US09435507B2
An optical element has a light receiving surface covering a light source arranged on a plane and an exit surface covering the light receiving surface. When an axis passing through the center of the light source and is perpendicular to the plane is designated as an optical axis and the point of intersection of the optical axis and the light receiving surface is designated as O1, the light receiving surface is concaved around the optical axis with respect to the periphery. When an angle which a normal to the light receiving surface on a point P thereon forms with the optical axis is designated as φh and distance in the optical axis direction from O1 to P is designated as z, φh has at least one local maximum value and at least one local minimum value with respect to z while P is moved along the light receiving surface.
US09435501B2
An outside lighting arrangement comprises a vertical pole with upper and lower ends. A mounting member is coupled to the upper end of the pole, which mounting member has plural luminaire mounting positions located circumferentially about the pole and offset from the pole. Plural directional luminaires are provided. A mounting adaptor comprising a first portion that couples to the mounting at one of the light mounting positions, and a second portion that couples to one of the luminaires, is provided. The second portion is rotatively coupled to the first portion so as to direct light from the luminaire in the desired direction. The mounting adaptors can be used on existing selections, as well as new installations.
US09435490B2
A microfluidic valve operable to semi-permanently close a channel of a microfluidic device defined between a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) film and a substrate operates employs a surface contact bond between the TPE and a wall of the channel. Thermomechanical release of the valve, tristate functionality, and repeated semi-permanent closure and release are demonstrated.
US09435486B2
The present invention relates to a hand-held refillable gas container, which includes a metal can body for storing liquid gas, and the top and the bottom of the can body are respectively installed with a gas discharge part and a filling nozzle; wherein the gas discharge part includes a connection ring and a discharge nozzle disposed in the connection ring; and the filling nozzle is able to be connected to a discharge nozzle of a conventional canned gas, thereby allowing liquid gas to be filled and stored in the can body. Accordingly, the gas container provided by the present invention has advantages of allowing a user to easily hold and carry around for satisfying different combustion requirements and various operation environments.
US09435485B2
The invention relates to a method for dispensing a lubricant (3) in a metered manner by means of a lubricant dispenser, which comprises a lubricant cartridge (2) filled with lubricant (3), at least one electrochemical gas-generating cell (4), and on control electronics (1) for controlling the gas-generating cell (4). The control electronics (1) comprise a microcontroller (8) and a switch (9) for interrupting the current flowing through the gas-generating cell (4). At adjustable time intervals, the circuit through the gas-generating cell (4) is closed by the control electronics (1) and lubricant (3) is displaced from the cartridge (2) by the released gas. During the gas generation, the electric current flowing through the gas-generating cell (4) is measured and the charge that has flowed through the gas-generating cell (4) is added up. The circuit is interrupted when the added-up charge has exceeded a specified cumulative amount of charge.
US09435479B2
The invention relates towards a bladder tube having an open and a closed end. The closed end of the bladder tube is formed by folding a surplus portion of the bladder tube, inserting a grommet through the folded portion of the bladder tube, banding at least a portion of the surplus portion of the bladder tube, and passing at least a portion of the banding through the grommet. The banding may comprise a rope or other material that can be tied. An exhaust port may also be punched through the layers of the folded portion of the bladder tube to exhaust steam or other fluids.
US09435476B2
The tubing connector system (100) provides a removable air-tight and water-tight sealing connection under vacuum conditions between an end portion (102) of a flexible tubing (104) and a tapping hole (108) on a main conduit (106). It includes a single screw-type clamp (120) having an adjustable tension mechanism (122) and a flexible metallic band (124) cooperating with the adjustable tension mechanism (122), a tube fitting (150), and a resilient gasket (180), to be interposed between an outer surface of the main conduit (106) and the inner side face of a flange (170) provided on the tube fitting (104), to seal a space immediately surrounding a tapping-hole engaging portion (162) on the tube fitting (104) when brought into cooperative engagement with the inner periphery of tapping hole (108). The sealing attachment can be created very quickly, even by an unexperienced operator, using parts that are relatively inexpensive and simple.
US09435469B2
A mechanical coupling for joining pipe elements has segments joined end to end, each segment having a pocket of varying depth for receiving a ring gasket. The varying depth of the pocket is used to control the distortion of the ring gasket between a round shape and a non-round shape when the segments are arranged in spaced apart relation around the ring gasket, the spacing between the segments being sufficient to permit insertion of the pipe elements without disassembly of the coupling. Notches in the projections which engage the pipe elements facilitate insertion of pipe elements and provide for a compact coupling design.
US09435466B2
Tubing clamps having a minimum contact area between the tubes and the clamps supporting surfaces are provided for minimizing the collection and retaining of liquids at the supporting surfaces. A predetermined minimum spacing is maintained between the tubes supported by the tubing clamps while maintaining sufficient ventilation between the tubes and the clamps to permit drying of any liquids which contact the tubes and the clamps at the support points. This prevents electrolysis and corrosion caused by liquid retention and contact of dissimilar metals. Further, the tubing clamps are readily adapted to secure tubes of different outer diameters in a single row or multiple rows, such as in a stacked configuration. The clamps are provided with upper and lower supports, each having matching grooves that have chamfered edges forming the upper and lower tubing contact surfaces. The supports are secured together with fasteners to clamp the tubing therebetween.
US09435458B2
An electric solenoid valve, methods for operating and/or actuating the solenoid valve, valve system diagnostics, and applications for use are described. The valve may be designed to actuate in a manner so as to control liquid flow into and/or through a device, such as a spray nozzle. By altering the characteristics of the electrical signal transmitted to the solenoid valve, the instantaneous pressure across the valve and duration of fluid flow through the valve can be controlled with a single actuator. Controlled cyclic durations of flow may be implemented to regulate the exact timing of flow through the valve. Alternatively, cyclic durations may occur with a pulse-width modulation technique in which the duty cycle regulates average flow rate through the valve.
US09435445B2
A normally closed three-port valve includes a valve member urged from a supply port side toward a main valve seat of a valve body in a valve closing direction and opened by a valve opening rod having a discharge channel. A back pressure chamber at a back of the valve member communicates with a channel on an output port side through a vent hole balancing fluid pressures acting on front and back surfaces of the valve member. The valve member includes a main body, a seat member, a securing member, and a pressing frame The seat member includes an elastic discoid sealing member, main and discharge seat surfaces, and communication holes open at a region between the main and discharge seat surfaces forming the vent hole. The securing member secures the seat member to the valve member main body. The pressing frame is at the circumference of the seat member.
US09435442B2
Embodiments include tubular diaphragm valves with a preformed mechanical closure point and optionally concave or convex convolution areas located near the flanges. These mechanical closure points and convolution areas give the embodiments an extended operational life, as compared to that of conventional cylindrical diaphragms.
US09435429B2
An actuating device for an automated dual clutch transmission of a motor vehicle drivetrain in manual-shift mode includes first and second shift elements disposed in a region of a steering column, the first shift element being configured to effect an upshift and the second shift element being configured to effect a downshift of the dual clutch transmission. Simultaneous operation of the shift elements is configured to effect idle operation of an engine with at least one open transmission clutch. The idle operation is present only while the first and second shift elements are actuated. The shift elements are configured to transmit a torque via a closed transmission clutch when at least one of the shift elements is released. A control device is configured to initiate rotational speed adaptation of the engine as a function of an actuation of the first and second shift elements.
US09435425B2
An automotive transmission that selects a shift position based on various shift patterns without changing the structure of the automotive transmission. The automotive transmission includes a controller configured to input a selection value based on a shift pattern selected from a plurality of shift patterns and operate a shift lever to move through a moving path based on the selected shift pattern when a shift intention is sensed. When the selection value is input, the shift position is set at an initial position based on the selected shift pattern and actuation power is generating according to the movement of the shift lever. The controller is configured to operate the moving path of the shift pattern based on the selected shift pattern and sense a position of the shift lever using a positing sensing unit.
US09435420B2
A yoke clearance compensator of a vehicle may include: a support yoke for supporting a rack bar; a yoke plug coupled to the support yoke through an elastic part and having a cavity formed therein; a pressurizing unit installed in the cavity of the yoke plug and providing a pressurizing force to the support yoke; and an end plug for fixing the pressurizing unit to the yoke plug.
US09435417B1
An automatic torque compensating drive system for a hydrostatic transmission, having a torque compensating control mechanism adjusting the swash plate of the hydraulic motor, the swash plate being spring biased to a low-torque, high-speed position and rotatable through a range of positions to a high-torque, low-speed position in response to increasing hydraulic system pressure. When used with a pair of transmissions, a linkage may join the control mechanisms of each transmission to synchronize their torque adjustments.
US09435414B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft, an output shaft, three planetary gear sets, three transfer gears, and six friction elements. Each of the three planetary gear sets may include three rotation elements, constituting nine rotational elements. The rotational elements may be connected or selectively connected to the input shaft, a transmission housing or each other by an external gear or by the six friction elements. The three transfer gears may be applied to the external gear.
US09435408B2
A tensioner, for a camshaft-camshaft chain drive with a drive chain and camshaft bearing bridge for fastening camshaft bearings to an engine block, comprises a tensioner housing with a guiding-side guide shoe, a tensioning piston slidably guided in a piston bore of the tensioner housing and provided with a tensioning-side tensioning shoe, and a fastening flange projecting laterally from the tensioner housing and having a mounting surface facing the tensioning side. A mounting plane defined by the mounting surface of the fastening flange intersects the tensioner housing at an axial distance from the guiding surface of the guide shoe at most 40% of axial transport length of the tensioner between the guiding surface of the guide shoe and the tensioning surface of the tensioning shoe. The camshaft bearing bridge has a contact surface for the fastening flange, to be in contact with the mounting surface of the fastening flange. A camshaft-camshaft chain drive for an internal combustion engine comprising such a tensioner is provided, where the camshaft bearing bridge can be attached to an engine block component.
US09435406B2
A multi-stage transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft, an output shaft, first, second, third and fourth planetary gear devices disposed between the input shaft and the output shaft to transmit rotary force, each of the first, second, third and fourth planetary gear devices having three rotary elements, and at least six shifting elements connected to the rotary elements of the planetary gear devices.
US09435405B2
The present disclosure provides an automatic transmission having an input adapted to couple to a torque-generating mechanism and an output coupled to the input. The transmission also includes a first rotating torque-transferring mechanism disposed along a first torque path and coupled to the input. A second rotating torque-transferring mechanism is disposed along a second torque path and is coupled to the input independent of the first torque-transferring mechanism. The transmission includes a plurality of stationary torque-transferring mechanisms, each of which is disposed between the input and output. The transmission includes a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset, where each gearset includes a sun gear, a ring gear, and a carrier assembly. Moreover, the carrier assembly of the third planetary gearset is coupled to the output and the sun gear of the fourth planetary gearset.
US09435402B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft receiving torque, an output shaft disposed in parallel with and apart from the input shaft, a planetary gear set including a first sun gear, a second sun gear, a common planet, and a common ring gear engaged, a first rotation shaft directly connected to the first sun gear and selectively connected to the input shaft, a second rotation shaft directly connected to the common planet carrier and directly connected to the output shaft, a third rotation shaft directly connected to the common ring gear and selectively connected to the input shaft or to a transmission housing, and a fourth rotation shaft directly connected to the second sun gear and selectively connected to the input shaft through first and second paths or to the transmission housing.
US09435387B2
Device and apparatus for controlling the operating mode of a coupling assembly, coupling and control assembly and electric motor disconnect and pass through assemblies are provided. The device is a switchable linear actuator device to control the operating mode of a coupling assembly. A plurality of magnetic sources produce corresponding magnetic fields to create a net translational force. A stator structure includes at least one electromagnetic source and a translator structure includes a permanent magnet source magnetically coupled to the stator structure across a radial air gap. The translator structure is supported for translational movement relative to the stator structure along an axis between first and second stable axial end positions which correspond to first and second operating modes of the coupling assembly and an unstable axial equilibrium position between the end positions. The translator structure translates along the axis between the different positions upon experiencing the net translational force.
US09435381B2
A metallic sleeve (20) may be pressed with relatively low axial forces onto a softer metallic shaft (12) to produce a permanent interference fit between the sleeve and the shaft even if subject to high torque loads. For this purpose, the sleeve incorporates a plurality of successively reduced diameter, axially spaced, arrays (52, 54, 56) of splines (50) within its interior, with a series of spaced circumferentially extending grooves (30, 32, 34) situated between the arrays. The arrays of splines define angled frontal cutting edges (60, 62, 64) adapted to cut into the metal shaft for rigid securement of sleeve to shaft. The spaced grooves are adapted to collect chip debris (36, 38, 40) during installation of the sleeve to the shaft, each groove providing a volumetric space to provide for the uniform distribution of chip debris within the interface of sleeve and shaft.
US09435372B2
A curvature radius of a large rib end face of an inner ring is set to a value larger than a distance R, and a curvature radius of a large end face of a tapered roller is set to a range of 80 to 100% relative to the distance R, where R represents a distance from a cone center of the tapered roller to a predetermined reference point that is separated from the cone center along an inner ring raceway surface. A center of a contact ellipse that is formed by contact between the large end face of the tapered roller and the large rib end face of the inner ring is located on an imaginary straight line passing through a center of curvature of the large end face of the tapered roller and a center of curvature of the large rib end face of the inner ring.
US09435364B2
A telescopic supporting device is provided, which includes a plurality of hollow kits and a plurality of stoppers. Each of the plurality of hollow kits has the same outline but different size. The plurality of first grooves are provided on the outer wall. The plurality of second grooves are provided on the inner wall. Each of the plurality of first grooves and each of the plurality of second grooves are adjacent to each other and are alternatively configured on each of the plurality of hollow kits. Each of the plurality of first grooves of each of the plurality of hollow kits of inner side is correspondingly combined with each adjacent one of the plurality of second grooves of each of the plurality of hollow kits of outer side to form a plurality of stopper containing parts.
US09435362B2
A fastener has a head with an exterior end surface and a compression ledge. A projection extends from the compression ledge and a contact shoulder is formed at an intersection of the projection and the compression ledge. The shoulder has a thickness measured axially from the compression ledge and extends radially outward from the projection to the intersection of the shoulder and the compression ledge. A compressible sealing component encapsulates the exterior end surface of the head and partially overlaps an area entirely around the compression ledge. The compressible sealing component at the area of the compression ledge has an uncompressed axial thickness greater than the shoulder thickness measured from the compression ledge. A rotation preventer is formed on the projection and is configured to allow axial movement of the projection into a hole and to restrict rotation of the fastener when the projection extends into the hole.
US09435356B1
The present invention provides a hydraulic pressure accumulator having a pressure vessel and a piston chamber that is located within the interior space of the pressure vessel. In one particular embodiment, the invention relates to filament wound composite overwrapped hydraulic pressure accumulators with serviceable pistons.
US09435354B2
Exchanger devices include a plurality of fixed exchange ducts and a rotating valve assembly for directing flow to and from the plurality of exchange ducts. Methods of exchanging pressure between fluid streams may include directing fluids through an exchange device and pressurizing a fluid in the plurality of exchange ducts of the exchanger device.
US09435351B2
A fan module, applied to a server including a first joint portion, includes a fan body, a first metal casing, a second metal casing and a plastic handle. The fan body includes an outlet surface, an inlet surface opposite to the outer surface, a first lateral surface and a second lateral surface. The first and second lateral surfaces are located between the outlet surface and the inlet surface. The first metal casing includes an air-through wall located on the outlet surface or the inlet surface, a first lateral wall connected to the air-through wall and mounted on the first lateral surface, and a metal handle connected to the first lateral wall. The second metal casing includes a second lateral wall mounted on the second lateral surface. The plastic handle, mounted on the second lateral wall, includes a second joint portion, for being engaged with the first joint portion.
US09435348B2
A fan structure includes an upper cover, a fan frame body, a bearing cup, a bearing, a stator assembly, a hub and a shaft rod. The upper cover is mated with the fan frame body to together define a receiving space in which the bearing cup is disposed. The bearing cup has an open end and a closed end. The bearing is disposed in the bearing cup. The stator assembly is fitted around the bearing cup. The hub has multiple outward extending blades spaced from the upper cover by a first distance. The shaft rod has a connection end connected with the hub and a protruding end passing through the shaft hole and protruding from the bearing to abut against the closed end of the bearing cup and define a second distance. The first distance is smaller than the second distance to avoid deflection of the shaft rod.
US09435346B2
In a compressor housing, a scroll piece includes a cylindrical intake port forming section, a scroll wall surface forming section that forms an air-intake side wall surface of a discharge scroll chamber, and a scroll outer circumferential section that covers an outer circumferential side of the discharge scroll chamber. A shroud piece of the housing includes a cylindrical shroud press fitted section press fitted into the intake port forming section, and a shroud wall surface forming section that forms an inner circumferential side wall surface of the discharge scroll chamber and also forms a shroud surface that opposes an impeller and a diffuser surface. An outer circumferential annular piece of the housing includes an outer circumferential annular press fitted section press fitted inside the scroll outer circumferential section, and an outer circumferential annular wall surface forming section that forms an outer circumferential side wall surface of the discharge scroll chamber.
US09435338B2
Vane pump mechanical losses are reduced by removing vane friction losses and replacing them with lower magnitude journal bearing fluid film viscous drag losses. A freely rotating cam ring is supported by a journal bearing. A relatively low sliding velocity is imposed between the cam ring and the vanes). This permits the use of less expensive and less brittle materials in the pump by allowing the pump to operate at much higher speeds without concern for exceeding vane tip velocity limits.
US09435327B2
A shoe 5 includes a spherical portion 5A in sliding contact with a sliding surface 4a that is a hemispherical concave portion of a piston 4, an end surface portion 5B in sliding contact with a swash plate 3, and a circular cylindrical portion 5C formed between the spherical portion 5A and the end surface portion 5B. Linear oil grooves 5F are formed in the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion 5C.
US09435309B2
In an electronically operated fuel control valve for a diesel engine, a poppet valve with a stem having a guide surface length portion in a guide bore exposed to a large axial fuel pressure gradient during a fuel injection event, the radial space between the guide surface length portion and the bore being different proximal to a head of the poppet valve than the radial space between such elements distal from the head.
US09435308B2
It is an object of the present invention to reduce the penetration of a fuel spray directed toward a certain area in a cylinder, thereby reducing oil dilution that increases sliding resistance in the engine, reducing fuel adhesion or the like onto the cylinder liner, and also reducing the adverse effect of a fuel spray having an increased penetration.A fuel injection valve that has a plurality of injection holes and injects fuel into a cylinder 3 of an internal combustion engine includes: injection holes a2 and a6 having a larger diameter for injecting fuel toward a ring-shaped space T1 including areas A2 and A6 of strong tumble flow T formed in the cylinder; and injection holes a1, a4, a3 and a5 having a smaller diameter for injecting fuel toward a space including areas A1, A4, A3 and A5 of weak tumble flow formed in the cylinder 3. A fuel spray from an injection hole having the larger diameter has a penetration force to the tumble flow larger than the penetration force of a fuel spray from an injection hole having the smaller diameter.
US09435307B2
This invention relates to a deposit remove amount estimation device for estimating inlet and outlet deposit remove amounts by calculating an inlet deposit remove amount which is an amount of a removed combustion product among the combustion product accumulating on an injection hole inlet area and an outlet deposit remove amount which is an amount of a removed combustion product among the combustion product accumulating on an injection hole outlet area. In this invention, the inlet deposit remove amount is calculated on the basis of the inlet deposit accumulation amount which is an amount of the combustion product accumulating on the injection hole inlet area and the outlet deposit remove amount is calculated on the basis of the outlet deposit accumulation amount which is an amount of the combustion product accumulating on the injection hole outlet area.
US09435277B2
The present application provides a calibration device for calibrating a crank angle of a calibrateable combustion engine, the calibrateable combustion engine and a method for calibrating. The calibration device is provided to determine a trigger wheel angle offset from a combustionless driving of the combustion engine in that an in-cylinder pressure profile is recorded, on the basis of which a trigger wheel angle offset is determined and stored at an offset memory of the combustion engine. The combustion engine is configured to determine a crank angle on the basis of a measured trigger wheel angle and the stored trigger wheel angle offset.
US09435274B2
A system according to the present disclosure includes a model predictive control (MPC) module, an actuator module, and a remedial action module. The MPC module performs MPC tasks that include predicting operating parameters for a set of possible target values and determining a cost for the set of possible target values based on the predicted operating parameters. The MPC tasks also include selecting the set of possible target values from multiple sets of possible target values based on the cost and setting target values to the possible target values of the selected set. The actuator module controls an actuator of an engine based on at least one of the target values. The remedial action module selectively takes a remedial action based on at least one of an amount of time that elapses as the MPC tasks are performed and a number of iterations of the MPC tasks that are performed.
US09435273B2
A fuel selector for use with a dual fuel generator includes a selector plate, a first fuel valve assembly positioned adjacent the selector plate and actuatable between an ON position and an OFF position to selectively control a first fuel flow to an engine of the dual fuel generator, and a second fuel valve assembly positioned adjacent the selector plate and actuatable between an ON position and an OFF position to selectively control a second fuel flow to the engine of the dual fuel generator. A selector switch coupled to the selector plate is linearly translatable from a first position to a second position, so as to enable positioning of only one of the first fuel valve assembly and the second fuel valve assembly in the ON position at a given time, such that the first and second fuel valve assemblies cannot be in the ON position concurrently.
US09435264B2
A thermal stress reduction method includes ramping an electric power generator to start an aircraft engine, for a time period associated with the aircraft engine start sequence toggling a three-level inverter switch array to a three-level pulse width modulation mode, determining if a first time interval in the three-level pulse width modulation mode exceeded a predetermined three-level pulse width modulation mode interval, in response to the first time interval exceeding the three-level pulse width modulation mode interval, toggling the three-level inverter switch array to a two-level pulse width modulation mode, determining if a second time interval in the two-level pulse width modulation mode exceeded a predetermined two-level pulse width modulation mode interval and in response to the second time interval exceeding the two-level pulse width modulation mode interval, toggling the three-level inverter switch array to the three-level pulse width modulation mode.
US09435251B2
Methods and systems are provided for estimating water storage in a charge air cooler (CAC). In one example, an amount of water in charge air exiting the CAC may be based on an output of an oxygen sensor positioned downstream of the CAC. Further, engine actuators may be adjusted to increase combustion stability and/or reduce condensate formation based on the amount of water exiting the CAC.
US09435241B2
An object of the invention is to satisfactorily remove solid materials derived from reducing agent and depositing on a wall of an exhaust passage in an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine equipped with a selective reduction catalyst provided in the exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine and a reducing agent supply apparatus that supplies reducing agent derived from ammonia into the exhaust passage upstream of the selective reduction catalyst. To achieve the object, according to the invention, a fuel supply apparatus that supplies fuel into the exhaust passage upstream of the reducing agent supply apparatus and an ignition apparatus that ignites fuel supplied by the fuel supply apparatus to generate flame are provided. Solid materials derived from the reducing agent are removed by the flame generated by the fuel supply apparatus and the ignition apparatus.
US09435240B2
An aftertreatment system may include an exhaust pipe and a mixing pipe. The exhaust pipe receives exhaust gas from an engine. The mixing pipe is disposed in the exhaust pipe and may include a tubular portion and a plurality of blades extending from a longitudinal end of the tubular portion. The tubular portion may include a plurality of openings extending through inner and outer diametrical surfaces of the tubular portion. The tubular portion and the plurality of blades may define an integrally formed unitary body.
US09435235B2
An engine oil supply system for a motor vehicle and a method of controlling an engine oil supply system of a motor vehicle is disclosed in which, particularly during an engine overrun period or an engine shut-down, kinetic energy from the slowing engine is used to drive an oil pump so as to store oil in an oil accumulator for later use by one or more engine components without the engine using fuel. The stored oil allows a downsized oil pump to be used thereby saving fuel by providing a supply of oil in addition to or as an alternative to the oil supplied from the oil pump.
US09435226B2
A gas turbine includes ring segments and isolation rings that surround a channel for high-temperature gas W from an outer peripheral side, blade rings formed in an annular shape on the outer peripheral side of the ring segments and the isolation rings, and supporting members fitted into fitting concave portions recessed from the end faces of the blade rings in the direction of the axis and supporting the ring segments and the isolation rings. An inner wall surface of the fitting concave portion has a first inclined surface that inclines so as to narrow gradually from an opening edge of the fitting concave portion toward the inside of the blade ring in the direction of the axis, and the supporting member has a second inclined surface that inclines so as to correspond to the first inclined surface.
US09435214B2
A device for setting a turbomachine propeller blade is provided. The setting device includes a first disc and a second disc respectively provided with first and second coupling devices, the first and second discs being coaxial; and a system for tilting at least one of the first and second discs with respect to the other. During a tilting of at least one of the first and second discs with respect to the other, the coupling distance of the at least one blade on the first and second discs remains constant, bringing about the rotation of the at least one blade.
US09435212B2
A turbine airfoil usable in a turbine engine and having at least one snubber with a snubber cooling system positioned therein and in communication with an airfoil cooling system is disclosed. The snubber may extend from the outer housing of the airfoil toward an adjacent turbine airfoil positioned within a row of airfoils. The snubber cooling system may include an inner cooling channel separated from an outer cooling channel by an inner wall. The inner wall may include a plurality of impingement cooling orifices that direct impingement fluid against an outer wall defining the outer cooling channel. In one embodiment, the cooling fluids may be exhausted from the snubber, and in another embodiment, the cooling fluids may be returned to the airfoil cooling system. Flow guides may be positioned in the outer cooling channel, which may reduce cross-flow by the impingement orifices, thereby increasing effectiveness.
US09435211B2
A method of manufacturing a component includes additively manufacturing a crucible; directionally solidifying a metal material within the crucible; and removing the crucible to reveal the component. A component for a gas turbine engine includes a directionally solidified metal material component, the directionally solidified metal material component having been additively manufactured of a metal material concurrently with a core, the metal material having been remelted and directionally solidified.
US09435209B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system having a turbomachine blade segment including a blade and a mounting segment coupled to the blade, wherein the mounting segment has a plurality of reinforcement pins laterally extending at least partially through a neck of the mounting segment.
US09435204B2
An engine includes a housing having a single wall, where the wall has a rib and a flange, and the wall provides a primary structure and cooling for the engine. A closeout is attached to an outer surface of the wall, and the closeout and the wall form a cavity. The closeout provides a secondary structure for containing a coolant fluid flow within the cavity. The closeout may be corrugated, and the ribs may be exposed to the cavity.
US09435202B2
A compressed fluid motor comprising at least one solenoid valve, motor timing sensor, and controller for operating the motor.
US09435201B2
Systems and methods for operating a mining machine. One system includes a controller, a stationary object, and a radar device. The radar device transmits radio waves toward the stationary object and detects reflections of the radio waves. The controller obtains timing information regarding the radio waves and the reflections. Based on the timing information, the controller is configured to determine a first distance between the radar device and the stationary object before sumping the mining machine into material and a second distance between the radar device and the stationary object after sumping the mining machine into the material. The controller is also configured to determine a sump depth of the mining machine based on the first distance and the second distance, compare the determined sump depth to a predetermined sump depth, and perform at least one automatic action when the determined sump depth does not satisfy the predetermined sump depth.
US09435200B2
Variable volume systems and methods of use thereof described herein are capable of making calibrated determinations of fluid properties and phase behavior of a fluid sample. The determinations can be calibrated based on one or more calibration functions, such as system volume corrected for pressure and temperature variations. Cross-checking the results of measurements can be used to determine accuracy of the calibration or monitor for leaks or other anomalies of the variable volume systems. The variable volume systems can be implemented in a well logging tool and are capable of being calibrated downhole.
US09435197B2
A distributed borehole system includes a surface-based assembly located on a surface of a body of water and a marinized assembly located on a floor of the body of water adjacent to a borehole in an earth formation. The system includes a borehole interrogator including a transmitter configured to generate a signal and to transmit the signal into the borehole and a receiver configured to receive a reflected signal from the borehole based on the signal transmitted by the transmitter. The system further includes a processor configured to process the reflected signal to generate data representing characteristics of one of the borehole system, the borehole, and an earth formation defining the borehole. The processor is located in the surface-based assembly, the receiver is located in the marinized assembly, and the transmitter is located in at least one of the surface-based assembly and the marinized assembly.
US09435194B2
A method includes measuring electrical conductivity of a treatment fluid with one or more sensors at various instants of time. The method is further performed by generating one or more signals indicative of the electrical conductivity of the treatment fluid and transmitting the one or more signals to a computer system. The method is further performed by analyzing the one or more signals to determine a phase change in the treatment fluid based upon a positive or negative change in the electrical conductivity of the treatment fluid from a predetermined electrical conductivity range.
US09435192B2
An electrochemical sensor of a downhole tool positionable in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation is provided. The downhole tool has a flowline to receive downhole fluid. The electrochemical sensor includes a bulkhead carried by the downhole tool, a membrane exposed to the downhole fluid in the flowline, and an electrochemical cell supported by the bulkhead about the membrane. The electrochemical cell includes a plurality of cell sensors, at least one cell electrode, and a sensing solution. The plurality cell sensors include an analyte sensor, a temperature sensor, and a pH sensor. The sensing solution is reactive to certain analytes in the downhole fluid to generate electrical signals measurable by the plurality of cell sensors whereby parameters of chemicals in the downhole fluid may be measured.
US09435189B2
A method of monitoring a plurality of properties relating to a hydrocarbon fluid flow through a pipeline at a tree for a subsea hydrocarbon extraction facility, the method comprising locating a plurality of sensors at or near a position which is optimum for monitoring the at least one of the plurality of properties in regard to the configuration of the pipeline, the sensors being configured to monitor at least one of the plurality of properties.
US09435187B2
A method for estimating drilling parameters for drilling a borehole in the earth includes: drilling the borehole with a drill string having a mud motor and a drill bit; constructing a mathematical model of a system including the drill string, the mud motor, and a borehole geometry; calculating a mud motor lateral excitation force imposed on the drill string by the mud motor for one or more combinations of drill string rotational speed and mud motor rotational speed; calculating lateral motion of the drill string and a force imposed on the drill string at positions along the drill string for the one or more of combinations using the model and the excitation force; selecting a range of combinations of drill string rotational speed and mud motor rotational speed that result in the force imposed upon the drill string being less than a threshold value; and displaying the range of combinations.
