US09533552B2
A filter component for motor vehicle air conditioning including a filtration part made of a material able to filter air and a noise reduction part made of a material able to reduce noise. Also disclosed is a filtration assembly which includes the filter component, and a motor vehicle air conditioning device including the filtration assembly.
US09533548B2
The invention relates to an air-diverting element with a flow-optimized contour for an air-conditioning system, in particular of a motor vehicle, which air-diverting element extends approximately perpendicular to an air flow direction. To divert an air flow through approximately 180° and at the same time nevertheless prevent pressure losses and disadvantageous acoustic effects, one end of the air-diverting element is adjoined by an approximately parabolic elongation which is situated opposite that side of the air-diverting element which faces away from the air flow direction.
US09533541B2
An active suspension apparatus for a vehicle according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a pump configured to control movement of a fluid, an actuator connected with a coil spring, which is connected with a wheel of the vehicle, and configured to receive the fluid from the pump and to compensate for a displacement of the coil spring, a fluid path configured to connect the pump with the actuator, and a valve configured to control a flow of the fluid in the fluid path, wherein, when the actuator is controlled to receive the fluid from the pump, the valve is configured to prevent the fluid from flowing from the actuator to the pump by a pressure of the fluid accommodated in the actuator.
US09533532B2
The invention relates to a tire with a radial carcass reinforcement comprising a crown reinforcement, itself radially capped with a tread comprising at least two circumferentially continuous cutouts, the said tread being connected to two beads via two sidewalls.According to the invention, the crown reinforcement comprises at least one axially discontinuous layer consisting of at least two bands each formed of at least one multilayer laminate, the said laminate comprising at least one multiaxially stretched thermoplastic polymer film positioned between and in contact with two layers of rubber composition, and, in a meridian plane, the axial ends of each of the said bands being respectively axially on the outside of each of the axially outermost points of one same circumferentially continuous cutout.
US09533528B2
A ballpoint pen 10 includes: a ballpoint pen tip 20 having a writing ball 30 and a holder 21 holding the writing ball 30; a shaft tube 12 to which the rear end part of the ballpoint pen tip 20 is mounted; and ink 40 accommodated in the shaft tube 12. The holder 21 has an ink guiding hole 26 formed from the rear end thereof toward the head end thereof and a ball house 22 formed with the inner circumference near the head end of the holder 21 expanded. The writing ball 30 is formed of a zirconia sintered body with the content of an aluminum element being less than 0.1 weight %, and the ink 40 contains inorganic particles 41.
US09533527B2
A diffraction grating recording medium (3) that enhances the ability to prevent forgery and make security more reliable. The diffraction grating recording medium (3) comprises a first recording region (31) including viewing image unit cells (11a), (12a), (13a) having a light diffraction structure, and a second recording region (32) including hidden image unit cells (2a). The viewing image unit cells of the first recording region (31) has a grating pitch more than the wavelength of visible light, and the hidden image unit cells of the second recording region (32) has a grating pitch less than the wavelength of visible light.
US09533526B1
Embodiments describe constructing game-related objects through additive manufacturing systems. At least one construction configuration for building a game-related object is advanced at least partly due to at least one game task result being attained by a user and/or due to when an object is constructed and/or arranged to be built. Several embodiments demonstrate select game task results leading to determined construction configurations instead of alternative construction configurations, causing, for instance, a differing design, complexity, function, and/or number of constructed object portions. Game task results in certain embodiments lead to multiple distinct portions of one or more objects being constructed concurrently and/or successively, at one or more locations. Selected methods and systems disclose objects constructed as awards, puzzles, other assembly challenges, educational challenges, wagering elements, electronic game elements, in multiple inseparable portions, and/or for other entertainment purposes.
US09533524B2
A cartridge comprises a housing configured to hold a color erasable material which is erasable by heating to a color erasing temperature. The cartridge further comprises a temperature sensing unit configured to detect a temperature of the housing and a recording section configured to record the detected temperature of the housing.
US09533520B2
A method of printing on a mixed sequence of media sheets uses a printer with a print head that is adjustable in height relative to a print surface that supports the media sheets. The media sheets differ in their specifications that define an admissible range for the height of the print head. The method includes the steps of retrieving admissible height ranges for a plurality of media sheets that are scheduled for printing, searching for a height value that is contained in the admissible range of all scheduled sheets, if such a height value is found, adjusting the print head to that height value, and if such height value is not found, proceeding to a problem handling routine.
US09533519B2
A cassette comprising at least one portion for engaging with a cooperating locking element of a tape printer when said cassette is correctly located in said printer, said portion comprising an elongate conductive bar extending along said cassette in a direction perpendicular to a rotational axis of a supply roll housed in said cassette.
US09533511B2
A holding member has a hole with a front tapered shape in a sliding direction of a sliding portion, and the hole and the sliding portion engage with each other.
US09533510B2
Systems and methods for connector for supplying fluid to a print system. One system is an apparatus that includes a fluid supply station of a printer with a connector to couple with a fluid source for supplying fluid to at least one printhead of the printer. The connector includes an interface having a body with an end surface that corresponds with a face of a nozzle of the fluid source. The connector also includes an inlet protruding from the end surface and configured to enter an opening of the nozzle for receiving the fluid from the fluid source. The connector further includes communication circuitry disposed on the end surface and configured to establish a connection with corresponding communication circuitry disposed on the face of the nozzle of the fluid source when the inlet enters the opening of the nozzle and the end surface and the nozzle face align.
US09533505B2
Provided is a liquid ejecting apparatus capable of suppressing ink from remaining on a nozzle surface.A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head unit 16 capable of ejecting a liquid from a nozzle 27 provided in a nozzle surface 22a of a nozzle plate 22, an anchoring plate 17 in which the head unit 16 is anchored and that is provided with an opening region 17a that exposes the nozzle surface 22, and a wiper member 12 that wipes an anchoring plate exposed-surface 17b located on the opposite side of the head unit 16 of the anchoring plate 17 and the nozzle surface 22a. When an angle of contact between the nozzle surface 22a and the liquid is taken as θn, an angle of contact between the anchoring plate exposed-surface 17b and the liquid is taken as θs, and an angle of contact between the wiper member 12 and the liquid is taken as θw, the relationship θn>θs>θw>90° is fulfilled.
US09533496B2
An apparatus for ejecting liquids includes a liquid ejection head including a nozzle, the nozzle ejecting the liquids; and an ejection detector to detect whether the liquids are ejected from the nozzle of the liquid ejection head, the ejection detector including an insulated receiver having an adhering face to receive and adhere the liquids ejected from the nozzle and an electrode disposed on an opposite side of the adhering face of the receiver. The ejection detector detects electrical change generated when the liquids adhere to the adhering face of the receiver while generating a potential difference between the liquid ejection head and the electrode.
US09533490B2
An image recording method includes applying a reaction liquid onto an intermediate transfer member, applying an ink onto the reaction liquid on the intermediate transfer member, forming an intermediate image by applying a liquid composition containing a water-soluble polymer onto the reaction liquid and the ink on the intermediate transfer member, and transferring the intermediate image by bringing the intermediate image on the intermediate transfer member into contact with a recording medium and separating the intermediate image from the intermediate transfer member with the contact with the recording medium maintained. The intermediate image to be brought into contact with the recording medium has a temperature Tc higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the water-soluble polymer, and the intermediate image to be separated from the intermediate transfer member has a temperature Tr lower than the glass transition temperature of the water-soluble polymer.
US09533486B2
A printing press for security printing has an Orloff offset printing unit comprising a plurality of stencil cylinders which can be inked, in each case, by an associated inking unit, an ink-collecting cylinder which interacts with the plurality of stencil cylinders, an Orloff plate cylinder which interacts with the ink-collecting cylinder, a transfer cylinder which interacts with the Orloff plate cylinder, and an impression cylinder which forms a printing point with the transfer cylinder. At least the transfer cylinder which interacts with the Orloff plate cylinder in the thrown-on position is included by a first printing unit section and is mounted in or on a first part frame. The ink-collecting cylinder is included by a second printing unit section and is mounted in or on a second part frame which is different from the first part frame. The first and the second part frame can be moved optionally into a first relative position with respect to one another, which forms a working position, and into a second relative position with respect to one another which forms a maintenance position. In the maintenance position, a space is formed between the first and the second printing unit section and/or between the first and the second part frame, which space ensures direct access at least to the ink-collecting cylinder, to the Orloff plate cylinder and to the transfer cylinder which interacts with the Orloff plate cylinder. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for changing a printing forme and for starting production.
US09533485B2
A variable vane assembly for a gas turbine engine compressor and method of manufacturing same is described. A plurality of projections the inner and/or outer shroud which protruded into the annular gas path such as to ensure that a radial clearance gap, defined between the projections and a vane airfoil overhang portion, remains substantially constant throughout a substantial portion of the vane pivot arc of the variable vane. The method includes forming one cavities within the shroud, the cavities isolated from the annular gas path and disposed radially beneath at least each of the projections, and providing one or more structural reinforcing elements within the cavities.
US09533474B2
A laminated packaging material for containers for liquids includes a thermoplastic material outermost layer, a paper substrate layer and a thermoplastic material innermost layer, the thermoplastic material innermost layer comprising a blend of a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) and a low density polyethylene (LDPE), the blend having a low swelling ratio in a range from 0.9 to 1.2. The blend further may have a melt flow index in a range from 5 to 20 dg/min. The LLDPE component of the blend is made by polymerization in the presence of a single site catalyst and has an average density a range from 0.86 to 0.92 g/mL and a peak melting point a range from 55 to 105° C. The thermoplastic material innermost layer prepared using such blends advantageously has a low layer thickness a range from 8 to 25 μm.
US09533468B2
A structural element for use as a core layer in a sandwich composite element, wherein the structural element (2) is formed from a plurality of mutually welded body segments (4, 5) made from an extrusion foamed thermoplastic, and wherein the structural element (2) has a first face side (1) for bonding to a cover layer, wherein a surface of the first face side (1) that can be loaded with a resin (8) has open pores (6), wherein the surface of the first face side (1) is created by hot-element cutting, in such a manner that the surface is thermally sealed to some extent, wherein a gloss value of the surface of the first face side (1), measured at 60° in accordance with DIN 67530-1982 is between 2 and 10 gloss units.
US09533456B2
A method of shaping plastics material pre-forms into plastics material containers with the steps: introducing a plastics material pre-form into a blow mold; conveying the blow mold with the plastics material pre-form along a pre-set conveying path; acting upon the plastics material pre-form with a gaseous medium during a pre-set period of time for the expansion thereof, wherein the supply of the gaseous medium is carried out in a controlled manner; and releasing the container from pressure at a pre-set point in time. According to the invention the pre-set point in time (t2) is variable.
US09533448B2
A mounting apparatus includes a cradle, a stand, a cradle attachment member, and a rotation member. The cradle includes an electronic display attachment member which is configured to removably attach an electronic display to the cradle. The cradle attachment member is configured to removably attach the cradle to the stand. The rotation member is configured to allow rotation of the electronic display when it is attached to the electronic display attachment member.
US09533440B2
A device for holding a component to be sheathed with plastic includes a holding element for producing a releasable mechanical keyed connection with an affixation region of the component, which holding element has a push-twist locking element.
US09533435B2
The present invention refers to a process and apparatus for manufacturing plastic articles through the rotational molding method, and is more particularly addressed to a process and apparatus of rotomolding in furnace for manufacturing containers with multiple layers. The apparatus of the present invention uses a series of bins for the introduction of the materials to be molten on the molds, which are controlled by a computerized control panel.
US09533434B2
Embodiments of the invention include a mold for forming a tire tread. The mold includes a tongue forming portion at an end of a tread forming portion. The tongue forming portion has a substantially constant thickness, except for a portion at an end of the tongue forming portion having a thickness greater than a thickness of a remainder of the tongue forming portion.
US09533429B2
A method and system for system for rapidly determining the predicted strength of concrete prior to pouring the concrete is disclosed herein. The system and process provides for a database storing concrete family characteristics that may be updated as actual strength of poured concrete is determined. The process also allows construction workers to pour concrete with a keener knowledge of the resulting concrete strength.
US09533427B1
A sample cutter includes a base plate for supporting a corrugated sample to be cut, and a pair of guide rails connected to the base plate. The pair of guide rails enable the corrugated sample to be positioned for cutting. The sample cutter also includes a slide rail connected to the base plate, and a cutting assembly connected to the slide rail. The cutting assembly is capable of moving along a length of the slide rail. The cutting assembly includes a pair of cutting blades that are capable of being spaced apart at a plurality of widths with respect to each other, and cutting the corrugated sample based on the plurality of widths.
US09533415B2
A control device for a mobile robot capable of stabilizing the posture of the mobile robot while in motion is provided. A control unit (26) for a mobile robot (1) includes a required total floor reaction force central point position calculating unit which calculates a required total floor reaction force central point position (Pzmp(1) to Pzmp(7)) as a position of a total floor reaction force central point by using, as a factor, a first total floor reaction force center reference position (SP(1) to SP(7)) which is defined on the basis of a current time's supporting region (Sd1 to Sd7), i.e. a smallest convex region including ground contact surfaces of current time's supporting limbs, and a next time's supporting region (Sd2 to Sd8), i.e. a smallest convex region including ground contact surfaces of next time's supporting limbs.
US09533413B2
Apparatus and methods for a modular robotic device with artificial intelligence that is receptive to training controls. In one implementation, modular robotic device architecture may be used to provide all or most high cost components in an autonomy module that is separate from the robotic body. The autonomy module may comprise controller, power, actuators that may be connected to controllable elements of the robotic body. The controller may position limbs of the toy in a target position. A user may utilize haptic training approach in order to enable the robotic toy to perform target action(s). Modular configuration of the disclosure enables users to replace one toy body (e.g., the bear) with another (e.g., a giraffe) while using hardware provided by the autonomy module. Modular architecture may enable users to purchase a single AM for use with multiple robotic bodies, thereby reducing the overall cost of ownership.
US09533412B2
An operation portion elevates or lowers imaging units of a robot in response to the user's operation of the operation portion, and when the robot is moved from a first work stand to a second work stand which have different heights, a control unit determines whether the difference between the height of the imaging units before the moving of the robot and the height of the second work stand is present in a predetermined range, and when the control unit determines that the difference is not present in the predetermined range, a display unit controls a display device to display information that instructs a user to change the height of the imaging units via the operation portion.
US09533411B2
A method for controlling a tele-operated robot agile lift system is disclosed. The method comprises manipulating a human-machine interface of a master robot located on a mobile platform. The human machine interface is kinematically equivalent to a user's arm with a plurality of support members. A position value and a torque value is measured for each support member. The position value and torque value are communicated to support members of a kinematically equivalent slave arm to position the support members to correspond with a position of the human-machine interface.
US09533406B2
A power tool comprises a driving mechanism and a gear housing space (105a) which houses the driving mechanism. A lubricant is provided to the driving mechanism inside a gear housing (105). The driving mechanism includes a driving motor (110) having a motor shaft (111). The motor shaft (111) includes an inner communicating opening (191), an outer communicating opening (192) and an air passage (193) which connects the inner communicating opening (191) and the outer communicating opening (192). At least a part of the air passage (193) is arranged inside the motor shaft (111), and the passage (193) communicates with the gear housing space (105a) via the inner communicating opening (191) and also communicates with the outer space of the gear housing (105) via the outer communicating opening (192).
US09533404B2
A wrench includes a body and a rod pivotably received in a first end of the body. A pressing device is mounted in the rod and presses against the body. A handle includes a shank and a connection end pivotably connected to the first end of the body. When the handle is in a coaxial position, the shank protrudes beyond an outer face of the first end. A longitudinal axis of the shank is coincident to the working axis. The shank can be rapidly rotated by fingers of a user. When the handle is in a storage position, the shank is received in a groove in the outer face. A palm of the user can grip and rotate the body without hindrance by the shank.
US09533401B2
A ratchet driving mechanism for a hand tool includes: a drive unit, including a drive shaft, a position member and a plurality of latch members, wherein each of the latch members includes a latch plate and an elastic piece; an adjustment ring, sleeved on the drive shaft and formed with a plurality of cavities allowing the position member to be selectively latched and positioned and an accommodation slot allowing each of the latch plates to inwardly/outwardly move; and a ratchet unit, sleeved on the drive shaft and formed with a plurality of ratchet teeth allowing each of the latch plates to be engaged. Accordingly, during the drive shaft driving the ratchet unit for generating rotation, the position member is able to precisely position the ratchet unit on drive shaft.
US09533399B2
A device for connecting two clamps, each of which has a rail, including a housing that has two insertion openings, which point away from each other and each of which has an adjoining insertion channel, for inserting a respective rail. The device also includes at least one adapter piece which can be inserted into one of the insertion openings and which reduces the free opening cross section of the insertion channel in order to insert a rail with a different cross-sectional area. The adapter piece has a lining which adjoins a collar. The lining rests against the wall of the insertion channel at least in some regions and forms an insertion channel with a reduced cross section in the inserted state, and the collar rests on an end face of the housing.
US09533392B2
A machine tool includes a clamping mechanism for clamping/unclamping rotation of a rotary table. A load is measured when an unclamping command is output and then the rotary table is rotated after a set time set in the timer passes, and the set time of the timer is changed in response to a magnitude of the measured load. In this way, it is possible to prevent the clamping mechanism from being damaged due to a subsequent command given before unclamping ends, and extend a life span of a component.
US09533391B2
In a tool exchanger apparatus of a machine tool including a turret which turns around an axis inclining with respect to a vertical direction and which conveys tools, forces applied to tool gripping portions are calculated from a resultant force of a centrifugal force, gravity and an inertial force applied to each of the tools, using a weight and a position of each of the tools and a turning speed and a turning acceleration of the turret for each of turning phases when the turret turns, and the turning speed and the turning acceleration of the turret are determined for each of the turning phases.
US09533385B2
A flat heat pipe includes a flat hollow pipe and a capillary structure. The flat hollow pipe has a first flat portion, a second flat portion and two arc portions, wherein the two arc portions are connected to both sides of the first and second flat portions. The capillary structure is formed in the flat hollow pipe. The capillary structure has a central portion and two edge portions, wherein the central portion is located on an inner wall of the first flat portion, the two edge portions are located on inner walls of the two arc portions respectively, and a thickness of the central portion is smaller than a thickness of each of the two edge portions.
US09533378B2
A cylinder block (10) includes an inter-bore flow passage (14) between adjacent bores (12). Each inter-bore flow passage (14) is formed by closing an opening-side groove portion (15) continuous from a cylinder block deck face and a bottom-side groove portion (16) with the use of a lid member (20) made of copper, and the lid member (20 is laser-welded to a groove wall face of the opening-side groove portion (15). Before the laser-welding, the lid member (20) has recesses (26) that are interspersed in a direction, in which a laser beam travels, at any one of connected portions at which the lid member (20 is connected to the groove wall face of the opening-side groove portion (15).
US09533371B2
An apparatus to cut and surface process a workpiece includes a cutting tool to cut the workpiece; a peening tool to peen surfaces of the cut workpiece; and a controller to control the cutting tool, the peening tool and the workpiece to move simultaneously.
US09533361B2
A cutting machine may include a table configured to place thereon a workpiece to be cut, a cutting unit having a cutter and tiltable relative to the table, and a position determining mechanism operable for determining a position of the cutting unit at a plurality of set positions including a vertical position and a plurality of tilt positions where the cutting unit is tilted from the vertical direction. The position determining mechanism may include an operation member operable by a user, and a switching device couple to the operation member and configured to switch the position of the cutting unit to be determined between the plurality of set positions according to the operation of the operation member.
US09533360B2
A method for roughening an inner surface (8) of a cylindrical bore (9), in particular a running surface in a cylindrical bore or cylinder liner of an internal combustion engine. A rotating tool (1) is moved in a translatory manner in the axial direction of the cylindrical bore (9) and has a radial cutting head (7). A chip (12) is lifted off by at least one cutting edge of the radial cutting head (7) and is broken away via a further edge or face of the radial cutting head (7), in order to produce the roughened surface. The tool (1) is introduced into the cylindrical bore (9) or is passed through it, after which a positioning of the tool (1) in the radial direction takes place, and after which the removal of the material takes place via the rotating tool (1) when the tool is moved in its advancing direction (V) out of the cylindrical bore. A tool (1) is also claimed.
US09533350B2
The present disclosure provides a device and method for powder distribution and an additive manufacturing method, wherein different size or kind of powders could be chosen to be accommodated within a receptacle. The receptacle can uniformly mix the powder by a rotation movement, pour out the powders by the rotation movement and distribute the powders for forming a layer by a translation movement. In another embodiment, the receptacle further comprises a heating element for preheating the powders. Not only can the present disclosure uniformly mix the powders so as to reduce the thermal deformation and distribute the powder layer compactly, but also can the present disclosure distribute different kinds of powder in different layer so as to increase the diversity in additive manufacturing.
US09533349B2
Provided is a highly versatile casting mold in which weight and manufacturing cost can be reduced, and whereby flash can be suppressed. A plate-shaped base part having a flat attachment face to which a back face of a fixed-cavity mold is attached is provided to a fixed mold constituting a casting mold. A portion of the base part in contact with the back face of the fixed-cavity mold has an attachment part body for supporting the fixed-cavity mold, and a pressure increasing means for increasing the pressure imparted to the fixed-cavity mold via the attachment part body in a state in which the mold is closed.
US09533345B2
A core molding machine which can be made smaller while having a favorable core sand filling property is provided. The machine comprises a core box having a pair of laterally separable dies and a sand filling device, having a blow head disposed under the core box, for filling the core box with core sand directed upward from the blow head; the blow head having a sand blow chamber for guiding the core sand to the core box while being connected to the core box and a sand storage chamber communicating with the sand blow chamber; the sand filling device having a compressed air supply unit for supplying a compressed air for blowing the core sand into the core box and an aeration air supply unit for supplying an aeration air for floating and fluidizing the core sand within the sand blow chamber.
US09533339B2
A method of producing a shaped aluminum alloy panel, preferably for aerospace or automotive applications, from 5000-series alloy sheet. The method includes: providing a sheet made of 5000-series alloy having a thickness of about 0.05 to 10 mm and a length in the longest dimension of at least 800 mm; and stretch forming the sheet at a forming temperature between −100° C. and −25° C., to obtain a shaped aluminum alloy panel. A shaped article formed by the above method is also provided.
US09533323B2
The invention relates to an ultrasound liquid atomizer comprising: a rigid piezoelectric transducer body (1) having a first end defining an opening and a second end, the inside of the piezoelectric transducer body (1) comprising a cavity for containing a liquid to be atomized and said body (1) further comprising a symmetry axis; a micro-perforated membrane (3) attached on said first end and covering said opening; a piezoelectric member (2, 9) adapted and provided so as to vibrate the piezoelectric transducer body (1); characterized in that the piezoelectric member (2, 9) is located towards said second end in order to vibrate the piezoelectric transducer body (1) in a direction parallel to its symmetry axis.
US09533318B2
An apparatus and method for forming a fusible coating or structure comprising a combustor that is operative to combust a fuel and contain the resulting flame to produce combustion products; means for cooling the combustion products to produce a hot carrier gas stream; and means for introducing fusible material into the hot carrier gas stream.
US09533302B2
A fluid cartridge has a bottle to retain a volume of fluid. An ejector chip resides in fluid communication with the bottle and causes ejection of fluid upon activation of fluid ejectors. Control logic coordinates ejector activation with dose control logic and temperature control circuitry. The dose control logic pre-specifies an amount of fluid to be ejected and prevents further ejection upon reaching the amount. Meanwhile, the temperature control circuit inhibits any ejection until a temperature of the fluid is within a predefined acceptable range. Bottle modularity, fluid dispense-areas and group-control of the ejectors facilitate certain designs.
US09533295B2
A diesel oxidation catalyst for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions, such as the oxidation of unburned hydrocarbons (HC), and carbon monoxide (CO) and the reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx) is described. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a washcoat composition comprising high silica to alumina zeolite and platinum and palladium such that the zeolite minimizes negative interactions of these platinum group metals with the zeolite.
US09533280B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions useful in adsorption and reactive processes comprising an adsorbent powder, such as a zeolite, and a binder mixed to form an agglomerate having a porosity of 0.30≦εp≦0.42 and a N2 pore diffusivity Dp≧3.5×10−6 m2/s and wherein the mean particle diameter of the crystalline zeolite powder is 10 μm or less; the mean particle diameter of the binder is 0.10 dA or less, and the binder concentration is 10% or less expressed on a dry weight basis.
US09533274B2
An apparatus for cracking gases with a supply line (1) for a carbon-containing gas, by means of which the gas is capable of being supplied to a first heat exchanger (5, 9) with a fill of a thermal storage mass, a first combustion chamber (6, 8) which is arranged downstream in the direction of flow of the gas and which, in particular, has a supply device capable of being regulated for another oxygen-containing gas, by means of which a partial oxidation of the carbon-containing gas is carried out by the hypostoichiometric supply of oxygen, and a reactor (7) which is arranged downstream of the first combustion chamber (6, 8) in the direction of flow of the gas which has a fill of a catalytically acting material for the catalytic splitting of impurities of the carbon-containing gas. According to the invention a second combustion chamber (6, 8) with a supply device—in particular capable of being regulated—for an oxygen-containing gas, by means of which a partial oxidation of the catalytically prepared carbon-containing gas is carried out by the hypostoichiometric supply of oxygen, is arranged downstream of the reactor (7) in the direction of flow of the carbon-containing gas, and a second heat exchanger (5, 9) with a fill of a thermal storage mass is arranged downstream of this combustion chamber in the direction of flow of the gas, wherein the direction of flow of the carbon-containing gas is capable of being reversed at least in a region which encloses the first and second heat exchanger (5, 9), the first and second combustion chamber (6, 8) and the reactor (7).
US09533268B2
A method and apparatus, for supplying high-pressure mixed gas of a low-vapor-pressure first gas as an active gas and a high-vapor-pressure second gas, are arranged to reduce an amount of the first gas discarded. The mixed gas in a high-pressure state is supplied from a mixing container to a use point. Upon reduction of pressure in the mixing container to a setpoint as a result of supply to the use point, a predetermined amount of the first gas is charged into a replenishment container connected to the mixing container by a replenishment line having a replenishment valve, and which is evacuated. As the second gas is charged into the replenishment container charged with the first gas, the replenishment valve is opened such that the first gas in the replenishment container is forced out by the second gas, thereby charging the mixing container with the mixed gas in the high-pressure condition.
US09533266B2
A method for preparing a homogeneous braid-reinforced (HMR) PPTA hollow fiber membrane combines PPTA hollow tubular braids with PPTA surface separation layer. The method includes following steps of: (1) preparing the PPTA hollow tubular braids, wherein the PPTA hollow tubular braids which are made from PPTA filament yarns are woven by a two-dimensional braided method, the outer diameter of the PPTA tubular braids is 1-2 mm; (2) preparing the PPTA casting solution as the surface separation layer, wherein the 1-3 wt % PPTA resin, 0-2 wt % inorganic particles and 10-20 wt % pore-forming agents are mixed into 75-89% inorganic acid solvent, stirred for 1-3 hours at 70° C.-90° C. to form homogeneous and transparent casting solution; and (3) preparing reinforced PPTA hollow fiber membrane, wherein the casting solution as the surface separation layer is evenly coated on the surfaces of the PPTA hollow tubular braids through spinneret, and they are immersed in a coagulation bath for solidified formation.
US09533263B2
A method of making a gas separation membrane by providing a plating vessel with a volume of plating solution of gas-selective metal ions into which is placed a porous support. The plating solution is circulated over a surface of the porous support while maintaining conditions within the plating vessel so as to promote the electroless deposition. The circulation rate of the plating solution is such as to enhance the metal deposition onto the surface of the porous support in the formation of the gas separation membrane.
US09533257B2
A scrubber for removing pollutant compounds from a gas stream. At least one gas channel introduces the gas stream to a lower portion of the scrubber. An inlet chamber directs the gas stream upwards to form a vertical gas stream. A constriction section has a vertical axis of symmetry and includes a centrally arranged venturi nozzle, and is above and in flow connection with an upper end of the inlet chamber for accelerating the vertical gas stream. A reaction chamber is arranged above and in flow connection with the constriction section. A reagent in the reaction chamber converts pollutant compounds in the gas stream to reaction products. A discharge channel in flow connection with the reaction chamber discharges gas and particles including the reaction products from the reaction chamber. A particle separator separates particles from the gas. A return channel recycles a portion of the particles to the reaction chamber.
US09533249B2
Organo-amine acid gas adsorption-desorption polymers, processes for preparing same, and uses thereof
An adsorption-desorption material, in particular, crosslinked organo-amine polymeric materials having a weight average molecular weight of from about 500 to about 1×106, a total pore volume of from about 0.2 cubic centimeters per gram (cc/g) to about 2.0 cc/g, and an adsorption capacity of at least about 0.2 millimoles of CO2 adsorbed per gram of adsorption-desorption material, and linear organo-amine polymeric materials having a weight average molecular weight of from about 160 to about 1×106, a total pore volume of from about 0.2 cubic centimeters per gram (cc/g) to about 2.0 cc/g, and an adsorption capacity of at least about 0.2 millimoles of CO2 adsorbed per gram of adsorption-desorption material. This disclosure also relates in part to processes for preparing the crosslinked organo-amine materials and linear organo-amine materials. This disclosure further relates in part to the selective removal of CO2 and/or other acid gases from a gaseous stream containing one or more of these gases using the adsorption-desorption materials.
US09533239B2
A plant for synthesis of urea with a CO2-stripping process, comprising a natural-circulation synthesis loop, said loop including at least a urea reactor (1), a carbon dioxide stripper (2) and a condenser (3), said reactor, stripper and condenser operating substantially at the same elevated pressure, said loop comprising also a reactor effluent flow line (5), connecting said urea reactor to said stripper, which comprises means (15) for directly or indirectly detecting the flow rate and/or the direction of the flow through said reactor effluent flow line (5).
US09533234B2
A hovering toy creature having a propulsion system, a control system, a winged body, and a wing actuation assembly. The winged body is mounted to the propulsion system, which is controlled by the control system. The wing actuation assembly is mounted to the winged body, and the wing actuation assembly is powered by the control system. The wing actuation assembly drives the wings in an oscillating flapping motion. The wings comprise apertures permitting air passage through the wing, thus reducing the aerodynamic effect of the flapping motion. In this manner, the wings produce a “bouncing” flight action, thus creating a realistic flight motion. In another embodiment, the propulsion system comprises one or more rotors in a coaxial arrangement. The hovering toy creature is operated by either a wireless control device or a timer device.
