US09387877B2
[Problem]An object of the present invention is to provide an electric power steering apparatus that does not give uncomfortable feeling to a driver by detecting that the driver steers a steering wheel in an automatic steering mode by means of a steering torque from a torque sensor and switching to a manual steering mode by a capacity (an integrated value) corresponding to the occurring torque magnitude.[Means for solving the problem]The present invention comprises a steering angle control section that calculates a motor current command value 2, a torque integral judging section that outputs a steering torque judging signal by integrating a steering torque, which is compared with a threshold, and a switching section that inputs the motor current command value 1 and the motor current command value 2, and is switched in accordance with a switching signal or the steering torque judging signal; the torque integral judging section comprises a torque value comparing section, an integral calculating section and a switch judging section; and the switching section is switched depending on a switching command of an automatic steering mode and a manual steering mode or the steering torque judging signal.
US09387868B2
The Ski Porter provides a convenient and practical way for snow skiers to transport their skis, boots and poles when they are not skiing. The Ski Porter attaches using the boot binding and utilizes two (2) wheels for easy transport.
US09387867B2
A fusion sensor arrangement includes a first sensor configured to detect the presence of an object along a wayside of a guideway, wherein the first sensor is sensitive to a first electromagnetic spectrum. The fusion sensor arrangement further includes a second sensor configured to detect the presence of the object along the wayside of the guideway, wherein the second sensor is sensitive to a second electromagnetic spectrum different from the first electromagnetic spectrum. The fusion sensor arrangement further includes a data fusion center connected to the first sensor and to the second sensor, wherein the data fusion center is configured to receive first sensor information from the first sensor and second sensor information from the second sensor, and to resolve a conflict between the first sensor information and the second sensor information.
US09387863B2
A rail vehicle system includes a set of cars for transporting passengers. The set has two end cars, at least one driveless central car and at least one central car constructed as a traction car having at least one drive unit. In order to achieve greater flexibility in assembling a rail vehicle system, in particular with regard to improved scalability of traction power, the traction car includes a power supply unit for the drive unit and has at least one voltage transformation unit and a power converter unit.
US09387861B1
An input control system, method, and apparatus for adjusting an input control value of a motor or engine by damping the acceleration curve. In certain aspects, the damping may gradually increase until the input control optimization system detects a change in the behavior of the vehicle operator, for example, in the form of a conscious or unconscious increase in aggressive use of the accelerator pedal. When such behavior is detected, the input control optimization system reverses the damping and begins to restore gradually the original acceleration curve until aggressive pedal use by the operator is no longer detected.
US09387852B2
A method for adjusting the spatial position of the roll axis of a motor vehicle includes: a) defining a desired spatial position of the roll axis; b) determining a transverse acceleration of the motor vehicle; c) defining a desired transverse tilt of the motor vehicle and determining a desired transverse offset of the motor vehicle as a function of the transverse acceleration, so that the roll axis is moved into the desired position when the desired transverse tilt and the desired transverse offset are adjusted; d) adjusting a first actuator of an active chassis system of the motor vehicle, so that the motor vehicle assumes the desired transverse tilt determined in step c); and adjusting a second actuator to influence the transverse movement of the motor vehicle, so that the motor vehicle assumes the desired transverse offset determined in step c).
US09387838B2
A vehicle braking apparatus, system and method is provided including electromagnetic signals emitted from an electromagnetic loop positioned on or under a roadway, wherein the signals emitted from the electromagnetic loop correspond to the status of a traffic control zone. The braking apparatus receives signals emitted by the loop and interprets the signals to facilitate remotely directed operation of a brake. A manual actuator is also configured to operate the brake and override remote braking directives.
US09387833B1
Systems and methods are provided involving a rotatable power transfer device configured with a first brake system and a second brake system. During a first of the methods, rotation of the power transfer device is braked using the first brake system. The first brake system may be actuatable by a first user interface; e.g., a brake pedal. The second brake system may be actuatable by a second user interface; e.g., a brake pedal.
US09387827B2
The invention relates to a wiper blade device comprising a wiper strip unit (12) which has a wind-deflector element (16), a wiper lip (18) and a wiper strip element (14) which comprises a longitudinal guide channel (24) for a support element (20). According to the invention, the wiper strip element (14), in a mounted state, forms an interlocking connection with the wind-deflector element (16).
US09387826B2
Wiper blade for a surface of double curvature type, the said wiper blade including a flexible longitudinal wiper and means for exerting a bearing force at at least one point of the said wiper along a direction Z mainly normal to the surface, also including a longitudinal 15 part, attached to the wiper at several points, and means to vary over time and in at least one segment of the longitudinal rod the rigidity in bending of this longitudinal rod in a plane XZ normal to the surface between previously chosen values. The longitudinal part is a metallic blade where the inertias on the two axes of its section are very different.
US09387824B2
A system and method for a vehicle includes a user identification subsystem operable to detect an individual proximate to the vehicle and a display subsystem operable to generate output for display on a vehicle window in response to detection the. The system and method distinguish between authenticated and non-authenticated vehicle users and, in the event of a non-authenticated user, display the image on the display along with an optional printed and/or audible warning. If both an authenticated and non-authenticated user are identified, the system displays both images along with an optional warning. The images along with the vehicle coordinates and date and time information can be transmitted remotely from the vehicle to a pre-defined contact list. The system and method allow for a camera mode to enable an authenticated user to use the image sensor on the vehicle to take a photograph or video.
US09387817B2
A motor vehicle used sealed transmission cable, including at least one or more transmission cables, and a sealing component. The cable has a first connector and a second connector set at two ends of a transmission line. The sealing component has a first sealing component. The central axis of the first sealing component is set with a lashing eye for the setting and positioning of the first connector, and is extended to a first skirt section in an axial direction at the outer circumferential surface, which forms the interior of the first socket mouth. The first buckling part is set at the inner peripheral surface of the first socket mouth in a radial direction. Additionally, inside the first skirt section, a projection part is connected in an axial direction for passing through of all transmission lines. Inside of the projection section, cladding pipe is set for piercing and cladding of all transmission lines.
US09387815B2
A multi-panel cover includes end panels that connect first and second lateral panels. The lateral panels seat against the tailgate assembly of a truck body and are maintained in position by magnets incorporated into a lateral panel along the edges and between the side panels to form a pocket to collect debris that may otherwise escape through or around the tailgate of the vehicle. A peripheral sealing material such as an elastic cord or hook and loop seal may be positioned around the tailgate gap to augment sealing.
US09387814B1
A vehicle recording device featuring a cylindrical housing having a first cylindrical portion and a second cylindrical portion. A video camera, a microphone, and a speaker are each disposed upon a front face of the second cylindrical portion. A play button and a communication port is disposed upon a back face of the first cylindrical portion. A CPU is disposed within the housing. Each of the video camera, the microphone, the speaker, the play button, and the communication port are in operational communication. A concealment cap having an inner cavity is configured to fit each of the front face and a first portion of a second outer perimeter within the inner cavity, forming a closed configuration. The concealment cap has at least one obround cutout configured to reflect a sound wave into the inner cavity of the cap.
US09387813B1
Device, system and method for aggregating networks and serving data from those networks to computers
Disclosed herein, in one example, is a device for aggregating networks in a vehicle and serving data, including video data, from those networks to a computer for integrating information from various systems in a vehicle, processing that information, and presenting the information to a user in a suitable format. The device for aggregating networks, in another example, is specific to a vehicle and serving data, including video data, from those networks to computers.
US09387811B2
Method and arrangement for providing and controlling operation of a dual sided opening roof mount cargo box for a carrying vehicle. A dual sided opening roof mount cargo box is provided and which has a lid portion releasably hinge-connected at two lateral sides to a bottom portion of the cargo box for alternate pivotation at each of the two lateral sides between open and closed configurations. The bottom portion is adapted to be mounted to a carrying vehicle and the lid portion is manufactured from a semi-flexible material sufficiently pliable to permit two opposite end regions thereof to be at different relative distances from the bottom portion of the cargo box during transition between the open and closed configurations. A pair of spring-biased struts are also provided, each operatively interposed between the lid portion and the bottom portion of the cargo box, and one each of the pair of spring-biased struts being located at the two opposite end regions of the cargo box. An expansively directed force is imposed on the lid portion, utilizing the pair of spring-biased struts, across a substantial entirety of travel of the lid portion during operator induced movement from the closed configuration to the open configuration and thereby assisting the operator to smoothly open the cargo box.
US09387809B2
A console assembly includes an outer frame having a bin aperture defined therein, wherein an arcuate back wall extends from the bin aperture to within the outer frame. A rotatable bin is disposed in the bin aperture and includes an interior volume accessible through a rim. The rotatable bin is rotationally operable within the bin aperture between a closed position and an open position, wherein at least a portion of the rotatable bin is rotated through the bin aperture and the interior volume of the rotatable bin is accessible from above. A biasing mechanism extends from the arcuate back wall to the rear wall of the rotatable bin. The biasing mechanism includes a constant force spring that biases the rotatable bin toward the open position. A latch/release mechanism retains the rotatable bin in the closed position against a biasing force of the biasing mechanism.
US09387788B1
A combination trailer is provided that includes a dump trailer having a bottom surface, a front portion, a back portion, a first side panel, and a second side panel with an upper wall section and a lower wall section. The upper wall section is movable between an open and closed position such that the height of the second side panel is adjustable. An enclosure system is also included in the combination trailer to selectively cover an open top of the dump trailer.
US09387785B2
An example of the present description relates to a vehicle seat comprising a back rest support comprising a head rest arrangement. The head rest arrangement comprises a displaceable head cushion which is displaceable between a first and a second position along a Z-axis. The head rest arrangement further comprises a passenger protection part adapted to protect a passenger from injury during a collision. The displaceable head cushion is displaceably arranged with respect to the passenger protection part. The present description provides for comfort and safety for passengers in a vehicle for both front passengers and hack passengers.
US09387753B2
A drive arrangement for a hybrid-drive motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and at least one electrical machine which, via a speed-change gearbox having a plurality of gear ratios, provide, alternately or together, an output drive to at least one axle differential of the motor vehicle. The internal combustion engine can be uncoupled by a disconnecting clutch. The gearbox is divided into two sub-gearboxes, with the internal combustion engine being connected for drive to the first sub-gearbox such as not to be able to be uncoupled. The electrical machine is arranged, in the path along which force is transmitted, downstream of the disconnecting clutch arranged at the output of the first sub-gearbox but upstream of the second sub-gearbox. The output of the second sub-gearbox provides an output drive to the axle differential.
US09387752B2
A hybrid transmission providing multiple modes of operation in a compact arrangement is provided and includes first and second planetary gear sets and first and second electric machines. An electric machine shaft directly couples the first planetary gear set to the second planetary gear set and the second electric machine to the second planetary gear set. The second electric machine is selectively directly coupled to an output shaft via a first clutch mechanism, and indirectly coupled to the output shaft via the second planetary gear set and a drive shaft, which extends parallel to the electric machine shaft and external to the second electric machine. A second clutch mechanism selectively couples the first electric machine to a carrier of the second planetary gear set and a third clutch mechanism selectively couples a ring gear of the second planetary gear set to a hybrid drive unit housing.
US09387751B2
A frame structure of an electric vehicle including right and left drive wheels is capable of being simplified while communalizing components and achieving an efficient arrangement of a running gear and electrical components. An electric vehicle includes a running gear including an electromotor and a speed reduction gear, and a running gear support frame provided to surround the running gear. The speed reduction gear is arranged in the right-to-left center of a vehicle body. The electromotor is configured in such a manner that an axis direction is arranged along a vehicle right-to-left direction so that the electromotor extends to one side in a right-to-left direction of the speed reduction gear and is arranged between the speed reduction gear and a left lower side frame of the running gear support frame.
US09387741B2
An elastomeric article and elastomeric thermal barrier system includes an elastomeric article that is at least partially formed from an elastomeric material susceptible to thermal degradation upon exposure to an external thermal energy source. An elastomeric thermal barrier extends around and along at least a portion of the elastomeric article. The elastomeric thermal barrier is spaced apart from the elastomeric article to form a thermal break. The elastomeric thermal barrier is at least partially formed from an elastomeric material having a thermal property that is different from the thermal property of the elastomeric article and is operative to provide at least one of reduced absorption, reduced conductivity, increased reflectance and reduced emissivity to reduce thermal energy transfer into the elastomeric article from the external thermal energy source. A gas spring and thermal barrier system and/or assembly and a suspension system are also included.
US09387734B1
A monitoring system includes sensors, clocks, global positioning systems (GPS) receiver, display screens and a controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to analyze the collected signals, the time information, and the route information to identify at least one trigger factor based on a tire characteristic; determine whether the identified at least one triggering factor exceeds an triggering threshold based on the collected signals and information; derive when the identified triggering factor exceeds the triggering threshold, an triggering priority indicating an order in which the triggering factors are processed based on the collected signals and route information; trigger a tire monitoring procedure based on the collected information, the triggering threshold and the triggering priority; and display at the display screen, results of the tire monitoring procedure to provide a visual indication of the tire characteristic that caused the triggers factor to exceed the triggering threshold.
US09387730B2
In a tire, protrusions are disposed at intervals in the tire circumferential direction in at least one tire side portion, extending in an elongated manner from the inner side to the outer side in the tire radial direction including the maximum tire width position, the extension direction of each of the protrusions is inclined with respect to the tire radial direction, and the each of the protrusions adjacent to each other in the tire circumferential direction is disposed with the opposite orientation of the inclination with respect to the tire radial direction.
US09387718B2
A security element includes a coating of a material which has an optically variable effect, in particular a color-tilt effect, and cutouts which are identifiable in transmitted light. The security element comprises a carrier substrate and a partial layer having cutouts. The partial layer is made of an opaque coating having light-absorbing properties on the side that faces the coating made of the material having an optically variable effect and having a metallic coloration on the side that faces away from the coating made of the material having an optically variable effect. The partial opaque coating consists of a light-absorbing metallic layer.
US09387715B2
In order to prevent protruded parts formed on an oriented film print pattern of a printing plate for flexographic printing from being lost, a linear bank is formed on the periphery of one side of the oriented film print pattern where wiping work is started. The bank prevents the protruded part in the oriented film print pattern from being lost by the wiping work. The protruded parts are formed in a matrix in order to retain an oriented film liquid in the oriented film print pattern. Thickness irregularity of the oriented film due to presence of the bank is reduced by making the diameters of the protruded parts smaller in a peripheral region than in a central region of the oriented film print pattern and forming a space between the peripheral-side protruded parts and the bank.
US09387713B2
A removable print element assembly can be installed on and removed from a hand stamp without the user's fingers ever being in close proximity to the print element (die). The removable print element assembly can be installed on and removed from a hand printer without the need for a friction fit fastener or mechanical linking device. The removable print element assembly is provided for a hand printer with a support element capable of magnetic engagement. The removable print element assembly comprises a print carrier having a surface for removable magnetic engagement with the support element of the hand printer, a removal actuator, and a print element (die) affixed to the print carrier. The surface for removable magnetic engagement with the hand printer is a magnetic. The surface for removable magnetic engagement with the hand printer is the surface of a magnet fixed to the print carrier.
US09387708B2
A printing apparatus and a roll paper transportation device which reduces the space needed to accommodate a roll paper buffer mechanism unit and paper detection unit, and to reduce poor electrical contact in the contact part of the paper detection unit. The roll paper transportation device has a paper detection unit for detecting the presence of roll paper. The paper detection unit itself comprises a detection lever that pivots rotationally when in contact with the roll paper, a cam formed integrally with the detection lever and having a curved surface that is concentric to the rotary axis of the detection lever, and a switch lever that contacts the curved surface of the cam.
US09387707B2
A paper tape printer includes a receipt printer and a scissor cutter for cutting off a receipt from a paper tape. The scissor cutter includes: a moving blade having a fixed range of motion; and an adjustable stationary blade, which is stationary during a cutting operation and is moveable laterally relative to the moving blade to allow the paper tape to be selectively (i) fully cut when the stationary blade is positioned for a full cut of the paper tape, or (ii) partially cut, when the stationary blade is repositioned laterally to a partial cut position relative to the moving blade, which enables a partial cut of the paper tape. If a full cut is desired, the stationary blade is positioned against the full width of the paper tape. For a partial cut, the stationary blade is positioned against only a portion of the width of the paper tape.
US09387703B2
An image recording apparatus includes: a sensor configured to detect a state of an object and outputs a detection value; a drive unit configured to be able to move the sensor in a direction in which the sensor approaches the object and in a direction in which the sensor is away from the object; and a control unit configured to execute calibration for setting a positional relationship between the sensor and the object based on the detection value of the sensor while causing the drive unit to change the positional relationship between the sensor and the object.
US09387702B2
It is disclosed a printer comprising an opening through which one or more sheets to be treated could be introduced therein and further comprising a paper board for supporting said one or more sheets to be treated, wherein said paper board comprises at least one root and at least a free end, wherein said at least one free end is movable with respect to said at least one root when it is subject to a vertical load.
US09387697B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a support that supports a medium; a head that discharges liquid to the medium transported onto the support; and a drying portion that dries the liquid that has landed on the medium. The liquid discharge apparatus has a heated area and a non-heated area. The drying portion is disposed in the heated area, and the support and the head are disposed in the non-heated area.
US09387696B2
A printing apparatus includes a plasma processing unit that processes a surface of a processing object by using plasma; a recording unit that forms a first-color image on the surface of the processing object by inkjet recording, the surface being plasma-processed by the plasma processing unit, and forms a second-color image to be superimposed on the first-color image by the inkjet recording; and an adjusting unit that adjusts a plasma energy amount that is to be applied to the processing object according to the second-color image.
US09387692B2
A machine for the decoration of tridimensional products, including a basement, means for supporting the product to be decorated associated to the basement and a unit for decorating the product associated to the basement. The decoration unit includes a moveable arm rotatably associated to the basement, a plurality of print heads of the ink-jet type, provided with at least one head with ejector nozzles, sliding along the moveable arm. Each of the print heads is moveable from a non-operating position, in which it is spaced from the product, to an operating position in which it is in proximity of the surface of the product, to obtain a decoration.
US09387689B2
An optical scanning device includes a light source, a deflector, a scanning optical system, a BD sensor, and a half-silvered mirror. The light source emits a light beam. The deflector deflects a light beam emitted from the light source. The scanning optical system includes a scan lens and causes the deflected light beam to form an image on a photosensitive surface. The BD sensor detects a light beam. The half-silvered mirror splits the light beam into a first beam and a second beam. The first beam passes through the scan lens to enter the photosensitive surface. The second beam enters the BD sensor.
US09387684B2
An object is to prevent the occurrence of contact failure between a cartridge equipped with a recording medium and an ink jet recording apparatus. A bottle body is crushed to reduce the volume thereof when an ink or solvent is sucked out of the bottle body. A bottle has a neck and a mouth. The neck is rigid. The ROM unit records therein an ink or solvent type, a serial number, the capacity of the bottle, and the amount of remaining ink or solvent. The ROM unit has first and second arms, and freely movably attached to the neck by the first and second arms. A positioning hole is formed on a ROM holder body which houses therein a recording medium. The positioning hole positions the ROM holder body in cooperation with a positioning pin of a reservoir.
US09387680B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that includes a nozzle formation surface on which a plurality of nozzles which eject a liquid are formed to be lined up in one direction to form nozzle columns, a belt-shaped member that is brought into contact with the nozzle formation surface, and a belt-shaped member contact portion that brings the belt-shaped member into contact with the nozzle formation surface in both a first contact state where the belt-shaped member is brought into contact with a partial area of the nozzle formation surface and a second contact state where the belt-shaped member is in contact with an area corresponding to the nozzle column in a direction along the nozzle column on the nozzle formation surface.
US09387675B2
A liquid discharge head includes a substrate, a heat resistor layer, and a side wall member that forms a side wall of a pressure chamber. The heat resistor layer has a heat effect portion configured to foam liquid in an interior of the pressure chamber to discharge liquid from a discharge port. The heat effect portion is apart from the substrate, at least part of a surface of the heat resistor layer is covered with a covering layer in the interior of the pressure chamber, and the covering layer extends from the interior of the pressure chamber to a position coming into contact with the side wall of the side wall member.
US09387673B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a piezoelectric element having a first electrode on a vibration plate, a piezoelectric layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the piezoelectric material layer. The piezoelectric layer has functional portions sandwiched between the first and second electrodes; the second electrode configures a common electrode provided continuously across a plurality of the functional portions; the piezoelectric layer extends to an outer side of an end of the first electrode; the vibration plate has a first region opposing the first electrode, a second region opposing an area of the piezoelectric layer extending further toward an outer side than the first electrode, and a third region further toward the outer side than the piezoelectric layer; the second region has a thickness substantially equal to or greater than the thickness of the first region; and the third region is thinner than the first region.
US09387662B2
Provided is an intaglio printing press including: a gravure printing device, which performs gravure printing on one surface of a sheet of paper; dryers, which dry the one surface of the sheet of paper, on which gravure printing is performed by the gravure printing device; an intaglio printing device, which performs intaglio printing on the sheet of paper having been dried by the dryers; and a printing surface switching device, which transfers the sheet of paper from the gravure printing device to the intaglio printing device in a manner that a surface of the sheet of paper on which the intaglio printing device performs intaglio printing is switched between any one of the one surface and the other surface of the sheet of paper.
US09387660B2
Ablation-type printing plates having increased shelf-life are produced using a melamine resin free of water prior to use. A representative production sequence includes providing a substrate having an oleophilic surface; coating, over the substrate, an oleophilic resin composition having (A) a resin phase consisting essentially of a melamine resin substantially free of water and a resole resin, the resole resin being present in an amount ranging from 0% to 28% by weight of dry film, (B) a near-IR absorber dispersed within the resin phase, and (C) a sulfonic acid catalyst dispersed within the resin phase and being present in an amount ranging from 0.7% to 1.6% by weight of dry film; curing the resin composition to produce a dry film; following resin curing, coating an oleophobic polymer composition over the cured resin composition; and curing the oleophobic polymer composition.
US09387655B2
A method of joining two articles through a nano-enhanced joining medium is described. Nanomaterials are applied to the surfaces of sheets made of the joining medium via casting or spraying. Said sheets with nanomaterial coatings are then placed between the joining surfaces of the articles, and then application of pressure and heating is used to form a nano-engineered structural joint at the interface of said articles. The distinctly high specific surface area of nanomaterials and the energetic preference of their functionalized surfaces for bonding facilitate the joining process. Nano-engineered structural joints complement high strength levels with desired toughness and the compliance needed for accommodating deformation (e.g. thermal expansion) mismatches of joined articles without generating high stress levels near their interface. The limited quantity (per unit joint surface area) of nanomaterials utilized in nano-engineered joints benefits their economic viability.
US09387651B2
A laminate structure having a first glass layer, a second glass layer, and at least one polymer interlayer intermediate the first and second glass layers. The first glass layer is comprised of a thin, chemically strengthened glass having a surface compressive stress of between about 250 MPa and about 350 MPa and a depth of layer (DOL) of compressive stress greater than about 60 μm. The second glass layer can also be comprised of a thin, chemically strengthened glass having a surface compressive stress of between about 250 MPa and about 350 MPa and a depth of layer (DOL) of compressive stress greater than about 60 μm.
US09387645B2
A vehicle interior panel includes a decorative skin and a polymer coating provided to increase material thickness at a desired portion of the decorative skin The polymer coating may be formed by a thermal spraying process in which a polymeric material is heated and deposited along an inner side of the decorative skin The decorative skin may be thermoformed from a uniformly thick sheet of thermoplastic material so that it includes a reduced thickness portion after forming. The polymeric material can be deposited along the reduced thickness portion to form the polymer coating, thereby restoring integrity or providing enhanced integrity to the decorative skin to aid subsequent material processes such as sewing or foam backfilling.
US09387643B2
A sheet processing apparatus comprises a pressing member configured to press a fold line portion of a folded sheet bundle; and moving unit configured to move a position of pressing by the pressing member in a direction of a fold line of the folded sheet bundle, wherein the moving unit is configured to stand by at a pressing start position in which the pressing member is in a non-pressing state, before the folded sheet bundle is conveyed to the pressing member.
US09387635B2
Particular embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatus for deforming a tire sidewall. Such methods include the step of providing a tire having at least one sidewall connected to a corresponding bead. A further step includes constraining at least one of the sidewall and bead from moving laterally toward the other. Yet another step of such methods includes engaging the sidewall with an inclined member. Another step of such methods includes moving at lest one of the sidewall and bead in a lateral direction away from the other until the sidewall is laterally deformed into a laterally deformed configuration.
US09387632B2
A method for manufacturing a cylindrical part from composite material, and a molding device to implement the method, the method including: installation of a fibrous structure on a horizontal mandrel; formation of an annular enclosure for molding around the fibrous structure and the mandrel; supply of the enclosure with resin via a first axial end, while keeping a second axial end of the enclosure at a pressure lower than a supply pressure of the resin. The second end includes at least two sectors of vents in a form of ring sectors, each being independently kept at a pressure lower than the supply pressure.
US09387628B2
Method and tooling apparatus for forming a composite charge into a stringer having an I-shaped cross-section. A substantially flat composite charge is placed on a die set and pressed formed into a die set cavity to form a stringer hat. A stringer base is formed by press forming the composite charge against the die set. The die set is used to compress the stringer hat into a stringer web having a bulb on one end thereof. A stringer cap is formed by press forming the bulb within a recess in the die set.
US09387625B2
Crosslinked, melt-shaped articles are manufactured by a process that does not require the use of post-shaping external heat or moisture, the process comprising the steps of: A. Forming a crosslinkable mixture of a 1. Organopolysiloxane containing one or more functional end groups; and 2. Silane-grafted or silane-copolymerized polyolefin; and B. Melt-shaping and partially crosslinking the mixture; and C. Cooling and continuing crosslinking the melt-shaped article. Crosslinking is promoted by the addition of a catalyst to the mixture before or during melt-shaping or to the melt-shaped article.
US09387622B2
A hot pressing apparatus includes a positioning template having a forming region for placing a workpiece, a hot pressing template, a plurality of positioning blocks, and a lifting mechanism. A plurality of holes is formed in the forming region along a periphery of the forming region. The positioning blocks are movably disposed outside the forming region along the periphery of the forming region for positioning the workpiece in the forming region. The hot pressing template is movable between a hot pressing position and a releasing position for hot pressing the workpiece located in the forming region cooperatively with the positioning template when moving to the hot pressing position. The lifting mechanism includes a plurality of pillars movably disposed in the holes respectively and a driving device for driving each pillar to extend out from the corresponding hole so as to lift the workpiece.
US09387621B2
A conveyance receiver for a honeycomb formed body is a conveyance receiver where a pillar, clayey honeycomb formed body extruded from a die is placed with its central axis set horizontally and moves on a conveyance path to convey the honeycomb formed body to a next process, and the conveyance receiver includes a concaved surface concaved to both end faces parallel to a surface perpendicular to the central axis of the honeycomb formed body to be placed, and that is a surface in contact with a side surface of the honeycomb formed body to be conveyed; and a receiver main body constituted of a plurality of members, and coupling means that couples the members to one another, and the receiver main body at least has a first member at the one end face side and a second member at the other end face side as the members.
US09387619B2
A method for additive delivery during a plastics processing is disclosed. The method includes establishing a network of components in a control loop that uses a feedback method to drive at least one pump, thus enabling continuous, robust proportioning of additive in a difficult to control environment. The feedback method includes sending at least one signal from at least one sensor associated with a plastics melting machine to a controller, sending one or more signals from the controller to the at least one pump, monitoring the pressure in the at least one pump and sensing the position of an injection nozzle valve, and sending one or more signals to the injection nozzle valve instructing the valve to open or close.
US09387613B2
A semiconductor package formation arrangement includes a mold housing with an interior cavity having top, bottom and first and second end sides. A gate for transferring liquefied molding material extends to the first end side. A lead frame having a top surface, a rear surface opposite the top surface and a mold flow modifier forms a first cavity section between the top surface and the top side and a second cavity section between the rear surface and the bottom side. A topology of the lead frame causes liquefied molding material to fill the first and second cavity sections at different rates. The mold flow modifier extends away from the lead frame so as to compensate for the difference between the first and second rates.
US09387612B2
Methods and apparatus for applying internal features or complex mechanical structures to a surface of a metal part are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for creating an assembly that includes a substrate and a molded piece involves obtaining the substrate, and forming at least one binding feature on a surface of the substrate. The method also includes molding on a surface of the binding feature and the surface of the substrate. Molding on the surface of the binding feature and the surface of the substrate mechanically binds the molded piece to the substrate.
US09387609B2
A method of producing a composite component, in which a hollow section is expanded, at least in regions, by internal high pressure. In a first step a region of the hollow section is expanded until it comes to lie against an edge region of a cavity of a combined hydroforming and injection mold. In a second step the cavity is filled with an injection molding compound. In a third step the hollow section, at least in regions, is expanded further, which increases the internal high pressure.
US09387604B2
In order to make a structure of a composite material including elongated hollow shapes, such as hollow shapes associated with stiffeners of a stiffened panel, the invention comprises making cores including a bladder made of an elastomer material. The invention relates to a method for making such extractable cores in order to obtain cores having a very important length, and allowing the use of said cores for the industrial production of composite parts. The bladder is a cylindrical bladder that is conformed in a core mould, wherein the core itself does not have to be cylindrical, before being filled with a granular material and submitted to a negative pressure in order to impart a stable shape to the core by compaction of the granular material.
US09387595B2
An exemplary folding knife has a handle including an inner liner portion and an outer panel. The inner liner portion includes a locking member that is operable to move between an unlocked position and a locked position. The folding knife includes a blade having a tang portion pivotally connected to the handle. The blade is operable to pivot relative to the handle about a pivot axis extending through the tang portion between a closed position and an open position. The tang portion engages the locking member when the blade is in the open position and the locking member is in the locked position. The folding knife also includes a lever member pivotally mounted to the locking member. The lever member is operable to block the locking member from moving from the locked position to the unlocked position when the blade is open.