US09435183B2
A steam environmentally generated drainage system and method for producing hydrocarbons from a formation using in situ steam generation and gravity drainage. The system and method includes a first well as a circulation and production well, a second well as a circulation, injection and combustion well, and a third well as an injection well. The second well is configurable to have a fuel tubing, a gas tubing, and an igniter. The third tubing injects a vaporizable fluid into the formation so as to be vaporized by combustion gases created by the in situ combustion in the second well. Hydrocarbon fluids are produced from the first well and lifted to the surface for process. The third well can be configured to also produce combustion gases so as to control a gas chamber pressure of a gas chamber created by the rising combustion gases.
US09435177B2
An apparatus for use in providing an intervention workover control system for an underwater well, comprising a first structure for connecting to a hydraulic flying lead, a first support for supporting at least one electrical flying lead, a second support for supporting the hydraulic flying lead, a second structure, a third structure, and a third support for supporting the at least one electrical flying lead, the second and third structures can be connected to respective ones of opposite sides of the first structure. The structures are configured to provide an intervention workover control system of a first configuration, wherein the first structure is usable with the second and third structures connected to the first structure, and to provide an intervention workover control system of a second configuration, wherein the first structure is usable without the second and third structures connected to the first structure.
US09435171B1
A remediation packer assembly including an inlet pipe defining a plurality of radially-oriented inlets and attached at opposing ends to stinger pipes with wrap sleeves positioned thereon. The assembly may be inserted into a monitoring pipe and inserted into a substrate, for example a well, for the collection of free product in a fluid or unsaturated environment. For example, the remediation assembly is inserted into the well until the collection zone as defined by the wrap sleeves is in planar orientation with the free product, and in the case of vacuum remediation, the free product is removed from the fluid column and brought to the surface where it may be processed and removed. A method of remediating the substrate is also provided.
US09435163B2
A system and method for removing liquid from a horizontal wellbore is disclosed. The system and methods utilize multi-conduit tubing associated with one or more liquid intake port(s) positioned at selected locations along the tubing and positioned within a wellbore. The one or more liquid intake ports are typically placed at liquid accumulation points along the primarily horizontal section of the wellbore.
US09435162B2
A method for maintaining pressure in a wellbore during drilling operations is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing fluid from a reservoir through a drill string, circulating the fluid from the drill string to an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore, isolating pressure in the annulus, measuring pressure in the annulus, calculating a set point backpressure, applying back pressure to the annulus based on the set point back pressure, diverting fluid from the annulus to a controllable choke, controllably bleeding pressurized fluid from the annulus, separating solids from the fluid, and directing the fluid to the reservoir. An apparatus for maintaining pressure in a wellbore during drilling operations that includes an adjustable choke for controllably bleeding off pressurized fluid from the wellbore annulus. A backpressure pump for applying a set point backpressure, and a processor for controlling the adjustable choke and backpressure pump are also disclosed.
US09435148B2
A latch bolt mechanism for tilting window sashes includes an actuating spring that is integrally molded of plastic material in one piece with the latch bolt. The spring has a transversely corrugated configuration, comprised of at least two transversely disposed wave-like spring sections. Each spring section includes a pair of oppositely oriented U-shaped sections having spaced apart semi-cylindrical portions at opposite sides joined by transverse connecting sections. In a relaxed configuration of the spring, the several connecting sections are substantially parallel to each other and are longitudinally spaced apart. In a compressed configuration of the spring the connecting elements lie at an angle to each other and the several semi-cylindrical portions are closely spaced or in contact providing for the required spring compression without excessively stressing the plastic material. Significant production economies are realized with the one-piece, molded construction of the latch bolt and spring.
US09435144B2
Locking devices that may be used with product display hooks, cabinets, and drawers are provided. A locking device according to one implementation comprising a housing and a shell. The housing includes an outer wall that defines an interior. The housing further includes a channel extending at least partially through the interior of the housing. The shell includes a projection. The shell is at least partially disposed within the interior of the housing and is moveable in a longitudinal direction within the interior of the housing. In an unlocked position, the projection is biased away from the first channel. In a locked position, the projection is maintained in the first channel.
US09435140B2
A locking device includes a lock and a key. The lock includes a housing, a cylindrical core inserted into and rotatable relative to the housing, and a tumbler unit that is mounted between the housing and the cylindrical core to permit or prevent the relative rotation between the housing and the cylindrical core and that has a first pin extending into a helical keyway formed in the cylindrical core. The key has a helical blade capable of being inserted into the helical keyway to access the first pin, so as to switch the tumbler unit to permit the relative rotation between the cylindrical core and the housing.
US09435139B2
A lock mechanism includes a driving arm having an arm portion and a fixing portion and a lock rod having first and second ends and a pivot portion. The pivot portion is pivoted to one of a cover and a casing. The fixing portion is disposed on the one of the cover and the casing so as to make a free end of the arm portion interfere with an interference portion of the lock rod. The arm portion swings to a first position or a second position when receiving force. When the first end or the second end is pressed, the interference portion drives the free end to make the arm portion swing to the first or second position, so as to make the lock rod move to a locking position for fixing the cover on the casing or a releasing position for releasing the cover from the casing.
US09435133B2
A shooter shelter includes a mat, and a tent portion integrally connected to the mat.
US09435127B2
A construction profile (1) with a polygonal cross-section and edge portions provided with slots formed between adjacent polygon faces (7) and extending in an inclined direction relative thereto, a construction profile kit with said construction profile and joint profiles, and an fixing system for ventilated claddings with a supporting frame of construction profiles (1). The fixing system further comprises a supporting element (21) for supporting a frame profile (1) to a facade (87) and a holding plate (26) for holding facade plates (83), the elements (21, 26) being formed so as to be slid longitudinally or plugged circumferentially into the slots (5) of the construction profile (1).
US09435124B2
The present invention provides exterior building products, such as roofing and siding, shake, shingles, siding, sheathing, panels, planks, vertical siding, soffit panels, fencing, decking, fascia, corner posts, column corners and trim boards in which a plurality of cementitious layers are provided with an improved interlaminar bond by employing a resinous bond promoter, a rheological agent, mechanical means to distribute fibers in a direction which is perpendicular to the machine direction so as to bridge between layers in the product, or a combination thereof. These techniques help to increase interlaminar bond strength to improve the mechanical properties of the product. When certain resinous bond promoters are used, the additional benefits of water absorption resistance and pigmentation throughout the product can be provided with minimal expense. Improvements in interlaminar bond strength of about 10 46% were observed with a percent elongation improvement of about 7%.
US09435117B2
A slab comprising: a top traffic plate designed to form a floor element allowing the circulation of persons and to allow light to pass through; a translucent bottom plate forming a thermal barrier; an intumescent layer designed to increase in volume from a predefined temperature, arranged between the top and bottom plates, and to allow light to pass through; and an expansion space between the top and bottom plates, the expansion space being designed to allow expansion of the intumescent layer.
US09435116B2
A cover for closing an access opening that leads to an infrequently used space within a building, such as an attic, that generally provides an air seal, thermal insulation and/or acoustic insulation at the access opening. The cover may be in one or two portions, including a closure alone or a closure and a frame having an aperture that can be closed by engagement between the closure and the frame. When the cover is used alone it engages a frame or a wall circumscribing the access opening. The cover is sized and shaped to close a stairwell, or the opening at one end of a stairway, an opening in a generally vertical wall, a hatch, or a pull down ladder. The closure and frame are each made of one or more components.
US09435113B2
A support structure may have a base having surfaces including a top, a bottom, a front, a rear and sides. A first top slot may be formed in the top and may extend at least partially between the front and the rear. A second top slot may be formed in the top and may extend at least partially between the sides. In addition, a bottom slot may be formed in the bottom. A system for attic storage can include an attic having attic joists. A plurality of support structures, each comprising a base, may be mounted to the attic joists. At least two conventional lumber studs may be included and may extend between adjacent ones of the bases. In addition, a plurality of lumber panels may be mounted to at least one of the bases and the lumber studs.
US09435105B2
The present disclosure provides a method of controlling a work implement of a machine. The machine includes a controller for controlling the implement, a sensor, a hydraulic pump for producing a fluid pressure, and a valve disposed in communication with the pump. The method includes selectively operating the machine according to a first operating mode, wherein in the first operating mode the hydraulic pump is operably controlled to produce a fluid pressure between a first pressure and a second pressure, the second pressure being greater than the first pressure. The method also includes sending a signal to the controller, the signal corresponding to a request for a fluid pressure greater than the second pressure. The method further includes transitioning from the first operating mode to a second operating mode and increasing the fluid pressure from the second pressure to a third pressure during the transition.
US09435101B2
On a dozer, a semi-automatic system automatically translates a joystick to control blade elevation and provides an indicator display to guide manual control of blade slope angle. A mechanical linkage operably couples the joystick to an electrical motor. A computational system receives measurements from measurement units mounted on the dozer; calculates estimated values of elevation and slope angle; compares the estimated values to reference values; and calculates error and control signals. Drivers generate a motor drive signal and a display drive signal. In response to the motor drive signal, the electrical motor translates the joystick to control elevation. In response to the display drive signal, the indicator display generates a graphical representation of the status of slope angle. When the operator needs to take manual control, a proximity sensor detects the presence of at least a portion of the operator's hand, wrist, or forearm and disengages automatic control of elevation.
US09435099B2
A subgrade vault system with a locking lid assembly is provided. Specifically, a subgrade vault suitable for housing utility and similar equipment is provided, the vault comprising a main body portion, a cap, and a lid that may be selectively secured with one or more rotatable locking mechanisms to prevent or deter unauthorized access to vault contents.
US09435098B1
A floating manhole cover system to be installed on a manhole shaft and a road base. The system comprising a precast ring having an inner diameter sized to align with the inner diameter of the manhole shaft; an outer diameter being larger than the outer diameter of the manhole shaft; a top surface to engage with the road top finish (asphalt or concrete); a bottom surface to engage with the road base through cast in place concrete and to allow the precast-ring to move with a heave action of the road base and road. The system further having a manhole cover receiving means casted in to receive a manhole cover, and a leveling means casted in to engage with the manhole shaft to level said precast-ring with the road.
US09435097B2
An assembly method and resulting temporary foundation mat for equipment such as a crane, including the steps of driving a fastener through plastic either with a hydraulic force or pneumatic (air), mechanical, or by any other power assisted means, shown through experimentation to result in the plastic surrounding the bolt within itself, tightly giving added strength to the system. The fastener can have a head at the driven end and a threaded end at the lead end. When a threaded end exists exterior to the joined pieces of plank, the plastic around the threaded end can be power-wire brushed to expose the threads to a nut which then tightens the system. The penetration rate of the fastener into and through the plastic pieces can be increased by pre-heating the lead end of the fastener.
US09435082B2
An elongate rail pad (20) for providing continuous support of a rail has a top face (201) and a bottom face (201), wherein the top face (201) is formed with a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal grooves (201). A longitudinal seal (23) against water and dirt is provided on the top face (201) at each lateral end (204). The seal (23) comprises, when considered from the lateral end, a successive arrangement of a first longitudinal lip (231), a first longitudinal channel (233), a second longitudinal lip (232), and a second longitudinal channel (234), in that order, wherein the first lip (231) projects above the top face (201), and the first and second channels (233,234) have a cross sectional size large enough to allow, in use, water that oozes in to flow throughout the channel, and the thickness (T2) of the second lip (232) is smaller than the spacing (W) between the second channel (234) and an adjacent first groove.
US09435081B2
Fibrous structures that exhibit a cross machine direction total energy absorption (CDTEA) of greater than 8 cm-g/cm2 as measured according to the TEA Test Method.
US09435072B1
An apparel fastener assembly includes an article of apparel that may be worn on a user. A gun may engage the article of apparel. A fastener cartridge is removably coupled to the gun. A lock cartridge is removably coupled to the gun. A plurality of fasteners is positioned within the fastener cartridge so the gun may selectively dispense one of the fasteners. A plurality of locks is positioned within the lock cartridge so the fastener may engage a selected one of the locks.
US09435069B2
An appliance for drying laundry (100) includes a drying-air moisture-condensing system comprising a heat pump system (215,220,225) with a variable-output compressor (210) having a compression mechanism and an electric motor for driving the compression mechanism. A controller (265) is provided to vary the rotational speed of the electric motor so as to adjust the rotational speed of the compression mechanism in order to maintain constant a power absorbed by the compressor during at least a portion of a drying cycle.
US09435068B2
The laundry treating apparatus includes a door to open and close the introduction port about a first rotational or a second rotational axis which is different from first rotational axis. A first switching unit is provided in the door to allow rotation of door about the first rotational axis, and a second switching unit is provided in the door to allow rotation of the door about the second rotational axis. A lock fixes a position of at least one of the first switching unit or second switching unit when the door opens the introduction port. As can be appreciated, the mechanism used for the laundry apparatus may be applicable to other home appliances or non-home appliances where two different rotational axes may be needed to open and close a door.
US09435067B2
A wall-mounted washing machine includes a main body configured to be detachably mounted on a wall, a recess along a peripheral rear surface of the main body and configured to face the wall, and a removable seal in the recess and having a free end configured to contact the wall and block water from outside the washing machine from entering the main body.
US09435064B2
A drying machine has a cabinet, a drying drum disposed at an inside the cabinet to accommodate a laundry, and configured to rotate by receiving rotating force from a driving source, and at least one lifter provided at an inner circumferential surface of the drying drum, and configured to have the laundry move at an inside the drying drum. the at least one lifter includes at least one coupling boss part configured to be coupled to the drying drum, and at least one guide rib protrudedly provided to pass through the drying drum so as to temporarily couple the at least one lifter to the drying drum, so that the adhesiveness is increased at the time of assembling the at least one lifter to the drying drum, thereby preventing the vibration and water leakage during rotation of the drying drum.
US09435049B2
Prior to electrodeposition, a semiconductor wafer having one or more recessed features, such as through silicon vias (TSVs), is pretreated by contacting the wafer with a pre-wetting liquid comprising a buffer (such as a borate buffer) and having a pH of between about 7 and about 13. This pre-treatment is particularly useful for wafers having acid-sensitive nickel-containing seed layers, such as NiB and NiP. The pre-wetting liquid is preferably degassed prior to contact with the wafer substrate. The pretreatment is preferably performed under subatmospheric pressure to prevent bubble formation within the recessed features. After the wafer is pretreated, a metal, such as copper, is electrodeposited from an acidic electroplating solution to fill the recessed features on the wafer. The described pretreatment minimizes corrosion of seed layer during electroplating and reduces plating defects.
US09435048B2
The present disclosure relates to an electro-chemical plating (ECP) process that provides for an isotropic deposition, and a related apparatus. In some embodiments, the disclosed ECP process is performed by providing a substrate into an electroplating solution comprising a plurality of ions of a material to be deposited. A periodic patterned signal, which alternates between a first value and a different second value, is applied to the substrate. When the periodic patterned signal is at the first value, ions from the electroplating solution affix to the substrate. When the periodic patterned signal is at the second value, ions from the electroplating solution do not affix to the substrate. By using the periodic patterned signal to perform electro-chemical plating, the deposition rate of the plating process is reduced, resulting in an isotropic deposition over the substrate that mitigates gap fill problems (e.g., void formation).
US09435045B2
Reaction products of guanidine compounds or salts thereof, polyepoxide compounds and polyhalogen compounds may be used as levelers in metal electroplating baths, such as copper electroplating baths, to provide good throwing power. Such reaction products may plate with good surface properties of the metal deposits and good physical reliability.
US09435044B2
A reinforced electrolyte membrane having an electrolyte membrane containing a fluoropolymer having ion exchange groups, reinforced by a woven fabric made of a reinforcing thread and a sacrificial thread, where the sacrificial thread remains in the electrolyte membrane, a void is formed between the sacrificial thread and the electrolyte membrane, and 2000 μm2
US09435042B2
Systems and methods for the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide are disclosed. The systems involve an electrochemical cell having a cathode of anodized silver and the methods involve introducing carbon dioxide into such a system and applying a potential. The disclosed systems and methods have improved carbon monoxide production selectivity, support higher current density, and have improved efficiency in comparison to existing silver-based CO2 electroreduction devices.
US09435038B2
An improved method of etching a metal substrate is described. After a mask layer is applied to the metal substrate, an ion implantation process is performed which implants ions, such as oxygen ions, into the exposed regions of the metal substrate. This implantation creates regions of metal oxide, which may be more susceptible to etching. Afterwards, the exposed regions of metal oxide are subjected to an etching process. This process may be through vaporization or may be a wet etch process. In some embodiments, the etchant is selected so that the metal oxide binds with the etchant to form a volatile compound, which stays in the vapor or gaseous state. This may reduce the unwanted deposition of the metal to other surfaces. These ion implantation and etching processes may be repeated a plurality of times to create a recessed feature of the desired depth.
US09435024B2
A target for magnetron sputtering, comprising metal Co, metal Cr, and an oxide with an atomic ratio of the metal Cr to the total of the metal Co and the metal Cr being less than 25 at %, wherein the target comprises: a non-magnetic metal phase containing metal Co and metal Cr with an atomic ratio of the metal Cr to the total of the metal Co and the metal Cr being 25 at % or more and with an atomic ratio of the metal Co to the total of the metal Co and the other metals being more than 0 at % and 45 at % or less; and a magnetic metal phase containing metal Co, wherein a volume ratio of the oxide to the non-magnetic metal phase is more than 0 and 1.2 or less, and wherein the non-magnetic metal phase and the oxide are mutually dispersed.
US09435021B2
A method for fabricating an OLED by preparing phosphorescent metal complexes in situ is provided. In particular, the method simultaneously synthesizes and deposits copper (I) complexes in an organic light emitting device. Devices comprising such complexes may provide improved photoluminescent and electroluminescent properties.
US09435019B2
A mask includes a plate-shaped body including openings, and a modified portion including at least one first curved portion protruding from the plate-shaped body in a first direction and longitudinally extending in a second direction.
US09435011B2
An essentially Fe- and Co-free alloy is composed essentially of, in terms of weight percent: 6.0 to 7.5 Cr, 0 to 0.15 Al, 0.5 to 0.85 Mn, 11 to 19.5 Mo, 0.03 to 4.5 Ta, 0.01 to 9 W, 0.03 to 0.08 C, 0 to 1 Re, 0 to 1 Ru, 0 to 0.001 B, 0.0005 to 0.005 N, balance Ni, the alloy being characterized by, at 850° C., a yield strength of at least 25 Ksi, a tensile strength of at least 38 Ksi, a creep rupture life at 12 Ksi of at least 25 hours, and a corrosion rate, expressed in weight loss [g/(cm2 sec)]10−11 during a 1000 hour immersion in liquid FLiNaK at 850° C., in the range of 3 to 10.
US09435004B2
Apparatus and a method of handling a molten metal processing by-product are provided in which the by-product is placed in a container unit and put in the apparatus, the apparatus including an element having a first position outside of the container and a second position in which at least a part of the element is in the container so as to compress the by-product and exclude oxygen from it. The element also serves to transfer heat from the contents of the container unit to the element and so provide cooling. The element can then be returned to the first position, the container unit be removed and placed at a cooling location for final cooling.
US09435001B2
The invention describes a consensus PCR based method (i.e. HRE7-PCR) for the simultaneous detection of 14 Human Papilloma Virus types (i.e. HPV 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, and 68) that are classified as (probably) high-risk, relating to the causation of cervical cancer) and a candidate hrHPV type (i.e. HPV 67) using sets of 6 overlapping forward primers and 9 overlapping backward primers that together amplify a fragment of about (215) to (245) base pairs of the E7 open reading frame of these hrHPV types. For the detection of reaction products an EIA format can be used with the aid of a cocktail of type-specific oligoprobes as exemplified herein. Furthermore, we have developed a method for an efficient typing of these (15) HPVs that is compatible with the method for detection. This RLB typing system involves hybridization of PCR products with immobilized type-specific oligoprobes.
US09434998B2
A DNA chip for diagnosis of genitourinary infection, and in particular, a DNA chip for diagnosis of genitourinary infection on which oligonucleotide probes for detecting fourteen genitourinary infection pathogens are immobilized is provided. The DNA chip for diagnosis of genitourinary infections may accurately and rapidly analyze infections of fourteen genitourinary infections including multiple infections in various samples with high sensitivity, high specificity, and high reproducibility. Accordingly, the DNA chip may be used for diagnosis and treatment of genitourinary infections in primary health care institutions.
US09434994B2
Disclosed are methods to obtain an expression score to evaluate gene expression in a tissue specimen obtained from a person having or suspected of having cancer.
US09434971B2
A saccharide-solution producing apparatus 11A according to the present invention is a saccharide-solution producing apparatus for producing a saccharide solution 22 derived from a carbohydrate-based material 21, and includes a saccharide-solution controlling unit 15A that controls the saccharide solution derived from the carbohydrate-based material 21, a cellulosic biomass saccharifying unit 16 that saccharifies hydrothermally treated biomass obtained by hydrothermally decomposing a cellulosic biomass material 35 that contains a lignin component and a hemicellulose component, and produces a diluted saccharide solution 37, and a diluted-saccharide-solution supply pipe L11 that mixes the diluted saccharide solution 37 produced by the cellulosic biomass saccharifying unit 16 into the saccharide-solution controlling unit 15A. With this configuration, it is possible to improve production efficiency of the saccharide solution 22 and to realize cost reduction.
US09434963B2
This invention comprises a process for the bioconversion of a fermentable carbon source to n-butanol by a microorganism, wherein the microorganism is deficient in at least one gene or protein involved in the four-carbon compounds pathway regulation to improve the four-carbon compounds pathway, particularly by inactivation of the transcriptional repressor rex.
US09434954B2
Vectors for altering the expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes are provided. Methods of transformation of plant tissues to express elements altering expression of one or more starch regulation enzymes, and resulting transgenic plants are provided. Methods of using the transgenic plants are provided.
US09434952B2
Compositions and method for the generation of transplastomic plants are provided.
US09434950B2
Double-stranded and single-stranded RNA molecules, and their use in methods for inducing interferon are provided. The interferon induction provides anti-viral and other medically useful effects, such as anti-cancer effects. Also provided are methods for reducing or inhibiting interferon induction exhibited by such molecules, particularly siRNA and shRNA molecules produced in vitro.
US09434948B2
Provided are antisense molecules capable of binding to a selected target site in the human dystrophin gene to induce exon skipping, and methods of use thereof to treat muscular dystrophy.
US09434947B2
Oligonucleotides with activity in preventing poly(A) adenylation at intron 9 of the KCNH2 gene, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the oligonucleotides and methods of using the oligonucleotides to treat long QT syndrome in a subject are disclosed. The oligonucleotides include antisense sequences corresponding to sites termed DSE-1 and DSE-2 in intron 9.
US09434944B2
A miR-323-3p inhibitor is provided for the prevention or therapy of rheumatoid arthritis, comprising a sequence capable of forming a hybrid to miR-323-3p as an oligonucleotide or a vector from which such oligonucleotide is transcribed, or as a miRNA decoy or sponge.
US09434942B2
Disclosed are methods for design and synthesis of siRNA libraries, siRNA libraries produced thereby, siRNA molecules, and uses thereof.
US09434941B2
There is provided a method for producing a circular DNA which consists of a circular DNA formed from a single-molecule DNA and which does not comprise circular DNA formed from multiple-molecule DNA. According to the method of the present invention, a circular DNA molecule formed only from a single-molecule DNA can be reliably produced.
US09434939B2
A parallel processing system for processing samples is described. In one embodiment, the parallel processing system includes an instrument interface parallel controller to control a tray motor driving system, a close-loop heater control and detection system, a magnetic particle transfer system, a reagent release system, a reagent pre-mix pumping system and a wash buffer pumping system.
US09434937B2
Methods and systems for purifying cells and/or viruses are provided. The sample is added to a well disposed in a medium. A potential is applied across the medium to cause the contaminants to enter one or more walls of the well, and retain the cells and/or viruses in the well. The cells and/or viruses can be removed from the well, and optionally adhered or fixed to a surface, or detected. In one embodiment, the cells and/or viruses may be retained in the well by embedding in the medium. The medium including the embedded cells and/or viruses may be excised or otherwise removed and transferred to a glass slide or other solid surface.
US09434931B2
Disclosed are rationally-designed, non-naturally-occurring meganucleases in which a pair of enzyme subunits having specificity for different recognition sequence half-sites are joined into a single polypeptide to form a functional heterodimer with a non-palindromic recognition sequence. The invention also relates to methods of producing such meganucleases, and methods of producing recombinant nucleic acids and organisms using such meganucleases.
US09434925B2
This invention provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with a tumor using genetically modified mesenchymal stem cells, wherein each genetically modified mesenchymal stem cell contains an exogenous nucleic acid comprising (i) a cytotoxic protein-encoding region operably linked to (ii) a promoter or promoter/enhancer combination, whereby the cytotoxic protein is selectively expressed when the genetically modified mesenchymal stem cells come into proximity with the tumor's stromal tissue. This invention further provides genetically modified mesenchymal stem cells for use in this method.
US09434920B2
The present invention provides methods to promote the proliferation of undifferentiated pluripotent stem cells in defined media. Specifically, the invention provides a defined cell culture formulation for the culture, maintenance, and expansion of pluripotent stem cells, wherein culturing stem cells in the defined cell culture formulation maintains the pluripotency and karyotypic stability of the cells for at least 10 passages. Further disclosed is a cell population grown under defined media conditions that express OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, and FOXA2.
US09434906B2
Disclosed herein are marine diesel engine lubricating oil compositions which comprises (a) a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity, and (b) about 3 wt. % to about 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of the marine diesel engine lubricating oil composition, of a sulfurized, alkaline earth metal alkylphenate detergent which is substantially free of polyol promoter oxidation products.
US09434904B2
The present invention relates to a lubricating composition for forging in the form of a powder or a compacted powder including: one or more dicarboxylic acid(s) chosen among adipic acid, phthalic acid, isophthalic acid, terephthalic acid, sebacic acid, succinic acid and suberic acid; and one or more base(s) chosen among sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, potassium carbonate and potassium bicarbonate, the dicarboxylic acid(s)/base(s) molar ratio ranging between 0.8 and 1.2.
US09434902B2
An object is to provide a method for producing a jet fuel composition capable of producing a jet fuel composition with excellent quality at a high yield even when a jet fuel blendstock derived from an FT synthesis oil is used, and a jet fuel composition produced by the production method. It is characterized by including a step of mixing a certain Fischer Tropsch (FT) synthesis jet fuel blendstock with a certain petroleum based jet fuel blendstock so that the ratio of the FT synthesis jet fuel blendstock in the composition ranges from 20 to 80% by volume.
US09434898B2
This invention relates to compositions comprising high lipid content algae and methods of making and utilizing the same. In particular, the invention relates to high lipid content algae biomass and algal lipid materials derived from the same, methods of making the same, as well as to biofuels (e.g., biodiesel) and dietary compositions (e.g., animal feeds) comprising or made from the same. Compositions and methods of the invention find use in a variety of applications including biofuel, dietary (e.g., human and animal nutrition), therapeutic as well as research applications.
US09434896B2
A multistage gas washing system is applied for dust separation from crude gases of entrained flow gasification of pulverized fuels under pressures up to 10 MPa and temperatures which are greater than the melting point of the fuel ash. A first stage comprises a modified quenching system and a downstream washing column, which operates as a bubble column. A second washing stage comprises one or more Venturi washers connected in series. A third washing stage comprises multiple high-pressure atomization units of washing water, a partial condenser for cooling the crude gas by 1 to 15° C. with condensate formation, and a separation column, which is equipped with washing surfaces and a plastic-coated demister.
US09434886B2
A process for extracting lycopene, comprising the following steps: pressing and dehydrating tomato pomace which is the by-products of tomato processing production, then drying it to control the water content in the range from 10% to 20%; crushing the dried tomato pomace, and separating tomato skins and tomato seeds by air blast process, granulating the separated tomato skins and extracting them, then purifying by removing impurity from the extracted lycopene with active carbon. The process uses the by-products of tomato production as raw material, thus increasing the utilization ratio of tomatoes; the way of separating the seeds and skins after dehydrating and drying can save water and reduce the discharge of pollutant; the addition of antioxidant in the process of drying avoids the impact of high temperature on lycopene; extracting after granulating the tomato skins significantly increases the extracting efficiency; treating the extracting solution with active carbon effectively can remove the pesticide residues, impurities, odor etc., and thus increase the quality of lycopene.
US09434883B2
A liquid crystal composition having at least one or a suitable balance regarding at least two of characteristic such as high maximum temperature of a nematic phase, low minimum temperature thereof, small viscosity, suitable optical anisotropy, large dielectric anisotropy, large specific resistance, high stability to ultraviolet-light or heat, or large elastic constant; an AM-device having short response time, a large voltage holding ratio, low threshold voltage, a large contrast ratio, a negatively large DC brightness relaxation time constant and long-service-life. The liquid crystal composition contains a compound contributing to high stability to heat or ultraviolet-light as an additive component and a specific compound having positively large dielectric anisotropy, and a liquid crystal display device includes the composition. The composition may contain a specific compound having high maximum temperature or small viscosity as a second component or a specific compound having negative dielectric anisotropy as a third component.
US09434874B2
The invention discloses a hydrophobic proppant and a preparation method thereof. The aggregate particles of the hydrophobic proppant are coated with a coating resin which comprises a hydrophobic resin and nano-particles which are uniformly distributed in the coating resin and constitute 5-60% of the coating resin by weight. The contact angle labeled as θ between water and the hydrophobic proppant in which nano-particles are added is in the range of 120°≦θ≦180°. The proppant of the present invention is prepared by adding the nano-particles in the existing resin in which low-surface-energy substances with hydrophobic groups are added, and a rough surface with a micro-nano structure is constructed on the outer surface of the prepared resin film, so that the contact angle θ at the solid-liquid contact surface on the outer surface of the coating resin of the proppant is more than 120°.
US09434873B2
A sintered, generally spherical ceramic body, having an alumina content of from about 52 to about 55 weight percent distributed substantially homogeneously throughout the body, a silica content from about 32 to about 38 weight percent distributed substantially homogeneously throughout the body, an apparent specific gravity of about 2.61 to about 2.65, and a bulk density of about 1.45 to about 1.56 grams per cubic centimeter.