US09533232B2
Launcher for a slide and method for starting a sliding process in a slide way, in particular a water slide, having a starting ramp, which includes a slide section having a slide surface, which has a loading zone for at least one user, which extends from an entry-side end of the slide section to a blocking device arranged in the slide section, the blocking device blocking the slide surface when in a starting position, and having a pivoting device, by which the starting ramp can be moved from a loading position to a starting position, and having a control device, which actuates the pivoting movement of the starting ramp between the loading position and the starting position and the blocking device between the starting position and a release position.
US09533226B2
A system and methodology for dynamically adjusting the difficulty of a game based on upon the specific hardware configuration and/or network connectivity capabilities available to specific users in connection with the interaction of those users with the game. In exemplary implementations, dynamically adjusting the difficulty of playing a game based on hardware and network connectivity capabilities may be performed by processors executing computer program modules.
US09533224B2
A game apparatus displays game space on a display means, and the game space includes a first area and a second area which interrupts continuity of a movement of an object in the first area. A user sets a moving route within the game space by means of a touch pen. The collision, that is, the object moves along the route. Assuming that the object moves to a next point position on the route, when the next point position where the object will enter the second area is set, the computer corrects the next point position to a target position within the first area, and then moves the object thereto.
US09533219B2
The invention provides an improved controller (10) for a games console. The invention is a games controller (10) that is intended to be held by a user in both hands in the same manner as a conventional controller (1). Additionally, the controller of the invention (10) may comprise the same controls (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) as a conventional controller (1). The controller of the present invention (10) is advantageous as it additionally comprises four additional controls (11A, 11B, 11C, 11D) located on the rear of the controller (10) in a position to be operated by the middle fingers of a user (12). The additional controllers (11A, 11B, 11C, 11D) may be paddle levers and may replicate the functions of one or more of the controls (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) located on the front or top of the controller (10).
US09533214B2
In various embodiments, the gaming system and method disclosed herein enables a player to allocate portions of a selected predetermined wager amount amongst a plurality of linked games. In one such embodiment, the player selects allocation percentages such that the total of the allocated portions according to the allocation percentages equals the selected predetermined wager amount. For each of the plurality of linked games, the gaming system determines and displays a game outcome, and determines and displays an award associated with the determined game outcome. The gaming system further provides the determined award for each of the plurality of linked games to the player.
US09533197B2
An illuminated ball may be used to play games in the water. An illuminated ball may include a hollow, spherical shell. A translucent light housing may be coupled to the shell. A light emitting device may be within the translucent housing. A battery housing coupled to the light emitting device. At least one battery may be within the battery housing. A circuit board may be coupled to the battery housing. Four conductors may be coupled to the circuit board, wherein two of the four conductors are coupled to the light emitting device and another two of the four conductors are coupled to at least two water contacts. The at least two water contacts are located on an outside of the illuminated ball, wherein on exposure to water, the at least two water contacts are electrically connected causing the light emitting device to emit light.
US09533183B1
A rolling exercise device with a low profile includes an elongated handle, a pair of separate support bodies, connections securing the support bodies at their facing inner sides to opposite ends of the handle so as to maintain the support bodies and the handle in a fixed relationship with respect to each other, mounting seats provided beneath each of the support bodies, and rollers rotatably mounted in the mounting seats so as to adapt the support bodies to be freely rolled by the rollers across a support surface as a user gripping the handle supports a portion of his or her weight on the handle. The device has a modular construction in the sense that the support bodies are interchangeable with one another with respect to their relationships to the opposite ends of the handle.
US09533180B2
Provided is an enclosure with an integrated hydrant. The enclosure includes a fluid flow conduit that transfers fluid from a fluid supply tube to a fluid outlet, which may be associated with the backflow preventer. The enclosure has a conduit that carries water from the fluid supply tube to the backflow preventer. Thus, a lower profile, lighter, and more aesthetically pleasing enclosure is provided.
US09533177B2
The present invention relates to processes for neutralizing relaxed hair. Still further, the present invention relates to neutralizer compositions for use on relaxed hair. Still further, the present invention relates to a system for neutralizing relaxed hair. Yet further, the invention relates to relaxed hair neutralized by the compositions and methods disclosed herein.
US09533168B2
A coil for transcranial magnetic stimulation which is location-specific for unilateral brain regions is designed with multiple spaced apart stimulating elements having current flow in a first direction, and multiple return elements having current flow in a second direction which is opposite the first direction. The multiple stimulating elements and return elements are distributed on one side of a central axis of the coil.
US09533159B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for cardiac rhythm management. In some cases, a system may include a pulse generator for generating pacing pulses for stimulating a heart of a patient; a memory; and a sensor configured to sense a response to a unwanted stimulation and to produce a corresponding sensor signal. A processing circuit may receive the sensor signal for a time after one or more pacing pulses, and may derive a time-frequency representation of the sensor signal based on the received sensor signal. The processing circuit may use the time-frequency representation of the sensor signal to help identify unwanted stimulation. Once unwanted stimulation is detected, the processing circuit may change the pacing pulses to help reduce or eliminate the unwanted stimulation.
US09533156B2
A medical device performs a method for computing an estimate of a physiological variable. The method includes sensing a physiological signal and measuring an event of the physiological signal. The device initializes a value of a long-term metric of the event measurement, wherein the long-term metric corresponds to a time interval correlated to a response time of the physiological variable to changes in the event. The estimate of the long-term metric is updated in a memory of the medical device using a previous long-term metric and a current measurement of the event. The device detects a need for computing the physiological variable and computes an estimate of the physiological variable using the updated long-term metric.
US09533130B2
A syringe includes a sleeve and a pressure vessel with high pressure fluid therein. The sleeve further comprises a sleeve piston. As the high pressure vessel contacts the sleeve piston, and a bump on the sleeve piston destroys the airtight status of the high pressure vessel. While the seal of the high pressure vessel is removed, the compressed fluid flows into the sleeve through the opening of the high pressure vessel and the hole of the sleeve piston. When the closed end of the sleeve moves closer to the closed end of the sleeve piston, the fluid in the sleeve is pressed and flows out of the sleeve through the sleeve hole of the sleeve.
US09533126B1
Disclosed is an apparatus for reinforcing medical balloons. The apparatus may be used for reinforcing any medical balloon by using a hollow tubular reinforcement sleeve. The sleeve may be in the form of a tubular braid, a tubular warp knitted fabric, a tubular weft knitted fabric or a tubular woven fabric. The apparatus may also be used for wrapping reinforcement yarns around the balloon.
US09533123B2
An elongated optical guidewire assembly, such as for optically imaging a patient from within another catheter, can have a lead portion and a probe portion. A connector between the lead and probe portions can include a bore including first and second bore ends. The first bore end can include a substantially circular cross-sectional profile. The second bore end can include a substantially non-circular cross-sectional profile. The bore can be configured to receive the optical guidewire assembly at the first bore end and configured to deform the optical guidewire assembly at the second bore end such that probe and lead ends of the optical guidewire assembly are deformed into a substantially non-circular profile and located between the first and second bore ends.
US09533118B2
In various arrangements, a nebulizer element of a nebulizer may be energized with a drive signal. A phase offset of the drive signal may be measured. A phase delta may be determined. The phase delta may indicate a difference between a target phase offset and the measured phase offset. The target phase offset may indicate a non-zero target phase difference between the voltage of the drive signal and the current of the drive signal. A frequency of the drive signal may be changed to decrease the phase delta.
US09533104B2
An assembly for a drug delivery device comprises a drive member which is adapted and arranged to be displaced in a dose setting direction for setting a dose of a drug and to be displaced in a dose delivery direction for delivering the set dose of the drug. The assembly comprises a piston rod which is adapted and arranged to be displaced in the dose delivery direction via mechanical interaction with the drive member for delivering the set dose. The assembly comprises at least one resilient pre-delivery element, wherein the assembly is configured such that the resilient pre-delivery element is biased when the drive member is displaced in the dose setting direction for setting the dose, the biased resilient pre-delivery element relaxes before the drive member is displaced in the dose delivery direction for delivering the dose. When the resilient pre-delivery element relaxes, the piston rod is displaced with respect to the resilient pre-delivery element in the dose delivery direction by a pre-delivery distance. Furthermore, a piston rod is provided.
US09533102B2
A jet injector that includes a prefilled syringe. The syringe includes a fluid chamber that contains a medicament. The syringe also has an injection-assisting needle, and a plunger is movable within the fluid chamber. A housing is configured for allowing insertion of the needle to a penetration depth. An energy source is configured for biasing the plunger to produce an injecting pressure in the medicament in the fluid chamber of between about 80 and 1000 p.s.i. to jet inject the medicament from the fluid chamber through the needle to an injection site.
US09533101B2
A syringe device that includes a stem, container, and a plunger, the plunger having tubes with a soluble substance that maintain a seal on compounds within the container's chamber, and/or a parabolic cover held in position by a soluble substance, thus allowing a multi-cycle usage to dispense medication to patients, even while preventing further use.
US09533084B2
A foldable, intravascularly insertable blood pump (10) comprises a foldable, radially delivering impeller (20) accommodated in a foldable housing or envelope (24). Axially before and behind the impeller a clearance (60) is provided between the impeller (20) and the front and back walls (32, 62) of the housing (24), the clearance being at least 0.2 mm. Preferably, the space defined between adjacent blades (54) of the impeller (20) is open towards the front wall (32) of the housing (24).
US09533072B2
Vascular grafts for treating, reconstructing and replacing damaged or diseased cardiovascular vessels that are formed from decellularized extracellular matrix (ECM). The vascular grafts include outer or outer and inner coatings that provide structural reinforcement.
US09533060B2
There is described In another of its aspects, the present invention provides a radiation source assembly comprising: (i) an elongate radiation source; (ii) a positioning element connected to a proximal portion of the elongate radiation source; and (iii) a connecting portion secured to a proximal portion of the positioning element and configured to engage a support element to maintain a distal portion of the elongate radiation source in a cantilevered position. The present radiation source assembly is configured such that the distal portion of the radiation source is cantilevered with the respect to the distal portion of the protective sleeve in which it is disposed. This feature obviates the need to use spacers, stops, springs and the like in a distal portion of the protective sleeve to maintain correct position of the radiation source within the protective sleeve. Further, the present radiation source assembly is advantageous in that allows for withdrawal of the radiation source from the radiation source assembly without the need to disengage all of the components. Thus, it is possible to replace a single radiation source by removing it from the protective sleeve during operation of the fluid treatment system. This operation can be accomplished quickly without the need to shut down the fluid treatment system or otherwise compensate for the fact that one of the radiation source is being serviced.
US09533053B2
The present invention is an ophthalmic composition containing a relatively high concentration of olopatadine. The composition is typically an ophthalmic aqueous solution containing relatively high concentrations of olopatadine solubilized within the solution. The composition is preferably capable of providing enhanced relief from symptoms of ocular allergic conjunctivitis, particularly late phase symptoms of ocular allergic conjunctivitis.
US09533051B2
The subject invention pertains to formulations comprising poly(menthyl acrylate) nanoparticles comprising at least one active ingredient contained in a plurality of hydrophobic carriers and dispersed in an aqueous medium. The subject invention further pertains to methods of polymerization of drug loaded nanoparticles made up of methyl acrylate monomers in an aqueous emulsion.
US09533049B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing nanoparticles based on functional amphiphilic molecules or macromolecules, optionally in the presence of at least one colipide, enabling the encapsulation of therapeutic agents, especially anti-tumoral agents, and the use thereof for the transport and vectorization of therapeutic agents, especially anti-tumoral agents.
US09533045B2
The present invention provides methods, systems, and devices for performing photothermal therapy (e.g., to treat cancer) using photothermal nanoparticles with a biocompatible coating surrounding a highly crystallized Fe3O4 core. In certain embodiments, the highly crystallized Fe3O4 core of the photothermal nanoparticles has an X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern where the brightest diffraction ring is from the 440 plane. In some embodiments, the photothermal therapy is conducted with a device configured to emit electromagnetic radiation in the wavelengths between about 650 nm and 1000 nm, wherein the device further comprises a visible light source that allows a user to determine where the electromagnetic radiation is contacting a subject.
US09533023B2
The present invention relates to modified eIF4G1 peptides, uses thereof and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the modified eIF4G1 peptides.
US09533020B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating thermal injuries and wounds combined with bone injuries. More specifically, the present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treating thermal injuries and wounds combined with bone injuries characterized in consisting of 4%-12% beeswax and 88%-96% sesame oil extract containing such raw materials as Radix Scutellaria, Coptis Chinensis, Cortex Phellodendri, Pericarpium Papaveris and Lumbricus by weight based on the total weight of the said composition, wherein the content of Radix Scutellaria, Coptis Chinensis, Cortex Phellodendri, Pericarpium Papaveris or Lumbricus based on their dry weight is respectively 1%-6% of the total weight of sesame oil. The pharmaceutical composition of the present invention can treat thermal injuries involving human skin, subcutaneous tissues and bones, as well as involving bone wounds, especially open fractures, deep thermal injuries combined with bone injuries, and deep thermal injuries combined with bone necrosis caused by trauma, such as deep burns combined with bone injuries or bone necrosis.
US09533016B2
New Lactococcus lactis strains, NRRL B-50571 and NRRL B-50572, and a bacterial preparation containing the same, have the ability to produce bioactive peptides that reduce blood pressure, lower LDL-cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and present antioxidant properties for better cardiovascular health. These biologically active peptides may be produced within the food for the production of a food product, such as a functional food, or they may be produced from protein sources and subsequently added to a food as part of the formulation or as part of a food supplement or a pharmaceutical preparation.
US09533010B2
The described invention provides methods and regimens for treating adverse consequences of a persistent and progressive myocardial injury-due to a vascular insufficiency that occurs early or late in a subject in need thereof, and progressive myocardial injury-preventing compositions that contain a chemotactic hematopoietic stem cell product, and, optionally, an additional active agent. The method treats ongoing vascular insufficiency affecting coronary circulation by (i) stimulating neoangiogenesis in a peri-infarct border zone, thereby improving myocardial perfusion; and, (ii) through a paracrine effect, preventing apoptosis of cardiomyocytes in the peri-infarct border zone. The neoangiogenesis and paracrine-mediated reduction of apoptosis reduces progressive myocardial cell loss, which leads to improvement in cardiac function and a reduction of risk of major adverse cardiovascular events.
US09533007B2
A process for making nanoparticles of biocompatible materials is described, wherein an aqueous reaction mixture comprising cerous ion, citric acid and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid in a predetermined ratio, an oxidant, and water is provided along with temperature conditions to directly form, without isolation, a stable dispersion of cerium oxide nanoparticles. These biocompatible cerium oxide nanoparticles may be used to prevent and/or treat oxidative stress related diseases, such as stroke, relapse/remitting multiple sclerosis, chronic-progressive multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and ischemic reperfusion injury.
US09533001B2
Bioactive, hydroforming luminal liner compositions are formed of high molecular weight crystalline, absorbable copolyesters dissolved in a liquid derivative of a polyether glycol that undergoes transformation into a tissue-adhering, resilient interior cover or liner for the controlled release of its bioactive payload at clinically compromised conduits in humans as in the case of bacteria- and yeast-infected vaginal canals, esophagi, and arteries following angioplasty.
US09532999B2
The present invention relates to methods of treating infectious, inflammatory and post-traumatic disorders by administering various compounds newly discovered to have TLR4 inhibitory activity. In addition to methods of treatment, the present invention further provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, together with a suitable pharmaceutical carrier. Because TLR4 is the most upstream receptor in the pro-inflammatory LPS signaling cascade, treatments of the invention, which inhibit or antagonize TLR4 action, may avoid the pitfalls associated with other cytokine inhibitors that act further down the pathway and accordingly play a less specific (and perhaps non-critical) role.
US09532998B2
The present disclosure provides prodrugs of biologically active 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds, compositions comprising the prodrugs, intermediates and methods for synthesizing the prodrugs and methods of using the prodrugs in a variety of applications.
US09532986B2
Methods of treatment of NTM lung infections using formulations of liposomal ciprofloxacin. Specific liposome formulations and delivery of such for treatment of respiratory tract infections and other medical conditions, and devices and formulations used in connection with such are described.
US09532981B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing artificial skin, comprising: adding a matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor and a heparanase inhibitor to an artificial skin formation culture medium comprising human epidermal keratinocytes and human dermal fibroblasts, culturing the cells in the artificial skin formation culture medium, and forming artificial skin.
US09532980B2
The invention provides methods for treating Aβ peptide related disorders such as Alzheimer's disease comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a CK1 modulator to a patient in need thereof.
US09532979B2
The present inventions relates to a solid composition and an aqueous dispersion comprising nanoparticles of the anti-retroviral drugs lopinavir and ritonavir. The solid composition and aqueous dispersion additionally comprise a mixture of a hydrophilic polymer and a surfactant. The surfactant is selected from vitamin-E-polyethylene glycol-succinate (Vit-E-PEG-succinate), a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester, N-alkyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride, sodium deoxycholate, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, polyethyleneglycol-12-hydroxystearate, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and a block copolymer of polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene, or a combination thereof. The hydrophilic polymer is suitably selected from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), a polyvinyl alcohol-polyethylene glycol graft copolymer, a block copolymer of polyoxyethylene and polyoxypropylene, polyethylene glycol, hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose (HPMC), and polyvinylpyrrolidone, or a combination thereof. The present invention also relates to processes for preparing both the solid composition and the aqueous dispersion, as well as to their use in therapy for the treatment and/or prevention of retroviral infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
US09532976B2
The invention provides methods of treating a diabetic subject comprising administering a glucosylceramide synthase inhibitor to the subject.
US09532973B2
A compound of formula (I-1) wherein n equals 0 or 1, Z represents O or S, R1 represents one group chosen among the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C7 alkyl, substituted, or not, by a halogen, a hydroxyl or a —O—R12 group, wherein R12 is a C1-C7 alkyl, a group —CH2—O—CO—R5 wherein R5 is chosen among a hydrogen atom and a C1-C7 alkyl, substituted or not by at least one halogen, a group —O—R13, wherein R13 is chosen among hydrogen and a C1-C7 alkyl, an amine or a —CH2-amine, R′1 represents a group chosen among hydrogen and —O—R14, wherein R14 is chosen among hydrogen and a C1-C7 alkyl, and R2 is chosen among the group consisting of a C1-C7 alkyl, a C3-C6 cycloalkyl, an aryl group, and an heteroaryl group for the treatment of pathologies involving excess activity of at least one member of the kallikrein family.
US09532966B2
The invention relates to the use of specifically designed lipid component with optimal fatty acid profile, an enhanced portion of the palmitic acid residues in the sn-2 position and present as lipid globules with a phospholipid coating for an early in life diet for improving the development of a healthy body composition, in particular prevention of obesity, later in life.
US09532961B2
The present invention provides a method for preventing blood-brain barrier reperfusion injury in a mammalian blood-brain barrier endothelial cell during reperfusion following ischemic stroke comprising administering an effective amount of a γ-glutamyl-D-cysteine antioxidant to the subject and a kit for doing the same.
US09532958B2
A method for producing powders for inhalation includes a first mixing step of stirring a first active ingredient and a carrier in the presence of a milling medium, and mixing the first active ingredient and the carrier while crumbling the agglomerates of the first active ingredient to obtain a mixture of the carrier and the first active ingredient; and a second mixing step of adding fine powders to the mixture obtained in the first mixing step, and stirring and mixing the mixture and the fine powders in the presence of a milling medium.
US09532950B2
The present invention provides a liposome having excellent lung migration ability that had not existed hitherto, by including GALA or Chol-GALA in the liposome. Furthermore, by using the liposome, a pulmonary delivery carrier having a stronger knockdown effect of siRNA when compared to existing carriers is provided.
US09532943B2
A polymeric matrix for delivery of an HMG CoA reductase inhibitor such as a statin to tissue such as cardiac tissue in need thereof for the treatment or prevention of a disease or defect such as atrial fibrillation has been developed. In the preferred embodiment, a statin is delivered by means of a patch sutured to cardiac tissue at the time of cardiothoracic surgery. In the most preferred embodiment, the patch is a biodegradable material providing controlled or sustained release over a prolonged period of time, such as a week. Suitable materials include extracellular matrix, or other biodegradable hydrogels or polymeric materials providing sustained or controlled release of statin at the site of application.
US09532940B2
Porous resin particles are disclosed that comprise a polymer of a monomer mixture. The monomer mixture includes: a mono(meth)acrylate-based monomer in an amount of 3 wt % to 40 wt % containing: an ethylenic unsaturated group only in a (meth)acrylic acid residue; and a hydroxyl group and at least either an ether group or an ester group in an alcohol residue; another monofunctional vinyl-based monomer in an amount of 10 wt % to 69 wt % containing a single ethylenic unsaturated group; and a polyfunctional vinyl-based monomer in an amount of 30 wt % to 70 wt % containing two or more ethylenic unsaturated groups.
US09532939B2
A composition having a pH in the range of from 3 to 8.5, comprising: (a) in the range of from 0.1% to <10% w/w (based on the total weight of the composition) of a stock solution comprising a mixture of bioflavonoids and fruit acids or salts thereof; (b) sodium hyaluronate; and (c) water; and, optionally, (d) a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor; wherein the sodium hyaluronate has an average molecular weight of between 800,000 and 4,000,000.
US09532938B2
Esters of O-substituted hydroxy carboxylic acids are provided having Formula 1, or 2, or both Formulas 1 and 2: wherein R and R1 are independently selected from the group consisting of substituted and unsubstituted, branched- and straight-chain, saturated, unsaturated, and polyunsaturated C1-C22 alkyl, substituted and unsubstituted C3-C8 cycloalkyl, substituted and unsubstituted C6-C20 carbocyclic aryl, and substituted and unsubstituted C4-C20 heterocyclic; wherein the heteroatoms are selected from sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen; and wherein n is 1-6. Process of producing esters of O-substituted hydroxy carboxylic acids are also provided.
US09532933B2
The present invention relates to a microcapsule particle composition that is composed of a sol-gel material. The microcapsule particle composition is well suited for personal care and cleaning products.
US09532929B2
The present disclosure provides addition-fragmentation oligomers of the general formula: The crosslinking oligomers of this disclosure provide stress relief by including labile crosslinks that can cleave and reform during the polymerization process.
US09532927B2
A drug mixing system including at least one receptacle port adaptor adapted to be inserted into a port of a fluid receptacle, at least one syringe adaptor adapted to be attached to a syringe and to the at least one receptacle port adaptor and at least one vial adaptor adapted for connection to a vial containing a drug and adapted for connection to the at least one syringe adaptor, the system being characterized in that at least one of the receptacle port adaptor, the at least one syringe adaptor and the at least one vial adaptor being vented to the atmosphere in a manner which prevents release to the atmosphere of possibly harmful contents of the vial in a liquid, solid or gaseous form.
US09532921B2
The present invention is a massage chair, having frame body with specific curve, a chair back located by the chair seat, wherein the chair back is adjusted properly by the chair seat for rotating and having a rotation angle; wherein the frame body including back section, buttock section and leg section, the buttock section has a downward curve and the leg section has an upward curve, thus, massage module can provide massage service to human thigh when the rotation angle is more than 110 degrees.
US09532920B2
The present invention is a massage chair, having main frame with specific curve, a chair back located by the chair seat, wherein the chair back is adjusted properly by the chair seat for rotating and having a rotation angle; wherein the main frame including back section, buttock section and leg section, the buttock section has an upward curve and the leg section has a downward curve, thus, massage provider can provide massage service to human thigh when the rotation angle is more than 110 degrees.
US09532917B2
A crutch includes a grip and a forearm support that are coupled to an elongated member that extends from the forearm support to the ground. The inner surface of the forearm support can correspond to a digital representation of a forearm of the patient and the outer surface of the hand grip can correspond to a digital representation of a palmar surface of the patient's hand in at least a partially closed position.
US09532916B2
A wearable power assistive device for hand rehabilitation includes a hand brace having an external platform and an internal platform connected to and spaced inwardly from the external platform. Five finger assemblies are adjustably mounted on and extending from the distal end of the external platform. Each finger assembly includes a proximal follower assembly for a metacarpophalangeal joint. Five motors are used to actuate the five finger assemblies respectively. Each motor is mounted in close proximity to the external platform and has one end connected to the external platform and another end coupled to its proximal follower assembly by a ball joint in order to facilitate transfer of force and minimize mechanical stress on the other parts of the device.
US09532912B2
A seat assembly for a conveyance, such as a wheelchair, that allows the user to set the recline angle of the seat back at a seating position, fold the seat back down to a folded position and back up to the seating position, such that the seat back is returned to the seating position at the user selected recline angle R unless the recline angle is adjusted by the user. The user selected recline angle R is not disturbed by folding the seat back from the seating position, to the folded position 106, and back to the seating position.
US09532911B2
A disposable diaper includes a disposal aid coupled with an exterior surface of a waistband region of the diaper. The disposal aid includes a base, a first removable cover and a second removable cover. A disposal bag is placed on the base and covered by the first removable cover. A cleaning wipe is place on the first removable cover and covered by the second removable cover. The base may include a cavity to receive the disposal bag so as to reduce the overall height of the disposal aid. The disposal aid may alternatively be configured to include a disposal bag encased in a casing and a cleaning wipe, both of which are placed on the base of the disposal aid and covered by a single removable cover.
US09532908B2
A textured laminate structure and absorbent articles having a component formed of the textured laminate structure are disclosed. The textured laminate structure may have a first layer formed of a nonwoven web having a preexisting pattern of first apertures therethrough, a second layer, and one or more elastic members disposed between the first and second layers in a prestrained condition. The laminate structure may be discontinuously joined or bonded such that the first layer is joined or bonded to the structure in first portions and unjoined or unbonded to the structure in second portions. The structure provides a stretch laminate with tactilely and visually interesting features, and may be used to form components of a disposable absorbent article such as a side panel thereof.
US09532906B2
The present invention is directed to a liquid-absorbing article comprising: a first sheet layer presenting an array of absorbent receiving pockets; masses of superabsorbent material, which masses are placed in said absorbent receiving pockets; a second sheet layer placed on top of the first layer; bonding beads placed between the respective pockets.
US09532895B2
A patellofemoral brace or support has a main substrate, a hinge located on at least one of the lateral and medial sides, and a support system coupled to the main substrate and the hinge. The support system has a compression element removably securable over the main substrate and a cable having a first end anchored to a pivoting element connected to the hinge and a second end anchored to the compression element. The cable engages the hinge such that articulation of the hinge from an extension position to a flexion position pulls the compression element toward the hinge to exert a generally medial force over the main substrate.
US09532887B2
A collapsible prosthetic heart valve includes a stent and a valve assembly. The stent includes an annulus section and at least one foldable section. The stent is movable between an unfolded condition in which the foldable section is longitudinally spaced from the annulus section, and a folded condition in which the foldable section is at least partially positioned radially adjacent the annulus section. The valve assembly is positioned within the annulus section of the stent in the folded condition of the stent.
US09532886B2
A prosthetic foot structure includes a primary foot member and a heel member. The primary foot member has a heel portion, a toe portion with a pair of toe sections separated by a gap, and an elongated intermediate portion configured as an arch extending downward from the heel portion toward the toe portion. The heel member includes a hollow cylindrical spring wall extending downward from the heel portion of the primary foot member. The primary foot member and the heel member are portions of a unitary body of material formed by additive manufacturing.
US09532884B2
A laterally deflectable asymmetric implant for implanting into a body may comprise a deflectable piece having distal and proximal ends and assuming a straightened insertion state. The backbone may abut or interconnect with said deflectable piece at the distal end of the deflectable piece. In a fully deflected state the implant may define an asymmetric shape, e.g. a D-shaped loop, defining an at least partially enclosed volume. The deflectable piece may comprise a sequence of segments interconnected at effective hinges. Longitudinal pressure applied to the proximal end of the deflectable piece (or applied to the backbone in an opposite direction) may cause relative longitudinal movement between the backbone and the proximal end of the deflectable piece and may generate outward horizontal movement of the deflectable piece away from the backbone. In one embodiment, the implant is implanted using lateral access into an anterior zone of a vertebra and deployed posteriorly.
US09532875B2
Systems, methods and compositions useful for treatment of traumatic bone injuries are provided. In one embodiment, a bone reconstruction system comprising a space maintaining composition comprising porous polymethylmethacrylate; and an osseous generating construct comprising a polymethylmethacrylate chamber that comprises one or more osseous generating materials is provided. Associated compositions and methods are also provided.
US09532856B2
Fastening system including a screw component (10) and a seating component (20). The screw component has a shaft (12) extending along a longitudinal axis (5) and having a maximum radius R1, said shaft comprising a threaded section (13), said screw component further including, at one end of the screw shaft, a head (14), the head comprising a bottom end (15) having a larger maximum radius R2 than the screw shaft such that an exposed underside (18) of the screw head extends radially beyond the maximum radius of the screw shaft. The seating component includes a screw channel (21) having a planar screw seat (22) having a minimum radius R3 which is equal to or greater than R1. The bottom end of the screw head has an annular contact surface for abutment against said screw seat, the contact surface being formed by the distal end of at least one downwardly extending protrusion (17) on the underside of the screw head, wherein the annular contact surface has a minimum radius greater than the minimum radius of the screw seat.
US09532852B2
A heating apparatus (10) for heating materials used in dental treatment is provided. The heating apparatus (10) comprises a heating compartment (33) with a heating element (35) for heating air inside the heating compartment (33), at least one socket for receiving and holding at least a part of the materials used in dental treatment inside the heating compartment (33), and an airflow generator (32, 34) for generating an airflow in the heating compartment (33).
US09532850B2
A process and also to a system for cleaning and maintaining a medical hand-held instrument, in particular a dental hand-held instrument, with an elongate grip sleeve in which elements are arranged which pertain to a drive arrangement and which are, in particular, rotatably supported, for example a shaft. For the purpose of cleaning and maintaining the hand-held instrument different media are conducted through it. In this connection a first medium, for example oil, is conducted merely through a power-transmission region surrounding the elements of the drive arrangement, whereas, on the other hand, a second medium, for example a cleaning agent, is conducted additionally also through at least one further cavity within the hand-held instrument.
US09532834B2
A device configured to cut hair using laser light includes a handle portion and a shaving portion. The handle portion includes a battery and a laser light source. The laser light source is coupled to and configured to receive power from the battery. The laser light source is also configured to generate laser light having a wavelength selected to target a predetermined chromophore to effectively cut a hair shaft. The shaving portion includes a support and a single fiber optic supported by the support. The fiber optic has a proximal end, a distal end, an outer wall, and a cutting region positioned towards the distal end and extending along a portion of the side wall. The fiber optic is positioned to receive the laser light from the laser light source at the proximal end, conduct the laser light from the proximal end toward the distal end, and emit the light out of the cutting region and toward hair when the cutting region is brought in contact with the hair.