US09387584B2
An industrial robot may include a hand having an object-mounting section; an arm structured to hold the hand at the front side thereof; a main body section structured to hold the base end of the arm; and a covering member structured to cover at least the top surface of the object-mounting section. The radiant heat reflectance at the covering member may be higher than that at the object-mounting section. The heat conductivity of the covering member may be lower than that of the object-mounting section. The specific gravity of the object-mounting section may be smaller than that of the covering member.
US09387582B2
A magnetic holding device having an elongated body which extends between a tip and a locking head. A saddle is connected to the elongated body. Said saddle having a magnet connected thereto. In operation the elongated body is wrapped around the body of a hand tool and the tip is passed through an opening in the locking head. The elongated body is passed through the locking head until the magnetic holding device is tightened over the hand tool. Once in place the magnetic holding device holds the hand tool in a convenient place near where the hand tool is being used by connecting the magnet to any metal object. In this way the magnetic holding device provides the advantage of reducing the potential for lost or misplaced hand tools by allowing for easy organization and placement of hand tools during use.
US09387579B2
An adjustable tool handle for holding a tool during use provides an improved handling of tools during use of tools that are difficult to use on their own, specifically L-shaped hexagonal and round wrenches. The adjustable tool handle includes a tool handle body with a handle and an adjustable opening for receiving a tool. In order to place a tool within the tool handle, a user opens the tool handle and places the tool within the handle. After the tool is placed within the handle the tool is held in place by a holding component. The tool handle is also usable with a removable ratcheting mechanism. When the ratcheting mechanism is attached to the tool handle, the ratcheting mechanism couples with a plurality of bits or sockets of different sizes and different types.
US09387578B2
An improved handle arrangement is provided for a power tool, such as a sander. The sander may include: a housing; a primary handle extending in a rearward direction away from an upper rear portion of the housing; a secondary handle positioned at an upper front portion of the housing, where the secondary handle is formed as a knob protruding in a forward direction which is opposite the rearward direction; a platen coupled to a lower portion of the housing; and a motor assembly disposed within the housing. A groove may be formed into an exterior surface of the housing along an intermediate portion of the housing, such that the intermediate portion extends between the primary handle and the secondary handle and the groove extends from a top surface of the housing towards a lower portion portion of the housing along opposing side surfaces of the housing.
US09387569B2
A single and multiple abrasive structure support system has a multiple support structure which facilitates use of snail lock and Frankfurt shoe adaptive support with a stepped surface which enables the snail lock adapter to enabling support of an abrasive structure beyond and at a distance clearance from Frankfurt shoe rails. The single abrasive structure support includes a snail lock. Both single and multiple abrasive structure support systems incorporate a pair of plates for absorbing force and energy, especially resulting from uneven surfaces being textured, such as stone.
US09387563B2
A machine tool has a cover body with a window, the window including two spaced window plates defining an airtight space therebetween. The space is brought to a pressure other than atmospheric. An indicator is coupled to the cover body and has an indicator portion that is displaced in response to pressure in the space. The indicating portion is visually observable from outside the machine tool, so that the airtightness of the window may be determined by visually observing the position of the indicating portion.
US09387562B2
An assembly device for a writing head unit includes a head holder; a writing head; an imaging unit to image the writing head temporarily mounted on the head holder; an adjuster to adjust relative positions of the head holder and the writing head using the image of the writing head imaged by the imaging unit; and an optical unit to focus images of reference marks indicating a reference position of the writing head disposed in a direction different from the writing head, and the writing head on the same viewing field. The adjuster adjusts the writing head using the images of the writing head and the reference marks imaged simultaneously by the imaging unit.
US09387559B2
An automatic system for automatically mounting door hinges to upper and lower seats on pillars of a vehicle body conveyed by a conveying unit may include i) a first aligning unit automatically aligning a plurality of door hinges, ii) a first gripper disposed on one side of a mounting frame fixed to an arm of a first handling robot, and taking out the door hinges from the hinge box, iii) a second aligning unit loading the door hinges, and arranging the door hinges into position at a predetermined mounting angle, iv) a second gripper disposed on the other side of the mounting frame, and unloading the door hinges aligned by the second aligning unit, v) a mounting jig clamping and setting the door hinges into seats on the vehicle body, and vi) a bolt runner bolting the door hinges set in the seats on the vehicle body.
US09387539B2
A gripper for use in combination with a pin has a body having an axially open cavity in which the pin is engageable. Jaws in the cavity are radially displaceable between an inner holding position bearing radially inwardly on and gripping the pin and an outer release position in which the pin can be removed axially from the cavity. An actuating element in the body is engageable with the jaws and shiftable between end positions corresponding to the inner and outer positions of the jaws. An actuator connected to the actuating element can move it from one of the end positions into the other of the end positions. An externally accessible connecting or operating member on the chuck body is connected through an emergency release with the jaws for moving the jaws into the outer release position as the result of connection to or operation of the member.
US09387535B2
The invention is an apparatus and method for safely depressurizing milling vials. The invention utilizes a machinist vise in communication with a pneumatic air cylinder mounted in a jig inside glove box enclosure. The invention utilizes a method for safely depressurizing milling vials. The milling vials are placed into the machinist vise inside the enclosure. The ram of the pneumatic air cylinder is placed on top of the milling vial and the pneumatic air cylinder is pressed firmly against the cap of the milling vial. Next, the air inside the enclosure is evacuated of atmosphere after which the pressure is slowly released from the pneumatic air cylinder. During this stage of the method the operator is a safe distance from the enclosure. As pressure is removed from the pneumatic air cylinder the ram is retracted and the cap of milling vial is removed.
US09387533B1
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, and/or composition of matter configured for and/or resulting from, and/or a method for, activities that can comprise and/or relate to, investment casting a product in a mold, the product comprising at least one wall, the mold comprising a core, an inner primary shell, and an outer secondary shell.
US09387531B1
A riveting device comprises an inner guide sleeve having a push rod thereinside; an outer guide sleeve sleeving the inner guide sleeve; a hold ring disposed inside and tightly pressed against the outer guide sleeve; and a driver. The screw body of a screw is inserted through the outer guide sleeve and hold ring and screwed into a river nut. The screw head is disposed inside the inner guide sleeve and tightly pressed against the hold ring by the push rod. The driver is combined with the inner guide sleeve and drives the inner guide sleeve, push rod, outer guide sleeve, hold ring, screw and rivet nut to move jointly and rivet the rivet nut. The present invention is characterized in using the push rod, hold ring and outer guide sleeve to secure the screw and exemption from the limitation by the size or shape of the screw head.
US09387529B2
A draw press includes a carriage moveable toward a work piece and an upper die movably secured to the carriage. The upper die is movable with respect to the carriage to draw the work piece. A method for drawing a metal part is also disclosed.
US09387526B2
A roller leveler includes: a leveling roll unit having a plurality of leveling rolls configured to rotate so as to pass a plate while sandwiching and pressing the plate; a pushing cylinder provided at each of an entrance side and a discharge side of the leveling roll unit, at which the plate enters and is discharged, respectively, and configured to press the plate via the leveling rolls; and a driving mechanism configured to rotate the leveling rolls to pass the plate. At least one of the plurality of leveling rolls has a stepped structure, including a lateral center portion with a large diameter, corresponding to a center portion of the plate with respect to a plate width direction, and lateral end portions with a small diameter, corresponding to edge portions of the plate with respect to the plate width direction.
US09387520B2
Disclosed are a liquid processing apparatus and a cleaning method which may perform cleaning on a portion which is not in the vicinity of a drain section in an exhaust route. The liquid processing apparatus includes an exhaust section provided in vicinity of the drain section, which is configured to exhaust a surrounding atmosphere of the substrate held by the substrate holding unit; an exhaust route forming member configured to form an exhaust route reaching the exhaust section; and a first cleaning unit configured to supply a cleaning liquid to the exhaust route forming member at the exhaust route side.
US09387517B2
A shaker for separating solids from a drilling fluid includes a top screening deck (130), a flow-back pan (160) positioned beneath the top screening deck (130) for receiving an initially separated drilling fluid from the top screening deck. The flow-back pan (160) is divided into a plurality of channels (A, B, C, D). The shaker further includes a fluid distribution box (210), which includes a plurality of conduits (A, B, C, D). Each channel (A, B, C, D) of the flow-back pan (160) corresponds to one of the plurality of conduits (A, B, C, D) in the fluid distribution box (210) and each channel communicates a stream of the initially separated drilling fluid to the corresponding conduit. The shaker further includes a middle screening deck (140) and a bottom screening deck (150). Each conduit (A, B, C, D) routes the stream of initially separated drilling fluid to a corresponding one of the middle screening deck (140) and the bottom screening deck (150).
US09387497B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a discharge portion capable of discharging a liquid, a carriage movable along scanning directions between a first position and a second position, a tube that is connected to the discharge portion and that supplies the liquid to the discharge portion, a frame provided at such a position as to be able to contact the tube, and a tube support portion that is provided between the frame and the carriage and that has a supporting surface capable of supporting the tube. The carriage includes an inclined portion that is inclined so as to move the tube toward the supporting surface when the carriage moves along the scanning directions while the tube is not supported by the supporting surface.
US09387495B2
A shower device, such as a hand shower, includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet, the housing defining a first flow path and a second flow path between the inlet and the outlet, a first flow regulator positioned in the first flow path and limiting a flow of water therethrough to a first flow rate, and a second flow regulator upstream of the first flow regulator and limiting a flow of water therethrough to a second flow rate, the first flow path and the second flow path passing through the second flow regulator. A valve may be positioned in the second flow path and biased to close the second flow path and an actuator may be coupled to the valve and operable to open the valve, the actuator being positioned on the housing flush with or recessed from the housing surface.
US09387489B2
The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating nanoparticulates, including nucleic acids, from biological samples. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity isolation of biological components from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples.
US09387488B2
Methods, structures, devices and systems are disclosed for rapid enrichment and mass transport of biomolecules (e.g., such as proteins) or other small molecules and particles using electrodeless dielectrophoresis (eDEP). In one aspect, a device to aggregate molecules includes a substrate that is electrically insulating, an electrically insulative material formed on the substrate and structured to form a channel to carry an electrically conducting fluid containing particles, a constriction structure formed of the electrically insulative material and located in the channel to narrow a channel dimension and forming an opening with a size in the nanometer range, and a circuit coupled to the substrate to apply an ac electric field and a dc bias electric field along the channel, in which the constriction structure is structured to magnify the applied ac electric field to produce forces that operate collectively to aggregate the particles.
US09387477B2
A fluid handling device includes a substrate, a film and a conductive layer. The substrate includes a through hole or a recess. The film includes first, second and third regions. The conductive layer is disposed on one surface of the film across the first, second and third regions. The first region of the film is bonded to one surface of the substrate such that one of openings of the through hole or an opening of the recess is closed to form a housing part, and that a part of the conductive layer is exposed to the inside of the housing part. The second region of the film is bent such that the conductive layer is located on an outside. The third region of the film is bonded to the first region of the film such that the conductive layer is exposed to the exterior.
US09387476B2
A flow cell including inlet and outlet ports in fluid communication with each other through a flow channel that extends therebetween. The flow channel includes a diffuser region and a field region that is located downstream from the diffuser region. The field region of the flow channel directs fluid along reaction sites where desired reactions occur. The fluid flows through the diffuser region in a first flow direction and through the field region in a second flow direction. The first and second flow directions being substantially perpendicular.
US09387470B2
The invention relates to novel bimetallic and trimetallic catalysts, their manufacture and use in both steam reforming and oxidative steam reforming of liquid fuels such as jet fuels, diesel fuels and gasoline to produce synthesis gas and/or hydrogen for fuel cell applications. The invention further relates to manufacture of synthesis gas and/or hydrogen gas for chemicals synthesis and fuel processing. The catalysts have high sulfur tolerance and carbon resistance when used in steam reforming and/or oxidative steam reforming of heavy hydrocarbon fuels.
US09387452B2
This invention relates generally to novel methods and novel devices for the continuous manufacture of nanoparticles, microparticles and nanoparticle/liquid solution(s). The nanoparticles (and/or micron-sized particles) comprise a variety of possible compositions, sizes and shapes. The particles (e.g., nanoparticles) are caused to be present (e.g., created and/or the liquid is predisposed to their presence (e.g., conditioned)) in a liquid (e.g., water) by, for example, preferably utilizing at least one adjustable plasma (e.g., created by at least one AC and/or DC power source), which plasma communicates with at least a portion of a surface of the liquid. At least one subsequent and/or substantially simultaneous adjustable electrochemical processing technique is also preferred. Multiple adjustable plasmas and/or adjustable electrochemical processing techniques are preferred. The continuous process causes at least one liquid to flow into, through and out of at least one trough member, such liquid being processed, conditioned and/or effected in said trough member(s). Results include constituents formed in the liquid including micron-sized particles and/or nanoparticles (e.g., metallic-based nanoparticles) of novel size, shape, composition, zeta potential and properties present in a liquid.
US09387446B2
Disclosed are methods for making emulsions and emulsions, that in some embodiments can be considered to be Pickering emulsions.
US09387438B2
An engine exhaust after-treatment system including an exhaust passage including a plurality of legs, with an exhaust control valve being positioned at an inlet of each of the legs that is configured to control an amount of exhaust that enters each leg. A desulfurization treatment component is located within each of the legs. An alkaline reagent tank provides an alkaline reagent to the desulfurization treatment component, and a reagent control valve is disposed between the alkaline reagent tank and the desulfurization treatment component. The reagent control valve is configured to control an amount of alkaline reagent that enters the desulfurization component. A controller may be communication with each of the exhaust control valves and reagent control valves, wherein the controller is configured to control the exhaust control valves independently of the reagent control valves.
US09387435B2
Disclosed are methods for the on-site manufacture of aqueous-based mercury sorbent compositions prepared using a process water. The sorbent compositions may be aqueous-based materials manufactured from a silica containing precursor, a metal species, and a sulfur-based species, in the presence of a process waters, such as a process water from a coal-fired power plant.
US09387434B2
Disclosed herein are methods for the on-site manufacture of aqueous-based mercury sorbent compositions prepared using a process water. The sorbent compositions may be aqueous-based materials manufactured from a silica containing precursor, a metal species, and a sulfur-based species, in the presence of a process waters, such as a process water from a coal-fired power plant.
US09387421B1
A screening apparatus that includes a strainer element used for the purpose of retaining particulate while permitting the passage of a liquid through the strainer element, a support structure for the strainer element to enable rotation of the strainer element between opposed 180 degree positions, and a control member coupled with the strainer element for controlling the rotation of the strainer element. The strainer element, in both opposed positions thereof impedes any particulate while permitting the passage of a liquid. The control member is constructed so that, in a first state thereof, the rotation of the strainer element is periodically controlled to rotate the strainer element between said opposed 180 degree positions, and in a second state thereof, inhibits rotation of the strainer element.
US09387420B2
A screen device includes a foam body having a passageway that extends longitudinally through the foam body, the foam body has an open cell structure such that at least two surfaces of the foam body are in fluidic communication with one another through the foam body.
US09387404B2
A game system including a plurality of mobile game apparatuses, and a mobile game apparatus that can communicate with another game apparatus that exists within a communicable range by use of a radio communications unit. When a communicated state is established, exchanging conditions for exchanging game data are received and transmitted, and in a case the exchange conditions are coincident with each other, the game data are exchanged.
US09387401B2
A method, implemented as computer code being executed by one or more processors, in which computer game graphics for a casual, social game are shown on a display of a computing device and in which one or more of the processors are programmed to show: a virtual path or other virtual world that indicates the level reached by the player and some of that player's social network friends; a score board that displays the score of a player once he has completed a level successfully, together with the highest scores of some of its social network friends' for that level; and in which each level of the game can be failed and, if the processor determines that the player is running out of moves or time, then the processor causes the game to automatically display a message offering extra moves and/or time for the player to purchase, to carry on playing the game, or other in-game assistance.
US09387399B2
A switching section switches an operation subject of a user among a plurality of game characters. A first control section causes the game character that is set as the operation subject of the user among the plurality of game characters to behave based on a direction acquired based on an operation state of a first operation member. A second control section causes the game character that is not set as the operation subject of the user among the plurality of game characters to behave based on an operation of a computer. A selection section selects any one of the game characters controlled by the second control section based on a direction acquired based on an operation state of a second operation member. The switching section switches the operation subject of the user to the game character selected by the selection section.
US09387394B1
Systems and method for creating content in a virtual environment based on sound include components and operations that analyze audio data to identify specific sound qualities or characteristics, such as a specific frequency, period, wavelength, note, key, amplitude or the like that are present in the sound. For an identified sound quality or characteristic, the systems and methods may determine a corresponding or associated virtual content, (or an aspect of the virtual content), and generate that virtual content or that aspect of the virtual content in the virtual environment. The virtual content may be persistent among users and instantiations of the virtual environment. Examples of the virtual content that may be generated include an object, an action, a change to existing content and a real-time change command. Examples of the virtual environments that may include the generated content include a video game, a desktop, and an animated movie.
US09387392B1
A recommendation system for recommending electronic gaming machines to a plurality of players is described. The recommendation system including a database holding information on each player's history with electronic gaming machines played by the player, the history including information on play time and bet size. An analytics engine analyzes the information in the database and to generate a list of player recommendations personalized for each player based on that player's history. A player interface is provided that is accessible by each player, wherein the player interface allows the player to interact with the recommendation system and to see the personalized recommendations.
US09387391B2
Systems and methods for scoring familiarity are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises selecting a topic by a first user, presenting items associated with the topic to the first user, ranking a first set of the items by the first user, presenting the items to a second user, ranking a second set of the items by the second user, and scoring the second ranking relative to the first ranking.
US09387389B2
A gaming system allows a game manager to manage and run a multiplayer game and adjudicate all player characters with the ability to control the game and game play for all players from a centralized command facility in real-time. Interactive cards can be used that relate to investigated objects. The cards include information relating to the usage of the discovered objects as well as provide a method whereby the cards can interact based on predetermined orientation(s). Furthermore, an object discovery and investigation methodology is outlined that provides characters with a roadmap for determining the consequences of interaction with an object.
US09387388B2
Embodiments relate to a motorized skateboard. Embodiments allow users to utilize a power supply, such as a rechargeable battery pack, that is remote with respect to the skateboard. Embodiments can have the battery mounted on, under, partially or wholly enclosed within, and/or integral with the skateboard deck. Embodiments can have a removable and interchangeable motor mount, which attaches to the hanger to align the motor with the drive train. The drive wheel adaptor (hub) allows the user to modify standard skateboard wheels to use as drive wheels for the electric skateboard. The strength of the bond between the drive hub and the wheel enables the skateboard to utilize more torque without failure. Embodiments can allow users to have wiring connections at the front and/or back of the skateboard deck. Board-integrated wiring techniques can also be utilized. The electronics can be attached using brackets that fit the industry standard bolt pattern.
US09387386B2
The present invention relates generally to a training method and apparatus for improving performance.
US09387378B2
A golf club shaft which satisfies strength and is lightweight is provided by the present invention. This golf club shaft comprises one or more fiber-reinforced resin layers, and is characterized by satisfying the following relationship (1), wherein x [mm] is the displacement in a cantilever bending test, M [g] is the mass of the golf club shaft, and L [mm] is the length thereof, and by satisfying the following strength standard values [1]-[4]: M×(L/1168)<49.66 e−0.0015x (relationship 1); [1] the three-point bending strength at T-90 (the position 90 mm apart from the smaller-diameter end) is 800 N or higher; [2] the three-point bending strength at T-175 (the position 175 mm apart from the smaller-diameter end) is 400 N or higher; [3] the three-point bending strength at T-525 (the position 525 mm apart from the smaller-diameter end) is 400 N or higher; and [4] the three-point bending strength at B-175 (the position 175 mm apart from the larger-diameter end) is 400 N or higher.
US09387376B1
A golf club head comprising a channel or a pair of parallel rails and a slidable weight assembly that can be removably fixed at any point within the channel or to the rails is disclosed herein. The slidable weight assembly preferably comprises a weight portion and base that can be turned 45 to 90 degrees to reversibly fix the slidable weight assembly within the channel or to the rails.
US09387369B2
A golf club includes a club head, and a shaft. The club head includes a hosel formed into a tubular body having a top end and a shaft insertion hole extending downwardly from the top end. The shaft includes a shaft main body and a reinforcing member. The shaft main body is formed into a tubular shape having a tip end, and an internal surface surrounding cavity therein. The reinforcing member has a specific gravity of not more than 2.0 and is fixed in the cavity of the shaft main body. The reinforcing member includes a first portion fitting the internal surface of the shaft main body. The first portion includes an uppermost edge positioned upwardly with respect to the top end of the hosel, and a lowermost edge positioned between the top end of the hosel and the tip end of the shaft main body.
US09387352B2
A system for extinguishing and/or inerting, including an extinguishing-agent tank, a conveyor device for an extinguishing agent, a pipeline, and nozzles. A synthetic liquid extinguishing agent (12) is stored at low pressure of up to 3 bar relative to 21° C. in the extinguishing-agent tank (1) and at least one incidence sensor detects fire signals and reports them to a fire detection panel and/or control panel (9) which activates the conveyor device (4) that conveys the synthetic liquid extinguishing agent by means of a pipeline (5) to nozzles (6), and the liquid extinguishing agents transitions into the gas phase after leaving the nozzles (6). The system represents a more cost-effective system that requires less technical efforts in comparison to previous systems having synthetic liquid extinguishing agents.
US09387350B2
There is provided a full body harness comprising a chest strap, an abdomen strap and a damping unit between the chest strap and the abdomen strap. The damping unit is adapted in the event of a fall to limit the maximum loading acting on the wearer of the harness. The damping unit has a connection for connection to an external runner.
US09387347B2
Systems, methods, and related computer program products for image-guided radiation treatment (IGRT) are described. Provided according to one preferred embodiment is an IGRT apparatus including a barrel-style rotatable gantry structure that provides high mechanical stability, versatility in radiation delivery, and versatility in target tracking. Methods for treatment radiation delivery using the IGRT apparatus include conical non-coplanar rotational arc therapy and cono-helical non-coplanar rotational arc therapy. A radiation treatment head (MV source) and a treatment guidance imaging system including a kV imaging source are mounted to and rotatable with a common barrel-style rotatable gantry structure, or alternatively the MV and kV sources are mounted to separate barrel-style rotatable gantry structures independently rotatable around a common axis of rotation. Methods for intra-fraction target tracking in a gantry-style IGRT system based on comparisons between a pre-acquired planning image and intrafraction x-ray tomosynthesis images and/or intrafraction cone beam CT (CBCT) images are also described.
US09387337B2
There is provided an energy delivery device comprising a storage device, a discharge circuit and a disarm circuit. The discharge circuit comprises a switch electrically connected to the storage device, and is selectively operable to deliver energy from the storage device to a load, e.g., a patient needing defibrillation, preferably in a multiphasic waveform. The disarm circuit comprises the switch. Preferably, the discharge circuit comprises an H-bridge circuit. There are also provided delivery devices: which comprise a shoot-through elimination circuit; which include housing elements which, when assembled, cause electrical connection between respective components; which include a housing having a small volume and an energy storage device having a large capacitance; which comprise a shunt circuit which, when activated, prevents switching of a switch. There are also provided methods of assembly and disassembly of an energy delivery unit and methods of delivering energy to a load.
US09387334B2
A system for an electrical neurostimulator coupled to a plurality of electrodes. The system comprises a user-controlled input device configured for generating directional control signals. The system further comprises control circuitry configured for sequentially defining a plurality of different ideal bipole/tripole configurations relative to the plurality of electrodes in response to the directional control signals, generating a plurality of stimulation parameter sets respectively corresponding to the plurality of ideal bipole/tripole configurations, each stimulation parameter set defining relative amplitude values for the plurality of electrodes that emulate the respective ideal bipole/tripole configuration, and instructing the electrical neurostimulator to convey electrical energy to the plurality of electrodes in accordance with the plurality of stimulation parameter sets.
US09387333B2
An identifier apparatus 10 for acquiring a signature signal frequency 12 from an implantable medical device 11 that is internally implanted in a patient. The apparatus 10 identifies the type of implantable medical device 11 and the device manufacturer by the unique signature signal frequency 12 of the manufacturer and device. The apparatus 10 aids healthcare providers with quick and exact knowledge of a patients implanted device.
US09387328B2
A system for an neurostimulator coupled to electrodes. The system comprises a input device configured for generating directional control signals, and memory storing ideal multipole configurations. The system further comprises control circuitry configured for defining the ideal multipole configurations relative to the electrodes in response to the directional control signals, determining a spatial relationship between at least one of the defined ideal multipole configurations and the maximum extent of the electrodes, modifying the defined ideal multipole configurations based on the determined spatial relationship, such that the modified ideal multipole configurations are spatially within the maximum extent of the electrodes, generating stimulation parameter sets respectively corresponding to the modified ideal multipole configurations, each stimulation parameter set defining relative amplitude values for the electrodes that emulate the respective modified ideal multipole configuration, and instructing the neurostimulator to convey electrical energy to the electrodes in accordance with the stimulation parameter sets.
US09387326B2
A method and neurostimulation system of providing therapy to a patient is provided. A plurality of electrodes are placed in contact with tissue of a patient, a conditioning pulse is conveyed from the plurality of electrodes in one of a monopolar manner and a multipolar manner, and a stimulation pulse is conveyed from the plurality of electrodes in a different one of the monopolar manner and the multipolar manner. As one example, the sub-threshold conditioning pulse may be a depolarizing pulse conveyed from the plurality of electrodes to render a first region of the tissue less excitable to stimulation, and the stimulation pulse may be conveyed from the plurality of electrodes to stimulate a second different region of the tissue.
US09387321B2
The present invention is a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The visual prosthesis includes an implantable portion which stimulates visual neural tissue according to stimulation patterns sent by a programmable video processing unit. The video processing unit controls stimulation patterns including programmable wave forms to provide monopolar, bipolar, and multipolar wave forms.
US09387318B2
A stimulation apparatus includes a stimulation lead (102), a multiplexer (114), a stimulation signal generator (116), and a signal detector (120). The stimulation lead (102) includes a plurality of stimulation electrodes (112) disposed in an array about a distal portion of the lead body (110). The arrangement of the electrodes (112) facilitates the controlled steering of stimulating electrical field (118) in three dimensions. Four dimensional field steering may also be provided.
US09387303B2
A system for the management of medical tubing, the system includes a tube holder adapted for receiving and retaining medical tubes, and a clip adapted to be engaged with a substrate, in which the tube holder may be releasably engaged with the clip.
US09387301B2
A pad assembly for use with a gas delivery mask for delivering a flow of gas to an airway of a patient is described. The pad assembly includes an outer casing and a support element. The outer cashing has a housing portion and a mounting portion. The housing portion has a first wall and a second wall defining a hollow cavity therebetween. The first wall is structured to engage a portion of the patient, and the mounting portion is structured to couple the outer casing to the patient interface device. The support element is disposed substantially within the cavity of the outer casing.
US09387296B1
A system is disclosed for delivering gas during a laparoscopic surgical procedure performed within a patient's abdominal cavity which includes a gas delivery device having a housing with a port for receiving pressurized insufflation gas from a gas source, a pump assembly for circulating gas throughout the system, and a separate gas conditioning unit configured for operative association with the gas delivery device.
US09387289B2
An infusion pump for administering controlled doses of a fluid comprises: a receptacle (2) for storing the fluid (6), the receptacle having an outlet (8) for dispensing the fluid; a plunger (12); a propulsion mechanism (14) which urges the plunger (12) in a direction to pressurise the fluid (6) and dispense it through the outlet (8); and a retaining member (16) which acts on the plunger (12) to control or prevent travel of the plunger (12); characterised in that the retaining member (16) is operably connected to a stepper motor (24) via a worm (22) and worm-wheel (18) drive.
US09387284B2
A system for assisting blood flow in a patient includes an implantable pump system for assisting in blood flow from the heart and an implantable control system for communicative connection with the implantable pump system. The control system includes a pacemaker system that is operative to control heart rate and the pump system interdependently to achieve a determined level of blood flow assist. The control system is adapted to increase the heart rate of the patient to above a normal heart rate for the patient under the present conditions of the patient via the pacemaker while controlling the pump system to achieve the determined level of blood flow assist based upon the increased heart rate and a level of assist provided by the pump system.
US09387273B2
Liquid activated ink formulations comprising a liquid activated dye, a hydrochromic ionic compound, an opacifier, and a solvent.
US09387272B2
A contact lens storage case of limited life and predetermined usage to further the safe and effective use of contact lenses by ensuring patient compliance through both limiting case use over a set period of time and discouraging reuse and topping-off of the disinfecting and storage solution. Generally, the self-destruction consists of the case developing a leak in a pre-determined fashion as a result of the change in properties of a material in a limited area of the case following exposure of the case to the storage solution.
US09387266B2
It is intended to provide a novel amino acid organic compound which can be used as a labeling precursor compound for radioactive halogen-labeled amino acid compounds including [18F]FACBC, and which prevents methanol from remaining in the radioactive halogen-labeled amino acid compounds produced therefrom. The novel amino acid organic compound is a compound represented by the following formula: wherein n is an integer of 0 or of 1 to 4; R1 is an ethyl, 1-propyl or isopropyl substituent; X is a halogen substituent or a group represented by —OR2; R2 is a straight-chain or branched-chain haloalkylsulfonic acid substituent with one to 10 carbon atoms, trialkylstannyl substituent with 3 to 12 carbon atoms, fluorosulfonic acid substituent or aromatic sulfonic acid substituent; and R3 is a protective group.