US09434857B2
Novel, lubricious coatings for medical devices are disclosed. The coatings provide improved lubricity and durability, and are readily applied in coating processes. The present invention is also directed to a novel platinum catalyst for use in such coatings. The catalyst provides for rapid curing, while inhibiting cross-linking at ambient temperatures, thereby improving the production pot life of the coatings.
US09434856B2
Provided is a film-forming composition containing organic monomers represented by formula (A) that are capable of providing triazine ring-containing polymers, crosslinking agents, and linear polymers, which contain a repeating unit structure represented by formula (1). Thus, a film-forming composition that is suitable as an embedding material can be provided, said film-forming composition: including triazine ring-containing polymers that are capable of achieving, by polymer alone, high heat resistance, high transparency, a high refractive index, high solubility and low volume shrinkage; and is capable of minimizing occurrences of cracks when embedding films are manufactured. Furthermore, a solvent-free film-forming composition that does not contain any solvents conducive to organic electroluminescent film degradation, can be cured at a low temperature, and is suitable for forming top-emission type organic electroluminescent elements, can be provided.
US09434853B2
Heat-curable powder coating compositions are provided which include i) at least one crystalline polyester resin present in an amount of at least 7.5 wt %; ii) at least one amorphous polyester resin present in an amount of at most 92.5 wt %; and iii) at least one peroxide present in an amount of at least 0.65 parts of peroxide in hundred parts of i)+ii) (pph), wherein the at least one crystalline polyester resin has 2-butenedioic acid ethylenic unsaturations and/or the at least one amorphous polyester resin has 2-butenedioic acid ethylenic unsaturations. The compositions may be cured to an acceptable degree at low temperature, e.g., 130° C. /20 minutes offering powder coatings that may exhibit enhanced flexibility and good adhesion. In addition, the compositions can suitably be used on heat- and/or non heat-sensitive substrates, even if the composition is highly pigmented.
US09434849B2
The present invention provides a durable, external surfactant free, anionic, water based jet ink polymer which when formulated into an ink jet ink results in a printing that has an excellent adhesion to metal or plastic substrates. Such a jet ink polymer is suitable performance replacement of solvent soluble polymers currently in commercial use. The hybridized copolymer comprises a hydrophobic functional polymeric backbone comprised of a polysiloxane polymer, a polyolefin polymer, or a functional polyvinyl polymer. The hybridized copolymer also comprises a plurality of copolymeric side chains attached to the backbone, comprising a polymerizable acid-containing unsaturated monomer, and a polymerizable unsaturated monomer. The use of the inks of the present invention enhances performance criteria such as print-head open time, ink stability, and resistance to typical water based cleaners.
US09434848B1
The present disclosure is directed to a process black ink composition for digital offset printing including a cyan colorant including a cyan pigment, a magenta colorant including a magenta pigment and a yellow colorant including a yellow pigment, wherein the process black ink composition includes a total amount of pigment of at least about 15 wt %, a photo-initiator, a dispersant, and a curable ink vehicle component including at least one component selected from a curable monomer or a curable oligomer wherein the process black ink composition comprises a ratio of the cyan colorant to the yellow colorant of 0.70-0.80:1.0 and a ratio of the magenta colorant to the yellow colorant of 0.90-0.80:1.0, and wherein the process black ink composition does not comprise carbon black. Methods of preparing the present process black ink composition and using the process black ink composition are also provided.
US09434845B2
A powder composition includes starch, acrylic acid homopolymer salt, and clay. The powder composition forms an aqueous dispersion having a neutral pH when added to water and is capable of clinging to a surface.
US09434844B2
Composition containing at least one poly acrylate (co)polymer binder and at least one of a condensation product formed by reaction of an effective 1-naphthol and formaldehyde, and a naphthalene molecule substituted in at least one of positions 1 to 8 with a sulfur-containing radical.
US09434838B2
A multi-color ink for 3D printing, a 3D printer, and a method of controlling the 3D printer are provided. The multi-color ink for 3D printing including a first ink composition that includes a photocurable material, a photoinitiator configured to cure the photocurable material, a first colorant, and an anti-intercolor bleed agent configured to prevent intercolor bleeding occurring when the plurality of ink compositions come into contact with each other, and a second ink composition that includes a photocurable material, a photoinitiator configured to cure the photocurable material, and a second colorant having an acid moiety involved in a reaction with the anti-intercolor bleed agent to cause aggregation. The multi-color ink for 3D printing may enable a clear image by inhibiting intercolor bleeding that occurs when ink compositions with different colors are printed to be adjacent to each other before curing during 3D printing.
US09434837B2
A fluoropolymer latex is obtained by emulsion polymerization of one or more fluoromonomers in the presence of one or more acid-functionalized monomers such as vinyl sulfonic acid or a salt thereof. A fluorosurfactant need not be present.
US09434829B2
Ligand-functionalized substrates are describe that are useful in selectively binding and removing biological materials from biological samples, and methods for preparing the same.
US09434826B2
Composite materials with graphene-augmented carbon reinforcement fibers having a graphene film wrapped about one or more carbon fiber filaments. The graphene film is wrapped about the carbon fiber filaments in a spiral orientation and has amine groups formed on an outer surface of the graphene film and epoxide groups formed on at least one edge of the graphene film. The amine groups are formed in a functionalized area on the outer surface of the graphene film that is within about 10 microns from the at least one edge of the graphene film. The graphene film may also have holes formed through the graphene film. The graphene film may be wrapped around a single carbon fiber filament, a substantially cylindrical bundle of about 19 carbon fiber filaments, or a substantially rectangular bed of carbon fiber filaments formed from a plurality of carbon fiber tows.
US09434804B2
There is provided a branched conjugated diene copolymer prepared by copolymerizing 1 to 99% by weight of a branched conjugated diene compound (1): wherein R1 is an aliphatic hydrocarbon having 6 to 11 carbon atoms, and 99 to 1% by weight of a conjugated diene compound (2): wherein R2 and R3 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom, or the like. The branched conjugated diene copolymer is useful as a rubber component of a rubber composition for a tire enhancing both of abrasion resistance and grip performance to a high level and exhibiting excellent processability.
US09434803B2
The present invention generally relates to methods for resolving water and oil emulsions in the produced fluid of an oil production system comprising adding a reverse emulsion breaker to the produced fluid of the crude oil production system in an amount effective for resolving an oil-in-water emulsion. In particular, these methods for resolving an oil-in-water emulsion can be used in separation processes where the oil and solids in the produced fluid are separated from the produced water in the produced fluid.
US09434783B2
The present invention relates to an isolated fusion protein comprising an extracellular CD95 domain or a functional fragment thereof and an Fc domain or functional fragment thereof, formulations providing such fusion protein in a stable form as well as a method for producing such a fusion protein.
US09434773B2
This invention relates generally to a plant cell with increased yield, preferably under condition of transient and repetitive abiotic stress as compared to a corresponding non-transformed wild type plant cell by increasing or generating one or more activities of RING proteins in plants.
US09434768B2
The document provides nucleic acids, polypeptides, and viruses containing nucleic acids and/or polypeptides. The document also provides methods for using viruses to treat cancer patients. Specifically, the document provides nucleic acid molecules encoding viral hemagglutinin (H) polypeptides, viral H polypeptides, and viruses containing nucleic acids and/or H polypeptides. Such viruses are useful for vaccinations and for treating cancer patients as the viruses are not shed.
US09434758B2
The present invention relates to compounds and methods which may be useful as treatments of neuromuscular diseases such as muscular dystrophy, and as inhibitors of NF-κB for the treatment or prevention of muscular wasting disease, including muscular dystrophy.
US09434755B2
A process for isolating rhamnolipids is provided. The process includes providing an aqueous medium containing at least one rhamnolipid and having a pH of less than 6. Next, the aqueous medium is brought into contact with at least one organic solvent to provide a multiphase system and then the aqueous phase is separated off. The pH is then increased to a value of 6 or more to provide a multiphase organic system. Next, a rhamnolipid-enriched organic phase is separated off. An optional step of further purifying the rhamnolipid may be performed.
US09434749B2
A process for the hydrosilylation of an unsaturated compound comprising reacting (a) a silyl hydride with (b) an unsaturated compound in the presence of (c) a platinum compound and (d) a cyclodiene, with the provisos that (i) when the unsaturated compound is a terminal alkyne, the silyl hydride is other than a halosilane, and (ii) when the platinum compound is a Pt(II)-based compound, the ratio of total moles of cyclodiene to moles of platinum is less than 3:1.
US09434744B2
The present invention provides improved processes for obtaining rapamycin derivatives including Biolimus A9.
US09434736B2
The present invention, among other things, provides compounds, compositions and methods for treatment of cancer. In some embodiments, the present invention provides methods for treating blood cancer using agelastatin alkaloids.
US09434732B2
A compound of Formula I, enantiomers, diasteriomers, tautomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are defined herein, are useful as JAK kinase inhibitors. A pharmaceutical composition that includes a compound of Formula I and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, adjuvant or vehicle, and methods of treating or lessening the severity of a disease or condition responsive to the inhibition of JAK kinase activity in a patient are disclosed.
US09434728B1
Compound of Formula (I), its preparation and use in preventing or treating bacterial infection is disclosed. Formula (I)
US09434717B2
The present invention relates to a substantially crystalline and free solid state form of 3-(6-(1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamido)-3-methylpyridin-2-yl)benzoic acid (Form I), pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of treatment therewith.
US09434709B2
The present invention generally relates to processes for the chemocatalytic conversion of a glucose source to an adipic acid product. The present invention includes processes for the conversion of glucose to an adipic acid product via glucaric acid or derivatives thereof. The present invention also includes processes comprising catalytic oxidation of glucose to glucaric acid or derivative thereof and processes comprising the catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of glucaric acid or derivatives thereof to an adipic acid product. The present invention also includes products produced from adipic acid product and processes for the production thereof from such adipic acid product.
US09434708B2
In a process for carrying out a reaction, a liquid reaction mixture is contacted with a catalyst that includes silica and/or a silicate, in which process a silicon compound that is soluble in the liquid reaction mixture is added to the reaction mixture before being contacted with the catalyst. The aqueous reaction mixture suitably contains water, an alcohol or a mixture thereof.
US09434707B2
Compounds that inhibit PDE10 are disclosed that have utility in the treatment of a variety of conditions, including (but not limited to) psychotic, anxiety, movement disorders and/or neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, encephalitis, phobias, epilepsy, aphasia, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, sleep disorders, pain, Tourette's syndrome, schizophrenia, delusional disorders, drug-induced psychosis and panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Pharmaceutically acceptable salts, stereoisomers, solvates and prodrugs of the compounds are also provided. Also disclosed are compositions containing a compound in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, as well as methods relating to the use thereof for inhibiting PDE10 in a warm-blooded animal in need of the same.
US09434704B2
The invention relates to the compounds of formula I and formula II or its pharmaceutical acceptable salts, as well as polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of compounds of formula I or formula II; and methods for treating or preventing neurological degenerative disorders may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD), restless legs syndrome (RLS), cluster headache, depression, fibromyalgia, sexual dysfunction, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and depression.
US09434696B2
The disclosure relates to a process for the preparation of the enantiomeric forms of 2,3-diaminopropionic acid derivatives of formula I, wherein R1, R2 and R3 are defined as in the disclosure, by racemate resolution. The separation of the racemate into its enantiomers takes place through formation of diastereomeric salts upon addition of an enantiomerically pure auxiliary, and subsequent separation by fractional crystallization.
US09434693B2
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating various diseases, syndromes, conditions and disorders, including pain. Such compounds are represented by Formula I as follows: wherein R1, R2, ring A, and G are defined herein.
US09434692B2
Pyrazole derivatives of Formula (Ia) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that modulate the activity of the serotonin 5HT2A receptor. Formula (Ia). Compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are directed to methods useful in the treatment of insomnia and related sleep disorders, platelet aggregation, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack, angina, stroke, atrial fibrillation, reducing the risk of blood clot formation, asthma or symptoms thereof, agitation or symptoms thereof, behavioral disorders, drug induced psychosis, excitative psychosis, Gilles de Ia Tourette's syndrome, manic disorder, organic or NOS psychosis, psychotic disorders, psychosis, acute schizophrenia, chronic schizophrenia, NOS schizophrenia and related disorders, diabetic-related disorders, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy and the like. The present invention also relates to the methods for the treatment of 5-HT2A serotonin receptor mediated disorders in combination with other pharmaceutical agents administered separately or together.
US09434690B2
The invention relates to substituted oxopyridine derivatives and to processes for their preparation, and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular cardiovascular disorders, preferably thrombotic or thromboembolic disorders, and oedemas, and also ophthalmic disorders.
US09434685B1
A class of modified single-ring cyanate esters which have shown the ability to tailor and control the glass-transition (Tg) of the cured resins as well as the water uptake.
US09434682B2
Disclosed are a novel reactive mesogen compound having superior thermostability, high birefringence and a simple preparation process while possessing unique liquid crystal characteristics having molecular orientation by forming a polymer network through photopolymerization, and a method of preparing the same. The novel reactive mesogen compound according to the present invention is represented by Formula 3 below.
US09434679B2
The present invention provides a fluorinated ionomer [polymer (I)] comprising recurring units derived from at least the following monomers: (i) 5 to 50% by weight of a fluorinated monomer [monomer (A)] containing at least one —SO2X functionality, preferably having the formula of CF2═CF—O—(CF2CF(CF3)O)m—(CF2)mSO2X (I) wherein m is 0 or 1, n is an integer between 0-10, and X is selected from F, OH, and O−Me+, wherein Me+ indicates an alkali metal ion or an ammonium cation of formula NR4− where each R independently represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic radical selected from aliphatic radicals having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms and arylic or alicyclic radicals having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms; (ii) a non-functional fluorinated monomer [monomer (B)] having at least one ethylene unsaturation; and (iii) a fluorinated polyfunctional compound having the general formula: (CR1R2═CFCF2—O)a—Rf—((O)c—CF═CR3R4)b (II) wherein: a is an integer equal to or larger than 1, preferably a is 1, 2, or 3; b is 0 or 1 and the sum of a and b is an integer equal to or larger than 2; c is 0 or 1; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected from F, H, alkyl, alkoxy, polyoxy alkyl, perfluoroalkyl, perfluoroalkoxy or perfluoropolyoxy alkyl, preferably F; and Rf represents a hydrocarbon or fluorocarbon group having at least two carbon atoms. The low-EW perfluorinated ionomers made of polymer (I) are adapted to be processed into thin films, which are found to have superior physical stability than the existing products and are thus well suited for low humidity or high temperature electrochemical applications. Moreover, these low-EW ionomers are melt processable and have limited loss of volatile substances at their melt processing temperatures.
US09434678B2
This disclosure relates to methods for limiting the undesired reverse Mannich reaction during the hydrogenation reduction of one or more nitro functional groups (—NO2) to their corresponding amines (—NH2).
US09434675B2
A Process for preparing carboxylic esters of a mixture of structurally branched C9 monocarboxylic acids proceeding from 2-ethylhexanol is characterized in that (a) 2-ethylhexanol is dehydrated to an octene mixture in the presence of a catalyst; (b) the octene mixture obtained in step a) is reacted in the presence of a transition metal compound of group VIII of the periodic table of the elements with carbon monoxide and hydrogen to give a mixture of isomeric isononanals; (c) the mixture of isomeric isononanals obtained in step b) is oxidized to a mixture of structurally branched C9 monocarboxylic acids; and (d) the mixture of structurally branched C9 monocarboxylic acids obtained in step c) is reacted with alcohols to give carboxylic esters.
US09434674B2
A method of producing a diol diester, which includes reacting a fatty acid alkyl ester having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, an α,ω-alkanediol having n carbon atoms, wherein n is an integer from 2 to 22; and a basic transesterification catalyst, is provided. Use of the diol diesters as phase change materials is also provided.
US09434665B2
Provided is a method for preparing methanol and diol from cyclic carbonate, comprising: under a hydrogen atmosphere, in an organic solvent, and with the presence of a ruthenium complex (Ru(L)XYY′) and an alkali, conducting a hydrogenation reduction reaction on the cyclic carbonate or polycarbonate to obtain methanol and diol. Also provided is a ruthenium complex prepared from ruthenium and a tridentate amido diphosphine ligand. Also provided is a deuterated methanol and deuterated diol preparation method by substituting the hydrogen and ruthenium complex with deuterium.
US09434664B2
Disclosed is a method for producing edge-functionalized graphite or graphene with fluoro groups. According to the method, graphite is pulverized into smaller pieces and is then allowed to react with a surrounding material containing fluorine or a fluorocarbon compound. The method enables the production of graphite or graphene functionalized with fluoro groups, which could not be achieved by conventional mechanochemical methods. In addition, the method is carried out in a very simple and economical manner and is suitable for large-scale production.
US09434661B2
The invention is directed to purification of an aromatic hydrocarbon stream including selective removal of phenol from a process stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures, especially aromatic hydrocarbon mixtures that contain higher-than-equilibrium paraxylene, by contact with suitable adsorbents, to provide a product stream having lower concentration of phenol than said process stream.
US09434657B2
The hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus is provided with a synthesis gas supply line in which a synthesis gas is compressed and supplied by a first compressor, a reactor configured to accommodate a catalyst slurry, a gas-liquid separator configured to separate an unreacted synthesis gas and hydrocarbons discharged from the reactor into a gas and a liquid, a first recycle line in which the unreacted synthesis gas after separation into a gas and a liquid is compressed and recycled into the reactor by a second compressor, and a second recycle line configured to recycle a residual unreacted synthesis gas after separation into a gas and a liquid into the inlet side of the first compressor at the time of start-up operation when the synthesis gas is gradually increased in the amount to be introduced.
US09434656B2
A wet blanket obtained by impregnating a blanket including bio-soluble inorganic fibers with a colloidal silica liquid. A cured blanket obtained by curing the wet blanket.
US09434653B1
Methods, processes, and systems for producing bulk ceramics from agglomerations of partially cured gelatinous polymer ceramic precursor resin droplets, without using sponge materials to form gas pathways in the polymer bodies. Ceramics can be formed in hours. Resin droplets can be produced with a sprayer where liquid polymer precursors, mixed with a curing agent, are sprayed forming droplets which are partially cured, collected, and compressed into shapes. Ceramic porosity can be varied, droplet particle sizes can be controlled by adjusting liquid and gas pressure, orifice size, during spraying. Partially cured droplets can be formed via an emulsion process and size controlled by emulsion liquid and surfactant selection parameters.
US09434650B2
The present invention relates to method for forming a porous ceramic material, the method comprising the steps of: providing a suspension of polymer-coated ceramic particles in a first solvent; contacting the suspension with a second solvent, whereby a ceramic material precursor is formed from the polymer and ceramic particles, heating the ceramic material precursor to at least partially decompose the polymer within the precursor into solid deposits, and then sintering the ceramic material precursor to form a porous ceramic material.
US09434643B2
Certain example embodiments relate to Ni-inclusive ternary alloy being provided as a barrier layer for protecting an IR reflecting layer comprising silver or the like. The provision of a barrier layer comprising nickel, chromium, and/or molybdenum and/or oxides thereof may improve corrosion resistance, as well as chemical and mechanical durability. In certain examples, more than one barrier layer may be used on at least one side of the layer comprising silver. In still further examples, a NixCryMoz-based layer may be used as the functional layer, rather than or in addition to as a barrier layer, in a coating.
US09434641B2
A method for protecting a sheet surface by forming a discontinuous layer of a long-chain organic material having a main carbon chain comprising at least 12 carbon atoms and a hydrophilic group at one end of the main chain on the sheet surface. The protective layer is easy to remove using standard cleaning method, while providing satisfactory surface protection against particle contamination and scratches, at a very low coating thickness. The invention is particularly useful for protecting glass sheet surfaces during glass sheet finishing such as edge grinding and polishing. The invention is especially useful for the finishing and packaging of LCD glass substrates.
US09434638B2
An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.
US09434636B2
The invention including phosphate optical glass with refractivity ranging from 1.93 to 1.95 and the Abbe number ranging from 16 to 19, with a low liquidus temperature. The phosphate optical glass, including: 5 to 25 wt % of NaPO3, 1 to 20 wt % of KPO3, 2 to 15 wt % of P2O5, 0 to 5 wt % of BaO, 0 to 10 wt % of Ba(PO3)2, more than 0 but less than 2 wt % of B2O3, 5 to 25 wt % of TiO2, 35 to 55 wt % of Nb2O5, and 0 to 5 wt % of SiO2. Refractivity of phosphate optical glass can reach 1.93 to 1.95, the Abbe number can reach 16 to 19, the liquidus temperature is below 1,120° C., the processing property during melting is good, the glass surface is unlikely to be devitrified during the processing of the glass, and can be formed easily.
US09434618B2
A method includes the following steps. An original carbon nanotube film is provided. The original carbon nanotube film includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes substantially oriented along a first direction. The original carbon nanotube film is suspended. The suspended original carbon nanotube film is soaked with an atomized organic solvent to shrink into a carbon nanotube film. Wherein the atomized organic solvent comprises a plurality of dispersed organic droplets with diameters of larger than or equal to 10 micrometers, and less than or equal to 100 micrometers.
US09434614B2
The present invention relates to a perovskite-type strontium titanate, wherein the strontium titanate is Y- and Ni-doped and has the general formula (Sr,Y)(Ti,Ni)O3. A method of preparing the perovskite-type strontium titanate and its use are also provided.
US09434606B2
A micromechanical inertial sensor includes an ASIC element having a processed front side, an MEMS element having a micromechanical sensor structure, and a cap wafer mounted above the micromechanical sensor structure, which sensor structure includes a seismic mass and extends over the entire thickness of the MEMS substrate. The MEMS element is mounted on the processed front side of the ASIC element above a standoff structure and is electrically connected to the ASIC element via through-contacts in the MEMS substrate and in adjacent supports of the standoff structure. A blind hole is formed in the MEMS substrate in the area of the seismic mass, which blind hole is filled with the same electrically conductive material as the through-contacts, the conductive material having a greater density than the MEMS substrate.
US09434603B2
A physical quantity sensor includes a sensor element, an integrated circuit that is electrically connected to the sensor element, and a ceramic package (base body) on which the integrated circuit is mounted. A first conductor pattern (interconnection pattern) for electrical connection with the outside is provided on one surface of the ceramic package. A second conductor pattern is provided to be electrically connected to the interconnection pattern. The second conductor pattern includes an interconnection pattern that passes through the inside of the ceramic package, and a metallized region that is exposed on the other surface of the ceramic package. The interconnection pattern is longer than a distance between the one surface and the other surface of the ceramic package.
US09434596B2
The present application describes a product dispenser. The product dispenser may include at least one macro-ingredient source, at least one micro-ingredient source positioned about the dispenser, a diluent source, a dispensing valve, a number of pumps or metering devices, and a user interface. The user interface receives a request for a product type and instructs the pumps or metering devices to dispense a predetermined type and ratio of macro-ingredients, micro-ingredients, and diluent to the dispensing valve for a predetermined flow rate.
US09434592B2
An apparatus for treating a packaging element having a sub-area that includes a packaging-element opening includes an enclosure having an outer load-bearing structure having load-bearing elements and a wall structure held in the load-bearing structure and isolated by the load-bearing structure from loads. It also has two subsections, one on and moving with a conveyor and the other on a device frame and not moving with the conveyor. The enclosure defines a sterile interior that contains the packaging-element opening. The conveyor moves the packaging element along a transport route in a transport direction. Supports of the load-bearing structure extend transversely to the transport direction and connect to a longitudinal chord oriented along the transport direction. Either the load-bearing structure is disposed outside the enclosure and spaced apart from the enclosure or the transport route includes a circular conformation and a ring forming the longitudinal chord.
US09434582B2
A dual crane apparatus and a method of use are disclosed herein. The disclosed dual crane apparatus generally comprises a support frame and two rotating crane members mounted to the support frame, wherein the crane members can each independently move up and down in a vertical direction, extend and retract in a horizontal direction, and rotate clockwise and counterclockwise. The disclosed dual crane apparatus can be utilized for servicing mobile irrigation systems.
US09434572B2
A method is disclosed for reducing feed rate variations when unwinding a web material to transport the web material away from the parent roll at a web takeoff point where the feed rate variations are induced by parent roll geometry variations. The method utilizes calculated and measured data and selected adjustment percentages to make suitable improvements in the driving speed for an out-of-round parent roll to get closer to a relatively constant feed rate. By dividing the parent roll into 1, 2, . . . n sectors, the data can be refined to a relatively high degree taking into account high speed data processing capabilities as well as operating system response times to make appropriate driving speed adjustments.
US09434556B2
An egg chain gripper actuating device for use with an egg transfer device. The device has an egg conveyor with parallel egg chains movable in a transport direction, each chain supporting egg grippers, which can be individually actuated. The device further comprises an egg receiving unit with a receiving area for receiving eggs released by the egg grippers, and one group of one or more actuators for each egg chain for selectively actuating passing egg grippers. Multiple support frames are provided, each supporting one or more groups of actuators. At least one frame is adjustable parallel to the transport direction and relative to another frame, such that the position of the actuators of the one or more groups supported by the frame can be adjusted relative to the position of the one of more actuators of the one or more groups supported by the other frame.
US09434549B2
An accumulating portal conveyor comprises a conveyor belt, a frame for supporting and guiding the belt, which frame includes a first helical path and a second helical path spaced from the first helical path, a bridging path and a return path. Under operating conditions the belt successively follows the first helical path upwardly, the bridging path, the second helical path downwardly and the return path, and such that in transverse direction of an upright plane through central centerlines of the first and second helical paths. The bridging path includes a static part having a fixed position with respect to the helical paths and a dynamic portion displaceable in transverse direction of the upright plane to change the path length of the belt. At least a portion of the return path is displaceable for compensating the change of the path length of the belt at the bridging path.
US09434541B2
The present invention relates to a method and system of using at least one moving means for the pushing and moving solid waste from at least one holding area within buildings or outdoors through a waste transport conduit to at least one collection station or at least one collection conduit. The movement of the at least one moving means is driven by generating differential pressure across the at least one moving means to push and move the solid waste towards the at least one collection station or at least one collection conduit. The differential pressure creates systematic directional air movement inside the waste transport conduit to move the at least one moving means to move and push the solid waste to the at least one collection station or at least one collection conduit. The differential pressure is delivered by controlling a system of valves that is connected to at least one higher pressure air conduit and at least one lower pressure air conduit or removes air to or from the waste transport conduit respectively. Both the at least one higher pressure air conduit and at least one lower pressure air conduit is connected to air handling apparatus.
US09434534B2
The disclosure teaches a polyurea coated water storage floatation cover comprising a layer of buoyant closed cell foam coated with polyurea, a upper layer of polyurea coated textile attached to the buoyant closed cell foam coated with polyurea, and attachment components affixed to the upper layer of the polyurea coated textile. The cover can be rolled up for storage and transportation. The cover can be reused. The cover can be made in sections that can be attached together to cover a large area of water surface such as in a retention pond or open top tank.
US09434532B2
A capsule, device, system and method for preparing a liquid food or beverage. The capsule comprises an enclosure containing one or more extractable or infusible ingredients and configured and dimensioned to have a perimeter and be radially symmetrical about a central axis to facilitate rotation; and an opening arrangement that allows liquid food to leave the capsule after passing through the ingredient(s), wherein the opening arrangement is configured and positioned near or upon the perimeter of the enclosure to allow the liquid food to leave the capsule radially due to the application of the centrifugal forces. The method and device introduce liquid into the capsule to form the liquid food while applying centrifugal forces to the capsule to urge the liquid to pass through the ingredient(s).
US09434525B2
The present invention concerns a beverage preparation capsule (11) defining a closed chamber for enclosing a mass of soluble and/or extractable food material, for use in a beverage preparation machine, comprising: (i) a capsule body with side walls (12), a bottom wall (13) open with a dispensing opening (14), said capsule body walls comprising an injection-moulded oil-based or biomass-based thermoplastic material, which is not a gas-barrier material, (ii) a gas and moisture impermeable top membrane (15), pierceable by injection means (N) of the machine which are adapted to inject an extraction liquid under pressure inside said chamber, and (iii) a gas and moisture impermeable bottom membrane (16) sealed inside the capsule body near the bottom wall (13), (iv) means (18) adapted to open said chamber by relative engagement with the bottom membrane under the effect of the liquid pressure increase in the chamber during injection of said liquid, characterized in that the inside or outside surface of the capsule body is at least partially covered by a gas-, and optionally moisture-, impermeable label (20) permanently attached by in-mould labelling to said capsule body wall, said label having a tridimensional shape such that the labelled capsule is gas and moisture tight.
US09434518B2
A cap for a container closure or closure plug is disclosed. The cap includes a cap top having a top surface and a bottom surface, and an attachment ring extending axially downward from the bottom surface of the cap top under a central portion of the cap top. The attachment ring is securingly engageable with a container closure or closure plug. The attachment ring includes a cam surface extending radially outward from the attachment ring, where the cam surface is configured to deflect the attachment ring radially inward upon engagement of the attachment ring with the container closure or closure plug. The cap top and the attachment ring are connected by at least one frangible connection and at least one permanent connection, where the at least one permanent connection is configured to retain the cap top and the attachment ring upon breaking of the at least one frangible connection.
US09434506B2
A pallet includes a base layer, a cargo layer and spaced apart support elements positioned between the base layer and the cargo layer and forming a gap therebetween for receiving a lifting member. The cargo layer includes a pair of spaced apart connector boards and a pair of spaced apart end deck boards orthogonal to the pair of connector boards. Each support element extends in length between the pair of spaced apart end deck boards and is configured as a one-piece skid, and includes an open recessed channel therein to receive a respective connector board from the cargo layer.
US09434505B2
A plastic beer keg includes an outer container and a liner having a neck portion and a body portion. A removable lid is secured over an opening of the container to enclose the liner. A locking ring secures the neck portion to the lid. The neck optionally includes a neck ring which interlocks with the opening through the lid to prevent relative rotation therebetween. The locking ring optionally includes ratcheting teeth engaging ratchet teeth on the lid to prevent inadvertent loosening of the locking ring. The liner may be suspended from the lid by the neck when empty.