US09532832B2
A device for improving the cosmetic appearance of the skin is disclosed, wherein said device comprises RF generating means for generating N independent RF signals of predetermined waveforms, frequencies, amplitudes, and relative phases; control means for controlling the output of said RF generating means, said control means in communication with said RF generating means; N pairs of RF electrodes, each of said pairs in independent communication with said RF generating means, said RF electrodes configured to transmit RF energy to said skin; and an electrically insulating casing adapted to hold said RF electrodes such that said RF electrodes may be placed in simultaneous physical contact with said skin.
US09532831B2
Transducer-based systems and methods may be configured to display a graphical representation of a transducer-based device, the graphical representation including graphical elements corresponding to transducers of the transducer-based device, and also including between graphical elements respectively associated with a set of the transducers and respectively associated with a region of space between the transducers of the transducer-based device. Selection of graphical elements and/or between graphical elements can cause activation of the set of transducers associated with the selected elements. Transducer activation characteristics, such as initiation time, activation duration, activation sequence, and energy delivery characteristics, can vary based on numerous factors. Visual characteristics of graphical elements and between graphical elements can change based on an activation-status of the corresponding transducers. Activation requests for a set of transducers can be denied if it is determined that a transducer in the set of transducers is unacceptable for activation.
US09532829B2
An end effector assembly for a forceps includes jaws, a cutting assembly, and at least one cam assembly. At least one jaw is moveable relative to the other about a pivot between open and closed positions for grasping tissue. At least one jaw includes a control trough that extends therealong. The pivot has first and second pivot bosses defining a pivot hole therebetween. The cutting assembly includes a blade and blade control portion, and defines a longitudinal axis through the blade and the control portion. The control portion slidably translates through the pivot hole defined between the pivot bosses to allow selective advancement thereof through the trough. The blade is disposed distally of the pivot and extends farther from the axis than an outer surface of the control portion. The cam assembly is coupled to the moveable jaw and is actuatable to move the moveable jaw between the positions.
US09532818B2
An orthopedic nail of generally rod-like shape having a through hole extending from a first side to a second side of the orthopedic nail and being adapted to receive a screw and/or a pin, a first end of the through hole at the first side defining a rim region, wherein at least one surface notch is provided in the rim region at and restricted to an outer circumferential surface of the orthopedic nail, the surface notch being arranged transverse to a nail axis of the orthopedic nail, a width (W) of the surface notch in the direction of the nail axis being smaller than a diameter of the through hole.
US09532811B2
The present invention is a spinal fixation device that includes an occipital rod having a first end and a second end, and a spinal rod extending from a connection housing having a first end and a second end. The first end of the spinal rod is integral with a portion of the connection housing and the connection housing is configured with an elongated opening, a rotating plug, and a locking mechanism. The elongated opening is configured for mating with the first end of the occipital plate and the locking mechanism is adapted to enable the occipital rod to be locked in a fixed position.
US09532808B2
The present invention relates to a connection element for a spine stabilization system comprises a first end for fixing to a first bone fixation device, a second end for fixing to a second bone fixation device and an intermediate portion arranged or formed between the two ends and defining a longitudinal axis. At least one of the two ends takes the form of a coupling element for fixing the connection element to a bone fixation device in at least one defined orientation relative to the longitudinal axis. The coupling element has a shape other than a circular cylinder.
US09532807B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a spinal osteosynthesis system comprising a connector, a connector member, a ring, and a bone anchor. The connector has an upper part disposed opposite of a lower part along a central axis. The upper part has a locking element and the lower part has a curved interior surface. The connector member can extend through the upper part along an opening axis transverse to the central axis. The ring may define a solid of revolution about the central axis. At least a portion of the ring may be receivable in the lower part of the connector. The bone anchor may have a head curved for polyaxial orientation with respect to the central axis. The locking element may be advanced towards the lower part to place the head of the bone anchor in contact with the connecting member, the ring, and the connector.
US09532798B2
A method of treating a lesion in a body lumen to enlarge a passageway in the lumen including inserting a cutting member and tracking member through a first lumen of a catheter, withdrawing the catheter from the cutting member and tracking member, inserting the catheter over the tracking member and leaving the cutting member outside the catheter, and expanding a portion of the catheter to move the cutting member into cutting contact with the lesion. A device for treating a lesion in a body lumen including a cutting member and tracking member is also provided.
US09532797B2
A tissue-removing catheter includes an elongate catheter body. The catheter body has a jogged portion that applies an urge force against a body lumen wall and urges a portion of the catheter body toward a portion of the body lumen wall. A tissue-removing element removes tissue from the body lumen during the cutting operation. The tissue-removing element is located generally adjacent the portion of the catheter body that is urged toward the body lumen wall by the jogged portion. An urging mechanism selectively applies a compressive load to the catheter body to adjust the bending stiffness of the jogged portion and the urge force applied by the jogged portion.
US09532790B2
A medical cutting device for producing thin cartilage disks has a device body with a first holding device with a first working section having a first recess disposed on a top side of the device body such that the first recess is entirely or partially enclosed by a first delimiting ridge and, a connecting section that is directly, rigidly adjoined by the first working section and a cover with a counterpart section to the connecting section that is directly, rigidly adjoined by a first pressure section, which comprises a central, first pressure plate that is resiliently held in the first pressure section and, in an operating state for producing thin cartilage disks, is disposed opposite the first recess, which is entirely or partially enclosed by the first delimiting ridge.
US09532788B2
A method positions a profile of a prosthetic component on the three-dimensional model of a limb. Patient-specific anatomical data of the limb is gathered. First and second anatomical landmarks are identified to determine a first spatial relationship. A third anatomical landmark is identified to determine a second spatial relationship with respect to the first spatial relationship. The profile of the prosthetic component is positioned in all but one degree of freedom. A fourth anatomical landmark is identified to position the profile of the prosthetic component in the one remaining degree of freedom.
US09532784B2
Sclerotherapy catheter with lumen having wire rotated by motor and simultaneous withdrawal from vein
An apparatus for performing a vascular treatment. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a vascular therapy device comprising a vascular treatment device and a feeder. The vascular treatment device can connect to a wire configured for use in vascular treatment. The vascular treatment device can rotate the wire. The feeder can be configured for controller the longitudinal translation of the wire. The feeder and the vascular treatment device can be independently or combinedly controlled.
US09532781B2
An anvil and anvil delivery system is provided which includes a head assembly and a center rod defining a longitudinal axis. The head assembly defines a transverse axis and is pivotally secured to the rod and movable from an operative position wherein the transverse axis is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a tilted position wherein the transverse axis defines an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis. A flexible tube is secured to the center rod which includes gradations along the length of the tube. The gradations are positioned to provide an indication of a length of the tube remaining in a patient during removal of the tube from the patient. An adapter is secured to one end of the flexible tube and to the center rod. The adapter is configured to secure the anvil assembly to the flexible tube.
US09532775B2
A suture anchor operable to secure a suture to a boney tissue. The suture anchor includes a suture-engaging section including a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end is operable to engage the boney tissue and the proximal end is operable to secure the suture. A bone-engaging section is operable to receive at least a portion of the suture engaging section therein. The bone engaging section includes a bone-grasping feature that is operable to engage and secure the bone-engaging section to the boney tissue. The distal end tapers radially outward from a distal tip to define a shoulder that is operable to abut against the bone-engaging section such that when the bone-grasping feature is engaged and secured to the boney tissue, the suture-engaging section is secured and engaged to the boney tissue.
US09532774B2
A dilator retractor and the dilators that are used for minimally invasive spinal surgery or other surgery are configured to accommodate the anatomical structure of the patient as by configuring the cross sectional area in an elliptical shape, or by forming a funnel configuration with the wider end at the proximate end. In some embodiments the distal end is contoured to also accommodate the anatomical structure of the patient so that a cylindrically shaped, funnel shaped, ovoid shaped dilator retractor can be sloped or tunneled to accommodate the bone structure of the patient or provide access for implants. The dilator retractor is made with different lengths to accommodate the depth of the cavity formed by the dilators.
US09532769B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for high-frequency contrast imaging and image-guided therapeutics are disclosed. According to one aspect a method for high frequency contrast imaging and image-guided therapeutics includes: providing ultrasound of a first frequency bandwidth, directed toward the volume to be imaged, the volume containing a carrier having non-linear acoustical properties, wherein the ultrasound of the first frequency bandwidth causes the carrier to generate ultrasound of a second frequency bandwidth that is different from the first frequency bandwidth; receiving, from the volume to be imaged, ultrasound of the second frequency bandwidth; and using the received ultrasound of the second frequency bandwidth to generate an image of the volume to be imaged, wherein the components of the second frequency bandwidth that are detected are of a frequency greater than 20 MHz. According to another aspect, ultrasound at a first frequency bandwidth enables imaging of a target, and ultrasound at a second frequency bandwidth mediates drug or gene delivery to a portion of the target, as guided by the image provided by the first frequency.
US09532768B2
A diagnostic imaging system is provided that includes an image acquisition component, a transmitter operatively coupled to the image acquisition component to transmit a signal therefrom, and a beamformer operatively coupled to the image acquisition component to receive image data therefrom. Also included is a processor configured to assemble images from the acquired image data and a display configured to display the images. The image acquisition component includes a multi-headed probe that has a plurality of transducers configured to permit a change of active transducers during an imaging session without a change of the image acquisition component.
US09532767B2
An ultrasonic probe apparatus and a method of manufacturing the ultrasonic probe apparatus are provided. The ultrasonic probe apparatus may include at least one first tile which transmits an ultrasonic beam toward a target object, and at least one second tile which receives an ultrasonic beam which is reflected from the target object.
US09532758B2
An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured to acquire blood flow state information indicating a blood flow state in a blood vessel of a subject, and control at least one of an injection start, an injection speed, and an injection amount of injection of a contrast media into the subject by an injector based on the blood flow state information acquired.
US09532755B2
Disclosed are an X-ray computed tomographic imaging apparatus and a method for same. The X-ray computed tomographic imaging apparatus of the present invention comprises: a tomograph which radiates light onto an object being imaged by tomography, and detects the light passing through the object being imaged by tomography; a magnification rate determining unit which determines the magnification rate of an image of the object being imaged by tomography using the hardware property of the tomograph and/or the size of an input voxel; and a magnification rate controller which moves the tomography in accordance with the determined magnification rate, thereby obtaining images having a high resolution.
US09532752B2
An X-ray imaging system element (3) includes two compression elements (8a, 8b), which are movable relative to one another. An object (10) is introducible and compressible between the compression elements. At least one of the compression elements is adapted to alter its geometrical shape and/or alignment relative to the other during compression. At least one partly X-ray opaque marker element (24) is provided on one of the compression elements, which marker element is adapted to allow detection of an alteration of the geometrical shape of the respective compression element (8a, b).
US09532751B2
Described herein is an approach to determine a deflection of a portion of an imaging system tabletop located at iso-center utilizing a tabletop deflection determiner with a least a first portion located on a rotating gantry portion of the imaging system. In one non-limiting instance, an imaging system includes a rotating gantry portion (606) with an aperture defining an examination region, a tabletop (620) that supports a subject or object in the examination region, wherein the tabletop cantilevers into and deflects in the examination region, and a tabletop deflection determiner (622) that determines a deflection of the tabletop in the examination region, wherein a first portion (702, 706) of the tabletop deflection determiner is located on the rotating gantry portion.
US09532741B2
The present invention provides a biointerface membrane for use with an implantable device that interferes with the formation of a barrier cell layer including; a first domain distal to the implantable device wherein the first domain supports tissue attachment and interferes with barrier cell layer formation and a second domain proximal to the implantable device wherein the second domain is resistant to cellular attachment and is impermeable to cells. In addition, the present invention provides sensors including the biointerface membrane, implantable devices including these sensors or biointerface membranes, and methods of monitoring glucose levels in a host utilizing the analyte detection implantable device of the invention. Other implantable devices which include the biointerface membrane of the present invention, such as devices for cell transplantation, drug delivery devices, and electrical signal delivery or measuring devices are also provided.
US09532729B2
A magnetic device includes a substrate and an array including a plurality of magnetic particles, in which a magnetic dipole moment direction of each magnetic particle in a majority of the magnetic particles in the array alternates with respect to a magnetic dipole direction of a directly adjacent magnetic particle or directly adjacent magnetic particles in the array.
US09532723B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a function adaptive to a situation can be provided by detecting a blood flow rate in a wrist having a watch type mobile terminal worn thereon. The present invention includes a display, a band configured to be worn on a wrist of a user, a sensing unit configured to measure a blood flow rate in the wrist having the band worn thereon, and a controller controlling the display to display a running screen of a prescribed function if a variation of the measured blood flow rate is generated.
US09532716B2
A method is provided for utilizing a personal monitoring device or other personal logging device, to assist an individual in a lifestyle control program. The method includes storing lifestyle data from a statistically large group of persons in a database, collecting, in a personal logging device, corresponding personal lifestyle data; feeding the data from the personal logging device to the database; performing a statistical analysis of the collected lifestyle data, and producing an output and providing feedback to the user based on correlations.
US09532714B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for imaging, recognizing, and tracking of a user's eye that is wearing a HWC. Aspects further relate to the processing of images reflected from the user's eye and controlling displayed content in accordance therewith. Aspects further relate to determining health conditions of the user based on eye imaging technologies.
US09532710B2
A fundus camera with an OCT measurement module, in which, after the focusing objective, a mirror switches the light to be detected either to the OCT measurement module or an image detector. This design also renders it possible to carry out a method for improved focusing in order to improve the recording quality of the individual modalities. Furthermore, the multimodal measuring instrument distinguishes itself by an operating concept according to the invention. Such combination instruments are advantageous in that, as a result of the reduction from two instruments to one, less space is required than in the case of two separate instruments. Furthermore, reseating of the patient is avoided if recordings or measurements of different modalities should be made for one and the same patient, as a result of which the procedures in the medical practices and clinics can be influenced positively.
US09532706B2
A speculum includes a first blade member and a second blade member, each of the first and second blade members having a distal end and an opposing proximal end. A portable illuminator having a light source and at least one battery includes a switch that is accessible through a slit or similar feature in the speculum. According to at least one version, the switch includes an extending tab portion that can extend through the slit or the end of a handle portion of the speculum to enable illumination. In another version, the portable illuminator can be attached to an articulation mechanism that is configured for moving the first and second blade members in relation to one another.
US09532705B2
In a method and a system for contact-free magnetic navigation of a magnetic body in a work space that is at least partially filled with a fluid, a thickening agent is added to the fluid. The use of a thickening agent as an additive for such a fluid is also described.
US09532702B2
A cutlery drawer for a dishwasher includes a frame extendably supported within a washing tub and a plurality of inserts which are movably disposed on the frame and are configured to hold dishware items to be washed. The plurality of inserts include a horizontally displaceable disposed on the frame so as to be horizontally displaceable in a direction perpendicular to a direction of withdrawal of the cutlery drawer and a vertically displaceable insert disposed on the frame so as to be vertically displaceable. The horizontally displaceable insert has longitudinal sides extending in the direction of withdrawal of the cutlery drawer and is disposed on the frame so as to be vertically displaceable at one of the longitudinal sides.
US09532699B2
A dishwasher includes a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber and a spraying system having a sprayer supplying liquid to the treating chamber. The sprayer may include a liquid passage and multiple spray outlets to emit sprays to wash the dishes, a first valve body to couple at least one of the multiple spray outlets to the liquid passage, and a second valve body to control a flow of liquid.
US09532697B2
An automatic dishwasher having a tub defining a treating chamber and a housing physically separate from the tub and defining a sump to receive liquid sprayed into the tub, the housing having an inlet fluidly connected to a liquid outlet of the tub and an outlet fluidly coupled to a sprayer located within the tub to define a recirculation path for the sprayed liquid.
US09532686B1
The toilet system described herein provides a solution for men who fail to close the toilet seat or lid after use. By automatically closing the lid or seat, the toilet system also reduces toilet access to young children and pets. Its dimensions and installation are the same as an industry standard toilet seat but with selectable automatic closure of the seat or lid after use. The power source, electronics and mechanical actuator are all located within the lid. Tilt and position sensors determine the positions of the seat and lid, distance or proximity sensors detect when the toilet is not in use and after a delay the actuator selectively moves the seat or lid to a closed position.
US09532681B2
A deep fat fryer with continuous oil filtering and purging of sediments therefrom during uninterrupted fryer operation is provided. The filter includes a cylindrical hollow housing with a first end and a second end and a hollow cylindrical screen with a longitudinal axis and first and second ends. The screen is disposed coaxially within the hollow housing to define an annulus therebetween. A piston mounted within the screen and reciprocatingly movable along the longitudinal axis between the first and second ends of the screen. A pump, seal, and associate motor are provided to provide continuous oil flow through the filter and the remainder of the fryer. A heat exchanger is provided downstream of the pump to transfer heat from the fryer to the oil flowing through the heat exchanger.
US09532673B2
The disclosure concerns a rinse hanger for rinsing a wetsuit thereon. The rinse hanger is differentiated by a hook and cap assembly configured to provide swivel function; longitudinal grooves for improved structural support and weight displacement; a male adapter extending along a longitudinal axis; the hanger body being symmetrical about the longitudinal axis; and other features as described herein. A user hangs a wetsuit on the hanger and places the hook end of the hanger on a structural support, a quick release connector and hose is then coupled to the hanger and water flow is communicated through holes in the hanger body to rinse the inside of the wetsuit. The quick release connector and hose are removed, and a spray nozzle is coupled to the quick connector and hose, the spray nozzle is used to rinse an outside of the wetsuit. The hanger is then hung for drying and storage.
US09532670B2
A kit for making a wall decoration assembly is described. The kit includes a suspension system and one or more wall decorations. A method for making and hanging the wall decoration assembly is also described.
US09532664B2
A showcase is described. The showcase has at least a vertical side wall with an inner face and an outer face, and at least a horizontal upper wall, with a lower face and an upper face. The side and upper walls are both made of a transparent material and are fixedly fastened to one another at respective edges; the edges of the side and upper walls are shaped so as to comprise respective contact bands facing one another and glued to one another. The contact bands have two horizontal contact bands, one on the edge of the side wall, the other on the edge of the upper wall, and extending between an inner bound and an outer bound, wherein the outer bound is internal with respect to the outer face of the side wall. The upper wall rests horizontally on the side wall and the weight of the upper wall weighs directly on the side wall, without stressing the adhesive with which they are glued, ensuring the safety of the showcase; furthermore, the junction line between the walls is not visible on the side wall, since the outer bound of the contact bands does not reach the outer face of the side wall.
US09532662B2
The present invention relates to a shelf system or assembly, and a shelf module therefore. The shelf module defines a pair of substantially parallel, lengthwise extending edges and a pair of substantially parallel end edges, and comprises an array of lengthwise extending slats spaced apart across the width of the module, and an array of spaced apart ribs extending between these slats which are spaced apart along the length of the module, at least a pair of the slats having outwardly and oppositely directed partition retaining connection means at or toward an upper edge thereof, between which a portion of a partition can be secured. Each of an associated partition, display strip, shelf connector module and shelf end module are also disclosed, where each of these is for removable attachment to the shelf module.
US09532658B2
A product management display system for merchandising product on a shelf includes a divider secured to a support structure and a barrier that is moveable by rotation between a folded position and an upright position without a rotation biasing element. A product positioned in the system can contact the barrier when the product moves toward the forward end of the system and rotate the barrier from the folded position to the upright position. The system may include a rotational mounting structure to which the moveable barrier is connected. The rotational mounting structure may be removably connected to the forward end of the divider. The merchandise display system may be used in conjunction with a product tray which provides for product stored in the product tray to be slid from in the product tray into the product pocket of the merchandise display system.
US09532654B1
A stackable molded plastic chair has a cup holder is connected to a cylindrical boss on the underside of a chair arm for movement between a retracted position lying underneath the chair arm and an open position extending away from the arm of the chair. The cup holder has a tubular boss having a first portion extending from the top surface of the cup holder and a second portion extending from the bottom surface of the cup holder. The first portion is at least partially within the cylindrical boss on the chair arm. A pin within the tubular boss has two or more spaced apart legs each leg having a foot. As the pin is inserted into the tubular boss the legs will move inward and then will move outward when the feet reach a recess on the inside surface of the cylindrical boss on the chair arm. The feet are each sized and configured to fit into the recess and the legs preferably have an outward curvature. The use of multiple legs having an outward curvature allows the pin to pop free when an excessive force is applied to the cup holder releasing the cup holder from the chair arm without breaking either the cup holder or the chair arm.
US09532642B2
An applicator for applying a cosmetic to eyelashes, comprising a shaft section or at least a coupling section and an applicator section, the applicator section being configured as an internally hollow cage for accommodating the cosmetic, which is substantially or completely closed in the circumferential direction, characterized in that the cage, in the direction perpendicular to its longitudinal axis, has a triangular cross section and comprises on at least one of its circumferential tips a number of passages that communicate with the interior of the cage and into which the eyelashes insert themselves during application.
US09532627B2
Disclosed is a covering apparatus and kit for updating the style and fashion on buttons, fixtures and the like on various goods. The covering includes an elastomeric member that can be circular or any other shape and material such as fabric or other ornamental material. One advantage of the covering is the ability to easily insert and remove over any sized fixture and the ability to not only change fabric and ornamental style but shape to keep up to date with the latest fashion or styles. The shape of the covering can be adjusted in several ways including, but not limited to, utilizing an elastomeric member of a different shape, utilizing a frame member, utilizing the fabric itself or any of combinations thereof. The covering apparatus may also be utilized in a kit to allow a user to create various styles and combinations of the covering to meet individual requirements.
US09532612B2
The invention relates to an article of sports clothing (10) for wearing next to the skin, comprising at least on base basic zone of elastically expandable textile fabric and at least on compression section (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11) comprising means for compression, which are formed by ridges that are provided on the face of the textile fabric facing towards the skin. The compression sections (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 11) are arranged asymmetrically in relation to the body halves, divided into the sections provided for the trunk (20) and/or the upper and/or lower extremities (21, 22, 23, 24).
US09532602B2
An electronic cigarette comprising an atomizing assembly and a battery assembly is provided. A connection structure is mounted at a butt-joint position between the atomizing assembly and the battery assembly, and the connection structure includes a first connection member and a second connection member; a buckle protrudes from an outer side of the first connection member; a guiding groove matching with the buckle is defined in an inner side of the second connection member, and a buckling groove is defined in the circumference of the inner wall of the second connection member, and the buckling groove communicates with the guiding groove and is configured to enable the buckle to slide therein; the buckle is inserted into the second connection member along the guiding groove and is rotated along the buckling groove to connect the first connection member with the second connection member fixedly.
US09532595B2
A smoking article, a smoking article assembly, a blank for forming a smoking article, and a method of manufacturing a smoking article. A smoking article comprising one or more rod articles, an inner layer extending around the rod articles, and an outer layer extending around the inner layer. The inner and outer layers are integrally formed. The outer layer comprises a selection portion configured to move over an underlying part of the inner layer to select a property of the smoking article.
US09532586B2
The present invention provides a reduced sodium composition comprising at least one potassium salt, at least one sodium salt, at least one emulsifier and at least one thickening agent. For example, the reduced sodium composition comprises at least: one potassium salt, at least one sodium salt, glycerol monostearate and maltodextrin as well as to its method of preparation. The reduced sodium composition is used for enhancing the flavor of food, as a food seasoning, food condiment and/or food additive and provides a healthier alternative to the consumer, in particular where reducing the sodium in the diet is beneficial for health.
US09532584B2
The present invention is directed to process cheese type products prepared with calcium-reduced ingredients but without emulsifying salts and methods of producing such process cheese type products without emulsifying salts. The process cheeses of the present invention are advantageously resistant to separation during heating and retain desirable organoleptic properties, such as texture, without using emulsifying salts. The process cheeses of the present invention are also lower in sodium than conventional produces cheese products.
US09532580B2
The invention relates to a method for processing poultry or a part thereof in a processing line, including the step of detaching and/or collecting a cartilage of the poultry's keel bone, whereby during transport of the poultry's carcass in the processing line, a cut is made in the cartilage of the keel bone. The cut is made initially transverse to the transport direction of the poultry and towards the poultry's backbone. The cut develops from the transverse direction to eventually a direction opposed to the transport direction.
US09532576B2
A system and method to induce fish anesthetizing or narcosis is described that induces a potential field across the body of a laboratory fish having a pair of electrodes, the waveform generated by this potential field is approximately balanced to reduce the introduction of anions into the solution, and a camera is mounted to observe the activity of the fish, so that the potential difference may be adjusted based on the state of the fish.
US09532568B2
A novel product for mold prevention and treatment is disclosed herein. The product comprises water, one or more anti-mold agents, one or more water-soluble fluoropolymers or other water-soluble polymers with similar properties, and one or more emulsifiers. In some embodiments, the product may further comprise one or more preservatives, one or more stabilizers, one or more binders, one or more fining agents, one or more firming agents, one or more thickeners, and/or one or more clarifying agents. The product may be non-toxic, biodegradable, effective for a long-period of time and against a wide variety of molds, and may also provide other features which render it safe for the environment as compared to other commonly used products in mold prevention and treatment.
US09532556B2
A tangle catching device is configured to prevent a tangle of fishing line from entering a fishing reel of a fishing rod. The device includes a tangle catcher that defines at least in part a line opening through which the fishing line from the fishing reel extends. The tangle catcher has one or more teeth extending radially inward into the line opening from the tangle catcher. The teeth are hook shaped to catch the tangled fishing line.
US09532541B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH099686. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH099686, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH099686 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH099686.
US09532537B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV052504. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV052504, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV052504 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV052504 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV052504.
US09532522B2
The invention provides seed and plants of pepper hybrid SV7685PP and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SV7685PP and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another pepper plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US09532521B1
Lupine plants comprising a homozygous recessive mutant allele that produces a dwarf plant height characteristic (or dwarf plant height phenotype or trait) are disclosed. One embodiment relates to the seeds of said dwarf lupine plants, to the plants of said dwarf lupine plants, to plant parts of said dwarf lupine plants, and to methods for producing a lupine plant produced by crossing said dwarf lupine plant with itself or with another lupine plant. Another embodiment also relates to methods for producing a lupine plant having a dwarf plant height characteristic (or dwarf plant height phenotype or trait) and to the dwarf plant height characteristic (or dwarf plant height phenotype or trait) lupine plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Another embodiment relates to producing interspecific lupine dwarf plants having a dwarf plant height characteristic (or dwarf plant height phenotype or trait).
US09532520B2
The present invention relates to the field of transgenic and non-transgenic plants with novel phenotypes. Provided are SlPP2C1 proteins and nucleic acid sequences encoding these, which are useful in conferring novel phenotypes to plants, especially drought tolerance.
US09532516B2
An apparatus is provided for growing plants hydroponically. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a plurality of containers each having a supply and a drain positioned above the supply. Methods of growing plants hydroponically in individual containers are also provided.
US09532515B2
A method of operating a drip irrigation system is provided and includes providing drip irrigation lines aside a diverter line with T-junctions interleaved between adjacent ones of the drip irrigation lines and each T-junction including a three-way line coupled to the diverter line, a check valve operably disposable between the three-way line and a downstream end of an upstream one of the drip irrigation lines to permit fluid flow in only a forward direction and a controllable valve operably disposable between the three-way line and an upstream end of a downstream one of the drip irrigation lines.
US09532511B2
The present invention provides improved attachment devices fort support lines in plant growth support systems (e.g., trellis systems) and methods of using the same, and offers significant improvements efficiency with regard to assembling and disassembling the support systems for plant and crop growth. The attachment devices may be advantageously used for various vine and low-lying plants (e.g., grapes, tomatoes, etc.) that can be grown in a trellis system or other vertical growth support system. The anchoring devices may include a wire loop for slipping over an end post and a wire strainer bracket attached to the wire loop.
US09532497B2
A harvesting header for use with a crop harvesting machine has a feederhouse interface and a header frame providing structural support for the harvesting header. A pivotable connection between the feederhouse interface and the header frame enable the header frame to pivot with respect to the feederhouse interface. At least one hydraulic ram connects between the feederhouse interface and the header frame to pivot the harvesting header on the feederhouse interface. A hydraulic supply provides pressurized hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic ram. An accumulator assembly fluidically connects between the hydraulic supply and the at least one hydraulic ram. The accumulator assembly has a precharge fluid/gas interface between a gas chamber and the hydraulic supply, and a working fluid/gas interface between the gas chamber and the at least one hydraulic ram.
US09532496B2
A dynamic supplemental downforce control system for a planter row unit. The system includes closed-loop feedback circuit that cooperates with a downforce actuator to dynamically control fluid flow to the downforce actuator to maintain balance between the actual gauge wheel downforce and a desired gauge wheel downforce during planting operations.
US09538694B2
A method for producing a liquid-crystalline polymer composition containing a liquid-crystalline polymer and a magnetic filler formed by heat-treating a composite material of a ceramic powder and a soft magnetic metal powder in an inert gas atmosphere.
US09538689B2
A method and/or computer program product automatically adjusts room temperature in a data center room. A processor in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system receives a throttle threshold temperature for each of multiple computing devices that are within a data center room, which is climate-controlled by the HVAC system. The processor in the HVAC system monitors a real-time temperature of at least one of the multiple computing devices. In response to the real-time temperature of said at least one of the multiple computing devices exceeding the throttle threshold temperature, an ambient air temperature in the data center room is decreased by adjusting a hardware thermostat in the HVAC system.
US09538677B2
A system includes a mobile handset with a handle portion and a gripper portion coupled to the handle portion. The handle portion includes a first dock configured to removably receive a user interface device. The gripper portion is configured to receive an insertion tube of a non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection device and to control the insertion tube relative to an inspection point.
US09538674B2
There is provided an electrical device's casing capable of reducing vibration generated by the electrical device while the device is operating. A converter case (10) encasing a reactor which generates vibration while operating includes: a plate-shaped base (12) having a front surface and a rear surface, the reactor being to be mounted on the front surface; a reactor case (30) erected from the front surface of the base (12) and surrounding an outer periphery of the reactor; a reinforcing portion (40) provided outside the reactor case (30) and configured to increase stiffness of the base (12); and a rib (50) coupling the reactor case (30) and the reinforcing portion (40) to each other.