US09387263B2
Described is a transgenic mouse with two transgenes, each of which transgene comprises a DNA sequence encoding a dominant negative form of RbAp48 protein, wherein the expression of the dominant negative form of RbAp48 is spatially restricted to the forebrain by a CaM Kinase IIa promoter and wherein the expression of the dominant negative form of RbAp48 is controlled by tetracycline-controlled transcriptional activation. Also provided are methods for evaluating in the transgenic mouse the potential therapeutic effect of an agent for slowing, inhibiting or preventing age-related memory decline in a mammalian subject.
US09387262B2
The present invention is related to a lipid composition comprising at least a first lipid component, at least a first helper lipid, and a shielding compound which is removable from the lipid composition under in vivo conditions.
US09387258B2
A compound, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, or conjugates thereof, selected from the group consisting of formula wherein: (a) R10 is H, and R11 is OH, ORA, where RA is saturated C1-4 alkyl; (b) R10 and R11 form a nitrogen-carbon double bond between the nitrogen and carbon atoms to which they are bound; or (c) R10 is H and R11 is S02M, where z is 2 or 3 and M is a monovalent pharmaceutically acceptable cation, or both M together are a divalent pharmaceutically acceptable cation.
US09387256B2
Methods and compositions related to targeting agents to tumor tissue are described.
US09387252B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of a low-solubility drug and lower alkanoate-, phthalate- and trimellitate esters of hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose and lower alkanoate- and succinate esters of cellulose and methyl cellulose are disclosed that provide enhanced concentrations of the drug in a use environment.
US09387247B2
The present invention provides isolated monoclonal antibodies, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that specifically bind to PD-1 with high affinity. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies of the invention, expression vectors, host cells and methods for expressing the antibodies of the invention are also provided. Immunoconjugates, bispecific molecules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of the invention are also provided. The invention also provides methods for detecting PD-1, as well as methods for treating various diseases, including cancer and infectious diseases, using anti-PD-1 antibodies. The present invention further provides methods for using a combination immunotherapy, such as the combination of anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 antibodies, to treat hyperproliferative disease, such as cancer. The invention also provides methods for altering adverse events related to treatment with such antibodies individually.
US09387240B2
The present invention relates, in general, to attenuated negative-strand RNA viruses having an impaired ability to antagonize the cellular interferon (IFN) response, and the use of such attenuated viruses in vaccine and pharmaceutical formulations. The invention also relates to the development and use of IFN-deficient systems for selection of such attenuated viruses.In particular, the invention relates to attenuated influenza viruses having modifications to the NS1 gene that diminish or eliminate the ability of the NS1 gene product to antagonize the cellular IFN response. The mutant viruses replicate in vivo but demonstrate reduced pathogenicity, and therefore are well suited for live virus vaccines, and pharmaceutical formulations.
US09387238B2
Peptide vaccines against cancer are described herein. In particular, the present invention describes epitope peptides derived from CDCA1 that elicit CTLs. The present invention also provides established CTLs that specifically recognize HLA-A24 positive target cells pulsed with the peptides. Antigen-presenting cells and exosomes that present any of the peptides, as well as methods for inducing antigen-presenting cells are also provided. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical agents containing the CDCA1 polypeptides or polynucleotides encoding thereof, as well as exosomes and antigen-presenting cells as active ingredients. Furthermore, the present invention provides methods for treating and/or prophylaxis of (i.e., preventing) cancers (tumors), and/or prevention of postoperative recurrence thereof, as well as methods for inducing CTLs, methods for inducing anti-tumor immunity, using the CDCA1 polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, exosomes or antigen-presenting cells presenting the polypeptides, or the pharmaceutical agents of the present invention. The cancers to be targeted include, but are not limited to, breast cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal cancer, small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
US09387234B2
A method is provided for increasing trafficking of endothelial progenitor cells to an ischemic myocardium in a subject's heart comprising administering to the subject's heart an amount of Stromal-Derived Factor-1 (SDF-1).
US09387232B2
The present invention relates to SorCS1-like agents, including SorCS1, nucleic acid molecule encoding expression of SorCS1 and fragments thereof, as well as vectors containing said nucleic acid and to cells expressing SorCS1 and said fragments, for the treatment of obesity.
US09387228B2
To provide a pharmaceutical product or food which has an excellent fat-accumulation-inhibiting activity and/or fat-metabolism-improving activity and which is effective for inhibition or improvement of obesity, fatty liver, etc. The present invention provides an agent for preventing or ameliorating obesity containing, as an active ingredient, cells of a lactic acid bacterium belonging to the genus Pediococcus, a cell culture thereof, or an extract of any of these.
US09387222B2
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment of hepatic disorders in a subject in need thereof. More specifically, the methods of the invention are based on the administration, preferably, systemic administration, of a therapeutically effective amount of at least one biocompatible alginate biomaterial, any modification thereof and any combination thereof. The invention further provides methods for sustaining serum albumin levels, and/or reducing serum AST and ALT, in subjects suffering from hepatic disorder. Still further, the invention provides methods for reducing apoptosis and inducing cell proliferation in a damaged liver tissue of a subject suffering of hepatic disorder, using the alginate biomaterial described by the invention.
US09387218B2
The invention relates to the treatment of an inflammatory or immune disorder with a pharmaceutical composition including methylsulphonylmethane, glucosamine and glycine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or derivatives of these compounds.
US09387217B2
The present disclosure relates, inter alia, to compositions and methods for treating viral diseases and cancer. There are disclosed lipophilic antiviral and anticancer acyclic nucleoside phosphonate diesters, preparation thereof, and methods of using the compounds to treat viral diseases and cancer.
US09387215B2
Methods and feed compositions for increasing health of agricultural animals include administering a cationic cholesterol additive through the diet of the animal, such as through solid feed or drinking water of the animals. The method includes feeding an animal a diet comprised of a cationic cholesterol additive, such as a compound with a sterol backbone and a plurality of cationic groups attached thereto. The feed composition may include a solid or liquid feed component and a cationic cholesterol additive. The methods and compositions are useful for animals raised in confined feed operations, such as cattle, swine, horses, sheep, or poultry, and can reduce harmful bacteria in the digestive tract, increase beneficial bacteria flora, improve feed conversion efficiency, reduce morbity and/or mortality, and/or yield harvested meat having reduced content of harmful bacteria.
US09387213B2
Pharmaceutical compositions including a Myc inhibitor are provided. Also provided are methods for treating cancer including administration of compounds that inhibit oncoprotein Myc.
US09387211B2
The invention relates to methods and kits for the treatment of, prevention of, and lowering the chances of developing Cushing's Disease and/or hypercortisolism by the administration of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, such as gefitinib.
US09387210B2
Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating or preventing muscle diseases or the symptoms thereof. The compositions typically include and the methods typically utilize phosphodiesterase type 5A inhibitors.
US09387203B2
The present application relates to novel substituted aminoindane- and aminotetralinecarboxylic acids, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof for treatment and/or prevention of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prevention of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prevention of cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary diseases.
US09387194B2
Embodiments provide methods for using ascorbate for the stimulation of production of elastic fibers by cells.
US09387193B2
Disclosed is a composition comprising scirpusin A and scirpusin B and anti-obesity potential thereof. Also disclosed are methods of inhibiting adipogenesis using a composition comprising scirpusin A and scirpusin B. The present invention also disclosed methods of therapeutically managing obesity in mammals using a composition comprising scirpusin A and scirpusin B. Still further, the present invention also relates to a method of obtaining compositions comprising A. scirpusin A and scirpusin B and B. piceatannol and its dimers scirpusin A and scirpusin B through bioactivity guided fractionation of the rhizomes of Cyperus rotundus.
US09387192B2
The present invention relates to a combined preparation comprising at least one rocaglamide derivative and at least one apoptosis inducing agent, preferably from the group of substances comprising agents inducing the extrinsic apoptotic pathway, antiproliferative agents and agents which induce apoptosis in T-cells by activation induced cell death (AICD) for the treatment of cancer.
US09387185B2
The present invention relates to physically-chemically and pharmacokinetically enhanced Nω-hydroxy-L-arginine (NOHA) derivatives and a method for producing the NOHA derivatives having enhanced physical-chemical and pharmacokinetic properties according to the invention.
US09387184B2
This invention relates to the use of pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective combination of Tesofensine and Metoprolol for preventing the cardiovascular side effects of Tesofensine, while leaving the robust inhibitory efficacy on food intake and body weight loss unaffected.
US09387176B2
The present invention relates to a method for spray-drying of protein solutions and the spray-dried protein product. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing such spray-dried protein, to methods of treating diabetes and hyperglycaemia using the spray-dried protein of the invention and to the use of such spray-dried protein in the treatment of diabetes and hyperglycaemia.
US09387174B2
Disclosed in certain embodiments is a controlled release oral dosage form comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a drug susceptible to abuse together with one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients; the dosage form further including a gelling agent in an effective amount to impart a viscosity unsuitable for administration selected from the group consisting of parenteral and nasal administration to a solubilized mixture formed when the dosage form is crushed and mixed with from about 0.5 to about 10 ml of an aqueous liquid; the dosage form providing a therapeutic effect for at least about 12 hours when orally administered to a human patient.
US09387170B2
A liposome containing a regulatory cell ligand such as α-galactosyl ceramide or β-galactosyl ceramide is employed as the active ingredient of a drug for preventing or treating immune diseases etc.
US09387168B2
A chewing gum with a liquid-fill composition and a surrounding gum region, with one or both containing active ingredients, such as herbal, medicinal and/or mineral elements or combinations thereof, present in an amount of at least about 0.05 mg.
US09387161B2
A method for simultaneously moisturizing and/or blurring the appearance of skin defects, or reducing pore size, or treating skin with a multi-benefit composition.
US09387159B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for transdermal delivery, treatment of skin, and improving the appearance of skin. In some cases, the composition may include nitric oxide and/or peptides. The nitric oxide and/or peptide may be present within a first phase comprising a lecithin, such as phosphatidylcholine. In certain embodiments, the lecithin is present in liposomes, micelles, or other vesicles containing nitric oxide, peptides, or both. The composition can take the form of a gel, a cream, a lotion, an ointment, a solution, a solid “stick,” etc., that can be rubbed or sprayed onto the skin. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
US09387158B2
The present invention relates to use of whey protein micelles as a cosmetic agent or abrasive agents, and in particular to the use of such micelles in cosmetic compositions as well as to a method for obtaining such compositions.
US09387156B2
Computer-based systems and computer-implemented methods are described for monitoring medication events for an individual. Computer-based systems include systems for monitoring medication events relating to an individual, including: circuitry for analyzing data for an identifier of a first medication event for an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute of an individual; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one attribute relating to a medication during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the data for at least one feature of visual information and at least one feature of non-visual information relating to the individual during the first medication event; circuitry for analyzing the received data for a time associated with the first medication event; circuitry for determining a compliance likelihood for the first medication event based on the analyses of the received data; and circuitry for indicating the determined compliance likelihood.
US09387154B2
A medication container comprises a body portion and a grid coupled to the body portion. The grid and the tray each comprise a corresponding number of wells configured to contain medication. The tray is configured to be inserted into and removed from the body portion, above the grid. The tray may be configured to be connected to and disconnected from the grid, when the tray is inserted into the body portion. The wells of the grid may be configured to be manually loaded with medication by a user and the wells of the tray may be configured to be received by the user loaded with medication in accordance with a medication regimen. The first wells may be integral with the grid and the second wells may be integral with the tray.
US09387153B1
Apparatus and methods relating to a metered pill dispensing system are disclosed herein. A preloaded cartridge having multiple compartments containing dispensable contents, such as pills, is inserted into a cassette. The cassette has an actuatable member, such as a film or a belt, wrapped around it. The actuatable member has apertures through which the contents of the preloaded cartridge may pass. The actuatable member may be controlled to meter the dispensing of the contents.
US09387151B2
A syringe fill system is described, which is useful for filling syringes for dental anesthetic applications. The system incorporates capability for “push-pull”, “pull-push”, “push-push”, and “pull-pull” modes of operation, for loading syringes with compositions comprising multiple fluid components. A syringe fillable by such syringe fill systems is described, providing haptic and audible feedback to a user, to aid in administering precise amounts of therapeutic compositions. Also disclosed are cassette assemblies for use in such syringe fill systems. Such cassette assemblies may be formed of plastic and elastomeric materials of construction, as disposable or single-use components of the syringe fill system.
US09387145B2
A care support apparatus includes a lateral pair of leg links held by a main body. The leg links include first links provided with first wheels at respective one ends of the first links, and second links provided with second wheels at respective one ends of the second links and rotatably coupled to the first links. The second links are rotated to allow the first wheels to approach or leave the second wheels, respectively, to change the height of a main body from a ground surface to support a care receiver.
US09387144B2
A crutch includes: a handgrip (2) extending along a first axis (AA1); a forearm support (3), provided with a stem (3b) which extends along a second axis (AA2) and is connected to a rear end (2a) of the handgrip (2); a support pole (4), extending along a third axis (AA3) and connected to a front end (2a) of the handgrip (2); and adjusting members (5), configured to adjust an angular position of at least one of the support pole (4) and the forearm support (3) with respect to the handgrip (2).
US09387135B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel absorbent article that prevents excessive compression of an absorbent body caused by deformation of the absorbent article, and rewetting associated with said compression. In order to solve such a problem, a sanitary napkin (1) is provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet (2), a liquid-impermeable back sheet (3), and an absorbent body (4) disposed between the top sheet (2) and the back sheet (3), wherein: an extensible area (21) having an extensible bellows-like section (210), and a flexible area (22) surrounding the extensible area (21) are formed in a waste supply area (20) of the top sheet (2).
US09387131B2
Apparatus and methods are provided to minimize waste and improve quality and production in web processing operations. A first non-elastomeric layer is bonded with an elastomeric layer, and to a second non-elastomeric layer. The apparatus and methods provide defect detection in the elastomeric layer and triggers an unthreading/rethreading sequence. Web defect detection may be provided by way of at least one visual inspection station. If defects are detected in the elastic layer, the resulting products may be culled.
US09387128B1
A breastfeeding assistance device configured to be shaped into a variety of configurations, or forms. The device being self-sustainable in any selected configuration including a configuration that compresses a breast to assist with breastfeeding while allowing at least one hand free.
US09387127B2
A device for the protection of skin lesions of various kinds, in particular lesions following biopsy interventions, comprising: a first sheet having a central opening; a spacing element on the first sheet, made of a non-rigid material soaked with substances having bacteriostatic, bactericidal, germicidal or fungicidal activity, and having a central opening of smaller size than the central opening in the first sheet, and the center of which is essentially coincident with the center of the opening in the first sheet, so that part of the spacing element comes into contact with the skin in an area surrounding the lesion; and a second sheet, made with a material having micro-porosity preferably lower than 0.5 μm, placed over the spacing element so as to close the top of the central opening in said spacing element and to form, when the device is in contact with the skin, a closed chamber.
US09387123B2
A system and method for treating ophthalmic target tissue, including a light source for generating a beam of light, a beam delivery system that includes a scanner for generating patterns, and a controller for controlling the light source and delivery system to create a dosimetry pattern of the light beam on the ophthalmic target tissue. One or more dosage parameters of the light beam vary within the dosimetry pattern, to create varying exposures on the target tissue. A visualization device observes lesions formed on the ophthalmic target tissue by the dosimetry pattern. The controller selects dosage parameters for the treatment beam based upon the lesions resulting from the dosimetry pattern, either automatically or in response to user input, so that a desired clinical effect is achieved by selecting the character of the lesions as determined by the dosimetry pattern lesions.
US09387121B2
An ophthalmic irrigator-aspirator has a handpiece with aspiration and irrigation openings through its distal end. A tip component connects to the handpiece and has an aspiration cannula. A flexible sleeve has an annular hub for watertight connection to the handpiece or a base portion of the tip. The sleeve has an intermediate portion that forms a channel for an irrigation fluid along the exterior of the cannula to an irrigation port in the sleeve. The distal end portion of the sleeve is sized for a watertight connection over the distal portion of the cannula. Such distal end portion of the sleeve has an aspiration port in communication with the cannula aspiration port. The sleeve proximate, intermediate, and distal portions are integral with each other and are formed of a resilient material that allows the sleeve to be tightly fitted on the handpiece or tip base portion and the cannula.
US09387108B2
A night splint for a user's foot having a frame member and a toe retainer that is releasably connected to the frame member. The toe retainer is configured to dorsiflex at least one toe of the user to allow for a dynamic stretch of the plantar fascia and to provide a low load stretch of the Achilles tendon, plantar fascia tendon, deep flexor muscles and calf muscles to relieve symptoms of plantar fasciitis.
US09387105B2
Various aspects describe treatment of the vasculature of a patient with an expandable implant. The implant is surrounded and constrained by one or more constraining sleeves. One or more of these sleeves may include an end profile with a desired shape, and constrain the expandable implant in a configuration having a diameter less than the diameter of an unconstrained diameter of the expandable implant.
US09387103B2
A stent delivery catheter including a catheter tubing defining a lumen therethrough, a balloon disposed near a distal end of the catheter tubing and moving between deflated and inflated states, and proximal and distal balloon control bands concentrically arranged around respective proximal and distal end portions of the balloon. The proximal balloon control band has a proximal end located proximally of a proximal end of the balloon and a distal end located adjacent a proximal end of a received unexpanded stent. The distal balloon control band has a proximal end located adjacent a distal end of the received unexpanded stent and a distal end located distally of a distal end of the balloon. The balloon control bands each have a diametric cross-section larger than the balloon in an uninflated state and the unexpanded stent received over the balloon to impede axial movement of the unexpanded stent off of the balloon.
US09387100B2
This invention concerns expandable intraluminal medical devices for use within a body passageway or duct, wherein the devices exhibit differing degrees of flexibility around the circumference of the device.
US09387096B2
Methods and systems are used for monitoring a global position or location of a prosthetic or orthotic device and to provide feedback control of the device. Certain methods may employ remote transmitting devices and receivers to recognize when a prosthetic or orthotic device user is in a moving vehicle and, therefore, initiate automatic shut-off, driving mode, or relaxed mode. Other methods may employ remote transmitting devices and receivers to identify the global position of the prosthetic or orthotic device, compare the global position to a stored terrain mapped database and output feedback control instructions and/or alerts to the prosthetic or orthotic device based at least in part on the stored terrain mapping information.
US09387093B2
An intervertebral implant is provided comprising a single piece hollow body with an upper wall configured to engage a first vertebral end plate and a lower wall configured to engage a second vertebral end plate, with two opposite sidewalls connecting the upper wall and the lower wall, respectively, and with a load transmitting part configured to transmit load between the upper wall and the lower wall; wherein the body is configured to assume a compressed condition in which a distance between the upper wall and the lower wall defines a first height (h1) of the implant and an expanded condition in which the distance between the upper wall and the lower wall defines a second height (h2) of the implant that is greater than the first height (h1); and wherein the implant is made of a material that exhibits shape memory properties.
US09387090B2
The present invention involves a system and methods for assembling and implanting a vertebral body implant. The vertebral body implant includes, but is not necessarily limited to, an expandable core body and endplates that can be attached at both ends. Endplates of various shapes, sizes and angles are attachable to the expandable core so that a suitable vertebral body implant can be implanted between vertebrae.
US09387076B2
Medical devices and delivery systems for delivering medical devices to a target location within a subject. In some embodiments the medical devices can be locked in a fully deployed and locked configuration. In some embodiments the delivery systems are configured with a single actuator to control the movement of multiple components of the delivery system. In some embodiments the actuator controls the independent and dependent movement of multiple components of the delivery system.
US09387075B2
A method for implanting a heart valve includes advancing an elongate outer member from a first delivery catheter to form a loop around native valve leaflets and/or chords of a native valve without substantially occluding the native valve. The method further includes partially deploying from a second delivery catheter a radially self-expandable tubular body having a valve disposed within a lumen of the tubular body, and a preformed groove disposed at an outer surface of the tubular body. The preformed groove extends at least partially around the tubular body, and has a circumferential opening facing radially outward of the tubular body. When the tubular body is partially deployed, the native valve is substantially occluded. Additionally, the method includes moving the loop into the preformed groove after partially deploying the tubular body. The native valve is no longer substantially occluded after fully deploying the tubular body from the second delivery catheter.
US09387071B2
A prosthesis is provided for implantation at a native semilunar valve of a native valve complex, the native valve complex having three semilunar sinuses and three native commissures. The prosthesis includes a valve prosthesis support, which comprises a support structure comprising exactly three engagement arms that meet one another at three respective junctures. The engagement arms are shaped so as define three peak complexes at the three respective junctures, and three trough complexes, each of which is between two of the peak complexes. Upon implantation of the prosthesis, each of the engagement arms is at least partially disposed within a respective one of the semilunar sinuses, such that each of the peak complexes is disposed distal to and in rotational alignment with a respective one of the native commissures, and each of the trough complexes is disposed at least partially within the respective one of the semilunar sinuses.
US09387068B2
A self-sealing shell useful as a component of a soft fluid-filled prosthetic implant is provided. The shell is at least partly constructed of a wall made of a colloid of an elastomeric polymer matrix and particles of a water-swellable material distributed therein.
US09387064B2
The invention relates to a valvulotome (1) guided by guidewire/catheter comprising a guidewire (2), a first inner tube (3) accommodating the guidewire (2), an expandable basket (5) with cutting elements (7), with said basket (5) being the distal end of a second tube (4) through which the first inner tube (3) extends, a catheter tube (8) through which the second inner tube (4) extends, said catheter tube being suited to accommodate and guide the expandable basket (5) in non-expanded state, a sleeve (6) that forms the distal end of the first tube (3) and functions as limiting element for the distal end of the basket (5) and through which the guidewire (2) has been passed.
US09387063B2
A blood filter delivery system for delivering a filter into a vein includes an introducer and a push rod with a spline member disposed along the push rod. The spline member has a main body, and first and second boss portions spaced apart along the longitudinal axis to provide a gap for retaining anchor member of the filter during delivery via the introducer.
US09387062B2
A vascular filter system and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the filter system comprises a dispensing needle releasably attached to a filter dispenser which stores a length of filter wire. The filter wire dispenser has a guide tube which guides the filter wire into the needle and then into a vein during surgical implantation. The filter wire is configured to coil into a predetermined shape as it is deployed from the needle. The shape of the filter wire captures blood clots in the blood stream. Once the filter wire is deployed, the needle may be removed and a portion of the filter wire may be left protruding from the patient's skin surface to allow the filter wire to be secured by a fixation device. A syringe may be used to draw blood to confirm that the needle is properly positioned within a vein before the filter wire is deployed.
US09387060B2
A holder for safely securing a gauze pad for use in a post-surgical area in the intraoral cavity of a patient in order to allow a blood clot to form in safe, hygienic and sanitary conditions. The holder provides a holding cavity wherein the gauze pad is secured and held. It also requires a handle section that allows the external control of the gauze pad by the patient. Embodiments having holding sections with different ergonomic shapes according to the particular position of the intraoral surgical area requiring placement of the gauze pad are described.
US09387058B2
The present invention is a disguised holder or case that appears to be a lipstick application dispenser but has there within a dental scaler concealed in a faux lipstick tube. The device is designed to fool an observer into believing that the user is applying lipstick rather than picking at or removing food between teeth and therefore can be used by a person in public places.
US09387055B2
A set of orthodontic appliances is releasably connected to wall portions of a bonding tray that is used in an indirect bonding procedure. A quantity of dental sealant is applied to wall portions of the tray, and is subsequently transferred to enamel surfaces of the patient s teeth when the bonding tray is placed in position over one of the patient s dental arches. The dental sealant tends to reduce the formation of plaque in regions of the patient s tooth surfaces adjacent the orthodontic appliances.
US09387054B2
Provided herein is a retraction device for retracting soft tissue from the dental surfaces in the oral cavity of a patient. The retraction device is comprised of a topology conformable structure, where the topology conformable structure is adaptable to be delivered to the oral cavity in a constrained shape. The device can then undergo a conformation change in the oral cavity, where the device transforms into its unconstrained shape. The unconstrained shape of the device creates a useable working field in the oral cavity. The useable working field can provide increased accessibility to and/or visibility within the oral cavity. Also provided herein are methods for using the device and kits.
US09387052B2
An application device with a cylindrical basic body for storing a squeezable dental material having a piston positioned inside the basic body and axially displaceable towards the basic body. A piston rod serves to displace the piston in the squeezing direction, which piston rod partially reaches into the piston and is axially displaceable towards the latter. The piston is provided with an elastic resetting device at its front end area positioned in the direction towards the dental material. The elastic resetting device can be biased in the squeezing direction, and returns back to its relaxed position after the end of each axial movement of the piston in the squeezing direction and release of the pressure exerted on the piston rod for this purpose.
US09387035B2
Medical devices, systems, and methods for treating patients with tissue ablation include catheter systems having bi-modal steering mechanisms, which are capable of both linear and loop ablation. In other words, the catheter system may have two different steering modes: two-dimensional and three-dimensional. In the first and second steering modes, the steering actuator may cause one or more portions of the catheter shaft to bend in different planes. A steerable ablation catheter may include treatment elements such as electrodes at its distal end and along the catheter shaft, each of which may map, pace, and ablate.
US09387034B2
A high-frequency knife conduit line and opening hole opening communicate allowing fluid to flow between a rod-shaped electrode outer peripheral surface and the opening hole inner peripheral surface. The guide hole is smaller than the opening and is further toward a radial inner side than the opening outer edge and further toward a radial outer side than the rod-shaped electrode. The fluid is released from the opening to the outside of the sheath over the whole circumference of the rod-shaped electrode on the radial outer side while an electrode portion protrudes toward the sheath distal end portion separating a larger-diameter portion from a supporting member. The fluid is injected to the larger-diameter portion front through the guide hole as the opening hole and the guide hole communicate while the electrode portion is pulled back toward the sheath proximal end portion so that the larger-diameter portion abuts against the supporting member.
US09387023B2
A system and method of angularly stable fixation of an implant on a bone includes the steps of making at least one hole in the bone by means of a bone drill. An implant is placed on the bone in a desired position and joining the implant with the bone, such that the implant is prevented from rotation about its attachment point. A system is provided for use in the above described method. The system comprises a bone drill, an implant and a sonotrode for angularly stable fixation of the implant on the bone. The system can further comprise a joining element to join the implant with the bone.
US09387018B2
A surgical instrument includes a first member extending between a first end and a second end. A second member extends between a first end and a second end. A third member is connected to the first end of the first member to relatively translate the second ends. The third member includes a part and a locking element engageable with the part. The part is disposable in a first locking orientation, a second locking orientation and a non-locking orientation. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
US09387009B2
Directional sequential and blunt stimulating dilation systems (10) and related methods for accessing a patient's spine (2) though the patient's psoas muscle (4) include sequential directional dilators (30, 40) or a blunt stimulating dilator (100, 100′) with at least one channel formed therein. Neural elements or nerves (9) of the psoas muscle are preferably mapped using a stimulating probe (20). The stimulating probe is inserted through the psoas muscle toward the patient's spine. The directional sequential dilators may be inserted to dilate the tissue on any side of the stimulating probe without significantly impacting tissue on the opposite side of the stimulating probe, which may be located, proximate the neural elements. The dilators are rendered directional by having bores (35, 45), by means of which they can be inserted over each other and over the probe, which are offset from their longitudinal axes (31, 41).
US09386998B2
Methods and devices for performing knee arthroplasty including but not limited to bicruciate retaining knee arthroplasty are provided. Methods and devices for preparing a proximal tibia for a tibial implant are also provided. These methods and devices, in at least some embodiments and uses, facilitate decreasing the complexity of knee arthroplasty procedures such as bicruciate retaining procedures while maintaining, if not improving on, the safety, accuracy and/or effectiveness of such procedures.
US09386992B2
Each of the clip units 13 includes a clip body 35 having a pair of arm parts 41 that can ligate the biological tissue and a fastening ring 37 that accommodates the clip body 35, and the plurality of clip units 13 are disposed in series within the distal end of the outer sheath member 19. Each of the fastening rings 37 includes a connecting mechanism 85 consisted by a locking member 87 that connects the adjacent fastening rings 37 each other and a fitting support 101, the manipulation wire 23 engaged with the locking member 87 is pulled to release the connection of the fastening rings 37 by the connecting mechanism 87.
US09386984B2
A retainer for use with a fastener cartridge that is locked to the fastener cartridge until the fastener cartridge is inserted into a fastener cartridge channel of a surgical fastener. The retainer can include one or more deflectable tabs that engage the fastener cartridge. The one or more tabs can be displaced when the fastener cartridge is fully installed in the fastener cartridge channel such that the tabs disengage from the fastener cartridge, enabling a user to remove the retainer. In certain embodiments, tabs can extend from a body of the retainer and can engage exterior portions of a fastener cartridge. The tabs can be displaced outwardly by the fastener cartridge channel. In certain embodiments, tabs can extend from one or more movable portions that engage a slot in the fastener cartridge. The tabs can be displaced inwardly when the movable portions are deflected by the fastener cartridge channel.
US09386979B2
An endoscopic tissue suturing device may include a suturing head configured to capture tissue at a tissue capture region. A needle can move through the region to place stitches in the tissue. A control handle includes an actuator coupled to the needle. The control handle supports a suture spool about an axis of rotation. The axis of the spool may be parallel to the direction of movement of the actuator. The spool surface may be tapered at an angle relative to the axis of rotation. A spool end wall may be configured to urge the spool in an axial direction. The handle may provide external access to a portion of the suture. A cover may be provided to cover the spool. The cover may be rotatably supported on the handle independent of the spool. Suture material may be wound onto the spool by rotating the cover.
US09386974B2
Less invasive surgical techniques for performing brain surgery are disclosed in which a dilating obturator and cannula assembly is inserted into brain tissue until the obturator tip and cannula are adjacent to the target tissue. The obturator is removed and surgery is performed through the cannula. In preferred embodiments the obturator and cannula are placed using image guidance techniques and systems to coordinate placement with pre-operative surgical planning. A stylet with associated image guidance may be inserted prior to insertion of the obturator and cannula assembly to guide insertion of the obturator and cannula assembly. Surgery preferably is performed using an endoscope partially inserted into the cannula with an image of the target tissue projected onto a monitor. Dilating obturator structures having a rounded or semi-spherical tip and/or an optical window for visualizing brain tissue during expansion are contemplated.