US09434503B2
A packaging for a wiper blade includes a cuboidal folding box and an intermediate packaging for receiving the wiper blade and to be received in the folding box. The intermediate packaging can be produced by folding a planar material and has two parallel longitudinal sides for abutment against inner sides of the folding box. The intermediate packaging further includes lateral support devices to prevent the wiper blade from tipping over in the intermediate packaging.
US09434498B2
A device for receiving a workpiece for a workpiece carrier circulation system of a production machine is provided, including a workpiece carrier with a workpiece receiver and a holder to be arranged on the machine for receiving the workpiece carrier in a detachable, temporary manner. The workpiece carrier includes a rotor section (5) which, when the workpiece carrier is received in the holder, interacts with a stator (20) provided on the holder, forming a torque motor and thus being rotatable about an axis in the holder.
US09434491B2
An ovenable paper container containing an inner liner, an outer liner, and an intermediate or corrugated paper layer positioned between the inner liner and the outer liner. The ovenable paper container can be used to heat and/or cook food and then be used as a serving container without the danger of causing burns.
US09434474B2
An aircraft galley compartment cooling system includes a source of chilled air, and a closed compartment with a door. A sensor detects the opening of the door, and sends a signal to the cooling system to deactivate while the door is opened to prevent ambient air from entering the cooling system. Once the door is closed, the cooling system is reactivated. The sensor can be a light sensor, a mechanical sensor, a magnetic sensor, or the like for determining movement or the presence/non-presence of the door to the compartment.
US09434466B2
The present invention relates to a panel, especially for a component having a box structure in an airplane airfoil, comprising a surface shaped body and grid-like reinforcement bars protruding from the body on one side of the body, and the body and the grid-like reinforcement bars are integral molded. Since the body and the grid-like reinforcement bars of the panel are integral molded, no additional connecting process is required, so that the disconnection phenomenon as happened between the skin and the stiffener or stringer of the prior art would not occur, and the assembly complexity can be decreased.
US09434465B2
A body panel (1) for a transport vehicle—in particular for an aircraft—includes a supporting plate (2) and a heat-exchange device (6), the supporting plate forming (2) on the outer face (4) thereof facing the exchanger (6) an indentation (10) extending in the body of the supporting plate (2) holding the heat-exchange device (6) such that the heat-exchange device (6) does not extend beyond the general profile of the body of the transport vehicle.
US09434464B1
A window includes a substantially transparent polymer window member and means for selectively stiffening the window member over its area to reduce sound transmitted through the window.
US09434460B1
Systems for maneuvering a marine vessel comprise an input device for requesting lateral movement of the marine vessel with respect to the longitudinal axis and a plurality of propulsion devices including at least a port propulsion device, a starboard propulsion device and an intermediate propulsion device disposed between the port and starboard propulsion devices. A control circuit controls orientation of the port and starboard propulsion devices inwardly towards a common point on the marine vessel, and upon a request for lateral movement of from the input device, operates one of the port and starboard propulsion devices in forward gear, operates the other of the port and starboard propulsion devices in reverse gear, and operates the intermediate propulsion device in reverse gear.
US09434454B2
A personal watercraft or alternative motorized vehicle including a superstructure characterized by a unitary seat and hood assembly, which incorporates an integral steering mechanism therein. By providing a unitary seat and hood assembly, and integrating the steering mechanism therein, the height of the deck assembly, at which point it is in juxtaposed relationship with the seat and hood assembly can be substantially lower than in prior art devices. This design allows for raising of the unitary hood and seat assembly about a single pivot point, thereby providing an interface of juxtaposition which defines an extended singular engine compartment opening that enables unfettered access to the entire engine compartment. This extended singular engine compartment opening is of sufficient size and breadth to permit removal of the entire engine assembly.
US09434452B2
A shallow water anchor is provided. The shallow water anchor comprises a first anchor extension and a second anchor extension axially received by a housing. The first anchor extension is axially received by the second anchor extension such that the first and second anchor extensions are sequentially deployable from the housing using an actuation arrangement. The actuation arrangement is controlled by a control interface that is operable to detect when the shallow water anchor has reached a fully extended state and fully retracted state. The shallow water anchor further includes a biasing compensator that compensates for fluctuations in the overall depth of water the anchor is deployed in due to waves or other anomalies.
US09434450B1
A boat tower, comprising a support frame comprising a first leg having an upper end and a lower end attachable to a first side of a boat, a second leg having an upper end and a lower end attachable to a second side of the boat, and a cross member extending from the upper end of the first leg to the upper end of the second leg; and a vibration dampening apparatus having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending from the first end to the second end, and connected to the support frame in a substantially perpendicular relationship to a vertical plane which laterally bisects the cross member between the first leg and the second leg in a way that the vibration dampening apparatus mitigates lateral vibrations of the tower when the first and second legs are attached to the boat.
US09434449B2
A portable wind-powered sailing vessel includes a plurality of parallel hulls, a plurality of cross-member spars releasably connecting the parallel hulls, a central longitudinal body centrally located between the parallel hulls and releasably connected to the plurality of cross-member spars, a crew seat releasably connected to the central longitudinal body forward of a mast, a kick-up rudder assembly and a foot pedal steering system both releasably connected to the longitudinal body, a rudder releasably connected to the kick-up rudder assembly, and a main sail on the mast, and a jib.
US09434445B1
Provided herein is a power assisted motorized vehicle which can be operated in either a manual mode or a motorized mode or in a combination of manual and motorized modes. The vehicle includes, inter alia, a frame connected to at least one fork capable of supporting a wheel having a first driven sprocket assembly and a second driven sprocket assembly, a rechargeable electrical power supply attached to the frame, a motor controller attached to the frame, an electric motor supported by the frame and attached to a first driving sprocket which is coupled to the first driven sprocket assembly and a manual pedal assembly supported by the frame and comprising a pedal crank shaft with two pedals and a second driving sprocket which is coupled to the second driven sprocket assembly.
US09434442B2
There is provided a steering shaft modifier, capable of fundamentally preventing distortion generated in a new steering shaft, being easing aligned, and being simply assembled, including: a frame having a steering shaft penetrating portion formed in a front surface thereof and having a contact surface covering a portion of the steering head and disposed to be in contact with an upper bearing installation portion of a steering shaft installation portion; a shaft including a head portion caught by a lower bearing installation portion of the steering shaft installation portion of the steering head, a body portion passing through the steering shaft installation portion, and a connection portion connected to the frame; and a frame block including a lower contact surface tightly attached to a lower surface of the steering head in the rear of the lower bearing installation portion and coupled to the frame when installed.
US09434441B1
A motorcycle frame includes a headstock assembly that allows for a more efficient assembly process of joining the headstock assembly to the motorcycle frame. The headstock assembly includes multiple headstock components that are welded to the frame. The design of the headstock assembly increases the surface area of the headstock assembly that is welded to the frame to increase rigidity.
US09434440B2
A supporting structure includes: a step stay which is mounted to a motorcycle frame structure and configured to support a foot step for a passenger; an unit supporting portion provided at the step stay and configured to support an operation unit for manually adjusting a characteristic of a rear wheel shock absorber; a pannier supporting portion provided at the step stay and configured to support a front portion of a pannier mounted to a side portion of a motorcycle body; and a tank supporting portion configured to support a reservoir tank for brake oil. The pannier is disposed rearward of the operation unit, and an operation portion of the operation unit is disposed at a position at which overlap of the operation portion with the step stay and the pannier is avoided as viewed from an outer lateral side.
US09434435B2
A motorcycle comprises a vehicle body frame; a front seat including a front seat body section on which a rider is to be seated, and a protruding section protruding rearward from the front seat body section; a rear seat including a rear seat body section on which a passenger is to be seated, and a recessed section which is provided in a front portion of the rear seat body section and opened upward and forward; and a seat lock device mounted to the vehicle body frame. In a state in which a front portion of the rear seat is placed over the vehicle body frame from above, the protruding section of the front seat is accommodated into the recessed section of the rear seat and presses the recessed section from above, and the front seat is locked by the seat lock device.
US09434434B2
In a centralized unlocking apparatus for a vehicle locking mechanism in which the operation of an operator in an operating portion capable of placing a locking mechanism in unlocked state is regulated when a main switch is in a predetermined rotary operation position, a pair of operating portions each provided with an operator is disposed on both sides of a main switch. Thus, the number of locking mechanisms that can be operated into unlocked state can be increased.
US09434420B1
A vehicle is provided. The vehicle has an underbody that includes a floor panel, a pair of laterally spaced side members affixed to opposing lateral side portions of the floor panel, a plurality of cross members affixed to and spanning the pair of side members, a longitudinal member affixed to and spanning two adjacent cross members, and a mounting element affixed to the longitudinal member. The longitudinal member is configured to transfer a load from the mounting element to the adjacent cross members.
US09434414B2
A system and a method are provided for estimating an actual hitch angle between a vehicle and a trailer. A hitch sensor on the vehicle continuously senses a measured hitch angle and a steering sensor continuously senses a steering angle of steered wheels of the vehicle. A controller determines an offset between the measured hitch angle and the actual hitch angle when the measured hitch angle and the steering angle are substantially constant while the vehicle and trailer are reversing.
US09434405B2
A shaft coupler that couples a worm shaft and an output shaft of an electric motor in an electric power steering device includes a joint on a motor side that is connected to the output shaft, a joint on a worm side that is connected to the worm shaft, and a coupling that is provided between the joints and that is for transmitting rotational torque of the electric motor to the worm shaft. The joint on the motor side and the joint on the worm side, each having a plurality of protrusion parts that extend in an axial direction, are arranged so that the protrusion parts are aligned alternately in a circumferential direction. The coupling is formed by a plurality of caps that are fitted to the protrusion parts of the joint on the motor side or the joint on the worm side.
US09434404B2
A vehicle steering device includes a steering reaction force generating device having a steering reaction force motor; a steering device having a steering motor; a clutch device having an electromagnetic solenoid that sets the steering reaction force generating device and the steering device in a mechanically engaged or disengaged state; a current integrated value acquisition unit that obtains an integrated value of a current of one of the steering reaction force and steering motors; an overload state determination unit that determines whether or not the one motor is in an overload state based on the integrated value of the current supplied to the one motor, obtained by the current integrated value acquisition unit; and a drive control unit that controls driving of the electromagnetic solenoid to set the clutch device in an engaged state when the overload state determination unit determines that the one motor is in an overload state.
US09434400B2
A mobile cleaning system (10) that enables touch-free, daily cleaning and disinfecting to areas or locations within an establishment is provided. The system includes generally a push cart (12) having front (18) and rear (20) sections spaced between vertically upstanding side sections (22A-B). One or more sections of the cart (12) include a modulated space configurable with one or more cleaning and/or disinfecting modules for performing and supporting a cleaning and/or disinfecting operation. A tool drip tray (30) extends outward from at least one of the sections beneath a tool storage location (32A-B) for preventing liquid or debris from dropping onto a surface beneath the cart (12) while stationary or in transit.
US09434397B2
A positive train control may comprise a plurality of different sensors coupled to a processor that determines whether there is an object on a track way and/or an anomaly of a track way, and if there is, provides an alert and/or a train control action. The plural sensors may include a visual imager, an infrared imager, a radar, a doppler radar, a laser sensor, a laser ranging device, an acoustic sensor, and/or an acoustic ranging device. Data from the plural sensors is geo-tagged and time tagged. Some embodiments of the train control employ track monitors, switch monitors and/or wayside monitors, and some employ locating devices such as GPS and inertial devices.
US09434391B2
A brake control unit for a railway vehicle having first and second cores. The first core is responsible for brake control functions and the second core is responsible for communications. A switch controls communication between the second core and a communication bus on the railway vehicle to safeguard the braking function of the first core. The second core only has write access to the communication bus when enabled by the first core, which first core determines whether the system is in a defined safe state to safeguard the braking function. This reduces the testing requirements for new communications software.
US09434386B2
Methods and systems for controlling a vehicle powertrain that may be automatically stopped and started are presented. In one example, a method adjusts a position of a transmission clutch in response to battery current during engine cranking. The method may reduce clutch wear and improve vehicle launch from a stop.
US09434385B2
A charge control device for a battery is mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle comprises an engine, a generator driven with power of the engine, the battery configured to be chargeable with electric power generated by the generator, and auxiliary machinery operated with electric power of the battery. The charge control device comprises: a load condition detector that is configured to detect a load condition of the auxiliary machinery; and a charge controller that is configured to control charging into the battery, based on the load condition of the auxiliary machinery, wherein in response to detection of a state change from a state in which a magnitude of the load of the auxiliary machinery is smaller than a predetermined threshold value to a state in which a magnitude of the load is larger than the predetermined threshold value, the charge controller controls a generated voltage by the generator based on the magnitude of the load of the auxiliary machinery prior to the state change during a time period until a specified time has elapsed after the detection of the state change, and the charge controller controls a generated voltage by the generator based on a magnitude of the load of the auxiliary machinery detected by the load condition detector during a time period after elapse of the specified time.
US09434384B2
A vehicle cruise control apparatus of a vehicle includes a display and a controller. The display displays virtual information by projecting the virtual information on an information display region in front of a driver of the vehicle through augmented reality. The controller determines whether the front road is a slope road or a curved road based on road information while controlling driving of the vehicle according to an inter-vehicle distance and a driving speed of the preceding vehicle, determines whether the preceding vehicle exists in an information display region in front of a driver when it is determined that the front road is the slope road or the curved road, and controls the display to display a virtual preceding vehicle in the information display region through augmented reality when it is determined that the preceding vehicle does not exist.
US09434379B2
A semiconductor circuit for an electronic control device for a system in a motor vehicle, wherein the system is not mechanically intrinsically safe, includes a functional computer (FR), at least one monitoring unit (MU) and a monitoring computer that are each physically independent of each other. A full or a restricted function of the semiconductor circuit is ensured by the functional computer (FR) in the event of a failure of the monitoring computer (UR) and vice versa. The semiconductor circuit is monitored according to a monitoring method.
US09434373B2
A control apparatus for an automatic transmission is provided with an automatic gearshift mode and a manual gearshift mode. The control apparatus changes a gearshift characteristic of the automatic transmission in response to a situation where an accelerator pedal opening is smaller than a predetermined opening, so that downshifting occurs at higher vehicle speed than in a situation where the accelerator pedal opening is greater than or equal to the predetermined opening. While the manual gearshift mode is being selected, the control apparatus inhibits change of the gearshift characteristic until downshifting is performed once, and permits change of the gearshift characteristic after downshifting is performed once.
US09434368B2
When a controller (19) is restarted after system control has ended, a brake apparatus drives an electric motor (43) so as to achieve a corrected target thrust force calculated by setting a greater thrust force than a target thrust force set according to a temperature estimated value of a frictional member at this time, based on the temperature estimated value of the frictional member at the time of the end of the control, or drives the electric motor based on the temperature estimated value of the frictional member at the time of the end of the control.
US09434363B2
When a vehicle runs along a curved path, successive values of a speed limit are calculated based on the yaw rate of the vehicle, and values of acceleration demand are calculated and applied to control the actual vehicle speed based on the speed limit. If commencement of oscillation of the yaw rate and acceleration demand is detected, due to running along the curved path, guard processing is applied to the values of speed limit used to calculate the acceleration demand or is applied to the acceleration demand, such as to prevent the acceleration demand from varying in a direction that would increase the speed limit. Instability of deceleration control due to the oscillation is thereby substantially suppressed.
US09434357B2
An apparatus for cleaning a tail gate glass for a vehicle may include a spoiler door rotatably installed on a rear spoiler; an outlet formed at a position of the rear spoiler facing the spoiler door; an air duct installed in an internal space of the rear spoiler and guiding external air introduced through the spoiler door to the outlet; a nozzle fixed to the rear spoiler and spraying a cleaning liquid to the tail gate glass; and a door opening and closing device fixed to the rear spoiler, having a first end connected to the spoiler door and a second end fluid-connected to a cleaning liquid hose, and operated to open and close the spoiler door depending on a change in a pressure of the cleaning liquid hose.
US09434354B2
A beam blade windshield wiper assembly having a universal coupler assembly including a carrier, a saddle that is removably received and retained by the carrier, and a coupler that is operatively mounted to the saddle. The carrier, saddle, and coupler cooperate to accommodate various sizes of “pinch-type” attachment members, “push-button-type” attachment members, as well as “side-pin-type” and “pin-and-bent-tab-type” attachment members that are used to connect the wiper arm and the windshield wiper assembly.
US09434348B2
A seatbelt latch circuit can include an illumination source configured to illuminate a seatbelt latch in response to a signal. The seatbelt latch circuit can also include a status sensor configured to output a first current if the seatbelt latch is in a removed state, output a second current if the seatbelt latch is in an inserted state and output a third current if the seatbelt latch has a fault. The seatbelt latch circuit communicates with a vehicle electrical system through only two conductors.
US09434347B2
A seatbelt retractor inertial locking system for motor vehicle belt restraint systems. The inertial locking system incorporates features to reduce the influence of contaminants from causing unwanted locking of the associated retractor. The feature is in part provided by the positioning of a point contact between a ball mass and a locking lever. The inertia actuator forms the inertial ball mass nest surface which has a vented construction which permits the escape of contaminants and further contributes to reducing noise generated by contact between the ball mass and the nest surface.
US09434344B2
There is provided a front passenger seat airbag device including a front passenger seat airbag that receives a supply of gas and inflates and deploys in front of a front passenger seat, and that is formed with a vehicle rear-facing first head contact face at a vehicle up-down direction upper portion in an inflated and deployed state, and a center airbag that is integrally formed to the front passenger seat airbag, that receives a supply of gas and inflates and deploys on a vehicle width direction center side of the front passenger seat airbag, and that is formed in an inflated and deployed state with a second head contact face extending from a vehicle width direction center side end portion of the first head contact face toward the vehicle rear, and facing both the vehicle rear and the vehicle width direction outside.
US09434342B2
A vehicle seat that is equipped with a side airbag device includes: an airbag package that includes a side airbag that is housed within a side portion of a seatback; a seatback skin at which a burst line portion receives inflation pressure of the side airbag and breaks; and a seatback pad in which a vertical slit portion, that is positioned further toward a seat transverse direction outer side than a front edge portion of the airbag package, extends toward upper and lower sides of the side portion along the front edge portion. The side airbag inflates and expands with passing-through the vertical slit portion, and an upper end of the vertical slit portion is positioned further toward a seatback rear side than a lower end of the vertical slit portion.
US09434321B2
A vehicle storage assembly includes a bracket, a mounting plate, a post having a distal end and a proximal end, an upper member defining a frame configured to support a rigging accessory, a lower member, and a locking member positioned to selectively fix the orientation of the post, the upper member, and the lower member. The distal end of the post is rotatably coupled to the bracket and the proximal end of the post is rotatably coupled to the mounting plate. The upper member includes an outer wall and a plurality of supports defining a plurality of stations, the plurality of supports coupling the outer wall to the post. The lower member includes an outer panel and a plurality of partitions defining a plurality of cavities configured to receive the rigging accessory, the plurality of partitions coupling the outer panel to the post.
US09434319B2
A portable electronic device dock includes a storage unit and a lid, wherein the lid is adapted to clamp a portable electronic device between a portion of the lid and a portion of the storage unit to retain the portable electronic device in a user-accessible display position. The device dock includes a slide assembly adapted to bias the lid to an open position and a clutch assembly adapted to retain the lid in a clamped position on the portable electronic device. A spring member retains the clutch assembly in a released condition as the lid opens. The slide assembly includes a release tab configured to act on the spring member to allow the clutch assembly to convert to an engaged condition once the lid has reached a fully open position.
US09434313B2
An optical lighting assembly for use with a vehicular outside rearview mirror includes a printed circuit board (PCB) having a light source such as a light emitting diode (LED) mounted thereon. An optical device such as a light pipe is positioned adjacent to the LED for propagating light away from the LED. A mirror element includes at least one indicia where light escaping from the light pipe is used to illuminate the indicia.
US09434305B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus that is capable of generating a vehicle approach notification sound in a suitable range according to a vehicle speed. The vehicle approach notification sound generating apparatus of the present invention is characterized by including a vehicle speed calculating unit that calculates a vehicle speed, a vehicle external speaker that outputs a vehicle approach notification sound for notifying of approach of the vehicle, and a general controller that controls a directivity angle width representing a breadth of directivity of the vehicle approach notification sound or a directivity direction of the vehicle approach notification sound, wherein the general controller controls the directivity angle width or the directivity direction according to the speed calculated by the vehicle speed calculating unit.
US09434297B2
An illumination apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The illumination apparatus comprises a trim portion affixed to a surface comprising a first photoluminescent portion and at least one light source. The light source may be configured to emit a first emission at a first wavelength. The first emission may be configured to excite the first photoluminescent portion in a back-lit configuration. The trim portion is configured to mask the first photoluminescent portion from external light sources to prevent excitation of the first photoluminescent portion in the presence of external light sources.
US09434290B2
Locking mechanism assemblies are provided for retaining a slide-room of a recreational vehicle in a retracted position. An exemplary assembly has a strut member extending between the slide-room and a wall of the recreational vehicle. The strut member is pivotable between a first position and a second position corresponding to an extended position and a retracted position, respectively, of the slide-room. The assembly further includes a guide member coupled to the strut member and movable therewith such that pivoting motion of the strut member between the first position and the second position causes corresponding linear motion of the guide member along a guide between a first position and a second position. The strut member applies a compressive force to the slide-room and a vehicle wall adjacent the slide-room to inhibit movement of the slide-room when the slide-room is in the retracted position.
US09434288B2
Receiving device for at least one container in a vehicle interior. A receiving device comprising a receiving frame is known, at least one adjustable cup holder being arranged in said receiving device, said cup holder being able to be displaced along opposing guide tracks of the receiving frame, to which latching means are assigned in order to fix the cup holder in a releasable manner in different positions relative to the opposing guide tracks. Longitudinal synchronization means are assigned to the at least one cup holder in order to achieve a parallel displacement of the cup holder along the opposing guide tracks. Use in the vehicle interior of passenger motor vehicles.
US09434281B2
A seat supports an occupant of a vehicle. The seat comprises a seating frame member for providing a surface to support the occupant and a back frame member extending away from the seating frame member. The back frame member has a first side member and a second side member. A first cross member and a second cross member extend horizontally between the first and second side members. Each of the first and second cross members have a central region flanked on both sides by bent portions with the first and second cross members folded back upon themselves within the bent portions. The bent portions straighten out when a force above a predetermined value is applied to the first and second cross members. The central region plastically deforms once the bent portions straighten out for reducing an impact force transferred from the seat to the occupant.
US09434280B2
A seat assembly can include a base, a linkage assembly, a seat, and an energy-management assembly. The linkage assembly can be supported by the base and include a return plate supported by the base for rotation about a first axis of rotation. The seat can be supported by the linkage assembly for movement relative to the base along a generally arcuate path. The return plate can be operable to rotate relative to the seat about a second axis of rotation. The energy-management assembly can be supported by the base for rotation about a third axis of rotation and supported by the return plate for rotation about a fourth axis of rotation. The energy-management assembly can include a biasing member configured to resist the movement of the seat relative to the base along the generally arcuate path.
US09434275B2
A method of providing a vehicle rear seat reminder using a vehicle rear seat reminder system is provided. The method includes exposing a user input device of the vehicle rear seat reminder system by opening a door of a vehicle. The user input device is accessible to a user with the door in an open condition. The user input device being inaccessible to the user with the door in a closed condition. The user input device is actuated with the door in the open condition thereby initiating an alert program.
US09434273B2
An electrical source control apparatus controls a vehicle traveling by using a source system including a first source performing input/output of first power and a second source performing input/output of second power, capacity of the second source is smaller than that of the first source and output of the second source is larger than that of the first source. The apparatus has a controller programmed to select a first driving mode which prioritizes a fuel efficiency over a driving performance and a second driving mode which prioritizes the driving performance over the fuel efficiency based on a characteristic required for the vehicle from driving modes having different ratios of the first power with respect to a required power required for the source system, and control the first and second sources such that the input/output of the first power is performed in accordance with the ratio of the selected driving mode.
US09434271B2
A grid to vehicle system is described. In some examples, the system selectively controls one or more electric vehicles connected to an electric grid based on conditions associated with the electric grid. For example, the system may control charging operations of the electric vehicles based on load balancing conditions associated with the electric grid, based on cost conditions associated with electric power provided by the electric grid, and so on.
US09434268B2
An electric vehicle recharging station that can be readily incorporated into existing building electrical distribution systems during retrofit or new construction. The system has at least one enclosure and a vehicle charging connector. A circuit interrupter has line terminals for connection to respective first and second phases of the distribution system. A contactor relay has first and second phases coupled to the respective circuit interrupter and electric vehicle charging connector phases and separable contacts for each phase, for selective connection of electric power to the charging connector. A recharger controller is coupled to the contactor, for causing selective separation and closing of the separable contacts, so that electrical power is transferred to the electric vehicle. The recharging station system may also incorporate electric rate metering functions as well as communication capability from the controller to a remote controller. A human machine interface may be coupled to the controller.
US09434266B2
A method for monitoring and optimizing operation of a terminal, including: generating an output voltage equal to a first DC value; connecting a vehicle, the output voltage switching to a second value; authorizing charging of the vehicle by modulating the output voltage between two values, with a maximum authorized charge current being set; checking an ability of the vehicle to be recharged by monitoring a value of the output voltage; supplying an output voltage modulated between a third voltage value and a negative value; initializing a first timer; reading a diagnosis time between initialization and the switching of the voltage from the second to the third value; comparing the time with standard values to determine a type of charger; taking characteristics of the charger into account to optimize energy management.
US09434253B2
A damper restricts pivot pin rotation associated with operation of an operating section, wherein friction resistance that impedes the pivot pin rotation is changed in stepped fashion. When the pivot pin rotates in direction α due to depression of an accelerator pedal, a slide cam shifts an edge section of an inclined cam surface away from a rotating cam while staying in contact with a gradual first inclined region of the rotating cam's inclined cam surface. Torque around the axis of the pivot pin is produced, the entire region of the slide cam's inclined cam surface comes into contact with a steep second inclined region of the rotating cam's inclined cam surface upon accelerator pedal depression to a prescribed position (the pivot pin has rotated by a prescribed angle θ1 in direction α), and the torque around the axis of the pivot pin rapidly increases.
US09434247B2
The invention relates to a fuel tank (1) for a motor vehicle with at least one filler pipe (3) which extends partially outside the filling volume (5) of the fuel tank (1), with at least one refuelling venting path from a refuelling venting device (10) to a fuel vapor filter (9), and with at least one operational venting path to the fuel vapor filter (9). The fuel tank (1) comprises at least one operational venting line (14) which is attached to the filler pipe (3) inside the filling volume of the fuel tank (1).
US09434245B2
A wheel loader includes: a driver's cab; an engine; a chassis, at sides of which tires are provided; an engine room in which the engine is mounted on the chassis, the engine room being provided behind the driver's cab; front portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being located at the driver's cab side; rear portion structures respectively standing at left and right positions of a surface of the engine room, the surface being opposite to the surface located at the driver's cab side; and a coupling structure that couples upper portions of the front portion structures to upper portions of the rear portion structures and forms a peripheral device installation space at an upper portion of the engine.
US09434239B2
A roller blind system for a rear window of a motor vehicle, having a roller blind, a roller blind shaft rotatable about a main axis and a sheet-like structure which, in a stowed state, is wound on the roller blind shaft and which, in a functional state, is partially unwound from the roller blind shaft, and having an shelf for arranging in the rear region of the motor vehicle. The shelf has front and rear shelf portions separated from one another by a passage slot through which the sheet-like structure is moved during a movement from the stowed state into the functional state. The two shelf portions are connected to one another via a trough body and the roller blind shaft is arranged within the trough body and is rotatably mounted by bearing blocks which are fastened to, or are an integral part of, the trough body.
US09434228B1
Some embodiments are directed to a structure for mounting a damper to a vehicle structural member. The structure includes a hollow rigid mount body having an upper portion that extends through a structural member aperture so as to project above the member, and a lower portion disposed beneath the member. The lower portion outer diameter can be larger than the upper portion outer diameter. A securing member is disposed around the rigid mount body, so that the vehicle structural member is located between the securing member and rigid mount body lower portion. A bearing assembly is disposed within the rigid mount body lower portion, and configured to retain an upper portion of the piston rod of the damper within the rigid mount body lower portion, while allowing the piston rod to move in a direction at an angle relative to an axis of the aperture of the vehicle structural member.
US09434226B1
A capture and control device adapted for mounting to the front end of a law enforcement vehicle so as to restrain a suspect vehicle from fleeing and including at least one hook adapted to fit into undercarriage areas of the suspect vehicle.
US09434209B2
A wheel bearing apparatus has an outer member, an inner member including a wheel hub and at least one inner ring, and double row rolling elements freely rollably contained between the inner and outer raceway surfaces of the inner and outer members via cages. A hardened ring-shaped gear member is mounted on an end of a cylindrical portion of the wheel hub. The gear member is formed with a gear portion on its outer circumference and with a splined portion on its inner circumference. The splined portion engages a hub-splined portion formed on the outer circumference of the cylindrical portion of the wheel hub. A contacting surface of the gear member and a contacting surface of the inner ring that abut against each other are ground. The inner rings are axially immovably secured under a condition where a predetermined amount of a bearing pre-stress is applied to the inner rings via the gear member.
US09434204B2
The present disclosure provides for identification systems and related methods of use. The disclosed identification systems can include a first ink and a second ink, each of which can comprise one or more time-dependent properties. The first and second inks can be disposed in a spatial pattern on a substrate. A time-dependent property of the first ink can cause a portion of the first ink to migrate from one location to another location over time, and a time-dependent property of the second ink can cause a portion of the second ink to migrate from one location to another location over time. Migration of the inks can also cause the spatial pattern to change from a first state at a first time to a second state at a second time. Evaluation and/or interpretation of the state of the spatial pattern at a second time can provide information about a product.