US09538670B2
This frame for a touch-sensitive control interface comprises a peripheral border designed to surround all or some of the touch-sensitive interface and a central zone by which the interface can be activated by touch. It comprises at least one hollow zone delimiting a surface for receiving a finger of a user.
US09538653B2
It is provided an insulating substrate including through holes for conductors arranged in the insulating substrate. A thickness of the insulating substrate is 25 to 100 μm, and a diameter of the through hole is 20 to 100 μm. The insulating substrate includes a main body part and exposed regions exposed to the through holes and is composed an alumina sintered body. A relative density of the alumina sintered body is 99.5 percent or higher. The alumina sintered body has a purity of 99.9 percent or higher, and has an average grain size of 3 to 6 μm in said main body part. Alumina grains are plate-shaped in the exposed region and the plate-shaped alumina grains have an average length of 8 to 25 μm.
US09538652B2
An electrical plug connector assembly has an insulative housing, a first terminal set, a second terminal set and a circuit board. The first and second terminal sets are mounted in the insulative housing. The first terminal set has multiple first conductive terminals each including a first soldering section. The second terminal set has multiple second conductive terminals each including a second soldering section. The first and second soldering sections are soldered on an identical surface of the circuit board such that only one single soldering process is required to solder all of the first and second conductive terminals to the circuit board. The production rate of the electrical plug connector assembly is therefore improved.
US09538650B2
In a wiring substrate, formation of voids due to underfill filling failure is suppressed. A wiring substrate includes an insulating base layer, an insulating layer laminated on the base layer, and an electrically conductive connection terminal projecting from the insulating layer inside an opening. The insulating layer has a first surface with an opening, and a second surface located within the opening and being concave toward the base layer in relation to the first surface. The second surface extends from the first surface to the connection terminal inside the opening. On a cut surface which is a flat surface extending along a lamination direction in which the insulating layer is laminated on the base layer, an angle which is larger than 0° but smaller than 90° is formed between a normal line extending from an arbitrary point on the second surface toward the outside of the insulating layer and a parallel line extending from the arbitrary point toward the connection terminal in parallel to the first surface.
US09538648B2
A liquid composition containing a liquid crystalline polyester, a solvent, and a boron nitride having a volume average particle diameter of not less than 10 μm and not more than 80 μm, wherein the amount of the boron nitride is 30 to 90% by volume based on the total amount of the liquid crystalline polyester and the boron nitride.
US09538637B2
Multichannel RF Feedthroughs. In some examples, a multichannel RF feedthrough includes an internal portion and an external portion. The internal portion includes a top surface on which first and second sets of traces are formed. Each set of traces is configured as an electrical communication channel to carry electrical data signals. The external portion includes a bottom surface on which the first set of traces is formed and a top surface on which the second set of traces is formed. A set of vias connects the first set of traces between the top surface of the internal portion and the bottom surface of the external portion.
US09538631B2
The antenna structure has a high frequency wave transmission line that transmits a high frequency wave and an emission antenna part for emitting the high frequency wave supplied via the high frequency wave transmission line. The emission antenna part includes a metal antenna having a rod-like shape and a ceramic layer that covers at least a part of the metal antenna.
US09538630B2
A method for generating atmospheric pressure cold plasma inside a hand-held unit discharges cold plasma with simultaneously different rf wavelengths and their harmonics. The unit includes an rf tuning network that is powered by a low-voltage power supply connected to a series of high-voltage coils and capacitors. The rf energy signal is transferred to a primary containment chamber and dispersed through an electrode plate network of various sizes and thicknesses to create multiple frequencies. Helium gas is introduced into the first primary containment chamber, where electron separation is initiated. The energized gas flows into a secondary magnetic compression chamber, where a balanced frequency network grid with capacitance creates the final electron separation, which is inverted magnetically and exits through an orifice with a nozzle. The cold plasma thus generated has been shown to be capable of accelerating a healing process in flesh wounds on animal laboratory specimens.
US09538619B2
A controllable light source is provided that includes a load control circuit and an integrated lighting load. The controllable light source is configured to receive wirelessly communicated commands transmitted by a remote control device associated with the controllable light source, such as a rotary remote control device. The controllable light source may include an actuator for associating the controllable light source with the remote control device, such that the load control circuit is operable to adjust the intensity of the lighting load in response to wireless signals received from the remote control device. The controllable light source may support the actuator such that the actuator may be actuated when the controllable light source is installed in a fixture.
US09538617B2
A system of network-connected lighting devices also offers a distributed processing function that utilizes processor and/or memory resources if/when available in some or all of the lighting devices. In the examples, a resource manager receives a job for distributed processing using shared available resources. The resource manager identifies lighting devices having resources of the processors and/or the memories available for the distributed processing function. The resource manager distributes tasks and/or data of the received job through a communications network to identified lighting devices, for distributed processing. The resource manager also receives results of distributed processing for the received job, from the identified lighting devices through the communications network. The received results are processed to produce a composite result for a response to the received job.
US09538614B2
Methods and apparatuses relate to detection and provisioning for lighting interfaces. In one embodiment, a hardware apparatus includes a sensing module to detect a lighting interface from a plurality of lighting interfaces to power a light emitting element, and a dimming module to supply multiple power levels of the lighting interface to the light emitting element. In another embodiment, a hardware apparatus further includes a communication module to provide a signal from a network to the sensing module to detect the lighting interface. A lighting interface may be a digital lighting interface or an analog lighting interface.
US09538604B2
Systems and methods for controlling a light emitting diode (LED) system having a plurality of LED arrays are provided. The lighting system can include a dimmable LED driver circuit configured to provide a driver output suitable for providing a driver current to the LED arrays. A current splitter circuit can be provided between the LED driver circuit and the plurality of LED arrays to control the ratio of current from the driver output provided to each of the plurality of LED arrays. The current splitter circuit can be configured to control the current ratio provided to the plurality of LED arrays independently of the driver output according to a current ratio control curve based at least in part on a variable reference signal provided at the current splitter circuit.
US09538599B2
A sequential driving type alternating current (AC) LED lighting apparatus includes a rectification unit connected to an alternating current (AC) power source and outputting a first rectified voltage as a first drive voltage to a light-emitting diode (LED) light-emitting unit through full-wave rectification of an AC voltage, and an LED drive controller configured to detect an LED drive current flowing through the LED light emitting unit or a constant current switch connected to the LED light emitting unit and configured to control sequential driving based on the detected LED drive current. The LED drive controller is configured to set an LED drive current in each of operation sections, such that a difference between light output of the LED light-emitting unit in each of the operation zones does not exceed a predetermined light output deviation.
US09538598B2
An backlight adjustment circuit (20), configured to adjust luminance of light emitted by one light-emitting diode (LED) string (11) of a LED module (10), the LED string (11) includes a plurality of LEDs (D) and a current control resistor (R). The backlight adjustment circuit (20) includes a light sensing circuit (21) for sensing the luminance of one corresponding LED string (11) and producing a corresponding light sensing signal value; a comparison unit (22) for comparing the light sensing signal value with a preset reference value, and producing a first signal when comparing the light sensing signal value is less than the preset reference value, else producing a second signal; and an adjustment unit (23) for decreasing the luminance of the LED string (11) when receiving the first signal and increasing the luminance of the LED string (11) when receiving the second signal.
US09538592B2
The invention relates to LED lighting system comprising a power supply circuit and one or more LED modules. The power supply circuit is equipped with input terminals (K1, K2) for connection to a supply voltage source and first and second output terminals (K3, K4), and a driver circuit (I, II) coupled between the input terminals and the first and second output terminals for generating a LED current. The driver circuit (I, II) comprises a driver control circuit (II) equipped with an input terminal (K7) for increasing or decreasing the LED current in dependency of a signal present at the input terminal of the driver control circuit. The one or more LED modules comprise first and second input terminals (K5, K6) for connection to respectively the first and second output terminals of the power supply circuit, a series arrangement of a LED load (LS) and a current sensor (R1) coupled between the input terminals, a module control circuit for generating a current control signal at an output terminal of the module control circuit and coupled to the current sensor and to a reference signal generator (R3, R4, R5, Z1) for generating a reference signal representing a desired magnitude of the LED current, wherein the current control signal has a first value in case the desired value of the LED current is lower than the measured value of the LED current and a second value in case the desired value of the LED current is higher than the measured value of the LED current, and coupling circuitry (D1; Sg, DC, C1, C2) coupled during operation between the output terminal of the module control circuit and the input terminal of the driver control circuit, for communicating the first value of the current control signal to the input terminal of the driver control circuit and for blocking the second value, and wherein the signal at the input terminal of the driver control circuit has a default value when all the current control signals have their second value.
US09538590B2
Solid state lighting apparatuses and related methods are described. In some aspects, a solid state lighting apparatus includes a substrate. The substrate includes a non-metallic body having a first surface and one or more electrical components supported on the first surface of the substrate. At least one electrical component is spaced from the non-metallic body by one or more non-metallic layers. The apparatus can also include an array of solid state light emitters supported by the first surface of the substrate and electrically coupled to the one or more electrical components thereof. The apparatus can further include a receiver supported by the first surface of the substrate, wherein the receiver is adapted to receive alternating current (AC) directly from an AC power source. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09538579B2
In a user equipment (UE) supporting multiple radio access technologies (RATs) and operating in an multiple-SIM multiple-active (MSMA) scenario, at least a portion of the wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver may be used opportunistically to support the operation of the wireless wide area network (WWAN) transceiver to support the multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs). For example, when a first SIM is in an active mode and using the WWAN transceiver for transmit and/or receive operations, at least a portion of the WLAN transceiver may be used in addition to the WWAN transceiver to support the WWAN operation of a second (or third, etc.) SIM. The WLAN transceiver may be used for transmit, receive, or both for the second SIM, while the first SIM continues to use the resources of the WWAN transceiver.
US09538576B2
The invention relates to an apparatus, a system, a method and a computer program product for receiving a protocol identifier indicating a protocol used in a packet data connection of a user, determining if the user is roaming, and 10 deciding on a control entity to be involved for controlling the packet data connection, depending on the protocol identifier and result of the determination if the user is roaming.
US09538575B2
A method for receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving, from a first evolved Node B (eNB), an RRC connection reconfiguration (RRCConnectionReconfiguration) message including data radio bearer (DRB) configuration parameters for remapping a DRB that is established on a master cell group (MCG) to a secondary cell group (SCG).
US09538570B2
Wireless-conferencing radios communicate directly with each other without a bases station using a multiple access protocol, such as Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA). Wireless-conferencing radios can be formed into groups and larger mesh networks. Some groups of wireless-conferencing radios use frequencies in a cellular band to communicate.
US09538567B2
A wireless communication device performs an inter-device wireless communication with another wireless communication device in accordance with the Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity) Direct specification. This wireless communication device includes a receiving unit. This receiving unit receives an action frame that contains information about the role of the wireless communication device and is specified in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 802.11 specification.
US09538565B2
Disclosed embodiments include an end-to-end UE and eNB HARQ protocol design for various TDD-FDD joint operation wireless network configurations. Designs for timing of HARQ feedback in response to PDSCH and PUSCH transmissions (or simply, PDSCH and PUSCH) include both HARQ feedback from a UE, and HARQ feedback from an eNB. The PUSCH HARQ timeline embodiments also include both self-scheduling and cross-carrier scheduling scenarios for PUSCH transmissions. In addition, designs for the cross-carrier scheduling scenarios contemplate an FDD scheduling cell or a TDD scheduling cell.
US09538555B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for accessing a channel in a wireless LAN. A method for a station (STA) initially accessing the channel in the wireless LAN comprises the steps of: the STA receiving from an access point (AP) a frame including channel state information and a set of an N (a natural number wherein N>1) number of access parameter sets; the STA selecting a random variable when the channel state information indicates that a wireless link is busy; the STA selecting one access parameter set from the N number of access parameter sets on the basis of the one access parameter and transmitting an association request frame to the AP.
US09538553B2
There is provided a communication apparatus including a signature selection unit that selects one signature from a plurality of signatures, and a preamble generation unit that generates a signature in random access using the preamble selected by the signature selection unit. The signature selection unit selects the signature corresponding to a value of transmission data.
US09538549B2
A method for a user equipment sending an uplink resource scheduling request in a long term evolution mobile communication system and the user equipment thereof are provided. The present invention relates to a technique for the user equipment sending the uplink resource scheduling request in a long term evolution system, for reducing the user data transmission delay. The embodiments of the present invention set the minimum alternative option of the scheduling request transmission cycle configuration parameter as 2 ms or 1 ms, that is to say, add 2 ms or 1 ms, or 2 ms and 1 ms to the alternative option of the scheduling request transmission cycle configuration parameter, therefore, improving the flexibility of the whole system in the scheduling request transmission cycle configuration. When the data delay is required to be less, the user data transmission delay can be reduced, by using the 2 ms or 1 ms scheduling request transmission cycle configuration, to the delay requirement of 10 ms as close as possible.
US09538547B2
An apparatus and method for initiating discontinuous reception (DRX) operation in a user equipment (UE) are disclosed herein. Applications running on the UE are monitored by the UE to identify one or more inactivity trigger events associated with the application(s). The UE includes an application-radio cross layer to process the application information, including the inactivity trigger event, for use by a radio layer. The radio layer of the UE determines initiation of the DRX operation in accordance with the application information, including the inactivity trigger event, provided by the application-radio cross layer and device characteristics information.
US09538542B2
A method for detecting an interferer signal in a duplex communication channel. The method comprises establishing a duplex communication channel for transmitting and receiving a signal having a plurality of frames each comprising an uplink (UL) and a downlink (DL) sub frames, allocating a plurality of silent slots in at least on of the UL and DL sub frames of at least some of the plurality of frames, intercepting at least one transmission signal during the plurality of silent slots, and detecting at least one interferer signal according to the at least one transmission signal.
US09538540B2
A UE establishes an RRC connection with a base station for an application in a mobile communication network. The UE acquires a barring indication that indicates whether scheduling request (SR) barring is applicable for the application. The UE then acquires prioritized barring parameters for SR barring if applicable. The prioritized barring parameters is associated with a priority of the application. Finally, the UE determines whether to send a scheduling request for an arrived packet based on the prioritized barring parameters. In one embodiment, the application is associated with a quality of service (QoS) class indicator (QCI), and the priority of the application is based on the QCI. The prioritized SR barring mechanism based on QCI can be applied for RRC Connected mode with finer granularity.
US09538528B2
An apparatus defines a set of resources out of a first number of orthogonal radio resources and controls a transmitting means to simultaneously transmit a respective first radio signal for each resource on all resources of the set. A respective estimated interference is estimated on each of the resources of the set when the respective first radio signals are transmitted simultaneously. A first resource of the set is selected if the estimated interference on the first resource exceeds a first predefined level and, in the set, the first resource is replaced by a second resource of the first number of resources not having been part of the set. Each of the controlling and the estimating, the selecting, and the replacing is performed in order, respectively, for a predefined time.
US09538527B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method for determining a transmission time interval, a base station, and a radio network controller. A base station receives uplink data sent from a user equipment in an idle state or a cell forward access channel state on an enhanced dedicated transmission channel. The base station determines a transmission time interval (TTI) used by the user equipment for sending the uplink data, and sends the uplink data and a transmission time interval indicator in an enhanced dedicated transmission channel data frame to a radio network controller. The radio network controller acquires the TTI, thereby ensuring that the radio network controller selects and configures an appropriate TTI for the user equipment when the user equipment transits from the Cell_FACH state to the Cell_DCH state.
US09538525B2
Methods and apparatus for implementing a robust unicast/broadcast/multicast protocol are provided. In one aspect, a method of avoiding collision of intra-basic service set unicast, broadcast or multicast transmissions notifies stations in the basic service set of a reserved transmit opportunity for a unicast, broadcast or multicast transmission. Transmissions from at least one station in the basic service set are deferred until after the reserved unicast, broadcast or multicast transmit opportunity.
US09538520B2
A data transmission method in an enhanced CELL_FACH state, a network system, and a corresponding device are provided. The method includes the following steps. A radio transceiver receives information indicating a capability category of a UE. The radio transceiver acquires the capability category of the UE according to the information indicating the capability category of the UE. The radio transceiver performs data transmission to or from the UE according to the capability category of the UE. Since the information indicating the capability category of the UE is sent to the radio transceiver during the enhanced CELL_FACH data transmission, the radio transceiver performs the data transmission based on the capability category of a target UE, instead of the lowest capability category of the UE, thereby increasing the data transmission rate in the enhanced CELL_FACH state.
US09538515B2
An apparatus includes a User Equipment (UE) having a receiver and a decoder. The receiver is configured to receive, from an eNodeB (eNB), a signal indicating a configuration of a period to receive one or more Physical Downlink Control CHannels (PDCCHs) in respective one or more Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs). Each of the one or more PDCCHs conveys a same Downlink Control Information (DCI) format. The DCI format includes at least one field indicating a first Time Division Duplexing (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration in a first cell for DL data receptions or UL data transmissions. A TDD UL-DL configuration includes ten TTIs each having a respective serial index from 0 to 9. The receiver is also configured to receive, from the eNB, at least one PDCCH of the one or more PDCCHs. The decoder is configured to decode the DCI format conveyed by the at least one PDCCH in a second cell. The period is a multiple of ten TTIs, and the one or more TTIs are in a last ten TTIs of the period.
US09538509B2
One embodiment includes a method for selecting, by a mobile unit, one of a plurality of control information reporting modes based on at least one of a control information transmission type and a payload size. The method further includes transmitting, by the mobile unit, one or more UCI report(s) to the base station using the selected UCI reporting mode.
US09538503B2
Methods and apparatus of a base station or a User Equipment (UE) in communication with each other are provided. The UE is configured by the base station for simultaneous communication with at least a cell using Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) and at least a cell using Time Division Duplexing (TDD). Processes enabling transmission of control information associated with scheduling data reception or data transmission from the UE are provided.
US09538502B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for managing control and data transmissions for low cost UEs. In certain aspects, multiplexing of a control channel and data channel may be allowed in a Physical Resource Block (PRB) pair of a subframe. An indication may be provided to the UE regarding whether a portion of resources of the PRB pair not used to transmit the control channel is available for transmitting the data channel. In alternative aspects, control and data may be scheduled in different subframes, such that there is no need to multiplex them in a subframe or a PRB pair in a same subframe.
US09538491B2
A system, apparatus, and method for providing proximity services (ProSe) registration, proximity request, proximity alert, proximity request cancellation, and deregistration handling between a wireless device and a ProSe function of a cellular core network using session initiation protocol. A wireless device and a ProSe function of a cellular core network may exchange SIP signaling messages to register and de-register the wireless device for cellular network assisted proximity services. The wireless device and the ProSe function may further (while the wireless device is registered) exchange SIP signaling messages to request proximity alerts, provide proximity alerts, and request cancellation of proximity alert requests.
US09538488B2
A communication control method is a method in which a neighboring cell #1 supplements a coverage of an OFF target cell #2 by increasing transmission power of the neighboring cell #1, when setting the OFF target cell #2 to an OFF state. The communication control method comprises: a step A of informing, by a UE 100 connected to the OFF target cell #2, the OFF target cell #2 of neighboring cell received power that is received power of a radio signal from the neighboring cell #1; and a step B of deciding, by a server 400 that acquires the neighboring cell received power via the OFF target cell #2, on the basis of the acquired neighboring cell received power, an amount of increase in transmission power of the neighboring cell #1.
US09538485B2
A base station, comprising a first antenna for transmitting a first pilot signal; a second antenna for transmitting a second a pilot signal; a third antenna for transmitting a third pilot signal; and a fourth antenna for transmitting a fourth pilot signal. The base station is configured to transmit pilot signal power information for indicating power values to a user equipment, UE, receiving the pilot signal power information. The pilot signal power information comprises: a first power value corresponding to the first pilot signal, a second power value corresponding to the second pilot signal, a third power value corresponding to the third pilot signal, and a fourth power value providing information regarding at least two demodulation pilot signals.
US09538484B2
The present invention is to provide a method and device for controlling transmission power by taking comprehensive consideration not only of the effect received onto itself in each device-to-device (D2D) link of a D2D communication network but also of the effect exerted onto the neighboring links. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a processing method in a transmission terminal of a first link for controlling the transmission power of the transmission terminals of links in a D2D communication network, which includes terminals of at least the first link and terminals of a second link adjacent to the first link includes: measuring the strengths of first detection signals transmitted from reception terminals of the first link and the second link; and determining a first transmission power adjustment ratio for the transmission terminal of the first link so that a signal-to-interference ratio of the second link is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value on the basis of the measured strengths of the first detection signals.
US09538481B2
Disclosed are an uplink power control method, power control parameter configuration method and apparatus thereof. The uplink power control method comprises: a user equipment receives data in M downlink sub-frames of N downlink carriers and generates uplink control information, wherein the uplink control information of the M downlink sub-frames is transmitted in one uplink sub-frame; the user equipment determines ΔF_PUCCH(F) and h(n) for calculating the transmit power of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) according to whether the number of bits of the uplink control information is larger than a predefined threshold; ΔF_PUCCH(F) represents the power offset of different PUCCH formats relative to the PUCCH format 1a, h(n) represents the power offset corresponding to the number of transmission bits of the PUCCH; the user equipment calculates the PUCCH transmit power according to ΔF_PUCCH(F) and h(n), and sending the uplink control information on the PUCCH using the calculated transmit power. The present invention can improve the accuracy of power control, thus enhance the transmission performance of the uplink control information.
US09538471B1
Computing devices can utilize various low power wakeup transceivers in order to control functional states of various components of those devices. Each transceiver can broadcast a beacon including appropriate information, which can be received by any other device with a transceiver that is within a propagation range of the beacon. A transceiver receiving the beacon can cause the received beacon to be analyzed by appropriate decision logic, which can determine any appropriate functionality to be activated or otherwise contacted in response to the beacon. In at least some embodiments, the beacon can cause another type of communication channel to be activated to establish communications with a device from which the beacon was received. In this way, the communications channel can be established without having to leave the channel active or manually activate that channel.
US09538470B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for updating a listen interval in a wireless communication system. To this end, a method for updating a listen interval by a station (STA) of a wireless communication system may comprise, if an operation mode of the station is changed, a request frame including information indicating that the operation mode of the station is changed, to an access point (AP); and receiving a response frame in response to the request frame from the AP. If a value of a listen interval of the station is changed as the operation mode of the station is changed, the request frame further include a value of a new listen interval of the station.
US09538468B2
The present description provides methods, computer program products, and systems for saving power in Wi-Fi devices utilizing Bluetooth. A Wi-Fi radio transitions to deep sleep mode from active mode while a Bluetooth radio remains active. An active Wi-Fi connection to the access point can be maintained by the station while in deep sleep mode as needed to prevent being disassociated. Responsive to the indication of data packets waiting at the access point, sent over the Bluetooth radio, the Wi-Fi radio at the station can be transitioned from the deep sleep mode to the active mode. A notification of active mode is sent to the access point currently associated with the Wi-Fi radio so that packets can be forwarded.
US09538462B2
A method for minimization of drive tests, a method for collecting terminal information, a terminal, and a network element, belong to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: in a process of activating a minimization of drive tests MDT task, checking, by a network element, a consent type of a user corresponding to a selected terminal; sending an MDT task activation command to the selected terminal according to a check result of the consent type; after receiving measured data reported by the selected terminal, performing an operation according to a check result of the consent type. In embodiments of the present invention, check on user consent is implemented in a network detection process, thereby avoiding a case that a user equipment is forced to report personal information without permission of the user and improving the user experience.
US09538461B1
A facility for interacting with data networks using a permanent network identifier persistently stored within a computing system is described. In one example facility, in response to each opportunity to connect to a data network, the facility identifies information for the data network, and determines whether the determined identifying matches any of a set of approved data networks. In response to determining that it does, the facility establishes a connection with the first data network using the computing system's permanent network identifier, and conducts the established connection with the first data network using the computing system's permanent network identifier. In response to determining that it does not, the facility establishes a connection with the data network using a temporary network identifier that is different from the computing system's permanent network identifier, and conducts the established connection with the data network using the temporary network identifier.
US09538450B2
A bearer path can be optimized following a mobile relay node (MRN) handover in order to directly re-route the bearer path from a user equipment (UE) core network to a target donor base station (DeNB). Bearer path optimization signaling includes a packet data network gateway (PGW) relocation information element (IE) indicating that a PGW of an MRN is being relocated from an initial DeNB to a target DeNB. The PGW relocation IE may be carried in a path switch request message. Bearer path optimization signaling also includes an non-access stratum (NAS) activate default enhanced packet switch (EPS) bearer context request/accept messages for activating the optimized bearer path. The NAS activate default EPS bearer request/accept messages may be communicated between the mobile relay node mobility management entity (MME) and the MRN via the target DeNB.
US09538443B2
A second handover of a user equipment from a cell B to a cell C of a cellular communications network is successfully completed, wherein a successful completion of a first handover of the user equipment from a cell A of the cellular communications network to the cell B has immediately preceded the second handover. The second handover is determined as being a rapid handover at the cell B and/or the cell C based on a detection that the second handover of the user equipment has been initiated from the cell B to the cell C within a configurable period of time since the successful completion of the first handover, and the rapid handover is reported to the cell A.
US09538438B2
A method and apparatus for transferring bearing in a layered network are disclosed in the embodiments of the present application, which relate to wireless communications field and are used to avoid failure when transferring bearing in user layer so as to improve communications quality of users. In the present application, after judging the need for transferring a Data Wireless Bearing DRB of a terminal to a Closed Subscriber Group CSG Local eNB, a Macro eNB determines whether to allow the terminal to access the CSG Local eNB and initiates a bearing transferring process to the CSG Local eNB if so. The CSG Local eNB accepts a bearing transferring request carrying CSG member status information of the terminal sent by the Macro eNB and implements accessing control for the separated bearing of the terminal according to the CSG member status information. Thus it can be seen said problems can be avoided.
US09538436B2
An electronic device monitors a quality of a wireless connection between the electronic device and a first access point. Based on the monitoring and a collection of parameters relating to controlling handover between access points, a determination is made regarding whether the electronic device should be handed over to a second access point from the first access point, where the parameters differ for different combinations of the first access point and candidate destination access points for handover of the electronic device from the first access point.
US09538431B2
Embodiments of Evolved Node-B (eNBs), user equipment (UE) and methods for licensed shared access (LSA) handover are generally described herein. An eNB includes hardware processing circuitry to receive a command to release spectrum resources in a LSA band over which the eNB serves an LSA cell; to determine whether user equipment (UEs) served by the eNB are permitted to skip a random access process (RAP) to be handed over to a target cell operating on a band separate from the LSA band; and to transmit a message to a UE served by the eNB instructing the UE that the UE is to be handed over to the target cell, the message including one or more indicators based on the determination. Other apparatuses, systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09538423B2
Routing packet traffic using hierarchical forwarding groups is disclosed. In an embodiment, a packet is received at a packet router. Data related to the packet is received at a first forwarding group. Based on a first forwarding policy associated with the first forwarding group, a particular second forwarding group is selected from a set of forwarding groups that are members of the first forwarding group. Each forwarding group of the set of forwarding groups that are members of the first forwarding group is associated with a unique set of paths. Data related to the packet is provided to the particular second forwarding group. Based on a second forwarding policy associated with the particular second forwarding group, a particular path is selected from a set of paths that are associated with the particular second forwarding group. The packet is forwarded to a network node via the particular path.
US09538417B1
Quality of service for mesh networks is described. In embodiment(s), communication data can be prioritized as priority data and/or non-priority data for communication from a source node to a destination node in a mesh network. A first route in the mesh network can be determined to communicate the priority data from the source node to the destination node based on a minimum number of intermediate nodes via which the priority data is communicated. Additionally, a second route in the mesh network can be determined to communicate the non-priority data from the source node to the destination node based on a highest bit rate to communicate the non-priority data. A time duration to communicate the priority via the first route is less than a time duration to communicate the non-priority data via the second route.
US09538415B2
We show that for any given muting fraction, a more constrained version of the problem of interest can be optimally solved in an efficient manner. In addition, the obtained solution is also a near-optimal solution for the original problem (for the given muting ratio). This allows us provide an algorithm that offers a good solution to the original problem with a tractable complexity. We also derive a lower complexity greedy that offers good performance and a certain worst-case performance guarantee. Simulations over an example LTE HetNet topology reveal the superior performance of the proposed algorithms and underscore the benefits of jointly exploiting partial muting of the macro and load balancing.
US09538409B2
The techniques described herein involve analysis of communication data included in trace file(s) of device(s) involved in a communication. These trace file(s) may each include data associated with multiple layers of a communication protocol stack of a respective device or data associated with a single such layer. The techniques may further involve one or more of determination of performance metrics associated with data at a specific layer of a specific device, correlation of the data between layers of a device, or correlation of data across multiple device(s) involved in the communication. The performance metrics or correlated data may then be analyzed based on thresholds or models to determine whether the performance metrics or correlated data exhibits a degraded quality of user experience. Also or instead, graphic or textual representations of the performance metrics or correlated data may be generated.
US09538408B2
A method and system are provided for scheduling data transmission in a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system. The MIMO system may comprise at least one MIMO transmitter and at least one MIMO receiver. Feedback from one or more receivers may be used by a transmitter to improve quality, capacity, and scheduling in MIMO communication systems. The method may include generating or receiving information pertaining to a MIMO channel metric and information pertaining to a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) in respect of a transmitted signal; and sending a next transmission to a receiver using a MIMO mode selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the MIMO channel metric, and an adaptive coding and modulation selected in accordance with the information pertaining to the CQI.
US09538405B2
It is presented a method for detecting potential displacement of a wireless transceiver connected to a machine-to-machine device. The method comprises the steps, executed in a displacement detection server, of: receiving an updated radio environment message from the wireless transceiver, the radio environment message comprising updated radio characteristics of at least two radio cells, the updated characteristics being measured by the wireless transceiver; determining whether the updated radio characteristics differ significantly from previous radio characteristics of a previous radio environment message from the wireless transceiver; and when it is determined that radio characteristics differ significantly, sending a displacement indication message to a device management server, the displacement indication message indicating potential displacement of the wireless transceiver. Corresponding displacement detection server, host device, computer program and computer program product are also presented.
US09538404B2
In an embodiment, a product acceptance test application is transmitted by an apparatus across a wireless network to a wireless communications device. The product acceptance test application is configured to be executed by the wireless communications device so as to simulate network communications corresponding to a network communications test scenario. The wireless communications device simulates the network communications using the product acceptance test application and generates product acceptance data which is sent to the apparatus. The apparatus receives the product acceptance data from the wireless communication device indicative of test result data that is based upon the simulated network communications. The apparatus determines a product acceptance decision based on the product acceptance data.
