of the well by a crimping effect, while its bottom wall part serves as a sealing partition, forming a tight barrier between lower and upper parts of the well that it separates. The plug has an internal axial mandrel that connects its mouth to its bottom wall, the mandrel being pierced with channels that allow injection of high-pressure liquid inside the plug via the mouth and channels.
US09322236B2
A system and method for obtaining soil samples is described. A coring system includes a suction carrier, a pump and a corer. The suction carrier comprises a body defining a cavity and a top portion having an aperture. The pump is positioned adjacent to the aperture and constructed and arranged to deliver fluid from the cavity. The corer is constructed and arranged to releasably engage with the suction carrier.
US09322231B2
Mineral particles may provide for wellbore fluids with tailorable properties and capabilities. Such wellbore fluids may be included as a portion of a wellbore drilling assembly that includes a pump in fluid communication with a wellbore via a feed pipe; and a wellbore fluid disposed in at least one selected from the group consisting of the pump, the feed pipe, the wellbore, and any combination thereof, wherein the wellbore fluid comprises a base fluid and a plurality of mineral particles, for example, mineral particles that comprise at least one selected from the group consisting of manganese carbonate, NixFe (x=2-3), copper oxide, and any combination thereof, the mineral particles having a median diameter between about 5 nm and about 5000 microns.
US09322230B2
A subsea mudlift pump includes a pressure sealed housing disposed in a body of water in which a wellbore is being drilled by a drilling rig disposed above the surface of the body of water. A motor (44) is configured to generate linear motion is coupled to at least one piston (46) disposed within the housing such that operation of the motor causes linear motion of the piston within the housing. One side of the piston is within a pumped fluid chamber that changes volume when the piston is moved within the housing.
US09322229B2
A slip for supporting a member, such as a pipe. The slip comprises one or more rolling elements, such as roller, for gripping the member. The rolling elements may contact each other. The slip may be formed from a plurality of pivotally connected segments. The rolling elements may be arranged to roll along ramps, arranged to urge the members into contact with a member to be gripped.
US09322226B2
A device is for a release module for attaching a pipe string to a heave compensated, load bearing unit arranged on a floating installation, where two or more hydraulic cylinder units form an extendable connection between the heave compensated, load bearing unit and a portion of the pipe string.
US09322225B2
A weak link (17, 43) for a riser system comprising a pin (2, 25) and a box (1, 24), bolts (11, 34) for releasably connecting the pin (2, 25) and the box (1, 24), the bolts being designed to break at a predefined tension. The link further comprising a pressure balancing mechanism for balancing axial forces acting on the bolts (11, 34) due to end cap effect. The weak link also comprises a strong mode mechanism and a dampening mechanism.
US09322224B2
A coupler for coupling a first and a second section of a transmission line embedded in a first and a second component respectively, includes a first half-coupler including a first electrically conductive housing, a first electrically conductive structure, and a first structure of dielectric material, and a second half-coupler including a second electrically conductive housing, a second electrically conductive structure, and a second structure of dielectric material. When the first and second components are connected end-to-end, the first and second housings come into contact to form together an electromagnetic cavity, inside which the first and second conductive structures are separated from each other by the first and second dielectric structures, so as to allow the first and second conductive structures to be in electromagnetic communication with each other.
US09322222B2
The present disclosure relates to a tower comprising a fluid transporting pipe (24) and an element (29) for anchoring a transporting pipe (24) to the bottom (14) of the expanse of water (12), which element is connected to an upstream point (38) of an intermediate section (30) of the pipe. The tower comprises a buoy (26) connected to a downstream point (40) of the intermediate section in order to keep the intermediate section (40) in a substantially vertical configuration. The buoy (26) has a height less than 1.5 times its maximum transverse direction and delimits a first through-passage (78A) in which the intermediate section (30) is fitted. The buoy (26) delimits a second through-passage (78B), separate from the first through-passage (78A), the second through-passage (78B) accepting the upper section (34). The tower (20) comprises a coupling section (32) that couples the connecting upper section (34) to the intermediate section (30).
US09322214B2
The present invention relates to end stops for use in retractable coverings for architectural openings where the end stops have impact-absorbing means which are bi-directionally cushioning. The end stop will remain at a dedicated position even after being impacted.
US09322213B2
An aspect of the invention provides a display with an adjustable focus mechanism. The display with an adjustable focus mechanism includes a display panel for emitting a plurality of rays to form an image; a light modulation device for receiving the rays from the display panel and adjusting an emergent angle of each ray; and a controller for providing a control signal to drive the light modulation device by estimating the emergent angle of the each of the rays according to an eyesight data of a user and a distance between the user and the display.
US09322212B2
An overhead roll-up door assembly for a vertically moving door to permit and prohibit access to an opening, the door assembly having a pair of spaced apart, parallel side columns for vertically guiding a door panel, the door panel having at least one wind lock attached proximate each marginal edge of the door panel, each of the wind locks having an angled portion facing the interior of the opening having a first durometer and a substantially rectangular portion having a second durometer different from the first durometer, the wind locks engaging the side column to prevent disengagement of the door panel from the side columns when a wind load is applied to the door panel.
US09322210B2
A fabric venetian window shade assembly including: a fabric venetian window shade including a pair of opposing first and second facings coupled by a plurality of vanes; an actuation system including: a roller configured to receive the fabric venetian window shade; a spring-loaded ratchet operatively coupled to the roller; a first weighted rail attached to a lower edge of the first facing; and a second weighted rail attached to a lower edge of the second facing, wherein the first weighted rail and the second weighted rail are separate.
US09322207B2
A door assembly including a frame with an opening having a first portion and a second portion. The door assembly includes a first panel movable between a closed position in which the first panel generally covers the first portion of the opening and an open position in which the first panel generally does not cover the first portion. The door assembly has a second panel movable between a closed position in which the second panel generally covers the second portion of the opening and an open position in which the second panel generally does not cover the second portion. The second panel is configured to block the first panel from moving to its open position when the second panel is in its closed position. The door assembly further includes a controller operatively coupled to the second panel to selectively block or enable movement of the second panel from its closed position to its open position or from its open position to its closed position.
US09322205B2
Disclosed is apparatus for use with: an RFID proximity card; a frame including a pair of jambs; a door hingedly connected to one of the jambs, the other being hollow and having a rabbet defined by a pair of surfaces, one surface presenting to the closed door and defining part of a stop against which the door is positioned when closed and the other surface flanking and presenting towards the door edge when closed. The other surface width is in the direction which defines the one jamb depth. The one jamb thickness is in the direction which defines the doorway width. The apparatus comprises a sensor which: produces a signal when the card is presented thereto; and has thickness T, width W and height H. T<[thickness of other jamb−thickness of stop]. W is equivalent to the width of other surface. H
US09322204B2
A door actuating apparatus includes an engagement mechanism configured to retain a door at a full close position, an operating portion configured to output a signal to open the door, a control unit actuating an actuator by receiving the signal, an engagement member advancing and retracting relative to the door in accordance with rotation of the door, and a door opening mechanism operating by actuation of the actuator, positioning the door at a full close position to a predetermined rotational position by rotating the door in a vehicle exterior direction by biasing the engagement member by engaging with the engagement member when the door is released from an engaged state by the door opening mechanism engaging with the engagement mechanism, and releasing engagement with the engagement member when an external force rotating the door in the vehicle exterior direction is exerted on the door at the predetermined rotational position.
US09322201B1
An intelligent door lock system is provided with a position sensing device configured to be coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device. The position sensing device senses position of the drive shaft and assists in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device. An engine is provided with a memory coupled to the positioning sensing device. A circuit is coupled to the engine and an energy source is coupled to the circuit. A device converts energy into mechanical energy and is coupled to the circuit, positioning sensing device and the drive shaft. The device that converts energy is coupled to the energy source to receive energy from the energy source. Wing latches are used to secure the intelligent door lock system to a mounting plate coupled to a door.
US09322194B2
An intelligent door lock system is provided with a position sensing device configured to be coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device. The position sensing device senses position of the drive shaft and assists in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device. An engine is provided with a memory coupled to the positioning sensing device. A circuit is coupled to the engine and an energy source is coupled to the circuit. A device converts energy into mechanical energy and is coupled to the circuit, positioning sensing device and the drive shaft. The device that converts energy is coupled to the energy source to receive energy from the energy source.
US09322186B1
A leveling spacer system includes a multiple plates, multiple spacers and multiple knobs. The spacers are threadedly connected to the knobs to clamp the panel members, and the plates are used to connect the spacers and the knobs together with so as to clamp more panel members. The plates and the knobs are located on the top of the panel members, and the spacers are located at the underside of the panel members. When the panel members are leveled, the knobs are removed, and the necks on the spacers are broken to finish the leveling of the panel members.
US09322185B1
A tile lippage removal system preferably includes a spacer post, a threaded cap and an anti-friction protection plate. The spacer post includes a base member, a spacer member and a threaded shaft. A bottom of the spacer member extends from a top of the base member. A break away connection is made between the spacer member and the base member. A bottom of the threaded shaft extends from a top of the spacer member. A plurality of grip extensions extend from an outer surface of a substantial inverted cup to allow rotation of the threaded cap. A female thread is formed in a center of the substantial inverted cup to threadably receive the threaded shaft. The anti-friction protection plate includes a round outer perimeter and a spacer opening, which is sized to receive the spacer member. The anti-friction protection plate may be used to improve existing tile lippage removal systems.