US09434198B2
A heat transferable material includes a heat transferable polymeric binder and a light stabilizer that is an N-oxyl radical derived from a hindered amine. The N-oxyl radical has the following formula (A) or formula (B): wherein R1, R2, R5, and R6 are each a straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl or alkene, and R3 and R4 are each independently H, CH2CH3, CH3, OH, OR, COOH, COOR, or NH—C(═O)R, wherein R is a straight or branched C1-C6 alkyl or alkene, and having a molecular weight of 600 or less. At least one of R3 and R4 is not hydrogen. The heat transferable material can be in a section or patch on a thermal donor element to provide a protective overcoat material. A patch in the donor element can include a dye. The heat transferable material provides better image stability and improved iridescence when transferred to a receiver of some type.
US09434196B2
Printed products can be efficiently sorted into non-defective ones and defective ones even when a discharge failure occurs during the printing operation. Two inspection patterns for detecting discharge failure are printed before and after a plurality of images. The inspection patterns are read to determine the type of discharge failure. Printed media are sorted based on whether it is determined that there is a continuous discharge failure, whether it is determined that there is an accidental discharge failure, or whether it is determined that the discharge is normal.
US09434182B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit which performs recording on a recording medium; and a movable body which includes a support portion that supports the recording medium and which moves along a guide shaft, in which the movable body includes a bearing which is supported by the guide shaft and is movable in an opposite direction from gravity in relation to the guide shaft, and a load center which receives the moving force for the movement and is positioned on a straight line along a movement direction, where the straight line intersects a straight line in a gravity direction which passes through a center of gravity of the movable body.
US09434181B1
A printing device includes a table that allows a plurality of printing subjects to be placed thereon, a projection device that projects a binary pattern to the printing subjects placed on the table, an image capturing device that captures an image of the printing subjects having the binary pattern projected thereon, a three-dimensional information acquirer that acquires a spatial code image from the image captured by the image capturing device and acquires three-dimensional information on the printing subjects from the acquired spatial code image, a recognizer that recognizes a position and a posture of each of the printing subjects from the acquired three-dimensional information, a disposer that disposes a printing image on each of the printing subjects in accordance with the position and posture thereof, and a printing data generator that generates printing data on the printing image disposed on each of the printing subjects.
US09434176B1
The system and methods described maintain composite color print integrity of an inoperative ink-jet. The methods may include a computing device and a printer to obtain the print job and reconstruct a pixel bitmap. The methods may also include a sensor configured to generate output signals associated with the individual ink-jets located in the print-head to indicate inoperative ink-jets and help compensate for those ink-jets.
US09434167B2
A seal member to be arranged between a first member having a first flow channel and a second member having a second flow channel, including: an elastic portion formed of an elastically deformable first material and including at least a communicating portion provided with a communicating hole which communicates a first flow channel and a second flow channel; and a main body portion formed of a second material having higher liquid-resistant properties than the first material and configured to surround the elastic portion in a state in which at least a flow channel seal surface of the communicating portion is exposed.
US09434162B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a pressure chamber forming substrate that forms a pressure chamber filled with ink, a nozzle that ejects the ink in a Z direction along the pressure chamber forming substrate, and a communicating flow path that allows the pressure chamber to communicate with the nozzle, in which the communicating flow path includes a first flow path along a Y direction intersecting the Z direction.
US09434146B2
A method of using a multi-layer biocidal structure includes providing a multi-layer biocidal structure having a support and a structured bi-layer on or over the support. The structured bi-layer includes a first cured layer on or over the support and a second layer in a spatial relationship to the first cured layer on a side of the first cured layer opposite the support. The structured bi-layer has at least one depth greater than the thickness of the second layer and multiple biocidal particles located only in the second layer. The multi-layer biocidal structure is located on a surface.
US09434145B2
A method for forming an optical element deposits a first thin film coating to form a first coated surface on a first transparent substrate that is substantially flat, wherein, for incident light at an angle of incidence exceeding 5 degrees, the first multilayer thin film coating transmits a first wavelength band and reflects a second wavelength band. The first coated surface has a first surface form, and further has a second surface opposite the first coated surface with a second surface form. The second surface of the first substrate bonds to a third surface of a second transparent substrate to form the optical element. The third surface has a third surface form prior to bonding and the first coated surface has a fourth surface form after bonding. The difference between the fourth and the third surface forms is less than the difference between the first and third surface forms.
US09434134B2
The present invention relates to light weight composite materials which comprise a metallic layer and a polymeric layer, the polymeric layer containing a filled thermoplastic polymer which includes a thermoplastic polymer and a metallic fiber. The composite materials of the present invention may be formed using conventional stamping equipment at ambient temperatures. Composite materials of the present invention may also be capable of being welded to other metal materials using a resistance welding process such as resistance spot welding.
US09434132B2
A multi-layered decorative panel comprises a digitally printed rigid panel including a digitally printed image digitally printed onto a rigid panel and at least one other rigid panel. At least one of the rigid panels is transparent with a solid adhesive layer adapted to bond the digitally printed rigid panel and the other rigid panel together. The digitally printed image faces the solid adhesive layer, and the solid adhesive layer is composed of a cured adhesive resin that is liquid at a temperature of between 20° C. and 25° C. and when being applied.
US09434130B2
An elastic laminate sheet with excellent elasticity while maintaining softness and favorable appearance including surface feel and the like, an article containing this elastic laminate sheet, a laminate sheet where a high elasticity laminate portion is the elastic laminate sheet, and an article containing the laminate sheet.
US09434129B2
A dry adhesive comprising a micro-featured and nano-featured surface, and a compliant surface having a hardness of about 60 Shore A or less, the micro-featured and nano-featured surface and the compliant surface being capable of forming upon contact a dry adhesive bond with each other.
US09434122B2
A packaging bag line-folding and sealing machine includes a first sealing unit and a second sealing unit for sealing a packaging bag therebetween, a first rocker arm and a second rocker arm mounted at the first sealing unit, a locating block, a first link coupled between the first rocker arm and the locating block, two line-folding units, and two second links coupled between the second rocker arm and the line-folding units for moving the line-folding units to make folding lines on the packaging bag between the first and second sealing units upon movement of the first sealing unit relative to the locating block. The application of the packaging bag line-folding and sealing machine greatly improves the packaging quality of packaging bags, and allows adjustment of the line-folding units to fit different sizes of packaging bags, enhancing user convenience.
US09434118B2
A method, control system, computer program, and article of manufacture for controlling hydraulic press systems, and a new press system that utilizes a number of improvements over the assignee's original system. The control system is designed to control a hydraulic press having a die, at least two separate sets of workpiece forming punches, and at least two hydraulic pistons, each operatively associated with one set of workpiece-forming punches. The control system includes a means for controlling a magnitude of a pressing force applied by each set of workpiece-forming punches, and a means for controlling a position of each set of workpiece-forming punches relative to the die.
US09434115B2
A method for controlling a manufacturing process of components of a tire for vehicle wheels, wherein at least one elongated element fed by a dispensing member is distributed onto a forming support by means of at least one pressing member acting on the at least one elongated element along a pressing direction. The method includes the steps of substantially continuously detecting the value of a characteristic quantity indicative of the displacement of the at least one pressing member along the pressing direction, comparing the detected value of the characteristic quantity with a threshold value and generating a warning signal when the detected value of the characteristic quantity exceeds the threshold value. Such a control method allows the presence of possible deposition anomalies to be identified right from the deposition step of the elongated elements on the forming support so as to ensure ever higher quality levels in tires manufactured through continuous processes.
US09434103B2
A facility for heat-shrinking sleeves made of heat-shrinkable material inserted onto supports, such as containers, includes an enclosure provided with a heat-diffusion means, a conveyor for carrying the supports through the enclosure between an intake of the enclosure and an output of the enclosure, the enclosure including a base and a hood which is mounted mobile between an open position allowing access to the conveyor and an operational position in which said hood is sealingly mounted on the base, the hood comprising two openings through which the conveyor extends when the hood is in operational position. The hood comprises an inner partition mounted mobile between a retracted position and a service position in which the partition defines with the side walls of the hood and the base a main chamber of the enclosure subjected to the action of the heat-diffusion means when the hood is in operational position.
US09434090B1
The present invention provides a process for producing granular material useful as aggregate for the production of lightweight construction materials and involves the mixing of a pulverized Calcium Oxide material with a dewatered clay waste material in a paddle or ribbon type mixer until reaching a state of a uniform consistency paste like material and then allowing such material to cure for several days while periodically mixing to expose new surface area thereof to the air to facilitate evaporation until the water content of the cured material is less than six percent.
US09434079B2
A shaving razor handle includes a handle casing, a handle interconnect member coupled to the handle casing, the handle interconnect member having a body, a projection extending from the body, the projection having an enlarged distal end and angled side surfaces extending from the distal end to a base, wherein the side surfaces taper from the distal end to the base, forming a projected apex angle of about 45 and 60 degrees. The projected apex angle is about 52 degrees. The body has an arched profile. The body is asymmetrically shaped or generally D-shaped. The body has two slots that extend through the body on opposite sides of the projection. The handle includes a spring-biased release button having a pair of pusher arms, wherein each slot receives a respective pusher arm. The handle includes a plunger extending through an opening defined by the body and extending through the projection.
US09434073B2
A robot apparatus (1) includes a control apparatus (3) which carries out correction with use of an estimated value of a joint torque estimation unit (53) which estimates a joint torque acting upon each of joints (20 to 25). The joint torque estimation unit (53) includes a Coulomb frictional force torque estimation unit (70), a viscous frictional torque estimation unit (71), and a transition interval arithmetic operation unit (72) which smoothens transition from the Coulomb frictional force torque estimation unit (70) to the viscous frictional force estimation unit (71) and transition from the viscous frictional force torque estimation unit (71) to the Coulomb frictional force torque estimation unit (70).
US09434069B1
Examples are provided that describe a motion heat map. In one example, a method includes receiving, an input indicative of an environment including a robotic device. The method also includes receiving information associated with the robotic device such as operational characteristics of the robotic device and a range of motion associated with a component of the robotic device. The method also includes determining a motion per path metric associated with the component of the robotic device based on a simulated operation of the robotic device. The method also includes determining a force associated with the motion per path metric. Based on the force, determining a heat map to demonstrate a varying effect of motion of the component.
US09434053B2
A compression tool suited for aiding the installation of gas cylinders, especially for the underside of fold-and-roll tables. The tool comprises a generally C-shaped clamp subassembly having a lower jaw, an upper jaw, and an arm. A spindle is connected through the upper jaw, the spindle having a spindle lower end. An upper channel member, preferably U-shaped, is connected to the spindle lower end, the upper channel member configured to travel axially along the spindle and engage a first eyelet of a gas cylinder. A lower channel member, also preferably U-shaped, is connected to an outer end of the lower jaw in alignment with the upper channel member, the lower channel member configured to engage an opposing, second eyelet of the gas cylinder, wherein the gas cylinder is compressed and secured within the clamp subassembly and immobilized for installation.
US09434051B2
An abrasive article comprising a nonwoven substrate material having a top surface and a bottom surface; a woven cloth; a thermoplastic fastener; and a plurality of abrasive particles, wherein the cloth layer is adhered to the top surface of the nonwoven substrate material; wherein the thermoplastic fastener is disposed on the cloth, and wherein the plurality of abrasive particles are disposed on at least the bottom surface of the nonwoven abrasive substrate.
US09434033B2
A hole cutter having an extruded plate cap and methods and apparatuses for making such caps and hole cutters. The plate cap has planar opposing external and internal surfaces with an extruded hub extending axially inwardly from the internal surface. An aperture extends axially through the hub from the external surface. At least a portion of the aperture can be threaded for threaded engagement with a driving arbor. The hub is long enough so that the threaded portion contains at least two full threads. A blade body with a cutting edge is attached to the cap to form a hole cutter.
US09434032B2
A method for manufacturing a carrier assembly of a stacked planetary gear set is provided. The method includes forming the inner and outer spiders and attaching the spiders to a back plate or to each other to form the carrier assembly. One or both of the inner and outer carrier spiders are formed from powdered metal, by precision casting, and/or by stamping. The stacked planetary gear set may be axially aligned or axially offset.
US09434026B2
A filtering assembly is laid flat on an outer shroud. An inner drainage layer is set over the filtering assembly while laid flat such that the inner drainage layer overlaps the filtering assembly. The inner drainage layer is sealed and secured to the outer shroud by diffusion bonding or welding while overlaying the filtering assembly. With the filtering assembly held firm between the inner drainage layer and the outer shroud a spiral winding procedure is commenced to roll the flat assembly into a cylindrical shape. The edges are sealed by welding or diffusion bonding. The spiral winding and seam closure can be done on a perforated base pipe or the base pipe can be inserted into the finished assembly at a later time and secured. Alternatively the filtering assembly and outer shroud, with or without the drainage layer can be wound over a perforated base pipe or a complete screen assembly.
US09434017B2
Braze methods include providing a substrate comprising a pre-sintered preform disposed thereon, wherein the pre-sintered preform comprises a mixture comprising a base alloy comprising about 30 weight percent to about 90 weight percent of the mixture and a second alloy comprising a sufficient amount of melting point depressant to have a lower melting temperature than the base alloy. Braze methods further include at least partially covering the pre-sintered preform with a heat resistant material, wherein a melt temperature of the heat resistant material is higher than a melt temperature of the pre-sintered preform, and heating the pre-sintered preform on the substrate.
US09434003B2
A molding is produced with a disk-shaped or plate-shaped basic body having a large number of knob-like and/or web-like elevations which merge into the basic body with inclined side surfaces. The molding is produced by pressing and sintering powdery raw materials close to the final shape. First, the boundary surfaces of the basic body are pressed to final shape as far as the transition regions of the elevations and the elevations are pressed to an oversize. The projection height of the elevations from the basic body is greater than the projection height in the finally pressed state. Their side surfaces form an angle of inclination in the range from 90°-150° with the respectively adjacent boundary surface of the basic body. Then the elevations are pressed to near final shape while the angle of inclination is enlarged to a greater value.
US09434001B2
A three-plate die casting tool has a gating system, and a gating system is used in the tool. The tool includes a gating cone, at least one gating distributor channel connected with the gating cone, as well as at least one gating sprue connected with the at least one gating distributor channel. The gating cone makes a transition into at least one gating distributor channel that deflects the casting material capable of flow. The gating distributor channel opens into a kind of central gating distributor location, from which multiple gating re-distributor channels proceed, which make a transition, in each instance, into at least one, preferably only one gating sprue that deflects the casting material capable of flow. The gating sprues form the connection or the entry to the cast component.
US09433996B2
The disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger assembly with an enhanced material system. The enhanced material system includes refrigerant tubes extruded from a high purity AA3000 series alloy billet having about 1% by weight (wt %) Mn and pre-braze treated with either a reactive zinc flux or a mixture of elemental zinc powder and a controlled atmosphere brazed (CAB) flux applied by glass plasma or organic binder, such as an organic binder, fins formed from modified a AA3003 alloy having less than 0.05 wt % Cu and from 1.2 to 1.8% wt % Zn, and header manifolds manufactured from a AA3000 series alloy with a AA4000 series cladding having 0.9 to 1.1 wt % Zn. The enhanced material system may also include a post braze coating and a subsequent organic polymer resin topcoat.
US09433984B2
A method for lubricating the cylinders of a roll stand, for roll nip lubrication in a roll stand for a roll band. A mixture of water and oil is produced by a mixing and spraying device, which is supplied with water by a first supply line (3) and is supplied with oil by a second supply line (2). The mixture is sprayed to the strip and/or into the roll nip and/or to at least one of the cylinders of the roll stand. The water flowing to the mixing and spraying device (10) is heated by a heating device (6) provided in the first supply line (3) for a predetermined period of time set by controlling a control unit (9).
US09433983B2
Rolling method for the production of flat products with low productivity, comprising a continuous casting step at a speed comprised between 3.5 m/min and 6 m/min of a thin slab with a thickness comprised between 25 mm and 50 mm, a roughing step to reduce the thickness in at least one forming stand or roughing stand, to a value comprised between 10 mm and 40 mm, preferably between 10 mm and 30 mm, even more preferably between 10 mm and 20 mm and suitable for winding, a rapid heating step using induction in order to at least restore the temperature lost in the segment downstream of casting and in the roughing step, a winding/unwinding step in a winding/unwinding device with two mandrels, a rolling step in a Steckel type rolling unit with two reversing type stands of the product unwound by the winding/unwinding device comprising not more than three double rolling passes, or two inversions, in order to obtain a final product comprised between 1-1.2 mm and 16 mm, a cooling step and a winding step of the final product.
US09433982B2
An apparatus for insertion in an enclosed space, including: a tube with: first and second substantially straight portions including first and second ends of the tube, respectively; and a curved portion connecting the first and second portions. The apparatus includes: a plurality of nested segments at least partially disposed within the first substantially straight portion of the tube and connected to the first substantially straight portion; and a first actuator engageable with the tube to displace the first and second substantially straight portions of the tube into and out of the enclosed space through an opening into the enclosed space. The tube is arranged to accept a hose passing through the tube, and a distal segment from the plurality of nested segments is connectable to the hose.
US09433967B2
According to one embodiment, in a pattern inspection method, a guide pattern is formed on a substrate. A block copolymer is applied on the guide pattern. Thereafter, the substrate is heated according to a predetermined heating condition to promote directed self assembly corresponding to a shape of the guide pattern with respect to the block copolymer. Further, the substrate is observed by a fluorescence microscope during heating or after heating the substrate.
US09433966B2
An apparatus for chemical bath deposition includes a housing defining a chemical tank, a circulation pipe, and at least one flow adjustment device disposed inside the chemical tank. The chemical tank has an opening on a top surface and is configured to accept and hold at least one substrate inside the chemical tank. The circulation pipe has at least one portion inside the chemical tank, and is configured to supply at least one chemical to the chemical tank. The at least one flowing adjustment device includes any one of a turbine, a diffuser and a bubbler, or a combination thereof.
US09433962B2
Various embodiments relate to application of a fluid to a substrate. The fluid is locally heated, for example, to obtain a desired thickness profile.
US09433958B2
The saver bottle is primarily intended to improve on existing bottle designs for storing and dispensing small quantities of fluid, such as liquid soap, shampoo, sunscreen, or similar fluids. The existing bottle designs used for these fluids are often unable to disgorge all of their liquid contents during normal use and leave some measure of their contents as a residue at the bottom of the bottle, which is wasteful and inefficient. The saver bottle is adapted to waste less of its liquid contents, and may include a sump, a sloped internal lower surface, a pumping mechanism accessible from the outside of the bottle, and a suction straw. The suction straw may terminate in a flared suction bell, and may extend into the sump. The sloped internal lower surface may be sized to maximize the internal volume of the bottle while still ensuring that any liquids the bottle is intended to house may freely drain into the sump at the bottom of the bottle.
US09433957B2
A cold spray system includes a powder generator and a powder feeder. The powder generator has a powder source disposed within a housing. The powder feeder is in fluid communication with the housing and the powder generator within the housing. A closed circuit defined from the powder generator to the powder feeder conveys powder from the powder generator to the powder feeder without exposing the powder to contaminates from outside the closed circuit.
US09433943B2
Provided herein are methods and devices for rapidly and accurately heating fluid droplets surrounded by a gas-phase medium, such as air. Sub-nanoliter fluid droplets can be rapidly heated by nanoscale field effect transistors via microwave heating by an applied AC voltage to the FET. The heating is in a well-defined interior portion of the fluid droplet, with minimal heating of the outer portion of the fluid droplet, thereby minimizing evaporation. In this manner, rapid thermal cycling is possible, including independently and in parallel for a plurality of droplets. Accordingly, the methods and devices provided herein are used in point-of-care detection such as by PCR that is high speed, robust and of low cost.
US09433937B2
The invention relates to a method for converting a precatalyst complex to an active catalyst complex, wherein the precatalyst complex and the active catalyst complex comprise a ruthenium atom and an optically active ligand that is insoluble in water, and the active catalyst complex furthermore comprises a monohydride and a water molecule. The method comprises the steps of providing water as an activation solvent system with a pH value equal or below 2, and solving said precatalyst complex, an acid, and hydrogen therein. The invention further relates to a method for manufacturing a catalyst composition, a method for hydrogenating a substrate molecule and a reaction mixture.
US09433927B2
As a way to suppress deterioration of catalytic performance in an exhaust gas purification catalyst even after being exposed to an exhaust gas containing a phosphorus compound, an exhaust gas purification catalyst is provided. The catalyst purifies an exhaust gas containing a phosphorus compound, and the catalyst includes a catalyst layer containing rhodium (Rh), palladium (Pd), and either a ceria-zirconia-lanthana complex oxide or a ceria-zirconia-lanthana-yttria complex oxide as catalyst active components. Further, an average value of distances between Rh particles and the nearest Pd particles of the Rh and the Pd is within 4000 nm, a weight ratio of the Pd to the Rh is from 0.2 to 4.9, and a content rate of yttria in the ceria-zirconia-lanthana-yttria complex oxide is 19% by weight or less.
US09433924B2
Mixed metal oxide catalysts (ZnO, CeO, La2O3, NiO, Al203, Si02, TiO2, Nd2O3, Yb2O3, or any combination of these) supported on zirconia (ZrO2) or hydrous zirconia are provided. These mixed metal oxide catalysts can be prepared via coprecipitation, impregnation, or sol-gel methods from metal salt precursors with/without a Zirconium salt precursor. Metal oxides/ZrO2 catalyzes both esterification and transesterification of oil containing free fatty acids in one batch or in single stage. In particular, these mixed metal oxides supported or added on zirconium oxide exhibit good activity and selectivity for esterification and transesterification. The low acid strength of this catalyst can avoid undesirable side reaction such as alcohol dehydration or cracking of fatty acids. Metal oxides/ZrO2 catalysts are not sensitive to any water generated from esterification. Thus, esterification does not require a water free condition or the presence of excess methanol to occur when using the mixed metal oxide catalyst. The FAME yield obtained with metal oxides/ZrO2 is higher than that obtained with homogeneous sulfuric acid catalyst. Metal oxides/ZrO2 catalasts can be prepared as strong pellets and in various shapes for use directly in a flow reactor. Furthermore, the pellet has a strong resistance toward dissolution to aqueous or oil phases.
US09433923B2
The present invention relates to a novel non-cross linked chromatography media provided with glutathione ligands which may or may not be provided with magnetic particles. The chromatography media is used for production of an affinity media provided with gluthatione ligands for adsorption of GST-tagged proteins.
US09433915B2
A rectifier mounted at a bottom of a reactor includes a central layer (1), at least one interlayer (2) and an external layer (3), which are made of bird nest honeycomb ceramic, wherein porosities of the central layer, the interlayer and the external layer increase in turn. The central layer, the interlayer and the external layer are respectively provided in a central-layer cone shaped body, an interlayer cone shaped body and an external-layer cone shaped body which are installed concentrically, so as to form meshed honeycomb pores with different porosities at the bottom of the rectifier. The rectifier is made of bird nest ceramic with high density honeycomb pores, and a minimum density thereof is over 200 meshes.
US09433914B2
A system and method for polymerizing olefin in a gas phase reactor into a polyolefin in presence of catalyst, measuring static charge in the reactor system; determining an indication of polyolefin fines in the reactor system, and adjusting operation of the reactor system in response to the indication.
US09433908B2
Rapid evacuation and deployment of dry materials is achieved by the dual structure of this device and the method of using it to fill and empty vacuum reloading tanks automatically. This permits materials such a bentonite, barite or cement to be handled easily and without dust on a rig floor and mixed appropriately as needed for well control and completion operations. Dry bulk material is offloaded from an offshore supply vessel into atmospheric tanks, which provide fluidized bed systems to aerate and agitate and move material through piping into the vacuum re-loader tanks. The dual re-loader tank system allows one tank to be emptied while another fills thereby providing sufficient flexibility to expertly manage receiving, storage, transfer, filtration and control of the bulk material on various space-critical platforms, including offshore rigs and service vessels, that require the handling of dry bulk materials in an accurate and dust-free manner.
US09433907B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed wherein the movement of a droplet disposed on a nanostructured or microstructured surface is determined by at least one characteristic of the nanostructure feature pattern or at least one characteristic of the droplet. In one embodiment, the movement of the droplet is laterally determined by at least one characteristic of the nanostructure feature pattern such that the droplet moves in a desired direction along a nanostructured feature pattern. In another embodiment, the movement of the droplet is determined by either at least one characteristic of the nanostructure feature pattern or at least one characteristic of the droplet in a way such that the droplet penetrates the feature pattern at a desired area and becomes substantially immobile.
US09433904B2
There is provided a cellulose hydrate membrane having a porous double structure which consists of micropores having a diameter in the range from >100 nm to 20 μm and ultrapores which have a diameter of <100 nm and which are not accessible to Blue Dextran having an average molecular weight Mw of 2 000 000, wherein the fraction of the volume of the ultrapores is more than 15% of the entire pore volume accessible to water. In addition, a method for producing the membrane, its use as an adsorption membrane, and an apparatus for membrane chromatography are specified.
US09433888B2
A first gas present at low concentration in a source gas is recovered from the source gas (comprising a fast first gas and a slow second gas) at a relatively high recovery using a particular scheme of three gas separation membrane stages. The non-permeate from the first stage is a product gas comprising the slow gas. The second stage feeds non-permeate to the third stage. The third stage non-permeate is combined with the gas fed to the first stage. The permeate from the second stage is divided into two portions. The second portion is a product gas comprising the fast gas. The first portion is combined with the permeates from the first and third stages and the combination is compressed and fed to the second stage. The invention is particularly applicable for separation of Helium from natural gas.
US09433883B2
The present invention provides an impaction-based microorganism collecting device in which microorganisms are captured by the capture surface of a collection plate. The microorganism collecting device is designed to reduce the influence of the lateral wind flowing over the perforated plate having multiple nozzles and also prevent warpage of the perforated plate.Multiple air vents are formed around the circumference of the capture surface and through the capture surface so that air that has flowed through the nozzles of the perforated plate onto the capture surface can be discharged. This allows the air to flow in multiple directions over the capture surface, thereby reducing the speed of the air and increasing the microorganism capture rate.
US09433879B2
The invention relates to a decanter (2) for separating a supernatant arranged above a sludge in a settlement tank (1), wherein a withdrawal device (5, 16) with a receiving pipe (9, 18), which extends in the manner of a T-piece approximately perpendicular to a discharge pipe (4, 17), is attached to one end of the discharge pipe (4, 17). To reduce the production cost, it is proposed in accordance with the invention for the receiving pipe (9, 18) to be a polygonal pipe produced from sheet metal.
US09433876B2
A clamping device for clamping a plurality of columns for sample preparation provides a plurality of clamping blocks and a displacement mechanism for displacing at least one clamping block relative to an opposing clamping block between an open position and a clamping position. At least three clamping blocks are retained in a row one behind the other on a guiding rail so that at least two columns can be clamped in an axial direction one behind the other between the clamping blocks. First and second slidingly displaceable clamping blocks of the least three clamping blocks are retained on the guiding rail and connected to the displacement mechanism by coupling means so that an actuation of the displacement mechanism from the clamping position into the open position brings about a displacement of all the slidingly displaceable clamping blocks and the columns are released.
US09433874B2
A spray drying apparatus includes: a gas inlet provided in a side wall in the vicinity of a top (lid) portion of the spray drying apparatus, for introducing a flue gas for drying a spray of dehydrated filtrate; flow-adjusting plates provided in a body of the spray drying apparatus, for decelerating the introduced flue gas so as to change the flow of the flue gas to a laminar flow; a spray nozzle for spraying the dehydrated filtrate from the desulfurization waste water into the flue gas having been changed to the laminar flow; and a joining unit for joining a bottom portion of the body of the spray drying apparatus to a gas supply line that is a main flue gas duct for the flue gas so as to discharge spray-dried solids to the main flue gas duct.
US09433869B2
An acquisition unit acquires presence information of an information processing device of another via server. When the acquisition unit acquires pieces of presence information including the same user account from two or more information processing devices, a status image generation unit generates a status image indicating a status of the user identified by the user account, by referring to the latest presence information. In order to represent the status of the user, the status image generation unit includes a name of an application being run by the user in the status image.
US09433867B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a computer-implemented method useful in playing a video game having multiple versions, the method being implemented by a video game platform that includes one or more processors, the method comprising: executing a version of the video game on the video game platform; receiving information from a memory of a toy, the information comprising type information and subtype information; displaying a representation of a game character associated with the toy, the representation of a game character based at least on the type information; using the subtype information to determine whether the toy corresponds to a different version of the video game than the version being executed; and conducting gameplay involving the representation of the game character, wherein aspects of gameplay are based in part on whether the toy corresponds to a different version of the video game than the version being executed.
US09433862B2
Embodiments of the present invention monitor and dynamically allocate computing resources to game sessions running within a game service. A game service provides a remote gaming environments to which users connect over a wide area network, such as the internet. A game session runs a single instance of a game title. The game session runs the video game code responsible for creating the playing experience for the users. Various characteristics of the game session may be monitored and used to allocate computing resources. Usage of computing resources, such as central processing unit (“CPU”) may be monitored directly. In another embodiment, the number of players connected to the game session is monitored and computing resources are allocated dynamically as the number of players increases or decreases.
US09433856B2
A method and system for synthesizing a voice guiding signal to a gaming controller. An input gaming data to the gaming controller is collected by a console game agent. A set of game target profiles and a set of control signals are created from the input gaming data. A set of active game patterns are synthesized from the set of game target profiles and the set of control signals. An optimal gaming strategy is produced from the set of active game patterns. The optimal gaming strategy is then converted into the voice guiding signal for guiding the user on playing a game effectively on the gaming controller.
US09433852B2
A wheel for a skateboard, roller skate or the like has a radial surface arranged to provide contact with the ground, said radial surface comprising areas of at least a first material and areas of a second material, said second material having at least one mechanical property differing from that of the first material. The first and second materials are arranged in such a way that they form a pattern on the radial surface which varies around the circumference of the wheel. This enables the adaptation of the behavior of the wheel in a very flexible way.
US09433839B2
A putting alignment device includes a base, a cap mounted to the base for rotation with respect to the base, and alignment indicia on the cap which indicates a target line for putting a golf ball. A remote control unit is coupled in communication to the base to issue instructions to the base. The device includes drive means in the base which rotate the cap with respect to the base in response to a signal communicated from the remote control unit, so as to move the alignment indicia according to instructions carried in the signal from the remote control unit.