US09538388B2
Methods and systems for dynamic spectrum access (DSA) in a wireless network are provided. A DSA-enabled device may sense spectrum use in a region and, based on the detected spectrum use, select one or more communication channels for use. The devices also may detect one or more other DSA-enabled devices with which they can form DSA networks. A DSA network may monitor spectrum use by cooperative and non-cooperative devices, to dynamically select one or more channels to use for communication while avoiding or reducing interference with other devices.
US09538386B2
Techniques for efficiently and economically providing data transfer through wireless data networks. These techniques are particularly suitable for Internet data transfers. In one aspect, mobile devices are able to be allocated additional wireless channels to obtain increased data transfer capabilities. The additional wireless channels can be used for unicast, multicast or broadcast of data. These techniques provide additional wireless bandwidth to mobile devices and allows control over allocation of the additional wireless bandwidth.
US09538380B2
A control system includes a control device, a controller, a plurality of user mobile devices, a manager mobile device, and a manager server. An initial first identification information of each user mobile device obtained by the manager mobile device is sent to the manager server, is authenticated, and is encoded. Every time a user mobile device is connected to the controller for opening the control device, a holder of the user mobile device is requested to input an instant first identification information. After decoding by a decoding key, the controller identifies whether the instant first identification information is identical to the authenticated initial first identification information. The identification result is used to decide whether the control device should be set to be an open state.
US09538371B2
A method of handling data transmission and reception in device to device communication for a first communication device in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises connecting to a network of the wireless communication system, using a first ciphering key to cipher a first plurality of data blocks in a communication path corresponding to the second communication device, wherein the communication path is used for transmitting the first plurality of data blocks to the second communication device and is not traversing the network, being configured to release the communication path by the network, and using a second ciphering key different to the first ciphering key to cipher a second plurality of data blocks in a connection corresponding to the network, wherein the second plurality of data blocks include data transmitted to the second communication device.
US09538367B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that creates, manages, or maintains multiple device versions in a network of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices. The system can include components that detect whether a device has joined the network and based at least in part on such indication creates a device profile the first time that the device is detected, establishes a version trail containing configuration settings specific to the detected device, and thereafter builds and maintains the version trail when the device joins and/or leaves the network.
US09538363B2
A user terminal apparatus includes a storage to store use log information on the user terminal apparatus, a communicator, when an event to receive a service from an external apparatus occurs, to transmit use log information required to provide the service to the external apparatus selectively, and a controller to receive a service generated based on the transmitted use log information and customized to the user from the external apparatus.
US09538348B2
A method and message server (204) for routing a speech message, received (2:1) from a user equipment (200) of a sending user, to at least one recipient (208, 210) in a communication network. After obtaining (2:2) a text version created by speech recognition (206) of the received speech message, the at least one recipient is identified (2:3) by the message server based on the obtained text version, and the speech message is then routed (2:5) to the identified at least one recipient.
US09538342B2
A method, performed by a mobile communication device, may include receiving a message; extracting one or more features associated with the message; and determining a priority level for the message, based on the extracted one or more features, using a model that relates the extracted one or more features to an expected response time for the message. The method may further include determining a context associated with the user of the mobile communication device; modifying the priority level based on the determined context; and providing the message to a list of messages based on the modified priority level. Additionally, the user may be provided with a notification tone associated with the modified priority level.
US09538339B2
A system for outputting visual data from a mobile device application on a mobile computing device to a vehicle display, the system comprising a wireless transceiver for communicating signals between a mobile computing device and a vehicle computing system having a graphical display. The vehicle computing system is configured to receive caller identification from the mobile computing device identifying a mobile device application configured to operate with the vehicle computing system. The vehicle computer system is also configured to receive a signal from the mobile computing device representative of a visual indication to be displayed on the vehicle display. The vehicle computer system may determine a location to display the visual indication on the display and output the visual indication on the vehicle display at the determined location.
US09538338B2
A system and method for carrying out communications with a remote communication device (RCD) utilizes a data channel communication path to provide a call request from the RCD to a telematics services provider (TSP). In response to the call request, the TSP obtains a temporary phone number and sends it back to the RCD which then places a voice call to the TSP using the phone number. The received call is connected to an advisor to handle voice communication with the caller using the RCD. Based on the prior association of the assigned temporary phone number with the calling RCD, the TSP is able to recognize the caller or calling device based on the number called and then automatically provide the advisor with relevant information about the caller or calling RCD, such as the caller's name or subscription account information.
US09538337B2
A system and method for controlling particular communication capabilities of an electronic device located within an electronic communication room (ECR) includes spreading a physical layer of a communication protocol across various (e.g. two) physical communication channels in a coordinated manner. Each physical communication channel is invoked to transmit a different portion of the control signals required for ECR admission. The electronic device is allowed particular communication capabilities if all ECR control signals from all involved physical communication channels are brought together at the device. If an expected control signal from one of the physical communication channels is missing, the particular communication capability fails.
US09538335B1
A set of mobile devices are designated as a related set of mobile devices for loss indication purposes. Machine logic rules are developed to indicate loss of a mobile device. Under these rules, a determination of probable loss (for example, theft, inadvertent leaving behind) of one of the mobile devices depends, at least in part, upon the activities and/or status of other mobile devices in the set. For example, if a first mobile device in the set is expected, under the machine logic rules, to always be near a second mobile device in the set, then a determination that the second mobile device is located far away from the first mobile device may trigger a warning, or other mitigating action, that the first mobile device has probably been lost.
US09538330B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for position determination are presented. In some embodiments, a method for position determination includes selecting at least one of a plurality of access points based on a measure of response time variability associated with the at least one access point. The method further includes sending, from a device, a communication to the selected at least one access point. The method also includes receiving, from the selected at least one access point, a response to the communication. The method additionally includes calculating a distance from the device to the selected at least one access point based on a round trip time associated with the response to the communication.
US09538328B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed for estimating whether or not a wireless terminal is in a geographic zone. The illustrative embodiment employs a pattern classifier that is trained on traits of electromagnetic signals at various locations. A computer-executable program is then generated based on the trained pattern classifier, and the program is installed and executed on a subscribed identity module of the terminal.
US09538325B2
A method for determining a location of a wireless tag, the method may include generating or receiving, by a tagged mobile device, an estimated location of another tag that communicates with the tagged mobile device; receiving or generating, by the tagged mobile device, multiple distance measurements that are obtained during different points of time; wherein the multiple distance measurements are obtained during a rotational movement of the tagged mobile device and represent distances between the tagged mobile device and the other tag; finding a certain angle of rotation of the mobile device that corresponds to a minimal distance measurement of the multiple distance measurements; and amending the estimated location of the other tag based upon the certain angle of rotation.
US09538314B2
A near field communication (NFC) device includes a resonance unit and an NFC chip. The resonance unit emits an electromagnetic wave to communicate data with an external NFC card in a reader mode. The NFC chip estimates a distance between the resonance unit and the external NFC card based on an antenna voltage generated by the resonance unit while the resonance unit emits the electromagnetic wave, and adjusts a magnitude of the electromagnetic wave based on the estimated distance.
US09538311B2
A connectivity device includes a microcontroller, a network interface coupled to the microcontroller, and a non-transitory storage device coupled to the microcontroller. The non-transitory storage device includes a token usable for authentication and including executable code. The token includes a unique device identifier (UDID) that uniquely identifies the authentication device and a private key. The executable code is to cause the microcontroller to initiate a registration process with an internet-of-things (IoT) server to register the token with the IoT server. Token creation and activation procedures are also described.
US09538305B2
Examples described herein involve identifying one or more error conditions during calibration of one or more playback devices in a playback environment. A microphone of a network device may detect and sample an audio signal while the one or more playback devices in the playback environment plays a calibration tone. A processor of the network device may then receive, from the microphone, a stream of audio data. The audio data may include an audio signal component and a background noise component. As a subset of the audio data is received, the processor may identify based on at least the subset of audio data, the one or more error conditions. The processor may then cause a graphical display to display a graphical representation associated with the identified error condition.
US09538304B1
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and software for bodily function sound anonymization.
US09538297B2
The invention is directed to a single channel mask estimation method capable of improving reverberant speech identification for CI users. The method is based on the energy of the reverberant signal and the residual signal computed from linear prediction (LP) analysis. The mask is estimated by comparing the energy ratio of the two signals at different frequency bins with an adaptive threshold. As the threshold is updated for each frame of speech based on the energy ratios of the reverberant and LP residual signals computed from previous frames, it is amenable for real-time implementation. It can thus be used as a specialized (for reverberant environments) sound coding strategy used for cochlear implant applications.
US09538287B2
This document discusses among other things apparatus and methods for protecting circuit elements from harmful voltages. In an example, an apparatus can include an amplifier configured to receive an input signal and to provide an estimate of a first output signal, a peak detector to receive the estimate and to generate a comparison signal that is active when the amplified input signal exceeds a threshold value, and a timer configured to activate a second output signal if the comparison signal is active for at least a selected time period. The timer can include a first digital input and the selected time period can be set using a state of the first digital input.
US09538286B2
A spatial adaptation system for multiple-microphone sound capture systems and methods thereof are described. A spatial adaptation system includes an inference and weight module configured to receive a inputs. The inputs based on two or more input signals captured by at least two microphones. The inference and weight module to determine one or more weight values base on at least one of the inputs. The spatial adaptation system also including a noise magnitude ratio update module coupled with the inference and weight module. The noise magnitude ratio update module to determine an updated noise target based on the one or more weight values from the inference and weight module.
US09538280B2
Various embodiments provide for an improved attachment apparatus for attaching the attachment apparatus to an ear of a user. In some embodiments, the attachment apparatus may include an attachment body that defines an opening configured to enable a majority of a user's ear to pass through the opening when the attachment apparatus is coupled to the user. In such embodiments, the opening may include a first opening portion that enables an upper portion of the ear to pass through the opening and a second opening portion that enables a lower portion of the ear to pass through the opening. The attachment body may secure the attachment apparatus to a root of an upper portion of the user's ear received via the first opening portion and to a root of a lower portion of the user's ear received via the second opening portion.
US09538278B2
A deformable controller for an electronic device, such as a portable electronic device, is disclosed. A user can interact with the controller to cause it to “deform” and thereby provide user input to control the electronic device. The controller can be malleable and symmetrical, and user interaction with the controller can be provided with substantially arbitrary orientation. In one embodiment, the controller is an in-line controller with a cable that couples to the electronic device. In one particular implementation, the portable electronic device can be a portable media player and the controller can remotely control media playback functions for the portable media player.
US09538265B2
Systems and methods for optical switching of time-varying traffic, including generating fixed-length bursts using one or more Optical Edge Nodes (OENs). The bursts are temporarily stored in electrical buffers located at the OENs, wherein the electrical buffers include one or more burst queues, and one burst queue is allocated for each of one or more destination OENs. The OENs are interconnected using one or more Optical Switching Nodes (OSNs). A control protocol is implemented to establish and remove soft reservations using at least one of the OENs and OSNs, optical channels are reserved for a duration long enough to transmit one or more data bursts, the duration being selected independently for each of the one or more burst queues, the control protocol gives precedence to avoiding disrupting of any existing soft reservations when reserving resources; and the soft reservations are capable of being reused until overridden.
US09538264B2
An Optical channel Data Unit flex (ODUflex) resizing method, node, and network include determining that the ODUflex needs resizing, wherein the ODUflex is configured in the network on a current path between the node and a second node in the network; when the resizing is a decrease, reducing a size of the ODUflex by i) a resize decrease operation using a control plane or ii) a Link Aggregation Group and Make-Before-Break operation; and, when the resizing is an increase, increasing a size of the ODUflex by i) a resize increase operation using a control plane or ii) a Link Aggregation Group and Make-Before-Break operation. The method provides hitless resizing without using ITU Recommendation G.7044/Y.1347 (10/11) and can perform the reducing or the increasing changing bandwidth of the ODUflex by approximately 100 G in less than a second.
US09538260B2
Disclosed herein is a receiving device for receiving AV contents, the receiving device including: an obtaining section configured to obtain a description document described in a program language for displaying contents from a server present on a network connected with the receiving device; a determining section configured to determine whether the obtained the description document is obtained from a first server managed on a broadcaster side broadcasting the AV contents; and a controlling section configured to control execution of the obtained the description document according to a result of determination by the determining section.
US09538259B1
A system, apparatus, and method provide messaging, between a headend system and a set top box. A distributor determines and provides an assigned communication identifier and an assigned server host address, that correspond to one of one or more first servers, to each of one or more set top box clients. The first servers maintain a persistent connection with the set top box clients and provide messaging, presence, and routing features via the persistent connection. A gateway service provides a gateway for one or more headend servers to communicate with the set top box clients through the first servers. A server controller provides administrative graphical user interfaces for operators to monitor and control health checks, configuration changes, and collect statistics for the distributor, first servers, and the gateway service.
US09538252B2
A method for rendering text onto moving image content. The method comprises receiving a request to translate dialog associated with moving image content, transmitting an interface, transmitting a time-stamped transcription, and receiving a translation of the dialog.
US09538250B2
A method of creating a multi participant session among a plurality of viewers of media content. The method comprises automatically identifying which media content is currently presented on a plurality of client terminals of a plurality of subscribers, receiving, from a first subscriber, a first selection indicative of a template of a multi participant session object and a second selection indicative of a group from the plurality of subscribers, creating a multi participant session object adapted for simultaneous presentation with the media content according to first and second selections and establishing a multi participant session among at least one member of the group and the first subscriber using the multi participant session object.
US09538248B2
A broadcast channel information sharing method in an electronic device and the electronic device thereof are provided. An operation method in an electronic device includes creating a request message of requesting to share broadcast channel information, the request message comprising one or more of user information, location information, and habit information, transmitting, by the electronic device, the request message to a network server, receiving, by the electronic device, a response message corresponding to the request message from the network server, and extracting, by the electronic device, broadcast channel information of another electronic device comprised in the response message and sharing the extracted broadcast channel information with the other electronic device.
US09538246B2
A method of displaying an interactive geographical representation associated with a video content item is described. The method includes: playing the video content item, wherein the video content item includes at least one scene; requesting relevant metadata associated with the at least one video scene, the relevant metadata including a geographical representation and geolocation metadata associated with the at least video scene; receiving the relevant metadata; and displaying an interactive geographical representation along with at least one visual indication, wherein the at least one visual indication is associated with the at least one video scene and positioned at a location indicated by the geolocation metadata. Related systems, apparatus and methods are also described.
US09538244B2
An extraction method includes detecting a frame corresponding to a pitchers' pitching scene included in captured footage of a baseball game that includes plural frames, based on a frame image characteristic, and extracting a frame in which a transition is made from other frames not detected as frames corresponding to the pitching scene to the detected pitching scene, as a frame representing a start of one of respective pitches by the pitcher.
US09538243B2
A data storage management and scheduling system schedules the recording, storing, and deleting of television and Web page program material on a client system storage medium. A schedule of time versus available storage space is generated that is optimal for the viewer's scheduled program recordings. The programs include television broadcast programs and Universal Resource Locators (URLs). A program is recorded if at all times between when the recording would be initiated and when it expires, sufficient space is available to hold it. All scheduling conflicts are resolved as early as possible.
US09538242B2
A method and a user node for enabling reception of a TV service. The user node operates in a first reception mode of receiving the TV service as signals broadcasted over the air and in a second reception mode of receiving the TV service as a media stream over an Internet Protocol Television, IPTV, link The user node monitors quality of the broadcasted signals when receiving the TV service in the first reception mode. The user node switches operation from the first reception mode to the second reception mode responsive to the monitored quality of the broadcasted signals being below a first threshold. Thereafter, the user node receives the TV service over the IPTV link in the second reception mode. The TV service can be properly received and played out with satisfying user experience irrespective of the broadcasted signals over the air not reaching the user node with sufficient quality.
US09538235B2
A device may be configured to store interactive program guide (IPG) data for generating an IPG. The IPG data may include information related to a media content service for providing media content and including information related to a home automation service for managing a home device. The device may receive input information from a media client device that causes display of the IPG. The input information may indicate an input related to the home device. The device may generate a part of the IPG related to the home automation service based on the input information and a part of the IPG data. The device may obtain home device information from a management server based on the input information. The device may provide the home device information and the part of the IPG to the media client device for display.
US09538230B2
A convergence terminal, including a set top box unit, a home gateway unit, a main control board and an interconnection backplane, where the main control board establishes a communication connection with each of a multimedia device and an Internet access device, the main control board connects, in a communication manner, to each of the set top box unit and the home gateway unit through the interconnection backplane. In the present invention, an objective of implementing that a television service and an Internet access service are separately provided through a service terminal is achieved, thereby reducing the number of service terminals used by a user for enjoying different services, and also reducing frequent wiring operations of the user on connection wires for inward connection and outward connection.
US09538229B2
A method may include receiving and outputting a selected multimedia stream at a mobile device. It is determined that a user wishes to browse other available multimedia streams. The selected multimedia stream is paused while the user browses the other available multimedia streams. The selected multimedia stream is cached while the user browses the other available multimedia streams. It is determined that the user has finished browsing the other available multimedia streams. The cached multimedia stream is output.
US09538228B2
A communications method for broadcasting an event is provided. This includes generating a plurality of media streams at an event and providing a service to receive the media streams. From the service, an interface can be generated to select a subset of the media streams. Media streams can include audio, video, or other formats that are selected from alternative broadcasting channels provided at the event.
US09538222B2
A device to reduce bandwidth necessary for renewal of subscriptions for reception of broadcast services including: defining a plurality of sets of subscriber identification numbers, each set being associated with a product; splitting a set of subscriber identification numbers into groups of subscribers; searching for an available subscriber identification number related to the desired product at the time of initialization of a new subscriber; confirming that an inhibit duration has elapsed between the end of the previous subscription and the start of the new subscription; sending an initialization message to the new subscriber addressed with his unique identification address and containing the subscriber identification number of, and rights to, his product; preparing a group rights renewal message for the product to the group containing the subscriber identification number, this message comprising the group header containing this subscriber and a compressed bitmap for individually addressing each of the group members.
US09538220B2
Degradation control management is provided for a plurality of video streams associated with a plurality of user terminals in a communication network, based at least in part on an overall video quality metric, by determining a video quality metric for each video stream based on at least a set of video quality metric input parameters, and calculating an overall video quality metric based on the determined video quality metrics for the video streams, determining, with an objective function, at least one objective parameter based on at least the overall video quality metric, calculating a scheduling parameter for each video stream using a degradation control algorithm based on at least the determined video quality metric for the respective video stream and on the at least one objective parameter, and scheduling network resources for each video stream based on at least the scheduling parameter for the video stream.
US09538218B2
A repository stores a contract between a service consumer and a service provider that provides a service, the contract specifying a service-level objective associated with a service to be applied for the service consumer. An enforcement device is configured according to the contract, where the configuring causes the enforcement device to perform enforcement of the service-level objective in a connection between the service consumer and the service provider, the connection allowing the service consumer to access the service in response to the enforcement device confirming that the service consumer is associated with the contract.
US09538207B2
A system and method for managing video storage in a network including continuously receiving in real time, at a recording server, from an edge device having a local storage, a plurality of incoming packets pertaining to a video stream, determining that at least one packet of the video stream is missing, and retrieving from the edge device the missing packets stored in the local storage, while continuing receiving additional incoming packets pertaining to the video stream in real time.
US09538199B2
Various systems and methods are provided for transmission of related data components across independent streams. In one embodiment, among others, a transmitting device may separate transmission data into related data components and transmit each related data component in an associated transport stream. Each related data component includes a synchronization tag associated with synchronization of the related data component within the transmission data. In another embodiment, a receiving device may receive related data components transmitted in separate transport streams and decode the related data components based at least in part upon a synchronization tag included in each related data component. In another embodiment, among others, a method for includes receiving data components transmitted on a plurality of transport streams, separating related data components from unrelated data components in the transport streams based at least in part upon a synchronization tag of each related data component; and decoding the related data components.
US09538196B2
A motion vector derivation unit includes a comparison unit for comparing a parameter TR1 for a reference vector with a predetermined value to determine whether it exceeds the predetermined value or not; a switching unit for switching selection between the maximum value of a pre-stored parameter TR and the parameter TR1 according to the comparison result by the comparison unit; a multiplier parameter table (for multipliers); and a multiplier parameter table (for divisors) for associating the parameter TR1 with a value approximate to the inverse value (1/TR1) of this parameter TR1.
US09538194B2
A video decoding method includes extracting offset mergence information of a current largest coding unit (LCU), the offset mergence information indicating whether to adopt a second offset parameter as a first offset parameter of the current LCU; reconstructing the first offset parameter of the current LCU based on the offset mergence information, the first offset parameter including an offset type, an offset value, and an offset class of the current LCU; determining whether the current LCU is an edge type or a band type, based on the offset type; determining an edge direction according to the edge type or a band range according to the band type, based on the offset class; determining a difference value between reconstructed pixels and original pixels included in the offset class, based on the offset value; and adjusting pixel values of reconstructed pixels based on the difference value.
US09538193B2
A technique for controlling the quality of one or more compressed images. The technique allows, for example, the selection of a target quality metric(s) and the compression of the image(s) such the compressed image(s) meets the metric(s). Alternatively, a target quality metric can be specified, and the image(s) compressed using parameters estimated to achieve the target quality. Optionally, the quality metric can also be made available to, for example, a user on an image processing system. The quality metrics can be, for example, for one or more layers, one or more images and/or one or more image sequences.
US09538189B2
Various techniques and tools for encoding and decoding (e.g., in a video encoder/decoder) binary information (e.g., skipped macroblock information) are described. In some embodiments, the binary information is arranged in a bit plane, and the bit plane is coded at the picture/frame layer. The encoder and decoder process the binary information and, in some embodiments, switch coding modes. For example, the encoder and decoder use normal, row-skip, column-skip, or differential modes, or other and/or additional modes. In some embodiments, the encoder and decoder define a skipped macroblock as a predicted macroblock whose motion is equal to its causally predicted motion and which has zero residual error. In some embodiments, the encoder and decoder use a raw coding mode to allow for low-latency applications.
US09538170B1
A camera lens cleaning system includes a camera, a cleaning device, a processing unit, and an executing unit configured to move the color testing disk and the cleaning device. The camera is used to capture a plurality of different color images of a color testing disk located below the camera. The processing unit is used to process every adjacent two different color images to obtain a difference color value; thereby the processing unit compares the different color value with a reference color value to determine whether dirt is located on a camera lens of the camera. When the dirt is located on the camera lens, the executing unit is configured to move the cleaning device to clean the camera lens. The disclosure further offers a camera lens cleaning method.
US09538165B2
In one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes: a projecting portion which projects in a second direction orthogonal to a first direction a first beam having a disparity image component which forms an image having a disparity in the first direction; a first deflecting portion which deflects the first beam in the second direction in a first plane having an axis in the first direction and an axis in the second direction, and obtains a second beam; and a second deflecting portion which further deflects in the first plane the second beam in a same direction as the second direction in which the first deflecting portion deflects the first beam, obtains a third beam and projects the third beam.
US09538161B2
A stereoscopic photography is provided, which includes a first image sensor, a second image sensor, a synchronization module, a combination module, a calibration module, and a stereo matching module. The first image sensor is utilized to capture a first image. The second image sensor is utilized to capture a second image. The calibration module is utilized to perform an image calibration and a horizontal rectification for the first image and the second image. The stereo matching module is utilized to calculate a distance difference between a reference pixel of the first image and a corresponding pixel of the second image. The stereo matching module compares costs of multiple pixels relative to the reference pixel in a pixel row of the second image in an interval manner. A method for performing stereoscopic photography and a stereo matching method are also provided.
US09538156B2
Systems and methods are provided for associating position information and sound. The method includes obtaining position information of an object at a given time; obtaining position information of a camera at the given time; determining a relative position of the object relative to the camera's position; and associating sound information with the relative position of the object. In another aspect, the position and orientation of a microphone are also tracked to calibrate the sound produced by an object or person, and the calibrated sound is associated with the relative position of the object, that is relative to the camera.
US09538154B2
A display apparatus to store a broadcasting signal or a video signal and/or an audio signal in an external storage medium, and reproduce signals from the external storage medium includes a receiving processor, a controller, and an output unit. The receiving processor receives a video signal and/or an audio signal. The controller stores a video signal and/or an audio signal received using the receiving processor in the external storage medium in real time, if a user requires storage of the received video signal and the audio signal. The controller reproduces the stored video signal and/or audio signal from the external storage medium if the user requires reproduction of the video signal and/or the audio signal stored on the external storage medium. The output unit outputs the reproduced video signal and/or audio signal.
US09538143B2
Methods and apparatus for an interactive automated receptionist system according to various aspects of the present invention may operate in conjunction with a computer system configured to connect to a network. The computer system may control a user interface that responds an individual seeking assistance. The computer system may interactively prompt the individual to make a selection from a set of available assistance options. The computer system may receive a request from the individual to communicate with a party, and the computer system may accommodate the individual's selections, such as by establishing a communicative link between the individual and the selected party.
US09538135B2
A videoconferencing system has a videoconferencing unit that use portable devices as peripherals for the system. The portable devices obtain near-end audio and send the audio to the videoconferencing unit via a wireless connection. In turn, the videoconferencing unit sends the near-end audio from the loudest portable device along with near-end video to the far-end. The portable devices can control the videoconferencing unit and can initially establish the videoconference by connecting with the far-end and then transferring operations to the videoconferencing unit. To deal with acoustic coupling between the unit's loudspeaker and the portable device's microphone, the unit uses an echo canceller that is compensated for differences in the clocks used in the A/D and D/A converters of the loudspeaker and microphone.
US09538126B2
Super-resolution of dynamic scenes using sampling rate diversity, processes and systems thereof are provided. The method implementing the processes includes: in a first stage, super-resolving secondary low-resolution (LR) images using a set of primary LR images to create LR dictionaries to represent polyphase components (PPCs) of high resolution (HR) patches of images; and, in a second stage, reverting to a single frame super-resolution (SR) applied to each frame which comprises an entire image, using the HR dictionaries extracted from the super-resolved sequence obtain in the first stage.
US09538122B2
A system and method is provided for time shifting a video program. In one embodiment of the present invention, a receiver, which may be configured to function as both a receiver and a DVR, is configured to receive a video program having both primary and secondary portions. The receiving device is further configured to play both portions of the video program if the program is being watched (a) during a first period of time or (b) during a second period of time and a user desires to watch both portions, and to play only the primary portions if the program is being watched during the second period of time and the user desires to watch only the primary portions. By doing this, the user can avoid the secondary portions when those portions have a diminished value to the user, the content owner, the content provider and/or advertisers.
US09538109B2
A time-of-flight camera includes a photosensor and a reference photosensor. Each of the photosensors have accumulation gates and each are configured as a photomixing detector (PMD). A readout device is connected to the accumulation gates of the photosensor and to the accumulation gates of the reference photosensor. The readout device is configured to read out an electric quantity that corresponds to a charge that is present at respective ones of the accumulation gates. An integration time of accumulating the charges is the same for the photosensor and for the reference photosensor and is dimensioned so as to prevent the reference photosensor from reaching saturation during operation of the time-of-flight camera.
US09538104B2
There is provided an imaging apparatus that includes a photoelectric conversion section, a retention section, and first and second gates. The photoelectric conversion section is configured to convert a received light into charge. The retention section is configured to retain the charge provided by the photoelectric conversion section. The first and second gates are provided between the photoelectric conversion section and the retention section, the first and second gates being turned ON for transferring the charge from the photoelectric conversion section to the retention section, and the second gate being turned OFF after the first gate is turned OFF.
US09538101B2
An image sensor includes a photo gate controller configured to generate a plurality of demodulated signals respectively corresponding to a plurality of rows of a pixel array and a photo gate driver configured to adjust a phase of the demodulated signals using a source clock signal to remove power, voltage and temperature (PVT) noise and to apply the phase-adjusted demodulated signals to the pixel array. The image sensor matches the phases of the respective demodulated signals using the source clock signal generated based on a reference clock signal, thereby increasing the quality of depth images.
US09538099B2
Disclosed herein is an X-ray imaging apparatus including: a gate driver configured to apply a turn-on signal to a plurality of gate lines; and a readout circuit configured to read out a signal from the plurality of gate lines, wherein if an X-ray signal is detected from a gate line of the plurality of gate lines, the gate driver changes a turn-on time period of the turn-on signal.
US09538098B2
A hyperspectral camera includes light mixing chambers projected onto an imaging sensor. The projection of each chamber is slightly larger than a sensor pixel. The chambers are placed as a linear array in a slit plane or as a two dimensional matrix in front of the imaging sensor. The mixed light from each chamber is depicted by several sensor pixels. The sensor outputs information used to form an overdetermined equation set. The set is solved and optimized for the solution giving the lowest overall error or the best fit. The solution of the equation set combined with the optimization is the intensity values of the chambers constituting imaginary pixels being calculated. These imaginary pixels form the output of an improved hyperspectral camera system, which has significantly lower optical errors like keystone and point spread function variation for different wavelengths.
US09538083B2
Various embodiments provide a wearable camera that is configured to take a cluster of photographs and use image processing techniques to select a photograph with a lesser amount of blur than other photographs in the cluster. The wearable camera can include one or more of a gyroscope or accelerometer for ascertaining the camera's motion. Motion data associated with the camera's motion is utilized to ascertain when to take an automatic photograph.
US09538082B2
An image capture apparatus comprises a first shake detection unit configured to detect a shake of the image capture apparatus, a rotational shake calculation unit configured to calculate a rotational shake amount, a second shake detection unit configured to detect the shake of the image capture apparatus, a translational shake calculation unit configured to calculate a translational shake amount, a correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the rotational shake amount and the translational shake amount, a correction amount for correcting image blurring, and a correction unit configured to correct the image blurring, wherein the rotational shake calculation unit calculates a first translational motion component and perspective component, and wherein the correction amount calculation unit calculates a second translational motion component.
US09538080B2
Digital photographing apparatus, methods of controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium to increase success rates in panoramic photography are disclosed. A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus is provided that includes initiating panoramic photography, and providing a capture guide when an image is captured during the panoramic photography.
US09538078B2
The disclosed technology includes switching between a normal or standard-lens UI and a panoramic or wide-angle photography UI responsive to a zoom gesture. In one implementation, a user gesture corresponding to a “zoom-out” command, when received at a mobile computing device associated with a minimum zoom state, may trigger a switch from a standard lens photo capture UI to a wide-angle photography UI. In another implementation, a user gesture corresponding to a “zoom-in” command, when received at a mobile computing device associated with a nominal wide-angle state, may trigger a switch from a wide-angle photography UI to a standard lens photo capture UI.