US09322184B2
In a method for manufacturing floor panels that have at least a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate, the top layer including a thermoplastic layer that is translucent or transparent, the method may involve providing the top layer, including the thermoplastic layer, on the substrate. The method may also involve heating at least the thermoplastic layer, and structuring the thermoplastic layer using a mechanical press element.
US09322175B2
A mixture comprising a bitumen (A), and a polymer composition (B) comprising the following components, all percent amounts being by weight: I) from 1 to 30% of a butene-1 polymer having a Melt Flow Rate (MFR), measured according to ASTM D 1238, at 190° C./2.16 kg, from 0.1 to 1000 g/10 min.; and II) from 70 to 99% of a heterophasic polyolefm composition comprising the following polymer fractions: a) 4-45% of a propylene homopolymer or copolymer; b) 0-20% of a of a copolymer fraction containing ethylene, insoluble in xylene at room temperature; c) 40-95% of a copolymer of ethylene with propylene and/or a CH2═CHR α-olefin, where R is a C2-C8 alkyl radical, containing ethylene in a quantity lower than 40% and being soluble in xylene at room temperature.
US09322172B2
A concrete structure member strengthened with prestressed FRP elements includes a concrete structure body and a prestressed FRP element arranged on the former. An epoxy resin overlay surrounding the prestressed FRP element is provided to wrap it up, and a polymer concrete supplemental layer is provided outside the epoxy resin overlay. The concrete structure member can uniformly and effectively transfer the stress from the prestressed FRP element.
US09322170B2
A bracing device has a supporting module and a restraining element mounted around the supporting module to provide a restraining-supporting effect to the supporting module. The supporting module has at least one supporting element. The at least one supporting element is elongated and has an axial segment and two connecting heads. The axial segment has at least one concave edge and at least one loading section. The connecting heads are respectively formed on two connecting ends of the axial segment. The restraining element has at least one viewing hole aligning along the at least one loading section of the axial segment to enable a user to see the at least one supporting element of the bracing device via the at least one viewing hole without dismantling the restraining element.
US09322169B2
Technology is provided for a strut hanger for connecting a strut to a hanger rod includes a hook portion configured to engage the exterior surface of the hanger rod, a lever portion, a fulcrum disposed between the hook portion and lever portion, and a strut tab extending from the lever portion and configured to engage a strut. Load placed on the strut tab causes the lever portion to act against the fulcrum to force the hook portion against the hanger rod, thereby supporting the strut from the hanger rods without fasteners attached to the hanging rods. The strut hanger can include a clip extending from the lever portion to engage the hanger rod and maintain a minimum load on the lever.
US09322163B1
An expansion joint seal for a structure includes a central portion having at least one central chamber disposed around a centerline, a first flange portion extending outwardly from the centerline and a second flange portion extending outwardly from the centerline in a direction opposite the first flange portion. When installed on the structure, the first flange portion is attachable to a first substrate of the structure and the second flange portion is attachable to a second substrate of the structure such that the central portion is disposed within and seals a gap formed between the first substrate and the second substrate of the structure. Movement of one or both of the first substrate and the second substrate causes a response in the central portion to maintain the seal.
US09322159B1
One possible embodiment of the invention could be a construction spacer for holding boards in a parallel and spaced-apart manner comprising a Y-shaped base having a first and second base ends, the first base end forming a C-shaped aperture; a pair of spaced apart J-shaped attachment arms that perpendicularly attaches to the first base end and further forms hook portions that together can hold a first board; a pair of lateral support arms that extends outward from the first body end; an L-shaped attachment arm that perpendicularly attaches to the second base end and forms a catch that can hold a second board parallel to the first board, wherein the C-shaped aperture can accept a second base end of another construction spacer to allow a plurality of construction spacers to be connected together in tandem order.
US09322156B2
A filtration apparatus for curb vaults may be installed in existing vaults through the road-level inlet opening into the vault. A support plate assembly of the filtration apparatus suspends a primary and secondary filter and is movable between extended and retracted positions. An adjustable attachment system allows installation of the filtration apparatus by inserting the apparatus through the inlet opening.
US09322155B2
Embodiments of the invention provide resistance hanging screens, configured for installation into a storm drain or a component of a storm drain, that comprise a front plate and first and second hanging pivots. The combination of the location of the center of gravity of the resistance hanging screens and the first and second hanging pivots confers a bias of the resistance hanging screens to occupy a closed position when the resistance hanging screen is installed in the storm drain or the storm drain component.
US09322154B2
A plumbing trap flushing device for use in association with one of a drain in a sink, an overflow drain in a basin, a drain in a bathtub, an overflow drain in a bathtub or shower and the like is disclosed. The plumbing trap flushing device includes a connector, a conduit and a nozzle. The connector is releasably and operably attachable to a spout of a tap. The conduit is in flow communication with the connector and has an outside diameter and an inside diameter. The outside diameter is dimensioned to fit into the drain, whereby when the conduit is in the drain air and water freely flows around the conduit into the drain. The nozzle is in flow communication with the distal end of the conduit. The nozzle has a nozzle inside diameter less than the inside diameter of the conduit whereby the water exits the nozzle in a stream.
US09322152B2
The shower head contains a nozzle body and a handle. The nozzle body contains a connecting rod, a support disc, and a container. The container is rotated by water from the handle and its stored liquid soap, essence, or lotion is released by centrifugal force. Water mixed with soap or essence is then ejected from the nozzle head. When the connecting rod is twisted towards a direction, the container is prevented by the support disc from contacting with water and therefore pure water is ejected from the nozzle head. A special flow path is provided in the handle. As water flows through handle, the speed of the water increases and, due to the Venturi effect, outside air is sucked into the handle and mixed with the water, thereby producing a large number of tiny bubbles. The shower head therefore provides a significantly enhanced cleaning effect.
US09322150B2
Wear members for wear assemblies include a lock configured to secure the wear member to a base, where the lock has two engagement positions, namely: (a) a first position that secures the lock to the wear member, and (b) a second position that secures the wear member to the base. The locks are further configured to be unlatched and removed from the wear member in two phases, a first retraction of the latching mechanism, followed by a rotation of the lock itself with removal from the wear member.
US09322146B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for arbitrating between joystick inputs. The system generates a first command based on the first input if the first input has a non-zero value, and generates a second command based on the second input if the first input has a zero value and the second input has a non-zero value. The system thereby allows two different inputs to control a single commanded function.
US09322139B2
A self-propelled construction road milling machine, includes a machine frame and a milling drum housing, in which a milling drum is arranged. The machine includes a drive unit with which the height of the scraper blade of a scraper device can be adjusted in relation to the milling drum. A control unit for the drive unit adjusts the height of the scraper blade and a measurement device measures the distance between the lower edge of the scraper blade and the milled material. The control unit is designed in such a way that the scraper blade is height-adjustable depending on the height of the milled material remaining in the milled track. The control unit ensures that, on the one hand, the milled material can come out of the milling drum housing unimpeded behind the milling drum in the direction of work and, on the other hand, that the milling drum housing is shut above the material that is coming out. On the one hand, an unimpeded operation of the milling machine is thus ensured and, on the other hand, a clean result of the work is achieved.
US09322128B2
A method and apparatus for pressing fluid from laundry articles employs a receiving vessel that holds a batch of articles that are wetted with fluid. Fabric articles are compressed with a press to discharge fluid from the articles. The press includes a diaphragm that can be pressured with fluid. The diaphragm flexibly conforms to an upper surface portion of the batch of fabric articles. After the fabric articles are pressed of fluid, the diaphragm elevates with the press and is rotated. A specially configured linkage rotates the diaphragm and the press as the diaphragm moves from a lower position to an upper position.
US09322127B2
A method of operating a home appliance having a treating chamber for receiving an article for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation stored in memory of a programmable controller operably controlling one or more actuators to implement the cycle of operation, the method includes implementing the cycle of operation, receiving sensor feedback, calculating gradients from the sensor feedback, and controlling an actuator based thereon.
US09322124B1
The portable drier for personal articles includes a wheeled cabinet having vertically oriented front and rear compartments. The front compartment is open at the front and provides for the hanging of damp or wet clothing and the like therein. A lower shelf extends across the front of the front compartment, for drying other articles. The shelf includes a series of receptacles for holding umbrellas and the like. The rear compartment includes a sinusoidal steam pipe array, with a fan or blower in the lower portion of the cabinet drawing air through the open front and blowing the air up past the steam pipes and through a louvered panel to dry articles in the front compartment. The drier may include additional features, such as an ultraviolet light for bactericidal and fungicidal cleansing, an air circulation filter, an ironing board and steam iron, and an electronic scent dispenser.