US09386965B2
An ultrasound imaging system combines successive images of a time series to produce high-resolution ultrasound. A piecewise registration process and deemphasizing of high-frequency spatial components may be used to aid in the combination process. A high-definition image may be obtained with or separately from this process by combining different images obtained with different ultrasound frequencies. The images are weighted to accentuate the contribution of high-frequency ultrasound data at the leading edge of imaged structure.
US09386961B2
An acoustic monitoring system has an acoustic front-end, a first signal path from the acoustic front-end directly to an audio transducer and a second signal path from the acoustic front-end to an acoustic data processor via an analog-to-digital converter. The acoustic front-end receives an acoustic sensor signal responsive to body sounds in a person. The audio transducer provides continuous audio of the body sounds. The acoustic data processor provides audio of the body sounds upon user demand.
US09386957B2
A method for automatically determining the best effective reconstruction gap, the method including scanning a phantom to collect image data of the phantom, using a plurality of different gap values to reconstruct image of the phantom respectively, based on the image data, thus obtaining a plurality of images respectively associated with different gap values, selecting the best image from the plurality of images, and automatically determining the gap value associated with the best image, and save it as the best effective reconstruction gap.
US09386955B2
An effective meal average (EMA) value is presented, followed by two or more of the individual values that make up the EMA, to provide improved feedback data for clinical decisions by patients who need to alter their dose of insulin. The EMA can comprise a measure of the variability of its constituent values, encompass values that occur at specified times such as 1 hour before and after a specified meal time, and be calculated over a limited number of days previous to the calculation (e.g., 3 days) and have a minimum number of values that must be obtained within the time and date ranges. An algorithm can exclude any given reading from the average (e.g., post-prandial or control solution readings). Patients can use 1 to 8 EMA on any given date range (e.g., preferably 4, that is, breakfast, lunch, supper and bedtime snack).
US09386951B2
Disclosed embodiments include a method and an apparatus for monitoring sleep apnea severity that comprise: (a) analyzing an oxygen saturation signal to extract a plurality of time-domain and frequency-domain metrics; (b) calculating an oxygen saturation-based Apnea Hyponea Index (AHI) by employing a predetermined functional mapping between said metrics and polysomnography (PSG)-based AHI; and (c) displaying an oxygen saturation-based AHI to enable a specialist to monitor sleep apnea severity without requiring PSG. According to a particular embodiment, the oxygen saturation signal is nocturnal oxygen saturation and the functional mapping is a multilinear regression model (MLR) or a multilayer perceptron network (MLP).
US09386948B2
Bodily fluid sample transport systems, devices, and method are provided. In at least one embodiment described herein, methods are provided for the physical transport of small volumes of bodily fluid in liquid form from one location to another location. By way of nonlimiting example, the samples are collected in liquid form at a collection site, transported in liquid form, and arrive at an analysis site in liquid form. In many embodiments, the liquid form during transport is not held in a porous matrix, wicking material, webbing, or similar material that prevents sample for being extracted in liquid form at the destination site. In one embodiment, small volume of sample in each sample vessel is in the range of about 1 ml to about 1 microliter.
US09386947B2
A system for administering negative pressure therapy to a wound includes a screen adapted to be positioned at the wound. A reduced pressure source is in fluid communication with the screen, and a Hood gas transducer is exposed to a reduced pressure provided by the reduced pressure source. The reduced pressure supplied by the reduced pressure source induces hyperperfusion of a blood gas at the wound.
US09386944B2
An integrated analyte measurement system includes a housing and a disposable configured to be positioned in the housing. A plurality of penetrating members are positioned in the disposable. A penetrating member driver is configured to be coupled to each of a penetrating member. A plurality of analyte sensors are positioned in the disposable. The disposable houses both used and unused penetrating members and analyte sensors.
US09386942B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for localizing lesions within a patient's body, e.g., within a breast. The system may include one or more markers implantable within or around the target tissue region, and a probe for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals to detect the one or more markers. During use, the marker(s) are into a target tissue region, and the probe is placed against the patient's skin to detect and localize the marker(s). A tissue specimen, including the lesion and the marker(s), is then removed from the target tissue region based at least in part on the localization information from the probe.
US09386939B1
In one aspect, the present invention is a method for detecting spinal abnormalities using magnet resonance imaging. The method comprises positioning a patient in an upright posture in an imaging volume of a magnet resonance imaging magnet with the spine of the patient adjacent to an antenna and capturing magnetic resonance imaging signals from a first portion of the patient's spine using the antenna with the patient positioned in a first position. The method may further comprise adjusting the patient position along a substantially vertical direction to a second position and capturing magnetic resonance imaging signals from a second portion of the patient's spine using the antenna with the patient positioned in the second position.
US09386933B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving one or more vascular models associated with either the patient or with a plurality of individuals; receiving observed perfusion information associated with the patient; and estimating, using one or more computer processors, one or more blood flow characteristics or one or more pathological characteristics of the patient based on the observed perfusion information and the one or more vascular models.
US09386927B2
A method for monitoring blood pressure includes sensing and storing sympathetic nerve activity data of a patient via a recording lead of an implantable medical device. Changes in sympathetic nerve activity from the nerve activity data are determined. Corresponding changes in blood pressure are determined from the changes in sympathetic nerve activity. An alert signal and/or modification of therapy can be provided.
US09386919B2
An ophthalmic photographing apparatus or method receives light returned from an eye to be examined, calculates a plurality of temporally continuous photometric values based on a light receiving result in the receiving, and determines whether or not the eye is to be photographed, based on the plurality of calculated photometric values.
US09386912B2
A surgical light that uses multiple LEDs to produce superior illumination. Heat sinks are used to help dissipate heat produced from the LEDs. The light from the LEDs is directed, using collimizers, into fiber optic cables. The fiber light from the optic cables, using an LED combiner, is then combined and focused on a working area. The LED combiner may include an adjustable lens so that the device's illumination may be focused at multiple focal distances and with varied areas of illumination. The LEDs may be powered by a battery and may comprise one or more red LEDs, one or more blue LEDs, and one or more green LEDs. The surgical light may be used configured for use with headlamps, surgical scopes and the like.
US09386909B2
An applicator suitable for converting a white-light endoscope into an endoscope for combined white-light/fluorescence imaging is disclosed. The applicator facilitates attachment of an optical element, for example an optical filter, to a distal optical port of an endoscope. The applicator engages with alignment feature on the endoscope's distal end and releasably supports the optical element in an opening that is aligned with the optical port. The optical element is released in a proximal direction by pressing down on an actuator.
US09386893B2
A glass-wiping robot having an air-venting device (5), comprising a machine body (1). The machine body (1) has arranged thereon a suction cup device (2). The suction cup device (2) is connected to a vacuum air pump (4) via an airway pipe (3). The glass-wiping robot is adsorbed on a surface of a glass via the suction cup device (2). The suction cup device (2) is also connected to an air-venting device (5). The air-venting device (5) is provided with opened and closed positions. When the air-venting device (5) is at the opened position, the suction cup device (2) is in communication with the atmosphere via the air-venting device (5). The glass-wiping robot has the air-venting device (5) arranged on the airway pipe (3) between the vacuum air pump (4) and the suction cup device (2), wherein when a handle (51) is pulled up, a positioning rotary shaft (53) rotates to trigger an air-venting valve (52), and the air-venting valve (52) opens an air-venting hole therein to allow the interior of the suction cup to be in communication with the atmosphere, thus an equilibrium between internal and external air pressures is achieved rapidly, the glass-wiping robot can be removed rapidly without having to wait, and the work efficiency is increased.
US09386875B2
Disclosed is a combination shoe horn and sock donning and doffing apparatus. The device includes an elongated rod that is composed of anodized aluminum so that it is lightweight and resistant to breaking. The rod includes a sock hook attached to a first end and a shoe horn attached to a second end. The sock hook is generally U-shaped and includes two terminal ends with a rubber tip. The shoe horn is oval shaped and has a curvature so as to follow substantially the contour of the back of a shoe. The rod also includes handle portions with a non-slip padding thereon. The device enables a user to don or remove footwear without bending over. In this way, the present invention is ideal for use by users who have limited mobility and cannot bend at the waist or the knees.
US09386874B2
Applicant conducted a brief telephonic interview with the Examiner on Apr. 29, 2016, and clarified that the abstract needs no amendment. Examiner agreed that the corrections requested on page 2 of the Office Action are not needed.
US09386873B2
A combination of a top garment hanger and a reusable snap-on pad is provided. The hanger has a lateral opening formed through the body of the hanger. The lateral opening has an inwardly extending surface for providing a first locking surface. The reusable snap-on pad has a pair of legs and a locking tab provided on an inner surface of each leg. The locking tab has a second locking surface. When the reusable snap-on pad is mounted to the garment hanger, the locking tab enters the lateral opening and the first locking surface and the second locking surface engage each other, to provide a secure fixation of the reusable snap-on pad to the garment hanger. Also, when the reusable snap-on pad is mounted to the garment hanger, a slot is formed between the pad and the hanger for receiving a portion of a garment.
US09386864B2
A scanning bar hook for displaying packeted items in a shop, has upper and lower limbs with a crossbar extending from the upper limb. A molded plastic assembly pivoted on the crossbar has a display flap for mounting a bar code card, a fin extending from the flap toward the first item and an arrester arm which is insertable between the foremost item and the next item. When the foremost item is advanced for removal it strikes the fin and blocks the removal of all the remaining items.
US09386862B1
A foam mattress is provided having a body facing surface comprising a first foam layer on a first spring layer formed of a plurality of individual pocketed spring coils. A second foam layer formed of a reticulated foam supports the first spring layer. The foam mattress further having a bottom layer of conventional foam. The foam mattress is surrounded by a foam casing that has at least one vent formed in the casing. The first spring layer causes air to flow from the second foam layer through the vents.
US09386851B2
An arrangement for moving a moveable furniture part has an ejection device for the ejection of the furniture part from the closed position to a first open position, and the ejection device includes a force accumulator. A loading device loads the force accumulator by a closing movement of the furniture part. The loading of the force accumulator is accomplished by a loading path having an end point, and the force accumulator is fully loaded at the end point of the loading path. The loading path has a variable starting point, and the starting point is defined for a closing movement of the furniture part by the position of the furniture part at the beginning of a closing movement from a second open position which is greater than the first open position.
US09386849B2
An undermount drawer slide mounting clip releasably attaches a drawer to a drawer rail assembly mounted in a cabinet carcass. The apparatus is capable of effecting positional adjustments of the drawer in three directions without removing the drawer from the cabinet carcass. The apparatus is comprised of a body slidingly engaged with a bonnet. A trigger pivotally connected between the body and the bonnet. A spring loaded catch slidable within the bonnet and acted on by the trigger to releasably attach the apparatus to a drawer rail assembly. A threaded spindle rotates within the base and adjusts the horizontal position of the drawer. A ramp adjustably connected to the base adjusts the vertical position of the drawer. A plunger extends from a housing connected to the body and is adjacent the drawer rail assembly. A lever pivotable within the housing moves the plunger and adjusts the depth of the drawer.
US09386845B2
A galley cart incorporates a housing defining a cavity and having an opening. A door is hingedly attached to the housing to seal the opening and allow access to the cavity through the opening. A compartment is provided in the cart configured to contain cooling media. An integrated support rail is coupled to the housing within the cavity and configured to at least partially support a tray within the cavity. The support rail has multiple orifices therethrough and the support rail is in flow communication with the compartment.
US09386840B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide dispensing and/or application of product from a reservoir of an applicator device or dispenser. A feeder device disposed within the reservoir expels the product from the reservoir when the feeder device is advanced from a first position to a second position within the reservoir. An applicator may be coupled to the reservoir to apply product expelled from the reservoir.
US09386837B2
A skin care device comprising a handle and swappable heads connected via a magnetic drive. Avoidance of a mechanical coupling between the handle and the head enhances safety. The magnetic power is converted to electrical power to operate the LEDs and anything else needing electrical power as well as mechanical forces releasing therapeutic cream upon the consumer's skin. The device may further apply RF to the skin for complementary treatment. Using the magnetic drives allows the transfer of power without using serrated gears and because there are no electrical connectors allows using swappable heads on the same handle in humid or wet conditions. The handle is charged inductively.
US09386836B2
Provided is a cosmetic case having a sealing function which prevents a gap from being formed between a main body and a cover, thus preventing cosmetics from being contaminated during a process of distribution. In the cosmetic case, a suction member can be reliably attached to the main body by suction force so that a gap is prevented from being formed therebetween. Therefore, cosmetics contained in the main body can be prevented from being contaminated during a process of distribution, and the weight of cosmetics can be maintained. Furthermore, when the user presses a button member, a cover opens and, simultaneously, the suction force of the suction member is removed, thus allowing the user to easily open the cover and suction cover unit.
US09386831B1
An ice cleat designed to fit slidably onto the finger of a retrieving tip for a cane, crutch, walking stick or the like, without use of tools to provide the walking aid user with anti-skid protection on icy or snow covered surfaces.
US09386830B2
A walking aid, such as a cane, can be equipped with one or more features and structures for increasing durability and structural integrity, providing increased mobility and support for users, aiding with common tasks, and providing an all-around improved user experience. Additionally, the walking aid can be constructed to include multiple detachable and collapsible segments for easy storage and transportability of the walking aid.
US09386827B2
A movable jewelry device may include an article of jewelry having multiple connectable links containing ornamental surfaces and gear teeth. A motion apparatus may contain gear teeth that engage the gear teeth on the article of jewelry to move article of jewelry.
US09386822B2
The present disclosure relates to a decorative cincher comprising a decorative element, a cincher, and a post, the cincher being useful in securing one or more shoe laces.
US09386820B2
Systems and methods are described for a shoe sole for relieving pressure from a wearer's metatarsal heads. In one aspect, a shoe sole comprises a shoe outer sole comprising a shaft region, a ball region, and a toe region. The shaft region underlies metatarsal shafts of the wearer and comprises a first lower surface, the ball region underlies metatarsal heads of the wearer and comprises a second lower surface, and the toe region underlies phalanges of the wearer and comprises a third lower surface. The second lower surface is raised relative to the first lower surface and the third lower surface.
US09386819B2
An insole for a shoe includes at least a plate of thermoplastic material and a heating element. The thermoplastic plate is fully customizable. Fully customizable soles for shoes with heating elements, and a method for obtaining insoles or soles, especially for winter shoes are also described.
US09386811B1
A chest and rib protection padded shirt, configured to lift a human user's head from a surfboard while providing protection to a human user's chest and ribs. The chest and rib protection padded shirt includes a shirt attached to padding. The padding further includes a plurality of primary pads, secondary pads, tertiary pads, quaternary pads, and quinary pads having a quinary plurality of pads thickness. The primary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the secondary plurality of pads thickness. The secondary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the tertiary plurality of pads thickness. The tertiary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the quaternary plurality of pads thickness. The quaternary plurality of pads thickness is greater than the quinary plurality of pads thickness. The padding is adequate to prevent rib injuries while configured to lift the human user's head from the surfboard without the neck strain.
US09386808B2
The invention relates to a brassiere (1) in which each substantially hemispherical cup (2) comprises, in the bottom portion thereof, a polycarbonate support (20) in the shape of a crescent that becomes wider toward the outside, which is thermoformed, and which is secured to the two layers of lace or gauze of the cup by means of a fabric shell adhered to the support and slightly projecting beyond same in order to enable sewing with the layers of lace or gauze along the bottom edge (4). The result is a light brassiere that provides the chest with an advantageous shape.
US09386805B2
The invention is related to an electronic cigarette which is equipped with a universal serial bus (USB) connector. The electronic cigarette includes a cigarette body and a connecting device. The connecting device is retractably disposed in the cigarette body so as to be hidden therein, and the connecting device includes a connector and a conductor of which a length is extendable. When not in use, the conductor is foldably retracted to be hidden within the cigarette body together with the connector, while the connecting device is in use, the connecting device is pulled away and the conductor extends to a predetermined length to electrically connect the electronic cigarette to an external electronic device or power. Because the USB connector and the conductor are disposed in the electronic cigarette, the electronic cigarette is capable of being used conveniently and assembled quickly.
US09386801B2
A process for producing a coated filter plug for a smoking article including: (a) incorporating an additive to a porous filter plug, thereby obtaining an impregnated filter plug; (b) coating a surface of the impregnated filter plug with a cross-linkable polymer material; and (c) cross-linking the cross-linkable polymer material, to form a cross-linked, breakable coating substantially enclosing the impregnated filter plug. The process may further include at least partially coating the impregnated filter plug with a cross-linking agent prior to, or subsequent to, coating with the cross-linkable polymer material.
US09386793B2
The present invention relates to characterizing changes in mammalian intestinal microbiota associated with associated with high-fat and low-fat diets and with diets containing hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) and related methods for diagnosing, preventing and treating obesity and related conditions such as metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus. Therapeutic methods of the invention involve the use of probiotics, and/or prebiotics, and/or narrow spectrum antibiotics/anti-bacterial agents that are capable of restoring healthy mammalian bacterial intestinal microbiota.
US09386788B2
The present application relates to novel isomaltooligosaccharide (IMO) compositions containing isomaltulose, methods for preparing the same and uses thereof. Specifically, the IMO compositions according to the present application containing isomaltulose, which is a sugar component not contained in currently available isomaltooligosaccharide products, have a quality of sweetness and degree of sweetness differentiated from the existing isomaltooligosaccharide products and thus can be used as sweeteners for more various applications.
US09386787B2
Preparations for oral consumption are proposed, comprising (a) lactic acid 1-menthyl ester of the general formula (I) its stereoisomers or mixtures thereof, (b) at least one substance having a bitter, astringent and/or metallic taste impression, and optionally (c) further flavorings.
US09386782B2
A method of making coffee is provided. After a cold-brewed coffee is extracted from coffee beans, nitrogen gas is charged into the cold-brewed coffee. The cold-brewed coffee into which nitrogen gas is dissolved, is cooled to form a nitrogen-charged coffee. Therefore, the nitrogen-charged coffee may keep a rich density of foam and a flavor.
US09386778B2
A system and method is shown for processing animals, such as calves, from birth to slaughter by utilizing hot-fed rations during the feeding process. The system and method reduces or eliminates the need to use hormones and simultaneously reduces or eliminates the need to sterilize the meat products. Each calf or animal is weaned at a weaning station, fed at a feeding station, slaughtered at a slaughter station to provide a carcass that is substantially the same size as other carcasses for the same breed of animal processed in the system. The consistent carcass size enables manufacture of consistent carcasses which, in turn, facilitates providing substantially the same size meat cuts. This feature enables use of a standard-size packaging, such as a case-ready package, which may be shipped for display and purchase at a store.
US09386777B2
The present invention concerns the use of lactic acid bacteria selected and fungal enzymes for the gluten complete degradation from both bread and durum wheat, barley, rye and oat flour. In particular, the invention concerns the use of lactic acid bacteria selected and fungal enzymes for the gluten complete degradation (residual gluten concentration lower than 20 ppm) of cereal flours, which after detoxification can be used according to a standardized biotechnological protocol for the production of various gluten-free foods.
US09386775B2
A dough forming apparatus comprising a lower support frame, a lower pressing platen coupled to the lower support frame, and an upper pressing platen assembly positioned above the lower pressing platen. The upper pressing platen assembly further comprises a backing structure, an upper backing platen coupled to the backing structure, and a pressing plate removably coupled to the upper backing platen by vacuum or electromagnetic means. Means for heating the pressing plate, and shims for adjusting the flatness of the pressing surface are provided. A conveyor supported by the lower support frame is positioned to pass between the lower pressing platen and the upper pressing platen assembly. A method of adjusting the apparatus is also disclosed.
US09386773B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one biological control agent. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the use of this composition as well as a method for reducing overall damage of plants and plant parts.
US09386771B2
To provide a plant disease control composition having excellent control effect against plant diseases.A plant disease control composition comprising an amide compound represented by formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the description, and captan has excellent control effect against plant diseases.
US09386762B2
Provided is a renal sarcomatoid cell line RCC09HYF, of which the deposit No. is CCTCC C201130, and the preparation method of the renal sarcomatoid cell line. The renal sarcomatoid cell line RCC09HYF can grow for a long period and be steadily passaged in vitro. By tumorigenic experiments using in-situ animal models in vitro it has been found that: the tumorigenesis is relatively fast inside animals and 3-4 weeks after tumor inoculation, the transplanted tumors fill the whole abdominal cavity, and dyscrasia appears in above 50% of nude mice; moreover, lung metastasis is present in a few individuals. The renal sarcomatoid cell line RCC09HYF can provide an effective and steady cell model for further study of the genesis and metastasis mechanism of renal sarcomatoid carcinoma in persons of Han nationality and for clinical prediction, diagnosis and treatment.
US09386761B2
In order to reduce the amount of an organism attractant substance remaining inside concrete that tends be used wastefully and also to allow the organism attractant substance to effectively flow out gradually in a long period of time, an environmentally active, preserving and repairing-use concrete block is provided in which the air content and flowability of the concrete are increased, and the congregating and growing effects for fishes and shellfishes and the adhering and growing effects for algae are maintained so that a high attractant effect by odor of the organism attractant substance is obtained.An environmentally active preserving and repairing-use concrete block is provided with at least three or more legs, and in this structure the environmentally active preserving and repairing-use concrete block is formed by using an environmentally active preserving and repairing-use concrete having high air content and high flowability formed by kneading an organism attractant substance having a specific odor therein.
US09386756B2
The present invention relates to an iceberg lettuce having one or more romaine lettuce characteristics. The invention further relates to methods for producing iceberg lettuce varieties containing one or more romaine lettuce characteristics.
US09386754B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01046551. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01046551. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01046551 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01046551 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09386750B2
A baler having an adjusting mechanism, for setting the upper end of the upper wall in a predetermined position, and the lower end of the upper wall is designed to pivot around an axis near the entry point of the feeder into the lower end of the upper wall, such that the cross section of the feeder duct is variable.
US09386747B2
A row unit for a corn header has a gearbox with a cast body and first and second rotatable shafts and first and second openings. The first and second shafts extend out respectively from the first and second openings. The row unit also has first and second rotatable stalk rolls arranged fore and aft, the stalk rolls being coupled to the first and second shafts at the aft end and coupled on the fore end to first and second cast supports. The first and second cast supports are secured to a frame of the row unit. Formed from casting the first and second cast supports are respective first and second protrusions, wherein the first and second protrusions include respective first and second knife edges, the first and second knife edges located adjacent the respective first and second stalk rolls.
US09386746B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising rotationally molding a snout of a corn row divider assembly, the snout comprising a double-walled structure; rotationally molding a first conduit into a surface of the double-walled structure, the first conduit extending from an aft end of the snout to a location proximal to the fore end of the snout; attaching a sensor to the snout at a location proximal to the fore end of the snout; inserting a first wire harness into the first conduit, the first wire harness extending between the aft end of the snout and the location proximal to the fore end; and connecting the first wire harness to the sensor.
US09386743B2
A lawn mower may include a blade housing configured to house at least one blade, an engine, a handle assembly, a door, and a bag lifting assembly. The blade housing may include an exit. The engine may be supported at least in part by the blade housing to selectively rotate the at least one blade. The handle assembly may guide operation of the lawn mower. The door may be rotatably disposed to have a first rest position in contact with a bagging attachment disposed to receive clippings from the blade housing and a second rest position proximate to the blade housing when the bagging attachment is removed. The bag lifting assembly may be configured to lift the door from the first rest position responsive to rotation of the handle assembly forward from an operating position.
US09386738B2
In one embodiment, a method for controlling operation of a machine, the method comprising: scanning a smart label, the smart label affixed to a container containing a composition to be applied by the machine; automatically adjusting controls of the machine based on information contained in the smart label; and causing application of the composition from the machine to a field according to the adjusted controls.
US09392733B2
A system includes a substantially sealed, substantially airtight cabinet sized for housing a vertical array of heat-producing units, the cabinet having an exterior shell and the system including an interior divider wall disposed inside the cabinet, the shell and divider wall providing an equipment chamber adapted to support the array such that the array cooperates with the shell and divider wall in use to define a first plenum, the first plenum having a first inlet defined by the divider wall for receiving a flow of cooling gas and having a first outlet defined by a plurality of openings through the array whereby the first plenum communicates with the openings in use to exhaust substantially all of the flow of cooling fluid through the openings and hence through the array, wherein the divider wall is configured to allow the first inlet to admit the gas to the first plenum in a substantially horizontal direction.
US09392732B2
An electronic control unit is equipped with a semiconductor module having a semiconductor chip electrically connected to the first circuit pattern and the second circuit pattern. A resin body is wrapped around the semiconductor chip. A first metal plate has a side connected to the semiconductor chip and an other side connected to the first circuit pattern. A radiator projects toward and is connected to the first circuit pattern by a first heat conductor. As a result, heat generated by the semiconductor chip is transmitted to the radiator through the first metal plate, the first circuit pattern, and the first heat conductor during operation of the semiconductor module.
US09392727B2
A sealable module, cooled electronic system and method are described relating to cooling a heat generating electronic device. The sealable module is adapted to be filled with a first cooling liquid and a heat transfer device having a conduction surface defines a channel for receiving a second cooling liquid. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the conduction surface or housing is shaped in conformity with the shape of the electronic component. Control of the second cooling liquid is also described. Transferring heat between the second cooling liquid and a third cooling liquid features in embodiments. A method of filling a container with a cooling liquid is further detailed.
US09392725B2
An electronics chassis comprises a frame including at least one fluid flow path along a side of the frame and that is sealed relative to an interior volume of the frame. A first opening to the fluid flow path is at a first end of the frame; and, a second opening to the fluid flow path at a second end of the frame. The first and second ends of the frame are configured to interchangeably receive components for forced air conduction cooling and components for liquid conduction cooling through the fluid flow paths.
US09392721B2
A sliding mechanism with locking function includes a slide frame and a resilient plate. The slide frame includes opposite front and rear ends and an end plate formed at the front end and extending outward from the front end in a transverse direction relative to a longitudinal length of the slide frame. The end plate is formed with a through hole. The resilient plate has a width smaller than that of the slide frame, a rear section fixed to the slide frame and a front section opposite to the rear section and formed with a locking element exposed to an exterior of the through hole in the end plate in such a manner that the locking element is movable limitedly and resiliently in the transverse direction upon an external force applied thereto.
US09392711B2
An electrical junction box with a built-in isolation transformer is provided. The junction box includes an interior base portion having at least one opening, a transformer secured to the interior base portion and in electrical communication with low-voltage and high-voltage terminals, a cover configured to attach to a junction box base plate and housing the interior base I portion and the transformer, and a gasket providing a watertight seal between the cover and the junction box base plate.
US09392707B2
Provided is a display device that is exceptionally easy to assemble. A display device includes an electroconductive housing. A case body accommodates the display device. A connecting member causes electrification between the housing of the display device and a grounding part of a circuit substrate. The connecting member has a base part that contacts the housing, and an elastic contact armature that contacts the grounding part of the circuit substrate when the circuit substrate is secured to the case body. A securing member secures the display device to the case body so that the base part is held between the housing and the case body. The case body has an elastic locking armature for securing the circuit substrate. The case body has a through-hole through which the elastic contact armature of the connecting member is inserted.
US09392706B2
A mobile terminal may be provided that includes a case having a through window formed in front of the case, an optical sensor arranged in the case toward the through window, a glass formed of an opaque material to cover the through window of the case, and a window layer disposed on a behind face of the glass, with a fine hole formed above the optical sensor.
US09392702B2
Disclosed is a surface mount device to be mounted on a base member, including plural lead units, each of the plural lead units including, a lead including a body portion and a foot formed at an end of the lead; a solder portion formed at the foot of the lead to protrude toward the direction of the base member to have a summit portion, and a diffusion prevention portion provided on the lead for preventing a diffusion of a solder along the body portion of the lead.
US09392700B2
A transparent conductive film includes a transparent substrate and a polymer layer formed on the transparent substrate, a surface of the polymer layer is patterned to define a meshed trench, the meshed trench is filled with a conductive material to form a sending area, a periphery of the sensing area is printed with a lead, the lead is electrically connected to the conductive material in the meshed trench. Besides, a method of manufacturing the transparent conductive film is provided. In the transparent conductive film and the method, the trench is filled with a conductive material to form a sending area, and the lead is formed by printing and electrically connected to the conductive material, the yield of the lead of the transparent conductive film is relatively high.
US09392698B2
A chip-embedded printed circuit board (PCB), a semiconductor package using the PCB, and a manufacturing method of the chip-embedded PCB. The semiconductor package using a chip-embedded printed circuit board (PCB) includes upper and lower semiconductor packages having a package on package (PoP) structure, wherein the lower semiconductor package includes a base substrate including predetermined circuit patterns formed therein; an electronic component electrically connected to the circuit pattern and embedded in the base substrate such that one surface thereof is exposed to an upper surface of the base substrate; and a heat dissipation member installed on an exposed surface of the electronic component to dissipate heat generated from the electronic component to the outside.
US09392686B2
A display device includes having a display panel, a light source disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, and an optical member disposed between the display panel and the light source. An optical member supporter is configured to support at least one side of the optical member and includes at least one pair of a first hook and a second hook formed on a rear surface. The display device also includes a bottom chassis having a first inserting hole and a second inserting hole into which the first hook and the second hook are respectively inserted, a driving circuit substrate disposed between the bottom chassis and the second hook, and at least one flexible printed circuit board configured to connect the display panel and the driving circuit substrate.