US09538072B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for gesture invoked image capture. An electronic device includes an image capture device. An initiation module enables the image capture device to capture images. A detection module recognizes an object held in a user's hands within a field of view of the image capture device. An imaging module captures an image of the object being held in the user's hands in response to recognizing that the user is holding an object.
US09538051B2
A device and method using an overdrive function to do smoothing processing of video data including a frame sequence AABB or AABBB is disclosed in the present invention. The device includes a video information generator and an over drive circuit. The video information generator detects a plurality of continuous frames wherein the continuous frames include a current frame and a previous frame. When a second value of the current frame is different from a first value of the previous frame having the same position as that of the second value, the video information generator generates first video information; When the second value of the current frame is the same as the first value of the previous frame having the same position as that of the second value, the video information generator generates second video information. The over drive circuit generates a first target value which is a value between the first value and the second value according to the first video information, and uses the first target value to replace the second value of the current frame; or the overdrive circuit generates a second target value according to the second video information, and uses the second target value to replace the second value of the current frame.
US09538050B2
A jitter-associated data generator is provided for generating data associated with jitter. The jitter-associated data generator comprises a first circuit, a second circuit, and a third circuit. The first circuit generates an output including frequency components in a first frequency band common to first and second jitter, from a received digital input, as digital data associated with first jitter. The second circuit generates an output including frequency components in a second frequency band corresponding to the difference between the first and second jitter, from the received input, as differential digital data. The third circuit generates an output including frequency components in a third frequency band including the first and second frequency bands, from the received first jitter-associated digital data and differential digital data, as digital data associated with the second jitter.
US09538019B2
A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.
US09538017B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include acquiring, by a TDF entity, a correlation identifier of a data flow of an application borne by the TDF entity; and sending, by the TDF entity, first charging information to a charging system, where the first charging information carries the correlation identifier of the data flow of the application borne by the TDF entity, so that the charging system performs, according to the correlation identifier of the data flow of the application borne by the TDF entity and a correlation identifier of a data flow borne by a PCEF entity, correlation processing for the first charging information and second charging information that is sent by the PCEF entity to the charging system, where the second charging information carries the correlation identifier of the data flow borne by the PCEF entity. Thereby, accurate charging can be performed for the data flow and the application.
US09538014B2
The inventive method for remotely maintaining and controlling a security system comprises using a device to communicate using voice capable technology with an IVR in a host facility, selecting an action from a plurality of actions provided by the IVR, performing the action on the security system, and receiving a notification of performance of the action, wherein the host facility contacts the security system to perform the action. In one embodiment, the actions can control and/or monitor the security system. The method can further comprise creating an account with an identification code on the host facility and validating the code on the IVR. The method can also include translating the selected action into a command, sending a message to a GSM device in the security system, and, in response to the message, establishing a GPRS session between the security system and the host facility, wherein the session performs the command.
US09538011B1
An app for programmable personal mobile communications devices which is useful for people attending meetings, conferences, classrooms and the like is described. The app permits the device to operate as a microphone to address the audience through a local wireless network and the public address system and as an app for meeting functions, such as the queuing of speaker/questioners at the meeting, the handling of audience surveys and nondisclosure agreements, record-keeping at meetings and so forth. Furthermore, different aspects of the app allow a user to operate as a moderator/host of a meeting in one case or as an attendee/participant of the meeting in another.
US09538007B1
The disclosed embodiments illustrate methods and systems for managing a conversation between a first user and a customer care agent. The method includes extracting one or more features from a first conversation between said first user and said customer care agent. The first conversation corresponds to an ongoing conversation over an electronic communication medium. The method includes determining a score for a feature. The score indicates a deviation of a value of said feature from an average of values of said feature determined from historical conversations involving said first user. The method includes aggregating said score for each of said one or more features of said first conversation. Thereafter, the method includes redirecting said first conversation of said first user to a third user during said first conversation based on said aggregation. The third user manages said first conversation between said first user and said customer care agent.
US09538006B2
Systems and methods for handling emergency notification messages. In an example scenario, a call center identifies a text-based message sent from a mobile communication device, detects that the text-based message is an emergency notification message, determines the geographical location of the mobile communication device, and sends at least some of the information contained in the text-based message to one or more other communication devices in proximity to the geographical location of the mobile communication device.
US09538004B1
A method and apparatus of applying user profile information to a customized application are disclosed. One example method of operation may include receiving an inquiry message or call from a user device, identifying and authorizing the user from inquiry message information received from the inquiry message, retrieving a user profile comprising at least one user preference, applying the at least one user preference to a user call processing application, and transmitting menu options to the user device based on the applied at least user preference.
US09537983B2
A housing of a mobile device including a frame defining a perimeter of the mobile device, the frame including a first metal material and configured to operate as a first antenna for a first wireless communication, and a cover configured to cover one surface of the mobile device, the cover including a second metal material, and the cover and at least a portion of the frame configured to operate as a second antenna for a second wireless communication may be provided.
US09537980B2
A method for a wireless data terminal to support an Internet Protocol Version 4/Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv4/IPv6) dual stack is described, including: the wireless data terminal maps a Modem port and a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) port at a user terminal; and the wireless data terminal receives an instruction for establishing a network connection, initiates a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context activation request to a network which a user expects to connect, and establishes the network connection according to the mapped port, after the network successfully responds to the PDP context activation request. Simultaneously, a wireless data terminal supporting an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack is described.
US09537979B2
One embodiment provides a network adapter. The network adapter includes a network adapter controller, a medium access controller (MAC) and a physical layer (PHY) including at least one port. The network adapter further includes optical communication logic to at least one of receive and/or acquire a local alert and generate a local alert message related to the local alert, the local alert message including an alert identifier (ID) and a network adapter ID. The network adapter further includes a first light emitting diode (LED) to convert the local alert message to a corresponding optical local alert message and to transmit the optical local alert message to an optical communication path.
US09537977B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for referencing a change in data utilizing a network resource locator. An interface component can receive one or more requests that are associated with a data set from a client, and send, based on the one or more requests, a network resource locator and at least one portion of the data set to the client. Further, a data service component can compute a parameter that is associated with a change of the data set, and include the parameter in the network resource locator. In other embodiments, the data service component can receive a request utilizing the network resource locator, determine the change of the data set based on the parameter, and send the change of the data set to the client.
US09537967B2
A method of delivering a live stream is implemented within a content delivery network (CDN) and includes the high level functions of recording the stream using a recording tier, and playing the stream using a player tier. The step of recording the stream includes a set of sub-steps that begins when the stream is received at a CDN entry point in a source format. The stream is then converted into an intermediate format (IF), which is an internal format for delivering the stream within the CDN and comprises a stream manifest, a set of one or more fragment indexes (FI), and a set of IF fragments. The player process begins when a requesting client is associated with a CDN HTTP proxy. In response to receipt at the HTTP proxy of a request for the stream or a portion thereof, the HTTP proxy retrieves (either from the archive or the data store) the stream manifest and at least one fragment index. Using the fragment index, the IF fragments are retrieved to the HTTP proxy, converted to a target format, and then served in response to the client request. The source format may be the same or different from the target format. Preferably, all fragments are accessed, cached and served by the HTTP proxy via HTTP. In another embodiment, a method of delivering a stream on-demand (VOD) uses a translation tier (in lieu of the recording tier) to manage the creation and/or handling of the IF components.
US09537960B2
A solution making it possible for one telecommunication network operator (10′) to act as intermediate distributor or administrator of a content provider (60) for a multitude of operators (20) is presented. The content provider (60) has a single relation to the central operator (10′), in turn having relations to other operators (20). It is thus possible for the content provider (60) to reach all users (30) of all operators (10′, 20) through a single relation to that operator (10′). The content provider (60) provides service content, e.g. media content. A list of targeted users (30) or subscribers is compiled. The central operator (10′) collects necessary subscriber attributes (80), such as position, device information and access properties, from the other operators (20). The content is modified according to the collected attributes (80), and the content is distributed to the subscribers (30) in the best possible way.
US09537957B2
A first device captures session data for each application session that is executing on a first device, and provides the session data to a second device in order for the second device to reconstruct the application sessions. A first device identifies one or more application sessions currently executing on the first device. Each of the application sessions include a media object and session data, which includes a media object identifier that corresponds to the media object and a first device media session position. The first device captures the session data transmits the captured session data to one or more second devices. The second devices are adapted to reconstruct at least one of the application sessions using the received session data and positions the application sessions at a second device media session position that corresponds to the received first device media session position.
US09537956B1
A sensor synchronization system for a sensor apparatus. The system synchronizes a local clock signal with an external timing signal. For example, the external timing signal may correspond to a pulse per second (PPS) signal received from a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. The system further generates a plurality of sensor pulses that are each offset in phase relative to the local clock signal by a respective amount. The system then activates a plurality of sensors of the sensor apparatus based at least in part on the plurality of sensor pulses.
US09537943B2
An apparatus for providing a social network diagram in a P2P network device includes a communication element and an updating element. The communication element is configured to receive an access ticket from an originating node, the access ticket for accessing content via a network. The updating element is configured to determine a true degree of separation between the originating node and the apparatus embodied as a recipient node based on a delivery route of the access ticket and past delivery routes of past access tickets.
US09537940B2
A method and system for exchanging information between processing servers. Both a processing request for a processing of data and a first key identifying the processing of data are received at a middleware server from a first application server. In response to receiving both the processing request and the first key, the processing request and a second key are sent from the middleware server to a second application server. The second key differs from the first key. After sending the processing request and the second key to the second application server, an acceptance response indicating that the processing request has been accepted by the second server is received by the middleware server from the second application server. In response to receiving the acceptance response from the second application server, the acceptance response is sent by the middleware server to the first application server.
US09537938B2
It may be determined that a cloud desktop should be migrated from a current region. A destination region to which the cloud desktop will be migrated can be identified. A data volume of the cloud desktop may be copied from the current region to the destination region. The data volume at the current region and the data volume at the destination region may be maintained in sync during the copying. Upon completion of the copying, a current user session associated with the cloud desktop at the current region may be frozen, a current memory and processor state of the current user session may be copied to the destination region, and a second cloud desktop instance at the destination region may be started using the copied data volume and current memory and processor state. The current user session may be connected to the second cloud desktop instance.
US09537936B2
The invention relates to an apparatus including: at least one processing module and at least one auxiliary processing module, the at least one processing module and the at least one auxiliary processing module being coupled by at least one splitter, the at least one splitter configured to convey data to be processed to the at least one processing module and at least one auxiliary processing module simultaneously enough for providing coordinated multi-point processing of the data.
US09537932B2
The use of a single physical server in which there are multiple virtual nodes operating different components of a distributed application under test. Each virtual node emulates an actual physical node in a prospective distributed environment. The virtual nodes might be, for example, virtual machines or emulated services, and may operate their own operating system within the context of the virtual node. The distributed environment is emulated on the physical server by having the virtual nodes communicate with each other using the protocols that they would normally use in a deployed distributed environment. A configuration data source may be used to setup and perhaps upgrade the virtual nodes so as to emulate the distributed environment. Accordingly, the distributed application may be tested without actually setting up a distributed environment.
US09537929B2
A portal summary controller stores detected usage of at least one instance of at least one portlet application within at least one portal page at each of a plurality of different times. Responsive to a trigger to generate a summary portal page, the portal summary controller dynamically creates a summary portal page displaying a separate instance of the at least one portlet application for at least one of each of the plurality of different times specified according to the separate usage stored at each of the plurality of different times, such that the summary portal page provides a summary of at least a selection of previous usage of the at least one portal page. The trigger to generate a summary portal page includes a user selecting which previous stored portal usage, including usage of individual portlet applications, to summarize in the summary portal page, such that the summary portal page renders a summary of only that content selected by the user.
US09537928B2
A local computing device is connected to a remote computing device over a network. A user provides input to a local input component of the local computing device. The output of the local input component is converted into a form that is capable of being received as input by the remote computing device even if the local input component is not supported by the remote computing device. As one example, the local input component may be a bar code scanner which produces bar code output that is converted into text for input into a text field on the remote computing device, thereby enabling the remote computing device to receive input from a bar code scanner even if the remote computing device does not support the bar code scanner.
US09537909B2
A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users. For example, in one embodiment, users can identify other users based on their affiliations with particular schools or other organizations. The system also provides a mechanism for a user to selectively establish contact relationships or connections with other users, and to grant permissions for such other users to view personal information of the user. The system may also be capable of detecting, and notifying a user of, an event in which the user and a contact of the user are in a common location.
US09537904B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for using policy knowledge of or obtained by a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) for needs based forwarding of bearer session traffic to network nodes. One exemplary system includes a PCRF. The PCRF includes a policy engine for identifying, using policy knowledge or obtained by the PCRF, zero or more network nodes hosting applications needed for processing packets of a bearer session. The PCRF further includes an application routing configurator for providing instructions to configure at least one configurable network element to forward bearer session traffic to any of the network nodes determined to be needed for processing packets associated with the bearer session and to bypass any of the network nodes not determined to be needed for processing packets associated with the bearer session.
US09537903B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving from a web real-time communications gateway a first request for communication services from a network resource, where the network resource does not utilize a web real-time communications protocol and where the first request is compliant with a markup language that differs from the web real-time communications protocol, directing the network resource to provide the communication services identified in the first request, receiving a first message from the web real-time communications gateway, where the first message is compliant with the markup language, translating the first message to a first updated message conforming to a protocol used by the network resource, where protocol differs from the markup language used for communicating with the web real-time communications gateway, and transmitting the updated first message to the network resource facilitating the communication services identified in the first request. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09537899B2
Techniques described herein enable a client to store information indicating whether various hosts (e.g., servers, web domains) support a preferred security protocol, such as a False Start-modified TLS or SSL protocol. The client may then use this information to dynamically determine whether to use the preferred protocol when connecting to a particular host. When the client attempts a handshake to establish a secure connection with a host for the first time, the client does so using the preferred protocol. If the handshake fails, the client locally stores domain or other identifying information for the host so that the client may employ a non-preferred protocol in subsequent connection attempts. Thus, a client may avoid performance degradation caused by attempting a preferred-protocol connection with a host that does not support the preferred protocol. Stored information may include a time stamp enable periodic checks for host capability updates.
US09537898B2
A method is disclosed that includes registering an application with a security information technology element (ITE), where the security ITE includes a secure computing device located within a protection envelope and configured to provide security services for one or more applications. The security ITE also provides a secure processing environment for hosting applications, and includes cryptographic services and hardware acceleration. A security manager within the security ITE is configured to erase data within the protection envelope upon detecting physical tampering.
US09537897B2
An apparatus and method for providing analysis service based on behavior in a mobile network environment are disclosed. The apparatus includes a control unit configured to control the path of a packet based on predetermined policy information, to block the packet based on a result of an analysis of the packet, or to extract information about the packet and selectively process the extracted information based on the predetermined policy information; a download path and file management engine configured to collect downloaded files corresponding to the URL of the packet, to extract the downloaded files as an app file, and to transfer the extracted app file to a virtual machine; and a virtual machine management engine unit configured to determine whether malware is present in the app file and whether the app file has accessed the resources, and to selectively manage the corresponding app based on a result of the determination.
US09537896B2
A method for providing an administration policy to a user device comprising a plurality of applications, the method comprising centrally generating the administration policy to be implemented in the user device, the administration policy comprising at least one of an application administration policy to be used by at least one of the plurality of applications and a client administration policy for the user device; and providing the generated policy to the user device.
US09537893B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for evaluating access control constraints and include actions of receiving an access control request, obtaining a set of attributes based on an abstract evaluation of a policy, the set of attributes including one or more attributes that could be required to evaluate the access control request, requesting respective values of the one or more attributes in a batch request, receiving the respective values, and providing an access control decision based on the respective values and the policy.
US09537889B2
Embodiments control submission of crowdsourced data from a computing device to a cloud service. The cloud service receives a packet from the computing device having collected data and a single-use data tag associated therewith. The single-use data tag represents one of a threshold quantity of single-use data tags issued to the computing device. The cloud service validates the single-use data tag in the received packet by, for example, searching for the single-use data tag in a tag store maintained by the cloud service. The collected data from the received packet is stored by the cloud service based on the validation. After validation, the tag store is updated to prevent re-use of the single-use data tag. In some embodiments, the cloud service is a location service receiving crowdsourced beacon fingerprint data from a plurality of mobile computing devices.
US09537881B2
A method for security risk mapping of attack vectors of target assets of an organization at risk of being attacked, wherein each of the attack vectors is defined by target dimensions, each target dimension characterized by a combination of a technology layer and an attack method, the method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving an identification of the target assets at risk of being attacked and of the technology layers of the organization, wherein each of the target assets may instantiate in multiple ones of the technology layers; constructing multiple attack vectors for each of at least a portion of said target assets, by determining for each attack vector three target dimensions, each of a category of: method of achieving a malicious objective, method of attack enablement and method of initial penetration; and estimating the security risk of each of said multiple attack vectors, wherein the estimating of the security risk of an attack vector of said multiple attack vectors is based on probabilities of success of the combinations of a technology layer and an attack method characterizing each of the target dimensions of the attack vector.
US09537880B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for network monitoring, user account compromise determination, and user behavior database system. The system monitors network actions of user accounts including user account access across multitudes of network accessible systems, determines user account transitions, and determines different types of high-risk user behavior indicative of compromise. Network actions can be obtained from generated information by the network accessible systems, and correlated across additional data sets including contextual ones. User interfaces are generated describing network actions of user accounts, and are configured for user interaction, which cause generation of updated user interfaces and access to electronic data sources to determine information relevant to the user interaction.
US09537872B2
An extension is provided to the SEND protocol without requiring a CGA or third party trust anchor. A shared key is provided to both a sender and receiver of a neighbor discovery (ND) message. A digital signature option is contained in the ND message. A digital signature field is determined by the algorithm field in the option. When the ND message is received, the receiver may verify the digital signature field using the pre-shared key according to the algorithm field. If the ND message passes verification, the receiver may process the message.
US09537871B2
A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a first characterization of the network traffic content determining a first probability of accuracy associated with the first characterization, and categorizing the network traffic content based at least in part on the first characterization and the first probability of accuracy. A method for use in a process to categorize network traffic content includes obtaining a plurality of data, each of the plurality of data representing a probability of accuracy of a characterization of network traffic content, and associating each of the plurality of data with a technique for characterizing network traffic content. A method for categorizing network traffic content includes determining a characterization of the network traffic content, determining a weight value associated with the characterization, and categorizing network traffic content based at least in part on the characterization of the network traffic content and the weight value.
US09537866B2
A method and apparatus to control the use of applications on handheld device is based on network service, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a network identifier; correlating the network identifier with application and/or feature limitations stored on the mobile device; and limiting application usage based on the results of such correlating step.
US09537858B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for managing one or more electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) on an embedded UICC (eUICC). In particular, the technique involves leveraging the GlobalPlatform™ Specification and/or other telecommunication standards to support the eSIMs on the eUICC. Each eUICC can include an Issuer Security Domain (ISD) owned by a device manufacturer and an eSIM manager that manages the plurality of eSIMs on the eUICC. Notably, binaries of one or more applications shared between different eSIMs can be standardized and stored in a manner that enables each eSIM to utilize the one or more applications (via the eSIM manager) without needing to individually store the binaries. Using this approach, the overall size and complexity of each eSIM can be reduced, which can increase the amount of available memory within the eUICC as well as the overall performance of the eUICC.
US09537857B1
Distribution of verification of passwords for electronic account. Password verification is distributed (divided) across multiple entities to reduce potential exposure in the event of a server exposure.
US09537855B2
The invention relates to a method for a first communication device to perform authenticated distance measurement between the first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first and the second communication device share a common secret and the common secret is used for performing the distance measurement between the first and the second communication device. The invention also relates to a method of determining whether data stored on a first communication device are to be accessed by a second communication device. Moreover, the invention relates to a communication device for performing authenticated distance measurement to a second communication device. The invention also relates to an apparatus for playing back multimedia content comprising a communication device.
US09537844B2
The invention relates to an operating unit (1) for a production plant (2). The operating unit (1) comprises an authorization receiving module (71) so as to receive authorization identifications (61, 62, 63, 64) which are sent out by operating modules (51, 52, 53, 54) of the operating unit (1), an authorization storage module (72) so as to store in an authorization data storage (8) authorization data including allocations of user identifications (31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42) to the received authorization identifications (61, 62, 63, 64), and an authorization checking module (73) so as to receive at least one authorization identification (61, 62, 63, 64) from the operating modules (51, 52, 53, 54) and to determine at least one user identification (31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42), and to unlock an operating module (51, 52, 53, 54) if in the authorization data storage (8) an allocation of the at least one user identification (31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42) to the at least one authorization identification (61, 62, 63, 64) is stored.
US09537842B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating the sharing of files or documents on behalf of a sending user to a recipient user. A secured file is transmitted to a recipient user via a primary communication identifier. A security key that can be utilized to decrypt or unlock the file is transmitted to a secondary communication identifier, which can be automatically identified. In this way, security of the file can be maintained in the event that one of the communications channels corresponding to the primary communication identifier or secondary communication identifier is compromised.
US09537834B2
Systems and methods are provided for managed file transfer. An enterprise server may receive a request from a sender to send a file to a recipient and may determine a location server that is closest to the location of the recipient. A server-to-server transfer can be automatically initiated to move the file to the location server that is closest to the location of the recipient.
US09537825B2
A system and method for regulating and analyzing inbound and outbound communications in and between computer networks on the basis of geographic security assertions are provided. Geographic information is collected, optimized, and shared between network objects to enforce network access control on the basis of configurable security assertions. Security assertions are configured and metrics displayed using maps and other geographic data in a graphical user interface.
US09537816B2
The disclosed architecture is an application program interface (API) that includes a collection of class members defined in a single class for accessing mailboxes in messaging storage locations in an enterprise organization. Each mailbox in the organization has an identity that primarily encapsulates at least a mailbox server name, a unique mailbox database GUID (globally unique identifier), and a unique mailbox GUID. By encapsulating information associated with a mailbox into one class, database lookups can be optimized and a single source of mailbox information provided for both authentication and display purposes. Other information can also be encapsulated.
US09537814B2
A social networking system detects spam in comments posted by users of the social networking system. A spam prevention module of the social networking system retrieves content signals associated with a posted comment and analyzes the content signals to determine whether the posted comment contains spam content. The spam prevention module augments the content signal analysis by analyzing social signals of the posted comment. Based on the content signal analysis and the social signal analysis, the spam prevention module determines whether the posted comment is spam and takes remedial actions on detected spam, including blocking the comment and educating the user who posted the comment.
US09537806B2
A computer-implemented method for prioritizing an incoming communication directed to a recipient by an originator includes creating a privacy/trust relationship between a recipient and an originator in response to user input, and determining a disposition of an incoming communication by reference to the privacy/trust relationship.
US09537802B2
In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises generating and displaying, on a computing device, a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of item summary tiles and a set of favorites buckets, wherein each of the item summary tiles graphically displays a plurality of attributes of a different items, wherein the set of favorites buckets is displayed in a fixed position adjacent to the item summary tiles; receiving first input specifying adding a particular item among the different items to the set of favorites buckets and, in response thereto, storing data identifying the particular item in storage associated with the set of favorites buckets and displaying a graphical representation of the particular item in an available one of the favorites buckets; receiving second input specifying sharing the set of favorites buckets and, in response thereto, automatically creating an electronic mail message having a message body that comprises a plurality of hyperlinks, wherein each of the hyperlinks identifies an online description of a different one of the items of one of the favorites buckets.
US09537799B2
A network node comprises a receiver configured to receive a first packet, a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to process the first packet, and prioritize the first packet according to a scheme, wherein the scheme assigns priority to packets based on phase, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the first packet. An apparatus comprises a processor coupled to the memory and configured to generate instructions for a packet prioritization scheme, wherein the scheme assigns priority to packet transactions based on closeness to completion, and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store the instructions. A method comprises receiving a first packet, processing the first packet, prioritizing the first packet according to a scheme, wherein the scheme assigns priority to packets based on phase, and transmitting the first packet.
US09537797B2
A management module is implemented in a virtualization software of a virtualized computing device having one or more virtual machines and a virtual switch configured therein. The management module detects a mismatch between a maximum transmission unit (MTU) of the virtual switch and an MTU of a virtual network interface of a virtual machine. An error message may be immediately returned so that the MTU of the virtual network interface may be corrected in response thereto. Otherwise, an error flag indicating the MTU mismatch is set but the connection between the virtual switch and the virtual network interface is allowed to be established. The error flag may be used as a prompt to correct the MTU of the virtual network interface at a later time or to connect the virtual network interface to a different virtual switch.
US09537796B2
A wireless communication network and a mobile device may support Circuit Switched (CS) and Packet Switched (PS) services. Some types of communication services (e.g. voice, text, data, etc.) may be supported using a CS service or using a PS service. In some embodiments, the PS service is an IMS service using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to provide a “CS-like” communication service such as voice or text message. According to the disclosure, a mobile device may detect that it is process data for the PS service. For example, a SIP component that supports the PS service may become inoperable. In response, the mobile device attempts to support the communication service using the CS service.
US09537793B2
Techniques are provided for updating routing tables of switch devices. At a first switch device of a first rack unit in a network, information is received about addresses of host devices in the network. The addresses are stored in a software cache. A packet is received from a first host device assigned to a first subnet and housed in the first rack unit. The packet is destined for a second host device assigned to a second subnet and housed in a second rack unit in the network. The packet is forwarded using the subnet entry and it may remain sub-optimal during a period before which an entry can be installed form a software cache. The software cache is evaluated to determine the address of the second host device. The packet is then forwarded optimally. This will ensure any-to-any communications in the network initially sub-optimally and subsequently optimally.
US09537785B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for link aggregation group (LAG) link allocation are disclosed. According to one method for indirect LAG link allocation, the method includes status information associated with a LAG. The method also includes at a first network node, utilizing the status information to set path identifiers in packets for controlling LAG allocation. The method further includes at a second network node separate from the first network node, receiving the packets and allocating LAG links to the packets based on the path identifiers.
US09537782B2
Provided are a method and device for dynamically adjusting waiting time of uplink macro diversity combining. In the embodiments of the disclosure, in accordance with the real-time transmission condition and time delay of each link of the current macro diversity, as well as the specific time for DCH FP data frames having the same CFN from different links to arrive at an RNC, the RNC dynamically increases or reduces the waiting time of macro diversity combining, thereby improving the processing efficiency and accuracy rate of macro diversity combining.
US09537772B2
A system and method for routing in a high-radix network. A packet is received and examined to determine if the packet can be routed adaptively. If the packet can be routed adaptively, the packet is routed adaptively, wherein routing adaptively includes selecting a column, computing a column mask, routing the packet to the column; and selecting an output port as a function of the column mask. If the packet can be routed deterministically, routing deterministically, wherein routing deterministically includes accessing a routing table to obtain an output port and routing the packet to the output port from the routing table.
US09537763B2
A communication system includes: a plurality of nodes each of which requests a processing rule for processing a received packet; and a control apparatus that determines in response the request a processing rule corresponding to the received packet and notifies the determined processing rule to at least one of the plurality of nodes. One of the plurality of nodes forwards to the control apparatus a first packet for acquiring a destination address for a predetermined communication. The control apparatus in response to determination of the destination address determines a processing rule for processing a second packet to be transmitted to the destination address and notifies the determined processing rule to at least one of the plurality of nodes.
US09537761B2
According to one embodiment, a method for allocating Internet Protocol (IP) addresses includes receiving, while serving as an active inter-chassis redundancy (ICR) device, a plurality of IP address requests from the third network device for the plurality of client devices. The method further includes responsive to determining a second network device is also serving as the active ICR device, allocating to a client device an IP address selected from a first portion of the commonly shared plurality of IP addresses and not a second portion, wherein the first portion is allocatable only by the first network device while the first network device and the second network device are both serving as active ICR network devices in the ICR system, and wherein the second portion is allocatable only by the second network device while the first and second network devices are both serving as active ICR devices.
US09537758B2
Redirecting network traffic within a system under test (SUT) can include receiving, within a proxy included within the SUT, a request sent from an upstream component that is directed to a downstream component, wherein the upstream component is configured to direct communications through the proxy. Within the proxy, the request can be redirected from the downstream component to a simulation component according to a routing rule within the proxy using a processor. A response can be received, within the proxy, from the simulation component and sent to the upstream component.
US09537756B2
A network device which communicates with peers using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) advertises to one or more peers a first Multi-Exit Discriminator (MED) when all sessions are in ‘established’ state, and a second MED when one or more sessions are in a non-‘established’ state. The second MED is higher than the first MED and higher than the MED advertised by the backup network device, causing peers to prefer the backup device. If the device is also configured for Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), when the device advertises the first MED, virtual routers are transitioned to ‘master’ state, and when the device advertises the second MED, virtual routers are transitioned to ‘backup’ state.
US09537753B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling centralized path definition and policy with distributed path setup, and centralized path setup control with distributed path utilization constraints. In one example, a path computation client (PCC) requests, utilizing opaque PCE profile identifiers, a path computation from a path computation element (PCE). The PCE profile identifier corresponds to path computation constraints, stored local to PCE, and are unknown to the PCC. Advantageously, the PCE profile identifiers allow the PCC to initiate path computation requests based on information local the PCC while leveraging centralized path computation by the PCE. In another example, a PCE requests, utilizing opaque PCC profile identifiers, that a PCC initiate a path. The PCC profile identifier corresponds to path usage parameter constraints, stored local to PCC, and are unknown to the PCE. Advantageously, the PCC identifiers allow the PCE to marshal path initiation while leveraging distributed resources to enforce compliance with usage parameters.
US09537748B1
This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for finding a shortest path in a cloud. In some embodiments, this includes obtaining one or more nodes associated with a tenant, obtaining hop counts for each of the one or more nodes, determining a threshold hop count based on the hop counts, identifying one or more local nodes based on the threshold hop count, and associating the one or more local nodes with the tenant.
US09537738B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes at least one core to execute instructions and a system management monitor to receive a platform query request from an external system, obtain status information regarding a configuration of one or more privileged resources of the processor, and report the status information to the external system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09537733B2
A method and apparatus for processing metric information is disclosed in one embodiment. Metric information is gathered from a number of end users. At least some of the reference types are converted to value types and stored in non-mechanical memory. The value types are manipulated to summarize the metric information. The value types are processed using the stack instead of the heap.