US09322112B2
To suppress 3D or convex growth and ensure a high flatness, an apparatus for producing an SiC single crystal includes: a container which holds an SiC solution, a portion for maintaining the solution in the container at a suitable temperature, a shaft having a lower end part acting as a portion for holding an SiC seed crystal in planar contact with an overall back surface of a crystal growth face and acting as a portion for cooling the SiC seed crystal, and a portion of the holding shaft for enabling an SiC single crystal to continuously grow at the crystal growth face by maintaining the crystal growth face brought into contact with the solution, a lower end part of the shaft having a portion for obtaining a uniform in-plane temperature distribution of the crystal growth face brought into planar contact, and a method for the same.
US09322101B2
A composition based on a certain chromium-free silicate-based binder is described. The one-part slurry composition is an aqueous solution of lithium-doped potassium silicate in combination with an aluminum or aluminum alloy powder. The one-part slurry composition produces a corresponding coating exhibiting improved performance at a reduced coating thickness.
US09322099B2
Provided is a composition for forming a photocatalytic coating layer, a process for preparing said composition, a self-cleaning article comprising a photocatalytic coating layer comprising said composition and a process for preparing said self-cleaning article. The composition may be used to prepare a self-cleaning article having excellent anticorrosion and processability by one coating and drying procedure, without several coating and drying procedures.
US09322096B2
Technologies are presented for growing graphene by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on a high purity copper surface. The surface may be prepared by deposition of a high purity copper layer on a lower purity copper substrate using deposition processes such as sputtering, evaporation, electroplating, or CVD. The deposition of the high purity copper layer may be followed by a thermal treatment to facilitate grain growth. Use of the high purity copper layer in combination with the lower purity copper substrate may provide thermal expansion matching, compatibility with copper etch removal, or reduction of contamination, producing fewer graphene defects compared to direct deposition on a lower purity substrate at substantially less expense than deposition approaches using a high purity copper foil substrate.
US09322090B2
Components and methods of processing such components from precipitation-strengthened alloys so that the components exhibit desirable grain sizes following a supersolvus heat treatment. The method includes consolidating a powder of the alloy to form a billet having an average grain size. The billet is then forged at a temperature below the solvus temperature to form a forging having an average grain size of not coarser than the grain size of the billet. The billet is then forged at a total strain of at least 5%, after which at least a portion of the forging is heat treated at a temperature below the solvus temperature to pin grains within the portion. The entire forging can then be heat treated at a temperature above the solvus temperature of the alloy without coarsening the grains in the portion.
US09322089B2
A nickel-based alloy suitable for casting gas turbine components having a lower density and basic heat treating process while achieving improved strength is disclosed. Multiple embodiments of the alloy are disclosed capable of providing both directionally-solidified and equiaxed castings. Also disclosed is a method of making a cast and heat treated article utilizing the improved nickel-base alloy.
US09322073B1
Crushed flux lime to be used in a BOF converter is processed to minimize waste dust, obviate environmental complications caused by high pH in waste water, and to utilize a very high percentage of the original crushed lime for useful products. The crushed flux lime is screened to provide a fine grain fraction and a modified flux lime fraction. Only a small percentage of the modified flux lime fraction is dust which may be removed in a dust collection system, and the modified flux lime fraction is then passed to the BOF converter. The fine grain fraction is made into a highly fluidized lime of very small dimensions by pulverizing it further in the presence of a fluidizing agent.
US09322072B2
The present invention generally provides methods of improving lignin separation during biomass fractionation with an acid to release sugars and a solvent for lignin (such as ethanol). In some embodiments, a digestor is employed to fractionating a feedstock in the presence of a solvent for lignin, sulfur dioxide, and water, to produce a liquor containing hemicellulose, cellulose-rich solids, and lignin. A solid additive is added to the digestor, wherein the solid additive combines with at least a portion of the lignin. Then a mixture of lignin and the solid additive is separated from the liquor, prior to hemicellulose recovery. Optionally, a solid additive may also be introduced to a hydrolysis reactor for converting hemicellulose oligomers to monomers, to improve separation of acid-catalyzed lignin. In some embodiments, the solid additive is gypsum or a gypsum/lignin mixture.
US09322071B2
Disclosed is an economic method for concentrating virus and detecting virus, such that virus in a sample solution having low virus concentration can be concentrated with high efficiency within a short time. Particularly, the method comprising the steps of: (A) adding Concanavalin A (Con A) to a sample solution containing a virus, and reacting the added Concanavalin A with the virus in the sample solution to form a virus-Concanavalin A conjugate; and (B) separating the virus-Concanavalin A conjugate from the sample solution.
US09322066B2
The present invention provides methods of predicting a response to a cancer treatment by determining CD68 level or PSMB1 (P11A) polymorphism in a biological sample and the presence or quantity of a second biomarker in the patient. The invention also provides kits and methods for treating cancer.
US09322059B2
A method for replicating and amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence is described. A method of the invention involves the formation of a recombination intermediate without the prior denaturing of a nucleic acid duplex through the use of a recombination factor. The recombination intermediate is treated with a high fidelity polymerase to permit the replication and amplification of the target nucleic acid sequence. In preferred embodiments, the polymerase comprises a polymerase holoenzyme. In further preferred embodiments, the recombination factor is bacteriophage T4 UvsX protein or homologs from other species, and the polymerase holoenzyme comprises a polymerase enzyme, a clamp protein and a clamp loader protein, derived from viral, bacteriophage, prokaryotic, archaebacterial, or eukaryotic systems.
US09322051B2
Disclosed are high throughput methods of probing multiple targets in a biological sample where the recurrent time-consuming antibody incubation steps and individual signal modification and activation steps are replaced by simultaneous hybridization of biomarkers and sequential detection by combining signal removal and activation into a single step. Also disclosed are images obtained by such methods.
US09322049B2
The invention provides a method of increasing a deacetylated activity of SIRT6 by contacting SIRT6 with an agent that binds SIRT6 and reduces the Km of SIRT6 for a substrate, thereby increasing the deacetylase activity of SIRT6. The invention also provides compounds of the formulas (II) and (III).
US09322048B2
The present invention relates to the field of microbiological testing of food. It relates to a kit comprising a reaction medium containing at least one inhibitor of Gram-negative bacteria and a fluorescent substrate specific for PC-PLC. It further relates to a diagnostic kit for identifying bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group comprising a container of a selective or nonselective reaction medium with a pH between 6.8 and 8.0, the medium comprising at least one inhibitor of Gram-negative bacteria and a fluorescent phosphatidylcholine phospholipase C (PC-PLC) substrate.
US09322044B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a phosphorylated protein using a SepRS (O-phosphoseryl-tRNA synthetase) mutant and an EF-Tu mutant, which have increased activity. More specifically, the invention relates to a method of producing a phosphorylated protein by incorporating phosphoserine into the specific position of a target protein or polypeptide using tRNASep serving to recognize at least one codon in the mRNA of the target protein or polypeptide, an O-phosphoseryl-tRNA synthetase (SepRS) mutant selected by a molecular evolution technique and serving to aminoacylate tRNASep with phosphoserine (Sep), and an EF-Tu mutant serving to bind and deliver Sep-tRNASep to the ribosome.According to the invention, a phosphorylated protein can be produced in an amount of mg per liter using the SepRS and EF-Tu mutants. Thus, the invention is useful for the production of various phosphorylated proteins, including phosphorylated enzymes, the production of antibodies, the fabrication of protein chips, and cell-based screening for new drug development.
US09322041B2
The present invention relates to genetically modified microorganisms capable of producing beta-glucans, characterized in that the genetically modified microorganism overexpresses (i) a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase-activity, and/or (ii) a polypeptide having 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase-activity, compared to a corresponding non-modified control microorganism of the same strain. The present invention also relates to the use of a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase-activity or the use of such a polypeptide for producing β-glucans. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods for producing β-glucans comprising the introduction of a promoter upstream of a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase-activity thereby increasing the expression of the polynucleotide, or a polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having 1,3-β-D-glucan synthase-activity into a microorganism being able to synthesize β-glucans.
US09322038B2
Methods for producing lipids from lignocellulosic biomass are provided. Sugars produced by pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass are utilized by heterotrophic oleaginous fungi or yeast to increase their biomass and to produce lipids without prior detoxification of the pretreated biomass. After the fungi/yeast are cultured with the sugars, solid residues from the pretreated biomass are combined with the fungi/yeast under conditions which allow simultaneous 1) enzymatic degradation of cellulose and/or hemicellulose to produce sugars and 2) fermentation of the sugars for further increases in biomass and lipid production.
US09322036B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for inactivating a FUT8 gene, using fusion proteins comprising a zinc finger protein and a cleavage domain or cleavage half-domain. Polynucleotides encoding said fusion proteins are also provided, as are cells comprising said polynucleotides and fusion proteins.
US09322033B2
The present invention discloses Hemipteran insect inhibitory proteins, methods of using such proteins, nucleotide sequences encoding such proteins, methods of detecting and isolating such proteins, and their use in agricultural systems.
US09322026B2
This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to novel substitution mutant receptors and their use in a Group H nuclear receptor-based inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating the expression of a gene in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screening assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic organisms.