US09433834B2
A golf club head has a body defining a ball striking face. The body further has a first leg extending away from the ball striking face and a second leg extending away from the ball striking face wherein a void is defined between the first leg and the second leg. The body further defines a cover that extends over the void. The golf club head may further have support structures and adjustable weight members.
US09433827B2
Golf equipment including compositions including castable formulations that have low material hardness and increased shear resistance. The compositions may be used in any layer of a golf ball including cores, intermediate layers, and covers and result in high spin rates.
US09433825B1
This invention provides center locking means that are manufactured from harder materials for detachably coupling two swim fins for use by a swimmer practicing the dolphin kick. Also, the invention explains how to strengthen the center locking means to preserve longevity of use.
US09433816B1
A pronged band connector is adapted for securing a flat elastic exercise resistance band to an adjacent structure. The exercise band has a length, width, and thickness. The exemplary band connector comprises a base and a plurality of spaced-apart elongated rigid prongs. The prongs extend substantially perpendicular to the base, and are adapted for receiving a portion of the exercise band between adjacent prongs. A length of each prong may be greater than the width of the exercise band.
US09433802B2
A specific site location measuring includes: calculating matching degrees based on a plurality of transmission images imaged by use of radiation transmitting through a specimen and a template set; selecting a template transmission image from the plurality of transmission images based on the matching degrees; adding a new template generated based on the template transmission image, to the template set; imaging a location measurement transmission image by use of radiation transmitting through the specimen; selecting an optimal template that is the most similar to a portion of the location measurement transmission image, from the template set by performing pattern matching of each of templates of the template set with the location measurement transmission image; and calculating a specific site location based on the location measurement transmission image and the optimal template.
US09433797B2
Described herein are methods of treating neurological injury and conditions, in particular neurodegenerative conditions. These treatment methods can include the steps of generating a pulsed electromagnetic field from a pulsed electromagnetic field source and applying the pulsed electromagnetic field in proximity to a target region.
US09433789B2
A method, system and apparatus is presented for a wireless neural modulation feedback control system as it relates to an implantable medical device comprised of a radio frequency (RF) receiver circuit, one or more dipole or patch antenna(s), one or more electrode leads connected to at least one dipole or patch antenna(s), and at least one microelectronic neural modulation circuit, and an external or internally implanted RF device to neurally modulate brain tissue in order to treat medical conditions that can be mediated by neuronal activation or inhibition, such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, other motor or mood based disorders, and/or pain. The implantable receiver captures energy radiated by the RF transmitter unit and converts this energy to an electrical waveform by the implanted neural modulation circuit to deliver energy that can be utilized by the attached electrode pads in order to activate targeted neurons in the brain.
US09433776B2
A method for forming a cochlear electrode array with a plurality of electrodes which are spaced so as to stimulate sites within a cochlea includes shaping a sheet of electrically conductive material to form a support structure and a plurality of electrodes, in which the electrodes are tethered to the support structure at the spacing of the cochlear electrode array. A cochlear lead includes a flexible body that has frictional characteristics that vary about its circumference. A cochlear lead includes a flexible body with a first region and a second region with different surface textures. This generates differential sliding forces during insertion of the cochlear lead which influence a motion of the cochlear lead during insertion. The cochlear lead having an electrode array with varying stiffness along its length is also provided.
US09433759B2
An insertion assisting tool for an endoscope into which an insertion section of the endoscope is inserted from a base end portion side. The insertion assisting tool may include a fluid sealing device which seals a space between a base end part of the insertion assisting tool and the endoscope insertion section, the space being formed while the insertion section of the endoscope is inserted into the base end portion side.
US09433753B2
In various embodiments of the invention, a system and dynamic device are provided to create stability of tube placement in medical and other applications. The described systems and principles also apply in other environments outside of medicine and healthcare. The described medical tubing stabilizer adheres to the tubing itself providing handles or anchors to prevent stitch slippage and to prevent the tubing from falling out in any situation that requires a semi or permanent tubing placement. The device also aides in stabilizing the tubing in the wound site, and thus maximizes placement in its intended area of effect (e.g., in the body cavity, in a medical context). These stabilizing effects substantially minimize slippage of stitching holding the tubing in place to prevent the tubing from falling out or becoming dislodged or displace, thus preventing irritation and damage to the skin around the wound site, infection, seroma, edema and morbidity in a medical context.
US09433752B2
A catheter has a deflection beam with rectangular cross-section and a single continuous puller wire for predictable on-plane bi-directional deflection. The puller wire extends through spacers on opposite sides of the beam so the puller wire is maintained a predetermined separation distance from the beam surface. Tubular structures of the catheter body and the deflectable section are fused at a joint by C-shaped brackets mounted opposite surface of the beam to form a hollow body with holes into which thermoplastic materials covering the catheter body and the deflectable section can melt to form interlocking nodes. Elongated beam stiffeners can be mounted on the beam to provide different curve and deflection geometries.
US09433745B2
Puncturing tools that cause an aperture to be pierced through the wall of a guidewire lumen of a catheter shaft at a location at which it is desired to have a guidewire exit the guidewire lumen.
US09433743B2
Described herein is an exhalation valve for a ventilator that controls gas flow through a patient exhalation line in response to a target pressure within the line. The valve controls gas flow by (i) providing both a high frequency signal and a low frequency signal through a coil positioned in a fixed magnetic field, (ii) determining a position of the coil by detecting the high frequency signal, and (iii) controlling a position of the coil by adjusting the low frequency signal.
US09433742B2
A vaporizer filler includes a fill port. The fill port defines an open interior. The open interior is configured to receive the nozzle of an anesthetic bottle. An agent reservoir is configured to receive and store anesthetic agent. A valve is disposed between the open interior and the agent reservoir. At least one vent extends through the fill port. A method of filling a vaporizer includes inserting the nozzle of a bottle filled with anesthetic agent into a vaporizer filler. At least one vent is occluded from fluid communication. Fluid communication between and open interior and an agent reservoir is opened. Anesthetic agent is poured into an agent reservoir of a vaporizer. Fluid communication is closed between the open interior and the agent reservoir. At least one vent is opened to fluid communication with the open interior. Pressure within the open interior is released through the at least one vent.
US09433737B2
According to various embodiments, methods and systems for determining pressure in an inflatable cuff of a tracheal tube may employ pressure transducers associated with a cuff inflation line. The pressure transducers may be implemented to provide continuous or intermittent cuff pressure. Also provided are inflation assemblies or other devices that incorporate pressure transducers. The inflation assemblies may be coupled to the tracheal tubes via the inflation line.
US09433732B2
An improved pump, reservoir and reservoir piston are provided for controlled delivery of fluids. A motor is operably coupled to a drive member, such as a drive screw, which is adapted to advance a plunger slide in response to operation of the motor. The plunger slide is removably coupled to the piston. A method, system, and an article of manufacture for automatically detecting an occlusion in a medication infusion pump is provided. The electrical current to an infusion pump is measured. Based on measurements of one or more variables, the infusion pump detects whether there is an occlusion in the system. The methods of detecting occlusions may be dynamic.
US09433727B1
Tissue rejuvenation methods include identifying a cell harvest site on a patient, identifying a cell injection site on the patient, harvesting tissue regenerative cells from the cell harvest site, agitating the tissue regenerative cells and injecting the tissue regenerative cells into the cell injection site. Tissue transfer devices suitable for implementation of the tissue rejuvenation methods are also disclosed.
US09433726B2
Methods, apparatuses, kits and systems are disclosed that allow a transfer of medication from a manufacturer's vial, ampoule or other container through a closed system transfer to an intravenous apparatus and into a patient, while reducing additional steps, procedures, components required for the same transfer procedure to reduce sources of human error and medical administered errors.
US09433707B2
The present invention provides biocompatible, non-resorbable porous containment structures for containment of bone graft material at a desired location for stimulation of bone growth. The porous containment structures have interconnected pores sized to allow fibrovascular integration with surrounding tissue and conduction of vascular tissue through the structure into the bone graft material.
US09433703B2
A neural graft includes a biological substrate, a carbon nanotube structure and a neural network. The carbon nanotube structure is located on the biological substrate. The carbon nanotube structure includes a number of carbon nanotube wires crossed with each other to define a number of pores. The neural network includes a number of neural cell bodies and a number of neurites branched from the neural cell bodies. An effective diameter of each pore is larger than or equal to a diameter of the neural cell body, the neurites substantially extend along the carbon nanotube wires such that the neurites are patterned.
US09433699B2
The present invention relates to an adhesive hydrogel composition containing catechol group-coupled chitosan and Pluronic comprising a thiol group coupled to the end thereof, and more specifically, to an adhesive composition which is safe in vivo and in vitro, is temperature sensitive, and has an excellent hemostatic effect and thus can be used as a bioadhesive, and a medical adhesive, an adhesion barrier and a surface adsorption inhibitor comprising the same.
US09433696B2
A microfluidic fluid delivery device and method. The device includes a reservoir and a transport member. The device includes a microfluidic delivery member including a microfluidic die configured to release a fluid composition from the device. The microfluidic delivery member includes an adapter configured to receive an end portion of the transport member, wherein a capillary passage is formed between the adapter and the transport member. The capillary passage has a largest effective pore size that is smaller than the average effective pore size of the transport member.
US09433687B2
The present invention provides for anti-Notch3 antibodies, anti-Notch3 antibody-drug conjugates and methods for preparing and using the same.
US09433683B2
Reversible pegylated drugs are provided by derivatization of free functional groups of the drug selected from amino, hydroxyl, mercapto, phosphate and/or carboxyl with groups sensitive to mild basic conditions such as 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (Fmoc) or 2-sulfo-9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl (FMS), to which group a PEG moiety is attached. In these pegylated drugs, the PEG moiety and the drug residue are not linked directly to each other, but rather both residues are linked to different positions of the scaffold Fmoc or FMS structure that is highly sensitive to bases and is removable under physiological conditions. The drugs are preferably drugs containing an amino group, most preferably peptides and proteins of low or medium molecular weight. Similar molecules are provided wherein a protein carrier or another polymer carrier replaces the PEG moiety.
US09433676B2
Treatment of skin tissue with photoactive materials and light, such as nanoparticles and formulations which are useful for cosmetic, diagnostic and therapeutic applications to mammals such as humans. In particular, embodiments of hair removal with nanoparticles with coatings that facilitate selective removal from the skin Surface are disclosed.
US09433666B2
The present invention relates to the field of prophylaxis and therapy of cancer. In particular there is provided a protein Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) or peptide fragments here of that are capable of eliciting anti-cancer immune responses. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of DO or peptides derived here from or IDO specific T-cells for treatment of cancer. The invention thus relates to an anti-cancer vaccine which optionally may be used in combination with other immunotherapies and to IDO specific T-cells adoptively transferred or induced in vivo by vaccination as a treatment of cancer. It is an aspect of the invention that the medicaments herein provided may be used in combination with cancer chemotherapy treatment. A further aspect relates to the prophylaxis and therapy of infections by the same means as described above. The use of IDO and immunogenic peptide fragments hereof in cancer and infection treatment, diagnosis and prognosis is also provided.
US09433664B2
The present invention relates to normalizing impaired haemostasis comprising administering a clotting factor treatment selected from the group consisting of (1) FII; (2) PCC; and (3) a three factor combination of FH, FX and FVIIa. The clotting factor treatment can be administered in combination with fibrinogen. The clotting factor(s) can be recombinant human clotting factor(s).
US09433659B2
This invention generally relates to methods for improving glycemic control by administering an Ad36 composition and an AKT1 inhibitor.
US09433656B2
Extract of picrorhiza kurroa plants and a process for making the same. The extract has strong anti-viral action against both DNA and RNA-based viruses, and also against bacterial, fungal and protozoan microorganisms. The extract essentially contains the lipophilic compounds occurring in the scrophulariaceae family of plants, in particular, the terpenes and fatty acids thereof. The extract may additionally contain other said lipophilic compounds and the aglycons of the glycosides occurring in said family of plants.
US09433655B2
Disclosed is a composition including an Elsholtziae Herba extract as an active ingredient, which can be used for the prevention, improvement, or treatment of acute renal failure.
US09433647B2
A method for preparing placenta membrane tissue grafts for medical use, includes obtaining a placenta from a subject, cleaning the placenta, separating the chorion tissue from the amniotic membrane, mounting a selected layer of either the chorion tissue or the amniotic membrane onto a drying fixture, dehydrating the selected layer on the drying fixture, and cutting the selected layer into a plurality of tissue grafts. Preferably, the drying fixture includes grooves or raised edges that define the outer contours of each desired tissue graft, after they are cut, and further includes raised or indented logos that emboss the middle area of the tissue grafts during dehydration and that enables an end user to distinguish the top from the bottom side of the graft. The grafts are comprised of single layers of amnion or chorion, multiple layers of amnion or chorion, or multiple layers of a combination of amnion and chorion.
US09433645B2
There is provided a method for preventing disruption and aggregation of stem cells. In addition, there is provided a stem cell composition for intravascular administration, in which stem cells are suspended in a solution containing aspirin. Further, there is provided a composition for preventing disruption or aggregation of stem cells, in which stem cells are suspended in a solution containing aspirin.According to the present invention, disruption and aggregation of cells may be prevented during transport or storage, such that the administered stem cells may stably reach the target tissue and exhibit the activity thereof in a more efficient manner, thereby remarkably increasing the effect of cell therapy using stem cells.
US09433644B2
The present invention generally relates to formulations and methods for treating oral inflammation, oral injury and/or oral pain by applying hydrogel, viscous liquid, or other formulation to the oral cavity. Wet formulations comprise a hydrophilic polymer selected from the group consisting of pyrrolidones, hyaluronic acid and salts thereof, alginic acid and salts thereof, and carrageenans and salts thereof; calcium salts or ions, phosphate salts or ions, and water as well as other optional components. Dry formulations such as powders are also contemplated.
US09433629B2
The present invention provides a formulation comprising a corticosteroid and an insulin analog or pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided is a formulation comprising a corticosteroid, insulin lispro and at least one organic acid or pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The present invention provides methods for stimulating bone and/or cartilage growth, for treating tendon and/or ligament damage, for stimulating hair growth and/or reducing hair loss, for stimulating growth of a tooth and/or periodontium and for treating tumors and cysts of the jaw by administering the formulations described herein.
US09433628B2
The present invention refers to a new enzymatic process for obtaining 17α-monoesters of cortexolone and/or its 9,11-dehydroderivatives starting from the corresponding 17α,21-diesters which comprises an enzymatic alcoholysis reaction.Furthermore, the present invention refers to new crystalline forms of cortexolone 17α-propionate and 9,11-dehydro-cortexolone 17α-butanoate.
US09433625B2
Methods and compositions are provided which comprise effective amounts of one or more analgesics, such as hydrocodone or acetaminophen, and an antiemetic, such as promethazine, to treat or prevent pain in a subject, and to reduce or prevent an adverse effect associated with the analgesics.
US09433624B2
The present invention is directed to a novel methods and compositions for the therapeutic intervention in hyperphenylalaninemia. More specifically, the specification describes methods and compositions for treating various types of phenylketonurias using compositions comprising BH4. Combination therapies of BH4 and other therapeutic regimens are contemplated.
US09433617B1
The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating hyperlipidemia and/or hypercholesterolemia comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an MTP inhibitor to inhibit hyperlipidemia and/or hypercholesterolemia in said subject, wherein said administration comprises an escalating series of doses of the MTP inhibitor. In some embodiments the method comprises administering at least three step-wise, increasing dosages of the MTP inhibitor to the subject. In some embodiments, the method further comprises the administration of one or more other lipid modifying compounds.
US09433609B2
Inhibitors of HCV replication of formula I including stereochemically isomeric forms, and salts, solvates thereof, wherein R and R′ are, each independently, —CR1R2R3, aryl, heteroaryl or heteroC4-6cycloalkyl, whereby aryl and heteroaryl may optionally be substituted with 1 or 2 substituents selected from halo and methyl. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in HCV therapy.
US09433604B2
A method of inhibiting the growth of cancer cells is disclosed in which cancer cells that contain an enhanced amount relative to non-cancerous cells of one or more of phosphorylated mTOR, Akt1, ERK2 and serine2152-phosphorylated filamin A are contacted with an FLNA-binding effective amount of a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof that binds to the pentapeptide of filamin A (FLNA) of SEQ ID NO: 1 and exhibits at least about 60 percent of the FITC-labeled naloxone binding amount when present at a 10 μM concentration and using unlabeled naloxone as the control inhibitor at the same concentration. A compound that binds to the FLNA pentapeptide preferably also contains at least four of the six pharmacophores of FIGS. 19-24.
US09433603B2
The present invention relates to the use of 3-(R)-[3-(2-methoxyphenylthio)-2-(S)-methylpropyl]amino-3,4-dihydro-2H-1,5-benzoxathiepine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for preventing and/or treating cardiotoxic effects caused by chemotherapy and/or radiation.
US09433601B2
The present invention relates to a chewing gum composition comprising 0.01 to 15% by weight a cannabinoid or a derivative thereof, based on the total weight of the chewing gum composition, and to chewing gums and blistering packages comprising said chewing gums.
US09433596B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for treating anxiety disorder, particularly to a pharmaceutical composition comprising N-acetyl-L-cysteine or its derivatives for treating anxiety disorder such as post traumatic stress disorder or phobia. In accordance with the present disclosure, N-acetyl-L-cysteine can block the renewal of fear memories for a sustained period of time when it was administered during or after an exposure therapy to treat post traumatic stress disorder or phobia.
US09433591B2
A process for making nanoparticles of biocompatible materials is described, wherein an aqueous reaction mixture comprising a metal ion, a biguanide, an oxidant, and water; optionally further comprising an alpha-amino acid or a nucleobase; is provided along with temperature conditions to directly form within the reaction mixture, a stable dispersion of metal-containing nanoparticles. Biocompatible nanoparticles comprised of cerium and a biguanide, and optionally containing an alpha-amino acid or a nucleobase, are also described. The use of metal oxide nanoparticles comprising a biguanide as a nanoparticle core/corona in the preparation of nanoscale ionic (liquid) material compositions is disclosed.
US09433590B2
The subject invention provides materials and methods for improving alcohol metabolism in animals. In a preferred embodiment, the invention provides methods for increasing the ability of people to consume alcohol while reducing hangovers or other effects of intoxication. Specifically exemplified herein is the use of a cysteamine compound to reduce the adverse effects of alcohol consumption. For example, the undesirable and unpleasant symptoms association with hangovers can be reduced through consumption, according to the subject invention, of cysteamine hydrochloride.
US09433581B2
The present invention comprises poly(vinyl benzoate) nanoparticle suspensions as molecular carriers. These nanoparticles can be formed by nanoprecipitation of poly(vinyl benzoate) in water using Pluronic F68 as surfactant, to create spherical nanostructures measuring about 200-250 nm in diameter which are stable in phosphate buffer and blood serum, and only slowly degrade in the presence of esterases. Kinetics experiments in phosphate buffer indicate that 78% of the coumarin-6 was encapsulated within the polymer matrix of the nanoparticle, and the residual 22% of coumarin-6 was surface-bound and quickly released. The nanoparticles are non-toxic in vitro towards human epithelial cells (IC50>1000 μg/mL) and primary bovine primary aortic endothelial cells (IC50>500 μg/mL), and exert non-observable bactericidal activity against a selection of representative test microbes (MIC>250 μg/mL). Poly(vinyl benzoate) nanoparticles are suitable carriers for molecular delivery of lipophilic small molecules such as drugs pharmaceutical and imaging agents.
US09433580B2
The invention relates to a topical pharmaceutical composition for burn treatment and microbial infections on human beings or animals. The pharmaceutical composition comprises 0.1% w/w to 1.0% w/w of an antimicrobial drug, i.e., silver sulfadiazine and 0.2% w/w antiseptic, i.e., chlorhexidine gluconate, wherein silver sulfadiazine is in nanonized form.
US09433579B2
A generally spherical growth factor sensitive vesicle bearing growth factor receptors (12) having chemical compounds (14) covalently cross-linked to their non-growth factor binding domains. The chemical compounds are capable of associating to form larger chemical compounds (16) capable of destabilizing the vesicle. Methods for treating growth factor-overexpressing neoplasms are disclosed.
US09433576B2
The invention relates to respirable dry particles that contain one or more divalent metal cations, such as calcium, in an amount of less than 3% by weight, and to dry powders that contain the respirable particles. The dry particles can further contain an active agent, or can be used as carrier particles to deliver an active agent.
US09433572B2
A cosmetic composition is provided having ingredients that may prevent signs or conditions of aging and/or damage in skin, improve the aesthetic appearance of skin, and promote recovery from environmental stresses. The composition includes natural ingredients, including pomegranate juice concentrate; pomegranate extract; pomegranate seed oil; and at least one pharmaceutically or cosmetically acceptable vehicle.
US09433557B2
The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a loading device, system and method that loads aggregate cells into an encapsulation device for implanting into a patient. The loading system uses negative pressure from a low pressure pump in a closed system to improve safety and cell viability while allowing for even loading of the encapsulation device.
US09433551B2
A patient protection device is provided for an operating room table. A rigid support frame extends transversely over a top surface of said table, including a main body with an upper support surface and a pair of support legs that are secured to the table. A receptacle tray to receive medical equipment is securely mounted to the rigid support frame via a removable connection. The receptacle tray includes a first planar surface positioned above a body lying over said top surface of said operating room table. The receptacle tray is slidable, relative to the rigid support frame, along a direction substantially parallel to the upper support surface of the rigid support frame.
US09433539B2
A disposable absorbent article has front and back panels, each having an elastic film layer and each having first and second zones. The first zone of each panel is extensible and retractable and the second zone of each panel is non-extensible and non-retractable. Each of the front and back panels has first and second side edges. An absorbent assembly is secured to the front and back panels. The absorbent assembly has a first end secured to the second zone of the front panel and a second end secured to the second zone of the back panel. A pair of seams join the front and back panels together at the first and second side edges to form a disposable absorbent article having a waist opening and a pair of leg openings.
US09433535B2
A system that is clinically and effically sound, consisting of proprietary components that not only address the needs of the clinician but are universally utilized in a concise protocol covering a wide range of indications and conditions.
US09433533B2
The present invention provides a patch package structure, which includes: a package including a first sheet material which is planar and a second sheet material which has been molded, the first and second sheet materials being sealed together in peripheral parts thereof, and a patch disposed in the package, in which the patch contains a backing, a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer laminated on at least one side of the backing, and a release liner which protects a pressure-sensitive adhesive surface of the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer; the second sheet material has been molded so as to have a protrudent part in at least a substantially central area thereof, the protrudent part having a planar outer shape larger than a planar outer shape of the release liner and having at least one recessed part; d is not smaller than T, in which d is the minimum gap distance between the inner surface of the first sheet material and the inner surface of the second sheet material at the recessed part and T is a thickness of the patch; and, at the boundary between the sealed part where the first and second sheet materials are sealed together and an unsealed part, the outer surface of the second sheet material rises at an obtuse angle.
US09433530B1
A steerable laser probe may include a handle having a handle distal end and a handle proximal end, a housing sleeve disposed in an inner bore of the handle configured to project a distance from the handle distal end, an optic fiber disposed in the housing sleeve, a shape memory sleeve disposed over a distal end of the optic fiber, and a light source configured to connect to a proximal end of the optic fiber. The shape memory sleeve may be configured to curve the distal end of the optic fiber at an angle, e.g., 90 degrees, when the shape memory sleeve is not contained within the housing sleeve.
US09433526B2
An appliance for application to the human body for injury prevention, rehabilitation, support, to enhance strength, and to improve posture. The claimed invention may provide an applicator of a relatively elastic material having a first portion for attachment to a first insertion point of a muscle and a second portion for attachment to a second insertion point of the muscle to provide support to the injured muscle. Alternatively, the claimed invention may provide a central portion for attachment to an injured area and any number of extension portions for attachment to the surrounding tissue.
US09433524B2
The present invention relates to a portable, self-contained, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) providing heating (or cooling) for the patient by controlled exchange of thermal energy between a transparent enclosure that houses the infant and an internal reservoir. The invention has no requirement for electrical power. The internal reservoir utilizes water that is heated (or cooled) by an external source. The micro-environment inside the transparent enclosure for the infant and the water inside the internal reservoir are thermally and acoustically isolated in order to minimize heat and sound exchange with the ambient environment.
US09433517B2
Disclosed is a method of treating a bodily lumen with a stent, the method comprising: disposing a stent within a bodily lumen, the stent comprising a plurality of deformable struts configured to selectively deform in localized regions in the struts upon application of an outward radial force; and expanding the stent by applying the outward radial force, wherein the outward radial force causes selective deformation of the deformable struts in a localized region in the struts.
US09433514B2
A method of securing a prosthesis atraumatically to body tissue can include one or more of the following steps. A prosthesis can be delivered into a patient. The prosthesis may include an expandable frame. The frame can be expanded within a body cavity of the patient. Expansion of the frame can causes respective ends of both proximal prongs and distal prongs to draw closer together to grasp native tissue between the respective ends of the proximal prongs and distal prongs.
US09433513B2
A prosthetic foot and ankle assembly includes a foot component and an ankle joint mounted thereto and having a fixed range of dorsi-plantar flexion. The ankle joint includes a joint mechanism in the form of a hydraulic linear piston and cylinder assembly having a pair of chambers on opposite sides of the piston to provide hydraulic damping continuously over the range of dorsi-plantar flexion. The joint mechanism further includes a valve arrangement controlling the flow of hydraulic fluid between the chambers. The valve arrangement includes first and second adjustable valves for independently controlling dorsi-flexion damping resistance and plantar-flexion damping resistance respectively. The joint mechanism includes a first flexion limiter that limits dorsi-flexion of the joint mechanism to a dorsi-flexion limit and a second flexion limiter that limits plantar-flexion of the joint mechanism to a plantar-flexion limit, thereby defining the fixed range of dorsi-plantar flexion.
US09433512B2
A tissue prosthesis insertion system (80) includes a first assembly (10) comprising a plurality of nested tubes (12), one of the tubes being a carrier tube (14) which, in use, receives a component (16) of a tissue prosthesis at a distal end of the carrier tube (14). A magnetic mount (44) is carried at a proximal end of the first assembly (10). A second assembly (82) is removably attachable to the first assembly (10). An attachment device (92) is carried at a distal end of the second assembly (92), the attachment device (92) being responsive to the magnetic mount (44) of the first assembly (10), the magnetic mount (44) and the attachment device (92) carrying complementary engaging formations to facilitate hermetic sealing between the magnetic mount (44) and the attachment device (92).
US09433509B2
A surgically implantable device (1,10) made of a single piece of silicone, for joining phalanxes, metacarpus-phalanx or metatarsus-phalanx bones of the hand or foot in arthroplasty surgery, includes an enlarged central portion (2) formed by a thickened portion (5) having a rounded profile and provided with a canal (6) extending transversally in which a depression (7) is centrally formed, and by two elongated stem portions (3,4) which extend from the enlarged central portion (2), one opposed to the other. The device (1,10) is coated completely with at least one layer of turbostratic pyrolytic carbon less than or equal to 10 microns thick obtained by physical vapour deposition (PVD).
US09433504B2
A penile prosthesis includes an inflatable cylinder, a fluid connector and a pump. The inflatable cylinder includes an inflatable volume extending within a front tip, and a reservoir within a rear tip. The fluid connector includes a first end, and a second end that is forked into an inflation branch, which is fluidically coupled to the inflation volume, and a reservoir branch, which is fluidically coupled to the reservoir. The pump is attached to the first end and is configured to drive fluid from the reservoir through the reservoir branch and the inflation branch, and into the inflatable volume.
US09433500B2
A prosthetic apparatus configured for implantation in the native mitral valve region of the heart includes a main body that is self-expandable from a compressed state to a radially expanded state. The prosthetic apparatus comprises at least one ventricular anchor coupled to the main body and disposed outside of the main body for capturing a native valve leaflet between the anchor and an outer surface of the main body. In one preferred method of implantation, the prosthetic apparatus is rotated within the native mitral valve region such that a portion of the anchor moves horizontally behind adjacent chordae for anchoring the prosthetic apparatus in the native mitral valve.
US09433498B2
An intraocular lens implant includes a lens having an anterior portion, a posterior portion, and a circumferential edge located therebetween. An annular notch is formed in the anterior portion and oriented in an anteriorly-directed orientation.
US09433497B2
The lens geometry and power of an intraocular lens is optimized to provide both distance and near vision correction for a patient. The optimization may be based on one or more measured accommodation-related parameters and one or more estimated accommodation-related parameters. An accommodative amplitude may be predicted based on the measured and estimated accommodation-related parameters, and the optimized the intraocular lens geometry and power established based thereon.
US09433494B2
A bearing component 2 for a joint replacement prosthesis comprises a first bearing element 4; a second bearing element 6, and a linking element 8, operatively connecting the first and second bearing elements 4, 6 and permitting relative motion there between. The flexible linking element 8 prevents dislocation of mobile bearings in a total knee replacement prosthesis. The invention also relates to a bridging element which retains the linking element 8 with some play, which acts as a ligament support 2051, and which causes a deflection of the line of action of a ligament 1018. A joint replacement prosthesis is also disclosed comprising a biasing element 1140 or a tensioning element 1220 operatively coupled to the artificial ligament 1018. The biasing element 1140 or tensioning element 1220 may be housed in the stem of a tibia tray 1006.
US09433490B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide for multi-layered implantation materials, methods of making a multi-layered implantation material, methods of forming a multi-layered implantation material, methods of forming a multi-layered implantation material having a spiral roll cross-section, and the like.
US09433489B2
A braided, rather than woven, three-dimensional matrix has been developed to provide mechanical support in breast reconstruction or a mastopexy procedure. The braided three-dimensional matrix may be used to assist in hernia repair procedures. The matrix is a supple, strong, and flexible material, that can increase 50% to 100% in size when stretched along the vertical plane, but only extends by about 10% to 20% in length when stretched along the horizontal plane. Although the matrix is degradable, it provides sufficient mechanical and structural support for six to twelve months following implantation to allow for repair or growth of the breast tissue or the abdominal wall. The matrix is formed of three-dimensional braided multifilament polymeric fibers plied to create yarn bundles, and wherein the matrix comprises an inter-connected, open pore structure that enables even and random distribution and in-growth of cells.