US09537721B2
A request is received from a device within a network for a resource on server outside of the network. The resource is subject to a policy of the network. An informational webpage is served to the device; the webpage includes an interface element. An indication of a selection of the interface element is received the resource is served to the device from a proxy server configured to apply the policy to the resource.
US09537713B2
The present invention relates to a method in which a personal network element (PNE) forming a PN requests a converged personal network service (CPNS) to set up a new personal network (PN) on the basis of PN usage information. The method is performed by the PNE and includes: transmitting, to a PN gateway (PN GW), a message requesting the generation of PN usage information on a currently set PN; and receiving a generation response message including the result of generating the PN usage information corresponding to the generation request message. The PN usage information is created by the CPNS server on the basis of the generation request message and is stored in a PN usage information list of the CPSN. The PN usage information includes a PN usage information index, a PN alias, an expiry, a PN identifier (ID), a PN GW ID, and a PNE ID. The method further includes: transmitting, to the PN GW, a message requesting the setting of a PN using PN usage information corresponding to a new PN, in order to set the new PN and not the currently set PN; and receiving, from the PN GW, a message responding to setting the PN including a response to the PN setting request message, wherein a PN inventory of the CPNS server may be updated by the CPNS on the basis of selected PN usage information.
US09537709B2
Techniques for user profile-based system level management (SLM) and creation of system level agreements of a wireless device are generally disclosed. In some examples, a predictor may be provided to predict a future task to be performed by a wireless device, including resource requirements, based at least in part on a profile of a user and at least one of a profile of a communication partner of the user, an operational recommendation, a performance model or a current state. An optimizer/analyzer may be provided to generate a plurality of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task and resource requirement, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device, in anticipation of having to perform the predicted task. In various examples, the predictor and the optimizer/analyzer may form a local or a remotely disposed system level manager.
US09537708B2
A method is provided for selecting a device in a telecommunications network in accordance with characteristics relating to the implementation of a telecommunications service, comprising the following steps: a) receiving a set of characteristics relating to said service; b) forming a first symbolic address for querying an address server, using at least one portion of the overall characteristics of the set on the one hand, and an address domain name on the other hand; c) sending the first address to the address server; d) receiving a list of one or more devices compatible with the characteristics; and e) selecting one device from the list.
US09537705B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for efficiently backing up information are disclosed. In an embodiment, this may comprise receiving information about a plurality of clients, grouping clients into client groups based on the information, transmitting data from a client group to an intermediate shared storage at a time convenient for the client group, transferring the data to a server, and storing the data in a server storage.
US09537691B2
The invention relates to a method, systems, computer program, and computer-readable medium for reducing artefacts (speckling) which may appear to be noise/errors in a representation of an electrical signal. An Eye Pattern representation of a digital bit stream signal can be used for determining a range of signal quality characteristics, and can be generated from measurements of the proportion of ones and zeroes detected when sampling the signal at both at a reference data sampling position within a bit period and at a range of offset sampling positions. However, the speckling noise which typically exists in such an Eye Pattern reduces the confidence that can be placed in values for different signal characteristics which may be determined from the Eye Pattern. While speckling may be reduced by increasing the sampling frequency used to sample the signal, the present invention reduces speckling by using data gathered at the reference data sampling point to correct data gathered at each of the offset sampling positions. Thereby, the invention reduces the number of samples needed in order to reduce speckling to a particular level.
US09537689B2
Methods and apparatuses identifying a co-channel interference signal in communications systems are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises generating an interference signal by subtracting a reconstructed desired signal from an at least partially demodulated composite signal, and generating synchronization statistics of interference signal using different scrambling codes. The interference signal is identified as the signal associated with the scrambling code that was used to generate an interference signal having a desired synchronization statistic.
US09537684B2
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for performing an adaptive transmission scheme in a frequency division duplexing communication system based on channel state information estimated using an open-loop mode are described herein. In one example, the method includes estimating an impulse response of a channel using a signal received over a first frequency band of the channel from a device, transforming the impulse response into a frequency response of the channel, and subsequently performing the adaptive transmission scheme using the frequency response to transmit a signal to the device over a second frequency band of the channel that is different from the first frequency band.
US09537679B2
A dynamically reconfigurable asynchronous arbitration node for use in an adaptive asynchronous interconnection network is provided. The arbitration node includes a circuit, an output channel and two input channels—a first input channel and a second input channel. The circuit supports a default-arbitration mode and a biased-input mode. The circuit is configured to generate data for the output channel by mediating between input traffic including data received at the first and second input channels, if the arbitration node is operating in the default-arbitration mode, or by providing a direct path to the output channel for one of the first input channel and the second input channel that is biased, if the arbitration node is operating in the biased-input mode. The circuit is further configured to monitor the input traffic and implement a mode change based on a history of the observed input traffic in accordance with a mode-change policy.
US09537677B2
A surface-launched acoustic wave sensor tag system for remotely sensing and/or providing identification information using sets of surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor tag devices is characterized by acoustic wave device embodiments that include coding and other diversity techniques to produce groups of sensors that interact minimally, reducing or alleviating code collision problems typical of prior art coded SAW sensors and tags, and specific device embodiments of said coded SAW sensor tags and systems. These sensor/tag devices operate in a system which consists of one or more uniquely identifiable sensor/tag devices and a wireless interrogator. The sensor device incorporates an antenna for receiving incident RF energy and re-radiating the tag identification information and the sensor measured parameter(s). Since there is no power source in or connected to the sensor, it is a passive sensor. The device is wirelessly interrogated by the interrogator.
US09537671B2
The present invention relates to a method for controlling transmissions of a batteryless device (1) operating in a wireless network, the method comprising the following steps: the batteryless device (1) transmitting a frame including elements for controlling operation of a remote device (2a), or controlled device, the batteryless device being configured with a predetermined number of planned retransmissions of the control frame, the batteryless device sensing a change in the physical phenomenon induced by operation of the controlled device (2a), the batteryless device determining, based on the sensing step, the success or failure of the frame transmission, in case the transmission has succeeded, the batteryless device omitting further retransmissions of the control frame. The present invention also relates to a batteryless device carrying out such method.
US09537668B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be an MCE. The apparatus receives a plurality of channel status reports from respective eNBs. In an aspect, each channel status report includes channel information associated with a respective eNB for one of a plurality of channels in a contention based radio frequency band. The apparatus selects a channel for an eNB among the plurality of channels based on the plurality of channel status reports. In an aspect, the selected channel is available to be used for an eMBMS. The apparatus prompts the eNB to provide the eMBMS using the selected channel.
US09537659B2
A first device may receive a first session token from a second device; determine that the first session token is expired or invalid; provide a security input to the second device to cause the second device to generate a first hash value of the security input using a key corresponding to a key identifier (ID); receive the key ID and the first hash value from the second device; generate a second hash value using the key corresponding to the key ID; determine that the first hash value matches the second hash value; and establish a session with the second device based on determining that the first hash value matches the second hash value.
US09537648B2
A method for transmitting measurement data includes receiving measurement data in a first communication module, time stamping the measurement data in the first module with a time tag, transmitting the measurement data to a second communication module via a packet switched data network, and outputting the transmitted measurement data after a predefined delay time ΔtD after the time stamping of the measurement data.
US09537645B2
A system and method for establishing windows that govern the exchange of acknowledgements in a full-duplex communication. The window is established for two nodes which transmit asymmetric frame sizes in full-duplex mode. The window is related to the size of the asymmetric frames. Frames are exchanged in full-duplex between the two nodes, and the window size is defined as enabling the nodes to send data until the number of unacknowledged frames at the nodes is less than or equal to the window size, at which point acknowledgments are exchanged simultaneously. In sending the acknowledgment, both nodes can send acknowledgments simultaneously in full-duplex in the same frequency bin.
US09537642B2
Apparatus and methods for frequency hopping among a set of frequency channels used for secondary cells by wireless devices operating with carrier aggregation across a combination of licensed and unlicensed radio frequency (RF) bands are described. A wireless device establishes a connection with an eNodeB using a primary component carrier (PCC) of a primary cell in a licensed radio frequency band. The wireless device obtains a configuration for a secondary cell operating in the unlicensed radio frequency band from the eNodeB, the configuration including a set of RF channels and a frequency-hopping pattern for communicating via a secondary component carrier in the secondary cell. The wireless device transmits to or receives from the eNodeB, via the SCC during a first hop of the frequency-hopping pattern using a first frequency channel in the set of frequency channels, and using a second frequency channel during a second hop.
US09537637B2
A method for transmitting downlink signals at a source base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting a downlink signal to an end user and at least one relay; receiving a negative response signal from the end user; receiving a positive response signal and channel status information about a channel between the at least one relay and the end user, wherein the at least one relay overhears the negative response signal; and scheduling a specific relay having the best channel status of the at least one relay to re-transmitting the downlink signal to the end user.
US09537633B2
The described aspects include methods and apparatus for communicating control information in a carrier aggregation configuration that uses multiple radio access technologies (RAT). A first resource assignment related to a first carrier corresponding to a first RAT can be received, as well as, a second resource assignment related to a second carrier corresponding to a second RAT. The first carrier and the second carrier are aggregated for communicating data in a wireless network. In addition, resources can be determined for communicating first RAT control data for the first RAT over an uplink carrier based at least in part on the first resource assignment. Second RAT control data can then also be communicated in containers and/or using timing for control data of the first RAT over at least a portion of the resources.
US09537629B2
A control channel mapping method is provided, which includes: determining a search space corresponding to each object for a same aggregation level, where more than one object exist and are determined according to a component carrier; and mapping a control channel corresponding to the object into the determined search space. A detection method is further provided, which includes: determining an initial location of a search space corresponding to the object, where more than one search space exist for the same aggregation level, and the object is determined according to a component carrier, and determining a size of the search space corresponding to the object; and detecting a control channel in the determined search space. A User Equipment (UE) and a network equipment are also provided. Therefore, the collision of control channels is reduced, and an impact probability of control channels is reduced.
US09537627B2
The present invention provides a signal transmitting method and a base station device. The signal transmitting method is applied to a base station device including a time domain exchanging module and a baseband processing unit, where the time domain exchanging module is connected to the baseband processing unit. The method includes: receiving, by the time domain exchanging module, a first time domain signal transmitted by a user equipment through a radio frequency channel of a serving cell of the user equipment, and receiving a second time domain signal transmitted by the user equipment through a radio frequency channel of a coordinating cell of the user equipment; and transmitting the first time domain signal and the second time domain signal to the baseband processing unit, which is corresponding to the serving cell of the user equipment. Through the present invention, CoMP data exchange can be implemented in an LTE-A system.
US09537624B2
Scheduling decisions between a first base station and a second base station are coordinated with respect to using subframes overlapping almost blank subframes for transmission, wherein the almost blank subframes include mandatory almost blank subframes which are predefined and are not to be used by the first base station and may be used by the second base station for transmission, and optional almost blank subframes which may be used by the first base station and the second base station. The almost blank subframes may be used for transmission according to the coordinated scheduling, and the transmission may be received by a user equipment.
US09537622B2
A method, a user equipment (UE) and a communication system are provided. In the disclosure, a UE configured with multiple carriers determines whether a first, a second, and a third conditions are met, and then determines whether resources allocated for the UE on the carrier are sufficient or not accordingly. The first condition defines that the UE is transmitting as much scheduled data as allowed by a current service grant on the carrier. The second condition indicates that the UE has enough transmission power available to transmit data at higher data rate on the carrier. The third condition indicates total buffer data requires more than a preconfigured time period to be transmitted through the carrier together with at least one of other carriers among the multiple carriers.
US09537615B2
A method including utilizing HARQ process grouping and subframe grouping to carry ACK/NACK transmissions, wherein the HARQ process grouping divides HARQ processes into one or more groups, and the subframe grouping divides a radio frame into one or more groups. The method may further include carrying ACK/NACK transmissions.
US09537613B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate identifying resources upon which an acknowledgment can be sent or received in a wireless communication environment that leverages coordinated multi-point (CoMP). The resources can be identified based upon a criterion that can be identifiable to a non-anchor cell base station (as well as an anchor cell base station, a mobile device, etc.). The criterion can be an identifier corresponding to a mobile device, where the identifier maps to a predetermined set of resources. Examples of the identifier can include a media access control identifier (MACID), a cell radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI), a short C-RNTI, etc. Further, the criterion can be physical resources corresponding to a transmission, where the acknowledgment is responsive to the transmission. Moreover, the acknowledgment can be sent or received in connection with a cooperation technique (e.g., joint transmission via inter-site packet sharing, cooperative beamforming, cooperative silence, . . . ).
US09537597B2
Telecommunications network node linking a metropolitan area network with at least one access network
The telecommunications network node linking a metropolitan area network, including at least one optical link connecting the nodes, with at least one access network, includes an electronic card that enables the aggregation of traffic from multiple access networks, a transmitter capable of receiving an electrical signal from the electronic card and of transmitting an optical packet to the metropolitan area network, a circulator capable of extracting a stream of multiplexed optical packets from the optical link and of inserting a stream of multiplexed optical packets into the optical link, and a reflective switching matrix receiving a stream of multiplexed optical packets from among which it selects and detects those intended for the access network. The reflective switching matrix includes a POADM optical packet add/drop multiplexer that receives multiplexed optical packets and transmits demultiplexed optical packets, and at least one RSOA reflective semiconductor optical amplifier capable of receiving a demultiplexed optical packet, which includes three sections.
US09537591B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a Zero traffic hit synchronization switch over technique in a telecommunication network. The switch over is carried out by switching input reference of the receiver from one or more master (1) to at least one slave (2), wherein said slave (2) becomes new master (2) and said one or more master (1) becomes new slave (1) after switching. Now, the new master (2) locks to the new slave (1) for predetermined time period. Once the predetermined is elapsed, the new master (2) is disconnected from the new slave (1), wherein said new master (2) selects its own network reference clock upon disconnection of the new slave (1). The new slave (1) is locked to the new master (2) to synchronize the switchover in redundant systems.
US09537586B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated geolocation of a signal using automated identification of baseline data and changes in state in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the baseline data and changes in state based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real time.
US09537584B2
The calibration method, performed on a phased array device, wherein the method initiates a test signal and looping back a plurality of channel responses corresponding to the channel elements through the transmission line to a calibration circuit in the phased array device, wherein each of the channel responses is obtained when one of the channel elements is turned on, and the rest of the channel elements are turned off. The method further calculates a characteristic value corresponding to the transmission line based on the obtained channel responses of the channel elements, and adjusts a channel parameter of one of the channel elements based on the characteristic value of the transmission line.
US09537582B2
A data transmission device includes a coder configured to code the data into a multifrequency signal. A first array of ultrasonic transducers with a vibrating membrane is disposed on a first surface of a wafer. The first array configured to convert the signal into a multifrequency acoustic signal propagating in the wafer. A second array of ultrasonic transducers is disposed on a second surface of the wafer. The second array includes at least two assemblies of vibrating membrane ultrasonic transducers having resonance frequencies equal to two different frequencies of the multifrequency signal.
US09537578B2
Method and system for optimally equalizing distortion of an optical data channel carrying coherent optical signals with a given analog bandwidth B. A receiving end with IQ paths receives signals and a balanced detector detects signals in each path. The bandwidth of the detected signals is reduced by a factor of N by filtering the output of each path using an AAF with a cutoff frequency optimized to the analog bandwidth 2B/N of each path, where the AAF has deterministic attributes and introducing Known ISI. The signal is sampled at the AAF output by an ADC, at a sampling rate of 2B/N. The samples of each path are post-processed by a digital processor operating at a data rate of 2B/N, where post-processing represents the compensation of the distortion and the input data stream is reconstructed by optimally decoding the output of the processor using a decoder, which compensates the ISI.
US09537576B2
A format for modified IRIB-G time code, with added message fields while preserving pulse width coding rule of the standard IRIG-B time code, having a time interval field for carrying time interval between the local time signal and a received time signal, and a user-defined or padded field for carrying user-defined time and/or control messages. An encoding and a decoding methods and devices for high-precision time transfer, where the modified IRIG-B time code carries more messages, and enabling transmission of timing messages and testing messages of two-way time comparison via a single message channel at the same time, which reduces fluctuation due to encoding and decoding manipulation and correlation with working frequencies via exact synchronization between the on-times of the output encoded time code and the transmitted time signal, and between the on-times of the output decoded time signal and the input time code, and improves precision of time transfer.
US09537572B2
A system for data transport in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) includes a plurality of remote Digital Access Units (DAUs) located at a Remote location. The plurality of remote DAUs are coupled to each other and operable to transport digital signals between the plurality of remote DAUs. The system also includes a plurality of central hubs. Each of the plurality of central hubs is in communication with one of the remote DAUs using an electrical communications path. The system further includes a plurality of transmit/receive cells. Each of the plurality of transmit/receive cells includes a plurality of remote hubs. Each of the remote hubs in one of the plurality of transmit/receive cells is in communication with one of the plurality of central hubs using an optical communications path.
US09537570B2
An optical transceiving apparatus includes an optical transmitting device performing polarization multiplexing on and transmitting as polarization multiplexed signal light, a first signal light of a predetermined polarization direction and a second signal light of a polarization direction different from the predetermined polarization direction; an optical receiving device receiving the signal light transmitted from the optical transmitting device through an optical transmission path; an acquiring unit acquiring information indicative of magnitude relation of intensity between the first signal light and the second signal light included in the signal light received by the optical receiving device; and a control unit controlling the magnitude relation of intensity between the first signal light and the second signal light included in the signal light output from the optical transmitting device, to be opposite to the magnitude relation indicated by the information acquired by the acquiring unit.
US09537557B2
Embodiment herein provide a method and system of reporting cluster specific CSI feedback by user equipment (UE) to a cloud system. The UE associates with the cloud using a biased association or an unbiased association. In a biased association, a ratio between the highest received power from a Macro BS and a Pico base station is determined by the UE and compared with a threshold (bias). If the ratio is greater than the bias, the UE associates with the Pico BS. The UE reports CSI for a set of dominant Macro BSs and Pico BSs within a cluster. The UE can report the IDs of the BSs which contribute to dominant interference caused by the BSs of neighboring clusters.
US09537548B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for random access channel (RACH) design using basis functions are provided. One method includes receiving, at an access point employing a receiver with Q antennas, a random access channel (RACH) preamble sent from a mobile unit. The receiving may comprise receiving the same RACH preamble at B different time intervals where the access point beamforms with a different beam selected from B basis function beams at each of the different time intervals.
US09537544B2
A method and apparatus for applications of identification of variations of propagation path to transmit diversity control. Transmit diversity parameters may be modified according to detected dynamics, which may, for example, be related to changes in actual propagation and network conditions. Such dynamics may be referred to as mobility parameters. Mobility parameters may apply to variability in a propagation path due to any conditions. Determination of a mobility parameter may be conducted using one or more of multiple parameters available to the mobile terminal. Such feedback information indication, which is related to the propagation path conditions, may be provided to the apparatus, which would attempt to find a more desired mode of operation, which may lead to reduction in power and the improvement of the quality of transmission.
US09537534B2
A power line Ethernet adaptor is suitable to be applied to an external module including a first connector. The power line Ethernet adaptor includes a housing, a cover and a circuit board. The housing has an accommodating space. The cover is movably connected to the housing to move between an on-position and an off-position. When placed at the off-position, the cover covers the accommodating space. The circuit board is disposed in the accommodating space and has a power line Ethernet module and a second connector. When at least a part of the external module is disposed in the accommodating space, the first connector and the second connector are electrically connected to each other to establish the signal connection between the external module and the power line Ethernet module, and the cover also covers the external module when placed at the off-position.
US09537528B1
A mobile electronic device holder includes a backing configured to support a rear surface of a mobile electronic device, according to one embodiment. The mobile electronic device holder includes a plurality of corner fasteners attached to the backing and configured to at least partially enclose a plurality of corners of the mobile electronic device, according to one embodiment. The mobile electronic device holder includes a mobile electronic device holder spine attached to the backing and configured to couple the backing to one of a plurality of multi-ring binders, according to one embodiment. The mobile electronic device holder includes nine grommets spaced and inserted into the mobile electronic device holder spine to selectively couple the backing to the plurality of multi-ring binders, the plurality of multi-ring binders including a 3-ring binder, a 5-ring binder, and a 7-ring binder, according to one embodiment.
US09537518B2
Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide transmit power detection for an antenna of a wireless system having two or more transmit antennas. A correlation is reduced between a transmit signal of the antenna and signals from other antennas.
US09537506B2
An electronic device with a plurality of keys which correspond to a plurality of standard voltages respectively comprises a voltage generation module, a detection module, storage, an acquiring module, a comparison module, and an extraction module. The voltage generation module with an initial voltage decreases the initial voltage to the standard voltage corresponding to the pressed key. The detection module detects whether the current voltage of the voltage generation module is equal to the initial voltage. The storage stores the current voltage as a reference voltage when the current voltage is not equal to the initial voltage. The acquiring module acquires a current voltage of the voltage generation module after a predetermined time. The comparison module compares the acquired current voltage with the reference voltage. When the acquired current voltage is equal to the reference voltage, the extraction module executes an operation corresponding to the reference voltage.
US09537499B2
A method includes sampling an input voltage signal applied to an ADC, comparing the sampled input voltage signal with an output signal of a feedback DAC, and determining in a search logic block a digital code representation for the comparison result. The method may also include performing a calibration by: performing an additional cycle, wherein a last comparison carried out for determining a least significant bit of the digital code representation is repeated with a second comparator resolution mode different from a first comparator resolution mode, so obtaining an additional comparison; determining from a difference between results of the additional comparison and the last comparison a sign of a comparator offset error between the comparator resolution modes; and tuning, in accordance with a sign of the comparator offset error, a programmable capacitor connected at an input of the comparator, thereby inducing a voltage step to counteract the comparator offset error.
US09537496B2
Provided is a method for driving a SERDES circuit, which may reduce waste of a space of the SERDES circuit. The circuit driving method includes generating a common clock signal from a common phase locked loop (PLL) supplying a clock signal to a serializer/deserializer (SERDES) circuit, distributing the common clock signal to an eye opening monitor and a data transmission lane in the SERDES circuit, and driving the eye opening monitor and the data transmission lane using the common clock signal.
US09537494B2
A phase locked loop may be operable to generate, utilizing a frequency doubler, a reference clock signal whose frequency is twice a frequency of a crystal clock signal and is keyed on both rising and falling edges of the crystal clock signal. A sampled loop filter (SLPF) in the phase locked loop may capture charge from a charge pump (CHP) in the phase locked loop and the charge is captured at a frequency corresponding to the frequency of the reference clock signal. A switch of the sampled loop filter is utilized and controlled to manage holding and releasing of the captured charge, where the switch is controlled utilizing a control signal. By utilizing the sampled loop filter in the phase locked loop, the phase locked loop may eliminate, at an output of the charge pump, disturbance which is associated with duty cycle errors of the crystal clock signal.
US09537490B2
A duty cycle detection circuit may include a detection block configured to generate a duty detection signal by detecting a duty cycle of an input clock; and a current amount control block configured to control a current flowing through the detection block in response to the input clock, regardless of a variation in a frequency of the input clock.
US09537489B1
A level shifter for converting a first voltage range to a second voltage range includes a latch circuit, a stack device and a dynamic bias circuit. The latch circuit is used for outputting the second voltage range. The stack device, coupled to the latch circuit, includes a stack transistor, which is used for sustaining the second voltage range of the latch circuit. The dynamic bias circuit, coupled to the stack device, is used for turning on the stack transistor to toggle the latch circuit.
US09537484B2
A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of circuit blocks, each of which performs an assigned operation, and performs a reset operation when recovering from a shutdown state of power supply, and a power control unit configured to control power supply to a power domain comprising at least one circuit block. The reset operation parameters of the plurality of circuit blocks as reset operation targets, for which power supply is resumed by the power control unit, are controlled so as to meet a power condition that makes the power dissipation of the semiconductor device by the reset operation not more than a predetermined power.
US09537478B2
A semiconductor device or the like capable of preventing malfunction of a driver circuit is provided. In a driver circuit for driving a power device used for current supply, a transistor including an oxide semiconductor is used as a transistor in a circuit (specifically, for example, a level shift circuit) requiring a high withstand voltage. In addition, a transistor (for example, a silicon transistor or the like) capable of higher operation than a transistor including an oxide semiconductor is preferably used as a transistor in a circuit (specifically, for example, a buffer circuit, a flip-flop circuit, or the like) requiring a lower withstand voltage than the level shift circuit.
US09537474B2
Electronic circuits and memory circuits are provided for implementing a method for transforming a chip clock signal to a local clock signal. The method includes: generating a first clock signal in response to the chip clock signal, a first control signal and a second control signal; generating a second clock signal by delaying the first clock signal with a second clock delay; generating the first control signal and the second control signal by delaying the second clock signal with a pulse width delay, where the first control signal goes from high-to-low with a control signal delay after the second control signal goes from high-to-low, and vice versa; and generating the local clock signal based on the second clock signal.
US09537473B2
A circuit for expanding a dynamic range. In one embodiment, the circuit includes: a transducer generating a signal current on an output terminal in response to a physical quantity, the signal current comprising an AC current and a DC current; a dynamic range enhancement circuit having a digital control signal input terminal and producing a variable opposition current in response to a digital signal applied to the digital control signal input terminal; an amplifier; an analog to digital converter in electrical communication with the amplifier; and a digital feedback circuit in communication with the output terminal of the analog to digital converter and in electrical communication with the digital control signal input terminal of the dynamic range enhancement circuit, wherein the opposition current from the dynamic range enhancement circuit is set substantially equal to the DC current portion of the signal current from the transducer.
US09537465B1
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit. This method includes forming an epitaxial material comprising single crystal piezo material overlying a surface region of a substrate to a desired thickness and forming a trench region to form an exposed portion of the surface region through a pattern provided in the epitaxial material. Also, the method includes forming a topside landing pad metal and a first electrode member overlying a portion of the epitaxial material and a second electrode member overlying the topside landing pad metal. Furthermore, the method can include processing the backside of the substrate to form a backside trench region exposing a backside of the epitaxial material and the landing pad metal and forming a backside resonator metal material overlying the backside of the epitaxial material to couple to the second electrode member overlying the topside landing pad metal.
US09537460B2
A speech signal is received at an input. At least one electrical value associated with the received speech signal is tracked. A dynamic adjustment of the speech signal is determined. The dynamic adjustment is selected at least in part so as to minimize a distortion and minimize an over-amplification of the speech signal based at least in part upon an analysis of the at least one electrical value. The dynamic adjustment is further selected to obtain a desired output signal characteristic for the speech signal presented at an output. The dynamic adjustment value is applied to the speech signal and the adjusted speech signal is presented at the output. The gain of the signal can also be limited to prevent over-amplification.
US09537457B2
An amplifier operates to provide a high output impedance at an output through a push stage having a first transistor of a first transistor type and a pull stage having a second transistor of a second transistor type that is different from the first transistor type. The first transistor and the second transistor are coupled in a common-gate configuration. The first transistor and the second transistor are shorted together via a capacitor coupled to an input and share a common current path as a push-pull current-reusing common-gate low noise amplifier with a broadband input matching.
US09537450B2
Techniques for dynamically generating a headroom voltage for an envelope tracking system. In an aspect, an initial headroom voltage is updated when a signal from a power amplifier (PA) indicates that the PA headroom is insufficient. The initial headroom voltage may be updated to an operating headroom voltage that includes the initial voltage plus a deficiency voltage plus a margin. In this manner, the operating headroom voltage may be dynamically selected to minimize power consumption while still ensuring that the PA is linear. In a further aspect, a specific exemplary embodiment of a headroom voltage generator using a counter is described.
US09537433B2
There is provided a motor drive device including, a current detection section that detects current flowing between a power source and an inverter circuit generating voltage to be supplied to a motor, a voltage control section that outputs a first control signal to cause the inverter circuit to generate a voltage for rotating the motor at a rotation speed based on an instructed value, and a rotation speed suppression section that, in cases in which current, detected by the current detection section at a timing at which a voltage generated by the inverter circuit rises from low level to high level, is a predetermined threshold value or higher, outputs a second control signal to the voltage control section to cause the inverter circuit to generate a voltage for rotating the motor at a lower rotation speed than the rotation speed based on the instructed value.
US09537432B2
The present invention relates to a power-off brake circuit for a DC fan, which comprises a control unit, a motor driver unit, a switch unit, a power-off protection unit, and a brake unit and a brake unit. The control unit is coupled to the motor driver unit, the switch unit, the power-off protection unit. The brake unit is coupled to the motor driver unit and the power-off protection unit. By means of the circuit design of the present invention, the independent brake loop is used to achieve the effects of power-off brake and of the accurate control of rotating speed is improved.
US09537425B2
A multilevel inverter includes a first half bridge in series with a second half bridge, each comprising a switch having a channel. The switch is configured to block a substantial voltage in a first direction during a first mode of operation, to conduct substantial current through the channel in the first direction during a second mode of operation, and to conduct substantial current through the channel in a second direction during a third mode of operation. During the third mode of operation, a gate of the switch is biased relative to a source of the switch at a voltage that is less than a threshold voltage of the switch. The inverter may also include a third half bridge. The inverter can be configured such that in operation, switches of the third half bridge are switched at a substantially lower frequency than the switches of the first and second half bridges.
US09537419B2
A power supply system includes: a switching power supply configured to rectify and smooth an AC voltage of an AC power supply to generate a predetermined DC voltage; a low-capacity power supply circuit that generates a zero-cross detection signal corresponding to zero-cross points of the AC power supply based on a rectified current flowing in a smoothing capacitor; and a controller configured to receive the zero-cross detection signal from the signal generating circuit and perform a determining process of determining whether it is possible to perform detection process of the zero-cross points based on a voltage value of the zero-cross detection signal. If the control unit determines that it is possible to perform the detection process of the zero-cross points, the control unit performs a zero-cross point detecting process of detecting the zero-cross points based on the zero-cross detection signal.
US09537413B2
A driver system comprises a direct current (DC) voltage source and a first bi-directional DC-to-DC converter having a primary side coupled to the DC voltage source and a secondary side and configured to convert a first voltage on the primary side to a second voltage on the secondary. The driver system also comprises a second bi-directional DC-to-DC converter having a primary side coupled to the DC voltage source and a secondary side coupled to the secondary side of the first bi-directional DC-to-DC converter and configured to convert the first voltage on the primary side to a third voltage on the secondary. The first and second bi-directional DC-to-DC converters are capable of boosting the first voltage, and the second control signal is a complement of the first control signal. A voltage difference between the second and third voltages comprises an output voltage that comprises an amplification of the first control signal.