US09322008B2
The present invention relates to a mutant of L-asparaginase enzyme characterized in having high thermostability, pH stability and no glutaminase activity useful for therapeutics and the process of preparing the same. The present invention specifically relates to mutants MTCC 5580, MTCC 5581 and MTCC 5582 characterized in having higher stability, no glutaminase activity etc., to allow their usage in the form of improved protein therapeutics.
US09322005B2
Disclosed herein are polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding, cells and organisms comprising novel DNA-binding domains, including TALE DNA-binding domains. Also disclosed are methods of using these novel DNA-binding domains for modulation of gene expression and/or genomic editing of endogenous cellular sequences.
US09322000B2
The present invention relates to a nucleic acid molecule, which encodes a polypeptide having alcohol dehydrogenase activity, in particular methanol dehydrogenase activity, comprising having a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of: (i) a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 (mdh2-MGA3), 3 (mdh3-MGA3), or 5 (mdh2-PB1); (ii) a nucleotide sequence having at least 90% sequence identity, more particularly at least 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 or 99% sequence identity, with a nucleotide sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3 or 5; (iii) a nucleotide sequence which is degenerate with any one of the nucleotide sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3 or 5; (iv) a nucleotide sequence which is a part of the nucleotide sequence of any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3 or 5, or of a nucleotide sequence which is degenerate with a sequence of SEQ ID NOs: 1, 3 or 5; (v) a nucleotide sequence encoding all or part of a polypeptide whose amino acid sequence is set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 2 (Mdh2-MGA3), 4 (Mdh3-MGA3) or 6 (Mdh2-PB1); and (vi) a nucleotide sequence encoding all or part of a polypeptide which has an amino acid sequence having at least 90% sequence identity, preferably at least 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 or 99% sequence identity, with an amino acid sequence as set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 2, 4 or 6; or a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which is complementary to the nucleotide sequence of any one of (i) to (vi). Also provided are recombinant constructs, vectors and host cells comprising such a nucleic acid molecule and polypeptides encoded thereby. Such molecules may advantageously be used in the genetic modification of host cells, for example to introduce or modify methanol dehydrogenase activity.
US09321998B2
A method for producing a regenerative hair follicle germ for transplantation, in which a color of hair that grows after transplantation is controlled, includes preparing a first cell mass containing mesenchymal cells; preparing a second cell mass containing epithelial cells; preparing a cell mass containing pigment stem cells; binding the cell mass containing the pigment stem cells to at least one among the first cell mass and the second cell mass, and closely contacting the first cell mass and the second cell mass, at least one of which has been bound to the cell mass containing the pigment stem cells, and culturing them within a support.
US09321992B2
In certain aspects, the invention relates to cell delivery compositions comprising a chondrogenic cell and a targeting moiety. Such compositions may be used, for example, in administering a targeted cell therapy to a subject.
US09321991B2
Methods are provided for treating blood monocytes to produce functional antigen presenting dendritic cells. An extracorporeal quantity of a subject's blood is treated to separate the blood into a plasma component containing proteins, a platelet component and a buffy coat component. A plastic treatment device is provided having plastic channels that allow transmittance of light to the interior of the plastic device and a light source that produces light of a wave length selected to activate the photoactivatable agent. The plasma component containing proteins is first pumped through the plastic treatment device, followed by the platelet component and finally the buffy coat component. The resulting treated cells may be incubated or reinfused directly to the subject.
US09321980B2
The present invention is a lubricant or functional fluid additive for a polyolefin oil blend, comprising a mixture of: (a) an anti-wear component consisting essentially of 95% isopropylated triarylphosphate and 5% dodecyl phosphate, the dodecyl phosphate being only partially esterified, the anti-wear component present in the polyolefin oil blend in a range of from about 0.75 percent to about 2.00 percent by weight; (b) an antioxidant component selected from the group consisting of alkylated phenyl-alpha-naphthylamine, phenyl-alpha-naphthylamine and mixtures thereof, and present in the polyolefin oil blend in a range of from about 0.75 percent to about 2.00 percent by weight; (c) an anti-rust component comprising an alkylated succinic acid ester anti-rust agent, and present in the polyolefin oil blend in a range of from about 0.050 percent to about 0.125 percent by weight; and (d) a metal deactivator component comprising a tolytriazole derivative, and present in the polyolefin oil blend in a range of from about 0.050 percent to about 0.125 percent by weight.
US09321979B2
Combining a metal based friction modifier, such as a molybdenum dialkyldithiocarbamate, and certain esters of hydroxy carboxylic acids, such as short chain alkyl esters of citric or tartaric acid, e.g., tributyl citrate, has a synergistic effect on lowering the friction coefficient of lubricating oils allowing one to reduce the amount of metal based friction modifier needed to adequately formulate a lubricant with low friction characteristics.
US09321978B1
A fire kindler (8) comprised of a comfortably portable geometrically shaped quartered plate of combustible material having a variable plurality of horizontal apertures therethrough which extract additional evolving gases into immediate combustion for extra heat and which operates in an elevated vertical position between two parallel logs so to present a common lower crest (18A) which bifurcates into a symmetric divergent communal acclivity of surfaces (10), (12), and (14A) which rise into opposite common divergent convergent junctions (16) whereby symmetric surfaces (14B) rise convergently to terminate at vertical height in a common upper crest (18B) so that fire kindler (8) is easy to ignite and will convergently and prominently direct combustion into a hotter and steadier solitary flame whereby potential heat is aimed at a localized area of any intended fuel placed above it. Thus, developing a hot spot on the firewood which increases entropy and rate of ignition.
US09321974B2
This invention describes a process for mild hydrocracking of heavy hydrocarbon fractions of the vacuum distillate type or the deasphalted oil type with optimized thermal integration for the purpose of reducing the cost of the exchangers that are used as well as greenhouse gas emissions.
US09321973B2
A process for the hydrocracking a hydrocarbon-containing feedstock in which at least 50% by weight of the compounds have an initial boiling point above 340° C. and a final boiling point below 540° C., using a catalyst having, in its oxide form, at least one metal selected from the metals of groups VIB, VIII and VB, said metals being present in the form of at least one polyoxometallate of formula (HhXxMmOy)q−, said polyoxometallates being present within a mesostructured matrix based on oxide of at least one element Y, said matrix having a pore size between 1.5 and 50 nm and having amorphous walls of thickness between 1 and 30 nm, said catalyst being sulphurized before used in said process.
US09321971B2
A process and adsorption vessel are provided for adsorbing asphaltenes from a hydrocarbon stream. Additionally, a process and adsorption vessel are provided for steam cracking a hydrocarbon stream containing asphaltenes by adsorbing asphaltenes from the hydrocarbon stream prior to steam cracking. Asphaltene adsorption is achieved through a carbon adsorbent having at least 25% of total pore volume provided by pores with pore diameter in the range of 0.1 to 2.0 micrometers and an oil adsorption number of at least 200.
US09321965B2
A method and apparatus for quenching metallurgical coke made in a coking oven. The method includes pushing a unitary slab of incandescent coke onto a substantially planar receiving surface of an enclosed quenching car so that substantially all of the coke from the coking oven is pushed as a unitary slab onto the receiving surface of the quenching car. The slab of incandescent coke is quenched in an enclosed environment within the quenching car with a plurality of water quench nozzles while submerging at least a portion of the slab of incandescent coke by raising a water level in the quenching car. Subsequent to quenching the coke, the planar receiving surface is tilted to an angle sufficient to slide the quenched coke off of the planar receiving surface and onto a product collection conveyer and sufficient to drain water from the quenched coke.
US09321963B2
A flame-retardant styrene thermoplastic resin composition including 6 to 15 parts by weight of a phosphoric acid ester flame retardant (II) and 0.1 to 3 parts by weight of an aromatic carbonate oligomer (III) having a viscosity average molecular weight [Mv] of 1,000 to 10,000 with respect to 100 parts by weight of a styrene resin (I), and molded products thereof have excellent flame retardancy, mechanical properties and moldability.
US09321960B2
A composition containing a compound represented by general formula (i) and a compound represented by general formula (ii): in the formulas, each of Xi1 to Xi6 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom, and each of Xii1 to Xii4 independently represents a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom.
US09321954B2
Methods comprising providing a consolidation composition comprising the reaction product of a liquid curable resin and a liquid curing agent, wherein the liquid curable resin is an epoxy-functionalized alkoxysilane and wherein the liquid curing agent is selected from the group consisting of: a polyamine; a hydrophobically modified polyamine; a polyimine; a hydrophobically modified polyimine; a polyalcohol; hydrophobically modified polyacrylamide; a hydrophobically modified polyacrylate; and any combination thereof; coating proppant particulates with the consolidation composition, thereby creating coated proppant particulates; introducing the coated proppant particulates into a subterranean formation and placing the coated proppant particulates into a fracture therein; and curing the consolidation composition so as to consolidate the coated proppant particulates in the fracture and form a proppant pack therein.