US09392684B2
A method for manufacturing a wiring substrate includes alternately stacking first wiring patterns and first insulative layers on a first surface of a core substrate and alternately stacking second wiring patterns and second insulative layers on a second surface of the core substrate at an opposite side of the first surface. The number of the second insulative layers excluding the outermost second insulative layer differs from the number of the first insulative layers. The method further includes forming a via hole in the outermost first insulative layer to expose a portion of the outermost first wiring pattern, and exposing the outermost second wiring pattern by reducing the outermost second insulative layer in thickness. The method further includes forming a via in the via hole and forming a wiring pattern, which is connected by the via to the outermost first wiring pattern, on the outermost first insulative layer.
US09392678B2
A target material supply apparatus for an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source includes a tube that includes a first end, a second end, and a sidewall defined between the first and second ends. At least a portion of an outer surface of the tube includes an electrically insulating material, the first end receives a pressurized target material, and the second end defines an orifice through which the pressurized target material passes to produce a stream of target material droplets. The target material supply apparatus also includes an electrically conductive coating on the outer surface of the tube. The coating is configured to electrically connect the outer surface of the tube to ground to thereby reduce surface charge on the outer surface.
US09392675B2
A two-way load control system comprises a power device, such as a load control device for controlling an electrical load receiving power from an AC power source, and a controller adapted to be coupled in series between the source and the power device. The load control system may be installed without requiring any additional wires to be run, and is easily configured without the need for a computer or an advanced commissioning procedure. The power device receives both power and communication over two wires. The controller generates a phase-control voltage and transmits a forward digital message to the power device by encoding digital information in timing edges of the phase-control voltage. The power device transmits a reverse digital message to the controller via the power wiring.
US09392649B2
An organic electroluminescence device (OLED) has a substrate, a first electrode layer, a layer of organic electroluminescence material, a second electrode layer, a cover layer, a moisture-absorber and a separating foil of resilient material. The separating foil is positioned between the second electrode layer and the moisture-absorber. Spacer structures such as dots are applied on the separating foil between the foil and the cover.
US09392647B2
Provided is a window glass sheet fitted with a seal member and incorporated with a device such as a deicer which facilitates the device and the seal member to be installed in a proper manner. The automotive window glass sheet comprises a laminated glass sheet including a first glass sheet and a second glass sheet placed on an outboard side of the first glass sheet, and a seal member fitted on a peripheral part of the laminated glass sheet. The automotive window glass sheet further comprises a cutout formed on an edge of the first glass sheet, an electrode provided on a part of the inboard side of the second glass sheet corresponding to the cutout, a lead wire connected to the electrode and a spacer extending along an edge of the second glass sheet on the inboard side of the second glass sheet in a part thereof corresponding to the cutout and defining a flat and smooth inboard surface, wherein the inboard surface of the spacer is flush with a plane extrapolated from an inboard side of the first glass sheet, and the seal member is attached to a peripheral part of the inboard side of the first glass sheet and is attached to the inboard surface of the spacer in the cutout.
US09392640B2
A method and apparatus automatically controls the insertion of information flow data over a shared CPRI link (561) by providing a hardware control mechanism (504-509) at a local radio base station subsystem (501) connected in a CPRI daisy chain configuration between a downstream RE device (570) and an upstream REC device (560) for determining whether the control word being transmitted is sourced from a downstream device (e.g., forwarded data from a downstream RE device) or from the local device.
US09392626B2
A method and system for managing a plurality of network bearers in a wireless communication network is provided. The method includes identifying at least one of an initiation or an update of an instance of an application session. The method then generates an identifier associated with said instance of the application session. Further, the method assigns said identifier to each of the plurality of network bearers established as a result of said identified initiation or identified update of said instance of the application session. In an embodiment, the method uses the said identifier for managing communication during handover from a first communications network to a second communications. The method manages both video bearers and the voice bearers during the handover based on the said identifier.
US09392616B2
A method and apparatus for signaling scheduling information in a spatial multiplexing wireless communications system, as well as corresponding methods and apparatus for processing such signaling information, are disclosed. Signaling scheduling information includes scheduling first and second transport blocks for simultaneous transmission during a first transmission interval on first and second data substreams, respectively, and assigning a single re-transmission process identifier for the first transmission interval and transmitting first scheduling information for the first transmission interval. The first scheduling information includes the re-transmission process identifier and first disambiguation data. Additionally, at least one of the first and second transport blocks is scheduled for re-transmission during a second transmission interval. Second scheduling information for the second transmission interval is also transmitted; the second scheduling information including the re-transmission process identifier and second disambiguation data.
US09392614B2
Disclosed in some examples are systems, machine-readable media, methods, and cellular wireless devices which implement a Listen Before Talk (LBT) access scheme for a device operating according to a cellular wireless protocol in an unlicensed channel. A cellular wireless device may utilize the cellular wireless protocol in the unlicensed channel after the LBT access scheme has determined that a channel (a defined range of frequencies) in the unlicensed channel is idle for a particular period of time.
US09392610B2
Provided is an operating method for acquiring system information which is to be performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: transmitting, to a serving cell, a system information acquisition failure report message that requests the transmission of compulsory system information; operating a system based on the acquired compulsory system information upon the acquisition of the compulsory system information as a response to the system information acquisition failure report message; and performing a connection recovery upon the failure of the acquisition of the compulsory system information as a response to the system information acquisition failure report message.
US09392595B2
The present invention discloses a control information transmission method, a user equipment, and a base station. The method includes: obtaining a data channel transmission mode configured by a base station; determining a downlink control information DCI format set corresponding to the transmission mode, where the DCI format set includes a first DCI format, and the first DCI format includes single-codeword control information; and detecting, according to the DCI format set, control signaling sent by the base station and corresponding to the DCI format set. The user equipment includes a first obtaining module, a first determining module, and a detecting module. The base station includes a configuring module, a first determining module, and a first sending module.
US09392590B2
A method for transmitting HARQ-ACK information based on transmission diversity is provided. The method includes configuring two component carriers, referred to as Cells, for a User Equipment (UE); when a base station configures the UE to transmitHARQ-ACK information adopting the transmission diversity technique, the base station indicates dynamically whether an other Cell is scheduled in the same subframe via a PDCCH scheduling a PDSCH of one Cell, so as to enable the UE to know the number of Cells scheduled in the same downlink subframe by the base station, and to generate HARQ-ACK information based on the number of Cells. Unnecessary spatial bundling of the HARQ-ACK information may be avoided, unnecessary downlink data retransmission is reduced and throughput of downlink data is improved.
US09392584B2
In a Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication system, a User Equipment (UE) receives Mobility Management Entity (MME) selection data. The UE processes the MME selection data to select one of multiple MMEs. The UE wirelessly transfers an LTE attachment request to an LTE access point. The LTE attachment request indicates the selected MME. The UE wirelessly receives an attachment acceptance from the selected MME through the LTE access point in response to selecting and indicating the MME in the LTE attachment request.
US09392582B2
A method for supporting activation/deactivation of serving cells by a base station (eNB) in a wireless communication system provides decreased overhead and decreased power consumption for a user equipment (UE). The method includes configuring M supportable serving cells in the UE, configuring an indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each of the M serving cells, configuring a medium access control (MAC) message which includes a MAC control element (CE) and a logical channel identifier (LCID), the MAC CE including the indicator configured for each of the M serving cells and having a length corresponding to an integer multiple of 8 bits, the LCID indicating that the MAC CE includes the indicator indicating activation/deactivation of each serving cell, and transmitting the configured MAC message to the UE. Accordingly, a control channel or data channel regarding a component carrier is selectively received depending on whether the component carrier is activated.
US09392576B2
An infrastructure device in a 3GPP compliant system performs a method transporting a plurality of media streams over a shared MBMS bearer. The 3GPP compliant system includes a RAN partitioned into a plurality MBMS services areas, wherein each MBMS service area has at least one already existing shared MBMS bearers for transporting the media streams. The infrastructure device: receives a first request to transmit a first media stream to a first communication group; identifies a shared MBMS bearer in a first 3GPP MBMS service area that is already transporting a second media stream to a second communication group; and determines whether the shared MBMS bearer has sufficient capacity to transport both the first media stream and the second media stream simultaneously. When the shared MBMS bearer has sufficient capacity, the infrastructure device simultaneously sends both the first media stream and the second media stream on the shared MBMS bearer.
US09392571B2
The present invention relates to a method for enabling a machine-to-machine (M2M) gateway to measure the position of an M2M device, and an apparatus therefore, and the method includes the steps of: receiving a request for generating a first resource representing the way of obtaining positional information form a first M2M device; if the generation request contains the information for indicating commonly based positional measurement, determining the device closest to the first M2M device; and setting the positional information of the closest device as the positional information for the first m2M device, wherein if the M2M gateway does not have network topological information, or at least one M2M device connected to the m2M gateway does not have positional information, the M2M topological information, and the at least one M2M device connected to the M2M gateway has positional information, the device having the minimum number of hops from the first M2M device among the at least one M2M device is determined as the closest device, and the first resource represents a data structure capable of being uniquely addressed using address information.
US09392569B2
In one aspect there is provided a method performed by a first location management entity, LME (e.g., an MME or an SGSN), for providing location information to a location server (e.g., a GMLC). The method includes the first LME receiving from the location server a first request for location information pertaining to a terminal. The method also includes the first LME determining whether the terminal is in a connected state. The method further includes the first LME, in response to determining that the terminal is in a connected state, performing a method comprising: i) transmitting a stop paging message to a second LME; ii) obtaining the requested location information pertaining to the terminal; and iii) transmitting the obtained location information to the location server.
US09392529B2
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to the communication field and disclose a method and device for selecting a serving gateway entity. The method includes: receiving an access request message of a user equipment UE sent by a base station, where the access request message includes location information of the base station; acquiring, according to the location information of the base station, a signaling plane address list of serving gateway entities SGWs serving the UE; and selecting, according to failure information of paths between the SGWs and neighboring network elements of the SGWs and the acquired signaling plane address list of SGWs serving the UE, an SGW having no failed path to a neighboring network element of the SGW to serve the UE. The device includes: a receiving module, an acquiring module, and a selecting module.
US09392527B2
A system and method for efficiently handling mobility events includes detecting a mobility event associated with a movement of a mobile unit from a first subnet to a second subnet, forming one or more first flow control messages for updating routing information associated with the mobility event, transmitting the one or more first flow control messages to a core router, forming one or more second flow control messages for disabling layer 2 learning, transmitting the one or more second flow control messages to one or more network switching devices in the first subnet, forming one or more third flow control messages including layer 2 switching instructions for directing network traffic to the mobile unit in the second subnet, and transmitting the one or more third flow control messages.
US09392526B2
A method provided in one example embodiment includes detecting a first current bandwidth of a first link in a network ring, where the first current bandwidth indicates a signal degradation on the first link. The method also includes determining whether the first current bandwidth has degraded more than a second current bandwidth of a second link in the network ring, where the second current bandwidth indicates a signal degradation on the second link. The method further includes routing one or more network flows away from the first link if the first current bandwidth has degraded more than the second current bandwidth.
US09392523B1
A device may establish a first communication with a first communication device using short-range wireless communication technology. The device may establish a second communication with a second communication device using short-range wireless communication technology. The device may receive a voice call from the second communication device. The device may determine call information associated with the voice call. The device may compare the call information with stored call information. The device may associate a path condition, previously associated with the stored call information, with the voice call if the call information matches the stored call information. The device may selectively establish a call path to a speaker associated with the device or to the first communication device based on the path condition.
US09392511B1
A method for enhancing assignment of mobility classifications to mobile devices is described. A plurality of mobility classifications are stored in association with a plurality of mobile devices to indicate, for each mobile device, one or more handover parameters used by the mobile device. One or more handover parameters associated with the plurality of mobility classifications are updated based on mobility events. An error determination is made that one or more of the one or more mobile devices are incorrectly associated with the mobility classifications based on the one or more updated handover parameters for the plurality of mobility classifications. In response to the error determination, one or more new criteria are established that adjust how the mobility classifications are assigned.
US09392502B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for solving and managing security problems, which may occur during a handover of a User Equipment (UE) between PLMNs in a mobile communication network, by using a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) protocol are provided. By the method, a UE can perform a security mode command and an authentication with a network. Further, the method can prevent interruption of communication due to authentication or security during a handover of a UE between Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMNs).
US09392489B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for providing a web service in a wireless communication system. The apparatus for providing the web service includes: a proxy unit receiving/sending data through the internet; a packet data conversion protocol (PDCP) unit producing and outputting at least one PDCP protocol data unit (PDU) by using the data; and a control unit monitoring the data received from the proxy unit and controlling the proxy unit to transmit data of a size acceptable by the PDCP unit on the basis of the data capacity of the PDCP unit.
US09392482B2
A method is provided for optimizing the adaptation of communication routes in a network consisting of wireless communication nodes, with transfer of information between nodes by relays. This optimization notably enables the communications capabilities to be increased within a self-organized MANET-type network (“Mobile Ad Hoc Network”) which is present notably in radio networks.
US09392478B2
The present invention is designed to provide a radio communication system, an interference measurement method, a radio base station apparatus, and a user terminal whereby highly accurate interference measurement is possible. A radio communication system according to the present invention includes a user terminal and a radio base station apparatus that is connected to the user terminal, and, in this radio communication system: the radio base station apparatus has: a determining section that determines a subband pattern for interference measurement; and a transmission section that transmits a reporting signal to indicate the determined subband pattern to the user terminal; and the user terminal has: a receiving section that receives the reporting signal and acquires the subband pattern; andan interference measurement section that performs interference measurement over the entire system band, and, in the interference measurement, averages the interference measurement results in subbands based on the subband pattern.
US09392472B2
A technique for evaluating events in a telecommunication network based on an occurrence of a plurality of the events in the telecommunications network is disclosed. In a first method aspect, the method comprises the steps of selecting at least two parameters of the events; categorizing each of the parameters into a respective finite set of values; defining, for at least a part of conjunctions between the respective finite sets of values, a dedicated counter per conjunction; and altering, upon the occurrence of an individual event, the respective counter if the parameters of the occurred event match the respective conjunction between the finite sets of values.
US09392462B2
Mobile end-user devices are disclosed having a stored network access policy, applicable to specific applications stored on and executable by the device. The policy specifies, for at least some of the applications, whether or not those applications are individually allowed to initiate access network communication activity using one or more wireless data modems, when those applications are running as a background application. One or more device agents, which may operate at different points within the device in different embodiments, enforce the policies based on a determination as to whether a running application is running as a background application.
US09392459B2
The Generic Bootstrapping Architecture is used in a method for assigning the bootstrapping transaction ID so that a machine-to-machine server or other device can locate and communicate with a bootstrapping server function. The bootstrapping server function assigns the bootstrapping transaction ID and updates a DNS server with an entry that maps the bootstrapping transaction ID to a network node IP Address.
US09392455B2
A method and an apparatus for handling closed subscriber groups in a relay-enhanced system are provided in the invention. The method includes: retrieving setting information relating to closed subscriber groups of a donor base station and a relay node of a relay-enhanced cellular system; acquiring a whitelist defining one or more closed subscriber groups in which a terminal is a member, the terminal requesting access to the relay-enhanced cellular system via the relay node; and verifying (i.e. checking and/or validating) a membership of the terminal for both closed subscriber groups of the donor base station and the relay node based on the retrieved setting information and the acquired whitelist. With the method and apparatus of the invention, user access control via the relay node in the relay-enhanced access networks can be improved.
US09392454B2
Client and server computers on a network can be authenticated using a shared secret. During a log-on and authentication process, the server transmits an image to the client. A mobile communication device captures and analyzes the image. If the image contains the shared secret, the mobile device can authenticate the server. The secret in the image can be a geometric relationship between elements of the picture, a mathematical relationship between elements, a particular number or types of elements in the picture, colors of elements, or combinations of the above. A single image may contain multiple shared secrets. The mobile device can readily analyze the image to determine if it contains the shared secret and thereby authenticate the server.
US09392447B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for security handling in, for example, cells that support multiple frequency band indication are provided. One method includes receiving, for example by a source evolved node B (eNB) configured to communicate with a user equipment, a multiple frequency band indicator (MFBI) list, the multiple frequency band indicator (MFBI) list comprising at least one frequency band number listed in the same order of priority as broadcast by a target eNB. The method may further include selecting one of the at least one frequency band number for use by the source eNB, calculating a security key (KeNB*) using the DL EARFCN belonging to the selected frequency band number with the highest priority that is also supported by the user equipment, and signaling the calculated security key to the target eNB.
US09392442B1
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for initiating communication for a secured application. In one example, a method for initiating communication on a wireless communication device includes identifying a communication request for a secured application and selecting one or more radio transceivers for the communication request. The method further provides initializing the one or more radio transceivers to search for availability data based on an open operating system command and identifying an appropriate transceiver based on the availability data. The method further includes initializing a communication for the secured application using the appropriate transceiver.
US09392441B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for controlling updates to a mobile device consisting of checking a ROM installation package and storing the check data, or encrypting a ROM installation package and storing said encrypted ROM installation package. The stored check data is used to check a ROM installation package or to decrypt a stored encrypted ROM installation package when updating a mobile device. If it is verified to be correct or to be decryptable, the verified or decrypted ROM installation package is installed. If it is verified to have errors or to be undecryptable, the installation of the ROM installation package is terminated. The present invention reduces the risks associated with the destruction or disclosure of data when mobile devices are lost.
US09392440B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method in a base station (12) for providing feedback to a user equipment (14) for transmissions of a secondary stream out of a primary and a secondary stream of the user equipment (14) in an uplink Multiple Input Multiple Output mode. The base station (12) transmits to the user equipment (14), a preferred transmission rank and an offset for the secondary stream in a channel, wherein the offset is to be used by the user equipment (14) when deciding transport block size of the secondary stream and the preferred transmission rank is to be used by the user equipment (14) when deciding a transmission rank.
US09392427B2
Presence information is provided in a personal communications system comprising an interface unit (21), the interface unit comprising a computer interface connecting the interface unit (21) to a client computer (1); and a first transceiver exchanging radio signals between interface unit (21) and a mobile telephone (22) according to a first wireless communication protocol; and/or a telephone interface connecting interface unit (21) to a desktop telephone (23). The method comprises the steps of providing a presence message indicating whether the mobile telephone (22) or the desktop telephone (23) is involved in a phone call; and transmitting the presence message to the client computer (1) via the computer interface. Thus better and more reliable presence information taking use of mobile or desktop telephones into account can easily be provided.
US09392426B2
A message distribution center (MDC) and Intelligent Delivery Agent in a wireless Internet gateway interposed between content providers and a wireless carrier to subjectively examine and direct messages via simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) based on desired rules using standard SMTP Gateway and other known protocols. The MDC includes an individual queue for each subscriber, and the provider is informed through conventional SMTP messages that the short message has been accepted. If the carrier has specifically disallowed service for a particular mobile identification number (MIN), then the content provider is informed that the recipient is invalid. An MDC provides a single mechanism for interacting with subscribers of multiple carriers, regardless of each carrier's underlying infrastructure. An MDC protects networks by intelligently throttling messages and configuring message delivery parameters. An MDC receives presence information. A content provider communicates with the MDC using SMTP messages, and the MDC communicates with wireless carriers.
US09392417B1
Systems and methods for managing activities among collocated mobile devices are disclosed. A controller determines a route of travel corresponding to two or more collocated mobile devices prior to a start of travel, and a set of activities to be performed by the two or more collocated mobile devices after the start of travel based, at least in part, on the route of travel. At least a portion of the set of activities is assigned to a first set of subsystems in a first mobile device and a second set of subsystems in a second mobile device of the two or more collocated mobile devices, wherein the first mobile device and the second mobile device are configured to communicate with one another, and the first set of subsystems and the second set of subsystems have at least one subsystem which is different.
US09392416B2
An approach is provided for predicting and pre-fetching location information. A pre-fetching manager determines a predicted location associated with a device. Next, the pre-fetching manager retrieves location information based, at least in part, on the predicted location. Then, the pre-fetching manager determines to cache the location information at the device.
US09392411B1
A location system for luggage and the like is disclosed. A locator chip is attached to the luggage and an app is downloaded into a smartphone. When the chip's unique ID number is entered through the app into the phone a long range and short range location system is activated. The long range system uses GPS to display the location of both the phone and the identified chip on a map and when the user is close enough the short range system uses NFC (near field communication) to provide a directional arrow pointing to the chip on the phone display.
US09392385B2
A hearing aid includes: a hearing aid housing; a receiver; and a filter; wherein the hearing aid housing comprises an outer surface, a housing opening at the outer surface, and an internal cavity configured for containing the receiver; wherein the filter is insertable into the housing opening and is releasably mounted to the hearing aid housing; and wherein the housing opening is configured to provide sound emitted from the receiver, and wherein the housing opening and the receiver are relatively sized in order to allow for insertion of the receiver through the housing opening into the internal cavity for containment of the receiver in the internal cavity.
US09392384B2
An integrated headpiece for a cochlear implant system includes a microphone for outputting an audio signal; signal processing electronics for processing the audio signal; and a transmitter for transmitting a processed audio signal received from the electronics to an implanted receiver. All of the microphone, signal processing electronics, and transmitter are disposed in a common housing of the integrated headpiece. The headpiece may also be one of a set of headpieces that can be alternatively used as needed to suit power consumption requirements or environmental conditions.Cochlear implant systems include a circuit board having electronic circuitry configured to generate one or more signals configured to direct electrical stimulation of one or more stimulation sites within a patient, an induction coil configured to transmit a telemetry signal by generating a telemetry magnetic field, and a telemetry flux guide positioned between the induction coil and the circuit board. The telemetry flux guide is configured to direct magnetic flux of the telemetry magnetic field away from the circuit board.
US09392377B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods and apparatus suitable for use with hearing devices. A vapor deposition process can be used to make a retention structure having a shape profile corresponding to a tissue surface, such as a retention structure having a shape profile corresponding to one or more of an eardrum, the eardrum annulus, or a skin of the ear canal. The retention structure can be resilient and may comprise an anatomically accurate shape profile corresponding to a portion of the ear, such that the resilient retention structure provides mechanical stability for an output transducer assembly placed in the ear for an extended time. The output transducer may couple to the eardrum with direct mechanical coupling or acoustic coupling when retained in the ear canal with the retention structure.
US09392374B2
An acoustic generator according to an aspect of an embodiment includes a frame, a vibration body, and a piezoelectric vibration element. The vibration body is provided at an inner side of the frame. The piezoelectric vibration element is provided on the vibration body. The vibration body has a configuration in which a thin plate-like first portion and a thin plate-like second portion having different elastic moduli are laminated.
US09392367B2
Signals obtained by convoluting opposite phase signals of impulse responses corresponding to current positions of sound collection units attached to right and left suppliers out of impulse responses calculated in association with a plurality of positions to sound signals for right and left ears are supplied to the right and left suppliers, respectively.
US09392361B2
Described herein is a microphone assembly for an electronic device incorporating a microphone. The microphone assembly includes a microphone interface that enables direct coupling of inputs from the microphone to a preamplifier. For the purpose, the microphone interface includes a DC servo loop. The DC servo loop provides a DC path for supplying a DC bias current to the microphone and an AC path to receive the AC output obtained from the microphone. The AC path and the DC path allow separation of the AC output of the microphone from the DC bias current. The microphone interface is implemented using reduced number of IC pin interfaces and external components to achieve compactness of the device.
US09392355B1
An electronic device may be configurable to operate in a scrambling mode and a non-scrambling mode while processing chat audio and microphone audio for a first player participating in an online multiplayer game via a game console. While operating in the non-scrambling mode, the electronic device may be configured to transmit the microphone audio to the game console without scrambling the microphone audio. While operating in the scrambling mode, the electronic device may be configured to scramble the microphone audio and transmit the scrambled microphone audio to the game console. The electronic device may be operable to select a scrambling key used to scramble the microphone audio based on a signal received by the electronic device that indicates a role of the player in the online multiplayer game. The role of the player may correspond to which of two or more opposing teams the first player is a member of in the online multiplayer game.
US09392351B2
An earplug-type earphone is disclosed including: an earplug (10) for producing sound and an elastic support (30). The earplug (10) includes a front housing (200) and a rear housing (500) connected in that order. The elastic support (30) is positioned on an outer side of the rear housing (500). When the earplug (10) is inserted in the external auditory canal, the elastic support (30) is pressed and deformed and then applies resilience to the helix, by which the earplug can be stably positioned in the external auditory canal.
US09392339B2
A TV system for displaying TV broadcast signal and Internet signal. Preferably, the TV system is configured to simultaneously or selectively display the TV broadcast signal and Internet signal.
US09392332B2
A method and apparatus for exercising access control over television programs using a parental control user interface that has different functions is provided. The method requires a password to enter into a master mode for obtaining access to all the functions of the parental control user interface. Once in the master mode, the user may enter a criterion for blocking a television program from being viewed or recorded or the user can override an already blocked television program.If a user, not in the master mode, attempts to watch or record a program that meets the blocking criterion and the program does not meet the overriding criterion, a prompt is provided to the user to enter the password. Upon entering a correct password, the program is unblocked.
US09392330B2
Tools are provided for distributing access-restricted content in an internet protocol television (“IPTV”) environment based on portable entitlement keys. Such tools can include a decoder, an encoder, and a network entitlement handler. The decoder may be configured to receive a key associated with entitlement information, and transmit the entitlement information over a network. The encoder may be configured to receive content from content providers, and to encode the content to create IP-compatible content, with access restrictions based on entitlement. The network entitlement handler may be configured to receive a request for requested content from the decoder; receive the access-restricted content including (including the requested content) from the encoder; and transmit the requested content over the network to the decoder using IP, when the decoder is entitled to receive the requested content.
US09392324B1
Systems and methods are described herein for a media guidance application that can cause a specific portion of a media asset to be stored based on a user command. For example, if the user requests the closing scene from a given movie, the media guidance application may detect the command, determine that it comprises an instruction to store a portion of a media asset, identify a source of the portion of the media asset, and cause the portion of the media asset to be stored. The media guidance application may also cause the entirety of the media asset to be stored and initiate playback at the start of the requested portion. This may allow users to store and watch portions of particular interest without requiring that the users seek through the entire media asset on their own.
US09392305B2
A method and apparatus for providing ultra high definition television service is provided. The apparatus for providing UHDTV service sets up a type of the UHDTV service as a first type of HDTV service and a second type different from that of the HDTV service in an environment of the UHDTV service and the HDTV service coexist.
US09392302B2
In a system for time-shifted viewing of television broadcasts, advertisements 41, 43 are provided with headers 50, 52 containing times of day at which that advert may be viewed or not viewed. A Personal Video Recorder (PVR) 60 stores adverts in an advertisement database 70, stores broadcast program segments in a program database 80, and broadcast rules in a rules database 90. For viewing of the program when time-shifted, the PVR checks the time of day, checks the headers of the adverts, and shows only adverts which are permissibly viewed at that time of day.
US09392291B2
An image compression method and fast storage device accessing and pixel decompression is achieved by applying variable bit rate to reduce the data amount of each image frame. Several thresholds are predetermined depending on the availability of the bandwidth of the storage device and the image resolution to decide the compression ratio of each image frame. Starting address of each compressed image frame is saved in predetermined location of the storage device for quick random accessing any compressed frame of image.
US09392289B2
Encoders of a program bank device perform compression coding on video/voice data of a program from program VTRs, and extract an image feature value of video data of the program to be accumulated in a program database. When a time earlier by a predetermined time than a program delivery time indicated by program operation information from a program operation management server is reached, the program database notifies a statistical multiplexing controller of an image feature value and preliminarily calculates a video encoding bit rate by statistical multiplexing analysis processing. When the program delivery time is reached, the video/voice data of the program from the program database is decoded by decoders and output to delivery encoders at a timing when the data is output to the delivery encoders.
US09392287B2
Provided is a method that derives a chroma intra prediction mode of a prediction unit, determines a size of a current chroma block using luma transform size information, generates a chroma prediction block of the current chroma block using the chroma intra prediction mode, generates a chroma residual block of the current chroma block using the chroma intra prediciton mode and a chroma quantization parameter, generates a chroma reconstructed block adding the chroma prediction block and the chroma residual block, and the chroma quantization parameter is generated using a luma quantization parameter and information indicating the relationship between the luma quantization parameter and the chroma quantization parameter. Therefore, the coding efficiency is improved by adjusting the chroma quantization parameter per picture. Also, the amount of bits for transmitting the luma and chroma quantization parameters is reduced by encoding the luma quantization parameter using neighboring luma quantization parameters.
US09392279B2
Method for generating an IDR picture slice in an H.264/AVC stream, the method including finding an I-type picture and identifying it as a start picture, modifying and/or adding, in each slice header of the start picture, IDR-specific elements, removing, from each slice header of the start picture, non-IDR-specific elements, removing all reference and non-reference B-slices between the start picture and the next I-picture or P-picture, following the start picture, that is a frame or the first field, in decoding order, of a complementary field pair. Starting from the first picture after the removed slices, for each slice header executing: correcting frame_num so that they are valid with reference to the previous picture, correcting references, in the MMCO, as a function of the removed reference B-pictures, correcting references, found in the “Reference picture list reordering” structure, as a function of the removed reference B-pictures and restoring slice encapsulation for modified slices.
US09392277B2
The present technique relates to an image processing device and method that can increase encoding efficiency. A table selection unit (343) compares the difference (distance) dPOC calculated by a distance calculation unit (342) with a distance threshold dPOC_th supplied from a distance threshold acquirement unit (341), and, in accordance with the comparison result, selects a table (a bit sequence assignment pattern) Sn. A binarization unit (335) refers to the table information about the assignment pattern (Sn) that is stored in a table storage unit (334) and is selected by a table selection unit (343), and, in accordance with the assignment pattern, binarizes the predicted motion vector select information (pmv_index) supplied from a predicted motion vector selection unit (332). The present invention can be applied to image processing devices, for example.