US09537412B2
A direct current voltage conversion device includes a direct current to alternating current converter, a transformer, a first converter switch, a second converter switch and a clamping circuit. The clamping circuit clamps a voltage across the second converter switch to a preset value, and stores energy of a voltage peak across the second converter switch.
US09537410B2
A system and method for series connecting electronic power devices are disclosed. In one embodiment, a switching device system includes a first upper arm electrically coupled to a first lower arm and a second upper arm electrically coupled to a second lower arm. Each of the arms include a plurality of low voltage sub-modules connected in series and each plurality of low voltage sub-modules includes an auxiliary switching device, a series switching device, and a capacitor. Each plurality of low voltage sub-modules is configured to be sequentially switched using the auxiliary switching device and the series switching device separately in the upper arms and the respective lower arms to control change in voltage over time (dV/dt) while selectively blocking a desired high voltage. Further, a capacitor voltage balancing (sorting or rotating) algorithm may be used to actively balance voltage across each plurality of low voltage sub-modules.
US09537404B2
A power converter includes a transformer with a primary and a secondary winding and a switch. A controller of the power converter at the primary winding side of the transformer generates a control signal to turn on or turn off the switch, the switch being turned on responsive to the control signal being in a first state and the switch being turned off responsive to the control signal being in a second state. The controller determines current through the primary winding generated while the switch is turned on and indirectly detects an input voltage to the power converter based on the current through the primary winding generated while the switch is turned on. The controller in turn may detect conditions such as a loss of power or brown out at the input of the power converter based on the indirectly detected input voltage.
US09537402B2
An electric power converter is equipped with a master converter and a slave converter that are connected in parallel with each other, and to a load. The master converter operates having priority over the slave converter. The slave converter includes a voltage sensor for detecting an output voltage of the electric power converter and a control unit for controlling an output of the slave converter based on a target command value. The control unit selects a current command value Ic2 received from the master converter as a target command value when a variation ΔV per predetermined time of a detected output voltage Vo2 is lower than a variation ΔVth1. The control unit selects a voltage command value Vc2a calculated so as to suppress the output voltage Vo2 from changing as the target command value when the variation ΔV exceeds the variation ΔVth1.
US09537400B2
A device and method for operating a switching power converter are disclosed. In an embodiment a circuit includes a switching power converter having a half bridge including a high-side semiconductor switch connected to a low-side semiconductor switch and an inductor coupled to a half-bridge output node. The circuit further includes a control circuit configured to generate drive signals to switch the high-side semiconductor switch and the low-side semiconductor switch on and off, wherein the drive signals are generated to ensure a dead time between a switch-off of the low-side switch and a subsequent switch-on of the high side switch, and wherein the dead time is set to a first value, when an inductor current is negative at a time of switching, and the dead time is set to a second value, which is lower than the first value, when the inductor current is positive at the time of switching.
US09537397B2
A converter having an inductor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch connected between the other ends of the inductor and the second switch. The converter is adapted to turn ON/OFF individually the first switch, the second switch, the third switch and the fourth switch so as to convert a voltage applied between the other ends of the first switch and the second switch. Also included is a diode, a maintaining device and a release device. The generating device generates small/large output electric current in correspondence with high/low of a voltage of a connection node between the semiconductor transistor and the resistor, and increases the output electric current by switching a voltage applied on the third end from a first voltage to a second voltage lower than the first voltage.
US09537385B2
Disclosed are an induction current sampling device and method for a bridgeless PFC circuit. The device includes a first sampling unit, a second sampling circuit and a third sampling circuit, wherein the first sampling unit, connected in serial with a first switch transistor of the bridgeless PFC circuit, is configured to sample a current flowing through the first switch transistor to acquire a first sampling signal V1; the the second sampling unit, connected in serial with a second switch transistor of the bridgeless PFC circuit, is configured to sample a current flowing through the second switch transistor to acquire a second sampling signal V2; and the third sampling unit, with one terminal connected with a ground of the bridgeless PFC circuit and the other terminal connected with a negative output of a PFC capacitor of the bridgeless PFC circuit, is configured to sample a current flowing through a boost diode of the bridgeless PFC circuit to acquire a third sampling signal V3.
US09537368B2
A magnetic generator may be disclosed. The magnetic generator may include one or more permanent magnets which may function in one or more ways in combination with a dielectric elastomer to efficiently produce electricity. Electricity may be produced directly by the magnets, through mechanical means as driven by the magnets, by piezoelectric means, or as desired to maintain peak efficiency. Further, systems to retain excess energy for later use, such as a flywheel or a battery may be employed.
US09537366B2
A magnet-type generator 1 has a stator 20 having a stator core 21, bobbins 40, 41 and a coil 60. The stator core has through holes 35A, 35B, 35C passing through the stator core parallel to a rotation axis of the rotor so that lead wires 64A, 64B, 64C for outputting current generated at the magnet-type generator 1, which are corresponding to respective phases, are inserted into the through holes. The lead wires inserted into the through holes are connected with outgoing wires 60a, 60c′, 60b, 60a′, 60c, 60b′ of the coil at one side (clamping surface side) of the stator core 21 via a terminal (metal connection terminal) 53 fixed to a substrate portion (plate portion) 48 extending from the bobbin. The terminal is arranged near the through holes.
US09537361B2
A rotor is provided which includes a first rotor portion, a second rotor portion which is arranged at a position deviated from the first rotor portion by a predetermined skew angle so as to contact the first rotor portion, first magnets each of which is provided in a magnetic pole of the first rotor portion, and second magnets each of which is provided in a magnetic pole of the second rotor portion and is arranged at a position deviated from the first magnet of the first rotor portion by the predetermined skew angle. Coercive field strengths of the first magnets and coercive field strengths of the second magnets are different from each other.
US09537353B1
Methods and systems for improved efficiency when an inductive power transmitter associated with an inductive power transfer system experiences a low-load or no-load condition. More particularly, methods and systems for detecting when an inductive power receiver is absent or poorly connected to an inductive power transmitter. The inductive power transmitter includes, in one example, a current peak monitor coupled to an inductive power transmit coil. The current peak monitor waits for a current peak resulting from spatial displacement of a magnetic field source within the inductive power receiver, indicating to the inductive power transmitter that the inductive power receiver is moving, or has moved, toward the inductive power transmitter. Other examples include one or more Hall effect sensors within the inductive power transmitter to monitor for the magnetic field source of the inductive power receiver.
US09537350B2
A switch-mode power supply that includes a transformer coupled to an alternating current (AC) power source and a direct current (DC) power source, wherein the AC power source is electrically isolated from the DC power source. The switch-mode power supply further includes a first controller configured to regulate a first voltage output from the AC power source, and a second controller configured to regulate a second voltage output from the DC power source when the transformer is not receiving power from the AC output.
US09537349B2
A power supply system having a power supply cut-off function in an emergency is provided. The present system includes a power supply device for receiving and supplying external input power to a device for power supply, a remote controller for controlling an operation of the power supply device according to a remote control signal from a remote place, an uninterruptible power supply device for supplying operation power to the remote controller, a first line switch for, when a power switch is turned on, supplying the external input power to the power supply device and the uninterruptible power supply device, and a second line switch disposed between the power supply device and the first line switch and cutting off the external input power supplied to the power supply device via the first line switch when the uninterruptible power supply device does not output the power. According to the present invention, even when the remote controller is out of order in the emergency, the power supply of the power supply device can be cut off using the interrupted power supply device to thus enhance stability and reliability of the equipment.
US09537344B2
A method and system for management of thermal energy produced during transcutaneous energy transmission to provide power to energize implanted medical devices. A phase changing material (PCM) acts as a heat sink to absorb thermal energy generated during the energy transfer process. The PCM can be thermally coupled to tissue proximate to an implanted medical device, enabling heat generated within the implantable device to be absorbed. The generation of heat during the energy transfer process is primarily caused by eddy currents induced in the implantable device by the magnetic flux produced by the energy transfer system. The PCM can also be used to absorb heat generated by the device producing the magnetic flux that is used to transcutaneously transfer electrical power to recharge a rechargeable power source or energize the implanted medical device.
US09537342B2
A method and to a device for charging batteries, in particular lead-acid batteries, having a predetermined end-of-charge voltage (ULS). In order to charge the battery as efficiently and smoothly as possible, and in order to increase the service life of the battery, according to the invention the charge state of the battery is established before the charging process and a charging current (IL) or a charging voltage (UL) is applied to the battery during the charging process and is regulated in such a manner that the charging voltage (UL) is increased during a predetermined charging time (t′charge) between a charge starting voltage (ULA) and the end-of-charge voltage (ULS).
US09537331B2
A battery pack is provided. In one embodiment, the battery pack includes a plurality of battery units each including at least one battery cell, a charge switch unit for connecting the plurality of battery units in parallel to form a charge path, a discharge switch unit for connecting the plurality of battery units in series to form a discharge path, and a battery management unit for controlling switching of the charge switch unit and the discharge switch unit according to a standby mode, a charge mode, a and discharge mode of the battery pack. The switching is controlled with a delay time associated with each of combinations of mode conversion between the modes.
US09537325B2
A battery state estimation system estimates a state of charge of a chargeable battery. A SOCv computing unit calculates a state of charge of the battery using a voltage applied across the battery. A SOCi computing unit integrates a current flowing through the battery to calculate a state of charge of the battery. A SOCw computing unit which performs weighted addition to the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCv computing unit and the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi computing unit, wherein when the temperature of the battery is a threshold value or less and the current flowing through the battery is a threshold value or less, the SOCw computing unit sets the specific gravity at the state of charge of the battery calculated by the SOCi computing unit larger than that in other cases upon the weighted addition.
US09537324B2
A wireless response system and method of receiving user input selections at a base station includes distributing a plurality of response units to users. The response units wirelessly communicate with the base station in order to retrieve user responses received by the response units. Each of the response units has a user input device that is configured to receiving user input selections, a controller that is responsive to the user input device to process user inputs and to communicate responses wirelessly to the base station and a power supply having a super capacitor. The super capacitor is charged with a wireless-charging circuit and current is supplied from the super capacitor to the controller. Current supplied to the controller is controlled.
US09537316B2
A power management circuit for a multi-phase alternating current (AC) power supply is provided to manage a single phase bad, connected thereto, during a brownout condition. The management circuit is configured to switch the single phase electrical bad from an affected conductor of the AC power supply and to connect the single phase electrical bad between two unaffected conductors of the AC power supply thereby ensuring continued supply of voltage to the single phase electrical load.
US09537312B2
In a cogeneration apparatus having a power generation unit connected to an AC power feed line between a commercial power source and electric load, and an internal combustion engine, a switch is installed between the power generation unit and an outage power output, and the switch is opened to combine the power generation unit with the commercial power source to supply combined power to the electric load if a calculated total engine operation time period is not more than a predetermined time period when the outage is determined not to occur, while the switch is closed to connect the power generation unit to the outage power output, if the power generation unit is determined to be capable of generation power based on an estimated degree of deterioration of the unit when the outage is determined to occur.
US09537308B2
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes multiple I/O banks, each bank having multiple I/O-ESD tiles, each tile having one or more I/O circuits and electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuitry for the one or more I/O circuits in the tile. The ESD circuitry for one tile includes at least one RC-triggered clamp, whose resistance is provided by a resistor shared by one or more other RC-triggered clamps in one or more other tiles of the same bank and whose capacitance is provided by a combination of distributed capacitors, one for each of those two or more RC-triggered clamps. Each tile may have multiple instances of such RC-triggered clamps providing ESD protection for different (e.g., power supply and/or bus) nodes. The shared resistors are variable to allow different instances of the same ESD circuitry design to be implemented with the same time constant for different banks having different numbers of tiles.
US09537303B2
A semiconductor device includes: an output transistor; and a current detection section. The output transistor controls electric power supply from an electric power source to a load. The current detection section detects a current flowing through the output transistor. The current detection section has a current detection characteristic in which a current detection value has approximately linier and negative dependence on a drain-source voltage of the output transistor.
US09537301B1
A system including an electromagnetic braking system that has an eddy current brake. The eddy current brake includes an electrically conductive surface coupled to a shaft of a generator system, wherein the eddy current brake is configured to induce an electromagnetic force on the electrically conductive surface when powered. The electromagnetic braking system further includes a supercapacitor coupled to the eddy current brake, wherein the supercapacitor is configured to discharge to power the eddy current brake for the duration of a ride through event of the generator system, and the supercapacitor is configured to supply a threshold current to the eddy current brake within approximately 100 ms of a start of the ride through event.
US09537297B2
A device for preventing the intrusion of water or other liquids into the interior of an automatic splice. The device includes a series of fingers that contact the cable stranding and wick water away from the cable and out of the connector. These fingers could be integrally molded into the cable cone or molded as a separate piece and inserted. They could also be constructed of any typical brush material such as metal, plastic, rubber, or fiber. The fingers could be arranged in a variety of configurations.
US09537287B2
An apparatus comprising a burst-mode laser comprising an active layer and configured to emit an optical signal during a burst period, wherein a temperature change of the burst-mode laser causes the optical signal to shift in wavelength, and a heater thermally coupled to the active layer and configured to reduce a wavelength shift of the optical signal during the burst period by applying heat to the active layer based on timing of the burst period.
US09537283B2
One embodiment is directed towards a stabilized laser including a laser to produce light at a frequency and a resonator coupled to the laser such that the light from the laser circulates therethrough. The laser also includes Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) feedback electronics configured to adjust the frequency of the light from the laser to reduce phase noise in response to light sensed at the reflection port of the resonator and transmission port feedback electronics configured to adjust the frequency of the light from the laser toward resonance of the resonator at the transmission port in response to the light sensed at the transmission port of the resonator, wherein the transmission port feedback electronics adjust the frequency at a rate at least ten times slower than the PDH feedback electronics.
US09537278B2
A terminal group includes: a plurality of pin terminals, each pin terminal being formed of a metal wire of a predetermined length and being to be press-fitted and held in each of a plurality of terminal insertion holes of a connector housing. Some of the plurality of pin terminals have different overall lengths. The plurality of pin terminals respectively have a pair of press-fitting supports that protrude from both side edges of each of the plurality of pin terminals in a width direction at the same distant positions from a distal end in an insertion direction, and insertion direction rear end side surfaces of the press-fitting supports receive reaction force with respect to the terminal insertion holes in press-fitting.
US09537270B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed. A connector plug housing member is provided. A movable member is mounted inside the connector plug housing member. A contact member is provided inside the movable member. The movable member is configured to move between a first position and a second position. The movable member is configured to be connected to ground when the movable member is moved from the first position to the second position.
US09537265B1
An electrical connection element is for a power connector. The power connector has an electrical component having a number of first electrical mating members. The electrical connection element includes a housing having a number of second electrical mating members structured to be electrically connected to the number of first electrical mating members, a contact assembly structured to move between an OPEN position and a CLOSED position, the contact assembly including a number of sets of separable contacts each structured to be electrically connected to at least one of the number of second electrical mating members, and an arc suppression system for redirecting current away from at least one of the sets of separable contacts in order to suppress arcing.
US09537255B2
A connector fitting structure includes a female connector without a rotating member and an elastic sealing part arranged on the female member. The female connector is configured so as to be engageable with a male connector having a guide groove formed for the rotating member. The male connector is provided with a fitting recess. The guide groove is formed on an outer circumferential face of the fitting recess. The male connector is configured so as to be engageable with another female connector with the rotating member for moving at least one of the male and female connectors in a fitting direction. The female connector includes a fitting protrusion for engagement with the fitting recess. The elastic sealing part is arranged on an outer circumferential face of the fitting protrusion to continuously adhere to an inner circumferential face of a fitting-side end portion of the fitting recess along the circumferential direction.
US09537254B2
A connector including a housing, a magnet, and a holder. The holder is accommodated in the housing in a floatable manner and configured to hold the magnet. The holder includes a mounting wall. The mounting wall is disposed around and in spaced relation to the magnet and bonded to the magnet.
US09537247B2
A detachable cable joint is provided and includes a housing having a first socket, a second socket, a third socket, a first contact member, and a second contact member. The second socket is positioned adjacent to the first socket, while the third socket is positioned adjacent to the first socket and separate from the second socket. The first contact member connects the first socket and the second socket, while the second contact member connects the first socket and the third socket.
US09537244B2
A connector includes: a socket having a socket fitting body provided with socket terminals; and a header having a header fitting body provided with header terminals. At least one of a sidewall surface on an inner side of the socket fitting body and a sidewall surface on an outer side of the header fitting body includes a protrusion in which at least one side surface of the both side surfaces in the width direction faces the corresponding opposite surface formed in the sidewall surface of the other fitting body with the socket and header fitting bodies fitted to each other.
US09537232B2
A port for providing electrical continuity to a coaxial cable connector includes, in one embodiment, an outer housing having a first end and a second end. The outer housing is configured to terminate a coaxial cable connector at one or both of a first end and a second end. The biasing member is disposed within the outer housing to bias a post of the coaxial cable to extend continuity between the port and a mated connector.
US09537227B1
A female electrical terminal includes a generally planar base member formed of a first conductive material. The base member includes a connection portion configured to electrically and mechanically contact with a corresponding male electrical terminal. The base member further includes an attachment portion configured to be attached to a wire cable. The female electrical terminal also includes a cover member that is formed of a second conductive material. The cover member longitudinally encircles the connection portion and defines a biasing member depending from the cover member and into a cavity formed by the cover member. The biasing member is configured to bias the male electrical terminal into electrical and frictional contact with the connection portion of the base member of the female electrical terminal. A method of producing such female terminal assemblies wherein the cover members are interconnected by a carrier strip is also provided.
US09537221B2
A reflectarray having multiple elements arranged in an array, each element having a H-shaped patch provided in separation from a ground plate, the H-shaped patch formed by four outer vertices defined by two rectangular outer patches and four inner vertices defined by an inner patch. A length of the inner patch with respect to a first direction is determined to change the reflection phase of an electric field incoming in parallel to the first direction while keeping positions of the four outer vertices and sizes of the outer patches constant. The first direction is determined by positions of the four inner vertices, and a length of the H-shaped patch with respect to a second direction is determined to change the reflection phase of an electric field incoming in parallel to the second direction, wherein the second direction is determined by positions of the four outer vertices.
US09537218B2
A broadband antenna for a wireless communication device includes a first feeding portion, a second feeding portion, a grounding portion, a low band radiating unit, a high band radiating unit, and a resonating unit. The low band radiating unit is connected to the first feeding portion and establishing a first current path to generate a low band frequency. The high band radiating unit is connected to the second feeding portion and establishing a second current path to generate a first high band frequency. The resonating unit is connected to the grounding portion and establishing a third current path to generate a second high band frequency. The resonating unit resonates with the high band radiating unit to generate a third high band frequency.
US09537212B2
An antenna array system for directing and steering an antenna beam is described in accordance with the present invention. The antenna array system may include a feed waveguide having a feed waveguide length, at least two directional couplers in signal communication with the feed waveguide, at least two pairs of planar coupling slots along the feed waveguide length, and at least two horn antennas.
US09537208B2
A dual polarization current loop radiator realized with a via, probe, or exposed coaxial feed using part of a vertical metal structure of the radiator to guide current to a feed point of a horizontal metal plate capacitively coupled to the vertical metal structure is described. The vertical metal structure may be either stamped and attached to the ground plane or it can be formed along with metal backplane structure of the radiator. The top of the vertical metal piece is separated from the horizontal metal plate by a predetermined distance dielectric spacing. The spacing may be realized either a thin dielectric core or a non-conductive adhesive material.
US09537205B2
An antenna comprises a first layer having a first redistribution layer, a feeding line, a ground connection element, and one or more antenna inputs. The antenna also comprises one or more intermediate layers over the first layer. The antenna further comprises a second layer having a second redistribution layer over the one or more intermediate layers. The antenna additionally comprises one or more through vias arranged to communicatively couple the second redistribution layer and the first redistribution layer. The antenna also comprises a short element. The antenna further comprises one or more radiator antennas within the one or more through vias, the one or more radiator antennas being in communication with the one or more antenna inputs by way of the feeding line.
US09537204B2
Techniques of designing a smart antenna system are described. An antenna system includes at least two integrated antenna units arranged with a predefined angular angle therebetween to form a desired antenna pattern without any significant nulls. According to one aspect of the techniques, at least two sets of antenna units are interlaced but polarized differently to form an integrated antenna unit. Each of the antenna units is formed with an array of antennas. The antennas in an array or the antenna units in an integrated antenna unit can be selectively energized to form a desired antenna pattern in accordance with a signal determined from radio frequency signals communicated between a device equipped with the antenna system and another device (e.g., a Wi-Fi router in communication with a mobile device), where the desired antenna pattern provides an optimized antenna pattern to facilitate seamless or QoS communication between the two devices.
US09537203B2
There is provided a conductive hollow tube (3) which is brought into tight contact with the top surface of a grounding conductor (1a) at a position where a first end having an opening plane (4a) with an inner diameter matching a diameter of a hole (2a) formed on the grounding conductor (1) overlaps with the hole (2a), and which is bent so that an opening plane (4b) of a second end faces the top surface direction and that an intermediate portion between the first end and the second end is arranged parallel to the grounding conductor (1), and a conductive liquid supplied from the opening plane (4a) of the first end is passed through the conductive hollow tube (3) and discharged to the outside from the opening plane (4b) of the second end.
US09537200B2
There is provided an antenna apparatus capable of stably communicating with a communication partner and increasing the maximum possible communication range even when the antenna apparatus is relatively smaller than an antenna in the communication partner and the two antennas are disposed in close proximity on the same axis. A magnetic flux passing through a coil aperture of an antenna coil passes through a conductor aperture of a conductive layer, but the magnetic flux does not pass through the conductive layer. Accordingly, the magnetic flux is diverted to a path in which the conductor aperture of the conductive layer is the inside and the outer edge of the conductive layer is the outside. As a result, the magnetic flux passing through the coil aperture of the antenna coil makes a relatively large loop and links the inside and the outside of a coil conductor in an antenna in a communication partner with the antenna apparatus.
US09537198B2
Embodiments of a low-complexity and potentially physically small wideband impedance transformer that can be used in a combining network of a wideband Doherty amplifier are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wideband Doherty amplifier includes Doherty amplifier circuitry and a wideband combining network. The wideband combining network includes a wideband quarter-wave impedance transformer that includes a quarter-wave impedance transformer and compensation circuitry connected in parallel with the quarter-wave impedance transformer at a low-impedance end of the quarter-wave impedance transformer. The compensation circuitry is configured to reduce a total quality factor of the wideband quarter-wave impedance transformer as compared to a quality factor of the quarter-wave impedance transformer, which in turn increases a bandwidth of the wideband quarter-wave impedance transformer, and thus a bandwidth of the wideband Doherty amplifier.
US09537196B2
A radio frequency load for absorbing a radio frequency wave having a frequency in a predetermined frequency band and a wavelength comprises a waveguide with a portion having an opening for said radio frequency wave. In addition, the radio frequency load comprises at least one metal rod provided in said waveguide, said at least one metal rod having a length of one-half of said wavelength to damp said radio frequency wave.
US09537193B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell module for generating electrical energy by electrochemical reactions of a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas, a condenser for condensing water vapor in an exhaust gas discharged from the fuel cell module by heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a coolant to collect the condensed water and supplying the collected condensed water to the fuel cell module. The condenser includes an air cooling condensing mechanism using the oxygen-containing gas as the coolant. The air cooling condensing mechanism includes a secondary battery for inducing endothermic reaction during charging and inducing exothermic reaction during discharging.
US09537192B2
A battery is provided with an associated method for transporting metal-ions in the battery using a low temperature molten salt (LTMS). The battery comprises an anode, a cathode formed from a LTMS having a liquid phase at a temperature of less than 150° C., a current collector submerged in the LTMS, and a metal-ion permeable separator interposed between the LTMS and the anode. The method transports metal-ions from the separator to the current collector in response to the LTMS acting simultaneously as a cathode and an electrolyte. More explicitly, metal-ions are transported from the separator to the current collector by creating a liquid flow of LTMS interacting with the current collector and separator.
US09537186B2
Disclosed is a battery pack including battery cells or unit modules (unit cells), wherein the battery pack is configured to have a structure in which the unit cells are uprightly arranged in a width direction (a horizontal direction) of the battery pack in a state in which a spacing distance for coolant flow is provided between the respective unit cells to constitute a battery module, a plurality of battery modules is arranged to constitute a battery module group, battery modules groups are vertically arranged from a coolant introduction direction of a coolant inlet port in a height direction (a vertical direction) of the battery pack to have a two or more layer structure or laterally arranged from the coolant introduction direction of the coolant inlet port in a length direction (a horizontal direction) of the battery pack to have a two or more row structure.
US09537173B2
A pouch type lithium secondary battery including a medium- or large-sized battery module includes: a jelly-roll type electrode assembly; a resin-type first packing material that is formed of a two-layer structure having an inner resin layer and an outer resin layer, and for packing the jelly-roll type electrode assembly in the form of a unit cell; and a metal-type second packing material that integrally packs and contains two or more unit cells packed in the first packing material in the form of a module, and prevents moisture and gas penetration by a sealed structure. The pouch type lithium secondary battery is applicable particularly to medium- and large-sized batteries for EVs, p-HEVs, HEVs, and so on.
US09537171B2
A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell stack, a reformer, and an exhaust gas combustor. The fuel cell stack has an oxygen-containing exhaust gas channel and a fuel exhaust gas channel at one end in a stacking direction of fuel cells. An exhaust gas combustor connected to the oxygen-containing exhaust gas channel and the fuel exhaust gas channel are provided at the one end of the fuel cell stack in the stacking direction. A reformer is provided around the exhaust gas combustor.
US09537161B2
A valve for reducing the likelihood of ice-related blockage in a fuel cell and methods for starting a fuel cell system. The valve includes a valve plate and coupling plate that are cooperative with one another within a valve body such that flexural forces imparted to the valve plate from a pressurized fluid are transferred to localized contact surfaces between the valve plate and coupling plate. By concentrating these forces to such a localized area, improvements in the ability of the fluid to initiate and propagate a crack in built-up ice around the valve's seating region is improved. In this way, fuel cell starting in cold conditions—such as those associated with temperatures at or below the freezing point of water—is also improved.
US09537159B2
In a fuel cell vehicle of the present invention, a floor panel is constructed to have a center tunnel formed to extend in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. A fluid distributor provided below the floor panel is at least partly located in the center tunnel and is operative to distribute a supply of a fluid in a vehicle width direction. At least one fuel cell stack is provided adjacent to the fluid distributor in the vehicle width direction below the floor panel and is operative to receive the distributive supply of the fluid from the fluid distributor. This fuel cell system has an efficient component layout from the total standpoint of the operability and the space efficiency.
US09537158B2
An oxidation-resistant ferritic stainless steel including a ferritic stainless steel base material, and a Cu-containing spinel-structured oxide.
US09537156B2
A membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell of the present invention includes an anode and a cathode facing each other, and a polymer electrolyte membrane interposed therebetween. At least one of the anode and the cathode includes a catalyst layer and an electrode substrate. The catalyst layer includes a catalyst and a porous ionomer. The polymer electrolyte membrane contacts one side of the catalyst layer and the electrode substrate contacts the other side of the catalyst layer.
US09537152B2
A collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries comprises a first conductive layer that is obtained by adding a conductive filler to a base that contains an imide group-containing resin, and a second conductive layer that has a function of blocking lithium ions. The second conductive layer comprises a blocking resin layer that is obtained by adding a conductive filler to a base that contains a resin which contains no imide group, and a metal layer. This collector for bipolar lithium ion secondary batteries is used in such a manner that the first conductive layer is on the positive electrode active material layer side with respect to the second conductive layer.
US09537145B2
A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the embodiment includes a current collector; and an electrode mixture layer that is formed on the current collector and contains a first particle, a second particle and a binder. The first particle is comprised of silicon, a silicon oxide and a carbonaceous material. The second particle has electron conductivity and an oxygen content of 1% or lower. The electrode mixture layer is characterized in that silicon concentrations in the vicinity of the surface having contact with the current collector and the vicinity of the opposite surface to the surface having contact with the current collector are higher than a silicon concentration at the central part in the thickness direction.
US09537139B2
[Objectives] The present invention provides a non-aqueous secondary battery in which a material containing Si and O as constituent elements is used in a negative electrode. The present invention provides a non-aqueous secondary battery having good charge discharge cycle characteristics, and suppressing the battery swelling associated with the charge and the discharge. Also, the present invention relates to a negative electrode that can provide the non-aqueous secondary battery. [Solution] The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material, including a composite of a material containing Si and O as constitution elements (atom ratio x of O to Si is 0.5≦x≦1.5) in combination with a carbon material, and graphite. The graphite has an average particle diameter dg (μm) of 4 to 20 μm. The material containing Si and O as constitution elements has an average particle diameter ds (μm) of 1 μm or more. The ratio ds/dg (i.e., ds to dg) is 0.05 to 1. The material containing Si and O as constitution elements has a crystallite diameter of 50 nm or less, the crystallite diameter is calculated from a half width at a (220) plane of Si obtained by an X-ray diffraction method, using Scherrer Formula. In 100 mass % of the composite of the material containing Si and O as constitution elements, and the carbon material, a ratio of the material containing Si and O as constitution elements is 70 to 95 mass %.
US09537132B2
A battery includes a plurality of battery modules which are arranged in battery strings and are selectively activated or deactivated by driving. The battery module voltage of a respective battery module contributes to an output voltage of the corresponding battery string of the battery in the activated state. The battery further includes a switching converter topology which is coupled to the battery strings and is configured to selectively generate currents flowing into one or more of the battery strings.
US09537130B2
A battery module including a plurality of battery cells aligned in a direction, each of the battery cells including a cap plate including a terminal portion, and a vent portion to exhaust a gas; a cover covering the vent portions; and a heat-resistance member between the battery cells and the cover, and having an opening formed in a region corresponding to each vent portion.
US09537103B1
The present invention discloses an organic material is represented by the following formula(A), the organic EL device employing the material as light emitting host or dopant of emitting layer, hole blocking layer(HBL), electron blocking layer(EBL), electron transport layer(ETL) and hole transport layer (HTL) can display good performance. wherein A represents a substituted or unsubstituted fused ring hydrocarbon units with two to three rings, m represents an integer of 0 to 10, G, Rs and R1 to R3 are the same definition as described in the present invention.
US09537102B2
A low-molecular-weight fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound may have a compact planar structure in which seven or more rings are fused together, and thereby exhibits high charge mobility, and furthermore, enables the use of a deposition process or a room-temperature solution process when applied to devices, therefore realizing improved processibility. An organic thin film and electronic device may include the fused polycyclic heteroaromatic compound.