US09433484B2
In the preferred embodiment, bovine semen is mixed with a “suitable solution” to form an insemination medium which is injected into the reproductive organs of a female bovine to flood the uterine horns in a nonsurgical AI procedure. The invention includes an AI instrument having a disposable, single use pipette that may be used with this nonsurgical procedure. The AI instrument does not include a balloon and is referred to as “catheter free”. Preferably, the uterine horns are flooded concurrently, but in the alternative, they may be flooded sequentially.
US09433483B2
An impression tray set for edentulous jaw is formed by a maxillary impression tray and a mandibular impression tray respectively including a tray main body having a U-shaped groove on which an impression material is to be applied on a front surface thereof, an engaging part formed on a back surface of the U-shaped groove in a position corresponding to an alveolar ridge of front teeth, and a handle part detachably connected to the engaging part. Each of the maxillary and mandibular impression trays includes projecting parts provided on the back surface at portions corresponding to an alveolar ridge from a first molar part to a premolar part. The projecting parts determine bite position and height in a state in which at least a part of flat top surfaces of the projecting parts contact each other when taking an impression.
US09433476B2
The present disclosure includes computing device related, systems, and methods for IPR planning as described herein. One method includes identifying a first tooth and a second tooth in a digital dental model with an overlap in a target final position in a treatment plan and identifying a reference line on each of the first tooth and the second tooth; revising the treatment plan wherein a position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth is determined in which the reference line of each of the first tooth and the second tooth are aligned and the first tooth and second tooth are not overlapping; and prescribing IPR based on the determined position of each of the first tooth and the second tooth.
US09433474B2
A decontamination system (2) suitable for cleaning and disinfecting a medical instrument (26) such as an endoscope, the system comprising: (I) a plurality of pre-clean wipes for wiping an instrument to be decontaminated each pre-clean wipe comprising a moist fabric member in its own sealed container (4); (II) a two-part disinfectant system comprising: (a) a first part comprising a first reagent in a carrier medium; and (b) a second part which is miscible with the first part and which comprises a second reagent in a carrier medium; wherein the first reagent and the second reagent will react when mixed to provide a disinfecting composition; the first part being contained in a dispenser (6) whereby it will be dispensed as a fluid when the dispenser is actuated, and the second part being absorbed or impregnated in a plurality of disinfecting wipes (30) each of which comprises a fabric member (30) in its own sealed container (8); and (III) a plurality of rinse wipes, each rinse wipe comprising a moist, sterile, fabric member in its own sealed container (10); characterized in that each pre-clean wipe container (4) is provided with a machine-readable Pre-Clean Wipe data carrier (36) which includes data specific to the pre-clean wipe; the dispenser (6) is provided with a machine-readable Dispenser data carrier (58) which includes data specific to the first part; each disinfecting wipe container (8) is provided with a machine-readable Disinfecting Wipe data carrier (44) which includes data specific to the disinfecting wipe (30); and each rinse wipe container (10) is provided with a machine-readable Rinse Wipe data carrier (50) which includes data specific to the rinse wipe.
US09433467B2
Embodiments of a laser ablation system include a shaft, a balloon and a laser fiber. The shaft has a proximal end and a distal end. The balloon is attached to the distal end of the shaft, a portion of which is disposed within the balloon. A light dispenser at a distal end of the laser fiber is configured to deliver laser light through the balloon. A central axis of the balloon is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the shaft. The balloon has a variable transparency such that the transmission of laser light through the balloon is non-uniform along the central axis. Accordingly, an energy of laser light transmitted from the light dispenser through the balloon to the targeted tissue varies due to the variable transparency of the balloon.
US09433464B2
A catheter has a catheter body and a distal tip section with needles that are positioned radially to extend outside of the distal tip section to pierce and penetrate tissue layers of a vessel or tubular region. The needles are supported in a retracted position inside the distal tip section on an elongated support member. For deployment, the needles are lifted and a portion thereof pushed through openings in the distal tip section by an actuator that is longitudinally slidable on the elongated support member. The actuator has a tapered end to help lift the needle onto the actuator. In another embodiment, an inflatable balloon member with needles is movable between retracted and deployed positions.
US09433453B2
An implant with an interference fit fastener for attaching the implant to a bone. The interference fit prevents backout of the fastener after the attachment. The implant may include a passage with a first end and second end. The passage may include a first interference section between the first and second ends. A fastener with an elongated shape may be sized to extend through the passage to attach the implant to the bone. The fastener may include a second interference section. During insertion of the fastener through the passage and into the bone, the second interference section of the fastener may contact against and modify or be modified by the first interference section of the passage. This modification may create the interference fit between the implant and the fastener that prevents backout. The interference sections may remain in contact or may move apart once the fastener is fully attached to the bone.
US09433445B2
Bone anchors and surgical instruments (e.g., bone taps, drivers, etc.) are disclosed herein that include integrated guide tips. Use of these anchors or instruments can eliminate one or more of the steps in a conventional bone anchor installation procedure, improving surgical efficiency and safety. For example, a surgical instrument can include a guide projection configured for insertion through a cannulation formed in a bone anchor when the surgical instrument is coupled to the bone anchor. The surgical instrument can also include various mechanisms for adjusting the position of the guide projection relative to the bone anchor. The guide projection can replace the needle, stylet, and guidewire used in typical insertion procedures. The bone anchor can also include integrated tapping features to eliminate the need for a separate bone tap instrument. Thus, in some embodiments, targeting, tapping, and driving the bone anchor can be performed in a single step.
US09433438B2
A locking member for a bone fixation device can include a locking body that defines an outer surface, an opposed bone contacting surface, and a slot that extends from the bone contacting surface to the outer surface. The locking member can further include at least one locking tooth that extends into the slot and a biasing member that extends into the slot and defines an abutment surface that faces the at least one locking tooth. The slot can be configured to receive a toothed member along an insertion direction and the biasing member can be configured to bias the toothed member toward the at least one locking tooth such that at least one tooth of the toothed member engages the at least one locking tooth of the locking member so as to prevent the toothed member from translating through the slot along a direction that is opposite the insertion direction.
US09433437B2
Fluid communication may be improved for an ethmoid sinus by installing a port or wick in the wall of the ethmoid sinus to provide a fluid passageway across the wall of the ethmoid sinus. Fluid communication for an ethmoid sinus may also be improved by inflating a balloon in a retrobullar space, remodeling the posterior wall of the ethmoid bulla to expand the transition area in the retrobullar space. In addition, a wall defining the retrobullar space may be pierced to provide a passageway for fluid communication.
US09433430B2
An endoscopic device includes a longitudinal member, a pair of jaws installed at a distal end of the longitudinal member and configured to be freely opened and closed, a first grasping member supported by a first jaw of the pair of jaws, a second grasping member supported by a second jaw of the pair of jaws, the second body having a wire shape, flexibility, and being curved in a loop shape, a long operating transmission member having a distal end portion connected to the pair of jaws and installed to advance and retreat along a longitudinal axis of the longitudinal member, and an open-close operating portion installed at a proximal end portion of the operating transmission member and configured to be manipulated to open and close the pair of jaws.
US09433428B2
Described herein are low-profile electrodes for use with an angioplasty shockwave catheter. A low-profile electrode assembly may have an inner electrode, an insulating layer disposed over the inner electrode such that an opening in the insulating layer is aligned with the inner electrode, and an outer electrode sheath disposed over the insulating layer such that an opening in the outer electrode sheath is coaxially aligned with the opening in the insulating layer. This layered configuration allows for the generation of shockwaves that propagate outward from the side of the catheter. In some variations, the electrode assembly has a second inner electrode, and the insulating layer and outer electrode may each have a second opening that are coaxially aligned with the second inner electrode. An angioplasty shockwave catheter may have a plurality of such low-profile electrode assemblies along its length to break up calcified plaques along a length of a vessel.
US09433422B2
A surgical clip applicator includes a handle configured to produce translational movement; a cartridge containing a plurality of clips arranged in a row, the cartridge including a jaw assembly for receiving and closing a clip; a jaw closing mechanism for closing the jaw assembly; a clip feed mechanism for serially feeding a lead clip from the row to the jaw assembly; a clip advance mechanism for advancing the row as the lead clip is fed to the jaws; and a rocker mechanism for translating translational movement from the handle opposite translational movement of the haw closing mechanism in one direction and the clip feed mechanism and clip advance mechanism in an opposite direction.
US09433421B2
A surgical tool has a body including a pair of legs, each leg having a leading edge and a butt end. The pair of legs are connected at their butt ends, wherein the pair of legs are configured to come close and depart at the leading edges. A deformable connecting member connects the pair of legs to one another at the leading edges.
US09433415B2
A retraction mechanism allows the full distal retraction of the firing drive from various positions. The retraction mechanism has been developed for use with a hand held surgical apparatus. An embodiment of the retraction mechanism includes a drive member, a first pulley, a second pulley, and a firing drive. The drive mechanism is configured to be driven by a motor. The first pulley is configured to rotate when the motor drives the drive mechanism. The second pulley is movable relative to the first pulley between a proximal position and a distal position. The firing drive is movable relative to the first pulley between proximal and distal positions. In operation, the first pulley rotates in a first direction in response to a distal translation of the firing drive and wherein the firing drive moves proximally upon rotation of the first pulley in a second direction.
US09433412B2
A surgical stapling instrument is provided having systems for securing buttress material to the anvil and staple containing cartridge associated with the surgical instrument. The system includes a retainer configured to engage the anvil or the staple containing cartridge and capture the buttress material between the retainer and the anvil or staple containing cartridge. The disclose retainer engages the anvil or staple containing cartridge in snap fit or friction fit fashion. The buttress material includes a circumferential perforation line enabling the center of the buttress material to be stapled to tissue while the remainder of the buttress material remains with the anvil or staple containing cartridge.
US09433405B2
A retractor with at least two spreader arms that can be displaced relative to one another and can be blocked by a blocking device and on their end sections are provided with blades that can be displaced in their gripping ranges. The blades are of unit construction and are inserted so that they can slide in linear guides forms from spreader arms in such a manner that can be fixed in a range of freely chosen positions each corresponding to various griping ranges by means of a releasable fixing device.
US09433403B2
A biopsy system includes a biopsy device and a vacuum control module. The biopsy device includes a cannula and a cutter that translates relative to the cannula to obtain tissue samples. The vacuum control module includes a source of vacuum in communication with the cutter and a user interface. The user interface includes a first page and a second page. The first page has a first graphical representation to indicate the operational status of the biopsy device and does not accept user inputs to alter the operational status of the biopsy device. The second page has at least one icon to adjust the operational status of the biopsy device indicated on the first page and a second graphical representation to indicate the adjustment to the operational status of the biopsy device. The user interface includes a user input feature to select the first page or the second page.
US09433402B2
A biopsy device comprises a handpiece, a fluid collection system, and a power transmission source. The handpiece is configured for grasping by a single hand, and is independently manipulatable by hand for movement of the instrument toward and away from the patient. An elongated piercer extends from the distal end of the handpiece. The piercer has a sharpened distal end for entering the tissue and a port located proximal to the sharpened distal end for receiving a portion of tissue mass. An elongated cutter is disposed coaxially relative to a piercer lumen of the piercer. A distal blade of the cutter slides distally past the port of the piercer to sever the tissue portion drawn into the port by vacuum. The handpiece further comprises a holster for detachably connecting a cutter rotational transmission and a cutter axial transmission to the power transmission source.
US09433392B2
According to one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes an image data acquisition part, a range setting part and a blood vessel image generation part. The image data acquisition part receives one of X-ray contrast image and subtraction image, of an imaging region including blood vessels of an object. The subtraction image are generated by subtraction processing between the X-ray contrast image and non-contrast X-ray image. The range setting part sets a target range in the X-ray contrast image or subtraction image. The blood vessel image generation part derives time changes in concentrations of a contrast agent based on the X-ray contrast image or subtraction image, and generates blood vessel image having pixel values corresponding to times, at which concentrations of the contrast agent become a specific condition, within the target range and pixel values corresponding to concentrations of the contrast agent outside the target range.
US09433389B2
A system and method for indirectly monitoring the position of a target inside a body is disclosed. The method includes generating position data associated with one or more surrogate devices and predicting a location of the target from the position data based on a target position model that establishes a relationship between an actual location of the target and the position data of the one or more surrogate devices. The method also includes determining that the predicted location of the target deviates from the actual location of the target when an analysis of an error prediction model results in a confidence threshold being exceeded.
US09433388B2
According to the present embodiment, an image diagnosis apparatus includes a first image taking device that takes an image of a patient placed on a couchtop by using an X-ray emission; a second image taking device that takes images in positions by moving an image taking position of the patient by a predetermined distance at a time, along the body-axis direction; a position estimating unit; and a correction processing unit. The position estimating unit estimates a couchtop position for each of the image taking positions of the second image taking device, based on information about warping of the couchtop of the first image taking device. The correction processing unit uses information about the couchtop positions estimated by the position estimating unit, for performing a position correcting process on the images obtained by the image taking devices.
US09433383B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a head fixation apparatus including a number of support posts, and a curved ring portion including a number of connectors configured to adjustably and releasably mount support posts on the lower ring portion, such that the support posts are selectively mounted to a subset of the connectors in a customized arrangement for a patient. The apparatus may include a ring mount configured for fixation to a platform, including a curved channel substantially matching a curvature of the curved ring portion, and a mount locking mechanism for locking the curved ring portion within the channel of the ring mount. The curved ring portion may be configured to rotate within the channel of the ring mount while the ring mount is fixed to the platform, an angular head position of the patient being selectably adjustable while the patient is laying on the platform.
US09433381B2
Some embodiments of a system or method for treating heart tissue can include a control system and catheter device operated in a manner to intermittently occlude a heart vessel for controlled periods of time that provide redistribution of blood flow. In particular embodiments, the system and methods may be configured to monitor at least one input signal detected at a coronary sinus and thereby execute a process for determining a satisfactory time period for the occlusion of the coronary sinus. In further embodiments, after the occlusion of the coronary sinus is released, the control system can be configured to select the duration of the release phase before the starting the next occlusion cycle.
US09433364B2
A method can determine one or more origins of focal activation. The method can include computing phase for the electrical signals at a plurality of nodes distributed across a geometric surface based on the electrical data across time. The method can determine whether or not a given candidate node of the plurality of nodes is a focal point based on the analyzing the computed phase and magnitude of the given candidate node. A graphical map can be generated to visualize focal points detected on the geometric surface.
US09433362B2
A monitoring system that may include an emission feature capable of emitting light into tissue, a modulator portion capable of modulating the emitter at a modulation frequency to generate photon density waves, a detection portion capable of detecting photons of the photon density waves after propagation through the tissue and capable of providing a distribution of detected photons over a time period for the photon density waves, and an analysis portion capable of calculating a skewness of the distribution and making determinations relating to a value of a physiologic parameter of the tissue based at least in part on the skewness of the distribution.
US09433355B2
A photoacoustic imaging apparatus includes holding members configured to hold a subject, an acoustic wave conversion unit configured to receive an acoustic wave generated by irradiating the subject, which is held by the holding members, with light from a light source and convert the acoustic wave into an electric signal, a processing unit configured to generate image data from the electric signal, and an imaging unit configured to capture an optical pattern generated on a light diffusion member by emitting the light to the light diffusion member arranged on a surface of a side where the subject is irradiated with the light in the holding members where the holding members contact the subject in holding the subject, wherein the processing unit calculates light absorption coefficient distribution in the subject based on the optical pattern captured by the imaging unit and the electric signal acquired by the acoustic wave conversion unit.
US09433353B2
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) apparatus includes: a light source; an OCT optical system including: a first light splitter which splits light emitted from the light source into measurement and reference lights, a second light splitter which splits the measurement light into first and second beams, an optical delay path to generate an optical path length difference between the first and second beams, a scan optical system which scans the respective beams on an object to be examined in a transverse direction, a reference optical system, and a detector which receives a spectrum of composite light in which reflected lights of the first and second beams from the object, and the reference light from the reference optical system are combined; and an arithmetic controller which processes an interference signal output from the detector to obtain first and second tomographic images formed respectively by the first and second beams.
US09433349B2
A stand-alone MR or hybrid PET-MR imaging system incorporating a surface stationary RF coil structure is disclosed. The imaging system includes a support assembly comprising a cradle to accommodate a subject and a bridge to receive the cradle and provide for translation therealong to enable an acquisition of imaging data. An RF coil structure is positioned between the bridge and the cradle, and includes a base portion, a cover portion, and an array of RF coil elements positioned on the cover portion. The cover portion includes contoured features that enable placement of RF coil elements in proximity to a subject and to provide a constant and uniform gap between the RF elements and the cradle. The RF coil structure also includes structural elements that support the cradle when rolling over the array of RF coil elements without deforming the RF coil elements.
US09433345B2
This cycloduction measurement device is provided with a blood vessel position recognition unit and a first angle calculation unit. The blood vessel position recognition unit recognizes the position of a blood vessel in a sclera region in an eye image, and acquires information pertaining to the position of the blood vessel. The first angle calculation unit calculates the angle of cycloduction on the basis of the first information pertaining to the position of a predetermined blood vessel acquired by the blood vessel position recognition unit during actual measurement of cycloduction, and a second information pertaining to the position of the predetermined blood vessel while in a reference state.
US09433343B2
An endoscope includes a substantially rigid shaft having a distal end and a proximal portion, the shaft having a first lumen and a second lumen separate from the first lumen, the second lumen containing one or more objective lenses disposed at the distal end thereof. A housing is mounted on the proximal portion of the shaft, the housing including an eyepiece mount and a light input port. An image fiber bundle is disposed in the second lumen, the image fiber bundle extending proximally from adjacent the one or more objective lenses to the eyepiece mount. An illumination fiber bundle is disposed in the second lumen, the illumination fiber bundle extending proximally from the distal end of the shaft to the light input port.
US09433327B2
A backflow prevention assembly for global use with dispensers requiring a variety of backflow prevention devices based on regulatory standards is provided. The assembly includes a housing comprising first and second housing members and including quick connector attachments extending therefrom. The quick connector attachments are non-threaded members configured to be attached to the various measurement and types of connections found throughout the world. A cover is provided for venting purposes to reduce the backflow siphoning forces or pressure, which causes the backflow of a product chemistry. Furthermore, a backflow prevention device is configured to be fluidly coupled to the housing of the present invention to provide for one way flow and the prevention of backflow of a product chemistry into a water supply. The flow control may be selected based on the regulatory standards of the location used.
US09433324B2
A kitchen appliance includes a housing enclosing a motor and a switch mechanism. A bowl is removably mountable onto the housing. At least one actuation member is movable between a first position and a second position. A bowl lid is removably mountable onto the upper rim of the bowl. When the bowl lid is properly positioned onto the upper rim of the bowl, the motor is actuated or permitted to be actuated by pressing downwardly on the lid such that at least a portion of one of a plurality of flanges of the bowl contacts at least a portion of the actuation member to force the actuation member to the second position.
US09433308B1
A landscaping device and shield apparatus combination is provided. The landscaping device is powered by an engine and/or motor capable of hurling upward flying debris. The apparatus includes supports, each having an upper end and a lower end. Bases each having a rod insertable up to a bulge into the lower ends of the supports are provided to maintain the supports in a substantially vertical orientation. Also included are: a flexible screen and a retraction mechanism. The retraction mechanism has a construction such so as to provide an automatic locking and automatic retraction assist that a second support may be temporarily locked, and later pulled toward the first support, as desired The landscaping device excludes a stump grinder.
US09433301B2
A furniture element is characterized in that it comprises a first flexible inner envelope (30) defining therein a first volume (22) adapted to receive a material comprising a fluid with a first density and a second flexible outer envelope (10), the inner envelope and the outer envelope defining together a second volume (21) surrounding the first volume (22) and adapted to receive a second material comprising a fluid and flexible particles with a second density higher than the first density, a first closable port (40) for entry or exit of fluid into/from said first volume, opening to the outside, and a second closable port (50) for the entry or exit of fluid into/from said second volume, opening to the outside. The invention can be used in particular for improving the comfort and facilitating the transportation of large volume seat-type or cushion type elements (typically from 0.2 to 1 m2) for outdoor use (terraces, swimming pools, etc.).
US09433298B2
An ergonomical seat assembly for supporting a seated human body in correct posture to maintain proper and healthy spine, hip, and pelvic alignment. The seat assembly includes a back panel for supporting the back of a user in an upright sitting position and side support members for engaging the sides of the user's torso. Included is a lumbar support member for engaging the lower back of the user just above the hips. The back panel is secured to a base panel upon which is arranged hip support members for engaging the seated user's hips. Together the elements of the seat assembly maintain proper and healthy posture of a seated user and comfortable long or short term seating.
US09433286B2
A door assembly is disclosed herein that is usable in a cabinetry system having removable cabinet faces. The door assembly includes a door plate coupleable to at least one hinge assembly, the door plate having a first portion and a second portion extending outward from the first portion. The door assembly also includes a door panel having a recess formed in an inward-facing surface thereof, the recess sized to receive the door plate. A plurality of magnets are inset within the inward-facing surface of the door panel adjacent the recess and are magnetically coupled to the door plate. According to various embodiments, the door plate may have a substantially L-shaped or C-shaped configuration.
US09433282B2
A connector hub assembly usable as a standalone module or as a component in a work space system. The connector hub assembly optionally includes features for connecting one or more arms of a support frame for supporting a modular workspace system including desk space, cabinet space, view screens, electronic equipment, and/or other workspace system components.
US09433280B2
The invention relates to a cosmetic brush having a handle with the longitudinal axis LH and having a brush applicator adjoining the handle; the brush applicator is composed of a bending element that is flexible in at least one plane, has a longitudinal axis LS, and has a set of bristles composed of a plurality of bristles that are integrally injection-molded onto its distal end, whose longitudinal axes LB extend (entirely or essentially) parallel to the longitudinal axis LS.
US09433279B1
A carrier apparatus for a portable computer including a single rectangular flexible case having a top portion, a bottom portion, and a foldable horizontal crease disposed between the top portion and the bottom portion. A transparent pocket is disposed on an internal surface of the bottom portion of the case. A neck strap is attached to a top edge of the top portion of the case. A female snap fastener of a snap fastener is disposed on the bottom portion of the case, and a male snap fastener of the snap fastener is disposed on the top portion of the case. A plurality of a pair of side release buckles are attached to a plurality of a pair of straps attached to the case. Each of a right closure mechanism and a left closure mechanism of a pair of closure mechanism are disposed on the case.
US09433274B1
A finger scrubber including a brush sleeve and an electrically powered base or body is presented herein. The brush sleeve includes a generally cylindrical configuration cooperatively sized to accommodate a user's finger therein. One or more brush components suitable to scrub or clean a finger are disposed on the inside of the brush sleeve. Furthermore, the body, and in particular, a drive assembly is structure to cooperatively engage the brush sleeve and rotationally drive the brush sleeve via selective activation of a switch or activation assembly. Moreover, the drive assembly is configured to rotationally drive the brush sleeve in alternating rotational directions via successive activations.
US09433268B2
An umbrella having the crown of the canopy coupled to a support structure via a pivot joint that is structured and configured to allow swiveling and/or tilting of the canopy with ease by a user, in more than one plane or with more than one degree of freedom with respect to the support structure. The canopy frame includes a longitudinal central support hub, and the pivot joint is rotatable about a rotation axis, wherein the axis of the canopy support hub makes a fixed or variable non-zero angle with respect to the pivot joint rotation axis. As a result of the angle between the pivot joint rotation axis and the canopy support hub axis. The rotation of the pivot joint causes tilting of the canopy support hub axis, thus tilting the canopy to change its orientation.
US09433266B2
This invention is embodied in a wearable device for hiding keepsakes and valuables. The preferred embodiment of the device creates an internal hidden compartment formed between a first face, a second face and a channel-shaped retaining ring.
US09433252B2
A helmet accessory attachment system may include an attachment portion comprising a biasing element, a position member, and a movable member. The movable member may be selectively moveable between a home position which is a first distance from the position member and a release position which is a second distance from the position member. The biasing element may bias the movable member toward the home position. The helmet accessory attachment system also may include a mounting portion attachable to a helmet. The mounting portion may include a first channel to receive the movable member at a first opening and a second channel to receive the position member at a second opening. A third distance between the first opening of the first channel and the second opening of the second channel may be greater than the first distance from the movable member to the position member in the home position.
US09433248B2
The present invention comprises a protective covering for keeping a user's leg clean while using power tools such as grass and weed trimmers or sprayers for various paints, stains and chemicals. The protective covering comprises a washable yet moisture resistant fabric. The V notch at the upper end allows for easily pulling the protective covering over user's pants and shoes, also leaving a slight opening for breathability. Fabric is flared at the lower end to protect user's shoes. Protective cover is held in place on the user's leg by a combination of hook and loop fastener and elastic strip attached at the upper end; this combination of hook and loop fastener and elastic strip allows protective cover to be attached above user's knee and to fit comfortably and snuggly as user moves about with the grass and weed trimmer. Preferably, the protective cover comprises a substantially conical, nonwoven polypropylene fabric.
US09433245B2
A wearable cover is disclosed for covering a body of a user, the wearable cover comprising a main portion configured to cover a torso of the user's body. The main portion has an opening for enabling a head of the user's body to extend through the main portion and a collar attached to the main portion configured to cover a neck of the user's body and a hat attached to the collar configured to cover a portion of the head.
US09433243B1
A baby burping cloth for burping by an infant as well as providing protection to a caregiver is disclosed. The baby burping cloth comprises a “cross”-shaped cloth assembly having a pair of openings for insertion of an infant's leg portions, a pair of side sections to wrap around the infant, a neck section to protect the caregiver, and an accessible inner space. The inner space is configured to retain a prosthetic breast which increases pressure upon the infant to burp.
US09433237B2
A method of manufacture of a breadcrumb coating for a food product provides a crumb with an extremely low moisture content without the need for substantial energy input. The method achieves such very low moisture content without significant adverse effect on product quality.
US09433236B2
The invention relates to a method of preparing functionally valuable products, such as β-glucan, protein, starch and lipid concentrates from oat. The invention also relates to products thus obtained and to the use thereof. The invention further relates to the use of non-heat-treated or slightly heat-treated oat fat-extracted with supercritical extraction for preparing said products by using dry milling, sieving and air classification.
US09433233B2
A cooking apparatus including a cooking chamber to receive materials to be cooked therein, a microwave-heating unit to radiate microwaves to the cooking chamber, a convection-heating unit to supply hot air to the cooking chamber, a grill-heating unit to supply radiant heat to the cooking chamber, a crusty plate configured to be heated by the microwaves, an input unit to receive a user fry-cooking command, and a control unit. When the user fry-cooking command is input, the control unit performs a microwave-heating stage of activating at least one of the convection-heating unit and the grill-heating unit and activating the microwave-heating unit, and performs a slim fry stage of activating the grill-heating unit and the convection-heating unit without activating the microwave-heating unit. Accordingly, the cooking apparatus achieves the fry-cooking process using the microwaves, radiant heat and convection heat without dipping the materials to be cooked in oil.
US09433232B2
A method of improving the health of a first group of young monogastric mammals, the first group of young monogastric mammals nursing from a first lactating monogastric mammal during a pre-weaning period, the method including feeding the first lactating monogastric mammal an effective amount of an animal feed during the pre-weaning period, and feeding the first lactating monogastric mammal an effective amount of sugar alcohol during the pre-weaning period.
US09433231B2
The invention describes a low temperature extrusion process and a respective device for an energy-optimized and viscosity-adapted microstructuring of frozen aerated systems like ice cream. Therewith a very finely dispersed microstructure is reached under optimized balance of viscous friction based mechanical energy dissipation and transfer of dissipation heat and additional phase transition (freezing) heat to a refrigerant up to very high frozen water fraction at very low temperatures. With this new process and device aerated masses are continuously frozen and optimally micro-structured under minimized/optimized mechanical energy input. The microstructure of this-like treated masses supports on the one hand preferred rheological properties which lead to improved shaping, portioning and scooping properties, even at very low temperatures, and on the other hand leads to an improved shelf life (heat shock stability) and mouth feel (e.g. creaminess, melting behavior).
US09433215B2
The present application provides processes for making pesticidal compounds and compounds useful both as pesticides and in the making of pesticidal compounds.
US09433214B2
The present invention relates to active compound combinations and compostions for reducing the damage of plants and plant parts as well as losses in harvested fruits or vegetables caused by insects, nematodes or phytopathogens and which have fungicidal or nematicidal or insecticidal activity including any combination of the three activities, in particular within a composition, which comprises (A) Fluopyram, (B) a spore-forming bacterium of the genera Bacillus, selected from Bacillus firmus, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus pumilis, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Bacillus subtilis strain GB03, Bacillus subtilis strain QST713, and (C) at least one biological control agent, in particular bacteria, fungi or yeasts, protozoa, viruses, entomopathogenic nematodes, inoculants, botanicals and products produced by microorganisms including proteins or secondary to metabolites. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for curatively or preventively controlling insects, nematodes or phytopathogens on the plant, plant parts, harvested fruits or vegetables, to the use of a combination according to the invention for the treatment of seed, to a method for protecting a seed and not at least to the treated seed.
US09433209B2
Microbial growth inhibiting solutions and methods of employing the microbial growth inhibiting solutions in flushing and coating medical devices are disclosed. In alternative embodiments, the microbial growth inhibiting solutions include combinations of a chelating agent with a C4-C9, C10 or C12 carboxylate antimicrobial agent, for example, such as n-capric, n-lauric, or n-octanoic acid. Methods of using these microbial growth inhibiting solutions for coating a medical device and for inhibiting catheter infection are also disclosed.
US09433204B2
This invention provides compositions and methods for cryoprotection of recombinant live cancer cells. Specifically, an improved cryoprotective medium is provided which includes a hydroxyethyl starch and/or derivative thereof alone or in combination with either DMSO or glycerol.
US09433198B2
A tool for making the task of tying a hook or bait onto a fishing line using one hand. The device includes a magnet to hold the hook or bait, holders for an end of the line on either side of the hook, a cutter for cutting the line, a housing neck around which to wrap the line and a sliding line puller which pulls the line back through the wraps.