US09321950B2
The present invention provides a thermally conductive grease composition which scarcely increases in hardness during high-temperature heating and has a minimized reduction in growth, containing: (A) an organopolysiloxane including at least two alkenyl groups per molecule, the 25° C. kinetic viscosity being 5,000 to 100,000 mm2/s; (B) a hydrolysable methyl polysiloxane, trifunctional at one terminus, represented by general formula (1) (R1 is a C1-6 alkyl group, and a is an integer 5 to 100); (C) a thermally conductive filler having a thermal conductivity of 10 W/m·° C. or greater; (D) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing two to five hydrogen atoms directly bonded to a silicon atom (Si—H group) per molecule; (E) an adhesion promoter having a triazine ring and at least one alkenyl group per molecule; and (F) a catalyst selected from the group consisting of platinum and platinum compounds.
US09321949B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of adhesive, thermally conductive electrically insulators. In an exemplary embodiment, a thermally conductive, electrically insulating material includes 4 to 40 parts by weight of a macromolecular matrix material; 1 to 20 parts by weight of an adhesive additive; and 40 to 85 parts by weight of thermally conductive electrically insulating particles. The adhesive additive includes a reactive group that is the same as or similar to at least one curable active group in the macromolecular matrix material.
US09321944B2
Suitable adhesive properties and dismantling properties can be obtained, and an interface between an adherent/an adhesive layer or an adhesive layer/a substrate can be suitably dismantlable by the easily dismantlable adhesive composition including an acrylate polymer including a (meth)acrylate monomer having a carboxyl precursor group, 2-ethyl hexyl acrylate, and a monomer having a polar group as a monomer, and an acid catalyst or an acid generator.
US09321943B2
To overcome a problem in related art and to provide an easy-adhesive having an excellent adhesive property and an excellent adhesive durability for a solar cell rear surface protection sheet, a solar cell rear surface protection sheet, and a solar cell module formed by using the solar cell rear surface protection sheet. An easy-adhesive for a solar cell rear surface protection sheet according to the present invention exhibits a specific glass transition temperature, a specific number average molecular weight, and a specific hydroxyl value. Further, the easy-adhesive for a solar cell rear surface protection sheet contains a (meth)acrylic-based copolymer (A) having no (meth)acryloyl group (A), a compound having a (meth)acryloyl group, and a polyisocyanate compound (C) at a specific rate.
US09321939B2
Method for the production of adhesive-coated articles, articles obtainable thereby and their use A method for the production of adhesive-coated articles comprises the steps of: (I) providing a substrate; (II) applying a first polyurethane and/or polyurethane-polyurea polymer onto the substrate, the first polyurethane and/or polyurethane-polyurea polymer being capable of attaining an at least partially crystalline state with a final degree of crystallinity and wherein during and/or after the application the first polyurethane and/or polyurethane-polyurea polymer is present in a non-crystalline state. The method further comprises the steps: (III) applying onto the first polyurethane and/or polyurethane-polyurea polymer of step (II) a composition comprising a mixture of a second polyurethane and/or polyurethane-polyurea polymer and furthermore an acrylate polymer, wherein the application is performed while the degree of crystallinity of the first polyurethane-polyurea polymer is lower than its final degree of crystallinity; and (IV) cooling the article obtained to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the acrylate polymer.
US09321934B2
The present invention describes a method for building models in layers, wherein a first material and subsequent thereto selectively a second material are applied in layers in a build space, and these two application steps are repeated until a desired model is obtained. The two materials form a solid object in a suitable mixing ratio, the first material including a particulate material and the second material being applied with the aid of a print head. The first material, the second material and/or the particulate material include one or more diamines and/or one or more dicarbonyl compounds as the binder.
US09321933B2
There is provided a coating composition that can form a coating film excellent in both weather fastness and hydrophilifiability. The coating composition includes: a Si-containing resin; photocatalyst particles; and an aqueous medium, the Si-containing resin and the photocatalyst particles being dispersed in the aqueous medium, wherein the Si-containing resin includes a polysiloxane segment, preferably exhibits at least one spectral peak at a position of 120° C. or more to 180° C. or less in a curve of loss tangent (tan δ) against temperature as measured at a frequency of 1 Hz with a solid viscoelasticity measuring apparatus based on JIS K 7244-4, and has a particle diameter that is not more than 1/15 of the particle diameter of the photocatalyst particles.
US09321928B2
The invention provides metal powder constituted from metal particles. Each of the metal particles comprises a base particle having a surface and a metal material constituting at least the surface of the base particle. The base particle is subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine type phosphoric acid ester. Further, the invention also provides an ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition to be ejected by using an ink jet method. The ultraviolet ray curable ink jet composition comprises a polymerizable compound and metal powder constituted from metal particles. The metal particles of the metal powder are subjected to a surface treatment with a fluorine type phosphoric acid ester.
US09321923B2
Aqueous ink for inkjet that contains water; a hydrosoluble organic solvent; a pigment; and a resin, wherein the hydrosoluble organic solvent comprises 2,3-butane diol having a total ratio of (2R, 3R) form and (2S, 3S) form of greater than 50% by weight in 2,3-butane diol, where (2R, 3R) form represents (2R, 3R)-(−)-2,3-butane diol and (2S, 3S) form represents (2S, 3S)-(+)-2,3-butane diol, wherein 2,3-butane diol accounts for 5% by weight to 40% by weight of the entire of the aqueous ink.
US09321921B2
A post-treatment liquid for inkjet recording including a urethane resin, a fluorosurfactant, a water-soluble organic solvent and water.
US09321919B2
A method of manufacturing a nanocomposite having a continuous organic phase and oligomer-modified nanoplatelet mesomorphic structures, wherein the oligomer has a molecular weight of at least 100 g/mol.
US09321916B2
The present invention relates to a plastics-material strapping band (4) for wrapping around one or more articles. The plastics-material strapping band has the following constituent parts: a) up to approximately 90% by weight polyester, b) approximately 1% by weight to 5% by weight polyolefin and c) approximately 5% by weight to 10% by weight fiber material. The invention also relates to a method for producing a plastics-material strapping band.
US09321912B2
Disclosed is a halogen-free, flame retardant thermoplastic resin composition based on polypropylene and one or more thermoplastic elastomers with an organic nitrogen- and/or phosphorus-based intumescent flame retardant comprising a piperazine component. The composition is processed easily to make a wire and cable sheath exhibiting a balance of high flame retardancy, good flexibility, high wet electrical resistance and excellent heat deformation properties, and which passes the VW-I flame retardancy test, the UL1581 heat deformation test at 150° C. and the wet electrical resistance test, and also exhibits good tensile and flexibility properties. Also disclosed is a wire and cable sheath made from the composition.
US09321905B2
A nanocomposite can include a polyolefin composition having at least one polyolefin. The polyolefin composition can have a multimodal molecular weight distribution, such as a bimodal molecular weight distribution. The nanocomposite can also include at least 0.001% by weight of nanoparticles, relative to a total weight of the nanocomposite. The nanoparticles can be carbon nanoparticles, silicon nanoparticles, or SiC nanoparticles. The nanocomposite can be prepared by providing the polyolefin composition, providing the nanoparticles, and blending the nanoparticles with the polyolefin composition. Formed articles can include the nanocomposite.
US09321904B2
A polyamide resin composition includes (A) a semi-aromatic polyamide resin including a dicarboxylic acid unit including about 40 to about 100 mol % of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid unit, and an aliphatic diamine unit; (B) a glass fiber, and optionally (C) a heat stabilizer including copper halide and/or alkali metal halide, where a content of a terminal carboxyl group [COOH] and a content of a terminal amino group [NH2] of a molecular chain in the semi-aromatic polyamide resin (A) satisfy the following conditions: [COOH]>37 μeq/g; [NH2]>80 μeq/g; and, [NH2]/[COOH]>1.
US09321897B2
Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition that is free of discoloration defects, is resistant to the staining and deterioration caused by urine, fecal matter, detergents and so forth, exhibits an excellent tactile sensation, and also exhibits an excellent marring resistance and that is thus well suited for toilet components. Toilet components comprising this thermoplastic resin composition are also provided.The thermoplastic resin composition comprises (A) a thermoplastic resin and, per 100 weight parts thereof, (B) 2 to 40 weight parts of an organic flame retardant, 0.1 to 2 weight parts of a component (D), and as desired, (C) 0.1 to 20 weight parts of a flame retardant synergist, wherein the component (D) satisfies the following condition:condition: the component (D) is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of polyolefin-based waxes, alcohols, carboxylic acids, and esters, and having a melting point of not more than 100° C. and an HLB value of not more than 5.The toilet components and so forth comprise this thermoplastic resin composition.
US09321888B2
The invention relates to a branched polyamide prepolymer obtained or obtainable by polymerization of a polyamide forming monomer mixture, comprising AA-BB repeat units and branching units derived from diamines (monomer A) dicarboxylic acids (monomer B), and/or a salt of A and B, and a higher functional monomer (monomer C) present in a molar amounts defined by formula I and formula II: MC=(Q/FC)*(MA+MB) (Formula I) and R=((MA*2)+(MC*FCA))/((MB*2)+(MC*FCB)) (Formula II) wherein—MA, MB and MC represent the molar amounts of repeat units derived from the monomers A, B and C, respectively; —FC represent the functionality of monomer C, and is equal to FC-A+FC-B; —FC-A is the number of the amino functional groups comprised by monomer C; —FC-B is the number of carboxyl functional groups or precursor groups thereof comprised by monomer C; —Q is a number in the range of 0.06-1.00; and —R is a number in the range of 0.7-1.3, which polyamide prepolymer has a viscosity number (VN), measured according to ISO 307, in the range of 7-30 mL/g. The invention also relates to a process for preparing a branched polyamide polymer, comprising (1) a melt-mixing step wherein an essentially linear polyamide (pre)polymer and a branched polyamide prepolymer are provided to and mixed and heated in a melt mixing apparatus, thereby forming a mixed melt, and the mixed melt being cooled, thereby forming a solid mixture; and (2) a solid state post condensation step wherein the solid mixture is post-condensed at elevated temperature in the solid state, thereby forming a high molecular weight branched polyamide polymer.