US09392276B2
Video encoding apparatus, video decoding apparatus, video encoding method, and video decoding method
A video encoding apparatus appends decoding delay correction information and display delay correction information to encoded video data in order to ensure that even when one or more pictures that are later in encoding order in the video data than a first picture that may potentially be spliced to a trailing end of other encoded video data have been discarded, the first picture and subsequent pictures in the encoded video data can be continuously decoded and displayed by a video decoding apparatus. The video decoding apparatus corrects the decoding delay and display delay of the first picture and its subsequent pictures by using the decoding delay correction information and display delay correction information.
US09392273B2
A method, a computer readable medium and an apparatus to adaptively control a data transmission rate of a wireless display device. The method includes determining a current data transmission rate capacity of a wireless channel; and controlling a data transmission rate of a wireless transmission device based on the current data transmission rate capacity.
US09392272B1
Frames of a video stream can be partitioned using source difference variance based partitioning before encoding. Variances between blocks of a current video frame and blocks of a previous unencoded video frame are determined. The current video frame can be partitioned into varying block sizes depending upon the magnitude of the variances. Blocks with low variance may be combined with other low variance blocks to form larger blocks, while blocks with high variance may be further partitioned into smaller blocks to improve encoding efficiency of the blocks. In cases where partitioning of a frame is unlikely to provide improved efficiency, the variation calculations may be skipped in favor of using fixed partitioning.
US09392267B2
Embodiments of the invention include a system and method to generate a quality rating prediction, such as MOS, of a video under test without using a second video as a reference. Instead of using a reference video, embodiments of the invention generate a pseudo reference video from measuring local impairments of the video under test. The local impairments are then accumulated to create a difference image. The difference image is then subtracted from the video under test to create the pseudo reference, to which the video under test is compared to generate the quality prediction rating. In some embodiments the local impairments may be measured by separating high frequency noise from the video under test from the video itself. Once separated, the noise is then measured and bandwidth compensated to generate the measured local impairments.
US09392265B2
A three-dimensional (3D) display panel has a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and each of the rows has at least one sub-row. The 3D display panel includes at least one first group and at least one second group arranged on the first row. The first group and the second group respectively have a first color region, a second color region and a third color region. The first color region and the second color region of the first group as well as the third color region and the first color region of the second group are arranged on one sub-row, while the third color region of the first group and the second color region of the second group are arranged on another sub-row.
US09392264B1
An object observable in various images of an environment is recognized as being the same object, even when partially occluded in some images. In one particular implementation, the object is a hand which may be used for gesture input to an augmented reality system. A flexible similarity measurement metric is computed to aid in determining whether hands captured through 2D images of the environment are the same or different, regardless of whether the hands are fully observed or partially occluded. The similarity measurement metric accommodates for translation, rotation, and scaling of the hand to enable recognition of a common hand through a sequence of images even if that hand is partially occluded in some images.
US09392257B2
An image processing device includes a viewpoint separating unit configured to separate multi-viewpoint image data, including images of multiple viewpoints and representing intensity distribution of light and the direction of travel of light according to positions and pixel values of pixels, into a plurality of single-viewpoint image data for each of the individual viewpoints; and a parallax control unit configured to control amount of parallax between the plurality of single-viewpoint image data obtained by separation into individual viewpoints by the viewpoint separating unit.
US09392249B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a 3-dimensional image. An apparatus for receiving a digital broadcasting signal, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a tuner for receiving a digital broadcasting signal including a stereoscopic 3D image signal containing edge handling information; a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the received digital broadcasting signal; a decoder for decoding the 3D image signal of the demultiplexed broadcasting signal to extract original images and the edge handling information; an image editor for editing images by cropping and stretching some portions of the original images using the edge handling information; a graphic engine for creating a floating window using the edge handling information; an on screen display (OSD) for overlaying the created floating window over the original images; and a formatter for receiving the edited images or the floating window-overlaid images to output a stereoscopic 3D image signal with the edge handled.
US09392248B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed for visually rendering a requested scene based on a virtual camera perspective request as well as a projection of two or more video streams. The video streams can be captured using two dimensional cameras or three dimensional depth cameras and may capture different perspectives. The projection may be an internal projection that maps out the scene in three dimensions based on the two or more video streams. An object internal or external to the scene may be identified and the scene may be visually rendered based on a property of the object. For example, a scene may be visually rendered based on where an mobile object is located within the scene.
US09392244B2
A transmitting apparatus generates moving image data including first image data and second image data, and generates first time code information corresponding to the first image data and second time code information corresponding to the second image data. The transmitting apparatus transmits, to an external apparatus, the first image data included in the moving image data and the first time code information corresponding to the first image data, and transmits, to the external apparatus, the second image data included in the moving image data and the second time code information corresponding to the second image data. The transmitting apparatus determines, in accordance with a first condition, the first image data from a plurality of image data included in the moving image data, and determines the second image data, in accordance with a second condition, from the plurality of image data included in the moving image data.
US09392241B2
A band processing circuit which generates image signals corresponding to different frequency bands from an image signal in which signals corresponding to different colors are arranged and which suppresses noise by synthesizing the image signals of the different frequency bands, a sampling circuit which generates image signal corresponding to the colors by sampling the image signal input from the band processing circuit in accordance with a predetermined arrangement, and a luminance/color generation circuit which generates a luminance signal in which aliasing is suppressed using an image signal output from the sampling circuit.
US09392236B2
An image processing method includes: receiving image data of a Bayer format comprising red color information, green color information, and blue color information, generating image data of a modified Bayer format by combining the green color information with the red color information and combining the green color information with the blue color information while downscaling the image data of the Bayer format to a target resolution, denoising the image data of the modified Bayer format, and generating RGB image data by demosaicing the denoised image data of the modified Bayer format.
US09392230B2
An endoscopic apparatus includes an image generation unit generates an image including subject images, a display unit displays the image and a control unit controls measurement of a size of a subject based on the image, the control unit performs first processing of displaying a moving image including one subject image on the display unit, second processing of, after the first processing, displaying all of subject images used for the measurement or all of images based on one subject image used for the measurement on the display unit as still images, and third processing of, after the second processing, designating a measurement point based on an instruction of a user, and measuring the size of the subject at the designated measurement point based on either an image based on all of subject images used for the measurement or all of the plurality of images based on the one subject image.
US09392224B2
A multipoint connection apparatus (200) includes a video/audio-signal receiving unit (201) that receives video/audio signals from video/audio terminals (100); a volume-level calculating unit (205) that calculates volume levels from the video/audio signals; a volume-display-image generating unit (207) that generates volume display images indicating volume from the volume levels; a layout-setting-information receiving unit (209) that receives layout setting information indicating information about arrangement of videos to be displayed on the video/audio terminal (100); a combined-video/audio-signal generating unit (211) that generates a combined video/audio signal by combining the video/audio signals and the volume display images based on the layout setting information; and a transmitting unit (215) that transmits the video/audio signal to the video/audio terminal (100).
US09392222B2
A video presence method and system. The method includes: receiving a multi-viewpoint three-dimensional video signal from a remote end; determining multiple viewpoint image streams in the multi-viewpoint three-dimensional video signal; and alternately displaying the multiple viewpoint image streams in sequence in a viewing area, where a distance between two neighboring viewpoints in the multiple viewpoint image streams displayed in the viewing area is a pupillary distance. By adopting the present invention, remote three-dimensional video presence may be implemented.
US09392203B2
A pixel array includes an array of pixels to receive light, a first pixel to be blocked from receiving the light, and a circuit to adjust signals output from pixels in the array based on a signal from the first pixel. The signals output from the pixels in the array include a first error value. The circuit reduces the first error value in the signals from the pixels in the array based on the signal from the first pixel. The circuit may also reduce a second error value in the signals output from the pixels in the array based on a signal from a second pixel. The first and second pixels may be outside of the pixel array. The first and second error values may be storage diode leakage value and a dark current value.
US09392195B2
An image capturing apparatus performs a global electronic shutter operation in which a plurality of pixels are exposed during the same exposure period. In a first period, charge is accumulated by a photoelectric conversion unit. In a second period, accumulation units of a plurality of pixels accumulate charge. A ratio of saturation charge quantity of the photoelectric conversion unit to saturation charge quantity of the accumulation unit has a certain relationship with a ratio of a length of the first period to the sum of the length of the first period and the length of the second period.
US09392193B2
In an image pickup apparatus using an image pickup element including a plurality of photoelectric conversion means sharing a microlens, the number of pixels to be read is switched between the case of normal photographing and the case of live view driving. In the case of live view driving, only pixels positioned near the center of the optical axis of the microlens, the number of which is smaller than that in the case of normal photographing, are read. The image pickup apparatus realizes both normal photographing capable of acquiring an image in which the depth of field is small and which can be refocused, and live view photographing capable of displaying an image with a large depth of field and the high frame rate, thereby allowing the framing of the photographed image to be confirmed.
US09392191B2
A method and a device for processing a video conference, including receiving, by a video conference server, first video information sent by a first video terminal and second video information sent by a second video terminal, acquiring, by the video conference server, a preset quantity of personal video information from the received second video information and first video information, and synthesizing the preset quantity of the personal video information to generate a synthesized video, and sending, by the video conference server, the synthesized video to a third video terminal to display. The method and device for processing a video conference avoid a poor display effect due to site disparity when the integrated video of the site is used as a basis, and provide flexibility for maximizing the information display efficiency.
US09392184B2
Electronic apparatuses and adjustment methods thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera module and a processor. The camera module is enabled into an HDR mode and captures a reference frame according to a first exposure setting, wherein the reference frame corresponds to a plurality of luminance values. The processor calculates a weighted luminance value of the reference frame according to the luminance values, generates a comparison result by comparing the weighted luminance value and a luminance target of the HDR mode, and decides a second exposure setting according to the comparison result.
US09392174B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can capture media content including an original set of frames. A selection of a time-lapse amount can be received. A subset of frames from the original set of frames can be identified based on the time-lapse amount. An orientation-based image stabilization process can be applied to the subset of frames to produce a stabilized subset of frames. A stabilized time-lapse media content item can be provided based on the stabilized subset of frames.
US09392167B2
An image-processing system includes a receiver which receives an input value defining an output range, a generator which generates a three-dimensional model having a target image attached to a three-dimensional conformation, a decision part which decides a position of a viewing point and a viewing angle in accordance with the input value, and a projector which projects the three-dimensional model from the viewing point, wherein the decision part changes a range of a target image inside a viewing field by changing the viewing angle preferentially when the input value is in a first range, and changes the range of the target image inside the viewing field by changing the viewing point preferentially when the input value is in a second range which is a wider-angle side than that of the first range.
US09392166B2
Pixels of an array capture values for an input image. The captured values correspond to pixel center points of the pixels that captured the values. Additional values about the input image may be further computed from the captured values. These additional values may correspond to additional center points, which can be different from any of the pixel center points. An output image may be constructed from the captured values plus the additional values. These values may be stored together and/or displayed together as the output image. Embodiments are applicable to images such as from multi-layer sensors. Since the output image can be created from a higher total number of values than those captured by the available number of pixels, such image processing can be called super-resolution, and can be applied to image processing within imaging devices, for still pictures, video and motion pictures, and so on.
US09392165B2
An array camera, a mobile terminal, and methods for operating the same are disclosed. The method for operating an array camera having a plurality of camera modules includes acquiring images through the plurality of camera modules, grouping the acquired images into a first group and a second group by comparing the acquired images, and generating a composite image using images of the first group.
US09392156B2
An extension flash module is provided in the present invention. The extension flash module adopts xenon flash light and is for attaching on the headphone jack of a mobile device. When the extension flash module operates, the voltage output from the headphone connector is boosted to provide a high voltage to the extension flash module. When the high voltage is charged to a rate voltage, the extension flash module sends a charging complete signal to the mobile device through the microphone terminal of the headphone connector. When shutter instruction is performed, the mobile device triggers the extension flash module to flash.
US09392150B2
A camera includes: a ring-like body mount having an inside diameter smaller than about 48 millimeters; and a solid-state image pickup device arranged oppositely to the body mount, the solid-state image pickup device having a rectangle light receiving section with a diagonal line length of about 43 millimeters or more. An apparent shape of the solid-state image pickup device viewed from a front surface side of the body mount is a rectangle in which one or more corners are oblique.
US09392147B2
The present invention relates to a camera module, the camera module including: a PCB (Printed Circuit Board), an image sensor mounted on the PCB and formed with an imaging device for converting light to an electrical signal; a housing fixed a bottom end to an upper surface of the PCB, the housing being a case formed with a hole at an upper center and having a bottom-opened inner space: a lens assembly having at least one lens aligned to the lens hole by being positioned at and contacted to an upper surface of the image sensor and accommodated at an inner space of the housing; and an elastic stiffening material inserted between a lens hole periphery at an upper inner side of the housing and an upper edge of the lens assembly.
US09392144B2
Techniques are disclosed for manipulating a media player based on the environment in which content is consumed. For example, a user listening to a radio broadcast or some other ambient sound hears a song begin to play. Recognizing the song, the user wishes to watch an associated music video. A smartphone is used to record a portion of the ambient sound using an application configured according to certain disclosed embodiments. The observed audio is compared with one or more archived audio segments, each of which is associated with corresponding video content. If a match is found between the observed audio segment and an archived audio segment, video content corresponding to the matched archived audio segment is played back via a media player installed on the device. The playback is synchronized with the ambient sound. This allows the user to enjoy both the ambient audio and corresponding video content.
US09392140B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including a correction unit that corrects a tilt of each partial image data item which is a result of plural sensors reading a medium on which an image of image data is formed so that at least part of a reading region which is read by each of the plural sensors overlaps a reading region of an adjacent sensor, an extraction unit that extracts the image data at a position and in a size at and in which the image data matches the respective partial image data, and a comparison unit that compares partial image data corrected by the correction unit with extracted image data extracted by the extraction unit.
US09392136B2
In a liquid ejecting apparatus, a recording medium is conveyed by only a first conveying device during a first period, by only a second conveying device during a second period, and by both the first and second conveying device during a third period. The recording medium is conveyed, in theory, at first and second conveying speeds during the first and second periods respectively. A transition period is set from the first period to the third period or from the third period to the second period. The head controller controls a ejecting head during a period prior to the transition upon assuming that the conveying speed is the first conveying speed, during a period after the transition upon assuming that the conveying speed is the second conveying speed, and during the transition period upon assuming that the conveying speed is a third conveying speed between the first and second conveying speeds.
US09392135B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus for recording an image on a unit region of a recording medium by performing a plurality of relative scanning operations of the recording medium and a recording head including a plurality of recording elements arranged in a certain direction. The image processing apparatus stores, based on image data of the image and ratios of using a plurality of recording element groups for recording the image, each of the plurality of recording element groups including a different recording element, dot count values for the plurality of recording element groups, and determines, based on the stored dot count values, whether density correction data for correcting the image data needs to be generated.
US09392122B2
An already-connected telephone call is conferenced in a seamless manner that is transparent to the call participants, after which one or more additional participants may join the conference. The existing call is preferably moved to a conference bridge responsive to an existing call participant either logging on to a network-accessible user interface (such as a web page or portal-type page) or entering some special key or key combination using the participant's phone (which may be a software application that provides phone-like services). The participant requesting the move may be authenticated, and the authorization of the participant to request the move may be verified, before moving the call.
US09392106B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method for controlling power consumption in a telecom system. The method includes selecting a power profile command based upon a desired power consumption and performance characteristic, translating the power profile command into at least one subcommand, and initiating at least one power reduction technique in a telecom component based upon the at least one subcommand.
US09392101B2
Non-verbal communications between users of wireless mobile devices are facilitated using image messages. An image message may e.g. convey information about the sender user, in particular, current information about the sender user. In one aspect, a user may select an image message category, and select an image message among the image messages of the selected image message category for transmission, to quickly, efficiently and graphically convey (current) information about the user. The process may be performed to form a mixed media message. Received image message to convey current information may be aged via time and/or color displays.
US09392099B2
A computer-implemented method may include receiving, via a mobile access network, surveillance data from one or more mobile surveillance devices, wherein the one or more mobile surveillance devices are associated with a monitored location, system, or group. An event condition associated with the monitored location, system, or group is identified based on the received surveillance data, wherein the event condition corresponds to at least one of the one or more mobile surveillance devices. An alert notification is generated and transmitted to one or more user devices based on the event identified condition. A request to view at least a portion of the surveillance data is received from a user device in response to the alert notification. At least the portion of the surveillance data is transmitted to the user device in response to the request.
US09392066B2
An example method for connection persistence across server farms in a network environment is provided and includes associating a first real server with a first server farm attached to a first virtual Internet Protocol address (VIP), associating a second real server with a second server farm attached to a second VIP, and linking the first real server with the second real server in a particular group. The first real server is configured to service a first connection from a client to the first VIP in a network environment, the second real server is configured to service a second connection from the client to the second VIP in the network environment, and the method further includes facilitating connection persistence of the first connection with the second connection across the first server farm and the second server farm.
US09392061B2
A highly predicable quality shared distributed memory process is achieved using less than predicable public and private internet protocol networks as the means for communications within the processing interconnect. An adaptive private network (APN) service provides the ability for the distributed memory process to communicate data via an APN conduit service, to use high throughput paths by bandwidth allocation to higher quality paths avoiding lower quality paths, to deliver reliability via fast retransmissions on single packet loss detection, to deliver reliability and timely communication through redundancy transmissions via duplicate transmissions on high a best path and on a most independent path from the best path, to lower latency via high resolution clock synchronized path monitoring and high latency path avoidance, to monitor packet loss and provide loss prone path avoidance, and to avoid congestion by use of high resolution clock synchronized enabled congestion monitoring and avoidance.
US09392056B2
The invention is directed to a network, and method for operating a network, for allowing an effective traffic localization within an Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO), wherein an ALTO process is performed with regard to at least one application or resource consumer, and traffic information with respect to the at least one application or resource consumer will be provided and used within the ALTO process.
US09392055B2
A method is provided for sharing data between a plurality of nodes in a communication network. The communication network includes a first sharing router and a second sharing router. The first sharing router and second sharing router each have a memory, the memory including a record table for storing at least one record, wherein each record includes at least a reference describing the data to share and, at least one of the data to share or the address of at least a data node associated with the data to share, so that a collecting node may further collect the data.
US09392048B2
The invention concerns a method for transmitting data via a data link in a computer network, wherein a device at an endpoint of a section of said data link is selected (203) from devices of said computer network, a computer program adapted to process said data, is transferred (204) to said device and said data is processed (206) by said device by executing said computer program.
US09392040B2
A communication management system, a communication method, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a communication control program, each of which is capable of determining whether to start a communication session with a third communication terminal that requests to participate in a communication session being carried by at least a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, based on session identification information and location information that are received from the third communication terminal.
US09392037B2
Each person to a communication session records their contributions to the communication session. Metadata is maintained for each contribution to identify the time of the contribution and any other useful information to enable the content of the contribution to be accessed at a later point in time. When a portion of the communication session is to be recreated, the people involved in the communication session are requested to provide their contributions for a particular period of time or all contributions associated with a particular topic. Users will then select and forward previously recorded contributions that they are willing to have included in the recreation. By collecting contributions from the individuals involved in the communication session, the intended portion of the communication session may be recreated. Since each person is recording their own contribution to the communication session, no explicit permission is required to record the conversation.
US09392029B2
Disclosed are the examples of an interworking system and related methods. The interworking system can be configured to implement a session initiation protocol (SIP) message routing method that may include checking a transmitting subject and a transmission method of a SIP message, applying a network address translation based on the checked message's transmitting subject and its transmission method, and specifying the address of the node selected based on the checked message's transmitting subject in routing path information.
US09392028B2
An apparatus and method for macro operation involving a plurality of session protocol transactions is disclosed. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, a mobile device generates a binary encoded message having an indication from which a server can determine a plurality of session protocol transactions to be performed. The binary encoded message is sent from the mobile device and received by the server. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, the server determines the plurality of session protocol transactions to be performed based on the indication in the binary encoded message and attempts the plurality of session protocol transactions. By reducing the number of messages between the mobile device and the server, and by reducing the message size compared to SIP messages, communication resources for the mobile device can be conserved. Also battery power for the mobile device can be conserved.
US09392026B2
Scorecard data is received, processed, and visualizations provided by a performance metric application. Real time collaboration between users is facilitated through context based selections from the visualizations through one or more communication applications. Performance metric application may be embedded in the communication application or vice versa through local implementation or in a service based architecture.
US09392023B2
A method includes receiving, at a control node of a cloud computing network, a first enterprise policy specific to the first enterprise and a second enterprise policy specific to the second enterprise, and managing communications between at least one user device of the first enterprise and the at least one enterprise application hosted on behalf of the first enterprise based on the first enterprise policy. The method also includes managing communications between at least one user device of the second enterprise and the at least one enterprise application hosted on behalf of the second enterprise based on the second enterprise policy.
US09392021B1
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A SECURE RESOURCE ACCESS AND PLACEMENT PLATFORM (“SRAP PLATFORM”) provides a secure supporting infrastructure within a corporate network framework and applications based thereon for use and placement of corporate resources. A non-trusted device may he authorized to access and use corporate resources, and the corporate network server may manage the placement of resources via the SRAP PLATFORM.
US09392006B2
The present invention includes an apparatus connected to a processing system including a data collector to gather and store data regarding operation of the processing system, a device relationship manager to send data regarding the operation of the processing system to a remote administrative console, and a security policy manager to control the sending of data regarding the operation of the processing system by the device relationship manager to the remote administrative console based on a security policy.
US09392004B2
A method for dynamically decoding protocol data on a computer system is provided using a protocol decoder, which inspects and analyzes protocol data received by the computer system. A protocol decoding program controls the decoding and analysis process. The method may be used by an intrusion prevention system to identify anomalous protocol data that may cause harm to applications receiving the data.
US09391999B2
A method and system for executing applications in a mobile device including receiving a request for execution of the application; determining whether the mobile device is located in a restricted area where execution of the application is controlled; and determining, when the mobile device is located in a restricted area, whether to execute the application requested for execution, according to a application execution policy that allows for execution of the application in the restricted area.
US09391994B2
Particular embodiments of a computing device associated with a user may detect an event using a sensor of the computing device. The event may be a lock-triggering event or an unlock-triggering event. The computing device may assess a state of the device. The computing device may also access further information associated with the user. The computing device may also monitor activity on the computing device to detect further events if such further monitoring is warranted. Based on the gathered information, the computing device may update a lock status of the device to lock or unlock access interfaces of the computing device, functionality of the computing device, or content accessible from the computing device. If the event comprised the computing device detecting an attempt by a third party to use the device, the device may attempt to identify the third party to determine if they are authorized to use the device.
US09391992B2
Systems and methods for secure control of a wireless mobile communication device are disclosed. Each of a plurality of domains includes at least one wireless mobile communication device asset. When a request to perform an operation affecting at least one of the assets is received, it is determined whether the request is permitted by the domain that includes the at least one affected asset, by determining whether the entity with which the request originated has a trust relationship with the domain, for example. The operation is completed where it is permitted by the domain. Wireless mobile communication device assets include software applications, persistent data, communication pipes, and configuration data, properties or user or subscriber profiles.
US09391989B2
A method and system for determining a device identifier assigned to a device within an installation of devices connected via a network is provided. A system determines the device identifier of a device that has been repaired and reinstalled so that the device can be placed in service. Upon receiving an indication that a repaired device has been reinstalled, the system requests and receives a possible device identifier of the repaired device from an interconnect device that connects the repaired device to the network. To verify that the possible device identifier is the actual device identifier, the system directs the repaired device to reboot so that it broadcasts its device identifier. When the repaired device reboots, it broadcasts its device identifier. Upon receiving the broadcast device identifier, the system verifies that the possible device identifier is the same as the broadcast device identifier.
US09391982B1
A network authentication system and method is described for authenticating multiple profile accesses from a single remote device. A device remote from a web server, yet connected to the web server via, for example, the Internet, can allow multiple users to register their profiles within the device. The profiles are registered using a pre-existing user ID and password corresponding to, for example, the user's financial accounts. Multiple profiles and, specifically, the indicia of those profiles, can appear on the display of the remote device allowing each user the ability to select their own registered profile. Access to a profile is granted when the user enters their private PIN. Once the PIN is entered, the private information such as financial account information will be securely forwarded from the web server to the remote device.
US09391968B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for scored factor-based authentication. A verification service can receive an authentication request from a requestor, wherein the authentication request identifies a transaction. The verification service can determine a risk associated with the transaction, an authentication score based upon the risk, and a plurality of groups of authentication factors, each of which can satisfy the authentication score. The verification service can provide factor group data identifying the plurality of groups of authentication factors to the requestor.
US09391952B2
A method for dynamically switching between communications protocols used in communicating with each of a plurality of physical computing devices includes configuring, by a storage delivery management service, a storage system in a storage area network, to communicate, according to a first communications protocol with a first physical computing device executing a virtual machine, the storage system providing, to the virtual machine, access to a virtual storage resource. The storage delivery management service receives a request to migrate the virtual machine from the first physical computing device to a second physical computing device. The storage delivery management service configures the storage system to communicate with the second physical computing device according to a second communications protocol. The storage delivery management service transmits, to the second physical computing device, an identification of the storage system providing access to the virtual storage resource for the virtual machine.
US09391951B2
In one embodiment, a first network device is configured for communication with at least a second network device, and implements a gateway. The gateway may comprise, for example, a software gateway. The gateway is configured to receive a packet in a format of a first protocol and to determine if the packet includes an identifier of the gateway, for example, encoded within a destination address of the received packet. If the received packet does not include the gateway identifier, the packet is forwarded in the format of the first protocol. If the received packet does include the gateway identifier, a network address translation operation is applied to reconfigure the packet in a format of a second protocol different than the first protocol, and the reconfigured packet is forwarded in the format of the second protocol. The first and second protocols may comprise Internet protocols such as IPv6 and IPv4, respectively.
US09391945B1
The present invention relates generally to a system and method of posting coded messages using a software application program comprising computer executable instruction code configured for displaying a transformed display, which mimics the social network but also includes the most recent message posts from a user's social network wall and including at least one radial button for selecting at least one coded icon corresponding to at least one decoded message; receiving a selection of the at least one coded icon corresponding to the at least one decoded message; converting the selected at least one coded icon into the corresponding decoded message and posting in realtime the decoded message or icons on the user's wall within the application program or a link reference in one or more authorized social networks.
US09391942B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to processing email having symbolic variables in the address. Aspects include receiving, by an email server, an email comprising an email address for an intended recipient and determining whether the email address includes a symbolic variable. Based on determining that the email address includes the symbolic variable, the symbolic variable from the email address are extracted, an email address for an additional recipient by querying a database based on the symbolic variable is identified, and the email is transmitted to the email address of the intended recipient and the email address of the additional recipient. Based on determining that the email address does not include the symbolic variable, the email is transmitted to the email address of the intended recipient.
US09391940B2
A message server may establish an internet message access protocol (“IMAP”) IDLE session with a first client device. The IMAP IDLE session may be used to transmit one or more notifications to the first client device. The message server may determine a status notification associated with a second client device. The status notification may include information associated with an action being performed using the second client device. The message server may determine that the first client device is an intended recipient of the status notification. The message server may transmit the status notification, toward the first client device, via the IMAP IDLE session, based on determining that the first client device is the intended recipient of the status notification.
US09391932B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for including a plurality of users in a conversation over a communication network. A conversation is initiated when a text message is received requesting the conversation. A conversation is established using conversation gateways currently unused by users to be included in the conversation. Communication may occur across gateways in order to conserve conversation gateway resources.
US09391927B2
Technologies generally described herein relate to systems and methods effective to control an operating frequency of routers in a multicore processor. Heterogeneous routers in a multicore processor with different maximum operating frequencies may be clustered together to form groups of routers with homogenous assigned operating frequencies. The groups may be used to identify paths to send packets from a first router to a second router along one or more paths.
US09391925B2
The present invention relates to a packet switch and a packet switching method. An example embodiment of the present invention comprises at least three network ports, at least one instrument port, a mux-switch, a packet switch fabric, and an address table. The embodiment updates the address table to include the source address of each ingress packet of each network port and associate the source address with that network port. The mux-switch routes the ingress packet traffic of each network port according to the identity of the network port so that at least a copy of the packet traffic of one of the network ports is routed to an instrument port. The packet switch fabric routes the packets from the instrument ports to the network ports according the destination address of the packet and the identity of the network port that is associated with the destination address as recorded in the address table.
US09391923B2
The subject matter described herein includes using a path computation element communication protocol (PCEP) as a signaling protocol during dynamic service provisioning in networks. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a network uses a hard state point-to-point protocol as a signaling protocol during dynamic service provisioning in a control plane of the network. In one implementation, the point-to-point protocol is a path computation element communication protocol (PCEP).
US09391922B2
A computer system has a capacity planner for creating and updating a workload redistribution schedule. A migration utility provides for redistribution of the workloads. A redistribution orchestrator directs, according to the schedule, the migration utility to implement the workload redistributions.
US09391914B2
Techniques for converting communication packets in a network having multiple nodes are described herein. A node may receive communication packets from one or more neighboring nodes. Each communication packet may include control data and payload data. The node may extract the payload data and store the payload data for a time period. The node may determine whether to concatenate the extracted payload data of the communication packets (e.g., based on destinations to where each of the extracted payload data are to be sent, a supported data rate, an application type associated with the extracted payload data, etc.). The node may concatenate the extracted payload data of the communication packets and send the concatenated payload data to another node in a communication packet.
US09391898B2
A method and a network node for increased utilization of a transport network link over a transport network of a HSPA system. The method comprises detecting a data packet loss in receiving a data packet flow, and detecting data delay information of data packets as received. The method also comprises determining if the detected data packet loss comprise non-congestive data packet loss, based on the detected data packet loss and the detected data delay information. In addition, the method comprises, when the detected data packet loss comprises non-congestive data packet loss, for a pre-determined time period, omitting to perform a congestion action affecting the data packet flow. By determining whether a data packet loss is non-congestive or not, an unnecessary reduction of the bitrate over the transport network can be omitted.