US09433196B1
An aerodynamic fish lure facilitates collapsible closing of the lure for farther casting distance and accuracy when cast off in the air. The air casting event causes the lure's jointed segments to contract in length together in the air and then to expand in length as the lure hits the water. Then the lure either skims along the surface of the water or is submerged under the water and can pivot in two or more axial directions, or at any angles therebetween. Connectors connect the segments, and retract in or out of respective recesses in the respective segments, which are designed to permit the collapsing of the length of the lure in the air as well as the lure's expansion or contraction in any axial direction or angle therebetween, in length in the water. The segments also laterally pivot, imitating wiggling of lure bait on or in the water.
US09433188B2
A method and apparatus for securing a pet leash to an object. The apparatus comprises a body connectable to a leash secured to the pet and a flexible member extending from the body. The flexible member has sufficient length to be passed around an object and a free distal end. The body has a receiver operable to selectably and lockably receive the free distal end of the flexible member therein. The method comprises providing a body connectable to a leash secured to the pet, extending a flexible member from the body around an object and selectably and lockably securing a distal end of the flexible member into a receiver of the body. The body may comprise a handle body of a leash.
US09433187B2
An animal litter, process for preparing the animal litter and a method for removal of animal waste using the animal litter are provided. The animal litter generally includes at least about 10 weight % finely ground pine wood powder. Further the animal litter includes a lubricant and a cohesiveness agent. The animal litter is in the form of discrete plural particles which tend to agglomerate when wetted.
US09433182B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2KNP1 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH2KNP1 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2KNP1 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH2KNP1 or a locus conversion of PH2KNP1 with another maize variety.
US09433178B1
A novel maize variety designated PH25KJ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH25KJ with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH25KJ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH25KJ or a locus conversion of PH25KJ with another maize variety.
US09433177B1
A novel maize variety designated PH1MJ9 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1MJ9 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1MJ9 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1MJ9 or a locus conversion of PH1MJ9 with another maize variety.
US09433163B2
A novel hybrid cantaloupe plant, designated BRONCO is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cantaloupe hybrid BRONCO, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid cantaloupe BRONCO, and to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant by crossing the hybrid cantaloupe BRONCO with itself or another cantaloupe plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a cantaloupe plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other cantaloupe plants derived from the hybrid cantaloupe plant BRONCO.
US09433161B2
A method is provided for bulk pollination of a plurality of plants. In various embodiments, the method includes collecting a plurality of known grains of pollen, loading the plurality of known grains of pollen into a bulk pollen distributing apparatus, sensing a target pollination location of each of the plurality of plants using an electronic sensor, and distributing the known grains of pollen to the plurality of plants with the bulk pollen distributing apparatus when the electronic sensor senses the target pollination location of each of the plants within a predefined proximity, thereby pollinating the plurality of plants. A plurality of plants may be prepared for controlled pollination by preventing pollination of the plurality of plants by an alternate pollen source. Known grains of pollen may be dispensed to create predetermined gamete crosses with known plants.
US09433138B2
An inductor mountable to a frame member of an implement. The inductor is movable between a working position and a stowed position. In the working position, the soil engaging tool is in engagement with the soil. In the stowed position, the soil engaging tool is out of engagement with the soil.
US09433137B2
In one embodiment, a seeding implement includes a frame configured to couple to a tool bar, a parallel linkage coupled to the frame, and a ground engaging tool extending from a shank, wherein the shank is coupled to the parallel linkage. The implement also includes a packer wheel configured to control a position of the ground engaging tool, wherein the packer wheel is positioned directly behind the ground engaging tool when the ground engaging tool is engaging a soil region. Further, the implement includes an adjustment mechanism configured to shift the packer wheel rearwardly upon the ground engaging tool encountering an obstruction and to shift the packer wheel forwardly after the obstruction has been passed by the ground engaging tool.
US09439336B2
In a component mounting system, a portable operation terminal is wirelessly connectable to mounting machines. The portable operation terminal includes: a processing portion which displays a screen allowing a worker to select one of the mounting machines to be connected to the portable operation terminal; and a terminal-side connection processing portion which issues a connection request to the selected mounting machine and which connects the portable operation terminal to the mounting machine upon reception of an acknowledgement from the mounting machine. The mounting machine includes: an equipment-side connection processing portion which connects the mounting machine to the portable operation terminal in response to the connection request, and a notification unit which notifies the worker of the fact that the mounting machine has been connected to the portable operation terminal, directly by at least one of sound and light.
US09439323B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device in which a temperature control using a cooling fan can be made more efficiently and more stably and a method for controlling temperature of a device.The device includes the fan, a measurement unit, and a control unit which controls a rotation speed of the fan based on the measured temperature. The control unit stores a plurality of measured temperatures and a normal temperature range for each measurement unit, determines the presence or absence of a temperature increasing trend, shortens a time interval when it is determined that increases, determines whether or not the plurality of temperatures are included in the normal range when it is determined that does not increase, prolongs when the all are included in the normal range, and does not change when at least one is not included in the normal range.
US09439310B2
An exemplary embodiment provides a hinge structure capable of achieving improved durability. The hinge structure includes a hinge pin having a first member and a second member having one end surface and the other end surface provided at a distance from each other in an axial direction, having a protrusion portion provided to protrude from one end surface in the axial direction, arranged to be opposed to the first member at the other end surface, and being pivotable with respect to the first member, and a hinge pin reception portion having a recess portion fitting to a part of the second member and the protrusion portion of the hinge pin. The protrusion portion has a first surface portion extending in a radial direction of the second member. The recess portion has a second surface portion which can be engaged with the first surface portion.
US09439309B2
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. A fastened mechanism of the electronic apparatus is configured to secure a first housing and a second housing of the electronic apparatus. An operating object within a sensing range is sensed via a first sensor unit. A first sensing signal is sent to a control unit when the sensor unit sensed the operating object within the sensing range. A control signal is sent to the fastened mechanism for unlocking the fastened mechanism when the control unit receives the first sensing signal.
US09439301B2
There is provided a multilayered chip electronic component including: a ceramic body including internal electrodes and dielectric layers; external electrodes covering both end surfaces of the ceramic body in a length direction; first plating layers forming the external electrodes and formed on outer surfaces of the ceramic body; non-conductive layers formed on outer side surfaces of the first plating layers; and second plating layers formed on regions of the first plating layers except for the non-conductive layers.
US09439292B1
A method for manufacturing a circuit board with a buried element having high density pin count, wherein a micro copper window formed in a first circuit by patterned dry film electroplating is easily controlled less than 50 μm so that the micro conduction holes formed after the laser drilling each has a diameter greatly shrunk less than 50 μm so as to highly increase density of the micro conduction holes, thereby facilitating in burial of the buried element with the high density pin count. Additionally, by disposing the micro conduction holes in the same elevation, optically aligning a fixing position for the buried element can be controlled precisely.
US09439285B2
In the upper surface of a metallic substrate, a region near the central part of the metallic substrate is surrounded by a rectangle having dotted sides electrically separate the interior and exterior of the rectangle. Each dot of the sides is formed of a pillared insulating resin that penetrates from the upper surface to the lower surface of the metallic substrate. Oxide films are so formed as to fill in the spaces between adjacent cylinders of insulating resins and the surrounding of the cylinders. That is, a separation layer is formed of the pillared insulating resins and the oxide films that fill up the spaces between the pillared insulating resins as well as their vicinities.
US09439283B2
Disclosed are a conductive sheet, a usage method of the conductive sheet and a capacitive type touch panel. For a first conductive sheet, two or more conductive first large grids are formed atop a first transparent base, wherein each first large grid is constituted by combining two or more small grids, and the shapes of facing sides of each first large grid are formed to alternate. For example, rectangular waveshapes of a first side portion of the first large grid and of a fourth side portion facing the first side portion are made to alternate, and rectangular waveshapes of a second side portion of the first large grid and of a third side portion facing the second side portion are made to alternate.
US09439278B2
A capacitor comprises a first winding member, where the first winding member comprises a first dielectric layer and a first conductive layer. A second winding member comprises a second dielectric layer and second conductive layer. The first winding member is interleaved, partially or entirely, with the second winding layer. A dielectric shell or shell is adapted to at least radially contain or border the first winding member and the second winding member. The first winding member is electrically connected to a first conductive end. A second winding member is electrically connected to a second conductive end. The second conductive end is opposite the first conductive end. The first conductive end forms a first lead; the second conductive end forms a second lead.
US09439271B2
Disclosed are a lighting control method and a lighting control system. The lighting control apparatus makes communication with lighting devices, registers at least one of the lighting devices according to received signal strengths of the lighting devices, and controls the registered lighting device. The lighting control apparatus easily registers and controls the lighting devices.
US09439269B2
A system and method for a lighting control system to control street lighting fixtures using modified geometric harmonic modulation for communications over a powerline. At least some of the lighting fixtures have another communications capability that enables RF communications. The communications may by messages be sent to the lighting fixtures to read RF enabled meters.
US09439263B2
A pixel arrangement of color display panel includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels, third sub-pixels and fourth sub-pixels for respectively providing a first color light, a second color light, a third color light and a fourth color light. The first sub-pixels and the fourth sub-pixels respectively have the same first length and fourth length in a first direction. The second sub-pixels and the third sub-pixels respectively have the same second length and third length in the first direction, which are greater than the first length. The first and fourth sub-pixels are arranged along the first direction to form sub-pixel columns, wherein one of the first sub-pixels in one of the sub-pixel columns partially overlaps one of the first sub-pixels and one of the fourth sub-pixels in another sub-pixel column in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US09439253B2
A light string power module is provided for providing power to light strings while replicating a lighting pattern from a first light string in providing said power. The illumination pattern of the first light string, which is not powered by the light string power module, is detected by examining the voltage polarities presented on the leads of a first connector to which the first light string is attached. These detected polarities are replicated by a switching module at matching leads on a second connector to which a second light string is attached. A power processing module accepts input power and provides output DC power to the switching module such that the second light string is powered by said output DC power in concert with the replicated voltage polarities so as to replicate the light pattern presented by the first light string on the second light string.
US09439243B2
The present invention provides a new system structure of mobile cellular system based on layered cloud computing. A core network part of the system structure includes a CRG node, and an access network part includes an MC node and a DU node. The system structure proposed in the present invention is compatible with all conventional mobile air interface protocols, supports the layered cloud computing function, and is capable of providing joint signal processing and joint scheduling, flexibly allocating computing resources among nodes, and compressing the structure of the core network, so that larger network data throughput can be provided for users with lower deployment cost.
US09439238B1
A method and system for setting a hold-timer duration is disclosed. The method involves a first network initially serving a UE by providing the UE with data service, wherein serving the UE includes allocating at least one resource to the UE and using the at least one resource to serve the UE. The method further involves, setting a hold-timer duration for a hold-timer for release of the at least one resource that the first network allocated to the UE, wherein setting the hold-timer duration comprises (i) making at least one determination selected from the group consisting of (a) a determination of a network load of the first network, (b) a determination of a data-service type of the data service, and (c) a determination of an estimated call duration for the UE and (ii) using the at least one determination as a basis to set the hold-timer duration.
US09439232B2
A method of managing short-range wireless links between a primary wireless device and a plurality of secondary wireless devices includes initiating a short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and a secondary wireless device configured to communicate using a traditional Wi-Fi protocol; providing the short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and the secondary wireless device using a Wi-Fi direct protocol, wherein the primary wireless device acts as a group owner and the secondary wireless device acts as a group member; detecting the presence of an additional secondary wireless device, acting as a server, using the primary wireless device; ending use of the Wi-Fi direct protocol over the short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and the secondary wireless device; and beginning use of the traditional Wi-Fi protocol over the short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and the secondary wireless device.
US09439225B2
A stationary access terminal, such as a stationary remote sensor, capable of wireless communication with a network is provided. The access terminal obtains sector information associated with a wireless network node by establishing a communication link with the network node. The access terminal then stores the sector information in non-volatile memory, and later retrieves the sector information from the memory, for example, after a subsequent boot up or wake up event. The stored sector information is used by the access terminal to establish a subsequent communication link with the network node, and may include at least one of channel, band, and pseudo-random number sequence information. The access terminal may also store overhead messages received from the network node in the non-volatile memory. The stored overhead messages may later be retrieved to establish system operating parameters of the network node after the subsequent boot up or wake up event.
US09439218B2
The present invention comprises a plurality of timely organized ad hoc data communications networks and a method for data communication. A network from the plurality of networks includes media-independent communications links and plurality of network nodes, where a network node in the plurality could be coupled to at least one other network node via a media independent communication link, and a plurality of access points, where each access point in the plurality is coupled to at least one other access point via another media-independent communications link. The network communicates during a data collection cycle that includes a broadcast interval, a time-slotted communications interval and a random access time-slotted communications interval. The plurality of network nodes are arranged in a self-assigned hierarchy where one or more nodes in the plurality of network nodes can be assigned more than one time slot to transmit the network information messages.
US09439209B2
In response to determining that a time to a periodic transmission opportunity exceeds a threshold, a UE selects between using a random access procedure and the periodic transmission opportunity to transmit an uplink message. In non-limiting examples given the periodic transmission opportunity is a scheduling request opportunity which is periodic according to an interval configured by a wireless network and the uplink message comprises a scheduling request. In an embodiment the user equipment's determination and selection is conditional on it pre-determining that intended uplink data or control signaling to which the scheduling request relates is delay sensitive. If that pre-determination is that the data/signaling is not delay sensitive then it uses the scheduling request opportunity to send its scheduling request without selecting between the random access procedure and the scheduling request opportunity.
US09439207B2
There is disclosed user equipment including a communication unit for executing carrier aggregation and for executing communication through a plurality of carriers, and an antenna pictogram display unit for displaying, through an antenna pictogram, at least whether communication is allowed. When execution of the carrier aggregation is allowed, the antenna pictogram display unit displays an indication that the execution of the carrier aggregation is allowed together with at least one antenna pictogram.
US09439200B2
Technologies are generally described for a resource allocation scheme for wireless communications. In some examples, a radio base station configured to communicate with one or more mobile devices may include a speed detection unit configured to detect moving speeds of the one or more mobile devices relative to a position of the radio base station; a resource allocation unit configured to allocate frequencies of one or more subcarriers based on the moving speeds of the one or more mobile devices; and a radio communication unit configured to communicate with the one or more mobile devices using the allocated frequencies of the one or more subcarriers.
US09439188B2
In a power save scheme, signaling and information transfers are scheduled to increase the amount of time a device in a wireless system can operate in power save mode. Multiple periods of time are allocated for signaling and for information transfer during a beacon interval. Control signaling during a signaling block indicates whether a given device should be awake for an information transfer during a subsequent information transfer period during the beacon interval. Thus, based on the indication, the device determines whether to be awake or asleep during the information transfer period.
US09439187B2
For allocating time and frequency resources for at least one data transmission via a fast fading frequency selective channel between an access point of a wireless telecommunications network and at least one communication device located in at least one respective moving conveyance, a processing device: obtains long-term SINR information for a set of time and frequency resources; obtains at least one frequency correlation profile; obtains at least one time correlation profile; computes figures of merit for potential sequences of time and frequency resources, based on the obtained long-term signal-plus-interference to noise ratio information and on the obtained time and frequency correlation profiles; selects a sequence that provides a figure of merit that expects reaching a target quality of service for said data transmission(s) or that is the best figure or merit; allowing said data transmission(s) via the selected sequence.
US09439185B2
A method for identifying a radio access technology by an electronic device is described. The method includes generating, by a first communication circuitry, a first message that identifies a radio access technology. The first message is of a first message type. The method also includes sending, by the first communication circuitry, the first message to a second communication circuitry. The first communication circuitry and the second communication circuitry communicate with each other over a non-radio link. The method further includes sending, by the first communication circuitry, a second message associated with the first message. The second message is of a second message type that is different from the first message type.
US09439176B2
A method embodiment includes compiling, by a network device, a cooperation candidate set (CCS) and determining a cooperation active set (CAS). The CCS includes a plurality of potential cooperating user equipment (CUEs) for selection to the CAS, and the plurality of potential CUEs is selected from a plurality of user equipment (UEs) in the network. The CAS is a set of CUEs selected from the CCS. A target user equipment (TUE) and the set of CUEs form a virtual multipoint transceiver.
US09439168B2
Location-independent approaches are provided for determining, using a mobile device, whether a wireless transmitter has been moved to a new location. An example method includes obtaining at least a portion of a reference radio frequency (RF) signature database; measuring signals from a plurality of wireless transmitters proximate to the mobile device; identifying a candidate wireless transmitter; deriving an observed radio frequency (RF) signature for the candidate wireless transmitter from signals from at least one wireless transmitter of the plurality of wireless transmitters other than the candidate wireless transmitter; determining whether the candidate wireless transmitter has been moved to a new location by comparing the observed RF signature for the candidate wireless transmitter to a reference RF signature associated with the candidate wireless transmitter; and generating an indicator that the candidate wireless transmitter has been moved responsive to the candidate wireless transmitter having been moved.
US09439165B2
A position identification server according to the present application includes a storage unit that stores coefficients of parameters of a discriminant function that indicates whether or not a terminal device is located on each floor and a maximum value of pre-measured radio wave strength of each base station on each floor, a communication unit that receives an actual measurement value of radio wave strength of radio waves received by the terminal device from the base station, and a discrimination unit that calculates the parameters of the discriminant function for each floor based on the actual measurement value of radio wave strength received by the communication unit and the maximum value of radio wave strength stored in the storage unit, calculates a solution of the discriminant function for each floor based on the calculated parameters and the coefficients of the parameters stored in the storage unit, and when there are floors where the solution of the discriminant function is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, discriminates that a floor where the solution of the discriminant function is the greatest is a floor where the terminal device is located.
US09439163B2
A location proxy server receives a network-initiated location request. The location proxy server determines the location request is a coarse location request for a mobile device. The location proxy server forwards the coarse location request for the mobile device to a location server. The location server completes a control plane function to determine the location of the mobile device and provides a location answer to the location proxy server. The location proxy server provides the location answer to the application server initiating the location request.
US09439157B2
A radio base station measures a reception power of a downlink radio signal transmitted for a first radio area and controls a transmission power of a downlink radio signal to be transmitted for a second radio area according to the measured reception power.
US09439156B2
An information format and apparatus used by a base station to make a scheduling decision when the base station allocates resource to a terminal in a mobile communication system are provided. Operations of a terminal to report a maximum transmission power accurately to the base station in a scheduling process are also provided. A method for calculating a maximum transmit power in a constant manner regardless of a channel status is also provided.
US09439153B1
Systems and methods are described for determining a power option for an access node. Application requirements for a first plurality of wireless devices in communication with a first access node may be identified for each wireless device. The number of wireless devices that comprise a met application requirement may then be determined. When that number meets a first criteria, a plurality of power options for transmitting a first signal may be determined. For each power option, a second number of the first plurality of wireless devices and a third number of wireless devices in communication with a second access node may be estimated. Based on the estimated numbers for the determined power options, a power option may be selected and the first access node may transmit the first signal according to the selected power option.
US09439144B2
Systems and methods that may reduce power consumption are disclosed. A Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) session may be facilitated between a first mobile device and a second mobile device via an access point. The access point may receive a first power save notification from the first mobile device indicating a change in operation mode of the first mobile device. The access point may transmit the first power save notification to the second mobile device, and may receive a second power save notification from the second mobile device intended for the first mobile device indicating a change in operation mode of the second mobile device. The access point may receive a third power save notification from the second mobile device intended for the access point, and may buffer the second power save notification. The access point may transmit the buffered second power save notification to the first mobile device.
US09439143B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.A method for Power Saving Mode (PSM) operation control of a UE in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes: setting a PSM for the UE; triggering a connection request of the UE in the PSM; determining whether the connection request has been barred; and maintaining the PSM setting when it is determined that the connection request has been barred.
US09439140B2
A method manages the state of a plurality of micro base stations inside a mobile communication network. The network comprises at least a macro cell containing at least one Tracking Area covering a plurality of micro cells each one associated with a micro base station. The method to manage the states of micro cells comprises the steps of: switching on of all the micro base stations contained in said Tracking Area of the macro cell, counting of the messages of paging to determine the number of portable devices in Idle mode inside said Tracking Area, and switching off at least one micro base station in the Tracking Area when the number of portable devices in Idle mode in the said Tracking Area is lower than a first determined value. According to an improvement, the switching on of all the micro base stations contained in a Tracking Area is triggered when the current load of the macro cell exceeds a second determined value.
US09439138B2
The present disclosure relates to a cell selection scheme. In one embodiment, there provides a method for performing a cell selection for a UE at a primary serving cell of the UE in a CoMP cluster including the primary serving cell and one or more candidate cells, the method comprising the steps of: receiving PRACH measurements for the UE from the candidate cells; and selecting from the candidate cells one or more cells for the UE as its secondary serving cells based on the received PRACH measurements.
US09439136B2
A method and an apparatus for scanning in a wireless LAN are disclosed. The method for scanning in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: enabling a station (STA) to receive, from a first access point (AP) operated in a first channel, a detection frame comprising identifier information of a second AP operated in a second channel and beacon frame transmission time information of the second AP, and enabling the STA to scan a beacon frame of the second AP on the basis of the beacon frame transmission time information of the second AP. Thus, the present invention can rapidly perform a scanning operation.
US09439129B2
Methods, servers and systems for communicating signaling information in a telecommunications signaling network implement methods that include receiving a first message encoding signaling information from a source component and processing the message using a fixed pipeline having a plurality of modules, each module having at least one procedure for performing a specific set of tasks. Application level routing operations may be performed to identify a suitable destination component. Information contained in the first message may be used to generate a second message encoding signaling information, which is sent to the identified destination component.
US09439128B2
A node device includes a transmitter, processor, and a receiver. The receiver receives a packet from an adjacent node device. The processor generates a cluster list and a first hello packet. The cluster list records device identification information of a node device included in a cluster. The cluster is a group of node devices for which route information is stored. The first hello packet reports the route information with cluster identification information of the cluster. The transmitter broadcasts the first hello packet. Upon receipt of, from a free-node device that does not belong to a cluster, a second hello packet that includes information that associates the cluster identification information with device identification information of the free-node device, the processor adds the device identification information of the free-node device to the cluster list until a number of node devices recorded in the cluster list reaches a threshold.
US09439127B2
The invention relates to a method for data transmission with a local network, the local network comprising a plurality of local network entities for connecting mobile entities to the local network and at least one local network entity for connecting the local network to a data network. The method comprises receiving, by a first local network entity of the local network entities of the local network, a data packet, the network address of the first mobile entity on the basis of the data packet, determining, by the first local network entity on the basis of the network address of the first mobile entity, the second local network entity, via which the first mobile entity is connected to the local network, and forwarding, by the first local network entity, the data comprised by the data packet to the first mobile entity via the second local network entity.
US09439114B2
A mobile station determines, in accordance with reception quality of a radio signal from a base station, a measurement cycle of a predetermined measurement on a link status and/or on/off of the predetermined measurement and controls execution of the predetermined measurement based on the determination.
US09439090B2
Disclosed is a method for measuring the intensity of an interference signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system. More particularly, a method for measuring the intensity of an interference signal from a first base station by a terminal in a coordinated multipoint (CoMP) environment comprises: a step of receiving a plurality of channel status information-reference signals (CSI-RSs) from a second base station; a step of receiving downlink signals output from a plurality of resource element (RE) pairs corresponding to the respective plurality of CSI-RSs from the first base station; and a step of measuring a plurality of interference intensities based on the plurality of CSI-RSs and the received downlink signals.
US09439086B2
Systems, processes, and structures allow enhanced near-field testing of the uplink and/or downlink performance of MIMO wireless devices (DUT), such as for any of product development, product verification, and/or production testing. Signal channels may preferably be emulated to test the performance of a device under test (DUT) over a range of simulated distances, within a near-field test environment. An enhanced process provides automated testing of a DUT over a wireless network, e.g. such as but not limited to a WLAN. The enhanced MIMO channel emulator may preferably be operated over a high dynamic range.
US09439082B2
A vehicle system may be connected to a mobile device over a data connection and an audio connection, and configured to, responsive to a vehicle volume change, request over the data connection that the mobile device provide an audio indication at device volume over the audio connection, and reproduce the audio indication by the vehicle system, at vehicle volume, to indicate a loudness for audio played back from the mobile device. The mobile device may be connected to the vehicle system over the data connection and the audio connection, and configured to receive the request over the data connection that the mobile device provide the audio indication over the audio connection, and provide the audio indication at device volume to allow the vehicle system to reproduce the audio indication at the overall volume of sound played back from the mobile device through the vehicle system.
US09439075B2
In one embodiment, during an authentication process between a network device and an access terminal, an authentication message for access to the network is received. The network device is configured to allow access to an IP network. The network device determines one or more capabilities of the access terminal from the authentication message. An action is then performed based on the one or more capabilities of the access terminal. The action may include using the capabilities to set up a session with the access terminal. Also, the network device may send its own capabilities to the access terminal in an authentication response. Accordingly, a capability negotiation between the access terminal and network device may be provided during an authentication process. This may facilitate a faster session setup as capabilities are exchanged during authentication can be used in the configuration of the session.
US09439063B2
Various user interfaces and other technologies for interacting with devices that support multiple communication lines can be implemented. For example, intelligent handling of communication line selection can help users deal with multiple communication line scenarios. A user interface for overriding communication line selection can be supported. Users can interact with their devices more efficiently and with less frustration. A wide variety of use default communication line scenarios are supported. Communication lines can be selected based on any of a rich set of input factors.
US09439062B2
Embodiments are described for identifying and accessing an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) and associated content of the eSIM in a multiple eSIM configuration. An embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) can include multiple eSIMs, where each eSIM can include its own file structures and applications. Some embodiments include a processor of a mobile device transmitting a special command to the eUICC, including an identification that uniquely identifies an eSIM in the eUICC. After selecting the eSIM, the processor can access file structures and applications of the selected eSIM. The processor can then use existing commands to access content in the selected eSIM. The special command can direct the eUICC to activate or deactivate content associated with the selected eSIM. Other embodiments include an eUICC platform operating system interacting with eSIMs associated with logical channels to facilitate identification and access to file structures and applications of the eSIMs.
US09439050B2
A programmable electronic device includes a processor, a cellular transceiver module and a command interpreter module. The cellular transceiver module can be executable by the processor. The command interpreter module is in communication with the cellular transceiver module and is executable by the processor. The command interpreter module is configured to transmit and receive text messages via the cellular transceiver module. The command interpreter module is further configured to program and configure operation of the programmable electronic device from commands and content identified by the command interpreter module in the text messages. The text messages may be unstructured.
US09439046B2
A radio apparatus transmits a radio signal including identification information for identifying the radio apparatus. A reception terminal receives the radio signal transmitted form the radio apparatus. A positional information management server obtains radio information in which the identification information included in the radio signal and radio field intensity of the radio signal are associated with each other and determines a position of the reception terminal using the obtained radio information. The radio apparatus includes an antenna that transmits the radio signal having directivity toward a floor.
US09439040B2
A position-determining apparatus, such as a GPS receiver, determines the position of the mobile device based on the time of flight of a transmitted probe signal using a method in which sections of the received signal is classified into two or more categories and accumulated according to categories before being used to compute the convolutions familiar in the context of a matched filter. Using the method of the present invention to compute the convolutions, and optionally applying additional time-saving techniques described herein, a position determination is achieved using a number of arithmetic operations that is significantly reduced from that required in prior art methods to compute the convolutions. The reduced number of arithmetic operations can reduce significantly the power consumption required of a device carrying out a method of the present invention, and thereby realizing a significant advantage.
US09439028B2
In one embodiment, the disclosure is directed to an integrated mouse and mass memory storage device (herein, memory storage device). In another embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a Bluetooth mouse having an integrated memory storage device. In still another embodiment, the disclosure relates to a controller for transmitting one or more storage data packets along with one or more mouse data packets from an BT mouse having an integrated mass memory storage.
US09439027B2
A sensor value is obtained by a sensor included in a terminal from among a plurality of terminals each of which includes the sensor, the acquired sensor value is stored along with an identifier used to identify a terminal with which the acquired sensor value was acquired, identifiers are extracted with which a difference of corresponding stored sensor values is equal to or smaller than a threshold value by comparing stored sensor values corresponding to different identifiers, an instruction for acquiring the sensor value is transmitted to at least one of the terminals corresponding to the extracted identifiers, and an instruction for extending an interval of acquiring the sensor value is transmitted to the terminals which are other than the at least one of the terminals corresponding to the extracted identifiers.
US09439023B2
The invention relates to a system for displaying a medical diagnostic result, comprising at least one diagnostic device having a data output outputting electronic data which represent a diagnostic result that has been obtained using the diagnostic device, and further comprising an electronic data line connection which directs the electronic data to a display device and that has a data line radio link having a radio transmitter and a radio receiver of a mobile radio network, the display device being designed to display the diagnostic result without delay, and the at least one diagnostic device and the radio transmitter being accommodated in a transport device.
US09439018B2
An audio data processing device includes a mixing unit that mixes first audio data and second audio data to generate mixed audio data, a first output unit that outputs, to a first speaker, audio data not having undergone the mixing, a second output unit that outputs, to a second speaker, the mixed audio data generated by the mixing unit, a processor which is provided between a point of branching to the mixing unit and the first output unit or between the mixing unit and the second output unit and adds an acoustic effect, and a delay unit which is provided between the branching point and the first output unit or between the mixing unit and the second output unit and delays the audio data so that a relationship of timing between input, to the first speaker, of the audio data output from the first output unit and input, to the second speaker, of the audio data output from the second output unit coincides with a relationship of timing of input between the first audio data and the second audio data.
US09439016B2
An information display method, an information display device, and a display apparatus are disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention. Sound information is acquired, and the acquired sound information is sent to the sound control register such that the sound control register obtains a corresponding sound control register value according to the sound information, the display information is obtained according to the sound control register value, and the display information is displayed. With the method according to the embodiment of the present invention, the sound information can be displayed, thereby improving user's usage perception.
US09439015B2
A system is provided and includes a plurality of acoustic devices disposed in locations arrayed throughout a defined space, each one of the plurality of acoustic devices being receptive of acoustical attributes such as sound or noise levels generated in the defined space and configured to issue signals reflective of the generated acoustical attributes and an acoustic data unit disposed in signal communication with each of the plurality of acoustic devices. The acoustic data unit is receptive of the signals issued from the plurality of acoustic devices and configured to convert the signals into digital acoustic data and to output the digital acoustic data in a serialized format compatible with a network protocol.