US09321880B2
A two-component curable epoxy resin system is disclosed. The resin system includes an epoxy resin component containing at least 80% by weight of a polyglycidyl ether of a polyphenol. The system also includes an hardener mixture containing mainly polyethylene tetraamines. The system include triethylene diamine in specific amounts as a catalyst. The system has beneficial curing characteristics that make it useful for producing fiber-reinforced composites in a resin transfer molding process.
US09321878B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing silylated polyurethane polymers which have increased stability under ambient condition or storage toward atmospheric moisture, in the presence of at least one of titanium-containing catalyst or zirconium-containing catalyst and to silylated polyurethane polymer compositions comprising these catalysts.
US09321875B2
Provided are an additive for resist represented by the following formula (1), and a resist composition containing the additive. The additive according to the present invention can suppress leaching caused by water during an immersion lithographic process by increasing hydrophobicity of the surface of the resist film in the exposure at the time of applying the additive to a resist composition, and can form a fine resist pattern having excellent sensitivity and resolution at the time of applying the additive to a resist composition. wherein the substituents respectively have the same meanings as defined above.
US09321872B2
The present invention aims to provide a surface modification method for a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer, which can impart various functions such as sliding properties and biocompatibility according to its use. The present invention relates to a surface modification method for modifying a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer as an object to be modified, the method including: Step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points on a surface of the object to be modified; Step 2 of radical polymerizing monomers starting from the polymerization initiation points to grow polymer chains on the surface of the object to be modified; and Step 3 of functionalizing the polymer chains.
US09321856B2
This invention relates to a process to produce a functionalized polymer comprising: a) contacting an iodine modified aromatic polymer with an oxidizing agent to obtain an iodonium salt of the aromatic polymer; b) contacting the iodonium salt of the aromatic polymer with a polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s); and c) obtaining a functionalized polymer from the polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s) wherein the functionalized polymer has an Mn less than the Mn of the polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s) and the functionalized polymer has an acid number higher than the acid number of the polymer having internal or terminal unsaturation(s).
US09321853B2
A photoinitiator composition comprising a combination of aminoalkyl phenone, thioxanthone and multifunctional amino benzoate synergist for use in printing inks and coatings that are curable using UV radiation, particularly from LED lamps.
US09321847B2
The present invention relates to activatable toxin complexes which include a cleavable inhibitory peptide. More specifically, the complexes comprise a cell targeting domain, a toxin catalytic domain, a specific protease cleavage site and an inhibitory peptide domain. The inhibitory peptide prevents the catalytic domain from exerting toxic effects until its release from the complex by the action of a protease, such a viral protease, at the protease cleavage site. Further provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the complexes and use thereof for treating infections and malignant disease.
US09321840B2
This invention provides binding proteins, including antibodies, antibody derivatives and antibody fragments, that specifically bind a CD154 (CD40L) protein. This invention also provides a chimeric, humanized or fully human antibody, antibody derivative or antibody fragment that specifically binds to an epitope to which a humanized Fab fragment comprising a variable heavy chain sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 1 and comprising a variable light chain sequence according to SEQ ID NO: 2 specifically binds. CD154 binding proteins of this invention may elicit reduced effector function relative to a second anti-CD154 antibody. CD154 binding proteins of this invention are useful in diagnostic and therapeutic methods, such as in the treatment and prevention of diseases including those that involve undesirable immune responses that are mediated by CD154-CD40 interactions.
US09321839B2
Recombinant materials and methods for producing antibodies that specifically bind heregulin-coupled HER3, at a site distinct from the heregulin binding site, are described. These antibodies are particularly useful in treating cancer that expresses HER3.
US09321838B2
The invention relates to a method of inhibiting chemotherapy induced upregulation of Cathepsin S on the surface of tumor cells, the method comprising the administration of a Cathepsin S inhibitor to said cells. Also provided is a therapy comprising an anti Cathepsin S antibody, in particular an anti-Cathepsin S antibody which does not inhibit the proteolytic effect of Cathepsin S but nevertheless inhibits angiogenesis and a combination treatment comprising a Cathepsin S inhibitor and a therapeutic agent.
US09321837B2
The present invention provides a method for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of glomerulonephritis associated with one or more disorders selected from the group consisting of Goodpasture's syndrome, a vasculitic disorder, Wegener's disease, IgA nephropathy and an inflammatory disease with basement membrane involvement comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of agent which interacts with or modulates the expression or activity of a mammalian IL-6 polypeptide.
US09321832B2
The invention provides a dual-specific ligand comprising a first immunoglobulin variable domain having a first binding specificity and a complementary or non-complementary immunoglobulin variable domain having a second binding specificity.
US09321827B2
The present invention relates to modified coagulation factors. In particular, the present invention relates to modied Factor VIII molecules having decreased cellular uptake.
US09321824B2
The present invention is further directed to methods and compositions for modulating the activity of the Toso protein. The invention further encompasses treatment of disorders associated with inflammation, autoimmune disorders, and cancer using compositions that include a soluble Toso protein.
US09321818B2
Methods for diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancers by detection of endogenous peptides in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) are provided. Diagnostic peptides derived from dermcidin (DC) are provided. A specific dermcidin-derived peptide E-R11, having the sequence ENAGEDPGLAR (SEQ ID NO:2), is provided. E-R11 peptide levels in EBC, as measured by mass spectrometry (MS), are highly diagnostic of non-small cell lung cancers. A method for inhibiting growth of lung cancer cells by inhibiting DCD expression by RNA interference also is provided.
US09321815B2
A method of producing bioproducts from a feedstock in a system configured to produce ethanol and distillers grains from a fermentation product is disclosed. A system configured to process feedstock into a fermentation product and bioproducts including ethanol and meal is disclosed. A bioproduct produced from a fermentation product produced from a feedstock in a biorefining system is disclosed.
US09321813B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating and/or preventing a cytomegalovirus infection in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of a cytomegalovirus interleukin-10 (IL-10) protein modified to have reduced functional activity while retaining immunogenicity. The present invention further provides nucleic acid molecules encoding a cytomegalovirus IL-10 protein or fragment thereof of this invention as well as vectors comprising such nucleic acids. Also provided herein are neutralizing antibodies that specifically bind cmvIL-10.
US09321812B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide for novel therapies, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for insulin independence utilizing a new optimized hamster Reg3 gamma peptide, which is new to the art and has not previously been considered for development in the 30 year history since its discovery. Methods, pharmaceutical compositions and therapies novel to the prior art are utilized in this invention to render patients with recent onset and existing type 1 diabetes insulin independent by an optimized hamster Reg3 gamma peptide and an immune tolerance agent for type 1 patients to become insulin independent and used alone without an immune tolerance agent for type 2 diabetes. While not wishing to be bound by theory, optimized Reg3 gamma peptides increases beta cell generation by its demonstrated properties shown within of transforming ductal pancreatic cells into new islets.
US09321807B2
The present invention features crystalline forms of Compound I. In one embodiment, a crystalline form of Compound I has characteristic peaks in the PXRD pattern as shown in any one of FIGS. 1-4.
US09321806B2
A novel method for processing soluble plant leaf proteins is described. While leaf proteins are considered potentially the most abundant source of protein in nature, the lack of efficient processing techniques for leaf proteins has limited their commercial use. The method described in this patent provides a means of extracting and purifying leaf proteins from plants which is suitable for leaf protein production on an industrial scale.
US09321803B2
A composition for use in inhibiting the binding of a Norovirus to the histo-blood group antigen on the surface of epithelia is disclosed. The composition may contain a therapeutically effective amount of a binding-inhibiting compound and a carrier and/or excipient. The compounds may competitively bind a Norovirus that has the capability of binding with the histo-blood group antigens of secretor blood type, including A, B, AB, and O blood types. The compositions may be administered to a human prior to or after infection by a Norovirus, to prevent, ameliorate, or reduce the effects of an infection.
US09321802B2
The sulfated oxysterol 5-cholesten-3β, 25-diol 3-sulphate, a nuclear cholesterol metabolite that decreases lipid biosynthesis and increases cholesterol secretion and degradation, is provided as an agent to lower intracellular and serum cholesterol and/or triglycerides, and to prevent or treat lipid accumulation-associated inflammation and conditions associated with such inflammation. Methods which involve the use of this sulfated oxysterol to treat conditions associated with high cholesterol and/or high triglycerides and/or inflammation (e.g. hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases, atherosclerosis, etc.) are also provided.