US09391896B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for forwarding packets with hierarchically structured variable-length identifiers (HSVLIs) in a content-centric network (CCN). During operation, the system receives a packet with an HSVLI and determines, based on the HSVLI, a plurality of ports to which the packet should be forwarded. The plurality of ports include a set of individual port groups, and a respective port group includes one or more individual physical ports. The system derives a forwarding strategy based on the set of individual port groups and the one or more individual physical ports. The forwarding strategy is expressed as a formula in conjunctive normal form that indicates a logical conjunction among the set of port groups and a logical disjunction among the one or more individual physical ports. The system then forwards the packet using the derived forwarding strategy.
US09391895B2
A network system of the present invention includes a switch and a controller. The controller sets a flow entry, in which are defined a rule and an action used to uniformly control a packet as a flow, in a flow table of the switch. The switch determines whether or not to perform a sampling processing to a received packet, in accordance with the flow table setting, and notifies the controller of a sampling result in a case where a sampling processing is performed to the received packet. The controller updates the flow table in accordance with the sampling result and narrows packets to perform a sampling processing.
US09391892B2
A method and corresponding apparatus of managing transport operations between a first memory cluster and one or more other memory clusters, include receiving, in the first cluster, information related to one or more transport operations with related data buffered in an interface device, the interface device coupling the first cluster to the one or more other clusters, selecting at least one transport operation, from the one or more transport operations, based at least in part on the received information, and executing the selected at least one transport operation.
US09391890B2
A method and apparatus are provided for establishing data communication between a wireless network and a wireless terminal by means of a packet data protocol connection, using internet protocol. When a determination is made that the wireless terminal is active but does not have an internet protocol address, a page is initiated from the wireless network to the wireless terminal over a control channel requesting that the wireless terminal obtain a temporary internet protocol address. A temporary internet protocol address is then assigned to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal initiated in response to the page so that data communication can be established with the terminal based on the temporary address.
US09391889B1
Example methods and systems for requesting information from the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) based on a destination and one or more codecs of a source specified within a computer-readable invitation to establish a communication session are described. A source gateway or a user agent device can generate the invitation. A DNS record associated with the destination can specify codecs used by the destination or a gateway the destination uses to carry out communication sessions. A proxy server that received the invitation and the DNS record can select a gateway that uses a codec that matches a codec used and preferred by a gateway. The proxy server can forward the codec to selected gateway, in particular, to an IP address and port associated with the selected gateway, for notifying the destinations of the requested communication session. The invitations can comprise SIP INVITE messages.
US09391888B2
The system, method, and article of manufacture of the present invention allows multiple customers connected to a common external network to each implement a layer 2 redundancy protocol, such as the spanning tree protocol, in order to prevent layer 2 loops. Accordingly, a method is presented for providing an independent loop free layer 2 topology between a external network and a customer network comprising tagging control packets originating on the customer network with a unique identifier and tunneling the control packets received from the customer network between a plurality of boundary interface devices at the external network such that the control packets are routed back to the customer network based on the presence of the unique identifier in the control packet. The layer 2 redundancy protocol on the customer network converges based at least in part on the presence of control packets appearing on more than one port on the customer network.
US09391876B2
A method is executed by a network device to determine a loop free alternate (LFA) for a multi-homed prefix in an IS-IS area or IS-IS domain. The method includes selecting a next node from the IS-IS area or the IS-IS domain and selecting a next prefix for the selected node. A check is made whether the selected prefix is a multi-homed prefix (MHP). A check is made whether a shortest path first (SPF) cost of the selected node and cost to the selected prefix is equal to an SPF cost of the selected prefix, whether a next hop of selected prefix is same as next hop of selected node, and whether a LFA next hop of the selected node is better protection than a current next hop protection of the selected prefix and the LFA next hop of the selected node is then inherited for the selected prefix.
US09391874B2
Method of re-routing traffic in a communications network (1) in the event of a fault (3) on a path across the network, the method comprising, determining whether a first node (4), located between the fault and a network ingress node (6), is capable of switching traffic to an alternative path which avoids the fault, and if the first node is determined to be not so capable, then determining whether a second node (8), located upstream of the first node, is capable of switching traffic to an alternative path which avoids the fault.
US09391870B2
Aspects of a method and system for symmetric transmit and receive latencies in an energy efficient PHY are provided. In this regard, a delay introduced by a PHY of a network device for outbound traffic and a delay introduced by the PHY for inbound traffic may be controlled such that a transmit delay of the network device is equal, within a tolerance, to a receive latency of the network device. The delays may be controlled based on whether one or more energy efficiency features are enabled in the PHY. The delay introduced by the PHY for outbound traffic may be controlled based on an amount of buffered inbound traffic. The delay introduced by the PHY for inbound traffic may be controlled based on an amount of buffered outbound traffic. The delays may be controlled such that said receive latency and the transmit latency are approximately constant regardless of a mode of operation of the network device.
US09391865B1
A computer-implemented method for facilitating fault-tolerant backup jobs may include (1) receiving, at a media server, a backup assignment from a master server, (2) detecting a communication failure that inhibits communication between the media server and the master server, (3) initiating a backup job at the media server based at least in part on the backup assignment received from the master server, (4) caching, due at least in part to the communication failure, a catalog of the backup job at the media server instead of forwarding the catalog of the backup job to the master server in real-time during the backup job, and then (5) transferring the catalog of the backup job to the master server upon determining that communication between the media server and the master server is no longer inhibited. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09391859B2
According to an example, a service coordination apparatus may include a processor that is to determine whether each GLB node-pair in a node-pair state table is at a normal state after receiving a DNS request. If a GLB node-pair in the node-pair state table is not at the normal state, a second DNS response may be sent to a node sending the DNS request according to a DNS parsing list. If each GLB node-pair in the node-pair state table is at the normal state, a proximity list may be inquired. If a record corresponding to the DNS request is searched out from the proximity list, a first DNS response may be sent to the node sending the DNS request according to the searched out record. If not, a second DNS response may be sent to the node sending the DNS request according to the DNS parsing list.
US09391858B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collecting information of host devices. In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a plurality of information probes to the host device, including an agent probe that queries an agent installed on the host device for a unique agent identifier, monitoring for replies to the information probes from the host device during the host detection phase, ending the host detection phase in response to receiving a reply to the agent probe and that includes the unique agent identifier, resending the plurality of information probes and incrementing a repeat counter in response to not receiving a reply to the agent probe after the expiration of a time period and ending the host detection phase in response to a value of the repeat counter exceeding a maximum repeat value.
US09391857B2
Apparatus and method for scheduling requests for data transfers in a multi-device storage system. In some embodiments, a system includes at least one server coupled to a pool of storage devices to transfer data from the storage devices to client devices responsive to requests. A request scheduler is adapted to receive into a memory a plurality of requests each having a service identifier (ID) and a payload size, to set a deadline for each request responsive to the service ID and the payload size, to forward the requests to the server for processing in an order based on service ID and, responsive to the deadline being reached for a selected request, to advance the selected request for immediate processing by the server.
US09391856B2
Some embodiments implement systems and methods to monitor CDN performance from the end user's perspective. To achieve full end-to-end monitoring, the systems and methods monitor the performance of Anycast routing for routing an end user to the optimal PoP of the CDN and monitor the performance of different routes that deliver content from the optimally selected PoP back to the end user. Systems and methods are also provided to leverage the monitored performance in order to automatically optimize the performance of the CDN by optimizing or modifying Anycast routing and by performing route grooming as needed to ensure that the optimal route is selected to deliver content to different sets of end users that request content from a particular PoP.
US09391855B2
Systems and methods for a cloud management system which utilizes both technical and business metrics to achieve operational efficiencies. The systems and methods can be used to provide an elastic infrastructure model for an emergency notifications system which delivers near infinite scale with guaranteed near 100% uptime. In an embodiment, a mass recipient emulator can be utilized for testing of the notifications system with actual phone call or message exchange.
US09391854B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method and a router for packet processing during a server failure. In the present invention, a router queries a locally-stored state of a primary value-added service server, thereby immediately learning the state of the primary value-added service server, and when the queried state of the primary value-added service server is a failed state, the router may immediately forward a received request packet to a request routing server for rerouting or forward it to a backup value-added service server, thereby shortening the waiting time of a client when the client requests a video value-added service. In addition, because addresses of backup value-added service servers are stored in the router, disadvantages that client complexity increases and network security is reduced in the prior art are overcome.
US09391847B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve provisioning customers of an aggregator, such as a reseller, of a content delivery network (CDN). In one aspect, content requests to the CDN are processed in accordance with the virtual IP (VIP) address at which the request was received, according to a property template bound to the VIP where the template is selected by the customer and only involves discrete parameters for the reseller. In another aspect, cache fills of the network are processed without direct knowledge of the customer origin through a combination of some request attribute, e.g., alias host of the customer, and an attribute of the reseller to make a DNS request to a name server outside the CDN. Another aspect involves receiving a property template selection, an origin and an alias from a customer of the reseller, and providing appropriate DNS entries to validate the customer and provide origin information to the CDN.
US09391836B2
The present invention discloses a method and a terminal for loading operator configuration information. The method includes obtaining network identification information of a terminal. The network identification information includes a mobile country code and a mobile network code. Secondary network identification information of the terminal is obtained when it is determined that the terminal corresponds to at least two groups of operator configuration information according to the network identification information. The secondary network identification information includes a group identifier GID. The operator configuration information corresponding to the terminal is obtained and loaded according to the secondary network identification information.
US09391834B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided apparatus, systems and methods for detecting a boundary condition via common mode diagnostics; and to apparatus, systems and methods for detecting a fault condition via common-mode rejection ratio diagnostics. For example, in one embodiment such means include, means for injecting differential mode signal probes onto two conductors of a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL line); means for measuring a common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR) of the differential mode signal probes; means for measuring impedance of the differential mode signal probes; and means for identifying which of an asymmetric fault condition or a symmetric fault condition is present on the line based on both: (a) the measured CMRR of the differential mode signal probes and (b) the measured impedance of the differential mode signal probes.
US09391833B2
A method may include receiving a message from a first Ethernet interface in a second Ethernet interface, wherein the message includes a first attribute indicative of an Ethernet service at the first interface according to a first operation, administration, or management (OAM) protocol. The method may further include mapping the first attribute to a second attribute, wherein the second attribute is in accordance with a second OAM protocol different than the first OAM protocol. The method may further include performing an operation at the second interface based on the second attribute.
US09391832B1
Surrogate browsing techniques are disclosed. A request for a page is received, from a client, by a surrogate. The specified page is requested by the surrogate. The page is rendered at the surrogate. A representation of the page is transmitted to the client. An event is received from the client. An update is sent to the client after reproducing the received event at the surrogate.
US09391830B2
A method and system for processing a stream of tuples in a stream-based application is disclosed. The method may include a first stream operator determining whether a requirement to modify processing of a first tuple at a second stream operator exists. The method may provide for associating an indication to modify processing of the first tuple at the second stream operator if the requirement exists.
US09391829B1
In general, embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for determining a user's potential exposure to defined audio content (e.g., television and audio advertisements) using a mobile device. In one example, a method includes receiving first audio content. The method further includes generating a first digital representation of the first audio content. The method also includes accessing a data structure, wherein the data structure contains at least a second digital representation of at least second audio content. The method also includes comparing the first digital representation to at least the second digital representation contained in the data structure and if there is a match between the first digital representation and at least the second digital representation contained in the data structure, transmitting a message to a remote server indicating the match.
US09391828B1
Methods and systems of maintaining a computed relationship between components in a network are disclosed. A relationship represents one or more connections between components. Discovered relationships between components in the network are detected. A discovered relationship represents a direct connection between components. A computed relationship between a class of source component and a class of target component is determined. The computed relationship comprises a number of discovered relationships that, when combined, represent connections between one or more types of the source component and one or more types of the target component. The computed relationship is stored. The discovered relationships that comprise the computed relationship are monitored for a change event. The change event may represent a change in the network, such as the addition or deletion of one or more components.
US09391818B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to generating pilot sequences for channel estimation and/or equalization. In some embodiments, a generated pilot sequence has a flat frequency response, a null portion, and low autocorrelation. In some embodiments, a method for generating the pilot sequence includes: starting with a Constant Amplitude Zero Autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequence and iteratively performing, until the result has a flat magnitude: padding the sequence with zeros, determining whether a frequency transform (FT) of the zero-padded sequence has a flat magnitude, adjusting a phase of a second sequence (that has a desired frequency response) to match a phase of the FT, determining an inverse FT of the adjusted second sequence and using a result of the inverse FT as the sequence for the next iteration. The disclosed techniques may allow efficient production of pilot sequences for use in cellular networks, for example.
US09391817B2
The 60 GHz channel between the transmitter and receiver can have AWGN characteristics allowing a Time Domain Equalizer (TDE) to be used at the receiver instead of a Frequency Domain Equalizer (FDE). The complexity of performing matrix inversion on a received signal is reduced when directional antennas are used in a 60 GHz system. Incorporating the TDE in place of the FDE saves almost an order of magnitude in power dissipation. For portable units, such a savings is beneficial since the battery life can be extended. The signal quality of wireless channel is based on the characteristics of the received signal to switch the equalization operation from a system performing FDE to TDE and vice versa. The receiver adapts to the received signal to reduce the power dissipation of the system.
US09391814B2
A quadrature detector quadrature-detects an FM signal. A first reducer and a second reducer reduce a direct current component included in the FM signal quadrature-detected in the quadrature detector. An FM detector generates a detection signal by FM detecting the FM signal in which the direct current component has been reduced by the first reducer and the second reducer. The offset unit adds an offset to the detection signal generated in the FM detector. An AFC unit generates a control signal for controlling the frequency of a local oscillation signal used in the quadrature detector on the basis of the detection signal to which the offset has been added by the offset unit and feeds back the control signal to a local oscillator that should output the local oscillation signal.
US09391806B2
A unifying network model with a structure and architecture configured to address security, interoperability, mobility, and resource management, including priority and quality of services is provided. The network of the network model is structured as a hierarchical mesh network, with dynamically generated routing tables. The configuration of the network model optimizes routing and distributes communication load. Every device on the network is capable of being both an endpoint and a forwarder of communications. The network model may include underlying networks that are represented with one of two models, the link model or the star model. The nodes are organized in a hierarchical relationship structure to optimizes throughput. The model may include a cryptographic method of dynamically assigning local network addresses.
US09391794B2
Various implementations of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for generating a test sequence for a driver and channel combination, wherein the driver is non-linear. In various implementations of the invention, a test sequence is generated that produces the worst or near worst error rate of the channel. With various implementations of the invention, voltage waves at the driver and impulse response waves of the channel are generated. In various implementations of the invention, the driver voltage waves and impulse response waves are simulated responses of the driver and channel to a digital signal input. With further implementations of the invention, receiver voltage waves are generated by combining the impulse response wave and the driver voltage waves. Subsequently, a test sequence is selected based upon the combined receiver voltage wave.
US09391792B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system for providing a live stream of event content is provided. In an embodiment, a method may include defining an online collaborative space associated with an event. A plurality of event participants may be associated with the event. Content contributions may be received from one or more of the event participants. An event content update may be transmitted to a client event application based on the received content contributions to provide a live stream of event content.
US09391788B2
This is a method and devices used to invite a user from one message chat service into a preexisting group chat session located on another chat service.
US09391781B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for intermediate authentication of a message transmitted through a switched-path network, such as an optical transport network (OTN). In one method, a message transmitted through communication nodes of a switched-path network may be authenticated, at least partially, by authentication logic of one or more of the communication nodes. The one or more communication nodes may identify whether a prior communication node has tampered with or corrupted the message or may generate an authentication tag to enable an authentication authority to authenticate the message.
US09391780B2
Methods and devices for storing sent message data are described. The sent message data corresponds to a message sent to a destination by a communication device via a server. The method includes compiling a first portion of the message which has a plurality of components; applying security encoding to the first portion; and storing the first portion. The first portion includes at least one but not all of the plurality of components in the message, and pointers to the components not included in the first portion. A method of verifying sent message data on a communication device is also described.
US09391772B2
In initial generation (for example, shipping from the factory), a security device generates an identifier w specific to the security device, with the PUF technology, generates key information k (k=HF(k)) from the identifier w, generates encrypted confidential information x by encrypting (x=Enc(mk, k)) confidential information mk with the key information k, and stores the encrypted confidential information x and an authentication code h (h=HF′(k)) of the key information k, in a nonvolatile memory. In operation, the security device generates the identifier w with the PUF technology, generates the key information k from the identifier w, and decrypts the encrypted confidential information x with the key information k. At a timing where the identifier w is generated in the operation, the security device checks whether the current operating environment has largely changed from the initial generation (S311). If a change in operating environment is detected (S311→S312), the security device conducts a reset-up process (S312 to S315) of an authentication code h which is confidential information, and the encrypted confidential information x.
US09391762B2
A switch arrangement is described which enable the design of a flexible front end allowing many individual and combinations of frequency band allocations to share a single antenna simultaneously. An apparatus using the switch arrangement is also described. The switch arrangement provides a single pole switch for each set of band specific filtering. The band specific filtering is connected to the pole of a respective single pole switch. The single pole switch has contact points enabling connection to of the filtering to an antenna switch both with and without a frequency selective component in the signal path. The frequency selective component allows sharing of the antenna by two or more frequency band allocations to enable simultaneous use of different radio access technologies, MIMO or Carrier Aggregation through a single antenna. When not required the frequency selective component can be switched out of the signal path to reduce insertion loss.
US09391759B2
A wireless access network node receives a configuration for a discovery signal for transmission by the wireless access network when in an off state. The wireless access network node in the off state transmits the discovery signal according to the configuration for detection by a user equipment (UE).
US09391752B2
In a radio communication system in which a base station and a terminal communicate with each other, the base station efficiently transmits control information to the terminal.The base station that communicates with the terminal using resource blocks, each of which is constituted by a prescribed time region and a prescribed frequency region, includes a terminal-specific control channel generation unit that generates terminal-specific control channels mapped in a terminal-specific control channel region constituted by a prescribed number of resource blocks and transmitted using the same antenna port as for terminal-specific reference signals, which are reference signals specific to the terminal. The resource blocks in the terminal-specific control channel region are divided into a plurality of resource element groups, and the terminal-specific control channels are mapped in the resource element groups using a distributed mapping rule, in which the terminal-specific control channels are mapped in such a way as to be distributed among a plurality of resource blocks, or a localized mapping rule, in which the terminal-specific control channels are mapped in one of the resource blocks in a localized manner.
US09391750B2
A transmission apparatus is provided with radio resource assignment means that assigns radio resources to each physical channel according to a type of the physical channel; and transmission means that transmits information to be transmitted by each physical channel using the assigned radio resources.
US09391740B2
A method for demodulating a signal in a receiver including at least two antennas, each receiving a signal, the received signals corresponding to a single emitted signal including symbol frames in which certain symbols, referred to as driver symbols, are known to the receiver, the method including: noise whitening in order to form two combined signals, the noise components of which are separate; normalizing the noise components of the combined signals in order to form two signals, the noise components of which are separate and have equal average standards; and performing signal demodulation with the maximum combination of the signal-to-noise ratio on the two signals, the noise components of which are separate and which have equal average standards, wherein during the first noise-whitening step for forming the two combined signals, the latter are determined retroactively using the maximum criterion.
US09391735B2
A method and an apparatus for sending a signal on a contentious feedback channel for a downlink shared service and for estimating a number of wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) are disclosed. When a transmission criterion associated with a physical random access feedback channel (P-RAFCH) is satisfied, a physical resource is randomly selected among a plurality of physical resources assigned for the P-RAFCH and a pre-configured signal is sent using the selected physical resource. A Node-B receives the pre-configured signal from a plurality of WTRUs and calculates a number of the WTRUs based on a number of used physical resources. The transmission criterion is at least one of successful reception of a data packet on a downlink physical channel, successful reception of a data block on a data service, reception of a signaling command, occurrence of a measurement event, and failure to receive a transmission after a specified number of times.
US09391730B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for interference alignment in a wireless communication system. A method in which a terminal aligns interferences in a wireless communication system, which includes a first base station governing a first cell and a second base station governing a second cell, comprises: a step in which the terminal measures a serving channel from the first base station which is a serving base station and an interference channel from the second base station; a step of transmitting null space information orthogonal to the interference channel to the first base station; a step of measuring channels from the first base station and the second base station to which an inference alignment plane generated based on the null space information is applied, and generating a receiving filter; and a step of transmitting, to the first base station, the interference alignment plane, the receiving filter, and effective channel measurement value based on the channel from the first base station.
US09391728B2
In a network device, apparatus and methods perform precision time stamping. A time agent receives a master pace signal corresponding to a time representation based on a master real time clock in a master clock domain. A time accumulator accumulates time units one fill quantum at a time based on the master pace signal. The time accumulator decreases the accumulated time units by a leak quantum according to a local clock signal running at a higher frequency than the master pace signal. Correction logic periodically generates, at a granularity corresponding to the frequency of the local clock signal, an updated time representation in a target clock domain based on a residual number of time units in the time accumulator before depositing an additional fill quantum of time units in the time accumulator.
US09391727B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a system and method for encoding sub-audible codes within a signal. One exemplary embodiment includes a method that includes receiving a first digital code and a second digital code; receiving a first block and a second block of a signal; embedding an echo of the first block of the signal in the second block of the signal to create a first modified second block of the signal in accordance with the first digital code; modulating the power of the first modified second block of the signal to create a second modified second block of the signal in accordance with the second digital code; and sending a modified signal including the second modified second block of the signal.
US09391723B2
A method is disclosed for delivering data to an end user device, the method including receiving an optical signal containing broadband digital data; converting the optical signal to a first radio frequency signal; transmitting the first radio frequency (RF) signal from an RF transmitter to a first RF receiver in a first local region associated with the end user device; and converting the received radio frequency signal to a digital data signal. A system and computer program for performing the method are disclosed.
US09391716B2
A data center includes a plurality of computing units that communicate with each other using wireless communication, such as high frequency RF wireless communication. The data center may organize the computing units into groups (e.g., racks). In one implementation, each group may form a three-dimensional structure, such as a column having a free-space region for accommodating intra-group communication among computing units. The data center can include a number of features to facilitate communication, including dual-use memory for handling computing and buffering tasks, failsafe routing mechanisms, provisions to address permanent interface and hidden terminal scenarios, etc.
US09391703B2
We disclose an optical transport system configured to transport an additional data stream using hierarchical modulation. In an example embodiment, copies of the additional data stream are encoded onto enhancement layers of multiple hierarchically modulated optical waves transported through the system in a multiplexed manner. An optical receiver coupled to a remote end of the optical transport link is configured to use this redundant transmission of the additional data stream to improve the bit-error rate thereof, e.g., by first extracting the signal components corresponding to the enhancement layers of the different hierarchically modulated optical waves and then combining the extracted signal components in a manner that tends to reduce, through averaging, the relative magnitude of noise in the combined signal compared to that in the individual extracted signal components. The disclosed signal-transmission format is suitable for various types of multiplexing, e.g., any combination of space-, wavelength-, and polarization-division multiplexing.
US09391700B1
A multilayer film or skin for free space optical data transmission includes a first outer layer. The first outer layer has a first laterally extending area that transmits optical data signals received over a range of incident angle. A second layer that includes a second laterally extending area underlies the first layer. At least a portion of the optical data signals received by the second layer from the first outer layer is focused or otherwise concentrated into a substantially reduced area. An optical detector receives the concentrated optical data signals from the second layer. An electrical connection extends from the optical detector to an external receiving device. The multilayer film or skin may be used, for example, in applications involving mobile free space optical communication platforms where low profile, volume and mass and/or enhanced platforms are important.
US09391698B1
Systems and methods for achieving eye safety of an optical transceiver are provided. An optical module can be configured to output a first optical signal. A first photodetector can be configured to output a signal indicative of a presence or absence of a second optical signal. A controller can be coupled to the optical module and the first photodetector and can be configured to control the output of the optical module. In response to a determination that an output of the first photodetector indicates the second optical signal is absent, the controller can control the optical module to output the first signal at a decreased average optical power. In response to a determination that an output of the first photodetector indicates the second optical signal is present, the controller can control the optical module to output the first signal at an increased average optical power.
US09391697B2
A network element is disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a network element may comprise a network interface configured to communicatively couple to a network, and a controller communicatively coupled to the network interface. The controller may be configured to determine a delay-measurement interval, and to perform a plurality of delay measurements at a respective plurality of randomly determined times within the delay-measurement interval. Performing a delay measurement may comprise sending an outgoing signal, receiving an incoming signal, and determining a delay time based on the outgoing signal and the incoming signal.
US09391692B2
A microwave antenna terminal for two-way, in-motion communication systems using geostationary or other orbit satellites, and capable of supporting two-way communication in two different frequency ranges, for example Ku and Ka frequency ranges, is provided.
US09391691B2
A satellite communication system between a source and a destination over multiple satellite communications paths including first identifying the link performance established in multiple spectrums, performing a link comparison among the multiple spectrums (for example C-, Ku-, or Ka-Band) in order to determine a spectrum link that provides the highest throughput within an acceptable reliability criteria, and switching among the multiple spectrum links to provide that determined spectrum link between the source and the destination.
US09391685B2
A computing system includes: an inter-device interface configured to determine receiver description for representing a receiver signal corresponding to serving signal contemporaneous with an interference signal from an interference source at an interference-aware receiver; a communication unit, coupled to the inter-device interface, configured to: generate a pre-coding candidate set based on the receiver description for adjusting the serving signal or a subsequent instance thereof, determine a sum-rate condition for representing the serving signal along with the interference signal, and generate a pre-coding adjustment maximizing the sum-rate condition from the pre-coding candidate set for communicating the serving signal or a subsequent instance thereof.
US09391682B2
Techniques for providing codebooks extended by gain information that can be transmitted in a reduced amount of signaling are disclosed. A user equipment includes a transmission and reception unit communicating a radio signal with a base station in accordance with MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) transmission and a codebook storage unit stores predefined codebooks to specify precoding matrices for use in the MIMO transmission. The codebooks are arranged to represent phase information and gain information and a channel measurement unit measures channel conditions based on reference signals transmitted from multiple antennas in the base station. A codebook selection unit selects a codebook to be indicated to the base station from the stored codebooks based on the measured channel conditions and instructs the transmission and reception unit to indicate feedback information to the base station and the feedback information includes a codebook index for identifying the selected codebook.
US09391680B2
Embodiments are provided to enable effective cancellation or reduction of the self-interference (SI) introduced when applying full-duplex (FD) transmission to Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. A method embodiment includes forming, using a precoding matrix generated in accordance with channel conditions, a plurality of beams for a plurality of transmit signals and a plurality of self-interference cancellation signals corresponding to the plurality of transmit signals. The method further includes transmitting, at a plurality of antennas, the plurality of beams for the transmit signals, and receiving, via the plurality of antennas, a plurality of receive signals. A corresponding self-interference cancellation signal is then added to each of the plurality of receive signals to obtain a plurality of corrected receive signals, and the plurality of corrected receive signals are detected at a plurality of receivers.
US09391679B2
In a method of selecting a codebook for precoding a wireless transmission signal, a characteristic of a wireless communication channel is measured, and a codebook size is selected using (i) an expected throughput for each of a plurality of different codebook sizes given the measured characteristic of the wireless communication channel, and (ii) channel overhead associated with each of the plurality of different codebook sizes. Based on matrix selection criteria, a best matrix is selected from a codebook of the selected codebook size, and an indicator of the selected matrix is transmitted.
US09391668B2
Reducing a power of a signal electromagnetically coupled from a PLC medium to a digital subscriber line (DSL) medium. The method involves transmitting a data signal over the PLC medium at a first average power level from one of a plurality of PLC transmitters coupled to the PLC medium, then measuring first noise associated with a first signal received at a DSL receiver coupled to the DSL communication medium caused at least in part by the data signal transmitted over the PLC medium at a second average power level from the one PLC transmitter, the second average power level different than the first average power level, followed by measuring second noise associated with a second signal received at the DSL receiver coupled to the DSL communication medium caused at least in part by the data signal transmission over the PLC medium at the second average power level. A transmit power spectral density (PSD) for the data signal transmitted by the one PLC transmitter over the PLC medium is then changed, based on a difference between the first noise and the second noise, such that the changed transmit PSD for the data signal transmitted by the one PLC transmitter over the PLC medium reduces the power of the signal electromagnetically coupled from the PLC medium to the DSL medium caused by the data signal transmission from the one PLC transmitter over the PLC medium.
US09391667B2
Interference cancellation techniques may be implemented in a radio transceiver configured to transmit a radio-frequency transmit signal at a transmit frequency and having two or more local oscillators operative to simultaneously generate local oscillator signals, at corresponding local oscillator frequencies, for simultaneously down-converting two or more corresponding received radio-frequency signals. An example method begins with identifying one or more self-interfering frequencies, based on the local oscillator frequencies and the transmit frequency. A baseband cancellation signal is then generated by weighting and frequency-shifting a baseband representation of the transmit signal, based on the identified self-interfering frequencies. The baseband cancellation signal is then combined with a down-converted received signal, to obtain an interference-reduced baseband signal.
US09391661B2
A signal transmitter includes a carbon nanotube antenna and a heat to electricity conversion device, which powers an amplifier in the transmitter. The heat from the inefficiency of the antenna is conducted to the heat to electricity conversion device. Additional heat from the transmitter electronics and any other inefficient processes can also be conducted to the heat to electricity conversion device. In this manner, the overall efficiency of the carbon nanotube antenna can be substantially increased.
US09391659B2
A method and apparatus for cancelling, from signals received by a radio device in a first frequency band, interference generated by the radio device in the first frequency band when the radio device transmits simultaneously radio signals on at least a second frequency band.
US09391651B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed for a configurable amplifier. When operating in a first operating mode, the configurable amplifier may amplify a communication signal and may cancel or attenuate a second harmonic component associated with the communication signal. When operating in a second operating mode, the configurable amplifier may amplify the communication signal without cancelling or attenuating the second harmonic component associated with the communication signal.
US09391646B2
A memory controller includes a joint source-channel encoder circuit and a joint source-channel decoder circuit. The joint source-channel encoder circuit source encodes received data independent of whether the received data is compressible data, performs error correction coding on the source encoded data, and stores the source encoded data in a memory device. The joint source-channel decoder circuit performs source decoding of the data read from the memory device between iterations of error correction coding of the read data, and outputs the read data to at least one of a buffer memory and a storage device interface. The joint source-channel decoder circuit performs the source decoding of the read data independent of whether the read data is compressed data.
US09391645B2
Apparatuses and methods for determining soft data using a classification code are provided. One example apparatus can include a classification code (CC) decoder and an outer code decoder coupled to the CC decoder. The CC decoder is configured to receive a CC codeword. The CC codeword includes a piece of an outer code codeword and corresponding CC parity digits. The CC decoder is configured to determine soft data associated with the piece of the outer code codeword, at least partially, using the corresponding CC digits.
US09391644B2
An improved decoding method is provided making it possible to solve the problem of the error floor of a turbo-code or of an LDPC code, or more generally of a correcting code from the family of “turbo-like codes”, while preserving the same spectral efficiency, without any decrease in the useful throughput of the encoded stream. This result is obtained by an identification, on input to the decoder, of the bits on which an error has a strong impact, and a modification of the likelihoods corresponding to these bits so as to improve the convergence of the decoder.
US09391643B2
Systems and methods for decoding block and concatenated codes are provided. These include advanced iterative decoding techniques based on belief propagation algorithms, with particular advantages when applied to codes having higher density parity check matrices. Improvements are also provided for performing channel state information estimation including the use of optimum filter lengths based on channel selectivity and adaptive decision-directed channel estimation. These improvements enhance the performance of various communication systems and consumer electronics. Particular improvements are also provided for decoding HD Radio signals, including enhanced decoding of reference subcarriers based on soft-diversity combining, joint enhanced channel state information estimation, as well as iterative soft-input soft-output and list decoding of convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon codes. These and other improvements enhance the decoding of different logical channels in HD Radio systems.
US09391641B2
A set of one or more component syndromes associated with a turbo product code (TPC) codeword is obtained from a component syndrome buffer. Component decoding is performed on the set of one or more component syndromes.
US09391634B1
Example embodiments of the systems and methods of low power decimation filter exploit the single bit data input to the filter and the symmetry of the filter response. The input data may be treated as 0 and 1 instead of −1 and +1. The symmetry of the sinc filter may be exploited since the data across different polyphases are combined. The addition of the symmetric data and coefficient multiplication may be replaced with simple muxing based on two bits and the use of unsigned logic for all adders following coefficient multiplication as both data and coefficient are non-negative.
US09391632B1
A method of implementing extended range successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) starts with a readout circuitry acquiring an image data from a row in a color pixel array. ADC circuitry in the readout circuitry then generates an ADC pedestal for the row. Successive Approximation Register (SAR) included in ADC circuitry then stores ADC pedestal. SAR includes a plurality of bits and an additional bit that is a duplicate of one of the plurality of bits. ADC circuitry samples the image data from the row against ADC pedestal stored in SAR to obtain a sampled input data. ADC circuitry then converts the sampled input data from analog to digital to obtain an ADC output value. Other embodiments are described.
US09391617B2
An IC cell designed to assert one of multiple possible output states, each with equal probability, implemented to assert a pre-determined one of the multiple output states based on random variations within the IC cell, such as random process variations. An array of IC cells is configurable to provide a hardware-embedded key upon power-up that is unique to the combination of random variations of selected IC cells, resistant to tampering prior to and during manufacture, and tolerant to aging, instantaneous thermal noise, and environmental variations, such as voltage and temperature fluctuations. The key may be used as, without limitation, a Platform Root Key, a High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) key, an Enhanced Privacy Identification (EPID) key, and/or an Advanced Access Content System (AACS) key. Also disclosed are techniques to measure stability and stress-harden an IC cell based on output states of the IC cell.
US09391616B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a pulse generation unit configured to detect a transition of an input signal and generate a preliminary pulse signal, and an error elimination unit configured to determine error of the preliminary pulse signal and output a signal as a pulse signal.
US09391613B2
Described are on-die termination (ODT) systems and methods that facilitate high-speed communication between a driver die and a receiver die interconnected via one or more signal transmission lines. An ODT control system in accordance with one embodiment calibrates and maintains termination resistances and drive currents to produce optimal output swing voltages. Comparison circuitry employed to calibrate the reference resistance is also used to calibrate the drive current. Termination elements in some embodiments are divided into two adjustable resistive portions, both of which are designed to minimize capacitive loading. One portion is optimized to produce a relatively high range of adjustment, while the other is optimized for fine-tuning and glitch-free switching.
US09391592B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamically adjusting frequency offsets for mitigating interference. One embodiment takes the form of a process carried out by a mobile radio configured to use an adjustable transmit frequency. The mobile radio estimates an expected base-station-receive power level with respect to transmissions from to a base station. The mobile radio adjusts the transmit frequency to be a center frequency of a radio channel plus a default frequency offset responsive to the estimated expected base-station-receive power level being less than a first threshold. The mobile radio adjusts the transmit frequency to be the center frequency plus a modified frequency offset responsive to the estimated expected base-station-receive power level being greater than a second threshold. The modified frequency offset is greater in magnitude than the default frequency offset. The mobile radio transmits an uplink signal to the base station over the adjusted transmit frequency.
US09391591B2
A method and system for the design and implementation of an optimally factored filter is presented. Pairs of angle values are organized in pairing candidates and a threshold is defined to indicate an upper bound on the number of pairing candidates. A first pairing candidate is exchanged above the threshold with a second pairing candidate below the threshold and a matrix is generated based on the pairing candidates below the threshold. A lowest predicted total quantization cost between all pairing candidates represented within the matrix is determined and the pairing candidates that result in the lowest predicted total quantization cost are used to determine the coefficients of the filter.
US09391590B2
A filter and method for filtering a signal are disclosed. The filter is equivalent to a plurality of bi-quad filters connected in series, and is implemented on a digital processor that receives a sequence of signal values at a sampling rate characterized by a sampling interval and generates a filtered signal value upon receiving each received signal value. The filter has a latency that is less than the sampling interval. The filtered values can be generated by adding a term to a received signal value and multiplying the sum by a gain constant that depends on the filter constants. The added term does not depend on the current received signal value. The filter can be implemented in fixed-point integer arithmetic.
US09391589B2
A surface acoustic wave filter includes a θ-rotated Y-cut X-propagation lithium niobate substrate. The cut angle ranges from 20° to 40°. An interdigital transducer can be used for exciting a surface acoustic wave that is formed on the substrate.
US09391585B2
The invention relates to a multi port router device capable of carrying a number P, which is greater than or equal to three, of frequency channels, from a number M of input ports to a number N of output ports, at least one of the two numbers M and N being greater than or equal to two, characterized in that it includes at least two filters (12, 14, 16, 18), each filter comprising at least two coupled resonators, at least one resonator (Rs1, Rs2) being common to two different filters, and each input port and each output port being connected directly to at least one resonator. The router device is capable of appropriately performing routing in which it is possible to supply on at least one output port an output multiplex having at least a first and a second frequency channel, among which: the first frequency channel has originated from a first input multiplex, supplied on a first input port and comprising said first frequency channel, and at least one further frequency channel forwarded to a second output port of the device; and the second frequency channel is either forwarded from a second input port, or, when the first input multiplex comprises at least three different multiplexed frequency channels, the second frequency channel originates from the first input multiplex, the first second frequency channels, being frequentially disposed on both sides of a third frequency channel, with the said third frequency channel being routed to a different output port.
US09391583B2
A transmission line driver circuit includes: a transmission line driving amplifier having a first transmission terminal and a second transmission terminal; a first signal node; a second signal node; a first adjustable resistor positioned between the first transmission terminal and the first signal node; a second adjustable resistor positioned between the second transmission terminal and the second signal node; a first voltage difference generating circuit coupled with two terminals of the first adjustable resistor to generate a first voltage difference value; a second voltage difference generating circuit coupled with two terminals of the second adjustable resistor to generate a second voltage difference value; sample-and-hold circuits for generating sampled signals according to the first voltage difference value and the second voltage difference value; a comparing circuit for comparing the sampled signals; and an adjusting circuit for adjusting resistance of the first and/or second adjustable resistors according to the comparing result.
US09391582B2
A tunable duplexer circuit is described, wherein the frequency response as well as bandwidth and transmission loss characteristics can be dynamically altered, providing improved performance for transceiver front-end applications. The rate of roll-off of the frequency response can be adjusted to improve performance when used in duplexer applications. A method is described where the duplexer circuit characteristics are optimized in conjunction with a specific antenna frequency response to provide additional out-of-band rejection in a communication system. Dynamic optimization of both the duplexer circuit and an active antenna system is described to provide improved out-of-band rejection when implemented in RF front-end circuits of communication systems. Other features and embodiments are described in the following detailed descriptions.
US09391580B2
An exemplary system comprises a device including a memory with an audio injection application installed thereon. The application comprises an equalizer module that analyzes sound characteristics of individual digital audio samples including a discrete signal, a selector module that applies a selection heuristic to select the discrete signal from the individual digital audio samples based on the sound characteristics, and an audio module that supplies to an output an insert signal generated according to the discrete signal selected by the selection heuristic.
US09391572B2
The embodiments described herein provide a radio frequency (RF) driver amplifier and method of operation. In general, the driver amplifier facilitates high performance operation in RF devices while being implemented with only n-type transistors. Using only n-type transistors in the driver amplifier can increase the operating bandwidth of the driver amplifier. Furthermore, using only n-type transistors in the driver amplifier can simplify device fabrication. The driver amplifiers and methods described herein can be used in a variety of applications. As one specific example the driver amplifier can be used in a switch-mode power amplifier (SMPA). Such a SMPA can be configured to amplify a time varying signal, such as an RF.
US09391566B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for testing an electronic assembly comprising a number of segments. In one embodiment, a scalable periphery amplifier may comprise a number of amplifier segments. In one embodiment a method of testing the amplifier segments in a scalable periphery architecture is described. One or more of the amplifier segments can be independently turned on and/or turned off to achieve desired impedance characteristics of the overall amplifier to test the scalable periphery amplifier. In another embodiment, the electronic assembly comprises digitally tunable capacitors.
US09391549B2
A motor driving device includes a clock oscillator configured to generate a clock signal; and a logic unit configured to receive the clock signal, control conduction of a 3-phase brushless direct current (DC) motor, and generate a revolutions per minute (RPM) detection signal. The clock oscillator is configured to switch an oscillation frequency of the clock signal depending on an RPM command signal input to set a target RPM of the 3-phase brushless DC motor.
US09391542B2
An ultrasonic actuator includes at least one primary waveguide resonator, with each primary generator being in flat, at least one auxiliary waveguide resonator, with each auxiliary generator being in contact in order to form an acoustic standing wave, at least one crosspiece that connects one of the at least one primary waveguide resonators and one of the at least one auxiliary waveguide resonators to each other at least in sections, and wherein at least one friction track or friction rail is arranged on the crosspiece wherein the at least one primary waveguide resonator and the at least one auxiliary waveguide resonator is an open linear waveguide, and the at least one crosspiece functions as a totalizing device of the acoustic standing waves propagated in the primary and auxiliary waveguide resonators, so that the at least one crosspiece functions as the generator of a simulated travelling wave.
US09391537B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes modules to detect a node voltage and an output current of a converter, a detector to obtain an effective power value, a system condition detector to detect a power supply condition in the electric system or the operating conditions of devices included in the electric system and then output a first signal, a setting unit to switch a set value to a preset first or second value and then output the set value, a unit to calculate an angular frequency of an output voltage of the converter on the basis of an output of the detector, the value, and an output of the system condition detector, and a unit to calculate a target value of the converter.
US09391534B2
A synchronous rectifier control circuit an includes a current transformer (CT), a bridge rectifier, and a comparator, where the CT is connected in series to a secondary side, performs sampling on a loop current of the secondary side to obtain a current detection signal, and outputs the obtained current detection signal to the bridge rectifier; the bridge rectifier acquires a secondary-side sampling current according to the current detection signal, and outputs the secondary-side sampling current to the comparator so that the comparator generates a voltage difference; and an output signal of the comparator turns over so as to control on and off of a synchronous rectifier transistor. In this way, high-speed and high-precision control over a synchronous rectifier transistor can be implemented. The control is simple and is low in cost.
US09391531B2
A control circuit, that controls the duty cycle of a switched mode power supply, comprises a reference voltage generator that, responsive to the input voltage exceeding a threshold value, generates a predetermined reference signal. Responsive to the input voltage not exceeding the threshold value, the reference voltage generator receives a signal indicative of an input voltage of the switched mode power supply and generates a variable reference signal dependent upon the input voltage. The control circuit further comprises an error signal generator that receives a signal indicative of an output voltage of the power supply and generates an error signal based on the reference signal generated by the reference voltage generator and based on the output voltage. The control circuit also includes a duty cycle control signal generator that generates the control signal to control the duty cycle of the power supply in dependence upon the error signal.
US09391526B2
A power supply apparatus includes a main converter, an auxiliary winding switching circuit and a pulse width modulation controller. The main converter includes a transformer. The transformer includes a primary side winding, a secondary side winding and an auxiliary winding. The auxiliary winding includes a first winding and a second winding. According to a secondary side voltage, the first winding induces to generate a first voltage, and the second winding induces to generate a second voltage. The first voltage is greater than the second voltage. The auxiliary winding switching circuit sends the first voltage to the pulse width modulation controller when the first voltage is not greater than a predetermined voltage. The auxiliary winding switching circuit sends the second voltage to the pulse width modulation controller when the first voltage is greater than the predetermined voltage.
US09391521B2
Positive-side DC terminals P1′ and P′ connected to a positive-side DC bus of a chopper 4 are provided in the chopper 4 and the positive-side DC terminals P1′ and P′ are connected to positive-side DC terminals P1 and P, respectively. With this configuration, a current of a DC bus of an inverter 2 is drawn via the positive-side DC terminal P1′ into the chopper 4 and is returned via the positive-side DC terminal P′ to the DC bus of the inverter 2.
US09391520B2
The DC-DC converter includes an inductor cooperating with a first switch and a second switch operating alternately, in order to supply an output voltage of higher, equal or lower level than the level of an input voltage. The converter includes a switching control unit for the switches for determining a first switching time for the first switch and a second switching time for the second switch. The switching control unit includes a voltage-current conversion circuit for converting into current a comparison voltage, which is the difference between the output voltage and the input voltage, a first current being supplied by the conversion circuit for charging a first capacitor to a first voltage threshold to determine the first switching time and a second current being supplied by the conversion circuit for charging a second capacitor to a second voltage threshold to determine the second switching time.
US09391518B2
A current sensing circuit for a switched mode power converter employs a passive current sensing network coupled in parallel with the switched inductor. The passive current sensing network is impedance matched to the inductance its inherent resistance, and provides a current sensing node for single wire current sensing by a current sensing circuit. The passive current sensing network can be employed in each of a plurality of phased switching circuits that each contribute to an output of the power converter.
US09391513B2
A method is provided for current compensation. The method is based on division-sigma (D-Σ) control for a DC/DC converter. Inductance changes are allowed with D-Σ digital control achieved. Loop gain can be quickly adjusted. The disadvantage of average current-mode control (ACMC) is solved, where the disadvantage is a reduction of the response speed caused by the filter within the current loop. The present invention uses midpoint current sampling to ensure taking an average inductor current value in each switching cycle. By doing so, a lack of fidelity of peak current-mode control (PCMC) is solved, where the lack of fidelity is due to the amount of error value between the peak value and the average value. Besides, the present invention uses a table of the inductance following current changes to achieve compensation of duty cycle ratio, where the table is built in a single chip.
US09391511B2
In one embodiment, a control circuit configured to control a switch mode power supply, can include: (i) a compensation signal generating circuit configured to generate a compensation signal according to an error between an output voltage feedback signal and a first reference voltage of the switch mode power supply; (ii) a switching signal generating circuit configured to control a switching operation of a power switching device of the switch mode power supply according to the compensation signal; (iii) a judge circuit configured to determine an operation state of the switch mode power supply according to the output voltage feedback signal; and (iv) a loop gain regulating circuit configured to regulate a loop gain of the control circuit according to the operation state.
US09391503B2
A converter circuit with short-circuit protection can include a plurality of phase legs having a series connection of normally-on switches, between voltage rails of a DC voltage link, a DC link capacitor, and AC voltage connection points between the normally-on switches. A phase-to-phase short-circuit protection circuit includes a parallel connection of a resistive component and a controllable switch. The phase-to-phase short-circuit protection circuit including a first terminal connected to an AC voltage connection point and a second terminal forms an input or an output of the converter circuit; and a controllable switch is connected in series with the DC link capacitor. Upon lack of control of the normally-on switches the controllable switch of the at least one phase-to-phase short-circuit protection circuit and the controllable switch of the phase leg short-circuit protection circuit are adapted to be controlled to a non-conductive state.
US09391498B2
A method for configuring a coil forming machine is provided. The method comprises receiving a 3D model of a production coil, generating a 3D model of the coil forming machine, and comparing the received 3D production coil model to the 3D model of the coil forming machine to obtain a comparison. The method also includes outputting a display of the comparison and adjusting the coil forming machine in response to the comparison.
US09391496B2
A transmission for a vehicle is disclosed which includes a casing defining a first cavity and a second cavity inside the casing. A platform is at least partially disposed inside the casing to separate the first and second cavities. The platform defines a plurality of first apertures arranged together to define a first group. An interface assembly includes a first support and a plurality of first connectors attached to the first support to define a first bundle. The first support is selectively attached to the platform to position the first bundle relative to the platform such that each of the first connectors are disposed in respective ones of the first apertures of the first group. The first connectors are coupled to a power inverter module and a first motor/generator through the first apertures of the platform to electrically connect the power inverter module and the first motor/generator to each other.
US09391495B2
A system and method of predicting motor failure based on relationships of motor pair characteristics, such as temperatures. A motor pair detection module receives temperatures for each motor of a motor pair over a predetermined window. The motor pair detection module determines whether at least one of the temperatures of the first motor and the second motor exceeds a temperature threshold during the predetermined time window. The motor pair detection module further determines whether the temperature of the first motor differed from the temperature of the second motor by at least a difference threshold for at least a percentage threshold of the predetermined time window. Based on the determinations, the motor pair temperature outputs an alarm signal to indicate a potential impending failure of one of the motors of the motor pair.
US09391494B2
The present invention relates to an anti-separating structure of sensing magnet for motor, wherein, the coupling between the plate and the sensing magnet is effected by the bent unit formed at the plate and a separate cap member to reinforce the coupling power to axial, horizontal and rotational directions by the mechanical structure, and to improve a structural stability and operational reliability, the structure including a plate formed with a plate insertion hole that vertically penetrates the plate; a sensing magnet formed with a magnet insertion hole corresponding to the plate insertion hole; and a plate-shaped cap member including a coupling lug coupled by penetrating the plate insertion hole and the magnet insertion hole.
US09391490B2
A linear actuator comprising a cabinet (1), an electric motor (2), a transmission (4), a gear housing (11), a spindle nut (6), a spindle (5), the actuator being furnished with an opening (20) in the gear housing (11), where a gear wheel power take-off (21) is accessible and may be equipped with optional equipment. The gear wheel power take-off (21) is constructed as a tooth gearing on a planetary wheel holder (16) in a planetary wheel and transfers a movement to the optional equipment, which is proportional to the movement of the spindle nut during its travel on the spindle.
US09391489B2
A coupling apparatus (20) is provided for transferring energy to or from a flywheel. The coupling apparatus comprises first (22) and second (24) movable members, each having one or magnets (30, 34) arranged thereon, wherein the first movable member (22) is arranged to be coupled to a flywheel. The magnetic strength of a first magnet (30) arranged on the first movable member (22) exceeds the magnetic strength of a second magnet (34) arranged on the second movable member (24).
US09391484B2
An actuating drive having a housing which comprises receptacles for a step-down gear mechanism and for a very small electric motor, wherein the motor receptacle is connected to a terminal cover. The very small electric motor is held securely without play. The terminal cover comprises a conductor stamping which is encapsulated with plastic material and has motor contact areas which interengage with connection lugs of the very small electric motor, and in that the baffle plate has retaining regions which interengage with housing elements on the housing.
US09391483B2
To provide a rotary electric machine including a stator iron core, a rotor including a lamination core that is arranged within the stator iron core and is constituted by laminating electromagnetic steel plates and iron core holders that cover both ends of the lamination core, a frame including a cylindrical portion that encloses the stator iron core and the rotor and a rotor-shaft supporting unit that extends in the direction of a rotor shaft and supports the rotor shaft, and cartridges that are detachably attached to the rotor-shaft supporting unit and rotatably support the rotor shaft, in which on the iron core holder and the iron core holder, recessed portions are circumferentially provided, into which end portions of jigs that are inserted through the rotor-shaft supporting unit to enable the cartridges to be detached and attached are fitted.
US09391479B2
A spoke type permanent magnet motor according to the present invention includes a stator having a stator slot radially disposed according to the center thereof and a stator core radially formed between the stator slots; a spoke type rotor, provided inside or outside the stator, having a rotor core radially disposed in the same direction as the stator slot and stator core and a permanent magnet radially disposed between the rotor core; a first fastening member, made of non-magnetic material, provided at the top and bottom of the rotor, respectively, in the height direction of the rotor; and a second fastening member, made of non-magnetic material, provided to penetrate the rotor core and first fastening member, thereby to maintain high output density and to easily implement miniaturization.
US09391476B2
Power feeding device, wireless power feeding system using the same and wireless power feeding method
An object is to provide a power feeding device, a power feeding system, and a power feeding method which are more convenient for a power feeding user at the power receiving end. The power feeding device includes a means of controlling a frequency of a power signal transmitted to a power receiver, based on a proportion of signals, among power signals output to an antenna circuit, that return from the power receiver to the antenna circuit without feeding power to the power receiver.
US09391473B2
Disclosed is a solar collection assembly for collection of incident solar energy and generation of electricity. Such assembly includes a central vertically oriented support column. A solar collection assembly includes a plurality of dual faced solar receptor assemblies, each solar receptor assembly having an upper solar receptor surface and a lower solar receptor surface. The central vertically oriented support column carries each solar collection assembly. A solar collector reflective assembly surrounds the central vertically oriented support column and is oriented to reflect incident solar energy onto the solar collection assembly.
US09391470B2
A method is provided for optimizing wireless charging of a mobile device by a wireless charger. The method comprises determining whether magnetic saturation occurred in at least one of the mobile device and the wireless charger during a first wireless transmission of power from the wireless charger to the mobile device; and, when magnetic saturation is determined to have occurred, successively reducing transmit power in the wireless charger until reaching an operating wireless transmit power, wherein neither the mobile device nor the wireless charger is in magnetic saturation at the operating wireless transmit power.
US09391467B2
In one embodiment, a battery charger can include: (i) a step-up converter configured to generate an output signal by boosting a DC input voltage, where a threshold voltage is greater than the DC input voltage; (ii) a charging control circuit configured to receive the output signal from the step-up converter, and to control charging of a battery; (iii) the charging control circuit being configured to regulate the output signal to maintain a charging current for the battery charging as a trickle current when a battery voltage is less than the threshold voltage; and (iv) the charging control circuit being configured to charge the battery directly by the output signal when the battery voltage is greater than the threshold voltage.
US09391466B2
A method, a computer-readable medium, and a system for battery-charging management are provided. The method comprises: recording a respective time that previous trickle charging was carried out by a user; determining that a time interval between a current time and the respective time for the previous trickle charging has reached a preset charging cycle; and prompting the user to carry out next trickle charging in response to determining that the time interval between the current time and the respective time for the previous trickle charging has reached the preset charging cycle. The charging cycle is managed according to recorded charging actions of a user; therefore, the user can be prompted and guided in an intuitive and clear way to carry out charging cycle management, and be prompted intelligently and regularly, so as to extend the service life of a battery.
US09391465B2
In an electrical storage device management system, a control part monitors the temperatures of electrical storage cells. In electrical storage systems that are in a charging/discharging operating state, if the temperature of any of the electrical storage cells has reached a first threshold temperature, the control part switches an electrical storage system that includes this electrical storage cell to a non-charging/discharging state. The control part also switches one of the electrical storage systems that is in the non-charging/discharging state, to the charging/discharging operating state.
US09391459B2
A mesh delivery system for controlling electricity supplied to one or more electrical devices from a power source are disclosed. Signals relating to characteristics of the electrical devices are uniformly or non-uniformly sampled at discrete intervals are provided along with associated sampling time indications via the mesh network to a destination controller. The controller applies a compacting algorithm to the received samples and the received associated time indications to generate a paired vector comprising samples and an associated compacted time indication. The paired vector representing the sampled signal in a time domain is transformed into a discrete Fourier spectrum of the signal in the frequency domain where the discrete Fourier spectrum of the signal is in a uniformly sampled in the frequency domain. A filter is applied in the frequency domain to the discrete Fourier spectrum of the signal to generate a filtered discrete spectral representation, and an inverse discrete Fourier transform of the filtered discrete spectral representation is applied to generate a recovered signal in the time domain that is uniformly sampled.
US09391457B2
A multi-input electrical power conversion device is provided for converting multiple DC energies each arising from different junctions in a multi-junction solar cells into AC energy. The device includes a plurality of electrical inputs for receiving the multiple DC energies from at least one multi junction solar cell. The number of DC energies id no less than the number of junctions in the multi-junction solar cell. The device also includes at least one DC-to-AC circuit for receiving the multiple DC energies from the plurality of electrical inputs and at least one electrical output receiving at least one AC energy from the DC to AC circuit. The device also includes at least one MPPT circuit operatively coupled to the DC to AC circuit.
US09391456B2
A current generator is disclosed. An example current generator includes a plurality of current cells connected in parallel, each current cell being connected to a switch. The current generator further includes a first summer configured to sum the output of each current cell of a first subset of the plurality of current cells and a second summer configured to sum the output of each current cell of a second subset of the plurality of current cells. The current generator also includes a combiner configured to combine the outputs of the first and second summers. Further, each switch is switchable according to a sequence to generate a summed output of the current cells at a plurality of quantization levels to generate positive and/or negative alternations of a pseudo-sinusoidal, alternating current.
US09391452B1
Devices and systems for providing reduced cost and increased reliability power line communications (PLC) and electrical power to a network device using a PLC supply unit via a single cable with 2 wires are disclosed. The PLC supply unit receives a PLC power and data signal, extracts the power signal, the data signal and generates a timing signal based on the power signal. The PLC supply converts the electrical power signal from an alternating current (AC) to a direct current (DC) electrical power signal and then recombines the DC electrical power signal with the data signal and the timing signal and sends the composite signal to the network device. The network device receives the composite signal and uses the DC electrical power signal to power the network device and, at an internal PLC processing module, processes the data signal for communication with other network devices using the timing data.
US09391448B2
A protection circuit includes a first resistive element configured for coupling to a protected circuit. The first resistive element has a particular resistance value. The protection circuit also includes a voltage regulator coupled to the first resistive element. The particular resistance value is selected to enable a magnitude of a bias current provided to the protected circuit to remain within a first operating current range associated with the protected circuit and to remain below a latchup holding current value associated with the protected circuit.
US09391444B2
Voltage instability protection for an electric power system is implemented by determining a change in power injected into a region of interest within the electric power system based on synchronized power measurements from different power injection points of the region of interest, and by determining a change in power absorbed by one or more loads in the region of interest based on synchronized power measurements from different load points of the region of interest. A change in power loss for the region of interest is determined based on the difference between the change in power injected into the region of interest and the change in power absorbed by the region of interest. A voltage instability condition is indicated when the change in power loss for the region of interest approximates the change in power injected into the region of interest.
US09391441B2
Nuisance tripping is reduced in a power protection and distribution system including an upstream circuit breaker, a power distribution bus, and one or more downstream circuit breakers. A signal indicative of a current or pending downstream circuit breaker tripping action, such as a Zone Selective Interlocking (ZSI) signal, normally used to delay tripping of the upstream breaker, is used to suppress an optical flash detection system from tripping the upstream breaker in response to an optical flash resulting from the tripping of the downstream breaker. In this way, nuisance tripping of the upstream breaker is avoided when the downstream breaker trips (and the ZSI function is preserved).
US09391434B2
Space in a conduit having at least one cable therein which is surrounded by a duct is recovered by longitudinally cutting the duct and removing the duct from around the cable. The duct may be pulled out of the conduit and past a blade to affect the cutting, or a blade may be pulled through the conduit to cut the duct while still in the conduit.
US09391423B2
The disclosure relates to method and apparatus for micro-contact printing of micro-electromechanical systems (“MEMS”) in a solvent-free environment. The disclosed embodiments enable forming a composite membrane over a parylene layer and transferring the composite structure to a receiving structure to form one or more microcavities covered by the composite membrane. The parylene film may have a thickness in the range of about 100 nm-2 microns; 100 nm-1 micron, 200-300 nm, 300-500 nm, 500 nm to 1 micron and 1-30 microns. Next, one or more secondary layers are formed over the parylene to create a composite membrane. The composite membrane may have a thickness of about 100 nm to 700 nm to several microns. The composite membrane's deflection in response to external forces can be measured to provide a contact-less detector. Conversely, the composite membrane may be actuated using an external bias to cause deflection commensurate with the applied bias. Applications of the disclosed embodiments include tunable lasers, microphones, microspeakers, remotely-activated contact-less pressure sensors and the like.
US09391422B2
A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. A short cavity laser with a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation is disclosed. Methods for obtaining polarization stable operation of the tunable source are presented.