US09321797B2
The invention relates to compositions of nicotinoyl ribosides and nicotinamide riboside derivatives and their methods of use. In some embodiments, the invention relates to methods of making nicotinoyl ribosides. In some embodiments, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and nutritional supplements containing a nicotinoyl riboside. In further embodiments, the invention relates to methods of using nicotinoyl ribosides and nicotinamide riboside derivatives that promote the increase of intracellular levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) in cells and tissues for improving cell and tissue survival.
US09321795B2
The present invention relates to a new use of a cinnamaldehyde derivative of formula (I) for treating glomerulonephritis (GN). Particularly, the present invention discloses that the cinnamaldehyde derivative of formula (I) is effective in treating glomerulonephritis (GN), which can alleviate various symptoms and signs of GN, including reducing proteinuria, serum blood urea nitrogen (BUN), glomerular cell proliferation, and renal macrophage/lymphocyte infiltration, etc.
US09321790B2
The invention relates to novel pyrimidinone-based heterocyclic compounds which are parasite growth inhibitors, having the general formula (I) in which Y is a morpholine chosen from three bridged morpholines, L is a bond or a linker, n=0 or 1 and R2 is a methyl group when n=0 and a hydrogen atom when n=1. Process for the preparation thereof and therapeutic use thereof.
US09321789B2
A process for preparing a compound represented by formula (Y1) or (Y2) wherein Rx is an optionally substituted carbocyclyl lower alkyl, or the like or a salt thereof, using a novel process for preparing a pyridone derivative represented by formula (X4) wherein R1d, R2d, and R4d are as defined herein.
US09321785B2
The present invention relates to a method of ameliorating the drawbacks of anti-platelet drug named clopidogrel. The method of the present invention comprises administration of an (S)oxo-clopidogrel or its derivative of the Formula IIA in its free or pharmaceutically acceptable salt form for alleviating the symptoms of thrombosis or embolism by inhibiting blood platelet aggregation. Compositions for use in such methods are also provided.
US09321784B2
A process is described for making isohexides, comprising dehydrating one or more hexitols with an acid catalyst to form a crude dehydration product mixture including one or more isohexides, further processing the mixture to separate out one or more fractions of a greater purity or higher concentration of at least one of the isohexides, and hydrogenating at least one of a) the crude dehydration product mixture, b) a neutralized crude dehydration product mixture, following a neutralization of the crude dehydration product mixture, c) the product mixture following a neutralization step and further following a step to remove ionic species therefrom, d) a greater purity or higher concentration fraction, and e) a lesser purity or concentration fraction, by reaction with a hydrogen source in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst. Hydrogenation improves the color and/or color stability of the material, especially of a finished isohexide product.
US09321769B2
The invention relates to novel heterocyclic acrylamide compounds (I), to the preparation of the compounds and intermediates used therein, to the use of the compounds as antibacterial medicaments and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds.
US09321768B2
Indoles having inhibitory activity on RSV replication and having the formula I the prodrugs, N-oxides, addition salts, quaternary amines, metal complexes and stereochemically isomeric forms thereof; compositions containing these compounds as active ingredient and processes for preparing these compounds and compositions.
US09321764B2
The present invention provides for compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 have any of the values defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are useful as agents in the treatment of diseases and conditions, including inflammatory diseases, cancer, and AIDS. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of formula (I).
US09321763B2
This disclosure concerns compounds which are useful as inhibitors of protein kinase C (PKC) and are thus useful for treating a variety of diseases and disorders that are mediated or sustained through the activity of PKC. This disclosure also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US09321757B2
The present invention provides a heterocyclic compound having an IRAK-4 inhibitory action, which is useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, osteoarticular degenerative disease, neoplastic disease and the like, and a medicament containing thereof. The present invention relates to a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the specification, or a salt thereof.
US09321749B1
Disclosed herein are novel heterocyclic compounds, their salts, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and their uses in modulating protein-protein interactions and for treating diseases resulting from aberrant protein-protein interactions.
US09321747B2
The present invention provides a salt of a substituted pyridine compound which has excellent CETP inhibition activity and is useful as a medicament. The present invention provides a salt of a compound represented by general formula (I): wherein R1 is optionally substituted alkoxy or the like.
US09321745B2
There are provided inter alia methods and compounds useful for decreasing choroidal neovascularization in a subject in need thereof.
US09321725B2
The present invention relates to a process of providing the 3-(6-(1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamido)-3-methylpyridin-2-yl)benzoic acid in substantially free form (Compound 1).
US09321720B2
Process for preparing isocyanates by reacting the corresponding amines with phos-gene comprising (a) providing at least one amine-comprising feed stream and at least one phosgene-comprising feed stream, (b) mixing the feed streams to form at least one reaction mixture in a mixing zone, (c) reacting the at least one reaction mixture in a reaction zone and (d) working-up the product mixture obtained from (c).
US09321715B2
The present invention provides a chromatographic separation process for recovering a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) product, from a feed mixture, which process comprises introducing the feed mixture to a simulated or actual moving bed chromatography apparatus having a plurality of linked chromatography columns containing, as eluent, an aqueous alcohol, wherein the apparatus has a plurality of zones comprising at least a first zone and second zone, each zone having an extract stream and a raffinate stream from which liquid can be collected from said plurality of linked chromatography columns, and wherein (a) a raffinate stream containing the PUFA product together with more polar components is collected from a column in the first zone and introduced to a nonadjacent column in the second zone, and/or (b) an extract stream containing the PUFA product together with less polar components is collected from a column in the second zone and introduced to a nonadjacent column in the first zone, said PUFA product being separated from different components of the feed mixture in each zone.
US09321713B2
The present invention provides a novel 11-step enantioselective approach to the natural product hyperforin, which enables access to a wide variety of hyperforin analogs. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising inventive hyperforin analogs. Hyperforin analogs synthesized using the present synthetic method are envisioned useful in the treatment of various conditions, including, but not limited to, depression and conditions characterized by depression, inflammatory skin conditions, diabetes, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), kidney disorders, and ischemic brain damage.
US09321712B2
The present invention is related to the process for the preparation ospemifene or (Z)-2-[4-(4-chloro-1,2-diphenyl-but-1-enyl)phenoxy]ethanol (I) and to intermediate compounds used in the process.
US09321711B2
A system for producing high-purity phenol and/or cyclohexanone from cyclohexylbenzene oxidation includes a cyclohexylbenzene feed hydrogenation reactor, a bubble column oxidation reactor, a cyclohexylbenzene hydroperoxide concentrator, a cleavage reactor, and a separation and purification sub-system. The components and the integrated system are designed such that high-purity phenol and/or cyclohexanone can be produced at high energy efficiency.
US09321706B2
Process for the recovery of diene or vinylaromatic monomers from a gas stream, including bringing the gas stream into contact, in an extraction column (C1), with an organic extraction solvent, which absorbs the monomer, and stripping or desorption with an inert gas in (C1), by feeding, at the bottom of (C1) below the feeding of the monomers, a stream of inert gas, a liquid stream having the extraction solvent and the monomer recovered at the bottom of (C1) and an exiting gas stream recovered at the top of (C1), then within a second recovery column C2,recovery of the monomer, wherein the monomer is separated from the extraction solvent by distillation fed with the liquid stream recovered at the bottom of (C1), a stream comprising concentrated monomer(s) recovered at the top of (C2) and a liquid stream having the extraction solvent recovered at the bottom of (C2) and then recycled to the top of (C), the monomer or monomers being dienes, vinylaromatic compounds, or isobutene.
US09321705B2
A process of producing isopropyl benzene which solves the problem of high amount of n-propyl benzene according to the prior art. The process separates the polyisopropyl benzene through a suitable rectification into two streams of relatively lighter and heavier components, wherein the content of diisopropylbenzene in the stream of relatively lighter components is controlled to be at least greater than 95 wt %, and the content of tri-isopropyl benzene in the stream of relatively heavier components is controlled to be at least greater than 0.5 wt %. Such a technical solution subjecting the two streams respectively to the transalkylation solves the problem raised from the prior art, and is useful for the industrial production of isopropyl benzene.
US09321704B2
A cyclohexane dehydrogenation process comprising a step of providing, as a benzene-containing stream, a vapor phase in equilibrium with a liquid phase at a condensation separation system; supplying benzene, hydrogen, and cyclohexane into a dehydrogenation reactor where at least part of the benzene supplied is from the benzene-containing stream. The use of a condensation separation system enables the control of the partial pressure of benzene in the material fed into the dehydrogenation reactor by controlling the temperature of the vapor phase, and hence the control of hydrogen to benzene molar ratio in the dehydrogenation reactor. The process results in a long life of the dehydrogenation catalyst due to reduced coking.
US09321695B2
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a glass-ceramic composite using natural raw material and waste glasses. The invention provides a method for manufacturing a white glass-ceramic composite using waste glass and a whitening agent. The invention also provides a method for manufacturing a colored glass-ceramic composite using waste glass, the whitening agent and a coloring agent.
US09321692B2
Production of pore-free carbon/carbon-silicon carbide composite materials with mechanical properties making them suitable for use in such applications as the production of aircraft landing system brake components including brake discs. The method includes: providing a porous carbon-carbon composite preform; surrounding the porous carbon-carbon composite preform with silicon powder to form an intermediate construct; applying a uniaxial load to the construct; applying direct electrical current to an assembly containing the loaded construct of porous carbon-carbon preform surrounded by silicon powder, thereby melting the silicon powder and infiltrating the pores of the carbon-carbon preform with liquid silicon; and initiating a combustion-type reaction between the silicon and carbon in the preform, thereby forming silicon carbide in the preform.
US09321685B2
A gypsum composition includes a calcined gypsum and a starch urea phosphate.
US09321682B2
The present invention relates to building materials, in particular a method for the production of a binder for concrete, mortar or plaster, and a binder produced according to this method as well the use thereof.
US09321679B2
A glass element having a thickness from 25 μm to 125 μm, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, and a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, the region defined by a compressive stress σI of at least about 100 MPa at the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it does not fail when it is held at a bend radius from about 1 mm to about 20 mm for at least 60 minutes at about 25° C. and about 50% relative humidity. Still further, the glass element has a puncture resistance of greater than about 1.5 kgf when the first primary surface of the glass element is loaded with a tungsten carbide ball having a diameter of 1.5 mm.
US09321675B2
Provided herein are biocompatible scaffolds and methods of preparing such bioscaffolds. The methods provide a superior high surface area, interconnected nanomacroporous bioactive glass scaffold, by combining a sol-gel process and polymer sponge replication methods. The formation of a uniformly nanoporous and interconnected macroporous bioscaffold is demonstrated using a starting material comprising a 70 mol % SiO2—30 mol % CaO glass composition as an example. The bioscaffold includes a series of open, interconnected macropores with size from 300 to 600 μm, as desired for tissue ingrowth and vascularization. At the same time, coexisting nanopores provide high-specific surface area (>150 m2/g), which is needed for enhancing the structure's degradation rate. These bioscaffolds hold promise for applications in hard tissue engineering.
US09321674B2
The invention relates to a lithium silicate glass ceramic, which contains at least 8.5 wt.-% transition metal oxide selected from the group consisting of oxides of yttrium, oxides of transition metals with an atomic number from 41 to 79 and mixtures of these oxides. The invention also relates to a corresponding lithium silicate glass, a process for the preparation of the glass ceramic and of the glass as well as their use.
US09321673B2
The invention provides a near-infrared absorption glass, a near-infrared absorption element and a near-infrared absorption filter each with good chemical stability and transmissivity property in the visible range. When such glass is 1 mm thick, the transmissivity of such glass is more than 80% at 400 nm, and more than 85% at 500 nm. The near-infrared absorption glass comprises cations such as P5+, Al3+, Li+, R2+ and Cu2+ as well as anions such as O2− and F−, wherein the R2+ refers to Mg2+, Ca2, Sr2+ and Ba2+, and wherein the content of the said Li+ is 1-15%. Furthermore, the water resistant stability DW of the said near-infrared absorption glass is Class 1 and the acid resistant stability DA is above Class 4.
US09321660B2
A device for interfering with removal of a riser tube from within a water treatment tank. The device includes a collar having a central region dimensioned to fixedly receive the riser tube; and at least one restraining arm extending from the collar away from the central region, wherein the at least one restraining arm is dimensioned to contact an inner wall of the water treatment tank when the riser tube is moved upwards with respect to the treatment tank thereby interfering with removal of the riser tube from the water treatment tank.
US09321658B2
In various embodiments, a fluid is treated by flowing the fluid through a flow cell having (i) a fluid entry, (ii) a fluid exit, (iii) a treatment region disposed between the fluid entry and exit, and (iv) an interior surface reflective to ultraviolet (UV) light, and diffusively reflecting UV light emitted from one or more UV light sources to illuminate the treatment region substantially uniformly, thereby treating the fluid.
US09321657B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus having a double wiper structure for sterilizing ballast water. Each wiper for use in removing foreign substances from an ultraviolet lamp has a double structure including a main wiper part and auxiliary wiper parts. The auxiliary wiper parts are disposed on opposite sides of the main wiper part so that when the wiper body is moved forward or backward, the corresponding auxiliary wiper part primarily removes foreign substances before the main wiper part wipes the ultraviolet lamp unit. Each auxiliary wiper part includes an inclined protrusion and a pointed part so that friction between the surface of the ultraviolet lamp and the auxiliary wiper part can be minimized. The main wiper part includes a first blade and a second blade that are respectively disposed on opposite sides of a depression formed in an inner circumferential surface of the main wiper part.
US09321650B2
The carbon nanofiber has a content of oxygen controlled in a range of 8% by mass to 20% by mass and excellent dispersibility in polar solvents by means of an oxidization treatment carried out on a raw material of the carbon nanofiber. The above-described oxidization treatment is preferably carried out at 100° C. or higher using an mixed acid of nitric acid and sulfuric acid in which the nitric acid concentration is in a range of 10% by mass to 30% by mass. A carbon nanofiber dispersion liquid is obtained by dispersing the above-described carbon nanofiber in a polar solvent, and a carbon nanofiber composition contains the above-described dispersion liquid and a binder component.
US09321648B2
A preparation method of a battery composite material includes steps of providing phosphoric acid, iron powder, a carbon source and a first reactant, processing a reaction of the phosphoric acid and the iron powder to produce a first product, calcining the first product to produce a precursor, among which the formula of the precursor is written by Fe7(PO4)6, and processing a reaction of the precursor, the carbon source and the first reactant to get a reaction mixture and calcining the reaction mixture to produce the battery composite material. As a result, the present invention achieves the advantages of reducing grind time of fabricating processes, so that the prime cost, the time cost, and the difficulty of fabricating are reduced.
US09321640B2
The invention provides a system designed for the complete conversion of carbonaceous feedstock into syngas and slag. The system comprises a primary chamber for the volatilization of feedstock generating a primary chamber gas (an offgas); a secondary chamber for the further conversion of processed feedstock to a secondary chamber gas (a syngas) and a residue; a gas-reformulating zone for processing gas generated within one or more of the chambers; and a melting chamber for vitrifying residue. The primary chamber comprises direct or indirect feedstock additive capabilities in order to adjust the carbon content of the feedstock.The system also comprises a control system for use with the gasification system to monitor and regulate the different stages of the process to ensure the efficient and complete conversion of the carbonaceous feedstock into a syngas product.
US09321638B2
A process in a resulting product of the process in which a hydrogen storage metal amide is modified by a ball milling process using an additive of TPP. The resulting product provides for a hydrogen storage metal amide having a coating that renders the hydrogen storage metal amide resistant to air, ambient moisture, and liquid water while improving useful hydrogen storage and release kinetics.
US09321636B2
A method for producing a holder of at least one substrate from a first and a second plate, each including first and second parallel flat faces, the method including: a) delimitation on the first face of the second plate of plural surfaces by a non-bondable area in which a direct bonding with a face of the first plate is prevented; b) bringing the first face of the second plate into contact with the first face of the first plate; c) direct bonding between the first faces except in the non-bondable area; and d) removal of the portions of the second plate located vertically below surfaces inside the non-bondable area.
US09321628B2
A MEMS device wherein a die of semiconductor material has a first face and a second face. A membrane is formed in or on the die and faces the first surface. A cap is fixed to the first face of the first die and is spaced apart from the membrane by a space. The die is fixed, on its second face, to an ASIC, which integrates a circuit for processing the signals generated by the die. The ASIC is in turn fixed on a support. A packaging region coats the die, the cap, and the ASIC and seals them from the outside environment. A fluidic path is formed through the support, the ASIC, and the first die, and connects the membrane and the first face of the die with the outside, without requiring holes in the cap.
US09321626B2
A packaged MEMS transducer device comprising: a die, including: a semiconductor body having a front side and a back side, opposite to one another in a first direction, at least one cavity extending through the semiconductor body between the front side and the back side, and at least one membrane extending on the front side at least partially suspended over the cavity; and a package designed to house the die on an inner surface thereof. The transducer device moreover includes a sealing layer extending on the back side of the semiconductor body for sealing the cavity, and includes a paste layer extending between the sealing layer and the inner surface of the package for firmly coupling the die to the package.
US09321625B2
Methods and systems for no-glue pocketed spring unit construction. Rows of pocketed springs, preferably arranged into modules of more than two pocketed springs surrounding a central hole, are ultrasonically welded together when paired vibrating probes and anvils press layers of pocketed spring fabric from the rows of pocketed springs together and a welding pulse is transmitted to the vibrating probe.
US09321617B2
A device for tensioning of a rope, the device comprising two or more sheaves (6, 6′), each sheave (6, 6′) being operated by a motor (7, 7′), where a rope (10) to be tensioned may be arranged so that it sequentially rests against the contact surface of the sheaves of the device. The sheaves (6, 6′) are arranged in pairs on a rotatable support (2), where the axes of rotation of the sheaves and the turntable are substantially parallel. The sheaves have a first position in which the rope (10) may pass unhindered between the sheaves (6, 6′) of the pair, and be rotated by said support (2) to second position in which the rope (10) has been wound to a substantial contact angle about the sheaves.
